Vatican's budget deficit in big rise Almost all of the 1984 deficit will be covered by Peter's Pence donations with investment funds being tapped for the remainder.
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It is only in recent years that Peter's Pence worldwide collections have been diverted to cover the Vatican's operating deficit. Previously the funds were used at the pope's discretion for papal aid to foreign countries. A Vatican Press release included the following details on finance: • The entire 1985 budget of around S A75 million will be double that of 1984. • 53 per cent of the 1984 budget paid salaries of 1917 lay and clergy Vatican employees and 911 retired employees. The 1985 budget will cover 3471 active and 1483 retired employees. • Vatican City state budget, a separ ate item, showed a surplus in 1984 and a balanced budget is expected in 1985. • Almost 25 per cent of the Vatican deficit is caused by Vatican Radio which generates no income. The 1984 cost )SAS million) would nse to $A7 million in 1985.
A bigger step for the KSC
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VATICAN CITY: The Vatican predicts a shortfall of $A25 million for 1985 operating expenses, compared with a shortfall of SA 20 million for 1984.
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Southern Cross Homes, a project of the Knights of the Southern Cross, has contracted to buy the Mount St Camillus Nursing Home in Forrestfield from the Order of St Camillus. "We are very happy our goal has been achieved of keeping the home in Church hands," said the local Camillian superior, Father Sean Bredin. He explained the move was necessitated by a shortage of nursing brothers.
Southern Cross Homes chairman Mr 0* Tom Perrott said his group would be maintaining the current philosophy of Mount 1, after internal alterations St Camillus and the and the addition of an ablusame degree of excel- tion block will allow the 36 beds to cater for female lence in the con duct of the home. patients. "This is a mark of respect for past labours which were obviously born of love and devotion-. he said "The management and staff have established a high standard of care based on Christian principles. "It is a credit to all concerned the community holds Mount St Camillus in the highest esteem," Mr Perrott said. The Knights' organisation hopes to take overy by July
Mr Pert,ott said although the Forrestfield nursing home would be an integral part of the Southern Crass Aged Care program the Knights were not giving up on their resolve to acquire a nursing home adjacent to the Thomas Perron Village in Rossmoyne. The village will soon have a total of 39 independent units as well as the 40 bed Joseph Cooke Hostel. Several applications to Canberra have been turned down by Federal government reluctance to approve further nursing home beds in that area. Father Bredin who was actively involved in the construction of Mount St Camillus in 1972 said the resources of the 38 member Anglo-Irish Camillian pro-
The spacious setting of Mt St Camillus Nursing Home opened by the Camillian Order in 1973 and soon about to be administered by the Knights of the Southern Cross Hoes project.
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Camillus Order steps aside from nursing home since were stretched to the limit. Their nursing brothers were urgently needed at their other homes in Hexham in England and Killucan in Ireland. As a result, a lay matron had been appointed at Forrestfield. He said the order still wanted men to train as brothers and priests but in 22 years in Australia only one Australian brother had joined the order. However prospects were good in South America, in Africa where the first priest would be ordained this year, and in the Philippines where two priests were ordained
last year. Father Bredin said the move from Mount St Camillus would allow his local order to "regroup the troops- and provide a community and team approach to their chaplaincy work that now covered St John of God Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Centre and related areas. The order was founded 402 years ago by St Camillus De Lellis who chose the Red Cross as their symbol. Later, seeing the order at work in the battlefield, Henri Dunant was inspired to use the same symbol when he established the international Red Cross movement.
LEFT WA Camillian superior, Father Sean Bredin outside the Forrestfield building that was the order's first residence in WA in 1963 and which opened three years later as their first local nursing home with eight patients.
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