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Pallottines' gift to Riverton's Queen of Apostles' parish to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the Pallotine order. See story, picture page 2. Archbishop Foley makes 18 priests' changes in a sweeping move throughout the diocese. Story and pictures page 2
Record reporter ROSLYN ROSS interviews a Perth woman who has had her first book published at the age of 70. Story and picture page 4 and 5. Perth's first woman judge, Toni Kennedy is just a regular, stay at home girl. See ROSLYN R OSS' in depth story, pages 10 and 11.
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Pope's visit to Holland
JOHN PAUL EJEC"ITS R EQUESTS Bishop with catechists
AMSTERDAM: In a face-to-face meeting with Dutch Protestant leaders, Pope John Paul rejected requests for shared communion between Catholics and their churches. He also suggested a formal exchange of speeches was hardly likely to resolve the objections they had raised about Catholic attitudes to mixed marriages. To the chairman of the Dutch Reformed Church, Rev Henk Huting who had said his churches were ready for shared communion the pope said: 'Would difficulties really disappear if in spite of existing divisions in faith, Christians were admitted to full communion in the eucharist? The Protestant leader, speaking in the papal embassy which was once the home of the 15th century Dutch pope, Hadrian VI, also claimed the Catholic Church's failure to treat people in mixed marriages the same way as others is a reason for many young people turning their backs on the Church.
Meetings boycotted
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Bishop Healy told 94 catechists whom he commissioned last Friday that their mission was a call from the Church and from their baptism in Christ. The bishop warned the new recruits they would encounter difficult children but they should remember it was the Lord's work they were doing. ABOVE: Gavin Drew, president of Gingin-Chittering parish council receives his certificate from Bishop Healy. Father Bob Carden director of the program is assisting the bishop. See story page 12.
The pope's observation to this assertion was: "In Catholic marriages, a partner is called to be loyal to the tradition of his or her faith, to live it and hand it on. -You know as well as Ido such delicate problems cannot be resolved in an exchange of speeches." ( Texts of Pope John Paul's have not reached Australia at the time of printing. Editor.) Pope John Paul is reported not to he discouraged by the reception he is receiving
both inside and outside the various receptions he is attending. Verbal criticism of the pope has come from as high as the Dutch Prime Minister, Mr Lubbers who said: "Rome sometimes makes Dutch people uneasy if not downright suspicious." At Utrecht, a chairman of the Gronigen Diocesan Missionary Council departed from her vetted text to complain the Church was not making room for unmarried people living together, divorcees, homosexuals, married priests and women. The pope remained expressionless but the audience clapped Mrs Hed-aig Was,ser who later said she had
departed from her prepared text which otherwise would not have received advance approval. Cardinal Simonis had already banned Professor Catherina Halkes from speaking.
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Nineteen priests are affecte6 by transfers and a ppointments announced this week by the Archbishop of Perth, Archbishop Foley. They are: Father Justin BIANCHINI will become director of vocations and co-ordinator of the Ministry to Priests program. He will reside at Guildford as director of St Charles Vocational Residence in succession to Father Bryan Rosling. Born in Subiaco, Father Bianchini studied for the priesthood at Guildford and Genoa, Italy, where he was ordained in 1964. A seven y ear appointment at St Mary's Cathedral was followed by short periods at K ondinin, Osborne Park, A ttadale and Scarborough before a further seven year appointment to Kalgoorlie. He was appointed administrator of Nedlands in 1981.
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F ather Michael RYAN whose former parish of Subiaco has been taken o ver by the Camillian Fathers will become parish priest of Cottesloe. Born in Rossmore, Tipperary, Ireland, Father Ryan studied for the priesthood at Thurles where he was ordained in 1945, coming to Australia the following year for initial appointments to Shenton Park, Cathedral and Nedlands parishes before becoming parish priest of Merredin in 1952 and of Quairading-
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Tammin the following year. He transferred to Bruce Rock parish in 1962 and East Fremantle in 1971 before taking up Subiaco parish in 1977.
was successively assistant priest, archbishop's secretary and dean, spending f our years as priest in charge at Como from 197781.
his appointment to Kondinin in 1980.
Father Francis DILLON of Scarborough will become parish priest of Merredin after an appointment is made of Father Trevor Callaghan, the current parish priest. Father Dillon was a foundation student of St Charles' followed by studies at Manly before his ordination 1950. He served in Kalgoorlie and West Perth before being appointed full t ime army chaplain in 1954. He became managing editor of The Record in 1959, serving briefly at Mosman Park and Como during that period.
Father Patrick TURNER moves from Kellerberrin to Maida Vale, vacated by the Camillian Fathers. Educated for the priesthood at Guildford and Adelaide until his ordination in 1966, Father Turner had appointments at Kalgoorlie and South Perth before becoming parish priest of Wongan Hills in 1974. Two years at Kalumburu Mission were followed by his appointment to Kellerberrin in 1980.
A reshuffle
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Monsignor Patrick O'REILLY, dean of St Mary's Cathedral, with which he has been associated in various positions for 21 years will become parish priest of Nedlands, vacated by the administrator, Father Justin Bianchini. Born in Galway Ireland, Father O'Reilly studied for the priesthood at Guildford and Adelaide before his ordination with his Dominican brother in Ireland in 1963. At St Mary's Cathedral he
Father Peter WHITELY is transferred from the parish of Kondinin-Kulin to Kellerberrin in succession to Father Turner. He trained for the priesthood at Guildford and Adelaide before his ordination in 1972. He was assistant priest at the cathedral until b ecoming assistant at Moora in 1978 followed by
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Father Simon CARSON of Bruce Rock will become priests in charge of the area north of Ocean Reef Drive until a parish is f ormally established. Later this year he will reside initially at the Convent of Mercy Craigie giving some assistance to Whitfords for which no r eplacement for Father J ones is forthcoming because of the shortage of clergy.
E In the immediate future Father Carson will assist G osnells parish while Father Prendiville undergoes heart surgery. Born in England Father Carson's priesthood studies were at Guildford and Adelaide before his ordination in 1973. A short appointment at Kalgoorlie was followed by Northam in 1975 and Bruce Rock in 1979.
Kambalda is to become administrator of St Mary's Cathedral in succession to Monsignor Pat O'Reilly. A fter studies at Guildford a nd Adelaide Father Orzanski was ordained in 1974 and was assistant at Subiaco until transferring to Rockingham in 1977. He became parish priest of Kambalda Norseman in 1981. Father Bryan ROSLING, v ocations director and director of St Charles since 1979 will become parish priest of Kondinin-Kulin. A fter studies at Guildford a nd Adelaide he was ordained priest in 1975 being appointed to St Mary's Cathedral, including six months and other short periods as acting archbishop's secretary. He w as briefly in charge of Guildford parish 1982-83.
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Father Anthony PIRES, temporarily at Bencubbin since the beginning of the year becomes parish priest of Kambalda-Norseman.
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Order's gift A moulded relief of Mary Queen of Apostles was blessed in its new setting at Queen of Apostles church Riverton last week by the Pallottine superior general, Father Martin Juritsch. The fibreglass relief with a metallic finish was commissioned from Gerard Darwin of Roleystone for the 150th anniversary of St Vincent Pallotti's Union of the Catholic Apostolate. Father Juritsch said the piece was no mere statue of Our Lady but a representation of the Pentecostal event when Mary and the Twelve were transformed by the coming of the Holy Spirit. Mary is given prominence, he said, because she has a special role in the history of salvation. At the same time
Laity training to n Gleeso to help step down priests
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in July Ordained in 1977 after studies at Guildford and A delaide, spent three years at Mirrabooka before joining the staff of St Mary's Cathedral in 1981. VINCINino F ather GUERRA is to be parish priest of Bencubbin. He w as ordained in 1978 after studies at Guildford and A delaide. His first appointmi.nt was to Leederville f ollowed by a transfer to K algoorlie in 1981.
ECIC1 Father Bruce JONES will t ake up the parish of Bruce R ock vacated by Father S imon Carson. Father Jones taught with the Education Department before studying for the priesthood a t St Paul 's Seminary, Kensington NSW. F ather Trevor SIMONS a ssistant at Hamersley since 1981 will succeed Father Vincent Glynn at Leederville. Father Simons w as ordained in 1981 after studies at St Paul's Seminary, Kensington NSW.
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The Diocesan Pastoral council is considering ways in which the laity can be trained to assist priests in pastoral and liturgical duties in the parishes. Reporting the fundings of the sub-committee researching "No Priests — what now?", Father Owen Ryan C.SS.R. last Saturday outlined several ways in which lay people could he trained to lighten the pressures on parish priests.
Father Vincent GLYNN a ssistant at Leederville is transferred to Kalgoorlie in place of Father Nino Vinciguerra. Father Glyn studied at Guildford and A delaide before his ordination in 1982. Father Oliver RYAN will transfer from Subiaco, now t aken over by the Camillian Fathers, to Hamersley. In other clergy moves: F ather John MAGILL, Blessed Sacrament Father, will assume charge of the joint Como-Kensington parish. Father James O'BRIEN will work in a mission in Peru during long service leave.
Special responsibility Small groups could accept spccial rcTonsibility in becoming Eucharistic ministers, and in gathering others together for prayer and reflection.
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Pastoral skills can be taught by specialist personnel so that faith can be imparted more effectively. The sub-committee stressed the serious nature of the current shortage of priests and said that Catholics needed to be shown in realistic terms what the shortage means to the archdiocese.
Father John RYAN chaplain at Royal Perth Hospital wil l transfer his r esidence from St Mary's Cathedral to North Beach presbytery.
Sean Father BREDIN 0.Cam will become acting parish priest of Subiaco.
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to parish she is a representative of the laity in the Church. When St Vincent Pallotti chose Mary. Queen of Apostles, as patroness, he wanted lay people, clergy and religious to live as a fraternal community, bound together by love and sharing everything in common, Father Juritsch said.
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Mary's title Queen of Apostles, is a proof that to be an apostle one does not need priestly ordination nor heirarchical office. Mary is a sign for all lay people because she co-operated more than any other by her faith, zeal and burning love for the Kingdom of God.
ADELAIDE: Archbishop James Gleeson, 64, will formally resign on June 19 and hand o ver the archdiocese to his co-adjutor successor Archbishop Leonard Faulkner w ho was appointed to that position in 1983. A rchbishop Gleeson suffered a severe heart attack last September and after major heart surgery he took four months leave for c onvalescence. However, Archbishop Gleeson told the c ongregation at the diocesan Marian procession, some permanent damage to his h eart muscles remains and he had r equested the pope to accept his resignation. A rchbishop Gleeson was ordained in 1945 and two years later started studies in preparation for his work as director of Catholic education up until his appointment in 1957 as auxiliary bishop. He became co-adjutor archbishop in 1964, taking over the archdiocese on the r esignation of Archbishop Beovich in 1971.
Laity are apostles if they work in this essential spirit. Mary is a guard against clericalism on one side and exaggerated "lay attitudes"' on the other. Mary Queen of Apostles is a living unity of clergy and laity. Her spirit is essential for every ministry.
Catholics should prepare themselves for closer involvement in parish a ffairs and in the urgent promotion of vocations, the committee said. last Saturday's quarterly meeting also heard a report from John Cahill on forthcoming parish discussions between Catholic and Anglican parishes on the ARCIC documents. The discussion topics include "The t'nity We Already Have". "The Roots of our Divisions", Ministry Ordination". and of "Development and Authority" "Reflection and Evaluation". — DICK ANTHONY s n:
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Malaya HAVE YOUR SAY V isiting rights or bans Jesu s r ighting wrongs? Thorn had an Birds equality
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On the current break-neck 36-hour package tour flit through Rome (-That's fine what's next . . .") the most lasting memory is not likely to be the masonry catwalk that snakes from the Vatican across to the Castel Sant'Angelo fortress and which was more than essential for popes scurrying from the wrath of the Roman mobs. It is only within a few generations of today that Catholics might have heard of a pope's funeral turning into a riot along the banks of the Tiber. A mere half century before that Napoleon was manhandling the pope in exile as his own personal triumph of state over church. So what's new about Holland? Or, for that matter, a papal assassination attempt and its consequent para-military apparatus of bullet-proof pope-mobiles and who knows what else will now have to surround the once-pleasant papal journeys? The only difference is television. For the world audience that could possibly read, many kilometres removed from the jeering Roman rioters, it was weeks before the details could drift through to the newspapers. There were no instant photographs. El
E Today the pope's travels are instant events. If only for a few seconds in peak news slots, he is news. He would hardly be in the position he is, if he does not shrewdly calculate the wider gallery to which he is playing far beyond the throngs of Catholics packed deep around papal altars. Whatever the verdict on the week's events the Dutch will be able to say that it was they who were the turning point. It was Holland that produced two new slants to papal touring. There was the all too familiar rent-a-mob hurling missiles in Utrecht in a running battle with the police. Only one isolated ABC radio correspondent was allowed to report briefly that it had little to do with the pope - it was open urban guerilla warfare. The second feature of last week was the steady chorus of faceless newscasters who refuse to budge from the stuck -in-the-groove recitation that the root of all Catholic evils is the Catholic Church's always "conservative" views on abortion, divorce, contraception or homosexuality. It was the problem, we were told, that bedevilled, the Irish, the British, the Americans -- in fact anywhere the pope goes, it can be trotted out as the supposed source of malcontent. The same track will doubtless be played across Australia in a year or so. The angry urban guerillas with their bizarre dress and attitudes are certainly on the war-path and it ought to be a matter of concern to today's comfortable middle classes well beyond the pale of the Catholic Church.
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If the presence of the pope was the excuse for their calculated rage was this the generation saying that they won't be happy until rampant homosexuality, endless abortion, the total rejection of whatever permanent love man and woman ever had for each other, and the hedonism of drugged oblivion are the norm? It's not the fore-runner of political revolution offering the liberation of the police state. It is the cancer of the death wish, of a rising tide of people who say they have nothing to live for, who resent the world we have given them. Should a pope be dismayed at the battle raging on the streets? A man who watched his country ravished by the Nazis and later the Russians would hardly need help to understand this misery. Maybe in some perverted paradox they are on the pope's side. If the secular mobs of today are protesting at the pope over what he stands for, can a pope be any more effective a voice for what the Church proclaims? If these are members of the lost generation who are descending into their own self-made hell, then are they not protesting with the pope over the emptiness of today's materialist offering? Within the Church certain Dutch groupings have quite intentionally opted for a Roman confrontation as the best way of discerning where the future of the Church lies. It is a blurred line that separates protest for its own sake and a conviction that the good of the whole Church is at stake. lithe state of the Dutch church is worse as a result of the pope's visit, judging by accounts so far, then it surely raises deeper questions than the value of such visits. The eccentric fringe waited till now to announce their resignations and their boycotts. Why?
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KUALA LUMPUR: A elevision t station's plan to screen The Thorn Birds, a TV mini-series about an adulterous priest, has sparked a lively public debate in Malaysia. Church officials said that the Prime Minister's office had directed TV3, Malaysia's only commercial station, to call off the series' first episode.
This came after Archbishop Soter Fernandez had outlined church objections in a letter to the Information Ministry. The 11th-hour postponement came after newspapers had highlighted what one called "final confirmation" that The Thorn Birds would he screened.
DEE Archbishop Fernandez. writing on behalf of the conference of Bishops of Malaysia and Singapore, is said to have expressed fear that The Thorn Birds might -prejudice existing good relations between the differem religions in Malaysia." Not everyone, however, shares the view that Malaysians are not prepared for The Thorn Birds, the TV adoption of Colleen McCullough's best seller. "I feel that the series is a rare classic. The Thorn Birds, as the title suggests, is about love, faith and understanding," said one viewer in a letter to the English-language afternoon paper the Malay Mail. "TV3 is guaranteed of at least one viewer — that's me," the writer said. But the Prime Minister's chief confidential secretary, Mr Abdul Aziz Ismail, said that the Government was taking a more "serious view" of the matter because The Thorn Birds seemed likely to upset some religious groups.
EE The Information Minister, Mr Rais Yatim, said that his ministry would ensure that Malaysian values "of a sensitive nature" would not be upset by TV movies. "But can't we be sensible about the whole thing," said the English-language dail the New Straits Times. The paper's TV critic said that the story of the priest's forbidden love served only to point out "that no man is infallible." "Whether Catholic priests do break their vows of celibacy is not at issue here," the critic said. "We have to take the novel and the TV serialisation as it was intended as fiction." But the Star newspaper took issue with TV3's handling of the affair. It said that the whole controversy could have been avoided.
Sir, I am disappointed that Mr George M. Purbrick (The Record May 2) on the subject of women did not use other quotes of St Paul, in which he tries to explain that there are no distinctions with God, as where St Paul tries to show us that when we 'put on Christ' (Gal 3.27) we are all one'. When we are baptised into Christ, there are no distinctions. One of the many features of Christianity was the equality of women. Jesus Himself went to great lengths to give women identity and ministry, and for some time women did carry out similar ministries to their male counterparts.
0= However, the early Church was to be heavily influenced by its Jewish members who, in today's terms, treated women as second-rate citizens. Scholars would suggest that this attitude influenced St Paul, in hs later writings, because he has a tendency to contradict himself. Scholars would also agree that not all the letters of St Paul were actually written by St Paul, himself! In 1Cor 11 .4-16, St Paul is not denying women the right to pray or to preach in public, but that as a woman, she has something beautiful to offer the community, simply because she is a woman; her understanding and giftedness is that of a woman. In other words, it would be wrong for a woman to take on an occupation or ministry, wanting and expecting to carry it out like a man. The call of every Christian
'At the age of 60, Dulcie Lampard can sit back and slowly smile as two loves in her life bear fruit. This quietly spoken and seemingly private person is the author of a new children's book called Ride, recently published by Hodder and Stoughton. It is her first offering and one that provides a new and spiritual dimension to the highpiled world of children's books. It combines her life-long love of books with a life-long love of God and a deep and abiding affection for children. Children, she says, need entertaining, but they also need to be taught how to live and why they live. What better way to do it than through books? All too often, she adds, the mighty meals of modern literature for children serves purely to entertain and feeds its readers a 'life' diet without rules, without guidelines, without meaning. Mrs Lampard combines mystery and intrigue in her tale of a young boy on a first visit to his uncle's cattle station in the north of Western Australia, but it is well seasoned with his search for meaning and his wonder at the world around him. It is a world Mrs Lampard knows well, having spent countless holidays in the far north staying on family properties. She was born in Albany and grew up on a farm, the one girl among three brothers.
from their baptism, is to mission, a make the Kingdom of God a reality in our world, today. We Christians, then, should be using every possible means, according to our giftedness and ability, to accomplish this mission. It is not just a matter of 'seeking recognition', that people are suggesting women be priests; rather, there is a recognition that some women may be gifted in the ministry of the priesthood and could better serve the Kingdom by living out this call to ministry, and in some cases, do a better job of it than men! This attitude of distinctions is not in keeping with the Christian tradition, however, the possibility of woman priests will not occur until some men overcome the feeling of being threatened by such a possibility. For more information on women in the Scriptures. I suggest Mr Purbrick, and the other worried readers, read Francis J Moloney's two books Women in the New Testament (1981; St Paul Publications) Women First Among the Faithful (1984, Dove Communications).
from VVVC THOMAS, Medina SIR, I join with Pope John Paul in his outrage and con demnation of the highly offensive French film "Je Vous Salue, Marie" ("Hail Mary") which portrays the Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, as a taxi driver's girlfriend and nude in some scenes. Last week the Pope invited Catholics of the world to join him in reciting the Rosary to express their indignation of the film and the ceremony
Outrage at film was carried worldwide by Vatican Radio I strongly urge an Australian nationwide response to the Holy Father's call for spiritual protest and reparation of this grave insult and our utter disgust of this film which we do not have to view to know the filth it contains
Reality of IVF from MAY RYAN Gosnells SIR: If we take Father Uren's argument, and it was certainly long and sustained, that "embryo loss in absolute numbers is miniscule compared to natural conception" it fails to address the reality that natural loss occurs when husband and wife come together and is an act of nature, whereas if IVF the intrusion, loss and destruction of unborn babies is a deliberate act of a technician (third party). I see this as the crucial area of discussion, because if one accepts that the means justifies the end, le to achieve a pregnancy, one has to accept the deliberately foreseen destruction or loss of unborn babies in their embryonic state, leads me to ask if Father Uren and his committee, believe that abortion is ever justified?
Her first a e 60... Her love affair with books began early, despite their shortage on her parents' property during the Depression years. For much of the time her main reading matter was made up of the set of encyclopedias which comprised most of the 'library' at her small, farm school.
0E0 School was a tin shed on her parents' property which played educative host to 14 neighbourhood children. Those who did best in their tests got first pick of the books in the "library". It was quite an incentive for the young Dulcie. And when the pages of the encylopedias had become like old friends she could turn to the few family volumes at home — handed down from
the past and dealing mainly with English and Western Australia history. It was not surprising in later years she would come to live surrounded by books.
years, however, she has produced a selectionk of poems, plays short stories and articles. But why a children's book and why now?
For the last 26 years she had managed the Scripture Union Bookshop in Perth and seen it grow from a small room, with a few books and a parttime staff of one to a huge store with thousands of books and three country branches. Her office plays host to heaps of books; they surround her and they still captivate her. Walking past the shelves her greatest impulse is to pull a volume from the rack, touch it, smell it and breath it . . her ardour is undimmed.
Two factors turned the pages in her mind to produce Ride — first her love of books and second the poverty of good books for children that she could see around her.
The books have taken over her life, she says, and left little time for writing. Over the
'There are so few books that are real.' she said. "Many of the books we see come from the United States and they have such a fanciful attitude to life.
00D "Everyone is an instant saint at the end of 60 pages and all the children they write about are so pious. So many authors put words into kid's mouths that they wouldn't say in a fit.
Unacceptance a 'sad fact' from SISTER CLARE AHERN, Ringer Soak SIR: I find it sad that Mr Clift cannot accept (The Record, April 10) that traditional Aborigines had a spirituality and that he can only see in their spirituality "darkness" and "Satan". Pope Paul VI in Evangelii Nuntiandi speaks about the "seeds of the Gospel" in every culture, and John Paul II has restated this in many ways in his recent pastoral visits to South America. The God I know is a loving father who has shown himseff in many ways to many people. These in turn have used the most appropriate terms that descnbe him as a good and loving protector and provider. In symbolic terms "rainbow" means covenant and promise and "serpent", as a world symbol, means fertility. In the Kimberiey where the coming of the rain meant fertility in the land and the stopping of the rain meant the food supply could be harvested, "Rainbow Serpent" was a rich and
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beautiful symbolic term for a loving father. Nowhere in my letter do I suggest "the amalgamation of all religions into a world religion. '" I simply compared the structure of Chnstianity with the structure of traditional Aboriginal religion. Traditional Aboriginal people often state, "we knew about God the Father before the missionanes came but we didn't have Christ. Now we want to hear about him." Abongines do not pay "lip-service" to Christ. They do not see him "as just another wise man." They sing about Chnst as being sent by the Father. I wish that the Clifts of this world could see the spirituality of the Aborigines, the way they pray to the Trinity and to Mary, the way they draw and paint the stories of our faith, the way they celebrate the liturgies, the way they identify with the Passion story and the way they teach their children.
The Legion of Mary is to launch its first ever financial appeal in the dioceses of Perth, Bunbury and Geraldton.
The appeal hopes to raise $150,000 to purchase a property suitable as an administrative and operational headquarters of the Legion in WA. Legionaries themselves have already collected $50,000 but it is felt that their efforts will not be able to raise enough funds for a suitable location to be bought and set in operation in the immediate future. A spokesman for the appeal said that the shortage of priestly and religious vocations had presented the Legion with a challenge to broaden and extend its apostolate. Currently the Legion assists in parish visitation and census collecting, visiting the sick and aged in institutions, catechsing and preparing state school children for confession, communion and confirmation, welcoming migrants, instructing converts, directing people to welfare agencies and other special projects. At present there are 45 praesidia in Perth metropolitan parishes, nine in the country, three special and three junior praesidia. The active membership is approximately 500. The Legion believes that its penetration of the parishes is not comparable to the size of the Catholic population and there is an urgent need to recruit and expand the membership. A new centre will assist this task. The Legion of Mary was started in Dublin by Frank Duff in 1921. The first local parish praesidium was started in Bayswater by Father Edward McBride in 1941. Father Harold Lalor was also a promoter of the Legion of Mary and used it in the development of the Catholic Girls Movement in 1942. The new centre will be named after Edel Quinn an Irish woman who although suffering from tuberculosis went to Africa in 1936 and for the next eight years was responsible for a dramatic spread of the Legion of Mary in East African countries. The new centre will cater for the monthly meetings ot the local governing body the senatus, plus other committee and praesidia meetings. It will be available to other organisations for lectures and meetings.
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denominational. It is that sharing a faith, she says, which children can readily understand and relate to. Writing time was hard to find, she adds, and the book only began to take form when she disciplined herself to work on Saturdays. "I walked around with a notebook on my belt for a long time," she said," jotting down everything I thought of." "I wanted it to be an adventure story because kids like things to be exciting," she said. "But symbolism is strong and I've used Adam learning to ride as symbolic of the Christian — there you are, with your feet off the ground, but you have to stay with it, despite the bumps.
"Also there are so few books with an Australian background. There are lots with sparrows and English hedges but our kids don't know about those things — they don't relate to them." The theme for Ride was a
natural extension of her love of the country, her love of history and her desire to project faith as a real and living thing. "I wanted to say Jesus Christ is alive and real and that if He isn't alive on a cattle
station in the far north then he isn't real. Jesus Christ can change lives, no matter where we are and no matter what we do . . that's what I wanted to tell children?
El 'The message there is Christianity is not an armchair ride, but it is certainly worth the effort." Her book has been geared to classroom use in response to many requests from teachers. She is also working on a sequel which explores relationships and values. "I want to work through the aspect of suffering," she said, "because that is something that is often misunderstood. Too often people labour the point about it and everyone ends up even more confused. "I am thinking of using the Ten Commandments as a base. I think it is vital that we guide children as well as inform them
A Baptist, she prefers to describe her faith as inter-
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Bernard (Bernie) John West, an acolyte at St Cecilia's Church at Floreat Park and a partner in Birds Chartered Accountants, was born in West Perth on June 9, 1928. He was educated at St Brigid's in West Perth, St Patrick's Boys' School and through night school at the Perth Technical College where he gained his accountancy qualifications. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Accountants (ACA), a Fellow of the Australian Society of Accountants (FASA), a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA), and a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia. His first job was with David Gray and Co where in seven years he rose from office boy to assistant accountant. He spent 3'.2 years with Hendry, Rae and Court, three years abroad working for chartered accountants in Britain and Canada and joined his present firm (then C.P. Bird and Associates) on January 7, 1957. After eight years' country service — three years in the Northampton, Carnarvon and Geraldton areas and five years in Dalwallinu — he was transferred to the head office in Perth. A steam train buff from his early days, he is an active member of the Hotham Valley Tourist Railway and the Australian Railway Historical Society. He was the initial president of the Floreat Park parish council, in which office he is now serving a second term, and in 1980 became the second acolyte to be appointed at St Cecilia's. Bernie and his wife Cecile (nee Milner, who plays the organ at St Cecilia's) have a son, Tony (20), and two daughters, Andrea (19) and Erin (17).
Bernie West has the unusual distinction of having lived the first 11 years of his life in a house on the very spot where the words you are now reading were printed. The Aberdeen Street house has long since gone and its site is covered by the building containing the state-ofthe-art equipment of Vanguard Press, printers of The Record. Aberdeen Street in Bernie's childhood was largely residential, oblivious of the incoming tide of commerce and industry that was to replace its quiet hearths and homes.
True, the overwhelming emphasis of the piece was on the efforts of feminists. There was no mention of the National Consultation on Pornography held in Cincinnati last fall, an event attended by more than 500 Protestant ministers and laity from all over the country The consultation, rnoreoviq, was the occasion for a speech by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago in which he illustrated how the struggle against pornography is very much a part of the "seamless garment", or consistent ethic of life Nor was there any mention of the effective grass-roots campaigns being carried on by such organisations as the Phoenix -based Citizens for Decency Through the Law the National Federation for Decency founded by the Rev Donald Wildmon, the articulate and resourceful Methodist minister from Tupelo, Miss, and Morality in Media, f ounded by Jesuit Father Morton Hill, a man who has laboured through this vital cause long, long before Newsweek dreamed of taking up such a subject.
The players eventually warmed to their sole spectator to the extent of providing him with a cake for afternoon tea. They were probably responsible, too, for arousing in him an interest in the game which he was to play for years later with great enjoyment. In 1939 the Wests shifted to Railway Parade in West Leederville, a move that did nothing to dissipate the youngster's burgeoning steam enthusiasm for engines.
DUE In those delirious Donnybrook sojourns Bernie worked at the local railway station for pocket money on tasks that included helping to unlead empty milk cans from trains, sweeping out carriages, aiding in the loading of fruit and — when authority wasn't watching — switching the points for shunting. R ailwayman Alan Cunningham, whose unofficial off -sider he was, rewarded him with two shillings a week. The budding accountant even then had an eye to matters of finance for, in addition, he worked at the market garden of grandfather Charles at an agreed rate of ninepence an hour. It is small wonder that now Bernie is an active member of the Hotham Valley Tourist Railway and the Australian Railway Historial Society. He tells you enthusiastically that the ARHS has just bought a W-class steam locomotive and rolling stocks and hopes soon to run steam excursion trains round the metropolitan area. The Hotham Valley Tourist Railway has been running steam trains in the MayOctober months since 1976, .and the Pinjarra-Dwellingup scenic trip is now most popular
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NEW YORK ( NC) Newsweek magazine recently ran a cover story on the fight against pornography, thus anointing it with a media respectability that up to now has been withheld.
Bernie had to nip only a few yards along the road to school at St Brigid's, and one of his favourite weekend pastimes was to sit high in a peppermint tree and watch the adults playing tennis on the courts at the intersection of Aberdeen and Fitzgerald streets — now a parking area.
It was an appetite whetted by the daily train trips into the city to go to school at St Pat's, but most of all by he regular holidays at Donnybrook on the market garden of grandfther, Charles Mosca
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE When he was in England, he travelled as much as he could by train, and they were all hauled then by steam engines. It was not until the month he left the country (October, 1955) that its first diesel train ran between London and Perth in Scotland.
EIDEI In Europe, also, he did a lot of train travel and in Vienna in August, 1955, he made a special trip to see the old Orient Express before it went out of service. Bernie is still in regular contact with one of his old teachers at St Pat's, Brother Ctuilligan, who last who celebrated his 60th year as a Christian Brother.
His other St Pat's teachers were Brother Coyne, Mr Leo Ryan and Brother Ackary. When he joined the work force as an office boy at David Gray and Co on February 21, 1944, the city round which he pushed his bike was vastly different from the Perth of today. There was far less traffic and there were no lights to control it; American servicemen abounded and many of the buildings that were landmarks have disappeared. The evening trip to night school from West Leederville was by trolley bus, and these fast and comfortable vehicles too are but a memory. After about four years' study he became a Member of the Federal Insitute of Accountants, one of the merging
bodies which in turn became the Australian Society of Accountants on January 1, 1953. Bernie explains there have been two attempts to bring about a merger between the Australian Society of Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, but on each occasion the proposal was defeated by a narrow margin. He feels such a desirable merger will eventuate because there would be many advantages.
DEO Representations to government would be more acceptable from one body, there would be legal registration of accountants to protect the profession from the activities of unqualified people, and there would be the obvious advantage of savings in operational costs. The profession has seen tremendous changes since he first joined it. "Birds, for example," he continues, "does a big proportion of its work on the computer. We have to keep
up with the trend or be left behind. Use of techniques such as the computer and photo-copying is essential if we are to contain costs." He is the leader of the tax planning and research section of Birds and is also engaged in equity management which involves wills, partnerships, trusts and companies. Staying abreast of changes in legislation and regulations is a major headache. "It is almost a full-time job," he' says, "to keep up with taxation legislation. In 1984 300 sections in the Tax Act were effected by introduction of new sections, delegations of old sections or alterations of existing sections. -The Companies Code also, brought in in 1982 to replace the Companies Act, is subject to continual change." On his Church activites, he says that a feeling that he was not worthy of the position caused him to initially reject a suggestion by parish priest Father Peter McCudden that he should become an acolyte.
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The feminists are altogether on target in declaring that pornography violates the rights of women, and we all owe them a debt of gratitude. (That the media should be willing to take them more seriously than the protestant and catholic clergy and laity also involved is, of course, a telling commentary on who is hot and who is not, mediawise, but it need not detain us here.) It's a quite serious issue. Pornography, as Cardinal Bernardin noted in his Cincinnati speech, diminshes life and in some contexts des-
John Paul on TV LONDON: The BBC has decided that the pope's E aster message will again be televised in full from next year. There was much criticism when the message was dropped from television schedules this year for the first time in 30 years. The chairman of the BBC, Mr Stuart Young, said that the decision to drop the broadcast had been "quite wrong." He added: "I am aware many people — and not only Catholics — have been offended by this ommission."
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Russian offer to Czechs troys Iffe, its not the kind of thing worthy of the giggles and smirks it sometimes provokes in otherwise intelligent and fair-minded people For those still inclined to treat it lightly. I offer the testimony of one of the letters sent to Newsweek after the story. It's from a man with a fashionable suburban New York address, and he writes, -I can understand how pornography might offend some women. Nevertheless, my wife and I enjoy X-rated material, and we resent deeply the efforts of anybody who wants to prevent us from easy access to it.-
DI There are two aspects to the mind-set that pervades this chilling letter. The first, which the letter illustrates all too well, is how far the concept of community, the concept of the common good, has fled from egocentric American society. If I want to smoke, for example. I should be allowed to smoke wherever and whenever I wish because smokers have rights, too. And If I can afford a gas guzzler or
if I can afford to go around in a stretch limo, I have every right to do so. And don't talk to me about harming the national interest or depleting natural resources for future generations. My lifestyle is more important. Thus, in order that Our trendy suburban couple can have easy access to pornography, we have to allow our pre-teenage children to be exposed to it in delicatessens and drugstores throughout the country, and the community must suffer. The second aspect of this kind of thinking is even more Smoking disheartening. harms only the body, as does, eventually, the heedless consumption of natural resourThe pornography ces. industry, however, which is overwhelmingly dependent upon photographs and movies, devours people. We may argue as much as we like about the effect of pornographic movies on the viewer, but who would care to deny that it has a horribly dehumanising effect upon the young men and women who appear in them — even when,. as is often not the case, they do it voluntarily?
Villagers again BANGKOK: Eight of Thailand's 10 bishops and all four bishops of Bangladesh will live for a week with the poor in villages and slums in the next two months to prepare for a meeting of bishops on social issues in Thailand next January.
MOSCOW: It has come to light that during 1984, Soviet authorities attempted to persuade the Action Group for the Defence of the Rights of Believers and the Church to sever their allegiance to Rome. In return they promised legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. On 14 March 1984 party and government representatives visited REV HRYHORI BUDZINSICti, secretary of the Action Group and told him that Ukrainian Catholics would be allowed to register their church wit.h the authorities.
D Jiij In April Yosyp Terelya was sent to 1.17.hgorod ( Transcarpathian region), ostensibly on a business trip. There he was met by Mykola Khomenko from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian and V. Bondarenko from the Communist Party Institute of Atheism. During a four-hour discussion in a restaurant, Terelya was offered self-governance for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in return for breaking with Rome. On the following day, Khomenko offered to return all the Ukrainian Catholic churches closed in 1983-4. Terelya refused on the grounds that registration of a Church severed from Rome would amount to government control and eventual liquidation. — Keston College report
Gain strength from faith V ATICAN CITY: Meeting members of the International Federation of Associations for Multiple Scelerosis the pope said "with the strength of faith in Christ, you can help each sick person to overcome fatalism" and not be "reduced
to bewailing a lost faculty." He encouraged the members to urge the sick to unite their sufferings to the cross of Christ and to see the cross is not the end but a step through which one finds the "trimph of new life and freedom
from evil." "Show them many things are possible through willpower," the pope said. "Inspire them with startng c ourage, them toward a conscious and serene acceptance of their conditions."
W ASHINGTON (NC): A quarter of all pregnancies in the United States in 1981 ended in abortion, according to a report by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the Washington non-profit research organisation associated with Planned Parenthood. According to the report, abortions were performed on US women in 1,577,340 out of 6.1 million pregnancies in 1 981 — a rate of about 26 per cent. That percentage is about the same as the year before. Although white women, as the largest racial group in the United States, had 70 per cent of the abortions, the rate was much higher among non-whites — about 56 abortions per 1,000 women for nonwhites compared with 24 abortions per 1,000 for white women. The report found that 81.1 per cent of the abortions were obtained by unmarried women and 35 per cent were obtained by women who had had abortions previously. The report also found that 85 per cent of the abortions were performed by the suction method. Fifty-one per cent were performed within eight weeks of conception and 91 per cent were performed within three months of conception, according to the report. One per cent of the abortions were performed on girls under the age of 15, with a total of 15,000 abortions in this age group, according to the report. Young women 15 to 19 obtained 27.5 per cent of all abortions, the report said, while women ages 20-24 obtained 35.2 per cent of the total. Twenty per cent of the abortions were performed on women 25-29, 10.6 per cent on those 30 to 34 and the remaining 5.7 per cent on women 35 and older. The report said that, in general, the age distribution of abortions in 1981 was about the same as 1980.
Swiss to act on life BERNE . The Catholic bishops of Switzerland have come out in favour of a proposal that a guarantee of the right to life from conception to natural death should be written into the Constitution This would thus outlaw both abortion and euthanasia. Abortion is at present officially forbidden in Switzerland: three years ago a referendum defeated proposals to allow abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
DOD The new constitutional initiative will be submitted to a referendum on June 9. Approval of the initiative, they said, would entail personal commitment against every threat to life at home and everywhere in the world. War, hunger, destitution, persecution, torture. the denial of asylum, the destruction of the environment, and irresponsible driving will be dealt with.
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The power of faith can transcend reason
The story is told of St Augustine who, contemplating the mystery of the Trinity while walking along the beach, came upon a child playing. The child repeatedly carried a small bucket of water and emptied it into a hole he had dug in the sand. "What are you doing?" Augustine asked kindly. "I'm going to put the sea into this hole," was the reply.
By Theodore Hengesbach
With that the child disappeared, leaving Augustine to understand that it was as possible for the child to accomplish the task as it was for Augustine to understand the Trinity. Is this not proof enough that the powers of the mind are useless when it comes to faith's great questions? Is this not proof enough that people of faith can leave the powers of reason behind? I would answer, quite simply, no. I remember the talk I had with a young couple several years ago in a parish following an evening for parents of children about to be baptised. Everyone else had gone home except this earnest young couple. They were intrigued by our discussion of original sin and the special gift of faith
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that the Christian community would share with their child. Before that night, the couple had not given much thought to sin or grace or Christian life. They were,Iguess, doubters. But the evening's session had given them a chance to ask questions and to talk about serious matters. In this case, their questions actually awakened faith that had been dormant for years. Their minds had been stimulated. They were drawn back into an environment where faith could be nourished. Similarly,Ihad a conversation recently with a 38year-old man who had returned to a university for continuing education classes. He suddenly began to rhapsodise about how important school was for him. It was a place where he was bombarded with questions which led to a new perspectives which in turn led to new questions. He felt the entire process helped bring his spirit to life. As these examples suggest, the questions we raise about our faith need not destroy it or dampen enthusiasm for it. Quite the contrary. When it comes to the great questions about faith, one question has a tendency to lead to another. • Does suffering have meaning? • Is there life after death — and what is it like?
• Does God exist?
• Does God really influence our world on a dayto-day basis? How? When? Why?
we can never get to the bottom of our faith anyway?
whom we admire. We ask if the Christian life is worth the effort.
Faith provides the meaning. Our questions are the inroads into that meaning. Our questions goad us to understanding.
• We lose a job, or a child goes astray. or a marriage ends in divorce. "Is it all worth it? Where have we failed? Has God failed us?" we ask.
These are age-old questions. One naturally leads to another. And faith provides an answer so grand and sweeping — like the sea — that we can comprehend it only in drops, somewhat like the child who grasped the sea bucket at a time.
• For example, we experience suffering and ask, "Can there be a God who permits suffering?" This is no doubt but a plea for understanding.
Is the power to the mind of no account, therefore, since one question leads to another and
• Or we are disappointed by moral weakness or failure in ourselves or another
These are not doubts, hut openings to meaning. They help keep faith fresh and alive. Reason, in fact, puts us in touch with God, like the young couple who had not thought seriously about God, church, Jesus, until their intellects were sparked
by the give-and-take of discussion. Without reason and its questions we run the risk of remaining utterly passive and are in danger of letting God and Christ pass up by with hardly a nod of recognition. The use of our powers of reason points toward faith that is taken very seriously. Augustine never stopped pondering the Trinity. The incident on the beach spurred him on in a renewed effort to grasp the magnificent reality of his faith.
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Mark wanted readers of his Gospel to understand that Jesus was not a good luck charm, a magician, as the following story illustrates: A religious official falls at Jesus' feet. asking a far)ur of Him. And a curious crowd gathers. Picture the scene: The official is a desperate father. His little daughter is seriously ill and he will do anything — anything — to .save her. Having heard stories offesus'healingpowers, the man decides to take a chance. It may be a long
It "was the way of life of the monks," he said, their "fulfilment and contentment." It wasn't until later that he grew to understand "their way of life is a way of learning." Father Vickers the prioradministrator of St Artselm's, Benedictine abbey discussed the special love for scholarship and learning that has marked the entire history of the Benedictine order.
Some science fiction may be farfetched. But in their instincts, the writers may be more typical than they seem at first: They look into the universe around them, and they wonder just how fascinating, even wonderful, it might be.
The oldest form of monastic life in the Western Church, the order was
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shot but, in a case like this, who worries about the odds? When Jesus and the man set out for his house the crowdfollows. In the crowd is a woman who has been haemorrhaging for 12 years. She has spent all her money on professional healers and has only grou,n worse. She, too, has beard about Jesus. Pushing through the throng, shefinally gets close to Jesus and cautiously touches his cloak, there is a strong element of magic in her thinking. She supposes that some sort of mysteriouspouier emanates from Jesus, and maybe she can make contact with it. But the woman has to he careful According to the law, her malady has renderedher "unclean"andher touch could defile Jesus. Better not to chance detection.
Jesus, however. does .find her out, and she is terrified. Falling down in ftont of Him, she blurts out her utole story. But instead of getting a reprimand she hears Him say, quite gently: "Daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace and be free of this illness" (Mark 5:34). Superstition has been transformed into faith. The woman had to establish a relatonship withJesus. Mere physical contact was not enough. Faith is not some of abracadabra. It involves a free, accepting relationship with Jesus, an intelligent act which transcends naked intelligence and engages the whole person. Now, uterklairus, the anxious father, sees this remakable cure, his hopes rise. The odds are now on his side. It is precisely at this point that messengers arrive to
tell him his daughter has died. His hopes dissolve. Sensing this, Jesus tells him: "Fear is useless. What is needed is trust" ( 5:36). Like the woman, this man. too, must come to realise that faith intolves more than just playing the odds. He has to go beyond the evidence of his senses and take faith's difficult leap. It is not that he simply discards intelligence. Rather, he uses it as a starting point fin. a higher act of knowing. He, too. must commit him self completely to theperson andpower of-Jesus. Apparently he does so, for Jesus continues on to the house and restores his daughter. Mark tells us that "at this the familylc astonishment knew no bounds." People also seem to he amazed at what can happen if Jesus is taken at His word.
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• They may hope this understanding will help members of the human family to live happier lives. • They may even be motivatedby a religious belief. To help humanity exercise its Godgiven responsibility for creation, they pursue understanding of God's creation itseff. How worthwhile is scientific investigation into the workings of this world and the universe for people of faith? Numerous times during his pontificate, Pope John Paul II has discussed the value of scientific research. In a 1980 address in Cologne, Germany, the pope said that through research humanity "attains to truth — one of the most beautiful names God has given Gimsetf. This is why the Church is convinced there can be no real contradiction between science and faith. . . The whole of reality ultimately comes from God the Creator." In his speeches on science, the pope always encourages researchers to work on behalf of human needs. Scientific researchers should not work in a vacuum, giving no thought to human values, he thinks. Nothing that deepens knowledge, the pope said in a 1983 speech to scientists, can leave us indifferent. All scientific research pursued with honesty, he added, "honours humanity andis a tribute to the Creator of all things." Could it be that God, in giving humanity the power to reason, hoped we would keep struggling to understand the world and the universe? Can it be a spiritual act and ultimately an act of faith when the human mind searches for this kind of understanding?
founded by St Benedict of Nursia in the early sixth century. "St Benedict lived in an age when the world was being torn apart," Father Vickers said. "His first reaction was to turn away from that world. He did and became a hermit." But he abandoned that life when a number of monks asked him to lead them. Toward the end of his life he wrote a rule for this followers. The Rule of St Benedict is the earliest rule of religious discipline in Western Europe.
A way to learn all about life "The first demand of the rule," noted Father Vickers, "is that a monk should truly seek Christ in his life." Due to that rule, he added, "naturally the monks felt a need to preserve what was good in life. They became the custodians of learning as Europe was torn apart by various wars and invasions. They were the custodians of
art, architecture, agriculture — all aspects of life." This stress on education and learning has never diminished in the Benedictine order. And, like many Benedictine abbeys, St Anselm's operates a boys' school. But, Father Vickers quickly added, learning is not soley an exercise of the classroom.
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The mystery of the universe can fe never be comprehended fully. But that doesn't stop either the scientist or the theologian from trying to understand it: • They may be motivated by pure curiosity.
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By David ' Gibson A lmost nothing is more frustrating than the awareness that someone you care about is locked into a downward spiral of self-destructive behaviour: for example, drug addiction, alcoholism or the refusal to take any care of personal health through proper nutrition, rest and medical care. When you try to respond to the needs of a friend or relative in such a situation, YOU may be left feeling helpless and ineffective. If you begin to feel that nothing you do for the troubled person makes any difference — at least not that -t-tu can identify yet — you may become angry. Or the situation may begin to make you ill yourself ( which is why an organisation like AlAnon has come into existence for the families and friends of persons suffering from the illness of alcoholism). Over a period of time, you may begin to feel overwhelmed by your troubled friend's behaviour. You may throw your hands up in the air and exclaim. "It's hopeless." This is the kind of hard problem that can leave you wondering where faith comes into real life. Does faith address painful situations like those that result from drug addiction or alcoholism? A critic might charge that religious fiath does one of two things in such situations: Either it makes you feel guilty for not being able to improve the situation through continued dedication and effort, or it finds a spiritual way for you to turn away from the problem and, in effect, wash your hands of it. But is that all that can be said for faith when it comes to life's truly frustrating moments? St Augustine would have urged Christians in these situations to pray as
though everything depended on God and to act as though everything depended on them. For a person of faith, St Augustine's suggestion makes sense. Faith does not come up empty-handed in a situation that involves a destructive addiction such as alcoholism. Just to mention one point, in the light of faith all human life is seen to have dignity and purpose — the life of the alcoholic, the lives of all affected by the alcoholic. Thus, faith creates a context in which to approach this problem. A belief that all human life is created in God's image tends to guide one's thinking and one's hopes. But people who have faith don't lay aside their human reason when it comes to coping with frustrating situations. In situations of alcoh-
olism, for example, there are doctors and experts to consult, books to read, strategies for family members and friends to work on together — hoping that the addicted person. feeling their joint concern and love, will be stimulated to accept help
The family members of friends must put their powers of reason to work to achieve some understanding of the illness of alcoholism and how it works. They need to think through their own attitudes toward the alcoholic.
"Learning is about the whole of life," the priest said. "You can find Christ in all that God created," he said, especially in the faith of others. That belief — that Christ dwells in all people — gave rise to another rule of St Benedict valued in every monastery: the rule of hospitality to all. "Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for he is going to say. 'I came as a guest and you received me," Benedict wrote.
By Joe Michael Fiest person who says, "I already have faith, therefore I don't need to exercise my reason," Father Vickers thought momentarily. "I'd say, 'You can do that, but your life won't be very
1:1 "The whole attitude of hospitality is tied in with learning," said Father Vickers, because Christ is discovered in others. in the way they live and love. A t St Anselm's, guests check in for a few hours or a few days of quiet reflection. prayer or a walk in the shade of towering pines. Asked what he would tell a
haPPY:" He added that "learning is a search for truth. Learning isn't finding the answers to everything in life. The great secret of learning is knowing we'll never understand everything." "Learning is deepening our understanding of what life is all about. Your faith is deepened through knowledge," said Father Vickers
People of faith believe they possess an outlook on life and knowledge about creation that surpass the powers of human understanding. Of what use, then, are the powers of human understanding the mind? What is the relation of faith and reason? Theodore Hengesbach thinks that many of the question Christians pose as they investigate their faith are not so much doubts as they are an opening to meaning. And he tells the story of a couple, parents, questions that cause them to dig more who are stimulated by a parish program to ask questions deeply into the meaning of their faith. Joe Michael Feist interviews Benedictine Father Leonard Vickers. Why is it that Benedictine monks, who concentrate so much on prayer and spirtuality, also have a long tradition of establishing centres these people of faith. of learning. Feist, asks why learning is so important to these monks David Gibson examines the relationship of faith and reason when it comes to serving people who seem trapped by sett-destructive behaviour — like drug abuse or alcoholism. What, he asks, does faith have to offer in situations like these that not only boggle the mind, but require a response from the very best human minds? Father John Castelot distinguishes the life of faith from superstition i his scripture article this week. Faith requires a free and intelligent response from a person, he writes -- a response that involves the \ whole person in a relationship with Jesus.
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Judge is 'an old at home'
Mr and Mrs Bill Easton celebrated recently the 50th anniversary of their wedding on May 6, 1935 in St Mary's c hurch Leederville where Father John Russell was celebrant. They took up residence in Mount Hawthorn for the next 40 years until their move 10 years ago into Prindiville Village, North Perth. In Leederville parish Bill Easton was active in the Holy Name Society and the St Vincent de Paul Society for 30 years. He was salesman for The Record in Leederville and still keeps up the work at the Redemptorist church. Mrs Easton, formerly Imelda Leddin, was active in the Hibernians, the Catholic Womens League and St Mary's school committee.
As Western Australia's first woman judge, and one of its youngest yet appointed, Toni K ennedy has some new -views- on life. There's the one from her office window on the 14th floor of the Central Law Courts building where she shares space with the other judges. It's an airy, if frugally f urnished room in colours of cream and brown.
John Paul in Netherlands From page 1 The t trecht meeting was also boycotted by the Catholic Women's Guild and The Dutch Women's Religious Association. Several hundred women are reported to have resigned from the Church registers held at municipal offices. The most publicised pro-
test was the street battle in Utrecht when leather jacketed punks and others fought pitched battles with riot police in what one newsman called open urban guerilla warfare. The pope reportedly dis cussed the not with Dutch bishops who assured him the demonstration was not directed at him personally
Her first novel... From page 5 "I am concerned at what I see in the media as opposition to the values of God. Children get a hotch potch of information and little help to work their way through it. 'They need to learn that there is no freedom without fences." For Dulcie Lampard, common sense is the one constant factor in a successful Christian life and hopefully through her book. "Faith is not against reason," she said. "Children are simple, straight and direct and so is faith... the message is a simple one and we should be making sure it gets through to them.
'We're living in a time when many people try to live their lives through others. That's the mass media message I see anyway." Talking with teachers, says Mrs Lampard, has reinforced her belief in the low standard of English in so much modern literature. Books, she said should furnish the heart and mind and leave a residue of richness. She is a firm believer Christian books should be able to stand up and hold their own in the general market place as good literature. "Faith is not forced," she said, "and that simply means Jesus Christ should appear as living, vibrant and wonder to know."
A unique distinction From page 6 He decided to accept only after a lot of soul-searching and discussions with his family, and it was a decision that he has not regretted for one moment. In addition to be an acolyte at St Cecilia's, he acts sometimes in that capacity at St Mary's Cathedral which is only a few minutes' walk from his St George's Terrace office. Being a lover of music and Gregorian chanting, he likes to be on the altar at the Cathedral for the 10 am Latin Mass on the third Sunday of every month. 10
St Cecilia is the patron saint of music. The Floreat church named after her is attractive and its modern architecture is featured in World Book Encyclopaedia. His main sporting relaxation is to play at the Cottesloe Golf Club a game that he took up late in life to replace tennis and squash. When he commenced to play golf he was warned that his late start at it meant that he would never be much good at the game. "The warning turned out to be true," he grins, "but I still enjoy 0.-
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A regular feature by UOSIL% L'OSS I
The desk is huge but even that can be a disadvantage, she says with a ready smile, as there's even more space to make a mess on But when the curtains are drawn back there's a large piece of sky to light the way through the piles of paper and open books — not for long though because a day in court doesn't end until four and that's when the paperwork begins.
Then there's the view from the professional pinnacle that she has reached in the world of law. At 39 she is one of the to be youngest ever appointed to the position of judge. And while there are female family court judges in many states, women judges in civil jurisdictions are still rare on the ground. But if the atmosphere is thought by some to be a little ranfied in the inner sanctum of the judiciary, Toni Kennedy would maintain she has had no trouble breathing at all. As a dedicated feminist, she knows too well the demands that are made of women who make it to the top and she intends to make the most of every moment. And last, but not least, as a Catholic her appointment has brough a new dimension to her "view" of life. Her faith, she says, influences every part of her life, and that certainly includes being a judge. It is not a matter of her faith fitting into what she does, but rather the other way around — if something doesn't fit in with her faith, it is jettisoned. And what of the person behind it all.
She would describe herself as someone who is not serious, someone who prays a lot, doesn't plan and has no grand goal. Her character has broad dimensions — from ready humour and the ability to take a child's delight in a visit to Disneyland a few years back, to a serious desire to do her professional best, to help others, to acquit herself well without letting the team down — and even further, to a constant and demanding relationship with God. She has not married. "I always thought I would but it didn't happen," she said. She still lives at home with her parents, with whom she has a close relationship. "But I'm planning to build myself a house next year," she said, "I think it's time I ran away from home." Home has always been a mainstay in her life, and, as an only child, she has been a mainstay no doubt in that home. Her arrival, after eight years of marriage, came as a special miracle for her parents. "Mum prayed to St Anthony for a child and said if she had a boy she would call it Anthony, but she got me and I guess the closest she could
get to it was Antoinette," she said. It is still Antoinette at home but to most who know her personally, it is Toni. She was educated firstly at St Kieran's Osborne Park and then at Leederville Tech. As a young child there was no thought of law, instead she wanted to be a nun. "I think we all did in those days," she grinned. Her roots, she says are in Irish Catholicism. Her parents were and are committed Catholics, and her early school days had a profound effect on her. As an only child her parents were always anxious she show concern for others. "I think the difficulty with an only child is that no matter how hard parents try, you do grow up feeling the universe revolves around you,'. she said It was a feeling that began to trouble her as she grew older and it was only when she began to pray, at the age of 17, that she realised the effects of such an attitude "When you see yourself as the centre of things it can be difficult to relate to the needs and demands of others and to accept their criticism or lack of interest," she said. "It really made me think about my relationships with other people." But the ability to be aware, she says, must come in part from the care her parents took and the fact that the Kennedy house was very much a place for people. "My grandfather lived with us until I was 16 and we always had lots of people home; mother was always helping out and making new friends, she said. For an only child, she says, there are always times of loneliness, but with a home which was open to all and time spent with her parents in their work at the fruit and vegetable markets, those moments were relatively infrequent.
And while she used to get furious when cousins and friends came home with new babies (only when they had girls, not boys), she admits with a smile, she did manage to survive her childhood quite happily without the advent of a "baby sister." "Of course I always imagined having a sister just a little bit younger than me, even when I was getting older all the time," she laughed. When the time came to leave high school and go to
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As a dedicated feminist, she knows too well the demands that are made of women who make it to the top and she intends to make the most of every moment. And last, but not least, as a Catholic her appointment has brought a new dimension to her "view" of life. Her faith, she says, influences every part of her life, and that certainly includes being a judge.
"I was lucky in that I had a number of friends who had settled in different parts of the globe, so I had plenty of places to stay,- she said When she returned it was to declare as a barrister solely. In Western Australia, one is normally admitted to the bar both as a barrister and solicitor A solicitor sees clients, prepares documents, holds money and pays money
university she opted for law, after toying for a time with the idea of teaching. Law was something she loved from the start and she describes it as, -getting the right qustion which usually leads to the answer you are looking for.'' It was 1963 when she began at the University of Western Australia. She was one of four women who began the four-year course which would culminate with another two years of partpractice and part study. Of the four, she was the only one to actually go into practice. "In those days, women just didn't,- she said. 'When I started in practice there were five women practising in Perth aged from their early 20's to 80. "It is only in the last 10 years women have begun to come into the profession although when you consider there are only 100 women or so in the 1000 or so presently practising barristers and solicitors, we haven't made great inroads." There is no doubt discrimination exists, she adds, but not in a malicious sense. It is more a matter of attitudes -- but they can be the hardest of all to break down. Her own awarenes.s was triggered more by "lost opportunities" than anything else, she says. "Quite simply you see the opportunities going to men
and not women,- she said. "I suppose it took me about five years to begin to realise what was happening. There's no doubt women do have to be better than men to get on, and there is no reason why they should" In such a way the seeds of feminism were sown, but she is quick to point out her definition of feminism is purely that 'woman are entitled to be equal and all that implies.'There are so many women who achieve great things and ,then make a point of saying they are not feminists that there is nothing stopping women from doing anything they want," she said. "My experience has been that there are things stopping women. 'While part of it is our own
attitudes to ourselves, there are also very strong pressures from society to 'role play,' which of course is extremely limiting. "For instance, in legal circles, aggression displayed by a man who is acting for a client would be considered appropriate. "But in a woman, aggression in the same circumstances is more likely to be seen as her being difficult. "For me, feminism is purely believing each woman can be free from role-playing of any description and can be judged as herself, as a person; not as a woman. -We have not achieved equality yet and what we do have is not good enough. "We will have equality when the average woman
can succeed, just as average men do -At present a woman still has to be better than other women and better than men to make it." But femininsm is not a f anatical issue for Toni Kennedy. She can still flash a broad grin and proclaim that if she were a man she wouldn't be in a hurry to change the system either.
"You can't blame them," she said, "who wouldn't want a wife?" As far as other women with differing attitudes are concerned, she is at pains to point out her interpretation of
ElHer character has broad dimensions — from L_J ready humour and the ability to take a child's delight in a visit to Disneyland and a few years back, to a serious desire to do her professional best, to help others, to acquit herself well without letting the team down — and even further, to a constant and demanding relationship with God. She has not married. "I always thoughtI would but it didn't happen," she said. She still lives at home with her parents, with whom she has a close relationship. "But I'm planning to build myself a house next year," she said. "I think it's time I ran away from home."
feminist is "equality" It's a matter of choice and opportunity. "It irritates me that anyone who claims to be a feminist is immediately dubbed as someone who wants all women to work,- she added. -I certainly don't believe all women should leave the home for the general workforce. . that's as much of a tyranny as saying all women should stay home.Neither "musts" are acceptable, she adds, it is a case of being free in the first place to make valued judgements and of having the opportunities to carry them through. For her own part, she says, she never consciously gave it all just anything up happened. She would be the first to admit her kick-start came from parents who fervently believed in education. She also admits, that while it was not necessarily a matter of choice, being single as a woman is certainly an aid to career progress. "I have the greatest respect for friends who have children and especially those who also go out to work,- she said. With her years of study behind her she then spent two years as an employed solicitor before setting up in business as a barrister and solicitor. She sold the business after four years and took a 12 month tour of the world.
way toward success, it is prayer, she says, that has added the extra dimension The insight coming from prayer is invaluable. Like realising you have to make the most of your own gifts -Some people want other people's gifts," she said, -you see that working at the Bar all the time." It is prayer which influences attitudes and behaviour and plays a major part in her relationships with other people But the most important thing of all, she says, is her relationship with God It is a relationship that began to grow about eight year, ago. It was a private path leading to prayer and then to a personal relationship with
A barrister gives opinions and goes to court The decision to practice solely as a barrister was simply a natural progression, she says The demands of a sole practice are great and one needs motivation, such as a family to support, to put in the God time required, she says "I guess up until then I had To find herself a judge some felt safe about it all. I was -set nine years later came as like jelly" because I went to something of a surprise church and did the right thing. If there wasn't a God, it didn't matter If there was a God. I was okay."I suppose I had envisioned With three adults sharing a it for some time in the future," house her most private times she said. come in her own room Her appointment became "I can sit on my bed and chat official in March and she was to God." she said, "it's one pleased to note the formal place I have to myself" welcome to new judges on She forces herself to say the March 18 came a day after Rosary . it is a valuable the 54th anniversary of the discipline. first woman to be admitted to "If you say the Rosary and practice law in Western Aus- meditate on the mysteries tralia. you can learn all sorts of "It was also the day after St things," she said. Patrick's Day which fitted in -The peace we all seek with my Irish heritage,- she begins within us but even grinned_ finding that doesn't mean we While much of her time as float through life." a barrister was spent in Family Court work, as a judge, she is now assigned to commercial and criminal cases. But even the joy of learning 'The crime cases are all jury about life is coupled with trials," she said, "and we are plain hard work. listed each day from around "Sometimes I say, 'God, I'd 10am to 4pm.really like a holiday.' .He's Papers are read each mornalways teaching me things.ing before court to catch up But Toni Kennedy would be on stories involved with the the first to say life is one long trial and after court ends lesson. there are reserve decisions to When she isn't working she write and other paperwork to spends a lot of time reading, wade through before she especially inspirational books. heads home. The book that put her on the Living with parents means path to prayer was the Story the advantage of returning to of St Therese — the Story of a ready-cooked meal more a Soul. nights than not. -It was at the end of the book I realised she had become perfect by sheer hard work,- she said. Since she claims cooking as And sheer hard work, proone of the least of her skills, fessionally, personally and the prospect of preparing spiritually makes up much of meals when she moves into Toni Kennedy's life. her own home next year When she does take a break seems a little daunting. chances are she will head for The answer may well be a the beach near her home. microwave but no doubt, It's a place to be alone but once she has found the right not lonely; a place to be question to the problem, the physically and spiritually in answer will fall into place. tune Prayer, she says. has cerIt's a place where sheer tainly helped her life to fall hard work can be forgotten into place (and may well help for a time. the cooking) It's Kennedy common sense While determination and that knows when to take a hard work have gone a long break.
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evening Special classes are believed to have boosted the enrolment of catechists who were formally commissioned by Bishop Healy in St Joseph's church, Subiaco last Friday night.
Compared with last year's intake of 45, the 1985 group was 94 strong and brings the number of active catechists in the archdiocese to well over 500. The new recruits underwent a 10 week
course at both day or night programs as well as a special regional 'course at Rockingham. Many of the working women found they could attend the night classes.
arc Catechists increasingly being • involved in parish programs after school, or after Sunday Mass. Fremantle catechists commissioned last Friday night by Bishop Healy: (from left) Joanne Mangano, Nancy Gangemi, Anna Dose, Maria Mangano Below: Spearwood catechists: Maria Travia, Brenda L'Etang, Fay Rinaldt.
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PUBLIC LECTURE SPEAKER: Fr Brian Gore TOPIC: "Stories of suffering, stories of hope": Learning about the real world from the Philippines example. VENUE: Lecture Theatre, Nedlands Campus of W.A. College of Advanced Education (corner of Hampden Rd and Stirling Highway, Nedlands). TIME: 7.45 pm Wednesday May 22 FILM: "Seasons of Thunder" will be shown commencing sharp at 7.45 pm. A marriage of East and It led Bede Griffiths into West is the simple summary the Catholic Church and Dome Bede Griffiths gives eventually the Benedictine to the views he is promoting Order. on his tour of Australia that He is now attached to the concludes in Perth this Camaldolese section of the week. order. 'The West has its own Bede Griffiths can be heard tradition which we have to as follows: give to the world but the Sunday. May 19: WinWest also needs to meet the throp Hall at 7.30pm. East and discover the riches Monday, May 20: Univertradition," he oriental the of sity House at 3pm on 'The said. Man in Hindu, Universal "Just as the faith came out Buddhist, Moslem and of Palestine into the GrecoChristian Tradition. Roman empire and the Tuesday, May 21: MurphiGreek fathers took the losophy and culture into doch University at 4pm their lives so I think we have "Transpersonal psychology to build on the foundations and Religious experience". of the New Testament but Wednesday, May 22, Bunopen to what the oriental bury Recreation Centre tradition teaches us." 10am to 4pm Yoga MeditaBede Griffiths was an tion, phone Denis Sully Oxford student in his mid 21 6244. 7.30pm evening 20's when he and some lecture at Bunbury Catholic like-minded companions College. despaired of the lack of Thursday, May 23 at spirituality in their day and 7.30pm public lecture at St took off to a retreat to Thomas More church, Mardiscover the gospel. garet River
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Choice is a weekend programme that has been running in the Perth diocese for the six and a haff years. It was first establishedby Terri andBrian Conway in 1979 and IS now ledby Margaret and Terry Fennessy of Ned/ands. h IS presented by a team of people including a married couple, committed young adults, a religious brother or sister and a priest. Present at the last weekend were: Back: Mark Miloro, Mike Wyss, Mark Kerrigan, Gavin Radici, Stephen Gannon, Mark Newton. Secnd row: Jim Collins, Phil Cornish, Frank Maher, Keith McNaught, Helen Doran, Frank Foale, Maria McGillivray, Jenny Buonvecck Tim Leahy, Linda Sandall (cook) Christine Courtney (cook), Marie Hackett. Third row: Patrick Wu, Dania Smith, Dianne Bogumil Anne-Marie Langdon, Peter Van Der Kwast, Lorraine Wood, Mane D'Uva. Front row: Father John, Sally Page, Eloise Hicks, Marg Fennessy, Terry Fennessy. (Missing is Sister Margaret O'Sullivan).
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Paul Newton, Catholic Parish Youth Movement fu//timer since September marriedMary Oloughlin on Sunday. April 20 at Trinity college Chapel
Owning my faith
Catholic Parish Youth Movement are holding a Diocesan Christian Living Camp, May 17 — 19 at Eagle's Nest Gidgegannup. This is the first Diocesan Christian Living Camp for 1985 and will have the theme of Owning My Faith. This camp is open to any young person between the ages of 15 — 25. Through this camp we hope people will have come to some understanding of the part their faith plays in their life. It will essentially be a weekend of reflection and sharing. The cost is $20. Participants will leave the Youth Office, 20 Claverton Street, North Perth on Friday 17 at 6.30 pm and will arrive back on Sunday, 19 at 4 pm.
CPY Ten Pin Bowling Day May 26 — Fairlanes Bowls,
175 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, has been booked for a bowling afternoon. We can have up to 150 people present. We hope to make it a day when groups can come together and meet people from other groups. The cost will be $4 per person (this includes shoe hire). Bowling is between 2 — 4 pm. Tickets are available at the Youth Office. We hope youth groups will be able and willing to participate in these activities in May. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact the fulltimers — Julie Della Franca, Paul Newton and Julia Pickering on 328 8136.
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Forty young workers from the Perth Archdiocese recently participated in the 4th Annual YCW Diocesan Council. At the Council which was held at the Youth Formation Centre, Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup. Elizabeth Chidlow was elected president, Pauline Whyte, secretary and Ian Conroy, treasurer respectively.
The Council was significant in that it concentrated on improving and strengthening the structures that operate within the movement. It gave young workers the opportunity to take responsibility for their movement, share their experiences and contribute to the planning and direction of the Perth YCW in 1985/86. We were fortunate to have
Inspired by the International Year of the Child in 1979, CHILD-to-child is a world-wide program aimed a providing children in their teens with the skills needed to respond effectively to the health problems and emotional needs of younger children. Among its benefits it helps parents with some of the burdens of child care. John Madeley, a UK journalist specialising in development issues, talks with one of the movement's founders, about how CHILD-to-child works and where it is going. Nyasha Conteh is a trained ,health worker and a teacher. She looks after a four-yearold boy and a two-year-old girl, teaching them the right eating and hygiene habits, playing with them, and caring for them. Recently she saved the life of the little boy, who had become weakened by diarrhoea. Nyasha sat by him and gave him water thrugh the day and long into the night. And when Nyasha noticed that the two-year-old girl had a had sore, she took her to the nearest health centre for treatment. Nyasha is an important friend of the two small children — but then 11year-old Nyasha is their sister. She is one of a growing number of children in the world who have been given a basic training to care for younger children and whose care can mean much to the younger child — even perhaps life rather than death. Nyasha is involved in a program called CHILD-tochild. CHILD-to-child was developed at the Tropical Child Health Unit at the London based Institute of Child
Health, following a request from the World Health Organisation and the British government in 1977 that the unit do something about the 1979 International Year of the Child. "We know that any one time, around half of the developing world's younger children are being looked after by older children" points out the Institute's Director, Professor David Morley. "We decided to mount a program that would give older children the knowledge and simple training to help them look after the health of their younger brothers and sisters." So a new program to help the younger child was born, and given the name CHIIDto-child. "The first word is spelt in capitals," says David Morley, "to remind us that it is the older child to the younger child." Although the Institute of Child Health developed CHILD-to-child, it is organisations in developing countries that carry it out. Over 60 countries today have their own CHILD-tochild program and well over two million children are involved.
the National YCW President, Bernie McEvoy at the council to share her experiences and to speak on the relevance and mission of the YCW in today's world. Also sharing the weekend with the young workers were the Diocesan Youth Chaplain Fr John Jegorow, Leederville YCW Chaplain Fr Vince Glynn and repre-
sentatives from the other Catholic youth movements The Council also gave the delegates attending the chance to develop friendship within the movement and a spirit of apostolic outreach to other young workers. ELIZABETH CHIDLOW 328 9667
SECONDARY STUDENTS The Young Christian Students full timers Ann McNulty and Malcolm Dix recently returned from a trip to Geraldton where they stirred interest in the YCS movement at Stella Mans and St Patrick's college. Geraldton is zipping along with the prospect of an Antioch Community at Bluff Point; a R edemptorist Youth Mission in July and whatever else youth worker Tony Dolin will spark off. There is a rumour that a youth conference is planned for the Kimberleys.
YCW The Young Christian Workers Movement are holding their thirtieth Australian Council meeting in Adelaide on Sunday May 19. It is a six day session at which the plans for the next two years are made, office bearers are elected and full timers chosen. Young West Australians have been nominated to official positions.
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The success of CHILD-tochild is in many ways the answer to critics who claim that "Internation Years" never achieve anything. And it would seem that a number of programs started in IYC 1979, CHILD-to-child has spread the most widely — even though the resources that have gone into it have been modest. Initial funds came from the British Government's Overseas Development Administration but their support lapsed in 1982; UNICEF then stepped in with financial assistance to ensure that CHILD-to-child continued. The program that began it all is run by one full time worker, based at the Institute of Child Health in London, and one part time consultant. To spread word about CHILD-to-child the Institute has held a number of workshops in the developing world — in Pakistan, India, Botswana, Brazil and the Philippines for example. It also produces written material which is disseminated to people in developing countries who may be interested in starting a program — especially schools but also scouts and similar groups. The British Council has also been supportive; it developed a photographic display of CHILD-to-child which has been seen in some 50 countries. "The workshops have helped to bring together
people involved both in health and education" points out David Morley. "One of the great problems in health care in many countries is that people in the education and health fields do not communicate well — and yet of course they both have a common concern. CHILD-to-child has proved to be one of the best ways in which they co-operate.
With the help of workshops, printed booklets, and advice from the Institute of Child Health, programs have taken off and CHILD-tochild has been adopted as part of the curriculum of a growing number of schools.
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The Wild Colonial Boy, illustrated by John Anthony King, published by Collins, $10.95. This perennial favourite a song of the people — The Wild Colonial Boy is perhaps the most famous of all bush songs, having spread to many other countries in a more or less similar form. Its author is not known but the ballad contains many elements from a previous song called Bold Jack Donahoe. John Anthony King. illustrator of such Australian ballad classics as Farewell to Old England Forever and Andy's Gone With Cattle, has brilliantly captured once again the mood of this stirring song. The illustrations reflect colonial life as they have done so in his previous books but King's development as an artist is apparent. His Hogarthian-style paint-
What's five metres tall, has two heads, breathes fire, has sixteen legs and is slimy all over? I don't know, but if you see one. I advise you to run. Why was the ghost turned out of the bar at midnight? Because they didn't serve spirits after hours. What do witches put on their hair? Scare spray. What did the mother ghost say to the baby ghost? "Don't spook until you're spoken to." 1,1by did the Dalek cross the road? To exterminate the chicken on the other side. What's a drip-dry monster? A wash and wear wolf.
The Wild Colonial Boy joins King's previous two volumes and is an important addition to Collins' list of Australian ballad picture books designed to present our history and heritage to children. John King has quickly become an established Collins artist in the last 18 months. He has a great gift for picking out the realities of life which he makes no attempt to disguise, giving him his own distinct and recognisable style. King was trained as an artist at East Sydney Technical College. He has taught Art History in both private and government schools, and has travelled extensively. In recent years he has worked in the theatre and on newspapers and magazines. He was the first resident dramatist at the Nimrod, and is author of a number of Short Stories published in P.M. Magazine. Numerous books have been published with his illustrations including Khartoum ( Horwitz(irahame, 1966) and Mad Dog Morgan — Bushranger ( (:urrawong. 1976).
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1 4 4 h%. I 4 4 Its, I 4 Gone to the Dogs, by John Rou-e Townsend. published by Oxford University Press. $8.99. Sammy and Dandy Sealyham arc determined to have some children as pets. When the children arrive they are as naughty and messy as Mrs Sealyham feared, and they get the two young dogs into all sorts of trouble. Ghosts. Witches, and Things Like That. by Roderick Hunt. published by Oxford University Press. $14.99. Contains magic tricks. jokes. party games, and stories about ghosts and hauntings, witches and wizards, fairies and goblins, monsters and skeletons, as well as ideas for fancy dress, revolting food and spooky parties. I f It Weren't For ,Sebastian. by Jean Ure, published by Puffin, $3.95. Maggie's new-found independence is gained at some e xpense — her family's shocked disapproval. With her parents, married sister and two brothers in the medical profession. Maggie's decision to do shorthand and typing and to live in "digs" is quite a departure from the norm. And when she meets Sebastian her life changes further. . . Ages 12 + Race Against Time: Revenge in the Silent Tomb, Escape from Raven Castle and Evil in Paradise, by JJ. Fortune, published by Fontana $3.50 each. Race Against Time is a new children's series full of danger. action and excitement, with Uncle Richard and Stephen as the heroes. All fans of Uncle Richard and Stephen can become Race Against Time Adventurers by simply clipping out
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The BFG. by Roald Dahl, I llustrations by Quentin Blake. published by Puffin, $4.95. The BFG really is a Big Friendly (vegetarian) Giant, compared with his compatriots from Giant Country. The likes of the Meat dripper, the Gizzardgulper and the Fleshlumpeater have some truly awful habits which Sophie and the BFG set out to change. Roald Dahl's wonderfully imaginative language is once again perfectly matched by Quentin Blake's illustra tions. Ages 7 + The Two Thousand Pound Goldfish, by Betsy Byars, published by Puffin, $2.75. The horror movie scripts which Warrett devises arc. vehicles of escape from his own world. They contain some very dramatic crea tions and the two-thousand pound goldfish. Bubbles, is one of them. Warren's mother is on tht run from the FBI for her not so-peaceful political activities and life with his grandmother, who has disowned her daughter, is not easy. Eventually, he is forced to confront his real world in this fast-moving story. Ages 9 - 12
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hildren's Story Hour Edith was remarkable from the day she was born. Her father and mother loved her dearly. Unfortunately, her father died when Edith was just 2 years old. Edith was born in Poland in 1891. Her mother was a strong and good woman. She was a devout Jew and observed the traditionalJewish customs. Edith was the youngest
child. She was full of life and loved to play hideand-seek with her brothers and sisters. Edith loved to study and learn. She was always near the top of her class in school. As she grew older, Edith had many question about life. She began a lifelong search for the meaning of life. But at that time, the more she learned the less she believed in God.
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Exercises in spirituality The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercises, by Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II). Harper and Row (San Francisco, 1984). $10.95. R eviewed by Father J. Michael Beers. Soon after the election of Pope John Paul II, we were allowed a privileged insight into his spirituality as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla with the publication of Sign of Contradiction, a translation of the Lenten retreat conferences he had preached to the Curia of Pope Paul VI in 1976. The Way to Christ is likewise a translation of retreat conferences, hut directed to different decidedly a audience. As the Italian edition describes the, they are specifically "spiritual exercises for young people," given during two retreats in 1962 and 1972 to the students of the University of Cracow by their auxiliary bishop and, later, their cardinal-archbishop.
Advice to young from the pope Just imagine the excitement of these alumni, upon hearing the news of the election of this first Polish pope, who could also recall his vision of the Church that he had shared with them six years earlier:
view, it is surely intriguing to read Cardinal Wojtyla's own criticism of the overly "masculine aspect" of Polish Catholicism, which he lays up to the spirit of tension and conflict, expressive of the male psyche, in his
"This is the Church, the Church in its global dimension and in each of its parts. Each part of this Church — each parish, each diocese. each individual church of the different countries — has the same life as the universal church. ibis is not so much a sociological phenomenon as an element in a great mystery: the Church is always the same in each individual part and in its totality."
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When one considers the common appraisal of the influence of his homeland on his spirituality and world-
More tales of the Lazenders
Fallen Angels, Susannah Kells, published by William Collins, $17.95.
The Fallen Angels is the successor to A Crowning Mercy. the first chronicle of the Lazender family, and also Susannah Kell's first novel. This time the year is 1792 and the Lazenders have never seemed more securely wealthy or more powerful. And never had the unseen means of their destruction been so close . . . Yet the heir to the great
estate was absent. TobyLazender worked for the British in Revolutionary France — where he hunted down the men who had murdered the innocent girl he loved. it was his sister. Campion, who oversaw the family's affairs at the 'little kingdom' of Lazen Castle. But Lazen is, unknowing, a house under siege. The Fallen Angels — among the most powerful and dangerous men in Europe — are plotting to bring revolution to England.
new titles, new titles The Language Of The Garden. by Anne ScottJames. published by Vik-
Bretyten Breytenbach. published by Faber and Faber. $24.95.
ing. $19.95. There is nowhere like a garden, with all its sensuous pleasures and back-breaking frustrations, for stirring writers to extremes of happiness, woe and even wit. In this very personal collection of garden writing, Anne Scott -James has chosen some of the writing about gardens which has given her most pleasure. These range from Horace NXIalpole's witty dismissal of the arid formality of Versailles to John Clare's lyrical evocation of the colourful informality of a country garden.
Breyten Breytenbach is one of South Africa's finest living writers. The True Confession of an Albino Terrorist is his compelling record of seven years in South africa's prisons. In pitiless and gripping detail. Breytenbach recounts the anatomy of life in one of the worst penal systems in the world. His testimony will rank among the classics of writings from prison. His is the voice of a lova artist transforming a series of harrowing experiences into an unforgettable recollection.
A new paperback novel for young teens. A story of mystery and intrigue, with the discovery of a whole new dimension to life — set on a cattle station in the Kimberleys of north Western Australia.
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good, he observes, because masculine spirituality lacks the interiority and depth that women bring to the devout life. Given the recent criticism levelled against his supposed position on women's issues, it is remarkable to read his actual views of over 20 years ago: "Without the mediation of love, a woman remains only an object for a man. This is why a woman needs interior
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marriage. "Marriage is not simply the institutionalisation of the sexual life., If this were the case it would destroy any feelings of the two partners. and especially those of the woman." Here we especially anticipate the John Paul of
the Wednesday audiences. It is interesting to compare the style of the young auxiliary with that of the seasoned archbishop. In 1962, he is much more philosophical, displaying an ease with existential terms and concepts, citing such diverse authorities as Jacques Maritain, Friedrich Nietzsche and C.S. Lewis. In 1972, Cardinal Wojtyla is decidedly more theological and spiritual, citing almost exclusively the Scriptures.
An aristocratic angle Aristocrats, by Robert Lacey, published by Fontana. $11.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. f you bare erer wanted to know bow 'the other half I lives' this book is for jyric. Aristocrats reveals how six of Europe's greatest noble families lead their lives today. 7bere's Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster. 32 years old, landlord of Mayfair and Belgraz -ia. and the wealthiest man in Britain: Dona Victoria Eugenia, Duchess of Medinacelli, the most titled woman in the world, and the owner of over 90 castles in Spain. She rises around 11 each day and then plays bridge far into the night. Germany offers Johannes to,: Thurn rend Taxis, and no, his family doesn't drive taxis, rather they started off as postmen. His Bavarian home contains more rooms than Buckingham Palace and be still maintains liveried footmen. In aristocratic terms the lineage. of this German prince makes Prince Philip look like a new bo)'• Italy has the noble house of Frescobaldi. executed and twice bankrupted, but still living in style after 800years in Florence at the same address. There's no chance of mail going astray if you are a Frescobaldi.
DEC In France we meet Jean Louis, Marquis de Ganay, compelled by France's wealth tax to open his chateau to the public, and carefully following the Duke of Bedford's advice: 'Provide good loos and plenty of them. ' And last but not least is Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein. who lost 22 castles to the Red Army in 1945, but who bas since helped his pocket-sized Principality to Europe's highest per capita income, on the basis of postage stamps. false teeth and tax elusion. Lacey has written a fascinating book which not only tells J.ou where the aristocrats are at today but where they camefrom, and that is usually quite another story. Whether you can traceyour family back 100 years, 400 years or 1100 years is really beside the point as everyone's family goes back through the centuries it's just that wealth makes it easier to keep records. And wealth, as Lacey says, has to begin somewhere. Money counts as it ahvays has and the founders of these aristocratic families were not necessarily exceptional nor admirable people, they were just bigger and stronger. Many of them were downright ruffians as a Grosvenor discovered when be decided to erect a monument to his founding ancestor Hugh Lupus. 'Hugh the
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Hugh was reputed to be the closest companion to Duke William of Normandy when be took possession of England in 1066 and when given responsibility for keeping the Welsh on the right side of the river, the fat huntsman carried out his mission with such enthusiasm. wreaking rapine and violence amongst the local
population that be earned the nickname of 'WWII' When a later Hugh Lupus, the great and good Victorian Grosvenor 'rho was raised to the rank of duke, conceived the notion of commissioning some memorial to his namesake in the eleventh century, be almost abandoned the project on discovering the unsavory character that his predecessor bad pos-
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emancipation, which means that, in love, she can stand beside the man as companion and together they can build something. This is a woman's basic vocation and it explains the nature of
"Ifound so bad an account of our hero, - be wrote to the sculptor G.F. Watts. "that be dissipated his goods, was much given to his belly. had so many bastard children and so on — thatIam rather shaken in my intention of erecting a statue to his honour."
Grosvenors today: The Duke and Duchess of Westminster with their daughters, Tamara and Edwina. But this, says Lacey. is the sort of thing _you must expect to find if you go burrowing too diligently into the' character of your forebears —for how else could a Grosvenor hope to rise in the age of the. bold, had barons, except by being a bolder, badder baron than all the others? The aristocracy has become an uncomfortable anachronism in today's society. People no longer believe you are better by birth: merely luckier if you happen to be wealthy as not all the 'well born' are.
ODD One couldgo on to say that rather than beingproud of their aristocratic birth, many blue-bloods bare a lot to answer for. Thefact that they hare maintained their position throughout the centuries reflects more than just good management. The origins of aristocratic families must by their very nature lay largely in the realm of aggression, sycophancy and manipulation . . the only thing they couldpossibly be proud of is how they use the position, privilege and wealth that they bare inherited through no talents of their own. Such inherited position invokes an even greater debt to the community at large. There are some like Gerald Grosvenor, who. with his wife, works long andbardfor bis localcommunity and others like the Duchess of Medinaceli who wben asked If villagers could use a wing of one of her disused palaces, for a community cinema and play centre for children, said yes, on the basis that the local council paidfor restoration work. But the mayor decided there were better uses for bard-scraped rates and taxes and the summer palace now stands empty, crumbling a little more each year. The Duchess however is comfortably settled in Set -ille. living infine style with occasional visits to some of her other 100 castles. Admittedly, many of the castles are now nothing more than ruins but to most of us one castle would be more than acceptable. Robert Lacey spent 18 months visiting some of Europe's grandest private castles and palaces in the preparation for this book and an accompanying television series. His findings make fascinating reading.
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Staying off the sugar Sugar Off, A Practical Guide to Sugar Free Living, by Richard and Elizabeth Cook, published by Pan, $2.95 (approx.) Follow the author's sound and sensible advice and you'll have better teeth, better health and fewer visits to the dentist. Richard Cook, a practising dentist, and his wife Elizabeth are firm advocates of a sugarless existence. But their delicious recipes show that giving up sugar doesn't have to mean sacrificing all the sweet things in life! Here's how to make puddings, cakes, biscuits, snacks and chutneys, all of which are tasty, nutritious, and sweetened only by fresh, dried fruits. And because bad habits start early, there's valuable information on sugar free diets for women, pregnant babies and children. There's also a handy to recomguide mended sugar-free products . . . mainly relating to the United Kingdom where the authors live, but it also includes a short-list of Australian products. The Cooks have produced four children in the last 13 years and all have survived without fillings. But their concern is as much for healthy eating patterns as it is for fillingfree teeth . . . the two go hand in hand.
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With only two rounds remaining in the A grade mixed pennants tennis competition, Pignatelli and Queens Park have cleared away from the other teams and look certain to meet in the final. This week Pignatelli defeated Lynwood 7 sets 55 games to 3 sets 41 games. At one stage the match was poised for a tense struggle when the score was three sets all. However, Pignatelli were able to gain the ascendency and won all four of the remaining sets. Queens Park had a surprisingly easy win over DianeIla 9 sets 57 games to 1 set 36 games. In the previous match between these two teams, DianeIla had just scraped home by two games. For DianeIla or Lynwood to reach the finals now they will have to rely on one of the top two teams being defeated which is most unlikely. The premiership table at this stage is:
PAULIAN MEETING The Paulian Association for Solo Parents will hold its general meeting at 2pm on Sunday, May 19 at the Redemptorist Retreat House, North Perth. A ll are welcome, especially new members. A talk will be given by Father Brian O'Loughlin DCL on marriage annulments and the marriage tribunal. Babysitters will be available at the retreat house. For further information please contact Deborah Wells 342 7033.
PHILIPPINES IN FOCUS On Wednesday, May 22 Father Brian Gore will launch the program Philippines Focus which is sponsored by Community Aid Abroad and the Philippine Action Support Group. The evening will begin with the film Seasons of Thunder followed by a talk by Father Gore titled: Stories of Suffering. Stories of Hope. The evening begins at 7.45 pm at the lecture theatre Nedlands campus of the WA CAE corner Hampden Road and Stirling Highway.
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Played Won Lost Points Pignatelli 7 5 2 10 Queens Park 5 2 10 7 Lynwood 6 3 3 6 DianeIla 6 3 3 6 Applecross 6 6 In the B grade competition the elimination finals were played this week. The surprise result was the defeat of Pignatelli 3 who had gone through the home and away games undefeated. Pignatelli 2 who had finished fourth on the premiership table proved to be too consistant on the day to defeat the minor premiers 7 sets 56 games to 4 sets 53 games. The match was a very tense affair with both teams capable of winning going into the final mixed doubles. In fading light, Pignatelli 2 gained the ascendency and won through. The other elimination final failed to produce the same tension. Pignatelli 1 won this match 7 sets 46 games to Willetton 1 set 23 games. The grand final is now an all Pignatelli affair with their first and second teams playing each other. The last time these two teams met Pignatelli 1 just scraped home by 4 games. The grand final should produce a very exciting and tense gbattle.
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WINTER PENNANTS The men's and women's winter pennants have been scheduled to begin on Saturday July 6. Entry forms will be available from club secretaries or Jack Eastcott shortly. The closing date for entries is Thursday June 13. Teams consist of four men or women and each player will play one set of singles and three sets of doubles except in the women's B grade where each player plays four sets of doubles and no singles. Anyone can form a team and enter provided you can supply two courts for use in the matches. CHAMPIONSHIPS The annual championships which have traditionally been played during the October long weekend have been reorganised. The event this year will be held on two weekends, September 14/15 and 21 22. Entry forms will be available shortly. The closing date for entries will be August 16.
Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster
(DOGS' RACE ONE: Ballarat Tiger 1, Icy Fox 2, Arthur Daley 3. RACE TWO: Cloheen 1, Icy Wind 2, Supreme Road 3. RACE THREE: New Temlock 1, Nero Wolfe 2, Summer Snow 3. RACE FOUR: Paddy Adare 1, Temlock's Talent 2, Chinese Chief 3. RACE FIVE: Tidi Level 1, Persian King 2, White Foot Lass 3.
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RACE SIX: Lady Ternlock 1, Boundary Rider 2, Miss Babe 3. RACE SEVEN: GoIda's Issue 1, Mellow Port 2, Asgard Chief 3. RACE EIGHT: Red Inkerman 1, Livand Boy ;2, Bowetzel's Time 3. RACE NINE: Dapple Rose 1, Orange Lady ;2, ',avant Magic 3. RACE TEN: Zephyr Zulu 1, Daddy's Monaro 2, Misty Downs 3.
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KARRINYUP NEWS The Kan-inyup parish play group now meets each Thursday morning with some 14 children and 11 mothers attending. A fenced lawn and sand-pit provides a safe play area out of doors and on wet days the children use the parish centre. Applications are being called for families to start a second play group. The parish centre is also used for the prayer group meeting on Wednesday mornings. Numbers vary from 12 to 20. The atmosphere of joy is very evident in the group which was recently addressed by Father Rodney Williams, the archbishop's co-ordinator for Charismatic Renewal. A group of young people is preparing for an Antioch training weekend at the end of the month after which Antioch will officially arrive in Karrinyup! Older parishioners are also planning regular social gatherings to make new friends and share experiences
Catechumens who entered the church in the Easter Vigil at Our Lady of the Rosary church, Woodlands are now in the time of the catechumenate called Mystagogia. The Greek word appears several times in the new Rite, coupled with its synonym: post-baptismal catechesis. In the early Church the time from Easter to Pentecost was for the Bishop to reveal to the newly baptised the "mysteries" the full meaning of the Sacraments. During the Easter Vigil, 15 were received into the Church. Three were true Catechumens in that they were baptised. The remainder, already baptised, were received into full communion within the Church. It is the first experience of the RCIA or Catechumenate for Doubleview.
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The leader team includes Fathers Kevin Condon OP, Nick Falzun OP and Sister Helen OP together with Terry Lark, Laura Meyers and Will Jurgens. Seven groups met in the parish catechists' homes for the formal period of prayer and instruction. Each group was composed of two or three catechumens, their sponsors, a prayer-support person and a catechist. The Easter to Pentecost instruction took place in four large group sessions culminating with a Mass in which the new Catholics will be missioned. It will be a time for re-defining and deepening awareness of what the neophyte has learned and experienced, as well as study of the three Sacraments the new Catholic has just received. Baptism, the Eucharist and Confirmation.
Pilgrims of the past decade met recently for a 10th anniversary commemoration of the 1975 Archdiocesan Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land and Lourdes. Among those present at the gathering which followed Mass celebrated in Mercedes College chapelby Archbishop Goody were . TOP: Joan Farris (Victoria Park), Archbishop Goody, Denise Officer (Applecross); CENTRE: Jo O'Connell (Beaconsfield), Kath Warner (Claremont) and Bridget O'Neill(Nedlands) andBOTTOM. Joyce Devlin and Joan Donovan (both of Como), Betty Carmody of Coolbellup and Nita Severin of Mandurah.
Two Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission led a day of recollection for 25 acolytes from the central zone of the archdiocese earlier this month. Monsignor Michael Keating arranged the Highgate convent event and Sisters Shelley Barlow, parish pastoral associate, and Sister Mary Evans led the reflection on "Jesus, Living Water, Refreshment for our Spirit". Father Jim Dynon SJ addressed the men before the closing eucharistic benediction. He described the group as "men of the eucharist" and hoped other such days of renewal and recollection would take place. Another day of recollection on the theme "Jesus The Light of The World" will be held in October.
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