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The Record this week introduces an expanded overseas news coverage with Number 2449
1985
PERTH, WA: October 17
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Envoy turns back
Regulations f I r feast obligatiIns
BEIRUT, Pope John Paul ll's special envoy to Lebanon, Vincentian Father Celestine Buhigas, was turned back by Moslem leftists as he attempted to enter the city of Jezzine in southern Lebanon. Fattier Buhigas was sent to Lebanon by the pope as a show of solidarity with the Christian refugee population of southern Lebanon. Many Christian refugees from the fighting between Christians and Moslems in southern Lebanon are in Jezzine. The envoy was stopped by the Popular Nassarite Organisation, which was identified by Lebanese diplomatic officials as a leftist Moslem group whose followers were supporters of the late E gyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser. The organisation is led by Mustapha Saad, a member. of the Sunni branch of Islam, who is said to have contacts with the Soviet Union.
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In nevi- Church regulations promulgated for Australia, Catholics will no longer be obliged to attend Mass on January 1 but they wiI be expected to practice penance on Fridays by prayer, self-denial or helping others. The new decrees are authorised by Rome as the l S cal Australian response of bishops to the revised code of canon law. One dilernma resolved by the new regulations is that when the Assumption (August 15) or All Saints (November 1) falls on a Saturnia), or Monday there is no obligation to attend Mass on that day, but people are still urged to honour the feasts voluntarily.
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Discussing this week's Clontarf anneoncooteot are Mr Tony Lee, chairman of the steering committee, (centre), Brother Kevin Ryan, planning offker (right) and Miss Tanis Thorne, secretary-receptionist
Catholics are still urged to honour Mary, Mother of God Uanuary 1) and the Immaculate Conception (December 8). Other feasts days of obligation in the universal Church are still listed for Australia. but they will be obser)rd on the following Sundays: Epiphany. the Body and Blood of Christ, Saints Peter and Paul. (See alSO page 2).
THIS WEEK penance • Friday spelled out for Asstr alian Catholics. Set page 2. • Clontarf Aboriginal program a unique breakthrough. See page 2. • Solomon Islands Dominican deacon pays tribute to sions. See page 3. • Good Sam sisters c oming to Perth and Geraldton. See page 3. fp Diocesan council endorses colleges' party teenage guideline to parents. See page 7.
After a two-year shutdown, Clontarf will re-open its doors in an educational program for Aborigines considered to be unique in Australia. Credit when you need it. income when you don't. Apply now at any Town & Country W.A. Branch or telephone: 327 3.333.
Up to 60 Aboriginal youths will be able to attend a daily Irogram in normal school hours concentrating on sharpening their skills for further education or for becoming more competitive in the employment market. The program is a decision
by a Special Reporter taken by the Christian Brothers order after wide consultation with different community bodies over 12 months. The Brothers have a.sked
the C,atholic Education Commission to administer the program as part of the Catholic education system. Teaching positions have been advertised and the principal of the new education prograrn will be Aboriginal as will be three of four
board members nominated by the CEC and three other members nominated by the WA Aboriginal Educational Consultative Group. Brother Kevin Ftyan of Clontarf who has been involved in the decision and in planning of the new program
said the Clontarf step complements what the Christian Brothers are already doing in Aboriginal education at Broome and which will expand to Kununurra next year.
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