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New homes for St Charles' seminarians By Bronwen Chine The opening of new acconunodaHon at St Charles' Seminary in Guildford was a symbol of the expansion of its outreach. Archbishop Barry Hickey said at the official opening of the buildings last Sunday. The new $1.7. million upgrade provides accommodation for 16 seminarians and four staff. The blessing and dedication of the buildings also marked the 60th anniversary of the seminary, which first opened its doors to young men wanting to enter the priesthood in 1942. The seminary ceased to operate between 1977 and 1993. but continued as a vocational residence until it officially re-opened in 1994. Archbishop Hickey said the decision to reopen the seminary in 1994 was made because there had been an increasing interest in vocations. -These new buildings are a continuation of that growth in our Archdiocese," he said. With an increasing secular spirit in our society there was now an even greater need for leaders and pastors than there was in the 1940s. he said. In blessing the new buildings Archbishop Hickey said that a seminary, "is like a seedbed
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Archbishop Hickey blesses the crucifixes to be hung in the new buildings
where the Church's ministers are nurtured for the work of a diocese. "Let us therefore ask the Lord that these new buildings may assist in the seminary being a school of prayer and a centre of divine teaching, so that the students it receives may return to you as devoted pastors and as our colleagues and co-workers in the sacred ministry." St Charles Seminary Rector Fr Tim Corcoran said the new buildings were built to accommodate the needs of the modern seminarian who often came from a professional background and at
a much older age than those in the 1940s. "The first seminarians here were often only 12 or 14 and the rooms that used to be big enough for them weren't quite as comfortable for the older seminarians that we have now," he said. The idea to upgrade the accommodation first came about two years ago when Fr Corcoran was asked to draw up a "wish-list." of the seminary's needs. Two years later he is more than happy with the result, with two-thirds of the expansion funded by benefactors of the seminary and one-third by the Archdiocese of Perth. Present at the opening of the buildings were three foundation students of the seminary Bishop Peter Quinn, retired bishop of Bunbury; Fr Pat Cunningham, former editor of The Record and now chaplain at Clontarff; Fr Gaetano Crocetti, retired from the Bunbury Archdiocese and now living in Mosman Park. Also able to make the occasion was one of the foundation teachers, Bill Mangini, who taught science to the original students. There are currently 19 seminarians at St Charles' Seminary, one of them a deacon who is on assignment in Whitfords.
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Jason, a client of St Patrick's Care Centre, helps clean up after the fire.
Users of St Patrick's Care Centre in Fremantle are at a loss to explain why someone deliberately lit a fire last Thursday night that destroyed the centre's new freezer and outbuilding causing $30,000 worth of damage. The centre provides food and care for about 80 people on a daily basis. Centre director Stephen McDermott said the $Z000 freezer had only just been installed. "I was gob-smacked when I got into work on Friday and saw what had happened," he said. "This organisation helps people from one of the most marginalised groups in society and I'm really at a loss to explain why somone would want to do this." Cardboard boxes appear to have been moved so that they
were up against the outbuilding and then used to start the fire along with some other plastic waste. Mr McDermott said the cost of the damage would be covered by insurance, but there was increasing pressure on the centre as more people came to them for help. "I'd estimate in the last year we have had about a 40 per cent increase in people coming to the centre," he said. "Although we get allowances to provide the food, we are needing to rely on other sources of funding more and more." The centre is renting a fridge at the moment so they can continue to provide food for those in need. "I think it just goes to show how dedicated our staff are when they had the centre up and running as usual by