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WA's only Catholic weekly newspaper Perth: June 13 2002 Price: $1
'We'll go bankrupt to help victims'
- new Melbourne Bishop
Padre Pio canonisation looms - Page 16
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Bishop Coleridge, a passionate supporter of the Bulldogs, in full attire as photographed by the Melbourne Herald-Sun newspaper.
Church was prepared to go bankrupt if necessary. But Bishop Coleridge said money in compensation was only part of the solution. "Money is the least of our worries. There has to be healing." the Bishop said. Bishop Coleridge returned to Melbourne at the weekend after nearly five years in the Vatican's Secretariat of State, in Rome. He said he knew he had returned to a sad Church - a Church in crisis. He would have liked to have been the bearer of joy, even for the saddest of people. "My job is to gather all the people together - and to reach out to the victims," he told Hamilton. He said any attempt to deny or underestimate the crisis was doomed.
"The only way to work through this is for the whole Church to draw together and work with no spirit of partisanship, antagonism, reproach or condemnation. "We are all wounded - we are all afflicted by what has happened. "Our first responsibility is to help the victims," Bishop Coleridge told Hamilton. He said the Church could not preach the Gospel of Jesus without attending firstly and absolutely to the very reasonable demands and requests of the victims. His arrival from Rome was met by headlines about new hush money claims; and abuse victim claims of payments for silence. Continued - Page 2
Hands of friendship and cooperation join By Peter Rosengren A rare meeting between Christians focussed on building friendship between members of the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches took place at the Catholic Church offices in Perth last Friday, June Z Archbishop Barry Hickey met with the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Western Australia and South Australia, Bishop Nikandros Dorilaiou. On hand were also retired Auxiliary Bishop Robert Healy, new Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton and seminary Rector Fr Tim Corcoran, as well as Orthodox and Catholic clerical and lay members of a group which has been working towards bettering relations between the two churches. During the meeting Archbishop Hickey told Bishop Nikandros, who will be based in South Australia but regularly visiting the West, that it was a pleasure and a joy to welcome his brother in the episcopate to the "hub of activity for our ministry to the Catholic people of Perth." The door of the Cathedral presbytery would always be open to Bishop Nikandros "In friendship and support for your own ministry among the Orthodox people of Perth." he told Bishop Nikandros.
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The Catholic Church in Australia would do whatever is necessary to help victims of abuse, the newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Bishop Mark Coleridge has told the Herald Sun newspaper. Bishop Coleridge's statement followed new 60 Minutes allegations that the Church had attempted to cover-up abuse complaints and compensation payments. Bishop Coleridge, 53, is in charge of 70 parishes in Melbourne's western suburbs and Geelong. He told the Herald Sun's John Hamilton that the Church would do whatever was necessary to clean up a Church reeling under the scandal of sexual abuse and accusations of hush money. He said the
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General: That the leaders and members of different religions may cooperate in their search for world peace, based on conversion of heart and fraternal dialogue. Missionary: That the lay faithful, in virtue of their Baptism, may strive with all their strength to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world in their own environments.
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Archbishop Hickey and Bishop Nikandros shake hands as brother bishops at the meeting watched by the Bishop's secretary, Orthodox laywoman Sussanna Dimitrakos, Catholic layman Philip Shields and St Charles' Seminary Rector, Fr nm Corcoran. Photo * Peter Roserigrer
Archbishop Hickey invited Bishop Nikandros to stand with him to assist the group that has been working at a local level towards building links and understanding
between Greek Orthodox and Catholics. Friendship is high on the agenda. Catholic layman Philip Shields, a founder of the Continued on Page 2
Our new paper for Catholic - Discovery - will be published on liresday, June 24. It will be circulated to all families with children at Catholic schools during the week and will be available in parishes on the weekend of June 29-30. Discovery will replace The Record that weekend and on each subsequent occasion it is published. The Catholic Education Office has accepted responsibility for circulating Discovery. Consequently, it will be available in all Catholic schools throughout the State. Archbishop Hickey announced plans for the paper late last year and preparations have been under way since then. The Archbishop introduced the paper as a more effective means of communicating with Catholic families. Catholics make up about 25 per cent of Western Australia's population, or close to half a million people. While they are served by many news media, the State's news coverage shows little awareness or respect for the fact that so many people share deep spiritual and social bonds with one another and with more than a billion people worldwide. While Catholics are totally integrated in all aspects of life in Western Australia, they also share interests and commitments that are largely not recognised or understood by the rest of society. Discovery is an attempt to provide a new medium through which Catholics - particularly those directly associated with the Church through parishes and schools - can share knowledge about the Church in WA and around the world. Depending on school holidays and a few other factors, Discovery will aim for monthly production. It will be a newspaper carrying both immediate news and magazine style articles. The first issue, for example, will carry a review of the soon-to-bereleased movie "Molokai" which is the inspiring story of Father Damien, the Catholic priest who gave his life in the service of lepers in Hawaii. Another feature will be about the "Pope's bombshell". US lawyer Mary Ann Glendon. Discovery is designed primarily for families, particularly parents and senior students, but it will have appeal for all. The style and content of future issues will be influenced by the response from readers.