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By Neil Smith Perth people have rallied to help the victims of the Bali terrorist bombing with gifts of medicines, bandages, and other relief aid. Father Brian Morrison whose Crisis Care Centre has been coordinating donations from Catholics around Western Australia, said the state's people had responded with their customary generosity. Father Morrison is heading up a special relief committee established by the Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey. Meanwhile, the Pope sent a special condolence message from the Vatican, condemning the car bomb attack. Pope John Paul II said: "Such cruel and misguided violence cannot be the path to a more just and civil society, and it must be condemned by all who aspire to a world of peace built on respect for the inviolable dignity of every human life." Indonesian and Australian bishops joined with clergy and political leaders around the world in condemning the bombing. Fr Morrison and a team of volunteers have been at Perth Airport meeting Incoming flights with casualties from the bombing, day and night since the attack. They have been providing pastoral care and grief and trauma counselling to friends and relatives waiting at the airport for the injured. They have also been helping the friends and relatives waiting for outbound flights, on the way to Bali to help search for missing kin, or to identify any who might be in hospital or killed. Geraldton diocese joined with Perth in helping to assemble the goods for dispatch and to collect vital medicines. Fr Morrison and other volunteers set up a hotline telephone number for grieving relatives to call, on 9481 4050. They are also counselling people in Perth who might have relatives who are missing or who were among the injured. Where casualties have been from Interstate, the Archbishop through Fr Morrison has been arranging accommodation for relatives coming to Perth to be by their hospital bedsides.
Father Brian Morrison with some of the medical supplies being donated to the victims of the Bali bomb blasts.
Other teams of volunteers have been said."They always fly our relief goods collecting and packaging medicines and without charge," he said. Achbishop Hickey said Austrtalian bandages for dispatch to Bali. Volunteers have included many lives have been lost through history in recruited from the medical professions, many wars, accidents and in deliberate acts of violence, but this was the first businessmen and sportsmen. One large consignment of burns med- time so many innocents had been killed ications originally destined for Africa in an act of terror. "It is all the more horrifying because was diverted to Bali. Australia Air Express, a subsidiary of there is little defence against such acts," Qantas, flew the medicines and ban- Archbishop Hickey said. Continued page 4 dages to Bali free-of-charge, Fr Morrison
Archbishop Pell cleared Archbishop George Pell, of Sydney has been cleared of an allegation that he sexually molested a boy about 40 years ago. An independent inquiry was conducted by former judge A.J.Southwell QC. Archbishop Pell returned to his duties as Archbishop of Sydney after the result was announced on Monday. He had taken leave of absence when the allegation was made public. The archbishop vigorous-
ly denied the allegation when it was made and described the story as At a media conference after the decision was announced, responding to a question about the media cliché that 'some mud sticks', Archbishop Pell said bluntly: "There is no mud.I have been exonerated." The cliché has long been used by journalists as justification for repeating
unfounded allegations and other forms of gossip. In a written statement issued on Monday, Archbishop Pell announced that he had given his consent to the public release of the full transcript of the enquiry and all the exhibits.ln the statement he said: "When a person is under extreme pressure, personal values may crumble. However, my Catholic convictions sustained me during those dark weeks."
Archbishop Pell
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