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PARISHES FIRED UP: WYD coordinator presents plan for Perth Page 2
A DECADE OF ADORATION: Dianella celebrates the highs and lows Page 5
CHINA'S BABY BLUES: Government officially recognises crisis Page 9
Catholic mission opens door to WYD In preparation: Fr Donald Hughes OMI and seminarian Louis Saw Wai Lwin.
Seminary grows • By Sylvia Defendi
Sharing the joy of faith: Those who would have previously been unable to attend WYD may have a chance. PHOTO ONS • By Anthony Barich
Perth's Catholic Mission office is calling on Catholics in schools and universities around WA to help youth from third-world countries attend World Youth Day next year. During the term breaks this year, youth from schools, parishes, Catholic universities and colleges will engage in "immersion experiences" with indigenous communities in Australia and throughout Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands. Next year, they will then host youth from the communities they visited and travel with them to WYD. Perth's Catholic Mission director Francis Leong said the initiative helps to realise in students what Catholic faith is based on - a sense of mission. "The students are entering into the reality of another culture and seeing what Christ is saying to them through the eyes of other less privileged people, to be welcomed by them, then in response help to incul-
turate them into our Western society," Mr Leong said. "It is a pilgrimage of humbly going into homes of poor people and then inviting them into your own home. This helps to build world peace and understanding." He said money, logistics and even the language barrier should not be a reason to say this cannot be done, as it is something the Spirit calls us to do. Once individuals, parishes, schools, colleges or universities contact Perth's Catholic Mission office, Mr Leong will establish whether the group the person is from has an existing relationship with the country they want to travel to, then the logistics will be sorted out from there. If there is no relationship in place, Catholic Mission will contact overseas missionary congregations - bishops or missionaries linked to Perth - and ask if logistics like airfares and board can be worked out. Mr Leong can then give the students the names of local Catholic businesses, known either to him or by networking with other Catholic
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organisations, to ask for sponsorships. This can have an evangelising effect on the business community. "Then we let the students loose imbued with this Spirit on the businesses and see what they can do," Mr Leong said. "Even if they are unsuccessful, it may plant the seed in the businessman that there is a bigger world out there that is in need, beyond their own business environment. "Even an attempt to make this happen will have repercussions for the Church here and universally; for the visiting and receiving countries, and all individuals involved." Catholic Mission is there as a guide to help bring as many youth from around the world to WYD as possible. "It's not just for the rich youth of the world," Mr Leong said. However, there is every chance that many parishes, schools and universities already have such initiatives in place. The Catholic Mission office can give advice and support to make it happen. Catholk mission can be contacted on 9422 7933, or by emailing cm@perthcatholicorg.au.
INDEX
Vista this week examines marital infidelity What happens when a marriage partner is bretrayed and how does healing start.
Vista 1-3
Editorial The family is the future The World Catholics in Welfare Classifieds/Panorama
- Page 8 - Vista 4 - Pages 9-11 - Pages 12-14 - Page 15
Perth seminarians will set an attendance record this year at St Charles' Seminary in Guildford. Rector at St Charles' Seminary, Fr Donald Hughes OMI said thirty students, at varying stages of study, will most probably occupy the Perth seminary by mid-year. Ending 2006 with 23 seminarians, the seminary was glad to welcome another seven possible candidates during the summer holidays. Archbishop Barry Hickey has already accepted one of the seven, bringing the definite total to 24. Three others will travel from the Philippines, Ireland and Italy, subject to visas, two of them studying to become priests in the
Bunbury diocese. The remaining three candidates are expected to complete their preparation for entry to the seminary by midyear. And while the attendance record is a "welcome blessing," Fr Hughes said it would require some sacrifice in order to properly accommodate all the students. There are presently three students who will be completing their seventh year with the seminary with ordination to the diaconate in late March. With Melbourne and Sydney's seminaries also filled, Fr Hughes said he was glad to be part of such a positive trend. "Archbishop Hickey has put a lot of time and effort into vocations. It is good to see such an outcome," he said.
Reason over faith in politics • By Paul Gray
Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has delivered an insider's view of the Howard Government's thinking on religion and policy. In a speech to a Young Liberal convention last weekend, Mr Abbott said that senior members of the Government regard the Ten Commandments as being "as much common sense as religious dogma." Mr Abbott said the Government never has, never would and, in my view, never should adopt any policy because of religious arguments." A nsweringcritics who have
accused him of bring faith inappropriately into politics through such measures as counselling for pregnant women, Mr Abbott said public policies in the Australian democracy must be erected on rational arguments rather than on faith. "Governments, unlike individuals, cannot act on the basis of faith, only reason," he said.
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DECADES OF TENSION
Talks on Thursday between Pope Benedict XVI and Vietnam's PM marked an important step towards establishing diplomatic relations.
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