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A DAY TO REMEMBER - and give thanks his Sunday 14 May, 2006 is exactly 400 years to the day since Portuguese explorer Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros claimed Australia for the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday 1606, thereby giving Australia its name. ‘Austrialia del Espiritu Santu’ translates as ‘Southern land of the Holy Ghost.’ The spelling ‘Austrialia’ in the original is correct. May Captain Quiros’s vision come true. This year Pentecost will be on June 4.
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New Chinese Bishop One consecration approved by Pope, but not two others ■ By Catholic News Service
SHENYANG, China (CNS) Catholics in northeastern China’s Liaoning Diocese gathered for the ordination of a young bishop approved by the Pope as well as the Chinese government. Father Paul Pei Junmin, 37, was ordained coadjutor bishop on May 7 by Bishop Pius Jin Peixian of Liaoning at Sacred Heart Cathedral in downtown S h e n y a n g , PART II of capital of the The Record’s Liaoning provSPECIAL ince. Bishop Pei REPORT on obtained mas- Casa Ricci and ter’s degrees Fr Ruiz in theology – Pages 6-11 and biblical studies at St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Priests, nuns and lay representatives of Liaoning elected Bishop Pei coadjutor bishop on January 12, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. He is the fourth bishop to be ordained in the government-approved or open church this year and the second ordained with papal approval. UCA News reported that joyous celebrations with various Catholic groups, including ethnic Korean-Chinese, began inside the cathedral compound on the afternoon of May 6 and continued into the evening of the next day, after the ordination. Some overseas Chinese visitors who spoke to UCA News on May 6 said Bishop Jin told them that at age 83 he needed a successor. He added that he hoped to be able to guide the new bishop for a year before retiring.According to the visitors, Bishop Jin said his coadjutor “has been managing the Shenyang Seminary well and has good interpersonal
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West Australians in Rome: West Aussies gathered in Rome recently to celebrate Archbishop Barry Hickey’s birthday and to be renewed in enthusiasm for the spreading of the Gospel. They are: Fr Sean Fernandez, left, Fr Giosue Marini, Sr Maria Mori, OMSC, Fr Charles Waddell, Archbishop Hickey, Fr Leo Spicer, OSM, Debra Vermeer, Tony Vermeer, Andrew Hamilton, Marita Winters, Michelle Jones, Bernie Winters and Sr Lynn Chua, OMSC. After returning from Rome to Australia Archbishop Hickey was elected vice-President of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide (see story at right) was elected President. Michelle Jones reports on a West Aussie Rome get-together - Page 2
Australia’s Catholic Bishops have elected Archbishop Philip Wilson, pictured, as the new president of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Archbishop Wilson, 55, is the Archbishop Archbishop Wilson of Adelaide. He was previously the Bishop of Wollongong and was ordained a priest of the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese. He succeeds Archbishop Francis Carroll, 75, whose term as ACBC President has expired. The vote was taken among the 42 bishops present at the Plenary Meeting of the Bishops Conference, being held in Sydney. Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth was elected as Vice-President, succeeding Archbishop John Bathersby of Brisbane, whose term had also ended. Continued on Page 2
Faith a constant theme in saga that gripped a nation Faith came to the fore at the Beaconsfield mine disaster ■ By Paul Gray
Most Sundays, says local Catholic priest Fr Brian Lester, there wouldn’t be more than about 40 regulars attending Mass in St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Church, in the small Tasmanian mining of town of Beaconsfield.
Most of them would be older people, Fr Lester reckons. But the small numbers don’t mean that people in Beaconsfield lack faith, the gently spoken Franciscan priest adds. World-gripping events at Beaconsfield over the past few weeks prove his point. The Sunday after an Anzac Day earthquake had caused a deep rockfall, one kilometre below groundlevel at the Beaconsfield gold mine, parishioners attended Mass at St Francis Xavier’s with Fr Lester as usual.
The rock-fall had killed miner and father of four Larry Knight. Knight’s two colleagues, Todd Russell and Brant Webb - both, fathers of three children - were missing, presumed dead. “We prayed for the miners, but there was not a lot of hope,” Fr Lester told The Record this week. Later on that Sunday night, news came through that Russell and Webb had been located through imaging technology. They were alive and well, but trapped inside a protective miner’s cage.
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A JOINT CELEBRATION St Maria Goretti Parish and School came together recently to mark their Golden Jubilees - 50 years of serving families in worship and education.
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“When the news came through that the two of them had been found alive, people in the town were running around crying: ‘It’s a miracle!’” Fr Lester recalled. “Now, that’s a statement of faith,” he said. On Tuesday this week, after a further nine days trapped, the missing miners finally walked free, clocked off and then started handing out business cards to friends and relatives. On the cards were printed: “The Continued on Page 12
ISLAM IS VIOLENT: PELL Cardinal George Pell of Sydney received plenty of media attention last week as he revealed he had been reading the Koran and noted its many exhortations to violence.
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