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WYD tour for WA youth Tour takes advantage of Order’s houses Bishop Justin Bianchini of Geraldton will join 50 young Australians, including 32 from WA, on a special 24-day tour for World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, next year. Organised by priests of the Salvatorian Order, the tour taking in Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland will cost only about $5000 because the accommodation in Europe has been arranged through the Order. Places in the August 4-28 pilgrimage are available to people aged 16 to 35 from Salvatorian parishes, and schools with a Salvatorian priest as chaplain. The allocation of places in WA is: Lumen Christi College 4, Chisholm College 4, Ocean Reef Parish 5, Greenmount 3, Balcatta 3, Bruce Rock 2, Merredin 2, Esperance 2, Carnarvon 2, and the Geraldton Diocese 5. Team leaders Fr George Kolodziej SDS, Miss Kelly Croll, 21, and Dan Fleming 18, both of Sydney, visited WA last week to talk to the schools and parishes about the tour. Speaking at Ocean Reef on Sunday, Miss Croll said that the WA contingent would meet the Sydney group in Singapore and fly to Rome for three days which would include Mass at the tomb of the Salvatorian founder, Fr Jordan. They would then travel by bus to Assisi, Florence, Venice, Vienna and Prague, with stops of varying duration. From Prague they would fly to Cologne for the week of World Youth Day, including gatherings with Salvatorian groups from Spain and other countries.
Following the WYD experience, they would travel to Poland for a quiet time, spending three days in the mountains at a place often visited by Pope John Paul II. Both Kelly and Dan attended WYD in Toronto in 2002. Kelly described it as “like the Olympics except that everyone is nice”. Dan told the congregation that World Youth Day had
changed his life, freeing him from the trap of acting like someone he wasn’t, unable to be himself. “In Toronto, I gained a whole new understanding of God. I saw him in the people around me, not as a distant policeman in the sky,” he said. “800,000 people accepting you as you are, not as an image you put on, makes a big difference.“ I came
home and lived as myself, and people accepted me for myself and I made a host of new friends. “Religion is now a beautiful part of my life because I see Jesus in people, and people recognise this in me.” Dan Fleming is a student at Australian Catholic University and Kelly Croll is a graduate from ACU and doing her practical teacher
Exhibition offers stunning Western impressions
Mazenod College in Lesmurdie will be running its 11th annual fine art exhibition and sale over the weekend of August 20-22. Works such as Greg Tothill’s Quiet light - Rottnest Island, above, will be on display and available for sale to the public. This year there will be 450 paintings on display as well as sculpture, pottery, jewellry, photography and glasswork. The exhibition opens on Friday August 20 at 7.30pm with a champagne supper. Tickets are $18 a person and available from the College, tel: (08) 9291 6500, or at the door.
Three US bishops say no to abortion politicians By Nancy Frazier O'Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) - US Catholic politicians or candidates who support keeping abortion legal have been barred from receiving Communion in any Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Atlanta and in the dioceses of Charleston, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. In a joint letter issued
training at St Peter’s College in Tuggerah on the NSW Central Coast. Those wishing to go on the tour must apply to their parish priest or school chaplain. This tour is separate from the archdiocesan tour which will be led by Bishop Donald Sproxton. More information on the tour is available from www.sdswyd.com
on August 4, Archbishop John Donoghue of Atlanta and Bishops Robert Baker of Charleston and Peter Jugis of Charlotte said the ban can only be lifted after the politician's "public disavowal of former support for procured abortion" and "with the knowledge and consent of the local bishop." "We undertake this action to
safeguard the sacred dignity of the most holy sacrament of the altar, to reassure the faithful and to save sinners," they said. But in North Carolina's other Catholic diocese, Bishop Joseph Gossman of Raleigh is taking a different approach to the question of Church sanctions against those who want to keep abortion legal.
The Church's long-standing practice is "not to make a public judgment about the state of the soul of those who present themselves for holy Communion," Bishop Gossman said in a July 8 statement. "The pastoral tradition of the Church places the responsibility for such a judgment on those Continued - Page 13
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Lourdes now accepting intentions via Web The Internet now makes it possible to participate spiritually in John Paul II’s pastoral visit to Lourdes from August 14-15, and to have a prayer deposited in the grotto of the French shrine. Fr Thierry Lamboley and Sister Catherine Sesboue have committed themselves to place in Massabielle the intentions sent before Aug. 14 to the email address: lourdes2004 @croire.com. The priest and nun will open the e-mails at Lourdes and deposit the intentions in the Massabielle Grotto. The official Web page of the papal visit is www.lourdes 2004.com. -Zenit