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WORLD YOUTH DAY
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PERTH COMES ALIVE AS YOUTH CELEBRATE IN STYLE: STORY, PHOTOS VISTA 23 “Be indefatigable in your purpose and with undaunted spirit resist iniquity and try to conquer evil with good, having before your eyes the reward of those who combat for Christ.”
-Bishop Matthew Gibney
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Western Australia’s award-winning Catholic newspaper since 1874 - Wednesday October 22 2008
Greed’s at root of world food crisis: Benedict Selfishness and speculation underpin global shortage while the poor remain forgotten by affluent societies, says Pope
Clare says
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Religious life irrelevant? Hardly, and it’s attracting the young. Part of the proof: a new community in WA which is off and running as its founding member makes her final profession in front of a packed pro-Cathedral congregation of hundreds.
■ By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI denounced the continuing shortages of food around the world and said the causes included selfishness and “unbridled speculation.” At the root of global hunger is a prevailing materialist culture among developed countries, in which the needs of the poor are routinely forgotten, the Pope said. His comments came in a written message issued on October 16, World Food Day. The text was addressed to Jacques Diouf, directorgeneral of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. The Pope said it was clear, even during recent months of food scarcity in places around the globe, that the international community has the resources to feed all the world’s people. Instead, poverty coexists with abundance, he said, and he gave several reasons. First, he pointed to the “race for consumption” that has not slowed even during the recent food shortages and that hurts the nutritional capacity of poorer countries. Second, he said international negotiations have failed to “curb the selfishness of states or groups of countries or to put an end to the unbridled speculation that is affecting mechanisms Continued - Page 6 Hunger’s face: A mother holds her severely malnourished child at an International Medical Corps outpatient program in Bolossa Sore, southern Ethiopia, on June 5. Drought and soaring food prices had triggered widespread starvation in the area, with new admissions at therapeutic feeding sites increasing more than 600 percent in the previous three months. PHOTO: CNS PHOTO/REUTERS COURTESY OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
Happy moment: Clare Pike receives the ring symbolising her spousal relationship with Christ, represented by Archbishop Barry Hickey, during her permanent profession of vows on Thursday evening, October 16, at St Joachim’s pro-Cathedral in Victoria Park. The Archbishop also presented Clare - now known as Sister Bernadette - with the distinctive blue habit and white veil that will distinguish professed members of her new religious community founded in Perth, the Missionaries of the Gospel. PHOTO: PETER ROSENGREN ■ By Anthony Barich
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urdoch University law graduate and Respect Life Office inaugural director Clare Pike is now known as
ABC decision signals a deeper issue Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide takes issue with ABC Radio National’s decision to axe its Religion Report. The move, reported around the country, indicates that media organisations have problems with belief, he writes.
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Sister Bernadette of the Cross after she made her permanent profession in the Missionaries of the Gospel on October 16. Sr Bernadette, 30, has spent years being formed in convents in Europe and WA, and being trained as Mother Superior of
the Missionaries of the Gospel – an Association of Christ’s Faithful, a step short of being a Religious order. On October 16, the thirtieth anniversary of the election of Karol Wojtyla to the papacy as Pope John Paul II,
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Sr Bernadette took vows of chastity, obedience and poverty before Archbishop Barry Hickey in a special Mass at St Joachim’s Pro-Cathedral in Victoria Park. In doing so, she responded to Continued - Page 5
A reformed Dude
As a scriptwriter, his highly sexualised - and often reviled - Hollywood movies read like a personal to-do list of the seven deadly sins. Now he’s returned to his Catholic faith.
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