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ROMAN HOLIDAY: Michelle Jones goes exploring in her neighbourhood in Rome Page 4
AGENDA: Archbishop Mark Coleridge on the Church in Oz Page 3
THE BELOVED: Pope Benedict XVI reflects on St John the disciple Page 16
Vinnies close centres All six low-cost food centres to shut after posting $600,000 loss
Dismayed: These volunteers at St Vincent De Paul’s Granary House Low-Cost Food Centre in Bibra Lake were shocked by the sudden announcement of the closure of all six centres in WA.
WA’s largest charity says rising costs and ethnic food needs, among other factors, forced it to make a reluctant choice. ■ By Sylvia Defendi
Luciani cause closes Priest says study of John Paul I to be at Vatican soon ■ By Cindy Wooden
The St Vincent De Paul Society has officially announced the closure all six Low Cost Food Centres across Perth and the Food Distribution Centre located in Belmont, by the end of the year. The Society said in a statement issued last week that the verdict was reached on August 10 at a State Council meeting, and was the result of various reviews that had been conducted on the centres. The statement revealed a loss of over $600,000 to the Society over the 2005/6 financial year as a result of running the centres; difficulties in obtaining sufficient volunteers to man them; increasing Continued - Page 2
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As the 28th anniversary of Pope John Paul I’s brief pontificate approached, one of the priests working on his sainthood cause said the paperwork would be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year. Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice, Italy, was elected on August 26, 1978, to succeed Pope Paul VI. As Pope John
Paul I, he served just over a month, dying on September 28. The diocesan phase of his cause for Pope John sainthood Paul I formally opened in 2003 in his home Diocese of Belluno and Feltre, Italy.
Record occasional writer Barry Morgan reflects on some wartime pilots and how they felt about soaring into the heavens to touch the face of God.
VISTA 1
Students and parishioners get together to say Mary’s Rosary ■ By Sherilee Kingston
On Tuesday August 15, the Parish of St Joseph and St Joseph’s Primary school in Queens Park came together to begin a Living Rosary. They began the Living Rosary in conjunction with celebrating the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. The Living Rosary is to pray the Rosary each day and to help make it come alive in the local community. The school children par-
ticipated by setting up candles in the form of Rosary beads. Ten blue candles were used to represent each Hail Mary and then a white candle was used to symbolise the Our Father. Continued - Page 2
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Editorial, Letters to the Editor - Page 8 Opinion - Guy Crouchback - Vista 4 World News - Pages 9 - 11 Benedict on the Apostles - Page 16 Classifieds, Diary, Panorama - Page 15
FACE TO FACE PART I Pope Benedict spoke to media in an extensive interview and offered candid answers to how he sees the Church and the world in the 21st century. Part I of the interview appears this week
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