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WHILE many Australians find the burdens of parenthood ease as their children reach independence, for parents of children with intellectual disabilities their special responsibilities will never disappear. At a time when family members caring for intellectually disabled loved ones are often driven to desperation by lack of government
resources and funding, the launch of an endowment fund designed to enable the Church to walk personally with adults with intellectual disabilities has been applauded by Archbishop Barry Hickey. Personal Advocacy Service (PAS), an archdiocesan agency founded by Sr Eileen Casey RSM in 1989 in response to requests from parents who were seeking ways to enrich the personal and spir-
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itual lives of their sons and daughters with intellectual disabilities, launched its fund on 15 November. Archbishop Hickey said at the launch that it was the duty of everyone to reach out to those who were less privileged and often living on the fringes of the comunity. The aim of the fund is to provide, through investment income, a guaranteed source of ongoing funding. The archbishop said that, by
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being less reliant on outside funding sources, the agency to would be able to better plan for the furure. Today there are 140 volunteers, known as advocates, supporting 108 people with disabilities, known as friends, through 18 parish-based support groups. A short video presentation on Terry and his advocate Gus provided those at the launch with an insight into the unique and person-
al relationships that had developed within PAS’s programme. PAS hopes to raise $2 million over the next three years so that interest on the capital can be used to fund both current operations and future expansion. Anyone interested in contributing to the advocacy services’ work or in donating to the endowment fund can contact the agency on (08) 9275 5388.
Indigenous and Church share path to better future WHILE there have been mistakes over the past 200 years, the Church has a rich tradition of defending the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and tackling the root causes of their disadvantage in Australian society, a leading Aboriginal advocate has said. “I look to the Catholic bishops who said in 1972: it is as obvious as a tree on the Nullarbor that Aborigines have land rights ... ownership, employment, housing, education and bargaining power are also paramount rights,” Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda told the nation’s bishops during their plenary meeting in Sydney on 24 November. Mr Gooda, a former head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission with a long career as a public servant, spoke about the hope given to indigenous Australians by Parliament’s 2008 national apology. “It’s a journey that, to steal the words of the Australian Catholic Bishops from 1972, moves us along the road ‘to the human liberty and dignity which Australia owes her people’,” he said.“It’s a journey that is not about looking back. Continued - Page 4
Broome’s Bishop Christopher Saunders catches up with Kimberly parishioners in Sydney to visit the Mary McKillop centre.
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Adelaide finding fails to deter Anglican primate By Tim Wallace THE Melbourne archdiocese’s process found his story of sexual abuse true; the Adelaide archdiocese’s process has found his complaint without substance. Three months after the Traditional Anglican Communion’s prelate John Hepworth, a former Catholic priest, went public with
his tale of more than a decade of sexual abuse by older seminarians and priests from the time he entered, at the age of 15, Adelaide’s St Francis Xavier Seminary in the early 1960s, including being raped by a priest still serving in the Adelaide archdiocese, Adelaide’s Archbishop Philip Wilson might have hoped his announcement that the archdiocese’s investigation had
found no substance to the allegations, nor any basis for criticism of the archdiocese’s handling of the complaint, would be the end, or at least the beginning of the end, of a very public scandal. Instead, the announcement heralded only the end of the beginning. The day after Archbishop Wilson informed the media, on Monday, 28 November,
of the results of the inquiry by barrister Michael Abbott, Archbishop Hepworth made good on previous threats that, in the absence of satisfaction from the Adelaide archdiocese’s complaint process, he would file a police complaint. He had wished to avoid a police investigation, he said, because his motivation was to reconcile with the Church, and involving the
police was likely to draw the matter out over a period of years. Archbishop Hepworth is the leader of a global movement of breakaway Anglicans seeking reunification with the Catholic Church. He says the abuse was the reason he fled the Catholic priesthood in 1972 and he had felt it necessary to explain his situation. Continued - Page 5