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Jesus, Light of the World, shines in WA parishes

Archbishop Hickey blesses the holy oils

By Peter Rosengren Easter 1996 celebrations for the Archdiocese of Perth began this year with hundreds of Catholics responding to Archbishop Barry Hickey's invitation to attend the Chrism Mass held in St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday evening. As celebrations commenced in parishes the length and breadth of the archdiocese to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, nearly 2000 years ago, Catholics also flocked to the Cathedral for the traditional Easter observances of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil. Hundreds gathered in St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday night to participate in the annual Chrism Mass at which the

The light of a thousand candles proclaim the resurrection of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ

Oils of the Sick and the Catechumens Archbishop Hickey said during his were blessed and the Oil of Chrism was homily it was important to consider what consecrated. kind of image was presented of the Father Tom MacDonald, Dean of St priesthood today. Mary's, said he was pleased by the "I ask my priests tonight to consider turnout which he estimated was made up what image they and I give. An awkward of approximately 800 laity and 150 question, because we're only too aware priests. of our faults. But if we want other young They had been invited there by men to follow and if we want other peoArchbishop Hickey to witness the special ple to respect the priesthood, then, what ceremony which occurs only once a year. Is the image that we give?" Each of the three oils, to be distributed He said priests today needed to be effito parishes throughout the Archdiocese, cient managers with the multiplicity of was presented to the Archbishop by rep- events connected with their parishes but resentatives involved in the ministries the if this was the only image that was preoils will be used in. sented of the priesthood then "we will The Chrism Mass is a rare annual attract people who want to be managers, example of when bishops, priests and not priests." laity come together at the same time to On Good Friday the Cathedral was express the unity of the Church. packed at 3pm for the traditional rememDuring the Mass priests and laity also brance of Christ's passion read by the renew their commitments to the Church. Archbishop and Cathedral priests Father

Gerard Dickinson and Father Kas Stuglik. The ceremonies concluded with hundreds coming forward to display their adoration of the Cross. The Easter Vigil on Saturday night saw ' Archbishop Hickey and laity gather outside St Mary's Cathedral for the relighting of the Paschal candle while hundreds more sat in silence inside the darkened Cathedral waiting for the lighted candle to be brought in As the flame was transferred from the Paschal candle the Cathedral was gradually lit by an eerie but beautiful light from approximately one thousand candles. At Saturday night's Vigil ceremonies at the Cathedral the new life of Christ was also highlighted by the baptism of baby Keegan Trevor Ross of Bateman, and the baptism and confirmation of Dr Allen Quigley of Fremantle. Easter in the parishes - Page 5

Freezing little human beings treats them like 'TV dinners'

Perth citizens putting social justice into action

Protesters declared the freezing of Mr Egan said the majority of embryos human embryos contrary to human would not survive the freezing, thawing dignity and that people were meant to and implantation process, while some live in time instead of being kept like a would be deliberately discarded as TV dinner in the freezer at a rally out- "sub-standard" or "surplus to requireside King Edward Hospital for Women ments." earlier this week. He said the protest marked not only the The rally, organised by the Coalition third anniversary of the Human for the Defence of Human Life, called Reproductive Technology Act which for a ban on all further freezing of banned experimentation on human embryos in Western Australia but also human embryos in Western Australia. Coalition secretary Richard Egan said served as a public memorial for the many the stockpile of human lives in frozen tiny human lives lost through the IVF storage had dramatically escalated by industry. "About 25 per cent of all human about 1,000 over a twelve-month period "so that now we have about 3,000 embryos fertilised in the laboratory are washed down the sink because they are tiny human beings in cold storage." "Only a handful of these will ever judged not to be 'up to scratch' by IVF make it to live birth - probably less technicians," he said. - Peter Rosengren than a hundred," he warned.

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his Easter around one hundred people were received into the Church. At glowing Easter Vigil ceremonies around the diocese they were either baptised or received into full communion with the Church. I welcome them with joy. It is wonderful to see the work of divine grace so marvellously evident in their strong faith and in their love of God. Their long journey of preparation over, they have taken the final step which makes them fully part of the Body of Christ, sharing its sacramental life and its community of faith. As I welcome them, I wonder what their experience of the Church will be. I am sure they were all given an enthusiastic reception in the parish and welcomed with joy by the people. Will they continue to feel welcome? One of the most frequent com-

plaints I hear from converts is converts that feel isolated. People parishes, hospitality committees that Catholics aren't all that new to a parish often feel exactly welcome all people as they friendly. Once in the Church they the same. They turn up at Mass arrive at the Church. That is a are left to fend for themselves, where they know no one, and are good thing. But it only goes so far, especially single people. ignored, especially if they are and can remain superficial. Families with children still at single. The welcome we should offer school become part of the local Outgoing people will find ways especially to new converts, is a Church far more easily because of contacting others, of becoming welcome into the life of the comthey are involved with activities part of their new community, but munity, where faith is shared and to do with their children. Single most people are reasonably shy, where mutual support is offered. people, though, can often feel iso- waiting to be welcomed. It hurts Parishes need to look for the new lated. when they are not. faces and befriend them. They go to Mass and feel alone. I think we have a tradition of They should be invited to Despite the great welcome they silent inclusion. We don't make a parish groups and prayer circles received at the Easter Vigil, they fuss of people because we think and to take part in the liturgical continue to feel strangers. that they belong anyhow in the and social life of the parish. This Few go out of their way to greet House of God. is not the task of a few designatthem. Perhaps a nod of recogniIt may also have something to ed people - it belongs to us all to tion from some. Perhaps not even do with the size of our congrega- make the newcomer feel at that. tions when you can easily get lost home. Some, of course, are lucky. They in the crowd. For converts who have made have good sponsors who make Go to a Church that is not the RCIA journey, the period sure they are drawn into parish Catholic and you will be met at between Easter and Pentecost is life, become readers, acolytes, the door, given a book with a called the time of —mystagogia". sing in the choir, join a commit- friendly smile, and greeted after- It is the time when they are to prayer. They also need to experitee. But others are not so lucky. wards by interested members of experience the mysteries of the ence the support of the commuIs this a peculiarly Catholic the congregation. Church, the Sacraments, the nity they have joined. Let us not phenomenon? It is not only new We should do no less. In some Eucharist Liturgy, its life of let them down.

Priest appointments

Archbishop Hickey has announced three new priests' appointments for the Archdiocese of Perth. Father Raul Raj will join Sacred Heart parish. Highgate, as assistant priest next Monday. Father Michael Rowe, previously assistant priest at Dianella, will become a chaplain at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital from Tuesday 30 April. Father John Lizska was named Parish Priest of Holy Name parish. Carlisle, from Easter Sunday.

New Melkite Eparch Pope John Paul has named Father Issam Darwish, a councillor of the Basilian Salvatorian Order, as Eparch of Saint Michael Archangel of Sydney for MelIdle Greek Catholics in Australia. An Eparch is a bishop who governs an eparchy, the Eastern Catholic equivalent of a diocese in the Latin church.

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Market forces 'deprive sacredness' By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Violence will continue to increase in the world, because we are in a market culture which is depriving many human beings of their sacredness, Franciscan man of peace, Father Main Richard, said last month during a visit to Perth to bring his message of nonviolence. He defines market culture as where the laws of the market-place, dictate economic laws, pretending they should replace moral laws "and against this we have to stand up!" With the expansion of a market culture that de-humanises and deprives people of the divine within them, "seeing people as objects and not as persons." Fr Main said that conversely there was an increasing interest in non-violent solutions to conflict. He cited the non-violent fall of former Philippines' president Marcos. and the Iron Curtain, both of which came down "without any loss of life," and the Baltic countries who achieved independence "through non-violence, when it was close to conflict with

tanks." But people realise that war cannot bring a solution to a conflict, and most of the time armies are useless, Fr Main asserts. Fr Main sees his purpose as helping Christians, especially Catholics, to understand that non-violence was part of the life of Jesus and His gospel and that we cannot despise that way without despising Jesus. Too many Christians and Catholics don't consider non-violence as it should be, he said. He referred to Jesus' refusal of violence when he disarmed his persecutors "and we have to follow the way of Jesus." His role is to sensitise Christian people to Jesus' message, because "you Fr Alain Richard OFPA do not operate with just a good heart "I know by my faith that we are - you operate with the method which has been successful" such as those going towards a better life, which is used by Peace Brigade International the new creation announced by which has teams in Guatemala, El Jesus." But we have to work at it, he Salvador, Sri Lanka. northeastern reinforces "to make that come about." Quebec, Columbia and now in Haiti. Fr Main said he's been very Fr Main advocates a deep spiritual impressed with the quality of people life and for people to refuse the seduc- he's met in Australia, and their spiritual strength. tion of power and money.

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Embroidered glory added to St Mary's Cathedral By Peter Rosengren

As ceremonies Easter throughout the world last week commemorated the of apparent destruction Christianity nearly 2000 years ago, a symbol of its final triumph was unveiled before the congregation of St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday night during the Easter Vigil Mass. Seen for the first time by Saturday night's Easter congregation was the stunning new antependia prepared for the of sanctuary the Cathedral by Brentwood Willetton parishioner and machine embroiderer Ivy Rose O'Sullivan. An antependium is the decorative cloth that hangs in front of the altar. The two antependia in St Mary's Cathedral - one for the front of the altar and one for the lectern - were donated by Cathedral priest Father Gerard Dickinson as a memorial to his parents John and Emily. "I've done some small hangings before but this is the largest I've ever done." Mrs Father Tom McDonald, left, Ivy O'Sullivan and Fr Gerard Dickinson with the new antependia O'Sullivan told The Record at a special preview last week. lures a fish - a Christian sym- of Mary, for the sea routes that sanctuary from wall to wall "It is the most exciting project bol from the first century for led to Australia's discovery; and behind the ,Archbishop's for any machine embroiderer Christ; a ship - symbolising the red, the colour of Pentecost, for throne. to work on - the Cathedral of Church; the sea - representing the airways which brought When seen as light filters in the Christian journey; and the new settlers from all over the through the cathedral's magtheir diocese," she said. "It's the most coveted com- star of Bethlehem which world: green for life; and pur- nificent stained glass windows, the gilded wood adds a sense mission that any embroiderer denotes the star of Scripture ple for the royalty of Christ. leading us on to Christ. can get." The pelican. feeding its of ornate decoration to the Mrs O'Sullivan. who has pre- chicks with its own blood has gravitas and majesty of St The two antependia are designed in vibrant hues of viously won major exhibitions been widely used in Christian Mary's Cathedral and focuses gold, blue, red, green and pur- such as the prizes for embroi- symbolism to typify Christ's attention in the sanctuary area. dery at the Royal Show said redeeming work, especially ple. The Dean of St Mary's Blessed Cathedral, the Tom Father The centrepiece of the altar the colours had been chosen through McDonald, said the new anteantependium is a pelican feed- to represent different aspects Sacrament. ing its young with its own of Australia and the Church. Fr Dickinson also donated as pendia would be used during blood - an ancient symbol of Gold was for the Australia's a memorial to his parents the the festive seasons of Easter. the Eucharist. land rich in diversity and min- gilding of the wooden screen Christmas and other days of The lectern antependium fea- eral deposits; blue, the colour that runs across the back of the solemn celebration.

Pope offers support to police VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has encouraged police forces to help citizens overcome a widespread sense of hopelessness in the face of rampant crime and violence in society. Addressing top law enforcement officials from 15 European countries on April 2, the Pope urged them to focus on young people, especially in slum areas, and help them get out of the cycle of delinquency. He said that in recent decades most countries had gone through social or political crises that had left individuals and families "more vulnerable" and given rise to new forms and levels of crime in society. -Your task is immense, especially when honest citizens begin to feel that they are caught up in an overwhelming spiral of violence, drugs. corruption and lack of mutual trust." he said. 'The temptation to discouragement affects even some members of your police forces. and this is a personal challenge to your leadership." he said. The Pope said the proper role of police was to give citizens the opportunity to live in safety, while their rights and human dignity were respected. He said police officers sometimes risked their lives to protect the inalienable freedoms of everyone. Police protection should be offered without regard for race, culture or religion. which "must never be reasons for discrimination." he said. He told the law enforcement leaders that in dealing with young people, they should recognise that the lure of easy gain offered by crime can be very attractive to some youths. Those with family problems and fragile personalities can fall easily into delinquency. and it took much patience to help them find their rightful place in society, he said.

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Eagles' Nest another opportunity for couple to work for God and the Church By Penny Ashcroft of the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Office

Brian and Marjorie Harty are the new caretakers of the Youth Formation Centre at Gidgegannup. Married for 32 years, Brian and Marjorie have six children and six grandchildren. They bring to Eagle's Nest a wealth of life experience, a delightful enthusiasm for their new surroundings and a quiet confidence that instantly attracts. They have had several years experience in managing and taking care of church property, including five years at St Mark's College (now Chisholm College) and two years as resident caretakers at Augusta's Lumen Christi Church and retirement units. Brian is an acolyte in the Greerunount parish and both he and Marjorie show their deep faith and love of God through their interaction with other people. In Brian's words "we both love working for God and the Church and feel Eagle's Nest is a further challenge." We welcome them to the staff of the Youth and Young Adult office. Surrounded by trees and located on a quiet country road, Eagle's Nest is the perfect setting for spiritual and personal development. Excellent foresight has enabled the buildings to be surrounded, shaded and sheltered by large gum trees, and natural wildlife

can be seen in abundance. Kangaroos surround the buildings at night and can be observed at close range by those who are willing to watch quietly. In addition to its own beautiful bushland setting, Eagle's Nest is blessed with the Walyunga National Park at its front door. Numerous bush walks are a feature of the park, ranging from the leisurely to the adventurous. Although Eagle's Nest is primarily a formation centre for young people it is also available for adult groups and youth groups from other denominations. All groups are required to maintain the Christian ethos of the retreat centre in their conduct and activities. Facilities include a sleeping capacity of 72 beds. There are two dormitorys of 20 beds, one of 12 beds with dividing walls, one of 8 beds and two of 6 beds. There is a large dining room which can double as a workroom if required, a kitchen with full facilities (no foodstuffs or catering provided), and a small prayer room (full Mass kit available if required). There is a conference room that has chairs and floor cushions, overhead projector, whiteboard and TV/video available on request. For outdoors activities there is a swimming pool, basketball and tennis court, and barbecue facilities. Brian and Marjorie Harty can be contacted on 574 7030 for bookings for 1996 and 1997.

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Marjorie and Brian Harty: rarin' to go at Eagles' Nest

The beautiful surrounds at Eagles' Nest at Gidgegannup.

Life about tough love, as Jesus showed on the Cross: Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II opened Holy Week with words of advice to the world's youth and a colourful outdoor Mass at the Vatican. Celebrating Palm Sunday on March 31, the Pope presided over a three-hour liturgy that began with a procession through St. Peter's Square. A near-capacity crowd of about 100,000 people cheered the pontiff and waved olive branches in the spring sunshine. The Mass also marked World Youth Day, and the Pope urged the many young people in the crowd to reject the illusion of easy happiness and salvation. Christ's suffering on the cross teaches us that "there is no love without sacrifice," he said. Christ told us to take up the cross and follow him, the Pope said. This is "tough but sincere language" that contains life's fundamental truth, he said. After the Mass, the Pope watched as young people from

Pope John Paul waves to pilgrims on Palm Sunday in Rome. CNS/Reuters

the Philippines handed over a large wooden cross to youths from France, where the next international World Youth Day gathering is scheduled for mid1997.

The Pope recalled the last gath-

ering in Manila in 1995, which was attended by several million people. He told the Filipino youth to use that energy to help spread the Gospel throughout Asia. For the 75-year-old Pope, who appeared fully recovered from a digestive ailment in midMarch, it was the start of a full slate of Holy Week activities that was to culminate in Easter Mass. The lengthy Palm Sunday procession, commemorating Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem a short time before his death. included several Italian folklore groups who marched in medieval costumes. The Pope said Holy Week marked a time of deep pain and joy for the Church. "Humanly speaking, it is full to overflowing with suffering, with humiliation, with deprivation," he said. But it also revealed God's holiness in a way that has changed the life of humanity, he said.

Easter in the parishes

Young people show the way About 300 made the traditional pilgrimage to Catholic Agricultural College Bindoon on Good Friday for the Stations of the Cross and the Solemn Commemoration of the Passion. College chaplain and parish priest of Bindoon-Chittering, Father Tony Schiff, was joined by the Reverend Margaret Matthews of the Anglican Parish of Gingin-Bindoon in leading the service. Also, a group of singers and guitarists assembled on the back of a truck to help the pilgrims sing between the stations. Father Tony said our meditation on and acceptance of Our Lord' s suffering, death and resurrection helped us to accept and not deny our own suffering. The eagerness of the young people to carry the large Cross up the hill and the evident devotion and sincerity of all as they approached the Cross to reverence Fr Tony Schiff, left, and Rev Margaret Matthews lead the Bindoon Stations of the Cross It were deeply moving

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Mercedes raises Easter song Jesus Christ, played by Disciples of Jesus Youth Mission Team member Nick Dabbs, falls under the weight of his Cross at the Perth Esplanade enactment of the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, which was repeated in Fremantle on Holy Saturday.

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St Thomas Primary School, Claremont, student David Shirley played Jesus in his school's Holy Week pageant in which every student - from pre-primaries to Year Seven's - participated in a liturgical pageant presented to the whole parish on Holy Thursday. The large crowd of parents and parishioners were obviously moved watching such young children come to an understanding of the most dramatic week in the life of humanity.

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enewal through econciliation For many Christians, preparation for the joyous celebration of the Risen Christ at Easter is more focussed on sinfulness than forgiveness, according to Father Bob Carden, a liaison priest for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. This came about because people put limits on God's ability to forgive, heal and love, Fr Carden said during a recent series of talks held at the Bethel Centre Friday night prayer meeting in West Leederville. Too much emphasis was placed on dragging up sins of the past, even though they had been confessed in previous Reconciliation encounters with God, he said. "Many people say to me that they want to elaborate further on a particular sin they committed a year ago because they feel they did not tell the whole story to the priest. "Or they want absolution for the sins of their past. "If that becomes a pattern in people's lives it is really saying that God hasn't forgiven them in the first place. "I think the emphasis in our

Father Bob Carden, left, with charismatic renewal leader Greg Diamond relationship with God should be turned around to view it as God's relationship with us. "He is mystery, yet He has revealed Himself in so many ways. "He is a God who calls, who heals and who initiates relationships and above all, He is a God who loves." Fr Carden said there remained a strong perception among Christians of an Old Testament God of wrath.

If only Chesterton had travelled to Fremantle great evening for young and old and everyone in between. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the genius of English journalism and letters who was made a Defender of the Faith by Pope Pius XI - an honour rarely awarded - was admired around the world for his brilliant writing. In debate he was a master of paradox, devastating humour and insight that often left his foes full of admiration and respect. A convert to Catholicism, he became one of the most popular writers in the English language and never ceased to defend and promote his faith with a genius that was sometimes spellbinding. Writing on what he saw during a trip to America, he said he had never been able to lose his conviction that travel narrowed the mind. Until they travelled, people often romanticised other countries and foreign vistas, he said. enabling them to smile benignly on foreigners of all kinds, he said. But witnessing the reality almost invariably left them disillusioned and, consequently, more narrow-minded than when they began. The Fremantle meeting, the first in the monthly series planned for this year, will begin at 730pm. Society president, Tony Evans, said wine and cheese would be available before the debate began. Admission would be free for members, with a donation asked of friends and guests.

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If you enjoy an evening of witty cut and thrust with the potential for a few good deep laughs then the Chesterton Society's first meeting for 1996 will be just the thing to get Perth people warmed up before winter rolls in. An engaging debate is expected when the society kicks off its deliberations for 1996 at Notre Dame University in Fremantle on the evening of 17 April. Planned for the first meeting of the year is a rollicking debate on the proposition that 'Travel narrows the mind.' Among those arguing the pros and cons will be Dr Joel Dando, head of the English Department at Notre Dame and lawyer, Dr Hal Colebatch. If past lectures and debates are anything to go by it will be a

"Perhaps it was the way we were taught things as children and it has stuck," he said. "But when you read the Scriptures, particularly the Old Testament, you discover a wonderful array of knowledge of a caring and loving God, right from the first book of Genesis." The underlying pattern in many of the stories, such as man's fall from grace, Cain and Abel and the wandering people in the desert, was one of sin, punish-

ment and then God providing an "out". "We see time and again God stepping in to reinforce his love and healing with His created," Fr Carden said. "And we should carry this knowledge with us, as did the Saints of old. "The Saints, in many ways, regarded themselves as the greatest sinners because they saw anything that intruded between their relationship with God as sin. "We all can identify to some extent with the Saints because there are times when we know that we are not the people we would like to be.". The God known as a God of love and a God of healing in the Bible, is the same God encountered in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. "Do we recognise God's involvement in our day even in times of heaviness because that's what can give us peace even though we are experiencing a difficulty. "The other vital aspect is under-

Artist catches eye

Poems on poverty competition

Kimberley artist Raymond Edney stands beside one of his paintings representing Catholic schools in the Western and Eastern Kimberley. Mr Edney, who works with the Catholic Education Office in Broome, is in his 3rd year working at the Broome CEO's Jawa Production Centre - a curriculum centre for Catholic schools in the Kimberley. Raymond's art has won him admiration in many quarters. He was recently offered an artist-in-residency position in the United Kingdom.

New Wagga foundation The Confraternity of Christ the Priest, a public association of priests and brothers, opened a new foundation in Diocese of Wagga Wagga in country New South Wales in February when ten confraternity seminarians arrived from Victoria to continue their studies at the Wagga Wagga diocesan seminary, Vianney College. The association reaches out to those people who have drifted away from the Church or those who have not belonged to any Church. The brothers support this work financially by working In various trades and professions. The confraternity was established 42 years ago in the Diocese Townsville, of Queensland and recently the

standing about loving ourselves, which really is a commandment. "God said to love our neighbour as we loved ourselves and loving ourselves is the basis of commitment to love God and our neighbours. "It allows God to come more fully into our lives and touch us. "Then we can enjoy more the freeing experience of Reconciliation and a God who tells us not to fear but to go on with His love and healing." All God wanted from his people was honesty springing from an attitude of heart. He is more interested in their hearts than the sordid details of sin. He is the God who wants to replace the heart of stone with a heart of flesh. "Go to Reconciliation .... knowing that by confessing your sins you are built up by God. "Let Reconciliation be a celebration with the emphasis on the healing love of God rather than holding onto the pre-occupation of sin which leads us to enduring a millstone around our neck"

Vatican has placed it under the care of the Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Bishop William Brennan. Members of the confraternity moved from Townsville to Melbourne in 1969. The following year Christ the Priest Seminary in Melbourne was blessed and opened. In 198Z the society opened another house at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission House, Warrenheip, near Ballarat in Victoria, for the preliminary training of young men wishing to become priests or brothers. The confraternity has now purchased a large home and 2300 hectares of land near Wagga Wagga where the brothers will construct the Christ the Priest House of Studies.

The National Catholic Education Commission and the Australian Catholic Social justice Council has invited young Australian students to submit original poems on the theme of the eradication of poverty. This year's competition builds on the success of the last two years, the social justice council said, when several thousand poems were received on the topics of tolerance, and Australian family life. One hundred poems will be selected for publication in an attractive anthology. Students whose work is selected will receive a copy of the anthology. It is open to students in final year of primary school and to all secondary school students. "Young people have a keen sense of compassion", Bishop Kevin Manning, chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, said. "Poetry is a creative way of reflecting on and drawing attention to the unacceptable scourge of poverty," he said. "Poverty is a blight on humanitY "Its existence jeopardises the most basic of human rights - the right to survival." The closing date is June 14. Send entries (not longer than 40 lines) with name, age and school address, to the Australian Catholic justice Council, 19 McKenzie St, North Sydney, 2060. For inquiries contact: 02 9956 5811.

Marist Brother had special affinity with rural students !Obituary: Brother Ray Martin FMS

Brother Ray (Eymard) Martin, a Marist Brother for 48 years, died of cancer in St iolm of God Hospital, Perth, last month at t38 years of age. Br Martin will be remembered by many families and students in places where the Marist Brothers of the Province of Melbourne have communities. He was born at Peterborough in SA growing up in a difficult farming area and 1

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the Depression years. His special affinity with young people from rural areas enhanced his teaching work at Mt Gambier, Wangaratta, Shepparton, Forbes, Bunbury and finally at Port Hedland. Because of his short stature one could describe him as having been a lovable vertically-challenged eccentric. Gangling youths in middle secondary would tower over him and shine his bald pate with their school ties! As a teaching Brother and, in later years, as a student welfare officer he would seek out those who were

less comfortable in the classroom and behaved accordingly; Br Ray would do what he could to listen to and help them. Young people he taught were touched by his joy, his dedication to teaching and to physical work for the school environment and by his great devotion to Our Lady. A school captain of Notre Dame College at Shepparton in Victoria said during the Memorial Mass there that "you could always tell a Brother Ray. student; just start the Memorare and he or she would promptly be able to finish it."

One of his hidden apostolates was that of keeping in touch with former students and their families by methodically sending amusing postcards written in his own inimitable style. His thoughtfulness in sending these cards and keeping contact was an expression of his belief that we should give people their flowers before they die. Some only discovered that Br Ray had passed away after a short illness because they did not receive their usual card at Christmas or on a birthday. - Br Desmond Hornsby FMS

&oilers 10 11eC01110P Research flawed by inclusion of same-sex couple S ince reading in The Record, 28 March, about the research report Speaking for Themselves produced by Archdiocese of Perth's Centrecare Marriage and Family Service, I have had the opportunity to read this report on Western Australian families. I was surprised to find that research sponsored by a Catholic agency had seen fit to include a "same sex" couple in the group of 44 families interviewed. It was curious, however, that no anecdote or quote from this "same sex" couple appeared in the report. Why wasn't this pair told when they responded to the advertisement calling for interested "families" to contact

Centrecare that they didn't fit the requirements? Since when does a Catholic agency feel obligated to accept the self-definition of a "same sex" pair as a family?. As The Record reported, besides the most common themes on which the researcher chose to give us extensive anecdotes, there were other key areas raised by many families "which they also considered important in assisting their family to work well together". Topping the list was "Christian beliefs and values". Unfortunately the researcher determined that it was "beyond the scope of this report to elaborate on all of these". Couldn't a page or two be found in an

criminal directly involved but it is not at all clear that it prevents others from committing crimes; Reform cannot occur through capital punishment because life is deprived and the opportunity for reform denied; 0 The legal imposition of the death he Catholic Social Justice Commis often difficult and attracts penalty ission (WA) recognises that there publicity. unhealthy Is no simple solution to the vioIt has historically resulted in criminals lent crime, that victim's families need sentenced in a perceived unfair, being justice that and support and sympathy discriminatory manner; needs to be done fairly and swiftly. 0 Capital punishment represents the However, we reject the view that in the long term this will be achieved through final irony of our inhumanity towards one another, exacting a punishment for tougher penalties against offenders. crime of murder, by murder, Without adequate measures to the 1Each person has a unique dignity. address the real causes of crime, deterrent penalties will make little difference. The criminal deserves the chance of making creative compensation and of nue criminal reform will only be achieving moral growth and conversion; accomplished if there are changes in 3 As citizens and Christians we wish our legal and correctional system. promote the value of life, humane to We strongly oppose the re-introducto crime and a recognition responses tion of the death penalty on the followthe cycle of violence can be broken. that ing grounds: We prefer intelligent compassion to 71 Retribution may be demanded power. vengeful because of the action of the criminal but Sr Lucy Van Kessel PBVM it does not justify taking life; Secretary 1The death penalty will "deter" the Catholic Social justice Commission (WA)

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It seems disingenuous, even in a report focusing on the positives of families, to ignore the reality of family break-up. No doubt the anecdotes from the 24 families whose comments are actually reported can be used to prompt reflection on our own efforts to make our families work However, we are left with some serious questions about the value of this report as the product of a Catholic agency. An opportunity to study well functioning families has gone amiss.

88-page report produced by a Catholic agency to deal with the importance of

Christian beliefs and values to functioning families as reported by "many families" from a state-wide self-electing sample of 44 families? In the researcher's observations and findings it is stated that when asked what told them that their family was working, nearly all of them mentioned that they were still together and they liked being in the family. However, it was apparent from the body of the report that, of the 12 singleparent families, several of the children had fathers who were not "still together" with the family.

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Priestly power

Job-share challenge

hank you, Your Holiness Pope John Paul II, for highlighting (and The Record for front-paging) an obvious and, broadly very equitable, partial solution by which wealthy Western countries can stop the rot of unemployment via job-splitting. I suggest that there is an obscenity and inunorality when society (and. Christian conscience) condones one couple earning two salaries (and, often, very comfortable salaries) when alongside, another couple (more or less equal in qualifications) is scratching on the dole. Surely a moral and fair society should be prepared to develop policies to support couples satisfied with each partner taking four-fifths of a professional salary. Of course. the 'big-earners' need to show the way. As the dollar is their god, this may be the 'eye-of-the-needle' that will be impossible for a Western society 'to pass-through'. A non-worthwhile role on the dole means a citizen without dignity. means crime-might-pay, means sickness and social unrest. means God is not in His Heaven. Peter Tilley Balcatta

he sanctuary walls of Saint Mary's Cathedral reverberated last week to the powerful priestly prayer of adoration as the glorious doxology was sung: "Through Him. with Him, in Him. . . ." At the annual Chrism Mass, we saw over 130 priests renew their commitment to Archbishop Hickey. This public proclamation of unity between priests and their bishop was greatly uplifting. We were thrilled to be part of this joyful celebration - although it was rather curious to see a number of lay people make their way through the packed sanctuary and distribute communion while 100 priests sat by. 'fry explaining that to my 11 and 13year-old boys! Thanks be to God for each one of our dedicated priests who made the time to be there. We really need you! What more visible statement could a father-bishop make to his sons of the priesthood than this? Philip Haydon Woodlands

Karriholm: home away from the streets for homeless By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

onnie and Ernie Tartaglia of Pemberton, are nice, gentle folk - but they're also smart business people. That's a great combination, and 3,000 people in one year, along with thousands of others, have benefited greatly because of that delicate mix. How? - well that leads into a most interesting story. Connie and Ernie became involved with the Charismatic Renewal just over 13 years ago, and this brought with it a lot of gifts. According to Connie, it increased their love for daily Mass and the Eucharist, and they became part of a prayer group. They also became open to doing God's will in whatever way he directed. In early 1985, about 18 months after the beginning in the Renewal, Connie had a vision one morning of a place for healing and it looked very much like Karriholm, which was an old motel in Pemberton opposite their own motel. In the vision, Connie saw people coming down the driveway on crutches and, after healing, leaving them there and walking away whole. That day, recalled Connie, when they were working in their supermarket, "two lots of Orange People (Rajneeshi) came in and said they were going to buy Karriholm!" This galvanised Connie and Ernie into action who made a 'phone call to their prayer group to pray for them to get the 2.2ha property. Another call then established that a previous auction had fallen through. Having put in an offer, the competition (accelerated by the Rajneeshi interest) quickened, so the Tartaglias countered with another offer. Feeling a little desperate, because Connie believed God was telling her "This is my home (meaning Karriholm)" and calling on the power of the Almighty and the words of the Bible whereby Joshua marched around the perimeter of the land and claimed it for the Lord, Connie

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and Ernie with the then parish priest. Fr Hubert Kelly and other supporters, walked around the boundary line praying to God and sprinkling it with holy water. Well it worked because they raised a loan and got the property, sold their own house and went to live there. . . . now Karriholm was God's. Formerly part of a motel chain in its

days of glory, it was now in a run down state and needed to be made livable. The most recent people to reap rewards from the generosity of the Tartaglias, are the former street kids, drug addicts and prostitutes under the protective wing of the Holy Spirit of Freedom Community, who have been given a big part of Karriholm Christian

Centre in which to nurture them away from the Perth scene. As for Connie and Ernie. they're now at peace because when Karriholm was ready to take peopie. it was opened and blessed as a Christian centre open to all denominations by Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury. Since then "the people who've come have been the poor, underprivileged, single parents, those who needed to get away for a break, groups such as Marriage Encounter and others, parish farewells, and priests. "And when you look at the prayer life of the Holy Spirit of Freedom community, the regular exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at Karriholm, sometimes for 48 hours at a time, and Masses which are said," Connie and Ernie pointed out, "you can understand the joy and the fruit which has come from it all."

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Choose life through love, rather than death By Father John Castelot

hat does the word "life" mean in the Bible? The Gospel of John says, "Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me" (6:57). That is one sense in which the Scriptures use the term "life": It is a share in the very life of God communicated to people who share in the Eucharist. But as theologians say, grace builds on nature. A person must be humanly "alive" to share in divine life. What is the human life which is a necessary condition for sharing divine life? The answer seems to lie in the statement that God created humanity in his own 'image" (Genesis 1:26). lb be in God's image is to be capable of sharing in God's creative love. 'Love" is a key word here. It has a lot to do with being alive and with growing. lb the extent that people love creatively, selflessly, they are authentically human, alive. They accomplish the purpose for which God created them. lb the extent that they refuse to love they are "dead." This is the sense in which St Paul often uses the terms "alive" and "dead" in Scripture. Those who actualise the purpose for which God created them are "alive." truly human. There is no question here of supernatural as opposed to merely natural, but of truly human as opposed to subhuman. Jesus is the one who loved perfectly. By imitating his love, people grow as human beings. How does one grow in love? By loving, by subordinating self-interest to the well-being and happiness of others. People are not created as finished products; they are created with the potential for perfection. Creation is an ongoing process in which people have a responsible share. As co-creators with God, they can choose to love. They can choose to be alive or to be dead. This is how we can strare life with others: by loving. In the process we contribute to their growth as human beings. We "create" them, help them to realise their God-given potential. To love is to be truly creative, truly human, truly alive. "I have set before you life and death . . . . Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you" (Deuteronomy 30:1920).

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By Mary Miller Pedersen

oan and Frank alternate middle-of-thenight turns at calming their colicky newborn baby. oth follow a release time schedule at work (at the expense of promotions, I suspect) in order to see to the needs of their three children. Then there is Martha. After 51 years of marriage Pete suffered a crippling stroke, which left him paralysed and in the care of Martha who feeds and bathes him. Sue is a young mother of two small children. She is undergoing chemotherapy treatments for melanoma and is weak and unable to care for her home and family. Her husband, extended family and friends take turns looking after the children and taking Sue to and from the hospital. Family members, supported by others, nurture, protect and preserve human life in ordinary ways every day. They live out the Gospel in simple ways. "The Gospel of Life." Pope John Paul H said In his 1995 encyclical "The Gospel of Life," is to be celebrated above all in daily living, which should he filled with self-giving love for others." A tiny newborn baby knows instinctively if his or her life is reverenced. The way the infant is fed, has its nappies changed and comforted communicates this. The home is meant to be the cradle for life a place for learning of life's sacredness and experiencing it. Few parents who have witnessed the miracle of their own child's birth would deny the awesomeness of a new life. But the service of life within families means not only having or adopting babies. It means sacrificing to feed and clothe them, educate and discipline them, teach them to pray and to form a Christian conscience. We find this service of life in families of means and little means. In Amazing Grace, the Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. Jonathan Koz.al investigated the lives of families living in extreme poverty. His work indicates that the South Bronx grandmother raising her crack-addicted daughter's children in a rat-infested apartment serves life by foraging for their food and walking the children to and from school to protect them from drug dealers. It is no easy task for families to become what they are called to be, communities of love and life. Like larger institutions of church and state, families face obstacles in their efforts to reverence life from birth to old age. One important obstacle which permeates our culture is extreme individualism. This me-first mentality works against the Church's teaching about the* brotherhood and sisterhood of all people.

As Pope John Paul put it in "The Gospel of Life," "The God of the covenant has entrusted the life of every individual to his or her fellow human beings." We're all in this life preserver together, a "people" of life, not just individual followers of Jesus. Some Catholic Christians, caught up in society's individualism, tend to act alone in the service of life. But the Gospel is given to God's people as a whole; it supports our individual efforts and draws us into common action to defend the life of our neighbour, "especially when it is weak or threatened." No one can sustain this effort alone. A second obstacle is materialism. Being a people of life requires that we "foster in ourselves and others a contemplative outlook," the Pope said. This outlook creates an attitude of wonder a contemplative stance toward every human individual as God's unique creation. But it is a challenge to retain a contemplative stance in the midst of rampant commercialism and advertising that entices us to put things over people.

Families, taken up with a hectic schedule of doing and acquiring things, find it difficult to reflect on the wonder of human life as gift. But when we reflect on how life is a gift, our service of life is given impetus and meaning. A third obstacle is the loss of traditions and rituals surrounding important life changes like birth, growth into adolescence, leaving home, marriage and death. Rituals and traditions help families to reflect on the sacred dimensions of life's ordinary transitions and crises. They put us in touch with the meaning and value of life at these moments when life is changing. Families who celebrate life in joyful and sorrowful moments rediscover and renew their ability to revere and honour every person. Being a family is a vocation, a calling to serve and celebrate together. We must remember that to create a culture of life, families are sometimes called to heroic acts of service and at the same time to simple daily acts of sacrifice and love for each other and for neighbours.

The "Gospel of Life" is not just an idea or a concept. It is something real that we should live in our families and workplaces - otherwise just how real are we as Catholics? An uncomfortable question?

When the isolation of a blizzard united a street By Dolores Lackey

s I write this, I find myself thinking about two extraordinary events: the past Christmas season and the blizzard of 1996 - and various expressions of life at those times. Our adult children live in different parts of the country. Christmas visits are sometimes brief and staggered. This Christmastime, however, everyone gathered for a New Year's Eve dinner. Between bites of saffron rice and sips of red wine, one baby was being nursed, another was trying to navigate a staircase. The new parents were totally attentive as if their baby was the world's first. When the babies finally slept, dessert conversation turned to the year just ended. The birth of Monica a month

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before was at the top of everyone's "most important events" list. After that items varied. One said that getting to know the homeless people in the shelter where he volunteers introduced him to new dimensions of resilience and trust. He's amazed how people manage their lives even when they have nothing. Another told of visiting the Vermeer exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. After waiting for hours in a long, cold line, a spiritual experience awaited her. She found that each painting had a soul. Mary Kate, actress-turned-nursing-student, said that caring for sick children (a completely new experience) had taught her volumes. Eventually the young families went home.

But our Christmas tree was neighbor's driveway and then barely down when the great bliz- took on the street itself. zard came. Two neighbors, working on Newspapers and mail rema- their sidewalks, stopped and ined undelivered for days; resi- stared at the street-clearing effort. dential streets went unplowed. Before long they, too, were clearAnd people seemed isolated by ing a piece of the street. more than snow. As the small snow crew made A colleague told how she and its way up the street, Andre her husband experienced the began knocking on doors, asking culture of life in the midst of people to help. snow, ice and fatigue. One by one, they ventured They live at the bottom of a hill forth: the grandson of a neighbor, where the road comes to a dead an older gentleman. end. As they worked they told each For four days no city plows vis- other their names (some for the ited that hidden cul-de-sac. first time). Her anxiety rose rapidly when When it was over - eight hours she heard a second storm was later - their joy was contagious. approaching; she felt she had to Women, who earlier had get to work - an hour's distance trudged through knee-high snow away. to get provisions from a local Her husband, Andre, decided to store, came home to a cleared try to dig them out. street, their faces full of smiles. My friend joined in, and togethLife doesn't just happen and the er they cleared their driveway, a results are often surprising.

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Mission of mercy raids Manila's prisons and streets in search of lost souls By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

hey were eyes that will haunt me forever, Sister Teresa McEntee RSM, who has spent the last 19 years in Manila, said with quiet deliberation. Driven fearlessly to do God's work, possessing a deep compassion for humanity and an absolute faith which is an inspiration. this Irish-born Mercy Sister entered alone the foreboding prison building standing in isolation known as The Tomb of the Living Dead - in Muntinlupa prison in the Philippines' capital, Manila. Told "You'll be killed!" by outside prisoners, she went in to meet the gang leader known as The Devil and his men, also prisoners, and asked to speak with him. With a mechanical, robot-like walk, flanked by his gang bodyguards, he emerged from his cell, Sr McEntee said. with his piercing eyes riveted on her "and looking into them and those of his men. I saw the wounded, rejected, suffering eyes of Christ which I can never forget." Bravely she placed her arm around him and asked his permission to come and teach him and his men as to why God created them, what they were meant to be doing with their lives, and where they were destined for. "Why not." was his emotionless response. Sr Teresa came every day for eight weeks, teaching them basic Christian doctrine after which she got four priests to baptise eight of his men. Confession was arranged and he went first, followed by his 87 men. They then celebrated Mass with Holy Communion, after which he gave her a letter which read . . . ."Mummy (a vernacular endearment), I will never forget what you and brother Victor (a lay man), did for me and my men. I came into prison at 1Z and immediately I was made a gang leader. I am now 35 and in these 18 years since I was in prison, no one from the outside world ever put a foot into our building. You were the first. "I brought my men to destruction. I now want to bring them to God. I want all of them to be saints." Sr Teresa was in Western Australia last month to visit Holy Spirit of Freedom communities before Holy Spirit of Freedom members join her in her work in the Philippines. This young gang leader had never been outside the building in all those 18 years, for fear of his life, because he had incurred much hatred as the instigator of many gang wars which had taken place among the 8,000 male prisoners at Muntinlupa.

Sr Teresa then said she was going to teach his enemies across the wall that divided two building, the second of which housed a different gang, and suggested that when they reached the same stage - would the first group then join them at Mass? The conversion of that other gang took place and so did the crowning Mass, at which St Teresa witnessed the two

One was of a composer who has made his own tapes entitled A Handful of His Miracles, on the bottom of which is written the words "From Crime to Christ." She was successful, with God's help, in getting to work on Death Row and throughout, with her approach of first doing what she could to give them

Eucharistic ministries and paraliturgies. Other miracles have also taken place there such as the time she went through the prison asking the men what she could get for them while realising she didn't have any money to buy them anything. The reason for this is that Sr Teresa knows God will provide if he wishes her to achieve something, and to date, that has always been the case She asked the prisoner who was tightly clutching her bag for her to search in there for money. He did this on two occasions but found nothing. Then she came across "a poor little fellow" lying on the bed who'd been shot in the back. "There were ridges of sores with maggots coming out of them and I wanted to buy him medicine," she said. So they looked into the bag again and found two new-looking 100 peso notes that had not been there before: the prisoner carrying the bag was dumbfounded and later converted. Sr Teresa for the last ten years has worked alone in her amazing ministry. Amazing from every point of view. She left the security of work as a school principal in Ireland 19 years ago to work in the Philippines with Father Peyton's Family Rosary Crusade. Ten years ago she was diagnosed with incurable cancer and given a short time to live. X-rays reveal that cancer is rife within her body and her spine is virtually crumbling from it. While admitting she is in a lot of pain, she overlooks this with the view that she'll continue to do God's work as long as he decides - and that's good enough for her! Sr Teresa has worked alone these past years collecting malnourished, homeless boys on the street - 20 at the moment. She provides food, clothing, the best of Catholic education, for children ranging from kindergarten age through to uniSr Teresa McEntee in Perth late last month: trust in God conquers all problems versity, with two in the seminary. All of this she pays for by God's provigangs coming together for the first time undreamed of luxuries such as tea and in friendship and not war. "and it was coffee, she won prisoners over and then dence and never asks for money. one of the most touching things I have taught them about God. In one of her three houses there is Adoration of the Blessed ever seen." Perpetual With incredible success, while protest"We all joined hands for the Our ing "But it's not me! It's always God! I Sacrament which the boys take part in Father and hugged each other at the am merely God's instrument," Sr Teresa as well as doing the washing, imning, sign of peace." has put herself completely at God's dis- cooking, cleaning and going to school The building in which the first spiritu- posal. Through this work, the Manila all being part of Sr Teresa's home policy al conquest took place is now renamed prison, which was infamous for its 11 to build up a loving, prayerful family. A Powerhouse Of Prayer. gangs with stabbings, bashings and vioShe thanks Perpetual Adoration for Sr Teresa has many incredible stories lence, is now famous for its more than fostering their vocations and said if of conversion to tell and ultimately, 30 prayer groups. more people spent time before the under God's direction and guidance Among the prisoners she describes as Blessed Sacrament there would be and with her "I'll never say no to God!" "absolutely marvellous!" are catechists more vocations and fewer problems attitude, many conversion miracles have and musicians, who now organise their because "God not only has the solution. taken place. own prayer groups, bible classes, He is the solution!"

Christ's grace enables the self-mastery of chastity For parents and teenagers

particularly, The Record continues this week publishing excerpts from the Pontifical Council for the Family's guidelines for sex education.

hastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery, which is a training in human freedom. "The alternative is clear: Either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself he dominated by

them and becomes unhappy." of the Catholic Church, 2339) Every person knows by experience that chastity requires rejecting certain thoughts, words and sinful actions, as St. Paul was careful to clarify and point out (cf. Romans 1:18; 6:12-14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Galatians 5:16-23: Ephesians 4:17-24; 5:3-13; Colossians 3:5-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-18; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; 4:12). To achieve this requires ability (Catechism

and an attitude of self-mastery the virtues, education for chasti- find themselves in unfavourable which are signs of inner free- ty is made easy and lacks inner circumstances. The very fact that dom, of responsibility toward conflicts, even if at certain times all are called to holiness, as the oneself and others. At the same young people can experience Second Vatican Council teaches, makes it easier to understand time, these signs bear witness to particularly delicate situations. a faithful conscience. For some who find themselves that everyone can be in situaSuch self-mastery involves in situations where chastity is tions where heroic acts of virtue both avoiding occasions which offended against and not valued, are indispensable whether in might provoke or encourage sin living in a chaste way can celibate life or marriage, and as well as knowing how to over- demand a hard or even a heroic that in fact in one way or another this happens to everyone for come one's own natural instinc- struggle. shorter or longer periods of tive impulses. Nonetheless, with the grace of time. When the family is providing Christ, flowing from his spousal Therefore married life also real educational support and love for the Church, everyone entails a joyous and demanding encouraging the exercise of all can live chastely even if they path to holiness. The Record, April 11 1996 Page 9

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hotel known for utter elegance flirts with boisterous bedlam when "Dunston Checks In", a 20th Century Fox movie. The scene is Manhattan's Majestic, a fictional five-star hotel, run by wimpy widower Grant (Jason Alexander) under the scathing eyes of an imperious, Leona Helmsley-like owner (Faye Dunaway). She knows they are being considered for six-star status by a prestigious hotel guide and wants everything operating to perfection. Grant's young sons, Kyle (Eric Lloyd) and Brian (Graham Sack), meanwhile, are grounded on the premises for playing practical jokes. And that's what everyone thinks it is when Kyle announces there is a monkey on the loose. But it's no joke. A bogus English aristocrat (Rupert Everett) has trained his orangutan Dunstan to scale hotel walls, enter empty rooms and snatch guests' jewelry. Apparently wanting to rehabilitate himself, Dunston goes on the lam - with Kyle as his friend and protector. What can ensue but major monkey business? As directed by Ken Kwapis. "Dunston Checks In" is a screwball comedy that's surprisingly stingy with its merry mayhem. Already at a comparatively short 85 minutes, the comedy strains to fill the time from one slapstick snafu to the next. What it's got going for it is the irresistible appeal of Dunston

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Aristocrat and orangutan - a perfect match in a stretched comedy, Dunston Checks In.

(actually played by two 5-yearold orangutans, male Sam and female Jerry). It is almost as if sadsack comic Buster Keaton had been reincarnated in the soulful expressions of Dunston. Some may find such cuteness overplayed to plump a slender script, but when the comic action lags dauntless Dunston fills the gap with his/her magnificent mug. In between the simian silliness

- as Dunston goes bananas evading his evil owner - Paul "Peewee Herman" Reubens shows up as an overeager exterminator and Glenn Shadix has the misfortune to be the guest who is always in the wrong place at the right time for pie-in-the-face-type comeuppance. Speaking of edibles, when the hotel chaos disintegrates into the inevitable (and not very original) food fight, and the uppity owner collapses into a humongous pink

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cake, it's time to check out. Although the mostly innocuous comedy runs out of steam before this occurrence, it is mildly amusing and would be a family film were it not for one short, slightly racy scene and an adult's vulgar exclamation. The violence and menace are all slapstick Due to slapstick violence, mild sexual innuendo and a vulgar expression, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is All adults and adolescents.

The Juror - bogged down with nowhere to go

psychotic killer threatens a vulnerable woman and her child in the fizzled thriller. The juror. The story involves the murder trial of a gang boss (Tony Lo Bianco) who unleashes a psychotic hit man known as the Teacher (Alec Baldwin) to subvert the jury. Annie Laird (Demi Moore) is the jury member the Teacher leans on, threatening her and her child with death unless she convinces her fellow jurors to bring in an acquittal of the accused. The Teacher is a sadist who enjoys his power over Annie after scaring her out of her wits with demonstrations of his professional skills and cold-blooded determination to get what he wants. The contrived situation grows preposterous as the story becomes mired in repetitious variations of one threat after another.

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This is so dragged out that by the time the jury begins its deliberations, it seems an anticlimax as well as a five-minute parody of "12 Angry Men" and its holdout juror. There is also a coda showing how Annie finally expunges the twisted Teacher from her life. This segment at least moves and has a couple of neat twists but is as preposterous as the rest. Director Brian Gibson concentrates on the cat-and-mouse struggle between the helpless woman and her powerful oppressor. Both, however, remain types with underdeveloped characters inviting little interest, let alone involvement. The movie's appeal is all on the surface, with the thrills having little connection with human realities. It is one more woman-in-peril saga, though some will find the threatening situations uncomfort-

Demi Moore as the juror in The Juror.

ably nasty. Most, however, will simply find it a tiresome thriller which goes on much too long. Because of features such as sadistic threats, various murders,

a sexual encounter with brief nudity, occasional profanity and some rough language, the US Catholic Conference classification is AN - adults, with reservations.

NEW YORK (CNS) Here is a list Babe, Al A Family Thing, Al!! of recent films the U.S. Catholic Beautiful Girls, Al!! Fargo, AIV Conference Office for Film and Bed of Roses, All! Father of the Bride Part II, AII Broadcasting has rated on the Before and After, AIII Flirting with Disaster, AN basis of moral suitability. USCC The Birdcage, MV The Flower of My Secret, Al!! classifications: Al general Black Sheep, Al!! GoldenEye, AN patronage; All adults and ado- Braveheart, AN Grumpier Old Men, Al!! lescents; AIII adults; AIV adults, Broken Arrow, 0 Happy Gilmore, AIII with reservations (this indicates Carried Away, 0 Heat, 0 films that, while not morally Chungking Express, AM Hellraiser: Bloodline, 0 offensive in themselves, are not City Hall, AIII Homeward Bound II: Lost in San for casual viewing because they Dead Man Walking, AIII Francisco, Al require some analysis and expla- Diabolique, 0 If Lucy Fell, Al!! nation in order to avoid false Don't Be a Menace to South It's My Party, 0 impressions and interpretations); Central While Drinking Your Jack and Sarah, Al!! 0 morally offensive. Juice Jumanji, Al! The American President, Al!! in the Hood, 0 Land and Freedom, AN Angels & Insects, AIV Down Periscope, AIII Leaving Las Vegas. 0 Anne Frank Remembered, Al! Ed, All Little Indian, Big City, AM Antonia's Line, AN Executive Decision, AIII Mighty Aphrodite, AIII

Mr. Holland's Opus, All Muppet Treasure Island, Al Oliver & Company, Al Once Upon a Time ... When We Were Colored, All The Postman (II Postino), Al! Primal Fear, 0 Richard III, Al!! Rumble in the Bronx. Al!! Sabrina, All Sense and Sensibility, Al! Seven, 0 The Star Maker, AN Tom and Huck, Al! Toy Story, Al 12 Monkeys, AN Two Much, Al!! Up Close & Personal, AIII Waiting to Exhale. AN White Balloon, Al!

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unianji is the name of a magical, treacherous jungle board game which springs life with the roll of dice putting its players in instant mortal jeopardy. Though based on a children's storybook its eye-popping scenes of stampeding wildlife and nature gone amuck are not for tiny tots unless accompanied by a comforting adult. It is, however, a special effects spectacular. "Jumanji" centers on Alan Parrish (Robin Williams), who as a meek 12-year-old (Adam Hann-Byrd) was literally sucked into the board game's alternate universe of the African jungle before his startled pal, Sarah (Laura Bell Bundy). Of course, no one believed her and the game gathered dust in Alan's attic - until 26 two years later, when orphaned children (Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce) discover it. At a new roll of the dice, out pops now 38-year-old Alan, thrilled to be back home where he's less likely to be eaten alive. However, a Pandora's box of rampaging animals was also unleashed by restarting the game. Endangering all, they are sure to destroy Alan's quaint New Hampshire town - unless the game is played to its finish line, pulling the beasts back inside. A grown-up, dubious Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) completes the players' foursome and the game continues. Each roll of the die means they could die, but survivalexpert Alan is there to help the terrified trio save themselves and their town. "Jumanji" is a wild melange of action-adventure, fantasy and horror - in hair-raising doses with nonstop pacing. Director Joe Johnston blends state-of-the-art computer graphics with astounding animatronics. The story's human element plays second banana, but the four characters are given distinct personalities and learn life lessons about facing fears. Coping with adversity comes easier after scrambling from all kinds of snarling monsters, ranging from mammoth mosquitoes to poisonous tentacled plants, rushing rhinos, monsoons and a trigger-happy hunter (Jonathan Hyde) thrown in for good measure. The upshot is a movie that almost collapses into chaos and mayhem in a few scenes, but usually errs on the side of frightening fun. Since there are innumerable, intense, death-defying moments, it really is too intense for small children. In fact, it's on the same scare level as "Jurassic Park." "Jumanji," though, is more likely to be considered a classic in the special-effects category than for the humanist message that distinguished "It's A Wonderful Life." Because of frequent lifethreatening menace and intermittent gunfire. the US Catholic Conference classification is All - adults and adolescents.

Feature

Where heaven and earth meet The artists of the fifteenth century Renaissance helped to shape the traditions of Christian beauty that have come down to modern times. One of the most famous is Brunelleschi, whose works are familiar adornments of Florence and other Italian cities. Next Monday is the 550th anniversary of his death. Karl G. Schmude, who recently visited Italy, explores the enduring significance of Brunelleschi's achievements.

he cathedral of Florence stands in the very centre of the city - a majestic building crowned by a vast dome. For centuries it has been the defining landmark of Florence, indelibly identified with the genius of one man. Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446). Other great artists left their mark on the buildings of Florence. The cathedral itself (the Duomo. as Italian cathedrals are called) was started by Arnolfo di Cambio, whose works enriched many of the cities of Italy. The bell-tower next to the Duomo was the work of Giotto, otherwise renowned for his St Francis frescoes in Assisi: and the nearby Baptistry is especially prized for its magnificent bronze doors, created by Lorenzo Ghiberti and depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Yet the cathedral is dominated by Bmnelleschi's dome, which remains, in its design and distinctiveness, a revealing symbol of the changes in religion and culture taking place in Western society at that time. These changes continue to register an Impact on our social and religious lives. In a number of respects, the artistic achievement of Brunelleschi is of abiding significance. First, a shift occurred in 15th century Italy from a religiously inspired and centred way of life to a culture of secular excellence. The Renaissance, in which Brunelleschi figured so notably, represented a move from the cloister to the public square. The medieval ideal of religious detachment and contemplation, signified in the monastery and even in the world-rejecting spirituality of the mendicant (begging) Orders (such as the Franciscans), gave way to a new model of lay activity. By contrast with the Reformation in northern Europe, the Renaissance did not so much deny religious traditions as confine them. It accepted the transcendent

tury, the cathedral in Florence was nearing completion, but the kind of dome originally planned - involving an octagonal vault spanning 40 metres, without external structures to uphold it - did not seem feasible. Brunelleschi devised a revolutionary method, which did not require extensive scaffolding but employed a cantilevered system of bricks in a self-supporting pattern. The Duomo was completed in 1436 and duly consecrated by the Pope, Eugenius IV, only ten years after the dome was started. Even the later mounting of a lantern as the pinnacle of the structure, so as to give light to the interior, proved manageable. It was designed by Brunelleschi but not built until after his death; and for the healthy visitor untroubled by heights, it still affords a spectacular view of the city. At the same time as this major work was proceeding, Brunelleschi received a commission from Florence's most famous family, the Medic!, to rebuild their parish Florence Cathedral, dominated by Brunelleschrs dome church of San Lorenzo and an adjoining glory of God but expressed it in terms of continuing importance - namely, that he sacristy. This was the first church of unmistakthe greatness of the individual creature. It excelled in engineering as well as archireaffirmed the Christian belief in human tecture, and paved the way for the experi- ably Renaissance style, and is marked by dignity, but it did so in a secular context. mental science which underpinned the a classic delicacy and harmony of design. Brunelleschi's energies extended to Thus the Renaissance literally carved out technological advances of later centuries. a place for the new lay educated class that At the beginning, he trained as a sculp- other buildings in Florence and to other had emerged, providing opportunities for tor, producing a bronze relief of an Old Italian cities. Among his later works, two political activity and artistic expression in Testament scene as part of a competition are of special significance. The first is the Pazzi Chapel. Built adjaFlorence and the other independent, city- to decorate the doors of the Baptistry in cent to the church of Santa Croce, a magbased republics of Italy. Florence. In some respects, the social and ecoAlthough beaten for this commission by nificent basilica which holds the remains nomic conditions of 15th century Italy Ghiberti, Brunelleschi showed his ability of Florence's most famous figures - includbear resemblance to those of our own to create a vivid representation of a dra- ing Galileo, Machiavelli and Michelangelo time. The growth of urban life and the matic incident - the two trial panels pro- - Brunelleschi's chapel might have been spread of education and affluence gave duced by Brunelleschi and Ghiberti can expected to mirror the monumental scale special importance to the bourgeoisie - still be judged by the modern visitor, as of the church itself and his great cathedral and to certain middle-class tendencies they hang side-by-side in one of Florence's dome. In fact, it is a simple and elegantly prowith which we are now highly familiar. museums, the Bargello. such as a proneness to define human The artist's disappointment at losing to portioned structure, which generates an identity in terms of individual autonomy Ghiberti propelled him into architecture. atmosphere of spiritual repose. A second monument of memorable and choice, rather than as a providential He visited Rome where he studied the blessing or burden. monuments of the Classical world as well value is the church of Santo Spirit°, designed by Brunelleschi in the closing "Life was regarded," as Christopher as mathematics. Dawson observed of the Renaissance. "not There he learnt new principles of con- years of his life and representing his last as a pilgrimage towards eternity but as a struction and proportion, in particular the work of ecclesiastical architecture. fine art in which every opportunity for system of 'perspective' by which spatial The church is distinguished by the serenknowledge and enjoyment was to be culti- depths and the relationship of objects on a ity of its graceful columns, surrounded by vated." two dimensional surface can be graphical- nearly 40 semi-circular chapels. This aesthetic tendency had a distinctly ly conveyed. It formed the model of a basilican type of practical character. As Dawson further This system had been developed by the parish church, whose influence has been noted, Renaissance art involved careful Greeks and Romans, and rediscovered by evident down to our own time. observation and experiment, and exerted Brunelleschi - a characteristic example of Brunelleschi died on 15 April 1446. It a direct influence on the study of anatomy the impact of antiquity on Renaissance art was fitting that, as the artist who left such and perspective. and architecture. Another revelation of a lasting imprint on the city of Florence. he This is the second aspect of Brunelleschi's was the Roman technique should have been among the very few to Brunelleschi's work which has been of of building domes. By the early 15th cen- be buried in its cathedral.

Book Reviews

Art 'object of worship' A Patriot in Berlin. Piers Paul Read, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, $34.95.

The Sign of the Cross: Travels In Catholic Europe. Colm Toibin Vintage, $12.95. Reviewed by Karl Schmude

he recent revival of Communist power in Russia and Poland may simply be seen as reflecting the failure of economic reform in bringing prosperity to the people of Eastern Europe. Piers Paul Read's latest novel applies a more spiritual judgment to the changes that have followed the collapse of the Soviet Empire. It relates the story of a former KGB agent, Andrei Orlov, who steals a collection of Russian paintings for ransom, so as to finance the recovery of Communism in his homeland. Orlov's motive, however, is loftier than the pursuit of power and

has a deep understanding of the Russian soul and the place of religion in the hearts of his people. "It was a cardinal error of the regime," he says, "to fail to appreciate the cultural value of reliolm Toibin is an Irish gious belief." writer who set out to In this well-paced thriller, the rediscover the Catholic author uses art as a symbol of the gulf between traditional culture cultures of Europe. He travelled to the far reaches and modern secularism. The higher purpose of art - its of the continent, visiting Poland, value as an icon to inform and Spain, Italy, Bavaria and England, edify a people - is contrasted as well as parts of post-Comwith the merely decorative and munist Eastern Europe. His book begins and ends in commercial purposes it now Ireland, and none of the counserves in Western society. Orlov suggests that art has tries he visits seems to stir his replaced religion as a focus of ancestral feelings as deeply as worship, but it serves merely as a his native land. His own faith has faded, but as form of currency rather than an object of spiritual significance he climbs Croagh Patrick, a holy and value. "When you look at mountain in County Mayo, he is contemporary American paint- Impressed by the intensity of ings," observes Orlov, "you mar- devotion, particularly among the vel not at the skills of the artist, young. "Why does the Catholic Mows Paul Read not at the beauty of what he has faith," he asks, "seem to thrive prosperity. He is, in his wife's depicted - because in essence he here among the young as it does words, "a true believer, a Soviet has depicted nothing - but at the not elsewhere?" patriot, a Bolshevik dreamer. . .." fact that these empty canvases In different places - such as He loves Russia, its traditions and are sold for millions of dollars. It Lourdes in France, Seville in its values, and does not want to is this that gives them their status Spain and Medjugorje in Bosniasee them swamped by the as icons of the new religion." Hercegovina, as well as tawdry materialism of the West. A Patriot in Berlin is an intrigu- Czestochowa in Poland - he is Despite being a professed athe- ing exposition of the conflicting especially aware of the signifiist and a ruthless operative, Orlov Icons and ideologies of our time. cance in the Catholic scheme of

the Mother of God, of "the mystipower of Mary, the purity and The Faith never ical nnocence of her humanity. .. ." realities give fresh life to leaves a Catholic theSuch buried faith of a former altar

boy - the most engaging parts of this book are those which illustrate the enduring effect of Catholic symbols and practices on the psychology of faith. Attending Mass in Czestochowa in 1991, Toibin is awed by Pope John Paul H's dramatic gesture of raising the lectionary at the end of the Gospel. At times, the elements of religious faith and cultural passion become difficult to distinguish. Toibin is moved by the spectacle of people in Seville during Holy Week staring at the life-size statue of Our Lady as it goes by, "as though one of the wonders of the world had just passed in front of them." At one stage, a man begins to sing to the Virgin from a window - "his voice . . . . high and strong, his hands outstretched, his tone full of longing and the sorrow of love." Toibin is subject to the poignant and ambivalent feelings of the lapsed - anger, fear, loyalty, longing - but The Sign of the Cross has the unmistakable air of a genuine search for reconciliation.

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To Jesus through Mary. . An Anglican curate in London, the Reverend Ronald Adkins, recalled how his life was saved by Our Lady in the January 1983 issue of The Word, an international Catholic magazine of the Divine Word Missionaries.

have always had a great devotion to the Holy Mother of God. She has helped me so much and, in fact, if it had not been for Her intervention,I would not now be writing this. I would have met my death at the hands of a drunk Some years back I was an Anglican curate in North London. It was a very lame and very scattered parish of over 15,000 people, many of them very poor. I had returned to my lodgings after a long afternoon's visiting when a screaming woman suddenly burst in on me. She said her lodger was threatening to commit suicide. Would I come at once? She took me to a grimy street in the poorest part of the parish and then to a very squalid house. I knew it well. A Mrs

Johnson lived there. She was continually begging for money but, as she spent it all on drink, I had to refuse her. It seemed, however, that she had managed to get hold of some money for judging from the sounds that came from the other side of the door, she was now extremely drunk. I tried the door, but it was locked. I knocked and she called out, "Who's there?" I said, rather ungrammatically, "It's me." "I know that voice," she said, "it's the curate." The key was turned and I was quickly pulled into the room. Immediately the key was turned again. I was locked in with a woman who was not only drunk but also half demented. My eyes were drawn irresistibly to the table. On it was an empty glass, two empty bottles and a long, thinbladed knife. Picking it up and brandishing it in her hand she said: "I've had enough of life. I'm going to die and you're going to die with me. We are going together!" This I thought was going to be the end of

. . . a column of Marian devotion it - killed by a drunk! Suddenly I found going to make your peace with God." And myself praying: "Holy Mary, pray for me that is just what she did. It was a queer setting for a confessional - that horrible, dirty now at the hour of my death." - but she made her confession, and room in her knife firmly The woman had the hand and was advancing on me but, hear- she found peace. What she poured out in her confession I ing my prayers, she stopped. "What's that cannot, of course, divulge, but this at least you're saying?' she called out. "If we're going to die,"I said, "we must be I can say. She was a woman of good education but drink had laid its hold on her. It prepared. Are you ready for it?" She didn't speak. Instead, very quietly, had, however, left her so enfeebled that, 6 there came into the room the sweetest months later, she went home to God to be reunited with her husband and child. voice that I have ever heard. The voice And now, what of that voice and that said: "Don't be afraid, all will be well. You are not going to die now. There is still presence? I am convinced that in that moment, work for you to do." That was all, but in that moment all fear when I was facing death, Our Lady came. left me.I don't think that the woman heard I had called upon Her for help. I had said anything at all, but, like myself she experi- that this was the hour of my death, but She enced the feeling of a wonderful presence had corrected me - I still had work to do. That hour which should have been my in the room. "What is it?" she called out. "What's hap- last hour on this earth became instead, the pening?" And as she spoke, the knife fell most wonderful hour of my life. I humbly from her hands. Very quietly I picked it up hope, and pray, that with Her help I may fulfil the work still left for me to do. and slipped it in my pocket. - courtesy of Ave Maria, the maga"You are not going to kill yourself, nor are you going to kill me," I said. "You are zine of the WA Garabandal Centres.

Baptisms and confessions for Pope's Easter By Cindy Wooden VATI( \N CITY (CNS) - From Bosnia to Rwanda. from the Middle East to Haiti, Pope john Paull ll's prayers were with the victims of war and poverty as he celebrated Jesus' passion, death and resurrection. 'The Lord is risen and gives to those who participate in his victory over death the courage and strength to build a new humanity through the refusal of every form of violence, sectarianism and injustice." the Pope said on April 7 in his Easter blessing. Jesus has risen with power. he said, "bringing with him love and justice, respect, pardon and reconciliation." Pope John Paul culminated four Pope John Paul II blesses pilgrims on Palm Sunday in St Peter's Square days of intense liturgical ceremonies with an Easter morning Rome's Basilica of St John been his custom, Pope John Paul Mass under sunny skies in St Lateran, the Pope earmarked the walked unannounced into St Peter's Square and with his bless- collection for Catholic charitable Peter's Basilica shortly after noon to hear confessions. ing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and activities in Haiti. the world). The April 5 Way of the Cross, The Pope spent about an hourWhile a fever and digestive ail- which began at 9 pm in the torch- and-a-half in the confessional, lisment forced him to cancel sever- lighted ruins of the Colosseum, tening and offering absolution to al engagements in mid-March, was a meditation not only on the more than 20 people. the Pope cut nothing from his tra- passion of the Lord, the Pope In the early evening, he ditional Holy Week and Easter said, but on "the suffering of men presided over the quiet and schedules. and women of every age - a long solemn liturgy of Christ's pasAs was the case last year, Pope path of pain and blood which sion, venerating the cross and lisJohn Paul carried a bare wooden runs through history." tening to the homily of Capuchin cross only at the beginning and "Even today, blood and suffer- Father Raniero Cantalamessa, end of the Stations of the Cross ing mark the events of our time," the preacher of the papal houseservice at Rome's Colosseum. he said after listening to the med- hold. He followed the other cross itations on the 14 stations written Austere solemnity gave way to bearers throughout the hour- by Cardinal Vinko Puljic of and-a-half service and, although Sarajevo, the war-battered capital the light of fire and candles in St Peter's Basilica as the Pope began he seemed to have some difficul- of Bosnia-Herzegovina. his celebration of the Easter Vigil. ty climbing the stairs for the final Among the men and women "The light of Christ is for all stations, his voice remained carrying the cross for the Pope peoples and you, in this celebrastrong. The Easter Vigil service on were a nun and a schoolteacher tion, are in a way the response of April 6 in St Peter's Basilica last- from Sarajevo and a Rwandan the nations of the world to the ed more than three hours and mother flanked by her two small new evangelization," he told the 10 adults he welcomed into the included the baptism and confir- daughters. The suffering of Christ contin- Catholic Church. mation of 10 adults, including one from China and one from the ues in modern-day martyrdoms "In the fact that seven out of 10 and war, but also in the "striking of you come from Asia, we can United States. The Pope's Holy Week and plot against life which threatens see a sign of the great desire of Easter liturgies were filled with persons and peoples, especially Christ and of the church to prayers and gestures of solidarity when life is weak and defence- encounter the populations and for suffering people throughout less, and which are multiplying cultures of that immense contiand becoming more acute," the nent, rich in history and noble the world. Celebrating the Mass of the Pope said. traditions," the Pope said in his Lord's Supper on April 4 in Also on Good Friday, as has brief homily. The Record, April 11 1996 Page 12 3

Beauty amid the chaos of a Jerusalem Easter chaotic atmosphere. When one realised woman Italian Communion would be given (CNS) JERUSALEM Thousands of Latin-rite Catho- out by a number of priests, she lics found a cacophony of sights, bowed her head, closed her sounds and smells during eyes and clasped her hands in Easter morning Mass at the prayer. She stood patiently as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, were given to those more hosts that Jesus where tradition holds than she, but soon a forceful was buried and rose from the worry slowly crossed look of dead. Latin-rite Patriarch Michel her face. Finally, she made her way to a Sabbah celebrated Mass in front of the tomb built over the priest and received Communcave said to have been Jesus' ion. Strangers from as far away as grave. Romania, Italy, Brazil. Africa. Large candles towered over the United States and Taiwan. the opening congregation at the suddenly became Britain Great of the tomb, and smaller canfamily as they greeted each one dles were lighted around the other at the sign of peace and walls of the tomb. One woman wiped away a wished each other happy tear as she placed a candle on Easter. "It evoked in me a lot of joy. the wall. But while Catholics celebrated True, there was a lot of shoving Mass, Greek Orthodox and and pushing. but there was a lot Coptic Christians were celebrat- of enthusiasm, and people ing Palm Sunday in the church. wanted to celebrate the Father The Church of the Holy Communion," said Casey. 62. of St John Sepulchre is in the custody of William Parish in Tennessee. Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Neumann "I saw one person take the Ethiopian churches: Armenian Communion (host) and pass it and Coptic churches have on to another, in all, the chapels attached. Communion passed through At one point. about 20 Coptic four hands until it reached the clerics processed into the person. church and made their way to That was a tremendous symthe back of the tomb. bol of community." The thumping of the oversized The celebrations, he said, were silver-tipped canes on the "very human, very earthy and ancient stone floor by the ush- very discordant." ers at the head of the group and "But that is life," he said. the chants of the clerics interAnother visiting priest, Father twined with the solemn Latin Patrick McKenna of Queenshymns of the Catholic Mass and land, Australia, said that while echoed through the church. he was glad for the experience Patriarch Sabbah waited of celebrating Easter Mass in silently for a few moments after Jerusalem, he preferred it at the hymn as the sounds of the home. chanting filled the church. "Here it was very noisy. At Greek home ills more spiritual, with Soon after, the Orthodox entered the church less noise and less confusion," and held their Palm Sunday ser- said Father McKenna. vices at the entrance, site of the "It is more powerful and quiet stone where Jesus was laid out. at home." Earlier, the Armenians had held As soon as the ceremony was their Palm Sunday service. over, the Greek Orthodox, who Many of the Catholic pilgrims according to a longstanding said that, even though they agreement have rights over the tried, they were unable to be tomb, quickly placed two contemplative in the somewhat monks at the tomb entrance. By Judith Sudilovsky

Correction A WASHINGTON (CNS) Catholic News Service story on the appointment of Jesuit Father Edward Glynn to the presidency of Weston School of Theology being blocked mistakenly attributed to Jesuit Father Robert Wild

a comment by Father Glynn, relying on a statement from the for Vatican's Congregation Catholic Education, that the opposition to his appointment reportedly came from within the US hierarchy.

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Vigil keepers defend unborn By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) Struggling to keep candles lit under umbrellas in a heavy downpour, several hundred people - mostly Catholics - prayed at an April 1 White House vigil aimed at persuading President Clinton to sign a bill to ban the partial-birth abortion procedure. Led by Boston Cardinal Bernard Law and Washington Cardinal James Hickey, young families, teens, college students, retirees, parish groups and priests gathered in a steady rainfall outside the White House to encourage Clinton to sign the bill, which would ban one type of late-term abortion. The hastily arranged prayer vigil was announced at some Washington area parishes Just a day earlier, but that was enough warning for participants who came from as far away as Philadelphia. to make their point. "Mr. President. You can stop this," read several signs, with line drawings illustrating the lateterm abortion procedure that would be banned by the bill. The House approved final wording on the measure shortly before Spring recess and the bill was expected to reach the president's desk sometime the first week of April. White House spokesmen had said Clinton would veto the hill because it does not include a provision allowing the procedure when the pregnant woman's health is put at risk by continuing the pregnancy. Bill supporters say it already permits partial-birth abortions when the woman's life is at risk and that a "health" exclusion would be interpreted to mean anything from depression to changing one's mind. A procession led by young adults carrying a cross circled the sidewalks in front of the White House for more than an hour. Near the front of the group. Cardinal Law, chairman of the US bishops' Committee on Pro-

long rainfall would keep many away, organisers said they were pleased at the turnout of about 300 to 400. USCC employees said they had brought and distributed about 500 candles. Kathy and Kevin Gilday of Holy in Parish Redeemer Kensington, Maryland, brought their three children, ages 4,2 and 3 months and well-bundled against the cold, after hearing an announcement at Sunday Mass that Cardinal Hickey was asking people to join the vigil. "Somebody has to get the message around," said Gilday. "It seems like when it's an appeal from the cardinal and the bishops we should come down." "We may only stay 15 minutes because of the rain." said Mrs Gilday, adding that they had not made any other efforts to encourage support for the bill because it seemed unnecessary 2 with the support it had in Congress. Thomas Melady, former US Protestors at the While House on April 1 calling on President Clinton to outlaw the partial-birth abortion procedure. ambassador to the Vatican. and his wife, Margaret, were among those who quietly joined the vigil after hearing an announcement ALBANY, New York (CNS) - ed by Holy Cross Father -Together we will seek strength at St Ann's Parish in Washington. "We support the bill very The Family Rosary has launched Patrick Peyton in the 1940s to and a haven against the chala worldwide campaign asking strengthen families through fami- lenges we face, especially the strongly," Mrs Melady said. "It's three-quarters infanticide families and individuals to ly prayer. challenge to life posed by pledge to pray the rosary for the Father Polselli said the cam- wars and ethnic cleansing and and one-quarter abortion." The couple had participated in pro-life cause during May. paign's dedication to the the lack of regard for the unborn protest marches before, but "Since Easter is a time for the "cause of life" was taken from a and the sick." renewal of life, as we profess our phrase in Pope John Paul Families and individuals who not more recently than the 1968 faith and rejoice in the knowl- ll's encyclical, "The Gospel of join the campaign will receive civil rights march led by Dr edge of our eternal life Life." a colourful certificate containing Martin Luther King, said Melady. through Christ, it is the perfect 'This campaign will enable all an image of Mary. He said he also had called the season to announce this special of us throughout the world, Family Rosary, based in Albany, White House to express his supworldwide prayer effort." said as the universal body of Christ, to is promoting the campai- port, but had not heard directly Holy Cross Father Leo Polselli, pray the rosary together gn throughout the United States from the president. president of Family Rosary and daily, entrusting to Mary our con- and through its offices in rIbm King said about two dozen Family Theatre. cerns, including the 'cause of Brazil, East Africa, Ireland. Peru. people were expected from Both organisations were found- life." he said. the Philippines and Spain. St Patrick's Parish in Norbeck. Maryland. Life Activities, led a "Litany for A group of about 15 people notice. The National Conference Most belong to the parish's 100Life" and the rosary. hoisting tall red banners came of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat member legislative network At various points in the proces- from Pennsylvania with the arranged the vigil just a few days which had already extensision that stretched more than a American Society in Defence of earlier, relying on faxed mes- vely lobbied Congress. sages, parish announcements block, other groups prayed or Tradition, Family and Pmperty. "Unfortunately, the reply was sang hymns on their own, unable One man from the group, wear- and word-of-mouth to bring out a not what I wanted." Mr King to hear the leaders at the front ing a bright red sash, said they crowd. said noting that most of amid the steady pitter-patter of had pulled together the particiWith no idea how many people Maryland's Congress representarain on hundreds of umbrellas. pants on about a day's to expect, and aware that the day- tives opposed the bill.

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RU-486 closer to US availability Both methods have been strongly opposed by groups such kSHINGTON (CNS) - Two as the National Right to Life drugs that can induce abortions Committee, the US bishops' when used in combination with Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities misoprostol each have taken a and Human Life International. The FDA confirmed on April 1 step forward on the road toward the possible widening of their that it had received the Population Council's application use in the United States. Following the completion of for approval of RU-486 in March. The approval process was clinical tests on RU-486, known generically as mifepris- expected to take from six months tone, on 2.100 US women seeking to a year. The Population Council declinabortions. the Population Council asked the Food and Drug ed to release the results of its US Administration in March to tests of RU-486, saying they approve the sale of RU-486 in the would be published later in a medical journal. United States. The FDA also will look at Meanwhile, the national medrecords of its use on 150,000 ical committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of women in Europe. In a March 29 press release. the America was studying the effects of using a combination of National Right to Life Committee methotrexate and misoprostol to charged that one woman nearly induce abortions, said Steve died from RU-486 during tests in Plever, a spokesman for Planned Iowa. Dr Mark Louviere, a doctor Parenthood. Both drugs already are from Waterloo, Iowa, who supapproved for use in the United ports legal abortion, was quoted in a September 21, 1995, article in States, but not for abortions. If the committee decides the The Des Moines Register as saycombination is "safe and effec- ing that one patient lost "more tive," Planned Parenthood affili- than half of her blood, came ates around the country might be close to death and needed permitted to use it as a nonsurgi- surgery after taking RU-486." Louviere disputed a claim by cal abortion method, Plever Jill June, president of added. By Nancy FrazierO'Brien

Planned Parenthood of Iowa, that the Iowa RU-486 clinical trials had "no complications." "If near-death due to the loss of blood half of one's volume, surgery and four units of blood do not qualify as a complication, I don't know what does," the Register quoted him as saying. The other abortion-inducing combination involves methotrexfor used ate, commonly chemotherapy, and misoprostol. an ulcer medication. "Like the RU-486 abortion method, this new drug cocktail can cause complications for the mother and kills a child with a beating heart," said Olivia Gans, director of American Victims of Abortion, the NRLC's postabortion outreach program. The pro-life group warned that although doctors can legally dispense the two drugs, if they do so to induce abortion without FDA approval for that use, they would be subject to malpractice lawsuits if women are injured. Benedictine Father Paul Marx, founder and chairman of Human Life International, said the Planned Parenthood move toward use of methotrexate amounted to "chemical warfare on the unborn."

Study shows worry, not pain, a major euthanasia factor CHICAGO (CNS) - Many physicians who provide medicine or injections to help their terminally ill patients die do so because of nonphysical concerns rather than "intolerable physical symptoms," according to a new study. Published on March 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study said that "patient requests for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are not rare." It was based on questionnaires sent to a random sampling of physicians in Washington state. "As perceived by physicians, the most common patient concerns at the time these requests are made are nonphysical" and include worries about "loss of control, being a burden, being dependent on others for personal care, and loss of dignity," the journal report added. The study was coordinated by Anthony Back of Dr the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle. To gather the data, researchers sent questionnaires to 1.453

physicians in Washington state, where a referendum on permitting assisted suicide was narrowly defeated in 1991. Of the 828 physicians who responded. 12 percent said they had received one or more explicit requests for physicianassisted suicide in the past year. and 4 percent said they had received an explicit request for euthanasia, described as the injection of medications by a physician. More than a quarter - 26 percent - of physicians reported being asked at least once in physicianfor the past assisted suicide or euthanasia. "Our findings that physicians receive a substantial number of explicit requests suggests that health care providers need to understand more about why these patients want to hasten death," the report said. "Notably, neither severe pain dyspnea (shortness nor of breath) was a common patient concern, suggesting that intolerable physical symptoms are not the reason most patients requr,st physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia," it added.

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In Brief Educate Christians on debt: IMF chief Mother out of hospital CALCUTTA, India (CNS) Mother Teresa of Calcutta was released from hospital on April 2 after falling and fracturing her collarbone. Sister Priscilla Lewisof the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse, said the 85-year-old nun would need "at least two weeks' complete rest" and that the sisters were glad to have her back The frail missionary had fallen during the night of March 31 but had not fractured her left hand, as believed earlier.

Fraud charges PALERMO, Sicily (CNS) - An Italian archbishop has been ordered to stand trial on July 18 on charges of extortion, fraud and abuse of office. Archbishop Salvatore Cassisa of Monreale. near Palermo, Is charged in an alleged kickback for repair work on a cathedral and for allegedly overstating the size of a vineyard to receive a higher European Union subsidy. By overstating the vineyard's size, prosecutors said, the archbishop received $200.000 more than he should have, they said.

Crusader resigns VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of 77-year-old Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo of Palermo, a prelate frequently honoured for his crusade against the Mafia and his efforts on behalf of southern Italy's poor. During his 26 years in Palermo, Sicily's principal city and a centre of Mafia activity, Cardinal Pappalardo often used his office, and his cathedral, to bury the victims of Mafia violence and condemn the entire Mafia culture.

Pilgrims killed ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (CNS) - Ten young Filipinos were killed and 48 others injured when a truck taking them home from a popular hilltop pilgrimage spot overturned. Most of the 58 pilgrims standing in the cargo truck were high school and college student members of the TalonTalon Youth Catholic Movement and the Catholic Faith Defenders Youth. The youngest among those who died was 14.

Peace prayer call HELENA, Mont. (CNS) - The Catholic bishops of Montana urged prayers be offered in churches throughout their state for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in resolving the standoff between the FBI and members of a group called the Freemen. They asked for prayers in all Catholic churches for the people involved. In particular, they suggested the prayer of St Francis, which begins with "Lord make me an instrument of your peace," as a model for personal prayer and action.

By Jerry Filteau HYATTSVILLE, Maryland. (CNS) - Church leaders must sensitise the public to the full dimensions of Third World debt and development problems, according to Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. For some countries the issues are stark. ' Zambia, for example, spent only $37 million on primary school education from 1990 to 1993 - in part because in those same years it had to spend 35 times that amount, or $1.3 billion, to service its debt. Camdessus said on March 28 that governments and multilateral finance institutions, like the IMF, are developing new approaches to help solve the problems of indebted countries. But he said they also need the backing of an informed public. "The Church is 'mater et magistra' (mother and teacher)," he said. -The Church has an enormous role in sensitising the Christian community to every dimension of human solidarity at the end of the century." Camdessus was

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"But the IMF nevertheless is ment. As an example he cited Uganda, which "spends $3 per ready to make an extra effort person per year on health and to be able to lend money without spends $17 per person per year interest or with only 0.5 peron (servicing and repaying) its cent interest rate to the poorest countries," he said. debt." To finance that, Camdessus "Honduras spends more each year on its debt than on said, he was "ready to propose health and education combined," to sell part of the gold reserve of the IMF" he said. He said the IMF and the World The bishop called the discussion of the moral and Bank are working on a new human problems "very satisfy- plan to help the worst off of the ing:, heavily indebted poor countries Camdessus - a committed to reduce sharply or eradicate French Catholic who has served their debt and get back on a track as a consultant to the Holy See of development. "When you have more than 20 on issues of international finance and Third World debt - "under- to 25 percent of a ratio of stands those issues already," he debt service on the exports of goods and service, then we consaid. Camdessus and Bishop Reilly sider that rate a potential probsaid they discussed the Pope's lem," he said. "Simultaneously, when the ratio suggestion, in his apostolic letter "Tertio Millennio Adveniente" of net given value of debt is 2(X) ("As the Third Millennium Draws percent of the GNP (yearly gross Near"), to mark 2000 by "reduc- national product), then we think ing substantially, if not can- that we are at the threshold of celling outright, the international unacceptability.' Meanwhile 75-100 Catholics debt which seriously threatens attended a first-ever "Economic the future of many nations." Camdessus told CNS that the Way of the Cross" held in IMF charter prohibits forgiving Wahington on Good Friday, any debt owed to it, though it can attending sites such as Congress. encourage other creditors to for- the White House, the World Bank and the IMF give debt.

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good first: Pope By Cindy Wooden COLLE DI VAL D'EISA, Italy (CNS) - In a small Tuscan town where artisans blowing glass over an open-pit fire have given way to highly automated crystal factories, Pope John Paul II called for a new approach to work and to welfare. Touring the factory in Colle di Val d'Elsa and celebrating Mass in nearby Siena on March 30, the Pope looked strong and happy to be on the road again after three weeks with a reduced schedule. He told journalists that he was The Pope at the CALP crystal factory fine and fully recovered from a said, must aim at stimulating fever and digestive trouble. ... the sense of responsibility and Addressing executives and willingness to work of the weakworkers of CALP, as the company est categories of people, assuring is known, along with representa- at the same time that they have tives of other businesses, the the concrete possibility of Pope called for a re-examination expressing their abilities." of enterprise and employment. One must, he said, "safeguard "One must rethink industry, the right to work and the right to considering it not as a place have work for everyone." of conflicting interests, but as a Touring the crystal factory in community of work aimed Colle di Val d'Elsa, a centre of at promoting the common good Italian glassmaking since the of all its members," the Pope 15th century, the Pope did see said. a glass blower at work, but most Relationships must be reformed of his half-mile walk through in the context of "a new policy of the factory brought him past social solidarity that has nothing computer-controlled production to do with an easy policy of wel- lines. fare, damaging in the long run to Looking fully recovered, the those assisted," he said. Pope took his time chatting Government action, the Pope with workers along the line.

Among the gifts area workers gave the Pope were a 40pound crystal monstrance and 100 place settings of water and wine goblets. Meeting workers in the CALP courtyard, the Pope explained Catholic social teaching promotes an organisation of society in which people always come before material goods or money. The jubilee celebrations of the year 2000 should be an occasion for business owners and workers to ask themselves what they can do together "to eliminate injustices and forge new relationships marked by fraternity, justice and solidarity." "Unfortunately today, there are still those who believe that the most unbridled free market, encouraging initiative and economic growth, automatically translates into riches for all," the Pope said. "But history and the reality before our eyes sufficiently prove that this is not so," he said. Even when productivity rises, the Pope said, unemployment and underemployment grow in many parts of the world. Only with a cooperative effort can a point of balance be found between legitimate economic freedom, the right of people to a job, respect for the weakest members of society and protection of the environment, the Pope said.

Italian firm pushes limits of ad claims VATICAN CITY (CNS) - An Italian advertising campaign featuring glassware "chosen" by Pope John Paul II has sparked debate over the use and misuse of papal endorsements. The Pope visited CALP, a glass factory in central Italy, in March to celebrate the feast of St Joseph and talk about Church teaching

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interviewed following an hourlong meeting with US Catholic officials on the IMF and Third World debt. The officials were Cardinal James Hickey of Washington; Bishop Daniel Reilly of Worcester, Massachusetts, and three USCC staff aides. Bishop Reilly told CNS afterwards that the Church leaders asked to meet with Camdessus because "we wanted to affirm him in what he's already doing in regard to debt reduction in the Third World and at the same time challenge him to do more." Camdessus said such meetings are valuable to the IMF. The IMF brings an expertise in "the macro-economic side," he said, while the Church focuses on the people affected. "The religious communities or churches have an extremely good perception of what is the plight of the poor in the world," he said. Bishop Reilly told CNS the participants "discussed the moral and human issues" surrounding debt reduction for the heavily indebted poor countries where, in some cases, the debt burden itself may be the country's chief obstacle to develop-

on work and economics. He left private apartment of the Holy with gifts from his hosts, includ- Father." ing 100 place settings of water The factory's marketing direcand wine goblets. tor defended the campaign, sayCALP's full-page newspaper ing CALP was doing what hunads read: "Pope John Paul II has dreds of other companies have chosen CALP to bring his bless- done during papal visits. ing to the world of work," it read. He said the ads were respectful Below were pictured three and had been approved by stemware models "chosen for the Italian church authorities.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican has ordered Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, a self-styled exorcist, to cease his faith-healing Masses and other pastoral activities in dioceses where he does not have the local bishop's permission. An April 2 Vatican statement said the decision was communicated to the archbishop in a letter written on behalf of Pope John Paul II by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state. The statement came after several years of controversy in Italy over Archbishop Milingo's healing and exorcisms. Several bishops have prohibited him from conducting his activities in their dioceses. Cardinal Sodano reiterated the Church rule that "pastoral and liturgical activities must be undertaken in communion with the bishop and under his coordination," said the Vatican statement. The archbishop, who is a Vatican official and a former archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, said that his activities have made him an uncomfortable figure for many church authorities.

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RSVP to Newman Society c/o College by April 17. This will also be a suitable opportunity for payment of yearly subs. Contact No: 446 7340.

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Monday, May 14 9.30 - 12.00 Unifying Faith and Life. Br Des Crowe (7 wks) 1.00 - 3.00 Basics of Moral Theology, Fr Owen Ryan (10 wks)

Friday, June 7 Adult Faith Development, Sr Elizabeth Divine (6 wks)

ELLIOTT & ELLIOTT

THE PARISH S CENE

Secretary/Executive Assistant Primarily responsible for efficient secretarial support and assistance to the Corporate Executive of Southern Cross Homes. This is a responsible senior position and the duties are varied within a team environment. Applicants should be confident, with excellent presentation skills for word processing and spreadsheet applications, have a thorough knowledge of office procedures, possess good communication and interpersonal skills, exhibit a flexible work attitude and be able to work within the Catholic ethos.

Makin Orsan6 Ltd. of Oldham, U.K. are makers of digital church organs in the English tradition. A Makin organ gtes tonal quality and regulation norm3lly associated with pipe organs. A Makin organ sounds, feels and looks like a pipe organ. Now available in Australia. For further details, colour brochure and a demonstration call your Makin representative.

Keith Poole

Principal Organs 30 Masefield Ave, North Lake Tel/Fax 331 1525

TWO HEALING MASSES WITH

Fr. Peter Rookey osm

'MAN OF MIRACLES' Fr. Peter Rookey's ministry has taken him to countries around the world. Wherever he goes, thousands flock to this man of miracles. As he prays, miracles happen. The blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb say the name of Jesus and those in wheelchairs stand and walk. Wherever he ministers there are reports of many remarkable healings and exorcisms.

St. Mary's Cathedral Victoria Square, Perth.

Mon. April 29th. Tues. April 30th. Each evening will consist of: 7pm - Praise 8r Worship. 7.30pm - Servite Rosary. 8pm - Mass & Healing.

Administrative Assistant

(Minimum 30 hours per week) We are seeking a competent. experienced person as Admin Assistant at our head office in Hilton. Duties are varied but primarily include provision of general clerical assistance, support to the accounts and paymil functions and reception relief The successful applicant will possess basic accounting skills, have office/computer experience, good interpersonal skills and he able to work effectively within the Catholic ethos. Job descriptions are available on enquiry to Jennie on 314 2499

Sponsored By: The State Service Commitee Of The Catholic Charismatic Renewal

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