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Eleven new priests this year seminary for mature-age students which recently closed. Deacon Shelton studied in Rome and Eight men will be ordained priests in Deacon Harris studied in the Philippines; the biggest ordination ceremony in the both completed their formation at St history of Western Australia on Friday Charles. 30 June in St Mary's Cathedral at 7pm. The other four deacons will be ordained Archbishop Barry Hickey will ordain as archdiocesan missionary priests from the eight on the Solemnity of the Sacred Redemptoris Mater. Students for the priesthood at RedempHeart of Jesus. toris Mater come almost exclusively from A further three will be ordained on 15 abroad to study in Perth. December, making 11 for the year. After being ordained for the Archdiocese The previous record was when six were of Perth they spend two years working in ordained together in 1974. On that occa- and for the archdiocese. sion, the six had studied together in the After that time, under an agreement same class for the priesthood. between Archbishop Hickey and the NeoHowever, June's ordinands will have Catechumenal Way which saw the Morley come from disparate backgrounds and seminary set up, they may be released by travelled widely differing paths to the the Archbishop for work abroad, probably somewhere in the Oceania region, as mispriesthood. Half the deacons Archbishop Barry Hick- sionaries. The Year 2000 will turn out to have been ey will ordain have pursued their studies at either St Charles Seminary in Guildford, a big year for ordinations in Perth. Another three seminarians, all VietSt Paul's National Seminary in Sydney or namese-born Australians, are due to be in Rome. The other four come from the Redemp- ordained priests on 15 December. All completed the full complement of toris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Semstudies through St Charles Seminary. their inary in Morley, which is run by the They are: Deacons Phong Nguyen, Huy Neo-Catechumenal Way. The four seminarians who will be Nguyen and Son Nguyen. Father Corcoran, the Rector of St Charles ordained as diocesan priests are Deacons Peter Meo, Richard Robertsen, James Shel- Seminary in Guildford, told The Record the three Vietnamese deacons were curton and Douglas Harris. Deacon Moo studied at the Beda College rently working in parishes and combining their role as deacons with study. in Rome. Deacon Robertsen studied at St Paul's, a Priests' International Jubilee - Page 2 By Peter Resealing
The last of the three Fatima sews, Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, 93, prays near the grave of Francisco Marto before her meeting with Pope John Paul II last Saturday, 13 May, hi FaUma, Portugal. She and her beatified cousins - Francisco and Jacinta - witnessed six Wilms ef the Virgin Mary in 1917 at Fatima. Sr Lucia is the source of the third secret of Fatima that Pepe John Paul has declared should be made public. Photo CNS/Reutets
By Cindy Wooden FATIMA, Portugal (CNS) - On the 19th anniversary of the attempt to assassinate him, Pope John Paul II listened as his top aide announced the Pope's decision to reveal the so-called "third secret of Fatima." Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, told an estimated 600,000 people gathered in Fatima last Saturday, 13 May that the Pope believes the secret refers to the assassination attempt and to the Church's struggle against Communism. Pope John Paul had just finished celebrating Mass for the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco Marto, two of the shepherd children who saw Our Lady of
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Fatima in 1917 During his homily, he once again thanked Our Lady of Fatima for saving his life when he was shot on 13 May, 1981, and he spoke of the "horrors" of the 20th century, which he said were foretold by Mary in the Fatima messages. Cardinal Sodano said the secret "concerns, above all, the war waged by atheist systems against the Church and Christians." But it also referred to the ministry and suffering of a "bishop clothed in white," whom the children believed was the pope, Cardinal Sodano said. Continued on Page 11; Mary Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia, solemn feast, next Thursday - Page 6
Archbishop urges evangelism By David Kehee Australia's Catholic Bishops should make the conversion of Australia to the Gospel of Jesus Christ their aim at the beginning of the third millennium, Archbishop Barry Hickey urged this week Archbishop Hickey, who was elected to the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference committee for evangelism, told the bishops the Year 2000 was 'the right time to commit ourselves to a vigorous program of evangelisation.'
Setting such a task would be a fitting conclusion to Pope John Paul II's Decade of Evangelisation which ended with the triduum of the Year of Jesus (1997), the Year of the Holy Spirit, and the Year of the Father. He asked his fellow bishops meeting in Sydney this week to issue a joint statement 'outlining their vision for the Third Millennium especially in the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Australia, not just to the Catholics.' Continued on Page 10