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Bishops set up lAtomens' group Australia's Catholic Bishops will establish a Commission for Australian Catholic Women, one of several responses to the report into the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia the Bishops received last year. The commission will be established to assist in the implementation of the practical steps the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference will undertake to improve the participation of women in the Catholic Church; it will play a part in facilitating an ongoing dialogue about their participation. Archbishop Barry Hickey told The Record last Monday Australia's Catholic Bishops would have the final say on the membership of the Commission, a membership that he said could also include men. "It was the mind of the bishops that this commission not be about power struggles but about the broader participation of women in the life and mission of the Church," Archbishop Hickey said. He said the bishops, meeting last week in Sydney, decided that the process of determining the commission's membership would begin with individual bishops sending nominations for the commission to the Bishops' Committee for the Laity. The committee for the laity would
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then propose a membership for the commission drawn from these nominations. A full meeting of the bishops would then have the opportunity to confirm the membership. Archbishop Hickey said the detail of how the commission would operate was yet to be worked out by the Bishops' Committee for the Laity. ACBC spokesman on the matter, Bishop Michael Putney of Brisbane. told The Record last Monday the commission's work would, broadly speaking, include research into the matters of concern raised by women in the course of the consultation for the report regarding their place in the Church in Australia. He said the commission would aim at producing a statement on these topics and look at responding pastorally to these issues. Bishop Putney said the new wornens' commission would have nine members and be representative of "this large country of ours." It would also reflect the multicultural makeup of Australia as well. Although the commission would not be made up entirely of women, "presumably women will be in the majority," he said. In an earlier statement announcing the commission, Bishop Putney said: "The Bishops recognise that there were differences among women in the way that they responded to the questions from the original research." Continued on Page 15; more women's stories - Page 11
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From Parliament's ministerial table to the altar of the Lord
Fr Michael Tate pronounces the words of consecration during his Mass of Thanksgiving on Saturday, May 20, In the Church of the Holy Spirit, Sandy Bay, in Hobart. Immediately behind him is one of the concelebrants, Fr Raymond Rafferty, a friend from New York. By Penny Edman
A "vocation long deferred" was finally fulfilled with the ordination of former Federal Labor Government Senator and Minister, Tasmanian Michael Tate, last week in Hobart. Archbishop Adrian Doyle of Hobart ordained the legal academic. former Senator, Justice Minister and Australian Ambassador before almost 1000 people packed into St Mary's Cathedral, Hobart, last Friday, 19 May. Guests included the Archbishop Emeritus of Hobart, Dr Eric D'Arcy, between 65 and 70 priests from around the world, family and friends including many national and state dignitaries from political, legal and Church circles. Among them were former Governor-General, Bill Hayden; former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Federal Labor AttorneysGeneral Lionel Bowen and Michael Duffy. Throughout the course of the night, messages also were acknowledged from the Pope through the Vatican's Secretariat of State and former Labor Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Fr Tate was elected to the Senate of the Australian Parliament from 1978-1993. He was Minister for justice from 1987-1993, and Ambassador to the Netherlands and the Holy See from 1993-96. For the past several years, he has been a student for the Catholic priesthood for the Archdiocese of Hobart. Archbishop Doyle, in his homily said: "In your earlier experiences of being a teacher, a defender of justice and the promoter of a more compassionate society, the power of God has been at work in your life. . . . (Now) you will not be
Archbishop Adrian Doyle ordains former Senator Tate last Friday evening, 19 May.
preaching in the name of a faculty, or speaking on behalf of a political party, or as a representative of a country, but in the name of the Risen Christ." "Your role as sanctifier will not be about the laws of the land but about the 'things that pertain to God'." Speaking after the ordination, Fr Tate quoted the famous 19th century English convert, Cardinal Henry Newman: "Late have I loved you, 0 Beauty so ancient and new; late haveIloved you" Fr Tate added that he was "by God's grace. a priest tonight but somewhat late and very conscious of the people through whom that grace has been mediated to me." Continued on Page 15
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