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Big hugs, happy tears, and they're off for Rome By Glynnis Grainger
Bound for Rome - Catholic Youth Ministry staffer, Derek Boylen, at right, and Fr Ian Esmond, wearing black and red top, together with some of the Perth youth heading oft for World Youth Day from Perth International Airport Photo. A e Eioylen
Hugs abounded and some tears flowed as about 16 young people aged 18 to 23 left Perth International Airport on Thai Air last Sunday for Rome via the Holy Lind. They were led by Youth and Aquinas College chaplain, Father Ian Esmond and Derek Boylen, from the Catholic Youth Ministry. Mr Boylen told The Record his group knew each other, unlike the group that left the previous day, who were all strangers. The third and final group from WA leaves on Saturday, 12 August, and they will fly via Sydney to Rome, where they will all be part of the international World Youth Day celebrations set to begin next Tiresday, 15 August, with Mass in St Peter's Square. About 135 youth and young adults are going from the Perth Archdiocese to the celebrations with Pope John Paul II, part of a larger Australian contingent of more than 1000 young people. Up to a million young people from around the world are expected to participate. The Perth group will join a vigil with the Holy Father, which begins on the evening of Saturday 19 August. on the campus of the
University of Tor Vergata, on the outskirts of Rome. The vigil will finish on the Sunday morning with a papal Mass. Mr Boylen's sister Anne, who took the photo, said he will return on 22 September, a few days before her wedding. Meanwhile, among the more than 1 million people expected in Rome for World Youth Day 2000, a handful will leave their sleeping bags at home and "camp out" with Pope John Paul II instead. At the 6 August weekly Angelus prayer, the Pope announced that several young people will stay with him at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo during the 15-20 August event. "Many youths are already en route to Rome via all forms of transportation; families, parishes, religious houses and schools have mobilised to welcome them, and I, too. will have the joy to host some of them here in Castel Gandolfo," he said. Although World Youth Day organisers have yet to present names, a Vatican spokesman that a total of 15 young peoplewill stay in Castel Gandolfo. Continued - Page 11
Catholic universities of world meet in Fremantle By Peter Rosengren Educating the whole person so that they can be of service to their community and the world, not just providing students with a career from which they can earn a comfortable living, was a key focus for Catholic university representatives meeting in Fremantle last week. ApproIdmately 200 representatives from Catholic universities throughout the world met during the week at Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle for the 20th General assembly of the International Confederation of Catholic Universities. The IFCU has 189 member universities, with 181 of these based in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Also discussed were the sorts of challenges that face Catholic universities old and new, and the issues and trends that Catholic tertiary institutions are facing in the six continents. However 'integral learning' was a major focus throughout the week as representatives outlined their own strategies for making their institutions a school for life rather than a provider of a meal ticket. The president of one of the most influential Catholic universities in the US, Holy Cross Father
challenges in setting up a new Edward Malloy, the president of Catholic university such as NDA. Notre Dame University in Indiana, described integral learning He said there had been major as a way of trying to talk about the obstacles to overcome, particular'connectedness' of education. ly financial ones and including '[We're all trying to educate the objections from within the whole person - 'mind,' hearr and Catholic community in WA. 'spirit' to use those metaphors However, 10 years on, we have and integral education is a way of a thriving, if still small, successful thinking about what goes on in university' which has grown the classroom and what goes on rapidly he said, also pointing out outside the classroom - extra-curthat some of NDAs most generous ricular activities, service activibenefactors were not Catholics, ties, for example, and worship.' 'but they liked the idea.' he told The Record last Friday. Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, a 'It's also a way, as tan Assembly] keynote speaker at the Assembly theme, of thinking about the relaand the secretary of the Vatican's tionship between the administraCongregation for Catholic education, the faculty and the students, tion, reflected on Friday on trying to form a sense of commuCatholic universities in the next nity millennium. In addition, it is about the misHe noted that repentance and sion of Catholic institutions - the conversion were key themes of relationship between what hapthe Jubilee Year and said that, pens in the institution and the service it renders to the broader Representatives from Catholic universities around the globe participate in an before thinking of the future, Catholic universities 'should region surrounding it - the dio- IFCU roundtable discussion at NDA in Fremantle last week. cese, the civic community Professor Peter Sheehan, said tralia. However, he warned, 'in transform those areas and patch'So I think integral education is Catholic universities must 'fear- facing up to the uncertainty of the es in our individual lives and the trying to find connections, a sense lessly face the moral challenges future beyond 2000, we can be lives of our institutions that need of unity and of purpose and a way of contemporary society' seduced by the temptation to purification and cleansing.' This could run from such things of testing ourselves to see if we're 'We reduce our capacity to regress to old world values and as rundown and dirty buildings to succeeding,' he said. address these issues by anything past conservatism . . ! Earlier in the week, during a less than being and acting With many in the audience com- labour relations with staff and the roundtable discussion on issues unashamedly Catholic,' he said ing from institutions several hun- weight given to allocations for the facing Catholic universities in six as he delivered a paper which in dred years old, Professor Peter library, the chaplaincy and the continents, the Vice-Chancellor of part discussed the widespread Tannock, the Vice Chancellor of arts, he said. Australian Catholic University, onset of moral relativism in Aus- NDA in Fremantle outlined the Continued- Page 4