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STAFF REPORTER PRIEST of the archdiocese of Johan - nesburg has been recalled from his AUnited Nations mission in New York after running into trouble with the archdio - cese there. Fr Justin Wylie, a 40-year-old late vocation who was ordained in 2009, lived in New York as attaché for human rights for the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission at the United Nations. In May he addressed the congregation at the church of the Holy Innocents, the only Every year Brescia House School in Johannesburg supports the Teddy Bear Clinic by running a one in New York City to offer a daily tradi - knitted teddy bear campaign. This year, the girls, their families and the school’s staff contributed tional Latin Mass, after an archdiocesan to this project by knitting more than 600 teddy bears. The teddy bears were donated to the clinic, panel had recommended that it be closed, to be given to children who have suffered abuse. Seen with some of the teddies are (clockwise the New York Times reported. Fr Justin Wylie, who has been called back to from top) Jaime McLoughlin, Gabriella Simaan, Paige Whittock, Chloe Gafney and Emma In his homily, Fr Wylie urged parishioners Johannesburg after the archdiocese of New McCann. To assist the Teddy Bear Clinic contact [email protected]. (See also page 2) to be obedient but also to protest against the York reprimanded him for a critical sermon. recommendation, saying that traditionalist Catholics should not be “turned out like cising the archdiocese, with copies sent to Fr squatters”. Wylie’s superior at the Holy See’s UN repre - Fr Wylie also told them in his sermon that sentation, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt; Cream of SA music scene set he believed the archdiocese had a responsi - Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York; and bility to provide them a stable place to wor - Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg, ship. according to diocesan spokesman Joseph Some dioceses dedicate a priest and a Zwilling. to appear at school’s festival parish for the celebration of the Latin Mass, “It reminded the Father that he is a visit - but in New York the laity must organise tra - ing priest, that we need priests who don’t BY STUART GRAHAM educational programme for Grade R to Grade 6 refugee children who have been denied ac - ditional Masses themselves, seeking out vol - criticise or attack the local diocese, that we need priests who work to build up the ACRED Heart College in Observatory, Jo - cess to public education.” unteer priests “hither and thither as though Church rather than try to bring disunity,” Mr hannesburg, will host a festival in Sep - The festival, which will be held on “Na - we were seemingly still living in Reformation tember to raise funds for an education England or Cromwellian Ireland,” Fr Wylie Zwilling said, adding that Fr Wylie should S tional Braai Day”, will include a community programme for refugee children. said. He called this an “injustice”. have shared his concerns with the archdio - service braai. Scheduled to appear at the festival are “Isn’t it high time for the Church to take cese in private. South African stars such as Jonas Gwangwa, “The idea is that National Braai Day pastoral responsibility also for these sheep?” Mgr Edward Weber, director of priest per - Judith Sephuma, Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse should be for everyone, not just for the afflu - he asked. sonnel in the archdiocese of New York, is re - and Paul Hanmer as will the hugely popular ent,” said Ms Meyer. “You are fully-fledged members of the ported to have said that the decision to house music band Mi Casa and DJ Rikay. The boerewors rolls cooked at the braai baptised faithful, for heaven’s sake: why are reprimand Fr Wylie went directly through Organiser Naomi Meyer said profits from will be sent to orphanages, institutions for you scurrying about like ecclesiastical scav - Cardinal Dolan’s office. the OneHeart Music Festival, to be held on the homeless and other such ventures near engers, hoping for a scrap or two to fall from According to the New York Times , Arch - September 24, will be used to fund the Observatory, she said. the table for your very existence?” he asked bishop Chullikatt dismissed Fr Wylie after re - “Three2Six programme”, which is run on Sa - The festival will also include a talent show, the congregation. ceiving the letter and Archbishop Tlhagale cred Heart College’s property, and the “Field a karate showcase, and a ballet performance A transcript of Fr Wylie’s sermon, made by has recalled the priest to South Africa. of Flowers Scholarship Fund”. set to songs from the musical The Sound of a parishioner, was posted on the traditional - Fr Wylie told the New York Times by e- “The Field of Flowers Scholarship Fund Music . ist “Fr Z Blog” and then read out on an Inter - mail: “I am confident of having tried faith - provides a full scholarship for children from The evening session is mostly for net radio station. fully at all times to serve the best interests of disadvantaged backgrounds to study at Sa - teenagers, but all ages are welcome. Bishop-elect John O’Hara of New York, the archdiocese of New York.” cred Heart College,” said Ms Meyer. Tickets for the festival can be bought on - who is overseeing the parish consolidation The archdiocese of Johannesburg was not “The Three2Six project provides a bridging line at www.oneheartfestival.co.za process, sent Fr Wylie a reprimand for criti - available for comment by going to press.

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BY STUART GRAHAM church during Mass in recent times, “It is a beautiful place with beau - on schools to although tales have been passed tiful people,” said Fr Vijil. OU could call them regular down of run-ins between baboons St Joseph’s was officially opened parishioners. Some days they and priests which have become on May 15, 1948, but for many serve others Ycan be seen hanging on the something of folklore through the years it was used only during the gutters and telephone cables or run - decades. summer holidays, and even then it STAFF REPORTER ning on the roof. On others they’ll “There have been incidents in was only once a month that a priest be more sedate and pick fleas off ERVIAM”, Latin for “I will the past,” said Fr Vijil. “The deacon, was able to come from Cape Town serve”, is a motto well worth each other while lounging on the for example, speaks about baboons to say Mass for holidaymakers. altar. ‘S striving to live by. Many re - scratching on the window glass dur - The chapel was left to the Nor - ligious orders have adopted it as For Fr Sebastian Vijil, a Norber - ing a service. Now we keep every - bertine Fathers, who came to Kom - their own, including the Ursulines. tine who moved to picturesque thing locked because of baboons, metjie in 1967 to establish a priory St Ursula, the patroness of Ursu - Kommetjie in Cape Town from Ker - and also because of security.” for their order—and baboons were line schools, challenges the learners ala in India last year, the baboons St Joseph’s, built on Slangkop always part of the scenery. to make every effort to reach that inhabit Slangkop Hill behind St Hill, is one of South Africa’s most Altercations between man and Christ, according to Bev Stewart, Joseph’s parish in Kommetjie, have beautiful parishes, with a sweeping “destructive” baboons occur fre - public relations officer of St Ursula’s become a familiar part of the vista of the Atlantic, Hout Bay and quently across the Cape Peninsula, School in Krugersdorp. scenery. the sleepy village of Kommetjie especially along False Bay and areas St Angela Merici, foundress of “I’ll never forget my first en - below. such as Tokai and the Noordhoek the Ursulines, taught that service of counter with a baboon,” said Fr Vijil. Despite the ongoing threat of a Valley. community and others is an inte - “It was two months after I arrived primate attack, Fr Vijil is enjoying In 2006, Angelina Ballerina, a gral part of a young person’s educa - Baboons are part of the scenery at from Kerala. I opened the door and his time at St Joseph’s, which was young female baboon, and two of tion, she explained. St Joseph’s parish in Cape Town. there was a male. A big alpha male. built out of Table Mountain sand - her troop died after being poisoned The truth of this is evident in He was sitting right in front of the of - stone in 1948 to the memory of near Kommetjie. A baboon in the the way that learners at Brescia fice,” the priest recalled. “We tried to chase them with Joseph Rubbi, an Italian immigrant area was brain damaged after being House School in Bryanston, Johan - It didn’t take long for the ba - water, but we didn’t have luck.” and builder born in 1873. beaten over the head. nesburg, and St Ursula’s School boon and his family to barge their Luckily for Fr Vijil, Cape Nature’s The chapel’s altar, the commun - A mature male baboon weighs proudly wear the Serviam badge way into the priest’s house. baboon monitors arrived and saved ion rails, the floors, the statues of up to 40kg. They are extremely pro - and go about living up to their “They came inside the house, the day by chasing the primates Mary and Joseph and the Stations tective over the females and infants schools’ motto by serving their two or three of them. We tried to outside before they could damage of the Cross are all in marble im - within the troop and jealously local communities in various ways. chase them, but we were afraid,” Fr any property. ported from Italy, and were set in guard their right to mate with re - They are encouraged to see and Vijil said. No baboon has made it into the place by an Italian craftsman. ceptive females. respect the dignity of every person, and to reach out to help those in need, in whatever way possible, Ms Stewart said. Napier for marriage blessing St Ursula’s School’s Serviam Club raises funds and collects necessaries STAFF REPORTER niversary of the International Year for places such as the Teddy Bear of the Family calls to mind how im - Clinic, Baby Moses Home and Cra - ARDINAL Wilfrid Napier of portant it is for each and every cou - dle of Hope, as well as supporting Durban will preside at a bless - ple to understand the role they play CHOC (Community Housing Op - ing of marriages ceremony in C in bringing about peace and stabil - portunities Corporation) and vari - Durban on Sunday, July 20, where ous other charities that assist the couples may renew their wedding ity in our families, our society, our country and indeed, thereby, the community. vows. Primary school learners make The celebration was initiated by whole world,” a statement by the archdiocese of Durban said. sandwiches on a weekly basis, and the archdiocese of Durban to en - give these to the soup kitchen run by courage couples to stay focused, liv - “That sacred bond of marriage is the supreme manifestation of what the Ursuline Sisters in Krugersdorp. ing out their vows in such a way The Serviam Club at Brescia is means to sacrifice, to commit and that they find it possible and even House School, led by a group of most of all to love.” a joy to recommit to one another as Grade 6 girls and the WISH (Women regularly as they are able. The ceremony will take place at in Service to Humanity) Club in the “This year being the 20th an - the Emmanuel cathedral at 3pm. secondary school, shows the true spirit of the motto as they serve through a number of projects, from supporting CHOC and the CANSA Youths’ courage praised Shavathon, to assisting children in CAMPAIGN by a Salesian de - those stories and meeting young he - underprivileged communities velopment group telling the roes has touched our hearts,” Ms through initiatives such as the Teddy Astories of 30 young people Pickett said. Bear Clinic (see front-page photo). Both schools recently partici - overcoming modern-day challenges The campaign also emphasised pated in RAK (Random Acts of “has acknowledged the courage of the great need for youth services Kindness). Brescia House collected today’s youth”, the campaign’s or - around Cape Town and the necessity colouring books and crayons and ganiser said. of more caring adults in their lives. Catholic Welfare and Development treated 24 children to a day out at the donated these to the children at Jennifer Pickett, who works at “Life Choices believes that it is V&A Waterfront and Two Oceans Aquarium. The children, who were taken to Witkoppen Primary School, while the Salesian-affiliated Life Choices the job of each of us to make sure a puppet show, an excursion at the aquarium and lunch, showed off their St Ursula’s collected toiletries and group, said the “30 Stories in 30 that youth is raised adequately. For brand new tracksuits, beanies, gumboots and scarves. The event was toys for the Cradle of Hope, a Days” project celebrated the ability this reason we would like to encour - arranged by the CWD’s Women-In-Need playhouse, which caters for the wel - haven for abused women and chil - fare and developmental needs of homeless and destitute children in and dren, and a place of hope for men of Cape Town’s youth to overcome age people to become actively in - around Cape Town. The programme collects children daily, provides voca - adversity and “to never give up”. volved in investing in Cape Town’s tional training and skills development, feeding schemes and other forms of and women who have come on “The experience of capturing youth,” Ms Pickett said. assistance. hard times.

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BY STUART GRAHAM support HIV patients who had been discharged from hospital. ‘courageous’ rector IDS remains a critical problem The programme includes advice despite the general perception on the importance of continuing BY STUART GRAHAM Athat the government’s treat - treatment, counselling services and ment programme has contained it. occupational therapy. HE first black rector of the Fahim Docrat, a spokesman for Education is paramount, said Mr University of Stellenbosch, HOPE Cape Town, an Aids treat - Docrat. He had heard about school TProfessor Russel Botman, who ment organisation co-founded by Fr pupils who believed that it is better died suddenly in June, was a wise Stefan Hippler in 1999, said that to have Aids than cancer. and courageous leader, said Arch - people had grown tired of hearing It is this kind of poorly informed bishop Stephen Brislin of Cape about the disease and had assumed statement that shows the impor - Town, president of the Southern that it was no longer an issue. tance of changing perceptions of African Catholic Bishops’ Confer - “Things are not under control. the disease, he said. ence. There is immense strain on the gov - “If you feel that having cancer is “His unexpected death has ernment, which is doing its best in worse than Aids, then it shows that deeply saddened us. The wider terms of addressing the pandemic,” we need to inform our youngsters Church has lost a wise and coura - said Mr Docrat. that if you do not take precautions geous leader.” “But there is simply not suffi - there will be dire consequences.” Prof Botman died in his sleep at HOPE’s Dr Jayne Cunningham with his home in Stellenbosch on June cient capacity to deal with the a patient at Delft Clinic. Mr Docrat said it is up to the numbers of Aids sufferers.” broader community to get the mes - 27. He was 60 years old. HOPE Cape Town was founded lowing a course of ARV treatment. sage out that Aids remains a serious Shortly before his death, the uni - as an initiative of the German- “The government is good at problem. versity’s board reportedly was con - speaking Catholic Community of rolling out its treatment pro - He said it is vital for organisa - sidering passing a motion of no the Cape Peninsula when Fr Hippler gramme, but educating people tions like HOPE to keep the flow of confidence in Prof Botman after he was its chaplain. about adhering to it is highly prob - information going. “Aids is a prob - applied a controversial “transforma - Mr Docrat said a large problem lematic. Many stop treatment.” lem that is not getting better. It is tion plan”. Professor Russel Botman was that people with the disease He said HOPE had launched its critical to keep up our fight against Prof Botman’s critics said he was often lacked understanding on fol - “Hope to Home” programme to this disease,” Mr Docrat said. slowly transforming the university his contribution and pray that he into an English university. rests in peace.” He was also criticised by alumni The Stellenbosch municipality for a policy of diversifying the uni - flew flags in the town at half-mast versity’s residences. following Prof Botman’s death. Prof Botman joined Stellenbosch His appointment as rector of the PE celebrates bishop’s ordination University in 2000 as a professor in university, the home of the the practical theology and missiol - Bishop Zungu joked at the event Afrikaner intelligentsia at which six STAFF REPORTER ogy department and was appointed apartheid-era prime ministers stud - that God seemed to have a very vice-rector in 2002. ORE than 3 000 Catholics good sense of humour. “I was al - ied, was historic. attended the ordination of Archbishop Brislin said the aca - Prof Botman was a pupil at the ways scared of bishops and... now I demic world had been deprived of MPort Elizabeth’s new Bishop am one of them,” he said. Kliptown Senior Secondary School “a fine mind” and the country has Vincent Mduduzi Zungu. Bishop Zungu was born on April in Johannesburg before enrolling at The congregants at the Nelson lost “a powerful voice of hope”. the University of the Western Cape. 28, 1966 in Mbongolwane, in the “We especially value his work in Mandela Metropolitan University diocese of Eshowe. In 1976 he became spokesman for the South African Council of the Student Representative Council Missionvale indoor complex, which He was educated at Samungu Pri - Churches and honour the sterling of the University of the Western was draped in Church flags and mary School and Ndluyesilo High theological contribution he made Cape where he led students after the filled with hymn singing during the School, and was later sent to the in the area of reconciliation,” Arch - 1976 Soweto uprisings. ceremony, included three archbish - Catholic boarding school at Mahla - ops, 24 bishops and clergy from bishop Brislin said. He would go on to become a re - bathini, north of Ulundi. “We extend our prayers to his around the country. spected, internationally known After completing his matric, he wife and family in this sad time and Bishop Zungu, 47, was ap - thinker, using his knowledge of the - joined the Franciscan postulancy in we assure them that the fruits of his ology to discredit and shame pointed bishop for the diocese of 1987 at Holy Cross Mission, and in Bishop Vincent Zungu of Port Eliza - work will live on. May eternal light apartheid. Port Elizabeth by Pope Francis in 1989 made his first religious vows beth. shine upon him and may the Good In 1982 Prof Botman was or - February. at St Joseph’s Mission. Shepherd lead him home.” dained as a minister of religion in Eshowe’s Bishop Xolelo Kumalo Bishop Zungu was ordained a Bishop Zungu was sent to France Fr Stefan Hippler of HOPE Cape the Uniting Reformed Church in blessed the new bishop’s ring and priest at Holy Cross Mission, for further studies between 2001 Town, an Aids non-governmental Southern Africa in Wynberg. the pastoral staff before the event. Gingindlovu. He was appointed as - and 2003, where he lived with the organisation, said Prof Botman pro - In 1985 he was detained at Vic - Bishop Kumalo said it was a sistant priest at Hardenberg Mission local Franciscan community in moted transformation. tor Verster Prison during the State poignant moment for the diocese, and was also involved with voca - Strasbourg. “He was an individual who pro - of Emergency. welcoming a black bishop for the tional promotion and formation of He speaks English, French, Ital - moted hope and transformation,” Prof Botman is survived by his first time in its history. Franciscan postulants. ian, Zulu, Sotho and Xhosa. said Fr Hippler. “We thank him for wife Beryl and four children.

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BY CAROL GLATZ phenomenon on multiple intersect - “The communists say all this is ing levels” of corruption. communist. Yeah, right, 20 centuries ANY of today’s social ills are Corruption is not something in - later. So when they talk [about the driven by a lack of adequate herent to politics, he said, but when poor] people could say to them: Msocial policies and govern - the world is experiencing “an ‘Well, you are Christians,’” he said, ment support, not just selfishness epochal change, inclinations towards laughing. and moral degradation, Pope Francis a certain moral deviation are “Poverty is at the heart of the said. stronger”. Gospel. You can’t understand the And, he added, standing up for “Good social policies” are essen - Gospel without understanding real the poor and disenfranchised is not tial for dealing with the problem, the poverty, taking into account that a sign of being a communist, but is pope said. People in political office there also exists a very beautiful the mark of a true Christian. need to “respond very clearly. For ex - poverty of the spirit: to be poor be - “The communists stole our cause. Rallying for the poor is Christian,” ample, with social services that look fore God so that God fills you.” and it was so for 2 000 years before after families to understand, to ac - The Gospel speaks to both the Karl Marx picked up on it, the pope company them in overcoming diffi - rich and poor, he said. “It doesn’t said in an interview with the Rome cult situations. The problem condemn the rich. At most [it con - newspaper Il Messaggero . indicates a lack of social services in demns] riches when they become Seated in a small lounge inside society.” the object of idolatry—the god of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where The Church “must continue” its money, the golden calf.” he lives, the pope said the biggest efforts of helping people in difficulty, Pope Francis also said there is not problem with politics around the but it’s “a tough job that requires a enough discussion in the Church world today “is that it is underval - common effort”, he said. about women, and “I agree that ued, ruined by corruption and the The problem of low birth rates, there must be more work on the the - phenomenon of bribery”. particularly in Europe, is also a result ology of women”. of inadequate social policies, he said. The Rome offices of the Italian daily Il Messaggero , to whom Pope Francis “The Church is female,” he said. Pope Paul VI saw politics as “one granted an interview. (Photo: Günther Simmermacher) of the highest forms of charity”, “It’s as if Europe were tired of being There must be a “greater deepening” Pope Francis said, underlining that a mother, preferring to be the People desiring pets over children He recalled that in Buenos Aires of understanding of femininity “or its task is “to safeguard the common granny,” he added. was another example of “cultural there were girls as young as 12 who else one can’t understand the good”, which includes “caring for “Raising a family is hard work, degradation,” he said, because an were working as prostitutes. Church herself”. human life, its dignity”. sometimes salaries aren’t enough, emotional bond or relationship But worse than that was “to see Concerning his ongoing reform If politics isn’t built on a founda - not lasting to the end of the month. “with animals is easier” and more that the cars stopping were all high- of the Roman curia, the pope said he tion of service, “you cannot even un - People are afraid of losing their job easily controlled because “an animal powered vehicles driven by old men. was not carrying out some personal derstand politics’ identity” or or of not being able to pay rent. So - isn’t free while a child is something They could have been their grandfa - agenda, but was doing “what the essential nature, he said. “I’m not cial policies don’t help,” he noted. more complex”. thers. In my opinion these people cardinals requested during the gen - saying everyone is corrupt, but I “Much depends on the economic who do that to children are pae - eral congregations before the con - think it is difficult to stay honest in crises and not just on a cultural devi - nother sign of moral degrada - dophiles,” he said. clave”. politics” if people are surrounded by ation marked by selfishness and he - Ation, he said, is the exploitation Asked what he thought about Reforming the governing bodies corruption. donism,” he said. However, he noted of young children. people claiming he is a communist of the Church is not easy, he said, “Sometimes there are people who that he had read recently that the “It’s heartbreaking,” he said. because of his remarks about poverty “because you move one step forward, would like to do things aboveboard, top three expenses for people around “Children are used for some kinds of and helping the poor, the pope said but then it turns out you need to do but then they find themselves in dif - the world were the basic necessities manual labour because they have the Gospel insists Christians concern this or that and if there was one di - ficulty and it is as if they were swal - of food, clothes and medicine fol - smaller hands. But children are also themselves with the poor and those castery before then they become lowed up by an endemic lowed by “beauty care” and pets. exploited sexually. in need. four.”—CNS Indian Church elated over its new saints

BY ANTO AKKARA YRO-MALABAR Catholic Church leaders in India are Soverjoyed that two of their own will be canonised in November. “This is a gift to the Church in India,” Cardinal George Alencherry of Ernakulam-Angamaly, major archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, said about the November 24 canonisation of Bl Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Bl Mother Eu - phrasia Eluvathingal. Indian Blesseds Elias Chavara and Bl Chavara was one of the Euphrasia Eluvathingal founders of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, a Syro-Malabar Fr James Madathikandam, vice- Catholic order of priests. Bl Euphra - postulator for the cause of Bl sia was a member of the Congrega - Chavara, described him as a “holy tion of the Mother of Carmel, also man and a great social reformer founded by Bl Chavara. who opened the society to an en - “It is a proud and, at the same lightened life from its very primi - time, a holy moment for our tive situation in education”. church,” Fr Paul Thelakkat, Bl Chavara is hailed by lower- spokesman for the Syro-Malabar caste Hindus for opening the gates Church, said. of Church schools to their children, Born in 1805, Bl Chavara was or - who were banned from entering dained in 1829. Two years later, he other schools. co-founded the first indigenous In - Bl Euphrasia led a quiet prayerful dian religious congregation known life, spending almost her time at a as Carmelites of Mary Immaculate. convent at Ollur, a Thrissur suburb. Pilgrimage Highlights In 1866, he also founded the Born in 1877 in a middle-class HOLY LAND: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, women’s congregation, the Congre - family, Rosa Eluvathingal resisted gation of the Mother of Carmel. her father’s dream that she get mar - Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Jordan River Today, the order claims 6 500 mem - ried. She became a member of the and much more... bers. He died in 1871. Congregation of the Mother of ROME: Papal Audience, Mass in During a February 1986 visit to Carmel in 1898 and took the name Kottayam, Pope John Paul II beati - Sr Euphrasia. She was beatified in St Peter’s Basilica, Sistine Chapel, fied Fr Chavara. 2006.—CNS Catacombs, Major Basilicas, Ancient and Baroque Rome... FLORENCE: Dumo cathedral, Church of the Holy Cross with the Pope: Without Mary, we’re orphans tombs of Michelangelo and Galileo, BY CAROL GLATZ of prayer at the grotto of Our Lady Renaissance Florence... of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens. OPE Francis told a group of TURIN: Reserved viewing of the Shroud The best thing to do is always young people discerning a reli - pray to Mary and keep her close of Turin in the Cathedral of St John gious vocation to never go it the Baptist, plus sites of Don Bosco P when one needs to make a major alone, but always stay by their life decision like the choice of one’s on his bicentennial: Pinardi Chapel mother, Mary. vocation, he said. and Basilica of Our Lady Help of “A Christian without Our Lady is A “test” to see if one is following Christians... an orphan. Also a Christian without the right Christian vocation is to the Church is an orphan. A Chris - “ask yourself: ‘How is my relation - tian needs these two women, two ship with these two mothers I have? mothers, two virgins: the Church With the Mother Church and the and Our Lady,” he said. Mother Mary?” Pope Francis said. The pope spoke off-the-cuff to a “This will do you good; do not group of young men from the dio - ever leave her and don’t go it cese of Rome during a brief moment alone.”—CNS INTERNATIONAL The Southern Cross, July 9 to July 15, 2014 5 Church leaders: Don’t escalate Israeli-Palestinian conflict ATIN Patriarch Fouad Twal of what happened.” Jerusalem condemned political At that point, he said, Israeli Land religious leaders who were army forces had arrested some 600 fanning the desire for revenge. The Palestinians in their search for the discovery of three young Israelis’ youth; others estimated 400 were bodies in Hebron in the occupied arrested, many of them minors. West Bank led to a large demonstra - Reportedly, the identity of the tion in Jerusalem and what ap - presumed kidnappers, acolytes of peared to be revenge attacks on senior Hamas members, was known Palestinians. almost from the beginning. A 17-year-old Palestinian male In a raid at the Jalazone refugee was found murdered on July 2 in a camp near Ramallah, soldiers killed forested area on the outskirts of Israeli soldiers take part in an opera - a 20-year-old with a gunshot A floral carpet with an image of Mary decorates the area outside St Peter’s Jerusalem. His family had reported tion to locate three Israeli teens who wound in the chest. During a clash Square prior to Pope Francis’ recitation of the Angelus at the Vatican. Sixty him missing earlier in the day, and were later found dead. (Photo: Mussa near the Qalandiya checkpoint in groups from Italy and around the world made banners or floral carpets to many people suspected his death Issa Qawasma, Reuters/CNS) Ramallah, a 22-year-old was fatally celebrate the feast of Ss Peter and Paul. (Photo: Paul Haring/CNS) was a revenge killing. wounded; the same day a 15-year- “Vengeance begets vengeance ment with Palestinian President old was killed in Dura with six shots and blood begets blood,” Patriarch Mahmoud Abbas, of being respon - by an Israeli soldier. At least three Twal said. “The innocent young sible for the abduction. others were killed by soldiers during people murdered, all murdered Hamas denied the charge. the search. young people, are victims sacrificed Mr Abbas condemned the kid - During the search some 30 0 000 New papal nuncio to UN on the diabolical altar of hatred.” napping, and Palestinian security Palestinians were under curfew, In a statement conveying the and 60 0 000 in the area had their quake hit and forces were coordinating with the BY CAROL GLATZ pope’s condolences to the families Israelis to find the kidnappers. movements restricted. An esti - destroyed much of the three Israeli youths, Vatican mated 2 0 000 Hebron residents OPE Francis has named a Fil - of western Haiti. While the search for the youths ipino archbishop, who helped spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi was going on, Auxiliary Bishop with permission to work in Israel With three called the killings “terrible and dra - were denied entrance into Israel, Plead and rebuild the Church in key Port-au- William Shomali, chancellor of the matic”. preventing them from reaching Haiti after its devastating earth - Prince archdioce - Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, had quake, as the Vatican representative “The assassination of innocent asked anyone with information their workplace. san leaders dead people is always an execrable and Meanwhile, Pope Francis tele - at the United Nations in New York. and scores of about the kidnapping of the three Archbishop Bernardito Auza, 55, unacceptable crime and a serious teens to come forward and help re - phoned Rome’s chief rabbi to per - other religious the nuncio to Haiti, was appointed obstacle on the path towards the turn the youths to their families. At sonally express his sadness over the killed or missing, permanent observer of the Holy See peace for which we must tirelessly the same time, he called on the Is - murder of three kidnapped Israeli Archbishop Auza to the United Nations, replacing In - continue to strive and pray,” Fr raeli army to keep its reaction and teens whose bodies were found on took a leading dian Archbishop Francis Chullikatt. Lombardi said. its search methods proportionate. June 30 in Hebron in the occupied The Vatican press office did not role in stabilising and helping re - The three teens were kidnapped “Kidnapping three Israeli young West Bank. say what 61-year-old Archbishop build the Church. as they were hitchhiking home people is not fair, and is against Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni said the Chullikatt’s new assignment would At least 31 6 000 people died in from their school in Gush Etzion, a human rights and human dignity. pope phoned him at home and be. The archbishop had previously the quake. cluster of Israeli settlements in the We are opposed to this; this is not said: “Good evening. This is Pope served in the Pretoria nunciature As nuncio, he was also the key West Bank, near Bethlehem. Israeli the right way to make peace,” he Francis. I wanted to personally ex - before his elevation to nuncio. player in channelling relief money officials accused Hamas, which re - said. “[But] the reaction of the Is - press my sadness for the death of Archbishop Auza (pictured right) from the Vatican and other Church cently formed a coalition govern - raeli army is disproportionate to the three youths.” was ordained a priest of the diocese sources to local needs and in help - of Talibon, Philippines, in 1985. He ing make key decisions on project entered the Vatican diplomatic priorities and spending funds trans - corps in 1990 and served in Mada - parently by setting up an independ - gascar, Bulgaria and Albania, then ent “inspection” commission. worked at the Vatican Secretariat of He helped local projects raise State. From 2006 to 2008 he worked funds and focused efforts on en - at the Holy See’s Permanent Ob - couraging new and capable Church server Mission at the United Na - leaders, as well as on building a bet - tions. ter and more adequate infrastruc - Named nuncio to Haiti in 2008, ture for the Church with he was serving there when the seminaries, schools, parishes and deadly January 12, 2010, earth - housing.—CNS Diplomat archbishop laicised over abuse case BY CAROL GLATZ a “conviction of dismissal from the clerical state”. As such, Archbishop VATICAN investigation has Wesolowski loses all rights and du - led to the expulsion from the ties associated with being a priest, Apriesthood of a former Vati - except the obligation of celibacy. can ambassador in response to alle - The statement did not specify if gations of sexually abusing minors. there were any other sanctions or Polish Archbishop Jozef requirements in connection with Wesolowski, the former nuncio to his sentencing. the Dominican Republic, was sen - Once the canonical case is closed tenced with laicisation after a definitively—in two months if canonical process conducted by the there is no appeal—the “criminal Vatican Congregation for the Doc - trine for the Faith, the Vatican said proceedings” of Vatican City State’s in a written statement. own judicial system would begin, The 65-year-old archbishop has the statement said, since the arch - two months to appeal the decision. bishop was a Vatican citizen when The Vatican City criminal court’s he reportedly abused under-aged own trial of the archbishop will boys while serving as nuncio in the begin once the canonical process Dominican Republic. concludes, the statement said. The Vatican removed the arch - Given the fact that the arch - bishop from his position as apos - bishop has been “dismissed from tolic nuncio to the Dominican the clerical state”, the Vatican said, Republic in August 2013 after he “all measures appropriate to the was accused of paying for sex with gravity of the case” would be taken boys in the Caribbean country. while he is awaiting his criminal Archbishop Wesolowski arrived trial. in the Dominican Republic in Janu - The specifics of those measures ary 2008 after serving first as a were to be decided by the former priest in Krakow, Poland, from 1972 nuncio’s superiors within the Vati - to 1999, then as Vatican ambassa - can Secretariat of State, said Vatican dor to Bolivia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzs - spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi SJ. tan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. The archbishop had “enjoyed In May, Pope Francis had told re - relative freedom of movement” porters during an in-flight news while the canonical process was un - conference from Israel to Italy that derway, the Vatican statement said. three bishops were under investiga - However, given the imposed cen - tion for misdeeds related to the sex - sure, it was expected the arch - ual abuse of minors. bishop’s movements would be One—presumably the former nun - limited, Fr Lombardi said. cio—had “already been con - The Vatican statement said the demned,” the pope had said, and first round of the canonical process his penalty was being studied.— against the former nuncio ended in CNS 6 The Southern Cross, July 9 to July 15, 2014 LEADER PAGE LETTERS TO The Editor reserves the right to shorten or edit published letters. Letters below 300 words receive pref - erence. Pseudonyms are acceptable only under special circumstances and at the Editor’s discretion. 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ment. The highest prevalence of HIV among females is 20-34 years, and in Editor: Günther Simmermacher Battle against Aids not over yet males 25-49 years, with highest rates N his review of the book Catholic While South Africa has made of prevalence among cohabiting cou - IResponses to AIDS in Southern huge treatment gains, regarding the ples, and low rates of marriage in Africa (June 25), Stuart Graham de - number of people on treatment (2,2 major urban areas. Freedom from slavery plores a widespread belief in South million), brought down rates of Poor knowledge of HIV, increased Africa that Aids is yesterday’s story, mother to child HIV transmission, risk behaviours, sexual debut before UMAN trafficking is big ernment, which still fails to fully and that there are more pressing made gains in HIV counselling and 15 among girls in particular, age-dis - global business, almost as comply with the minimum stan - health issues on the country’s testing rates, and increased the parate relationships between lucrative as the drug dards set by the US for the elimina - H agenda. numbers of medical male circumci - younger females (15-19) and older trade—and even more revolting. tion of trafficking. Pressing though these issues are, sions, there are signs of regression males, and multiple sexual partner - In South Africa, it is the third- Although the report notes and in need of being tackled from in the overall response to HIV from ships continue to fuel the spread of biggest form of crime, after the some progress, it observes: “The every possible angle, it would be and a prevention perspective. HIV. Condom use among youths in trade in drugs and arms. government failed to systemati - is a new form of denial to regard Aids The study noted increased HIV the country is higher than among Every year, hundreds of thou - cally address labour trafficking of - as something belonging to history. prevalence because of new infec - older people, but in general a lower sands of human beings are sold fences or successfully prosecute HIV and Aids are still with us, not yet tions and expanded anti-retroviral condom use than in 2008, when and abused. Most are condemned cases against any major interna - showing signs of really abating, if the treatment, leading to a decrease in condom use peaked. to forced labour, while many tional syndicates responsible for results of the Human Sciences Re - Aids-related mortality. There are There is a decrease in stigma and women and even children are co - much of the sex trafficking in the search Council study of April 2014 high prevalence rates of HIV in in - discrimination towards people with erced to work as sex slaves, usually country. A serious lack of capacity are to be believed. formal settlements. There is im - HIV, and an apparent stabilisation after systematic violations of a and widespread corruption The study notes that in 2012 proved uptake of anti-retroviral of orphanhood at 16,9% (3,1 mil - kind which no human being among the police force stymied there were 46 9 000 new HIV infec - treatment among children under lion orphans). should endure. progress in anti-trafficking law en - tions in South Africa, more than 15, and adults over 50. Youth have The battle against Aids is not The problem is acute in South forcement efforts.” 1 000 new infections daily. Fully 6,4 the lowest exposure to treatment. over. Africa, which is known to be a There is some cause for hope. million people (12,2% of the popu - Highlighted is the need for a bal - Sr Alison Munro , hub of import, export and transit Anti-trafficking legislation was fi - lation) are HIV-positive. anced focus on prevention and treat - SACBC Aids Office, Pretoria in human trafficking. Internal nally signed into law last year, al - trafficking, usually from rural beit after a negligent delay which areas to urban centres but also to spanned years. host only on turning around to old adage “If the shoe fits, wear it” farms, is widespread. Forced And still, almost exactly a year Croatian players walk back to their pew. But on the seems so fitting here because the labour is reportedly used in fruit after President Jacob Zuma signed N Günther Simmermacher’s arti - whole I often get emotional at these shoe did indeed fit and she ended and vegetable farms across South the Prevention and Combating of Icle “The World Cup’s Catholics” hands. They rise up, open them - up happily ever after. Africa and in some vineyards in Trafficking in Persons Act, the law (June 25), an interestingly secular selves to receiving the Lord. There Women have been ill-treated, the Western Cape, according to awaits promulgation, subject to view of the world’s best football is an air of expectation and thanks. but to alter an innocent fairy tale the “Trafficking in Persons 2014 the completion of implementing teams as well as some individuals, I wish I had a poetic spirit to write subliminally enforces the ideology Report”, issued in late June by the regulations. who are Catholic, was presented. a poem about it! that women are better at thinking US State Department. The churches can do much to Another team which is also For me, Jesus was vulnerable at and being than men. I believe this Children who are trafficked in - provide protection for people who worth mentioning and whose play - the Last Supper and on the cross, is far more wrong for the child’s ternally or from neighbouring escape their captivity—for exam - ers are all Catholic is that of Croa - but he entrusted us with his body: mind. countries are forced into domestic ple in terms of shelter and legal tia, who faced Brazil in the opening when we open our hands to receive I, as a woman, could only dream or agricultural servitude, begging, support—and in advocating for game. his body, we do it in acknowledge - of my prince, or knight in shining street vending, food service, or the enforcement of the law, once Players of the Croatian national ment of that reality. armour, but reality teaches me that criminal activities. it is in effect. squad are practising Catholics and I present the body of Christ, the it is quite different. I have not South Africans are also en - The Catholic Church in South - have been at one time or other to individual, by saying “Amen”, and changed my mind about all those slaved internationally. Last year ern Africa, through the Trafficking Medjugorje on a pilgrimage. raising their open arms is accepting fairy tales I read so many years ago. South African victims were identi - Desk of the Southern African Before they left for Brazil the en - the broken yet resurrected Jesus I think Prof Claassens will do her fied and repatriated from Malawi Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has tire squad, including the coach, at - into their lives. Beautiful. daughter more harm by enforcing and Venezuela, while Brazil re - already done much commendable tended Mass in the historic St Hence my surprise at the letter of these latter-day feminist stories leased a woman convicted as a work in the field, while the Inter - Stephen’s cathedral in Zagreb, the Fr Bernard Brown (June 4), reflect - which show that only women drug smuggler after she was recog - national Network of Religious capital. After Mass they had an au - ing his disapproval of receiving the know values, and that they are bet - nised as a victim of trafficking. Against Trafficking in Persons is ad - dience in the adjoining arch - Blessed Sacrament in the hand. ter at sorting things out. bishop’s residence with Cardinal Disturbingly, many govern - dressing the crisis globally. Surely Jesus wants an intimate re - The Bible says we are all a part of Josip Bozanic of Zagreb. ments and law enforcement agen - Clearly the crisis is of concern lationship with us, and offers himself this one Body. No part is better than Most of the players recently cies around the world have been to the Christian Church. Last to everyone. We exercise choice in the other. came to the aid of victims of the slow to act decisively, compassion - month Pope Francis and Anglican accepting his offer. This finds expres - As a mother she should impart biggest floods ever to hit Croatia, as ately or, in some cases, ethically in Archbishop Justin Welby of Can - sion through our Church. values that assist the child in dis - well as Bosnia and Herzegovina. combating human trafficking. terbury pledged great cooperation We need to be careful of “over - cerning the difference between re - Peter Basich , Cape Town When slaves—for that is what between the churches. Both con - legislating” and of judging how ality and fiction. trafficked people are—escape their demned human trafficking as “a people should respond to the Lord’s Books are only able to aid some - subjection, they are often treated crime against humanity”. generosity. one. Books are great. as illegal immigrants and de - In December, Pope Francis told Moved by hands Sergio Acquisto , Johannesburg J Jansen van Rensburg , ported to the place of their origin, diplomats to the Holy See: “We AM a minister of the Eucharist. I Cape Town usually back into the domain of must unite our efforts to free vic - Ichose to do this as I am deeply those who were responsible for tims and stop this crime that’s be - grateful for the privilege of receiving their plight in the first place. come ever more aggressive, that our Lord through the Blessed Sacra - CHleE rartgiclye c ovnsce rnlaingi thy e excom - ment and, in the spirit of commu - Lack of protection for the vic - threatens not just individuals, but munication of the Austrian cou - Charismatic way nity, to go to the homes of the aged T tims of human trafficking feeds the the foundational values of society”, ple (June 4) once again highlights and sick to bring them Communion. problem as its perpetrators are em - as well as international security the chasm between laity and clergy will hold youth While serving Communion from EFERRING to your report “Pope boldened to act with impunity. and laws, the economy, families developing throughout the world. the altar, I become very conscious Rmeets with Catholic charismat - Our contempt must be directed and communities. There’s no doubt the couple of the hands that rise up to receive ics” (June 11), maybe all Catholic not only at those repulsive indi - Working together according to transgressed Church procedures by churches should be charismatic to viduals who trade in human lives, an integrated plan, churches and the host. Some of these hands are black, some white, some old, some celebrating a Mass without the pres - keep young Catholics with their but also at those who exploit the other faith bodies, secular organi - ence of a priest. Most religious de - Church and their faith. victims, directly or indirectly, and sations and governments have the young and tender, some refined and some showing the effects of nominations conform to sets of The charismatic Catholic also at those who do have the potential to liberate many from rules with ordained ministers over - Church is where our young people power to address the problem but their slavery, and prevent many hard labour, some healthy, some aged and crooked. seeing services. can praise God in their way—by fail to exercise it. others from falling into the trap of However, in certain parts of Eu - dancing to music. What better way This includes South Africa’s gov - trafficking in the first place. Yes, there are those who hardly lift their hands or who consume the rope priests have to service large for them to praise God than in their areas and thus Communion serv - own Church and exulting in the ices are becoming more common. way the Holy Spirit is taking them? For most Catholics a Communion After confirmation, many young service is not the “real thing”, and Catholics disappear to other Holy Redeemer Pilgrimage JOuRNEYS OF perhaps that is the reason why churches where they can put their HOLY LAND A LIFETIME! there is a decline in Church num - hands up in the air without people bers in Europe. staring at them, and where they can & JORDAN Isn’t it time for the hierarchy of dance—how the Holy Spirit is mov - the Church to take heed of the with ing them—without anybody saying Fr Sean Wales CSsR words of a very wise priest who was 8 - 18 November 2014 things while praising the same God. Contact gail at adviser to the Dutch bishops during If the priests take the lead in See all the great sites 076 35 2 3809 or the period of Vatican II? bringing the Gospel across in a more of the Holy Land and 021 55 1 3923 In accordance with the vision of charismatic way, the community will Jordan, plus Cairo [email protected] a the recently beatified Pope John feel the Holy Spirit moving. XXIII, the late Belgian theologian Fr In my experience, for instance, ALL WELCOME! facebook.com/FowlerToursSa Edward Schillebeeckx wrote exten - in a Mass celebrated by Fr Jerome fowlertours.co.za sively. In particular, his thoughts on Aranes of Cape Town one can really Video: bit.ly/1rjcvS7 the Eucharist and the resurrection, feel the presence of the Holy Spirit. if implemented, could pave the way We are blessed to have priests like for a more inclusive Church. that in our midst. Patrick Dacey , Johannesburg Cathy Jordan , Cape Town

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Cinderella, for Cape Town 8000 or [email protected] instance, is a beautiful story and the or faxed to 021 465-3850 PERSPECTIVES The Southern Cross, July 9 to July 15, 2014 7 Tragic story of a hymn Günther Simmermacher Fr Gilbert Banda SJ HE hymns we sing in church, one Annie. He would catch a later steamer and would think, were written in a spirit join them in Paris. Biography of Hymns Faith and Society Tof the joy which the faith in the Lord In the early hours of November 22 the infused in the writer. Not so with “It Is Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish clip - three years later, at the age of 38. On De - Well With My Soul”, which has its source per, the Loch Earn, and sank within 12 cember 29, 1876, the Pacific Express train in profound tragedy. minutes—226 lives were lost, including on which he and his wife were travelling When it is The words of the hymn were written by that of all four girls. Among the 87 sur - crashed down a ravine when the bridge it Horatio Spafford, with the music by Philip vivors was their mother. was crossing collapsed. Bliss survived the Bliss. It is Spafford’s story that is especially Arriving in England, Anna sent a heart - impact, but when the carriages caught remarkable—unspeakably sad and yet also breaking telegram to Horatio. The first alight, he went inside one to retrieve his not PC to be PC inspiring. words were: “Saved alone. What shall I wife. Neither were seen again. Spafford was born in New York state in do?” Things did not go better for the Spaf - EING politically correct is to use language 1828, but moved to Chicago to marry at Naturally, Spafford set sail as soon as he fords. They produced three more children, in a way that would not offend other peo - the age of 33. could to join his grieving wife in England. a boy and two girls. Again, the only son Bple’s sensibilities. This means that political He and his Norwegian-born wife Anna, When his ship came to the spot where the died of scarlet fever, in 1880. correctness adheres to racial, gender and politi - both Presbyterians, were prominent people Ville du Havre sank—the watery grave of Their church was of no comfort. On the cal sensitivities. in the social circles of Chicago in the his daughters, three miles deep—he wrote contrary, the Presbyterians held the Spaf - While this is a good way to encourage unity 1860s. Horatio was a successful lawyer, and the words for “It Is Well With My Soul”. fords’ misfortune to be the result of divine and harmony within a nation or at a workplace, his friendship with the pioneering evan - When peace like a river, attendeth my way, punishment. the worry of offending someone or some groups gelist Dwight L Moody placed him at the When sorrows like sea billows roll; Unsurprisingly Horatio and Anna did hinders our ability to state our opinions and centre of the city’s Christian life. Whatever my lot, not subscribe to that appalling brand of make correct judgments. This results in unfair - If the 1860s were good to the Spaffords, Thou hast taught me to know, theology, and left the church to found a ness in many situations. the ’70s were cruel. In 1870 their only son It is well, it is well, with my soul. messianic movement which the press Thus, instead of discussing issues and dealing died of scarlet fever at the age of four. In a dubbed The Overcomers. In 1881 they em - in an open and honest manner that can bring patriarchal society, that was a big blow. No he words were set to music by Philip igrated to Jerusalem with a group of fol - real change and understanding, we may end up doubt, the Spaffords loved their four TBliss, a gospel singer and composer lowers. brushing them under the rug. This leads to a hy - daughters dearly, but to lose a son—an from Chicago, whom Spafford knew The Spaffords’ legacy in the Holy City is persensitivity that induces a culture of blame heir—afflicted the future. through their association with Dwight still evident: their group of 13 and three and “witch hunts”. Things didn’t improve. In early 1871, Moody. Bliss named his composition “Ville children founded what is known as the Political correctness can prevent people from Spafford invested heavily in real estate, at du Havre”. American Colony. freely speaking their minds. As a result, public a time when Chicago was rapidly expand - Bliss, too, came to a tragic end, just The idea was to set up a utopian society conversations may end up becoming muted and ing. The investment went up in smoke in that fosters charity, coexistence and peace. real debate withers. October that year when a vast fire deci - Living in a commune, they did not prose - When the desire for political correctness mated the city. About 250 people died and lytise and did philanthropic work which trumps truth-telling, important insights are lost 10 0 000 were left homeless as the inferno continued for decades after. The American in translation. Sometimes, what should have swept across 9 km 2, including most of the Colony’s work in feeding the people of been said ends up feeding an invisible grapevine central business district—just where Spaf - Jerusalem and beyond after a locust plague where people are able to say what they actually ford had bought most of his property. in 1915 and during World War I was im - feel about point a, b and c. However, this de - The Great Chicago Fire ruined him fi - mense. stroys our trust in leadership and dampens our nancially, but Spafford bounced back well By then Horatio had died, of malaria in belief in the common good. enough to plan a family trip to Europe on 1888. Anna died in 1923 at the age of 81. In theory, being politically correct is pretty the ship Ville du Havre in 1873. After much tragedy, Horatio and Anna straightforward: treat people the way they want Horatio was unexpectedly held up by found solace in Jerusalem. to be treated. business relating to rezoning after the fire, For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live: Since we cannot avoid being friendly to oth - so it was decided that wife Anna would go If Jordan above me shall roll, ers, it is important to learn ways of doing this by not just being overly “nice” and bypassing the ahead with their daughters Tanetta, 11, Horatio and Ann Spafford, who suffered No pain shall be mine, for in death as in life Bessie, 9, Margaret Lee, 5, and two-year-old Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul. truth. People have a right to be told the truth, great tragedy but found solace in God. regardless of how sensitive and painful it can be. An over-emphasis on political correctness can lead to an endorsement of rogue leaders with a capacity to speak in “acceptable” ways. Conse - A new world, somewhere Toni Rowland quently, leaders end up being elected according to how they are able to speak and not how they HE words of an old song by The Seek - Family Friendly are able to act. In such a context, a leader’s ora - ers have been buzzing around in my torical skills can be used as a tool to absolve and head while reflecting on my recent prevent the public from focusing on their actual T responsibility. travels and the family theme for July on the parents in honour of the grandparents of elderly and their families: “There’s a new However, we can avoid the pitfalls of political Jesus, Joachim and Ann, whose feast we cel - correctness by holding ourselves and others ac - world somewhere they call the promised ebrate on July 26. land. And I’ll be there someday if you will countable; by saying what we mean and mean - It is a time for families to pay tribute to ing what we say; having a sense of humour, hold my hand.” the love and care grandparents give and to The journey was to Benin, in West humility and perspective; respecting others and go out of our way to remember them and acknowledging their importance; and not being Africa, where I spent just over a week par - thank them. It may be time for forgiveness ticipating in a meeting around the October afraid of doing what is right no matter what. and healing from both sides. With these, moral courage—an ability to say Synod of Bishops on the Family. It is also time, as parish communities, to There will be no immediate outcomes and act upon the truth—becomes an indispen - pay tribute and to take note of their partic - sable virtue. from the synod for us to wait for, and as it ular needs. Is there neglect, exploitation or is clear that most Catholics are not well in - A grandmother with her grandchildren. This Because it is difficult to say the truth without even abuse wherever the elderly are living? running the risk of being misinterpreted or mis - formed about the Church’s teaching on month’s family focus is on grandparents. It is time for grandparents too to look understood, political correctness has certainly marriage and family life, we should con - (Photo: kakisky/morguefile) back and take stock of their own lives, seek become the thing it was supposed to get rid of. tinue to study this. tains a couple. If both are fit and contented healing of memories, make peace and pos - It has become an obsession with saying the The biggest lack perhaps is in a deeper in their old age, visited and cared for by sibly make the greatest contribution they “right” words at the expense of the truth. Re - understanding of family spirituality which their children and grandchildren—who I can make: become part of a Movement of gardless of the difficulties of saying what has to is relevant for everyone. Yes, we know from know are one of the main topics of conver - Prayer of Grandparents for Grandchildren. be said, we are still called upon to address prob - the questionnaires that were completed sation among the residents—they are fortu - This can be as simple as naming and lems that bedevil our country no matter how early in the year that the synod will be fo - nate. We also have couples where one is praying for each child or meeting as a group sensitive. cusing strongly on more doctrinal aspects ailing and the other spends their energy car - to share and give support. MARFAM has People are defined by their deeds and actions and mainly on marriage. ing for the other. more information on this. and not their words. Unfortunately, some of our Marriage does form the ideal foundation There are many who are mostly alone, The Church too should take note that a leaders successfully use political correctness as a of a family, but as a widow, a mother (and by choice or not. Some have no children family focus applies across the whole com - way of dodging accountability. as a widow of course a single mother), a but some do and also have grandchildren. munity, especially in the light of the model The challenge is upon us as a nation to assess mother-in-law and also a grandmother, I There are remarrieds or cohabiters who may for Africa of the Church as Family of God. our leaders beyond their capacity for eloquence. know that God is present and speaks to me have two or more sets of grandchildren. That was the view I expressed at the meet - in each of those realities. In some communities extended families ing in Benin. n Fr Banda writes for the blogs of the Jesuit Institute: The spirituality of family life is beauti - are the norm and grandparents are the pa - It is from the port at Cotonou that thou - www.jesuitinstitute.org.za fully described by one lay theologian as first triarch and matriarch. In still other set - sands of slaves were shipped to the Ameri - of all a “nesting” rather than a “going out” tings—poorer communities or rural cas, a very different New World for them. spirituality. villages—many grandparents, usually a Today, the African exodus to the West is not Building a nest is for the early years. Lin - granny, are the main source of family sup - based on external force. ing, reinforcing and beautifying the nest is port, and their pensions may be the main We all constantly seek that new and bet - the work of many years before there comes family income for the old person plus a ter world somewhere. the empty nest. grown up child or two and a house full of Marriage matters, but in addition, espe - ON TAPE Living in a retirement village now makes grandchildren whose parents have died or cially if there is no intimate partner to hold me very conscious that a nest may be have moved away. my hand, family matters in very many dif - A group of readers is preparing empty of children but for some it still con - This month the family focus is on grand - ferent ways. audio tapes of excerpts from The Southern Cross for interested people who are blind, sight-impaired, unable to hold LOuRDES, ROME & PARIS PILgRIMAgE Frail/assisted care in shared or a newspaper or illiterate. 29 Sept- 9 Oct 2014 single rooms. 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night without payment,” Sr O’Con - nor said. South Africa is a hub of She says in a recent case a girl human trafficking and truck - from Mozambique was rescued after Human trafficking ers are being used to trans - she jumped off the back of a truck in Johannesburg. The trafficking desk is port poor people who are trying to find out who the girl is. fact-file being sold as slaves, as Sr O’Connor says when she STUART GRAHAM found. comes across a victim of trafficking, RAFFICKERS look for the wan, Mozambique—and are she immediately telephones the elite most vulnerable children sent as far away as the United crime fighting unit, the Hawks, Taround nine to 15 years of States. They are interviewed in which has a dedicated Trafficking age because they are more com - their own countries, in a profes - T the Komatipoort border post, Desk. pliant and will do things out of sional office environment, with the line of trucks, busses and The Hawks will place the victim fear. promises of medical aid, food, Acars waiting to enter South in a shelter, but the problems set in • In 2010, there were 2 0 000 to pay and travel allowances. Traf - Africa winds into Mozambique. when the women leave the shelter. 30 000 children who were pros - fickers are smart, well-dressed The trucks are mostly heading for The bishops’ conference aims to tituted. The figure now stands and respectable. They usually Johannesburg where they will deliver help these women, but bureaucracy at 4 5 000. ( Pretoria News , May have business fronts. ( Sunday sometimes gets in the way. their cargo to one of the city’s ware - 24, 2013) Tribune , February 26, 2012) Sr O’Connor explained: “We have • As many as 80 0 000 people houses. Customs officers are inspect - • With an estimated turnover of helped some of the girls to do a ma - may be trafficked across borders ing each and every one. $870 billion a year, organised tric course at the University of Port every year, with many more It’s difficult to see how dozens of criminal network funds are young girls from across Africa could Elizabeth, but we have a problem trafficked within the borders of worth more than six times the be smuggled into South Africa, but when they are from other countries. their own countries. ( Cape somehow they are. They may not write matric unless Argus , February 13, 2013) amount of official development “Trucks are bringing girls into they have identity documents. Get - • 10 0 000 people are trafficked assistance. Human trafficking, South Africa from all over Africa,” Trade in human beings is not a new ting them that identification is often into, through and from South meanwhile, brings in about $32 says Sr Melanie O’Connor, the Holy phenomenon, but the Church and a challenge.” Africa every year. ( Weekend Post , billion annually, while some es - the state are now stepping up to try Family sister who heads the South - A report issued last year, October 8, 2011) timates place the global value to combat the appalling practice. titled “LexisNexis Human Trafficking of smuggling of migrants at $7 ern African Catholic Bishops’ Con - (Photo: Sgarton/morguefile) • In 2011, 500 trafficked peo - ference Trafficking Desk. Awareness” , estimated that around ple, mostly from Burundi and billion a year. ( Business Day , “The trafficking syndicate will use 10 0 000 people are trafficked in Zimbabwe, were reunited with July 17, 2012) drivers to bring the girls in. They will land up here in South Africa,” Sr South Africa every year. their families, including 36 • Traffickers range from inexpe - do whatever it takes to supply the O’Connor said. According to the report, the main children. ( Cape Argus , February rienced individuals to experi - brothels in Johannesburg,” she ex - “I said I am at the Trafficking factors driving human trafficking in 13, 2013) enced organised networks. Desk. I would like to introduce a plained. South Africa are sexual exploitation, • I n March 2010, the National When traffickers operate in truckers against human trafficking forced labour, drugs and “a new Sr O’Connor, who has produced Prosecuting Authority issued a large criminal groups, they an educational booklet for truck project.” trend” of parents selling their chil - report called “Tsireledzani: Un - A conference was held with truck dren for adoption or sex. have accomplices who facilitate drivers on human trafficking, says derstanding the Dimensions of the transportation and ex - many of the young women are used owners in South Africa in April 2013. Alarmingly, LexisNexis found, Human Trafficking in Southern ploitation of victims. as wives for miners, but most are des - Truck owners suggested they make 16,6% of media reports on human Africa” . The report found South Often a trafficker is an indi - tined for brothels, especially in the their own “Truckers Against Traffick - trafficking cases concerned organ Africa to be a destination coun - ing” stickers and accepted the idea of vidual known to the victim. Pretoria and the Pietermaritzburg trafficking. try for long-distance flows of a human trafficking booklet. Traffickers also target vulnera - area. The organisation also found that people (mainly women) traf - “We want them to know that it is ble people and use recruiters to Research on how many people are “more and more evidence is emerg - ficked from East Asia and South a serious crime if they know they are trafficked into South Africa each year ing which suggests that traffickers Asia, Eastern Europe and the spot them and deceive them transporting people who are being are transitioning from using victims is sketchy. One estimate is that is that Balkans. It also found South into trafficking. These recruiters trafficked,” Sr O’Connor says. solely for sexual exploitation to the figure lies in the hundreds. An - Africa’s neighbours supplied are usually good at manipulat - The SACBC is working with the using them as drug mules or decoys”. other puts the figure at more than most of the victims for prostitu - ing their peers and using false Corridor Empowerment Project, After years of failing to imple - 10 0 000. tion, as domestics, forced promises of a better life. Experts say that South Africa is an which provides services to truck driv - ment specific legislation that would There are also private em - ers at 22 centres around South Africa, labour, for drug trafficking and importer of trafficked people, and criminalise human trafficking, South ployment agencies, who recruit to distribute the booklets. criminal activity. ( Cape Argus , also an exporter and a place of transit Africa finally got such a law in July job seekers to send them abroad Sr O’Connor recalls how one year when President Jacob Zuma February 13, 2013) in the trade in human beings. • Victims of trafficking, in par - with the purpose of exploiting A UNICEF report in 2011 reported young woman came to Johannes - signed the TIP Act, more formally burg by bus after being told by a called “The Prevention and Combat - ticular sexual exploitation, them. ( The Star , June 4, 2012) that children in South Africa were come from all over—Russia, Tai - Source: LexisNexis trafficked at twice the rate of women. woman that she would get money ing of Trafficking in Persons Act No. Sr O’Connor seeks to educate for school fees by being a child min - 7 of 2013” . truck drivers about human traffick - der. “The woman told her that her ing and wants to use her booklet to sister was looking for a child minder do it. and so she accepted the job,” she She recalls how she was sparked said. into action while at a conference in “Many of the girls are coaxed in Dar es Salaam as Archbishop Buti through false job offers. They often Tlhagale of Johannesburg, then pres - find themselves working in kitchens Daughters of the Immaculate Heart ident of the SACBC, was delivering a or looking after children and scrub - paper on evangelisation. bing floors for no pay in often intol - of Mary “We were asked: Where is the erable conditions.” WISH TO SHINE YOUR LIGHT FOR GOD’S spiritual assistance given to truck large number of trafficked CHILDREN! drivers who have to undergo long Then as a Daughter of the Immacualte Heart of Mary this and hazardous journeys? 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fully it will be a book he can use for “Looking back, it’s easy to see Collin Raye was a big music his own good, because that’s what it’s how God’s hand was still guiding star, but then his professional all about.” me,” Raye writes. “Had I stayed at and personal life suffered Born Floyd Elliot Wray on August the top of the charts with all the de - 22, 1960, in De Queen, Arkansas, mands that come with that life, I blows. He tells ELISABETH Raye—renamed by his record label— could not have given [my family] as DEFFNER how his Catholic experienced a number of ups and much as they needed at the time.” faith saw him through downs early on, including his fam - Though he always worked to do ily’s frequent moves, the launching the right thing, and to put his adversity. of a band that people paid to hear in celebrity to the service of good concert and his brother’s near-fatal Country singer causes, “I was probably an obstacle to VERY life is filled with highs car accident when Raye was about to Collin Raye says [God] more than I care to admit,” and lows, but for country singer enter Grade 7. his Catholic faith Raye writes. ECollin Raye, the peaks and val - There were a few constants in his has guided him Now his life is unfolding in new leys have been particularly dramatic. life: his hard-working mother, the through life’s ups directions, and he’s content to let it He has had five platinum albums, Christian faith she instilled in her and downs, in - unfold. Along with his daughter Bri - 24 Top 10 records, 16 No 1 hits, and two sons and his passion for music. cluding the death tanny, he started the Haley Bell of a granddaugh - five nominations each by the Coun - It was not until he was 23—a pro - Blessed Chair Foundation. ter in 2010. try Music Association and the Acad - fessional musician in a band, a Named after Raye’s granddaugh - emy of Country Music as male young husband and soon-to-be-fa - (Photo courtesy Ignatius Press) ter, who died in 2010, the founda - vocalist of the year. In the 1990s he ther—that Raye encountered the tion assists families struggling to Catholic faith. sold 8 million records. meet the basic medical needs of dis - “My heart told me there was He also has suffered through the abled family members because of a something missing in my life,” he near-death of his wife and child, fol - low income or lack of adequate writes in his book. “I felt empty.” sacrament, rather than “an obliga - quipped. “But I thought at least the lowed by his wife’s year-long hospi - health insurance. The foundation talisation, the end of his marriage, Then he met two fans, Lil and tion to make my mom happy”. Years precedent was there.” Dick Ellington, and discovered they later, his by-then ex-wife also became That name change kicked off a has distributed more than 80 spe - career difficulties and bankruptcy, cialty wheelchairs for children with and the death of his granddaughter were Catholic. Catholic. long and successful career—though major disabilities. after years of an undiagnosed disease. “I was really searching at that it was not without its challenges, par - In December, Raye released a new The experiences are documented time, and I think God sent them to T was Raye’s faith that opened his ticularly after staffing changes at his in his recent autobiography, A Voice me very purposely,” he says now. “It mind to the possibility of chang - recording label, Sony. album, Still on the Line: The Songs of Undefeated (Ignatius Press)—a book set them back on their heels when I Iing his name. Known as “After years of sustained success, Glen Campbell . that Raye wasn’t even sure he asked if I could go to Mass with “Bubba”—he never went by Floyd— of platinum records and hit songs, of It has taken him years to under - wanted to write. them. They weren’t expecting that.” Raye understood that people outside fame and fortune,” he writes, “my stand “how to be still and turn “Am I important enough to write Raised Baptist, Raye was chal - the South of the United States might Nashville career went down in things over to him”, Raye said. And a book about myself?” he said he re - lenged by some teachings and tradi - not appreciate the name, and if he flames virtually overnight.” he still struggles to do that consis - membered thinking. The notion of tions of Catholicism—the place of continued spelling his last name as Fighting to continue recording tently. But through all the experi - an autobiography had never oc - Mary and the role of confession Wray, it would be tough for fans to and releasing hit songs, to fill concert ences, the one constant has been curred to him, but once he was asked among them—but his very first ex - find his records in the record store, venues, and to maintain his income, drawing nearer to God. to write one, he realised the project perience inside a Catholic church since they would almost certainly Raye also was focused on being as “It takes a lot of time and a lot of could be used for a greater good. opened his heart and he decided to look under the letter R. present to his children—and, even - negative circumstances to bring you “Obviously, God is wanting me to learn more. Raye became a Catholic “My first thought: ‘This just seems tually, his two granddaughters—as down on your knees on a regular do this because I have been in 1983. wrong, to change my name,’ but I his career permitted. basis before you can say, ‘Lord, I’ve [through] some ups and downs, and His infant daughter was baptised quickly remembered Jesus changed Problems persisted: his grand - got nothing here, and I’m going to been through some extraordinary with him in 1983. Though he was al - the names of the apostles. Not that daughter Haley’s mysterious disease have nothing tomorrow. Please take circumstances, both on the upside ready baptised, he asked to be bap - this was for the same reason he and then his son’s horrific car acci - this and do what you will with it’,” and the downside,” he said. “Hope - tised again to experience it as a changed Simon to Peter!” Raye dent. he said.—CNS

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Births • FirsCt ComLmuanionS • CoSnfirmIaFtionI • EEngDagemS ent/Marriage • Wedding anniversary • Ordination jubilee • Congratulations • Deaths • Renewal of the Spirit supports evangelisation In memoriam • Thanks • Prayers • Accommodation • Holiday Accommodation • HAVE spent much time in came to my rescue. I read a report Soon we asked to be prayed with Personal • Services • Employment • Property • Others Iprayer of late asking the Lord to in The Southern Cross of Catholics for what is called the release of Please include payment (R1,37 a word) with small advertisements for promptest make me a more effective evange - in the United States who were the Spirit, a release of what we publication. liser in his vineyard. St Paul’s discovering new power and life in had received at the sacraments of words, “Woe to me if I do not the Spirit to witness as Catholic initiation. and rich in miracles, kins - preach the gospel” (1 Cor 9:16), Pentecostals, in exactly the same It’s been 40 years since receiv - In MEMorIaM man of Jesus Christ, faithful THanKS are addressed to all the baptised. way as my former co-worker had ing this renewal of the Spirit, aLEXanDEr —Ralph. In intercessor of all who in - graTEFuL thanks to the I often think of a situation in witnessed to me. which many of my fellow critical loving memory of my voke you, special patron in Divine Mercy and Sacred my working career in about 1973 After enquiring from a priest Catholics described at the time as beloved husband Ralph, time of need. To you I have Heart for prayers an - recourse from the depth of swered. 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16th Sunday: July 20 Readings: Wisdom 12: 13, 16-19, Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16a, Romans 8:26-17, Matthew 13:24-43 Prepare for God to astonish you E find it extraordinarily hard, it seems, to believe in a God who is none of his audacity!] “turn to me and be gra - clearly we are dealing with a God who is on merciful; instinctively we look over Nicholas King SJ cious.” our side. W In the second reading for next Sunday, we That is the God of whom the gospel for our shoulders for the punishment that is coming down on all those who have done Sunday Reflections continue to listen to Romans, which will en - next Sunday speaks. We are still in the “para - wrong, including ourselves. That is not the gage us for some weeks to come. ble discourse” of Matthew’s gospel, and here God of either the Old or the New Testament. It is perhaps the most influential docu - we are presented with three parables, and the We can see this in the first reading for ment of the entire New Testament, so we explanation of one of them. next Sunday, and the Greek-speaking Jew should listen with care. The first is that of the “weeds and the who gave us the Book of Wisdom sings: The author of our psalm for next Sunday Here we have, as part of Paul’s argument, wheat”, and the second is that of the mus - “There is no other God but you, who cares for is likewise aware of this message: “For you, O grounds for confidence in what God has done tard-seed. all.” Lord, are good”, he sings, “and forgiving, rich for us in Christ Jesus. Here the argument is In the first, the crop has been deliberately God is powerful, that is true; but God’s in love to all who call upon you.” that we can trust the Spirit, which “comes to sabotaged, but the owner’s response is gentle power does not operate like human power. With confidence he asks God (and you the aid of our weakness”. and tolerant, rather than angry and destruc - “For our might is the beginning of justice, may reflect that this is quite a daring de - Paul makes the point that: “We have no tive. The second is that of the tiny mustard- and the fact that you are Master over all mand!), to “turn your ears to my prayer”. idea how to pray as it is necessary to pray.” seed, which turns into a “tree, so that the means that you spare [us].” God’s power is And he knows that God’s range is wider He says that we don’t have to worry: “The birds of the sky come and live in its such as to “expose arrogance…you judge with than ours: “Every nation that you made shall Spirit him/herself intercedes for us with branches”, which shows something of the clemency, and you manage [things] with le - come and worship in your presence, O Lord, groanings that cannot be uttered.” unexpectedness of God’s power. niency”. and give glory to your name.” Then, emphasising God’s tolerant mercy, The third is also slightly unexpected, in The author remembers God’s generous ac - But he is the “only game in town”: “You he goes on: “The one who searches hearts that it compares God to a baker-woman, tions, and comments: “Through actions like are great and perform wonders —you alone knows what is the Spirit’s thinking, because working the astonishing magic by which these you taught your people that the just are God.” he intercedes for the saints in God’s pres - dough rises and turns into bread. person must love human beings; you gave And our portion concludes: “You, Lord, are ence.” This week, be prepared to be astonished by your children hope, that after sins you allow merciful and gracious, slow to anger and rich We do not, to be perfectly candid, fully un - God. repentance.” in love and integrity and [the poet has lost derstand what is going on here, but quite Live fully in God’s energy Southern Cross word #610 EW thinkers have influenced me as naïve religion: profoundly as Robert L Moore. He’s a We have many defence mechanisms Fscholar who has spent almost 50 years Fr Ron against the “numinous”—the spiritual or studying human energy from the perspec - Rolheiser OMI supernatural energy—but that is under - tive of psychology, anthropology, and standable. When we are standing before spirituality. Final Reflection God and trying to access that energy, it is Few scholars are his equal in linking somewhat akin to a person standing be - human energy, even when it is raw and fore an electrical wire carrying 20 0 000 grandiose, to the image and likeness of to deal with anxiety have either deterio - volts and trying to plug in a coffee maker. God inside of us. He merits an audience. rated or died. Hence it is no surprise to see That’s an image for our struggle to try Recently, I had the privilege of attend - so much paranoia and violence in our to access and contain Godly energy. We ing an institute at which he delivered the world today. We are drowning in anxiety are constantly pressured by this energy, keynote address. I share with you a couple and lack the psychological and spiritual from within and without, and need, in - of his insights: resources to deal with that. side of us, to construct a psychological • Our growing anxiety and our need to This, for Moore, can be called “Noah’s chalice, a holy grail, an inner temple, to build “an ark” so as not drown in it: flood” in our time, the world is drowning consciously hold our God energies. This Our lives today are awash with anxiety in anxiety and we need to learn to build a psychological chalice is also the cup of the and this is wreaking psychological and “spiritual ark” (an “inner psychic temple”) Eucharist. spiritual havoc everywhere. We are being in order to not drown and, like Noah, Beyond that, we must also ask the assailed by “unregulated anxiety” and, as help preserve life on this planet. question: Why is there such a resistance this anxiety is rising, our capacity to han - in us regarding being aware of the great dle it is simultaneously going down. UT, Moore warns, this won’t be easy. presence? Why our habitual refusal of the ACROSS DOWN This is causing, in Moore’s words, a We are still very much in a state of de - B awareness of God? Why do we prefer to 3. Ability to see what’s com - 1. Formal discussion is so “pan-tribal regression”, that is, we are see - nial and, ironically, at one level that de - walk alone, without God? nial is actually healthily protecting us. ing (9) crude (9) ing almost everywhere groups huddle to - For Moore, this is really a key part of 2. Religious observances (9) As Moore puts it, if we punch through 8. Mountain creature featur - gether in paranoia and self-protection. the mystery of iniquity: We habitually 4. Did St Peter use them to our denial and other defence mechanisms ing rib extension (4) And what are the consequences of this? shut out a gracious God, preferring dark - go fishing? (4) without first building an inner psychic 9. Litany response (4,3,2) Studies have shown that when we feel ness to light. 5. Joseph was sold to temple, we can fall into psychosis because 10. The choir at dawn? (6) threatened, our capacity to listen to each • On the difference between science Potiphar here (Gn 37) (5) other shuts down, even biologically. we can be overwhelmed by our archetypal 11. Anaesthetic from a clear 6. How the altar-cloth was energies. and theology: In brief, when we feel anxiety, our The difference between science and the - sky (5) pressed (6) Our defence mechanisms are needed, 7. My ... has not yet come brains instinctually move towards a more ology is the difference between a jet-engine 14. Suing about employing primitive place, namely towards the rep - at least for a while, to help safeguard our (5) (Jn 2) (4) sanity. Fundamentalism is one of those and a rocket-engine. A jet engine needs 9. Purify (5) tile, more cold-blooded, part of us. oxygen and can fly only to a certain height; 15. Consider (4) This is further compounded by the fact safeguards. People are turning to rigid 11. Poem in the churchyard it has to remain inside our atmosphere. A 16. Buckets from the sewer (5) that we have fewer cultural and spiritual ways in order to try to remain sane. (5) • On our fear of God, our attempts to rocket engine is powered in such a way that 12. Declared a dogma vessels to help contain our anxiety. Many 18. Here I am. ... me (Is 6) block off God from our lives, and our it can fly outside of the atmosphere. again? (9) of our former cultural and spiritual rituals • On how we are to build an inner psy - (4) 13. Part of the undertaker’s chic temple: 20. Greek letter has article job (9) We all have amazing potential, but are and brief gratitude (5) 17. Cost I involve for being Conrad forever shooting low. It is possible to walk 21. Like bird-food, rather sor - forbearing (5) in the way of beauty, to live elegantly, be - did (5) 19. Devils (6) f speaking (5) cause we are already sitting in radiance. 22. Manner o 24. Aaron’s sister (Ex 15) (6) 23. The collection plate is There is a radical compassion already inside 25. A wide view of Roman made for it (4) us, but we must “awake” to it. cap I twisted (9) 24. Drink of human kind- We are already living in a huge love. 26. Labourer seen in open ness (4) The road home must already be home. changes (4) And so we need to be really suspicious 27. How the apparition may Solutions on page 11 whenever we feel alone, because we are appear (9) never alone. When we are feeling lonely we are being tricked. • What are some steps towards living the way of beauty and compassion? In brief: Cut through your denial, recognise CHURCH CHUCKLE what you lack. Eliminate “the waffle” HE rabbi and the archbishop meet at the buffet from your life, learn to hold the tension, Ttable during a big gala event. balance opposites, and consciously After he has dished his plate, the archbishop (through prayer) try to abide in the Great turns to the rabbi and asks with ironic commisera - Presence. Employ a “holy fierceness” in tion: “My dear rabbi, when, oh when, will you be doing that. able to taste this delicious pork roast?” Few spiritual writers exhibit Moore’s Without missing a beat, the rabbi replies: “At combination of depth and balance. He in - your wedding, Your Grace.” deed merits an audience.