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RRP $26.95 Applications should be received by 31 july 1995 Obtain your copy from Jes uit Publicati ons Social Education and Research bookshop or from good record sto res Concerning Humanity (SEARCH) Foundati on. Room 608, 3 Smail Street, Broadway NSW 2007 Phone: (02) 2 1 I 4164, Fax (02) 2 1 I 1407 Developed in conj uncti on w ith Arts Vi ctori a SEARCH ARTS VICTORIA I ii•IIJ: I•Mii ii•J: I Volume 5 Number 3 srm:-er Aprill995 A magazin e of public affairs, the arts and theology 34 CoNTENTS MEDIA REMAINDERS Jon Greenaway muses on the passing of the black sheep of Australians news 4 papers; James Griffin records the life and COMMENT death of the Catholic Worl<er. (p37} 8 LETTERS 35 ARCHIMEDES 10 LET THEM EAT SPROUTS 42 Is the drought over simply because news BOOKS papers have ceased to report it, asks Juliette Hughes reviews Anne Hender Margaret Simons. son's Educating Johannah and N aom i Rosh White's School Matters. 13 Bruce Williams su rveys postmodern BUDGET BIDS culture and its adherents and critics, Tony Abbott, Cheryl Kernot and John reviewing Gertrude Himmelfarb's On Langmore write their wish lists. Looking into the Abyss and Zygmunt Baumann's Postmodem Ethics (p45). 15 CAPITAL LETTER 44 POETRY 16 A Barbarian Catechism by Chris DIVIDED THEY FALL Wallace-Crab be. Alan Nichols reports from Burma on the fate of the Karen people. 48 THEATRE 18 Stephen Sondheim's Assassins COUNTERPOINT reviewed by Geoffrey Milne. Paul Chadwick traces the connections linking Australia's m edia empires. 50 INTERVIEW 22 Tim Stoney talks to filmmaker TIME OUT OF MIND Shekhar Kapur. Mark Deasey celebrates an idyllic Cam Cover cartoon by Dean Moore. 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WATCHING BRIEF PO Box 553 Richmond VIC 3121 32 Tel (03)427 731 1 55 Fax (03)428 4450 QUIXOTE SPECIFIC LEVITY V OLUME 5 N UMBER 3 • EUREKA STREET 3 CoMMENT A magazine of public affairs, the arts CHRIS M c GtLLION and theology Publisher Michael Kelly SJ Editor Morag Fraser Production editor Ray Cassin Spirit of Consulting editor Michael McGirr SJ Editorial assistant: Jon Greenaway Production assistants: J. Ben Boonen CFC, place Paul Fyfe SJ, Juliette Hughes, Siobhan Jackson, Chris Jenkins SJ, Tim Stoney Contributing editors IN[ANUARY I WROTe in The Sydney Mowing Haald that Adelaide: Greg O'Kelly SJ the Papal Mass at Sydney's Randwick racecourse was the Brisbane: Ian Howells SJ most significant religious event in this country in the past Perth: Dean Moore 200 years. It owed this significance, I argued, less to the Sydney: Edmund Campion, Andrew Riemer, beatification of Mary MacKillop than to the inclusion of the Gerard Windsor. Aboriginal smoking ceremony in the liturgy. My point was European correspondent: Damien Simonis that the Mass had introduced a distinctive Australian US correspondent: Thomas H. Stahel SJ spirituality, a spirituality in which reflection on the physical environment could lead Australians to a deeper understand Editorial board ing of who they are and what it means to live a moral life. Peter L'Estrange SJ (chair), The smoking ceremony was not novel simply by virtue Margaret Coady, Margaret Coffey, of its inclusion in a Catholic liturgy-that has been done Madeline Duckett RSM, Trevor Hales, before-but because its inclusion in this particular liturgy Marie Joyce, Kevin McDonald, signified a new order of acceptance and encouragem ent of Jane Kelly IBVM, this form of religious expression at the highest levels of the Ruth Pendavi ngh, church. Brought together here were the barest threads of a Peter Steele SJ, Bill Uren SJ spirituality in which the physical environment becom es Business manager: Sylvana Scannapiego available to Australians not m erely to adorn their religious Advertising representative: Tim Stoney ceremonies (as it has at times in the past) but to instruct Patrons their religious life . Eurel<a Street gra tefully acknowledges the Australians know what it means to struggle with a harsh support of C.L. Adami; the trustees of the environment; that knowledge, the Pope suggested in his es tate of Miss M. Condon; A.J. Costello; homily, has much to teach us about the struggle in the D.M. Cullity; R.J . and H.M. Gehrig; 'spiritual wilderness' of our age. We have not made a hom e, W.P. & M.W. Gurry; as some would have us believe, in some godforsaken place. the Roche family. Priestly robes and Gothic architectural styles may seem inappropriate to our climate and sense of informality, and Eurel<a Street magazine, lSSN 1036-1758, the seasons may mock our efforts to observe imported reli Australia Post Print Post approved gious rituals like Easter and Christmas. Still, an omnipres pp34918 l /003 14 ent God must be in this country too- indeed, the Pope is published ten times a year by Eureka Street Magazine Pty Ltd, seemed to be saying, this is a land that resonates with the 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria 3 121. divine. Responsibility fo r editorial content is accepted by The Herald article brought a gratifying response from Michael Kell y, 300 Victoria Street, Richmond. predictable quarters- mild praise from priests and religious Printed by Doran Printing, who have worked in Aboriginal ministry for many years and 46 Industrial Drive, Bracside VIC 3 195. whose appreciation of the numinous quality of the Austral © Jesuit Publica ti ons 1993 ian landscape is much more finely attuned than my own. Unsolicited manuscripts, including poetry and From lay Catholics and other interested Christians, there fiction, will be returned only if accompanied by a was virtually no reaction at all. This did not surprise m e. In stamped, self-addressed envelope. Requests for the article I had also argued that the true significance of the permission to reprint material from the magazine Randwick Mass would probably not be appreciated by most should be addressed in writing to: people for another 20 years. The editor, Eurel<a Street magazine, What I had in mind was that the bare threads of this PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3 121. spirituality needed to be woven together into a well-tailored 4 EUREKA STREET • APRIL 1995 garmen t through further theological reflection. At comprehensive and ultimately satisfying transcend some point, the process of exploration and articula ent self-knowledge. tion has to include a broad range of Australians, espe On the other hand, however, the mainstream cially young Australians. Lastly, a spirituality of the churches have been slow to respond to a growing land must be infused with a certain potency if it is to environmental movement and many people (again, catch on and make a difference in the way people especially young people) have adopted 'green' politi think and live.