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Tui Motu InterIslands monthly independent Catholic magazine August 2011 | $6 . editorial preaching amazing grace “The survival of our planet demands William Wilberforce to parallel real Visitation . He says that we have not nothing less than the abolition of possibilities for peace . Wilberforce developed the renewed way that the war ”. This is the radical ultimatum was an ‘amazing grace’ who, over a second Vatican Council portrayed that Canon Paul Oestreicher put to lifetime of strenuous advocacy, was the person of the mother of Jesus . the International Ecumenical Peace able to change an entrenched inter- Mary is truly our sister, who strug- Convocation in Kingston, Jamaica in national viewpoint and have slavery gled to understand her son and who May . (We gratefully reprint the text abolished . came to full understanding of him of his speech over two issues .) How do we grow a generation only after his resurrection from the And at so many levels, this state- of William Wilberforces to ensure dead . The Acts of the Apostles show ment is playing itself out . The financ- the complete overturning of war? her participating so closely in the ing of war through debt has plunged How do we make war illegal, not earliest days of the post-resurrection the United States into its present just in principle, but in fact? How church that she has become known as nightmare economic conundrum . are the many existing international mother of the Church — associating The ideological appeal to violence laws of peace and peace-making to that humble face of Mary of which and its indiscriminate use in places be enforced? Certainly the use of Brother Kieran writes with his vision that have rightly prided themselves armed forces in peace-keeping roles of a more humble Church . Father on their peacefulness, e .g . Norway, is defining one tiny step on this path Pat Maloney, peeping at the future, and the massacres of Anders Behring to abolition of war . Education at has a similar hope for a “…church Breivik, have shocked the world . all levels of society is another . Jesus’ less centralized in Rome, a church Again, look at the uncontrollable call to all-embracing love of enemies less focused on power and more on way in which first world governments remains to be fulfilled . May Canon service, a church with real author- pressure governments in third world Paul’s voice continue to raise Jesus’ ity returned to diocesan bishops, a countries to buy arms, thus fostering cry — and unsettle us to work for Church in which the baptismal gifts civil wars where the arms end up the total abolition of war . of all are recognized ”. being used against their own people . There is another amazing grace These two articles put a prophetic The military-industrial complex rules . to be found in Brother Kieran Fenn’s and hope-filled view of a renewed These are a tiny handful of many portrayal of what he calls a ‘Marial’ Church, with which many readers inter-twined situations that only church: the development of a church will identify . Mary, mother of the strengthen this powerful cri de coeur . more humble and more participa- Church, pray for us . n Canon Paul uses the person of tive, wearing the face of Mary of the KT Editorial . .2 Two Pauls, a cobbler and a prayer . 18 Glynn Cardy contents Winter Warmth . .3 Jack . 19 Letters to the Editor . .4 Anonymous Come you masters of war . 5 A war of words . 20-21 Ron Sharp Robert Mickens A new world is possible . 6-7 Your money or your life? . 22-23 Canon Paul Oestreicher Fr Neil Vaney sm The Madonna of Stalingrad . 8 A peep into the future . 24-25 Ron O’Grady Fr Pat Maloney The Virgin of Pelagonitissa . 9 Matthew 15: 21-28 - “But she said…” a female Sr Mary Horn op genealogy . 26-27 Is the Catholic Church faithful to Mary? . 10-11 Sr Kathleen Rushton rsm Bro Keiran Fenn fms Poem . 27 Poem: Still . 11 Pen Whitaker Hayden Williams Book and film reviews . 28-29 The politics of good health . 12-13 Cross Currents . 30 Michael Fitzsimons Jim Elliston We are all disciples . 14-15 The price of milk . 31 Interview: Fr Michael Hill ic Robert Consedine Should I speak of love? . 16-17 Learning from snails . 32 Clarice Stewart Robin Kearns front cover illustration: Donald Moorhead 2 Tui Motu InterIslands August 2011 . from the chair winter warmth erhaps we can thank the weather! After all, the forecast- Tui Motu ers and reporters have been InterIslands Tui Motu monthly independent Catholic magazine InterIslands March 2011 | $6 monthly independent Catholic mag July Pwaxing lyrically on the heaviest snow- 2011 | $6 azine falls, the largest number of lightning strikes, the wildest winds and giant sea swells… . Perhaps in winter we all like to hunker down a little more often with some good reading matter . Whatever the reason, we at Tui Motu T here’s a time for every season have been encouraged over the last under heaven… month or two by warm comments Did not our hearts burn… from readers new and old . We’ll share just a few samples . magazine. May God bless the work.” “Last year when working in — 1 July from a new subscriber in Christchurch… I came across and New Zealand So we seek your help in introduc- secured a copy of your excellent magazine ing this highly praised magazine to Tui Motu. 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ISSM 1174-8931 printers: Southern Colour Print, 1 Turakina Road, Dunedin Issue number 152 South, 9012 3 Tui Motu InterIslands August 2011 letters Fracking eco-system, should energize us into letters to the editor action . As citizens, consumers and Nicky Chapman is ‘on the button’ those called to reverence creation, with her challenge to take seriously We welcome comment, fracking needs to enter our personal the environmental impacts of pro- discussion, argument, debate. and communal lexicons . We must posed energy exploration in New But please keep letters under protest against proposed shale gas Zealand . While she focuses on lignite 200 words. The editor reserves fracking . Indeed, we need to talk and mining in Southland, other exploita- the right to abridge, while act! (www .frackaction .com) tive mining is also planned for NZ . not changing the meaning. Jacqui Ryan OP, Auckland Having recently returned from New Response articles (up to a York where FRACKING — hydrau- page) are welcome — but Carbon dioxide lic fracturing — is making headlines please, by negotiation. at all levels, I was deeply concerned With regard to the article Democracy, to learn in our media that the petro- climate change and southland lignite the site, it’s because this now has also chemical industry is preparing to by Nicky Chapman (TM, July), I am been silenced .) unleash this highly exploitative saddened to see once again the buy The CO issue is a geo political process here .