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U.8. nun killed, bishop injured in Nicaragua With eNS reports Ms. Lopez said the American WASHINGTON (CNS) - Two ,nun's body was to be returned to nuns, one of them an American, the Vnited States. were killed and an American bishop The ambush occurred on a road wounded Jan. I when V.S.-backed near Puerto Cabezas, 200 miles rebels ambushed a vehicle they northeast of Managua. Details of were driving in northeast Nicara- the attack were sketchy, but the gua, about 200 miles from the cap- Nicaraguan government blamed contra rebels. There was also a ital city of Managua.

The nun was identified as Sister possibility the church workers' car Maureen Courtney, 45, ofthe Con- drove over a mine, said officials.

Bishop Schmitz was ordained a gregation of the Sisters of St. Agnes of Fond du Lac, Wis. She. priest in 1970 by the apostolic vicar of Bluefields, Bishop Salvawas a native of Wisconsin.

The Nicaraguan nun was identi- tor Schlaefer, also a V.S.-born fied as Sister Teresa Rosales, also Capuchin missionary. a Sister of St. Agnes.

The vicariate is located on NicaWisconsin-born Auxiliary Bishop ragua's Atlantic coast, an area Paul Schmitz, 46, of the Apostolic where there has been much tension Vicariate of Bluefields, Nicaragua, between the Miskito Indian popuwas injured in the attack. The lation and the government over its bishop, a Capuchin Franciscan efforts to relocate the Indians. from Fond du Lac, was wounded Some of the Indians have joined in the arm and suffered loss of guerrilla groups fighting the blood but was considered out of government. danger.

Bishop Schmitz has been living Cecilia Lopez ofthe Nicaraguan in Nicaragua since 1970. He was Embassy in Washington told Cath- superior of the Capuchins living in olic News Service that the bishop Nicaragua from 1978 to 1982. From was taken to a hospital close to 1982 until 1984 when he was named where the ambush occurred, but auxiliary bishop, he served as vice he was to be transferred to a hospi- provincial of the Capuchin Vice Province of Central America, which tal in Managua.

Also injured in the ambush was has its headquarters in Managua. a second Nicaraguan nun, identiFrances Courtney of Wauwafied as Sister Francisca MaJ:ia tosa, Wise., the mother of Sister Estrada, 24. She was expected to Maureen, said her daughter had survive. The two Nicaraguan reli- served in Nicaragua 15 years. She gious had entered religion Jan. 21, was involved in education programs 1989. Both were Sisters of St. for the Miskito Indians.

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Thomas Quigley, a Latin AmerSister Courtney would have ican affairs adviser at the U.S. celebrated her silver jubilee in Catholic Conference, said he had Turn to Page Six December of this year. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- - - - - - - - - .

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RETIRED PRIESTS enjoy their. annual dinner with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. From left clockwise, beginning at front center, Fathers John G. Carroll, John J. Murphy, Daniel A. Gamache, Msgr. Arthur G. Considine, Father Cornelius J. Keliher.

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A YOUNG woman outside the Vatican embassy in Panama City waves U.S. and Panamanian flags. She was among demonstrators urging the Vatican to turn Gen. Noriega over to the United States. (CNSjUPI-Reuters photo)

What to do with Noriega?

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The case of deposed Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega, who took refuge in the Panama City nunciature Dec. 24, set off a week of delicate negotiations and diplomatic tensions between the Vatican, theU nited States and Panama.

As the new year arrived, Noriega was still enjoying what the Vatican carefully termed "temporary diplomatic asylum" in the nunciature, the Vatican's embassy. Meanwhile, U.S. troops kept watch outside the building, hoping to bring Noriega to the United States for trial on drug charges.

As the week ended, no third country had publicly offered political asylum to Noriega. With Panama's new government hesitant to take custody of Noriega and the Vatican unwilling to hand him over directly to the United States, the situation appeared to be at an impasse.

On Dec. 29, Panama's bishops told Pope John Paul II in a letter that Noriega must ",be turned over to justice." They did not, however, specify whose justice he should be handed to.

The letter said,that the church should extract assurances that

Noriega will be treated humanely by whatever authorities would take him into custody.

"Naturally, it is very necessary, and the protective spirit of the church requires it, that first there be established certain guarantees of his physical and personal safety, such as the exclusion of capital punishment, humane tr~atment, a fair and proper trial ... and that he be judged only for specified crimes," the letter said.

The bishops were clear on what they think about Noriega's character and conduct.

Their letter labeled him as "the author of abominable crimes, destroyer of his people and of his own nation." It said such activities have

NEXT WEEK is National Migration Week.

The Fall River diocese is celebrating by helping to resettle 100 Cambodian refugees who will make their homes in the Fall River area. See story and pictures on page 8.

been "properly and constantly documented" by the Panamanian bishops, the Panama Commission on Human Rights and the Organization of American States.

It also said recent evidence showed Noriega was involved in drugs, torture, plans for extended guerrilla warfare, a decadent lifestyle and witchcraft.

The Vatican sent an experienced diplomatic official, Msgr. Giacinto Berloco, to Panama to "lend a hand" to the nuncio, a spokesman said Jan. 2. Msgr. Berloco is the Vatican's counselor to the Panamanian nunciature and handles other Latin American affairs at the Vatican Secretariat of State.

Throughout the week, the Vatican emphasized that Panama nuncio Archbishop Jose Sebastian Laboa, had accepted Noriega temporarily, and only after the ousted leader promised to call off his armed struggle against the Dec. 20 U.S. invasion of Panama. Vatican spokesman Joaquin NavarroValls noted that there had been no deaths in combat since Noriega entered the nunciature. Some Panamanians, however, said that since the invasion Noriega had Turn to Page Six

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Northern Ireland project ann~unced

CRS sends trucks

BOSTON (CNS) - Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston Dec. 21 joined in announcing a V .S. investment in a $100 million shopping center in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

More than 1,000 jobs are expected to be created with its opening in December 1992, cutting the port city's unemployment rate by an estimated 10 percent, the announcement said.

Cardinal Law announced the development along with Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, executives of the Boston-area O'Connell Development Company and members of Boston Ireland Ventures.

At a press conference Cardinal Law said he had spoken earlier in the day with Bishop Cahal Daly of the Diocese of Down and Connor in Northernlreland.

"He told me," the cardinal said, the news "was the finest Christmas present Derry has ever had."

Many of Boston's Irish families have ancestors who emigrated from Londonderry, popularly known to the Irish as "Derry."

Ground is to be broken in late 1990. When completed, the shopping center, with 300,000 square feet, will double the city's retail space.

Catholics make up some 65 percent of the population of Derry, which has an unemployment rate of about 28 percent. For Catholics, unemployment is estimated as high as 40 percent.

to Angola BALTIMORE (CNS) - After mounting a worldwide search for trucks able to transport foodstuffs in the wartorn country of Angola, Catholic Relief Services, the foreign aid organization of the V.S. Catholic Conference, found them in its own headquarters city of Baltimore.

The specially modified trucks were needed to deliver $873,490 worth of corn meal, vegetable oil and pinto beans to help feed some 65,000 displaced Angolans. They had to arrive in Angola in time to load foodstuffs scheduled to arrive in the country on Jan. 20. The trucks are expected to arrive Jan. 21 aboard the ship Sikorsky.

CRS went to Sweden, Germany and Brazil in search of trucks, but they could not be modified in time to meet the deadline. The trucks were finally located at Baltimore's White GMC Trucks, right under the nose of CRS, and within two weeks were modified to meet African terrain and weather requirements.

Robert Chatten of CRS said that if the trucks had not been found, it would have taken two or three months for the foods to reach needy Angolans.

He said the trucks needed different cooling systems to handle African heat, larger wheels and tires to traverse rugged terrain, . and longer bodies, to meet Angolan requirements.

The trucks cost $140,000 plus $8,500 for spare parts.

War in Angola, now under a cease-fire, has caused food shortages and other problems for an estimated 600,000 people in 17 provinces. Eighty percent of those affected are women and children.

The U .S~overnment last August authorized CRS to distribute about $2.3 million in commodities in Angola.

New CRS building is dedicated BALTIMORE (CNS) - Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore said the city was pleased to become the "world capital of charity" as he helped dedicate the new headquarters of Catholic Relief Services.

At the dedication, Archbishop Edward T. O'Meara of Indianapolis, CRS board chairman, called the agency "the largest volunteer agency in the world." It was founded by the U.S. bishops for overseas aid and development.

CRS moved from New York in August because of Baltimore's lower operating and living costs, a good labor force and its proximity to Washington, Archbishop O'Meara said.

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, DMd., told the dedication audience that CRS had begun in 1943 and was still going strong.

She said she hoped the money saved by relocating would go "into people" so they could afford such things as a Catholic education.

Others present for the ceremony included retired Archbishop William D. Borders and Auxiliary Bishop William C. Newman of Baltimore and College of Notre Dame president Sister Kathleen Feeley.

AT ANNUAL dinner for retired priests, left picture, from left clockwise, Fathers Joseph O'Donnell, James F. Kenney, Msgr. Alfred J. Gendreau (background), Fathers James A. McCarthy, William H. O'Reilly, Joseph F. D'Amico; right picture, from left clockwise, Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald; director of diocesan health facilities; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Msgr.

John J. Oliveira, Msgr. Joseph R. Pannoni. (Gaudette photos)

33 Bishop's Ball presentees are named 33 young ladies will be presented to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at the 35th annual Bishop's Charity Ball on Friday, Jan. 12, at White's of Westport. The 1990 ball will be the 20th at which Bishop Cronin will be the honored guest.

"These presentees represent parishes from the five areas of the diocese," said Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan ball director.

"Every year, one-third of the III diocesan parishes is given this honor."

Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., of Fall River, who heads the presentation committee, announced that the presentees with their fathers or other escorts, will meet at White's at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9 to rehearse the presentation ceremony.

The Ball benefits summer camps for the underprivileged and excep-

tional children and other charitable apostolates of the diocese.

The presentees are: Fall River area: Linda Dumont, Blessed Sacrament parish, Susan Oliveira, Espirito Santo, Lori LaTulippe, Holy Cross, Joy Fiola, St. Elizabeth, Heidi Dubancik, Sts. Peter and Paul, Kristine Elizabeth Pereira, St. Stanislaus, Kim Sousa, Holy Rosary, all Fall River.

Christine Farrelly, St. Thomas More, Jessica Medeiros, St. John of God, both of Somerset. Rebecca Bachtel, St. John the Baptist, Westport. Ilene Sue Marsden, St. Louis de France, Swansea.

Attleboro area: Lynne Greco, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls; Jennifer Costa, St. Theresa, South Attleboro; Christine Harvey, St. Mary, Seekonk; Evelyn Sierra, St. Joseph, Attleboro.

Cape & Islands area: Andrea Hig-

gins, O.L. Cape, Harwich; Ann M. Janerico, St. Anthony, East Falmouth; Beth Maureen Topham, O.L. Isle, Nantucket; Hope Theresa Murphy, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs; Holly Merna, Holy Trinity, West Harwich; Christine Maurer, St. Elizabeth Seton, No. Falmouth.

New Bedford area: Leontina de Sousa, Immaculate Conception, Nicole Pelletier, O.L. Fatima, Tanya Macek, O.L. Perpetual Help, Joanne Louise Ponte, St. Hedwig, Danielle Rene Lacoste, St. Mary, all New Bedford.

Amy Crowl, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Julianne Seguin, St. Joseph, Fairhaven; Melissa Garde, St. Anthony, Mattapoisett.

Taunton Iirea: Theresa Castro, Holy Family, East Taunton; Christina Lamarche, Immaculate Conception, Diane Festa, St. Anthony, both of Taunton; Marie Ann Foley, St. Ann, Raynham.

Church presses for EI Salvador justice

By Catholic News Service Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, president of the U.S. Catholic Conference, and Cardinals Bernard F. Law of Boston a'nd James A. Hickey of Washington visited the White House Dec. , 22 to seek U.S. support-for a cea~e足 fire and good-faith negotiations in EI Salvador.

After meeting with White House chief of staff John H. Sununu and national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, Archbishop Pilarczyk sent a letter and policy document to President Bush.

The U.S. bishops support Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador "in his powerful criticism of both sides in the conflict in EI Salvador," the letter said.

He said the V.S. bishopswished to stress the importance of the V.S. government placing "a clear priority on the defense of human 'rights" and "the pursuit of true justice and genuine peace through dialogue and negotiations among all the parties."

Archbishop Pilarczyk also thanked Bush for his assurances that the killers of six Jesuit priests and their cook and her daughter on Nov. 16 would be brought to justice.

The document sent with the letter, "Principal Concerns of the V.S. Catholic Conference on V.S. Policy in EI Salvador," was a summary of recent communications with the Bush administration and members of Congress on EI Salvador.'

Killings Premeditated The killings of the Jesuits and their household workers were premeditated, charged San Salvador

Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, citing "an irresponsible campaign of accusations and slander above all in the print media - against various distinguished academics from the university that now are dead."

He commented during a December meeting of the Association of Latin American Studies in Miami.

The archbishop called the cur, rent situation in his nation "one of the most difficult and frightening moments in the history of EI Salvador."

He cited new "restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly, an increase in human rights violations and the threat of judicial reforms that would violate the most basic human rights held in a democratic state."

After he returned to San Salvador, the archbishop accused V.S. officials of intimidating Lucia Barrera de Cerna, an apparent witness to the murder of the Jesuits. After the killings, she, her husband and their 4-year-old daughter were flown to Miami.

There, instead of being protected, as U.S. representatives in EI Salvador had promised, she was subjected to a "veritabkbrainwashing in that country and to the blackmail that she would be deported if she did not tell the truth," the archbishop charged.

President Bush and William Walker, U.S. ambassador to EI Salvador, denied the archbishop's accusation.

However, a report issued by the New York-based Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights alleged that Mrs. Cerna and her husband said they were so scared and pressured during Nov. 27-30 interro-

gations by two FBI agents and a Salvadoran colonel that they retracted their original testimony, saying instead that neither ofthem had seen anything on the night the murders took place.

But the FBI issued a statement saying that Mrs. Cerna "was treated in a professional and personable manner" during interrogations.

Jesuit Father Paul S. Tipton, president of the Washington-based Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, told Catholic News Services that "when you see [Mrs. Cerna] and meet with her, you know [her testimony] has got to be the truth. ' "The real question that needs to be answered is: Why was she handled by our people this way in Miami? We need some kind of response to that," said the priest.

"It was against Lucia's personal interest to have come forward to testify in the way that she has," said the iawyers' report. "It is wellknown in EI Salvador that grave risks face witnesses, judges, lawyers and others involved with the investigation or prosecution of crimes in which the military or security forces are implicated.

"Many have been murdered, many more have been threatened with death.... She had nothing to gain and a great deal to lose," it said.

It said Mrs. Cerna's "brief recantation" of her original testimony on the third day of her FBI interrogation in Miami was "a completely understandable response to the manner in which she had been treated and the circumstances in which she found herself."

"Alone and uncounseled in a foreign country, subjected to days of intense interrogation at the hands

Boston Ireland Ventures was formed in 1987 as a private, nonprofit, citizen-based organization after a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in honor of John Hume of.Northern Ireland.

H ume leads the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party. He called the announcment from Boston "the best job news for the Derry area in the past 20 years."

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of men she found rude, threatening and disbelieving, it is hardly surprising that she chose to stop cooperating with' her interrogators," the report said.

According to the report, Mrs. Cerna's husband, who was not recognized ,as a witness at first, said during the interviews that he saw seven or eight men walking swiftly from the pastoral center the night ofthe killings. He said he believed they were wearing dark clothes and caps with visors.

During the FBI interrogation, the report said, Cerna was asked how much the priests had paid him. He was also asked whether he was sure his wife earned her living for the Jesuits as a housemaid.

Among the interrogators was Salvadoran Lt. Col. Manuel Antonio Rivas Mejia, who was introduced to the Cernas as "doctor.'"

Mrs. Cerna, the report said, realized he was a member of the Salvadoran military when someone referred to him as "colonel."

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Training series set for youth ministers

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The Diocesan Office of Youth Ministry is sponsoring a training program for adult volunteers who minister to youth.

"Adolescent Morality" will be presented by Rev. Robert Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation of clergy and laity; "Y outh Culture" by John Dacey ofthe campus.ministry department of Bishop Connolly High School Fall River; "Teenagers and Social Justice" by Anthony Nunes of the campus ministry department of Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton.

Each topic will be presented at four locations in the diocese: 7:309:30p.m. on Thursday, Jan. II, 18 and 25 at St. Thomas More parish, Somerset, and St. Mary, Seekonk; 7:00-9:00 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, 25 and Feb. I at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown; and 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday Jan. 27 at Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville.

Registration for the series is $25 . per person or $100 per parish.

Checks may be made payable to Office for Catholic Youth Ministry, PO Box 428, East Freetown, 02717.

UN adopts document on rights of child UNITED NATIONS (CNS)The U.N. General Assembly has unanimously adopted a Convention on the Rights of the Child, a document 10 years in the making and endorsed by the Vatican. .

The convention defines a child as a person under 18 who should enjoy all fundamental rights, health care and education. It compels nations, parents and legal guardians to protect those rights.

It urges nations to stop sexual exploitation of children in prostitution and pornography. It also sets 15 as the minimum age at which children may be drafted into military service.

The convention's preamble states, "The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth."

No references to the unborn are made in the convention's operative articles. The Vatican had endorsed the convention while voicing concerns about the lack of articles to ban abortion. The International Right to Life Federation urged rejection of what it called a "flawed" document.

Pluralism needed ROME(CNS)- The U.S. Catholic Church must understand and reflect cultural pluralism if it wants to survive and expand in the black community, says Father Edward Braxton. The Chicago archdiocesan priest, theologian and author spoke at a seminar on black liturgy and evangelization in Rome attended by some 100 people from 20 U.S. dioceses.

"Just as some whites continue to feel that to have black neighbors, black fellow workers, black classmates will be disruptive of their familiar pattern of life, just as they continue to maintain segregated neighborhoods," Father Braxton said, "many white Catholics feel it would be equally disruptive for them to share the Scriptures, the bread of life and the cup of salvation with black Catholics."

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Father dos Reis die's at 79 Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant and many priests of the diocese were concelebrants at the Mass of Christian Burial offered Dec. 23 at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Fall River, for Father Laureano C. dos Reis, 79, who died Dec. 21 at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River.

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Azores, he emigrated to the U nited States and was assigned as associate pastor at St. Michael's Church, Fall River, where he served for eight years, then in 1946 was transferred to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, New Bedford, also as associate pastor.

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Sects worry pope VATICAN CITY(CNS)- The spread ofsects threatens the Catholic Church in Latin America, said Pope John Paul II. The pope told a group of Latin American bishops and Vatican officials involved in Latin American affairs that the activity of sects is a major "pastoral worry" of the church. Sects spread where "living of the faith is shallow and when people do not receive the proper instruction to face the new doctrines being expounded," he said. Expansion of the fundamentalist groups is "threatening the very Catholic identity of various church communities" in the region the pope said.

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Sister Juliette LeBlanc The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Dec. 18 by Bishop Odore J. Gendron in St. Augustin Church, Manchester, N.H., for Sister Juliette LeBlanc, CSC, 72, Superior General of the Sisters of Holy Cross, who died Dec. 14 in Catholic Medical Center, also in Manchester. ' Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she attended elementary schools in Nashua and Manchester, N.H., and secondary school at Our Lady of the Angels Academy, Montreal, Quebec.

She held a bachelor's degree from the University of New Hampshire and master's degrees from St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vt., and Boston College.

Sister LeBlanc entered religious life in 1940 and was active for 35 years in teaching on the high school and college levels. Her service included an assignment at the former St. Anthony High School, New Bedford. .

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the moorin&.-, A Surfacing Concern As we begin this New Year many issues need attention. This week we focus on some that truly affect us all: those interdependent categories of the immigrant, the migrant and the refugee.

Our world is in constant change and movement, with thousands of men, women and children seeking a place to call home. They are for the most part victims of persecution and poverty who have little control over their destiny in the land of their birth.

Indeed, refugees and migrants are for the most part the remnants of political struggle. The so-called powerful usually have created the misery of the weak and have little regard for their suffering.

Just take a hard look at the situation of the Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong. The end of the Iran-Iraq war did little to resettle the hundreds of thousands of refugees that the struggle created. In Africa, conflicts in the Sudan and Mozambique have produced more thousands of refugees, while the power struggles of Central America have played havoc with immigration limits.

Meanwhile, the undocumented, uncounted thousands of Irish are refugees from the poverty of their homeland.

In short, the litany of suffering peoples and nations is evergrowing and it is feared that many recently liberated Eastern Europeans will be seeking to emigrate.

These are the voiceless people of our world. Few receive much help, nor is much concern for their plight evidenced. For these reasons, it is imperative that we make assisting them a matter of conscience.

If we in the church truly believe that we are the community of God's people, then we have li'n obligation to be concerned about the members of our family.

Sad to say, few people in the pews want to hear about this issue. Deaf ears and hardened hearts are apt to greet mention of the plight of our brothers and sisters. If conscience does twinge a bit, we feel that throwing a dollar into a collection basket will be a sufficient response to need.

Very often, our sensitivity to immigration and refugee issues stops at this level. But, like so many other issues, they will not mend unless we become involved.

Admittedly, a lot of our hesitation has to do with fear. We are afraid of people we don't know. If they have differently shaped eyes, speak a different language and have differently colored skin, the problem becomes more complicated.

In a time when some walls are tumbling down, there are other walls being reinforced by bigotry and bias. There is little doubt that racial, ethnic and religious hatred is a growing problem in America.

In such an atmosphere, what chance of help is there for a Cambodian, Panamanian, Iranian or Ethiopian who comes as a refugee or immigrant to this country? The walls of intolerance, intimidation and intractability are built to keep people out and, sadly, many Americans thrive on such building projects.

We admit that basic reform in our methods of dealing with immigrants and refugees is long overdue in this country. We need compassion and fairness in dealing with a growing issue that affects all our lives. The church must be a frontrunner in this matter and it should not be viewed merely as a task of the administrative church. .

Rather, it has to be viewed as a task of all God's pilgrim people.

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CAMBODIANS, SUCH AS THIS MAN AND HIS DAUGHTER IN A THAILAND REFUGEE CAMP, ARE AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE FOUND SHELTER IN THE FALL RIVER DIOCESE (See story and picture on page 8.)

"I was a stranger and you sheltered me." Matt. 25:35

Accommodation seen as peril This strategy, Father Dulles said, NEW YORK (CNS) - Noted authoritarian Catholicism" of the' theologian Jesuit Father Avery past and takes a "highly critical" sets itself "against every establishment, whether secular or ecclesiDulles thinks that the greatest view of U.S. culture.

Neo-conservatism, Father Dulles astical. " danger facing the U.S. Catholic . Each of the four strategies, he Church is "excessive and indis- said, sees both Catholicism and路 creet accommodation"to U.S. cul- U.S. secular culture as "basically concluded, has both strengths and good" and in harmony with each weaknesses, and none is "simply ture.

In a New York lecture, Father other. This strategy is represented, wrong.."

Father Dulles said he agreed Dulles called U.S. Catholics to a he said, by. such figures as lay "counterculturalism," but one authors Michael Novak and George with traditionalists and neo-con"measured" and "prudent" in its Weigel and by Denver Archbishop. servatives that the church is "basirecognition that the church could J. Francis Stafford as seen, he cally healthy." But he also agreed benefit from "certain American said, in the latter's pastoral letters with the liberals that it could learn "from the American experiment" to his archdiocese. democratic values and practices."

Liberalism, considering Cathol- and with the radicals that it should "Our American traditions of freedom, personal initiative, open icism "diseased," emphasizes "how be "admonished by prophetic recommunication and active parti- . Americanism can help ~o moder- formers" to the extent it adopts the cipation can undoubtedly be a're- nize the church," Father Dulles values of middle class America. source for the renewal of Catholi- said.

Neo-conservatives and liberals cism in an age when authoritarian As exponents of this view he who view U.S. society as basically structures, repression and con- named, among others, Father healthy, he said, minimize "the formity are in general disrepute," Richard P. McBrien, chairman of extent to which the tradition of he said. the theology department at the public virtue has been eroded by But traditional Catholicism, he University of Notre Dame, and the quest for private pleasure and said, has "convictions and priori- Father Charles E. Curran, whose material gain."

Noting that the predominant license to teach theology at The ties" different from those embedded in American culture.

Catholic University of America trend in U.S. Catholicism since the "The more thoroughly Catho- 'was withdrawn by the Vatican.

Second Vatican Council has been Father Dulles said prophetic "accommodationism," he said he lics become inculturated in the radicalism appeared in the "apoca- finds this tendency in the hierarchy American scene, the more alienated they become from their religious lypticism" of Jesuit Father Daniel as well as among theologians and roots and the hierarchical authoriBerrigan, poet and peace activist, . young Catholics who see themties," he said. "Accommodation, and the "vehemence" of Domini- selves first as Americans and "only therefore, can increase the crisis of can Father Matthew Fox, a theol- secondarily as Catholics."

"Apart from the issue of aboridentity felt by American Catho- ogian who specializes in creation~entered spirituality. tion, on which they are willing to lics. " risk a measure of unpopularity," Father Dulles made his remarks he said, "the bishops increasingly in delivering the annual McGinley shift their attention to social issues, Lecture. He is holder of Fordham adopting agendas that in many University's McGinley Chair in ways resemble those of the liberal Religion and Society, which honors intelligentsia, notably in their Jesuit Father ....aurence J. McGinteaching on peace and on the ley, Fordham president emeritus. economy."

Regarding the approach to U.S. For Humility Accoinmodation has always been culture, Father Dulles said four "an honored principle of pastoral MostHoly Trinity, Fathstrategies are pursued by U.S. and missionary practice," and there Catholics: traditionalism, neo-coner, Son and Holy Spirit, can be "no question of simply servatism, liberalism and prophetic behold me prostrate in thy rejecting" it, Father Dulles said, radicalism. divine presence. I humble warning that "by simply echoing He said traditionalism, repremyselfprofoundly and beg the prevailing opinions and values" sented by history professor James the church undermines its "claim of thee the forgiveness of F. Hi'tchcock of St. Louis Univerto present a divine message" and sity and charismatic leader Ralph my sins. A men. weakens the "motivation for seekMartin, seeks unrealistically to reing membership." store "the more centralized and

Bits and pieces· After a second column on supporting unwed mothers who choose to keep their babies, in which I expressed dismay over the negative and vengeful mail I received after the first column appeared, I heard from many supportive and compassionate readers.

Several letters came from family members and friends who told of the difficulties and courage of such mothers. A deep love and admiration shone through their words, lifting'my depression over a seemingly widespread nastiness.

I want to share this second round of response because we need to know that Christian love is alive and well in the People of God. Northern Ireland VVhen I returned to the peace community of Corrymeela in Northern Ireland last summer, I learned that some 100 of you joined Friends of Corrymeela in response to my column, sending nearly $1000 to this courageous community that works to heal Catholic-Protestant division in those sad six counties.

VVhile we were there, they were running a week-long retreat for Catholic and Protestant youth who had never interacted before. The following weekend they were offering a get-away retreat for families of political prisoners.

The leaders asked me to thank all of you for your support and generosity.

Romero If you don;t see another movie this year, take the family to Romero, the beautifully produced Paulist production of the life of Bishop Oscar Romero of EI Salvador, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass. It is a gripping story of a modern saint who could have taken the easy road of collaborating with the power structure but instead chose the road to the cross.

I agree with the priest who said that everybody who cried out against The Last Temptation of Christ has a duty to support this film. Public thanks are due the Paulists for producing a first-class film on a religious theme.

More about NFP Q. We found your answer a few weeks ago (Anchor, Dec. 8) concerning the fact that church officials formerly said rhythm birth control was not moral very interesting.

But we were not sure of the connection with Natural Family Planning. The question the woman or man asked was about that, but you did not answer 'it directly. The NFP couples we know say it is not rhythm but something entirely different. Can you help us? (California) A. The historical perspective I gave in that column applied, as I said, to any method by which a couple attempts to arrange its sexual relationships to avoid pregnancy by limiting intercourse to the infertile times in the "rhythms" of a woman's menstrual cycle.

"Rhythm" is a generic term to designate any method which attempts to a void o'r regulate pregnancy by avoiding intercourse when it is thought that the woman is in the fertile part of.her cycle.

N FP is one of those methods, even though it did not exist, at least under that name, until relatively recently.

Part of the answer to your question lies in the fact that there are two critical elements in the effectiveness of any "rhythm" method.

One is the scientific-medical clarification of when the fertile time of a woman's monthly cycle occurs. At various times in previous ages that time was thought to be immediately before or immediately after her "period." VVe now know that is not true.

Under average conditions an ovum (egg) is released from a woman's ovary about 14 days before the beginning of menstruation and lives approximately 24 hours after its release. It is during those 24 hours that fertilization (pregnancy) can take place, if the male's sperm unites with the ovum.

The sperm is capable of fertilizing an ovum for about 72 hours, Thus, there are about four days during each menstrual cycle when intercourse could result in pregnancy.

The other critical element in the effectiveness of any rhythm method, therefore, is determining exactly when that 24-hour-period occurs, and thus when intercourse must be avoided if the couple wishes to avoid pregnancy. (Of course, the .system can be used in the opposite way also, if the couple wishes to have a child.)

Numerous factors can be tested at home to attempt to determine that time. They include the woman's temperature, identifiable pains or feelings in some parts of her body that consistently accompany certain phases of her cycle, the "thickness" of bodily secretions that vary at different times of the month and so on, VV omen differ in thejr cycles, of course. Sickness, tension and other factors also may affect any of these physiological events.

Obviously the effectiveness of any "rhythm" method depends on the motivation and commitment ofa couple who want it to work. It takes a good deal of patience, perseverance and discipline to be regular in making these tests and to abide by the findings.

Natural Family Planning combines several of the above criteria.

For couples who are sufficiently motivated and faithful to its regimen, it has a very high rate of SUC" cess as a method offamily planning.

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Fetal research ban is extended WASHINGTON (CNS) - V.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan has extended indefinitely a federal moratorium on the use offetal tissue from elective abortions for transplant research.

"Permitting the human fetal research at issue will increase the ' incidence of abortion across the country," wrote Sullivan in a letter to the acting director of the National Institutes of Health.

The ban began in March 1988 following a request by the National Institutes of Health to transplant fetal tissue into a patient with ParSCOUTING AS Youth Ministry was the topic of a recent meeting between Dann Cooke, kinson's disease. left, national director of Catholic relations for the Boy Scouts of America, and diocesan Proponents of the research say scouting executives and youth ministers. With him are Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, diocesan the use offetal tissue may help find cures for diseases. Opponents say scouting chaplain Father Stephen Salvador, and New England area Scouting chairman Dan using tissue from aborted fetuses Bettencourt. (Hickey photo) has moral and ethical implications that outweigh the potential benefits.

The ban does not extend to stillbirths or fetuses aborted spontaneously. It does not cover privately financed research using fetal Bells for Babies Preparations are continuing for and attend a rally. The march itself tissue, which is under way in about diocesan participation in the 17th will take place from 1 to 3 p.m., . In connection with the March a dozen medical centers. annual March for Life, to take beginning at the Ellipse at Consti- for Life, churches are asked to ring Pro-life groups hailed the ban's place Monday, Jan. 22, in Wash" tution Avenue and 15th Street in their bells 25 times at noon Sunextension. ington, D.C. the capital and ending at the day, Jan. 21, and Monday Jan. 22, "It is unworthy of us, as a nation, one stroke for each million of the Mrs. Mary Ann Booth, New Supreme Court building. to kill our unborn children and Bedford chapter chairman of MassFurther information on buses is 25 million babies aborted since the then use them for spare parts," achusetts Citizens for Life, available from Mrs. Booth at 6361973 high court ruling; Mrs. Booth said John C. Willke, president of announced a three-pronged ob- "4903 for the New Bedford area and said many churches participated the National Right to Life Com- servance of the 17th anniversary of from Mrs. Alice C. McAndrews at in this action last year. She added mittee, in a statement. "The that a tape is available which can Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme 226-0292 for the Attleboro area. government should protect unborn Court decision that struck down Mrs. Booth said there are sev- be played at Masses as a means of babies, not strip-mine them." state abortion restrictions. eral young people eager to go to reflecting on abortion deaths.

The assistant secretary for health, She said that all diocesan pas- Washington who cannot afford Information on obtaining it is James O. Mason, said, "This is a tors have been notified by Father the bus fare of $35 from New Bed- available from her, also at 636-4903. moral issue. I'm concerned that in Thomas L. Rita, director of the ford and $38 from Attleboro. She Petition Drive the V nited States government sponParishes are also asked to set up Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate, of suggested that persons unable to soring fetal tissue transplantation the activities planned: participa- make the trip who might be willing tables at church doors during weekresearch that there will be the clear tion in the March for Life; a Bells to subsidize a young person send end Masses Jan. 20 and 21 with perception on the part of many for Babies memorial; and a peti- donations to Massachusetts Citi- sheets bearing the following statethat their government is encouragtion drive. zens for Life at PO Box 40268, ment to be signed: "I do not suping or promoting abortion."

Organizers hope to have represport the position ofN.O. W., which New Bedford 02744.

The National Institutes of Health entation from every parish at the She also noted that persons will- permits abortion on demand throughprovide about $7 billion a year in Washington march. Buses will leave ing to act as parish pro-life con- out all nine months of pregnancy." medical research subsidies.

St. James Church, 233 County St., tacts may contact Father Rita at Also available for distribution, said "Providing the additional rationNew Bedford, at 9 a.m. Sunday, St. Mary's Rectory, 385 Central Mrs. Booth, are informative flyers alization of directly advancing the Jan. 21, for those wishing to attend on pro-life ministry.

Ave., Seekonk 02771. cause of human therapeutics canan all-night prayer vigil at the not help but tilt some already National Shrine of the Immacuvulnerable women toward a decilate Conception beginning at 7 sion to have an abortion," Sullip.m. and concluding about 7:30 van said, adding that neither ConNoriega to be handed over and the Continued from Page One a.m. Monday, Jan. 22. gress nor his Cabinet-level office been a fugitive controlling nothing Vatican politely refusing, a Rome A second bus will leave St. James had reached a "consensus" on fetal Church at 8:30 p.m. Jan. 21 for but his own flight from the V.S. source said. tissue transplants. those wishing to participate in military dragnet.

Meanwhile, V .S. military actions Jan. 22 events. A bus will leave at the nunciature prompted a The Vatican maintained that it Attleboro at 10 p.m. Jan. 21. sharply worded Vatican reaction. could not consign Noriega to V.S. All those going to Washington In an apparent bid to unnerve troops.

For an embassy in one WASHINGTON (CNS) - Carare invited to a hot breakfast at the Noriega and those hosting him, country to turn over a person seekmelite Father Eamon R. Carroll, a national Shrine, beginning at 6:30 V.S. soldiers spent the week blasting asylum to a third country theology professor at Loyola a.m., following which they will nonstop rock music at the ing would be "absolutely outside the V niversity of Chicago, has received meet with members of Congress nunciature, frisking embassy pernorms of diplomatic procedures the Patronal Medal from The Cathsonnel, stopping official cars from and i'nternational law," Navarro- olic V niversity of America and the entering, shooting out street lights Valls said.

National Shrine ofthe Immaculate EDICTAL CITATION and buzzing the building by The Vatican was, however, willConception. The medal is given to DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL helicopter. ing to consider a request for those who advance devotion 路to FAll RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Citing an international treaty, Mary, theology and appreciation Noriega from Panama's new governSince the actual place of residence of the Vatican spokesman said such of Mary's place in the life of the ment, but as of Dec. 30 no such tactics were viewed as a "very church, the V nited States and WILFRED A. BLAKE is unknown. request had been made. The church serious tnatter" and said further Catholic V niversity.

We cite WILFRED A. BLAKE to appear per路 was not trying to "block the course sonally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of of justice concerning a person steps would be taken if they Fall River on Tuesday, JANUARY 16, 1990 at accused of serious crimes," said a continued.

10:30 a.m. at887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Dec. 30 statement from the VatiNavarro-Valls' statement marked Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: can Secretariat of State. the first time the Vatican had Continued from Page One Whether the nullity of the marriage referred to the Vnited States as an Meanwhile the nuncio was trybeen 'in communication with the exists in the SOUCY路BLAKE case? occupying power in Panama, a ing to convince Noriega to leave Capuchin superior in Managua, Ordinaries of the place or. other pastors the nunciature voluntarily, but definition that was challenged by who said that the slain and injured having the knowledge of the residence of the the Vnited States. without forcing him to do so. church workers had been in one of above person, WILFRED A. BLAKE, must see to "Certainly [he] is not living in a "We are down there with the two cars traveling to a' meeting it that he is properly advised in regard to this hotel, so one day or another he consent of the government of edictal citation. with Miskito Indian representmust leave," Navarro-Valls said.

Panama, the legitimately elected atives.

Jay Maddock leaders of Panama. That means Those in the second car decided Negotiations between V.S. and Judicial Vicar we're not an occupying power," not to continue traveling by night, Vatican officials on Noriega's fate Given at the Tribunal, said State Department deputy but the ambushed car continued. continued on a "cordial" basis, Fall River, Massachusetts, spokesman Richard Boucher.

The attack took place about 7 p.m. with the V nited States pressing for on this 28th day of December, 1989.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Church groups have applauded the Federal Communications Commission for taking steps to curb indecent radio broadcasts aired during daylight hours.

The commission, chaired by the recently appointed Alfred Sikes, announced that it leveled fines totaling $20,000 against four radio stations. Another four stations were given 30 days to respond to charges they have been broadcasting indecent material.

In announcing the actions, the FCC cited complaints about the broadcast of explicit conversations, songs and skits about sexual acts, including material from a talk show hosted by controversial radio personality Howard Stern that received warnings about a similar broadcast in 1981.

"We now have an FCC which is doing what it was supposed to be doing all along," he said. Now "they're doing what the law requires them to do and what they committed to do in their confirmation hearings and what the American public feels is long overdue. _ The'Rev~ Donald E. Wildmon, executive director of the American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., also praised the effort saying "today the airwaves are cleaner" because of the actions.

He said the fines showed that "the new chairman is not only committed to enforcing the law but (also is) insisting on holding stations financially accountable when they violate it."

The FCC effort is "encouraging to those millions of Americans who want to protect their children and preserve some dignity over the public's airwaves," Mr. Wildmon added.

The FCC also announced that it has begun to evaluate a 24-hour ban on broadcasting indecent material that Congress ordered last year. A federal court put implementation of the ban on hold, asking the commission to undertake a study to show why the ban was warranted.

Congress had enacted the ban when the FCC told broadcasters it would not move against them for indecent material aired between midnight and 6 a.m., hours when it is presumed children are in bed.

The FCC defines "indecency" in b.roadcasts as language or material that "depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory activities or organs.

The sta'tions fined were WIOD and WZTA-FM, Miami; KLVCFM, Las Vegas; and KFI, Los Angeles.

Father Hartdegen RINGWOOD, N.J. (CNS) Franciscan FatherStephenJ. Hartdegen, 82, former director and executive secretary ofthe editorial board of the V.S. Catholic Biblical Apostolate, died of cancer Dec. 19 at the Holy Name Friary in Ringwood.

V ntil his retirement in 1987, he directed biblical studies in the Department of Education of the V .S. Catholic Conference in Washington. From 1944 to 1970, he was editor in chief of the New Ameri. can Bible, the official V .S. translation of the Bible in English from the original Hebrew and Greek.

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Letters are welcomed but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit. if deemed necessary. All Jetters must be signed and include a home or business address. They do not necessarily express the editorial view", nfThe Anchor.

"Beautifulreport" Editor: The Anchor's December 8, 1989 article regarding St. Anne's Hospital was great; and I wish to say thank you for the beautiful report.

It is heartwarming to see that the diocesan paper is a supporter of the single Catholic hospital in Southeastern Massachusetts.

In these days of pro-life and pro-choice controversies, I feel that it is so important that those who are concerned about pro-life lend support to the only pro-life hospital in our area.

Andre P. Nasser, M.D. Chief of Anesthesia Department S1. Anne's Hospital, Fall River

Jan. 6 1906, Rev. James F. Roach, Founder, Immaculate Conception, Taunton

Jan. 7 1970, Rev. Alfred R. Forni, Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford 1989, Rev. J. Gustave Gosselin, M.S., LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro

Jan.S 1885, Rev. John Kelly, Founder, S1. Patrick, Fall River 1940, Rev. Alfred J. Carrier, Founder, St. Jacques, Taunton 1944, Rev. Arthur C. Lenaghan, Chaplain, United States Army

Jan. 9 1982, Rev. William F. Morris,

Educators slighted WASHINGTON (CNS) - Catholic educators feel slighted that none was named among the 23 members of the recently formed President's Education Policy Advisory Committee and that it was only after private school educators complained to the White House and administration officials that they were asked to recommend people for the committee.

THERE Is NEVER A "GOOD REASON" To KILLA'BABY.

600 ANGELS have found a home on this" Angels Keep Watch" tree in the sanctuary of St. Patrick's parish, Fall River.

Pastor Father William W. Norton explained that they were cut out by Sisters of Mercy in St. Patrick's Convent and were distributed to parishioners who wrote the name or names of persons in need of prayer on their backs, then hung them on the tree. Each person who took an angel promised to pray at least through Jan. I for those named on it. The green tree, said Father Norton, is a reminder of eternity, as are the ever vigilant angels. (Hickey photo)

Concerned abou how baby would change her life

as most coup leaders remain at large and rumors continue about "troop movements" in Mindanao.

"The silence is ominous," Cardinal Sin had remarked in a speech in December.

According to the letter by Manila's bishops, even during the worst days of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos' rule, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines advocated change through non-violent means.

"The legislature and the courts continue to function, albeit with deficiencies in an imperfect manner, and the people continue substantially to enjoy their civil liberties," the bishops' letter said.

At Malacanang Palace Jan. I, traditionally celebrated throughout the church as World Day of Prayer for Peace, about 200 people, including church representatives, witnessed Mrs. Aquino declare the 1990s as a decade of pc;ace.

An alliance of multi-sectoral and ecumenical organizations, convened by Howard Dee, Philippines ambassador to the Vatican, pledged to lead "a pilgrimage to the distant city of peace," through peace activities in the 1990s.

In line with the peace initiative, the bishops' letter urged a "spiritual revolution" in peace work and said, "Definitely part of this spiritual revolution today must be a change from being bystander or 'usyosos' (curious spectators) into informed and active participants in nation-building."

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Has all the children she wants Fetus's possible health problem 3% Source: Family Planning Perspectives

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Other 3010 Victim of rape or incest 1% Doesn't want others to know she's pregnant 1% Woman's health problem 3010

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Some people misunderstand the word abortion.

Abortion means just one thing; the deliberate killing of a preborn child.

No abortion is ever performed to "save the life of the mother." Oh yes, it is sometimes necessary to undertake surgical procedures (such as a Fallopian section in the case of ectopic pregnancies) which indirectly take the life of the baby, but these aren't abortions!

The vast majority of abortions, 96010 or more are performed for reasons of convenience to the mother!

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Coups d 'etats sin, say bishops MANILA, Philippines (CNS) - Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila and his auxiliary bishops have issued a pastoral letter condemning coups d'etat as sinful.

The bishops issued their letter Jan. I, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agenq' based in Hong Kong, less than a month after the Philippines government with U.S. help suppressed the most serious military coup attempt to date.

The same day the letter was released, President Corazon Aquino revamped her cabinet and declared the 1990s a "decade of peace."

In their letter, Cardinal Sin and his auxiliary bishops said that "under circumstances ... in our country today, the staging of a coup d'etat, which is a violation of our Constitution, is an unlawful usurpation of power."

"It is a rebellion not only against duly constituted authority, but against God from whom all civil authority is derived," they said.

The bishops said that because it is a sin, one must resist it and cooperate with legitimate authority to thwart an attempt at coup d'etat.

The worst threat to Mrs. Aquino's government broke out in Manila Dec. I. By the time it was quashed a week later, 123 people were killed and 581 wounded.

The rebellion, led by groups calling themselves Reform the Armed Forces Movement and Soldiers of the Filipino People, caused property damage and economic disruption estimated to total millions of dollars.

Although the government declared the coup defeated, the threat of another upheaval lingered,

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1919, Rev. Jourdain Charron, O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River 1938, Rev. George H. Flanagan, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River .

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HI was. a stranger and you welcomed me. "(M~. 25:35) During National Migration Week, observed annually during the week of the Epiphany, when wise men traveled from far countries to worship the Infant Saviour, Catholics are urged to celebrate their cultural diversity and to welcome new arrivals to the shores of the United States.

As this year's Migration Week, Jan. 8 to 13, nears, it takes on deep meaning in the Fall River diocese where, among some 100 Cambodian refugees being resettled by the ,Office of Catholic Social Services in Fall River are six members of the Phal family.

Also being resettled are a Laotian family in Taunton and a Hmong family in Attleboro.

Some ofthe families have found private apartments and others public housing. Some are living with Cambodian sponsor families while they await housing of their own.

The Phals, who arrived in the United States Dec. 5, are staying with Siep Sorn Huy, who came to the United States in 1985, also with the help of Catholic Social Services.

Koeuth Phal and his wife Saroeuth lived in a Thailand refugee camp for 10 years after fleeing Cambodia in 1979. Their four children were born at the camp.

Samy Sok, a social worker for Catholic Social Services, translated for the Phals as they explained that they left Cambodia because of hunger, the war, no medical care and lack of religious freedom.

In the escape to Thailand, "some died because of hunger and the 'war. Especially hunger, because there was no food to eat and no water to drink. There was no medicine if someone was sick." If there was food, said Saroeuth Phal, it had to be shared by a large group.

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Things were better in the camp before being admitted to the Uni- providing living quarters while they she said, "no one knew Khmer [the because the United Nations pro- ted States. are in transition. languag6 of Cambodia] and it was vided food, medicine and someThe INS requires refugees to Catholic Social Services also very difficult to get basic informatimes clothing, the Phals said. Peo- prove that they have no connecprovides money, food, clothing, tion across. " ple were free to practice the religion tion with the communist Khmer Mrs. Mancini also noted that an furniture and other supplies for of their choice, and services for Rouge, and many lack documeninformal ecumenical group of Fall arriving families.

Buddhists and Christians were of- , tation to do so. ,Riverites, many of whom have 'Mary-Lou Mancini, Fall River fered.

Once arrived in the United States, But there were also many hard- families sponsored by Catholic So- area director of Catholic Social been involved in previous resettlement undertakings, are assistships. "It was very hard to live in cial Services are monitored for 90 Services, said much assistance in ing with the current group. the camp," said Koeuth Phal. At days by the agency, a requirement the way of furniture and clothing Mrs. Sok's primary'assignment night, food, clothing and money ,set by the United States Catholic came from Marie's Place, a thrift is to assist the refugee families in fell prey to thieves. Some people Conference Migration and Refu- shop. at 335 East Main St., Fall were even shot by robbers, he said. gee Service which, operating River, operated by the Dominican their transition to their new homes.

"A lot of people wrote to me through diocesan offices, is the Sisters at St. Anne's Hospital, also She meets them at the airport and asking for help," said Samy Sok, largest resettlement agency in the Fall River, with the help of many acquaints them with their new surroundings, inch....ding stores, schools herself a refugee in 1984. country, responsible for approxi- volunteers. and hospitals.

Also, refugees were not allowed mately 45 percent of refugees reMrs. Mancini, who supervises to leave the camp, which was guard- settled in the nation.

She arranges for physicals and Samy Sok, said that as a naHve ed by soldiers, the Phals said. ,Fall River Diocesan Catholic Cambodian Mrs. Sok had saved TB tests for families and helps The family went through two Social Services has been sponsor-, the agency uncounted hours of them apply for housing, social interviews with the Immigration ing Southeast Asian refugees since time through her familiarity with security and jobs. She also regisand Naturalization Service at the the mid-1970s, but the recent arri- the background of the new arrivals ters adults in English classes and American Embassy in Thailand vals from Cambodia, about. 100 and her own experience in the Uni- children in school. before they were allowed to emi- individuals, comprise the largest ted States.

At one point, a family of nine grate. They consider themselves group. who had no place to go when they "Some years ago, when we first 'arrived stayed temporarily with lucky; many families are rejectep Many previously resettled refuas many as three or four times gees are sponsoring new families, assisted in resettling Cambodians," the seven members of Mrs. Sok's family., When they arrive in the United States, the refugees are most impressed' by the freedom, she said.

When his family was finally allowed to come to the U.S., agreed, Koeuth Phal, he was "very happy,. because Americans have freedom.

"In the United States, poor people have food to eat and they can watch TV. In Cambodia only rich people have TV. In Cambodia there is no electricity, so when you want to cook you have to make a ,fire."

"In Cambodia, there is no means of support" for old people, Saroeuth Phal added. In the United States, she said, there are places for old people to live and means of support.

But most of all, said Mrs. Sok, THE PHALS, from, left, Koetith and Saroeuth and their children, Sopheap, 4, Saren, 1 1/2, Saran, 6, and Sary, 8. With them are social worker Samy Sok and sponsor Siep Som Huy. the new arrivals "came because they want freedom."

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New universal catechism first in 400 years WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Vatican in December sent the world's bishops the first draft of a new universal catechism for the church - the first in more than 400 years.

Intended as a comprehensive statement of basic truths of the Catholic faith, the document is 434 pages long in the English version. It was also issued in French, Spanish, Italian and German.

Its basic structure of three main parts - creed, sacraments, commandments - plus an epilogue on prayer is almost exactly the same ,as the last such universal catechism, the Roman Catechism issued in 1566 following the Council of Trent.

Unlike the Roman Catechism, however, the new document addresses issues unheard offour centuries ago, such as nuclear and chemical warfare, surrogate motherhood, biogenetic research, reckless driving and pollution and toxic waste.

Its synthesis of moral and doctrinal teaching relies heavily on Scripture, ancient church writers and the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. ' In a cover letter, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger asked bishops to submit their comments, criticisms and proposed changes to the Vatican by , May 31, 1990. Cardinal Ratzinger'

'is prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and head of a special commission for the Preparation of a Catechism for the Universal Church, which Pope John Paul II formed in 1986.

Copies of the provisional text were sent to bishops through bishops' conferences around the world under a ,stamp of secrecy.

They were sent outto U.S. bishops Dec. 18. Although officials at the Vatican and U.S. National Conference of Catholic Bishops declined to release the document, a U.S. source outside Washington made a copy available to Catholic News Service Dec. 26.

The provisional title of the new work is "Catechism for the Universal Church." In an explanatory note, the commission told the bishops that the final version, like the draft, is to be addressed primarily to world's bishops, the chief"teachers of the faith."

The note said that through the bishops the .catechism will also be adressed to editors of diocesan and national catechisms and to catechists and the people of God. The note stressed that the draft text is not definitive and "does not yet have all the homogeneity which one would desire."

It said the draft still suffers some "limitations," such as differences in style in various parts of the text

and occasional repetitions of the same material in different places..

But it added that even the limitations could have a value in the consultation process, because they would afford bishops an opportunity to comment on which style they preferred or where they thought some subjects would be most appropriately treated.

One stylistic element almost certain to provoke some criticisms from the United States and Canada is the repeated use, in the English version, of masculine terms such as "man" "men" "he" and "him"- in refer~nces cl~arly 'meant to refer to both male and female.

The U.S. and Canadian bishops have made efforts in recent years to avoid use of exclusive language in public documents wherever possible. ' The project for a new universal catechism began with a proposal at the 1985 world Synod of Bishops

by Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law. Taking up his suggestion, the ,synod urged the pope to develop "a catechism or compendium of all Catholic teaching on faith and morals which may serve as a point of reference for the catechisms or compendiums composed in various regions." , The synod said the presentation ofteaching in the catechism should be "biblical and liturgical, setting

out sound doctrine and adapted to contemporary Christian life."

Two Americans -'- Cardinal Law and U.S.-born Cardinal William W. Baum, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education - are on the catechism's preparatory commission. Another American, Portland, Ore. Archbishop William J. Levada, is on the commission's writing committee.

The draft catechism is not restricted to a simple repetition .of Catholic teaching. It also presents reasons behind the teaching, explanations of nuances and implications, . and at times indications of the church's attitude and pastoral approach toward those who find it difficult to live in accord with a particular teaching.

While the draft reiterates church teaching against homosexual activity and against divorce and remarriage, for example, it also stresses the pastoral concern and the need for special pastoral care for those who find difficulty living in accord with those teachings.

Especially in the section on the commandments the draft often refers to specific contemporary; moral issues. It indicates the principles and directions of church teaching in complex areas where teaching may not be clearly fixed or may involve different elements in tension with one another.

In treating the commandment against killing, for example, it reiterates the traditional teaching that society has a right to impose the death penalty for extremely grave crimes, but it adds:"Although the right to exact this penalty exists, the church would always urge the exercise ofclemency, which is more in accord with the instincts of Scripture and particularly of the Gospel. Alongside the need to protect society and to discourage wrongdoing, there is also the duty to be merciful as the heavenly Father is merCiful."

The draft includes among sins against the Fifth Commandment "the drug traffic, a force destructive of life and a social scourge today. " It also condemns, in addition to classically recognized sins of murder, suicide, abortion, mutilation, hostage-taking and torture, new "risks to life in an industrial society" - among them the threat to others posed by drunken or reckless drivers and "the absence of guarantees and of protection for highrisk industrial concerns (nuclear power stations, those producing toxic matter or pollutants), which are a growing threat to people and their natural environment."

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Resolving - again!

You don't hear much about New Year's resolutions anymore. Why is that? 1 suspect it's because our age is so cynical that w.,.e figure it's foolish to resolve to lead better lives when we're going to mess things up anyway. .. Maybe that means that I'm too cynical. Still and all, I do make New Year's resolutions every year.

Some of them I even keep.

If you decide that maybe the way you live could use a little improvement, right now is a good time to look both backwards and forwards, like Janus, the two-fac,ed Roman god of gates and doorways, for whom January is named.

When you discover some.of the ways in which you are less than perfect, it is a good idea to write your resolutions on a small card that you can carry around.

Otherwise, your resolutions may go the way of all flesh. It took me many years to get around to more frequent confession; my card finally goaded me into "going" once a month.

On the matter of the regular use ofthe sacrament of"penance, especially when all you can think of are venial sins, I wish I could quote all that was said by Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughn of New York.

Bishop Vaughn, the episcopal jailbird (because of Operation Rescue) whom I call the conscience of the American hierarchy because of

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BERNARD his habit of lecturing his brother bishops on a variety of topics, wrote on frequent confessions in CASSERLY an issue Of Fatima Crusader.

"We live in a time when things beautiful people who write to me done out of habit are regarded as in response to these columns. having less value than those done I made this resolution because from careful, conscious choice," he said. Sometimes when we do of the neat letter I got from a wise things routinely, we can forget . woman in Flint, Mich1igan. I had why we started doing them in .the written a column on the importance of taking time to write, espefirst place. cially to those who are lonely or "But many of our habitual alone. actions contain judgments that are ''I'm taking time today to write deeply a part of us, and that indicate how deeply faith in Jesus has to you," she said. "I'm 72 and my permeated our lives. Frequent husband is 82. He hasn't been well. recourse to the sacrament of I don't write long letters but I do write. One ,of my hobbies is sendpenance preserves our sensitivity ing these messages to people (like to our own sins and to our need for the one I'm sending y,ou)."

God's help. It also assures us as we Her son told her once that "if all struggle with temptations that her letters were placed side by side, God's mercy and grace are near." they'd reach around the world."

As I prepare my resolutions for She thanked me, confessed she 1990, some of them are all too had not praised her kids enough familiar. I must devote more time to exercise to preserve the good when they were growing up and health I enjoy: at least half an hour sent a booklet she said the pope three times a week of walking,jog- once recommended to his seminarians. ging or exercycling.

All this was accomplished in I resolve to spend more time with our four grandchildren, espe- some 175 words beautifully handwritten in ink on a blue-lined 6-bycially our twin granddaughters Meghan and Molly. It will give a 9-inch page. Her note was a perbreak to our daughter, Kathleen, fect example of'the art of and who knows, I might get some correspondence-a disappearing grace. new column ideas.

I hereby resolve to take my own I have one new' resolution for this year: write to thank the many advice about writing to people!

Sweets for the elderly

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: My father, 87, who lives with us seems to have an increasing desire for sweets. He likes a sweet dessert with lunch and again with dinner, and he usually has coffee and cookies for an afternoon snack, ice cream or cookies before bedtime, and candy, . if available, in between.

Sometimes I try to decrease the sweets by suggesting fresh fruit for a snack or dessert. Other times I reason, "He is 87 and alive and well. Who am I to tell him how to eat?" What should a careperson do? My father has no chronic illnesses or health problems.

(Illinois) l If your father is 87 and has no chronic health problems, my first response is "Count your blessings."

I also sympathize with your reasoning about letting him eat what he wants. Why should we who are decades younger than he and perhaps in poorer health prescribe how to take care of his health?

On the other hand, the elderly may have certain eating problems which an overdose of sweets can aggravate. The elderly often become less active and need fewer calories.

Yet to feel good and remain healthy they continue to need the basic nutrients that all persons do.

The person who eats many sweets can easily consume too many calories without getting the nutritional elements he needs every day for health and well-being.

At the same time, to deny the elderly the foods they desire can be a great unkindness. Many elderly are hampered by poor eyesight, poor hearing, a debilitated body and the. loss of friends and loved ones. If an elderly person enjoys

eating, should we dictate what he father active within the limits of eats or deprive him of his favorite his age and endurance. things? Kindness may overrule even Basically, the foods good for health needs. you and your family are probably I recall once visiting a nursing the ones that are good for your home at mealtime. In the dining father. Try to reach a compromise room an attendant was gently scold- between the treats he enjoys and a menu which will help him remain ing a 90-year-old woman for not eating her meal. As a final incen- healthv. tive, she told her, "N 0 dessert until you finish your dinner."

While the attendant was undoubtedly following the institution's policy to ensure the health of the RALEIGH, N.C. (CNS)- The residents, I had to wonder, when are you permitted to eat your des- Diocese of Raleigh has established sert without finishing your dinner? a permanent endowment of $2.5 million to aid the poor with money If not at 90, when? made on the sale last year of some As with so many problems, comdiocesan property. promise might be your best soluInterest on the invested money tion. Let Dad have snacks as he is to be used each year to fund desires. Provide cookies relatively programs serving poor people in low in sugar and fat and relatively eastern North Carolina and' needy high in nutrition. Select very ripe in Third World nations, according fruit that is sweet and easy to to a statement from the Endowment chew. Cut it up so that it is easy to for the Poor Grants Committee, eat. Offer Dad one cookie along appointed by Raleigh Bishop F. with some fruit or a small piece of Joseph Gossman. cake and some fruit. Substitute Committee chairman Ennis Cheswhole grain muffins for sweet rolls. . tang told the North Carolina CathIf candy and rich desserts are not olic, newspaper of the dioceses 'of available, your father cannot eat Raleigh and Charlotte, that them. members "share a common hope Encouraging him to be as active that we can get a number of things as possible is another way to help going in eastern North Carolina.... him use up the calories he conWe hope to be able to finance sumes and retain his good health. things that might not otherwise be Take walks with him daily if he is funded." able. If not, ask your doctor or There will be four types of aid: someone who works with the elder-'- Direct aid for projects offering ly to suggest ways to keep your immediate assistance for the poor, including soup kitchens and help with heating bills.

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Cloistered nun, 89, a top pigskin prognosticator WASHINGTON (CNS) 'Twas the night of Christmas, and the conlest was down to one game.

An 89-year-old cloistered nun and seeming shoo-in to win the "M ystery Prognosticator" contest needed a victory by the Cincinnati Bengals over the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings were the choice of - who else? - Santa Claus. They won.

Thus did jolly St. Nick from a shopping mall in a Maryland suburb of Washington manage to eke路 out a tie with Visitation Sister Marie Louise in the contest, sponsored by Washington television station WUSA. Now the question was: Would there be a tie-breaker?

Sister Marie Louise of Georgetown Visitation Convent in Washington had been the leading prognosticator for the season after picking II winners out of 14 National Football League games the week she was selected to predict the winners.

At stake was $ 1,000 from the station to the winner's favorite charity. Guest prognosticators she - had bested included Dan Rather, Bo Derek, Sugar Ray Leonard and Pee-wee Herman.

Only the mall Santa, WAO was selected prognosticator for the final weekend of the regular season, stood between her and the $1,000, which she wanted to go to Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School.

With the end of the games on Dec. 24, Sister Marie Louise retained her 11-3 edge in picks.

Santa was 10-3, with only Monday Night Football - in this case Christmas Night Football remaining.

Santa had chosen the Vikings, so a Bengals win would give Sister Marie Louise a clear-cut win in the seasonlong contest. But the Vikings won 29-21 and gave Santa a tie.

According to the station's sports department Glenn Brenner, the WUSA-TV sportscaster who started the contest, was to decide whether the prize would be split or the contestants would get a chance to break their tie by picking the winners of one or more postseason games.

Sister Marie Louise has been a faithful football follower since her

girlhood in suburban Washington, where then young Helen Kirkland' played football and basketball with her brother.

She was a secretary and a member of a theater troupe when she entered the Georgetown Visitation convent in 1934.

Sister Marie Louise has never had to give up her temporal loves.

She continues to direct or produce plays at the prep school, and watches sports on the convent television.

Another nun in the cloister told Catholic News Service, "She likes the Baltimore Orioles and the Georgetown University Hoyasjust as much as she likes football. This goes on all year long."

A fan of her hometown Washington Redskins, Sister Marie Louise confessed to uttering an unusual prayer before one Monday night football game: "Dear God, I hate asking that anyone lose. But I don't want the Rams to win tonight so that Redskins have a chance" at the NFL playoffs.

"I have to go with the Skins whether they win or lose," Sister Marie Louise said. It was her pick of a Redskins upset win as "mystery prognosticator" that prompted team owner Jack Kent Cooke to offer her a pair of tickets to a Redskins game.

Sister Marie Louise turned them down. "I'm a cloistered nun. I belong here," she said.

News of Sister Marie Louise's ability has been featured on CBS-TV and National Public Radio and in Time magazine, USA Today and the Washington Post.

Clippings here come so fast and furiously that another cloistered nun, Sister Anne Marie, tells a visitor, "I'm her.press agent."

Mother Mary Frances de Sales, the convent mother superior, observed that "what started out as one little interview has turned out to be a media event."

Has success spoiled Sister Marie Louise?

"No," she answers. "What have I got? I'm just a poor, simple religious who's having fun."

And don't call her retired. "You can't retire from religious life until your superior tells you to retire," Sister Marie Louise said. "And that's the way I want it until God says come."

Temper terrorizes family

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: I have been married 45 years and have five children, with one son living 'at home. I am 65.

My husband is 69 and has almost always been a good, loving man, but he is a perfectionist.

When a problem arises, he'l fly up from his chair fuming, cursing, slam the door, go outside cursing and talking loudly. We try to spare the neighbors, but he just doesn't care.

After all is over, he'l come in, but never mention a word about what happened or ever say he's sorry.

We've put up with this all our years. The children hardly come around any more.

I try to keep things under control and let him know how much he's hurting us all, but he doesn't care. When I try to reason with him, he'l flare up and tell me to move out.

I'm very depressed and am thinking about doing just that.

I don't want to speak to anyone about this because I really don't want anyone to think him a bad man. What is wrong?

The son who lives with us is always arguing with him. I'm afraid some day something drastic will happen. - Delaware Changing behavior you have put up with for 45 years would be difficult, if not impossible. However, two remarks of yours make me conclude that you need to make a serious effort to change this behavior.

The first is that it so depresses and upsets you that you want to separate.

The second is that you fear "something drastic" could happen.

Your fear is justified. When anger gets out of control, physical harm and even death result within families.

YO,u judge that he behaves as he does because he "doesn't care." but the extreme suddenness and severity of these outbursts in an otherwise "good man" suggest that there may be some physical basis for the problem. On the other hand, the outbursts may occur because you and the children have tolerated them. A physical exam would be a first step.

What action can you take that will get through to your husband?

Here are some steps you might take between these two extremes.

I) Tell him exactly how you feel.

Tell him that you are afraid his outbursts will lead to physical harm for someone. Tell him that you are considering moving out.

You need not even raise your voice. If he refuses to listen, aIJow him his outburst, then repeat your message calmly at the first opportunity. Be clear that you mean every word you say.

2) Tell him specifically what you want from him. You might say that you want him to have a physical exam and that you want to go along and describe to the doctor exactly what happens that causes you such concern.

The doctor-patient relationship

is confidential. You need not fear for his reputation.

3)Set a specific goal for limiting his outbursts. You might say that you want to go through one whole weekend without an outburst.

Enlist the help of your son.

Explain that you do not wish to appease Dad, but you do not want your son to pick a fight. If you think your son's presence will lead to trouble, get him to spend the weekend elsewhere.

4) Ask your husband's help over the weekend in doing things he does well. Notice and thank him for cleaning the garage, caring for the yard, whatever he does that is good and helpful.

5) Establish a love bank. Set aside money each week for love tokens for your husband. Buy him a small gift for a hobby he enjoys.

Use the money for an evening out doing something you both enjoy.

6) Continue to notice his helpfulness and continue frequent love tokens. When he has gone several days without an outburst, tell him how happy he makes you.

7) If you get no response from your direct messages and your efforts to affirm his goodness, you must choose what step you wish to take. If you choose to move out, tell your husband what you plan to do and why and be prepared to carry out any action you talk about.

Reader questions on family living or child care to be answered in print are invited by the Kennys, Box 872 St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978

Signs of hope as the 90s begin

By Antoinette Bosco

A.D.; and 1 read that in EI Salvador the people, who have declared As we start the 1990s and reflect Archbishop Romero their saint, on the happenings that most afnow refer to events as "before fected us in the 1980s, I vote first Romero" and "after Romero." for the historic meeting between Truly this was a man in whom Pope John Paul II and Soviet Christ rose again. leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Never did I believe that 1 would see such a meeting!

For more than 40 years, we have prayed that the noble people of the,

By Hilda Young Soviet Union would one day worEver since Betty lost 20 pounds ship God in a church of their and bought a pair of designer choice. Now it looks as if that day jeans, things in the neighborhood might come. have become ugly.

The meeting between Gorbachev We used to be able to sit around and the pope was for Ukrainian and make jokes about starting a Catholics a sign of hope that their design~r jean company with the church will be legalized. label "Peabody Tent and Awning" Another pre-Advent event that stitched across the rear pocket. should not be forgotten by CathoWe used to be able to support lics was the murder of the six each other on group ·diets. Like a Jesuit priests and their household workers in EI Salvador. What green salad for lunch, followed by makes this crime even more hei- a chocolate ice cream sundae and nous is the knowledge that they doughnut holes.

We used to crack jokes about followed some 70,000 people in that country murdered since the size 5s, give out "thigh of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar month" awards and share hints on Romero in March 1980, many ~ how' to cheat on the bathroom with guns and ammunition sup- scales.

No more. pli~d by the U.S. government.

"Know what 1saw Betty do yesOn the first day of Advent, 1saw Suzanne asked this morterday?"

"Romero," the movie that told the story of the prelate who became nig at Caffeine Club.

"Pick up the newspaper without the voice of his people and was sucking in orbendingat the knees," gunned down as he offered Mass. offered Alice.

After 1dried my tears at the end "Worse," replied Suzanne. "I of the film, the pain and sadness saw her looking through the twogave way tojoy that S"uch a man as piece bathing suits at S~ars."

Romero had lived and that it was my church that had shaped him to' We all gasped. "And to think be the person he was. she used to say that if God had 1 remember famed orator Arch- intended her to look good in a bishop Fulton J. Sheen saying that bathing suit, the nuns never would the impact of Christ was so great have instilled in her the compulthat he split time into B.c. and sion to finish her kids' plates in

As we start a new decade that will end a troubled century, we should feel new hope, for we have seen that no power can assassinate faith. We are also seeing the signs grow daily stronger that the world is on the threshold of a new era.

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PopeJohn, Paul II's Christmas message to the' city and the, world tfHe gave power to become children ofGod"! Today is the solemnity of Christmas. The eyes of our soul see the child, laid in the manger. The gate of our faith rests upon the words of the Prologue ofJohn: tfTo all who received him, he gave power to become children of God." We ,bless you, Son of Man, who are the Eternal Word.

Glory to the Father who has given you, his only-begotten, to us. Glory to the Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and from you, 0 Son of God. Glory to the ageless mystery, which embraces all things. In this night, that mystery has drawn close to mankind; it has entered mankind's life and history.

It has passed the threshold of our human existence.

The' child wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. The helpless human child - and at the same time, the power which transcends all that man is, all that he can accompli~h. For man cannot become like God through his own efforts""'; as history has made clear from the beginning ~ And yet, man can become like God through God's own power. This power is in the Son, the Eternal Word, who tfbecame flesh and dwelt among us." Today is the first day of his sojourn in our midst. tfHe was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.

He came to his own home, but his own people received him not. But to all who received him, he gave power to become children of God; who were born ••• of God." History continues on its way.... countless men and women, nations, peoples, languages, races, cultures .•• millions upon millions ••• yet he is unique: laid now as a child in the manger and later upon the cross. He, and none other.

And then, risen - he, and none other. How many have received him not? How many still receive him not? How many kno~ of him? How many do not? We would like to measure with human statistics, how far this power reaches, the power which is in him: born, crucified, risen. We would like to know, humanly speakif1,g, how many have become, in him and thr~ugh him, children of God - childre'n in the Son. But human measurements cannot fathom the mystery of God. They cannot fathom the gift of God's birth, present in the history of mankind, Present in the history of the world, at work in human souls through the power of the Spirit, the giver of life.

them. To tell us that, by taking the road we are taking, we _ are racing toward self-destruction. The world longs for peace: yet every day our brothers and sisters are dying in the present conflicts: in Lebanon, in the Holy Land, in Central America they are dying in fratricidal struggles for supremacy: racial, ideological, economic; they are dying because of senseless and reckless courses of action. The world longs for reconciliation, yet every day thousands of refugees are abandoned and rejected; ethnic and religious minorities go neglected in their basic needs; whole groups are kept on the margins of society in ever~growing isolation.

The world longs for balance, both within and without, yet every day the' environment becomes more polluted-for reasons of self-interest or from, lack of concern.

The message of truth and grace which comes to us at Christmas through you must touch each of us. That message is for us, because you have come for us, you have become one of us. Make'us receive you, 0 Eternal Word of the Father! May the world receive you. Awaken in hearts the rejection of all barriers, be they of race, ideology or intolerance. Guide the negotiations now under way for arms reduction and control. Strengthen all who strive for an end to the hostilities that have continued for all too-long in Africa and Asia, so that the peoples involved may regain their freedom and ~heir rights through frank and trusting dialogue.

And may this old Europe of ours also receive you, 0 Word Incarnate! Deep within her she carries the imprint of your Gospel, from which she has derived her culture, her art, her concept of the' inviolable dignity of man. May this Europe open her doors and her heart to understand and receive the anxieties, the fears and the problems of the nations which seek her help. May she respond with the strength and the generosity of her Christian roots to this very special moment of history, a true tfkairos" of God's providence, which the world is now experiencing, as if awakened from a nightmare and opened up to a better hope. In particular, bless at this hour, 0 Lord, the noble land of Romania, which is celebrating this Christmas in fear and trembling, and in the joy of having taken once more the path of freedom. ' ,

tfAll the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God." Yes. The shepherds of Bethlehem came and they saw.

Yes. The Wise Men from the East came and they saw. And the aged Simeon and the prophetess Anna saw in the temple at Jerusalem. Just how do the ends of the earth see you, 0 Word Incarnate? Because you are for everyone. The salvation of our God is for everyone and it comes through you.

God tfdesires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." Truth is through you. And grace as well.

You are the truth. You are the way and the life. And even though your own people received you not •.• even though there was not room for you at the inn ••• in you God has received •.. God has received each one of us.

In you, God has received us as well, the men and women of the second millennium, now hastening to its end. He has not regarded our contradictions, our infidelities, our inconsistencies. Indeed, he has sent you, his Word, to heat us of

Brothers and sisters present here, brothers and sisters, listening to me by radio and television, on every continent, come to the crib of the helpless child who is the power of God. He is born for us. Come and you will see and you will be received, for today. there have been revealed God's goodness and his love for mankind.

Father Ritter's accuser called chronic liar NEW YORK (CNS) - Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter said Dec. 21 that he felt "a lot better" after a young man who had accused him offinancial and sexual improprieties was described as a chronic liar by his father. .

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service the priest said he hoped his personal ordeal had ended, but he was afraid that "sleazy" media coverage of the allegations would seriously hurt Covenant House, the nation's largest private organization aiding runaway youths.

"Income from donors is going to take a savage chop," he said.

The Covenant House ministry' to homeless youngsters was founded by Father Ritter in 1969 in New York. It now operatesin a number of cities in the United States and abroad and has an annual budget of$85 milion, 95 percent of it from private donations.

Allegations of improprieties became public Dec. 12 when the New York Post ran a story reporting the claims by the young man.

Other publications subsequently picked up the story, identifying the man as Timothy Warner, the name he used when he entered Covenant House.

Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau confirmed Dec. 13 that he was investigating Warner's allegations of financial improprieties, but he said media reports contained "numerous inaccuracies."

Using clues from various stories told by Warner, Covenant House spokesman John Kells said, the agency was able to uncover his real identity, locate his father and bring the father to New York Dec. 20.

Kells said the father, identified as Alton H. Kite, a professor of accounting from Gainesville, Texas, had agreed to talk with a small number ofjournalists in New York.

According to a copy of a full, unedited interview with New York TV station WNYW given to CNS Dec. 21 by Covenant House, Kite said the man previously identified as Timothy Warner was actually his son, Kevin Lee Kite.

Kite produced a photo of himself with the younger man, who he said would be 26 years old this month. The younger man had variously described himself in news interviews as 19 or 20 years old.

Those over 21 are not eligible for Covenant House programs.

The elder Kite said he had no direct knowledge of events since his son moved to New York, but that the son had a long history of hurting people who tried to help him.

"I know that my son has a history of lying about various things, sometimes for no reason at all," he said. A series of counselors over the years were unsuccessful in helping him over come his "personality disorder," the father added.

"My son," Kite said, "is the type of person who could give you a bad check last week, and come in and convince you to take another one this week."

The son, he reported, dropped out of North Texas State University, drifted into prostitution and ran up large debts on credit cards taken from family and friends.

"His mother and I have exhausted our financial and emotional resources in helping him," the father said. The young man had not

communicated with them since leaving them last Jan. 14, he said.

A spokeswoman for Morgenthau said Dec. 21 that the district attorney's investigation was continuing.

Father Ritter said he considered the investigation obligatory for Morgenthau and advantageous for Covenant House, so that critics could not charge a coverup.

The younger Kite claimed that he and Father Ritter had had sexual relations and that the priest had given him cash and other benefits worth $25,000 from Covenant House funds.

At a Dec. 14 press conference Father Ritter denied all charges of impropriety, and Covenant House released a detailed statement showing expenditures of $9,793.33 on the young man, less than the annual $15,000-$18,000 which it said was spent on others in the Rights of Passage program in which he was enrolled.

The Rights of Passage program includes matching each young person with an older "mentor." Father Ritter, assigning himself to mentor this young man, acknowledged taking him on trips where the two slept in the same room. But the priest denied that any sexual relationship had developed.

He said he had received thousands of written and oral messages of support since the allegations were publicized.

Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York issued a statement of support, and the following Sunday at St. Patrick's Cathedral verbally reiterated his "unreserved confidence" in Father Ritter.

King holiday packet is issued WASHINGTON (CNS) - The National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice has issued a packet of materials for commemoratingthe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which in 1990 will be Jan. 15.

The 1990 packet focuses on the 100th anniversary of the massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee, S.D., according to execive director Jerome Ernst.

A relatIOnship exists between the murder of Sitting Bull and the massacre of a Sioux band at Wounded Knee in 1890 and "the ongoing oppression of minority groups in American society," Ernst said in a statement.

The packet contains liturgies, including suggested homilies, prayers of the faithful and hymn suggestions as well as bulletin inserts written for Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans.

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\ POPE JOHN PAUL II, who has been known to shorten a general audience so that he and his hearers could hurry home to catch a televised World Cup soccer final, holds the ball that will be used in the June 8-July 8 finals, to be hercI1n Italy. With him is Brazil's Joao Havelange, International Soccer Federation president. (CNS/UPI-Reuters photo)

Cardinal Arns to the rescue!

SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS)Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo was recently instrumental in securing the release of a Brazilian businessman held hostage for seven days.

Cardinal Arns guaranteed the kidnaooers' safety after they released Abilio dos Santos Diniz, 52, executive vice president of Pao de Acucar, Brazil's largest' supermarket chain.

At the request of the abductors, the cardinal joined police on a garage roof ne~t to Diniz's house, where he was held. The 10 kidnaopers, who were linked to the Chilean Leftist Revolutionary, had negotiated with Diniz's family for a ransom of between $10 million and $26 million.

The same group was believed to have kidnapped Luiz Salles, owner of Brazil's third-largest advertising agency, earlier this year. Salles was held for 65 days and was released after a $2.5 million ransom was paid.

"All they wanted was a guarantee that they would come out alive," Cardinal Arns said after the kidnappers released Diniz. "And I

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BALTIMORE (CNS) - The Catholic Church and the government are the two strongest factors in the African country of Burundi, according to an official of Catholic Relief Services.

Audace Kabayanda, CRS national'program coordinator in Burundi, said the government of that country followed the church in settling differences between two peoples there.

Kabayanda was on an American speaking tour for CRS, the overseas relief arm of the U.S. bishops.

Sixty percent of the people in Burundi, which is flanked by Tanzania and Zaire, are practicing Catholics, Kabayanda said.

The church, he said, was instrumental in alleviating political, ethnic and often violent tensions between the Huti and Tutsi peoples.

CRS focuses primarily on development and helping people help themselves in Burundi, Kabayanda. said.

"If we can educate and train, then those people will train others and so on. Of course," he added, "we still provide emergency services but development is our main focus.

"Fifty percent ofthe population is under age 25," he said. "The soil is becoming unusable. That means less food. Lack of education is another problem. There are not enough schools."

CRS is delegating more and more responsibility to other Catholic groups in the country, the CRS official said. , Commenting on his speaking tour, Kabayanda said "It is important for people to see the physical person like myself come and talk to them about what is involved," he said.

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, St. Mary's School Grade 5 students at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, participated in a children's liturgy on Dec. 10, celebrated by Father Mark Hession, assisted by Deacon Claude LeBlanc.

During the second reading, ~ai­ tlin Desnoyers narrated the history of the Jesse Tree and students portrayed the ancestors of Jesus.

The students also hung symbols created in art classes on the Jesse Tree in the narthex of the church.

The children's choir, under the direction of Jacqueline Vardo, also took part in the liturgy.

in our schools SS Peter and Paul School A ceremony for faculty and students at SS Peter and Paul School, Fall River, commemorated the foundation day of the Sisters of

Mercy, who have staffed the school since 1923.

Each sister now at the school received a corsage from principal Kathleen A. Burt during the program. Eighth grader Tina Costa portrayed Mercy foundress Catherine McAuley in a biographical sketch there was a slide show on the area of Dublin where the community was founded. Later, a student panal read quotes about Mother McAuley and her works, and the students were challenged to continue spreading the charism ,of Mercy. The program closed with a prayer for beatification of Mother McAuley and the singing of the Suscipe. .'

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Lynn Asato, Erin Hayden, Nicole Houdelette, Vince Jornales and Senior Lynn Asato will be concert mistress for the Festival Greg Vrona will participate in the Massachusetts Advanced studies Orchestra in the annual Southprogram at Milton Academy. eastern District Music Festival.

She is also concert mistress for the Freshman Jason Sylvia placed Rhode Island Youth Symphony . fourth in recent New England and is a candidate for the National regional figure skating championHigh School Honors Orchestra. ships and will compete in the novice She has studied violin for 12 years. men's event of the Eastern sectional championships, an initial The following Spartans recently step to qualifying for the Winter received awards: Olympics.

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Bishop Connolly The Christmas recess at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. began with a celebration of Lessons and Carols, followed by presentation of awards to three seniors.

Jennifer O'Alio received the Harvard Book Award and Rita Viveiros the Holy Cross College Book Award.

Monica DaSilva was recognized for designing the school's first logo, a rendering of the Connolly beIltower.

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Claudine LeBlanc and Michael Gendreau were selected November Teenagers of the Month by the Greater Fall River Elks Club. .

LeBlanc is active in the Con-

nolly language club, yearbook staff. peer ministry, National Honor Society and Christian Leadership Institute. She is a CYO member and lector at St. Bernard's parish, Assonet.

Gendreau is a -member of the cross-country, baseball and basketball teams and the school choir, drama club, community service program peer ministry and ski club.

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1987 graduate Suzanne O'Brien has been named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference women's cross-country team. She is ajunior at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

Six students participated in the Bennington, Vt., Guild Players' Touring Company presentation of "Scrooge" Dec. 13.

On Dec. 14, the 8th Grade Service Club per:formed the musical "Santa and the Three Scrooges."

Grades 6 and 7 also participated.

The production included a presentation by the Christmas Bell Ringers from the Pilgrim Church of New Bedford.

St. Jean Baptiste School November students of the month at St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River, are Michael Machado. Craig Jennings, Jennifer Allen, Jessica O'Neil, Amanda Santos, Allison Berube, Shaun Skeffington, Jason Heywood, Karen Vieira.

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Scott Cabral, grade 5, received a letter from President George Bush in response to his appeal to end abortion. Scott collected over 150 signatures in favor of "urging law makers to stop killing the generation of the future." The president also recognized Scott's petition during his November visit to Rhode Island.

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Jeanne Tokarz's grade 3 class is studying the effect of smoking on the body in an American Heart Association program.

Notre Dame School Christmas activities at Notre Dame School, Fall River, included a third grade project of mailing Christmas cards to shut-ins. Fourth graders entertained at the Citizens for Citizens Center and presented homemade gifts to senior citizens.

Students in both grades attended Christmas programs at Veteran's Memorial Center and the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Students purchased Christmas presents at Rudolph's Secret Shoppe, set up in the school's AV room. Seventh and eighth graders wrapped the gifts and were clerks.

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Louis, Fall River; Father Horace J. Travassos; Charles Jodoin, S1. Theresa, New Bedford; Fathers James A. Calnan, . Arnold R. Medeiros. (Gaudette photo)

Among 49 students from Salve Regina College, Newport RI, selected to be listed in the 1990 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges are Steve Bettencourt of Fairhaven, Christine Castro, Attleboro; Marlene Ponte, Fall River; Martina Ripanti, Swansea; and Kary Thackeray, Marion.

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By Father Joe Felker Friends of mine have for years kept track of the cost of all the gifts the family buys at Christmas. Then they give 10 percent of that amount to charity. They say they have to share their blessings.

The holidays are indeed a time of generous giving, but now that the season is ending, it is time to ask how young people give not only at Christmas, but throughout the year.

The youth at a high school I' know are involved in service all year long. They sing and dance at nursing homes, help at soup kitchens, gather food baskets and deliver them.

One teacher said, "It's wise to build that value of sharing into our program." The entire school is encouraged to be involved and most of the 800 students participate.

The weekend after the October earthquake; one church youth group I know raised $300 through a bake sale. The proceeds went to San Francisco Catholic Charities.

The youth of another parish had an aluminum can collection which realized $133.85.

The youth at that parish also have a yearly basketball tournament. The admission is a $5 gift, wrapped for Christmas, that is given to a needy person. It's a lot of fun, it builds community and definitely helps others. ' Generous giving of ourselves brings us into contact with the Lord. Do we live by faith? Do we use our talents in service? Do We share our money? There is no doubt how Jesus wants us to answer' these questions.

I know a youth group that had a giving tree. On the backs of its ornaments gifts for the poor were suggested. Those who participated in this project took an ornament and brought the gift it suggested to the church, to be given to an innercity parish.

Christmas is a season when people increase their efforts to share in sacrificial ways; but it is also a time to seek ways of sharing all year long. That's being a disciple.

What is your youth group doing to help church and charity? What can you do?

4,000 at Billy Martin rites, NEW YORK (CNS) - Nearly 4,000 people crowded St. Patrick's Cathedral Dec. 29 for the funeral of Billy Martin, former New York Yankees player and manager.

Martin, 61, was killed Dec. 25 when a pickup truck in which he was riding skidded off an icy road at Fenton, N. Y. An old friend, William Reedy of Detroit, who was driving Martin's truck, was charged with driving while intoxicated.

Retired Bishop Edwin B. Broderick of Albany, the main celebrant, said at the beginning of the funeral Mass, "This cathedral is undoubtedly the last place you would expect to find Billy."

Joseph Zwilling, a New York archdiocesan spokesman, told Catholic News Service he understood that Martin had received the last rites of the'church and his family, had asked' fora funeral in St. Patrick's.

Besides his widow Jill, his fourth wife, and his son, Billy Joe, those attending included. former President Richard Nixon, National League president Bill White, former sportscaster Howard Cosell, and baseball players Yogi Berra, Bobby Richardson, Phil Rizzuto, Joe Pepitone, Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly, Tommy John: Roy White and Dick Tidrow.

Pallbearers included Yankees 0\\ ner George Steinbrenner, former tea,nmate Mickey Mantle and second baseman'Willie Randolph.

Only days before he died, Martin joined Steinbrenner in reciting '''Twas the Night Before Christmas" for underprivileged children in Tampa, Fla.; and he frequently' helped with fundraising for the New York archdiocesan Instructional Television Network.

Invoking baseball terminology, Bishop Broderick said the gathering was "not to celebrate Billy's way of life but to pray that his is a safe slide into home plate."

"We pray that as he negotiates his lifelong contract with St. Peter," the bishop continued, "Billy will agree to wait it out on the bench, in the bullpen, even in the locker room, until the diville umpire, the inventor of instant replay, decides that Billy really is in shape for the eternal World Series."

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Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted. unsuitable for children or young teens.

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child bounty hunter (Bill Seltzer), and the feel-good ending sees Jimmy's disability and the family's communication problems resolved.

Farfetched plot, some rough language, unfortunate gag about child molestation. A2, PG 13 "The War of the Roses" (20th Century Fox): Black comedy that satirizes the rise and fall of an upwardly mobile couple as recalled by the divorce attorney (Danny DeVito) of the husband (Michael Douglas). Zeroes in on the couple's 18-year evolution from happy penury to wealthy discontent as the husband and hi's wife (Kathleen Turner) become more involved with accumulating possessions than nurturing their marriage. When she asks for a divorce, all hell breaks loose as neither will leave their house or possessions. They are reduced to horrow show nutcases as they fight for their turf. A good satire ofthe anger, greed and community property angles of modern divorce, but there is no sensitivity to the problems that broke the marriage in the first place. Some may be unsettled by the no-holds-barred elements of this nasty battle of the sexes. Some rough language, brief explicit sexual encounters, nasty cartoon violence. A4, R

"Family Business" (Tri-Star): Comedy-drama that sees a grandfather (Sean Connery), father (Dustin Hoffman) and son (Matthew Broderick) join to commit "We're No Angels" (Paramount): the perfect theft. While Granddad Heavy-handed comic misadventure is a career crook and lovable rogue, in which two .escaped' convicts his son has lived a reasonably straight life after an early stint in ' (Robert De Niro and Sean Penn) prison. When the brilliant grand- hide out in a monastery pretending to be priests while they figure son quits graduate school for a out a way to cross the border into surefire heist, there is much fatherCanada. Plenty of comic possibilison business to resolve tied to the improbable caper that proves self- ties in contrasting the cynicism and spiritual impoverishment of destructive for the entire family.

Much profanity, sexual innuendoes the two earth-bound clods with and unresolved moral perspective the innocence and rich faith of the monks, but the piece is played so on crime. A3,R that the result may appear broadly "The Wizard" (Universal): Small-fry version of "Rain Man" to some as an irreverent farce, that tracks a 13-year-old (Fred questionable in taste and treatSavage) who kidnaps his emotion- ment of religion. Some sexual refally disturbed 9-year-old half- erences, several scenes of hardbrother Jimmy (Luke Edwards) edged violence and a bemused from an institution. They trek to agnostic attitude toward religion.

A4, PGI3 California with a street-smart Reno girl (Jenny Lewis) who encourages "She-Devil" (Orion): Adult fanthem to enter Jimmy in a video tasy about the revenge of a wife game championship. The kids out- (Roseanne Barr) on her philandersmart their nitwit parents and ing husband (Ed Begley J~.) and stepfather (Beau Bridges, Wendy his rich mistress (Meryl Streep).

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methodically that it quickly loses interest and viewer's attention centers on Miss Streep's broadly funny performance as an empty-headed, outrageously pretentious romance novelist. Some profanity, several sex scenes intended as satire. A3, PGI3 "Dealers"(Skouras): British import that aims to satirize the bankrupt ethic that pushes high-powered financial traders to substance abuse and suicide, but mainly focuses on the love-hate relationship between a flamboyant young'trader (Paul McGann) and his new supervisor, a sexy American (Rebecca DeMornay) who's sleeping with their married boss but is a shrewd trader.

The financial mumbo jumbo and male-female cat and mouse games divert attention from the pressures that drive such i'ndividuals to succeed at any cost. Brief suggestive sexual encounters" cocaine and alcohol abuse. A3, R "Blaze" (Touchstone): Failed dramatization of the love affair between 'a striptease performer (Lolita Davidovitch) and the Louisiana governor Earl Long (Paul Newman). Offers little insight into the characters or the 1950s era. Sympathetic treatment of adultery, several extended sex scenes.O,R TV Film Sunday, Jan. 7, 8:30-11 p.m.

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THE ANCHOR----:-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 5, 1990 .

Iteering pOint, PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be Included, as well as full dales of all activIties. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: We do not normally carry news of fund raising activities. We are happy to carry notices of spiritual programs, club meetings, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities. Fundralslng proJecfs may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, felephone 675-7151.

On Steering Polnfs Items FR Indicates Fall River, NB Indicates New Bedford.

BL. SACRAMENT, FR Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 10, church basement, with showing of Medjugorje slides by Claudette Armstrong, a past president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. St. Anne's Sodality dues will be collected at weekend Masses.

TAUNTON STATE HOSPITAL Taunton State Hospital, a 330bed psychiatric facility serving Bristol, Barnstable and Nantucket counties, seeks volunteers to aid with recreation, pharmacy and library duties, visiting patients and escorting them to appointments. Also needed are a piano player for Sunday religious services, and service and church groups willing to assist with large group activities. Information: Sanford Epstein, tel. 824-7551, ext. 127.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS FR area meeting, 7 p.m. Tuesday, O.L. Fatima church hall, Swansea.

Attleboro area meeting, 7-8 p.m.

Sunday, St. Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Women's Guild meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, parish center. Meeting of Attleboro District St. Vincent de Paul Society, 7 p.m. Monday; Mass . in chapel followed by business meeting. Healing service with Father William T. Babbitt, 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

ST. VINCE-NTdePAULSOCIETY Taunton District Mass 7:30 p.m.

Monday, St. Ann's Church, Raynham, followed by meeting in parish center.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET St. Patrick's Fellowship, 7 p.m.

Sunday, parish center; confirmation candidates should attend.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS Meeting of new West Harwich Pre-fraternity, serving mid- and lower-Cape, 2 p.m. Jan. 14, Holy Trinity Church, W. Harwich. Inquirers welcome. I.nformation: Dorothy Williams, 394-4904.

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ST. ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, noon-6 p.m. Sunday; Holy hour, 5-6 p.m. Sunday, St. Sharbel Chapel.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Women's Guild meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, church hall. Couples' support group meeting, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12, church hall.

ORDER OF ALHAMBRA Region One Council of Caravans meeting 8 tonight, LOY91a Hall, Holy Cross College, Worcester.

ST. JAMES, NB CYO general meeting, noon Sunday. Senior citizens meet Tuesday.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Dinner for vacationing college students 6 p.m. Sunday. Bible study class will resume 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays beginning.Jan. 10, downstairs in the church. U1treya 8 tonight, R.E. center. O.L. V. Guild meeting, noon Monday, parish center.

ST. MARY, NB Bible classes resume Monday, adult education classes Tuesday. Parish retreat program: Jan. 26-28 (women); Feb. 9-11 (men). Information: Normand Letendre, 998-1849.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Applications for girls' ECHO weekend, Jan. 12-14, available at parish center, must be signed by pastor.

Daily Mass will be celebrated in the . chapel until Feb. 28. The 5 p.m.

Sunday Mass is discontinued until Aoril.

IS YOUR PARISH HERE? If not, why not send us your bulletin weekly and spread the word of the good things going on in your part of the diocese. The address: STEERING POINTS The Anchor PO Box 7 Fall River, MA 02722 ST. JULIE BILLIART, N. DARTMOUTH Youth group advisory board meeting, 7 p.m. Tuesday, rectory. Meeting for first Eucharist parents, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, church hall. Adult confirmation classes begin Jan. 30;information: 990-0287. Finance council meeting, 7 p.m. Monday, rectory.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Liturgy committee meeting, '7::30 p.m. Tuesday. Meeting for First Communion class parents, following 10:30 a:m. Mass Sunday.

CATHEDRAL, FR The Cathedral choir will present a music program for the feast of the Epiphany, 3 p.m. Sunday, Bishop's chapel. Monthly Mass for those in the Purgatorial Society, 9 a.m. tomorrow.

MASSACHUSETTS CITIZENS FOR LIFE Meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, St. .James CCD building, 233 County .St., N.B. Plans for March for Life will be discussed..

IMMACULATE.CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Panic/ anxiety group meeting, 7 p.m. Monday, parish center; information; 822-5459.

DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, SOMERSET St. Patrick's Circle will meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Old Town Hall, Somerset.

A U.S. helicopter circles the Vatican nunciature in Panama City. (CNS/ UPI-Reuters photo) HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH A discussion series on questions of adult Catholic faith, sponsored by the Diocesan Department of Education, will be held from 7-9 p.m. on consecutive Tuesdays 'beginning Jan. 9. Topics will include faith, the Church and morality. Sessions involve a formal presentation, group work, discussion, prayer and a social period.

HOSPICE OUTREACH, INC._ Hospice Outreach offers a Handbook for the Bereaved and Those' Who Want To Help. Information: 673-1589.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Ladies' Guild board meeting, 9 a:m. Tuesday, followed by II a.m.

Mass and a business meeting. Bible study program begins Jan. 22; information: Deacon Frank Camacho, 394-5023; J oan Carney, 385-6751.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Holy Rosary sodality meeting and social I p.m. Sunday, school. RCIA meeting Monday. Holy Land pilgrimage meeting 7:30 p.m. We<,dnesday. Mass beginning the annual Days of St. Paul, 7:30 a.m. tomorrow.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR The hospital is beginning a program to provide companionship and activities for oncology patients. Training provided for volunteers. Information: Cecilia Downing, 674-5741.

Drug advisers WASHINGTON (CNS) - President Bush has named Holy Cross Father Edward A. Malloy, president of the University of Notre Dame, and 26 others as advisers in the war on drugs. Bush asked the panel to seek ways to keep workplaces free of drugs, get Americans to volunteer for the "war," tell the young to avoid drugs, and get the private sector involved in building prisons.

Catechism relations, economic systems and proper use of natural resources. fare reaffirms the traditionally held The draft shows sensitivity to "right of lawful self-defense" but the Eastern rites of the church in condemns outright "the manufac- areas where Eastern and Western ture and use of chemical weapons." traditions differ, explaining the It says it is "morally wrong" for legitimacy of each tradition and nations to have "defense strategies how each arose historically. It exthat rely on weapons of indiscrimplains, for example,' the Eastern inate destruction." It urges negotraditions of married priesthood, tiated elimination of nuclear weaof administering confirmation at pons from the arsenals of nations the same time as baptism, and of and prohibition of their use "by considering the priest the minister international law. " of the sacrament of matrimony The section on the Fifth Com- while the Latin Church considers mandment is one of several in the bride and groom the ministers which m'odern social teachings of of the sacrament. the church on human rights and Along with the draft, the catesocial justice are incorporated into chism co~mission sent bishops the draft text along with more tra- form sheets' to submit individual ditional moral teachings.

--' amendments to the text and a The section on the Seventh and separate set of form sheets to anTenth Commandments includes a swer general questions about the treatment of such issues as pov- completeness, precision and style erty, development of nations, own- of the document and its major ership, work, employer-employee sections.

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Televised Masses Czech first TRNAVA, Czechoslova'kia (CNS) - Christmas Masses were broadcast live on television in 1989 for the first time in Czechoslovakia.

A midnight liturgy, transmitted from the Czechoslovak republic of Slovakia, was celebrated by Bishop Paval Hnilica, who had resided in exile in Rome since 1951. It was the first Mass the bishop had publicly celebrated in his homeland since escaping what was then a harsh Communist government.

The event followed the collapse of Marxist rule and its replacement by a non-communist government intent on liberalizing Czechoslovakian society.

On Christmas Day, Bishop Hnil-

ica concelebrated the liturgy in the historic St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava, Slovakia's capital city.

The cathedral is also called the Coronation Church because II Hungarian monarchs were crowned there when Slovakia was part of Hungary.

Negotiations are also currentlY underway for appointment of bish-' ops to Czechoslovakia's nine vacant sees; and for the first time since the Communist takeover in 1948, all Czech Catholic clergy living in exile in Rome were given visas to travel home.

Several planned to celebrate their first Masses in their home parishes in more than four decades.