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U .8. door shut to Cubans, Haitians

By Catholic News Service Tomorrow the U.S. Catholic Church concludes 'National Migration Week, established in 1980 by the U.S. bishops to highlight needs of refugees and immigrants.

Concurrently, the U.S. government has discontinued a resettlement program for Cubans and Haitians. The decision is a "disaster in the making," said Jesuit Father Richard Ryscavage, executive director of the bishops' department of Migration and Refugee Services.

He referred to the recent announcement of the U.S. Justice Department that its Community Relations Service, which provides the only resettlement program for Haitian and Cuban refugees, will discontinue its services, saying Congress did not allocate enough funds for the program.

"It's just another example of the government shooting itself in the foot," Father Ryscavage told Catholic News Service. "Such a small amount of money goes to this program yet it affects hundreds of lives."

The federal resettlement program has been in place since 1981. Since then, USCe's Migrationand Refugee Services has worked with Community Relations Service to help refugees obtain· housing, food, clothing, employment and medical assistance.

"To end this program now, especially after the devastation created by Hurricane Andrew has left many Cubans and Haitians

homeless, is irresponsible," said Father Ryscavage.

Noting that an excessive burden would fall on local governments, particularly in Florida, he called on the Justice Department to continue full funding of the program.

In 1992 alone, 10,500 Haitians were brought to the United States from the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the Coast Guard brought them after intercepting them at sea.

Currently 8,000 of these refugees remain in south Florida. The rest have been resettled across the country.

At least 2,000 Haitian refugees were left homeless after Hurricane Andrew. They will not be helped as the resettlement program phases out its services.

"With cuts in funding, this is effective immediately," said Raul Hernandez, assistant director for special programs for MRS in Miami.

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service, Hernandez said the homeless Haitians have "no resources, no documentation and now no one to help them."

They will "simply re~ain homeless

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and become a tremendous burden to the local community."

MRS officials estimate that another 2,000 to 3,000 Cubans will arrive on' Florida shores by raft during the current fiscal year and will not receive services.

"They have literally risked their lives to come to the land of the free, and we won't be able to help them," said Hernandez.

Echoing him, Father Ryscavage said, "as usual the most vulnerable people get the raw end of the deal."

"N ot to have a program to resettle people is insane from a mana,gerial point of view," he said.

"And as a church it is unconscionable to let it happen; we can't turn our backs on these people."

Resettles One-Third In connection with Migration Week, Father Ryscavage said that the Catholic Church resettles onethird of refugees coming to the United States, but more must be done to welcome them as part of the church family.

"If people of many cultures are to unite as one family, we must all give more than a passing welcome to each other," he said in a letter to pastors concerning Migration Week.

The priest said the face of the U.S. Catholic Church is changing, noting that 9 million refugees and immigrants have settled in this country over the past decade.

"National Migration Week 1993 begins another year of welcoming the stranger among us," he added.

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A MOTHER AND CHILD are returned to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by Coast Guard cutter after they had fled their impoverished country, (CNSj Reuters photo)

THIS MINNESOTA monument memorializes aborted babies. Its touching story IS on page 3. (CNS photo)

1,000,000 letters, postcards the goal

Pro-lifers mount 20th Right-to-Life campaign With CNS and local news reports As the 20th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on demand, nears, pro-life activity on the diocesan and national scene is increasing.

The four Massachusetts dioceses are participating in a postcard and letter-writing campaign on Jan. 24, which has been designated National Project Life Sunday. On that day churchgoers across the nation will be asked' to sign postcards or write letters asking members of Congress to oppose FOCA, the Freedom of Choice Act that would outlaw state regulations on abortion. It is hoped that at least one million pieces of mail will reach the capital as a result of the drive, sponsored by the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities and the National Committee fora Human Life Amendment.

President Bush has opposed the Freedom of Choice Act, but President-elect Clinton said he would sign it if Congress approves it.

The bilL as introduced in Congress in 1992, said that "a state 'may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy - I) before fetal viability; or 2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman."

Supporters argue that the bill would only codify legislatively the abortion rights declared by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

Opponents argue that it would invalidate many popular state laws

that have been enacted since 1973 and found constitutional by the Supreme Court, such as informed consent, a waiting period and parental notification when a minor seeks an abortion.

Some opponents have also criticized it for a lack of provisions to protect the rights of conscience of medical providers who oppose abortion.

Michael Taylor. executive director of the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, said the bill "represents the extreme views of 10 or II percent of Americans at most. ... It gives no evidence that Americans care to protect any unborn life at any time during pregnancy for any reason."

Since the bill would require states to permit abortion at any time during pregnancy for the sake of the woman's health, including mental heillth, its opponents argue that in practice it would legalize abortion virtually on demand 'even into the ninth month of pregnancy.

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DIOCESAN seminarians Andre Faria and Charles Jodoin will be ordained to the transitional diaconate

by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley at 11 a.m. Mass tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathedral.

All are invited to attend.

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28 presentees listed for Bishop's Ball

Father Healy dead at 69

Twenty-eight young ladies Will be presented to Bishop Sean P. O'MaIley at the 38th annual Bishop's Charity Ball, to take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at White's of Westport. The baIl, among the most widely known social and charitable occasions in New England, will be the first for Bishop O'Malley.

Miss Claire O'Toole, presentation committee chairperson, hilS announced that presentees and their escorts will rehearse the event at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, at White's.

The presentees represent parishes from the five areas of the diocese, said Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan director of the Charity Ball.

Each year, he said, one-third of the III diocesan parishes names presentees.

The bishop will be presented to ball attendees at 9 p.m. by Mrs. Andrew W. Mikita, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, and Leonard Nicolan, Fall River District president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

The two organizations cosponsor the annual event.

Hospitality and ushers' committee members will escort baIl patrons to their places. They are asked to be at White's by 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 15 for a pre-ball briefing.

NEW YORK (CNS) - Jesuit Father Timothy S. Healy, who headed the New York Public Library for nearly four years after 13 years as president of Georgetown University in Washington, died suddenly Dec. 30. He was 69.

Father Healy suffered a heart attack and collapsed. at Newark airport in New Jersey after arriving from a Christmas vacation in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was pronounced dead at a New Jersey hospital shortly before midnight.

President-elect Clinton, a Georgetown graduate, said Father Healy was "the epitome of the merging of faith and intellect, a walking demonstration that there need be no conflict between the two." Clinton called the priest a longtime friend whom he would miss very much.

In April 1989 the priest became president of the New York Public Library, the world's largest circulating and research library.

At Georgetown, the nation's oldest Catholic university, he secured the school's financial position. When he took over as president the school's endowment was $37.7 miIlion. When he left, it was $227.7 million.

In a period of three years under Father Healy, the New York Public Library endowment grew from $170 million to $220 miIlion.

At the public library, the priest turned his substantial salary over to the Jesuit community. He eschewed a two-bedroom apartment that came with his job, living at a Jesuit residence in Manhattan.

Presentees Listed The 1993 Bishop's Ball presentees and their parishes are: Attleboro Area: Lora Corvese, SI. Mark, Attleboro Falls; Ana Rebelo, St. Joseph, Attleboro; Jennifer B. Souza, SI. Mary, Seekonk.

Cape Cod and Islands Area: Caitlin Arnold, Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster; Heidi Bunting, Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket; Bridgette Gill, SI. Elizabeth Seton, North Falmouth; Allison E. Medeiros, Holy Trinity, West Harwich.

Fall River Area: Danielle M. Bessette, SI. Louis de France, Swansea; Colleen Gouveia, SI. John of God, Somerset; Sherry Ann King, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River; Gabrielle M. Lavoie, SI. Joseph, Fall River; Elizabeth Oliveira, SI. Elizabeth, Fall River.

Jennifer O'Neil,"SI. Thomas More, Somerset; Erin Marie Prior, SI. John the Baptist, Westport; Diane Rego, Espirito Santo, Fall River; Kristefl L. Strojny, Sts. Peter and Paul, Fall River; Jodie A. Zukowski, SI. Stanislaus, Fall River.

New Bedford Area: Christana Ambar, St. Joseph, Fairhaven; Amy Bedard, SI. Mary, New Bedford; Maryann Castelo, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Joan Fielding, Our Lady of Fatima, New Bedford; Elizabeth Furtado, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Bedford.

Kerri Gardiner, SI. Anthony, Mattapoisett; Raquel Pacheco, Immaculate Conception, New Bedford.

Taunton Area: Eugenia L. Adraneda, SI. Ann, Raynham; Meghan Connolly, Holy Family, East Taunton; Suzeanne M. Franco, SI. Anthony, Taunton; Ann M. Hoye, Immaculate Conception, Taunton.

St. An ne's Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions that we have received to the Remem路 brance Fund during December, 1992. Through the remembrance .and honor of these lives, St. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence."

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL REMEMBRANCE FUND Roland Banville Denise Berard Frank P. Botelho Victor Boucher Albert Brickhill lillian Brooks Jeanne Cadieux Francis Chadwick Betty Chaves Jean Cinquini Dolores Daigle Priscilla Dixon Lorraine Farquhar Mary V. Ferreira Dorothy Fillion Theodore Fillion Rudolph Fragoza Adaline Franco Antone Franco Maria Franco Mariana Franco John B. Gracia Charles Hague Anne Marie Higgins Thomas Higgins Norman Labrie Armand LaFrance Marcel A. LaVigne Albert Lussier Frank Macri Elizabeth McArdle Rita Moore Thomas Moore John A. Murley Margaret Reiner Murphy Adeline Occhiuti Nann Faythe Hillman Pascoal Susie Phillips Richard Romagnolo Alexander Rostler Albert J. Roy Joseph C. Saulino Anna F. Smith Albert R. Vezina Edmond Vidal

We are grateful to those who thoughtfully named St. Anne's Hos路 pital's Remembrance Fund.

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CHRISTMAS SEASON activity for Bishop Sean O'Malley'included, from top, a Mass for inmates of Bristol County Jail and House of Correction. With the bishop are, from left, facility chaplain Father Matthew Sullivan, SS.Cc.; Msgr. John J. Oliveira; Father Frederick J. Meyers, SS.Cc., ofSt. Mary's parish, Fairhaven; center, the bishop lunches with retired priests at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. Clockwise from left, the bishop, Fathers Roland B. Boule, Lucien Jusseaume, John J. Murphy; bottom, the bishop meets with seminarians at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. (Top photo from Bristol County Sheriffs Office; others by Sister / Gertrude Gaudette, O P ) .

"Humanity, fiberality, chastity, meekness, temperance, brotherly love, and diligence are the virtues contrary to the seven capital sins."

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Monument memorializes aborted babies, comforts nlothers

ARCHBISHOP Lykecelebrates Mass in this October eNS photo.

Abp. Lyke, '53, dies of cancer ATLANTA (CNS) - Atlanta Archbishop James P. Lyke, the V.S. Catholic Church's only active black archbishop, died at ho'me Dec. 27 after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 53.

His funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 31 at Christ the King Cathedral in Atlanta, followed by burial at Arlington Cemetery in Sandy Springs.

Archbishop Lyke was a leader in the civil rights and pro-life movements and in African-American cultural and liturgical development. He wrote numerous articles in national publications on black Catholic issues in America.

His death reduces the number of active V .S. black Catholic bishops to II. Beverly Carroll, head Of the V .S. bishops' Secretariat for Black Catholics, called him "a giant in the African-American Catholic movement."

When he was made an auxiliary bishop of Cleveland in 1979 at the age of 40, he was the youngest bishop in the country, and the fifth V.S. black bishop.

In the early 1980s he played a key role in organizing the black bishops to work as a group on national issues of common concern. In 1984 he coordinated their writing and issuance of "What We Have Seen and Heard."

The first-ever joint pastoral letter by the black bishops, who then numbered 10, it proclaimed the richness of the black Catholic heritage in America but called racism a festering wound in the church that remains'a major obstacle to the evangelization of blacks.

Then Bishop Lyke was thrust into the international spotlight in August 1990,just three weeks after he was named administrator ofthe Atlanta archdiocese, when it became known that his predecessor, Archbishop Eugene A. Marino, had been engaged in a two-year affair with a young woman.

Bishop Lyke launched a thorough investigation into questions, of church finances raised by the situation and his openness in dealing with the matter was credited with restoring trust in the church in the archdiocese.

In January 1991, doctors operated on the bishop to remove a , cancerous kidney. Three months later, Pope John Paul II named him Atlanta's archbishop.

Last April doctors found inoperable cancer in his right lung. In November, as it became clear that further treatment would not help

ELIZABETH, Minn. (CNS) Women who have had abortions find comfort in a monument to the unborn erected by a priest in his parish cemetery in Elizabeth.

Father Richard McGuire, pastor of St. Elizabeth parish in the diocese of St. Cloud, said the monument was a "dream that has become a reality," stemming from his 20 years of counseling women who had abortions and who expressed "the pain, the guilt, the torture they endure."

When it was dedicated three years ago, it had a sole inscription: "I know you .love me, Mom and Dad. I forgive you." Now, it has nearly 300 first and middle names given by the women to the babies they aborted.

Inscribing the name is part of the healing process in the aftermath of abortion, said the priest.

During his conversations, he said, the women continually voice two regrets: that the children have not been named and that they have not been commended to God. Father McGuire said naming the child helps the women take responsibility and "face the reality of what they did, that it was a

18 Filipinos killed Christmas Day COT i\ BATO CITY, Philippines (CNS) -, Philippine Muslim gunmen massacred IX Catholic church workers as they gathered Christmas Day to discuss holiday festivities, Soldiers searched for the killers injungle around Carmen and Pikit towns in North Cotabato province. about 500 miles south of Manila. the military said, Army spokesman CoL .Jose Valencia told reporters the victims had been meeting with other Catholic church workers in a school building in Carmen Dec. 25 when thc Moslems broke into thc room and opcnL'd firc, Sixteen people were killed on the spot while two others died later in the hospital. he said, ' The attackers stole 'cattle and food from nearby homes before fleeing into the mountains. Valencia said, He added that the army was checking reports that the massacre was in retaliation for the Dec, 24 killing hy govcrnment malitia (If several Muslim farmers worshiping in a mosljue in Pikit.

More than 100 people arc said to haye been killed in revenge attacks hy Christians and Moslems in the past three years.

human being whose life was terminated." Then "they can begin to move on."

The parish's symbolic burial place "is a way of putting closure on the child's life," he told the St. Cloud diocesan newspaper.

One 80-year-old woman who kept her abortion a secret for 60 years wrote Father McGuire saying, "What you have through this monument is tremendous. You have again let me know that Christ and his church are interested in healing the sinner."

Another woman wrote: "I am now only with the grace of God able to feel healed and forgive myself of this deep sin. Knowing my child's name is on the monument is a great comfort. Knowing that she stands before the face of God and is now my intercessor is something I never thought about before."

Father McGuire hopes those who send him names will also tell' their story to someone "in order to work through this more deeply."

He said the monument is viewed as a universal burial place. The names, sent anonymously, are engraved on its back.

Those interested may write to Father McGuire at St. Elizabeth Church, P.O. Box 769, Elizabeth, MN 56533 or call him at (218) 736-5230.

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him, he began receiving hospice care at home.

Ms. Carroll said Archbishop Lyke's single most important legacy to the church is "Lead Me, Guide Me," 'an African-American Catholic hymnal that is widely used not only in the Vnited States but abroad.

James Patterson Lyke was born in Chicago Feb. 18, 1939, the youngest of seven children niised . by their mother in an inner-city housing project.

Baptized when he was 10, he joined the Order of Friars Minor in 1959 and was ordained a Franciscan priest in 1966.

When he was named pastor of St. Thomas parish in Memphis, Tenn., in 1970, he was the youngest pastor in the state.

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An Ever-Present Bias There can be little doubt that an anti-Catholic attitude pervades our social order. From legislative capitol to copy desk, the Catholic Church in America has become the nation's whipping boy. Catholic teachings on social and moral issues are the target of media ridicule and in general it seems that a deliberate and singleminded attempt is afoot to distort and deride Church doctrines, especially in areas in which there is governmental involvement.

Now another hat has been tossed into the ring. The nebulous outfit known as Americans United for Separation of Church and State has urged President-Elect Clinton to terminate the U.S. policy of sending an ambassador to the Vatican. Like vultures waiting to pick at the corpse, the organization waited for this moment, when all the so-called Reagan policies are being questioned. Its executive director said in a letter to Clinton: "If the religious liberty provision of the First Amendment means anything, it surely forbids the United States government from creating a continuing official relationship with one religious faith." (It's odd that Americans United has no complaint with regard to U.S. representatives to Israel or Saudi Arabia, both religious states.)

Another group eager to see the closing of our Vatican embassy is the Southern Baptist Convention. The head of this denomination has made it quite clear that he is holding Clinton accountable on this issue, writing to him that "We're asking you in the light of your Baptist heritage that you revoke this policy," and pointing out that Clinton had the opportunity to redress what the Southern Baptists consider a wrong by not appointing an ambassador to the Vatican and by ending diplomatic relations between the United States and the State of Vatican City.

It may be quite shocking to many to realize that theforces of bigotry are again making their presence felt; but in fact those who have constantly attacked Catholics in this country as unpatriotic and suspect have really never changed their attitude, although most of us, lulled by President John Kennedy's election in 1960, had come to think that antiCatholic prejudice had departed the American scene.

M r. Clinton's transition team in Washington has had no comment on the matter of the Vatican embassy. This means it's on the back burner, a subject thatthe new administration has not yet addressed. In the meantime, it would be appropriate for new officeholders to disavow all forms of prejudice, especially that of a religious nature. It will be interesting to see if such statements will be forthcoming.

In the meantime, let those who care about their Catholic heritage be aware that prejudice is abroad in the land and that it is a matter with which we will have to deal in our daily life.

Catholics should develop a solid and united position on all forms of prejudice, especially with regard to their own religious freedom. .

Civil rights are not exclusive. They are inclusive and allembracing. It is far from the American way to espouse a political and social stand for one race or religion, ignoring all others. Let those who assume new political powers speak firmly and with assurance in this matter.

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A BOSNIAN WOMAN PRAYS FOR PEACE AT SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL, SARAJEVO

"Peace, peace: and there is no peace." Jer. 6:14

Catholic hospitals need health reforms WAS H n-.iGTON (CNS) numerous Catholic health care facilChanges in the nation's health care ities," the report said. system can't come too soon for Of the 497 Catholic hospitals on Catholic hospitals in poor neigh- which financial data was availaborhoods, says a Catholic Health ble, 103 were judged to be "conAssociation researcher. sistently sound" in their financial He commented as the American operations, 305 were considered to Medical Association, the Health be "holding their own" and 89 Insurance Association of America were deemed "adversely affected." and other major players moved The hospitals judged.consistently closer to agreement on health care sound devoted an average of 10.7 reform. percent of their gross patient Edwin Fonner Jr., director of revenue to care of the poor, while research and information for the those considered in financial decline St. Louis-based CHA, said his spent 16 percent of revenues on recent study of the financial health caring for the poor. of Catholic hospitals showed that But the burden of providing health care institutions serving the health care for the poor isn't shared poor got significantly weaker finan- equally among all Catholic hospicially during the 1980s. tals, the study showed.

The chief culprit, he said, was a '~An imbalance persists in which Medicaid reimbursement policy some hospitals care for the poorest that requires hospitals to accept . - 10 percent of the Catholic facililess than their own costs for health ties provided nearly 20 percent of services provided to the poor. all care to the poor delivered by Financially strong hospitals with Catholic hospitals in 1990, but a high percentage of privately in- another 25 percent provided only sured patients can transfer some of II percent of all such care," the their Medicaid losses to other pa- report said. tients, Fonner said, but instituThe Catholic Health Associations with mostly Medicaid patients tion and other health advocacy groups have urged President-elect can't.

Fonner's report, "A Profile of Bill Clinton to commit himself to the Catholic Health <::are Mini- changing the way health care is stry, 1992," found that the number both delivered and paid for in ofU .S. Catholic hospitals fell from America.

636 in 1982 to 594 in May 1992, The movement for 路health care with the rate of decline accelerat- reform, likely to be one of the first priorities of the Clinton adminiing in the past two years. ."Concentrations of economically stration, gained momentum in Dedisadvantaged people with serious cember when the AMA and the health and social problems, coupled Health Insurers Association of with inadequate reimbursement America backed various aspects of from Medicareand growing Medi- the Clinton plan that they had caid patient loads, are adversely previously opposed.

The main feature of the Clinton impacting the financial viability of

plan, as outlined during the campaign, is establishment of a national health board to set budget targets to assure that health care costs do not rise faster than the average American's income.

Clinton also has backed setting ceilings on premiums for managed care; establishing a core benefit package for all; reducing administrative costs al)d developing medical practice guidelines to help eliminate improper care; requiring insurance companies to provide access to all; and promoting development oflocal health networks.

Marla Romash, a Clinton transition spokeswoman, said he will disclose details of his health reform plan during his first 100 days in office. His primary goals are to reduce costs and expand health care access, she said.

Meeting in Nashville, Tenn., delegates of the 297,000-member AMA approved a health care reform plan that includes support for managed competition, guaranteed access and a public-private advisory board to determine national health goals.

The managed competition concept would require health insurers to provide a standard benefits package to any individual who pays a certain fee. Most employers and individuals would buy their insurance from a nonprofit agency that would negotiate the best price and services from competing health plans.

The AMA previously had opposed managed competition, as had the Health Insurance Association of America, representing 270 commercial insurers.

theiJ: experiences. It tooka giga~tic .leap of faith to apply the Songs to Jesus. The "servant" whom Yahweh upholds, the "chosen one" with whom he is pleased, is none other than the person who, in the fourth Song is "pierced for our offenses."

Those who think change is a sign of weakness have not read Scripture through the eyes of the authors who composed it.

The reason Matthew alters Mark Isaiah 42: 1-4,6-7 Acts 10:34-38 Matthew 3:13-17 Scripture scholars presume Matthew has a copy of Mark's gospel in front of him when he writes his gospel. So when he omits. changes or adds to words and passages found in Mark, he does it deliberately. Such modifications are both a sign of Matthew's unique theology and a way to appreciate how t he early church evolved in its response to particular problems.

Today's pericope describing the baptism of Jesus is a classic example.

Though Mark had simply stated. " ... Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John." Matthew presents a differ~nt scenario. He portrays a very reluctant John confronted by a very determined Jesus.

K.nowing their roles should be reversed. the Baptizer questions the whole p~ocess. "I should be baptized by you." he insists. "yet you come to me!" He gives in only when the Lord reminds him, "We must do this if we would fulfill all of God's demands."

Next, Matthew's "voice from the heavens" addresses John. not Jesus. Mark's original. "You are my beloved Son. On you my favor rests," is altered to. "This is my beloved Son. My favor rests on him."

Both changes are very significant.

The additional dialogue seems to have arisen because of an ongoing problem with disciples of John. From sources other than Scripture we know that centuries after Jesus' death and resurrection there were still people around who believed the Baptizer, not Jesus, had actually been the Messiah.

One of their arguments revolved around the fact that John had baptized Jesus instead of vice versa.

Presuming a superior usually baptizes an, inferior. they reasoned John was more important than Jesus.

This appears to be why Matthew depicts John as refusing to do anything which would make him appear to be greater than Jesus.

The change in the voice from heaven's audience mirrors a parallel concern. Since Matthew's Jesus is God from the moment of his con-

. Daily Readings Jan. 11: Heb 1:1-6; Ps 97:1-2,6-7,9; Mk 1:14-20 Jan. 12: Heb 2:5-12; Ps 8:2,5-9; Mk 1:21-28 Jan. 13: Heb 2:14-18; Ps 105:1-4,6-9; Mk 1:29-39 Jan. 14: Heb 3:7-14; Ps 95:6-11; Mk 1:40-45 Jan. 15: Heb 4:1-5,11; Ps 78:3-4,6-8; Mk 2:1-12 Jan. 16: Heb 4:12-16; Ps 19:8-10,15; Mk 2:13-17 Jan. 17: Is 49:3,5-6; Ps 40:2,4,7-10; 1 Cor 1:1-3; Jn 1:29-34

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Sexual abuse to be topic of programs

Programs on the topic of sexual ception in Mary's womb, he doesn't abuse will be cosponsored by, the parish adult education program 'need a statement from God affirming his divinity. Such a procla- and the Secular Franciscans at St. Louis Church, Fall River, on Jan. mation is now directed to others, 13 and 14. The programs will take especially to John and his followers. place in the church hall at the Matthew 'changes nothing corner of Bradford Ave. and Eagle accidentally. He alters Mark to St. c;onfront the problems his comThe Jan. 13 program, conducted munity faced from John's disciples.

by Dr. Tullio Pitassi, psychologist In doing this. he simply follows for the Fall River School Departthe lead of the other sacred authors. ment, will begin at 7:30 p.m., Because each writer looks at the immediately following a 6:30 p.m.

Lord from a different set of hisMass for Secular Franciscans. Dr. torical circumstances, each conveys Pitassi has worked with sexual a deeper insight into God than the abuse perpetrators for the past six writer who came before him.

Change is an essential part of years. He earned his doctorate at Purdue University and is a licensed being a follower of God. psychologist in the state of MassaThe early Christian community chusetts. discovered this fact very quickly.

The Jan. 14 workshop, to begin . The first disciples had thought at 6:30 p.m, will be conducted by they were to imitate Jesus slavishly.

Father Stephen J. Rossetti, the Since he had gone only to Jews. holder of a doctorate in ministry they believed they were to go only and a licensed psychotherapist. He to Jews. ,No one could have anticis a contributor and editor of Slayer ipated the scene in today's Acts of the Soul, an acclaimed book on pericope. What a change of heart child sexual abuse and the Cathoit took for Peter to confess, "I lic Chureh. With chapters by exbegin to see how true it is that God perts in the areas of mental health, shows no partiality. Rather, the law, pastoral theology and mediperson of any nation who fears cine, it discusses the nature of God and acts uprightly is acceptable child sexual abuse, its victims, its to him." Even Cornelius the Roman perpetrators, the help available to can become a Christian. each group and the responsibility Yet the most dramatic change in the early Church revolved around , of the church in such situations.

Father Rossetti conducts workits acceptance and imitation of Jesus' suffering personality. Our shops across the country on the Isaiah reading is the first of four issue of child sexual abuse and Songs of the Suffering Servant of also offers individual counseling.

Yahweh. Though most Jews believ- As of the end of January, he will be ed the Messiah would be a triumph- associated with St. Luke Institute, ant, conquering individual, those Suitland, MD. All are welcome at the Mass and who came into contact with the historical Jesus realized they had both workshops. Free-will offerto change these messianic expec- ings will be accepted. tations if they were to be faithful to

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Therefore, open yourself to God's plan and purposes for you to be able to cooperate with Him for peace and for good and do not forget that your life does not belong to you; but is agift with which you must bring joy to others and lead them to eternal life. May the tenderness of my little Jesus always accompany you. Thank you for having responded to my call.

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DOLORES CURRAN

On the corner of my overcrowded desk sit, in perilous symmetry, unread books. They are on my desk instead of my bookshelves because they are "urgent." Some have been there nearly a year. In another room, which houses my library, I have two shelves of unread books. I used to have only one, which I jokingly referred to as my nervous breakdown shelf, explain-

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How to reso'ive those New' Year resolutions ing that I was saving these books to read while recovering, but when one shelf grew to two, it wasn't so funny anymore.

Downstairs in my sewing corner, I have about 60 pounds of material, a file cabinet of unopened toddler patterns (my youngest toddler is 24), and four drawers of notions. If you don't know what notions are, ask your mother.

I binge on books and sewing supplies. When I buy them, there's the hidden promise of relaxation, creativity, and completion. As the books go out of date unread and the fabric deteriorates, I make fervent pledges to myself that I will buy no more until I read and use what I already have.

Regrettably, my children no

longer want clothing with clowns and balloons, and I can't get excited about reading a book on what's ahead for the 80s. My New Year resolutions to read and sew remained unresolved for years. I failed and I failed and I failed.

My friend and colleague, Dr. David Thomas of Regis University in Denver, has some good thougtits on resolutions which appeared in an old Marriage and Family magazine and which he has given me permission to share.

His article, "Better to .Be Better than Perfect," points out that when we aim for perfection, we will fail.

"God doesn't want perfect human beings ... God alone is perfect; we are only rough copies," he wrote, adding that God wants us to be better, not perfect. In the light of

his revised understanding, he shared his original and then revised New Year's resolutions: I. I am going to lose some ugly weight. Revised: I resolve to lose one pound.

2. I need to pray more. I Revised: - I resolved to spend one more minute than usual.

3. I will spend more time with our kids. I will play pool with them once a week.

4. I will write more letters to friends and family. Revised: I will write one extra letter each month.

5. I will get organized. Revised: This year I will arrange my socks.

6. I will exercise more. Revised: I will park my car in a more distant lot from my office and walk the extra distance.

7. I will spend more time with

my wife. Revised: we will take a walk together once a week.

8. I will do more gardening.

Revised: This year, I will plant one extra flower and one additional tomato plant.

9. I will write more poetry.

Revised: I will write one poem per season.

10. Ten is considered by some as a perfect number. God has done some things in 10's. Therefore, I will make only nine resolutions.

Thanks, Dave, for your freeing permission to be imperfect. Instead of resolving to read all 28 of my urgent books by Lent and sew three quilts by lune, I will read one and cut out the strips for the other and I will give the rest of my books and fabric to someone who is still trying to be perfect instead of better. I will pray for her healing.

A mother remembers a daughter's courage By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Probably no pain quite matches the agony of losing a child to a fatal illness or accident. How a parent copes with this is a highly individual matter.

Recently I talked to Mary Alice Welch, whose 22-year-old daughter Mary Ellen had died of cancer.

Mrs. Welch wrote a book about

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. Please explain the responsibilities of a pastoral associate. Are their duties the same in all parishes? (New York) A. Let's first clarify our terminology. Two different kinds of parish ministers have somewhat similar titles.

Assistant pastors are often called associate pastors. These are always

what her daughter and the family experienced and about how she was sustained by her Catholic faith.

The story began a little more than 10 years ago when Mary Ellen, then a Sheffield, Mass., 7thgrader, complained of pain in her right knee. Her parents took her to an orthopedic surgeon who ordered a bone scan.

The findings were tragic. The surgeon found that she had bone cancer, and her leg would have to be amputated.

The surgery marked the beginning of a long battle with cancer, which Mary Ellen fought valiantly.

She died July I I, 1988, leaving a legacy of courage that touched all

who knew her: family, friends, school colleagues and her doctors.

Now after four years, Mrs. Welch, who never wrote for publication before, has published her book, "Tapestry of Courage, A Loving Tribute to Her Daughter."

Never did Mary Ellen let her illness overcome her. Showing optimism and sometimes evenjoy, she refused to retreat into self-pity.

Her life was brief in years but not in accomplishments. She filled her life with love, laughter, learning and faith - the elements that make life transcend time.

Mrs. Welch said that as a mother she needed to write the book as a kind of therapy. "I think it helped

me to deal with Mary Ellen's death," she said.

In fact, she said, "I just don't fear death any more. It was a blessing to watch her, so quiet and peaceful."

Not that it's easy to accept the death of a 22-year-old daughter.

"It's hard, and I wonder what she would have been like if she could have lived," Mrs. Welch said. "But then I say no, that wasn't her role."

One of the book's fine touches is the inclusion of letters from Mary Ellen's friends, telling of their memories.

"You were so matter-of-fact about the cancer," wrote one woman. "I remember going out to

lunch with you, and your throat was a bit burned due to the radiation treatments you had just completed. I ate, and you had a shake....

"I speak of your laughter," the friend continued, "because I still hear it. Your laughter rang in my ears as I lit candles for you in churches and cathedrals in Europe that summer before you died, but your laughter is more vivid now."

Somehow I heard Mary Ellen's laughter as I read the book, and once again I was assured that there is no death, only a passing over into the new life God has prepared for us.

Mary Ellen's mother is to b.e thanked for letting us share in that laughter.

What do pastoral associates do? priests assigned by the bishop and have the more formal canonical title of parochial vicar.

These priests work with the pastor of the parish and under his authority, in caring for all aspects of parish life (Canons 545-548) They may be responsible for any part of the parish or any groups in the parish. They may even serve in certain types of ministry in more than one parish at the same time.

Pastoral associates, or parish associates as they are also called, also assist the pastor in the care of the parish.

Some are men and women religious, some are laypersons.

There is no universal official definition or job description for

this ministry; it all depends on what the individual parish needs, what competencies and training the associate possesses and what tasks the pastor wants him or her to assume.

One thing is sure. Along with other key parish ministers, many such associates are exceptionally well educated theologically and highly trained for the services they perform.

Numerous parishes, both in the United States and other countries, are blessed and greatly enriched by their presence and the services they perform for their parish communities.

Q. My son is an HIV carrier. He plans to marry a non-Catholic woman in a church ceremony.

_ However, it isn't clear how the Catholic Church rules on this situation. His finance is aware of his condition and still wants to be his wife. We look forward to what information you can give. (New York) A. Beingan HIV carrier, oreven suffering from AIDS itself, is not an impediment to marriage. In this it is no different from any other sexually transmitted disease.

But obviously, this tragic threat to the couple's lives raises major moral and psychological issues about their marriage relationship and about any future children, which they need to resolve together thoroughly.

It goes without saying, I hope,

that to withhold such information from one's future spouse would be a gross, sinful injustice and could even raise eventual suspicion about the validity of the marriage.

This, of course, is not you non's situation. I hope he and his fiancee will avail themselves of the best possible medical and psychological advice before reaching their final decision.

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Coping with a womanizing I,usband By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Mary: My husband and I have been married 12 years, second marriagefor both. We are both 48.

My husband is a "womanizer." He has never denied that he loves to carryon "flirtations" (swearing that sex "never" occurs), and he says he needs them as an ego booster.

He told me he doesn't understand why these little affairs bother me because he would never leave me.

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spent three years off and on in counseling. I remember finding love letters and a shirt one woman gave him, which he had concealed in his truck.

My husband would never be so understanding if I were involved in the same activity; he already begrudges me any activity which takes me away from home.

My husband is good in many respects and liked by many people.

He is a good father, and I hate to break up our family unit.

I am overwhelmed. I pray and pray for answers. I can't spend the rest of my life in counseling, and my husband has no plans as far as I can tell to change. - Indiana Your description of your problem is honest and vivid. Several of your points are typical in such

situations: that your husband swears he will never break up his marriage; that he "needs" these flirtations; that he severely restricts your activities; that he is not likely to change.

You do not want to leave your marriage. What actions can you take? What changes can you make?

Do not dwell on the "shoulds."

You think he should change, and most people would agree. He thinks you should overlook these flirtations.

Give straight messages about how you feel. You did a wonderful job explaining your feelings in your letter, Do the same with your husband.

You are torn up, overwhelmed, deeply hurt. Tell him. He can tell you you "shouldn't feel this way,"

but he cannot argue with your honest expression of your feelings.

Look for outlets which will bring you enrichment and greater peace.

You need to find some women you can regard as friends. Perhaps a church group for Scripture study would help your prayer life and also introduce you to sympathetic women friends.

A women's support group might help you learn how other women are identifying their place in the world.

At this point in your life you have time to pursue outside activi-

ties, possibly a volunteer, or you might get a job that would put you in contact with other people and community events.

If your husband objects, tell him why you need these activities. Then go ahead and do them.

Continue to recognize the good things about your husband, then seek friends and activities that will give you purpose, inspiration and peace.

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in 1992, the pontifical council"Cor Unum," which coordinates Catholic relief work throughout the world and distributes papal charity, has reported.

NFP methods compatible with all faiths, say conferees

NEW BEDFORD native Eugene A. Lemieux, now of Manchester, NH, has been honored by the French government with induction as a Chevalier into the National Order of Merit. The honor came in recognition of his three terms as president of the Association Canado-Americaine, a Catholic fraternal benefit society headquartered in Manchester.

Since 1900 the association has published the largest French-English magazine in the United States; it prod uces Bonjour!, a French-language TV program that reaches a potential weekly audience of 2.5 million viewers; and it annually organizes a trip to France for members and friends.

Lemieux attended St. Anthony School and the former St. Therese School in New Bedford and LaSalette Seminary, Enfield, NH. He was formerly a board of directors member at Sacred Heart N ursing Home, New Bedford, and currently serves on the board of the French Institute of Assumption College, W orcester.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The ent nations, cultures and religious church and governments should traditions, we express our gratido more to' promote natural tude to the Catholic Church, which methods offamily planning(NFP) has strongly encouraged responsibecause they are safe and reliable ble parenthood through the use of ways to achieve or avoid preg- . natural methods of regulating fernancy, said participants in a Vati- tility," they said. can meeting.

Promoters of natural methods "We recommend that natural of family planning do not simply methods should be available to all teach techniques, but encourage couples everywhere," said 45 educertain behaviors and lifestyles, cators, physicians, scientists and the statement said. theologians who participated in a recent meeting sponsored by the At the same time, they are comPontifical Council for the Family. patible with all cultures and reli"Coming together from differ- gions, they do not place a financial

Media views rapped VATICAN CITY (CNS)-- Pope John Paulll haseritici7ed what he said were media descriptions of the Second Vatican Council as a power struggle between church conservatives and progressives.

This is a partial and "very unjust" interpretation. he told Vatican officials at a meeting with members of the Roman Curia. the church's central administrative agencies.

During the council, he said. the church extracted "some old and new things" from "the great treasury confided to it by God" in order to put new life in humanity's divine relationship.

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burden on families and they are easy to teach and understand.

Because the methods help couples recognize when a woman is in the fertile part of her cycle, they can be used to indicate when sexual intercourse should be avoided to avoid pregnancy and when it should be used to achieve pregnancy, they said.

Because of the methods' benefits and becaus~ "every woman has the right to understand her fertility," the participants asked the church to "significantly increase" its efforts to promote the religious and human values underlying church teaching on birth control.

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They said all medical facilities should teach the methods and called upon the medical profession to fund more scientific studies of natural family planning.

Natural family planning helps men and women become aware of human fertility and therefore leads to sexual responsibility "understood as chastity before marriage and fidelity in marriage," the statement said.

Teaching natural family planning, they said, can help preserve "reproductive health, including the prevention of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases."

Now we can showyou a side ofyourselfyou've never seen before.

The image you see here may look like a regular X-ray. But it was actually produced at Saint Anne's Hospital using an extraordinary piece ofequipment called a SPECT camera - that stands for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography. And it can provide our doctors with images ofthe human body that were undreamed ofnot long ago.

Robert Courey, M.D. Chief of Radiology

\\!hen a conventional X-ray is taken, it creates a picture that contains everything in the area being

X-rayed. So a chest X-ray will showyour breastbone, your spine and everything in between. Ifyour doctor wants to look at a specific area ofyour chest, he or she must find that precise spot among the layers ofoverlapping nnages that an X-ray creates.

The beauty ofthe SPECT process is that it can create extremely clear images ofexactly whatyour doctor wants to look at- and nothing else. If your doctor has to see what's going on ten centimeters belowyour breastbone, the SPECT camera will create a picture ofprecisely that region ofyour chest.

If an image ofyour heart is needed, our camera will produce a crystal-clear view ofthe heart withoutyour lungs or

Exorcism legitimate VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The new universal catechism makes it clear that exorcism is a legitimate religious rite - stirring up interest in a problematic topic for the Vatican. Shortly after the catechism's debut, an Italian cleric claimed that Pope John Paul II had performed exorcisms inside the Vatican. an allegation promptly denied.

In the past, the Vatican has stressed the limited conditions under which exorcism, the casting out of an evil spirit, can be performed. Only qualified priests authorized by their bishops can use the rite. The new catechism mentions exorcism four times, noting that the Gospels indicate it was practiced by Jesus.

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And while the results are incredible, the principle behind this process is actually quite simple. Certain substances are attracted to different parts ofthe body. \\!hen we need an image ofa particular organ, we inject a patient with the chemical that is attracted to that organ. Then these chemicals give off signals that the SPECT camera picks up and assembles on a computer screen.

So, for example, to produce the images of the skeleton in these photographs, we injected the patient with a material that "sticks" to bones.

Because it works so well, SPECT has a great variety ofuses. Our doctors are finding it especially helpful in diagnosing cancer and heart disease. At Saint Anne's Hospital, this is just one of the amazing pieces ofequipment that we use to diagnose illness and injuries. In the years ahead, our goal is to continue to stay on top ofthe latest technological developments as they become available.

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Women with AIDS a growing concern CHICAGO (CNS) - At the recent Eighth International Conference on AIDS, "women's issues and family issues took center stage," said a Chicago priest who attended the meeting., Father Robert Rybicki, executive director of Bonaventure I-i ouse, an Alexian Brothers' hospice in Chicago for people with- AIDS, said the conference also focused on social and ethical issues surrounding Al DS, whereas previous ,. conferences were more devoted to , medical questions. \\\ About 10,000 people attended @it; l\ the gathering, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

CHURCH STAFFERS and members of St. Rose of Father Rybicki said he thought Lima parish, East Hanover, NJ, help the Biggiani family load the Amsterdam meeting signaled bag:; into a truck for delivery to New York City sleeping an important shift in attitude homeless per:;ons. (CNS photo) toward the AIDS epidemic, from emphasis on a cure to emphasis on prevention.

"People are beginning to realize that there's no way we are going to find a speedy answer, a kind of 'magic bullet,' to the AIDS probEAST HANOVER, N.J. (CNS) of the normal $40 price. That's lems," he said. "That's why [the - A New Jersey family's trip to when he asked if his parish, St. ,stress on] prevention was so see a Broadway play in New York Rose of Lima in East Hanover, , strong."

City has snowballed into a parishwanted to join the project.

In terms of global justice, one and community-wide effort to see Father Charles Waller, parochissue that frequently surfaced was that the homeless have sleeping ial vicar at St. Rose, said Project the lack of funding for AIDS bags, rather than cardboard boxes, Sleeping Bag shows what can be treatment and prevention in the to sleep in. accomplished when just one perdeveloping world. According to Project Sleeping Bag began with son perseveres. one study, the current U.S. expenJeff and Debbie Biggiani and their "It's the effort ofleffthat spurred diture for persons with AI DS is eight children, ranging in age from us to act," he said. "The Lord about $32,000 a year, while the 2 to 19, who developed the idea as comes to us this Advent season and per-person expenditure in sub-Saa family Advent project after they asks us to do for one another what haran Africa is only $400 a year. saw the homeless firsthand in we can. We are answering his call The question of women and Manhattan. when we do something like this."

AI DS also emerged as a major "The children spotted the homeOne day recently the entire partopic in Amsterdam. , less people crawling out of boxes," ish staff and several parishioners Until now far more men than said Mrs. Biggiani. "It made a last- helped Biggiani and his family women have contracted AIDS, ing impression on them, and it load 158 sleeping bags onto a but, Father Rybicki said, "half the dominated the conversation that truck in the driveway of the Bigginew AI DS cases this year will be night." ani home. The truck took its cargo women, and by 2000 half of all "It was sad to see people having to a spot just outside the Lincoln those with AIDS will be women." to live that way with no way to stay Tunnel, where the Biggiani childHe said that fact highlights sevwarm, especially when we were ren first saw street people living in eral issues of social justice closely' going out to enjoy ourselves," said cardboard boxes. linked to the AI DS epidemic 'Which Jeff, 16, ajunior at Hanover Park Biggiani said he hopes enough the conference tried to address.

High School in East Hanover. donations come in to buy another "One of the reasons for the "The family decided to donate load of sleeping bags to distribute explosion of Al DS among women all the loose change in the house to in New Jersey. is poverty," he said. How the ecobuy as many sleeping bags as we Franciscan Sister Dolores AInomic and social inequality of could to keep street people warm," fone, pastoral associate at St. women to men affects the incisaid the senior Biggiani. "We Rit-a's, said she isn't surprised at dence of AIDS among women varthought sleeping bags would be the way Biggiani's efforts have ies from one part of the world to much better than blankets for snowballed. another, "but it is part of every warmth and durability."

"He's truly taken the Christian country's dynamic," he said.

When all the children's jars of mandate to love our neighbors to According to the World Health change were collected and the fam- heart," she said. "How many peoOrganization, it is estimated that ily vacation fl)nd was added in, ple drive by the homeless every one-fifth of the 100,000 to 300,000 "we had quite a total," said Biggi- day or see them on TV and just prostitutes in Bombay are infected ani, who then decided to try pur- shake their heads? Jeff is doing with HIV, the human immunodechasing sleeping bags directly from something about it. That's living ficiency virus that causes AI DS. a manufacturer. the Gospel message."

Father Rybicki said that in parts Under a wholesale agreement Donations may be sent to Proof Africa most severely affected by with the Coleman Co. in Kansas, ject Sleeping Bag, c/o St. Rose of AI DS, poverty and prostitution Biggiani bought sleeping bags for Lima Rectory, 312 Ridgedale Ave., go hand in hand to contribute to the homeless for $16 each, instead East Hanover, NJ 07936. its spread. Poverty often forces husbands to leave wife and home for long periods for the sake of work. AftercontractingAI DS from WARSAW, Poland (CNS) think our nation hasn't taken' a temporary sex partner, when the An Austrian conscientious objec- responsibility for Nazi crimes," husband returns home he transtor has become the first person to Mayer said. ''I'm here so that Ausmits it to his wife. do alternative service at the former trians shouldn't forget that we Another justice issue affecting Nazi concentration camp of Ausch- were not only victims but [Nazi] women with HIV, Father Rybicki witz.

SS men too." said, is that often they have less Georg Mayer, 25, a history stuaccess to testing for HIV or other dent, will organize and translate sexuallv transmitted diseases, esdocuments and act as a guide. peciall~; in developing countries.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A Under a new Austrian law, Another woman's issue that was leading Jesuit magazine says human alternatives mandatory military highlighted was a contention that embryos from the first moment of service may be carried out at for- their 'existence carry an individualcurrent criteria for AI DS diagnoeign sites of the World War II Nazi sis are male-biased. ity and an identity fitting the defi" Holocaust.

When James Curran of the U.S. nition of "person." On the other "Usually alternative service is a federal Centers for Disease Conhand, despite modern arguments waste of time," Mayer told a Potrol spoke at the conference, women in favor of animal intelligence, no lish daily newspaper. "You just sit activists interrupted him with demanimal can be considered a person in some hospital and are told by onstrations protesting the centers' because it lacks a spiritual nature. medical staff to keep out of the official list of opportunistic infecthe magazine said in an editorial in way. tions which is used to define AI DS. La Civilta Cattolica (Catholic "But in Austria, many people, Civilization). .

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list, developed when the vast majority of identified Americans with AIDS were men, fails to recognize specific effects of HIV such as cervical cancers and pelvic infections that only women suffer.

As a result, they said, women with AIDS are not recognized as AIDS patients and are denied health care and social benefits that are made available to men with AI DS. Doctors, not alerted to specific problems that women may face from HIV, fail to diagnose or treat those problems or fail to recognize them as a symptom of HIV infection.

Father Rybicki said another major social challenge highlighted at the conference was the severe impact AIDS is having on children and family life.

By 2000 it is estimated that "10 million children will be orphaned

by AIDS," he said.

Another ethical issue confronted in various ways at the conference, Father Rybicki said, was the tension between public h~alth approaches and moral approaches to AIDS prevention.

"From the public health perspective the emphasis is on disease prevention and control," he said, while from a moral perspective

"disease progression seems to be subordinated to moral concerns."

"The conference was very strong on efforts of prevention," he said, including not only education but distribution of condoms for males, use of the newly developed female condom, and distribution of clean needles to intravenous drug users.

He said he was surprised at the degree to which people from vastly different cultures around the world expressed essentially the same moral values in dealing with questions of education, behavior change and AIDS prevention.

But he said there was also a recognition, for example, that "to be very honest, most teenagers in every generation engage in sexual experimentation."

The approach of the conference's participants, he said, was that there is a need to deal with that fact of life and "don't promote it or say it's OK, but do what you have to to prevent those kids from dying."

Not a Cream Puff "One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake." - Billy Sunday

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The retreat begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday and concludes at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Retreat directors are a team of Lay Ministers and Kathryn E. Wrobel of the La Salette Retreat Center Staff. $55 per person which includes meals and the overnight stay.

This two-day retreat is an opportunity for lay men ,anp women to come together to pray, to share,and to offer mutual support amidst lives of ministry within the Church.

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Warmest wishes, Best Regards for 1993.

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Nutrition for seniors Eating: You've done it three or more times a day all your life, and the chances are good that you've amassed a great deal of information about how to do it well. Yet the changes of aging - physical, social and financial - may mean that this is a good time for you to look at how and what you cook and eat to see what you can do to make your meals even more nutritious and appealing.

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How Is My Body Changing?

Physically. your body is naturally slowing down. You may be less active generally, while inside, your stomach, intestines, kidneys and other organs may not be working as efficiently as they once did. You probably absorb less of the nutrients you eat. Conditions common among older people, including constipation, heartburn and gallstones, can also affect what you eat and how your body benefits from the food.

What Should I Eat? First, what you've always known about good nutrition-that you should eat a variety of foods and stay away from too much salt, fat and sugar-still hold true. In addition, however, you may wish to: Eat fewer calories. As you age, you are gaining fat and losing muscle. As your body slows, you probably find that you may eat the same amount but put on weight.

Cut down on sugary desserts, and fried foods and try low-fat dairy products.

Be sure to get enough vitamins and minerals. While you may not need more vitamins and minerals than before, many older people do not eat enough vitamin and mineral-rich foods to meet their needs.

Since you may need to eat fewer calories, you may need to eat foods that pack in more vitamins and minerals per serving. Be especially sure you get enough: -Iron. A lack of iron can cause anemia, making you feel tired.

Rather than getting iron from fatty red meat, eat more iron fortified foods like cereals or iron-rich leafygreen vegetables. dried apricots. prunes, raisins and peaches.

- Bl2 and folic acid. Without enough of these vitamins. you may _find you have problems with your memory, staying alert and numbness. Eat more iean meat, fish, whole grains and low-fat dairy products.

- Calcium. Older women in particular need calcium to maintain bone health and help prevent osteoporosis. Use more dairy pro~ ducts, dark green vegetables, citrus fruits, beans and peas. Make sure you are getting enough vitamin D to absorb your calcium by going outside if you can (vitamin D is made by our bodies through exposure to sunlight), or drinking more milk with D added.

- Fi'ber. Constipation is not an inevitable part of aging if you drink plenty of water and eat enough fiber. Besides the celebrated bran, try eating more whole grains. fruits and vegetables.

At our retirement homes All the diocesan health facilities have been designated smoke-free zones. Smoking was prohibited at Catholic Memorial H orne, Fall River and at Marian Manor, Taunton. as of Nov. I. and Madonna Manor. North Attleboro, and Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, instituted the policy on Jan. I. Catholic Memorial Home is establishing a special care unit for persons with Alzheimer's disease or related conditions. It will be named in honor of Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, the first executive director ofthe diocesan health facilities, who is currently a Catholic Memorial Home resident.

The unit will serve 43 individuals. with admission priority going to present home residents. Some renovations will be necessary before its expected mid-1993 opening.

The Memorial Home is also adding six extended care beds also to be used, when available, for short-term respite care stays.

Madonna Manor will provide accommodations for eight more residents with the conversion of diet kitchens on all four floors into semi-private rooms. With modernization of the home's tray delivery system, the kitchen areas are no longer needed.

Marybeth Mazzoleni of Taunton has been named bookkeeper at Marian Manor. She succeeds ErciIia de Jesus, who has retired after 29 years at Marian.

Each home has developed employee safety campaigns to reduce work-related injuries and decrease lost work days. Safety committees have conducted safety fairs, contests and retraining.

Time to resolve It is not recorded (in my local "Just a little more effort. I hope," library. that is) when the practice he writes. "and I may deny myself of making New Year's resolutions that extra pat of butter. the third began. glass of wine, one lascivious thought, and achieve a moment "In order order to hav'e a clean when irascibility is controlled, one slate on which to start the New bitchy remark left unsaid; and.

Year." according to The Complete more positively. find a way to Book of Celebrations. "people in make some small generous gesture times past have made certain that without forethought. and direct a they had no debts outstanding, genuine prayer of goodwill towards and that all borrowed objects had someone I dislike. been returned."

"It is a fairly pitiful ambition I like the idea about returning after a quarter of a century of borrowed objects. I have quite a genuflection." list of books I would like to see I don't know the age of Cardinal again. But I don't know about paying up my loans all at once. If eve- . John Henry Newman when he wrote the words I now commend rybody did that, there'd be no need to your attention. but it had to be for banks. loan sharks or credit when he was along in years because unions. of its emphasis on getting out of As the years hurtle by. my own bed-a problem that often conresolutions take on new forms as I cerns those of us no longer driven kick old habits and discover new by the tyranny of an alarm clock. ones growing. I'm learning to stop When you discover the simplicdescribing my pains and aches, but ity of his resolutions on how to it's much harder to avoid telling lead a perfect life, it is important to how bad it was in the good old remember that this towering genius days. of the 19th Century was a leading It helps to find that others of my scholar. preacher and writer who age face similar difficulties as they may. God willing. become a saint resolve to change their ways. Alec in our time.

Guiness' fascinating biography, "If you ask me what you are to "Blessings in Disguise," devotes do in order to be perfect." Newone moving chapter to the impact man said. "first-do not lie in bed becoming a Catholic had on him. beyond the due time of rising; give

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your first thoughts to God: make a good visit to the Blessed Sacra-路 ment; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God's glory; say the rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well: examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time. and you are already perfect."

As the end of the 20th century approaches and you ponder your New Year's resolutions. I urge you to consider what Newman said. If it looks too demanding. how about Guinness' list?

If that also is a bit much. how about returning a few books?

Bernard Casserly recently received the annual B. Charles Tierney A ward of the St. PaulMinneapolis archdiocese for his longtime service to the church. He is editor emeritus of the archdiocesan newspaper, was for eight years host of a television program, "Church Beat," and is a past president of the St. Paul Serra Club.

This nun's going to the dogs - with Nutri-Bits WASHINGTON (CNS) - Several residents of St. Paul's Priory in Maplewood, Minn., think that Sister Joan Schneider is a great cook. But instead of a pat on the back, she's more apt to receive a bark of approval.

Sister Schneider, a 60-year-old Benedictine, is the creator of Sister Joan's Nutri-Bits, an all natural liver-and-garlic-based dog treat that is making its way into pet food stores around the country.

Once made in the priory's kitchen by Sister Schneider and a band of volunteers, the treats now are manufactured according to the nun's recipe at a factory in Le Sueur, Minn. Volunteers still help with packaging, bookkeeping and various other chores associated with the fledgling corporation.

Ten percent of the profits generated by sales will go to another cause close to Sister Schneider's heart - the retirement needs of those ih her Benedictine community.

Sister Schneider and her fellow Benedictines live at the community's motherhouse with three adult

German shepherds and a litter of puppies. Dogs have been a part of the nun's life for 20 years, since she was working as an occupational therapist in Duluth, Minn., and living alone.

She got her first dog for protection, then began breeding the animals. 'When "a German shepherd that I dearly loved" died of cancer more than a decade ago, she said, "I began reading labels on dog food" and found that "many of the cancer-causing agents that they were taking out of people food were ending up in dog food."

After "a number of trial and error attempts," Sister Schneider developed a recipe that has no salt, no sugar and no preservatives. The only ingredients in Sister Joan's Nutri-Bits are liver, garlic powder, cornmeal and flour.

A small ad in a national Catholic newspaper, Our Sunday Visitor, in December 1991 brought $2,000 in orders and prompted Sister Schneider to consider moving her business out of the priory kitchen.

She said none of the other nuns

had objected to her making the liver treats there, but there had been schedUling problems. "That's because once you bake them, they mqst sit in the oven with the pilot light on for 12 hours until they are completely dry," she said.

A recent decision by the Dayton-Hudson Foundation to place the product in stores across the country took Sister Joan's Nutri-Bits - now a corporation owned by the nun's family members and volunteers - into the bigtime.

Although Nutri-Bits are not yet making a profit, Sister Schneider is looking forward to the time when the company will begin paying for some of her community's retirement costs. She is also looking into developing a recipe for cat treats, with a poultry or fish base.

Partially disabled by two hip replacements, Sister Schneider doesn't let the two canes she needs to walk interfere with her busy life.

"I don't consider it a handicap, if it doesn't keep me from doing what I want to do," she said. "And it doesn't."

Respecting the handicapped The Cranberry Scoop. newsletter of the Dennis Council on Aging, recently listed the following hints for respecting handicapped persons: When speaking to a person in a wheelchair, sit - in order to be at eye level - it makes him/ her feel less threatened.

Do not move a wheelchair, walker. crutches or cane out of reach. Ask if assistance is needed before reaching out to help.

Do not lean on the wheelchair or otherwise invade the person's space.

When a buffet or cafeteria line

causes inconvenience. get suggestions and offer to carry the handicapped person's plate or tray.

Whenever there is a handicapped person in a sociaL business. church. or ot her group. be sure to speak to himl her. make eye contact when speaking. and do not be embarrassed or avoid him; her.

One of the best ways to make a handicapped person feel good is to ask him; her to do you a favor.

Love Repaid "Love is repaid by love alone."

- St. John of the Cross

SISTER JOAN AND HER NUTRI-BITS

Pro-lifers

PARISH DIRECTORS and coordinators of religious education were in attendance at a recent meeting at Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport, for which parish coordinator Terry Alexander was hostess. At top, guest speaker Sister Elaine Marchand, RSM (right), talks to Judy Moniz of Our Lady of Grace. Sister Marchand, who holds a degree in wholistic counseling, spoke on wholistic spirituality, defined as a spirituality that takes body, mind and spirit into account. Bottom picture, participants pick up information packets, from left, Marion Carrier and Marge Copeland of Our Lady of Angels parish, Fall River; Pat Pasternak, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Sister Gisele Menos, SJC, St. Michael,Swansea; Jorgelina Resendes, St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River.

Nuns' bodies recovered in Liberia RED BUD, Ill. (CNS) - The bodies of two U.S. nuns killed in Liberia have been recovered and will be returned to the United States for burial, said a statement from their order, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ.

Sister Mildred Gross, the order's provincial, said the State Department informed them Dec. 21 that the bodies of Sister Barbara Ann Muttra and Mary Joel Kolmer had been found, two months after their murders. Three other nuns from the same order also were murde'red in Liberia and were buried at the provincial cemetary Dec.

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rovia, Liberia, and Catholic clergy had recovered the bodies after fighting in the area had subsided.

An order spokesperson-'said a funeral date had not been set, since transportation of the remains and forensic testing were expected to take several weeks.

Sister Muttra, 69, a nurse and relief worker, and Sister Kolmer, 58, a teacher, reportedly were killed by rebel forces Oct. 20 near Barnersville, Liberia, while on their way to visit the sick relative of a mission worker.

On Oct. 23, Sisters Agnes Mueller, Kathleen McGuire and Shirley Kolmer - Sister Mary Joel Kolmer's cousin - were killed at their convent in Gardnersville, a suburb of Monrovia.

Sister Gross said the order had been praying that the bodies of Sisters Muttra and Kolmer would be returned.

"I understand that the location More Crosses of their remains was consistent "Courage! The more crosses you with the eyewitness account of have, the more your soul will grow. their murder which we received in . Let the good God act."-St. Julie early November," Sister Gross said, Billiart adding that the bodies would be subject to forensic examination for positive identification: The statement said members of GOD'S ANCHOR HOtoS the West African Peacekeeping ......

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Other Pro-Life Programs In other diocesan and state programs, priests of the Fall River diocest: will attend a clergy conference from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at Holy Name parish cen-. ter, New Bedford. Professor Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School will speak and take questions onFOCA; Dr. Michael Taylor of the National Committee for 'a Human Life Amendment will speak on the logistics of the postcard and letter-writing .campaign; and each parish will be given postcards and informational material on the project. Parish pro-life committees will work with the priests on obtaining signatures.

- Massachusetts Citizens for Life will sponsor its annual Interfaith Assembly for Life from I to 3 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 17, at the SheratonBoston Hotel. The principal speaker will beAtty. Philip D. Moran, M CFL board chairman and a director of the National Right to Life organization. The event will' be chaired by TV Channel 25 talk show hostess Jeanine GrOlL Bishop Sean O'Malley and Cardinal Bernard Law will be among clergy in attendance.

Bishop O'Malley will also participate and give the invocation at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., to take place on Jan. 22, the 20th anniversary of the passage of Roe v. Wade.

The march will be preceded by a prayer vigil beginning at 7 p.m.

Jan. 21 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The vigil will conclude with 7:30 a.m. Mass at the shrine, offered by Cardinal Law. Preceding the noon March for Life, Massachusetts participants will gather at a rally in Room 50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to hear MCFL Legislative Director Arlene Champoux at 9:30 a.m. and l1linois Representative Henry Hyde at 10 a.m. The rally has been organized by Alice McAndrews of Holy Ghost parish, Attleboro, for the past five years state coordinator of the Massachusetts March for Life.

The Massachusetts contingent will meet for the march at noon in Washington's Ellipse, on the corner of Constitution and 15th Streets.

Following the march and speaking program, participants customarily visit the offices of their representatives and senators.

Information on economical bus trips to Washington for the vigil and march is available in the Attleboro and Taunton areas from Mrs. McAndrews at 226-0292; in the Cape Cod area from Mary Sheehan, 888-2867; and in the Fall River and New Bedford areas from Peter Zajac, 994-0160.

Later On In other pro-life news: Bishop O'Malley will celebrate a diocesan pro-lift: Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 25, the feast of the Annunciation.

Father Stephen A. Fernandes, director of the Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate, has announced that he will celebrate Masses for parish pro-life representatives in each of the five diocesan deaneries. To be held in the spring, their dates and sites will be published shortly. Each will be followed by planning and get-acquainted sessions for the representatives.

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Poverty threatens peace, papal message warns v ATICAN CITY (CNS) - An unregulated market economy cannot guarantee the protection of the poor that Catholic teaching and human dignity demand, Pope John II said. In his World Peace Day message he also warned that poverty and the growing gap between the world's rich and poor threaten world peace. The peace observance is observed annually by the church on Jan. 1.

"To allow situations of extreme poverty to persist is to create social conditions ever more exposed to the threat of violence and conflict," the pope said.

The theme ofthe Jan. I celebration was "If you want peace, reach out to the poor."

In his message, the pope examined the links between poverty and war, pointing out how poverty threatens peace and how war路often makes poverty worse. .

The message said a freely chosen lifestyle of simplicity can help correct the imbalances between rich and poor and be a concrete sign of solidarity.

The papal message also included references to the war in BosniaHerzegovina and to the threat nationalism can pose to peace.

Building peace, he said, "presupposes a refusal to accept any doctrine of national or cultural supremacy."

The pope repeated his 1981 Peace Day statement that every nation and government must renounce claims that would harm other nations or peoples.

A government's economic policies also have an impact on peaceful relations between nations and within nations, the papal message said.

Pope John Paul called on nations to "reject all temptations to secure economic dominance over other nations" and instead promote solidarity through development assistance.

The pope called for government intervention in market economies to protect the human dignity and rights of all people and to promote peace. .

It is "urgently necessary to introduce into the mechanisms of the economy the necessary correctives which will enable those mechanisms to ensure a more just and equitable distribution of goods," he said.

"By itself, the rules of the market are not sufficient to accomplish this."

T~e more widespread poverty is, the more serious its threat to peace, said Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president' of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

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No triskaidekaphobia there v ATICAN CITY (CNS) - Who flies in the face of Friday the 13th, challenges a 16th-century seer to strike him dead, shouts out defiance of a 500-year-old jinx?

It's Pope John Paul II! No triskaidekaphobia there!

The superstition-free leader of the Catholic Church takes bad omens in stride during his global travels.

After 56 trips outside Italy during 14 years, he has survived in good health. Vatican officials say he remains unworried about the future.

Twice, he has flown on Friday the 13th.

The first time was May 13, 1988, over the jagged peaks of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia. The 550mile round trip was between the fertile valley city of Santa Cruz and Tarija, 6,398 feet above sea level.

The second was Oct. 13, 1989, over the steamy tropical jungle of Sumatra in Indonesia. The 1,800mile round trip was between the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and the Sumatran city of Medan.

The pope prayed both times, but that was normal. On all his flights, he spends part of his time reading from his breviary, the book of prayers recited daily by priests.

The pope arguably defied the gloom and doom prediction of Michel Nostradamus, the l6thcentury French seer, twice: once in Lyons, France, in October 1986 and again in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, in September 1987.

Nostradamus was an astrologer, and his vague predictions of catastrophes are considered prophetic by many French who specialize in analyses, often non-literal, ofthem.

One says that a pope will die a tragic death at a place where two rivers meet at a time when roses are in bloom.

Lyons is located at the confluence of the Rhone and Saone rivers. Fort Simpson is the junction ofthe Mackenzie and Liard rivers.

But do roses bloom in southern France in October and in northern Canada in September?

This is not the point, say Nostradamus aficionados, who argue that the reference to roses is alle-

gorical and probably refers to the symbol of the ruling Socialist Party, . a red rose. .

French police took the pope's security seriously during his trip to Lyons and mobilized 10,000 security officers to protect him and guard his travel routes and the sites of his ceremonies.

But the strict measures were not influenced by Nostradamus.

A month before the pope arrived, Paris was hit by a wave ofterrorist bombings, said to be the work of an Arab group trying to force the government to release its imprisoned leader.

At Fort Simpson, the Nostradamus prediction was treated as an oddity. If anything, the bad luck occurred three years earlier when the pope was originally scheduled to visit the junction of the Mackenzie and Liard rivers but could not land there due to . bad weather.

During the pope's October trip to the Dominican Republic, he defied the jinx of Christopher Columbus. According to Dominicans, a jinx is connected to saying the explorer's name, so people simply call him "the great admiral."

Legend traces the jinx to the bad luck associated with Columbus during his stay in what is now the Dominican Republic. He once had to leave the area in disgrace for alleged abuses and was exiled to Jamaica for a year.

Upon his return to the area, the governor refused him permission to come ashore. Columbus persisted, saying a hurricane was approaching. The governor be~ lieved it was a ploy and, according to the legend, ordered ships with New World treasures to set sail for Spain. The legend says the storm came and the ships were lost at sea.

Undaunted, the pope sprinkled Columbus' name throughout his speeches. If there was any bad luck it was the low turnout for th~ pope's two outdoor Masses.

About 10,000 people showed up at the country's most important Marian shrine and fewer than 100,000 attended the main Mass in the capital of Santo Domingo.

The Santo Domingo Mass was in front of a newly built memorial lighthouse named after Columbus

and housing what are said to be his remains.

Maybe Dominicans were afraid they would hear the admiral's name over the loudspeaker system used by the pope.

Triskaidekaphobia? It's fear of the number 13.

Methodist head meets pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) When Pope John Paul II met the president of the Methodist Conference of Great Britain, prayer and cooperation on social issues were discussed, but not the issue of women ministers - despite the Methodist official's gender. "The fact that I was there and that he received me very graciously seemed to speak for itself," said the Rev. Kathleen Richardson, conference president, after her recent meeting with the pope. The ordination of women in England and its effect on ecumenical relations has been receiving much Vatican attention since mid-November, when the Church of England, mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, voted to accept women priests.

In situations of persistent poverty, the poor gradually become conscious of how their dignity is being violated, and they move toward revolt, the cardinal said at a press conference.

While Cardinal Etchegaray said there are r-easons that would justify revolt, he pointed to several passages in the papal document that speak of the futility of war.

"Nothing is resolved by war; on the contrary, everything is placed in jeopardy by war," the-pope said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The It is important to recognize "for Vatican stamp and coin office hopes to join in Pope John Paul II's once and for all that war never helps the human community." prayers for peace in Europe and The pope said, "violence desraise several hundred thousand troys and never builds up," and dollars for papal charities at the "the wounds it causes remain long same time. The office has designed unhealed." a stamp and seal marking the Jan. ..As a result of conflict the already 9-10 interreligious prayer service grim condition of the poor deteriand Mass for peace to be held in orates still further and new forms Assisi, Italy. A spokesman said it of poverty appear," he said. will be the first time that all proDiscussing the situation of the ceeds from a stamp issue "will be poor in the world today, the pope given by the Holy Father to works placed special emphasis on childof charity, especially those benefitren, who "in order to survive can ing the populations of Bosniarely on nobody except themselves."

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At the same time, "young people see their hopes for the future Two Kinds of Laws shattered and too often, as vic"One may well ask, 'How can tims, they become irresponsible you advocate breaking some laws agents of conflict." and obeying others?' The answer The pope gave specific mention lies in the fact that there are two to several problems that he said types of laws, just and unjust." place an unequal burden on the Martin Luther King, Jr. poor and, as a result, threaten peace.

The problems included: - Foreign debt. The pope said the debt problem should receive priority treatment from the international community.

He also suggested that loans come with the condition of reducing unnecessary expenditures "here one thinks particularly of expenditures on arms."

- The. drug trade. The pope noted its connection with violence and crime and said the money that can come from drug cultivation is . often too much of a temptation for the poor to resist.

"The first thing to be done in order to help growers to overcome this situation is, therefore, to offer them adequate means to escape from their poverty."

- Mass migrations from povertystricken countries. When the poor move to a country with better economic opportunities they often are faced with hostility and discrimination, he said.

It is not enough for the host government to make emergency responses to the "xenophobic violence," the pope said. Richer ::;::iui,楼.1lli nations must help poorer ones SURROUNDED By journalists during one of his plane trips, the pope has little time to develop so their people need not -leave them. worry about possible in-flight mishaps. (eNS/ KNA photo)

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Church minority hiring practices surveyed A new study by the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice (NCCIJ) indicates the need for increased efforts to create an inclusive church, but also shows that success in minority hiring is possible.

While 74 percent ofthe 94 Catholic dioceses report employing nine or more minorities, 26 dioceses reported no minorities employed. .

"The Catholic Church is approaching 40 percent minority" Ernst said. "It is time for new action initiatives to involve this high number of minorities in the Catholic Church, as well as those outside the church, in ways which go beyond simply issuing of affirmative action policy statements."

The survey was carried out as part of "Creating an Inclusive Church," an NCCIJ program which offers dioceses strategic planning with specific action steps, meaningful and measurable goals, timetables, and calls for a leadership commitment to achieve racial, cultural and economic diversity in all aspects of the life of the Catholic Church.

The NCCIJ report indicates that the major barriers to minority employment in central offices is "the lack of meaningful and measurable goals and timetables and specific, strategic equal employment (affirmative action) plans," Seventy of the responding dioceses indicated that they did not have an affirmative action plan.

Many view "equal employment

opportunity as simply refraining from overt discrimination," the study observes. "The value of strategic planning to ensure minority representation is not generally recognized."

The report discusses "structural barriers" identified by respondents which NCCIJ insists can be overcome with effective strategies.

Among these barriers are few hiring opportunities, locations with small minority population, lack of central control over hiring, and lack of salary competitiveness.

A series of "attitudinal barriers" were also identified: the misperception that "counting" minorities was illegal and / or immoral; the misperception that having a minority hiring plan means hiring unqualified people; the presumption that "hiring Catholics only" means "hiring whites only" and a resultant lack of effort to overcome this barrier; the presumption that development of meaningful minority hiring practices contradicts principles of collegiality in the church.

"While the Church in general has a less than impressive record in minority hiring, a few dioceses with good results suggest that it is possible for the Church to effectively promote inclusiveness within its employee ranks," according to NCCIJ Executive Director Jerome Ernst.

More information on the report is available from NCCIJ, 3033 Fourth Street, N.E. Washington, DC 20017, telephone 202/ 529-6480, Fax 202/526-1262.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo.(CNS)Of26 specific properties that the An ecumenical project partially group complained about, however, funded by the U.S. bishops' Cam- five have been demolished, two are paign for Human Development scheduled to be torn down, seven which is financed by U.S. Catho- have been repaired and cleaned up lics, has helped residents clean up and nine have had their owners a formerly drug-infested Kansas City cited for violations and summoned neighborhood. to court.

In a unique approach to the "Instead of one voice crying in the wilderness, we were 260 voices drug problem, narcotics officers crying in the wilderness as one began eating picnic lunches on lots voice," said resident Nancy Stege- within sight of known drug houses . man of a meeting last summer in the area. The drug dealers "knew when 260 people jammed a neigh- the police were there and they borhood community center to de- moved on," said George Marshall, mand action from city police, a member of Fountain of Hope.

Marshall said dealers used to health and neighborhood preserstand on a street corner and wave vation officials.

The meeting was called after bags of cocaine at passing motorseven months of research conducted ists as brazenly and openly as by the combined social action vendors wave peanuts at fans at a organizations of five Christian ballpark. congregations, including Our Lady "Traffic had to stop while they were doing their business," he said. of Peace Catholic Church.

"There were school bus stops at The ecumenical group received that intersection and children had training from the Kansas City to walk through that.

Organization Project, or KCOP, "Today, the intersection is peacewhich gets CHD funding. ful," Marshall added. "It's like "The KCOP process equipped you're in heaven going through us to do what Jesus told us to do," there now." said the Rev. Steven Eulberg, pastor of Fountain of Hope Lutheran Church.

"Jesus said, 'If you have faith, you can move mountains,'" he WAS HINGTON (CNS) added. "That doesn't mean you get There are 141 Catholic members down on your knees and just pray of the 103rd U.S. Congress, one that the mountain moves. It means fewer than in the 102nd Congress' you pray, then you get up off your when it convened two years ago. knees, grab a shovel and start dig- The Senate has 23 Catholics - 15 ging. It may take a while, but even- . Democrats and eight Republicans: tually you'll get the mountain In the House, there are 118 Cathmoved." olics - 77 Democrats and 41 To some residents, the twin Republicans. Total membership problems of abandoned buildings of the House and Senate is 535. and open drug sales was a moun- The session convening this month tain that wouldn't budge in an area includes 31 new Catholic representhat had lost 27 percent of its pop- tatives and two new Catholic senulation between 1970 and 1990. ators.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 8, 1993

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MICHAEL J. TABAK, di- has been development director rector of development at for 10 years.

Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, recently received an outstanding service award from the New England Association of Catholic Development Officers.

The association presented a plaque to the Taunton native at its recent annual conference at Holy Cross College, Worcester.

Coyle-Cassidy headmaster Michael J. Donly credited Tabak with fostering a gooa relationship between the MONEY ALWAYS AVAILABLE school and its alumni and FOR HOME PURCHASE OR benefactors.

IMPROVEMENT "Mike is behind many successful events here at the school. We are indeed thankful to have him working on behalf of our students," said Donly.

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Tabak graduated from Coyle-Cassidy in 1963 and joined the faculty in 1979. He TWO IN Who's Who: Denise T, Kochanski, a teacher at Dominican Academy, Fall River, and Daniel P. Larkin, a teacher at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, have been included in the current edition of Who's Who Among American Teachers.

Mrs. Kochanski has taught at DA for 12 years. Beginning as a first-grade teacher, she now teaches science, American history, literature and religion on the junior high level, also coordinating the school's annual science fair. .

Larkin, who is a mathematics resource person at St. Mary's, has been an educator in the New Bedford area for more than 20 years. Formerly he taught mathematics, physics and computer science while serving as assistant principal at Holy Family High School.

He is also a computer programming instructor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

In 1990, Larkin was named national grand prize winner in Today's Catholic Teacher magazine's Project Sharing.

He has offered presentations at regional and national conventions on topics from palindromic numbers to computer terminology for health care professionals.

For inclusion in Who's Who, a teacher must be nominated by a former student who is himself or herselflisted in Who's Who Among Ameri- . can High School Students.

Mrs. Kochanski was nomi-' nated by Monica Sylvia, a senior at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 8,1993

By Charlie Martin

END OF THE ROAD

By Linda L. Rome Self-esteem is the buzzword these days. What it is and how to get it is a topic of interest to parents, teachers and, by default, to teens who are the subject of all that concern.

What does it mean to you teens, other than something you should have and aren't sure you do?

Sometimes it may seem that self-esteem is another way of saying, "Feel good about yourself."

But it's more than that.

Betty Youngs. author of "The 6 Vital Ingredients of Self-Esteem and How to Develop Them in Your Child," says the six ingredients of self-esteem are physical safety, emotional security, a sense of identity, a sense of belonging, competence and a sense of purpose.

Parents and teachers can pro-' vide a safe environment at home and at school, and their interactions with you. are important for your emotional well-being. From them you learn that you are not to be belittled or made flln of; you can relax with yourself and others and know that you're "OK." We develop a sense of belonging from our family, our church and school groups, like band, or the soccer team. or Girl Scouts.

Answering the big "Who Am IT' question is really a question with many answers that can change through the years.

But competence and a sense of. purpose are elements of self-estee.m tpat you can work on today - and that only you can provide for yourself.

Let me translate. Competence is finding something you're good at.

You may say, ''I'm not good at anything." But you are. You may be a good student, or quick with a kind word, or fast on the football field.

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Whatever it is, it's important because you can do it well. Here's how you turn what you do well into competence. Work at it, polish it, expand it.

Develop your confidence the old-fashioned way: Learn it. A sense of purpose can grow from learning to do something well, or from an inner conviction that there's something you want in your life. I call it learning to live your dream.

Look into your heart. Just between you and God, isn't there some one thing that you think would be important or exciting or meaningful to do?

Perhaps what comes to mind may be too silly to be important or too big to seem possible, but often here is the place for trust and faith.

Remember that old Chinese proverb that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Or that Reebok proverb: "Just do it."

One last tip for the journey: Pay attention to what you're thinking.

Substitute "\'11 try" for "I can't," and give yourself credit for a job well done: "I helped my sister with her homework," instead of "I'm lazy and selfish."

Our inner conversation can paint a powerful picture of who we think we are. In many ways, we are what we think.

The old-fashioned term for selfesteem is self-respect. So, if you're looking for a little respect, the first pla(:e to start is with you.

God made you, and as the bumper sticker says, "God doesn't make junk."

Treat yourself with respect it's the first step in learning to "love your neighbor as yourself."

And discover what it is you do well. It's your gift from God to help you on the way to understanding who you are and why God loves you.

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We belong together And you know that I'm right.

Why do you play with my heart Why do you play with my mind?

You said we'd be forever You said it'd never die How could you love me and leave me And never say goodbye?

Well I can't sleep at night Without holding you tight Girl each time I try I just break down and cry Pain in my head I'd rather be dead Than spending my time all alone.

Although we've come To the end of the road Still I can't let you go It's so natural You belong to me I belong to you Although we've come To the end of the road Still I can't let you go It's so natural You belong to me I belong to you.

Girl I know that you really love me You just don't realize You've never been there before It's only your first time Maybe 111 forgive you Maybe you'l try We should be happy together Forever you and I. Can you love me again Like you loved me before?

This time I want you To love me much more.

Written by L. A. Reid, Babyface, Daryl Simmons. Sung by Boyz II Men (c) 1992 by Motown Record Company BOYZ II MEN hit the top of the charts with "End of the Road." Their special blend of vocal harmony has be.come their musical trademark. They are among the better known names in a group of new young recording stars.

The song echoes a familiar

theme in the music of 1992. I haven't made a comparative study, but the year seemed to have more than your usual number of songs about the end of romance.

The guy in the song acknowledges that he and his girl have "come to the end of the road,"

but "still I can't let you go." He rationalizes that the girl continues to "really love me."

It's just that she doesn't realize this, because "you've never been there before" and "it's only your first time." He begs herto"love me again like you loved me before," but "this time I want you to love me much more."

This person needs to come back to reality. His fantasizing that the girl still loves him only prolongs his suffering.

People who are emotionally and spiritually healthy see things as they are, not as they wished them to'be.

Accepting the loss of the relationship does not mean denying that the loss hurts. When we lose something or someone who means a lot to us, we respond by grieving.

Often we experience varying emotions while in grief, including anger, deep sadness or depression. This is a reason we're tempted to deny loss: We don't want to feel that bad.

The guy in the song appears to be acting like this. If he can just block out the reality that his girl has left him, then his life won't feel so difficult. Yet such a choice leaves him in emotional limbo! He's depending on a fantasy that cannot stand up over time.

This is where friendship can help. If you have a friend who is going through a situation like this song describes, don't wait for him or her to accept what has happened.

Reach out to that person with your caring. Be gentle with your friend if he or she remains in denial, but also be clear about the situation.

Don't join your friend in denying the loss. Instead,. offer to stay close emotionally as he or she faces what is so painful.

There are no easy ways to go through grief. However, caring friendship is a true source of healing.

Be kind as your friend begins to accept the truth of loss and thus finds a new way to focus his' or her dreams on what the future still promises.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

St. Anthony's School A Christmas program on Dec. 17 featured songs by the various .grade levels, followed by a comical play titled "A Computerized Christmas." A glitch in Father Time's (Stephen Boucher) computer brought repairman Buzz (Chris Amaral) on the scene to diagnose the trouble, but before all was settled, the computer had summoned Wanda the Witch (Diane Medeiros), the Easter Bunny (Chrissie Furtado), and George Washington (Damon Gatenby). It took the arrival of Santa (Lionel Garcia) to set things right.

Riana Figueroa was the talking computer; elves were Justin Brown, Jessica Rebello, Lisa Batista and Suzanne Fagundes.

Before Christmas, students also sang carols at area nursing homes and held parties at school.

WINNING SMILES: These students at St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, have reason to smile. Eighth-grader Douglas Costello, left, was one of seven runners-up out of 850 participants in a credit union essay contest on "What Qualities Should a President Have?" His essay earned him a $100 savings bond and a citation presented to him at a Boston State House ceremony. Center, eighth-grader Megan Kearns was among students selected to represent the United States on a trip to Russia by the People to People Friendship Caravan program. She will travel to Russia with other state and regional representatives this summer, spending a week with a host family, a week at a camp and the remainder of her stay visiting cities and experiencing Russian culture and sports.

Right, Meaghan Vogel, a sixth-grader, was a local winner in an international peace postf;:r contest sponsored by the Fairhaven Lions Club.

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MARIA SANSONE, II, with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show. (CNS/NBC photo)

Sixth-grade sportscaster makes bigtime TV ERIE, Pa. (CNS) - Maria Sansone, II-year-old anchor of "Down to Size" sports segments on an Erie television station, is getting more than 15 minutes offame as word spreads about her talents.

The sixth-grade student at St. Andrew School in Erie has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal and has made appearances on "Good Morning America" and "The Tonight Show."

Backstage on "Tonight," Maria explained, "they told me, 'C'mon, it's time to go.' They put me behind the curtain. I wasn't thinking about what I was going to say. I was thinking, 'What a nice curtain."

Then I was on. It was laid back.

Whatever happens, happens."

Of her new-found celebrity, Maria said, "At first I didn't want to do it. It's overwhelming. Then I talked to my mom about it and she said it was a good opportunity and I decided to do it."

In addition to newspapers and TV, Maria has done interviews with three radio stations, and People magazine recently came to her home for a story.

In a telephone interview with the Lake Shore Visitor, Erie's diocesan newspaper, Maria sounded most excited not about her cross-country journey, but a welcome-home party staged by classmates.

While in California, she and her family got to see a live taping of the ABCcomedy"Home Improvement," and an after-taping party where they met actor-comic Tim Allen and other stars of the show.

After her appearance on "Good Morning America," Maria even got to run the camera during the live broadcast.

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Her father, Tom, and Erie TV sports reporter Mike Gallagher recently met with a New Yorkbased management group about developing a possible national TV show involving Maria.

"What could develop from it we have no idea," Tom Sansone said. "If an offer comes that requires us to move, w~ would probably decline."

Next .on Maria's docket is an interview with basketball superstar Michael Jordan, eventually expected to be shown on NBC's Saturday basketball program, "Inside Stuff."

Bishop Stang Boston area vocalist Semenya McCord, in conjunction with the Bishop Stang and Dartmouth High School choruses, will present a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. at 7 p.m. Jan. 13 in the auditorium of Bishop Stang High School, 500 Slocum Rd., North Dartmouth.

The program is an effort to promote cultural awareness and the principles of Martin Luther King, Jr. Ms. McCord received the Boston area outstanding jazz vocalist award in 1988 and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Musical Achievement Award in 1990. An artistic director for Hemisphere Associates, she has also developed and directed an annual "Journey into a Dream" musical tribute to King, as well as "Kaleidoscope," which celebrates cultural diversity through the arts.

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Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, has added a course in peer leadership tq its four-year health curriculum. Taught by Patricia DeGrinney, the class is meant to identify student leaders, discuss health and leadership issues and give students an opportunity to develop problem-solving skills for application to real-life issues.

28 seniors enrolled for the first semester of the course. Members of the faculty have addressed the class about leadership qualities, and each student has presented a report about involvement in school projects. Homecoming committee member Tim Famulare, for example, spoke about the need for organization and time management skills in planning the event.

Class members Andy Vaslet, Jay Perkowski and Tara Wright recently accompanied a state trooper to Blessed Sacrament School in Walpole to promote DARE, a drug prevention program for youth.

Coyle-Cassidy Chaplain Father William Boffa celebrated a Christmas liturgy at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, on Dec. 23. The Christmas story was enacted in a tableau on the school auditorium stage, after which the select girls' chorus and the C-C jazz band performed Christmas music.

The school's St. Vincent de Paul Society hosted a Christmas party for Taunton's Project New Hope, at which senior Mike Levesque appeared as Santa. Meanwhile the National Honor Society collected toys for needy children.

Mid-year exams will be held 8 to 10:45 a. m. Jan. 19 to 22. Buses will leave the school at II a.m. during the exam week.

Dominican Academy The Fall River girls' school's third annual Christmas concert was presented by 60 kindergarten through 6th grade pupils and included dramatized Nativity story.

Also on the program were French carols, a French-language production of S now White and the Seven Dwarfs and a rendition of The 12 Days of Christmas with audience participation.

Subsequently the choristers also sang for retired sisters of the Dominican community and presented them with cards and gifts.

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The group spoke about dealing with peer pressure and building self-confidence.

Future plans for the peer leadership course include connecting with peer leaders in other schools and providing mentoring and tutoring services at Feehan.

Freshman Andrew Moran has been selected to participate in the 1992-93 Art By Kids exhibit at the Wang Center for Performing Arts, Boston. His painting was among 50 pieces selected from among 570 entries on the theme "City Life."

An awards ceremony was held Dec. 8 for the student exhibitors and their families.

The Feehan debate team participated in the Southeastern Massachusetts League meet at Cohasset High School Dec. 8. Results were as follows: .

Varsity affirmative: Angela Summers and Colleen Fanning defeated New Bedford. Angela ranked first speaker. Leigh O'Mara and Amy Dwyer defeated Tabor and Somerset. Timothy Famulare and Erinn Hoag defeated Tabor and Erinn ranked first against Foxboro.

Varsity negative: Charles Antone and David Heffner defeated New Bedford. Charles ranked first speaker. William Hogan and Jason Martel defeated New Bedford.

Jason ranked top speaker. Nita Patel and Katherine Goldman defeated Tabor and Foxboro. Katherine was ranked first speaker in both rounds and Nita ranked second speaker in both rounds.

Novice affirmat.ive: Steven Rose and Jennifer Langley defeated Tabor and New Bedford. Jennifer ranked first speaker against Tabor.

Jennifer Zadrozny and Leslie Leach defeated Somerset.

Novice negative: Jason Collins and Christine Rose defeated Foxboro. Jason was ranked first speaker and Christine ranked second.

Holly 'Cucinotta and Abigail Swaim defeated Cohasset. Feehan also won several rounds by forfeit.

The national high school topic for debate this year has been completed. The resolution, following a season of debate is that the "United States government should reduce worldwide pollution through its trade and/ ~r aid policies."

Deaf aren't dumb, says Chris Smith JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (CNS) Chris Smith hopes that when he serves Mass at St. John Gualbert Cathedral in Johnstown he is demonstrating that his hearing impairment shouldn't limit his capabilities.

"Someday I'd like to be able to teach people how to teach other people that deaf people are not dumb," he said. "I want people to know that a deaf person can do the same things other people can do."

Chris, 16, who was born deaf, is a freshman at Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Pittsburgh. He lives on campus during the week and comes home on weekends. For two years he has served at the cathedral.

He learned to be an altar server from Msgr. Philip Saylor, cathedral rector, who as a seminarian taught catechism to deaf children.

"I was a bit rusty with my signing and Chris has learned the latest techniques," he told The Catholic Register, newspaper of the AltoonaJohnstown diocese. "I have to slow him down so I can understand him. He helps me remember what I've forgotten and teaches me new methods."

According to Msgr. Saylor, soon after Chris learned to serve Mass, he began signing the Mass readings as well.

On the day he was interviewed, Chris served Mass alone and signed the readings for a televised Mass.

After Mas~, Bishop Joseph V. Adamec of Altoona-J ohnstown shook hands and congratulated him.

His school friends saw a video of him serving at a 1991 deacon ordination Mass. "My classmates thought it was great," he said.

"They were surprised I did so welL" Msgr. Saylor said the tape showed Chris's classmates that there is much they can accomplish.

"I love being an altar boy," Chris said. He also enjoys playing soccer and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins play hockey.

Although he hasn't thought much about what he'd like to do after high school, he hasn't ruled out working in the church.

"Sometimes I think about becoming a priest," he said. "That's what my family wants me to become."

An old hoop classic, the George Washington c.Y.O. Tournament, has been revived. The middleschool-age basketball tourney will be played in New Bedford at the Kennedy C. Y .0. Center beginning Feb. 12. Teams will be composed of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade boys and trophies will go to championship and runner-up squads.

For applications, call Father Paul McCarrick 673-1123. They are due on Feb. 3.

Entrance exams set Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, and Bishop Stang High School, N o'rth Dartmouth, will each hold makeup entrance and placement exams beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow. For information, contact Bishop Connoily High School at 676-1071 or Irene Silva, Stang admissio~s director, at 9938963.

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CHRIS SMITH signs readings far a Mass at St. John Gualbert Cathedral, Johnstown, Pa. (CNS photo)

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese,o'f Fall River~'FrL: Jan. 8,1993 ..

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ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL, FAIRHAVEN Alumni reunion beginning with 4 p.m. Mass Feb. 6, St. Joseph's Church. Information: school office: 996-1983.

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STONEHILL COLLEGE, N. EASTON Exhibition of pre-Columbian ceramics, Andean weavings and contemporary popular crafts is on dis"lilY in-Cushing"Martin Library for January and February. Upcoming events include: 7 p.m. Jan. 26 in room 105 of Joseph W. Martin Institute, a discussion of Wampanog Indians by Dr. Laurie WeinsteinFarson of the University of Connecticut at Danbury. 7 p.m. Jan. 28,room,I05 of Martin Institute, panel discussion of "The Contemporary Church in Latin America" as experienced by missionaries. 8 p.m. Jan. 29, Alumni Hall, "The Columbus Follies: An Ecocabaret," combining puppetry and acting and performed by the Underground Railway Theatre to explore legacy of Columbus and Native American viewpoints.

"Reactions to New Regional Proposals," the second in a series of forums on regionalism for local elected officials, will be held 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Martin Institute.

Topic will be regional proposals under review at state level and their significance. Advance registration recommended. Information: 2301120.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Peace Fraternity of W. Harwich profession ceremony 2 p.m. Jan. 10, Holy Trinity Church, W. Harwich. Father Cornelius Kelly, OFM, spiritual assistant, will celebrate Mass and speak on "Living the Christ Life." Business meeting, dialogue and refreshments will follow.

Rosary will be recited at I:30 p.m.

Inquirers welcome. Information: Dorothy Williams, 394-4094.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Meeting to discuss the future of the former parish hall 2 p.m. Sunday. All making a presentation must do so in printed form.

O·.L. ViCTORY, CENTERVILLE First Saturday rosary and act of consecration to Immaculate Heart of Mary 8:45 a.m. tomorrow. 120 boxes of clothing were shipped to the needy and displaced of Bosnia, with receipt acknowledged by Sister Angelita Sokic, ASC. HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Greater Fall River affiliate of Habitat for Humanity, which builds housing for low-income families, meeting and potluck supper 7 p.m.

Jan. 18, 81. Vincent's Home cafeteria, 2425 Highland Ave., FR. New volunteers are encouraged to attend and learn about the various committees: family selection, site selection, building, fund raising and public relations. Information: 674-4387.

Volunteers needed tomorrow in Attleboro; information: Jane Barr, 226-8833 or 695-4897.

PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The first meeting of Man to Man, a support group for prostate cancer sufferers, will be held 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Jan. 14, Southwood Community Hospital, I II Dedham St., Norfolk.

Dr. Raymond Paul-Blanc will be guest speaker. Information: meeting facilitator Jack Swanton, (40 I) 333-4499.

ST. FRANCIS XA VIER, ACUSHNET Exposition of Blessed Sacrament all day today with holy hour 6 to 7 p.m.

HOSPICE OUTREACH, INC. Carol M. Hazen, oncology dietician at St. Anne's Hospital, FR, will present "Feeding the Terminally III Patient" 7 p.m. Jan. 19 in the hospital's Clemence Hall rm. 134. The public is welcome. To register call 673-1589.

SAINTS AND SINGERS CHORUS Auditions for the Easter musical drama "The Victor" will be held every Thursday and Friday through March 19 in the Harrington building at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay. Ability to read music helpful but not required.

Men are especially needed. Both singers and technicians for audio and lighting are needed. Information: Dee Powell, 759-4690, evenings.

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FRIDAY EVICNING, JANUARY 15, 1993

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Dance music by Studio One Grand Ballroom

9:30 p.m. - midnight

ST. ANTHONY, MA1'1'APOISETT , Farewell Mass for Father William Costello, who will be studying Spanish at the Catholic University in Ponce, Puerto Rico, this semester, will be held at II a.m. Sunday.

Reception will follow in parish hall.

CATHOLIC NURSES, CAPE-ISLANDS Cape-Islands Chapter of Catholic Nurses will meet 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20, St. Pius X parish hall, S. Yarmouth for video followed by discussion.

Refreshments will be served. Information: Dee Santos, 775-3371.

K. or C., FALMOUTH Knights of Columbus Falmouth Council 8 I3 will hold social meeting with dinner 7 p.m. Jan. 19 and a Fourth Degree meeting Jan. 21.

PAX CHRISTI A group will meet Jan. II and Feb. 5 at Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, to set up Lenten program, to meet Mondays during Lent, based on the Pax Christi publication Gathered in Peace. Information: M. Lees, 771-1106; F. Rocher, 771-6737; B. Lynch, 7716605.

L.A. cardinal tells charismatics they're "wonderful sign" ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNS) Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles told more than 10,000 charismatic Catholics at a recent conference in Anaheim that they were a "wonderful sign" to the whole church.

"Y ou, as members of our prayer communities throughout the local churches, are such a stimulus to all of us. You understand what discipleship means and you proclaim 'yes' to Our Lord Jesus Christ," he said at the closing liturgy of the Southern California Renewal Communities convention.

Bishop Sam G. Jacobs of Alexandria, La., led a workshop on burnout, which he said was a common dilemma for people in the charismatic renewal.

"One of the things that happens in any renewal movement is that people forget the vision," he said.

"People forget how to play. pray and enjoy, and be the community of vision that God gave to us."

To maintain their initial fervor, Bishop Jacobs suggested that charismatic Catholics stay "plugged into" their spiritual power source by being rooted in a communal life offaith. centering their lives around the Eucharist, being open to all the gifts of the Holy Spirit and being available to witness in their parishes. . The bishop is chairman of the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and a member of the U.S. bishops' ad hoc committee for Catholic charismatic renewal.

He said getting involved does not mean to "just stay in the weekly prayer meeting and wait for people to come to you.

"You don't stay behind closed doors. If the apostles stayed in the

upper room, we would not be in this room," he added.

Another conference speaker, Patti Mansfield, also referred to the apostles and recalled attending the 1967 retreat at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh which marked the beginning of the Catholic charismatic renewal movement.

She said she was both entranced and distrustful of an evangelical non-Catholic guest speaker who "talked about Jesus like she knew · " h 1m.

She said that while she was in the chapel, "The overriding fear that something would happen to me was overcome by the desire that something would happen to me."

After praying, she said she was prostrate on the floor and "flooded" with a sense of God's love and mercy. _ In the years since that retreat, the charismatic renewal has spread to 163 countries, said Father Ken Metz, director of the Rome-based International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office.

He told conference participants that approximately 7 percent of Catholics in the world have been involved with the charismatic renewal.

He described the charismatic renewal as "not a prayer movement" but "a gift for the church to rejuvenate every single aspect of the church's life." He said its thrust ranges from covenant communities where participants live and pray together, to parish-based evangelization programs and prayer groups.

He said the movement is growing because people around the world seek a more mature relationship with Jesus and a better understanding of the Holy Spirit's power and gifts.

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Bob St. Amour Grand Salon 8 P'ITl' - midnight

Admission $25.00 (Admits 2) Available at any Rectory Also Available at the door This Message Sponsored by the Following Business Concerns in the Diocese of Fall River

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STUFFED STOCKINGS: Youth group members from Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich, hold Christmas stockings they assembled for clients of Market Ministries shelter in New Bedford. Under the direction of advisors Mary Baird, Loesje Creeden and Father Greg Mathias and with special assistance from Frederick Twomey of Sagamore Beach, the students spent a Sunday afternoon wrapping gifts and filling stockings, which were delivered on Dec. 23.