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Migrants co~cern Church Related stories pages 2, 8, and 9 donca, vicar general, in pastoral Migrants are a major concern of ministry to Portuguese immithe Church, with their problems grants. He noted participation a brought to the fore during National few years ago in a Bristol ComMigration Week, now in progress. munity College program in Fall River, that featured a presentation World Migrant Day, said Father by Father Silvano M. Tomasi, John J. Oliveira of St. Michael's Migration and Tourism Commitparish, Fall River, is celebrated in tee director. various countries at different times Father Oliveira said that parthroughout the year. In Portugal, for instance, it comes in summer, ishes throughout the diocese offer in connection with a pilgrimage to Portuguese-language prayer groups; and that the Catholic Fatima.

Adult Religious Enrichment proHere, however, it is associated grams currently being offered at with National Migration Week and $t. Michael's for area parishes will the U.S. Bishops' Migration and be presented in both English and Tourism Committee has concur- Portuguese. rently issued the annual Migrant Day message of Pope John Paul Papal Message.

II. Excerpts from the pope's Father Oliveira is associated Migrant Day message follow:. with the bishops' committee as "The annual celebration of the liaison for the Portuguese aposto- World Day of the Migrant, bringlate in Massachusetts and Rhode 'ing us to reflect once again on the Island. As such he was at a condition of thousands of migrant December committee meetingIn brothers and on their often grave Washington, attended by liaisons and painful problems, turns our and multiethnic coordinators from gaze in a special way towards famiacross the nation. He said the lies involved in migration. We are young Migrant and Tourism faced with complex situations, difCommittee serv~s all ethnic groups ficult to resolve, which are found except Hispanics, who are served at the core of many problems and by the bishops' Secretariat for which constitute the most sensiHispanic Affairs. tive, acute and painful focus of the In the Fall River diocese he . vast phenomenon of human works with Msgr.Luiz G. Menmigration. The family, in fact,

seems to be the most fragile and vulnerable of structures and the point at which the most thorny and negative aspects of migration concentrate their attack. This is evident whether one considers the conditions which afflict families left behind by migrants or reflects on the difficulties offamilies which migrate as a compact unit or which are formed in foreign lands or, finally, if one thinks of the numerous problems which surface for' those family units which result from the union of persons. of dif- . ferent cultures, languages, religions and customs.

"For all these reasons the family of the migrant constitutes a special phenomenon which is of interest to the Church because of the pastoral care she is obliged to offer all her members and specially those who find themselves in grave situations; all the more so because the condition of the families of migrants has profound repercussions both on the original ecclesial community and, may be even more so, on the community where they arrive, are received and take root.

Migrant Fa'milies "Migrants often find themselves in a paradoxical situation: obliged to make a courageous decision for Turn to Page Six

AMONG FALL RIVER area members of the Bishop's Ball committee are from left, David Motta, honorary ball cochairman; Mrs. Manuel Nogueira, hospitality committee; Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, honorary ball cochairman; and her husband, serving on the decorating committee. Decorations for the glittering social event will be put in place at 4 p.m. Sunday, while presentees will rehearse at 6 p,m. The ball itself, with a Land of Liberty theme and a ted. white'and blue color scheme, will take place from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. FridaY,Jan. 16, at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth. Highlights will be the presentee ceremony. a grand march and an address by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Tickets will be available at the d09r.

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Cardinal O'Connor with King Hussein of Jordan

On balance, Israel trip successful

By NC News Service Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York ended a diplomatic controversy that marred his trip to Israel by meeting with top officials in their residences rather than i'n their offices.

Afterward, he said the trip helped clarify Vatican-Israeli relations.

The meetings represented an apparent compromise after Cardinal O'Connor, citing Vatican policy, canceled planned encounters with officials in their Jerusalem workplaces.

-The cardinal met in Jerusalem with President Chaim HerzogJan. 4 and with Foreign Minister Shihon Peres Jan. 5 before departing for Rome. Previously he had met in Amman with King Hussein of Jordan.

Some Israelis previously critical of the trip praised its outcome.

Jewish leaders in New York also praised the meetings.

At the Vatican, a spokesman said Jan. 5 that the meetings fell within Vatican policy because they were "acts of courtesy," not political encounters. At the same time, the Vatican underlined the issues dividing the Holy See and Israel.

The spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, said those problems regard "the status of the city of Jerusalem, the issue of the occupied territory and the Palestinian problem.

"I believe that the acts of courte'sy of Cardinal O'Connor do not involve these problems, which are dealt with in the proper places," Navarro-Valls said. Cardinal O'Connor made the trip as presi-

dent of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association.

Speaking Jan. 6 at a Rome press conference, the cardinal said his trip ended with a' "turnaround" that helped clarify issues involved in Vatican-Israeli relations.

He said that when he met with Israeli officials, he did so with "the trust of the highest authorities of _ the Holy See." "I have yet to hear from the Holy See any slightest evidence of displeasure" over the visit, he said, "I don't see that the relationship between the Holy See and Israel has been even remotely damaged."

On Dec. 30, Navarro-Valls publicly spelled out, for the first time, the Vatican's policy against official meetings in Jerusalem between churchmen and Israeli officials.

The statement appeared to reflect concern that such visits might be seen as recognizing Israel's control over the disputed city, part of which has been considered occupied territory by Arabs since it was captured from Jordan after the 1967 Middle East war.

The Vatican does not recognize Israel's claim to Jerusalem as its capital and has called for international guarantees to protect the city as sacred to Christians, Jews and Moslems.

When he canceled his planned meetings with Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in late December, Cardinal O'Connor said he had "failed to check Vatican protocol."

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Sister named to lea'd Baltimore parish

The Anchor Friday, Jan. 9, 1987

Rare papal telegram to Apb. Hunthausen SEATTLE (NC) - Pope John Paul II sent a telegram to Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen expressing "fraternal solicitude" for the latter's prompt recovery following cancer surgery, the Seattle Archdiocese's public affairs office announced.

The archdiocese also announced that the archbishop had left Providence Medical Center earlier than anticipated, because of his quick progress after his pre-Christmas operation for prostate cancer.

He went to his residence at the rectory of St. James Cathedral.

Father Michael Ryan, chancellor and vicar general of the archdiocese, said that officials at the Vatican Embassy in Washington had advised him of the pope's personal telegram.

Last September the archbishop said that the Vatican had ordered his administrative power in several key areas be relinquished to Auxil. iary Bishop Donald Wuerl.

Sent to the archbishop's office, the papal telegram read: "I have been informed of your recent operation and I wish to assure you of my fraternal solicitude for your speedy recovery. I shall remember you in my prayers, especiallyas we celebrate the mystery of the Incarnate Word of God." According to Father Ryan, Archbishop Hunthausen was deeply touched by the pope's expression of care and support. Vatican Embassy officials told Father Ryan the pope thought of sending the telegram himself. "It was something the Holy Father wanted to do," the officials said.

The officials told Father Ryan a personal papal telegram "is a very rare kind of thing" because most papal telegrams are sent either through a country's apostolic nuncio or directly from the Vatican secretariat of state.

Father Ryan added that since the surgery Archbishop Huntausen has received a large outpouring of good wishes, including hundreds of cards - from individuals, parishes and organizations.

At a news conference after the operation, the archbishop's doctor, Dr. Jerry Minzel, said that he expected his patient to make a total recovery and be able to return to work by late January. It would take another two or three months for Archbishop Hunthausen to be able to resume all the activities he handled before the surgery, the doctor said.

Home picketing 0 K CHICAGO(NC)-Pro-lifepickets cannot be banned from in front of the home of a doctor who performs abortions, a federal appeals court has ruled in a case brought by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled that picketing in public places, including residential streets, is constitutionally protected and "the inevitable consequence of living in a great and restless democracy." The case began in.May 1985 when the town of Brookfield, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee, issued an ordinance prohibiting picketing on public property "before or about the residence or dwelling of any individual."

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BALTIMORE(NC)- Medical Mission Sister Jane Coyle is the first nun to administer a parish in the Baltimore archdiocese and one of the first non-priests to administer an urban Catholic parish in the United States.

She was named coordinator of pastoral ministries of Corpus Christi, a 350-family parish in Baltimore in late December.

Nonresident priests provide sacramental ministry while Sister Coyle heads the pastoral team that runs the parish on a day-to-day basis. Two other nuns, two lay women and a permanent deacon comprise the rest of the pastoral team.

Wi'th an increasing shortage of priests, the practice of appointing nuns, permanent deacons or lay persons to administer parishes has grown rapidly in recent years. in rural parts of the United States.

IN THE AZORES, from left, Dr. Jose Estrela Rego, Ponta Delgada Hospital director; paula Raposa, SER/ Jobs for Progress; Ponta Delgada Mayor Joao Gago Da Camara; Alan D. Knight and Eleanor Emsley, St. Anne's Hospital; Fernanda Sousa Couto, Ponta Delgada Hospital nursing director; Maureen Hull and Joyce Passos; SMU; Rev. John Oliveira, task force chairman.

Hospital has many new year projects St. Anne's Hospital, the only Catholic hospital in the Fall River diocese, is moving forward in many directions as it enters the new year.

It is continuing an important collaboration with health care programs in the Azores and is expanding at home with plans underway for youth psychiatric care and additional oncology facilities.

Azorean Collaborative Ponta Delgada, a cooperative program with St. Anne's and Ponta Delgada Hospital, Sao Miguel, Azores, began last year when Dr. Jose Estrela Rego, 'director of the hospital in the Azorean capi!al, visited St. Anne's, exploring both its services to Azorean immigrants and the role of nearby SoutJteastern . Massachusetts University School of Nursing in preparing nurses to serve the heavily Portuese area.

Dr. Rego's visit preceded an October trip to Sao Miguel by representatives of St. Anne's and SMU. The delegation's goal was to learn first hand about Azorean health care delivery and nursing educational systems.

The cross-Atlantic exchange was arranged by St. Anne's Portuguese Community Health Care Task Force, established in 1984 to examine health care needs of the Greater Fall River Portuguese popula: tion.

Representing St. Anne's Hospitalon the Azorean trip were Eleanor Emsley, vice president of nursingservices; Alan D. Knight, hospital president, Rev. John J. Oliveira, task force chairman, and Paula . Raposa, executive director路 of SERf Jobs for Progress, a Fall River-basedjob training program.

Dean Joyce Passos and Maureen Hull, an associate professor of nursing represented the SMU School of Nursing.

Knight said the trip was made because "we wanted to be more responsive to the health care needs and special nature of the Portu~ guese community in the Greater Fall River area. Our visit to Sao Miguel helped us to further understand the culture and the back-

ground of many of the Azorean patients that we serve."

Ms. Emsley commented: "Our visit to the Azores allowed us to take a first-hand look at the health care delivery systems, the health education systems, and the cultural background of the Azorean people."

The St. Anne's trio concentrated on examining the health care deliv- . ery systems of Ponta' Delgada Hospital, while Dean Passos, Ms. Hull and Ms. Raposa focused on the nursing education available in the Azores.

Dean Passos noted that she was impressed by the school of nursing: "They have a very sophisticated approach to community nursing. The students and faculty are oriented to do health assessments of people in their oWrlvillages and ~ommunities even before they are oriented to the acute hospital setting. This gives them a clear picture of the health needs of the population.'''

Ms. Raposa described the visit as a "major step in linking two communities that have health care as their priority."

Further collaboration between the hospitals is expected.

"We are specifically looking at efforts in the area of clinical social work," said Knight.

All participants in the program agreed that the exchange of visits was an important first step in linking the two communities and their health institutions with the goal of improving health and health education in both.

"The Fall RiverSchool Department, Corrigan Mental Health Center; the Family Service Association, Catholic Social Services, our pediatricians and area legislators, as well as many area health care providers, enthusiastically supported our proposal. This support had a positive influence," he said.

Knight further commented: "Since St. Anne's Hospital is the regional pediatric site, we're especially happy about receiving the green light to develop this needed mental health service. We will now be able to offer comprehensive care for both the physical and psychological needs of the children and young adults in the Greater Fall River area."

The program will provide a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of patients, including individual, group and family psychotherapy; psycho-pharmacolog~ ical management; occupational and recreational therapy; educational services, and aft$lr care and followup services. The program will be managed through a contractual arrangement with the New England Medical Center's Child Psychiatry Department.

Plans call for conversion of 10 existing pediatric beds to make room for the unit, projected to open this fall.

Expansion of the Oncology I Radiation Therapy Center comes less than two years after its opening.

"The need for cancer care, particularly radiation therapy, has creTwo Approvals ated a demand which is already In other news from St. Anne's, b芦ginning to test the limits of our the hospital has received state ap- capacity," said Knight. proval for two projects: creation . "This expansion, which'includes of a lO-bed child and adolescent addition of a medium-range linear psychiatric unit and a $2-million accelerator, will allow us to treat expansion of its Harold K. Hudner 95 percent of all types of cancer Oncology f Radiation Therapy Cen- requiring radiation therapy. St. Anne's goal is to continue offering ter. this area the most advanced cancer St. Anne's was one of three hospitals in southeastern Massachu- treatment available in a communsetts to receive approval for a ity setting," he added.

Ground breaking for the expanpediatric and adolescent psychiatis scheduled for April and the sion ric unit. Knight emphasized the major impact of community back- project is expected to take 10 months to complete. ing on the approval process.

But in urbim settings, where parishes are generally larger and the ratio of priests to parishes is higher, the phenomenon of a parish with no resident priest is much rarer.

Sister Coyle, 64, is a specialist in religious formation. She has been a member of the Medical Mission Sisters since 1946 and has worked in England, the Philippines and the United States. .

She had been a pastoral associate at Corpus Christi since 1982 and has been temporary administrator since August 1986 when the pastor was, transferred to head another parish.

The Corpus Christi congregation gave Sister Coyle Ii standing ovation when her formal appointment to lead the parish was announced'at a Sunday Mass.

Auxiliary Bishop John Ricard, Baltimore archdiocesan urban vicar; said Sister Coyle was appointed in response .to "a situation that required some immediate attention," but the decision was also in line with a pilot project suggested by an archdiocesan advisory panel on parish life.

The panel recommended that one parish in each vicariate of the archdiocese be headed by a "fulltime, lay, religious or deacon administrator who 'had the responsibility for the moderating leadership, with a parttime priest supplying liturgical ministry."

"We're targeting a parish now in each vicariate to experiment, to study how this will eventually look if it is to be .worked out," Bishop Ricard said.

Moral Chernobyl LONDON (NC) - The AIDS crisis is "a moral Chernobyl" which will force people to reconsider personal and sexual relationships, said Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminister, England. "Just as Chernobyl made us question what we were doing with our human environment, so I think this AIDS question, agonizing though it is, is going to force us to consider our attitude toward personal relationships,. human relationships, and how sexuality fits into that," he said in a recent television interview. He .was interviewed following Catholic Church criticism of government and British Broadcasting Corp. campaigns concerning AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

- The Anchor Friday, Jan. 9, 1987

At St. Anthony of Padua parish

A gift for the poor, a gift for Kristin

Mutual esteem CHARLESTON; S.C. (NC) Old Catholic-Jewish hatreds have given way to a revolution of mut.ual esteem, says' Rabbi- Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of international relations for the American Jewish Committee. "The Gospel of hatred of Jews" for being Christ-killers is no more, the rabbi told a predominantly Jewish audience attending Synagogue annual scholar-in-residence weekend in Charleston. Bishop Ernest L. U nterkoefler of Charleston, sharing the speaker's platform with Rabbi Tanenbaum, said that the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s was a landmark in harmonious Catholic-Jewish relations, but more still needs to be accomplished in everyday life.

By Joseph Motta Desert encampments glowed with lamplight, oases in the dark of night. Nomads warmed themselves by their fires while their camels sank into the sand, weary from a hard day's travel.

And not far away, a child was born in a mange·r.

The parish hall at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Fall River, was the site of these scenes over the recent holiday season. The desert scene and an Azorean village, created by parishioners Jose Papoula, Manuel Diasand Carlos and Geronimo Pimental, were tru'e works of art, realistic and awesome.

Papoula, secretary to the parish St. Vincent de Paul Society conference, dedicated the holiday display to the memory of his daughter, Kristin, two, who died just over a year ago after an accident.

He had designed Christmas villages for her on a small scale at home before her death.

No admission fee to the display was asked but donations to the .Vincentians' poor box were accepted. Father Evaristo Tavares, St. Anthony of Padua's pastor,. explained that the exhibit's "first aim" was to benefit parish needy through the poor box donations.

"I think it's super," said Father Tavares ofthe display. "It really is.

The men are aiming to have this every year."

"Macy's would love to have this in their window," added Arthur Teixeira, Vincentian treasurer. :.; ... ".~;~.~. '.<!l " ,·.. i~·;· ·.,f.··. fl,',' .' _.M,a,Cy;s ¢J,ghLw.eU)~t;· <;.oy,et;O\(s.

Coinbining 'the tlilen'( of Paj)O'ula as coordinator and the skills of mechanic Dias and the brothers Pimental, both carpenters, the display was worthy of dressing any window. .

Dias said the team began work in early October and averaged four nights a week at the parish hall until Christmas. The display was arranged on the hall's stage, Sand for the "desert" and the four-inch deep "ocean" which fronted the Azorean village was courtesy of Mother Nature, as were the rocks bordering the beach and forming wells and bridges, Separating the desert and the Azorean village was a working brook complete with a waterfall, thanks to a hidden water pump.

Spray-painted aluminum foil made realistic background mountains, while handcrafted palm and pine trees supplied shade to tents in the desert and the village's homes and churches.

Gulls flew over the ocean and a boat, aptly name~ "Kristin," lay at rest on the beach. Clothes hung on a line in the village, while corncobs, to be used for seed, dried on a rack in the sun.

And a star shone in the desert sky, commemorating the birth of the Savior. .

"My main purpose' in c.oordinating the display was to bring a little ethnicity and a little of the old world to the children [of immigrants] who have grown up In America," said Papoula. A native ofSt~MichaeJ, Azores, he observed that Santa Claus and Christmas commercialism have all but overwhelmed young people. He hopes that the religious aspects ofthe St. Anthony display will help them keep Christ in the holiday.

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themoorin~ Caring for New Citizens As the American Catholic Church notes National Migration Week, it is well for each of us to recall that for over 200 years our country has been involved in perhaps the boldest experiment in history.

It is easy to forget that our founders set out to establish a country devoted to the principll:~s of justice, equality, secu.rity and liberty for themselves, future immigrants, and their posterity.

We, the so-called established peoples in the United States, are the beneficiaries of this noble ideal. But it still awaits fulfillment in the hearts and minds of the many venturing from diverse lands to share the American dream.

As history tells us, newcomers are too often kept down by the "establishment" or by the encouragement of ignorance.

The result is "that many immigrants and new citizens have not truly shared the fruits of democracy. For example, we must admit that justice for all and a fair share in the economy remain for many but dreams. .

Opportunities are readily available to some but are restricted for others. Race, religion and national origin are still stumbling blocks for many people new to our cultural tapestry.

Cambodians, Hmongs,Vietnamese, Koreans and Thais are but a few of today's first timers, who lack already-established relatives or friends to greet or help them.

Their plight is as real as that of last century's immigrants. It is true, of course, that there are more opportunities today, but they avail little unless offered with no strings attached.

The American experiment is ongoing. Its accomplishment will demand new forms of 路cooperation. True, the United States prides itself on both its competitive drive and its spirit.of teamwork. But today these qualities need redefinition.

Competition'alone will'not suffice. In our social order it has too many negative consequences for family life and the economically vulnerable, including immigrants.

For the benefit of all citizens, old and new, we must reenkindIe a renewed commitment to the common good, if only to help us deal with the realities of international interdependence and economic justice.

Americans should realize路 that good citizenship requires sharing in common benefits and recognizing that one has obligations as well as rights. , Too many feel that the state owes them a living. When there is not enough to go around, they want to kick the new kid off the block. The weak, homeless and despised,are the first to suffer. Those new to America are the target of too many who demand their rights at the expense of others.

The first American immigrants took daring steps to create structures of participation, mutual accountability and shared power to ensure political rights, social benefits and freedom to all. This attitude must be renewed today.

Out: most recently arrived citizens have, of course, responsibilities to their new homeland. They also have rights they must be permitted to exercise.

In pursuit of concrete solutions to social problems, all members of the Church are called to increased sensitivity to both the injustices and opportunities that surround them. . Building a truly just society calls for renewed faith and love as we join in Christian concern for our new citizens.

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"How long, 0 Lord, turnest thou away?" Ps. 88:47

Anti porn strategies listed WASHINGTON (NC) - At its - Disseminate information tumultuous debut nearly six about local pornography. months ago, the final report of the - Monitor court actions in porAttorney General's Commission nography cases. on Pornography stirred heated - Lobby for tougher laws.. debate.

- When necessary, organize Some critics accused it of dab- boycotts and picketing of dealers bling in censorship. Others said it and outlets selling offensive madid not go far enough to stamp out terials. smut.

So far, it looks as if church leadIn a December evaluation. the ers have already taken that second U.S. Catholic Conference Depart- recommendation to heart. ment of Communication added its Already strongly opposed to voice and recommendations to dis- pornography, U..S. Catholic bishcussion of the 2,000-page report. ops have become increasingly Richard Hirsch, USCC secre- prominent in the antismut camtary of communication, wrote, "It paign in the last several months. is very difficult to be 'objective' As Cardinal Joseph L. Bernarabout this subject" of pornography.

"We come to it from a specific din of Chicago said in mid-NovemChristian moral perspective. We ber, after an interfaith antipornogare, at the same time, sensitive to raphy coalition'met with President constitutional First Amendment Reagan, the issue is no longer . something seen to upset only politrights. " Hirsch, in a letter introducing a ically conservative, fundamentalDepartment of Communication ist Protestant congregations.

The cardinal, who is vice chairsynopsis of the commission findings, stated that "on balance," the man of the Religious Alliance report offered "a contribution to Against Pornography, linked opthe ongoing dialogue regarding position to pornography to oppohow a society with a commitment sition to sexism, racism, prostituto freedom of expression wrestles tion and other threats to the with the concurrent responsibility "consistent ethic of life."

He recommended that Catholic to protect its citizens from the 路"dioceses assume a more forceful most egregious social ills."

As Hirsch suggested, "the most role" in eradicating hardcore and practical byproducts of the report child pornography.

Joining the cardinal in the antiare its recommendations for citipornography alliance are fellow zen action."

The com'mission urged com- Cardinals.John Krol of Philadelmunity groups and citizens to, phia, John J.O'Connor of New York arid Bernard Law of Boston; among other things: - Learn about antiobscenity Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter, founder of shelters for homeless laws and their application.

- Obtain support of religious and exploited youth; and leaders officials and other community of other religious denominations.

At a July news conference kickleaders in the antipornography ing off the interfaith effort, the fight.

Chicago cardinal and other leaders said they had been inspired by the federal antipornography commission's call for action.

Meanwhile, shortly after release of the commission's report, bishops in Texas and Kentucky launched their own antismut efforts.

Texan bishops endorsed a boycott of convenience stores selling sexually oriented magazines.

The Kentucky prelates urged state residents to "enlist now" to wage "war on pornography" and, in particular, to support restrictions on cable television dissemination of pornographic materials.

And by early December, some 80 bishops across路 the country had backed the "overall ministry" (but not necessarily all specific actions) of the antipornography National Federation for Decency, led by a Methodist minister, the Rev. Donald. Wildmon.

However, recommending actions against pornography and being successful are two different things, as Congress demonstrated in October. An amendment banning "diala-porn" telephone services was dropped from the omnibus antidrug bill, despite support for the measure from such groups as the USCe. Yet, as Cardinal Bernardin told his fellow bishops in .November, the law is not the only means of curbing smut.

"As' religious leaders, it is not our task to draft laws or implement them," he said. "But we can and must help our people understand the moral dimensions of the problem of pornography and what their responsibility is in _this regard."

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styles must be sorted out by the couple. The couple needs to immediately and specifically work out what are the children's duties and responsibilities.

5. Establish clear job descriptions between parent, stepparent and respective children. 6. Know that unrealistic expectations beget rejections and resentments. 7.

There' are no ex-parents ... only exspouses. Begin to get information on how best to handle the prior spouse. 8. Be prepared for the conflicting pulls of sexua) and biological energies within the step relationship. In the intact family, the couple comes together to have a child ... In step, blood and sexual ties can polarize the family in opposite energies and directions.

9. The conflict of loyalties must be recognized right from the beginning ... Often just as the child in step begins to have warm feelings toward the new stepparent, he will pull away and negatively ac! out. He feels something like this: if I love you, that means that I do not love my real parent.

10. Guard your sense of humor and use it. The step situation is filled with the unexpecteo. Sometimes we won't know whether to laugh or cry. Try humor.

By the seminary. About one-third of today's seminarians are more than 30 years old. At 30, it is more difficult to learn Greek, Latin and Hebrew for the first time and to undertake the intensive study required to become a theologian.

Not that age lessens learning.

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What did Hansel, Gretel and organizations devoted to the art of stepparenting: when to take and Cinderella have in comcharge, when to stand back, how mon? Each had a wicked to estimate a new spouse's potenstepmother who furnished the tial as stepparent and how to chief misery in life for them. Not !J1erge families. ' just a stepmother but a wicked Next, there's the relative explostepmother. The two went together sion. Suddenly a child inherits a in traditional children's literature whole new bunch of cousins, aunts, and planted a fearsome image of and grandparents without losing stepparent in young minds for old ones. What's his, relationship generations. to his new father's children? To Now stepparenting is rapidly their mother? To those unnumbecoming the chiefform of parent- bered aunts and uncles who suding in our country. If trends con- denly appear? tinue, by 1990 the majority of Syndicated columnist Ellen American children will be stepchildren. What does this mean to Goodman, a stepparent herself, tells about a class where the teacher children, parents and society?

First, it means a new look at the had students draw family trees. old image of stepparent. Disap- After strllggling a bit, one little pearing is the idea that the step- boy asked her jf he could draw parent is by nature uncaring, con- family bushes instead. I even met a niving and cruel. A couple of child with an aggregate of 12 recent court cases, in fact, indicate grandparents. Evenually sheer the depth of bonding possible ,numbers can obscure the family between parents and stepchildren. line.

Finally I'd like to reprint "10 At the end of a second marriage, two stepmothers petitioned for Steps for Steps" by Jeannette legal access to stepchildre'n they Lofas, published in the Stepfamily Newsletter. had come to cherish.

In many marriages, both parI. Recognize that the stepfaments are stepparents as well as ily will not and can not function as mutual pa'rents. They understand does a natural family. It has its the strains and stresses of their own special state of dynamics and partner's parenting and steppar- behaviors. Once learned, these enting. The mother who inherits behaviors can become predictable her husband's children twice and positive. 2. Recognize the monthly also loses hers to some ' hard fact that the children are not other stepmother. She knows the yours and they never will be. We feelings of her own children and are stepparents, not replacement this helps her 'deal with the feelings parents. 3. Super stepparenting of her stepchildren. doesn't work. Go slow. Don't come We're bound to see more books on too strong. 4. Discipline

Because of recent controversies regarding academic freedom in Catholic colleges and universities, there is a feeling on the part of some that those institutions will not be able to attract talented theologians to their faculties in the near future.

Some observers feel we will see many Catholic theologians opting to teach at state or private universities instead. It is also suggested that we will see our most challenging theologians replaced by theologians who present the faith as static and rigid.

Personally, I feel this won't happen. Good theologians don't switch when challenged. And theologians of either the far left or far right run the risk of narrowing their audience to those who are comfortable with narrow ideas. They lose peer approval and full acceptance as theologians.

What is of greater concern for the church is the growing realization that the number of theologians may grow smaller as our current theologians grow older and retire. Most of our best theologians have come from the seminary.

Some very prominent ones have also come from women's religious orders and from the ranks of the laity. No matter their'origin, most theologians began their quest to become a theologian at a very young age.

In the seminary, where the highest percentage of theologians start out, the number of candidates to the priesthood is down, thus limiting the number of possible theologian candidates.

Also, there has been a dramatic jump in the age of men entering

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Actually, it increases it. It is in youth, however, that the seeds of learning are best planted. That is when the fundamentals are best learned so that as a person gets older he or she'has a strong foundation.

As the church moves' into the 21st century the number of secondcareer vocations to the priesthood is increasing. Many of these second-career men are making excellent priests and are meeting a great need. But they, like most priests who are not theologians, need the wisdom of persons who have made it a lifelong mission to study and write on theology.

From the studies and insights of theologians priests get ideas for homilies and for teaching, and are , Jan.ts personally enriched. Lay people, 1948, Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, too, are enriched by the work of Pastor, St. Joseph, Woods Hole theologians. In more ways that we , 1977, Rev. Msgr. JohnE. Boyd, sometimes suspect we depend on Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, theologians for sustenance.

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Is it the Catholic moment?

The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a leading Lutheran theologian, has argued off and on for several years that this ought to be "the Catholic moment" in American religious and cultural history.

He means that this is the historical moment when Catholicism "has a singular opportunity and obligation to take the lead in reconstructing a moral philosophy for the American experience in republican democracy."

One reason why, Rev. Neuhaus explains, is the "default of the old Protestant mainline churches in providing culturally formative moral leadership. "(If only for reasons of ecumenical courtesy, I must leave it to Protestant commentators to deal with this argument.)

Rev. Neuhaus is currently working on a book on this Catholic moment. Meanwhile, he is concerned that others promoting the same idea may be' taking it in, "unhelpful" directions.

Specifically, he has in mind William Lee Miller of the University of Virginia, who argues in his new book "The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic" that "now is the moment for Catholicism to have its desirable effect upon the America within which it is coming to be at home."

Responding to Miller, Rev. Neuhaus sounds a warning. He thinks that Catholic "at-homeness" in U.'S. society will prove a mixed blessing, or worse, if it simply brings Catholics under the sway of the old Protestant cultural hegemony" now in decline, or if it results in Catholicism's becoming "nothing more than another option in pluralism's cafeteria of privatized religiosity. " Clearly, Rev,. Neuhaus fears that Catholic at-homeness, as Miller understands it, could have this unfortunate result. He notes, for example, that according 'to Miller the Catholic moment is jeopardized by the church's alignment with the "absolutistic simplicism" of the anti-abortion "crusade.~' As Rev. Neuhaus understands it, Miller wants Catholics, in the name of pluralism, to cool it on abortion. I am not certain that this is what M iller, whose writings I respect, is asking Catholics to do.

If it is, I would agree with Rev. Neuhaus, who says that Miller has it backward.

Rev. Neuhaus argues that "far from representing 'absolutistic simplicism' on these questions the Roman Catholic witness at its best offers a nuanced appreciation of complexity and a level of public reasoning that cim elevate the.otherwise debased moral discourse in American society."

But he says "many" Catholics "tend to mute their witness on abortion, to make it respectable by subsuming it under an exclusive 'pro-life agenda' of socially approved causes." They are "social climbers" he adds, aspiring to be accepted by a Protestant establishment in eclipse.

It is difficult to tell exactly Wh,o he has in mind. I would not expect

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MSGR. GEORGE HIGGINS him to name names, but I wish he had defined his terms more precisely.

I fear that many will conclude that Rev. Neuhaus is repudiating the consistent-ethic approach to life issues which Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago has strongly promoted and which now enjoys the support of the overwhelming majority of U.S. bishops and, I suspect, the majority oflay Catholics.

If Rev. Neuhaus does oppose the consistent-ethic principle, I think he is wrong.

One final word. The social climbers criticized by Rev. Neuhaus, however few or many they may be, are not consistent-ethic Catholics. If they claim to be, that simply means they do not underst./lI(d the principle. Their wateredclown pro-life position is no more consistent than that of their Catholic opposite numbers who concentrate almost solely on abortion.

In a recent address, Cardinal Bernardin took notice of these two groups. Although some "who oppose the [consistent-ethic] concept seem not to have understood it," he said, "I sometimes suspect that many who oppose it recognize its challenge. Quite frankly, I sometimes wonder whether those who embrace it quickly andwholeheartedly truly understand its implicit challenge. "

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"Orderly departure" study issue~ WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference office of Migration and Refugee Services has written a study on the U.S. government's program for the orderly departur~ of refugees from Vietnam.

Cal~ed "The Orderly Departure Program: The Need for Reassessment," the 55-page report includes a historical overview of the program and discusses its current operational status.

Established in 1979 to provide an alternative and deterrent to clandestine boat escapes, the program has become the primary means of exit for all who leave Vietnam. Coordinated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, it has moved 115,000 persons to 40 countries, including more than 50,000 to the United States.

Pointing out that in recent years the United States has made policy changes making certain Vietnamese ineligible for the program and delay- ' ing processing for others, the study recommends adjustments to ensure that family reunification remains the program's goal.

Copies of the report are available from MRS-USCC, 1312 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20005.

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Easter workshop The Fall River chapter of the National Association of Pastoral' Musicians will sponsor a liturgical workshop for priests, music and liturgical ministers, choristers and educators at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, at St. Thomas More Church, Somerset.

Focusing on the Easter triduum, the program will be led by Father路 David Costa, St. Thomas More parochial vicar, and Mrs. Joan Cuttle, parish director of music. _The theology of the triduum will be discussed, with practical applications for parishes, including appropriate music.

"As the culmination of the liturgical year," say workshop organizers, "the triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter holds

a very important place in the spirituallife of the individual Catholic and each Catholic community. Liturgical ministers have the awesome responsibility and privilege of making these three days come to. life with faith, reverence, and love."

Pressure urged PRETORIA, South Africa (NC) - The South African Council of Priests has passed a resolution supporting economic pressure to end their nation's system of racial segregation, apartheid. The resolution gave formal support to the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference stand of economic pressure against the government, as outlined in a pastoral letter - issued in May.

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ON HIS ANNUAL visit to Fall River's Catholic Memorial Home to meet,with retired clergy, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, third left, enjoyed a luncheon with, seated from left, Father Thomas Landry, OP; Msgr. James E. Gleason; Bi~hop James J. Gerrard and Msgr. Raymond T. Considine; and, standing from left, Monsignors Arthur G. Considine and Maurice Souza; Fathers Daniel E. Carey, Joseph A. Martineau, William H. O'Reilly, Joseph F. D'Amico, Cornelius J. Keliher, James F. Kenney, Laureano C. Dos Reis and Maurice H. Lamontagne.

the probl~m of subsistence 'hasbeen solved, the migrant family is tempted to pursue only material and consumer values and to neglect the very important cultural and spiritual options.

"In the sphere of the apostolate proper to th~ l~ity, the.l;vapgelyza~ tion of the migrant family should not be forgotten; its members are called to evangelize and to be evangelized. They should be reminded that the religious an'd moral future of the domestic hearth rests mainly in their hands: if families accept evangelization, they will become in their turn instruments of evangelization for many others, favourably influencing the milieu in which they live and work."

the good of their family or the one they want to form, they find themselves deprived ofthe possibility of achieving their legitimate aspirations.

"The family, which has the vocation to transmit the values of life and love, finds it difficult to live its mission in the context of human mobility precisely because Of the migratory exodus which punishes it in various ways.

While some families are reunited, one has to note the persistence and even the growth of conditions which force husbands and wives to live separated. Workers, and not only those seasonally employed and those without proper documents, are obliged to live far from their wives for montns Aid to Illegals and even years, who, as a conseConsonant with the papal plea quence, have to assume unaccus- for aid to migrants, U.S. parishes tomed roles. and dioceses are mobilizing to "Couples are thus condemned assist illegal alients who qualify to a separation which renders the fOf legalization under the new fedmigratory experience even more eral immigration law. traumatic. More often migration Lines are already forming at entails the separation of children some of the makeshift offices that from their parents, the former have been established nationwide being forced into a situation where to help illegal aliens determine if they are deprived of a parental figthey qualify for legalization, and ure and are educated reflecting the to aid those that do to gather behaviour patterns of elderly peo- necessary documents and complete ple who are not always capable of application forms. helping the younger generation to Parish volunteers - who will project itself into the future. staff many o{ these offices - may "Even in the case of migrant help as many as I million illegal family reunited after years of sepaimmigrants legalize their status, ration, the precarious state of resiestimates Msgr. Nicholas DiMardence and work permits and jobs zio, director of the U.S. Catholic often causes uncertainty of plans Conference's Migration and including those for the schooling Refugee Services. of children.

Parishes have been chosen as "Stability is also affected by discrimination in housing by being the basic church unit to work with denied sociopolitical participation illegal aliens seeking legalization by the marginalization of the. since "these people live in parishes," said Msgr. DiMarzio. migrant woman.

The new federal immigration "These conditions cari influence migrant families so that they do . law passed by Congress in October not open themselves to the society . allows immigrants who arrived in . which receives them and refuse to the United States before 1982 and assum'e responsibilities outside the have resided here illegally and .' confines of their private interests. contiriuously to apply for legaliza; Once, after the initial d.ifficuJti~s, tion. Churcl1 agencies hav~ b,ee.n.

asked by the federal immigration department to help with the legalization process.

In California, the Los Angeles archdiocese has opened 20 centers to help immigrants legalize their status.

M ore than half of the illegal aliens counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1980 lived in California. with 658,000 in Los Angeles County alone.

Four thousand persons registered during one week at the archdiocesan center located at Holy Family Parish in Wilmington, Calif., according Oblate Father Luis Valbuena, pastor.

"I talked to a lady in line yesterday and told her I was sorry she had to wait," Father Valbuena said. "'It's only been 20 minutes,' she said, 'I've been waiting 20 years. ", Cardinal John O'Connor of New York has announced plans for centers throughout the 10 counties of the archdiocese of New York to assist illegal aliens applying for legalization. .

A letter to pastors ofthe archdiocese has asked them to suggest parish facjlities that could serve as legalization centers and requested they look for parish volunteers to staff them.

While the number of aliens eligible for legalization is unknown, Msgr. DiMarzio said that according to "soft figures" based on the 1980 census, 3 million illegal aliens may apply for legalization and "possibly I million will be assisted .

by Catholic Church structure."

Nearly 160 of the 183 U.S. dioceses have appointed legalization directors to work with parishes on the project, Msgr. DiMarzio said.

Training materials for volunteers are being developed, he said, and the program will be explained in detail in rate January to diocesan personnel through a nationwide teleconference arranged by the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America.

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encyclical on Mary prior to the stan of the Marian year.

J oaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican press spokesman, said the Vatican will probably issue norms for the special year in March.

"The norms will be very loose giving great freedom to local bishops" in planning Marian activities, he said.

The norms also will list condi· tions for receiving indulgences and other spiritual benefits during the year, he added.

The fint Marian year was held M....

Dec. 8, 1953, to Dec. 8, 1954, to During the: year, he said, every commemorate the lOOth anniverdiocctt: should foster'special devo- sary oftbe formal proclamation of tiona to Mary so Catholics can the dOgMa of the Immaculate Conmake a "n:newe4 commitment to ception which says that Mary was follow the win of God." He sug- bom without original sin. gested pilgrimages to Marian The papal Marian ycar"n help sbriDeS and special attention to U.S. Catholics "renew their devoMary in liturgical event•. tion" to Mary and "deepen their Such a commitment will help understanding" of her, said ArchCatholics enter the third millen- -bishop John L. May of St. Louis, president of the National Confernium of Christianity. the pope said. He promised to issue an ence of Catholic Bishops.

VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope John Paul II began 1987 by an· Bouncing a Marian year aimed at strengthening devotion to the mother of Christ.

The Mariao year ill scheduled to begin JuDe 7, Pentec:ost Sunday, and'cnd AuS.IS,1988. the (cast of Mary's bodily anumption into heaven.

The pope announced the - 14month devotional year, the second in the church', history, during hi, traditioul New Year's morning

In a statement released in Washington Archbishop May said, "Through Mary we come to Jesus.

This is the meaning of devotion to the Blessed Mother and the significance of the Marian year annoueced

by Pope John Paul."

Archbishop May recalled that in 1973, in a national p6storalletter on Mary, the U.S. bishops bad written., "The more we know and love Mary, the more lurely wiJl we know and love Jesus and understand his mislion iD the wodd."

He said the Marian year observance, involving public events in Rome and in local churches around the world, "offers Catholics and other Christians an opportunity to renew their devotion to the Blesscd Virgin, deepen their understanding of her divinely given role in the work of redemption accomplisbed by her son, and achieve further insight into the privileged position which she occupies in the community of faith."

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By NC News Service Sister Mary Roger Thibodeaux remembered chatting about Rome with her seatmate on Amtrak's Colonial when the northbound train collided with three Conrail freight locomotives Jan. 4, killing 15 and injuring 176 persons.

"It felt like an eternity. I , remember thinking 'This is probably it,'" the nun told The Catholic Standard and Times of Phila· delphia.

'Sister'Thibodeaux,wno works with the National Office for Black Catholics in Washington, was headed for Philadelphia to attend a conference.

As the train sped through the Maryland countryside, Sister Thibodeau,", and her seatmate, Roslyn Waters, a Peace Corps instructor, chatted, unaware ofthe danger ahead.

"I felt at the time a kind of hard impact - a lot of jerking and thrusting," Sister Thibodeaux said of the crash. "We all had to brace ourselves. It felt like the car was plunging to the left."

When the train came to a halt, Sister Thibodeaux discovered the impact had removed her right shoe, but she said she was not injured seriously.

West Twin River residents "really did everything, You were

practically pulled into homes,"she said. "They worked together and opened the community center.

People from every household came and gave us. food and drink."

She recalled seeing one young rescuer crying because the man he had been helping "died in his arms."

Also traveling on the Colonial but in the nexHo-last car were Sisters of S1. Joseph Ann Bernard earHn, ,and 'Rose Edward Carlin, who are' blood sisters. They also were headed to Philadelphia, traveling with a niece who is also a nun.

"The first thing was the sudden jolt of the brakes. The train kept going for several seconds until the impact. Then everything was thrown forward," said Sister Ann Bernard.

She said her sister broke her nose and was "bleeding profusely."

"My sister and I were the last two out. I knew she was feeling weak so we waited," she told The Catholic Review of Baltimore. ""Everybody was doing what they could to help. The kindness and unselfishness is what I remember most.

One area Catholic couple, Robert and Diane DiNatti. members of Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Middle River, Md.. arrived on

the scene about a half hour after the accident when they learned Sister Ann Bernard was looking for them. Ooce a teacher at their parish, she remembered the couple.

Durini the sisters' six-hour stay with them, the DiNattis gave them blankets and hot drinks and let them call their motherhouses in Philadelphia to let them know they were safe.

Typical of the residents of the area, DiNaHi did not think twice about getting to the site and help· ing as many people as he COUld. In Baltimore, Archbishop William D. Borders e,llpressed sympathy, saying tragedy "calls forth from us our deepest expression of faith and compassion."

Father Richard W. Woy, a Catholic fire department chaplain called to the scene, described it as "incredible - how something that massive and that heavy could be crumpled like that."

For the families of those who died, Amtrak set up a motel command center. Three Baltimore priests, Father William P. Foley, Mitchell Rozanski and Keith Boisvert, helped break the new.s to relatives.

"The people were really deva:;tated," said Father Foley.

"This was a teachable moment," he said, "and the tragedy became an'opportunity to minister."

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search of cheap labor.

He said the immigrants are the' mai'n source of labor in rural F1or~ ida, where they harve!lt citrus fruit and sugar cane. "I think it's a terrible crime to invite them and not give them their rights:' Jack Elder, former director of Casa Oscar Romero, a churchsponsored shelterfM Central American refugeel, was among San Benito church workers convicted in well-publicized 1985 trials for transporting illegal aliens. He said he didn't believe he had broken the law, but that the U.S. governriJent was breaking the Refugee Act of 1980 by denying Central Americans asylum, The Reagan administration considers Central Americans eCOnomic refugees rather than people fleeing political persecution. Only the latter are eligible for asylum under the 1990 act.

Elder and otbers received the support of Brownsville Bishop John J. Fitzpatrick; who said what they were doing was "not only Christian but American," Franciscan Father JoseSomoza, pastor ofNuestra Senora Reinade las Americas, the Hispanic parish which many Central American lmmigrants attend in Washington, said church workers are obliged to do what they have to in order to live "Christ's mandate of love." "'seither loving nor helping breaks any laws," he added. "The church must live leuimony to the fact that all men and women arc de'lerving of being loved just be:cause they !lee human beings. The love we give them must not be determined by color, legal status or nationality,"

Church policy, be said, is "not to look at immigration status.

"Church workers offer help to people who need it. The problem, of course, comes with regard to civil laws that say w~t you can and cannot do to help the undocu~cnted

alien,"

He said 164 dioceses have offices to aid refugees and 60 have church-run immigration offices that provide legal help to aliens and are accredited by the U.S. government.

Church workers eager to help iIIegals in becoming leial residents or acquiring political refugee s14· tus frequently find the experience "something like beinl next to someone sick: and not being able to do anythinj. It's the agony of impo tence," Father Elizondo said.

Al Velarde, southwest district director of Migration and Refugee Services, said his staffers often have to tell undocumented aliens they have no legal recourse. "Many times they knock on our door, we tell them what the eligibility factors are, and they walk out."

The "legal aid service" of the WASHINGTON (NC) - In Indiantown. Fla., illegal farmworkers at Catholic Church is now Velarde describes the offices under hi5jurisHoly Cross parish staged practice immigration raids after Mass to learn the diction.

He said staffen help immi- ' best way to respond to confrontations with federal immigration officials. grants to bring their family memben to this country legally, repreIn Wasbington. illegal Central American women who bave never before . sent illegal aliens in deportation hearings~ show residents how to seen vacuum cleaners or washing machines are trained to use them through apply {or citizenship, and act as a program sponsored by the Spanish Catholic Center under arcbdiocesan advocates on political uylum for Central Americans. auspices. After training, the center attempts to place them as domestic claims Illegal aliens have nowhere else helpers. to go, Velarde said, since many do not speak English and eannot pay In San Benito, Texas, church workers found themselves in trouble with auorneys' fees.

In the Los Angeles archdiocese, the law for illegally transporting Salvadorans who had ned their ",ar-torn the immisratil)p division ofCathonation. lic Charities has provided primarA new federal immigration law diocuan pcrr.onnel nationwide l.':ontural Centerin San Antonio, Texas, ily legal help to SOO,OOO new immj.. passed in October by Congress tinue to respond to the plight of agrees. Yet he points out, "The grants ~ IeB8.la~d illegal ~ in the will allow an untold number of the illegal alien by offerina lega,1. problem is so m&I.nille, it seem~ pasl I S years, said Elizabeth llirsillegal aliens to apply for legal sta· material and moral support what we're doing is so insignifi- nis, director.

She said that while there are Ius. But thousands who have come sometimes usingcontroversial meth- cant." croolc.ed lawyers who fleece Hlegal since 19&2 or who do not qualify ods.

There are no church regulations "Church people have been th.ose immigrants - pocketing their for other reasons will continue to money while fully aware they have be classified by the U.S. lovern- most open to the new immigrants," to tell church workers exactly how said Father Frank O'Loughlin,dir- far they can go to help the illegal no chance of legalization - the ment as illegal and face possible ,deportation. The"shadowsociety," ector ofthe Rural Life Bureau for alien, said Msgr. Nicholas DiMar- church in Los Angeles has been a zi<l, eX~\1ti"e director o{ the U.S. the Diocelle of Palm Beacb, Fla. source of accurate information for in the words of onechuTch worker, Father Virgilio Elizondo, dire» Catholic Conference's Migration the undocumented. will not disappear.

Florida's Father O'Loughlin has Priests, religious. lay people and tor of the Mexican American Cul- and Refugee Services. gone a step beyond many parishes and dioceses. The priest and others working with iUegalGuatemalans and Mexicans in Florida organil.ed a group called Santuari<l to teach workers to document p

CARPENTRY jobs ilUch as this are being filled by DESPAIR IS REFLECTED in the posture of these illegal aliens from EI Salvador many young Irish persons ungranted sanctuary in Texas. Not considered refugees, their status is uncertain. (~CjWide , able to find work in their native land. (NC photo) World photo)

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abuses committed by federal immigration officers.

After several abuse reports were filed; he said, six local immigration officers were fired. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has denied that tlledismissals were a result of Santuario's efforts, he said.

One goal is to encourage 50

many aliens to demand their righu that it "would Cfeate a bottlenecl;." preventing immigration agents from continuing their work, he said.

"While that may sound wrong:' the priest said, "the truth is that all thele people were invited" to the United States by migrant recruiters who travel to their countries in

WASHINGTON (NC) - Thousands of youna: Irish. many welleducated, are living illegally in the United States - refugees from Ireland's faltering economy, say government and church sources.

Many 'come to this country on legitimate tourist visas, then stay on illegally, the sources say~sti­ mateil of their numbers range {rom a few thousand to 200,000, but no one guessins at the .ize of the illegal populaton claims to have hard statistics.

Irish government statistics \1.how more than 30,000 Irish citizens emigrated in 1985 alOne. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman Duke Austin said the number illegally in the United States "is significant" but declined to make an estimate.

ILLEGAL ALIENS are ferried across the RJo Grande by "mules," men who for about SO pesos will carry someoile across the river to kttp him dry. (NCjUPl photo)

It'5 "one or those hidden statistics," said .. U.S; State Department officer.

Ireland's bishops said they are sufficiently alarmed by the exodus to consider establishing a "cha-

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plaincy" in the United States for the emigres - similarto the ministry to young Irish who have moved to England. "h's easy to exploit them," Father John Gavin of the Irish bishops' conference told National Catholic New~ Service in Dublin, Ireland.

"They have no permanent work permits and they feel very vulner· able."

Many of the young illegals are said to be supported by IrishAmerican communities in the cities they settle in. "They just literally disappear," said a U.S. official.

The current wave of migration from lreland is said to be the: largest in more than 130 yean, It includes thousands of Irish moving leSally to England and Europe.

Their education and skilJs. contrast sharply with the poor, often und::illed and little-educated Irish emi· grants of the mid-J9th century.

Twenty-scvenpercentofthe 1985 university Jraduun left the coun· try, according to Irish statistics. Of the graduating architects, 71.7 percent took jobs overseas.

A larse number of those living illegally in 1he United States would return to lreland if economic conditions improve, said those familiar with the situation.

The illegal population ~ rangingfrom carpenters to engineers to teachers On an extended leave of absence - are said to be concentrated in New York and Boston.

Father Matthew Fitzgerald, associate pastor at St. Patricr: Church in Smithtown, N.Y., estimates 12,000 live in the New York City area.

They meet ~I)cially to exchanse information on such things as jobs and employers to avoid, said James farrell, vice consul at the Irish Consulate in New York. They have "a kind of bush telegraph of their own," he said. ' U.S. State Departmerit data :shaWl a rapid increase in the number of tourist visas issued to Irish citizens beginning in the late 1970s.

In 1978, 34,059 visas we~ issued.

The numbers rose to 44,302 in Turn to Page 11

VIRTUALLY unprotected from the elements, an undocumented Y.Wrker takes a break in his makeshift home in an Arizona citrus grove. (NC photo)

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 9, 1987

Benefits of military career

By Dr. Jamll!8 .ad Mary KenDy

Pacifism is a complell moral which involves much more -Dear Dr. Kenny: Ourdaulbter than enlisting or not enlisting in went .way 10 collele'.DeI did Dol the miHtaI)'. A true pacifist could do 100 well in her firsl year. She not support the military in any seems 10 be drifting. Now she says way, not even by paying taxes. she ....nts tojoiu the mOit.,y, SheOnly a hypocrite would refuse to says.she can get her ureer cboi(e participate actively in the military guar.nteed before she enlists .nd but then continue to pay taxes so tIlII le.re • skU), someone else could do his killing My husband and I .re very for him.

Dneasy abuut her plans. I have this Personally" I do not want an allY.lue sense tid. the mllit.ry it ao volunteer military. The result would pl.ce for. respectable youa. be an army of warriors eager to woman. Don't you think. mU- kilt J would prefer a citizen's army, itary life wiD be d.ngerous for her one laced with persons of all permorals! suasions. including your daughter Also we don't believe In ..ar as. with her milder views. In fact, the way ofsettiinl disputes. I guess we military performs many missions are p.dfists. I don't want Our other than war. daughter loint: to war. - North As for your other worry, that C.,oIhut your daughter may be moving into Thank you for your letter and an immoral lifestyle, 1 believe that your honest aUempt to state your is unfounded. From my own eight reasons why a military career un- years in the Air Force, I have settles you. The military has always found the military to be a comhad something of a reputation for munity better behaved than most. hard and fast living, so I can That should be no surprise since understand your concern about the military only accepts the upper morals. Also, Vietnam has raised half of our population. Criminals the question ofthe moralily ofwlU and troubbome persons are denied admission or weeded out. itself. is~ue

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On a more positive vein, there are several strong benefits to_a_1Jillitary career. You say your daugh· ter is drifting. The military provides good discipline and structure for such a person.

The military also provides t,raining and then job experience in the careel of het choice. After four years she can leave the miliary with a marketable skill. If -she wishes she Clin obtain even more education in her chosen field after leaving the military through various education programs.

Finally. she has a chance to travel and -see more of the world.

Meeting other people and viewing different cultures is usually a maturinll experience. listen to your daughter. As a young adult she is considering a reasonable choice. Tell her your misgivings if you wish. But I think ~r pl~n meriu support.

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Last week a young man received the kind of phone call we all pray will never come: the news that his mother was in critical conditiOn following an auto collision.

Kevin is an up and ooming cOrporation lawyer who has been On the-fast track for ,eight years. He graduated from law school at the top of his class and has pursued success ever since without stopping to question why. With his mother in a coma, Kevin -is shattered.

At such moments no success Or power or money amounts 10 a hill ofbeans. So often it takes a tragedy to remind people that the only things that really count in life ar~ the people we have loved and the good we have done.

When tragedy strikes it is usually incomprehensible and devastating. But it also is a time that God provide:,; for us loslow down. look at our lives and reassess the values we Itve by. Tragedy brings us to a crossroads. where we mu~t make choices.

who read a form letterfrorn American Express. It promised he would become a "special" person if he accepted the gold card for $65 annually.

The deacon had the wisdom and insight to be outraged at this mbtle example of shabby values. But so many people. haw- -.grown uaccustomed to the way society values material wealth that they don"t notice how outrageous it can b,.

Very often people ellperience something that causes them to make some choices about what they value. I remember a woman who.ltad an important job with a New~ork City agency. Somethin!1 about her was very unusual - a peacefulness and kindness seemed to emanate from her. I asked her what it came from.

~'When I was yOUng, I though't I was going straight to the top," she said. "All that mattered was>that I displayed my own brilliance to the world. Thensomething went wrong ... I fell madly in love with my sister's husband."

She explained that she realized that pursuing her- desires· would cauile "untold sorrow and;&i's~ tion... So, instead, she "chose to live with my secret grief, to hide it always and to love Ihem both."

The result, as she tells it, is that through the years "this pain taught me about life. Now I know that what matters isn't brilliance butonly goodness...

Pain is that kind of teacher. It presents u~ with the opportunily to choose the real values we will live by and to remember the spiritual values Jesus communicated so dearly.

In a clutch situation

By Hilda Youna:

There is little doubt in my mind that the automatic transmission was invented by a mechanic who Without such experiences. we had just spent his afternoon trying might never look at the truth of 10 teach his teenage daiJghtt:r how our existence. People can go On to drive a stick shift. and on in boring routines or in My bet is that the clutch was frantic quests for satisfa~tion, named by tho: mcchanic'~ wife after unaware that a vital dimension is she spent an afternoon trying to do missing. ~lte same thing. The word "dutch" Today more than ever I see peo_ just seems tQ come to Dlind when ple pursuing success without con- you are being tossed around the templating wisdom or spirituality. ' interior of a car like a ship"s crew How many times have we heard in a slorm. jesus' teaching that we must avoid .. , don't know why you and greed in all forms? The Gospel tells mom are so louchy," our daughter us that a man can be wealthy but said this afternoon as she and her his possessions do not guarantee father walked in. him life. And St. Paul wrote: Set "We're not touchy. pumpkin," your heart on what pertains to he said, collapsing into his chair, higher realms where Christ is seated "we are just nOl used to cracking at God's right hand. Be intent On our foreheads on our knees. havthings above rather than on things ing our fillings shaken loose and of earth. cllpe-rienci".@:lossofbloodflowto No matter how many times we oudower body _when the seat belt hear that message, loud and clear. cinches in like a 'iourniquet." we forget. The shabby values and "It would be a lot ea.~ier if you pettiness we encounter in life take wouldn't yell at me," she pouted. over very subtly.

"I was not yelling,"he said calm· One of the best M:rmons I've ly_"1 was trying to have my voice heard on tile subject of "alues heard above the screeching tires." came from a deacon at my church "It would make a lot mOTe sense

if the gas and brake and clutch all operated in the same direction." she said defensively. "Why should the clutch come out but the brake and gas go in?"'

"Millions have figured it out:' my husband answered. ~I'm sure you will too. At least, I think you will, ..

"And mom keeps sucking in her breath and making her lip bleed," she went on.

"I just forget-to breathe when you're accelerating like Evel Knievel and staring at your feet, dear," r said. UFunny, I haYen't bitten my lip like that since giving birth to your brother."

"But I did do a lot better today, didn't I, Daddy,?" she asked hopefully.

Hethought fora moment. "WeU. I think you should beableto grad· ' uate from the abandoned air strip to an abandoned parking Jot in not too long. ~ Thinking about it, 'I'd wager that the lirst plastic Jesus statue for a dash board was created by the parent of a driving-age child.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 9, 1987 As a parish priest, "one of the most painful things is to go visit a family and discover that 'la migra' (immigration agents) picked them up last night," said Father Elizondo.

MARY ELIZABETH LaROCHE presents holiday gifts from New Bedford Catholic Woman's Club to cloistered nuns at the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of Christ Crucified and Mary Mediatrix itt South Dartmouth. (Rosa photo) .

The shadow society Continued from Page Nine 1979; 64,707 in 1980 and peaked at 68,633 in 1981.

Last year, 47,200 Irish obtained U.S. tourist visas, compared to 20,672 in 1975. How many stayed illegally cannot be gauged, officials say-. ',; .. ~'I' • ':' • • Father Fitzgerald, who immigrated legally 18 years ago, says he spends much of his time ministering to the young Irish. "I would say a good 50 percent of them would go back to Ireland" if they could find good jobs, he said.

But Father Sean McManus, who directs the Washington office of the Irish National Caucus, an IrishAmerican lobby group, said that the U.S. church is capable of han~ dling the pastoral job. Father McManus, who is from Northern Ireland, said the chaplaincy plan represented "old thinking" about the pastoral needs of "Irish in exile."

Father Fitzgerald said that a chaplaincy would "make a lot of sense." The young iIIegats "need a contact person" they can talk to without fear of being exposed to U.S. authorities, he said.

Ireland was badly hit by the global recession of the late 1970s.

The government's attempt to stimulate the economy through heavy international borrowing failed, leaving a large foreign debt comparable in its effect to those carried by .

Third World countries. Workplaces continue to close.

Potential workers under 25 years old are said to have little chance of finding employment in Ireland.

Unemployment, averaging 18 percent, includes 74,000 jobless youth.

In the past three years, emigration among Irish university graduates has doubled, according to the Irish government.

An Irish official said it is hard in some professions such as engineering for graduates without experience to find jobs in Ireland, so many head for America.

But it is also difficult to get a professional job in the United States without proper immigration

papers, said Father Fitzgerald. The professionals are "the ones who would be hurt the most" in either situation, he said.

Recent changes in U.S. immigration law which grant amnesty to some previously illegal aliens may. not help the situation ofmany of young Irish unlawfully in the country, said INS spokesman Austin. . :rhose whose tourist visas expired after Jan. I, 1982, do not qualify for the reprieve, he said. But he also said the agency's ability to catch foreigners living illegally in the United States is tempered by the 50 percent reduction in its investigative staff over the past decade. .

Many of the young Irish iIIegals work in bars, hotels, or as domestic servants to wealthy· families who are aware of their immigration status, said a congressional aide familiar with the situation.

Some, say several sources, are paid less than U.S. citizens' or legal immigrants in similar.jobs. Some have been "ripped off' by lawyers falsely claiming they can obtain immigration documents for fees ranging to $1,500, said Father McManus.

"It's impossible to tell legal from illegal" Irish immigrants, said John Foley, an aide to Rep. Thomas Manton, D-N. Y. The iIIegals mingle with Irish-Americans and "nobody thinks about it." Manton's Queens district includes a large number of Irish-Americans.

Father Fitzgerald said that apart from illegally staying in the country, the young Irish are model residents.

They have jobs in occupations that need workers, pay their taxes and are generally "doing well," he said.

Living a lie WAS HINGTON (NC) -Aliens' illegal status makes them targets in society and forces their children to "live. a lie," say church workers.

It) n'ot oply adults who acquire

false Social Security cards and assume new names in order to avoid deportation, said Olga Villa Parra, coordinator of the Midwest Regio,nal Office for Hispanics in South Bend, Ind. Children of illegal aliens also hide behind assumed identities.

They are taught when young to "live a lie" in order to protect their families, she said.

The children, Mrs. Villa continued, "learn to live in two worlds - the one with mom and dad at home where everything is normal and the one outside where they must project that they are American citizens. They live in fear since they are taught at a young age not to tell people where they are really from."

She said this dual lifestyle can produce psychological and emotional scars.

Often, she said, families of illegal aliens live in fear of deportation. Immigration raids have been frequent in the Midwest in recent years, she said.

Auxiliary Bishop Juan Arzube of Los Angeles said that many illegal aliens employed in factory and service occupations "work each day with one eye on the job and the other on the gate - ready to make a run for it if immigration officials should enter."

Their life is filled with tension, he said. "And when there's that kind of tension at work, you can't help but bring it home."

He said if illegal aliens are "lucky enough not to be brown-skinned" they won't be bothered by immigrationofficials. On the other hand, brown-skinned U.S. citizens of Latin American ancestry are frequently detained by authorities looking for illegal aliens.

Parish life is affected when large numbers of the congregation are undocumented, said Msgr. DiMarzio.

He said illegal aliens come to Mass, but are reluctant to involve themselves in other parish activities "since they tend not to want to be known."

He characterized everyday .life for illegal aliens as painful and precarious. .

On the other hand, the priest said, their insecurity gives them a "profound understanding of what ·it means to be a pilgrim people.

They know that God is their protection." '.

Immigrants' illegal status makes them society's targets, said Father Elizondo, who noted that even Hispanics now make derogatory references to "wetbacks." With unemployment increasing, he said, more and more U.S. citizens and legal residents of Mexican ancestry have begun to blame the Mexican illegal alien for their economic woes.

"It's like two hungry dogs fighting for the same piece of meat. It's painful to see," the priest said.

Velarde said he frequently encounters legalized Hispanics who would like to see the flow of Mexican .immigrants curtailed. "I ask them, 'What if we were talking about your fat1:ler or mother, your uncle or brother,' " Belarde said.

"That's different,' they say. They'd stop everyone but their relatives from coming in."

He said immigrants further up the economic ladder are less likely to complain about the influx 'of illegal aliens. .

Typical alien WASHINGTON (NC) - Rosa works nights vacuuming floors and cleaning bathrooms in 'an office building in lower Manhattan.

Originally from the South American city of Quito, Ecuador, she has lived in New York City for five years.

A high school graduate, she came to the United States with her husband not to escape abject poverty but because the two found their financial situation worsening instead of improving.

Rosa and her husband have two children still living in Ecuador who are cared for by her mother.

Three more have been born since the couple came to the United States, and one of them is in New York public schools.

The family lives in an apartment building with Rosa's brother-inlaw, a legalized resident. All three contribute to the household income.

Each year, Rosa and her husband send $700 to her mother to help pay the expenses of raising the children still in Ecuador and to reimburse her for subsidizing the couple's move to New York.

Rosa, in her 30s, talks about returning to her homeland one day to be reunited with family members.

But when forced to seriously consider the question, she admits that she is relatively sure she will be here for at least another 15 years..

Not a real person, Rosa is a composite of typical immigrants encountered by Demetrios Papademetriou, a consultant to the U.S. Catholic Conference's Migration and Refugee Services, in a survey of illegal aliens living in New York City.

He said the majority are female, well-educated, employed and come from the northern nations ofSout~

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America, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the West Indies.

Sixty to 70 percent of illegal aliens nationwide are Catholic, estimates Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, director of Migration and Refugee Services, who also worked on the survey.

Of the 2 million illegal aliens the U.S: Census Bureau counted in 1980, 1.5 million are from Mexico, the Carribean and Central America. Of that number 1.1 million are from Mexico, said Gregg Robinson, a demographic statistician for the bureau.

But not all illegal aliens are Hispanic. He estimated that 213,000 are from Asia.

And the William Vogt Center for U.S. Population Studies found' that Detroit, for example, has a high concentration of illegal Arab aliens while Washington is home to a number of illegal Nigerians.

Ethiopians, Iranians and Filipinos.

In addition, there are reports that somewhere between a few thousand and 200,000 illegal aliens have come to the United States from Ireland in recent years seeking employment.

Census Bureau statistics on illegal aliens are only estimates, since immigrants who fear recognition often hide from census counters, Robinson said. In fact, a 1983 bureau on estimates of undocumented aliens is titled" A Count of the Uncountable."

More than half of the illegal aliens counted live in California.

Robinson said, adding that the census counted 658,000 in Los Angeles County.

Othe.r states with large percentages, according to the 1980 census, are Arizona, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington.

But illegal aliens work as maids and babysitters, field hands, taxi drivers, dishwashers ;tnd busboys in rural, small-town and urban settings in all geographical regions of the country.

Numbers of illegal aliens may have risen since the 1980 census was taken, Robinson said, esti. mating there are 3 million to 5 million in the nation today. .

The majority, he said, entered the United States between 1975 and 1980, but 600,000 came before 1970.

Robinson said Census Bureau figures do not reflect the numbers of illegal aliens who stay a few days or months of the year and then return to their homeland. It is these temporary aliens, he said. who are most often apprehended

by U.S. pa.trols along the Mexican border. .

Harris Fund SCRANTON, Pa. (NC) - Actor Richard Harris will establish a scholarship fund at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton in memory of his brother and will star in a benefit play, the university has announced. Harris' brother, I>el'mot, died last year of a heart attack at age 47. He was producermanager for many of his brother's theatrical and business ventures.

The Irish leading actor said he would come to the United States in January 1988 during the university's centennial year to prep~ Scranton student actors for benefit performances ofShakespeare's"Julius Ceasar," in which he will play Marc Antony. Proceeds will go to the Dermot Harris Scholarship Fund.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri'., Jan. 9, 1987

Vatican denounces religious intolerance UNITED NATIONS (NC) The Vatican has denounced "arbitrary confinements or expulsions of bishops, priests and lay people" as examples of religious intolerance throughout the world.

Msgr. Antonio Franco, acting head of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See, told the U.N. General Assembly's Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee recently that the Vatican also condemns prohibitions on exercising the ministry in public and on educating the faithful.

Without naming countries, Msgr.

Franco protested difficulties placed in the path of appointing bishops and other local church leaders; the closing of seminaries, and the "imposed limitations on the humber of candidates to the priesthood and the consecrated life."

detained since last June l:l under the country's state of emergency rules. He has denied government allegations that he engaged in subversive activities.

Nicaraguan Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega of the Prelature of Juigalpa was expelled from his country last July 4, and in June Msgr. Bismarck Carballo, head of the Archdiocese of Managua's communications office, was barred from returning to Nicaragua. Both have been accused' of working against Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

In Chile, lay and religious workers face increased threats and intimidation, and several missionaries were expelled from the country after being accused of "subversive activities."

Cardinal discusses Vatican issues

,.",:ir"Today, in many instances, the victims are perhaps described as enemies of the revolution or allies ROME (NC) - Progress is slow of reactionary forces in the defense of privileged interests against the in resolving differences between poor, or, in reverse, the'y are the Catholic Church and Chinese NCt UPI¡Reuter photo accused of being revolutionaries if officials over religious relations, says the Vatican's top diplomat. they denounce abuses of power," POPE JOHN PAUL II WITH BISHOP PABLO VEGA he said.

Secretary of State Cardinal ~i' Msgr. Franco .said the delega- Agostino Casaroli added that the tion wanted to speak for hundreds Vatican sees the China problem as of thousands of people "reduced "simple and complex." to the rank of second- or third"Simple because it is enough class citizens on account of their that they accept the common beliefs; of all the parents who are hierarchy ....:.. and then not too VATICAN CITY (NC) - Catholic universities share in the church's denied the right to ensure their many other things would be asked children an education respectful of [ofthem]," he said. "The real prob- mission of promoting peace based their religious principles; of the lem is communion [with on the message of salvation, said . " Pope John Paull\. children and young men and Rome.]"

The universities can help "effecwomen who have no alternative to But Chinese authorities, who a type of school that aims at sponsor the National Association tively promote those ethical and uprooting them from the heritage of Patriotic Catholics which rejects spiritual dynamisms" which can of their culture, their family and ties with Rome, are apparently not assure a lasting peace, he said. their nation."

Pope John Paul made his comabout to change their position, the ments during a speech to particicardinal said.

Catholics and followers of other , The 72-year-old prelate, who pants in a recent four-day symporeligions are under pressure in sevhas worked in foreign affairs under sium on peace sponsored by 20 eral countries.

Catholic institutions of higher Sources who visited Vietnam five popes, also spoke about Pope learning based in Rome.

John Paul II's upcoming trips to last summer said several Jesuit The pope said that pursuit of priests and a seminarian were Chile and Poland.

Asked whether there was a risk peace is an "essential activity" of arrested and a Jesuit house was closed and confiscated by authorit- that the papal trip to Chile, expect- every center of ecclesiastical study. ed in April, might be exploited He praised the symposium for ies. focusing on the philosophical and Although the Vietnamese govern- politically, the cardinal said: "That theological dimensions of peace, doesn't depend on us.

But I think ment says it has a 'policy of relias well as on the necessity for an gious freedom, priests' pastoral the Chilean people, the majority, interreligious dialogue on the subactivities are restricted, Catholics see the trip as a teligious one." ject.

He also said it was unlikely that are allowed to attend Mass on The symposium, titled "Peace: Sundays only, and the few men the pope would try to travel to the The Challenge to the Catholic of Lithuania in Soviet republic allowed to study for the priestNCtKNA photo hood must have their ordinations connection with a planned trip to University," marked the first time Rome's seven pontifical universiPoland in June.

Lithuania, still FATHER SMANGALISO MKHATSHWA approved by the state. Approval largely Catholic, borders Poland.. ties and 13 specialized institutes of for ordination is rarely given.

"What taste would that sh'ow, to higher learning joined in an interAmnesty International said go outside the border, to duck disciplinary project, said sympoBuddhist and Catholic intellectuaround the corner [to Lithuania] sium director Father Bonifacio als have 'been arrested and held Honings. ?" he said.

The proposal would give women VATICAN CITY (NC) without trial in Vietnam in recent The symposium's purpose was Czechoslovakian state police de- the option to abort without any Cardinal Casaroli confirmed years,. .'

Amnesty arso said elderly that the Vatican was stiU working to make students "more peace- tained a bishop and several other outside checks or controls. AborCatholic priests loyal to the Vati- on two important documents. One minded" and aware of their social Catholics in action against oppo- tion has been legal in Czechoslocan are denied in 'China, and . 'on bioethics;' prepared by the responsibilities, said Father Hon- n~nts of a liberalized abortion pro- vakia since 1957.

Christians in Nepal are continu- congregation for the Doctrine of ings; a professor at the St. John posal being considered .by the govally arrested "either for propagat- , the Faith, is undergoing technical Lateran University. ernment, Vatican Radio reported ing their faith or fo~ having con- revisions and is expected soon, he recently. .

VATICAN (NC) -: The HunHe estimated that som~ 300 parverted from Hinduism." The said.

Police have seized copies of pe- garian government has given perattended the symposium, titions signed by more than 13,000 Nepalese constitution prohibits .Adocument on the'international ticipants mission for formation ofthe counwhich featured 87 study sessions opponents of the proposal and try's first new religious order in conversions. debt problem by the justice and In the African nation of Burundi, peace commission may take several grouped' under four headings: have detained and questioned.sev- more than 35 years, according to Anthropological Aspects, Histor- eral activists in the anti-abortion 'six of the eight Catholic seminar- more months to finish.

Vatican officials. But at least one ical and Critical Aspects, campaign. ies were nationalized in September. knowledgeable Vatican observer Philosophical-Theological Aspects, A letter from the'nation's bishops says government involvement in .Among' those questioned was and Interreligiou.s Dialogue. said the government planned to Bishop Karel Otcenasek, the apos- the new congregation may make it Father Ronings said the organ- tolic administrator of Hradec Kra- unattractive to many potential turn the seminaries into public izers spent three years planning love, the report said. Bishop Otceschools and colleges. members. The order, the Sisters of the symposium, timed to coincide nasek is listed in the official Vatican Our Lady of Hungary; will work In South Africa, the secretary with the United Nations' detlara- yearbook as "impeded" in his office, with the elderly, the sick and the 'general of the southern African ~ ; -. .tion of 1986 as an International meaning he is faced with govern- handicapped, as ,well as particibishops' conference Father Sman-..:. ... .

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BELLEVILLE, Ill. (NC) - Dy~. ing of cancer at age 39, Ursuli~e Sister Suzanne Schrautemyer said her decision to "let go" and di~,con­ tinue treatment has created a speciai time" for her.

After two years of cancer she decided to end chemotherapy in September, she said, ,because "I became intuitively aware'that no form oftherapy would make a difference any more. It was time to let go. I f~el reaIly right about this. I don't feel panicky or depressed, and I'm amazed at the peace I have experienoed..•· In an interview in The Messenger. Belleville diocesan newspaper, she talked about what "letting go" .and facing death have meant for her.

"This is a very special time in my life of entering into a new dying ex~erience," she said. "I have died in all kinds of ways before. I have been surprised so many times in my life with new life and new growth as a result of so. man.y 'dyings.' I can't believe that this dying will" not surprise me more than ever.

In December she was still working parttime as associate director of religious education for the Bel. leville Diocese, and this month she planned to begin teaching a course on faith and Scriptures. But after she discovered a recurrence of cancer in September she resigned as president of the diocesan Council of Woman Religious and as· a councilor of her Ursuline community.

She had to quit working full time, she said, because "I need to be flexible with the pain and the effects of medication~' taken to relieve the pain. _ "I can't walk as fast." she said. "I can't stand for long .periods of time. I can't run any more~ I used to run two miles,a day'" " In recent weeks, she said. she has noticed a :"gradual loss of taste'" .'

In December 1984 Sister Schrautemyer went to a dpctor because of a lump under her righ~ arm. It was malignant. and she underwent a partial mastectomy and six weeks of radiation treatment.

The following spring she discovered a lump under her left arm. "I was really scared." she said, "so scared I didn't tell anyone for several weeks'"

It turned out t'o be cancer also, but a different kind. A bilateral mastectomy followed, then chemotherapy. ' In early summer of 1986, while she was still under chemotherapy, a new lump formed under her left arm. Tests in August showed bone cancer in the sternum and pelvis. It has since spread to the bone marrow.

On Sept. II. during a practice she began as a teenager reflecting on her life on the night before her birthday, Sister Schrautemyer decided to accept her coming death and discontinue chemotherapy.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The "saddest, most painful aspect" of the Puerto Rico hotel fire is that so many bodies have been bu~ned beyond recognition that relatl~>ns are unable to·identify them, said a Puerto Rico priest.

Father Armando Alvarez, part of a volunteer team of social workers, psychiatrists and m~ni.s­ ters aiding victims'families.. said l~ a telephone interview ~hat m ~ddl­ tion to the team, pnests, sisters and lay people have been helping staff a medical center near the luxury Dupont Plaza Hotel that caught fire Dec. 31.

The medical center is where bodies are brought to be identified by relatives, the priest said.

The 21-story hotel. located on San Juan's beachfront tourist strip. was packed with New Year's vacationers.

Reports indicate that as many as 95 people were killed and up to 100 were injured in the fire.

"Naturally, the mood in the medical center is one of sadness and anxiety." said Father Alvariez. "The anxiety is the worst for the many relatives who are unable to identify their loved ones."

He said relatives find "at least some type of comfort" when they can identify their, loved ones.

"Until then, there is not much we can do for them. Our ministry really begins at that point."

The priest, said Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez. of San Jua~ has been at the medical center per-, sonally minister1Ilg" to family. m~m~ bers of victims since the bfgmmng of their ordeal. . Cardinal Aponte Martinezcelebrated a Mass for the victims at Before th~t. she said, she had nearby'Stella Maris Parish on Jan. gone through severa!, month~ o,~· I the day after the fire began. "low-grade anger" and d~pre~slOn Father Alvarez said. but had difficulty talkmg It out The priest called the effort to with anybody. "I didn't want any- help the victims' relatives "amazone to know I was really down and ingly well-organized" and said broken." volunteers are "well-prepared."

"I had to be assured it's OK to "N 0 one is ever alone. The relabe angry, to doubt, to be broken tives always have someone to talk and down," she said. "I don't believe .to. The volunteers are compasnow that' my faith is insulted by sionate and concerned." anger and doubt. I had to move He said victims include tourists through it ~ those real human from the U.S. mainland as well as experiences - before I could let . Puerto Ricans employed at the go of it. hotel or gambling at the hotel's "In September, after my deci- casino. sion, I met with the sisters of my The priest said he is a~di~g community. I told them about my mainland tourists because hels bilfear that they might think I was committing suicide (by discontin- ingual imd can speak to them in uing treatment). They took the English, translate when needed and recurrence of my cancer very hard help them fill out legal forms ..

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41 told them I needed them to be This is in some ways the most real. If they were angry at me for important time of my life and I being sick again, that's OK, I said. don't want to be rescued'" Does she think pf plans she had?

If they're angry at God because I Not in an "I've been cheated" might be dying, that's OK. And it's sense, she said, b,ut yes, there were OK to show that to me. I told them things she had plannt;d to do. She I wanted them - I needed them wanted to get Ii second mas.ter·s -to be real'" degree, a master of divinity, andto The realization that death by teach in a major seminary. She cancer is one of the most painful had a pilot's license when she was ways to die scares her. she said.

16 and she had hoped to begin But at the same time. she thinks flying again some time." .• that "physical pain is overrated..'

Has her faith changed? . Yes, It s "The most painful experience connected with this dying expe- simpler," she said. .

"I used to think some places, rience." she said. "is watching the people, times were more sacred people around me wanting to spare than others. My experience offaith me pain. wanting to lift my disease now tells, me that every thing, and death.from me, and they can·t. . every moment is sacred.

"Their helplessness hurts. I want "Everything that happens IS a to tell them. 'It's OK" I want t.o sacrament," she said, "a moment invite them to come along on this when God becomes tangible and journey. I want to reassure them. life is real. That's what's different'"

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By Cecilia Belanger

only one who tends to children. I never get thanked no matter how hard I work. Yet I thank others for the least little thing.

Bad manners head the "must get rid of' list. Too many people seem to have forgotten how to say thank you or write thank you notes.

In one week three people said they don't want enemies, that they'll do anything to avoid having one. They admit that Jesus had enemies and that they're not trying to out-class him, but as one said, he doesn't know how to handle the situation and Jesus did.

Many confess they've driven people away by their constant complaining, and that they now realize that everyone has ups and downs. .

We've begun another New Year; many' are attempting selfimprovement. All during the recent holiday season people told me that they want to be less harsh and abrupt with others and that they wish others would be the same with them. .

A student put it this way: "Whenever I open my mouth I feel like a q\Jarterback being blitzed.

They come at me from all sides because I have unorthodox opinions. They malign my character, make insinuations about my principles and stufflike that. Because I say that I have to work after school and don't approve of kids sponging on their parents forever; I no longer have any friends."

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Coyle-Cassidy cheerleaders earn place in national competition The 1986-87 season' has been a good one for cheerleaders at Coyle and Cassidy High .School, Taunton. At an Emmanuel Collegebased cheerleatling camp last summer, the young "Women earned many awards, including that fora best overall team.

That '~ccolade ·was the (irst of many recent victories. . The first 'ever Southeast regi'onal cheerleading meet was:h'eld in N ovember at. Taunto{l Higl).; ~chool

after a series of pia~~ing /ll~,etings for coaches held at Coyle and, Cassi-dy, . .

CC's contingent placed first ,in Division II at the regional and· advanced to the state championship c'ompetition,: held I~ter' the same mon,th at Northeastern Uni..versity. There. they placed se'cond among nine teams in their division.

Advancing to last month's New England regional, ',the CC. squad.

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broken rylationship isher song's theme. " .. , Carly Simon's "Coming 'Round Again" encourages belief ~n the power of love to renew our lives.

The psalmist turned to God in his distress; and that's where we turn.

From the mother of three little children who sometimes gets very tired and would like a kinder word for a change: "There are times I feel like bursting and saying every- . thing that's on my mind, but those around me would say I was crazy, or cracking up or that I'm not the

competed against teams from all divisions.' Selected as second runrterup, it will compete in.the Nation'al High School Che,erleading Championship, . to be held later this winter in Orlando: Also, a cheerle'ading clinic attended by 204 young women representing 17 'area high schools was recently held at Cc. Participants . Were instructed in safe performance techniques by Boston College cheerleaders'."":') .".; " ':t'. :,.;

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Q. Should a,boy pretend he can afford, jU,st about anything on a date? (Miss<;lUri),., ,.:.' ::, " 'f- A. &ucb: a .pretepse ;would, gi.,ve .rise to solne practical problems. If 'you want your date.to·think you can afford just about ,anything, aren't you going to have t,o flash the cash and then spend a great deal of it?-, Talk alone isn't going to 'convince the girl that you are a big spender with a fat wallet.. You'll have,to move into act.ion. And it ,sounds as though you can't afford to.

But your question raises more serious issues than these practical problems. ,For e1{ample: How w~uld .you feel if at the end of the evening - your girl gave you a big hug, a long kiss and then murmured -in your ear, "I love you for your money"?

Eveninore serious is the fact that this kinQ offinam:ial pretending is dishonest. You' would be putting yourself forwa"rd as someone you are not. Fo~ that'evening, you would be living a lie. And that's a sad way to'spend an even'iJrg meant (or fun and good times. , Would thjs' pr:etendil1g s~op on high school gra<;ll,la,ti<;>n day? Or would you 'go thr9ugh!ife 'trying ,to impress people py pre.tending ,yoll'qave !>ig bucks ~nd are'~VIP? The type of p:retending that.you are talking about could lead a'per'son"into a sad- -world of financial fantasies where money would: be god.

Instead of pretending ori a date, why not be' the person you 'really : are. Be true and open and 'honest ~ and consequ,ently free.

Why not seek out the riches of your personality and try 'to share them With a girl who may have a wealth of good qualities that far surpass money, One of t~ose qual-

We should be willing to share high moments and low, good times and bad, times of faith and times of doubt. Talk to someone. Talk to God. He will reply to the heart.

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,ities might be the ability to see beyond the superficiality of money 'to the good .things of the spirit.

J":I6hell()uJtg(cH~piJY,RnoW,1now happily milrrie'd, never seemed to have much money 'to spend on a date. Sometimes she would have to t>ear all the expenses when he ' was, out 'of work.

Two years after their marriage, they still nave a simple lifestyle, seem co'ntented with it, and are very happy. .

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The Anchor Friday, Jan. 9, 1987

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

Gen~ral, ratings: G-suitable f~r gen路 eral viewing; PG路13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children onder 13; P~parental ,guidance suggested; R-restncted, unsuitable for children or younger teens, ~atholic ratings: AI-approved, for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (gi~en to films not. morally offensive WhiCh, howe~er, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs agilinst local listings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

Sister Walsh and DeVito

Actor'Danny DeVito has reunion with parochial scho.ol teacher BALTIMORE (NC) - It was show-and-tell time for first-grade teacher Sister Maristella Walsh.

But this performance also was a reunion.

Sister Walsh, a Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, was the guest of movie and television star Danny DeVito, a former firstgrade pupil of hers atOur Lady of Mount Carmel School in Asbury Park, N.J. .

DeYito, in Baltimore recently to film a new movie, "Tin Men," was on location near St. Agnes School, where Sister Walsh is now teaching, and a reunion was arranged.

When DeVito saw Sister Walsh, he looked her over - imagining her in her pre-Vatican II habit before the two went through a litany of Mount Carmel students teachers and priests that sounded like an Italian telephone book from some 37 years ago,. He remembered every teacher he had and then took her on a tour of the movie ~et, introducing Sister Walsh to the director and the actors and showing her how a movie is filmed.

DeVito, who has had hit roles in the films'''Romancing the Stone" and "Jewel of the Nile" and the television series "Taxi," has a screen reputation as a feisty, irascible and tough-talking character. Accord" ing to the actor, his formerteacher has some of the same attributes.

"Brooklyn was a ,gooj:l spot for her," he said. "She was tough."

DeVito gave his afma mater a bit of fun-filled notoriety when he mentioned the school during' a "Jewel of the Nile" scene. Coming upon a furious knife battle between two Arab fa~tions he said, "This looks like the Our Lady of Mount Carmel schoolyard."

But his tough act doesn't fool his former teacher. Sister Walsh admitted that she does not recall each ofthe first-graders she's taught over the last 40 years, but she' remembers DeVito as a gentle, chubby, short boy. Even now the 5-foot nun is taller than him.

of the English language, which he claims not to have acquired in the Our Lady of Mount Carmel schoolyard. "That's not me. I have to say those lines or they would fire me," he explained to Sister Walsh.

During the meeting, there was none of the rough sputtering that comes through his characters on the screen. The only hint of his screen personality came out when he explained why the film crew was back in Baltimore refilming ,scenes.

"We lost the film. It fell off the truck, as they say," he rasped.

"Some bad guys stole it. It was insured, thank God." But it was this act of indiscretion that gave the actor and his teacher a chance to meet after all these years.

After DeVito returned to the set, Sister Walsh said, "He hasn't changed that much. He's still a gentle man."

Buy a caiendar, build a chapel

CH,ICAGO (NC) - Proceeds from sales of Catholic Church Extension Society calendars help , build chap~ls i"rural areas of U.S. dioceses, and an unexpected increase in orders this year may mean an extra chapel can be built, according to Father Edward J. Slattery, Extension president.

He said Extension distributed 4.1 million of its 1987 calendars in 6,000 parishes across the country, more than the 3.8 million orders the society had anticipated. Father Slattery added that the society had 65 pending requests for chapels, mostly in rural areas where there has never been a church.

He said funds from the calendars also go to home missions to suport vocations, seminarians' education and subsidies for missioners as well as funding for religious instruction, campus ministry and evangelization.

In his various roles DeVito has Extension has published religious demonstrated a colorful command calendars for 67 years, he noted.

New Films "No Mercy"(Trl-Star): A cocky, abrasive Chicago undercover cop (Richard Gere) avenges the brutal slaying of a fellow vice squad officer using a beautiful Creole woman (Kim Basinger) as the bait to entrap and kill a merciless bayou country crime boss (Jeroen Krabbe).

Implied sexual and explicit physical violence and brutality with excessive profanity. 0, R "Little Shop of Horrors" (Warners): The original off-Broadway play's black humor and charm is interpreted as a wildly sardonic musical revuovith emphasis upon the sadism and, masochism of its ' characters, some of whom fall victim to a carnivorous and evil plant.

Steve Martin's pain-inflicting role, the foul-mouthed plant, and the constant references, both visual' and verbal, to brutality and killing are not only unsuitable for adults but could terrify children. 0, PG 13 "Mother Teresa"(Petrie Produc~ tions): This feature documentary examines the life and the work of Mother Teresa, foundress and superior of the Missionaries of Charity. Director Ann Petrie assembled significant events over a five-year period which evoke the spirit and substance of Mother Teresa's mission to decrease both physical and spiritual poverty. An inspirational portrait of a media giant, here seen as a humble but strong, wise, uncompromisingly determined and devoted' woman. A I "The Morning After"(Fox-Lorimar): Jane Fonda, a fading actress , prone to compulsive drinking and blackouts, wakes up one morning in bed withadead man. Sidney (umet's thriller focuses on her'attempt 'to clear herself of the murder but not upon her bad habits which include promiscuous affairs and bad language. Jeff Bridges, one of the rootless people of Los Angles, almost loses his life in the process of trying to solve the mystery. The starkly photographed film avoids moralizing about sex and alcohol abuse by merely showing one possible consequence. A3, R "Wisdom" (Fox): A teen-ager, unable to hold a job because he has a felony record, decides to buy a submachine gun, go on the road with his girlfriend and make a statement about the inequalitites ?f the banking system by destroy109 mortgage records. Writer-director-

star Emilio Estevez parrots all the worse elements of bad teen movies including profanity, violence, dimwitted plot and acceptance of premarital sex. 0, R "King Kong Lives"(De Laurentiis): The hero of the animal world survives an open-heart operation to bring him out of a lO-year coma, escapes and mates with a female gorilla wpose blood helped save him. Kong, however, doesn't survive the misgivings of the local military and dies clutching his newborn infant. The operation and fight sequences are bloody and needlessly extended. Unnecessary also is a sexually suggestive scene between Kong's female surgeon and the ranger who discovered Ms. Kong. Unsuitablefor youngsters. A3, PG 13 "Platoon"(Orion): Writer-director Oliver Stone's haunting reminiscence of the horrors, inhumanity and national shame evoked with relentless realism in scenes of battle and brutality during the Vietnam War stars Charlie Sheen as a raw recruit suffering the indignity of the conflict. Excessive violence, unrelenting profanity and graphic depiction of representative atrocities seem designed to exploit the curiosity of the post-Vietnam generation without giving a sense of the wider implications ofthe war. Nevertheless, the unglamorous depiction should dispel the popular romanticization of Rambo-styled war and violence. A4, R TV Films Sunday, Jan. 11,9-11 p.m.'EST' and Tuesday, Jan. 13, 8-11 p.m.

EST(CBS)"Gone With the Wind."

(1939) - Classic tale, lavishly set, of willful Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivian Leigh) who survives the hardship the Civil War brings to the old South. Clark Gable, as irascible Rhett Butler, cuts a dashing figure in the David Selznick spectacle. A2 Sunday, Jan. 11,9-11 p.m. EST (ABC) "Uncommon Valor"(1983) - Gene Hackman isa Marine colonel hired to recruit a rescue team to free the Vietnam War captive son ofa wealthy Texas oil man (Robert Stack). The hero turns out to be a drug trafficker, complicating the moral outlook of the tale. A3, R Sunday, Jan. 11, 7~9p.m. EST (ABC) - "Herbie Coes Bananas."

(1980) - The car with a personal" ity takes a Caribbean cruise where' its youn'g owners become invol~ed with villains looting ancient ruins; The sprinkling of double-entendres aimed at adults was an early warning that sentiments were changing at Disney Studios. A I, G Tuesday, Jan. 20, 9-11 p.m. EST (CBS) - "The Man With Two Brains"(1983) ---: A brilliant, slightly mad brain surgeon (Steve Mar- , tin) finds solace in a platonic affair with the brain of a dead girl when his wife and former patient, (KathleenTurner) falls out oflove with him. The silliness, sight gags and Frankenstein motif wear thin, overcome by needlessly explicit sexual byplay and some nudity. 0, R

Religious TV Sunday, Jan. 11 (CBS) - "For Our Times" - Music and art of ,Vienna during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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CATHEDRAL, FR Sister Simone of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary has joined the religious education staff as a fourth grade instructor.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/ MASHPEE Women's Club meeting 8 p.m.

Jan. ~,St. Jude the Apostle, Cotuit; Olive Chase will demonstrate cooking. Family Commission meeting 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15, religious education center.

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING Couple to Couple League classes in sympto-thermal method begin 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15, St. Mary's church hall, Seekonk; information and registration: Pauline L'Heureux, 336-6349.

ST. KILIAN, NB Widowed support group meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, rectory basement; 'topic: Sharing the Pain of Loss; widowed persons welcome; information: 998-3269.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Babysitting available in parish center for 9:15 a.m. Sunday Masses.

Vincentians meeting after 8 a.m.

Mass tomorrow, daily Mass chapel.

HOLY NAME, FR Youth group bowling and supper Sunday.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON _Cancelled stamps for路the missions may be deposited in the stamp box in the church vestibule.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Mass for families of first Eucharist candidates 9 a.m. Jan. 18; theme: "The Eucharist: It's About Making Peace." Ladies' Guild Sunshine Committee chairwoman through Sunday is Mary Ann Imbeau.

O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE Women's Guild meeting I p.m.

Tuesday, church hall; Lillian Roma will present "Fun Dance For All Ages."

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON St. Jude novena 7 p.m. Mondays.

Daily devotion booklets available to parishioners. Jolly Seniors meeting 1:30 p.m. second and third Thursdays, church hall. Alcoholics Anonymous meets 8 p.m. Fridays, church hall. Women's Guild meets 7:30 p.m. fourth Tuesdays.

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Prophellc Fallh Dr. Palrick V. Reid ...Thursday 7 to 9 p.m.

Reljgious Studies Church Sr. Mary Ann Follmar ...Monday 3:45 to 5:45 p.m.

Chrlsl: Word and Red..mer Matthew F. Morry, O.P. ...Tuesday 3:45 to 5:45 p.m.

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ST. JOSEPH, NB MARCH FOR LIFE Sick and homebound parishion'Massachusetts Citizens For Life ers may call the rectory, 995-5235, March For Life begins I p.m. Jan. for home communion visits. Prayer 22, Our Lady of the Assumption group Bible study 7 p.m. Jan. 14; Church, 47 S. Sixth St., New BedMass and meeting 7 p.m. Jan. 2J; ford; the march will mark the 14th meeting 7 p.m. Jan. 28; all sessions anniversary of the U.S Supreme begin with rosary recitation, all in Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) to rectory basement. Seniors' social and legalize abortion; all welCome; for entertainment 2 p.m. Jan. 22. Vininformation on the New Bedford centian meeting 10 a.m. Sundays: march, Boston's Jan. 18 march, and Junior Girl Scout meeting 6 p.m. buses leaving from Hyannis and Tuesdays; Boy Scout meeting 6:30 Boston for Washington's Jan. 22 p.m. Wednesdays; Cub Scout meetmarch, Call MCFL, 636-4903. ing J2:30 p.m. Saturdays. Parish counO.L. MT. CARMEL, NB cil meeting 7 p.m. Monday.

The parish's New Creation prayer ST. STANISLAUS, FR community is sponsoring a sevenThe parish school celebrated its week English-language Life in the Spirit seminar; first session 7:30 to- 81 st anniversary Jan. 6; a Mass was celebrated on the feastday of St. 8:30 p.m. Jan. 15, parish auditoJohn Neumann, a patron of Catholic rium; all welcome. education, for the school's benefacST. JOSEPH, F AIRHA VEN tors and friends. Paul Gibson has - Parishioners interested in serving been commissioned coordinator of on a proposed parish pastoral coun- youth ministry. A parishioner is cil may contact Father Columban sought to drive Deacon Frank Mis Crotty, SS.Ce., pastor, 994-9714, to visit sick parishioners; informaVincentian meeting after 9:30 a.m. tion rectory, 672-0423. Men's Club Mass Sunday, rectory. meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, Kolbe Corner, school. Girls' basketball: B team ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, vs. St. Anne's I p.m. tomorrow; A SWANSEA Religious education program chil- team vs. Holy Name 2 p.m. tomordren made and delivered Christmas row. spiritual bouquets to residents of WIDOWED SUPPORT, Fall River's Catholic Memorial TAUNTON Home.

Greater Taunton area widowed SEP ARATED AND DIVORCED, support group meeting 7:30 p.m.

FR Jan. 19, Immaculate Conception Greater Fall River area support church hall, Taunton; a representagroup for separated, divorced and tive of Massachusetts Save will disremarried Catholics meeting 7 p.m. cuss energy saving.

Jan. 13 and 28, Our Lady of Fatima ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN church hall, Swansea.

Parisliioner Dan Eustace will lead CATHOLIC NURSES, CAPE recitation of the morning prayer of Cape Cod chapter of Diocesan the Church, at 7 a.m. Mondays,' Council of Catholic Nurses meeting Wednesdays and Fridays, chapel.

7 p.m. Jan. J4 (snow date Jan. 21), Rehearsals for parish 'show begin I St. Pius X church hall, S. Yarmouth; p.m. Jan. 25, church hall.

Mary Lee Meehan will speak on her LaSALETTE SHRINE, participation in a r,ecent International ATTLEBORO Conference of Catholic Nurses in Healing service led by Father Lisbon; new members welcome.

Andre A. Patenaude, MS, 2 p.m.

Sunday, People's Chapel; singing, CARE A series of Catholic Adult Reli- teaching, liturgy and theopportungious Enrichment (CARE) sessions, ity to be prayed over individually; all sponsored by the Diocesan Depart- welcome. ment of Education, will be held on D of I, NB four consecutive Tuesday evenings New Bedford Daughters of Isabeginning Jan. 27 at St. John of God bella meet 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20, VFW parish, Somerset; adult members of Hall, Park Street all Somerset and Swansea parishes are invited to attend. Father Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation of the clergy and laity, and Sister Joan Bellenoit, _ Continued from Page One SSJ, will be resource persons. Series theme: What do Catholics believe? Jewish spokesmen in the United Additionally, CARE sessions are States. underway at East Freetown's St. But after the cardinal met with John Neumann and Assonet's St Herzog, Israeli goveniment sourBernard parishes. ces reportedly praised the "posiCHRISTIAN LIFE tive development."

AND WITNESS "The cardinal represents millions A course in Christian life and witof Catholics in the United States," ness, offered in conjunction with said one official. "We need their Billy Graham's "Cry From the Mountain" film, teaches the basics of Chris- support regardless ofthe Vatican's tian life, faith sharing and counsel- stand toward Israel."

In a New Year's Day sermon ing. It will be given at St. Anne's School cafeteria, Fall River, from during a Mass in Jerusalem, Car7:30 to 10 p.m. Sunday Jan. II and dinal O'Connor said his schedulJan. 18; all welcome; information ing "error" was not a "deliberate and registration: Father Pierre La- offense" to Israelis. chance, OP, 678-5322.

"I deeply regret and certainly apologize for any offense that might DOMINICAN LAITY, FR have been perceived," he said. "I St. Rose of Lima chapter holy am sure that the Holy See would hour and meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, 37 want me to' assure that the misPark Street, Fall River takes I have made were not intended

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ST. JAMES, NB CYO general meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, church hall.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Religious education session for parish high-schoolers 6 p.m. Sunday; CYO meeting follows. Parishioners Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. Women's Guild meeting noon Monday, parish center. Masses for the intentions of donors of Christ-. mas poinsettias 8:45 a.m. Jan. 18, Our Lady of Hope Chapel, W. Barnstable; 7 a.m. Jan. 20" OLV. Parishioners may leave clothing for Haitians of St. Matthew's parish, Dorchester, at the rectory, or call John Bonner for pick up, 888-3493.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Rosary recitation 6:40 a.m. weekdays, church. Mass celebrated 2 p.m.

Wednesdays, Country Gardens Nursing Home, Swansea; parishioners are asked to arrive at I:30 p.m. to help wheelchair patrents. Parish council meeting after 8 a.m. Renewal Mass tomorrow, lower rectory. Appreciation banquet for parish workers 6 p.m. Jan. 25, Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea. .

NOTRE DAME, FR The parish thanks its CYO for a $250 donation for the new Lourdes chapel, and parish Vincentians for their generous Christmas gift.

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Ministry for Divorced and Separated Catholics of Cape Co'd and the Islands meeting evening of Jan. 18, St. Francis Xavier parish center, Hyannis; movie and ice cream sundaes for children and a relaxed evening for parents will be featured: babysitting available; information: Patti Mackey, 771-4438.

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ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Council of Catholic Women meeting 7 p.m. Monday; members will have a cancer pad workshop for Fall River's Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home. Ice-skating party for high school-age parishioners 7 p.m. tomorrow; meet at 353 Tiffany St. Babysitting available during II a.m. Sunday Mass.

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In Israel, Cardinal O'Connor visited the Gaza Strip; stopped at Jerusalem's Western Wall (Popularly known as the Wailing Wall), a Jewish holy site; visited a Holocaust museum and two mosques; and met with the Greek and Armenian Orthodox partriarchs.

In New York, Morris B. Abram, chairman of the 40-member Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, said the cardinal's visits with Israeli officials were acts "of noble ecumenism and high statesmanship, marking another milestone in the progress of Catholic-Jewish relations."

Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, called the meetings "an effective compromise based on good will and good sense." He said the cardinal's actions were deeply appreciated" and would "be long remembered."

An editorial in the Jan. 3 issue of The New York Times said Cardinal O'Connor made "the best of an inept business" and "returns a wiser man from his visit."

The editorial said the controversy stemmed from "a Vatican policy that still awaits correction." . In Jerusalem, Rabbi David Rosen, head of interreligious affairs of the Anti-Defamation League ofB'nai B'rith in Israel, said he was "delighted" with the trip.

"I believe that it turned out to be a triumph for good sense

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