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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As the War in the BalkanS'has system" atically devastated lives and property over the last 18 months, the Vatican's thinking has grown steadily tougher.

To the surprise of many, top church officials in late 1992 began recommending limited military intervention as a way to stop the shelling and keep relief lines open in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

At international forums, Vatican officials suggested putting teeth into an existing embargo against Yugoslavia and imposing a "no-fly zone" in the embattled region, where Serbian forces continued to attack civilian targets.

The eventual goal, of course, was a return to peace. But the means employed would be soldiers armed to kill, and warplanes ready to shoot down intruders - a policing force presumably assembled by a U. N. or international coalition.

In December, Pope John Paul II said protecting relief operations was obligatory when the survival of populations and entire ethnic

groups. are threatened. If this inV.Qly.es interference in the internal affairs ()f a country, he said, so be it. .

Was this the same church that looked so skeptically upon Operation Desert Storm, the U.S.-led war effort to push Iraqi troops out of Kuwait in 1991? Was this the same pope who, two years ago, saidthat "peace obtaine'd by arms could only prepare new violence"?

Italian political commentators - especially those who had supported Desert Storm - quickly claimed a convert. In their view, Pope John Paul had finally come to see the value of war.

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CONFIRMATIONS SEE PAGE 11 for the 1993 schedule of confirmations in diocesan parishes.

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ASS lSI, Italy (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, praying for peace in Assisi, warned Europe that its ethnic wars have pushed it to the edge of an abyss of destruction.

The survival of European civilization may depend on ending the war in the Balkans, the pope said during the two-day interfaith meeting in the hometown of St. Francis.

During a Jan. 9 meeting with Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders, the pope said, "We are now being asked to contribute in a specific way with our prayers and the offering of our fast to the rebuilding of the continent of Europe and perhaps to its survival."

"In the face of such a tragedy, we cannot remain indifferent; we cannot sleep," the pope said after listening to five people from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia recount experiences of war in their homelands.

The interfaith meeting and a nighttime Christian prayer vigil later in the Basilica of St. Francis were followed by a candlelight

procession of young people winding through the frosty medieval hill. town to various churches, where they prayed throughout the night.

The somber interfaith meeting took place in the Franciscan convent attached to the basilica where St. Francis is buried.

The spiritual leader of Muslims in Sarajevo described BosniaHerzegovina as "a country bathed with the blood of innocent creatures of God." Jacub Selimoski said 200,000 Muslims had died in the fighting and more than 35,000 women, ages 7 to 80, had been raped.

He said Bosnia is experiencing a "horrible apocalypse" at the hands of "the Serbian aggressors."

Archbishop Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo said: "We thank the world for its humanitarian assistance, but from here we cry for justice.

The politicians slow down the solution of the problem, always looking for new reasons to avoid an effective intervention."

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AT ST. MARY'S Cathedral rites Jan. 9, Bishop Sean O'Malley ordains two young men to the transitional diaconate. At top, he ordains Andre Faria; center Charles Jodoin. At bottom he stands with Deacon Faria, left, and Deacon Jodoin, right, following the ceremony, at which he spoke in Portuguese and English, with Deacon Faria taking his vows in Portuguese. In his comments, the bishop explained the historical background of the diaconate. (Kearns photos)

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Providence bishop has knee surgery

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CNS) The Mass of Christian Burial Swollen and sore but cheerful, was offered Tuesday at St. Patrick's Bishop Louis E. Gelineau, 64, of Church, Fall River, for Sister Mary Providence began physical therDunstan Duffy, RSM, 86 who apy Jan. 5 after getting a complete died Jan. 9. artificial replacement of his right A Fall River native and the knee the day before. daughter of the late John J. and He is scheduled for similar surCatherine (Cassidy) Duffy, she engery to replace his left knee Feb. 1. tered religious life in 1931. She "The bishop should've had his served at St. Vincent's Home and knees replaced at least five or 10 Mt. St. Mary Convent in Fall years ago," said Dr. A. Robert River, at St. James, St. Lawrence Buonanno, chief surgeon at Sports and St. Kilian's convents in New Medicine Rhode Island Inc. "He's Bedford and at St. Mary's Congrinding raw bone against raw vent, Warren, RI and St.Michael's bone."

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Buonanno, a 20-year friend of In retirement, she resided at Mt. the bishop's, performed the twoSt:.Rita Health Center. Cumber-' hour surgery at St. Joseph Hospiland, RI. tal,- North Providence.

She is survived by two sisters, Bishop Gelineau said that when JANUARY 22, 1974, hundreds of young people joined Sisters Mary Inez Duffy and Mary he was anesthetized for the operathe first-anniversary project in Washington of the Supreme Lucretia Duffy, both Sisters of tion, extensive arthritis was also Mercy, and by nieces and nephews. noticed in his back. "It's a genetic Court's Roe v. Wade pro-abortion decision. Twenty years thing. I'm sure it's in the other later, the annual protest is still necessary. (CNS file photo>. joints as well," he said.

The operation involved complete removal of the natural knee, resurWASHINGTON (CNS) facing of the tibia and femur at the word abortion," Miss GraYadded.

Twenty years' after Roe vs. Wade joint, and insertion of an artificial and two days after the inaugura- "N ow the word abortion is part of joint. our everyday lives." tion of Bill Clinton. a president MARYKNOLL,N.Y.(CNS)Bishop Gelineau had spinal an- who strongly supports legal aborMiss Gray criticized former Sister Mary Gemma Shea, 98, the esthesia and was awake through tion. the 1993 March for Life will President Ronald Reagan for his , last founding member ofthe Marymost of the operatipn. "There was include its first convention. "lukewarm" pro-life support. "We knoll Sisters, died Jan. 8 at the a lot of cutting. There was a lot of never got one piece of legislation.

But. says march organizer NelMaryknoll nursing home. juggling of that knee... I could lie Gray, "we're not going to have a We never got an initiative. We One of seven founding members hear all the pounding and sawing," lot oflittle workshops. We're going never got anything except nice talk of her community, she spent 81 he said. that the president was indeed for years in religious life, much of it in to assume everyone understands a "The therapy is going to be long baby is a baby at fertilization." pro-life." mission work in Japan and elseand difficult, and they say there She did not specifically criticize where.

The Jan. 22 march in which will be no shortcuts," he added.

President George Bush, whom ClinBorn Margaret Shea in 1894 in many diocesans will participate But he looked forward to regain- and at which Bishop Sean O'Malton defeated in November.

Westwood, Mass., she attended ing 90 percent of the use of his ley will deliver the invocation. will The pro-life movement became public schools before volunteering knee. "Years ago this [arthritis] be followed by a daylong conven- "leashed to politics" when it was in 1912 for what would become the would have landed me in a wheel- . tion Saturday, Jan. 23. at Washtoo closely associated with the first American community of relichair," he said. "This is going to be ington's Hyatt Regency Capitol Republican party, she ~aid. "We're gious women dedicated exclusively a nice, smooth joint." unleashed from that now. We're to the work of Catholic foreign Hill Hotel. Theannual Rose Dinner untied. We have to set our own missions.

Gregg Mercurio, a representa- will take place that night. ... tive of the company that makes the In her first eight years in reliThe march will begin with a agenda."

The movement also has lost gious life, Sister Shea did houseartificial knees, said that until noon rally at the Ellipse park ground in Congress, Miss Gray keeping, laundry and cooking for recently artificial knees were attach- south of the White House, foled with cement and typically lasted lowed by a walk down Constitu- said.

Markyknoll priests and brothers "Back in 1980, in the Congress, and assisted in the publication of only 10 to 15 years. tion Avenue to the Supreme Court But with new technology bone and Capitol. we had well over a majority in the Field Afar, a predecessor of the House and at one time we had and tissue grow into the surface of current Maryknoll magazine.

A keynote convention speech morethan a majority in the Senate," the implant and attach to the joint was set for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22, with In 1920, Sister Shea went to itself, giving it a much longer life, more convention activities to fol- she said. "All we were worried Seattle to work with Japanese imhe said. about was whether we were going migrants and organized a kinderlow beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday.

He said it takes about three The theme of both the march to get two-thirds of a majority to garten for Japanese children and pass a constitutional amendment" in .1930 she went to Japanesemonths for bone to attach itself to and the convention is "Taking the metal pieces of the new joint and Offensive with the'Life Principles.'" on abortion. occupied Manchuria, teaching catSince the pro-life movement was echism to adults, doing pastoral about six to eight weeks of therapy The principles state, in part, "The are usually needed for a patient to life of each human being shall be tied to a political agenda, "we have work and founding a kindergarten function normally. there as well. preserved and protected from the lost clout in both the House and biological beginning throughout Senate," she added. "We barely Sister Shea moved to Tokyo in 1938 to train a community of Japthe natural continuum of the hu- have one-third to sustain a veto." anese missionary women. There man being's life by all available when World War II broke out, she ordinary means and reasonable efforts." . was interned with 100 other nuns The aim of the convention, as and 40 Protestant women and spent Due to our small staff,' outlined in a March for Life brotwo years in Japanese internment we are unable to send phochure, is to "look at our pro-life camps before being repatriated in soul; listen to wise words and tographers to all areas of 1943. generate workable ideas about basic She continued with pastoral the diocese where Bishop issues of strategy, policy, legislawork among the Japanese, minisSean O'Malley will be maktion, politics, press, morality and tering in Seattle, Hawaii and Japan ing pastoral visits. We therestrength." and adding cooking classes to her fore ask parishes to arrange In an interview with the Arlingschedule as a way of making conton Catholic Herald, diocesan newsfor a picture on such occatact with women. paper in Arlington, Va., Miss Gray She retired in 1968,atage74, to sions. Colored or black and said she believes the pro-life moveCalifornia, where she gave reliwhite snapshots are acceptment is at its nadir after 12 years gious instruction to Japanese able and need not be of any' under Republican presidents who women and visited homes and particular size, since we can expressed support for the pro-life hospitals well into her eighties, easily reduce or enlarge agenda. returning to Maryknoll in New prints. Photos may be sent York State only in 1991 when her "!t's worse than it was at the time of Roe vs. Wade," the 1973 health began to fail. to Pat McGowan, The AnHer survivors include a cousin, U.S. Supreme Court decision that chor, PO Box 7, Fall River Robert Magnum of North Reading. overturned most state restrictions Ma 02722. Thank you for on abortion, she said. your assistance in this . "We have permitted America to Don't Know eNS photo matter. go from a time when we were "No one really knows enough to BISHOP GELINEAU shocked and horrified just by the be a pessimist." - Norman Cousins

Convention added to March agenda

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Last foundress of Maryknoll Sisters , dead at 98

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Sister Lacroix - "-TheMass of Christian- Burial was Offered Jan. Ilat the Dominican motherhouse on Park Street, Fall River, for Sister Marie of the Rosary Lacroix, OP, 95, who died Jan. 8. .

She was a Fall River native, the daughter of the late Napoleon and Clara (Dion) Lacroix. Entering the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena and taking her first vows in 1919, she subsequently was stationed in Acushnet and at her community'S motherhouse as well as in Peru, NY. She served 74 years in religious life from the time of her profession, 65 of them at the motherhouse.

She is survived by cousins.

Stonehill plans Black history programs Stonehill College, North Easton, has planned a series of programs to observe Black History Month in February. The schedule of events follows. . 8 p.m. Feb. 4, Hemingway Auditorium: Black Folks Theater Company of Boston will perform the play "The Meeting" about a fictionalized meeting between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. 7:30 p.m. Feb. II, Martin Institute auditorium: Rev. Cedric Kirkland-Harris, social justice director for American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, will present "Relevance of St. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X." 8 p.m. Feb. 18, Martin Institute lecture hall, room 105: "Civil Rights: Still an American Agenda" and "Is Congress Broken?" will be presented as part of the Julian Bond Lecture Series.

8 p.m. Feb. 22, Martin Institute auditorium: Nakamichi Concert Series will feature soloist Vincent Stringer and pianist Lisa Hara DeCaw performing arias, classical and spiritual music.

7 p.m. Feb. 25, Martin Institute Auditorium; Frank Frazier will present "Visions in Black-An Artist and His Work," a slide show and a hands-on workshop cosponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Institute at Stonehill, the Fuller Museum of Art and the Nehemiah Life Development Center.

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Clergy changes announced Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM . Westport; and Immaculate Conception parish, North Easton.

Cap., has announced the follow. He was.assigned as parochial ing changes in clergy assignments . for the diocese: vicar at St. Joseph's, Taunton, in 1988, .also becoming chaplain at Father William L. Boffa, now parochial vicar at St. Joseph's par- Coyle-Cassidy High School in that ish, Taunton, and director ·of St. city.

He' has directed St. Vincent's Vincent's Camp in Westport, has been named pastor of St. John Camp since 1983 and has been Neumann parish, East Freetown. director ofthe Taunton area CathHe will also direct Cathedral Camp olic Charities Appeal since 1990. in East Freetown and the DioceFather Harrison san Office of Youth Ministry, Father Harrison, ordained in which is based at the camp.

1968, has served as associate pasFather George E. Harrison, cur- tor at St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rently pastor at St. John Neumann parishes in Taunton; St. Mary's, and director of Cathedral Camp New Bedford; Our Lady of Mt. and youth ministry, has been as- Carmel, Seekonk; and St. Julie signed as pastor of Our Lady of Billiart parish, North Dartmouth.

Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk.

Among his assignments were Father James S. Medeiros, pa- chaplain at Coyle-Cassidy, direcrochial vicar at Holy Name parish, tor ofthe Taunton CYO, and chapNew Bedford, has been assigned as lain of the Taunton Serra Club parochial vicar at Holy.Name par- and the Taunton chapter of Cathoish, Fall River. . lic Nurses. He served as secretary Father Boffa to the bishop and assistant chanOrdained in 1975, Father Boffa cellor in 1971.

While at St. Julie's from 1980 to has previously served as parochial vicar at St. Joseph's parish, Fall 1984 he was chaplain at Bishop River; Our Lady of Grace parish, Stang High School, North Dart-

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mouth, and campus ministry director at then-Southeastern Massachusetts University..

He was named director of Cathe- . dral Camp in 1983 and pastor at St. John Neumann in 1984. He was appointed diocesan director of youth ministry in 1989.

Father Medeiros Father Medeiros has served as parochial vicar at Holy Name, New Bedford, since his ordination last June.

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Youth Ministry and Director of Cathedral Camp to Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Seekonk. . ~ev .. James S. Medeiros from Parochial Vicar at Holy Name Paflsh In New Bedford to Parochial Vicar of Holy Name Parish in Fall River.

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Crime and Gun Control One of the major crises facing the nation today was hardly mentioned during the endless campaign rhetoric. It is true that some lip service was paid to the problem, but jobs and the economy in general were the chief concerns of the presidential candidates. The mounting incidence of crime, especially in metropolitan areas, was' scarcely addressed.

Yet every day the headlines trumpet the shocking statistics of murders, assaults and robberies. Hardly a week goes by without its reports of sadistic killings on our city streets. It is a rare home or business that lacks security devices. From center city to posh suburbia, we are making our homes security zones.

Children cannot go to playgrounds alone, the elderly are virtually prisoners in their residences and travelers must be- constantly alert for muggers and other assailants.

Despite all this, no effort has been mounted on the national level to halt this appalling situation. Everything seems to be left to a states' rights mentality and overworked local police forces. It is apparent that Washington's current policy is simply every man or woman for him or herself.

A few grants and gestures are made in a show of concern, while large sums of money are appropriated to build new prisons, but the activity amounts to no more than tokenism.

Somehow we have failed to realize that throwing money at problems does not solve them; only people can do that.

Washington already funds thousands of programs, yet our cities continue to plummet into despair. It seems that each program works independently of all the others and that Congress. makes no effort to synthesize them.

Law enforcement, housing, health services, education, drug use prevention and other social programs should combine the law and order and root causes mentalities in the effort to find effective solutions to the many-faceted problem of crime.

Above all, federal, state and local governments must develop apolitical gun control laws. For too long have the White House and Congress feared offending the National Rifle Association and its siege-like lobbyists. The massive efforts of this one organization have intimidated legislators into inaction on gun control.

Meanwhile, urban gun use expands and guns have become drug traffickers' enforcement weapon of choice. It is imperative that crime control and gUJ;l control be equated and that all federal efforts to ban assault weapons in particular be supported. There is no need for them to be available. Hunters do not use machine guns. .

A simple national law imposing a waiting period on gun sales would slow arms trafficking. Local gun laws should not be adapted to evade federal restrictions; in fact, nationallicensing and registration of guns would be a twofold blessing. It would restrict access to weapons, thus making gun crimes easier to prosecute, and it would close local loopholes.

The question remaining is that of public concern. How many people must be murdered before citizens rise in their wrath? Let us make our voices heard as voters and as taxpayers and demand an effective response to our concerns from both Capitol Hill and the White House.

The Editor

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"Thou shalt not kill." Ex. 20:13

The value of studying' Scripture

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Sacred Scripture has a sad history of being neglected in the Roman Catholic Church. This neglect has taken its sad toll. It is somewhat disheartening to note that when opportunities for Bible study are offered to the faithful there is often initial enthusiasm and then a fall-off of interest.

There have been great advances in contemporary Scripture studies that have gone unnoticed by many of the faithful, but it should be recalled that the great saints and mystics were nourished in their faith by prayerful reflection upon sacred Scripture. Their preached and written insights are our legacy.

However, Scripture study must be more than an intellectual exercise. We should mull over certain passages and meditate on images that enkindle our hearts to a loving response to God's call. It would also behoove us to examine how Jesus blended Old Testament teachings with his own, incorporating them into a new synthesis. Indeed, Scripture scholars have identified certain passages of the Old Testament as significant in forming Jesus' self-understanding.

A fitting example of how Jesus used the Old Testament is found in the New Testament account of his preaching in the synagogue at Nazareth. There Jesus read this passage familiar to the Jewish people: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me; he has sent me to announce good

news to the poor, to proclaim release for prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind; to let the broken victims go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Jesus transformed the Mosaic tradition of declaring every seventh year a year of release from debts with these words: "Today this text has been fulfilled in your hearing."

With a good deal of poetic license, we can picture Jesus'mulling over this passage of Scripture.

He must have imagined the great joy of slaves and the very poor when the year of release was announced.

He likened his role to that ofthe messengers who went the length and breadth of the land proclaiming that the year of the Lord had commenced. His joy was to fulfill the Father's will of proclaiming the kingdom of God as a forgiveness of sins. His joy was letting every human being know that he or she was a child of God. There should be little wonder that Jesus spent so much of his time among the "small people" of his day and there shold be little surprise that these were the people who opened their hearts to his liberating message.

As Jesus came' to his self-understanding through insightfully reflecting upon sacred Scripture, so should we. This meaQs taking time daily to read and prayerfully reflect upon Scripture. We all need to hear the good news anew.

Jesus' words of hope are all the more welcome in our stressful age.

In a world where our value is often measured by our marketable skills, we need to hear in a fresh way these familiar words of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount: "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow and reap and store in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are worth more than the birds!"

Jesus'was telling his disciples and through the Gospel us that even a creature humans think of little value does not escape God's love and notice. Through prayerful reflection we can rediscover the liberating truth that each individual, including ourselves; is of worth to God and no one can be outside His love. Who would know better this truth than the Son of God? Each of us has the opportunity to love our fellow human beings by recognizing that in truth all of us are the spiritual offspring of God. The entire public ministry of Jesus was devoted to proclaiming that astonishing good news.

Our words and deeds will never outshine those of the Master but if we are sincere disciples and seek to imitate Jesus' example the light of the.Good News will shine through all that we say and do.

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Only after the prophet admits his total lack of success does Yahweh proclaim, "It is too little for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth." In other words: "Y ou've failed at trying to convert Jews to my will. So I'm rewarding you by expanding your ministry. Now you'll go to Gentiles!"

At one time or another all reflective followers of God have pondered this illogical process. It makes little difference whether we actually accomplish our faith goals or not. The Lord always rewards us for the attempt by widening our insights and our work.

Paul of Tarsus is a classic example. He obviously failed in . his efforts to stop the early Jewish disciples of Jesus from skirting some of the Laws of Moses in their zeal to spread his message. Yet, in the vision which stopped him from persecuting this new way, he discovered the Lord was calling him to proclaim his word to Gentiles in a way which would eventually lead almost all Christians to ignore the entire Mosaic Law! Ironically, today's second read-

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Jan. 18: Heb 5:1-10; Ps

110:1-4; Mk 2:18-22 Jan. 19: Heb 6:10-20; Ps 111:1-2,4-5,9-10; Mk2:23-28 Jan. 20: Heb 7:1-3,15-17; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 3:1-6 Jan. 21: Heb 7:25-8:6; Ps 40:7-10,17; Mk 3:7-12 Jan. 22: Heb 8:6-13; Ps 85:8,10-14; Mk 3:13-19 Jan. 23: Heb 9:2-3,11-14; Ps 47:2-3,6-9; Mk 3:20-21 Jan. 24: Is 8:23-9:3; Ps 27:1,4,13-14; 1 Cor l:l0-13, 17; Mt 4:12-23

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By FATHER ROGER KARBAN ing is the beginning of Paul's first letter to the Corinthian Church; a community over which he had lost all control. The impact and beauty of these initial words mask a deep feeling that his ministry had been a total failure. Many Corinthians never grasped the real meaning of the message he proclaimed. (Over the next Sundays we'll see some of the issues which demonstrate his lack of success.)

Yet his correspondence with the Corinthians is the most valuable scriptural support we have to help in dealing with today's problems in the Christian community. Paul's being out of control guaranteed that he would teach only the most essential aspects of the faith; points to which we must continually return. His failure laid the groundwork for our success.

Even John the Baptizer had to experience the undignified end of his own ministry for Jesus' work to start. Almost all scholars of the Christian Scriptures agree that John's death triggered the Lord's public preaching. As long as the Baptizer was giving Yahweh's message, Jesus seems to have felt no need to proclaim his own teaching. Only when John's disciples came to the carpenter one night with the news that their leader had been martyred, did he begin to realize the Father was calling him to broaden his ministry - an expansion which would finally lead to his own "demise" on Golgotha.

The early Christian community eventually regarded John's failure as a sign that he was Jesus' precursor. His mostly ineffective ministry prepared the way for the Lord's work. This is why the evangelists always depict him as subordinate to Jesus: "After me is to come a man who ranks ahead of me...The very reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to IsraeLIt is he who is to baptize with the Holy Spirit."

The lesson is clear: If we continue to regard success as a sign that we're doing what the Lord wants us to do, we might never really find out what our true calling is.

WASHINGTON (eNS) - Starving Somalis are being fed and the U.S. Marine presence has dramatically cut down internal violence, said two U.S. bishops who visited Somalia late last month.

"The care-givers are extremely splendid, heroic, impressive people. They're doing extraordinary work," said Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony.

Catholic News Service interviewed him by telephone after he returned to the Vatican Embassy in Nairobi from reviewing relief work in Somalia, especially in Baidoa and villages south of the city that are receiving aid from Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' overseas aid and development agency that is funded by U.S. Catholics.

Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard, a CRS board member, was also in Somalia, visiting villages served by CRS and helping distribute food. Mahony said that on a visit to an orphanage, "I met a 17-year-old boy, I would have said he was only 6 or 7, he was so small and thin."

Bishop Ricard went to the village of Haval. There, he said, "some 5,000 people, many who had walked for miles, lined up in the hot, blazing sun to wait patiently for food. Everyone was polite, even when the food ran out."

Cardinal Mahony declared "CRS is really doing a first-class, firstrate job. They go in first and do a census. Every family gets a card [that says how many are in the family] so [they get] exactly what they need. . .

"And CRS hires and trains local village people to do the process," he added. "That way they create a sense of ownership, and boy, does it payoff."

Because "women have no rights" in Somali culture, he said, CRS sets up separate lines for men and women and distributes food simultaneously along both lines. Otherwise, he said, the men would simply move ahead of the women and they would have to wait until last.

At Kurtum, he said, he visited a CRS feeding and health monitoring center for malnourished children.

In standard food distribution, he explained, relief workers tend

BALTIMORE (CNS) - Baltimore Archbishop William H. Keeler has criticized a proposal by city officials to promote use of N orplant, a long-term contraceptive implant, among Baltimore's teen-age schoolgirls. "I say we should give moral education a chance," the archbishop said. The plan proposed by school, city and health officials would involve discussing use of Norplant in clinics and family life classes of public schools. Officials view its use as a way of reducing Baltimore's teen pregnancy rate, among the highest in the nation.

and social collapse could be SeCD everywhere in Baidoa, AnythiDI that could be moved and sold had been stripped from the streets and houses - including street lights, all electrical wires and roofs of hO,uses.

The international community faces some difficult long-range issues' in its efforts to get Somalia back on its feet, the cardinal noted.

"For example, we've flooded the market with free sorghum," he said. He asked what impact this will have on farmers harvesting their own sorghum - whether they will be able to market it and have the incentive to replant their fields.

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Tips for climbin,g' 'out of debt

The Anchor Friday, Jan. 15, 1993

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Mary: During the holiday season we spent more than we should. We delayed payment on some of our purchases until the start of the new year. Now those payments are about to begin, and I don't think we can meet them., I

am afraid we are going to go deeper and deeperinto debt. What can we do? ' ' You are wise to consider your problem before it gets any worse.

If you face high interest rates on several accounts" you might have great difficulty getting ahead.

The obvious approach is to cut back severely on your expenses and meet your payments until you reach a debt levef you can handle.

It is a difficult task.

If you choose this straightfor-, ward route, write checks for payments on your debt before you pay anything else each month. If you

need to cut back on spending, try Your lending institution may to reduce your clothing and enter- counsel you on your debt problem tainment expenses. Look for other and arrange a loan which you can smaIl savings which can add up - handle. Individual creditors may over time: Reduce snack food pur- accept lower payments per mOI1th. chases; cut back on long-distance Large companies sometimes prophone caIls; consolidate errands to vide financial counseling for their avoid unnecessary driving. employees. Military personnel can often get financial counseling right If your problem is more serious, can you consolidate your loans on base. into one larger Io'an at lower inter- ' Some communities offer nonest? If you have equity in your profit consumer credit counseling house, a home equity loan might services where someone will assist be possible. Avoid using such an you in dealing with creditors. Look arrangement as yet another line of in your phone book for such sercredit. vices.

Your' parish priest or another Get help with your problem.

parish staff person may be able to help you by offering you financial counseling or by suggesting resources in your community.

If you get help through a financial counselor, try to get long-term advice as well. Learning to construct a budget and planning ways to stick to it can help you avoid further financial problems and live more comfortably within your income.

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Bishops' statement on abuse is beacon of hope By DOLORES CURRAN

Cheers, American bishops, for your first official statement on spouse abuse, "When I Call for Help: A Pastoral Response to Domestic Violence Against Women."

When I wrote a column a couple of years ago asking why we never hear about the sinfulness of spouse abuse from the aItar or the larger church, I was overwhelmed by the response from women who have suffered physical, emotional, verbal, psychological, and/ or sexual abuse from their "good" Catholic husbands. Many told of husbands

who routinely received communion on Sunday with the family and routinely beat them up the rest of' the week without any thought of the sinfulness of their behavior.

One woman wrote, "I am writing this with tears in my eyes. I cannot believe they would print a column like yours in a Catholic publication calling abuse a sin. I have been abused for 30 years and I never have heard or read a word from the Church on the sinfulness of abuse. Your words give me great hope."

Another wrote, "When I talked with our pastor about the abuse I suffer daily, he told me to pray more and to examine what I was doing to ignite my husband's anger.

I have given up on help from my church."

Don't give up too soon, sisters.

The bishops didn't mince words in At this writing, I haven't seen this letter. In a statement that con- the new catechism from Rome so I demns sexism, the bishops declared don't know if abuse is listed as a women shouldn't consider them- sin but our bishops' words on the selves religiously bound to remain subject are sure to have worldwide in abusive relationships, and they repercussions. Uniess, that is, we encourage parish priests to be ready let the statement languish in dusty with 'safe place' for victims. "Vio- archives.

Although I have never experlence in any form - physical, sexual, psychological or verbal -is ienced abuse, I, like the bishops, sinful;" they write in this ex- feel a strong sense of responsibility traordinary letter, co-issued by their for those women and children who Committees on Marriage and Fam- do. I believe all of us in the church need to take immediate and strong ily and Women in Society and action to insure that this statement Church.

Admitting that traditionally the gets attention and action. If we abuse of a wife by her husband has don't address this as a community, been considered "virtually a hus- we continue to leave the abused band's prerogative," the bishops out there alone and hopeless.

I suggest that every parish initiate state they are particularly concerned about the way biblical pas- , a commission on violence made up sages encouraging wives to be sub- of caring faith community memmissive to their husband have been bers. It could: I. Put a copy of the statement in the hands of every taken out of context.

family to give victims information, encouragement and hope. 2. Ask pastors to preach on the sinfulness of abuse at least twice yearly. 3.

Set up a domestic violence support group where -people feel safe to share their experiences in ,confidentiality.

4. Pray for overcoming the sinfulness of abuse in the prayers of the faithful at every Sunday liturgy.

5. Look into setting up a safe house, either alone or with other parishe~, or supporting local safe houses and publicizing their availability weekly in the bulletin. 6.

Offer counseling and assistance for those seeking to escape abusive marriages.

On behalf of women and children everywhere, I thank the bishops for their courage, compassion and concern. They have spoken. Now we must act.

Unearthing news of the offbeat By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Sometimes it's a good idea in trying times of world strife to focus on some of the more obscure news reports that continue to prove that something new and unexpected always is happening in our world.

What we discover may amuse us. Then again,it may outrage us.

One recent item that made me howl with laughter told of 24-yearold Bruce Janu, a teacher in a sub-

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urban Chicago high school, who $1,000 and 30 days in jail. Their thing that wasn't produced in an It seems that Larry Bojarski of environmentally responsible way." found a new way to bring punish- crime? "Lawn abuse." They were Richmond, Texas, didn't have $683 ment to misbehaving students. He cited with a misdemeanor for failThis king of attitude adds a new to pay a funeral home for the cremade them listen to Frank Siliatra ing to maintain their landscape. problem to everyday life - how to mation of his father, who had died records during afterschool detenof esophageal cancer.

The husband said the couple approach your closet without feeltion.

The son paid $299, and he hadn't watered the grounds because ing guilty about all those non-or"The kids just hate it," Janu they were protesting high water ganically grown clothes you own. couldn't believe it when the funer,reportedly said. "They're misera- bills. Apparently he promised to Some obscure medical news is al home said that if he didn't come noteworthy. There was, for examble." But Janu is a Frank Sinatra mend his ways. up with the re'st of the money, the Then there was a note of good ple, the report that we've been body would be returned. fan. He dreamt up the idea of Frank Sinatra Detention Club to news for those who are thinking 'wrong fora very long time about Well, a few days later there was make staying after school with the "green" these days'. While organi- what is a normal body tempera- the father's body at the door of cally grown food has been around students more fun for himself. ture. It seems that the 98.6 isn't the son's apartment, covered only He invites the students, whose for a 10ngtime,aNew Jersey com- normal after all. It's 98.2, ac- by a sheet. Fortunately, a funeral music menu is' heavy metal and- pany now sells clothes made from cording to some doctors in Balti- home in a nearby town agreed to rap, to sing along with Sinatra if cotton grown without toxic pesti- more~ provide cremation services at no Qualifying as the most misera- cost. they want. Last I heard, there were cides, herbicides or defoliants.

One of the owners, explained, , ble obscure item of late was the , no takers.

And so we learn once again that In Utah; a couple got in trouble "There were all those people put- one headlined "Son Can't Pay, So there is always something new , under the sun! with the law and faced a fine of ting environmental slogans on clo-,, Father's Body Is Dumped."

Unbaptizedbabies are' not denied, funeral Mass

Our child was' stillborn. I was ' told by two young priests that we could not have a funeral liturgy !because the child was not baptized.

JOHN J. I have been a practicing Catholic all my life. I had raised my other DIETZEN . children in the Catholic faith. But that did not seem to matter.

I pray some day soon the CathoQ. I have read your columns about children who die shortly lic Church will realize how much a after birth with great interest and family, especially the parents of a !baby, needs the funeral liturgies. care.

I pray the church will realize When your letter was published I was pregnant with a child who that unborn unbaptized babies are was diagnosed as terminal. He or people too. The grief of these famishe would die either before or lies may be worse because we don't know what these children would shortly after birth.

For weeks I saved that column have grown to be.

I just had to let you know we and prayed that my child would be born alive long enough to be bap- :appreciate what you are saying. tized. We were not like other par- (Indiana) ents who were able to plan for the A. It is sad to need to say again I birth. Instead, we had to plan for a am sorry for the unnecessary hurt funerllol liturgy. you have been caused. By now, FATHER

every priest should know (and I causes me a great deal of distress, know most do) that the informa- , depression and low self-esteem. tion you received was incorrect.' , Ihave been a practicing CathoCanon law (1183,2) explicitly Iicfor 40 years. I quit going to permits local bishops to grant confession and do not even receive church funeral rites to children if the Eucharist. their parents intended to baptize , Every time I went to confession them but they died before, their I said the same thing. How can I be baptism. sorry for being the way I am, The law makes no distinction which I never chose to be? between born and unborn children.

I feel just as empty when I leave Of course, no special permission church as when I went in. What is needed for a funeral liturgy for can I do? (Illinois) such children that does not include Mass.

A. In my opinion, it will be extremely helpful for you to talk If final evidence is needed that this is indeed the mind of the with someone competent in whom church for these children, the Sac- you can have confidence outside ramentary (Missal) itself includes of confession. a Mass explicitly for a child who Thil! might be a priest, or a died before baptism. friend or professional counselor Q. I am an alcoholic and happen whom you can trust to possess a to be gay; but I am not active. This faith perspective something sim-

ilar to yours on the things that disturb you.

I certainly accept your frustration and stress. It is normally impossible, however, to deal satisfactorily (for either you or the priest) with such a complicated and weighty concern in the context of the sacrament of penance.

An informal conversation or two with a good priest or other helper will, I believe, clear up some confusion and begin to give you hope.

Please initiate such a contact soon.

(A free brochure answering' questions Catholics ask about receiving the Eucharist is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701.,Questions for this column should be sent to the same address.

Letters are welcome but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit, if deemed necessary. All letters must be typed, signed and include a home or business address (only the city name is used in print). Letters do not necessarily reflect the editorial views of the Anchor.

A d appreciated Dear Editor: I was deeply moved by the ad (Anchor, Dec. 18) taken by agroup of people who expressed their gratitude for the spiritual and moral leadership offered by the priests and religious of the Diocese of Fall River. In my own name, and in the name of the religious men and women of the diocese, I express. our sincere appreciation and thanks.

Through their cooperation, their respect and their response to our requests for assistance, the people of the Diocese of Fall River have always shown their affection for the religious who serve them so lovingly. But this public testament of appreciation and support surely gives us great encouragement and joy.

To the individuals whose names are attached to this ad, I extend' our deepest gratitude and a promise of many heartfelt prayers offered for your intentions by the religious of the diocese. May you and your' families be richly blessed throughout the coming year.

Sister Mary Noel Blute, R.S.M. Episcopal Representative for Religious

Constructive news Dear Editor: I am a Holy Cross Sister from Saint-Laurent, Quebec (headquarters of the Sisters of Holy Cross of New Bedford and Taunton) originally from Fall River, and a cousin to Father Rene Gauthier, pastor of St. John the Baptist parish, Fall River.

I have the pleasure of reading The Anchor, and want to congratulate you for the message it gives to the Catholics as well as to the non-Catholics of the diocese.

The Anchor is constructive in all its news; transparent of hope through Bishop's O'Malley's articles, and reports of realizations of the schools and associations and non-preoccupied with all the new theories of the research workers.

The Mooring is substantial, up-todate and passes a precious message.

Thank you for all those treasures and a long life to our newspaper and to those responsible for its life and vigor.

May 1993 be for you a year of peace and joy!

Yours truly, Adrienne Milotte, c.s.c.

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Wisconsin bishops offer guidelines for aiding disabled MADISON, Wis. (CNS) Wisconsin's Catholic bishops are encouraging parishes and other church organizations to make jobs, worship services and buildings more accessible to people with disabilities.

Guidelines released by the Wisconsin Catholic Conference include suggestions about how church institutions can accommodate the 1992 Americans with Disabilities Act. "We want to do all that is possible in' order that no person be denied the opportunity to worship, to minister, to receive or give religious education, to be employed in those diocesan and parish positions for which they qualify, or to participate in all aspects of parish and diocesan life," wrote Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee and Bishops Robert J. Banks of Green Bay, John J. Paul of La Crosse, George O. Wirz of Madison and Raphael M. Fliss of Superior.

Congress has exempted religious organizations from many disabilities legislation requirements but the Wisconsin guidelines indicate how churches can comply with the spirit of the law.

For instance, the bishops encourage employers to adapt work TONIGHT'S'BISHOP'S BALL was preceded by plenty areas for people with disabilities_ of hard work on the part of the decorations committee. At top,- and recommend making transporBall director Father Daniel Freitas aidsin arranging hangings; tation available for people with bottom, workers place replicas of episcopal mitre as table .handicaps to attend services and meetings at churches and inviting centerpieces. (Gaudette photos) the disabled to attend.

Global radio network will feature missione.·s', stories -=-

NEW YORK (CNS) A New York priest known for using his ham radio skills to reach out to missionaries and relief workers around the globe has a new project that will help missionaries tell their stories to a global radio audience.

The priest, Vincentian Father Michael F. Mullen, is recording interviews with missionaries for what is to be a weekly program broadcast over a new network called Project Saturn Global.

Now retired from teaching at St. John's University in New York, Father Mullen continues to live at its Vincentian residence and uses university facilities to record his . interviews.

With more than a dozen already prepaid, he recently added an interview of Jesuit Father John J. Ryan, on furlough from service in Nigeria.

F or a little less than ahalf hour, they discussed the country, its people, their economic and social situation and the religious life of the area.

Project Saturn Global is to be an educational network, and Father Mullen's interviews are educational, not evangelistic. He will interview Protestant as well-as Catholic missionaries. The priest's new unJan. 17 dertaking is an outgrowth of his 1967, Rev. John Laughlin, Rework with the International Mistired Pastor, Holy Ghost, Attlesion Radio Association - an ecuboro menical group of ham operators Jan, 20 who help missionaries and church 1952, Rev. Roland J. Masse, relief officials maintain contact Assistant, Notre Dame de Lourdes, with their U.S. offices and families.

Fall River He keeps in touch with mission agencies and interviews missionarJan. 21 1983, Rev. Msgr. Henri A. ies in the New York area on furHamel, Retired, St. Joseph, New lough or for other reasons. , Bedford The programs, to be aired in

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As a contribution to public education programs of Third World countries, the network will also, carry basic advice on subjects such as health and nutrition.

Its budget of $2.5 million per year will come from UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and from foundations and advertising.

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Major architectural award won by 63-year-old priest

Priest makes pitch for shorter baseball season PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS)'- A priest who is a mathematics professor at the Holy Cross-run University of Portland is making a pitch for a shorter baseball season.

Holy Cross Father Bernard Kurtzke thinks major league baseball should revert to the 154-game schedule used before 1961.

Writing in Mathematics Teacher, a professional journal, Father Kurtzke said a shorter season would "provide more divisional equity and wrap up the World Series before Christmas shopping begins."

The chance to cut eigh"t-games from the schedule is possible because of National League expansion next year. Both leagues will then have 14 teams.

The season now extends to late October with World Series night games. which has the priest crying foul. "Late October evenings are fine for many things, but baseball does not seem to be one of them," Father Kurtzke said.

"One could start the season earlier. but March is not suitable for baseball either."

Father Kurtzke steps up to the plate with a 154-game plan, with teams playing 84 games in their own divisions, 14 against each of six rivals, and 70 inter-division games, or 10 each against the seven other league clubs. He uses a mathematical equation for his new schedule.

Currently, the American League's 162-game season has clubs playing 13 games against intra-divisional opponents and 12 against interdivisional teams. That results in clubs playing more games outside their division than within it. an 8478 split. And with 13 games played against intra-divisional rivals, one team benefits from an extra home game.

National League owners had considered a more radical 1993 schedule, with 20 games against intra-divisional rivals and only six against inter-divisional rivals.

Under the National League's' 12-team, 162-game setup, clubs played 18 games against other teams in their division. and 12 games against teams outside their division. F,ans, Father Kurtzke among them, have co~plained that the setup results in skewed sched uling patterns.

Father Kurtzke said a mathematically balanced season could be as short as 142 games, but noted there's a catch: owners would likely howl at the loss of revenue.

Children's advocate raps child poverty WASHINGTON (CNS) -=- The head of the Children's Defense Fund has called on Clinton and the new Congress to end the "moral and human travesty" that leaves one in, five children poor in the world's richest nation. Marian Wright Edelman recently released . her organization's report on "The State of America's Children 1992.'"

It showed that 14.3 million U.S. children lived below the poverty line in 1991, the highest number . since 1965. Contrary to popular stereotypes, mos~ poor children are white, have a working parent and live outside large cities.

RIGOBERTA MENCHU displays her gold Nobel Peace Prize medal and her citation from the Nobel Committee.

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Peace Nobel winner's dream for Guatemala OSLO, Norway (CNS) - Guatemalan 1ndian leader Rigoberta Menchu, accepting the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, called for international help to end her country's guerrilla war and eradicate human rights abuses.

Accepting the gold Nobel medal and a diploma at a glittering ceremony at Oslo's City Hall, she urged greater efforts to stamp out racism and discrimination against all indigenous people.

"I invite the international community to contribute" to revive stalled Guatemalan peace talks, the 33-year-old Catholic woman said in an emotional speech to an audience that included Norway's King Harald and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland.

Ms. Menchu, wearing traditional bright-colored Maya clothes from her Guatemalan highlands, said it was "essential that the repression and persecution of the people and the Indians be stopped;' adding that the prize would help focus international attention on Gua-, tl:mala's dismal record of human rights abuses.

She said other countries should bring pressure for a joint accord on human rights as a first step toward peace in her country.

In P~nama City the same day.

Guatemalan President Jorge Serrano said Ms. Menchu could help revive the country's stalled peace process..

"He'j- acts of good will can serve for peace in every country, including Guatemala," Serrano told reporters at a Central American summit in Panama.

In Guatemala, talks have been deadlocked for months between left-wing guerrillas and the goverment on ending a 30-year-old war in which about 100,000 people have been killed. Serrano has blamed guerrillas for the current impasses and has denied that rights abuses are systematic.

Ms. Menchu - whose father, mother and a brother were killed by the military - wiped away tears after she spoke. She said her only weapons are words.

She called for the release of last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Burmese opposition .leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under

house arrest in Rangoon since 1989.

Apart from a gold medal and a diploma, Ms. Menchu will receive a check for $970,000 as part of the award, named after Sweden's Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901.

"The goal of Rigoberta Menchu's work ... is reconciliation and peace," said Francis Sejersted, head of the Nobel Committee,who formally handed over the prize.

"Even in the most brutal situations, one must retain one's f~ith that there is a minimum of human feeling in all of us. Rigoberta Menchu Tum has preserved that faith," he said.

The United Nations has designated 1993 the International Year for Indigenous Populations, which coincidentally started the day Ms. Menchu received, her prize. She has suggested the United Nations combine this with a campaign against racism.

While growing up in her home village of Chime1, Guatemala, Ms. Menchu taught Bible classes to children. Through her church ties she became involved in social reform, including heading the National Coordinating Commission for the United Peasants Committee.

How about prisons?

WHEELING, W.Va. (CNS)Bishop Bernard W. Schmitt of Wheeling-Charleston wonders whether the church, just as it runs schools and hospitals, might also run prisons. ''I'm raising the question more than suggesting the answer," Bishop Scmitt said. "In the church's concern for every part of society, this is an area of particularly severe need." The Catholic Church "has been involved in every other area of society's problems:' he said. "Maybe a more hands-on approach by the church would give the church an opportunity to demonstrate its mission to heal, rehabilitate and resocialize." >

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) Assisted by village chief Willi- A 63-year-old priest has won an brordus Prasetya, 47, a Catholic, Islamic award for architecture for and student volunteers, Father his work in redesigning the river- Mangunwijaya started redesigni~g side slum area of Kali Code in the village in 1983, persuading vilYogyakarta, 250 miles southeast lagers that the improvements would of Jakarta. . remove the threat of heavy floods.

Father YusufBilyarta Mangun- The project was completed in 1985.

Using local materials, especially wijaya was one of nine winners of the 1992 Aga Khan Awards for . bamboo, the priest and volunteers Architecture, offered by the Aga helped the villagers build houses Khan Foundation for Architecture, on high poles, creating a large an international Islamic social open space under the homes for use as a community center. foundation.

To be fully involved with the UCA News, an Asian church community, Father Mangunwijaya news agency, reported that the selection jury said Father Man- moved to the area to live in a small gunwijaya deserved the award for bamboo house.

The new village soon attracted his achievement in endowing a social activists, environmentalists, marginalized population "w.ith dignity and self-respect by rede- journalists, students, activists and others concerned with community signing a derelict space into a development problems. healthy urban environment."

Many have said the biggest sucFather Mangunwijaya and eight cess of the project -is the drastic people from Turkey, Syria, India, change it has made in the attitudes Burkina Faso, Egypt and Jordan of its residents. received the cash awards totaling As part of International Human $500,000.

Rights Day in 1986, Jakarta's Leg~l The priest, a graduate of the Aid Foundation recognized Father School of Architecture in Aachen Mangunwijaya and Prasetya for Germany, had previously received meritorious service in dignifying the 1991 architecture award from the people of the riverbank village. the Indonesian Architect AssociaWhen Father Mangunwijaya left tion for his design of Our Lady's Kali Code for a new project south Shrine of Sendang-Sono in Cen- ofYogyakarta, the municipal govtral Java. ernment threatened to demolish Kali Code village was notorious the area and change it into a riveramong Yogyakartan~as a garbage- side green belt to conserve the surrounded den of thieves housed river. in discarded cartons. Since its reFather Mangunwijaya protested design, it has been cited as a model and threatened to go on a hunger in various seminars and workshops strike should the government go on human settlements in urban ahead with the plan. areas.

His protest, which drew nationMinister of Population and En- wide sympathy and pressure from vironment Emil Salim has referred various groups and individuals, to Kali Code as an ideal example including cabinet ministers and of an urban village along a river- generals, has helped Kali Code to survive. side.

Conditions worsen in Haiti, say Pax Christi delegates ERIE, Pa. (CNS) - A report by a Pax Christi U.S.A. delegation back from a recent trip to Haiti cites widespread military repression and overwhelming popular support for the nation's ousted president, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

It urges Catholics to write Vatican officials asking them to "withdraw support" for the army-backed provisional Haitian government.

The report interprets the Vatican decision last January to appoint a papal nuncio, to the troubled Caribbean nation as support for Haiti's de facto government.

-Haiti's provisional government, shunned by the international community after seizing power in a military coup, claimed at the time that the nuncio appointment meant it was recognized by the Vatican.

But a Vatican spokesman said the Holy See had maintained diplomatic relations with Haiti for some time and had merely promoted an existing envoy to the post of nuncio.

The Pax Chrisfi U.S.A. report, issued from the Catholic peace organization's headquarters in Erie, says repression under the government that took office after the coup is worse than it was und'er the Haitian dictatorships of JeanClaude and "Baby Doc" Duvalier.

The Pax Christi delegation met with students, teachers, peasants, priests, church workers, and groups representihg the Organization of

American States during a recent weeklong visit to Haiti.

The report says the Haitian people "overwhelmingly support" Father Aristide and oppose the de facto government, which cal1!e into power after Father Aristide, Haiti's democratically elected president, was ousted.

The report says more than 4,000 Haitians have been killed since the coup. It cites an "institutionalized, structured, nationally oraganized intimidation against the people themselves by the military and the de facto government."

The Haitian people, it says, "experience flagrant abuses of human rights daily," including random arrests, torture, jailings, killings, harassment ofchurch workers and illegal, random searches of homes, schools, churches and cars.

It says more than 400,000 people have become internal refugees and more than 50,000 have fled the country.

In addition, the report says, "hunger, disease, homelessness and illiteracy continue to kill the people. Basic development and humanitarian projects are considered sub-versive by the military, de facto government."

The report contends that Haitians' constitutional right to assemble is "grossly violated," citing frequent reports of arrests of two or three p'eople who have gathered.

Remembering a remarkable bishop ATLANTA (CNS) - "He made it seem so ordinary to do the extraordinary," said Father Edward Branch about his longtime friend, Archbishop James P. Lyke.

Father Branch, campus minister at the Atlanta University Center, was among those at Christ the King Cathedral Dec. 30 saying goodbye to the 53-year-old archbishop, 路who had died of cancer three days before. The service was held the night before Archbishop Lyke's路 funeral Mass and burial in Atlanta.

Said Father Branch of Archbishop Lyke, "Has ever there been one so extraordinary yet felt so ordinary around us? But that is what it is like to be holy."

Father Branch said that the only difference between how the archbishop acted when he was sick and when he was healthy was that "he sent two letters a week instead of three" regarding archdiocesan business.

"He'd call me on the phone and say, 'Branch? ... Lyke. I have something I'd like you to do for me. Do you think you have time?' Father Branch said.

Several others in attendance also testified to how seriously the archbishop took his responsibility to others, including one who told how doctors couldn't find Archbishop Lyke in his room when he was hospitalized because he was visiting other patients.

Father Branch also recalled how Archbishop Lyke could make a liturgy "an experience." "I've had a fixation in these past few hours of that passage of the transfiguration '" when the disciples were surrounded by all this glory and bedazzlement throws them on their faces, and when things cool down, the Scriptures tell us, they looked up, and it was only Jesus.

"Jim was like that. There was a lot of flash around him, especially in liturgy. And the best part was when he incensed the altar, every square inch! It was wonderful.

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"I knew that we would not be able to finish it before late 1993 or the spring of 1994, but I held a benefit concert last summer at my parish to at least begin the process," said Ms. Gabriel-Burrow, minister of music at St. Augustine and St. Monica Church in Detroit.

"Besides the need for such a book, it's my way of making one of his last wishes come true," she said.

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back to the sacristy, and it was just Jim. "Not only have we had a testimony in how to live,.but as well an object lesson in how to die. It's as if he said, 'Now, don't listen to me, watch me!' " Lawrence Payne of Houston said of those at the cathedral service, "You can see that people are hurting deeply, but it 'is contained.

That's because he prepared us all so well."

The archbishop's nephew, Andrew Lyke J r. of Chicago, said the experience has been "difficult because for me he's always been immortal. There are things my wife Terri and I are looking forward to, like the renewal of our marriage vows, and we'd say, 'Wait a minute, Jim's supposed to do that.' We just never counted on his not being there."

"Archbishop Lyke was the most remarkable man I ever met in my life. His every thought was for otJ:1er people," said Pat Davis, the registered nurse who gave the archbishop hospice care.

Ms. Davis, family friend Howard Brown, the archbishop's sister Doris Fields and "adopted" sister Irma Laws were with the archbishop the morning he died.

"J ust before Jim died. his sister, Doris. and Pat held his right hand and Irma and I held his left hand."

said Brown, who works for the Atlanta archdiocesan Secretariat for Black Ministries. "He was awake and we prayed together for him. Then he just drifted away."

Ms. Davis recalled caring for Archbishop Lyke in his final weeks.

"I would see him, know he was in pain, ask if he had taken his medication and he'd say he didn't need it," she said. "I'd find out later that he had a meeting to go to and didn't want to be drowsy.

"I told him he was the perfect example of what a shepherd should be," she added. "His was a peaceful death. No struggle."

When music minister Marjorie Gabriel-Burrow of Detroit first heard of the seriousness of the archbishop's illness, she accelerated plans to finish another of his dreams -- "The African-American Book of Psalmody," a companion to "Lead Me, Guide Me," the African-American Catholic hymnal which Archbishop Lyke spearheaded.

The book of psalms is to include about 150 responsorial psalms and acclamations which employ various styles of African-American music: spirituals, jazz, traditional gospel, contemporary gospel and blues, among others.

The project, endorsed by Archbishop Lyke, needs about $100,000 to be completed.

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Vatican toughens Continued from Page One "solemnly sanctioned the opposite principle," trumpeted Father Gianni Baget Bozzo, a columnist for La Repubblica, a Rome newspaper.

"He has established from the Catholic point of view the right of the international community - as an institution or as individual states - to interfere with force in the internal affairs of another state when human rights are violated on a massive scale," he wrote.

For Father Bozzo, the new papal position "closes a long debate inside the Catholic Church" but raises many new questions, not the least of which is: Can soldiers be asked to risk their lives, not for their own country but to protect the hJ.lman

rights of an ethnic minority that may be unknown to them?

Vatican officials, however, argued that the pope had not changed his mind about war at all. They drew a distinction between the massive military showdown in the Gulf and the limited use of outside force being recommended for what was once Yugoslavia.

Any military action in Bosnia shoul~ be "solely protective and dissuasive," a top Vatican diplomate, Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, told international representatives in mid-December.

What the Vatican is proposing ."is not war," he maintained though the distinction may have escaped some.

The Vatican secretary of state,

Cardi.nal Ang~lo Sodano, took a similar line. Unlike the Gulf, he said, attempts at negotiation in Bosnia may well be exhausted.

Given the "ferocious" violations of human rights by Serbian forces, "it becomes a right and a duty to disarm the aggressor."

Such military action, he added, would be of a restraining nature.

All of which left people inside and outside the Vatican wondering: Where does "dissuasive" force and, warfare begin? To some, the church and international community appeared to be feeling their way on this issue.

"I have the impression that we're using traditional, coarse instruments to deal with new situations," said Vatican Radio's director, Jesuit Father Pasquale Borgomeo.

"I think we need to reflect and rethink completely in the light of Christian ethics what constitutes the use of force on behalf ofjustice and the defense of the weak, and

Carlos lives in a one-room shack in Guatemala and sleeps on the dirt floor. His family cannot afford the nutritious food or medical attention that he needs.

what constitutes lllljustifiable vio': ... In the face of this" dramatic reallence," he said. ity, the pope appears to have conCardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the cluded that the most unforgivable Vatican's top doctrinal official, mistake would be international recognized the need to develop inaction and indifference - in the detailed moral criteria for new name of peace. situations like Bosnia and Somalia. His own view, outlined last fall, was that military intervention was justifiable in Bosnia, but only Continued from Page One to protect humanitarian relief.

At the interfaith meeting, the Broad use of ground troops or warplanes would only create new pope said true religion fosters life.

"It fosters the peaceful coexisproblems, he said.

Clearly, the position ofthe pope' tence of ethnic groups, peoples and his aides is evolving, prodded and religions, and not violent opin part by the continuing bad news position or war," he said.

The prayer and fasting of the from the Balkan front: millions of people homeless; thousands of civ- weekend meeting, the pope said, ilians killed, maimed or raped in were meant as a specific contributhe name of "ethnic cleansing"; tion "to the rebuilding of the conand soldiers suffering in wretched tinent of Europe and perhaps to its survival." prison camps.

At Mass the next day, the pope Over the last year and a half, Vatican appeals for dialogue have spoke of the war in the Balkans as gone unheeded and the chance for "a special accumulation of sins. a negotiated solution has slipped Human beings use instruments of destruction to kill and to destroy away, perhaps forever. others like themselves."

At the end of the Mass, the pope gave each bishop from the Balkans an Easter cangle, telling them he hoped Easter 1993 "can be celebrated in your churches in the joy of rediscovered and re-established peace."

Official Jewish, Muslim, Catholic and other Christian delegations at the meeting numbered over 125 people. Representing the United States and Canada were Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia and Archbishop Aloysius Little Melanie Ambrozic of Toronto. lives in a diseaseThe pope said the Muslims' presinfested area ofthe ence in Assisi "proclaims that Philippines. She genuine religious belief is a source desperately needs of mutual understanding and harnutritious food. mony, and that only the pervermedicine for her sion of religious sentiment leads to asthma and a discrimination and conflict." chance for an "To use religion as an excuse for education. injustice and violence is a terrible abuse, and it must be condemned by all true believers in God," he said.

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Many U .8. bishops could retire in 1993 WASHINGTON (CNS) When Bishop Warren L. Boudreaux of Houma-Thibodaux, La., retired last Dec. 29, he was one of more than a dozen U.S. bishops who faced possible retirement for reasons of age within the next 12 months.

Under church law a bishop is asked to submit his resignation to the pope when he reaches his 75th birthday. The pope is not required to accept it immediately, but he often does so then or within the next few months. , As 1993 began, six active American bishops of the Latin rite were already 75. Five more will be 75 in 1993.

In addition, four Eastern-rite bishops were already over 75. One will turn 75 in 1993.

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- Archbishop Daniel E. Sheehan, May 14, a bishop since 1964 and archbishop of Omaha, Neb., since 1969,.

- Bishop Stanislaus J. Brzana, July I, a bishop since 1964 and bishop of Ogdensburg, N.Y., since 1968.

- Bishop James L. Schad, July 20, auxiliary bishop of Camden, N.J., since 1966., - Archbishop Ignatius J. Strecker, Nov. 23, a bishop since 1962 and archbishop of Kansas City, Kan., since 1969.

- Bishop Bernard F. Popp, Dec. 6, auxiliary bishop of San Antonio since 1983.

- Bishop Arthur J. O'Neill, Dec. 14, bishop of Rockford, Ill., since 1968.

Active Latin-rite bishops who will turn 75 in 1993 are: - Bishop Gerald F. O'Keefe, March 30, a bishop since 1961 and bishop of Davenport, Iowa, since 1966.

- Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy, April 10, bishop since 1965 and archbishop of Miami since 1977.

- Bishop Juan A. Arzube, June I, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles since 1971.

- Bishop John J. Paul, Aug. 17, a bishop since 1977 and bishop of La Crosse, Wis., since 1983.

- Bishop Timothy J. Harrington, Dec. 19, a bishop since 1968 and bishop of Worcester, Mass., since 1983.

Bishop Boudreaux will be 75 Jan. 25, but he announced a year ago that he had asked papal permission to resign before the end of 1992.

He was ordained a bishop in 1962, and in 1977 was moved from Beaumont, Texas, to becomefounding bishop of the newly created Houma-Thibodaux diocese. During the past year he observed his golden jubilee as a priest, 30 years as a bishop and 15 years in HoumaThibodaux.

Eastern - Rite Bishops Although' Eastern-rite bishops make up only 6 percent of the active U.S. bishops, a disproportionately high number of them are over 75 but still active: - Romanian Bishop Louis Puscas of Canton, Ohio, a bishop since 1983, 'who was 75 Sept. 13, 1990. ..:.- Ukrainian' Bisbop Innocent J. Lotocky of-St. Nicholas of Chi-

cago, a bishop since 1981, who was 75 Nov. 3, 1990.

- Ruthenian Bishop Michael J. Dudick of Passaic, N.J., a bishop since 1968, who was 75 Feb. 24, 1991.

- Auxiliary Bishop John M. Bilock of the Byzantine archdiocese of Pittsburgh, a bishop since 1973, who was 75 June 20, 1991.

In addition, Bishop Mikail Nerses Setian, apostolic exarch for Armenian Catholics in the United States and Canada, will be 75 Nov. 18,1993.

In the Latin church, bishops have been asked to submit their resignations at age 75 since 1966, but there was no such retirement rule for Eastern bishops until 1991 , when a new general law for all Eastern Catholic churches took effect.

Under the new law, bishops of the Eastern churches are asked to submit their resignations at age 75 to their patriarch or his equivalent if they are in the home jurisdiction of their rite, or to the pope if they live outside that jurisdiction.

In the first few years after a retirement rule went into effect in the Latin rite, there was a gradual transition before it became routine for the pope to accept nearly all resignations on or shortly after a bishop's 75th birthday.

Originally several bishops in their upper 70s or early 80s did not retire immediately, but currently every Latin bishop in the United States 76 or older is retired.

In the U.S. Eastern churches, with two 77-year-olds and two 76year-olds still active it appears that a similarly gradual transition is taking place. Retirement at or shortly after one's 75th birthday is not yet routine.

The pope may delay a bishop's retirement for many years when serious pastoral reasons exist, such as persecution of the church by a hostile government. When communism fell in Czechoslovakia, for example, Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek of Prague was still active at age 90 and played a leading role in the demise of the much-hated regime. A year later he retired.

Pope John Paul also,often delays retirement for shorter perio<ls to enable a bishop to celebrate some big milestone coming up shortly after his 75th birthday, such as a major diocesan anniversary or his own 25th anniversary as a bishop or 50th as a priest.

Ofthose who reached 75 in 1992 but have not yet retired, for example, most have such a milestone coming up sometime in 1993.

Better explanation VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The church must explain more clearly the moral difference b~tween using natural and artificial means to avoid pregnancy. says Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo. president of the Pontifical Council for the Family. He spoke at a press conference during a recent Vatican meeting he hosted to discuss "the grave problems of Catholic couples. who for just reasons. want to ~pace the birth of their children.'"

The meeting brought together some 50 physicians. scientists. theologi~ 'ans. philosophers and natural family planning educators.

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THIS ENGRAVING from a book published in 1555 shows the faithful gathered for a papal blessing facing the unfinished dome of St. P~ter's basilica. The engraving is among Vatican Library treasures currently on display aUhe Library of Congress in Washington. (CNS/ Library of Congress photo)

Vatican Library Washington exhibit a must-see WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Vatican Library exhibit currently on display in Washington's Library of Congress is full of the unexpected.

Sure, there are Bibles and prayer books, but they are far from ordinary. For example, a fourth-century Greek Bible is written on antelope skin parchment, and there is an exquisitely illuminated 15thcentury Urbino Bible which took about four years to make.

In direct contrast is a "book" of prayers written on unbound palm leaves in 16th-century Tamil, a language still spoken in Southern India and Sri Lanka.

Other exhibit items hardly seem religious at all, such as a love letter from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn prior to their marriage, drawings of sunspots by Galileo and the earliest illustration of a subject seen through a microscope.

"It gives you moments where you are face to face with history," said Anthony Grafton, chief curator of the exhibit.

The exhibit, "Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture" features about 200 of the library's manuscripts, prints and maps. It will be on display through April30 and only in Washington.

"If you don't see it now, you'll never see it again," said Dominican Father Leonard Boyle, prefect of the Vatican Library, who described the exhibit as "the best view of the library" he had ever seen.

He said the displayed items are seldom seen even in Rome, because the books are usually on shelves and the maps are usually rolled up and stored.

The special exhibit came to Washington by way of returning a 1920s favor done the papal library by the Library of Congress, which sent staff members to the Vatican to assist in modernizing the papal card catalog and to make other suggestions for streamlining library operations.

"The Library of Congress helped the Vatican Library enormously," said Father Boyle, who added he "jumped at the opportunity to do something to officially and formally" express thanks.

He told Catholic News Service

that the library is "one of the church's hidden assets."

Washington's small sampling of items from the Vatican's collection of 2 million books and 75,000 manuscripts gives a view of the church as an intellectual force, according to exhibit organizers.

Librarian of Congress James Billington said at a press conference opening the exhibit that many people are aware of the role of popes in the visual arts, "but few realize their intellectual role." He added that he hoped the exhibit would "set the record straight."

The exhibit does that job, highlighting manuscripts gathered by the library since it was opened by Pope Sixtus IV in 1475.

Background material on the exhibit notes that although 15thcentury Rome was in ruins, church leaders tried to make the city a cultural and intellectual center by amassing library collections, which they bought, borrowed and even stole.

At the exhibit entrance are a huge and detailed 16th century map of Rome and a vision of the world beyond, a 16th-century Chinese map of the cosmos. Between the maps are many yellowed parchments with ornate designs surrounding Latin, Greek, Aramaic and Chinese texts, ranging from versions of Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid to Euclid's Elements - a comprehensive treatise on geometry, opened to the page which illustrates the Pythagorean theorem.

There are also musical scores as big as tables, 12th-century medical encyclopedias and copies of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific texts.

Included in the grandeur of the exhibit are unexpected glimpses of the ordinary side of life.

In the margins of some of the great texts are writings and even drawings. A yellowed receipt from the 16th century shows that St. Charles Borromeo returned all 12 of the, books on canon law he had checked out of the papal library.

And right beside Henry VIII's signature on his letter to Anne Boleyn is a tiny heart with her' initials inside.

MANCHESTER, England (CNS) - A Catholic aid worker shot dead in Somalia wanted to follow in the footsteps of Salesian founder St. John Bosco as a "saint in shirt sleeves," Salesian priests in.

Britain said.

Sean Devereux, 28, was killed in the southern Somali town of Kismayu Jan. 2 - apparently after a dispute with gunmen who had been hired to protect aid supplies.

He had been working with UNICEF, the U.N. Children's Fund.

Devereux had been educated by Salesians since age II, and after graduating from college had worked as a lay missionary with the Salesians in Liberia.

Salesian Father Brian Jerstice, who worked with Devereux in Liberia, said he was "one of the most courageous men I have ever known, and a young man this country can be proud of."

Pupils and teachers at Salesian College, Farnborough, said that as a boy Devereux was everybody's friend.

"He was so dedicated to helping others that at one time we thought he might become a missionary priest," said classmate Paul Cassidy. "He was a born leader."

In a letter written shortly before he was killed, Devereux explained some of the pressures he was under.

"There is no real drought in Somalia. It is a country which, prior to the war, exported rice and sugar in abundance. Nomads wandered peacefully with their camels, goats and cattle, living a relatively healthy life,''' he wrote.

"Everything was then turned upside down because of the greed and ego of certain men," Devereux wrote.

Somali warlords could take their share ofthe blame, he said. But the U.S. Congress, the British and Italian parliaments, and the Soviet Politburo were also responsible.

They had, over the years, "approved the production and delivery of weapons of destruction to Somalia."

He also described how children in camps for displaced people enjoyed games next to a field with hundreds of little mounds of earth marking the graves of children who had died.

"The contrast is so stark - but as I watched the energy and laughter of the children as they kicked the ball it brought home to me the message that where there is life, there is always hope," Devereux wrote.

Fund dissolved MILWAUKEE (CNS) - The De Rance Foundation, a major donor to Catholic causes for nearly half a century, has been dissolved, its directors recently announced.

Of its assets of $100 million, $70 million has been slated for creation of a support fund for the religious and charitable activities of the Milwaukee archdiocese. The other $30 million has been allocated to a variety of causes, including about $9 million to various Catholic educational institutions.

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Holy Rosary Sodality meeting 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19, rectory meeting room.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Baby items are being collected for Birthright of Falmouth.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Volunteers needed to pack groceries at food pantry 10 a.m. to noon Wednesdays.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO As part of Christian Unity Week observances, Rev. Walter B. Davis of Second Congregational Church, Attleboro, will speak at 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow and Father Ralph Tetrault will speak at the Second Congregational Church on Sunday. St. Mary's will host ecumenical prayer service.

11:30 a.m. Jan. 20 in parish center, to be followed by luncheon. In observance of Martin Luther King Day Monday, program will begin I p.m. at Attleboro City Hall continuing with march to Second Congregational Church for 2 p.m. service at which Joyce King of Harvard University will speak.

CATHOLIC ALUMNI CLUB The R.I. and Southeastern Massachusetts chapter of the international Catholic singles club will hold monthly social gatherings Jan. 17 at the Brass Rail, 1125 Fall River Ave. (Rt. 6), Seekonk, and Feb. 7 at the Silver City Galleria Mall, Taunton.

On Jan. 17, dinner will begin at 6 p.m., followed by a discussion of activities. The group will hold a movie outing 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Showcase Cinema in Seekonk.

On Feb. 7, line dancing lessons will be given in the mall community room at 4 p.m. and the group will meet for dinner at 6 p.m. at Ruby Tuesday in the mall. Seekonk area meetings will continue on third Sundays and Taunton meetings on first Sundays. Information: 824-8378.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. Anthony's, E. Falmouth, confirmation retreat tomorrow. '

New charismatic group announces ,meetings The Sacred Heart of Jesusl Immaculate Heart of Mary charismatic prayer group will hold its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at St. Anthony of the Desert church hall, 300 North Eastern Ave., Fall River. Subsequent meetings will be held each Friday at the same time and place. All are welcome to attend. _ Rev. Robert S. KaszYlnski, diocesan liaison with charismatic groups, will address the meeting and the program will also include an opening prayer session, teaching and witnessing periods and intercessory prayer. After the meeting teams will be available to pray for healings. The agenda will not include Mass.

The gathering will be preceded at 7 p. m. by a Cenacle service, consisting of the rosary prayed in a special format.

ST. MARY, NORTON A meeting of separated I divorced Catholics on the topic "Divorce and Annulment" will be held 7 p.m. Jan. 24 in the parish center meeting room.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Calix meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

"Coats for Kids" are being collected at Dermody Cleaners, which will clean them for donation to the St. Vincent de Paul Society for distribution to needy children.

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNIN G Couple to Couple League series of four monthly classes on natural family planning begi~s 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 7, St. Mary's parish center, Mansfield. For information and preregistration call Jon or Maureen Howey, 339-4730.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, CAPE Support group meeting 7 p.m.

Sunday, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth. Psychologist Elaine Piepgras will speak. New participants welcomed beginning 6:15 p.m. Information: 362-9873; Father Richard Roy, 255--0170.

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Council 330 will host a free throw championship for children ages 10 to 14 tomorrow at N. Attleboro Jr. High. Registration begins 2:45 p. m.

Parental consent required.Information: Bob Valois, 699-7134; Charlie Forbush, 695-5407.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, NB Planning board meeting 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth. New members are welcome and needed to help plan future meetings.

The group will observe its eighth anniversary at 7 p.m. meeting Jan. 25; all past and present members are invited.

INTERFAITH COUNCIL, FR The Interfaith Council of Greater FR will hold annual Martin Luther King, Jr. observance 3:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at First Baptist Church, 228 N. Main St., FR. Rev. Dr. Thomas P. Zgambo, pastor of Bethel AME Church, will speak on "We Are Family." School children will present the skit "King's Dream" and combined choirs of Bethel AME Church, First Baptist Church, and Bay Community Baptist Church of Swansea will perform. Other participants will represent other area churches. All welcome to attend.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing service led by Father Andre Patenaude, M.S. 2 p.m. Sunday. Shrine winter schedule: daily Mass 12:10 p.m.; weekday Masses 6:30 p.m.; Saturday Mass 4:30 p.m.

Reconciliation 1 to 2:30 p.m. weekdays, I to 4 p.m. Saturdays, I to 5 p.m. Sundays. No confessions on first Wednesdays. For a calendar of events call 222-5410., D.orI Hyacinth Circle 71 Daughters of Isabella monthly meeting 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 19, Holy Name CCD center, NB.

Catholic, government agencies must cooperate, says priest PHILADELPHIA (CNS) Social services will continue to be a growth industry unless political decisions made at national. state and local levels change. says the new president of Catholic Charities USA. Jesuit Father Fred Kammer said 68 percent of social services provided by member agencies are now for basic food and shelter. compared to 23 percent a decade ago.

"We are deeply concerned about a national response to this problem." Father Kammer said in an interview with The Catholic Standard and Times. newspaper of the Philadelphia Archdiocese.

He said that among questions facing Catholic charitable organizations in these times of increased demand are: What is the constituency of Catholic Charities? How

prayer~BOX For the Vulnerable Blessed are you, Lord, Shepherd God, w'ho'seeks the wandering. Guide those who are facing difficult decisions concerning pregnancy and birth. Enable them to know your will, and give them the strength to follow it. Enlighten the confusedandencourage the hesitant. Bring the vulnerable to a new experience of trust in your love. Make ,our society a community of life instead of a factory of death. I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen:

can age ncies better respond to their needs? And how can more people be drawn into helping with the work? ' Initially, Father Kammer explained, Catholic agencies were supported strictly by the church and served the fruitful in immigrant neighborhoods.

Now they rely more heavily upon government funding. which allows services to be extended to more people. he said.

They "try to keep their Catholic identity when dealing with those dollars. but frankly, there are challenges to that ability to remain independent." said Father Kammer.

"We sometimes have to engage in lawsuits. negotiations and hard fighting with our funding sources. and not just government." he explained; Father Kammer. 47. is a New Orleans native and a lawyer. He spent the last two decades working in variOlls religiolls and secular social agencies.

Most recently he served in the U.S.' Catholic Conference's Department of Social Development and World Peace as 'a policy adviser on health and welfare.

Beautiful Within "1 pray thee, 0 God, that I may be beautiful within." - Socrates

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FATHER GERALD T. Shovelton, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich, gives a check to Thomas Peterson, treasurer for the Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Homeless. $4,144 was raised in a parish collection for the council, and Father Shovelton has pledged five percent of future second collections to the organization. Also pictured are Robert Murray, council chairman, and board member Richard Waystack. (Dumas photo)

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The Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Homeless has received the annual Ecumenical Recognition Award ofthe National Council of Churches.

Kathleen Hurty, director of the National Council of Churches' Ecumenical Network, said the Cape Cod group was selected for the humanitarian award because in addition to housing people it goes further to help clients solve the problem of homelessness.

The Harwich organization moves families from motels and shelters where they are supported by state funds into rental housing paid for by council monies earned through fund raisers.

Ms. Hurty noted that the council is able to get families "back on their own feet" in a less costly manner than the state.

HECH, founded in 1991, is'comprised of volunteers from the community and seven Harwich churches. It has assisted 32 families thus far, 27 of whom have achieved independence from the program.

The families are housed in duplexes donated anonymously

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Committee on International Policy hailed the new U.S.-Russian Start II agreement as a "major step in the process of progressive disarmament." The committee chairman, St. PaulMinneapolis Archbishop John R. Roach, urged quick ratification and implementation of the new treaty and its 1991 predecessor, Start I, "so that the process of reducing nuclear arms and curbing their proliferation may lead to genuine nuclear disarmament."

Such deep cuts in nuclear arms "were but a distant hope" when the U.S. Catholic bishops called for them 10 years ago in their pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace," Archbishop Roach said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 15,1993

By Charlie Martin

DIGGING IN THE DIRT

By Linda L. Rome You buy a pound of overpriced but delicious fudge at the local amusement park. You give the cashier a $10 bill, expectirig small change in return.

Instead, she gives you back $11, two quarters and a dime. What do you do now?

Everyday situations have a way of confronting us with everyday decisio'ns that can seem inconsequential at 'the time. But in fact, they are the .way we discover who we are and how we show what we think is important.

Psychologist Kevin Leman, author of "Keeping Your Family Together When The World Is FaIling Apart," says "values are caught more than taught." Translation: An example is worth a thousand words. To prove the point, I'll fel1 you a story.

One hectic Saturday morning my mother made it to the drivethrough bank tel1er just before closing. Wit.h cars lined up behind her, al1 trying to beat the noon deadline, she grabbed the envelope from the pneumatic cylinder, stuffed the envelope in her purse without counting the money and drove off. '.

When we got home, she counted the money in the envelope. She counted it again. There was $440, exactly double what the receipt said! ,'.. ' .

Quickly my mother called the bank, explaining she knew they were closed but that one of the, f tellers had oyerpaid her.

What relief on the other end of the phone!. The error already had been disc'overed. But with no way of tracing it, the teller could only hope that someone .would return the money. Otherwise the ,tel1er would have to路 pay the money back out of her own pocket.

We drove back to the bank, and I'm sure my mother must have said something about how the money wasn't hers to keep. I don't remember what she said, but I. remember what she did, Everything we do is an example to someone. What kind of values do people catch from being around you? Answer the following questions to see what you would do.

I. Would you speed except when there's a patrol car around?

2. Would you lie to your parents to help a friend cover up something the friend's parents would . disapprove of'?

3. Would you return a library book so long overdue that the library has written it off'?

4. Would you lie about the amount from tips you earn as a waitress or golf caddy to save money on taxes?

5. Would you change the measurements of a chemical experiment to ensure the expected result and thus 'get a. better grade?

6. Would you say you'd read the book when you'd only read路 the Cliff Notes?

7, Would you say you were,sick and then stay home from school because you didn't finish that big report? ' 8. Would you buy a term paper and turn it in as your own?

9, Would you,tell the cashier at the discount store you were undercharged for an item?

10. Would you let someone else take the blame for something you broke?

Sometimes we know what is the right thing to dQ; doing it is the problem. Like washing our hands before we eat, we think we're the only ones who know what we (jid - and that,may be true.

But if honesty is the best policy, . where does'it start if it doesn't start with you?

Something in me dark and sticky All the time it's getting strong No way of dealing with this feeling Can't go on like this too long This time you've gone too far This time you've gone too far This time you've gone too far I told you, I told you, I told you This time you've gone too far This time you've gone too far This time you've gone too far . I told you, I told you, I told you Don't talk back Just drive the car.

Shut your mouth I know what you are Don't say nothing Keep your hands on the wheel Don't turn around, This is for real Digging in the dirt Stay with me, I need support I'm digging in the dirt To find ,the places I got hurt 'To find the places I got hurt The more that I look, The more that I find As I close in on, I get so blind I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes That's the place it goes Written and sung by Peter Gabriel, (c) 1992 by the David Geffen Co. HOW DO YOU deal with anger? Peter Gabriel's "Digging in the Dirt" never mentions anger directly, Yet its torie feels angry, Recently I heard an interview with Gabriel that may explain this song.' 'He discussed the 'emotional pain he. has had to confront during the past 10 years, specifically,' his grieving over lost relationships.

Perhaps this cassingle off his new disc reveals some of this struggle, Anger is an intense emotio,n. for the person in.the song, this, intensity feels like something "dark and sticky" within. He knows "n~ way of dealing with this feeling," . He senses that he is "digging in the dirt" of his soul "to find the places I got hurt.'.' Anger

seems to radiate throughout his body.

He doesn't know what to do with his anger except yell at the person in the car with him.

Learning to deal with anger in constructive ways is something most of us need help with.

This starts when we recognize that anger is an acceptable, helpful feeling. Like all our emotions, anger is neither good nor bad in itself, but a message about something that has happened to us.

Consequently, we need to listen to anger. Many times, anger tells us how we have been hurt, and thus is part of grieving some sort of loss.

Further, anger often carries a message about how we need to take better care of ourselves, perhaps by taking a stand about how we allow others to treat us.

For example, we might be angry when a friend borrows some money but hedges about paying us back. This anger is teaching us to be more careful about how we set up loans.

Certainly, we may want to be generous with friends', but generosity should not mean that we al10w others to take advantage of us.

One unhealthy way of dealing' with anger is to avoid or deny it.

Avoidance does not real1y get rid of anger. Avoidance just buries anger in our hearts. What we repress grows in intensity.

Like the person in the song, we may yell at someone even though he or she may not be the real focus of our anger.

I do agree with the song's suggestion that we need to "open up tl'\e places" where we got hurt. This help~ to release hidden or avoided anger.

We can do this with people we trust and who will support us in f<:icing anger's intensity.

Releasing anger in safe ways brings light and healing to' our souls. Use anger to learn more about your life, not in ways that increase your burdens.

Your comments are welcomed

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

Holy Family-HQly Name School Holy Family"Holy Name School.

New Bedford, will hold a pro-life Mass this afternoon.

A parent workshop will be held 7 p.m. Jan. 19. and there will be a p~esentation 'on vocations for grades 6. '7 and 8 students and parents at 7 p.m. Jan. 27. A 10 a.m.

Mass Jan. 31 at St. Lawrence Church will mark the opening of Catholic Schools Week.

Students of the month are, for kindergarten. Luke 'Farrell and Ariane Mello. For grades) through 8 th'ey are: I'eter Galindo, Krystina Barnik, Matthew Goldblatt, Elizabeth Sopel, Robert Gomes, Ryan Matson-Howarth, Matthew Guilbert, Erin Parkin.

Slow OK SMILING SOMALIS: Children in Bulo Fur, Somalia, who were on the brink of death a few months ago, are now laughing and playing as Catholic Relief Services food shipments reach their village. Two U.S. prelates who visited the country in December say the country's needs are still extreme and an estimated 90 percent of Somali children are undernourished. (CNS photo)

"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

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They're top brass of school bands CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (CNS) - It's only a slight exaggeration to say that Marian Catholic High School is to high school marching bands what Notre Dame is to college football.

The Chicago Heights school has been Bands of America Grand National Champion four times since 1985. It has been undefeated in its class in Illinois since 1980.

Marian, a coed school in a suburb south of Chicago, has 1,400 students, with almost IS percent of the student body involved in the band. Some students choose to attend the school because of its band. program.

The succesS in competitions has come despite a'budget that's probably half the size of those at most

public schools Marian competes against. The band travels to competitions in school buses, eschewing the more comfortable and more expensive coach buses. Hotels, too, are an unaffordable luxury.

Band members roll out their sleeping bags on a gym floor.

The band is successful thanks to a. team effort, uniting parents and students, seniors and freshmen.

Parents sew the color guard uniforms and construct the equipment carriers.

Upperclassmen take the younger students under their wing, advising them on how to properly execute a maneuver and what to pack for a r0<id trip.

Both parents and students are involved in three annual fund-

Jesuits' plan middle school for Baltimore urban youth BALTIMORE (CNS) - A Jesuit parish in Baltimore is bucking the trend of Catholic school closings in urban centers and plans to open a new middle school in August for low-income boys from Baltimore.

St. Ignatius Loyola Academy, as the school will be known, will have a maximum capacity of 60, taking in 20 sixth graders for the next three years to reach capacity.

According to Jesuit Father William Watters, students will be recruited from the city's lowest income levels regardless of race, color '01' creed, with referrals coming from schools, parishes, principals and counselors. , Parents will pay only a small stipend. Tuition and related expenses will be paid through scholarships, including a $50,000 subsidy from the Jesuits' Maryland province for the first three years.

"The focus is to move students to college prep schools," Father Watters told The Catholic Review, Baltimore's archdiocesan newspaper. "We believe in Baltimore and we want it to grow.... The

academy will make a contribution to the city and to Baltimore's future."

The academy is modeled after the Jesuit-run Nativity Mission School in New York. About 95 percent of Nativity's graduates go on to college.

Classroom hours will be 8 a.m. 4 p.m., followed by a sp·orts and recreation program lasting until 5:30 p.m. Students go home for dinner but are expected to return for supervised study hall between 7 - 10 p.m. Transportation will be provided to return students home in the evenings.

Saturdays are set aside for cultural events and service projects such as visiting homebound elderly.

"We're looking for the student with average intelligence who has potential but who for some reason is not performing at his best level," said Tony Capizzi, a faculty member at Loyola High School and a St. Ignatius parishioner who helped start the academy.

"Parental commitment is also necessary," he added. "We need their support as well."

Bishop Stang The WNAC-TV Channel 7 series "Imagine That!" recently broadcast segments featuring the Project Search program of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

The TV show highlights exemplary high school science and math programs from around the state.

Project Search, initiated with the opening of the school's new biology lab, is a hands-on science module with which students target, hypothesize and research topics of interest.

Channel 7 spent about three hours at the school filming lab sessions and interviewing principal Theresa Dougall, who formerly chaired the science department; current department head Kathy Crosson; and students Nicole Poisson and Alison Fleming. The segments first aired on newscasts Nov. 30 and were later shown between regular programs on·the station.

Student Michelle Neves won an International Model of the Year pageant held recently in Portsmouth, RI. She was awarded a New York City shopping spree and the opportunity for a professional photo shoot at a modeling agency.

Boys' ice hockey and girls' swimming will be added to Stang's

42 cocurricular activIties during the next academic year.

"These are two very popular sports for young men and women," said athletic director Bill Hart.

"There are already a number of quality student-athletes in these sports currently attending Stang.

With the addition of new students for these teams I feel confident we'll be competitive early on."

Ice hockey will initiate as a junior varsity sport for the first two years and move to the varsity level during the 1995-96 season.

raisers that keep the band marching in competitions miles from its hometown.

The Marian band presents an artistic show, often with classical music, unlike college marching bands that have a rah-rah style.

"It's more like a ballet as opposed to MTV," Greg Bimm, band director for 16 years, told The New World, Chicago archdiocesan newspaper.

Marian has been an innovator in use of woodwinds, such as oboe and flute, instead of louder brass and percussion.

In an II-minute performance the band will wave in and out of 100 formations. Other bands typically do 65 or so, said Bimm.

Such a performance requires athletic ability. While playing and carrying their.instJ:!1p1e.n~s, which weigh'as much as 20 pounds, band· members compiete intricate formations while marching with toes up when moving forward.

Collisions and near collisions, particularly involving freshmen, are a routine part of practice early in the year..

BirillTl said he takes a practical approach to leading the band. "If a student is messing up but he's trying, then I'm a motivator. But if he's not doing his best, I'm not above being stern and demanding."

Being in the band, which begins practicing in mid-August, is a labor of love.

Senior Danielle McCabe said, "When you think of school, you think of band. It's a big part of your life."

Breaking the cycle LANSING. Mich. (CNS) Catholic Charities USA has launched the latest phase of a pilot program aimed at breaking the cycle of teen pregnancy. Lansing has become the third site for the agency's $1 million project. Children of Children. which aims to support teen mothers and their families. Other sites are in Albuquerque. N.M .. and Newark, N.J. The three-year program targets parents ages 12-16. their children and the children's grandparents.

The program will provide parenting skills. health care. education and career training and involve the baby's father and grandparents in fostering healthy family livi.ng.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 15, 1993

SUNSET SLEDDING: A father and daughter tryout the sledding hill at Burnet Park in Syracuse, NY. (CNS photo)

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DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) Young teen-agel's stood in the serving line with adult volunteers; handing out plates of chicken and vegetables or stew, bowls of fruit and salad, yogurt, bread and cake.

Seventh-graders at St. Christopher School in Dayton had baked the bread; eighth-graders. were serving it along with other food donated by the community to the House of Bread. On one winter day, they served more than 460 persons who came in a steady stream for a noontime meal and some warmth.

Later the students talked with director Jean Taylor about the experience. "A lot of people ... a lot of work ... makes you feel appreciative," said one student. A young woman said she "kind of felt stupid in designer clothes."

Mostly they were silent, thinking, as Ms. Taylor told them about some of the people's lives.

"You won't get the full impact, not for a few days or weeks," Ms. Taylor told the students, urging them to jot down a few of their feelings when they got home.

"We have to get our young people to see this," she told the Catholic Telegraph, Cincinnati archdiocesan newspaper, "so things,will be different when they grow up and we won't have a place like House of Bread in our country ever again."

Ms. Taylor said she wants to sensitize young people to problems of poverty and hunger and tries to leave them with the idea that they will have power soon and will be able to make a difference.

She asks students to look people in the eye as they hand out food.

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Dominican Academy Registration for the 1993-1994 school year for kindergarten through grade 8 will be held noon to 3:30 p.m. weekdays today through Feb. 5 and 9 a.m.to noon tomorrow.

An open house will be held at the Fall River school2 t04:30 p.m.

Jan. 31. Entertainment will include presentations by the French club, directed by Pamela Chretien, and by the DA chorus under direction of John Travers. Grade 5 will host a display of Native American culture under direction of Sister Irene Comeau, SSJ. Guided tours will be avaihible and refreshments will be served.

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Dayton's hungry She asks them to "find the soul,and the heart, that's the whole person coming together." She wants them to look beyond hunger and homelessness to see their brother and sister.

Ms. Taylor's educational program began shortly after the House of Bread opened its doors eight years ago, when she was asked to address students at Alter High School. Students from Alter have been coming ever since.

Carroll High School students and University of Dayton students come, as do those from public schools and Temple Israel. Confirmation classes come. But mostly they're eighth-graders, she said, from local Catholic schools.

House of Bread relies on contributions to serve 250 to 500 people each weekday and two Saturdays a month. Churches contribute most ofthe food and money, but private donations, such as a large plate of cookies baked weekly by a neighbor, also help.

New states recognized VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican has recognized the division of Czechoslovakia into two countries. The Vatican announcement said that the decision was made after the Vatican received requests from the Czech Republic and Slovakia to establish diplomatic relations. The Vatican named Arch bishop Giovanni Coppa as its ambassador to both countries.

Previously. he had been ambassador to Czechoslovakia. On Jan. I Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two independent nations.

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Let Washington know how you feel. Watch for Project Life ... a national letterwriting campaign ... in your parish on January 24th.

For more information, call or write: THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

FATHER STEPHEN A. FERNANDES

PRo-LIFE SECRETARIAT

DIOCESAN PRo-LIFE ApOSTOLATE

3211 4TH STREET, N.E.

500 SLOCUM ROAD

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20017

No. DARTMOUTH, MA 02747

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