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Fertilization theme key to 2001 Washington demonstration. .

AMONG THOSE participating in a Martin Luther King Day Service in Bethel A.M.E. Church Monday were, from left, Rabbi William Kaufman and Cantor Richard Wolberg of Temple Beth EI, Fall River Mayor Edward M. Lambert Jr., Rev. Richard E. Morris, the host pastor; Rev. Robert Lawrence, pastor, First Congregational Church; and Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap. (Anchor photos)

Ecumenical service marks Martin Luther King Day ~

Hundreds gather to pray tribute to the late Civil Rights leader.

Durfee High School's United Culture Club read her prizewinning essay, "Do The Right Thing.".

Drawing loud ovation from the congregation were choBy JAMES N. DUNBAR ral selections by the Bethel A.M.E. Choir directed by FALL RIVER - In Gospel music, dance, ScripFrances Scott and with music by Tom and Charlene Korey; a solo, "Always Look Up," by Ed Peters; and ture and reflections, the late Dr. Martin Luther King was remembered at an ecumenical service Monday ; two fine performances by the church's lO-member ' mixed dance group Power Ministry. in Bethel A.M.E. Church. , Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., the Hundreds, representing many faiths, at. ~ - __ last of several ~peakers, addressed slatended the annual service sponsored • .''-----.. very, desegregation and integration, by the Interfaith Council of Greater Fall River, Inc., and a collation that . calling racism ".. a cancer on our sofollowed. / _<-'~ ciety." , H e told the story of a young, The Rev. Richard E. Morris, pastor of the Bethel A.M.E. Church, directed the white, Chicago man, clad in heavy clothing and a , ski mask in order to jog in the cold, who recently service. : was mistaken for a black in the white neighborThe Rev. Robert Lawrence, pastor of the First ! hood resulting in receiving racial slurs and insults.

Congregational Church offered the invocation "At first he was amused, but then the horror and Gladys Edmonds of the host church gave i struck him: that these people hated him," the bishop the welcome. i said, ~'only because they suspected he was black."

Rabbi William Kaufman of Temple Beth El \ g gadv~~~ lrbeadin , and Candt?r Richl.~ I He sUbske~uently l~led~ed hdiI?self to ar nO erg drewa stan mg ovawor lor raCIa Justice an mtegration after delivering King's hisGOD'S GLORY - One of the 10- tion in our country, he added. member Power Ministry moves through In another reflection, Bishop toric, "I have a dream" speech. . Jacqui Haskett Anfield and the vibrant, religious dance that drew loud O'Malley remembered John Christine Sears gave Scriptural ovation from the congregation attending Howard Griffin, a white American readings and Dian~ Boulanger of Martin Luther King Day services.

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By JAMES N. DUNBAR AND eNS REPORTS

FALL RIVER - Young people and adults from across the Diocese of Fall River are packing their bags and pr~paring to head to Washington, D.C., for next Monday's 28th annual March for Life events that decry the evils of abortion and seek for Pro-Life to again be the law of the land in America.

According to Marian Desrosiers, assistant director of the diocesan Pro-Life Office of which Father Stephen A. Fernandes is director, more than 331 people will be transported by six buses to attend the march, Masses and activities that speak out against 1973's dreaded Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion-on-demand.

Four buses carrying approximately 220 young people will leave this diocese on Saturday morning for lodgings in Virginia. The group includes students from all four Catholic High Schools: 34 from Bishop Feehan, 62 from Coyle-Cassidy, 17

The gathering will find that the tenor for the 2001 March for Life promises to be markedly different from January 1993, the last time a new president was inaugurated.

from Bishop Connolly, and 67 from Bishop Stang.

Added to those are three young people from Christ the King Parish in Ma.shpee, 17 from Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Seekonk, eight from Sacred Heart in North Attleboro, and 12 from Our . Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford.

Another two buses with an expected 101 adults representing many parishes, will leave Sunday morning and arrive in Washington in time to obtain hotel and motel lodgings and then join at an 8 p.m., Mass at the Immaculate Conception Basilica.

Along with Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., there are 12 members of the diocesan clergy . heading to the march.' . Among Sunday's activities for the youth is a visit to the Holocaust Museum. On Monday night there will be a bus tour of the Capitol and a dinner.

On Monday, the local pilgrims will attend a Mass celebrated by Bishop O'Malley in Our Lady Queen of the America's Church, and then proceed to the Elipse to join with tens of thousands of Pro-Lifers from across the nation in the rally and march.

The gathering will find that the tenor for the 2001 March for Life promises to be markedly different from January 1993, the last time a new president was inaugurated.

Eight years ago, some marchers waved "Impeach Tum to page J3 - Life

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From South Easton to "Canto Grande,

By FATliER JOHN M. SANTONE,

Since then, a yearly mission ap- and witnessed the poverty in which peal and two specialcollections have these men, women and children live, SOUTH EASTON - Almost allowed Holy Cross to pay the sal- 'our eyes were opened. Suddenly our 40 years ago the Congregation of ary of their sister parish's secretary, world became much larger. In an Holy Cross entered the missions of while also assisting with other ex- instant we began to understand our Peru as a community of young reli- penses incurred from parish pro- Christian vocation to fight for justice and the rights of others. gious working with the poor in a grams.

The JubileeYear provided us with In the context of.the Jubilee Year country marked by civil unrest.

They began ministry in remote vil- 2000, approval came to bring a rep- a teachable moment that will conlages where the larger church was resentative group of parishioners to tinue.

As the heads of state forgive the unable to supply priests.

Peru. This year I took Robert Kane Today, this faithful community and William Van Laarhoven on a debts of impoverished nations and of men continues to send priests and week's trip that brought us to the as the Church calls us to a special brothers to Peru in order to provide doorstep of the parish we in South sensitivity for the poor, this trip allowed us to reach out in a special for parish niinistry, education at the Easton had prayed for each week. high school and college levels, and The purpose ofthe trip was three- way to parishioners in both parishes. seminary formation training for fold: to bring forth a greater awareIt was our hope to touch the hearts young Peruvian men interested in ness and sensitivity to the plight of of the Peruvian people by providbecoming Holy Cross priests or the poor; reinforce the parish's com- ing monetary support and sharing brothers. mitment to their sister parish by al- our faith. In tum, our hearts were From the mountains to the city, lowing local parishioners to have a touched by an experience that chalthe Congregation of Holy Cross first-hand experience of the Peru- lenged us to look at the way we live strives to bring hope to this impov- vian lifestyle; and provide all of us our oWn Christian lives.

This sister parish relationship is erished but beautiful country. in the parish with a greater underIn 1966, the"Holy Cross Fathers standing ofthe universal Church and a blessing indeed, for it reminds us founded a small parish in South our call to truly be brothers and sis- that God does do great things for Easton. Just a few miles from ters across natural boundaries. us. For that we rejoice and are glad.

Stonehill College, they began a minFather Santone is the parochilll The trip was successful. .istry to the local community that had . As we walked along di.rt roads, vicaratHoly Cross Cluuch in South been their home since the establish- roamed through makeshIft markets Easton. ment of the college in 1948.

Over the years the parish blossomed into a community that boasts " of more than 1,800 families.

BUZZARDS BAY - The sented in April in different towns In the mid-1990s it was felt that popular Saints & Singers Cho- in the region. the parish was ready to adopt a "sisrus is looking for new members Rehearsals are held Thurster parish." The search was an easy as it begins another season of days and Fridays, 7-10 p.m., at one, for the religious community the Upper Cape Regional Techmusical programs. that had staffed this parish in South Dolores J. "Dee" Powell, nical School in Bourne. Being Easton also staffed parishes in Peru. president and director of the able to read music is helpful but After consulting the parish coungroup, reports that the first of not required. Music and perforcil, it was decided that Holy Cross the two annual recruiting drives mance attire are provided.

Parish would establish a relationship for new members for the mixed For more infonnation and to with EI Senor De La Esperanza in chorus, soloists and technicians, arrange for an audition, write Canto Grande, Peru. This would be . is underway even as the group to: Dolores Powell, Box 271, Buza tangible way for the 'parishioners begins rehearsals for the musi- zards Bay, MA 02532, or durto learn, experience and reach out cal story of Easter to be pre- ing the evening caJl759-4690. to the poor.

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In Your Prayers Please pray for the following priests during the coming week Jan. 21 1983, Rev. Msgr. Hel}.ri A. Hamel, Retired, St. Joseph, Fall River Jan. 24 1951, Rev. Edward H. Finnegan, S.J., Boston College Faculty 1977, Rev. Thomas F. McMorrow, Assistant, Our Lady of .

Victory, Centerville 1999, Rev. Cornelius 1. O'Neill, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton __ 1987, Rev.

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Jan. 25 Hickey, O.P., Dismas House, Nashville, Tenn.

Jan. 27· 1919, Rev. John T. O'Grady, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, Fall River 1955, Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, Pastor,St. Michael, Fall River 1988, Rev. Thomas E. Lockary, C.S.C., Stonehill College, North Easton .

Jan. 28 1947, Rev. Joseph M. Griffin, Pastor, St.Mary, Nantucket 1961, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John 1. Shay, Pastor, St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro 0

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Programs at Christ the King Parish enrich people's faith Bv MIKE GORDON ANcHoR STAFF MASHPEE ' - Sl. Augustine once said "You have made us for yourself, 0 Lord, and our hearts are restless 'til they rest in you."

For parishioners at Christ the King Parish, restless hearts are few and far between thanks to an Adult Education Program which continues to provide spiritual enriching programming and the commitment of its Adult Education Committee which puts it all together. . The Adult Education Program was instituted in 1999 by a committee of lay people and over the past two years has sponsored an '~Alive in Christ," seminar. Held ov~r a two-day period, parishioners and visitors from throughout the diocese have enjoyed presentations from well-versed professionals on topics such as: Marriage and the Family; Women, Men and the Church; Life; Death; Sexuality; Social Justice; Changes in the Church since Vatican II and many others. More than 200 people at-

tended the program last fall and members of the group contiilUe to bring programming to the community.

"We're trying to do community building," said committee member Chris Boyd, director of continuing Christian formation at the parish.

"We've been very fortunate and encouraged by the response. These programs address issues that are important to people, because there's a hunger for people to have a better understanding about their faith.

The program encompasses an entire day on Saturday concluding with 4 p.m. Mass, and committee member Margaret Bowen Diggins says it benefits both the old and young of the diocese.

"It's been very successful," said Diggins. "We've gotten positive feedback from people and Ws generating more interest as it goes on.

It's a concerted effort by many people." . Diggins added that the program stems from pastor Msgr. Ronald A. Tosti seeing a need for it and from

suggestions submitted by parishioners.

One success of the Education ComIT)iltee was a Catholic College Fair which saw 17 Catholic colleges represented. It gave many high school juniors information about their education and means to explore faith-based education.

On Jan. 28 the parish will host a program entitled "Breaking Bread: Deepening Christian Family Life," from 1-3 p.m: It will feature guest speakers addressing the ~ssue of family. All programs are open to anyone within the diocese.

Other upcoming programs include guest speaker Mary, Condon exploring the Scriptures in March;

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themoorin~ The war of terrorism

To most Americans, the concept of the Jihad, the Islamic Holy War, is right from the pages of the "Arabian Nights." Somehow we think that this sacred duty to kill all foes is removed from the reality of our culture and times and thus is related to the frustrations and moods of the Near East. Well, we better quickly learn that the Jihad is very real, very dangerous atld very threatening to our nation's security, never mind the ~ace of the international community.

In recent publications on this particular issue, The New York Times has indeed provided an informational series that should be read by all who doubt the effectiveness of international terrorism, our present and future war. In the person of one man's crusade, 'as is so often history's lesson, one man has linked the widely dispersed factions of Islam into a universal am1y of terror. The name Osawa bin Laden has become the new prophet who is rallying the diverse faces of the dissident world of Mohammad into a unified army of terrorists which now threatens even the internal security of the United States. How quic19Y we have forgotten the explosion at the World Trade Center in 1993 as well as the 1998 bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people.

The elusive desert leader is effectively and efficiently molding an international army whose aim is to battle all foes openly where possible but preferably under the cloak of terrorism. They are in for the long haul; time means nothing when it comes to the total eradication of their foes. Currently the Israelis and the Americans are at the top of their list. .

Using a centuries-old interpretation of the Koran, the Islamic "Bible", to justify violence in the name of God against all who oppose the divine will of Allah, this new terrorist army will be a major threat to world security here at home. and abroad for days, months and years to come. The operation arid destruction of the USS Cole is horrific testimony to what we can anticipate in the future. Inspired by their defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan, the rebels have now solidified their position and are recruiting Islamic dissidents throughout the world.

It路should be obvious to all that as we enter into the new century, we also enter into a new form of warfare that has very old roots. Really, no one and no country are safe from terrorists. When the motivation is religious, then terrorism becomes fanaticism and everyone, everywhere, is at risk. <:ertai'nly the world's intelligence agencies are well aware and very sensitive to this developing crisis. In this light the bonds of mutual dependence becomes increasingly close between all citizens and peoples of the world. The universal-common good needs to be intelligently persuaded and more efficiently achieved. It is obvious that the family of nations must take serious measures to protect their integrity. Yet in this process they should not neglect those areas of the world that still are burdened by intolerable need. It is in such a setting that terrorism is the only way out of abject poverty and neglect. While facing grave danger from such situations, the develBy FATHER EUGENE' HEMRICK oped countries still need to attend to the hardship of refugees scatCATHOLICN~ws SERVICE tered throughout the world and to assist migrants and their families.

In December I took a train To eradicate the breeding grounds of terrorism by promoting progress into Chicago from the suburbs. and prosperity in those lands which suffer so greatly from the neglect of the more affluent nations, will indeed be a move in the right direc- As we approached the downtown tion. The modem interconnection between peoples demands the es- area, I noticed old factories that tablishment of greater international cooperation in the alleviation of had been broken down now sporting new windows. As I grave inequities. .

As the Fathers of Vatican II reflected: "If an economic order is to be looked closer, I noticed that the created which is genuine and universal, there must be an abolition of majority of these old buildings excessive desire for profit, nationalistic pretentions, lust for political had new energy-saving window domination and intrigues designed to spread and impose ideologies.'" frames and windows.

"Ah,"路 I thought to myself, We have the freedom of choice; the terrorist does ~ot live in.freedom. "people are starting to catch on The Editor that our energy resources are not limitless."

It occurred to me that Chicago was also working on a plan to have roof-top gardens on its bigger buildings in order to cool the city in the summer and cut OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER down on air-a:li>nditioning.

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Send address changes 10 P.O. BOll 7 or call1elephone number above Though there are positive signs, one of our biggest conEDITOR GENERAL MANAGER NEWS EDITOR cerns in the near future will be . James N. Dunbar Rev. Msgr. John F. Moore Rosemary Dussault the conservation of energy. I PRODUCTION MANAGER once asked a German friend Dave Jolivet what he thought of America's

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lifestyle. "You have big appe- contemporary language. tites!" was his response.

Most Americans live in their In ma~y ways we do have big own homes and pride themselves appetites, which are difficult to on being rugged individuals. But curb. Though some are trying to they also live in neighborhoods conserve resources, there are still and civic communities which far too many people who could they may tend to overlook. care less.

Christ's command to love our How might this be turned neighbor as we love ourselves needs to be "translated" anew into around?

Incentives, such as tax breaks how we live. and rebates, are good starters.

One way of doing this might People will subscribe to energy . be to envision Christ's command saving if they are rewarded. as imploring us to develop the Although rewarding people altruistic habit of putting others for doing something they before ourselves. New forms of should be doing voluntarily love of neighbor are needed to isn't the most profound way to counter the "me first" attitude that do things, it is realistic. From presently pervades society. Love the day of our birth, our par- 路of neighbor is especially pertinent ents used reward systems to today for neutralizing irresponsiteach us that good actions de- bility, self-centeredness and hardserve to be affirmed. In<;entives heartedness. It implores us to implaya prominent role in our pregnate society with a renewed daily lives. sense of community 'spirit, teamIf, however, we are to curb work and unity. our appetites, new'and imaginaWhen we add the virtue of tive reward systems will be humility to this, it wakens our needed. But a more powerful and memory to the. fact that we have lasting way to accomplish this is no right to the resources with to translate religious values such which God endowed us. They are as' respect for the common good a daily blessing we dare not take and humility into meaningful, for granted.

The message is fine, but what about the messenger?

Starting at the tail end of Decem- a touchdown, struts in the end zone, nent, then points up to heaven. ber, and carrying right through the taunts his adversaries, pumps his .

I suppose it's nice that they even end of January, it's "Bowl Season" chest- ... then points up to heaven. think of the Lord at all at this time, in the football world. That translates It bothers me every time a de- but I really wonder, why bother? Is into 25 major bowl games from HQ- fensive back levels an opponent with that the Christian message that's supnolulu to Miami in the college ranks, a crushing blow, hovers over his posed to be sent - do what you and II playoffgames in the National fallen opponent talking trash and want, then cap it off with a thank Football League, culminating with beating his chest, then pointing up you to the Almighty? the Super Bowl on Jan. 28 in Tampa, to the heavens.

I doubt Christ smiles on such Fla. things. Can you see Mary The pigskin is under a at Cana asking Jesus to microscope this time of save the Qride and groom year. Those who wouldn't the embarrassment of runnormally watch football ning out of wine for the on television, are drawn . guests, and Jesus changing in by the hype and hoopla. the water to wine, then And you have to wonder strutting past the guests, what goes through the pounding his chest, then

By Dave Jolivet mind of the casual fan as . giving glory to the Father? they tune in for a peek.

Can you picture Christ They may think, "Isn't cleverly answering one of it refreshing to see all the attention It bothers me every time a de- the Sanhedrin's trick questions, then God gets now during sporting fensive lineman crunches a quar- walking up to them with an "in your events?" "Look at how members of terback, whether he has the ball or face" glare, turning to the onlookcompeting teams get together after not, and includes an extra elbow to ers waving his arms, then giving the game to kneel in prayer?" "Lis- the head or neck, steps on the man glory to the Father? ten to the athletes send thanks to the as he gets up, runs to an isolated Can you picture the Lord, raisLord for ·his achievements and the part of the field, exalts himself in ing the young girl from the dead, team's victOlY." front of the crowd, then points up slapping five with the Apostles all Refreshing? Maybe. Idon'tknow to heaven. the while saying, 'Tm the man," if it's just me, but something seems It bothers me every time a punt then giving glory to the Father? wrong. There seems to be an oil and returner weaves his way through the Can you pi~ture Jesus, after his water mixture here that just doesn't opposition en route to paydirt, then resurrection, taunting and trash talkblend well. The message is mixed turns and taunts his chasers, slow- ing to those responsible for his cruand confusing to me, and I'm not a ing down just enough not to be cifixion, then giving praise to the casual fan. caught, then high-steps into the Father? .

It bothers me every time a run- promised land, performs a ritual with It's sickening to picture Jesus rening back or a wide receiver scores teammates to humiliate the oppo- sorting to such antics. So is watch-

My View From the Stands

Bishops' conference will take new nalTIe July 1 WASHINGTON (CNS) - As of July I the U.S. bishops' two national conferences will be combined, reorganized and given a new name: the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As with many similar names, the "United States" portion will often be shortened to "U.S.," and the entire name will often be abbreviated as USCCB. The name change comes when new statutes reorganizing the bishops national structures take effect.

Bishop.Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, president of the two current conferences - the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference - notified the bishops of the Vatican approval and issued a decree promulgating the statutes, effective July I. For a broader public, perhaps one of the more notable changes will be the renaming this summer of the conference's website, from www.nccbuscc.org to www.usccb.org. In the past year the Web site received nearly 2.2 million visitors. It carries daily Scripture readings for Mass, the complete New American Bible on line and movie reviews and classifications, as well as news and information about NCCB-USCC . publications, statements and activities.

From 1922 to 1966 the bish-

ops' organized voice on the national scene was known as the National Catholic Welfare Conference. It addressed pastoral, social, charitable and public policy concerns but had no canonical authority to establish laws or norms regulating Church governance and practice within dioceses.

The Second Vatican Council in the 1960s called for bishops to establish episcopal conferences with canonical authority over certain matters, such as national liturgical texts. . In 1966, in response to the council mandate, the bishops established the National Conference of Catholic Bishops as their canonical conference to deal with matters concerning the internal life of the Church.

As a result of a revision of the NCCB-USCC financial structure in 1989-91, the bis.hops decided it was time to start re-evaluating its entire mission and structure.

The late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago was named to head a committee on mission and structure. From 1992 until his death in November 1996 he led the bishops in extensive consultations on restructuring.

In 1997 the bishops voted to combine NCCB-USCC into one conference, naming it the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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THEANCHOR-DioceseofFall River-Fri., January 19,2001 ing the "modem day Apostles" on the gridirons across our land.

I don't argue that football is a game of emotion, but it is possible to play intensely, cleanly and with passion without the bravado, the taunting, the self-glorification. Doing so would allow the faith testi-

monials to the Father ring a little truer to those of us watching from a distance.

Dave Jolivet is a former sports writer/editor, and a current staff member of The Allchor.

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FALL RIVER - A series of four' monthly classes on Natural Family Planning by the Couple to Couple League will begin Feb. 6 from 6:308:30 p.m. at Saint Anne's Hospital. Classes will be held on March 6, April 3 and May 1.

For registration information call Diane Santos at 674-5741 ext. 2480.

FALL RIVER - The Fall River Widowed Group will meet Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in the St. Mary's School hall. Assistant District Attorney.Bemard Herman will be: guest speaker.

All widows and widowers an~ welcome. For more informa-' tion call Annette Dellecese at 679-3278.

monthly meeting of St. John of the Cross, Third Order of Carmelites, will be held Sunday beginning with Mass at 5:30 p.m. at Christ the King Parish. Prayer and study will follow. For more information call Mary Good at 759-6354.

NEW BEDFORD - Devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help is celebrated every Tuesday following the noon Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. Devotion to Divine Mercy' follows the noon Mass on Thursdays. For more information call 9929378.

NORTH DARTMOUTHA Separated-Divorced Support Group will meet Jan. 29 from 7-9 p.m. at the Diocesan Family Life Center, ~OO Slocum Road. The topic will be "Filing Income Taxes as a Separated or Divorced Person."

WESTPORT - Two seminars entitled "Debt-Free Living," and "Spend Smart," will be held: Jan. 20 and Jan. 27 from 9 a.m. to noon at White's of Westport. They are sponsored .by the" Yoiltlr lino' Young Adult Ministry Office. For registration call Bud Miller at 6753847.

The Eucharist and Chr,ist's sacrifice on Calvary The eucharistic celebration, it says, is not a difQ. Our question has to do with the Mass.

We would like to know how to respond to our ferent or additional sacrifice. Rather, we call it a Protestant friends when they cite Hebrews sacrifice because it re-presents - makes present 10:11-18, which says we no longer need priests again - the sacrifice of the cross. It is a rememto offer sacrifice (during Mass) because Christ brance, a memorial. of that event, and makes it "in a certain way present died once and for all. and real." , If this is true, ac- _ - - - - - - - - - - To put it another way, cording to Hebrews, the sacrifice of the Eu"there is no longer any charist and the sacrifice offering for sin." Since of Christ on Calvary are Jesus died and sacrione single sacrifice. The ficed his life pnce and difference is in the manfor all, they say, there

By Father ner'of the offering. should be no "priests" John J. Dietzen . In the words of the now. There is no, posCouncil of Trent, the sibility or need for " - - - - - - - - - - -.... catechism teaches that in more sacrifices than .

Jesus Christ has offered. How ~o we answer the eucharistic liturgy "the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar that? (Indiana) A. Your Protestant friends are right, of course, of the cross is contained and is offered in an in claiming that Jesus Christ offered the one per- unbloody manner" ul'I:der the sacramental symbols fect sacrifice, offering his body once for all (Heb of bread and wine. (See especially Nos. 1362-1367.)

You may explain this to your friend, of course.

10: 10). It is the teaching of the Letter to the Hebrews, and certainly is Catholic doctrine, that no You must realize, however, that it is often diffinew or additional sacrifice is necessary or pos- cult for those Christians who have had little encounter with religious sacramental symbols to sible for the salvation of the world.

A new or additional sacrifice, however, is not grasp this understanding of the Eucharist.

Catholics and membersQf other denominations the same thing as a re-offering of the one sacrifice of Christ, which is what the Church teaches takes who have a more extensive"belief and experience place at the celebration of the Eucharist at Mass. with sacramental forms of worship generally will The letter to the Romans (8:34) tells us that find it. much easier.

Jesus, in his'crucit}ed and risen body, stands at the A free brochure in English or Spanish outside of the Father always interceding for us. In lining marriage regulations in the Catholic other words, always offering to the Father his death Church and explaining the promises in an inand resurrection on our behalf. terfaith marriage, is available by sending a As the :'Catechism of the Catholic Church" ex- stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father plains it, our celebration of the Eucharist echoes John Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651. this continual re-offering of the paschal mystery, Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at the dying and rising of Christ. the same address, or e-mail: iidietzen@aol.com.

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I just read yet another story about a man on unique to Illinois. These are problems that have death row possibly being innocent. plagued the administration of capital punishment Edward Lee Elmore has spent 18 years on death around the country." In fact, of 260 death senrow in South Carolina for the rape and brutal tences appealed in recent years, fully half have FALMOUTH - The St. murder of a 75-year-old widow. Hair samples, re- been reversed.. for reasons such as those cited by Joseph Community of the' WEST HARWICH"":"" The portedly lost for years, surprisingly have now been Feingold.

Discalced Carmelite Secular· Perpetual Adoration 'Chapel at . found .. DNA testing Seeing how important Order on Cape Cod will be Holy Trinity' Church, E,oute proves, say his lawyers, it is for prisoners to have accepting new members in 28, invites people to sign up that Dorothy. Edwards access to DNA testing, February. Inquiries should be and spend an hour or two in was killed by someone Sen. Patrick Leahy (Dsent to Susan Muldoon, prayer. This regional chapel of else, 'not by Elmore.

Vt.) last winter introOCDS, Director of Formation, the mid-Cape area ,depends on A case like this unduced the Innocence Proderscores the concern tection Act, legislation 91 Comanche Driv~, the support of people. All ages Falmouth, MA 02540.

By Antoinette Bosco aimed at reducing the many now have about welcome. For more informathe question of innorisk of executing innotion call Jane Jannell at 430cence when the ·death ..- - - - - - - - - - -.......f.._..::....__.... cent persons by ensuring MASHPEE The 0014. penalty is the punishthat state and federal ment. My concern escalated back in 1985 when prisoners have access to DNA testing. Reportedly, the American Civil Liberties Union circulated a he will reintroduce the bill this coming session.

I credit Robert Zani, a Catholic prisoner writstudy showing that an average of four e~tirely innocent people have been convicted of murder each ing to me from his solitary cell in Texas since year since 1900; 23 of these innocent people were 1996, for helping me to see so many facets of the executed. death penalty. (He first read a CNS column I wrote 'WASHINGTON (CNS)- the times and locations of religious The Judicial Process Commission in Roches- that was in a Texas Catholic weekly.) Zani repeatPhone calls to 1-800 Mass Times, services in English and other lanter, N.Y., reports that more than 88 innocent people edly has told me that ending the death penalty the toll-free service that provides guages" as well as a special sechave been released from death row'since 1972. hinges on the innocence issue. . locations ~nd times of Masses na- tion on Mass locations at popular Since 1977, for every seven people executed, one "Innocence is the key to the death-penalty istionwide, are on the increase, ac- tourist sites. was released from death row. sue and it is the key to straightening out the entire cording to the organization that The most phone calls to 1-800 Just a year ago Illinois Gov. George Ryan con- criminal-justice system, which is in a shambles," runs the ministry to traveling Mass Times came from Pennsylfronted the fact that 13 death-row inmates in his Zani wrote me. "Innocence is no longer relevant Catholics., . vania, followed by California, state had been found to be innocent since 1977. in the crjminal-justice system becau~e it is no The 1-800 Mass Times Trust New York, Florida, Ohio, Texas; The Republican governor declared a moratorium longer relevant in the hearts and minds of Amerisaid there were 66,000 telephone Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana and until there isreform legislation that can fix the vol- cans. Law professors Fred Bennett of the Catholic inquiries in 1998, 100,000.in Maryland. urnes of errors that accompany convictions in capi- University and Alan Raphael of Loyola Univer, 1999 and at least 130,000 calls in tal cases. He said he would never want it on his sity of Chicago went public and said: 'Death-penPromotion of I-800· Mass 2000.

Times is one of the efforts of the conscience that he had been a party to "the ultimate alty opponents will not be successful until the foInformation also is available U.S. bishops' Catholic Communightmare - the state's taking of an innocent life." cus is placed on innocent people.' Exactly, and on the organization's website at nication Campaign, which also As for why some innocent people are put on amen," Zani wrote. www.masstimes.org, which re- sponsors a toll-free movie review death row, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) explains As Zani says, the question of innocence is pivit well: "The problem of inadequate representa- otal in seeking any reforms of the criminal-justice ceived about 120,000 hits in 1999 line at (800) 311-4CCC, the and an estimated 150,000 in 2000.. weekly TV talk show "Personally tion, lack of access to DNA testing, police inis- system, because when it's a death-penalty case, a conduct, racial bias and even simple errors are not mistake is fatal.

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The Clinton legacy The 42nd president ofthe United States began to define his legacy hours after his 1993 inauguration, when be signed a series ofexecutive orders deepening the federal government's involvement with abortion-on-demand. That these would be the first acts of the new Ointon adrninis- v .....tration ought to have alerted the country to what was just around the corner.

With the Ointon presidency, the sexual revolution came to the White House with gale fon:e ---.11Ol simply as a malta' of' one undiscipIiIIed, man's fouling the Oval Office, but asa _ of' grave puIjtic coosequeIlCe. ror the seoaJ8Ire.oIuIiooearrieswilhitaeoo cept of fR:edom that is aotitbetica1 to the Founcb-s' understanding of our Iibcrties and, ultimaIe1y, conusive of democmi;y itself- the idea of IRedom as persoIIlI1 wiIIfuIness.The freedom to which the' Founders pledged their lives, forlunes,andsacredbonorwastheright to do what we ought to do, the right to act responsibly. It was a means to goodness. Freedom, the Founders thought, should be an ennobling thing. Will anyone contend that the United States has been ennobled by a presidency whose theme song might well be that mindless Sinatra antiphon, "I Did It My Way"?

Why did proponents of the sexoal revolution, including prominent feminists, stick by PresidentClinton

to the bitler end? He had betrayed the liberal cause on health care,' NAFTA, WTO, welfare reform. He was a self-evident abuser ofwomen.

Yet they stuck by him, ferociously.

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The 42nd president of the United an office to which his successor musI States was, by conventional accoun~ restore honesty and honor. It is a very a man of formidable political skills. high price to pay for ooe man's lack But if democracy is more than a of self -rornmand, and for his demalta'ofelectoral mathematics, then fenders' insistence that fieedom is, at the Ointon legacy is notahappyooe. bottom, doing it my way.

George Weigel is a senior reiThis manofhigh intelligence and personal charm could have been a great . low of1he EdUcs and Public Policy president. Instead, be leaves behind Center in Washington, D.C.

dent in 1998-1999 as an issue of the role of law. We know that our public life has been coarsened and that the political atmospbere has become toxic. We havejust witnessed, in the five weeks after Election Day, an attempted coup'd'etat by means of the imperial judiciary.

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PRESENTEES FROM Cape Cod parishes greet Bishop O'Malley. From left: Shiloh Carmella Adler, Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville; Diane Rossi, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis; Thomasina Maura Taylor, Holy Redeemer, Chatham; Colleen Farrow, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Caitlin Ryan, St. Pius X, South Yarmouth; the bishop.

GUESTS ENJOY themselves at Bishop's Ball 2001 last Friday evening at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea. Proceeds from the event go to diocesan charities.

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KATHERINE LUCCA, of St. Dominic's Parish, Swansea, poses for a photo with Bishop O'Malley.

KIMBERLY WEEKS of St. Ann's Parish, Raynham, shares a smile with her parents, Karen and Scott Weeks.

BISHOP O'MALLEY greets presentees frOm the Fall River Deanery. From left: Judy de Oliveira, Our Lady of Health, Fall River; Stacey Viveiros,. Espirito Santo,. Fall River; Sarah Mulrooney, St. Bernard, Assonet; Rochelle Lavoie, St. Joseph, Fall River; Amanda Lee Rebello, St. Stanislaus, Fall River; the bishop; Katherine Lucca SI. Dominic, Swansea; Vanessa Carvalho, Immaculate Conception, Fall River; Jennifer Leimert, St. John the Baptist, Westport; and Theresa Sousa, St. Anne, Fall River. . <:~'

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FRED AND JILL La Piana escort their daughter Sarah to meet the bishop. Sarah was a presentee of the Catholic Parishes of Martha's Vineyard.

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Fiddler hears ofGrammy nomination while playing duet with bishop ByART BABYCH CAlHOUC NEWS SeRvK:e

OTIAWA, Canada - Canadian fiddling sensation Natalie MacMaster leamed of her nomination for a Grammy award while playing a duet at her home with another accomplished maritime fiddler, Bishop J. FaberMacDonald of Saint John, New Brunswick.

"She was very. very excited," .the.hishopsaidJll a te1ep/looe in terview recently.

MacMaster, 28, had finished playing sev-

four years running and Canadian Juno awarda for her last two records, "In My Hands" and "My Roots Are Showing."

The latter record was released in the United Stales in 2000, making it eligible for the. Grammy nomination. The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony is to be telecast from Los Angeles Feb.

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RYAN PHILUPPE stars in the movie thriller "Antitrust." For abri6f review of this film, see

Bishop MaeDenaId.is-a Iong~- B-NSMovieCapsules below. (CNSphOlOTrom MefrO:-GolOwyn-Miiyet") time friend of the entertainer and helped arrange an audience for her perfonnances and awkward plot ference classification is A-ill and her twists amount to a very weak film. adults. The Motion Picture Assoeral tunes on brother, Some violence, an instance of ciation of America rating is PGthe violin, inKevin, with One ofCanadas busiest rough language and sporadic crass I3 - parents are strongly cau,Pope John cluding "a words. The U.S. Catholic Confer- tioned. Some material may be inentertainers, MacMaster Paul II lasf very beautiful enee classification is A-IT- adults appropriate for children under 13. lillie jig hon- attends Mass regularly April. and adolescents. The Motion Pic"Vi Yi (A One ..... A Two)" The bishop, oring her even when she's, on the ture Association of America rat(WinStar Cinema) chair of tbe molher," said road. In an interview fast ing ,is PG-13 - parents are Abso$ing domestic drama Bishop year, she acknowledged social commustrongly cautioned. Some material about the rnidIife malaise of a Tai~ nications comMacDonald. her musical talent as a gift may be inappropriate for children wanese businessman (Wu She then mission of the under 13.

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Canadian Conaccompanied "Double 'Thke" (Toucbstone) his family and computer company ference of the fiddleNEW YORK (CNS) - FolLousy action comedy in which together while sorting out feelings Catholic Bishplaying lowing are recenl capsule reviews an investment banker (Orlando for an old sweetheart (Ke Suyun) bishop on piano when the phone ops, had stopped by MacMaster's issued by the U.S. Catholic Con- Jones) framed for laundering whom he unexpectedly bumps into rang. Moments later her brother home in Troy, on the southwest ference Office for FiIm and Broad- Mexican drug cartel money after 20 years. Set in Thipei, diwhispered in the recording artist's coast ofNova Scotia's Cape Breton casting. switches identities with a rector Edward Yang's three-hour ear she that she had won her first Island, while en route to nearby "Antitrust" (MGM) scamming peny thief (Eddie Grif- film is a rich, fimny and humane Grammy nomination. Not want- Port Hood for a healing Mass the Lame thriller about a young fin), who turns out to be in even family portJ:ait with keen obsering to be rode, MacMaster, a Catho- day the Grammy nominations computer whiz (Ryan Phillippe), more trouble. A completely inCD- valions, but the film's otherwise were announced. lic, continued playing. wooed by a huge Silicon Valley herent narrative with no momeD- finely tuned 'pace.lags somewhat Born in Linle Pond, Prince company, who discovers his powThe tall, blond fiddler, honortum and sbalnefu1 stereOl)'pical in the final third. Subtitles. MaIsland, Bishop erful ary chair of Share Lent, the an- Edward boss (fim Robbins) is heat- portrayals of African-Americans lure themes, brief violeoce, flee'tnual fund-raising campaign of the MacDonald. 68, recalled that in his ing the competition by stealing renderdiiec10i Geooge Gallo's tor- ing nudity and some rough lanCanadian Catholic Organization youth ''the violin player was king." ideas from young start-up pro- pid ft,Iln ~ uDwatchabIe. guage. The U.S. catholic Conferfor Development and Peace, was He started playing the fiddle as a grammers and then killing them. Intermi_t~Spotajlic . ence classification is A-III nominated in the "Best Traditional youngster, but put it aside after he As directed by Peter Howitt, the crudeltlDguace8Bd of adults. Not rated by the Motion Folk Album" category for the al- Degan attending St. Dunstan's unconvincing story line, stilted profanity. The U.s. Catholic Can- Picture Association of America.

University in Charlottetown, bum "My Roots Are Showing:" One of Canada's busiest enter- Prince Edward'Island.

However, he took up the violin tainers, MacMaster attends Mass regularly even when sbe's on the again after being ordained to the road. In an interview last year, she priesthood in 1963 and was instruacknowledged her musical talent mental in organizing the Prince NEW YORK (CNS) - The sense ofhumor, although scattered (Catholic~) .

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13 percent said they were "middle-income" and 24 percent said they were poor.

"Low unemployment rates and the creation of new wealth have conspired to make many Americans believe that poverty and homelessness in the U.S. have disappeared," Father Vitillo said.

"It is shameful that a nation that controls 29 percent of the world's wealth has so many people living in poverty," he said.

The survey found that 44 per-

cent of respondents said they had given money in the last ye.ar to an organization that helps the poor and 16 percent said they had gotten involved with or encouraged community-based organizations to address poverty and injustice.

In fighting poverty, Father Vitillo said, "Some results can be expected from individual efforts, but the most effective approach to reducing poverty is through community-based, self-help organizations.

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Washington. called themselves "low-income," The campaign - which in'By focusing on poverty in cludes TV and radio public-ser- January, we hope to remind vice l!ds in English and Spanish, Americans early each year that print ads for Catholic and secular poverty is still very much a part publications and a website at of American life," he added. www.povertyusa.org - desigCCHD, the national anti-povLow, low rates starting at nates January as Poverty in erty program of the U.S. CathoAmerica Awareness Month. lic bishops, funds self-help ,Foc~si/lg 0'1 "Pove,rty.USA,"as projects initiated and led by poor No points, no closing'costs America's'''second largest state," people themselves. The funds 1st, 2nd, 3rd MORTGAGES the ads note that one in 11 fami- come from an annual collection Purchase or Refinance Improvement & Repair lies and one in six children cur- in U.S. Catholic parishes.

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Ummat daily in Karachi reported that in decrees broadcast over Afghanistan's Radio Shariat, . Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid made conversion to Christianity or distribution of literature promoting Christianity or Judaism by a Muslim a capital offense.

UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand, reported that Ummat said decrees issued by the Islamic leader have the force of law in Taliban-ruled territory.

It said that the supreme Taliban leader also made distribution of literature against Islam p':lnishable by five years in

prison.

Ummat cited the muUah as saying that a campaign against Islam has been launched and all faithful Muslims should confront it. He also reportedly said that some Muslims have left Islam for material gain.

The paper also reported that Taliban leader Abdulhai Mutmian has alleged that some· foreign agencies are spreading the Christian religion and converting Afghan Mus1.ims.

Mutmian said such agencies are operating inside and outside Afghanistan, but he did not name any. .

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Bishop says Church opposition to homosexual. acts won't change

By ANN PIASECKI

From a societal perspective, such unions are harmful to chilSPRINGFIELD, III. - De- dren and complicate their lives, spite ongoing pressure, politi- he added. "It's unfair to kids. The cal lobbying efforts and protests norm 'is the nuclear family," he staged by gay rights advocates, said. including picketing the U.S. He said it was important for bishops in Washington, the Catholic leaders to participate in Church's opposition to homo- dialogue on the issue of homosexual activity and gay mar- sexuality, or the general popula-. riages is not going to change, tion could confuse "no response" said Auxifiary Bishop Roger L. as a form of acceptance, he said.

Kaffer of Joliet In his address"to the Knights, The bishop addressed more Bishop Kaffer, a former high than 100 attendees at the winter school principal and religion indistrict meetstructor, noted ing of the Illithat students nois Knights are bound to "Our failure to speak up of Columbus question the in SpringChurch's on these things makes field. stance, espepeople think it's all right," He said the cially when Bishop Kaffer said.

Catholic the idea of Church's "coming out" teaching makes headagainst homolines. sexual activity is not intended to Asked once by a student cause harm ~o gay individuals, but whether he would hire a homohe admonished unchaste behav- sexual teacher, the bishop said, he ior. simply responded that he would "It is called consistency. We not hire anyone who advocated love the sinner, but we hate the sexual activity outside of marsin," he said. riage.

Bishop Kaffer said he wanted "Some people subjectively to publicly educate the faithful so think it is all right to have an abor- . they do not become confused on tion, some people subjectively the issue. . think it is all right to act out hoIn an earlier interview with the mosexually. But the important Catholic Explorer, newspaper of thing is to know what is God's the Joliet Diocese, he explained .objective truth. And it does make that as the issue of gay rights a difference," he said. gains more exposure, he sees a Bishop Kaffer noted that ditendency for the mov.ement to ocesan ministry to gays and lescreate advocates for a gay lifestyle bians is crucial because of the or at least foster tacit acceptance burden those individuals have in by what he called the passive living in accordance with th.e majority.

Gospel.

"Our failure to speak up on ~ishop Kaffer also condemned these things makes people think any type of negative actions toit's all right," he said. ward homosexuals.

Referring to efforts to gain legHe called upon the Knights islative support for equating ho- to understand the issue of homosexual unions with marriage of mosexuality as it pertains to the a man and woman, the bishop individual, marriage and chilemphasized that sanctioning dren, and, when the opportunity same-sex unions runs contrary to arises, to promote the Church's Scriptural teachings. position.

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BISHOP ROBERT F. Vasa assembles computer cables at the chancery building in Bend, Ore. The 49-year-old bishop of Baker, who grew up in a Nebraska farming community, has the temperament and skills of a do-it-yourselfer. (eNS photo by Dean Guernsey, Catholic Sentine~

Farm background sets Bishop Vasa as a do-it-yourselfer

By ED LANGLOIS CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

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Bishop Robert

F. Vasa has headed the Baker diocese for almost a year now, but he still has the hands and temperament of a farm boy.

Having grown up in rural Nebraska, the 49-year.-old bishop is showing that he would just as soon do the chores himself as call a . handyman or a technician.

For example, he is finishing up an after-hours project that entails stringing computer cable through the diocesan chancery in Bend, setting up a network hub, placing network cards in computers and installing network software..

His goal: Internet access for each computer. "I also want to look into in-office messaging, fax access, and a possible network scanner," Bishop Vasa says casually.

As vicar general in Lincoln, Neb., he gained a reputation for a gung-ho, do-it-yourself attitude.

There, after hours, he singlehandedly converted a large room into a Lincoln diocese museum, installi"ng items like cabinets, ceilings and wiring. .

"It is very'enjoyable for me, a great hobby and diversion," the

bishop said of his nighttime and weekend projects. "I grew up in an environment where we did most repair work around our home ourselves. I have simply continued to exercise, prudently, those repair and construction skills Which I acquired growing up."

Does a bishop, like many home handymen, swear when he hammers a thumb or nicks a knuckle?

"Skinned knuckles are a part of it but these have never been a source of expletives for me," Bishop Vasa said in an interview with the Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the Port. land Archdiocese and the Baker diocese.

This is just the hands-on work that balances the spiritual and administrative tasks that take up most days. In his first year, Bishop Vasa has launched plans to emphasize evangelization and priestly vocations, ~ong other things.

Readers of the Catholic Sentinel have lauded his weekly column.

His staff tends to marvel at his energy and versatility.

Mondays come with great anticipation, as workers come to see what the bishop has done next, whether it be re-tiling a floor, repairing a light fixture, moving

massive bookshelves or drilling dozens of access holes for cables.

"It is amazing the kind of stuff he can do," said Father Jim Logan, chancellor of the diocese. "He has a broad range of talents, everything from being able to preach well, exuding a lot of enthusiasm for the faith, to all of his hands-on projects."

"There is no way to stump him," said Peggy Buselli, a chancery secretary. "No matter what needs to be done, he can figure it out. Nothing is too heavy for him. If sqmething really heavy needs to be taken out, it disappears over the weekend, and everyone knows Bishop Vasa is the only one who has been here over the weekend."

The new bishop, and his handiness, remind local folks of his predecessor as the spiritual head of Catholics in eastern Oregon.

Bishop Thomas J. Connolly, who retired last year after almost 30 years, was a fix-it man and country boy in his own rig~t.

"The staff reminds me often of my need to keep moving forward," Bishop Vasa said. "Actually it's more like, 'When ,will you be done already!'" The bishop said he will continue to putter, repair and build as long as he is able.

Lutherans, Episcopalians celebrate full communion

By JERRY FILTEAU

preached the sermon.

Full communion allows the 7.7 WASHINGTON - The Epis- million U.S. Episcopalians and copal Church and Evangelical Evangelical Lutherans to share Lutheran Church in America in- clergy and .churches and engage in augurated a new life together this common mission. It is not a month with a national celebration merger, 'however, 'and e'ach church will retain its own structures and of full communion.

Some 3,500 members of ttie worship style.

The dialogue that led to full two churches filled the Washing- . ton National Cathedral, renewing communion began in 1969. In their baptismal vows and sharing 1982 it led to an interim agreethe Eucharist in a two-hour wor- ment for eucharistic sharing, alship service that blended both li- lowing members of each church to share in the other's Eucharist as turgical traditions.

ELCA Presiding. Bishop H. they worked on remaining issues George Anderson presided at the that needed to be resolved in orliturgy and Episcopal Presiding der to enter into full communion.

Bishop Griswold described it as Bishop Frank T. Griswold CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

enabling the two churches to "speak tors ordained by bishops in the hiswith one voice to a broken world." toric episcopate, others have not, Bishop Anderson said that be- and Lutherans do not see the hissides deepening the relationship toric episcopate as an essential and collaboration of Lutherans and mark of the church. They regard Episcopalians, the full commun- . the difference between pastors and ion agreement "can be an encour- bishops as one of jurisdiction, not . agf<ment to other church bodies ordination. who are in one way or another Under "Called to Common Misworking toward some fuller rela- sion," the Episcopal Church has tionship. It says it can be done." temporarily suspended the appliThe world Anglican Commun~ cation to the ELCA of the Angliion, to which the U.S. Episcopal can Ordinal's prohibition against Church belongs, requires the or- exercise of ordained ministry by dination of all priests and bishops anyone not ordained by a bishop by other bishops already ordained in the historic episcopate. That allows "full interchangeability and in historic succession. . While some Lutheran churches reciprocity" of all ordained minhave continued having their pas- isters路 without requiring current

ELCA ministers to undergo some form of reordination.

The ELCA, in tum, has pledged that at future installations of its bishops, Lutheran bishops in the historic episcopate will participate in the laying on of hands and invocation of the Spirit, and all future clergy ordinations will be presided over by a bishop.

Three of the ELCA's full communion partners - the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Church of Christ -. are "part of COCU, which plans to enter a major new phase in its relationship next year with a mutual recognition of ministries by all member churches.

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student who encountered the Nazi horror of racism in France during World War II. Griffin later ingested chemicals and used sun lamps to darken his skin and travel as an unemployed black man in order to record racism in America.

"His (Griffin's) book, 'Black Like Me,' described the terrible insults and violence against him ... and made him an apostle of the civil rights movement ... of freedom, justice and truth," the bishop noted.

Bishop O'Malley also recalled that as a young monk after Dr. King's death, "one of the most tragic events in our history," he was, involved with the Poor People's March a raindrenched Resurrection City in Washington, and he and others received verbal abuse from offduty police from Virginia who tossed tear gas canisters at them.

"But the rain and mud buried them

and made them ineffective," he said.

That and the fact that Fall River's fireworks - postponed from inclement Jan. I, First Night celebrations - were 'held on the eve of the King holiday, "show that God is still in charge," the bishop quipped, drawing loud laughter and applause.

Referring to racism "as an elephant in the living room" and "a terrible disease" in the history of America's democracy," Bishop O'Malley traced abolition in America.

"A hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the ugly sin, the ugly disease of racism, is still a reality in the U.S.,'" Bishop O'Malley asserted. "The reality of this Martin Luther King holiday should be obvious. This is a man who has done so much for our country, who calls us to what we are supposed to be. He

is a champion of human dignity and civil rights, and those of us who are Christians and believers are proud that he found his inspiration in his faith in the Jewish Scriptures and the New Testament."

He said that: "God gave Martin Luther King an eloquence and a courage that allowed him to . speak for the voiceless and to touch the hearts and consciences of people all over the world."

"He was a Christian and an American," said Bishop O'Malley.

"His faith in God's word gave him the certainty that each and every , person is created in God's likeness.

He believed that love is the most important force in reforming society....And he called for a repentance. His dream for racial harmony "is still a dream deferred," the promise of integration is still far off, said Bishop O'Malley.

While desegregation was King's

immediate goal, integration was for him the promised land.

"While Dr. King's death fill us with sadness, it also fills us with hope," the bishop said. He recalled a quote from King's eulogy of four girls killed in a church bombing: "Death is not a period that ends the greater sense of life, but a comma that punctuates it to

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more lofty significance."

The bishop added: "I like to think Dr. King's death was an exclamation point ... that roused the whole world and galvanized people against racism; and who in his life and death is still speaking to us today, shouting at us to take up the cause of racial justice in the promised land of integration."

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Clinton" signs, only two days af- funded family planning clinics; ter President Clinton took the oath - the ban on fetal tissue reof office. search: That march was on the 20th - restrictions on access to anniversary ofthe Supreme Court's abortion in U.S. military hospidecisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe tals overseas; v. Bolton, which legalized abor- the "Mexico City policy;' tion virtually on demand, and which denied U.S. foreign aid to Clinton invoked the power of the programs overseas that promote presidency to make abortions more abortion.

This year the March for Life accessible. He also ordered a study of RU-486, the French "abortion again comes two days after the pill," whose importation for per- inauguration of a new president, sonal use was approved in 2000. and Gray hopes the new White.

RU-486 has inspired the theme House resident will attend.

"We have sent an' invitation to for this year's march Jan. 22: "Motherhood, Fatherhood and President-elect (George w.) Bush Childhood Begin at Fertilization." . not to send a surrogate, not.to give "With all the emphasis for the us a phone call, but to come!" Gray partial-birth abortion for the big said, adding she has heard no reply. babies, it is equally as heinous She also said she was "exintentionally to kill a tiny, one- tremely distressed" that some cell pre-born human being with Bush Cabinet appointees "tolerdrugs and devices as it is to in- ate abortion," singling out Secretentionally kill a larger baby and tary of State-designate Colin H. born human being," said Nellie Powell and New Jersey Gov. Gray, who has organized the Christie Todd Whitman, Bush's March for Life since the first one pick to head the Environme~tal Protection Agency. "This gives in 1974.

Gray recalled Clinton's actions, respectability to people as if they on Jan. 42, 1993, as "unfortunate, were Pro-Life and that is a very distressing sign," she said. to say the least."

Reps. Christopher Smith, RIn addition to calling for study on RU-486, Clinton signed execu- N.J., and Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., will speak at the pre-march rally, tive orders reversing: - the regulations. prohibiting to be held for the first time on abortion counseling in federally the grounds surrounding the

Washington Monument. Auxiliary Bishop William E. Lori of Washington will give the rally's closing prayer.

On Sunday, the day before the march, the National Prayer Vigil for Life will start at 8 p.m. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The vigil begins with a Mass. After the Mass, at about 10:30 p.m., the group Mothers of Mary will lead a rosary. Bishop Andrew Pataki of the Ruthenian Diocese of Passaic, N.J., will lead night prayer in the Byzantine Catholic tradition at 11 :30 p.m.

Confessions will be heard from II p.m. to 1 a.m. at the shrine.

Seminarians will conduct holy hours throughout the night, from midnight through 6:30 a.m., at which time a morning prayer service will be held. The vigil ends with a Mass at 7:30 a.m. Jan. 22, with Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston as principal celebrant.

The shrine and the adjoining Catholic University of America are allowing those yoming for the march to stay the night in the shrine's lower level and in the university's athletic center.

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Feehan names students to National Honor Society ATTLEBORO - Bishop Feehan High School recently announced its inductees to its National Honor Society. Students named are: Steven Altieri III, Michael Beagan, Kathleen Bowler, Elizabeth Callahan, Andrea DelGiudice, Tiffany , DiPanni, Brenna 'DiOll, Derek Ettensohn, Andrew Fellows, . Derek Goguen, Rachael Henderson, Heather Johnson, Rebecca Jost, Alexis lovanonic,

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LIFT YOUR VOICES - Students in Jennifer 'De Oliveira's fifth-grade class at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, sing at a recent concert. '

S~VENTH-GRADERS Rachel Davies, Sara Murphy and Kelly-Anne MacDonald take a break during the St. Margaret Regional School's first-ever spaghe~i dinner. It helped raise funds for the Buzzards Bay school's scholarship fund and many families attended. .

STUDENTS FROM Notre Dame School, Fall River, recently completed several community service projects collecting home items and toys for those in need. Students in Carole Ferland's second-grade class collected paper products and toiletries for the Rose Hawthorne Home while kindergartners in Sandra Chicca's class amassed over 100 toys donated to the U. S. Marines annual Toys for Tots program.

PRESCHOOL STUDENTS at Holy Family-Holy Name School, New Bedford, celebrated the feast of the Epiphany with a pageant. Daniel Zajac, Madison Blanchard and Cameron Stanley were chosen to portray the three kings and visited the baby Jesus.

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It's your money, right?

By AMY WELBORN CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

It's your money, right? You should be able to do what you want with it, right?

Theoretically, that seems reasonable.

Here you are, you've got your first job. You're the one bagging the groceries, serving the fries and stocking the shelves.

Why shouldn't you use the fruits of your labor for anything you please?

We're currently having that very discussion in my house. After a couple of months working at his first job, my 15-year-old son announced he was going to buy a new computer.

I told him he was doing no such thing.

You can probably fill in his response: "Why not? It's my money!"

Now, if he didn't have a computer, my answer might have been different. But the fact is he's got a perfectly decent system that, even in these times of rapid obsolescence, is quite capable of doing everything he needs it to do.

Except, I discovered, play the very latest, cutting-edge games.

"So," I concluded, "you want to spend $1,000 on something on which you can play games?"

Now, my son is fairly goodnatured, as I'm sure you are too, and he knows his mother well enough to understand that, at that

point, pushing his case for his totally independent use of his money would only lead to unforeseen consequences like paying rent or something.

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So he let it drop, but not before we struck a deal.

I told him that in a few months his life was going to change quite a bit and his priorities along with it, in a way that he wasn't quite aware of right now.

-First, he'd be driving, and' along with that comes expenses, the most burdensome of which is insurance, especially if you're a male under 25.

-Second, he'd be ajunior and ready to start thinking a lot more seriously about college - about where he wanted to go and how much it was going to cost. , Using his money to buy a n~w, faster computer might seem great now, but how was it going to seem in a few months when he couldn't drive because he didn't have money for insurance and he was having to start his college money fund all over again - all because he'd purchased a machine on

which to play games.

Learning how to spend your money is always a challenge. You just can't think about your present desires. You have to consider the future too.

And it wouldn't be a bad thing to think about faith either.

God blesses us with resources, talents and our own personal bank account of capabilities. Is it our "right" to use all that for anything we please, just to suit our~elves?

Commercials and corporations may like to make you think you're nothing but ~ self-serving spending machine, but you Know you're more than that. You know that you're a child of God, blessed with gifts and opportunities not just for your own benefit, but for the sake of others.

So when you're trying to figure out how to spend the money you're earning, work through your wants and work through your needs. But before that, work through something else: God gave me the chance to earn this money. What does he want me to do with it?

One more thing: The next time you're tempted to think that being an adult means getting to do "whatever you want" with the money you've earned, ask your parents if that's really true.

But let me warn you: Step, back, or else their hysterical . laughter might just knock you down!

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River- Fri., January 19,2001

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-Stay-at-home moms find home Masses appealing NEWARK, Del. (CNS)-Anne Giberson has found it tough to get to Sunday Mass in the last year.

With three active children ages five, two and one'and a husband who works weekends, she has been reluctant to bring her children to church and have them interrupt Mass.

But a friend told her about a Mass she could attend with her young ones where the kids could play while Giberson received reconciliation and Communion. At the Mass she would share the company of women who understood her stressful life. This haven would be someone's home.

So Giberson, a parishioner at St. John-Holy Angels Parish in Newark, decided ¡to see for herself by attending the Martha Mary Mothers' group.

The group gets together one Wednesday each month for celebration of Mass and to support each other in their stay-at-home roles. .

"I'm so glad," Giberson told The Dialog, newspaper of the Diocese of Wilmington. "Now I can enjoy Mass and go to confession."

The Martha Mary Mothers' group began 16 years ago. Back then, Susan Mullan ofImmaculate Conception Parish in Elkton, Md., had eight children, four under age five. Although Mullan always wanted a large family, she often

felt she did not have the strength to handle it.

But she knew exactly what she needed - prayer, the sacraments and other mothers with children.

Mullan pulled those elements together to create the group.

She said the group's name reflects the Scripture reading about Martha and Mary, sisters ofLazarus and friends ofJesus. Martha tended to the household responsibilities while Mary sought spiritual comfort at Jesus' feet.

"Most women get caught up in the duties ofour vocation," Mullan said, "and often don't fully make or take the time to just sit at his feet and be a child of God. Every woman has a' Mary in her but (some) can get buried in the Martha stuff.

"If you don't care for yourself," she said, ''you have nothing to give to your husband and children."

At each gathering, children play and babies are held while some mothers pray the rosary and others receive the!;acrarnent ofreconciliation in a secluded part of the house.

During Mass, mothers are free to step outside the celebration room to tend to their children's tears or screams. But children are more than welcome at the Mass and at times can be found resting their heads on the makeshift altar.

u.s. nuns near Arctic Circle honor ancient art

By IRENE VOTH CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

ST. CLOUD, Minn. - At the Tautra Mariakloster, acloistered community ofseven Cistercian nuns on an island in central Norway,just 220 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the wooden chalice and paten used at Masses are painted in a style that virtually died out in Norway in 1900.

But these Mass vessels are not artifacts from a bygone era. .

Instead they are a bit of Minnesota brought to Norway by the Sisters of the Order of the Strict Observance, popularly known as Trappists, when this monastic community was founded in February 1999 by Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey located just outside of Dubuque, Iowa.

Before leaving the United States, the sisters commissioned Patti Goke, who resides in St. Cloud and is a member of Salem Ltltheran Church, to paint the chalice.

Two hundred years ago, the style of painting that adorns the chalice and paten - mostly flowing scrolls and whimsical flowers in subdued colors - brightened many a wooden plate and cup in the homes of rural Norwegians.

Called rosemaling (pronounced rosemahling), this Norwegian folk art added festivity to the use of everyday household items - particularly during the dark winter months, when the sun sets each day by 2 p.m.

The word rosemaling means "decorative flower painting," and the art is derived from the painting techniques of 18th-eentury skilled painters who brought the baroque and rococo styles to urban Norway from the more temperate climes of Europe.

Because these painters belonged to guilds, their art could not depart from the rules of

style dictated by guild masters. Local and itin- emigrated from Norway after 1850. Whaterant painters, however, could mimic the tech- ever ,the reason, few people in Norway pracnique of the guild painters while tossing aside tice the art even today. the guild's strict rules. ' While emigration is cited as a possible reaSo it happened in Norway, and by the 19th son rosemaling declined in Norway, immicentury rosemaling became a separate and rec- gration is certainly the reason rosemaling took ognizable art form root in the United in rural Norway, States even before with distinct styles the end ofthe 19th century. developing and In fact, the'inflourishing in flux ofNorwegian such regions as settlers into the Telemark, upper Midwest afRogaland, ter 1850 precipiGudbrandsdalentated the founding and Aust-Adger. of the Vesterheim Nearly everyNorwegianthing from American Mukitchen bowls to seum in 1877 in buggies and wagIowa. ons and the inteAccording to rior walls and its Website, ceilings of counwww.\eSlfrlrimag, try churches feathe museum "is tured the lively dedicated to nurtendrils and prim turing a living petals of folk heritage ... rosemaling. offering each But year over 50 .rosemaling decourses in tradi~ clined in Norway tional Norwegian after 1850. Some crafts." The word sources cite new "vesterheim" artistic trends means "western from Europe as home." the reason. Others blame the expan- C......:::::..:::=_.._L-=:::!!~~_-.:::..-_...L....J1l..:..J Thus, for more sion of industrialPATTI GOKE rosemales ornaments at her than I00 years, ization and the home in St. Cloud, Minn. The decorative form Vesterheim has fact that many ru- of painting has its roots in rural Norway. (CNS been preserving ral Norwegians photo by Dianne Towalski, St. Cloud Visitof) and passing on the

art of rosemaling by teaching classes, sponsoring competitions and offering recognition to the best rosemalers, based on their success in the competitions.

In 1986, after having been introduced to rosemaling at a community education class in St. Cloud, Goke. enrolled in her first courses at Vesterheim, where, over the next 10 years, she progressed toward perfecting her technique in several rosemaling styles, including Telemark, Rogaland and AustAdger.

She chose the Aust-Adger style for the chalice she painted for the Cistercian nuns and hand-delivered it to Tautra Mariakloster in June 1999.

"My father was in World War IT with the father of one of the sisters at the Mississippi Abbey," Goke told the St. Cloud VISitor, newspaper of the St. Cloud Diocese.

She explained that her parents, Elmer 'Todd" and Joyce Trefethen, who live approximately 25 miles northeast of Brainerd, Minn., visit Siste.r Sherry Pech at the abbey several times a year.

Thus the sisters at Our Lady of the Mississippi were well-acquainted with Goke's work and the fact that one of her rosemaled pieces was purchased by the Vesterheim to be exhibited on a worldwide tour in 1996. The formal commission for a paten to match the chalice was received by Goke several months after her visit to Tautra.

But Goke says rosemaling is more than art to her. Rosemaling is an act of faith. "Before I paint, I say a prayer of thanksgiving," she said.

And that is the beginning ofa faith walk in which she "allows God to be in control." The end product is "from him and not me," she said.

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THEANCHOR-DioceseofFaIl River-Fri., January 19,2001

Fallli.ly continues three~generation

adoption tradition

By COLLEEN O'NEILL

The couple thought they would be able to bring the boy home last BROKEN BOW, Neb. - Tan- March, but because of changes in ner Linn, a 19-month-old toddler the Russian gove,rnment -includwith blonde hair, blue eyes, a slight ing the election of a new president dimple in' his chin and a love for -the adoption took longer than rodeo, is a world away from the expected.

Russian orphanage wqere he was "It seems like a long time when living until last fall. you're waiting," Brenda said.

And his adopted parents, David , "That period of just sitting and and Brenda Linn, parishioners at waiting ... that was the hardest, just St. Joseph's Church in Broken waiting for a-phone call." , FLORIDA'S "CHOOSE LIFE" vanity tags - a sample plate seen here - have raised Bow, wouldn't have it any other When the Linns got word that way. everything was in place in S~ptem- more than $200,000 for crisis pregnancy centers in the state since the tag's introduction in The Linns have two daughters ber, they left their Nebraska home June 1999. Efforts are underw~y to make similar plates available in California, Indiana, - 15-year-old Teri and eight- and headed for Arkhangei'sk Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West year-old Megan - who were not (Archangel), a region in the north- Virginia and Wisconsin. (CNS photo) adopted, but they decided to adopt west part路 of Russia.

Although' they expected to meet Tanner because David Linn him~ self was adopted as was his father, Tanner at a train station for the first who is now deceased. time, the orphanage worker sur"We had always wanted to add prised them by bringing the little to our family throl:lgh adoption," boy to the couple's motel.

He was wearing five layers of

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE cial license plate in the world months. clothing when he that encouraged women to OCALA, 'Fla. Florida's According to Russ arrived because choose adoption as a solution new "Choose, Life" vanity liAmerling, Choose Life publicthe orphanage where he had cense plate has raised more ity coordinator,.most of the tag to unplanned or unwanted pregbeen living than $200,000 for crisis preg- sales resulted from grass-roots nancies.

The plate features a crayonefforts of one person telling couldn't afford Ii,ancy centers in the state. another about the availability of style drawing of a smiling boy Sales of the plates have heat, but he was and girl and the phrase "Choose in, good shape topped 10,000, according to the new tag.

Funds from the sale of the Life" written on the top. The and appeared' to Department of Motor Vehicle , "Choose Life" license plate will cost of the plate is $22, and $20 records.

The tag ranks 13th have been well stay in the county where the tag of that goes to the designated among Florida's 51 specialty fed. , was purchased and be used by organizations. There also is a When. the tags.

Ocala-based Choose Life nonprofit corporations offering one-time tag and registration couple visited anInc. ,which beginning four free services to women commit- fee of $15 for each plate. other local orEfforts to obtain an official years ago spearheaded the ef- ted to carrying their child to term phanage, 'David said, the children forts to get the plate approved, and making an adoption plan for "Choose Life" license plate are kept running up said in a press release that tag the child. No 'funds may go to any under way in California, Indito them asking if sales have reached more than organization involved in abortion, ana, Louisiana, Mississippi, they were their $200,000 since the tag was re- in any way, according to Choose Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virleased Aug. 11.

Life. parents. ginia, West Virginia and WisFlorida statutes require that When Florida Gov. Jeb Bush "There was a at least 8,000 of each specialty signed the law allowing the consin, according to Choose lot of kids that need' to be plate be sold in any five-year "Choose Life" tags in June of Life Inc., and promotional ONE-YEAR-OLDTanner Lin'1 plays at his, adopted, for period; the "Choose Life" tag 1999, the Choose Life organi- plates are available for 13 other surpassed that number in three zation said it was the only offi- states. new home in Broken Bow, Neb. The boy, sure," he said.

Tanner has given up by his Russian mother when he was an infant, was adopted by David and Brenda been watching Linn. David Linn also was adopted, as was football and rodeo his father. (CNS photo by Colleen O'Neill, with his dad and getting 'excited West Nebraska Registery when he sees any Brenda told the West Nebraska kind of tractor.

Register, newspaper of the Grand 'The little boy, who is just start' i n g to laugh, is also ,catching on Island diocese.

After the couple realized it fast to the English language with could take five to seven years in at least a dozen words in his vothe United States to adopt a baby, cabulary. they looked into other alternatives By the time the Linns are finand found out about New Hope ished with the adoption process, Child and Family Services, a pri- they will have spent close to vate, state-licensed adoption and $20,000. foster care agency based in Seattle路 But as Brenda said, "You just that works with children from Rus- really don't put a price on children." sia, Romania and China.

She acknowledges that the Through the agency, the couple family's faith sustained them received a photo of Tanner when through the whole process, saying he was just four weeks old and was they relied on it "to get through the given up for adoption by his hard times or the long wait." mother.

"It's just a big step to add some"He looked like he was made one to your family," she added. for us," Brenda recalled.

"We just put our faith in God." . AT MARIAN Academy in Georgetown, Guyana, students stand to welcome visitors. The The adoption process took David said his late father, Floyd, roughly more than a year starting would have been pleased to see school opened in 1998 through an initiative of Roman Union Ursuline Nuns. It is part of an with a family study of Russia and such a wonderful child. "He would effort to re-establish Catholic schools in the country, which for decades had only a governits culture. have been excited, I'm sure." me~t-run education system. (CNS photo by Jennifer Reed) CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Sales of 'Choose Life' plates top 10,000 Dlark in Florida