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By Marcie Hickey - River diocesan Pro-Life Aposto- elected representatives informed about pro-life issues, Dr. Taylor Bishop Sean O'Malley has asked late.

By mid-January, demand for said. While local Project Life that diocesans today observe the Project Life Sunday materials had campaigns have been taking place "tragic" 20th anniversary of legal abortion in the United States as a already exceeded supply, said Dr. for three years, this is the first Michael Taylor, executive direc- coordinated national effort, he day of prayer, fasting and reflection and that they participate this tor of Human Life Amendment added.

INA UGURAL BALL: Bishop Sean O'Malley, at his.first weekend in a national post card committee.

He said that the National ComDr. Taylor and Professor Mary mittee for a Human Life AmendBishop's Charity Ball awaits start of ceremonies with cochair~ campaign urging defeat of the Freepersons Mary Mikita and Len Nicolan. (More photos p. 8) dom of Choice Act. FOCA would Ann Glendon of Harvard Law ment is considering development . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . establish a national policy of abor- School joined Bishop O'Malley in of a national database of pro-life tion on demand, superseding any speaking at last week's clergy persons in order to "communicate court decisions permitting abor- meeting, held at Holy Name par- and educate people about the ish, New Bedford. issues." Therefore, along with posttion restrictions.

They stressed that while FOCA cards for their representatives, Bishop O'Malley and many supporters.claim the bill will merely Project Life participants will have ,diocesans are in Washington, D.C. participating in the March for Life codify Roe v. Wade, it actually the opportunity to fill out a regisheld every Jan. 22 on the anniver- goes further to eliminate and pro- tration card signifying willingness Bishop Timothy J. Harrington proper perspective. That perspechibit restrictions on abortion- to participate in future pro-life sary of the U.S, Supreme Court's of Worcester has written the foltive can only be truly seen in rela- 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legaliz- such as waiting periods and in- efforts. lowing letter to the faithfUl of his tion to Jesus Christ. It is Jesus ing abortion. In a letter read at formed consent-that courts ha"e Professor Glendon noted that diocese, affirming the priests who Who called us, and it is Jesus diocesan parishes last weekend, upheld. the priests are on the "front lines" serve them. His tribute could apply Whom we serve as we serve those the bishop asked all Catholics "to "FOCA is different from all other in conveying the pro-life message equally to the vast majority of entrusted to us. St. Paul tells us in abstain from meat and, pray on moves" by the pro-abortion lobby in a society that has developed an priests in every ¡diocese in the naHebrews 5, that priests are men this sad anniversary, 20 years of a "because it is so extreme that even "abortion mentality." tion. The Anchor is proud to reprint taken from among men because mistake." Complete text of the let- many pro-choice people are backMany people have the attitude it. we share their weaknesses. God ter appears on page 10. ing off from it," said Prof. Glendon. that "if it's legal, it's okay; it's my was good not to have called angels At a meeting of diocesan clergy The bill did not reach a floor right," commented Father William My dear brothers and sisters in the to be His priests because as pure last week to discuss implementavote in either the House or Senate Norton of St. Joseph's parish, Lord, spirits they could not understand tion of the National Project Life in 1992, but backers are expected Woods Hole.

In the past few months, a great human frailty. postcard campaign to defeat to reintroduce it this year. Presi"It's an unpleasant issue," Prodeal of our attention as a diocese Priests have been blessed to serve FOCA, Bishop O'Malley called dent Bill Clinton has said that he fessor Glendon responded. "Peohas been focused on the deplora- God and others in the good times abortion "the 11).0st pressing moral will sign the bill if it is passed by ple recoil from thinking it all the ble allegations against a few priests. and the bad that they and their issue any of us will face in our Congress. way through."

Our deep pastoral commitment people endure. They are pleased lifetimes."

Dr. Taylor said the postcard She said that after Roe v. Wade to persons who have been victims and proud to be God's goodser"Every age has its moral blind- campaign gives churchgoers a she made a comparison of nations' of abuse as well as a deep concern vants. ness ... which affects sensitivity chance "to express their faith in a abortion policies and was "shocked" for the faithful at large have An alien world may rush to about spiritual values and the value concrete way" a'nd to influence leg- at how extreme the U.S. attitude prompted me to take several steps. attack the whole Church because of life itself," the bishop said, reislators by showing them that they IS. On October 16, 1992, I an- of a few. Stories about a few ferring to slavery and the Holo- have a vocal pro-life constituency.

"You have to go to the People's nounced that no child abuser would priests may be repeated so inces- caust as examples from past generaIn recent years the abortion issue Republic of China before you find be assigned to ministry in this dio- santly that in peoples' minds those tions. ' . has increasingly moved into the another nation as callous toward cese. And on December 24, 1992, I few seem like many, many more ... legislative arena, and letter writing human life."

"Encourage people to pray," the established telephone hotlines so and even all. is an important part of keeping , Tum to Page I 1 that victims of sexual abuse could In all honesty, we are talking bishop told clergy members: "We are not going to win this battle by contact me and other diocesan about a few priests. We are anofficials. guished by any misdeeds. Our bludgeoning people over the head Now, I believe, it is of utmost hearts go out to their victims. All with our position, but by faithful importance to take a third step of us must recognize that we are witness to church teaching with and to affirm publicly the faithful only talking about a few, even serenity, encouragement and persuasiveness." priests who work in this diocese. though one is too many.

Those priests who go about the No priest should allow the alleNational Project Life Sunday daily work of the priesthood are to gations against those few to distort This weekend Catholics attendmy mind the heroes of our times. the focus of his mission of service ing Mass nationwide will receive a They function in an atmosphere to others. set of postcards opposing FOCA that has been poisoned by suspiNow is a time of great challenge to be signed and mailed to concion. They labor day in and day for priests. We are the servants of gressional representatives. Parishionout bringing the unpopular mes- the Lord. We are called to noble ers will receive instructions for sage of the Gospel to a world that ministry. completing the cards in their indidoes not welcome the words of Let us keep our hearts and our vidual parishes, and they are also Jesus Christ. minds focused on the job He has encouraged to personally write their Indeed, some may feel that the given us. The work is His. legislators about pro-life issues. very image of the priesthood has The National Committee for a I want the people of the diocese been tainted by the accusations to know that I am proud to serve Human Life Amendment and the concerning a few individuals. But I them as their bishop. I also want U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Prodisagree. The priesthood was insti- all in this diocese and beyond to Life Affairs, Project Life cospontuted by Christ Himself and al- know that I am proud and blessed sors, hope the campaign will deliver AFTER ATTENDING Massachusetts Citizens' for Life's though a few of us may bring dis- to call the faithful priests who more than 5 million postcards to 19th annual Assembly for Life Sunday in Boston, Bishop Sean credit to all, nothing can taint or serve them my brothers.

Congress. 75 percent of U.S. O'Malley and diocesan Pro-Life Director Father Stephen A. discredit the God-given institution The apostle Paul tells us to rejo- dioceses are slated to participate in Fernandes greet diocesans at the program.' At left is Louise of the priesthood. ice in all circumstances. I rejoice the effort, which originated with Bolton, director of the New Bedford area chapter of MCFL. It is important for us all, priest that there are so many wonderful the diocesan pro-life offices of and lay person alike, to look at men who serve the faithful of the Massachusetts, said Father Stephen Bishop O'Malley offered a greeting during the assembly's priests and the priesthood in the Diocese of Worcester.

A. Fernandes, director of the Fall speaking program. (Lavoie photo)

Worcester bishop affirms his priests

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The Anchor Friday, Jan. 22, 1993

High court rules clinic blockades do not violate , federal law

Strife in Ireland unites Christians DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS)- Ireland's Anglican primate says Christians in Northern Ireland have begun to realize they must stand together to fight evil and violence, which have claimed over 3,000 lives in the past 23 years.

"One of the most positive effects ofthe violence in Northern Ireland has been the growing cooperation and unity of purpose," said Anglican Archbishop Robin Eames.

"Faced with so much suffering, there has been a great increase in the ways the various churches have together sought to witness to the Christian message, which unites all Christians," he said Jan. 17, in remarks marking the Jan. 18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Archbishop Eames said joint witness by leaders ofthe four main churches - Catholic, Church of Ireland (Anglican), Presbyterian and Methodist - had done much to convince the outside world that it was an oversimplification to speak of ~eligious conflict, although it would be wrong to give the impression that all differences among the churches had been resolved.

"We differ on issues which all go to the very heart of what each of us believes is important to our understanding of the nature of the church," he said. "But there is now a genuine willingness to face up to those difficulties with honesty and integrity. Ecumenism for some is a word of suspicion and weakness.

But to seek to understand what is important to fellow Christians of other traditions while defending what remains vital for one's own is a sign of strength - not weakness."

BACKED BY traditional Portuguese quilts, Anne Norton Blair reads her poetic tribute to Bishop Sean O'Malley. Titled "The Shepherd," it appeared in the Anchor for last Oct. 2. The occasion was the annual communion breakfast of the Fall River District of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, held at Santo Christo parish hall, Fall River. From left, Msgr. John J. Oliveira; Joseph Correira, Santo Christo Vincentian conference president; Father Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan director of Vincentians; Bishop O'Malley; Len Nicolan (standing), Fall River District Vincentian president; Father John C. Martins, Santo Christo pastor.

Hospital mounts informational campaign

St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, is conducting a comprehensive campaign to make the communities it serves aware of its medical capabilities.

A market study conducted for St. Anne's demonstrated that the campaign was needed because a large percentage of area residents said they were not fully aware of the level of service available at the hospital.

"For too long. the people of our community have been unaware of the quality of care available in their own backyard," said Sister Joanna Fernandes, chairwomen , of St. Anne's Hospital Board of Directors. "It's time .for us to get the message out - that St. Anne's Hospital is a unique gem; a community hospital here to serve the Ruma, Ill. (CNS) - Two U.S. residents of this community with nuns killed in Liberia's civil war in high quality, state-of-the-art serOctober were buried Jan. 17 beside vices coupled with warmth and three companions who died in the compassion." same manner.

James Dawson, hospital presi, Sisters Mary Joel Kolmer and dent, added "St. Anne's Hospital Barbara Ann Muttra, both members ofthe Adorers of the Blood of Christ, were buried at their order's cemetery in Ruma.

Their bodies were recovered two months after their murders. A vehVATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope icle carrying them was ambushed John Paul II asked people to pray Oct. 20 as they were going to see a for ChI:istian unity and to make sick child near the Liberian capital themselves credible witnesses that of-Monrovia. the Christian faith promotes a Three other Illinois nuns from Gospel of peace. the same order also murdered in During his midday Angelus Liberia had been buried Dec. 13. address in St. Peter's Square, the Bishop James P. Keleher of Belpope, speaking the eve of the Jan. leville, at the funeral Mass, called 18-25 Week of Prayer for Christhe five nuns "saintly," and said he tian Unity, encouraged all who had a message from them. had organized prayer meetings to He said the nuns wanted their ask God for "the light and the community, family and friends to strength necessary to follow the know "we are at peace, never more search for full communion in obeso, and so should you be." dience with his will.

He said Sister Kolmer was a "The coherent witness of those teacher and "mother figure" who who believe in the Gospel of peace loved the simple things of life. and know how to put it into pracSister Muttra, who had been a tice in their daily lives is necessary nun for 50 years, he said, fre- and urgent," the pope said. . quently repeated her conviction He noted that the unity of all that "I'm where God wants me to believers was the subject of Jesus' be" whether that was Vietnam" "heart路broken prayer in the last Ruma or Liberia. hours of his earthly life," when he The'three other Illinois nuns asked God to make all his followSisters Agnes, Mueller, Shirley Kol- ers one. mer and Kathleen McGuire Christians are called to make were killed by gunmen outside Christ's prayer echo continually, their convent near Monrovia. he said.

Liberian victims buried in Illinois

Pope asks prayer for unity

offers services that include pediatrics, cardiology, orthopedics, diabetes, comprehensive cancer care and many new diagnostic imaging technologies including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Our affiliation with some of the major Boston teaching hospitals ensure that our knowledge and technology are always on the cutting edge."

The hospital's campaign includes newspaper, radio and television ads highlighting St. Anne's technology, physicians and staff.

The radio ads will emphasize profiling the care and expertise of the physicians and the television ads will feature physicians and staff members discussing their work and experiences at the hospital.

Gabriel A wards given by Unda-USA DAYTON. Ohio(CNS) ~ Gabriel Awards for values-centered television and radio broadcasting were recently awarded in St. Louis to 47 programs. one TV channel and two radio stations.

The awards go to TV and radio programs. features. spot announcements and stations "that serve viewers and listeners through positive. creative treatment of issues of concern humankind and enrich their audiences through a valuescentered vision of humanity." They are presented by Unda - USA. a national Catholic Association of broadcasters and communicators.

Gabriels are nine-inch silver figures of Gabriel. the angel who announced to Mary that s.he would bear the Redeemer.

"The Broken Cord," an ABC Sunday night movie about a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. won the Gabriel for best nationally distributed entertainment program.

"In the While Man's Image." Boston. was named best informational program among national relea'ses. . Other 1992 award winners: Best religious program: WTVS. channel 56in Detroit. for "Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds."

- Best children's program: ABC News for the special "Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions,"

The campaign will kick off an intensive program oflongterm communication with the community and wiII be supplemented by a health care education program, featuring programs and screenings at the hospital, the services of a speakers bureau and the already established annual health fair, to be held at White's of Westport Thursday, May 6.

"We have a good story to tell," said Sister Fernandes, "and now that we are on solid financial ground, we are determined to tell it." She referred to the recent announcement that St. Anne's completed its fiscal year last Sept. 30 with a surplus of$273,445, the first time the hospital had been in the black since 1987-88, James Dawson said, "In the competitive environment of modern health care, aggressive marketing is essential for our continued success. ,Those health care institutions in Massachusetts that will be successful in the 90s will be telling their stories to their patients and their communities. St. Anne's Hospital is telling its story now."

St. Anne's is a not-for-profit Catholic hospital serving Greater Fall River and eastern Rhode Island.

It is affiliated with Caritas Christi, a Catholic health care system.

AOH women's division proposed for Cape Cod A women's division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians is proposed for Cape Cod. Seeking members for the organization, which dates back to 16th-century Ireland, is Peg Donoghue Ge'rmain, who may be reached at 432-4626.

She explains that in the 16th century, Irish Catholics suffered political and social ostracism and since that time the AOH "has been a constant defender of the faith and a guardian of the best in Irish culture." The U.S. branch of the Hibernians was founded in New York City in 1836 and the w~men's section in 1894.

"The Ladies' AOH helps you to hold onto your glorious Irish past and hand it down to your children," notes Ms. Germain.

WAS HINGTON (CNS) Abortion clinic blockades do not violate a 122-year-old civil rights law and therefore fail to warrant federal intervention to stop them, the Supreme Court ruled Jan. 13.

Six justices agreed that women as a class are not deprived of civil rights by the blockades. Justice David Souter agreed in part but dissented in part and three others disagreed with the prevailing opinion.

Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said, "opposition to abortion cannot possibly be considered ... opposition to (or paternalism towards) women. Whatever one thinks of abortion, it cannot be denied that there are common and respectable reasons for opposing it, other than hatred of or condescension toward (women)."

The Alexandria Women's Health Clinic in Virginia claimed blockades by abortion protesters, including members of Operation Rescue, violated the 1871 Civil Rights Act, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act because it was used to guarantee the rights of blacks targeted by the Klan.

Originally heard by the court in October 1991, the justices asked that the case be re-argued this term. At the original argument, Justice Clarence Thomas had not yet joined the court.

Thomas voted with Scalia in the majority, as did Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy, and Souter in part. Justices John Paul Stevens, Harry Blackmun and Sandra Day O'Connor dissented.

Under the Klan Act, the health clinic claimed abortion protesters engaged in a conspiracy to deprive women as a class of a protected civil right of access to abortion.

Scalia noted that although abortions are performed only on women, the blockades were intended 1'0 keep out everyone who participates in an abortion. He also distinguished between opposing abortion and opposing racism.

"Whether one agrees or disagrees with the goal of preventing abortion, that goal in itself (apart from the use of unlawful means to achieve it...) does not remotely qualify for such harsh description and for such derogatory association with racism," Scalia wrote.

"To the contrary, we have said that 'a value judgment favoring childbirth over abortion' is proper and reasonable enough to be implemented by the allocation of public funds ... and Congress itself, has, with our approval, discriminated against abortion in its provision offinancial support for medical proced ures."

Souter agreed with Scalia's interpretation that women seeking abortions did not constitute a class appropriate to the use of the Klan Act, but disagreed with his conclusion that the Supreme Court was not asked to consider the issue of' whether the blockades hindered legitimate law enforcement.

By invoking the Klan Act, supporters of legal abortion hoped to create a precedent for involving federal law enforcement agencies in fighting blockades. Local police in several jurisdictions have been overwhelmed by massive Operation Rescue blockades.

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Boston archdiocese issues policy on clerical sex abuse BOSTON (CNS) - The archdiocese of Boston has published a policy on clerical sexual misconduct with minors that is designed to help the church be "an agent of God's healing in our society."

"Sexual misconduct with a minor is a tragedy which understandably gives rise to repugnance and outrage," said Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston as he announced the policy Jan. 15.

"The archdiocese is committed to do all it can to ensure that children being served by the church are not placed at risk," he added. "We also want to take those steps which can facilitate healing."

Cardinal Law said the policy, printed in full in the Jan. 15 edition of The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper, "attempts to respect both the nature of the church and the legal requirements of society."

The policy was drawn up after lengthy study .of the policies in other di'oceses and "extensive consultation with psychological and legal professionals" and with archdiocesan consultative bodies, according to a question-and-answer column about the policy published in The Pilot.

"Because of the recent publicity and the widespread concern that has emerged in the light of publicized cases, it seemed particularly important that the archdiocese makes its policy public in order to reassure the community that the church is trying to act responsibly in addressing this difficult matter," the column said. .

Cardinal Law recently appointed Father John McCormack, archdiocesan secretary for ministerial personnel, as his delegate in matters of alleged clerical sexual misconduct. Sister of St. Joseph Catherine Mulkerrin was named deputy delegate, with the primary responsibility of listening and assisting alleged victims of such abuse.

In assessing and responding to allegations, the two arc\;ldiocesan officials will work with a ninemember review board which will make recommendations to the archbishop about cases referred to it.

The review board is made up of two people "skilled in caring for victims of abuse," a retired judge and another expert in civil law, a canon lawyer, a woman "genuinely concerned about the appropriate care and protection of children," a pastor, a parochial vicar and a dea<;on, according to The Pilot.

If a charge of clerical sex abuse of a minor is substantiated, the policy states, fhe archbishop would make a decision on the cleric's future activity involving "one or more of the following options: assignment to a treatment program; reassignment to a monitored situation; limitation on ministerial service; initiation of a canonical process for removal from ministry; (or) invitation for the cleric to resign from ministry."

The question-and-answercolumn said the archdiocese hoped that "the mandated psychological examinations required for those who present themselves for ordination will help identify such an illness before people are hurt."

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He said the remains of the early American Catholics will add to the store of knowledge of colonial America. And if he has his way, the Great Brick Chapel of St. Mary's City will be rebuilt and the coffins reburied, with Cardinal Hickey there "to bless them upon their second burial."

He added that he was impressed by the way the teams involved in the project worked together to study air samples, pollen, tree-ring dating, DN A patterns and more.

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History uncovered,made in St. Mary's City, Md. . ST. MARY'S City, Md. (CNS) - History was recently both uncovered and made in St. Mary's City, the first Catholic colony in the New Warld, when scientists excavated and opened three 17thcentury lead coffins. They found the bodies of an infant and an adult man and woman in various stages of preservation.

Before the coffins were opened, Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey said a prayer of disinterment of human remains.

He also praised the settlers of the Maryland colony buried in the chapel and the surrounding field, calling them people who "greatly valued the freedom to worship God without fear, the freedom to profess their faith and the freedom to live their faith."

Religious freedom was a hallmark of the Maryland colony where many Catholic settlers landed in 1634. It was the first English colony privately owned and ruled by Catholics, and the first to establish religious freedom for all.

But religious liberty was shortlived. By 1704 Catholics were banned from openly practicing their religion and Anglicanism was established as the colony's official religion.

The Catholic Great Brick Chapel, built in the 1660s, was demolished in 1705 but its foundation walls remained and archeologists spent three years excavating them. Two years ago, during the last 15 minutes ofthe last day ofthe dig, team members spotted a medal, which led to unearthing of the three coffins.

They were reburied until plans to excavate them safely were completed. Funds for the extensive project came from the U.S. government and private sources. .

Archaeologists believe the discovered bodies were those of members of the Calvert family, founders of the Maryland colony.

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of an infant rather than of an adult.

The infant's bones were in good condition, but sometime during the past 300 years, the coffin had leaked to allow air and groundwater to enter.

When the woman's coffin was opened, scientists were elated to find a remarkably well-preserved woman in her 50s. Her wrists were crossed and tied over her stomach with a silk ribbon, which was still intact.

Archaeologists hoped the third coffin contained the remains of Philip Calvert, the sixth son of George Calvert and the colony's first chancellor, who died in 1682.

They found the largely decomposed body of a male about five-footthree-inches tall, but his identity and that of the other bodies will remain a mystery until research is completed by nuclear engineers, scientists and pathologists at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. It could be months or years before any findings are announced.

Henry Miller, chief archeologist of Project Lead Coffins, said whether or not the adult male is identified as Calvert, the findings are "a treasure trove of historical and archeological information."

Miller, a Catholic and native of Little Rock, Ark., is research director and chief archeologist in St. Mary's City. It was his team that found the medal.

In an interview with the Arkansas Catholic, Little Rock's diocesan newspaper, he calied the coffin project "blessed."

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Let's Really Support Children's Lives Some feel that 1993 will be a year of crusadirig for children's rights. Plans are underway to effect sweeping reforms in children's lives. On the agenda are many praiseworthy initiatives, such as improvements in the Head Start pre-school program and in child health delivery and foster care services.

The family leave concept should certainly be considered an assured parental right and there is desperate need of a child welfare and support project that does not merely pursue deadbeat dads but truly meets youngsters' b~sic needs. But in a social order based on economic performance and acquisition of goods, it's been easy to pay no more than lip service to such child and family concerns. Fortunately, however, there seems a growing consensus that far more than this is required.

Bllt there is a deafening silence about the most basic of all child welfare issues, the denial of life itself to millions of unborn American children. It is important to be concerned about nutrition, education and welfare, but we should begin where life starts, in the womb. As one observer pointed out, in these United States one of the most dangerous places for a child to be is in'his or her mother's womb.

It is totally illogical for reformers to work for legislation supportive of already born children while denying aid to those at risk of abortion. Our life priorities are more than confused.

We spend endless hours on political debates over children's benefits, from good playgrounds to school breakfast programs. Why can't we agitate for good prenatal care for expectant mothers? Why can't we have a child support system that does not make abortion a "viable" (of all words!) option. Why does our self-help legislation support irresponsibility rather than responsibility? ,.It seems that we are afraid to demand accountability with regard to behavior. Provision of condoms and birth control devices for younsters is a moral and ethical absurdity. Their promotion by planned parenthood lobbyists only supports immoral behavior. It takes from ,children their childhood,. pushing them into the worst behavior patterns of adults.

Yet there are those who seek to reform U.S. child 'care by such means. To make such activity legal is to destroy the very freedoms on which this nation was founded. Indeed, if we continue our national failure to support life at every stage, we will self-destruct.

Promotion of legislation designed to help children enjoy the benefits and bounty of America is laudable; but there is much more to protecting the health and safety of all children than simply providing them with the so-called good life. Let's give them life itself, the God life.

Once this nation accepts the concept that life is precious, fragile and to be cherished, we may find that our government will not need to ,be a judge of personal relationships and a provider of abortions. We might even return to an appreciation of the perso'n as the summit of creation.

Let's give our children true life support, not instruction in how to thwart or destroy life.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - How should an average Catholic decide whether to stop medically assisted feeding of a persistently unconscious patient?

A resource paper on the issue by the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities is a good starting point, said a priest who helped work on the paper.

"You start to answer the question by a careful weighing of Catholic values" and the paper presents those values, said Father Michael J. Walsh, chief staff officer for the bishops' Committee on Doctrine, which worked with the pro-life committee in writing the paper.

Other important steps, Father Walsh said, would include discussion of one's wishes and values with family members and consultation with trusted priests and doctors.

Since a patient already in a persistent unconscious state is unable to take such steps, he said, it is important to take them in advance. especially if a person plans to sign advance medical directives or appoint someone with durable power of attorney to make such decisions.

The resource paper says that the 21-bishop committee's "first goal in making this statement is to reaffirm some basic principles of our moral tradition, to assist Catholics and others in making treatment decisions in accord with respect for God's gift of life."

According to the paper, Catholic tradition "affirms a duty to preserve human life but recognizes limits to that duty."

Because human life is funda-' mental to other human goods, "it has a special value and significance," it says, but "this does not mean that all remedies must be used in all circumstances" to sustain life or delay death.

The document bluntly condemns any action or omission which directly causes death or is intended to kill a patient in order to relieve

suffering. But it also says, "We should not assume that all or most decisions to withhold or withdraw medically assisted nutrition and hydration are attempts to cause death."

It analyzes a number of ethical principles and questions concerning the relationship of burdens and benefits in medical care decisions, and it spells out the two main schools of Catholic theological thought regarding the application of those principles to patients in a persistent vegetative state.

In the end the committee stateme'nt comes down on the side of those theologians who would restrict withdrawal of nutrition and hydration to certain limited cases where the patient is on the verge of death or assisted feeding is itself futile because the body is rejecting it.

But it also acknowledges "legitimate controversy" between that

praye~BOX Prayer for the Dying Lord, God of life, prepare me for the, end of my days by opening my eyes to the reality of death and calming my heart of its fears. Heal those who suffer physicalfailing and despair ofyour gift oflife. Preserve the dignity and rights :of those who will soon enter death's door. Welcome these powerless ones into your kingdom so they may grow strong in the embrace of your love. A men.

view and the approach - "convincing to some" - of theologians who argue that maintaining nutrition and hydration is morally obligatory only when the benefits of .treatment outweigh the burdens to i patient Of the care providers.

Those theologians say there is no demonstrable benefit. and therefore no obligation to undertake burdensome procedures merely to sustain physical life, when a patient is diagnosed as incapable now or in the future of any conscious, free human acts. According to their argument, the withdrawal of nutritio'n and hydration from such a patient does not cause death - it merely permits the natural dying process caused by the underlying pathology to proceed.

"The Catholic tradition is not simplistic" about the moral obligation to protect and preserve human life, Father Walsh said.

"The problem for me is not with the principles - they're fairly easy to explain ~ but with the application," he said. "They're hard to apply to each individual case.

"Obviously there's a place here for moral and spiritual,.guidance :by clergy, advice from physicians and discussion with family members," he added.

If someone wants to give路 another person power of attorney to make decisions on his or her behalf, the two should discuss their. values and outlook on life to assure that there is a solid mutual understanding. he said.

He added that the same moral , principles that must govern a patient's decisions about his or her own treatment also bind someone acting on behalf of an incapacitated patient.

As an example, he said no advancing directive requesting a lethal injection in certain circum, stances could be honored, because "that is not an action anyone has a moral right to do, and even though it is the patient's clear wish, you may not fulfill it."

Seven centuries before Jesus, First Isaiah proclaimed a similar, uncomplicated word. Though the dreaded Assyrians were beginning to consume huge chunks of the Promised Land, the prophet calls upon his people to rejoice that large sections have recently been returned to Jewish control. "The people who walked in darkness," he insists, "have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone." Yahweh is still present and concerned about the Chosen People. Nothing could be more simple or reassuring.

The simple message Is,iah 8:23-9:3 I Corinthians 1:10-13,17 Matthew 4:12-23 One of the neatest (and strangest!) experiences in my life happened years ago at St. Patrick's parish in East St. Louis. The doorbell rang on a very cold, windy night. Looking out the window as I struggled with the lock, I saw a small middle-aged woman standing on the porch, wearing a coat suited more for spring than winter.

Though I welcomed her and opened the storm door for her to come in, she just looked at me, smiled kindly and said, "The Lord sent me to tell you he loves you very much!"

Not knowing how to respond, I stupidly asked, "Is that all he said?"

She smiled again and replied, "Yes. That's aiL" Then she turned around, went back down the steps, and was quickly engulfed in the darkness from which she came.

I have no idea who she was; I never saw her again. But I have never forgotten her. Her unexpected appearance and the powerful simplicity of her message remain sharp in my memory.

I'm thankful she didn't say any more than she did. If, for instance, she had prefaced her words with, "Hello, I'm a Jehovah Witness and the Lord sent me to .. ." I probably would have gone back upstairs to my room thinking what a shame it was to send such a committed but misguided person out on such a bad night...and quickly forgotten the whole episode.

But the more I study the Christian Scriptures, the more I see parallels between her message and that of Jesus. Matthew gives us the latter in all its simplicity and power.

"Reform your lives!" the Lord proclaims. "The kingdom of heaven is at hand."

As Catholics, we'd have expected the Lord to begin his public ministry by proclaiming the make-up of the Church he was founding: setting up offices, outlining dogmas, distributing copies of the authority flowchart. But he does none of these. He simply tells us that we must completely change our value system: that we must "reform" our lives. Only then will we be able to

DAILY READINGS Jan. 25: Acts 22:3-16 or 9:1-22; Ps 117:1·2; Mk 16:1518 Jan. 26: 2 1m 1:1-8; Ps 318; Mk 3:31-35 Jan. 27: Heb 10: 11-18; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 4:1-20 Jan. 28: Heb 10:19-25; Ps 24:1-6; Mk 4:21-25 Jan. 29: Heb 10:32-39; Ps ·37:3-6,23-24,39-40; Mk4:2634 Jan. 30: Heb 11:1-2,8-19; Lk 1:69-75; Mk 4:35-41 Jan. 31: Zep 2:3;3:12-13; Ps 146:6-10; 1 Cor 1:26-31; . Mt 5:1-12

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN perceive "the kingdom of heaven" - God's presence - which is all around us.

Yet, as seen in Paul's Corinthian correspondence, we quickly force this simplicity and reassurance into the background. The people who bring the message eventually

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become more important than the message. The Apostle perfectly sums up the situation: "One of you will say, 'I belong to Paul,' another, 'I belong to Apollos,' still another, 'Cephas has my allegiance.. .' Has Christ, then, been divided into parts? Was it Paul who was crucified or you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized?" Sometimes religion·helps us forget the most essential things.

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turned on by his message and impressed with his life.

We also are called upon to follow and convey his message and his life, death and resurrection.

Yet we so easily get bogged down in the accidentals; we emphasize the messenger instead of the message, we stress style instead of content. We simply forget what Jesus i:; all about.

Perhaps in the midst of all the pomp and rituals, all the dogmas and edicts, everyone should be given an opportunity to answer the door on a cold and windy night and hear again (maybe forthe first time!) the reassuring message of Jesus!

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By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. Years ago we were taught that transubstantiation was a basic belief of our faith. Today we hear no reference to it. Is it still a valid part of Catholic doctrine? (Florida) A. The word itself may not be used as much in 'catechism and

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r Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: Our 10-yearold daughter is missing more and more school. I suspect her headaches and tummyaches are exaggerated'in order to avoid her classmates.

She spends very little time with other children her own age. She keeps busy with private hobbies, and she spends a lot of time with me.

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Transubstantiation: a big word for a basic belief other instruction classes or homilies. But that has nothing to do with our belief in this essential doctrine of Christianity.

The reality behind the word, the true presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, "body and blood, soul and divinity," under the appearance of the eucharistic bread and wine, is and always will be at the heart of our Catholic Christian faith.

Every Liturgy of the Eucharist at Mass literally overflows with this reality. Most obviously of course, in the words of consecration during the institution narrative of the Eucharistic Prayers, we hear the words of our Lord himself, "This is my body ... this is my blood."

Every time you receive communion you make an explicit profession of faith in this mystery by your "Amen,"as the eucharistic minister holds up the host and declares the "body of Christ."

The word you speak of is prominent in Christian eucharistic tradition. The reason it is not used as frequently today is that it is perfectly possible to express what we believe about this sacrament without resorting to such (for us) unfamiliar and arcane terminology.

The new catechism of the Catho~ lic Church is a good example. By the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, it says, the bread and wine mysteriously

become the body and blood of Christ (1333).

Later the catechism speaks at some length about what happens ~hen Christ becomes present in the Eucharist. A "conversion" of the bread and wine into another reality takes place.

The church believes, it says, that the word of Christ and the Spirit have power to make this change happen (1373-5).

The word transubstantiation doesn't occur at all in this explanation except at the end, and then simply as part of a quote from the Council of Trent (1376).

Last year a child in our first communion class piped up, "My mother said to ask you ho\;\' we

know for sure that the communion host is Jesus."

After mentally vowing to get even with her mother, I told her, "Because Jesus said so. That's the whole answer."

As the catechism indicates, no one can really go much further than that.

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Child can be taught to overcome shyness my daughter, but my husband and some of our friends tell me that I am overprotecting her. What do you think? (New York) I think you are right to show concern. Missing school is a sign that shyness is interfering with an important life area.

At a time when most children her age are playing together and learning social skills. she is retreating to her personal interests. Commonly, children who have problems relating to their agemates can become overly dependent on their parents.

She may outgrow her shyness, On the other hand, if she continues to be comfortable and successful without friends, the gap between her and her peers may widen.

The first step is to determine what may be blocking her. Does she have feelings about her lack of friends? Do other children tease her? Does she feel.1ess pretty or less capable than the others at schooling or games?

If you understand what is interfering with friendships or what makes her uneasy around others, the remedy may be obvious. Overcoming fears is a skili that can be taught.

For example, if other kids tease her, teach her to tell herself "putups" (one good thing about herself) each time she hears a putdown.

If she feels less pretty, you can begin a campaign of positive remarks to highlight what is good

and beautiful about her. If she feels lacking in competence, you can help her work on her deficits.

The next step is to provide the opportunity for "safe" social encounters. Here are some possibilities: -When you visit adult friends with children her age, take her along.

-Encourage her to enroll in extracurricular activities.

-Suggest that she invite a classmate or two over for a路 specific activity, such as Nintendo or making popcorn. The activity takes pressure off the relationship.

-Her private hobbies may suggest an activity that can be shared.

If she knows a classmate with a common interest, suggest that they share their hobbies. You might even invite the other mother over.

-Encourage her to call classmates.

-Suggest that she give a party.

Such invitations are often reciprocated.

The final step is to subtract yourself to some extent from her social life. Be careful of providing her with extra attention because you think she is lonely.

By age 12 or 13, a child's life usually involves many social activities. Now is the time to encourage her in that direction.

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It wasn't all my fault, I agree, but a good part of it was. I was DOLORES invited to conduct a weekend of ministry at a church in another state. After the director and I CURRAN fleshed out my schedule, he called again. "We thought it would be nice to offer something for our high school and college youth.

Would you talk to a small group If there's one group that deserves more money, support, and grati- . on Sunday evening?"

I still wonder why I agreed. My tude in our church, it's those in youth ministry. If anyone disagrees, day was already overscheduled and I knew I would be tired.

I dare him or her to take on a I set some conditions, the main group of youth in a church baseone being that I would talk on ment for just one event.

I did and I bombed. I, who had teenage depression, which they taught adolescents for eight years, requested, but I wanted it limited left that church basement with an to youth from age 16 up. I had enhanced sense of humility and sense enough to recognize the foolrenewed admiration for those who ishness of lumping early and late spend every Sunday evening in teens together. They readily agreed. teen purgatory.

This all took ,place six months

before the weekend. I prepared wei!, developed an ice breaker, chose some appropriate prayers and contemporary music, and dismissed it as an easy nightcap to my weekend. Then, the week before my arrival, the director called and said that 100 youth had registered.

another Sunday evening and they grabbed it.

My heart sank. What I had prepared was not appropriate for a large gathering, nor was the topic of depression. However, the rest of the weekend went well, so I decided that the youth session would, too.

"That's too big a group for the topic," I demurred.

God had other plans. The evening was bedlam. Over 50 percent ofthe kids were 13 to 15, it was the . night after Halloween and they had pockets bulging with candy, which they tossed at 路one another, and they weren't about to listen to a woman路 the age of their grand~ mother talk about depression.

The upteenth mistake came when I defined depression as a "flu of the spirit" and flu-like noises filled theSloppy Joe environment. This Was 10 minutes into rny presenta-

"But we can't let them down," she said, so I didn't protest further - my second mistake.

By the time I had arrived 225 had registered. The church had sent notices to other churches, inviting youth groups to a Sloppy Joe dinner and me. Those other youth ministers, no dummies they, saw a chance to eat and sit instead of engaging their own youth on yet

tion. "Forget it, God," I muttered, tossed off a few anecdotes, and ended 30 minutes early.

It was a humbling end to an egoinflating weekend, which is w.hat I s'uspect God intended. While I don't understand what attracts people to youth ministry, I am deeply gratified that they are. They live with this bundle of hormones weekly and do a great job. They set up all night pajama parties they call lock-ins, they eat endless pizza, they sit on the floor. They deserve more money.

I can find no reference in scripture where Jesus spoke to a gathering of youth. He, as we know, is infinitely wise. God bless the youth ministers for trudging on where others fear to tread.

Dreams can help us understand ourselves By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I was having a conversation with some friends recently, and the subject turned to dreams. I was interested because I've long believed dreams hold a key to self-understanding.

If dreams weren't so important', it strikes me they wouldn't be so prominent in the Bible.

Books on dreams point to more than 700 instances where dreams and visions are mentioned in the

Bible, all having an important link to something people needed to know at the time.

But when the subject of dreams and their importance comes up, someone invariably asks, "Well, if dreams are so important, why are they so hard to remember, and why are they so difficult to understand?"

I have asked that question myself, and so I went to an expert for some answers.

Dr. Renee Nell of Connecticut, who studied with the great Swiss psychiatrist Carl J ung, said: "There's no reason why you should remember every dream. However, when there's a reason to remember a dream, people do, and then it is important to pay attention."

"If something in your life is

unbalanced, the dream quickly tells you. The dream always tries to guide you to honest balance. If you're not in a spiritual relationship with yourself, you're in a shadow. And the dream always brings up the shadow," she explained.

"Often the dream is pushing you to do the positive things you are not doing ... because you are not conscious of your resistance," she said.

Dr. Nell believes, as did Jung, that the dream "talks clearly."

Just before the end of 1992, I saw a film interview made in the late 1950s with Jung. What impressed me most was when the interviewer asked him, "Do you believe in God?" J ung smiled and said that when

he was a young man he believed in God, but that he underwent a change, explaining, "I don't have to 'believe,' for now I know."

Noone in modern times has taken dreams as seriously as J ung.

He intimated that dreams are the language of God within us, and they should not be lightly dismissed.

J ung, who died in 1961, has left us a legacy summed up in what he once wrote: "Within each one of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from how we see ourselves."

In a book titled "Dreams, God's Forgotten Language," the Rev. John Sanford wrote, "Every major writer in the first four centuries of Christianity regarded dreams as

one way that God offered healing and guidance to mankind."

Sanford said that when he personally began to take dreams seriously, "I soon found that my dreams were leading me out of confusion into a relationship with myself and acting for all the world like the voice of the Holy Spirit."

Each of us has to eventually decide for ourselves how seriously to take our dreams, but one thing is sure: Dreams are eminently creative and never boring, and probably hold important messages for bettering our lives.

Nonchalance "Nonchalance is the ability to remain down-to-earth when everything else is up in the air." - Eaj-J Wilson

Georgetown shaped his ideals, Clinton tells students

Holy Trinity parish aids homeless Dear Editor: The Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Homeless (HECH), a group of clergy and laypeople whose mission is to house homeless families, was recently given a significant boost from the parishioners of Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich.

As you may know, the parishioners of Holy Trinity began the Family Pantry back in 1989 and many ofthe leaders ofthat project launched the effort to have the churches join together in a program to house homeless families.

Father Shovelton has been impressed with the work as well as with the commitment. He has also been very supportive. His latest act of support was to have a second collection for HECH on the Sunday following Thanksgiving. He raised over $4,100.

These funds helped HECH take eight more families into our program in time for Christmas. Because of Father Shovelton and the generosity of his parishioners, 16 more homeless children were given a home for Christmas. What a way to celebrate the birth of Jesus!

Robert H. Murray, President Harwich Ecumencial Council for the Homeless

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - After touring 40 dioceses, the executive director of the Campaign for Human Development said he was "exhausted, but energized."

But most of all, Jesuit Father Joseph Hacala is proud of the organization that he calls "the best in the Catholic Church."

He recently traveled from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Los Angeles to promote the campaign and visit programs it funds.

The Campaign for Human Development, sponsored by the V.S. bishops and funded by V.S. Catholics, supports self-help projects which aim to break the cycle of poverty. Since its founding in 1970, it has provided $175 million in Dear Editor: We are so happy with the news- . grants to more than 3,000 such projects. . paper article about our classmate They include long-term housmg Cristovao(Anchor, Dec. II, 1992). for people in southern Florida left Many people have said that they homeless by Hurricane Andrew, have read the story. Even Msgr. loans and job training for those Mendonca asked us how is Cristowho lost businesses after the Los vao. Thank you. He is now in Angeles riots, affordable child care, Puerto Rico. Our class in now businesses for American Indians, called the Teddy Bear Gang. Love, cooperatives for farmers and housAll the Second-Graders ing and transportation for the elderat Our LadyofMt. Carmel ly.

School, New Bedford During Father Hacala's trip, he met many people involved in these projects.

He said a highlight of his tour WASHINGTON (CNS) - U.S. was his opportunity to see the and Canadian Catholic seminary work of church-based organizafaculties say students are far more tions.

He cited St. Gabriel's parish in diverse today than in the past, according to a new study. That is St. Louis, noting that members of both good and bad, the study said. the well-off parish joined with a CHD-funded group that focuses It found new riches for the church in the variety of cultures and expe- on housing issues, cleaning a yard riences candidates for priesthood and collecting signatures on a petibring with them. But it noted tion drive about lead poisoning.

He said his trip showed the problems in establishing ad~qu~te formation programs and mamtam- "flesh on the bones of modern ing educational standards when Catholic social teaching." And he many seminarians lack the prepa- need not look farther than the top ration once taken for granted in of his desk for another reminder of what his work is about. Amid candidates. stacks of papers stands another stack - of 56 pennies, the contents of a 4-year-old's coin purse.

He said the child who put the WARSAW, Poland (eNS) coins in his hand understood it Most Poles believe in God and go was helping her grandmother move to church at least twice a month, out of a housing project to a home but most also say it's all right to of her own. avoid paying income taxes and to "Sure, CHD is 56 cents richer," obtain welfare payments fraudu- he said, because of the little girl's lently. More than two-thirds of donation. "But it's much richer Poles say they believe in God but because of the participation of the rest say they have serious doubts people." that there is either heaven or hell. ~~~~ Harsh Dealing The profile of Polish social and religious attitudes was part of a "However harsh God's dealing survey program cosponsored by with us may seem to be, He is an social science faculties at several infinitely wise,just and good God." U.S. and German universities.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Attending Georgetown V niversity "opened my eyes to the world in a way that they never would have been otherwise," President Bill Clinton told students at the university two days before his inauguration.

"Georgetown played a major role in my path to the presidency," Clinton told 1,000 students who had waited for him in a cold courtyard for three and a half hours Jan. 18.

Clinton is the first graduate of a Catholic college to be elected president. A Southern Baptist, he has credited his Georgetown experience with shaping his philosophies of public service and the need to help mankind.

He told the students that even after the death two weeks earlier of former Georgetown president Father Timothy Healy, the Jesuit priest was influencing him.

Found among Father Healy's papers was a four-page outline of instructions for his inaugural address, Clinton explained.

"Tim's buried down the hill here," he said. "I want him to know that I've absorbed the instructions and that I've taken some and rejected some. That was always the case."

The meeting with students followed a reception at the university for Washington's diplomatic corps.

Clinton noted that many of his fellow classmates from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service are in the foreign service or military.

In a brief speech, Clinton acknowledged that events in the previous week "remind us anew that this era will not lack for dangers."

He repeated his resolve to maintain President Bush's approach to foreign policy in the face of tensions with Iraq and stressed his intention of relying on the United Nations to solve disputes and meet the challenges of the coming century.

Clinton has maintained close ties with many former classmates from his years in Georgetown's

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He told the students he wished for them the same types of experiences and friendships he had enjoyed at Georgetown and asked them to give to America and not just take. .

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AT THE BALL: Bishop O'Malley greets presentee Sherry Ann King and her father Jonathan King; Fall River area presentees, from left: Jodie Anne Zukowski, St. Stanislaus; Erin Marie Prior, St. John the Baptist, Westport; Diane Rego, Espirito Santo; Kristen Leigh Strojny, SS. Peter and Paul; Sherry Ann King, Blessed Sacrament; Danielle Marie Bessette, St. Louis de

France, Swansea; Colleen Gouveia, St. John of God, Somerset; Jennifer O'Neil, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Elizabeth Oliveira, St. Elizabeth; Gabrielle Marie Lavoie, St. Joseph. Right: Suzeanne Maria Franco and her father, Gilberto O. Franco, enter ball room.

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Bottom left, New Bedford: Raquel Pacheco, Immaculate Conception; Elizabeth Furtado, Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Amy Bedard, St. Mary; bishop; Maryann Castelo, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Cristina Ambar, St. Joseph, Fairhaven; Joan Fielding, Our Lady of Fatima; Kerri Gardiner, St. Anthony, Mattapoisett. Bottom right, Attleboro: Lora and David Corvese, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls; Jennifer Bernice and James Souza, St. Mary, Seekonk; Ana and Gabriel Rebelo, St. Joseph.

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Fall River native E.J. Dionne cited in Msgr. George' Higgins column In a more recent article, Dionne expressed guarded optimism about our ability to undertake this nonideological, pragmatic reexamination of the U.S. economic system.

With fingers crossed, I share his optimism - at least on the crucial issue of health care.

By Msgr. George G. Higgins E.J. Dionne Jr. is the subject of the following column by Msgr.

Higgins. He is the son of Lucienne Dionne of Holy Name parish, Fall River, and the late Dr. E~J. Dionne.

He and his sister, Atty. LucieAnne Thomas, are graduates of the former St. Mathieu elementary school, Fall River, where their mother was a teacher. Now retired, Mrs. Dionne, who was also a librarian for many years, is gathering materials for a reference collection on Franco-American contributions to the civic and cultural life of Fall River. Editor E.J. Dionne J r. is one of the most thoughtful of today's ranking political writers. Though he has for some time covered the national political beat for the Washington Post and is now an editorial page columnist and member of the newspaper's editorial board, he is best described. I suppose. as a social philosopher or political pundit. . Dionne is preoccupied with what he sees as the urgent need for "a democratic public life built on a sensible theory of public engagcment." , He is allergic to the tired old liberal-conservative and capitalistsocialist dichotomies which figured so prominently in American political discourse during the Cold War years. .

In his brilliant 1991 book. "Why Americans Hate Politics" (Simon and Schuster, New York), he evenhandedly analyzes the respective flaws of both conservatives and liberals, and calls for creative political thinking.

E.J. DIONNE Jr. The current political dialogue, he says, "fails us and leads us to hate politics" because of its yes~no, either-or approaches "that ignore the elements that must come together to create a successful and democratic civic culture."

Dionne returned to his theme in a January column. With the collapse of communism in the East, he wrote, we are faced with new challenges to pure capitalism.

He wrote that we are increasingly preoccupied with matters that markets don't resolve, "How do we create something called 'community'? How can society and government promote both personal and social responsibility? .... How can we build cooperation into a fundamentally competitive society?"

Until a few years ago, debate about health care in the United States was a fruitless exercise in simplistic ideological rhetoric. Any program, no matter how modest, aimed at giving the government a significant role in the restructuring of the health care system was labeled "socialized medicine."

Year after year it was the same old irrelevant debate about freemarket capitalism vs. socialism, and all the while the health care system kept going from bad to worse. Now the system is so flawed' it only can be described as a crisis.

Astronomical increases in the cost of health care now have convinced the majority of corporate executives and health care professionals that something must be done without delay.

At a minimum, they see an important role for the government in' restructuring the system although, understandably, they do not want the government to run the entire system.

Moreover, an increasing number of corporate executives are now prepared to cooperate with organized labor and otller interested parties in hammering out the details of a viable national solution to a problem which is now completely out of hand.

That is revolutionary and, in my view, cause for rejoicing.

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Holy Childhood aids Somali youngsters The Holy Childhood Association has announced proceeds of nearly $200,000 from its recent emergency appeal for child victims of famine in Somalia. The appeal was directed to U.S. parochial school and religious education students.

Rev. Francis W. Wright, C.S.Sp., national director of Holy Childhood, said the contributions demonstrated U.S. children's concern for their counterparts in Somalia.

He said, for example, that he received a letter from a 6-year-old girl saying "I am sending you some money and I hope you can buy a lot with it. I made a lemonade stand. I got $4."

A teacher wrote saying that one of her students had earned $6 to contribute to the appeal by selling her neigh bors copies of "The Chestnut Terrace Gazette," which she had written. It included an

explanation: "We are trying to help the poor people this Christmas."

Holy Childhood celebrates its 150th anniversary in 1993. The Somalia appeal reflects fulfillment of an essential aspect of its mandate, to educate children to assume responsibility for a church that is both global and missionary.

Grade-appropriate student newsletters, teacher guides, classroom posters, films and other ed ucational materials also make students aware of what their sacrifices can mean toa mission child and the difference that sharing and caring can make in everyone's life.

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A letter from Bishop O'Malley January 17, 1993 My dear Friends in Christ: This week we commemorate two very significant dates which turn our minds to the struggle to protect human and civil rights in the United States. This Monday will mark the annual celebration of the federal legal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King was a man of faith who pitted himself in a non-violent struggle against the evil of racism. His tragic death at thirty-nine years of age galvanized the nation into a co~certed effort protect our people against racism and discrimination.

Dr: King's death was not in vain. Many racist structures have been dismantled; and more and more people are becoming convinced of the great truth that only one race matters, only one race exists - the human race, the human family. Dr. King firmly believed that "unarmed truth and unconditional love" will overcome all di'visions and injustices.

The Catholic Community stands in solidarity with all who revere the memory ofthis great leader whose life and death teach us all a lesson of non-violence, of sacrifice, and of universal brotherhood. We must work together to make his dream a reality.

Friday of this week, January 22, is likewise an occasion that demands much reflection on the part of all. H is the anniversary of the tragic Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion. At a time when we are alarmed by the specter of teenage pregnancies, children having children, and the feminization of poverty as many women have to be both Father and Mother to their children, we must clearly reject abortion as a possible solution. Abortion is not a solution, it is a problem. It is the destruction of innocent human life. Abortion flies in the face of God's Law and human dignity. It is not a sectarian issue, it is a, matter of Human Rights.

The Catholic Community cannot remain silent or indifferent in the face of this moral crisis which is destroying the conscience of the nation. There can be no doubt that abortion is the most extreme form of child abuse. We do not judge the women who have been victimized by abortion, but rather the society that permits and even encoufages the practice rather than seek real solutions to the moral and economic problems of our times.

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This is not the first time that our country has been divided by a Supreme Court decision that denied the value of certain human lives. The 1973 Abortion decision parallels the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857 which held in effect that Blacks could have no rights as citizens under the Constitution. In 'both cases a group of human beings are denied not only the rights of citizens, but also the fundamental right to life itself. Thanks to Roe vs Wade a woman holds life and death power over her unborn child, just as a slave master held the same power over "his human property".

In those days many law-abiding citizens accepted slavery as a necessary institution to enhance the economic life of the country, so many today defend abortion as a social necessity to promote the quality of life. However, the quality of life becomes meaningless if the Sanctity of Life is lost.

As a society and a Church we must look for humane and compassionate solutions to the problems of teenage pregnancies aQd impoverished families. Abortion is not an acceptable option. Real solutions are difficult and will demand sacrifices of us all. We can begin by making Friday, January 22nd, a day of prayer, fasting and reflection. I would ask all Catholics to abstain from meat and to pray on this sad anniversary, twenty years of a mistake.

This week has traditionally been designated as a week of prayer for unity among Christian Churches. I hope that as we search for ways to achieve greater understanding and unity among all Christian Churches, we might also work together to promote Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life. I am encouraged by the fact that many Catholics marched shoulder to shoulder with Dr. King at Selma and many Protestants will march shoulder to shoulder with thousands of Catholics this Friday in Washington in the March/or Life. I will be in Washington representing you, the Catholics of the Fall River Diocese. Accompany me with your prayers.

Jesus Christ is the Way. He is the Good Shepherd who prayed that all might be one. May the events and prayers of these days help us to draw closer to Christ and to each Mhcr. . ., Devotedly in Christ,

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Maryknoll gets nod to work in Vietnam MARYKNOLL, N.Y.(CNS)The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers were officially established in Vietnam last December, the society has announced.

Work was initiated in Vietnam at the request of Msgr. Claudio M. Celli, Vatican assistant secretary of state, Maryknoll said.

Maryknoll Father Thomas J. Dunleavy went to Vietnam last summer to explore the possibilities for service there. From Hanoi, he has been developing programs to assist poor, blind and elderly Catholics.

He is beingjoined by Maryknoll Father Francis H. Beninati, who is currently completing a teaching assignment in Vietnam.

Church relations with Vietnam have been improving gradually in recent years. A breakthrough came in November 1990, when Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, led the first Vatican delegation to Vietnam. Later that month, a number of Vietnamese bishops were able to make their "ad limina" visits to Rome, required every five years.

After a visit to Vietnam in January 1992, Msgr. Celli reported "signs of springtime" for churchstate relations, noting that a seminary in the. southern city of Nha Trang had just become the fifth allowed to reopen since the war. A seminary in Hanoi, he reported, had grown from 16 students in 1982 to, 53, and was constructing the first new seminary building allowed since the war.

In June 1992, 37 priests were ordained in the country's largest "ordination 'cereinony in 17 years, but the government refused permission for ordination of six other candidates.

Breaking with Adversity "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."William Arthur Ward

Nun calls view of Church as white, European an illusion DAYTON, Ohio(CNS)- Many people are surprised when Jamie T. Phelps tells them she is a Catholic.

Sister Phelps, an Adrian Dominican sister and theologian, is one of the 2.5 million black Catholics in the V nited States who often go unnoticed by their wliite counterparts.

"To be a sojourner in the Catholic Church as a black person has been a different journey for me than for my classmates who were Irish and Italian," she said. "It was assumed they came from a rich tradition of Catholicism whether that was fact or fiction. And because I'm black, there's the assumption that I must be a convert and that I know very little about Catholicism."

A speaker in a V niversity of Dayton lecture series on Christianity in the New World Sister Phelps, an assistant professor of systematic and mission .theology at the Catholic Theological V nion in Chicago, said the perception of the Catholic Church as a European entity is false.

"Right now to say that the Catholic Church is white is to deal in an illusion," said Sister Phelps.

"The majority of the members of the Roman Catholic Church world. wide are people of color."

On the African continent there are 130 million black Catholics, 60 million in Latin America and 20 million in the Caribbean and North America. About 2.5 million of these black Catholics are among the 53 million Catholics in the V nited States, she said, citing statistics from the Catholic African World Network.

According to Sister Phelps, traditional references to the V nited States and the V.S. Catholic Church exclude native peoples and those forcibly brought to the V nited States.

"Whenever we talk about our nation as an immigrant nation or talk about our church as an immigrant church, we are denying the existence of those who are not immigrants," she said.

According to Sister Phelps, the V.S. Catholic Church and other Christian denominations were reluctant to take a firm stand against slavery in the 19th century - when it wasn't uncommon for religious congregations and bishops to own slaves. Except for the few whites who supported them, most blacks were perceived as a "problem."

After their emancipation, the problem of their souls and freedom turned into the problem of

their ordination and entrance into religious orders and congregations.

In response, black Catholics have convened a series of national black Catholic congresses for the "rejuvenation of our people."

Other African-American contributions have often gone unnoticed in the church. Sister Phelps wants "to put on record" some of these achievements, including those of theologians and popes in the early church.

"N obody tells you that Origen, .Tertullian, Cyprian or Augustine were African," she said. "Whether they were black is not a question.

They were Africans, and they were major actors in the development of the early doctrines of the church."

Sister Phelps believes greater acknowledgement of these contributions can "move the church further along the line of being what it says it is," a universal sacrament of salvation.

"For those of us who are black and Catholic," she said, "at this point it's important to know that Catholicism is not a new phenomenon in the African family, that we are not simply add-ons to an immigrant church, but that we have roots in the Catholic Church that date back to the biblical times."

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Postcards Continued from Page One "It's a question of what kind of society we want to be," she continued. The U.S. is fast becoming a nation where it is acceptable to "take the lives of inconvenient others."

The pro-life movement has the opportunity to reach persons whose "hearts are hardened" or who are simply "tired of the issue" by stressing the positive aspects of the· church's position on the sanctity of life, Professor Glendon said.

"We should speak not only about what we are against, but what we are for," she said. Just as Martin Luther King "presented a vision of society without segregation," the church should offer "a vision of society without abortion-welcoming to children and supportive of the men and women who raise them."

Furthermore, the church can offer forgiveness, Professor Glendon added. Activists on both sides of the abortion issue are predominantly women, many of whom have had abortions, she said. The difference is that "some trust in the Lord for forgiveness" and others turn away. .

As one diocesan priest put it, "Every abortion is testimony to a failed relationship between a man and a woman." The church should acknowledge this reality and offer compassion rather than "simply talking about biology."

Teen views asked SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (CNS)Bishop John J. Leibrecht of Springfield-Cape Girardeau has opened. a dialogue with teenagers in the pages of his diocesan newspaper by urging them to help others. "You belong to a church which helps others," he said in a letter to Catholic high school students published in the Jan. II edition of The Mirror. "Be proud of, and part of, this helping church." The letter, which also was mailed directly to each Catholic high school student in southern Missouri, asked the young people to "think about practical ways we should, or should not, be the Good Samaritan to others" and to write to him with their ideas.

Thorny issue NEW YORK (CNS) - President-elect Bill Clinton's strong commitment to keeping abortion legal does not automatically mean a similar orientation for United Nations' policy, according to a bishop who follows U.N. population activities. Bishop 'James T. McHugh of Camden, N.J., said in a telephone interview that pro-life forces expected Clinton to move directly on the domestic front in carrying out his commitments. Developing U.S. policy in regard to U.N. issues will be thornier, he said, because of the implications for relations with other countries.

The Anchor Friday,'Jan. 22, 1993

Dear Passage of the "Freedom of Choice" Act (FOCA) would be a disastrous mistake for our country because it mandates abortion-on-demand as national policy.

Congress should pass laws that help reduce the number of abortions, instead of laws like FOCA that encourage more abortions.

As your constituent, I urge you to OPPOSE the "Freedom of Choice" Act and to OPPOSE the use of my tax dollars to pay for or to promote abortion. Please UPHOLD existing federal pro-life policies. Please write me at the address below to tell me how you would vote on these matters.

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MASSGOERS will be asked to sign postcards like this one for National Project Life this weekend. .

"Ritual music" analyzed by liturgists WASHINGTON (CNS) - After five meetings over 10 years, a group of leading U.S. Catholic liturgical composers and liturgists has issued a report calling for a new level ofdevelopment in Catholic ritual music in U.S. churches.

Titled "The Milwaukee Symposia for Church Composers: A TenYear Report," the 18,OOO-word document analyzes anew the nature, function and role of music. in liturgical worship and the interrelationship of music and liturgy.

It adopts the term "Christian ritual music" instead of "sacred music" or "liturgical music" to get beyond earlier concepts of church music that artificially defined certain kinds of music as sacred or that treated music as something more or less added on to liturgy.

The idea of ritual music emphasizes music's integral function in ritual. It "underscores the interconnection between music and the other elements of the rite," the report says.

It challenges liturgists, musicians and parish assemblies to deepen their understanding of ritual music and to expand and improve their musical repertoire and participation.

Topics covered include longrange goals for liturgical composers and educators, fundamentals of good weekly liturgy in parishes,

relationships between pastors and pastoral musicians and guidelines for evaluating new technologies.

Speaking of fundamentals, the report says that every parish needs a repertoire of good ritual music which is: familiar to all, able to be sung well by the whole assembly and strong enough musically and lyrically to bear frequent repetition.

Capuchin Father Edward Foley, professor of theology, liturgy and music at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, headed the committee that drafted the report.

He told Catholic News Service that the group viewed its statement as building upon previous church documents on liturgical music, especially Vatican II's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and "Music in Catholic Worship," a 1972 statement by the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Liturgy.

Father Virgil C. Funk, Washington-based executive director ofthe National Association of Pastoral Musicians, called the report a benchmark for liturgists, pastoral musicians and composers to use in evaluating their own progress toward ideals of liturgical renewal.

The Milwaukee Symposia for Church Composers is a series of dialogues begun in 1982 by the late Sister Theophane Hytreck of Alverno College, Milwaukee. Dialogues are held every two or three years.

Think before giving brochure says WAS HINGTON (CNS) - People should think before they give to religious charities, suggests a new brochure published by the National Catholic Development Conference.

"Giving Is an Act of Faith" outlines some recommendations for charity donations which include the importance of carefully reading appeal letters and writing charities directly with questions.

The brochure also notes that premiums or gifts with mail appeals are not obligations to give. It suggests that those who often receive mail from an organization but do not wish to contribute simply request to have their name removed from the mailing list.

Under guidelines established by the U.S. Catholic bishops, Catholic organizations must be able to provide a statement of financial accountability. In addition, member organizations of the National Catholic Development Conference agree to adhere to a code of fundraising ethics.

Brochures are available from National Catholic Development Conference, 86 Front St:, Hemp- . stead, NY 11550 or by calling (516) 481-6000.

Covenant House post filled NEW YORK (CNS) - Richard H. Hirsch, U.S. Catholic Conference secretary for communication from 1979 to 1989, has been named Covenant House senior vice president for communications, succeeding Robert W. McGrath.

Daughter of Charity Sister Mary Rose McGeady, president of the ministry to homeless young people, said Hirsch's appointment "brings to Covenant House a new talent on the national level to tell our story of kids on our streets who are facing drugs and crime, battling illiteracy and a lack ofjob opportunities, and fighting against a debilitating lack of belief in themselves."

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Hospitalaid pledged v ATlCAN CITY (CNS) - A top church official, after touring Albania's desperate health care system, pledged Vatican help in constructing'a major new hospital there. Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, president ofthe Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, said the Vatican would strive to find sponsors for the project.

Father Foley described the new report as an attempt to deal with issues of ritual music in depth in a way that will help not only pastors and parish musicians and liturgy committees, but the composers, liturgy teachers, publishers of liturgical music and others whose work now is setting the future directions of such music in the U.S. Catholic Church.

Fathers Funk and Foley.viewed the report's treatment of inculturation as expanding significantly on an aspect of liturgical renewal mandated by Vatican II but not fully developed in subsequent church documents.

"The previous documents didn't contain an understanding of how important that inculturation was or how it relates to the character of the United States as a pluricultural country," Father Funk said.

The Milwaukee report takes up the issue in depth, it was noted, emphasizing that inculturation of the liturgy involves recognition of culture as one of the critical elements in development of ritual music.

Among signers of the report were such widely known musiciancomposers as Marty Haugen and Father Michael Joncas, both of St. Paul, Minn., and Robert Twynham, cathedral musician of the Baltimore archdiocese.

Leading liturgists involved included Norbertine Father Andrew C. Ciferni of Washington Theological Union in Silver Spring, Md., and author Gabe Huck, head of Liturgy Training Publications.

PR OJECT LIFE meeting: speakers at a clergy meeting to discuss the National Project Life postcard initiative, from left: Gerry D'Avolio of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, Dr. Michael Taylor, Father Stephen A. Fernandes, Bishop O'Malley, Professor Mary Ann Glendon. (Hickey photo)

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Changes to come says Maryknoll MARYKNOLL, N.Y.(CNS)The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers need an "attitudinal change" to adjust to reductions in personnel and finances, the superior general said in an interview.

Father Kenneth F. Thesing said the society can no longer respond to every mission need it sees and must develop a "refined and honed focus."

"The opportunities are limitless, but our resources are limited," he said. "That doesn't mean we're washed up, but it certainly means we must adjust our mentality."

Father Thesing presented his perspective in a recent talk to society leaders in the United States who serve on the apostolate board.

Subsequently he circulated his text throughout the society.

Interviewed at Maryknoll Jan. 12, he discussed community efforts to plan for the future.

Calling his talk "Vision 2000," FatherThesing urged Maryknollers to assess realistically what kind of mission program the society can maintain as it faces "the verydifferent ti.mes ahead."

The society, he said, continues to operate with a 1970 vision.

Although vocation numbers had even then begun to decline. he recalled, Maryknoll continued to act as though it were a growing organization that could do "nearly anything we wanted."

The superior general said Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers are not only declining in number but, with few young men entering, are becoming older. "In the year 2000, more than half will be over 65," he said.

Vocations efforts continue, but he'said there is no reason to expect a significant increase soon.

Father Thesing said he did not yet have final 1992 budget figures, but that they would show a deficit of more than $1 million.

Maryknoll reserves can cover the shortfall, he said, but cannot continue that for long. He said he was working on reducing the deficit this year and balancing the budget for 1994.

The priest said Maryknoll could no longer give grants, as it has in the past, to mission proj~cts other people were undertaking. The society will also have to cut back on hiring outside workers for various Maryknoll projects, he said.

He said Maryknoll would continue to subsidize its publishing arm, Orbis, but hoped the subsidy would decrease.

American Catholics, Father Thesing said, continue to give Mary-' knoll strong financial support, but income is not keeping pace with costs.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Panama is torn by economic hardship, corruption and injustice, the country's bishops said at the start of the new year. The bishops asked for a nationwide consultation to seek consensus solutions and prepare adequately for elections in 1994, Vatican Radio reported. The bishops said Panama's poor system of justice was one of the country's most urgent problems, They said inhuman conditions persist in overcrowded prisons, where most detainees are still awaiting trial.

THE POPE WAVES to visitors in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (eNS/ Reuters photo)

Pontiff writes his own job description VATICAN CITY (CNS)- Well into the 15th year of his pontificate, Pope John Paul II has decided to write his own job description.

In a series of talks at recent general audiences, the pope has strongly defended the role of the papacy and outlined its historical origins, its lines of authority and its pastoral duties.

As his yardstick, the 72-year-old pontiff is using St. Peter - a fisherman and an apostle who, despite "defects and limitations," was chosen by Christ to direct the early church. Peter isn't a portrait of perfection in the papal talks,. but that's part ofthe point: according to Pope John Paul, the papacy is tied to God's grace as much as to personal virtue.

The figure of Peter has always been key to the pope's understanding of his job. Speaking to the College of Cardinals a few days after his election in 1978, he explained how his "most singular mission" had corne from Christ's mandate to Peter.

In his recent cycle of talks, the pope said he wanted to give a "clear, reasoned exposition" of the Petrine ministry. He began by emphasizing the wide powers Christ had in mind when he told Peter: "I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven."

Christ was conferring a "universal and complete power" on Peter and his successors, the pope said.

Papal power goes beyond formulating points of doctrine or general norms of action: it means "doing whatever is necessary for the life and development of the church," he said. _ ' But the pope stressed that the .aim of this power is to open the way to heaven, not to "place obstacles" in its path.

So the pope should act as "gate" and "universal shepherd" for his flock. And this, he said, implies specific tasks: - Teaching the faith and sound doctrine in every age, amidst all the "difficulties and contradictions" encountered through history.

- Instilling courage in the faithful - because faith is' not maintained without struggle.

- Reuniting and encouraging the faithful through prayer and leadership.

- Trying to help non-believers accept the faith.

- Comforting those who are in doubt.

The pope'sjob is not a popularity contest, Pope John Paul explained. He remil)ded his listeners that Peter had to rebuke his own followers at times, as when the saint criticized a Christian couple for lying about the purchase price of some property.

Peter's policies on judaic law prompted internal criticism from his flock. In a telling passage, the pope said this was the beginning of the "reservations and opposition" aimed at every pontiff in history.

But even those who sometimes criticized Peter - like St. Pauldid not question his authority to lead the church, the pope said.

A good part of the pope's talk have focused on Peter's "wellknown limitations and defects" that might have made him an unlikely leader of the early church.

Peter's personality was probably not enough in itself to catapult him to a leadership role, the pope said.

The pope cited Peter's earlier denial of Christ and his failed attempt at loyalty. Some Italian newspapers wondered why the pope was depicting the apostle as such a "bad apple."

But the pope's point was that God's grace - seen in Jesus' special prayer for Peter - took him far beyond his personal talents.

And this grace remains for Peter's successors, "sustaining them in their human weaknesses," he said.

As Peter acted on this grace, he spoke with greater authority in meetings with Christians. But the pope emphasized that the saint did

not have to lobby for his position of authority: "It is not the assembly which designates him."

Peter moved more confidently among the disciples and won their respect; he worked miracles, astonishing the crowds; he worked in communion with the other apostles but took the initiative and made the final decisions, the pope said.

Essentially, Peter's job was "strengthening his brothers and feeding the sheep." He used his primacy and his teaching authority in a service to the whole church: "ensuring the unity of the flock and defending it from'every hostile attack," the pope said.

Peter, like all popes, was expected to live a life of sacrificial service - in the saint's case, to the point of crucifixion. As the pope said, experience has shown that trial and struggle go with the job.

So far the pope hasn't specifically mentioned his own trials as the 263rd successor of Peter. But his talks sometimes sound like a defense of his papal style, or a plea to be understood by his own flock.

The job, he seems to be saying, requires a tough mix of authority, energy, doctrinal clarity and pastoral concern - along with an ability to take some flak.

The faint-hearted need not apply.

Insomnia with Purpose "When you can't sleep, say'Aha! Here's a chance for a little privacy and creative thinking. All day I've been too busy to pray, and now I can get around to thanking God.'" - James Angel .

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) The revived catechumenate for adults "has begun to invigorate the whole church," Columbus Bishop James A. Griffin said in a pastoral letter on the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

In just a few years of experience with the revived rite, "we are experiencing a profound restoration of the very life and mission of the church," he said.

The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was inaugurated in the 1970s as part of the liturgical reforms mandated by the Second Vatican Council.

It is a revival of the church's practice, in the early centuries of Christianity, of combining instruction, formation and ritual over a period of time to initiate catechumens - unbaptized adults who wished to join the church - into Christian belief and practice.

The rite is also used in modified form to initiate candidates into full communion in the church.

Candidates are those who either were baptized in another Christian church or were baptized as Catholics without the follow-up of catechetical formation and reception of the other sacraments.

In recent years, adapted forms of the process have corne to be used more and more with children who were not baptized as infants.

"From its small beginning in Lent of 1977, when seven persons were presented for election, I have watched the fruits of RCIA multiply," Bishop Griffin wrote. "Fourteen years later I received 516 persons from throughout the diocese at the Rite of Election 1991."

The Rite of Election is a ceremony on the first Sunday of Lent at which those in the RCIA who are entering their final preparations for initiation into the church at Easter are presented to the bishop.

Many other dioceses across the country have reported growth figures similar to those in Columbus, with numbers rising almost every year and sometimes doubling from one year to the next.

Bishop Griffin said church officials have been amazed at the success of the rite in Christian countries, since it was developed primarily for use in areas where the Gospel was just being introduced.

"One looks with a little humor at the pontifical commission who, in preparing the RCIA from 1964 to 1972, primarily had 'missionary' countries in mind," he wrote.

"Like the sower of the seed in the Gospel, the members of the commission have been amazed at the growth of the RCIA in the socalled 'Christian' countries.... We have corne to see that Western countries, including the United States, are as much in need of evangelization as any country on a faraway continent or island."

Bishop Griffin said the RCIA process, with its liturgy-linked program for the formation and recognition of new members ofthe church, has had a significant impact not only on the people who go through it, but on those who are already part of the church.

It has a particularly deep effect on Catholics who serve as sponsors of the new members, he said.

He cited stories told him by lifelong Catholics who said their own faith life was revitalized by their participation in the RCIA process as sponsors.

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Wedding bells: tying knot later - or never WASHINGTON (CNS) - "Mar- an increase in the numbers of riage is a great institution, but I'm second marriages. not ready for an institution, yet," The reasons for marriage delays Mae West is said to have quipped. are many, he said.

Neither are many young adults A sluggish economy is one. A in the V nited States, according to lot of couples insist on a "big a new V.S. Census Bureau report church wedding," he said, and documenting chltnge in V.S. mar- hold off because they cannot riage and divorce. finance one. Another reason is an V.S. young adults are staying increase in cohabitation, he said. single..longcrand-more ar.e apt not '- Father Joseph M. Champlin, to marry at all, the report found. director of parish life and worship Diocesan officials who prepare for the diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., couples for marriage say these and author of"Together for Life," trends are also apparent among a marriage preparation book, said Catholic young people. ,an informal survey done in one The Census Bureau report, re- diocese showed that of500 couples leased in December, found that in marriage preparation classes, between 1975 and 1990, the per- almost 40 percent were living cent of married women 20 to 24 together. Some 90 percent, he said, years old dropped from 63 percent had sex together pI;ior to marriage.

As a result of such situations, he to 38 percent. " The report also said that 90 per- said, couples may feel less pressure cent of current young ad ults in the to marry." ' _ V nited States were 'expected to - The priest said these realities marry during their lifetim~s, com- should not change the. church's task in terms of marriage preparapared to the;, historical 95 percent marriage rate for ~mericans. tiop. "y.: e need to, welc0l!1e" the The younger a woman when she couples, he said. marries, the greater likelihood she Sister Markey said that nawill divorce, the report/ound. tionally some 50-70 percent of Mother who ha.ve a child before couples are cohabiting. "V nfortutheir first marriage are more likely nately the statistics wouldn't be to divorce than mothers whose much lower for Catholic couples," children are· conceived. after mar- she said. ' riage, it said.

She said cohabiting couples have Notre Dame Sister Barbara replaced co'uples marrying because Markey, dirctor of family life in of 'pregnancy' as the highest risk the archdiocese of Omaha, Neb., couples. said that prior to 1984 ,her arj;hdiShe' attributed cohabiting couocese had a "significant teen mar- ples' high breakup rates to cases in riage program," while now with which one of the two feels pushed the average age of marrying 27 for into making a commitment. In men and 26 for women, it is rare addition, the marital satisfac'tion for a teen-ager to request marriage' of such couples may be lower, she preparation. said, because they "used up the She called that a positive change. honeymoon period" while cohab"Uyou get married at 19 or under, iting and now view the less excitthe breakup rate is four out offive. ing second state of their relationAt 25, it's one out of five. You ship as a consequence of marriage don't have to do your growing up rather than a normal part of the and marriage at the same time." relationship cycle.

Father Thomas F. Leach, direcFather Champlin said couples tor of family life ministry for the also are delaying marriage because diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., says of education plans, as well as- out that in his diocese in 1988, some of "fear on the part of people 8,000 church weddings were cele- because divorce is so prevalent." brated, compared to 6,500 in 1991.

Sister Markey agreed. "Young He has found a majority of coupeople see divorce all around them ples getting married today to be in and don't want to be part of that. their mid 20s or early 30s. He cites Some'are coming from families of

divorced parents and want to be very careful about whom they choose to marry."

In general, Father Leach thinks the trend toward marrying later is positive. Many couples in their late 20s, he said, "have been out in the career world, have met a lot of people and now know more what they're looking for."

He said danger signs for engaged couples, include having different priorities and goals, vast differences in faith outlook, or financial and personality difficulties.

Father Champlin added to these "failure to communicate on major issues" and "basic emotional immaturity," which he said can be apparent throug'h irresponsibility on the job,. addictions or lack of t~mper control.

He said couples are up against a culture in which can be found "an enormous amount of insecurity, l).idden rese'ntments and poor selfesteem." .

"It is a culture that doesn't enshrine permanence," he said~ "Few people work the same job all their lives, or stay in the same place.

There's an inability to deal with pain and conflict. All of this overflows,\nio marriage."

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THEANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 22, 1993

By Charlie Martin

THE LAST SONG

By Christopher Carstens She's 17 and blonde, the complete California girl, with a radiant smile and cheerleader good looks.

Infact, she was a cheerleader in junior high, and she really thought she could make the squad her senior year.

She had that entire senior year worked out in her daydreams. She'd been in student government since seventh grade ilnd soon became a cinch for student council. She was popular and grades were no problem.

The recurring daydream usually ended with the senior prom. Her date, so cute in his tux, would pick her up in a rented limo, and they'd have a wonderful evening.

But now there's this one hitch: her baby Nathan. Who'd watch Nathan while she was at the prom?

Senior year just isn't the same when you're a mom.

She's being brave, but it's tough.

She left her regular l1igh school after she missed so much time when Nathan was born.

Now she's finishing up at an adult school where she'll get a diploma in June. But she won't grad uate with her class. No cheerleading, no prom, no cap and gown.

Her good friends are supportive. They call, and she still goes out with them weekends, but it's different.

Their lives revolve around history class and who's going out with somebody's old boyfriend.

Her life revolves around getting Nathan to the doctor and finding somebody to take care of him on afternoons when her mom works.

Her friends never even mention the prom. It would only hurt her.

Nathan's father broke up with her right after the baby was born.

The court granted him two visits a' week, and at first he was pretty regular, but now he only shows up "

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I need your gentle hands to keep me calm' 'Cause I never thought I'd lose I only thought I'd win I nev,er dreamed I'd feel This fire beneath my skin I can't believe you love me I never thought you'd come I guess I misjudged love Between a father and his son Things we never said come together The hidden truth no longer haunting me Tonight we touched on the things That were never spoken That kind of understanding Sets me free Written by Elton John and Taupin. Sung by Elton John (c) 1992 by Big Pig Music Ltd.

once or twice a month, and he' never sticks around more than a few minutes.

"He says he isn't ready to be a father," she says. He never sends any money at all. "He's in school," she adds with just a touch of bitterness.

She and her parents are taking him to court, hoping the judge can somehow make him pay his child support.

But he doesn't have a job, and he isn't looking. She says that after she graduates she'd like to get ajob and then move out on her own. It feels funny, having her own child and still being with mom and dad.

She feels college is pretty much out of the picture. She had thought about studyingjournalism, but she A FRIEND asked me to can't see how she'd do that right review Elton John's current hit away. Maybe later, maybe when "The Last Song." the baby is older - maybe.

She told me that John has She dates a bit. Sometimes it's dedicated the song "to those hard finding a guy who'll go out dear ones" with acquired imwith a girl with a 6-month-old mune deficiency syndrome. Probaby at home. She's dated some ceeds from the song are being older guys in their 20s, but they donated by John to the health seem in a rush for one thing or care needs of people suffering another. from this disease.

The last one brought up marAs I write this column, I have riage after their second date. in mind an idea proposed by "That's not what I want," she Louise Hays, a writer and lovsays. 'Tm not ready for all that. I ing channel of God's healing. just want to be on my own for a Her books and workshops have while, by myself." helped many.

She pauses and looks down at She thinks that when we write the carpet. As a 17-year-old mom, about this disease, we should she knows she may never get a use lower case letters, as in chance at really living on her own.

She got pregnant when she was 15. Quietly, I asked her what advice she would give a girl at that age.

"I'd tell her she's not ready for DENVER (CNS) - Organizers sex and to wait. I'd tell' her not to of World Youth Day '93 have, give it all up so soon." selected Cherry Creek Park as the And then she smiles and goes on site of a vigil and Mass with' Pope being brave. , John Paul II during the internaShe'll make it through all of tional gathering of youth Aug. this. It just isn't the senior year she 11-15. ', ' had in mind.

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• easy one, Archbishop J.' Francis Stafford of Denver said in a statement. He called the Papal Mass "a Noi'~is' H~'Tripp religious moment in, our country and an historic oC,casion for the' " J. lESER, Prop. people of Co!orado," and also RESIDENTIAL noted that "Cherry Creek State INDUSTRIAL Park offers an impressive view of COMMERCIAL Colorado's spectacular Rocky , '. ' .

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"aids," not AIDS, because capitalizing the term appears to give too much power to the disease - to allow it to terrorize us so much that we cannot treat patients with compassion.

We need to be educated about the disease. We also need to continue to love those who have it.

The song tries to help us understand what it is like for families whose sons or daughters have this disease. John presents a moving account of reconciliation between a son and father. Together they find a way to face the son's impending death.

The son knows that neither of

them can stop "this fire beneath my skin." Yet "tonight we touched on the things that were never spoken."

For this dying man, the sharing brought healing, for "that kind of understanding sets me free." He now realizes that "I guess I misjudged love between a father and his son."

Even though acquired immune deficiency syndrome is one of the fastest growing diseases on our planet, you may not personally know someone who has the illness. Yet the Christian response before any type of human suffering is compassion.

Jesus gives us the perfect example. He risked bringing his love to lepers, those afflicted with the dread disease of his time.

As teens, you might feel that there is little that you can do for people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. However, it is a mistake to discount the value of small actions. Each of us has'a part in bringing more of God's love to our world.

For example, skip buying' one soft drink a week and donate the money to research attempting to find a cure for the disease. Or start recycling your family's or school's aluminum cans.

Give the money gained to an organization supporting families who have a member sick from the disease. If you don't know where to give the money, ask a member of your parish staff or an adult at your school.

The song reminds us of the power of God's healing. Ultimately, love is stronger than any form of fear that haunts our hearts.

Today, give God's healing.

No gesture of compassion or caring is ever lost. Allow' your life to be one more way that God is healing our human family.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47536.

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COATS FOR KIDS: Youngsters warm up in coats obtained from the Taunton District St. Vincent De Paul Society distribution center at St. Joseph's parish center in the city. Through the "Coats for Kids" program, arearesidents are asked to bring usable children's winter coats to Dermody Cleaners, which readies them for wear and passes them along to the Vincentian,s for distribution to those in need:' Over 400 coats are expected to be given away before the drive is over at the end of January.

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Coyle-Cassidy High School tQmorrow's Bishop Feehan-Coyle Coyle-Cassidy High School, & Cassidy boys' basketball game.

Taunton, has announced the apThe Warrior teams are off to a pointment of Brian Nichols as the great start in the new year. The school's new head baseball coach. boys' basketball team won their Nichols replaces longtime Warrior own Butler Tournament with vicmentor Steve Winslow. tories over Westport and Diman Nichols is a graduate of DighVoke. Pat O'Brien of Taunton is ton-Rehoboth High School and among the top five leading scorers Bridgewater State College. As a in the Eastern Athletic Conferjunior at D-R, Nichols helped pitch ence. The girl hoopsters had a big the Falcons into the state tournawin recently over Bishop Connolly ment. While he was at Bridgewith Vicki Lavoie of Carver and water, the Bears won the New EngLaurie Poyant of New Bedford land Championship. leading the way.

Nichols. 28, already has a vast In track, the boys had impres. wealth of coaching experience. sive victories over Somerset and Until his appointment at CoyleBishop Stang. Senior Mike RiconCassidy, he was an assistant coach scente of Norton broke the school at Stonehill College. He is also a record in the 55-meter dash, while pitching coach for the Hyannis Chris Pabst of East Taunton did Mets of the Cape Cod League. a the same in the 55-meter hurdles. counselor at the Play Ball Camp in Anthony Maffini remains unde-.

Bridgewater, and has served as an feated in the 300-yard run. assistant coach for the Easton The girls' track team continues Huskies of the Cranberry League. to improve with each meet, with Athletic director Bill Tranter freshmen Patricia Murphy of East also hired Scott Adams, a former Taunton and Rachel Rothman perbaseball and football plliyer at forming well in just their first high Northeastern University, as the school meets. school's junior varsity 'coach.

The hockey team defeated rival Meanwhile the winter sports season at Coyle-Cassidy is well Bishop Feehan, 4-2, with New underway. Tranter has announced Bedford brothers Jason and Jeff the school's winter Captain's Ladino, along with Mike MounCouncil, comprised of the captains tain of Carver, supplying the of all of the winter teams. They offense for the Warriors. Freshare: Ryan Powers, Greg Napier, man John Serriello of Lakeville boys' basketball; Katie Wapenski had his first win in the net.

Senior Alicia Smith of Taunton and Laurie Ducharme, girls' basrecently represented Bristol County ketball; Michael Janicki and Anthony Maffini, boys' track; and Massachusetts at the National 4-H Congress in Chicago.

Nicole Sullivan, Theresa Arpin and Heather Thompson, girls' She, along with three other track; Russ Motto, hockey; and delegates, was selected to attend Kelly Kluchko and Kellie Cam- based on her 4-H project work, bra, cheerleading. . leadership and community service.

The Captain's Council recently .

Alicia has represented the county organized and played in a wheel- ' at the annual State Teen Conferchair basketball game against a ence and is the president of the team of physically challenged athlocal4-H club. She is editor of the letes led by C-C alumnus Mark school literary magazine and is Higgins, '87. The Council, along active in performing arts, includwith the Student Council, will coing the marching and concert host a dance on January following. bands.

St. Mary-Sacred Heart School Students at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, gathered Jan. 15 at Sacred Heart Church for a prayer service in observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King.

Students in"grade 6 recited the poem "Freedom Days" under the direction of Mrs. Mary Jane Burke.

Other service readers were: grade I, Stephen Lewis; grade 2, Tiffany Taylor; grade 3, Kenny Powell; grade 4, Angela Catanese; grade 5, Katie McBrine; grade 7, P~ggy Taylor and grade 8, Lisa Gualtie'ri.

The service began with the song

"Only a Shadow," followed by grade 6's poem, the Pledge of Allegiance, prayers and the song "We Shall Overcome."

In preparation for the day, students and teachers traced their hands on paper and each wrote a statement on the paper about how he or she could be a "peacemaker."

The hands were then connected with green yarn and strung throughout the school.

During the preceding week, each SMSH class studied Martin Luther King's dream and conducted activities to promote peace among all racial and ethnic groups.

ST. MARY-SACRED HEART students, from left, Kenny Powell, Katherine McBrine', ,Lisa Gualtieri, Tiffany Taylor and Kathryn DeVisscher participate in Martin Luther King' Heritage Assembly.

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Kids suggest new jobs for George Bush MELBOURNE, Fla. (CNS) While many parents are contemplating what kind of president Bill Clinton will be, Anita Brady's firstgraders at Ascension Catholic School in Melbourne have concentrated on finding President Bush a new job.

"I think he'd make a great hockey player," said, Casey Osman. "He could practice with roller skates and learn to keep his balance before he skates on ice."

The concern for Bush began shortly after the students heard the results of the presidential election.

In a "mock election" at Ascension School the day before the national, ele,ction, most of the first-graders voted for Bush. , "When we talked about winning and losing the day after the election, and I told the class President Bush' would have ,to .move out of the White House, they were very worried that he would end up homeless," said Ms. Brady. "Out of true concern ,they w,ondered what they c01.!ld do to help ~it:J1."

The patriotic first-graders decided to help the presi'dent by find, ing him a new job.

They preSented ideas of new professions, d~scribing the multitude of possibilities in hand-printed letters to the Oval Office. The first~ graders also created artistic depictions of the' president, in action, hard at work at each newjob they, picked for him.

Sean Storms put him to work as a dog catcher ,because Bush has a dog and seems to love animals: Elizabeth McElwee granted him an immediate degree in medicine.

After being oresident, she was convinced, Busb had 'knowledge of everything, including surgical procedures. , .' , "He could take tickets at the

movie theater," said Adrianne Seus.

"He's used to sitting down, and he won't have to stand up all the time."

Matthew Pampalone portrayed Bush in a number tank top and shorts, dribbling a basketball. He thinks the 6-foot-tall politician' would be an asset next to Michael Jordan, playing for the Chicago Bulls. Matthew also kindly put the president in the professional athlete pay scale, suggesting the team pay him $29 an hour.

Twin sisters Desiree and Federica Carulli want to give him a job in their dad's pizza parlor. Other suggestions urged Bush to consider becoming a commercial fisherman, a race-car driver, a:soft,ware salesman, a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team or a counter worker at McDonald's. . But Natalie Collins and Michell¢ Koenig hope President' Bush, an Episcopalian, will take their' ~ug­ gl;stion more seriou~ly than anyone else's. The budding ecumenists would love him to beco,me a priest and serve at Ascension Church as associate pastor, of course.

"He could teach peo'ple how to learn about God," said Natalie "President Bush would have"to be' really holy, though," said Michelle, "and pray Ii lot."

Bush, who leaves office Jan. 20, has said he will live in' Houston.

And rather than try oui as ",Father" Bush, he has, .¢~pressed more iriterest in fulfilii'ng his role as a grandfather of 12.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 22,1993·'

Iteering pOintl CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, ATTLEBORO "Hidden Mourning," a IO-week program involving grieving and healing for those dealing with abortion-related experiences, will begin 5 p.m. Feb. I. Information: Pat Staebler or Sister Mary Ann Mcintyre, 226-4780. Contacts are confidential.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, TAUNTON Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

Jan. 26, St. Joseph's parish center.

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ST. ANTHONY, TAUNTON Father Jose Souza will conduct Introductory Course on the Bible beginning 7: 15 p.m. Sunday in the church.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Respite volunteers needed for two or three calls a month, a couple of hours at a time. Information: Pat Dowd, 385-7302; Mary Broughton, 896-7492. "Parenting as a Peacemaking Profession" workshop 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 7 presented by Suzanne Belote Shanley, cofounder of Agape, a lay community which educates in Gospel-based nonviolence.

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CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Sacred Heart, Taunton, confirmation retreat tomorrow.

CATHOLIC NURSES, NB NB Chapter of Catholic Nurses will present a seminar, "How to Deal with Difficult People," 9 a. m. Feb. 6.

Sacred Heart Nursing Home, NB. Information: 996-6751 ext. 23.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Scripture from Stratch Bible Study at parish center 8 to 9 p.m.: Feb. 3, "The Appeal of St. Paul"; Feb. 10, "Take a Letter."

HOSPICE OUTREACH, INC., FR Training course for new volunteers will begin Feb. 2; classes meet 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays for eight weeks. Topics include aspects of cancer, role of the volunteer, confidentiality, bereavement, home care. Information: 673-1589.

SERRA CLUB, ATTLEBORO Serra Club Altar Servers' Night for altar boys from Attleboro area parishes 6:30 p.m. Jan. 26, St. Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro.

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AUSTIN, Texas(CNS)- When Orestes Lorenzo Perez expressed a hope to bring his wife and his sons out of Cuba, other men might have dismissed it as an impossible cause. But not Armando Valladares.

Valladares, a political prisoner in Cuba for 22 years, is founder of the Valladares Foundation, the non-profit international human rights advocacy organization which provided Lorenzo with the plane that he used to fly his family to freedom Dec. 19.

"I was a government official of the Castro regime," Valladares said in a recent speech at the University of Texas in Austin. "I supported' the revolution, but I had religious convictions, spiritual convictions and ideals of liberty and jU3tice."

Those convictions and ideals led him to forced-labor camps on the Isle of Pines off the coast of Cuba.

In 1974, he was denied food for 46 days. Starvation left him confined to a wheelchair, unable to move the lower half of his body for five years.

It was then that he wrote his first book, "From My Wheelchair." His writings were smuggled out of prison in dirty laundry and sent out of Cuba in toothpaste tubes to his wife, who had them translated and published in various languages.

Released from prison in 1982 after pressure was placed on the Cuban government, he is now U.S. representative to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, with the rank of ambassador.

"I am opposed to torturing the communists that tortured me, my friends and my family," he said. "If we aspire to a world without those experiences, this is the only way to achieve that. To struggle for human dignity without ideological, religious, racial considerations. We must raise our voices without fear and use all available means in defense of those who are persecuted, of the tortured ofthe world."

Valladares credits his Catholic faith with helping him to survive the years in prison.

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THE FAMILY Armando Valladares was instrumental in reuniting: former Cuban Air Force Major Orestes Loreno Peres. holding his son, Alejandro, 6. His ll-year-old son Reyniel stands beside him and his wife, Maria Victoria, is at left.

(CNS/ Reuters photo) "The most important strength, that which allowed me to endure, was my faith, my religious convictions," he said. "It was the knowledge that I was acting true to my values. It was knowing I was right in God's eyes."

To Valladares, true freedom is not having a physical space to walk, but rather each individual's ability to think, to believe in truth.

"Right at this moment there are millions of people able to walk who are not truly free," he said. "I, on the other hand, never lost that freedom. When they take away your space, your light, your air, but you have love inside you, you are still able to build worlds inside you with suns that never go down and horizons without barbed wires."

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A LONE PILGRIM prays before a statue of Mary outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which once drew thousands of visitors weekly. Although gunfire from the surrounding area can be clearly heard, the church remains unscathed and the town has been spared serio-us damage thus far in the strife that has ravaged the Balkans.

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