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'Sacred Hearts withdrawal announced Six parish~s affected.

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ANCHOR INTERVIEWEES, from left, Susan Legare, Susan Sayle, Lina Maria Sousa, Lisa Francis and Susan M. Tracy

32nd annual Bishop's Charity Ball

"This ball is the best ever!"

By Joseph Motta In an elaborate and impressive ceremony, 35 young women representing diocesan parishes were presented by their fathers or other male family members to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at last Friday's 32nd annual Bishop's Charity Ball, held at North Dartmouth's Lincoln Park Ballroom.

Thousands attended, a boon to the hundreds of exceptional and underprivileged children who will benefit from the event's proceeds at diocesan summer camps. Other diocesan charitable apostolates are also beneficiaries.

Bishop Cronin was the ball's honored guest for the 17th consecutive year. He was escorted by honorary ball cochairman David J. Motta, president of the Fall River district council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

Themed "Land of Liberty," the social and charitable event com-

memorated the 200th anniversary of the and signing of the U.S. Constitution. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes was the ball's diocesan director.

Before the ball, The Anchor spoke with a presentee (rom each of the five diocesan deaneries.

Susan Legare represented the Attleboro deanery; Susan Sayle, the Cape and Islands; Lina Maria Sousa, Fall River; Lisa Francis, New Bedford; and -Susan M. Tracy, Taunton.

All were presented to Bishop Cronin by their fathers. l6-year-old Susan Sayle is the youngest. From Our Lady of the Isle parish, Nantucket, she traveled farther to the ball than any other presentee.

A senior at Nantucket High School, where she's a basketball team forward, she confessed that she was a bit nervous about the event. "I just want everything to work out all right," she said.

However, when her pastor, Father Philip A. Davignon, asked

Miss¡Sayle,. who is active in the parish Newman Club, to represent Our Lady of the Isle, she jumped at the opportunity.

"I thought it might be interesting to do," she said. "It's just different. I've never done anything like it."

Miss Sayle was the only Anchor interviewee who designed and made her own dress. She completed the project with the assistance of her mother and a family friend.

The island presentee traveled to the mainland the day before the ball as insurance against bad weather.

Susan M. Tracy, 21, ofImmaculate Conception parish, Taunton, a bank employee, said that being chosen as a presentee by a parish committee "came as a big surprise.

"I'm having tremendous fun getting ready," Miss Tracy said.

"My whole family is coming."

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The Very Reverend William Heffron has communicated to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin the decision of the provincial chapter of the Community of the Sacred Hearts to withdraw from the pastoral direction of a number of parishes in the diocese of Fall River.

This decision of the local chapter follows closely upon directions taken at the last general chapter.

The chapter called for examination of the congregation's commitment throughout the world in light of its missionary vocation, Vatican Council II, and the diminishing numbers of men available.

In order to assure a smooth transition in the withdrawal, Bishop Cronin and the provincial formed a task force consisting of Msgr.

John Oliveira and Father John Perry from the diocese and Father Thomas McElroy and Father Columban Crotty from the Sacred Hearts Community..

The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts indicated its intention to withdraw from Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet; Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven; St. Boniface, New Bedford; St. Anthony, Mattapoisett; Holy Redeemer, Chatham; and Holy Trinity; West Harwich.

The congregation will withdraw according to the following schedule: June 1987 -Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet; Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven; St. Boniface, New Bedford June 1988 - St. Anthony, Mattapoisett; Holy Redeemer, Chatham June 1991 - Holy Trinity, West Harwich Bishop Cronin will undertake a study with consultation of the clergy and parishioners regarding the future viability of the parishes of Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven, and St. Boniface, New Bedford, in light of the withdrawal of the Sacred Hearts Community.

"We wish, in one way, that things would never change. These are wonderful parishes, and we have been a part of them for as many as 80 plus years. We love the, people we serve in these communities, and we have been loved and supported by them," said Father Heffron.

"At the same time, we must be faithful to our missionary vocation, to the decisions of our chap- . ter governments, and to the desires Turn to Page Six

Worcester auxiliary is named When Father George E. Rueger is ordained Feb. 25 in St. Paul's Cathedral as an auxiliary bishop of the Worcester diocese, Father.

Vincent Diaferio hopes to be there.

Father Diaferio, pastor of Holy Rosary parish, Fall River, was a seminary roommate of the bishopelect. He remembers him as a "good seminarian, very popular, humble and always smiling/' He retains those qualities, said Owen Murphy, editor of the Catholic Free Press, newspaper of the Worcester diocese. "The priesthood is his life," said Murphy. "He has never drawn the spotlight to himself."

The bishop-elect has taken as his motto "That All May Be One,"

a reflection of his keen 'interest in ecumenism and also in recognition of the fact that his appointment was announced during the annual Week of. Prayer for Christian Unity. He will be the first native of Worcester to serve the diocese as a bishop.

Bishop-elect Rueger will be- ordained at 7 p.m. Feb. 25 in Worcester's St. Paul's Cathedral. Cardinal Bernard Law will preside and Worcester ordinary Bishop Timothy J. Harrington will be principal concelebrant and ordaining prelate. Coconsecrators will be retired Worcester Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan and Burlington, VT., Bishop John A. Marshall.

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The Anchor Friday, Jan. 23, 1987

Forum for separated and divorced set

Ecumenical progress nuted

The Diocese of Fall River, under the leadership of His Excellency, the Most. Rev. Daniel A. LA CROSSE, Wis. (NC) Cronin, will sponsor a forum for Catholic ecumenism has made the separated and divorced Catholics' most progress with "the family of under the direction of the diocesan Catholic churches" and the least office of Family Ministry. Father with Pentecostal churches, said Ronald A. Tosti, office director, Father John Hotchkin, executive recently announced the forum, to director of the National Conferbe held Feb. 7 at St. Francis Xavence of Catholic Bishops' ComI ier School, 223 Main Street, FATHER PASSERI mittee for Ecumenical and InterreAcushnet. ligious Affairs.

The New Bedford area SeparIn a telephone interview with ated and Divorced Support Group the Times Review, newspaper of will host the event. the Diocese of La Crosse, Father The forum's theme will be "If Hotchkin discussed the status of Today You Hear His Voice." Its Father Richard Passeri, OFM, ecumenism in conjunction with keynote address will be delivered' the Annual Week of Prayer for will celebrate his 40th anniversary

by Father William (Bill) Murphy, of priestly ordination at 6:30 p.m.

Christian Unity, which began Jan. SA. Father Murphy is associated with Monday at a concelebrated Mass 18 and ends Sunday. the Atonement Friars, Graymore, at St. Louis Church, Fall River, Significant advances have been N. Y., and is an advocate for the where he is parochial vicar. made between the Catholic A social will follow in the church· New York tribunal, which proChurch and other mainline Chriscesses over 100 annulments per hall. tian churches in social cooperayear. He has been a priest 46 years May 6, 1919, Born in Boston tion, he said, adding that the posiand has ministered the past nine Father Richard is the son of the tive response to the U.S. bishops' years to separated and divorced pastoral letters on war and peace late Angelo and Judith (Caponi) Catholics. He successfully started Passeri.

He attended elementary and on the economy had been eight support groups in Massaschools in Boston and Revere. His "gratifying." chusetts and II in New York. family home is in the latter city.

The Catholic Church has most After preparation for the Father Murphy's address will be advanced ecumenical relations with "the family of Catholic churches," priesthood at St. Francis Seraphic followed by four workshops, especially the Anglican Commun- Seminary, West Andover, Immacu- scheduled so that participants can late Conception monastery, Troy, attend them all. They will be given ion, he said.

by Father Jay T. Maddock, Dr. Internationally, dialogue had N. Y., St. Anthony Seminary, CatRobert F. Broussard, Sister Jane been carried on between the Catho- skill, N. Y., and Mt. Alvernia SemiHogan, OSF, and J. David lic and Anglican churches for more nary, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., he Mulrooney. than 20 years, he said. The results was ordained Jan. 26, 1947.

He served for 17 years in the Father Maddock, vice-official is of that dialogue have been pubfor the Fall River diocesan tribulished and sent to Anglican pro- Franciscan Mission of Guatemala vinces and Catholic bishops' con- . and Honduras and was parochial vicar and pastor in parishes in ferences worldwide.

New York City and other parts of Father Hotchkin said ecumeni- New York State, as well as in the cal dialogue is next most advanced Boston archdiocese. Father Riwith the Lutheran Church, fol- chard was also active in local minBishop Daniel A. Cronin will be lowed by the Orthodox churches. istries in the Boston area, was at East Freetown's Cathedral Camp On the international level, he associate at St. Joseph Friary in on Sunday to greet parish represaid, Lutherans and Catholics have Onset, was a member of the home sentatives attending a session of addressed the issues of Holy Eucha- mission band of the Immaculate preparation for World Youth. . rist and ministry of the church, Conception Franciscan province Pope John Paul II has designed publishing major reports on those and was superior of Immaculate Palm Sunday of this year, April Conception Monastery, Troy. areas..

12, as World Youth Day, to be Dialogue with Orthodox churchcelebrated with the theme. "We es has continued for about twoKnow and believe the love God and-a-halfyears internationally and has for Us" (I John 4: 16). about 20 years in the United States.

Parishes have been invited to World Marriage Day '87 will be Ecumenical progress has been send one or two representatives to celebrated in the United States, most difficult with the Pentecostal the 1:30 to 4 p.m. meeting. where churches, he said. "History has a Canada, Australia and Europe Sun- they will study a Lenten program day, Feb. 8, with a "Love Lights lot to do with that - how the for World Youth Day prepared by the World" theme, tying in with churches are related historically." the Youth Ministry Office at the day's .Gospel on Chirstians as He defined the Pentecostal churchCathedral Camp.. the light of the world. es as those "that rejoice in gifts of On Palm Sunday, in union with A special liturgy for the day has the Holy Spirit, such as tongues, the Holy Father, Bishop Cronin. been prepared and information on healing and such manifestations." invites diocesan priests, adult.

The Catholic Church and the Pen- it is available from the Diocesan youth leaders and young people to Office of Family Ministry, tel. tecostal churches need to "talk join with him in a 3 p.m. paraliturwith one another in order to under- 999·M20. gical celebration of World Youth Sponsored by Worldwide Marstand one another," he said.

Day at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall riage Encounter, World Marriage.

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Father Hotchkin said the fear of Day was initiated in 1981 i"n Baton compromise some have with re- Rouge, La. According to Auxilgard to ecumenism "is understand- . iary Bishop Francis J. Dunn of able." H'owever, unity does. not Dubuque, episcopal moderator for VATICAN CITY (·NC) - Pope mean "s~ekinga lowest common Marriage Encounter, the day"honJohn Paul II has praised the East denominator," he said. "Unity ors the husband and wife as head African country of Kenya for conmeans' coming closer to ·Christ. It of the family and the basic unit of stitutionally guaranteeing religious is growing deeper in our faith, not society. It salutes the beauty of the thinning it out. The closer we couple's fidelity, sacrifice and joy freedom and has stressed the importance of safeguardoing ethnic come to the Lord, who is Lord of in daily married life." as well as individual rights. The all of us, the closer we come to one pope also lauded the nation for its another," he said. . The average Cat'holic can prosensitivity to the plight of refugees, including "prompt hospitality and mote ecumenism, he said, in "many, In a Massachusett~ Citizens for generous assistance." Kenya many" ways.

Life advertisment of free pro-life borders Uganda and has assisted ."I suppose the main thing that bumper stickers in last week's many who fled turmoil in that all of us can do is try to live the Anchor, the address was incorChristian life as described by St. rectly given. It should be Mass. country. The pope made his comment to the new Ke'nyan ambassaPaul," he said. "To rejoice in one Citizens for Life, Room 708, 227 another, not be judgmental, to seek Union St., New Bedford, MA dor to the Holy See, Simon B. the good of one another."

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nal, holds a bachelor's degree from St. John's Seminary College, a master's in theology from Gregorian University, Rome, and a . graduate degree in canon law. His workshop topic will be "Annulments: What, Why and How." Dr. Broussard holds master's degrees in education and divinity and a doctorate in pastoral clinical psychology. He is a pastoral counselor, family therapist and psychologist. His topic will be "Sexuality within Our Christian Framework." It will include discussion of growth beyond the pain of divorce to a "new life in spirit and self-awareness. " "Before, During and Aftet': Meeting Oneself Full Circle and Making a New Roadmap" will be Sister Hogan's subject. Associate director of The Listening Place in Lunn, she holds two master's degrees in education and is certified in clinical pastoral education. She trained at Mercy Hospital, Springfield, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Divorce ministry is among her" fields of special interest.

Mulrooney's topic will be "Sin-

gle Parenting - A Mission of Love." Mulrooney is a licensed certified social worker associated with Catholic Charities 'of Worcester. He holds a bachelor's degree from Loyola College and a m~s­ ter's degree in counseling pyschology from Boston College. He will emphasize the importance of dealing with each member or person in the' family as being a part of the family.

Registration for the forum begins at 8 a.m. Following a 9 a.m. introd uctory session including morning prayer. Father Murphy will deliver his address and the workshops will follow. Luncheon and the Sacrament of Reconciliation' will be available to participants, and the forum will end with a 4:30 p.m. liturgy.

Registration forms can be obtained at all diocesan parishes.

Registration deadline is Jan. 30.

More information is available from the DiO'cl\san Office of Family Ministry, 999-6420, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

The office notes that St. Francis Xavier School has limited accessibility for handicapped persons.

Cardinal Bernardin issues pro-life plea In connection with yesterday's pro-life marches in the Fall River diocese, the nation's .capital and other U.S. cities, Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago marked the 14th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion by urg- . ing political leaders to prevent abortion from becoming enshrined as a civil right.

The cardinal, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life 'activities, also called on elected officials to work toward overturning the court's 1973 abortion decision. Roe vs. Wade, and told Catholics to deepen their perception of the value of all human life.

In his statement, released by the U.S. Catholic Conference in Washington, he termed the Jan. 22 anniversary "an opportunity again to speak out against this abberration in our legal system."

"We urge our elected representatives to maintain and strengthen safeguards against the public fvnd- : ing of abortion and to prevent· abortion from becoming enshrined, as a 'civil right,''' the cardinal said.

"We also urge them to work for the ultimate reversal of the Supreme Court's tragic error."

According to the cardinal, "it is appropriate that the March for I,.ifeeach year in Washington. D.C. and in many state capitals ends with personal visits to public officials."

"While the church's constant . witness to the sanctity of life provides Catholic legislators with special resources for understanding the evil of unrestricted abortion, we appeal not to denominational belief but t.o a respect for justice which should guide the consciences of all men and women in public life," he added.

He called "upon all Catholics to continue our pro-life efforts and to widen and deepen our perception

of the sanctity and value of all human life. While none of us can do everything in the struggle to restore protection for human life, each of us can do something," he said.

He said the abortion anniversary also offers "an occasion for Catholics to renew their vision of a better society - a society in which the rights of all are respected without regard to age, sex, race or condition."

"While realization of this vision may seem distant, it makes inescapable demands upon us here and now," he said. Those demands include efforts "to witness by word and example to the dignity of human life" and "to oppose public policies that offend against this dignity," he said.

"Neither demand can be ignored or evaded," the cardinal stated.

Although personally in need of healing, "we must work to heal a society that often ign<;>res those most in need," he said. "Thus, even a's we struggle to live out more fully the church's preferential love or option-for the poor, we have an obligation to point to injustice when the wealthiest nation in the world seems unwilling to meet the minimal human needs of its poorest citizens.

"Likewise, even as we strive to overc'ome, our own shortcomings as nurturers of life, we cannot ignore the injustice when a society committed to protecting the weak from the strong excludes its most defenseless members from its protection," Cardinal Bernardin said . ."Our moral tradition does not demand that we enact every tenet. of Catholic morality and discipline. into law," he concluded. ','But when civil law denies fundamental human rights to a whole class of human beings, it strikes a blow at the entire-social order."

THE ANCHOR -

FATHER WALL

FATHER ANDREWS

School before entering Cardinal O'Connell Minor Seminary and continuing to St. John's, Brighton.

He was pa'rochial vicar at St. Joseph and SS. Peter and Paul parishe~ in Fall River, St. Margaret's, Buzzards Bay, and St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis, before being named to St. Joan of Arc June 18, 1980, He has been active as area Boy Scout chaplain for the Fall River and Cape Cod areas. In the past few years he has directed building of a new St. Joan of Arc church and renovation of other parish properties, In seminary days he and Father Wall collaborated on preparation of a listing of deceased priests of the diocese. 'Updated, it appears weekly as The Anchor's Necrology column. Father Andrews also contributed a history of the Fall River diocese to a jl!nio~ edition of the Cathol,ic Encyclopedia pubJis!led some years ag'o. ' He celebrated his jubilee at a family dinner the Sunday after Christmas and a parish observance will come April 26, when a 2 p.m.

Mass at St. Joan of Arc will be followed by a.5 p.m. dinner at the Sheraton Hotel, in Eastham.

FATHER MULLANEY

Three priests mark jubilees Three diocesan pastorswill cele- mar and high schools in New Bedbrate their silver jubilee of priestly ford, he prepared for the priestordainationMonday, feb. ~. All hoqd at Cardinal O~Connell Seminordained by Bishop James L. Con- ary, Jamaica ,Plain, and,St. John's nolly in 19~2 ceremonies in St. Semin.ary, Brighton' from which路 Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, they he holds the degree of master of are Rev. Barry W. Wall, cathedral divinity. rector and pastor of the cathedral He was parochial vicar at Immacparish; Rev. John F. Andrews, ulate Conception parish, Taunton, . pastor of St. Joan of Arc parish; from the time of his ordination Orleans; and Rev. Leonard M. until 197 i, then served in the same Mullaney, pastor of St. Anthony's capacity at the cathedral from 1971 parish, East Falmouth. . to '1979, when he was named pasIn addition to celebrations within tor of Sacred Heart parish, Fall the diocese, the jubilarians will River. He has been cathedral recjoin Cardinal Bernard Law on tor since July I of last year.

Feb, 2 for a Mass of thanksgiving Father Wall has moderated the with classmates from St. John's Fall River Catholic Woman's Club Seminary, Brighton. since 1980 and since being cathedral rector has been diocesan modFather Wall erator and spiritual director ofthe Father Wall, a New Bedford . Legion of Mary. He is an authornative, is the son of Herbert A. and ity on diocesan history and the Evelyn (Matthews) Wall. After possessor of probably; the only graduating from Holy Family gram- bound set of Anchor back issues . .

outside diocesan offices. With col'Iaboratots Everett' 'McGarty and Walter Mulyk he prepared an exten-' sive history of St. Mary's Cathedral for the parish's 75th anniversary in 1976. He serves on the diocesan Divine Worship Commission and is a member of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, which maintains the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Cathedral parishioners will honor Father Wall at a reception in St. Mary's School following 4 p.m.

Mass Jan. 31. Friends and family members will join him for a celebration following II :30 a.m. Mass Feb. I. '

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Father Andrews, born in Dighton, is the son of Francis and the late Julia (Trond) Andrews. He graduated from Berkley Grammar School and Msgr. Coyle High '

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Father Mullaney is a native of Fall River and the son of Judge Beatrice Hancock Mullaney and the late Joseph E. Mullaney. An alumnus of Morton Junior High School and Msgr. Coyle High School, he prepared for the priesthood at Cardinal O'Connor Minor Seminary and St. John's.

Following ordination he was parochial vicar at St. Patrick's

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parish, Wareham, and was priestin-charge at St. Rita, Marion, for several months while remaining in his Wareham post.

From 1972 to 1974 he was parochial vicar at Our Lady of Fatima, New Bedford, then serving in the capacity at Immaculate Conception, Taunton from 1974 to 1978, He was named pastor at St. Bernard's, Assonet, in 1978 and to his present pastorate last June I I. Father Mullaney has been an advocate and is at present a prosynodaljudge in the diocesan tribunal. From 1972 to 1983 he was director of Cathedral Camps, East Freetown. Among his favorite spare-time activities is motorcycling.

His jubilee celebration will be held at.5 p.m. Mass Eeb. .1 at St. Be.rnard's, followed by a social" hou'r, for friends and family.in the parish hall.

Dialogue asked VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope Joh,n Paul II recently encouraged a group of African bishops to pursue dialogue with Moslems while praising their evangelical and catechetical efforts. Noting difficulties the churchmen face in a multi-religious society, the pope said "the truth of our faith that the plan of salvation in some way includes aU those who acknowledge the Creator certainly offers us a basis for dialogue and路 peaceful coexistence with,non-Christian believers." The pope spqke with the bishops of. Gambia; Liberia and Sierra Leone,

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THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Jan. 23, 1987

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Things Can Be Better The passage oftime brings little reliefto the many problems that have become a social plague.

Money has yet to cure the ills of our sagging educational' system; family life is being shattered before our very eyes; politicians want to pour more state and federal aid into a welfare system that has already hit a dead end; for many, drugs have become a point of no return; morality and ethics are mere Victorian throwbacks with little meaning in the marketplace.

Our socia" decay has become a cancer eating away goodness and virtue. What are even more repulsive are the apathy and indifference pervading the structures of our society.

Few voices, for example, are publicly decrying the deca'dence that permeates our living and voters seemingly cQuld not care less about the horrendous situation of abortion politics.

No one seems to deplore the appalling havoc divorces and separations wreak on the family. ' But we are paying for our negligence and indifference. We are already experiencing the suffering inflicted by drugs and alcohol. Two million aborted babies each year clearly indicate our disregard for life. Isn't it strange that so many want to educate people in the area of birth prevention without even a mention of morals or virtue?

Planned parenthood wants to go into all our schools to teach youth how to limit conceptions and procure abortions, while at the same time mention of God has been eliminated from the classroom. We may think we "have it good" but we should recall that the word good derives from "God." What we in America term the good life is a far cry from God's life: In all this social turmoil, it remains important that we who believe in the God-ness of life do not become fainthearted. We cannot just throw in the towel, thinking that no one cares.

Recently a social observer of Korea and Japan pointed out that those nations share some very important traits. Both Japanese and Koreans'revere ed ucation, respect authority and Gaud.Clle pholo work hard. The progress of their countries in t9day's world flows from their application of those very basic principles.

"And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who It would be well if we encouraged development of similar giveth joy to my youth." Ps. 42:4 attitudes in our own social system. Perhaps they would not solve all the problems we face in daily life, but they certainly would help us restore some semblance of order, goodness and worth to our American way of life. Maybe this is a quite simplistic thought but it is certainly worthy of consideration. ' If we feel, for inst~nce, that our educational systems need with the U.S. government, it has

By Tracy Early "There is no doubt about that." reform, might it be suggested that they also be respected? If we agreed to let him serve as the EthiNow, he said, relief for "serious restore esteem, courtesy and deference' to our classrooms, NEW YORK (NC) - Christian opian church's liaison with the pockets" of famine must continue Brother Gregory Flynn, an Amer- government. His work permit might we not also restore a sense of personal worth as well as a while agencies give more attention ican who heads the welfare and has expired but he expected it to long-range development. desire for academic excellence? If authority could be seen as a development department of the would be renewed.

Famine relief also enhanced the . value rather than a force, would it not enhance the individual Ethiopian Catholic Church, said Brother Flynn said that despite image of the church, he said. Maspursuit of self-improvement? in a recent New York interview accusations that the government is sive gifts from Catholic Relief that although the famine in Ethio- attempting to implant a foreign Services and other donors, he said, These suggestions are but a reflection on what could be. pia has been greatly. alleviated ideology the church is still able to enabled the Ethiopian Catholic They have been attained in other structures and orders, espesome 2 million people remain in carry out its activities.

Church to playa key role, even cially in the Far East. In that connection, it is interesting to danger of starvation.

"The Catholic Church in Ethio- though Catholics are only about note that in New York City the rate of academic excellence is "The emphasis now is not on pia takes the stance that it is not one percent of the population. highest among immigrants from this geographi~ area.

He said the church's "infrastrucstarvation, and this creates diffi- involved in politics, nor at this

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In the past decade we have spent a great deal of money, time and effort in dismantling authority. The results have been disastrous. Perhaps we can learn a lesson from our new Americans and our Far Eastern neighbors and affirmthat the dream can be renewed if we are willing to respect values that nurture rather than destroy.

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He said the picture drawn in the million. " October 1986 Reader's Digest "Ethiopia is no longer headline article, "Famine Aid: Were We news," he said. "What news there Duped?" by the. French agency is gives the encouraging impresDoctors Without Borders "totally sion the situation has been solved, distorts reality." Rony Brauman, so food is no longer needed. That the group's president. said the is not true:" . drought was "something of a false Brother Flynn, a native of the issue" and aid was "massively misBronx, taught in Christian Broth- appropriated" to hire people away ers schools in Ethiopia from 1969 from rebel into "barely disguised to 1975, and returned in 1981 to do labor camps." The charges were development work. He was inter- denied by the Christian Relief and viewed at the headquarters .of Development Association, a coaliCatholic Relief Services, where he tion of 47 groups working in Ethiwas consulting about further relief opia, and Brother Flynn said he and development efforts. signed its statement as a board • Brother Flynn said that although member.

"The relief work that began Ethiopia is a Marxist state relying on Soviet and Cuban military' intensively in 1985 has certainly support and often at odds saved millions of lives," he said.

ture" in Ethiopia enabled donors to get their aid distributed more effectively. By contrast, he noted, Moslems make up a substantial part of the population but they have no structure for programs such as drought aid, and consequently played no significant role as a religious community.

"Local authorities and the people who knew little about Catholic activities and were perhaps suspicious of Catholic missionaries," Brother Flynn said, "are now asking the church to do more in rehabilitation and development."

However, he said the church in Ethiopia does not wish to rely on missionaries as a permanent resource, but to move as quickly as possible to train more Ethiopians.

Already. he said, his office is totally staffed by Ethiopians except for himself, and 31 of the 40 members of his order in Ethiopia were natives.

Pain turned positive Looking back on your life, new and more satisfying work. "I what incidents occurred which thought the world ended when the you considered calamitous or steel mill closed," said one man.

"But for me it just started because at least stressful at the time I love the job I was forced to find." but which you have come to view Illness: There's very little that's as positive and beneficial retrospec- positive about illness but many tively? people claim that a heart or other This is a question I frequently scare forced them to reexamine ask adults when discussing stress. their lives and change their lifeDon't cheat now. Before you read style. A child's illness can also further, stop and think of past strengthen the family although it stresses that turned into plusses can be terribly difficult at the time. for you.

A Move: When a move is invoOkay. The reason for the ques- luntary, we rarely welcome it. But tion is to remind us that when for many, a move turns out to be a we're undergoing a major prob- plus in their lives. Their children lem, we rarely see a positive value , are happier in the new environto it. But later on, we look back ment or, perhaps, the family is betand say, "It was the best thing that ter off living farther from their exhappened to me," or"lt was good tended family. for our family."

An older widow who put off When we reflect on the positives moving from her large home for of the past stressors, we are better years was finally forced to do so able to deal with present ones, fig- because of ill health and found a uring that maybe some good will new life in a senior housing comcome out of this pain. plex. "I didn't realize how isolated I've used this technique in work- and lonely I was," she said. "I wish shops over the years and here are I'd moved here years ago." the major stresses people name Unplanned pregnancy: When this that turned out positive for them is mentioned in a group, I see lots in the long run. of nods and smiles, ,which tells me Unemployment: While exceed- it's a familiar stress-turned-gift. ingly stressful at the time, unem- "We couldn't even consider life ployment has brought many fami- without Annie," a parent will say. lies closer and forced them to look "She has made our lives so much at priorities and values. "We took richer."

Unrequited love: "Thank God I so much for granted before Rob lost his job," is a representative didn't marry him," is the usual comment. Or, "We found out what refrain. "It never would have worked." Or, "If I had married was really important in our life."

Another is that the worker found him,l wouldn't have met and mar-

A need for priests As we move furth~r into

1987, I wonder how many Catholics will truly come to believe that there is a critical shortage of priests. If the level of belief in this fact were to increase dramatically, I believe we would see a huge increase in the effort to foster vocations to the priesthood.

A review of a study conducted

by Dr. Dean Hoge of the Catholic University of America, and my own stuQies, lead me to this hypothesis.

In 1985 college students and laity were asked: "Some people think there is a shortage of parish priests in America today. H~ve you experienced any shortage?"

Among campus ministry leaders responding to that question 37 percent said yes and of the student random sample 27 percent said yes. The rest said no or that they didn't know. Of those who were adults outside a campus, 34 perce~t said yes.

Hoge concludes: "Clearly the majority of Catholics'in 1985 had not personally experienced any shortage of parish priests. It is plausible that the lack of outcry from Catholic laity about the scarcity of priests is simply because most Catholics haven't ex perienced any scarcity."

I know for a fact that most bishops will quickly admit there is a shortage of priests in their diocese. I have doubts whether the priests or laity in the same diocese really believe the priesthood is in a critical stage as regards numbers.

There are at least two ways of knowing something. On the one hand, a person can know "about" a fact. On the other hand, a person can really understand and have a feeling regarding that fact.

. Today there are many priests and laity who know intellectually about the statistics that tell them there is a shortage of priests. But they don't see how it affects their particular situation.

Some feel we are in an age of the laity and that fewer priests are needed. They have no feeling or 'oneness with the problem of fewer clergy in a diocese. In fact, they may feel that the fewer priests the better.

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ied my husband and that's unthinkable."

Spiritual emptiness: Many people indicate that a period of spiritual sterility which was extremely painful- when they couldn't find or feel God - forced them to seek Him in new ways. Often they tried to fill the void with other activites and pleasures but eventually responded to His call by joining a scripture or prayer group, making a retreat, reading, meditating, attending daily Mass or changing faith 'behavior in general. Was it worth the pain? Yes, they reply enthusiastically.

Other stressors mentioned, as having ultimate value include un'wed pregnancy, accidents, divorce, death and broken relationships.

I have my own story to share. As a young teacher en route to a distant state for an excitingjob, I was involved in a serious auto accident. Injuries forced me resign my job and stay in the state where the accident occurred.

I grabbed a teaching job and met my husband. In spite of the pain, fears and scars, 27 years later, I can say, "Thank you, God, for that accident." But I couldn't say it at the time.

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Q. What is meant when we speak of other Christian churches?

On the other hand, if Jesus is And if we believe that other Christian groups are real churches, what truly present in the Eucharist and difference does it make what denom- there to be offered and received as ination you belong to? (North Caro- the great sign and means of the unity of his people on earth, then lina) Readers continue to ask this. At those who reject that belief(again, Vatican II and many times since, even though in good faith) are documents ofthe Roman Catholic missing one of the most beautiful church refer to other Christian elements of our Christian life on denominations as "churches," By earth. this is meant that they are, as is While there is only one God and obvious, members of the family of one Lord, we need to take care believers in Jesus Christ and true that tolerance and acceptance of Christian communities. others, particularly Christians, reVatican II's Decree on Ecumen- gardless of our difference of beliefs, ism states our belief in this matter does not turn into a position that explicitly: Each non-Catholic, "it doesn't make any difference Christian "church or communion" what you believe as long as you with its unique conditions cele- believe something,'.' brates many sacred services that If God and religion have any unquestionably have the power to rational meaning at all, that is cause grace and that we must total nonsense. acknowledge as effective in openA free brochure explaining Cathing the way' hidden to the comolic rules about marriage and the munion of salvation.

But you also ask whether one promises before an interfaith mardenomination is just as good as riage is available by sending a another. This is too complicated a stamped, self-addressed envelope question to discuss in detail again to Father Dietzen, Holy Trinity in this column. But briefly,all Parish, 704 N. Main St" BloomChristian churches agree on many ington, III. 61701. Questions for major areas of belief about Jesus, this column should be ~ent to Father Dietzen at the same address. and his church on earth.

God By Individual Christians must follow their consciences as ,they under'FATHER stand what God asks of them in their relationship to him.

EUGENE However, it is overly simple to jump to the conclusion that "one NEW YORK (NC) - Judge denomination is as good asanotper," HEMRICK John T. Noonan Jr. ofthe9th U.S. since many denominations differ Circuit Court of Appeals is the significantly in major points of recipient of the 1987 Campion doctrine.

Award of the Catholic Book Club Catholics, for example, along so important that' it often forgot of America Press. with Anglicans and most Luthethe value of the laity. Often the Noonan, appointed to the San rans at least, believe in the real laity were relegated to a secondary Francisco-based federal appeals presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. position. court in 1986 by President ReaOther Christians may not believe gan, is author or editor of several I hope that never happens again. this and we presume they are folBut we do need priests, many books and articles on history, conlowing the light of their own con- stitutional and legal issues and priests. science in rejecting that belief.

Why? Because the whole church abortion.

However, it would be foolish needs the special sacramentality The Campion Award is named and thoroughly irrational to hold for St. Edmund Campion, a Jesuit that priesthood stands for. And that it really doesn't make any dif- priest executed during persecutions the church needs people whose ference whether one believes it or under Queen Elizabeth I and known lives are set apart. not, or whether it is true or not. for his "faith, chivalry and unusual But do the laity and our parish For example, if Jesus is not pres- , literary talent." The award is intendpriests really believe this? Do they ent in the Eucharist, as we believe, ed to honor such qualities in modbelieve that when priesthood we are (even though in good faith) ern authors. diminishes, society in general ' loses? . ' believing that what is only bread is Other recipients include T.S. really God. ' , When and if this oelief penetrates Eliot, Walker Percy, Walter and the Catholic in the pew and our Jean Kerr, Phyllis McGinley, Jesuit parish priests we will see increased Father Karl Rahner, Msgr. John efforts to bolster vocations to the Tracy Ellis, and Jacques Maritain. priesthood, VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has criticized the syn~d "eclipse of religious senti~ent'" in Spain and said lay people must be BOSTON (NC) - Boston Cartrained to evangelize its secular dinal Bernard Law has announced GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS society. "Stimulate among them a 1988. archdiocesan synod and their responsibility as committed ordered preparation for it to begin •••••••••••• + •••••••••• Christians," he recently told, bish- this Se'ptembei'. It will be the eighth ops from central Spain. The pope. synod in the history of the archdi1II11I1I11I11i!III11II11II11I11UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII: said Spain's return to'democracy ocese and the first since 1952. Boshas brought social, political ~nd ton became a diocese in 1808 and THE ANCHOR (US,PS-S4S.Q20). Second cultural progress but also a'n in- an archdiocese in ]875. The most 'Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass, creased secularization having a "less important synod purpose, CardiPublished weekly except the week of July 4 positive and even negative" influ- nal Law said, will be "to direct our and the week after Christmas at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720 by ence on moral values. Spain re- attention to the sovereign majesty the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall turned to democracy after the 1975 of Jesus Christ in order to worship River, Subscripiion price by mail, postpaid death of Francisco Franco, who, him, to glorify him, to submit to $8.00 per year, Postmasters send address exercised dictatorial control for his rule in all the aspects of our changes. to The Anchor, P,O, Box 7, Fall more than 35 years.

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Withdrawal announced Continued from Page One of our younger members. The diocese of Fall River we hope will . always in a very real way be our home.

"We look forward to continuing our ministry within the diocese in the parishes to be retained, and in other ways that may be judged to be mutually worthwhile. We count on the continuing prayerful support and friendship of the wonderful people to whom we must now say goodbye."

On behalf-of the diocese of Fall River, Bishop Cronin expressed gratitude to Father Heffron and the members of the Sacred Hearts Communi'ty for their labors and commitment to the diocese for , many years.

"Although this has been a p~in­ ful decision for the Sacred Hearts Community and the diocese," he said, "we look forward to a closer collaboration with parishioners of the parishes involved.

"We realize, however, the impact this will have on the staffing and assig~ing of priests. This prompts me once again to request the offering of prayers for the intention of vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

"We trust that the good rela. tions which exist with the Sacred Hearts Community will contimue and that their ministry to the four parishes and 6ther apostolates m~y continue for many years to come," Sacred Hearts History The Sacred Hearts Community came to the diocese of Fall River in 1905 at the invitation of its first bishop, the Most Reverend William Stang. Members came from Belgium as missionaries, accepting the bishop's invitation to serve the rapidly-growing population of immigrants from various countries, and help establish the Church in the more remote areas of the new diocese.

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These parishes served the newly; arrived Catholic population of these towns, made up largely of French Canadian, Portuguese, Cape Verdean and Irish immigrants. In addition, Our lady. of Assumption parish was established to serve the Cape Verdean population of New Bedford, and St. Boniface to attend to the Germans. _ . The first prIests and brothers; whose numbers grew rapidly over the years, came from Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Luxembourg, speaking the many languages which enabled them to serve their flocks.

In 1905, development of the Church in a large area of Cape Cod was entrusted to the Sacred Hearts missionaries. A central house was established at Our Lady of Lourdes in Wellfleet and from there the fathers served mission churches in Truro, North Truro, Brewster, Harwich and Chatham.

Evenually the last two also became parishes served by the community, each with its own summer missions.

None of these parishes can today be described as a mission. "It makes us very happy," says Father Heffron, "that the ministry of our missionaries over the years has been so fruitfuL" All are wellestablished parishes which have . continued to be ser'ved by riow generally American-born members of the Sacred Hearts Community.

Additionally, from the small beginnings in Fairhaven, an interA 1971 FILE photo of Sister Louis as she prepared to national province has developed, start a day's work in Fall River. reflecting increased emphasis on the missionary dimension of the Sacred Hearts vocation. American members of the community now serve extensive missions in Japan, India, the Bahamas and Ecuador, as well as impoverished A Fall River legend died last Sister Louis areas of Texas along the Mexican "I'm always on the streets," says month. border.

She was White Sister Louis Gab- twinkly sister Louis Gabriel of the riel Cozien, a familiar figure from White Sisters of 194 Second St., 1954' to 1972 as she walked the Fall River. "God only knows how city, caring for the sick in their far I walk a day," Liberation theology is a theohomes. .

The tiny French nun is a famillogical reflection on material povOccasionally accepting a ride iar sight in the Second St. neigherty and the need to provide confrom a passing motorist, she borhood as she carries on her crete aid to the poor as part of worked seven days a week, some work of nursing the sick in their evangelization. It developed in Lat10 hours a day, with a vacation homes. Up at5: 15 a.m she attends in America. The Vatican has every five years or so.

7 o'clock Mass at St. Mary's Cathewarned against forms of the theolThe daughter of the late Fran- dral, then begins work immeogy that incorporate Marxist cois and Marie Joseph (Le Gleau) diately. By 8:30 the other morning, thought.

Cozien, she was born in Ploumo- she had already seen four patients, Cardinal Arns said resistance to guer, Finistere, France, May. 12, climbing tenement stairs and trudgliberation theology "comes norm1899. " ing from house to houSe to reach ally from people who have never She entered the Daughters of them. read book~ written by real theolothe Holy Spirit (known in Fall She paused reluctantly for an gians but have only read about libRiver as the White Sisters from the interview (''I'll be late for some of eration theology." color of their habits) in 1919, nurs-. my calls"), then' was off again, to He said knowing the context in ing fir,st in a French hospital, then ' continue her rounds until 5 or which theologians work is imporas a district nurse in Providence, 5:30. She sees an average of 12 to tant and that is why he and others Hartford and Newpor,t as well as 15 patients a day, walking most of have urged the church to bring Fall River. the time, with only an occasional Third World theologians into the Altogether, sh~ nursed 56 years ride from another Sister· or a passVatican. before she retired in 1977. From ing motorist. She has been doing But the cardinal said he does not 1983 until her death, she was a this for 44 years, seven days a hold the Vatican responsible for patient herself, receiving the lov- week. misgivings over the theology. "NothShe casually brushes off coming care she had lavished on others. .ing comes from Rome which did She died Dec. 10 at her com- ments on her accomplishments, not go to Rome first," he said. munity's provincial house in Put- instead relatin'g stories of her panam, Conn. tients, including a 96-year-old womOpportunity A feature story on her that ap- an who sweeps the. street in front !' A problem is your chance peared .in The Anchor June 3, of her house every day, but needs a to, do your best." - Duke 1971, tells the, story of a dedicated little assistance from Sister Louis life: ' Ellington when it comes to. washing herself. "

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Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo said at a recent London press conference that Brazil's foreign debt may be as high as $115 billion, but only $20 billion is principal. He also commented on liberation theology.

"We can never pay $115 bil'lion," he said, "but we can pay $20 billion, and we can do it perhaps in four or five years," Brazil's debt, officially around $104 billion, is the largest of the developing natio~s.

Cardinal Arns was visiting Britain for the silver jubilee of the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, an agency of the English and Welsh bishops.

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"When she's all washed, I tell her ·You're nice and clean-you are a good girl,' and I give her a kiss," said Sister Louis. "I don't think she gets many kisses - people need kindness.'~-, Many of her patients live alone, said Sister Louis, and her visit is the high point in thejr day or week.

Some patients are seen every day, she explained, others orice or twice .weekly. Nursing tasks include giving insulin injections, changing dressings for cancer patients and caring for stroke victims. Some of her cases, she said, are so helpless that when she sees them they are still in the positionjn which she left.them the previous day.

Sister Louis did home nursing in Providence for 26 years before coining to Fall River in 1954. "The day after I arrived in the United States I was out nursing," she said, "and I've never missed a day since, except for vacations," Her last vacation came five years ago, when she returned to Brittany . to see two married sisters, the last survivors of her 10 brothers and sisters. "I was the eleventh child, the baby," she said. Her name of Louis was chosen to honor a brother who was killed in World War I. "We are allowed to change back to our own names now, but Louis is the name I'll take to heaven with me," she declared.

Over the years, said Sister Louis, she has seen many workings of grace in' her patients. "I always make sure that Protestants have been baptized, and if a clergyman or priest is wanted, I call him, I have seen so many return to the sacraments-there has been no one that I took care of who didn't get fixed up."

In the past, she said, she took care of many babies, but now sick infants are usually taken to hospitals. Many of her patients are elderly, with here and there a younger person who is chronically ill.

"I have been very happy in America and in my convent," Sister Louis summed up. "People have been so good to me, and God has given me good health," "But don't you get tired?" she was asked.

"You don't think of yourself when you know that every day people are waiting ror you to come," she said. "I love the work - I love it."

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From 1965 to 1976 Bishop-elect Rueger was chaplain of Rescue, Inc., a suicide-prevention hotline.

In 1977 he was named pastor of Sacr~d Heart parish, Hopedale,and In 1978, while remaining pastor, was named superintendent of diocesan schools. He served in both .capacities until 1980, when he returned to full time pastoral ministry. He was named to his present pastorate in 1981.

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Immigrant parents The bishop-elect, 56, is the son ofthe late Edward G. and Mary T. (Reddy) .Rueger. His maternal grandparents were immigrants from Ireland and his paternal grandparents from Germany.

A native of St. Peter's parish, Worcester, where he is now pastor, he attended the parish high school as well as South ·High School, Worcester, graduating' {rom St. Peter's in 1979.

After attending Holy Cross College, Worcester for a year, he prepared for the priesthood at Cardinal O'Connell Minor Seminary and St. John's Seminary, Brighton, and was ordained by then Bishop John J. Wright Jan. 6, 1958. He was parochial vicar at various parishes in the Worcester diocese, including St. Peter's, and served nine years as the first headmaster of the then all-girl Marian Central High School in Worcester, since merged with St. Peter's High.

The bishop-elect's ordination will be preceded by a vesper service at 7 p. m. Feb. 24, also in the Worcester cathedral.

His present parish, said Murphy, is in an inner-city location and numbers many Hispanics and Vietnamese among its members. He has brushed up his schooldays' Spanish since becoming pastor at St. Peter's, which is frequently the scene of mariachi Masses.

"He has a statue of Sf Francis of Assisi and a portrait of Mother Teresa in his office," said Murphy.

"They are his ideals."

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BISHOP-ELECT RUEGER From 1976 to 1981 he was a member and the first president of the Worcester priests' senate.

He is vice-president in charge of the committee on mission and ministry of the Worcester County

obtained through her intercession.

Katharine Drexel was born Nov.26, 1858, the second daughter of investment banker Francis A. Drexel and Hannah Langstroth Drexel. Her mother died shortly after her birth and she was raised by her father and stepmother, Emma Bouvier Drexel. in a close, deeply religious and wealthy family.

After the death of her stepmother and father, Katharine resolved to renounce her considerable fortune to enter a contemplative religious order. Primarily through the influence of Bishop- James O'Connor of Omaha. Neb., a former rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, she changed her plans and founded the order.

L.A. archbishop on Carmworke'r commission WASHINGTON (NC)- Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has been appointed to the newly formed U.S. Commission on Agricultural Workers.

The archbishop is one of 12 members of the commission, to NC photo report to the House within five years on wide-ranging aspects of the U.S. agricultural system related to the immigration law, including: -:- Examination of wages and working conditions of domestic and Indian~ or" our country," he farmworkers. said.

- The extent to which aliens Although "her apostolate to the blacks and Indians was unpopular obtain lawful resident status under and misunderstood by 'some and speCial agricultural worker proviresented by others," he added,' sions of the law..

Mother Drexel "never swerved . - The impact of the 'legalization program and employer sancfrom her dedication." tions on the farm labor supply.

Therecommendation of the Vati- Unemployment among farmcan congregation will be sent to workers, both alien and citizen. the pope'for final approval.

There are 373 members of the order today working in 16 dioIn an article on activities of the ceses. The nuns run religiou,s centers, high schools, elementary- , Couple to Couple League appearschools and Xavier University in ing on pages 8 and 9 of last week's Anchor, the telephone number of New Orleans.

Should the recommendation of the diocesan Family Life Center the congregation be approved by was incorrectly given. It should be the pontiff, Mother Drexel will be 999-6420. known as Venerable Katharine DreDon't Bow To Fear xel. Further advancement of her , cause - beatification and canoni"Never iet the fear of strikzation - will await the approval ing out get in your way." of miracles judged to have been

Mother Katharine Drexel's sainthood cause' advanced PHILADELPHIA (NC) Eight cardinals, members of the Vatican Congregation for Sainthood Causes, have accepted a recom. mendation that Mother Katharine Drexel be declared venerable.

The action was announced in Philadelphia last week by Msgr.

James McGrath, vice postulator of t,he Mother Drexel cause.

Mother Drexel, member of a wealthy Philadelphia family, renounced her fortune and in 1891 founded the Sisters for the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. She retired in 1937 and died in 1955 at age 96.

Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, who opened her cause for canonization in 1964, welcomed "this most important step of Mother Katharine's cause."

"She translated her faith into acts of heroic service to the oppressed minorities - the,blacks

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participate in a church-related event, Miss Tracy agreed. . "I've been active in the church since I was 14 or 15 years old,"she said, "and I've gotten a lot of razzing from my classmates." A member of the parish choir and an eighth grade religious education teacher, she said she's noticed that many young people participate in parish activities only because their parents force them to.

"White gowns have always been beautiful to me," she said with regard to the presentation ceremony. Laughingly, she observed that the experience would help prepare her for her "next trip with a white dress."

Lina Maria Sousa, like Miss Tracy chosen by a parish committee, is also an employee of a bank.

The 20-year-old representative of Espirito Santo parish, Fall 'River, wasn't nervous about her presentation at the charity ball.

"I 'mjust anxious to see what it's all about,"she said. "I'm honored that they picked me, and I'm excited about going. " Miss Sousa teaches a seventh grade religious education class at her parish. She's also active in Espirito Santo's CYO and choir.

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"I think the white dress is a nice idea," she said.

Susan Legare, a 17-year-old senior at Attleboro's Bishop Feehan High School, represented St. Mary's parish, Seekonk. ,"It's an ho'nor for me to have been asked," said Miss Legare, explaining that her name was drawn from a hat after she and other young women responded in the affirmative to Father Francis L. Mahoney's personal invitation to be among parish presentee choices.

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"I'm very religious and I'm proud of my church. This will be a nice 'opportunity to meet'the bishop, but I'm a little nervous I'll trip," she said.

Responding to the peer pressure question asked Susan Tracy, Miss Legare said that participation in a religious event is easier for a young person who attends a Catholic high school.

"But I feel it's important to have a personal conviction," she said, "to stand up for who you are and what you believe in."

Last but not least in The Anchor's presentee quintet, Lisa Francis of St. Hedwig parish, New Bedford, answered the peer pressure question by noting that she thinks she'll "be respected" by other people for participating.

Miss Francis is a 17-year-old senior at New Bedford High School. "I really don't know what to expect," she said of the ball.

Asked by her pastor, Father Sebastian M. Siesinski, OFM Conv., to represent St. Hedwig's parish, Miss Francis observed that . "it's an honor to represent my church."

She is a parttime student dance instructorat a New Bedford school, teaching baton, jazz and tap.

Incidentally, only two of the five presentees have steady boyfriends.

Sharply-dressed young men attending the ball were smart to keep their eyes open.

And how did the young ladies ,enjoy their glamorous evening once it was just a memory?

"I thought it was very nice," Susan Legare said.

The Attleboro deanery presentee never did miss a step while crossing the floor to meet the bishop, although she did confide that "it was a long walk!"

the crowd in singing the National Anthem before Bishop Cronin's remarks.

Msgr. Gomes also preceded the bishop, enthusiastically telling attendees that "This ball is the best ever, socially, spiritually and financially!"

Susan Sayle, in her lovely The brightly lit ballroom was handmade gown adorned with decorated in sync with the evenpeach-toned silk roses, thought ing's theme. Silver stars and Amerthe evening was an interesting ican flags adorned the building's experience well worth" her long red, white and blue-fabric decojourney, and Lina Sousa summed support columns. Boxes linrated upher thoughts with the observaing the floor's sides were also tion that she had had "a lot of draped in the patriotic.colors. fun."

The bishop's box, at the head of A smiling Miss Sousa said that the floor, was surrounded by an her father, Joseph T. Sousa, kept all-American white picket fence. telling her "slow down, slow Within the box were an antique down," as they crossed to meet desk and chair. A replica of the Bishop Cronin.

Preamble to the Constitution, "My knees kept shaking," she crafted by Sister Gertrude added.

Upon her presentation, New Gaudette, OP, served as a handsome backdrop to the arrangement.

Bedford's Lisa Francis greeted Presentees and their proud Bishop Cronin with an amiable escorts entered the ballroom floor "Hi!" "The bishop was very friendly," . under a red, white and blue fabric arch. Lights attached to the stand she reflected. supporting the fabric gave viewers And what about Susan Tracy? the impression that the young "This was the rehearsal for my women were walking through a wedding," she declared. "I think large American flag. my father was more nervous than I As in the past, the decoration was!"

Miss Tracy said that her gown, fabrics were a gift from Fall Rivwhich she had feared wouldn't be er's Swan Finishing Company.

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Dancing couples took to the floor from 8 p.m. until I a.m .. Many enjoyed participating il} the ball's grand march, a joyful romp around the dance floor.

"This is terrific," said attendee Dottie Healey, a member of St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth.

"The girls are lovely."

Ms. Healeyand herescort,John Neville, also a St. Pius X parishioner, said they became lost on their trip into North Dartmouth, but were happy that they had eventually found their way.

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Albert Rivet, father of and escort "But my father's tux didn't show to 16-year-old presentee Anne up!" she said. "Between the dress Rivet of St. Francis Xavier parish, and the tux, we were a wreck!'"

Acushnet; said that he had enjoyed Bishop Cronin, asked to com- the ball, ment on how it felt to meet once "I have some idea of what a again the cream of the crop of wedding is going to be like," he young diocesan women, told The quipped. Rivet said his presentee Anchor that "It's always a delight. daughter and her sister Kate "It's a festive occasion," he stopped at North Dartmouth's added, "a brilliant spot in the mid- Bishop Stang High School, where dle of winter." they're students, on their way to Later, addressing the presentees the ball. during his remarks to the crowd, "A basketball game was going and in keeping with the ball's theme, the bishop asked the young on," the proud father said. "My women to "remember that true daughters jumped up on the stage liberty as our forefathers knew it is and gave a cheer in their gowns!"

Another proud man was Perrooted infirm belief, trust and manent Deacon Francis J. Camadedication to God. cho of Our Lady of the Cape par"If th'is land is to remain a land ofliberty for all people," the bishop ish, Brewster. His daughter said, "it is up to }'Dung people like Francine was one of the Cape yourselves to be keepers of the deanery's lovely ladies.

Father John F. Moore, director vision of authentic liberty. Be firm, of the diocesan Permanent Diacostrong, and courageous in your nate Program, said he believed it faith and then true freedom for all will indeed continue to be a was the first time ever a deacon's daughter was presented at the ball. reality. " And it was noted that Bishop The bishop thanked Msgr.

Cronin's brothers Peter and Gom~s, DCCW members, Vincentians and the other volunteers Robert and one of his cousins were for their part in making the ball a among those enjoying the evening.

Several partygoers commented successful reality. on the relatively mild weather; in "I truly offer my heartfelt gratisome earlier years, they said, the tude to all who have come to this function was held on rather stormy ball tonight," he added. "May God nights. The event has never been love and bless you, one and all." cancelled due to inclement Fall River's Kenneth Leger led weather.

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The ideal is to identify a bad behavior like fighting or too much noise or coming home late. Then figure out the opposite, like playing cooperatively or coming home on time. And reward the good behavior.

3. Start small. Begin where the child is, not where you want him to be. Parents should reward any movement in the right direction.

Break larger tasks up into smaller units and reward each small success. A good example might be cleaning up a messy room.

Instead of simply demanding that a child clean up his room, divide the job into units like "make bed," "pick up floor," "put dirty clothes in hamper." Give credit for each small accomplishment.

4. Parents must be concrete and specific. Select behaviors that can be observed and counted. Much discipline fails to work because the target is too vague. Goals like "attitude" and "respect" and a "sense of responsibility" are too general. Parents must ask themselves what the child needs to do to show a "good attitude." Then reward the "good attitude" when it happens.

5. Be consistent. Consistency does not mean that parents cannot change their disciplinary goals. It does mean that parents must stick to their word'and, if and when they change their plan, they must keep their child aware of what they expect and why. Parents need to agree with each other and to follow through on ~heir word, day after day.

6. Keep score with charts. Charting is a good way to get a new discipline plan started: Basketball coaches keep track of points and rebounds and assists. Factory foremen keep track of production.

They call it statistics. Parents do well when they keep statistics on the good behavior of their children.

Charting behavior is a fun way to keep track of the behavior you want. Another name for charting might be behavioral bookkeeping.

The chart is a written record of the date and target behavior, with a space left .blank for smile faces or stars to reward the desired behavior when it occurs. Charting works.

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I. Parents should target their goals carefully and selectively. Any behavior that can be observed is a potential target for parental discipline. The wisdom comes in knowing which to select for attention.

First preference should be given to rewarding desirable behavior, simply because it is much more economical to focus parental time and attenti()n on good behavior.

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This is a phenomenon that began spreading rapidly in the early 1980's. It refers to the way some parents are forcing formal learning on their babies and young toddlers in order to push them "ahead."

It sounds innocent enough when parents claim that they want to give their children every opportunityfor growth and stimulation.

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Worse yet, parents often are trying, hoplessly, to turn a normal child into a little genius.

Superbaby syndrome is primarilya middle-class phenomenon. It has affected the children of the socalled "yuppies" whose values revolve around upward mobility personal status and "the accumulation of material wealth.

Such parents are concerned not only about their own upward mobility but also about their child's.

They are imposing their successoriented value system upon their babies so their children will measure up against other children.

Under the guise of telling themselves that this is all for the child's good, these parents are really using their children to make themselves look good. If their child stands. out . as exceptionally bright, the parents' egos and status are propped up.

This is a far cry from an expression of parental love. To the contrary, it's exploitation.

It is bad enough when people are driven relentlessly to prove

themselves through their own external successes, but it's worse when they measure their success by their children's achievements, test scores and status in school.

The pressure on many young children today is unbelievable. As the educators in Washington warned, "parents who force reading, writing and other formallearning techniques on babies and toddlers may cause stress that can lead to 'educational burnout' early in life."

This kind of pressure is so unfair because it doesn't allow children to have a childhood, something which is a precious birthright of all humans. Childhood is a time when learning should be natural, joyful and balanced with play. It is meant to be a time of carefree, spontaneous exploration where the child's own unique personality is allowed to emerge.

Of course, children need to be taught values and acceptable behav-

ior. Parents have a duty to teach them about consideration, generosity and responsibility. ,More~ver, it is foolishly misguided to tniilk any'one can change the true course of nature. Natural talent and intelligence will show itself, whereas nothing can bring real genius out ()f an ordinary child.

Nor should it. Why do we place so much emphasis on intelligence and high test scores in the first place? These iue never the values that ultimately count for happiness here or in the eyes of God. Too much emphasis on intelligence and achievement at the expense of other values leads to severe stress and terrible emptiness.

If parents love their children, they should think twice before trying to create superbabies. They· should recognize the selfishness and ultimate futility of what they're doing and then back off.

K of C receives. Vatican cross NEW HAVEN, Conn. (NC)A cross, part of a 19-foot statue of Christ atop St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for 372 years, has been given to theK nights of Colum. bus.

The Knights will display the cross, which measures 10 feet 8 inches by 7 feet 6 inches, a~ their museum at Knights of Columbus international headquarters in New Haven. It has been replaced in Vatican City by a new cross.

The cross was presented to the K of C after the fraternal society funded a major restoration and cleansing of the facade of St. Peter's.

It was their third financial contribution to the Holy See in recent years. lill981, the Knights set up a $10 million Vicarius Christi fund whose proceeds go to the pope for his personal charities and initia-

lives. In 1982, the organization contributed to construction of a new chapel in the grottoes of St. Peter's Basilica and to theenlargement of a chapel of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

Vatican officials decided to replace the old cross with a new one that might last as long as the recent basilica renovation, according to the Knights.

Heads househol4 VATICN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has named Msgr.

Dino Monduzzi, 64, a longtime papal aide, as head of ~he pontifical household and a titular bishop.

He will replace French Bishop Jacques Martin, retiring at age 78.

The job includes organizing papal audiences a·nd other ceremonies .and involves close daily, contact with the pope.

New ,student aid proposal seen as mixed blessing WASHINGTON (NC) - A new U.S. Department,ofEducation "income-contingent loans" proposal that would link loan repayme'nt to a student's earnings after college is a mixed blessing, according to several Catholic college officials.

The Education Department proposal would replace most existing financial aid programs. The Reagan administration has asked Congress to ciJt federal spending on college student aid by $3.7 billion by wiping out most federal subsidies for loans and work-study programs and by denying grants to I million students.

Loans that a student receives through the current National Direct Student Loan program are' not linked to earnings after college but part or all of the debt can' be canceled if the student works in certain areas after graduation, such as teaching handicapped children.

The loans are granted' by the institution that the student attends with the money coming mostly from the federal government.

The new plan would link the repayment schedule to the student's income and would charge borrowers a 9 percent interest fee. The current National Direct Student Loan program charges a 5 percent fee.

Charles B. Saunders, vice president of governmental relations for the private American Council on Education, said the proposal "would eliminate all existing student aid except Pell Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans." It would cut back the Pell Grants to 'just those wh:o'rieed aid most whiie telling others that "they can bor-, row more at a higher rate of interest," he said.

Ursuline Sister Alice Gallin, executive director of the Association of Catholic Colleges and universities, said the association "thought it was a good idea when they first talked about an experimental program" linking repayment to earnings but that the association is "kind of negative" now that the Education Department proposal has ballooned.

If approved by Congress, this year's $5 million pilot income contingent loans project would expand to a $600 million program in fiscal 1988. 10 colleges are to be selected in the spring for the pilot project.

Sister Gallin said the income contingent loan plan could be good because"it might help people make different choices" and take lowerpaying serVice-oriented careers because they would not be burdened by such high debt. But, "we don't know what will happen until they try it" at the pilot level.

At Marquette University, "we have supported this for a long time," James Sankovitz, vice president of government relations at the Jesuit-run school, said of the income contingent loans plan.

In fact, Sankovitz said;the university had tried to establish such a program for its School of Dentistry where students' debts run more than $55,000. ,

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Joe Russo, director offinancial aid at the university of Notre Dame, expressed mixed feelings.

One problem, he said, is that the proposal would l:ie complicated to administer. "Would there be some kind of needs test? Would it make a difference if the family to be supported [by the graduate] was larger?"

The proposal could bring "some benefit for some people," Russo said, but he noted that the National Direct Student Loan program already has provisions that allow for some hardship cases.,

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Lucien J. Roy of Fall River, a Massachusetts Knights of Columbus district deputy, will lead the area in an anti-abortion crusade and membership drive.

Themed "Crusade for Life," says State Deputy Walter L. Almond, the crusade to help unborn children began yesterday, the 14th arinive'rsary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion.

Almond called for each present Knight to recruit a new member to join the organization 'and its crusade.

Hernia operation for Father Curran WASHINGTON (NC) - Father Charles E. Curran said Jan. 20 that on his doctor's advice he would enter Georgetown University Hosp,ital Jan. 22 for a hernia operation.

Father Curran, a moral theologian, was recently suspended from teaching on the theology faculty of The Catholic University of America pending resolution of a Vaticanordered withdrawal of his'license to teach as a Catholic theologian.

At a press conference Jan. 15 to announce that the university had cancelled his spring-semester classes, Father Curran jokingly told reporters that he was afraid his doctor would learn of the cancellation and decide he finally had some time free for some :'elective surgery."

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NEW YORK (NC) --..:. After reviewing the case of an AI DS victim denied a Catholic wedding at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York has said the couple can be married in the cathedral if they meet church requirements.

The couple was asked to receive premarital counseling from their own parish priest, Father Gerald McGovern.

The wedding dispute became public Jan. 9 when The New York Times reported the plight of the couple, who said their wedding had been approved by one priest on the cathedral staff but subsequently denied by the J,"ector.

According to the Tin'Il:S," 'the AIDS patient, David Hefner, is a non-Catholic and former homosexual who married his Catholic wife, Maria, in a civil ceremony in February I984 after they had lived together a year.

Father McGovern said he did not know when he would begin counseling because Hefner had been h.ospitalized since Jan. 8 with an infection. .

The priest added that Mrs. Hefner's baptismal certificate must come from her native Brazil and could take a while to arrive.

The cardinal had said Jan. II he would review the case. ' He said he had talked with the cathedral rector, Msgr. JameS F. ,Rigney, and would check the facts.

He said he "would see no problem" with the wedding if the couple met all church marriage requirements. ' Some archdiocesan officials had indicated that meeting these requirements would pose special problems for a person with AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. ' Msgr. Rigney cited concern about a married AIDS victim transmitting the disease to a wife or child. And Msgr. William B.'Smith, dean and professor of moral theology at the archdiocesan St. Joseph's Seminary, questioned whether an AIDS victim would consummate the marriage because of the possi.bility of transmitting the disease. '. Under church law inabil~ty to consummate a marriage is an irnpediment to that marriage.

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Lunch with the pope: a slimming experience NEW YORK (NC) - Cardinal expected he would' have. He now John J. O'Connor of New York had experienced it "a number of says having a private lunch with times."

Pope John Paul II is a great expe"I find only one problem," Carrience - and a great way to lose dinal O'Connor said. "He begins weight. .the lunch - right after prayer While in Rome after a recent by asking me a question. I start to visit to the Middle East, the cardi- answer and he's eating away, and nal had lunch alone with the pope, my plate's lying there with the and later the same day had a food on it. filmed interview with New York "Before I know it, the waiter is City's WNBC-TV. The interview in to take the plates away, start the was broadcast the day after the next course. His plate is empty; cardinal's return to New York. mine is full.

The interview ended with Car"As soon as the next plate comes, dinal O'Connor being asked, . he asks another question," the "What's it like to have lunch with cardinal said. "And honest to goodthe pope?" ness, every time I've had lunch Cardinal O'Connor said it was a with him alone, I've come out "great experience" that he never hungry."

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Christian-Marxist dialogue: a question of where and when VATICAN CITY (NC) - For officials in the St. Calixtus Palace - an island of Vatican offices in the heart of Rome's ancient Trastevere neighborhood - the current practicalities of Christian- Marxist dialogue are long-distance negotiations over the next meeting site.

The Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Believers, among others, occupies those offices. What piques the 10 staff members' interest these days are not scholarly questions of theology and philosophy. The staff, headed by Cardinal Paul Poupard, a 56-year-old Frenchman, is mulling the public relations impact of choosing Moscow, Leningrad, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest or East Berlin as the setting for the next dialogue meeting. Each of those East bloc cities has been suggested 'as a possible site.

The staff began mulling soon after a historic October meeting in Budapest, Hungary, between 15 Catholic and 15 Marxist thinkers.

Publicly, both sides praised the Budapest encounter as a qualified success as soon as it was over. Privately, they began sparring over another issue: Where and when will the next meeting take place?

The choice is important symbolically for both the church and the Eastern bloc.

Imagine, for example, a church delegation led by Cardinal Poupard arriving in Moscow to defend the faith and critically discuss Marxism in an academic forum.

That picture pleases church leaders. Theyhave floated the idea of Moscow as the site of the next meeting - ideally, during the J 988 millennium celebrations of Russian Christianity. Leningrad also would be acceptable, said a church source familiar with the current debate.

Although the "other side" has not said no, it has shown some resistance to a Soviet site, he said.

There are still hard-liners in the Soviet V nion who are not ready to receive a church delegation ofthat nature as guests of honor, he said.

The Eastern bloc's "counter-offer" has been Warsaw or Prague -but that doesn't sit well路with the Vatican. The fear is that it would give the Polish or Czechoslovakian governments added and unearned legitimacy in the eyes ofthe world.

"This kind of meeting in some ways represents a blessing of the status quo by the church," said the source. The Vatican does not want to do that in Czechoslovakia, where persecution of believers continues, he added.

East Berlin has been suggested by some church leaders - but a recent statement by East Germany's bishops has made it clear that the climate for dialogue there is not good. The bishops said the East German model of Marxist matrialism was distorting Christian values and hurting relations between athiests and believers.

The secretariat says it will not select a site without approval by the local bishops' conference.

Some people would be happy to make Budapest a traditional meeting place. For the Hungarian government, Christian-Marxist dialogue fits in symbolically with its current "liberalization" policy. The church, too, has recognized real progress there - one Vatican official pointed out that Hungary is the only East European country that now allows theological textbooks to enter the country freely.

But some of Hungary's communist officials were less than comfortable with the autumn meeting, the sl\urce said. Those in-house divisions may explain why lmre Mikios, Hungary's religious affairs minister, showed little enthusiasm for a new meeting when he visited the secretariat's office last month.

The Vatican has also been somewhat disappointed in the spotty follow-up to the Budapest session.

For example, some of the Marxists' texts were never mailed to the secretariat office as promised, thus making their publication impossible.

In its quarterly review, Atheism and Dialogue, the secretariat recently printed the materials it did have from the meeting, and sent .' cQpies, with holiday greetings, to the Hungarian organizers.

Privately, some Catholic scholars say they are not eager to return to Budapest because of organizational problems there. For example, Hungarian translators, experienced in business and commercial conventions, reportedly stumbled over many of the theological and philosophical terms.

The timing of such meetings is also an important factor, as Budapest illustrated. The October session took place - by accident during the 30th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising. The secretariat was criticized by some Hungarian expatriates, who said the presence ofan official church delegation at that time showed insensitivity.

Gearing the next meeting to a religious event - like the millennium celebration in the Soviet V nion - would reverse that experience, church leaders feel.

For now, the secretariat is in the "signal-sending" stage. It gets its message across through unofficial channels, using the Italian Communist Party, the Soviet Embassy to. Italy or .the pres~.

In coming weeks, the next round of signals will start coming back.

It's Qot a quick process the staff in St. Calixtus Palace engages in.

The three days of face-to-face dialogue in Budapest, for example, took them two years of long-distance discussion to arrange.

Support for路 AIDS victims urged ST. LOVIS (NC) - Archbi- tracted from sexual contact or shop John L. May of St. Louis dirty hypodermic needles. said he is. seeking broad-based In his column the archbishop community support for a plan to said there have been 109 cases help persons suffering from AIDS reported in Missouri, including 49 -acquired immune deficiency synin St. Louis. drome. .

In addition to a hospice and He called for interfaith cooperacounseling center, Archbishop May tion in establishing a hospice and a recommended that: counseling cente~ for AIDS pa- Acute and long-term health tients, their families and friends, care facilities expand their services and for accurate information'about to persons with AIDS and AIDSAIDS for lay, clergy and religious related complex. . leaders of the archdiocese. . . .. :.. .:. . Hospitals provide their em~ The arChbishop, who'is presiployees with iriformiltioilto develop dent of the National Conference of ':sufficientpatient advocacy pr.oceCatholic Bishops,.made the recqm-, dures to ensure ~espectful and c.ommenda'tions in his' column in the passionate care" for ,AIDS patients.

Jan. 16 issue of th.e St. .Louis' -:- Educationa.l program~, utilReview, archqiocesan,newspaper.. , izing the media,1?e developed to reduce prejudice and discriminaNo one s~gmen't of the cominimity alone can address the AID~ of~cial problem, he said, pledging archdi-. ocesan cooperation wi!h religibus, VATICAN CITY (NC) - A public and private entities to assist senior vice-president of the New AIDS patients and their families.

York-based Chas'e Manhattan, "Civic, governmental, religious Bank is one of three people Pope and community leaders must inten-, John Paul II has appointed to the. sify their efforts to respond to the Pontifical Commission on Justice many human and religious needs and Peace. . caused by AIDS. It requires the .The appointees, recently an-' full collaboration of all," he wrote. nounced by the Vatican, include The disease has no known cure Mary B. Maguire, the New York yet. It kills its victims, usually in native who has worked for Chase less than three years, by destroying Manhattan for 14 years. the body's ability to fight other Mrs. Maguire, a member of diseases. AIDS is generally con- Good Shepherd Parish in Rhine-

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tion against AIDS patients.

Archbishop May said the church has a specific role in ministering to AIDS patients and their families.

To those who are ministering to AIDS patients, he said, "It is not our task to make judgments, but to call ourselves and those to whom we minister to a deeper conversion and healing. It would be a mistake to use our. personal encounters with AIDS patients only as an . occasion to speak' about moral principles of behavior."

He also criticized discrimination against AIDS victims: "There is no medical'justification fordiscrimination against these people and, in fact, such discrimination is a violation of their basic human dignity and inconsistent with the Christian ethic.

a papal appointee. beck,N.Y.,servesontheboardof directors of New York's Marymount High School and the Archdiocese of New York's Ferncliff Nursing Home.

The Pontifical Comm.ission on Justice and P.eace, in~tltuted by Po~e Paul V.I In. 1967, IS the H~ly See s orgamzatlOn for. st~dYI.ng . problems connected WIth Justice and peace and awakenin楼 the sens~ti~~t~ o~Catholicsto thelrresponslblhtles In these areas.

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ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Videos on family life by Father John Powell, SJ, will be presented from 7 to 8: 15 p. m. Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 at the parish hall. All welcome.

HOLY NAME, FR September school registration: 9 a.m. to noon' Jan. 26 at school. ,Painting of the church interior is progressing, following completion of exterior work on church and rectory. Youth Group ski trip departure 5:30 tonight, school parking lot.

BL. SACRAMENT ADORERS Holy hour7 p.m. Jan. 27, Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven, All welcome.

CATHEDRAL, FR Daniel Lynch is welcomed as confirmation class teacher.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Parishioners paid tribute to Mary Zmuda,longtime,rectory housekeeper, at a funeral liturgy. $1,000 scholarship donation has been presented to the school by Mrs. Sophie Kocon.

It will provide five $200 grants to needy students. Volunteers to observe a meatless Lent, except for Sunday, are sought. The penitential action would be offered for the parish and the volunteer. September school registration: Feb. 1following 10:30 a.m.

Mass at school.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK New altar boys' meeting I p.m.

Jan. 24.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. Feb. I with holy hour 5 p.m.

ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, FR Cancer information series open to the public began last night and will be held at 6 p.m. each Thursday through March 12 in Room 108, Clemence Hall, Forest Street. Information: Ann Mitchell, 674-5741, ext 2270.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH The parish acknowledges a $2,000 Christmas gift from the Ladies' Guild, proceeds of numerous activities.

BL. SACRAMENT, FR Mass and healing service with Maria Rocha 2 p.m. Sunday. Bible Study classes on the Book of Revelation begin at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4. Those interested should contact the rectory.

IMMACl)LATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Canned goods for.Our Daily Bread food service may be brought toMasses this weekend. Women's Guild installation 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27, church.

New officers: Judith Corliss, president; Dorothy Brennan, vice-president; Theresa Johnson, Mary Dinneen, secretaries; Rose Ralko, treas·urer. 'Instrumental ensemble rehearsal3 p.m. Sunday. Volunteers needed to aid with youth social activities.

James Durant is the new parish custodian, succeeding Joseph La France. "

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR A soup label collection container is at the church entrance. Labels are exchanged for school audiovisual equipment. Women's Club potluck supper and meeting 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Daily Mass, 'except for 8 a.m.

Saturday Mass, will be held in the chapel behind the sanctuary until March 3. Boys' ECHO weekend Feb. 6 to 8; applications at parish center. Mass for religion students in grades 5 and 6 and their parents 10:30 a.m. Sunday. '.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Junior CYO meeting 7 p.m. tonight, religious education center. Day of recollection for confirmation candidates 9:30 a.m. Feb. 8, center.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT ,A meeting in preparation for the 1989 75th anniversary of the parish will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO AREA Area widowed are invited to attend a brunch at Audrey's restaurant, Seekonk, 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Meeting following 7 p.m. Mass Feb. 6, with speaker discussing income tax, St. Theresa's Chruch, S. Attleboro.

Valentine dinner dance Feb. 14, K of C hall. Information on all events: Marielle Martineau 699-4097.

Community help n'eeded for Hispanic vocations MIAMI (NC) - If vocations ,are to flourish in the Hispanic community, the assistance of the "community at large," including civic organizations, must be enlisted, said Bishop Raymundo Pena of El Paso, Texas.

Bishop Pena made the statement earlier this month in' a keynote' address at a Miami seminar on Hispanic vocations. Sponsored by the U.S. bishops' Committee on Vocations, the conference at St. ThomasU niversity was attended by vocations personn~1 from throughout the country.

"The recurrent request of civic Hispanic groups is for more Hispanic priests and sisters to serve our people. They recognize the need for visible Hispanic leadership in the church. They welcome the involvement of bishops, priests and sisters in their work. Let us invite them to help us identifycandidate~ for service in the .church," said Bishop Pena, a member of the vocations ·committee.

He suggested vocations directors begin working with Hispanic organizations, including the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

He said vocations personnel should inform members of these organizations of their renewed vocation recruitment efforts and "invite' their participation as parents" as members of parishes and as Hispanic leaders." , Vocation aware~ess should become a part of sacramentlll preparation, he said, suggesting that engaged couples be asked to "make their home a vocation awareness home."

At confirmation, .young people s!)ould participate, in a "career day" in the church, focusing, on priestly, diaconal, religious and lay ministry, Bishop Pena said.

Bishop Pena said there are 1,954 Hispanic priests in the. United States; 362 of those are from Spain, he added.

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ST. ANNE,FR The 50th anniversary of 'parish Boy Scout Troop 50 will be marked at noon Mass Sunday. A banquet in the school cafeteria will follow. Retreat team meeting at school 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28. No classes Jan. 30 as school hosts diocesan professional day for teachers.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT 10th grade confirmation candidates' retreat 7 to 10 tonight and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, church hall. Family members will join candidates for4:30 p.m. Mass tomorrow.

Sacred Hearts Sisters are interceding for the parish this week.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Meeting for lectors and eucharistic and music ministers, 7 p.m. Jan. 30.

Blessing of throats after all Masses Jan. 31-Feb. I weekend.

Enrichment night for parents of first communion candidates 6:30 p.m.

Feb. I. HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Recent church repairs have included reshingling of the church and rectory roofs and work on the heating system. Additional work on the church and parking lot will be done in the spring. A Lenten Englishlanguage mission will be held the week of March 8 with Father Giles Genest, MS. A Portuguese-language mission will follow the week of April 5 with Father Fernando Veiga, CM. ST. PATRICK, FR Tapestries and Christmas vestments donated in memory of loved ones are on view at the rectory.

Donors are Mrs. John Murphy, Miss eleanor Bigos, Mrs.; Sarah Gagnon, Miss Jean Judge, Mr. & Mrs. Edward DeCiccio, Mr. & Mrs. Verne ,Moore, Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Connors, Mr. & Mrs. William Mello, and an anonymous giver.

THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET First penance will take place at 10 a.m. tomorrow, followed by a reception for the children. confirmation I candidates will make an overnight retreat Jan. 31 and Feb. I at St. James Convent, Tiverton.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Our Lady of Angels Catholic Assn. has donated $7,000 to the parish. New altar boys will practice at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and will be inducted at 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Parish appreciation banquet tomorrow at Venus de Milo restaurant. Coffee hour in youth center follows Jan. 25 morning Masses.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing service led by Father Leo Maxfield, MS, 2 p.m. Sunday, People's Chapel. January-June calendar of events available at Shrine Programs Office, Attleboro 02703.

DOMINICAN ACADEMY, FR School registration dates: kindergarten 10 a.m. to I ,p.m. Jan. 25; upper grades 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 31. Information: 674-6100.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, POCASSET St. Fancis of the Cape Fraternity meeting 2 p.m. Feb.I, St. John the Evangelist parish center,Pocasset; Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, will celebrate Mass and offer a talk, "Beware the sin of Envy;" all welcome; information and rides: Robert Collyer, 563-2654, Upper, Cape: Dorothy. Williams, 394-4094, Middle and Lower Cape. ' CO,RPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH' , Sister poreen Donegan, SUSC, religious education coordinator, has been elected 'as 'a delegate to the general chapter of the Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts; the chap~er will be held this summer in Rome.

CHRIST THE KING, C.OTUIT/MASHPEE The lioly Union of the Sacred Hearts Sisters in Fall River dedicated their Jan. II to 18 pra'yers to the parish family:, .

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ACTOR Martin Sheen, left, and activist Mitch Snyder share space with destitute men on a steam grate behind the Library of Congress. They spent the night there to call attention to the plight of the homeless. Sheen portrayed Snyder in a recent television movie about Snyder's work on behalf of the poor of Washington, D.C. (NCj UPI photo)

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Justice roadblock GLASGOW, Scotland (NC)Two South African bishops said Britain's reluctance to apply major economic sanctions against the apartheid regime in their country is seen as a roadblock to justice.

"The perception of black people in South Africa is that Britain is an obstacle to the resolution of the problem by its continual support of ineffective measures," said Bishop Wilfred Napier of Kokstad, South Africa. Only heavy economic pressure could bring about the end of apartheid, South Africa's 'systern of racial segregation. he added.

Newcomer VATICAN (NC) - The Holy See and the Caribbean island group Antigua and Barbuda have established full diplomatic relations.

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D of I, ATTLEBORO Daughters of Isabella Alcazaba Circle 65 meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5, K ofC Hall, Hodge St., features a medley of songs by The Happy Hearts.

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, TAUNTON/FALL RIVER 'Greater Taunton/ Fall River chapter meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, St. Louis de Frances School, Buffington, St., Swansea; for information on the self-help group for bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings call Sandra Sousa, 823-5240-.

NOTRE DAME, FR Council of Catholic Women meeting 7:30 p:m. Jan. 26, church haIL Bert Lat~ssa will speak on "True Love?"

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Not all college students e_spouse yuppie values WASHINGTON (NC) - Not all college students espouse "yuppie values," said the director of a center promoting Catholic volunteerism on university campuses nationwide.

In an era when business school admissions have risen dramatically and sur~eys indicate that making big money tops the priority lists of the young, college students are still searching for concrete ways to give spiritual meaning ,to their lives, ,said Fred Buerman, executive director ofthe St. Vincent Pallotti Center for Apostolic Development's national office in Washington.

Many find Catholic volunteerism - especially serving the poorest of the poor, whether in inner city soup kitchens and shelters or in the slums of Third World countries, - is a way to do it, Buerman" said.

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He described the Pallotti national office a!1d regional branches as "a people broke ring" operatio~ that matches potential volunteers with volunteer opportunities and helps former v~lunteers find payingjobs, Regional offices are located in and near Boston; Kansas City, Mo,; Memphis; St. Louis;' San Francisco; Washington; Phoenix and Wichita, , .

The Pallotti center, ,founded in 1983, publishes an annual directory of lay volunteer service opportunities, ranging from two weeks liv.ing in.community'with the Sisters of St. Joseph and working with· Vietnamese and Mexican immigrants to two to three years as a Samaritan lay missioner volunteering at an .overseas mission, This year the Pallotti center distributed 80,000 copies of"Connections," its 66-page directory that describes volunteer opportunities offered by 98 centers, While happy to find college students don't all fit the yuppie image, Pallotti pe'rsonJlel don't ignore the fact that "rampant materialism," in the w'ords of Diane Rezendes, director oftheir Cambridge, Mass: office, has struck college campuses. .. ' .':: . Ms. Rezendes; whose office just opened in September, is currently working primarily with stud'ents at' Harvard University and Radcliffe College. .-"We nave to be as creative as the people seliing BMW's' and raspberry sorb~t,;' she 'said':",~We ~on,'t just tell stude'nts that volunteering is:a good, ,al~ruistic thing,'to do' anynfore. We say, 'r.;ook, this is going to help your career. Wl'i.eiher you're going to be.a'U.S. senator , or the president of IBM or stay in sociai'~ork the rest of yOl,l,r )jf~.lt's i important to 'see how people live, . , to.put'things in l,:ontext.' " Volunteering, said Ms. Rezendes, ,¥ho herself,w~rked two years as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, "is hot just, an earthy, groovy, holy thing to do; ii's not, just 'the great white man goes to , save the poor.' The truth is you get more out,of it than'y~llrput into it." '. ' ,

She said it's difficult for students who come out of college with a $40,000 debt to think about spending a year vorunteering, but as she points out to students. "If they work at most of the places we recommend, they can defer their loans without an interes~ penalty."

Buerman, a former nigh school religion teacher, said volunteerism is especially important in the lives of young p'eople who demand to be shown ways to concretize theology, In the 'eyes, of the -young, accOFding to Buerman, "if we can't translate theology into the marketplace, we're wasting' our time."

The typical volunteer placed by the Pallotti Center is a recent college graduate, said Holy Cross Sister' Anita Joseph Reeves. Many times, she said, graduates' volunteer experiences spur them to pursue graduate stu~ies in theology or service-related fields. Occasionally it leads them to look into religious life. ' Often, Sister Reeves s'aid, former volunteers decide to continue working for 'the church, For example, she said, "they choose to work in Catholic schools because th~y want a Catholic environment when they cOlJld have had twice the salary in pUbl(c sf::h991~." ,'.; ,' ..

"The' Pallotti centei's'job 1:iank' was started, Buerman said. "because so many volunte'ers 'Want to continue in Christian careers, want to integrate that volunteer experience into their lives" and based on his realization that potential long-term volunteers needed some assurance' they would find jobs after their years volunteering.

'The job bank helpsformervolunteers find jobs in church, human service and business areas. Buerman emphasizes that a former volunteer makes a good employee.

"Part of our job is educating the employers. The former volunteer is a person with experience; generally a flexible person, a person who can work in conditions where everything' doesn't always go right," he ,said.

Bishop Feehan .Parents will attend acurriculum

infor,mation night at 7:·1.5 Jan, 26, Sponsore'd by the Attteboro high 'school's new Par,ents' Association, the program. w;lI e~plain the philosophy, goals and, cour'se, offerings of el\ch:acadernic" ~epartment. ,';

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General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG·13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens, Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved 'for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

NOTE Please, check dates and times of television and radio programs against local Ii.t· ings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "The Bedroom Window" (De Laurentiis) - Steve Guttenberg is a young, carefree executive whose affair with his boss's wife leads to her death when a killer-rapist they tried to bring to justice is freed.

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SALT LAKE CITY (NC) The Mormon Church has donated equipment to the newly completed St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen run by the Diocese of Salt Lake City.

"The Good Father" (Skouras) A four-alarm fire in June 1986 - A middle-aged executive, trourazed the kitchen and thrift store. bled and resentful because of his Kitchen equipment valued at broken marriage, uses his anger and a male-dominated legal sys- $50,000 had been installed several days before the fire. tem to pressure an unhappy friend The donation, announced this month, will include walk-in freezers and refrigerator, steam tables, coiJritertops, sinks,a dishwasher and industrial~sized,cooking uten-, sils, said Claudette Reeves, the LONDON (NC) - Franciscan kitchen's director.

Bishop Agnellus Andrew, 78, wellThe soup kitchen continued servknown Catholic broadcaster and ing about 250 hot lunches daily at former vice president of the Pon- the Mexican-American Civic Centifical Commission for Social Com- ter while a new meal site was being municati~ns, died Jan. 19'ofcancer built. The new facility was expected of the live~ and lungs" to 'open this ,month.

Archishop, Derek Worlock of A, fund-raising drive, ~un by', Liverpool, England, vice pr'esideilt Catholic Community services, was of the Bishops' Conference ofEn~~ launched last 'J~nl: with an anoland and 'Wales, 'was sclieduled to' nymous$350,000'donati'on. The celebrate a memorial'Mass Jan:27 facility was 'said, to cdst close to in Westminster Cathed'rill. $600,000.' ' Bishop Ari'd'rew, whose cancer The M'ormon'Church, officially was discovered just two weeks known as the Ctiurch of Jesus before his death, was to be buried Ch~ist of .tatter-day Saints, con'-: in the sam'e cemetery as his pate'rtts' tacted St. Vincent de Paul because in Glasgow, Scotla'nd, where he "the church has a continuing iitterwas born'.' ', est' in ~ea'ctj'ng to those in :neeg;' Since retiring froni his Vatican said Keith McMullin, managing position iri'198~, he lect'lired world: ' director of the LDS welfare serviwide and worked with 'u nda, the ces ~epartmerit. '.'. internati.onill'association for radio' ,"We have fong recognite(l 'the and television, work ofCatholicComm~nity'Ser" In 1974 he was appointed by the vices through the St. Vincent de British bishops to take charge of Paul soup kitchen" in helping the Catholic broadcasting arid was poor, he said. trained as a BBC prodiJcer ~ the In addition to the current donafirst Catholic priest in Europe tion the church provid'ed supplies trained as a television producer. to the kitchen after the fire.

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NEW YORK Giants quarterback Phil Simms looks for a receiver during a regular-season game. As a youngster, the Super Bowl-bound player attended St. Rita's School, Louisville, KY.

Why I .like the Super Bowl ,By Hilda Young If you promise not to read this column to my husband, I'd like to do a little tribute .to the Super BoWl. Those of you who read this, column' .regularly might have t,hought t<? yourselves: "But ,this is the person who had her hiJsband bronzed during one game that went into overtime:" , Yes, it is true I ~a~e threatened to sue the NFL for alienation of

team schedules and dental appointments. Of course, we are going to be inundated with every detail of the players' lives, and we11 be told' who makes the players' size 14 shoes.

Think of it as a preview of who will be doing the beer commercials of tomorrow. . They can talk about overcommercialization and the hype and' the hoopla and America's preoc- ' cupation with itself. The Super Bowl is no doubt that. But it's also more. It's a cultural liturgy that' brings mgether supply siders and

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Brent M usberg~.r dart board in-the kitchen. But the Sup.er Bowl is different. . How can you overestimate an socialis.ts, beerd~inkersand.~ham7 " pagne sippers, weight-watchers and event that, takes precedence. over , , SIZ . e 5s, f our-wee hers id ' , " " an M er" Inaugural ,addresses, " de d' C d' L & Presidential , " , 'f ' . . ' ce s rivers yn I auper ..lans reschedules church service,s ,and, IS. 'and Perry' C~mo devotees, labor broadca&t to more..<;oun,tm;s than and management' the Hatfields" .:. ~~r eve'rY.O<?C8sion', , , "J Love Lucy", ,reruns. ' '. and M~Coys. ...,' " , Baptisms , People, won t go o~ vacation to' , It, has' its ritual ~pregame and F'irstCommunions, p.laces whe~e,.they don t have access" postgame), high priests .~quarter­ to a tele~I~lon. on ~up::r.B?wl . backs and coaches) and altar servers ,8irth<;lays ~,unday. It IS this nation s mVlta- (sports commentators)., ", ' ,Confi rm'ations tlOn to,.. party., ,'." . , The Super Bowl is a great, time '.

Weddings If Congress 'could figure a way" to gather to,celebrate life, to call Anniversari,es t9 tie the'hat,iona'l debt to ,what attention to hard work and stl'ug-. ,Orc;linatibns" " " they charge for Super Bowl'com- gle, t.o· 'endurance and courage, OPEN DAIL Y ~ercials, we'd wipe it out 'in no and to stretching mind and bOdY 10:00 A.M, 107:30 P,M, tl,me. to their limits. And that's just plan- Some call the Super Bowl an ning the party for the game.

La Saletie Shrine ' Now ifthey could just figure out ,escape from reality: T call' it an .

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