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By Pat McGowan with NC news reports As church officials at the Vatican and in Washington urged Christians and society in general to attack the mounting crisis of society's homeless, the problem took on a local dimension in the Fall River diocese, where controversy has flared for several months over location of a shelter for the homeless on Rockland Street in Fall River.

Although legal maneuvering in the matter has been based on technicalities such as whether the shelter is a "permitted use" in a district zoned for business and whether it is covered by a court decision exempting nonprofit educational facilities from zoning regulations, emotions were strong behind the scenes.

This was evidenced by a candlelight march held earlier in the year in freezing weather by shelter supporters and by many writers of newspaper letters to the editor.

On the side of opponents, there was fear that "undesirable elements" would harm the Rockland Street neighborhood, while elderly persons lamented loss of their "peaceful retirement."

The latest action in the matter came Feb. 2 when the Fall River Zoning Board of Appeals denied a request to close the shelter. At a crowded hearing, city councilor John Medeiros took the part of objecting neighbors when he re-

called the recent case of a homeless person who shot and killed a Dallas policeman. "At least some of the homeless are of a criminal element," he said.

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FATHER KASZYNSKI Also speaking were two women whose families had found refuge at the shelter and Rev. Robert Kaszynski. pastor of St. Stanislaus Church on Rockland Street, who admitted that he was "in a very delicate position." But recalling that at one point in his youth his family was homeless because both parents had lost their jobs, he declared that they "weren't scum."

The parish was not opposed to the shelter, he declared: "We not only have no objection... we'd be happy to have such a group as fullfledged members of our church."

Although the shelter issue is not settled, since opponents indicated that they would appeal the zoning board's decision, the Feb. 2 action bought the homeless time.

Also at the hearing was another city priest known for his concern for the needy, Rev. William W. Norton, pastor of St. Patrick's parish.

With the supJ:lort of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Catholic Social Services director Rev. Peter N. Graziano, Father Norton has recently made it possible for Fall River's Community Soup Kitchen to remain open on Saturdays, thus assuring the needy of at least one meal daily, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at the soup kitchen, Diocesan Department of Social Services, 783 Slade St; Monday and Friday at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 160 RockSt.;and Wednesday and Sunday at Salvation Army headquarters, 290 Bedford St. The Saturday meal is served by volunteers from St. Patrick's parish and Bishop Connolly High School.

Vatican, Washington Coincidentally, on the day of the Fall River hearing the Vatican issued a major document on homelessness, terming adequate shelter a "universal right" and caIling for Turn to Page Six

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Bishop's Lenten Letter Dearly beloved in Christ, "Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God." (Joel 2:12-13)

Even now our Lord calls us, my brothers and sisters, as in the time oJ the prophet Joel. It is a call to action. He calls us to be mindful ofHis Mercy and consider the power it has to change our lives. Even now this same Divine Mercy invites us to rend our hearts before God and his Church by an honest confession ofsin with true contrition ofheart so that we may be liberated from the shackles of sin.

Like the people ofIsrael of the prophet Joel's time, we are called to weep for our sins because they offend God, and to mourn the injustice of humanity against humanity which is stillpresent in our world. We are also called tofast, to sacrifice, to remedy wrong, heal wounds, and work for justice in our community and in the world.

With this call ofDivine Mercy there comes also the divine empowerment of the Holy Spirit to accomplish goodness, justice and peace.

May our hearts follow the guidance of the Spirit. May we take this time offavor from the Lord, this Holy Season ofLent, to respond to the call ofGod's mercy byfasting, penance, prayer, andselling things right with God and with one another.

With every prayerful wish that this Lenten Season may be a holy and grace-filled time, I remain, Faithfully yours in Christ >•

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ON A BITTER winter night, Gary Cook covers "Miss Gertie" as they take refuge inside St. Ann's Church, Baltimore, which had. opened its doors to the homeless. (NC photo) .

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Catholic officials have praised the Feb. 3 New Jersey Supreme Court decision that surrogate contracts involving payment for a woman to bear a child were illegal.

Ruling in the celebrated "Baby M" case, the court said such contracts, besides being illegal, are "perhaps criminal" and contrary to state law and public policy.

The court awarded custody of the child, Melissa Elizabeth Stern, to her father. William Stern, and his wife, Elizabeth, and restored parental rights to the child's mother, Mary Beth Whitehead-Gould.

William F. Bolan Jr., executive director of the New Jersey Catholic Conference, said he was pleased with the court's invalidation of commercial contracts. but could not agree with its support for noncommercial contracts.

The court in the 95-page opinion said it saw nothing wrong with contracts involving a woman who volunteers to bear a child for a couple without payment and who THIS Norman Rockwell painting, "The Facts of Life," is would be able to change her mind being used by the Boston AIDS Action Committee as a poster about giving up the baby. with the heading "Don't forget the chapter on AIDS." "The court embraced the argument which we had advanced:: (NC/ UPI photo) Bolan said, "that money paid by a couple in connection with the baby born to a surrogate mother violates our state law" forbidding p~yment in connection with the Diocesan observance of Lent ing, forestry, health and nutrition placement of a child for adoption. will begin with celebration of the projects supported by Rice Bowl But, he added, "we cannot agree Ash Wednesday liturgy and disdonations. with that portion of the ruling tribution of ashes by Bishop Daniel They note that 25 percent of which would permit surrogacy A. Cronin at 12:05 p. m. Feb. 17 at diocesan contributions is retained where there is no payment because St. Mary's Cathedral. for local anti-poverty programs. that arrangement would also in As in previous Lents, Catholics Papal Message our judgment violate Catholic mor- are asked to participate in the Rice In his annual Lenten message, al theology."

Bowl program of Catholic Relief Pope John Paul II urged Catholics Dominican Father Philip Boyle Services. eating a simple main meal to address "the scandal of infant of the Center for Health Care once a week during Lent and conmortality." The message emphasEthics at St. Louis V niversity Med- tributing money saved to parish ized the effects of poverty on chilical Center said that "the sale of a .Rice Bowl collections. dren. child in any way is inappropriate" "Building Self Reliance" is the The pope said that in the world's and added that the practice of sur- 1988 Rice Bowl theme. Organizers poorest nations children have the rogacy raises a host of moral ques- explain that Third World nations highest death rate because of acute will benefit from clean water, farmtions. dehydration, parasites, polluted water, hunger, lack of vaccination against epidemics, and "even the lack of love."

"V nder conditions of such poverty," he noted, "a great many children die in their infancy, while the physical and psychological development of others is so seriously affected that their very survival is , threatened, and they are at a disadvantage in finding a place for themselves in society."

He strongly urged Catholics to "share with those who have fewer resources than yourselves. Give, not only the things you can spare, but the things you may perhaps need, in order to lend your generous support to the actions and projects of your local church, especially to ensure a just .future for children who are least protected.

He said that the upcoming Lenten season, because it falls during the Marian year, was a reminder of "the painful drama of so many mothers whose hope and joy have been shattered by the early deaths of their children,"

Catholics prepare for Lent

Appointment His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has announced appointment of Reverend Francis L. Mahoney as spiritual adviser for the Fall River District Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

The appointment was effective Feb.

8.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Representatives of church groups named in a five-year FBI probe of organizations opposed to Reagan administration policy in Central America have expressed dismay at what they called a violation of their constitutional rights.

One group, the Maryknoll sisters, issued a statement earlier this month saying the probe endangers "the democratic principles on which this country is founded."

What began as a probe of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of EI Salvador, commonly known as CIS PES, apparently grew into an investigation of hundreds of individuals and groups, including members of at least two orders of Catholic nuns, three Catholic parishes and a Milwaukee-based food program run by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

FBI officials said they followed internal guidelines governing domestic security and counterterrorism investigations in conducting the probe.

White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters that no one in the White House knew anything about the probes and that President Reagan had asked FBI director William Sessions .for a report on them.

As part of the 1981-85 probe, FBI agents looked into church forums and photographed protesters at peace rallies, according to copies of FBI files obtained by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights through the Freedom of Information Act. Only 1,200 pages of 3,600 pages of documents from the FBI probe were released to the center, many of them heavily blacked out, said Bernice Crane, a center volunteer.

The Maryknoll Sisters and the Sisters of Mercy of the V nion, based in Silver Spring, Md., are among those listed by the Center for Constitutional Rights as organizations named in the FBI probe of CIS PES. Sister Luise Aherns, president of the Maryknoll Sisters, said revelations of the probe came as no surprise to her.

"We knew that pictures were being taken of [Maryknoll nuns] participating in demonstrations," she said.

Mercy Sister Helen Amos, president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Vnion, based in Silver Spring, Md., had no comment on inclusion of the "Sisters of the Mercy Generalate" in the FBI probe. However, a spokeswoman for the Mercy Sisters said that copies of FBI documents that referred to the order were being studied.

St. William's Parish in Louisville, Ky., also mentioned in the FBI documents, has offered sanctuary to 10 Salvadorans and one Guatemalan, said its pastor, Father James E. Flynn, in a telephone interview.

He said he was dismayed but not surprised to discover the parish listed in the FBI documents, adding St. William's has been open about its involvement in the sanctuary movement.

Don Borkowski, director of the Milwaukee-based SHARE of Southeastern Wisconsin, a food program operated in cooperation with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, was puzzled about his organization's listing in the probe.

"Quite frankly, I don't even know what's going on in Central America. The only thing we're interested in is feeding people. If they're watching me they are not going to find out much," said Borkowski, a Catholic deacon, in a telephone interview.

"I wish they would send someone down to help us bag potatoes," he said.

$2 million available for grants to nuns LOS ANGELES (NC) - The Archbishop's Fund for Sisters in Los Angeles has opened a grant review process to award more than $2 million to congregations ofwomen religious around t.he world to assist them in their work.

Sister of Charity Barbara Garland, the fund's executive director, said the fund, supported by the Hilton Foundation, has $2.5 million to $3 million to distribute annually.

During the first funding period, which ended October 1987, the committee received 151 proposals totaling $13,451,208. $1,710,002 in 76 grants was approved for projects in nine countries and 25 V.S. states.

Examples of funded projects include a children's home in Houston; a women's shelter in Los Angeles; a high school in Newark, N.J.; an academy in Kingston, Jamaica; a hospital in Papua New Guinea; and a house of studies in Nairobi, Kenya.

She said Conrad N. Hilton, who died in 1979 at age 91, requested in his will that a sizable amount of corporation stock be left to continue the work of his foundation and that sisters be included as recipients.

The founder and chairman of the board of the Hilton Hotels Corp. "saw the sisters as very worthy of funding," Sister Garland said, adding that help goes to nuns all over the world because Hilton, a Catholic, did not want the monies limited to particular groups or territories.

Though the funding is not directed at the current retirement crisis of religious, Sister Garland said it could help "establish new avenues of works and relieve congregations of funding some of their works."

To be considered, projects must involve direct services to alleviate human suffering, help reduce deprivation of children and youths, achieve "systemic change" and directly involve at least one of a congregation's members.

Multiple grants are not awarded and recipients of money must account for its use within 14 months of receiving it.

Further information on the pro. gram is available from Archbishop's Fund for Sisters, 10 100 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 775, Los Angeles, CA 90067-401 I.

Program welcomed PRETORIA, South Africa(NC) - South African bishops have welcomed a government ed ucation program against AIDS but condemned distribution of condoms as part ofthe program. The bishops have set up an AIDS study group within the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference.

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U.8. bishops concerned by pedophilia' WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops are "deeply committed" to addressing the "tragedy" of . pedophilia and other child abuse through strong efforts for education and prevention and through the church's "healing ministry," said the general counsel of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

The official, Mark Chopko, made the remarks in a statement for the USCC, the bishops' public policy arm. The statement was. issued Feb. 9.

Pedophilia is the sexual attraction of adults to children. Some of· those accused of pedophilia have been Catholic priests.

Child molestation is a "profound tragedy" for all involved and a "direct threat to the future wellbeing and stability" of U.S. society, said Chopko, who called it a tragedy that some of the abusers have been leaders in the community or placed "in positions of great trust."

He told National Catholic News Service Feb. 9 that the statement was issued in response to a renewed interest in the issue and that people "want to know what the church is doing about it. It [the statement) is an effort at public education."

In the statement he said pedophilia "is neither a church nor a clerical problem exclusively but one affecting religious and secular groups alike," and he added that the disorder of pedophilia can affect men and women "whether they are married, single or celibate."

He said steps taken by the conference to address pedophilia include programs to educate bishops and their advisers, health officials, diocesan administrators and attorneys.

Chopko said the bishops took. up the problem of pedophilia and its clinical, legal and pastoral aspects at a closed session at their 1986 spring meeting in Collegeville, Minn. The bishops reportedly questioned experts on the pedophilia problem.

He said the bishops also discussed it in November 1987 at a closed executive session during their general meeting.

Chopko added that individual dioceses have supplemented USCC efforts with their own activities, including: .

- Education programs on prevention of child abuse for diocesan personnel who work with children.

- Development of guidelines and policies for reporting of incidents and for responding to specific complaints through suspension from employment or active ministry whenever appropriate.

- Awareness of the effects of an incident on the victim and on the accused.

- Commitment to helping heal victims and their families, rehabilitating the offender and reconciling "alI involved in the ministry of the church."

Chopko emphasized that the USCC is not a national governing board and cannot direct dioceses, which are separate anc;l independ-. ent, to ta~e specific actions.

However, he said, the conference, principalIy through the general counsel, provides a forum for general guidance and consultation, and facilitates discussions among individuals and groups who deal with the problem.

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Bishop Frederick Donaghy The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Tuesday at the Maryknoll Motherhouse, MaryknolI, N.Y., for the repose of the soul of Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy, a New Bedford native who died Feb. 6.

Born Jan. 13, 1903, the bishop was educated at Holy Cross College; Worcester; St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and MaryknolI Seminary.

He received priestly ordination Jan. 27, 1929, at MaryknolI and was consecrated a bishop Sept. 21, 1939, in St. Mary's Cathedral, FalI River, by Bishop James E. Cassidy.

The bishop began his mission work in Kaying City, South China, where he served under Maryknoll Bishop Francis X. Ford.

After 10 years he was appointed prefect of the adjoining Wuchow mission region and was named Vicar Apostolic of Wuchow in 1939. .

From 1950 to 1955, Bishop Donaghy was jailed and held under house arrest by the Communists and then was expelled from Wu-

It also, he said, gives advice to diocesan attorneys and· officials when requested.

He added that the conference is not consulted in every case and rc cords many times are closed by the courts to protect the privacy of the victim and the accused.

Chopko said the conference does not judge individual cases because each one is specific and often complicated in light of differing state laws.

The USCC has no reas~mable estimate of the number of pedophilia cases, he said, but added that "even one report ... is cause for concern because it indicates. that a child has been victimized."

"AlI share a common commitment to prevent instances of child abuse whenever possible and to restore those who suffer from pedophilia and their victims to health," he added.

chow to Hong Kong. Subsequently he was appointed MaryknolI regional superior for Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines. He directed mission activities in these areas until the late 60s.

Bishop Donaghy was assigned to MaryknolI's Special Society Unit in 1979 and served in Taiwan until he returned tothe Maryknoll Motherhouse last December.

His body has been returned to Taiwan for burial at West Mountain Cemetery in Miaoli.

Anchor subscription weekend set In the context of National Catholic Press Month, the annual Anchor subscription weekend will take place Feb. 27 and 28.

At this time the cost of a subscription will rise to $10 for 50 issues. The price hike has been resisted for years, but rising costs of newsprint, postage and alI other goods and services involved in newspaper publication have forced the increase, still more than $2.50 below, the average yearly subscription cost of other U.S. diocesan newpapers.

On the national level, Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Vatican's Commission for Social Communications, and former editor of the newspaper of the Philadelphia archdiocese pointed out in a Catholic Press Month statement that "the Catholic press remains the most effective instrument we have for ongoing formation in a timeless faith and for continuing stimulation to ever-needed charity."

Archbishop Foley said, "Catholics need a dependable source of authentic information. about Christ's church, their church, and about the moral question which fill their lives every day. They need to know how they can live close to God in their families and in their work; they need to know about the needs of others."

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Shaping Up In his Lenten message, Bishop Cronin reminds us that this holy season is a time when God's people are asked to respond to the call of his mercy by fasting.

Many Catholics, perhaps in reaction to the Jansenistic approach to fasting that permeated church practice for so long, h~ve relegated it to the archives.

Others, in their desire to be "relevant" which basically means to compromise, deny the church's obligation to call us to fast.

Whatever the reason, there are many who do not or will not pay much attention to this biblical mandate.

Yet many of these same people spend hundreds of dollars on quick fad diets and expensive membershipsin health clubs and jog or run tirelessly in order to keep their bodies in shape. They will endure difficulties and even physical pain just to look good..

If they can do this for their bodies, why can't such motivation and determination be focused on the spiritual?

Lent is a time during which we can get our priorities right.

One of the means at our disposal is a rethinking of the matter of fasting.

Yes, there is church legislation in this regard; however, it has little effect without our putting soul and heart into our response. Take your diet and give it a little spirit! If we can expend tcemendous effort for our bodily shape, is it not possible to do the same for our soul?

In essence, that's what the church asks us to do'. The practice of voluntary fasting helps us learn self-discipline and control.

That's the way it should be and the way the church wants it to be.

So the next time you want to lose a few pounds, don't do it just for your blood pressure or your cholesterol count. Do it for an eternal reward.

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The death of Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy once more A LITTLE BOY HUDDLES ON A MATTRESS OUTSIDE HIS BURNING SHACK AFTER brings to mind the tremendous bond that has existed over the SOUTH AFRICANS BATtLED FOR SITES IN AN OVERCROWDED SQUATTER CAMP years between this diocese and the Maryknoll community.

A bishop for almost 50 years, Bishop Donaghy left his native "The sins of the. fathers are visited on the children." Ex. 20:5 New Bedford to begin a most unique and gifted life in the service of the church in China.

He was consecrated a bishop in 1939 in Fall River after having experienced the horrors of war during the SinoJapanese conflict of the 1930s.

By Father Kevin J. Harrington offerings on the altar, to pay tithes, hi 1950 he was arrested and first imprisoned then kept under of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II house arrest by the Chinese communist government. Expelled did not deny Mother Teresa her Achieving social justice should able to be saved if they also avoid request for shelter for the homefrom the country in 1955, he then served the Lord in Taiwan, be the concern of all people. The vice and practice good works." less within the shadow ofSt. Peter's Church has a special role because The beginning of the 13th cenHong Kong and the Philippines.

Basilica. But it should be noted tury marked the remarkable grantit is the herald of the kingdom of His passing reminds us all ofthe many men and women who. that the Vatican financial crisis ing by Pope Innocent III of St. God. selflessly have left father and mother for the sake of the Gospel: Too often however it is seen as Francis of Assisi's request to return would not have occurred had the It should stimulate a renewed sense of universal mission that an institution interested only in to the apostolic way of life: to present Code of Canon Law been itself. Too often it adapts itself to work and preach in absolute poverty. in effect. The pope would not have somehow has not been a priority in our time. the sinful social structure of its Legend has it that the pope was inherited a deficit had competent Bishop Donaghy will not be remembered by many. Time has time.

Reform seems only to occur prompted by a dream in which he lay people been consulted for financial its way offading all things. However, we should not allow his' when the security of the status quo saw the great Lateran Basilica tot- advice. faithful service to become merely a memory. is threatened. tering on its foundation, only to be Credence will only be given to Rather, it should remind us of what has been done and must The. end of the 12th and the . saved by Francis holding up the the Church's teachings on social beginning of the 13th cent ury was falling walls and setting the struc- justice ~hen actions match words. yet be accomplished,in a missionary church, despite the diffinot the most inspiring age in the ture back on its base.

As retired Bishop William E. culties peculiar to our times. history of the church, which had This experience prompted the McManus.of Fort Wayne-South In death, Bishop Donaghy reminds us that the Gospel is to aligned itself with feudalism and Holy Father to accept the "paup- Bend rather caustically stated: "The be preached in' good times as well as bad. had amassed untold fortune eristic movement" advocated by

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through the Crusades. The clergy had acquired such privilege that members gave little thought to heralding the kingdom to come, so busy were they reveling in the kingdom of the here and now.

Consider, for example, the two classes of Christians according to the 12th century Code of Gratian, father of Catholic canon law: "the clergy, who receive the power of Christ, and the laity, who do not: the first are dedicated to divine service, contemplation, and prayer, free of the contamination of the world; the latter are allowed to marry, to cultivate the earth... to defend their own causes, to place

other reformers but suppressed by his predecessors Alexander III and Lucius III. A modern day Francis of Assisi who' confronts the power of the institutional church is Mother Teresa. Cardinal John O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, recently stated that he felt guilty when Mother Teresa visited his'swank Madison Avenue rectory.

He said he assured her that he is only a tenant and the property is not his to sell. She replied that the first thing she would do if it were her rectory would be to throw out the rugs!

Despite the current financial woes

U.S. bishops advocate a 'preferential option' for the poor, but I have seen little preference shown to the Church's lowest-paid and most insecure employees: janitors, domestics, rectory secretaries and organists.... All these underpaid persons survive at the whim oftheir employer.

"There's no pay scale for them, no passage to a better job, no pension that, even coupled with Social Security'S retirement benefits, would be adequate in their old age. Instead ofbeing preferred, the poor employed by the Church are trampled upon.

A Christmas turkey and a little bonus are no remedy for a gross injustice."

Free country?

We forget what it's like to live in a safe country until we go elsewhere. When I was in Korea and asked the hotel manager if it was safe to walk out in the area in the evening. he looked at me in puzzlement. What did I mean? I tried to explain but they don't have a word for muggers there. at least not one he could understand.

When I was in Germany a year ago. a female chaplain (obviously not Catholic) told me she had reenlisted because it was safer for her family to live in Germany than in the United States. "It·s a great relief not to Worry about childsnatching or assaults." she said.

"We don't want to go back to all that."

Back in 1971, when I arrived in Rome for a Vatican commission. I was housed in a pension near the Trevi Fountain. Wanting to stroll out alone early that first evening. I asked my landlady if it was safe. I will never forget her response. "As long as you stay away from the _ _ _ (I forget the area) where the Americans are. you're safe," she said. Too late she realized I was American and we were both embarrassed. But I told her I understood. It was when American hippies and druggies were flocking to Europe and bringing their crimi-.

nal talents for obtaining drug sustenance with them.

Imagine living in a culture where one doesn't have to view strangers as potential assaulters. It·s wonderfully freeing. We have become so aware of the need to scan streets and parking lots for danger that we don't fully realize what a burden crime plays in our lives.

We buy expensive burglar systems for- our homes and cars as routinely as we buy life insurance.

Protection no longer means from the elements as much as from one another. Every man a woman meets alone on the streets has to be considered a potential criminal. So men suffer as much as women from crimephobia.

I ask fo.r an escort on elevators in strange cities after 9 p.m. as a matter of course. I tip the bellman well because both he and I know a woman alone in a hotel elevator at night is easy prey.

When parents see their grown children settled in jobs and apartments. they worry about their personal safety. Our 22-year-old daughter was assaulted on her doorstep in a decent area of Washington D.C. She fought the man off but we worried about her until she moved.

Why. in a society that deals so well with the quality of life in other respects. can we not deal with

Steps toward peace A well-known international psychologist once confided to that knowing how diffime . : n cult tt 1S to change huma natur~, he ~elt that ~nly a c~tastrophiC aCCidental mishap Wlt~ a nuclear bomb would really bnng . d nations to their senses an get them to ban the b?mb. . . .

I tho.ught. of hiS predlctlo~ 10 connectlo~With t~e recent ~ashmgton summit meetl.ng o~ Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald R~agan.

Have the two countne~ really come any closer to ba~mng the bomb? ~as th~. summit a mere exercise 10 ~ohtlcs? Are we any less d~structlve than before the summIt? <?r are the ~~rds of the psychologist pr~phetlc: f During and ImmedIately a ter the summit, I scanned the news to learn how people were reacting.t0 the event. For instance, an entIre edition of National Catholic Reporter was given over to items on avoiding nuclear war and what .to expect realistically in term.s of diSarmament. Among the tOPiCS: does the New Testament approve of war at all?; disarmament and the requirements of wisdom, love and courage; the dismantling of more than 2.000 bombs, when ~ore than 6,000 have been added smce 1981.

As I read the articles I recalled the psychologist's prediction and had to concede there was some truth in what he said. But the strength of other truths leads me to believe they have the power to triumph over his dire prediction.

Why do I say that?

Today, if we examine the size of our automobiles and their gas consumption. comparing all this with the automobiles of 15 years ago, we see that the public has dramatically changed a habit once thought

irrevocable. It is true that the oil crisis helped.us chang~ c.ourse but. at the same time. the Umted States did not have to suffer a catastrophe to learn how to change.

It follows then that a nation can change in other areas too if it puts . . d t 't ItS mm 0 I .

There is an old saying that repetition is the mother of learning. If anything else. the Gorbachev-Reagan meeting gave an added impetus to every concerned author to write once again about this key issue _ avoiding nuclear war.

Any time people put their minds and energy to overcoming the threat of war, we are conditioning our younger generation to abhor the very thought of violence. It is they who will soon inherit the decisionmaking powers regarding war or peace.

February 14 1932. Rev. Charles E. Clerk, Pastor, St. Roch, Fall River 1980. Rev. Msgr. Francis E. McKeon, Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, Taunton February IS 1910. Rev. Joseph G. Lavalle, Pastor, St. Mathieu. Fall River 1957, Rev. James C. Conlon, Pastor. St. Mary, Norton February 16 1983. Rev. Alphonse J. LaChapelle, Assistant, Holy Ghost, Attleboro February 19 1895, Rev. Andrew J. Brady, Pastor, St. Joseph. Fall River 1953. Rev. Leopold Jeurissen, SS.Cc., Pastor, Sacred Hcart, Fairhaven

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crime as effectively as other co~n­ tries? Every four years at electIOn. time. we get promises of better protection against crime but every four years it's worse.

We focus so much on the rights of individual criminals that we sacrifice the right of society to a crime-free environment. Recently a Denver reporter selected for jury duty in a cocaine pusher case reported that the case was thrown out of court because the prosecutor failed to establish that Denver was in Colorado.

The defendent is back out on the streets and we can bet it will be awhile before those testifying against him will do so again.

We need to get so angry that we force our lawmakers to tighten the laws and focus on us rather th.an on the rights of criminals for awhll~.

Older people should not be pnsoners in their homes because they are easy prey. Women have a right to walk freely at 7 p.m.

Otherwise. we do not !ive in a free country. as we so like to believe, but in a primitive one where we must be on the alert constantly against our own species.

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

There are many who feel talks about peace are fantasy and that war is inevitable. But Christians must not give in to these thoughts.

We are a people of hope.

The December summit. no matter how political it 'might have been, has given new energy to those dedicated to peace.

In the past we have seen such pressures turn an energy crisis around. I believe they are at work again. thanks to the summit.

Bishop "ashamed" HLUVUKANI REFUGEE CAMP. South Africa (NC) ~ A South African bishop told refugees from neighboring Mozambique he was "ashamed" of the mines and electrified fences South Africa employs to prevent people from fleeing into South Africa from their country's civil war. "I am ashamed because we as a Christian country are not doing what Christ wants us to do." said Archbishop George Daniel of Pretoria.

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Is Bible literally true?

Q. I am starting some Bible study with a Catholic scripture scholar. At the first meeting she said ". don't want to make you ups;t but some parts of the Bible are not true."

This is a blow after SO years believing what is in the Bible: Is this true? It is like calling the BIble a lie. (Ohio) A. With all due respect to y~ur leader and assuming you are reflectmg accurately what was said, it seems clear that her desire to impress or startle the rest of you got ahead of her scholarship. at least for the moment.

One of the first lessons one learns in a serious study of the Scriptures is that our Bibl.e contains numerous types of hterary works. each with its own special method of expressing a truth.

Among these, for example. are poetry, parables. historical narratives. legends. moral fables. I~ve and war stories. myths. allegones. apocalyptics (some section.s of Daniel and Revelation, for mstance) and even sports passages.

Just as for writers today. so also for the writers represented in Scripture. each of these kinds of literature has its own rules and often specialized terminology; in ~ther words its own way of expressmg a truth. .

The bottom line. as they say. IS that the Bible does not pretend to be a history of science textbook. It is a faith book. a many-faceted description of God's love for our world and our human race. of our more or less lame response to that love and some ways those loves have worked themselves out in human history.

To claim. therefore. that the Bible is not always. perhaps hardly ever. a straight historical or scientific description of what happened is one thing. To say that most ~f the Bible is therefore not true IS quite another.

That would be to claim that only "literal" descriptions of people and events are true; all those other ways that human beings have learned to express what they feel and know and desire are false.

My favorite more modern example is the story with which we ar~ all familiar about George Washmgton and the cherry tree. Should someone some day prove there never was a cherry tree on the Washington property. that tale would still be true; it is. after all. not about cherry trees but about the honorable character of our first president. .. .

Furthermore if one thmks It IS a story about cherry trees he entirely misses the real "truth" in the story.

It's the same with Scripture.

One would not read. I hope, the lover's description of his beloved in the Song of Solomon: "Your eyes are doves, your lip~ drip ~o~ey your neck is a tower of Ivory, With the same literalness of Luke's, "When they came to the place called Calvary they crucified him there."

Yet we understand clearly the truth in each because we know one is poetry and the other is not.

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It is the official teaching of our church that the first essential step in interpreting a book or pas~age of Scripture is to ask the questIOn: What did the writer mean to say when he or she wrote it?

Even though they were all guided and inspired by the Holy Spirit, the authors of the Genesis story of creation and the Book of Revelation and everything in between were human beings.

And like us they had their own ways of expressing their "truth" about God and his world.

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Signs of progress ROME(NC) - Growingagreement on theological issues has focused ecumenical dialogues on the structure and nature of the church. says the Vatican's top ecumenist. The dialogue now includes the role of the papacy. how authority is exercised and the forms of church ministry. said Cardinal J 0hannes Willebrands, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.

Practical cooperation with other Christian churches on justice and peace issues is another sign of ecumenical progress, he said. The Dutch cardinal said the Catholic

Church is in dialogue with 10 different Christian churches and with the World Council of Churches.

Lay groups lauded VATIC AN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has praised lay apostolic movements for providing a new evangelical impetus to the church. "Such movements merit recognition and fundamental support," the pope told a group of bishops from West Germany.

"These new sentinels of evangeli7.ation have gained merit and have produced surprising fruits," he added. Lay movements "can give new impulse to the life of your community." he said.

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Third Catholic for high court WASHINGTON (NC) - The Senate in a unanimous 97-0 vote Feb. 3 confirmed federal appeals court Judge Anthony M. Kennedy as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 51-year-old Kennedy, who is from Sacramento, Calif., will become the 104th justice to sit on the nation's highest court when he is sworn in Feb. 18.

He will be the third Catholic on the current court. The others are Justices William Brennan and Antonin Scalia.

Kennedy has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in California for 13 years. A Sacramento native, he is a 1958 graduate of Stanford University and earned his law degree at Harvard Law School in 1961.

He and his wife are members of Holy Spirit Parish in Sacramento and have three children.

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A day later in Washington, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, N.Y. urged Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to make the "national shame" of hunger and homelessness "a central concern" of the 1988 campaign. .

Bishop Sullivan, chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Committee on Domestic Policy, addressed a news conference sponsored by the Campaign to End Hunger and H omelessness, a coalition whose members include the USCC, National Council of Churches and the Rural Coalition.

The Vatican document, titled "What Have You Done to Your Homeless Brother? The Church and the Housing Problem," called for commitment from "all active forces of society" to fight the problem of lack of shelter.

"Any person or family that, without any direct fault does not have suitable housing is the victim of an injustice," it concluded.

In Washington, Bishop Sullivan told the news conference that "this is not a partisan issue, an ideological concern, or a regional phenomenon." Furthermore, he said, "we do not write off any candidate. We will not endorse any individual.

We want every candidate to make this issue a central concern of the campaign and to respond in specific terms how he would attack hunger and homelessness."

The bishop also challenged each candidate to visit a soup kitchen, food pantry or shelter by March 3 and by the same date to "spell out what priority he gives to these issues and what actions he would . take as president to reduce and' eventually eliminate homelessness 'and hunger."

The Vatican document blamed the lack of decent housing on a "structural crisis" related to the most pressing social problems facing society, including "unemployment, low salaries, the rural exodus" and overly rapid industrialization.

Produced by the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission, the 8,OOO-word document was dated for 1987 to coincide with the U.N. declaration of 1987 as the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless.

Prefacing the document was a Dec. 81etterfrom Pope John Paul II urging "Catholics who have public responsibilities and all those who have the housing problem at heart" to work toward finding solutions.

The word "family" accompanies nearly every mention of the homeless in the Vatican document, in contrast to some U.N. publications on the same topic where the word does not appear at all.

The text suggests that the trauma homeless ness wreaks on families is universal.

In Eastern European countries, such as Poland, housing shortages mean marriage is postponed or families are forced to share cramped quarters indefinitely, despite a state monopoly on building construction.

In the West, building speculation, high rents and lagging construction hinder young couples seeking their own home.

And in metropolises as diverse as Lagos, Nigeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Jakarta, Indonesia, entire families may be fo~ced to live in a single room or shanty.

In Washington, the housing and hunger coalition released results of a voter survey showing that after reducing the deficit, the U.S. electorate regards fighting hunger and homelessness as the issue most deserving of the next president's attention.

Deficit reduction was cited by 38 percent of respondents, and overcoming homelessness and hunger was cited by 27 percent. Other issues cited included education, protection of Social Security and actions to create jobs.

The survey also fo und that 75 percent of respondents want federal spending for helping the homeless increased. By a 51-to-29 per cent margin, respondents also said they would be willing to pay $1 00 more yearly in taxes if the money were used to assist the homeless and hungry.

"Voters of every region and both parties are calling for an end to the shame of hunger and homelessness in our nation," Bishop Sullivan said.

The Vatican document, meanwhile, drew from a justice and peace commission survey to which 62 bishops' conferences and dioceses responded: Although the church's commitment to the homeless is a sign of a "preferential love for the poor," the churches alone cannot solve the problem, the document con~ cluded. Rather, it said, "the commitment of all the active forces of society is absolutely necessary if a radical and definitive solution to the housing crisis is to be found."

Pope to resign if Nazis came VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Pius XII planned to resign to avoid a crisis of church leadership in case Adolf Hitler made good a plan to arrest the pontiff and remove him from the Vatican, a top Vatican official said.

"If he were arrested and conducted beyond the walls of Rome, he would have been immediately considered to have given up the throne of Peter," said Cardinal Pietro Palazzini. Thus "the prisoner would be Eugenio Pacelli (his baptismal name) and not the pope," he said.

The cardinal said Pope Pius left the written resignation with a Vatican lay official.

Cardina Palazzini said the pope was aware of a plan by Hitler to arrest him and was afraid of putting the church in a crisis similar to that of the late 18th century, when Pope Pius VI was seized by French forces and the church had to await his death in captivity before restoring normal government.

Cardinal Palazzini commented on the papal plan in an interview in the Italian magazine, Trenta Giorni (30 Days). A spokesman for the cardinal confirmed the remarks.

The cardinal, 75, is prefect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes. During World War II, he helped political refugees as an official at Rome's major seminary, according to a Vatican biography.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Yugoslavian bishops have complained to the government about restrictions on religious freedom in the armed forces and the withdrawal of passports from priests and religious, reported Vatican Radio. The criticisms were contained in separate lcttas sent by the bishops' conference to the ministries of defense and internal affairs, Vatican Radio said. Soldiers are prohibited from receiving .r~­ Iigious publications, from partICIpating in religious ceremomes during their 5.pare time ~nd from receiving visits from pTlCSts when they are sick, said the letter to the Defense Ministry.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities will give its Theodore M. HesburghAward to Christian Brother Gregory Nugent, an olficial at The Catholic University of America. Namedfortheformer president ofthe University of Notre Dame, the award is given for outstandinj contributions to Catholic higher education.

Brother Nugent has been assistant to the president and secretary of the board of Catholic University since 1975. Prior to that he was president of Manhattan College in New York.

Thank you for the great ..rticle!

("Father Mike Sparough," Anchor Jan. 29) I think it's terrific. You really were able to encompass all the aspects of our retreat.

-It was a delight to read about the reactions to our visit. We tbought that we had "reached" the, teenalCes but your article has con~ fumed it.

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The Institute on Church and Soci.d Issues said govc;tnmellteconomic'stabilization policies "have neglected to consider their impact on the poor and most vulnerable groups in society, an impact which canbayt severe and permanent detrimental effects," Titled "The Cost ofthe Foreign Debt on the Poor. A View from the Philippines," the report recommends that future policies be formulated to ensure that basic needs oJ the poor are fulfilled.

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Lent's not easier With this Saiutinc Sernors pate, 'we introduce a column by Bernard Ca.serl,., .retired former editor of 'Tbe Catlltillt BIlRetin of the archdiocese olSt, Paul and MIDdeapo-lis. Aldtoulb pared to older readers, his wrftinl aho prov:ides the you.... aod middle-aled with an uperienced look at pht and presetI1 issues' and problems, He and his wile Dorotby are the pannts of 'SIx and crandp.rents of two. , Lent js supposed to get easier as we iet old,er and are excused from the few fast and abstinence reguLations that remain. but I find it narder. h's very nard to discover new ways to practice acts of self-denial when your stomach already says no to so many good things. It·s especially difficult when you have gradually build up a list ofs8crifices over the years.

It was hard to give up smoking my pipe every Lent; no testing aromatic mixtures. no watching the smoke rise while trying to find the right word or phrase. Then I gave it up altogether - at least until I get old and can't pursue any other vices.

Giving up drinking is no big deal either, thank God, as long as I switch to soda or mineral water.

Of course, you don't put asi4e much for charity if you· Grdet a Perrier with a twist of lime insted of a glass of gOod Chablis.

Those of us who grew up in a church with strict mles like meatless ·Fridays, the eucharistic fast 1lnd complicated reguiati9ns dur-

iog lent feel vaguely uneasy if we don't perform some acts of self· denial after Ash Wednesday arrivC.'i to remiild us of our final destiny.

Relaxing the rules began before Vatican U. but the Council made the biggest change when it said that ~durinl Lent. penance should nol only be internal and individual but also eJlternal and social." Fire and brimstone missons, Stations of the Cross and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament faded.

With the complex old Lenten rules gone, many if not most Catholics failed to take up new forms of fast and abstinence. "Operation Rice Bowl" fills the lap to some extent through ils program offamily prayer. sacrifice and almsgiving but it is certainly not in universal use.

Pope John Paul II gave the bol10m line on Lent a few years ago when he said it is "really an earnest appeal from the Lord to undertake iniler renewal... : renewal in prayer and a return 1.0 the sacraments. but equally throu8h the III.nifest8tion of charity by the penonal and collective sacrifIcing of time, money and resoutces_."

• Prayer, Jasting and almsgiving are lenten obligations for practicing Catholics regardless of their age. Fast and Bb!ltinence are possible in many things besides food and drink. Hcre are some Lenten acts of self-denial based on a series called "Journeying with Jesu,."

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GO WITHOUT tele...ision. Cut your viewing drastically. Turn off the tube whenyou're not watching .il.

GO WITHOUT the radio or tapes for special times each day at home or in the car. A little silence can do wonders for you and those around you. It provides time for private prayer and meditation.

GO WITHOUT anger. impatience. a sharp tongue or whatever keeps you from living the Gospel message of loving your neighbor.

GO WITHOUT unneeded heat in your home or office. Save energy by keeping the thermostat down and wearing warm clothes.

GO WITHOUT those drugs that are not essential to your health, such as aspirin. alcohol or sedatives.

Remember that fast. abstinence and self-denial are not enough.

They must be combined with praying. confessing and sharing our food, money and clothing with those in need.

Lent was not meant to be easY. How Will yOU merit Easter if you have n'ot denied yourself aDd followed'him during these 40 days?

Dine-A;.Round 10 years old

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The AARP volunteers servicing the sites have attended training sessions conducted by instructors from both fhe Internal Revenue Service and the Massachusetts Dep8rtment of Revenue.

Those wishing to use the service should have -/with them I. Copin of their 19Sfj federal and state tall rdU1'D5.

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Sites and times for tax service f'Gnow: GOl'eTnment Center, Fall Rlnr: Monday through Friday. 10 a.m. to noon. No appointment needed.

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Cape radio reading service begins The Talking Information Cen 4 ter, a radio reading service for the blind and print handicapped, has begun providing service to Cape Coo through radio sation WFAL~ FM of Falmouth.

Newspapers, inclUding The Anchor and The Pilot of 80ston, best-selling books, supermarket and department store ads. calendars of community events,job infor~ mation and programs aiding blind persons in acquiring skills needed to carry on activities ofdaily living are included in material presented by volunteer readers over a closed circuit radio signal.

The signal is transmitted by WFAL-FM simultaneously with its regular broadcasting but can only be heard on a special receiver.

The r!:ceivers are availaltle at cost from the Talking Information Cen~ ter, PO Box 519, Marshfield MA 02050, They cost about $85 each.· Realizing that this is a large .amount for those on fixed incomes, the center is working with local service groups in raising funds for the receivers. Among them is the Chatham Lions Club.

GUESTS ARRIVE for Dine-A-Round's 10th anniversary, top; are welcomed by, from lett, standing, Mary Benoit, Kathleen Maddison, Father Albert Ryan, Mary Murray of St. Francis Xavier parish. Hyannis, and chairwoman Alice H oust.

Ron Bersani, executive director of the lO~year~old statewide cen~ ter, said, "We'd really like to make the service available to every ponthandicapped person on the Cape and the Islands.

Dine-A-Round. a unique IIIeal out program for nursing nome patients, has begun its 10th year on Cape Cod. The ecumenical undertakins, sponsored by the Cape unit ofChurcb Women United, has been headed for much of t.he decade by Alice Houst, Women's Guild president at St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth, and viccpresident of the Cape and Islands district of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

She and H ope Hardy founded the program 10 years ago after a nursing home director had contacted Church Women United to . ask if the organization could provide an GCCBsional recreational program for residents.

Today Dine-A4Round yearly involves women from over 70 Cape churches of every denomination.

Protestant. Jewish, Catholic and Greek Orthodox congregations arc represented.

Catholic parishes participating are St. Pius X; 51. Francis Xavier, HyanniS; St. Anthony. East Falmouth; St. Patrick, Falmouth; St. John the Evangelist, Pocasset; St. ,Elizabeth Seton, North Falmouth.

Christ the King. Cotuit/Mashpee; Our Lady .0fVictory, Centerville; Holy Trinity, West Harwich; Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster; HONORED on her retireHoly Redeemer, Chatham; Church ment after 22 years as dieti- of the Visitation, Eastham; St. tian at Our Lady's Haven, Joan of Arc. Orleans.

Fairhaven, is Rita Vezina, Dine-A-Round is held each standing left. Among well- month in 8, different wheelchairchurch anywhere from wishers were her mother, Mar- accessible Provincetown to Pocasset. said ion Conroy. seated; home ad- Mrs. Houst. Home-cooked meals ministrator Martha Daneault· are donated, cooked and served by and Father LucienJusseaum<h-< cnurchwomen in the: vicinity ofthe month's host church. with resichaplain.

dents and staff of nuning hornes as guests.

Between 75 and 85 dinners are served monthly for a decade's total of some 7,000 meals. Nursing homes provide transportation. said Mrs. Houst. who noted that the program does not operate in tbe summer months when Capc highways are congested with traffIC. Explaining organizational details further, she said that each participating church group is asked to provide food for 12 people once a year. with the host "hurch supplying beveraaes, rolls and butter and Church Women Umted being responsible for difl,posable dishes. utensils, decorations, entertainment and the cO$.t Gf postage and telepbanecalls. A permanent committee is on hand each month and ea"h church supplying food sends it to the month's site with two women who help serve and greet guests.

"W five had only three cancellations dueto weather in the 10 years of Dine-A-Round;' uid Mrs. Houst proudly. After a meal, surplUS food iii either frozen for future use or brought to area shelters for the bomeless, she added.

Lasl month's lOth anniversary dinner took place at Cape Cod Synagogue. Hyannis.tUeatureda birthday'ake and music by t&arpist Cy Gordon.

A treasured byproduct of the Dine-A-Round program. said MI"!;.

Aoust. is the "great ecumenical. sharing" it ltas engendered among Cape churchwomen.

As for those who are their guests, who frequently have little contact with the world oulside nursing home walls. Dine-A-Round is a truly bright spot in their days.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: I read your articles in the paper whenever I can get hold of one. My problem is I am in prison and will be here for some time. I am very lonely as I do not have any family to visit me. Is it possible to find some people who wouldn't mind sending me a letter from time to time? If you cannot help me, that is OK. I understand.

Thank you. - Ohio Sometimes we ne·ed a jolt to get us out of a rut. We thank this reader for providing such ajolt for us and for you.

We recently passed the season for New Year's resolutions. What were yours? Lose weight? Save money? The same old tired resolutions you make every year?

Most of us get locked into our jobs, our families, our sitcoms and VCRs. In colder climates in winter we even get locked into our own four walls. We see the news and learn about hunger in Africa or homeless people right in our own communities, but those problems don't affect us, and besides, what can we do?

This reader reminds us that there are acts of kindness just waiting to be done, needs waiting to be met.

And people of all ages, all income

brackets can become involved. Ma- start looking around your comny do not even take money, but all munity for the real needs. Choose take time. one area first. Support an unwed Do you have a neighbor who is mother through a local Birthright elderly, who is ill? Visit him or her. chapter. Provide transportation for Do you have a spare bedroom the elderly. If you are short on now that your children are grown? ideas, contact your diocese or watch Become a foster parent. You can't our diocesan paper for stories about take the responsibility of raising a what's being done in other parishes. child? Become an "emergency" fosChristians are people who have ter parent, the person who takes a received the good news. As we child for a night or two on short come to grasp the power of that notice until other arrangements good news, it is meant to spill over can be made. into the lives of others. But rarely Are-you unable to get out your- do we experience this overflow of self? Become a pen pal to a person love for others. More often we get like our reader. Your horizons will into our rut. Until, perhaps, we get broaden although you never leave a simple request for an occasional letter from someone who gets none. your house.

Do you have clothes, furniture And we realize that it is a new year, and kitchen utensils around your and we are fresh from receiving the house in greater quantity than you good news of the Savior's birth, can ever use? Sort and clean and and it is time to become involved repair and get them in good condi- . in some way, however small, so tion. Select the things you would that the faith we profess spills over be proud to use yourself and dis- into our lives and the lives of card the junk. Find a shelter or a others.

P.S. Don't write us for the adsoup kitchen that would welcome your items and take them there dress of this prisoner. He is taken. personally. Find out what else Find another person to write to. they need and get your friends and Reader questions on family livrelatives to contribute their extras. ing and child care to be answered Is your parish social action com- in print are invited. Address the mittee a tired group? Get on the Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's committee and get the members to College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Jail conditions called un-Christian

By Antoinette Bosco

criminals never go to jail. It's a party for lawbreakers and a nightmare for police.

But voters consistently reject bond proposals to construct more jails. The situation represents a growing national problem caused by a fundamentally un-Christian attitude.

Criminals are generally considered unattractive people whom society prefers to ignore. But as Christians we can't disown any of our brothers and sisters.

People arrested for crimes aren't being treated like human beings when they're shoved into overcrowded cells.

We tend to forget that unlike prisons which are populated with convicted lawbreakers, our county jails are full of people who have

been arrested but not convicted of crimes.

We can't harden our hearts to reject the human needs of these "unwanted elements." The NI M BY attitude is all too prevalent wherever there are people who aren't "normal." We also see it with facilities for mental patients, housing for the poor and drug programs for youth.

But how can we say that only those who fit easily into society deserve decent living conditions?

When we cast out the people we see as misfits, we are denying Christ's teachings.

With such issues, each person in each community has to take a more reasonable and responsible attitude to avoid a real national crisis.

The criminal justice system in our country may be headed for serious trouble if we don't halt the spread ofthe NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) mentality. This cry erupts like Vesuvius every time there's mention of building a new jail or prison.

But the same people shout, "We want law and order. Send more criminals to jail."

We can't have it both ways. Just as an increasing number of people are being arrested, old jail and prison buildings are either decrepit and falling apart or simply not big enough. More such facilities are needed, yet in incidents all over the United States, community residents are refusing jail construction.

I remember the furor near Brentwood, N.Y., a few years back when a proposal was made to turn unused buildings at Pilgrim State Hospital into a prison. The community was up in arms.

In Connecticut, the proposed site for a new jail has bounced from one town to the next with outraged residents at each location.

New York purchased a floating British army barracks built to house 1,000 soldiers during the Falklands War. The plan was to turn it into a continually mobile jail that wouldn't stop in anyone place, thus wouldn't upset any particular neighborhood.

The riverboat jail, it turns out, was a real blunder. Originally built for comfort and privacy, the jailkeepers found it impossible to maintain proper surveillance and security. Barely usable, it has wasted $19 million of taxpayer money which could have been used to TO CELEBRATE National Hat Day residents and staff build a sensible facility. at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, donned the craziest In the New Bedford House of toppers they could find. Alice Lynch, left, a CMH resident for Correction, for instance, overcrowding is critical with inmates sleeping about seven years, made her hat from newspaper (The on floors, while" in Portland, Ore~ Anchor?) and a feather. Four-year resident Pat Collins, right, gan, the Portland County Jail is so tells the world she's a football fan. Activities director "Capovercrowded that criminals are . tain" Kate Garland, center, could only anticipate National routinelv set free.

With no cells available, estimates Hugging Day (there really is one!) and Kazoo Day. Hang in are that 40 percent of Portland there, KSte!

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The Anchor Friday, Feb. 12, 1988

Pope asks world to help Lebanon VAT1CAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II said Lebanon is trapped in a "fury of destruction," and appealed for international help in solving the country's crisis.

The pope, in a homily during an Eastern-rite Divine Liturgy at the Vatican, said settling Lebanon's problems was "all the more urgent in this period of vast suffering that spares no community and places every citizen in danger.

"A tremendous fury of destruction surrounds this small country which. struck down a thousand times, a thousand times tries to be reborn." the pope said.

More than 12 years of sectarian fighting in Lebanon has destroyed families and villages. reduced much of the population to refugee status and shattered the economy. Most of the fighting has been between Christian and Moslem militias. often in shifting alliances among themselves and with outside forces.

The pope said he wanted to insist on the "possibility of restoring the original appearance" of Lebannon to its residents. He urged the collaboration offriendly countries to that end and appealed to all Lebanese leaders to act out of justice and charity.

"Lebanon wants to live" and regain its "historic vocation" as a place where different cultures and traditions cooperate. the pope said. The country is the only Middle Eastern nation with a sizable Christian population.

Attending the Divine Liturgy was Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah P. Sfeir, who recently described Lebanon as "cut up into small pieces" by foreign powers and corrupt politicians. Israel and Syria currently have troops stationed in the country.

Pope plans to visit. four Latin lands VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II plans to visit four South American'countries May 718. The trip will be the first by a pope to the landlocked countries of Bolivia and Paraguay and the second to Peru and Uruguay.

It includes a stop in La Paz,.

Bolivia, the world's highest national - capital. 12,000 feet above sea level.

Bolivia is noted for unstable governments; it has had more than 60 revolutions since gaining independence from Spain in 1825..

The pope will visit the Uruguayan cities of Mon.tevideo, Melo. Florida and Saito. May 7-9. . From Uruguay. he is scheduled to go to the Bolivian cities of La Paz. Cochabamba, Oruro, Sucre, Santa Cruz, Tarija and Trinidad.

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He will visit Lima. Peru. May. 15.

From May 16-18, the pope will visit the Paraguayan cities of Asuncion, Villarrica. Mariscal Estigarribia, Encarnacion and Caacupe.

There has been tension between church and state in Paraguay where members ofthe Catholic hierarchy have criticized the rule of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner for civil and political rights violations.

The country has a history of authoritarian rule. '

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Pope praises Don Bosco as model for educators VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II. in a letter commemorating St. John Bosco, also affectionately known as Don Bosco. urged modern educators to help instill a "critical conscience" in their young students by offering them patience, sympathy and religious values.

The letter to members of the Salesian religious order, founded by the 19th-century Italian saint. was published Jan. 30. On Jan. 31, the 100th anniversary of St. John Bosco's death, the pope praised the saint's veneration of Mary in an Angelus talk at the Vatican.

The pope's 27-page letter. titled "Father of Youths," offered a contemporary look at St. John Bosco's teaching philosophy. which the saillt first used in his work with neglected boys in Turin, Italy. For the most part, the pope said. his approach of "moderation and realism" is a valid model today.

"The real educator participates in the lives of youths, becomes interested in their problems, tries 'to understand how they see things.joins in their sport and cultural activities [and) in their conversations." the pope said.

Today's teacher, like St. John Bosco, should be ready to help clarify problems among youths and show them where to look for answers, the pope said.

One key to the saint's success, the pope said, was that he realized that "evangelization" of young people "cannot be reduced to mere catechism. or liturgy, or those acts that require an explicit exercise of faith." .

At the same time. he said. the saint never forgot that the whole educational process should be aimed at religious salvation. This means,"much more" than setting aside a time period for religious instruction, t'he pope said.

Contemporary teachers who fail to recognize this demonstrate incompetence. the pope said.

Especially important, he added. are personal encounters and conversations betweeen student and teacher. The secret of St. John Bosco's success. he said, was "not disappointing,the deep aspirations of youths - the need for life,love. growth, joy. freedom and future - while bringing them gradually and realistically into the life of grace."

"Such an education today requires that youths be given a critical conscience that can perceive real values and unmask ideological influences," he said.

The modern educator, the pope said, must also "learn to read the signs of the times and pick out the emerging values that may attract young people: peace, freedom.justice, unity and participation, the promotion of women, solidarity. development and ecological concerns."

Born in 1815 in northern Italy, St. John Bosco established a boys' home. vocational workshops, schools and a church. To help carry out his work. the priest eventually founded the Society of St. Francis de Sales, which became one of the church's largest teaching orders. Currently its 17,000 members worldwide administer about 1,300 schools, as well as hundreds of parishes, missionary residences and vocational centers.

Speaking to several thousand people from his apartment window above St. Peter's Square Jan. 31, the pope noted St. John Bosco's vision of Mary as the inspiration of his life's work. The saint venerated Mary as the help of the whole church, the pope said.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope "defect of consent due to mental John Paul II told the church's illness." top marriage tribunal to be wary But today psychology and psyof overemphasizing "slight" psy- chiatry often ignore the "eternal chological problems when it con- dimension" in evaluating what is siders expert assessments of the normal, the pope said. mental state of couples seeking While to psychological experts annulments. "every form of psychopathology Contrary to what psychiatric may seem contrary to normality," experts define as normal, Chris- the church's canonists understand tianity understands that "slight or that the "normal human condimoderate psychopathology," or tion" also included "moderate forms mental disorder, does not necesof psychological difficulties." sarily hinder a person's ability to . Without such "integral vision of make responsible and free deci- the human being" most people sions, the pope said in a lengthy would be judged unable to give recent talk to the Roman Rota. "valid consent" to marriage, the The pope also emphasized the pope warned. importance of the official appointHe also cautioned against apped "defender of the bond" in eva- lying normality and psychopatholluating the "psychological incapac- ogy, as defined in psychology, in ity" of couples seeking to nullify the canonical field "without necestheir marriages. saryadaptations."

The Roman Rota is the ordiIn particular, the pope said, it is nary court of appeal for cases insufficient for experts to limit appealed to the Holy See, includ- themselves "to describing the behaving questions about the validity of iorof the parties in the different a marriage. stages of their life" and "collecting In an annulment case, the defen- abnormal manifestations." der of the bond is a court official Tribunal judges must ask the obliged to provide all information experts to include an "evaluation which can be used as reasons of the causes and of the underlying against invalidating a marriage. dynamic processes," the pope said, The defender is particularly im- in search of a "total analysis" of portant in evaluating expert reports the subject. on the "psychological incapacity Judges must also take into account of the parties" involved, the pope all possible explanations of a failed said. marriage, he said.

According to the 1983 code of While certain psychological Canon Law, psychiatric experts aspects can "inevitably become the are used to evaluate appeals involving proof of their abnormality," the people involved may in fact be "su bstantially normal, but with difficulties which could be overcome, if there were not the refusal of struggle and sacrifice."

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope The defender of the bond must John Paul II, welcoming Mignotte evaluate experts' reports inlight of P. Durrant. new Jamaican ambas- "an adequate anthropological vision. sador to the Vatican, said interna- of normality." the pope told the tional peace and justice require Rota, saying that this service by that no nation be excluded from the defender was "indispensable to the "good things" - political, social avoid misunderstandings in the or economic - of the world. pronouncements of the sentences, The pope said that while the especially where the dominant culworld seemed on the verge of more ture appears in conflict with the technological and cultural progress. safeguarding of the marital bond." "nations must not lose sight of the fact that development must be morally grounded and ethically pursued.:' "If we are to enjoy true justice. then no nation or people must be deprived of the good things that our stewardship of God's gifts can I, . . produce for the betterment of hum'< . ' anity," the pope' said.

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Miss Durrant, the third female ambassador accredited to the Holy See, in a speech described Jamaica, a Carribbean island wi,th a minority Catholic population as "a small country with no pretensions to military power." She criticized current arms spending as a misallocation of resources and said her government supports the pope's call for arms de-escalation.

In his reply, the pope said that an end to excessive arms spending depends on nations learning to live together inside their borders, and then with other nations.

"The possibility of disputes and competition ought not to plunge the world or any part of it into senseless violence, nor lay waste to the human and economic resources that could be more productively employed in other ways," he said.

The pope pledged continued church collaboration in Jamaica, especially in areas of hialth, education and welfare.

u.s. archbishop to lead pope's retreat WASHINGTON(NC)- Washington Archbishop James A. Hickey will give the annual Lenten retreat for Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials in Rome. He is believed the first U.S. Catholic ever to conduct the retreat, which will begin Feb. 21.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro- Valls said the pope yearly chooses his retreat master but said he did not know the criteria used.

In 1976, Pope John Paul, then Cardinal Karol WoytylaofKrakow, Poland, led the retreat for Pope Paul VI. Eileen Marx, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Washington, said Archbishop Hickey was especially pleased to be chosen during a Marian year. His retreat conferences will have our Lady as their subject.

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must be a more credible one," he said. "In any scientific experiment it is possible a mistake can be made, though unforeseen and unpredictable mistakes could be easily recognized if seven labs were TAMPA, Fla. (NC) - Repre- based on the gifts of the Spirit participating in the experiment."

Participation by three research sentatives from 33 diocesan women's rather than gender ranked high institutions was announced by the commissions gathered in Tampa among commissions' goals.

In welcoming remarks, Bishop British Museum after the key 'in January to discuss their conshroud scientists held discussions cerns about the Catholic Church Imesch called the Tampa meeting "a historic moment for the church and their role in it. there in late January.

At the London meeting, the parAmong issues raised were inclu- in the United States" and said he hoped it would be a beginning for ticipants said that "in the interest sion of women in decision-making, larger meetings in the future with of conservation of the shroud" no collaborative ministry, pay equity, more representation from dioceses more than three samples would be inclusive language in liturgy and that have yet to form women's taken. elsewhere, inclusion of minorities, According to the London state- discrimination in employment commissions.

A goal of the meeting was to ment, the decision on using three policies, and ordination of women establish a network among parttest sites was reached after the Vat- to the diaconate. icipants. ican expressed concerns about the Other issues that surfaced Kt:ynote speaker Dolores Lecktests destroying part of the shroud, included family structure, human which measures 14 feet 3 inches reproductive concerns, the sanc- ey, executive director for the NCCB long by 3 feet 7 inches wide. tuary movement and homo- Secretaria~ on Laity and Family Life, discussed last October's world Each sample is to be about the sexuality.

Synod of Bishops on the laity, size of a standard postage stamp.

Fifty-seven women from 33 diowhich she attended as an adviser Each test center will receive one ceses assembled at the Franciscan to tht< YS bishops' delegation. piece of the shroud plus two "conCenter in Tampa in response to an Mrs. Leckey said women's issues trol" samples, which will resemble invitation by Bishop Joseph L. were not just a U.S. phenomenon, the shroud as much as possible.

Imesch of Joliet, III., chairman of as evidenced, she said, by stateScientists will \ not know which the National Conference ofCatho- ments made by the bishops of 37 piece actually came from the lie Bishops' Committee on Women national conferences during the shroud, Donahue explained. in Society and the Church and synod.

Jhe samples will only be from head of a separate writing commit"The importance of the local the blank cloth and will not include tee for a proposed pastoral letter . church in dealing with issues such pieces marked by the shroud's imon the concens of women. as wome'n in the church was age. Even ifthe cloth is dated back Last October he asked bishops understood at the synod," she 2,000 years, the identity of the to send one or two representatives said. ' image cannot be verified.

In an update on the pastoral letHigh-technology carbon-14 tests to Tampa to discuss their women's will be used to judge the age of the commissions' organization, expe- ter, Bishop Imesch said a first cloth. Although a firm timetable riences, goals, objectives and fur- draft would be presenied to the NCCB Administrative Committee had not been adopted by late Jan- ture plans.

At the meeting, collaboration in March. He also said his comuary, the London meeting participants said "it is hoped that a radi- with clergy, equal partnership with mittee planned a second national ocarbon date for the Shroud of men, and understanding of roles consultation with women.

Turin will be released by the end of 1988." ,

Women's Commissions meet to share varied concerns

THE FACE on the Holy Shroud. The entire image is that of the body of an apparently crucified man. (NC photo)

Plans proceed to determine age of Shroud of Turin PHOENIX, Ariz. (NC) - Determining the age of the Shroud of Turin, popularly known as the Holy Shroud, won't take much time and should be accurate give or take 300 years, according to Douglas Donahue, a University of Arizona professor who will participate in the tests.

The University of Arizona, located in Tucson, is one of three research sites selected by church officials to participate in tests of the shroud, revered for centuries as Christ's burial cloth.

After participating laboratories receive their samples, the testing process should only take about a week, said Donahue. Results will then be turned over to the Londonbased British Museum, which is supervising the overall shroud project, and the Swiss-based Institute of Technology.

A 95 percent probability exists that the use of three laboratories testing three samples will correctly assess the cloth's age within 300 years, Donahue said, Although the Vatican inherited the shroud from Italian nobility, the cloth, marked with the mysterious image of an apparently crucified man, is kept in t1u: custody of Cardinal Anastasio A. Ballestrero of Turin, Italy.

Scientists had urged testing by seven research institutions, a suggestion ultimately rejected by church officials.

In October 1986, Donahue's university colleague, geochemist Paul Damon, had said that with seven laboratories participating in the tests, the shroud's age could be determined with a range of plus or minus 25 years.

In mid-January, at a New York news conference, scientists from research centers not included in the tests asserted that Catholic officials were violating an interna-

tional protocol calling for use of seven facilities. The protocol was adopted at an autumn 1986 forum sponsored by the Pontifical Adademy of Sciences and Cardinal Ballestrero.

Donahue said that scientists at the three chosen laboratories had told Cardinal Ballestrero and the Vatican that the whole operation would be more credible if seven test centers werer used. He said he and Damon conferred with church officials in London in January to discuss details of the shroud project.

"We are conscious of the fact that for this experiment to be received by the general public it

Planning secretary WASHINGTON (NC) - Mercy Sister Sharon A. Euart has been named secretary for planning of the National Conference ofCatholie Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference. A canon law doctoral candidate at the Catholic University of America, she succeeds Father John F. Kinsella. Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, NCCB-USCC general secretary, said she will keep the conference "on effective three-year planning cycles."

Sister Euart holds master's degrees in liberal arts and in administrationfromJohn Hopkins University.

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Hogan scholars named The Rev. John F. Hogan Scholarship Fund, initiated in 1986 in memory of the late pastor of St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth, has announced that for the 1987-88 academic year $5,000 in scholarship assistance has been awarded to area persons studying at Providence College.

Father Hogan served St. Julie parish from its 1969 formation until his Aug. 7, 1986, death. The scholarship committee, chaired by Atty. William J. Synnott, established the fund at Providence College,because Father Hogan was an alumnus.

1987-8!s awards range from $500 to $1 ,500. Recipients are Raymond E. Galas Jr., North Dartmouth, a sophomore honors student; freshmen Melissa E. Haskell and Annmarie Regan, North Dartmouth; sophomore Elizabeth M. Shaughnessy, New Bedford; and junior Kathleen M. Wade, North Dartmouth.

Atty. Synnott congratulated the scholarship recipients, expressing the hope of all involved with the Hogan fund that each would succeed academically and follow the example of Father Hogan by maintaining a cheerful disposition and a willingness to offer encouragement and a helping hand to others.

Fund organizers note that Father Hogan, a priest for 41 years, "was admired, respected and loved by all who had the good fortune of knowing him. The 'peopie's priest,' as he was so often called, was a friend to all, and his boundless energy, vibrant personality and endless unselfishness were inspirations to young and old alike."

Initially, over $126,000 was raised to establish the Hogan Fund.

It was placed in trust at Providence college where the income it generates is used to provide scholarship aid.

The fund continues to accept contributions. Anyone wishing to make a present gift or a testamentary bequest may contact Provicence College or Atty. Synnott, P.O. Box F-62, New Bedford 02740, telephone 999-1539.

FATHER KEVIN J. Harrington, parochial vicar at St. Joseph's parish, Taunton, and Anchor columnist, congratulates Paulo Silva and Sarah Saladyga, among winners in the Special Person Award essay contest sponsored by the parish religious education program.

Student essays were based on interviews with significant persons in the youngsters' lives. All participating students were given Special Person certificates; Paulo, Sarah and Michelle St. Cyr, Rachel Andrade, Lynn Faria and Willitts Mendonca were grade level winners and merited special prizes. (Mike Gay pho'to courtesy of Taunton Daily Gazette)

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Michael LaChance and Brenda Cahill, students at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, placed in the recent Hartt Musical Theater Club Scholarship competition.

Surviving' the contest's preliminary round, which brought together over 100 highschoolers from six states, they later competed with 37 other finalists.

Michael, a' senior who plans a' theater career, placed second in the acting category by scoring 99 out of a possible 100 points. A member of Feehan's marching and concert bands and chorus and a voice student with Feehan's Elaine Saulnier, he will play the comic lead roll of Will Parker in the school's spring production of Oklahoma.

Miss Cahill, a member of the Feehan chorus and folk group, earned 96 points to finish f-ourth in acting. A junior, she played the lead in "Seekers," a cable television,series written by Feehan alumnus Brian DeCubellis which re:cently aired on, UA-Columbia Cablevision.

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Exhibit shut down MEXICO CITY (NC) - More than 500 demonstrators shouting "Long live Christ the King" recently forced closure of an art exhibit at the national Museum of Modern Art which they considered "offensive" to Catholics.

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Newman club offers religious dimension to SMU students Story and photos

By Joseph Motta For over 30 years, Anthony J. John has been working to establish a religious dimension to student life at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

John, a professor of mathematics at the North Dartmouth school and a lifelong member of Our Lady of Purgatory parish, New Bedford, has been adviser to S MU's Newman Association since it was instituted in 1954.

The educator will retire at the end of May from the university and his Newman Association position.

John said that shortly after he joinel;f the SMU faculty in 1954 he approached the late Bishop James L. Connolly, asking permission to start a Newman Association.

The bishQP, he said, agreed and appointed the late Father John F. Hogan advisor to the group by S M U's trustees, prepared the first year's list of activities to present to the new chaplain.

"Father Hogan didn't change a thing," he smiled.

Newman clubs are organizations of Catholic students at secular colleges and universities in the United States. They offer programs of religious, intellectual and social activities to members.

In 1873, five medical students formed the first club at the University of Pennsylvania, naming it for John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), regarded as the patron of church work among students on secular campuses.

SMU's Newman Association is part of the school's Catholic campus ministry.

During his years as Newman adviser, John has seen student interest in the group wax and wane.

"Campus rebellion didn't geno SMU until about I969/,. the professor said, "and it took about five

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or six years for things to cool of£."

John remembers being the only person to show up for a Mass.

In the early 1980s, he said, "the hostility of earlier years was found to be fruitless," and interest in the association began to increase.

"Over the last 15 years," he added, "the religious dimension of campus life has increased substantially."

The adviser reports that the club now has between 20 and 25 active members.

John has chaired a committee to start a religious studies minor at S MU. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has been "supportive" of the undertaking and the educator hopes that the minor may become the basis for "a chair of Roman Catholic studies."

The North Dartmouth resident, married and the father of two grown children, says that Dr. Donald Mulcare, a professor of biology and a member of St. Mary's parish, Fairhaven, will replace him as Newman adviser. "He's a good man," John stressed.

John, who was awarded a Marian Medal in 1968 for his work with the Newman group, calls Cardinal Newman "a great hero of my Ijfe" and asked to be photographed before the cardinal's portrait. He notes that many are working for Newman's beatification cause, and plans to travel to Rome if and when the "outstanding man of letters" is beatified.

John began theassociatioR's Newman Lecture Series in 1981. The open-to-alllectures and discussions address topics of current and historic interest.

A recent speaker was the Rev. David Buehler, an Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and a North Dartmouth resident who is a pastoral minister at Fall River's Charlton Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Buehler spoke on "Mary in the New Testament" to an audience of faculty, students and community members.

The Lutheran said that Luke, in whose Gospel Mary's song of praise. the Magnificat, is prominently featured,' was "a masterful writer." ., The evangelist shows a special concern for minorities "and all people in disgrace" in his work, Mr. Buehler said, noting that "If it weren't for Luke, Christian tradition would be sorely lacking a social conscience."

The Magnificat, he said, points out "the Jewishness of Mary and her dependence on Hebrew Scrip-

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It is "not just a pretty song," Mr. Buehler added. "It's almost like a creed. It's a summing, up of a whole lot of theological ideas presented in the framework of a song.

"Mary is not only the mother of God," he said. "She is the prototype for Christians... the announcer of even more exciting things to come."

The minister concluded by noting that Martin Luther, a leader of the Protestant reformation, had "a strong devotion to Mary. He thought that she was a vessel of grace and since she was chosen...she was really deserving of devotion."

Upcoming Lectures Newman lectures are held from noon to I p.m. on their scheduled dates in SMU's Board of Governors room; lunch may be brought or ordered.

Professor Patrick J. Foley will speak on "Peace!" April 4, and Professor Thomas K. Ranuga's April II topic will be "Black Catholics in America."

Father James Prest, OP, of Provide nee College, will speak on "The Holy See and the U.S." on April 19, and on April 25 Professor John will offer his "Carmen Cyncneum" or "Swan Song," his farewell address.

Lenten Luncheons SMU's Catholic campus ministry will present a Lenten Luncheon '88 program beginning Feb. 22 and concluding March 28, with Bishop Cronin among scheduled speakers. .

Lectures will be held from noon to I p.m. in the Sunset Room East in SMU's campus center. The series is themed "Our Baptismal Call: An In-Depth Consideration of Our Christian Vocation."

Lecture topics, presenters and dates follow: Feb. 22: Father Richard E. Degagne, SMU campus minister, "Vocation - It's for Everyone," Feb. 29: Father William W. Norton, pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, "The Church - Who Are We?" March 7: Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

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March 21: Father Stephen J. Avila, parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish" Mansfield, "Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): We're All Converts."

March 28: Sister Madeleine Tacy, OP, SMU campus minister. "Birth to New Life: Baptismal Theology of Holy Week,"

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Sister Mary Crepeau, RJM, an English department staffer, had an article, "British Literature Freewritings," in the January edition of Notes Plus, published by the National Council of Teachers of English.

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The school's recently begun winter indoor track team will compete at a state class meet, to be held this monthat Harvard University. Representing Connolly will be students Aimee Vezina, Sharon Hand, Jeanne McLaughlin, Becky Manning, Tim Devitt, Brian Ramos and Tony Benevides. The 30-member team is coached by Jim Barnaby.

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CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME, FR Employee of the Year is administrative secretary Louise Rogers, for 26 years a CMH staffer. Valentines/ Lincoln's birthday celebration 2 today, activity room. Malassadas will be distributed on Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 16. Mardi Gras celebration for residents and visitors 2 p.m.

Tuesday, auditorium. Coffee houri birthday celebration with entertainment by Judy Conrad 2 p,m. Feb. 19, auditorium. Clara Bolen, Ruth Sullivan, Alice Duclos, Dorothy Floyd, Normand Renaud, Yvonne Bois, Ernestine Desjardins and Mary Ann Couto are welcomed as new residents.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. James/ St. John confirmation I day of recollection tomorrow.

MCFL, SWANSEA Swansea chapter Massachusetts Citizens for Life meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 18, Swansea Library. The film "Eclipse of Reason" will be shown.

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ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Mass with Father William T. Babbitt 2 p.m.

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OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, NB Sisters' day of recollection tomorrow: Father Columba· Murphy, OFM, will speak on humility and obedience at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Charismatic prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, lower chapel.

Queen of Angels fraternity of Secular Franciscans meets third Sunday of each month; crown at 9:30 a.m., Mass 10:30 a.m.

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Roses for Life will be available at all Masses this weekend. A Women's Guild meeting which had its date changed to Feb. 24 will begin with 7 p.m. Mass. Suzi Ball will offer. a presentation on .Ukrainian Easter eggs. Adult education Scripture classes 10 a.lli. each Tuesday, religious education center.

ST. JOHN NEUMANN, E. FREETOWN "Morning of Prayer and Praise" 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 20; speaker: Father John J. Oliveira, parochial vicar at St. Michael's parish, Fall River; refreshments; all welcome.

LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO Men's retreat March 4 to 6, conducted by Father Gilles Genest, MS, and Sister Patricia Cocozza, SND; information: 222-8530.

O.L. ANGELS, FR Parish council meeting 7 p.m.

March 7, hall. Holy Rosary Sodality members will attend 8 a.m. Mass and breakfast meeting March 6; Senior Citizens' Club meeting and breakfast 8 a.m. March 27; PortuLENTEN PROGRAM Father Joseph Costa will speak on church social teachings 7:30 p.m.

Wednesdays Feb. 22 through March 21, Holy Name Church hall, New Bedford.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Parish council meeting 9 a.m. tomorrow.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE· Parish council meeting Feb. 18.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Children's Mass 11:30 a.m. Feb. 28. Mardi Gras parties Tuesday, grades 3-6, 1:30 p.m.; 7-9 7 p.m.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON Prayer group healing Mass Feb. 18.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Get-together for collectors and ushers 7:30 p.m. tonight, rectory.

MCFL, TAUNTON Massachusetts Citizens 'for Life Taunton chapter meeting 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Taunton Public Library; guest speaker: Taunton obstetrician/ gynecologist Dr. William Watson; all welcome.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Parishioners Scott Setters, Norman Bessetts and Bob Walmsley recently made a Cursillo retreat.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pepin are celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary. Saints and Singers Easter concert 8 p.m. March 18, church.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR St. Carle Fraternity meeting 6:30 p.m. Feb. 14, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St. ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR Council of Catholic Women meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 16, Father Reis hall.

Emmanuel Rezendes will speak on AIDS. FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH O.L. Mt. Carmel parish, New Bedford, youth prayer community retreat begins today.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM . Parish youth will offer a "Circle of Friends" retreat for first year confirmation candidates tomorrow and Feb. 21 at Wareham's Sacred Hearts Seminary.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing s·ervice 2 p.m. Sunday, led by Father Andre Patenaude, MS: will include teaching, liturgy, . music, individual prayer and anointing. Lenten mission preached by Father Richard Delisle, MS, Feb. 15 through 19 at 12: 10 p.m. Mass; mission Masses have also been scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 15 through 18.

As of Feb. 17, confession hours will be I to 5 p.m. daily and 6:30 to 7:25 p.m. Saturday. Enneagram Workship for those interested in ajourney of self-discovery 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Feb. 27; leader: Father Fernand Cassista, MS; information: 2225410.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Lenten confession for third graders Feb. 20 beginning at 2 p.m. Cub Scouts interested in the Parvuli Dei religious award may pick up registration forms after Mass or call 3369592. Parishioner John Souza is 100. Until recently, he was able to attend Mass every week.

1988 DIOCESAN DIRECTORY NOW AVAILABLE The Fall River Diocesan Directory and Buyers' Guide contains complete diocesan information and a much enlarged telephone directory of priests, directors of diocesan institutions, parish religious education coordinators and permanent deacons. Also included are addresses of retired priests and those serving outside the diocese.

New this year is a complete list of priests and dates of priestly ordination.

Workshops set at two parishes St. Joseph's and St. Mary's parishes, Fairhaven, will cosponsor a workshop from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven.

Presented by Dr. Elaine Rendler and Paul Covino of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy, Spirituality and the Arts at Georgetown University, the workshop will address material

by Father Eugene Walsh, SJ, on "The Ministry of the Celebrating Community with Emphasis on Personal Presence and Hospitality."

The program is designed especially for parish ministers such as lectors, eucharistic ministers, ushers, singers and musicians but all parishioners from Fairhaven and surrounding communities are welcome. The session will close at 4:30 p.m. with evening prayer led by Deborah Osuch, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Doris Sullivan.

On the same day Father Lawrence Madden, SJ, director of the Georgetown Center, will present "Bringing the Liturgy to Life: How the Liturgy Can Become the True Source and Expression ofthe Parish's Life" at Our Lady of the Cape parish hall, Brewster. Beginning at 2 p.m., the program is open to all.

ST LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA The parish staff thanks all who expressed sympathy after the recent death of housekeeper Sister Rose Boulay, SRC. High school students interested in an overnight retreat Feb. 15 to 16 are asked to contact Father Richard W. Beaulieu, 6741103.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Vincentian meeting after 9:30 a.m.

Mass Sunday. Georgetown workshop 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, school. Beginning Feb. 21, the option of communion from the cup will be offered at the 4 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. weekend Masses.

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DIVORCED AND SEPARATED, TAUNTON Taunton area Divorced and Separated Catholics New Life Program meeting on dealing with the pain of divorce 7 p.m. Feb. 28, Immaculate Conception Church hall, Taunton.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Canned pears will be collected at Feb. 27 and 28 Masses to benefit Our Daily Bread soup kitchen. Widowed support group meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22, church basement.

DCCW, TAUNTON District Council of Catholic Women open meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16, St. Joseph's parish center, North Dighton. Father Raul Lagoa and Amy Cabral, RN, will discuss "A Christian Approach to AIDS." All welcome.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Bible study classes resume 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Polka Mass/ Family Eucharist 10:30 a.m. May 29. The 90th anniversary of the parish will be marked at Mass and banquet Oct. 16. Seniors' group fifth anniversary birthday party after 4:30 p.m. Eucharist tomorrow.

APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Mass 2 p.m. Feb. 21, St. Vincent's Home chapel, Fall River; social follows: attendees are asked to bring pastry.

DIVORCED AND SEPARATED, CAPE Ministry for Divorced and Separated Catholics of Cape and Islands 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 21, St. Francis Xavier parish hall, Hyannis; Father Richard G. Andrade will speak on the meaning of suffering; information: Patti Mackey, 771-4438.

CATHEDRAL, FR Confirmation students' retreat Sunday. Parish mission preached by Father Robert S. Kaszynski Feb. 29 through March 3 with 12:05 p.m.

Masses and homilies and 7:30 p.m. mission services.

DIVORCED AND SEPARATED, FR Fall River area Support Group for Separated, Divorced and Remarried Catholics meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 24, Our Lady of Fatima Church, Swansea.

ST. ANNE, FR Parish committee meeting 7 p.m. .Monday, school. Fellowship meetIng 7:30 p.m. Thursday school cafeteria. '

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NOTRE DAME, FR Mass for parish Cursillo retreatants 7 tonight, chapel. At the 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday Religious ofJesus and Mary Sisters Carole Ann Ferland and Claudette Lapointe will mark 25 years as nuns, Sister Hilda Beaulieu 60 years.

ST. STEPHEN, ATTLEBORO Talented youngsters needed: call 226-4318 for information. Parish council meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15; Vincentian high school tuition grant applications available at rectory.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Michel Camdessus, director of the International Monetary Fund, has called for international collaboration and an "enormous political commitment" to end the world debt crisis.

Describing the situation in some developing countries as very grave, Camdessus also said there is still hope.

"If one decides to confront reality and to do. it in a true spirit of cooperation, as the document of the Holy See [on world debt] invites us to do, one can always hope that it is not too late," the IMF official said in a Vatican Radio interview.