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February 16, 1997 Dearly beloved in Christ, As Bishop of Fan River, I am asked occasionally to send a letter of birthday congratulations to, residents of our Diocese who are celebrating their hundredth birthday. It is a great joy to tender a note of good wishes and promise of prayer to these members of the "Century Club." The occasion evokes a spontaneous reaction of joy and good will when we hear about a member of our spiritual family who marks such a milestone. How great the joy and enthusiasm as we prepare to celebrate the 2000th Birthday of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior!

The entire Christian world is poised to celebrate this important date, 2000 A.D. It is indeed for us "A.D.," Anno Domini, the year of the Lord. How can we celebrate this new millennium? Many beautiful ideas have been proposed over the last decade. One Dutch Catholic millionaire had pro.. posed launching H Catholic satellite that would transmit the Good News of the Gospel to the entire world. The Holy Father himself had hoped that corporate unity between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church would be achieved for the year 2000. These beautiful ideals seem beyond our capabilities, yet there is so much that can be done.

The Holy Father in his Encyclical, "Tertio Millenio Ad"eniente" (liOn The Coming of The Third Millennium"), outlines a spiritual program of prepara-:tion for the millennium. According to that pro.. gram, 1997 is the year that we need to focus on Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, and on the Sacrament of Baptism.

Lent offers us a wonderful opportunity to em.. brace these two t:h~:mes. First of all, it is a time when our Catholic people are most prone to make time and space for God in their lives, a holy time when we all try to relive the Paschal Mystery:. the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord. We do this by receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday as a public profession of our faith in Jesus Christ and our desire to be converted to His Gospel. It is a reminder that our time here is limited. We must make the best of the time we have.

Lent is a Baptismal Retreat for those preparing to be received into the Church this Easter Vigil.

Together with their sponsors, they will gather from all parts ofthe Diocese in our Cathedral on the First Sunday of Lent. TIlere, in the Rite of Election, each candidate for Baptism signs his or her name in the Book of the Elect as all declare publicly their intention to seek Baptism. At the same time, the Church envisions Lent as a time for all of us to renew the grace of our own Baptism. At the end of the spiritual journey of Lent, the Church invites us all to renew publicly our baptismal promise and then we are sprinkled with the Easter water that helps us to relive that crucial moment when we were baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

At that moment our life began. It was truly a spiritual birth, the beginning of a pilgrimage. Most of us were baptized as infants. I was seven days old

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when my uncle, Father Jerry Reidy, a diocesan priest, poured the waters of the Jordan on my forehead. It was the most important day of my life even though I was quite oblivious to what was happening. Yet, without exaggeration, I can say that everything that has taken place after my Baptism

BISHOP SEAN O'Malley, OFM Cap.is the first to receive ashes as Father Horace Travassos makes the sign of the cross on his forehead.

Many people attended the Ash Wednesday celebration at St. Mary's Cathedral Feb. 12 to mark the beginning of the season of Lent. (Anchor/ Mills photo)

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was conditioned by that simple ceremony that lasted about 15 minutes.

A wag once said everyone has 15 minutes offame and notoriety. For us Catholics, our 15 minutes of greatness are just a preface to a wonderful ad... venture, a journey that leads to eternal life and to God. In the past, there was great emphasis on Baptism as the sacrament that washes away sin.

This is somewhat forgotten today since, as Pope John Paul II once wrote, "We have lost a healthy sense of sin." We still need the healing and cleansing that Baptism brings. We also need to be born again of water and the Spirit. At Jesus' Baptism, the Trinity was made manifest. The heavens opened and the voice of the Father thundered out: "This is my beloved Son." At the Baptism of each and everyone - the Father declares: "This is my beloved son, this is my beloved daughter." At that moment, our Creator adopts us; we become His. His life of grace quickens our souls. From that moment in our lives we can truly call God "Our Father" and pray the Lord's Prayer confidently as sons and daughters.

Our Lenten (Baptismal) Retreat ends with the Easter Vigil when we welcome Catholics into our Church. By the light of the Easter candle, we will renew our baptismal promises. We will rededicate ourselves to the Lord and His mission. We will embrace the cross of discipleship and pledge our.. selves to follow Jesus Christ as faithful members of His Church. Our Lenten practices of prayer, fasting and works of mercy should help us to focus on our friendship with the Lord. It is a time to seek periods of solitude, to take the Gospels in our hands and read the glorious words and deeds of our Savior.

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The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts hailed the passage by the Massachusetts Senate of the Religious Freedom in the Workplace Bill Feb. II which would guarantee to workers the right to observe religious holy days. The Action League called the vote "a major step forward in restoring a basic civil rights protection to religious believers in Massachusetts...

The Senate vote comes one day after the measure was approved by , the Massachusetts House of Representatives. An amendment by Sen..

Robeit S. Creedon, Jr. (D-Brockton), attempting to weaken the retroactive clause was defeated.

According to records obtained from the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, .

Creedon was the recipient of a

$500.00 contribution from Christopher L. Carney of Massasoit Greyhound on August 22, 1996.

Massasoit Greyhound, owned by George L. Carney, was the defendant in the original religious holy days court case, and will be the target of litigation by the two original victims in this controversy, Kathleen Pielech and Patricia Reed, if theJull measure is enacted into law.

Catholic Action League Execu:tive Director C.J. Doyle said, "It has now been six months since the old law was declared unconstitutional, during which time workers have been vulnerable to arbitrary action by their employers. The Legislature should move expeditiously to bring. this bill to the Governor's desk."

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To underscore the themes of 1997, Jesus Christ and Bap~ tism, as proposed by our Holy Father, I have requested qur Holy Year Committee to plan a diocesan celebration on the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord. This feast celebratl~s one ofthe major mysteries of Jesus' life and also marks the' great commissioning of the Church to make disciples of aU na~ tions, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son~ and of the Holy Spirit.

On the Feast of the Ascension, I hope ,to celebrate a special Eucharist in our Cathedral Church, together with :repre~ sentatives of our parishes, the RCIA and baptismal prl~para~ 'tion ·programs.

Please be assured of my prayers for each of you as together we' follow Jesus into the desert on this bapi:ismal retreat of Lent 1997. I rl~main

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m~rt3rr to all interested in adopting. It is mandated for those seeking to VATICAN CITY (CNS) ,- The adopt an older special needs child.

Vatican has recognized the marty- .

There will also be a general discus- dom of a Spanish Gypsy, preparsion concerning international ing the way for him to be the first adoption.

Gypsy beatified in the Romar., CathOn Sunday, March 23, from I olic Church. Ceferino Jimenez to 3 p.m., also at St. Mary's in Malia was an illiterate horse trader Fairhaven, Catholic Social Ser- famed for his honesty, religiosity vices and Cradle of Hope Adop- and charity. He was shot by a tion, an agency licensed in Mary- Spanish firing squad in 1935 after land and Washington, DC, will being arrested for coming to the present a comprehensive program defense of a young priest who was regarding adopting children from . stop'ped and arrested by the miforeign countries. Cradle of Hope litia. His death "in hatred for the places children from China, Rus- faith" was recognized officially sia, the Republic of Georgia and Dec, 17 in a decree published by Chile. The" possibility of placing . the Congregation for Sainthood children from other countries is Causes. also being explored by Cradle of Hope.

For more information, directions and to register for either or both programs, please call 508674-4681. .

February 15 1910, Rev. Joseph G, Lavalle, hom~less Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River 1957, Rev, James C. Conlon, Each year for the past decade, taurant's many years of support.

Pastor, St. Mary, Norton The funds were raised through the Ninety Nine Restaurant and February 16 Pubs have raised a total of .$1.3 the sale of Ninety Nine Restaurant 1983, Rev. Alphonse J. LaChamillion to benefit the Pine Street gift certificates. A percentage of Inn. Charles F. Doe, Jr., presi-. each certificate sold during the pelle, Assistant, Holy Ghost, Attledent: recently presented Erik But- holiday season was earmarked for boro ler, president o(Pine Street Inn, the shelter.

February 19 The proceeds will help fund the with a check for .$76,000 at the 1895, Rev. Andrew J. Brady, South Boston facility. shelter's milny programs including Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River The check was presented recently basic shelter, health care, transi1953, Rev. Leopold Jeurissen, in t!te new Pine Street Inn Ninety tional programs, job and literacy sS.ce., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Nine Job Training and Food Ser- training and permanent housing Fairhaven vice building named. for the res- development.

February 20 1922, Rev. James H. Fogarty, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River 1986, Rev. Raymond M. Giguere, O.P" Assistant, St. Anne, Fall River The Diocesan Council of Catho- eastern University and Charlene lic Nurses annually awards schol- Correia, a student at University of 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Pedodical arships to students involved in the Massachusetts/ Dartmouth. Appli- THE Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published . Health Care profession. The cri- cations are available until March weekly except for the first two weeks in July tteria, in order of importance, for I. All information is confidential. and the week after Christmas at 887 Highthe awards are education in nurs- . If you are interested, please con- tand Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02120 by the ing, education in a health care pro- tact Sr. Therese Bergeron, 359 Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River, Subscription price by mail, postpaid $14.00 fession, and financial need.

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02722. zanne Bernard, a student at NorthPersons and families interested in adopting healthy newborn or older special needs children are invited to an information session on Tuesday, February 25 from 7 to 9 p,m. at St. Mary's parish hall, Main Street, Fairhaven. This session will be sponsored by Catholic Social Services of Fall River, Inc., a licensed adoption and foster care agency.

Information concerning homestudies, placement and post-adoption placement issues including the impact of adoption on birth parents, adoptees and adoptive parents will be shared. Catholic Social Services is contracted with the MA. Dept. of Social Services to place older special needs children and as such offers MAPP training. MAPP, Massachusetts Approach to Partnership in Parenting, is a ten week, ten session intensive tJ:aining program offered

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coordinating a statewide effort to have Odyssey available 24 hours a day in all Continental Cable-serviced communities. An individual signature petition campaign was launched last November as the support of more than 200 communities is necessary for the endeavor's success.

"We ask [in the petition] for it [Odyssey] to be included in the basic level of service," she said. "TV should reflect who we are and that won't happen until we say we want more values on TV." She says she feels "called by ~~~g/or a e X p Lor n 9 0 urn e God" to bring this "This is a message to her feldefining moment in our communities," she said. ''We low Catholic Christians. have an opportunity to speak up against violence on TV "We are writing history," she observed. "The proor shoppers' networks that prey on the weak." gramming we carry now will carryover into the 21st Odyssey, currently available in many diocesan com- century." . munities, was formerly known as the Faith and Values Those who live in areas of the diocese where this Channel until 1994, then under the name VISN/ACTS. channel is not available and wish to have access to daily It is an offspring project of the National Cable Coali- religious programming, are asked to contact Sallie tion, a group of 65 faith communities including Roman Barton, tel. 226-7347, for information.

Catholics, formed in 1987. The organization was cre"I'm hoping that the spirit will move people to do ated so that each faith group could express its doctrine this," she said. "People can make a difference in such a without fundraising, proselytizing or maligning other visible way." faith traditions.

One of the many programs to be aired on Odyssey "It's a platform where all the faiths are visible," this Lent will be "On the Road to Jerusalem," hosted by Barton continued, "and where we can begin to bridge Auxiliary Bishop Terrence Prendergast of Toronto, Can. these gaps in our religious communities."

It will be shown from 8-8:30 p.m. for six Sundays beBarton, in addition to her position at Odyssey, is also ginning Feb. 16. The series makes connections between a member of St. John's parish in Attleboro and the presi- the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus and our dent of the Attleboro Area Council of Churches. She is lives today.

Anchor Staff There are times in our lives when we are called: called to service, called to listen, called to action. Times when we must no longer allow the world and a secular society to invade us, control us, and determine our version of what is right, what is acceptable.

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A day of reflection in preparation for the National Black Catholic Congress will take place on Feb. IS from 12:30 - 5:00 p.m. at the Family Life Center in No. Dartmouth.

The National Black Catholic Congress is a body of member organizations which includes bishops, clergy, religious and laity from across the nation and abroad. This Congress is a convening of Catholics who have African roots as part of their cultural heritage. It is a coming together of the African American bishops, priests, religious and laity to celebrate their gifts to the Catholic church throughout its history. It is also a time to discern what individual and collective roles should be so that individuals can develop their presence in the church, sharing their diversity and giftedness and working toward enriching the Body of Christ.

This year Congress VIII will

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At the first meeting of the Cape Cod and Islands Chapter of Catholic Nurses, Sister Carole Mello, from Saint Anne's Hospital (Fall River) Congregational Health Ministry, presented a program on parish nursing. The essence of this program is to quiet and heal the mind, body and soul. Sister Carole began her program with soft, meditative music to help achieve a state of quietness and reflection.

Following Sister's presentation, Jean Quigley, RN, of Dighton, gave a presentation on how she began a parish nursing program at her church. St. Peter's in Dighton, and the on going support she has received from the Saint Anne's Hospital parish nursing program through monthly workshops and prayer meetings. Nurse Quigley expressed the need for spiritual healing as part of the entire healing process.

After the'meeting, several Cape

Cod parishes initiated the process of forming a parish nursing program. Anyone wanting information on this program should contact Sister Carole Mello at Saint

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Since the actual place of residence of PETER W. TUROWSKI is unknown.

We cite PETER W. TUROWSKI to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Wednesday, February 19, 1997 at 2:30 p.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the MacDonald路 Turowski case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Peter Turowski, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this. 6th day of February, 1997.

THE CAPE COD & Islands Chapter of Catholic Nurses gathered to listen to Sister Carole Mello, O.P., of Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River, give a presentation on parish nursing.

Pictured with Sister are (kneeling from left): Francoise Rocher, RN; Dolores Santos, LPN, past president; Deborah Searle, RN, present president, Joan Anne Morin, past president; and Dorothy Courtemanche, RN. Standing to Sister Mello's left is Jean Quigley, guest speaker.

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A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER VIEW A STATUE OFTHE PIETA AT IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH IN SEATTLE. THE LENTEN SEASON FOR LATIN-RITE CATHOLICS LASTS UNTIL HOLY THURSDAY, MAR. 27, FOLLOWED

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"Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your good spirit guide me on level ground." Ps 143:10 .

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By John Thavis best moment for sending a curse, VA TICAN CITY (CNS) and cemeteries the best place for Readers ofthe Vatican's daily news- their rituals. Some groups perpepaper, L'Osservatore Romano, are trate acts of outrage on corpses, accustomed to a staid literary diet .physical violence on minors and of papal discourses, theological even ritual murder, the article reflections and status reports on said. local churches.

The series, apparently the first A series of feature articles that in-depth examination of satanic began in January has broken that sects at the Vatican, was prepared mold and raised some eyebrows. by'Italian experts on cults in coopThe topic of the series was eration with Vatican doctrinal "satanic cults," and some of the officials. It signaled that the Vatidetails were shocking. can views "contemporary satanism" Readers learned, for example, as a real and growing threat. that the "black mass" that serves True satanism is rare, even as the central rite for true satanic among those sects that may define groups is designed as a cruel and themselves as satanic, said Andrea deliberate mockery of the Catho- PorcareIli, a Bologna professor of lie Mass. Along with candles, wine . religion and philosophy. Most peoand a bell, it features a sword, pIe who dabble in these groups are a phallus and an inverted cruci- experiencing a crisis of faith that fix. . eventually passes.

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dard-bearer for unlimited freedom, material advantage, will-to-power and sexual excess. This "live it up" mentality is contrasted with Christianity's call for self-control, selfsacrifice and love of neiB:hbor concepts that are routinely ridiculed by cult leaders.

I Satanic cults are fond of portraying the devil as an e,:tremely powerful figure, a "prince of darkness" able to reward allegiance and ultimately offer a for:n of liberation to human beings.

One reason the church does not dismiss satanism as mere harmless entertainment or the stuff'of weirdos is that, unlike much of contemporary society, it firmly believes in Satan, but sees h:is power and influence as limited - after all, he is only a creature. And it teaches that in a world saved by Christ, the devil's ultimate role can only be that of failure.., ." . .. .. -

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Family and friends are allowed to visit those at the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament monthly, and Sister Mary Thomas said the life of silence and solitude enables the sisters to "come so close to friends and family in a deeper way."

The cloistered Dominicans can always be found in the chapel, as they take turns engaging in perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament throughout the day and night.

"It's a haven of peace for many people," Sister Mary Thomas said of the monastery. "A lot of people even come on their lunch hour to sit in the chapel and pray."

About 30 people join the sisters for Mass each day, and Sister Mary Thomas said the sisters'

By Dard Smith DETROIT (CNS) -- Each day at 5 a.m., Dominica.n Sister Mary Peter rings the bell at the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament and awakens her 38 sisters from their soulful slumber.

And so begins a day for the congregation of DomiJlican Nuns of Perpetual Adoration, who are strictly cloistered.

Tucked away at the Monastery of Blessed Sacrament in suburban Farmington Hills, the sisters are a source of amazement for people who wonder about those living a life of silence.

"We're a sign of God's presence in the world, and a sign that we're called to something beyond what our world is," said Sister Mary Thomas, the congregation's prioress. "Our fulfillment is beyond this world."

The women spend much oftheir day in silence, which takes grace, said Sister Mary Thomas in an interview with The Michigan Catholic, newspaper of the Detroit Archdiocese. "It's how you exist," she said. "It's not an emptiness, but a fruitful silence."

Sister Mary Trinity, novice mistress and head of formation, said the purpose of silence is so that the sisters can remember God throughout the day.

She explained that while many find the silence to be a little penitential at the beginning, "as you live the life ... the silence just becomes as necessary and desirable as the air that you breathe every day."

When the sisters aren't silent, they can often be found singing.

They gather each day at 5:30 a.m. to sing the Liturgy ofthe Hours, as well as at various other times to sanctify certain periods ofthe day.

Silence is also lifted during the recreation hour in the evening and when it is necessary for a sister to speak for business. Each of the sisters has duties at the monastery; some perform household chores or office work, others serve in the infirmary or bake altar breads.

The sisters operate a gift shop, a small print shop and nn art studio, and bake altar breads for about 250 archdiocesan parishes.

While the community tries to

CLOISTERED DOMINICAN nuns pray at the Monastery ofthe Blessed Sacrament in Farmington Hills, a suburb of Detroit. For most of the day, the sisters live in silence so that they may reflect on God. (eNS photo) support itself through its gift shop and bread-making endeavor, the sisters also depend much on the goodness of others, in keeping with their mendicant rule. "We depend on the alms ofthe people," Sister Mary Thomas said.

The monastery has the capacity for only 50 sisters, and. currently has 39 members, with one sister on loan to a monastery in Trinidad.

There is one aspirant at present, and another woman entering as a postulant, according to Sister Mary Trinity.

"We have lots of inquiries, but we don't accept them all because we realize it's a call from the Lord that has to be discerned before we

go any further," Sister Mary Trinity said.

Sister Mary Peter, who professed final vows Nov. 30, is the newest member of the congregation. "I feel very blessed to be a part of this community ... to give my life to God and all his people," she said.

In the past, members of cloistered communities never left their monasteries, with doctors and dentists making house calls to the sisters. But in today's world, sisters leave for business purposes and health appointments.

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She added that the congregation would like people to know that the sisters are there for them.

"We're here to share their faith life ... we take their needs and present them to the Lord, pray for them and with them, therefore strengthening their faith."

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Fri., Feb. 14; 1997

New marriage prep program being tested in parishes

By Tracy Early NEW YORK (CNS) - A marriage preparation program being developed by a New York professor addresses many of the key issues that make marriages fall apart, according to a canon la~y~r working with the program as ~t IS tested in a Virginia Catholic parIsh. Professor Joann Heaney-Hunter of St. John's University is Qeveloping the program, modeling it on the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

The place it is being tested is Our Lady of Nazareth parish in Roanoke, Va, Roberta Small, a canon lawyer who is based there as a representative of the marriage tribunal of the Diocese of Richmond, volunteers for both the RCIA and the marriage program in the parish.

She told Catholic News Service that she welcomed the program because it deals with a number of key issues she sees involved in the marriage breakdowns coming through the tribunal - lack of communication, differing values, diversity of family backgrounds and the practical problems relating to children, careers and money.

Time to work through such issues is crucial for couples as they prepare to marry, according to Heaney-Hunter, who teaches marriage courses in the theology department at St. John's.

Such a program. "should be a process rather than simply a session where some information is given," she said in an interview.

"Couples are preparing for a .vocation in the church," she said, so they need a process .of "faith formation for the vocation of sacramental marriage."

She noted that in his 1981 apostolic exhortation on' the family, "Familiaris Consortio," Pope John Paul II said that preparing for marriage was "similar to the catechumenate" and required "deeper knowledge of the mystery of Christ and the church......

Her program emphasizes the need for understanding the faith of the church more deeply and becoming actively involved in its life.

Neither lectures without personal interaction nor group discussion lacking specific content will do the job, Heaney-Hunter said.

She is developing the program with the cooperation of St. John's University and a grant from FADICA, the acronym for Foun-

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dations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities.

Francis J. Butler, president of FADICA, said seven foundations gave a total of $162,000 for three years, and St. John's is contributing $59,000 in salary and administrative support. .

Parishes and dioceses in various parts of the country have been trying out the ideas and materials Heaney-Hunter has developed, and she expects to have an evaluation process completed by the end of 1997. If the conclusions are as positive as she anticipates, she will then put the program into a form that could be used elsewhere.

Bishop Edmond Carmody of Tyler, Texas, a member of the project's advisory committee, told CNS he thought bishops would welcome the approach. HeaneyHunter has put "a lot more theology into her effort" than ~ave most current programs, he said.

The basis of her program is welcomed because RCIA has proved to be "a very effective way of walking with people on the jou~ney of faith," Bishop Carmody said.

Using RCIA as a model means getting a married couple to serve as sponsors and mentors for the couple planning marriage, and getting the "whole ch~rch community involved in praYIng for the couple," he said.

The RCIA is divided into four . parts: evangelization and precatechumenate; catechumenate; purification and enlightenment; and postbaptismal catechesis.

Heaney-Hunter is developing a corresponding four-part process to give formation for the sacrament of marriage.

In the first, or inquiry, phase, couples come to understand themselves and their Catholic faith better. In the "catechumenate," they' get training in the church's understanding of marriage. The more intense "enlightenment" phase comes in the last two or three months before marriage, and includes specific, planning for' the marriage and guidance in taking a spiritual view of it.

Heaney-Hunter said the fourth .phase, the follow-up after marriage, would be especially difficult because many couples do not make their homes in the parish where the preparation and marriage take place.

The church should not take a position of trying to force everything on a couple, but of "inviting them in a way that lets them see the church has a lot to offer," she said.

Heaney-Hunter, who was married in 1979 and now has two daughters, said she and her husband, a professor at another university, had the advantage of good' examples from their own families.

But she said they still could have benefited from the kind of program she is developing. Large numbers of young people getting married today do not have the support of strong family structures, she noted, and also tend to have weaker connections to the life of their parishes.

In addition, marriages break up more easily today .than in past generations because divorce is now more socially acceptable, gender roles are less -clearly defined and women can now more easily support themselves . ney-Hunter said. fil1anc~~}.ly, _Hea: .

Q. I am a priest who is presently participating in a Catholic-Lutheran dialogue group. I would be grateful if you could help me answer two questions.

When did the Catholic Church begin to tea"h that ordained clergy are not permitted to be married?

Is this Catholic teaching a dogma of the church, something that cannot be changed, or a disciplinary rule that can change? (Ohio) A. Let's limit our discussion to the Roman, Latin Rite tradition. The history of married and celibate clergy in the Eastern churches is different and .another story. , In the West the concept of an unmarrIed clergy (or a clergy who, if married, lived celibate lives) developed over many centuries. . .

Records of numerous regional counCils deSCrIbe discussions on the subject, revealing the existence of a generally married clergy for many centuries.

In the year 393, for example, a council in Hippo, North Africa, where St. Augustine would become bishop three years later, tells bishops to deal stri,ctly with their children, to keep them from contamInation by the pagan culture around them.

A strong movement toward clerical celibacy w~s already evident in those times, however, both In papal decrees and local church councils. Bu.t it ~eeI?s that, well into the late middle ages, the great majorIty of priests still were married. .

Finally in 1123, in the first of four ecumen!cal councils at the Lateran Palace in Rome (at the tIme the' pope's residence), priests were forbidden to marry, and those already married were told to leave their wives.

In other words, any marriage by a priest was illicit, contrary to church law.

Not long afterward, at the Second Lateran Council ( 1139), clergy marriages were held to be not only unlawful, but also invalid. This position has continued, of course, up to our OW? day. .

Concerning your second questIOn, four cent~rIes after the Lateran councils, in 1563, the CounCil of Trent reaffirmed the law of clerical celibacy. .

Against enormous pressure froro-' one group of bishops, however, the council declared that an

unmarried clergy was a matter of church legislation, not divine law (Session XXIV, Canon 9).

This means that church law could changl:, allowing those in sacred orders to be married. Thl~ church did, in fact, alter this rule at Vatican Council II when it re-instituted the married permanent diaconate.

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By Father John J. Dietzen Q. A discussion at our prayer meeting recently was alarming for some of us who only weakly practiced our faith as young adults.

Our lifestyles were not good; premarital sex was part of it. We were married in the church, but the sacramental aspects meant little to us.

All of us have changed powerfully and :are now devoted to the faith and the sacraments, irlcluding confession. One thing worries us: Is it possible that our marriages are not valid because of our attitudes and actions? Where does that leave us? (Mblsouri) A. Don't worry, your marriages are vnlid. To receive the sacrament of marriage in a seriously sinful state (if that's what happened) would be wrong, but does not invalidate the marriage.

I'm sure, from your description, that you're really married, and that everything necessary has been dealt with in the sacrament of penance and the eucharist.

A free brochure answering questions C:ltholics ask about the sacrament of penance is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to, Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. .

Questions should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

"The debate over God's sense of humlor Does God have a sense of humor or not? Prove it!

Try asking that around the 01' parish hall after Mass some Sunday. It can be fun.

"Of course, she does," quipped our neighbor Marlene. "Why else would she give men the ~rge to wear helmets and pads and run around and crash into each other and call it fun?"

"Funny," said 'her husband, Bud, "but I think you just described a clearance sale on. women's clothing."

"Whoa, you two," I intervened. "Here's proof right in front of us. God created marriage."

"What's going on here?" our pastor, Father O'Kneel, asked as he passed by. "Do I detect another postcliturgy battle of the sexes?"

"God's sense of humor," I told him. "We're trying to decide if there's proof for his - or her sense of humor. But someone keeps changing the subject."

The priest laughed. "I personally thought it was amusing that he allowed Sarah to become pregn'ant at age 90 or so." .

"That's not funny," the women groaned in unison.

"Well then," he went on, "how about creation?

Seen an anteater lately? Or a camel?"

Daily Readings Feb. 17: Lv 19:1-2,11-18; Ps 19:8-10,15; Mk 25:31-46 Feb. 18: Is 55:10-11; Ps 34:4-7,16-19; Mt 6:7-15 Feb. 19: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4,12-13,1819; Lk.ll:29-32 Feb. 20: Est C: '12,14-16,23-25; Ps 138:13,7-8; Mt7:7-12 .

Feb. 21: Ez 18:21-28; Ps 130:1-8; Mt 5:20-26 .

Feb. 22: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 16:1319 Feb. 23: Gn 22:1-2,9C1,10-13,15-18; Ps 116:10,15-19; Rom 8:31b·34; Mk 9:2-10 "~Ii-"

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"Or penquins?" laughed spouse.

"Or Demi Moore's haircut?" grinned Btld.

"Give me a break, Bud," snorted Marlene.

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Father O'Kneel coughed. "You know, in Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament there is the famous passage about a time for everything - inclUding a time to laugh." . "OK," said spouse, "but is there anything in the New Testament about Jesus' sense of humor?"

The priest rubbed his chin. "Not in the sense of a Jay Leno dialogue. I mean, there aren't any passages about him busting a gut after a one-liner by St. Paul about Pontius Pilate."

"Somehow, though," said Marlene, "I cnn't see Jesus and the disciples dragging along dusty roads from one little burg to another with long faces."

Father O'Kneel nodded. "True enough. And keep in mind the church has always taught that joy is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit."

"Does that mean I am being influenced by the Holy Spirit when I feel a sense ofjoy when football season ends?" my wife asked.

"Actually," deadpanned the priest, "that d,:pends on how Notre Dame did."

Your comments are welcome always. Plealie send them to Uncle Dan, 25218 Meadow Way, Arlington, Wash. 98223.

Thousands join pope for 'first day' celebration

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (eNS) - Catholics who take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are called

to be joyful witnesses of Christ's light in a world often covered in darkness, Pope John Paul II said.

Marking the first Day of Consecrated Life, the pope celebrated

POPE JOHN Paul II prays during Mass on the Feast of the Presentation in St. Peter's Basilica Feb. 2. He told thousands of women and men religious gathered for the Mass that they are called to be joyful witnesses of Christ's light in the world.

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Mass Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, with thousands of women and men religious and members of secular institutes.

"May your mission in the church and in the world be a light and source of hope," the pope told the consecrated people at the Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.

Special music for the celebration was provided by the choir from St. Joseph's Church in Marietta, Ga. Archbishop John F. Donoghue of Atlanta accompanies the group to the Mass.

During his homily, Pope John Paul said the church entrusts consecrated people with "the task of proclaiming with word and example the primacy of the Absolute over every human reality.

"It is an urgent task in our times which often seem to have lost an authentic sense of God," he said.

"In our days, there is truly a great urgency for consecrated life to show itself ever more full of joy and the Holy Spirit, that it forge ahead dynamically in the paths of mission (and) that it be backed up by the strength of lived witness," the pope said, quoting from a message he issued in January.

The pope also spoke about consecrated life and the new annual observance when many religious in Rome joined him Feb. I for an evening recitation of the rosary.

"I join your thanksgiving to God for the gift he has given you, calling you to consecrate yourselves entirely to him in poverty, chastity and obedience in the image of Christ," the pope said.

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even if it wasn't a good experience for him, he could end up by laughOKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) ing about it."

For the 1,160 residents of the On th~ day Father Rother died, farming town of Okarche, near July 28, 1981, troops also killed 13 Oklahoma City, there is a kind of awe at the thought that one of townspeople and wounded 24 others in Santiago Atittan, an isolated their own could become a saint: But to those who knew him, it is village 50 miles west of Guatemala precisely Stanley Rother's simplic- City.

Father Rother's body was reity and devotion that fill their turned to his hometown of hearts with native pride, Okarche, but his father, Franz, Fatally shot in a massacre almost 16 years ago, the great-grand- agreed to have his son's heart and some blood entombed in the Sanson of a German immigrant farmer tiago Atitlan church, where a who helped settle the central Okla- memorial plaque was placed. homa town of Okarche was one of "He loved the people," said 8513 priests - and the first Ameriyear-old Franz Rother, "and they can priest - martyred during loved him."

Guatemala's 36-year guerrilla war, Born in a farmhouse in Oklaa tragedy that claimed an estihoma in the middle of a dust storm mated 140,000 lives, on March 27, 1935, Stanley FranThe humble priest who has becis Rother grew up knowing firstcome a model to Oklahoma Cathohand the hard work of a farmer's lics is one of78 people whose name life.· Along with his two brothers was submitted for canonization to and one sister, Stanley took turns the Vatican last February by the milking cows before and after bishops of Guatemala.

If canonized, Father Rother school, and taking care of the pigs would become the first saint born and chickens. He helped his father in Oklahoma and only the second harvest wheat and alfalfa in the - after St. Elizabeth Ann Seton rich Oklahoma red dirt.

"He was ornery, a tease, and a - born in the United States. good brother" says Sister Marita "It's overwhelming to me, to really think of the magnitude of of their growing-up' years. "We what we're saying," said Sister always got along well. But. think Marita Rother of her brother's he was no different than any of the cause for beatification. "But the other kids at that time."

Fourteen months younger and a truth is that we all have that potengrade behind Stanley in school, tial - but it depends how we live our life day to day: (Stanley) lived Sister Marita remembers compet. every day the best he knew how to ing with himfor grades.

"He was on the honor roll in do it." , .-: Ed Eischen, a fourth-generation elementary school and high school.

Okarche resident, says the town is But he was also so gifted at many 'J proud to have a man they ail knew other things,like his ability to fix achieve such standing in the Catho- things. A n<l anything anyone would ask him to do," she added, \ lic Church.

"It's pretty exciting," said Ei- "he would want to do it."

She remembers making a noticeschen. "You read about canonization of people who've been dead able, but regrettable, impression for hundreds of years. To us he's on her brother's life.

"We would do chores together just 'Stan,' one of the guys who around the farm," she recalled. ". lived around Okarche!"

Family and friends describe remember we got in an argument Stanley Rother as a quiet youth, once on the way back from the who was thoughtful and studious, chicken house - and. picked up a ST. JOSEPH'S head peeks above the snow in a nativity scene outside St. John the Baptist "not someone who would step out can in the yard that had been run in the front or want to be noticed," over by a car, and threw it at him, Church in Swanville, Minn. Although the Feast of the Presentation ofthe Lord was celebrated Sister Marita said in an interview. It hit him above the eyebrow. He Feb. 2, the infant Jesus from the nativity probably won't emerge until the spring thaw.

"What he did he put his heart into had a scar there the rest of his life. I (CNS/Nordquist photo) felt so bad - and got in so much it."

"He .was a true listener," re- trouble." membered his younger sister, "He Rother was listed in his high was always attentive to what I school yearbook as president of said, or what we shared with one the Future Farmers of America.

By Joe Towalski ish's religious education classes, dangerous for buses to take the But he decided to plant a different another.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (CNS) which were canceled twice in Jan- children home.

"Something. really loved about kind of harvest. At the age of 28, January was a tough month for uary. Classes, which typically end "We're getting everything done him was his sense of humor. He he was ordained a priest for the . residents of the level plains of on the first weekend in May, will that we need to," said Stetz" who could laugh about things," Sister then-Diocese of Oklahoma City. western Minnesota. likely meet past that date to make nevertheless is looking forward to Marita added. "In discussing and Five years later he volunteered for Large amounts of snowfall, sub- up for the lost days. returning to a regular schedule. sharing the things he was doing, the mission in Guatemala. zero cold and strong winds comWeather has forced St. Mary of . "At first it was really fun and binedto disrupt the normal rou- the Presentation School in Breck- exciting," she said. "It was like, tines of rural life. Several times in enridge to close six times so far 'Oh, wow, an unexpected day off. recent weeks, blowing snow has this school year. Added to that We can sleep in or do some things resulted in "whiteout" conditions. have been a few late starts and around the house.' Now it's gl:tting Snowdrifts as high as 15 feet early dismissals. to the point where we would like to buried homes and forced the peri"We haven't gotten through a get through a full week of s,;hool odic closing of roads. Churches, full week of school since probably and back into the routine of schools, businesses and farms all two weeks before Christmas," said things." were affected.

Mary Donohue Stetz, principal.

Residents in Kent, locatl~d in Father Stan Wieser, .pastor of The school closely monitors western Wilkin County on the St. Thomas Church in Kent, said weather reports, she said, and border with North Dakota, are he hasn't been forced to cancel any teachers send extra assignments already preparing for the pmsibilMasses because of the weather, home if forecasters predict bad ity of record floods in the spring but attendance on some days has weather. Students, however, will and a late planting for farmers. been sparse. On a recent Sunday, still have to make up some of the But for now, many people, inonly six people came' - and they days they missed later in the year. eluding Father Wieser, realize had to travel by snowmobile.

However, the weather-related there isn't much they can do to The parish had only one session disruptions to schools in the St. fight the weather. of religious education in January, Cloud Diocese have not been as ". just gave up," he said. "11 said serious as they were for some if God's going to give me ~l day FATHER STANLEY Francis Rother is shown in this file he added.

Likewise, Father Gerald Dal- farther south in the New Vim Dio- off, I'm going to take it..:. II just photo with Tzutuhillndian children shortly before his death in seth, pastor of Assumption Church cese; where several schools were shut everything down, put an,other 1981. He was the first American priest killed during Guatema- in Morris, said the weather's big- forced to keep students overnight log on the fire 'and read. a' good la's 36-year guerrilla war. (CNS file photo) gest impact has beenon.the.,pu:>ui because blowing-snow,made.it,too•.- book."

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By John Thavis ROME (CNS) - He is a leading U.S. neuroscientist, a daily Mass-goer, the father of 10 children and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science!,.

But lately, Dr. Robert J. White is being compared in some quarters with the legendary Dr. Frankenstein.

That's because White has been quietly promoting a longstanding professional goal, one that strikes some as a challenge and others as a nightmare: transplanting a human brain.

In an interview in lat(: January, White said he has seriously considered the ethical implications of his research and concluded that, in some circumstances, brain transplants would be not only acceptable but a "moral imperative."

He said the procedures he has developed, if used on humans, could give a healthy brain in a dying body the chance to keep living.

"How can one make an argument biologically or morally not to do such an operation?" he said.

"It would be to sustain life."

But others, including a Vatican expert on medical issues, said such a transplant would cross the ethical line by changing the identity of the human person.

"Here we're going way beyond thereapeutic persistence. You would construct one individual out oftwo," said the expert, Bi~hop Elio Sgreccia. "Someone ought to put a stop to this adventure, so that the shadow of Frankenstein does not threaten the rest oftransplant medicine."

Frankenstein, known to many people through horror films, created a monster out of spare body parts. White, 71, wh.o runs a neurosurgical department and brain research laboratory at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, emphasizes that he is working for the welfare of real patients.

His brain research has already led to development of new therapies for treating head and spinal cord injuries. That's one reason Pope John Paul II named him an honorary member of the Vatican's prestigious science academv in 1994. ' White said his proposed brain or head transplant procedure is an extension of existing transplant practice. A candidate, he said, might be a person whose brain was fully functioning but who was dying from multi-organ failure.

The donor would be someone already declared brain-dead, but whose other organs were still working.

If the operation were a success, he said, "what you've done is you've removed a bad heart, a bad lung, a bad kidney, whatever the bad organs are, and you've given the patient brand new ones. But in this case, you've left them inside the body casing."

In effect, it would attach a new body to a brain or head. The result might be disturbing to some, especially on a visual level, he said.

More than 10 years ago, White successfully completed experiments in which the brain 'of one monkey was transplanted into the body of another. He said there were no practical reasons this could not be done with humans.

The human procedure would probably be a "head-trunk" transplant - transferring one person's head to the body trunk of another - because of difficulties in removing the human brain from the cranium and reconnecting it neurologically to a new head~ he said.

White has not embarked on any new brain transplant experiments lately, but his work has re-emerged into the spotlight. He published a detailed article on it in Neurological Research magazine last year and has lectured recently about his findings.

One reason for the renewed interest in brain transplants, he said,

was the increasing research being done in spinal cord repair. At present, a brain transplant would leave the patient alive but paralyzed; if the spinal cord could be repaired, however, the brain would also be able to move its new body.

White predicted that sometime in the next 50 years, spinal cord research would make this a real possibility - and his surgical technique would be that much more appealing.

A crucial difference between White and his critics is that the neurosurgeon sees the human brain as the container of human identity, and even, he says, of the human soul.

"I'm sure that may bother some theologians. But after all, we presently define human death on the basis of a single organ - brain death. So I don't think medical science or even our own theologians can have it both ways," he said.

Others, like Bishpp Sgreccia, say it's not so simple: Human identity is too closely linked with one's own body and one's own sensory experiences to allow for wholesale corporal substitutions.

"The 'I' is formed psychologically and sensorially through bodily experience," the bishop said.

He said that's one reason why the Vatican's 1995 Charter for Health Care Workers states it is unethical to transplant the brain and the sexual organs, which "assure the personal and procreative identity of the person."

White said he has never specifi- . cally discussed his research with Vatican officials, although he has spoken with them many times about the larger issues involved and felt he had their support. In 1992 he edited a volume on brain death for the Pontifical Science Academy, and he has met many times with Pope John Paul II, whose picture hangs on the doctor's office wall.

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NEUROSCIENTIST Dr. Robert J. White meets Pope John Paul II in this 1994 photo taken at the Vatican. White, who was named an honorary member of the Vatican's science academy that year, has been engaging in studies for the transplanting of a human brain. (eNS/ Mari photo) his research is opening up new ethical and philosophical questions.

It is the first time medicine has faced the possibility of surgically transferring a person's consciousness, memory and the other properties that make him or her unique, he said.

"I am struggling with this," he said. "These are controversial issues, and I have to face that."

But he encouraged church officials, instead of dismissing his efforts, to'take an open attitude and investigate the theological repercussions of his findings.

"If I can say to you: 'Look, you. can transplant the human brain ... and just put it on a new body. The person will awaken, will be able to see, hear, taste and smell. With modern technology, I should be

able to communicate with him.

He'll be able to talk.' Well, what does that say in terms of the traditional, Thomistic philosophy of the human person?" he said.

White also said he was aware of the danger of abuse, if the procedure becomes practical in the future. There is a chance, he acknowledged, that someone might try to make arrangements to obtain a good body for himself. But he said this was unlikely, since a replacement body would probably come from a hospital intensive care unit.

White said many people misunderstand his efforts, and the increasing publicity has not helped.

He has considered moving his research to Ukraine, where he said it might be carried out with "less of the reflection of heavy publicity."

Pro Vita Awards honor New York pair

By Tracy Early BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) Retired Auxiliary Bishop George E. Lynch, a native of the Bronx who returned to his home after serving in the Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., was honored by the Diocese of Brooklyn at its annual Sanctity of Life Mass Jan. 18.

The bishop, who will turn 80 in March, was praised for continuing his active involvement in abortion protests, including getting arrested and being jailed, at a time when many people would be seeking the comforts of retirement.

Although Bishop Lyn<:h has been jailed several times, a federal judge recently acquitted him of violating an injunction on the grounds that he had religious motivation for his actions.

The Pro Vita Award of the Brooklyn Diocese, presented at St. James Cathedral, was also given to former New York police Detective Steven McDonald, his wife, Patti Anne, and their son, Conor, who was born after the detective was shot in 1986 and left paralyzed from the neck down.

McDonald, who was shot by a teenager in New York's Central Park, is a native of the Brooklyn Diocese who now lives in the Rockville Centre Diocese.

McDonald, supported by his family, has remained a public presence in New York. In 1995 he spoke about his faith at a eucharistic congress held by the Brooklyn Diocese.

Evelyn J. Aquila, director ofthe diocesan Respect Life Office, said the McDonalds had "taught this city" by the Christian courage they exhibited as a family.

At the Mass, the Parish Respect Life Award was given to St. Rocco's parish of Brooklyn for its "long involvement in the diocesan

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Sanctity of Life Program and the tremendous variety of parish programs that directly enhance the lives of Catholics and non-Catholics in their community."

Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J., celebrant and homilist for the Mass, called Bishop Lynch "a special sign to our generation and to our American society."

Speaking just two days after the bombings at the Atlanta abortion clinic, Archbishop McCarrick praised Bishop Lynch for rejecting the path of those who engaged in a "misguided effort to use the tools of evil to fight evil."

He commended Bishop Lynch for "courageously persevering" in his witness at public demonstrations and in prison' cells.

The Old Testament reading for the Mass was the story of the young Samuel being awakened in the night by a call from God (1 Samuel 3: 1-10).

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change its teaching about the indisso.1ubility of marriage, he said.

"Marriage is not a civil ceremony; it is a sacrament instituted by Christ," he said.

Those who remarry after a civil divorce but without a church annulment are considered to be living in adultery and "the church cannot turn its head from an adulterous relationship," Dr. Hilgers said.

Council members, he said, did not discuss the possibility of allowing those in irregular marriages to receive Communion.

Much of the assembly's discussion, he said, was on prevention of divorce through marriage preparation, support programs and deepening the spiritual lives of married couples.

"The divorce rate in remarriage is much higher than in first marriages," he said. "The best chance for success is in the first marriage; divorce is not the solution to every problem.

"Being a doctor, I tend to think in terms of health.

The church is prescribing healthy living," he added.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - While Cath!Jlics who are divorced and civilly remarried cannot participate in the Eucharist, they must be welcomed as members of the church and encouraged to participate in parish life, Pope John Paul II said.

"To all those in need, the Lord, moved by mercy, reaches out simultaneously with the requirement of the truth and the oil of charitY,"the pope said to members of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

Members of the council, which includes prelates and married couples, were holding their plenary assembly at the Vatican.

The assembly focused on the church's pastoral outreach to Catholics who have been divorced and remarried without a church declaration of annulment of their first marriage.

In announcing its theme, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, council president, said members would not debate the clear doctrinal teaching that holds marriage is indissoluble.

For Catholics, church law forbids remarriage after Struggle, pain are human divorce unless one has received an annulment, a ,Struggle, pain and sacrifice in a marriage are signs declaration by a church court that the first marriage that the couple is human, not that one or both was not truly a marriage, so the person is free to spouses are incapable offulfilling the responsibilities marry again. of marriage, Pope John Paul II said.

But the number of people who enter into new When examining requests for a marriage annulmarriages which the church considers invalid is "a ment, the Catholic Church begins with a presumpwound whose infection is spreading t:ven in Catholic tion that the marriage was valid, the pope said in a spheres," the pope told council members. speech to the Roman Rota, a Vatican tribunal that "The church cannot remain indifferent to this handles annulment appeals. painful problem in which so many of its children are "In evaluating the capacity for or the act of coninvolved," he said. sent necessary for the celebration of a valid marriage, The church suffers along with those whose famione cannot require that which is not possible to ask lies are in crisis or have dissolved, and it seeks to help ofpeople in general," the pope said. them remedy their situation "in full fidelity to the The human person, he said, is "always growing, teaching of Christ," he said. , called to make responsible choices based on his "Certainly, a new union-after divorce constitutes a initial potential, enriChing them ever more with moral disorder which contrasts with. the precise commitment and the help of grace." requirement derived from the faith, but this does not The church's teaching: he said, "is marked by a preclude their commitment to prayer nor their effechealthy realism in understanding the freedom of tive witness of charity," the pope said. persons."

Men and women in irregular marriages, he said, A realistic approach takes into consideration the must know that "the church loves them, is not distant limits placed on people by their "human nature burfrom them and suffers路 because of their situation." dened by sin" and the "never insufficient help of Pastors and other members of the church must divine grace," the pope said. increase their outreach to couples in difficulty'and let Understanding the human beings involved in the those whose marriages dissolve know "they must not m~rriage relationship, he said, one becomes aware of despair of the grace of God who watches over their "the necessity of sacrifice, the acceptance of pain and journey," the pope said. struggle as indispensable to being faithful to their Even if they are in invalid marriages, couples must obligations." be welcomed to the parish community with love and An unrealistic, "idealized" picture of what marunderstanding. They must be helped to pray, perriage is, he said, has led some people "to interpret the form acts of charity and be led to repentance, the normal difficulties which can be registered in the pope said. journey ofthe couple ... as an authentic incapacity to Dr. Thomas W. Hilgers, director ofthe Pope Paul assume the obligations of matrimony."

VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction The church's presumption of validity makes sense in Omaha, Neb., and his wife, Susan Hilgers, have not ony from a legal point of view, but also from an been members of the council for three years. anthropological starting point, he said.

Dr. Hilgers said many North Americans would, view the question of the status of divorced and Not being fully aware at the outset of the reality of the struggles 'one would face later in marriage does rem~rried people in the church in' terms of comnot invalidate the consent, the pope said. passIOn. "Whenever anybody stands for the truth - which However, he said, the officialsof.the Roman Rota the church always does - they are accused oflacking - and others who work in church marri,age courts still ~ave "the difficult task of determining, with,the help compassion," Dr. Hilgers said. "But charity without truth is not charity at aiL" .of the human sciences, that minimum under which Discussions at the council meeting' made it clear one could not speak of a capacity or sufficient con-, sent for a true mar~iage." that the Catholic Church would nOl and cannot

'Priests for Life' goes international STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (CNS) - Father Frank Pavone, director .of Priests for Life, has been asked by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family to coordinate pro-life activities worldwide.

Father Pavone, head of the national pro-life group of more than 40,000 priests and deacons, described the new position as "a great opportunity to influence the course of history." '.. "The Vatican itself wishes to implement our ideas and strategy , ':. 'J on a global level," he said. "There is no telling what impact we can now have." 'f ':;1 The international pro-life effort will involve training bishops and priests in various facets of pro-life work, formulating pro-life strategies for national and international organizations and making Priests for Life an international organization.

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Rome at th~ end of Febru.ary to role of the organization's execubegin the international effort. He tive direciorduring Father Pawill continue to coordinate Priests vone's absence.

Father Richard Hogan, assofor Life in the United States and finish his 14-part television series ciate director, who is based in St. for Eternal Word Television Net- Paul, Minn., will take on much of work scheauled for production this Father Pavone's travel schedule for 1997. ' summer.

DeStefano called Father PaThe priest said he wants every pro-life 'group to know "they are vone's appointment "one of the part of this new development and most hopeful,signs of victory we , have seen in a long time in the war will benefit from it."

Anthony DeStefano, Priests for against abortion."

"This is also a great tribute to Life's chief of staff, will assume the Father Pavone's work," DeStefano added. "When he took' over the helm of Priests for Life three years ago, this association was relatively small and unknown.

"Now it is recognized all over the country as one of the most effective, dynamic organizations in the pro-life movement. That's a tremendous testament to Father Pavone's vision and leadership."

GLENN A. YOUNG and Glenn A. Young share more thanjust their name. The father and son are both committed to education, and both teach at St. Mary/ Bundschu Memorial High School in Independence, Mo. (eNS/ Kline photo)

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By Loretta Shea Kline INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (CNS) - A father and son who teach at St. Mary-Bundschu Memorial High School in Independence have more in common than their last name.

For one, they have the same first name.

When Glenn Anthony Young, 27,joined Glenn Allan Young, 49, on the faculty this school year, it created a slight problem: How do you distinguish "Mr. Young" from "tl.:fr. Young"? The solution: the designations "Mr. Young the Elder" and "Mr. Young the Younger." . Both Youngs share other traits.

Both were highly influenced by their Catholic educations, both tried other careers before teach-' ing, and both have intense classroom styles driven by a belief that what they are doing makes a difference.

And both were inspired by men they admired.

The elder Young, who describes his youth as troubled, believes he probably would have ended up in prison if a teacher had not taken interest in him when he was II years old. He met the teacher in a summer youth program.

"My life and love of what I'm doing I patterned after a man that I loved - Jim Eskew," he told The Catholic Key, newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City-St:Joseph.

"He took me under his wing, and straightened my life out."

Young attended St. Pius X High School, where Eskew was a teacher and coach~ And whenYoungjoined the St. Mary faculty 25 years ago, Eskew was his principal. In fact, it was Eskew who encouraged Young to become a teacher.

Young, who has a bachelor's degree in police science, did probatiori work for two years and grew dissatisfied dealing with hardened offenders. ESkew suggested teaching.

"I thought, why don't I try to work with kids and help steer their lives in a proper direction, rather than working with them after they had already committed a crime," Young said.

Eskew was Young's role model both professionally and personally. When Eskew died in 1990, Young felt as if he had lost a family member.

"I hope I can have a fraction of the impact he had on lives," said Young, who teaches geography

ana Amencan government and also has a master's in secondary administration. "I know he is looking down on me, and keeps me going."

Young said he uses humor _ "mounds of it" - to mach students, and enjoys keep::ng them guessing as to what he will do next.

He added he continually tries to improve by reading, iistening, thinking and making an effort to come up with new ideas.

"I don't consider mysc:lf a success," he said. "I'm working for success."

To the contrary, says Young's son. "I see him as being a real expert at what he does," he told The Catholic Key. The first-year teacher said that having a chance to work with his dad means a lot to him. He sees it as the passing on of a tradition.

"I see how dedicated my dad is, and that comes out of M r. Eskew's influence on him," Young said.

The younger Young attended nursing school for a year before deciding to major in Eng:lish. After graduating from college, he spent four years with the Kansas City Health Department doing AIDS prevention education and working with people being treated for tuberculosis.

But he said his desire to become a teacher was born out of his love of the school environment and his passion for teaching religion. He is working toward a maste:r's degree in theology by taking summer courses at the University of Notre Dame.

Young said he cannot help getting excited about the subject. "I hope they (students) do understand that it is something you, can feel real passionate about in your life," he said.

"I learned so much being a student in a Catholic schoo:! myself," he added. "I don't think I appreciated it all the time. I look at my life now, and see so much of it as the result of what I learned in a Catholic school."

While a student at Archbishop O'Hara High School, Young tutored inner-city children, worked at a soup kitchen and vo),unteered for food drives, his father recalled.

"The neat thing about Glenn is that he has a very big healt, to help mankind in any way that he can," his father said.

"Seeing him every da.y, doing the thing he has the pa!,sion for, makes me extremely proud of the good individual he's gro~m to be."

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near Old City of Jerusalem JERUSALEM (CNS) - Israeli archeologists have uncovered a bronze cross inlaid with wood in excavations of a Byzantine-period commercial area just outside the walls of the Old City ofJerusalem, It is the first such cross to be discovered anywhere, but it probably was not wood from the cross of Jesus, archeologist Ronny Reich said at a press conference Jan. 22.

"I can't recall in my experience another cross with a piece of wood inlay, and it is outstanding in that respect," he said, However, he said, there is no indication that the two- to three-gram (.07- to 0.1ounce) pieces of wood inside the two-inch bronze cross are slivers of the cross of Jesus, despite claims of such a possibility in the Israeli media.

"This cross is inlaid with two pieces of wood and was most probably a souvenir of Jerusalem for some pilgrim. Souvenirs were already introduced in the Byzantine period and pilgrims brought back with them holy oil, water and crosses made here, much like (pilgrims) today," said Reich.

"We will start the: procedure of analysis of the wood .... The question is do we sacrifice the wood for the analysis, because then we'll

have no wood left (inside the cross).

I don't know. We'll see."

Reich said he does not believe the wood is part of the true cross because "all over Europe there are many collections of relics and if you put all the wood from these relics together you would get 100 crosses.... It is very unlikely it is a piece of the cross."

Even if, afte"r analysis, the wood proves to be from the time of Jesus, there is no assurance that the wood actually came from the true cross, he said.

"It is a matter of belief.. .. You have to make a difference between science and archeology, and matters of belief," said Reich.

The fifth and sixth centuries, part of the Byzantine period, were relatively peaceful in Jerusalem and people dared to build outside the walls of the city, said Reich.

Most of the residents at that time were Christians with a few sprinklings of Jews, added archeologist Eli Shukron. It was a time when there were many pilgrims coming to the Holy Land and the souvenir business was brisk.

According to legend, the true cross was kept inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher after St. Helena supposedly found

the cross. In 614 Jerusalem was conquered by the Persians and the cross was taken to what is now Iraq. Ten years later, the Byzantines reclaimed the cross in a military campaign started for that specific purpose. After the Muslim invasion of the area, the cross was lost.

The recently discovered bronze cross, which appears to have been part of a necklace,. was found in the ruins of a shop on the outskirts of the wall of the Biblical city of Jerusalem. The shop was located behind the main street leading from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, which was lined with other shops and is believed to have been frequented by Holy Land pilgrims.

Archeologists also discovered what they believe to be a restaurant, a bath house and a hostel for pilgrims. In addition they found several other bronze crosses, pottery, glass shards and coins.

The $5 million excavations began in 1989 when the area outside of Jaffa Gate was developed for a luxury apartment complex, which included underground parking and a connecting pedestrian bridge.

The discovery of the Byzantineperiod neighborhood required a change in construction plans, al-

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It is common practice in Israel for archeologists and construction workers to work practically hand in hand, since historical ruins are found at almost every construction site.

Often the findings are deemed not significant and are covered back up. But there are cases, such as this one, where the find is significant and careful excavations are carried out.

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Philip'i)inecl1urch leaders 'call for c.alm following bishop's murder" tOT ABATO CITY, Philippines (CNS) - Philippine bishops called for calm after Oblate Bishop Benjamin de Jesus of Jolo was killed Feb. 4 outside the cathedral in his southern Philippine apostolic vicariate.

Archbishop Fernando Capalla of Davao, who heads the Philippine bishops' Commission on Interreligious Dialogue, warned against "rushing to make connections between Bishop de Jesus' murder and Abu Sayyaf or other Muslim extremist groups. It is hard to make any conclusions right now.

"It is the responsibility of the church to make strong pronouncements against the deed, but to' offer forgiveness in ·spite of it.

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Bishop de Jesus, 56, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate, died instantly when he was shot as he left Jolo's Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 4, as he was getting into his car after attending the reopening of a Catholic cooperative forced to close during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.

Offering his condolences to Filipino Catholics after the murder of Bishop de Jesus, Pope John Paul II condemned the ongoing violence in the southern Philippines.

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Pope John Paul prayed the bishop's murder would "clearly show the futility of violence and call everyone to commit themselves to the path of understanding and dialogue, the only path whi,ch will ensure the triumph of peace and justice over every provocation."

Father Edward Carolan, an official at the Oblate missionaries' headquarters in'Rome, said threats against the bishop had been "pretty frequent in the past."

"He was humble, very spiritual and calm," Father Carolan said.

"He knew he might be in danger, but he said if he is shot, he is shot."

Initial news reports said the bishop's murder appeared to have occurred during a failed kidnapping attempt, but Father Carolan said Feb. 4, "that was not the motive because he was shot in the car. They wanted to kill him." '~He was a good bishop and very popular with his people, including the Muslims whp are the majority," Father Carolan said.

Catholics account for about 14,500 of the 624,000 people within the boundaries of the apostolic vicariate, located on an island south of Mindanao.

In a statement to the Oblate's Rome headquarters, Father Filadelfo Estrella, the Oblate superior in the Philippines; said that during Ramadan this year there had been much violence in the Jolo area.

Quoting reports from Jolo Chancellor Oblate Father Alfredo Epiz, the bishops' conference 'said three assailants were involved in the bishop's murder. , One between 30 and 40 years old fired the first shot, a you~h described as being 10 to 15'years old fired more shots, and a third accomplice reportedly served as lookout and driver of a black jeep-like vehicle parked near the scene of the crime.

Police pursued the gunmen through Serantes Market, reportedly killing at least one woman and wounding several other ciVilians.

As of the morning of Feb. 5, Philippine National Police Chief Ricardo Sarmiento said his agency had not identified any suspects or motive for the killing. '~The bishop was always open and in favor of interreligious dialogue and was also on very good terms with the Muslims at all levels in Jolo. It is a mystery why this was done to the bishop," said Father. Emmanuel Sison, Oblate bursar in Cotabato.

Ken Hackett, executive director of Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops overseas relief and development agency, said Feb. 4 that Bishop de Jesus "was very low key, very simple, very spiritual and very much in touch (with the people)."

Hackett, who was CRS country director in the Philippines from 1987 to 1992, knew Bishop de Jesus when he was vicar general of Jolo.

"He was a real, honest human

being, a good guy. People could talk to him," said Hackett. .

Bishop de Jesus was born July 25, 1940, in Malabon, near Manila. He entered the Oblate novitiate in 1960 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1967.

Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia paid tribute to Bishop de Jesus in a Feb. 5 statement, calling him "a faithful and dedicated servant of our Lord and his church."

"We thank God for the gift of his life among us and we pray for his eternal happiness in the kingdom of Heaven," the .:ardinal added.

Commenting on the national eucharistic congress in the Philippines in January, whicJl he attended as the pope's personal representative, Cardinal Bevilacqua told Filipino Catholi,:s, "May the graces of the recent eucharistic congress sustain you in your time of need."

FILIPINO BISHOP Benjamin de Jesus was shot dead Feb.4 in front of the Jolo Cathedral in the Philippines. He was killed while ~etting into his vehicle after attending the reopening ofa Catholic cooperative forced to close during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. (CSN/ Reuters photo)

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"High tech" may not· be the first To that end, early last year the term that comes to mind in envi- sisters began choosing quotes for sioning nuns working long into the each month. They also sorted night to produce a commemora- through hundreds of photographs taken in Lisieux, France, the birthtive religious calendar.

In medieval times spiritual place of the saint and where she words were inscribed by monks lived for nine years before her with quill pens who hunched over death at age 24. parchment paper in dim monasComputer production - done tery light as they made copies of with their own Macintosh compu'the Bible and other sacred works. ter system, a library of software With that same kind of zeal, the and a color scanner - put the Discalced Carmelite Nuns at their nuns into work normal1y done by monastery in Arlington put aside sophisticated designing firms.

"The community worked many daily chores to create a calendar for the 100th anniversary of the long hours together around the death of St. Therese of Lisieux, a computer," said Mother Anne member of the Carmelite order.

Teresa, "sometimes into the night But in this labor, the nuns took during the final weeks of proon· roles of graphic artists, pub- duction."

Sister Maria, one of the comlishers and printers in producing a four-color 1997 calendar that some say rivals calendars marketed by major publishing houses.

The sisters said their purpose was to honor St. Therese, known as the "Little Flower," and spread her message of love and trust in God. "That is a message that is very --much needed' in our·tii'rie';"~said -~

munity's counselors, said that the normal chain of command. was put aside while all worked on the calendar.

"It was a community effort and we al1 had a part in it. It was the first time we worked in such a way," she told the North Texas Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Fort Worth.

Sample pages of the l:alendar can be seen on the Interm:t on the community's Web page at http:/ / www.carmelnuns.com.

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'76 Nobel winrier urges cease-fire, British inclusion of Sinn Fein

By Barb Fraze WASHINGTON (eNS) - A 1976 Nobel peace laureate said she would like to see Britain offer to include the Sinn Fein party in peace talks as soon as the Irish Republican Army renews its cc:ase-fire.

"I think you've got to offer them (IRA) options," said Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who has been active in Northern Ireland's peace movement for more than 20 years.

Sometimes, she added, people resort to violence because they believe they have no options.

However, she emphasized that the IRA "should call a cease-fire

now, because it's the right thing to do.

"You can't use violence just to get your own way politically," she said.

Maguire, a Catholic, won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize with Betty Williams, a Protestant, for their work starting Community of the Peace People in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The community works to bring together natio,nalists, who are mainly Catholic and want Northern Ireland united with Ireland, and loyalists, who remain loyal to British rule and are mainly Protestants.

MAIREAD CORRIGAN Maguire, 1976 Nobel peace laureate, talks with Catholic News Service Feb. 4 about peace issues in Northern Ireland. She said the IRA should call a cease-fire now, because it's the right thing to do. (CNS/ Roller photo) ,

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Maguire visited Washington in early February to meet with benefactors and to thank U.S. government leaders for their support of the peace process in Northern Ireland, where IRA guerrillas are fighting to end British rule.

She spoke about Northern Ireland's "troubles" and about how she believes the Catholic Church's just war theory was wrong.

"Northern Ireland is a deeply complicated situation, and there are no simple solutions," Maguire said in an interview.

"People in Northern Ireland know that we are in for a long, slow process of building political consensus," then considering the real issues, she said. But, she added, "there is a passion for peace in Northern Ireland."

In August 1994, the IRA called a cease-fire, and later that year loyalist groups followed suit. The IRA broke its cease-fire in 1996, and Maguire praised loyalist groups for continuing to honor theirs.

However, she criticized the British government for not expediting the peace process during the IRA cease-fire. Initially, it had been estimated that the IRA and Sinn Fein, its political wing, would be invited to talks within six months after the cease-fire began. But the British government insisted that the IRA begin to turn in its weapons before talks could start.

Maguire said she agreed with an international panel, headed by former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell, that had recommended· that talks and decommissioning of arms could begin together. That would help overcorrle some ofthe distrust between the two sides, she said.

She also sai." she thought many IRA glierrillas wer~justifying their actions by 'citing the Catholic Church's just war theory, which says, . among other things, 'that protection of human rights might justify war. .

"We made a mistake in the old just war theory," Maguire said.

Mudslide threatens Seattle convent

By Terry McGuire SEATTLE(CNS) -- The Dominican Sisters in nearby Woodway say they have seen enough of the muddy landslide that swept away part of their property, and now they are praying the worst is over.

"We're now waiting and trusting that whatever will happen will happen," Dominican Sister Mary White told The Catholic Northwest Progress, the Seattle archdiocesan newspaper.

But the possibility remained that the drenched and unstable bluff at the edge of their property would produce more mudslides if they received more precipitation in the coming weeks.

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The nine sisters living at the conVent had to evacuate the grounds for several hours the next day after a second minor slide raised fears that more of the hillside would give way.

The massive landslide down the 200-foot bluff occurred about 10:30 p.m. Jan. 15. It struck a passing Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train, knocking five cars into Puget Sounds and sending earth 900 feet into the water. No one was injured.

On the bluff above, the slide carried away at leaSt 50 feet of the sisters' property, said Sister Mary White, who noted that they have had small slides in the past, "but nothing like this." , The slide undermined a seCtion of the tennis courtS near the bluff and forced the sisters to have the

nearby swimming pool drained as a precaution. There was a possibility that the buildings would be condemned as unsafe if the bluff remains unstable.

"But the buildings are still sound and stable, and the earth is still fairly solid out in front of them," Sister White said. The edge of the bluff remains about 100 feet away from the nearest building, she said.

The sisters have installed orange fencing along the bluff to prevent anyone from wandering too close.

They canceled their Dominican reflection programs for January and are unsure of their February schedule.

"We got it wrong.

"The theologians have mixed it up," she said. "The message is love, not killing."

She said she hoped church leaders would address the issue.

"Jesus with a machine gun does not come off as an authentic figure," she said.

People in Northern Ireland must apologize for the past and move on, Maguire said.

"We are all really guilty, and we must all really say we're sorry," she said.

"Saying sorry and being forgiven will have enormous effects" in the region, she added.

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Bish·op Feehan High 'School Seven s~udents from Bishop Fee- . division, junior Jonathan Salomon. han High School, Attleboro, have was second speaker against Cohasbeen selected as a ward winners in' set, and seniors Melissa Thomson the prestigious Boston Globe Scho- a~d Karen Tranavitch ranked'first lastic Art Awards competition. and second respectively against Freshman Samantha Dumas and . New Bedford. In the Varsity Negasophomore David Dubois received tive division, senior Brad McCorHonorable Mentions; freshman mack and junior Shawn LeMarier Cliff Wells and juniors Burgundy defeated New Bedford and SomerApplegate and Sarah Rando won set. McCormack ranked as best silver keys; and sophomore Cathe- . speaker in both rounds and rine Servant and junior Dave LeMarier ranked as second speaker Benedetti received the highest against New Bedford. Junior Tasha award, the golden key.

Buzzell ranked as top speaker The students received their against Foxboro. awards at a ceremony at the State In the Novice Affirmative diTransportation Building in Bos- vision, freshmen Liz Avery and ton last week. Their works were Austin Applegate defeated Bishop displayed for a IO-day period prior Stang. Applegate ranked as second to the ceremony. speaker. In the Novice Negative The varsity basketball team has division, freshmen Adonia Defreiqualified for post-season play in tas and Pauline Czerwonka de'the Eastern Massachusetts State feated Foxboro and ranked as first tournament. Senior Casey Carney and second speakers respectively. became the sixth Feehan athlete to Senior Kristen Dissinger and score 1,000 career points in varsity junior Amanda Poholek were selectbasketball play. He has an oppor- . ed as representatives of the Southtunity to become the all-time lead- eastern Massachusetts Band Assoing scorer at the school, a mark ciation Orchestra for 1997. Kristen currently held by Mark Schmidt was selected as princial cellist and ('80), 1,453 points. Carney recently . A'manda as second violin. Junior set a single-game school record, Elliot White and seniors Kristen scoring 43 points against North Dissinger and Stephanie Thomas .Cambridge Catholic. were select~d by the Southeastern The debate team fared well in a Massachusetts Chorus: White as a recent meet held at Somerset !High bass vocalist, Kristen as a cellist School. In the Varsity Affirmative and Stephanie as a soprano vocalist.

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The students, faculty and staff sophomores - Mathew Arruda, and Lori Johannessen for volley~. at Bishop Stang High School, No. Ryan Howarth and Lara-Beth ball.

Senior basketball player Matt Dartmouth, have welcomed the Lavigne; and freshmen - Tiffany newest member of the faculty, Larguinho, Jack Miller and Diane Carrier became the sixth nlember of Stang's 1,000 point cluk He has Spanish teacher Monica Mano, Silva.

16 Stang athletes were named as a chance of becoming the. school's who recently completed her undergraduate requirements at UMass Eastern Athletic Conference fall .all-time leading scorer. Th,~.mark Dartmouth. Mrs. Mano will be sports all-stars: Melissa Ham- of 1,263 points is curr.ently held by Lynn St. Martin ('96).. certified in secondary education in mond, Margaret Rivet,' Melissa As of April 13, the official name .Portuguese and Spanish at grad- Pacheco; Elissa Pocze, Becky Pye of the Bishop Stang National uation ceremonies in May. She is . and Heidi Roy for field hockey; Honor Society Chapter will be the currently teaching Spanish II and Ji~ Connolly; John Hergenhan, Patrick Livingstone, Lennie" Sister Teresa ,Trayers. S. N. D. Spanish III courses.

Chapter. Sister Teresa is a member Sophomore Jon Negri won the Rocha, Mike· Santos and Tom first place prize of. $50 in the Osuch for football; Corey Marino. ': ,ofthe Sisters of Notre Dame and a annual Jeanne & Christine Arthur . and J.on Dumais for b~y~"soccer;'23-yearStang veteran teacher and Chris(mas Card Competition: Patricia Cicirell.i fo~ ~~rls' soccer. puidance.counselor. ~ . Negri's pen and' ink drawing, a traditional Christmas wreath fra,ming a chalice, was on the cover of the official 1996 Bishop Stang Christmas. card ... Senior Ada.m Robinson placed second and classmate Patrick Livingstone's dt:aw. ing placed third. .

Several area families enjoyed their holiday season due in large part to the generosity ofthe Stang. faculty, staff and students. St. George s Social Needs· Program s Food Center of Westport received' over. 300 food'items from the Na" tional Honor Society's food drive.

Campus Ministry. held holiday food drives for New Bedford's Catholic Social Services and pro,vided over 200 Christmas toys for the United Way. Music director Suzanne Christie and her· I I-member select chorus entertained the Foster Grandparents Program and the YMCA Friendly Visitor Program at separate Christmas concerts. The chorus also performed for the Stang faculty at its after-school Christmas celebration. Members of the chorus are: seniors - Chris 'THIS PEN & ink drawing by Jon Negri won first place in O'Donnell, Philip Pereira and & Christine Arthur Christmas Card Competition at the Jeanne David Silva; juniors - Meagan Bishop Stang High School, No; Dartmouth.

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AT TOP, Sarah Manuels does some practice teaching; below, Lydia Morgan, Linda Tobia and Craig Aldrich look over teaching aids. (McGowan photos)

Teens aid tots in catechism classes at Somerset parish An unusual recent program at St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, saw nine 15- to 16-year-old recently confirmed teenagers assisting first-, third- and fourth grade religious education pupils at their weekly Saturday morning catechism classes.

In what Religious Education Coordinator Janet Rausch said she thought was a first for the diocese, the teens participated in a training program that included tips on child psychology. safety and .discipline and observation of Saturday morning catechism classes taught by adults.

"They are now both observing and doing some work with the children," said Mrs. Rausch, "and next year we expect they'll help teach and may substitute for adults

who might have to be absent on Saturday morning."

She noted that she works with grade school children in the parish religious education program, while William Courville works with high schoolers.

The fledgling teachers, who received certificates attesting to their participation in the training program, are Julie Sullivan, Tracy Almeida, Brian Lewandowski, Linda Tobia, James Cabral, Craig Aldrich, Lydia Morgan, Sarah Manuels and Erin Toomey.

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Independem Sector officials, who released a summary of their findings in Washington, said the key to teen and adult volunteerism is the same: simply asking them to help.

Of the 1,007 teens interviewed last summer by the Gallup Organization for Independent Sector, 51 . percent reported being asked personally to volunteer, and 93 percent actually did.

Sara E. Melendez, president of'· Independent Sector, called the general findings "optimistic and heartening"; but study director- Virginia Hodgkinson noted one disturbing trend: "Certain groups of young people were not asked [to volunteer) at the same rate as they were· in previous-studies."

"There has been a decline of asking among our African-American teens that has led to a lower rate of ·volunteering in that group," she said, adding that earlier studies showed· African-American teens volunteer at the same rate as all other groups, if asked.

Overall, the study found that 59 percent of V.S. teens, ages. 12 to 17, give their time to a wide variety of causes, compared with only 49 percent of V.S. adults, as identified in another recent Independent Sector study.

According to the 1996 study, 13.3 million out of a total of 22.5 million teens volunteered for various causes giving an estimated 2.4 billion service hours.

To demonstrate the value of these hours, Hodgkinson said they \ would equal the amount of work time put in by 1.1 million fulltime employees and cost at least $7.7 billion if paid at the 1995 minimum wage rate of$4.25 per hour.

Thl: study also found that: - The number of teens contributing to charities in 1995 decreased, but their average annual contribution went from $56, as

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Reconciliation win be available by Bishop Sean O'Malley on Mar. I weekdays 2-3 and 5-6 p.m., Satur- from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Cathedays 1-4 p.m. and Sundays 1-5 p.m. dral Camp, E. Freetown.

The Stations of the Cross will be HEARTS,& 'HANDS Prayed in the chapel at 7: 15 p.m. on' Hearts & Hands a Christian Feb. 21, and Mar. 7 and 14. On organization whose 'purpose' is to Tuesdays during Lent, the series provide free physical, emotional and HOLY REDEEMER, CHATHAM SUPPORT GROUP "My Name is Jesus',' will be offered spiritual support to medically fragile A support group for parents and EasterTriduum will beheld at the at 7:15 p.m. in the theater. children and their families is formHoly' Redeemer Church, Highland families of gays or lesbians meets the .Three mini-missions with the overAve., Chatham, beginning on Feb. second Sunday of every mpnth at 7 all theme "Toward the Minennium" ing a parent support group. The 17. Masses for the Triduum will be p;m. at the Catholic Social Service will be offered during Lent. The first monthly sessions win be facilitated by professionals in the particular held at 11, a.m., Monday, Tuesday building, 261 South St., Hyannis./ is Feb. 15-19 on "Jesus, the Way to area of interest: Feb. 17 -Accessing The next meeting will be held' Mar. and Wednesday.

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Father Ernie Corriveau, MS: The Thomas M'ara on "The Gifts of ST. LOUlS'DE FRANCE talks will beat the afternoon Masses and Answers; Mar. 17 - Why Us, Easter." Confessions wilt' be heard Our Lenten program for 1997 will Saturday at 4:30, Sunday at 12:10 God..;Finding Comfort and Strength; after all Masses and,all are invited to begin Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. with a para- and Monday-Wednesday at 12: 10 Apr. 21 - Discipline Under Duress: How Do We Discipline?; May 19 attend. liturgy, a Eucharistic Service' cele- an d 6:30 p.m.

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