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Friday, February 19, 1993

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Lent: a baptismal retreat A letter to be read in churches Feb. 28

Dearly Beloved in Christ, Today we enter into the Forty Days of Lent as we recall Jesus' forty days of prayer and fasting. On this First Sunday of Lent in Catholic cathedrals and parishes, adults who are preparing to join the Catholic Church are formally interviewed in the presence of the community in a ceremony known as the scrutiny. During the season of Lent, these new converts are in the final stages of spiritual formation leading up to Holy Saturday and their initiation into the life ofthe Church with baptism, or, in the case ofthose who have already been baptized in other Christian churches, by their profession of faith and confirmation.

The Church invites all Catholics to accompany these new Catholics throughout the world by making Lent a retreat in preparation for the solemn moment of Easter when we all renew our baptismal promises.

One ofthe religious controversies of our times is the meaning of being "born again." For us Catholics, being born again is not a religious experience independent of baptism. For us, baptism is rebirth. In John's gospel we read that"Unless one is born' of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom." We are born of water and the Spirit when we receive the sacrament of baptism.

Many of us were baptized as infants. The Acts of the Apostles continuously speaks of the baptism of entire families; that means adults and children alike. Infant baptism underscores the fact that salvation is a free gift of God. When someone baptizes, it is Christ who baptizes. He is the one who saves. Infant baptism claims the child for God and the Church from the very beginning of the child's life and reminds us that baptism, whether of a child or an adult, is primarily the work of God and that His initiative in our lives is most important.

The infant did not choose to be baptized, but neither did he choose to be born. Baptism, like birth, is God's gift - both brought about through human agents, the child's parents. Just as parents do their part in God's plan by initiating the child's physical life, they also cooperate with God through their faith in initiating the child's eternal spiritual life by presenting the child to be baptized.

The scriptures tell us that two effects of baptism are forgiveness of sin and the reception ofthe Holy Spirit. But the New Testament also tells us that baptism makes us a member of the Church: "For . just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members ofthe body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body... "(1 Cor 12:12) So if Lent is a time to intensify and purify our baptismal com· mitment, it should mean three things: 1. overcoming sin 2. living the life of the Spirit 3. being a more active member ofthe Church, a better Catholic 1. We overcome sin in our lives first of all by recognizing it, by examining our I!ves.

2. Living the life of the Spirit, the life of grace is nourished by meditation on the Word of God, participation at Mass, by a growing awareness that we are temples ofthe Spirit, that the Lord lives in our hearts. The life of the Spirit is the life of love.

3. Being an active member of Christ's Body, the Church, should mean that we become involved in the life of our parish; that we try to strengthen friendships with other Catholics who share our faith and ideals. Being an active member of Christ's Body means that we are concerned about the suffering members of the Body - those who suffer from sickness and poverty and need our attention and material help, as well as those who are suffering spiritually because they have drifted away from the community offaith and need our· prayers and encouragement to find their way home.

My prayer is that Lent will truly be a baptismal retreat for all of us, a time when we overcome sin and selfishness in our lives, when we consciously live the life of the Spirit"and we become more active in the life of our parishes. If we take Lent seriously in this way, we will encourage those men and women who are contemplating joining our Church; and we will provide testimony and inspiration for our young Catholics who are seeking meaning in a confused world. May our love for Christ and for one another be so genuine that our lives will be an invitation to all to "be converted and believe the Good News."

With prayers and blessings, I am Devotedly yours in Christ,

-r~kll~/~ Bishop of Fall River

CHAMPS: in front of CHAMP House on Main Street in Hyannis are, from left, resident Jason Cartier, Carolyn Hebert, Joe Rota and Paul Hebert. (Hickey photo)

cn'AMP: More than a shelter

By Marcie Hickey "It's not logical what we're doing!" declares Paul Hebert, founder of.

CHAMP House for disadvantaged youth in Hyannis.

His easy smile and inherent enthusiasm are the first signs that Paul Hebert is not concerned about "logic" when it comes to loving his neighbor.

Another clue is the· crucifix hanging from his neck. According to the Gospel, he says, "we're supposed to take care of one another."

For 10 years, Hebert and his wife Carolyn, members of Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, have been tireless campaigners against hunger, homelessness,joblessness and, most of all, hopelessness.

In 1988 their efforts became incorporated as Housing For All, a network of social support services including a food kitchen, day programs for the homeless and jobless, and distribution of surplus foods.

With these programs in place, Hebert, who calls himself HFA's "vision.guy," conceived of a new project that would serve "the least cared for population on Cape Cod" - homeless young men who in better circumstances would be finishing high school, finding work and taking responsibility for their future.

CHAMP - the Community Home for Adolescent Mentor Program - located on Main Street in Hyannis, opened its doors Jan. 2, 1992, and in just one year has served over 40 clients. Licensed for 14 residents, it offers safe haven and an open-ended term of stay to youth at risk who are willing to complete school, find work 'and contribute to community living.

Hebert sees the program as a "springboard" for those who need help temporarily, and the success

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stories are those of independence "The hardest thing is not to· gained. To date three clients have . judge," Hebert admitted. "There is graduated from high school and always a temptation to make a gone on to college. value judgment based on where we But for others, progress is not so want them to be and where they dramatic.

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STATEMENT OF BISHOP O'MALLEY Today I am pleased to present the final text of the document "Procedures to be Followed when a Cleric in the Diocese of Fall River is Accused of Sexual Misconduct with a Minor." In the near future other aspects of this question will be discussed and policies will be formalized to insure that proper personnel procedures govern accusations of sexual misconduct on the part of any employee or volunteer of the Church, It is my intention to schedule a workshop/study day at a later date when this docum'tmt can be discussed and the process for its implementation can be explained. At that time, any questions you may have regarding the document will be addressed.

I take this occasion to thank all who assisted in the formulation of this policy by their suggestions or observations. In particular, I express my gratitude to Msgr.

Daniel F. Hoye, Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, and Reverend Peter N. Graziano for their invaluable assistance.

The membership of the Review Board described in the document will be finalized shortly and I will communi' cate their names to you.

All of us have been affected by the tragic events which led to the need to formulate a policy of this kind. It is my hope that some positive benefit might result in the adoption of these procedures for the future of our beloved Diocese.

Let us pray to the Lord to bless and guide our efforts that we may bring the healing presence of Christ to our Diocese.

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Bishop of Fall River See pages 5 and 6 for the Procedures document.

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DIOCESE of FALL RIVER 1993 Lenten Regulations 1.

LAW OF FAST

a. All adults (18 years of age and older) are bound by the law of fast up to the beginning of their 60th year. b. On fast days, those bound by the law are limited to a single full meal. This meal is to be meatless. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to one's needs; however, together these two meals should not equal another full meal. c. These are two prescribed days of fast: Ash Wednesday (February 24, 1993) and Good Friday (April 9, 1993).

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LAW OF ABSTINENCE

a. Those who are 14 years of age and older are obliged to observe the law of abstinence. b. On days of abstinence, those bound by the law abstain from meat. c. On all Fridays of Lent, abstinence is prescribed. This, of course, includes Good Friday. Abstinence is also prescribed on Ash Wednesday.

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MARIE CURRIE of the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment sorts through some of hundreds of thousands of registration cards the committee received after National Project Life Sunday, which was participated in by about 75 percent Of the nation's 190 diqceses and archdioceses.

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Postcard project proved phenomenal WASHINGTON (CNS) - Although exact numbers are not yet known, a nationwide postcard campaign urging Congress to defeat the Freedom of Choice Act is likely to prove one of the largest grassroots V.S. Catholic efforts ever on behalf of unborn children.

The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment and the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for ProLife Activities jointly sponsored the postcard project, dubbed National Project Life Sunday.

The project centered on the Jan. 23-24 weekend but some parishes ran out of postcards and extended it to other weekends, said Mike Taylor, executive director of the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, a ~atholic prolife organization.

Five million sets of postcards were distributed to dioceses' nationwide to be mailed to V.S. senators and representatives. Also included was a card to be sent to the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, which is helping track national participation.

Gail Quinn, director of the V.S. bishops' pro-life office, linked the response to the project to President Clinton's recent executive orders reversing government limits on abortion.

"The effect of these orders, and the fact that President Clinton decided to issue them on Jan. 22, the 20th anniversary ofthe Roe vs.

Wade decision, has served at once to anger and energize pro-life parishioners," she said.

"National Project Life Sunday shows that the 20th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade did not mark the demise of the pro-life movement, as many in the media have been saying, but rather its rebirth," she ~d~. .

Ms. Quinn and Taylor said it will be several weeks before any tally of the nu'mber' of postcards sent to Congress will be available.

The postcards state that'passage of the Freedom of Choice Act "would be a disastrous mistake for our country because it mandates. abortion on demand as a national policy."

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help reduce the number of abortions, instead of laws like FOCA that encourage more abortions," the postcard adds. "As your constituent, I urge you to oppose the Freedom of Choice Act and to oppose the use of my tax dollars to pay for or to promote abortion.

Please uphold existing federal pro-life policies."

The Freedom,of Choice Act, as introduced in Congress in 1992, said that "a state may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy - 1) before fetal viability; or 2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman."

Facing a promised presidential veto from President George Bush, the bill did not reach a floor vote in either the House or Senate in 1992, but backers reintroduced it this year. Clinton has said he would sign the bill.

English is in WASHINGTON (CNS) - English has been restored as one of Puerto Rico's two official languages despite a massive protest march and opposition from a prominent Puerto Rican bishop.

Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Rossello recently signed a law that repealed a statute that made Spanish the sole official language of Puerto Rico. That law forbade the use of English in official government business. While 'opponents and supporters. of t.he new law agree it will have little impact on daily life, the language debate fired up passions in Puerto Rico. The fight has l?een viewed as reflecting the popu- . lation's uncertainty over Puerto Rico's relationship with the· Uni. ted States.

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LENTEN DISCIPLINE

a. The Code of Canon Law very aptly summarizes the Church's discipline in Canon 1249: "All members ofthe Christian faithful in their own way are bound to do penance in virtue of divine law; in order that all may be joined in a common observance of penance, penitential days are prescribed in which the Christian faithful in a special way pray, exercise works of piety and charity and deny themselves by fulfilling their responsibilities more faithfully and especially by observing fast and abstinence."

Pope's Lenten message focuses on thirst WASHINGTON (CNS) - The away to the point of disappearplight of people living without ing," he said. enough water - or with polluted "Furthermore, it is quite clear to water-is the focus of Pope John ·everyone. that uncontrolled indusPaul II's 1993 Lenten message. trial development and the use of "I ask the members ofthe church technologies which disrupt the to remember particularly the men balance of nature have caused and women suffering from the serious damage to the environment tragic desertification of their lands, and caused grave disasters." and those who in too many parts Immense areas of Africa and of the world are lacking that basic parts of Latin America and Ausyet vital good which is water," the tralia suffer from this "scourge," pope said. the pope said. "We are running the "We are deeply worried to see risk of leaving as our heritage to that entire peoples, millions of future generations the tragedy of human beings, have been reduced thirst and desertification in many to destitution and are suffering parts of the world." from hunger and disease because The pope asked for "generous they lack drinking water," he said. support" tp agencies and groups The pontiff framed his message . helping people who suffer from from several biblical mentions of water shortages, and to those thirst. whose "scientific analysis of all the Among those he included were causes of desertification" can lead. how the Israelites under Moses to "solutions to this problem." "quenched their thirst with the water which sprang from the rock"; Jesus' request of the Samaritan woman, "Give me a drink"; and Jesus on the Cross saying, "I thirst."

The pope hoped for the "active Dr. Patrick Reid, professor of . generosity" of people to fulfill theology at Providence College, .Isaiah's prophecy, "For waters will present the catechist/ adult shall break forth in the wilderness, enrichment program "Journey and streams in the desert; the through the Old and New Testaburning sand shall become a pool, ments" 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays in and the thirsty ground springs of March at St. Paul's parish, Taunwater." ton.

He said that in many cases man • The program for March 1 and 8 himself has caused "the barrenness will be an introduction to the Old of lands which have become desert'~ Testament, covering the topics of: and has polluted clean waters.

Israel - A People of Story; The "When people do not respect Stories of Genesis; The Stories of the goods of the earth, when they Exodus; The Prophets; and Job. An introduction to the New abuse them, they act unjustly, even criminally, because for many of Testament March 15 and 22 will their brothers and sisters their. cover the topics of: The Earliest actions result in poverty and Christian Proclamation; The Eardeath," Pope John Paul said. liest Christian Writings; 1 CorinHe outlined problems faced by thians; The Gospels; The Oral Traditions; Mark - the Earliest· those lacking good water.

"Hunger and many diseases are Gospel; and Matthew's Gospel.

Participants should bring their closely linked to drought and water pollution. In places where rain is own Bible. To register, contactJhe rare or the sources of water dry up, Diocesan Department of Educalife becomes more fragile; it fades tion, 678-2828, by Feb. 26.

Bible study to be offered in Taunton

Health care to be workshop topic The Diocesan Department of Education and Stonehill College will sponsor the workshop "Health Care: Rights and Responsibilities" 9 a.m. to noon March 25 in the Martin Institute Auditorium on the Stonehill campus, North Easton.

James W. Dawson, MHA, president and CEO of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, will be workshop moderator. Scheduled presentations are as follows: "The Church and Health Care"

by Sister Patricia Vandenberg, CSC, MHA, president and CEO of Holy Cross Health System Corp., South Bend, IN. "Responsibility of Government in Health Care," Gerard Desilets, assistant commissioner for legislation and policy, state Public Health Department.

"Health Care and Aging," Kenneth J. Branco, MSW, PhD, associate sociology professor, Stonehill College.

"Economics of Health Care," James W. McKinsey, Jr., MPhil, assistant economics professor, Stonehill College.

"Prevention and Health Care," Craig S. Higgins, MHA, PhD, health care administration chair, Stonehill College.

Three continuing education credits will be awarded to participants who work in the health care field. For information on registering, contact Stonehill College, 230-1120, or the Diocesan Department of Education, 678-2828. Registration deadline is March 12.

Westport church to offer Lenten program "From Anger to Peace: A Lenten Journey" is the title of a Lenten adult education program to be offered at. St. John the Baptist Church, 945 Main Rd., Westport.

The program, to be held in the Parish Center, will run 7:30 to' 9 p.m. Tuesdays March 9, 16and 23.

The program will focus on how to understand anger, how to respond in a more balanced manner to situations that cause anger, and how to move from feelings. of anger to a sense of inner peace.

Program leader is Dorothy Levesque, a writer and former teacher who is director of the Ministry with Separated, Divorced, Widowed, and Remarried Persons for the Providence diocese.

For more information call 6362251.

Israel invites U.S. Catholics WASHINGTON (CNS) - In an effort to attract Catholics tourists to the Holy Land, the Israeli government has begun advertising in national Catholic magazines and newspapers.

Raphael Farber, Israeli's tourism commissioner for North America, said Israel hoped to attract at least 100,000 V.S. Catholicsayear for the next two years. In all, the Mideast nation hopes to draw 500,000 V.S. visitors in 1993.

"For Catholics, foreign travel used to take them mostly to Rome, Lourdes in France and Fatima in Portugal," Farber said. "Now Israel, the Holy Land, is gaining considerable ground."

Obituaries Sister Nadeau

ON A PASTORAL visit to Our Lady of the Assumption parish, New Bedford, Bishop Sean O'Malley receives the parish's 75th jubilee book from John Gonsalves (top) and stands with, from left, Deacon Antonio daCruz, pastor Father Alphonsus McHugh, SS.Ce., parochial vicar Father Benedict Folger, SS.CC., Capuchin friar Padre Pio; Msgr. John J. Oliveira, and Father Bob Charlton, SS.CC., in residence at OLOA.

Sister Marie Lina Nadeau, SUSC, 76, formerly known as Sister James Helena, who was principal of Holy' Name School, Fall River, from 1981 until her retirement in 1988, died Feb. 13 after a long il\!Jess. The Mass of Christian Burial was offered for her Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River.

A native of East Taunton, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Emma (Desrosiers) Nadeau.

She entered the Holy Union community in 1935, taking perpetual vows in 1942. She held a bachelor's degree from the former Catholic Teachers College in Providence, a master's degree in education from Bridgewater State College and certificates of graduate studies from Harvard and Rutgers universities.

She received National Science Foundation grants for studies at Harvard, Rhode Island College and the University of California at Berkeley.

Sister Nadeau taughtfor 31 years at schools of her community in .

Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. Thereafter she was science supervisor for a federal program in Fall River and in 1971 was named elementary science coordinator for Fall River public schools.

She is survived by two sisters, Julia Martin of Ledyard, CT, and Rita Prunier of Taunton; a brother, Rev. Henry Nadeau, SSE, of Selma, Ala., and a niece.

Sister Visbecq Sister Marie Louise Visbecq, SS.Cc., also known as Sister Victorine, died Feb. 10 at the age of 91. Her Mass of Christian Burial was offered Feb. 13 at St. Mary's Church, Fairhaven.

A native of France, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Marie Louise (Legrand) Visbecq.

She entered religious life in 1921 and came from France to Fairhaven in 1927. Thereafter she taught at the former Sacred Hearts School in Fairhaven for 48 years and at the former Sacred Hearts Academy, also in Fairhaven, for two years, moving in 1980 to her community's retirement home in Fall River.

She had no immediate survivors.

Not The Gospel "If you only believe what you

like in the Gospel, and reject what you d'on't like, it is not"the Gospel you believe,. but yourself."-St. Augustine

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Bishop Malone is CTNA chairman WASHINGTON (CNS) Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, has been named chairman of the board of directors ofthe U.S. bishops' Catholic Telecommunications Network of America. .

praye~BOX For Mary's Jntercession You are all fair, 0 Virgin Mary, You never knew the stain of sin; You are the glory of Jerusalem; You, the joy of Israel; You, the great honor of your people; You, the advocate of sinners.O Mary, Virgin most prudent, Mother most merciful, pray for us, intercede for us with our Lord, Jesus Christ. Al1:Jen.

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Bishop Malone was appointed

by Baltimore Archbishop William H. Keeler, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Catholic Conference. He replaces Bishop John R. McGann, who resigned for health reasons.

The Youngstown bishop has had local and national experience with telecommunications and church affairs. He served as president ofthe NCCB and USCC from 1983 to 1986 and vice president in 1980-83, during which time he was instrumental in creating CTNA in 1981.

In his own diocese, Bishop MaIone has established a cable-based Catholic television service that provides programming through 15 cable companies covering 3,000 square miles~ "I am delighted to be asked to guide CTNA through the next stage of its growth," Bishop MaIone said. "As the bishops' own telecommunications service, CTNA will be expected to play an even stronger role in bringing up-todate information on pastoral and social action issues such as bereavement counseling, stewardship, teaching the new Catholic catechism and health care for the elderly, to Catholics throughout the United States."

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A New Vision of Lent Has Lent a real meaning for Catholics in today's social order? Sad to reply, few in the Church get into the spirit of what once was considered a holy season. Sure, many wiH come "to get the ashes," but mo~t will be practicing what amounts to an anthropological rite with little religious intent. It's simply something a Catholic does on Ash Wednesday. What such a ritual effects for such people is questionable.

Again, as Lent comes to its end, Palm Sunday will start the Easter parade. Like ashes, palms are big on the list of religious must-haves. God help the parish that runs out of them. A missed call at bingo would be in comparision a minor tremor.

And there is no doubt that Easter Sunday is the most heavily attended church event of the year. Somehow the Easter duty still appears on many household calendars, whereas Holy Thursday and Good Friday seem to be relegated to the old guard of the faithful.

These might seem cynical observations on today's' Lenten mores; but an objective witness must admit their truth. It's a shame that sentimentality keeps so many from this realization; however, facts are facts.

There are many reasons for this, a primary one, of course, being the secularization of our society. The Easter Bunny has more sign value than the empty tomb - everyone from the Muslim to the Shintoist can buy the bunny concept. The feast itself becomes merely a rite of spring. In this sense, Easter is dress-up, dinner~out and drop into the mall.

There is no doubt that the Catholic community in this country seeks a faith revival. Indeed, a sense of hopeful yearning is found in most adults who are involved in a conversion process. The best example. of this is found in various parish Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) programs. .Many Catholics who did not follow the ordinary course of instruction in the sacraments as children are truly discovering the Church through RCIA. Priests and laity involved in such programs have realized how many are seeking the sacramental life of the Church and have come to realize"that perhaps our energies have been expended on serving the saved while ignoring those beyond our often limited sight. In our fractured and often heartbroken world, too many people have fallen through the cracks. Now many are climbing back toward the light and bringing others with them.

Lent is a season when testimony is given to this salvific work.

The many RCIA candidates who gather in our cathedral and the many others baptized at parish Easter Vigil ceremonies witness both to the work already done and that still before us.

In short, if we want to revive Lent as a meaningful personal faith experience, we must think conversion. For too long we have taken for granted that CCD and similar programs will take care of parish instructional needs; but every parish also needs adult outreach to bring the disenchanted and disenfranchised back to the Church family.

Lent is a wonderful time to witness to those awaiting our care and concern. The mysteries of salvation are not mere tableaux to admire but a life to be lived. Inviting the hurting and suffering to make the journey of the Stations of the Cross is the essence ofthe Lenten process. All can share that journey; indeed, it is the only way to make our personal Easter a true celebration of resurrection.

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A SOMALI FATHER AND CHILD; BOSNIAN REFUGEES; REPATRIATED HAITIANS

"This is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly...

Sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless ...clothing the naked." Is 58:6-7

The nannies of "Nannygate" WASHINGTON(CNS)- Monica, Pedro and their 13-year-old daughter Angelica live just blocks from Washington's affluent Georgetown neighborhood.

Undocumented workers, Monica holds down three jobs, styling hair during the day and cleaning homes and offices in the evening, and Pedro toils long hours as a car mechanic. Most of the Peruvian Catholic couple's income goes to cover rent payments, to pay their daughter's Catholic school tuition and to help out struggling relatives back home.

Their plight is not unlike that of another Peruvian couple recently thrust into the public spotlight for having worked for corporate lawyer Zoe Baird, President Clinton's first choice for attorney general.

Both Ms. Baird and U.S. DistrictJudge Kimba Wood, reported to have been Clinton's second choice for attorney general, were forced to bow out of consideration for having hired undocumented workers. Soon the media labeled "Nannygate" what had become a major political headache for Clinton.

The controversy has p'roduced much national tongue-wagging about who should hire who . and whether women candidates for political office undergo more scrutiny than men. But left out of the discussion has been the undocumented.

Jesuit Father Richard Ryscavage, executive director of the U.S. bishops' office of Migration and Refugee Services, says the Catholic Church views the undocumented immigrant differently than does the U.S. government.

He notes that Pope John Paul II

has frequently stated that individuals have the right to emigrate in search of work.

While that Catholic teaching predates national borders, the teaching stands today, he said.

Father Ryscavage said accurate statistics on undocumented immigrants are difficult to collect, but it is clear that the majority are Catholic.

He said most come from predominantly Catholic nations, including Mexico, Poland, Ireland, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Central and South America.

The priest said the psychological trauma faced by undocumented workers include "not being sure they're going to receive services at the hospital, job-market troubles, and the constant ghost of Immigration agents around the corner."

The undocumented, he said, tend to be "victims of crime. They cannot report the crimes. They fear going to police."

On top of it all, society looks down its nose on the undocumented for the work they do, he said.

Dominican Sister Marie Danaher, director of the New Yorkbased Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace, told CNS she hopes "the Zoe Baird fiasco" will prompt Congress to take a second look at the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which levied sanctions on employers who hire undocumented workers.

Sister Danaher called the argument that the undocumented take thejobs ofU .S. citizens fallacious.

"McDonald's, hotels and other places that pay minimum wage always are looking for employees.

Yet we know so many IU .S.) peo-

pie are out of work. The reason is they won't take those jobs," she said.

Cecilia Munoz, senior immigration policy analyst of the National Council of La Raza, thinks Nannygate has already produced a backlash against the undocumented and U.S. Hispanics.

"Even though Kimba Wood hired an undocumente~ worker prior to passage of the 1986 law and didn't violate any law, she was pushed out of consideration" for the attorney general post, said Ms. Munoz.

She points out that not all Hispanics are undocumented and not all undocumented workers are Hispanic. "You can have an Irish person or a Canadian person who looks so American and turns out to be an undocumented worker, or you can have someone named Maria Hernandez, with dark skin and dark hair, whose family has lived in the United States for six generations."

Patricia O'Caliaghan, coordinator of Project Irish Outreach of Catholic Charities ofthe Archdiocese of New York, says most Irish undocumented leave home because Ireland's unemployment rate is 20 percent.

A large majority of the Irish undocumented has been legalized in the past three years due to a new visa program that favors the Irish.

Nevertheless, Ms. O'Caliaghan called it an "excellent time" for Congress to quit "turning a blind eye" to the nation's child care needs and the injustices faced by the undocumented.

"There are remedies. Home care workers could be given labor certification," she suggests.

PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED WHEN A CLERIC IN THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER IS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH A MINOR INTRODUCTION It is painful to address the issue ofthe sexual abuse of children, especially when this abuse is inflicted by members of the clergy. This pain is caused in part by the growing realization of the long-term injury sexual abuse inflicts on a child and his/her family. The distress is also due to the injury inflicted on the community that is the Church. Despite the pain, or perhaps because of it, the situation should be addressed in a pastoral yet forthright manner.

Developments in the psychological sciences underscore the real and long-term injury done to children who are abused. It is also now known that certain types of abuse are of a compulsive and perhaps incurable nature.

It is appropriate, therefore, that a clear written policy be made public so that all will know how the Diocese of Fall River handles accusations of sexual misconduct by a cleric (priest or deacon) with a minor (under eighteen).

The procedures which follow are but a first step in a comprehensive approach to the issue of sexual abuse being undertaken by the Diocese of Fall River. Once the Review Board is in place, other aspects of the question will be addressed.

Among the first tasks of the Review Board will be to insure that proper personnel procedures govern accusations of sexual misconduct by all employees and volunteers ofthe Church. Such policies will address not only child abuse but also the issues of sexual harassment and sexual exploitation.

The Review Board, in consultation with the Vocation Team ofthe Diocese and the Office for the Permanent Diaconate, will study the psychological screening currently undertaken to assess potential candidates for the priesthood and diaconate. The tests given at the various seminaries will be reviewed from the perspective of identifying, to the extent possible, potential problems in the area of sexuality.

Problem candidates will be disqualified.

Another issue to be addressed in a comprehensive fashion is the ongoing development of appropriate educational programs in the area of human sexuality incorporated into the various educational programs offered by the Church. This study will be done in consultation with the Diocesan Education Office.

The first step in addressing the overall issue of sexual misconduct is the establishment of a Review Board and the procedures to be followed when a cleric is accused of sexual misconduct with a child.

The Diocese commits itself to the following action: • There will be an immediate response to all allegations of sexual misconduct by a cleric with a minor. .

• If an initial review reveals that the allegation is credible, the cleric will be placed on administrative leave pending further investigation.

• Any suspected case ofsexual misconduct with a minor will be reported to civil authorities.

• Confidential counseling.will be offered to the alleged victim and ~is/herfamily. . . ..

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• No diagnosed pedophile will be given any assignment in or by the Diocese of Fall River or be allowed to seek pastoral work outside the Diocese.

It should be noted here that both the law of our land and the law of our Church call for the presumption of innocence. While every allegation will be investigated seriously and fairly, we must remember that an accusation does not mean that someone is guilty. Such a judgment can be made only after all parties are heard and the evidence is reviewed.

The procedures do not detail the processes that are found in the Canon Law of the Church. In order to appreciate the rights and obligations of the clergy in a more complete manner, reference needs to be made to the procedural and penal laws ofthe Church.

These procedures are not "written in stone." They are to be reviewed and perhaps revised on at least an annual basis. Comments and suggestions for improvement are always welcome.

PROCEDURES 1. A Review Board shall be established by the Bishop to serve as an advisory body in

general matters concerning the issue of sexual misconduct and to serve as a monitoring and advisory board when a specific accusation of sexual misconduct by a cleric with a minor is made. The Board will have seven members: • An appropriately credentialed mental health worker who has expertise in matters concerning child abuse; • A civil lawyer; • A canon lawyer; • A priest with a pastoral/ parochial assignment; • An adult survivor of child sexual abuse; • A parent of a victim of sexual abuse; • A lay person.

The members of the Review Board are appointed by the Bishop. The Review Board is composed of men and women, lay and clergy, who have (or gain) expertise in the area of child abuse. It is anticipated that the members of the Review Board will have staggered terms in order to assure continuity. This body i~ to serve in an advisory capacity to Diocesan agencies and apostolates. Among other things, the Review Board shall assist these agencies in the development and / or refinement of personnel policies for all Diocesan employees regarding sexual abuse, the development of appropriate continuing education programs for clergy and laity, etc. Among the first tasks the Bishop will give to the Review Board is to work with the Vocation Team of the Diocese and the Office for the Permanent Diaconate to review the psychological screening given to potential candidates for the diaconate or priesthood.

Moreover, a protocol or procedure is to be developed to screen clerical personnel from outside the Diocese before an assignment is given or confirmed by the Bishop to minister within the Diocese of Fall River.

Finally, the Board will consult with the Bishop's Representative for Religious to assure that appropriate procedures are in place to deal with

accusations of women religious and non-ordained men religious concerning sexual misconduct with minors.

2. The Bishop shall appoint a Delegate from among the members of the Review Board to serve as his representative in cases involving an accusation of sexual misconduct by a cleric with a minor. The Delegate will chair the Review Board. The Bishop is free to appoint a su,bstitute Delegate as circumstances warrant.

The Bishop's Delegate represents him in these matters. This person may be any member ofthe Review Team. For various reasons a substitute or alternate Delegate may be named to assume the role. It could be that the Delegate is not available at the time or that a particular case may call for a certain type of person being named by the Bishop, e.g. a woman rather than a mari, someone who ·speaks a foreign language, etc.

3. Upon receipt of an allegation of sexual misconduct with a minor by a cleric, the Delegate (or a substitute Delegate) shall conduct a preliminary investigation. This initial review is expected to be completed within twenty-four to seventy-two hours of the receipt ofthe allegation. If the cleric is a member ora religious order, his religious superior is to be notified and made part of subsequent steps in the process, with due regard for the requirements of canon law.

The procedures call for immediate action when an allegation is received by the Bishop. The intent of this point is that the investigation be done without delay. It is recognized, of course, that the accused is innocent until proven guilty. This does not preclude, however, swift action in response to any and all accusations ofthis nature. Finally, this point calls attention to the fact that Church law requires the involvement of a religious superior when the accused is a member of a religious order.

4. The initial review will ordinarily include interviews with the accused cleric, the person making the complaint, and any witnesses. The review may include interviews with members of the alleged victim's family and the alleged victim himself/herself if permission is given to interview the minor and it is judged appropriate to do so.

The Delegate or his/ her representative is to talk to the key people involved and as many others as he/she feels warranted. The intent of the initial review is to clarify the nature of the claim. Ordinarily, the interviews should be done in person but circumstances may warrant a telephone interview with some individuals. When a small child is interviewed, this is to be done only by a person with a recognized expertise in this specialized field.

5. The accused cleric is to be advised of his right to retain independent legal and canonical counsel.

The cleric is to be advised of his right to seek the advice of his own counsel and that of a canon lawyer so that his rights may be protected. It is important that the cleric be aware of his rights under the laws of church and state from the beginning <if the process.

6. Upon receipt of an accusation, the Delegate shall notify the Review Board which shall meet and prepare a recommendation for the Bishop within forty-eight hours of the completion of the initial review. If the victim is presently a minor, the Delegate will immediately notify the proper civil authorities.

The Board oversees all the steps of the procedure dealing with the accusation. It is the intent of this point that the Board is convened without delay. The Board reviews the results of the initial investigation conducted by the Delegate and advises the Bishop regarding the need for additional action. The Review Board receives periodic reports from the Delegate and offers its advice to the Bishop until the case is concluded..

Substitutes and additions to the team may be made by the Bishop as needed.

7. If the Delegate, after receiving the results of the initial review, concludes that the accusation ofsexual misconduct has some credibility, the Bishop places the accused cleric on immediate administrative leave, pending the results offurther investigation, including professional evaluation of the accused. The professional evaluation is to take place at a recognized independent treatment facility. Administrative leave does not carry with it any presumption of guilt. If necessary, temporary residence is to be provided with no contact with minors. The priest's or deacon's faculty to preach is removed and the priest's faculty to hear confessions is suspended and he is advised to celebrate Mass privately. If the cleric refuses to cooperate, the appropriate procedures of canon law shall be invoked. If the accusation is found to be without any basis in reality, appropriate measures are to be taken to respond to any harm done to the cleric's reputation and ministry, especially ifthe accusations were made public.

The Review Board is to give its recommendation to the Bishop as soon as possible after it completes its consideration of the initial investigation. It is noted that administrative leave has no direct parallel in canon law but it has proven to be a useful instrument to protect both the accused and the accuser. It should be clear that administrative leave does not imply guilt but rather a need for tIme to pursue a serious accusation. The cleric's faculties are removed on a temporary basis. Finally, the evaluation of the cleric is to take place at a recognized independent treatment facility. Ordinarily this evaluation takes place over several days. If the accusation is without merit, it is important that any damage to the cleric's reputation and ministry be addressed.

8. Appropriate and confidential counseling is to be offered to the alleged victim and family. When necessary, the needs of the parish and wider community should be included in the re~ponse of the Review Board.

Part of the care and concern of the Diocese is the offer of counseling.

This extends, of course, to the alleged victim and the family. Depending on the nature of the case, appropriate pastoral care is extended to the parish community and others. The Diocesan Department of Social Services will be available to provide confidential counseling and/ or identify other qualified sources for assistance. The Diocese will underwrite the cost for this service.

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PROCEDURES 'TO BE FOLLOWED WilEN A CLERIC IN THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER IS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH A MINOR Continued from Page Five 9. All applicable civil reporting laws are to be followed. The Delegate (or substitute Delegate) is charged with acting on behalf of the Diocese in reporting suspected child abuse by a cleric to the appropriate civil authorities. The Diocese will cooperate with the authorities in the investigation and resolution of accusations.

Any suspected case. of child abuse is to be reported by the Delegate. This . step recognizes the legitimate right of the state to be involved in these cases. In cases which are not proseclitable because many years have passed, the wishes of the adult victim should be taken into consideration.

It is also noted that the confidentiality of the internal forum or confessor-penitent relationship can never be violated. However, the seal of confession is not ordinarily an issue in cases where an abuse is reported in the external or public forum.

10. If the alleged misconduct is a matter of public record, the Diocesan Office of Communications shall issue a statement and serve as the ongoing liaison with the . media. The members of the Review Board should not serve as spokespersons.

Beyond reporting the alleged abuse to the appropriate civil authorities (cf no. 9 above), the Diocese is not under an obligation to make accusations a matter of public record. Indeed, at times the victims request that they not be. If it is a matter of public record, the Review Board and others should refer all inquiries to the Diocesan Office of Communications. Thisoffice will deal with the matter in a manner respectful of the rights of all concerned. Charity, candor, and prudence are to be the characteristics of public statements.

11. The alleged victim and family will be kept informed of the response of the Diocese through regular reports from the Review Board or its representative.

This step is included in the procedures to help guarantee that the alleged victim and the family are aware of what the Diocese is doing to respond to the accusations.

12. Upon completion ofany treatment and before any return to public ministry, the Bishop is to consult with the Review Board before a decision is made concerning

what, if any, future assignment the cleric is to receive. No diagnosed pedophile will receive an assignment in the Diocese of Fall River or be authorized by the Bishop to minister outside the Diocese.

If the initial assessment by the treatment facility calls for additional residential treatment, the Diocese. makes such treatment mandatory before any reassignment shall be路 considered. The reassignment of a cleric who has sexually abused a minor is a very complex matter. Each case must be studied on its own with the benefit of the recommendation of the treatment center. No cleric is to be given an assignment which places children at risk. Canon law governs any laicization procedure or any other Church process that may be invoked.

13. These written procedures are to be given to every ch!ric incardinated in the . Diocese of Fall River or ministering in the Diocese of Fall River..

It is important that all clerics know what procedures govern allegatio~s of sexual misconduct with minors. An appropriate process to assure that this is communicated to all ordained ministers currently serving in the Diocese is to be developed by the Chancery Office. In the future, any cleric beginning his ministry in the Diocese is to be given a copy of the procedures.

14. These procedures are to be reviewed on a yearly basis.

This point asks that some appropriate body review these procedures each year to see that they respond in an adequate fashion to the issue at hand. Two possible units to review the procedures are the Diocesan Pastoral Council and the Priests' Council. The review should include persons familiar with developments in the civil law and the psychological sciences.

15. Anyone wishing to report an incident to the Bishop's Delegate should call Catholic Social Services at Fall River (508) 674-4681.

16. The Bishop's Delegate is Manuela Maciel. Miss Maciel has master's degrees in social work and bilingual education. She has had extensive experience in family counseling and treating victims of physical and sexual abuse. Miss Maciel is not an employee of the Diocese and accepts this position as a volunteer.

Parent Action: fighting for pro-family policies By DOLORES

Children: The American Familv Under Pressure, written 15 yea~s ago.

Congress. It's happened with such tiresome frequency that we pay little attention to campaign promises supporting the family anymore.

The good news is that, finally CURRAN and belatedly, parents are estabHow do politicians get away lishing a power base to make others listen to them. Parent A etion, a with this? They know children new organization similar to the have neither votes nor PAC monies, " ... The parent today is usually a AARP (American Association of hence no power. And it's the peocoordinator without voice or au- Retired Persons) is on the march ple with power who get legislation thority, a maestro trying to con- to press for legislation and assis- passed. The AARP recognized this years ago when it organized to duct an orchestra of players who tance to families and children. have never met and who play from promote issues of interest to older a multitude of different scores, As I've written before, the atten- people. Because of sheer numbers, each in a notation the conductor tion paid to the needs of families AA RP is so powerful that political cannot read. If parents are frus- and children by legislators is woe- candidates are afraid even to distrated, it is no wonder: for al- ful. As a nation, we spent more cuss issues like cutting medicare or though they have the responsibil- money on the Kurds last year than . Social Security benefits. ity for their children's lives, they on U.S. children. In spite of a preTakinga leaffrom AARP, leadhardly ever have the voice, the dictable emphasis on family needs authority, or the power to make and welfare by political candidates ing advocates for families and chilothers listen to them." during campaigns, they consis- dren have formed Parent Action, tently vote down income supple- an effort to amass great numbers The author of that piece is Ken- ments, health insurance, and child of parents and others interested in neth Keniston, in his book All Our care support once they land in families and children who will

monitor legiSlation, lobby for families, and call for letters to elected representatives when legislation comes up.

Parent Action's agenda is fourfold: public awareness to increase respect for the role of the parent; family-friendly legislation in the areas of health care, child care, education, employment and income security; connections among parents through State Parent Action Networks (SPAN), operated by parents to meet the needs of parents; and corporate partnerships that help employers implement policies that do not force parents to choose between family and job.

This kind of parent power organization is long overdue. In addition to being powerful, parents who join receive discounts on services, hotels, magazines, and books, receive newsletters and mailings,

and are kept up to date.on pending legislation. .

Cofounder Dr. T. Berry Brazelton writes, "The parents of this generation are beginning to feel empowered ... They are asking hard questions, demanding answers, and they are ready to fight for what they need for their children and themselves."

The hope is more for numbers than money and grandparents are most welcome to join because of their experience, wisdom, time, and concern for families today.

I plead with all in our church who are interested in supporting families to send for membership flyers to distribute to parents and encourage them to join. The address is Parent Action, B&O building, 2 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Phone: (410) 752-1790.

Christians have responsibility to counter anti-Semitism By

list. She has taken on the mission of ending hatred against Jews.

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Ms. Rose, who lives in Lantana, Fla., recently organized a task force against anti-Semitism. To 路get members, she also had been putting ads in two Florida newspapers.

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An anti-Semitic classified ad placed in a Florida newspaper wa,s the subject of a news report I read while on vacation. The advertisement discussed in the report had said, "SOAP - bar of Jewish Human Soap. Real WWII relic. $50," Does such hate still exist? Unfortunately, yes.

But in the newspaper I also came across the phone number of Cathy Rose, a Christian evange-

A recent ad read, "Bigots beware! We put you on notice! Any act of hate against Jews will be considered an act of hate against Christians. Beware, Jesus is on our side!"

Evidently, someone decided to retailiate with an act of hate. Thus the classified "soap" ad came about.

How did something so awful slip through the cracks to ever see the light of day in the newspaper?

The "soap" ad appeared ill the Florida Sun-Sentinel. An administrator there said the ad got in by mistake, due to human error, and he apologized "to anyone who was offended."

Ms. Rose said she received more than 200 calls after the s路tory about the "soap" ad came out.

Ironically, that same week the Sun-Sentinel reported that the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel was going to speak at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach on "reconciliation with one's enemies and other Jewish issues."

Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who has written several books about his experiences in the Nazi death camps where he was sent with his family when he was 15.

He tells how his mother and youngest sister were killed in the gas chambers. Hisfather was beaten to death in Buchenwald in 1945, . in front of him.

The newspaper also reported that in November Wiesel traveled to the former Yugoslavia, visiting a prison camp in Bosnia and urging the Serbian regime to end its siege of Sarajevo.

If anyone knows firsthand of the evil of "ethnic cleansing," it is Wiesel, who saw this scourge with his own eyes. It may be hard to believe that anti-Semitism continues, but it does.

Recently, a 20-page dirge was addressed to me as an editor. It was filled with the most horrid hate I think I ever read. It pro-

claimed over and over that the Jews were "poisoning" the American people.

I think we 'Christians have a non-negotiable responsibility to always be on guard against allowing any vestige of anti-Semitism to surface.

I once read a quote from a man named John Haynes Holmes, who said, "If Christians were Christians, there would be no antiSemitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes as toremember this awkward historical fact." 路Let us hope that this is no longer true. Let us hope that we are get~ ting closer to what Jesus preached: "Love one another as I have loved you."

Our crazy faith Leviticus 19:1-2,17-18 I Corinthians 3:16-23 Matthew 5:38-48

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Many cultures think "crazy people" are especially close to God. This logically flows from their presupposition that God is completely "other": totally different.

Since God doesn't reason as we do, talk as we do, or act as we do, they believe we can surface his/ her unique characteristics by experiencing those unlike ourselves.

People suffering from mental illness usually fit that description.

As a boy I remember when an ordinary visit to some of my relatives became very extraordinary.

The phone rang about an hour after we arrived. After answering it, the father calmly came back into the living room to announce that their son, who was in a mental institution, had just walked away from the hospital and probably was on his way home!

All the myths and stories my grade school classmates had whispered about such people immediatelY flashed through my mind. I wouldn't have objected if my parents had suddenly decided to end our visit and return to the predictable and secure confines of our home. But since they went on doing what they had been doing before the call, I figured I would soon have my first experience with someone very different from everyone else I knew.

Actually the young man's arrival was anticlimactic. Except for being self-conscious because of the unexpected visitors, he appeared quite normal- talking naturally, moving around like everyone else.

The hour or so of anticipation is more indelibly seared into my memory than his personality. Just the chance that I might have observed an extremely eccentric person was enough to make the night exceptional.

Our Sacred Authors presume the Lord's followers will also be "other." Though they don't make mental illness a prerequisite for discipleship, they expect that some observers might put us into that category.

What could be more crazy than the way God requires us to relate with our brothers and sisters? The

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN author of Leviticus gives an absurd, piercing command which Jesus will later expand and exem-

feb. 22: 1 Pt. 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-6; Mt. 16:13-19 Feb. 23: Sir 2:1-11; Ps 37:3-4,18-19,27-28,39-40; Mk 9:30-37 Feb. 24: 'JI 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6,12-14,17; 2 Cor 5:206:2; Mt 6:1-6,16-18 Feb. 25: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4,6; lk 9:22-25 Feb. 26: Is 58:1-9; Ps 51:3-6,18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Feb. 27: Is 58:9-14; Ps. 86:1-6; lk 5:27-32 Feb. 28: Gn 2:7-9,3:1-7; Ps 51:3-6;12-14,17; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11

. Un-like other religions, Judaism, had only one holy place: Yahweh's temple in Jerusalem. Though the Lord was present throughout the world, he/ she was more present there than in any other place. All worship happened in its precincts; sacrifice was permitted only there.

And since it is still standing when Paul writes, no one, except a crazy person, would apply that term to anyone or anyplace else.

Yet the Apostle uses this concept to show why we should love and respect everyone. Just as we would be reverent in the temple, so we should be reverent with one another. Paul believes the Lord has transformed each of us into the Holy of Holies.

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He can only defend his teaching by appealing to "holy insanity."

"If anyone of you thinks he is wise in a worldly way," he writes, "he had better become a fool. In that way he will really be wise, for the wisdom of this world is absurdity with God." Perhaps we Christians have become so sane that, like the experience with my relative, the only unique thing non-Christians remember about us is their anticipation. When they get to know us, they sadly discover we're just like everyone else, and not at all like God!

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Thanks to today'S technology we don't even have to go that far.

The tube that leads to your stomach when'you swallow is called the esophagus. It passes right behind your heart. Today at Saint Anne's Hospital, we have an incredible new scope that is

reflect these waves, the r~sulting image can be obscured by the other tissues in the chest.

That's why TEE is so valuable: by guiding our scope down the esophagus, we can get a

gently guided down this tube so it can

clear look at the heart without any of the

take detailed pictures of the heart from only a centimeter or two away

Transesophageal echocardiograms

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are especially useful for certain heart con-

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plify: "You ~halilove your neighbor as yourself."

For sanity's sake, we'd like to forget the Lord's injunctions: "Offer no resistance to injury... When a person strikes you on the right cheek, turn: ..If anyone wants to go to law over your shirt, hand him... Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go.. .In a word, you must be perfected as your heavenly Father is perfected."

Jesus' followers have unique reactions to one another because we regard everyone in a very unique way: the way God regards us.

There's a good reason for that.

"An; you not aware," Paul asks his Corinthian community, "that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?"

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TEE performed is a simple procedure. Since it's not

well protected. It is enclosed by the rib cage and is

an operation, the patient is awake th~ entire time with

surrounded by the lungs. The heart itself is further

only mild sedation, and it takes less than an hour.

cushioned by fat deposits.

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Today, Saint Anne's is the only hospital in our area to offer this amazing technology. It's just one

bouncing sound waves off the heart from outside the

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THE ANCHOR -

PC receives $2.5 million bequest In connection with Providence College's Diamond Jubilee celebration Feb. 13-14, college President Rev. John F. Cunningham, O.P. announced the college's receipt of a $2.5 million bequest from the late Francis L. Gragnani, a member of PC's Class of 1940.

Per Gragnani's request, $500,000 of his gift to PC has been used to create a scholarship fund to benefit Fall River area students, with special emphasis on graduates of Gragnani's alma mater, BMC Durfee High School.

The remaining $2 million has been added to PC's endowment fund.

The first recipient of the scholarship is Katherine Silvia, a member of Holy Name parish, Fall River, and BMC Durfee graduate now a freshman at Providence College.

During her high school years, Miss Silvia was a member of the National Honor Society, served as a council member and vice president of her parish youth group, taught CCD, served as secretary of the history club, and was a member of the varsity cheerleading squad.

She is now a member of Providence College's cheerleading squad.

Gragnani's gift is the largest charitable gift and largest individual gift received by Providence College during its 75-year history and is one of the largest gifts by an individual received by an college or university in Rhode Island. Already PC's most generous benefactor, Gragnani previously donated $1.5 million that made it possible for the college to build a new residence for its Dominican Friars and Brothers, the St. Thomas Aquinas PrioryjGragnani Dominican Center..

In May 1976, Gragnani received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Providence College and in May 1978 he was honored as a distinguished alumnus of BMC Durfee High School.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1940, Gragnani worked for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company for a short time before entering the Army Air Corps. He served in the Pacific theater during World War II and was honorably discharged from the Air Corps as a full captain.

He later joined the Japan Division of the Coca-Cola Export Corp., rising through the ranks to

a position of vice president. In 1962, he was awarded the CocaCola Bottling Franchise for Nagano Prefecture, Japan, which he developed into one of the world's most successful franchise operations. He returned to the United States in 1974 and embarked on a new career as founder and chairman of the board of Winthrop Financial Co., Inc. of Washington, D.C. He resided in West Hyattsville, MD, with his wife, Charlotte, who survives him. His brother, Joseph Gragnani, of Dartmouth, and sisters, Clorinda Gragnani of Fall River and Mrs. Thomas Gillette, a Fall River native, also survive him.

The Gragnani scholarship has become Providence College's 31st scholarship fund earmarked for Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts area students.

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Catholics today are "L.E. (come late and leave early) Catholics," "c. E. (Christmas and Easter) Catholics," "W.F. (wedding and funeral) Catholics" or "A.P. (ashes and palms) Catholics" instead of practicing Catholics.

He added that in his view most Americans follow the "American utilitarian, materialistic, individualistic" religion.

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Priest protests "spiritual abuse" GUILFORD, Conn. (CNS) A Connecticut priest has put up billboards throughout the state to protest what he calls parents' "spiritual abuse" of their children.

Father Edmund S. Nadolny, pastor of St. George Church in Guilford, recently raised 30 billboards asking parents to take their children to church in order to stop such abuse.

An indication of spiritual abuse, he said, is an increasing number of couples committing adultery.

Father Nadolny believes the roots of such behavior are found in the spiritual neglect of young people during their college, high school and grammar school years.

He said parents take their children to school, on vacations, to sporting events and to music lessons, but often not to church.

A survey he conducted of 150 ninth- through eleventh-graders showed, he said, that about 45 percent of the students said thei'r family never talked about God, the Bible or religious subjects.

According to Father Nadolny, young people who experience this will repeat the cycle with their own children.

"People who are victims will become victimizers, whether it's sexual, physical or spiritual abuse," he said in an interview with Catholic News Service.

Father Nadolny said that many

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NEW VOCATION: Marie Majercin, a 59-year-old San Diego grandmother, is about to realize a lifelong dream as she enters the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Clare in Tampa, Fla. (CNS photo) .

Grandmother becomes a nun SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Growing up in the 1940s and '50s, Marie Majercin dreamed of three things she wanted from life: to be a wife, a mother and a nun.

She became a wife and mother, and prayed one of her children would be called to religious life.

At age 59, Mrs. Majercin, a widow whose three children have children of their own, will realize her other dream and will enter the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Clare.

As early as her first Communion in Oahu, Hawaii, Mrs. Majercin said, she had "a special awareness of God's love for me and my love for him." Throughout Catholic grade school and high school, Mrs. Majercin was repeatedly invited by a teacher to enter the order but, she said, she wasn't ready at the time.

"I was flattered that she thought I was capable of living a religious life, but I didn't feel mature enough, I didn't feel ready," Majercin told The Southern Cross, newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego.

Mrs. Majercin briefly attended the University of Hawaii before moving to San Diego, where she met and married her husband.

Though content to be a wife and mother, Mrs. Majercin still kept her childhood dream of becoming a nun in the back of her mind.

When her youngest child was 20 months old and her oldest just 10, her husband died. Despite the financial difficulty, Mrs. Majercin put her children through Catholic schools by working first as an instructional aide and later as a physical therapy aide.

"I didn't want to take them out of school at St. Charles," she said.

"It was my goal to put them through Catholic schools and I believed God would provide."

All the while Mrs. Majercin c'ontinued her spiritual pursuits by meditating on the Psalms, the Lord's Prayer and Christ's teach-

ings. Her interest in a deeper spiritual life returned with involvement in the charismatic renewal movement.

Mrs. Majercin said her desire to become a nun grew as her spiritual life deepened. After making the final decision to join an order, she discovered the only obstacle was her age. A number of orders have a cut-off at age 40 or 41.

It was not until a vocations retreat that she found, in the Irish Sisters of St. Clare, an order that fit her perfectly.

"They didn't blink an eye about my age," Mrs. Majercin said. "And they seemed to have a special camaraderie, a certain humor and warmth."

Sister Bronach Meehan, the order's director of candidates in the United States, said age is not a factor.

"When I was in the novitiate in the 1950s, there was a mother and daughter in there together as well," she said: "It [late vocations in the order] dates back to St. Clare's time. Her own mother and two sisters all joined the order later in life."

Mrs. Majercin said her children accepted her decision to become a nun with little hesitation. She said that she doesn't look upon her future life as a sacrifice even though she's leaving behind family, home and job.

"I don't feel I'm giving anything up," she said. "I'm going forward to live God's will and I'll have the support of the sisters in the community."

When We Can't Pray "When we cannot pray, give that inability to Jesus. Let him pray in us to the Father. No one knows the Father better. Noone prays better than Jesus."- Mother Teresa

A new holy day?

What is it about Ash Wednesday that boosts attendance at Masses on this first day of Lent?

The crowds are so large, at least in downtown churches, that maybe it should become a new American holy day.

Is it because of the black smear on our foreheads that proclaims our Catholicism for all the world to see? Aside from making the Sign of the Cross, there aren't many other ways we can publicly. proclaim our faith.

The Ash Wednesday turnout is puzzling because most traditional Lenten practices have faded into the pre-Vatican II mists. Aside from fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstaining on Lenten Fridays, the penitential practices we seniors grew up with are now mostly memories.

Remember the crowded Way of the Cross services? My parish, old Ascension, used to offer simultaneous "Stations" at both up and downstairs churches. Remember the daily fasting - with breakfast and lunch combined no larger than dinner?

Remember the crowded confessional lines late in Lent as the deadline for the "Easter Duty" approached? And the fire and brimstone missions with visiting priests tongue-lashing men and wnmp.n nn clifferent nights?

When the Church dropped the requirement of general fast and abstinence during Lent, we were asked to substitute other penitentialpractices. One study made of a random group of diocesan Catho-

lics a year later showed that almost no one had begun new sacrifices or good works. But they had given up fasting.

The disappearance oflongstanding Lenten observances was consistent with many of the liturgical changes that came with the Second Vatican Council. Many parishes have discarded statues, prayer books, pamphlets, holy cards, paintings and "Stations" no longer in use.

Fearing that some ofthese signs of pre-Vatican II Catholicism would be lost forever, Boston College took steps to gather and preserve artifacts of those days in a unique museum. The Boston College Magazine calls it the "most complete guide to what it was like to grow up Catholic in America in the middle of this century."

The Jesuit school's "Liturgy and Life Collection" contains some 25,000 books and 50 cubic feet of pampfets including Baltimore catechisms, lives of the saints, missals, prayer books and much more.

Among the artifacts are rosaries, vestments, altar cloths, art, relics (relics?), films, scapulars, Mass cards, leaflets, posters, birettas and cassocks.

In charge of the collection is the Rev. William J. Leonard, SJ, who retired at 65 in 1973 after a career as a theologian and liturgical reformer. He became curator of the collection in 1978 and 'obtained most of the artifacts for little or nothing after making appeals in Catholic magazines and newspapers.

By BERNARD CASSERLY

The Boston College collection provides a valu.able repository of items from a historic era which is rapidly fading from memory. As a stubborn collector of practically everything, I am pleased that these records and artifacts are being preserved. ~ But I am worried that some items are being stashed which deserve more circulation. There is a new and growing need for rosaries, medals, Bibles and all kinds of religious literature in land once behind the Iron Curtain.

The people who were kept ignorant ofthe Gospel message during 75 years of Soviet oppression are now hungry to hear the word of the Lord. Evangelical groups are working hard spreading the Good Ncws throughout the old Soviet Union and its one-time satellites.

I forget who said it, but I remember these words from a wise bishop: "We Catholics know how to keep the faith. Unfortunately, we don't know how to spread it." Let's not fill museums with works that still have the power to evangelize the world.

And making Ash Wednesday a holy day might send a message of faith and hope to our crazy, mixed-up world.

A t diocesan health facilities THE DIOCESAN Health Facilities office has produced a video that describes the four Catholic nursing homes sponsored by the Fall River diocese. The ten-minute video combines interviews with residents, staff and family members with scenes of everyday activities such as physical therapy, dining and daily Mass.

Paul Martin of Fire City Pictures, Fall River, directed the video, which was developed to increase community awareness of services provided at the four diocesan homes.

The video is available to anyone who would like to have more information about the nursing homes: Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River; Marian Manor, Taunton; Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven and Madonna Manor, North Attleboro.

As a public service for community and parish groups, facility staff can also offer informational programs about the changing nature oflong-term care in Massachusetts.

A copy of the video and details about community information programs can be obtained by calling any of the nursing homes or the Diocesan Health Facilities Office at 679-8154.

The video will also be distributed to local hospitals and community agencies.

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and speech therapies both for extended and short-term care.

Mrs. Buck was previously Chief of Physical Therapy at Bay Pines Veterans' Hospital, Bay Pines, FL, a 1200 bed facility with a' 240 bed nursing care unit. She holds a bachelor's degree in physical therapy from St. Louis University, MO, and is a registered physical therapist.

**** SUSAN L. CALDWELL has been promoted to assistant administratorat Madonna Manor, North Attleboro. She has served as personnel director at the nursing home for five years, and will continue to

supervise the personnel department as well as the activities, nutrition and environmental services departments.

Mrs. Caldwell received her Massachusetts nursing home administrator license in December after having completed an administrator in training program at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River.

The North Attleboro resident is also enrolled in the graduate program in business administration at Bryant College, Smithfield, RI. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Catholic Golden Age names president SCRANTON, Pa. (CNS) Father Gerald N. Dino, pastor of Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church in Jessup, Pa., has been

Feb. 20 1922, Rev. James H. Fogarty, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River 1986, Rev. Raymond M. Giguere, D.P., Assistant, St. Anne, Fall River

Feb. 22 THERESA D. BUCK has been 1954, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jovite named director of physical therapy for the Diocesan Health Facil- Chagnon, Founder, St. Joseph, ities. She will supervise the provi- . New Bedford sion of rehabilitative services at Feb. 25 the four nursing homes.

1988, Rev. LeoJ. Ferreira, Vicar The nursing homes are equipped General of Brownsville Diocese to provide physical, occ'upational and Pastor, St. Mary, Brownsville

named president of Catholic Golden Age, a non-profit organization for Catholics age 50 and over.

Father Dino, who will retain the parish post he has held since 1979, will oversee all operations of the Scranton-based organization, which provides group health insurance and other financial and spiritual benefits to its members.

Although a "young golden-ager" at 53, Father Dino is no stranger to the concerns of older people.

"I have found in my pastoral work that older people don't fear death; the main concern is illness, living with illness," he said. "In my new position, I want to do all I can to address the practical concerns, as well as the spiritual concerns, of growing older."

Father Dino was elected by Catholic Golden Age's board of directors.

CHAMP HOUSE: More than a shelter Continued from Page One should be." But each youth is on a "different time table."

CHAMP assumes that each client wants to and is capable of rising above whlltever adversity moved him to seek help. What they need most, said Hebert, is a place to call home and someone to care.

"The first course of treatment is proximity," he said. "They need someone to stand by them."

That means around-the-clock availability for the Heberts and program director Joe Rota. They and a small office staff, including grant officer Claudia Moniz, "fill many functions," said Rota, citing support services, arranging for clients' job interviews and schooling, and referring them to other community resources.

While not overly-regimented, CHAMP insists on some structure. "We have standards," Hebert explained. "They've got to go to school, work, take care of their physical and mental health." The program emphasizes good nutrition, maintenance of the facility, and "good socializing habits - no rowdy friends," said Rota. Friends are welcome for visits and clients may spend time at friends' houses, but there is a curfew of 10 p.m. weeknights and midnight on weekends.

The staff struggle constantly, Hebert said, with the question of "how to help appropriately" youth who should be advancing toward self-sufficiency.

"The question is how to be supportive and not enabling [of irresponsible behavior). And only God can answer that," he said. "So we 'often find oUfse1ves asking; 'What ' would Jesus doT" Every time there is a conflict at CHAMP, he said, he thinks of one young man snapping his fingers and saying, "We can't change just like that!"

How Much Do You Care?

"They will test you arid test you and test you," Hebert said, "because they are constantly asking, 'Ho.w much do you .care?'

"If we give them the feeling they can't stay here because of their behavior, they've heard that before.

They grow accustomed to it and live with that expectation."

Very few clients are asked to leave unless they I;lre using drugs or alcohol or are endangering others, he noted.

A popular saying Hebert recalled says that families should "give children roots and wings." But CHAMP's clients, he said, "have no roots."

They are youth whose parents were addicts or committed suicide, children who were abused, neg" lected, rejected or abandoned. They come to CHAMP never having experienced a "sense of love and belonging," Hebert said.

Most people can overcome traumatic experiences, he continued.

But some people "stop growing.

That's why you see the mentality of a 14-year-old in a 19-year-old."

After living in garages, basements and cars trying to survive day to day, added Rota, these youth "don't have much concept of future, of growth and attainment - just a concept of loss and deprivation."

To turn their lives around, CHAMP must become more than just another place to sleep and obtain food; it must be a place of tolerance, love and hope.

"Our message is that they are

valuable, respected, lovable and God's children," said Hebert. "We are always hopeful for the best in them."

"Their backgrounds are totally foreign to me and Joe, because that's not where we came from," he added. "So we can only try to be understanding, to provide respect, dignity and support. They're not perfect; we're not perfect. More days than not,love saves the day."

Not Justa House but a Home CHAMP House, a former captain's home most recently used as a boardinghouse, required six months of renovation to accommodate the youth program. Its rooms are airy, attractively decorated, and well-furnished thanks to .donations from Our Lady of Victory and Our Lady of the Assumption (Osterville) parishes.

The kitchen is stocked with fruits, vegetables and meat purchased with CHAMP funds and bread, pies and other sundries provided by food pantry programs.

"It's only the best," Hebert said of the provisions. "N 0 matter what their circumstances [before they came to CH A MPI. residents are entitled to live indignity." CHAMP provides for them "as we would provide for Jesus...· The bedrooms of CH AMP House look like those of typical youth in suburbia (perhaps a little tidier): posters of Bart Simpson and Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens adorning the walls, weight sets tucked in corners, baseball caps hanging from posts. Upstairs a youth leafs through a school notebook; on a downstairs sofa, another listens to music through headphones. .

Withinthis fionieYat'ni.ospheie~, CHAMP provides a foster family of sorts for youth whose traumatic pasts have engendered a look-outfor-number-one attitude.

Hebert is a calming presence, equally at home making sandwiches in the kitchen or counseling a client about his future.

And, as CHAMP has grown, it has expanded its services to include young women and older persons, housed in a 'smaller, 'separate apartmentatCHAMP Houseand another building containing apart-

ments named for benefactor Alice O'Neill. The latter building also houses administrative offices.

Th~se clients have included a young woman told to leave home at age 18 and a man o£10 who was about to lose his apartment.

The diverse mix is a "providential accident" that has become an important· part of CHAMP's mission to promote community, said Rota. . "Community is very important..

They have to learn to be responsible for one another if they are to grow" as persons.

A residents' committee has been' created to take clients' concerns to the directors, and there are informal signs of community cohesiveness as well, such as a specialneeds teen patiently tutoring a developmentally disabled 20-yearold.

"Once in a while you see something special happening, and you know you're on the right track," ·Rota said.

Not Logical Hebert is the first to admit that opening doors to a population society considers beyond help flies in the face of logic.

"We're not a state agency. We are not mandated by law" to take care of people, he said.

Rather, he feels "commissioned

by Matthew 25. Our roots are Catholic. We're supposed to take care of one another - and that takes us into the realm of faith."

Faith, it seems, is what has kept CH AM P's doors open despite indifference and resistance the program has encountered.

"Here we have a population of young men wh9 shouldbe able to 'care for theinsdv'es," Hebert explained. Once they are 17 years old, they are beyond the realm of the state Department of Social Services. "They're not cute any- . more," Hebert put it bluntly. "They have adult problems."

A volunteer renovating the house walked out, Hebert recalled, when he learned that the facility would be serving 17- and 19-year-olds.

"He said he was a man and could take care of himself at that age," said Hebert The late Alice O'Neill left HFA

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One of the residents left the room, Hebert. said, overwhelmed because "N obody's ever done this for me before!"

That is why the Heberts persevere. "If we're not here for these kids, they would be in jail, have a greater risk of being drug addicted, hungry, lonely, tired," he said. The difficulty of running such a program is evidenced by the fact that "no one else is doing it." .

There are an estimated 150 youth in need of such services on Cape Cod, he added. "We have eight of them. Where are the rest?" .

CHAMP will continue, he said, because "they're all capable of making it with enough love and enough care."

And CHAMP, too, will make: it "with enough love and care from the faith community."

$600,000 in her will, giving a sizable ·boost to the program, but additional support has been slow in coming.

In one campaign, Hebert sent out 40,000 pieces of mail asking, "Do you care enough to make a kid a CHAMP?" The response: "We got one letter back offering to be a [volunteer]. And a phone call saying we had a nerve taking care of these kinds of people!" Hebert recounted.

And yet he is not discouraged.

Far from it.

"We live on faith. God doesn't order anything he doesn't pay for," he quipped.

Local parishes have been supportive from the beginning, he added, and for the holidays OLV donated gifts and food for a CHAMP Christmas party.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 19, 1993

DURING HIS recent Africa visit, Pope John Paul II reaches out to a baby infected with the AIDS virus at St. Francis Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. (eNS photo)

Pope demands resp~ct for Sudanese Catholics' rights KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNS) values and ideals in the Sudanese - Pope John Paul II arrived in people and endowed them with the .Khartoum preaching peace and sense of tolerance and peaceful demanding respect for the religious coexistence unprecedented in the African continent." rights of Sudanese Catholics.

"All the church asks for is the Although there are problems in freedom to pursue her religious the country, Bashir said he was and humanitarian mission," the convinced they could be resolved. pope said on his Feb. 10 arrival.

The visit to Sudan, he said, gives Sudan is in the midst of a civil the pope "a chance to see the facts war pitting the mostly Arab-Mus- for yourself and to see how the lim North against black Christians Sudan ... has devised ways and and animists from the South. The means whereby all can enjoy life fundamentalist Muslim govern- and live in harmony, fraternity ment of Khartoum has been accus- and tranquility," the general said. ed of human rights violations and At Khartoum's cathedral, women of trying to impose Islamic law religious did not have such a rosy and Arabic language on non-Mus- picture of Sudanese reality. One lims. said "it is a miracle" that the pope "I have kissed the soil of Sudan was able to come. with profound sentiments of peace Sister Tascita, an Italian nun and goodwill," the pope said as he who has spent 45 years in Sudan, was welcomed at the airport by said, "It is a time of war, so it is a Sudan's president, Gen. Omar AI . special situation. Religion is going Bashir. on inside, because in times of per"When people are weak and secution God triumphs in the heart poor and defenseless, I must raise of people." my voice on their behalf," he said.

The pope told church workers Vatican spokesman Joaquin Na- that he is aware of the country's varro-Valls said that statement was problems and of the "untold misthe same line the pope used in 1979 ery, suffering and death" the civil during his first papal visit to war has brought, especially to the Poland, when the communist gov- South. ernment of his Iiomeland was He told them to stand firm in oppressing Catholics and those their faith despite the restrictions seeking political reforms. the government has placed on ex"Let us listen to the voices of our ercising their ministry. brothers and sisters, especially The pope said that when he those oppressed by poverty, hunger looks at what is going on in Sudan, and violence, as they cry out for "I see clearly a particular reprojustice and peace and for a new era duction of the mystery of Calvary of dialogue and agreement," the in the lives of the majority of Christian people." But Jesus' paspope said.

Bashir, dressed in his army uni- sion, death and resurrection is the form, welcomed the pope, saying: source of Christian strength and hope, he said. '~Christianity and Islam have flourished and ingrained their "When man's justice fails, it

alone heals our wounds and gives meaning to our efforts," he said.

The pope made his demands very clear in a formal meeting later with Bashir at Khartoum's Friendship Hall.

He told Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 military coup, that the measure of a national government's maturity is the way it res'pects human rights and protects its minorities.

In a multiethnic and multicultural society, he said, confrontation between the groups can never bring peace and progress.

"Only a legally guaranteed respect for human rights in a system of equal justice for all can create the right conditions for peaceful coexistence and cooperation in serving the common good," he said.

The pope told Bashir that "the freedom of individuals and communities to profess and practice their religion is an essential element for peaceful human coexistence." .

Repeatedly during his nine-hour visit, the pope called for cooperation and respect between the nation's Muslim majority and Christian minority.

He expressed the "Catholic Church's high regard for the followers of Islam" and said Christians are eager to work with Muslims to bring peace and prosperity to the nation.

"The whole church understands your distress and prays for you," the pope told Christians gathered for Mass at Green Square, on the outskirts of Khattoum, where an estimated 200,000 people gathered while camels scrounged for food along the fence.

The Mass was a delayed Sudanese celebration of the May 1992 . beatification of $ister 19sephine Bakhita, a former slave who was born in what is now Sudan.

Leaders of the Sisters of Charity of Canossa, the order Blessed Bakhita joined in Italy after the family she was given to moved there, brought relics of her body back for each Sudanese diocese.

"Religious freedom is a right which every individual has because' it springs from the inalienable dignity of each human being," the pope said at the Mass.

"Today the successor of Peter and the whole church reaffirm their support of your 'bishops' insistent call for respect of your rights as citizens and as believers," he said.

The life of Blessed Bakhita shines as a ray of hope for Sudanese Christians and as proof that the human spirit can resist attempts to enslave it, he said.

"Bakhita has come back to you," he said. She is a "daughter of Sudan sold into slavery as a living piece of merchandise and yet still free. Free with the freedom of the saints."

Pope to Albania?

VATlCAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II will probably make a one-day trip to Albania in April to ordain four new bishops. there.

Vatican officials said. The trip would highlight the pope's restoration of the church hierarchy in a country that once defined itself as the world's "first atheist state."

The bishops' appointments were announced duringa Christmas midnight Mass in Tirana. the Albanian capital. by Archbishop Ivan Dias. the Vatican's nuncio to the Balkan country. Among the new bishops is an Albanian priest of the New York archdiocese.

Pope institutes World Day of the Sick VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II, marking the first annual World Day of the Sick, recalled the suffering he saw during his Feb. 3-10 trip to Africa, especially among AIDS patients.

The pope made the remarks to a group of sick gathered in St. Peter's Basilica Feb. I I, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. He instituted the annual event to remind the church of the sick and of its obligation to help care for them.

"In my eyes and in my soul I am keeping alive the images of Africa," the pope said the day after returning from an eight-day visit to Benin, Uganda and Sudan.

He recalled that he had offered special prayers there "for those who suffer, for the victims of famine and war, and for people stricken by serious diseases, in particular AIDS." He asked that all of them may come to know the "healing power of the Gospel."

During his African trip, th~ pope visited a hospital in Uganda and blessed patients with AIDS, leprosy and other serious diseases. He spoke with several children suffering from AIDS or the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. Uganda is the center of the

AIDS crisis in Africa, with 35,000 confirmed cases and an estimated 1.5 million with HIV. The pope also asked the international community to give more help to Africa's hungry and suffering.

Last fall, to commemorate World Day of the Sick, the pope released a message urging increased health care contributions from individuals, governments and international organizations. Ongoing wars and famine in many parts of the world make such aid even more urgent, he said.

'Archbishop Adam J. Maida of Detroit marked the first World Day of the Sick with a column on the value of human life in the Feb. II issue of the Detroit Free Press.

A companion piece was to appear in the next edition of The Michigan Catholic, Detroit archdiocesan newspaper.

"The moral vision I would like to offer to the ongoing public debate about the value of human life is simply this: Every moment of life is precious, from the first moment of conception until the last natural breath," he wrote. "In that process, even suffering - yes, even terminal suffering - has value and meaning."

Pope decrees jubilee to commemorate 1493 arrival of missionaries VATICAN CITY (CNS)- The year 1492 has had its celebration.

Now the church wants to commemorate 1493, little-remembered in history but of great importance for evangelization.

Pope John Paul II has declared a three-month jubilee for Spain and Latin America to mark this year's SOOth anniversary of the first missionaries' arrival in the New World.

A plenary indulgence will be offered to. those participating in special liturgical ceremonies organized by local churches during the period of Feb. 28, the first Sunday of Lent, to May 30, the feast of Pentecost.

The special events will take place in all the cathedrals of Spain and Latin America and in sanctuaries designated by local bishops.

The first Christian missionaries arrived in the Western Hemisphere in late 1493, more than a year after explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas.

The pope did not want the start of the New World's evangelization to be simply a historical memory, but a moment of spiritual renewal, Bishop Cipriano Calderon, vice president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told Vatican Radio.

"The pope wanted these special celebrations for two reasons: first, to thank the Lord for missionaries who came principally from Spain; second, to give a new thrust to evangelization," he said.

Polish paper gets church OK WARSAW, POLAND (CNS) - Eastern Europe's first churchapproved Catholic daily newspaper has begun publishing' in Warsaw with a initial run of21O,000 copies.

The 16-page Slowo - Dziennik Katolicki (The Word - a Catholic Daily) is a retooled version of an existing newspaper that has been' published since 1946 by the Pax Association, a communist government-approved organization which the Polish hierarchy refused for decades to recognize as authentically Catholic.

But the hierarchy now says the Pax organization publication has had a change of heart.

In a surprise announcement in early January, Pax officials said Polish primate Cardinal Jozef Glemp had agreed to give the church's .blessing to the daily, allowing it to be re-inaugurated with church approval.

Distinguished Graduates honored Father Martin Dubuc, SSC, a Columban missionary serving in Japan; Monique Bourgeois Stylos, news anchor for Cable 13 in the Greater New Bedford/ Fall River area; and Bill Connelly, an executive of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Hanover, NJ, were recently honored by the National Catholic Educational Association as 1993 Catholic Elementary School Distinguished Graduates.

The award recognizes outstanding personal and professional achievements of Catholic elementary school graduates and highlights "people who as adults put into practice the values and ideals they learned in their Catholic schools," said Dr. Robert Kealey, executive director of the NCEA's Department of Elementary Schools.

The local awards were presented during Catholic Schools Week.

Father Dubuc's award was accepted at his home parish, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro, by his sister, Simone Dubuc Romero, during a family/alumni Mass. He graduated from Sacred Heart School (now merged with St. Mary's School) in 1966, then attended Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from St. Thomas College in St. Paul, MN, and a masters in theology from St. John's Seminary, Brighton.

After his ordination in 1979, he was assigned to mission work in Japan, where he has taught junior college, directed an elementary school and served . as pastor of Fujisawa Catholic Church in Fujisawa Kanagawa Prefecture.

His mission includes reassimilat-

ST. MARY-Sacred Heart School principal Alberta Goss (top left) and director Father Marcel Bouchard present NCEA Catholic Elementary School Distinguished Graduate Award to Simone Dubuc Romero, who accepted the honor on behalf of her brother, Japan missionary Father Martin Dubuc, SSC (below).

ingJapanese who have lived abroad for many years.

"He definitely always seemed marked for life as a missionary," Mrs. Romero said upon accepting the award for Father Dubuc. "Had he not chosen the priesthood, I'm sure he would have done social work or lived some other life of service."

On a recent visit home, during which he studied Spanish, Father Dubuc visited St. Mary-Sacred Heart School to share stories about his work and give lessons in Japanese culture and customs.

"Whenever he is home in the states he comes to St. Mary-Sacred Heart School to talk with our children," said principal Alberta Goss. "His life shows his commitment to Catholic education."

Ms. Stylos received her award during a school Mass at St. Mary's Church, New Bedford. She graduated from St. Mary's in 1977 and went on to New Bedford High School and the University of South Florida.

She credits St. Mary's with preparing her in a unique way to meet the responsibilities of adult life, and she exemplifies St. Mary's motto: .. A Tradition of Excellence Leads to a Future of Excellence." .

Connelly, a 1954 graduate of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, was honored for contributions he has made in the area of aging, companion animals, pet facilitated therapy and intergenerational education.

In 1985, he founded and was president of the Rhode Island Alzheimer Crisis Intervention Clinic, a 24-hour-a-day resource 'center for patients and caregivers. In 1990, he and his partner, Betsey Douglas MacDonald, cofounded Jeffs Companion Animal Shelter in Westport, named for Connelly's dog.

The couple plan to expand the scope of the shelter, increasing nursing home and hospital visits and conducting animal education programs at local schools.

A Westport resident, Connelly attended Durfee High School and Bradford Durfee College of Technology (University of Massachusetts). He earned a master's degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and in 1991 received a honorary doctorate in humane letters from the University of Massachusetts.

The first Distinguished Graduate a wards were given in 199 I. Ms. Stylos, Father Dubuc and Bill Connelly join hundreds of other distinguished Catholic school alumni from around the country, including a Kansas governor, Thailand missionary, circuit court judge, TV news producer and Air Force combat training division chief.

The NCEA, founded in 1904, represents more than 200,000 educators serving 7.6 million students in Catholic education at all levels.

Award given WASHINGTON (CNS) - Ursuline Sister Alice Gallin, a visiting research scholar at The Catholic University of America in Washington, recently received the Theodore Hesburgh Award. Named for the former president of the University of Notre Dame, the award was established in 1989 and is given to those who exhibit outstanding leadership in Catholic higher education.

Sister Gallin has taught European history and written two books and several articles!

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 19,1993

Boston archdiocese sends medical supplies to Cuba BOSTON (CNS) - Fifty boxes of medical supplies from Massachusetts are being put to use in Cuba through an arrangement·between the archdiocese of Boston and Cuba's Ministry of Health.

Boston Auxiliary Bishop Roberto Gonzales and Msgr. William Murphy, archdiocesan secretary for community relations, accompanied the shipment to Cuba, where they were met at the airport Feb. I

by Havana Archbishop Jaime Ortega.

The idea for the airlift came about when Bishop Gonzales and Msgr. Murphy attended the episcopal ordination of Havana Auxiliary Bishop Alfredo Petit Vergel more than a year ago.

While they were in Havana, Archbishop Ortega explained the dire need for medical supplies in his country and asked if somehow the Americans could lend a hand.

Red tape caused by the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba was untangled, and the Boston archdiocese purchased $15,000 worth of supplies, mostly medicine for children and the elderly.

The supplies will be distributed to clinics and hospitals by Caritas Cuba, an agency similar to Catholic Charities.

A State Department spokesman

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said such deliveries of humanitarian goods are fairly common despite the longstanding trade embargo, as long as the parties involved obtain approval from the Treasury Department.

The Cuban Ministry of Health agreed to a church stipulation that none ofthe supplies be used for the military or tourists, going instead to the general Cuban population.

The ministry provided a list of medicines and other items that would be most helpful, particularly for children and the elderly, according to Msgr. Murphy.

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By Charlie Martin

LOVE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS

By Linda L. Rome you put a lot of effort into it and . are really proud of it."

Almost any parent will say that 4. Your father says yes to a the biggest trouble living with a sleep-over but tells you you have teenager is, in one word, "mouth."

As in too much mouth - or in' to be home by 10 in the morning.

Your response: a) "Get real! We'll old-fashioned terms, "Don't you all still be asleep." b) "I might as talk back to me young lady!"

You know the drill. Whatever well not go if 1 have to be home by then. Everyone'll think I'm a dork." way your parents say)t, you know c) "Would it be possible for me to what it means. stay until 12, Dad, or do you have And usually you feel you were plans that include me?" just expressing your opinion. ("I 5. Your sister mentions that she don't see why I should have to do all the dishes, I'm not the only one forgot her homework again. You say: a) "Bird-for-brains, you'll be who eats around here.") lucky if you ever graduate." b) I had the same problem as a teen"What a dope! What is that, the ager. I'm nut sure I ever outgrew it sixth time this week?" c) "Maybe while I still lived with my parents, but I did figure out the cause of you could call a friend and get the what I called "the look" on my assignment over the phone."

6. Your mother is telling your father's face. brother to clean his room. You That look could freeze me into silence at 20 paces. So I learned to chime in: a) "Yeah, it's a real pigsty!" b) "I don't think he knows minimize the number of clashes how to clean." c) Nothing, nada, that led to the use of his deadly silence. weapon.

If answers a or b sounded like How can teens minimize the something you might catch yournumber of these clashes? Try taking the following quiz to get the self saying, here are some "mouth" discussion started. Pick answers habits you might practice.

-Avoiding sarcasm. Sarcasm for these six questions that sound usually isn't funny.; it tends to hurt most like what you would say: I. Your mother asks whether or the sender as well as the receiver.

-Be polite. Words like"please." not you practiced your horn since you came home from school. You "thank you" and "you're welcome" answer: a) "What do you think?" go a long way with parents and b) "Of course. Do you think that family members.

If it isn't kind, don't say it. was the flute you heard?" c) "Yes, I -I'd go one step further. Look did."

2. Your brother compliments for the good, and point it out.

-If you disagree, keep your you on winning the swim meet. tone civil. Practice presenting your Your response: a) You pretend not position in a calm, neutral and to hear him and don't answer. b) pleasant tone of voice.

"Yeah, right!" c) "Thanks!" .

- Don't name call.

3. Your sister shows you the -Mind your own business. pottery she made in art class. Your Don't get in the middle of someresponse: a) You wrinkle your f!lce one else's conversation without an in distaste and shout, "Ug-Iy!" b) invitation.

"That's the best you could do after Keep these hints in mind, and 10 weeks? W,hew!" c) "I can see with practice you can eliminate "the mouth" in your home, along with its dread companion, "the look.~' .

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There ain't a dream That don't have a chance To come true now It just takes a little faith baby Anything that we want to do We can do now . There ain't nothing in our way baby Nothing our love Couldn't rise above We can get through the night We can get to the light Long as we got our love To light the way With a little faith Just a little trust If you believe in love Love can move mountains Believe in your heart And feel, feel it in your soul And love baby, love can, Love can move mountains Oceans deep and mountains high They can't stop us Because love is on our side baby We can reach the heavens And touch the sky Just believe it, believe it In you and I baby If we got love.

That is strong enough We can do anything, Make it through anything 'Cause through it all, Love will always find a way With a little faith You believe in me I'll believe in you If we believe in each other Nothing we can't do If we got love That is strong enough Love will find a way With a little faith Written by D. Warren. Sung by Celine Dion. (c) 1992 by Realsongs (ASCAP) LOOKING FOR ways to Then listening to Celine Dihelp your dreams come true? on's "Love Can Move Moun-

Pope rates Secret Service detail WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U. S. Secret Service will take the lead in protecting Pope J oh.n Paul II during his' visit to World Youth Day 1993 in Denver. .

Father Kenneth Jenkins, assistant general secretary. for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the Secret Service will provide the pope with 24-hour protection from the mome'nt he arrives until he leaves. The pope is to participate in the last two days of the youth event, which is Aug. 11-15.

The pope's position as a visiting head of state automatically accords Secret Service protection..

"The pope draws the largest crowds of anyone in the whole world. No others are in the same class," said Father Jenkins in a stat.ement. He is responsible. for coordinating any needs of the papal party during the events.

Father Jenkins added that other agencies will help safeguard the pope.

Members of. the Swiss Guard and Vatican security, who always travel with the pope, will also provide 24-hour protection. Local

police, responsible for the safety of citizens, will handle crowd control.

Before the pope arrives, the Secret Service will study sites the pontiff will visit to evaluate security nee.ds.

Ed Zahren, head of the Secret Services' Denver field office, said

tains" might give you some ideas.

Dion is one of my favorite new stars. I really like how she uses her vocal talents to convey emotional intensity.

All of us have dreams. However, we may wonder what we can do to bring them more greatly into reality. Celine suggests that a powerful combination of spiritual abilities can help us reach more of our dreams.

The song focuses on a particular kind of dream, namely, the dream of keeping a romantic relationship alive. Yet the song's ideas can be applied to any dream.

First, people are encouraged to keep "a little faith" in our dreams. This means you must ."believe in your heart" that the goal you seek actually can be attained. The power of faith is to create a spiritual pathway so that the dream can be realized.

Next, use the power of emotion to "feel it in your soul." To do this, imagine what it would feel like to be living your dream.

Sense the satisfaction, joy or meaning that reaching the dream will add to your life.

Finally, add the magic of love to your dream. In the song's words, "If we got love that is strong enough, we can do anything."

So ask yourself: "What do I have genuine passion for? What sparks my deepest interests?"

For example, say you just love to work and be around younger children. Use this deep interest to dream about a career that connects you with children, like becoming a child psychologist, pediatric nurse or teacher.

When your dreams are about what you just love to do, then you're in tune with your truest spiritual direction.

Belief, emotional desire and love are God's gifts to you for reaching your goals. With these abilities as part of your life, dare to dream big! .

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635. that detailed security planning cannot be completed until the Vatican officially approves sites.

With constant demands on the pope's time complicating his schedule, Father Jenkins said, it's difficult to make decisions too far in advance.

SHOOTING HOOPS: Jesse McNutt, a fourth-grader at .·St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, shoots from the foul line during a Kaleidoscope basketball tournament held recent~y at St. John's School in Attleboro.

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BISHOP CONNOLLY High School principal Father John P. Murray, SJ, (left of Bishop O'Malley) speaks during a Spirit Week Mass celebrated by the bishop.

ners are instructed at Connolly by Charles Dwyer.

The exhibit of Gold and Silver Key work will hang at the State Transportation Building in Boston until Feb. 28th, when the Awards' Ceremony for Gold and Silver Key Awards Winners will be held.

For the second year in a row, Connolly's varsity hockey team has clinched the Eastern Athletic Conference championship. The Cougars finish the EAC season with a mark of 10-1-1. The hard work put in by Coach Mike Relihan and his 25 players has really paid off over the years as the team has now taKen or challenged for the league title and qualified for the state tournament in five of the last six seasons. It's a strong program that just keeps getting better!

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It's usually a week of fun and activities designed to let students show their school spirit and this year's Spirit Week was no different in that regard. What was different was that Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, invited Bishop Sean O'Malley to join in the celebration to celebrate Mass.

He was able to experience firsthand the energy and enthusiasm that the Cougars can generate on Spirit Week.

Bishop O'Malley's message was one of hope and of a call to action.

He called on the students and faculty to be lights of Christ to others. He spoke of heroes and the need for humanity to have heroes.

He used the heroes of the Church, the saints, as examples of people to emulate.

The 'week's activities also included various dress up and dress down days.

- Clash Day brought out the worst in student body fashion.

- P.J. Day afforded people a chance to wear comfy bathrobes and unusual slippers. Manyacces-

sorized their sleepwear with assorted stuffed animals, usually teddybears.

- Country and Western Day saw the cowpoke in everyone shine forth.

- Decade Day gave everyone a chance to dress in the garb of their favorite decade ofthe last 40 years.

The 60s proved popular with the majority of students.

- Class Color Day gave a clearcut identity to each class as they all donned their designated hue.

Other activities included volleyball competitions and powderpuff football. The week was capped off with a combination Pep Rally / Student Talent Show in the gym.

Four Bishop Connolly students have won Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards. Colleen Nolan of Barrington, RI, and Tanya Paquette of Westport each received a Gold Key Award for their submissions. Alison Subin of Middletown, RI, and Catherine Torphy of Little Compton, RI, each received a Silver Key Award for their submissions. The four win-

Taunton Catholic Middle School recently held elimination bees in spelling, vocabulary, social studies and geography.

In the fifth grade spelling bee, Alexandria Moreau finished in first place, Alexander MacDonald second and Michael Psikarakis third. In the social studies bee James Sullivan placed first, Daniel Rosen second and Michael Psikarakis third. Mrs. Susan Lopes was moderator for both bees.

The sixth grade spelling bee, moderated by Mrs. Lynne Weldon, was won by Melissa Dennen, first; Julie Keene, second and Marissa Meister, third. In their social studies bee Heather Dennis took first place, Ryan Colton second and Daniel Keenan third.

Mrs. Anne Roerden was the moderator for the sixth grade social studies bee.

The spelling. bee for seventh graders was moderated by Mrs. Patricia Williams and won by the following: first place, Tim Barney; second place, Ramie Chavaree and third place, Kelly Crownover. The geography bee was moderated by John Lanagan and won by Lauren Malo, first; Brian Dewhirst, second and Kerrin O'Boy, third.

In the eighth grade division, the spelling and vocabulary bee was

SSe Peter and Paul

you're strong and confident in yourself, you have nothing to prove by beating up another individual.

When not kickboxing, Soares is a law enforcement officer at the Bridgewater House of Correction.

His hobbies include golfing, roller skating, and hockey.

The latter hobby put him on an ice-covered pond with friends Mike

Frey and Chris Fontaine in 1992 when a father and his seven-yearold fell through the ice. Through their teamwork, both the father and son were saved. Soares told the children that he did what any other person w,ould have done.

"Always give 100% of yourself in whatever you do and you will always succeed," he said.

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Barrin "TCB (Taking Care of Business)" Soares is the New England and United States light heavy weight kickboxing champion. During a visit to fourth-graders at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, Feb. 10, he banished the myth that kickboxers are aggressive, brutal fighters.

Soares started Tae Kwon Do classes at the age of 14, under the guidance of Joseph Gonsalves, a sixth degree black belt who will be inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame in Ohio later this year. Soares has earned a green belt in Tae Kwon Do and has an honorary black belt in kick boxing because of his professional status.

In 1986, he shifted his sports emphasis from '-rae Kwon Do to kickboxing. Kickboxing is a combination of boxing and martial arts. He trains five days a week for his bouts in order. t6 be in top physical condition. He explained that kickboxers flever intentionally hurt their oponents because they have 'total respect for each, other: The conditioning of their bodies hdps them to avoid the physical injuries.

Soares told studentS that in his 10 years of training, he has been taught to walk away from any confrontation. He emphasized that if

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 19,1993 moderated by Mrs. Rosemary Gately. Caroline Iacono won first place; Melissa Albert second and Jessica Santos third. Mrs. Brenda Cannon moderated the social studies bee, won by William McLaughlin, first; Kathryn Souza, second and Jason Dolf, third.

All first, second and third place winners will receive certificates of achievement at the Citizenship Awards Ceremony Feb. 23.

St. Francis Xavier Activities during the next week at St. Francis Xavier School,

Acushnet, will include a dance for grades 6 through 8 tonight; a boys' basketball game versus Holy Name School tomorrow; and majorette competitions at Norton High School on Sunday and at Apponequet Regional High School Feb. 28.

A grades 6 through 8 science fair will be open in the school gym 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 23. Prekindergarten, kindergarten and grade I will visit the Zeiterion Theatre and grade 6 will participate in the Old Colony After School Program that day.

Students will attend a 9 a.m.

Mass at the church on Ash Wednesday.

Stonehill College to sponsor lecture series on women in Ireland The Irish Studies Program at Stonehill College, North Easton, will sponsor a four-part lecture series entitled "Women of Ireland: Out of the Shadows."

All lectures will be at 7 p.m. in the Irish Studies Library of Donahue Hall and are free and open to the public.

The program begins Feb. 23, when professor Maureen Murphy of Hofstra University will speak on "Hope from the Ocean: The Irish Servant Girl in America."

On March 3, Stonehill professor Katie Conboy will speak on "Remapping the Literary Landscape: Irish Woman Writers and the Topography of Displacement."

On March 17, Professor Nancy Veeder of Boston College will discuss "Irish Women Making Decisions: Family Leadership Among Three Generations of Northern Irish Women."

The series concludes March 24 with a discussion of "Women in

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ST. ANNE, FR Healing services, which have been temporarily suspended, will resume each Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at St. Anne's Shrine, beginning Feb. 21.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing service with Father Andre Patenaude, MS, better known as Father Pat, 2 p.m. Sunday, with Mass, teaching, singing and individual anointing. Commumil penance service 6:30 p.m. Monday, led by Father Leo Maxfield, with opportunity for individual confession.

Shrine ministerial team members will assist with confessions. Ash Wednesday, Feb. 24, ashes will be distributed at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. prayer services and at 12: 10 and 6:30 p.m. Masses. During Lent, confessions will be heard Monday through Friday I to 2:30 and 4:30 to 6 p.m., Saturdays I to 4 p.m., Sundays I to 5 p.m. Stations of the Cross: 7: 15 p.m. each Friday from Feb. 26 through March 26. The cafeteria will be open daily as of Ash Wednesday. Open house will take place at the renovated shrine ministry offices all day and after services Ash Wednesday and on Feb. 27 and 28. All are welcome to attend all events.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Donations needed for Lower Cape Outreach Food Pantries, especially peanut butter, jelly, pancake mix, syrup, hot chocolate mix, paper towels, personal products.

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

Feb. 23, St. Joseph's parish center, N. Dighton.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB,NB Executive board meeting 7 p.m.

Feb. 24, St. Lawrence rectory, NB. HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Vincentians will collect food and children's clothing at Masses this weekend.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Immaculate Conception, NB, retreat today through Sunday. St. John's, Pocasset, confirmation retreat tomorrow.

FRIENDS OF ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL Annual luncheon meeting beginning with social II :30 a.m. Feb. 23, White's of Westport. Officers for 1993-94 will be presented during business meeting at which president Phyllis Chrupcala will preside.

SEPARATED /DIVORCED CATHOLICS, CAPE Support group meeting 7 p.m.

Feb. 21, St. Pius X parish center, Barbara St., S. Yarmouth. Dot Burrill will speak on "Positive SelfExpectancy-You Are Responsible for the Rest of Your Life." New participants welcomed beginning 6: 15 p.m. Information: 362-9873.

CATHEDRAL, FR Canned goods for the Fall River Food Pantry will be collected at church entrances this weekend.

ST. LOUIS, FR A Mass and novena to St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer patients, are held 9:30 a.m. each Thursday.

Patients and their relatives and friends are welcome to attend.

Marrow needed A blood testing drive will be held Saturday, Feb. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Baptist Church of All Nations, 61 Winthrop St., Taunton. The effort is part of a nationwide drive to find a blood marrow match for 15-month-old Brian Silcott, a victim of myelodysplastic syndrome.

Brian now needs weekly platelet transfusions but a bone marrow transplant offers him the chance of a cure. He is AfricanAmerican, thus a compatible donor would most likely be another African-American. A grant from the National Marrow Donor Program will underwrite testing of such candidates.

Candidates must be in good health, between ages 18 and 55 and have no- history of exposure to hepatitis or the AIDS virus. The test involves drawing two tablespoons of blood from the arm. Participants will be entered in the National Marrow Donor Program registry.

No appointments are needed for the test. Further information: Red Cross Blood Services, 1-800-462-9400, ext. 2075.

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THE 1993 DIOCESAN DIRECTORY The Fall River Diocesan Directory and Buyers' Guide contains complete diocesan information and atelephone directory of priests, directors of diocesan institutions, parish religious education coordinators and permanent deacons.

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Pastoral musicians plan workshop The Fall River Diocesan Chapter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians will sponsor a two-day program on musical and liturgical preparation for confirmation and first Eucharist celebrations presented by Christopher Walker at St. Mary's Church, Tarklin Hill Rd., New Bedford.

Sessions will be "Sharing the Wealth of the Year" at 7:30 p.m.

March 19 and a workshop, "Music and Liturgical Preparation for Confirmation, First Communion and Children's Liturgies," 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 20.

The program is open to pastoral musicians and also to all involved in the educational process for these sacraments.

Christopher Walker is an internationally known lecturer, composer and conductor, born in England and educated there at Bristol University. Currently he resides in Los Angeles, where he is a music lecturer at Mount St. Mary's College and a musician for Family/ RCIA Sunday Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Church. A composer with the St. Thomas More Centre in London, he has published seven American collections.

F or information, contact Lynne Guilmette, P.O. Box 1212, Westport 02790 or Nancy Smith, 6442077.

Portuguese prayer groups to convene An Assembly of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Portuguese will be held beginning at 9 a.m.

March 7 in the auditorium of Durfee High School, 360 Elsbree St., Fall River. Up to 2,000 people are expected to attend the gathering, which will include all Portuguese Charismatic Prayer Groups in the diocese, as well as some from neighboring dioceses. The public is invited to attend.

The schedule for the day, themed "Proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ," is as follows: .9:30 a.m: Welcome and gathering.

10 a.m: Praise and reflection. noon: Conference on evangelization.

I p.m: Free time and lunch.

2:30 p.m: Conference on rene. wal and evangelization.

4:30 p.m: Closing Mass celebrated by Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. For information, contact the Prayer Group of Espirito Santo Church, Fall River, at 672-3352. ,

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ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Calix meeting 6:30 p.m.. Sunday, parish center. New participants are always welcome in the group, which assists persons recovering frpm addictive diseases. Vincentian Troubadours will entertain at Marian Manornursing home 1:45 p.m. Sunday; volunteers welcome to sing or serve refreshments.

Centering prayer workshops with parishioner Ethel Fraga will be 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. March 20 and 27, not the dates previously announced.

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING, ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL Rita Quinn will be the instructor for a four-session course on Natural Family Planning, to be held at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays March 2, April 6, May 4 and June I. Information: Diane Santos, 674-5741, ext.

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BP. McDONNELL HIGH SCHOOL,BROOKLYN,NY Reunion, class of 1953, April 24.

Information: (718)833-5209; (718) 499-8162.

ST. BERNARD, ASSONET All welcome at a Lenten series to be held at 7 p.m. Sundays Feb. 28 and March 7, 21 and 28. Led by Deacon and Mrs. Robert Normandin, it will offer exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, scriptural reflections, a homily, Benediction, music and prayer, all on the theme "Were You There?"

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Youth group members are spending the vacation week on a mission program in Rochester, NY, and will share their experiences with parishioners this Sunday. The parish plans establishment of a community garden on the church grounds. Produce will be donated to local soup kitchens.

SACRED HEART, NB Parishioners are asked to bring last year's palms to church on Sunday. They will be burned for use on Ash Wednesday at a special ceremony.

LITERACY EDUCATION, FR Adults are invited to attend an orientation for volunteers interested in teaching other adults to read, 6 p.m. March 2 in the Ryan Room of the public library, 104 N. Main St. Further information: Annette Carreras, 324-2704.

CAPE IRISH CHILDREN'S PROGRAM Since 1975 the program has brought over 1000 children from Belfast, Northern Ireland, for six peaceful summer weeks. Applications now being accepted for this summer. Information: Gerald Schulze, (508)477-3035.

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