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By Pat McGowan with CNS reports WASHINGTON (CNS) - An official of the National Catholic Educational Association has urged schools to look at bias against girls in the wake of a national report alleging pervasive one-sidedness in public schools.

The official. Holy Name Sister Mary Burke, said the problem "is a cultural phenomenon" that affects non-public as well as public schools. .she called for in-service and teacher-training programs to address it.

Course work on gender issues, she said, should include "new research on women and bias in classroom interaction patterns."

Sister Burke, associate executive director of NCEA's secondary schools department, commented , after reviewing a Feb. 12 report from the American Association of University Women that said U.S. schools shortchange girls.

The report noted the "bias girls face from preschool through 12th grade in their textbooks, testing and teachers."

"Gender bias undermines girls' self-esteem and discourages girls from courses of study, such as math and science, needed in the work force today," the report said.

Sister Burke said the study puts

on the U.S. agenda the fact that "female students are not equally encouraged in their educational pursuits."

She noted the irony that "most teachers in the country are female and that the study measures what's happening now in the classroom."

Principals questioned in the Fall River diocese had varying views on the report. Dennis R. Poyant, principal at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, the father of four daughters, three of whom are honor students and "too early to tell" about the fourth, a first grader, noted that his girls' strengths are in science and math and that two who are students at Coyle and Cassidy High in Taunton had been steered toward enrichment programs in those fields.

As for St. Mary's, he said that while a larger number of girls are in the school's top math group, he had noted that boys are more interested in math-oriented games than girls.

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Poyant was interested in hearing that a television news program reporting on the AA UW study showed a woman teacher whose classroom presentations were taped. She said it was not umil she viewed her tape that she realized that she paid more attention ':0 her boy than to her girl pupils. ". hadn't really thought about that," Poyant commented.

Miss Kathleen A. Burt, principal at SS. Peter and Paul S«:hool, Fall River, said her own preference is for boy-girl schools, such as SS. Peter and Paul because "socialization is very important." She said she feels that most school programs treat boys and girls equally but discussed as a possible example of gender bias computer games that were the subjec·t of a study recently conducted at SS. Peter and Paul.

"The games were promoled to improve eye-hand coordinati'ln for both boys and girls," she said, "but it was very noticable that tht boys took to them far more than the girls. Finally we realized that the objects used in the game, SlJ ch as spacecraft, were more interllsting to boys than girls."

At Bishop Feehan High S(hool, Attleboro, principal Brothe:' Robert J. Wickman, FSC, p(,inted Turn to Page 10

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican has dismissed a Time magazine claim that Pope John Paul II and the U.S. government worked in a "secret alliance" to thwart communism in Poland by aiding the trade union Solidarity: Time, in an article 'in its issue dated Feb. 24, said the alleged U.S.-Vatican plan, coordinated in part by the CIA, aimed at destabilizing Poland's communist government during the 1980s.

Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said Feb. 18 that the reported secret agreement, supposedly worked out in a 1982 meeting betwe,en the pope and then-President Ronald Reagan, was an "imaginative conclusion" of the reporter.

He said the Vatican would not respond to specific allegations and "errors" in the article because the list "would never end."

The Time article quoted Reagan's first national security adviser, Richard Allen, as saying of the alleged Reagan-pope agreement: "This was one of the great secret alliances of all time."

The Vatican spokesman. citing that passage, said with laughter: "Let's be serious."

"The whole concept [of the article) seems mistaken to me," Navarro-Valls said.

He noted that the pope had a legitimate interest in his Polish homeland and in his people oppressed by a communist regime.

But he said the "imaginative conclusions" drawn in the Time article are strictly "the responsibility of the journalist" who wrote it.

"It·s useless for me to deny every point ...." Navarro-Valls said.

Proceeding point-by-point, he said, the article would require a "total revision."

The article was written by Carl Bernstein, the journalist who helped break the Watergate story in the 1970s with fellow Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. The Time article was reportedly based on interviews with some 75 officials of the former Reagan administration and the Vatican.

The article asserted that during a 50-minute pope-Reagan meeting at the Vatican June 7, 1982, the two leaders agreed to undertake a "clandestine campaign to hasten the dissolution of the communist empire," committing their resources to destabilize the Polish government and keep the outlawed Solidarity union alive.

The article claimed that a secret network was later established "under the auspices of Reagan and Turn to Page 10

Pope wishes to call attention to Africa VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has two trips to Africa planned for 1992, hoping that they will remind the world's rich nations of their obligation to the globe's poor.

Visiting three West African countries in February and returning to the continent in June. the pope will stress how the campaign for universal freedom and human rights is threatened by poverty in the developing world.

In Senegal. Gambia and Guinea from Feb. 19 through 26. the pope is encouraging the tiny Catholic communities in their faith. will ordain priests and will explain Catholic social doctrine and its ethical implications for international and internal political and economic order.

The pope will spend much of his time in the three mostly Muslim countries focusing on building a more peaceful society: from promoting interreligious dialogue to urging a peaceful settlement of demands for independence in the Casamance region of southern Senegal.

Catholic- Muslim relations in the three nations are for the most part amicable. In Senegal, Muslims make up about 92 percent of the population and Catholics about 5.1 percent. In Gambia, about 90 percent of the people are Muslim and 2 percent are Catholic. Guinea's Catholics also make up about 2 percent of the population, while Muslims are 85 percent.

The large number of marriages between Muslims and Christians - including that of Senegal's president and first lady - is often cited as contributing to friendly relations as is the familiarity with Catholics many Muslims develop through attending Catholic schools.

The pope's usual delight in encountering young people around the globe will take on added importance in the three West African nations, where some 60 percent of the population is under age 20.

The economies of the three countries are mostly agricultural, but as family farms are repeatedly divided. many young feel forced to Turn to Page 10

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Common baptismal certificates serve ecumenism in Connecticut HARTFORD, Conn. (CNS)The board of directors of the Christian Conference of Connecticut, representing most Christian denominations in the state, has endorsed use of a common baptismal certificate by all member churches that baptize.

It is a concrete, practical way of affirming that they share a common belief in the essential elements of baptism.

"We are the first state in the country to do this," said Sister Therese Dion, who helped draft the certificate for the conference, which represents some 2,500 Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches in Connecticut.

Sister Dion, a Sister of St. Anne and director of the Norwich diocesan ecumenical office, said she would like to see a similar ecumenical action in other dioceses.

Connecticut's Episcopal Bishop Arthur Walmsley said that amid . theological and doctrinal differences dividing churches "it is encouraging that practically all the major church bodies recognize the baptism of those who are admitted

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Physician-aided'su'l"cide wIdely discussed

By Catholic News Service Medically assisted suicide has been much in the news lately. In Dallas earlier this month, the American Bar Association's House of Delegates overwhelmingly rejected a motion to encourage state laws "permitting voluntary aid in dying to terminally ill persons who request such aid in ending their own lives."

Medical aid in dying was also assailed at the Vatican this month and tested in a Michigan courtroom, where retired Dr. Jack Kevorkian faces murder charges for helping two women kill themselves last year.

And in Quebec, "Nancy B," 25, paralyzed from the neck down and able only "to watch TV and think," won the legal right to end her life and died Feb. 13 after being disconnected from a respirator seven minutes earlier.

Mother Teresa is back in sick bay ROME(CNS)- MotherTeresa of Calcutta was hospitalized for tests and observation during a stay in Rome but hoped to return to India in late February, her doctor said.

The 81-year-old nun was recovering from a bout with heart disease and pneumonia in the United States.

"She is in stable condition, but she is a fragile person and needs to be monitored," Dr. Vincenzo Bilotta, her Rome physician, said Feb. 17.

Bilotta met M other Teresa at Rome's airport Feb. 4 and soon afterward admitted her to Salvator Mundi Clinic, not far from the Vatican. On Feb. 5 she had an audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

The physician said Mother Teresa was in good humor and resting comfortably. She was not receiving ~isitors, however, he said.

"I hope she can leave the clinic soon. She hopes to return to Calcutta at the end of the week," said Bilotta. He said one reason he had moved her into the clinic was so she could recover fully in a warm, comfortable room.

"Mother Teresa's missionaries live in a poor environment. They serve the poorest of the poor, and she follows her order's rule strictly," he said.

Mother Teresa, who founded and heads the Missionaries of Charity, normally stays at the order's convent during her visits to Rome.

In late December, she was hospitalized in California for bacterial pneumonia. She later suffered from inadequate blood supply to the heart, and doctors performed a balloon angioplasty to open blockages.

She \Vas released from the California hospital Jan. 15. Doctors at that time said she may remain vulnerable to recurrent respiratory and cardiac problems.

Meanwhile, British newspapers reported Feb. 17 that Princess Diana hoped to fly to Rome to visit Mother Teresa in the clinic.

The princess returned to Britain Feb. 16 after a short visit to India, where she met nuns and patients at a Missionaries of Charity home in Calcutta. She had hoped to meet Mother Teresa in India, but the nun was too sick to travel from Rome fo~ the purpose.

Theologians had disagreed on whether or not her action was morally justified.

ABA Decision The American Bar Association decision is not binding on members, but the position is expected to affect public opinion and influence legislators, many of whom are lawyers. Euthanasia supporters are attempting to put an initiative on California's ballot legalizing doctor-assisted suicide.

Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director for policy development ofthe U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said that the ABA vote "should send a message to the euthanasia movement: Americans do worry about access to good health care, and about death and dying. But they are not coming to endorse euthanasia as the solution to these clients.

"The law has gone as far as it should," said John Pickering, who heads the ABA's.Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly.

"There is a line between refusing medical treatment and deliberate killing."

He said no such law should be passed until the United States has a health care system that accommodates everyone equally, regardless of income. Otherwise, the poor would be pressured to end their lives rather than continue expensive medical treatment, he said.

Cardinal O'Connor Also discussing physician-assisted. suicide was New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor. At a recent Vatican City closed-door meeting of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care W'orkers, he said that many doctors "make fortunes on death through abortion" and although only time will tell whether euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide will also become big and lucrative businesses, there are indications that such is the .case.

Such practices are a "perversion of the medical profession" and evidence that "we are indeed devel" oping a consistent ethic of death," he added.

He said there are 30 million to 40 million abortions a year worldwide and predicted "that we will meet 'the same phenomenon of

rapidly increasing numbers of human persons killed by some act or omission because of age, handicap or societal burden."

The increases in both abortion and euthanasia "show a breakdown in the ethical responsibility of physicians" and reflect a growing public opinion that these procedures are not killings, he said.

The U.S. media "focus almost excl usively on the concept of 'compassion' in their stories about euthanasia and assisted suicide," he added.

The cardinal noted that growing acceptance of the "ethic of death" leads to the danger that the state decides who has the right to life, determining, for instance, that "an individual's 'quality of life' no longer merits defense by the state, hence, can be extinguished byeuthanasia or legalized suicide."

Dr. Kevorkian In Rochester H ills, Mich., the attorney for pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian took what legal experts viewed as a major step toward winning an acquittal for his client on murder charges by casting doubt on who was responsible for two women's deaths last year.

During a heated cross-examination of Oakland County medical examiner L.J. Dragovic, Geoffrey Fieger, the attorney, repeatedly asked how Dragovic determined the deaths of Sherry Miller, 43, and Marjorie Wantz, 58, were homicides. Both women were painfUlly but not terminally ill.

Dragovic said he based his decision on the fact the women were connected to devices made by Kevorkian which they could not have made by themselves.

Ms. M iller died by carbon monoxide poisoning after opening a valve on a canister of gas and Ms. Wantz died from receiving a deadly dose of chemicals after pulling a string to start their flow.

The trial is to determine whether Kevorkian, 63, should be handed over for trial on two counts of murder and one count of deliveringa controlled substance. Iffound guilty of all three charges, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Fieger has said the women merely received help from Kevorkian in committing suicide. Michigan has no law against such assistance.

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blind the American people· by THE ANCHOR - Diocese of FalI River - Fri., Feb. 21, 1992 creating enough conflict to 1ake people's minds off the issUl: of life," Mr. Lewis told the Arkansas "We're not saying we're finished," He added that he has another Catholic, Little Rock's dioc(:san commercial on the drawing board. he declared. newspaper.

"They keep people off the i ;sue of life and on women's rights," he said.

At Stonehill, the only Catholic Mr. Lewis called the 2,'300college serving the Fall River member Fellowship Bible Church diocese, you can obtain a bachea "social concerns" church artive lor's degree in Business Adminisin abortion avoidance, foster care, tration, Humanities, Sociology or adoption and social outreach.

Robert Brown, president and one of eight other areas. Earn a general manager of KTH V in Lit. certificate in seven useful discitle Rock, received dozens of (:alls plines including Accounting, on the ad, with calls running 8-to-l Substance Abuse Counseling, in favor. or Paralegal Studies. Or take Criticism came from pro-choice non-credit courses in Computers, worker Kimberly Collins, who said Personnel, Fund Raising, and Proverbs 4:7 the commercial ignored "the real more. All in convenient evening issue at hand, the right to choose," classes, on a campus just one and from Planned Parenthood minute off Route 24 at the executive Nancy Liebbe, who c~ lled Brockton/Easton exit. "a prelude to a threatened OperaA Stonehill education is one tion Rescue visit." you can be proud of. Because "The central issue that needs to we teach both the value of excelbe presented is not abortion, but lence, and the excellence of the life of the unborn child," Mr. traditional values.

Lewis said. "The large majority of Call us at (508) 230-1298 for people oppose abortion, they want complete information. to feel clean, but they reserve the right to abortion when they're in trouble. They're in the muddled middle."

The ad, he said, was mear.t to. "'>" Office of Continuing Education get its viewers "from the muddled .;tif North Easton. MA 02357 middle ... to the clear humanily of that child."

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Pro-life ad controversial LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CNS)The Rev. Robert Lewis, pastor of one of Arkansas' largest fundamentalist congregations, says a prolife television commercial he produced was intended to rivet people's attention to the "issue of life."

The commercial showed a screen split in quarters with pictures of American Indian elder, a black man with a noose around his neck, men in Nazi POW fatigues and a IO-week-old fetus. The commercial said each group had been considered "less than human."

Mr. Lewis, who head Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, said the National Right to Life Committee "has asked about rights to the commercial." Jacki Ragan, NRLC state organization coordinator, told Catholic News Service that the ad "had a lot of potential."

Other groups had also requested the commercial, Mr. Lewis said. It aired in January on Little Rock's three network affiliates to coincide with the Jan. 19 March for Life in Arkansas.

"The pro-choicers are trying to

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Dean of Catholic press retires at age 74 PEORIA, 111. (CNS) - Msgr.

Robert G. Peters retired Feb. 14 from the Catholic Post, Peoria diocesan newspaper, amid tributes from colleagues who hailed him as a "colossus" and "the dean of the Catholic press."

Msgr. Peters, 74, edited The Catholic Post and its predecessor, The Register, from 1944 to 1982.

Since 1982 he has been publisher and business manager.

But his influence over the past 48 years has stretched far beyond his own diocese - through the Catholic Press Association, which he served in a variety of capacities including president and vice president; through 30 years on the CPA's liaison committee with Catholic News Service, of which he was founding chairman; and through decades of national leadership in small-newspaper technology.

The son of a machine designer and inventor, he teamed up with a local computer programmer in 1969 to produce one of the first minicomputer-hard disk programs for newspaper circulation in the country. .

In the early 1970s, when CNS (then called National Catholic News Service) switched from mail delivery to electronic transmission of news to the nation's Catholic newspapers, Msgr. Peters spent hundreds of hours working with the CNS service engineer to establish an effective national electronic system.

Over the years he guided many Catholic editors into the computer age, meanwhile keeping his paper several technological steps ahead of almost everyone else by constantly testing and evaluating new electronic hardware and software as soon as it hit the market.

Economics was a driving force behind his fascination with technology. The Catholic Post is completely self-sufficient, despite one

of the lowest subscription prices in the country.

But for him technology was only a tool in the servic~ of editorial excellence. In a pre-retirement interview he described credibility - a hard-earned "reputation of being a balanced paper" by covering all sides fairly and accurately - as a central goal of all his newspaper. work.

Until health forced a cutback in his writing two years ago, his trademark column, "Ramblin'," had been a fixture for decades in the Catholic Post and several other papers around the country.

Thomas N. Lorsung, CNS director and editor in chief, said Msgr. Peters was "Father Fixit" for "the many Catholic journalists who made their 'pilgrimages' to Peoria to see how the latest technological advance could benefit their papers."

But the veteran priest-editor was more than a technical expert, Lorsung said. "He helped journalists understand why they are in the Catholic press - to serve the church by reporting on its activities honestly but with balance and charity."

Born in Peoria June II, 1917, Msgr. Peter was ordained a priest June 7, 1942. Assigned in 1944 to edit The Register, then part of the Denver-based nationwide Register chain of diocesan newspapers, for 12 years he had to handle all the editorial chores alone.

In 1969 he and his associate editor - Father John Dietzen, who would later be widely known for his nationally syndicated column, "Question Corner" - moved the paper out of the Register chain and began publishing it locally.

The day he was named editor of the paper he was also made chaplain of St. Joseph's Retirement Home in Peoria - a position he held for the next 48 years and will continue to hold.

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MSGR. PETERS His retirement after 48 years at the helm of The Catholic Pm.t in Peoria, Ill., "marks the end of an era in' the Catholic press in the United States," said the Vatican's top communications official.

"Msgr. Peters edited and published a great newspaper" but his work and influence extended far beyond his own paper, said A:'chbishop John P. Foley, presider.t of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and for 14 years editor ofthe Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times before he was appointed to his Vatican post in 1984.

"He pioneered the CNS wire service. He helped many newsrapers in the work of computerizat ion and photocomposition," the archbishop said. "He promoted cooperation and exchange among publications. He trained many young journalists and encouraged them 'to remain in the Catholic press, which now benefits greatly from the 'Msgr. Peters Alumni Association.' He offered a model of rranagement and of stewardship which were widely imitated."

As an editor Msgr. Peters" was always objective, fair, professic1nal and constructively demanding," Archbishop Foley said, but it i~ his priesthood that defines him <:.S a person - "a man whose persc na! example and whose obvious devotion to the Eucharist, to the Mother of God and to the church have inspired many."

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the moorin9-..., Politics Aside The discovery by scientists of a new hole in the protective ozone layer of our Northern Hemisphere which has appeared years earlier than expected means that millions of people will be exposed to dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation.

What this means for us in New England is the potential for higher levels than now exist of skin cancer, cataracts and immune-system damage, all conditions that result from overexposure to the sun's rays.

Scientists consider this finding more than alarming. They project that within the next 20 years as many as 10 million additional skin cancer cases will be reported and that deaths from causes related to solar radiation will number in the hundreds of thousands.

The facts speak for themselves, although most people tend to ignore them. In these cold days of winter, we look forward to the summer sunshine, refusing to recogl)ize how deadly those rays can be. But the new reports of ozone depletion should warn all who flock to the seaside, lakes and ponds: the time for action is now.

The main obstacle to such'action is, of course, political. OUf elected leaders have simply not heeded the alarms sounded by the scientific community. More interested in keeping big business happy than in the-common good, they have dragged their feet and ignored the dangers of delay in this matter.

For years, a few members of Congress have sought to halt production of the pollutants and chemicals that are destroying' the atmosphere. Meanwhile, manufacturers have retained highly-paid Washington lobbyists to make sure that they can do business as usual and big business has ignored those few regulations that have been enacted, confident that inspection and prosecution are but remote possibilities. : Indeed, in our runaway age of deregulation, profiteers are having a field day. We have already ignored acid rain, water pollution and air contamination. But we cannot ignore this new threat. Not even megacorporations and 'their political sidekicks can fool Mother Nature forever. . . It is imperative that each of us face this issue. Belated though it is, we must support environmental programs, even at the cost of personal inconvenience. Next November, 74 nations' will meet to sign a covenant to terminate use of chlorofluorocarbons, commonly known as CFCs. We must support this move and encourage our nation to lead the effort to make the date of termination as early as humanly possible.

Last week President Bush and the Congress did order a unilateral U.S. speedup in phasing out production of CFCs, setting a deadline of 1995 instead of the previous target date of 2000. Environmentalists, however, termed the action inadequate, saying that at least some substances could be eliminated immediately.

As for us, in addition to becoming personally aware of the peril confronting us and taking precautions suggested by health agencies, each of us should realize that it is time to act, whether it be by letters to elected officials, at the ballot box, in' the board room or on the home front.

We. may not be able to reverse or totally repair the damage already inflicted on our planet but we can prevent further destruction. The lives we s~ve may well be our own.

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"They that run in the race all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize."

Is American dream vanishing?

WASHINGTON (CNS) - "I been rich and I been poor and rich is better," is an old maxim that could be the plaintive cry of coming decades.

U.S. economists say today's young people may never achieve the material successes of their parents. They say elements that used to make up the"American dream" - a big home perhaps, good colleges for the children and family ,vacations - may benp more than 'a wish list for many of today's younger generation.

Even Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, speaking to Congress in December, acknowledged that today's bleak economic pic~ ture has many in this country worrying "whether the current generation will live as well as previous ones."

Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Amata Miller, an economist, told Catholic News Service Feb. 13 that complicating the situation is that "in the 80s just like in the 1920s we developed a society that worshiped conspicuous consumption and designer labels."

Young people today, she said, "not only have to face a bleak economic picture, but they have to do so at a time when material success has been seen as the primary measure of social status.

"They're not only going to have to work harder and find it more difficult to find jobs, they're going to have to reprogram themselves as to what is the measure of their own value. Otherwise, they're doomed to be unhappy," said Sister Miller, who works for Network, a Washington-based Catholic social justice lobby.

She predicts a "very slow anemic recovery" from the current recession. Federal government unemOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER ployment statistics, which put the Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River unemployment rate at about 7 percent, "show about half of what P.O. BOX 7 887 Highland Avenue the distress really is," said Sister Fall River, MA 02720 Fall River, MA 02722-0007 Miller. They fail to account for the Telephone (508) 675-7151 "underemployed" and the "disFAX (508) 675-7048 couraged who are no longer looking for work," which she said total about 10 million.

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temporary employees and added that the median family income of families headed by persons age 2534 was $32,457 in 1979. In 1988, it was $30,915.

According to a study by the Washington-based Population Reference, young people are living at home with their parents longer than they did in the past. And couples are relying on two incomes to gain the same standard of living their parents achieved, with one, it found.

While some blame the young for not saving as did their parents, Sister Miller says part of the reason is their lower incomes.

In addition, "in the era of their parents and grandparents, the ethos was to save until you could buy yourself a home. Today the ethos of society is toward debt rather than saving. The whole nation is in hock - businesses, households and government," she said.

Lacking, she said, are national leaders willing to "say the hard words that need to be said" and guide the country through difficult times. Lacking, too, are voters willing to elect the few that attempt such a tack, she said.

Laurie Bassi, economics professor at Washington's Georgetown University, sees an especially bleak future for those who don't make it beyond high school. ''I'm not so worried" about Georgetown graduates, she told CNS. Job hunting may be difficult, but "they'll be at the top of the heap.... Only 20 percent of us [in the nation] graduate from college. It's the rest that worries me."

She attributes the decline in wages for persons without or with onlya high school diploma to economic trends "away from manufacturing and toward service jobs that are not as high paying, a decline in unionism and geographical shifts in jobs."

Jesuit Father John Francis Kavanaugh, author of"Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance," sees young people working longer hours to be able to buy luxury items they feel they need.

"Designer clothes, microwave ovens, VCRs, dishwashers - these are wonderful things, but the

problem is we feel driven to have them. For many students, $100 shoes have become a necessity," said the priest who teaches at St. Louis University.

With more hours spent at work "we cut down on what used to be thought of as the best things in life, which are free - love, relationships with family, nature, solitude.

Then we find we are losing these skills," he said.

Sister路 Miller sees-evidence the nation is entering a new era just as happened after the materialistic 1920s "when Americans turned their minds to the quality of life:" "Reports from the political campaign show a dramatic increase in participation of young people,~' she said. Law students at a number of colleges are demanding that their professors include pro bono work as part of their curriculum, she said.

In addition, she said, there exists a growing environmental awareness that "the planet will not sustain the wasteful living to which we've become accustomed.

"All these are signs of hope for me," said Sister Miller.

praye~BOX Prayer jor life.

o God,' our Creator, all life is in your hands jrom conception untildeath. H eip us to cherish our children and to reverence the awe,some privilege oj our share ,in creation. Mayall people live and die in dignity and love. Bless all those who dejend the rights oj the unborn, the handicapped, andthe aged. Enlighten and be merciful toward those who jail to respect life. Let jreedom be tempered by responsibility, integrity, and morality. A men.

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Called to do the unreasonable I Samuel 26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23 I Corinthians 15:45-49 Luke 6:27-38 T oday's first reading suggests a theme for our celebration: God wants each o(us to imitate David's

By FATHER ROGER "unreasonableness."

This I Samuel 26 story appears KARBAN to be a doublet of the narrative found at the beginning of chapter be called children of the Most High. for he himself is kind to the 24. But it is less earthy and more exciting than the former. In the ungrateful and the Wicked. Be first story, Saul accidentally wandmerciful. just as your Father is ers into a cave in which the fugitive merciful." Jesus presumes we want David is hiding; in this account. to be like God. He asks us to do David, leading a scouting raid. weird things because we follow a actively searches out the king.

God who does weird things.

Though David has the opportuTwenty years before Luke wrote nity to kill Saul and escape unhis Gospel, Paul reached the same harmed in both versions. he refuses insight by taking a different directo do so, much to his companions' tion. amazement.

Comparing Jesus with Adam, Abishai's whispered remark the apostle constructs an interest"God has delivered your enemy into your grasp this day. Let me ing and helpful theology. "The first man [Adam]. he writes, "was nail him to the ground ... '" from the earth. earthly; the second makes good sense.

David's "unreasonable" reply- man [Jesus], from heaven. As was "Do not harm him, for who can the earthly one, so also are the lay hands on the Lord's anointed?" earthly. and as is the heavenly one.

- probably leads Abishai and the so also are the heavenly. Just as we others to question why they had have borne the image of the earthly volunteered for such a dangerous one,. we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one." mission.

All of 1 Corinthians 15 speaks Yet David's decision eventually about resurrection. Paul develops helps everyone. His refusal to harm argument after argument to explain Saul brings about a (temporary) both the necessity for rising and reconciliation between them. Instead of prolonged civil war. the the form our new life will take. But his underlying supposition is always Israelites enjoy a period of peace.

This pericope fits the mold of that Jesus, now alive. adds someour Gospel passage. Part of Luke's thing to what we received at our famous "Sermon on the Plain," physical birth - the full life for these commands of Jesus are some which all Christians strive. of the best known but least carried If this is our quest. we have out of all his teachings. chosen to live in the midst of ten"Do good to those who hate...... sion. On one hand. we normal the Lord orders. "Bless those who human beings, descendants of curse ... pray for those who mal- . Adam. will do natural. reasonable treat...turn and give the other. ..let things. But on the other hand, we him have your shirt as well...give ... spiritual human beings, descenddo not demand back..... ! ants of Jesus in faith. are often Totally unreasonable! expected to do heavenly. unreasoWe sometimes do what Jesus nable things. Because God calls us commands when he makes sense. to live beyond our natural existBut we almost always pitch his illogical demands into our "for extra credit" category, where we eventually forget they even exist.

Our conscience is only disturbed when we remember the reason the Lord gives for issuing such strange commands. "Your reward will be Feb. 22 great." he promises. "and you will 1954, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jovite Chagnon. Founder, St. Joseph, New Bedford

DAILY READINGS Feb. 24: Jas 3:13-18; Ps 19:8-10,15; Mk 9:14-29 Feb. 25: Jas 4:1-10; Ps 55:7-11,23; Mk 9:30-37 Feb. 26: Jas4:13-17; Ps 49:2-3;6-11; Mk 9:38-40 Feb. 27: Jas 5:1-6; Ps 49:14-20; Mk 9:41-50 Feb. 28: Jas 5:9-12; Ps 103: 1-4,8-9, 11-12; Mk 10: 1-12 Feb. 29: Jas 5:13-20; Ps 141:1-3,8; Mk 10:13-16 Mar. 1: Sir 27:4-7; Ps 92:2-3,13-16; 1Cor 15:5458; Lk 6:39-45

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David knew Yahweh had called him to be holy ("other'~) like :limself. He was to be different. just as Yahweh is different. Sparing an enemy's life was a sign of his otherness. Yet a Christian's call to holiness is more than just a ca II to be like an unseen God. We are invited to imitate someone like ourselves-Jesus. who showed that only the unreasonable will rise from the dead.

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JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. I am a high school CCD teacher and have a question based on our text. In the teacher's guide on the sixth commandment it lists divorce and unreasonable denial of marital rights among the main sins against this commandment.

I don't understand this. I thought divorced people sinned only ifthey engage in sexual activity with other people or remarry. We would appreciate y.our clarification. (New York)

.Does divorce sin against the sixth commandment?路 A. The basic moral questions to be asked in contemplating a divorce are: What are the real reasons? Is there a genuine cause for what I'm doing?

A sincere response to these questions is a long way from: "I'm just not interested anymore. I simply want to get out."

If you want more detail and depth about what this involves, think about the following.

very seriously the sacred obligations of fidelity and permanence that are promised in marriage, we need to address more directly your question about divorce being a sin against the sixth commandment.

It needs to be said clearly: The church does not consider getting a divorce automatically a sin of any kind.

Contrary to what numerous people still believe, divorced people are not excommunicated from the Catholic Church. They are not separated from the sacraments, including penance and the Eucharist; and they are not dismissed to the fringes of the church.

However, since the church takes

For this and other reasons, numerous marriages become over the years radically dysfuctional.

They manifest serious physical or emotional abuse, totally impossible expectations on the part of one or both partners and other evidences of a badly diseased relationship.

Of course, this type of condition may exist from the very beginning of a marriage, which is where annulments come into the picture.

1n these violent circumstances, a

Every priest with even a few years of parish experience is only too familiar with the thoroughly inadequate manner in which many couples, some Catholics included, prepare themselves for marriage.

legal divorce may not only be allowed, it sometimes becomes an outright obligation on the part of the innocent party in order to protect the emotional, spiritual and even physical health of one or both partners and perhaps also of the children.

Pursuing a divorce in this kind of situation, which is not nearly as rare as most couples in more stable marriages suppose, is understandably not sinful.

This is not to say, of course, that some grave sinfulness, at least objective sinfulness, is not almost always involved in what leads up to the divorce.

That sinfulness may have little to do with the sixth commandment or with sex. The tragic destructiveness I mention above has much more to do with charity, personal respect and trust, fidelity to promises and plain caring.

It is violation of these virtues by

one or both spouses, not the legal action at the courthouse, that constitutes the major part of any "sin" involved in divorce.

In Catholic doctrine and law, marriage is a personal covenant commitment between a man and a woman, establishing between them a partnership, a community of the whole of life. .

Those are awesome words. We need to consider them seriously when we speak of these matters, and not reduce them, and possible sins involving them, only to external omissions.

Insofar as they relate to Christian marriage, this applies to the Ten Commandments as well.

A free brochure outlining Catholic prayers, beliefs and practice is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701.

Is anybody out there listening?

By ANTOINETTE

BOSCO

My daughter was telling me about an incident when her brother-in-law was her house guest.

It wasn't a momentous thing, but the matter got her thinking.

It seems he kept filling the teakettle with water from her kitchen faucet. Since this water is heavy with minerals, it could quickly

ruin her kettle. So she asked him to use only distilled bottled water that she had bought.

But he kept forgetting and filling the kettle with the tap water.

"Doesn't anyone ever listen to anybody?" she asked me later.

That, I think, is a good question. From my experience, I concluded that few people are othercentered enough to care to listen.

Most would prefer to do the talking and the expounding.

When anyone talks to them, they are already busy formulating what they want to say next. So how can they listen?

I experienced an example of this recently as the guest on a one-hour

viewer call-in program at a local cable television station. I was to talk about my role as executive editor of a newspaper.

The interviewer hardly let me get a word in edgewise. The questions were designed, I think, to show that he was clever. Then a caller asked him to keep quiet so that I could answer the questions.

It was consoling to know that somebody out there was trying to listen.

I think our inability to listen is symptomatic of a serious problem, a spiritual one, actually. It may mean we're so self-centered that we don't even recognize how we shut off the communication and

learning that are so necessary for us to be fully human.

The mystics were emphatic about this. They preached that it is essential for each of us to "empty" ourselves and find moments of silence so that we can hear what God has to tell us.

Social scientists currently are predicting that the 1990s will become the decade of austerity as people offset the extravagances of the 1980s. Some interpret this as a new spirituality. From what I can interpret, however, this stinginess is only the other side of the selfcentered coin.

Stingy or extravagant, it's still all centered in me, me, me.

Wouldn't it be refreshing if instead, there were signs that the '90s would be the decade when we learned to listen.

Listening is the way we can begin to empty ourselves enough to hear the voices around us. Those voices include the messages of the powerful and the pleas of the poor, of the dispossessed and the powerless - and the Word from our God. Wouldn't it be nice if the '90s became the decade of listening, casting off our preoccupation with ourselves to become other-centered and intensely human? Is anybody listening?

Pssst... Your gender is showing By

DOLORES CURRAN

A few years ago while researching humor for a workshop, I discovered interesting differences between male and female humor as published in professional research journals. Men remember and tell more jokes than women.

Women tend to find more humor in the spontaneous and absurd than men.

Men rate sexual humor funnier than absurd humor but they were found to prefer sexual humor more than women only when the humor

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Mary: I am very concerned about teen pregnancies and am having a difficult time weighing my answers when my daughters, ages 16 and 14, are testing my reactions to things in our own neigh路 borhood.

Several young teen mothers who / played with my daughters are now daily pushing strollers past our home!

is derogatory toward women or when women are treated as sex objects. When males are butts of sexual jokes, men do not rate them nearly as funny as when females are butts.

Men tend to use humor to impress, women to bond. Self-disparagement, so common to women, is not valued by men. In one study; females found it funnier when a male disparaged himself than when he'disparaged a male enemy. Males, on the other hand, found disparagement of an enemy much funnier than self-disparagement.

Yet, good mental health includes the ability to laugh at one's shortcomings, and to see the light side of things. As one researcher put it, "In this respect, women appear to have a better sense of humor than men." Another explained it merely

as women's way of coping with anxiety.

However it is interpreted, the worrisome difference to me is that both men and women overwhelmingly prefer jokes where women are the victims. While women prefer victimless jokes, if there is a victim, they laugh more if it's a woman.

In one study, researchers asked subjects in three control groups to rate a number of jokes as to their humor quotient. One had a genderless victim, another a male victim, and the third a female victim. The genderless joke went like this: A reader approached I he aUihor signing books and said. .. This is a good book. Who wrole ilforyou?"

The aUlhor replied. "Thank you. I wrole il. Who read il 10 you?"

In the second group's version, the author was a woman and the

reader a man and in the third, the reverse. When all three groups' reactions were tallied, the joke with the woman victim was rated far funnier than the same joke told otherwise.

The depressing finding is that both men and women found it funnier than those in the other groups. Th~ researchers concluded that women feel uncomfortable laughing at men's shortcomings while men do not feel at all uncomfortable making women the butt of their jokes.

Much of this has to do with the charge that women who don't laugh at sexist jokes have no sense of humor. Many of us have been in a situation where an outrageous joke is told with women as the butt and we are faced with retorting, ignoring or laughing. If we retort, we're

"no fun." If we ignore, we "don't understand it." If we laugh we're "okay."

Recently I heard a good alternative response. A man in our midst complained that a report written by a female coworker contained unnecessary emotional information.

He paused, looked around our group and said, "Well, it was written by a woman, after all."

As the rest of us shifted uncomfortably, a woman in our group looked him directly in the eye and said, "Your gender is showing."

It was his turn to become uncomfortable. I found it a wonderfully effective way to respond. I plan to use it myself in the future.

But I don't think he found it funny.

Unwed teen mothers need support All these girls are keeping the babies and raising them with their parents' help. They have middleclass homes and most of their parents are under 40.

Their moms all worked parttime but quit to help raise the babies. None of the teens seem to have marriage plans in the near future. Some of the boyfriends are "active fathers" and help walk the baby a bit.

My daughters ask my honest opinion. I tell them I'm glad the girls didn't have abortions. They want to know iff disapprove ofthe babies. I tell them the babies are innocents.

I disapprove of the actions, the premarital sex. They think it can't be sinful if the boyfriend and girlfriend are true to each other and already parents. I disagree.

What do I tell my dau'ghters?

I don't want to condone premarital sex. - Illinois Thank you for this vivid picture of your neighborhood. Your concern is not unique.

You have expressed well the confusion people feel over the change in standards. Only a few decades ago pregnancy outside marriage was condemned by almost all. Pregnant young women were sent away from home; some per-

manently kicked out of the family.

The problem broke up families and left young women alone and without support.

The young women you describe become pregnant, have their babies, continue in school and raise their children with parent support.

From the standpoint ofa loving response to problems, the situation has improved. The young women remain in a supportive environment, and the babies are born into a family - not a typical young family but a stable, threegeneration family. The young life is valued.

The grandparents in such a sit.uation are the true pro-life models

in our world. They do not demonstrate or harass those with opposite views.

Instead they model with their own lives and at considerable personal cost the value of a tiny young life. They give up their own jobs and they take on the task of housing and raising a second generation.

The questions you raise have no easy answers. About all that can be said is that each of us must seek choices which provide loving solutions and protect life.

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Boycott Dairy Mart Dear Editor: Sell pornography or you are fired! That ,was the message that the Dairy Mart corporation gave to a young mother of three, just eight days before Christmas. Delores Stanley had served as assistant manager of the Wellsville, Ohio, Dairy Mart until October of 1990.

At that time she was promoted to manager and given the Toronto, Ohio store - one that had reportedly been unprofitable for the previous six years. The Wellsville store had not been required to sell pornography so Delores, acting on her convictions, removed the magazines from the Toronto store as soon as she became manager. During the next year the "porn free" store became profitable. Her success resulted in it being nominated for "Store of the Month." She believes God blessed her efforts because she refused to sell pornographic material. Little did she realize her pro-family convictions were about to get her fired.

Inearly December.199 I a Chris,tian radio station acknowledged that the Toronto Dairy Mart was porn free. The story of Delores Stanley's pro-family convictions soon spread to other local media.

Evidently, this became an embarrassment to the Dairy Mart Corporation. The corporation is a major seller of pornographic magazines via its other 1000 plus stores.

The company dispatched a district manager, Mr. Ken Bigeler, toconfront Mrs. Stanley on Friday, December 13. She was told that she must sell pornography or face dismissal. In fact, M r. Bigeler, to make his point, brought the pornography with him and stocked the shelves in her presence. Mrs. Stanley stood by her Christian beliefs and steadfastly refused to sell pornography. She was dismissed at that time and asked to think about her decision. Again, she stood by her decision and was fired the following Tuesday.

Ironically, though Dairy Mart fired Delores Stanley for not sel. ling pornographic magazines in Toronto, Ohio, they do not sell them at the plant store below their corporate offices in Enfield, Connecticut. A recent visitor to the store, inquiring as to why they didn't sell pornographic magazines, was told that it was because of the children that frequent the store and, probably, because "they (Dairy Mart officials) don't want it (pornography) where they have their offices."

Dairy Mart is sending a clear message to its outlying store managers: "We don't want pornographic trash in our clean, corporate store, but you have to sell it in yours or you will be fired." Concerned citizens now need to send a clear message to Dairy Mart. Here is how to do it.

1) Boycott Dairy Mart and encourage friends and family to do likewise.

2) Write to Chairman Charles Nirenberg, Dairy Mart Convenience Stores, Inc., 240 South Road Enfield, CT or call Dairy Mart at 203-741-3611.

3) Take a public stand against pornography. The American Family Association and other groups

will be picketing Dairy Marts in Ohio and on the East Coast on Saturday, March 7, 1992. Organize a picket or join one in your area.

4) Sign and circulate a petition and then send it to Chairman Nirenberg at the above address.

With over a thousand stores in Ohio and on the East Coast, Dairy Mart is among the largest retailers of pornographic magazines.

We appreciate your faithfulness in restoring family values in our nation.

Sincerely, Donald E. Wildmon President American Family Association

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With every best wish to you and yours, t Cahal Cardinal Daly Archbishop of Armagh Northern reland

Changing the world Dear Editor: Why are so many Catholics the Silent Majority?

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Only today did I realize how many "tongue-tied" or "dumb" persons we have in our congregation .Some hold the missalette in their hands, apparently for something to do with their hands, not their mouths.

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Dear Editor: A recent news report from Los Angeles quoted Cardinal Roger Mahony as calling for a new "family film code" to guide Hollywood filmakers. He cited the current rating system as a conflict of interest.

Its head is Jack Valenti, whose salary of $700,000 per year is paid by the film industry. The cardinal noted "a steady decline in the morals of our society, especially our young people."

The film industry's claim that it gives the public what it wants is false. It gives the public what it (the movie industry) can get away with. Our organization asked Valenti to use his powerful influence on the Hollywood "hucksters" to give

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more family viewing type of movies, but he declined. His preposterous claim that there is no shortage of family films, but there is a shortage offamily audiences flies in the face of the fact that of the last 200 films released, only 3 percent were "family viewing" movies. , Cardinal Mahony's call should be heeded by the Hollywood producers!

Thomas A. Walsh Secretary, Morality in Media of Massachusetts

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Pro-life doctor says practice hasn't suffered LINCOLN, Neb. (CNS) - It hasn't always been easy for Dr. Michael S koch: a Catholic physician. to uphold the church's ban on sterilization and artificial contraception in his family practice in Hastings. Neb. But it has been rewarding.

"I was afraid if I came out against contraceptives. I'd I()se patients and not get new ones."

Skoch told the Southern Nebraska Register. Lincoln diocesan newspaper.

"That's the furthest thing from what happened." he said. No.more than a handful of patients left him and many new ones have come because of his support of natural family planningas the only method of regulating birth acceptable to the Catholic Church.

Skoch's partners, three nonCatholic physicians. supported his decision over two years ago to stop performing sterilizations or prescribing artificial contraceptives.

But the decision was not easy.

A Kansan. Skoch attended the University of Kansas and the Kansas University Medical Center. . where he found contraceptives considered "not only commonplace. but ... part of any practice of obstetrics."

During his hospital residency.

FATHER ST AN Malnar, a priest-physician, talks with a Skoch began to have doubts about performing sterilizations and propatient at Sacred Heart Maternity Clinic, Spokane, Wash., viding contraceptives. He had what where he is medical director. (CNS/ Sacred Heart Medical what he called "a rather weak Center photo) struggle" with his conscience. and was assured by his instructors "that I should not worry about it."

Thus he began practicing in Hastings in 1987. and provided sterilizations and contraceptives.

Then Father Joseph Walsh of SPOKANE, Wash. (CNS) see this clinic as an essential part of St. Cecilia's parish in Hastings When Father Stan Malnar meets their mission," he said. challenged S koch to leave his fourwith a young woman facing finanBesides Father Malnar, the clinic physician partnership and begin a cial problems and expecting a baby. staff includes three registered solo practice of what he called nurses, a social worker, a dietitian he has a stethoscope draped around "Catholic medicine." his neck and she calls him "Doctor." and two secretaries. He and the Although the physician did not Father Malnar, 45, is a Catholic staff emphasize the importance of take that challenge. he said. "the priest, a physician and the medical addressing all needs of the expecseed Father Walsh planted was for director of Sacred Heart Mater- tant mothers, not just the medical me the beginning of a conversion nity Clinic, part of Sacred Heart ones. that is still affecting my life."

Medical Center in Spokane.

"These women have unique Shortly afterward he stopped The clinic provides obstetric care needs," said Donna Caplan, a staff performing sterilizations but conto uninsured pregnant women and nurse. "Many are single with.other tinued prescribing contraceptives children. Some are homeless, live new mothers. for another six months. a period "I've never experienced any dif- in poverty, have drug and alcohol marked by growing doubts. "The ficulty between my medical prac- problems or come from dysfuncHoly Spirit would not leave me tice and priesthood .... I've found tional homes." alone." he said. them mutually reinforcing." FaFather Malnar said his priestly He stopped prescribing contrather Malnar told Catholic News ministry gives him perspectives and ceptives in March 1989. and now Service. insights that help him as a doctor. counsels patients about the ovulaOrdained a priest of the diocese Most of his patients know he is tion method of natural family of Helena. Mont.. in 1972. Father' also a priest, and it has never planning. Not all couples choose Malnar said the catalyst that got caused a problem, he said. that method but he tells them they him into medicine was the summer When he began to study medimust go elsewhere to get a presof his deacon year. which he spent cine he had to get authorization cription for artificial birth control. studying at the Kansas Reception from Rome, he said. because church Skoch is medical consultant for and Diagnostic Center in Topeka. law then required priests to have a diocesan natural family planning "The clinical director encouraged special permission in order to center in Hastings and his wife. me to go into medicine, particu- practice medicine. That requireGinny, teaches there 10 to 12 hours_ larly psychiatry," he said. After ment was dropped when the 1983 a week. ordination, with his bishop's per- Code of Canon Law was issued.

In addition to reconciling his mission, he began studying medifaith and his professional practice, cine, earning his degree in 198 I. Skoch says natural family planBut he didn't pursue his 'original , ning counseling has improved his WASHINGTON (CNS) - It is goal of psychiatry. overall professional performance. not unconstitutional to give aid to "In medical school I enjoyed ''I'm a better listener and giver of .everything - pediatrics, family students in non-pUblic schools, care." he said. "This has forced me President BUsh recently told relipractice, everything," he said. to take the time to talk to people. I gious broadcasters in Washington.

Father Malnar, who is also a have found sensitivity and strength chaplain at Holy Family Hospital "I do not believe that it is unconstiwith my patients that I never before in Spokane and who supports himtutional for school kids to have the recognized in myself." sameâ&#x201A;Źpoice that I got under the self with paid parttime work at G I Bil(or that college kids now get 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Group Health Northwest, said the under the Pell Grant or that exPlatek, who held senior Interior Sacred Heart clinic is devoted servicemen now get under the Ministry positions in communist- exclusively to the prenatal and Montgomery Bill," Bush said. The ruled Poland, were arrested in postnatal care of women who have programs he cited grant federal October 1990 on suspicion of insti- no medical insurance.

"The Sisters of Providence who financial aid to post-high school gating and organizing the priest's run Sacred Heart and the hospital students. abduction and murder. ~-

MARINE CORPS recruits at a San Diego boot camp attend Mass. Many young recruits turn to God for strength during their grueling 12 weeks of initial training, say Catholic chaplains at the camp. (CNS photo)

Projects for, by disabled announced in Washington WASHINGTON (CNS) - The National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities is seeking funds to increase access by the disabled to church news and to give them greater visibility by sending speakers to national Catholic meetings around the country.

An Access to the Word program would use state-of-the-art computer technology to translate church bulletins. homilies and other local church news into Braille, largeprint format and audiotape.

Another project. Life Plus Disabilities Equals Life. envisioned as a church response to proposals that would permit physician-assisted suicide. would send disabled speakers to national conferences to provide a "disability perspective" to church discussions.

Both projects are brainchildren of Mary Jane Owen, executive director of the National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities, who is herself partially deaf and blind and uses a wheelchair.

"There is 110 aspect of life issues which does not need a disabilities perspective," she told Catholic News Service.

Through the Access to the Word program,' Ms. Owen hopes to provide "a truly national mode'" for access to church documents at the local level. "I'd love to do it with Catholic newspapers, but we just don't have the staff or the money for that now," she said.

Once the program is operating. churches with disabled parishioners would send their bulletins or other local news by fax to the national office to be "translated" into Braille, large-print format or high-quality synthetic speech, all done by machine, with the aim of getting disabled people more i'n-

volved in the day-to-day life of the local church.

"Hundreds of thousands of Catholics find the print of our parish newsletters impossible to read and the homilies of our pastors difficult to hear." Ms. Owen said in a statement to be distributed to those interested in the new campaign.

"As America grays, the need becomes greater." she added.

"Those among us who are missing the words of our faith must be assisted if the church is to fulfill its mission of evangelization."

The other proposed program would be designed to "provide a voice to harmonize with that of the bishops" on such issues as euthanasia and abortion.

"There is a harmony between what the Catholic Church feels about the sanctity of life. and what the disabled community needs as an ally in affirming that." Ms; Owen told CNS. "The disabled community has a very powerful message to tell the world. and where better to tell it" than at Catholic meetings, Ms. Owen said.

The National Catholic Officefor Persons with Disabilities is located at401 Michigan Ave. N.E., P.O. Box 29113, Washington, DC 20017.

Generals face trial WARSA W, Poland (CNS) Two secret police generals will be charged with masterminding the 1984 murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, Pro-Solidarity priest, Poland's Justice Ministry said. The two could face the death penalty if convicted, said Justice Ministry spokesman Andrzej Cubalahe.

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Dear Pope: Fargo's the place for wide blue space FARGO, N.D. (CNS) - If an editor of the Fargo diocesan newspaper had his druthers, Pope John Paul II would hold a 1993 World Youth Day rally in Fargo.

"We'll show you a slice of faith life in the Upper Midwest," wrote Mike Tighe. managing editor of The New Earth, Fargo diocesan monthly, in an open letter to the pope.

Tighe's letter appeared in the paper's February issue. It was prompted by news in January that five U.S. cities were being rumored as candidates for a possible papal visit next year for World Youth Day. A story in Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newspaper, cited Chicago. Denver. Seattle, M inneapolis-St. Paul and Buffalo, N.Y .. as potential U.S. sites.

Pope John Paul began in 1989 to hold a papal rally for World Youth Day outside Italy every other year. It was in Spain in 1989 and in Poland in 1991. Vatican officials said the 1993 rally will be outside Europe. but neither the city nor the country has been decided yet.

"Ignore the blizzard of hype those other five U.S. dioceses are blowing toward the Vatican," Tighe wrote.

"What do [they) have to offer. besides snarly freeways that are always jammed. expensive ice palaces that melt away into puddles and football teams that can't cut the mustard?" he commented.

"We got more than all of them and Publisher's Clearinghouse combined could offer."

He noted that with North Dakota's "wide open spaces," the Fargo diocese could easily find room for an outdoor Mass or rally for a few hundred thousand people. "It's hard to beat a day under our expansive blue skies for instilling an appreciation for God's creation," he added.

And the diocese has experience in organizing youth rallies, he said: 850 high school students at a diocesan gathering last October. and 700 expected at a junior high rally in Carrington in mid-February.

In ttie' Fargo diocese, he said, the pope could visit "the International Peace Garden on the U.S.Canadian border just a stone's throw from the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation."

Or he could "swing south to St. Therese of the Little Flower Church in Rugby. which just happens to be the official geographical center of North America," he said.

"Pope John PauL have you EVER been at the geographical center of ANY continent? Opportunity's knocking here," he wrote.

More than the land or the tourist spots, however, Tighe stressed the faith life the pope would find among the diocese's 100,000 Catholics - the enthusiam of the young people, lively cooperation among parishes, and a new diocesewide program of evangelization among parishes, and a new recruitment.

The other places might argue that "they're better because they're bigger," Tighe wrote. "Think of us as a mustard seed -like what you see he~e in the diocese of Fargo."

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BACKSEAT CATHOLICS are welcome at St. Dominic Savio parish, Affton, Mo. (eNS photo)

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WASHINGTON(CNS)- Pennsylvania's Catholic bishops said the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration to patients should be seen as "exceptions and should not be made into the rule."

In ajoint statement, the bishops said, "We find no moral problem in the withdrawing even of n ltrition and hydration from the pa'.ient if the supplying of them is futi.e or excessively burdensome."

They added, "It is morally wrong, . however, to take these extreme cases and make them the norm for all cases of persistent vegetuive state patients.... In such cases their removal is tantamount to pa! sive euthanasia - killing by omission."

The 34-page statement, "N ltrition and Hydration: Moral Considerations," was released in .January by the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference in Harrisburg, Pa. The same week, Bishop Wil:iam H. Bullock of Des Moines, Iowa, issued a pastoral letter on euthanasia in which he said, "The allt:ged 'right to die' is a fundamental abuse of human freedom."

The Pennsylvania bishops noted that the issue of feeding ""ithdrawal "has not yet been explil:itly dealt with by the Holy See. That simple fact, however, does not mean that the faithful are free to act as though there were no guidelines at all."

They focused much of t leir attention on patients in a per;istent vegetative state, commonly referred to as PVS. PVS patients' brain stems are "still functioning" but not :hat portion of the brain "which is responsible for those activities ':hat we recognize as specifically human," they said.

AUSTIN, Texas (CNS) - A "Deaf culture doesn't have relireligious order is being formed in gious symbols," said Sister Elmore.

Austin with a unique ministry to "The deaf don't really have a and with deaf Catholics. concept of what sacrament means. '~Even though they are very The Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph is the first Catholic order social, I see a real lack of underin the United States to have deaf standing of religion among deaf evangelization as its primary mini- people," Sister Munn said. "They stry, say founders Sisters Mary , don't know who God is and how to find ways to solve moral dilemmas."

Elmore and Debbie Munn.

After receiving Bishop McAfter professing private vows Carthy's approval, the two women during a Mass at St. Ignatius parish wrote a rule of life and submitted in Austin, the women are an the rule with letters of intention to "association of Christian faithful," the Vatican. They will wear' veils a first step towards becoming an officially recognized religious or- and religious habits. der. The women have a rule of life The dress is important, Sister and the approval of Austin Bishop Munn said. "Visuals are very John E. McCarthy. important for the deaC" she exSisters Elmore and M unn are plained. "It will let them see that fluent in American Sign Language. this is something special."

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"That question," the bishops said, "remains to be answered, although present consensus argues against the existence of such pain, mental or physical."

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Shortchanging girls?

Continued from Pa~e One out that "the more we know about learning tyles, the more we realize the importance of having options - and Catholic schools offer [allgirls', all-boys' and coed] options."

Brother Wickman noted further that Catholic schools have "an umbrella respect for each student . as a child of God." He said he had worked in both all-boy and coed schools and cited in particular his experience at La Salle Academy, Providence, RI, where faculty members were carefully prepared for the school's 1984 transition from an all-boy to a coed institution.

"The goal was for teachers to appreciate [gender] differences and what each sex brings to the educational experience," he said.

Commenting on the incident of the woman teacher surprised that videotape showed her favoring boys in her class, he said that "taping is a valuable tool" and that teachers are almost always astonished at what it reveals about their classroom style.

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Mercy Sister Nancy Merkle, said self-esteem of high school girls needs nurturing to offset the effects of living in a male-dominated society.

While all students "learn better

when more confident of themselves," Sister Merkle said, girls need more nurturing "because of the cultural restraints against women when they are constantly surrounded by male role models in books and society."

Sister Merkle, principal of Mother of Mercy High School, an all-girls' school, suggested singlesex high schools as one answer to the problem.

"Single-sex education does enhance math and science education," for example, said Sister Merkle.

All-girls' high schools try to "build self-confidence and the ability to lead" in young women, she said. An all-girls' school lets "yourtg women hold all the positions of leadership."

Sister Merkle said bias also is present in textbooks.

Since textbooks "mention very few female figures," she said. Her school supplements them by emphasizing female historical figures "to show our students important places that women hold and have held."

But another nun-educator who agreed with the report's findings disagreed with Sister Merkle's solution.

"Coed is a more normal situation," said Sister of St. Joseph of

Carondelet Carolyn Schanz, principal of Catholic Central High School, Troy, N. Y., a coed school.

Sister' Schanz, who has been principal of both coed and singlesex schools, said girls take on leadership roles more readily in an all-girls' school. But she still favors coed schools where, she said, females "learn to deal with males and that they're just as smart."

She said her faculty had discussed the report and that "some teachers agreed" with it.

"Boys seem to crave more attention," she said.

However, at Catholic Central, she said, there are "as many girls in math and science" classes as boys, with many girls "going on for teaching degrees in math" and others going into engineering.

Sister Burke said she agreed with data which say "it is particulary advantageous for young women to attend all-female schools," but added, "this option isn't always possible geographically."

The report was titled "The AAUW Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls."

Based on information supplied by the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women,-it said boys are more likely to receive college scholarships than girls with equal or slightly better grades. It also pointed to a 1990 nationwide survey that showed that self-esteem of girls dropped nearly 40 percent between elementary and high school. compared with a 20 percent decrease for boys.

'fliliJ SIMON HELPS Jesus carry his cross in this life-size sculpture by Huberto Maestas, whose 14 stations are placed along a trail established by Knights of Columbus in San Luis, Colorado. The trail leads pilgrims to the top of a mountain known as Mesa de la Piedad y de la Misericordia (Mesa of Piety and Mercy). The sculptor made smaller replicas of the statues for presentation to Pope John Paul II. (CNS photo)

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Continued from Page One John Paul"" to supply Solidarity with electronic and printing equipment. All this was supposedly financed by the CI A and "secret accounts" at the Vatican, among other sources.

The article said the Vatican shared all politically related information it received from the Polish church with either Reagan or the late CIA director Casey. It portrayed the church as working hand-in-hand with the CIA to undermine the Polish government's legitimacy.

The Time article offered little substantiation for ;ts claims. It quoted Reagan as saying that he and the pope agreed that the division of Europe was a mistake and "something had to be done." Reagan was also quoted as saying that "Solidarity was the very weapon for bringing this about." There

was no elaboration from the former president.

It quoted three leading churchmen on a variety of topic's, but none spoke directly about a secret V.S.-Vatican pact to keep Solidarityalive.

Retired Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli was quoted as saying there was a "real coincidence of interests between the V.S. and the Vatican."

Cardinal Pio Laghi, papal nuncio in Washington in the 1980s, described to Time how he sometimes hosted Casey and other Reagan officials at breakfast, where the discussion usuaJly turned to Poland.

Cardinal Laghi told Time that he emphasized to V.S. officials that the pope knew how to "insist on human rights [in Poland], on religious freedom, and keep Solidarity alive without provoking the communist authorities further."

Pope to Africa Continued from Page One the cities, where vocational train' ing is hard to come by.

Catholic missionaries first visited the nations over 500 years ago but permanent missions began only in the early 1800s. Yellow fever, malaria and other diseases did not help: according to a history of the church in Gambia. until 1902 the average life expectancy for a missionary was 2 years, 10 months.

But Catholicism in the three countries has flourished during Pope John Paul's pontificate. In 1978, the year he was elected, Gambia had 12,000 Catholics and no diocesan priests - the standard indicator of the maturity of a local church. Gambian Catholics now number 17,000 and there are five diocesan priests.

The percentage of increase in

the number of Catholics in Senegal and Guinea has exceeded that of the general population growth.

And from 1978 to 1990. the number of Catholics in Guinea grew by 150 percent, according to Vatican statistics.

The six dioceses of Senegal, which had a combined total of 42 diocesan priests at the end of 1978, had 137 by the end of 1990. In the same period. diocesan priests in Guinea increased from 18 to 42.

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SENIOR PROM: Marquette University sophomore Jay Schullian of Vernon Hills, Ill., dances with a guest at a studentsponsored "Senior Prom" held recently at the Milwaukee Catholic university. More than 250 students and 75 senior citizens from the area enjoyed dancing, entertainment and singalongs. "An event like this shows that the generation gap can really close up," said senior citizen participant Midge Niemczyk. (CNS photo)

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Health care costs threaten your economic security Thirty years ago, John F. Kennedy campaigned for a national health care program for older Americans to protect them from the catastophic cost of getting sick in America. In the wake of his assassination, Medicare was born.

Medicare doubled the number of elderly people with health insurance and guaranteed them basic care for serious illness. But even with Medicare, the amount seniors have to pay to stay healthy keeps rising. Why? In part, because of gaps in coverage and increasing cost-sharing. But the biggest reason: rising health costs.

In fact, seniors are spending a bigger proportion of their incomes on health care today than before Medicare.

It's all part of what's happening to everybody in America: health costs are skyrocketing. By the end of this decade, health care spending will eat up twice as big a chunk of the American family budget as it did in 1980.

In 1980 the average American family spent $1 on health care for evtrry $6 of income.

As most older Americans know, the fastest growing component of family health spending is health insurance premiums, for Medicare and for private insurance. Medicare premiums more than tripled since 1980.

Where will the average family get the money to afford these skyrocketing health costs? By cutting back on mortgage payments? By eating less or skipping doses of their prescriptions? $9,400 a year for health In 1980 the average American family paid a total of $1,700 for health care, including out-of-pocket expenses, health insurance, and state and federal taxes that go for health programs like Medicare. By the end of this decade that same

family will by paying $9,400 for health!

In the coming months, you'll be hearing about all sorts of health care proposals from politicians of every stripe. There will also be plans from the insurance industry and the American Medical Association - those with high stakes in protecting the enormous amounts of money they are making at the expense of the rest of us.

By Ron Pollack Most of these plans will involve a bit of sleight of hand: shifting your costs from premiums to outof-pocket costs, or cutting the tax burden by increasing your premiums, without actually reducing the total amount that you have to spend.

Listen to the fast talkers who say they'll cut taxes to save you money: do they tell you whether your out-of-pocket costs and insurance premiums will go through the roof?

Listen to the fast talkers who say they'll cut costs by cutting Medicare! That doesn't cut costs.

It just shifts a heavier cost burden onto your shoulders.

Listen for the insurance industry lobbyists who will tell you that they will lower premiums to save you money: Sure they will, but will

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I hate pleonasms, and they )other me more than they used to, probably because I don't have as much time left.

A pleonasm is the use of more words than are needed. Synonyms include verbosity and redundancy.

They lurk everywhere, but particularly in editorials, educatioll writing, sermons, speeches and specialized publications.

When a preacher commits too many pleonasms in a serm,)n, he loses his listeners fast. Eyes glaze over; restlessness rises, ar. d the thoughts.of his congregation stray.

Some pleonasms hit us oyer the head, knocking out concentl ation.

Others arise when rereadin,~ only adds to our confusion. Hen,'s one of the latter from a jourr,al on aging: " ... To grow wiser requires not only the sheer passage of tirle but also incremental personal change [and) because the search for wisdom evolves synergistically and cumulatively in a highly contextualized, individualized 'pattern, there is no formular for growing wise."

Let's see now. To get smart you must grow older, but becaw,e everybody is different, no one way is best. At least, I think that's what the authors meant.

I collect pleonasms-evfn my you be covered for less so you'll wind up spending more of your own money for care?

Listen carefully as to whether any of them has a realistic plan to CUT health costs, not just shift the burden from one of your sho llders to the other.

Any proposal will bear s( rutiny on three counts: How much noney will it really save you; if any! Does it protect the quality of ca:'e that you can afford, quality that is threatened by rising costs? Does it protect consumers from the insurance and health care profiteers, or does it protect the insurance companies and drug companies and hospitals from real refe rm?

The fact is that health costs threaten the economic security of America's elderly and American families. And the only \\ ay to really take the pressure off is to get costs under control for all Americans, young and old.

The only reason that we have Medicare is that a young president, John F. Kennedy, fought for it. We have a right to expec: leadership from Washington today to get us all out of the mess thl: folks at the top have let the health care system get into.

Ron Pollack is executive director of Families USA Foundation

$2.8 million in two months for prilests SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CI\'S) In two months the Diocese of Sioux City raised $2.8 million in gifts and pledges to fund ~etire足 ment costs of its priests. E,ishop Lawrence D. Soena of Siou I( City announced the five-year, $6.5 million capital campaign at the end of October. An independent actuarial study earlier in the year concluded that the diocese's c'Jrrent health and pension plan for priests is $6,481,972 short of expected liabilities in coming years as more priests retire and health costs rise.

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The need of the moment is the will of God.

The Anchor Friday, Feb. 21, 1992

own. I still have a composition I wrote in Grade 8A in Ascension School in 1930 or '31. I got a B on what I entitled "My Ambition in Life."

"As the years roll swiftly by" (I was all of 13 then), I wrote, "I find myself facing the great problem of forming my intention for my life work.

"I hope that if I go through high school I may take up shorthand, a system of righting (honest!) that enables a person to write in a short time the words that otherwise would have to take much longer."

I guess I was practicing to get paid by the word.

It took lots of practice and many great English andjounalism teachers to get me to write clear and simple prose. I'm still trying.

Most ofthat prose has appeared in the Catholic press, which is honored every February.

In 1992, my 35th year in the Catholic press, I'd like to salute the unsung heroes of that great institution, which now reaches more then 28 million North Americans in newspapers, magazines and newsletters.

Not having kept score, I can't tell you whether more pleonasms afflict the general press than the Catholic press, although I suspect that's true. Just consider the num-

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By BERNARD CASSERLY

ber of pages in the daily press and the verbosity in the sports, comics, fashion, business and editorial sections.

During Catholic Press Month, I'd like to raise a toast to an even less celebrated breed: English teachers. They taught us how to use words not only correctly and powerfully-but sparingly-avoiding pleonasms.

I hereby praise three of my most influential writing teachers: Sister Colma, CSJ, my eigth grade teacher at the Ascension; Miss Morse, my English teacher at Jordan Junior High, and Mitchell Charnley, my journalism professor at the University of Minnesota.

All are gone now to that heavenly classroom in the sky, where all the teachers are rich and highly regarded, and all their pupils get As in class and Pulitzer prizes later on.

j'J MARY GIER CLARK

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She's 99 but not slowing down LINCOLN, Neb. (CNS) Nearly 40 years after her retirement, Mary Gier Clark isn't about to sl~w down. In fact, she keeps up a pace that would tire a woman half her age.

A daily communicant for over 80 years, the 99-year-old Mrs. Clark continues to make house calls for the Legion of Mary. She is still an active member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, which she helped found in 1920, and of the Sacred Heart Altar Society, Third Order Franciscans.

Mrs. Clark's volunteer work is not restricted to the Lincoln area.

Another of her favorite pastimes is making rosaries, which she gives to Father Jerome Pokorny of Valparaiso, Neb., for distribution to the missions.

Every Monday morning, Mrs. Clark attends Mass at Lancaster Manor Retirement Home in Lincoln. Before Mass she helps residents get to the chapel and afterward she visits with them.

In addition, Mrs. Clark goes to the Regional Center, the state hospital for the mentally disturbed,

every week. She takes with her sandwiches she has made for some of the patients. After lunch she joins the patients playing bingo.

Volunteering and doing for others has always been a part of her life. Born in 1893, she did not wed until 1929, the year her mother died. Her father lived with her for 12 years after her marriage to Kenneth Clark.

In 1911, she began work as a linotype setter for a small German newspaper in Seward, Neb., earning $15 a week. Her last job was with The State Journal, forerunner of The Lincoln J oui-nal. She retired in 1952 after 33 years there.

Asked about her plans for the future, Mrs. Clark said she wants to stay in her own home as long as possible. This year she plans on having a garden again and canning the vegetables.

She also encourages others to become involved in helping others. "It's the best thing we can do," she said. "We always get more out of doing things for people than it costs in giving."

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CROATIAN WOMEN seek refuge from fighting in Yugoslavia in a former military dormitory in Nagystad, Hungary. What is to become of them and thousands of other potential immigrants poses a problem for the 12-mition European Economic Community. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

Choose between aid, immigrants, says Vatican secretary for migrants VATICAN CITY (CNS) Developed countries must activate East European economies if they want to avoid a flood of immigrants from the former Soviet bloc, said Scalabrini Father Silvano Tomasi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.

"Experience shows that if there is small progress immediately in the economy of the countries of the ex-Soviet Union, this potential immigration will diminish," he said in a Vatican Radio interview.

Father Tomasi was formerly head of pastoral care for migrants and refugees for the U.S. Catholic Conference Migration and Refugee Services.

The European Economic Com-

munity of 12 West European nations predicts that 2.5 million East Europeans might already be, planning to leave their countries, while another 10 million are considering the possibility. Other predictions indicate that unemployment will reach at least 20 percent this year in many East European countries.

"We must not hide the fact that reception of potentially millions of immigrants could sharpen the difficulty for housing, social services and certain aspects of living together, given the large cultural differences and the pressures on economic competitiveness that these immigrants might create," Father Tomasi said., Rich countries have the respon-

sibility "through immediate economic aid" to stimulate "that economic development that the market economy requires to avoid this enormous percentage of unemployment," he added.

Father Tomasi also expressed fear that the immigration wave will come at a time when many West European countries are already under pressure because of immigration flows from other parts of the world.

"There is fear that the needle of the scale tends too much toward a restrictive policy," he said. "Governments respond by the shortest route, erecting higher barriers and closing all the doors," he added, noting that "the problem is much more complex" and cannot be resolved by police measures alone.

Vatican backs breast-feeding campaign NEW YORK (CNS) - A UNICEF official speaking at a Catholic hospital conference in New York got a public pledge of high-level Vatican support for a campaign to promote breast-feeding.

Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini. president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. said he had met with UNICEF Director James P. Grant at the Vatican and "assured him of our collaboration."

The pontifical council'sjournaI. Dolentium Hominum, is printing an article it solicited from UNICEF on breast-feeding. the cardinal told Catholic News Service. and the topic will be included at the council's international conference on the disabled Nov. 19-21.

Cardinal Angelini was responding to an appeal by Richard Reid, UNICEF public affairs director. at a meeting of Catholic hospital administrators Jan. 31-Feb. 2.

The developed countries took a "desperately wrong turn" in the 1930s and 1940s when they began widespread use of bottle-feeding, Reid said, and many people in the undeveloped countries have begun looking to tht>rn as an example, particularly in Third World cities.

He said bottle-feeding was too expensive for these societies. and they also lacked the needed refrigeration and sterilization equipment and knowledge.

But aside from those factors. tional meeting to launch the assoReid said. breast-feeding should ciation would probably be held be promoted because mother's milk this fall or next year. is "the finest food ever seen on the At the New York conference. face of this planet."

Cardinal Angelini said Msgr. CasIt provides the first forms of sidy was the most experienced perimmunization as well as superior son in the field. and would give nourishment. he said. and babies leadership until the organization breast-fed are much less likely to was formally established. die from problems such as acute The New York conference indiarrhea. cluded representatives of Canada.

Citing psychological advantages.

South Africa and India as well as Reid said breast-feeding was importhe United States. Msgr. Cassidy tant to the "bonding" of babies to said they approved a resolution their mothers and began a "posiendorsing the proposed associative socialization process." . tion and its statutes.

The formula bottle. he said. is a A meeting for Europeans will be "diabolical" substitute whose plasheld in Poland. he said. and other tic or rubber nipple does not perpreparatory gatherings may be mit facial muscles to develop as arranged. they should.

He told conference participants Reid. recalling years of work in that Catholic health care facilities various African countries. said he worldwide were estimated to numhad become deeply impressed with ber almost 13.000. including nearly the role of the Catholic Church in 5.000 hospitals. Reid later said he the developing world.

"I know the immense power of would place the total at 15.000.

Cardinal Angelini repeatedly asthe church and its hospital system, in causing something to sured the hospital executives that the new international organization move." was meant to unite them in more The conference where Reid and effective service. not to excercise Cardinal Angelini spoke was called authority over them or limit their primarily to prepare for establishautonomy. administrative ment of an international associaHe said local ecclesiastical authtion of Catholic health institutions.

Msgr. James P. Cassidy. chan- orities would determine whether a cellor of New York Medical Col- facility could be recognized as Catholic. It could not. he said. if it lege. has taken a leading role in did not follow Catholic principles organizing the association.

Msgr. Cassidy said in a later tel- on such issues as abortion and ephone interview that an interna- euthanasia.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - At the Vatican bank, where transactions are patiently carried out next to papal busts and marble pillars, a 20th-century fixture has arrived: the first automat,ic teller machine.

But unlike most banking machines, designed for after-hours deposits and withdrawals, you've got to go inside the bank to use this one.

"It's a way to avoid the long lines." said one teller at the Institute for the Works of Religion, as the bank is officially called. That may be true, but on Feb. 4 there were 14 long lines and no one standing at the gleaming new Bancomat.

The teller machine is the latest in a slow, painstaking process of modernization at the Vatican bank, which was placed under lay management three years ago.

But the changes have not completely altered the over a century old ways of the institution, and some clients might prefer it that way.

Computers were put in early last year, though it took cashiers a few months to work out the bugs.

Anyway, clients must still fill out longhand forms for most transactions. Complete computerization will come later, said the bank's director, .Giovanni Bodio.

Currency-counting machines have made their appearance. too - but cashiers routinely doublecheck the traditional way, flipping through massive wads of bills by hand.

After months of .construction and removal of a marble fountain, an ultra~mod'ern glass-walled' elevator was installed - but many nuns and priests still trudge up 64 steps to the bank's office, located inside a medieval Vatican tower.

The bank machine, installed in January, seems to invite some wariness. Point I of the instructions is a warning to clients that their transactions are unofficial until checked by a teller. The machine coughs up a deposit receipt, but it needs to be approved before it's valid. (The Vatican bank doesn't hand out "Bank error in your favor" cards.)

Clients can deposit and withdraw cash. but only in Italian lira.

The automatic teller closes for the day at noon - when the bank closes. If a bank machine goes

haywire and starts grinding out a limitless supply of 100,OOO-lire notes, an overseer is always around to unplug it.

A second teller machine was added recently in the Vatican City governor's office, which stays open until 8 p. m. Eventually, others m.ay be scattered in buildings throughout the 109-acre city-state - if automated banking catches on.

There are many reasons, however, why the bank's regular clients - including priests, seminarians and religious orders - may prefer dealing with human face than an electronic screen.

The Vatican bank is a place where a bishop is encouraged to come to the head of the line, and where a missionary-order nun can keep a cashier busy half the morning with checks and transfers from all over the globe.

The needs of the bank's clients are special, and not easily translated to the buttons on a banking machine.

One day last fall, for example, an African bishop showed up with a few old account numbers in one hand and building plans for a new diocesan center in the other. He placed it all in front of the cashier, who was presumably expected to make one lead to the other.

The Vatican bank was formed in 1942, but had been operating under a different name since 1887.

Its founding purpose was to help Catholic groups in one part of the world financially aid Catholics in another.

Many religious orders use the bank to transfer funds to their houses in various countries. Missionaries rely on the bank's expertise to help them find secure ways to exchange and move money from the universal to the particular church.

The bank deals with major transactions and local relief projects, big operations and little ones. It's not unusual for a cashier to spend 20 minutes sorting out the checkbook problems of an Asian convent - in broken English.

Clients like this will probably continue to take their Byzantine banking needs to old-fashioned human tellers instead of the machine. They find it's worth the wait.

Latin documents give both sides of evangelization of Americas VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican has published two volumes of papal documents on the good and the bad of Catholicism's arrival in the Americas.

They reveal an emphasis on evangelization and attempts by popes to separate church activity from the colonial policies of Spain and Portugal.

Throughout is the image of Indians as "babies in Christ" and "tender plants" needing Christianity to mature. Subsequent popes built on this view to defend Indian rights.

Celebrations this year to mark the SOOth anniversary of Christianity's arrival in the New World have sparked objections that colonization and evangelization led to abuse and political subjugation of native peoples.

The 1,528-page, two-volume publication was edited by Father Josef

Metzler, prefect of the Vatican'S Secret Archives. The documents, covering 1493 to 1592, are almost all in Latin. They say the relationship between popes and kings was often uneasy but started with close collaboration between Pope Alexander VI and the monarchs of Spain and Portugal.

In 1493 the pope blessed colonization of the New World in exchange for royal pledges to spread Christianity. This gradually became formalized in the "patronato" system. which allowed kings to propose candidates for the episcopacy if they financially maintained the church in the New World.

"At first. this was a good solution. Rome lacked money and missionaries." said Father Metzler. but "the other side of the coin was the linking of evangelization to colonialism...

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 21, 1992

Most caring people WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Florida nun and a Catholic layman from Kansas City, Mo., are among 21 people recently honored as "the most caring people in America."

At a Washington ceremony sponsored by the Caring Institute, Medical Missionary Sister Margaret Freeman, executive director of the St. Petersburg Free Clinic, and John P. McMeel, cofounder of Universal Press Syndicate, received 1991 National Caring Awards. Nine other adults and 10 teen-agers also were honored.

Sister Freeman, 72, has operated the St. Petersburg Free Clinic 'since 1976. Established as a medical clinic, the agency has expanded to offer food, clothing, a birthing center, a shelter for battered women and emergency social services. The nun coordinates the work of the numerous'individuals and about 200 churches that support the clinic, which provides health care to approximately 1,000 patients, distributes food to an estimated 4,000 families and provides emergency social services to som.e 1,300 people each month.

McMeel, 55, was honored for his work in founding the Andrews Scholars program at the Univel;sity of Notre Dame, his alma mater, and the Christmas in October p~o颅 gram in Kansas City.

The scholars 'program, endowed

by McMeel arid his friends, was organized more than a decade ago to encourage students to become involved in the community by participating in summer social service projects across the country: Students are awarded a tuition scholarship for work on projects selected by the Notre Dame Centeifor Sociai 'Concern and by"local alumni clubs. Since its inception, the program has made 2'19 placements in 81 cities in 36 states and in one' city in Ecuador.

McMeel and a friend began Christmas in October in Kansas City in 1984. lt has improved over 1,000 homes in the Kansas City area. Last year 450 skilled and 4,000 unskilled volunteers repaired 250 homes, using more than $200,000 in donated materials and supplies.

Recipients of the caring awards are chosen from hundreds of people nominated for selflessness and commitmerit to service by leaders in business, politics, the media and the arts.

Amnesty oppose.d SAN SALVADOR (CNS) Salvadoran church leaders say they oppose a general amnesty for political crimes as part of the country's move toward peace after 1"2 years of civil war. "We are not in favor of a general amnesty as it suggests nothing' happened here," Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador said. But political leader Armando Calderon Sol said a pardon is needed to help create an atmoshere for national reconciliation in the Central American country. Calderon Sol, president ofthe ruling National Republican Alliance party, said during a recent seminar that "all the great tragedies suffered by the public end with an amnesty agreement, which seeks to reconcile the country."

----Pleasing God

"Pleasing God lies not so much in doing a great deal as in doing it with good will."-St. John of the Cross

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Baptism for "marginal" Catholics'infants a topic NEW YORK (CNS) - Panelists in ,a televised discussion on baptizing infant children of "marginaI" Catholics agreed the situation was challenging for the church, but reached no consensus on imposing requirements on the parents or godparents.

They examined the issue in a recent teleconference sponsored by the National Pastoral Life Center in New York.

Father Philip J. Murnion, the moderator, initiated discussion by suggesting cases where parents or godparents with little if any inREP. KEVIN POIRIER accepts the 1992 National volvement in church life asked for baptism of babies. Canon law, he Catholic Elementary School Distinguished Graduate Award pointed out, requires a reasonable from Father Marcel H. Bouchard, director, and Alberta Goss, expectation that the child will be principal of St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro. . brought up in the Catholic religion.

Father Robert D. Duggan, a pastor in Gaithersburg, Md., argued forrelatively strict standards.

"Jesus called people into a discipleship that required commitmitment to my family, an active' ment," he said. Later, he also Rep. Kevin Poirier (R-North participation in the church and an commented that "an institution Attleboro) received the 1992 National Catholic Elementary School involvement with the community that fails to ask for or' demand Disting'uished Graduate Award at large." commitmentJrom its members is Feb. II at St. Mary-Sacred Heart After graduation from St. doomed."

School, North Attleboro.

Mary's, Poirier attended North In societies where "cultural CaAttleboro 'High School and Bry- tholicism" prevails, said Father Poirier, currently serving his eighth term in the Massachusetts ant College. He served in tht: Navy Duggan, a child can be expected to House of Representativt:s, gradu- and worked at the Balfour Com- receive some degree of Catholic pany of Attleboro from 1964 to formation from the culture, whethated from St. Mary's School, which 1977, when he began his legi,lative er or not parents or godparents later merged with Sacred Heart service.

School in 1972. practice the faith.

AS,a legislator. he has served on The National Catholic Educai But that expectation loses validvarious committees and f,lr the tional Association presents the ity, he said, when the family is past four years has been House Distinguished Graduate Award to assistant minority leader. CUTently transferred "into the American acknowled~eachievements of Ca:thhe is the ranking Republican on secular, basically godless culture." olic elementary school graduates.

Father Duggan acknowledged the House ways and meam, com"When I attended S1. Mary's mittee and is a member of the rules that parents often try neighboring School," Poirier said, "It was the parishes for baptism ifthey do not committee. largest English-speaking parochial He was a member of St. tvlary's, want to meet his requirements. He school (K through 8) in the diocese St. Mary-Sacred Heart and the said that he never actually denies of Fall River with a grand total of North Attleboro school commit- baptism, but often delays it, telling about 850 students. tees. He was for two years chair"In my day, there was no tui- man of the latter committee. tion, students were taught by the He has coached the St. MarySisters of Mercy, and the school Sacred Heart basketball teLm for was supported by S1. Mary's several years.

Church. Our lives were centered in His wife, Elizabeth (Ros,) and OMAHA. Neb. (CNS) - Envithe school and ,community. We their sons Sean and Rya n are ronmental issues have started to were involved with many activi- graduates of St. Mary's l)f St. find their way into church docuties, such as May processions, Mary-Sacred Heart Schoo:. Son ments and will stay there for a long monthly First Friday Masses, daily Kevin is a fifth grader at St. \1arytime. predicts the executive direcLenten devotions and altar boy Sacred .Heart. tor of the national Catholic Rural training. There was never a dull "Catholic schools are commitLife Conference. moment at St. Mary's. ted to formulating a strong mind But those issues haven't really and spirit," Poirier said. "This has " "The values I received from St. caught on with the faithful yet and been their goal over the yean; and I it's "clear the institutional church Mary's have remained with me know that it will continue." throughout my life: a strong comis running to catch up with this issue," Fitzgerald recently told Catholic Press Association members at a meeting in Omaha.

Based in Des Moines, Iowa" the Rural Life Conference is'a membership organization that conducts TARRYTOWN, N.Y.(CNS)- tors: child abuse rates, teen suicide education arid advo(;acy programs The social health of the V nited rates, proportion of working-age on food, agricultural. rural and ' States in 1989 dropped to its worst adults without health insu :ance, environmental issues. level in 20 years, according to the the size of the gap between rich "The institutional church is inter1991 Index of Social Health. and poor, and the amount of out- ested but not especially skilled or The index is a yearly analysis of of-pocket health costs for people knowledgeable about the issue," Fitzgerald said, noting that envirV.S. performance in 17'key social over 65. areas, ranked on a 100-point scale onmentalism calls for a new under"This pattern of decline," the and compiled by a sociology team report said, "affected all sectors of standing of Scripture. at the Tarrytown-based Fordham American society: of six [index) For many years, people have Institute for Innovation in Social problems relating to children and used the Bible to justify abuse of Policy. the environment, he explained. cityouth, four grew worse, as did five Institute director Marc. L. Mir~ 'of six affecting. adults and the ing chapter I of Genesis and its ringofftold Catholic News Service elderly. declaration that humanity has "domthat preliminary figures for 1990 The decadelong average :ating inion over the earth." In this model, and 1991 strongly suggest that for the 1970s was 67.3, but the Scripture places humanity at the when all the figures are in, the average for 1980-89 was 38.(1. The pinnacle of creation. he said. index for those years will be even worst single-year rating in the But a new scriptural model is lower than in 1989.

1970s, 57.1 in 1979, was Jetter emerging that uses Noah and the Ark as its basis, Fitzgerald said. In The worst scores yet came up in than the best rating in the 1980s, this model, the Ark is seen as a 1989 on five social health indica50.6 in 1980.

St. Mary-Sacred Heart School distinguished graduate honored

parents, "Maybe you are not ready for this."

Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin, pastor of St. Joseph Church in Camillus, N. Y., said he "wouldn't be as strict" as Father Duggan.

He also observed that "the sacrament has its own power."

"Our task is to explain what the church expects," he said. "How they respond is up to the person and the Lord."

Elise Bourne-Thomas, a Catholic school principal in Passaic, N.J., emphasized the importance of making marginal Catholics feel welcome if they attend church for an oc.casional special event. Their desire to have a child baptized represents an opportunity that should not be lost, she said.

Church leaders, she said, should try to find out why marginal Catholics. feel a lack of enthusiasm. Many parents need a lot of help to carry out their role, she said, and the church should make special efforts to provide such help.

Mary Ann Keiner, religious education director for Our Lady of Grace Church in Noblesville, Ind., said the church should welcome first, and then make demands.

"We should make demands on people," she said. "But we should be careful about the kinds of demands we make so they will be growth-producirg路" Father Duggan said young parents are "in many cases simply taking the 'young adult sabbatical.' " That, he said, normally lasts from about age 18 to about 28, when young people engage in a prolonged "rite of passage into adulthood." If they come to talk about baptism for a child, he said, "I invite them to end the young adult sabbatical."

Church discovering environment, says Rural Life official

Nation's' social health found failing,

sanctuary for all of creation and "that certainly changes the powe'r equation between creation and people. It puts everything on a more horizontal plane."

In this model. stewardship is not hierarchical. but a covenant between God and creation. of which humanity is part, he continued.

For most' people. concern for the environment hasn't really hit home, Fitz'gerald said. adding that when it's talked about, people tend to fall intO two camps, centering either on the person or the environment.

"Person-centered folks can be selfish路 and environmental folks can be inconsiderate. But I don't' think this is an either/ or situation," he said.' "It has to be both/and." .

He admitted he had no prescription or 10 easy steps for environmentalism, but encouraged the Catholic journalists. "to look at how they do business, from their personnel policies to what kind of paper and ink they use to print their publications. He said education about the environment and rural issues is a must, as is an honest evaluation of investments.

"Only [when) we address the issues with some sort of holism poverty. environment and social care - will we find the answers we need."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 21,1992

By Charlie Martin

I'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN ABOUT LOVE

By Michael Warren How important are the words of the songs you listen to? When I asked a class of young people that question, Ellen fired back, "How important are the words of the music you listen to?"

I didn't get her point, and so she explained.

"Well," she said, "you mentioned going to an opera two weeks ago.

Did you understand all the words ,of that opera? It was probably in a foreign language, and you probably missed a lot of the words. So maybe there you have your answer to your own question."

That was pretty good. She was saying, in a way, if we are going to talk about our music, maybe we should also talk about your music.

And so we came to discuss the kinds of music we preferred and what function words had in it.

We all brought in words we thought were beautiful and words we thought were ugly and demeaning. We had disagreements.

Some rap group enthusiasts wouldn't accept that some of Two Live Crew's lyrics were demeaning to women. They felt that the words were a way of making fun and having fun. You shouldn't take these words too seriously, they said.

Some women in the class objected that these words had to be taken seriously because of the possibility that men listening to them could be encouraged to look upon women as things.

There seemed to be two ways of looking at lyrics. The discussion went back and forth with claims and counterclaims. But when women in the class began to tell stories of women who had been demeaned by men, it became clear that for these demeaned women,

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Some brought in some words of songs from the '70s. Nobody objected to any of the words, though some lyrics seemed to put down women.

When this was pointed out, most said they don't listen to the words. just the beat, the melody.

If these words weren't harmful to them, was there any group or individuals they thought these words would be inappropriate for, say young children? All agreed the lyrics might be harmful to children who were 10 or so. They thought children should be protected from lyrics that were "too sexy."

In the end, we came up with some questions we'agreed could be helpful to us in thinking about this sticky question.

- What words do you object to?

Why? If you object to nothing, how come?

-Are there any words in songs you would be embarrassed to have your parents or grandparents listen to?

-Are there any words you fear might be harmful to your young nieces or nephews?

Behind these questions is an assumption that we can makejudgments about the goodness in what we hear or see.

The discussion went on for four classes. I learned a lot from those classes, including Ellen's point that the norms should apply to any of the things we hear and see, not just those of the young people but those of their teachers as well.

One lesson I hope my students learned is that those of us who say we follow Jesus have a right and a duty to apply his norms to evaluate what we see and hear. Some presume those norms are meant to be locked in a church vault somewhere and are not applicable to popular music.

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You, you are the one You are all that I've been thinking about And I, I would give it all away If only ,you were here beside me For one moment You're so close I can hear you breathe For one moment Just when I thought that you Were that one I could depend on Don't you know that I've done Everything that I know to do I would live or die for you I just want to know why Because I've got a lot to learn about love Yes I do The only girl I depend on is gone She's gone Teach me about love And now, now that you're gone I live with emotions that I've had all along And you, you can see The love that I feel for you I can't let this moment slip away Don't you know that Every time I feel this way Every time I turn away Someone's saying goodbye Will I need to know?

Written by Greg Rolie, Bob Marlette and Kevin Chalfont.

Sung by The Storm. (c) 1991 by Interscope Records THE STORM'S "I've Got a Lot to Learn About Love" reminds me of "Living for Loving You," that I recently discussed in this column. Yet, in some ways, that song is different.

The similarity lies in the song's story. The guy in the song focuses his whole life on the girl. He says. "I would live or die for

you," thinking that girl was "that one I could depend on."

But now that she's gone. he realizes "I've got a lot to learn about love."

His willingness to look at what has happened is where the two songs differ.

Losing one's identity in a romance is always a mistake.

The individuals eventually will face their dissatisfaction over losing their own needs, interests and dreams.

Love doesn't deny conflicts when they occur in the important aspects of our lives. Rather, love asks us to be both honest and fair.

Too often individuals get so high over the intense feelings caused by romance that they choose to ignore everything else about the relationship.

To learn more about love, listen to your feelings. Be honest. What about your partner's actions, attitudes or values? Do they bother you? If you say never, then. you do not know your partner very well. Furthermore, if you don't feel free to express your concerns, then the intensity of the romance is leading you into serious problems.

Another way to learn about love is to examine what happens when you and the person you date have disagreements. Are these conflicts faced directly?

Does each of you voice your own view ofthe situation? Does each of you try to manipulate or force the other to accept one point of view?

When either person treats the other unfairly in trying to :'win" the argument, the relationship always loses. Each time either or both persons come out of a disagreement with hidden resentments, love dies a little.

There are no perfect ways to learn about love. Like the person in the song, most of.us learn through our mistakes. Sometimes, love's lessons are painful.

Yet most of us are doing th(: best we can. We need to be both patient and persistent. God gave us our whole lives in which to learn. Allow each relationship, every friendship and all interactions with others to become an opportunity to practice love.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, R.R. 3, Box 192, Rockport, IN 47635.

Nun-nurse helps teenage mothers MARKS, Miss. (CNS) - As Dominican Sister Joan Dunning drives the streets near her office, she points out the homes of the "at-risk" teen-age mothers she visits.

Today, the registered pediatric nurse is on her way to check on 16-year-old Marilyn Adams and her4-week-old daughter, Kimberly.

The seven-pound baby cries a lot at night, according to family members.

In the past year, Sister Dunning has visited 146 children from 119 families, many headed by single teenage mothers like Ms. Adams.

an emergency drop-in child care center for toddlers while their mothers look for work, attend classes to gain high school equivalency diplomas or keep medical appointments.

The teenage mothers Sister Dunning visits are considered at risk because of their age and disadvantaged backgrounds, their isolation from health care services due to lack of transportation and their lack of basic skills to care for their babies.

"I educate [the mothers) about basic child care," she said.

Back at Marilyn Adams' house, after thoroughly checking Kimberly and asking questions, Sister Dunning tells the young mother that her baby might have her days and nights mixed up, resulting in her crying during the night.

The nun gives Ms. Adams her home telephone number. "Call me when she's crying again and I will come over," she says. "no matter what time."

Funds for her wor.k were provided by a three-year grant last year from Mead Johnson Nutritionals, a division of Bristol- Myers Squibb Company, to the DePorres health Care Center to create a program to improve maternal and infant health in Mississippi's Quitman County.

Sister Marilyn Aiello, a ,physician and Dominican nun, is director of the health center which oversees the program. The health center was established a decade ago to care for the country's 11,000 residents. It has a nine-member staff and a satellite clinic in Sledge.

In addition to visiting babies and mothers, Sister Dunning runs

SI JOAN DUNNING visits four-week-old Kim~ berly and her mother, Marilyn, as part of a program providing infant and maternal 'care in Quitman County, M.iss. (CNS photo)

in our schools St. James-St.John School A February project at St. JamesSt. John School. New Bedford, has students in grades 4 through 8 meeting with "story friends" in lower grades, with each student sharing a favorite book.

Besides forming new friendships, students have undertaken independent reading activities due to the project.

To further demonstrate their love of books, students h"ave created red paper heart ornaments containing their name and favorite book to adorn two "discover trees" in the school foyer.

On a recent career day, parents, relatives and friend~ of students were invited to speak about their professions. Careers represented included policeman, fireman, nurse, dietician and surgeon.

An after-school Latin program, taught by eighth grade teacher Kristin DeMoura, is now offered to seventh and eighth graders twice a week. Students will be introduced to rudiments of the language, grammar and vocabulary in an effort to enhance their English skills.

Other extracurricular activities are an art program, computer club, and violin lessons offered weekly to grades 3 through 8.

Dominican Academy Dominican Academy, Fall River, presented a science fair recently with more than 40 entries on display. First place honors went to Deborah Rodrigues. Vanessa Demarco won second place and Rene Gauthier third. Ten honorable mentions were also awarded. All winners will participate in a regional science fair in March.

The drama department is gearing up for a performance of "Robin Hood" May 14, 15 and 16 under direction of John Travers, who previously produced and directed "Cinderella", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Mickey's Christmas Carol."

A Catholic Schools Week liturgy had each grade and faculty members sharing songs,' posters and petitions on the theme "I love DA." Father Ed Carreiro spoke about his own boyhood in Catholic school.

Also part of the weeklong celebration were a volleyball game in which teachers defeated the students and a talent show, part of which had faculty members learning the Electric Slide from 7th and 8th graders.

Taunton Catholic Middle School In TCMS classroom activities, fifth graders made sweatshirts, learned to use a protractor and explored sound with a kazoo.

The sixth grade is finishing a unit on simple machines and recently held a science fair.

Seventh graders have been reading and reporting on biographies, making science board games and working on special projects dealing with the sacraments. " Eighth graders have begun community service projects this month

with a focus on peer-tutoring, work with the elderly and chores. They are studying the Roaring 20s in social studies and are creating board games in math class.

Tryouts are being held this month for a drama club musical "The Wizard of Oz", to be presented in May.

Bishop Connolly Seniors Yvonne Troya and Jonathan Whittenhall have been named Teenagers of the Month at the Fall River high school.

Miss Troya is a member of the National Honor Society, student government, yearbook staff, Alcohol Awareness Team and Peer Training/Leader Corps.

She has been a member of the spring and winter track teams for four years and of the cross-country team during her sophomore and senior years, recently serving as captain. She is also a Candy Striper at Charlton Memorial Hospital.

Whittenhall is a member of the National Honor Society, Connolly Choir, Alcohol Awareness Team and foreign language club. He has participated in the cross-country and track teams for four years.

He recently attended a Boys' State conference and is a volunteer at Charlton.

At the end of first semester, the staff of Paw Prints, Connolly's literary magazine, published its first issue for the academic year.

The magazine of original works from both students and staff includes poems, ess,ays, short stories and art work. A second issue is planned for the last week of senior classes.

The staff members of Paw Prints are Melanie Arruda, Laurie Botelho, and Leah Torchia of Somerset; Monique Despres of Fall River; Laurie Leal of Swansea; Susan Soares of Bristol; and Shalonne Werthessen of Tiverton.

Faculty moderator is David Morey.

posa, Donna Kozatek, Sean Har"rington and James Mourningham.

Also Kelly Fitzsimmons, Starr Fredericks, Andrea Ozella, Derek Whalen.

Business education department members are working on the formation of an advisory board 10 be made up of educators and pwple from" the local work force. This board would be involved in de Jartmental curriculum design, development and implementation. ~;uch networking with representatives of the business and higher educnion community will assist the faculty in preparing students for their future.

New film code for families asked LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony has called for a new "family film code" to guide the makillg of movies, calling the Motion Picture Association of America's 24-1fearold rating system a conflie t of interest. "It is evident that the entertainment media and the values they preach to our young pe ople playa significant role" in the steady decline of society's social fa brie, Cardinal Mahony said.

"The distinction between outright pornography and mar.y of today's films and television productions has become blurred," he said at a seminar sponsored"by the Knights of Columbus, the Los Angeles Archdiocese's Commi,sion on Obscenity and Pornognphy and the Hollywood Anti-Pornography Commission.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 21, 1992

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-I3parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved

for adults only; 4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); 0 - morally Offensive.

Scholarship recipient Patricia A. Butler, daughter of Ed ward T. and Violet N. Butler of New Bedford, is the recipient of a New England Telephone Co. scholarship for studies at Stonehill Coll~ge, North Easton.

A dean's list student majoring in English. Miss Butler is a 1988 graduate of Bishop Stang High SchooL North Dartmouth.

Bishop Feehan The goal of the Bishop Feehan High School business education department is to prepare students for a wide variety of business programs at the college" level and to provide them an opportunity to explore the contemporary business "world as they investigate their career options. Strong emphasis is placed upon business ethics and morality, computer literacy and the development ofleadership skills and team-building competencies.

12 Feehan students, all rriembers of the Attleboro Junior Achievers Club, recently participated in a trade fair, at which seven were elected officers within their companies. Patrick Boland was elected company president, and the others, all elected vice presidents, were: Susan Balboni; finance; Andrew Bennett, marketing; Paul Klin, production. Also Angela Summers and Holly Grochmal, personnel; and Stephanie Joyce, marketing.

Miss Grochmal, a sophomore, attended the Junior Achievers August 1991 conference in Bloomington, Ind. 10 Feehan students will serve on the Emerald Squa~e teen board, which helps Emerald Square Mall mer;chants with marketing projects.

Shiloh Rusk, board vice president, and Susan Balboni, secretary, are joined by schoolmates Leigh Re-

• TROUT TEE: Eighth grade students from Our Lady of the Lake School in Mt." Arlington, NJ, proudly display a T-s hirt that was part of their four-year campaign to have the brook trout named the state fish. In January, the students finally reeled in the big one as New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio signed a bill making the trout's status official. " The students began their campaign as fourth graders when studying their state. "We noticed other state standards, like the state animal, state insect and state tree, were selected through the efforts of schoolchildren," said student Patrice Kopec. "We thought we could do it and bring recogpition to our school."

What followed were letters to then-Governor Tom Kean and to the 120 members of the state Assembly and Senate to find a sponsor for a bill to declare the trout the state fish, as well as a visit to the state capital: n Trenton to promote the campaign. The students continued their letters from grade to grade as the bill foundered in legislative commitfee and the trout faced competition from the snub-nose sturgeon. " The experience, said Our Lady of the Lake principal, Sister Julienne Marie Kruper, showed students "you can make a difference if you try hard enough and don't give up." " " Now far from being thl~ one that got away, the brook trout has proven a bountiful catch for the perseverent eighth graders. (eNS photo). "

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ST. PATRICK, FR As an Eagle Scout project Korey J. Doyle is collecting toiletries for men and women at Steppingstone and Jerry's Lodging. A box for donations will be placed in rear of church.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Women's Guild meeting 7 p.m.

Feb. 24. Mass at Maple Terrace 11:30 a.m. Feb. 24. Confirmation I interviews during regular class session Feb. 25.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Pastoral council meeting 7:30 p. m.

Feb. 25, parish center.

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ST, PATRICK, WAREHAM Jr. CYO meeting 7 to 8:15 p.m.

Feb. 27, rm. I. Mo' Better Youth group meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 25, hall. Team preparation meetings for Mar. 14-15 confirmation I retreat: 7 to 9 p. m. Feb. 27, Mar.'5 and 12, rm.

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CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. Thomas More, Somerset, retreat Feb. 22 and 23. St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet, confirmation retreat 9:30 to 5 p.m. Feb. 22.

ST. MARY, NORTON Breast cancer support group meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, parish center meeting room; open to all patients, families and friends; information: 285-3253.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS Taunton area support group meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 25, St. Joseph parish center, N. Dighton. Cape Cod area workshop on anger I to 9 p.m. Feb. 23, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth. Presenter will be Dorothy Levesque. Participants should bring bag dinner: coffee and cold drinks provided. Information: 362-9873; Father Richard Roy, 5481065.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE First penance group I and all 2nd grade classes ofOLH will meet 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at OL V. LaSALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO Men's retreat offering stillness, reflection, listening. sharing. March 6 to 8. Lenten Retreat March 13 to 15 allowing experience of silence and space in preparation for Paschal event. Information: 222-8530.

HOLY NAME, FR School parents' group meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 26, school. $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to a graduate of Holy Name School in memory of Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo.

DCCW District II, N B, open meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25, St. Mary's Church, S. Dartmouth; Rev. Robert Oliveira will speak.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB Executive board meeting 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 26, St. Lawrence rectory, I W Su'mmer St., NB. WIDOWED SUPPORT Attleboro area support group meeting 7 p.m. March 6, St. Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro; video on grieving will be shown. Father William Babbitt will celebrate Mass.

Cape Cod widowed support group meeting I :30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, education center of Christ the King parish, Mashpee. Topic: "Finances, Taxes - Anything Left for Me?" Information: 428-7078, evenings.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Parish potluck supper 4 to 7 p.m.

Sunday; participants should bring dish to serve 4 to 6 people and may bring musical instruments for singalong. Parish prayer line available for parishioners in emergency situations; intercessory prayer book in church is for ongoing prayers. Information: Ethel Mitchell, 432-4435; Dot Knight, 385-9746; Christine Vadeboncour,398-2465.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Women's League meeting 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 27, church hall; Don Canto will present slides ofJapan. First penance 3:30 p.m. Feb. 24. Adults wishing to be confirmed May 17 should notify a priest. Men's League meeting after 10 a.m. Mass Sunday.

NOTRE DAME de LOURDES, FR Youth group bowling Sunday; newly-elected officers: president.

Bruce Canuel: vice president, Brian Comeau; secretary, Kerrie Gendreau, treasurer, Michelle Masse.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH First communion parents meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26.

CHURCH WOMEN UNITED WORLD DA Y OF PRA YER Ecumenical service for SandwichBourne area observing churchwomen's world day of prayer 1:30 p. m.

March 6. St. John's Episcopal Church, Sandwich. Theme: "Living Wisely with Creation." Babysitting available. Information: Gail C. Fryer, 888-6319.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Youth group drop-in night 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, N. DARTMOUTH Grade 8 instructional sessIon 7 p.m. Feb. 26.

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Vincentians meet 9:30 a. m. Sunday, rectory. Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25, church hall.

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ST. ANNE, FR St. Anne novena 3 p.m. Sunday. shrine, followed by healing service until 5 p.m.

Senior citizens meeting I p.m.

Feb. 25, school. Exposition of Blessed Sacrament after J I :30 a.m. Mass Feb. 28 with hour of adoration 2 to 3 p.m., shrine.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Among events planned to celebrate the 90th anniversary year of the parish will be a coffee hour following 10 a.m. and preceding 11:30 a.m. Masses this Sunday. The coffee hour and a March 29 dance will be sponsored by the Women's Guild.

Further information on the dance is available at 624-8849; 678-4434 or at the rectory. The year's events will climax at a 6:30 Mass Saturday, Oct. 24, to be followed by a dinner and dance.

HOLY NAME, NB Youth group members (grades 10 to 12) are considering offering a babysitting service for children ages 2 1/2 toS during 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass if there is enough interest.

Information: Jodi Gelmete, 996-4022: or 996-8654.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Youth group will show video, "The Gift of You," 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24, parish center; all youth ages 13 to 17 are welcome.

SACRED HEART, NB Cub Scouts Blue and Gold Banquet noon Sunday.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO Ladies Guild annual communion breakfast March J5, William's Restaurant, South Main St., fOllowing 10 a.m. Mass at St. John's Church.

Reservation deadline: March J2.

Information: Alva Houde,222-1333.

BIRTHRIGHT, TAUNTON Training program for volunteers to assist agency in helping women in crisis pregnancies choose life will be held 10 a.m. to I p.m. March 7,14 and 21 at Birthright office, 78 Broadway, Taunton. Information: Catherine Poirier, 823-1481.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Pro-life meeting 9 a.m. tomorrow, lower rectory. Parish hand bell choir will participate in annual interfaith service of Somerset-Swansea Interfaith Clergy Association to be held 3 p.m. Sunday at OIde White Church, corner of Rt. 6 and Maple Ave., Swansea. Rev. Winifred Jones, interim pastor of United Church of Christ, Somerset, will preach, and Father William Campbell will direct interfaith choir. All welcome.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR School advisory council meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 28.

Archdiocesan group lists labor relations guidelines MILWAUKEE (CNS)- A Milwaukee archdiocesan task force. in draft guidelines, said Catholic institutions selecting vendors for construction or remodeling should not choose a non-union contractor solely on the basis of cost.

Warren Braun, delegate for community services for the Milwaukee archdiocese. said that according to the proposed guidelines a Catholic institution's decision to employ a non-union contractor "can be made because of [that company's] better management or other considerations, but should not be made only because the contractor is paying people less."

The Milwaukee guidelines say church institutions should employ only contractors paying the going wage in their vicinity.

Braun said the impetus for creating the task force was a complaint from a union that an area Catholic high school had contracted with a non-union bidder for electrical work.

Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland has to approve any guidelines before they are final.

Among tenets included in the proposed guidelines are: - Work is basic to human dignity. Adequate wages. salaries and benefits are the means to achieve and maintain that dignity in today's world. The level of such compensation cannot, therefore, be solely determined by what the market dictates.

- There should be clear-cut

procedures for pay, advancement and grievances for employer and employee.

- Compliance with state and federal laws and regulations should be regarded as a minimal standard for Catholic institutions.

- Workers should be free to seek union representation and to bargain collectively without fear of "threat, coercion or intimidation, however subtle."

- All work done on construction or remodeling projects, whether by open bidding or negotiated contracts. should be reviewed by the contracting institution for adherence to the prevailing wage and benefit package for that area in accord with state statutes.

- A bidding process open to union and non-union contractors. especially minority-owned firms. is recommended for all projects over $10,000.

- All contractors and subcontractors should be required to descri be their affirmative action commitment and history on recruitment, training and hiring of minority workers.

- Members of boards of directors must disclose any ownership interest in construction, architectural or supply firms prior to signing any contract.

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