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Gap widens between rich, poor

Worldpeace seen at risk VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II's new social encyclical strongly condemns the'superpowers for transferring their ideological and political battles to the Third World, thus hinderingsocioeconomic development.

This is a principal cause of the growing gap between rich and poor nations which threatens world peace, the document sai~.

Third World countries, rather than becoming more i,Pdependent over the past 20 years, have "become parts of a machine, cogs on a gigantic wheel," it said.

The document chided the Western and EasteJ:n blocs for "a tendency toward imperialism."

"The present division of the world is a direct obstacle to the real transformation of the conditions of underdevelopment in the developing and less advanced countries," it said.

The church does not take sides in the East-West battle, considering both ideologies "imperfect and in need of radical correction," the document added.

It also called foreign aid to developing countries which is conditioned on promoting population control programs "racist" and a_ new type of "oppression."

The pope's 102-page social encyclical, "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis," (On Social Concerns), was dated Dec. 30, 1987, and made public Feb. 19. It commemorates the 20th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's 1967 social encyclical, "Populorum Progressio" (On The Development of Peoples), which advocated greater development programs for poor nations.

The 20 years since "Populorum Progressio" was written have seen "the widening of the gap between the areas of the so-called developed North and the developing South," said the encyclical.

Besides the superpower conflict, other reasons for the growing gap cited by the document include: -International trade, financial and monetary systems inadequate for Third World needs.

- The growing Third World foreign debt.

- Increased use of developedworld funds for the arms race rather tha n development programs.

- A prosperous arms trade to Third World countries.

- Inadequate transfer of technology to Third World countries.

- Corruption and a concentration of political power in the hands of a few in the Third World.

The encyclical encourag~d re-

gional economic and political cooperation among the less developed nations, greater Third World initiatives to overcome domestic problems and more cooperation

"It often happens that these campaigns are the result of pressure and financing coming from abroad, and in some cases they are made a condition for the granting of fi-

to respect for human rights, especially religious liberty, the document said.

The encyclical supports the International Movement of Non-

New encyclical at a glance VATICAN CITY (NC) - Here is an at-a-glance look at Pope John Paul II's new encytlical"On Social Concerns:" - Issued to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's encyclical "On the Development of Peoples," which advocated greater development programs for poor nations, - Says that in those 20 years there has been not progress but a widening gap between the world's rich and poor. among developed and underdeveloped countries in solving critical problems such as the foreign debt burden.

It also opposed state-supported birth control campaigns-and warned that development must go beyond economics to include people's cultural and spiritual needs.

"It is very alarming to see governments in many countries launching systematic campaigns against birth," the document said.

- Calls the growing gap a threat to world peace and says it is caused by such factors as use of the Third World as an East-West battleground, the growing foreign debt crisis, spending on arms rather than development, and inadequate sharing oftechnological advances.

- Notes the church's "critical attitude toward both liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism" and says both ideologies need to be changed and updated.

nancial aid and assistance," it added.

The encyclical called this a "new form of oppression."

"It is the poorest populations which suffer such mistreatment, and this sometimes leads to a tendency toward a form of racism, or the promotion of certain equally racist forms of eugenics," it said.

To ensure that the personal, cultural and spiritual needs of people are met, development must be tied

- Cites the ethical consequences ofworld interdependence and calls for moving beyond "a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress" for poor nations to "a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good."

- Criticizes state-supported birth control campaigns, saying they often are promoted from abroad and represent a form of racism against the poorest populations.

Aligned Nations, which tries to steer an independent course between the superpower blocs, in its efforts "to affirm in an effective way the right of every people to its own identity, independence and security."

East-West conflict is "an important cause of the retardation or stagnation of the South," said the encyclical.

Superpower efforts to involve Third World nations in their con-

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f1icts and to gain political influence in underdeveloped countries is "a form of neo-colonialism," it said.

"Each of the two blocs harbors in its own way a tendency toward imperialism," it said.

Third World countries "find themselves involved in, and sometimes overwhelmed by, ideological conflicts, which inevitably create internal divisions, to the extent in some cases of provoking full civil war," it added.

"Investments and aid for development are often diverted from their proper purpose and used to sustain conflicts," it said.

The encyclical said that "the church's social doctrine adopts a critical attitude toward both liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism."

It criticized collectivist systems in which "the right of economic initiativ~ is often suppressed."

This leads to decision-making by a bureaucratic apparatus, reducing the individual to an "almost absolute dependence, which is similar to the traditional dependence of the worker-proletarian in capitalism," it said.

Also criticized were superdeveloped societies marked by "pure consumerism" and "crass materialism" in which there is "an excessive availability of every kind of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups."

"An object already owned but now superseded by something better is discarded, with no thought of its possible lasting value in itself, nor to some other human being who is poorer," said the encyclical.

The West "gives the impression of abandoning itself to forms of growing and selfish isolation" and the East "seems to ignore for ques. tionable reasons its duty to cooperate in the task of alleviating human misery," it said.

Both ideologies need to be changed and updated, it added, if the world is to live in peace.

The ideological opposition has led to military opposition, giving "rise to two blocs of armed forces, each suspicious and fearful of the other's domination," the encyclical said.

Such a situation in the nuclear age puts world survival in danger, it said.

Regarding the arms trade, it criticized the fact that "capital lent by the developed world has been used in the underdeveloped world to buy arms."

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The Anchor Friday, Feb. 26, 1988

Jansens told their courage deeply moved the world

Easter rites abuse rapped in new Vatican document VATI CAN CITY (N C) - Describing the Easter feasts as the "summit of the whole liturgical year," a new Vatican document criticizes practices which dilute or change the appropriate church norms for these days.

Particularly blamed for the abuse or ignorance of norms is "inadequate formation given to the clergy and the faithful regarding the paschal mystery as the center of the liturgical year and of Christian life."

R~leased Feb. 20, the document is titled, "Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts."

Prepared by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and signed by Cardinal Augustin Mayer, the 28-page document repeatedly calls for appropriate instruction and catechesis of the faithful so that the celebrations of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter vigil are better appreciated.

The bulk of the document is a detailed review of church norms for celebrating the Easter feasts, while calling attention to pastoral or doctrinal elements of particular concern.

The document is a "systematization of all that has been said from 19? I to 1984" regarding these feasts, saId Father Pedro Tena Garriga, undersecretary ofthe congregation.

In a Feb. 20 interview with VatIcan Radio, Father Tena said in those countries with young churches "the celebration of Easter is truly the center of all the life of those churches."

But older churches with "customs which respond rather to the situation before the renewal" find it "a bit difficult" to "value what this celebration must be," he added.

He described the document as a letter to bishops' conferences, liturgical commissions and local churches.

Broken into eight sections with I 18 footnotes, the document discusses appropriate norms for the Lenten season: Holy Week, the Easter triduum, Easter day and the weeks following.

The document is particularly insistent on appropriate celebration of the Easter vigil.

The Easter vigil is the "mother of all holy vigils," when the church awaits the resurrection of the Lord, it said.

"In some areas where initially th~ reform of the Easter vigil was received enthusiastically, it would appear that with the passage of time this enthusiasm has begun to wane," the document said.

'It singled out as "reprehensible" celebration of the Easter vigil at "the time of day. that it is customary to celebrate anticipated Sunday Masses."

The vigil must be celebrated after nightfall and before daybreak on Sunday.

The liturgical structure of the Easter vigil celebration "must not be changed by anyone on his own initiative," the document warned.

In outlining the liturgical structure of the feast, the document noted particular problems to be avoided.

During the musical accompaniment to the readings ofthe Easter vigil, "great care is to be taken that

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (NC) - At a funeral Mass for Olympic speed skater Dan Jansen's sister, a priest told the Jansen family the world has been "deeply moved by the lessons you have taught us."

Father John G. Yockey, among concelebrants of the Feb. 20 Mass, said Jansen and his sister; Jane Jansen Beres, were both "champions."

He thanked the Olympic athlete for teaching people "one of the most important lessons" - how to fall and get up again "with dignity, with graciousness."

Jansen, 22, the top-rated U.S. 500-meter speed skater, fell during his Feb. 14 gold medal bid on the first full day of the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Earlier the same day 27-year-old Mrs. Beres died after a yearlong fight with leukemia, a form of cancer.

The funeral Mass for Mrs. Beres was scheduled for late in the week to allow Jansen to participate in the I,OOO-meter Olympic race Feb. 18, during which he suffered a second fall.

The skater had spoken to his sister by telephone three hours before her death, 10 hours before the start of the 500-meter race'.

A half hour before the Mass was to begin at St. Augustine Church, a Croatian parish in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, the small church was filled to capacity with aobut 400 friends and relatives.

Msgr. Francis Beres, uncle of Mrs. Beres' husband, Richard, gave ROBERT FRANCIS of 51. Mary Cathedral parish, Fall the homily and remembered Mrs. Beres as a courageous woman "with River, receives ashes from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin during last unwavering trust in God's goodweek's Ash Wednesday Mass at the cathedral. (Motta photo) ness."

Trying to accept her death, he said, "drew a family together" and taught the world the importance of strong family bonds.

Father Yockey, whose brother WASHINGTON (NC) - Chi- portunity for national lawmakers, is married to one of the Jansen cago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernar- to go on record regarding what sisters, addressed the congregation din has hailed a proposed resolu- may well become one of the funtion in the House of Representa- damental domestic human rights tives as a chance for Congress to issues of the late 20th century," oppose physician-assisted suicide Cardinal Bernardin said. for the terminally ill.

He pointed to a movement for In California, the state bishops' legalized euthanasia in California conference opposed a drive to place spearheaded by the Hemlock Soan initiative on the November bal- ciety and its political arm, AmeriPITTSBURGH (NC) - Speaklot to permit physician-assisted cans Against Human Suffering. ing in public about their daughter suicide.

The proposed California initiaIn a letter to all members of tive would allow a physician to and Central American strife has been almost therapeutic, said the Congress, the cardinal, chairman medicate a consenting patient to of the U.S. bishops' Committee cause instant death, without risk- parents of one of the four U.S. churchwomen murdered in EI Salfor Pro-Life Activities, urged sup- ing prosecution for the physician. vador in 1980. port for House Concurrent ResoCurrent state law allows a healthy Soon after news of the killings, lution 194, introduced by Rep. person to autnorize removal of said Patricia Donovan, mother of Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., a life-saving measures in the event of slain lay missionary Jean DonoCatholic. a terminal illness. Courts have also van, "I made up my mind that I The resolution called for a greater wasn't going to bore everyone with appreciation of human life and for authorized doctors to withhold her story." improved state and national efforts food and water at the request of an incurably ill patient. to prevent suicide.

While many people gathered "The Under the proposal, called "This resolution presents an oparound the Donovan family when Humane and Dignified Death Act," of the death first came in, reports a "qualified patient," one detertrivial songs do not take the place mined by two physicians to be suf- she said, she thought in time the of the psalms," it said. fering from a terminal condition, incident would be forgotten. "It is The Eucharistic liturgy "should could issue a written directive for amazing the response that we continued to receive," Mrs. Donovan not be celebrated in haste." and "aid-in-dying." said. separate vigil celebrations for "speA "terminal condition" means While in Pittsburgh to speak at cial groups are not to be encour- an incurable condition expected to a local college and at a parish, she aged." produce death within six months. and her husband, Raymond, comIn church announcements "care "Aid-in-dying" is defined as "any mented in an interview on how should be taken" to present the medical procedure that will termintheir lives changed as a result of Easter vigil as a celebration "dur- ate the life of the qualified patient Jean Donovan's death. ing Easter night" rather than as the swiftly, painlessly and humanely."

Their daughter, along with Mary"concluding period of Holy SatAlso, a psychiatrist would have knoll Sisters Maura Clarke and urday," it added. to certify that the patient was Ita Ford and Ursuline Sister DoroThe Easter solemnity was first rational, and the patient's request thy Kazel, was reported missing in revised by Pope Pius XII in 1951 would have to ,be made in writing El Salvador Dec. 2, 1980. and revisions continued up to the and renewed after a IO-day waitTwo days later, the bodies ofthe 1984 document "Cerimoniale Epising period. women were discovered, raped, coporum."

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after Communion and spoke directly to individual family members.

"Dan, you loved Jane as profoundly as she loved you. She told yo'u to 'go for it' and you did. We are so proud of you," said Father Yockey, a Milwaukee archdiocesan priest who teaches at Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C. "You have taught us perhaps one of the most important lessons we all have to learn in life - for you see, we all fail. Sometimes we fall early on, and sometimes we fall when we think we have it won," Father Yockey said.

"But Dan, we thank you for showing us how to get up again.

You have gotten up again with dignity, with graciousness," he said.

He said he was "awestruck" by remarks made to the press by Mrs: Beres' parents, Harry and Geraldine Jansen, which paraphrased "exactly what it means to live the Gospel and to stay committed, to pull together and to grow in love."

He praised the courage and strength of Mrs. Beres' husband and credited the Jansen brothers and sister for their willingness to "sacrifice anything and everything to help your sister live." He referred to the fact that all eight siblings had their bone marrow tested last summer as potential donors. A sister, Joanne Buschke, was the chosen donor.

Following pallbearers into the church at the beginning of Mass was a procession including Mrs. Beres' husband, her three daughters, Susan, 4, Amy, 3, and Jessica I, and her parents, brothers and sisters.

A week before the funeral Mass, the Jansen parents were in Calgary to watch their son's 500-meter race, but on hearing their daughter's condition had worsened, left Feb. 13. They were with her at West Allis Memorial Hospital when she died the next day.

Talking about'Jean helps, ~ay her parents tortured and shot in the back of the head.

Five former national guardsmen were convicted ofthe murders and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in 1984. A Salvadoran judge rejected an amnesty appeal for the five in January.

It was very hard for the Donovans to rebuild their lives after their daughter's sudden death. "I think there are only two ways to go in a situation like ours - you put your faith in God or you go bonkers," said Mrs. Donovan.

She said that at first she "raged out at God." "I called him names. I felt he wasn't there. Then one day I said this is ridiculous. I asked him for hefp to get me through all this," Mrs. Donovan said.

Said her husband, "I look at it like this - Jean got a quick trip to heaven."

"Jean and the others left us a legacy," his wife added. "We want justice for our daughter and for the others."

But accepting their daughter's death was difficult. "I never really think Jean is dead," Donovan said.

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DCCW launches campaign against drugs, alcohol

VIRGINIA KITCHEN of Sacred Heart parish, Fall River, gives a Rose for Life to her pastor, Rev. Edward J. Byington, to kick off a Valentine's Day sale of the traditional pro-life symbol. By the end of the day, eight vases of the silk flowers stood in front of the statue of Mary, and one was placed between her hands, in addition to many others taken home by Massgoers. (Booth photo)

Musicians discuss secular concert ruling ERIE, Pa. (NC) - " A bit of an overreaction" was how Bishop Michael J. Murphy of Erie described a recent Vatican ruling banning concerts featuring secular music from functioning Catholic churches.

He said the ruling, announced in a Dec. 5 letter to the world's bishops from the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship, is good in that it calls attention to "some values that we might have overlooked." But he said it is "too restrictive and excessive" in prohibiting even singers and musicians who perform 'sacred music from using a church sanctuary.

Hishop Murphy made the comments in a speech to the conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians at its fifth annual national convention held in January at Villa Maria College in Erie.

The conference included discussion of various topics concerning sacred music and its performance, but the main focus was the Vatican ruling.

The ruling was announced after controversy in ltaly between conservative Catholic groups, music lovers and some church officials over the growing performance of classical concerts in churches.

In its letter, the congregation said the ruling was based on canon law, which requires bishops to protect the "sacred nature" of churches.

It allowed occasional concerts of sacred or religious music, but said "the singers and musicians should not be placed in the sanctuary."

Bishop Murphy said he sensed a certain amount of "tension" when he read the Vatican letter.

"The tension isn't just in the document but in the world which encounters it. The tension is between the sacredness of place and the sacredness of people," the bishop said.

Bishop Murphy suggested the church continue to "set aside the sacred area of the sanctuary" but at the same time "grow in our appreciation of the sacredness of the people present."

Church facilities, he said, should not be used for "the novelty, the convenience or the economy of it."

Instead, their use should "enhance the religious life of those who participate," he said.

After his speech, members of the musicians' group asked that Bishop Murphy and other U.S. bishops issue a statement responding to the Vatican ruling.

In December, shortly after the Vatican letter was made public, Father John Gurrieri, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Liturgy, said current U.S. practice seems generally in accord with the new norms.

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themoorin~ Mirroring the Self-Righteous It's like Elmer Gantry all over again. The old-fashioned tent revivalists, however, had limited influence in comparison to today's televangelists. Certainly, with the present Swaggart affair, fundamentalists have shown again that for many of them the collection plate has precedence over the message.

What is quite appalling in this particular affair is the person of Swaggart himself. For years he has portrayed himself as the self-righteous guardian of religious morals and ethics.

Week after week he has lambasted practically every religious denomination in this country for its failure to uphold the purity and integrity of the Good News. His attitude towards everyone and everything not on his shopping list for salvation has amounted to a litany of libel.

Of course, what has brought him to his present sad state is not so much the so-called charges of impropriety brought against him by his own denomination of the Assemblies of God but rather by the basic greed engendered by a multibillion dollar business. A statement from officials ofthe Assemblies of God made it obvious that the real concern in suspending judgment in this matter was that it might affect the huge income the church receives as a result of Swaggart's energies.

These reflections are not intended to second-guess the human failures of individuals in ministry. Everyone who cares about church, Gospel and salvation knows that every denomination suffers public scandalat one time or another. There is also an awareness that ministers, priests and rabbis are human and are subject to moral failure and human frailty.

Indeed, all in ministry battle constantly to maintain their integrity. Moments of loss are inevitable but at such times self-righteousness is as deadly as self-deception.

When moral failure has taken on the atmosphere of a Verdian opera or a Shakespearean play, the sincerity of the deliverance, healing and forgiveness process may indeed be questionable. This lingering doubt is enhanced in the current conflict when one recalls that it was Swaggart who pointed the finger at Jim Bakker, former head of the PTL television ministry, and at the former televangelist Marvin Gorman. Because of the Swaggart insistence, both Bakker and Gorman were defrocked by the Assemblies of God organization. No wonder, when asked to comment on Swaggart, Bakker quoted, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."

Such remarks and actions do indicate the fierce infighting that exists in the evangelical television ministry. It's not mere ratings. Time has shown that it's bucks. The lure of television has brought not only fame but fortune and the evidence shows that few can handle too much, too soon, too fast.

With the Swaggart revelations, all in ministry hope that the current cycle of wayward evangelists is at an end. Churches now need time for the healing process to take root in the hearts of the hurt and wounded. The publicity that has centered about these ministerial crises will diminish in proportion to the lack of repeat performances. All who serve the public, be it in government or in religion should be constantly aware that the media seek headlines that sell. Sensational and sensual events are what bring in income. Proof ofthis is as close as the nearest supermarket tabloid.

It'S very difficult to walk the proverbial straight and narrow.

It is so easy to make mistakes and misjudgments and too often the level of expectation is completely unrealistic.

The best rule of thumb is that all in ministry should strive to lead lives reflecting only truth and guilelessness. Facing any other image in the mirror of one's life is a difficult experience, understandably avoided by the self-righteous.

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St. Therese and Lent·

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

Lent provides us with a graced opportunity to 'follow the footsteps of some of the great saints in the history of the Church.

But to take up our cross and follow Jesus and his heroic disciples can at times seem to be an overwhelming burden. For this reason, Therese of Lisieux (18731897) is my favorite saint.

The most popular saint of the early 20th century, Therese Martin, "the Little Flower," lived an obscure life, entering a Carmelite convent in Lisieux, Normandy, at age 15 and dying there of tuberculosis at age 24.

Her older sister, who was the convent prioress, ordered her to write an account of her life and spiritual development. Published after her death, it became a sensa. tional success.

In "The Story of a Soul," Therese describes her practice of "the little way" of spiritual perfection: the way of humility, of small, ordinary deeds sanctified by being performed in a spirit of total love and trust in God. Therese is copatroness of missions with Francis of Assisi, and of the French nation with Joan of Arc. Prior to her canonization in 1925, she was the object of an adoring cult. Her capture of the imagination of Europe is an interesting and uplifting phenomenon, just as the rock star Madonna's capture of today's young people is

an interesting and depressing phenomenon.

People's fascination by the story of Therese reveals a hunger, a longing, in their unconscious.

Therese represented the eternal schoolgirl. Her charm and innocence were reinforced by a sheltered life that reflected middleclass values. Her "little way" becomes credible when one considers her simple and unspectacular life.

The world of 19th-century convents and monastaries is far from our modern experience. Tuberculosis, in and out of the convent, was a disease that tragically ended many young lives.' Nevertheless, devout Catholics fantasize about living the cloistered life and about dying at a young age.

Sanctity and death have tremendous imaginative appeal. How many Hollywood productions revolve around a young hero or heroine revealing noble qualities as he or she faces terminal cancer!

But deathbed scenes in soap operas and movies cannot match the real-life drama of the dying Therese.

During the first World War many French soldiers carried her picture or medal onto the battlefield. Airmen even named an airplane after her. Therese, in short, offered a promise of something more than the hell on earth of the fields of Flanders. Even if on brief spells off duty, young soldiers searched for less noble girls and a different kind of promise, they were at least

reminded that chastity, while difficult to practice, was still worth striving for.

The soldiers were part of that great army of "the little" attracted to Therese.

But for a young girl of Therese's sensitive nature, the reality of convent life must have been unbearable. The brides of Christ at Lisieux were depicted by her as petty, envious, jealous and downright unkind. Her Mother Superior played offthe nuns' affections, one against another, and could be both unfair and unduly harsh in assigning chores. Anyone who suffers under a cruel boss can take solace in Therese's story.

The Little Flower was impoverished both by her lack of learning and by her inadequate experience of life outside the convent walls.

However, nobody could crush her untutored intelligence and her native shrewdness. She knew instinctively that by calling herself little she was not being falsely humble but was identifying herself with all "the little" whom life had ,robbed of much that might have been theirs.

Therese's "Little Way" is far from a tool of subservience that oppresses but is a way of acquiescing that truly liberates. As she wrote so perceptively: "If I may have nothing, then I will turn reason inside out and make having nothing the most enjoyable of possibilities."

It's God's will Many people have trouble with the phrase, "It's God's will." Why would a loving God will us unhappiness, disappointment, even despair? they ask. How can we have free choice ifhe's already decided what's going to happen in our lives?

We often question God's wisdom as part of his will. There's a story about a scientist who questioned God's intelligence in creating nature. As he and a friend were standing near a garden. he was trying to convince his friend that God erred in designing trees and fruit.

"Look." he said. pointing at the tree above them, "God put little walnuts on a big tree, and." pointing at the garden, "He put pumpkins on a slender vine. It just doesn't make sense."

Just then a strong wind blew a walnut off the tree. hitting the scientist on the forehead. "Thank God it wasn't a pumpkin." he said.

We experience a lot of pumpkins - contradictions - when we start talking about God's will. Ever notice how we attribute the disappointments in our lives to God's will but not the joys? When something wonderful happens to us. do we say, "It's God's will'''! Rarely.

But if we bitterly intone, "It's God's will." whenever we are disappointed. we have ourseh'es a

ready scapegoat. It's God's fault, not ours.

God may have a plan for us but we make the choices, not God. When we choose to compete in a sport and fail, it isn't God's fault.

We made the choice to compete, fully knowing that we might fail or succeed. If we made the wrong choice, we must accept responsibility for it, not blame God. Every year thousands of girls go out for cheerlcading. They work hard and pray fervently that they will make the squad. Only a fraction will and they realize this when they tryout. God can't win because there are bound to be more losers than winners. But he gives them the choice to tryout and the opportunity to lose.

Yes. there are things in life in which we have no choice. We can't choose the kind of family we're born into but we can choose how we're going to get along with parents and siblings. We can choose our reaction to a brother who picks on us. We can fight with him or ignore him. He'll soon discover it's no fun to pick on us if we don't react.

We can't choose how smart we are or what talents we have but we can choose what kind of life we're going to live within our limits. If we aren't good in math but we choose engineering. it isn't God's fault if we fail.

What is stability?

Have you noticed how the decrease in the number of priests is changing the physical landscape of the parish church?

Resurrection Church stood on the West Side of Chicago, the city where I was born. The parish plant was punctuated by a beautiful Romanesque church with two stately bell towers balancing the strong features of i~s square facade.

As a young boy I would rise on dark winter mornings and traipse through open fields to serve Mass at that church. How I would like to revisit the sanctuary with its memories. But I can't because the church has been torn down. The neighborhood no longer has the Catholics it once had, nor does the archdiocese have the number of priests needed to supply parishes like Resurrection.

On trips across the country it has been easy to find the rectory in a town where I planned to stay a night. Rectories have a distinctive look and are almost always near the church with its steeple that is so easy to spot.

Many future rectories will not have that look because they are being planned with the thought that as fewer priests become available, permanent deacons or lay ministers and their families may be their inhabitants. Thus they are not being constructed along the lines of former, more institutional models.

There is also a move to separate the rectory from the church building so that a priest's workplace is not also his living quarters. It is hoped that this will create a better lifestyle for priests.

And priests are abandoning some small-parish rectories in order to share accommodations with other

priests and provide themselves with mutual support systems.

In the past, no matter how many generations of a family passed through a neighborhood, churches and rectories remained a symbol of stability. Can we surmise that their demise is a symbol of the church's instability?

Within my lifetime, the church landscape I was accustomed to will change dramatically. Monasteries, convents. rectories and

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By DOLORES CURRAN

We don't choose unemployment or illness but we do choose how we're going to live with these. We can become invalids'or, as hundreds of chronically ill and handicapped have shown us, we can accept our condition and live the fullest possible life within our limits.

God didn't create clones, thank God, but a diversity of individuals with unique personalities and gifts.

We may wish we were someone else but God wants us to be us. He has his reasons which we won't discover until later, maybe eternity. When we accept ourselves and his reasons, we are accepting his will. Then we look at our choices and act.

A depression support group called "Grow" offers this wisdom: Mostly. when things go wrong, they're meant to go wrong So we can outgrow what we have to outgrow.

Maybe a good reflection for this week: what disappointment in my past was I sent as a nudge for me to outgrow something?

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

Talking about intinction

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

Q. We have one parishioner who insists on dipping the host into the cup rather than drinking from the time of Easter in different places cup at Communion. One of our and times.

Even to this day many Eastern eucharistic ministers insists this is not right, and threatens to discon- churches celebrate this feast on a tinue as a minister if the pastor different date than we do. does not stop this practice. In visIn the 16th century (1582) folits to other parishes, it seems this is lowing research and advice from not uncommon. Is it correct? the leading astronomers in the (Indiana) world, Pope Gregory XIII revised A. The method you mention is the calendar into the form still not a proper way to receive the used in most of the world. Included Eucharist. As the American bishin this Gregorian calendar was a ops' directory for receiving Com. revised cycle for determining the munion under both kinds puts it, date of Easter.

"If Communion is given by intincWhile it is based on the vernal tion the communicant may never equinox it is not astronomically dip the eucharistic bread into the accurate all the time. For example, chalice. Communion under either 16 years ago Easter was on the the form of bread or wine must second Sunday after the equinox, always be given by a minister with not the first. the usual words" (No. 52).

This Gregorian cycle is still adThose who wish not to drink hered to by the vast majority of from the cup always have the Christians throughout the world, option of receiving the eucharistic largely to avoid difficulties with bread only. the time differences you point out.

A free brochure explaining Havingsaid that, I must also say Catholic teaching and practice on I believe the eucharistic minister you mention is overreacting a good' annulments is available by sending bit. To me it seems a lack of some a stamped, self-addressed envelope perspective to abandon an impor- to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., tant ministry for such a reason.

And don't make any judgments Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions about the priest either. In today's for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address. church. pastors as well as other leaders must use some sense of decent proportion in choosing which things to take a firm stand DOLAN-SAXON about.

Someone once asked Pope John XXIII how he coped with the burdens of the papacy. He said, "I 123 Broadway try to see everything, overlook a lot and change a little."

That's still wise advice.

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churches will disappear. But to interpret this as a symbol of church instability would be a mistake.

Although we have fewer priests and sisters, study after study reveals that we are witnessing vitality never before experienced in parishes.

Priests, the laity and parish life have taken on new relationships in which the works of mercy are being performed par excellence; catechetical efforts have increased and become more meaningful; and fuller participation in the sacramental life of the parish has been welcomed.

Could it be that !he change in the physical landscape ofthe church is pointing us toward the real meaning of stability - that people and the Christian community they form are the church. Surely stability lies in what the people do, rather than in where they worship.

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How does church law handle this? Is the first Sunday determined in Rome, Jerusalem or where? I am interested in astronomy and this question intrigues me. (New York) A. I doubt that many Catholics have lost sleep over your question!

It does, however. surface an interesting fact that might surprise those Catholics who learned the same "definition" of Easter as you did.

Our celebration of Easter does not, in fact. always occur according to the vernal equinox formUla. During about the first two centuries of Christianity. while Christians always celebrated Easter on Sunday, its date was directly related to the Jewish feast of Passover. In subsequent centuries numerous different cycles and theories set the

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Values, not salaties, attract Catholic 'school teachers, study finds WASHINGTON (NC) - An environment supportive of their religious values, not high salaries, is what attracts the majority of teachers to Catholic schools, according to a survey by a Catholic University of America professor.

Dominican Sister Maria Ciriello, an education professor at Catholic University, said that if Catholic school administrators want teachers who will stay. they should look for teachers whose main commitment is to a faith-centered school.

High teacher turnover rates are common in Catholic schools.

She said 54 percent of teachers surveyed cited the value of religion in their lives as the primary reason they chose a career in parochial school teaching. Commitment to teaching and having ajob compatible with family obligations were listed next.

Her conclusions were 'based on a study of 655 full-time teachers in the Washington Archdiocese.

Questions were designed to determine whether teachers were primarily committed to the specific characteristics of Catholic schools, drawn generally to teaching as a profession. or working because they needed to work.

"Teachers who chose to teach in Catholic schools primarily because of the institution's religious environment are more strongly attached than those who teach primarily for professional reasons," Sister Ciriello said.

"Not only do these people want to teach, they also are more likely to want to stay in that setting.

These people are not necessarily Catholic. but they do say religion is an important value in their lives as teachers," she said, Teachers who are more attracted to the teaching profession itself than to the church-related environment are likely to become dissatisfied with working conditions and leave the school system after they gain experience, Sister Ciriello said.

Twenty percent of the teachers, who tended to be younger and less experienced, said they were teaching in Catholic schools because they wanted to teach. Religion was not of as much importance as teaching, according to Sister Ciriello. ' She also found that 5 percent of the sample group were in the school because they needed a job and another 21 percent for reasons she

said were unclear.

Sister Ciriello said these findings could be used by administrators during interviews to determine an applicant's level of commitment to the school's religious goals.

Employers might ask applicants why they are applying to the school and if they consider teaching a ministry and a chance to share faith, she said. Administrators also might ask about a person's church involvement to determine the importance of religious practice for the applicant, she suggested.

Even though commitment probably means the teacher will stay in the school system longer and have higher job satisfaction, it does not mean the person will make a better teacher, Sister Ciriello continued.

She said the benefits of long-term relationships between schools and teachers must be weighed against the abilities and potential of the individual teacher.

But given teachers with equal ability, employers may want to consider that teachers who value the faith dimension of the school are most likely to support the Catholic school's goals, she concluded.

Group looks to year 2000 as turning point

SAVING STATE MONEY: Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpick hugs Camille Anderson and Jeremiah Parranto, fifthgraders at S1. Luke's S'chool in S1. Paul as they present him with a symbolic check for $200 million. The check represents the money Catholic schools annually save the state. (NC photo)

Cardinal declares abortion opposition remains strong WASHINGTON (NC) - The United States, despite suggestions to the contrary, is not a "nation , resigning itself to abortion," says Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin.

In a statement to mark the 15th anniversary of the Supreme Court's abortion decision, the cardinal, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, said attempts to provide a principled defense of the court decision are "more unconvincing than ever."

The high court's abortion ruling, Roe vs. Wade, was issued Jan. 22, 1973.

As proof that many Americans continue to oppose abortion, Cardinal Bernardin cited: - Opinion polls indicating that opposition to,abortion is as strong now as in 1973. The cardinal said a recent CBS News-New York Times poll showed a majority of registered voters in both major parties favored a legal ban on abortion except in "rare special circumstances."

- A study by Planned Parenthood's re.search affiliate showing that only a third of gynecologists perform abortions and that

"enthusiasm for abortion" is lacking among both residents and attending physicians. As a result, he said, the percentage of abortions performed in clinics, rather than hospitals, is on the rise.

- An increase in the number of postabortion counseling and reconciliation programs and mutual support groups for women who have had abortions.

The cardinal said it is now argued that Supreme Court decisions must be accepted regardless of their validity "simply because they have been in place long enough to become a basis for later legal developments."

He said that although abortion on demand is increasingly viewed as indefensible in principle, there are those who still defend it as "a tragic necessity to which we must resign ourselves."

"Those of us who support legal protection for the unborn are dismissed as idealists who ignore the lived experience offlesh-and-blood people in our pursuit of principle," said Cardinal Bernardin.

"Clearly one can be accused of worse things than idealism in the cause of justice," he said.

WASHINGTON (NC) - An interfaith coalition of religious leaders met recently in Washington to urge measuring 1988 political candidates with a pro-disarmament "yardstick" and to outline long-range strategies leading to global peace by the year 2000.

At the coordinating committee meeting of "Choose Peace: Religious Leaders in Defense of Creation." committee members decided to sponsor a retreat, to seek signatures on a peace covenant and explore ways to affect national policies on war-and-peace issues, United Methodist Bishop Dale White, committee chairman, said he. Auxiliary Bis.hop Thomas J, Gumbleton of Detroit, and the Rev. Avery D. Post, president of the United Church of Christ, formed the group after the Methodist bishops' 1986 pastoral letter on peace that rejected any use of nuclear weapons.

The organization's program calls for "making the year 2000 a turning point in human history, marked by the elimination of nuclear weapons, a significant increase of social justice and human freedom, a sense of global community, a commitment to environmental sanity and development of alternative strategies of community security."

CHD worker will attend parley Rosa Neto Lopes, assistant director of the Campaign for Human Development for the Fall River diocese, will attend the CHD annual meeting, to be held this year in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March I to 4. Keynote speakers will be Sister Marie Augusta Neal, SSND, and Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen.

CHD is the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic bishops. Through a yearly national collection it funds self-help groups and educates American Catholics as to poverty and its causes.

The organization is different from other peace groups. Bishop Gumbleton said, in that it brings together top-level Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leaders rather than grass-roots workers.

If the religious leaders are drawn together they can "speak more powerfully" on peace issues, the bishop said.

Coordinating committee members include Bishop Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn and Sister Carol Quigley, president of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Bishop White said the interfaith group "enables religious leaders to become effective peacemakers, to nurture and motivate one another, to give very high priority to these concerns," Concerns listed by "Choose Peace" include not only nuclear disarmament but escalation of violence, oppression of the poor, and suppression of human rights.

The organization called for bringing influential religious lead-

Dialog asked GUATEMALA CITY (NC)The Guatemalan bishops' conference and the organization representing religious orders in the country have called for renewed dialog between the government and rebels of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity as a solution to political violence.

The bishops cited an urgent need for resumption of governmentguerrilla talks because the rebels' "contribution to the search for domestic peace is necessary." The religious group supporte'd the bishops, saying that "our commitment as religious calls us to seek paths of peace."

Safe "The eternal God is thy dwelling place and underneath are the everlasting arms." - Deut. 33:27

ers into discussions with political leaders and pushing for legislation funding joint U.S.-Soviet health, education or scientific research.

Bishop White said a model for measuring political leaders is a "yardstic~" prepared by the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race and the Religious Leaders Network, which includes Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.

The yardstick asks voters to examine a candidate's commitment to reducing nuclear arsenals, banning all space weapons, ending nuclear weapons testing, stopping pr'oliferation, seeking conventional-force reductions and retooling the economy for peace.

The first of a series of retreats was set for January 1989 at St. Joseph's in the Hills, a Catholic retreat center in Malvern, Pa. Bishop White said the organization hoped to get "several hundred prelate-level signatures" for the peace covenant.

FATHER Robert S. Kaszynski is preaching a parish mission at S1. Mary's Cathedral Feb. 29 through March 3 with a 12:05 p.m. Mass and homily and a 7:30 p.m. mission service each day. The public is welcome.

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More on Israel Dear Editor: The Feb. 5 issue of the Anchor was read with both pleasure and displeasure.

The realistic analysis of the pros and cons of nuclear deterrence by Pope John Paul II was most encouraging; ...and the excerpts from Richard Schifter's "Glasnost and Ukrainians" speech were an excellent choice...

Finally, the Mail Packet letter from Rabbi Norbert Weinberg is a typical example of the carefully cultivated paranoia and ruthless, deadly pragmatism which has become part and parcel of not so mini (anymore) State of Israel. I would like to respond to his lengthy letter but do not think I would be permitted to be heard. In the past I have expressed my thoughts to the Anchor a number oftimes in vain, despite the fact that I am well informed about the Middle East perspectives ... not found just in 'the pages of the New York ?r Los Angeles Times ... or WashIngton Post.

Since, in all probability, t~is expression of displeasure wI~h Rabbi Weinberg's comments will not see the pages of the Anchor, I would conclude with these questions for him. How does he feel about Rabbi Kahane's public statements that anything, includ.ing arson, assault and murder are JUStified to further Israel's development? And what are his feelings about the murder of rock-throwing frustrated Christian and Moslem Palestinians, who were ~riven of; their land and out of theIr homes.

Two Jewish martyrs to the cause of reason have recently died painful deaths ... one is Jack Bernstein whose experience in Israel as

a would-be migrant is described by him in a report before he died and Haviv Schreiber, who was brutally beaten on a Washington, D.C. street when he tried to demonstrate against a demonstration by members of the Jewish Defence League.

Unfortunately, so many are obsessed with improving their own dolce vitas they become too obtuse to ever experience a sense of crisis, until it's too late.

Arthur Romero North Chatham

100 po~tcards Dear Editor: WLNE's 4 p.m. Dialing for Dollars is a welcome diversion of a winter's afternoon. Since it is at a convenient time for both seniors and juniors, George Allen .and staff show concern that the films be in good taste. On two occasio.ns this week scenes of total nudity were displayed.

For .14 a plain postcard can be sent which would project the protest of the viewer. 100 persons with 100 postcards could effect a revolution. Consider the excesses of TV in prime time, the bad taste in commercials. All this could be. changed if we wante~ to ~o do.

At St. Pius X pansh In South Yarmouth we have a'n eloquent Deacon Hassie who recently spoke of this.

As Edmund Burke once said, "For evil to triumph, good men and wom'en need simply do nothing."

And on the other side of the coin, Karl Marx said, "The world is finished. It is time to change the world." And he did.

Bernard McCabe South Yarmouth

WASHINGTON (NC) - Catholic health officials were asked Feb. II to back proposed federal legislation that would require employers to provide minimum health insurance coverage to all employees who work at least 17-and-a-half hours a week.

-. The urging came from David Nexon, health policy adviser to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, DMass., during a symposium in Washington on access to he~lth care for the poor. The symposIUm was sponsored by the Catholic Health Association.

The bill, the Minimum Hea,lth Benefits for All Workers Act, was to be sent to the full Senate in a few weeks by Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.

Nexon said the number of people with no public or private insurance grew from 30.5 million in 1980 to just over 37 million in 1985.

"It's a disgraceful figure and it should be the primary priority social policy must address," Nexon . said.

Two-.thirds, or 24.3 million, are workers or dependents of workers who are "simply unable" to pro. vide coverage for themselves and their families, he said, adding that "millions of Americans are vulnerable to costs of catastrophic illness."

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companies with under 25 employees.

The proposed bill would cost about 44 cents an hour per person for employers, he said.

In an opening address, Holy Ghost Father Albert McKnight, a Louisiana pastor and founder in the 1960s of the first low-income cooperative in the South, reminded the administrators of people's right to sufficient material goods, including health care.

Parishes, he said, can help the poor by sponsoring free clinics, health education and screening programs and allowing groups like Alcoholics Anonymous to use church facilities. Dioceses could call on Catholic physicians and dentists to volunteer their skills for the poor, he said.

In a Feb. 12 session on church responsibility for health care and the poor, Archbishops Thomas C. Kelly of Louisville, Ky., a CHA

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board member, said bishops should seek to understand the "enormity" of the problem of making health care available to the poor.

He also said the U.S. bishops may consider revising their 1971 ethical and religious directives for Catholic hospitals to address new ethical dilemmas raised by biomedical advances.

Hispanic briefing NEW YORK (NC) - Statistics on Hispanic employment, particularly among Cubans, point to the importance of education for Hispanic achievement, participants in a New York briefing sponsored by Catholic Relief Services were told.

Although Hispanics remain economically below the Anglo population, their situation is better in some respects than that of U.S.born blacks, briefing participants also learned.

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A total of 53.5 million, including the uninsured, are without catasttophic health coverage, and 2.4 million Americans each year experience such an illness, spending at least $3,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, Nexon said.

He added that just as employers have been required to pay unemployment taxes and Socia~ ~ecur­ ity taxes and to meet a minImum wage, they should provide basic insurance.

Minimum coverage required by the bill would include physician and hospital services, diagnostic tests, prenatal care, catastrophic benefits and a mental health benefit.

Employers would pay at least 80 percent of premiums, and no one could be excluded on the basis of health status.

Special consideration has bee~ given to concerns of small bUSInesses, Nexon said, adding that 48 percent of the uninsured work for

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Nations were asked to exercise English "On the Development of Peoples," was the first to primarily foresight and divert arms spending focus on the socioeconomic situa- to development causes, a call often tion of what has since become repeated by Pope John Paul II. To honor the 20th anniversary known as the Third World. Other popes and the Second Vatican of "Populorum Progressio," Pope Council's "Pastoral Constitution John Paul issued his own encyclion the Church in the Modern cal Feb. 19, updating the situation.

World" had devoted sections to In doing so Pope John Paul built this. But Pope Paul's document on the foundations laid by Pope was -the first to methodically apply Paul.

Pope Paul's view was that a church SOCial teachings to the underdeveloped world and its in- speedy but balanced development ternational political and economic was needed in underdeveloped countries. This meant "bold transrelationships.

formations" of domestic socioeconomic and political structures coupled with a major reworking of international economic and political relations to grant more equality and autonomy to poor nations.

A balanced approach was necessary to avoid destroying positive values and institutions present in underdeveloped countries, ip the rush for social transformation.

Pope Paul's encyclical also was a warning against using violent revolution and totalitarian ideologies as the paths to development.

The encyclical was written against the backdrop of rising expectations, often unmet, that characterized the underdeveloped countries of the 1960s: - In black Africa, nations were gaining political independence after centuries of European colonial rule but were finding that they were still economically dependent on their previous masters.

- Latin America, Asia and Africa were experiencing waves of rural to urban migration as landless peasants sought a better life by latching onto their nations' fledgling efforts at industrialization.

But cities lacked the public and social services to meet the influx and there were not enough jobs to absorb the migrants. The result was creation of sprawling, squatter-built shantytowns which still dominate urban areas and visibly highlight the sharp contrast between the majority poor and the minority rich.

- The electronic communications revolution was in full swing bringing news, consumer-oriented advertisements and commercial television programming from the developed world. Millions of poor people with access to inexpensive transistor radios or who stood in front of demonstration television sets in store windows found out that there was a developed world where the majority had well above the minimum material necessities of life. It created a widespread desire for such a lifestyle, but in the frustrating路 circumstances of weak national economies.

"Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts and are a danger to peace," the encyclical said.

"Rich peoples enjoy rapid growth whereas the poor develop slowly.

The imbalance is on the increase: some produce a surplus of foodstuffs, others lack them," it said.

"In this confusion, the temptation becomes stronger to risk being swept away toward types of messianism which give promises but create illusions. The resulting dangers are patent: violent popular reactions, agitation toward insurrection, and a drifting toward totalitarian ideologies. That is the situation. Its seriousness is evident to all," the document said.

Since "Populorum Progressio" was written, the problems seen by Pope Paul have become worse.

The Third World foreign debt situation which Pope Paul asked be eased through negotiation has now become a major North-South crisis issue as many underdeveloped nations cannot repay their evermounting debts.

As Pope John Paul noted in his encyclical: "With the gap between rich and poor widening, it has become ever more urgent to make 'development the new name for peace.' "

Social encyclical criticizes East, West alike VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II's second social encyclical keeps the church neutral in East-West confrontations by 'strongly criticizing both political power blocs.

East and West receive an equal share of stinging condemnations for their foreign and domestic policies. . ~hese policies, according to the pope, have resulted in a nuclear arms race threatening world survival, hindered Third World economic growth by transferring ideological conflicts to underdeveloped nations, and produced societies at home which seek material gain while downplaying spiritual values.

In remaining neutral, Pope John Paul follows the papal pattern established after World War \I when the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two superpowers, representing radically different political and socioeconomic systems. Faced with this

Continued from Page One "While economic aid and development plans meet with the obstacle of inseparable ideological barriers and with tariff and trade barriers, arms of whatever origin circulate with almost total freedom all over the world," said the encyclical.

It also criticized superpower spending on nuclear weapons.

"In today's world, including the world of economics, the prevailing picture is one destined to lead us more quickly toward death rather than one of concern for true development," it said.

The encyclical asked that military funds be diverted to development programs.

"War and military preparations are the major enemy of the integral development of peoples," it said.

The encyclical cited the growing Third World foreign debt burden as another major obstacle to development, noting that Pope Paul had foreseen this as a problem 20

often put this on the same critical plane as the theoretical atheism espoused by communism. . The encyclical sees a "crass materialism" in societies marked by "superdevelopment" in which there is an "excessive availability of every kind of material goods for The encyclical goes beyond crit- the benefit of certain social groups" icizing both for hindering Third thus making people "slaves of World development. It also con- 'possession.' " siders both as "imperfect and in Regarding communism, the enneed of radical correction" because cyclical criticizes a society marked of the domestic路 societies they. by a one-party system and the produce. suppression of the "right of ecoThe position reflects the Polish- nomic initiative" in favor of deborn pope's experiences under cision-making by "the bureaucratic communist rule and his suspicion apparatus." The result is usually a of the opulence he sees in Western lowering of living standards for society. most people rather than "a true Papal trips to developed coun- equality," it says. tries are often spiced with criticisms that the West lives as if God The policy of neutrality regarddoes not exist because it has for- ing the two blocs avoids offering gotten its Christian roots and suc- political alternatives, stressing only cumbed to a consumer material- the church's role as a moral force. ism. His speeches and writings I n what has become a trade-

confrontation, the Vatican has steadfastly steered clear of tying itself to one bloc, thus maintaining an independence and credibility which allows it to attack both on specific issues.

The major innovation of the latest papal encyclical is its emphasis on the negative effects the spreading East-West conflict has had on the Third World. Instead of promoting socio-economic development, East and West have used the Third World as a political battleground for bringing more nations into their "areas of influence" or "safety belts," the pope complains.

"A world which is divided into blocs, sustained by rigid ideologies, and in which instead of interdependence and solidarity different forms of imperialism hold sway, can. only be a world subject to structures of sin" working against "the universal common good," he laments in the document.

In his social encyclical "Sollicitudo Rei Socialis" (On Social Concerns), made public Feb. ! 9, the pope defines these two rival socioeconomic and political systems as Marxist collectivism in the East and liberal capitalism in the West.

years earlier.

Loans meant to stimulate development have "turned into a counterproductive mechanism" and in some cases have "even aggra- .

vated underdevelopment," it said.

"This is because the debtor nations, in order to service their debt, find themselves obliged to export the capital needed for improving

or at least maintaining their standard of living," it added.

The' encyclical attributed the problem to changes in the world financial market and "imprudent

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LUXURY AND POVERTY coexist as Rio de Janeiro harbor forms the backdrop for slum children with plenty of time on their hands because no school is available to them.

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mark position for Pope John Paul, the encyclical reiterates that "the church does not propose economic and political systems or programs."

"The church's social doctrine is not a 'third way' between liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism, nor even a possible alternative to other solutions less radically opposed to one another," the encyclical adds.

But this neutrality should not be seen as a decision to avoid political issues, said Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission which helped the pope prepare the encyclical.

The church "is not washing its hands like Pontius Pilate," he said at a Feb. 19 press conference on the encyclical.

'While not proposing a political plan "with a Catholic label," the church gives people guidelines so they can make political decisions, the cardinal said.

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Father Damien relics returned to Hawaii HONOLULU (NC) - The cane, watch fob and pipe belonging to Father Damien de Veuster, the 19th-century "apostle to the lepers," have been returned to Hawaii, where he ministered and died.

The belongings, put on display Jan. 14 in the Damien Museum and Archives, located next to St. Augustine Church, Waikiki, had been stored in an old trunk which also contained glass camera negatives apparently showing scenes from Father Damien's mission, including his final days.

The trunk was owned by the family of Dr. Sidney Swift, the physician who cared for Father Damien and who is believed to be' the photographer whose shots produced the negatives.

Father Damien, a Belgian who spent a bout 16 years ministering to lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, died of leprosy on April 15. 1889, at age 48. He belonged to

the Picpus Fathers, more formally known as the order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

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Headquarters for the Eastern province of the community are Some 30 heirs eventually were located in Fairhaven. In the Fall located. They either accepted comRiver diocese members serve at St. pensation from the diocese or turnMary's parish, Fairhaven; St. . ed over to it their stake in the trunk Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Holy and its contents.

Redeemer, Chatham; St. AnThen, in mid-December, Superthony's, Mattapoisett; Our Lady ior Court Judge J. Clinton Peterof the Assumption, New Bedford; son, in Fairfield, Calif., ruled that and Holy 'Trinity, West Harwich. the trunk belonged to the HonoThey are also stationed at Sacred lulu diocese, and it was returned to Hearts Seminary, Wareham.

Hawaii.

After Father Damien's death, It contained Father Damien's his trunk and its contents passed guava wood cane, meerschaum to the custody of Godwin Swift, pipe, polished kukui-nut watch Sidney Swift's son, where it re- fob and an early copy of a long mained until the younger Swift . letter, bound as a booklet, written died in 1960 without a will. For 26 by Robert Louis Stevenson. years, the trunk was stored in a The famous letter was a postCalifornia coroner's office. humous defense of Father Damien, PROVIDING FINANCIAL GUIDANCE In 1986, a Californiajudge ruled whose reputation was attacked & that the trunk should be turned around 1890. Members of the COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP Sacred Hearts community have been working for his canonization IN SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS for many years. In 1977 Pope Paul ing the Japanese invasion of China.

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NEW YORK (NC) - FrancisVI recognized his heroic virtues, Among TV winners are a doccan Father Bruce Ritter, internaopening the way for the process of tionally famous for his Covenant' umentary on alcohol and cocaine beatification, the next step on the House ministry to runaway youth, addiction, a series oflive exchanges road to canonization.

Member F.D.I.C. is the 1988 winner of the James between Soviet and American offiKeller Youth Award, named for cials broadcast simultaneously in the priest-founder of The Chris- both countries, a six-part special tophers and given for the first time on the achievements of the civil last year to Trevor Farrell, A Phil- rights movement called "Eyes on adelphia teen-age benefactor of the Prize," and a collection of CBS newsman Charles Kuralt's "On the the homeless.

Also scheduled to receive awards Road" pictorial essays. are a total of 80 producers, direcOther winners include TV dramators and writers of three films, 10 tizations about a blind couple's television specials, four books for efforts to adopt a child, a family of young people and eight books for a Down's syndrome child, and the adults. Each will be presented with conflict surrounding adoption of a SPRINKLERS. PROCESS PIPING a large bronze medallion bearing son by Father George Clements, a the Christopher figure and motto, Chicago Catholic priest.

"It is better to light one candle PLUMBING. GAS FITTING. HEATING Winning adult books include than to curse the darkness."

"Dorothy Day: A Radical DevoFirst given in 1949, the awards tion"; a biography of Orville and honor professional, creative works Wilbur Wright; two stories of life which "affirm the highest value of in China; and "Anne Frank Rememthe human spirit. bered," by the woman who helped The films to receive awards are the Frank family hide from the 32 Mill Street (Route 79) P.O. Box 409 "Cry Freedom," about apartheid Gestapo. in South Africa; "84 Charing Cross Children's books are "Heckedy Road," about a friendship based Peg," a picture book; "HumphAssonet, MA 02702 on a love of books and shared rey's Bear," about a boy's imagithrough correspondence between nary journey with a pet bear; "The 644-2221 a writer and book dealer; and Gold Cadillac," about prejudice; "Empire of the Sun," a young and "Into a Strange Land," on the boy's triumph over adversity dur- struggles of young refugees.

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By Joseph Motta Palmer Chase, 6, a first-grader at St. Mary's School, New Bedford, doesn't mess around when he talks about Pepe II. "He's the kind of a guy you think he would be," Palmer says.

"He helps us because he loves us."

Pepe II is known to St. Mary's adult parishioners as Ernest Ma:dec.

Along with Pepe I, aka Everett Sowle, and Mrs. Ella Dutra, he spends his weekdays volunteering at St. Mary's, something that principal Denl'!is R. Poyant stresses has resulted in an "outpouring of love" from volunteer to student and vice versa.

Sowle is a teacher's aide in the school's nursery, Madec in the kindergarten and Mrs. Dutra in first grade. The men are also playground supervisors, and all help out with lunchroom supervision.

Mrs. Dutra, 72, says her school work provides her an opportunity not to act her age. A St. Mary's parishioner for about 20 years, the former Women's Guild president says that after retirement from her career as a merchandising supervisor at an area retail store, she "needed something to do and I hit Mr. Poyant. He put me to work and I love it. I'm sorry I didn't come into this sooner."

The volunteer has been at the school since September. Spending . her days with six and seven-yearolds, she said, is "a challenge; a .beautiful challenge." Mrs. Dutra has a grown daughter and no grandchildren, but she says St. Mary's schoolkids have taken on the job. "I'm a grandmother to 41 now," she said. "The children all love me very much and I love every one of them."

Mrs. Dutra nominates the school day before Halloween as "the most exciting I've put in." She chuckled as she spoke of the cute costumes her charges wore. and how the "mixture of odds and ends" she threw together for her own attire got laughs, too.

Pepe I has worked at the school for about three years and looks forward "to 15 or 20 more." Like Mrs. Dutra, he approached Poyant asking if the principal needed volunteers and received a hearty welcome.

Sowle, 75, a parishioner for 18 years, has two greatgrandchildren at St. Mary's School, brothers Jonathan and Brad Abreau.

He has spent much time working with young people in Junior Achievement and at baseball camp (he once played ball as a semipro), but calls his St. Mary's experience the most outstanding and satisfying of his involvements.

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"The people that don't know him think he's got a lot of grandchildren," joked Poyant.

The 1987 Marian Medalist

ST, MARY'S SCHOOL students, from left, Allison Pickup, Monique Polston and Palmer Chase, with, from left, Pepe I, Mrs. Dutra and Pepe II. (Motta photo) spends a lot of his playground supervision time teaching youngsters "how to be a good sport, how to be a better loser."

Pepe says his greatest satisfac, tion in working at the school is "the love of children." Ditto for Madec and Mrs. Dutra. All three also agree that Poyant and all other adults associated with the school are wonderful to work with.

"Everybody accepts us," Mrs. Dutra says. "We are just one big happy family here."

Madec, 68, began at the school last September. He talked to his wife about his volunteering after seeing what fun Sowle was having and, like the spouses of Pepe I and Mrs. Dutra, she was upbeat about the proposal.

"I didn't quite know what to expect from the little ones," he told The Anchor, explaining that he has five grandchildren in Las Vegas whom, of course, he doesn't often see.

Madec, a member of the parish for 24 years, described his first day on the job. "As the morning went on," he said, "they [the children] just seemed to come to you. They want to'lo,,:e you as much as you want to love them." He was dubbed Pepe II in nothing flat.

The former machine operator says that helping prepare for the school's Christmas pageant was the busiest and most satisfying day he's yet experienced. He spoke of "the joy of putting something

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together with the little ones" and the feeling of accomplishment all had when it was over and a success.

Another important member of the school family is Pauline Rooney, 61, a parishioner for 35 years.

Mrs. Rooney volunteers two days a week as a second grade teacher's aide.

"This is my second year with the second grade," she laughed. "They didn't promote me!"

Mrs. Rooney, whose one granddaughter, Jennifer Rooney, is a St. Mary's seventh grader, saw a notice in the parish bulletin requesting volunteers. "I jumped right in and loved it!" she said.

Her happiness at being a volunteer comes from "the way the children respond to us. It's like having 25 more grandchildren. They really confide in you."

Asked what it's like to volunteer around the holidays, Mrs. Rooney said that the students "get on a high and you just can't get them down."

But she wouldn't change a thing. ''I'll stay as long as they'll have me!" she said.

"The kids see the different generations working together," says

81 years of love MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (NC) - John and Birtie Weaver of Carolton, Ga., have been named 1988 Longest Married Couple by Worldwide Marriage Encounter.

The Weavers, married July 25, 1907, were among 750 couples nominated for the award, given in connection with World Marriage Day. Worldwide Marriage Encounter, which sponsors Marriage Encounter weekends for married couples, has sponsored World Marriage Day on the second Sunday of February, this year on Valentine's Day, since 1981.

The Weavers married at age 16 despite family objections, accord, ing to John Weaver, who said he had to drive his horse and buggy down back roads to elude family members who wanted to prevent his elopement with Birtie.

He attributed the success oftheir marriage to "the good Lord watching over us, working together, respecting each others' feelings, being good .to one another and being understanding with one another.

principal Poyant, "and it's an important growth experience for them. It's working very well."

Poyant often uses the word "love" in connection with the way the volunteers and students interact. ''I'll take more and more of them anytime," appreciative Father John F. Moore, St. Mary's pastor,

Keep on driving carefully I tackle this topic very carefully, like pulling a tiger's tooth, because the last time 1 addressed it editors complained that the column produced a lot of angry letters and a few cancelled subscriptions.

What 1 did was suggest that we older drivers may be the fastest growing highway safety problem.

I even said there may be some truth to the warning of some weisenheimers to "beware of the man in the hat" on the highway.

Older drivers are at fault in accidents more frequently than the middle-aged, according to the National Highway Safety Forecast, and they face a greater risk of accidents per miles driven than younger drivers.

My goal was to urge readers who had passed 55 - in years, not on the highway - to take one of the driver training courses offered for senior citizens. The class may save your life, and it will certainly save your money.

1 hereby announce that I have taken and passed the Safe Driving course for Mature Operators. I have a fancy certificate signifying. that I have "satisfactorily completed the AAA Driver Improvement Program." And I have become very hard to live with.

Except for a few young whippersnappers who swerve past me on the freeway glaring and moving their lips in a very unfriendly manner, my wife is my severest driving critic. .

When I am a passenger in my wife's car, I am perfectly able to take catnaps. When I'm driving, however, Dorothy is afraid to shut her eyes. You might say she has no faith in my skill at the wheel.

says of the senior volunteers. "The more the merrier."

The pastor notes that many children from single-parent families need "more love and affection" and that senior citizens are perfect providers of those commodities.

Adds Madec: "And besides, you don't sit at home and think of your aches and pains."

By BERNARD CASSERLY

You'd think things would be different, now that I have a Driver Improvement diploma. No way.

Even when I told her that my eight hours of classes only confirmed what I always knew, she still stays awake.

Take night driving, for example. That's when senior citizens have the most trouble. Our hearing, vision and reaction time begin to slip when we pass 50, and we must take extra measures to avoid accidents.

Most seniors have had no driver training except from a parent or older brother (who had no formal instruction either) and usually we are tested only for vision when we renew our licenses. Thus the mature driver courses are doubly valuable. They do not offer behind-thewheel work, but they do give a lot for a fee that ranges from $7.50 to $25. And a growing number of states allow a discount offrom five to 10 percent in insurance for those completing the program. . You will be a better driver if you take one of the many mature driving courses now being offered. The life you save may be your own, and you can increase your years behInd the wheel.

I learned a lot about safe and defensive driving in my course.

I've been sharing my knowledge with my wife (also a senior citizen), and next time I'll share some of these life-savers with you.

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Don't sell sex short

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: I want to talk about sex with my children, but I feel very embarrassed. I feat I will come across hesitant and awkward.

My own attitudes toward sex leave something to be desired. How can I communicate attitudes toward sex that I myself don't have?

(Indiana) A. Although actual and truthful sexual facts are important, attitudes are even more important.

We cannot convey attitudes we do not have. What kind of attitude toward sex should we have? Where does it fit into life?

When God visited his world he came, not as a VIP or a world leader or a minister of religion, but as a small baby to a family. When Jesus wanted to describe God, to tell us what God was like, how to imagine the infinite, he used family names and roles. He spoke of Father and Son. One might gather from this that family is central to God's plan for sharing his creative activity.

The intimacy of marriage is most compellingly communicated through sex. Sex is the marriage act. More than that, sex has many

wonderful faces intricately woven together.

Sex is the original Xerox machine, the way the human race copies and reproduces itself. Better than a Xerox machine, because genetic information is actually exchanged and combined, sex offers the possib'ility for the human race to improve itself through evolution. Because sex generates life, it is very important.

Sex is also a way to express affection and love. In fact, in the Song of Songs and in much secular literature, sexual intimacy is a model or analogy for all other forms of love, including God's love for us.

Sex is fun, perhaps the most pleasurable and exciting activity that we adults enjoy. This is something that we adults have special difficulty admitting to our children, as if the children did not know or as if the pleasure were wrong. Or perhaps we fear that if we told them it was fun, they would take that as a permission to engage in sex.

Play is a marvelous activity, a way of celebrating existence. One theologian said that next to love,

the concept of "play" best expresses God's life and activity. Good sex is adults at play.

Sex is fun. Important. Beautiful. What a letdown it is then to see sex presented in the media as carefree and uncommitted, as commercial and as a method of dominating. Such presentations sell sex short, accept it as so much less than it can be.

The proper attitude for Christians toward sex should be positive, stemming from the very nature of the generative act and love. Sex is God's loving plan for continuing creation. Christians must proclaim this good news in the face of today's uncommitted and shabby treatment of sex.

And parents must communicate these positive feelings to their children, not in a litany of "don'ts" and threats, but in their presentation of sex as something too marvelous to spoil by engaging in it out of the context of commitment and marriage.

Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address the Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

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How do you know when a smile's real?

By Antoinette Bosco Intuition usually lets us know when someone is putting on a "cocktail party smile" - the fake kind that makes us uncomfortable.

Researchers have come up with a scientific explanation for what intuition has known all along phony smiles are distinguishable from real ones because they use totally different facial muscles.

"A polite smile or a forced one produces a different muscle patern than does' a spontaneous smile, said Paul Ekman, psychologist and director of the Human Interaction Laboratory at the University of California medical school in San Francisco.

Studies done by Ekman and his colleagues found that when a smile is genuine the cheeks move up and the muscles near the eyes tighten to form crow's feet. In big smiles, the skin around the eyebrow also droops a little toward the eye.

The telltale difference in a false smile is the eyes - no crow's feet and no drooping skin around the eyebrow. If the eyes aren't smiling along with the mouth, it's not the real thing.

The new scientific evidence gives clout to the age-old wisdom that "the eyes are the window of the soul." It is the eyes that most truthfully communicate pain, anger, joy or delight.

Victims of stroke are often said to be smiling even when they can't move their mouths because their loved ones can see the smile in their eyes.

The new scientific data make me wonder about the nature of this radiant pattern of muscles we call a smile.

I read once that a frown requires many more muscles than a smile.

It sounds like the good Lord knew what he was doing when he de-' signed us.

God made smiles easy and frowns hard. The mean, shriveled difficulty of a frown is built into the body itself. The ease and simplicity of a smile is a natural. By virtue of the mechanics, one is good and

the other isn't. Our maker must have wanted us to smile.

Funny, too, that a face can't radiate true joy without the crow's feet. It seems God intended smiles to cause wrinkles.

Once I actually heard a mother caution her daughter not to smile because it would wrinkle her face and show her age sooner.

But I don't see crow's feet as signs of deterioration. Rather, they are love marks on the face and, !ike an old wine that gets better with age, they're beautiful.

Even the meaning of a sinile may be misinterpreted. Others assume that smiling people must be happy - but that isn't necessarily so.

People often think that anyone who smiles a lot has an easy time of things. That misconception dilutes and trivializes what a smile is

all about.

The warmest smiles come from the faces of people who have learned through life about love and pain.

My daughter Mary recently was rehearsing for an opera in which she was singing. As she entered the rehearsal room one evening the conductor stopped her and said, "You're always smiling. How come you're so happy?"

Before Mary had a chance to respond, one of the other singers answered for her. "It's not that at all," the woman said. "She smiles because she's always willing to meet you more than half way."

A smile is not so much a reflection of a person's state of mind as it is a communication - visible but intimate - from soul to soul.

In essence, a smile is a splendid gift.

A parent's best friend is.

By Hilda Young Who is a parent's best friend?

A parent's best friend is a phone call with a young voice at the other end saying, "Hi, Mom,just calling like you asked to say I got here safe."

A parent's best friend is a large hot water heater.

A parent's best friend is the gift of hearing what is not spoken, seeing what might be hidden and touching a child's life with respect.

A parent's best fr,iend is a sense of humor.

A parent's best friend is the fellow parent who supports with example, presence and common sense.

A parent's best friend is his or her child's buddy who says, "You think your folks are bad, mine won't let me..."

A parent's best friend is a parish priest who listens with an understanding heart and doesn't offer seat-of-the-pants advice.

A parent's best friend is rechargeable batteries. .

A parent's best friend is his or her own mother or father wh n can

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A parent's best friend is the athlete, media personality or other role model who says yes to positive moral and family values.

A parent's best friend is earphone plug-in jacks on radios and cassette players.

A parent's best friend is the teacher who puts communication before camaraderie, education before edification and stimulation before humiliation.

A parent's best friend is a few moments of solitude.

A parent's best friend is a lively and engaging sermon.

A parent's best friend is a quick prayer for wisdom and patience whispered several times daily.

A parent's best friend is his or her child.

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TAMPA, Fla. (NC) - Archbishop Emery Kabongo, Pope John Paul II's personal secretary for the past six years. objects to what he calls the U.S. media's characterization of the pope as conservative.

The archbishop, recently named by the pope to head the Diocese of Luebo in Zaire, asks how many other world leaders have chosen a black man with whom to work so closely on a continual basis. Archbishop Kabongo was born in Zaire in central Africa.

The prelate made the comments during a recent visit to Tampa for a medical examination.

Last year Archbishop Kabongo was injured in a bicycle accident and was comatose for two days.

He flew to Tampa for brain scans before moving to Luebo, where there are few hospitals, he said.

The archbishop said he is sorry to leave his Vatican post. "If you work with the pope, you feel very loved. He is a man of God, a man full of spirit."

Asked about the pontiffs personal interests, ATchbishop Kabongo said the pope's "preoccupation is the church, no other thing."

"To know what he is like, look at the documents he has written," L _ the prelate said..

Archbishop Kabongo, who has OLYMPIC GOLD medalist Pirmin Zurbriggen in action worked as a church diplomat in at Calgary. (NCj UPI-Reuter photo) Korea, Brazil and Italy, said adjusting to life in those nations did not prove troublesome.

"Zaire was a Belgian colony and we grew up with Western culture. I knew Greek and Latin in high school," he said.

CALGARY, Alberta (NC) the champion's two crystal World "To study another culture is not Swiss skiing star Pirmin Zurbrig- Cup trophies. to destroy one's own. I learn more gen, who won his first Olympic Bernadette was the young girl and I keep what I have," he said. gold medal Feb. 15, has as his per- who reported seeing lhe Blessed The United States, the archbisonal hero a fellow skier, Pope Virgin at Lourdes, a site now famed shop said, "can do a lot for the John Paul II. for miraculous cures attributed to people of the world."

Zurbriggen, who lost his bid for "You must teach us! You have , a second gold medal Feb. 17 when prayers to the Virgin Mary.

Journalists, who Zurbriggen more and more to give," he said. he fell on the last run of the twoIn the Diocese of Luebo, he day combined skiing event, said he complains make him appear too said, there are I million people, met the Polish pontiff in private pious, also report that the world's mostly poor diamond miners, and during a papal trip to Switzerland. top skier carries a picture of the Blessed Virgin in his address book. no phones. The diocese, he said, is "He always had a smile on his "I am religious, a little more so home of the "best diamonds in the face," Zurbriggen said in an interthan the others [skiers)," he told world." view with ABC Sports, which was one interviewer. "But the journal"I am happy to go there," said b.oadcasting the Winter Olympics ists exaggerate."

Archbishop Kabongo. "Life is so from Calgary to the United States. quiet. The people love each other."

His sister, Heidi, also an OlymThe Swiss ski racer said he values When he visited the area recently, pic skier, said her brother visits religion. he found a young U.S. woman in Lourdes "to say thank you" and It is "the important thing in his home village teaching water your life," he said. "You can be "prays not for victories but for purification techniques. "Why did happy here but the important thing safekeeping from accidents and she come to Africa? To do some- is the religion." illness.", thing for people in need. America Zurbriggen said he goes to the Zurbriggen said sometimes he has a mission to teach us," he said. goes with his mother, Ida, to a pri- shrine because "if you don't forget "When you grow up, come to vate chapel near their home in God, he don't forget you."

Africa for a year," he invited black Saas-Almagell where "we pray for The champion's humility despite schoolchildren on a Tampa play- something." his world-class standing has led ground. "Be doctors, be journal"It's nice," he told ABC, but "it's the Swiss to dub him "Pirmin the ists. Come and teach us," he said. really a private thing, this religion. Modest."

Prior to the Olympics, when I cannot really explain it."

The 25-year-old champion some predicted he would sweep all hurtled down Mount Allan's 3, 106- five Alpine skiing events, ZurbrigVATlCAN CITY (NC) - East meter course in I minute 59.63 gen was philosophical.

German Catholics should be al- seconds on the third day of the "I'd love to win a gold medal," lowed to contribute to the nation's Olympics to win his gold medal. he said, "but it won't be the end of social development without havIn other interviews prior to the the world if I don't," ing to become members of the Olympics, Zurbriggen indicated he Zurbriggen's father, Alois, who Communist Party, said Cardinal shares the pope's devotion to the quit the sport for 16 years after his Joachim Meisner of Berlin.

Blessed Virgin. Like the pope, he brother was killed in a skiing acciWays must be found by which has made several pilgrimages to dent, introduced his son to skis Catholics "can assume their social when the youth was 3. By the time Lourdes. responsibility, in full accord with A picture in the dining room of he was 9 or 10, his mother said, he their conscience oriented by the the Zurbriggen family hotel illuswas beyond what his father could faith of the church," he said in a trates his love of Lourdes. Painted teach him. letter to diocesan clergy quoted by by a fan, it portrays the skier and "Basically, Pirmin taught himVatican Radio.

St. Bernadette overlooking one of self how to ski," she said.

Zurbriggen says pope is his personal hero

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VATlCAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican is facing serious and delicate problems in the case of four West European Catholic hospitals still performing in vitro fertilizations nearly a year after the practice was declared immoral.

The main problem is that prestigious Catholic institutions are having doctrinal and practical problems applying a specific church teaching on medical morality.

Doctrinally, the problem concerns the paramount moral issue - of how life should be transmitted from parents to offspring. But it also involves the practical issue of how to apply church teachings in Catholic hospitals offering health services to a pluralistic society where the Catholic view is not universally accepted.

For the Vatican, it is also an embarrassing situation that undercuts its efforts to convince society in general of its moral reasoning.

The situation came to light in the wake of a three-hour January meeting at the Vatican to initiate high-level conversations on how to resolve the situation.

The closed-door gathering united the Vatican's top doctrinal and educational officials with bishops and rectors responsible for the four Catholic university hospitals.

The meeting showed that: - Papally encouraged dialogue between local bishops and officials of the hospitals has not resolved the issue. . - It might take a long time to resolve the situation: The participants agreed to meet again at an unspecified date.

Another moral argument used by supporters of in vitro was that church institutions should use modern science and medicine to help married couples fulfill their responsibility. to have children.

After publication of the doctrinal congregation document, the fouf said they would continue to use in vitro techniques and asked for dialogue with the Vatican on the issue.

The pope and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the doctrinal congregation, said the Vatican had no plans to discipline Catholic hospitals violating church teachings, but asked that the situation be resolved through dialogue between the local bishops and the Catholic officials responsible for the hospitals. _ Representing the Vatican at the January meeting were Cardinals Ratzinger and William W. Baum, head of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic 路Education, which oversees Catholic universities.

Even though Cardinal Ratzinger was present, the Vatica'n statement said that the doctrinal content of the 1987 document was not under discussion. The Vatican statement emphasized that the purpose was to discuss application of the document and' that practices declared immoral would not be tolerated in Catholic hospitals.

The rectors' statement was more nuanced. Participants reflected "on the problems which application" of the document poses for Catholic institutions, it said. The rectors did not say that doctrine was under discussion but noted that "CardiThe in vitro process involves nal Ratzinger gave certain clarififertilizing an egg and a sperm in a cations of the doctrinal position of laboratory dish and then implant- the church."

The two statements provide the ing the embryo in a womb. A, March 1987 Vatican document de- only official views of what occurred clared in vitro fertilization immoral at the meeting.

The Belgian, Dutch and French because conception occurs outside the human body, dissociating the bishops attending issued no stateprocreative and unitive aspects of ment, probably meaning they are caught between Vatican pressure the conjugal act.

Separate brief statements issued to end the practice and resistance by t1}e rectors and the Vatican by the hospitals.

But the decision to continue the after the Jan. 9 meeting did not specify what was discussed. They conversations also shows that the said the meeting was to talk about Vatican still wants to resolve the problem through dialogue rather application of the 1987 document, issued by the Vatican Congrega- than discipline. tion for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The hospitals involved are attached to the Catholic universities of Lille, France; Nijmegen, Nether.v ATlCAN CITY (NC) - Pope lands; and Louvain and Leuven in John Paul II says Lebanon is Belgium.

Prior to the issuance last March trapped in a "fury of destruction." of the document, the four had In a homily during an Eastern-rite Divine Liturgy at the Vatican, the been using in vitro techniques.

Lille officials said their use was pope said settling Lebanon's probbased on a strict moral criteria by lems was "all the more urgent in which only the eggs and sperm of a this period of vast suffering that stable married couple were used, spares no community and places no embryos were destroyed and every citizen in danger." He apthe embryos were not used for pealed for international aid for the beleaguered nation. experimentation.

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Global decisions imperative, says Worldwatch WASHINGTON (NC) - A prominent Washington think tank has called for dramatic reversals in world economic, environmental and social trends to avoid global catastrophe. , The World watch Institute in its, annual report, "The State of the World," says that "our generation is the first whose decisions will determine whether the earth will remain habitable."

"We must shortly decide whether we want to save the world or not," said World watch president Lester Brown.

The report ranges over issues from renewable energy to the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. It calls for new thinking on "global security" to include environmental and economic reforms, and a "quant'llm leap" in international cooperation.

It also says that unreversed trends in inefficient energy use and other worldwide mistakes retard the growth of developing nations' economies.

While making a gloomy assessment of the earth's "vital signs" -buildup of air pollution, rapid loss of forestland, booming populations, declining living standards in

poor nations and massive military expenditures - "The State of the World" also suggests remedies.

It calls for massive efforts to reduce the Third World debt; shift spending from the $900 billion global military budget toward improving the "human condition"; increase efficient use of energy and develop renewable sources; reforest the earth; protect biological diversity in plant and animal species; reduce toxic wastes; and promote family planning.

Some of the concerns expressed in the Worldwatch report have also been addressed by Pope John Paul II. His new encyclical, "On Social Concerns," urges reducing the Third World debt and criticizes the arms race as a barrier to economic, progress in poor nations.

But the pope has rejected population control programs in the Third World as a form of"oppression" that, linked to some foreign aid efforts, is tantamount to racism.

The Worldwatch report suggests that to achieve "sustainable development" globally, nearly $1.4 trillion in public and private spending over current levels must be directed to the effort between 1990 and 2000. It also says many serious

problems could be significantly reduced by better use of available technologies and methods.

Here are some highlights of the report: -ENERGY USE: Afterefforts in recent years to conserve energy and develop cleaner, renewable alternatives, there is evidence of a resurgence in world oil consumption and a continued growth in the use of coal. But renewable resources are readily available.

- AIR POLLUTION: Continuing massive emissions of carbon dioxide, ozone-destroying cholorfluorocarbons and other gases could bring a disastrous global warming. Permanent temperature rises could cause flooded seacoasts by melting polar ice, while further spreading drought inland. Efficient use of energy and reforestation can reduce the threat.

- DEFORESTATION: Agriculture, urban sprawl andextensive use of wood for fuel in developing nations has rapidly reduced forests. In the tropics II times as many acres were cut as were reforested in the early 1980s. However local tree plantings - such as for cropland windbreaks - may be pushing reforestation faster than official counts suggest.

Navy nets few chaplains GARY, Ind. (NC) -Adrive by the head of recruiting for the U.S. Navy chaplain corps netted few responses from priests who could meet the eligibility requirements.

Father Eugene T. Gomulka, the head of recruiting, said that although he had many responses as a result of a mailing last September, only two priests are being processed.

Some interested priests were beyond the Navy's age limit of 58.

Others who were eligible had not received permission from their bishop or religious superior.

In an interview with the Northwest Indiana Catholic, the newspaper of the Gary diocese, Father Gomulka pointed out that "a minimum of2 percent of young people

from every diocese are in the military. If each diocese would give 2 percent of its priests, then the needs of the military would be met. This is the only logical, fair and equitable way to handle recruiting."

The Navy has about two-thirds of the priests it needs and the Army and Air Force face similar shortages, according to Father Gomulka. He said there has been a 25 percent drop in the number of chaplains in the past eight years, and noted that many Navy personnel can go as long as six months without going to Mass or even seeing a priest.

The Navy's chaplain shortage is more critical than those in the Army and Air Force because a

stateside Army or Air Force base can contract with a local civilian priest to serve its people, Father Gomulka said.

"Where am I supposed to find a priest in the middle of the Indian Ocean?"

Only three priests minister to 25,000 people on 40 ships in the Persian Gulf, he said. Even with helicopters flying the priests from ship to ship, some sailors never see a priest during their tour of duty.

The stumbling blocks to recruiting are lack of support from bishops and lack of interest on the part of priests, Father Gomulka said.

"Bishops are hoarding priests" because they are now facing the problem of parishes without priests. "Welcome to the club," he added.

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- SPECIES EXTINCTION: Loss of habitat to human settlement, farming, logging and pollution may mean the extinction of a larger share of the earth's plant and animal life in this generation "than was lost in the mass extinction that included the dinosaurs 65 million years ago." Conservation and new ideas in ecological restoration can and, in places where they are used, do prevent such losses.

- POPULATION: Despite diminishing global birth rates, the

world's population increased by 83 million in 1987 - pushing the total beyond 5 billion. "Countries that remain on a high fertility path will find that meeting basic subsistence needs will be increasingly difficult."

While noting some increased public awareness of the problems facing the world, the report said that unless there is a "groundswell" for far-reaching change "we may not be able to reverse the trends that are undermining our children's future."

Status of U.S. Catholicism to be ad limina topic VATICAN CITY (NC) - Another round of 'dialogue on the status of U.S. Catholicism begins Feb. 29, when the first group of U.S. bishops arrives to open what will be a yearlong series of meetings with Pope John Paul II and top Vatican officials.

Expected to be high on the agenda are the controversial AI DS policy statement issued by the U.S. Catholic Conference's Administrative Board, and pastoral means of combating widespread dissent from church teaching within U.S. Catholicism.

The series of meetings is a follow-up to the pope's U.S. visit last September. During the 10-day trip he praised the generosity and dynamism of U.S.-Catholicism but also issued a stiff warning to the bishops that selective adherence to church teachings cannot be tolerated.

The follow-up is made possible because 1988 is the year when the heads of the 186 U.S. dioceses are scheduled to make their regular "ad limina" visits, required of a bishop every five years to report on his diocese.

Thus regional groupings of U.S. bishops will be coming to the Vatican throughout the year for individual and joint meetings with the pope and heads of major Vatican agencies. First on the agenda are bishops from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

The meetings may also produce a decision to hold a summit gathering between Vatican officials and the leadershi'p of U.S. bishops, similar to a 1986 Vatican meeting with Brazilian prelates, which helped establish a framework for ongoing cooperation between the bishops and the Vatican.

During preparatory meetings for the U.S. papal trip, U.S. and Vatican officials held out the possibility of a summit at the end of the "ad limina" visits.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has already noted that the USCC AIDS statement will be a topic for ad limina visitors to his office.

The statement, issued by the 50member Administrative Board, said the bishops, while not condoning contraception or non marital sex, would not oppose factual information about condoms in public education programs aimed at preventing AIDS. The condom section was immediately opposed by other U.S. bishops, including two cardinals, who also complained that the policy had been approved without broader consultation within the hierarchy.

The Vatican has not taken a stand on the matter, but Vatican officials have expressed concern over the poor public image of a hierarchy publicly divided over a policy statement.

The problem ofwidesprefld U.S. dissent from church teachings and some of the tensions this has caused between the U.S. bishops and the Vatican already has been a major topic of discussion between the pope and the U.S. bishops.

At a Los Angeles meeting last September, the pope told them it is a "grave error" to think "that dissent from the magisterium is totally compatible with being a 'good Catholic' and poses no obstacle to reception of the sacraments."

The pope instanced church teachings on birth control, divorce and sexual morality even though these may be unpopular in the general culture. He also reiterated the church stand that women cannot be priests and urged prelates to dialogue with theologians "to show the unacceptability of dissent and confrontation as a policy and method in the area of church teachi ngs."

U.S. bishops quickly put the question in a pastoral framework, stressing the difficulties of teaching church truths in a complex, secular society in which religious values are downplayed.

U.S. bishops and moral theologians are confronting "critical new realities," said San Francisco Archbishop John Quinn in a talk to the pope.

Archbishop Quinn cited as moral challenges affluence, high divorce rates, widespread abortion, a revolution in sexual mores, U.S. global military and economic power, rapid scientific and technical advances, and the changing status of women in society.

The pope was not drumming dissenting Catholics out of the church, said Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, USCC vice-president.

The U.S. hierarchy is aware "that Catholic teaching is not a kind of grocery store where Catholics are free to take what they want," said Archbishop Pilarczyk.

Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls agreed.

The pope "stated the moral principle. It is up to the bishops to apply it," said Navarro-Valls of the pope's speech to the bishops.

Vatican officials also note that the situation is not unique to U.S. Catholicism, but a problem throughout the industrialized West.

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THE ANCHqR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 26, 1988

By Charlie Martin

HONESTLY

.OLYMPICS CHAPLAIN Father David Armstrong celebrates Mass with Games participants.

Religion important at Winter Olympics WASHINGTON (NC) - Ancient athletes competed in the original Olympics, a religious and sporting festival, beneath the slope of Mount Olympus, home of the legendary Greek gods.

Thanks to the efforts of Bishop Paul J. O'Byrne religion also has an official place at the modern Winter Olympics in Calgary.

Bishop O'Byrne, who heads the Calgary diocese, chaired an ecumenical Olympic committee that provided a religious presence for athletes and spectators.

For athletes, it meant access to chaplains at the villages housing teams.

For tourists, it meant the hospitality offered by an ecumenical center served by volunteers who give information on church services or help in other needs.

In addition, Bishop O'Byrne said,' the committee is "helping make known the basic values of the Olympic concept," which could get overlooked in all the competition.

His committee "touches all churches functioning in the Calgary region," he said.

It has drawn support from such diverse groups as Moslems, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists and members of the Bahai community, as well as the more established congregations, the bishop said.

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A pre-Games ecumenical service, held in an indoor hockey rink, featured prayers by leaders from the various faiths, hymns, remarks by athletes who are religious believers, and "a little hockey game yes, as part of the service," Bishop O'Byrne said.

The latter involved 5- to 7-yearold skaters. "The object was to show that these are youngsters growing up and benefiting from the spirit generated by the Olympics," the bishop said.

A major purpose of the service was "to indicate that the values of the Olympics and the values of the church, of religion, were able to blend very well," he said.

The bishop said that one of his main duties is "to visit the villages and be supportive of the chaplains."

The chaplains' role "is kind of an important one because the athletes are so keyed up" and may need readily available counseling to help cope with stress, he said.

If an athlete asks a chaplain to pray for his or her victory over other competitors, the dilemma will be similar to that confronted by a bishop when two Catholic schools compete in football, Bishop O'Byrne noted.

Faced with such an athlete's request, he added, "I'd say, 'Let's pray that you do your very best.' "

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RETIRED DOMINICAN Sisters of S1. Catherine of Siena recently had a special treat: a visit and performance by students from Fall River's Dominican Academy. The nuns live at the Dominican Convent on Park St. in Fall River.

(Gaudette photo)

Honestly I believe in you Do you trust in me Patiently I will stand by you I will stand beside you faithfully Through the years I will be a friend For always and forever Count on me and I'll be there for you I am a friend who always will be true And I love you Can't you see That I can say I love you Honestly.

Count on me and I'll be there for you I am a friend who always will be true And I love you Can't you see That I love you honestly I will never betray your tmst in me And I love you Can't you see That I can say that I love you Honestly Written by Michael Sweet. Recorded by Stryper. (c) 1986, Enigma Entertainment Corp.

DURING THE PAST year, However, Stryper's"Honestly" several readers have requested rece!1tly climbed into the Top that 1 review Stryper's music. Forty.

This group and other Christian The song is about saying the rock musicians have a loyal fol- words "I love you." Do we utter lowing, but rarely do they attain them with the honest, full meansufficient national attention to ing that their message intends? make the charts.

Too often people fail to under-

What's on your mind?

Q. In the past two years I have lost a lot of people in my life for different reasons,· including my father (by death). I've had to get through it alone. As a result, I've built a barrier around my inner self as protection. I am now more alone than I ever was. How can I learn again to be able to give of my inner self! (New Jersey) .

A. Probably no "quick fix" is possible. It may not even be desirable. An elaborate, ambitious program designed to heal you in a week might prove so strenUQUS that you would give it all up the second day.

Don't even set up a timetable for recovery. Don't fix a schedule of daily activities. Don't try to force your heart to do the big things it may not yet be capable ofachieving.

But consider this: Some persons have looked on loneliness as an invitation from God to go where there is life and people and the possibility of breaking down barriers and making new friends and achieving a more abundant life.

In the next week or two could you consider how you might respond to God's invitation to go where there is life? It will likely

By TOM LENNON

take some effort on your part and you may be discouraged at times.

But those who have responded to the invitation will tell you it's well worth the effort.

You may feel awkward at first and some people may not know quite how to deal with the emerging you. But even if you stumble somewhat and maybe fumble the ball, keep trying.

Very soon could you do some small thing that would manifest your desire to give of yourself once more? It can be as small (and as big) as a smile, an encouraging word, a pat on the back.

Then could you invite an acquaintance to come and have a soda or a sundae with you? Sometime after that, could you issue an invitation to a movie or to watch a video?

Next, look for ways of getting involved once more with life at school, in your parish, In some sports program or in one of the many activities sponsored by community groups.

Call the friends you may have been neglecting. By your attitude let them know you are trying to change.

stand the commitment in these words. As the song puts it, "I will be a friend for always and forever." Obviously, the idea of"forever" is a long time and should be stated carefully.

When we reflect on our lives, we can see that life brings many changes. These changes can even affect our love for another. We cannot be sure how a relationship will evolve. Sometimes, the person we love changes, perhaps even in ways that we never expected.

Yet honest love is given with no strings attached. It is not conditional on whether another meets our needs or expectations; rather, love is genuine caring given freely.

Saying "I love you" honestly includes acceptance of the risk that change may influence a relationship. By saying "I love you" we actually encourage another to continue growing and developing his or her potential. Love is a supportive gift that invites another to keep finding the best in himself or herself.

Actually, the honest expression of"I love you" means much more than any column could fully interpret. Honest love is an extension and reflection of God's love. His love continually supports the person we are while also challenging us to explore new ways of caring about ourselves and others.

All of this makes saying "I love you" a powerful statement. Don't be afraid to express this statement when love is honestly·present, but also be aware of what you are saying.

Your comments are always welcome. Address Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714.

Perhaps you can find one person to whom you can tell your feelings as you make this difficult effort to take part fully in life once more.

Maybe there will be times when you falter. If you do, revert to doing some small, perhaps very small thing that will show your determination to live again. Build your courage slowly with small deeds. In time you are likely to become stronger than you thought possible.

Your winter of loneliness will gradually end. Spring will come, and you will find your life as surprising and beautiful as the roses that soon will bloom.

Send questions and comments to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Critical role WASHINGTON (NC) - Catholic colleges can help the United States "grow up internationally," John Brademas, president of New York University, recently told Association of Catholic Colleges and Yniversities members, meeting in Washington.

"With their strong academic emphasis on liberal arts and their moral commitment to social justice and world peace, Catholic col- . leges and universities playa critical role in helping develop awareness of the interrelatedness of peoples," he said.

Archbishop describes plight of Mozambicans NEW YORK (NC) - Archbishop Alexandre Jose Maria dos Santos of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, said in a recent New York interview that many people in his country are dying of starvation and large numbers of those who cannot find food or safety in the countryside are flocking to the cities.

"Maputo is fulI of them," he said. "They come to my house every day to ask for food."

Pope John Paul II is to visit Mozambique in September as part of a pastoral visit to southern Africa.

The archbishop said he had an assistant who handed out rice, maize, beans, peanuts, sugar and flour each day until su'pplies ran out. The church also distributes food and other supplies it receives from Catholic Relief Services and other donors, he said.

Because of guerrilIa attacks on ground vehicles, he said, costly plane distribution is required for many areas.

The archbishop was in New York as part of a seven-member delegation sponsored by Church World Service, relief and development arm of the New York-based National Council of Churches. The agency is raising funds for aid to Mozambique, which is suffering from both severe drought and guerrilla unrest.

Archbishop Santos said he hoped Americans would not let their views

about his nation's Marxist guvernment keep them from aiding the starving. "Maybe the government is communist, but the people who are suffering are not communists," he said.

Archbishop Santos said the churches were empty for a time after Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, but they were now fulI, a demonstration that Mozambicans are not communist. "If you had helped FRELI M 0 (the Portuguese initials for the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique) communism would not have come to Mozambique," he said.

FRELI M 0 led the fight for independence and now rules the country as a one-party state. Although it is officialIy a Marxist party, said the archbishop, many of its members have returned to the church and even become active in such roles as lectors.

Archbishop Santos said he accepted nationalization of schools but that the church is working for return of other buildings, including churches, missionary residences and convents.

From the coming of independence in 1975 until 1982, churchstate relations were "not good," he said.

But at that point, he said, guerrilIa warfare and the general situation of the country worsened and the government admitted it needed church aid.

tv, movie news

KNUTE ROCKNE, who helped perfect the forward pass as an offensive weapon in football and carried both the sport and Notre Dame V niversity into the record books will be featured on a V.S. commemorative stamp. President Reagan will speak at a ceremony introducing the stamp on March 4 at Notre Dame. Reagan portrayed one of Rockne's star players, George Gipp, in the 1940 film, "Knute Rockne - All American." (NC photo)

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PRINCIPAL Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parental 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); O-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the films.

inexplicably reunited with her deceased husband six years after his death. A disappointing attempt to combine the psychological and supernatural in a plausible narrative.

Considerable nudity, graphic sex and some violence. 0, R "Cop" (Atlantic) - Exploitative crime thriller with James Woods as an obsessed Los Angeles detective who concocts a profile of a serial killer responsible for 15 years of unsolved murders of young women. The detective's blatant sexism and vigilante mentality make his character totalIy unpleasant and the film an unpalatable, implausible cop melodrama. Extreme violence, gratuitous sex, graphic shots of murder victims and profanity.

NOTE

Sunday, Feb. 28, (CBS) - "For Our Times" - This program looks at the different approaches taken by communities in New York, Michigan and Idaho to avoid outbreaks of racial and religious conflicts among their citizens.

Sunday, Feb. 28 (NBC) "Guideline" - The guest is David Gibson, director of "Beyond the Dream: Immigrants in America," an upcoming NBC television program about the large numbers of Catholics who emigrated from Western Europe for America during the 19th century.

Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local listings, which may differ fr"" the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "She's Having a Baby" (Paramount) - Comedy about a young man (Kevin Bacon) who must learn to face the responsibilities of married life before he and his wife (Elizabeth McGovern) have a baby.

Sexual situations within marriage, fleeting nudity, some profanity.

A3, PG 13.

"Julia and Julia" (Cinacom) - A thrilIer with a young widow (Kathleen Turner) distressed at being

Preparing college document hard

KNUTE ROCKNE

The Anchor Friday, Feb. 26, 1988

SOUTH ORANGE N.J. (NC) - The Vatican appreciates the efforts of U.S. Catholic colIeges to be both American and Catholic, said Cardinal WilIiam W. Baum, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, at a recent convocation at Seton HalI University.

The task of preparing a document on the role of Catholic higher education that is "valid for the Catholic colIeges and universiites of the entire world is a very delicate one," said Cardinal Baum.

The proposals by the Vatican to restructure Catholic universities have stirred controversy,especialIy in the United States, where many Catholic educators have calIed them a threat to academic freedom and to university funding.

Cardinal Baum said he welcomed "the revived discussion on what constitutes a Catholic college and university."

"I n the United States our Catholic institution wants to be both American and truly Catholic. Let me confidently assure you here today that we appreciate these aspirations and that we are fulI of hope about the possibility of reaching a clearer vision of what this means," he said.

The cardinal noted that a meeting of international Catholic educators will be held this falI. Results of the meeting would be part of the information given to Pope John Paui II for study and possible incorporation into the document, he said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb: 26, 1988

Iteering pOintl ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON To mark Drug and Alcohol Awareness Sunday Feb. 28, a parish alcoholism information program will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the church hall; Taunton Alcohol Council counselor Patricia SulIivan will speak and take questions. The parish wilI host Church Women United of Taunton's annual meeting 2 p.m.

March 4, church; Father Kevin J. Harrington, parochial vicar, wilI speak on the Church and the Hispanic community. Lenten minimissions March 9 to II and 16 to 18 open to parishioners and area residents; first session, geared to senior citizens and conducted by Msgr.

Maurice Souza, features 10:30 a.m. opening conferences daily, holy hours with veneration of the Blessed Sacrament, opportunities for confessions and noon Lenten Masses with homilies; second session, with similar format, conducted by Father John J. Oliveira, begins 7 p.m. on scheduled dates; church is handicapped accessible.

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Parish council meeting 7 p.m.

Tuesday, rectory. Teachers' enrichment night 7 p.m. March 8, church hall. Eucharistic ministers and lectors for Easter Masses needed; information: parish office, 992-7000.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Children's Masses 11:30a.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. March 6. Youth ministry volleyball for grades 8 through 12, 1:30 p.m. March 13, St. Mary's parish center, Norton. Blood drive 6 to 9 p.m. March 10, parish center.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE New time for Children's Choir rehearsals: after 10 a.m. Mass at Queen of All Saints Chapel, Mashpee. Information on Marriage Encounter, Cursillo, ECHO, Emmaus and secular Franciscans will be available after Sunday Masses.

'ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Lenten study after 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Scouts' Blue and Gold banquet 2 p.m. Sunday, church hal1: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Parish Girl Scout Troop 494 and Cadettes Troop 400 won first place in the senior division at Operation Snowflake, a competitiye camping weekend held recently in Acushnet; the Top Troop Award and seven ribbons were also won.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON Adult study on St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians, led by parochial vicar Father Gabriel Swol, OFM Conv., 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Lenten Wednesdays through March 30, parish center.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Vincentian meeting 7 p.m. March 3, rectory.

ST. DOMINIC j SWANSEA Altar boys' ski weekend in New Hampshire March 12 and 13; details available at 8 a.m. meeting tomorrow, church.

LENTEN LUNCHEONS lenten Luncheons '88 program, presented by Catholic Campus Ministry, Southeastern Massachusetts University, N. Dartmouth; themed "Our Baptismal Call: An In-Depth Consideration of Our Christian Vocation," all sessions noon to I p.m., Sunset Room East; March 7: Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, "Prayer and Personal Spirituality." Further information: 999-88.72.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Conference on discharge planning for social workers and nursing pro- CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH fessionals 8:30 a.m. March 2, White's Family Masses 10:45 a.m. March of Westport; information: 674-5741, 20, April 10 and May 8; host families ext. 2480. needed'; information: Deacon RichCAMPUS MINISTRY, BRISTOL ard J. Murphy, 775-7218. Parish DCCW women will attend Church Women COMMUNITY COLLEGE,.FR Diocesan Council of Catholic WoThe Catholic Campus Ministry United of Cape Cod's World Day of men activities: District II, New BedPrayer service 2 p.m.

March 4, St. program will sponsor a lecture, ford: Open meeting 7:30 p.m. March "Church Annulments: What, Why John's Church, Main St., Sandwich.

17, St. Julie's Church hal1, N. Dartand How," by Father Jay Maddock, New junior and adult choir members mouth; youth advocate Kevin Lee welcome.

Parish Marriage Encounvice-official at the diocesan marriage will speak on "Love with Tough tribunal, at 7 p.m. March 9 in the ter April 8 through 10.

Love". Open meeting 7:30 p.m. April College Commonwealth Center staff ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH 14, St. Mary's Church hal1, S. Dartlounge at the Elsbree Street campus.

Rosary and Benediction service 4 mouth; topic: vocations. District I, Public welcome. p.m. Sunday.

FaIl River: Open meeting 7:30 p.m.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT March 17, St. George School hal1, ST. JAMES, NB Liturgy meeting 7:30 p.m. SunCYO Council meeting 7 p.m. Tues- Westport; speaker: Father Joseph day, convent hall.

Viveiros of the Apostolate for Perday, parish center. sons with Disabilities, April 28: 7:30 O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK HOLY NAME, FR p.m. Mass, SS. Peter and Paul Prayer cards and pocket crosses The weekly bulletin reports that were distributed as a Lenten re- about 150 families have joined the Church, Fall River; open meeting minder. Fifth grade religious educa- parish in the last year. Retreat renew- fol1ows with entertainment by Kathy and Her Clowns. District V, Cape tion students' confessions 2 p.m. al 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, school. and Islands: Open meeting 8 p.m. tomorrow, chapel reconciliation April 7, Our Lady of Victory Church, rooms. Fourth graders' penance , ST. JOHN THE EV ANGELIST, POCASSET Centerville. District III, Taunton: service 10:30 a.m. March 5.

Confirmation candidates have Board meeting 7:30 p.m. March 10, ST. ELIZABETH SETON, asked the parish community for St. Mary's Church, Taunton. Open NO. FALMOUTH service project suggestions. meeting 7:30 p.m. April 5, St. All parishioners welcome to video Joseph's Church, Taunton; features on drug lind alcohol abuse after ST. STANISLAUS, FR Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pas- . Water for Life slide and video 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. tor, is preaching a Book of Psalms- presentation.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB based series on "Insights into ChrisMen's League meeting after 10 • tian Life" 5 p.m. Lenten Sundays.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER a.m. Mass Sunday. Scripture study Gorzkie Zale (Polish) 4: 15 p.m.

Liturgy for first communion fami7 p.m. Lenten Tuesdays. lies 8:30 a.m. Sunday. "Centering Sunday.

Prayer" workshops led by Deacon ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, WIDOWED SUPPORT, Francis J. Camacho 2 p.m. Sunday, SWANSEA CAPE COD same time March 13 and 20, lower Coffee hour/blood pressure check Cape Cod Widowed Support church; compline and Benediction after morning Masses Sunday.

Group meeting 3 p.m. Sunday, CCD foIlow workshops at 4 p.m. Seder BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Center next to St. Jude the Apostle meal 5 p.m. March 27. Couples Day, Appreciation night for parish Chapel, Cotuit; topic: "Finances sponsored by the parish Family Life workers and spouses April 9.

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O.L. ASSUMPTION, NB Greer Gordon of the Boston Archdiocesan Office for Black Catholics wil1 be Feb. 29 guest speaker in the parish's Lenten series on non-violence; al1 welcome to presentation. 7 p.m. in church hall.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Lenten lectures beginning with 7 p.m. Mass Monday through Friday; presentations, in parish center, themed "A Cal1 to Conversion; Reflections on the Life of St. John of God"; Feb. 29: Linda Val1ey, Hospice Outreach, Inc.; March I: Sister Kathy Murphy, OP, FaIl River Council of Churches; March 2: Dot Walsh on ministry to the imprisoned; March 3: Sister Rose El1en Gal1ogy, RSM, of Market Ministries of New Bedford; March 4: penance service.

LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO Holy Week experience March 30 through April 3 begins ~ith pra~er, ends with Easter sunrIse service.

Information: retreat secretary, 222-8530.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FR ' Diocesan Council of Catholic Women-sponsored living rosary 7 p.m. May 10; Fal1 River parishes Notre Dame, Espirito Santo, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Anthony of the Desert and Holy Rosary wil1 also participate.

NOTRE DAME, FR Council of Catholic Women meeting follows 7 p.m. Mass Monday, chapel; screening of video by Brother Michael Barnaby, FIC, of parish activities including first Mass in new church and dedication ceremonies.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing service 2 p.m. Sunday, People's Chapel, led by Father Andre Patenaude, MS, shrinedireetor, with music ministry by Sister LuciIle Gauvin,OP. ST. MARY, NB Rosary recitation precedes 7 a.m.

Mass weekdays. School committee and parish finance committee meeting 7:30 p.m. March 8, CCD Center.

Men's Club meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, school. Youth Group-sponsored evening 7 p.m. March 15, school cafeteria; family therapist/ counseror Melodye A. Broadley will discuss Tough Love and family issues. Adult sacramental preparation program 10 to II a.m. tomorrow, CCD Center.

Bible studies for Core Group (Mark's Gospel) 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays.

D of I, ATTLEBORO Daughters of Isabel1a Alcazaba Circle meeting and social hour 7:30 p.m. March 3, K of C hal1. Joint communion breakfast with Knights of Columbus March 27, with Mass at St. Mary's Church, Norton.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Religious education survey 7 to' 8: 15 p. m. March 6, parish hal1, to describe existing program, identify strengths and weaknesses and look towards future developments.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. Rita's parish, Marion, youth retreat tonight and tomorrow. Holy Cross parish, S. Easton, youth retreat tomorrow and Sunday. Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, youth retreat 3:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Lenten "coffee talks" with Sister Theresa Bisson, OP, 9:45 a.m. March 3, 10 and 17, parish center. Faith enrichment sessions 7 p.m. Thurs-' days, parish center; March 3: "What Does Faith Mean for Us?" Sister Bisson; March 10: "Family Life and Values to Keep," Father Thomas C. Lopes, pastor; March 17: "Moral Issues in Our Society," various presenters.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Divorced / separated/ widowed leadership training session 4 p.m. tomorrow. Divorced / separated meeting Monday evening.

HOLY CROSS, S. EASTON Lenten retreat 7:30 p.m. Mondays through March 28, church hal1; al1 welcome; Feb. 29: Father Ike Powers, CP; March 28: Sister Clare Fitzgerald, SND, on "The Inward Journey"; other presenters: Scripture teacher Nancy King and Stonehill College faculty member Peter Beisheim.

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO Ladies' Guild members and guests will attend 10 a.m. Mass March 13; communion brunch with speaker Msgr. John J. Smith, pastor, follows, BI;1,S:kington Inn, Attleboro; information by March I: Marilyn Stoops, 222-3635.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO Attleboro area widowed support group night of recol1ection 7 p.m.

March 4, LaSalette provincial house, Attleboro. Regular meeting March 19.