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FOCA will. further divide nation WAS HINGTON (CNS) Passing the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) "will only fan the flames of controversy and further divide our nation," Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey told a House subcommittee Feb. 23.

"Y ou cannot stifle this debate with a piece of paper," Casey told the judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.

"N 0 edict, no federal mandate can put to rest the grave doubts of the American people."

FOCA is promoted by its supporters as codifying Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court Ruling legalizing abortion. Its opponents say it would prohibit all state regulation of abortion including generally favored laws such as those requiring that juveniles notify a

parent or that women be told of the risks before they may obtain an abortion.

Casey, a Democrat, said the bill would invalidate the essential parts of Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Law, which he said closely mirrors American public opinion about how readily available abortion should be. Most of Pennsylvania's law was upheld in a June 1992 Supreme Court ruling that also reinforced what the justices called "the central holding" of Roe, that the right to have an abortion is constitutionally protected.

The federal bill would make abortion the least-regulated industry in the country, Casey contended, and "mandate an abortion-on-demand regime for the entire country in a way which goes against the

expressed will of the overwhelming majority of the American people.

"It would repeal reasonable limitations on the practice of abortion enacted by the people in the states and prohibit them from enacting any similar limitations in the future.

It would bind the people in a legal straitjacket that would only provoke more confrontation and controversy," he said.

At the same hearing Harvard Law professor Frank I. Michelman testified that FOCA would not forbid all state regulation of abortion.

Michelman said the measure is necessary to equalize a patchwork of abortion laws that vary from state to state. But while it would' Turn to Page 10

S even lost lives WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Supreme Court put an end Feb. 22 to a Tennessee woman's attempt to use frozen embryos created with her ex-husband to become pregnant.

The fate of the seven embryos had been debated in court since 1989. Mary Sue Davis Stowe wanted to be given custody of the embryos in order to become pregnant at a later date or donate them to a childless couple, and her exhusband, Junior Lewis Davis, wanted them destroyed.

By turning down-without comment Mrs. Stowe's request for review, the high court affirmed the Tennessee Supreme Court's decision that Davis' right not to be a father outweighed Mrs. Stowe's right to the embryos.

"Ordinarily the party wishing to avoid procreation should prevail," the state court said. It also ruled that the embryos were not human

beings with independent legal rights, overturning a lower court decision that life begins at conception and that custody of the embryos should go to Mrs. Stowe.

"It is a tragic day in America when a father's 'wish to avoid procreation' would result in the legal killing of his children," said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, in a Feb. 23 statement. '''The Supreme Court has sentenced seven innocent people to death," she added. "Refusing their moral obligation to overturn the state of Tennessee's ethically unacceptable ruling to destroy what a lower trial court correctly deter. mined to be human beings from fertilizatio.n, the Supreme Court has by its silence turned a custody case into seven cases of intentional kiliing."

Custody of the seven embryos now remains -in the hands of the Knoxville, Tenn., fertility clinic

where they were created in December 1988 and where they are being preserved in liquid nitrogen. A Tennessee judge was expected to order the clinic to destroy them.

In another case related to medical technology, the U.S. Supreme Court also refused to hear a "wrongful birth" suit brought by a Georgia couple who said an Army doctor's failure to correctly diagnose her pregnancy led to the 1985 birth ofa retarded and handicapped daughter and denied the woman her right to an abortion.

A suit by ,Thomas and Patricia Campbell of Marietta, Ga:, had been thrown out by the Georgia Supreme Court since state law bars "wrongful birth" lawsuits. ' In a third ruling Feb. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the dismissal of a lawsuit by a woman who had sought an abortion at what she thought was an abortion Turn to Page 10

, ONE OF the youngest members of the Fall River diocese receives ashes fro'm Bishop Sean O'Malley as the bishop conducts his first Ash Wednesday liturgy at St. Mary's Cathedral.

In a brief homily, the bishop commented on the words that accompany imposition of ashes: "Remember, man, that you are dust and unto dust you will return." He said that "dust is aimless, everywhere, but nowhere at home" and added that "we experience something of this feeling in our own lives, but we must remember that the ashes are imposed in the sign of the cross to remind us that Jesus, who became dust for us, has redeemed our dust."

Lenten works of penance, said the bishop, are worthwhile, but must be accompanied 'by prayer and a change of heart.

What Lent should be for us, he concluded, "is a 40-day retreat in the desert with Jesus." (Hickey photo)

Budget must confront fiscal, social woes, says Bishop Ricard WASHINGTON (CNS) - The federal budget process must deal with the nation's "intertwined" fiscal and human deficits, said the chairman of a committee of U.S. bishops as President Clinton presented new economic proposals in his State of the Union message.

"The political posturing, budget games and postponing of hard choices of the past cannot continue," said a statement issued by Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard of Baltimore as chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference's Committee of Domestic Policy.

The statement was released Feb. 17. hours before Clinton's State of the Union message that called for $499 billion in tax increases and spending cuts.

Among other things, Clinton's ing" fiscal deficit and its "growing economic plan proposes higher human deficit." energy ta~es for households "Our nation is wasting vl;lluable making more than $30,000, a human resources - people who freeze on federal workers' pay, an want to work and cannot find increase in income taxes for . employment; children who lack families making more than the education, health care and $140,000, cuts totaling $76 billion housing that will help them grow in Pentagon spending and $91 bilinto responsible and productive lion in pensions and automatic adults; and communities that breed benefit programs, and taxes on violence and hopelessness instead Social Security benefits for cou- of offering opportunity and safety," ples earning more than $32,000 it said. and individuals earning more than "We cannot continue to mul$25,000. tiply debt nor can we ignore the Although Bishop Ricard's fiscal and social costs of neglecting statement did not address any Of basic human needs." the statement the specific proposals that had added.

The statement noted that it was been floated by the Clinton administration, it said. any budget plan "not the church's competence or must address the nation's "stagger- responsibility to propose a 'moral'

budget." But the statement did The statement said every public suggest four "directions for action" policy -- especially budget policy that should guide the budget de- - should be measured by "how it bates: touches the life, dignity and rights - "Targeted cuts in federal spend- of the human person."

In the field of foreign aid, it said, ing," with only federal assistance to the poor excluded from consid- the United States "must resist the tempting. but dangerous. abandoneration of cuts.

- "Tax reform" to raise revenue ment of global responsibility in a and "help meet basic needs of poor . still hungry and hurting world. filled with refugees and victims of families."

- Cuts in and "redirection" of violence and injustice."

On tax reform. it called for a military spending "to meet the defense and security challenges of policy that would "raise the necessary revenue and provide fairness a changing world."

- "Careful targeted and disci- for vulnerable families with childplined investments to promote ren, without creating disincentives economic growth and employment, for charitable giving which also contributes to the common good to address the human deficit and reduce current and future public and meeting the needs of the nation." costs."

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Clinto'n urged to keep promises on Haiti WASHINGTON (CNS) - Individuals and groups concerned about the political situation in' Haiti sent President Clinton a message of concern in the form of a full-page ad in the Feb. I Q edition of The Washington Post.

The ad included names of 3,500 individuals and groups that asked Clinton to keep campaign promises to restore democracy in Haiti.

The ad was sponsored by Haiti Reborn, a project of the Quixote Center, based in Hyattsville, Md. Haiti's first democratically elected president, FatheJ: JeanBertrand Aristide, was ousted in a military coup in September 1991 and fled the country. Since then, tens of thousands of Haitians have tried to flee their country, by boat in search of safe haven from the violence on the island.

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signers were individual nuns and priests as well as diocesan justice and peace offices, religious orders or their executive councils, and local chapters of Pax Christi, the Catholic peace organization.

The ad urged Clinton to keep promises to: - Intensify direct U.S. pressure to restore Father Aristide's government.

- Seek tightening of the Organization of American States embargo on Haiti and urge European allies ~ to honor it.

- "Provide safe haven for Haitian refugees until democracy is restored."

Laurie Richardson, a Quixote Center director and one of the coordinators of Haiti Reborn, said Clinton "certainly ... reversed himself so far" on his campaign MOTHER MARY Angela promise to stop repatriation of Truszkowska, foundress of the Haitian boat people.

During the campaign, Clinton· Felician Sisters, will be beaticriticized Pre'sident Bush's policy fied by Pope John Paul II of returning the boat people to April 18 in ceremonies at St. Haiti without first giving them an Peter's Basilica in Vatican · immigration hearing. However, he City. has continued to turn back the Her community, founded refugees without hearings, telling them it is a temporary measure in 1855, served in St. Staniswhile his administration works to laus parish and school, Fall restore democracy.

River, from 1906 to 1985.

Ms. Richardson said she had Today the international conreceived good response to the ad, one of several projects sponsored gregation has 12 provinces for Haiti Solidarity Week, Feb. with almost 3000 members 7-13. serving on four continents.

The same week, another Quixote Center project, Catholics Speak Our Lady of Angels, the proOut, launched a campaign to vince that served St. Stanislaus School, is based in Enremove the Vatican nuncio from Haiti. Ms. Richardson claimed that field, CT. the Vatican was the only governMother Angela's cause for ment that recognized the military beatification was supported government of Haiti.

"The Vatican policy on this issue by the miraculous cure of Lillian Halasinski of Dunkirk, is atrocious," she said.

In January 1992, when the Vati- NY, instantaneously healed can promoted its charges d'affaires of diabetic neuropathy in in Haiti to the post of nuncio, 1984.

Haiti claimed the move amounted In Warsaw, in 1855, Mother to recognition of the military Angda began Poland's first government. The Vatican has said community combining the ac· it was merely replacing a nuncio tive and contemplative life. who had been transferred to Africa, Ms. Ri~hardson ~aid Catholics There she and her followers Speak Out, a national group with provided residential careaild more than 8,000 members, would education for homeless women seek lettt;~~, petitions and lobbying froin Catholic bishops and lay and abandoned,orphans. In 1864, when the Russian govpeople in the United States and would urge Catholic groups in ernment, ~hich then domin.other countri'es to do the same. ated Warsaw, suppressed the Also as part of Haiti Solidarity community, it moved to the Week, interfaith prayer. services were planned throughout the Uili- Austrian sector of Poland', .where it .expanded its ministry · ted States,

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HOUSTON (CNS) - Church evangelization efforts directed at Hispanics should target Hispanic professionals as well as the poor and needy, Sister Lourdes Toro, associate director of the Hispanic apostolate in the archdiocese of Newark, N.J., says.

She said it was the responsibility of diocesan church workers to "ensure that the' good news is reaching and including the most needy and alienated of our church, but on the other hand, have we not failed by not taking care of the professional class? The Gospel is for everyone."

She said Hispanic professionals with strong Gospel values can influence and transform social institutions.

She commented in a speech at the first national convocation of diocesan directors of Hispanic ministry, held recently in Houston.

Sister Toro said her office is organizing a meeting of Hispanic Catholic professionals "with the goal of meeting and motivating professionals that perhaps have a lethargic faith life and are alienated from parish structures." She said the meeting would also explore ways in which Catholic professionals can serve the Hispanic community, noting that often even Hispanic pastoral workers and parish members are unaware of services offered by diocesan offices.

In addition, she said, too often diocesan offices duplicate each others' services. In part to counter that duplication, Sister Toro said, the Newark archdiocese has established a Hispanic ministry board that includes staffers of numerous diocesan offices as well as members

Lent adult education program set for Attleboro area "A Lenten Revival: Renew Your Catholicism" is a Lenten adult education program to be held at four Attleboro area parishes.

Sessions will be held 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday March 3 to 24 at St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro; St. Mary's parish center, Mansfield; and St. Mary's Church, North Attleboro. Penance services will be held March 31'at th~se parishes. '. ....

Also, sessions will be held at St. Mary's parish center, Seekonk, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thurs'days March 4 to 25, with a penance service April l.

Speakers and. topics will rotate among the parishes and are as follows:. "Is My Prayer Cathoiic?," presented' by Sisters aetty Doyle and Virginia D'Alessandro, RSM, and Sister Virginia Sampson, SUSC. The sisters are retreat and spiritual directors.

"Is My Family Catholic?," pres'ented by. Jerry and Scottie Foley, program directors for the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry, and a single parent to be announced.

"Is My Conscience Catholic?," presented by Dr. Ernest Collamati, chairperson of the religious studies department at Regis College, Weston: "Is Lay Leadership Catholic?," presented by Dr. Owen McGowan, former director of libraries at Bridgewater State College and a candidate for a masters degree in biblical studies at Providence College. .

of the local Hispanic pastoral commission, made up of leaders of Hispanic parishes and apostolic movements.

Sister Toro said her office has begun working with diocesan o£fiCl;S of worship and catechesis to help parishes improve their liturgies and in so doing combat inroads made by Protestant sects among Hispanic Catholics.

She said improved liturgies combined with parish-sponsored doort~-door visits of Hispanic Catholics and establishment of Bible and catechism classe~ have resulted in fallen-away Catholics returning to the church. .

Sister Toro urged Hispanic ministry directors to collaborate with members of Hispanic apostolic groups such as the charismatic and Cursillo movements.

The nun said achieving the goals of the National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry, drawn up by Hispanic Catholics nationwide and approved by the U.S. bishops in 1987; demands "a continual conversion" from "individualism to communion, parochialism to universalism, exclusion to inclusion, independence to interdependence, competition to collaboration, isolation to participation, from seeing only problems to seeing opportunities, from crisis to maturity and growth, from rejection and indifference to accepting and welcoming."

Some participants said the plan had not been put into practice at the diocesan level because priests and parishioners who didn't participate in the process of "encuentros" or meetings that produced the plan do not identify wit!). it.

Others blamed lack of financing of the plan for its delayed implementation.

Piarist Father Mario Vizcaino, director of the Miami-based Southeast Pastoral Institute for Hispanic ministry, urged patience, saying the plan attempts to create a new "model of church" and that takes a long time to do.

Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, coordinator of Hispanic pastoral studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and Msgr. Jaime Soto, director of Hispanic ministry for the diocese of Oqillge, Calif., d~c;:riedclosing of many dioc.esan Hispanic ministry offices. . . .. .They are closing "just when Hispahic Catholic leaders· were be:ginning to become more integrated, i1}ore at,ease within church structures," said Fath'er Deck, who is als'o president of the National CatholicCounci't f~r Hispanic Ministry, ail. independent umbrella organization of Hispanic Catholic groups.

In an address to meeting participants, Father Vizcaino said catechesis must start "where the hearer of the Gospel is."

He said that in the case of Hispanics. "this means· not merely use of the language but also an active dialogue with their culture."

Bishop Enrique San Pedro of Brownsville, chairman ofthe U.S. bishops' Committee on Hispanic Affairs, spoke on "pastoral de conjunto," or collaborative ministry, a major goal of the pastoral plan.

He said such ministry should be understood as cooperation between ministers "where all grow in the knowledge of God's will through mutual respect" and in recognition of each other's gifts.

Lenten Bible Study sessions set

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March 4: Igreja: Povo de Deus (Church: The People of God) March 11: A Igreja: Reino de Deus (Church: Kingdom of God) March 18: Igreja: Presenr,:a de Jesus Cristo (Church: Presence of Jesus Christ) March 25: Igreja: Revelar,:lio de Jesus Cristo (Church: Revelation of Jesus Christ) .

Aprill: Igreja: Comunidade de Crentes (Church: Community of Believers) and Igreja: Iniciar,:lio a Vida Crista (Church: Initiation to the Christian Life) In English March 3: Father George Bellenoit, "You Do Not Live by Bread Alone." (Matt. 4:1-11) , March 10: Mrs. Jane Wilcox, "No Cross-No Crown" (Matt.

17: 1-9) , March 17: Father Douglas Sousa, "Give Me the Living Water" (John 4:5-42) March 24: Father Raul Lagoa, "Lord, That I Might See" (John 9:1-41) March 31: Father John Sullivan, "Lazarus, Come Out" (John II: 1-45)

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o Mother of God, Immaculate Mary, to thee do I dedicate my body and soul, all my prayers and deeds, my joys and sufferings, all that I am and all that I have. With a joyful heart I surrender myself to thy bondage of love,.

To thee I will devote my services of my own free will for the salvation of humanity and for the help of holy Church. I know I can accomplish nothing by my own strength, whereas thou canst do everything that is the will of thy Son. Grant, therefore, that my family, parish and homeland might become in truth the kingdom where thou reignest with thy son. Amen.

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All are welcome at Portuguese and English Lenten Bible study sessions to be held at St. Anthony of Padua Church 48 Sixteenth Street, Fall River.

Portuguese sessions will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. each Thursday of March and on Thursday, April I and will be led by Father Gastao Oliveira.

English sessions will be held at the same time each Wednesday of March with varying speakers.

In Portuguese With the general theme.A Igreja que Somos (The Church That We Are), Father Oliveira's topics follow:

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YOUNGSTERS SUCH as these girls in Washington, DC, are among those who will benefit from this weekend's Black and Native American Home Mission collection. (CNS photo)

Collection aids Home Missions The annual Black and Native American Home Mission collection will be taken up in diocesan parishes this weekend, Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, has announced.

In a letter sent to area Catholics, Msgr. Oliveira noted that since 1885 the U.S. Catholic Church has assisted hundreds of priests, sisters and catechists working in Black and Native American communities. Now, in 1993, he said, with the Church's strong emphasis on evangelization, such assistance is needed more than at any time in the collection's century-old history.

Last year the collection provided $6 1/2 million for evangelization efforts; but requests from bishops of 140 dioceses,totaled almost $16 million.

Schools to sponsor "The Christus" The diocesan elementary schools of Fall River and New Bedford will host presentations of a new rendition of "The Christ us," a well-known Passion play written and produced by Rev. J. Jospeh Kierce, pastor of St. Kevin's parish, Dorchester.

The play is traditionally presented in various locations each weekend of Lent and this year it will be offered at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27, on the Friday at Notre Dame Church, Fall River, and on the Saturday at St. Joseph's Church.

New' Bedford. Fifty percent of admission receipts will go to the sponsoring schools.

The 1993 production of "The Christus" is a new version of salvation history, ranging from the creation of the universe and the story of Adam and Eve to the birth. life. death. Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. Its Bethlehem scene features the current winner of the famed Boston Christ Child contest that annually seeks a baby to depict the infant Christ.

'Other actors and actresses depict Mary. Joseph. Herod. Pontius Pilate and others present at Christ's trial and Passion.

Directing this year's production of "The Christus" are Richard McElvain and Louis Farrell, both of Prime Direction. a company of professional directors and teachers, who have worked in theatres and universities across the nation, offering courses in acting. directing, speech and theatre history.

McElvain has directed over 200 productions, ranging from Greek tragediesto works by modern playwrights such as Bertolt Brecht.

. Collection headquarters said that of every dollar received in 1992, 98 cents went directly to the missions. In discussing this year's collection, Msgr. Oliveira said that every Catholic. "regardless of age, may have a part in evangelization by contributing. Pennies turn into dollars and dollars turn into help for those so much in need!"

DCCW retreat The registration deadline for ·the Diocesan Council ofCatholie Women's annual retreat has been extended to March 1.

The retreat, to be held March 5 to 7 at the Family Life Center, North Dartmouth, is open to all diocesan women. Rev. Francis McManus, SJ, chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, wiII direct the weekend, to focus on spiritual renewal.

To register call retreat chairperson Theresa Lewis, 997-2405, or Mary Galvin, 993-6956.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FAll RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of REGINALD DUPONT, JR. is unknown.

We cite REGINALD DUPONT, JR. to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, March 15, 1993 at 10:30 a.m. at887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the WATTS·DUPONT case?

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

Jay T. Maddock JUdicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this 22nd day of February, 1993.

ogy, which has centered on the spiritual life of disadvantaged youth. will serve as the basis for the 12-day program. Coles is a child phychiatrist and Harvard professor.

Participants will be chosen on the basis of ability by a committee

by April 15. If successful, the program will be offered in the summers of 1994 and 1995.

For information on applying to the institute. contact Mike Carotta.

NCEA. Department of Religious Education. 1077 30th St.. N.W., Suite 100, Washington, DC 20007. or call him at (202) 337-6232.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles will lead a 12-day institute to train inner-city Catholic school teachers and professional youth ministers to help disadvantaged urban .youth with their spiritual formation.

The institute. clllled "Teaching for Spiritual Growth." is a joint venture of Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities and the National Catholic Educational Association, both in Washington. and the JesJlit-run Weston School of Theology in Cambridge.

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Institute faculty, which will include theologians. spiritual writers and educators. will train 12-24 participants through presentations on moral and spiritual development, through prayer and reflection. and by on-site visits to nearby schools and churches.

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"A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all of the others to sleep."-St. Theresa of Avila

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Change or Revolution?

Despite the fact that most Americans are primarily concerned with the deficit and tax issues discussed by President Clinton in his address to the nation, one of its more important aspects was its clarion call for social revolution, which he has proclaimed will be the hallmark of his administration.

It is natural that in these days of financial upheaval individuals should be primarily concerned with pocketbook issues, but in so doing they may overlook the real efforts for the common good that the president intends to undertake.

For decades the quest for material security has motivated many Americans. As a nation, our image of the good life involves accumulation of the best of everything, capped by a financially comfortable retirement. Involved in such pursuits, many have ignored the soul of the nation; but in his own unique way, the president has urged us to cons\llt our consciences with regard to certain social concepts that affect all.

For better or worse, our new chief executive wants to change the nation's social agenda and many of his concerns have to do with minorities and the poor - a situation which makes middle-class America very nervous. One need only look back .to the New Deal of the 1930s to realize the power of government to change a country's direction. With a cooperative Congress, the president can be a catalyst for change in every aspect of national life; and Clinton obviously intends to pursue this course.

Chief among his efforts will be attempts to redistribute goods and to redress inequalities. For the past decade, tpe effort has been to get government out of our lives. Clinton wants government back in the mainstream as the agent to get people back to work, reform health policies and attack poverty.

Much of what he proposes is classic Democratic politics with good points that should be supported and bad points that should be debated objectively. No one can deny that change is imperative and that we need to chart a new course; but we must not get caught up in the philosophy of change merely for the sake of change, which would be contrary to the American tradition, to say nothing of the Constitution.

This is of course the classic dilemma when a government becomes too ~uch of a big brother, dictating almost when one can be born and die.. History testifies that a firm centralized government ultimately hurts more than it heals, but nevertheless, if such pitfalls can be avoided, many of Clinton's ideals and goals can be accepted, although some that touch on fre~足 dom of religion and conscience obviously cannot.

1)1 short, social change that encourages healing and help to all Americans deserves careful consideration; destructive proposals should not become law. . There was much good in Clinton's address to the nation but we must always recall that we are a government of and for the people. In these days of change, it is important not to lose that vision, which is the essence of America.

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"I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting...and ashes." Daniel 9:3

Rainbow curriculum is warning to Bay State

By Rev. Kevin J. Harrinton The ouster of New York City School Chancellor Joseph Fernandez in a 4-to-3 vote by the city's central board of education carries important warnings for school districts throughout the United States.

Clearly, his failure to consult with parents on controversial social issues played an important role in his demise. The liberal media lauded him as a hero for imposing his agenda of providing free condoms in schools without parental consent and for his "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum.

Not surprisingly, the four antiFernandez votes came from the city's boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. His three pro votes came from liberal Manhattan and from the two board members appointed

by New York City Mayor David Dinkins.

Why are our own schools becoming available as laboratories for people with liberal social agendas?

Are parents really aware of the values being conveyed in health education programs throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? What kind of AIDS education program would encourage the use of condoms instead of abstinence as a means of avoiding AIDS? Are our students told the facts about condoms: that the smallest detectable hole in a condom is I . micron, while the HIV virus is 1/ 10 to 1/3 the size of that hole; that for the average condom user

the chance of becoming pregnant is one is six. In addition, unlike the few-days-a-month possibility of becoming pregnant, one can contract AIDS on any day.

Inl.light of the AIDS epidemic, there are more reasons than ever to teach abstinence and support individuals in its practice. No one ever died, got sick, lost his or her creative, intellectual or athletic ability or brought forth an unwanted child as a result of abstaining from sex.

Abstinence costs no money and avoids the emotional pain and anguish so often associated with relationships that fail because one or other of the partners feels sexually exploited. Abstinence helps engender the self-control that is of great value in preserving a monogamous marriage. In brief, it is in accord with human dignity and the common good; but how many health educators in our public school system teach its benefits and the dangers of so-called safe sex?

The controversy that proved the undoing of Chancellor Fernandez was that aroused by the 443-page Rainbow curriculum. When members of the Queens board of education refused to teach first graders tolerance of homosexuals, Fernandez responded by declaring the board null and void because it was in defiance of New York City's policy on multicultural education.

Despite the example of this controversy, Massachusetts is now in process of considering statewide

guidelines regarding classroom discussion of homosexuality, according to David LaFontaine, chairman of a commission on gay and lesbian youth issues.

Let us take a closer look at the Rainbow curriculum: for first graders, two books are recommended to foster tolerance towaras gays and lesbians. One is entitled "Heather Has Two Mommies," and here is an excerpt: "Heather is a typical rambunctious youngster with two of everything, including two mommies who were very much in love with each other and wanted to live together and be a' family together."

Another is entitled "Daddy's Roommate," about a boy whose parents divorce and whose father moves in with a male friend. The boy is told by his mother that "Daddy and Frank are gay.... Being gay is just one more kind of love."

Are parents powerless with regard to the values teachers convey to pupils? No, but it is difficult to monitor the kind of sex education or sex miseducation children are receiving. The more controversial social issues are often buried in a health education curriculum that purports to be morally neutral.

In my mind there is a fine line between distributing condoms while at the same time discouraging promiscuity and encouraging abstinence. There is also a fine line between teaching tolerance of homosexuality and seeing it as just another way of sharing love.

Faith helps us right now

North America, Europe only areas losing priests

Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 Romans 5:12-19 .

Matthew 4:1-11 Faith should always help us reflect on the life we're living.

Unlike many who think their faith is primarily a mental nod to past events, those who follow God understand that the Lord is constantly helping us make sense out of the present. God's previous actions can be meaningless to us, unless 'we see how they relate to what's happening now.

Those who study Scripture persistently remind us that the Sacred Authors rarely start from the past and work forward. Rather, they first reflect on their present situation through eyes of faith, then look backward. This is the case with each oftoday's three readings.

The Yahwistic author of Genesis 2 was not present at the world's creation nor witnessed our first parents' sin. Neither did he receive a special "God-edited video" ofthe events. (If he had, it was different from that which the priestly author of Genesis I received!) He simply describes the events through the faith eyes of a 10th century BC writer.

For instance, because Israelites at the time of Solomon were more conscious than former generations of their role in "making God's work their own," our author deliberately has Yahweh form man out of the clay of the ground firs't, before he makes anything else, so he can rely on his help throughout the remainder of the creation process. (In Genesis I, humans are created last.)

And in the detailed narrative of the first sin, the writer is certainly keeping his eyes focused on the ways people are tempted and give into temptation all around him.

He especially notices that every sin contains a dimension of wanting to "be like God": to be in total control of our destiny. He also reflects that his experience of "knowing what is good and what is bad" only comes from suffering the evil which sin brings.

Then, sharing one of his best insights, he mentions the illogic of humans wearing clothes. We only

Daily Readings March 1: Lv 19:1-2,11-18; Ps 19:8-10,15; Mt 25:31-46 March 2: Is 55:10-11; Ps 34:4-7,16-19; Mt 6:7-15 March 3: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4,12-13,18-19; Lk 11: 29-32 March 4: Est CI2,14-16, 23-25; Ps 138:1-3,7-8; Mt 7:7-12 .

March 5: Ez 18:21-28; Ps 130:1-8; Mt 5:20-26 March 6: Dt 26: 16-19; Ps 119:1-2,4-5,7-8; Mt 5:43-48 March 7: Gn 12:1-4; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20,22; 2 Tm 1:810; Mt 17:1-9

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN do it· because we live in a disordered state. If things were as God intended, we'd all be naked ..... and "feel no shame."

The Sacred Author is more than just a recorder of Yahweh's revelation; he's also a keen observer of his own experiences.

Paul follows the same process in this section of Romans. God doesn't hand him a text to copy, he gives him an adventure on which to reflect, presenting him with the freeing experience of Jesus. By pondering the contrast in his life before and after his conversion, Paul is able to see how Jesus corrected olir first parents' failures.

Eventually he formulates the results of his reflection in the famous statement: "If death began its reign through one man because of his offense, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and gift of justice live and reign through the one man, Jesus Christ."

Since Matthew copies Mark, his use of this method is even clearer than that o(our first two authors.

Mark had described today's temptation scene without mentioning any specific allurements. So on what does Matthew (as well as Luke) base his portrayal of three detailed temptations?

Instead of passing on the actual· temptations of the historical Jesus, the evangelist seems to be describing the temptations of the Christian community, several generations after the Lord's death and resurrection, temptations which our communities still experience today.

In place of imitating Jesus' attempts to radically care for humanity's deepest needs, we'll always be lured into zeroing in only on people's physical demands -to turn stones into bread. Instead of stressing the necessity to follow the Lord faithfully in the nittygritty details of everyday life, we'll constantly be drawn to emphasize the exceptional and spectacularto throw ourselves down from the temple's parapet. And rather than live olir lives in contrast to other institutions, we'll continually be seduced into being just like them - into worshiping the devil.

Unless Scripture helps us understand the significance of the present, it does a great injustice to the past.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) North America and Europe are the only areas in the world where the number of diocesan priests continues to fall. That fact is among hundreds in the 1993 Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican yearbook , and directory of dioceses and Curia offices.

Other facts: in 1992 the Vatican established diplomatic relations with 16 countries, and Pope John Paul II named 144 new bishops for dioceses around the world, including Bishop Sean O'Malley for the Fall River diocese.

The first copy of the new Annuario was presented to the pope Feb. 22 by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state.

The book highlights the addition of 13 new Polish dioceses and the reorganization of the church in Albania with the nomination of four new bishops.

The overview published by the Vatican press office also said that the Pontifical Commission for Russia, established in 1930, has been succeeded by the Permanent Interdicasterial Commission for the Church in Eastern Europe.

In addition to the 16 nations that established diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1992, the Annuario lists a new exchange of ambassadors, with Slovakia, which became independent Jan. I, 1993.

As of Dec. 31, 1992, the overview said, there were 153 cardinals in the church and 4,091 bishops, of whom 2,317 headed dioceses or archdioceses, 1,051 had titular sees and 723 were retired. for the number of priests, seminarians and religious, the Annuario relies on statistics for the year ending Dec. 31, 1991. The Statistical Yearbook of the Church, with hundreds of pages of numerical details for 1991, will be published in the summer.

At the end of 1991 there were 404,031 Catholic priests in the world, 64 percent of whom were diocesan clergy and 36 percent of whom were members of religious orders.

The total' number of priests represents the first annual increase since 1978, the overview said. The

Airport chaplain liaison named CHICAGO (CNS) - Bishop .lames C. Timlin of Scranton, Pa .. a pilot for more than 30 years. has been named the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' episcopal liaison to the National Catholic Conference of Airport Chaplains.

Bishop Timlin, who owns an airplare, has "a great interest in aviation" and in promoting airport chaplaincies throughout the United States, according to an announcement from the chaplains' headquarters at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

The conference of airport chaplains. founded in 1986, has 25 members from throughout the United States.

Most Catholic airport chaplains are at chapels at large airports in the Northeast and Midwest.

In 1950. Boston's Logan Airport became the first airport in the country to have a chapel. Today. most chaplains share space with' Protestant ministers and someti mes rabbis.

statistics for the year ending 1990 showed 403,178 priests.

The overall growth is due to an increase in the number of diocesan priests, except in North America and Europe; the number of religiousorder priests continued to decline, the Vatican said.

The overview said that with the exception of North America and Oceania, the number of seminarians in philosophy and theology studies continues to grow, increasing about 3.6 percent over 1990.

Southeast Asia showed an increase o£1.2 percent in seminarians at the level closest to ordination, and European seminaries reported a 4.49 percent increase.

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Desecration condemned F AISALABAD, Pakistan (CNS) - Bishop John Joseph of Faisalabad has accused the government of Pakistan of allowing Christian churches and Hindu temples to be ransacked in the violence that has swept the Indian subcontinent since early December. In Pakistan, about 40 people have died in rioting, including six children stoned to death inside a temple.

At least 80 temples were ransacked, along with five churches.

In Karachi's port section of Keamari, a prayer service was held in a ransacked parish. In a lettt:r to Catholics, church leaders there asked angry Christians to forgive those who did the damage.

Catholic mental health care offered at West Virginia center WHEELING, W. Va. (CNS) Christian psychotherapy has come to Wheeling and is focusing on Catholics who need short-term mental health care.

It's a form of psychological care that addresses a patient's spiritual as well as mental state, and its use is on the rise nationally.

"People are body, mind and spirit. True healing happens only when all areas are addressed," said Wendy Leifield, a spokeswoman for an Ohio-based organization that runs a counseling center at the Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling.

"To simply medicate or to address psychologically is not enough," she added. "The focus of our philosophy is to involve the patient's faith, specifically their Catholic faith, into their treatment and make available to them the healing power of the sacraments if they so choose."

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Ms. Leifield said Divine Mercy will involve a person's faith through a broad range of activities, from prayer and Scripture reading before and after daily sessions to religious music and art therapy. In addition, the Divine Mercy unit features a chapel where the Eucharist is reserved and where Mass may be celebrated at some point in the future.

Nationally, dozens of centers run by a handful of groups and chains operate some 1,200 beds for Christian counseling, according to one report. But Divine Mercy may be the first to provide care primarily for Catholics.

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The Anchor Friday, Feb. 26,1993 By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. Our Catholic newspaper several weeks ago said that Galileo can "come out of his room now."

After 359 'years it turns out that Earth really does revolve around the sun.

In his 1895 book, "Evolution and Dogma," Father John Zahm of Notre Dame University attempted to reconcile religion and science

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: I've been drinking a six-pack of beer per night. My weight is over 240 Ibs. I know that alcohol contributes to putting on fat, and I want to stop drinking completely. One of my problems is that I like the taste of beer. What do you think about the non-alcoholic beers? Would that

What does the church sa'y' about by suggesting that Catholics could accept the theory of evolution without damage to their faith.

In a decree in 1898, the Sacred congregation of the Index prohibited the publication and circulation of this book.

Most sdentists accept evolution, but I'm not sure of theologians.

What is the church's position on evolution, particularly as it applies to human beings? (North Carolina) A. If by evolution you mean the theory that human beings and most other life on this earth developed in some manner from other living beings, as distinct from having been literally formed immediately

by God "out of the clay of the ground" as it says in Genesis, the

church has no official position on this one way or the other today.

Our faith teaches that the world, including human beings, was created by God. The existence of each human soul results in some way from a particular act of God's creative powers.

How God actually accomplished all this, how God created our human bodies, for example, whether in an instant or in stages that extended over many years, is' not a question which our Catholic faith addresses. It does not affect Catholic teaching.

We do not look to the Bible for answers to questions like this. As I have explained before, the Scriptures, at least according to our

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Catholic understanding, do not. intend to answer such scientific or technical questions.

The great faith declarations of Genesis - that God created the world and all that exists by his own creative, loving power; that creation as it comes from the hand of God is good; that even after mankind's fall God calls the human family to renewed unity with the Creator and so on - none of these stand or fall on exactly how God created the world, including human beings.

As far as the church is con'cerned, that is a scientific question, not a religious one.

The church has taught, and still teaches, that the spiritual part of

each human being, what we call the soul, can only come into existence through a direct creative act of God. Pope Pius XII in his encyclical "Humani Generis" (1950) explains that, in conformity with the current state of human sciences and sacred theology, the church has no problem with research and discussions among those experienced in both science and theology with regard to the doctrine of evolution insofar as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent living matter.

The problem is not with the body, he said, "for Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God."

Non-alcoholic beer: a solution or a problem? make it easier or harder to stop?

(New York) Try them. See if the taste satisfies. Most major breweries, domestic and foreign, have their own brand of non-alcoholic beer.

Ask for non-alcoholic beer when you go out. Some bars and restaurants still do not carry non-alcoholic beer. They will if people ask.

Some of my friends in Alcoholics Anonymous tell me they cannot drink non-alcoholic beer. They fear the temptation to go back to alcohol would be too great. I respect their position.

Others make fun of the nonalcoholic bee'rs, saying that "fake beer is only for wimps." Personally, Ilike the non-alcoholic beers.

Six months ago I too decided to stop drinking, and the non-alcoholic beers have helped. I make a habit of asking for them when I go out. My friends have begun to stock them for me. The non-alcoholic beer helps me avoid the temptation to have a drink.

not as real as the alcoholic brew.

However, I like to keep my wits and don't consider being "blotto" an advantage.

Non-alcoholic beers taste quite "real" to me. If by "real" people mean the substance that makes your mind go "blotto," then perhaps the non-alcoholic beers are

Your questions will be answered differently by different people.

Decide for yourself. !fyou like the taste of non-alcoholic beer, go for it. Don't worry if others claim that

Some people like the taste of coffee but cannot take the caffeine. They enjoy decaf coffee instead. I see non-alcoholic beers in the same category, keeping the taste while eliminating the problem ingredient.

it doesn't taste like "real" beer.

That's their opinion.

You can also decide if it helps or hinders your plan to stop drinking. It has helped me.

Others say that non-alcoholic beer makes abstinence more difficult. Give it three months. If the non-alcoholic beer helps to satisfy your craving, then enjoy it.

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Gaining the promises of Lent路 By DOLORES CURRAN

"What's the feeling that comes to mind when you hear the word Lent?" I asked at an adult seminar.

I heard answers like dread, hunger, resignation, and hope.

The reply that startled us was the woman who said, "Relief." I asked her to elaborate and she said, "Well, during the year, I know I am not paying enough attention to my spiritual side. I know something is missing in my

life and I keep thinking I'll get around to God when I have more time but I don't. Lent pushes me to get going again with prayer."

Reflecting on her answer, I realized she was speaking of what one writer called our "Divine unrest," that hunger for a closer relationship with God which can only be met by taking time to examine our spiritual health. Lent gives us that push.

It also gives us promise, which is why I'm calling this series, "The Promises of路 Lent." Prayer, sacrifice, and renewal have long been hallmarks of Lent but we rarely look at the promises of Lent: love, peace, compassion, gratitude and serenity which lead us to a more joyful life in Christ.

In our over-scheduled, over-

stimulated, and over-commercialized lives today, we long for the peace and serenity promised by God. We know something's missing, that our lives are out of balance, that the spiritual side of us has become stunted. Lent offers us respite to regain our spiritual health.

How do we do this? By becoming aware of Jesus' promises, as in, "Come to me, all you who labor and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light."

How easily we ignore this promise of rest in our search for peace and meaning in our lives. Perhaps it's because we don't fully trust in

God and His promises. We'd like to believe Him but giving up' control by turning our will over to Him and His promises is too chancy.

Some of us have an Insurance God. We aren't sure He's there or that, if He is, He cares that much about us but we do the things we were taught as insurance, in case He really exists - Sunday Mass, occasional prayer, church support.

Some of us have a Bookend religion. We say a quick prayer in the morning and another quick prayer' at bedtime, and forget the role.of God in our lives during the intervening hours.

Many of us have an Emergency Room God. Prayer comes easily to us when our lives or livelihood are endangered in some way. When things go well again, we tend to

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In his wonderful little book, Who Needs God? Rabbi Harold Kushner explains that "we worship God not because He will make our path smooth, but because He gives us the grace and determination to keep walking even when the path is rocky. God's promise is not that He will keep us from stumbling but that His hand will be there to help us get up again, no matter how. often we stumble."

So, even if we stumble throughout the year, Lent is a good time to ask for God's hand to help us get up again and find His peace, compassion, and promises. That's why we can call Lent a relief from the other gods in our lives.

Prayer group starts Catholic publishing company By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

It takes a lot of faith and courage to start a new business when the economy is rocky as it has been recently.

But a handful of people on Long Island, N.Y. did just that, buoyed by their belief that they had a kind of mission.

They realized the best way to spread the good word is through the media. So they took a deep breath, a cold plunge and launched a Catholic publishing firm in Williston Park called Resurrection Press.

"We took that name because we .felt it would identify us as a source

of hope and new life," said Resurrection Press editor Emilie Cerar.

"We belong to a prayer group, and we were praying to find some type of business activity that would allow us to serve God," Ms. Cerar explained.

That was nearly four years ago, and now Ms. Cerar can take pride in their production accomplishments: 23 books and nine audio cassettes.

This spring Resurrection Press will publish the Spirit Life Series - smaller books to fit into "the hands of busy people," to help them solve everyday problems, Ms. Cerar said.

One reason for starting a new publishing house was to let the light generated by a lot of good people shine. "We knew some local people who had good stories to tell," Ms. Cerar said.

A case in point is Michael

Moran. For years he has carried on an extensive food and shelter ministry on Long Island. Ms. Cerar 'Said he has much to share with others wanting to start services similar to his Interfaith Nutrition Network.

The staff of Resurrection Press is small - two work full time, a few part time, some are volunteers and two are very important people at the top - John and Mary Leonardi.

The Leonardis put their finanAnd so Resurrection Press pubcial savings into starting this comlished "Give Them Shelter," . pany, while keeping their jobs.

Moran's story. All royalties from Both pitch in evenings to lend to Moran's network. the book go . , strength to the fledgling company.

Another man doing important work is Msgr. James Lisante, director of the Rockville Centre diocese family life office. His pro-life book, WASHINGTON (CNS) - Be"Of Love and Life," was published hind the impasse in resolving Isby Resurrection Press and has. rael's deportation of Palestinians sold 7,000 copies. 'is the deeper issue of international

Ms. Cerar said one surprise has been the response from other Catholic book publishers. "The cooperation we've been getting is so incredible," she said. "Everyone has encouraged us. They all say there is room for more Catholic publishers."

Ms. Cerar says that Resurrection Press was founded on a "vision and a dream - and a lot of prayer."

Justice jeopardized

"We see our books and tapes as a stimulus for dialogue, a way to keep people talking so that they find help and maybe inspiration from one another," Ms. Cerar said.

justice in the post-Cold War world, according to the president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. Christian Brother Paul Hennessy said the key issue in the Middle East dispute "is the viabil-

ity of the international structures of cooperation to resolve disputes in a fair and even-handed way, respecting the dignity of all parties involved, irrespective of their status or power." In his statement, Brother Hennessy criticized the selective enforcement of U.N. resolutions as an impediment to lasting peace in the Middle East.

Pro-choice fallacy

tion is the first and only duty of good government."

The position of pro-choicers is totally irrational and indefensible.

The sad thing is that many people, eve~ some Catholics, think prochOIce and women's rights sound good and they fall for them.

Father Pierre Lachance OP Fall River "

Dear Editor: Currently, more than one and a half million babies are slaughtered by abortion each year in the U.S. This figure is more than the total number of Americans killed in all wars we ever fought. A people that kills its children has no future.

Perhaps the most alarming fact is that many Catholics themselves have come to accept abortion as a fact oflife. At the same time, many Dear Editor: Americans protest the killing of I sincerely agree with President animals for medicalexperimenta- Clinton's statement that "we must . tion to save human lives. It's the free science and medicine from the world upside down! grasp of politics." That is why I am Many rightly protest cruelty to asking a question that I really animals, yet have no sympathy for want an answer to: human beings butchered through Why has a politician, our presiabortion, an extremely pain(ul pro- dent, taken it upon himself to cedure. In one method, the baby's change public policy regarding bones are crushed in the womb abortion without first setting up a and removed piece by piece. In panel of scientists and doctors to another, a saline solution is injected study this issue? into the womb, the baby's skin is This is the hottest medical issue literally burned off, and finally he of the day. 'Where are the studies or she is expelled. done by those on the cutting edge Abortion is the worst form of . of fetology? I am anxious to know child abuse, causing excruciating the findings of such a panel. pain and finally death.

If we are to decide whether or When Roe vs Wade legalized not there is a choice, must we not abortion, many women were led to come to some common understandbelieve an unborn baby was just a ing of what we are choosing - for glob of tissue, not really a human or against? Who better to guide us being. This made abortion accep- than those who have devoted their table for any reason of convenience. lives to research - geneticists, biolThen the invention of ultrasound ogists, fetologists and so on. enabled viewing of the fetus inside Let them tell us first what the the womb. That's when a physichoice is about. Then we will know cian who directed the biggest aborwhether or not we have the right to tion clinic in New York City was choose. aghast to see an abortion as it Debra L. Brandzen actually happened. He had never Berkley realized so clearly that an abortion destroyed a human being who suffered excruciating pain as it was being crushed, dismembered or burned. He never performed an Through the caring and generabortion again and became a leader osity of many, St. Joseph's parish in the pro-life movement. And we Food Cellar in Attleboro has been might note that the physician was able to distribute 12,039 bags of an atheist. food to those in need. Your loving Then came the defense of prohearts have touched the hearts of choice feminists: "It's my body. many. Thanks for sharing with us Can't I do what I want with it?" so we can share with others. What But science has proved that an a beautiful gift from the heart. unborn baby is completely distinct Happy Valentine's Day from the from his father and mother. He or Food Cellar. she has a built-in computer, a Drew Ward genetic code, controlling growth Marian Demers and development. When he or she Coordinators leaves the womb, the mother suffers no mutilation! Baby and mother are two persons with equal rights.

Another defense of the prochoice feminists: since they could Dear Editor: not deny that the baby in the This year marks the beginning womb is a human being, they of Food for the Poor's second decided to ignore this embarrass- decade of service in the Caribbean ing person as if it did not exist. and I would personally like t~ They now speak only of the "wom- thank The Anchor for the role an's right to control her fertility." your publication has played in They want to be free but there is no helping the world's poor. a.bsolute freedom for anyone. My Although gifts of food are obr~ghts are always limited by your viously vital to the needy, we believe fights. A woman has no more right your efforts to "spread the word" than a man to kill an innocent about poverty are just as imporbaby. tant in our shared Christian misIf a mother can claim the right sion to help the poor. to kill her unborn baby, why can. As someone who visits the slums not someone also claim the right of Haiti and the Caribbean reguto commit rape, or incest, or to larly, I can assure you that your steal? If you reject laws against involvement is making a differabortion because they restrict your ence! Along with helping to impersonal freedom, you should for prove living conditions in destitute the same reason object to laws areas of the world, your publicaforbidding steal.ing, incest, rape tion has given an important voice and murder. As Thomas Jefferson to the poor. You have also moved said, "The care of human life and the world toward greater. peace happiness and not their destruc- and stability by forging a stronger

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link between First World and Third World churches.

While you have been working to increase public awareness of poverty and its victims, we have continued our efforts to support the dedicated clergy, who minister directly to the poor. Since Food for the Poor's inception, more than 3,200 shipments of food, medical supplies and other goods have been sent to the Caribbean, and more than 900 of those shipments were made in 1992 alone!

With each new year, we work harder to develop new and more effective methods for service always with the role model of Ch;ist's own ministry,in mind. One current priority is the establishment of new self-help programs that will allow the poor to help themselves, effectively breaking their cycle of poverty.'

In our next decade of growth, I would also like to build on Food for the Poor's relationship with the Catholic press by encouraging an open dialogue between us on issues of poverty, our organization's efforts and the social concerns of interest to your readers.

Please feel free to contact us at any time with your questions, concerns and suggestions. .

Ferdinand Mahfood Food for the Poor Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Not So Far A way Dear Editor: On the news the other morning, I heard that the chances of our inhalip.g a molecule today that was around when Julius Caesar took his last breath are 99 in 100.

Perhaps our lives are more intertwined than any of us can imagine. An unborn life waiting to come into the world is bound to all of us in a closer way than we can comprehend.

This gift of love God has given us and allowed us to experience is more far-reaching than any of us will know for the moment. If love is ever-present and all around us, it would seem that heaven is not so far away.

Mrs. Jeanne M. Gagne Fall River

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cago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin is scheduled for Sept. 2 at the University of Chicago.

Kidney Foundation drive nets 10,000 vehicles

Feb. 29 1980, Rev. Msgr. JamesJ. Dolan, Pastor Emeritus, St. Mary, Taunton March 1 1906, Rev. James F. Masterson Founder, St. Patrick, Somerset ' 1948, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter L.D. Robert, P.R., Pastor, Notre Dame, Fall River

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The Kidney Foundation of Masis celebrating acquisition of Its 1O,000th vehicle. A campaign which began in 1991 asks owners of unwanted vehicles to donate them to the foundation.

Cars, trucks, motorcycles and boats are towed away free of charge and the owner may take an income tax deduCtion for the vehicle's fair market value. Parts, glass, metal and rubber are recycled with proceeds going to the foundation. To date, over $420,000 has been raised to support kidney research and patient services in Massachusetts.

Arrangements to donate a vehicle may be made by calling the foundation at 1-800-542-4001. Information is taken over the phone, an~ the vehicle is usually picked up In a week to 10 days. s~chusett.s

CHARLES W. COLSON, a Nixon aide who went to prison for Watergate crimes and later founded a prison minis, try, has been named winner of the 1993 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Announced at a Feb. 17 press conference in New York, the prize carries a cash award of650,000 British pounds, or nearly $1 million. Colson said the money would enable his Prison Fellowship to get other donations offered to the ministry if it raised matching funds and that it would be used, to expand inner-city work. Prince Philip will present the prize in a private Buckingham Palace ceremony May 12. A public ceremony, to be chaired by Chi-

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THE AUTHORITY: Henry M. Robert III, grandson of the author of the Robert's Rules of Ord~r, the bible of parliamentary procedure, right in picture, is official parliamentarian for the U.S. bishops. At left is Msgr. Robert N. Lynch, general secretary of the. U.S. Catholic Conference. They were at a session of last November's bishops' meeting. (CNS photo)

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A Catholic from Annapolis, Md., Robert, as meeting parliamentarian, has offered his opinion of procedural questions confronting the bishops since 1975. The bishops' record of following his opinion is "quite good, generally."

He also acts as parliamentarian during executive sessions when called upon and during the occasional spring general meeting.

Robert loves to tell the story of his very first procedural rumpus with the bishops.

"It happened the instant I got up there my very first year, 1975," he told Catholic News Service.

"There is a rule which says you cannot convert the main question into its negative. A bishop offered a very, very convoluted amendment. It was [originally ruled] in order," he said.

"Actually, it did convert the ma~n question into its negative.

You've got to read it over three, four times before you can really take it in.' I advised it was out of order - which was correct."

He notes that a parliamentarian "does not hand out rulings. He gives opinions."

LONDON (CNS) - Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster has reminded. Anglicans considering'leaving the Church of England over th"e issue of women's ordination that any decision about union with Catholics would be made in Rome.

The cardinal issued a brief statement following press reports that Anglican dissidents were close to agreement on setting up a national network offormer Anglican parishes in communion with Rome.

Catholic sources said such a move would be premature and said an acceptable model for such groups had n'ot yet been worked out.

In his statement, Cardinal Hume said that visibley unity would be a gift from God. "Nowisanimporta~mome~

in that process," he said. "It has come upon us in an unexpected way." , He said he had spoken with several Anglicans who wanted to explore the possibility of full communion with Rome and that he had made it clear that the way forward, from the Catholic point of view,.would be for the pope to decide.

"He will doubtless listen to the recommendations of our conference of bishops," added the cardinal. The bishops will discuss the issue at their April 19-22 meeting.

The most prominent Anglican with whom Cardinal Hume has met is Bishop Graham Leonard, former bishop of London. Last November, Bishop Leonard suggested forming a personal prelature for members of the Church of England coming into communion with Rome.

Bishop Leonard met with Cardinal Hume Feb. 15 and said the

cardinal's recent statement reflected "the understanding and sympathy which we have received from him in such good measure."

In a telephone interview, Bishop Leonard said Catholics and Anglicans were trying to develop an acceptable model for group reception into communion with Rome.

"In a sense, I think one could say that we agree on p.rinciples," he said.

"We are now seeing how [it] could actually be worked out, so that when it goes to the Roman Catholic bishops' conference they can have a fairly precise idea of what it would actually involve."

He added that Catholics had always stressed that there must be a corporate element and a personal element in any reconciliation of Anglicans with Rome.

However, it is not known how many Church of England clergy and their parishes upset by the November decision to ordain women would be prepared to take what has become known as "the Roman option."

On Feb. 17, more than 100 members of the Church of England's general synod who had voted against the November women's ordination decision met in a separate building during their most recent synod.

The group, which met across the street in Methodist Central Hall, indicated the need for a parallel church within the Church of England, with its own bishops and own structures.

"Our need is for real bishops who do not ordain women as priests or recognize them, bishops with proper authority and power," said the Rev. John Broadhurst, chairman of Forward in Faith, the umbrella group coordinating oppOSition to women's ordination.

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AUSTIN, Texas(CNS)-Conversion in the form of a spiritual awakening is the key to rehabiliRobert said he has encountered tating those in the prison system, "issues that were difficult," but according to Catholic jail and pri"I won't say I have ever been son ministers from seven Texas stumped." Everything he needs, he dioceses who met recently in Austin. added, is in the Rules.

Partiality aside, Robert said "To move permanently from a Robert's Rules of Order is the best dissolution lifestyle to sobriety and guide on parliamentary procedure stability, a person must undergo a because the rules are "based on, spiritual awakening," said E. sound principles" and "the public Generes "Doots" DuFour; a perseems to have faith in it." manent deacon and director ofjail Robert said the bishops have a and prison ministries for the Aus"very good" grasp of the princi- tin diocese. ples, "more than other groups rve "They have to want to do it," he worked with." added. "People can and do change, Asked how he felt when people from kids at risk to hardened incorrectly invoke Robert's Rules criminals." or misapply them at meetings, he The jail and prison ministers said wryly, "We'll leave it to guess." met in Austin to discuss possible Robert, 'a member of St. Mary recommendations to the state legisparish in Annapolis, said he spends lature on prison reform in light of relatively little time as a parlia- overcrowded prisons, a rising nummentarian. "I could be in demand ber of violent crimes and shrinking as much as I want to," he said, but budgets.

"I don't have a heavy practice of The ministers agreed that conit." version of the prison population He said he volunteers at his par- can come about through evangeliish and spends his other active zation in its purest form, a kind of hours giving workshops on the "basic Christianity" that emphaRules: sizes the love of neighbor at the The line of succession will not heart of rehabilitation.

"The most powerful form oftespass on to Henry Robert's greatgrandchildren; Henry Robert III timony comes from those who are is childless. But "as a family, we'll former inmates," said Msgr.

Michael Heras of the Corpus work on it" to keep the Robert name in Robert's Rules, said Christi diocese. "They give hope and answers to those who don't see Robert III.

a way out. There is no better way to avoid recidivism than to listen to the stories of those who have broken away from the cycle and made it."

The ministers also looked at the possibility of some form of collaboration between Catholic youth ministry and jail and prison ministry, to help children labeled "at risk" for future problems.

"If children are not protected from their abusers, the public will one day have to be protected from the children," said Marilu Ballow ofthe Galveston-H oust on diocese.

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for priests BROOMALL, Pa. (CNS) - A new pendant cross, signifying that the wearer is a priest, has been produced by Terra Sancta Guild.

The cross was designed by liturgical artist Ade Bethune, Terra Sancta's art director, who designed the candlesticks used on. the papal altar at the concluding session of the Second Vatican Council.

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New programs take off at St. Vincent's Home

BISHOP SEAN O'Malley, right, greets Father Charbel T. Semaan, pastor of Our Lady of Purgatory Maronite Church in New Bedford, at Mass celebrating the feast of St. Maron.

O.L. Purgatory celebrates feast of St. Maron Marking the vigil of the feast of St. Maron, members of Our Lady of Purgatory Maronite parish, New Bedford, gathered Feb. 8 for a Mass presided over by Bishop Sean O'Malley and celebrated by Father Charbel Semaan, pastor, with Father Paul Mouwaad of St. George parish, Pawtucket, RI, as concelebrant and Jean MattaI' of the New Bedford parish as subdeacon.

Bishop O'Malley spoke on parallels between the lives of St. Maron and St. Patrick, both fifth-

century saints whose lives were rooted in Eastern spirituality and who spread the faith in Syria and Ireland respectively. He said that Eastern spirituality maintains the importance of the spiritual over the material and promotes love of God above all things.

Posters by religious ed ucation "students were displayed in the church and winners Ruth Ann David and Daniel MattaI' received "$50 savings bonds. A reception in the parish center followed the liturgy.

Merged parishes can be stronger communities, speakers say WASHINGTON (CNS) There is no painless way to close or consolidate parishes, but there are good ways to do it with less pain, said experts in a recent nationwide teleconference.

In fact, they argued, if it is done right the new parish that emerges should be a stronger, more vital community.

Some of the key elements for effective change that emerged from the teleconference were: - Strong lay involvement, including consultation at every stage and training of local lay leaders who are to playa key role in the process.

- Clear diocesan policies and clear, understandable criteria for measuring the vitality and viability of parishes. .

- Effective communication of facts, policies, vision and decisions.

- A collaborative style of pastoralleadership.

"Our first goal is to improve the parishes," said J osephite Father Robert M. Kearns, pastor of St. Peter ClaveI' Parish in Baltimore, where all the Catholic parishes in the city have been going through a self-study to assess their future.

Just by raising the question "What is our mission, how has it changed?" people in Baltimore parishes have begun to think more critically about what they want their parish to be. he said.

Father Robert G. Duch, parish

services director of the Pittsburgh diocese described the comprehensive parish re'organization and parish revitalization project that is being carried out throughout his diocese.

He emphasized that "revitalization" was the essential element in the project: Significant population shifts, finances and changing personnel needs helped drive the decision to undertake diocesewide reorganization, but the goals are improved parish life, greater lay involvement and a strong sense of mission.

Father Duch said among the first steps the Pittsburgh diocese took in preparing for reorganization were: - A survey of 45,000 Catholics from every part of the diocese to learn what they perceived as priorities and central elements of parish life.

- Selection and training of two lay leaders in every parish to coordinate the self-studies. Training, he said, included such things as how to run meetings, how to interpret data, ,how to solve problems, how to write a consensus statement.

Father Kearns said that there is a tendency in the church, when looking for'lay leaders, to "think of who is articulate, who. is theologically aware."

"But what flook for," he said, "are the people who have a following ... the natural leaders."

A Caregivers Program begun in December by St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, is off to a promising start. 15 candidates have already volunteered for the program, which seeks to provide normalized leisure time for children who have no regular visitors or whose service plans call for supportive living or adoption.

Following an interview and tour of St. Vincent's, caregivers must be screened by the Massachusetts Department of Social Services before joining the program.

For "more information, contact Jeff Chace at 679-8511 ext. 318.

Also growing is the home's DePaul Program for children in need of emergency shelter and diagnostic services. Already more than a dozen children are quartered in two cottages and expansion to a third cottage is planned, just two months after the program was announced.

About 50 percent of the residents are referred by judges who consider them at risk. The average length of stay, during which the child receives diagnostic services and a plan for future care is developed, has been 30 to 45 days.

Community Counseling of Bristol County expanded its clinical role at St. Vincent's in January.

Initially providing group counseling services for sexually abused children and for children with risk-taking behaviors, CCBC now provides individual and family counseling in each of St. Vincent's three developmental units.

CCBC clinicians attend weekly unit meetings and monthly meetings with consulting psychiatrist Dr. Suzanne Zimmet. They also maintain daily contact with clinical coordinators and unit directors.

CCBC is an outpatient mental health clinic and licensed substance abuse facility which has served children and adults in Greater Taunton for 20 years.

Activities The Cronin Unit for boys ages 13 to 18 has begun publishing a

school newspaper, the Cronin Quarterly. The December two-page premiere issue featured unit news, students' illustrations, features about sharks and little knoWn Christmas facts.

The newspaper is produced by the staff of six on desktop publishing software. Cronin teacher Kathryn Poulin is advisor.

Two residents of St. Vincent's group home on New Boston Rd., Fall River, come to the St. Vincent's Highland Ave. Campus each day - not just for classes but for work. After school the two join the maintenance staff, working about 15 hours a week.

Students applying for jobs at St. Vincent's "fill out an application, report for an interview, and go through the same job application process every St. Vincent's em-

Pax Christi group to meet on Cape A Cape Cod area Pax Christi group will meet 7:30 p.m. Mondays March I to 29 in the religious education center of Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville, for sessions developed from the Pax Christi USA brochure "Gathered in Peace: Forming Pax Christi Communities." Pax Christi is an international Catholic peace movement.

Meeting topics are as follows.

March I: The Peace of Christ.

March 8: Priorities and History of Pax Christi. March 15: NonvioIence. March 22: Contemporary Peacemakers. March 29: Where Have We Been; Where Are We Going?

All are welcome. For information, contact Mary Lees, 771-1106; Bettie Lynch, 771-6605; or Francoise and EdoUllrd Rocher, 7716737.

Two Wings "Do you wish your prayer to fly toward God? Give it two wings: fasting and almsgiving."-St. Ausustine

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ployee goes through," said unit director Mark Browne. "Their jobs are a valuable way to reinforce skills for daily living."

Boys and girls ages 6 through 10 in the McAuley Unit earned enough money in two craft shows to purchase a karaoke. It is being used as the children practice for a spring talent show.

"It's a great way to get the kids to open up and have fun at the same time," said special education facilitator Marty Little.

Bishop's Visit Bishop Sean O'Malley met staff and children on a Dec. 17 tour of St. Vincent's. In the Sweeney Unit, for boys ages 10 to 13, residents prepared for the visit by making shoe box Nativities, macaroni wreaths and cards. One class prepared a reading of the Christmas story, and all had questions and observations for the visiting bishop.

One boy wanted to know why the bishop had to wear "that ropf:," while another thought he was "taller than the pope."

"There's just something special about him," one boy concluded after the bishop's departure.

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Burnout: causes, antidotes ST. CLOUD, Minn. (CNS) People who work in ministry are prone to burnout because they tend to be idealists, says a Minne.sota priest who works in spiritual direction.

Jesuit Father路 Richard Rice, a member of the Loyola spiritual direction team in St. Paul, says candidates for burnout approach their ministries with a lack of realism.

"The young associate pastor, for instance, might be God's gift to the parish during year one, but by about the third year he may begin to feel that people are taking him for granted: He might even start saying things like: 'These people aren't grateful,'" said the priest.

At the same time, the young priest unrealistically "harbors the illusion that things are going to get better every way, every day," said Father Rice.

Some disillusionment is natural, he said. "Every permanent commitment has to go through disillusionment. That is why so many marriages burn out - people want to live with their illusions."

Another quality of the potential victim of burnout is the need to be in control. "They are often in control regarding their eating, exercise, personal maintenance. But they may want to control others around them, too," said Father Rice.

A third quality is a "ministry all over the map" that knows no boundaries, the priest said.

"People that burn out have lost a sense of themselves as limited human beings. They take no day off, they rush their meals, they rush everything. Their motors are always running," he said.

Bob Hanks, therapist at the St. Cloud Children's Homes, thinks there's too much talk about burnout.

"It's really easy for those of us in the helping professions to say our job creates burnout stress. A person putting labels on cans in a factory experiences just as much stress," in his view.

"I just don't buy it. It's too tempting to blame burnout as_ a kind of excuse to have anxiety about your job or not to do it all, instead of doing something about it or moving on to another job," he said.

Jan Maciej, a pastoral associate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Opole and Immaculate Conception in St. Anna, however, contends burnout can be a real problem. She says she has found one antidote is spreading the ministerial load.

"Burnout, to me, is not brought about so much by working too hard or long but by not taking enough time for myself," she said.

"I try to minister more with people than to them, to teach them now to minister to each other and allow them to become involved....

Ideally ministry is a two-way street," she said.

Ms. Maciej was heartened, for example, by the spontaneous support she received from parishioners after the death of her brother.

"They truly ministered to me," she said.

Ms. Maciej said she achieves balance in her life - another burnout antidote - by spending time with her family and non-pariSh work.

"At home I can just be me. I

don't have to perform or be the facilitator. Vacuuming or whatever may seem like mindless work, but it frees the mind, gives you more perspective," she said.

In addition, such tasks have a tangible end, she said, "whereas in ministry you don't always see meaningful or immediate results."

Father Kenneth Popp, pastor of St. John's Church in Meire Grove and St. Andrew's Church in Greenwald, also seeks balance in his life to avoid burnout.

One way to achieve balance, he said, "is through prayer, and in particular the Eucharist, which is the focal point of prayer."

Father Popp also believes in physical exercise.

"Exercise is important not just for priests but for anybody in a stressful job, to get the tension out," he said. The priest said many of his best ideas occur to him while exercising. "The blood flows better to the brain and the mind opens up more."

In addition, "I find myself relating to people better. I'm not so uptight," he said.

Benedictine Sister LaVonne Maas, principal of St. Mary of Mount Carmel School in Long Prairie, is a believer in sabbaticals to combat burnout.

"Even taking a weekend off once in a while can help," she said.

"But I firmly believe that it is not hard work that burns you out, but rather stress from within often brought on ourselves when our ideals don't pan out," she said.

Father Kevin McDonough, vicar general for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, agrees burnout is not the result of overwork.

Instead it is caused "by a loss of the fundamental beliefs that keep us in contact with God in an open and deep way, including prayer, sleep, exercise, diet and the friendship of real friends," he said.

"True, overwork can take us out of touch with God. But so can underwork," he said.

According to Father McDonough, the factors that spark 'burnout can lead to abusive behavior as well. "In my experience many priests who have hurt others are acting out of a sense of entitlement: 'The world has been unfair to me so I can be unfair to the world.'"

A priest, he said, needs "real friends, family members, a spiritual director - people who will tell you the truth. For ultimately, the source of burnout is isolation."

Seven lost lives Continued from Page One clinic but was .really a center run by a pro-life group to dissuade women from having abortions.

The woman, Warna Lewis ofSt.路 Louis, said employees of the AAA Pregnancy Problem Center had conspired to deprive her of her civil.rights by seeking to persuade her not to have an abortion. Ms. Lewis eventually obtained an abortion elsewhere.

To Live Twice "A good man doubles the length of his existence. To have lived so as to look back with pleasure on life is to have lived twice." Martial

ASH WEDNESDAY: Massgoers at St. Mary's Cathedral receive ashes from Bishop O'Malley. (Hickey photo)

Little Sisters of Jesus work as unskilled laborers WASHINGTON (CNS) - In a society where striving for upward mobility is the norm, the Little Sisters of Jesus seek to live out their faith as unskilled laborers.

The 28 U.S. members of the international contemplative order are factory workers, bakery clerks, nursing home aides, hotel maids and circus workers. Ten of them live and work in Eskimo villages in Alaska.

"We never take teaching jobs or supervisory positions. That would change our relationship with our co-workers," explained Sister Cathy Wright, the regional director of the Little Sisters of Jesus who works out of Baltimore.

If a sister who works in a factory is offered a promotion, -"we say: 'No, thank you,''' said Sister Jo Byrne. She is one of three Little Sisters of Jesus who work for the Kelly Miller Circus, a small threering circus that moves to a new site in the Midwest every day.

Working and living among unskilled laborers is no sacrifice for them, the nuns are quick to note.

"We try to learn from the people, and just be a presence among them," said Sister Wright.

The religious order purposely seeks out communities so remote

or so small that no other order is likely to bother with them, said Sister Byrne. ' Their order was founded in 1939 by a Frenchwoman, Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, who urged her fellow sisters to "go deeply among people by sharing their life, by love and friendship .... And before being religious, be human and Christian."

Around the world, the sisters try to follow that counsel - living among Aborigines in Australia; with Indians in the Brazilian Amazon; among prisoners inside a jail in Switzerland; among Gypsies in Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy; with pygmies in Cameroon and Zaire; among boat people in China; and with sugar-cane workers in Argentina.

In an interview with Catholic News Service, the three circus workers said rather than becoming involved in religious education or pastoral work among their circus colleagues, they just do their jobs and establish friendships.

"Often we find others evangelizing us," said Sister Byrne.

Whether doing piecework in a factory or making beds in a nursing home, the Little Sisters of Jesus "try to be present when things of life happen. People die,

get killed, are born. Our work allows us to be present for all those life events. We try to become part of the community, and together [with co-workers] find God," said Sister Wright.

A company employing 65 people, Kelly Miller is the kind of small-time circus described as a "mud show" because it often sets up camp in small dirt lots on the periphery of cities.

The small circus includes acrobats clowns and trapeze artists, elephants, horses and chimoanzees.

Sisters Byrne and Prisciila Buhlmann do the grocery shopping for circus employees each morning. In the afternoons, Sister Buhlmann sorts mail and sells circus tickets.

Sister Byrne collects the tickets before the show.

Sister Laura Lee Subert does dishes, wipes tables and prepares dessert each day.

The nuns' wages are their order's means of support.

The three live in a trailer as do their co-workers. "When you share the same economic reality it dictates the rest - where you live, what kind of rent you pay and how cramped quarters are," said Sister Wright.

FOCA will further divide nation Continued from Page One judge abortion-'related law against a stricter standard than has been followed by the Supreme Court since 1988, it would aiIow some limits, such as parental notification requirements that were upheld by the court prior to 1989, he contended.

That year the court's Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services ruling changed the standard by which abortion laws are judged to consider whether they constitute an undue burden on a woman's right to abortion. Under that standard, the court has allowed some state-imposed abortion controls it previously rejected.

Casey came under fire from the Democratic Party last summer when he advocated that the party moderate its support for legalized

abortion to better reflect public sentiment.

In response to questioning by members of the subcommittee, Casey acknowledged that he personally opposes all abortions but that he has vetoed legislation that would prohibit abortion because it was unconstitutional.

He also questioned the push to pass FOCA, in light of the Supreme Court's June ruling upholding Roe. "My concern is that the impetus for passage of this law may be coming from the abortion industry itself, because after all, abortion is a business, a lucrative business, a $400 million industry," Casey said.

"Today in America, women still die and are injured by legally performed abortions. Nevertheless, we are being asked by H.R. 25 to

make abortion the least regulated industry in the nation."

Legalizing abortion in 1973 did not solve the. societal problems , that lead women to seek to end pregnancies, Casey s~id.

"America doesn't need any more abortions," he said. "We have already had 26 million and it hasn't done a thing for our people."

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Jasna Gora shrine to update facilities WARSAW, Poland (CNS)Church authorities in Czestochowa are planning a major modernization project to cope with the growing influx of visitors to the Jasna Gora national shrine.

The program, supervised by Poland's Transport Ministry, expects to upgrade domestic and international communication links with Czestochowa as well as accommodation and other facilities for an estimated 5-6 million pilgrims annually.

The hilltop monastery, which has been a place of pilgrimage for six centuries, currently attracts around 4 million visitors yearly for events that culminate in the Aug. 15 Assumption Day national Polish pilgrimage.

Details of the modernization project are expected to be approved by the pope in July and presented to city inhabitants the following month. Team, an Italian company in charge of the project, is also seeking funding sources and plans to promote the shrine internationally.

Legend says the shrine's Black Madonna icon was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a board from the Holy Family house at Nazareth and was entrusted by Poland's ruler, Ladislas of Opole, to Pauline monks from Hungary in the mid-14th century.

Most of Jasna Gora ("Bright Mountain"), including its Lady , Chapel, was rebuilt, in the 17th century and survived repeated attacks by Swedish invaders and Slavic marauders.

Undercommunist rule, the shrine became the center of 'a large-scale religious and cultural revival, Iar.gely owing to its dual identification as a religious and defensive bastion.

In recent years, Jasna Gora has also attracted increasing numbers from abroad, including Christians from neighboring countries of the former communist bloc. Last year, '2.5 million pilgrims received Communion at the shrine, where Mass was celebrated 56,000 times.

In 1992, nearly 170 miracles were reported at the shrine. They are currently under investigation.

Until recently, Czestochowa had only two functioning hostels, with limited overnight accommodation availabJe in Jasna Gora. In 1991,a new pilgrim center was inaugu-' rated on church land. Shrine administrators are also planning new restaurants and hostels.

The largest recorded gathering, , at Jasna Gora took place in August 1991, when an estimated 1.4 million young people from all over Europe attended the sixth World Youth Day meeting.

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Parents vital to children's spirituality, says speaker

BENEDICTINE SISTERS examine communion wafers at their convent in Clyde, Mo. (CNS photo)

Nuns' altar bread bakery threatened by big business

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Even contemplative nuns are not immune from competition.

Take the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration i,n Clyde, Mo. For over 80 years the sale of communion wafers has been their only means of support. But now they are losing customers to commercial,markets that advertise "thicker breads."

"What bothers me most about this is that all breads are equal at the table of the Lord," Benedictine Sister Cathleen Marie Timberlake of Clyde told Catholic News Service. The head of her congregation's altar bread department, she doesn't intend to get out of the kitchen.

She is joining forces with other sisters who feel that losing the altar bread market could threaten their livelihood. LastJ une, 41 contemplative sisters attended an Altar Bread Seminar in Clyde to share stories and write letters to their bishops describing their predicament.

Some sisters are also forming a group called the Association of Religious Producers of Altar Breads.

Each day the Clyde Benedictine sisters bake ,altar breads at their hillside convent from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The 17 sisters and nine lay people involved in the process use the same ingredients they have used since 1910 but now employ mass production techniques, baking nearly 2 million thin communion VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The wafers a week. They use a process plight of Africa's 6 million refu- called "tube-veying" which moves gees and 16 million internally dis100 pounds of flour through a tube placed peoples represents an open at 45 miles per hour, then stores it wound on the continent, a top Vat- in 'a scale hopper, where it is ican official said. Archbishop Gio- dumped into a turbo-charged mixer vanni Cheli, president of the Pon- filled with 18 gallons of water. tifical Council for Migrants and Mixing time for the batter is Travelers, said the tragic situation about 33 seconds per mix. An in Somalia is only the visible tip of . automated baking oven has rea continent-wide drama. "In 1982, placed some of the outdated equipPope John Paul II called the refu- ment and a quality control system gee problem a shameful wound of is in use. our time.' Today, 10 years later, The nuns, who supply hosts to this wound continues to bleed parishes throughout the United without any prospect of solution, States, Mexico and Puerto Rico, especially on the African conti- are starting to think in terms of marketing and advertising. Fotlownent," Archbishop Cheli said.

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ing a tried and true advertising strategy, they are relying on en'dorsements, in this case, from bishops.

Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston wrote a letter of support saying, "I well understand your concern. You must feel quite powerless in the face or'the aggressive marketing of commercial companies with their high-tech equipment."

The cardinal said he had asked his vicar to urge pastors in the Boston archdiocese to purchase altar breads from contemplative communities. He also told the sisters that their apostolate of prayer continually nourishes the church.

Sister Timberlake is convinced that word of mouth is also a strong weapon in the nuns' battle against corporations.

"We just need people to know about this," she said.

Marriage ministry directors named MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) - A Houston couple and a priest of the Galveston~Houston diocese have been named the international coordinating team of the Retrouvaille ministry to hurting marriages.

Pat and Roger Bate of Houston and Father Joe Gietl, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Crosby, Texas, were named to the posts at the organization's international conference in Minneapolis.

Retrouvaille, French for rediscovery, began in Quebec in 1977 as a French-language ministry for couples experiencing serious problems in their marriages. It was brought to the United States in 1982 and also is active in Mexico, Trinidad, Philippines and Australia.

The Bates, members of St. Dominic Parish in Houston, have been involved with Retrouvaille since 1984, first as a weekend presenting team and then as Houston coordinators for the last six years.

Information about Retrouvaille can be obtained from the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry, 999-6420, or from the Bates at (713) 455-1656.

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNS)Children learn their most important spiritual lessons at home, according to family psychologist and syndicated columnist John Rosemond.

"I think it's extremely important that a family have a grounding in spiritual values," Rosemond told members of Ii Des Moines parish. "It's a natural progression in the life 'of a human being."

Rosemond, an Episcopalian whose column on parenting appears in about 100 newspapers across the country, believes in the importance of spiritual rituals to a child and that parents have a responsibility to lead their children toward spiritual enlightenment.

Even though children may not completely understand various activities, he said, "parents must hope that eventually [the children) will grow to understand and appreciate their faith and its traditions."

During his talk, Rosemond offered a six-point plan for raising happy, healthy children: put the marriage first: expect children to obey; establish responsibility by assigning chores; don't be afraid to say no; eli minate unnecessary toys; and minimize television viewing.

By doing so, he said, parents will help their children recognize , and accept their place in the family.

According to Rosemond, the concept of the child-centered family, first advocated by psycholo-' gists like himself in the 1960s, has had a devastating effect on American families.

"Every generatioQ before us understood intuitively that the child should pay more attention to the parents than the parents pay to the child," he explained. "They understood that parents cannot set a good example unless their children are paying attention to them."

Rosemond stressed that child ren will ignore adults who act as if children are their primary obligation. "That's what we've been doing -

in this country for the last 30 years.

We are now reaping the consequences of our actions, and it is a bitter harvest," he said.

Rosemond said the most serious issue facing American ,parents today is that their priorities are out of order.

"As a nation, we've lost a sense of priorities within the family. Our sense of family values is slipping away from us, and the American family is becoming increasingly fragmented by a variety offactors."

He said parents must be confident in their roles if they want to be effective. "M ost parents belit:ve that discipline is a matter of proper technique, but it is primarily a matter of self-confidence."

"Parents must effectively communicate to their children,"l know where I stand, and I know where I want you to stand,'" he added.

Parents who fail to establish the boundaries ofdiscipline within the family are more likely to experience anger and frustration with their c,hildren, Rosemond said.

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Vatican asks Judgement' of crimes against humanity VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In asking tl1at people be held responsible for war crimes in the current Balkans fighting. the Vatican speaks from moral principle and practical experience.

Twice in February. Vatican diplomats at major international meetings called for the world community to judge people re~ sponsible for "crimes against humanity" in the republics of the former Yugoslavia.

The Vatican's practical experience stems from the hard lessons of World War II when church personnel and religious rights were frequent targets of Nazi atrocities.

After the war, the Vatican was a principal source of documentation for these atrocities. Information gathered by church officials as the war progressed turned into crucial evidence at the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials of German and Nazi officials accused of war crimes.

The church's moral principle is simple: war does not excuse crimes nor the personal responsibility for them.

"The church and human reason both assert the permanent validity of the moral law during armed conflict." says the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.

"Commands and actions deliberately contrary to the law of nations and its universal principles are crimes," it adds, citing the documents of the Second Vatican Council.

The catechism opposes "blind obedience" as an excuse for carrying out orders and specifically condemns genocide, indiscriminate destruction of civilian inhabited areas. and inhumane treatment of civilians, wounded enemies and prisoners.

The foundation for supporting modern war crimes trials was laid

by Pope Pius XII as World War II was winding down.

"Supposed military necessity can at best offer a pretext, but never a justification" for criminal action. ' he said on Christmas Eve of 1944.

The following June, a month after Germany surrendered, he said the guilty must atone for their crimes.

The Vatican took no official position on the Nuremberg trials nor on individual verdicts, but

there was "a readiness to collaborate with investigators," said Jesuit Father Robert Graham; a historian who helped prepare Vatican World War II documents for publication.

The Vatican provided "unpublished material from its archives" outlining Nazi horrors against priests and religious and its efforts to break the back of church freedom, said Father Graham.

The documents were given to Jesuit Father Edmund Walsh, a member of the U.S. prosecution team at the Nuremberg trials. At the time, he was also vice president of Georgetown University in Washington.

The pivotal document was an II-page Vatican letter sent in 1943 to the German foreign ministry condemning Nazi atrocities in German-occupied Poland.

CHILDREN CARRY a crucifix and a saint's image during a procession earlier this month in Legaspi City, Philippines, asking God to stop eruptions of nearby Mount Mayon.

(CNS/Reuters photo)

Clinton asked to pursu.e Jesuit murders

SAN SALVADOR (CNS) group, 75.8 percent said more The Lawyers Committee for Hu- should be done to investigate and man Rights has called on the Clin- prosecute the other culpable parton administration to help uncover ties.

"Quite a few priests were exethe masterminds behind the 1989 Yet the attitude of the U.S. cuted or put to death in other murders of six Jesuit priests and Embassy in San Salvador to such ways," it said. The letter added two women in San Salvador. pressure in the case can be sumthat more than 1,000 priests were "Though a trial took ,place. the marized in one remark, says the sent to one concentration camp, Salvadoran government has never report: "'You asked for a colonel and another concentration camp seriously investigated the key ques- and you got a colonel. What more was opened solely to receive 400 tions of who gave the ultimate do you want?''' The rem'ark was women religious. orders to kill the Jesuits and who reportedly made by an embassy orchestrated the coverup." Michael official to a member of the LawCatholic lay organizations were H. Posner, director of the New yers Committee staff. "completely destroyed." religious York-based rights organization. instruction abolished and church A State Department spokeswrote to the new administration. property confiscated. it said. woman said Feb. 19 that the de"We believe that these issues now partment had no comment on the The letter outlined other Nazi, deserve renewed attention by the Lawyers Committee report. actions. ranging from trying to Clinton administration." establish a Polish church under Areas in which the Bush admin"A Chronicle of Death ForeGerman control to restricting hours istration allegedly withheld infortold: The Jesuit Murders in EI for Masses and setting age limits mation include its failure to explain Salvador" charges that the Bush for Poles wishing to marry in the role of Felix Rodriguez. a administration withheld informaformer CIA agent who copiloted a church. tion that could have led to the private plane in which former SalThe Vatican. angered at having prosecution of those who planned vadoran Air Force chief, Gen. previous letters ignored. wrote its the murders. In 1991, army offic1943 letter in Italian instt:ad of ers Col. Guillermo Benavides and Juan Rafael Bustillo, returned to El Salvador days before the murGerman so that the foreign minisLt. Yusshy Mendoza, were' conder. try would be forced to read it in the victed of ordering and carrying The report says Rep. Joe Moakprocess of translating it, said Father out the murders. Six soldiers who ley, D-Mass., who led a congresGraham. confessed to machine-gunning the sional task force that monitored victims were acquitted on the basis Numerous clergy also testified the case. believes Bustillo masterthat they were obeying orders. at the Nuremberg trials, as did minded the case.

The report refers to a poll conmany priests and religious at war The U.S. Embassyalsoallegedly ducted in December 1991 by the crimes trials against the Japanese Jesuit-run Central American Uni- withheld tapes of interviews conin the Philippines. versity in which 62.4 percent of ducted with Benavides by U.S. After the Nuremberg trials, U.S. Salvadorans questioned who were . diplomats before Benavides' conSupreme Court Justice Robert H. aware that the Jesuit trial had viction and statements made to the Jackson. chief U.S. prosecutor at FBI by U.S. Army officers staoccurred said they believed that the trials. thanked the Vatican for tioned in EI Salvador, the report others who were not prosecuted its cooperation. participated in the crime. Of that said.

In addition. it said. the U.S. government failed to provide Salvadoran investigators in the case with the findings of an American criminal investigator brought in by the U.S. Embassy who concluded that there was a wider conspiracy to kill the Jesuits.

Furthermore. an embassy official sought to protect a Salvadoran military officer implicated in the coverup of the case. the report charges.

"The Jesuit murders presented the U.S. 'government with an unparalleled opportunity to use its considerable influence to effect the kinds of changes within the Salvadoran military that it sought for more than a decade." the report says. Yet U.S. officials failed to grasp that opportunity, preferring "political expediency" rather than pushing for the full facts of the case. the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights concludes.

"A Chronicle of Death Foretold" said that more priests (18) have been killed in EI Salvador than anywhere else in the world. It chronicles the 1980s bombings of the Jesuit university and the military's frequent deployments of troops onto the campus, rightwing campaigns that slandered Jesuits as the intellectual impetus behind the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front, and repeated death threats against the priests.

N etherlarids protests Vatican criticism of euthanasia legislation

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) dent of the Pontifical Council for Vatican criticism of Dutch eutha- the Family, and a page o'ne editorial in the Feb. 21 L'Osservatore nasia legislation has sparked a Romano: diplomatic protest by the Netherlands.

The Vatican criticisms were The government reacted after a based on the' legislation, to bec'ome Vatican official compared eutha- lawin 1994, which provides guidenasia to the extermination policies lines for doctor,assisted suicides, of World War II Nazi leader Adolf and news reports that the Dutch, Hitler and an editorial in the Vati- parliament might consider further can newspaper, L'Osservatore Ro- legislation to apply euthanasia to mano, said it subordinates human mentally ill and malformed babies. rights to "hedonistic interests."

"The sljpporters of euthanasia In response, the Dutch governand of selective abortion for malment called in Archbishop Henri formed fetuses are offended if Hitler Lemaitre, Vatican ambassador, to is evoked," said Bishop Sgreccia. express its displeasure.

The comparison is valid because "The comparison that was made these situations deal with "elimiwas improper and it is time to nating human life held to be useexpress our feelings" to'the Vatiless for that type of society," he can, said Dutch Prime Minister . said.

Ruud Lubbers, a Catholic.

"For Hitler, Jews and the menHe was reacting to a Feb. III tally ill were useless," he added.

Vatican Radio interview with Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice presiToday, society wants to elimi-

nate "every life that is an economic burden," said Bishop Sgreccia.

- The patient must request death.

The Dutch legislation is the result of a "neo-capitalistic culture, which values the quality of life on the basis of efficiency," said the editorial.

- Another doctor should be consulted prior to the assisted suicide.

- All cases of euthanasia must be reported to the coroner with a

"Euthanasia and abortion, whether voluntary or imposed, are the barbaric, but horrendously logical, effects of that premise," it said., The legislation was 'opposed by the Dutch bishops, who sent letters to every member of parliament urging defeat. Under its provisions, euthanasia technically remains a crime but doctors who follow strict criteria will not be prosecuted.

The main conditions are: - The patient must be terminally ill and suffering unbearable pain.

detailed account of circumstances.

The bill would legalize a de facto situation. For almost 20 years doctors have avoided, prosecution by following informal guidelines.

A 1991 government study said that 2,700 assisted suicides take place each year in the Netherlands.

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recalls the Holocaust YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (CNS) - Because Polish-born Irene Opdyke does not want people to forget the atrocities of World War II, she travels around the United States talking about the Holocaust.

"This is my mission," she said.

"For nine months each year, I travel to tell people that we must unite in love because hate breeds hate and accomplishes nothing."

Mrs. Opdyke, 70, not only tel)s groups what she saw during the war, she also shares how she hid at least a dozen Jews in a Nazi's house.

Recently in Youngstown and Philadelphia, she said her story must be told to counter claims by some that the Holocaust never existed.

In an interview with the Catholic Exponent, newspaper of the Youngstown diocese, Mrs. Opdyke said she began hiding Jews from their persecutors when she was 17.

During the war, such acts often led to death. As she recounts, "There were street signs on every corner that read, 'This town is Jew-free; whoever helps a Jew gets a sentence of death.'"

The posted signs were not idle threats; she said she recalls watching a Polish family with two small

IRENE OPDYKE children being hanged in the marketplace because they had hidden a Jewish family.

"Many, many people tried to help the Jews during those days," she said, "and many perished for it."

Mrs. Opdyke said that when she was growing up she was taught "we all were in God's family and we all had to help one another."

She took the advice literally when as a young nursing student, she was captured by the invading Nazis and forced to work in a munitions factory and then as a housekeeper in the town of Ternopol in what is now Ukraine.

She watched soldiers mistreat Jews, in particular, "tearing little

children from their mothers' arms and throwing them headfirst on the ground."

That experience, as well as being raped by' Russian soldiers, made her question God, she said, but it also renewed her faith.

"I felt it was predestined that I would survive to help others escape," she said. "My faith was always very strong. It helped me survive and help others survive."

The young woman hid a group of Jews in the cellar of the Nazi officer's villa where she worked.

When one of the woman became pregnant, Mrs. Opdyke insisted that the woman keep her baby, even though abortion seemed the only way to keep their identity secret.

'As the war was ending, she took the 12 refugees into the forest to hide until they were provided shelter. Three months later, with the invasion of the Red Army in March 1944, they were free.

After the war, she learned that her father was dead and that the ' rest later emigrated to America, married and had a daughter.

Now years later, her story is not always well received. She said some people have called her a "dirty Jew lover."

But she is not afraid. "God is with me. He w,as then and he is now. I will not hide and say that all of this did no,t happen."

So for the past five years, she has spoken primarily to groups of young people, to impress upon them that the Holocaust was a real event.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 26, 1993

Iteering pOintl MEN'S RETREAT Knights of Columbus Council 8I3 of Falmouth will hold annual Men's Retreat March 5-7, Calvary Retreat Center, Shrewsbury. All men are invited. Information: MelGonsalves, 548-5774; Phil Fuller, 548-5555.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Father Kevin MacDonald, CSSR, of Dominica, Virgin Islands, writes in response to a parish donation of clothing: "We are most grateful for all that you have done. It's really something to see all of our people walking around with clothes from Puritan and Talbots... they look great!"

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Exposition of Blessed Sacrament 7:30 a.m. to noon Wednesdays during Lent, parish center. Stations of the Cross 7 p.m. Fridays during Lent, main church.

ST. BERNARD, ASSONET Lenten mission with Deacon Bob Normandin 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sundays Feb. 28 to March 28 will include Benediction, readings, homily and prayer experience. Feb. 28 theme is "Were You There...at the Table?"

ST. ANNE, FR St. Anne novena service 3 p.m.

Sunday.

O,L. CAPE, BREWSTER Lenten mission March 8 to I I with Fathers Roger Plante, MS, and Joseph Bachand, MS. Daily sessions will be II a.m. Mass including presentation by retreat directors, halfhour of prayer beginning 7 p.m., and a retreat hour at 7:30 p.m.

Ladies Guild offers college scholarships to students who have completed second year of four-year program or first year of two-year program; application deadline is April 19. Information: Mary Bond, 3852100, or Happy Whitman at rectory, 385-3252.

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Stations of the' Cross noon Fridays during Lent, led by students from St. Mary-Sacred Heart School.

ST. MARY, NB Stations of the Cross 1:30 p.m.

March 5, 17 and 24 will be led by St. Mary's School students.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Lenten ecumenical service 7:30 p. m. March 4 with Rev. James Tilby as guest preacher. Potluck supper 6:30 p.m.

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Writing to prisoners is nun's apostolate DUBUQUE, Iowa (CNS) Franciscan Sister Aimee Marie Spahn had always loathed letter writing. So when she read an article published by The Christophers extolling the virtues of corresponding with prison ininates, she decided it would be the perfect act of charity for her.

"As far as I was concerned, letter writing was right up there with going to the dentist," she said. "I hated it. So I considered this effort a real sacrifice."

Sister Spahn contacted the magazine, requesting names of inmates who wanteq mail and was awestruck when she received a 10-page list containing at least 1,000 names and addresses of prisoners.

"I couldn't believe it," she said.

"I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?"

She recruited several othe'r sisters to help her with her newfound ministry and the group began writing to about 40 longterm male and female prisoners in state and federal facilities throughout the United States. Some were on death row.

That was back in 1975 and "a real sacrifice" has turned into the great love of her life.

"This project changed my whole , attitude about letter writing," she said. "Once I began to realize how appreciative and lonely most of them are, suddenly it didn't seem like such a big sacrifice."

Sister Spahn begins her letters by introducing herself and explaining how she got the inmate's name. "I tell them about myself and inquire about their interests. I explain that I'm a nun and if that doesn't scare them away, we usually continue to correspond," she laughed.

Since the nun is an avid Notre Dame fan, sports are often the topic of her letters.

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She never asks prisoners what she gladly does if she deems it crime they committed: but she said appropriate. some volunteer the information.

"They don't ask for much," she "Very few deny their guilt, but if said. "Besides sending them stamps, they do, I believe them," she said.

I will send pencils and paper or She said regulations vary with some Christmas cards for them to prisons. Some read incoming and send to their families." outgoing mail; some don't allow But, she added, "if they ask for hard-eover books to be sent because money or larger gifts, I explain something may be hidden in the that I can't do it for one because cover. then I would have to do it for the "When I write 1 usually put two others - and they understand."

Does this former high school stamps in with the letter - one to music teacher ever see herselfretirbe used when they write back to me and one for. a letter to their ing and bringing this project to an family," said Sister Spahn. "But end?

"I'll never quit. This is just too some prisons don't allow prisoners to be sent stamps for fear the glue important," she said. "Besides, y'ou neve~ really retire in the convent." might be laced with dope."

Homeward Bound She still corresponds with about "Life's a voyage that's homea dozen of the original prisoners she first contacted in 1975. Of, ward bound."-Herman Melville those who have been released from prison, a few have come to see her, but most do not. "After they get out they have girlfrielJds and others to fill that gap, and no longer need the attachment they had to OF WESTPORT me," she said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 26,1993

By Charlie Martin

NO MISTAKES The summer is gone I can't believe It went so fast

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By Christopher Carstens Who doesn't have a bad day now and then? Almost everybody would agree that emotional ups and downs are a standard part of the teenager's emoti'onallife.

Feeling down for a while when things go wrong just means you're a normal human being. You feel badly for a few hours or a few days, and then you bounce back.

That's. how life goes.

But when ),'OU feel down for no good reason, it's time for a bit more concern. And ifthose unconnected unhappy feelings hang around through one entire week and on into a second or even a' third week, it's likely that you're getting depressed.

Depression isn't the same thing as ordinary unhappiness. With depression, it feels like the emotions overpower your thinking, no matter how hard you work at cheering yourself up.

Your friends will probably notice that you're acting differently, and they may even ask if there's something wrong. Unfortunately, when you're depressed you probably know there's something wrong, but you have no idea what the problem really is.

Here's a list of common symptoms of depression.

- Depressed people spend a lot of time preoccupied with thoughts of hopelessness, helplessness, intense worry and sadness. Those aren't just passing ideas - they're present most of the time.

- Depressed people become convinced that they're losers. It becomes harder to start and carry through on an ordinary job. The simplest task seems too complicated, too hard. too demanding to be accomplished.

- Study seems nearly impossible, because concentrating for more, than a few minutes is so hard. The· result is consid.erable personal di~­ satisfaction. You know you aren't keeping up', which confirms the bad feelings you arready have about yourself. ' . - When you're depressed, it's really hard to telax. You lie down,'

and feel like standing up. When you stand up, you feel like pacing around or lying back down again.

But none of it makes the tension go away.

- Weight loss often goes along with depression. Food just isn't interesting. It isn't, uncommon for depressed people to lose five pounds in a week.

- Another common complaint is sleeplessness. You spend hours falling asleep, or. wake up in the night tense and worried, and find it difficult to fall back asleep. The result is that you feel tired all day. but you still can't fall asleep the next night. .

If several items on that list of symptoms sound .f~miliar and you've been feeling like this for two weeks or more, it is very likely that you are ex'periencing a depression.

Depression almost always gets better - eventually. But the typical episode of depression can go on for three months or longer. which is a long time to be really, really miserable. It isn't all that surprising that depressed people, adults and teens, start thinking about suicide as a way out.

The good news is that depression is one of the most treatable emotional problems - there are plenty of things that can be done so you don't go on feeling so far down.

First, most teenage depression gets better with even a few sessions of professional counseling.

In other cases, medication is a good idea. There are medicines which act directly on the depression itself. They don't make you high and they aren't magic, but within a week or 'two you're feeling better. And in less than a month there is likely to be a real relief from the ·depression.

The best place to start looking for help is with your family doctor or your counselor at scho'ol. Remember,' depression isn't permanent - and you can s'tart feeling better soon if you get the right help:'

Why do only the cold and lonely times Seem to last?

Now it's late at night I watch you Sleepin', I want to wake you up And tell you I'm sorry, though I know I can't make it up .

I made my mistakes now baby But I did the best I could It takes what it takes and sometimes It takes longer than it should To just live the kind of life that We both have been dreaming of There are no ,mistakes in love I walk thro,ugh a fire in my dreams Just to pull you through But when I'in awake somehow it seems I'm just so hard on you Baby a change has got to come And I can't see after another winter's gone Well who's gonna rescue me There are no mistakes now baby We did the best we could It takes what it takes and sometimes , It takes more than it should To just make the choices that we both Have been dreaming of there are no mistakes in love The nights are much colder now I feel the need to have you near Maybe we could start allover I feel a change in the air There are no mistakes now baby We do the best we can It just takes what it takes And sometimes it's so hard to understand And just take the chances that we all Have been dreaming of There are no mistakes in love Written by Patty Smyth and Kevin Savigar. Sung by Patty Smyth. (c) 1992 by EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Pine Smoke Music (BMI), Almo Music Corp., and Kevin Savigar Music (ASCAP) "NO MISTAKES" is Patty fusing. In the song, the woman Smyth's second hit off her reflects about her romance debut solo album. Her "Somewhich apparently isn't going times Love Just Ain't Enough" well. At one point in the song ~eached the top of the charts she admits that "I made my last summer. mistakes."

I find this recent release conShe wants to tell the guy that

"I'm sorry, though I know I can't make it up." However, she also states that "we did the best we could," and thus "there are no mistakes in love."

Perhaps the woman is just expressing her resolve to learn from her mistakes. She feels "a change in the air" and wishes that "we could start all over."

Whatever the intended message of the song, clearly we all make mistakes in love, and just about everything else in life.

None of us are experts at rela·tionships. We learn as we go, using our whole life to learn how to love others.

"Love" is' a word of great value to Christians, one not to take lightly or to cheapen.

Our mistakes often hurt others and sometimes cause such injury that a relationship is lost.

Consequently, we must recognize our mistakes. What we do not acknowledge we are' more likely to repeat, and then we will extend the harm to ourselves and others. . Couples need to talk about how they will deal 'with each other's hurtful behaviors. They need to set aside any romantic whims that everything i.s going to be perfect.

Loving isn't about being perfect; it is about growing and learning. When a couple ,can talk about each other's hurt, there is a chance that good will eventually occur. , Give each other some space and time apart. Then, try to talk about what happened without communicating blame or judgment.

Discuss these questions: How can you help each other do differently? What were you each feeling before making the mistake? Because of this incident, how can each of you grow and change?

Indeed, there are likely to be mistakes in your attempts to love. Use these mistakes in positive and constructive ways so as to improve how you love yourself and others.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

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.St. Joseph's School " St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, recently held an Invent America project for kin<;iergarten through grade 3 and 'a science, fair for grades 4 through 8. . There were 40 ent'ries in the Invent 'America competition; judged by Bill Tunstall and George Smith from Com Electric and coordinated by Helene Oliveira. The top three winners were: Stefanie Polchlopek, grade 3B; David Manahan, 3B; and Eric St. Jacques, 2B. Ten students earned honorable mention.

The science fair was coordinated

by Cathy LaCroix and the 148 entries were judged by seven chemists and scientists f~om the Pola-

roid Corporation. Winners were, for grade 8: Douglas ,Costello, Corey Reidy and Jason Galary..

Grade 7: Matthew Jarvis, An-' thony. Barakat, Erin Fitzgerald.

Grade 6: Jason Korske, Jacqueline Jozapaitis, Emmanuel Alves.

Grade 5: John Rousseau, Timothy Murphy, Kurt Riley.

Grade 4: Ian Brown, Evan Labbe, Joshua Sylvester.

No Other Means "For my part I know of no other means to arrive at perfection except love. To love. how well our hearts are made for that!" -- St. Therese of Lisieux

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CONFIRMATION STUDENTS at St. Joseph's Church, North Dighton, participate in a retreat themed "Gifts of the Holy S.pirit," led by the Fountain Square Fools, a professional retreat theater group from Cincinnati, Ohio. Parents and confirmation sponsors joined the students at the closing Mass in the church.

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The half-day ofschool will begin with readings over the public address system by members ofSADD (Students Against DrunkDriving) and a prayer for all area high school students affected by drunk driving' or drug abuse.

Suzanne Christie will direct the theate~arts class in a performance of "We'll Try," a play by Donald Carriveau, of UMass-Dartmouth which explores difficult issues facing youth. A presentation on alcohol and drug abuse bySt. Luke's Hospital emergency room nurses will follow.

At the conclusion of the program, students wilL attend 40minute workshops, choosing among the following topics: Samaritans Suicide Warning Signs and Facts; A Young Adult Recov-

ering Alcoholic/ Addict; The L~w and the High School Student; AIDS - "Storm Warnings"; and Date ViQlence/ Rape.

A second performance of "We'll Try" for parents and the public will be held at 7 p.m. in the Stang auditorium.

An orientation program for incoming freshmen and their parents will be held at 7 p.m. March 4 in the school gym.

Juniors and their parents will attend a "Nuts and Bolts" meeting' March 16 at which Pat MCNally, assistant admissions director at Boston University, will speak on college selection and application.

An ROTC representative will be available to answer questions about the program and about the military academies.

Senior George dos Santos is a finalist in the statewide Century III Leaders Program after completing a current events exam and an essay entitled "Projection for Innovative Leadership." He will

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attend a national conference in Williamsburg, VA. At arecent Southeastern Massachusetts Conference Math Meet, , math team members Chris Patenaude, Anabella Vasconcellos, Matt ,Cronin, George dos Santos, Bryan Lemieux and Tony Homier all scored perfect rounds. Amanda Lima scored three perfect rounds for the second time this year.

Lynnley Crane's applied economics class recently visited the Polaroid facility in New Bedford as part of their participation in the' Junior Achievement Program.

Since the beginning of the school year, students have researched products, started their own companies and marketed products.

Stang alumna Pat Charro's, a Polaroid employee and four-year J A consultant, had weekly contact with the students, and the facility tour was the culmination of the half-year course. the class was treated to a pizza , lunch, during which awards were presented. Ed Pacheco and Colleen Bernier each received a camera for top sales and contributing the most work, respectively.

Sunglasses went to Monique Sorel and Troy Paulino, who were tops in the stock market; if only their $4,207 in earnings were real!

Coyle-Cassidy High School The social studies department at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taun- ton, recently held its,annual History Day competition, in which 12 papers and projects were judged worthy to be entered in a March 6 regional contest at Bridgewater State College.

The top three papers were written by Bridgewater's Ryan Pow-

ers, whose topic was "From Sputnamed to the boys track team by nik to Telstar 4"; Raynham's Beth league coaches. Maffini qualified Riendeau, "The Printing Press"; for the state Class D track championships. Senior' Mike Riconand Bridgewater's Chris Wenson, "The Master O-rator." scente was named the conference's The other nine projects to be Best All Around Sprinter. submitted to the regional fair are: On the ice, seniors Jason Ladino "Communications During the of New Bedford and Russ Motto of Plymouth were selected to the Civil War" by Eric Rodriguez (Middleboro) and Alex D'Agoshockey all-star team for their stelJar play for the Warriors; tino (Middleboro).

"Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics" by Erin Trainor (Assonet).

"Iron Curtain-Berlin Wall" by Catherine Couture (Raynham).

"Chinese Paper" by James Boyle Rev. James Mattaliano, SJ, a (Taunton). coordinator of the Bishop Con"Ancient Egyptian Writing" by nolly High School Alcohol and Ryan Crandall and Michael Pre- Drug Awareness Team (CAAT), viti (Raynham). will present the seminar A Job "War of the Worlds" by Kate Description for Parents - Taking Tenney (Taunton).

Charge and Letting Go" 7 to 9 "American Victory at York- p.m. March 2 in the Fall River town" by Geoffrey Cook and Rick school's auditorium.

Thomas (Middleboro).

The program is the second in a "History of Deaf Communica- series, "Parenting for Prevention," tion" by Alexa Connell (Assonet). designed to assist parents in deal'~Art ,in the Renaissance" by ing with difficult contemporary Thqmas Souza (Taunton) and issues such as alcohol and drugs.

Thomas_Zaks (Raynham).

The seminar iS,open to the public. : English department chairperson For information call the school at Donna Fournier has been selected 676-1071. ',: '.: ' ,t,o join:an':eIite group of MassaPrincipal~~v.JohnP.Murray, chusetts English and Language SJ, has' announced .tQat;173 stuArts teach'ers who judge for the dents achievl}d ho.no(rcill status National, CO,uncil of Teachers of' -:(or the second markirigperiod. '.' ,:', :.English Achievement Awards in Each student received a certificate , Writing competition. of merit. - ' c: , The competition is an ,a,nnual Seniors', Elizabeth Sisson of Spring event open to high'school ,PortsIftoutp," RI, and" Michael juniors across the country. ' McLaughlin, of New Bedford are 'S C - I C 'd' d ' " Teenagers of the Month for Feb" , , ' , " eyen' oy e- assl y, stu ent- .. ruary. athlet~s were named to Eastern ' Miss Sisson 'is treasurer of the Athletic Conference all-star teams Nat'on I Hono S .- t'y and . h' d' I d .

I a, r oCle vIce f or t .elr outst~n 10g p ay unng ,president of the ski team. She has the wI~ter season. . . . participated in soccer, track and In gIrls basketball, Jumor-LauTle the ski club and isa member of the ' Poyant of New Bedford was named, drama SQci'c:~ty and yearbook staff. to the all~c.o~ference team. Fresh- 'She has participated in com'munman PatrICIa Murphy of"East ity service with Habitat for HuT~unton .was named t~,e. B.e~t- 'manity and Explorers.

Mlddl~ DIstance Runner 10 glr s McLaughlin is a member of the , b' b II d ' t t k t track. ' Senior Patrick O'Brien ofTaunase a an Win er rac earns. ton earned all-league honors for Bishop Feehan ALL-~TARS: Coyle-Cas- boys basketball. He spent the entire For the second marking period sidy's Anthony Maffini, top, season in the top' five of leading' scorers, averaging 19 points per at Bishop Feehan High School, and Pat O'Brien were n;:tmed game. On the track, Anthony Attleboro, 32 students achieved to conference all-star teams in Maffini of Plymouth was unde- first honors, 105 second honors their respective sports. feated in the 300-yard run and was and 81 third honors.

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DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Travis Young, 7, puts finishing touches on a letter to President Clinton asking for tuition help f~r Catholic school students. (CNS photo) ,

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MILWAUKEE(CNS) - Firstgraders at St. Stephen Martyr Grade School are t!lking their parents' financial needs straight to the top - to President Clinton.

The 6- and 7-year-olds sat down on Inauguration Day and wrote letters to the president pleading the cause of Catholic schools. ' Jasmin Nunez wrote: "Dear , President Clinton, I am glad you are the president. We need your help. I want to go to Catholic school to learn about God. My mom and dad need help with money. I likeS1. Stephen School.

Please help us pick the school we like."

Brandon Johnson, 7, compared S1. Stephen to public schools. "I wouldn't go to a public school because they can't even pray there.

All parents need help. Can you help us? Pretty, please. I am sad if! can't go to S1. Stephen School."

Clinton opposed a Bush administration proposal to provide federal vouchers that .parents could use to support public or private schools. Clinton, who himself atte,nded a Catholic ,elementary schooJ for tWlJ, years, has said any a vailable federal funds should. be used' to fix public schools: Marques Bland, 6, silid tn his letter that St, Stephen-is,"a special school. Because it is a Catholic sc'hool, they let m~,talk abo'ut God an,<;I, 1 Ijkejo -talk abqut ,<;J<;>d.: I. want tQ I~arn about God.',' .. ' Under the guidance, of their teacher, School Sister of Notre Dame Gladys Courtade, the firstgraders kicked off wh~t she hoped would eventually involve aIl'of S1.

Stephen's,stl,ldent,s and theirparehts., , " ' , '" And we hope other schools will join us,'" she told the Catholic Herald, newspape,r of the Milwaukee archdiocese:"We want to bombard Washington with letters;" The first-graders di-scussed as a class what message they wanted to give the president, but the persua-' sive techniques were all their own.

"We talked about it as' a class and came up with ideas on what we could say," said Sister Courtade. "But they came up with their own ideas and wrote in their simple language."

Some of that language was espcially loud and clear.

"My parents don't have enough

money to pay my school bill," Steve Monday wrote. "I will feel sad if I leave this school. Please help my mom and dad pay less money. Thank you."

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Iteering pOintl Continued from Page 13 ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Exposition of Blessed Sacrament 7:30 a.m. to noon Wednesdays during Lent, parish center. Stations of the Cross 7 p.m. Fridays during Lent, main church.

HOLY NAME, NB Stations of the Cross with opportunity for confession 7 p.m. Fridays during Lent.

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HOLY CROSS, S. EASTON A Lenten series with Dr. Ernest Collamati will be held 7:30 to 9: 15 p.m. Mondays March 8 to 29, church hall.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT A Day of Eucharistic Prayer will be held March 7 with exposition of Blessed Sacrament after II a.m.

Mass, evening prayer at 4:30 p.m. and supper in church hall. Stations of the Cross Fridays Feb. 26 through March 26, except March 12, which is confirmation.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR -Lenten programs: Sunday evening prayer will resume 6 p.m. Feb. 28. Bible study 6:30 p.m. Sundays, church auditorium; theme: "Your Word ...a Lamp unto My Feet."

Chanting of Polish meditations on Passion of Jesus (Gorzkie Zale) 8:40 a.m. Sundays.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Family Life Enrichment Series Hour (FLESH) will conclude 7 p.m.

March 7 in parish center with "Family Life is Being Stressed Out, and What Are We Doing About It?," presented by Patricia Staebler, director of Attleboro Catholic Social Services.

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ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Lenten prayer service with sung meditations 7 p.m. March I with Denise Morency Gannon, member ST. MARY, SEEKONK of the Diocesan Liturgical Commis"Scripture from Scratch" Bible sion. Men's Club organizational study continues with "A Real Revemeeting 7 p.m. March 2, parish cenlation" 8 to 9: 15 p. m. March 3, par- ter. Baby and children's clothing for ish center.

Marie's Place may be left in the right side of the garage closest to the parkSEPARATED/DI'VORCED ing lot.

CATHOLICS, ATTLEBORO Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

HOLY NAME, FR Sunday, St. Mary's parish center, N. ' Women's Guild will sponsor Easter Attleboro. Information: 695-6161. food drive throughout March; donations will be collected in boxes at ST. MARY, NORTON Food pantry collection will be church entrances.

VINCENTIANS, TAUNTON taken this weekend to restock the Taunton District Council monthly shelves. Separated/ divorced CathoMass 7:30 p.m. March I, St. Joseph's lics meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, parish center meeting room; topic: "Rais- Church, 19 Kilmer Ave. Meeting will follow in church hall. ing Kids Alone." All single parents welcome. A disabled persons sup- ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, port group meets II :30 a.m. to 2 ACUSHNET p.m. first and third Fridays at TrinNonperishable canned goods are itarian Church on Pine St. Informa- being collected in church vestibule. tion: 285-6286. ' WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON ENCOUNTER Lucille Arcand is coordinating an Weekends are planned March 19 effort to make rosary beads for Rus- to 21 in Newton and March 26 to 28 sia. Kits are provided. Information: in Burlington. Information: 1-800824-4851. Bible study focusing on 367-0343 or 655-4143.

Seven Last Words of Christ will be ST. PATRICK, FR led by Sister Beth Mahoney 9:30 to Women's Guild open meeting II a.m. Wednesdays in March. StaMarch I; speaker: Channel 12 tions of the Cross 7:30 p.m. Fridays weatherman Tony Petrarca. during Lent.

K. oCc., FR CATHEDRAL CAMP, Msgr. John E. Boyd Council 295, E. FREETOWN路 FR, monthly business meeting March Stonehill College campus minis- 2 and social meeting March 16, both try retreat today through Sunday. at 8 p.m. at Polish National Home, St. Joseph, Fairhaven, confirmation Globe St. 'retreat 9:30a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA CATHOLICS, FR Stations of the Cross will follow 7 Persons divorced or separated less p.m. Mass Fridays during Lent. Sis- than two years'are invited to support ters of St. Francis of Assisi are col- group meeting 7 p.m. first and third lecting unused and broken jewelry; Wednesdays at St. Mary's Cathedral containers will be placed at church School hall. Information: Sister entrances. "Morality and Forgive- Michaelinda Plante, RSM, 679-2828. ness" adult education series is pre- Those separated/ divorced more than sented 8 p.m. Monday evenings, two years meet same time and place lower rectory; sessions are repeated with Sister Christopher O'Rourke, 9:15 a.m. Saturdays.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 26,1993

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VINCENTIANS, FR ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA FR District Council meeting March 2, Our Lady of Grace Church, Way of the Cross 7 p.m. Fridays Westport. during Lent. Adult confirmation classes 7 p.m. Feb. 28, March 7 and ST. JAMES, NB 14, religious education center.

Stations of the Cross after 9 a.m.

Mass Fridays during Lent.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, , CATHOLIC WOMAN'S ATTLEBORO The LaSalette Christian Action CLUB,FR Group will present Saturday night Fall River native Lynne Marie videos 6:30 p.m. during Lent in Paradis, accompanied by Anna Shrine theater. Group discussion and Fiore-Smith, will offer Irish and refreshments will follow. Feb. 27 other ethnic background songs at a feature will be "The Mission." meeting at 7:30 p.m. March 9 at Brother Armand Binette, MS, will Holy Name school hall. Ms. Paradis lead healing service 2 p.m. Feb. 28. has been organist, soloist and assisThose attending will have the oppor- tant choir director at St. Michael's tunity to be anointed or prayed over parish, Fall River, and has received many honors in the field of music. individually.

Also at the meeting, an ad hoc comSACRED HEART, FR mittee report on changes to club Pastor Father Edward Byington bylaws will be discussed and new will present Lenten forum, "Cathol- members Mary Guerrettaz, Jeanne icism and Fundamentalism," 7 to 8 Woodward, Mary Rodrigues, Patrip.m. Mondays March I to 22, parish cia Charrette and Claire Potvin will hall. Adult confirmation meeting be welcomed. Reservations for the 6:30 p.m. March I, parish hall. Staannual communion breakfast, to be tions of the Cross and Latin Beneheld April 25, will be available. diction 7 p.m. Tuesdays during Lent.

Cochairmen are Grace Dunn and WIDOWED SUPPORT, Celia Corcoran.'

ATTLEBORO LaSALETTE CENTER, Support group meeting March 5, ATTLEBORO St. Mary's parish center, N. Attle"Self-Esteem in Relationships: An boro. Father William Babbitt will Experience in Opportunity for Wocelebrate Mass and a police officer men and Men," facilitated by Dr. will speak on safety.

Sheila Murphy, will be held 8 p.m.

March 5 to I p.m. March 7 at the D.ofI. Benedict Circle 61 Daughters of LaSalette retreat center. The proIsabella, North Attleboro, will con- gram will encourage participants to duct a "Newborns in Need" drive look at past and present relationFeb. 27 to April 10. Boxes, made by ships and determine what patterns children at Crescent Day Nursery and dynamics either nurture or proSchool, will be placed in four par- hibit growth. Dr. Murphy, a psyishes: Sacred Heart, North Attle- chologist in private practice in Akron, Ohio, is a lecturer and conboro; St. Mary's, North Attleboro; St. Mark's, Attleboro Falls; and St. sultant to many parishes and reliMartha's, Plainville. Donations will gious congregations and has written be distributed to needy mothers in extensively about adult transitions, the Attleboro, North Attleboro and intimacy, gender issues and sexuality.

Plainville area. June Mann is chair- ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN person. of the drive.

Joel Shaw received the Eagle Scout Alcazaba Circle 65, Attleboro, award Feb. 7. Lenten prayer service meets 7 p.m. March 4, K. ofC:Hall, 9 a.m. Mondays March I through 29 Hodges St. Social will follow. at Joseph's School.

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