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Ex-hostage and Tower report TORONTO (NC) - Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, who was held hostage in Lebanon for 18 months, said President Reagan assured him that his release was not part of an arms deal but said the Tower commission report has led him to question the president's credibility. Speaking in Toronto Feb. 22, Father Jenco said Reagan sent a personal telegram assuring him that the United States did not send arms to Iran to get his release. "I want to believe the president," Father Jenco said in Toronto. "I would be shocked to learn that I, a single man with no children, was traded for arms that could cause so much death and devastation in the Middle East. If they'd come to me, I would have said no." But Father Jenco told the Associated Press "March I, three days after the Tower commission released its report: "Now, I'm very confused. I think (the Reagan administration) came to the conclusion that it was a mistake." . "I had to accept his word that I was not exchanged for arms. Now I read this and I have a deep question mark, a question mark of credibility," the priest said. The Tower report found that Father Jenco was released two days after the Iranian government made a partial payment for missile parts.
The priest, who was working in Lebanon as director of Catholic Relief Services, was released by his Shiite Moslem kidnappers in July 1986. Fulfilling a promise to his fellow hostages Thomas Sutherland and Terry Anderson, still being held in Lebanon, Father )enco was touring North America to remind the public of the grave situation in the Middle East and .to help secure their release. ,
Speaking to the Slovak Canadian Business and Professional Association in Toronto; Father Jenco asked his audience to stay informed and find out the truth about the struggle in the Middle East. He asked the public to pray for the hostages still being held in Lebanon and "for all hostages everywhere, whether they be Christian, Moslem, Jew, black or white." If anything is to improve in the Middle East, the priest said, Christians and Moslems must build on what is common to both religions - a belief in one God and in a single community on earth with one and the same origin and end. Although Father Jenco eventually made peace with the men who brought 18 months of pain to his . life, he said he would never return to the Middle East. He believes that Lebanon must solve its own problems and that the Palestine
Liberation Organization, Shiites, Druze and all other groups must sit together and decide on a new constitution for the country before anything can be resolved. Father Jenco added that one possible solution to the struggle in Lebanon may be to allot each religious group or political faction a separate piece of land. The soft-spoken missionary described "the lonely, boring and frightening" time spent as a hostage. His ordeal began when he was kidnapped by an armed group, the Islamic Jihad, in Beirut apparently after he was mistaken for another American. During his 18 months in confinement the priest was often chained and blindfolded but managed to make prayer beads out of a " piece of string. He also talked at length with his captors about religion and politics, and shared their "joys and disappointments, marriages and deaths." The priest described his captors as "deeply religious and committed young men." Father .Tenco said later it was only his faith in God and his missionary training that helped him survive being kept in a closet for a month. He described standing gagged and bound, repeating the words, "Lord, Jesus, have mercy . on us" hundreds of times.
Planning for the papal visit MIAMI (NC) - Father Anthony Mulderry has the kind of job he can "grow into." In fact, it just "becomes bigger" all the time. He worries about such things as the angle of the sun at 10 a.m. on Sept. II, the use of "corrals" for a vast audience, at least I,000 buses, and having enough toilets for a crowd of 300,000 to 500,000. Father Mulderry is coordinating preparations for Pope John Paul II's Sept. 10-11 visit to Miami, first stop on the pontiffs U.S. trip. "You grow into this," he said of his task. "It becomes bigger every day." He wrestles with the details of accommodating legions of spectators at various events; 5,000 stewards, or ushers, to help with crowd management and other tasks; 2,000 reporters and other members of the news media; and miles of streets blocked off. "This is going to be wellorganized," said Father Mulderry. For the pope's outdoor Mass, scheduled for Sept. II at Tamiami Park, Father Mulderry speaks of "building a small city for a day," a city with food and water supplies,
its own streets, first-aid stations, agents expected to provide protecchain-link fences, and toilets. tion for the pope. The exact number of toilets For its part, the Miami Archdiremained uncertain by late Febru- ocese has nearly 100 persons, on ary, although the planners say 15 committees, planning different there must be enough to serve a aspects of the visit. crowd of several" hundred thouEven non-Catholics have volunsand for several hours. "It seems to teered, offering to help as stewards, be a big issue in everybody's mind," the ushers or guides who will help the priest noted .. out at various events. The steIn addition to thinking about wards are being drawn from parsanitary facilities, Father Mulder- ishes and other sources, and one of ry's committee has consulted the top requirements for eligibility will stars and tried to arrange to have be stamina. the papal altar aligned with the "Some of the assignments are sun so as to provide "the best vision of the pope"as well as com- only two hours long, but others may be as long as 12 hours," said fort for those in attendance. "We want as many people to see Robert Senk, police chief of him as possible," said Father Cooper City, Fla., who is coordiDaniel Kubala, one of three asso- nating the stewards. There is a spiritual side to the ciate directors for the papal visit in preparations as well. Archbishop the Archdiocese of Miami. Historically and logistically Edward A. McCarthy of Miami "this is probably the biggest event has designated a "Holy Year of that's ever happened in S~uth Reconciliation"and asked CatholFlorida," said William Ackerman, ics to reach out to neighbors and U.S. Secret Service special agent friends, to get to know them better who heads a team of four who at "pope parties," and to generally have been working on the papal strive to create a spirit of unity visit fulltime since January. " throughout the entire community. Security reasons prevent him There's a committee for that, from divulging the number of too.
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Home Missions collecti.on set 99.3 cents of every dollar Monsignor Lenz, "and the revidonated during the annual talization of the National Black Home Missions collection go to Congress give evidence of Black and Native American Church concern with the evanmissions, a record unsurpassed gelization of Black and Native Americans." by any national charity. Offering statistics of Black That point was made by Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Epis- and Native American missions, copal Vicar for Ecclesiastical Msgr. Oliveira said that dioMatters and diocesan director ceses considered Black Ameriof the Society for the Propaga- can mission territory, all in the tion of the Faith, in announcing south, include Baton Rouge, that the Home Missions collec- Lafayette and Lake Charles, tion will be taken up this week- La., Mobile and Birmingham, Ala., Beaumont and Galvestonend in diocesan parishes. He said the collection is the Houston, Tex., Biloxi and oldest national collection in the Jackson, Miss., and Savannah, Ga. country, dating back to 1884. Native American and Eskimo In anticipation of this year's fund raising; Msgr. Paul A. dioceses include Bismarck, N. D., Lenz, executive director of the Fairbanks, Alaska, Cheyenne, Black and Indian Mission Office Wyo., Santa Fe, N.M., and in Washington, noted that Great Falls-Billings and Helena, although 1986 was the best year Mont. He noted that a Catholic yet recorded for the collection, raising over $5~ million for Indian Center was opened last evangelization activities, it still April at Has,",eU Junior College, Lawrence, Kans. The colfeU short of needs. "We hope," he said, "that lege is attended by young Indiwhen the faithful become aware " ans from all parts of the United of just how much of their gifts States and the center provides reaUy go to the missions, that them with Catholic leadership people will be more generous opportunities. Msgr. Oliveira said that of96 and thus enable the Church to do more for the evangelization U.S. Catholic universities and colleges only Xavier University programs. "The recent appointment of of New Orleans, with over one with American Indian 2,000 students, serves black blood to the hierarchy, the Catholics. Seven of the 10 U.S. Most Reverend Donald E. black bishops and many black Pelotte, coadjutor Bishop of priests and sisters are Xavier Gallup, New Mexico," said graduates.
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LONDON (NC) - Unity between Anglicans and Catholics will be "further delayed" because the Church of England is moving closer to ordaining women priests, said Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England. The general synod ofthe Church of England voted Feb. 26 to draft legislation for the ordination of women. Anglican Archbishop Robert Rtincie of Canterbury said the legislation would not be ready for final approval until 1991. Final approval would require support of a two-thirds majority in each of the synod's three houses: bishops, clergy and laity. Cardinal Hume said that al-though he considered it "essential" that Anglican-Catholicdialoguecontinue, "it is my view that full organic unity will now be even further delayed." , "Developments of great theological significance and pastoral consequence should be undertaken only by a united church exploring together the mind of Christ," he said Feb. 27. Women's ordination has been a
A matter of treaty VATICAN CITY (NC) ~ The Vatican, reacting to reports that arrest warrants were issued for U.S. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus and two other officials ofthe Vatican bank, said that a 1929 treaty exempts the bank and its directors from Italian legal "interference." 'An Italianjudge told Associated Press Feb. 25 that the warrant charges Archbishop Marcinkus as "an accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy" in connection with the 1982 collapse of Italy's largest private bank. A one-page statement issued by the Vatican press office Feb. 27 strongly defended the archbishop, the bank's president, saying he had, given "substantial and sincere collaboration" to investigators probing the 1982 case - even though he was not obliged to do so. The statement appeared to suggest that if Italy attempts to forward the warrants, the Vatican would not accept them. In 1982, communiques notifying the three men that they were under investigation in the case
were returned unopened to Italian authorities by the Vatican, which used the same argument.
accompanied by copious d'ocumentation, in order to build a substantial and sincere collaboration with the Italian judiciary." The Feb. 27 statement noted A source close to Archbishop Section II of the 1929 Lateran Marcinkus said the statement gave Treaty, which "exempts the censtrong and welcome support to the tral agencies of the Catholic Church Vatican bank president, both by from any interference on the part noting the legal limits of the Italof the Italian state." ian investigation and the archbiThe treaty, revised in 1984, govshop's previous cooperation in erns relations between Italy and handing over documents. "If it the tiny Vatican City State. hadn't been for him, (the investi"In Vatican circles (and not only gators) wouldn't have gotten anythere), profound amazement can-, thing," the source said. no~ help but be caused by the news of the steps said taken by Milan , magistrates regarding the president and two other directors of the Institute for Religious Works, at so great a distance in time from the facts relating to the failure of the Banco Ambrosiano, and without, as far as can be seen, the addition WASHINGTON(NC)- Moral of any new elements," the statetheologian Father Charles E. Curment said. ran has filed a civil lawsuit to overIt said Archbishop Marcinkus turn The Catholic University of had cooperated with investigators America's decision in January to "from the beginning" by furnish- suspend him from all teaching. ing"numerous memoirs and briefs, Father Curran was told by, the Holy See last summer that he is not suitable or eligible to teach as a Catholic theolog'ian. On sabbatiCard,inal George Basil Hume of cal at the time, he was supposed to VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II is to beatify 85 British WestIl}inster, England, said that resume teaching in January. But martyrs from the 16th and 17th as Catholics honor the martyrs, he was suspended while awaiting centuries in a ceremony in St. "we shall not forget all who in results of an internal academic those troubled times from both review of an order withdrawing his Peter's Basilica Nov. 22. Those to be beatified include 63 sides of the religious divide laid license to teach on the ecclesiastipriests and 22 lay people perse- down theiI: lives because of a total cal faculty of the university'S theology department. cuted after England broke with the commitment to their beliefs." The Vatican declared last Roman Catholic Church to establish the Church of England. Beati- November that the 85 Catholics Dr. McDonald heads fication IS one of the final steps were martyrs for the faith. The decree, approved by the , Medical Affairs before sainthood.' pope, said Father Haydock and 84 One of the martyrs, Father others were killed because of Internist Dr. Malcolm MacDoGeorge Haydock; was executed as "hatred of the faith between 1584 nald -of Little Compton, RI, has a traitor in 1584. and 1678." That was a period of been named' Director of Medical In London, the spiritual head of persecution of Catholics in Eng- Affairs at St. Anne's Hospital, the Church of England, Arch- land, particularly under King Fall River. He will oversee the bishop Robert Runcie of Canter- Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth hospital's quality assurance and bury, said that "whereas in the I. utilization review department and past this announcement would Pope Paul VI canonized another its employee health program and have fueled controversy and 40 martyrs from England and will monitor compliance with communal rivalry, today we can Wales in 1970. At the time Angli- accreditation and regulatory celebrate their heroic Christian cans expressed concern about the guidelines, including those calling witness and together deplore the canonizations and their effect on for reduction in length of hospital stays. the ecumenical movement. intolerance of their age."
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stumbling block in Anglican-Catholic unity talks. The prospect of ordaining women also has caused division within the Church of England, part of the worldwide Anglican communion. Some bishops have threatened to leave the church if women are ordained. But Archbishop Runcie rebuked opponents of women priests, saying it was a "little early ... to be taking the tarpaulins off the lifeboats - or even signaling to other ships to stand by to take some of the passengers." The _synod considered the idea of women priests in the context of a bishops' report studying safeguards which may be needed in legislation on the subject. The report said bishops' should be allowed an "interim period" in, which they could refuse to.ordain women. It also rejected the idea of a special diocese for opponents of women's ordination. Member churches of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil and Hong Kong have ordained women.
Pope's visit celebrates Argentine - Chilean border dispute mediation VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope years earlier after both countries John Paul II plans to visit 19 cities threatened to go to war. on a 13-day trip to Uruguay, Chile Numerous times during the negoand Argentina to commemorate tiations the pope promised to visit his successful mediation ofanAi-gen: , both countries after'an ~lcco'r(l tine-Chilean border dispute. signed. The schedule for the March 31The dispute involved three isApril 13 trip was made public by lands in the Beagle Channel plus the Vatican Feb. 28. surrounding So.uth Atlantic waters. It includes a meeting in the Chi- The papally mediated treaty lean capital of Santiago with Gen. awarded the islands to Chile and Augusto Pinochet, at odds with established a commonly accepted the Chilean hierarchy over human sea border. The treaty also encourrights issues since he came to power ages joint economic development in a bloody 1973 military coup. of a zone straddling the border The pope also plans meetings and established bilateral commiswith the presidents of Uruguay sions for the peaceful resolution of and Argentina, both civilian elected future disputes. officials. . The papal itinerary does not On the Chilean schedule is a include a stop in the Beagle Chanpapal meeting with youths at Santiago's National Stadium, a soccer nel area, located about 600 miles north of the Antarctic Circle. The stadium transformed into a mass closest papal stop will be in Punta detention and interrogation center Arenas, Chile, 175 miles north of by security forces in the aftermath the channel. ' of Pinochet's coup.
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The pope is first scheduled to stop in Montevideo, Uruguay, where in 1979 Chile and Argentina signed an agreement asking the pope to mediate their dispute. The pope plans to arrive for an evening ceremony March 31 to commemorate the signing. The schedule then calls for him to leave the following day, April I, for a six-day trip to Chile and then a six-day trip to Argentina. He plans to visit eight cities in Chile and 10 in Argentina. It will be his second visit to Argentina and his first to Chile and Uruguay. All three countries have heavily Catholic populations. In May 1985, Argentina and Chile signed a papally mediated treaty ending a century-old dispute over territory off the southern tip of South America. The pope had agreed to mediate six
Still a hypothesis ROME' (NC) ...:.... The possibility of a Christian-Marxist dialogue meeting in the Soviet Union next year is "'only a hypothesis," said Vlltican spokesman Joaquin Navarro -Valls, responding to questions about an Italian newspaper report that the Vatican and the Soviet Union had agreed ~'in principle" to hold the meeting. A meeting of Vatican and Soviet officials has' been the subject of indirect negotiation by the Secretariat for Non-Believers since Catholic and Marxist scholars met in Hungary last October, according to Vatican sources. A Rome newspaper reported Feb. 15 that the Vatican and Soviet Union had \ reached "agreement 'in' principle" on holding the meeting in Leningrad on the topic "Is God Really Dead?"
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THE SIX diocesan priests who are celebrating their 25th anniversaries of ordination in 1987, Fathers John F. Andrews, Philip A. Davignon, Arthur T. DeMello, Leonard M. Mullaney and Ronald A. Tosti and Very Rev. Barry W. Wall, gathered with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin on Tuesday at St. Mary's Cathedral to commemorate their years of service. After the Mass, attended by many brother priests, Bishop Cronin and the jubilarians visited the.cathedral's_crypt, to pray.for the late Bishop James L. Connolly, the jubilarians' ordaining prelate. ..... :
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Diocesan 'delegation to attend National Black Congress in May The National Black Congress, a national gathering of black Catholics and those in service to them, will provide an opportunity for prayer and reflection on the word of God so that participants may be inspired and motivated to share the Gospel with their black brothers and sisters, and so that they may be enabled to develop practical methods of evangeliza~ tion.
The congress is scheduled for Thursday, May2l to Sunday, May 24, at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has announced his endorsement of the congress and is sending delegates from the Fall River diocese. Those persons wishing to sub-
mit concerns and issues for discussion at the congress, or wishing to serve as a diocesan delegate, should contact Rev. Monsignor John J. Oliveira, Vicar for Adminstration, at the Chancery Office, 47 Underwood Street, Fall River, 02722; tel. 675-1311, as soon as possible.
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the moorin~. Healing the Poor One of the most serious problems that faces modern medicine centers around the poor. Affluent America is health conscious. The mentality that so often pervades he~lth care usually has its focus on money. Affording the best is a mind set which permeates today's medicine. The fast pace qf applied technology to medicine has placed costs beyond control. If you want quality medicine in America you must pay for it one way or the other. In the jungle of medicine for profit, the truly poor so often get cast aside. Serving the poor is one of the most horrendous vacuums in today's medical world. In a country where classes are becoming more and more separate, medical services to the least of our brothers and sisters are plummeting. In fact, it is a national scandal. Ina nation where money is the secular god, those who have not receive little care or concern. The word charity is yet the liberals' answer fo~ the poor. Little has been done by the government or the medical unions, and indeed there is none more powerful than the American Medical Association, to reach beyond the merely token. In fact, the quality and interest in providing adequate health care for the poor is fast becoming a national disgrace. Separation of the classes is a seeming standard by which people receive proper and total medical care. Mingling of the classes in American health care occurs infrequently. The dynamics that make suburban schools better than inner city schools, even though they ~upposedly operate on the same principles and teach the same subjects, delivers to the poor an inferior medical standard. Poverty care is usually delivered by government care facilities. In cities and towns they are most likely to be rundown medical mills. In the inner cities of America they are those depres'sing inner city clinics which usually match the surrounding slums in which they are located. So often the staff of these outfits are practitioners who possess questionable credentials and run by greedy businessmen who want to make a buck at the expense of their clients. The fact is busi~ess success has become the hallmark of medical practice. The poor lack money. They often do not have much in the way of insurance. Poor patients are often sicker than middleclass ones. The poor do not eat properly. Their living circumstances are unhealthy. Above all they just do not have the 'access to preventative care. Even though many poor are irresponsible about looking after themselves, this should not make them outcasts. Many are street people who, once cured of a specific illness, find themselves back on the streets susceptible to greater health dangers. It is imperative that we come to some very hard resolutions which would separate business and medical care. Insurance companies and HMO alternatives should somehow share their enormous profits in assuring the poor of proper health care. More doctors must recall their vocation to ser've rather than be served. Efforts must be made to eliminate sleazy medical health facilities. Doctors must see themselves as healers, not businessmen. What all this means is that we must restore to medicine a digni~y and grace that has been consumed by profits. Millions of Americans are suffering bodily harm and' human indignity because of their inability to pay their medical bills. The poor, homeless, street people and all who just have not been able to get a piece of the American pie should be considered special people, not throwaways. A good dose ~f healing ministry would vastly improve the medical world. The Editor
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Life issues raise路 questions VATICAN CITY (NC) - Rapid scientific and medical advances in the begetting, improving and prolonging of human life are raising a series of new moral issues for the Catholic Church. In vitro fertilization, genetic engineering and embryonic experimentation have become household terms. And they have become im- . portant ethical issues for theologians. So has the question of brain death in determining when life ends. The Vatican is trying to keep moral pace with the fast-moving world of science and is preparing a major bioethics document offering guidelines for judging modern techniques. Although the techniques are modern, to judge them the church must answer three old and basic moral questions: I. How is human life transmitted from parents to offspring? 2. When does human life begin? 3. When does human life end? The answers to these questions will go a long way in determining church positions on specific scientific and medical practices. Right now, the only clear and unequivocal church answer is to the second question. Church teaching, as often reemphasized by Pope John Paul II, is that life begins at the moment , of conception. This teaching, for instance, forms the moral basis for the church's staunch opposition to abortion. But it also would apply to such bioethical issues as fetal and embry-
'onic experimentation. If life beginsat conception, the church is unlikely to approve any experimentation which is not direcly ordered to improving the health of the embryo or fetus. In fact, the current church consensus is that 'embryos cannot be created just for experimental use and discarded afterward. The position was stated firmly by Pope John Paul II in 1982: "I condemn, in the most explicit and formal way, experimental manipu1ations 'of the human embryo, since the human being, from conception to death, cannot be exploited." The moral answers to the other two questions are in a state of flux, to a large extent because of the rapid refinements of science and medicine in the latter half of this century. Traditionally, in answer to the first question, the church has said that human life must be transmitted through normal sexual relations by a married couple. This has come to include fertilization of the egg inside the wife's body. Yet this is being challenged by some theologians as in vitro fertilization, the uniting of an egg and sperm in a laboratory dish and the implanting of the embryo in the womb, has become a safe and a~epted medical technique. The theologians ask: if having offspring is a moral end of Christian marriage, why can't in vitro fertilizatio'n be used by married couples who physically cannot have children otherwise?
If the new Vatican document, being prepared by the Congrega: tion for the Doctrine of the Faith, continues to maintain that transmission of human life includes fertilization inside the body then all in vitro fertilization would be considered immoral. If it decides transmission does not necessarily include fertilization inside the woman's body, it could open the door to endorsing in vitro techniques in limited cases for married couples,
The answer to the question of when human life ends has become complex and is involved in drawing the fine line between euthanasia and unnecessarily prolonging the life in a vegetative body. Does human life end when all bodily functions stop or when a key one, such as brain activity, ceases? Modern science makes it easy to distinguish between the two. In 1985 the Pontifical Academy of Sciences did a study for the pope which concluded "that cerebral death is the true criterion of death" a:nd said this can lJe readily ascertained by measuring the brain's electric activity. If there is no electrical. activity during an appreciable interval, the brain is considered dead. This study has yet to be adopted as official church policy, but it demonstrates the church's effort to update itself in the search for new insights into moral issues..
Stories of plagues Everybody loves thriller stories where the good guys escape and win and the villains get it in the end. One of the best of these was written by God. It's the story of Jews, the chosen people, who were slaves to the Pharoah in Egypt who forced them to build his pyramids while living in misery. We call the story the Exodus. Let's retell how God helped our people escape. He sent plagues, 10 in all, to convince Pharoah th'at h.e was God and that he meant It when he said, "Let my people go." First God turned all the rivers into blood and the Egyptians were dying of thirst. Their crops withered for lack of water. Pharoah called Moses and said, "Okay, call off your God. Tell him if he sends water, we'll let your people go." But Pharoah lied. As soon as he had water, he relaxed and said, "I need these slaves.", And he didn't let them go. So God sent a plague of frogs, frogs everywhere eating everything. Pharoah got scared again and said, "This time I will really let you go if your God calls off the frogs." But he didn't and God had to send eight more plagues: fleas, beetles,
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cattle disease, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the slaying of firstborn sons. For some excitement, get· out your Bible and read the stories of the plagues. God played his top card with the IOth and last plague, the killing of sons. Pharoah didn't believe him but our people did. God told the Jews what was coming and said to get ready for it. "If you slaughter a lamb and smear its blood on your doorstep, the Angel of Death will pass over your homes and your sons will be saved," he said. And that's what happenep. Even Pharoah's son was slain but God saved his chosen ones. The Jews escaped in a dramatic flight through the Red Sea and from that time on, the evening of the Passover had been celebrated.
doing well." It is a dream ofafflu: ence and material comfort, ofdoing better than previous generations in a land of opportunity and of the self-made man. It is the pursuit of life, liberty and individual happiness without fear of prosecution or intolerance. Financial security - but not always in terms of being rich - is considered vital. Receiving a high school education and providing a college education for one's children are parts of the dream, as is the choice to live where one chooses and owning one's own home. Success is defined in non-material terms. It is having friends and a family, being one of the best at the job one does and being well educated. Opportunity for upward mobility, self-fulfillment or to pursue one's own goal is fundamental to the dream, as is owning one's own business. One of the most interesting find~ ings of the study reports: "Despite the public's strong belief in the American Dream and a high degree of optimism about their ability to attain it, there is concern about the future. 45 percent of Americans think that the dream is harder to attain today than in the past; 55· percent think it will be even more' difficult to attain a generation from now." But how can Americans believe the dream is alive and yet believe it is more difficult to achieve? The study concludes that economic opportunity is only one side of the dream and not necessarily the most important one. There is the quality of life or spiritual side as well. Americans feel the American dream is threatened by illegal drugs, crime, the declining quality of our educational system and our envir-
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writes," ... we must learn to tell God's story as our story. No longer can we explain how some Israelites were once in bondage in Egypt and God saved them ... instead We need to explain how we were once oppressed in Egypt and how God liberated us."
Can I go to his wedding?
Q. Our Catholic paper has had many articles on interfaith marriages but I haven't seen anything about Catholics attending them with no priest present. My grandson will be getting married at a Congregational Church. Should I This week, let's consider the attend this ceremony? (MassachuExodus. Throughout history there setts) A. One circumstance could make have been plagues which killed whole populations. Plagues always the answer to your question very simple. turn people back to God. As you are obviously are aware, If God were to send us plagues It was at this celebration of Pas- , today what would they be? What normally for a valid marriage a sover that Jesus initiated the Last awful conditions would remind us Catholic must be married before a Supper, the new Lamb, the begin- that God is there, waiting for us to priest (or bishop or deacon) for that marriage to be valid accordning of our Eucharist. Jesus, then, know and worship him? What has plagued us as a family ing to church law. This is true was one of the chosen people and his early followers, originally the past year? Did we turn to God whether the Catholic is marrying for help? If not, why not? Do we another Catholic, or someone of called Christian Jews, were also. So, also, are we part of a line of really believe he loves us as his another or of no faith. According to present church law, God's chosen ones. Often we forget chosen people? What are some signs in our lives that we are God's however" the local bishop may that. dispense, from that obligation. Theologian John Westerhoff III chosen ones? Several circumstances may motivate such a dispensation. Sometimes the non-Catholic partner has a special connection with his or By her congregation. I myself have experienced two cases in which a FATHER close relative of the non-Catholic onment. This observation leads partner was pastor of the Protestme to believe that as much as our I ant church to whicq that person EUGENE government attempts to ensure a belonged. high quality oflife, unless there is a In some cases, the family of the complementary,spi!"itual side to HEMRICK non-Catholic partner may intenthat attempt, it is doomed to failure. sely dislike the Catholic Church, One need only read the Second even to the point of refusing to Vatican Council's Pastoral Concome to a Catholic wedding cerestitution on the Church in the We believe in foste~ing talents given mony. Modern World to realize that our by God and we abhor anything This circumstance, of course, religious tradition is very concerned which can destroy the mind behind might present serious difficulties about the quality of life. for the marriage itself. Neverthethose talents, It is a tradition that believes less, for these or other reasons, the It is a tradition that teaches us to God has lent us this environment reverence others because they mirperson preparing the marriage may and that we are responsible for it ror God's creation. No matter how present to the bishop a request for because we are responsible to God. bad a person may seem this prinwhat officially is called a "dispensation from the form of marriage." ciple encourages us to look for When such a dispensation is good in him or her. granted the couple may be married If our children are to achieve the before a minister. magistrate,judge American dream, we who come or anyone else officially recognized NEW YORK (NC) -Reserva- from a religious tradition would by civil law to officiate at marriages. tions voiced by some in the church do well to upgrade their education about the authority of national in it. It is a tradition that holds In these cases a priest mayor bishops' conferences do not lessen what many need but don't know may not be present; his presence is the value of the U.S. bishops' paswhere to find. not required for a valid Catholic toral letters on peace and the marriage. economy, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph If such a dispensation has not M. Sullivan of Brooklyn recently been requested and granted for the told a Wall Street audience. The marriage, a wholly different kind two documents are in harmony of problem arises. If one party is with papal teaching and havecredstill Catholic (for example, if he or ibility on their own merits, he said. March 7 she has not joined another church), Calling the authority issue "an 1958, Rev. Arthur P.J. Gagnon, the marriage would be invalid acarcane ecclesiological problem," Pastor, Holy Rosary, New Bedford cording to Catholic Church hlW. Bishop Sullivan said it arose only Should you attend in that case? March 9 partly out of a "refined point" 1947, Rt..Rev. Henry J. Noon, It is a difficult decision for a expressed by Cardinal Joseph V.G., Pastor, St. James, New Bed- grandmother or parents to face. Ratzinger, head .of the Vatican I believe it is, first of all, imporford; 3rd Vicar General, Fall River, Congregation for the Doctrine of tant to acknowledge that there is 1934-47 the Faith. Bishop Sullivan, elected no black and white, right and March 12 last November to chair the U.S. wrong answer. One can only weigh . 1961, Rev. Aurelien L. Moreau, , bishops' Committee on Social several factors and theri make as Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River, Development and World Peace, prudent ajudgment as possible, all spoke at the first of a Tour-part things considered. . ' 1I111111111"""IIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII; e series of talks sponsored. by the I'm sure you wonder, for exam- . Wall Street Jesuit Office to interpIe, about the possibility of scanANCHOR (USPS-S4S..{)20). 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DIETZEN him out from your family and that you want your lines of communication kept open. He is, I hope, not acting in violation of his own conscience. But you have your own convictions, and you (as well as his parents, other relatives and friends) never need to apologize for them. You have as much right to your beliefs as your grandson has to his. If you feel that simply attending the wedding would indicate approval that would compromise your own faith convictions, then perhaps you should not go. On the other hand, you may be able to make your position clear and still attend the wedding without being misunderstood. As I have noted in this column previously, there is perhaps less danger today than formerly in attendance of relatives at such affairs because of the widespread confusion and religious searching in many of our young people. One wonders on occasion, to put it plainly, if they ever had any faith to lose - and this through no moral fault on the part of their families. Emotional and spirhual maturity of the kind required for a genuine faith commitment in understanding and accepting the church's teachings about marriage seems to arrive awfully late for many young people today. Talk about it with others involved, think and pray about what you should do, decide and then" don't fret over your decision. A free brochure outlining the basic prayers, beliefs and precepts ofthe Catholic Church is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.
Methods criticized WASHINGTON (NC) - "Liberal" democracy with a heavy dose of capitalism, will do more for Latin America's poor than socialist futures conceived by liberation theologians, a U.S. Catholic scholar said recently. The current spread of democracy in Latin America is a challenge to liberation theology to prove whether it ca'n really aid the poor and oppressed, said Michael Novak, a senior staff' member with the Washington-based think tan'k, American Enterprise Institute. SoCialism will not do the job, he concluded. "Latin America does need a revolution" but "it ought to be a liberal revolution," he said. Novak, the institute's director of social and political studies, outlined his ideas' in a press conference which also introduced his book on liberation theology, "Will It Liberate?"
By Faith "The just man liveth by faith." ~ Roin. 1:17 .
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USCC-friend of court in Mormon lawsuit WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference, in a case involving the Mormon Church, has urged the Supreme Court to ,uphold a federal provision allowing church institutions to employ ,only church members. In a friend-of-the-court brief, the USCC asked ttle high court to overturn a district s;ourt decision that declared unconstitutional an exemption for churches from some civil rights law. The exemption provided that in employing personnel to carryon church activities, churches could be granted an exception from the 1964 Civil Rights Act'S ban on discrimination based on religion, race, color, sex or national origin. The district court ruled that the exemption could "advance religious tenets and practices" and thus violated the First Amendment's ban against establishment o( religion. The USCC argued that the lower court misinterpreted the ban against established religion and said that unless this misinterpretation were corrected it would "lead to increased governmental involvement in the affairs of religious organizations. " The First Amendment's two clauses dealing with religion guarantee that "Congress shall make no fa w respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereot" . The case, Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vs. Amos, arose when a Mormonowned company fired a Mormon employee who failed to attain a demanded level of church perfec-. tion. Others fired for the same reason joined in a suit brought against
the church. The district court had ruled that religious employers may refuse to employ people for religious reasons only when the job involves the church's religious activities, not secular ones. The Mormon employees worked in such capacities as a personnel office staff member, an engineer for a gymnasium and seamstresses. The USCC brief did not discuss the merits or theological validity ofthe Mormon Church's position, instead stating in a footnote that the USCC concern "is in rectifying the erroneous construction of the Establishment Clause adopted by Motta photo the district court." The USCC said when the MorAFTER A DAY at North Dartmouth's Bishop Stang High School, the road home for mon Church favored its own meml6-year-old junior Tracy Cunha includes a wait at Fall River's Second Street bus terminal. bers and discharged employees who did not meet church standards, "its actions did not implicate any constitutional provision." The Catholic conference said the civil rights exemption "does not impermissibly prefer or advance religion in violation of the Establishment Clause," but rather "it Most Rev, Daniel A. Cronin, ary chairman. He notes that the Msgr. Gomes is serving as the insulates religion from certain gov- Bishop of Fall River, and priest Appeal's many beneficiaries now Fall River area's director. ernmental regulation." directors ofthe 46th annual Catho- . need more funds than ever before An Appeal Kickoff meeting is The section of the law granting lic Charities Appeal have an- due to cost increases and i.nflation, scheduled for 8 p.m. April 22 at the exemption provides that the nounced that they are optimistic and stresses that 1987 giving in- the Bishop Connolly High School,' Civil Rights Act's ban on discrim- that the proceeds ofthe 1987 appeal creases are imperative in order to Fall River, auditorium. Over 800 ination "shall not apply ... to a will surpass 1986 totals. help the ever-increasing number of clergy, religious and laity are exreligious corporation, association, Last year's Appeal was the elev- people who find themselves in need. pected to attend. educational institution or society enth in which over one million dolThe Appeal's special gift phase with respect to the-employment of lars was raised. The 1986 'collecMsgr. Anthony M. Gomes, the will be held from April 20 to May individuals of a particular religion tion raised $1,779.775.00, an in- Appeal's diocesan director, an- 2. The parish house-to-house camto perform work connected with crease of $110,109.00 over 1985. nounced the names of the priests paign is scheduled for Sunday, ...its activities." With the full cooperation of the : serving as 1987's area dir~ctors. May J, from noon to 'Jp. m. Over Because ofthe constitutional ques- priests, ,parishioners and the tliou-" 'they are Father Richard 'C Chre- :\.15;000 'f16.nies',in~;t1fe: dioeesbiW111 tion involving a U.S. law, the sands of friends of the Appeal in tien, New Bedford; Fathei'JohnoF. 'be visited by iO,650 volunteer soliciSupreme Court provided expedited southeastern Massachusetts, 1987 Andrews, Cape Cod and the Is- tors. This phase ends officially on review ofthe district court ruling totals will exceed those of 1986. lands; Father Francis L. Maho- May 13. Contributions will be and there was no appeals court Bishop Cronin marks his 17th ney, assisted by Father Roger L. accepted until May 22 when final decision in the case. year of serving as the drive's honorGagne, Attleboro; and Very Rev. totals of special gifts and the parGerald T. Shovelton, Taunton. ish phase will be closed.
Bishop Cronin optimistic about 1987 Catholic Charities Appeal
Says personal witness beats sophisticated technology
THIS SATURDAY IS THE FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Honor the Immaculate Heart of Mary
ROME (NC) - The growth of "derives from partial viewpoints Catholic lay movements has shown and fragmentary interpretations that the church "offers more than , contrary to the spirit" of the do religious sects," said Jesuit Second Vatican Council. Father Fio Mascarenhas. Prisca Volk of the Schonstatt The president of the Interna- movement described the rise oflay . tional Catholic Charismatic movements as "a great explosion Renewal" Father Mascarenhas of innovation in the church." While. the church has. "many also said lay movements are a sign documents, many ~eachings~' and of "noticeably increased and intensified participation of the lay the use of "modern.mass media," movements ~'a~e n~t of institutions faithful in the,church's life." bu'tare gr'Qups'ofmenand w.ome~" The priest spoke at a press con- W~o experierice"~he p~esence and ference inaugurating the Second the work of the living God," she International Colloquium of said. Eccesial Movements.
Practice the devotion of the five First Saturdays This devotion wa's requested by Our lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917, when she said: "God wishes to esta.blish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. "I shall come to ~sk for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If people listen to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace:" Then again, on December 10, 1925, Our lady appeared to Sister lucia, one of the children of Fatima, and told her lhe following: "Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation" all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall '
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Sponsored by the charismatic, Italian-based Communion and Liberation and 'German-based Schonstatt movements, the recent meeting brought together representatives of 17 international Catholic movements, including Focolari and Worldwide Marriage Encounter. The firsLsuch colloquium \yas ,,: ' reId iil Rome in 1981.. The ,colloquium's theme, "Vocation and Mission of the Laity in the Church Today," was tied to the October world SynOd of Bishops on the laity, FatherMascarenhas said. 'The Indian-born Jesuit said confusion about the lay vocation
5-year:plan , VATICAN CITY (NC) - The (irstpan-African meeting of Caritas Internationalis ended with calls for agriculturai self-sufficiency and more aid to refugees, according to conference coordinator Denis C;angy. The m~eting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, attracted '\00 representatives from 44 African countries who discussed a fivey~ar plan action for t~e continent: Carita Internationalis, based at the Vatican, coordinates and represents more than 100 national ' member agencies worki~g in economic development, emergency aid and social action.
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USCC supports ~'pro-family"bill . WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference has .urged senators to back legislation providing temporary job leave, saying the measure represents "a good first step toward a 'profamily' policy for working people." In a letter to each senator, Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, USCC general secretary, sought support for the Parental and Medical Leave Act of 1987, S. 249. The bill, introduced by Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., would provide 18 weeks'unpaid leave for men and women workers when their children are born, adopted into the family or seriously sick, and 26 weeks' time off for the worker if he or she is sick or injured. The version of the bill pending in the House of Representatives would also offer leave for workers who must help care for elderly, sick parents, a provision not offered in the Dodd-Specter measure. "The proposed bill would provide some measure of job security to temporarily disabled workers and their families, and to the parents of newborn, newly adopted and seriously ill children," Msgr. Hoye wrote. He noted that "the United States is the only developed country in the world that does not guarantee the jobs of new parents and of workers with non-job-related conditions that require leaves of absence." The monsignor termed the proposal "a modest bill" and pointed out i~ wo.uld not require ;employer:;.) t9: ,pay~mployees_ on leave. Rather, he- said, '~it would simply protect the jobs and employee benefits of those who are temporarily unable to work or who are needed at home for short periods" to care for their children.
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Coming to La Salette Shrine SATURDAY, MARCH 14 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. to speak on A MINI-REUNION of alumni of the former Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, recently took place in Japan as blood sisters Sister Louis (left) and Sister Francis Pinsonnault got together for the first time with Columban Father Martin Dubuc. The two Sisters of the Presentation of Mary teach at Kenmei Girls' Academy, Sakai City, on the main island of Honshu, Japan. Father Dubuc, stationed in Oita City on the southern island of Kyushu, is a pastor, youth director for Oita Prefecture and director of the Oita foreign commun- . ity~ Sister Louis.has b~en in Japan since 1952, Sister Francis. since 1950, Father Dubuc since 1979. All will make home visits this year, the sisters in April and Father Dubuc in September. Father Dubuc's parents, Roland and Blanche Dubuc, and the sisters' sister-in-law and several nieces and nephews still live in Sacred Heart parish.
Court rules jobless benefits for workers fired in Sabbath dispute WAS H INGTON (NC) Employees fired from their jobs because their religion forbids them to work on the Sabbath cannot be denied unemployment benefits, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled. The high court in an 8-1 decision ruled that Paula A. Hobbie, a Seventh-day Adventist from Altamonte Springs, Fla., should not have been denied benefits by the state of Florida. . Such a denial constitutes violation of religious freedom, Justice William Brennan wrote for the majority. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was the lone dissenter. Ms. Hobbie had worked for the Lawton and Co. jewelry store in Winter Park, Fla., for more than two years when she was dismissed in 1984 because she refused to work on Friday evenings and Saturdays. Shortly before she was fired, she had joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, whose religious beliefs require members to refrain from working from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, the chqrch's Sabbath. Ms. Hobbie, the store's assistant manager, had arranged with her boss to work on Sundays, while he worked on Friday even-
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LEAVENWORTH, Wash.(NC) - A Bavarian woodcarver living in a German-style village in Washington state is carving what he calls "the largest wooden statue of Christ in the world." Gunther Geyer has had the project in mind for 45 years. Now, at his home outside of Leavenworth, a town in the Cascade mountains rebuilt to look like a German village, he is finally working on the statue, which is to be 27 feet high. He has been collecting blue spruce for four years. The pieces, many of them massive, have been fitted, laminated and bolted together on the groun·d. There have been cracks. When that happens, "you cut in deeply and relaminate another piece right in," he said. - The statue is meant to be the heart of a Christian complex that will be "a center of theater, art and worship," Geyer said, outlining his philosophy as "glaube, lube un hofnung," - "belief, faith and hope." "If you don't believe, you can't create beautiful art. I draw strength from the love of God that I feel in
my life, even in my person," he said. Geyer grew up in Germany where "we carved all winter. In the spring, my grandfather walked across the country selling our creations house to house." .
of misery. I want to say that, and I want to say it strong," Geyer said, "I've seen so much misery. I grew up under Hitler. I saw Hamburg burning, Munich bombed. I saw bombs fall on London and Poland." He said he has thought a good deal about the death camp at Dachau, Germany; the nuclear bomb:ing of Hiroshima, Japan; and the· fighting in Vietnam. He talks about a friend with cancer and about people who struggle with crippling disabilities.
His first piece, ~hich he still has, is a deer poised at .the edge of a cliff. He did it when he was 7. "First you learn to use the tools," he said, "then to gather 'the right kind of wood; bass is good, so is pine and chestnut. Most people start their actual carving with a One group of people that Geyer Madonna," Geyer left 'Germany in 1950, especially hopes to inspire is arthrigoing first to Canada and then to tis sufferers. He's had to deal with the United States. He peddled his an increasingly crippling form of wares as his grandfather had, going . that disease himself for the last 15 from rectory to rectory, getting years. commissions, doing restoration "Slows you down. I haven't got work. During slack he worked as a the power in my wrists that I once carpenter or logger or dug ditches. did," he said. His wife Margot worked and traGeyer plans for his statue and veled with him. the complex that will surround it to be a place of pilgrimage. What makes a person decide to . "It will be dedicated to all sufcarve such a statue? "I grew up running toward beau- ferers," he said. "A place to put ty as to light. Christ is the way out aside anguish."
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SAN FRANCISCO (NC) Alienation from the church occurs when individuals or groups "take a single idea and detach it" from the "whole spectrum of truths" in the Gospel, says San Francisco Archbishop John· R. Quinn, "When you take that one good . idea and get emotionally fixated on it and make the whole church and the whole of the Gospel into that one idea, that's where you find alienation," he said in aJ:l interview in the San Francisco Catholic, monthly newspaper of the archdiocese of San Francisco, on the occasion of his 10th anniversary as archbishop. As an example of those alienated from the church, the archbishop cited women seeking a greater role in church life. "I know that there are women who no longer go to Mass," Arch-
bishop Quinn said. "They don't go to the sacraments, they don't go into anything related to the church because they feel women don't have an appropriate role in the church. "That idea may have merit in itself. There probably should be a more expanded role for women in the church. It does have merit to examine this and see how this can be done. "There's a loss of vision of the rest of the Gospel. Here is somebody giving up the Eucharist and the sacramental life of the church because of one movement. So I think one of the way's to heal alienation is a constant effort to put forth the whole content of the Gospel." Even when good ideas, such as increasing the role of women in the
church, come along, said Archbishop Quinn, these ideas "cannot be used to hold the whole church hostage," Some changes promoted by those alienated from the church "may be good in themselves," but cannot be implemented at this time "because the church is not prepared or disposed for them yet," he said. Perhaps, he said, "it's not the moment." The changes advocated "may not contribute to the unity of. the church," said Archbishop Quinn. "Every member of the church is responsible for this unity and is obligated to remain within that unity, and to preserve that communion in charity. It is contrary to the highest values of the Gospel to take a single idea and so explode it that it destroys communion, charity and peace in the church."
Our Daily Bread feeds Taunton's hungry The folks 'at Taunton's Our Daily Bread soup kitchen care about the needy, the lonely, the elderly and all who could benefit from a hot meal or warm conversation. Staffers and volunteers at the kitchen, located close to the heart of Taunton in a building next to St. Thomas Episcopal church, represent all religions and walks of life. And according to program supervisor Judy Rose, Our Daily Bread has brought the community closer together. Mrs. Rose, a member of St. Thomas' parish, explained that Rev. Thomas Crum, its rector, saw the need and got the soup kitchen started. Rev. Crum, she said, "got a lot of knocks on his door for food, for money. He thought this would be the best way to handle everything." And so the program began two years ago, in a basement now glowing with warmth and the good smells of home cooking. Our Daily Bread opens its doors at 8 a.m. weekdays for coffee and serves lunch to between 80 and 130 people from 11:30 a.m. to its I p.m. closing time. The huge amounts of food needed to serve the kitchen's guests are donated by Taunton area schools, businesses, individuals and churches. Many churches. Mrs. .Rose estimates that contributions come from 90 percent of the area's Catholic, Protestant and Jewish houses of worship. "And the Taunton Vincentians do a; lot,~' ~r$. Rose added, "Mon,ey, volunteers,' I~gwork, everything." When The Anchor was meeting with Mrs. Rose, incidentally, Roland Ducharme and Val Winter, both Vincentians and members of Taunton's St. Joseph parish, arrived laden with boxes of doughnuts. "This place is kind of unique," Mrs. Rose said. "We have an old man who comes here, and if we don't see him for a week we'll have somebody check up on him. People do things they don't have to do." She explained that she andjanitor Tony Pina are the kitchen's only two paid staffers; her husband Anthony, she said, is among its more than 30 volunteers. A board of directors and a treasurer complete the ODB team. How did the mother of seven get involved with the program? "Well, I was asked by Rev. Crum to supervise," she said, "and I did. I love it. I enjoy the people." Mrs. Rose explained that many of the kitchen's regular guests face problems beyond their control. She said that before she began work at ODB, she had no idea of the severity of Taunton's hunger problem. "I never knew there were such things as street people and hungry people. My biggest satisfaction is seeing people leave here after having a hot meal that they wouldn't have had otherwise." Meals range from soup to fullcourse luncheons, Mrs. Rose said, noting that "we serve them as if they were dining in a restaurant. Everybody's served with dignity." The kitchen remains open on selected holidays. Corline Cronin, a member of Sacred Heart parish, Taunton, cooked a full-course
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JUDY Rose and Daniel Pittsley work Our DailyBread's kitchen. Thanksgiving Day dinner for over 80 guests last November, Mrs. Rose said, and a December 24 Christmas party came complete with a tree, decorations from Dighton's St. Joseph parish, music, a huge buffet and lots of presents. "People sponsor children like they're their own," Mrs. Rose smiled. 24-year-old Tauntonian Daniel Pittsley is an ODB regular. He comes for the friends and the food, he says, and helps out by setting tables:' ,. "And he gets hollered at!" Mrs. Rose calls over. Daniel smiles. "I'm glad I found this place," he says. Speaking about the Catholic community's involvement with ODB, Mrs. Rose said that she "could call a. priest and say that I don't have something, and I'll have it in a week. They're really, really great. Some of the priests come down for dinner sometimes. "It takes a case of peas for a vegetable for a meal here," she added, noting that she'll often ask church leaders to specify to their congregations which canned goods are needed most. Father John J. Steakem, pastor of Taunton's Immaculate Conception church, calls Our Daily Bread a "nice operation." Immaculate Conception started
monthly collections of canned goods for ODB about a year ago. "We won't be able to feed the world," Father Steakem said, "but we will be able to take care of the people here. We're raising the consciousness of parishioners, showing them that there are people out there who aren't as well off as they are." Initial response to the ODB plea was "great," he said, and "the people are still in there!" Father Steakem ties the request in with Matthew's Gospel message "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers..." People have approached him, he said, telling him that they're glad there's a way to help their neighbors. Many have said that they have been aware ofthe city's hunger problem but didn't know how to help. Immaculate Conception parishioner Ed Walsh brings the parish donations to ODB each month. Other friends of the kitchen are the Dominican sisters from Dighton and Taunton's Marian Manor who volunteer on their days off, and Coyle and Cassidy High School students like Laurie Brown, who work at ODB as part of their school community service program. Persons wishing to help Our Daily Bread can call Judy Rose from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays at 824-9595.
Pope discusses June trip with Polish church leaders VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has met at the Vatican with Polish church leaders in preparation for his planned trip to the country in June.. The pope consulted Feb. 28 with Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Gniezno and Warsaw, president of the Polish bishops' conference, along with six other bishops and conference officials, the Vatican said. Polish sources at the Vatican said the group was in Rome for several days of talks with Vatican officials to put the finishing touches on the papal itinerary. The pope is expected to make his third trip to his homeland June 8-14. The sources said the pope is
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Dear Dr. Kenny: Today's youngsters are tackling challenges in elementary, middle and high school classrooms earlier than we did. In many cases, mom and dad can no longer .sit down at the kitchen table, spout the answers and send their children back to the classroom the next day on top of the academic world. Rather, the kids are studying things and doing things with computers and other learning tools that are totally foreign to pilrents. Aside from pleading ignorance or declaring ourselves innocent victims ofthe information explosion, what can we do to help our children? (Indiana) When our youngsters outdid us athletically, when they outran us, outshot us or outwrestled us, we could heretofore always fall back on the notion that we were still smarter than they were. What- a blow to our parental egos to discover our sixth-grader is lea.rning things and performing mental manipulations beyond us. Well, cheer up parents. Wisdom is different from intellectual skill. Wisdom comes only as a gift of age and experience. Parents, be wise! Be wise enough to let your children teach you. That may take a
little humility, but what a delight for the youngster to revel in the fact that she is teaching her mom or dad the "new math." As one youngster, who had studiously avoided doing homework before, told me: "I have to go home now and show mom how to do my math." Teaching someone else is a good way to learn. You will be helping him master his lesson by requiring that he clarify it for you. That will also be a boost to his sometimes flagging self-confidence, to know that he knows more than his parents. I am indebted to my high school son, a cross-country runner; who taught me how to jog and run in my early 40s. He was there on my 50th birthday, cheering me on, when I ran my first marathon with him.' I will never catch or outperform him, but we are both richer for the skills he -has given me, and he learned about running, coaching and dads in the process. Let your children teach you the many manipulations of the computer, the sense of new math, how to draw and/ or all about Abe Lincoln. Your need to know can be their motivation to learn still more. You do not have to be the expert to help someone learn. Sometimes, it helps to be "dumb" parent.
Another way parents can help their would-be prodigies is to set a time and place for homework. If you cannot provide all the expertise, you can at least structure the setting. Agree upon a time. Immediately after dinner and before evening television is a fairly good choice. Agree upon a place. Living room or kitchen table, but not in front of the TV set. Perhaps television should be off for everyone during homework hour. Then give your yOungster credit in some fashion for completing his homework time. You may keep a chart and give a bonus point for each half hour, to be redeemed with an extra privilege or some small token or gift. If he has no official homework, encourage him to read or write or draw during this time. Don't be dismayed if you find your youngster learning things that are beyond you. You can still help. First, let him teach you. Second, provide the setting for study time at home. Both approaches are excellent ways to keep a child motivated in school. Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address The Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rennsselaer, Ind. 47978.
Terrorism strikes the Bosco home By Antoinette Bosco
they let him go? Will we ever see ing life could be used as pawns for him again? acquiring instruments that destroy For his immediate family the life. The kidnappers' sin could anguish was unbearable. only be compounded if they made The expression "Man's inhu- .these doctors and nurses unwilling 'manity to mari" 'takes' -(in new -'participants -iio"denyingrthe' very meaning when people capture oth- thing they stand for, life. ers at gunpoint, take away their The truth is, we are all victims in freedom and dangle their lives for this cruel cat-and-mouse game, political expediency - turning peo- the captives, the families and evple into pawns in a very unfunny, eryone who believes in life. We all ugly game. feel the injustice, the fear and the During the ordeal, the word was sense of violation. that the kidnappers apparently· Fortunately for our family, Minwanted arms. There was such irony ier's release was secured Feb. 7. He in the fact that people who· have plans to continue his humanitar. dedicated themselves to preserv- ian work.
Terrorism is truly a horror. We see the images and hear the reports and we wonder how we would r~act if it happened to us or to someone we love. When terrorism hits close to home, it takes on a whole new tone of outrage and carries a pervasive sense of pain and worry. That pain was experienced in my family Jan. 24 when my daughter Margaret got a phone call from France informing her that her husband's brother, Dr. Georges Minier, had been kidnapped by terrorists in Somalia. Minier works for a French humanitarian organization, . "Doctors Without Borders." In his profession, he could be living comfortably and getting wealthy but he has chosen instead By Hilda Young to dedicate himself to helping the Lent is clearly the most popular poor in Third World nations. He has served in the Asian countries season to diet, so it seems appropof Laos and Vietnam. Several riate to post Hilda's laws of dieting: Asking your spouse to help you months ago he went to Africa. stay on your diet does not reduce He. was .working at a U.N. refu- the urge to punch him in the nose gee camp in northern Somalia when you pop a meatball into your near the Ethiopian border when .mouth and he says, "I thought you the camp was stormed by about 60 were on a diet." armed men. He was captured, along Going on a diet increases the with nine other people who were number of pizza commercials on part of his medical team, six women television by 25 percent to 30 perand four men altogether.cent. The way the word came couldn't Announcing you are on a diet is have been worse. The family was one way to make just about any watching the news in France when food look good, even green things a picture of Minier suddenly flashed wrapped in aluminum foil in the on the TV screen with the announce- recesses of the refrigerator. Corolment of the hostage-taking. It was lary: Required foods on diets lose a complete shock to them. No one their appeal no matter how much had suspected that the situation in you used to like them. Somalia was so dangerous. Dieting during Lent makes you feel a little guilty because it seems Imagine how it would feel sudlike you are using the church to denly to see your son's face flash cheat. Corollary: Eating during before your eyes in that way. Lent makes you feel guilty. . All in the family were utterly Deciding to diet at least triples devastated, wondering, praying and your invitations to dessert exbegging God to keep him safe. All changes. day the thoughts ran through ,our minds: What is happening to On the second afternoon of a Georges now? Have they fed him? successful diet you will notice how good dog food smells. Have th.ey hurt him? When will
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Dieting invariably makes bathroom scales malfunction, sticking at one weight. I have proved this 'by weighing myself, then spitting for a half hour and weighing myself again. No change. Dieting gives you the impulse to throw mashed potatoes at people who say they have a "fast metabolism" and can't gain an ounce no matter what they eat. After staying on your diet for thr" days, it is hard to resist longdistance phone calls to old friends to tell them how strong you are. On the fourth day you will hear mysterious voices; you are either having a religious experience or you are overhearing the crackers and smoked oysters conversing in the pantry. Dieting makes your children snappy. They claim you are staring at their plates, following the food to their mouths and watching them chew. Ending a diet is the reason God made ice cream.
Not the Hearers "Not the hearers but the doers of the law are justified before God." - Rom. 2:13
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DISTRICT II, DCCW Open district meeting, Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, 7:30 p.m. March 9, St. Patrick's parish hall, Wareham. Film on Alzheimer's disease will be followed by comments from Dr. Thomas Geagan and a representative of Marion Couseling Service, ST. MARY, SEEKONK Vincentian luncheon meeting March IS. 7 p.m. Mass March 13 will be followed by holy hour conducted by Rev. Joseph Paquette. ST. ANNE, FR Girl Scout Mass 10 a.m. Sunday. Parents of first communion candidates will meet after 6:30 p.m. Mass Sunday. NC photo ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO Lenten forum 7 p.m. March 13, DR. BLOUGH visits a Haitian mother and her newborn 20,27, April 3 and 10. Topics will child. incude the Paschal mystery "becoming sacrament"; scripture; marriage and Eucharist; and justice issues. HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO A parish mission March 8 to 12 will be presented by Father Gilles Genest, MS, who will explain the program at all weekend Masses. PORT-AD-PRINCE, Haiti which gives us a big delivery ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, F.R (NC) -Cite Soleil is a three-mile- room." Pediatric nurses have donated $500 j ~~mg" i9D.e-mJlc..w,ide, ·stretch:. of . towards a psychiatric unit for child,:;",WfThen, !l~~e4 ~ ~wha,t 'piec'~,,,of , ren and adole's'cents targeted to'Dpen ',;whatr6(lmei'~~nsider,theJvyorstdiv, equipment' he would most like to next fall. ing conditionsirt the world. have, Blough replied, "water. ;'The The majority of its 150,000 CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB inhabitants live and sleep in mud, 'city's pump to the area often Mass for deceased members 6:30 breaks, and the hospital must sewage and garbage. 10 to 20 peop.m. March II at St. Lawrence bring in water by truck. Church, followed by meeting at Wample share windowless, lO-by-lOBlough said it would cost the sutta Club and a vocal pro'gram by foot dirt-floor huts built from hospital $25,000 to $30,000 to Marie W. Gardner. wood scraps, cardboard and cor, build its own water line. ST. MARGARET, rugated metal. The doctor estimated that 50 BUZZARDS BAY Three-foot-wide rivers of human ' percent of births in Cite Soleil Lenten triduum conducted by Fathwaste run through the slum and, occur in ~ medical setting. The er Ed Dudink, SVD, of Mirama~ spill their banks when it rains. mothers who go to the hospital Retreat House, Duxbury, at II a.m. and 7 p.m. March 30 through April In an 88-bed Catholic hospital have to walk - some as far as 1. serving Cite Soleil, 73-year-old three miles. CAPE IRISH CHILDREN'S Dr. Paul Blough delivers about "Surprisingly, the babies are five babies a day, using only a scis- born in seemingly good health," PROGRAM Summer host families for 10 to 12 sors and clamps. ' Blough said. "It amazes me." year-olds from Belfast, Northern IreThe retired obstetrician and He said problems occur when land, are needed. Information: PO gynecologist from Peoria, Ill., malnourished mothers try to Box 46, Ce~terville 02632. accepts no pay for his work. He breastfeed at home. '. lives in one room of a nearby guest Only 50 percent of Haitian house'and visits Peoria during the children live past the age of 5. s\Jmmer. ,'.!" ,:' Blough said. that through it all, : '99 perce'~t' ofBlo~ig!l's patients the Haitian people make life tolerable., 'go;hoine~with',heillthy babies 0!1e day after delivery.': " , "They are just personlllly beauBlough, afo'rmer parishioqer at 'tiful," he said. "They don't have St.' Mark and St. Vincent 'oe 'Paul llnythitlg, but they'l share e'veryparishes in Peoria; Came to Haiti thing. ,," , in January 1984: The father of six, "They have been supp~,essed for Blough had 'considered 'doing so long," he sai'd. "They are not a charitable work after retirement. complaining people. They dOJ)'t His wife, Pat, had died two years know what it is to have material earlier:'" " things:" "', ,
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So during a ·visit to Cite Soleil . ,In,a pastoral message iss'ued last he dropped by Ii 'governm'ent October, Haiti's bishops explained administration office and asked if life in their country. they had "someplace someone "These conditi'ons can be could come and' 'work. " ,, explained by the lack of sensitivity That place ~as'.St. Catherine to the suffering of the people, '! the Labotire, a hospital run by the,Sis- 'bishops said'. "People exploit peoters of Charity of St: Vincent de ple and, use their services but do Paul. practically nothing to elevate their "When I first went there the OB living standard." departme'nt was two little rooms The bishops said what is needed used for delivery," Blough said. to help Haiti from its present crisis "Last summer when I was gone the is nothing less than "global intersisters added on another area vention, present and long-term."
ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Parish mission March 29 to April 3, ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Lenten Mass and Sacred Heart devotions 7 tonight; Masses 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily throughout Lent. Education board meeting 9 a.m. tomorrow; also an altar boy meeting to discuss a ski weekend March 13 to IS. HOLY NAME, NB Women's guild meeting 7:30 p.m. March 9. CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, FR Meeting 7:30 p.m. March 10, Holy Name school hall, beginning with Mass for intentions of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, followed by business session, Irish step dancers and music by harpist Nancy Miles, who will also play at Mass. Masses for deceased members scheduled at cathedral at 12:05 p.m. March 21, 23 and 25. , SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR Meeting and liturgy 6:30 p.m. March 8. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St. ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Youth group members will use ' Lent as preparation time for participation in World Youth Day April 12. Family living rosary. for world peace 7:30 p.m. March 27. The parish welcomes the Clover Club's annual visit at the 9 a.m. Mass Sunday. Parish day of prayer March 18 begins with 9 a.m. Eucharistic celebration. "Journey to Easter" adult education program 10 a.m. Lenten Mondays; parish center. Evening of Enrichment for all who offer service within the parish April 4. CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Lenten video program, led by director of religious education Sister Doreen Donegan, SUSC, follows 9 a.m. Mass Tuesdays, Father Clinton Hall. Women's Guild members will host Church Women United for their World Day of Prayer H a.m. today. Guild meeting 7 p.m. March II, Father Clinton Hall; guest speaker: Dorothy Bower. Knights of Columbus installation of officers 6:30 p.m. March 14, St. Theresa's Hall, Sagamore. Knights will attend the 9 a.m. Mass March 29 at the main church. OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, NB Sisters' D'ay of Recollection March 13, with speaker Father Joseph Richard, AA (topic: The Holy Spirit in the Life of St. Therese); conferences at 10:30 a.m. (in lower chapel) and 2 p.m. (with communal Lenten penance service), ,
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ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT The Women's Guild will award a $500 scholarship to a parishioner who will be attending college this coming year. Women's Guild members will partake in World Day of Prayer services today at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church. Poor Family Supper 6:30 p.m. April IS. Lenten services with varied themes 7 . to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, March I I to April 8, and 7 to 8 p.m Friday April .. 10. Turn to Page 16
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MUZEYEN AGCA, mother of Mehmet Ali 'Agca, Pope John Paul II's 1981 would-be assassin, recently met with the pope in a 'private audience. The pope called the meeting "a moment very moving not only for her but also for me."
The pope and openness VATICAN CITY - One way to upset Vatican officials is to tell them, as some critics have, that Pope John Paul II is insufficiently open-minded and informed to understand the complexities of U.S. and other societies.
"He visits the world to understand the countries in which the problems exist," said Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navaro-Valls. "He has known different ways of life not only by studies, but also through contact."
Their ire is rising in the aftermath of hot criticism of Vatican disciplinary actions against such well-known U.S. churchmen as moral theologian Father Charles Curran and Archbishop Raymo.nd Hunthausen of Seattle. Many Vat, ican officials say they hear and read charges that these actions were taken because the pope is incapable of understanding the workings of a religiously pluralistic, culturally multi-faceted and democratic society such as the United States - where there is respect for intellectual dissent.
Vatican officials note that Karol Wojtyla took plenty of opport'uri'ity to travel and learn from other countries even before he became a widely traveled pope. They cite what they call his profound intellectual curiosity and ability which enable him to list playwright, poet and university professor on his resume. Vatican observers also note the pope's doctorate in theology and his studies in doctrine and philosophy.
Behind this view, the officials say, is the mistaken notion that the pope has a narrow range of ideas and experiences due to his upbringing in Poland under restrictive Nazi and communist regimes. The officials say it's not so and point to the pope's intellectual efforts and his broad travel.
the result, goes the argument, is a pope who is intellectually cosmopolitan and geographically wellversed. Whether the argument is convincing to critics, the fact is that Pope John Paul compiled a large record of intellectual activity and travel before his 1978 election as pontiff - including a specialty in phenomenology, the study of observable activity.
While living under the strict controls imposed by Poland's communist regime, he took advantage of limited opportunities to travel, ,often by getting invitations to atten~ meetings and important religious gatherings in other countries. As a newly ordained priest, he studied in Rome, and used summer vacations to visit France, the Neth~ erlands and Belgium. Then as a bishop, he attended the 1962-65 sessions ofthe Second Vatican Council. During the council, he traveled to the Middle East. As a cardinal, Karol Wojtyla visited the United States twicein 1969 and 1976. The 44-day 1976 trip included a period of lecturing at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. After becoming Pope John Paul II, he launched an annual series of globe-trotting trips which have taken him from Aus~ralia to Zaire including several repeat visits to countries. The pope's diverse travel and intellectual record, his advisers argue, combine with a probing curiosity to see and learn more about the world and its societies. "He is not a laboratory intellectual," Navarro-Valls said.
Churches valuable to handicapped, doctor says NEW YORK (NC) - Religious communities can do more for the handicapped than, science can, a physician who is a national leader in rehabilitative medicine told an interfaith forum in New York Feb.
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"You have the hidden rehabilitation s'ystem, not I," said Dr. Henry B. Betts, head of the Chicago Rehabilitation Institute, one of the largest such agencies in the nation. As director of the institute, he said, he found that his main challenge was to "convey hope" to patients capable of'~total despair." Where the physician is a "failure," he' said, the. religious com-
munity can deal with.the human: spirit and bring the hope that is "the greatest healer of all psychic wounds." Betts gave the keynote address at the second annual Religion and Rehabilitation Forum sponsored by the Open CongJ:'egation,' an interfaith agency that encourages churches and synagogues to make their facilities accessible to the handicapped and include the handicapped in the to'tal life of the congregation. Auxiliary Bishop Edward M. Egan of New York, a member of the Open Congregation board of directors and one offour respondents to Betts'address, said the reli-
gious community's commitment to the handicapped grew from its concept of the person as one made in the image of God. Another respondent, Mary Cas:" lin, executive director of the Bodman and Achelis Foundations, said she considered religious bodies best suited for meeting the needs of the disabled, and many of the grants she administered went to assist programs of churches and other religious institutions. Betts: who is Protestant, said he had more difficulty firiding suitable Protestant chaplains. At seminaries in the Chicago area, he said, people he talked with were oriented to working in a psycho-
logical mode. But he said pa~ients handicapped children in congreneeded chaplains., who could talk gational life, Mercy Sister Sally to them about God, the Bible and Ryan, coordinator ofspecial eduspecifically religious con¡cepts. cation for the handicapped in the "I already had enough people Diocese.of Rockville Centre, N. Y., interested in Freud," Betts said. "I ,said 91 of the 132 ,parishes in her was, interested in God." diocese now had I'eligious educaBetts said he became aware- of tion programs for c~ildren with the importance religion held for special needs, and that the number his patients when he found some increased each' ye'ar. ' of them "played with miracle No chiid is denied the sacrathoughts," felt "overwheImed with ments of Eucniuist and confirmaguilt" or were "bargaining with tion becalise of disabilities, she God." One man, he recalled, said. If'a'child is notable to ask for stopped doing rehabilitative exer- the sacraments, she said, "the faith cise because he expected God to of the family, suffices for that indireward his previous "good" life vidual. " A child is asked to "wait," with a miracle. she said, only if- there would be At a workshop on inclusion of "desecration'to the host."
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Another third .~ere.~ated A3 -:adults - by the USCC. Unfortunately, the remainder 'were classified 0 - morally offensive: But happily the '10 biggest money losers also were rated O. 20 films were classified by the USCC as Al - general patronage - in 1986, an encouraging increase in the quantity and quality of films
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More morally tasteful films available NEW YORK (NC) - In. an effort to get into American homes, the movie industry has increased its production of morally tasteful films. Hollywood knows that it now takes barely a few months for a film to go from the movie screen to the videocassette recorder. The economic effect of that fact is shown in figures reported in Channels magazine. It said that last year for the first time, major motion picture distributors made more money from videocassette sales and rentals than from theatrical box office receipts: . Among those theatrical moneymakers, morally sound films were well represented. Not one of the top five money-makers was morally offensive by U.S. Catholic Conference standards. And one-third of the 36 films'whicll grossed $10 million or ·more·were suitable for family viewing.
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Everything he said was hallowed from above with moral strength Lent IS a time for introspection, and inward light. In Exodus, God said "You shall critical analysis and maybe change. A fast-moving society with have no other gods before me." change following change has Unfortunately, we live in a time thrown many a man and woman with so many gods that the waveroff a course hitherto considered ing Christian is confused. Exodus safe and navigable. Changes in reminds us that the name of the values, standards and morals are Lord must not be take"n in vain. discomfiting for a majority; we All around us, though, it is used find ourselves aliens in a strange that way hourly, by those who land. We ask where the good old count themselves as good Christians. days are and who can blame us? Is this the way we repay the "To get back on course is to go to Jesus, the one advocate who never Creator? Is this the way one thanks lost a case. Those who truly believe the compassionate, gracious, lovin him have nothing to fear, even 1~g, long-suffering and generous in the midst of the worst of times. Father? Heis a saving Lord if you Jesus never raised an expecta-" confess to him. Present your case tion he did not answer. His answers in all humility and he will forgive. weren't always the ones people He is a Lord of justice and happy wished for, but they were true are they who work for him, no ones. They were solid ground, and matter how small their efforts may if that was what one was looking seem. People are so concerned with for, he had it. Here was the uncorrupted mind, here was the highest outward appearance, but the Lord conscience, here was strength, not looks to the heart! And it is in the weakness. His words were and are heart that he places His words, gems from a limitless treasury. asking that we not forsake them. By <:ecilia Belanger
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Q. Is it bad to be around friends You have a terrible conflict bemuch older than yourself, rather tween your desire to remain clean than friends your own age? Most and your desire to win acceptance. of the people I go out with are 23 You lean more and more in the to 24 years old. How would that direction of Eddie and his pills. affect me? (Oregon) Finally there's Tim, who likes to A. How these older friend$ would hit on all the cute girls he can find. affect you depends on what kind You know that one of these nights of persons they are. Let's conjure he's going to hit on you and you up some imaginary older friends feel very unsure about how you'll and guess what a friendship with react. _ them might look like. He makes you feel uneasy and Judy at 24 has an excellent job full of conflicting feelings. You that involves much computer knowwonder what to do. how. She talks to you quite a bit When you are around these older about her job and the skills she frien~s, you also may find that you had to acquire to get it. She is able can't talk about a lot of the things to give you $ome fine guidance that interest you a great deal. about entering the computer field. You have to remain silent about Leo works on the night shift at a your place on the debating team, factory about two miles from your about an upcoming important bashouse. He talks about his job a lot ketball game and about your proband about his fears for the future. lem with shyness. He thinks there'll be a big layoff in With friends your own age, you the next six months. can talk about these topics more This leads YQU to consider ways freely. And some of your problems you might plan a more secure job might best be solved, not by peofuture. "pie who are not really interested in You gradually become aware them, but by people your own age that thcae older friends talk a lot who are experiencing much the " about *eir jobs and sometimes same life you are. you feet you don't have much in Send questions to Tom Lennon, c:ommoU with them. . " 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., WashingNC photo Marianne, however, does some- ton, D.C. 2000S. thing you can relate to. She drinks A ROADSIDE billboard near Laurel, DE, offers an exception to the school prayer bah. lots of beer. Some of the guys say The message is sponsored by a church group. " she is a near~alcoholic. ". That doesn't bother you though. You _ide you can strengthen DICKINSON, Texas (NC) your friendship with Marianne The farm crisis is a spiritual one and with a lot of the guys - if you because "the bond between man Second quarter honor roll stuture, Andrea Greene, David increase your weekly intake of and his land is broken" when a dents have been named at Coyle Malanson and Melissa Vallillo; farmer loses his land to a corpo-_ Elizabeth Figlock, codirector of beer and realted drinks. A bad and Cassidy High School, Taunand freshmen Daniel Alves, Nicole rate owner, says Associaton of ton. High honors went to seniors the arts and theatre program at decision. . Dorthe, and Christina Yelle. Then there's Eddie who always Rural Life Directors vice-president, Charles Barton, Jodi B.oudreault, Honors were merited by nine Coyle-Cassidy, will play the part seems to have an endless supply of Ursuline Sister Christine Pratt. Laurie Houghton, Amy Larocque, seniors, 13 juniors, six sophomores of Joanie in a Barkers Players various pills. Somehow he frequent- She said it is "a spriritual crisis Mary O'Shea and Roger Roy. and II freshmen; and honorable production of "Little Footsteps" ly manages to imply that you could when man suffers separation from Also tojuniors Richard laMothe mention by 26 seniors, 22 juniors, which will be entered in an R.I. Association of Community Theabecome a real adult if you'd expand earth and from the experience of and Peter Precourt; sophomores 21 sophomores and 14 freshmen. being cocreator with God." tres competition tomorrow. your use of drugs. Michelle Boivin, Christine Cou-
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tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.. General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: AI-approved, fOI children and adults; A2-approved ,for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and ,explanation); O-morally offensive.
"Hoosiers" (Orion) - A dedicated but dictatorial coach (Gene Hackman) leads a small-town high school basketball team to the 1952 Indiana state championshipwh'ile' effecting some attitude adjustments in the community and rebuilding his own self-esteem along the way. This film celebrates a vanishing American rural ethic where integrity is everything and winning is ' the spice of life. Brief instanc,es of mildly vulgar language and a courtside scuffle. AI, PG Films on TV
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Florida ~oy whose transplant funds were stolen gets new liver PITTSBURGH (NC) - A , tion, said Lynn McMahon, spoFlorida Catholic school student keswoman for Children's Hospital who received an outpouring of in Pittsburgh. She said his condidonations after money for his liver tion was normal for posttransplant was stolen underwent transplant surgery. transplant surgery' Feb. 24. in By March 3·Ronnie's condition Pittsburgh;- Donations for Ronnie DeSiliers' had been upgraded by the hospital liver'transplant poured .in after from critical to serious. thieves took $5,000 that his parochial school classmates in Fort "Mommy don't cry, I'll be OK," Lauderdale, Fla., helped raise for the Pittsburgh Press quoted his his operation. Among the conmother, Maria, as saying Ronnie tributors after the theft was Presi- told her when he was wheeled into dent Reagan, whq called Ronnie the operating theater. She said Feb. II to tell him to "keep the Ronnie asked to take s,ome toys faith." Reagan contributed $1,000. and a picture of Reagan in with Students at St. Anthony Catholic him. School had raised $10,000 for their Ronnie was born with a liver 7-year-old classmate by donating that does not have enough ducts to lunch money and holding bake transfer bile into his intestines. sales and other activities, but Physicans at Miami Children's thieves broke into St. Anthony's Hospital had said he would live and stole about half of the money. only six to 18 months without a (See last week's Anchor) transplant for his deteriorating Ronnie was listed in critical but liver. He was tranferred to Childstable condition Feb. 25 after a ren's Hospital in Pittsburgh Feb. nearly 12-hour transplant opera- 17.
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ST. STANISLAUS School, Fall River, kingergarten teacher Mrs. Jeannine St:Laurent and her c.harges participate in a mask-burning ceremony in the parish grotto; according to Mrs. Denita Tremblay, principal, students "burned away" the,parts of themselves they don't like after drawing the bad qualities ,on masks. The ceremony topped off a Mardi Gras celebration in which'the whole school was treated to popcorn and cotton candy.
Sunday, March 15, 9-11 p.m. EST (ABC) "Cannonball Run II" (1984) - This Burt Reynolds film continued his preoccupation with dangerous auto' stunts and/sexually derived humor. Stuntman Hal Needham directed the demolitionderby comedy geared toward manic action and off-color jokes. A3, PG
New Films Saturday, March 21, 9-11 p.m. "Beyond Therapy"(New World) EST (CBS) - "SwingShift"(1984) - Based on the Christopher Dur- A young housewife (Goldie ang play, Robert Altman's emoHawn) takes a job in an aircraft tionally anemic romance tries to factory after her husband enlists in find humor in the failures of modthe Navy at the start of World War ern psychoanalysis and in the flaws II. She eventually falls intQ an of a sexually confused cast featur- affair with a personable young ing Jeff Goldblum, Julie Hagerty, ,man (Kurt Russell) exempt from Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti and military service. Although sympaChristopher Guest. Shallow inthetic in its depiction of adulterous sights pervade the film, which relies conduct, it clearly shows that adultotally upon sexual innuendo, negtery itself is wrong. Superbly acted. ative stereotypes and some vulgar A3, PG language. 0, R Religious TV , "The Good Wife" (Atlantic) A seemingly faithful and modest Sunday, March 8 (CBS) - "For wife (Rachel Ward) tries to overOur Time" - A panel of Americome a sexual crisis in her marcan journalists discuss the issues riage by having an affair with her and questions facing major reliyoung brother-in-law and succumbgious groups in 1987. ing to the temptations of an aggreReligious Radio sive stranger (Sam Neill). Bryan Brown is the unexciting lumberSunday, March 8 (NBC) jack who suffers through his wife's "Guideline" - Nick Chiacchiero sexual odyssey with the hope of of Autumn Age Wanderers, a travel putting their marriage back togethagency for, senior citizens, discuss.es er. Simulated sex scenes and conthe special arrangements, possibilfused moral perspective emphasities and benefits of travel for the ' ized. 0, R elderly.
A Youth Ministry Lenten reminder from the Office of X outh Ministry Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, continues to encourage on-going and more effective ministry with the young people of our church. He has designated Palm Sunday, 1987, as World Day of Youth - a time during which we may join together to acknowledge the gift that young people are to the church and to celebrate that realization by coming together as a community of faith. For the year 1987, our Holy Father has chosen the following scriptural theme to pray with and build, upon for youth ministry: "We know and believe the love God has for us." (I John 4:'16) . This theme consists of three dimensiOns, the first is "We must accept the gift of the love of the Father..... Therefore, during the first week of Lent, the parishes of our diocese have been asked to emphasize evangelization by reaching out to youth in order to be'the signand presence to them of God's unconditional love - His welcoming hospitality. Through the first
week of Lent, lessons, activIties and prayer experiences should focus upon self, God's unique gift. and the gift of self the others with whom we share relationships. Youth activities will hopefully help young people to recognize their own potential for living out the gQodness which is already present within them. With the support and encouragement of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, a Lenten packet was issued by the Office of Youth Ministry at Cathedral Camp and given to each diocesan parish. This will hopefully facilitate each community in meeting their Lenten goals for youth: We would like to encourage all parishes to share the fruits of their Lenten ministry with youth by. sending report~ and photographs of significant activities to The Anchor. During this first week of Lent, may the Spirit of Jesus help us to sow the seeds of awareness of God's unconditional love for our young people through the words and actions of our parish com'munities.
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, VINCENTIANS, FR Society of St. Vincent de Paul SACRED HEART, FR meeting with Mass 7 p.m. Tuesday, Father Edward J. Byington, pasHoly Cross Church, Fall ~iver. tor, recognized several of the parSS. PETER & PAUL, FR ish's outstanding high schoolers in Non-confirmed adults who wish last weekend's parish bulletin; the路 young standouts are Taryn Lopes, to receive the sacrament may call the Pedro Aguiar, Shawn Murphy, Bren- rectory for information, 676-8463. dan O'Neil, Brian Desmarais, Ben ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Rosa, Kelly Milerick, Amy Norton, Lenten meditation with organ musChristine Lafleur, Keith Waring and ic 6:30 p.m. Fridays, church. VinKevin McRoy. First Friday Club centians meet after 9:30 a.m. Mass meets tonight; all parish men wel- Sunday. come to 6 p.m. Mass, light meal and talk; Michael McMullen, a student CATHOLIC NURSES, CAPE Cape Cod Chapter of the Diocefrom Belfast, will speak about Catholics in Northern Ireland. Inquiry san Council of Catholic Nurses meetnight for non-Catholics and uncon- ing 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, St. Anthony's Church, E. Falmouth; Lenten firmed adult Catholics March 18. service and Benediction follow busiCATHEDRAL, FR ness meeting; snow date March 18; The parish congratulates its sen- transportation: 362-3395. ior girls' basketball team for taking first place in their division in the ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT CYO league. Confirmation classes for .adults ST. STANISLAUS, FR . begin Sunday; information and regLent-Easter mission April 5 to 10; istration: 636-4965. preacher: Father Peter Scagnelli. Len- LaSALETTE SHRINE, ten Sunday training forums for mem- ATTLEBORO bers of parish ministries and core Healing service 2 p.m. Sunday, groups: parents' forum, March 8; led by Father Leo Maxfield, MS; parish lectors, March 15; Eucharis- music ministry by Sister Lucille Gautic ministers, March 22; ushers and vin, OP. "Dealing with Stress" semministers of hospitality, March 29; inar 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, parish mission, April 5; young pari- with Dr. Bary Fleet of the shrine's shioners will attend World Youth Pastoral Counseling Services; inforDay ceremonies at St. Mary's Cathe- mation and registration: 222-5410. dral April 12. Chanting of the Lenten "I have a Friend Who Suffers From meditations on the passion (Gorzkie Terminal Cancer" session 7:30 p.m. Zale) 8:40 a.m. Sundays. Wednesday, monastery; Father MaxO.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE field and members of the Cancer Ultreya 7:30 tonight. Inquiry class Support Group will lead the infor7:30 p.m. Wednesdays. mal gathering; all welcome.
ST. KILIAN, NB Widowed support group meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, rectory basement; guest speaker: Florence Rogers; topic: Beginnings for the Widowed: information: 998-3269. ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Adult education video presentations on the Gospels and sacraments 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sundays March 8 to April 5, all welcome. ST. MARY, NB Scout Mass 9 a.m. Sunday. Prayer group Lenten Mass 7:30 p.m. Mondays. ST. PATRICK, FR Holy hour 2 p.m. March 15, lower chapel. O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Bible study resumes with Sister Dorothy Schwarz, SSD; meetings 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, parish center. Rite of electionJor persons studying for the Sacrainents of Initiation at 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Youth ministry meeting with Mass 6 p.m. Sunday. ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Sacred Hearts Association meeting after tonight's 7 p.m. Mass. Father Richard- McNally, SS.CC., will conduct a March 23 to 26 Lenten mission路 and speak at all March 21 and 22 Masses. Saints and Singers' Chorus Easter Concert 8 p.m. April 3. ST. JAMES, NB 31 parishioners have been installed as prayer ministers with the particular commitment to pray for the spiritual well being of the parish and the return offallen-away Catholics. Those interested in helping care for the altars are asked to call the rectory. Adult forum resumes 7 p.m. Wednesday, parish center. CYO general meeting 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Faunce Corner Club, features "Walleyball" tournament.
D of I, NB Daughters of Isabella Hyacinth Circle meeting 7:30 p.m. March 17, Holy Name Church parish hall, New Bedford; guest speaker: Elaine Ledger, state regent. CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. Mary's Church, Mansfield, youth retreat March 6 and 7. St. Elizabeth Seton Chruch, No. Falmouth, confirmation retreat March 7 and 8. CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Parishioners participated in Church Women United's World Day of Prayer services today at Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich. Catholic Women's Club meeting 7:30 p.m. March II, St. Jude the Apostle Chapel basement, ,Cotuit; Montford Missionary Father Roger Charest will speak about his pilgrimage to Lourdes; all welcome.
APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Signed Mass follows Day of Recollection and Prayer 2 to 5 p.m. March 15, St. Vincent's Home cafeteria, Fall River; all welcome. The apostolate thanks departing staffer Alfred Arruda for his valuable help and support, and at the same time welcomes parttime pastoral workers Dennis Canulla and Barbara Polselli Domingue. Easter Mass and social will be held on Palm Sunday, April 12. Persons interested in attending April and May sign language classes are asked to call the apostolate office as soon as possible at 679-8373.
CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME, FR Senior Sweethearts' concert, to commemorate St. Patrick's Day, 2 p.m. March 16, a.uditorium. Coffee hourI birthday celebration 2 p.m. March 20, auditorium. Employee of the month for March is Angela Resendes, a member of the laundry staff. .
MILWAUKEE (NC) - The National Association of Catholic Chaplains recently named Franciscan sister Helen Hayes its executive director. She had served as acting executive director since mid-October. Sister Hayes began working at the Milwaukee-based association as coordinator of education, certification and accreditation in 1983. In 1985 she was named associate director.
NOTRE DAME, FR The Yo.uth Council is planning to revive the Passion Play, formerly presented on Good Friday evening; the play will be adapted to the new church, according to the parish bulletin. LEGION OF MARY, NB Holy hour begins with Mass 5 this afternoon; includes exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. 35th Acies ceremony 2 p.m. March 29, St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River; presider: Bishop Daniel A. Cronin; speaker: Very Rev. Barry W. Wall, the legion's newly appointed diocesan director; transportation: 995-2354.
ST. JOSEPH, NB Lenten program (study of Synoptic Gospels) begins 7 p.m. March II.
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GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS
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THE OLDEST NATIONAL CHURCH COLLECTION IN THE UNITED STATES.
. MAIL TO THE SOCIETY FOR
PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH
Rev. Msgr. John J. Oliveira, V.E.
SURPORT
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SIONS
368 North Main Street Fall River, Massachusetts 02720 672-7781 OR PLEASE BRING YOUR GIFT TQ .MASS THIS WEEKEND.
MARCH 7
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