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Father Bento R. Fraga to mark 50 years as a priest

By MIKE GORDON

been my ple~sure to serve in those communities."

TAUNTON - Reflecting on Father Fraga, 75, was ordained his 50 years as a priest in the Fall to the priesthood March 17, 1956 River diocese, Father Bento R. by Bishop James L. Connolly in Fraga described his priesthood as St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. "a joyful experiA Taunton native, ence." he served for 13 Many people years following his will add to that joy ordination as a pathis Sunday when rochial vicar at St. John of God Parhe marks thatjubilee at a 3 p.m. ish, Somerset. He Mass at St. is currently in resiAnthony's dence at St. Church.

Anthony's Parish Bishop George where he assists W. Coleman will with Masses and be principal celhears confessions. ebrant at the Mass Son of the late and will be joined Antonio C. and the by many late Eteluina concelebrants. A (Bertao), Father reception will fol- FATHER BENTO R. FRAGA Fraga was part of . a large family, low at St. Anthony growing up with seven brothers Church hall.

"I've had so many good years and four sisters. One of his sisat so many great parishes," said ters, the late Sister Mary Fraga, Father Fraga when asked to pick RSD, also answered the call of a a memorable moment. "I've truly vocation. enjoyed ministering at them. It's Turn to page three - Anniversary ANCHOR STAFF

New cardinal to celebrate Mass at Cathedral on April 18 FALL RIVER - On April 18, newly-named Cardinal Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., will celebrate Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral at 3 p.m.

Faithful from across the diocese are invited to attend this special Mass. Those who wish to offer the new cardinal congratulations may do so at a reception that will take place at White's of Westport following the Mass.

OLDER STUDENTS FROM Holy Trinity School, West Harwich, and St. Pius X School, South Yarmouth, who will form the new St. Pius X Middle School, met for the first time and enjoyed lively conversation, lunch, and an ice cream buffet. Additional get-togethers for these students are planned, as both schools move toward an exciting time in the life of all Cape Cod Catholic school families.

Many opportunities await Cape students in newly-created middle school program

By DAVE JOLIVET, EDITOR

FALL RIVER - With a clear vision of providing an ideal academic and social environment for middle-school aged children in the Harwich-Dennis-Yarmouth area of Cape Cod, diocesan Superintendent of Schools George Milot recently announced the creation of grades six, seven and eight at St. Pius X School in South Yarmouth beginning in September of this year. Students scheduled to enter those grades at Holy Trinity

School, West Harwich, will attend St. Pius X School in the fall.

"Our goal is to provide all students with the best possible Catholic education," said Milot in an interview with The Anchor.

"Creating double grades in sixth, seventh, and eighth,grades, allows us to offer diffeientiallearning for students whO! are becoming more mature and are nearing their high school yeats."

Milot said the plan isn't about just transferring studynts. "We're

creating a new middle-school system at St. Pius X that will provide students with better educational opportunities to prepare them as best we can to attend the new Pope John Paul II High School that will open in Hyannis in September of 2007."

There was mixed reaction when the plan was first announced to parents of students attending Holy Trinity School.

"Change is very difficult," said Turn to page /3 - Program

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Diocesan youth experience joy and hope at Mission Honduras

By NICOLE AND PETER BRATTON

FIFTEEN TEEN-AGERS from Cape Cod recently spent nine days helping out at Mission Honduras, sponsored by Christ the King Parish, Mashpee. (Photo courtesy of Nicole and Peter Bratton)

This past February, 15 teens and 10 adults from the Diocese of Fall River had the extraordinary experience of being short-term missionaries at Mission Honduras in the Comayagua region ofHonduras, Central America. Sponsored

by Christ the King Parish in Mashpee and including two parishioners from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Falmouth, the group has returned to the diocese eager to share with other teens what they learned during their nine-day trip. In hopes of inspiring other youth groups to consider mission trips, two siblings members ofthe group, Nicole and Peter Bratton, have written about their missionary experience for The Anchor. Nicole is a sophomore, and Peter is a freshman at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth.

Peter Bratton on the Corporal Works of Mercy: During our group's time in Honduras, we per-

form~d a variety of jobs for the mission. In the mornings we did everything from digging ditches and· making curtains to picking up garbage and sorting supplies. Sorting the supplies was a fulltime job; we brought nearly 2,500 pounds of books, pharmaceuticals, pencils, and paper donated by our parishes. It took more than three days of unpacking before we got all the supplies to where they were needed. Around the volunteer house, which is where we stayed, we cleaned window screens and picked up trash. At the mission's high school, we dug the foundation for a new wall. At the Center for Abandoned Women (locally referred to as the Mother's Project), we repaired doors and installed screens.

Every afternoon we did a different activity with the kids from the Mother's Project. On Saturday, we played baseball and soccer with them.

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PRACTICE THE DEVOTION OF THE FIRST SATURDAYS, AS REQUESTED BY OUR LADY OF FATIMA

On December 10, 1925, Our I,.ady appeared to Sister lucia (seer of Fatima) and spoke these words: "Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour ofdeath with the graces necessary for the salvation oftheir souls, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months shall: 1. Go to confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Recite the Rosary (5 decades); and 4. Keep me company for 15 minutes while " meditating on the 15 mysteries ofthe Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

In a spirit of reparation, the above conditions are each to be preceded by the words: "In reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

Confessions may be made during 8 days before or after the first Saturday, and Holy Communion may be received at either the morning or evening Mass on the first Saturday.

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Father Jerome Lawyer esc, 93; former POW, led Family Theater SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Congregation of Holy Cross Father Jerome R. Lawyer, a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines and assistant to famed "Rosary Priest" Servant of God Patrick Peyton, died March 6 at the age of93 at Holy Cross House on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Father Lawyer entered the novitiate of his congregation in 1926 and made perpetual profession of vows in 1934. He was ordained a priest on June 24, 1939. He then pursued Arabic and Islamic studies at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in preparation for missionary work in what is now Bangladesh.

As World War II began in December of 1941, he and other members of his congregation en route to East Pakistan, were ordered to disembark from their ship as it arrived in Manila in the Philippines.

Father Lawyer and all Americans were imprisoned by the Japanese Anny in a camp at Los Banos and suffered physical abuse and

starvation. They were liberated by American paratroopers in 1945.

Back in the U.S., he assisted Father Peyton in the Family Rosary Office in Albany, N.Y., be-

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coming superior of that apostolate. In 1950 he was named director of Family Theater in Hollywood, Calif., where without formal training, he hired writers, edited scripts and supervised the production and broadcast of Family

Theater films - including the mysteries of the rosary - in which many Catholic stars appeared.

His film work took him to Madrid for eight years. For his films exhibited at the World's Fair in Belgium he received the Bene Merente award from Pope Pius XlI. In 1965 he became assistant provincial in the U.S. Four years later he resigned to serve for 17 years in inner city parishes in New York, until declining health forced his retirement.

His final years were spent at Holy Cross House at Notre Dame where he remained an avid Yankee fan. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., in recognition of his contributions to the Church and to Holy Cross.

Father Lawyer is survived by nieces and nephews.

His funeral Mass was celebrated March II in St. Joseph's Chapel in Easton. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery there.

The Kane Funeral Home of Easton was in charge of arrangements.

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FALL RIVER - Holy Union Sister Mary Louise Samson, 87, also known as Sister Dolores Marie, did March 5 at the Catholic Memorial Home.

Born in Newton, the daughter of the late Ernest and Catherine (Meunier) Samson, she graduated from St. Patrick's High School in Brockton and from Carney School of Nursing in South Boston.

She was a nurse at Carney Hospital when she entered the Holy Union Novitiate on Sept. 20, 1936. She made her first profession of vows in 1938 and her final profession on Aug. 22, 1943.

Sister Mary Louise's first ministry at St. Martin's Convent in Fall River, was followed by many years ministering to the sick and elderly Sisters at Sacred Hearts

Convent, also in Fall River.

She spent many years teaching primary grades in New Jersey, New York and at Holy Ghost School in Tiverton, R.I. After retirement, Sister Mary Louise assisted in the Provincial Offices. She had resided at the Landmark in Fall River until, requiring nursing care, she moved to the Catholic Memorial Home.

She leaves a stepsister, Sister Jeanne Briand; a stepbrother, Robert Briand; cousins, and her Holy Union Sisters. She was also the sister of the late Holy Union Sister Louise Loyola, and Walter Sampson.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated March 8, in the Catholic Memorial Home Chapel. Burial was in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Fall River.

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Legion of Mary to host 54th annual ACIES ceremony FALL RIVER .:- The Legion of Mary of the Diocese of Fall River will hold its 54th annual ACIES Consecration Ceremony March 19 at 2:30 p.m. in St. Mary's Cathedral. Bishop George W. Coleman will preside and Father Barry Wall, diocesan director of the Legion of Mary, will be the main speaker.

The event is a yearly renewal of active members of the Legion of their commitment to working under the "banner of Our Lady," by performing apostolic works.

The event includes recitation of the rosary, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, prayer, and consecration by active members.

Currently, in the diocese there

are six Praesidia (groups): Our Lady of Good Counsel (the oldest group) at St. Joseph Parish, Fall River; a Portuguese Praesidium, Our Lady of Fatima .at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bedford; a Spanish group, Mary, Mother of God at St. Joseph Parish, Attleboro; Seat of Wisdom at St. Joseph-St. Therese, New Bedford; Queen of Peace at St. Joseph's Parish, Fairhaven; and Our Lady of Mercy at St. Mary's Parish in South Dartmouth.

Bishop Coleman will be presented a spiritual bouquet as well as a yearly report on the works of the Legion, which include visits to nursing and rest homes, hospi-

tals, cheer calls, families of newly baptized children, door-to-door evangelization, teaching Religious Education, work at food pantries, special ministers of the Eucharist, and prison ministry.

The active members will also acknowledge auxiliary members, whose support and prayers are paramount.

The Legion of Mary is the largest lay organization in the world with millions of active and auxiliary members.

For more information about the Legion of Mary, contact Father Wall at 508-672-7232, or Father Terence Keenan, spiritual director of the New Bedford Curia, at 508-992-7163.

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public policy voice of those bishFALL RIVER Bishop ops, which stated they "would seek George W. Coleman plans to meet relief from the regulatory requirewith diocesan counsel and officials ments of the Commonwealth" on from diocesan-run Catholic SQcial the issue of providing adoption to Services to consider that local same-sex couples.

Catholic Charities was faced agency's role in providing adop" with three options: to end its adoption services.'

That statement', released by the tion services; to keep its adoption Fall River diocese on' March 10, services operating as they have comes on the heels of a separate been, which are in conflict with announcement. that 'day by the Church teaching; or seek an exboard of directors of Catholic emption from the non-discriminaCharities of Boston·that it will not ' tion clause in its adoption contracts seek a renewal of its contract with through the state government.

At a meeting prior to the Cathothe Commonwealth of Massachusetts to provide adoption services, lic Charities' announcement, the board voted to end its more than a effective June 30.

Addressing the controversial century adoption program "so that issue of placing children with the agency can focus its efforts.on same-sex parents Father 1. Bryan continuing to provide a variety of Hehir, president, and Jeffrey r.igh-quality programs and services Kaneb, chair of the board of trust- to those in need across Eastern ees of Catholic Charities of Bos- Massachusetts."

Until Catholic Charities has ..ton, in ajoint statements said, "We have ~ncountered aocdilemma we exited its adoption program in June, it will continue to comply cannot resolve."

"In spite of much effort and with existing laws and regulations, 'analysis, Catholic Charities finds it was reported.

One of the largest private pro~ that it cannot reconcile the teaching of the Church, which guides viders of social services in Massaour work and the demands of state chusetts, Catholic Charities ofBospolicy and regulations," their state- ton currently assists children, teens, ,ment noted. . families and seniors in need regardTn February, a statement waS less of age, race or religion through released by the four bishops of approximately 135 programs.

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"Most of my brothers will be Provincetown were a good pastothere on Sunday," said "Father ral experience. I was involved in Fraga. "I'm looking forward to it." the lives of people during both A 1948 graduate of the former joyful and sorrowful moments."

Bishop Coyle High School in Father Fraga said he's received Taunton, Father Fraga also gradu- much encouragement· from the ated from Stonehill College and many parishioners he served and went on to attend St. Mary's Semi- was gratefUl for "being able to go nary in Baltimore, Md. to the altar every day and cel" Tn 1969 Father Fraga was as- ebrate Mass for the people." He signed to St. Joseph's Church in added that being involved in euTaunton, before being appointed charistic ministry to the to Holy Ghost Parish, Attleboro homebound through the years was in 1972: He served as parochial also something that brought him vicar for two years before being joy. named pastor in 1974. .

"I've been blessed to have In 1986 he was' named pastor known so many wonderful faini, of St. John the Baptist Parish in lies," said Father Fraga. "They reNew Bedford. A year later he was ally nurtured my vocation when I named pastor of St. Peter the was younger and many of them Apostle in Provincetown. Follow~ still have a positive influence in ing the retirement of the late Msgr. my life."

Robert L. Stanton in 1992, Father His diocesan assignments inFraga was named pastor' of St. eluded director of the Somerset Paul's Parish, Taunton. He served CYO, Taunton area director of that post until his own retirement Catholic Cemeteries, director of in July of 2005.

St. John's Cemetery in New Looking back on his parish as- Bedford and director of the . signments, Father Fraga was, Spanish Apostolate. He was also thankful for the many "support- the Taunton area director of the ive communities." He was im- Catholic Charities Appeal and a pressed by the "committed member of the 'Priest's Senate people," of Somerset and said it 'and the Ecumenical Commiswas a "wonderful experience," to sion. work with Father John J. Murphy, Father Fraga is still keeping the oldest living priest in the dio- '. busy. In addition to assisting atthe cese. parish, he still finds the time to "Holy Ghost was a good expe- get down to Cape Cod where he rience and it was nice to celebrate has a house in Falmouth. their traditions and to have an im"I always have things going on pact on that parish community anp with family and friends to keep others," he said. "My years in me occupied," he said.

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THE LANDING Catholic Democrats and principles

the living word

Two weeks ago, 55 Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives released 'a "Statement of Principles," describing what their collective goals are on Capitol Hill. They said they are "proud to be part of the living Catholic tradition" and are "committed to making real the basic principles that are at the heart of Catholic social teaching." They address poverty, education, religious freedom, health care, and the principles of ajust war.

But when they came to the elephant in the Catholic Democrats' living room - abortion - they began to equivocate, leaving the realm of the concrete and practical and fleeing to the imaginary. 'We envision a world in which every child belongs to a loving family and agree with the Catholic Church about the value ofhuman life and the undesirability ofabortion - we do not celebrate its practice."

A much more important concern is what they think should be done in the real world, when not every child belongs to a loving family, when others do not recognize the undesirability ofabortion and the value of human life, and when others, in fact, celebrate abortion. One of the most powerful organizations to celebrate and promote the practice of abortion is their own Democratic Party, which unabashedly states in,its platform, "we stand proudly for a woman's right to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade.... Choice is a fundamental, constitutional'right."

On the issue of human life, they stated, "we seek the Church's guidance and assistance, but believe also in the primacy of conscience. In recognizing the Church's role in providing moral leadership, we acknowledge and accept the / . ,tension thar'c~es with being in disagreement with the Church in some areas."

One might expect that Catholic Democrats, looking at their own party :- . ' platform, would feel bound to acknowledge and accept a tension that comes from being in disagreement with a party platform that celebrates what they claim is undesirable; instead these 55 legislators acknowledge and accept the tension A WOMAN'IN SHANKARPUR, INDIA, USES A TRADITIONAL INDIAN SPINNING WHEEL TO MAKE of being in disagreement with the Catholic Church. That choice, in their public statement of principles, speaks volumes.

THREAD. IN A Bm TO HELP THE WORLD'S RURAL POOR, THE VATICAN HAS URGED WEALTHY They add that "each ofus is committed to reducing the mitnber of unwanted COUNTRIES TO RETHINK FARM SUBSIDIES AND TRADE BARRIERS. (eNS PHOTO/PAUL JEFFREY) pregnancies and creating an environment with policies that encourage pregnancies to be carried to term." It would be great if all of those who made that statement really meant it, but for about 60 percent of them, these words seem "THE MAN WHO HAS TWO TUNICS IS TO SHARE WITH HIM WHO HAS NONE; nothing but political rhetoric. That's because 33 of the 55 signatories voted AND HE WHO HAS FOOD IS TO DO LIKEWISE" (LUKE 3:11). ' against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban in 2003. It's hard honestly to claim one wants to encourage pregnan~ies to be carried to term when one votes against a bill that was seeking to ban the abortion of half-delivered children who have obviously already been carried to term. It's also hard to imagine, if one could not vote against this incredibly heinous procedure, what abortions such a Catholic Democrat路 would ever vote to reduce or eliminate.

A second traditional spiritual self-denial end self-sacrifice, as preserve their strength and Toward the end of the statement, they declared, somewhat ironically, that discipline that is emphasized we deny ourselves the pleasure concentration, it is nonetheless they were "Catholic Democrats who embrace the vocation and mission of the during the season of Lent is of satisfying our hunger appe,true for most of us that fasting is laity as expressed by John Paul II in his Apostolic Exhortation 'Christifideles fasting, a discipline that offers tite. When we fast, we ask God an irreplaceable method of Laici.'" It's unlikely that many or any of them actually read that beautiful 1988 to reward this sacrifice with purification and penance. document on the laity, because in it our deceased pontiffexposed as "false and another opportunity to live the paschal mystery.

Although graces for those in rieed.

This Fasting helps the soul to gain illusory" the very principles they were seeking to affirm. He form of prayer, like other self-control and strengthens the emphatically declared, ~The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf fasting may not be a popular methods of mortification and will to resist other passions that of human rights - for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, discipline among'many in the may want to be satisfied in a ascetici.sm, is pl~asing to God, to culture - is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and funda- Church, it remains a time-tested sinful way. Byfasting, a mental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with , way tO'move the soul person can achieve a maximum determination." In other words, all the good things that Catholic closer to God. Democrats say they wish to do in concert with their faith -like promotion of One of the reasons certain freedom from Putting Into health care, or education, or family programs - are based on a lie unless they we fast is that Our Lord earthly attachments, and are grounded on the most basic and fundamental right of all, the right to life. told us it would be an a new level of selflessthe Deep Then he went on to describe the particular responsibility of politicians to acceptable form of ness, because it always secure this right: "If, indeed, everyone has the mission and responsibility of prayer, after He left us. entails a real offering of By Father David acknowledging the personal dignity of every human being and ofdefending the When Jesus was asked self.

A. Pignato right to life, some lay faithful are given a particular title to this task: such as why the followers of Fasting should also parents, teachers, health care workers and the many who hold, economic John the Baptist and the create in us increased and politiCal power." , .

Pharisees fasted, but his capacity for loving Some commentators have said, cynically, that this statement was a means to disciples did not fast, Jesus路 others. As we learn through because it imitates in some try to woo back Catholic voters to the Democratic party" since practicing Catho- . answered, "Can the wedding small way what Christ did on fasting to look beyond our own lics, in the past three presidential elections alone, have swung a stunning 20 guests fast while the bridegroom the cross, and thereby provides desires and immediate wants, points in the Republioan direction, mainly for value-oriented reasons. These is with them?

As long as they us with a way of living the we can train ourselves to focus Catholic voters have acknowledged and expressed at the polls a growing tenmore on the needs of others and them; paschal mystery. have the bridegroom with sion and rejection ofthe position ofthe Democratic party on abortion. Democrats . Like the paschal mystery, in to act more readily to help them. in Congress would be wise to grasp that until they are able to share that tension they cannot fast The days will which Our Lord passed through As the Father~ of the Church anq rejection, not with the Church but with their party, they will likely see that come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then suffering and death to arrive at would say, "th.e duty of fasting exodus continue. they will fast on that day" (Mk the joy of supernatural life, is rendered acceptable to ,God 2: 18-20). fasting requires passing through when it is made perfect by the OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE We also know from Our Lord a period of pain, often includfruits of charity."

DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER that fasting is a very powerful When we fast, we put into ing a growling stomach and Published weekly except for two weeks in July and the week after Christmas by form of prayer. On one occasion related headaches, before the the deep in our p(ayer and in the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River, 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, when Jesus' disciples were pleasure of breakfast, when we the spiritual dimension of MA 02720, Telephone 508-675-7151 - FAX 508-675-7048, E-mail: unable to cast out a demon from break the fast, and enjoy the reality, where God rewards acts theanchor@anchomews.org. SUbscription price by mail,postpaid $14.00 per year. a boy, Jesus explained, "This relief of food and renewed of self-sacrifice and self-denial Send address changes to P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA, call or use E-mail address kind cannot be driven out by strength. by showering down graces to Memhcr: Catholic Pre" Association, New England Press Association. Catholic New, Service those in need. Fasting is . anything but prayer and fasting" While it is true that fasting PUBLISHER路 Bishop George W. Coleman EXECUTIVE EDITOR Father Roger J. Landry fatherrogerlandry@anchornews.org (Mk 9:28). Our Lord was must be regulated and modercertainly not easy, and someEDITOR David B. Jolivet davejolivet@anchomews.org teaching us that fasting is an ated, preferably under the times requires an iron will, NEWS EDITOR Deacon James N. Dunbar jlmdunbar@anch'ornews.org intense and sustained form of supervision of a spiritual always aided by grace. But REPORTER Michael Gordon mlkegordon@anchomews.org prayer. when we offer our lives in director, and is not appropriate OFFICE MANAGER Mary Chase marychase@anchornews.org fasting, we begin to live the Like the paschal mystery, in for everyone, especially expectSend Letters to the Editor to: theanchor@anchomews.org which Our Lord offered his life ing mothers, the sick and paschal mystery, in loving POS1MASTERS send address changes to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7. Fall River, MA 02722.

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Rooting for a Saluki come into play during March last year.

Shamrocks can found Madness. Eighteen schools Others base their selection everywhere (even in the ~n gut feelings. Still others on have actual people as their masthead of this week's nickname with Pirates and loyalties, and others via the Anchor). Television commerAggies leading the way with pin the tail on the donkey cials are sated with Lepretwo each. method. chauns. Corned beef and The most appropriate team Then there are those who cabbage steam fills the air. name for today is the Iona make their choices by team These signs can only mean Gaels. nicknames. You know the one thing - St. Patrick's Wichita State athletes are Day? Nah, not for a French- .. people - the ones who know known as Shockers Canadian like me. All and it took a little signs point to March research to figure this Madness. one out. At first I ' Yep, it's that crazy thought they were time of year when electric eels or somebasketballs rain from thing like that, but the the skies like an orange name derives from the meteor shower. It's term wheatshockers. . when learning instituBy Dave Jolivet For the life of me, I tions like Albany State, couldn't figure out and Belmont and what a Sooner was, Davidson Universities despite the fact that I've heard nothing about basketball, yet grab their 15 minutes of the name for the past 40 win the tourney pool every national spotlight. It's when . years. A quick trip to the year. college students go crazier /Well, keeping with Father Oklahoma U. Website solved than usual and alumni go even that dilemma .

Tim's "Name Game" theme further.

According to the school this week, I did a little March Anyone who enjoys sports history, settlers in the OklaMadness research. latches on to a team at this homa territory in the mid Of the 65 schools that time of year and hangs on for 1800s were allowed to stake a began the 2006 tourney, 30 a ride that will hopefully lead have animal nicknames, 12 of claim providing everyone to American's Heartland, began the process at the same which are in the feline Indianapolis, for the Final time. A few adventurous folks' family, six are of the canine Four in early April. left early and became known persuasion and. four are The field starts with 65 as "sooners." The school named after bears. My championship wannabes, and associated'sooners with hard favorites in the animal will end with one national working, .opportunistic wincategory at the Great Danes champion. ners and the name stuck. of Albany State and the Thousands and thousands Sounds to me like they should Salukis of Southern Illinois. of fans complete their brackbe the OU Cheaters.

Twelve schools identify ets hoping to boast that they Even the dark side is themselves with feathered know college hoops better represented in this year's field creatures, six of which are than anyone and can predict' of 65. Blue devils and demons some form of eagle, including , the outcome in every round are well represented, although a Golden Flash. Five of the leading up to the finals.

I feel a bit guilty selecting birds belong to the hawk Some base their picks on either one to win it all. family and there is one lone knowledge of the game, .

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Cleansing our minds and hearts this Lent When I read John's Gospel this week about the moneychangers in the temple, I think back many years ago when there were moneychangers in our churches. Neat little rows of quarters lined a table as parishioners would come in and ask for change for a dollar to pay the "seat money." It was a traditional donation to "pay" for your seat in church.

In Jesus' day, such people existed to help those who had traveled to the temple in Jerusalem for worship. It was the Passover time and mapy Jews went to the temple to celebrate the feast. Those present in the temple were performing a service by providing animals for sacrifice Moneychangers were also . performing a service. The. temple would not accept regular coins and required that the temple tax be paid with temple coins.

So why did Jesus drive them out of the temple area with a

For many, this may be the whip made of cords? season of God's grace when all John tells us: '!His disciples that is not right in our lives is recalled the words of Scripture, cast out. Oh, we want to do it, Zeal for your house will but things are more comfortable consume me."

While all the Gospels mention this incident, it is only John Homily .of the Week , who had this episode listed at the beginning Third Sunday of the public ministry of Jesus. Others place of Lent it just as Jesus was to ByMsgr~ . enter into Jerusalem for his passion and death.

John J. Oliveira There is the obvious reference to his death as they are. and resurrection. As John's I can imagine a teen-ager's Gospel states: "But he was room might need cleaning, but speaking about the temple of his they are content with what is. body. Therefore, wh~n he was Perhaps, even leftover food and raised from the dead, his dirty clothes in a pile can be disciples remembered that he found. had said this, and they came to It is like the lady who wanted believe the Scripture and the a sponsor certificate. When I d.id word Jesus had spoken." not recognize her路路from church, As I reflect on the readings she said I had to realize how this week, two meditative points busy she was. She worked and, come to mind as we begin this while admitting that she did not third week of Lent.

work 24n, she was busy. After all, she noted, I do have my karate.

So it is that there are things in our spiritual lives that need to be cleaned, removed, done away with. Do we really want to do it? Will it take Christ to come into our lives and do it, much the same way as he cleansed the temple?

Christ is willing; the real question is, are we ready?

Secondly, an obvious reflection on the路 readings today is how do we respect the temple - the church? Have you noticedthe sound level when you come to church? One can question if people come to church to visit one another. Is it a social hour, or time t6 worship God? Before a special ceremony, such as a wedding or first Communion, the noise level drowns out the possibility of prayer.

One personhas said it is like

visiting a home and not speaking to the guest who had invited you.

Could it be that we have forgotten who we are and why we are at church? We have come to worship God, to pray together in community. We come to raise our minds and hearts to the Lord, to lift our voices in prayer and song.

This is much more than a social or religious obligation. It is our attempt to focus the . week to come on what matters.

It is the place where we are nourished by the Body of Christ and his Word. It is where we gather the strength we need to go forth to proclaim his Word, his works.

May the cleansing ofthe temple by the Lord remind us to cleanse our minds and hearts this Lent. May it remind us of the special place our Church must be.

Msgr. Oliveira is pastor of

St. Mary's Parish in New Bedford.

Defense of family life crucial, s~ys head of Vatican's family council

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VATICAN CITY -Colombian Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo , spends most of his days behind a desk, but he says he feels like he's "in the eye of the hurricane."

As president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Lopez has denounced proposals in several countries that would authorize same-sex marriage and adoption. .

He has helped local churches oppose legislation to legalize abortion or make it easier to obtain and has called promotion of contraceptives a form of "biological colonialism"路 by drug companies and wealthy nations.

He has described drug addiction as a modem "form of slavery that oppresses the whole world."

Two years ago, he went on British television to warn that condoms were not an effective barrier against the AIDS virus and 'suggested conaom packets should carry a warning to that effect.

Cardinal Lopez is cenvinced that the family risks destruction today and thai the Church must lead an "evangelical struggle" to defend it ,"People don't realize the human tragedy they are preparing," Cardinal Lopez said in a recent interview with Catholic News Service.

"If you look at Europe or the Americas, there's.nota parliament where these issues are not being debated. I think it's providential to have a pope who speaks with courage and clarity - and to have a curial agency to fend help when needed," he said.

The cardinal's comments came as Pope Benedict XVI was consid-

ering ways' to streamline Roman mind on topics ranging from di- its opposition to abortion and its positions on a range of Pro-Life Curia departments. vorce to gay adoption.

In the interview, however, CarAt the Synod of Bishops last and family issues. , "It's a different kind of politics," dinal Lopez Trujillo said his October, he urged a firmer line on council's role was more important the issue of Communion, politics he said. ''Those who are afraid of than ever. It is currently preparing and abortion. In his view, he said, this are mistaken." the Fifth World Meeting of Fami- . politicians who promote unjust The family council was establies in Valencia, Spain, in July; the legislation must "remedy the evil lished by Pope John Paul May 13, . committed" before they receive 1981 - the day the pope was shot pope is expected to attend. by a Turkish assailant in St. Peter's The meeting, the cardinal said, Communion.

When Spain approved gay mar-' Square. will bring together Catholic pro''That's why we say we were family advocates from around the riage last year, Cardinal Lopez said world to exchange experiences, to Catholic civil officials should con- born with a baptism of blood," proclaim and defend Church teach- scientiously object to taking part Cardinal Lopez said. ings, and "to bring fire" to the in such ceremonies, even if they The council has a presidential committee of 15 cardinals and 12 movement. lose their jobs as a result.

Cardinal Lopez sees Pope On several occasions, he has . archbishops and bishops, 19 marBenedict as a natural successor to praised the Bush administration for ried couples from various countries who serve as members, and 39 carry on Pope John Paul II's strong pro-family agenda. . consultors. Its permanent staff of ''The pope has chosen this as 12 officials is small by Vatican standards. one of the human priorities of his papacy, a historic priority. Because In 2003, the council completed one of Cardinal Lopez's pet if the family collapses, the world projec"ts, a lexicon of what he con,collapses," he said. siders ambiguous terms in discusHe noted t\:1at already in his papacy, some of Pope Benedict's sions of life and family matters. It said terms like "gay marriage," "resharpest comments have focused productive rights" and "emergency on threats to the family. The pope's contraception" are really euphefirst encyclical defended the dignity of marriage as the true expresmisms used to promote practices that deny the natural truths about sion of love between a man and a sexuality, marriage and the dignity woman, he said. of human life.

Cardinal Lopez, the former More recently; Cardinal Lopez archbishop of Medellin, has headed the family council since personally wrote two pampWets on "What Is and What Is Not Safe 1990. The 70-year-old prelate has Sex?" and cloning versus natural never shied away from making news, and Pope John Paul gave CARDINAL ALFONSO paternity.

Cardinal Lopez said one thing him t~e freedom to speak loudly Lopez Trujillo, president of and clearly whenever the family the Pontifical Council for the he likes about Pope Benedict's was in danger.

Family" has fought against approach to family issues is that .he addresses them in broad terms, "As the pope would say, these abortion, same-sex marriage, using philosophical and anthropoare decisive battles, and we want to be in the middle'of them," the contraceptives and drug ad- logical arguments as well as diction.

(CNS photo/ Church teachings to make his cardinal said.

Giancarlo Giuliani, Catholic Under Pope Benedict, Cardinal points.

Lopez has continued to speak his Press Photo) The pope is emphasizing that it <>

is in humanity's best interest to examine questions like same-sex marriage more carefully, so that traditional values are not- jettisoned, the cardinal said.

The stakes are high and the questions raised by the pope are crucial, Cardinal Lopez said.

"Will the future have a human heart, or will it be dehumanized?

And will the family be destroyed in some countries by unjust laws, hastily approved laws that show a real misunderstanding of society?" he said.

Daily Readings March 18 Mi 7:14-15,1820; Ps 103:1-4,912; Lk 15:1-3,1132 March 19 Ex 20:1-17 or 20:1-3,7-8,12-17; Ps 19:8-11 ; 1 Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2: 1325 March 20 2 8m 7A-5a,1214a,16; Ps 89:2~' 5,27,29; Rom 4:13,16-18,22; Mt1:16,1821,24a or Lk 2:41-51a March 21 On 3:25,34-43; Ps 25:4bc-5ab,67bc,8-9; Mt 18:21-35 March 22 Ot 4:1 ,5-9; Ps 147:12-13,1516,19-20; Mt 5:17-19 March 23 Jer 7:23-28; Ps . 95:1-2,6-9; Lk 11:14-23 March 24 Hos 14:2-10; Ps' 81:6c-11b,14,17; Mk 12:28-34

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Johnny-Johnny-Bo-Bohnney-BananaFana-Fo-Fhonny-Fe-Fi-Mo-Mohnny-Johnny 11 March 2006 - Last day of "Celebrate Your Name Week" - Homeport Some priests are out to lunch. I mean literally, of course, what else? Fathers Michael Racine, Kevin Cook and John Ozug have attended a meeting of the priests of the New Bedford Deanery and are now grabbing some lunch. The subject of the Ship's Log comes up (these guys must be starving for table conversation). They pass the ti me by proposing subjects for this column. They reach a consensus: names. What are the most popular baptismal names? What about the most common given names among our priests?

Mike, all pumped-Up, calls me on his cell phone from the restaurant. Thanks, brothers, for the hot tip. And so, by popular demand, let's all play the Name Game.

Whatever happened to saints' names at baptism? These

days, when I ask the ritual question, "What name do you give your child?" I hold my breath. Father Tom Campbell once advised, "Tim, even in the case of a saint's name, somebody someplace had to be the

first to use it." Father Campbell holds a doctorate in Church history. We have had popes named Hyinus, Anicetus, Soter, Eleuherius, Anterus, Militades, and Zosimas. All of them are saints. A man whose parents had named him after the Roman god Mercury was once elected pope. Pope Mercury wisely changed his name. He's known as Pope Saint John II. Popes have chosen new names upon

Find~ng At morning mass on Ash Wednesday we sang a closing hymn called, "The Summons"

by Kelvin Grove. The lyrics go like this: "Will you come and follow me, if I but call your name? Will you go where you don't know and never be the same?

Will you let my love be shown, will you let my name be known, will you let my life be grown in you and you in me? Will you leave yourself behind, if I but call your name? Will you care for the cruel and kind and never be the same? Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?

Will you let me answer pray'r in you and you in me?"

It was the perfect song to give confidence to those of us who were timid about wearing an ashen cross on our forehead for the rest of the day. I had a doctor's appointment right after Mass, and I have to admit that I was feeling embarrassed about walking in with a large smudge of charcoal on my face. Never mind that my three youngest kids would be walking in right behind me with the same smudges on their faces!

Beyond encouraging me to "risk the hostile stare" or just look silly for the sake of my faith, the lyrics brought back fresh memories of our youth group trip to Mission Hqnduras.

It had only been four days since we returned from our trip, and the people I had met there were still close to my heart and

election ever since.

One time, after asking the name question, the parents answer, "Crystal." "My, that's a pretty first name. Does baby Crystal have a middle name?" I ask, hoping to hear something more orthodox. "Yes. Crystal Chandelier." I am not making this up. I wonder if I should baptize with water or Windex. Poor kid.

Imagine the horrors of junior high school.

Another time, as a young priest at Immaculate Conception Church in Taunton, I'm peering out the .window. The pastor inquires what in the world I am doing.

When I tell Father Bill O'Reilly I'm looking for !Love, he turns pale. At any rate, baby Love eventually shows up for her baptism. It's then I learn her full baptismal name will be Love Leigh. That's, eh, lovely.

Yet another time, I am happily baptizing baby Marie Theresa. Everything is going swimmingly until I use the

our mission field

in my daily thoughts. While singing ,"The Summons," I felt like shouting, "Yes, Lord! .I'll risk all that and more for you.

Just send me back to Honduras." And yet, here I was in the States feeling faint-hearted about wearing a little ashen cross on my forehead for

answers to these questions lie at the core of our Catholic faith.

When we confess in the Nicene Creed that we believe in "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church," we are affirming that our Church is "missionary of her very llature" [CCC 866-870].

We are saying "yes" to the

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the day.

I had no problem sticking out like a Caucasian sore thumb in Central America, hugging orphans, wearing my "Mission Honduras" T-shirt everywhere, and firing up my rusty Spanish in an attempt to communicate with the locals. I didn't feel a bit embarrassed about sticking out by being Catholic down there, so why was I so apprehensive about wearing my faith on my sleeve - or on my forehead - now that I was back home? Perhaps it was because down there, I was not just Heidi, I was a missionary.

Up here, I amjust-your-averageHeidi, and sticking out is something I'd rather not do, even for my faith. The inconsistency of my own heart convicted me, and bittersweet tears filled my eyes as we finished the song.

Where is the mission field, and how do we know if we are called by God to go there? The

Matthew 28: 19-20, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations." The funny thing about applying that mandate is that "here" is a place, too.

Here, in my hometown, is where I found myself on Ash Wednesday, and the doctor's office was where God was calling me "to go and never be the same." The receptionist definitely did a double take and suppressed a giggle. The doctor couldn't look me in the eye, and I'm sure that he and nurse exchanged raised eyebrows when they switched places in the examination room, but there I was, being a missionary with just my own kids, no special T-shirt, and speaking my native tongue.

As Catholics, our mission field is where ever we happen to be. Our mission field encompasses every doctor's office, classroom, and living room in every comer of the globe, because each of us is close to God's heart and in his thoughts everyday.

Heidi is an author, photographer, and full-time mother. She and her husband raise their five children and grow their faith in Falmouth.

child's name. The mother Maylee, Ryland, and Shaylyn. speaks up: "That's Marie Poor kids. They'll be spelling Theresa THE THIRD." So, out their names for a lifetime. the mother must be Marie Among our parish priests, Theresa Junior, I figure. It can the top name is John. There are get a little crazy at the baptis20 Fathers John in the Diocese mal font. of Fall River. Next in order of popularity are: James and Here in the Village, we have Thomas, Michael and Willlots of babies. I need to hold iam, Richard and David. baptisms every Sunday. Often I notice there are three Fathers there are several infants at the Timothy serving in the Diocese same ceremony. Occasionally I get: "Are there any other babies of Fall River - Tim Reis, Tim Driscoll, and yours truly. that day? There are? But, you In Greek, the name Timothy see, my child is so special. means "One Who Stands in Could we have a Iseparate, Awe Before God." I like it. In private ceremony?" I know of one priest who spent every Gaelic, the name is Teague. It means the bard or storyteller; in Sunday afternoon baptizing other words, One Full of babies individually, in one Blarney. My parents sure got ceremony following another.

So what are th~ most popular that one right. How did they names? Would ydu believe ever guess their little Timmy there's someone out there who would grow up to be an Anchor tracks name trends? Would you columnist? believe it's the Social Security So, parents, if you have a Administration? ~ocial Security baby you hope may sO'~i~,~~' grow up to be a pnest, name has compiled the most popular him James Thomas or William boys' names for 2004 (I know Michael or maybe David 2004 is long-gone but this is government we're talking about Richard. The odds will be in here) - Jacob, Michael, his favor.

Joshua, Matthew, and Ethan.

Grandparents, if you get the The most popular names for word that your new grandchild girls were Emily, Emma, is to be called Crocus or Madison, Olivia," and Hannah. Carbuncle, feel free to clip this article and pass it on. If all else I checked our baptismal records for the past two years. fails, there will be another The most popular boys' names opportunity at confirmation in the Village are Alexander, time. Ah, confirmation names Cameron, Ian, Nathan, - but let's not go there.

Nicholas, and Owen. Most Father Goldrick is pastor of popular girls' names are St. Bernard Parish, Assonet.

Brooke, Emily, Julia, and . Comments are welcome at Madison. My computer spell StBernardAssonet@aol.com. check kicked up the most Previous columns are at unusual names: ~eaghan, www.StBernardAssonet.org.

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Retired U.S. Air Force nurse can't say no to serving parish on Cape By

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between us."

A native of Holyoke, she had been stationed EAST FALMOUTH - Father William M. Costello describes her as "one of the brightest at Otis Air Force Base on the Cape before it and most interesting people I have ever been closed and having enjoyed that area decided blessed to meet." When you meet St. Anthony's to live there in retirement.

A 1942 graduate of Salem State University parishioner Madeline A. McKenna, you quickly with a bachelor's degree in education, she also learn why.

"I'm a colorful person," she unflinchingly graduated from the Yale University School of told The Anchor.

Nursing in 1947, and entered the military in The retired the Cadet Air Force Nursing colonel, who Corps.

She laughserved in pubingly recalled lic life and the military as a that while nurse and who serving in the after retirePhilippines, ment in 1975 she was one began a of several greater dediCatholic nurses asked to greet the late Boston cation to the Church and St. Anthony's in Cardinal Richard J. Cushing, who was visparticular, apparently iting troops there. can't say no when "He was smiling asked to serve.

In retirement she and talking to each spends much of her one as we came by in a line and asking us waking hours as a volabout ourselves and unteerinjustabouteverything you can imhe was calling us St. age, Father Costello This and St. That. But said. While she is when I approached and said "Yale Univerquick to respond to the sity" I didn't get a needs of the parish single word from him community, she is also and I was passed by. I ready to speak out and guess he thought Yale act on behalf of many was a hotbed of secuworthy causes including the environment, larism."

Asked her age, she and protection of ani- MADELINE A. McKENNA IS A PARISHIONER OF answered, "I'm 84 ... mals.

ST. ANTHONY'S PARISH, EAST FALMOUTH and I'm well preThose activities, she served." She related a recalls, were probably instrumental in her selection in a recent year by wartime experience with a young, 20-year-old the Cape community as The Person of the Year. intern who was talking about "older" people.

A former member of the choir, she currently "I told him, 'watch your language.' He anserves as an extraordinary minister of holy swered, 'But you are so well preserved.' It's a Communion and as a lector in her parish. She favorite story and my favorite compliment."

The Anchor encourages readers to nomiis also a professed secular Franciscan.

"As she walks into the sacristy she is often nate others for the Person ofthe Week - who 'almost late, but she will say with her wonder- and why? Submit nominations at our E-mail ful smile, 'Never fear, Madeline is here!'" Fa- address: theanchor@anchornews.org, or write to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, ther Costello related.

McKenna called that, "one of the little jokes MA 02722.

POPE BENEDICT XVI participates in a live broadcast during his visit to Vatican Radio March 3. The radio's staff gave the pope an iPod nano as a gift. Vatican Radio offers podcasts in , eight different languages. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Vatican Radio marks 75th anniversary

VATICAN CITY (CNS) The idea of capturing and carrying someone's voice across oceans and continents was a radical idea at the turn of the 20th century, and one pope saw the groundbreaking possibilities in such a project.

Pope Pius XI was fascinated by this "awesome invention," and in the late 1920s he invited the inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, to build a radio broadcasting station on the grounds of the newly established Vatican City State.

Before radio, the pope's public addresses could only cover the venue at which he was speaking, maybe going a little farther if there was a good echo bouncing off Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square.

But on Feb. 12, 1931, with a flick of a switch, the pope's words spoken from a tiny, bare-bones studio in Vatican City were heard simultaneously in New York, Quebec, London, Paris, and Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.

As one American newscaster told his audience as his co-workers filmed Pope Pius giving his first radio message, "The pope, for the first time in 1900 years of Catholicism, has sent his voice throughout the world."

In his first radio message in ,1931, everyone was the object of his pastoral care and concern.

In Latin, he addressed himself not just to Catholics, but to their separated brethren, "the dissidents," even to nonbelievers, governments, the oppressed, the rich, the poor, workers, the persecuted and the suffering, sharing the Church's message of peace and love and saying his prayers were with all the world's people.

The radio became a powerful tool for evangelizing, and it offered pastoral support and comfort, especially to Catholics and missionaries in remote areas.

Vatican Radio immediately exTHE SIGN outside St. Clare Church and its parish school in Waveland, Miss., displays a panded its programming from message of hope. The church and school and all the homes in the surrounding community Latin, Italian, French and Spanwere destroyed by Hurricane Katrina last year. Six months later the parish and school are still ish to German and English in operating in temporary quarters set up in large tents and trailers. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) 1937 as the threat of World War

II loomed.

Nazi Germany even tried to jam Vatican Radio airwaves, but Catholics in France transcribed, printed and distributed "the voice of the Vatican" clandestinely.

From 1940 to 1946, Vatican Radio read out more than one million messages it received from family members, soldiers and prisoners of war in an effort to reunite or assure' families of someone's whereabouts.

When communism took hold of numerous European nations, "Vatican Radio multiplied the number of programs and languages it broadcast so that proof of the closeness and solidarity of the pope and the universal Church could reach the Christian communities oppressed by totalitarian regimes," Pope Benedict said. .

As the Berlin Wall went up and the Iron Curtain came down, Vatican Radio delivered news and the Gospel message in 17 Central and East European languages.

Vatican Radio started broadcasting in Chinese in 1950. Today the radio's Chinese program is a lifeline for the underground Catholic Church in China. The program's five journalists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China get the news and the pope's latest document out to listeners immediately, either through radio or on the Internet.

Vatican Radio began broadcasting in Arabic in 1949, the year the Arab-Israeli war ended, leaving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without homes after they came under Israel's control.

The radio's director of programs, Polish Jesuit Father Andrzej Koprowski, said Asian and Arabic communities still remain important priorities for the radio's programming.

Broadcasting now in 45 languages, Vatican Radio is no longer the loudspeaker for the lone voice of the pope, as it was when it began in 1931.

"Rather, it's a chorus of voices," Pope Benedict said, "that can dialogue with different cultures and religions."

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STUDENTS AUSTIN Moniz, Giuliana Nava and Jasiel Correia II, give witness to the welcoming, challenging and sustaining environment offered them at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River. (Anchor News photo)

Bishop Connolly High School; a joining of faith and knowledge Educators and students say they're pleased with each other's efforts By

DEACON JAMES

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FALL RIVER - Are-rooting of faith traditions from earlier Jesuit and Christian Brothers administrations plus implementation of modem education hallmarks find Bishop Connolly High School graduates prepared to meet the responsibilities of being successfulleaders as well as solid Catholics.

"We have a good school, an excellent staff, and students willing to excel and yes, we are flourishing as a Catholic high school," President Robert Morissette said prOUdly.

Last week, The Anchor sat down with students and administrators to hear all about what makes the educational facility tick.

Morissette described Connolly High as in a new frontier - "to effect and touch and reach a whole new generations of students - like those. here today, who make the plan work."

The "plan" is the presidentprincipal model Morissette says is so popular in private and secular schools "because it delineates clearly and effectively the roles of each individual in administration."

The management team includes Morissette, Principal Paul Cartier, Development Director Anne Cabral, and Admissions Director Tiffany Conlon.

Their responsibilities are to 380 enrolled students and a staff of 35 teachers, department heads and guidance councilors.

Morissette said that having "a wonderful history in the Jesuit tradition, which embraced the Msgr.

Prevost family, since then this school has proven itself to be a

wonderful and worthwhile instrument of the Lord in the diocese."

He acknowledged: "We want to stay small. We don't want to become too big. But we want to have the right mix of students and our team has done it."

Cartier, who is responsible for the daily operations ofthe school, said its goal is "to develop moral leaders in the secular world. We have assembled a group of teachers and department chairs who have tremendous experience."

Their effectiveness, he said, is seen .in the high acceptance of Connolly's students to prominent colleges and universities. Conlon said those successes as well as the public witness of students have resulteg in a waiting list of those wanting to enroll.

Cabral said the high rate of continuing interest in the school and financial support of alumni; also give proofto Connolly's success story.

At a recent cross registration of students Cartier said he reminded parents that Connolly High's motto is "not just to be hearers, but doers of the Word."

From what students told The Anchor, that slogan has sparked interaction.

"The mood here is very positive," said Austin Moniz, a senior from Swansea. "It's like a c1oselyknit family. Everyone is out to help one another. Not only does it help me to raise others up, but they're there to pick me up too."

Addressing academics, Giuliana Nava, a senior from Brazil, said "We have a lot of help from teachers, who are always ready to assist and put in extra time for us. Our advantage is that they are very knowledgeable too."

She recalled that when she first came to America as a freshman, she found all the meJl1bers of the teaching staff at Connolly "creating an environment in which I could easily reach out to them ... and they were readily available to help me in my early struggles. My fellow students did too. It definitely made a big difference in my life."

Jacob Miguel, a senior from Fall River, said that after coming from a class of 18 at Espirlto Santo School, "having been with the same people through eight years, it was quite a transition coming to Connolly. But it was still small enough that I could have intellectual conversations with teachers I never met before or didn't yet have in class; who knew who I was and my background. I found a community in which people came together on a personal level."

Elaborating on that, Melanie Pavao, a sophomore from Fall River, said because teachers strive to understand students on a personal as well as on the academic, professional level makes for an ideal relationship that promotes the interaction students look for.

"The teachers here care for us and they know when we need extra help inside and outside of the classroom. If someone is having a bad day teachers will spot that and come up and ask if we're all right."

According to Jasiel Correia II, a freshman from Fall River and a member of the honors class, an academic weakness in mathematics was turned 180 degrees by his algebra teacher. "I was struggling in math when 1came to Connolly and my teacher saw that and we

talked it over. With his help the 74 on my first report card has progressed to my recent grade of 91.

It shows not just his dedication, but how all the teachers here are.

I think they are all perfect teachers, and as a result, every student can become a better student."

Melanie Pavao was excited' about a program that allows students to experience taking a college course while still in high school. Accompanied by Connolly administrators, she and others recently visited Brown University to select a literature course. "It will offer us the college experience six months before we even go to college and I think that's very important."

As she mulls what aspects of a medical career she'll choose, Pavao had high praise for the classes in anatomy and physiology she calls "amazing. Every one of those classes I attend I learn something new."

Moniz said taking physics inspired him to seek a major in mechanical engineering. "I never was good at math, but taking that class brought a realization that I should focus on my strengths and apply it in the academic sense."

Arnie Vieira, a senior from Fall River, candidly admitted! that if a course offered no challenges, "I'd do nothing. I have honors classes ~nd advanced placement classes available. They are the ch~lIenges offered to all of us at Conriolly and that's what makes us excel."

Vieira and her colleagues also made it clear that the spirituality the school fosters makes maturing in the Catholic faith an ongoing event.

"We have Masses attepded by the entire student body, liturgical ensembles and retreats ... and there are people who are active as readers and extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist in their own parishes and who bring those talents here to Connolly," Vieira reported.

Not only those but the religious environment at Connolly "helps us to grow spirituality without the pressure of silencing our beliefs," she said. "We are encouraged to express our religious views. It is one thing public schools can't of-

fer. It's comforting to know we can just be ourselves as Catholics."

Nava said that most of Connolly's students are part of the school's active Peer Ministry program.

It was a topic the students eagerly talked about.

"We actually plan and take care of all liturgies and set up for Masses and also help to prepare for retreats for smaller groups by helping teachers," Nava added.

Vieira said, "We try to be examples and instill good Christian values."

Cabral, who teaches advanced placement arts, is the former leader of Peer Ministry.

"Because our students are so learned in that program and so capable, we have grammar schools.- three of which call every year - asking that our teams run their retreats," reported Cabral. "Our students literally run the retreats and discussions.

Sometimes it is an elementary alumnus who goes back to help."

Moniz said teachers and faculty members chaperone and lead discussions, "and then it's into the hands of the peer ministers as to how the day goes and how positive it gets, and how much each student gets out of it."

Pavao noted "it becomes easier for others to open up on retreat because they find us from Connolly truly on a peer level with them."

Connolly's sports programs also came up.

Moniz said, "There's a lot of spirit." When he added, "Sometimes so much that it gets out of control," it found the group laughing.

"Students come to watch the games ... volleyball basketball, football, hockey, track and gymnastics ... and enjoy them no matter how they tum out. And we have students who work hard to create good and winning teams," he said.

"It rounds our school life."

Cartier said he wasn't surprised to hear what the students related. "But I was very impressed by the level and support and cooperation we evidenced in what they had to say today."

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BISHOP CONNOLLY High School President Robert Morissette says the Fall River Catholic school's immediate goals are to reach out to students academically and spiritually, with the hope the'y will successfully meet challenges in the world through their enduring faith. (Anchor News photo).

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Author says McGivney bio could help restore respect for priests

By JOHN THAVIS

"He chose to draw back into the life he really wanted, as parROME - Supporters of the ish priest. He gloried in these sainthood cause of Father Michael little details that other people McGivney are hoping that he will can get distracted away from," become the first American-born she said. parish priest to be canonized.

Father McGivney's work is A new biography is introduc- considered extremely influential ing a wider audience to the 19th- in animating lay Catholics century priest - and may also through the Knights of Columhelp restore respect for the many bus, and at the same time helpgood priests in the United States, ing to remove the widespread said one of the book's authors. anti-Catholic bias in U.S. sociJulie M. Fenster, a historian ety. who co-wrote "Parish Priest: FaThe Knights, a Catholic men's ther Michael McGivney and fraternal benefit society, has American Catholicism," spoke grown to include 1.7 million about the book to U.S. priests and members. The organization sponseminarians recently at Rome's sors educational, charitable and Pontifical North American Col- religious activities around the lege. world.

At a time when the image of the Father McGivney's sainthood U.S. priest has been damaged by cause is now being reviewed by sexual abuse committed by a small the Vatican, said Dominican Faminority of ther Gabriel clergy, the book , . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . . , 0' Donnell, chronicles the postulator for good work of a the cause. He priest who, afsaid a reported ter founding miracle of the Knights of healing attribColumbus, uted to Father worked as a McGivney's simple pastor intercession until his death also has been at age 38. submitted to "I'm hopthe Vatican for ing this book study. might act as a Father gyroscope to O'Donnell, reset some of who was in the balance for Rome for the people whose book presentation,路 said he only exposure to parish sees in Father priests is out of McGivney's those headlife an exlines" on sexual abuse, Fenster ample of what Pope Benedict XVI said in an interview. described in his recent encyclical, She said part of her motivation "Deus Caritas Est" ("God Is for writing the book was anger Love"). that so many good priests were "The obligation of the church being maligned because of the to exercise charity is what Father actions of a few.

McGivney was about," Father Father McGivney, she said, O'Donnell said.

One of Father McGivney's provides a model for the kind of selfless pastoral work done by gifts, he said, was that he could countless priests in the United speak to those at every level of States. His faith and Catholicism society, relating well with the poor entered into every activity, immigrant community of Cathowhether preaching a sermon or lics as well as those who were playing baseball, she said. upwardly mobile, and forging "He believed that when you're connections between these having fun you should feel Catho- groups. lic, too, not just when you're sitFather O'Donnell said that, ting in church," she said. unlike saints of earlier centuries The book, released in January, who were known for their extraorhas been on the New York Times dinary accomplishments, Father extended bestseller list for six McGivney falls into the category weeks. of "the more modem saint, who Fenster, .who co-authored the is great because he did the ordibook with fellow historian Dou- miry things so well." glas Brinkley, said she came away路 "That's why he's such a great from her research particularly im- model, because he was 'just a parpressed with the fact that Father ish priest,' but of such an excelMcGivney returned to parish lent character. He was humble, work in his native Connecticut compassionate and charitable to after making such an important a heroic degree, but only within mark on society through the the confines of an ordinary life," Knights of Columbus. he said.

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TiM ALLEN stars in a scene from the movie "The Shaggy Dog." For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo/Disney) favorite team, the Red Sox, might finally win the World Series in 1986.

Director Michael Hoffman's adaptation of a screenplay by novelist Don DeLillo has a decent cast (including Griffin Dunne, Catherine O'Hara, Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Rees, Lillias White and Harris Yulin), but feels IC~S ~'I()viile hollow from start to finish, the New York theater milieu ringing tCaIIV~Ulllle~ particularly false, and the redempNEW YORK (CNS)- Thefol- tive ending fails to balance the lowing are capsule reviews of preceding 83 minutes of tedium. movies recently reviewed by the A few instances of profanity, Office for Film & Broadcasting of rough and crude language, two the U.S. Conference of Catholic路 nongraphic sexual encounters, Bishops. one with rear nudity, premarital sexual encounters, sexual discus"Aquamarine" (20th Century Fox) sions, and a violent brawl. The Sweetly told modem-day fairy USCCB Office for Film & Broadtale about two 13-year-old best casting classification is L - limfriends - Claire (Emma Roberts) ited adult audience, films whose and Hailey (Joanna "JoJo" problematic content many adults Levesque) - who help a mer- would find troubling. The Motion maid (Sara Paxton), washed Picture Association of America ashore during a storm, experience rating is R - restricted. Under 17 true love in the hopes that the requires accompanying parent or magic wish rewarded them will adult guardian. undo Hailey's impending move to "The Hills Have Eyes" (Fox Searchlight) Australia. With a delightful mix of fantasy, comedy and romance, Grisly remake ofWes Craven's director Elizabeth Allen's whole- 1977 horror film about a family some and warmly sentimental, if (headed by Ted Levine and admittedly lightweight, effort Kathleen Quinlan) whose crossscores points for admirably show- country road trip derails into ing that authentic love can express nightmare territory when they itself in varied ways. Some mild break down in the New Mexico sensuality and suggestiveness, a desert and are terrorized by a clan few crass expressions and innu- of cannibalistic mutant miners. endo. The USCCB Office for Film Director Alexandre Aja proves & Broadcasting classification is adept at building suspense and an A-II - adults and adolescents: unnerving sense of isolation early The Motion Picture Association on, before plunging into stomachof America rating is PG - paren- churning brutality that escalates as tal guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

it steams toward its ludicrous climax. Excessive and gratuitously graphic violence, including bloody killings and dismemberment, numerous ax attacks and shootings, a gruesome suicide, a rape, a person set on fire, cannibalism, a dog mauling, many disturbing images, much rough and crude language, as well some profanity. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is 0 - morally offensive.

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

"The Shaggy Dog" (Disney) Lame reworking of the 1959 Disney comedy, incorporating elements of its 1976 follow-up, about a workaholic Los Angeles deputy district attorney (Tim Allen) who, while trying a case involving a sinister scientist (RobertDowney Jr.), is bitten by a mutt and soon finds himself turning into one, leading to nutty canine complications with his neglected wife (Kristin Davis) and two teenage children. Directed by Brian Robbins; even Allen's comic dexterity can't make this dog of a film hunt, resulting in slapstick silliness that is strictly for the pups.

Some mildly crude humor and comic violence. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I - general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG parental guidance suggested.

Some material may not be suitable for children.

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The bill also would expand the employment authorization verification program, but not , replace what many say is a flawed database currently used by employers for checking documents.

Among the 44 coalition members at the rally are the Archdiocese of Washington's Office of Justice and Service, Catholic -Charities of the Arlington Diocese and the Catholic social justice lobby Network.

"Neither Sensenbrenner's bill nor Specter's markup is a salution to our immigration prob. MIKE MIEHL, Anne Marie Simon and Johliie McNeil hold a banner representing St. lem," said coalition chairman Camillus Catholic Community in Silver Spring, Md., during an immigration rally on the west Jaime Contreras in a bilingual . lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington March 7. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) address at the rally. "In fact, their proposal will only create more problems instea<1A>f fixing them."

"What we need is real, comprehensive immigration reforin," he said, taming the Secure LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los , parts of the world. if it were all very peaceful, and evAmerica and Orderly Immigration Angeles Cardinal Roger M. "f'hese s.entiments appear to be erybody was very happy to see the Act, co-sponsored by Sens. John Mahony: in a Lenten message and mounting in our own country as . Italians and Irish come," he said.

Wis.,passedth~Hous~linDecemMcCain, R-Ariz., and Ted "But it was the same reaction as in pre-Lenten newspaper inter- .....well," said the message'. berby a vote of239-lS2.

Klil11l1edy; D-Mass., as the previews, has lashed out at anti-immiCatholics should reflect on how now.;' The day of the rallyj!the Senate ferred alternative. .

The cardinal noted that members grant feelings in the United State~ Lenten fasting, prayers and Judiciary Committee ~egan conThe bill includes provisions for . and asked Catholics to dedicate almsgiving help them "relate to the of immigrant families are often of an immigratien oill border security, temporary worker sideration of new immi, among those, critical their Lenten prayers and practices complex reality of immigration, esdrafted by Sen. Arlen Specter, R- visas and family reunification; It ' peCIally in the face of increasing grants. to helping immigrants. would require effoits by foreign "Strangely, there's a phenom- Pa., committee chairrrtan. ' He also said that 'archdiocesan hostility toward immigrants," it said.

It includes pro~isions to countries to help control the flow priests and pastoral workers are The message asked Catholics to enon that for some reason many going to continue offering services pray "for the courage and strength immigrants, when they come here criminalize vio\ations df immigra- of emigrants, cover the costs to people in the country illegally to offer our spiritual and pastoral and get' settled,路 slam the door be- tion law, including the!l act of pro- borne by hospitals that provide . hind them," he hoted. "And every- . viding aid to illegal iI}:unigrants; emergency care .for undocueven if such efforts are outlawed. ministry to all who come to us."

In interyiews with the Los AnIn an interview with the Los An- body else who wants to come after would make it harder for legal mented immigrants, promote citiimmigrants to beco~~ citizens; zenship, and take various steps to geles Times and The Tiqings, the geles Times, Cardinal Mahony said them now is an outsider." , , The Catholic message regarding and would penalize st~te and 10-, prevent fraud. archdiocesan newspaper,.the cardi- there is a "hysterical" antHmmiThe Catholic bishops of Arinal harshly criticized a recent bill . grant attitude sweeping the country the welcoming of strangers 'often cal governments that d<;> not pointedly enforce immigration laws, zona stated their support of the bill passed by the U.S. House of Rep- spurred by security fears in the appears countercultural, he said.

God wants Catholics'"to see in currently only a respopsibility of last year, saying it took "a comresentatives that emphasizes en- wake of the Sept. 11,2001, terrorothers the face, of Christ - not to federal agencies. It w9uld elimi- prehensive approach to complex forcement measures against people ist attacks in the US. nate a visa lottery pr9gram that issue." who are in the country illegally.

The cardinal criticized the Min- see a threat or an alien," he said.

I ''That's why it's a hard pill to Cardinal Mah9ny called the uteman Project, a private group that House legislation, which would tries to police portions of the US.- swallow for some people, includAnne's Prayer penalize people who aid illegal-im- Mexican border, as undertaking a ing Catholics. It's because we're II "Good S~. Anne, Mother of Mary, and migrants, a ''blameful, vicious" bill. misguided approach to security con- focused on what we perceive to be , I a threat," he said. .

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Grandmother of Jesus, Intercede for me and my someone here who doesn't have Others oppose the Church's ap''The war on terror isn't going to Ii petitions. Amen." , I . documents would be a felon under be won through immigration restric- proach because they believe it helps this bill," the cardinal told The Tid- tions," he told'the Times, because immigrants get benefitS that they did ings. terrorists are not going to waHc not earn, he said.

In honor Sister Lucia dos Santos, "And it targets everybody, through long stretches of desert to "But there are a lot of things in . seer II 0 fF' atIma, W h 0 d'Ied churches included. So on its face sneak into the US. the Gospels and Jesus' teaching that , II ' valUt;, it means that anyone comCardinal Mahony told The Tid- people don't agree with," he obFebruary 13, 2005, age'97~ ing for Communion or baptism or ings that security concerns have served. "And so, we have to just I Lucia pray for us. to be married, I should stop and ask c'!used people to look for a scape- constantly bring it up." to see their legal papers," he said in goat in illegal immigrants because The cardinal said that is why the an interview that appeared in The they often cannot fight back.

U.S. bishops launched a national Tidings.

California's limping economy is campaign called Justice for ImmiII !'That's absurd, and we're not also fueling anti-immigrant senti- grants: A Journey of Hope to in. going to do it - everi if Congress ment locally, he added. crease awareness about immigraAnti-immigrant feelings would tion issues and challenge President ' says we have to. We're not going to - Prompt 24 Hour Service - Automatic Deliveries be immigration officers. Our role is not have risen to such a fever pitch Georgew. Bush and Congress to - Call In Deliv~ries - Budget Terms Available , II - Free Estimates spiritual and pastoral, and that's on radio talk shows and in legisla- adopt compassionate immigration going to prevail. But the foolishness tive halls if famil1es were not strug- reform laws.

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Until You Tried Charlie's process is just astounding," he said.

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The Vatican be reformed so that "the ate a new office announced that authentic face of the or merge existthe pope acoffices.

Church shows through ingRumors cepted the -rehad tirement of the once again." circulated for months that head of the migrants' council, Japanese Cardinal Pope Benedict would implement

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE South Dakota's new law is the the introductory legislative findStephen Fumio Hamao, who changes to trim the Curia, which, PIERRE, S.D. Two Cathomost sweeping .ban on abortion<>-' ings of the bill, said the Legislaturned 76 March 9. To fill the_ va- when he was Cardinal Joseph cancy, the pope united "for the Ratzinger, he often described as lic bishops hailed South Dakota's- aqopted in any state since 1973, the ture finds that "the guarantee of new law banning nearly all abor- year the U.S. Supreme Court le- due process of law under the Contime being" the presidency of the being overly bureaucratic. tions, but they also urged efforts galizeli abortion virtually on de- stitution of South DaJ.eota applies As then-Cardinal Ratzinger, a office with that of justice and to transform people's hearts and mand in its Roe v. Wade decision. equally to born and unborn human top curial official, he once said peace.

The Women's Health and Hu- beings" and that the mother and her Cardinal Poupard's assignment there should be "an unlimited ex- minds to reject abortion and build as president of the Pontifical amination of conscience atall lev- a culture that respects all life from man Life Protection Act specifi- unborn child "each possess a natuCouncil for Interreligious Dia- els of the. Church" to see what the moment of conception to natu- cally exempts women from any ral and inalienable right to life."

The law strikes previous South criminal conviction or penalty for 'logue filled a post made vacant structures should be reformed so ral death.

On March 6 in Pierre, the state obtaining an abortion. But it says Dakota abortion restrictions that after the pope February 15 named that "the authentic face of the its former head, Archbishop Church shows through once . capital, Gov. Mike Rounds signed that anyone who performs an abor- are no longer relevant in light of into law a bill prohibiting all in- tion except to save a mother's life the broader ban, but it also proMichael Fitzgerald, to be the new again." tentional abortions except those to . commits a Class 5.felony, which vides that, if implementation of the During a Sept.

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Bishop Blase J. Cupich of and up to five years in prison. or delayed by a court order, or if The pope decided "in order to lic lay group, Communion and Rapid City said South Dakota citithe new law is found unconstituThe law does not apply to medifavor a more intense dialogue be- Liberation, he said, "This examitween people of culture and mem- nation of conscience is to be ex- zens and their elected officials "can cal treatment "that results in the tional, the laws it replaces will aubers cifvarious religions," to unite tended to the Curia. How many be ju~tifiably proud of their efforts accidental or unintentional injury tomatically be reinstated. to restore the rights of the unborn . or death to the unborn child."

In his statement, Bishop Aquila "for the time being, the presidency agencies are really necessary?" "a change in law and child," but said, "Let us all pray that God's of The South Dakota House of the Pontifical Council for InThe changes announced March terreligious Dialogue with that of 11 suggested any broad q:form structures," he said, "is not suffi- 'Representative passed the bill Feb- will be done and let us continue to . ruary 24 by a vote of 50-18. The work for the building up of a culthe Pontifical Council for Cul- would be taken in a step-by-step, cient."

Society must build a culture of Senate had approved it February ture of life that begins with the reture," the Vatican said in a writ- see-how-it-goes approach; the life that "begins with the unborn" 22, by a vote of23-12, after slightly spect for human life from the moten statement.

Vatican's wording that-the new Cardinal Poupard said he was, appointments were made "for the and also ensures livable wages,' amending an earlier version ment of conception."

Planned Parenthood, which surprised by his appointment, es- time being" also indicated that the education, adequate health care, adopted by the House. The House pecially since he is 75, the age joint presidencies may be tempo- help for single mothers and "an end vote February 24 incorporated the runs the only abortion facility in to the death penalty," he said.

South Dakota, has said it will chalSenate's amendment. when bishops must submit their rary.

In a separate statement, Bishop The amendment, an addition to lenge the new law. " .Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, N.D., apostolic administrator of the GROUP OF TwENTY Sioux Falls Diocese in South DaThe pope's top advisel"$ he~d the congregations; and councils that make up the core of the Roman Cqria. kota, said: "There is no question about the Church's position on VATICAN CITY (CNS) the Angelus with thousands of CONGREGATIONS PONTIFICAL COUNCilS abortion - human life is sacred Are older and carl)' more authOrtty than (ouncils.

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Members may indude lay people. is with his Church just as Square.

Comparing the retreat to Christ action of God. None of us can Doctrine of the Faith Laity claim the right directly to destroy he was with the disciples caught the disciples' experience of the in a storm on the sea, Pope Transfiguration of Jesus onMount Eastern ChurChes","'_.. //promotin g Christian Unity an innocent human being."

He hailed the new law but said Benedict XVI said. The pope, Tabor, the Sunday Gospel reading, Divine Worship and the / ; ' -~~\ /~ The Family Sacraments - f · •••••.••••• \' _ _ Justice and Peace the Church is "dedicated to pro- thanking retired Cardinal Marco the pope spoke about the "grace "Ca uses - ' j\ PO:)PE •..

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"Regardless of court rulings and ~~ H~alth. Care Ministry Evangelization of Peoples ened him and top Vatican officials. "Usually, it is a brief experience laws, we must be ardent in our efClergy / J . ' \\~ LegislatIve TextsThe weeklong retreat, the pope which God occasionally conto transform the hearts and forts Institutes of Consecrat~ Life.

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EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

DENNISPORT - A holy hour will be held'March 26 at 1:30 p.m. at Our Lady of the Annunciation Chapel. It includes rosary and Benedic, tion of the Blessed Sacrament. The Pro-Life prayer groups of Holy Trinity and Holy Redeemer Churches will sponsor it.

FALL RIVER - First Saturday devotion will,take place at St. Mary's Cathedral on April 1. Mass will be celebra~ed at 9 a.m., followed by exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until .Benediction at noon..

ing for those interested in learning more about the Pax Christi movement will be held March 21 at 7:15 p.m. in the reconciliation chapel at The National Shrin'e of Our Lady of La Salette. For more information call 508222-5410.

FALL RIVER- The seminar, "Healing Wisdom: Discover Spirituality Via the Arts, Music, Poetry, and Ministry," will be held March 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Saint Anne's Hospital. It is sponsored by the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses. For more information call Betty Novacek at 508678-2373.

SOMERSET - The St. Patrick's Parish Social Justice Committee will sponsor a lecture March 22 at 7 p.m. to commemorate the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Guest speaker will be Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, founder of the SS. Francis and Theresa Catholic Work House,in Worcester. For more information call 508-6746128.

WESTPORT - A Lenten Evening of Reflection will be presented by Catholic evangelist Bryan Mercier, March 22 at 7 p.m. in the church hall of St. George Parish, 12 Highland Avenue. For more infor-

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NORTH DARTMOUTH The next Retrovaille weekend will be held March 3~ -April 2.

It offers couples a chance to heal and renew trouoled marriages. Rediscoverl: yourself and your spouse and a loving relationship in marriage. For more information call 1-800470-2230 orthe Diocesan Office of Family Ministry at 508999~6420.·

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WESTBORO - The New England Conference for Separated, Divorced, Remarried and Widowed Support persons and support group leaders will be held March 25 at St. Luke Parish, 70 West Main Street. For more information call Scottie Foley of the Fall River Office of Family Ministry at 508-999-6420.

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h dl! . ' h' Milot. "But many parents have th en us enng t e stu ents mto a since expressed support for the Catholic high school, Pope John plan. They ·see it as an exceptional Paul II, all on Cape Cqd." "With the new program, the opportunity for their children to middle school children will be able NEW BEDFORD - PerNEW BEDFORD - The obtain a quality education and be to have a more diverSifieH classroom petual Eucharistic Adoration Daughters of Isabella 'Hya- exposed to a learning environment situation," said Mattson. "With a at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 cinth Circle No. 71 will meet that will offer modern and spa- larger classroom popu1ation, stuPleasant Street iS'welcoming March 21 at 7 p.m. in the cious facilities."

Patricia.Hall, who has a daugh- dents at different skill levels in cernew adorers who can spend church hall of Holy Name of tain subjects can be grouped with one hour each week in prayer. the Sacred Hearth of Jesus ter, Kerianne, in third grade at similarly skilled classmates.

For more information call Parish. Refreshments will fol- Holy Trinity SchOOl, is excited "Socially, with more students in Laurie Larsen-Silva at 508- low. For more information call about the new opportunity. "I'm a class, the students will be better thrilled about the children having 888-7751.

508-990-7595. more companions in the older. able to handle the transition from grades and experiencing a chal- middle school to high school."

MISCEI!LANEOUS NEW BEDFORD - A Day Mike Mahoney, who has two lenging atmosphere with different with Mary will be held March children, Erin and Sean, in the ATTLEBORO The 25 beginning at 10 a.m. at Our classes that will help facilitate her fourth grade at St. Pius X, is Lenten Way of the Cross will Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant social growth as well," she told pleased with the middle school be held on Friday evenings at Street. It will include a proces- The Anchor. "Right now, program. "I see a continuity in 7 this month at the National ' sion and ,crowning. Mass will Kerianne is in the best possible Catholic education on Cape Cod Shrine of Our Lady of La be celebrated by Father environment. Holy Trinity is a from the lower grades, through the Salette. For more information Charbel T. Semaan. Refresh- warm, caring, family atmosphere, middle school years and now into call 508-222-5410. ments will be served. For and she's receiving a phenomenal high school," he told The Anchor. more information call 508- education. And when she's ready "With more students in the middle for middle school, she'll continue ATTLEBORO - A Lenten 984-1823. school grades, it provides for more to have great opportuniti~s." seminar will be presented by programs and participAtion for the NORTH EASTON - A Many in th~ educational field Dorothy Levesque at 7 p.m: students, preparing them for high on Tuesday evenings during Marriage Workshop will be conc~r that when students leave school. And that's very!important."

Lent at the La Salette Center held April 2 from 2-4 p.m. at ' the flfth-grade, they are ready to Milot pointed out that at Holy for Christian Living. Each ses- the Father PeytoQ Center for m?ve on to bi~ger and ?etter Trinity School, the plan will alsion will focus on what Jesus all married couples. It will be thmgs. The creatiOn of a mlddleI I' experienced each day of his presented by nationally sc~ool system at St. PiusX will journey from Palm Sunday to known authors and speakers bnng more students together in Easter Sunday. For more in- Steve and Kathy Beirne. For the ~lassro?m, allowing for more fqrmation call 508-236-9083. more information call Holy sharmg o.f.ldeas and more social Cross Family Ministries at opportumties that are needed for Sales and Ser:vice children in that age span.

ATTLEBORO - A meet- 508-238-4095. for Domestic and Ihdustrial "There are so many more Oil Burners things you can do in the middle '508-995-1631 . school grades with a larger num2283 ACUSHNET ~VENUE ber of students in a classroom," NEW BEDFORD advised Milot. "Many school systems use the middle-school conPlease pray for the following cept because the students are more mature, and much more priests during the coming weeks ready to participate in different i "\ studies and activities."

March 22 1940, Rev. Joseph A. Martins, Assistant,'St. Joh~ the Baptist New "It's wonderful that the dioc\./ " . , Bedford esan school department has a plan 2003, Rev. James T. Keefe, SS.CC:,Chaplifn: U.S. Army for .Catholic education on Cape Cod," said St. Pius X Principal --'_ ' -Marct123 Patricia Marmen. "Students on 2002, Rev. Jame-s F. Kelley, USNRet. Archdiocese of Anchor" Cape Cod will have available to age, Former Assistant, St. Mary's Mansfield them a Catholic education .from Montie Plumbing Pre-K through· grade 12." _ March & Heating" Co. , Both Marmen and Holy Trin1991, Rev. John 1. Brennan, SS.CC. Retired Founder Holy Reity Principal Linda Mattson are Over'35 Years \ deemer, Chatham ' working hard to allow for a of Satisfied Se"rvices smooth transition for parents and Reg. Master Plumber 7023 March 27 "I look forward to workstudents.

JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. 1918, Rev. James W. Conlin, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset I ing with a fully alive lower school 1964, Rev. Antonio P. Vieira, Pastor, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 432 JEFFERSON' STREET at Holy Trinity and St. Pius X, and New Bedford FALL RIVER 508-675-7496 a fully alive middle school and

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The Diocesan DivorcedSeparated Support Group will . meet March 20 from 7-9 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road. For more information call Bob Menard at 508-673-2997. Refreshments will be served.

low for a new Pre-K grade and will also allow grades one through five more opportunities with the increased space. "Holy Trinity will provide students in the younger grades with a quality education and learning and growing environment, preparing them to attend St. Pius X in the middle school years, and ultimately Pope John·Paul II High School." In addition, St. Pius X School will also provide Pre-K through grade five students with the same exceptional preparation. , "The plan will open up the preschool and lower grades, allowing for the students to make the transition to middle school and then hi'gh school," said Mattson.

"We've already received calls asking about the pre-school program. People are excited about it."

Hall added that in addition to the expanded educational benefits the middle school children will receive, "Holy Trinity will be stronger in what it can offer the students in grades Pre-K through five."

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Coyle food pantry receives $1,000 grant TAUNTON - The Coyle and Cassidy High School Food Pantry recently received a $1,000 community grant from the new Hannaford Supermarket. The school's food pantry provides approximately 275 bags of groceries on it monthly basis to families in the Taunton.area.

This school-sponsored outreach effort, now in its 15th year offers consistent support to families throughout the city, while making the school's motto "Enter To Learn - Leave To

Serve" a' reality.

The Hannaford Grant will be used to meet emergency referrals/requests throughout the year.

Students participating in the school project include: Amanda Bernier, Kyle Boudreau, Rachel Bourne,' Kacie Campbell, Emily Clough, Angela Colarusso, Brian Correia, Charles Gerrior, Suzanne Keyes and Shannon Murphy.

Michael Cote is the director of Community Serv~ce for the school.

COACH AND Fall River Cya director Albert "Val" Vaillancourt, gives some tips to the team from Notre Dame Parish during a recent basketball game at the Sulliva.n-McCarrick center. Below, players Ryan Amaral, David Rodriguez and PeterBraga of Espirito Santo wait for their game to start.

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STUDENTS FROM Coyle and Cassidy High School display a $1 ,000 check they received from Hannaford Supermarket for its food pantry. With them is Michael Cote, director of the school's community service program.

ACADEMIC PRINCIPAL Mary Ann Miskel congratulates Bishop Stang High School Seniors Jared Zelski and Megan Grandmont following their nomination for one of 250 $1,000 National Honor Society Scholarships. They were selected based on leadership skills, academic record and participation in service organizations and clubs.

WINNERS IN the ninth annual Shakespeare competition at Coyle and Cassidy High School share a moment on the stage. They are, from left, Ashley Willis, Noelle Poremski, Cristina McConnell and Ryan Tuck. Each performed a monologue from a play and a sonnet. It was organized by Carol Mecca of the Taunton school's fine arts department.

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FIVE DOMINICAN Sisters from the Congregation of St. Cecilia in Nashville, Tenn., walk along Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter recently. The nuns staff the Cathedral Academy in the French Quarter and are a strong presence in the city, whether they're running errands or walking with the children to Mass at nearby St. Louis Cathedral. Cathedral Academy was the first school to open in Orleans Parish, a civil entity, after the hurricane and has doubled in size since the storm. (CNS photofTheresa Laurence, Tennessee Regisfef)

living Have you ever heard of John Goddard? His life can teach you many things. He has lived a life that many would consider extraordinary. What's amazing is that it all started when he was only 15 years old. He overheard an adult talking to his parents, and he was telling them how miserable his life was. The gentleman said he wished he could be John's age again, and do things differently. John heard the anguish in the man's voice about all of the missed opportunities and dreams not fulfilled.

At age 15, John made a vow not to live that kind of life.

John took out a legal pad and began writing down all of the things he wanted to do with his life. In no time at all, he had 127 things down on his "My Life" list. By his early 70s, John had accomplished III of the original goals on the list. Not only that, but he kept adding to the list, and added 400 other goals he set along the way.

Some goals were bigger than others, but he didn't set small goals. Some of the things on his original list that he accomplished include climbing almost every major mountain peak in the world; taking Marco Polo's route through Asia; running a five-minute-mile; being' the first person to explore the entire 4,200 mile length of the Nile River; (USA Today called him the modem-day Indiana Jones); he's been down the Amazon and the Congo Rivers; he's been to 122 foreign countries; he's explored the great barrier reef; he's flown 40 different types of aircraft; he's taught himself three languages; he's read the Bible cover to cover. If someone did one of these things, they would consider it a great life experience. John Goddard did more than 500 of these kinds of things.

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IN THE ROUGH You say you fell while holding diamonds in your hands "It's your fault for running, holding diamonds, " I said And I offer no sympathy for that I hear that it was you who died alone And I offer no sympathy for that Better offI sparkle on my own Refrain: And someday love will find me in the rough Someday love will finally be enough I turned around three times and wound up at your door Now you say you know all you did not know before And I offer no sympathy for that I hear that it was you who died alone And I offer no sympathy for that Better off I sparkle on my own (Repeat refrain.)

I got your love letters I threw them all away And I hear you think that I'm crazy I'm driving 95 And I'm driving you away I shine a little more lately (Repeat refrain twice.)

I shine a little more lately Sung by Anna Nalick Copyright (c) 2005 by Sony Anna Nalick's first big single "Breathe (2 AM)" won me over.

Her voice and musical style remind me of the best in Alanis Morissette and Jewel, with a twist of Lisa Loeb. Her latest release "In the Rough" is off the same disc, "Wreck of the Day." The character in the song appears to have ended her romance. She suggests she is better off without their relationship

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because now she can "sparkle on my own." She believes that "someday love will find me in the rough," but that after leaving the relationship, "I shine a little more lately."

She doesn't say what led her to this decision. Yet her positive feelings show that it was the right decision for her.

As she becomes more the person she wants to be, she should look back at what happened to her in the past relationship. w:hat was going on that her "sparkle"

diminished? Perhaps her own way of interacting with the other person or her fear of losing the relationship caused her to limit her potential.

One sign of a healthy ~elation足 ship is that it empowers the people in it. Both should "shine" more.

Love is meant to bring out more of the best in each person. Your abilities and talents should be appreciated and encouraged by the other person. ' Be wary if someone you date wants you to stop focusing on your true interests or to minimize the good that you bring to others thus showing not love, bU't dependency. Why should this person need to control your interests?

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At times, all of us have to evaluate what we are trading for another's love and acceptance.

Never should you exchange even a small portion of your integrity and self-respect just so another will like you. Trading these parts of yourself away for what seems like love is always a bad deal!

If you realize that you have made this mistake, ending the relationship may not be the first step to take. Instead, talk to the other person and explain what you have realized. Refuse to blame him or her. Instead take full responsibility for the way you conducted yourself in the relationship. Then tell this person that you need to make some changes in how you interact with him or her.

If this person listens well, validates your feelings and tries to work with you on fUlther ways of getting your needs met, then indeed, love between the two of you may have a chance to grow. Of course, some negotiation may be needed. But any request that compromises your integrity cannot be accepted.

Sometimes, a conflict of needs helps both people recognize that the relationship cannot endure. The time has come for each person to "shine," but separately. Should this happen in your life, thank the other person for what you have shared and learned. Move on, knowing that you have stood up for yourself and that you are on the road to becoming what God made you to be.

Your comments are always welcome. Please write to me at: chmartin@swindiana.net or at 7125W 200S, Rockport, IN 47635.)

a." extraordinary life secret? How did he accomplish so much? Two reasons: (I) He wrote down his dreams. People who study accomplishment say that if you write down your dreams and goals on paper, you have a 1,000 percent greater

down and work backwards to determine what needs to be done to accomplish them, you're already heading in the direction to accomplish them. (2) The second thing he did was make big dreams. Big dreams have power. They can transform you. Big dreams can draw a crowd. They also add life to your life.

Have big dreams but write them down.

If you dream big, and identify what you want your life to look like and

By Bud Miller include, and write down the specifics, you can live an extraordinary chance of success in achieving earthly life over the next 60-70 it. If you do not write them years. I would advise you to do down, you only have a 10 all of this. However, there is a percent chance of accomplishing dream and a goal that is the it. Do you have financial goals? most important of all, a.nd Do you have travel goals? Do makes everything else seem . you have educational goals? Do unimportant: heaven. The truth you have marriage goals? Do is that 60-70 million, billion, you have dreams and hopes for . trillion years from now, you will your future? If you write them still be alive. And that's just the

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beginning of eternity. Eternity is forever.

Heaven must be at the top of your goals list. It's the ultimate big dream. Write it down. Now, work backwards, read the New Testament, listen to the Church, and plan out what you need your life to look like to accomplish this goal.

John Goddard didn't live an accidental life. Don't leave heaven to chance.

Is heaven just a generic, vague wish for you, or is it a goal? No matter what the next 60-70 earthly years looks like, you will only look back and say you've lived an extraordinary and successful life if Jesus one day says to you, "My child, look around you, for great is your reward." If you hear this sentence some day, you will have lived an extraordinary life on earth. If not, well... .

Bud Miller is the director of Religious Education at St. Patrick's Parish, Wareham.

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Friday, March 17, 2006 group, as they shared what had inspired them during the days' expeditions. I saw him in the example of the long-term missionaries who had found a purpose for living that was much greater than themselves.

I encountered God in prayer. When we first arrived at the mission house, one of the long-term missionaries, Yvonne Noggle, told our group that we would be praying three times a day for the duration of the trip. At first, many of us thought she was crazy. But we followed along, and we learned to pray the Liturgy of the Hours in the morning and the evening, and the Angelus around noon.

Soon, prayer time became a blessing and a wonderful time of rejuvenation for the whole group. Prayer brought such focus to the mission trip. When I prayed, I was reminded that it was really God I was serving, and all the little trials of being in the mission field faded away.

For me, the mission trip became a beautiful combination of individual relationships. Yvonne told me that, "Mission work has made me come out of myself in a way that I never thought I could.

It is only through God's grace that I can do things now that I never imagined do-

ing before." On the trip, I found that I, too, had to open myself to God in order to allow him to work through me. I also had to open myself to the other teens and adults our group. We all learned to support each other, and after living together for nine days, we formed an amazing bond. Finally, I had to open myself to the Honduran people. After spending time with these people, I realized that Jesus is indeed close to the poor and to the little children. They have so little in the way of material things, yet they are so happy.

The children were overflowing with love.

The mission trip to Honduras changed me. I learned to rely on God for strength and not on myself. I experienced God's presence in prayer and in the people around me. I also discovered the true essence of service. Christian service is not about getting credit at school or counting service hours. It is about showing a person that they are loved and that they have worth. It is not so much what we do, but how we do it that truly makes a difference in another person's life. I can hug the poor children or do hours of labor for Mission Honduras, but both are meaningless acts if they are not done from the heart.

CAPE COD teens make a trek to help dig a foundation for a high school at Mission Honduras in the Comayagua region of Honduras, Central America.

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and the girls at Guadalupe Center for the boys dropped everything they were Girls, an orphanage and elementary doing and came to greet us. When we school just up the hill from the Mother's showed them the books we had brought, Project. We had a ton of fun explaining they got so excited. We spent the next the different games to giggling girls us- few hours reading with them and then ing what little Spanish we knew and a playing soccer and basketball. They kids were just so loving and wanted to be with lot of hand gestures.

Going into the week, I anticipated do- us. They would always help us if we ing some "real" mission work. So on Mon- messed up or mispronounced a Spanish day, the first real workday of our time word while we read to them. These little there, I headed out for the mission's high kids, most of whom had no shoes, shamed school with a pickax in one hand and a us clumsy "gringos" in a game of soccer. shovel in the other. I was determined to. One kid even did a bicycle kick!

All in all, I think we did a lot of good dig that ditch until I dropped. Unfortunately, I ended up over doing it and get- work down in Honduras, but most imting heat exhaustion. Thataftemoon, while portant of all was the time we spent with everyone was giving a music concert for the kids. All those little Hondurans the Honduran kids, I was back at the vol- whom we helped will one day be big unteer house getting sick. At the begin- Hondurans, and we'll have helped give ning of the week I put too much emphasis them a chance to change their country on the big, physical jobs and not enough for the better. One minute spent playing on the smaller everyday tasks of being with one kid was more rewarding than with the kids, playing, reading and sing- 100 years of digging ditches could have ing with them. Long-term volunteer at ever been. Ditches can't give you a huge Mission Honduras, Ian Walker, shared hug or a heart-felt "Muchas Gracias!" with me that he believed that as individu- Kids can. als, we could onlydo so much in HonduNicole Bratton on the ras, but that even the smallest contribuSpiritual Works Mercy: tions could still be put to good use in the In Honduras, God was present to me long run. That helped me step back and in a way I had never experienced before. put things in perspective.

Later in the week we loaded up on a I found him in the eyes of the little chilbus and drove to La Villa-San Antonio dren that ran to greet us from the de Padua, the orphanage and boy's el- Mother's Project. I heard him in the ementary school. As soon as we arrived, words of each member of our mission

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A GROUP of 15 Cape Cod teens discovered that fun is the same in any language. Above, volunteers take part in field games with Honduran students. Below, co-authors, Peter and Nicole Bratton, share special moments with village youngsters.