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Vatican nixes condom use against AIDS

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Christians should respond to AIDS by proclaiming chastity and marital fidelity and by offering compassion to victims, but not by promoting the use of condoms, said a March 10 front-page article in VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope L'Osservatore Romano, the VatiJohn Paul II called Pope Paul VI's can newspaper.

The article said that "to seek the encyclical forbidding artificial birth control part of the "permanent solution to the disease in the propatrimony" of the church's moral motion of the use of prophylactics is to take a path that is not only teaching and criticized churchmen unreliable from a technical point who say the teaching is debatable. of view, but also and above all, He said that among the hinunacceptable from a moral point drances to the proper practice of . of view." the church's teaching on conjugal love is the suggestion from some "No one should be astonished pastors and theologians that the or scandalized if, in a pluralistic church's teaching is open to dissociety, the Christian proclaims cussion, the pope told a meeting of the ideal of a life in chastity, in natural family planning experts. conjugal fidelity and in temper"This is not a sign of pastoral ance," the unsigned article said. understanding," Pope John Paul A director of the newspaper, said, "but of a lack of understandAngelo Scelzo, would not say who FATHER TOSTI presents the Family Ministry Award to Imelda and George Vezina. ing of the true good of persons." wrote the article, but he said the ~ The pope spoke to 350 particithree asterisks printed in place of I (Rosa photo) pants in the Fourth International the author's name i~di~ated that it Congress for the Family in Africa was from an "authontatlve" source. and Europe. Sponsored by Rome's "In practice, it means the article Sacred Heart University, the conhas been seen by the secretary of . gress marked the 20th anniversary state's office," he said. of Pope Paul's encyclical "HuThe article said the anti-AIDS manae Vitae" (Of Human Life). campaign for "safe sex" ignores

By Joseph Motta "There are so many people who also emphasize that they are a Participants met with the pope the "real cause" of AIDS: "the support organization, "not a social work so hard."

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March permissiveness that, in the area of.

Last Sunday the Diocesan Office But she notes that the Vezinas or seniors' group or a singles' The March 12-15 congress was sexuality as well as in areas of • of Family Ministry surprised are as unique as they are deserv- club." organized by Dr. Anna Cappella, other abuses, corrodes the moral George and Imelda Vezina of ing. Keep reading and find out The group's goal is easy to define: director of the university's Center fiber of the people."

Acushnet, members of St. Kilian's why! "to help people get through the for Studies and Research on NatuIt said Christians should "seek parish, New Bedford, with its The Vezinas grieving and become adjusted to ral Fertility Regulation. Featured to correct - without compromise second Family Ministry Award.

George and Imelda Vezina will being single again," Mrs. Vezina speakers included Drs. John and The award recognizes outstand- deviations and vices that undermark their sixth wedding anniversays. "A lot of people can't get Evelyn Billings, founders of the mine the roots of human life, the ing contributions to family minisused to the words 'widow' or World Organization for the Ovudignity of the person and the fam- try work for the Fall'River dio- sary in August. Both widowed, 'widower.' " lation Method Billings (WOO M B). ily, the truth about human sexual-_ cese. It was presented by Father they have nine children (seven his, two hers) and a joint crop of 12 One member, George Vezina Americans addressing the fourity that is denied in homosexual- Ronald A. Tosti, Family Ministry grandchildren. said, told him that it took her day congress included Thomas Hility, and the great value of human Office director, at a recognition The couple never forgot how months to face facts and realize gers, director of the Pope Paul VI love." dinner at White's of Westport which hard it was to deal with their that the group was "for someone Institute for Study on Human ReThe article said AIDS preven- followed a Mass at St. Mary's losses. Not long after they met at a like her." production in Omaha, Neb., and tion was an example of medicine Cathedral, Fall River, for the hunday of recollection for the widowed There is a core membership of Father Lorenzo Albacete, director and ethics in basic agreement. In dreds of persons involved in fambetween 25 and 30 persons in the of the John Paul II Institute in 95 percent of the cases, it said, i1y-related parish and deanery pro- at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro (love and marriage weren't long in the Current members range in Boston. group. avoiding the disease means ab- grams. making), they established and led age from 24 to 80, with most in Issued July 25,1968, "Humanae staining from sexual practices outBishop Daniel A. Cronin was what is now the New Bedford Area their middle years.

Vitae" reaffirmed the church's opside marriage and avoiding drug the liturgy's principal celebrant Support Group for Widowed PerThere are no age specifications. position to artificial birth control, use. and homilist. Father Tosti and sons with the assistance of Father "What's the difference how old teaching that every act of sexual However, it said that AIDS, Very Rev. Barry W. Wall, CathePaul Guido, OFM, St. Kilian's you are?" asks Mrs. Vezina, who intercourse must be open to the acquired immune deficiency syn- dral pastor and rector, were desigpastor and the group's spiritual works as cook/ receptionist at St. possibility of conceiving new life. drome, should not be seen as an nated concelebrants, and other director.

Kilian's parish. "What hurts hurts!" inevitable punishment for moral concelebrants were priests in leadHowever, the encyclical left open The group, which meets at 7:30 The vast majority of members the possibility of "naturaI" methods guilt, "even though some of the ership roles in Family Ministry p.m. each second Monday in St. are women, the couple added. Ve- of family planning based on peridiseased are convinced of that in programs.

Kilian's rectory basement, is sponzina, an oil burner technician, was odic abstinence. their own conscience."

Representatives of all areas sored by the Diocesan Office of not the typical male in looking for Christians should see AIDS suf- served by the office - natural "Humane Vitae" is "a teaching Family Ministry. support right after he lost his wife, which belongs to the permanent ferers as brothers and sisters' and family planning, marriage prepaThe Vezinas stress that, although they report. try to give them relief and compas- ration and enrichment, ministry to patrimony of the moral doctrine most attendees are Catholic, the "I think men are afraid to admit of the church," the pope told the sion, the article said. At the same the widowed and to divorced and meetings are open to all widowed, they need help," Mrs. Vezina said. congress. time, it said, those with AIDS separated Catholics and parish regardless of denomination. They Her husband notes, though, that should be encouraged to see a rela- family ministry - participated in "The uninterrupted continuity men who have come to the group with which the church has protionship between their suffering the Mass. for the right reasons are satisfied posed this teaching is born from its and Christ's passion.

According to Scottie Foley, with THIS ,YEAR'S Miss and have stayed on.

The issue of condom education her husband Jerry, Family Minisrespons.ibility for the true good of The leaders say many strong the human person," he added.

America has a lot more has been controversial in the Uni- try program director, the Vezinas friendships have developed among , Calling conjugal love the "most ted States. were "totally shocked, very, very going for her than a pretty group members and that there precious good" of couples, the In mid-December 1987, the ad- I; surprised!"atreceivingtheaward. face. Read about her on have been two or three marriages pope said the encyclical was a ministrative board of the U.S. biSh-, "It's very difficult to choose the page 8.

Turn to Page Six Turn to Page Six Turn to Page Six recipient," Mrs. Foley explained.

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New Bedford parishioners to hear Lisbon bishop

Cardinal shocked byAMA article WASHINGTON (NC) - Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago has expressed shock over an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that described a physician-assisted suicide of a 20-year-old terminal cancer patient.

The doctor's action "can only be described as immoral," said the cardinal in a guest editorial column in The Chicago Tribune daily newsFATHER Q'Donohoe addresses audience at Conference paper. for Separated/ Divorced Catholics. (Gaudette photo) "I am shocked that the prestigious Journal chose to publish this article without comment," wrote Cardinal Bernardin, chairman of the bishops' Committee on ProLife Activities.

"While there are movements withBy Pat McGowan eration of inevitable strain and the in our society, and even within the capacity to express one's feelings. health-care profession, to accept A busy weekend of activities for This is especially hard for the certain forms of euthanasia or the Diocesan Office of Family divorced, he added. "Once woundassisted suicide, such actions must Ministry included the third annual ed, you're wary." not be given the status of an ac- Conference for Separated/ DivorcHe described genital sex as the cepted alternative. And this is what ed Catholics, held last Saturday at "most complete expression of the Journal appears to have done," St. Patrick's parish center, Somerintimacy," characterized by excluhe said. set. sivity and permanence and guarThe article, a 'first-person account The weekend concluded with an anteed by some form of societal titled "It's Over, Debbie," ran in appreciation dinner and Family control; but admitted that all huearly January as a guest column Ministry Award presentation (see man relationships have sexual dicalled "A Piece of My Mind," page I). mensions. which features reader contribuAt Saturday's all-day conference, "Celibacy," he elaborated, "is a tions. The author's name was with- 160 participants attended a Mass way of loving without genitality held. at which Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and priests and religious must In it, the writer, described as a was principal celebrant and homiunderstand this to be successful The bishop's message, said list. gynecology resident in a large pricelibates." vate hospital, recounted being on Scottie Foley, a Family Ministry The priest lamented that society call late one night, exhausted, when program director, was ons: of"healseems to be engaged in a flight a nurse requested help with a pa- ing and love." from fully appreciated sexuality Those in attendance chose three tient. toward an obsession with genital The author found a 20-year-old from six workshops offered. sex alone, engaged in at younger woman named Debbie who report- Among them was "Sexuality and and younger ages. edly was dying ot ovarian cancer. Spirituality," conducted by Rev. He quoted Harvard Divinity The author said the womAn was James O'Donohoe, associate proSchool professor Harvey Cox as in extreme pain, suffering "unre- fessor at Boston College and a saying that "Playboy magazin~ has lenting vomiting" and could not doctor of canon law and moral shifted the figleaf from the genItals sleep. When she saw the doctor she theology. to the face" - all its centerfold His presentation, given to an said, "Let's get this over with," a models have vacuous faces. statement the doctor-writer appar- overflow audience, placed church Our problem, Father O'Donoently interpreted as a wish to end teaching on human sexuality in hoe summed up, "is not sexual the context of Christian values.

He her life. permissiveness but trivialization "I could not give her health, but began by discussing sexuality from of people - we're a throwa~ay standpoint of gender, intimacy the I could give her rest," the author society with disposable relatlOnsaid, in explaining administering a and genital aspects.

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There are social, physical and He stressed the basic church In his letter Cardinal Bernardin psychological compon~nts to ~ per- teaching on sex as having four deplored the action as violating a son's gender, the pnest pOinted indispensable characteristics: bedoctor's responsibilities as healer out, noting that the macho man ~r tween man and woman, engaged and "to be accountable to the the "Marilyn Monroe'" woman IS in as a sign of love, open to proinformed decisions of patients." uncomfortable with his or her creation and within the context of gender. "Both s~xes need nurtur,~ marriage.

The Journal article caused a ing and aggressIve components, In marriage, he said, "God shares storm of controversy from physihe explained. "A person can't be with us his ability to love." cians and medical ethicists alike, wholly one way or the other."

In workshops on self-esteem and much of it against the doctor's Father O'Donohoe also com- relaxation, Helen T. McCarthy of actions. It also spurred a grand mented that many superficial dif- Bridgewater State College outlined jury subpoena, served on the Jourferences between the sexes are principles of positive thinking and nal Feb. 16 for all records on the merely societal. "Don't w?rry i~ a explained causes of stress and article and its author. little boy likes dolls or a lIttle gIrl methods of relaxation, including A hearing was set for March 18 likes trucks," he counseled. meditation. on the Journal's motion to quash Teenagers are the ones with r~al Father Paul T. O'Connell ofthe the subpoena. sexual identity problems, he said. Worcester diocesan marriage triThe medical association has in"They're very insecure about them- bunal discussed forgiveness and voked First Amendment free press selves but they can't afford to let ways of moving beyond feelings of guarantees as well as an Illinois anyone know it, thus they usually anger and revenge to the point of reporters' privilege act in an effort overreact in one direction or an- readiness to build a new life after to protect the identity of the doctorother." divorce or separation. writer.

Discussing intimacy, Father Also discussing"mending broken Journal editor Dr. George LundO'Donohoe said that people often fences and trampled flowers" was berg told National Catholic News want acceptance and affirmation Sister Jane Hogan, OSF, of The Service that he did not know ifthe more than genital sex but that Listening Place in Lynn; while article was truth or fiction and did truly intimate relationships are very Father Jay T. Maddock of the Fall not try to find out prior to publishhard for most people. "We don't River marriage tribunal gave pracing'it because, he said, one of the want personal disclosure," he said. tical information on applying for Journal's "critical objectives is to "If I ask you how you are, don't annulment of marriage. foster responsible debate on conyou dare tell me. I. don't re~lly At the end of the day particitroversial issues that affect mediwant to know how things are gOing pants were asked to evaluate the cine." . with you." experience. "There wasn't one negLundberg added that "a healthy, Deep relationships, ~e explained, ,ative appraisal," said Scottie Foley, vigorous debate" resulted from the require empat~y ~Ith others, Nho is already making plans for article. awareness of theIr unIqueness, t.ol- next year's conference.

Sexuality., spirituality Somerset parley topic

.Making his first trip to the V ni- of the Catholic V niversity of Ported States, Auxiliary Bishop Jose tugal and is rector of the major da Cruz Policarto of Lisbon will seminary of the Lisbon arc~dioces~. be the homilist and principal celebrant of Mass at a Lenten series at Recognized as Portugal's most Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, outstanding contemporary theolNew Bedford. The series will be ogian, he lectures extensively and held at 7 p.m. Monday, March 21, is a prolific author. through Friday, March 25, and Prior to giving his Lenten series will be open to the public. at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, he will Speaking in Portuguese, the bish- preach at Sunday Masses March op will focus on Mary in the mod- 20. He will also preside at the rite ern church. His homilies will be of Blessing of Palms on Sunday, broadcast live nightly by New Bed- March 27. ford radio station WJ FD and will On Saturday and Sunday, March be cablecast nightly at 9: 15 p. m. by 25 and 26, Bishop Policarto will Portuguese channel 20. give a retreat at Cathedrill Camp, Bishop Policarto, auxiliary to Car- East Freetown, to members of dinal Antonio Ribeiro, Patriarch Teams of Our Lady from - Mt. of Lisbon, is a native of the Portu- Carmel parish. The Teams are an guese capital. Born in 1936, he was international organization dediordained to the priesthood in 1961 cated to support of married life, and to the episcopate in 1978. He with whom the bishop works in is dean of the School of Theology Lisbon.

First U.S. black archbishop will head Atlanta province WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul II has named Auxiliary Bishop Eugene A. Marino of Washington, 53, to be archbishop of Atlanta, making him the nation's first black archbishop.

One ofthe 12 V.S. black bishops and a J osephite priest, he succeeds Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan, who died last October.

As head of the 32-year-old Atlanta archdiocese and its 137,000 Catholics, he also heads the ecclesial province that includes the rest of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina with a total Catholic population of 404,535.

Those dioceses are Savannah, Ga., Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh, N.C., and Charleston, S.c.

Archbishop Marino in a statement expressed gratitude to the people ofthe archdiocese of Washington, to his Josephite order and to his late parents who "gave me life and initiated me into the life of Jesus."

He asked Atlanta Catholics for their prayers and told them "I come among you joyfully as one sent 'to serve and not to be served.'

Together let us continue to build the community of faith, hope and love in northern Georgia.

Archbishop Marino becomes the third black prelate to head a diocese, after Bishop James A. Healy, who headed the Diocese of Portland, Maine, from June 1875 to August 1900, and Bishop Joseph L. Howze of Biloxi, Miss.

As an auxiliary bishop, he has led national efforts for recognition ofthe contributions of black Catholics and also has been outspoken against racism and for the rights of the poor, homeless, unemployed and the responsibility of the church on those issues.

He played a key role in Pope John Paul II's visit with black Catholic leaders in Ne'w Orleans last September and was among authors of the black bishops' 1984 pastoraT on evangelization.

In the Washington archdiocese, which has 80,000 black Catholics, Archbishop Marino has been regional bishop for most of the District of Columbia and two Maryland counties.

He has been active on a number of committees for the National conference of Catholic Bishops

and in 1985 was elected NCCBV.S. Catholic Conference secretary for a three-year term.

Archbishop Marino was born May 29, 1934, in Biloxi, the six~h of eight children to Jesus M~rIa Marino a native of Puerto RICO, and Lottie Irene Bradford, a native of Biloxi.

In 1952 he entered a Josephite minor se~inary and was ordained June 9,1962, at the National Shrine of the Immaculate. Conception.

He did graduate studies at ~he Catholic V niversity of AmerIca, Loyola Vniversi~y in New Orleans and at Fordham V niversity, Bronx, N.Y., where he earned a master's in religious education in 1967.

In 1968, he was named spiritual director at St. Joseph's Seminary, Was_hingt.on, and a year later also became spiritual director for the J osephites' permanent diaconate program.

In 1971, he became the first black priest to be vicar general for his order.

'1 hree years later he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Washington.

He once recalled how he and one of his sisters were told that because they were black they had to leave a Biloxi laundromat. "We didn't see the 'whites only' sign.

The manager didn't really throw us out, but he rushed us out."

Twelve years later he returned home after his installation as an auxiliary bishop to receive the keys to the city.

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SMU campus minister Father Richard E. Degagne has spoken on vocations for the Lenten Luncheons series, and Father William W. Norton, pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, has addressed the identity of the church. . Upcoming sessions are Monday and March 28. The next lecture, "Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): We're All Converts," will be delivered by Father Stephen J. Avila, parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield.

March 28 will see campus minister Sister Madeleine Tacy, OP, speak on "Birth to New Life: Baptismal Theology' of Holy Week," The lectures, open to the public, will bepeld from noon to I p.m. in the Sunset Room East in S M U's campus center.

Papal assailant pardon denied

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Bishop Cronin at SMU

Prayer: our sustenance "Prayer is the sustenance that we need on a daily basis to make ourselves available to the designs the Holy Spirit has for us... so that. ..Jesus Christ will not only become known, but become operative in society," Bishop Daniel A. Cronin told listeners during a recent talk on "Prayer and Personal Spirituality" at Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth.

The bishop's lecture was part of SM U's Lenten Luncheons '88 program, sponsored by the Catholic Campus Ministry. The series is themed "Our Baptismal Call: An In-Depth Consideration of Our Christian Vocation."

Bishop Cronin told his audience of S M U faculty and students and community members that when Pope John Paul II was archbishop of Cracow, Poland, he gave a retreat for university students. The future pope, Bishop Cronin said, asked the students if they prayed.

The bishop asked the same question.

"That stark question, 'Do you pray?: is very important," he said.

The bishop then asked another question: "What is prayer?

"We know that God exists," he

Sister McGee Sister Mary Immaculata McGee, OP, who served at the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River from 1959 to 1970, died in Cleveland March 7 at age 64.

Born Adelaide Delia McGee and a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., she entered the congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer, in 1955. Given the religious name Sister Mary Immaculata, she was professed on Sept.

14, 1957.

After her assignment in Fall River, she was stationed at Holy Family Home in Cleveland, where she was named administrator in 1975, remaining in that capacity until her death.

Sister McGee is survived by five sisters, four brothers and 41 nieces and nephews.

said. "We have an inner feeling, even if we are not gifted with faith."

Prayer, he said, can "bridge the gap" to the Almighty.

"We want to be in touch with" God," the bishop said, "so that we will know the will of God and fulfill it. .. reaching out in mind and heart to God." He explained that prayer has four characteristics. First, he said, is adoration, religious worship of God in acknowledgment of his infinite perfection and goodness.

Another characteristic of prayer, the bishop said, is thanksgiving, realizing "all that the good God has done for us through prayer."

Gifts from God include our Savior, the bishop said, our talents, the ability to contribute to society and the courage to overcome sorrow and disappointments.

Prayer's third mark, the bishop said, is "contrition for having offended God. We adore him, thank him and beg his forgiveness fo~ not having lived up to the graces he has made available to us."

The fourth characteristic is petition, the bishop said. "We have a kind of natural desire," he explained, "to be asking for things.

We learn it as children.

"And that's good," he continued.

"God through the mouth of his son, Jesus Christ, said 'Ask and you shall receive.'

"But what happens when the life of prayer matures, gets more instinctive? That fourth characteristic is downplayed, it's not so important."

Trust in God develops at that point, the bishop said.

He said that the church has always placed great emphasis on reflective prayer and that there is growing interest in it nowadays.

He added that since Vatican II many lay people have adopted the practice of praying the Liturgy of the Hours. Those who do this, he said, "are doing it for the good of the whole church."

He asked those present to consider adopting the practice as individuals or as part of a group.

ROM E (NC) - Italian authorities have turned down requests for a pardon for Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk serving a life sentence for the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II, a justice ministry spokesman said.

A pardon was refused twice last year, in February and December, by two successive justice ministers, the spokesman said March 14. The requests were reportedly made by Agca's mother, who was visiting Italy, and then by Agca himself.

Agca, 30, was arrested in St. Peter's Square at the time of the papal shooting. He was tried and sentenced shortly afterward.

Agca later told investigators that he was part of a wider plot to kill the pope, involving Bulgarian officials. But during the 1985-86 trial of his" alleged accomplices, Agca was an erratic and contradictory witness, and the accused were acquitted for lack of proof. Agca has nevertheless expressed hopes that he would be freed because of his colla boration with prosecutors.

Investigators are currently gathering evidence for a possible third trial, which would center on Agca and several other Turks not involved in previous trials.

Immediately after the shooting and in a 1983 visit to Agca's prison cell, the pope said he forgave Agca.

Agca has said several times since that he admires the pope. But during the 1985-86 trial, he also appeared to attempt to justify the papal shooting, saying that Western civilization and Christianity - had oppressed the world.

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ANew Irish Problem Each year the Irish provide the world with a cause. This year it's an American cause. So often our headlines and evening news programs chronicle the bloody deeds of Irish warring factions and their continuous plotting of murder and terrorism. It's an old problem with no new solutions.

Another longstanding difficulty of the Irish centers about their inabtlity to stay at home.

Over the centuries and the cycles of history, they have washed ashore in other lands in crashing waves of forced immigration. Time and again they have been driven from home by relentless external and internal forces. In their endless pursuit of both survival and fulfillment they have turned to America as their hope and utopia. And as often as they have come to this traditional land of opportunity, they have been' well received.

From the time of our own independence, through the dire years of the Civil War to pre-World War II days, over 5,000,000 Irish have made their way to the United States to become citizens, fight the nation's wars and help establish the nation's freedoms.

Then, muddled of vision and narrow of mind, America drew up the drawbridge and proclaimed once more "no Irish need apply." The irony was that it was a son of Erin, John F. Kennedy, who implemented the decision.

It is strange that one who might yet be working in a fertilizer factory was so duplicitous to his own. Giving the devil his due, at the time the Irish were in no great hurry to leave home. They had no need. Riding the crest of so-called post-war prosperity, they welcomed the European Common Market and all the things the goo'd life brings.

However, the ECM's inherent flaws and faults led many down a primrose path. All too soon, it became evident that the ECM could not supply jobs at a rate sufficient to satisfy Europe's fastest-growing birthrate. Today it is estimated that 50 percent ofthe Irish population is under age 30 in a land with Europe's highest unemployment rate.

To those with no job' or hope of one, immigration was the answer. But this time there was no American welcome. There was plenty of work in America but not for the Irish.

Well, the obvious happened. Those who came as tourists or with visas have simply stayed. In Massachusetts alone it is estimated that there are about 30,000 Irish "greenhorns," mostly undocumented. This has caused a quandary.

The young Irish who have come to America never planned to do so. They wanted to stay at home and the rather feeble. government of Ireland wanted them to. They never expected to become people on the run and they do not want to be路 in America illegally. All their lives, from uncles, aunts and friends already in America, they have heard nothing but welcoming words, but for them the reality is different. They have become victims, at home and abroad.

As we who have done well in America celebrate our advantages, especially during this past week of Hibernian memory and sentiment, it would be well i{ we supported efforts to help the young Irish newcomers achieve legal status. Irish organizations should urge government officials to vote for the measures needed to allow them to make America their home.

Mayall of us who have been blessed by the benefits of American citizenship once more look with favor on a people who have done so much to ensure our freedoms and build our nation.

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ETHIOPIAN RELIEF CAMP

"In those days there was a very great famine." 1 Mac. 9:24

Crying for justice at seat of justice WASHINGTON (NC)-Across the street from the White House, three men huddle over a steam grate to keep warm on a cold afternoon.

Down the block, an elderly Korean street vendor packs away brightly colored woolen hats and mittens before closing up shop.

Oblivious of any of this, two Salvadoran children skip past chattering in Spanish as they make their way home from school.

While the nation's capital may be thought of most often as the place where the rich and politically powerful congregate, the reality is that the Washington metropolitan area has become home to an economically and ethnically diverse population.

"Living and working in the city that most would agree is the capital of the free world are some of the poorest, most outcast and powerless people:' said former Washington- Auxiliary Bishop Eugene A. Marino in a recent interview.

While Washington is 65 percent black, has elected a black mayor and a predominantly black city council, "the white minority has control of the pursestrings, control of construction, of borrowing and lending, of jobs and unions," commented the new archbishop of Atlanta.

In addition to the large U.S. black population, the D.C. area is home to the nation's third-largest concentration of Central American immigrants, fourth-Iarge,st group of Koreans and largest group of Ethiopians outside of Africa.

In addition, the Afghan population is growing. Its presence became ~specially apparent during, the U.S.-Soviet summit in December when Afghan residents marched

down Pennsylvania Avenue to show Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev their opposition to Soviet involvement in their homeland.

The area has an estimated 85 Ethiopian-owned businesses, 21,000 Hispanic and Asian adults studying English in special classes, and at least 43,000 Hispanic and Asian children enrolled in local schools.

The greatest numbers of newcomers came from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam after the end of the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia in the mid 1970s; from Ethiopia after Marxists took power from Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974; and from EI Salvador as a result of the bloody strife which escalated in the 1980s.

Like other U.S. urban areas where poverty and underemployment flourish, the city where the president lives and the nation's laws are made is increasingly riddled with drug-related crime.

Especially hard hit have been black neighborhoods where often both killers and victims are under 18 years of age.

As a church leader in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, Archbishop Marino said he felt a responsibility to both the powerful and powerless.

To the poor, he said, the church must preach the Gospel message, and provide material assistance, advocacy and education.

"But we must also call upon the powerful to recognize their responsibilities to the poor. They must be reminded that the value of a civilization is measured by the way it deals with its powerless," Archbishop Marino said. In 1981 he reminded the Senate Agriculture CommIttee of the "many human beings within earshot of these hal-

lowed halls who do not receive a nutritionally adequate diet and who go to bed with the pains and tears of hunger."

The Archbishop said he regularly saw homeless people in the city's alleys "because of where I drove, walked and parked ... but I'm sure there are people who commute to Capitol Hill from the suburbs each day that don't see them."

Robert T. Hennemeyer, former ambassador to Gambia who now works in the USCe's Office of International Justice and Peace as a specialist on Europe and the Far East, said he always carries a pocketful of quarters because of frequent encounters in downtown D.C. with homeless people asking for change.

A native of Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods, Hennemeyer said he is pleased to find his once allwhite suburban Bethesda,. Md., community now has "a strong Spanish flavor, and there are blacks and Orientals moving in."

Most outsiders think of Washington as "parades going by, flags flying and limousines pulling up at the White House," said Sister Mary Oliver Hudon, a School Sister of Notre Dame who works at the U.S. Catholic Conference.

On the contrary, she said, "you can't walk by the White House without being confronted by the homeless and the poor.

"It's a real moral cry," said Sister Hudon, who lives in an allblack neighborhood in Washington's Anacostia area, just around the corner from where the 45th District murder victim of 1988 was found.

"The poor are crying for justice at the seat of justice," she said.

"Bless you" We sneeze. Someone says, "Bless you." We do something thoughtful for another and she says, "Well, bless you.

Aren't you nice?" We hear about another's misfortune and say, "God bless them." Grandmothers look fondly on a crude homemade gift and say to grandchildren, "For me? Bless your little heart."

We bless people all the time only we don't realize it. When I was teaching last summer and encouraged parents to bless their children at bedtime, many were stunned and asked, "You mean parents can bless their own children?" They were thinking that only priests can bless.

Of course we can bless each other! What is a blessing but calling on God to favor another? We can bless each other, gardens, rooms, animals and food.

"God bless you," is one of those warm loving phrases that says, "I care about you. I want God to keep you in His care." The phrase is absent in many families, though.

It just isn't said.

If your family is one of these, why not consider a bold move this week in Lent? Make an effort everyone in the family - to bless someone each day. Just this week for starters. Perhaps it will initiate a trend. Once we become comfort-

able with the phrase, it gets easier to say and mean.

Parents might bless their children at bedtime, saying, "God bless this imp tonight and keep her safe and well."

Other non-threatening blessings might be: "God bless the cook."

"God bless the breadwinner," "Bless you for taking out the garbage."

"You're a blessing to have around," "It's a blessing to live in a warm home like this."

"Bless your little pointed head."

"Bless us, 0 Lord .. ," and slow down the grace so we actually hear what we're saying.

Lent is also a good time to bless the home together as a family. It can be d~ne by gathering together and asking God to keep our home safe and to bless all of us who live in and visit our home. We can make a sign of the cross in each room or in a central locale and end with an "Our Father" and "Hail Mary:" The whole ritual takes only a few minutes but it's one of those religious observances that tells us. "We're not alone here.

God lives in our midst," Some Christian cultures have a tradition of setting an empty place at the table for God or for those strangers who might be God in disguise. It's a lovely reminder that

Value of research Every year at this time I receive brochures on college . course offerings aimed at people interested in pastoral ministry. The courses cover areas ranging from theology, justice, spirituality and liturgy to behavior development and human relations.

But where are the courses on how to conduct research? There are practically no programs for future leaders in ministry that offer them methods for studying the effectiveness of the programs they will direct.

Several years ago a study titled "A National Inventory of Parish Catechetical Programs" found that only 16 percent of existing youth ministry programs had conducted research on their effectiveness.

We are great at creating programs, but we have few people schooled in analyzing how well those programs are succeeding.

To become a researcher requires .years of study by people who like to track down, quantify and analyze information. This may be why we have so few church researchers.

Most people interested in ministry would rather serve others than stand back and analyze what is being done. Yet if ministry is to maintain momentum and reach its full potential we need to study and evaluate its progress.

How does research do this?

Most of us in church ministry take it for granted that our work by its nature has great value. For example, catechetics concerns the development of our relationship with God and therefore is extremely valuable.

But how often do children plead for permission to stay home from dull religion classes from which they get nothing because of poor teaching or bad program planning?

It is difficult to talk about the inherent value in a course when

those taking it experience incompetence and are blocked from getting to its value.

When research is applied to ministry, it helps us to ask essential questions like: - What are the value and importance of what we are doing?

- How effective or how adequate are we in performing our job?

Are those threatening questions?

By all means! But they are worth asking because they help us realize the meaningfulness of our actions and avoid 'a take-it-for-granted attitude. They help us measure how well responsibilities are shouldered and assess whether the real values of ministry are getting through.

Let us not be fooled. The present momentum in ministry could easily halt and its fullest potential might never be reached. If programs that train our future ministers want to guard against this, it might be wise to teach students

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God is part of the family. At grace time, they ask God's blessing on all those we meet in his guise.

Another method of blessing is by the written word. A little note on the pillow or tucked into a lunch sack saying, "Hope your day is going well. God bless you. Love, Mom." can give a lift to the most discouraged child - or parent.

The Irish have a lovely custom of entering a home and saying, "God bless all who live here." The first time it happened to us in our little cottage last summer, we didn't know how to respond because it was new to us. But, like all new customs, it soon became familiar and we were able to say thank you with ease.

Nietzsche wrote, "From people who me~ly pray we must become people who bless," He was making the distinction between prayer as a personal focus to blessing which focuses on others. When we bless others, whether they're sneezing or doing something for us, we are focusing on them, not on ourselves. And that's not a bad goal for Lent.

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

how to use research its a means of stimulating ministry to new heights.

Model for priests VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II recently told a group of bishops that although Mary is not herself a priest, she is an "outstanding model" for pastors of how to shepherd souls.

Mary is a "model of perfection," the pope said to bishops participating in a meeting sponsored by Focolare, an international renewal movement.

"Her sanctity and purity transcend absolutely all the rest of humanity," which bears the consequences of sin, the pope said.

The pope described Mary as humanity'S guide in the pilgrimage to heaven.

"She indicates the road, defends us from snares and dangers, making us victorious over evil, comforting us in fatigue and in suffering," he added.

"Mary, therefore, is an outstanding model for us pastors of how souls must be led," he told the bishops. "She is the model of the way in which the church herself, mother and teacher, must lead souls."

But Mary does not substitute herself for the charisms of the "successors Of the apostles," the pope added. "Mary is not a priest," Nevertheless, hers is an "indispensable and complementary contribution" related to the mystery of "her maternity and femininity," the pope said.

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Judging church groups Q. I and my friends are more and more confused by what seems like an increasing number of organizations and movements we are supposed to choose from in trying to be active and better Catholics.

Some make us suspicious, especially one or two groups tied to appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or so they say.

Some others look good. Others scare us because they claim we cannot be really Catholic unless we belong to their organizations or be "good, -loyal Catholics" except the way they tell us.

Sometimes they sound awfully narrow. We've had priests involved in some of them and have been told they are the only priests we can trust to hear our confessions or give us advice. How can we tell what to think? (Pennsylvania) A. Your concern is healthy and apparently shared by a good many Catholics these days. It's extremely difficult to deal with this matter in a short column, but there are a few basic guidelines I might suggest froom our 'Catholic tradition.

First, however, we must remember that ours is a big church. Historically, when it is at its best and most alive, there's always room for a whole rainbow of ways for people to pray, to think, to live out their faith and grow in holiness.

Because something does not appeal to us or may even seem a little far out needn't mean there is anything bad about it. Without respect and room for differences and honest variety within the appropriate framework of faith, the church stagnates.

But to your question. One danger sign to look for is any position which rejects what the church is doing and teaching today. Many groups, for example, some of them, as you say, related to alleged supernatural apparitions, refuse to accept the teachings of the church since the Second Vatican Council. In their opinion these teachings and practices conflict with what they see as the "golden age" of Pope Pius V and the Council of Trent in the 16th century.

We believe on the contrary that the same Spirit who was with the church in the past is with it now.

Another large, warning flag is the claim that this or that group is the "elite" of the church, that they are the real and genuine Catholics, that anyone not with them or who sees things differently from them is somehow a second-rate Catholic.

I, too, have known some who have their own priests who are supposed to be, for one reason or another, the only ones who "understand" them and are good enough to minister to them.

These types of organization (one might sometimes even call them cults) have been around since the beginning ofChristia'nity. We read about them in the New Testament.

In my 34 years as a priest, I have led or been involved with dozens of spiritual and apostolic movements. All have accomplished much good, but nearly everyone went through a stage when it needed to fight the temptation to consider

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By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN itself something like a-n eighth sacrament, to believe no one is a genuine, full Catholic until you have done their "thing," or seen things their way.

Of course, groups and societies who pursue this course always have the highest motives - to "purify" the church and so on. But unchecked, such attitudes have often led to gross intolerance and arrogance, When sufficiently large, they have caused enormous personal injustices, persecution and hurt to the body of Christ. But still they surface every generation or so, the sacraments, the Gospels and the basic prayer and spiritual efforts taught in continuous church tradi-tion are quite sufficient to make good, loyal and complete Catholic Christians. One archbishop noted this a few months ago, specifically in connection with one of the several dozen alleged apparitions current today. But his remark is valid in other matters as well.

"One can become a saint," he wrote, "and fully participate in the life of the church, without giving credence to such apparitions; they are not part of the deposit offaith.

In fact, basing one's piety on them can often be narrow and illusory," The third and best criterion in evaluating these movements and societies is the old standby: What are their fruits, their results? Are they bringing to the Catholic community (parish, diocese, universal church) greater hope, unity, charity, kindness, peace and other fruits of the Spirit listed by St. Paul?

(Galatians 5:22).

Or do they seem to be causing mistrust, secretiveness, elitism, hostility and bickering, division and oppression?

You can guess which ones St. Paul and Christian tradition recommend.

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Unique Continued from Page One besides their own. One other couple, they said, still attends meetings to offer support to their widowed friends.

A typical meeting, Vezina said, begins with a welcome to new members and "meditation music, to bring everyone into a reflective mood and to help relax new mem·bers who might be ~ervous."

After any special announcements, it's on to the evening's main attraction. Often, the Vezinas said, a speaker addresses a topic of interest to the widowed. A woman representing a nutrition program, for example, spoke on the art of cooking for one. Other nights might feature inspirational readings to initiate discussion in small gr.oups so individuals can feel more comfortable discussing personal experiences.

The Vezinas say that although the group stresses support rather than social aspects, members have a lot of fun at activities such as holiday parties, potluck meals and group dine-outs.

Most of all, though: the meetings are, according to Mrs. Vezina, "a place for handholding, a place for 'Hey, it's going to get better!' " Since 1982, the couple has organized a biannual retreat weekend for the widowed. The weekends, held at the Family Life Center in North Dartmouth, are open to all widowed persons. They feature speakers, including the Vezinas. who always offer a talk about the pros arid cons of remarriage, and opportunities for Catholic participants to attend Mass. Free time is included and, adds Mrs. Vezina, "we may have films or discussions."

She notes that the retreat mas': cot is a teddy bear wearing a banner reading 'I Need a Hug!' and that retreatants tend not to want to return home at the end of a weekend.

"It's awful to sit and grieve by yourself," she said.

Information on the next Joy of Living Widowed Support Weekend, to be held April 22 through 24, is available from the Vezinas, 998-3269, and the Family Life Center, 999-6420.

Continued from Page One The Billings method of natural "necessary defense of the dignity family planning utilizes biological signals such as cervical mucus and and of the truth" of this love.

The church helps couples live up temperature shifts to predict when to the responsibilities of the con- .a woman is ovulating. It recomjugal commitment, the pope said. mends abstinence during fertile However, he added, he could periods for couples wishing to avoid not be silent about those who do a pregnancy. not help couples with their responsibilities, "but create for them some notable obstacles."

Such obstacles include "a certain current hedonistic mentality;" Continued from Page One the mass media, and ideologies ops' conference issued a statement and practices contrary to the Gossaying that while condoning neither pel; and the actions of some of the contraception nor sex outside marchurch's own theologians and riage, the church could tolerate the pastors. inclusion of accurate information When the church's teachings are about prophylactics in public eduput up for discussion, the pope cation programs about AIDS. said, "it can lead to doubt on a The bishops' board said, "Such teaching which for the church is a factual presentation should indicertain, obscuring in this way the cate that abstinence outside of perception of a truth which cannot marriage as well as the avoidance be discussed." of intravenous drug abuse are the The· pope praised the congress only morally correct and medifor putting the technique of natural family planning within the con- cally sure ways to prevent the spread of AIDS." text of ethical reflection.

Some bishops protested, saying Such a technique "does not rethe statement's discussion of prosolve the ethical problems," he phylactics was subject to misintersaid, adding that there is no substipretation. tute for an "education to chastity."

Condoms nixed

BISHOP CRONIN and Very Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton, Taunton area Catholic Charities Appeal director, with the 1988 Appeal poster. (Gaudette photo)

Appeal preparations begin Daffodils, a sign. ot hope, are among the heralds of spring. Also signs of hope and spring are preparations for the annual Catholic Charities Appeal, this year having as its theme "Only Hope of Many People."

Priest directors of the Appeal have metwith Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director, to discuss procedures. They are Very Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton, pastor of St. Ann's parish, Raynham, Taunton area director; Rev. Richard L. Chretien, pastor of St. Theresa's, New Bedford, New Bedford'area director; Rev. John F. Andrews, pastor of St. Joan of Arc, Orleans, Cape Cod and Islands director; Rev. Thomas L. Rita, pastor of St. Mary's, Seekonk, Attleboro area director.

Father Rita is assisted by Rev. Ralph D. Tetrault, pastor of St. Mary's, North Attleboro. Msgr.

Gomes is Fall River area director.

Special Gifts will: be solicited April 18 to 30 and the parish phase

will begin at noon May I, when 20,650 volunteers will ask '115,000 diocesan families for support. The parish phase will end May II. The Charities Appeal, dating back to 1942, serVes Southeastern Massachusetts in the areas of charity, social services and education.

The 1988 Appeal will begin with a kickoff meeting at 8 p.m. April 13 at Bishop Connolly High School.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be the main speaker.

Over 800 members ofthe clergy, religious and laity are expected at the meeting.

For the 12th time, the 1987 Appeal exceeded the $1 million mark, totaling $1,859,900. It is hoped that this year's Appeal will surpass that amount, in order to meet the increased needs of the thousands depending upon it.

"Our Appeal is people helping people," said Msgr. Gomes. "We need one another and we can fulfill this need through Catholic Cha·rities."

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TV must serve world, says cardinal VATICAN CITY (NC) Warning of television's potential for "disinformation" as well as for education, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli has challenged those working in the medium to put themselves at the service of humanity.

In light oftelevision's great power for both good an4 ill, the Vatican secretary of the state .said, "One understands the worries of the popes and of the other pastors of the church and their strong calls" for a sense of responsibility "comparable to the seriousness of the dangers."

Cardinal Casaroli made his comments during a Feb. 14 Mass broadcast from the Basilica of St. Clare in Assisi, Italy. It marked the 30th anniversary of Pope Pius XII's proclamation of St. Clare as the patron saint of television.

Radio and television are relatively recent discoveries, yet "have overwhelmingly invaded the world," the cardinal said. They "extend their empire even in the world's most impervious, most closed and most withdrawn regions," he added, "imposing on humanity new forms of life and civilization."

Television offers "almost unthinkable possibilities of information, but also of disinformation; of the spread of culture, but also of its betrayal," Cardinal Casaroli said.

It can help in the formation of youth, yet also offer "subtle forms of diseducation, particularly in the sector of recreation and entertainment."

The cardinal said those working

in television with "great professional competence" and a sense of their "social responsibilities" must be recognized.

He also praised television repor~ ters who risk great danger getting their stories.

But such information "has great need of objectivity, of completeness, and of an inspiration that is fir~t of all a promoter of agreement and of brotherhood, not of aversion or hate between people, classes, races, or political or ideological biocs," Cardinal Casaroli said.

Television can help create a "psychology of peace" by broadcasting information about other peoples, about science, about art and nature, he added.

The moral responsibilities of those who work in television are not limited "to giving a sufficiently fair space to transmissions of a religious charater," the cardinal said. He explained that their responsibility concerns "the entire range oftheir professional activity."

St. Clare is patroness of television because of an incident on Christmas Eve, 1252, when she was ill and could not attend midnight Mass. She prayed, "Oh my Lord, behold me left alone in this place with you," and according to a nun with her, 8t. Clare heard the organ and saw the entire Mass ).Infold before her.

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I do feel that you were unfair to Pat Robertson. The media made a determined effort to give him the Barry Goldwater treatment after Iowa showed his political strength.

The Boston Herald was particularly repetitious.

I doubt that he would disagree with any of your editorials. Much of what he says is "traditional Catholic philosophy." His comment· on Cuban missiles is indirectly accurate in that Soviet missile submarines dock at Cienfuegos.

His unrelenting attack on abortion has no counterpart among the Catholic hierarchy. He says America needs moral strength.

The liberals courted the Catholic hierarchy when they agreed with the nuclear freeze issue, and the Churc'h bishops have signed on to the socialist agenda with the letter on economics.

Conservative Catholics like myself are disheartened by this and support efforts like Robertson's to defend America and the life of the unborn.

I hope you will look him over again. His message (not much different from your .message) clearly needs to be heard.

William J. Watson,'MD Taunton

Making rosaries Dear Editor: During 1987 Our Lady's Rosary Makers made and freely distributed over 5,000,000 new mission rosaries to the poor on all six continents. Father Peyton has indicated that many of the poor cannot afford even one rosary.

While we seem to have been focusing on the foreign missions, a number of worthy causes in the United States - including hospitals, prisons, homes for the elderly and the armed forces have also been asking for rosaries.

As a Lenten project, if any of your readers would like information on making rosaries with mission rosary-making groups to be distributed to those in need, they .may send a large, self-addressed stamped envelope to the address below.

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Jusaife opposed Dear Editor: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's "Seamless Garment" theory has plunged vast sectors of the American Church into hypocrisy. According to the political action committee of the J ustLife Education Fund, supported by Cardinal Bernardin in a survey (Anchor, March 4), this hypocrisy was evident for all to see.

In spite ofthe continuous Church teaching that direct abortion is murder, the JustLife Education PAC surveyed those candidates for president who served in Congress and found that Dick Gephardt, Paul Simon and Albert Gore, all of whom support legalized abor-

tion-on-demand, are more worthy of Catholic votes than either Jack Kemp or Bob Dole who have consistently stood up for the Right to Life of unborn-children. Gephardt achieved the highest JustLife rating in this questionable survey, 79% while Dole's was only 33%.

The survey is flawed just as the whole "Seamless Garment" theory is flawed because in both abortion is relegated to just another issue while in reality it is the key issue. Just as any Catholic is morally obligated to oppose a Nazi advocating genocide, regardless of his position on other issues, so also are Catholics morally obligated to oppose politicians advocating fetal genocide - abortion.

All of the othl!r issues on Cardinal Bernardin's checklist are subject to debate with moral positions able to be established using different approaches but the Church teaches that abortion is murder, science confirms this to be true and God says that murder is forbidden, a sin crying out to heaven for vengeance.

Therefore, Catholics are morally obligated to oppose abortion inside and outside of the polling station.

To advocate anything less is completely misguided and a betrayal of our most defenseless neighbors.

Harry Booth South Dartmouth

For the boys Dear Editor: Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Father Emil Cook. I am a Franciscan missionary priest in Honduras. I have a parish of some 5,000 Catholics in the diocese of Comayagua and also a Boystown project.

In Honduras only about 10 percent of the youth can attend high school due to the vast poverty of the people. That means that 90

percent of the youth cannot develop themselves educationally or technically. This keeps them poor.

That is a tremendous waste of human potential and a real tragedy for each youth and for humanity.

I have established a Boystown project to try to give boys the opportunity to get an academic and trade education. We have boys studying the normal studies and also we 'teach them a trade like carpentry, masonry and farming.

We have 110 boys here and some 20 in the university.

A friend suggested that I write to Catholic papers asking them to run a letter begging things that we need for our mission and boys. We need used clothing, used shoes, kitchen items, soap, toothpaste, pencils, ballpoint pens, etc. They can be sent to us cheaply by 4th class mail. Here is the address: Office of Staff Chaplain JTF Bravo APO Miami, Florida 34042 Attn: Pueblo Franciscano We would like to ask the people' to simply share what they can with us. I will send a thank you note to each person that can help us.

Father Emil Cook, OFM Conv.

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Changing world Dear Editor: Let the word go forth: We can change the world! The Anchor having published a letter of mine (Feb. 26) protesting the tasteless TV films of WLNE in the afternoon and Mrs. Martin of Chatham having forwarded same to the station, George Allen, producer of Dialing for Dollars called me and we had a long converse about drugs and violence among all, especially the youth. He has pledged to screen all films before showing.

Cheers for all concerned.

It can be done. We simply must take action. Write a card (14 cents).

Thanks to the Anchor and its editor, Mrs. Martin, George Allen...

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She'll swap tiara for nurse's cap MONROE, Mich. (NC)"- Unlike many previous Miss Americas, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko says she is not interested in a television career when her reign ends. She plans to trade her tiara for a nurse's cap.

Miss Rafko, a Monroe native, took a leave of absence from her nursingjob at St. Vincent's Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, when she won the Miss America pageant last September.

But her heart is never far from 3-A, the oncology and hematology ward at St. Vincent's where she worked with cancer patients.

The work is hard and can be depressing, but "my faith as a Roman Catholic has helped me OUt," Miss Rafko said. "I see death not as an ending, but as the last stage in this life, the beginning of a better life with Christ."

Miss Rafko became interested in a nursing career while fulfilling a high school community service requirement at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe. After graduating, she applied to St. Vincent's nurses' training program in nearby Toledo and was accepted.

Her training included work on each of the hospital's units, but 3-A was Miss Rafko's favorite. "I loved what it was about," she said.

"It's more than just the physical aspects of patient care. It's spiritual, emotional."

Caring for cancer patients "was like a calling for me," Miss Rafko said. They "need people who can empathize and listen. That's an asset I have, so why not use it to help these people?"

She explained that cancer - she refers to it as "the killer" - requires aggressive treatment, but also requires knowing when death is inevitable.

"Chemotherapy is wonderful if there's hope, but it can ruin whatever life a patient has left," she noted. "There has to be emphasis on the quality instead of the quantitiy of life, to treat a dying patient

KA YE LANI Rae Rafko, this year's Miss America, combines the talent and personality that earned her crown with the caring heart of an oncology nurse. (NCj UPI ph?tos) as comfortably and respectfully as you can."

In a hospital environment, where the emphasis is on fixing problems, helplessly watching a patient die is difficult. she said.

"Y ou're losing kids to leukemia and your hands are tied. You just have to pick yourself up. Death is inevitable. All of us will have to reach that stage of life sooner or later."

Miss Rafko said that although most people say they would prefer to die suddenly rather than linger with a disease like cancer, sometimes knowing that death is expected can be an opportunity for patients and their families.

"It can give them time to clear up old business, to say their goodbyes, to tell people they love them.

It's important." she said.

Miss Rafko knows how frightening a diagnosis of cancer can be.

Three months before winning the Miss Michigan pageant, she had her own brush with "the killer."

During a routine checkup, her

doctor discovered a cyst below an ovary. She wanted it rem.oved right away, but the doctor advised waiting.

"When I went back to have it checked, it had tripled in size. It was four inches in circumference," she said. "It was painful and the doctor said he had to do abdominal surgery right away. There I was, a nurse in oncology, sitting there and he said, 'It feels like it could be malignant.' I started crying, and he said, 'Honey, you have every right to cry,' and handed me a box of tissues."

After a second doctor recommended surgery, she had the operation. The. cyst was not malignant and three months later she was crowned Miss Michigan.

Working with the dying enhances every moment of living, she said.

"When I think ofall the senseless killings that happen, and then of my patients struggling for any minute of life that's left, it makes me very upset. I value every min~ ute. You really have to enjoy life.

You just never know."

"The more you listen, the more you understand."

By Joseph Motta Dorothy Peluso, a member of Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich, and coordinator of the parish's large Scripture study group, says as a result of participation with the group she's learned "that Jesus is love and that he wants us to love everyone."

The Cape Cod crew Mrs. Peluso skippers uses the Little Rock Scripture Study Series. What with their studies, their fellowship and the love for Jesus that was already present in their hearts, wonderful things are happening in Corpus Christi parish.

Participation for young mother Angela Redmond, who attends morning Scripture study sessions, "just has made Jesus so personal. ..so alive and real."

Bob Nolan calls his study "similar to the experience of listening to great music. The more you listen, the more you understand."

"I'm reading more of the Bible, including the Old Testament, than I ever did before," says Dr. Phyllis Sheridan, who notes that the exposure has made her increasingly more comfortable with her ministry as a parish lector.

Thursday is Scripture study day at Corpus Christi. About 35 persons, ranging in age from young adulthood to the golden years, were present at a recent morning session in the parish's small, cheery Father Clinton Hall, close to the center of historic Sandwich. About the same number, a younger crowd including many working couples, meet Thursday evenings at Corpus Christi's mission church, St. Theresa's in Sagamore.

Mrs. Peluso explained that after Corpus Christi's pastor, Father George W. Coleman, arrived at the parish in early 1985, she and others hoping for institution of a Bible study group requested his input and guidance.

"He encouraged use of the [Paulist Fathers] Share the Word video series," Mrs. Peluso said. Soon about 25 persons were meeting at the homes of Beverly Comeau and Mrs. Peluso for the presentations.

After a few meetings it was back to Father Coleman to ask for a spiritual adviser to field group questions. Father James A. Calnan, a 1985 ordinand al1d parochial vicar, was assigned.

The Share the Word series, Mrs. Peluso notes, is now aired on Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network.

Mrs. Peluso said that in early

1986 about 20 group members traveled to St. Stanislaus School Fall River, to hear Father Je~ome Kodell, OSB, speak in a program sponsored by the Fall River Diocesan Service Committee for the Charismatic Renewal.

The talk by Father Kodell, an originator of the Little Rock progr~m,. inspired the group to begin usmg It. The'morning study session at Father Clinton Hall The Anchor attended was typical. After hearty hellos and many hugs, group members, many of whom had just attended Mass at Corpus Christi, began with song, using a music booklet they've prepared which includes selections ranging from traditional to contemporary.

Then small groups formed for Little Rock's "four 'steps of conversational prayer." Each group leader has gone through five weeks of video and written teaching, group study and prayer.

More leaders and auxiliary leaders have been trained for the morning and evening sessions as the group has grown, Mrs. Peluso said. The current 24, who include.

Sister Doreen Donegan, SUSC, Corpus Christi's religious education coordinator, and Mrs. Peluso's husband Michael, meet monthly "to share, to pray, to uphold each other."

To prepare for the weekly sessions, each small group member has read the Bible (currently the Gospel of Mark) and Little Rock commentary on the week's chapters and answered questions on the material. Mrs. Peluso said a minimum of one half-hour of preparation per day is necessary.

During conversational prayer steps one and two, small group members are asked to visualize and welcome Christ, then thank him audibly and succinctly: "Each small group becomes a single community that will be offering up one combined prayer to God," Mrs. Peluso said.

After these first prayer steps, which last about five minutes group members share the fruits of their home study. 45 minutes pass, then Mrs. Peluso rings a bell to signal time to focus on prayer, steps three and four, intercessory communion with God first for themselves, then others.

After a coffee break, the whole group convenes for videotape teaching. Father Calnan is present to answer questions, Mrs. Peluso says, pointing out that the small

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Fri., Mar. 18, 1988

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New home for CRS NEW YORK (NC) - The board of Catholic Relief Services has voted to buy a nine-story Baltimore building for its new headquarters.

Board chairman Archbishop Edward T. O'Meara of Indianapolis said he had signed a contract agreeing to pay slightly over $3 million for the 80,000 square foot building, which is just outside the main downtown area and can be used without renovation. .

The move is being 1Uade due to the h\gh cost of Jiving and doing business in New York City and the need for expanded office facilities.

Archbishop O'Meara said he thought the move could be accomplished within a year. But in any case, he said, CRS wants to be in Baltimore when the National Conference of Catholic Bishops meets there in November 1989 to mark the bicentennial of the U.S. hierarchy.

John Swenson, who provided staff assistance to the relocation committee, said the state of Maryland had loaned CRS $500,000 at 2 percent interest to help with building and moving costs. In addition, he said, a grant of $200,000 came from economic development funds of the city of Baltimore, and $300,000 from the Abell Foundation, a local agency that seeks to encourage city development.

A state grant of $30,000 has been received for staff recruitment and training, Swenson said. Although all current staff have been offered jobs in Baltimore, he said, CRS anticipates that many, particularly clerical staff, will decide not to move.

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She and Father Calnan also attend the evening sessions.

Veteran International Traveler; The mother of two says that she hopes young people will take adAssociate Pastor. vantage of "finding the Lord in St. Catherine Parish their youth. Things will be a lot Westford easier" for them if they do, she said. "I wish I had [the Scripture study group] in my life earlier."

(U ndated)(NC) - Leading CathFather Calnan ("He's really a olic churchmen in Brazil and Mexblessing," says Mrs. Peluso) thinks ico say that much of the latest that the group has accomplished papal encyclical, "On Social Con"bonding, drawing the parish closer cerns," seems tailor-made for Latin together."

America. They said Pope John The young priest sees an "air of Paul II's criticism of Marxism and respect and love" among group capitalism, and his assertion that members, who, he said, come from )ustice must be integral to devel"all walks of life" and are a true opment programs strike a true cross section of Corpus Christi. note in the region.

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Participant Mary Kiley agrees. :'One ofth~ most important things IS the shanng that comes with the study," she said. "It's a great big !(1). plus!" :.r" "I believe that the Scripture proCenterfor Christian Living gram presents the ideal combination of the meditative reading of Holy Scripture and prayer based on that reading," notes Father Coleman.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: Our son, 30 years of age, has purchased a home near us, and his girlfriend has moved in with him. I refuse to treat them as husband and wife. I told him never to bring anyone to our table that he is living with outside of marriage. As a consequence, he rarely comes to our home and generally avoids us.

We told him that as our son he is always welcome and that we completely want his happiness. What we are wondering is how to get him back to a Catholic-Christian way of looking at a man-woman relationship. We will not and cannot give away our principles and pretend what is going on isn't. Is there a way to approach him on this?

She is an OK girl as far as we know, but we are afraid that should they marry, things can never be good because of our feelings for their relationship now. Any thoughts on what must be a common problem today will be greatly appeciated. - Florida Your son has shocked and hurt you by choosing values contrary to your deepest feelings. You ask how to get him back to a Christian way of living. As painful as this situtation is for you, you are asking the wrong question. You are asking how to change the behavior of a 30-year-old man. something

which you do not have the power to do.

Instead, try to examine what you can do. You have three options.

I. You can accept your son and his girlfriend as adults, not approving the' choice they have made but recognizing that the choice is theirs, not yours. So far you have refused to meet them socially, as you regard this as compromising your principles. There is a difference between acceptance and approval.

You have judged that living together out of wedlock constitutes unChristian behavior, and you refuse to associate with someone who acts this way. Do you apply the same standard to other un-Christian behavior?

Some people knowingly falsify expenses on tax returns in order'to pay lower taxes. Others take parts and supplies from their employer for their personal use. Cheating and stealing are also un-Christian.

Do you refuse to associate with persons who do these things?

Unless you shun all persons who act in an un-Christian manner. you have singled out your son, not for un-Christian behavior, but for the sin which bothers you the most.

2. A second possibility is to accept your son but to reject his partner.

This is what you have chosen.

Your son is welcome, but she is not. In effect. you are saying. "My

son is OK. All this is her fault."

Since you recognize that she seems to be "an OK girl," this position appears rather unfair to her. It takes two to form a live-in couple.

3. Finally, you can refuse to have any social contact with either ofthem until and unless they change behavior. You have already rec~ ognized the real danger in such a position. Not only do you lose your son now, but in the event that they later marry, you may not be able to reestablish a relationship.

You may lose your son.for good.

As an adult, you have a right to make anyone of the choices above.

As an adult. your son also has the right to his choices. He cannot tell you to change your principles.

You cannot tell him to change- his lifestyle.

If you look to the Gospels, you will find that Jesus never condoned sin, but he did not refuse to associate with sinners. He did not reach others by shunning them or by condemning them. He ate and drank with them and loved them.

When behavior between generations has changed so much and parents are so confused about how to react. we are not likely to find a .better model.

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Impressions have little to do with who a person really is. They are Most of the worrying we do formed through a subjective interover what other people think of us action of two personalities. That's is a colossal waste of time and why one person's impression can energy. according to a recent study. , differ so wildly from another's.

It shows people to be remarkably At the root of our fear is the poor judges of the true impresfalse assumption that we're supsions they make on others. posed to be liked by everyone. But In observing people's responses how can we expect to please everyto simulated job interviews, first date's and parties, psychologist body?

We're so busy packaging ourBella DePaulo ofthe University of selves for presentation that we Virginia found that "their accuracy is barely better than chance." often lose a sense of substance.

When we overemphasize appearMs. DePaulo's experiment. reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, put college students together in groups of

By Hilda Young strangers for several hours to conAccording to a recent survey. verse and perform various tasks. the majority of teenagers think Later, when they were asked to th~ir mothers spend the day creatguess what impressions they made ing lists of reasons they may not on others, they often were wrong. leave home to join a rock group.

One conclusion was that people mismatching socks, hiding cassette who fear they're making bad impressions generally are much bet- tapes, changing the car radio to weird stations and unknotting the ter liked than'they realize.

Overly self-conscious people telephone cord. ought to be cheered by these Thus. it should not surprise me findings. that my teens seem to feel they are "Socially anxious" people have doing me a favor to find things for an awful lot of company in their me to do. affliction. Studies have found that Example: Yesterday our 15-year75 percent of people feel self- old asked if I would drive her and conscious at parties with strangers. friends to a concert in a city 50 "Almost everyone worries on occa- miles away. wait for them, then sion about what others think. drive them back.

The emphasis on externals is so "That's about a six-hour investingrained in us that we hardly stop to question it. We pass it on un- ment." I pointed out.

She gave me a quizzical look. consciously to our children. As soon as our children begin inter- "You don't have other plans. do . acting with others, the pressure is you?"

"Well." I said. drawing in my on to be liked and accepted and breath. "I was thinking about orpopular.

But what does all this nervous- ganizing the freezer by food groups ness amount to? Not a hill of or maybe spit shining the door knobs." beans, really.

What's more, we need to shift "Do you want us to chip in for our priorities so that we stop fo- gas?" she ventured. cusing on surface impressions.

My eyes rolled to the back of my The truth is, we can't know or head, my jaw dropped open and I collapsed onto the sofa. control what impressions we make.

ances, we forget what our spiritual goals should be.

Unless substance is what we value, how will we ever do what Jesus asked? To be loving, just and fair, we must get beyond surface impressions. We have to be seekers, always aiming for the deeper truths inside ourselves and others.

I bet Mother Teresa doesn't waste a minute worrying over what impression she makes. When a person truly focuses on love, surface appearances lose any relevance.

How teens see parents "Wrong response. eh?" observed Miss My-time-is-your-time.

"Do you see me as a human being with wants, needs and ambitions like anyone else or as a taxi, a loan officer, a cook and a folder of socks and underwear?" I asked dramatically.

"If this is multiple choice. is all of the above an option?" she queried.

"The issue here is time." I went on. "You kids take note of your parents' time about as much as the air you breathe." .

"Us?" she said defensively. "What about parents? According to a recent survey. the majority of parents think teenagers spend most of their day spray starching their hair. trying to burn out the refrigerator light. brain damaging themselves by watching MTV and knotting the phone cord.

"That's probably why they have us do more stimulating tasks like taking out the garbage. weeding, saving their place in line at the bank and hopping up to change channels on the TV." We compromised. I agreed to take her to the concert if she would unknot the phone cord next week.

Send comments to Hilda Young, 25218 Meadow Way, Arlington, Wash. 98223.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 18, 1988

Bishops escalate apartheid protests

Evangelization of nation is Paulist goal

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (NC) - A group of South African bishops escalated the church protest against the banning of anti-apartheid organizations and government threats to suspend the newspaper they sponsor with an unprecedented public demonstration on the steps of Johannesburg's Catholic cathedral March II.

Four archbishops and four bishops, including the acting president of the southern African bishops' conference, took turns on the church steps holding placards demanding "Free the New Nation" and "Restore Our Human Rights" following a press conference in which they called the government bannings unjust and apartheid "immoral and inhuman."

Participating in the demonstration and signing the letter were Archbishops Denis E. Hurley of Durban, Peter J. Butelezi ofBolemfontein, George F. Daniel of Pretoria and Stephen Naidoo of Cape Town, plus Bishops Reginald J. Orsmond of Johannesburg, conference acting president, Johannes L.B. Brenninkmeijer of Kroonstad and Michael M. O'Shea ofIngwauuma and Auxiliary Bishop Zithulele P. Mvemve of Johannesburg..

The government banned the activities of 18 anti-apartheid groups Feb. 25, including the umbrella organization for anti-apartheid protest, the United Democratic Front.

It has also threatened to suspend New Nation, the secular newspaper owned by the bishops' conference, for stories it has published about the racial conflict and government policy in South Africa:' : "The church views the restrictions" on the organizations and on several individuals "with indignation," the bishops said in a statement which was in the form of a pastoral letter to South African Catholics "and all people of good will."lt said the government actions have heightened tension and raised the "degree of oppression" in South Africa.

Some organizations have the right to "work for the common good, to develop democracy, to help those i,n need, to support the families of detainees and to dissent from political decisions which crush legitimate alternatives allowed in civilized societies," they said. The bisJ10ps urged the government to lift the restrictions.

They also said apartheid, South Africa's policy of racial separation which among other rules, bars non-whites from voting in national elections and assigns residential districts by race, "destroys human dignity" and cruelly divides communities.

Apartheid "has been judged immoral and inhuman by the international community," the bishops said.

They said the church is "not supporting any political party" but has a "divine duty to involve itself in human affairs" by safeguarding human rights. They quoted Pope John PaulH's speech to the southern African bishops last November in which he praised them for spreading the Gospel and upholding rights.

The bishops noted they are "pastors of a church which represents approximately 10 percent" of the 33.2 million population.

The bishops also protested pro~ posed legislation which would allow

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OPUS DEI Prelate Msgr. Alvaro del Portillo, addresses Lowell audience. At right, Mark O'Donnell, director of a Dedham center of Opus Dei. (Pattison photo)

Opus Dei head speaks to 2,000 people in Lowell "We are in the Marian Year, which was instituted by the church as a reminder for us. We should always try to put Our Lady in everything, for everything."

That was the messa-ge of Opus Dei Prelate Msgr. Alvaro del Portillo, to over 2,000 people at a recent meeting in Lowell. They included professional men and women, college students, pare~ts al\d young people reached in one way or another by the spiritual formation and activities program provided by Opus Dei in New England for the past 35 years.

Msgr. del Portillo will visit II cities during his first U.S. tour. He will also visit Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada, in all speaking to over 50,000 people.

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tbe government to decide which organizations would be allowed to receive financial and other help from groups outside the country.

The proposal is widely seen as an effort to cripple church groups involved in anti-apartheid work.

The legislation, titled "The Promotion of Orderly Internal Politics Bill," would give the government authority "to decide arbitrarily which good works should be done in this country and which should not."

On New Nation, the bishops said "while we may not necessarily agree" with some of its editorial stands "we uphold fully the right to editorial freedom and the right to dissent which that newspaper embodies."

They describ.ed the newspaper as a secular weekly which "carries news and views which other newspapers tend not to publish in the present climate of punitive restrictions."

On South Africa's "repressive" social situation, the bishops said the church's position "should be clear and unequivocal."

By granting basic rights, they said, the government "would enable our society to be transformed in such a way that here could be justice, peace and enough for everyone."

fundamental message of Opus Dei's founder, Msgr. Josemaria Escriva: Christ calls all Christians to holiness.

He added that "the pope says that we in Opus Dei have the charism, the gift from God, of bringing people to confession."

While in the Boston area, Msgr. del Portillo met with Cardinal Bernard Law; who has been acquaintea with Opus Dei 'since his student years at Harvard and who will ordain Opus Dei priests this summer in Spain.

The prelate also visited the West Roxbury grave of Father Joseph Muzquiz, ordained with him in 1944 as one of Opus Dei's first three priests. Father Muzquiz came to the United States in 1949 to start Opus Dei in this nation and died here in 1983.

Msgr. del Portillo, 73, was born in Madrid and was a civil engineer before entering the priesthood. He was secretary general of Opus Dei and succeeded Msgr. Escriva as president general upon the latter's death.

He was a participant in the Synod on the laity held last October in Rome and was a consultor and member of various Vatican H commissions. In 1982 he was named a consultor to the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Opus Dei, Latin for "Work of God," is made up of priests and laity who serve the chruch by striving for holiness through daily work.

Filling'a void' WASHINGTON (NC) - The newly created Secretariat for Black Catholics of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops will "fill a void" in the church's recognition of black Catholics and ensure "a black voice at the highest level" of the church, said director Beverly Carroll. Sbe said black Catholics have begun to come into their own in the church and called 1987 "a banner year" for focus on their needs and gifts. The new secretariat is a liaison between the bishops and national black Catholic organizations.

WASHINGTON (NC) -- The Paulist Fathers have launchecl Catholic Evangelization, a magazine' on U.S. evangelization.

Paulist Father Kenneth Boyack, editor, said the bimonthly magazine is being launched at a time of transition for the church.

"With 53 million active Catholics and 19,400 parishes, Catholics are now in a position to make a significant difference in the evangelization of people in the United States," he said.

Each issue of Catholic Evangelization will present five major features and 12 departments on topics such as parish and diocesan programs, Scripture and evangelization on the job.

The first issue features articles' on'social science findings on Catholics, the National Black Catholic Congress, the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, and diocean evangelization efforts by Baton Rouge Bishop Stanley J. Ott. Pontifical Council 'Also in the area of evangelization in the United States, Louisiana novelist Walker Percy recently told members of the Pontifical Council for Culture that the nation might be ready for "serious Catholic evangelization and renewal."

He spoke at a plenary meeting of the council held in Vatican City.

He is among new advisory board members appointed in December; the only U.S. member, he succeeds former University of Notre Dame president FatherTheodore Hesburgh, CSc. Challenges to evangelizing U.S. culture include its "all-prevasive consumerism," secularization and blind faith in science, Percy told the plenary gathering.

But these challenges also offer an opportunity for evangelization, he noted.

"There is no lonelier crowd than the mass man, the anonymous consumer who has exhausted the roster of 'need satisfactions," for whom the answers of scientism explain "everything under the sun except what it is to be a man, to live and to die," he said.

"Given two societies, one which is nominally and perhaps superficially Christian," such as Victorian England, and the othera"thoroughlysecularized United States in the year 2000," Percy said, the latter "would be the more receptive to a serious Catholic evangelization and renewal."

Refusal disappoints WASHINGTON (NC) ~ The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a case of fundamentalist Protestant parents fighting what they call godless textbooks.

The iss!Je of parental rights in public school textbook cases is not likely to end, according to Steven F. McDdwell, Catholic League general counsel.

The high court refused to take the case of Mozert vs. Hawkins County Public Schools, and thus let stand a ruling by tpe 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the case be dismissed and that no religious rights were violated.

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Population explosion wrong scapegoat, says Vatican

Additional cardinals:

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The "population explosion," rather than the proliferation of nuclear weapons or the "scandal" of underdevelopment, is again being blamed for the world's ills, said a Vatican newspaper editorial.

"The recurrent theme of the 'population bomb' has returned to the journals," said L'Osservatore Romano in a recent front-page editorial.

The newspaper said efforts by research centers in "politically and economically powerful" countries to blame the world's ills on demographics have "deviant and unacceptable connotations from the ethical and historical point of view."

With the world's population expected to reach 8 billion by the year 2020, the editorial admitted there is an important demographic problem, but it criticized what it said is the tendency to claim the world is threatened "not by the accumulation of nuclear bombs in arsenals, not by the forest of missiles in opposing camps, not by the computerized scenarios of global space conflicts, but by the babies who will be born in the next 30 years."

when? who?

VATICAN CITY (NC) Among the closely guarded secrets at the Vatican is when the pope will name new cardinals.

Experienced Vatican watchers often find their guestimates off by months and sometimes by as much as a year.

Even more strongly guarded is the list of people the pope will appoint as princes of the church.

The guessing usually starts when 'there is a large number of vacancies in the College of Cardinals.

Under church rules, there can be no more than 120 cardinals under the age of 80, thus eligible for the awesome responsibility of helping elect the next pope.

When Cardinal James Darcy Freeman, retired archbishop of Sydney, Australia, turned 80 last November, there were 22 openings for voting-eligible cardinals, giving Pope John Paul II the chance to significantly restructure the geography and ideology of the college if he wishes.

This is important because under the current pope, the college has grown in influence. Every three years he has convoked special meetings of the college to advise him on pressing matters such as Vatican finances and reform of the Curia, the church's central administrative offices.

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When Pope John Paul first started the practice in 1979 he called it "an important step on the path of collegiality." In 1985, he also raised the college to its highest number, 152 - including those over the voting age.

How the office of cardinal developed in the early church is unclear.

But by the II th century the power of the cardinals was well documented, and the title was given to .bishops, priests and some deacons from Rome and the neighboring dioceses who were the pope's main advisers on doctrine and church governance.

During the centuries in which popes were temporal rulers of central Italy, cardinals often were state officials or represented the pope politically.

In 1059, under the reign of Pope Nicholas II, they became papal electors.

Currently, there is a regional imbalance in the college in relation to the global Catholic population.

Most v~ting cardinals are European. They number 48 - not far from half the electors - although the continent has slightly less than one-third of the world's Catholic population.

Latin America; with 42 percent of the Catholic population, has only 16 electors. Africa, with less than 10 percent of the world's Catholics, has 13.

By adding 22 new members, the pope can readjust the imbalance or increase it. He can make the college more ideologically compatible with his own views or he can keep it diverse and pluralistic so that no one view dominates and all views are challenged.

Rather than the growing gap' between rich and poor, between the "developed" and "underdeveloped," it is the babies who are blamed, it said. "l)e limits of over-development, pollution, desertification and ecologi.cal catastrophe no longer would denve from a myopic and often mad interpretation of an unregulated and iniquitous economic development, but from the babies who will be born in the next 30 years," it said.

Yet while warnings of the "potential explosiveness of the 'population bomb' " often cite the growth rates of India or Nigeria or Bangladesh, the editorial said, in developed countries the growth rate is zero.

The editorial recounted the comment of an unidentified Indian student that demographic arguments by the developed countries which say "we are too many" really mean "you are too many."

This argument suggests that the solution ~o the impoverished multitudes is to address their numbers rather than their poverty, the newspaper quoted him as saying.

'Pope hails new age of ecumenism

THOUSANDS OF ROMANS and tourists watched in 1978, as black smoke from the Sistme Chapel, barely visible in center of photo, signaled that the College of Cardinals had not yet elected the successor to Pope John Paul I. (NC photo) S~. ~eter's Square in October,

For those who want to try predicting the future composition of the college, here are two guidelines: - The pope chooses archbishops in charge of Vatican agencies normally headed by cardinals.

- He also chooses churchmen who head archdioceses normally ruled by cardinals.

Under these criteria, some likely candidates are Archbishops James Hickey of Washington; Roger Mahony of Los Angeles; Prospero Penados del Barrio of Guatemala City; Rene Fernandez Apaza of Sucre, Bolivia; and Edward Bede Clancy of Sydney, Australia.

The rules, however, are not hard and fast.

Pope John Paul has already named 60 cardinals since taking office and pulled several surprises in the process.

In 1983, he named Bishop Julijans Vaivods, apostolic administrator of Riga, Latvia, as the first cardinal living in the Soviet Union, a sign of Vatican desire to keep religion alive in the communistruled zone. In 1985 he made Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua the first Nicaraguan cardinal, giving the critic of the Marxist-influenced Sandinista government greater prestige.

There is little inside information on when the pope wilt" name new

cardinals. What little there is indicates that it will be after he announces a curial reform plan based on the recommendations of the College of Cardinals.

The plan may include new cardinal-rank offices.

The pope could extensively restructure the Curia by replacing several officials who are over the retirement age of 75. These include Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, president 'of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer, head ofthl; Vatican Congregations for Sacraments and Divine Worship.

When will the pope announce curial reforms?

That is another closely guarded Vatican secret.

Ersatz answers VATICAN CITY (NC) Speaking recently to West German bishops, Pope John Paul II encouraged them to urge members of their flocks to practice Christian witness as an antidote to their society's "flight into frenetic activity, accumulation .of material goods, pleasure, escape and drugs."

These, the pope said, evidence humanity's discontent with secularism's ersatz answers to the basic questions of life.

VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Pope John Paul II said the ecumenical movement, while facing serious difficulties, has ushered in a new age of Christian brotherhood and continued dialogue would dispel fears that "unity" means "uniformity" among Christian religions.

At his weekly general audience the pope said there is a growing sense of urgency about ecumenism, as well as real progress on specific issues.

Theological 9ialogue, he said, has helped create "a truly new situation of brotherhood."

"The existing communion has been placed in the right perspective, and the differences have been detailed with greater precision," the pope said.

He cited "important convergences" in controversial areas such as baptism, justificaiton, the concept ofministry, the Eucharist and authority in the church.

The dialogue has helped remove suspicions and fear, the pope said.

"Iflove is sincere within the Christian community, it will also remove the fear that unity can turn into uniformity," he added.

The pope said his meeting in late 1987 with Patriarch Dimitrios I, spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians, was a particular sign of hope for unity.

"We wanted to do toget\ter all that the faith allowed us to do.

Together we were deeply saddened at not being able to share in the same bread and drink from the same chalice," he said.

During the visit, the patriarch and the pope prayed together, gave a blesing from St. Peter's Basilica, discussed theological issues and issued a joint statement of support for unity. At a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica the patriarch left the altar during the eucharistic liturgy, reflecting the two leaders' view that the shared Eucharist should await further ecumenical progress.

The pope said dialogue was continuing with all Christian communions, "sustained by the hope that full agreement can finally be reached." He described the process as "extremely delicate."

Protect life, pope tells delegation VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II recently urged an 11member delegation of U.S. representatives to promote justice and protect the rights of people from conception until death.

The pope also reminded the bipartisan group that the policies they shape have an impact on the "quality of life" of people from other countries as well as on their own citizens.

The delegation, headed by Rep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif..

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ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM I J teens and two adults will represent the parish at the first-ever New England Youth Gathering this weekend in Burlington.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Canned juices to benefit Taunton's Our Daily bread soup kitchen may be brought to March 26 and 27 Masses. Afternoon of reflection for lectors, eucharistic ministers, teachers, choir, ushers and social committee members 2 p.m. March 27, rectory. Women's Guild members will attend 8:30 a.m. Mass Sunday; communion breakfast follows, church hall; regular meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday features Lenten program by pastor Father John J. Steakem.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, TAUNTON Taunton Area Widowed Support Group meeting 7:30 p.m. Mar~h 28, Immaculate Conception Church hall.

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ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Rosary at Country Gardens Nursing Home, Swansea, 6 p.m. Mondays; Mass 2 p.m. Wednesdays.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR School advisory council meeting 7 p.m. March 23, Father Coady Center. Centenary Scholarship Fund assistance available to Catholic high school students. CYO trip to Sports Museum and Quincy Market, Boston, tomorrow.

HOLY NAME, FR The parish congratulates its)unior B CYO team, winner of a city championship.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Engaged Encounter begins today.

Couple-to-Couple League training session Sunday.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK .Lenten Healing service with Father Richard Delisle 7:30 p.m. March 27.

Adult Bible discussions 7 p.m. Wednesday and 9:45 a.m. Thursday; topic: "Wake-Up Spirituality III: How to Love,"

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, CYO retreat tomorrow and Sunday.

DOMINICAN ACADEMY, FR Students in grades two through eight celebrated the sacrament of penance Monday, when four priests visited the school. Parents or grandparents needed 11:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. one day per week for lunchtime and recess supervision assistance; information: school office, 674-6100.

ST. JOHN THE EV ANGELIST, POCASSET Upper Cape U1treya meeting 7:30 tonight.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Lenten mission Monday through Thursday.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Mondays, parish hall.

ST.GEORGE,WESTPORT Penance service for second to fourth graders 9:30 a.m. Saturday, church..

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Children of Mary meeting moved to 3 p.m. March 24, church hall; next meetings April 28 and May 19.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

SACRED HEART, FR The parish Junior B CYO basketball team will be honored for its championship season at an April 23 dinner.

ST. JAMES, NB CYO president Michael Spencer will be parish representative at the March 27 World Youth day at the cathedral. CYO council meeting 7 p.m. March 28, parish center. Members donated to Students Against Drunk Driving. School advisory council meeting 7 p.m. March 25, library.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO Attleboro Area Widowed Support Group meeting 7:30 p.m. April 15, SI. Joseph's Church, Attleboro; Father Paul Canuel will show slides on Peru. Communion supper follows 4:30 p.m. Mass April 30, St. Theresa's Church, S. Attleboro. Meeting 7:30 p.m. May 3, St. Mary's parish cneter, Mansfield; the Mansfield Community Chorus will perform. Meeting 7:30 p.m. June 3, St. Theresa's church, S. Attleboro, follows 7 p.m.

Mass.

DIVORCED/SEPARATED, TAUNTON Taunton Area Divorced/ Separated Support Group meeting 7 p.m.

March 20, Immaculate Conception Church hall, topic: New Life Program issue two, Emotional and Spiritual Healing.

SACRED HEART HOME, NB Open house for registered and licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants 2 to 4 p. m. April6, Sacred Heart Nursing Home, New Bedford; information concerning job opportunities and tour of facility; refreshmen'ts; child care; RS VP: Paula Costa, RN, 996-6751, ext. 19.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Anointing of Sick II a.m. tomorrow. Senior Youth Group member Janet Cuttle will represent the group at World Youth Day celebration Palm Sunday.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Our Lady of the Cape Players will present a play at 4 p.m. Sunday during Lenten devotions. Eight-week Effective Parenting Program conducted by Dr. James Campbell begins April 4. Altar boys needed; information: Deacon FrancisJ. Camacho, 394-5023. Altar society members needed for Immaculate Conception mission church, E. Brewster; information: Frances Malone, 8962360.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Penance service for confirmandi 7 p.m. Saturday.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Michael and Susan Miller and their children will host the family Mass 10:45 a.m. Sunday. Contemporary ensemble needs musicians and vocalists; information: Ada Simpson, 746-5440. Parish marriage encounter April 8 through 10, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth.

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME, FR Easter party with the Easter Bunny for employees' children and grandchildren 4:30 p.m. March 30, auditorium; Animal encounter I :30 to 2:30 p.m. March 29, floors one through three. New residents welcomed: Ethel Byington, Mary Ann Couto, Joseph Collard, Frances Cullen, John Torres, Rene Brisson, Albert Shovelton, Rose Martel, Mariano Martin, Arhtur Campos and Yvonne Gagnon.

ADORERS OF BL. SACRAMENT, NB Holy hour 7 p.m. March 28, St. Theresa's Church, New Bedford; celebrants: Fathers Richard Chretien and Rene Belanger, SSS; refreshments follow, church hall; public welcome. Exposition follows 9 a.m.

Mass Fridays to 7 p.m. Benediction.

Information: Angelo DeBortoli, 9960332.

The Anchor NOTRE DAME, FR Penitential service follows 7 p.m. Friday, Mar. 18. 1988 Mass路 March 28. The 'parish CYO has donated a confirmation videocasette to the present confirmation class.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH Lenten penance service 7 tonight.

ST. JOSEPH, F AIRHAVEN Day of adoration concludes 7 tonight. Special feast of St. Joseph PILGRIMAGE-TOUR Mass 9 a.m. tomorrow. Lenten study Eleven Glorious D8YS after.9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Cub Scout Pack Night 5:30 Sunday, church hall. under the spiritual direction of ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Women's League meeting 8 p.m.

Thursday; lecture and slide show by New Bedford Glass Museum repreVeterll Ilterlltll..1Trlllllr; Plltlr, sentative; members asked to bring a gift for Rose Hawthorne Lathrop St .Iry'l Plrll~, Cltler Home patient. Men's League meeting after 10 a.m. Mass March 27.

Tommy Neves will represent parish at diocesan World Day of Youth . celebration.

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O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Parishioners are praying for confirmation candidates. Men's Club meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, parish center, with guest speaker Owen Kiernan; new members welcome.

Statue crisis ACAPULCO; Mexico (NC) The statue of a highly regarded 16th century Mexican Franciscan martyr, St. Philip ofJesus, recently created a minor constitutional crisis in the coastal resort town of Acapulco. Within a day of being placed beside a public walkway next to the Acapulco cathedral, the statue was removed by city workers.

Mayor Israel Soberanis said the city council decided putting the statue of the saint, who is patron of Mexico City, near the walkway could encourage holding of religious services in a public place.

Open-air services are unconstitutional in Mexico.

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By Charlie Martin

ONE FRIEND

MICHAEL DONLY, headmaster at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, presents $750 scholarships to top scorers on CC's placement exam for incoming freshmen. The class of 1992's first standout students, from hift, are Julie Poyant, Jesse Holmes, Neil Morrison and Neil Dube.

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Bishop Feehan The National Council of Teachers of English recently awarded the 1987 Shaman, the literary magazine of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, an excellent rating in its program to recognize excellence in literary magazines.

1,326 schools entered the program. Shaman was one of 32 Massachusetts publications to attain an excellent rating.

Paul Lambert, Gay Perkoski and Todd Piantedosi were editors.

Donna LaCivita is fa<:ulty adviser.

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Feehan's B squad majorettes recently captured second place in New England Majorette Association competition. The school's A squad took third place.

At Melrose High School March 6, the B squad delivered another NEMA runner-up performance.

Feehan majorettes, coached and advised by Brenda Loiselle, will host an association competition at I p.m. March 27.

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Feehan debater David Dusseault was tabbed Most Valuable Debater at a recent tournament at Tabor Academy, Marion. Shamrock novice debaters Matt Pearson and Joseph Boyle were named top and number two novice speakers, and second-place novice team honors were landed by Vincent Seccereccia and Gregory Comeau.

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Sophomore Scott Slack, this year a junior varsity hockey goalie, will travel to the Soviet Union with the Rhode Island Saints Ban-

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tam Club for competition April 13 through 22.

Scott will be accompanied by his mother and his brother Eric, II, who plays for the Saints' Squirt Squad.

• The Saints will play seven games and visit Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev.

College videotape contest announced NEW YORK (NC) - College students whose film or videotape presentations best demonstrate that "one person can make a difference" will share $8,500 in prizes and a chance to have their work shown on television in a national competition sponsored by The Christophers.

The Christophers, a New Yorkbased movement which for some 40 years has been promoting the idea that "one person can make a difference," announced the contest in early March.

Students submitting the three top entries will have their work televised on "Christopher Closeup," a weekly half-hour public affairs program. They also will win prize money: $3,000 for first place, $2,000 for second place, $1,000 for third place and five honorable mention awards of $500 each.

"We are inviting college students to capture on film or vi~eo their interpretation of the Christopher belief that one person can shape our world for the better," said Father John Catoir, Christophers director.

Entries must be no more than five minutes long, on three-quarter-inch tape or VHS cassette only.

They will be judged on ability to capture theme, artistic and technical proficiency and adherence to the rules. Deadline for entry is June 15, with winners to be notified Sept. 15.

Contest applications are available from The Christophers, 12 E. 48th St., New York, N.Y., 10017.

I always thought you were the best I guess I always will I always felt that we were blest And I feel that way still Sometimes we took the hard road But we always saw it through If I had only one friend left I'd want it to be you.

Sometimes the world was on our side Sometimes it wasn't fair Sometimes it gave a helping hand Sometimes we didn't care 'Cause when we were together It made the dream come true If I had only one friend left I'd want it to be you.

Someone who understands me And knows me inside out Helps keep me together And believes without a doubt That I could move a mountain Someone to tell it to If I had only one friend left I'd want it to be you.

Written and sung by Dan Seals. (c) 1984, Pink Pig Music (BMI) WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be the best of friends?

Dan Seals' new release, "One Friend," offers some answers.

The song describes such relationships in these words: "If I had only one friend left, I'd want it to be you."

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While we do not need to narrow our friendships down to one best friend, the words express how we can feel when friendship is deep and true.

The enduring closeness of friendship is one meaning oflove.

Often people think of romance as

By TOM LENNON

mind?

Q. Sometimes when you write about sex, you talk about "sex objects." I don't really understand . what you are talking about when you say "sex object." (New York) A. A pencil. a diamond, a gold ring, a square. of fudge - all these are inanimate objects. They can't move, or grow, or feel or talk or love. They are all useful to us, however, in one way or another.

A human person, as you well know, is much, much more than an inanimate object. Made in the image of God, she or he can grow, think, feel, talk and love even in a sacrificial way.

Unfortunately it is possible to regard a human person as far less than human. One can see in a handsome man or a beautiful woman only the material aspects, only the body.

One can reduce the handsome man or beautiful woman to nothing more than a means of satisfying one's sexual desires.

That person is looked on only from the viewpoint of sex. In a way the person is not regarded as truly human, but only as a physical "object."

In recent years we have coined the phrase "sex object" to describe a person regarded in such a narrow way.

This attractive man or woman is certainly not inanimate and yet so many oftheir fine human qualities are lost sight of that they seem to be nothing more than a material "thing." It is tragic and wrong to reduce a person to such a state.

You can hear echoes of "sex object" in the words we sometimes use to describe persons who are attractive physically.

The guy with broad shoulders and lots of muscles is sometimes called a "hunk." Sounds like a hunk of inanimate matter, doesn't it?

And when someone speaks of a "sexy broad," you might- never guess this "thing" has a heart and brains and the ability to love.

Our sexuality involves so much more than the material aspects of a human person. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has explained this fact of life in a forceful way: "As every adult knows, sex is inextricably connected to the

the most exciting form of love.

Yet true friendship brings us more lasting emotional gifts.

Falling in love can be a terrific experience, but couples who also grow to be best friends are more likely to share love forever. .

Such friendships are built on mutual trust. Best friends feel free to discuss whatever they need to say. When conflicts occur, as they do even in the finest of relationships, best friends share their feelings and work through the problem. This trust takes away fear and allows people to be themselves.

Best friends show a strong belief in each other. As the song says, a best friend is someone "who believes without a doubt that I could move a mountain." A friend's confidence helps us manage difficult times more successfully.

Occasionally, all of us question our ability to face the challenges in our lives. In a true friendship, we can share our fears and apprehensions and know that we won't be ridiculed for ourfeelings. A friend's support helps us look at our fears and decide what we need to do to overcome a problem.

However, when we do fail or make mistakes, best friends continue to see the good in us. They stand by us through sorrow and disappointment while helping us discover new ways to find satisfaction in life.

Such friends are among life's truest treasures. To use the song's words, sharing in this kind of friendship makes us truly "blest."

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

psyche, to the soul or, if you do not like that term, to personality at its deepest levels.

"Rarely is it a m~re riot of the glands that occurs and then is over and meaningless thereafter. Sexual intimacy· changes things; it affects feelings, attitudes, one's self-image, one's view of another.

"Sexual activity never takes place outside the wider context of what is brought to it or left out of it by the persons who engage in it.

"It involves men and women in all their complexity. It involves their emotions, desires and the often contradictory intentions that they bring with them, whether they mean to or not.

"It is, in other words, a quintessentially moral activity."

These are words worth rereading and pondering carefully.

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

Parental consent ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) - New York residents back laws provid.ing parental consent before teenage daughters can have abortions, accordi':1g to a Gallup Poll commissioned by the New York State Catholic Conference. The poll, which last December surveyed the views of 1,525 New York State adults, found that 55 percent of respondents back parental consent, 33 oppose it and 12 percent are undecided.

Guarantee "He faileth not." Soph. 3:5

• SSe Peter and Paul Just a few of many recent happenings at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River: During Catholic Schools Week, everyone wore a halo and chose a saint to remind one another that sainthood is for everyone, every day.

It was noted that the kindergarten chose Mary because they like the way she took care of Jesus when he was little. '

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Grade four through seven students earning straight As for the second academic quarter were Kristen Enos, Andrea LaRue, Kelly Gorman, Jason Williams, Robert Bielawa, Maria Pacheco and Scott Paiva.

14 fourth graders made the honor roll, as did three fifth graders, six sixth graders, seven seventh graders and seven eighth graders.

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Seventh graders took part in the "Amazing Alternatives" alcohol education program, teaching healthy alternatives to alcohol use.

Students Steven Barboza, Manny Medeiros, Maria Pacheco, Peter Richard and Jennifer Silva were trained to lead small group discussions, brainstorming activities and role-playing sessions.

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Fourth graders met their pen pal, Seaman Jeffrey Mendoza, an '82 school graduate.

Mendoza was on home leave when he visited the school to show students pictures of planes on which he has been working. The students, the school reports, were full of questions about the Navy, Mendoza's work and his days as a student in Fall River.

Compassion vital VATICAN CITY (NC) - At a recent Vatican-sponsored conference on Humanization and Medicine, Pope John Paul II told a group of international medical experts to resist modern "solutions and strategies" that offend human dignity.

The meeting addressed issues such as genetic engineering, the borderline between life and death, abortion and health care in the Third World.

The conference said in a statement at the end of the meeting that "technology does not preclude compassion."

"The most modern means can be put in use without ever jeopardizing the absolute respect due to the patient," it said. It added that rejection or exploitation of a human being, "from conception to ultimate old age," is against the nature of medicine.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 18, 1988

tv, movie news Symbols following film revie~s indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings. which do not always coincide.

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

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; 4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

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

New Films "Hairspray"(New Line) - Campy teenage musical comedy, traces the rise of a chubby girl (Ricki Lake) as the unexpected star of a 1962 Baltimore TV dance party show. Includes teen rivalry, outrageous stage parents and a nice subplot about integration. Toetapping period music, rousing dance numbers. Some off-color remarks. A2, PG "The House on Carroll Street" (Orion Pictures) - Romantic thriller set in 1951 New York featuring a gutsy, blacklisted photo editor (Kelly McGillis) who uncovers a politically sanctioned conspiracy aimed at hiding Nazi war criminals in the United States. Hitchcockian influence poorly realized in this stylish-looking but farfetched film scripted by formerly blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein.

Brief nudity and graphic violence.

A2, PG "Switching Channels" (Tri-Star) - Failed adaptation of "The Front Page," updated to a 1980s TV newsroom, that tracks the lovehate relationship between a star newswoman (Kathleen Turner) her boss ex-husband (Burt Reynolds), and herfoppish lover (Christopher Reeve). Weak chemistry between lead actors, clumsy direction, some rough language. A2, PG Film on TV Sunday, March 27, 9-11 p.m.

EST (ABC) - "Tootsie" (1982) -Very funny movie in which an actor (Dustin Hoffman), desperate for a job, dresses up as a woman to get a part in a TV soap opera, but his success with the role makes his life very complicated, especially when he falls in love with his beautiful co-star (Jessica

Youth Ministry Lenten reminder From the Office of Youth Ministry Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown As we enter the final weeks of our Lenten journey, parishes are asked to conclude their preparation for Palm Sunday's World Day of Youth by focusing upon Mary, the Faithful Disciple, Theme III of the Marian Lenten packet.

As we help our young people to understand their role of faithful discipleship to Jesus through.Mary,let us remember the words the Blessed Mother spoke to the servants at Cana, "Do whatever He tells you..." and reflect on them, searching for their meaning in our own lives.

The young people and youth leaders of diocesan parishes and schools are cordially invited to participate in the second annual World Day of Youth paraliturgy at 3 p.m. Palm Sunday, March 27, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will preside at the celebration.

Lange). Shows much about being a woman in a man's world. Because of the sexual nature of much of the humor, it is adult fare. A3, PG

Religious TV Sunday, March 20 (CBS) "For Our Times" - CBS News correspondent Douglas Ed~ards reports on the 1988 St. Patrick's Day festivities in New York City.

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. Religious Radio Sunday, March 20 (NBC) "Guideline" - Val Coleman ofthe New York City Housing Author, ity is interviewed about the problems and availability oflow-income housing.

TV Program "Tliize...That Little Springtime" (check local public television stations for times and dates; most plan broadcast for Easter Sunday) - This beautifully photographed story ofthe small men's community introduces viewers to what Pope John XXIII described as "that little springtime," Catholics and Protestants from different countries living together in harmony and respect, sharing a common faith in diverse ways.

"HowFull is aHandful?"

FatherJoseph taught the residents of his Indian village about the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. They took the lesson to heart.

Each day after that, before they would prepare a meal, they would remove a handful of food and set it aside in a large basket. Every Sunday they would carry that basket to Mass, giving it to those families in the area that had even less than they did - the poorest of that village's poor.

When Father asked "why;' his people explained that they were "givingup" somethingfor Christ- just like He sacrificed His life for them.

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Guerrilla strife impedes CRS in Ethiopia .

NEW YORK (NC) - New York Auxiliary Bishop Emerson J. Moore, chairman of the Africa committee of Catholic Relief Services, reported after a visit to Ethiopia that drought there is continuing but that improved food dis-

tribution has prevented repetition of the crisis atmosphere of 1984-86.

"The drought is quite severe," he said. "But they are now better able to handle the situation, and the problems are not as overwhelming."

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Bishop Moore and David Holdridge, Africa director in the New York headquarters of CRS, were recently in Africa for inspection visits to Ethiopia and Lesotho, location of the CRS regional office for southern Africa.

The first black bishop in· the New York Archdiocese and formerly vicar of Harlem, Bishop Moore now serves at the central offices of the archdiocese as vicar for social development.

Bishop Moore reported to the CRS Africa committee and the CRS board of directors at their meetings earlier this month that a principal need in Ethiopia is getting a suspension of hostilities in the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea.

The board members issued a statement calling for an end to the warfare "so that safe passage of

food to famine victims can continue."

Archbishop Edward T. O'Meara of Indianapolis, board chairman, said that board members realized the fighting in Ethiopia would not stop just because of their appeal.

But he said they hoped to stimulate a wider response that might bring an international "heightening of concern."

The board statement cited United Nations figures showing tiiat 92 trucks distributing food in northern Ethiopia, where guerrilla groups have long been fighting for the independence of Tigre and Eritrea, have been destroyed since September. These attacks, the statement said, have cost the life of one driver, injury to several others and loss of 900 tons of cargo. A CRS press release said nine of the trucks belonged to CRS. Archbishop O'Meara, who said

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he planned to visit Ethiopia in July with CRS Director Lawrence A. Pezzullo, reported that even food delivery by plane, a much more expensive process, had become dangerous, and plane crews were becoming reluctant to fly into conflict areas. o.uring the meeting the board received a message telexed by the CRS director in Ethiopia, Patrick Johns, warning that conditions in northern Ethiopia have deteriorated rapidly because of the fighting and that if the civil war continues the agency will not be able to move food into the most critical areas of Tigre.

Bishop Moore said he was surprised to learn that the Soviet Union had promised to give Ethi- . opia 250,000 metric tons of grain this year. Ethiopia has a Marxist government allied to the Soviet Union, but in the past Soviet aid has been primarily in arms, with little if any humanitarian relief supplies.

Projections place Ethiopia's food deficit for 1988 at 1.3 million tons.

Bishop Moore and Holdridge found that with the Soviet pledge this amount is now committed, and U.S. Agency for International Development officials may not give CRS one of the allotments that it anticipated. .

Bishop Moore said CRS and its national counterpart, the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, might ask the Ethiopian government to let them use some of the grain received from the Soviet Union for feeding programs they have under way. Distributing aid from the Soviet Union would be an unusual roleforCRS, Bishop Moore noted, but one CRS would be ready to undertake if suitable arrangements could be made.

In Lesotho, a small black country entirely surrounded by South African territory, a principal topic of discussion was CRS work in South Africa, Bishop Moore said.

CRS wants to emphasize development, enabling people to meet their own needs, he said, rather than relief.

But he said the structures of the South African Catholic Church for undertaking development projects were still only in "embryo," and CRS would not want to bypass church structures.

CRS effort in the months ahead, he said, will be directed to helping the church in South Africa strengthen its development arm, despite the turmoil there.

Ideologies studied VATICAN CITY (NC) Marxism and capitalism are declining ideologies in the East and West but are still potent and antagonistic forces in the Third World, according to a survey by the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Believers.

In Soviet-bloc countries "the ideological framework is void, deserted by minds and hearts," said the survey.

In the industrialized West a consumerist mentality has led to "moral relativism and religious indifference," it added. "Given the decline of the great ideologies, a deepening of church social doctrine will be very useful to overcome the alternative of Marxist-Leninism or capitalism," it said.

The worldwide survey examined contemporary ideologies and mentalities and their influence on religious belief.