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ReactiQn to aid plan mixed WASHINGTON (CNS)-President Bush's new $800 million aid plan for Nicaragua and Panama has drawn tentative support from the V.S. bishops'conference and a social justice group but skepticism from a Christian peace organization.

The president announced March 13 the immediate end of an economic embargo against Nicaragua and asked Congress to allocate by AprilS $300 million for Nicaragua and $500 million for Panama, with funds to be taken from the defense budget.

Bush also called for immediate transmission of $21 ,million in previously approved food and humanitarian assistance to the' two Central American nations and pledged to seek an additional $200 million for Nicaragua as an addition to the fiscal 1991 budget, now under debate in Congress.

"To the extent that this moves in concrete ways" to improve conditions in Nicaragua and, Panama, the V. S. bishops welcome the White House initiative, sajd John L. Carr, secretary fOI social development and world peace at the V.S. Catholic Conference. "We would stress the real urge'ncy, for both countries." ,

THE LATE San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero, although not officially canqnized, is painted in icon style by artist Robert Lentz "because people throughout the world say he is a saint." Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the archbishop's assassination. (CNS photo}

Protests, prayers mark anniversary WASHINGTON (CNS) -To- wing death squad were suspected morrow's 10th anniversary of the in the murder, many facts in the assassination of Archbishop Oscar case- have become muddled over A. Romero of San Salvador, El the last decade. An investigation Salvador, is scheduled to be com- has been closed and reopened sevmemorated by demonstrations eral times and has been at a virtual against V.S. aid to Central Amer- standstill for more than a year. ica and prayer services for peace in Many critics doubt a complete the region. investigation will ever be conIn Fall River, "Romero," a ducted, especially now under Salwidely-acclaimed film on the arch- vadoran president Alfredo Cristibishop's life, will be shown at ani, ofthe conservative Nationalist Dominican Academy, 37 Park St., Republican Alliance, known as at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 1, under AREN A. ARENA founder, former auspices of Pax Christi of South- . Army Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson, eastern Massachusetts. Further in- is commonly believed to be the formation is on pages 8 and 9 of mastermind of the crime, but he has repeatedly denied any connecthis issue of the Anchor.

Archbishop Romero was killed tion to it.

Maria Julia Hernandez, direcMarch 24, 1980, while saying Mass in a hospital chapel in San Salva- tor of Tutela Legal, human rights dor. The outspoken champion of office of the Archdiocese of San human rights died of a single gun- Salvador, said that over the years shot wound to the chest, and no ARENA has been opposed to an one has ever gone to trial for the investigation into the murder, "so I don't think that with them in the murder.

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"We would basically be suppor- V.S. consideration of "a realistic tive of' the end to the embargo, program of assistance." said Immaculate Heart of Mary "Obviously this [Bush plan] is a Sister Nancy Sylvester, national step toward that," Carr told Cathocoordinator of Network, a Catholic lic News Service March 14'. social justice lobby. "The NicaniArchbishop Mahony, who chairs guan people have been hurt by' the VSCC Committee on Internathat." tional Policy, visited Panama and However, Jesuit Father William Nicaragua with Carr Feb. 10-17.

R. Callahan, coordinator of Quest \ The V.S. military invaded Panfor Peace, March 14 claimed the ama in December, helping to oust White House initiative is question- Gen. Manuel Noriega and install able given the previous V .S. role in elected leaders.: Nicaragua. ' Carr emphaSIzed repeatedly that "Should we be grateful to a hus- "time is of the essence." band who stops beating his wife? I "In Panama, there was relief at find it hard to applaud President the end of Noriega but that could Bush for anything except moving _ turn to frustration and anger if the adroitly to capitalize on the pre- V.S. doesn't fulfill its promises," vious violence," he said. In a bloody he said. civil war during the 1980s, the V ni"The combination of Noriega ted States backed contra rebels in fighting troops of the Marxist and the V.S. sanctions has left Panama economically devastated.

Sandinista government.

So the bishops' conference strongly Hope for demobilization of the contras and a total end to fighting supports speedy and ge,nerous asfollowed the Feb. 25 election of , sistance to the Panamanian peoopposition leader Violeta ChaIl\or- ple," Carr said. "The president and Congress have to act with real 1'0, who defeated the Sandinista urgency to meet these needs." government of Daniel Ortega.

Sister Sylvester said March 15 In a statement issued after the Nicaraguan election, Archbishop that after funding the contras and Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles havihg invaded Panama, it would had urged an end to the Nicara- be wrong for Americans "to just guan trade embargo and prompt Turn to Page Six

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Candidates for the religious life must be chaste or be expelled, the Vatican said in a 70-page document outlining principles for religious formation.

Formation programs need a "pedagogy of consecrated chastity" to teach men and women candidates the meaning of sexuality and love in relation to their vocation, it added.

The document also discouraged establishment of religious formation communities in poor areas, but did not exclude the possibility.

It cautioned that religious can only live in poor areas if this does not interfere with their communal and prayer life.

Religious orders, while encouraging a sensitivity to the needs of the poor, should stress the spiritual and evangelical nature of the vocation to religious life, it said.

The document, written by the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, was made public March 13 after approval by Pope John Paull!.

The document is called "Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes" and offers a general outline of principles to be followed in formation programs, leaving specific application to religious orders based on their own rules. It is addressed to superiors of religious institut'es.

There is "nothing new" in the document, which was actually ready for publication in 1980, said Cardinal Jean Jerome Hamer, head of the congregation, at a news conference presenting the document.

"It is a synthesis of church teachings on religious formation."

He said publication was delayed at the request of the pope, who wanted the document to reflect changes in the then-draft Code of Canon Law. The code was promulgated in 1983.

After that, added the cardinal, further consultations with religious superiors and congregation members were held, resulting in the current document.

He said it reflects on religious formation as seen in the light of modern times and post-Vatican II experimentation. Its purpose is to orient rather than override the individual rules of the more than 2,000 organizations' of religious men and women.

"The document does not cancel any dispositions'of law in force, but clarifies them, and, we hope, will help in applying them," said Cardinal Hamer, a Dominican.

The document says that religious formation is an ongoing process that must not stop after a person has taken perpetual vows of pov- , erty, chastity and obedience. I~ encourages permanent programs of spiritual direction.

But its emphasis is on the early stages of formation prior to the

taking of permanent vows. The aim of such early formation is to develop a sound interior spiritual life and to strengthen commitment to perpetual vows.

When asked about sections on controlling sexual urges and on the presence of formation communities in poor areas, Cardinal Hamer and other congregation officials were firm in saying that the document is not a response to any specific recent problem or event.

Asked to elaborate on the sections, officials refused, sayin'g the Vatican's position is clearly explained in the document.

"Reasons must be given and understood to explain why those who do not seem to 'be able to overcome their homosexual tendencies, or who maintain that it is possible to live 'in an ambiguous state between celibacy and marriage,' must be dismissed from the religious life," said the document.

Education programs on the importance "consecrated chas!ity" must include an understanding of sex, it added. This includes: - "Explaining the value of the ,body and its meaning, acquiring an elementary physical hygiene (sleep, exercise, relaxation, nourishment, etc.)."

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The Anchor Friday, March 23, 1990

Covenant House woes 'rise

Strife continues in Lebanon WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Christian community of Lebanon continues to reel from savage fighting between rival Christian forces with no end in sight, despite the efforts of the Vatican and the Maronite Catholic patriarch to find an end to the conflict.

Some observers said they believe the struggle would end only with the defeat of one of the sides in the turbulent and complex conflict.

George Irani, a Lebanese-born scholar, author and student of Middle Eastern Catholicism, said the conflict has created an identity crisis for Maronites, the largest body of Christians in Lebanon.

Their choice is violence or prayer and atonement, he said.

Maronite Catholic Patriarch Nasrallah P. Sfeir on March 13' urged Syrian-backed President Elias Hrawi to take control of the Christian enclave.

"The legitimacy should expand its authority on all the country," the patriarch said March 13. "It should not await the invitation of anybody."

Hrawi, a Maronite whose offices are in Muslim-controlled West Beirut, has said he would only intervene if he was asked officially

by Christian political and religious leaders.

But as of March 19, as a fragile 18-day Christian cease-fire broke FATHER JOHN down with the resumption offierce artillery and rocket duels, there was no public indication the president was taking a direct role in efforts to stop the fighting. ' " Mediators backed by France and the Vatican have been trying Speaking recently at the Men's to consolidate a cease-fire between mainly Christian elements of the Club of Holy Redeemer parish, Lebanese, army headed by Gen. Chatham, Maryknoll Father John Michel Aoun and the rival Leba- Halbert, president of his communnese Forces militia, headed by ity's school of theology, 'declared that the United States should stop Samir Geagea.

The conflict has reportedly split financing the war in EI Salvador the Maronite clergy between sup- and that of $1.5 million contrib, porters of Aoun and those backing uted daily to the nation by the United States, $1.2 million goes for , Geagea. ' Meanwhile, Geagea called on arms.

Noting that El Salvador is about Aoun to recognize Hrawi "so that the political process can start." the size of Massachusetts, with a But Aoun has rejected Hrawi's population of 5 to 6 million, mostly in the capital city of San Salvador, authority.

In the renewed fighting March he contrasted the present plight of 19, each side blamedthe other for the country with the "paradise" he had found there in the 1970s. the collapse of the cease-fire.

Controlled by about 100 famiFor the Catholic Church, as represented by the Vatican, Irani lies, EI Salvador's coffee, sugar, and cotton are reserved for export, said, there are three goals:' and there is about 40 percent unem- Stopping the bloodshed.

- Maintaining and preserving ployment for part of each year. Its the sovereignty and integrity of debt of $8 billion in 1980 has escalated to $25 billion and except Lebanon.

- Maintaining in Lebanon a for Israel and Egypt, it receives more U.S. aid than does any other model of "coexistence" between country. Nevertheless, it views this Muslims and Christians.

For the Maronites of Lebanon, nation as its enemy.

Neither is the church, ambival-' there are two paths out of their identity crisis, he added. They can ent about the "preferential option choose either to "use violence and for the poor," regarded highly and terror or begin praying and aton- , church workers committed to the religious mission set forth in the ing." documents of Vatican II are often frustrated by divisions within the hierarchy, said Father Halbert.

NEW YORK (CNS) ~ An AusHe cited his experience in contralian scientist and an Indian Hin- ducting a funeral Mass in the San du lawyer will share the 1990 Salvador cathedral from which Templeton Prize for Progress in the local bishop was barred because Religion. Biologist L. Charles Birch of his perceived indifference to the of Sydney, Australia, and Babit needs of the people. The MaryAmte, who runs a community for knoller said his efforts to preserve people with leprosy near Nagpur, the reverence of the ritual were India, will share the prize of 330,000 hampered by the desire of the conpounds ($200,000), to be presented gregation to use the' occasion for at a ceremony in London in May. political protest.

NEW YORK (CNS) - AllegaWallace Lofland of Houston, and tions against the Covenant House multimillion dollar construction program for homeless youngsters and remodeling contracts to her and its founder, Franciscan Father husband, Tandy.

Bruce Ritter, have moved beyond Other stories raised questions questions of sexual and financial about loans .to staff from Covenimproprieties into allegations that ant House operating funds, and the program itself had serious flaws about the salary levels of young and often' operated according to men Father Ritter had brought in questionable policies. as key associates.

In a March 10 opinion article in 짜eanwhile, newspaper stories The New York Times, William raised questions about the quality' , Treanor, director of an advocacy of Covenant House shelter proorganization, American Youth grams and the board's ~bility to Work Center, said people in his supervise. Some papers reported field objected to Father Ritter's an internal Covenant House report policies of putting shelters in urban of last Oct. 22 which was said to "combat zones," building massive have detailed problems of violence, rather than small group shelters "inadequate treatment and feelings and mixing "street-hardened young by minority staff that they lacked adults" with young teenagers. opportunities for advancement.

"If the nation's largest child welOn March 10, the New York fare agency is to survive its current Post reported that Philip James, troubles," he wrote, "it must scrap 23, an assistant supervisor in Dove, Father Ritter's unorthodox poli-' a Covenant House messenger sercies." vice, had been arrested and charged In the same period, Covenant with two rapes of a 19-year-old House was being repeatedly rocked woman in the shelter. by stories in the New York newsNewsday charged March 13 that papers and TV programs charging Covenant House refused to coopthat Covenant House was not a" erate'in investigation of the murder shelter from violence, drugs and of Sean Russell, 23, who had sexual exploitation but was another received counseling from the agency place where young people were and is pictured in its 1989 annual subjected to assaults and temp- report and its 1990 calendar for tations.

September.

Both the New York Times and Father Hesburgh Newsday, another local daily, issued editorial calls for a new board In other de~elopments in the of directo~s for Covenant House. Covenant House story, Holy Cross The Times said a new board was Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, needed to reassure contributors. retired University of Notre Dame The rapid undermining of pub- president, has been enlisted to help HALBERT, MM lic confidence in what had been restore public confidence in the one of the most highly regarded agency. ", programs in the nation began at The announcement came a week the end of what had been Father after the Covenant House board Ritter's pinnacle year. had enlisted the help of New York In the fiscal year ending last Cardinal John J. O'Connor in June 30, Covenant House had finding an interim president for raised a record $88.2 million, a the agency.

How'far can church workers go leap from $68.4 million the year politically? Father Halbert mainMeanWhile, the cardinal said he before. tains that they must affirm human has not acted yet because he has But it all began to unravel on not received documents and assurights but that often the church Dec. 12 when the New York Post rances he said he needed from identifies with the ruling party. reported that Manhattan District Coyenant House to do so.

The church, he feels, should be Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau political while avoiding alliance Pfeiffer said Father Hesburgh was investigating allegations of a will serve on a new committee of with any party. former male prostitute, later iden- oversight that will review findings - The priest said he identified with tified as Kevin Lee Kite, 25, that from a commissioned investigation a'ssassinated Archbishop Oscar Father Ritter had drawn him into of all allegations of misconduct of San Salvador in whose Romero a sexual relationship and used leveled against Covenant House funeral Mass he participated. RoCovenant House funds to support officials since the controversy broke mero, he said, rejected war as a him. There were subsequent claims in December. solution. by other young men that Father But "poor kids continue to be Cardinal O'Connor, who anRitter also pressured them into nounced March 9 he would. try to drafted," said Father Halbert; "rich sexual relationships. kids continue to be exempt." find Covenant House an acting Father Ritter resigned as presi- president, perhaps an archdioceThe Salvadoran hierarchy is seen dent Feb. 27, and conveyed owner- san priest, told reporters March 18 as divided and the trend toward appointment of conservative bish- ship of Covenant House to the he still did not have "what I conboard he had previously appointed. sider essential" information before ops explains why the U.S. church Reports of other financial ir- sending someone' from the archdidoes not speak out on the situaregularities included accounts of a ocese to lead Covenant House. tion, he said, adding that missioners, however, continue to see them- secret trust fund Father Ritter had He said he feels notjust one perestablished in 1983. selves as representatives of a world son should be acting president but Although Father Ritter got a church. that possibly three associates . While he speaks warmly of the tax exemption from the Internal should be added to help get the Revenue Service, he reportedly Silvadoran people - "neither agency's affairs in order. heroes nor villains," Father Hal- failed to file required annual reports Cardinal O'Connor also said he , bert acknowledges a "diabolic" with the IRS or to register the fund wanted "open sesame" to do "whatwith the New York state attorney level of violence, reflected in t.he ever should be done" and assumanner of execution of six Jesuits general. rance that. any priest he sent to It was reported March 7 that and two women workers last Noserve as acting president would get out of concern ov'er the fund the vember in San Salvador. He noted access to all information necessary that two of the slain priests regu- National Charities Information to restructuring C9venant House.

Bureau had withdrawn its endorlarly assisted in his parish.

The machete, when guns are not sement of Covenant House.

Further questions about Father Does more available, remains the principal Ritter's judgment were raised by instrument of mayherp and murder, "Correction does much, but he said, adding that "the violence the report that a $131,OQO loan encouragement does more." is addictive, and nobody is brought from the secret fund had gone to Goethe his sister to buy a house. to justice."

Most Difficult Adding fuel to the flames, the - - - - - - - - - - Village Voice reported in its March "The most difficult thing in the 20 issue that Father Ritter gave an world is to know how to do a thing GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS exclusive contract for Covenant and to watch someone else doing it House interior decorating through- wrong, without comment." - Theoout the country to his niece, Ellen dore H. White

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AIDS vaccine tests show church concern, says archbishop ROME(CNS) - Asking priests and nuns to volunteer to take an experimental AIDS vaccine is "an opportunity for the church to make a contribution, even though a small one, in the battle against this terrible deadly disease," said Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.

The archbishop sent what he called a "cover memo" with a letter from one of the vaccine's researchers to 1,400 priests and 2,400 women religious in the Los Angeles archdiocese seeking 10 volunteers aged 65 or over.

The memo and letter became public in early March while Archbishop Mahony was in Rome for Vatican meetings and he held a press conference to discuss church participation in the vaccine program.

The archbishop compared the motives of prospective volunteers to church workers of the past who cared for plague victims or leprosy sufferers even though they knew they risked infection.

"The church is simply continuing its very wonderful and heroic tradition of outreach," he said.

"He added that it was his understanding that the age requirement was established to guarantee that subjects have a "long medical history," which would allow researchers to see if the vaccine's effectiveness changes in a person who in the past had had hepatitis, rheumatic fever or other illnesses.

The researchers also wanted volunteers .who were not "heads of households" or responsible for the support of others, he said.

Archbishop Mahony said he did not consult with the Vatican before contacting the Los Angeles priests and religious because "I thought it was a reasonable request."

While in Rome, Archbishop Mahony received a call from Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers.

"He just asked a question Or two," Archbishop Mahony said.

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mation" in some news reports that the priests and nuns were alreaqy infected with HIV or had the symptoms of AIDS. AnQther question concerned "the level of risk" involved in the tests, Archbishop Mahony said.

"With respect to moral theology, I think the risk is well within the norms," Archbishop Mahony' told reporters. "The good that far outweighs the risk, of course, is the good of developing a vaccine which might prevent people from getting HIV in the future."

When asked if he himself would volunteer, the 54-year-old archbishop said, "had I fit their description, I think I would have considered that very seriously."

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ROME (CNS) - Romania's religious affairs minister said the Vatican violated a concordat with the state by failing to consult with the government before appointing \2 bishops to Romanian sees in March.

The minister, Nicolae Stoicescu, told the Rompress news agency that the appointments created an "unwanted precedent for normal relations between Romania and the Vatican and between the Romanian state and the Romanian Catholic Church here."

He suggested that talks with Vatican representatives be opened, so that an agreement can be reached under which the government would recognize the new bishops.

At the Vatican, a spokesman had no comment on the reported criticism. But a source said he thought the appointments had been discussed in January when a Vatican envoy, Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, spoke to government officials in Bucharest, Romania.

BISHOP DANIEL A. Cronin, honorary chairman of the 49th annual Catholic Charities Appeal, discusses campaign plans with Rev. John F. Andrews, pastor ofSt. Joan of Arc parish, Orleans, and Appeal director for ) . , .

Cape Cod and the Islands.

The Appeal kickoff meeting will beheld at 8 p.m. April 18 at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, followed by the special gifts phase from April 23 through May 5 . and the parish phase May 6 through 16.

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The growing involvement of youth in the church is "a very significant phenomenon," the pope said in his annual message for World Youth Day, which will be observed June 3, Pentecost ~unday.

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the moorin&.-, Tunnel Vision It seems you can change almost everything else, butjust don't tamper with the church. Where is the tabernacle? What are we doing with that big chair? Why get rid of those wonderful vigil lights? The litany of dismay is endless.

Indeed, almost 30 years aJter Vatican Council II and the liturgical changes it brought about, there is still deep resentment of those changes. Yet many of the old customs were, when examined, individual religious .interpretations quite removed from theological and liturgical truth.

Clinging to artifacts of the past is in a sense like wishing to live in a spiritual Disneyworld, escaping from what is to what really never was.

It is all very strange, given that those who scream most loudly about changes in the church never complain about other changes in the world around them. There are few who regret the switch from icebox to refrigerator, from kitchen pump to faucets, from coal furnace to thermostat. We may complain about the cost but we are all willing to accept the benefits of modern medicine. And not many would exchange the "good old days" of depression and poverty for today's overabundance of material goods.

How easily people adapt to change in the secular world and how reluctant they are to accept the changes offered for their spiritual growth! But it must also b,e realizel;fthat it is hard to convince parishioners of the positive spirituai impact of liturgical change if the .clergy themselves react rtegatively to it.

Most parishioners respond favorably 'tq /the attitudes of their pastor and his staff. If these leaders arec,ulpably ignorant of the winds of change in the church, the~.ishame on them.

However, too many who have pastoral res~~6nsibility simply refuse to alter their attitudes or make at'ibest a feeble and listless attempt to com'ply with diocesan liturgical, guidelines. .The tunnel vision approach to change evidenced by many. pastors is, to say the least, devastating Jrnd divisive to the ,extent of pitting one parish .community against another. The "we do not do that here" mind is one reason many have left such communities. To be effective and enduring, church change must be rooted in and nourished by pastoral leadership.

At the same time, all blame cannot be placed on the pastor.

Many laypersons who should be a catalyst in helping their fellow' parishioners to worship in spirit and truth are simply intransigent, living with closed minds and hardened hearts.

The twin attitudes that if you ignore change it will go away and that the more things change the more they stay the same are usually nothing more than copouts. The entire parish must be accountable and take responsibility for implementing church guidelines and teachings.

We are not running weekend buffets for those who want merely to pick and choose the things they like in their church.

That easy road has, unfortunately, been the only road traveled by too many Catholics.

It is imperative that as we ,continue to implement church difectives, whether they have to do with the liturgy, pastoral councils, finance committees or any of many other areas of concern, we come together to solve problems, not to exacerbate them through selfish individualism.

Once we achieve this point of view, it is more likely that change will be viewed as beneficial to the total community, not merely as the hobbyhorse of a few individuals.

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THE TANGLED WRECKAGE OF A PHILADELPHIA SUBWAY TRAIN WHICH DERAILED AND KILLED THREE PASSENGERS .

"Watch, for you know not what hour your Lord will come." Matt. 24:42

The value of confession

By Father Kevin J. Harrington I think we all realize that the Catholic Church is not meant to be a community of great saints -a collection of the righteous and holy as distinct from the sinners.

Most Christians fall into the category of mediocre sinners as opposed to great sinners, but in the penitential season of Lent the mediocre as well as the great sinners are invited to make use of the sacrament of reconciliation.

Unfortunately, a casual attitude toward venial sin has been promoted by some well-meaning but misguided people. Too many people dismiss the wrong they do as the symptom of some psychological problem for which they cannot be blamed. Still others who do acknowledge thei~ venial sins manifest neither sufficient remorse nor apparent willingness to change.

Yet even venial sin leaves us with at best an attachment and at worst an addiction to the things of this world, so as well as experiencing forgiveness we need to break away from whatever our attachments or addictions' may be.

Even mediocre sinners need to deny themselves,. take up their cross and follow Christ. Indeed, venial sin should carry an ecclesial heal~h warning: sinning can seriously damage your spiritual health.

Statistics show that Catholics are not celebrating the sacrament of reconciliation as in the past.

Statistics also show that among Catholics attending Mass the overwhelining. majority are receiving holy communion.

One can safely draw the conclusion that Catholics either perceive

themselves as not sinning or as committing venial sins and experiencing a sense offorgiveness and reconciliation through prayer and worship.

Neither conclusion is particularly comforting. The former is obviously untrue and the latter shows a failure to understand, appreciate and ultimately benefit from sacramental absolution. . The neglect of this sacrament is in my opinion based upon an immature notipn of sin. Most people seek the sacrament because of one .or two sins that may be troubling their consciences. Lesser sins are less guilt-provoking and a feeling of forgiveness is derived through prayer and worship.

Hut absolution does more than relieve guilt and should be sought more for our spiritual health than for its therapeutic value. An exam-

praye~BOX For Loved Ones Lord God, we can hope for others nothing better than the happiness we desire for ourselves. Therefore, I pray you, do not separate me after death from those I have loved on earth. Grant that I ~ay enjoy their presence in heaven and that they may be received into your heart and merit eternal happiness. Amen.

ination of conscience that focuses . on only serious sins and regards them as distinct and unrelated deeds does not penetrate the selfdeception that makes us fail to realize that in fact all our sins are rooted in our fear and lovelessness.

Our unwillingness to confess our venial sins indicates how little we understand the nature of the sacrament of reconciliation. By confessing our sins to the church, represented by the priest, we acknowledge that they are not our private business, but a failure in our ,witness as a member of the body of Christ. Our sin is part of the church's sin, our repentance is part of the church's repentance, our forgiveness is part of the forgiveness which the whole church constantly experiences afresh as qod's gift.

Many people shrink from sacramental confession because of the deep humiliation involved in revealing one's sins to another human being. Such people need to be reassured that the rite of reconciliation offers a safe zone for looking sin in the face. It provides a holy setting in which the healing power of God is acknowledged as infinitely greater than their own negativity.

The priest lifts them out of their isolation, and assures them that nothing disclosed is outside the range of the church's experience or beyond the reach of absolution.

It is a pity that so many Christians deny themselves the grace of the sacrament of reconciliation because they consider themselves mediocre sinners, not great sinners.

Let us remember Christ died for our sins both great and small!

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A few columns ago in this series I mentioned that fundamentalists believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, that is, it must be literally interpreted, and that other denominations, primarily mainstream Protestants, believe in ongoing revelation.

The question that I will address in this column is, "What do Catholics believe?" Here I would like to quote from Father Francis X. Cleary, S.J . .in an article, "How Do Catholics Interpret the Bible?"

(Liguori RCIA Bulletin, Series I, No.6, Journey of Faith; Liguori Publications, Liguori, MO 63057).

Father Cleary, scripture scholar and professor in the Department of Theological Studies ofSt. Louis University, specializes in biblical theology of the Old Testament.

He writes, "Many people think that the church has an official 'party line' about every sentence in the Bible. In fact, only seven passages have been definitely interpreted. Even in these few cases the church is only defending traditional doctrine and morals.

"For example, Jesus' teaching' in John 3:5 that we must be born 'of water and of the Spirit' means that real ('natural') water must be used for a valid baptism. When Jesus, after instituting the Eucharist, commanded his apostles to 'Do this in memory of me' (Luke 22: 19; I Corinthians II :24), he meant to confer priestly ordination.

"Again, the power conferred on the apostles to bind and loose sins (se.e John 20:23) authorized them and their successors in the priestly office to forgive sins in God's name. These authoritative interpretations emphasize the biblical origins of sacramental life. (The three other defined texts are John' 20:22; Romans 5:12; and James 5: 14.)

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"Except for these seven brief passages, Catholics enjoy great freedom in interpreting the Bible.

In fact, Pius XII and the Council Fathers urged Catholic scholars to grapple with the difficult problems. The church confidently trusts that the one and same Holy Spirit, who inspired all who wrote and assembled the Bible, continues to guide and direct it in every generation. 'Faith seeking understanding' has been the motto of Christian scholarship from the beginning."

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So there we have it. Father Cleary continues with im excellent explanation ofliterary forms, literal interpretations, and official church teachings but I don't have room for it here. I strongly recommend this series for those who would like more scholarship and information on the church's teaching authority and the Bible.

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Q. How should I react when a friend gives me anti-Catholic literature? Some of it is vicious and says things I know have nothing to do with what I believe, or with our Catholic faith.

They are offensive to me. My friend says this will help me know the "whole" Catholic story. But I find the material hateful. (Oklahoma) A. First, try to understand that behind such militant anti-Catholicism there is nearly always some gross misinformation which that individual has been fed throughout life. Either that or serious hurt has been caused, or seems to have been caused, by Catholics or the Catholic Church, Perhaps some gentle questioning and probing ("What has happened that makes you feel so angry at the Catholic Church?") will help get to the root ofthe problem. If he really is the friend you say, he will not resent the question.

If you want a more direct approach, ask him how he would feel if you pushed onto him letters and articles attacking his family, spreading "facts" which he knows are untrue. He would be correct in calling you a real jerk.

You consider the church an important part of your family. Tell him if he feels the need to attack your religious family he should send his vicious material to those who agree with him.

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The other may be a baptized Christian of another faith, who is officially referred to as a "Christian witness." \ The situation you describe is not only permissible, it is quite common. Of course, a non-Catholic Christian witness accepts the responsibility, insofar as he or she is able, to assist the parents and Catholic godparent in helping the child to grow toward a mature life as a ,Catholic.

Whether or not the Protestant Christian witness is willing and able to fulfill this responsibility is a decision that must be made by the parents, normally in consultation with their parish priest.

A free brochure explaining Catholic regulations on membership in the Masons and other organizations is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

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behaviors? Not really, although many use Scripture that way.

It means that we allow the Holy Spirit to guide, direct,and reveal God's message to us, that we pray for enlightenment so that the Spirit may speak to us through Scripture, sending us the messages and understanding we need rather than what we want to hear. Alas, these aren't always the same.

When we pray, not just read, the Bible, we can find ourselves disturbed by passages which point up our lukewarm faith, lack of Christlike behavior, and acceptance of injustice in the world. This is the Spirit speaking to us and he may speak to each of us in different ways.

I doubt that my interpretation of the Mary and Martha story is the same as Cardinal Ratzinger's but that doesn't mean that I'm right and he's misled. It means that if I pray to the Spirit for guidance in reading this passage, then I should seriously consider the message he reveals to me. I may not like it. At this point, I may want to close the Bible and go back to the rosary, which is less troubling. But then I will miss the comfort, love, and hope in this love letter from God, the Bible.

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Guidelines listed "Bishops of particular churches Continued from Page One other instinctive or acquired needs ,should at least be informed by 'major superiors regarding current (sweets, tobacco, alcohol)."

"Education for chastity will programs of formation in centers therefore aim at helping each one or regarding services for religious to control and to inaster his or her formation which are located within sexual impulses, while at the same .their pastoral territories," it added.

Candidates for religious life betime it will avoid a self-centeredness that is content with one's fidelity longing to lay movements must sever their spiJ-itual formation ties to purity," it said.

The document said putting small with the lay movement and "place religious formation communities themselves freely under the auin poor areas "can be a significant thority of the superiors" of the expression of 'the preferential op- religious institute, said the docution for the poor' " but also pre- ment.

"They cannot simultaneously be sents problems. upon someone apart dependent "As a general rule ... the requirements of formation should from the institute to which they prevail over certain apostolic ad- now pertain, even though they vantages that come from the inser- belonged to this movement before tion into a poor milieu," it added: their entrance," it said. , "It must be possible to realize and maintain solitude and silence" and the proper environment for "communal and personal prayer," MEMBERS OF ST. LOUIS parish, Fall River, rehearse for a reenactment of the Way of it said.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - LegThe document encouraged relig- islati.on requiring parental notifi- the Cross to be held at the church at 6 p.m. Sunday. Other Lenten services and activities, all ious to develop a "sensibility to cation when a teenager seeks an open to the public, are a penance service at 7 p.m. April9; Mass ofthe Lord's Supper, 6:30 p.m. poverty" and the problems of the' abortion ought to be supported Holy Thursday, April 12, followed by refreshments and an hour of adoration; Way ofthe Cross poor-because it helps them "to fol- because ofthe psychological benefit ,low more closely the poor and such notice would have for teens, 3 p.m. Good Friday, April 13; coloring of Easter eggs 9:30 a.m. Holy Saturday, April 14. ' humble Christ." according to a commentary pub- (Ventura photo) , But it warned religious "not to lished in American Psychologist. let themselves be bound up within "Mandatory parental involvea certain milieu or social class." ment legislation is beneficial for The Vatican also told religious the adolescent, her family and her .

Continued' from Page One rights of the poor. The change was to the plight of Central American superiors to keep local bishops family unity," said the December 'government, the investigation will commonly linked with the March countries, many of which have sufinformed of their activities. article, based on research by a go forward."

1977 murder of Jesuit Father Ruti- fered dramatically because of U.S. Education and spiritual forma- group led by Everett L. WorthingEduardo Torres, spokesman for lio Grande, a rural pastor who was government involvement, Father tion programs must be undertaken ton J r., professor of psychology at the Salvadoran Embassy in Wash- gunned down on his way to say Nangle said. "in sincere harmony with the au- Virginia Commonwealth Univerington, said many old cases were Mass.

He cited several U.S. measures thentic magisterium of the hiersity. being reopened by a commission Only weeks before his own assas- that have hurt Central American archy," it said., The article in the monthly"does formed'in 1986 and that while he sination, the archbishop sent then- countries, including economic A bishop who respects the aunot necessarily reflect the position" ;, didn'i"tilinldhe RomerQ.investiga- 'President Jimmy tarter a letter sanctions against Nicaragua and tonomy of a religious institute "is of its publisher, the American Psy- tion had been reopened yet, that denouncing U.S. plans to send Panama and financial support to not on this ,account dispensed from chological Association, said Doug was still possible, especially if new military aid to the government. the Salvadoran military to wage watching over the progress that Fizel, spokesman for the associa- evidence surfaced.

The archbishop was born into a its war against leftist rebels. religious are making toward holiThomas Quigley, adviser on poor family in Ciudad Barrios in "We have done enough harm in tion, which opposes such laws. ness," .the document said.

Latin' American affairs at the U.S. eastern EI Salvador on Aug. 15, Central America," he said. "Let us They have been enacted in some states but most have been blocked Catholic Conference, also noted 1917. Oscar Romero was ordained repair all this harm with justice." by courts and are not currently in the case was at a standstill but April 4, 1942.

Also in Washington, an ecueffect. could be reopened. He said that if Named auxiliary bishop of San menical prayer service is set for The article, "The Benefits of the suspects in the Nov. 16 slayings Salvador in 1970, he was appointed Sunday with Jesuit Father Cesar Continued from Page One Legislatio'n Requiring Parental of six Jesuits and two laywomen in bishop of Santiago de Maria in Jeres, rector of Central American turn our heads. I think we have a 1974. In Febru'ary 1977 he became University in Managua, NicaraInvolvement Prior to Adolescent San Salvador are prosecuted sucresponsibility to address those Abortion," said that pregnant ,cessfully, "it could open up further archbishop of San Salvador, just gua, as homilist. situations now." possibilities of prosecution on out- three years before his death.

Expected to attend are Bishop adolescents tend to underestimate A trade embargo against Panama the support their parents will give. standing cases."

In EI Salvador, San Salvador's Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond, was lifted shortly after the U.S. "When parents are informed of Controversy was no stranger to Metropolitan Cathedral, which Va., Quigley and Father Patrick invasion, according to the White .their daughter's pregnancy, they the slight and bespectacled Arch- houses the slain archbishop's tomb, Burns, president ofthe U.S. Jesuit House, and Congress in February usually become angry," the article bishop Romero, who was said to is to reopen with a Mass tomorrow Conference. extended trade benefits not offered said. But "after brief turmoil, from have undergone a conversion ex- after months of being closed for during Noriega's tenure. two-thirds to four-fifths of parents perience to become an outspoken repairs. Also, Archbishop Arturo U.S. economic penalties_against have been found to be supportive advocate of non-violence and the Rivera Damas of San Salvador is Nicaragua and Panama "have done - if given the chance." expected to send a letter to the real damage," Carr added. "And' Rehabilitation urged Vatican tomorrow asking that "Available evidence suggests that we have to help repair that dam- most adolescents facing pregnancyArchbishop Romero's cause for Fred Toomey, a member of St. age. The church in both countries, related decisions can be assisted by ROME (CNS) - The Vatican sainthood be initiated.

Julie Billiart parish, North Dartconcerned particularly about the their adult parents - even when' should follow the Kremlin's examThe archdiocese has been gath- mouth, has been cited as Person of poor, stressed the urgency of effec- parental involvement is mandated pie and "rehabilitate its dissidents," ering evidence for the cause since the Year by the Friendly Sons of tive help." against the initial wishes of the said Swiss theologian Father Hans Archbishop Romero's death. Two St. Patrick of New Bedford.

Writing to Secretary of State adolescent," the article said, adding The award, made at the annual Kung, whose permission to teach miracles are necessary for beatifiJames A. Baker March 8, Arch- that adolescents make better choiCatholic theology was removed by cation, a preliminary step toward dinner dance of the organization, the Vatican in 1979. The church's sainthood. honors a Greater New Bedford bishop Mahony asked the Bush ad- ces when they benefit from parpresent "hierarchical and monarIn Washington, activities are to resident who has made significant ministration "to expedite this vital ents' perspectives.

A parental notification requirchical structure" makes it an an- include a march from the U.S. contributions to the community. assistance in every way possible." achronism that is destined to give Capitol to the White House March Toomey, a vocational instrucIn releasing his plan and brief- ment also forces the adolescent to way to a "church of service," said 24, followed by a rally in front of tor at Greater New Bedford Vocaing the press on it himself, Bush "take at least 24 hours to consider Father Kung, a frequent critic of the White House, said Father Jo- tional High School, is active in' also stressed the need for prompt the decision to abort," the article Vatican policy. He was quoted in seph Nangle, associate directorfor school improvement councils at said. This delay "mitigates the action. an article published by the Italian, justice and peace for the Confer- both the vocational school and The chief executive asked Con- demand-laden situation in which weekly Espresso. "At a time when ence of Major Superiors of Men. New Bedford High School. gress to agree by March 27 on an adolescent finds she is pregnant even the Kremlin rehabilitates' its Speakers scheduled for the rally He has been president, vicewhat defense funds to divert to while at a clinic where there is the dissidents, it is intolerable that include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president and a director of the finance his scheme or, failing that, potential to have an abortion.'"

Vatican authorities do not do the actor Raul Julia, who played the Friendly Sons and has held offices The article said that "the potento let him make the cuts himself. same in their own house," he said. title role in the film "Romero," in the International Brotherhood Father Callahan said that in tial for parent-adolescent alienaHe urged an end to what he called and Ron Kovic, author of "Born of Electrical Workers. He is a financing the aid, "it's very fitting tion is usually greater from not the "inquisition" of"numerous the- on the Fourth of July," as well as youth group advisor, baptismal that the money come from mil- informing parents than from several religious leaders. coordinator and a Septemberfest itary funding in the United States." informing them." It also said that, ologians of every continent." .â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘ ,_ 0."whether abortion is chosen or A mural listing the names of the organizer at St. Julie's parish. ....... ...... .......--- ...................... not, parents who are notified at The Root of Virtue more than 70,000 people killed in A recent undertaking has been "Charity is the form, mover, the lO-year-old civil war in EI Sal- assistance in settling newly-arrived least can prepare for possible conGOO" ANCHOR HOLD' sequences of adolescents' decimother and root of all virtues."- vador is to be unveiled at the rally, Irish nurses in the New Bedford which is planned to draw attention area. sions."

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Sister Bodine points' relig~ous to the futureBy Marcie Hickey When the Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts of Fall River decided to establish a development office, they called in the expert.

She is Sister of Providence Jane Bodine, a nationally-known consultant to women's religious communities in matters of planning and public relations. Under auspices of the Lilly Endowment, a charitable foundation supporting religious, education and community development causes, and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, she has turned a knack for fundraising into a development education and grant program.

Adopted by numerous congregations, the two-year'program is helping women religious nation-'- --wiQ@-t.o--design their futures. SisterBodine is currently adapting it for men's communities as well.

She recently spent a weekend discussing development initiatives with Holy Union community administrators, including Sister Ann Kernan, provincial superior, and Sister Eleanor McNally, the province's first development director.

Also with Sister Bodine was Sister Mary Lou Graziano, development director for the Sisters of Notre Dame of the Boston archdiocese and the sister of Father Peter N. Graziano, executive director of the Fall River diocesan Department of Catholic Social Services, Sister McNally arranged the visit after meeting Sister Bodine at a New Orleans gathering of the National Catholic Development Concferem:e,lnc., an organization- of Catholic fund raisers.

At the conference: "I was told, 'if there's anyone you must meet it is Sister Jane Bodine,' " said Sister McNally. ,Sister Bodine's reputation for ingenuity in helping religious congregations head off financial crisis and further their missions predates her present work as a consultant.

In 1981, she pioneered the development program of her own community, the Sisters of ~rovi­ dence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., when she raised funds for an infirmary and other community needs.

As development director, she', was also on the National Catholic Development Conference board, thus becoming known to other religious congregations; and in 1988, when the Lilly Endowment wanted to develop a program to help women religious raise funds, they asked Sister Bodine to spearhead the effort.

The women's program, initially planned for 15 congregations, now embraces 30 additional groups.

Each has received a $45,000 grant towards establishing a development office, In dealing with communities, , Siste.; Bodine emphasizes the need .. for long-range strategic and financial planning to set the stage for successful fund raising.

Sisters have always lived on tight budgets, said Sister McNally, with communities meeting expenses from the small stipends received by members, but this is news to many laypersons, who are surprised to learn that nuns were not supported by bishops or pastors, but were responsible' for their own education, food and clothing and, in many cases, finding and maintaining their own housing.

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Religious, alO-year campaign 'of annual collections in U.S. churches begun in 1988 will be only "a drop in the bucket" to remedy current financial problems, Sister Bodine said.

"We need to get our message across," said Sister McNally, while Sister Bodine recalled that a friend on a parish school advisory board was shocked when she "discovered what the sisters have been paid for the work they have done."

Sister Bodine noted that the situation is "an AmeriG:an tragedy," explaining that Canadian and' European sisters are paid. by the governments of tqe. cpulltries in which they serve.

"One of the things we have to make the public aware of is that the crisis is not just in caring for our elderly Runs," commented Sister Graziano.

"We commit ourselves to that care," she added, "but if we put CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. every penny into it, what is jeop(CNS) - Jesuit Father John J. ardized is our ministry."

Paris has been named first holder Convincing leaders and members of the Walsh Chair in bioethics at of religious communities that futldBoston College. raising is a dignified activity for Now professor of social ethics at religious women vowed to poverty the University of Chicago Center has been a fundamental challenge for Clinical Medical Ethics, in in development work, said Sister September he will assume the pro- Bodine, who also stressed the imfessorship named for Jesuit Father portance of good public relations Michael P. Walsh, a scientist and , and of telling the public "the often Boston College president from 1958 heroic stories ofthe ways religious to 1968. are serving the people of God." "Law, medicine and ethics should be integrated - allies rather than adversaries," Father Paris said in a statement. "Too often they are places of potential conflict; they The Portuguese Community ought to be intricately and posiHealth Care Committee of St. tively, interrelated."

Anne's Hospital, Fall River, will Funding for the chair was under- offer three $1000 academic scholtaken in 1982 by Boston College arships for 1990-91 to individuals medical and dental alumni. Since pursuing studies in nursing or then the fund has grown to $1.75 allied fields. The awards will be million. presented one each to an individFather Paris is also professor of ual from the Greater Fall River social ethics at the College of the area; a hospital employee advancHoly Cross, clinical professor of ing his or her career; and an emcommunity health at Tufts Uni- ployee or member of an employee's versity Medical School and adjunct immediate family. professor of medicine at the UniSt. Anne's Hospital Scholarship versity of Massachusetts Medical Committee may request an interSchool. view with applicants prior to final selection. Scholarships will be awarded at St. Anne's Annual The Process of Love Service Awards Banquet May 9.

"Love is born with the pleasure Applications are available at of looking at each other, is fed local high school and college guidwith the necessity of seeing each ance offices or by contacting St. other, is concluded with the impo~­ Anne's Hospital, 674-5741 ext. 401 sibility of separation!" - Jose or 2020. Deadline for submission Marti y Perez is 4 p.m. April 13.

Saving for retirement was unheard of, she added, and today there is the added expense of health insurance at a time when numbers of elderly and infirm sisters are increasing and numbers of sisters in active, paying ministries are dwindling.

Of the 138 sisters in the Holy Union province which includes the Fall River diocese, as well as communities in New York, Maryla,nd and Florida, 70 are in fulltime, paying mini$tries and are supporting the others. However, 80 percent ofthe active sisters are in parish work positions which pay only $12,000 to $13,000 a ~ear, Sister McNally noted.

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"For a number ofyears the thoughtof entering a religious community would jfeetingly cross my mind. The thoug!Jts became more frequent alldJessjfeeting u/lfil I had to make a decisio/l ,',..one which I will never regret. It is a beautiful life that I have been called to. a life lived totally for God and one which is full." rewarded by His love.

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goes to two WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Mercy sister and a self-described "funny Protestant" who founded a relief agency in response to a request from Pope John Paul II were among recipients of Caring Awards given recently in Washington.

Sister Rosemary Connelly, executive director of Misericordia Homes in Chicago, was one of 10 awardees; as was Robert Macauley, founder and president of Americares, an emergency distribution agency.

The awards were given by the Caring Institute, a Washington nonprofit organization promoting caring, integrity and public service.

In accepting her award, Sister -ConneI1y- saIdihe \Vorce carIng "stands in contradiction to false values: wealth, power, prestige, status."

Misericordia, Latin for "heart of mercy," cares for nearly 400 mentally and/ or physically disabled children and young adults at three sites in Chicago, making job training and life skills a priority.

Caring Institute chairman Frank Moss, in making the award, said, "Sister Rosemary is herself the heart of mercy."

Disabled.young people are often "the object of pity, the object of ridicule, the object of condescen' sion," Sister Connelly said.

But "they teach us so many lessons in how to live life lovingly, thoroughly, fulfillingly," she said.

"They teach how extraordinary the orilinary gifts of life are. Tney are masters of gifts ofthe heart.."

Macauley organized Americares after a 1981 meeting with Pope John Paul II who, aware of Macauley's ability to organize charitable efforts, asked him to arrange delivery of medical supplies to Poland.

Macauley told catholic News Service in a telephone interview that he replied, "Certainly, your holiness. " "What am I going to say? 'No , thanks, pope'?" Macauley said.

He said, "It doesn't matter what the label is," although Mother Teresa, whom Macauley counts among his friends, "has told me, 'We're going to do the conversion in Rome. And the pope's going to do it.' " Americares shipped $8 million in overseas aid in 1982, its first year. It expects to hit the $300 million mark by the end of 1989, and has a goal of $1 billion in aid between 1989 and 1993.

A video profile prior to Macauley's award said Americares shipped a million pounds of powdered milk after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, and was airlifting supplies to Armenia within five hours after the devastating 1988 earthquake there.

Money magazine's December 1989 issue listed Americares first among health-related charities in least amount spent for fund raising and administration in proportion to income.

Macauley's son, Robert Jr., in accepting the award for his father, said his dad had faxed him some suggestions on what to say in the acceptance speech.

One suggestion, young Macauley said, was the Americares motto: "There's no limit to what you can do as long as you don't care who gets the credit. "

WILL PRESENT ITS 11th ANNUAL EASTER CONCERT ENTITLED

ttCALVARY'S LOVE" AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: AT PAX CHRISTI RETREAT, from left, a solitary figure moves through the snow towards retreat house; Father Joseph M. Costa, Pax Christi moderator, Sister Patricia McCarthy, CND, retreat facilitator, Sister Dorothy Ruggiero, OP, retreat and liturgical coordinator; retreatants listen to a presentation. (McGowan photos)

Defeat an enefllY by fllaking him your friend, says Pax Christi that it requires humility and ,selfSuch an attitude may disarm an the sister, by a Christian doctor restraint rather than quick action. antagonist, she said, but "even if it who declared at the first Mass held Tiny paper cranes are a treadoesn't, at least the violence stops the ruined Nagasaki cathedral in The facilitator spoke.ofthe cursured souvenir for 24 members with you." after the second atomic bomb was rent motion picture, "Weapons of and friends of the newly-formed Sister McCarthy admitted that dropped on Japan "We must thank the Spirit," as depicting a World Southeastern Massachusetts chap"if you love unreservedly [as Jesus God that the bomb fell on ChrisWar II "conspiracy of goodness" ter of Pax Christi, whp met last did], you'll suffer," but she declared tians because Christians have the in which a small European village, month for a weekend of reflection it is better to accept then inflict to forgive." ability led by a Christian pastor, saved on the history and s'pirituality of suffering.

Sister McCarthy said that she 4000 Jews from death at the hands nonviolence.

She said that Gandhi told his entered the Congregation of Notre of the Nazis.

"We didn't think it Pax Christi, which means Peace fQllowefs "my greatest weapon is was any big deal," summed up a Dame at age 19and that on one of of Christ, is an international Cath- niute prayer" and that nonviolence, her first assignments she was the villager. olic organization that works for termed ~ahimsa" or literally "great That goodness was echoed, said only white person in a large disarma~nt, nonviolence, a just love" ,m Hindi; is not so much a _ - - - - -... world order and education for techtltq'be a'S a way of being. "It ~ peace.

The cranes were made and dis- r must sit:.'awih:tst us as a nexHoskin ga,rment," Gandhi explained. tributed by Sister Patricia McThe I ndian leader and St. ThomCarthy, CND, who facilitated the weekend program. She explained as Aquinas greatly influenced the that it is a Japanese belief that if life of Martin Luther King, said one makes 1000 cranes, using the Sister McCarthy, King, she said, intricate origami technique of put the Gandhian teaching of the paper-folding, one will be protected importance of "satyagraha" or "soul force" into action in his from illness.

She said that following the campaign to secure equal rights atomic bombing of Hiroshima, for black Americans, "He taught blacks they must be Japan, atthe end of World WarIl, Sadako, a IO-year-old Hiroshima free and must also free their white schoolgirl, developed leukemia. As oppressors," she said.

King taught fOllr ,steps toward she lay dying, she tried to fold 1000 cranes. If she succeeded, she said, that freedom: to collect facts; to her wish would not be for her own negotiate; to pray and fast for selfpurification before taking action; health but that "the cranes would fly through the world with peace to proceed to the action decided written on their wings." upon.

King's famed fre.edom marches Sadako died after folding 964 were very organized, said Sister cranes but since then many thouMcCarthy. Participants had to sands have been folded in her agree to the principles of nonviomemory by other children and she is memorialized by a statue in lence and always attended a church THRONGS SURROUNDED the open casket of Archbishop meeting before setting forth.

Hiroshima's Peace Park.

Oscar Romero as it was brought to San Salvador's Metropolitan Her story was a poignant highLike Gandhi, King stressed that light of the snowy Pax Christi one must forgive enemies, seeking Cathedral March 30, 1980, for an outdoor funeral Mass which had to weekend, held at St. James House their love and understanding rather be finished privately due to an outbreak of violence in the crowd. The of Hospitality in Tiverton, R.I., than trying to defeat or humiliate archbishop was assassinated March 24 as he said Mass in a San set on the shores of the beautiful them. "We must realize that an evil Salvador chapel. (CNS photo) , Sakonnet River. deed doesn't express the whole . During it, Sister McCarthy pre- person," he said. sented the history of nonviolence But he cautioned that "too many from the time of Jesus through the use techniques of nonviolence centuries to the contemporary wit- without embracing its philosophy," ness of such peacemakers as Ma- and Sister McCarthy backed up hatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King that point by noting that in her Jr., Thomas Merton and Dorothy experience "few peace groups are Day, • totally nonviolent" when members Discussing the life of Gandhi, are involved in demonstrations or she asked retreatants to let his protests. words sink into their minds "as the Sister McCarthy also listed snow falling outside is sinking into Dorothy Day, cofounder of the the grass." Noting that the Indian Catholic Worker movement, and leader felt people must be freed Trappist monk Thomas Merton as from fear before they can practice peacemakers. nonviolence, she said he taught She quoted Merton as saying that one should "defeat an enemy that nonviolence should speak for by making him your friend." the poor and underprivileged and

By Pat McGowan

Southern pa'rochial school for black children. She said she was given two pieces of advice by an old Polish priest of the parish: "Love the children and don't worry; don't take offense when none is intended."

The advice served her well through 20 years of teaching and dealing with underprivileged and disturbed children in various locations, she said. She noted that one such child had taught her to make the paper cranes she distributed. "I had a book of instructions," she f,!=late4~;"butJ couldn't figure them out. Finally I gave the book to a young boy with whom I was working. fn half an hour he'd made not only the crane, but everything else in the instruction book."

Sister McCarthy said that her first systematic instruction in nonviolence came from Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy (no relation), a Melkite-Greek Catholic priest of the dioCese of Newton, who gives retreats throughout the nation on the theology and spirituality of nonviolence.

Sparked by his presentations, she developed her own one-day and weekend programs for students, parishes, adult education classes and religious communities.

For the very new diocesan Pax Christi group, which included health workers, social workers, several religious and teachers, the weekend program provided, in addition to inspiration and information, a bonding together in the determination to walk the difficult road of the peacemaker.

"Peacemakers," Sister McCarthy reminded the retreatants, "are responsible for the peace of the people of God wherever they may be.

They are the intercessors with God - nagging until he gives them that loaf oI.c'.J)rcad.,in.the middle <If the, night.'" .

Admitting that ,"it's tough to be a prophet and called to continual conversion and change," she held out the encouragement that Mary, "who sustained the church of the trembling apostles, will sustain us."

The Southeastern Massachusetts Pax Christi chapter meets, unless otherwise announced, at 7 p.m. each first Sunday in Room 128 of Clemence Hall directly behind St. Anne's Hospital at South Main and Middle Streets, Fall River. Its moderator is Father Joseph Costa, administrator of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. New members are welcome at any time.

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The Silent Cry I hear the plaintive silent cry Of babes denied their right to life For they were doomed to early die, A victim ofaborters' knife.

And ifyour heart be movedto ask, How come that this be so?

My answer, friend, will take to task, This ghoulish trade, we've come to know.

The fruit of all this perjidy.

Now hear me, friend, and mark it well These camalfiends are risking hell, For the Lord our God, their doom may seal And they could find there is no appeal.

My soul rebels that they are free, These doctors of iniquity, Whose cruel hands can still the breath, And put God's holy babes to DEATH. How can our laws so distant stray?

That infants'blood is spil/edtodqy, And why don't we, with voice proclaim, That we will end this cruel shame?

By BERNARD CASSERLY Human contact is necessary to discover the needs of the lonely elderly. If inclement weather makes personal visits impossible, there is always the telephone. The phone company campaign telling us to "Reach o'ut ana {oucl1'someone""----makes sense.

If you don't know any homebound elderly you can get some names from your pastor or parish 'Visitor or by calling nearby hospitals or nursing homes. A telephone call can be a godsend to anyone starving for human companionship.

The telephone can bring problems as well as joys, so it is wise to follow certain rules about its use.

My favorite guide for telephone manners appeared in the July 1973 Scope, a monthly for American Lutheran Church women.

Called â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘A Prayer to be Taped to the Telephone," it was written by Marie Reyner, West Union, lA, and based on the famous prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Here it is: Lord, Make this an instrument of Thy peace. ;Instead of speaking unkindly about anyone, let me be understanding.

Instead of spreading gossip, let me spread ctleer.

When there is work to be done let me hang up.

But when good can be accomplished, let me hang on.

Remind me to call the lonely people that I know.

Help me to recognize opportunities to speak of your loveThen give me the right words.

Amen.

Requests for copies of "The Silent Cry" may be made through the Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

Opus Dei college now university

Have we become so selfish prone, That helpless souls may never own A chance to see the light of day, Or frolic on a beach at play, Or ever know a mother's care, Or delight her heart by being there Or fill a home with love and joy, Be she a girl or little boy?

Where is our strength, or courage bold, To crush these butchers'greedfor gold, And banish them in disarray, And let all infants live today?

Yet on it goes, this fearful strife That wars against a helpless life.

Can you not hear, myfellow friend, Their plaintive cry "Defend, Defend!"

But God in heaven has heard that call And Judgment fierce will surely fall, For on that day our land will see,

"Severe loneliness appears to be almost as prevalent as colds during the winter," according to a wise New England sociologist.

Loneliness is a severe problem for the elderly in winter because of the dangers of venturing out in bad weather. Walking becomes more difficult and driving more hazardous.

Mother Teresa described loneliness as the "great hunger of the West." Hunger is everywhere, she said, "and it's not always hunger for bread, but for love... "The biggest disease todayjs not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, - -Ut'lGaI'e-EI-for at'ltldeserte<t byeverybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference toward one's neigh__ bor."

The problem ofloneliness among older people is being addressed in many ways by many different organizations, public and private. Among them are senior day care centers, .Meals on Wheels. parish visitors, live-in helpers, surveillance by utility workers, daily phone checkups and many more.

In Minnesota, both the state and federal government fund a Senior Companion Program which has put in more than two million hours of service benefiting the elderly in their hom~s.

Each senior companion spends 20 hours a week serving some five homebound elderly pe,ople. Companions, receive tax-free stipends, travel reimbursement and a meal allowance to supplement their retirement incomes.

Psychologists have tried to dis"Then to the breach, "my Christian cover why some older people who friend, live alone suffer from loneliness And to our land this message send, and others in identical circumNo more will we complacent be, stances do not. Phillip Shaver of And let these cruel deeds go the University of Denver has this free, explanation: For now our swords of Moral "The lonely tend to be selfRight focused and self-conscious, instead Unsheathed and sharp willjoin the of focusing on the other person. fight, You can't start a relationship unless For the Right to Life from God you consider the other person's descends, needs."

And He will deem - just when it ends.

IGNATIUS McCann of Holy Cross parish, South Easton.

ROME (CNS) - A college formed in 1985 by Opus Dei has been upgraded to a university, the first institution of such rank to be created in Rome in 50 years. The Roman University of the Holy Cross was established in a decree by the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education.

Opus Dei - Latin for "God's Work" - is an international organization of about 75,000 lay members and 1,300 priests.

The Holy Cross academy opened in 1985 as a center for advanced studies in theology and canon law, offering degrees through Opus Dei's University of Navarre in Spain.

Last fall, the school had 50 professors and 250 students from 31 countries.

ELEANOR B. SOUZA, physical therapy assistant, recently marked 25 years of service at Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven. During a celebration attended by family, friends and coworkers, she was honored with a plaque from home administrator Jean M. Golitz and citations from Governor.Michael Dukakis, the Department of Elder Affairs, the Stilte Senator's Office, the Town of Fairhaven, Coastline Elder!) services and Father Edmund Fitzgerald, executive director of Diocesan Health Facilities. Also pictured is Mrs. Souza's son Glen.

'Juggling'niultiple

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: Four years ago, after 20 years of marriage, my husband left me. We had six children. He provides a very small monthly support. I work six days a week.

Last June my oldest son and his girlfriend had a daughter, and three weeks later my son was killed.

When I refused to let his girlfriend take all his belongings, she left and has refused to let me see the baby.

My daughter, age 20, is married with two children. I depend on her for transportation and use' of a telephone.

My other married son moved to be closer to us. He feels I favor my daughter's children over his. He also te'ases and taunts his younger brother and sister and criticizes me in front of them.

Since his brother died, I have, been having problems with my 13year-old son. His grades have gone from As to Os. He fights, stays out late and has gotten drunk.

I am taking my two youngest to a program for grieving families. I am grieving not just for my son, but for a family which once shared good times and good feelings.

(Indiana) No wonder you are grieving.

You seem to be doing a remarkable job, handling several problems.

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I. Your struggle to stay afloat financially is constant.

2. Your son died less than a year ago. You and your family are still g<ting through it.

3. Your 13-year-old son is beginning to act like an adolescent. You need ways to control him and he needs an outlet for his grief.

4. Your older son seems to have good impulses in coming to assist you, but also sees his sister and little brother as rivals for your affection. Of all the problems, this one involves you the least. This son is an adult and needs to work, out his own problems. If being with him is too stressful for everyone at this time, limit yourcontacts with him.

You are not giving yourself enough credit. Perhaps you have not considered the strengths in your life. ' I. Your children are doing all right - not terrific - but all right.

Your son vies for your affection, but he is raising and supporting a family and was capable of moving that family to respond to your needs. Your daughter, only 20, is raising her children and providing practical and emotional support for yO:I. She must be quite a woman, and you raised her!

2. You know you cannot go it

alone and are reaching out for support. Attending a group sounds like an excellent idea. Look for new friends among people who have had experiences similar to yours.

3. Helping your adolescent son is your main challenge. He is old enough to be a big help in terms of housecleaning, cooking, leaf raking, snow shoveling and the like.

Set up a work schedule for your children at home. Set a curfew for your son and insist on it.

Talk to the school counselor about your son's grades and about his grief. Set up a homework period each evening for your children.

Perhaps you could use that period as quiet time for yourself. If you need more help with your son, seek a psychologist or social worker skilled with adolescents. You should not need therapy lasting months and months, but a few hours to develop and imple~ent a plan to get your son on a productive track.

Despite the obstacles in your life, you have raised some pretty decent children. You have my admiration.

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

State lotteries: dream, or nightmare?

By Antoinette Bosco I've always said I'm "addicted" to newspapers. But many a morning I have to wait in a long line to get my daily "fix" because the people ahead of me are getting theirs - lottery tickets.

This week I had to wait while the woman in front of me bought 50 lottery tickets. I couldn't help thinking that my habit runs me 50 cents a day but hers, at least this week, hits $50.

I asked her why she purchased so many tickets. She replied without a smile, "I'm playing my dream." , Yet we should recognize lotteries for what they are - gambling, pure and simple. Like all organized gambling, it is a mathematically losing proposition for the buyer and a potentially dangerous habit.

By the beginning of the 20th century, lotteries in the United States had been effectively banned by law as a result of a large antigambling movement of the time.

In the mid-1960s, however, lotteries began making a comeback under auspices of state governments.

The justification in most states is that the bulk of the money is supposed to go to education. In fact, they have become big business. About 29 states have them, grossing about $16 billion from them in 1989.

Along the way, they dropped the support-your-schools theme in favor of ads pushing the get-rich' quick motive.

State governments now h,ire prestigious advertising agencies to market their games. Ads nurture yearnings for pleasure-drenched fantasies. They make a virtue of the lottery's basic weakness, its pathetic gambling odds. No other business offers such fantastic dreams with such little hope for . having them come true.

An ad in Washington showed incredible insensitivity by using a

photo of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to advertise the lottery. The caption read: "His vision lives on. Honor the dream - the D.C. Lottery." ?~" Stra'nge/loffery ads Iie'ver speak of family or social values, selfimprovement, civic responsibility

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They simply portray people as somewhat trapped in their lives and seeking release by fantasies of pleasure. ' State lotteries, asci see-ethem,'" have gone beyond reason and are a disgrace.

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Logic and the graduate

By Hilda Young "I'm thinking about working this summer and then going to Europe or Australia next fall," our soon-to-grad uate-from-highschool daughter announced last night.

"Oh?" her father responded calmly, at least as calmly as a person can appear who is rolling the sports page into a wad about the size of a Ping-Pong ball.

"What happened to the college plans - and all those scholarship applications and financial forms, and grant requests and copies of our tax returns to several thousand government and private agencies?"

"Oh, I don't know," she sighed.

"After so many years of school it would be nice to take a break."

"You're just fantasizing out loud, trial ballooning, mulling over funny thoughts, being cute. Right?" I asked our firstborn.

"Education and your future aren't something to take lightly, young lady," spouse said.

"Exactly," daughter responded.

"Think of all the world awareness and experiences you get from travel."

"So do it during summer vacations," I suggested.

"Think of cousin Ryan," she ' said.

"Uncle Chet and Aunt Shirley made him go to college and all he did was graduate from Budsfor University."

"Come again?"

"Budsfor U," she repeated, "as in 'this Bud's for you.' " Miss Wor'ld Tr.aveler tried to lighten things up. "Besides, there's no rush to go to college. 1could go the year after - and maybe even have a better idea of what 1want to do with my life.", "If you don't take those grants and scholarships now, do you know what the odds are of you really ever going to college?" her father demanded.

"No. Do you?" she asked' back.

I shook my head. "I knew it was a mistake to cancel that vacation to Florida so we coUld afford to send her to Montessori School."

"You guys are taking this kinda weird, ya know."

"Kinda weird?" her dad gasped.

"Do you remember how upset you were when you spent all day hying to housebreak Leaky when he was a puppy and it didn't work? Well, think how you'd feel if you spent 18 years stressing education and your daughter wants to run off with Crocodile Dundee."

"I didn't think you guys would understand," she said. "Can we talk about this later?" She headed upstairs.

Spouse sat there rolling the sports page from one hand to the other.

"You know," he said., "I always wanted to backpack through Europe when I was her age. I wonder what the odds are that I would have gone to college if I had."

"You know," I mused, "Australia is supposed to be pretty warm during our wintertime."

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Is Fatima behind perestroika?

A WORKER rebuilds a shell-pocked wall in East Beirut, Lebanon, an area from which the staff of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine was evacuated after fighting paralyzed their relief efforts. (eNS/ UPI-Reuters photo)

Pontifical Mission staff evacuated from Lebanon The staff and dependents were ROME (CNS) - The staff of the Pontifical Mission for Pales- evacuated by plane in small groups, tine, a Vatican relief agency, was he said. evacuated from Leban'on after heavy shelling damaged mission The mission, founded by Pope offices in Beirut and suspended its Pius XII in 1949, provides about aid operations, the mission's pres- $7 million annually for Palestinian jdent said. refugees in Lebanon, Jordan anq . Some 13 staff members and their Jerusalem. Its programs in Le; families were flown to''Cyprus in banon help ease the suffering early March, said U.S. Msgr., caused by 15' years of warfare Robert Stern, head of the mission. among Lebanese militiaS and forIt was believed the first time the eignJorces. The mission is funded organization had pulled its per- ~:primarilyby the Catholic Near sonnel from the war-torn country East Welfare Association, a New in more than 40 years of opera- York-based humanitarian agency. tion, he said.

Msgr. Stern is secretary general of Msgr: Stern spoke in Rome after the association and New York returning from a meeting with the Car?inal John' J. O'Connor is staff in Larnaca, Cyprus. He said, preSident. they were in goqd spirits and,hoped ,r , ' =The recent fighting in Beirut has to return to Beirut as soon as the been between the troops of Gen. fighting between rival Christian Michel Aoun and the Lebanese militias subsides.'

Forces militia of Samir Geagea.

"This was an emergency proce- The Vatican has been among those dure. Weare not shutting down pressuring the two sides to stop the our'mission there," he said. fighting, which Pope John Paul II Among those evacuated was U.S. has termed fratricidal. ' Holy Cross Sister ~aureen'Grady, director of the mis~ion, he, said.

The others working at the mission are LeQanese.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The None of the staff was il)jured In Vatican could face a record budget the recent shelling at the mission's deficit in 1990; far more than has office in East Beirut, which had been covered through worldwide one room blown out and two othgiving and other sources. ers extensively damaged, Msgr.

The two main sources of supStern said. The decision to pull out plementary income in recent years was made for reasons of personal - the worldwide Peter's Pence safety and because the fighting and revenues from Vatican City between Christian armies had State - will fail to cover the shortparalyzed relief efforts. fall unless contributions increase dramatically, said a Vatican fin. "Since street fighting started in ancial statement.

East Beirut Jan. 31, our operations The statement, issued March 15 have been totally impeded," he at the end of a three-day meeting said. Electricity, telephone and of a special Council of Cardinals, telex were out in the area, and showed projected expenses of access to buildings was impossible. $152.4 million and income of $66.5 With the exception of- the Red million for 1990, creating a deficit Cross, he said, all relief organizaof about $86 million. tions in Beirut had been shut down.

The shortfall has developed One woman staffer at the misdespite efforts to hold down costs, sion, he said, told of spending 21 days'in a Beirut basement shelter said a top Vatican official.

Vatican City State is expected with 85 people. Other staff members had taken circuitous car trips of to show a profit of about $12.6 more than 100 'miles in order to million in 1990. The city-state reach the city's airport safely. budget covers administration of

VATlCAN CITY (CNS) - Is the current political revolution in Eastern Europe the "conversion of Russia" promised by Our Lady of Fatima in 19177 A guarded "maybe" appears to be the judgment of Pope John Paul II and Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last survivor of the three peasant children who reported the apparitions in Portugal more than 70 years ago.

The pope, during a plane trip to Africa in January, was asked the question by a Portuguese journalist, who noted that as supreme pontiff he was one of the few churchmen to know the entire' "secret" of Fatima.

The pope carefully staked out an answer.

"I'm not going to give a short answer ... but explain something more difficult. The problem is what people know and what people believe," he' began.

"Certainly this belief, this trust the people have in the Blessed Mother is theologically justified, because we know well that she is the mother of men and nations," he said.

"What is taking place today in Russia and in Eastern and Central Europe certainly involves greater respect for human rights, the rights of the human person. So we can attribute this concern to our Mother," he said.

The pope' went on to explain that the "private revelations" of Fatima were in general agreement with church doctrine, but that this agree.ment "does not enter much int9,det.ail~.'h. .' ' ,.'

"On ,the, other hand, even the greatest experts in the doctri!1e of the faith are pleased if they see that a pertain word or a certain promise after many years is fulfilled in some way, in some,measure,~' he concluded.

In other words, the pope was saying that on a level of faith it was understandable for people to believe Mary has an influence in current Soviet events. At the same time, he appeared to steer clear of any cause-an'd-effect connection between Fatima and "perestroika."

Later, the same journalist went to Sister Lucia to ask what she thought of the pope's views. The 83-year-old Carmelite nun said she was in "complete agreement" with

the pope. Her written response and invoked heraid in deliverance was published by the Italian from evil. He asked the world's monthly 30 Days. bishops to join him, an important "I believe these events relate to detail to Fatima followers, who an intervention by ,God in the say Mary wanted the consecration world to free the' world from danger to be carried out with the world's of an atomic war which might de- episcopate. stroy it," she said. Butshe did not The prayer to Mary did not specifically say the events in East- , mention specific countries, though ern Europe were the fulfillment of some Fatima enthusiasts claim the .Fatima's promise. pope whispered "for Russia" durThe linking of Fatima with events ing the ceremony. At any rate, the being played out on Europe's po- pope's act of dedication, made litical stage, though tempting for before a statue of Our Lady of some churchmen, is also replete Fatima, won the approval of Siswith risks and questions: Can the ter Lucia. "conversion of Russia" really be Until the beginning of World equated with Soviet leader MikWar II, Fatima's message as known hail Gorbachev's program of polit- to the world was simply one of ical reforms? And if such reforms prayer and repentance. But in 1941, - including greater religious freeafter the deaths of the other two dom - do not succeed, would that visionaries, Sister Lucia gave a full mean Mary has failed? account of the apparition's "secret."

Church leaders obviously want Mary, she said, first showed them to avoid giving the impression that a vision of hell.' Then she urged Mary's credibility is pinned to Gor- prayers for Russia's conversion, bachev's political fortunes. made the request for its "consecraThe Fatima message has always tion" and promised her eventual been politically charged, however, triumph. The third part of the and for that reason has been secret was not divulged and is handled gingerly by popes. Pon- known only to a few top church tiffs, including Pope John Paul, officials. have been criticized by some Fatima These later revelations were believers who argue that the "connever investigated by the church as , secration of Russia" said to have been requested by Mary in 1917 were the original apparitions, which has still not been properly per- were judged worthy of belief.

But church leaders are pleased formed.

On that point, Sister Lucia want- and surpris'ed at the dismantling of ed to set the record straight, saying the communist bloc and the reform movement in the Soviet Union. that after several attempts by preBut if they stop short of claiming vious popes, Pope John Paul's direct credit for Mary, perhaps it is 1984 act of consecration satisfied because they are wary about interMary's request. At that time, the preting.the:ways ofPr9vidence. pope ent.liusted the~world to Mar,y

Study death too, pope asks 'pro,;,Ufers

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has recently praised pro-life movements for fighting abortion but also asked them to concentrate on legal and scientific issues affecting death: The challenge in highly technological societies is. to combat the trend of judging life and ,death issues by strictly scientific, technological and legal criteria, the pope said.

Civil authority "has the duty to guarantee, through law, the right to life for everyone and respect for every human life until its last breath," the pope told 79 European bishops.

"Effective help in this field'can the 108-acre state in which Vatican come from the pro-life movements offices are located and is consi- which fortunately are multiplying dered separate from the Holy See's in every part of Europe and the budget. world," the pope said.

The Peter's Pence collection "Their contribution, already brought in $48.4 million in 1989, well-appreciated, can be of greater down from nearly $53 million the use to pastors if they know how to previous year. direct their activities of stimulaIf Peter's Pence contributions' tion and explanation not only tostay the same in 1990, that ~ould ward the initial moment of-1ife but still leave a gap of about $25 million.

The Vatican has previously warned that it would have to dip into its investment patrimony if the shortfall cannot be covered. In 1988, the last year for which final figures are available, the Holy See managed to cover the deficit of$57 million without touching the patrimony. , The Council of Cardinals expressed "deep concern" over the situation and issued a "particularly pressing appeal" to the whole church to give more generously to the Holy See.

Vatican foresees 1990 shortfall

also to the termination of life," he added.

The bishops were in Rome for a symposium on contemporary attitudes regarding life'and death.

"The 'one~dimensional technocratic society'- in which we live pushes humanity toward a reductive vision of birth and death in which the transcendental dimension of the person ap'pears obscured, when not directly ignored or negated," the pope said.

Decisions are made solely on the basis of the '''scientifically controllable," he said.

Added to this "is the weight before public opinion of existing laws in various countries, and proposed laws in others, regarding the practice of abortion," the pope added.

This produces the "false image" that "what is possible and authorized by the law is permissible," he said.

He also criticized euthanasia, saying that medicine has reached the point路 where it can "snatch ... from the dying man his own death."

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Father's Day gift Dear Editor: Have 'you ever thought of giving a gift to God on Father's Day? We give gifts to our earthly fathers and offer prayers for those who have died, but most of us do not think of giving gifts to God, our heavenly Father, the Father of all mankind: God the Father is our best friend and closest relative. He deserves our tribute on Father's Day, The best gift we can give is prayer, especially prayer just for the purpose of expressing love. God hears complaints and requests all the time. Once in a while he would like to hear more interesting conversation. This is a gift that people of all ages, nationalities and denominations can give. .

This is my eighth year of collecting prayers as gifts for God. People from 47 states, 6 provinces of Canada and 3 foreign countries have participated. If you would like to take part in this gift for God, just say two Our'Fathers a day from now until Father's Day, June 17, just to express your love for God. Please send your name, address and the date you begin to: Father's Day Gift for God Lucille A. Zimnotch 60 Lancaster Rd. Apt. 32 Wethersfield, Ct. 06109

Rocks and shells Dear Editor: Recently I participated in a weekend retreat on the rocky coast.

God's presence is everywhere in that beautiful environment. I walked along the rocky shores and discovered many beautiful shells, reminding me of prayers-all different and lovely.

Then I wandered to a sandy shore but found few of these gorgeous shells. Upon reflection I realized that if shells were truly prayers they are certainly more abundant on the rocks. The rocky times of life prompt many more prayers.

Jean Quigley Rehoboth

Rally jor Life Dear Editor: On Saturday, April 28, thousands of Americans commited to restoring the right to life of all human beings, including .unborn children, will gather in Washington, D.C., for Rally for Life 90, which promises to be the biggest pro-life rally in history. The event, sponsored by National Right to Life, will include presentations by celebrities, politicians, athletes and religious leaders.

Buses will travel to the rally from various Southern New England locations, including Cape Cod, Taunton, Fall River and New Bedford. Train transportation will also be available. The cost of a round trip bus ticket will be approximately $35.

Buses will leave late Friday night to arrive in Washington Saturday morning and Rally 90 will begin at 2 p.m.

Those wishing to attend as church representatives or to fulfill confirmation service requirements are asked to contact their pastors or religious education teachers or call 636-4903. Some subsidies will be available.

Those who cannot- attend are asked by local Right to Life chapters to consider contributing to help others attend. Donations may be sent to Massachusetts Citizens for Life at PO Box 1780, Hyannis 02601; PO Box 2671, Taunton 02780; PO Box 243, Swansea 02777; or PO Box 40268, New Bedford 02744.

"A decisive majority of people in this country do not support abortions for the reasons for which they are being performed;' said Anne Scarpato of Wayland, state coordinator of Massachusetts representation at Rally 90.

"They know that an unborn child is alive and human, with a heart beating at 28 days and recordable brain waves at 42 days. Please come to Rally 90 and be counte'd among those unable to speak for themselves," she urged.

For information or bus reservations, call 636-4903 by April 7.

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I SISTER Mary Ann Goreczenko, MSBT, will make perpetual profession. as a Missionary Servant of the Most Blessed Trinity tomorrow at the community motherhouse in Philadelphia. A graduate of Southeastern Massachusetts University, she was formerly a registered nurse at Sturdy Memorial Hospital, Attleboro.

She is now a family care worker with Catholic Social Services of the diocese of Pen-. sacola-Tallahassee, Florida.

LYNBROOK, N.Y. (CNS) - A to the United States as part of a documentary about U.S. Jesuit prisoner exchange arrangement.

Father Walter Ciszek, who spent He described his experiences in ,15 years in Soviet prisons and the Soviet Union in ·two '~ooks, another eight years under restricted "With God in Russia" and "He freedom in that country, has been Leadeth Me." released on videocassette.

After returning to the United The video, titled "Walter J. Cis- States, Father Ciszek served at the zek, S.J. - 23 Years Behind the John XXIII Center for Eastern Iron Curtain;' includes an inter- Christian Studies at Fordham view with the priest, who served University. time in solitary confinement in Moscow and worked in Siberian labor camps. ' The interview was conducted by author Harry Daley, who lives in VATICAN CITY (CNS) - An Lynbrook. He produced the videoItalian banker has been named cassette, which includes footage director general of the Vatican shot in the priest's hometown of bank, the final step in a major Shenandoah, Pa. He spoke with reform aimed at bringing lay experFather Ciszek in 1984, four months tise to the controversial institution. before the priest died.

Giovanni Bodio, 67, was apProduction of the video is part pointed by the bank's supervisory' of an effort to have the Jesuit commission of five international declared a saint. bankers March 16, the Vatican Father Ciszek, of Polish des- said. cent, was born in 1904, and entered He is currently president of Finthe Jesuits in 1928. In response to reme, an Italian interbanking in- I an appeal from Pope Pius XI to stitute, and has worked closely the Jesuit order, he volunteered to with the church in Milan, Italy. work in Russia and was ordained His appointment ended the 19in 1937, becoming the first Amer- year tenure of U.S. Archbishop ica Jesuit to be ordained in the Paul Marcinkus as president of Russian Byzantine rite. . the bank, known formally as the In 1940, he entered the Soviet Institute for the Works of Religion.

Under the archbishop's manageUnion, was arrested the following year and sentenced to IS years ment, the bank was involved in the hard labor. In 1947 he was declared $1.2 billion collapse of Italy's largest private bank, Banco Ambrosilegally dead in the United States.

Eight years later Father Ciszek ano, in 1982. The Vatican bank was released from prison and given denied responsibility in the collimited freedom in the Soviet lapse but eventually made a $240 Union, functioning as a priest while million "good-will" payment to working in factories and as an Banco Ambrosiano's former creditors. auto mechanic.

Later attempts to bring criminal In 1963, Father Ciszek, with charges against Archbishop Maranother American, was returned cinkus and two other officials of the Vatican bank were annulled by - Italian courts on constitutional grounds. The archbishop, 68, TeGOD" ANCHOR HOLDS mains pro-president of the commission that runs Vatican City --------~ State.

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Coyle-Cassidy High School, spring Miss Giovanoni will receive Taunton, has' established a 22- the highest Scout honor, the Gold member peer leadership group to Award. She is president of Senior help students realize the dangers Troop 494 in Taunton and an of substance abuse. The group is executive board member of the headed by BillTranter, social stud-' Plymouth Bay Girl Scout Senior ies department head and girls' Planning Board.

Coyle-Cassidy senior Ann Marie basketball coach; John J. Flynn, guidance department staff member; Barton will attend "Ho'ohuli maand Jackie Puccini, health and kou i ka honua"(We Change the physical education teacher.

World), a technological exploring The student team 'was selected experience, August 7-17 in Hawaii.' from. over .200 applicants. Each Sponsored by the Girl Scout was. I~tervlewed .by the faculty Council of the Pacific, the proadVisers and semor peer group gram will involve visits to all the me~~ers, th~n wen~ th~ough a Hawaiian Islands and many his- . trammg sessIOn which mcluded toric sites as well as exploration of ~ay-Io~g programs on presentacareers in volcanology, anthrohon skills, the effects of drugs and pology astronomy and marine alcohol and chemically dependent science: families. . .

MISS Barton has earned the Gold Meml;>ers of the peer educatlO.n Award and has developed a teachgroup are expe.cted to be academiC ing unit on acid rain and kettle m~dels, makmg up any wo~k ponds for grades 4 and up to be db th PI th B C '1 missed due to a group commltment and maintaining good grades. use y pe kymou hay ounc!II' Kerry ar er, a sop omore, WI " d'b'I' b Th ey. ~ust mamtam cre I I Ity Y head to St. Louis in July to attend refralmng from use of alcohol, the Wider Opportunity program "M t M . St L . C't f drugs or tobacco. ~dl~ . t o~s, I"Y 0 The group's first task was to Ch ee ms present its message to Taunton ar ~. ou~ ry a~ns ..

Catholic Middle School students In additIOn to slghtseemg m St. in January. ' Louis, participants will swim, hike, "Our students were put at ease can?e and create country. cra~ts by the interaction, of their peer dunng a sta~ at a St. LoUIS Girl tutors," said rCMS principal Scout Council camp..

Kathleen Simpson. "They were Sophomore Margaret Barton impressed by the fact that the will represent Massachusetts at Coyle-Cassidy students related "Caring for the Earth," a Girl personal experiences. Learning Scout-sponsored cultural camp in happened and it was fun."

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The Coyle-Cassidy group will The program provides Cadette and address its own peers in two ses- Senior Girl Scouts the opportunsions scheduled for upcoming ity to explore environmental camonths and will return to TCMS reers and to study the history and for a followup session. culture of the American Iridian in • • • • Wisconsin.

Five Coyle-Cassidy students will A Senior Scout from Troop I in enjoy national and international New Bedford, Miss Barton has travel through Plymouth Bay Giri been a Girl Scout for more than 10 Scout Council. .years and will receive the Gold Anne Giovanoni, ajunior honor Award in May. .

Sophomore Katie Giovanoni student, will participate in a development project in India in Octo- participated in the Wider Opporber and November. Traveling with tunity "Windows on Wildlife" last other US. Senior Girl Scouts, she summer at the Girl Scout National will visit Bombay and New Delhi Center West in Ten Sleep, Wyoand study Indian history during mingo Participants spent two weeks the program, based at the Git'l . learning about wildlife' manageScout/ Guide World Center in ment, and studying plants and Poona, Maharashtra, India. animals and outdoor 'education A Girl Scout for II years, this techniques.

Bishop Connolly

FIFTH-GRADERS Kelly Ainsworth, left, and Heather Rocha display their science fair project, The Effect of Light on Plants, at SS Peter and Paul School, Fall River.

Bishop Stang Students at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, are celebrating Foreign Language Week with such activities as morning announcements in foreign languages and enjoyment of international breakfast foods in the school cafeteria. Courtesy of a New Bedfort T-shirt shop, Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Julius Caesar and Queen Isabella roamed the halls, which were decorated with flags, banners and colorful decorations from Portugal, Mexico, }=o'rance,_Canada and Spain as .well as' by posters made by students participating in a poster contest to promote foreign language study. The top prizewinner will receive a $50 gift certificate to the restaurant of his or her choice.

Bishop Stang freshmen recently participated in a Lock-Up Retreat led by faculty member Rob Ostrye and school chaplain Father Steve Avila. Faculty members headed groups of 10 freshmen each with 25 seniors assisting as speakers and organizers.

The first session, The Family at Horne, was introduced with a slide presentation followed by three talks by upperclassmen about What Family Means to Me. Our Church as Family was the theme of the second session, followed by food and refreshments in the cafeteria at midnight. The third phase of the evening was Our Family at Stang. Speakers discussed how Bishop Stang High School is special to them..

The retreat came to a close with a Mass and talk, by head football coach Jim Lanagan.

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THE EIGHTH GRADE basketball team of St. MarySacred Heart School, North Attleboro, captured second place in a tourQament held earlier this month at St. Mary's CCD center, Seekonk. The winners were, from left, Michael Gualtieri, George Tedino, Tim Dunne, John Belyea, Edward Knapp and Kyle Caron.

The Christian Family Move~ ment board of directors has elected Father William Eckert, a pastor in the diocese of Camden, N.J., as national president.

The new.president said he sees CFM as the most effective church related movement for building small communities that strengthen marriage and family and call them to Christian involvement in society.

He also said that CFM must be available to single parents.

CFM operates through small discussion-action groups. Further information is available from P.O. Box 272, Ames, Iowa 50010.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin celebrated Mass at Bishop Connolly on Monday and spoke ofthe virtues of St. Joseph.

In remarks following the Mass, Bishop Cronin praised the students for their work and commented on the boys' basketball team winning its divisional championship.

"Connolly should make a difference in your lives, and you need to make a difference in the world.

Your example will be the best testimony to the value of a Connolly education," he said.

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Juniors Philip Nadeau, Amy Almeida and Khoi Pham will participate in a Youth Leadership Seminar in Fairhaven tomorrow.

The event is under sponsorship of the New Bedford chapter of the Military Order of World Wars and is designed to allow students to interact with leaders in government, industry and education and to encourage them in leadership roles.

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Seniors Jennifer D'Alio and Brian Michaud were named February Teenagers of the Month by the Greater Fall River Lodge of Elks.

St. James-St. John Eighty-three students from St. James-St. John School, New Bedford, raised $2,942 for the disabled during a recent Boston CelticsEaster Seal basketball shootout.

Students secured pledges for baskets scored during the threeminute shoot-out. Winners also received various prizes.

Money raised by the shoot-out supports services for children and adults, including summer camps, home health care, physical, occupational and speech therapy, stroke support groups, technology for the disabled and information and referral services.

The faculty of St. James-St. John School recently attended a Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome seminar presented by Georgianna Saba, director of the Irlen Clinic. . SSS'is a reading and perceptual dysfunction, which according to current studies affects an estimated 10 percent of the general population and up to 40 percent of the learning disabled population.

The disorder principally affects· reading and writing ability, with individuals with SSS perceiving the printed page differently than 'the normal reader, resulting in slow and inefficient reading, poor comprehension, strain and fatigue, and short attention span.

By leanling how to identify and treat SSS, educators can substantially increase student success with reading and related tasks.

First place winners and topics in the St. James-St. John science fair were Rosemary Leal, grade 8, crystal radio and electricity; Mark Trahan, grade 8, crustaceans; Kimberly Pavao, grade 7, hatching chicks; Adam Gula, biodegradables and the environment.

Second place winners were eighth-graders Lashawn Duarte, candle-burning; Elizabeth Silva, AIDS; seventh-grader John Harrington, capillary action in paper towels.

Miss D'Alio is National Honor Society Chapter president and is involved in peer ministry and tutoring.

Michaud is involved in chorus and track. Both are members of the Connolly drama club and yearbook staffand of Amnesty International.

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Connolly Alumni Association recently sponsored its annual Career Day;,About 25 presenters discussed their educational and career . experiences.

On Wednesday evening more than 100 incoming freshmen and their parents attended a session on Connolly courses and athletic programs.

On Thursday, the National Honor Society sponsored its annual blood drive' in cooperation with the Fall River Red Cross.

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Winter season athletic teams will be honored at a sports awards night at 7 p.m. Monday in Msgr.

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Connolly athletic director Cindy DeCosta has announced appointments of Leo Strickman and Timothy Miller as head coaches for the boys' and girls' tennis teams, respectively. , Strickman has taught tennis at Bristol Community College, conducted clinics for the Fall River park system, and is director of an annual suinmer Arts Unlimited Festival tournament.

Miller has served as an instructor for the Amherst College AlIAmerican Sports Tennis Camps and for the last three seasons has been assistant girls' tennis coach at Middletown High School.

St. Joseph's School Sister Muriel Lebeau, principal, has announced that St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, has met the 1989 criteria for Level I certification through the Computer Learning Foundation, which acknowledges schools for ,increasing their effective use of technology.

The certification program was designed to encourage educators to discover new uses of computers and software in the classroom. To achieve Level I certification, every teacher in the school became familiar with three software programs he or she had not previously used.

"All of our teachers demonstrated a commitment to the future by learning more about technology and how it can be used in our classrooms. ·1 congratulate them for their achievement- and their commitment to education," said Sister Lebeau.

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SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) Student leaders at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco have petitioned San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn to remove the "Catholic" designation from the university. At issue is a new policy that student government leaders contend would allow for university recognition and funding of groups whose positions could oppose Catholic teaching.

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Spring break not all sun an'd fun for some

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) - Not all Catholic college students are heading to fun-in-the-sun vacation spots for their spring break from school.

A growing number of students are spending their week or so off from classes taking part in Christian service projects.

Students interviewed by Catholic News Service said they get good feeling by taking part in various advocacy and assistance projects during spring break, which, depending on the schools, occurs anytime between February and April.

Campus ministry directors, who are most often in charge of the spring break programs; told CNS that they see a change for the better in the students who participate.

Marquette Action PlanatJesuitrun Marquette University in Milwaukee, started in 1977, isconsidered the granddaddy of spring break service programs..

It offers a variety of settings for students to take part in Christian service activities, said Barry Kirvan-Quamme, campus minister.

Kirvan-Quamme told of one student who went to South Padre Island o,ff the south coast of Texas for one spring break. She took a side trip to nearby Matamoros, Mexico, and was struck by the extreme p<?ve~ty there.

"She knew we went to that same area," Kirvan-Quamme said, so next spring she volunteered for the Marquette Action Program. , This year's program took in 170 students, he said, and had a waitinglist"for the first time. .

Marquette's is the "most sophisticated" and "resource blessed" of the campus spring break programs, said Fernando Mareno, campus minister at Jesuit-run Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. .

Mareno visited 36 Catholic college campus ministry sites during a sabbatical last fall.

Georgetown University in Washington, Fordham University in New York and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana have "excellent programs," Mareno said, while the University of San Francisco

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and Regis College in Denver "have involving nudity and including a figured out the academic compovideotaped sex act and a menage a nent to community service" by trois. 0, R integrating service projects into Please check dates and "The Blood of Heroes" (New the curriculum. times of television and radio Line): Excruciatingly violent postThe scope and variety of proprograms against local listApocalyptic sports adventure that grams, he said, is limited only by ings, which may differ from tracks a band of nomadic players the campus ministry's resources the New York network schedwho challenge similar teams to and the students' willingness. ules supplied to The ~nchor. brutal competitions resembling Seven University of Dayton football and rugby. Fails to make students spent a couple of days in sense of desolate landscape, dazed February building homes in CoaSymbols following film reviews characters and the degrading sport homa, Miss., a poor, predomin which players fend off oppoinantly black town of 350. As indicate both general and' Catholic nents with chains, poles and bared members of the campus chapter of Films Office ratings. which do not teeth. Gratuitous, graphic, grisly Habitat for Humanity, an interna- always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for violence and some implied protional organization that builds general viewing; PG-13-parental guimiscuous sexual situations. 0, R affordable housing for low-income dance strongly suggested for chi.ldren "Blue Steel" (MGM/UA): Visfamilies, they took part in Colle- under 13; PG-parental guidance sugually stunning, graphically violent giate Challenge for students around .gested; R-restricted: unsuitable for thriller in which a rookie female the country. children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for cop (Jamie Lee Curtis)js stalked The organization has been in by a commodities broker (Ron the area for three years wo'rking to children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved Silver) who is also a closet psyrebuild and repair houses, many of for adults only; 4-separate classifiwhich have leaky roofs, outhouses cation (given films not morally offen- chopath. The visual artistry and promising study of a young woand no heat. sive which. however. require some man's struggle to make it as a New "I felt like I'd walked into the analysis and explanation); a-morally York cop deteriorate into a grueDepression," said John George, a offensive.

Catholic ratings for television some night-stalker thriller which junior. "It was obvious nothing had changed in that town structu- movies are those of the movie house sees a female victim turn on her male victimizer with horrifying versions of the films. . rally for years." fury. Much gratuitous, grisly vioTen students from Trinity Collence; some profanity and a sexual New FilqIs lege in Washington spent their incident with flashes of nudity. 0, spring' break in Florida - not "Bad Influence" (Triumph): Sty- R working on their tans at Daytona lish, menacing and pervers'e thriller "Coupe de Ville" (Universal): Beach but working side by side about l,l cunningdrifter(Rob Lowe) On orders from their father (Alan with migrant farmworkers about who lures a wimpish yuppie (James' Arkin), three battling brothers 50 miles away in Apopka.

Spader) into a decadent life of sex, drive a 1954 Cadillac Coupe de "This is something I wouiddefilies and murder. A chillingly devel- Ville from Detroit to Florida as a nitely not want to do all the time," oped cat-and-mouse rela'tionship birthday gift for their mother but Kerry Kubly, who was picking between the two doomed protag- damage the car along the way. weeds in a fern grove, said in an onists in a story up<;lating the Faust This mildly entertaining coming· interview with The Florida Cathlegend to modern-day Los Angeles. of-age comedy provides appealing olic, newspaper of the Diocese of Rough language; recreationaJ drug performances by Patrick DempOrlando.· •.•, '. use; some graphic, grisly violence sey, Daniel Stern and Arye Gross Toby Ann Nagy said, "I never and several explicit sexual. scenes as the brothers. Some locker-room ever thought of farmworkers before. I never knew how much work goes into growing a plant. I always went into the store to buy a plant, and thought, 'Oh, her~ it is.'

That wasn't reality.

"Reality is here. From now on, I'll always think of the migrant farmworkers a little when I see a flower or a plant."

The West Virginia towns of Union and Fayetteville were the sites for spring break service by 25 students from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb. It was Cabrini's seventh spring break trip to West Virginia.

Students from the school, run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred' Heart, helped ready a 16HONG KONG(CNS)-Ahighroom home in Union for use as a ranking Chinese official has denied that pro-Vatican Catholic bishops . community center, and did painting and fix-up work at two homes and priests .have been arrested, in Fayetteville. reported UCA News, an Asian "I think it's one of the highlights church news agency based in Hong Kong. Ren Wuzhi, director of of the year," said W.T. Bone of Union. "I look forward to it every China's Religious Affairs Bureau, year. It just delights me every time denied press reports that more I hear that they are coming." than 30 Catholics - including Father Harry Winter, pastor of eight bishops - have been detained St. Andrew Parish in Union, said since late last year. The Catholics the students "have really made a reportedly were not affiliated with difference as to people's percepthe government-sanctioned Chinese tions of the Catholic Church in the Catholic Patriotic Association, county." which rejects Vatican authority He said some people in Union over church affairs. Ren also denied had never met Catholics until the press reports that Chinese authoriCabrini students first arrived there ties want to arrest all Catholic reliin 1987. gious personnel linked with the Paul Lovett, who lives across Vatican, saying those reports were "mere rumors." the street from the Union community center, said, "It just perks you up to know that there are ..

Leadership some great kids out there that are NO DAY AT THE BEACH: From top, David Stephens "A leader has two important willing to do something for others." of the University of Dayton, Ohio, helps Evelyn Walls with a characteristics: first, he is going "It's like Santa's elves," Lovett somewhere; second, he can per- said. "They come. They touch a lot construction project for low-income families in Coahoma, suade other people to go with of people's hearts in the commun- Mi~s.; Kerry Kubly from Trinity College, Washington, D.C., him."- Robespierre aids migrant workers in Florida. (CNS photos) ity and then they are gone."

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language laced with sexual vulgarities and an incident of premarital sex. A3, PG 13 "Joe Versus the Volcano"(Warner Bros.): When a burned-out romantic (Tom Hanks) learns that he has only six months to live, he quits his grim job and jumps at an offer to spend 20 days on a remote South Seas island where he will then heroically serve as a human sacrifice to the island's volcano.

This delightful comic-fantasy about realizing one's dreams before it's too late recalls classic Hollywood . fantasy films with its magical set design, nutty romantic touches and endearing performances. Some minor sexual innuendoes. A2, PG "The Handmaid's Tale" (Cinecom): Muddled fable about a fascist state of the near future where, because of pollution and radioactivity, most women have become barren and the few who are fertile are enslaved as handmaids whose function is to breed children for the state's barren rulers. The film's imagery summons up the memory of Nazi Germany but the story of one particular handmaid (Natasha Richardson) gets lost in dreary depiction of a dehumanized world.

Several excessively graphic simulations of sexual intercourse, some nudity in a sexual context, some 'rough language and an ambiguous treatment of religion as contributing to a repressive sQciety. 0, R "Nuns on the Run"(Fox): Lightweight !lritish comedy about two genially daft gangsters (Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane) who masquerade as Catholic sisters while using a convent as a hideoilt from the police and two rival gangs. J"he ridiculous situation of men in religious drag offers much irreveren.t though good-natured humor that may rub some the wrong way while providing others with some healthy laughter about Catholic life and foibles. A4, PG 13

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WIDOWED SUPPORT FR area meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sacred Heart parish center; information: 999-6420. Taunton area meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, Immaculate Conception parish hall. Cape Cod area meeting 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Christ the King CCD center, Mash~ pee; topic: the family. Information: 428-7078, evenings.

Retreat for widowed persons April 27-29, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth. Information: 998-3629 or 999-6420.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Ecumenical healing service for Vietnam Veterans and their families 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, People's Chapel.

Father Philip Salois, MS, and a pastoral team of Vietnam Veterans and their families have geared the program toward spiritual healing of veterans as well as spouses and children.

HOLY NAME, FR A Mass marking Father Francis L. Mahoney's 30th anniversary of ordination will be 'offered at 11:30 a.m. April I,followed by a reception at Holy Name School. St. Patrick's dance for grades 7 and 8, 7-10 tonight. Youth group bowling outing Sunday. ~

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SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Vincentians meet 9:30 a.m. Sunday, rectory. Finance committee meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, rectory.

Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, church hall; scarf demonstration with Betty Poirier at 8 p.m.

Altar servers' meetings 3:30-4:30 p.m.

March 27 and April 3. RCIA inquiry session following 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

SACRED HEART, FR Barbara Hoyle and Rita Roberts will cochair a meeting of the Women's Guild 7:30 p.m. April 9, parish hall.

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SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS FR area' meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday O. L. Fatima Church hall, 560 Gardener Neck Rd., Swansea. Attleboro area meeting 7-8:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro; information: 695-6161.

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..... ""'I'MMACU'LATE"CONCE'PTIO'N:' .'. ST. JOH'N OF GOD, SOMERSET ST. THOMAS MORE, TAUNTON Portuguese-language-mission with SOMERSET Women's Guild Lenten program Benedictine Father Antonio FernThe Vocation Awareness Team has invited the Holy Union Sisters to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, church hall; andes of Portugal begins tomorrow. renew their vows at 4 p.m. Mass Father John Voytek, OFM, paroch- Holy Rosary corporate communion tomorrow; refreshments will follow. ial vicar at Holy Rosary parish, 9:45 a.m. Mass Sunday followed by Women's Guild meeting 7 p.m.

Taunton, will speak on Franciscan continental breakfast in parish censpirituality. Youth group movie night ter. Religious education registrations Thursday, with elections, followed by slides on Peru presented by Donna 7-9 tonight, CCDcenter. Widowed sup- at CCD office Saturdays and during Leonardo. port group meeting 7:30 p.m. Mon- class times Monday afternoons and day followed by Easter craft project. evenings.

ST. JOSEPH, NB HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Commemorative service for slain EI Salvador Archbishop Oscar RoMassatMapleTerracell:30a.m.

New altar boys meet 4:15 p.m. mero 3 p.m. Sunday. Program inMonday.

Monday. cludes prayer and music and speakSS PETER AND PAUL, FR ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM ers on the current situation in EI Way of the Cross for students in 56 youth and I I adults will be con- , Salvador. grades 6-8 I I a.m. Tuesday; pari- firmed 7 p.m. Wednesday. Grades 7 shioners invited. and 8 Lock-in Retreat 9 p.m. March 31 to 9:30 a.m. April I; topic: Ten LaSALETTE CENTER FOR Commandment Countdown; permCHRISTIAN LIVING, ission slips due Wednesday.

ATTLEBORO ST. MARY, SEEKONK Holy Week retreat April 12-15; Grade 3 children's Mass 10 a.m. guided retreat for laypersons, reliSunday. Stations of the Cross for gious and clergy, April 16-22. ProConfirmation students 7 p.m. March gram will include daily conferences, 30. liturgies, spiritual direction and O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER reflection. Information: 222-8530.

Seder meal 5 p.m. April 8; reserDAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA vation deadline April I. InformaAlacazaba Circle 65, Attleboro, monthly meeting April 5. Roll call tion: Pectory, 385-2115, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays; JoAnn Bennett, supper 6 p.m. Mystery sisters will be 896-5659. revealed.

WAY OFTHE CROSS PROGRAM ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT St. Anthony's Guild will award a Cursillo reunion group will spon$500 scholarship in June to a parish sor a dramatic Way of the Cross student. Applications at local high presented by retired New York police schools and rectory. Submission officer Tom Cook, 7 p.m. March 30, St. Anne's Hospital Chapel, FR. A . deadline April 12.

Mass with Father William G. CampORDER OF ALHAMBRA Region One Council of Caravans bell, pastor of St. Dominic parish, meets 8 p.m. April 6, Loyola Hall, Swansea, will follow. All welcome.

Information: John R. Ponte, 676College of Holy Cross, Worcester. "'>FA1HERiJOSEPfl M;; ST. ANTHONY OFTHE DESERT, 3627.

ADORERS OF BLESSED C~~ta, director of St. Yin] FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament SACRAMENT cent's 'I:Iom:e, Fall Rived At St. Theresa~s Church, NB: holy noon-6 p.m. April I; Holy hour 5-6 . will be honored at a testi-. hour with Rev. Joseph A. Martip.m. neau 7 p.m. Monday; Exposition of rnoltial'and banquet April ST. LOUIS, FR Blessed Sacrament after 9 a.m. Mass Intercessory prayer service 7 p.m.

Ia,! St. ~ohnofG()d pa.rish; until 7 p.m. Fridays, 'followed by each Monday.

Somerset, where he has been Benediction: Information on holy hour program: Angelo Debortoli, JOHN EVANGELIST, ST. parochia.l vicar Jor two",.

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Adoration of Blessed Sacrament High school juniors and seniors The banquet will follow may get applications at church for at NB churches: St. Joseph, MonApril 6-8 Boys' ECHO weekend, days; Immaculate Conception, an II a.m. concelebrated final Boys' ECHO of the school Tuesdays; O.L. Fatima, Thursdays; Mass.

St. Kilian, first Saturdays. In Fairyear. Information on Women's Guild haven: St. Mary's, Wednesdays.

At St. John of God, Scholarship applications: Marion Father Costa has been in ~ Linhares, 759-3320; Bunny McKenna ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS charge of altar servers, a' 563-7365.

Evening of recollection for EuchHOLY CROSS, S. EASTON prayer group, religious eduParish mission "Come With Me" aristic ministers 7 p.m. Monday, lower cation, a youth group, and begins with prayer and conference Church hall.

7:30 p.m. Sunday. Mass and homily ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, Rite of Christian Initiation 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Monday and SWANSEA for Adults. He also conLadies of SI. Anne Sodality Tuesday. Sacrament of reconciliaducted adult education tion 5-6 p.m. Monday. Mission communion breakfast following 9:30 presenter will be Rev. Daniel a.m. Mass April I; information: Janet classes.

McSheffery, pastor of St. Augus- Iwanski, 674-8770; Cecile Levesque, While at the parish he 679-2260. tine's Church, N. Branford, Conn. initiated an annual turkey CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB shoot to benefit. a college Board meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, St. Lawrence rectory, 110 scholarship fund for young Summer St., NB. parishioners. "i SAINTS AND SINGERS , All parishioners and WASHINGTON (CNS) - The CONCERT U.S. Catholic Conference says friends of Fa.therCosta an~ Saints and Singers Chorus will cable television has become so present "Calvary's Love" 8 p.m. April invited to attend the celecostly as to create an "economic 7, St. Patrick's Church, Wareham. br~tiort. Reservations may bottleneck" and has urged the fedClassical to contemporary music will be.made at the rectory; unfold the Easter story. Public eral government to regulate the . invited. industry, ensuring public access to "'67$.;;;5513.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, the system. "J ustice demands" that N. DARTMOUTH CATHEDRAL CAMP, the government keep cable availaRosary and Benediction services 4 E. FREETOWN ble "on reasonable terms," the , p.m.

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O.L. Assumption, NB, weekend USCC said in remarks to the Fedretreaf today-Sunday. AIDS work- ST. JAMES, NB eral Communications Commission. shop sponsored by Catholic Social Adults who wish to be confirmed Rising costs bar viewers from access Services 1-6 p.m. Sunday, Neumann May 10 should contact the rectory to programs "important to full Hall. Diocesan priests' Lenten day by April I. participation in economic, cultuof reflection 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday. St. Mary, Fairhaven, youth twi- ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA ral and political life" of citizens, it Grades 7 and 8 penance service light retreat 4-8 p.m. Tuesday. 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Youth liturgy said, noting that absent governTaunton Middle School Faculty Day 10 a.m. Sunday; 7th graders will parment oversight, cable rates have 9 a.m.-I p.m. March 30. risen. ticipate and Mass will end with SACRED HEART, NB -' commissioning of youth ministry Renewal week with Father Ange- team. lus M. Shaughnessy, OFM Cap. SAMARITANS, FR/NB . begins April I. Meeting for prospective volunteers JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CNS)ST.GEORGE,WESTPORT for suicide prevention hotline 10 Union St. Jean Baptiste Council a.m.-I p.m. tomorrow, Samaritan Father Daniel A. Degnan will beSt. George No. 44 I charter presenta- Center, 386 Stanley St., FR. Pro- come the 20th president,of Jesuittion ceremony Sunday; information: gram includes history of Samari- run St. Peter's College in Jersey Normand Ouellette, 674-7036. Dead- tans, class overviews and video pres- City, succeeding Father Edward line for registration to candidacy for entation. Interviews for April classes Glynn July I. The president-elect Pastoral Discerning Leadership Board will be held at close of meeting. To is currently visiting professor at March 27; contact Father Roger register call 673-3777 or 999-SAMS. Boston College Law School LeDuc. Volunteers must be 18 or older.

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