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Easter 1989 "Night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth . and man is reconciled with God!" These joyful words from the Easter Proclamation, the Exultet, echo in churches throughout the world at the Easter vigil. The Easter season reminds us in word and sacrament of the great events ofthe Paschal mystery. The Lord Jesus, now risen from the dead, fills us with the hope of victory.

His conquest of sin and death is our victory. Through our baptism, we have all been buried together with Christ that we might also share in his Resurrection. The power of the cross has ransomed us from the darkness of sin and brought us into his kingdom of light.

At the beginning of the Lenten season, I had occasion to write to you about our need for penance and reconciliation. It is my hope that all of us have used these forty days of penance and self-denial to see the darkness of sin in our own lives and in the world around us. For it is only when we recognize the darkness that we can understand the great gift of Christ, "that morning star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind" (from the Exultet).

It is our duty, and our great joy, as Christian men and women to reflect that light in our families, our homes and Turn to Page Two

Sheila Brunner

Donald MacKenzie

Martha Nichols

Sheila, Don and Marti Story and photos by Joe Motta

YEARS ago, when her friends spoke about religion, Marti Nichols would "sort of clam up, because I didn't want anyone to know that I didn't know what they were talking about."

She's come a long, long way.

Tomorrow, Holy Saturday, Martha "Marti" Nichols will take her place among the dozens of individuals making or furthering commitments to the Catholic Church during Easter liturgies at parishes all over the Fall River diocese.

Marti, Don MacKenzie and Sheila Brunner are three of the folks saying "yes" to Jesus' Good News after formation through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). Their stories, we think, are representative of the many beautiful journeys which have been taken by those who will be seen at churches this weekend.

Sheila

"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. "- Dodie Smith,from "I Capture the Castle" "When I was a teenager," says Sheila Brunner, "I. had friends who were Catholic, but I had no understanding of what it [the Catholic Church] was all about."

The 23-year-old, a night shift supervisor at a fast food chain outlet, will be baptized, receive her first communion and be confirmed at Sacred Heart parish, New Bedford.

Sheila, a native of Virginia, is married to Norman Brunner. The couple moved to New Bedford from Vermont over two years ago.

Sheila was never baptized. "My

mother's side of the family is Methodist," she explained. "They did not go to church."

"Then I met Tony [her husband's nickname] and he went to church.

I started going with him after we were married. I thought it was important that we go to church together.

"I had a better understanding of the Catholic faith by talking to him and attending the Masses."

The Brunners had a son, Bryan Anthony, in May, 1986.

"I just realized that there really was a God up there," Sheila said.

"I had this little precious miracle in my arms."

Bryan was baptized a Catholic at a church in Vermont. His mother, meanwhile, was spending more and more time "questioning" ifthe Catholic Church "really was for me."

Seven months ago, daughter Shelby joined the Brunner clan.

Precious Miracle number two was baptized at Sacred Heart parish on the same day her parents, who were married in a civil ceremony, had their union blessed by the church.

Sheila soon found herself talking to Sacred Heart pastor Father Clement E. Dufour about religious instruction.

"My mother-in-law," Sheila said, "is very Catholic. She said some-

thing very funny, that I shouldn't do it for Tony or for the kids, that I should do it for myself.

"It was something I wanted to do for myself. The family had a part in it, but it was something I felt I needed."

Sheila began as a catechumen in January.

Her husband, she laughed, "has been making sure I study. It's been hard to study with the kids. They always need ~omething."

Rosanne Gongola, a Sacred Heart parishioner who works with Sheila, was asked by her to represent parish sponsorship of her decision at parish RCIA ceremonies.

Sheila's baptism and confirmation sponsor will be Nathalie Brunner, her mother-in-law.

Training for the big day has been a challenge with many payoffs, Sheila said. She found Luke's Gospel, for example, a real eye-opener.

"It has everything in it!" she said. "The way Luke explains his experience with God just touches me in a way I never thought I could be touched."

Father Dufour notes that he sees the catechumen as very mature and very dedicated. "She's faithful to Mass on Sunday," he said, adding that her eagerness to begin her studies was quite impressive.

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The Anchor Friday, March 24, 1989

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Easter 1989 Continued from Page One

Diocesans to education convention WASHINGTON (NC) - Parental choice, fundraising, minorities and troubled youngsters are among topics to be addressed at the annual National Catholic Educational Association convention in Chicago Monday through Thursday.

The Fall River diocese will be represented by Diocesan Department of Education director Father Richard W. Beaulieu and five education department staffers. Other diocesan educators are also expected to attend.

Education department personnel making the trip are associate directors of religious education Sister Elaine Heffernan, RSM, and Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC; associate superintende~ts of schools Sister Ann Moore, CND, and Sister Michaelinda Plante, RSM; and Father Robert A. Oliveira, director of continuing formation of clergy and laity.

NCEA officials said they expected nearly 16,000 Catholic 'educators to attend the 86th annual convention. The theme this year is "Catholic Education: Gift to the Church."

Speakers will include the chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Lynne V. Cheney, and Boys Town director Father Val J. Peter.

Chicago Joseph L. Bernardin will be principal celebrant and homilist at a Mass Tuesday, where he will receive the NCEA John F. Meyers Award for his efforts on behalf of education. Msgr. Meyers is a past NCEA president.

Archbishop Eugene A. Marino of Atlanta, the first V.S. black archbishop, in a keynote address will discuss how Catholic education has been a gift to the church.

Father Peter will describe how Boys "Fown has helped troubled youngsters achieve success. Mrs. Cheney will address parental choice and Catholic schools as a models for educational reform.

neighborhoods, indeed, to the ends of the earth. May the risen Lord give you the strength to bear witness to his iight.

I extend to all of you my prayerful good wishes and blessings throughout the 50 days of the Easter season. I pray in the words of St. Paul to the Colossians:

Since you have been raised up in company with Christ, set your heart on what pertains to higher realms where Christ is seated at God's right hand. (Col. 3:1) Faithfully yours in Christ,

Bishop of Fall River Bishop Cronin will be principal celebrant of the Mass of Easter to be telecast at 11 a.m. Easter Sunday on WLNE Channel Six

Deaneri~s ready Priest directors of the five deaneries of the diocese of Fall River are preparing for the 48th annual Catholic Charities Appeal. Procedures were discussed by Msgr.

Anthony M. Gomes, CCA director, at a recent meeting with area directors and assistants.

They are Very Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton, pastor of St. Ann's Parish, Raynham, Taunton area director, and Rev. John J. Steakern, Immaculate Conception, Taunton, assistant; Rev. Richard L. Chretien, pastor of St. Theresa's, New Bedford, New Bedford area director; Rev. John F. Andrews,

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pastor of St. Joan of Arc, Orleans, Cape and Islands director; Rev. Thomas L. Rita, pastor of St. Mary, Seekonk, Attleboro area director, and Rev. Ralph D. Tetrault, Pllstor of St. Mary, North Attleboro, assistant. Msgr. Gomes, pastor of Our Lady of Angels, Fllll River, is Fall River area director.

The Special Gifts phase of the Appeal begins April 24 and continues through May 6. The houseto-house parish phase begins from noon to 3 p.m. May 7 and continues through May 17.

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Diocesan priests renewed their for his Tuesday comments, the commitment to priestly service and pope called service the heart of the joined Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in priestly vocation and urged clergy celebrating the Mass ofthe Chrism and laity to work together. on Tuesday at St. Mary's Cathedral. , The pope underlined again the The Mass, at which oils of the difference between the "common sick and catechumens are blessed priesthood" of the laity and the and sacred chrism is consecrated for use during the coming year, is "ministerial priesthood" of the ordained clergy, while at the same indicated for Holy Thursday, but is anticipated because priests norm- time identifying a "profound link" between lay and priestly vocations. ally celebrate parish Masses on The pope annually marks Holy that day.

Thursday and its commemoration Priests celebrating significant anof the Last Supper with a letter to niversaries of ordination were recthe church's 400,000 priests. ognized at the Mass. They are Fathers Roland B. Boule and In his letter, the pope cited extenDaniel E. Carey, 55 years; Fathers sively the Second Vatican CounJohn G. Carroll and John J. cil's Dogmatic Constitution on the Murphyand Msgr. Maurice Souza, Church and Decree on the Minis50 years. try and Life of Priests. He also told Also Fathers Manuel Andrade, priests they should meditate upon James P. Dalzell, Daniel L. Frei- their own vocation in light of his tas and Joseph Oliveira, 40 years; recent apostolic exhortation on and Father George W. Coleman the mission of the laity, "Christifiand Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, c;leles Laici." .

25 years.

While the ordained priesthood Music for the ceremony was by "differs essentially and not only in the diocesan choir with Mrs. degree" from the common priestMadeline Grace at the organ. hood of all laity, the pope told In a reflection on priesthood priests, "the 'lay faithful' are those based on a 1979 talk to V. S. priests from among whom each one of us given by Pope John Paul II in Phi- 'has been chosen.' " ladelphia, Bishop Cronin said that The pope called the laity a "spirthe mission of the church is to itual seedbed of vocations." draw the attention of mankind to He underlined the role of"servthe mysteries of redemption and ice" in the priestly vocation, callthat priests are called to share that ing it the "very heart of our mission. mission."

He recalled that the pope asked Priests must not "be conformed priests to meditate on St. Mark's description of Christ's summoning to this world," yet must live among of the 12 aposties to "the first pri- the people, the pope said. He called them "brothers among brothers," estly calling."

The bishop emphasized that who must recognize the dignity of Christ called the apostles by name- the laity and their proper role in -a personal call; and sent them to the church's mission.preach the Good News. For their Priests must recognize the gifts part, they came when called. Pri- of the laity and allow them "freeests are likewise called by name . dom and room for action," he and, as did the apostles, "say yes said. daily" to their vocation.

"Pastors also know that they "We've been called by Christ; themselves were not meant by we should get to know him," the bishop told the priests, urging per- Christ to shoulder alone the entire sonal familiarity with the Lord . saving mission ofthe church toward and the importance of"giving God's the world," he added. flock a shepherd's care."

The pope said the 1987 synod on Bishop Cronin said that in Phi- the role and the mission of the laity ladelphia the pope praised the and the scheduled 1990 synod on devotion and effectiveness of U.S. the formation of priests should priests. help Catholics "understand that in "He could have expressed those the church there exists a profound words nowhere more fittingly than link between the vocation of the to the priests of the diocese of Fall laity and the vocation of priests."

River," concluded the bishop...And While the laity's apostolate is to I express my gratitude to you." seek the "transformation of the Pope's Message world," he explained, they come to In Pope John Paul's annual let- priests for the Eucharist, where ter to the world's priests, which did they "discover light and strength not reach Bishop Cronin in time for carrying out this task."

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The CCA, dating back to 1942, funds programs of health care, care for the elderly, youth activities, social services, child care, education, pastoral outreach and development of religious personnel.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be the keynote speaker at the annual CCA kickoff meeting, this year to be held at 8 p.m. April 19 at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

The 1988 CC A exceeded $1 million for the 12th year. Organizers hope that the 1989 Appeal will surpass all previous records. Its theme, .. It is in giving that we receive," is found in the worldfamous prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, said Msgr. Gomes.

"Our Appeal is people helping people and we need one another," he added. "There is someone' who needs you. Won't you help him or her? You are able to fulfill this need through the Catholic Charities Appeal."

WAS H INGTON (NC) - A federal appeals court ruling that demonstrations at an abortion clinic violated a federal antiracketeering law could threaten free speech rights and prompt a SuChristian Brother Robert Kea- preme Court clarification, pro-life ley, WCEA elementary department and civil liberties activists said. In executive director, said in a recent a March decision, the Third U.S. interview in Washington that par- Circuit Court of Appeals found ents are an important focus of the that 24 Philadelphia pro-lifers vioconvention and several workshops lated a federal antiracketeering law addressing parental skills and in- by extortion and by use of "fear, volvement in their child's educa- . harassment, intimidation and force" against an abortion clinic. tion and parenting are scheduled.

The ruling is being appealed to the full appeals court.

CLA Awards Meeting concurrently with the NCEA convention, the Catholic Library Association will present its Regina Medal to Steven Kellogg, author and illustrator of over 80 books for children.

Sister Maureen Kennedy, OP, director of re.ligious education in the Mobile, Ala. archdiocese, will receive the John Brubaker Memorial Award for an article on providing resources for the "emerging laity"; Father John J. Powell, SJ, of Loyola University of Chicago will be cited for contributions to high school libraries;. and Sister Mariella Frye, MHSH, staff person for the U.S. bishops' committee on women's concerns, will reJUBILARIANS are honored at Tuesday's Mass of the ceive the CLA Aggiornamento Award .. ..C;:hrisJlJ•. (M ot~~p hC?t.o.) >It

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FROM LEFT, Father Ralph D. Tetrault, pastor of St. Mary's parish, North Attleboro, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Father Thomas L. Rita, pastor of St. Mary's, Seekonk, meet to plan Attleboro area participation in the annual Catholic'Charities Appeal. (Studio D photo) .

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Sister Fitzgerald The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Tuesday at Holy Name Church, Fall River, for Sister Mary Antonine Fitzgerald, RSM, 87, who died March 18 at Mt. St. Rita Health Centr~, Cumberland, R.I. Among concelebrants of the Mass were several priests who had been her students at schools including St. Joseph's, Fa1l River; and St. Kilian's grammar school and Holy Family High School, New Bedford.

A Fa1l River native, Sister Fitzgerald was the daughter of the late Michael and Bridget (Roach) Fitzgerald.

She entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1924 and taught at Salve Regina Co1lege, Newport, and Mt. St. Mary's Bayview Convent, Riverside, both in Rhode Island, in addition to her assignments in the Fa1l River diocese. In the 1950s, she was also a provincial councilor and assistant provincial superior for her community.

She is survived by a s.ister, Anne O'Rourke, and a brother, Michael F. Fitzgerald, both of Fa1l River, A cousin, Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald, is pastor of St. John the Baptist parish, Westport, and director of diocesan health facilities and the diocesan departl1)ent of pastoral care for the sick.

"Smiling Christ"

by Lawrence Zink

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Mar. 24, 1989

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Father Forand Passionist Father Robert Dacien Forand, 53, a native of Acushnet, died March 18. His funeral rites took place Wednesday at Holy Family Monastery in West Hartford, Conn.

The son of the late Arthur and Matilda (DeGrand) Forand, he graduated fro.m St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, and St. Anthony's High School, New Bed.ford, then studied at various Passionist monasteries before entering the community in 1954.

After priestly ordination in 1964, he was province vocations and youth director iil Dunkirk, N.Y., then served in youth ministry in Riverdale, N.Y., and at the West Hartford monastery. Since 1983 he had been giving parish missions and retreats.

Father Forand is survived by two sisters, Annette Blais of Acushnet; and Irene Roy of Woodsville, N. H.; five brothers, Rene Forand

of Fa1l River, Ernest, Oscar and Raymond Forand of Acushnet; and Edward Forand of East Hampton, Conn.; and 40 nieces and nephews.

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Merry Christians promote Easter Monday joy KALAMAZOO, Mich.(NC)in the technical sense of the term The Fellowship of Merry Chris- a story whose ending comes out right," Mr. Strope said. tians, an ecumenical group based The Easter joke also is discussed in Kalamazoo, is attempting to. in a column by Episcopal Bishop resurrect the traditional celebraWilliam C. Frey of Colorado retion of Easter Monday as a time for joy and even silliness. printed in the same issue of NoiseEaster Monday celebrations letter. mark "the. practical joke that God "And what, after all, is a joke?" the bishop asks. "Isn't it someplayed on Satan by raising Jesus from the dead," fellowship leaders thing that turns the tables on the expected, something that hinges explained in a statement.

"Traditionally, in Catholic, Oron the unpredictable or unreasonthodox and Protestant countries, able? There's nothing more unEaster Monday was observed as a reasonable than the resurrection day ofjoy and laughter," they said. of Jesus.

Christians would go to church "to "And to believe in it," he said, frolic, to te1l clean jokes, to play "is to be part ofthat huge practical merry pranks on one another, to joke that God plays on those who sing and dance, and to have a lot of . trust blindly in the sufficiency of fun." It was a day of special festivihuman reason to unravel all probties, picnics and games. lems and to answer every question."

St. Joseph's Church in Kalama- .

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Activities wi1l begin with a procession in which eight paintings of WASHINGTON (NC) - Jesuit Jesus laughing or smiling wi1l be Father Timothy S. Healy, presicarried, escorted by people singing dent of Georgetown University in and carrying candles or ba1loons.

Washington for 13 years, has anFounded in 1986, the Merry nounced he will resign to accept a Christians have a membership of position as president and chief more than 10,000 clergy and lay executive officer of the New York people from many denominations. Public Library.

As we1l as observing Easter Monday, the group promotes "Holy Humor Season," this year from March 27, the Easter Monday of The 1989 Diocesan DirecProtestants and Catholics, to May tory and Buyers' Guide is I, the Easter Monday ofOrthod<?x now available. Mail orders Christians.

The fellowship's March "Joyful are in transit and copies Noiseletter" quotes an Easter sermay also be picked up at mon on the "joke played on the the Anchor office, 887 Highdevil" written by the Rev. Donald land Ave., Fall River, from B. Strope, a Methodist minister in 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Spring break trips to Florida decried - NEWORLEANS(NC)-Claiming that teenagers on spring break in Florida engage in i1legal drug use, drinking and sex, principals at New Orleans archdiocesan high schools have urged parents to prohibit such trips over the Easter holidays.

In an open letter, the principals said they "strongly encourage all parents to say no to their children's requests for an unsupervised trip to Florida during Easter vacation."

The letter was published in late February as an advertisement in the Clarion Herald, newspaper of the New Orleans Archdiocese.

The letter asked parents to make Holy Week, which concludes with Easter, "a time of spiritual celebration as well as a chance to enjoy time together as a family."

Annual spring break trips to the Florida coast have become almost a rite of spring for youths from across the country.

But the New Orleans principals claim the students spend much of the time drinking, using illegal drugs, and engaging in sexual activityand said they want to see such behavior stopped.

Students told the Clarion Herald they would go to Florida anyway and accused the principals of just wanting to exert "control" over them.

"It's none of their business," one unidentified student said. "They're just trying to control us. It's a decision that should be made by the parents."

"I understand (the) .concern," said David Kondroik, student at Archbishop Rummel High School.

"But if the students are mature enough to handle themselves, they should be a1lowed to go."

Jesuit Father Philip Postell, principal of Jesuit High School, said there was "no good" that comes from such trips and that "a lot of harm can be done .... To refuse to admit what's going on is to hide our heads in the sand."

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Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Mar.' 24,1989

the moorins.-, Holy Week's Renewal of the Faithful This week brings a great opportunity for all in the Church to renew the quest for holiness. Given our crass social order, this observation might seem a mere pious platitude.

Somewhere, somehow we have become quite hardnosed.

Apparently striving for sanctity was all right for ghettos and immigrants but as we climbed the all-important ladder of social acceptance, we felt that such ideals had to be shed in favor of becoming relevant and germane.

We began to believe that simple faith was for the simple, not the sophisticated, and that the values and mores that were a part'of our growing up really were childish and had no meaning in today's world. Indeed, many American Catholics are so caught up in their own self esteem that they think of themselves as a separate church, a people set apart by education and position, not by faith: In actual fact, they have attained such a degree of intellectual absurdity that they want everyone on planet Earth to know that they are American Catholics, not simply members of the Catholic Church who just happen by accident of birth to live in America.

For all practical purposes, they seem to be racing to form a church within a church, emulating the hundreds of denominations within Protestant Christianity. But a house divided against itself cannot stand; it becomes a fractious mishmash whose power base is more secular than religious.

Such mainstreaming is founded upon the notions that compromise is the better part of valor, that peace is to be had at any price and that one must, above all, be relevant.

It all boils down to "Every man for himself and God for us all": the religion of social acceptance.

Much has been said about faith without good works. Few reflect that good works without faith are also repugnant. They might be all right for a person of so-called natural virtue, but they have little depth for one striving for the supernatural.

Holy Week is a time in Church life that gives us all the opportunity to put things right; to seek faith priorities and to look at ourselves and our country through the lens of faith.

What is to be seen is not a picture that is well accepted by our complacent nation. Cracks are beginning to show in the marketplace, the factory, the classroom and the home. Drugs and broken families, abortion and crime reflect sick hearts, weak wills and above all corruption of spirit.

We have spent too much time in this past 20 years shaking hands with the devil and we are now paying the price. Holy Week, seen in the light offaith, proclaims that this need not be the case.

We can change things, not by committees, conferences and conventions, but by praying, celebrating and living.

We must once again touch hearts. This will not be achieved by an attitude that takes the will for the deed. Unity and personal holiness are not matters open to compromise._ We have made this mistake and we are reaping the whirlwind.

May this Holy Week and all that it symbolizes once again become our hope. There is no room at the foot of the Cross for arrogance, disdain and social climbing. Calvary means truth and fidelity. Without ascending that mount we cannot rise, as person or as Church. It is a mystery not to be explained but to be lived in all its fullness. . All of us need to be lifted up. For the believer, Holy Week is that moment we rise triumphant over death and see our faith fulfilled.

The Editor

"Now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep." I Cor. 15:20

Is border crackdown wise?

WASHINGTON (NC) - Attorn-' ey General Dick Thornburgh argues that a new government crackdown on asylum applicants has averted a border crisis, but church leaders see the policy of locking up Central Americans in a south Texas detention center as inhumane.

Apparently so did about 200 of the 2,279 Central Americans largely Nicaraguans and Salvadorans - residing at the Bayview, Texas, detention center who tried to uproot a fence there March 16.

"We think it was tension," said Duke Austin, Immigration and Naturalization service spokesman, in an interview the next day. He said no one was hurt and no one escaped.

Thornburgh said March 15 that as a result of a new U.S. policy of processing asylum applications within 24 hours and detaining those whose applications have been denied. Central Americans with "spurious" claims are being discouraged from crossing the border.

Those who cannot prove they fled persecution in their hOl11elands because of race. religion, political views, nationality or membership in a particular social group face eventual deportation.

Tens of thousands of Central Americans have entered the United States in the past year seeking asylum.

Sister Juliana Garcia, director of Casa Oscar Romero, a shelter for Central Americans run by the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, said March 16 that she was confounded by the attorney general's understanding of the situation.

"There are 2,000 Central Americans housed in the detention center (in Bayview), I ,000 in the Red Cross building in Brownsville and 200 here at Casa Romero. There are others in private agencies throughout the area. If that's not a crisis, I don't know what a crisis is,"said the nun, a Missionary Sister of Jesus.

Vincentian Father Don RickWhile the United States cannot ard, chaplain at the detention cen- be blamed for all the conditions in ter. said that while that "sense of <;:entral America, Gonzalez said. depression. struggle and disorien- "we have been a major player tation is always" present alJlong there. We can't keep insisting detainees, it is exacerbated at Bay- Nicaraguans are economic refugees who can't come in. and not view.

"The tension level and the frus- acknowledge that one reason their tration are rising." said the priest. economy is in shambles is our own He said overcrowding. monthlong blockade," he said. The United waits for hearings and lack of States, the primary backer of rebrecreation activities were the cause. els trying to destabilize the NicaIn addition. Father Rickard said, raguan Sandinista government, has there's the question of "what does imposed a blockade on trade with detention do to you if you haven't the nation. committed a moral crime." , Nicaraguan unemployment was Hernan Gonzalez, director of estimated at 30 percent earlier this the diocese of Brownsville's div- year. Since the beginning of the ision of Christian service. in a year. the Nicaraguan currency. the March 17 interview. noted that the cordoba, has been devalued from numbers of detainees jumped from 940 cordobas per U.S. $1 to 2,700 400 or 500 to over 2,000 in a per $1. month. The government has yet to The federal government's increasseno any Nicaraguans back to their ed emphasis on detention and homeland. border security "makes a lot of us Instead, said Gonzalez, the num- feel very uncomfortable," said Archbers detained keep increasing. bishop Theodore E. McCarrick of South Texas will have more than Newark. N.J., chairman of the 5.000 long-term detain'ees by . U.S. bishops' Migration Commitsummer's end, he predicted. tee. in a March 15 interview in Austin, however, said that while Washington. detentions are' up due to the new Both he and Gonzalez advocate policy, "there has been a dramatic offering extended voluntary departreduction" in numbers of asylum ure status to Salvadorans and Nicapplicants and many detainees are araguans who have fled their homea waiting deportation. lands. Such a status, which is He said INS officials are aware granted by the executive branch of that some Central Americans may government, 'allows individuals try to "circumvent the system" by from specific nations to remain in coming into the country at other the United States until conditions ports ofentry or crossing the border have improved at home. illegally, but he said preliminary To Jose Silva, a Nicaraguan reports do not indicate that has who crossed the border into the United States about a month ago, happened.

"Clearly the new policy is not the U.S. government's new crackworki~g or we wouldn't have the down on Central American asynumbers (of detainees) growing so lum applicants seems "a bit insteadily," contends Gonzalez. He humane." , "I came because my brother was said as long as the U.S. government treats the situation as "no killed and my brother-in-law was more than an immigration ques- wounded. I would have stayed at tion without addressing our for- home if there were peace," said eign policy in Nicaragua and EI Silva, 30, a temporary resident of Salvador" the flow of newcomers Casa Oscar Romero, in a March 16 telephone interview. will continue.

Class laughs Sometimes I do dumb things. Just plain dumb, like packing my passport in the suitcase I checked through or putting a letter in a wrong envelope. Maybe it's my circle of friends, but I've found they do dumb things, too. .

Take a friend of mine, a priest, who had morning Mass and a meeting across town shortly after.

He had it all figured out. He would remove his vestments as he walked to the rectory, grab his briefcase and leave.

So far, so good. But as he entered the attached garage, he punched the door opener, got into the car, repunched the door opener and backed his car through the door of the garage to the amazement of exiting Massgoers..

"What did you do?" I asked.

"I sat there and laughed."

I nodded in amused agreement.

What else could he do? Well, he could have become so angry with himself that he glowered at spectators or he could have stomped out of the car in anger defying them to react, or he could have sat there and said a rosary.

But he didn't. He laughed.

Sometimes the only reasonable response to a situation is to recognize the absurdity of it and .laugh.

Taking one's self too seriously can be a definite hazard in life.

A nun in Ireland gave me a hilarious account of confusing two coffins in church right before backto-back funerals. Her account was right out of a Marx Brothers' movie. "We ran pushing one casket up the aisle while Father steered the other into the side altar," she said. "And nobody stopped us."

We all do foolish things at times, like locking our keys in the car, putting the cheese in the hamper and the socks in the refrigerator, calling people and asking whom we called, introducing ourselves to people we discover are relatives, and going to a party on the wrong night.

The sign of class is not our action but our reaction. When we can sit and laugh like my priest friend, we are essentially healthy.

When we .berate ourselves for weeks, we aren't.

When we can't forgive ourselves for being human, no one else will, either. But when we are in the midst of a ridiculous situation, we can take it as an opportunity to prove to others that we are normal fallible people and they like us for it.

A few years ago, I gave a lecture before a group of serious medical doctors at a posh resort convention center. The stage was constructed of carpeted triangles pushed together to form a rectangle.

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Academic freedom Are you confused by the current debate over academic freedom? You have a right to be. The debate twists, turns and leaves the mind spinning.

In April Catholic universities will be discussed at a conference in Rome, to be held under the auspices of the Vatican Congregation for Seminaries and Educational Institutions. University representatives from around the world will discuss the Vatican's second draft of a document on Catholic higher . education.

Academic freedom is an issue the conference can hardly avoid.

How is it defined? When is it legitimate? When is it abused?

The topic heats up, especially when church teaching is involved.

Research conducted on the number of people who read the Bible can go virtually unnoticed. But a professor surveying attitudes on birth control immediately draws attention.

Why? Because the issue involves morality and because it is an issue on which the pope has spoken.

Yet some academics would contend that the people are also the church and that their views on moral questions should be consulted.

People argue over the degree of emphasis to place on the pope's responsibility for establishing norms and the responsibility of scholars to question things in the pursuit of fresh insights.

Some contend that several popes have erred in serious matters and that their decisions had to be corrected by later popes. This last contention causes the biggest problem. Once a pope has spoken authoritatively but not infallibly, is an issue closed for further discussion? Some might hold that this very questiqn is a sign of disrespec;t I: ' ..

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Others might contend that unity and respect are only possible when the truth of a matter is explored to its fullest.

Emotions are running extremely high right now on the subject of academic freedom and sides are being taken. No doubt the arguments on both sides will continue to grow.

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cating, the slim heel of my pump slid into the crack of one of the triangles. I tugged it gently but it stayed lodged. I had a choice of standing there the rest of the hour or acknowledging my dilemma. I looked out at the group and realized that although nobody laughed, they were immensely amused at my predicament.

So I lifted my foot out of my shoe and then the other so I wouldn't limp and said, "This is as far as I go, gentlemen." After that, they listened to everything I said.

It's sad when we can't forgive ourselves for human frailty. I know people who are still re-running tapes of dumb things they did or said years ago. Their faces redden and voices rise as they replay an embarrassing situation. I want to laugh but since they can't, neither can I. Sometimes I wonder if Jesus ever goofed in his ministry on earth. I bet he did but I also bet his chroniclers didn't feel it was appropriate to include these incidents in the Scriptures. I wish they had.

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Sheila, Don and Marti Continued from Page One An exciting moment in Sheila's initiation process came after a parish' ceremony during which she proclairned her intentions to the community.

Many people who had previously seen her at Masses and assumed that she was already a Catholic approached her with welcoming hugs afterwards.

Sheila bounced baby Shelby on her lap. "At last, I feel like I'm doing the right thing," she said.

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"I u~ed to have my own way of praying to God," said Don. "I used to just say 'God, it's me, Don,' and ask him to watch out for this [whoever that prayer was being said for] person. I used to end it 'Amen.' " As he matured he grew more and more upset that he had received no formal religious training.

"I wanted to know more about the Catholic faith and about God," he said. "You have to know about the Catholic faith ifyou're Catholic.

It's important! God will help you in any way he can if you believe."

Don went to Father Luis A. Cardoso, Espirito Santo's pastor, to discuss his wants. The.parish is just a short walk from his home, "I had never been to church there," he said. "But I have now, and I like it."

While Don was under instruction, he became the baptismal godfather to his friends' baby boy. His own baptismal godmother, Julie Hubert of Taunton, will be his confirmation sponsor.

Don particularly enjoyed learning about the sacraments, he said.

He plans "to keep learning more about God" since "there's always going to be something to learn."

Priscilla MacKenzie says she's very proud of her oldest child. She jokingly calls him "a square" but gets serious very quickly when she tells you he's·been mature in making several significant life choices.

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Don said his mother and grandmother, Violet Pelletier· of nearby Little Compton, R.I., have been very supportive of his decision, as have friends.

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When Marti Nichols, 21, was a student at the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, she roomed with a girl who'd been her best friend since sixth grade.

That friend, Marianne, attended Mass at the school and was active in its Catholic students' organization, which met Sunday evenings.

"I felt left out," said Marti, "like I didn't fit in. She had her own group of Catholic friends. I was sort of lonely."

Marti, a dental hygienist, was baptized as a Congregationalist before beginning what amounted to a religious roller coaster ride.

The Foxboro resident, who is joining St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, saw her parents divorce when she was only 13.

After that, she said, her mother "never really took the initiative" of getting her to services, though an older brother saw that she attended Christmas and Easter rites.

But Marti was involved with friends and school activities, she said, and didn't really miss church.

"I think I was still a little bit

resentful over the divorce," she added. "I didn't want to do anything [with the potential] to make them [her parents] happy."

When she was about 16, Marti's father became "a rather fanatical born-again Christian." She attended his new church with him but without Sunday school training "I didn't know enough to be able to fit in. That was kind of frustrating and embarrassing for me," she said. " She also attended youth meetings at her native church with her brother. She enjoyed the social opportunities but again felt she wasn't knowledgeable enough to make a significant contribution. , After high school, Marti really "sort of felt that I was missing something" but she gave up on religion and instead focused on her studies. , Last New Year's Eve, Marti became engaged to Nick Vicino of St. Mary's parish. They'll be married June 9, 1990, at the Mansfield church.

Nick hails from a family of practicing Catholics, Marti said. His grandmother, she laughed, brought a copy of St. Mary's parish bulletin over to his house with the announcement of RCIA classes circled for guess-who to see..

Marti had already been thinking again about what was missing from her life.

"One of my first steps," she said, "was talking to Nick's mother, Fran, who had become a Catholic herself. She·said it was one of the best things she had ever done and that she was happy she'd raised a Catholic family."

And last summer, she had a long talk with Nick's cousin, Peter DeTrolio, who had studied theology at Catholic University.

"He condensed about seven years of Sunday school into about three hours," said Marti.

When Nick's paternal grandfather died last summer, Marti attended his funeral Mass.

"The whole service just sort of hit rrie like a rock," she said. "It was somewhat of a turning point for me, just seeing how close that family was and how they had their religion to turn to."

Attending Sunday Mass with her fiance quickly became a regular event. In September Marti began RCIA preparation for her first communion and confirmation. Her baptism is considered valid by the Catholic Church.

"The classes," she said, "have been wonderful. I really looked forward to going. The priests [Pastor Very Rev. Armando A. Annunziato and parochial vicar Father George B. Scales] ... don't just stand up there and read out of a book. They don't mind answering questions." . , Father Annunziato noted that Marti is "very sincere and eager and faithful to the program, committed to the whole process of the RCIA." Marti says she was particularly impressed by a woman, a candidate·from last year, who spoke to hei'dass. She hopes, she says, to pas~ ·her new knowledge on in a similar way.

Nick, she reports, will be her confirmation sponsor. And she' adds that her mother, Diane Robertson, is happy that she's found her niche.

"Everything you do," says Marti, "is in preparation for eternal life.

And God is so forgiving. That's the most amazing part of it all."

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When it was published that I was to present this paper, certain people asked whom I know, to be given this honor. As I tried to prepare the paper, I found myself asking: "Who doesn't like me, that I should be given this task?"

The topic assigned is the bishop as teacher of the faith within the - 'cOiltextof the cuTrure and sOCIety of the United States.

Permit me to make a major departure immediately. I cannot imagine that any bishop is unaware of his teaching role as explicated in tradition, conciliar documents, canon law and the example of our Holy Father. If 1 am to add anything useful, then, to Cardinal Ratzinger's eloquent remarks, 1 believe it will be only by way of suggesting some of the problems bishops encounter in the United States in trying conscientiously to carry out their teaching role.

First, however, let me make clear that the bishops of the United States have been first and foremost articulate and courageous teachers of the faith for the two centuries of our existence. I make this point because U.S. bishops are too often patronizingly dismissed as mere builders, administrators and fund-raisers. Some church historians and theologians clearly consider U. S. bishops hopelessly illiterate.

The fact is that American bishops have been teaching for two centuries by way of their homilies, pastoral letters, liturgies, confirmation ceremonies, diocesan newspapers. They teach by their works, their institutions for the sick and the aged, their maintenance of the highest standards of medical ethics .in their hospitals, their care for the homeless and the hungry, and so on. Many holy bishops teach the primacy of the spiritual by their very lives. U.S. bishops are preeminently teachers. I believe that the teaching commitment and effectiveness of the U.S. bishops are comparable to those of any body of bishops in the world.

But there are serious impediments to the teaching effectiveness of American bishops. Some im-' pediments, I suspect, are (;ommon to the world at large. Others that we tend to see as peculiarly American are also fairly common elsewhere. Still others are unique to the United States.

Universal Impediments Two impediments to effective episcopal teaching which I suspect are relatively common to the episcopacy throughout the world relate respectively to Vatican II and "Humanae Vitae," though caused by neither.

First, Vatican II. While there was a reasonable amount of preparation by various commissions prior to the deliberations of Vatican I I, there was virtually no postVatican II preparation of the church at large to receive, understand and rationally implement the conciliar documents. We are still trying to recover from the chaos of misunderstanding and

rials; others seem to have been question of the largest national browbeaten by directors of religmovement when we talk of the present and future state of the ious education, or teachers of relimass media among us.... Those gion, whom they perceive to be who wish to live with the ostriches much more authoritative than and to deny this fact are free to do themselves. Episcopal feelings of so, but whatever history lies ahead inadequacy are heightened when of us will put them down as chil- bishops are told patronizingly, or dren for their denial." pp. 157-158). even contemptuously, that new A view that Catholicism has teaching methods must determine deliberate distortions. A tremen- to confess the matter at all. In my canonized capitalism is a severe teaching content. dous number of American Catho- judgment we have not yet recovobstacle to teaching social and This brings up what I believe to lics, at least, learned all they ered from this confusion. One gets economic justice in some quarters. be critical: that a certain number thought they had to know about a sense that a kind of moral free (Some Catholics have learned too of bishops at some point during th~ council from the mysterious enterprise system took over at some well Max Weber's "The Protestant the past 20 years or so have seemed and ubiquitous Xavier Rynne of point. The "moral market" has Ethic and the Spirit of Capital- to lose confidence, first in themthe New Yorker magazine. This is been allowed to float. ism.") Both "rightist" and "leftist" selves as persons, then in their These two general impediments terribly serious. We still have mil. new~.Pl!.Pers an<ijournals that caB mjlgi_ste.rialauthority, .. perhaps in lions of Catholics, and not a few to episcopal teaching have affected . themselves Catholic, but constantly the face of some hard-hitting pnesISlfnoreligIOUS;WI1otalkeso- . -the cllurCh,-riepeat,-almosCuni': attack bishops, individually and theologians, perhaps out offear of terically about the "spirit" of Vati- versally, and certainly the church collectively, are surely an impedi- the press. ("Mirabile dictu!") can II -'- accusing many bishops of in the United States. Let me turn, ment to the teaching ministry.

At times the bishop convinces resisting that spirit - when they now, first to some familiar probIn a world of constant flux, it is himself that peace is the highest themselves have never read a sin- lems for episcopal teaching in difficult for bishops to be heard good. Sometimes, if I may say so gle council document.

America (and elsewhere), then to when they teach that the church some cultural problems rather still exists primarily to help people unique to America, but often unreach an eternal goal. noticed.

Continuing the list almost at "American" Iinpediments random, honesty compels me to Bishops must teach largely suggest that Rome can contribute through others: priests, religious, to confusion if it releases papal or deacons, lay persons. While it is other documents to the press before unfortunate that not all of our the bishops receive them. The press priests preach effectively, this publishes selectively as it will. The problem is reasonably correctable. bishop, supposedly the authority, Harder to correct, however, is the is put in the position of reacting, loss of teaching religious and the without having seen a document.· IN HIS OFFICE as teacher, theological or ecclesiological conAnother problem of note: ambiBishop Daniel A. Cronin adfusion demonstrated by some guity about the authority of local by no means all - who still do Ordinaries relative to local Catholic dresses students and faculty colleges and universities may per- at Southeastern Massachusetts teach. Teachers committed to radical feminism, for example, whether mit distortions of church teaching Nt" photo University, North Dartmouth. priests, religious or lay, are quite to go unchallenged.

(Motta photo) CARDINAL O'CONNOR capable of distorting doctrine.

At the same time the peculiariAt the same time, it must be ties of the American church-state respectfully, a bishop may not 1 had to spend four years in New system and legitimate questions . want to enter battle over authoritYork in preparation for a synod in admitted that sexism is a reality. It concerning funding, academic free- ative church teaching called into getting people to study the concil- provides grist for the mill of radidom and other knotty issues gen- doubt by dissenting' theologians, iar documents. Because of this cal feminism, and threatens the erate complex problems for Catho- pastors, religious, lay persons or gross ignorance, many people, credibility of bishops who try to lic college and university presidents the secular or religious press beequating abstinence from fish on teach about justice - as does who want to serve the church cause he fears that neither the Friday with the validity of the serious underpayment of lay perfaithfully.

National Conference of Catholic Holy Trinity, gave up the latter sons, men and women, who work Poor selection, training or superBishops nor Rome will suport him.

-and much other church teaching for the church. Most troublesome vision of camp~s ministers can He may consider twisting.slowly in - when they learned they were no of all "isms," however, is racism, which makes a mockery of episco. result in seriously depriving Catho- the wind to be highly unepiscopal longer bound by the former. lic college students of orthodox and inordinately uncomfortable.

Suddenly all the old certainties pal teaching about the sacredness guidance. Years of confusion and Time permits but a few other seemed to be in question. Many of every human person. That it diversity in catechetical instrucproblems in this category of"comCatholics felt betrayed. They felt still plagues the church is tragitional materials used in both Cathmonly recognized problems." For the rug had been pulled out ,from cally obvious.

The media and the movies are olic schools and in catechetical example, we are blessed in the under their most sacred and cerprograms outside Catholic schools United States today with many tain beliefs. Well-intended liturgi- often horrifying perverters of famhave left an entire generation in a millions ofimmigrants. Few, howcal experiments permitted to run ily values and constitute very grave state of ambiguity. ever, bring their own priests. We wild naturalized the supernatural obstacles- to episcopal teaching.

Some bishops seem to have been are all short of priests, after years even more, desacralized the sacred (See, for example, William Lynch, virtually bludgeoned into com- of failure to attract vocations and for large numbers of young people S.J., "The Image Industries: A pliance by some of the publishing the teaching by some that God is ("Lex orandi est lex credendi."). Constructive Analysis of Films and companies that have produced mis- telling us this is the day of lay perEven worse, the vacuum in under- Television," Sheed and Ward, New leading religious education mate- sons, so that priests aren't terribly standing of the faith left by failure York, 1959. "We are dealing with a important. to prepare the people for the docWe are particularly short of uments of the council was too priests linguistically and culturally often filled by false prophets with equipped to teach these newcomers. ·false interpretations of the counThe potential losses to the faith are cil, and particularly with ambigugrave, especially losses to Penteous ecclesiologies. If nature abhors costal sects. Another problem: We a vacuum, the publishing industry are justifiably proud of our Cathosimply won't even permit a vacuum. lic schools, but the costs are escaThe second major impediment lating every day and bordering on to episcopal teaching throughout the impossible. The threat to our the world, I believe,. developed out Catholic schools, unsubsidized in ofthe manner of preparing for, the our country by the government, extensive delay in the promulgamay be one ofthe gravest teaching tion of, and the variety of interpreobstacles our bishops will have to tations given to "Humanae Vitae." face for generations.

I believe that circumstances surrounding the publication of"HuStill another problem in this manae Vitae" seriously eroded the same general category: While we. credibility of church teaching. I 'have many outstanding Catholics, am not for a moment questioning we do have those for whom their the validity of "Humanae Vitae." political party is virtually their I am saying that when Catholics religion. No matter what the politlearned - and it took them no ical party's plaiform, or what the time at all- that they could shop BOSTON Cardinal Bernard F.l.aw, Pontifical Councit.for Justice and mo~al positions of its ca!1did~tes, around among confessors for opin'd C d' I R E - C· their party loyalty often tnhented k't,; ions. on birth .control, :they SOOR'c P eace presl ent ar ma· oger t~garay and· ardmat. O'Conno~, from ganerati()litby,-gene' tion left, enjoy a coffee break 'at the VatilJan meeting~ (NC/ U,pl-R.eutec,!pboto) " ···.tfftcu!t·,for themr:o. v~t~~s~n . decided that they really didn't have

informed conscience and an understanding of Catholic teaching would suggest. This is a realistic aspect of the American political system, and must be understood, however difficult it is for teaching bishops.

Next, we are developing in our country with frightening speed a consistent ethic of death, wittJ some 20 million abortions since 1973, and euthanasia under a variety of euphemistic terms becoming acceptable to the point that laws authorizing outright suicide may be iust around the corner.

Finally, within this category of "commonly recognized problems" (and this courd require apaper-of its own), we are still recovering from Vietnam. In a letter of April 23, 1866, Karl Marx wrote to Frederick Engels: .. After the Civil War phase the United States are really only now entering the revolutionary phase." Nothing since the Civil War has so torn our country and induced revolution as our involvement in Vietnam. Withmillions of young people, every form of the "establishment" lost credibility: government, business, education, the family, the church.

In the general climate of disenchantment, traditional values were rejected as having been responsible for the war. "Free love" became widespread, as did drugs.

Authority - all authority - became suspect, then rejected by many. I suspect that only an American can appreciate fully the impact of this war on the teaching mission and credibility of U.S. bishops.

Now to my second category of problems which are uniquely American and uniquely cultural, but which I believe affect us largely at the unconscious level, or that at least often escape notice and identification. A culture, after all, is rarely, if ever, either deliberately designed as such or learned as such. While formal study can help us analyze a culture, we usually learn a culture - become enculturated - by osmosis. Culture is the confluence of many forces and variables.

I suggest that a number of these uniquely American cultural problems, impedi{tlents to episcopal teaching, are born of the peculiar political, moral, psychological and philosophical culture of our coun. try. They help make up the American experience. Bear with me, please, then, on what may seem an exotic, if not, indeed, a pedantic journey.

My purpose is exceedingly practical. I believe that both the Holy See and the bishops ofthe United States can better appreciate why it is difficult to teach the faith in all its purity in the United States, if both understand especially the three intertwined cultural forces set forth below, however simplistically because of the press of time. These cultural forces are: one, the moral philosophies that are at the heart of the American experience; two, the group dynamics and process; three, pluralism.

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You cannot "eat witb sinners" witbout condoning the sin. There is no way to bave a good relationship with wrongdoers. There must always be a "distance" wben values are significantly different.

Yet, after telling you all this, I still wonder bow we show we care without supporting tbeirJifes1)1e?

(Florida) Thank you for presenting a hard problem. With your last question you show that your heart is in the right place. You care. .

But be ~areful. When following

a so-called logical principle causes "eat with sinners" without conyou to be unloving and uncaring, doning the sin. Jesus did it all the something is suspect. ' time. I have many friends who I have three problems with your have done things with which I strongly disagree. I love them, not letter. because of our differences but beFirst, why do you place sexual cause ttiey are decent and beautimorality above other matters? You ful people in many other ways, do not consider anything else this including overlooking many of my young man is doing, but you simply own failings. adjudge him "bad" because he is Jesus loved sinners. He reliving out of wedlock with his cruited them as his disciples. He girlfriend. ate with prostitutes and tax collecSpeaking from a psychologist's tors for the hated Roman occupaperspective I ask, does one "wrong" tion. He associated with men who behavior make him all bad? selfishly vied to be first in his kingSecond, you assume that the dom and even those who were to best way to change his behavior is betray him. for all right-minded people to igBe careful. Do not judge. Let nore and iwlate him. Even his God do that. And when in doubt, -parentssno\iliJCfistancettremselves. --care;--- I disagree. As a psychologist, I Reader questions on family livcan say very clearly that condemn- ing or child care to be answered in ing and threatening isolation are print are invited. Address the Kenpoor ways to change behavior. nys at Box 872, St. Joseph's ColThird, I believe that you can lege, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

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Back in the 1970s two San Francisco cardiologists developed a theory that ambitious, impatient people, Type A personalities, were twice as susceptible to heart failure as easygoing people. That theory is now being challenged.

However, Williams focuses on hostility rather than aggressive ambition as the most unhealthy characteristic of the Type A personality. He emphasizes the harmfulness of the cynical mistrust ex· hibited by those who blow up frequently and blame others for ordinary inconveniences, like slow elevators. and long lines at the bank or supermarkets.

WilIiams speculates that. anger produces stress hormones, prolonging a "fight or flight" response and stimulating adrenaline. He suggests that large increases in body chemicals might cause changes in the lining of arteries, leading to maladies such as arteriosclerosis.

Whatever the biochemistry, I am convinced that people who constantly indulge in angry outbursts do themselves and others no good.

Self-control used to be considered a virtue. But somewhere along the line, too many people decided it was passe.

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status in the 19.60s may' account for why people started to air their unattractive emotions in public, without conscience qualms. We kept hearing that it was unhealthy to hold anger inside.

My question would be, isn't there stilI a case for old-fashioned self-control to be exercised in the face of life's annoyances and insults? A furious outburst which makes other people feel lousy is just a childish tantrum which mostly has the effect of spreading negative feelings.

Of course, there is legitimate anger that should be expressed, but this should be done responsibly. Serious anger for legitimate causes has to be dealt with constructively by addressing the source.

After all, to recognize anger and then deal with it gracefully is a mark of maturity and a Christian quality. Jesus himself said that if you want to bring a gift to the altar but are angry at your brother, you should go first and make up with your brother.

In the Old Testament, the Lord says he detests the one who "sows discord." Of course, simply to become angry may not make one a sower of discord. But can anger that is allowed to fester get in the way of our ability to reach God? Interestingly, 20th-century science and medicine axe now bearing out many age-old biblical truths. Living the good Christian life may, in the last analysis, be the best medicine of all.

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IN BUFFALO, N.Y., Third-grader Dawn Wroblewski holds up a photograph of Terry Anderson as Father Francis X. Mazur lights a candle at a vigil service for the American hostages in Lebanon. (NCt UPI photo)

Hostages not forgotten says ~ather Jenco WASHINGTON (NC) - Former 'hostage Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco said he and the families of nine American hostages still held in Lebanon will not give up the cause.

Father Jenco was attending a March 16 human rights ceremony on Capitol Hill to mark the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping of his former cell mate Terry Anderson, 41, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press.

Anderson and the others are being held by Shiite Moslem extremists.

"I made a promise to Terry that I wouldn't forget him and that others wouldn't forget him," said Father Jenco, who was director of Catholic Relief Services in Beirut, Lebanon, when he was abd ucted January 1985. Freed July 1986, he is now campus minister at the University of Southern California.

The priest, who has gone across the country with Anderson's sister, Peggy Say, to remind Americans of the hostage situation, gave the opening prayer March 16.

dean of agriculture at the AmeriClIO University in Beirut; and David Jacobsen, American University administrative director. A group calling itself Islamic Jihad, which means Holy War, claimed responsibility for the abductions.

Two days earlier Father Jenco at a candlelight service for the hostages at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y., said publication of "The Satanic Verses" by Salam Rushdie reduced the likelihood that Anderson would be released soon. Moslems around the world were outraged by the book, calling it blasphemous.

"The doors have been slammed shut again," Father Jenco said.

"We don't need books that degrade.

It was a stupid thing."

Mrs. Say was also at the Buffalo, N. Y., ceremony where a group of third-graders from a local public school gave her a yellow ribbon to present to President Bush.

During the Reagan administration, a yellow ribbon hung on the White House front door as a symbol of the continuing quest for the hostages' freedom. The ribbon has since been removed, a gesture which Father Jenco criticized.

NEW YORK (NC) - Theologians may sometimes legitimately dissent from official Catholic teachings, but to preserve church unity the magisterium or church teach.ing authority can legitimately restrict their freedom, said Jesuit theologian Father Avery Dulles.

"The hierarchy has an inalienable responsibility to see to it that the Christian faith is transmitted without diminution or distortion," he said at a Fordham University symposium last week.

"It therefore has a right of supervision over theology, insofar as theologians engage in teaching Christian doctrine," he said.

Theologians "must have the freedom to follow the principles of their own special discipline," said Father Dulles, a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and of the ecumenical American Theological Society.

But he said the magisterium fulfilled an essential function in making doctrinal decisions for the church, and "the first instinct of the theologian should be to accept and build on what is officially taught in the church."

"The abuse of authority is a real danger in the church as in any other society," Father Dulles said. ~'I n our day however, it is not the greatest danger.' Christianity is threatened by the demonic power of a public opinion that refuses to submi.t to the discipline offaith ....

"The hierarchical magisterium, generally speaking, has been more effective than the theological community in safeguarding the purity of the faith against the trends and fashions of the day," he'said, explaining that "theology prepares the way for the magisterium to speak, and after it has spoken, theology explains and, as necessary, defends what has been taught."

But theologians, Father Dulles said, are better suited "to gather .data, to ask questions and to speculate, than tei make doctrinal decisions for the church."

Their own work is in turn enriched by these decisions made by the hierarchy, he said. "The more abundantly theology draws on the teaching of the magisterium the richer, generally speaking, will it be," he said.

About 300 people packed a House office meeting room for the ceremony. They included Mrs. Say, several family members and friends of the hostages, Lebanon ambassador Abdallah Bouhabib, politiAnderson has a daughter, If theologians express criticism cians and journalists, including Sulome, who was born three or dissent, he said, they should be NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, months after he was abducted and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York ,whom he has not seen. During his "modest and restrained" and avoid Times columnist James Reston time in captivity, his father and "bringing pressure on the magisteand Cable News Network's Washing- brother have died. It is uncertain rium by recourse to the popular media of communication." ton anchor Bernard Shaw. whether he knows of the deaths.

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Speaking for his brother bishops Continued from Page Nine fourth, natural moral law, is of course quite congenial to church teaching. (William H. Marnell describes these philosophies in his "Man-made Morals: Four Philosophies that Shaped America" Doubleday and Co., New York, 1966).

However many of the founding fathers were deists' or pure rationalists, they were grounded in natural moral law, even though modified for them by John Locke.

They grasped its premises and used them to shape the Declaration of Independence and at least the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.

Catholicism is pre-eminently attuned to the basic principles of the American republic as articulated by the founding fathers in large measure because of Catholicism's affinity with natural moral law.

I suggest that Catholic moral teaching has been accepted or rejected in our country in almost direct proportion to the acceptance or rejection of natural moral law in the formulation of public policy. Debates over critical moral issues have inevitably reflected this: slavery, racism, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and war are illustrative.

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.ARCHBISHOP Fulton J. Sheen, quoted by Cardinal O'Connor in his address, is embraced by Pope John Paul II in New York two months before the archbishop's death Dec. 9, 1979. (NC photo) Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was the most famous Supreme Court justice our country has ever known, the justice most commonly cited in law schools ever since his day and the author of the classic text, "The Common Law." Justice Holmes explicitly rejected all appeal to natural moral law in interpreting the Constitution. In its place, he substituted the philosophy of pragmatism: the good is whatever works, or is expedient.

Moral relativism entered jurisprudence and American life by way of pragmatism, which is unconditionally hostile to all moral absolutes. I suggest that, simultaneously, the law has become the primary teacher in America. Whateyer is legal is assumed to be morally good. Abortion and homosexuality, for example, are legal, hence assumed to be moral. The horrifying rise in court-assisted "euthanasia" I believe to be ultimately traceable to Justice Holmes and tQ";his medic.al-doctor.,father,

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Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism took American form by way of the "greatest happiness of the greatest number," a rationale which takes advantage of-a political philosophy that the majority rules. It is an easy step to the concept that majority rule determines what is morally good for everyone. Again the thrust is to reject moral absolutes or teaching about intrinsic good and evil. Doctrine becomes irrelevant.

Not the philosophical founder, but certainly the most powerful proponent of social Darwinism or social evolutionism was president Theodore Roosevelt, with his hearty but destructive emphasis on "rugged individualism." The "survival of the fittest" became the canon of all social morality.

I suggest that whenever America has been imperialistic, as in its early 20th century attitude toward Filipinos: or carried away by its self-perceived "manifest destiny," the philosophy of social evolution has .been the driving and destructive force.

No American philosophy has been more antagonistic to the social Gospel taught by American bishops. Worse, none has been more antagonistic to the belief that all men are created equal, or to our belief in the worth, the dignity, the sacredness of every human person as made in the image of God. Much of today's homelessness, bad housing, inadequate concern for the poor of the world, and especially a subtle contempt for the Third World, is rooted in this moral philosophy.

"Redemptor Hominis" with its emphasis on man as "the way" wouldn't stand a chanoe under rugged individualism and the survival of the fittest, even if Andrew Carnegie built a financial empire on the backs of the unrugged and the unsurvivable. Friedrich Nietzsche's "Ubermensch," on the contrary, would fit in very well. (Many familiar names can be found among the shapers of relativistic moral philosophies for America: Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, Justice Stephen J. Field, et al.)

Vienna Circle The Vienna Circle, particularly Wittgenstein and Schlick, reached out to America by the way of the Cambridge school of analysis.

Logical positivism did not have to attack metaphysics. It simply treated metaphysical propositions as meaningless. Only the observable, the measurable, became important.

American psychology became, through John Watson, the mere study of observable - therefore external - behavior.

John Dewey turned the psychology of behaviorism into an educational philosophy of instrumentalism which, in large part, by way of Columbia Teachers College in New York came to influence hundreds of thousands of teachers across America, including religious, and a very great number of educational institutions throughout the United States. In essence, learning was to be measured by change in external behavior; the purpose of teaching was to effect such change.

In the meanwhile, the force of Julien la Mettri's "l'homme machine" was at work in Norbert Wiener's research in cybernetics, or feedback mechanisms, and another physicist, Kurt Lewin, was' . busily developing gr0l.!p dynam-

ics, and social application of such direction feared by some of the exotic mathematical concepts as founding fathers, leaning toward the "tyranny of the minority." topology and hodology. RelationCombined with the politically valid ships between peoples were deterprinciple of "one person, one vote," mined by vectors and valences.

In time, Lewin's disciples were political pluralism, particularly in devising theories about life-space. this deviant form of the tyranny of Bethel, Maine, became the summer the minority, offers an alluring teaching center for the school- rationalization for a unique and teachers, again including religious, pervasive form of theology of diswho wanted to learn about socio- sent.

Magisterial teaching becomes no drama. Encounter groups and sensitivity sessions deluged the coun- more authoritative than the opintry very soon thereafter, and Amer- ion of any single individual, as my ica was caught up in dialogue, vote is as good as yours. The which was frequently unrelated to response to a magisterium that the exchange of information or the attempts to "impose" church teaching is to organize into a vociferous communication of truths.

Dialogue was simply a process minority, coopt the media and intended to achieve consensus. charge the magisterium - or even Dialogue was succcessful or unsuc- the Holy Father- with the most cessful only to the degree in which heinous of crimes in the American consensus occurred or failed to lexicon: discrimination. This has occur. Substance became irrele- been one of the most powerful vant. The medium became the weapons in the arsenal of radical feminism, for example, used with message.

I suggest that this entire devel- equal zeal by some theologians opment, rooted in the Vienna Cir- who have championed that cause. cle, in which metaphysical propoPope Paul VI recognized "plusitions were considered meaning- ralism of research and thought, less, played a major role in the which explores and expounds emergence of consensus theology, dogma in different ways, but within which ontological truth plays out eliminating its objective meanlittle role. I suggest further that as ing ... as a natural component of seminaries stopped teaching phil- catholicity, and a sign of cultural osophy, and particularly meta- riches and of personal commitphysics, theology lost the language ment on the part of those who of substance and of absolutes. belong together." theological speculation became The same pope admitted that "a a search for consensus, which in balanced theological pluralism turn was found in praxis, the theo- finds its foundation in the very logical eq uivalent of process. Pop- mystery of Christ, the unfathomaular, observable behavior became ble riches of which go beyond the the norm of truth. The formation capacities of expression of all ages of conscience became almost a lost and all cultures." He observed art, as did the practice of confes- further: "The doctrine of the faith sion for huge numbers, since the . .. calls for ever new investientire notion of sin became at best gations.... speculative.

"The perspectives of the word of I suggest that an unnoticed result God are so numerous, and the of group .dynamics and process perspectives of the faithful who which has made episcopal teach- study it are so numerous, that ing exceedingly difficult is a form convergence in the same faith is of anti-intellectualism. The true never exempt from 'personal parand the good can be discerned ticularities in the adherence of only by feeling. It was understand- . each one. However ... the magisable that many young people turned terium of the church ... as the to Zen, while others turned to hard proximate norm, determines the rock music, drugs and free-for-all faith of all, and at the same time, sex. guarantees everyone against the It is nostalgic to read Fulton J. subjective judgment of all diverSheen's "Preface to Religion" writ- gent interpretations of the faith." ten in 1946: "An unequivocal voice So far, so good, but Pope Paul in your moral consciousness that VI speaks quite differently of the your acts of wrongdoing are abnotion of pluralism that"I believe normal facts in your nature." to be, in our own country, an illicit St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans extension of political pluralism. might describe reality much better today for millions. Until a new and serious recovery of commitment to "forming consciences" and young people are again taught about the confessional, moral insensitivity rooted in moral ignorance will be a major impediment to episcopal teaching.

"What are we to say of a pluralism that considers faith and its expression not as a common and, therefore, ecclesial heritage but as an. individual rediscovery of free criticism and free examination of God's word? In fact, without the i mediation of the magisterium of the church to which the Apostles entrusted their own magisterium and which, consequently, teaches , only 'what was transmitted,' secure ,union with Christ through the 'Apostles, namely, 'those who transmit what they have themselves received,' is compromised.

"For this reason, once perseverance in doctrine transmitted by the Apostles is compromised it happens that, wishing perhaps to elude the difficulties of the mystery, formulas of iUusory comprehensibility are sought which dissolve its real content; in this way doctrines are constructed which do not adhere to the objectivity of the faith or which are even contrary to it, and furthermore contain elements that contradict one another. ..

"The process we have described (the obscuring of the role of the church) takes the form of a doctri--, nal dissent which claims to be sponsored by theological pluralism and which is not infrequently carried to the point of dogmatic relativism... The internal oppositions affecting ~he different sectors of ecclesial life, if they are stabil. ized in a state of dissent, lead to setting up against the one institution and community of salvation, a plurality in institutions or communities of dissent which are not in conformity with the nature of , the church." (Hence, the bedeviling question of a variety of ecc1esiologies.)

Pope John Paul II summarizes it all in "Redemptor Hominis": "In the field of human knowledge, which is continually being broadened and yet differentiated, faith too must be investigated deeply, manifesting the magnitude' of reI vealed mystery and attending toward an understanding of truth, which has in God its one supreme source.

If it is permissible and even , desirable that the enormous work to be done in this direction should take into consideration a certain pluralism of methodology, the work cannot however depart from the I

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Pluralistic System Every American bishop, including myself, would fight fiercely to preserve the American pluralistic political system, safeguarded in part by constitutional checks and balances and by a very strong commitment to the principle of "one person, one vote." I do not know a single American bishop who would opt for a state church.

It has taken 200 years and some serious mis'takes to get our system to work, and it's still far from perfect. There can be no serious question, however, but that the church THE END PRODUCT ,of America's peaceful pluralistic has profited in countless ways. . political system, President George Bush, accompanied by his Political pluralism has been undergoing changes, however, in a ,,_.':ViJ~.; ,gr~~l~F()\Y.,Q"s,'It.tbeJjpcp),p, tvt cm<:lriaLJN Cj,UfiiiliQto)

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Speaking for his bro'ther bishops Continued from Page 12 quently when American bishops are perceived- as questioning the fundamental unity of the teaching authority of the Holy See, what of faith and morals which is that they are really doing is trying to work's end. Accordingly, close colmake things "work" in our culture laboration by theology with the - that is, to apply and to integrate magisterium is indispensable. into our culture in a meaningful Every theologian must be parand enduring way those Catholic ticularly aware of what Christ himteachings to which the culture is at self stated when he said: 'The word least alien, if not hostile. which you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.' Nobody, This, respectfully, is what I believe therefore, can make of theology as the Holy See must understand if, it were a simple collection of his indeed, misunderstanding has in own personal ideas, but everybody fact occurred. At the same time, it must be aware of being in close goes without elucidating, that the union with the mission of teaching American bishops must always retruth for which the church is recognize the Holy See's responsibilsponsible. " ity to preserve the Catholicity of While for the sake of clarity I our faith, and must take the long have proposed these three types of view of the church in all lands and uniquely "American" cultural all ages. To discredit either the forces confronting bishops in our Holy See or the American bishops culture in separate categories, they because of the problems confrontare obviously not discrete from ing both, is to discredit Noah's one another. On the contrary, they . Ark because of the flood. spill over into one another and I believe I see a new phenoreinforce one another, as the swirlmenon developing in the United ing together of many different States, which again, it would be bodies of water in which American mutually helpful for both Rome bishops must swim while trying to and the U.S. bishops to underhelp God's people reach solid stand. Through innumerable court ground - the rock of the church. decisions that nave made moral If American bishops occasionally relativism the norm, the inordifeel they are drowning, or. gasping nate power of television and movies for breath, the experience is emithat glorify sex and violence, and nently understandable. are inimical to family values and Keeping Afloat cynical of all authority, a public In my view, it is to the credit of educational system that has been American bishops, individually and almost totally secularized, and varcollectively, that they have sucious other factors, our American ceeded so frequently and so well in culture has been changing dramatkeeping God's people afloat. One ically in recent years. hears it said, at times, that the In response, I see the church Holy See does not understand the more and more becoming a counUnited States; hence, that the Holy terculture, a voice crying in the See does not appreciate the faith, wilderness. One need but examine the integrity and the loyalty of the recent documents of the National bishops of the United States. .

Conference of Catholic Bishops to Be that as it may, in my judgdiscover this trend. In my judgment, it would be helpful for the ment, it is a trend that must conHoly See to recognize that fre-

tinue. The great preacher-teacher, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen said it very clearly: "What the world needs is a voice that is right, not when the world is right, but a voice that is right when the world is wrong."

Finally, I am not unaware that those who assigned me to prepare this paper really didn't ask me to append my personal'advice, but I must run the risk. First, I believe it could help both Rome and the U.S. bishops if we would declare a moratorium on the use of the terms "liberal" and "conservative."

These are political terms, unworthy of bishops as teaclfers.

Paul VI reminded us that orthodoxy is the church's main concern, and the pastoral office is her most important, divinely willed mission.

Orthodoxy is neither liberal nor conservative, right-wing nor leftwing. Orthodoxy is orthodoxy, and we're all committed to it, lock, stock and barrel, however differently we may express ourselves as individuals. Second, I would suggest that while every bishop must teach with unambiguous clarity and courage - the courage of an Ignatius in the jaws of the lionswe must keep both our balance and our sense of hl!mor.

Nietzsche said, "The world no longer tJelieves because believers no longer sing." St. Augustine gave us the song: "You are an

St. Augustine succeeded in baptizing Plato rather than accepting his paganism. St. Thomas succeeded in baptizing Aristotle, rather than succumbing to his naturalistic philosophy. If thus far we bishops may seem to have accommodated too comfortably to the Third, there is an awful lot of moral relativism that characterizes good in our American culture, and much of American life, give us we bishops have learned from time.

America even while teaching it.

We have lots of water in our And we have learned to live with country, and we'll baptize our culits evils, while not being deceived ture yet. Some of us may not be by them. Our Holy Father has outstanding theologians, but when seen for himself the magnificent the chips are down, as we say in faith of countless millions of our路 'America, we know who we are. people. Some are weak, as we their We subscribe completely to Vatibishops are weak, some are sinful, can II's "Verbum Dei" that our as we their bishops are sinful, all preaching is "the preaching of those are very human, as are we their who have received through episbishops. copal succession the sure gift of truth."

Easter people, and your song is alleluia!" Pope John XXIII warned us not to be prophets of doom.

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St. Anne's School Jay Hoyle, author of "Mark," the story of his hemophiliac son's battle against AIDS, recently spoke to students at St. Anne's School, Fall River, in conjunction with the Human Sexuality Proschool's \ gram.

Hoyle discussed his family's experiences during his son's illness.

Third graders participated in"Children and Hospital Week" activities at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall - River.

Second graders were recently visited by a representative of the Association ofthe Blind. Sightlessness was discussed, and there was a question period.

Physical education teacher Jeff Lepage has coordinated special activities for first and eighth graders.

The younger students are participating in a swimming and water safety program at Durfee High School.

Grade eight students are involved in Project Adventure, which boosts self-esteem through indoor activities skills tests.

"Slim Goodbody," aka Bill Strong, will appear in a Home and School Association-sponsored musical health show to be presented Monday to kindergarten through grade three students. Also on Mon-

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day, grade six students will attend "Freedom Trail" at the Zeiterion Theatre, New Bedford.

School guidance counselor Sister Christopher O'Rourke, RSM, will conclude a series oflectures on parenting with presentations March 27 and April 10.

Students Christopher Kochanski, Bonnie-Lee Saccucci and Stephen Mello will participate in a March 31 to April2 regional Science Fair at Bristol Community College, Fall River.

Their projects were standouts among 104 projects at recent science fair.

Seventh grader Christopher was awarded a perfect first place score for "The Effects of Disinfectant on Bacteria."

David Melancon and Scott Cabral won grade four competition with Volcanoes.

"Crystals" by Jennifer Leatherwood and Magan Ratte took fifth grade honors.

A plants project by Scott Charette and Mark Camara won the sixth grade contest.

William Cox tOQk eighth grade first place with his project on diabetes, which earned a perfect score of 100.

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Bishop Stang High School The boys' track team at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, finished the 1988-89 season with a 5-4"-1 record. Jamie Santos, Kevin Dakin and John Ford earned S MC All-Star honors.

The girls' team finished 3-7. Katie Rivet, undefeated in her specialty, the 50-yard hurdles, was named to the SMC All-Star squad along with An~e Flaherty and Cathy Baptiste.

• • • • Boy basketbailers finished I i and 9, their first winning season in four years. Ted Sisson and Russell Ford were selected SMC All-Stars.

JV hoopers had a fantastic 15-3 season. Freshmen finished 6 and

10.

The girls' team also finished II and 9, ending their season with a four-game winning streak and taking the Coyle Holiday Tourney crown. Nikki Cloutier had a record-setting senior year. With a 29-point outburst against Falmouth, she set a new scoring record for the girls' program, breaking Denise Higgins' nine-year record and becoming Stang's fourth 1,000point scorer.

Nikki, who finished her fouryear career with 1,029 points, was selected a SMC All-Star.

JV girls had an 8-8 record, frosh were 8 and 6.

• • • • The school's Winter Sports Award Banquet was held March 16. A weight training competition is scheduled for March 30.

Spring Sports Night is on tap for April 4. Members of spring' sports teams will attend with their

parents and see a presentation on alcohol.

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Stang seeks records of students who have received sports awards.

Names of Lynch Award winners from 1978 to 1985 are needed, as are those of 1979 to 1984 Dougall Award recipients.

Information can be sent to the school, 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth 02747, care of William Hart.

JEFFREY Perry, a fifth grader at St. Anne's School, Fall River, dressed as an American Indian of the northeast during a presentation on native Americans by staff ofthe Haffenreffer Museum of Bristol, R.I. (Almeida photo)

ANTHONY NUNES as Archbishop Romero.

Archbishop Romero honored at Coyle and Cassidy High The Drama Club at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, recently presented "The Fifth Sun," a play about assassinated EI Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.

The presentation, dedicated to the memory of recently-deceased CC academic principal and Spanish teacher Norma Mulryan, focused on the archbishop from his 1977 installation to his death.

The play marked the first time that CC faculty joined students as actors in a school production. Foreign languages department head Anthony Nunes took the role of Archbishop Romero.

Spanish teacher Bill Breen and Portuguese and religion teacher Victor Augusto also were in the cast.

Student participants included Lori Correia, Julie Cayon, Maureen O'Shea, Jennifer Moniz, Melanie Roderique, Heather Hopkins, David Melanson, Mike McCarthy, Tim Booker, David Lima and Melissa Battaglia.

The play, directed by faculty members Carol Caulfield and Elizabeth Figlock, was performed in conjunction with the CC's Peace and Justice Day, which included a keynote address and presentations and displays by. local persons involved with peace and justice issues.

Coyle-Cassidy is the only secondary school in the country to honor Archbishop Romero's memory by

establishing a Spanish Honor Society chapter in his name.

St. William's wins prep hoop title The Diocesan CYO prep basketball title was captured last week

by St. William's parish, Fall River, which defeated the squad from St. Paul's, Taunton, in two straight games.

The Fall Riverites took the Tauntonians down 65 to 57 in the first game, which was played in Fall River. St. Paul's had a IO-point lead (37-27) at halftime but only dunked 20 in the second half, to St. William's 38.

T.J. Rebello of St. William's was the game's high scorer, with 41 points. St. Paul's best shooters were Chris Grundy, Brian Ferris, Marc Furtado and Sean Levesque, with 18, 13, 12 and 10 points.

Even play on their home turf couldn't save the Silver City team.

St. Paul's lost the second game 76 to 67. At the end of the first half the teams were tied at 32.

Rebello, with 29 points, agaIn took top scoring honors. His teammates John Cabral, Mark Correia and Jay Bombeck dunked 19, 13 and 10 points.

Taunton's Grundy shot 31 points in the second game, and Furtado and Ferris lent, respectively, 13' and 12 points to St. Paul's score.

SSe Peter and Paul School At a recent Science Night at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, students in grades one through four submitted inventions, fifth through seventh graders shared their 'investigations and eighth graders conducted demonstrations.

Fifth-graders Joshua Jorge and Elizabeth Levesque, sixth-grader .I oseph Raposa and seventh-grader Stacy Primo were awarded certificates for their choice of original questions to investigate; fifth-graders Kerri Schoonover and Alyssa Niewola and sixth-graders Tiffany Meagher and Kelly Gorman received awards for good use of the scientific method ..

Fifth-graders Marc Pimentel, Louis Vieira, Andrew Javier, Matthew Featherstone, Paul Medeiros and Gary Miguel and sixth-grader Korey Doyle received awards for effective displays. Fifth-graders David McCaughey, Scott Pacheco

and Matthew Furtado and sixthgraders Stacy Santos and Michael Perry were cited for effective oral presentations.

Awards for scientific potential went to seventh-graders Amy Pereira, Jason Carreiro and Jason Williams. Third-grader John Dias and fourth-grader Maegan Carvalho were awarded certificates for creative use of materials in their inventions.

Third-graders Christopher and Shelley Medeiros and fourth-graders Heather Rocha and Adam Iveson received certificates for inventing useful items.

Certificates for original ideas were awarded to fourth-graders Jessica Williams, Jodi Perreira and Stephanie Richard. Third-graders Joseph Dacey, Bethany Strojny and Kathryn McCaughey received awards for inventions with clever names.

James Agar, a senior at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, has been named the, Rhode Island Jaycees representative for the United States Jaycees War Memorial Fund Scholarship competition. Seven finalists will be selected from the 50 state nominees.

Agar is vice-president of his class, a coeditor of the Connolly newspaper and a member of the National Honor Society and Forc;ign Language Club. He will be a student member of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at Massachusetts Student Govern-' ment Day on April 7. He is also involved in Junior Achievement and is an Eagle Scout.'

In round two of the 1989 Massachusetts Mock Trial competition, the Bishop Connolly Law Team defeatd Mansfield Middle School.

The case was heard in the Second District Court of Fall River, with Judge Milton Silva presiding. Jake Talbot led Connolly's winning defense team of Jason Brum, Henri Lapointe, Beth Morrissette and Diane Rego. Team members Peter Raymond, Paula DaSouza and Helena Pacheco served as defense witnesses. The Connolly barristers now hold a I-I record.

Connolly seniors Craig Aumann, Scott Storey, Skip Langton and Bob Dufault were members of the Area High School Seniors AllStar Team which played the Bristol County CYO· All-Stars in the recent Annual Rev. Charles Donovan Scholarship Award game in Fall River. The CYO team prevailed, but Aumann scored the final goal for the Senior All-Stars.

Connolly seniors Stephanie Ciosek and Glen Chretien have been selected Teenagers of the Month for February by the Greater Fall River Elks. Stephanie is coeditor of the yearbook. cheerleader captain, a National Honor Society member, a peer ministry participant, a member of the ski club and the school chorus. She has also been active in Junior Achievement and was recently a guest disc jockey during JA Day at Fall River's WSAR radio station.

Chretien is captain of the Speech and Debate Team, coeditor of the newspaper and a member of Connolly's National Honor Society chapter Chess Club and Foreign Language Club.

Donations were accepted from students and faculty for the school's annual Easter food drive. Faculty member John Leidecker organized the campaign with the assistance of religious education classes and members of the National Honor Society. Last year over 50 local families were assisted.

TV violence SAN DIEGO (NC) - While violence on television wouldn't cause most children to commit violent acts, overexposure can lessen their sensitivity to violence, says Mercy Sister Camille D'Arienzo. The nun, who teaches at Ilrooklyn College in New York, spoke at a Catholic Residential ~are for Children Conference re~ently held in San Diego.

Television violence can cause people to "become desensitized and view the world as a dangerous, predatory environment,'" Sister P' Arienzo said. Children who bring weapons to school or join gangs do so thinking they need to protect themselves from that dangerous world, she said.

Easter show stars nun MILWAUKEE (NC) - As an artist, Sister Helena Steffens-meier, .88, usually speaks the language of art.

But recently, when a CBS television crew filmed a story about her, . the School Sister of St. Francis learned the language of TV. She is highlighted .in a segment of the CBS Charles Kuralt program, "Sunday Morning." scheduled to be aired Easter Sunday.

Spending nearly seven hours a day in her fourth-floor studio at St. Joseph Convent in Milwaukee, Sister Steffens-meier fashions works in wood, paint and woolen yarns on silk.

CBS learned of her from Eleanor Guilbert, the religious community's communications director.

"She's just a delightful person and she has a significant amount of art work," Ms. Guilbert told the Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Milwaukee archdiocese. "She is a deeply spiritual woman who continues to work at her age. She just seemed like she would be a good story."

A CBS crew headed by producer Mary Lou Teel filmed the story.

"My senior producer thought she looked like a wonderful person," Ms. Teel said. "Her art work is beautiful, and he decided it would make a nice piece. Sister is really special; she was just terrific."

When she heard she would be featured, said Sister Steffens-meier, a nun for 70 years, "I was very surprised and a little shocked. It was all new to me.

"I'm not used to being in the limelight," the nun added. ''I'm satisfied just staying in my room and doing my work."

Ms. Teel arrived in Milwaukee. on a Monday and explored the convent and studio to get ideas for the story. The camera crew arrived the next day.

For about 90 minutes, the cameras zeroed in on Sister Steffensmeier stitching in her studio, then followed her during her daily routine. When it was time for an adoration hour in the chapel, the crew went along, with the film rolling.

After a lunch break, Ms. Teel interviewed Sister Steffens-meier.

That day's work rook about eight hours and Sister Steffensmeier thought the project was finished. But the camera crew met her in the chapel the next day to film her at 7 a.m. Mass. Next, the nun's artworks, located in different parts

of the' convent, were taped, then the cameras went to Alverno College, where Sister Steffens-meier is a professor emeritus and artistin-residence. . The whole segment was completed afterfour days of shooting and Ms. Teel said the end result would be an 8- to IO-minute story.

Sister Steffens-meier said that "I hope [viewers) can get a messge that you don't do anything yourself. It's all through the energy of the Lord."

She also hopes her religious community will benefit. "If one member glories, all members glory with it," she said.

Holy Narne School An art fair, with sculpture, drawing, textile and painting categories, was recently held at Holy Name School, Fall River. Students' work was gr'ouped in three categories: lower level, grades one through three; middle level, four through six; and upper level, seven and eight.

Judges were Jean E. Staiti, Fall River public schools director of fine arts, and Paul Hughes, a public schools art teacher.

The exhibit was open for public viewing.

Sculpture winners were, lower level, James Bigelow, Daniel Therrin and Nicholas Mello; middle level: Nicole Gaspar, Jenny Lynn and David Botelho; upper level: Andrea Perkins and Carrie Pochon.

James Bigelow, Elizabeth Rogers and PatricK Duddy were lower level drawing winners. Kevin Correia, Kerri Timberlake and Christine Bigelow were top middle level entrants.

Michaela Gagne was honored for her lower level textile work.

Middle level winners in that category were Stephanie Melo, Rachel Gagne and Jessica Romeo.

Painting winners were, lower level: Gregory Luzitano, Brendan Rogers and Cheryl De Melo; middle level: Kim Falconero, Jessica Cabral and Marcie Falconero.

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tv, movIe news New Films "The Adventures orBaron Munchausen" (Columbia) In an effort to prove his bravado, the baron (John Neville) and his IO-year-old traveling companion (Sarah Polley) become embroiled in a series of wacky adventures. Special effects will entrance all ages, but the plot is bloated. Children will be more confused than entertained. Minimal sexual innuendo, a flash of nudity and much comic-book violence.

A2, PG. "Chances Are"(Tri-Star) Delightful fluff about a 40-year-old (Cybill Shepherd) who is reunited with her husband when he returns to life 20 years later in the body of a young aspiring journalist (Robert Downey Jr.). Some sexual innuendoes and an implied illicit liaison.

A3, PG. "Heart of Midnight" (Goldwyn) When a disturbed young woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) inherits a former sex club from her sleazy uncle, she hopes to turn it into a classy nightclub. But she is tormented by unseen demons that seem to haunt the place or her mind. Empty-headed psychological thriller includes a brief but brutal rape and sex tape action in long shot. Sexually suggestive, nudity, profanity, intense menace, gratuitous grisly violence. O,R. "New York Stories" (Touchstone) An inspired trilogy of dra-

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matic vignettes filmed in and about New York City. Their directors are Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and Woody Allen. Some sexual banter and suggestions of illicit liaisons. A3, PG. "Out Cold" (Hemdale) Offbeat black comedy about two butchers (John Lithgow and Bruce McGill) whose longtime business partnership ends abruptly when one freezes to death in their meat locker after his wife intentionally locks him in for the night. Humorless. Acasual treatment of adultery, some flashes of nudity and profanity. A3, R. "Police Academy 6: City Under Siege" (Warner Bros.) The crackpot cop team is back, this time to rid the city of an insidious gang of thieves. Tired ..Minimal vulgar references and some comic-book violence. A2, PG. Film on TV Tuesday, April 4, 9-11 p.m. EDT (CBS) - "Rocky IV" (1985) Sylvester Stallone gets back into the ring for the fight of his life against a Russian Olympic boxing machine (Dolph Lundgren). The sensitive may find the fight scenes too brutal. A3, PG.

Religious TV Sunday, March 26, 10-11 a.m.

EST (NBC) - "Easter in Rome."

NBC News Rome correspondent Stephen Frazier anchors this special on the religious observances of Holy Week and Ea'ster led by Pope John Pau'llI in Rome. Culminates with coverage of the pope offering Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. Commentary by Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

Should be law WASHINGTON (NC) - The Fairness Doctrine, a policy guaranteeing balanced broadcasts on controversial issues, should be enacted into law, a U.S. Catholic Conference official said in a letter to members of the House of Representatives. Richard W. Daw, US'CC secretary for communications, urged House members to support and cosponsor legislation introduced by Rep. John.Dingell, D-Mich., to reinstate and enforce the Fairness Doctrine. The Federal Communications Commission voted to abolish the doctrine in 1987, shortly after President Reagan vetoed legislation that would have made it law.

Religious Radio Sunday, March 26 (NBC) "Guideline" - Marist Father Roger McCarrick discusses his work as director of religious edu-

UThis is where God wants me. "

Sister Mary Francis Age: 40 Native of: Altoona, PA Interests: Reading, needlework

Education aide WASHINGTON (NC) - Christian Brother William Rhody, director of education for the Minnesota bishops' conference, has been named staff assistant for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Catholic Conference's Department of Education.

"It wasn't until I was 36 ·that I began to experience an emptiness, and expectation of something more. God led me here, where I have found purpose and meaning. I feel a sense of wonde;, a sense ofjoy and peace.

I am the happiest I have ever been. "

DOMINICAN SISTERS OF HAWTHORNE A religious community of Catholic women with seven modern nursing facilities in six states. Our one apostolate is to nurse incurable cancer patients. This work is a practical fulfillment of our faith.

The most important talent, hIghly prized by us, is the'talent for sharing of yourself - your compassion, your cheerfulness, your faith -·with those who have been made so vulnerable and dependent by this dread disease.

Not all of our sisters are nurses, but as part of our apostolate, all directly help in the care of the patients.

If you think you have a religious vocation and would like to know more' about our work and community life, ,why not plan to visit with us. We would be happy to share with you a day f(om oiJr lives.

Write: Sr. Anne Marie DOMINICAN SISTERS OF HAWTHORNE Rosary Hill Home 600 Linda Avenue Hawthorne, New York 10532 or call: (914) 769-4794 SISTER Steffens-meier is filmed In her Milwaukee art studio. (NC photo)

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NEWMAN LECTURE, SMU Newman Lecture Series talk, "The Sacred and the Secular," by Victor Caliri, noon Monday, Board of Governors room, Student Center; information: 999-8224.

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HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO RCIA inquiry session I p.m. April 2; youth group meeting 7 p.m. April 2, parish center; Women's Guild meeting 7 p.m. Monday.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Women's Guild board members will host a Diocesan Council of Catholic Women board meeting at 2 p.m. April 2 in the lower church.

Men's Club communion breakfast at The Cleaver, Orleans, follows 10 a.m. Mass April 16.

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ST. DOMINIC,SWANSEA Youth ministry team organizational meeting 8 p.m. f\prillO, lower rectory. Information: 679-6329.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Children's Easter egg hunt II :30 a.m. Sunday, CCD center.

ST. JAMES, NB Daniel Gioiosa, Gregory Morelli and Jason Rapoza have been promoted to senior altar boys. CYO council meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday, parish center, general meeting I p.m.

April 9. Confirmation retreat April I, Cathedral Camp.

ECHO OF CAPE COD Boys' retreat weekend April 7 to 9.

Information: 888-3112.

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Women's Club meeting after 7 p.m. Mass March 28, parish hall.'No school March27: free day given by Bishop Cronin at time St. Mary-.

Sacred Heart School merited accreditation certificate.

ST. MARYS FAIRHAVEN Parish council meets each second Tuesday; all parishioners welcome.

Smoking is banned in parish public buildings, effective next month.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Scripture Day 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 8, school, sponsored by diocesan committee for charismatic renewal with Father John Randall as speaker; Easter egg hunt for children to grade 4 sponsored by youth ministry after 10:30 a.m. Mass April 2.

ST. KILIAN, NB Healing service 3 p.m. April 2, church; all welcome; free parking/ free admission. .

CATHEDRAL, FR Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will celebrate 7 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass tomorrow.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Prayer meetings begin with Mass 7 p.m. Wednesdays.

DOMINICAN ACADEMY, FR Fifth graders' reading projects are displayed at South Branch Public Library.

FATHER EdwardJ. Byington, pastor of Sacred Heart parish, Fall River, and a former FBI special agent, will speak at 6:30 p.m. April"l at St. Joseph's parish, Central Falls, R.I., during the church's traditional swieconka or Easter supper.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH The parish congratulates new altar boys Craig Bialey, Michael Bouchard, Nathaniel Chandler, Daniel Gonet, Stephen Medeiros, Jason Silva, Thomas Zuber and Patrick Zuber.

Ladies' Guild scholarship applications available in rear of church; application deadline: April I.

LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO Silent retreat April 14 to 20 for clergy, religious and lay men and women directed by Father Gilles Genest, MS, and Sister Patricia Cocozza, SND; "Draw Deeply from the Well" guided silent retreat same dates directed by Sister Cocozza and Father Edmond Bourque, MS; information: 222-8530.

ST. ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. (holy hour 5 p.m.)

April 2, St. Sharbel Chapel.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, NB , Holy hour 7 p.m. Monday, St. Theresa's Church, New Bedford; celebrant: Father Robert Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River; all welcome. Exposition Fridays at St. Theresa's after 9 a.m.

Mass to 7 p.m. Benediction; information: Angelo DeBortoli, 996-0332.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Parish youth minister Bobbi Paradise attended a recent New England Youth Gathering accompanied

by Hope Connolly, Kathl~en Lees, Chris Colebourn and Pat Clark.

Youth Ministry participants will visit New York March 31 - April 2 to work with New York teens on a housing or soup kitchen project.

WIDOWED SUPPORT WEEKEND Support weekend for widowed April 14-16, sponsored by Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth; infor,mation: 998-3269.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK CYO basketball banquet after '11:30 a.m. Mass April 2, church baement; Boy Scout banquet 6:30 p.m. April 14, church basement; rollerskating 10 a.m. to noon April 19.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, FR Greater Fall River widowed support group meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sacred Heart parish center, Fall I

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SEPARATED AND DIVORCED, NB New Bedford separated and divorced support group meeting 7 p.m.

Monday, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth; Dorothy Levesque, director ofProvidence diocesan office for separated and divorced will speak.

SS. PF;TER AND PAUL, FR CYO trip to Boston Red Sox game April 23.

O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE . Day of Recollection Arpilll with 10 a.m. Mass and address by Father Richard Bourgeois on "Is There Life After 50?"

I O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Prayer meetings begin with Mass -7 p.m. Wednesdays.

Popularity lost MANILA, Philippines (NC) Three years ago, when the country ~as in political turmoil, the most popular radio station in the Philippines was the Catholic Church's Radio Veritas. Today some in Manila say most Filipinos would not know its number on the dial. The 'station faces problems of undertrained staff, limited finances and an apparently unattractive program mix.

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