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Politics of capital punishment Massachusetts Catholic Conference opposes Weld stance

SISTER BETH MAHONEY

Taunton sister tapped for national teleconference Sister Beth Mahoney, CSC, pastoral minister at St. Joseph's .parish, Taunton, will be a panelist on a national teleconference to be broadcast from Washington, D.C., from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, and to be carried live on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN).

The program, one of a series of teleconferences jointly sponsored by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Pastoral Life Center, will have as its topic Non-Ordained Ministry in the Church in the 90s.

St. Joseph's is one of 50 parishes throughout the nation participating in the final phase of a survey bl;ing conducted for the U.S. bishops by the Pastoral Life Center; and Sister Mahoney's contributions to parish life were identified in the course of a 1991 visit to the Taunton plant by a survey representative.

The completed study, focusing on lay and religious ministry in parishes, will be forthcoming shortIy. Also participating in its final phase is Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville.

Sister Mahoney has served at St. Joseph's since August, 1988.

Already qualified as a paralegal and the holder of a master's degree in counseling and pastoral care when she came to the parish, she conducts such services as novenas, stations of the cross, blessing of thrQats and distribution of ashes.

She also offers prayers for the departed at wakes and interments and in recent months, since St. Joseph's has been functioning with only one priest, she has officiated twice a week at prayer services in lieu of Mass.

Her other responsibilities include working with lectors and eucharistic ministers, leading Bible study groups, making communion calls to shut-ins and counseling those with problems. She also meets with those planning marriage and baptism of infants.

Sister Mahoney is a native ofSt. Kilian's parish, New Bedford, and was the parish presentee at the 1971 Bishop's Ball. She is a graduate of the former Holy Family High School, New Bedford, and Notre Dame College, Manchester, NH. During her high school and college years, she was a counselor at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, and after college and paralegal training, she worked at a Manchester crisis center as a legal advocate for battered women and their children.

Of her latest distinction, St. Joseph's pastor Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington says "Our entire parish community of faith takes enormous pride and encouragement from this recognition of Sister's ministry in our midst and of our openness as a parish family to new and urgently needed forms of ministry in the Church of this day and a~e."

And Sister Beth says, "I may be the one going to Washington, but it is certainly the ministry we have shared here at St. Joseph's with Msgr. Harrington, Father Boffa and the parish family that is also very much included in this telecast.

"The eiitiit paiish family owns some of this joy and has' helped manifest the building up of God's kingdom. When I travel to Washington, in my heart I will be bringing with me the parish, the diocese and my religious family."

Alice Miller, director of Amnesty WASHINGTON (CNS) - As A proposal by Massachusetts Garrey Carruthers prepared to take Gov. William Weld is potentially International USA's Program to over the New Mexico governor's the most significant effort to rein- Abolish'the Death Penalty, sees office late in 1986, he made it clear state the death penalty in more support for the death penalty as "a "the first piece of paper he wanted than a decade. Although Weld has mile wide and an inch deep," exto see on his desk was a death war- yet to introduce a capital punish- plaining that once advocates of rant," said his predecessor, former ment bill this term, he submitted capital punishment are pressed one last year and has promised to about circumstances under which Gov. Toney Anaya. they would condone executions, After a campaign that focused do so again.

Death penalty support in the much of the support drops off. almost exclusively on the death penalty and crime control, Anaya state has been as high as 70 percent In California made a final stand of conscience recently, but the Massachusetts Meanwhile, in California Los Council of Churches, the state's before leaving office.

Angeles Cardinal Roger M. MaHe commuted the sentences of Catholic conference and the Boseveryone on New Mexico's death ton archdiocese are collecting sig- hony and San Francisco Archrow, effectively eliminating any natures and planning other efforts bishop John R. Quinn are preparchance Carruthers could carry out to stop Weld's proposal. Also ing to reaffirm the church's opamong those opposed are the Mas- position to the death penalty as the his promised executions.

Anaya is the only governor in sachusetts Bar Association and state approaches its first execution in 25 years. recent history to have carried per- many prosecutors.

The prelates are expected to sonal opposition to the death . penalty to such an extent. Five Capital punishment is often release a statement opposing capiyears later, he remains convinced treated as a cure-all by politicians ' tal punishment and asking Gov. it was the right thing to do. confronted on crime, acording to Pete Wilson to commute the death He has company in that opinion. . writer E.J. Dionne, a Fall River sentence of convicted murderer SiI1ce 1974 the U.S. Catholic native and author of"Why Ameri- Robert Alton Harris. Harris is scheduled to be put to death in the bishops have been on record as cans Hate Politics."

"Politicians talk about the death state's gas chamber April 21. opposing capital punishment. In The California Catholic Con1978 they reiterated their stand, in penalty increasingly because it's a the belief that a return to the use of lot more comfortable than to talk ference will encourage Catholics the death penalty can only lead to about cops being killed and crime to take part in prayer services, the further erosion of respect for in the streets," said Dionne in a marches and other activities indilife in our society." Pope John recent talk to Catholic social min- cating opposition to the execution.

Harris was convicted 13 years Paul II has also issued statements istry workers.

In 1986 Anaya's action drew ago of murdering two 16-year-old against the death penalty and has personaIly requested clemency for immediate applause from churches boys. He kidnapped them from a and various groups against the fast-food restaurant, shot them several condemned persons.

Although many studies show death penalty, but it also stirred a and used their car to rob a San that prospect of the death penalty st.orm of negative response. The Diego bank.

Thomas Chabolla of the Los does not deter crime, Massachu- legislature heatedly debated whethsetts and the District of Columbia er to restrict the governor's power Angeles Archdiocese's Office of are attempting to reinstate capital to commute sentences, but in the Peace and Justice, said he fears Harris' execution would "open the punishment after highly publicized end, the commutations stood. . floodgates" for more executions in A Catholic, Anaya saw his 1986 murders in Boston and Washington and a change of governors in decision as the inevitable response the state. There are more than 325 to his moral and religious beliefs.

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Thousands in U.5. eiuolled in R CIA WASHINGTON (CNS) - Tens of thousands of people across America formally declared their intention to become Catholics as they joined their bishops in celebrations March 7 and 8. The number includes 154 in the Fall River diocese.

The figures across the country indicate the growing importance of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults in U.S. Catholic life.

They also marked a "dramatic shift" in recent years to celebrating the rite at the diocesan level instead of in parishes, said Thomas H. Morris, executive director of the North American Forum on the Catechumenate.

Actually, two rites are celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent, ordinarilly with the local bishop presiding, the Rite of Election for catechumens and the Call to Continuing Conversion for candidates.

In Fall River the presiding priest was Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan administrator.

Four dioceses in Illinois had a combined total of more than 3,700 catechumens and candidates: 726 in Joliet, 496 in Springfield, 338 in Belleville and 2,200 in Chicago, second-largest archdiocese in the . nation.

In Miami, Fla., 500 catechumens and candidates enrolled in a multilingual ceremony.

For the second year in a row the Atlanta archdiocese rented the Georgia World Congress Center for the event: the cathedral could not hold the 800 candidates and catechumens and the 1,700 sponsors, family and friends.

From U.S. dioceses that reported comparisons of 1992 figures with those of previous years, there ·emerged a remarkably consistent pattern of increases, with Fall River up from 45 persons in 1989 to this year's 154.

The figures suggest that the RCIA, inaugurated in 1972 as part of the church's overall revival of liturgical and sacramental life after the Second Vatican Council, has come of age in the U.S. church.

In the early years, said Morris, there was confusion over differences between preparation of catechumens and candidates, and many already baptized were treated as catechumens.

Over the years the differences between the groups have become clearer and the distinctive parts of each program have been implemented more fully, he said.

As other indications that RCIA use is maturing, he cited a growing integration ofliturgy and catechetical formation in U.S. programs and a marked increase in use of the RCIA for children who are entering the church.

Reunion chairman Laurence Noonan of North Easton, a 1967 graduate of St. Michael's College, Colchester, Vt., is social chair for his class, helping organize events for its 25th reunion, to be held June II to 14.

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bailout? With one in five American children at risk of hunger and other poverty-related problems, spending for children's food programs lags far behind that for bullets and banks. (Bread for the World graphic and photo)

Two projects seek to aid U.8. hungry With Catholic News Service reports The alleviation of hunger is the focus of both an area and a national campaign. In Boston, the 23rd Walk for Hunger, America's largest annual one-day fund raiser to fight local hunger, is set for Sunday, May 3, rain or shine.

Weather will not affect a national letter-writing campaign sponsored

by Bread for the World, a Christian citizens' anti-hunger organization which is calling on the nation's churches to participate in a major effort to spur political support for bills addressing childhood hunger in the United States.

Boston Walk The Boston Walk will begin at the Common between 7 and 9 a.m.

May 3. Its 20-mile route will take walkers past Boston College and Harvard University and back to the starting point. Organizers say the entire Walk takes from five to eight hours to complete; but participants are welcome to walk only a part of the route.

Some43,000 walkers are expected on May 3, and the project's goal is to raise $3 million for 375 emergency feeding programs in Massachusetts. In the Fall River diocese, they include services in Attleboro, Bourne, Fall River, Hyannis, Martha's Vineyard, New Bedford, Raynham, Sagamore and Taunton.

Among them, one is based at St. Joseph's Church, Taunton, while Sister Kathleen Murphy, OP, of the Dominican Sisters ofthe Presentation is among founders of Fall River's Community Food Pantry; and Sister Rosellen Gallogly, RSM, is a founder of Market Ministries in New Bedford.

Full information on the Walk is available from Walk for Hunger, II Beacon St., Room 800, Boston 02108, telephone (617) 723-5000.

Bread for the World Bread for the World's 1992 Offering of Letters campaign focuses on "Every Fifth Child" and is based on figures showing that one in five U.S. children under age 18 is poor.

The letters, written by church members asking members of Congress to support bills that address childhood hunger in the United States, are often collected at the offertory and offered to God as a gift of citizenship before being mailed to Congress.

The campaign asks for more funding for Head Start, Job Corps and the Women, Infants and Child-

ren special supplemental food pro- gress unanimously and prompted gram. the administration to take an active The WIC program reaches only role in helping to end famine in 55 percent of eligible participants, Africa. Letters from Catholics also Bread for the World said in an helped bring about a $156 million announcement. Head Start reaches increase for WIC last year, the only 28 percent of those eligible, largest increase in many years. and Job Corps serves only 14 perAn Every Fifth Child kit from cent of eligibl~ youth.

Bread for the World contains backThe campaign also calls for ground information, answers to reform of the federal budget pro- questions people may ask, a fact cess to allow money saved in mil- sheet on childhood hunger, and itary spending cuts to be shifted to summaries ofthe WIC, Head Start programs that help needy children. and Job Corps programs.

Catholics can participate in this It also includes a sample preseneffort individually or by holding tation that can be made in churches; Offerings of Letters services in a study guide for church groups, a churches. bulletin insert, a worship aid with John Carr, executive secretary sam'ple prayers, activities for of the U.S. Catholic Conference's children, hints on writing letters to Social Development and World Congress and newspaper editors Peace Office, states, "The "Every and a poster.

Fifth Child" campaign is an excelFurther information on the kits lent way to carry out the thrust of is available from Bread for the the Catholic bishops' statement, World, attn. Katherine Smith, 802 "Putting Children and Families Rhode Island Ave. N.E., WashingFirst." Bread for the World's ton, DC 20018, telephone (202) Offering of Letters gives parish- 269-0200. ioners a concrete means to act on childhood hunger. I encourage Prayer Catholics to get involved in this "To say that we must not pray effort," Catholics have been participat- . that we may get something from ing in Offerings of Letters since God, because the order of his plan 1976. In 1991, Catholic churches is unchangeable, is like saying that held Offerings of Letters in sup- we must not walk in.order to arrive port of Bread for the World's at a place, nor eat that we may Horn of Africa Recovery and Food have nourishment."-St. Thomas Security Act. The bill passed Con- Aquinas

...and Bishops' Overseas Appeal reaches out to Earth's poor The American Bishops' Overseas Appeal, to be conducted this weekend in diocesan parishes, relieves human suffering throughout the world, working through four agencies: • Catholic Relief Services, the bishops' official overseas relief and development agency, which provides emergency relief and longterm developmental aid to more than 60countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America. CRS focuses on helping people develop lasting -solutions to poverty. It responds to natural disasters throughout the world and carries out emergency relief programs in such Third World nations as Ethiopia, Sudan, Angola and Liberia.

• Migration and Refugee Services, which offers reception and placement programs for refugees

and immigration counseling for those unable to afford private legal assistance. The agency also speaks for the bishops on public policy issues concerning refugees and immigrants, this year taking up the cause of those fleeing Haiti; aids in integrating newcomers into the life oflocal churches through its Office for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees; and offers fellowship and pastoral care to merchant seamen and their families.

• Holy Father's Relief Program, which helps victims of natural disasters and other emergencies throughout the world.

• U.S. Catholic Conference .Department ofSocial Development and World Peace, a public policy agency which provides legislative and policy analysis and service to diocesan offices, working with

Father John J. Oliveira, parochial vicar at St. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River, will lead a Lenten mission at St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, March 28 through April 2.

Father Oliveira will preach at weekend Masses March 28 and 29 and at 7:30 p.m. services March 30 to April2. The sacrament of reconciliation will be offered April I. Babysitting will be provided by adults and members of the parish youth ministry and confirmation class beginning at 7 p.m. on the nights of the mission. Transportation can also .be arranged.

"The parish of St. John the Evangelist invites one and all to participate in this special Lenten mission," said Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, pastor, "We hope it is a time for all to recognize both the positive and negative things going on in our lives. The mission is a call to spend time in prayer and, if necessary, to make some changes in the way we live."

Father Oliveira, a Taunton native, was ordained in 1977 and has served parishes in Fall River and New Bedford. Recognized nationally as a leader in ministry to Portuguese immigrants, he has preached several missions in parishes throughout New England.

Pro-life workshop scheduled "The Parish Pro-Life Committee: What to Do and How to Do It," a workshop for parish pro-life representatives and other interested persons, will be offered 7 to 9 p.m.

April21 at St. Mary's Church hall, Fairhaven.

Sponsored by the Diocesan ProLife Apostolate, it will have as presenter Joyce Lively, coordinator of the Pro-Life Office for the diocese of Camden, NJ. Active in the apostolate for eight years, she has presented numerous conferences in her own diocese, where she is also chairman of the Diocesan Committee on Parental Rights.

Mrs. Lively has spoken at the annual National Conference for Pro-Life directors, sponsored by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and is the founder of the Regina Coeli Institute, publisher of "A Pro-Life Primer: the ABCs of Working in the Parish."

Each workshop participant will receive a copy of the book.

For registration information, contact the Diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate, 500 Slocum Rd., North Dartmouth 02747-2999; tel. 9972290, before April 5.

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social ministry and peace and justice offices in building local capacity to carry out Catholic social teaching.

The spiritual and physical needs of our brothers and sisters 'overseas are many, and contributions to the bishopg' overseas eoiiection this weekend can make a tremendous difference in individual lives.

Jesus calls us to love our neighbors and share what we have with those in need - and in today's world our neighbors are no longer simply those in our own country.

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Falmo..th meeting topic to be distribution of condoms in schools

Fri., Mar. 27, 19923

Dr. Mildred Jefferson and Atty.

Robert Scandura will speak. Dr. Jefferson, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, is assistant clinical professor at Boston University School of Medicine. Atty. Scandura practices in the town of Barnstable.

Medical and legal aspects of condom distribution in the Falmouth school system will be discussed at a public meeting to be sponsored by the Committee of Concerned Citizens at 7:30 p.m. . March 30 at Morse Pond School, Jones Road, Falmouth.

Parents and all other interested persons are invited to attend the meeting.

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Priests at USAir crash laud rescuers' BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) Local priests on the scene of the March 22 crash of a USAir jetliner at La Guardia Airport said they were impressed at the response by New York City rescue worl~ers.

So was Brooklyn Bishop Thomas V. Daily, who issued a statement March 23 saying the tragedy "demonstrated once again the strength our city has in its emergency medical workers, police and firefighters, who responded so quickly."

He also applauded the "many clergy who reached the scene, ministering with compassion to the survivors and offering prayers for the deceased. They are all authentic heroes," said Bishop Daily.

"We New Yorkers are in their debt."

The bishop also expressed his sympathy to families of those who died in the crash of USAir Flight 405.

"My heart goes out to the families.... I share their pain and their agony and pray that they will receive God's consolation," he said.

"I also pray for the survivors, that they will gain full recovery, physically and emotionally," said Bishop Daily.

Twenty-seven of the flight's 47 passengers and four crew members were killed in !he. crash.

The plane had just lifted off the ground, witnesses said, when it crashed back onto the runway, skidded over an embankment into Flushing Bay and broke apart.

The nose, wing .and engine snapped off and the rest of the plane exploded into a fireball and moved into the icy water with its top sheared off.

Survivors suffered injuries ranging from minor to severe burns.

Rescue divers found dead passengers caught in the fuselage,

floating head down, still strapped. into floating seats. Some were charred; others appeared to have drowned.

Father Patrick Frawley, associatejudicial vicar at the Brooklyn Diocesan Tribunal, called the city's response "amazing."

"Within 20 minutes ofthe crash, there were already hundreds of workers - frogmen in the water, helicopters, Coast Guard cutters, firemen" - on the scene, said Father Frawley, who resides at Our Lady of Fatima parish in Jackson Heights, N. Y., just minutes from the airport.

He said he headed for the airport because he saw emergency vehicles going in that direction.

The priest described the airport scene as "chaotic and traumatic," and said he was immediately struck by "the enormity of the rescue effort."

Msgr. Thomas F. Brady, chaplain to the New York City Fire Department, was called to the scene minutes after the tragedy. He said that when he arrived some 150 fire and rescue personnel, among others, were already on hand. He and Father Frawley adminstered last rites to the dead.

Father Frawley described the wreckage as "a disaster, where you could see by looking at what was left of the plane that there would be fatalities."

He added that walking back to the rectory he could only think of how "traumatic it is to deal with a situation like that.

"The loss of life is tragic, and I am struck by how fragile life is and the tragedy of death," he said.

"My heart goes out to them and their families during what is a very sobering experience [that reminds us] is a gift that we should treasure," said the priest.

40,000 at rites for Brazilian nun SALVADOR, Brazil (CNS) More than 40,000 people attended the wake and funeral of Sister Dulce, a nun known throughout Brazil for her work with the poor of Bahia state.

Sister Dulce, 77, died March 13 in Hospital Santo Antonio, which she founded. The immediate cause of death was internal hemorrhaging, but she had been hospitalized for 16 months and suffered for 35 years from a chronic bronchial ailment.

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Pope John Paul II sent a message calling Sister Dulce's work "an example for humanity." Soon after announcement of her death, a campaign began for her beatification.

Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves of Sao Salvador da Bahia celebrated the funeral Mass for Sister Dulce, who was buried in a tomb at the side ofthe altar in the chapel of Santo Cristo in Salvador. The 200-year-old altar has a gold rococo sculpture Qf 10 sai~t~.

Maria Rita Lopes Pontes entered the Congregation ofthe Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in 1933 and adopted the name Sister Dulce. Once in the convent, she volunteered to work in a hospital and studied to be a pharmacist.

She began to raise money, and in 1939 began to build Hospital Santo Antonio, which today cares · for 1,200 needy Brazilians.

Sister Dulce's niece and name· sake, Maria Rita Pontes, 36, is · expected to carryon her work. She has worked with her aunt since childhood, and since 1990 has headed the Sister Dulce Association for Social Work.

In addition to the hospital, Sister Dulce's projects include an orphanage for 320 children, a geriatric centerfor 120 poor people and a center for the disabled.

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themoorin~ Family Rituals In this age offast food, express checkouts and instant everything, it seems that people are following the trend. They simply have little time for one another.

Families especially have been affected, with few even mak-

ing an effort to be together on an ongoing basis. It's a matter of running in and out of the house and grabbing a bite to eat on the way. With varied working schedules, Sunday and holiday sales and the variable of social demands, seldom do many families sit down to talk and share with one another.

This all-too-common situation becomes even more stressful in single-parent families where economic demands often take top priority. But for whatever reason, there is frequently no family communication whatsoever, even on the most basic levels. It is this fundamental lack of sharing, of talking, of relating, of remembering that is escalating the dissolution of rituals that for centuries have been a major means of bonding families.

Study after study clearly indicates that when families preserve, retain and reinforce their rituals, children are more emotionally stable, even in the face of catastrophic events.

Anthropologists and psychologists agree that if one grows up in families with firm and strong rituals and observances, one is more likely to be a resilient and secure adult. When families set a priority on their customs, tensions are reduced, conflicts are dispelled and lasting interpersonal relationships are forged.

Important family rituals range from simple routines like reading to children and establishing schedules for them to more formal traditions such as churchgoing and Thanksgiving, Christmas and holiday celebrations. Other significant ritual occasions are birthday, anniversary and graduation celebrations. There is no doubt as to the long-term psychological value of these observances.

Amid our often fly-by-night and casual social relationships, family rituals are important emotional building blocks. In a series of studies of dysfunctional and alcoholic families, it emerged. that abandonment of family rituals was a m<:ljor factor leading to personal disintegration and self-destruction.

Families with severe alcoholic problems who nevertheless managed to retain rituals, fared surprisingly well. Even where a heavily-drinking parent was involved, family rituals helped protect children, offering them a sense of stability and security, of dependable factors in uncertain situations, of tranquil oases in chaotic living.

It should be understood by all striving to reinforce family life and to halt the downward plunge of our social order that family rituals are far from insignificant. In these days of escalating anxieties and distress, it should be obvious that families can playa very important calming role simply by nurturing and, if necessary, restoring family rituals that might have been cast aside in the haste and pace of today's living.

Families must have time to be together, to tell their stories, to create roots and to sustain each other; but on all sides they are being destroyed. We kill babies and euthanize or sweep aside the elderly, as in the case only last week of the elderly Oregon man abandoned at an Idaho greyhound track.

In our avarice, we seem all too prone to think only of ourselves. But if you truly care for your family, share your time and yourself with them.

Above all, remember that "the family that prays together stays together."

The Editor

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SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLBOYS REJOICE AT OUTCOME OF APARTHEID REFERENDUM INITIATED BY PRESIDENT F.W. de KLERK

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The bittersweet paradox of Lent

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Lent is something of a paradox, a seeming contradiction. It is a season of sorrow and joy, tears and laughter. In a word, the paschal mystery: dying/ rising, intertwined.

This Sunday is Laetare Sunday and the Gospel of the prodigal son gives us a choice of whom we wish to be: the prodigal son who enjoys the party his father gives him or the elder brother who stays outside, aloof from the party, enjoying his anger, reveling in his wretchedness, refusing to forgive or be forgiven.

Here at the midpoint of Lent, the Church invites us to share in the joy of reconciliation. Our God, as revealed in his Son, Jesus Christ, is a subtle God who delights in his creatures using their freedom to choose wisely.

When Jesus encounters someone suffering, he never assumes what the sufferer may want. Recall the incident of the blind beggar, Bartimaeus, sitting outside Jericho, Jesus knew that when he asked Bartimaeus: "What do you want me to do for you?" that Bartimaeus would reply: "I want to see!" But Jesus wanted the beggar himself to grasp what was wanted of him and dare to put his desire into words in a leap of faith.

Our asking for forgiveness is similar to Bartimaeus asking for sight. If Jesus were to ask us: "What do you want me to do for you?", would we ask for forgiveness?

The prodigal son made that request only after he had sowed all his wild oats and was reduced to eating pig fodder. While absorbed by the passing pleasures his father's

fortune could afford him, he had little thought of repentance. But in the end he longed for the acceptance and love signified by his father's forgiveness. What a sharp contrast between the way his father treated him and his life as a hired hand in a strange land where no one would lift a finger to help him!

The beauty of the parable of the prodigal son lies not so much in what it tells us about the all-toofamiliar human nature of the two brothers but in its portrayal of the abundant mercy of the father. The younger son was vulnerable both to his fair-weather friends and to the love of his father.

In contrast, the elder brother's self-righteousness was an effective shield against both the plea of vulnerability and the foolishness of love. Sadly, the elder brother had never really known his father

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In your mercy grant your Church in the dioc~se of Fall.River a shepherd who will walk in your ways and whose watchful care will bring us your blessing.

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and now rejects his brother. But although the younger son left home as a son and returned as a pitiful tramp, his father never considered him as anything less than a son. It is not surprising that Jesus addressed this parable originally to the scribes and Pharisees who looked down upon him because of his friendships with tax collectors and sinners.

The gospel for Laetare Sunday ends with the paradox of joy and sorrow that characterizes all of Lent. The prodigal son returns as if he had never left, without any obligation, and is fully reinstated by means of a party that expresses his father's sense of rejoicing that his son who was lost has now been found.

The father who eagerly awaited the return of his younger son and ran to embrace him while he was still a distance away is our heavenly Father who eagerly awaits our initial turning away from sin and freely pardons us. The joy of reconciliation is all the more welcome when, like the prodigal son, we have experienced the agony that comes with estrangement from God. Because the elder son never really knew his father, he had no conception of the pain of being absent from him or the pleasure of being present to him. No wonder the father's invitation to him to share in the joy of the prodigal's homecoming fell upon deaf ears.

Until each of us permits the "elder son" within us to acknowledge the younger brother and enter into the joy of his homecoming, we will never truly know our Father's forgiveness.

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as he forgives Joshua 5:9,10-12 II Corinthians 5:17-21 Luke 15:1-3,11-32 Perhaps the most difficult part of Jesus' personality to imitate is his determination that his followers should deal with reality differently than others deal with it.

Paul stresses and summarizes the reason for this in today's second reading. "Whoever is in Christ," he writes, "is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come."

We God-followers are always expected to be unique in our dealings with God and others. The Lord presumes we will have a fresh approach to life at all times, even after. we reach some of our life's goals.

Entering the Promised Land under Joshua, the Israelites probably thought they could finally sit back and take it easy. For 40 years Yahweh had guided them through the wilderness, fed them with manna, cared for their needs. Now at last he had brought his people into the place he had prepared for them from the beginning of time.

But both his care and their obligations took on different dimensions once they reached Canaan.

After the Sacred Author describes the first Passover celebrated in Israel, he mentions that "On that same day after the Passover on which they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased. No longer was there manna for the Israelites, who that year ate of the yield of the land of Canaan."

Yahweh still cared for his people, but he showed his concern differently here than in the wilderness.

Reaching their goal meant the Jews had to begin fending for themselves in a new way.

In the same way, all people have always had a goal of being reconciled with God. We long to be one with him; to know him as closely and deeply as possible. We want to break down any barriers which keep us apart.

DAilY READINGS March 30: Is 65:1721; Ps 30:2,4-6,11-13; In 4:43-54 March 31: Ez 47:19,12; Ps 46:2-3,5-6,8-9; In 5:1-3,5-16 April 1: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9,13-14,17-18; In 5:17-30 April 2: Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23; In 5:31-47 April 3: Wis 2:1,1222; Ps 34:17-21,23; In 7:1-2,10,25-30 April 4: Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3,9-12; In 7:40-53 April 5: Is 43:16-21; Ps 126:1-6; PhiI3:8-14; In 1-11 or Ez 37:12-14 Ps 130:1-8; Rom 8:811; In 11:1-45

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN Paul believes we have already achieved this objective...... God ... has reconciled us to himselfthrough Christ," he teaches. But then he quickly adds, .. And [he) has given us the ministry of reconciliation."

We often forget that those who are reconciled must share God's reconciliation with others.

The Apostle knows we are only reconciled because ..... God, in Christ, [is) not counting our transgressions against uS."lfwe become one through God's forgiving us, we share in his ministry of reconciliation by our forgiving others.

This is the new "message" Jesus entrusts to us.

At this point our problems begin.

Though we want to follow and be one with the Lord, many of us do not care for the different way we are ex·pected to relate with one another. Our natural aversion to forgiveness obviously prompted Jesus to tell the parable of the prodigal son.

Though we enjoy hearing about the penitent son and the forgiving father, the main character in the story must be the older brother.

He, in his quest for strict justice, becomes the contrast point for the mercy shown by the father. He believes his brother should be welcomed back, but only if all elements ofjustice are first taken care of.

The older brother's arguments make perfect sense. His impetuous sibling has foolishly used up what was his; he has no right to anything else. All proponents of strict justice must side with the older brother.

Yet Jesus asks us to think in a different and new way.

If God had followed strict justice, he and we could never have been reconciled. We are one now only because he freely chooses to forget our past. Like the father in the parable, he looks at us and exclaims, "Let us eat and celebrate because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and is found." For Jesus, today is always more important than yesterday.

We tend to ignore the end ofthis parable simply because we would rather reflect on God forgiving the sinner as long as we are the sinner.

For most of us it's a totally new and different experience when we join the Lord in sharing his type of forgiveness with others.

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;1 Dr.JAMES&' MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: The welfare department has accused my husband of child abuse based on an anonymous complaint. Now they insist on interviewing our 4-yearold son.

What if child abuse allegations are wrong?

I'm afraid they will ask leading questions and our son will agree with them and they will take our son away. They already acted like my husband was guilty. I don't think he is. What can I do?

(Indiana) You may want to contact a lawyer to advise you of your rights.

While child-abuse laws are passed to protect families, especially the children, sometimes overzealous or underinformed or inadequately trained interviewers can cause more problems than they resolve. Here are a few suggestions.

First of all, you must cooperate with the welfare department. It

has a mandate from the state to investigate any allegations of child abuse. You and your husband should be honest with the caseworker and make your son available as well.

Second, you should request that their interview with your son be audiotaped or videotaped. This will aid in an objective evaluation of what he says and is likely to improve the quality of the interviewing.

Third, you may want to have your own independent investigation and evaluation. Hire a psychologist or social worker experienced in interviewing and ev-

aluating children. Be sure that they too tape the interview.

How does one conduct such an interview? The best way to avoid leading questions (questions that suggest an answer) is to avoid asking questions at all.

A good interviewer, for example, will begin with open-ended statements about school and home.

"Tell me about school, what's it like?" "Tell me about your dad." "I heard that you sassed your mother and that your dad spanked you.

Tell me what that was like." And so on.

A good interviewer may mention a few facts about an area of

concern, such as the spanking, and then ask the child to comment further. "Tell me more about that."

You are right to be concerned.

Four-year-olds can be quite suggestible and require careful interviewing. On the other hand, the possibility of child abuse should not be dismissed, simply ~ecause the adult considers it unthinkable.

The rights and welfare of children deserve our attention when issues of abuse are raised.

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Walt Whitman's God-infused legacy By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Most of us know the name of the famous American poet Walt Whitman, if only for having had to read in school his wonderful ode to the fallen President Lincoln, "0 Captain, My Captain."

It seems fitting that we now remember the great poet this year, the IOOth anniversary of his death.

I first took a special interest in Whitman because his Long Island home, a tourist attraction, was not farfrom where I lived for 25 years.

But it was reading Whitman's biography by Richard Bucke that really endeared me to the poet.

Bucke, who spent much time with Whitman, described the poet as being "illumined" by God. Recalling what was perhaps a mystical experience, probably in 1853 when Whitman had just entered his 35th year, Bucke quotes from the poet, who described "ineffable light -light rare, untellable, lighting the very light - beyond all signs, descriptions, languages."

Bucke writes: "The illumination (or whatever it was) came to him or upon him one June morning and took (though gently) absolute possession of him, at least for the time... He says he was filled all at once with peace and joy and know-

ledge transcending all the art and argument of the earth."

God was Whitman's close friend, Bucke wrote, adding that the poet regarded "all men and women ever born" as "his brothers and sisters and lovers" and believed that "the whole creation is built and rests upon love."

Bucke attributed much of the poet's happiness, peace and, at times, radiance to his gift of "cosmic sense:" He said the central theme of Whitman's writings was "that the commonplace is the grandest of things ... and that what is really wanting is not that we shou'ld possess something we have not at present, but that our eyes should be opened to see and our hearts to feel what we all have."

To better understand what Bucke says, read these glorious lines by Whitman.

"I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, "In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, "I find letters from God dropt in the street, and everyone is signed by God's name, "And I leave them where they are, for I know wheresoe'er I go, "Others will punctually come for ever and ever."

Bucke maintains that Whitman believed he had been chosen by

God to write his most famous work, "Leaves of Grass," and that he was not concerned abo'ut anyone's criticism of the work.

"But he says he does know God," Bucke wrote "and will cling to him though the waves buffet him."

Whitman was driven by what Bucke described as an "interior command" stronger than words. "He is sure that this comes from God. There can be no doubt of that," Bucke concluded.

Other biographers say that Whitman had this poetic fire that Bucke describes. Certainly, the man who died 100 years ago transformed the art of poetry. Truly, his sense oflife and nature was God-infused.

And that may be his greatest legacy.

Lent V: A time to speak and a time to be silent By DOLORES CURRAN

"For everything there is a season...a time to speak" (Ecc. 3) As a parent, I know the truth of these lines. There were times when I was rearing children that I should have kept silent and didn't and other times when I should have spoken and didn't.

Knowing when to be silent and when to speak out takes a lifetime to learn and路1 haven't achieved it to my satisfaction yet. In the family, it's often wise to be silent in

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. My question is more ora dilemma actually. I am 12 years old, and my mother recently married a Catholic man. My mom is a widow and my step-dad is a widower.

He is very nice and I am happy mom married him. I would like to accept him as my dad and accept his religion too. We go to church every Sunday and holy day. I think it's neat.

Am I too old? Would the church accept me? I want to surprise my step-dad. (Massachusetts) A. No, you are not too old, and

front of the children and to speak out when children are not present.

It's loving to be silent if someone unconditionally hurts you. Sometimes judicious neglect is the best way to deal with conflict.

But we also need to develop the courage and faith to speak out when we witness injustice, in spite of reactions from family, friends, co-workers, church and government leaders. This is the stuff of which saints are made. G.K. Chesterton wrote, "It is a paradox of history that each generation is remembered for the saint who contradicts it the most."路 If we're to be saints, we must be contradictions or counterculture to the injustices we recognize daily.

Are we willing to speak out against homelessness, materialism, racism, sexism, abortion, euthanasia, de-

fense spending, violence and corruption as committed and courageous Christians or is it more comfortable to remain silent?

Revelations 3: 16 speaks to this ambivalence: "I know about your activities: how you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were one or the other but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth."

Recently in our city, a councilman and some business owners began an effort to close the Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen for the hungry because it is hurting business in the area. We cannot be lukewarm in reacting to such a blatant disregard of our gospel mandate. I don't particularly want to write letters to the press and visit businesses but it is not the time to remain silent.

Those of us who will picket if necessary will be ridiculed, of course, and called bleeding heart liberals who don't appreciate the American free enterprise system.

So be it. John Stuart Mills warned us to expect ridicule when he said, "Every great movement must go through three stages: ridicule, discussio.n and 路adoption." If some of us don't endure the ridicule stage, we'll never reach the ado'ption stage.

Prayer is anot-her area in which we need to examine our balance of speaking out and of keeping silent.路 Sometimes we spend so much time telling God what we need that we forget to listen to what He is telling us. The irony is that when we listen. He tells us what we really need.

We don't have to take a class on how to meditate. All we have to do

is keep silent for ten or twenty minutes daily and listen to our deepest selves. When I meditate, I like to imagine myself sitting on a park bench with God, His arm around me, and neither of us saying anything - just being close and loving to one another - a little like I did with sick children.

Sometimes I get a message, sometimes not, but I always get peace which I don't always achieve when I'm praying words.

This week, then, I suggest we examine our lukewarmness, our courage to speak out against injustice, and our ability to listen to God. Maybe it's the week to write a letter protesting an injustice and sing it with out name instead of "anonymous." And the week to sit on a park bench with God and listen to His loye.

Can I join my Catholic step-father's church? we will be very happy if you decide to join our church.

I suggest you first call a priest where you go to Mass and tell him what you are thinking. He will give you some ideas about the next steps you might take.

I'm sure your step-dad will be pleased when you tell him ".nd also help you in any way he can.

It will take a little time, since you are old enough for a good bit of study and prayer before you make a final step.

Good luck. I will be praying for you, and I know many others who read this column will too.

Q. What is meant by the following statement in our Sunday bulletin?

"All cursillistas: An instructional ultreya to be held, etc." I don't know what those words mean at all, but they want us to pray.

Someone is asking for our support and prayers for what? (Pennsylvania) A. After a while every group develops its own jargon. This is true for religion as well as law, medicine, mathematics and almost every other area of human endeavor.

Members of the group, as well as editors and even pastors, sometimes forget that many people still need translations.

I hope you have heard the word "Cursillo" (pronounced kur-SEEyo) which is Spanish for "short course." Many Spanish words are associated with the CursilIo, simply because the program originated in Spain. . Great numbers of Catholics and other Christians, including tens of thousands in the United States, have shared in a Cursillo weekend

which deals with developing one's relationship with God and others in living our daily Christian life.

A cursillista is one who has participated in a Cursillo weekend.

An ultreya (Spanish for "forward") is a monthly gathering for cursillistasand others who might wish to join them to pray and help support one another in practical everyday ways as Christians.

Cursillo programs around the country have helped many Catholics and other Christians to develop their prayer life over the past 20 or 30 years.

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T.G.I.F. plus WASHINGTON (CNS) - One spot in a new media campaign from the U.S. bishops urging people to pray sends the message: "T.G.I.F. - Isn't it time you thanked God for the rest of the week?" That and other challenges soon may be pitched from the TV screen through a campaign called "There's Power in Prayer," which will rely on media outlets running the ads as a public service - free of charge. Development of the campaign was funded by $100,000 from the U.S. Catholic Conference's Catholic Communication Campaign, which collects money from parishes each spring for church media efforts.

Be a partner Dear Editor: This is to request your readers to be a partner in my work for the Lord in India in 1992.

You can be a servant or a partner of the missionary church by sending me and my brother priests your spare religious articles such as rosaries, statues, medals, scapulars, used Christmas cards and magazines and other mission helps.

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-S-acteon-eartKome accredited Sacred Heart Nursing Home in New Bedford has been accredited by the Joint Commission of Healthcare Organizations.

Formed in 1951, the Joint Commission is dedicated to improving the quality of the nation's health care through voluntary accreditation. Sacred Heart Nursing Home, which was accredited following an on-site review in January, has merited this recognition without interruption since 1975. ..Accreditation standards exceed both federal and state requirements;' said Kenneth Hermann, Pharm.D., the Joint Commission's vice president for accreditation surveys. About 1,000 long term care organizations nationwide hold J-.QiIlLComrnJ.s.siQR lL~J~,editation.

Sister Blandine d'Amours, administrator, praised caregivers and non-professional employees for working to meet the Joint Commission's benchmarks of quality.

"Everyone works hard to maintain this recognition. We view it as another step toward excellence," she said.

Sacred Heart Nursing Home is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and is the area's oldest skilled nursing facility.

Scope site said OK WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Vatican Observatory has issued a statement saying it finds "no conflict" between its construction of a powerful telescope on Arizona's Mount Graham and Apache religious practices and site preservation. It says that after years of "extensive, thorough investigations

by Indian and non-Indian experts there is to the best of our knowledge no religious or cultural significance" tied to the specific site w\1ere the observatory that will house the telescope is being built.

New president Rev. Patrick J. Burns, SJ, chairman ofthe board of Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, has announced appointment of Rev. Robert A. Wild, SJ, as the school's next president. Father Wild will take office Aug. I.

Better Yourself ..Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.

Try to be better than yourself.", William Faulkner

duplicate billing for X-ray materials at St. Michael's Hospital in Newark.

Sister Straney is president and chief executive officer of Cathedral Healthcare System, which operates three hospitals for the Newark archdiocese.

Her discovery led to an FBI probe code-named Operation Catscam and to the indictment in early 1992 of at least 18 officials at New Jersey hospitals and major corporations on charges ranging from kickbacks and fraud to outright theft of large quantities of X-ray materials.

The discovery of the billing discrepancy came when Sister StraCNS photo ney tightened internal controls after SISTER STRANEY becoming president and CEO of Cathedral Healthcare in 1987, she told Catholic News Service.

A radiology department manager in one hospital noticed a bill WASHINGTON (CNS) - It she thought had been paid and -was-a-gnfreaCfion-matteaa New sent it back tothe!inance oft'iceto Jersey nun to uncover a nation- check.

When Sister Straney looked into wide billing scam costing hospitals the matter, she found that double more than $10 million and earned invoices, although with different her the nickname "Sister Sleuth." dates and non-sequential, had a "Somethingjust seemed strange," receiving clerk's signature in exactsaid Mercy Sister Margaret Stra- ly the same place on each docuney of her 1988 discovery of a ment. A check of other invoices from that company showed many other duplicate payments.

Unsure how to proceed, Sister Straney contacted the FBI. An investigation began and the nun was told not to do anything to tip March 28 off those involved in the scam.

Subsequently, the FBI asked 1960, Rev. Alfred J. Levesque, Pastor, St. James, Taunton her for various documents and she 1972, Rev. Bernard A. Lavoie, procured them "as quietly as I Catholic Memorial Home, Fall could, withouttellinganyone, even River my board."

1983, Rev. Dieudonne Masse, Sister Straney's role in the inOFM, Retired, Montreal Canada vestigation is over, but FBI scrut1985, Rev. Howard A. Waldron, iny of hospital billing procedures Pastor Emeritus, St. Thomas More, is continuing, in part because of Somerset----w-hat the'nuncaIled the~'relativety high-level invQlvement" in the New March 29

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V.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff ofthe FBI said such schemes "strike directly at the pocketbooks oftaxpayers and patients."

Industry experts have estimated

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By Marcie Hickey When 14 members of the youth ministry program at St. Mary's parish, Fairhaven, traveled to the Bahamas last month, they saw clear blue waters, scenic beaches, beautiful sunsets and even a friendly dolphin.

But the trip was more than a winter getaway to the tropics. On the island of Abaco, they also saw the poverty and hardship faced daily by Haitian immigrants served by the Sacred Hearts Fathers' St. Francis de Sales Mission.

There the St. Mary's group served as teachers' aides at the elementary school and shared their faith with youth of the mission. ~I"oposed by- St. -Mary's Jive youth group advisors as a way for members to explore new faith horizons, the trip opened participants' eyes to children who needed someone to care and to youth like themselves, though of another race and culture, seeking to know the same God. St. Mary's already had ties to Abaco: pastor FatherJamesNickel, SS.CC., who accompanied the group, previously served there, and parishioner Ray Chandler is currently a volunteer at the mission.

The nine youth participants were chosen from the40-member youth group after a screening process that included a four-page application. .

"Each [of those selected) had a special gift that became even clearer once in Abaco," said youth group leader Charlie Murphy.

The mission group prepared for weeks, with orientation sessions

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on mission work and attendance at a Haitian Mass in Boston.

Each participant also made a prayer pact with 10 parishioners, with the partners promising to pray for one another and some of the sponsors also lending monetary support. Many turned out for a 5 a.m. Mass on the day of the group's departure, Feb. 14.

Arriving at Marsh Harbor, Abaco, the following Sunday, the group found that St. Francis de Sales Church was temporarily housed in a tent, awaiting construction of a new building to replace the one that recently burned down.

St. Mary's youth attended two Masses there - one in English and one in Creole-J-t.h.e language of the Haitian immigrants.

They then accompanied Father Stan Kolasa, head of the mission, to two of three additional Sunday Masses he offers on surrounding islands.

The group found the Mass site even more humble in Hopetown on the island of Elbow Cay (pronounced "key"), said youth minister Don Fredette, describing the "church" there as "open air - an oak tree surrounded by benches."

The four Masses were an appropriate beginning to the week; which had prayer as a key component, the youth ministers noted.

"God's presence was continually felt the entire week," said Murphy.

Prayer "took on a variety of forms," said Fredette - personal reflection, Masses and prayer services, and also journaling.

"Each evening, and during the day if we had time, we sat down to record the events ofthe day. It was

a time of reflection and a way to always remember what happened" and how it affected them.

The journals no doubt contain a great deal about the 100 children of St. Francis de Sales School, where the greater part of the week's activities took place.

The presence of the volunteers enabled special activities and individual attention normally not available to students, due to understaffing.

"We were able to spend time with the kids that the teachers couldn't," said Fredette. The childre,n "were so open, it was easy to form friendly relationships with them."

Jim Wesoly, a youth group member ana a senior- at Bishop-Stang High School, North Dartmouth, told of assisting-in a second grade classroom where there was one teacher for 40 students.

"The teacher said she needed help with the students one-on-one to see if they could read," said Wesoly.

He said he noticed an older girl sitting apart from the rest of the class, and when the students were assigned five words to write, Wesoly went to check on her progress.

When he found that she couldn't write them correctly, "the teacher said not to bother - she's retarded and you can't help her," said Wesoly. "But I think she just had a learning disability. She wasn't getting any attention. She should've been at the Center of the class and getting the most attention - but • they don't have tbe facilities and staff' te meet the .needs of special students.

"If anything would bring me back down there," Wesoly added, "it would be to work with handi,capped kids. I only saw this one case - how many did I miss?"

The mission group said they found the children had a very positive outlook despite their impoverished living conditions. Fredette described a banner made by students depicting the school and declaring they were "Proud of Who We Are." "That pretty much sums up the attitude of most of the children," he said.

With the children on school vacation Wednesday through Friday of that week, the St. Mary's .group organized ga mes, a cookout, and craft projects such as t-shirts painting to make the days special.

"I will never forget those children and the joy and happiness we shared," said youth minister Shauna Keavy. "The children were so excited to have us there."

"No matter how little the thing you did for them, they were so grateful, even if it was just giving them a piggyback ride," said youth group member Theresa Medeiros.

Another project for the youth group was a day at the beach:. for the children of Treasure Cay it was a much needed break from the citrus farm community where their families live and work.

"They don't get away from there much," explained Fredette, adding, "Many of the Haitians are forced to live in settlement areas with little houses close together... Many of the students can't even go to SGhool when it rains because the mud is so bad.

"In a country of such great beauty there is a lot of poverty -but it is well hidden" in the outof-the-way settlement camps, he said.

The St. Mary's group got another view of life in Abaco from people their own age - members of the St. Francis de Sales youth group.

The two youth groups met for evening prayer services, discussions, gospel singing and a dance.

Students now old enough to be in the St. Francis youth group "were members of my last first communion class down there," said Father Nickel. "To see the growth and understanding of the Lord in their lives - and to [have them) share that with our youth group -was tremendously positive:'~ For the Haitian youth, the faith group is a source of support, solace and encouragement. The St. Mary's students found they had many things in common, said Carrie Lipsett. It was rewarding to see "how universal the Catholic Church is," she said.

Youth group members also noted the significance of the two races holding such meetings in Abaco.

"The Haitians experience a lot of discrimination there," Fredette explained. "It isn't very often you see the two races together."

Kris Garcia said she recorded in herjournal words of Father Kolasa on the first day of the trip: "Love with your heart and not your eyes."

The words became more. meaningful as the week went on, she said. "We've grown to understand God's word more than before...their hearts are what really matters."

It was very affecting, Theresa Medeiros added, to have Father Kolasa say at the end of the week that "to see two people of different races embrace was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen."

It would have been much easier for both groups "to have seen the outside appearance and never look within," said Shauna Keavy. "They may look poor, but they are rich - Jesus is present in their hearts.

We are one people united by Jesus."

"The mission really affected me spiritually," Patricia Mota reflected. "I felt I became closer to God while working with the children and became more aware of the principles and ideals of our religion. I vv.as thankful for the opportunity to mllke·new frien-ds-ind learn about another culture."

Murphy and the other youth group leaders hope the Abaco mission will have long-term effects for St. Mary's youth ministry.

"The trip is just one step," he said. "The mission is ongoing."

A followup meeting "to discuss how [the mission] has changed our lives in the past few months" will take place in June, and Murphy hopes to extend the mission spirit into the local community, having the youth take on projects at soup kitchens, homeless shelters and other charitable organizations.

More Abaco trips are planned as well, for they help participants realize "that maybe our faith should be more alive," said Father Nickel.

The mission was an expression of "Peace, gentleness and goodness in people's hearts, and that alone was worth the trip," he added.

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Capital punishment Continued from Page One people on California's death row, a number second only to Texas' with 345 awaiting execution.

Anaya believes responsibility rests with the clergy for changing public opinion on capital punishment.

"When every person of the cloth starts preaching about this from the pulpit, then we'll see attitudes change," Anaya said. "Instead we leave it to the politicians to set the tone of the discussion."

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Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M., voiced support for Anaya's action in 1986, he was disappointed the churches didn't take better advantage ofthe ongoing public debate. "... Here was an ideal opportunity to get our message across, to get the word of God out on this,~' he said.

One man attempting to do just that is Frank McNeirney of Arlington, Va. With a few friends, he has organized Catholics against Capital Punishment. The group's goals are to communicate church teachings to Catholic members of Congress; to urge them to oppose death penalty legislation; to encourage the Catholic hierarchy and clergy to put greater emphasis on church teaching on the issue; and to mobilize Catholic laity.

. TJte. ~zation-ftft--be eeB-. tacted at P.O. Box 3125, Arlington, VA 22203. Phone (703) 522-5014.

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South and West, has launched a The community must also renew group for laypersons wishing quest help. Janie Couch, another to work with ethnic groups and! or leadership team member, said one the rural poor. group of community organizers The Glenmary Co-Missioner told them that "we were the first Association will team Catholic group that ever asked if they could individuals or couples with a per- come in. Everyone else simply came son or couple from a local com- in, built a church and started work." munity. The volunteers will work Glenmary hopes to work with with "communities of struggle," rural Southern Appalachian and said Marcos McPeek Villatoro, American black, Hispanic and one of four members of the team Native American communities. that will lead the new ministry. He Also among the new associadefined these communities as com- tion's goals is to work "crossposed of "poor people of various culturally" - pairing, for exam~\llt\lres who are organizing t1u:.m=....._ ple,.awhit.e ~o\1ple.l!,nd.black couple selves and working on their social or an Anglo missio'ner with a Hisjustice needs" panic. She said they ho~d to"-'d""'... ra'."w"---_~ McPeek, son of a Salvadoran missioners from many cultures, mother and Appalachian father, lifestyles, races and religious tradispent several years in Guatemala tions. as a Maryknoll lay missioner. He The association is open to indisaid the Glenmary co-missioners viduals and couples, and the group is looking more for people willing to "express their faith by working EDICTAL CITATION for social justice within a crossDIOCESAN TRIBUNAL cultural, rural setting" than for FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS specific skills.

Since the actual place of residence of Nashville Bishop James D. NieBRYAN F. KING is unknown. dergess who is sponsoring the We cite BRYAN F. KING to appear personNashville-based association, said ally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall the new group impressed him as an River on Monday. April 6, 1992 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massa- "innovative and hopeful approach to mission." chusetts, to give testimony to establish: Under his sponsorship, the group Whether the nullity of the marriage is working for canonical recogniexists in the DUANE-KING case? tion as a "private association of Ordinaries of the place or other pastors the Christian faithful." It is funded having the knowledge of the residence of the by the Glenmary Home Missionabove person, Bryan F. King, must see to it ers society of priests and brothers that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal ,citation. and the Glenmary Home Mission Sisters.

Jay T. Maddock Further information on the asJudicial Vicar . sociation is available from I3I2 Given at the Tribunal, Fifth Ave. North, Nashville, TN Fall River, Massachusetts, 37208, telephone (615)248-6325. on this 23rd day of March, 1992.

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Since the actual place of residence of NORMAN W. TESSIER, JR. is unknown.

We cite NORMAN W. TESSIER. JR.to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, April 6, 1992 at 2:30 p.m. at887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mas路 sachusetts, to give testimony ~o establish: Whettler the nullity of the marriage exists in the ANDRADE路TESSIER case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Norman W. Tessier, Jr., must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock judicial Vicar .

Since the actual place of residence of JAMES R. JOHNSON is unknown, We cite JAMES R. JOHNSON to appear per路 sonally before the Tribunaj of the Diocese of Fall River on Tuesday, April 7, 1992 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the GARLING-JOHNSON case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, James R. Johnson, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this 23rd day of March, 1992.

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THE START ofthe Iditarod race Feb. 29.路It ended two weeks later for Jim Oehlschaeger, racing for the Comboni missionaries, who completed the I049-mile course in 50th place among 76 racers (eNSj Reuters photo)

Icy race nets cool cash for missions WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Cincinnati man who participated in the 1992 Iditarod dog sled race to benefit Comboni missionaries throughout the world finished the 1049 mile course March 14, two weeks after he had begun.

Jim Oehlschlaeger, a 45-yearold businessman from the Cincinnati suburb of Mack, crossed the finish line in Nome, Alaska, at 11:30 p.m. March 14, putting him in 50th place among the 76 mushers who began the race.

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service from Nome March 17, Oehlschlaeger said that during his trip from Anchorage to Nome, he saw much evidence of the influence of Catholic missionaries in the rugged Alaskan countryside. He praised the Combonis as "down-to-earth, hardworking missionaries" and said he hoped they would benefit from his fundraising effort.

A Comboni member from the Fall River diocese is Sister Jackie Racine, daughter of Permanent Deacon and Mrs. Leo Racine of

St. Joseph's parish, New Bedford.

Visiting the diocese at Christmas from her assignment at a hospital in Uganda, she outlined her work as charge nurse on a children's ward accommodating some 100 patients. Her list of responsibilities more than fit Oehlschlaeger's "hardworking" description.

The 1992 Iditarod was won in the record time of 10 days, 19 hours and 17 minutes by Swissborn Martin Buser. Second place finisher Susan Butcher arrived some 10 hours later.

Corporate sponsors underwrote expenses of putting Oehlschlaeger and his team of 16 Alaskan huskies on the trail. Other supporters pledged contributions for each mile of the grueling course that Oehlschlaeger completed. The pledges are to go to the Comboni Missionaries, who have more than 4,000 priests and brothers, and 2,000 sisters in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

A spokesman for the Combonis said several hundred dollars in contributions had been received

because ofOehlschlaeger's Iditarod run, and more was expected in coming weeks, Oehlschlaeger's wife, Gabriella, told Catholic News Service March 16 that her husband and his team of huskies were not expected back in Ohio until the begil]ning of April, at the earliest, because of the logistics of flying all the Iditarod dogs and mushers out of Nome, A member of Our Lady of Visitation parish, Oehlschlaeger has be'en racing sled dogs since 1976, getting away to the wilderness in his spare time. In order to prepare his team for the Alaskan climate, he and the dogs began training in Fairbanks in late December, spending six to seven hours a day together since before the Feb. 29 start of the race. .

Oehlschlaeger said he was pleased at finishing his first Iditarod and hoped to be able to compete again next year.

The Iditarod commemorates the 1925 success of 20 dog sled teams that carried diphtheria serum from Anchorage to Nome, where an epidemic ofthe deadly illness raged.

Ethics, not law, said key to avoiding physician-spread AIDS ST. LOU IS (CNS) - Frenetic efforts by Congress and federal agencies to legislate precautions against AIDS transmission by health care workers are unjustified, according to two ethicists writing in the journal of the Catholic Health Association, "1 e 10 . a recent Issue .

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F at h er KevlO. . D O'R our k e Ican and Sister of St. Joseph Jean deBlois reviewed ethical debates about AIDS, including testing for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS; whether physicians who test positive for HIV should inform their' patients; and whether precautions should be legislated.

Father O'Rourke is director and Sister deBlois associate director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri.

"We believe that an appeal to the personal moral responsibility of health care professionals to pro-

tect their patients from harm would. to submit to a review panel th,at be more effective than the sug- would determine under what. clrgested regulations," they wrote in cu~stanc~s they ~ould continue the magazine. their medical. practices, .

"Our pragmatic and legalistic Selve~al bills to req~~re ~U~h society may reject an emphasis on ~gu atlOns ;ere. ~onsl ert ,In ethical responsibilityasa meansof ongress dan a J~lnt ~esohutl~~ accomplishing any objective, espewas passe sugbgestln g dt aft eHa ltv . patients . or . II y protecting cia from .I n care - . ,wor kers e teste .. fection," the added. "But trust infectIOn and req~lfI~g states. to ,y and caregivers . ,IS adopt the CDC gUidelines or slmbetween patient '1 I still the only basis for beneficial I a~ ~wth CDC 'd r h relationship in the health care tu e fUll ~I~~S ~,e b setting," nRo keen sducSC~StS u d' Bal . er 'dAfter it was learned that a Flor- T~ur e an ISde~'the O1~/al.. ida woman, Kimberly Bergalis, ey elncoudrage f . e ~u IC 1!1 had contracted AI DS from her ge~era , and r~ eS~lOna o~ga~ldentist, the American Medical As- za ItC?n\ a~ t ,,~ erath ~gencI~~ 10 sociation and the American Den- tpart ICU. ar 0 t ase ~Ir rt~afic 10~S , . ' 0 raglc even s on sClen I IC eVItal Assoclatl~n recommended man- dence." dato.ry testing of doct~rs a.nd "The Kimberly Bergalis case is dentists who perf.orm high-fisk indeed tragic but the supposition procedures, the artlcle. noted. that stricter I~ws would have proThe Centers for Disease C?n- tected her, or will protect others in trold called' for voluntary. .testing th e f u t ure, sImp ' Iy h as no t been an ~rged Infected phySICians to demonstrated," Father O'Rourke refrain from such procedures and and Sister deBlois wrote. ,

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Comfort needed more than medicine VATICAN CITY (CNS) -Dying patients need "human comfort" more than medicine for their physical diseases, said Pope John Paul II. Today, the terminally ill often find themselves "in busy and crowded environments, under the control of medical personnel principally worried about the biophysical aspect of the illness," he told participants in an international conference on pastoral, social and medical assistance to the dying.

Dying patients need an atmosphere of Christian hope marked by "the affection of their relatives" and "the support of their friends." he said.

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church's position that it is morally permissible to reject extraordinary medical means to prolong the life of a person when death is inevitable. He said the church's position is outlined in a 1980 "Declaration on Euthanasia" issued by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

"When inevitable death is imminent in spite of the means used, it is permitted in conscience to take the decision to refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in similar cases is not interrupted," the pope said, quoting from the document.

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as an Episcopalian, she was visitBefore ascending to heaven, ing Italy with her husband and was Jesus told his disciples to stay in so impressed by a Catholic family Jerusalem and wait there for the with whom they stayed that soon coming ofthe Holy Spirit. Then he after her return to the United made them a wonderful promise States she became a Catholic. and gave them a special mission: We influence others by example "You shalI receive power when the more than we shall ever know. We Holy Spirit comes upon you and need not make any effort to imyou shalI be my witnesses in Jerupress; in fact, if we are just oursalem, throughout Judea and Saselves, that's what wilI impress maria, and to the ends of the people most. world." (Acts 1:8) Another beautiful story of conEach one of us, when we were confirmed, received that power of version is that of Frederic Ozanam. At the age of 18, he was the Holy Spirit to be witnesses to about to give up the faith, like Jesus Christ. What does that mean many adolescents of our time. He in practice?

First, what do we mean by being entered a church one day and saw an old man kneeling at a shrine a witness to Jesus Christ?

A witness is someone who testi- saying his rosary. Drawing nearer, fies to what he knows, not by hear- he saw it was Andre-Marie Ampere, a French physicist who was say, but firsthand. For example, in his idol. Tears poured from his a court of law, the testimony of a man is acceptable if he was there eyes, prayer from his heart. He when the accident happened and used ,to say later, "The rosary of he can describe the incident as he Ampere did more for me than all books and alI sermons." saw it.

Ozanam became a great lay A witness to Jesus Christ is apostle and is now on his way to someone who has experienced canonization. Think of the influJesus in a very personal way. His ence of Ampere simply saying the life has been changed and Jesus rosary with faith and devotion. has become its center. He can As Pope Paul says, evangelizapoint to many things in his life in tion begins with the witness of life. which he sees the hand of God who has guided him and given him ' This is basic. It does not mean, however, that we must be perfect patience and strength in the midst before we try to win people to of trials. He has found peace and Christ. But we must be sincere in joy because of the hope of everlastour efforts to live according to ing life Jesus has given him; and he what we believe. can share that joy with friends or The Apostles were not perfect, anyone he meets. This sort of tesfar from it, but they believed in timony can draw others to the Jesus, loved him, and tried to folLord. low in his footsteps. They could Pope Paul, in his document on speak of him and the Good News Evangelization, begins by speakof salvation with conviction. And ing of "the witness of life." We as people listened to them they 'must proclaim our faith first by the way we live. The example of a holy Christian wilI do more to win people to Christ than the most VATICAN CITY(CNS)-Coneloquent sermon; and a good sermon itself wilI not have much fession is a place for priests to impact if the preacher does not live express church teachings, not personal opinions, Pope John Paul II what he preaches.

A holy man, even if he is a less said at an audience for members of gifted preacher, wilI draw more the Vatican's Apostolic Penitenpeople to the Lord. Through him, tiary, an office that deals with people wilI encounter Jesus and penance and indulgences.

The pope said that in confeswilI be move,d to love him and sursion, the priest acts in the name of render their lives to him.

Christ, who "judges according to A modern instance of the power the truth and not appearances." of !=xample to win converts is the For a confessor to express perstory of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. Reared sonal opinions "contrary to the

were moved and many also believed in Jesus.

Pope Paul calIs the witness of life "an initial act of evangelization," a first step. It is also necessary, he adds, to speak clearly about Jesus Christ, our Savior.

Anyone who knows Jesus as his personal savior and believes in him and loves him can in very simple ways share his faith with others.

What do I mean by sharing our faith? It's not getting into deep discussions or arguing about religion.

Indeed, when you try to prove that you are right and another person is wrong, you put him or her on the defensive and this leads to a nowin situation.

Sharing our faith is sharing what you believe and, as best you can, why. Any Catholic should be able to explain why he is a Catholic, no matter how little education he has.

You don't join a club unless you have a reason. Likewise, it makes little sense to be a Catholic unless you know why.

Any Catholic with a minimal knowledge of the Gospels knows that Jesus founded a church and appointed Peter as its head. Only the Catholic Church fits this description. This may sound oversimplified, but you have there the basic reason for being a Catholic.

Another kind of witness which is a powerful tool to bring about conversions consists in witnessing to what Jesus has done in your life.

It's not the story of what Jesus did 2,000 years ago, but of what he has done and is doing in people's lives today. "It happened to me!"

In short, a good testimony is more powerful than many sermons.

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church's solemn or ordinary magisterium" betrays the souls of the faithful, "exposing them to grave spiritual dangers and forcing them to suffer distressing interior torment," he said.

Such an action also contradicts the very nucleus of a priest's ministry, the pope'added.

While issuing the warning, the pope also said he was certain that "very many priests, faithful to their ministry, carry out the divine mission of the church in the confessiona.I "

St. Aloysius Gonzaga: a 16th century saint for a modern disease?

VATICAN CITY (CNS)- Can a 16th-century Jesuit saint offer spiritual comfort to AI DS sufferers today?

Some modern-day Jesuits think so and have suggested that St. Aloysius Gonzaga should be declared the patron for those afflicted with the deadly disease.

A patron saint is considered a "heavenly advocate" for individuals or groups of people. What better intercessor for AI DS sufferers, it is argued, than St. Aloysius, who died at age 23 while helping plague victims in Rome?

The idea has stirred some debate in church circles, but so far the Vatican has not acted on the proposal. Part of the pr'oblem is that St. Aloysius already has a place of honor in church history -and some are afraid that the AIDS cause would obscure it.

Last J'une, the Jesuits' superior general, Father Peter-Hans Kol-

venbach, said Al DS sufferers in several countries had spontaneously recognized St. Aloysius as their protector.

"The picture of Aloysius Gonzaga carrying on his shoulders the victims of this modern plague is spreading," Father Kolvenbach said in a letter marking the 400th anniversary of the saint's death.

If Father Kolvenbach was dropping a hint, it apparently was not picked up at the Vatican.

Born into a wealthy and powerful family, Aloysius renounced the life of a Renaissance court and a planned military career to devote his life to penance and prayer.

Indeed, there are elements of the saint's life that would seem to bring him close to Al DS sufferers.

St. Aloysius was cut down by death at a young age; he had a special sympathy for the sick; and he was unafraid to work directly with plague victims during the

1591 Rome epidemic, often carrying them to a Jesuit hospital, bathing them and making their beds.

He was a young man of frail health, and after contracting the plague he spent three months wasting a way in a monastery room in Rome. During this time, he accepted his dying with a clarity and courage that amazed his fellow Jesuits. The church declared him a saint in 1726.

But not everyone - not even alI Jesuits - agree that St. Aloysius should be singled out for AIDS patients.

"I think AIDS is a very topical problem, but you would end up overshadowing some historical values in the life ofthis saint - the more universal values," said Father Gualberto Giachi, a Jesuit who wrote a book about St. Aloysius last year. The saint exempli-

fied piety, self-sacrifice, compassion and non-violence.

But another Roman Jesuit, Father Giulio Libianchi, is enthusiastic about the proposal and says Pope John Paul II is receptive to the idea, too. Two years ago, when he broached the subject in conversation to the pontiff, the pope advised him to take it up with the Vatican's worship congregation, Father Libianchi said.

But the Vatican "works very slowly in cases like this," the priest said. ' Father Libianchi, who advises an Italian health care group and hears confessions in Rome hospitals, said St. Aloysius offers a double example to those with AIDS: he was compassionate and he led a "pure life." The saint could also be the focus of prayers, he said, to help individual AIDS sufferers and to "enlighten scientists so theyfind a cure for this disease."

Father Johannes Gerhartz, secretary of the Jesuit order in Rome, said he thought choosing St. Aloysius as protector of AIDs patients was "a reasonable and good idea."

"Why not? We have patrons for everyone. Why not for the poor people with AIDS?" he said.

In fact, a glance through the album of saints shows that sufferers of at least 20 diseases - ranging from angina to headaches have their own patron saints.

Patrons became popular in the Middle Ages, when nearly every facet oflife had an intercessor. The practice has largely died out, though Pope John Paul has tried to revive it somewhat.

Those promoting St. Aloysius believe that, when faced with a fatal disease like AIDS, people today need to pray. That's easier when there's a go-between, they say - even a young man who died 400 years ago.

statement that was hammered out in Washington in February.

But, according to news reports, the Haitian military leaders who engineered the coup are unwilling to restore constitutional rule. "It's a question of having the same weapons in the same hands of the same criminals," said Father Aristide.

He added that in restoring democracy to Haiti, he would be committed to ending "the grave disparity between the classes"

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CITY (CNS) - A Vatican commission has made an initial decision regarding Princess Caroline of Monaco's request for a marriage annulment, but the confidential judgment is not definitive, the Vatican spokesman said.

Various news reports from Rome March 23 and 24 said the papally appointed commission of the Roman Rota, a Vatican court, recently ruled in favor of the annulment, some 10 years after Princess Caroline requested the declaration of nullity concerning her 1978 wed. ding to Philippe Junot..

Princess Caroline, the daughter of Prince Rainier of Monaco and the late actress Grace Kelly, married J unot when she was 2 I years old. The couple divorced a little more than two years later.

Princess Caroline married Italian businessman Stefano Casiraghi in a civil ceremony in 1983. The couple had three children when Casiraghi died in a boating accident in 1990.

When the annulment request was made, the Code of Canon Law gave the pope, rather than a local marriage tribunal, the authority to decide cases involving the son or daughter of a head of stat.e. The final judgment of Princess Caroline's case is still up to Pope John Paul II. The pope appointed a threemember commission in 1982 to carry out the' first phase of the three- or four-step process.

Navarro-Valls said March 24 the commission had reached a decision, but the result is confidential.

The pope has not yet appointed a second commission of three judges. If the second group's decision is different from the first, a third commission will be appointed.

Archbishop Joseph-Marie Sardou of Monaco told Catholic News Service in Rome March 24 that he had not been notified of any decision regarding the princess' request.

"N 0 one has called me, no one has informed me - neither the lawyers nor the palace," he said.

"The calls from journalists indicate that something is moving."

Archbishop Sardou said he hopes a letter is in the mail.

"This information is not something communicated by telephone," he said.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 27, 1992 through "a just system of taxation and distribution of wealth for all people."

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. More than 75 percent of its people are impoverished and 92 out of every 1,000 babies die. Less than 25 percent of the population is literate and nearly 50 percent are unem-

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Haiti's exiled president, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, says his people will continue to work for a peaceful return of democracy.

"God asks us to love our enemies," he said in a recent address at G.eorgetown University.

He invoked the teachings of Jesus, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi and sprinkled his speech with bi.blical references. The priest-president also noted that Haitians answered the coup that ousted him with nonviolent resistance which cost 2,000 lives in a bloody response from the coup leaders.

The Haitians "know that weapons cannot be stronger than love," he said.

"Nobody can kill love, nobody can kill justice, nobody can kill freedom," he said.

In a landslide vote in December 1990, Father Aristide became the first Catholic cleric in modern times to take office as a nation's chief executive. That election is also considered the first genuinely democratic vote in Haitian history.

The priest's ouster last fall resulted in an international trade embargo against Haiti.

Asked when he might return as head of the government, the priest said a timetable for his return could be worked out within a month after Haitian legislators ratify an agreement for his rein-

Dominican Academy 37 Park St. Fall River, MA 02721 Telephone 674-6100

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The only all-girls Catholic school in the diocese, Dominican Acade':l1Y upholds a long tradition in Dominican teaching of excellence, truth and sharing the Gospel message with a vision toward the future.

Eight classrooms, a full-day kindergarten, computer lab, music and art rooms occupy the school building, founded in 1895, by the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena. The sisters' living quarters and infirmary are on the upper floors.

Staffed by professional educators, DA is committed to teaching the truth, fostering the vision of a better tomorrow, developing a prayer life in its students and making known the real presence of Jesus in everyone.

Children are very much a part of the DA experience from their very first day. Little ones are assigned upper-grade "big sisters," and kindergarten teacher Mrs. Carol BrickhilI creates an atmosphere of caring, sharing, song and hands-on activity. When learning the letter A, for example, students might make applesauce, DA focuses on all aspects of the child's development: scholarship, spirituality, physical wellbeing and sociiil graces. Our caring teachers strive to learn each one's strengths and weaknesses, gifts and talents, thus allowing each student to grow at her own pace. It is not unusual to find teachers giving up recess, lunch or afterschool time to tutor or counsel a child with difficulties.

Special activities contribute to family atmosphere at the school, with principal, faculty, students and parents enjoying the annual FatherDaughter Dance, family picnics, and Halloween Haunted House. Students strive to achieve through science fairs, spelling bees and the "jump rope for heart."

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"These are people who have endured unspeakable atrocities and yet they endure."

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Students perform in Alice in Wonderland The active Home and School Association organizes such activities as Bottle Collection Day, Pizza Day, and Pennies from Heaven drives and also buys school equipment and sponsors cultural field trips.

The drama department, under the guidance of music director John Travers, has presented the plays Cinderella, Mickey's Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland. The enthusiastic productions, in which there is a part for all, have played to sell-out crowds.

DA's unique setting allows students to share their experiences with the retired sisters in the convent. Each class adopts a sister or two, visiting them on holidays and keeping them in daily prayers. The chorus holds special performances for the sisters and serves refreshments afterward; a real treat for both sisters and students.

The Big/ Little Sister program, directed by fourth-grade teacher Sister Irene Comeau, SSJ, assists the needy through food, clothing and financial donations to Fall River organizations, The Big/ Little Sister program, directed by fourth-grade teacher Sister Irene Comeau, SSJ, assists the needy through food, clothing and financial donations to Fall River organizations.

Sister Irene also spends her summers working on Native American reservations.

Girls learn to know, love and serve God and neighbor through liturgies and prayer services designed to emphasize a certain theme or church season, The community of faculty, sisters, staff and 'parents is united in its efforts to ensure that each school day is productive, creative, safe and pleasant so that each young lady can happily say, "I love going to school at Dominican Academy!"

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GOOD FOR ME

if you get along with your parents,

By Christopher Carstens Nobody seems sure about Lent 'if you have a girlfriend or boyanymore. People used to give up friend who cares about you, those chocolate, but now that seems are the sources of your happiness. silly. It may improve your comLots of kids would like a new plexion but it's hard to imagine CD player. But suppose you were offered this magical choice: "Y ou how it affects your relationship can have a Diskman but your best with God. Still, something was lost when friend will hate you forever." Few we stopped giving up things for would accept the trade. That's Lent. There's a lesson in that ritu- because we sense that relationships alized act of self-sacrifice, even if are more important than things.

You can only sustain a relationit's something as small as giving up chocolate. The lesson is that giving ship if you give up what you want up some things is more important for yourself now and then.

Maybe you're done with your than getting your own way.

The heroes of pop culture homework and you're ready to people like Michael Jackson, Melwatch TV when a friend calls and anie Griffith and Axl Rose-are wants help with algebra. You give the extravagant winners who get up your show and help the friend.

Maybe you loan a friend money what they want. We envy that.

You'll wait a long time before that you'd rather spend on yourself.

What has this got to do with you see an episode of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" focus on a Lent?

You are in a relationship with movie star who lives in a modest apartment and sends the extra God. That relationship is a lot like money to his poor relatives. We a human friendship. It needs time enjoy seeing peope with big houses and attention to grow. And someand extravagant cars because that's times loving God means giving up what you want for yourself. what we'd want if we made it big.

Sensing God's presence is often It's a hollow dream.

As a psychologist, I have coun- difficult. You may want to do seled the children of welfare fami- God's will but it's hard to .know lies and the children of million- what that is. You can't go up to aires. Given the choice, most would - God and just ask the way you rather be rich than poor. There are might ask a friend.

Here's what you say when you very few volunteers for the hardships of real poverty. Even so, give up something for Lent, even if being rich is no guarantee for it's only chocolate. "God, what happiness. Heartbreak and tragedy you want is more important than what I want." don't respect your bank account.

And by saying that, you make a Being rich gets you the things money can buy. But happiness little open space for him, a bit of grows out of the quality of your quiet in the noise, a place where relationships. If you have friends, you can listen to your friend.

Fort Mantle and the like'

By Dan Morris My nephews Ryan and Tye asked me recently if I knew anything about forts. Kid forts. Hideouts.

The kind you construct in the backyard, on an empty lot, in the "woods."

"I might be called the Michelangelo of forts," I smiled.

No discernible lights clicked on behind their 8- and 10-year-old eyes.

"Yes," I tried again, "I am probably one of the world's foremost authorities on forts. Why, I built my first fort when I was 5: It was rudimentary - a cardboard box extended off the front of my dog Killer's doghouse - but mem-. arable."

Now my mmd was racing to forts of the past. Great, great forts.

Forts of cedar boughs over large, handsome holes.

Then there were instant "day forts," such as throwing a couple oflarge blankets over my mother's umbrella clothesline.

Yet these did not hold a candle to Fort Mantle (named after Mickey, of course). My buddy Gary Wilkes and I painstakingly

erected it over several days of my ninth summer.

Fort Mantle boasted sturdy walls ofthe finest discarded wood pallets, a roof of corrugated metal (nail holes patched with bubble gum) and a floor of three whole layers of cardboard.

We spent hours straightening nails for it from a coffee can of bent ones my grandpa kept in his garage. Driving these later at the construction site with a ~all-peen hammer provided hours of entertainment and pain.

Few forts could compete with Mantle's interior decor, perhaps best described as Dutchmaster Supreme. Dutchmaster cigar boxes (earned by washing Chet Stub's car; Chet owned the local grocery store, Stub's Grub Galaxie) made great shelves and cupboards.

I was about to tell them about Fort Marilyn (hey, I was getting older, you know) when Tye spoke up. "Uncle Dan, we wanted to know if we could use some of the nails you keep in that old can in the garage."

"Sure," I nodded. "And there's a little ball-peen hammer in it too.

You like to dance and listen to the music I like to sing with the band You like your hands splashing in the ocean But I like my feet on the sand Does anybody have it any better?

Isn't it easy to see Just how well we fit together?

When I want to sing the blues You put out my dancing shoes You could be so good for me You get brave when I get shy Just another reason why You could be so good to me You like to drive like Mario Andretti I like to take my time But let me say wherever you are going ,y ou know it suits me just fine Does anybody have it any better?

Isn't it easy to see Just how well we fit together?

Written by Tom Snow, Jay Gruska, Amy Grant and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Sung by Aniy Grant. (c) 1991 by A & M Records CONSIDER the scene. You and the person you are dating get into an argument over what to do for the day. Your date wants to go dancing but you prefer quiet time of listening to music together. How do you resolve this difference?

Amy Grant's "Good for Me" describes several scenarios similar to this one. Like most coupies. the individuals in the song don't always want to do the

same thing. Yet one of them is still able to ask, "Does anybody have it any better? Isn't it easy to see just how well we fit together?"

The differences serve this couple as balancing points. The couple use differences to caringly expand each others' lives.

Such an approach is ideal.

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Keep in mind that certain attitudes will help you deal with differences. You and the person you are dating are individuals.

Each of you sees the world through the filter of your own beliefs, values, goals and feelings. Mutual respect will make each of you more tolerant of the other's point of view.

Along with respect, you still need to express your own needs and desires. If you communicate clearly and directly, you won't find reasons to manipulate the other person. By being honest the two of you can find ways of compromising.

However, there are some differences that cannot be compromised. These are what I call bottom-line values and moral choices. It would be a good idea to let each other know what they are. If such bottom lines cannot be accepted, it would be better for a dating couple to part company while still friends.

Finally, once you make clear where you stand in the relationship, enjoy each other's company and keep your sense of humor. Every couple needs a sense of humor because life is full of surprises,' ironies and uncertainties. Humor helps us to maintain a fresh and positive attitude.

Often differences can be resolved. This is especially true when we openly acknowledge them, communicate freely and are willing to laugh with life's difficulties.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, R.R. 3, BOll 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

Eighth-grader aims for stardom BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) While most teenage girls dream of shopping sprees at the mall, boys and summers at the beach, one Brooklyn teen has her eyes on stardom as a singing, dancing and acting sensation.

Camille Fortunato, a member of St. Bernard's parish in Brooklyn and an eighth-grader at St. Agnes Seminary, already has taken st~ps toward reaching her goal.

She has recorded a demo tape of songs and is hoping for a recording' contract. She has sung the national anthem at a soccer game in the New Jersey Meadowlands stadium, was second runner-up in the Miss America Teen pageant for New York state last year and performed a dance number with Broadway entertainer Joel Grey during the halftime show at the 1991 Orange Bowl. She also appeared on a telethon for cerebral palsy broadcast nationwide in January.

"The Orange Bowl wasn't bad because there were many other people on stage with me," she recalled in an interview with The Tablet, Brooklyn diocesan newspaper, but the Meadowlands "was scary because I knew all eyes were on me."

Her singing career was officially launched in 1989 with the release of a demo tape of the 1960s favorite, "Locomotion." Since then, her fl,1ther, George, met with a song~ writer, who wrote the four songs

on her demo tape, "and things have progressed from there," she said.

Miss Fortunato, who dreams of one day spending half the year in Los Angeles and the other half in Paris, follows a tight schedule.

Every day she -attends school until 3:30 p.m. then tries to fit in singing lessons, dance lessons, rehearsals and homework, while still trying to be in bed by 10 p.m.

Thrown into the mix is an occasional piano lesson, a high school entrance examination preparation course and an "occasional moment to breathe on Sundays."

Miss Fortunato, 13, trains with a voice instructor who also has worked with such performers as Bon Jovi and Cyndi Lauper. She has been taking tap, ballet, lyrical and jazz dance lessons for the last nine years and has a dance studio in her home where she practices on her own.

"It is'a lot of pressure when she's under heavy rehearsals like this all time, but she handles it well," said her mother, Jacqueline. "Personally, I feel that if it does not affect her schoolwork, what she does is fine. And so far it hasn't - she's kept up her grades wonderfully."

"It's fun. I like it. No, I love it, actually," Miss Fortunato said. "I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I still go to the mall and parties ... but I'd probably be bored if I wasn't doing all this," Miss Fortunato has a 22-year-

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CAMILLE FORTUNATO old sister, who is in law school, and a 19-year-old brother who works with their father as a compensation representative.

"Camille is the only one in the family with aspirations or signs of talent" in entertainment, said Mrs. Fortunato. "She was never shy, and eV!=l1 as a little kid, if we were in a restaurant with a piano player, she got up and sang. My other children were always shy," While Miss Fortunato would like to be famous by age 23, she's not limiting her options. "I wouldn't mind going on to Georgetown University Law School and becoming a judge," she said. "I could always sing my ve~dict for fun."

Daring "All serious daring starts from within." - Eudora Welty

Teens ne'ed honest answers about sex

CLOWNING AROUND: Gina Alayne, a 25-year-old New York native and a Catholic shows off her clown persona. She has worked with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus for four years. (CNS photo)

Bishop Stang Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, recently held its annual Winter Sports· Team Banquet. All athletes and their families were invited to attend the dinner and awards program.

Basketball awards went to junior Dan Perkins (Chris' Cariglia Award) and senior Kara LeBlanc, who was honored for best free throw percentage.

Winter track MVPs were seniors Chris Correia and Laura Geagan.

Coaches' Awards for track were earned by seniors Matt Bruce and Karen Mitchell.

MIAA Sportsmanship Award went to seniors Diana Saunders and Jay Lawrence. Lawrence is also Stang's nominee for the Dave Cowens basketball award.

Stang's freshman class recently elected as officers Lori Pedro, president; Colleen Carney, vice president; Jim Olden, treasurer; and Alex Desnoyers, secretary.

Stang seniors Nate Tynan of Mattapoisett and Jim Wesoly of Fairhaven spent February break in the Caribbean. But their agendas were not the typical vacation fare. Tynan was building a hospital in the Dominican Republic, and Wesoly was doing mission work on the island of Abaco (see story pages 8-9).

Tynan traveled with 29 adults and youth from the Covenant Baptist Church of Sandwich and a Rhode Island Baptist church to LaRomana in the Dominican Republic. Working with pastor Jean Luc Phanard of LaRomana and his parishioners, the group poured cement footings and constructed the beginnings of the hospital's concrete block walls. Tynan and his co-workers slept on mattresses on the floor of an old church and considered themselves lucky the· days they had water for a shower - an unusual commodity among the 600,000 residents.

While at LaRomana the New England group had the opportunity to visit and worship with residents. Music was plentiful- saxophones, trumpets, bongo drums, and keyboards were always in evidence, but poverty abounds in LaRomana, where faith continues to provide a source of hope and strength.

WHEELING, W. Va. (CNS) Giving teenagers honest answers about sex might be the best way to keep them from experimenting with it, educators and students in the Wheeling-Charleston diocese agree.

"When we were younger, you heard all kinds of stories and you didn't know if they were true or not," said Erin Palermo, a ninthgrader at St. Francis Central School in Morgantown. "It would be a lot easier if people were more open about it." _ Miss Palermo and her fellow seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students participated in a recent "chastity rally" at the school. During the rally, students performed skits, held a prayer service, watched a video and listened to talks on the medical implications of premarital sex and on the church's teaching on sexuality.

John Gasiorowski, professor of sociology at Wheeling Jesuit College, told The Catholic Spirit, Wheeling-Charleston diocesan newspaper, that Catholic schools must do more to create an open atmosphere for questions and the evaluation of accurate, complete information about sex.

"Catholic schools _have an advantage, unlike public schools, of being able to bring up values," he said. "But public schools can talk about AIDS and condoms and birth control while Catholic schools often find themselves dancing around such issues."

Catholic schools must present the total picture of human sexuality, Gasiorowski said.

"We have an obligation to give people the best available information to make decisions," he said.

"You are not going to stop premarital sexual activity among teens. The best way to decrease premarital sex among teens is to have a program from K-12, integrated'throughout and involving parents."

Catholic educators must dismiss fears that students will misuse information about sex. "There is no evidence indicating that talking about condoms and birth control is a stimulus for students to go out and have sex," Gasiorowski said.

"There is, however, a lot of evidence which says that keeping students ignorant and not talking about condoms or birth control helps them get pregnant."

Striking the right balance be,tween realism and a positive approach can be difficult.

"We try to examine everything, but we're not going to advertise for the makers of artificial birth control," said Joseph Viglietta, principal of Wheeling Central Catholic High School.

"Society does not address the root problem when it sells condoms in its schools," he said. "We teach the need to appreciate human sexuality and practice chastity.

Rather than viewing chastity negatively, we see it as a very positive virtue, one of grace with human dignity."

Passing on that message isn't always easy in light ofthe conflicting messages students receive from society and their peers. .

"I understand why the church is big on celibacy, but I don't want to be the last virgin in the class;" a high school freshman said. "That's just not cooL" Sex as portrayed through advertising and the media also has an enormous impact on teens. '~A lot of kids just experiment," said

Andrea Marino, a ninth-grader at St. Francis Central. "They hear so much about it from TV and ads."

The media also distort the reality of teen sexual activity, she said.

"A lot of people assume that sex is going on and it's not always," she said.

During the rally, a video featured Molly Kelly, a mother of eight who travels around the country sharing the message that it's OK not to have sex.

Mrs. Kelly estimated that there are 1.2 million pregnant teenagers in this country and said the "teen pregnancy rate isn't going to go down until teens want it to."

Teens ,are getting the message today that it's OK to have safe sex but they are not getting the message that it's OK to say no, she said.

"Some people think that sexual responsibility is you eat something, wear something or insert something in your body," she said in the video. "Sexual responsibility is within ourselves. It's self-control, being able to choose for ourselves what we want."

Catholic schools alone do not bear the burden of teaching teens about sex, Gasiorowski said. Parents playa major role in the success of sex education.

"The question becomes, 'Are they seeing positive role models at horneT" he said. "Are they getting love and warmth? Do they see their parents hugging and kissing?

If they don't see that, then they're going to start biting on the outside stuff. Only if you communicate with your children can you combat the media messages."

The Anchor Friday, March 27, 1992

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HOLY CROSS, S. EASTON Parish 25th anniversary committee is seeking a logo; ideas may be submitted in black and white on 81/2 x II paper and must be easily copied by copier machine. Committee, has scheduled family photos to be taken April 4 to, II. ST. MARY, NORTON Lenten parish renewal program: Father Robert Kaszynski will speak at all Masses this weekend at services 9 a.m. (church) and 7 p.m. (parish center) March 30 to April 2.

O.L. HEALTH, FR English-language mission with Father Manuel Andrade March 30 to April 3; 7 p.m. Mass each day followed by confessions.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Youth will present Living Stations of the Cross followed by Benediction 7 p.m. March 31.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Father Raymond Robillard and Sister Theresa Bisson will present Lenten mission, "To Follow His Way," with 7 p.m. services March 29 to April I, church.

CATECHIST EVENING OF REFLECTION Upper Cape Religious Education Directors will sponsor evening of reflection with Father Stephen Fernandes 7 to 9 p.m. April 5, St. Anthony's parish, East Falmouth.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Bible Study group day ofrecollection, "Can We Journey with You?", 9 to 3 p.m. April 4. Information: 385-6751 after 6 p.m. Healing Mass 7:30p.m. April I with Father Dick Lavoie, MS. O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE FatherTom McMorrow and Vincent and Rose Curran scholarship applications available in parish office and Barnstable High School guidance office; application deadline April 12.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET" St. John's Women's Guild and Holy Name Society corporate communion 9:45 a.m. Mass Sunday, fol'lowed by communion breakfast at \\hich speaker will be Jesse Rebelo, bilingual counseling director at Family Services Association of Greater Fall River.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Women's .Guild will sponsor a program on women's spirituality and prayer with Sister Virginia Sampson, SUSC, 7:30 p.II1. March 31.

CALIFORNIAN Barbara Shlemon will conduct a day of healing prayer from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. Information: 222-5410.

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Youth group Living Stations of the Cross 6 p. m. April, 12; rehearsals 3 to 4 p.m. March 29 and April 5.

Persons who can help make costumes should come to March 29 meeting.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Penance service 7 p.m. March 30.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Father Ralph Tetrault will celebrate Mass and present second in a Lenten video series on St. Paul7 to 9 p. m. April I, parish center. The program continues at same time the following Wednesday.

DCCW Diocesan Council of Catholic Women District II, NB, Lenten afternoon program, "Women in the Faith," 3 p.m. March 29, St. Mary's Church, NB. All welcome. District V, Cape and Islands, open meeting 2 p.m. April 5, O.L. Assumption parish, Osterville.

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DIOCESAN OFFICE OF FAMILY MINISTRY A Retrouvaille weekend to help, h~al and renew.troubled marriages Will be held Apnl24 to 26 with postweekend followup sessions at Christ the King parish, Mashpee. Information: Phil and Diane Caruso, 4296293. Explanatory brochures available at Office of Family Ministry, 999-6420.

ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Lenten program, "Satisfying Hungers," 7 to 8:30 p.m. March 30, upper sacristy. Presentation on t~enage suicide, inclUding skit, questIOn and answer period and Christian music, 7 to 9 p.m. April 3, church hall; teens and adults welcome.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Peace Prefraternity of W. Harwich meeting 2 p. m. April 12, Holy Trinity Church, W. Harwich. Father Jeremiah Milner, OFM, will celebrate Mass and speak on "God's Promise to His People." Business meeting and refreshments follow. Rosary will be recited at 1:30 p.m. Inquirers welcome. Information: Dorothy WilIiams, 394-4094.

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) Homeless people not only lack shelter but face a myriad of other problems such as substance abuse and mental illness that cannot be ignored, said Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn.

Drugs, mental illness and the dilemmas of people such as released prisoners must be addressed by any program aimed at helping the homeless, he said. He added that distinctions must be made between those who need transitional assistance and those who require permanent help.

Bishop Sullivan served on a 14member commission set up by , New York Mayor David Dinkins to study the situation.

"Part of the problem," he said, "is what has happened in family life, where you have the singlep~U"ent family, the mothers who become pregnant as teenagers and have lack of education and work experience."

The commission, headed by Andrew Cuomo, son of New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, recently released a report that concluded New York's policy for the homeless is a failure and must be restructured.1t noted that the city has spent $2 billion in 10 years.

It recommends letting nonprofit groups rather than the government set up and run new shelters.

The proposal would replace a plan by Dinkins to have 24 new shelters built in middle-income neighborhoods, which have reacted strongly against the idea.

Andrew Cuomo is president of a nonprofit group that wants to help the state's homeless, Housing Enterprise for t~e Less Privileged, known as HELP. Bishop Sullivan, who is Brooklyn diocesan vicar for human services and oversees Catholic Charities' housing network, said Catholic Charities would apply for some of the contracts if commission proposals were adopted. He said the church agency would try to do its fair share but not "jump into" shelter operation.

"I am wondering about our ClilPacity to shut off the iaucet of creating future dependent 'populations," he. said.

"I would rather work with young mothers and kids in day care centers, so they do not keep repeating the same pattern generation after generation."

Bishop Sullivan said the commission felt that just providing more housing is not the answer.

That need cannot be ignored, he said, but added that he thought homelessness was in large part a result of 1980s federal spending patterns that failed to properly balance military and social needs.

However, he said the commission found that 80 percent of the men in the city's huge armory shelters and 30 percent of adults in family shelters used drugs or alcohol.

Anyone with a substance-abuse problem who asks for permanent housing, he said, could reasonably be required to undergo treatment.

The commission also felt nonprofit groups could do a better job of helping the homeless with less money than the city.

Providing a man with a cot in an armory with 900 other men, the commission reported, costs $18,000 . a year, while minimal housing for a family costs $53,000 a year.

Overall, the city now spends some $400 million a year on some 20,000 homeless, or $20,000 per person.

Bishop Sullivan said Catholic Charities plans to open a facility later this year where people, mostly mentally ill homeless, will have individual rooms, meals and mental health services at the cost of only their Social Security income.

Bishop Connolly The Bishop Connolly High School Alcohol and Drug Awareness Team will sponsor an informational parents' meeting, "Our Children, Our Future," 7 to 9:30 p.m. April, I in the Fall River school's resource center.

The program will include a presentation on drug paraphernalia by Tom Gibney, director of the Bristol Alliance, a regional drug abuse prevention program sponsored by the district attorney's office.

Also speaking w.ilI be psychblogist Pauline Carey, clinical counseiing coordinator for Lifeline, a substance abuse program at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

Program organizers are Connolly faculty members George Angelo, Colleen Smith and Roland Lacroix.

All are'invited to attend. For information call the school at 676-1071.