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VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has announced it will provide details of its spending and income to the world's bishops for the first time as part of a fundraising appeal to cover its growing deficit.

At the same time, the Vatican predicted the shortfall in ~ts 1987 operating budget would mcrease to about $63 million. That would be about $7 million more than the previous year and the largest shortfall since the Vatican began publishing budget figures in 1979.

A two-page Vatican statement, issued March 26 after a meeting of a cardinals' finance council, said the council had decided to send a letter to bishops, requesting a "more ample and organic participation" by local churches in Vatican operating costs.

With the letter, the statement said, the bishops will receiv~ a "synthesis" of the 1985 operatmg budget of the Holy See and the Vatican City government. That was the first year the various Vati• can departments were united in a single budget statement, according to a Vatican financial source.

The source said the idea was to give the bishops enough information to make informed judgments on possible permanent solutions to the shortfall problem.

The letter includes "several concrete hypothetical solutions" to the deficit to be evaluated by the bishops, the Vatican statement said.

These solutions are based on "collegiality" and a "sense of communion" between local churches and the Vatican's central agencies, it said.

The statement did not elaborate on the proposals contained in the letter, and the Vatican source said the contents of the letter were not expected to be made public by the Vatican.

The statement revealed that the annual Peter~s Pence fund, which since 1984 has been used to cover much of the yearly shortfall, was expected to cover only about half the 1987 shortfall.

Peter's, Pence, a worldwide collection traditionally used for special papal projects, raised about $32 million in 1986, the statement said; that would leave about a $31 million shortfall. In the past, the Vatican has had to dip into invested funds to cover the difference, a policy which has concerned church financial experts.

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Two from diocese at national parley on teenage sexual morality ,Father Richard W. Beaulieu, director of the Diocesan Department of Education, and Father Robert A. Oliveira, director 'of Continuing Formation of Clergy and Laity; represented the Fall River diocese at a national meeting on school-based health clinics sponsored last week in Washington by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the U.S. Catholic Conference and Catholic Charities USA. Also at the meeting was Jeff , Dongvillo, director of pro-life ed ucation for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference.

U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett, a speaker, urged the church to develop a "moral mission" to all, not just Catholics, as it opposes teenage sexual activity.

"It's not that every parent is a Catholic," he said. "But when it comes to one's children ... parents overwhelmingly want their children to be given a responsible moral message" in regard to sexual activity.

Himself a Catholic, Bennett urged a more active church posture as he criticized school-based health clinics in public schools.

Establishing such clinics, he said, suggests that adults regard teen' sexual activity "as either inevitable or ordinary" and legitimizes teen premarital sex.

Just as inner-city parochial schools educate the children ofthe poor, many of whom are notCatholic, Bennett said, "I wonder if the church might take it upon itself to have another mission, a moral mission, for the education of the children of any of us" in the area of teenage sexual morality.

The church in the inner city "feels that it has a responsibility to educate all the children who come to its doors," he said. The church should take similar responsibility for sex education, he said.

"People really are looking for this kind of guidance, particularly when it comes to their children.

They may not be looking for it for themselves but I am convinced they are looking for it for their children," he said. "I suggest that the church may want to think about some effort in this regard."

Bennett said the fact that birth control clinics have been set up in public schools despite church teaching which forbids Catholics to use artificial means of contraception reflects an acceptance of what he earlier called "Catholic-bashing."

While public schools say that they respect individual, personal and religious beliefs of their students, he said, "it seems in many places (school-based clinics have] gone into effect without regard for those particular beliefs."

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Pro-lifers angered WASHINGTON (NC) - Sur- manded President Reagan fire the geon General C. Everett Koop's surgeon general. advice that abortion and abortion Another activist suggested Koop referrals be cited among medical - has "flown the coop" while a third options for pregnant AIDS vic- pro-life group, declining to pubtims has stirred criticism from pro- licly attack. Koop, questioned his life supporters. comments.

The surgeon general, however, The reaction followed Koop's emphatically denied dropping his March 24 appearance at the Nationlongstanding opposition to aboral Press Club, where he mentioned tiOL . med}cal options for a pregnant "What I would like to make very woman who has contracted AIDS clear is I have not changed my - acquired immune deficiency synposition on abortion," he told Na- drome. "If youwanted to give her tional Catholic News Service in an all the possibilities that were availinterview March 25, a day after the able to her, you would have to controversy arose. mention abortion," he commented.

Nonetheless, after his remark In the interview with NC News, about medical options, the March for Life Education and Defense' he said he had then told his . Fund withdrew its "Life Award audience: "But I would not advise for Outstanding Pro-Life Service" it." given to Koop in 1984 and deTurn to Page Six

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Trapp family matriarch dead at 82

MORRISVILLE, V1. (NC) Maria von Trapp, the one-time convent novice whose marriage to a war hero and decision to flee Austria with him and 10 children to avoid complicity with Nazi rule inspired the film and play "The Sound of Music," died March 28 at age 82.

She died in a Morrisville hospital three days after undergoing intestinal surgery.

Morrisville is near Stowe, V1., where the Trapp family settled more than 40 years ago and where Johannes von Trapp, youngest of the 10 children Maria and Baron Georg von Trapp led out of Austria in 1938, manages the Trapp Family Lodge.

The story of the Trapp family became one of the movie industry's greatest financial successes with the release of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," starring Julie Andrews, in 1965.

The film won five Academy Awards. Earlier, the von Trapp story was told in a Broadway musical which opened in 1959 and ran for three years.

Mrs. von Trapp, a strong proponent of family life and a spokeswoman for the charismatic movement, spoke of her faith in God and devotion to the Catholic Church in a number of interviews during her years in the United States.

In a 1977 interview, the baroness advised Catholics not to get caught up in "too many alleluias" and "praise the Lords." lit.

Rather than concentrating on PRESIDENT Franklin D. Roosevelt and first lady Elea- . the "externals" of their faith, she they should "read the Gosnor RooseveIt(top picture) are welcomed by Father James said, pels,- find out what they mean to Ryan, rector of Catholic University, as' they arrived for the you, and start to shape your own institution's 1933 commencement. Bottom, a faculty member life." .

In 1980, declaring that the health really gets into a billiards shot during a long-ago game in the of a society is judged by its attitude basement of Caldwell Hall, CU's first building. (NC photos) toward children, she said U.S. laws permitting abortions would "draw the wrath of God on the nation."

Pope Pius XII awarded her the WASHINGTON (NC) - Vice maculate Conception. Jesuit Father President George Bush, Chrysler William Byron, university presi- Benemerenti Medal in 1949 for her generosity to the suffering people Corp. Chairman Lee lacocca, and dent, will deliver the homily. of Austria. . the U.S. bishops are slated as parLater that afternoon, lacocca, During concert intermissions on ticipants in the 100th birthday festivities of The Catholic University who heads a university campaign the family's annual singing tours to raise $100 million, will be fea- throughout the United States, the of America April 10-12.

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of tured at a Centennial Salute party. baroness appealed for old clothes Bush and lacocca will address a and food to be sent to distribution Chicago, chairman ofthe Catholic of regents dinner that even- , centers in Salzberg,and Vienna. In board University board of trustees, joined ing.

1947, nearly 100,000 pounds of by other bishops, will celebrate a Other events planned for the food and clothing were sent to liturgy of thanksgiving April 10 at the National Shrine of the Im- weekend include a five-kilometer Austria by the von Trapp family. run; a speech by retired Navy Rear "The Story ofthe Trapp Family Adm. Grace Murray Hopper; dedSingers," by Mrs. von Trapp was a ication of Hannan Hall, the uni- 1949 selection of the Catholic Book versity's new science center named . Club. after Archbishop Philip Hannan Advocating greater participation WASHINGTON (NC) - Arch- of New Orleans, an alumnus and of laity in church services, the bishop John R. Quinn of San former chairman of the university Francisco has been elected an exec- trustees; a cabaret show with Bob utive committee member of the Newhart, parent of a university National Conference of Catholic student, and Ed McMahon, a Blessed Sacrament Brother RayBishops and U.S. Catholic Con- Catholic University graduate; and mond Lussier, whose sister, Bera concert at the John F. Kennedy tha Phenix, is a Fall River resiference.

The five-bishop committee con- Center for the Performing Arts. dent, was honored March 22 at a ducts activities of the NCCB and Mass of thanksgiving marking his its public action twin, the USCC, golden j~bilee of religious profesbetween meetings of the NCCBsion.

USCC Administrative Committee The Mass was offered at St. BALTIMORE(NC)-Josephite Joseph's Church, San Antonio, and Board, which is composed of Father William L. NOI;vel of Bal- where Brother Lussier is stationed.

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Also on the executive commit- timore has been appointed execu- A reception followed. Among those tee are NCCB/USCC officers tive director of the National Black present was Father Robert LusArchbishop John L. May of St. Catholic Congress. He is currently sier, SSS, a cousin.

Louis, president; Archbishop Dan- consultor general of his communBrother Raymond is a brother iel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, vice ity and president of the Black路 of the late Father L. Omer Lussier president; Auxiliary Bishop Eugene Catholic clergy caucus. who was pastor of Sacred Heart NBCC supports efforts to evan- parish, North Attleboro, at the A. Marino of Washington, secretary; and Bishop John R. McGann gelize the estimated 6 million to 10 time of his death in 1970, and of of Rockville Centre, N.Y., trea- million U.S. blacks with no formal the late Father Ernest Lussier, religious affiliation. surer.

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baroness sponsored music camps in Vermont with classes stressing the Gregorian chant and other liturgical pieces.

Mrs. von Trapp was awarded the Siena Medal, the highest award of Theta Phi Alpha, the national sorority for Catholic women, in 1962.

In 1964, she welcomed 40 Catholics and Episcopalians to the Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont for an interfaith religious conference.

Maria Augusta Kutschera, the future baroness, was born on a train speeding from her parents' village to a hospital in Vienna in 1905.

She was an orphan by age 7 and raised by a court-appointed guardian, whom she later described as anti-Catholic.

After graduating from a teachers' college in Vienna, she became a candidate for the novitiate at a Benedictine convent in Salzberg.

The convent's abbess sent her to be governess at the villa of a widower, Baron von Trapp, a highly decorated submarine commander during World War I. Maria married the baron, already the father of seven children, in November 1927. The couple later had three children.

In 1935, Father Franz Wasner, a Catholic priest, came to live with the family and began to tutor the children in Renaissance and Baroque music.

In 1936, the family's informal singing became a professional enterprise when they won a choral competition in Austria. They con-

ducted a tour of Europe the next year.

When the Nazis overtook Austria in 1938, the family fled with a few possessions to Italy, then sailed to New York. .

The baron died in 1947 at the age of 57.

Adoption education conference planned Catholic Social Services of Fall River will sponsor its ninth annual adoption education conference from 2 to 4 p.m. April 12 at S1.

Vincent's Home, Fall River.

Dr. Harry M. Leichtman, a clinical psychologist practicing in greater Boston, will speak on "Dialoguing with Your Kids about Adoption" and will conduct a discussion session.

Dr. Leichtman is a consultant and trainer for public and private agencies including the Judge. Baker Guidance' Center. He works with children, adolescents and families, focusing on developmental issues and decision making.

Conference registration begins at I:30 p.m. Information is available at Catholic Social Services, 674-4681.

Logbook With this issue we begin a new feature, The Anchor Logbook (below), looking back at the way we were 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years ago. Watch for it monthlythe name you see might be your own!

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APRIL 1957 The Anchor received its first foreign subscription, from Father John Lawlor, MM, a New Bedford native.

The Maryknoll missioner was stationed at S1. Rose de Lima parish, Lima, Peru.

1962 Father Patrick J. O'Neill was appointed Superintendent of Diocesan Schools by Bishop James L. Connolly.

19(;7 New Bedford's Daughters ofIsabelia (Hyacinth Circle) marked their golden anniversary with a Mass at Holy Name Church.

1972 Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, a graduate of Rome's North American College, was among bishops received by Pope Paul VI, who praised the Eternal City's learning centers.

1977 With exterior work finished, interior tasks were being completed at the new St. Elizabeth Seton Church, North Falmouth, in preparation for dedication ceremonies. ,

1982 The Anchor celebrated its 25th anniversary with a 50-page issue.

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Pope John Paul II continues his 13-day trip to Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. En route to Uruguay, his first stop, he told reporters on the papal plane that he thinks it "not only possible but necessary" for the church to play the same sort of role in Chile as it did in the Philippines, where the nation's bishops supported the peaceful overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos.

In Chile, a Catholic human rights group reported that deaths from political violence rose 42 percent in 1986 and torture and politically related arrests increased.

Tuesday and Wednesday the pope was in Uruguay, leaving that country for Chile in the afternoon.

He will be in Chile until noon Monday, then will be in Argentina through April 12.

"Baby M" WASHINGTON (NC) - A New Jersey judge ruled March 31 that the "Baby M" surrogate mother contract is valid, awarding custody of the l-year~old girl to her biological father, William Stern, and his wife, Elizabeth: Judge Harvey R. Sorkow of Superior Court in Hackensack, N.J., denied visitation rights to biological mother Mary Beth Whitehead, who had argued that the contract she entered into with the Sterns was invalid.

Reacting to the ruling, Richard Doerflinger, assistant director of the U.S. bishops' Office for ProLife Activitjes in Washington, said, "The 13th Amendm'ent didil't work.

It is still possible to buy and sell a , human being." The 13th Amendment outlaws slavery.

In a Feb. 22 document on modern techniques of procreation the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said surrogate motherhood is morally illict -"an objective failure to meet the obligations of maternal love, of conjugal fidelity and of responsible motherhood."

Appeal denied WASHINGTON (NC) - The Supreme Court March 30 refused to review a ruling that upheld the criminal prosecutions of sanctuary workers even though the workers said their activities were protected by the right to freedom of religion.

Without comment, the justices declined to hear an appeal by Jack Elder, former director of Casa Oscar Romero, a shelter for Central Americans in San Benito, Texas, an,d Stacey Lynn Merkt, who worked as a vol.unte,er at 'he shelter. Both were convicted in 1985 of conspiring to transport illegal aliens.

At that time, Bishop John J. Fitzpatrick of Brownsville said he was proud of Elder and Ms, Merkt and that what they were doing was "not only Christian but American.;'

Oscar winner LOS ANGELES (NC) -'''The Mission," a film about 18th-century Jesuit missionaries in South America, won an Oscar for cinematography March 30 at the 59th Academy A wards presentation in Los Angeles.

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Msgr.'Hoye reelected WASHINGTON (NC) - The Administrative Committee of the 'National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Administrative Board of the U.S. Catholic Conference have unanimously reelected Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye as general secretary of the NCCB-USCe. A Taunton native, Msgr. Hoye, 41, recently completed a five-year term as general secretary. He was reelected for one year. USCCNCCB bylawsstate that after completing a five-year term, the general secretary becomes eligible for reelection annually.

As general secretary Msgr. Hoye is chief administrative officer of the U.S. bishops' canonical organ-

Marian concert In anticipation of the forthcoming Marian year, a concert of Marian music will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 31, at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Cathedral Choir, directed by Madeleine Grace, invites quartets or octets drawn from other diocesan choirs to join them for the day's performance.

The program will include A Hymn to the Virgin by Benjamin Britten for double chorus; Tota Pulchra Es by Maurice Durufle; Mary's Song by Michael Joncas and other Marian hymns' and chants.

Choir directors interested in participation may contact Mrs. Grace through St. Mary's Cathedral, 673-2833, or at 678-1054.

ization, the NCCB, and the bishops' public policy a{'m, the USCe. He joined the NCCB-USCC staff in May 1977 as assistant general secretary and was appointed associate general secretary the next year. He became general secretary in February 1982.

After studying for the priesthood at St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield, Conn., and St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Msgr. Hoye was ordained May 13, 1972, by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. He was parochial vicar ,at St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, and St. Mary's parish, Norton, before being assigned to studies at the Catholic University of America; Returning to the Fall River diocese, he was named vice-officialis of its marriage court, a post he held until he was appointed NCCB/ USCC assistant general secretary in 1977.

In 1979 he traveled with Pope John Paul II during the pontiffs first U.S. visit, aiding in arrangements for the pope's meeting with the nation's bishops and serving as a resource ,person for journalists with the papal party.

material from cable television could result in '~explicit sexual" cable programs "running rampant across the country," said Morality in Media.

On March 23, by a 7-2 vote, the high court upheld a ruling that barred Utah officials from banning explicit material and nudity from cable broadcasts. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor voted to hear arguments in the case, but four votes are needed to grant such a review.

Morality in Media, a New Yorkbased group, called on Congress to enact legislation stating that the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 permits such regulatory laws.

Discussions by sponsors of the 1984 act, Morality in Media said, show that "there was 110 intent to preempt the states from'imposing legal restrictions on cable telecasts but rather to grant that right."

The group also said the onesentence Supreme Court decision upholding a federal appeals court ruling was a "disservice to the country" because it gave "no guidance on the type of cable TV inde-

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cency statute that will withstand court review."

Morality in Media said, however, that the decision "can be interpreted narrowly to simply mean that the Utah statute was imprecisely drawn."

"It is quite possible that when a future case comes before the court, it could result in language affirming the right of the states to impose legal restrictions on explicit sexual cable programming," the group said.

Ten states had joined Utah in urging the court to permit regulation of indecent material on cable television. They were Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington and West Virginia.

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Peace Fellowship parley tomorrow The 17th annual New England Catholic Peace Fellowship Conference will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow at St. Joseph's College, West Hartford. Among planning committee members is Sister Frances Farrell, SUSC, a member of the Fall River-based Immaculate Heart province of the Holy Union Sisters.

Titled "Mission and Liberation: Is the Church Faithful?," the day will include workshops and speeches and will conclude with a 5 p.m. Mass, a potluck supper and musical entertainment. Child care will be available.

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.the moorin~ Restoring the Image There can be little doubt that the AIDS crisis has given rise to serious scrutiny of the sexual mores so prevalent in our social order.

For too long we have suffered from the Freudian thinking which reduces love to a rather insignificant byproduct of sexual relationships and in turn reduces those relationships to mere animal compulsions.

The end result was to make relationships unimportant. All that mattered was to fulfill individual expectations. Selfactualization, doing your own thing, looking out for number one became the catch phrases that dictated personal behavior.

Sex became a thin.!! and people collectible conquests.

After an entire generation of this so-called liberation, the futility, emptiness and unfulfilling nature of sex detachedfrom love are all too apparent. Quite apart from the new horror of AIDS, the resulting confusion and turm9il have been catastrophic. People are terrified, feeling more and more threatened, vulnerable, equally afraid of making a commitment and of being abandoned.

The savagery of sexual license has reduced relationships to mere encounters, marriage to mere convenience and people to mere pawns. This complete dehumanizing of sex is destroying people. Abortion, test-tube babies and surrogate childbearing are but a few of its results. What people expected from the Playboy/ girl mentality and what they have received have been, totally different things.

Thinking their personalities stifled, people wanted to be free, hoping to lose their fears and inhibitions. What we have, reaped is a horror show ofteenage pregnancies, genital herpes and AIDS. The so-called planners of parenthood have failed miserably because they have abandoned ethics, morality and responsibility: They would have us believe that we can play and not pay. , Even today they would have our young people believe that there is such a thing as safe sex, devoid of all accountability.

Even as society d~sperately ,seeks a way to 'rescue those who' have fallen victim to their deceptive liberalism, they continue, to devise methods of further degrading and debasing the human person. Somehow they fail to understand the problem.

The growing discontent with the side effects of our so-called sexual liberation is effectively forcing many people to reorder their priorities. What was once all-important in terms of instant gratification has now been tempered by recognition of the danger of self-destruction.

In this light the recent Vatican directive on procreation is not only a timely reminder of this fact but a solid guideline for practical judgment. The consistent Church teaching that sexuality is sacred is reinforced by observation of the selfannihilation that indiscriminate sexual experimentation and practices has brought to so many.

Considering the circumstances of our times, the Church redefinition of what is truly normal in human sexual behavior is a step in the right direction for society.

We must continue to let all men and women know how unique they are among, the creatures of God. It is imperative that all see themselves as more than a species of animal. We differ from the lower animals as God differs from us. When we reduce our humanity to the animal level, we not only endanger our survival but we injure our status as beings made in the image and likeness of God. This is the,image that we must restore.

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Church, INS: an unlikely pair WASHINGTON (NC) 4- Most would agree the U.S. Catholic Church and federal immigration authorities make strange 'bedfellows.

For years while U.S. border patrol agents raided field and factory and rounded up Mexican aliens wading across the Rio Grande, the U,S. Catholic Conference was bu,sy lobbying Con. gress to grant aliens amnesty and church groups nationwide were offering them food, clothing, shelter and legal advice.

Yet, in order to implement the 'immigration reform law passed by Congress in October, it is likely the church and U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service will work hand in hand this year~ Amnesty provisions of the law allow immigrants who have resided illegally in the United States since before Jan. I, 1982, to apply for legalized status.

The USCC's Migration and Refugee Services and countless church agencies throughout the 'nation are considering signing a contract with immigration authorities that would make them "qualified desigaated entities" - the title given those officially charged to help aliens apply for legalization under terms of the new law.

Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, executive director of Migration and Refugee Services, admits he is a little uncomfortable at working with federal immigration authorities whose policies the church has protested.

But if the church declined to participate in the legalization process, Msgr. DiMarzio said, "it wouldn't be INS that would be in trouble, it'd be the people that would be in trouble ... that would lose out. That's the problem."

.. Anticipation of the unlikely church-state alIiance has prov.oked concern among those who work with Hispanics, the largest group of those expected to apply for legalization.

In November, shortly after passage of the new law, Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., warned that the church's role in the legali'zation program "could have serious implications for the' church, eroding the trust and credibility it now enjoys" among illegal immigrants.

He said he wanted to be certain that "none of the people who approach us to apply for legalization will be hurt or suffer as a consequence" and that the church would not become "an instrument that causes suffering."

Echoing Bishop Ramirez' concerns, Joseph Trevino, executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Inc., cautions the church must take care that, aliens not find it guilty by association.

For example, Trevino said, it is not unlikely that aliens will go to church-run legalizatio,n offices "thinking 'el padrecito' [the good pastor] will fix things for me."

The church must make' sure, said Tr~vino, that aliens understand that "God and the parish priest have nothing to do with who's eligible and who isn't. INS makes the decisions."

Despite immigration authorities' promises that they will not use information obtained in the process to deport anyone, Trevino warned that the church must take care that information it collects on aliens who do not qualify does not get into the wrong hands. ' The fact that federal immigra-

tion authorities have been responsible for massive deportation, violation of aliens' 'rights and the fostering of "nativist," discriminatory attitudes is "precisely why the church has to get involved," said Father Vicente Lopez, associate director of the USCC's' Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs.

"If the church doesn't get involved, who is there to safeguard the rights of the immigrant, to ensure that the procedures followed are credible and effe芦tive?" he asked.

Acknowledging that aliens who do not qualify may feel let down, Father Lopez stressed the importance of keeping aliens' expectations at a realistic level.

If the church doesn't playa role, Claretian Father Pedro Rodriguez of Chicago predicts his parishioners won't even apply for legalization since they so distrust immigration authorities.

"The people see the church as their advocate," said Father Rodriguez, assistant pastor of Holy Cross-Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, a primarily Hispanic parish on the city's South Side that will offer legalization assistance.

While church involvement in the legalization effort means accepting "a great burden," it is "clearly" the best institution for the job because of its size, trustworthy reputation, and record for resettling Cuban refugees, said Trevino.

In agreeing to cooperate with immigration officials, the church has the potential "to do great good," but also the chance "of being misinterpreted and failing," said Father Lopez.

"Our agencies and personnel are well aware of the risks involved," he added. '

Family stories So far we've talked about stories of various families in our past: the Chosen People that Moses led out of slavery, the forgiving family of the Prodigal Son and our early Christian family who risked their lives to build a church for us.

This week let's discuss our own family stories, the stories offamily and faith of our parents, grandparents and their grandparents.

Also of our grandchildren's families someday.

Family has been defined as a group of people who share a history and a future but I've noticed that many children don't even know their nation of origin or when their ancestors came to America. Many don't know the wonderful stories of emigration, deprivation and assimilation into the nation we call our own. Yet, almost all families have such tales.

I was talking recently with a young woman of 22 and for some reason ancestry came up. "Where did your people come from?" I asked.

She hesitated. "Uh ... oh ...

I'm not really sure. Lithuania or Poland or some place like that."

What a pity that her herhage is so spotty. She is a well-educated young adult but can't even distinguish between countries that are a part of her history. It is clear that

her background has not been prized and passed on by her parents. Is it any wonder that so many of our children believe that life started with them? Family pride begins with family history and if there's little history, pride has to be wrapped up in the present family only.

So, parents, I suggest that this week you take Lenten time to tell your children as much as you know about your family past. Perhaps you will need to do a little digging yourself, put in a call to your parents and grandparents and ask for information and family stories you can pass on to your children so they can pass them on to theirs.

You might even sketch a simple family tree so they can visualize the idea that they come from a long line of people with stories.

Get out a map and circle the countries of origin represented in the family. Tell a little about the history and traditioris of those countries, especially the history at the time your forebears emigrated here.

What forces led them to emigrate? Were they driven out by the potato famine? Were they escaping an oppressive draft law? Was there religious persecution going on, or did they come simply seeking adventure and riches?

And what happened when they got there? How did they happen to select a certain state or area in

On Catholic schools . There is good news for parents who 'are' sac'rifiCing'''to send their children to a Catholic high school. In a study by the noted sociologist, Dr. James S. Coleman, it was found that Catholic high schools generally do a better job of educating students than do either the public schools or most non-Catholic private schools.

In particular, students who attend Catholic'schools master more verbal and mathematical skills, have lower dropout rates and are more likely to enroll in college than are their public school peers.

Moreover, it was found that the benefits of Catholic high schools are greatest for poor, black. and Hispanic children, as well as for those from single-parent homes, homes in which both parents work and families in which the parents and children seldom talk about school.

The study does not put down public schools. Rather it is interested in finciing out why Catholic high sch~ol~ are ~avi~g success.

Coleman's st).ldyleads him tocon,. clude that C;~.tholic'L~igh.schools have greater "social capitaL" Like financial capitai, social ,capital represents resources, in this case human resources, that are a~aila­ ble to children and' families for productive u'se. . , For example, if the parents of two children who are friends kn'ow each other they can discuss their. children's activities, establish mutual values and expectations and exercise consistent sanctions to guide and constrain their children's behavior. The more this coming together for the benefit of the student occurs, the better for the school. .

The fact that the Catholic high school is not considered an agent

of society or the state, but is considered ,an active religious community with defined values and beliefs, greatly facilitates the coming together of parents and their mutual interests. The parents have a common bond in their religious beliefs.

When we study the meaning of baptism one ofthe beautiful values it gives us is that it makes us a member of the church, a community in which beliefs are held· in common. The church community is pledged to help its members and to work together for the kingdom.

It also is a community of memories from the apostles to present times which has given us a strong tradition, a tradition that acts as a bond in keeping people together.

As I read the Coleman report I thought of Robert Bellah's book, "Habits ofthe Heart"and reflected on his assertion that we need just such a tradition to avoid a selfish and self-defeating individualism.

This led me to applaud our Catholic school system. ·It hasa tradition, which is exactly what is' needed for successfully running any school system. We don't have, to manufacture any-. thing new. All we, need to ,do is realize what we have, continue to improve it and tell our story. re-

Auschwitz 'center (Undated) (NC) - European Catholic leaders 'will establish an interreligious prayer and information center dedicated to victims of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. The action apparently paved the way for removal of a controversial Carmelite convent from Auschwitz. Jewish groups around, t,he world have protested the convent, established in 1984.

The agreement was worked out during a recent meeting of 18 Catholic and Jewish leaders in Geneva.

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Fri., Apr. 3, 1987

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By DOLORES CURRAN

which to settle? Did they marry a fellow national? If not, what was the family reaction?

Is bell • • ringing allowed?

Q. Our pastor has stopped ringing the bells at the consecration of If there's time after this familythe Mass. I have noticed this in past sharing, let's go on and talk other churches also. When asked about how religious and church why, our pastor said, "Ringing traditions have changed. At one bells at the consecration is prohitime people belonged to ethnic bited by the pope." churches, not geographical ones.

If that is true, why do some still If you were Italian, you went to the do it? Can you quote a law or Italian parish, Polish, the Polish directive by the pope? (Florida) parish. As intermarriage became A. There is no directive by the common, ethnic parishes began to pope about ringing bells at Mass. disappear in all but the large cities.

Perhaps some background will be Our children have heard a little helpful to understand what is going about changes in our recent church on. Ringing bells during ,Mass history but many haven't heard apparently began in monasteries stories from their parents about during the Middle Ages. Only some their First Communion, about not of the monks attended the comgoing into church without a hat munity Mass in midmorning. Oth(or putting a Kleenex on your ers out' in the field followed the head), about Latin Masses, high progress of the Mass through the Masses, fasting and so on. chapel bell.

One event which occasioned inTake time to tell your children creased use of bells was the introabout your childhood church. It duction into the Mass of the elevawiJI better enable them to accept tion of the host and chalice after the church of their grandchildren the consecration around the year and to view faith and family as a 1200. constantly changing institution During that period certain hererather than a museum set into . sies were particularly rampant in place when they were children. the church, denying in one way or another the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Several features were added or became prominent By in the liturgy and other prayer life ofthe,church, the purpose of which FATHER' was to emphasize the eucharistic presence of Our Lord against those I who would deny it.

EUGENE Even to our own time, as all of us a little older will remember, HEMRICK these elevations came to be seen as the main part ofthe Mass. In some areas fervent Catholics even moved from church to church just tQ peatedly in order to heighten our watch the elevation. Bells were sensitivity to the goodness we have rung to let everyone around on the in our midst. outside know "Jesus is now here" and everyone could come and look at him.

As we know, this custom of bells endured well into our own century, even though the instructions April 4 for Mass instituted by Pope Pius V 1985, Rev. James F. McCarthy R~tired, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fali in July 1570, the so-called Tridentine Mass, did not mention bells.

River In 1972 the VaticancongregaApril 6 tion responsible for liturgy related 1977, Rev. Msgr. JohnA. Chipthe use of bells to the level of liturpendale, Retired, Pastor, St. Patgical education in the parish. Where rick, Wareham this education has been adequate, . 1980, Rev. Lorenzo Morais, Reit noted, there is no need for this tired, Pastor, St. George, Westport kind of signal. If sufficient liturgiApril7 . cal instruction is lacking, in fact, .1976, Rev. JamesA Dury, Chapbells should be rung at the two lam at Madonna Manor, North, elevations to elicit joy and attenAttleboro . tion (Notitiae, 1972,343).

April 9 , Q.Our parish put a lot of 1919, Rev. Cornelius McSweeemphasis on Holy Saturday last ney, Pastor, Immaculate Concepyear, so much so that it seemed to tion, Fall River overshadow Easter Sunday. Is Holy 1965, Rev. Edward F. Dowling, Saturday a more important day in' Pastor, Immaculate Conception the church than Easter? Ifso, why?

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By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

Easter was the earliest feast celebrated in the church, for obvious reasons. The main, often the only, celebration of this feast was during Holy Saturday night, the night of the Resurrection, what we now know as the Easter Vigil Service.

The night, with the lighting of the Easter candle and other lamps; ,the reading ofthe scriptural stories of God's revelation of his love, the baptism of new Christians and celebration of the Eucharist, was the perfect way to enter the joy of Easter. All these elements remain part ofthe Easter Vigil ceremonies.

As time wenfon, and for a variety of reasons, this (and many other) magnificent liturgical treasures of our church became all but totally lost. For the Easter Vigil, the absolute low point came during the past few hundred years, including the' first half of this century.

Prompted partly by the fact that Masses could not be offered after noon, the entire glorious ritual of the' celebration of the Easter Vigil was compressed into an hour or two early Holy Saturday morning, the priest reciting all the scripture readings and blessings by himself in Latin, and then a simple Mass, much like any other weekday Mass of the year.

With no exaggeration, it was a tragic caricature of what once was and now is gradually becoming again the highest point of our Christian liturgy, the supreme act of worship of the year. In that situation, with the Easter Vigil gone, the Sunday morning Masses were, of course, the only Easter Masses.

Starting some years before Vatican Council II, the church realized the time had come to restore the Holy Week liturgies, with the Easter Vigil as the top priority. Once again this central celebration of Our Lord's resurrection is taking its place as the focal liturgy of the year;'all others either lead up to it or are built upon it.

I hope you can see, then, that the Easter Vigil Service is not a "Holy Saturday Mass." It is the Easter Mass and celel;ration par excellence.

At our rectory we are sometimes amu.sed or saddened by people who ask, "Does the Easter Vigil Mass count for Easter Sunday?"

The answer is, as I explained, that the Easter Vigil celebration is the first and main Eucharist of the "entire Easter season. All others, . including those on Easter Sunday morning, simply continue the celebration that begins on that holy night.

A free brochure on cremation and other questions of Catholic funeral practice is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

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Clinics Continued From Page One Father Beaulieu said Dr. Richard C. Glasow of the National Right to Life Committee, another meet- . ing speaker, also assailed schoolbased clinics.

"Regardless of what government officials may say," he declared, "'school-based clinics' is a euphemism for birth control clinics and abortion referral counseling."

Father Beaulieu, noting that current concern over the spread of AIDS has provided proponents of school-based clinics with an opportunity to create an "almost-panic" situation, said that he sees the issue of sex education as primarily a parental responsibility that should not be abdicated to clinics.

Discussing health and sex edu· cation programs in diocesan schools, he said that for the past three years a curriculum developed at St. Margaret's Hospital, Dorchester, has been in place in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms and that AIDS material is .

FATHER STEPHEN F. Bauer, parochial vicar of St~ Charles Borromeo parish, St. being incorporated.

Charles, Mo., reads the inscription on the parish cemetery grave of Jean Baptiste Pointe Du He said that an AIDS program Sable to parish schoolchildren. Pointe Du Sable, a fur trader and explorer who founded is already in use in 7th and 8th grades of St: .John' Evangdist Chicago, spent his last years in St. Charles, where he died in 1818. The U.S. Postal Service School, Attleboro, and that it has recently honored him with a stamp in its Black Heritage Series. (NC photo) attracted favorable television attention.

Pro-lifers angered

Budget Continued From Page One mony" of investments and property holdings. But currently, the Vatican statement said, the patrimony earnings cover less than half of Vatican spending.'

The Vatican City government, which issues stamps and mints coins, has maintained a balanced budget in recent years, but most Vatican departments have no' source of direct income.

Some cardinals have supported publishing the Vatican's budget figures,'saying such a move would give the church greater credibility and put an end to myths about Vatican "riches."

Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, a member of the Council of Cardinals which issued the statement, said before the meeting began that he hoped the budget information given to bishops would be made available to the general public.

"My argument has always been if you want to keep this private, you can do so if you pay your own bills. If you're making an appeal, credibility demands that you explain why," Cardinal Krol said.

Continued From Page One He also said in the inter~iew. that Ii pregnant woman who has contracted AIDS probably would press any physician who has refused to perform an abortion for a refernil to someone who would do so.

"Then it would be 'incumbent upon any good doctor to refer a patient like that..... he said. "I think you have to" provide such a referral if asked, he added.

Pro-lifers disagreed.

"The National Right to Life Committee does not believe that any doctor is obligated to tell a woman that killing her unborn baby by abortion is an option, or that any doctor is obliged to refer for abortion," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.

He said his group would not say anything further without talking to Koop. _Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, criticized Koop for not taking a stand on behalf of the unborn.

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Joseph Scheidler, director of the Pro-Life Action League, said that "no pro-lifer in his right min~ would give that advice" that Koop had offered. "Forget it, Doc, you have surely flown the coop," Scheidler said.

Nellie Gray, March for Life president, said revocation of her group's award to Koop "is necessary to let Dr. Koop and the world know that killing an innocent born or pre- . born human being is never an option......

In the NC News interview, Koop discussed those opinions.

He said the fact that it was reported that he had stopped repudiating abortion "comes at a very bad time because I am trying to convince a lot of people in the religious Right and a lot of my longtime Roman Catholic friends from the pro-life movement that I have not abandoned the faith, ... gone over to the other side - whatever that is," or otherwise changed his stand against abortion.

"It's just like I've said in the last few days," he said. "I'm the surgeon general of whites and blacks, men and women, moral, immoral, married, unmarried, Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic. And when you're a physician, you can't just be the physician of people who have your own' ideology, your own religious and ethical beliefs."

"Make it clear, too, that people who criticize that type of activity (referrals for abortion) have got to recognize that the prospective parents of AIDS children are in a situation of panic," he added, noting that a woman with AIDS is facing death herself.

"This is not a woman who's gettingan abortion for convenience.....

Koop said. "And also, there is a body of evidence that fndicates that the progress of full-blown AIDS goes faster if you're pregnant."

Koop also has been criticized for promoting use of condoms during sexual activity to help reduce risk of contracting AIDS. But the surgeon general backed a Feb. 19 statement by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin ofChicago.l'he' cardinal, while stating support for "informing the public at all age levels of the danger of AIDS," said he was "opposed to the general advertising of condoms because I cannot support advertising whose immediate aim is good - the. prevention of disease - but which implicitly or explicitly condones promiscuity" or raises other moral questions.

"How can a Roman Catholic cardinal take a different point of view?" Koop asked. "You can't."

However, he added, "if I am wiling to give that concession to the cardinal, how can the surgeon general of the United States, namely, the surgeon general of all the people, not advise those who don't perhaps adhere to your m"oral code or mine, that there's nothing out "there for them to doT ..And remember," he added, "I've always talked about condoms in' reference to the prevention of disease. I do not discuss condoms in reference to contraception."

The surgeon general urged churches to playa role in AIDS and sex education.

"You know, I think if the churches don't take this opportunity to capitalize on the times, that they will have missed the opportunity,just like the country missed an effort to end abortion in the first year of Reagan's ad;TIinistration," he said.

"I know that Roman Catholic high school kids get pregna~t," he said. "That must mean that Roman Catholic high school kids are sexually active. And that must mean that they're also susceptible to AIDS. Al\d therefore I think that' whether the church likes that morality or not, they have to be prepared to at least state it."

WASHINGTON (NC) - Outside powers share the blame for the disastrous problems of Lebanon, and therefore outside efforts are crucial to the solution, a Maronite Catholic leader has advised a congressional foreign policy subcommittee.

Msgr. Seely Beggiani, chairman ofthe Commission for Lebanon of the Diocese of St. Maron, recently testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East.

The Diocese ofSt. Maron, based in Brooklyn, N.Y., hasjurisdiction over U.S. Maronite Catholics, who are among some 2 million Americans of Lebanese descent. There are two Maronite parishes within the borders of the Fall River diocese: St. Anthony of the Desert in Fall River and Our Lady of Purgatory in New Bedford.

"The overwhelming majority of Lebanese citizens cherish freedom, democracy and human rights as a way of life," he said. .Nonetheless, .Americans commonly wonder; "if the majority of Lebanese disavow what is happening in Lebanon, why do tney not do something about it? Why don't they get their own house in order?" he said.

"The fact of the matter is that Lebanon is an occupied country," Msgr. Beggiani replied. "Regional' and international powers must share substantial blame for what happened to Lebanon."

"The survival and future of Lebanon can be achieved only through the efforts and help of friendly countries," the monsignor said.

Relief efforts are under way through the Diocese of St. Maron, he said, noting also that "We appreciate all the humanitarian aid that the American government has given to Lebanon."

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Black "bishops WASHINGTON (NC) - The life stories of U.S. black bishops are told in a book titled "Our Black Shepherds," and published by the Washington-based J osephite Pastoral Center.

The book is by Franciscan Sister Caroline Hemesath, 87, a student of black Catholicism.

Practicing Catholic "A good practicing Catholic is one who has reverent and respectful regard for the mystery of the church and for the authority of the church; on.e who makes a sincere and continuing -effort to observe the laws of the church; who makes a sincere and continuing effort to grow in the mind o( the church as it is now articulated in the Second Vatican Council; who has a sense of the church's mission to the world, of the church's mission hi justice, and in bringing peace to the world; one who has a sense of the need for prayer and does pray sincerely, not just in furtive, passing ways." - Archbishop John Quinn, San Francisco

Fasting and pr~yer fight Detroit crime DETROIT(NC) - Detroit-area citizens are fighting crime and youth violence with prayer and 24hour fasts during the 40 days of Le'nt.

The prayer and fasting program , began when Gwen Sibert, a Catholic mother in the Detroit suburb of Belleville, Mich., suggested to the Rev. John Peoples; a Baptist minister and Detroit city councilman, that he urge 40 pastors to recruit 40 parishioners to fast and pray for 24-hour periods in Lent.

Mr. Peoples liked the id.ea, and he and Mrs. Sibert mailed 1,000 letters seeking support.

"Catholics, Baptists, Episcopalians, Hare Krishnas, people of all faiths responded," said Mrs. Sibert.

Her own parish, St. Anthony's in Belleville, was one of the first to sign up.

Father Raymond Skoney, pastor at St. Anthony's:'felt the project would raise awareness of crime.

"Violence has become so commonplace today that we're no longer shocked," said the priest, whose parish is located near the Detroit airport, a dumping ground for murdered drug pushers, informants and gang members. "We're no longer shocked by even the killing of a child."

The program also found supporters in SOSAD (Save Our Sons and Daughters), an organization of friends and parents of43 Detroit youngsters under 17 killed by gunfire last year.

The Detroit Catholic ~astoral Alliance, an organization of pastors and parish ministers who primarily work in the city of Detroit, also joined the effort.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Angela Hibbard, pastoral minister at Detroit's Gesu parish, said her parish was involved because it's "a city, parish and city kids are getting killed."

"Many ofthe kids from our parish had schoolmates who had been shot. They knew some of the, victims personally.

"And this is a parish with people who have influence within the city as city offici~ls, judges, etc.," she added, saying the parish feels it has a responsibility to make officials aware of the problems.

"I'm convinced that when you get people praying together for something, there are changes. I don't know how it happens, but it does."

The first 24-hour fast began on Ash Wednesday at the city's Little Rock Baptist Church. Various religious leaders, including Detroit Auxiliary Bishops Moses Anderson and Dale Melczek, took part.

Adult workshop Sister Maureen Shaughnessy, SC, executive secretary'for even-. gelization/ education and diocesan director of religious education for the diocese of Paterson, NJ, will conduct a workshop for priests, catechists, coordinators and directors of religious education from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 10 at Holy Name parish, New Bedford.

Rescheduled from an earlier date, the workshop, sponsored by the Diocesan Depal1ment of Education, will address adult learning in religious education.

The program will begin with registration at 9:30 a.m. Persons interested in attending may contact the Diocesan Department of Education, 678-2828.

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Fri., Apr. 3, 1987

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Ecumenical meeting.doesn't agree on diaconal role

POPE John Paul II signs "Redemptoris Mater," his encyclical on Mary released last week. (NC-UPI/ Reuter photo)

Catholic lead'ers comment on TV preachers' dispute WASHINGTON (NC) - The Many are "organized like a poldispute among fundamentalist tel- itical campaign" and are "constantevision preachers "reflects badly ly barraging" viewers for money on religion," said Holy Cross Fath- through the mail, Herx said. er Theodore Hesburgh.

"They're high gloss, very emo"We always get in trouble when we get too much involved with tional" and show that the producmoney," said Father Hesburgh, ers "understand the art of persuapresident of the University of Notre sion and how to use the media for Dame. propaganda," Herx said. "It's not Father Hesburgh made his com- 'an intellectual but an emotional ments March 29 on the ABC-TV approach," preying on the lonely program "This Week With David and troubled, he said.

Brinkley."

Father John Catoir, director of The fundamentalist preachers' The Christophers, predicted his dispute began when the Rev. Jim media efforts will not suffer because Bakker resigned March 19 from of the dispute. The Christophers, the multimillion dollar PTL min- one of the church's oldest TV istry, saying he had been black- efforts, runs its low-key ministry mailed over a sexual encounter from New York and "doesn't even several years earlier with a church ask for money on television," he secretary. He said later that the said. real reason for the resignation was But the fundamentalists have that he had learned of a plot for a been hurt, he said, and their dishostile takeover of his ministry. pute is uncovering "an incredible The initials of the ministry, car- competition among them for dol, ried by cable television to an esti- lar support." mated 13.5 million homes, stand Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, for "Praise the Lord" or "People president of Paulist Productions, That Love." in Pacific Palisades, Calif., also Other Catholic leaders also said he does not think his work voiced concern about the effects of will be affected. The host of "Inthe dispute and of the glitzy, well- sight," a television series appearfinanced fundamentalist-type TV ing on more than 100 stations, preaching shows.

Father Kieser said that Catholic BiShop Kenneth Untener of Sagi- media efforts are quite different naw, Mich., said in an interview from those of fundamentalist with The Florida Catholic, news- preachers. His programs are drapaper for five Florida dioceses, mas on Christian principles. that he was "not enthusiastic" about TV evangelism because "the TV evangelists seem to focus attention on themselves" rather than on God. "The ministries frequently beWASHINGTON (NC) - The come personality cults rather than ninth annual Paulist Fathers' Naleading people directly to the Lord," tional Award for Lay EvangelizaBishop Untener said. "Perhaps tion will be given to Marsha Whesome of the competition among lan, director of the Miami Archdiothem is an indication of that."

He also said he would discour- cese evangelization office, Paulist Father Joseph Gallahger anage Catholics from sending money nounced. to the evangelists because "the Father Gallagher, president of money sent tends to build up their the Paulists, will present the award own ministries and generally is not June 6 in Washington. The presenapplied beyond themselves." .

He contrasted them to most tation will be part of "Pentecost Catholic parishes and mainline Pro- '87," a daylong evangelization teleconference,linking participants at testant groups which, he said, "tend 200 sites across the United States. to reach out to the poor."

Ms. Whelan, president of the Henry Herx, coordinator of information and education services National Council for Catholic at the U.S. Catholic Conference Evangelization, said the award Department of Communication, recognizes not only her but also said that many TV fundamentalist "all lay people wor'king at parish preachers "use tactics which are and diocesan levels to bring the good news to people's lives." exploitative of the viewers."

DOUGLASTON, N.Y.(NC)A recent ecumenical consultation on the office of deacon, the first gathering of its type in the United States, found that although all the churches represented have deacons in some form, little if any consensus existed on the meaning of diaconate.

Catholic participants said at the conclusion that much more work and sharing among churches is needed to clarify the deacon's role as a distinct ministry. They also said understanding ofthe diaconal office needed further development within the Catholic Church.

adviser to the bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate.

A report issued after the meet- . ing said there was discussion on such questions as whether the deacon should be considered more a servant of the church or of the world and whether the deacon's service differs from that of other lay Christians.

The consultation, initiated by the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches, drew some 30 Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic representatives for three days of discussion at Cathedral College in the Brooklyn diocese.

Samuel M. Taub, a permanent deacon who directs the office of the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate, was named, along with representatives of the United Methodist church and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), to a committee responsible for planning any future meetings or other sharing among the churches. '

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He said all consultation participants voiced concern that "diakonia," the New Testament Greek term for service, be expressed in the church. But he said they reached "no consensus" on what ·that expression should be. Orthodox and Episcopal understandings are closer than others to the Catholic, he noted.

Within the Catholic Church, Taub said, an unresolved question is whether women could be ordained as deacons as they are in some Protestant churches. Women deacons were among consultation participants, and their role was among topics discussed.

The main presentation on the Catholic understanding of the diaconate was by Father Joseph A. Komonchak, a professor of religion at The Catholic University of America and theological'

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TULSA, Okta.(NC) - The "One day with the Lord is as a' vine and the branches are carved thousand years and a thousand. in brick at the Church of St. Mary years as one day." - 2 Pet. 3:8 in Tulsa, where artist Paula Col. lins has sculpted religious art into the walls: Savings? We have a Ms. Collins, one of only a handof brick sculptors in the counful high-interest plan for try, has created two murals for the every savings need! church. One is an 8- by 17-foot depiction of wheat and grapes the symbol of the body and blood of Christ - next to the altar. The other is a 16- by 16-foot scene of the Madonna and Child on the outside of the church.

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Father Stephen MacAulay, pastor of St. Mary's, called the-artwork perfect for the new church because everything is subdued in the new facility.

"Nothing is too flashy. That's the way the architects designed it and that's why they recommended Paula's brick sculpture," he said.

"And there's nothing like this anywhere else. No other churches have brick sculptures that I know of," Father MacAulay added.

Ms. Collins was working as a self-employed potter five years ago in Tulsa when she learned that theAcme' Brick Co. was looking for , an artist:to build brick art murals.

S'he moved to Denton, Texas, because an Acme Brick plant is located there and all her carvi'ng must be done at the plant.

"When I'm carving in the brick, I feel like I'm-doing what I was put here to do," she said.

Brick sculptures, an art form dating back to ancient Babylon, are carvings made into wet brick spread out in pallets of about 8 by 8 feet. Each work is a march against time'as the bricks dry. "It's easiest to carve for four or five days straight, putting in 12- to 14hour days;" she said.

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WASHiNGTON (NC)- Catholics who join the Ku Klux Klan and organizations that actively promote racism "act in violation of Catholic teaching," says the Administrative Board of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

"These organizations are a scandalous contradiction to all that we hold sacred and teach in the name of Jesus Christ," a board statement said.

The 50-bishop board guides the USCC between annual meetings of the entire body of U.S. bishops.

The board adopted its statement on racist organizations because of recent "significant activity by and publicity about the Ku Klux Klan and several other racist organizations."

Incidents of racial confrontation and violence in various parts of the country "suggest the extent to which racial divisions and prejudice continue to exist in our social, e'conomic and cultural life," the bishops said.

January, 400 Ku Klux Klansmen and supporters threw bottles, rocks and mud at about 75 participants in an interracial brotherhood march in Forsyth County.

"Every institution that bears the name Catholic should proclaim to all that the sin of racism defiles the image of God and degrades the sacred dignity of humankind," the路 bishops said in their statement.

Quoting from the U.S. bishops' 1979 pastoral letter on racism, the bishops called racism a sin that "divides the human family, blots out the image of God among specific members of that family, and violates the fundamental human dignity of those called to be children of the Father."

To combat the "radical evil" of racism, the bishops said, \'demands an equally radical transformation, in our own minds and hearts as well as in the structure of our society."

Two highly publicized racial confrontatio'ns occurred in recent months in New York City and Forsyth County, Ga. (Courtesy of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi, In December, three black men St. Hedwig parish, New Bedford, Mass.) passing through the white New York neighborhood of Howard 路++++++~++++++++~+~+++++~~++++~++++t++++~+*~*++*~~~++~~+++++~++++++++~++.Beach were attacked by whites. In

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Practice the devotion of the five First Saturdays This devotion was requested by Our lady of Fatima on July 13, 1917, when she said: "God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.

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"I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If people listen to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace."

Then again, on December 10, 1925, Our lady appeared to Sister lucia, one of the children of Fatima, and told' her the following: "Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall

1. Go to confession and receive Holy Communion, 2. Recite the Rosary, 3. And keep me company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary 4. With the intention of making reparation to me."

To practice this devotion, you must fulfill the requests of Our Lady, doing so in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Confession may be made during eight days before or after the Communion.

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"It's physical work but when I'm working my hands are guided and it becomes effortless. My favorite part of any job is definitely the actual carving. At the end of each job I wish it wasn't over, "she said.

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PALMER, Mass. (NC) - A cross atop the grain silo is a first hint to visitors that the 27-acre farm ahead is not an ordinary farm but a monastery.

But the farmhouse nestled in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts is not an ordinary monastery, either. The five brothers living there have quite literally left their past behind to form a new religious order devoted to jail and prison ministry.

And new recruits to the Brothers of Bethany may come from among those to whom they minister. The order includes ex-convicts among its applicants.

Members are not allowed to use their last names and do not talk about their past.

"Many men, who have either been in prison or have had other moral difficulties in their lives, after a conversion experience feel a call to religious life. But for the most part they are denied access to religious communities" because of their past, said Father MartinHenri of the Resurrection, prior of the community and its only priest.

The community, he said, was founded "for these men, as well as those who have not had moral difficulties."

Father Martin-Henri, who, like the others in the community does not use a surname, is a priest ofthe diocese of Bridgeport, Conn. He said he retains the diocesan link for now because the new order is not yet formally recognized, but when recognition comes he will transfer to the order.

The Brother.s of Bethany is modeled on Dominican spirituality and fosters both contemplative and apostolic life for members.

Father Martin-Henri said the brothers bought the farm near Palmer because it offered both the rural serenity "conducive to monastic life" and proximity to . the prisons where they minister.

Holy Trinity Monastery, as the brothers have named the farm, includes cropland, pasture for their small herds of cows and sheep, and woodland that provides firewood for winter heating.

They hope to finish converting the barn into a chapel by May, replacing the farmhouse room that has been their chapel for the two years since the monastery was founded.

The Brothers of Bethany was formed at the request of the Dominican Sisters of Bethany in Millis.

The sisters were founded in France in 1864, when Dominican Father Jean-Joseph Lataste conducted a retreat for a group of women prisoners. In response to the desire expressed by some of the women to forget their past and start a new life serving God, Father Lataste formed the Sisters of Bethany.

Bethany is the biblical town whose residents included Martha and Mary, symbols of goodness in contemplative and active life, and Mary Magdalene, the adulteress

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The brothers are supported by farming, donations of food and money, and income from St. Dismas Gift Shop at the monastery.

Bishop Joseph Maguire of Springfield, in whose diocese the monastery is located, encouraged its establishment as an experimental community.. The bishop, the Bethan·y sisters and the brothers

all felt a "trial period" was needed before seeking formal church recognition, Father Martin-Henri said.

In their jail ministry, which they carry out through prayer for prisoners and active apostolic work, the Brothers of Bethany try to live out Father Lataste's credo: "God doesn't care what we have been; only what we are and can be in his love."

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You mention that her husband is seeing another woman. This is Dear Mary: I am 73. I am writsurely hard on her, and she needs ing you about one of my daughsupport. Bless you for not loading ters. She has two boys and has her down with advice like "Give worked since she married. One your husband an ultimatum." boy is a lawyer, the other a carpenIf your daughter needs suggester. She keeps a lovely home and is attractive. . tions on what to do, let her ask.

Otherwise give her love and encourHer husband is going out with agement. some other woman. She tried to Should you talk directly with . talk to him, but he won't answer your son-in-law? You must decide her. Her sons won't listen either. what you want to say and accompWhen she comes home, she takes lish. If you condemn him or give a drink or two, then starts supper. advice, you might only worsen the Her children resent her drinking. situation.

I'm not saying she is right in drinkClearly you are not part of your ing, but she works, has helped daughter's immediate family. You both boys with homes and cars cannot become involved in her and keeps a home. What does a relationship with her husband or man want? I want to ask my sonsons because you do not have the in-law. How can I help her? insights or position to enter into Massachusetts these problems.

Adult children, like everyone Nevertheless, there is much you else, need the support of others. It can do to be supportive. is refreshing to hear from a person I. You admire your daughter. who recognizes this need and is You recognize the good and capatrying to meet it. ble things she does. Tell her so. y'ou have tried to describe your We are never too old to be satisdaughter's family from your point and pleased when our parent fied of view, that of an outsider. Unfortells us, "Good job!" tunately, such descriptions are rareApparently your daughter is not ly accurate. For example, it is not getting support from her husband clear whether your daughter's drinkand sons at this point. You may be ing is harmless or whether she has the only person she can rely on. an alcohol problem you are trying· 2. Ask your daughter directly, to excuse by pointing out the stress"Tell me how I can help you." She es in her life.

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3. Do not dwell on her problems. If she wishes to share her problems, listen. Do not encourage her if she recounts problems as an .e~use to justify her drinking.

4. Vo not criticize her children.

Ultimately you would hope that she develops a good supportive relationship with he~ sons. You can help to promote such a relationship by pointing out their good qualities. Criticizing can only promote disharmony in her family.

As an outsider, the· influence you can have on your daughter's family is limited. However, you can meet a very important need by providing personal support, encouragement and admiration.

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I suppose it is a basic fact of human existence that we like to have explanations for things; to have rough edges smoothed over and loose ones nailed down., Part of this need for order is to believe that life is just a~d fair that always as we sow, so shall we reap. .

Yet this is not how things always work out.

One area where the results are often far different from what was intended and worked for is parenting.

We have to accept the bitter truth that good parents can end up with offspring who are alienated from them is spite of having received a generous ·share of love and affection.

I often recall a priest friend, a chaplain at a jail, telling me that one of his most frustrating experiences was to see parents distraught and destroyed over a son or daughter who committed a crime and· landed in jail. Invariably the parents would turn the blame on themselves, asking, "Father, where did we go wrong?"

I was reminded of this whole topic by an Ann Landers column which included letters she had received about an earlier letter from . a mother, a widow. The woman wrote poignantly, wondering why other young people sought her out but her own children, who lived only 30 miles away, never visited.

They had no interest in her, she said, even though she had raised them with love and affection, never interfered in their-lives and made no demands on them.

The letters poured in with sympathy.

One person wrote that the fault lies not with the mother but with her daughters. The person added, "It's no news that some children treat their parents beautifully and others do not. The reason is that

some people turn out to be better human beings than others." , Well, I disagree that it's as cut and dried as that. Good parents with good adult children are all around us. I think we're talking about exceptions.

But no matter what problems an offspring has, and how determined he or she is to try and lay the blame for this on the backs of parents, eventually this excuse becomes a copout. Each of us reaches a point at which we must take responsibil-

ity for our own lives. Part of that is to grow up and become compassionate, caring adults.

C~ildren who do. this usually rejoice in their new, adult relationship with their parents. Children who don't never are able to take advantage of all their parents can be to them.

Parents who lose their children for whatever reason live with a tragedy. But it is important that they and others know this isn't always of their own making.

A look at lost opportunities

By Hilda Young I just read an article that will probably give me the guilts for the rest ofthe week. According to it, if we parents knew what we were doing, our children would be speaking a second language (not rap, but a real language) by the time they entered kindergarten.

And it goes without saying they would know how to read by then.

Where have I been? I still labor under the regressive notion kindergarten is a time kids learn how to sit at a desk, finger-paint and spread childhood diseases.

According to these researchers, children should be attending classes by no later than age 4 and their minds are so nimble they can be absorbing multiple languages, mathematical concepts and sophisticated social skills.

Now I learn my husband and I have inadvertently been denying our children the chance to fully develop their potential.

It didn't help when our eighthgrader came home this afternoon and told me she was having a hard time in her math class.

"It's not your fault," I told her.

"It was just that it was so hard to get you to keep from tipping over

when we propped you up in front of Sesame Street."

"What?" she asked.

"I had a sense it was probably good for you, but I didn't realize we were passing up the most nimble years for your mind," I told her. "You could probably be speaking French and Spanish if I would have just strapped you into the highchair and set you in front of the PBS channel."

She stopped chewing her gum and looked around the room. "Did I come into this conversation a little late?" she said.

"Research, honey," I explained.

"If we knew what we know now when you were young you could be playing conce~t piano, speaking Russian and programming computers today instead of struggling with algebra."

"Does this mean I won't be in trouble when I tell you what I'm getting in English?" she said.

"That proves it," I said sadly.

"We probably let you spend too much time watching 'Leave It to Beaver' reruns when you were 4.

Eddie Haskell has taken over where it should have been Rubenstein or Von Braun."

"Pro· football players?" she asked.

Iteering pOintl CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Parish youth groups will participate in World Youth Day observance April 12 at St. Mary's Cathedral. Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. April 8, Father Clinton Hall; Mary Hener will discuss the Shroud of Turin. Saints and Singers Chorus Easter performance, "Now I See You," 8 p.m. April 10.

ST. PATRICK, FR Holy hour 2 p.m. April 12, lower chapel.

HOSPICE OUTREACH Greater Fall River Hospice Outreach will offer a training course for new volunteers, beginning 7 p.m.

April 9; classes meet Tuesdays and Thursdays through May 28; volunteers provide respite care and emotional and bereavement support to terminally ill cancer patients and their families; information: 673-1589.

HOLY NAME, FR Youth group members will participate in World Youth Day activities Palm Sunday at ·St. Mary's Cathedral. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, pastor, will celebrate his golden anniversary of ordination to the priest7 hood May 20; he will be the principal celebrant of a 5: 15 p;m. Mass and will bl; guest of honor at a banquet to follow at .Whi.te's restaurant, Westport.

HOLY,ROSARY, TAUNTON Penitential service 3 p.m. Sunday.

Parishioners in grades six to nine will participate in World Youth Day activities at St. Mary's Cathedral.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET . St. Patrick's' Fellowship third annual summer retreat 'scheduled for August at LaSalette Center for Christian Living, Attleboro; all parishioners,14 years· and older welcome; information: Bill Courville, 675-7949, 6 to 9 p.m. weekdays. Parishioners unable to attend Mass who wish to make their Easter duty may contact the rectory, 672-1523. Fellowship members will attend an April 12 prayer service at St. Mary's parish, Seekonk, meeting in St. Patrick's parking lot at 6 p.m.

APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS, WITH DISABILITIES, FR Signed Easter Mass II a.m. April 12, St. Vincent's home, Fall River.

New office hours: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays. Signed Masses 9:30 a.m.

Sundays, St. Ann's parish, Raynham.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE First Friday Benediction and morning prayer 10 o'clock today. U1treya 7:30 tonight.

CATHEDRAL,FR Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, school, features annual Scholarola for scholarship fund. Confirmation April 13 for candidates from Cathedral, Blessed Sacrament, St. Matthew and St. Louis parishes and St. Vincent's Home, all in Fall River.

ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Religious education program students have donated canned goods to Father Ray Marquis' Haitian mission, Food for the Poor. Prayer petitions may be left in the basket in front of the sanctuary; parishioners may take a petition home and pray for it. Child care available at II a.m.

Sunday Mass, which is followed by?' coffee social.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Penance service 7:30 p.m. April9.

Catholic Women's Club meeting 7:'jO p.m. April 8, St., Jude the Apostle Chapel basement, Rt. 28, Cotuit; interior decorator Alice Mullen will offer home decorating tips. Guild day of recollection today. Family Commission mee'ts 7:30 p.m. each first and third Thursday, CCD center..

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Women's Guild members wishing to attend the May 9 Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convention at St. John of God parish, Somerset; may contact Vera Macedo, 336-8473.

PRAYER MEETING, ATTLEBORO/TAUNTON Attleboro/ Taunton area regional prayer meeting April 19 at St. Mary's parish, N. Attleboro; 6:45 p.m. rosary precedes Mass and meeting; all welcome.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Christian living classes 4 to 5: 15 p.m. Mondays, school. A gift from her family in D:lemory of Katarzyna Francz will aid in grotto grounds maintenance. The Czestochowa icon 'was recently blessed and installed in the homes of Abel and Patricia Roies and Lois Walkden.

ST. ANNE,FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament after 11:30 a.m. Mass and hour of adoration 2 to 3 p.m. today, shrine.

VINCENTIANS, FR Fall River District Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul meeting following 7 p.m. Mass April 7, SS. Peter and Paul Church, Fall River; celebrant: Father Peter N. Graziano, pastor.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Ladies ofSt. Anne Sodality meeting 7:30 p.m. April 8; Stanley Schlenker will offer a presentation on the history and technique of rug hooking. Vincentians seek a washing machine for a needy parishioner; contact Nelson Carpenter, 673-8357.

Parish council nominations must be received by April 6.

OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, NB Day of recollection for sisters April 11; speaker: Father Robert Morin, OMI, from the Mansville, R.I. Retreat Center; topic: St. Francis, Man of Penance; conference at 10:30 a.m., communal penance service at 2:30 p.m.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Mass with Father William T. Babbitt, parochial vicar, 2 p.m. April 12, church.

VINCENTIANS, TAUNTON Vincentians will meet 7 p.m. Monday at Holy Rosary Church, Taunton, for Mass and a district council meeting. Commemorating Oza'nam Sunday, members will also attend a Mass and communion supper at 5 p.m. April 26 at Immaculate Conception Church, also Taul)top.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Father Philip Salois, MS, ,will offer a Lenten reflection, "Free to Leave the Tomb," at 2 p.m. Sunday.

The shrine's administrator will focus on the Resurrection hope needed in order to be set free from "spiritual, emotional and physical" shackles.

"In the Footsteps of Jesus," a Lenten journey led by Father Giles Genest, MS, at 12: 10 and 7:30 p.m. Masses tonight through Sunday; all welcome~

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First Friday Masses 7 and 9 a.m. and 7'p.m. today; consecration prayer to the Heart of Jesus after 7 a.m.

Mass; Sacred Heart devotions after 9 a.m. Mass; all-day exposition of the Blessed Sacrament begins after 9 a.m.' Mass; Benediction service follows 7 p.m. Mass. Board of Education meeting 9 a.m. tomorrow.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Adult Lenten Bible series in CCD center continues 9:45 to II. a.m.

April 7 and 7:05 to 8:20 p.m. April8; topic, Passion and Death of Jesus in the Gospel of John. Area Vincentians will meet Monday at St. Mary's.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Apr. 3, 1987 ST. KILIAN, NB Widowed support group meeting 7:30 p.m. April 13, rectory basement; guest speaker: Diane Robi~­ son of the American Cancer ASSOCIation' free colon cancer screening; all widowed persQns welcome; information: 998-3269.

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VINCENTIANS, ATTLEBORO Attleboro District Council of the Society of St. Vince'nt de Paul Ozanam Sunday Mass 6:30 p.m. April 25, St. Stephen's Church, precedes communion dinner. ' NOTRE DAME, FR The parish thanks Mrs. Edna Dube for the donation of two potted palms in memory of her husband. Faith Sharing evening 7:30 tonight; Father Horace J. Travassos will offer a slide program on the Holy Land.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON St. Jude noyena 7 p.m. Mondays.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Family Mass 9:30 a.m. Sunday; coffee and doughnuts follow, church hall. First Friday Mass 7 tonight precedes Sacred Hearts Association meeting.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Song leader meeting 1 p.m. Sunday. The parish welcomes parttime ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT maintenance assistant John DaSilva.

A photocopier has been donated The parish senior high school basto the school in memory of Norketball team finished its season unmand Forand. PTA 'meeting 7:30 defeated, winning a. league champ.m. Sunday, school hall; all welpionship. come.

HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH ST. THOMAS MORE, Marie Mann, religious education SOMERSET coordinator, reports that in conEvening of prayer and reflection junction with suggestions from the for parish ministers April 4. Parish Office of Youth Ministry at Catheyouth will participate in World Youth dral Camp, E. Freetown, the parish DayceremoniesApril12atSt. Mary's, held a program for parish youth," Cathedral. parents and interested community SS. PETER & PAUL, FR members. It featured guest speaker Congratulations go to parochial Pat Davison of the University of school third grader Kathryn Dacey.

Lowell's Office of Campus Ministry, second prize winner in a recent utilwho emphasized the importance of ity company poster contest. Over 60 attentive listening, communications young people attended a recent evenand development of the whole pering of prayer and discussion in prepson; volunteer youth minister Moaration for World Youth Day servnique Tremblay' of St. Christine's ices. Women's Club meeting 7:30 parish, Marshfield, also recently p.m. April 6; demonstration by meatspoke at the church on her experi- cutters Arthur Knecht and Jim Shea. ences in parish youth ministry.

ST.MARY,NB Parish council meeting 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, religious education center.

Parish school committee meeting 7:30 p.m. April 14, religious education center.

ST. JAMES, NB CYO Council meeting 7 p.m. April 7, parish center. Vincentians' Easter food drive for needy parishioners this weekend; nonperishable items and canned goods needed. Centennial year Special Events Committee seeks volunteers; information: Margaretha Arruda, 994-0937.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Lenten meditation with organ music 6:30 to 7 tonight, church; followed by Mass. Family retreat group meets 2 p.m. Sunday, rectory. Adult forum 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, rectory.

Prayer meeting April 8.

CCA Special Gift phase dates announced The Special Gift phase of the annual diocesan Catholic Charities Appeal will begin April 20 and end May 2. The CCA, now in its 46th year, helps fund diocesan apostolates, including works of charity, mercy and education and various social services.

The Special Gift campaign reaches fraternal, professional, business and industrial organizations in ,southeastern Massachusetts. Since the Appeal apostolates provide service to all, regardless of creed,

such groups regard CCA support as a community endeavor.

Areas to be contacted in the Special Gift phase are Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, the Attleboros, Cape Cod and the Islands and adjacent towns.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has sent personal letters to Special Gift solicitors. Most have already indicated willingness to take an active part in the campaign.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Appeal director, announced

that over 900 Special Gift solicitors will make 5,150 contacts in this phase of the Appeal. "It is hoped that an increase in giving will highlight this year's Appeal," he said.

George L. Agostini of Seekonk, this year's CCA lay chairman, has requested that Special Gift solicitors make their solicitations 'promptly and report returns to area headquarters. The final report date is Saturday, May 2.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Vatican and U.S. church officials have set the stage for a major meeting next year on issues dividing U.S. Catholics and causing tensions across the Atlantic.

In doing so, they highlighted the growing collegial importance of two common procedures: papal trip planning and "ad limina" visits to the Vatican by bishops. V nder Pope John Paul II both have evolved face-to-face sounding boards for airing of Vatican and local church grievances.

They also allow for lengthy personal contact, helping break down some ofthe misunderstandings that develop over long-distance correspondence. The decision to hold a meeting on substantive issues was taken in March when a top-level V .S. delegation arrived at the Vatican to plan the pope's September visit. And the meeting is scheduled for sometime after the 1988 "ad limina" visits of the V .S. bishops.

Ad fimina visits are required every. five years of heads of dioceses, who at that time report directly to the pope and Vatican officials on the status of their ecclesial jurisdictions. :Besides one-on-one meetings between a bishop and the pope, the ad Iiminas involve group'meetings with the bishops of a nation, or in the case of large nations, with bishops of a region.

The pope often says in ad Iimina talks that this group procedure allows for substantive collegial discussion of interdiocesan issues.

What he does not say is that it also allows him to pinpoint weaknesses without pointing a finger at a specific diocese or bishop. Papal speeches to the group are made public by the Vatican while talks with individual bishops remain private.

An example of such papal pinpointing occurred in March when the pope told a group of French bishops to hold dialogues with Catholic institutions and individ-

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uals involved in procreation practices, such as in vitro fertilization, declared immoral by the church.

It was quickly recognized that the pope was saying this to French bishops to highlight the problem in one French diocese where officials of a Catholic hospital said they would continue in vitro fertilizations despite the church's opposition.

It was also noted that the pope was proposing dialogue by local bishops - not Vatican sanctions - as the way to solve the problem.

The logical extension of this ad limina policy was a papally organized March 1986 summit between top Vatican authorities and officials of the Brazilian church. The pope said the summit should be considered an extension of the Brazilian ad !imina visits, which had already taken place, so that problems discussed at a local and regional level could be pursued in the national dimension.

"The Brazilian bishops expressed a great satisfaction" over their meeting, said Archbishop John May of St. Louis, president of the V.S. bishops' conference, in announcingthat the pope had proposed a similar meeting for the V.S. hierarchy.

Papal trips also provide bishops with o'pportunities to make their voices heard at the Vatican.

Planning procedures along that line have evolved noticeably during John Paul's papacy as foreign travels have become more and more prominent on his schedule.

At first, Vatican contact with local church officials was limited to listing logistical and material needs of the pope and his traveling aides, 'say Vatican trip planners. Now there is extensive consultation with the local bishop~ responsible for proposing themes and providing background material for papal understanding of local situations.

A case in point was the pope's 1984 trip to Canada, which followed a two-and-a-half-year consultation with Canadian bishops and resulted in Vatican acceptance of local liturgical customs and major Canadian input on the content of papal speeches. / The bishops suggested speech themes, and once they were , approved briefing notes, were pre-

Courage ministry NEWYORK(NC)- The leader of a church-approved ministry for homosexuals said the Vatican statement on homosexuality last fall should have been more explicit about the heed for alternatives to groups not in' accord with the church. . , .

St. Francis de Sales Father John F. Harvey, leader'of the Courage ministryJor homosexuals whcrac-' cept church teaching, in an interview stressed the need for alternative "spiritual support systems."

He said bishops were'right in stopping use of churches by Dignity, an organization of Catholic homosexuals who do not accept church teaching on homosexual behavior.

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U.S. CARDINALS John O'Connor, John Krol, Joseph Bernardin and Bernard Law flapk Pope John Paul II at a meal during their recent visit' to Rome to plan for the pope's September visjt to the United States. (NCj UPI-Reuter photo) pared 'to be used as the basis for pare its students to'spread the papal talks. kingdom of God." "Part of the consultation was • • that the pope would come to visit "The world is seeing a ~revoluthe 'Canadian church, not try to change it;" said Father Everett · tionary explosion' of desperation.'

MacNeil, spokesman for the Can- · The difference between ~ne part of adian bishops during the trip. the world, rich in goods, and the The V.S. bishops are hoping for other,. poor a~d lacking, innue~ces a similar situation, a papal trip which will result in a greater under- political divisions and accentuates standing of the American church their conflictive character and exploand the sociological complexities sive potential.... accompanying Christian life in'a' "Technology has been advanced pluralistic, secular society. . to the point of being able to manipulate the very sources of life and to build 'subtle networks of global information.'

"Vnfortunately, these most sophisRecent papal comments on ticated forms of contemporary technology - good in themselves but various subjects distributed so unequally and used by "The Catholic school either re- some without reference to ethics mains faithful to the unrelinqui- have too often served for the projecshable line of church teachings, or tion and realization of activities conit compromises its qualification as trary to humanity."

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"Scientific research concerned more about itself than about the human being it must serve does not respect the fundamental moral criteria that must guide it."

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"World leaders must overcome ideologies and systems which spawn hatred, distrust and conflict. Policies can be established and programs can be designed which will enable the peoples of the world to live in honest relationships and to develop the trusting and fruitful cooperation needed to consolidate the peace.

"The Holy See looks favora.,ly upon the work ofthe United Nations in this sphere and would be happy to see far greater cooperation at the international level." ,

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a Mass for Courage in 1984 shortly · pended after a year for lack of said in an interview that he was '. ' , ties is a source of scandal to the after becoming archbishop of New interest. ': " attracted to Dignity at one time by faithful· at large." But he said tha~ York, has paid his expenses, proA few chapters 'exist in its Saturday night Masses, but when they "throw out" Dignity, vided parttime secretarial service, other places; including B6s'ion, Los . then found it was' not really a .they need to provide "alternatives." ,given him a modest stipend and Angeles, St. Louis, Toronto, Van- Catholic organizatiQn. Father Harvey, a professor of thus enabled him to lead what was couveiand La Crosse, Wis.-Other 'So~e p~ople, he said, try Courmoral theology at his oider's sem- becoming a nati'onal movement. chapters are now "passive" in sevage and find they are, not ready. He inary in Washington, has given eral places where ~hey were oJ:lce ',lIe said the cardinal also gave himself was once inactive for a ' special at~ention to homosexuality him a grant for a six-month sab- active. ' year. "It requires a conversion," he ,since the 1950s, and in 1978 was batical last yeAr, and he used the Getting homosexuals to accept said. ~ asked to consult with the Archdio~ time"to write a book to be pub- the "(:ountercultural" approach of cese of New York. lished later this year by Ignatius Courage is made more difficult, . For clergy; Father Harvey said, Press, "The Homosexual Person: the priest said, by "rebellious, a ministry to homosexuals requires With. the support of Cardinal New Th\nking in Pastoral Care." ~rticulate clergy who sponsor hotime. In addition to his meetings Terence Cooke of New York, mosexual activity as a birthright."

Father Harvey organi~ed' the first Father Harvey acknowledged But the "passivity and silence" of with Courage groups, he devotes many hours to individual counselchapter of Courage in 1980. It that Courage has not enjoyed ing and to telephone conversations , meets every Friday at Our Lady of popular success. The New York other clergy about Courage as an alternative to Dignity are also partwith homosexuals and people conthe Rosary Church in Manhattan group still has an attendance of cerned about them. for discussions, socials and a only about 15, while attendance at ly to blame, he added.

Many of the homosexuals seekmonthly Mass.

The president of the New York Dignity Saturday night Masses ing help from Father Harvey are Father Harvey said Cardinal' reaches into the hundreds. A Cour- chapter of Courage, a young banker priests, he said.

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Portuguese Masses from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford: 11:15 p.m. eaeh Sunday on radio station WJFDFM,7 p.m. each SundaY on tel· evision Channel 20.

Portuguese Masses from Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Anthony of Lisbon parishes, Taunton: 7 p.m. each Sunday and 6 p.m. eaeh Monday on V.A. Columbia Cablevision,Channtl 27.

Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday to Friday, WFXT, Channel 25.

"ConO,uence," 8 a.m. eaeh Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel progra .oderated by Truman Taylo" havlnc as permanent parti ts Fa,tber Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of sod" cht Rn. Geor al Bisbop and Rabbi

day, Fall River and New Bedford Cable Channel 13, "Splrit.nd the Bride," a talk show with William Larkin. 6 p.m. MO!1day,cable channel 35.

On Radio Charismatic programs with Father John Randall are aired from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday on station WRIB, 1220 AM; Mass is broad· cast at I p.m. each Sunday.

Programs of Catholic interest are broadcast at the. following times on station WROL Bpston, 950 AM: Monday through Friday 9. 9:15. 11:45 a.m.; 12:15, 12:30, I p.m.

A Polish-language rosary hour. conducted by Father Justin. is broadcast at 1:30 p.m.

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They are Dolores Leckey, executive director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on the Laity. and Lucien Roy, director of the Chicago archdiocesan Office for Ministry Formation.

SACRED HEART Brother Adelard Beaudet, 103, blows out his birthday cake candles at the Pascoag, R.I., provincial house of his community.

Officials there said they believe he is the oldest active brother in the world. 'He sells raffle tickets for area parishes, swims in the summer and is a faithful fan of the hockey team at Mt. St. Charles Academy, Woonsocket, a team he helped organize in the 1930s. Dutifully health conscious, he has cut his smoking to two cigars a day. (NC photo) ,

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They parent for peace CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Parents concerned about peace in the world get help on the home front from the organizers ofthe national Parenting for Peace and Justice Network.

The couple, Jim and Kathy McGinnis, recently spoke in Charlotte, addressing such parental concerns as fighting racism and sexism on the homefront. teaching children to be concerned about peace and coping with everyday family problem~.

The couple, Catholics who have been involved in peace studies since the early 1970s, frequently address close-to-home issues.

"One ·is consumerism - children wanting to have things. We've found that difficult in our own family," Mrs. McGinnis .said.

"We're trying to live a somewhat simple lifestyle in a culture which promotes consumerism: I hear that a lot from parents."

Another concern is how comfortable some children can get with violence. "Many times we hear how children think violence is a way to resolve a conflict," she said.

And for many parents and children there is an overwhelming concern about nuclear war.

"It's just my perception, but I believe many children are beginning to think about war and more of them are clear about not· wa,nt-

ing war, especially nuclear war," Mrs. McGinnis said.

v ATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has beatified five Spaniards, including three Discalced Carmelite nuns who were victims of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. ,. .. , ,.

The nuns, declared martyrs, were killed in 1936 by a pro-government mob lOin hatred of the faith," according to a Vatican decree. The Spanish government at that time was' fighting the fascist National Movement led by Gen.. Francisco Franco, who was supported by most church leaders.

The March 29 beatification ceremony was attended by thousands of Spanish Catholics.

The sainthood causes of the three Carmelites, along with those of about 1,000 other Spanish Catholics killed in the civil war, were suspended in 1975 by Pope Paul VI, who thought they might stir up Spanish political passions. In 1983.

Pope John Paul II opened the causes, but on an.individual basis rather than as a group.

Whether it is nuclear war, racism or family conflicts, the McGinnises tell parents that a strong family life is the key to nurturing children for a peaceful world.

"Some parents are social activists and they're trying to raise a family at the same time," said McGinnis. "They are trying to find out how you create that balance between the two. It's over a lifetime that you create that balance.

Declared blessed were: "The period of time that we - Discalced Carmelite Sister have our children requires a lot of . Maria Pilar Martinez, born Dec. attention. And that's not a period 30,1877. we need to apologize for, That - Discalced Carmelite Sister time of passing our values' onto Maria Valtierra Tordesillas, born our children has ripple effects over . March 16, 1905. generations and that is peace work -Discalced Carmelite Sister too."

Teresa Garcia y Garcia, born . Among suggestions given for March 5, 1909.. conflict reso.lution within a family - Cardinal Marcelo Spinola y is the family meeting. Tim and Maestre, an archbishop of Seville Linda Reilly, parents of seven chil- and founder of the Handmaids of dren, said hearing how the McGinn- the Divine Heart. He died iil1906. ises make this type of meeting - Msgr. Manuel Domingo y work has given them the incentive Sol, founder of Diocesan Laborer to try it again. ' Priests. He died in 1909.

"They explained ,that the first family meetings should be fun and According to biographies pubcenter on positive topics of discuslished by the Vatican newspaper sion," said Mrs. Reilly.

L'Osservatore Romano, the three "We had a problem [with past Carmelites were recognized as nuns family meetings]with 'them' vs 'us,''' by progovernment militiamen in said Reilly. "The McGinnises sugGuadalajara, Spain, on July 24, gested a more consensual meeting, 1936, and were shot as they left a which we think might help." convent.

Mrs. Leckey is currently coordinating a nationwide consultation of the laity in preparation for the synod, which will meet in Rome Oct. 1-30 on the topic, "The Vocation and Missidn of the L'aity in the Church and in the World."

She has headed the NCCB nationallaity secretariat for 10 years and was a "perita," or expert adviser, to the U.S. bishops at the 1980 world synod on Christian family life.

Roy is a specialist in longrange planning, structural reorganization and cop.flict management, and has frequently been a consultant on planning and programs to Catholic organizations.

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'What's on your mind?

Q. What is love? How do you know when you fall in love? When will that moment occur and how will you know it? (Rhode Island) Q. How can you tell when you're really in love? (Georgia) A. Would life be as interesting and exciting if we could insert our hearts in a computer and instantly get a readout on the, state of our love life? I think not.

In any' event, life is not that technological. The passions of the heart are elusive and sometimes feelings cannot even be named.

Nor can we quite put a timer on love.

Still we do a lot of thinking about it and even try to define it.

The Random House Dictionary, for example, includes descriptions of love as a profoundly tender, passionate affection or a feeling of 'warm personal attachment That is by no means all there is to say about love. Some people, in an effort to understand this experience, talk about an "I-Thou relationship" and discuss "strategies for maneuvering in a relationship."

Besides being dull, these phrases just don't sound like the hea'rtfelt words ofa passionate lover. Contrast them with the lover's words in the biblical Song of Songs: "My,beloved speaks and says to me, 'Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. Set me a seal , upon your heart as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as, 'death, jealousy is cruel as the grave.' "

By TOM LENNON

While love can be highly emo,tional, it is also profoundly at home amid the nitty-gritty of life.

When mom does endless, monotonous chores, that's love at work. When dad keeps going to a difficult job, that too is love, for love understands grim determination and sacrifice.

Love knows all about courage too and is eager to hang in there when life is tough.

Sometimes love is 'a decision.

We say to ourselves something like this: "I'm going to help this person alII can and do many good things for her. She is having a hard time now a~d must be lonely, so I'll stick by her and see what I can do to make life better for her."

After this decision, love goes into daily action.

Does all this answer the questions posed at the start? Perhaps nof specifically. But these paragraphs contain clues about love, and it will help to think about them over a period of time.

Coyle and Cassidy The Athletic Association at Taunton'sCoyle and Cassidy High School will hold its annual communion breakfast at' 9 a.m. Sunday. The meal will be preceded by a Mass.

Jim O'Brien, head basketball coach at Boston College, will speak at the breakfast. O'Brien recently became a' BC staffer, after four successful seasons at St. Bonaventure University in New York.

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'JAMES' Masterso'n, a senior at Fall River's Bishop Connolly High School and a member of St. Dominic's parish, Swansea, receives the Eucharist from Bishop Daniel A, Cronin at a Mass celebrated during the bishop's aQnual pastoral visit. (Burke photo)

their, fathers," We cannot doubt that Jesus recollected thosefamilJesus was the perfect gentleman, iar facts, and that they gave signifwith a sense of honor, 'conscience, icance to his action. With this Last and sensitivity that he tried. to Supperan old era was passing, givimpart to his followt: rs . He main- ing place to a new. Jesus was no tained a scrupulous standard of longer the master only; he became personal integrity and a passion ,head of the, family. Henceforth a ,for an unsullied mind, and 'life, bond' more affectionate than that , This is what we need today.: offriendship was to unite him with There was a difference between "the apostles, just :as ,,:e ~reunited ,the sin of Peter:and,the sin of 'in him: We have become a house,Judas, There was a tenderness in, hold, the children of a common Christ's manner to Peter, even, birth. in ;Christ. when he revealed to the surp'i'ised "In a sense, we no longer live ,disciple the c'owardice of which he ' separate lives, but are grafted into ':would'be guilty,"but Jesus saw h'im as the branch is grafted into Judas running to his doom, seeing the yine. perhaps that ~emonstrance or re~ , He goes forth to Gethsemane , praying "that they all may be one; buke were too late at that point.

It has been said that the Paschal as Thoi!, Father, art in me and I in 'Supper was not a public but a fam- thee."

This is the true sentiment of the ily festival. The Mosaic law ordained that the month of the Last Supper. It explains those Passover should be "the beginning deep, mystical words about his of months," and that the people body and blood, should "take to them every man a He has not left us behind. He lamb, according t!J the house of has bequeathed us himself.

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General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-I3-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. , Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not, morally offensive Which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

NEW ENGLAND Patriots defensive linebacker Mike Ruth, formerly a player for Boston College, recently spoke to and signed autographs for Attleboro deanery altar boys, according to Richard Castro, a trustee ofthe Attleboro district Serra Club, an organization which fosters vocation awareness.

Over 100 boys~ r~presenting most of the deanery's parishes, attended the gathering at S1. Mary's parish, North Attlebor<;>.

NOTE Please check' dates and times of television and radio programs against local listings, which may differ from the -New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

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Sunday, AprilS (CBS) -"For Our Times" In this second of two programs ,on the religious commUIJity's response to the AIDS crisis, CBS profiles the ministry of St. Clare's Catholic Hospital in New York City, the largest institution in the country specializing in AIDS care.

Sunday, April 12, 9-9:'30 a.m.

EST (NBC) - "Acts of Faith: Palm Sunday Pilgrimage" - The program focuses on Pope John Paul II's visit to Argentina and Chile and also includes an interview with Archbishop John May ofSt. Louis, president ofthe National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Religious Radio Sunday, April 5 (NBC) "Guideline" Virginia Stewart of St. Clare's Catholic Hospital in New York City discusses the spe;' ciaI health care needs of AIDS patients.

"Burglar"(Warners) - Whoopi Goldberg is a cat burglar implicated in ,a murder. Her forced career change to detective helps by solve the mystery ,and saves her skin. The unflattering vanity proMembers of New Bedford's duction offers little chance for McMahon Council Knights of CoJ- ' Miss Goldberg's talent to flash. umbus are urging the area cable False and demeaning stereotyping television system to carry program~ of women, brief nudity and mild ming of the Eternal Word Televiprofanity. A3, R , sion Network.

EWTN, founded by Mother M. "The Gospel According to Vic" (Skouras) - Tom Conti is a school- Angelica of th<: Poor Ciares of master teaching learning-impaired Perpetual Adoration, has more children in a school in Scotland. than 10 million viewers. Based, in Pride and public opinion lead him Birmingham, Ala., it offers free to believe that he's a miracle religious programming from 8 p.m. worker, but he slowly discovers to 2 a.m. daily and expects to that his special gifts of love, cour- expand to 24-hour coverage in the age and generosity are so rare that near future.

Steven C. Sharek, vice-chairman they are often mistaken for divine" providence. Some profanity and of the Mayor's Committee on Cable implied sex mar a thoroughly gen- ., TV in New Bedford and a supportle and uplifting story. A3, PG-13 ter of the suggested EWTN pro"Personal Services" (Vestron) , gramming, said:that,speaking per- Julie Walters plays the waitress sonally, he felt "if 75 to 80 percent turned brothel madam given to of the community is Catholic and arrogant bawdiness in this wry but they want EWTN, they should get ", imbalanced sex farce commenting it."

He noted that Whaling City on ruling class hypocrisy. Director Terry Jones is only partially criti- Cable TV, which serves New nedcal of sexual perversion, instead ford, is owned by Colony Com~ romanticiZing an immoral profes- munications, Inc., which also has sion. Nudity and kinky sex as cable TV interests in 'Fall River sources of humor and a benign . and Dartmouth.

"Therefore the upcoming deciattitude on abortion and adolescent development are prominent. sion from Whaling City will affect thousands of persons in the Fall O,R River diocese," he said.

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.Canadians join to aid "bus' people" WASHINGTON (NC) - Large numbers of Salvadoran and Guatemalan "bus people," turned away

at the Canadian border as a result of a new Canadian immigration procedure, have agencies in upstate New York and Vermont scrambling to find sources of food, clothing and shelter.

Fearing deportation from. the United States since passage of the new U.S. immigration reform law, Salvadorans and Guatemalans in increasing numbers are seeking refuge in Canada, say members of church-sponsored refugee assistance groups.

Alarmed at the numbers, Canada has instituted a new immigration policy, giving refugees a hear-

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ing date and telling them they may not enter the country until that date unless they are being deported, said Roderick McDowell,' a lawyer member of a Central American refugee committee set up by the Canadian diocese of St. Catharines, Ontario.

The Central Americans turned away at the border, said Sister Bonny Butler of the Interfaith Refugee Assistance Project in Buffalo, N.Y., are "without family, friends or money ... often in shirt sleeves and lightweight ~Iothing."

The project, she said, attempts to meet refugees' material needs and prepare them for the Canadian immigration inquiry.

Most have traveled by bus, leading the Montreal press to label them "the bus people."

Bishop Thomas Fulton of Saint Catharines said in a telepohone interview that while immigration. regulations may become more strict, he does not anticipate Canada will stop welcoming political refugees.

McDowell said some Canadians have expressed fear the new immigrants. will "take their jobs" but added the refugee influx has also produced "an amazing movement" uniting Mennonites, Catholics, Quakers, Episcopalians and members of the United Church anxious to help.

"What are urgently needed," said Bishop Fulton, "are groups offamilies who will undertake together to offer immediate hospitality to refugees and to help them with the major tasks of resettlement."

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MARCH 27 was a special day at Fall River's Catholic Memorial Home; a party was given. in honor of resident Eugenie Watkinson's IOOth birthday. A CMH resident since November, 1985, Mrs. Watkinson is pictured with Sister Rose Bernadette Parent, CSJ. Mrs. Watkinson, a seamstress, made Sister Parent's first communion dress. (Garland photo)

Prayer reminds Minnesota priest of football game ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC)-Prayer reminds Jesuit .Father Richard Rice of a football game.

"My favorite image is that of a wide receiver. He's only good as long as he receives," said the director ·of Loyola, a spiritual renewal resource center in St. Paul, Minn. But people who want to pray "too often are running all over the field, all initiating something, but not stopping to listen or receive.'~

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Father Rice describes prayer as "conversation. God is speaking to me all the time. It is for me to hear the living God and respond."

His views appeared in a series of articles on prayer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Catholic Bulletin.

Carondelet Sister Mary Catherine Casey also sees prayer as God speaking. But "we're a headphone society, so caught up in the buzz of the music and noise that we don't realize there are words too.." said Sister Casey, development director for Ascension Place, a support residence for women in Minneapolis. . "It's the same way with prayer.

We don't listen to God ... We look for God outside, when God is much closer than that."

People approach prayer in varied ways. Some are so awed that they think prayer is beyond them.

Many stick to the traditional ap'proach, using prayers used in childhood. Others use a casual approacl.t, conversing with God in "buddybuddy" fashion.

Some people prefer to pray in private; others feel quite comfortable praying in public with a group. And still others look for signs of God in daily activities and view them as prayers.

Reasons for praying also vary.

Some people pray when they're sad; others, when happy. Some pray when they're afraid; others, when they're secure. Some pray to ask God for things; others pray to thank God for the things they have.

"People sometimes pray out of fear response - as if we're on a barter system," said Sister Casey.

But prayer ought to be natural, she said, providing a "string between God and my life."

While the Baltimore Catechism defines prayer as "the lifting up of our minds and hearts to God to adore him, to thank him for his benefits, to ask his forgiveness and to beg of him all the graces we need, whether for soul or body," Father Rice said the 'Iifting of minds and hearts is" only half of it.

The other half is that God stooped to us and always i"s praying to us."

People who say they want to pray, but don't know how, already are doing it, according to St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Ansgar Holmberg.

"That very yearn!ng itself is prayer, because desire like that can only come from God," she said.

"Saying 'I want to pray, but don't know how,' is actually a very profound prayer. Simply say that to God." Sister Holmberg, who also works at Loyola, said there are as many ways to pray as ways of communicating with people. "Words, letters, singing, sitting ... without saying anything, looks, body gestures,. dancing, kneeling, standing, bowing - all are helpful in letting the . body express how you are feeling."

She tells those who feel they need help praying, '''there is no substitute for just doing it."

Saying the prayers people learned at their parents' knees is a way to start praying, she said. She also suggests reading the Psalms because they "give us words we don't know how to say," or memorizing a biblical verse and repeating it.

Another prayer possibility is simply taking a picture one likes - of Christ or a favorite saint - and contemplating it, she said. "You don't need words, just look at it and think about its meaning to you," Sister Holmberg said.