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. SILHOUETTED AGAINST an Easter sunrise, Father Michael R. Nagle, pastor of the Martha's Vineyard parishes. presides at a service on one of the Island's beaches. At right, George and Marion Santos, and their boys, five-year-old Grant, and three-year-old Maxwell attend Easter Services at their parish, St. Augustine's, Vineyard Haven. '

At' Chrism Mass bishop asks clergy, laity to ~eet challenges

Catholic Charities Appeal· begins FALL RIVER - Special promotions are on the agenda as the 2002 Catholic Charities Appeal in the Fall River diocese is getting underway. This year's early date of the celebration of Easter affords all pastors and parish committees a full month to promote the 2002 effort, says Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, director of the Appeal. The initial phase of the campaign is traditionally the most intensive because it is "parish based." Michael J. Donly, diocesan director of development, has been Tum to page J2 - Appeal

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BISHOP SEAN P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., blesses oils at the annual Chrism Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral on March 26. (AnchorfGordon photo)

FALL RIVER - The following is the text of the homily given by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., at the Chrism Mass celebrated Thesday in SL MaIy's CatbedraI.. ''In our Capuchin monasteries. as Lent approaches we gather in House 0JapIers to discuss what special Lenten practices the community should take on - beyond those required by Church Law or our ConsIitution. I remember one such gathering where the superior wrote suggestions on a blackboard and then asked for a vote. He wrote the tally on the board and was about to announce what penance had been democrnti.cally selected for our community when a very quiet lay brother raised his hand and said: 'Father GuaIdian. I propose that we do the penances that got the least votes those are the real penances.' When people ask me what I am doing for Lent, I say, 'I am reading the newspa-

pelS.' This has been the most painful experience of my life. I love the Church and the priesthood and these scandals are a heartrending scourge. I know that so many Catholics are suffering the same agony. The resignation of two very popular priests in recent weeks has been painful. The old Latin adage comes to mind: 'Peccata optimi pessima.' We are horrified by the accounts of the victims and saddened and shamed by the stories and the mishandling of cases. It is ofgrave concern that some priests have not kept their vows and have been sexually involved with teen-agers and, in far fewer cases, with small children. Having met with scores of victims of clerical child abuse at the time of the Porter case, I am painfully aware of the grave damage inflicted on children or teen-agers when the perpetra-

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LOOKING AHEAD - Guest speaker at the recent annual dinner meeting of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at the Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth was Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap. He asked the group's support in planning the 100th anniversary of the diocese in 2004. Plans for the DCCW convention May 4 at Christ the King Parish, Mashpee, were furthered. From left, DCCW Moderator Father Philip Davignon; Bishop O'Malley; DCCW President Betty Mazzucchelli and First Vice President Lynette Ouellette. (Photo by Maddy Lavoie)

Lecture Series underway NORTH DARTMOUTH The Newman Lecture Series sponsored by the Catholic Student Organization and Catholic Campus Ministries of U-Mass Dartmouth is underway. The lectures, which are free, are held in the Student Conference Room of the Student Center Building, beginning at noon and lasting approximately 40 minutes. A question, answer and discussion ,'./

period finishes the hour. The next scheduled lecture will be held on April 8. It will host Sacred Hearts Father David Lupo, acting pastor of Our Lady of the FA~L RIVER Mrs. Assumption Parish, New Bedford. His topic will be "Lectio Divina." Veronica J. <C:arey) Tra~assos, 84, For more information contact . of the CatholIc Memonal Home, the Religious Resources Office formerly of Tower Street, wife of at 508-999-8872 or Dr. Donald the late Horace Travassos and J. Mulcare at 508-999-8224 or at mother of Father Horace J. dmulcare@umassd.edu. Travassos, pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish, Westport, died Holy Saturday.

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ligion at Holy Family High School, he came to Immaculate Conception Parish, Fall River in 1971. In 1977 he was assigned to St Bernard's in Assonet and the following year was made pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, North Easton, where

he served until retirement in June 2000. His diocesan duties included being assistant to the secretary of the Office of Administration and Finance; associate director of Diocesan Health Facilities, and as defender of the bond at the Tribunal. Father Phillipino was a member of American Legion Post 7 and the Knights of Columbus Council 238, both in Easton. He leaves a sister, Gloria Floor of Mansfield; two brothers, Michael and Joseph Phillipino of Taunton; and nieces and nephews among whom is Father Michael Phillipino of Killingsworth, Conn. His funeral Mass was celebrated Wednesday in Immaculate Conception Church, North Easton. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., was the principal celebrant. Interment was in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Easton. The Robert J. Kane Funeral Home, Easton, was in charge of arrangements.

Veronica J. Travassos Born in this city, she was a lifelong resident and a lifetime member of St. Patrick's Church. She was stitcher for many years at several curtain factories in Fall River. Besides her priest son, she leaves two daughters, Kathleen M. Fitzgerald of Fall River and Eleanor Waterhouse of Tiverton, ".~C),,;.t

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Somerset, 508-678-5631; - April II , noon - 3 p.m., Health First Family Care Center, 102 County Street, Fall River, 508-6798111; - April 13, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., FIRSTFED Center for Breast Care at Saint Anne's Hospital, corner, South Main and Middle streets, Fall River, 508-675-5686; - April 22, 6:30 -8:30 p.m.,

FIRSTFED Center at Saint Anne's Hospital; - April 27, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., FIRSTFED Center at Saint Anne's Hospital. Appointments are necessary and may be made by calling the sites listed above. For additional information contact Maria Cabrales, RN, at 508-675-5686.

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EASTON - Father Lucio Benedict Phillipino, 71, retired pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, North Easton, died at his home here on Good Friday. He had been under Hospice care. A native of Taunton, Father Phillipino was the son of the late Louis v., and the late Josephine (DeSarro) Phillipino. After primary and secondary studies at Cohannet Elementary School and Taunton High School, he graduated from Providence College in 1952 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. Following service in the U.S. Anny during the Korean War and work as a research technician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he prepared for the priesthood at the Theological College of The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where he received a licentiate in Sacred Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood on April 2, 1960 by Bishop James L. Connolly in St. Mary's

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Is 7:10-14; 8:10; Ps 40:7-11; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 Acts 4:32-37; Ps 93:1-2,5; In 3:7b-15 Acts 5:17-26; Ps 34:2-9; In 3:1621 Acts 5:27-33; Ps 34:2,9,17-20; In 3:31-36 Acts 5:34-42; Ps 27:1,4,13-14; In 6:1-15 Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2,4-5,1819; In 6:16-21 Acts 2: 14,22-33; Ps 16:1-2a,5,711; 1 Pt 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35

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In Your Prayers Please pray for the foLLowing priests during the coming week AprilS 1988, Rev. Alvin Matthews, OFM, Retired, Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford April 9 1919, Rev. Cornelius McSweeney, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River 1965, Rev. Edward F. Dowling. Pastor, Immaculate Conceplion, Fall River April 10 1944, Rev. John P. Doyle, Paslor, St. William, Fall River April 11 1914, Rev. John F. Downey, Pastor, Corpus Christi, Sandwich April 12 1909, Rev. John Tobin, Assislant, St. Palrick, Fall River 1996, Rev. Msgr. Alfred J. Gendreau, Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River 1997, Rev. Edward P. Doyle, O.P., St. Raymond, Providence, R.I. April 14 1935, Rev. Louis N. Dequoy, Paslor, Sacred Heart, Norlh Attleboro 1977, Rev. Cosmas Chaloner, SS.Cc., SL. Francis Xavier, Acushnel

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Funeral Mass for Father Kelley NEW BEDFORD - The funeral Mass for Father James F. Kelley, 72, a former Fall River diocesan priest killed in the crash of his airplane in Alaska, will be held Wednesday, April 10, at 11 a.m., in the Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., will be the principal celebrant. Father Kelley, a native of New Bedford, and a former U.S.

SIXTEEN PRIESTS were recognized during the Chrism Mass for celebrating significant anniversaries this year. They are: 60 years, La Salette Father Roland A. Nadeau; 50 years, Father Andre P. Jussaume, Holy Cross Father Thomas Lawton and La Salette Father Roger M. Leroux; 40 years, Fathers John F. Andrews, Philip A. Davignon, Leonard M. Mullaney, Barry·W. Wall, Msgr. Ronald A. Tosti and Sacred Hearts Father Roy Yurco; 25 years, Fathers Gerald P. Barnwell, Raymond Cambra, John J. Oliveira, Robert A. Oliveira, John C. Ozug and John A. Raposo. (AnchonGordon photo)

Diocese establishes Pope St. Pius Youth Award FALL RIVER -An award to teen-agers who bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to their com- . munities by their witness and example, has been established by ·the Fall River diocese. In a recent letter to pastors of all parishes. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., said he is asking them to identify one of their teen-agers, who has been confirmed and is at· least a sophomore in high school and not older than 19. "The individual should be an active member of your parish's worshipping community, and who has offered his or her time and talent to the parish community with exceptional selflessness, commitment, and dedication," Bishop O'Malley wrote. The young people will be recognized at an award ceremony set for May 22, at 7 p.m., in St.

Mary's Cathedral. The awards, to be given annually, will recognize "those special young people who are aware of their baptismal vocation and their responsibility for bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to their communities by their witness and example." The bishop added, "I believe that-it is very important to identify role models and faithful disciples among the young for both the witness they offer their peers as well as to the wi.der community." The award is named forPopeSt. Pius X (1835-1914) who founded the Diocese of Fall River which will observe its centenary in 2004. Those having questions or comments are invited to contact Bud Miller at the Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministry at 508-675-3847.

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Politics and the dignity of person There are those who consider her'a lame duck. However, she really is a victim. From the outset, Jane Swift, our acting governor of Massachusetts, was prey for the political vultures that perch on Beacon Hill.' She was not from the Boston mold. As a state senator, she represented one ofthe more impoverished areas of the state, far removed from the Hub. Her rise to her present office was not through the dark and tangled web of the vicious campaign trail. She 'made some rather common mistakes that became a feeding frenzy of a relentless press. Above all, she was a woman; not only that, a working mother. In a time where anything new is suspect, she was doomed from the onset. Even her own party turned Its back on her. By reaching out even before convention time to select a rich. white and transplanted male to become their standard bearer, the Republicans clearly demonstrate their desperate plight. They also indicated that money is key in elections. Somehow it seems that people are not elected to offi~e; rather it goes to the wealthiest buyer. Jane Swift had neither the money nor the time to wage a campaign that seemingly would be a political bloodbath. As a , mother of three young children, she made a woman's choice for mothering, something that will serve her well in future days, something a male politician could really never understand. It really is a shame that she has been treated so poorly, not just by her own party members, but even more so by the dysfunctional opposition. Caught between the raging waters of Birmingham and Finneran, it's a wonder how the state exi~ts at all. Amid thesemaledominated gladiatorial games, how could anyone surviVe the governor's office, especially a Republican woman. The state's en-. tire congressional delegation is comprised of male Democrats both in the House and Senate. Here at home, both hou~es of government are of the' same stripe. The political infighting resembles.a match endorsed by the World Wrestling Federation. Massachusetts politics has always had a back-room boys' mind-set. A Jane Swift did not fit into their plans for the Commonwealth. In the end, both Republican and Democratic politics did her in; We live in a state that professes on its lips that equality of men and women rests essentially on their qignity as persons and the rights that flow from it. However, that ideal must be emotjonally reinforced. The treatment of Jane Swift by the political and editorial powers of the state should once more remind all that we must continue to enforce our belief that equality of person is attained by fairness, openness and respect.' Our...excessive political imbalance only creates a social disparity between people. It flaunts equality and rights; it disregards the dignity of the human person. If the political family is to have credibility, it must strengthen human values in such a way that those who choose this vocation become a source of unity in the service of others. It is imperative that we restore to political office a dignity pf purpose and a striving for the ideal. This can never be achieved when the equality of person is diminished by party fractionalization and infighting. As . we prepare now for local party conventions, let's hope that we can restore some sense of integrity to the political system. We don't live in a state of perfection, but we ~hould live in a state that strives for perfection. The ideal that any man or woman can hold the highest office of state and nation needs to be reinforced and renewed. A 'vocation to serve as a representative of the people is a noble ideal and one that any man or woman in this Commonwealth must uphold.

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THE ANGEL GABRIEL GREETS MARY IN THIS CHURCH WINDOW DEPICTING THE ANNUNCIATION. THE FEAST OF'THE ANNUNCIATION, CELEBRATING THE PROCLAMATION THAT MARY WOULD BE THE MOTHER OF JESUS, IS ApRIL

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FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

. The damage created by the present sex-abuse scandals in the Church could not be more frightful! The very foundation of selfrespect has been debased in innocent children andyouths, causing them to enter their new world of adulthood under a very dark cloud. As horrel)dous as these scandals are, valuable lessons are being learned from them. To start with, we have a much clearer understanding of Christ's strong condemnation of those who s'candalize children. His mandate could not be more clear: Society is obliged to respect its youth at all costs. Another lesson learned is how' one person can affect so many innocent people. I have heard story after story of good priests who have been berated by parishioners or who have ,worn their collars and were scorned in public. They have become the whipping posts for angry people in need of venting. Good priests have felt avoidance by those who

now envision them as predators. These priests have been put on trial and made to explain issues for which they have no answers. Another sad but needed lesson is that the rights of the individual must always take precedence over preservation of the institution. We always have known that secrecy and covering up for the sake of maintaining an institution is not prudent, but not until now have we fully realized how it shatters credibilily, disrupts ministry, penalizes the financial underpinning of the Church and impairs its mis, sion. Yet another hard lesson is that once a person is down, the law of the jungle sets in with people piling on the fallen person. The media have been unrelenting, which has led to overkill. Within the Church, some people have taken' advantage of the Church's plight by making every questionable issue into "the issue" behind the sex scandals. Thus priestly celibacy, women's ordination and questions about the number of homosexual men in the priesthood are all issues that have been tacked

onto the sexual abuse issue. Perhaps the most fruitful lesson surfacing from these scandals is humility. Humility causes us to get back to reality by questioning present realities. For example, how much is the sexual revolution - as communicated via television, movies and the Internet - contributing to the sexual exploitation of our youth? How can the priesthood and, for that matter, parents gr~sp the realities of this revolution and come to understand its damaging effects without becoming part of it? How can lay people working with priests foster the virtues needed to create the wholesome Church Christ envisioned? What more must seminaries and lay leadership formation programs do to guarantee the leadership we ne.ed? In the midst of a Church in transition, what must leaders possess to move us through this period effectively? As bad as the sex abuse scandals are, they afford us an opportunity to learn some lessons. that will be needed if we are to fulfill the awesome tasks challenging us.

Now. more than ever I must say I was pleasantly re- not the problem and that so very awaits us each week. No sin, no lieved to see a full house at Easter many of her priests are faithful and .stain, no imperfections can ever prevent Christ from inviting us to his Sunday Mass last week. It's evident .faith-filled. Newspapers contain stories of banquet at Mass. To deny that, is to that after all the pain the Catholic Church has absorbed recently, the Catholics searching for a new ignore the Savior's Holy Thursday majority of her members are hang- church to fulfill their spiritual needs. offering and his ultimate sacrifice on Good Friday. ing tough. The Church is not per- . The cases of sexual fect. It can't be - it's abuse by clergy' have made up of God's people, rocked even the staunchand God's people never est of supporters to the have and never will be very core of their souls. I perfect. feel it's safe to say that all . How many of us cheer practicing Catholics have on sports teams that have felt, to some degree, the By Dave Jolivet members who have been hurt of the helpless vicguilty of murder, spousal tims of these cruel crimes. abuse, drug abuse and None of us can know what they're going through, but we Yet, the Catholic Church cannot be more? We all do. Why? Because we do know it's something to which no brought asunder by the sins of a concentrate on the decent members one should ever fall prey. Many of small percentage of her members. knowing full well that the actions of She is still the same Church estab- a few don't reflect on all. us have had our faith shaken. How many of us remain loyal to Surely the offenders and those lished by Christ himself when he who covered up for them must be handed the keys to Peter, a friend our teams, even when they fail mispunished. Society dictates that's who denied the Savior three times erably year after year? Many of us do. Why, because we love our in a matter of hours. only right. As Catholics, many of us are Instead of looking for a new place teams, despite their shortcomings. On Easter Monday, Fenway Park sickened by the magnitude ofthe cri- of worship, it seems folks should cut sis, and we'll never understand how through the chaffand find the wheat, in Boston was crammed with fans or why this happened. As Catholics and we have only to look as far as for the Red Sox' opening day, and we must also realize the Church is the altar on which the Bread of Life they'll stream into the old ball yard

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tinue to do so week after week, because their Church needs them now, more than ever. Dave lolivet is a former sports editor/writer and the current editor of The Anchor. Comments are welcome at DaveJolivet@Anchornews.org.

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PACE and Project Bread aim to feed Catholic students BOSTON - A wealth of research confirms what Catholic principals and parents instinctively know: hungry children can't learn. In September 200 I, the Parents for Catholic Education conducted a survey of Catholic school principals 'in'Massachusetts and found that only 22 percent of the state:s.257 Catholic schools were taking advantage of the federal child nutrition program. Unlike public schools, parochial schools are not mandated to provide school meals programs. For the Catholic community, full utilization of these programs is significant, says Steve Perla, executive director of PACE, because they potentially impact 84,000 Catholic elementary and high school students. To ensure Catholic students are prepared for academic success, PACE secured a $30,000 grant from Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger, the state's leading anti-hunger agency. The goal of the grant is to connect parochial schools

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to the same federal child nutrition programs available to students in public schools, that is, school breakfast, school lunch, and after-school snack programs. PACE has also used the grant money to hire Katherine Hargadon as full-time outreach coordinat<;r to help Catholic schools successfully complete the Department of Education application process:, meet the federal guidelines, and implement the programs within the schools. "We are hopeful that more schools and impoverished areas of Massachusetts will start such programs," Perla said. George Milot, director of education for the Fall River diocese, and a PACE board member, said, "It is imperative that Catholic schools provide the nutrition they may otherwise be lacking. With the help of Project Bread, PACE will continue to work with schools throughout the state to bring much needed nutritional food service programs to students." .

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ATILEBORO - A six-week Grief Education Series, sponsored by the Hospice Program of the Visiting Nurse Agency, begins April 24 from 7-8:30 p.m. A Children's Bereavement Group will meet April 24 from 10 a.m. to noon and from J-3 p.m. Drop-in support groups are available" at 7:30 p.m. each first Monday of the month. All meet in the.building at 141 Park Street. For more information call Denise Boissoneault at 508-222-0118, ext. 2157. AITLEBORO - The Feast of Divine Mercy will be celebrated "at the La Salette Shrine this weekend beginning with Mass "at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will follow until midnight. A 12: 10 p.m. Mass will be" held Sunday. Benediction will- be held at 3 p.m. The sacrament of reconciliation will be available. The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord will be observed with a morning of recollection April 8 from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Shrine Theater. The Solemnity will also be observed at the 12: 10 and 6:30 p.m. Masses. The Theater is wheelchair accessible. For more information call 508222-5410. EAST FREETOWN - A Young Adult Retreat Day entitled 'The Privilege of Being Catholic," will be held April 21 at Cathedral Camp. It will include music, speakers, prayer and discussion. For more information call Bud Miller at 508675-3847. FAIRHAVEN -A First Friday Mass, sponsored by the Fairhaven Chapter of the Men ofSacred Hearts will be celebrated tonight at 7 p.m. at St. Mary's Church, 41 Harding Road. A holy hour will be held at 6 p.m. and refreshments will follo~ Mass. FALL RIVER - The Fall River First Friday Men's Club invites all area men to join them for Mass tonight at 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church. An informal dinner will follow in the parish ceriter. For more information call 508-678-1792.

Bedford and the sun:ounding areas are needed for the Educational Surrogate Parent Program. Responsibilities include making educational decisions for special needs students. Training will be held April 9 at the New Bedford Public School's Administrative Building, 455 County Street, room 338, beginning at 5:30 p.m. For more information call 508792-7679. MISCELLANEOUS - Singers wantt:,d: A new upper Cape ensemble is forming to explore the sacred musical helitage of the Catholic Church. All voice parts are welcome. For more information call Mario Sengco at 508-289-2749. NEW BEDFORD - The New Bedford Cathqlic Women's Club will hold its monthly meeting April 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Century House, 107 South Main Street,- Acushnet. For more infOimation call 508-9959319. OSTERVILLE - A panel discussion exploring euthanasia, assisted suicide and other end of life issues will be held April 10 at 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Assumption Church. Speakers include Hospise nurse Deborah Wood, retired Judge John St. Cyr and Father Mark Hession. Refreshments will be served. For more information call 508-420-0161. SOUTH EASTON - Members of the Taunton" District Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society will attend a Mass April 8 at 7 p.m. at Holy Cross Church for the intention of the canonization of Blessed Frederic Ozanam and in memory of deceased members. It's "regular monthly meeting will follow in the parish hall. SWANSEA - Divine Mercy Sunday services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Dominic's Church, 1277 Grand Army Highway. It will include the Chaplet of Mercy an'd Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. For more information call 508-675-7206.

WEST HARWICH - The Celebrate Life Committee of Holy FALL RIVER - Catholic So- Trinity Church will sponsor a procial Services is co-sponsoring a gram entitled "Stem Cell Research workshop for first time homebuyers and Human Cloning," on April 14 April II , 18 and 25 from 6:30-9 p.m. from 4-6 p.m. at Damien Hall. Guest at Santo Christo Church, 185 Canal . speaker Mary Patricia Tranter will Street. For more information call M. explain the issues from a Catholic and scientific viewpoint. For more Lucia Vieira at 508-674-4681. information call Mary McDonald at MASHPEE - The Celiac Sup- 508-430-1559. port Group will meet Sunday at 2 WEST HARWICH - The St. p.m. in the parish hall of Christ the King Church. Guest speaker Margo Francis of Peace Fraternity, Secular Finnell will address the topic "Eat- Franciscan Order, will meetApril 14 ing Well with Celiac Disease." For for noon Mass at Holy Trinity more information call 508-477-7700. Church. Discussion and refreshments will follow. For more inforMISCELLANEOUS - Vol- mation call Peg Raymond at 508unteers from Fall River, New 362-5238.

Can Christ save people who aren't Christians? Q. I must disagree wi~ your re- about the Bible and Jesus Christ. Are scious acts of"accepting" him as savcent comments regarding salvation they all condemned, through no fault ior. That is what Pope John Paul II, for those who do not believe in of their own? the Catechism, council documents Jesus Christ. Your viewpOint devalYes, the Catholic (and some other and other Catholic sources mean ues, demeans and diminishes the Christian) Church's understanding of when they speak of the possibility of supreme sacrifice Jesus made for the biblical injunctions about the ne- salvation outside the Church, even . mankind. cessity of faith in Jesus has changed. outside organized Christianity. We believe the possibility of salYou quote the "Catechism ofthe For centuries, the impression was Catholic Church" and the vation, the possibility of pope's remarks (Septemcorning under the influence ber 1998) that members of of the Holy Spirit's moveother religions who sinm~nts inspiring faith in Jesus cerely follow what is good Christ, is available to every in their faith traditions human being, not just to a and their own consciences privileged few who happen "respond positively to to live in the right place, By Father God's invitation and rewhere the Gospel can for"John J. Dietzen ceive salvation in Jesus mally be preached to them. Christ, even if they do not This teaching appears in recognize or acknowledge him as that, except for a few pockets here many places, but nowhere, I believe, their savior!' and there, the Christian message had more prOfoundly and clearly than in I was Catholic for the first 60 penetrated the whole world. All the oft-repeated reflections of the years of my life and respectfully people, it was thought, had the op- pope, who cautions us about presumbelieve that you, the pope and the portunity to accept or reject Jesus as ing to put limits on what God can do. Catholic Church are absolutely " savior. We believe, he says in one place, wrong. The Bible says only those With the discoveries of new re- that the creator wants to save all hu"who believe in Jesus Christ are gions and continents, with their bil- mankind in Jesus Christ. We don't saved. You agree with that, bu~ you lions of "pagans," 'however, all that know how he does all this, he continsay the Church's teaching has changed. For this reason and others, ues, but We do know "that Christ changed. But the holy word ofGod we have gradually come to realize came into the world for all these does not change. (North Carolina) that unless the salvation Jesus set out peoples. He redeemed them all and A. Your comments call for re~ to achieve was a failure for most of has his own ways of reaching each sponse from several directions. Per- the human family, the Holy Spirit of them" in the present age of salvahaps most important, you speak of must be at work in ways we have not tion history ("Crossing the Threshold of Hope," pages 80-83). devaluing the sacrifice of Jesus. " heretofore thought of. As the "Catechism of the CathoJesus is, we firmly believe, the Doesn't the opinion that the saving death and resurrection of our Lord source and fulfillment ofall salvation. lic Church" (No. 1257) puts it, God was wholly ineffective for 70 percent Any human beings anywhere, any- has bound salvation to the sacraor 80 percent of the human race ter- time, are saved only through and ir ments, but he himself is not bound him,and through his community rJ by his sacraments. ribly demean that sacrifice? It seems to me we should rejoice, Yet that is what you, and others believers, the Church. If that salvation is, however, truly not be resentful, if we now better recwho think as you do, must believe, because billions of people, the vast at work in the whole world, faith in ognize the possibility that Jesus did majority of the human race, never Jesus and in the hea,venly Father not fail a major part of his mission have a chance to learn about God as whose love he revealed must be pos- " but really did accomplish what he set we Christians know God or to hear sible in ways other than explicit, con- outtodo, to save the world (In 3: 17).

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Unannounced inspiration Recently I took the two and one-half-hour trip that had felt over these visits disappeared. I felt she was at gets me to my hometown ofAlbany, N.Y., to visit fam- 'peace, innocent and expecting everyone to love her. Well, that evening, my sister and I went together to ily. My mother, approaching 94, is in a nursing home, the College of St. Rose to hear Tynan. He gave a talk I and I try to see her pretty regularly. . On this day I had another Albany place to go to in would label "wisdom words." Back in Kilkenny, Irethe evening. I had received an invitation from my alma land, he was born with a lower limb disability that, at mater, The College of St. Rose, signed by Mark age 20, required both of his legs to be amputated below the knees. Thanks to Sullivan, the president, in- . - his parents, he never viting a number of alumni r-----------~ thought of himself as and people associated with handicapped. His father, the college to a special who died a few years ago, event. constantly assured his son St. Rose was presenting that he could be whatever a talk by Ronan Tynan, a he wanted to be because disabled athlete who had By Antoinette Bosco "You're great!" set world records in comTynan's mother, a petitions, had gone on to be a physician specializing in ...-----------1-~.....;_..:.;..;.;.:J-Iwoman with a dominant, powerful presence, was sports medicine and then, amazingly, had achieved worldwide recognition and just as affirming in communicating to him that he could acclaim as a tenor, becoming part of a trip known as make choices that would let him live his life to the "The Irish Tenors.'~ Having seen him on television and fullest. But now, he said, she has Alzheimer's and is "like a child." admiring him immensely, I accepted the invitation. Rosemary and I looked at each other, and whisperBut that afternoon I ~ad a destination, the nursing home. I went with my sister Rosemary, the oldest of ing "our mom," we listened to this warm affirming man. eight siblings and the rock that sustains us with her He said he found a way to accept his mother's unquestioning love. Mom, unable to walk for more Alzheimer's, speaking then of how Jesus indicated we. than a year, was sitting in her wheelchair. She always must be like gentle, innocent children in the kingdom h'ad been beautiful, and this day it was apparent that of heaven. His sense of humor emerged as he said that he thinks she still had great beauty. We kissed her and greeted her, complimenting her God might have had a hard time dealing with his powon how lovely her newly washed and set white hair erful, determined mother in heaven, and so he is "prelooked. She was smiling and looked truly joyful. Be- paring her" to be welcomed in her new home. Rosemary and I both said a silent ~'thank you" to cause of her Alzheimer's or dementia, we're not sure which she has, mom soon started to babble in incoher- this fine man, for now when we're with mom we'll focus not on the sadness of Alzheimer's but on the ent sentences, smiling all the while. As she talked on, always smiling, I felt I was with a mysterious transformation whereby she is ever becomsweet child. In" a strange way, the anguish I always ing a beloved child, indeed, of God.

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Mary: ecumenical 'third rail'? Ever since the Catholic Church Yet the classic goal of the eeu- . Hans Urs von Balthasar's richly entcred (hc modcrn cell mcnicaf menical movement - a Church symbolic theology of the Church. movcmcnt during the Second united around a common creed, a Balthasar, who died in 1988 Gust Vatican Council, Catholicism's common ministry, and a common before being created a cardinal), Marian piety and the doctrines of Eucharist - seems very far away. proposed that the Church is thc Immaculate Conception and The pope regularly and urgently formed in the images offour great the Assumption have becn re- pleads the cause of Christian New Testament figures. The gardcd as the "third rail" of unity; the response from Ortho- Church of proclamation is formed ecumenism: touch them, and the dox and Protestant Christians is in the image of Paul, missionary dialogue dies. Severa) promincnt friendly, but usually tepid. No to the world. The Church of conecumenical thinkers, including great breakthroughs seem on the templative love is formed in the image of John, who rested Cardinal Christoph Schoenbolll ofVienna and his head on the Master's breast at the Last Supper. Swiss Protestant pastor The Church of authority Max Schoch, are now suggesting that Mary may not and jurisdiction is formed in the image of Peter, to be the third rail after all. In fact, Mary may be the key whom Christ gave the keys. And the Church of to reopening ecumenical By George Weigel dialogues that have gotten discipleship - which is the basis of everything stale and stalled. else - is formed in the It's no secret that we have reached an ecumenical pla- visible horizon. A sense of the image of Mary, whose "yes" to teau, 40 years after Vatican II static hangs over much of the ecu- the angel makes possible God's entry into history in the person of opened. A remarkable sense of menical enterprise. In one sense this was entirely his son. Christian fraternity has been reAll four images are in play in established after centuries of predictable. For Protestantism bloody-mindedness. Important and Orthodoxy, the issues on the the Church all the time. But bedoctrinal agreements have been ecumenical table are now the cause Mary is the pattern or proreached. The Catholic Church tough ones: the nature of the totype of all discipleship in the annually sends a high-level del- Church, the ordained ministry, Church, and because discipleship egation to thp. celebration of the jurisdiction, and the Petrine pri- is what the Church is for, what Solemnity of St. Andrew led by macy of the Bishop of Rome. No Balthasar called the "Marian Prothe Ecumenical Patriarch of one should imagine there will be file" has a certain priority over the Constantinople; the Patriarchate an easy resolution of these ques- others. Pope John Paul II agrees. sends a high-level Orthodox del- tions. But perhaps the questions In December 1987, he told the egation to the annual Roman cel- could be refocused to pull us out Roman Curia that Mary made sense, so to speak, out of Peter: ebration of the Solemnity of of the present stall. Cardinal Schoenborn, Pastor what the Church of authority and Saints Peter and Paul. Ecumenical services are a staple feature of Schoch, and others suggest that jurisdiction did in the Vatican Christian life throughout the one way to do this is to tease out made sense only if it served the the ecumenical implications of cause of discipleship. world. All this is to the good.

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As often happens in the Note: Ladybugs can do a dog spring at my place, I was inter- paddle pretty well. Why, they rupted during my writing re. are fantasy figures from Amerigime, which includes staring can mythology. It would be like out the window at ducks div- hunting Bambi or stomping on ing in the pond. The intruders Jiminy Cricket! Anyway, my home is the were ladybugs. One was on my keyboard's F4 key, and another wheelhouse of an old ferryboat had wedged itself between K and L. Makes you think about the divine interconnectedness of creation, doesn't it? Well, more so than the NBA playoffs do, for sure. By Dan Morris Ever wonder where ladybugs come from? I know. From my house. But my house is not a that plied the waters around house in the traditional sense- San Francisco for many years which is part of the reason that until it became decrepit and it is the Free World Breeding rotten, at which time WashingCenter for Ladybugs, even ton state bought it (and many though I have been unable to others like it) to ply more wagenerate any government or ter - in this case, Puget Sound. Some wags claimed the old foundation grants to support its ferries were a kind of floating, work. Frankly, the Walt Disney scary-ride theme park on which folks should send along some- upstarts like Universal Studios thing to help with the feeding and Disneyland based splashand breeding of these creatures. and-soak sojourns such as "JuIt is largely their fault I cannot rassic Park." To trick the public into fumigate the place, much less brutally squash any of the cute thinking it was fielding new little bugs - like the one who ferries, Washington state cut just fell into my coffee cup. the really, really rotten old

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Vatican working on new instruction on marriage annulment cases By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE VATICAN CITY A Vatican commission is working on a new instruction on the marriage annulment cases in the Church, a top Vatican official said. Cardinal Francesco Pompedda confirmed to Catholic News Service last week that the document was being drawn up by a commission whose members represent various Vatican congregations and other agencies. Cardinal Pompedda, who heads the Apostolic Signature, the Church's supreme court, unexpectedly mentioned the document-in-progress during a conference at a Rome university a ,few days earlier. He said the instruction was in an advanced stage of preparation. Msgr. Raffaello Funghini, dean of the Roman Rota, an appellate Church tribunal that deals with many marriage cases, told CNS he thought it would be some time before the document was completed. "We don't know when it will

be finished. The commission has made a draft. and I would think we would have to hear the opinions of bishops' conferences before it is promulgated:' he said. Msgr. Funghini said the first draft had been sent back for some reworking. The instruction would establish rules for handling specific aspects of marriage cases. Msgr. Funghini said. For example. he said. the document .could take everything said in the Code of Canon Law about contentious cases and ··apply it systematically to marriage cases." The instruction thus would aim to work from the general norms of canon law and make more specific ones for marriage cases. he said. Under Pope Pius XI. the Church issued a similar instruction regarding applications of the now-outdated 1917 Code of Canon Law. The proposed instruction seeks to do the same with the current code. which was adopted in 1983.

SPRING BLOOMS add a touch of calor to a foggy evening on the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington recently. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec)

Scalia COIDDlents on death penalty lead to debate in Catholic paper By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Scalia said he protested the newspaper's '·porNORfH HAVEN. Conn. - A Catholic Supreme trayal" of him as "supporting the death penalty:' Court justice's comments about the death penalty In his commentary, Cardinal Dulles wrote that stirred new debate on the subject and led to a point- "Scalia seems to concede too much to the new mencounterpoint "symposium" in the pages of a nationai tality" with his conclusion about his responsibility Catholic newspaper. as a judge. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in Father Rutler argued that the Church teaching public appearances in January and February that he on capital punishment has developed too quickly had no moral conflict over ruling to affirm death to have the weight of valid doctrine. Although the sentences and capital punishment laws.' Scalia said recent edition of the "Catechism of the Catholic he does not believe he is obligated as a Catholic to Church" revised the section on capital punishment, accept~Church teaching that execution is almost "this was not a'(Jevelopmeneof doctrine," he wrote. never necessary and is morally unacceptable most Rice said in some ways the Register editorial gave of the time. Scalia "a bum rap." He noted that many Catholics In remarks at his alma mater, Georgetown Uni- advanced the argument that they could ignore the versity. Scalia said that as a judge sworn to uphold prohibitions on artificial birth control included in the laws of the United States, if he accepted the "Humanae Vitae" because it does not represent '·ex Church teaching against the death penalty, he would cathedra teaching." have to resign. As it is, Scalia said, because the pope has not spoken "ex cathedra" on the subject, he is not obligated as a Catholic to accept it. News stories about Scalia's remarks led to several editorials on the subject in the Catholic press, including one in the National Catholic Register. That editorial prompted a reply from Scalia, who took issue with its conclusions. In response, the Register published not only Scalia's letter but three other perspectives on the subject - by Cardinal Avery Dulles, a Jesuit theologian; Father George Rutler, a New York priest who lectures widely and appears regularly on EWTN; and Charles Rice, professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame's law school. The editorial that led to the "symposium" said "the justice's comments constitute an inappropriate kind of dissent to Church teaching. It was an example of a powerful man persuading a crowd of people that the Church is wrong - and obscuring the obligations of Catholics in the process," it said. The Register likened Scalia's comments to the rationalization of a Massachusetts scientist who is doing research in human cloning. The scientist, also a Catholic, argued that the Church teaching that human cloning is wrong was not defined as being ·'ex cathedra." It is relatively rare for a pope to speak "ex cathedra." or "from the chair," on matters of faith and morals. Such teachings are considered obligatory for Catholics to accept. Scalia said that equating his refusal to accept current Church teaching about the death penalty with the Massachusetts scientist's refusal to accept teaching about human cloning "is utterly abPARISHIONERS CARRY a statue of surd. The teaching that cloning is immoral is new Christ with his cross at a Catholic church in but does not contradict two millennia of authori- Granada, Nicaragua, during Holy Week sertative teaching that cloning is OK." vices. (CNS photo from Reuters)

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Myth and reality: Legend of Padre Pio transforms Italian village By JOHN NORTON CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

that the friar's message of penance and prayer hits home with modern men and women. But others are SAN GIOVANNI RaroNDO, Italy - Less than concerned that the message is being obscured by a century ago, San Giovanni Rotondo was a typical the industry that has sprung up in his wake, which southemItalianvillage, cut ofHrom the rest of the they say the saint would not have wanted. world in remote rocky hills near the Adriatic Sea. "People saw and see in him the imprinted stigBut in 1916 a young priest named Padre Pio was mata of Christ crucified. And Jesus never fails to transferred to the Capuchin monastery on the vil- attract," said Capuchin Father Gerardo Di Flumeri, lage outskirts. vice postulator for Padre Pio's canonization cause. Many people are drawn to Padre Pio because he From these small beginnings has grown a worldwide spiritual movement. Pais known as a powerful interdre Pio will be named a saint cessor for divine favors, Father in June, and the village of San Di Flumeri said. Giovanni Rotondo has been The supplicants included the transformed into one of the future Pope John Paul, who in most developed pilgrimage 1962 as archbishop of Krakow, complexes in the world. wrote to Padre Pio to ask him Even before his death in to pray for a Polish woman 1968, Padre Pio's reputation with throat cancer. Eleven days for holiness and extraordinary later he wrote again to report spiritual gifts - most remark. that she suddenly and inexpliably, the stigmata - traveled cably had been cured. the world, eventually drawing Even today, such cures are hundreds of thousands of reported regularly in Italian people, including the future newspapers. Requests for Pope John Paul II, to seek his physical healing are especially advice and blessing every popular in San Giovanni year. Rotondo because Padre Pio's Today the flow of devotees hospital is just a short wheelhas surged to nearly eight milchair ride across a flagstone square to the church where he lion people a year, making is buried. San Giovanni Rotondo the No. 1 pilgrimage destination "Padre Pio has made this in Europe, second worldwide area of 30,000 inhabitants one of the most prosperous and only to the shrine of Our Lady PADRE PIO wealthy towns in the whole of Guadalupe in Mexico. The town is also home to dozens of commercial South (of Italy) today," Mayor Antonio Squarcella and charitable activities carried out in Padre Pio's said. Half of the city's 180 hotels were built in the last name, including a large state-of-the-art hospital, a television station, homes for the elderly and an ol- three years and another 34 were under construction in March, he said. ive-oil business. ''This town enjoys a special privilege on the part To accommodate the spiritual needs of the evergrowing crush of pilgrims, the Capuchins have be- of providence," he said. Excesses aside, Father Di Flumeri said, the gun building one of Europe's largest and most architecturally ambitious churches, with seating for growth of San Giovanni Rotondo around the shrine 8,000 people, a 6,000-pipe organ and 50 confes- even reflects in some way Padre Pio's style ofholisionals. Already $31 million has been spent on it ness, which was expressed in concern not just for the supernatural but also the physical well-being of and it is scheduled to be completed in May 2003. For devotees of Padre Pio, the growth is proof people.

newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, condemned the deciVATICAN CITY - Vatican sion and said it undermined docethicists condemned a British tors' role as healers and turned High Court ruling that a para- them into "cold and cynical exlyzed woman had the right to die ecutors of death." and could order doctors to shut In the paper's March 24 edioff a ventilator she needs to re- tion, he called the case "submain alive. stantially analogous" to another But the Bishops' Conference in Britain in which a woman of England and Wales said the paralyzed with motor neuron recent ruling simply confirmed disease, Diane Pretty, asked the legal and moral right of pa- courts to allow her husband to tients to refuse burdensome life- help her end her life. prolonging treatment. Also condemning the deci"It is important to be clear," sion, Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice a conference statement said, president of the Pontifical Acad"that this case did not involve emy for Life, said unplugging questions about euthanasia or Miss B's ventilator would be "a assisted suicide and has set no true act of euthanasia." precedents in respect of either." In a Vatican Radio interview The woman, a 43-year-old he said doctors instead should former. social worker, has take advantage of medical adneeded a ventilator since a rup- vances..to help patients better tured blood vessel in her neck manage their pain, both physilast year left her unable to cal and psychological. He also breathe unaided. She had asked said some of the motivation for doctors, who estimated her euthanasia seems to come from chance of rehabilitation at one a desire to cut costs and to avoid percent, to unplug the machine. the psychological burden of carThey refused, citing ethical con- ing for those who suffer. cerns. The statement, issued by But the chief judge of Archbishop Peter Smith of Britain's family division ruled Cardiff, Wales, chairman of the that the woman, identified only bishops' department for Chrisas Miss B, had the "necessary tian responsibility and citizenmental capacity to give consent ship, said the court simply had or to refuse consent to life-sus- been asked to rule whether Miss taining medical treatment." B was legally competent to The judge said the woman refuse care, not whether patients had the right to be treated in ac- had the right "to refuse life-procordance with her wishes "to longing treatment which had beease her suffering and permit come burdensome." her life to end peacefully and "The right of a patient to with dignity." refuse such treatment has long Franciscan Father Gino been regarded as legally and Concelli, a frequent columnist morally acceptable," Archon moral issues for the Vatican's bishop Smith said.

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eNS book review CHRIST: A CRISIS IN THE LIFE OF GOD, by Jack Miles. Alfred A. Knopf (New York, 2001). 289 pp.

giously motivated, artistically executed texts that an unforced reading would suggest them to be?" Can Miles' reading really be REVIEWED BY FATHER JAMES MASSA called "unforced?" The drama CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Miles sketches is based almost What if the evil in the world entirely on John's Gospel-igwere not our fault but God's? noring St. Paul, the other What if the cruci fixion of Jesus epistles and the other three Goswas not to atone for our sins but pel portraits of Jesus. Most for God's negligence in man- modern explanations of the New aging the affairs of human be- Testament emphasize the imporings? Is it possible for God to tance of jesus' consciousness of change his mind? Learn from himself as "Son" in a unique prior mistakes? Repent of past relation to his Father. In Mi les' conception, Jesus and the Father errors? You would think the answer are the same person. Such a is "no" based on the revelation "forced" assumption seems to of God in Christian Scripture. make Jesus' prayers - not to But in "Christ: A Crisis in the mention his invitation to us to Life of God," literary critic Jack share his divine communion Miles defies two millennia of with the Father - some kind of orthodox Christian interpreta- trick. Miles' "unforced" reading tion. He treats' the Bible as a novel and God as that novel's does skillfully uncover the dramatic tension of many scenes. flawed hero. For ex"Christ" ample, in picks up John's Gosw her e pel story of Mil e s ' Jesus' conPulitzer versation Prize-winwith the Saning book maritan "God: A Biwoman at ography" 'the well, left off - at Miles sees the end of Old Testa,d ,,! v ,.i" n,e "promiscument times. ity" The God's flircovenanted tation with people are p e 0 p Ie s on the verge other than of annihilahis estion by the ..JACK MILES poused IsRomans. rael. Miles God breaks his silence uses the and again assumes the role of metaphor of "promiscuity" to redeemer for Israel. But this communicate to modern readers time the divine warrior becomes how shocking it was that Jesus pacifist; the inflictor of punish- was universalizing the covenant ment becomes sacrificial lamb; with Israel. But Miles has anthe divine shepherd of a particu- other purpose for calling God lar nation becomes savior of the promiscuou's - he wants to world. show that God involves himself What motivates such a dra- in our world to fulfill his own matic reversal? ,For Miles the needs, including that of assuaganswer is in the mind of the ing his guilt for having allowed novel's main character, God, evil to run amok. God, in Miles' who experiences a crisis over reading of the New Testament, the failure of his efforts at is not the God who, according forming and reforming cre- to most Christian theologians, ation. creates and saves gratuitously. The author devotes a pro- In this interpretation God acts logue, epilogue, and two appen- out of self interest. dices to justify treating the Bible At points in this brilliantly as a literary work with the his- crafted book, I was tempted to torical and theological perspec-, recommend it as spiritual readtives as sidelines to the main ing to friends, Christian and picture. Miles says the Bible is non-Christian. Alas, I conch:Jded' like a stained-glass window. that the work has a seductive What attracts the eye is not the charm that ultimately deceives light behind the window but the - much like that main characillumined image itself. So, Miles ter, "God," that Miles purports asks, why do we moderns have to find in the Bible. to look through the Bible instead Father Massa is associate of at it? ' professor of theology at Im"Why," he asks, "may the maculate Conception Seminary Gospels not be read as the 'reli- in Huntington. N. Y.

EDWARD NORTON stars in a scene from the satirical comedy "Death to Smoochy:' For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules on this page. (CNS photo from Warner Bros.)

'Clockstoppers' offers some entertaining moments NEW YORK (CNS) Unfortunately, "Clockstoppers" (Paramount) is just another ordinary sci-Ii flick, intended for the family; that delivers only a mildly entertaining hour and a half. Zak Gibbs (Jesse Bradford) is a high school senior who has scrimped and saved (by passing off junk as treasures on eBay)to buy a cool set of wheels: a vintage cherry-red Mustang convertible. But he can't get the attention of his distracted father (Robin Thomas), a smart college science professor, to actually go to the car dealer. Then by accident, he discovers an odd watch among his dad's discarded inventions. When he slips the wristwatch on, the world around him comes to a standstill, as if frozen in time. But Zak can move at super.~peed, or what he later discovers is, "hypertime." Forgetting the car, Zak'and his new fJiend Francesc~(paula G~rces),.a foreign exc;hange student frlfm Colombia, .ciuicklY learn'lio\v to manipulate the device and start to have some fun, pull~ ing innocent pranks. ,. , The watch was sent by an old student of dad's, DopIer (the annoying French Stewart), who couldn't figure out the timepiece's strange hitCh: Anyone who wears it for an extended period of time grows old very rapidly. Zak's fun and games with time take a serious turn when the nefaJious government officials, led by DopIer's plainly evil boss, Gates (Michael Biehn), come looking for Zak, wanting

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their wristwatch back. Predictable, and with vaJious preposterous strains, director Jonathan Frakes' narrative lacks cohesion, becoming muddled and clunky as it goes on. But the film's 'special effects are often cool and creative, as are some of the stunts Zak performs on his bicycle. The film also replaces conventional, bullet-spraying firearms with guns loaded up with liquid nitrogen. The idea is that people in hypertime can be frozen, thereby slowing down their molecules and bringing them back to real time. One trick that , doesn't work is the slowing down of the film's backgrouna music'- Essentially used to accentuate the differences between hypertime and real time, it just comes off sounding like a mistake. "Clockstoppers" may appeal to children the way "Spy Kids" did because it portrays kids taking ,charge an9saving adults. However, unlike "Spy , Kids," a far supeJior movie, there are no lessons to be learned, except maybe don't fool with your father's gadgets. T~e film is also disappointing because so few films rated PG by the movie industry are truly entertaining. Because of some action violence including explosions and fleeting crass la'nguage, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

DeVito's ensemble black comedy eventually collapses under its own weight, sinking into warped, vicious humor despite a few hilarious moments. Some spiteful violence, an implied sexual encounter and a variety of sexual references, much rough language and profanity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-IV - adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted. ,,,~~National

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Crude gross-out comedy about a perennial college senior (Ryan Reynolds) who pays his tuition by "Death to Smoochy" organizing outlandish parties but (Warner Bros.) along the way falls for a no-nonMean-spirited farce about a' sense pretty girl (Tara Reid). Undisgraced children's TV star inspired, witless and lowbrow, (Robin Williams) fired over a director Walt Becker's drawn out, bribery scandal who tries to ex- scatological film subjects viewers act revenge on his squeaky-clean to juvenile, disgusting situations replacement (Edward Norton). that evoke revulsion rather than Presenting the brightly colored laughs. A few sexual encounters, candy world of children's televi- many coarse sexual references, sion as a backstabbing, dog-eat- intermittent nudity, some drug dog industry, director Danny content, pre-teen alcohol abuse

and recurring rough language. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

"Panic Room" (Columbia) Involving thriller in which a divorced woman (Jodie Foster) and her teen-age daughter (Kristen Stewart) hide out in a secret room of their New York City brownstone trying to outsmart three intruders (including Forest Whitaker) aiming to retJieve a hidden stockpile of cash left by the previous owner. A few nifty twists, a spJinkling of spicy humor, and some splendid camera work add up to a better-than~ average thriller from director David,Fincher, who deftly builds tension without sacrificing story. Some violence with much menace, fleeting drug use and recurring rough language with brief profanity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

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Broad efforts of bishops to fight clergy sex abuse not widely known By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON Mark Chopko said he gets the same question about clergy sex abuse of minors over and over these days - in phone calls, in E-mails and from people who simply stop him on the

street because they recognize him from television - "Why haven't the bishops done anything?" Chopko, who has worked with bishops nationwide on the issue for 20 years as general counsel of the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops, saio there is a whole library

of resources, expert reports and information built up over that time in the bishops' efforts to deal with clergy sex abuse. "Unfortunately, it's a secret to many Catholics, and I don't know why that is." "I've been at this since the Gilbert Gauthe case," he said, refer-

When an allegation is made In 1992 the U.S. bishops laid out five principles dioceses should follow when an allegation of sexual abu.se is made against a priest:

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of abuse where there is reasonable belief that abuse has occurred.

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THEANCHOR-DioceseofFall River-Fri., April 5, 2002 ring to the first nationally publicized case of priestly pedophilia, a Louisiana priest suspended in 1983 for molesting small boys and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his crimes in 1985. The case led to more than a dozen路 lawsuits against the Church and financial settlements with victims that totaled several million dollars. It also marked the start of a national effort by the bishops to prevent and respond to sexual abuse of children, especially within the Church. In an interview with Catholic News Service, Chopko highlighted some of the bishops' efforts - starting with discussion sessions with experts at national meetings in the 1980s. Those efforts included the first written policies in many dioceses in the '80s and the adoption of five core principfes in 1992 as the framework for all such policies - after which many dioceses revised their policies and procedures to make them more effective. In 1993 the bishops formed an Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse. Over the next four years the committee developed and discussed with the bishops extensive resources for all dioceses on everything from assisting victims and families therapeutically and pastorally to abuse prevention programs, from initial handling and investigation of allegations to removal, evaluation and treatment of

priests found to have engaged in misconduct. In 1994, when the committee asked dioceses to send in their existing policies, 178 of the 188 dioceses responded. Chopko said he is not aware of a single diocese that today does not have a written policy in place. ''The thing that remains a mystery to me," he said, "is why people have allowed themselves to be persuaded by the secular media that the bishops have done nothing. Nothing by way of personnel policies, which they have. "People seem to have let themselves be persuaded by the secular media that the bishops have been asleep at the switch," he said. "The other thing that amazes me," he added, "is that there's no sense of time in the reporting of these stories today." He cited several recent stories and op-ed columns on the topic, in which he said, "you get the sense that they're writing about incidents that happened yesterday." Today, he said, a person who comes in the door with an allegation "will be listened to, appreciated and responded to by skilled people, the complaint will be evaluated, if something needs to be reported it will be reported, the proper authorities will be contacted, and the whole pastoral outreach to that person, to the parish, to the community will be undertaken by the diocese."

Sexual abuse and the Church: An interview with Frederick S. Berlin, M.D., Ph.D. Executive Editor's note: The foUowing is the first instaUment of a series ofQuestions and Answers concerning sexual abuse, with Frederick S. Berlin, M.D., Ph.D. The Anchor would like to duznk the many individuals, including clergy, who have submittedartU:les, homilies, and other works on these tragic occurrences facing the Church tOday. We obviously cannot publish aU of them, but will print those pieces which will best keep our readers informed and up . to date. Dr. Berlin is associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is director ofthe National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma. Berlin has written extensively on sexual disorders for numerous distinguished journals, including The . American 10umal of Psychiatry, The New England 10urnal of Medicine and The American 10urnalo/Forensic Psychiatry. He has been a consultant to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse since its inception. The interview was conducted Septem-

her 8,1997, in Baltimore. Q. The problem ofsexual abuse of minors has gotten a lot of publicity since the mid-'80s. Is this a new problem? A. No, it's absolutely not a new problem. Some of the cases that are coming to light now were from before the '80s. What is new is our paying attention to the problem, recognizing the degree of distress that it can cause, the sense that the criminal Justice system is going to deal with matters more sternly, and a recognition that we cannot cure, although we can sometimes successfully treat, these sexual disorders. So there are new aspects and new ways of understan~ing, _but the problem itself, very sadly, has been with us througho!1t history. Q. People refer to ''pedophilia'' and "ephebophilia." How do you distinguish these? A. People are attracted not only by gender - male, female - but also by other factors such as age. The average man refrains from sex with a child not only because he's a moral person but also because a child does not tempt him sexually. The term used to describe an orientation toward pre-pubescent children is "pedophilia," of which there are two types. One is the exclusive type: the person is attracted only to children. The other is the non-exclusive type: there is some attraction to路adults. Pedophilia can be same gender pedophilia a man attracted to boys; op-

posite gender pedophilia - a man attracted to girls; or bi-sexual pedophilia attracted to both boys and girls. Ephebophilia is a condition in which a person is attracted not to prepubescent children but to children or adolescents around the time ofpuberty, basically teen-agers. Q. GeneraUy when you read or hear in the news about "pedophilia," aren't the media using the term to refer to anyone who is a minor? A. Yes. Generally, people use the term "pedophilia" to include ephebophilla. Most men can find adolescents attractive sexually, although, ofcourse, that doesn't mean they're going to act on it. Some men who become involved, with teenagers may not have a particular disorder. Opportunity and other factors may have contributed to their behaving in the way they do. Q. What are the common characteristics you see in sex abusers? A. I don't think there common features in terms ofthe personality or temperament or even the intelligence level of the individuals. What these people share in common is difficulty in dealing with their sexual needs in a healthy and constructive fashion. The only common feature has to do with the privacy of their sexual lives and how they manage that. . Q. Are there any signs to help identify abusers before they act out? A. Obviously if someone's had

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a prior record, we should be aware resist acting on unacceptable sexual of that; or seems to be spending an impulses. Q. Do abusers fall into anyone inordinate amount of time with children and wants to do it without any I.Q.-range? A. No. Abuse can be perpetrated chaperoning, these would be causes ofconcern. But a person's demeanor by people at any level ofintelligence. or conduct is not necessarily going They can have a spectrum of personalities from introverted to extroto give us a clue of being a risk. Q. Are some people born with verted and anything in between. Their temperaments can be quite difan orientation toward children? A. We don't know if it's because ferent in terms ofwhether or not they they were born that way oibecause tend to have a short fuse or are very they were damaged during their patient and docile. The only thing early psychological maturation. Re- that they tend to share in common is gardless of the qlUse, it's not that that they are experiencing these at. tractions and acting on them. It has they chose to be that way. Q. Is abuse caused by some de- nothing to do with intelligence, personality, or social skills. fect in body chemistry? Q. Do abusers have healthy reA. We're trying to understand much more about this. Certainly the lationships in other areas? A. Abusers mayor may not have sex drive itself is rooted in biology. It may have to do with various hor- healthy relationships in others areas. mones, with chromosomes, and so Usually if they are attracted sexuon. Particular persons who'-fiave ally to children, they are not having more intense drives than others may a good, intimate life in other ways. have more difficulty resisting temp- But having said that, I want to emtations. There may also be some bio- phasize that there's a tremendous logical factors that determine the range of maturity and social giftedkinds of behaviors or kinds of part- ness, if I can put it that way, among ners that cause sexual arousal. those who abuse children. Some There's a lot of research going on in who are attracted to children are that area, so it may be that we will awkward and uncomfortable in find that there are more biological adult relationships, but others can be factors that contribute to the inten- very gifted with adults. The probsity and nature of sexual desire than lem isn't that they're not able to rewe previously suspected. We also late to adults in a healthy way; it's that they are also experiencing atnow have biological treatments not that we can change an orienta- tractions of another sort with which tion but if a person is hungering they have to deal. Part two of this interview will sexually for the wrong kinds of partners, to make it easier for them to run in next week's Anchor.

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president of the Scottish bishops' conference, said the queen MANCHESTER, England mother's "life of outstanding - Catholic leaders were among service to others has been an exthose paying tribute to Queen ample t() many in oiJr own counMother Elizabeth, who died try and around the world." "At the same time, her wish March 30 at her Windsor home to remain active in public serat the age of 101. Pope John Paul II sent a tele- vice to the end of her long life gram of condolence to Queen demonstrated a rugged determi- . Elizabeth II, 'praying that her nation, consistent with her Scotsadness at the death of her tish roots," Archbishop O'Brien mother would be mitigated by said. . Lord St. John of Fawsley, a the Easter hope of the Resurrection. He prayed the queen senior Catholic politician and mother would rest in God's close friend of the queen mother, said she had given enpeace. Cardinal Cormac Murphy- couragement to the nation. The queen mother "carried O'Connor of Westminster, head of the Bishops' Conference of the traditional values of the naEngland and Wales, said, "The tion' - courage, determination, whole nation and beyond will dedication, a profound sense of mourn a great and gracious lady. duty and a love of family and "The queen mother bore the friends,," he told the British virtues so beloved by the Brit- Broadcasting Corp. "At our darkest hour of all ish people of courage and steadfastness, and especially through time, in 1940, she helped to turn the Second World War in the it into our finest," he said. "With the passing of the role of queen consort,"· the carqueen mother we have lost our dinal said. Many of those paying tribute most treasured national person. to the queen mother commented She was not merely an histori-· on the role she played during cal figure. She was history. She World War II, and in particular spanned all the years of the 20th during the London "blitz," when century \Yith its triumphs, horthe capital city came under sus- rors, lights and shadows," Lord tained German bombing. The St. John said. Anglican Archbishop George' then-Queen Elizabeth and her husband. King George VI, in- ' Carey of Canterbury praised the sisted that their daughters queen mother's dedication to . Princess Elizabeth and Princess her country and faith. "She had a deep and sustainMargaret would not be evacuated to Canada. ing faith and lived her life inthe The queen mother was born sure and certain hope of the resinto a Scottish aristocratic fam- urrection to eternal life; a res-' ily in 1900 and grew up in Scot.! tirrection which we celebrate at land. this Eastertide. Christian love Archbishop Keith O'Brien of shone through her character," he St. Andrews and Edinburgh,' said. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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NUNS PRAY during ,Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square' March 31. In his message to the world, the pope prayed that Christ's peace would end the violence bloodying the Holy Land. . (CNS photo from Reuters)

Pope focuses concern on Middle East, during Holy' Week services VATICAN CITY (CNS) - While media atten- a chair off to the side of the altar, Pope John Paul tion focused on the obvious suffering of Pope John returned to his role as principal celebrant for the Paul II during his Holy Week and Easter liturgies, March 30 Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica and much of the pope's concern focilsed on the increas- the Easter morning Mass in St. Peter's Square. ing bloodshed in the land of Jesus' death and resurAt the end of the 90-minute Easter morning Mass rection. and the "urbi et orbi" address, the pope rode through "Sad and worrying news which has disturbed the the crowds in St. Peter's Square standing in the back atmosphere of Easter, which should be a feast of ,of an open jeep. peace, joy and life," continues' to come from the He first blessed the Easter fire in the atrium of Middle East, the pope said during his midday Eas- St. Peter's Basilica, standing on a moving platform, ter Monday a d d r e s s . ' which was then pushed up a new ramp into the com"With great apprehension and pain~ the pope is pletely dark church behind the Easter candle. As he close to these brothers and sisters of ours, as is the ,wade '?.i~.~ay to the l;ll~flr, the church filled with ,~re whole Chlif~h, whi~h prays and, work~ so ~hat there, lig~t of t~ou~al1ds o~ candI~s,1~~t~~iURln,Hl~};',as-, will soon,oe an end to this painful Calvary," he told ter candle. visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square April I. 'This is the'night of nights, the night of faith and of May the peace of the risen Lord, he prayed, hope," the· pope said in his homily before baptizing "reach yvery human heart and restore hope to all four women, two men, an eight-year-old girl, a fourwho are oppressed an~ suffering." . , , " ' year-old boy and an eight-month-old boy. The two The appeal was si milar to his prayers Easter little boys were, respectively, the sons of the Japanese morning in St. Peter's Square when he asked that woman and the Chinese woman who were baptiied. Christ's peace would end the violence bloo"dying At times during the week, the pope's voice was the Holy Land, "plunged again in these very days heavily slurred, yet it was strong Easter morning. into horror and despair." , "Christian communities on every continent, with "The tragedy is truly great," he said March 31 trepidation and hope I ask you to proclaim that Jesus before imparting a special Easter blessing "urbi et is truly risen and to work so that his peace may bring orbi" (to the city and the world). . an end to the tragic sequence of atrocities and kill'~It seems that war has been declared on peace," ings that bloody the Holy Land, plunged again in . the pope said. . these very days into horror and despair," he said. After pain from arthrosis in his right knee forced "Nothing is.resolved by war," he said. "It only him to preside over the Holy Thursday liturgies from brings greater suffering and death."

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holding meetings with parish representatives in the various deaneries of the diocese during the· past several weeks. "I've found a good deal of enthusiasm for this year's Appeal," Don ly reported, noti ng that what's essential to the success is educating parish communities about the scope and extent of services provided by the agencies, ministries and institutions wbich derive support from the Appeal. "We must continue to lell the story of the Appeal," said Donly, alluding to such expedients as the published "Sharings" reports distributed as an insert in parish bulletins throughout the diocese. "We are especially hopeful that many parishes will find ways to present to parishioners, clubs, or-

ganizations and gui Ids the video which has been prepared this year in conjunction with the Appeal," said Donly. "It is a wonderful tool for enlightening people about the many . facets our outreach." Msgr. Harrington echoed Donly's thoughts about the video, noting thache planned to present it in. his own parish at Sunday morning Coffee Hours in the Parish Center. Some parishes have the capabiljty to present the video tocongregations in church, which Msgr. Harrington called, "an ideal situation." At a series of meeting held with pastors in the various geographic areas of the diocese, Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., emphasized the need to let

as many people as possible know of the incredible variety of programs which offer needed services to families and individuals in circumstances of vulnerabili~y and distress. The traditional kickoff meetings for tlie various geographic areas of the diocese have been scheduled in coming weeks, bringing together clergy, religious and laypeople from all parishes. The Cape Cod and the Islands meeting is set for April 16,5 p.m., at· Christine's in Dennis. The Taunton-Attleboro area .meeting will be held April 17, 5 p.m., at the Highland Country Club in Attleboro. The Fall River and New Bedford deaneries' meeting is set for April 24, 5 p.m., at·White's of Westport.

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'warm fuzzies' was enough, we must now come to the moment of truth and recommit ourselves to a priestly rule of life that will generate the strength and enthusiasm needed to be fruitful and effective ministers: People are quick to blame the Church's problem on celibacy. In fact, the Church's problems are a result of celibacy not being embraced and lived. In former times people exercised more restraint in sexual matters. Television, Hollywood, and songwriters respected certain standards. People, by and large, postponed sel'ual relations until they were manied. Fidelity to one's spouse was taken for granted and divorce was something rare, practiced mostly by movie stars. Today by contrast, MTV, the Internet, the music industry, and Hollywood promote promiscuity even among teens. Cohabitation is becoming the norm, adultery is winked at, divorce is rampant, and one-third of children in the United States are born out of wedlock. The sexual revolution has not been good for our country; nor has the Church been left unscathed, as the . present crisi~ clearly indicates. The pro\:)lem is not celibacy, . but living chastely in a world that has rejected any limitations on sexual activities. Today we will renew our commitment to celibacy. We must do so conscious that to live this commitment demands interior resources that come from prayer and from healthy friendships with people who share our ideals. Celibacy is difficult, but not impossible. The Catholic people have benefited by the availability and service of the celibate priests and nuns for 2000 years. I think of the friars from my community who went as missionaries to the most primitive and dangerous places on the globe to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 'They took their coffins with them,' that is to say, they went with the intention of serving there until they died. Yesterday, we received reports that Father Jim Kelley, originally a priest of Fall River, had disappeared when the small plane he was piloting went down in a blizzard in Alaska. For decades, Father Kelley has worked as a missionary priest in the 160,000square-miles of the Archdiocese of Anchorage. Father Jim, up in his 70s, was flying to one of the 23 faith communities he ministered to, from Bristol Bay to the Aleutian Islands. Once again, it was his priestly commitment of celibacy that made Father Kelley available to serve God's people. This Holy Week, Father Kelley will miss the Chrism Mass,路 to celebrate the heavenly Liturgy of the Lamb who was slain. He is coming home to New Bedford to be buried. The Church needs not less celibacy, but more celibacy, more fidelity in marriage, more chastity in our youth. It is truly a great challenge. When Jason Evert was here for the Diocesan Pilgrimage last week, he said that teaching chastity to our young people today is DIOCESAN PRIESTS react to Bishop O'Malley's homily at the Chrism Mass at St. Mary's sometimes harder than talking

tor is someone who represents God Church. It is a human problem that and religion for them. It is a ter- we need to be aware of and adrible betrayal of trust. dress with ever-greater resolve, Yet, on the other hand, the un- more resources, and renewed comabated media reports have caused mitment. many victims of abuse to be reI have been anticipating this traumatjzed and have brought Chrism Mass for some time. It is great suffering to good and faith- usually one of the happiest moful priests. Indeed, it is unimagin- ments of the year. What can I tell able that any other professipn or you this year? We are living a very institution would have its perfor- sad chapter of the history of the mance, over a period of half a cen- Catholic Church; but I am here to tury, scrutinized under such harsh say that it is only a chapter, it is lights. not the whole book. Each year, I Although I believe false accu- take this occasion to thank the sations are few and far between, it priests for their hard work. Many does happen, and it is a nightmare of you hold more that onejob, pasfor that priest, his confreres, his tor, parochial vicar, cabinet memfamily, and his people. I have no ber) dean, Tribunal, chancellor, doubt that the false accusations bishop's secretary, hospital chapleveled against Cardinal Joseph lain, vocations director, campus Bernardin were more than a con- ministry, Family Life director, Protributing factor in his early death; Life director, health facilities diand in our OWII diocese, the accu- rector, Propagation of Faith direcsations against Father Thomas tor, Continuing Education and O'Dea and Cardinal Humberto Formation of Priests director, arMedeiros fill us with indignation chivist, Pastoral Planning director, and sorrow. ecumenical officer, communicaYet, just as the pagan kings of tions, ministers of confirmation, the Old Testament who conquered, RCIA, staffing the diocesan mishumiliated, and enslaved the Isra- sion in Honduras, ministries to elites, the media might be func- immigrants, work in,Renew 2000, tioning as God's means of purify- Catholic Charities, Television ing the Church and forcing us to Apostol<ite, CYO director, Scout. repent our past sins, to be more Chaplain ... so many jobs in addifaithful to our ideals, and to con- tion to the fine work done in the tinue to redouble our efforts to cre- parishes. So many of you are alone ate a safer environment for our in parishes. with ever-growing deyoung people. mands. I also want to mention our The media does' well in hold- retired priests who do yeoman's ing the Church accountable; but, work, helping our harried pastors. as the public, we also need to be I thank you for your faithful sermore informed about the dimen- vice under such adverse circumsions of the problem:r do not'fiave stances. I know that at times it is any statistics, but I did read reports difficult to keep on going. Discourthis month that said in January agement is our greatest enemy. 200 I, Florida had a backlog of May this Chrism Mass give us the 51,000 reported cases of child chance to renew our unity in the abuse that had not been investi- presbyterate, to lean on Christ and gated by the Department of Social one another. Services. They hired private agenI repeat to you the words of our cies - which did not work out too Holy Father Pope John Paul II rewell - and they have a present calling the episode in the Gospels backlog of 28,581 reported cases . where Jesus reassures the Apostles that have not been investigated. in a storm-tossed ship on the Sea I presume that these almost of Galilee, the pope makes the ur30,000 cases are only a small per- gent plea: 'Do not be downcast and centage of the cases reported. My resign yourself to the storm and point being that the problem is sea! Instead, be united in hope and much bigger than any of us 'sus- find strength in your common pected, and that this is not an ex- faith! Remember the long history clusive problem of the Catholic of the Church. Never allow this

Cathedral on March 26. (Anchor/Gordon photo)

faith to become weaker or more feeble! On board the ship of the Church, fear and complaints must never gain mastery of our hearts.' Last year at the Chrism Mass; I spoke of witnessing, being preacher and martyr. We are the Church of the martyrs and must be willing to suffer for our ministry and for our people. Holy Week is the time when the Good Shepherd lays down His life for His people. Christ, the Priest, becomes the victim and, though inn'ocent, takes on the guilt of the guilty. Many innocent priests are being looked upon with suspicion, as the Holy Father notes in his Holy Thursday letter to us. It is an opportunity to understand more clearly what the Passion meant for Jesus. Jesus' suffered unjustly and by His stripes we are healed. There are times when a priest suffers unjustly by association. That, too, is part of our call to be good shepherds, to resist the temptation of self-pity, and to ask the Lord to grant us courage and strength. There is a Listerine commercial that says: 'Anything that tastes this bad has to be good for you.' Somehow this bitter medicine will make us better priests, better fathers, and better shepherds. The present crisis has been a 'September I I' for the Church, with all the pain and fear and upset. My prayer is that this crisis in the Church will do for us what September II has done for the country. I hope that we will put aside some of our ruggectindividualism that characterizes priests and helps us to forge the fraternity that Christ wanted us to have when He washed the feet of the first priests and gave them the commandment to 'love one another.' I would hope that this crisis would make us all realize the primacy of the spiritual in our vocation. Only by an authentic personal relationship with Christ, based on asceticism and a deep prayer life, will the priest be able to survive. If we fooled ourselves into thinking that a perfunctory prayer life and a shallow spirituality reflecting pop psychology, or new age

about interracial marriage to the Ku Klux Klan. We renew our priestly commitments today with humility, realizing that we depend on God's grace and the strength we gain by prayer and a priestly fraternity. We want to live our commitment faithfully and generously so that we will truly be more available for pastoral service, and so that the witness of our lives will inspire our married couples to fidelity in their relationships. Finally, we want to live Qur priestly commitment in such ways that our own lives will invite others to follow this same path. Father Craig Pregana, our Vocation Director, said the other day that he feels like he is selling tickets for voyage on the 'Titanic.' At a moment like this, we must redouble our efforts to encourage vocations. The courage, generosity, and fidelity of our diocesan priests can be an important witness to our young people about the vocation to service as a priest. In visiting the seminaries in Cuba last month, I was amazed to discover that 90 percent of the seminarians are converts. It showed me that the Holy Spirit can touch peoples' hearts and draw them to a life of service, even under the most hostile circumstances. Finally, I urge 'all of my brother priests to read the Holy Father's Easter Letter to Priests. The theme this year is the Sacrament of Reconciliation. He uses the story of Zachaeus (a biblical icon, he calls him) to illustrate his teaching on confession. I close my reflections by making the Holy Father's words my own: 'It is precisely our faith in Christ that gives us the strength to look trustingly to the future. We know that the human heart has always been attracted to evil, and that man will be able to radiate peace and love to those around him only if he meets Christ and allows himself to be 'overtaken' by Him. 'As Ministers of the Eucharist and of Sacramental Reconciliation, we, in particular, have the task of communicating hope, goodness, and peace to the world. My wish is that you will live this most holy day in peace of heart, in profound communion among yourselves, with your bishop and with your communities, as we recall, with the institution of the Eucharist, our own "birth" as priests. With the words of Christ to the Apostles in the' upper room after the resurrection, and calling upon the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of the Good Shepherd, I warmly embrace you all as brothers. 'Peace, peace to each and every one of you ... .' To our faithful Catholics, I say the good news is that over 40,000 fine priests are serving God's people in the United States, and scores of those priests are right here in Fall River. Pray for them, support them, and encourage other men to answer the call to serve at the altar as priests of Jesus Christ."

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Art-teacher wins award HYANNIS - Art teacher Her piece entitled "Morning at the Deborah Pickett-Mills of Saint Beach," was judged to be the best Francis Xavier Preparatory among some 710 entries and SchooL won a tirst place best-in- . Pickett-Mills was presented the show award for printmaking. at the Ture Bengtz Prize. This was her 28 th annual Winter Juried Show second first-place showing at the of the Duxbury Art Association. . event.

PRINCIPAL KATHLEEN Burt, second from left, of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, COYLE AND CASSIDY High School Seni<;>r Adam stands along side pastor Father Stephen Salvador and faculty members of the school at a Wheeler presents Taunton Birthright Director Kay Poirier, recent spaghetti dinner. It benefited the Michael Wrobel Fund and raised $1,000. with a donation of $1,275 from the Taunton school. Wheeler and other members of the school's Pro-Life group organized a fund-raiser for Birthright and visited the Taunton . office with its chaplain and Youth Apostle, Father Hernando Herrera. Below, students examine the different stages of an unborn child. FALL RIVER - The season of Lent includes $1,000 to Tom and Cindy Wrobel at the dinn~r.

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fasting apd sacrific~, but for the students and . The W;obel's noted that their efforts and'the . " •• , ". 11th, , faculty of Saints Peter and Paul School, it also fund continue today as a memorial to Michael included a journey into the spirit of action. and with hope that other families will not have Students and faculty dressed as Italian chefs to suffer the emotional and financial burden of and prepared and served a spaghetti dinner to finding a donor match. benefit the Michael Wrobel Fund. W.robel lost Cindy Wrobel said it was a constant battle for his battle with leukemia in 1998 and the fund- her son when he was diagnosed with cancer and raiser helps defray the high costs associated with as a community we can help others fight cancer marrow donor recruiting and testing for life-sav- through Michael's fund. ing transplants. More than 240 students and families enjoyed Principal Kathleen Burt presented a check for the dinner and helped the cause. .1

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THE BISHOP Feehan High School varsity cheerleading FIRST-GRADERS at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, recently celebrated squad took top honors in the Eastern Athletic Conference . the 1ooth day of the school year with their teacher Sally Sullivan. Many activities centering on last month. The first-place finish gave them the opportunity the century theme were planned including coming up with a list of 100 acts of kindness, to compete at the Massachusetts Cheerleading South Sec- making a 1OO~bead necklace and building a tower with 100 cups. Here they dressed up in tion Division II Regionals at Hopkinton High School. the garb of a century ago~ . .

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Boston youths help out at church near ground zero NEW YORK (CNS) - No Those who labored at ground matter how much Mark Carey zero carne into the relief center mopped, he couldn't get the floor tired and drained, both emotionclean. Dust from workers' boots ally and physically. Some mingled was being tracked constantly with the volunteers. Others across the floor of the church checked their E-mail on the combasement, but he mopped on any- puters. Many came simply for the hot meal. way. Carey, a youth minister from Meanwhile, Carey said, he the Archdiocese of Boston, was chatted with workers about things in NewYork volunteering to serve like the New England Patriots' those working at ground zero. He winning Super Bowl performance was mopping the floor at St. Pe- as he mopped the basement floor. "Firefighters are like Christ," ter Parish in Lower Manhattan, just blocks away from "the pit:' Carey, the son of a retired Boston where the World Trade Center fireman, told a reporter from The Pilot, Boston's archdiocesan stood only six months before. "I wanted to pay my respects newspaper. ''They are willing to and give back to them," Carey sacrifice themselves. 'They're out said of the firefighters and other there to do their job and there's workers. ''This was a good way no greater sacrifice. They gave themselves up for other people to to do it." He was one of 21 youth min- survive. God watches over them isters sent by the Boston a little bit more. They're like archdiocesan Office of Youth God's soldiers." According to Colleen Ministry. The group -led by Jim Flanagan, coordinator of youth Donohoe, who traveled back to service programs - was in New New York for the second time York for its second time since with the Office of Youth Ministry, "the.lmstle and bustle is right September II. , back';'in the city. I In cdnjunctib'n"with a She and two other volunteers service group, the youth leaders worked in eight-hour shifts at the visited Station 10, the New York Safe Harbors Relief Center in the Fire Department's makeshift basement of St. Peter's, serving command post at ground zero, meals to firefighters, police offic- where they witnessed a procesers, construction workers and sion of firefighters carrying out a armed forces personnel working body draped in an American flag. "That time it hit me," she said. at ground zero. St. Peter's served as the first Donohoe spent her three sertliage center following the Sep- vice days serving food to worktember II terrorist attacks. It ers at St. Peter's. She helped some stands so close to the World Trade workers set up E-mail accounts Center site that the landing gear on the Intemet stations in the basefrom one of the planes that ment so they could contact famsmashed into the towers fell on the ily. She also talked and joked with roof of the church, miraculously workers, some on 36-hour shifts, and helped them stay awake. causing no damage.

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Is God at work when things don't go as planned? By Ain't It Funny It seemed to be like the perfect thing for you and me It's so ironic, you're what i had pictured you to be But there are facts in our lives we can never change Just tell me that you understand and feel the same This perfect romance that I've created in my mind I'd live a thousand lives each one with you right by my side But yet we find ourselves in a less-than-perfect ,circumstance And so it seems like we'll never have the chance. Refrain: Ain't it funny how some feelings you just can't deny And you can't move on even though you try Ain't it strange when you're feeling things you shouldn't feel Oh I wish this could be real Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life .,' And you don't want to. face what's wrong or right Ain't it strange how fate can playa part In the story of the heart. Sometimes I think that a true love can never be I just believe that somehow it wasn't meant to be Lite can be cruel in a way that I can't explain And I don't think that I could face it all again I barely know you, but somehow I know what you're about A deeper love I've found in you, and I no longer doubt You've touched my heart, and it altered every plan I've made And now I feel that I don't have

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to be afraid. (Repeat refrain.) I locked away my heart But you just set it free Emotions I felt held me back from what my life should be I pushed you far away And yet you stayed with me I guess this means That you and me were meant to be. (Repeat refrain.) Sung by Jennifer Lopez Copyright (c) 2001 by Sony Music Entertainment

"find ourselves in a less-than-perfect circumstance." Is this just fate? Could this not also be a special guidance telling us that what we now have is not the best for our future? The unfolding story of our lives has much to do with God's abundant guidance. This can be true even when we cannot clearly recognize how God's guidance is operating. When it comes to our life's journey, each of us has much to learn. This is one of the main reasons God gave us life. While we may enjoy many of the immediate experiences of our lives, what really counts is ~"-B DJA~A how our souls learn and grow. ~~ «~~ Our lessons can be painful~ for example when we lose a relatlon~ ship that we hoped would endure. ~ In the midst of such a loss, we may " tempted to say: "I just believe that ,~. . [ somehow it wasn't meant to be. Life can be cruel in a way that I can't explain." Even when we're hurt and disappointed we are asked to , trust. We need to realize that , more may be going on than we perceive. God's guidance does ,. not always come to us according to our own expectations. Sometimes what we most need to ~ grow spiritually is not something we would choose. Yet, as time goes by and we heal from the hurt of losThis song is offJennifer Lopez's ing a dating relationship, we may album J.Lo. She also did a remix find ourselves recognizing somewith Ja Rule that is hugely success:: ~thing new and valuable for our fuful. J.Lo offers listeners a combi- ture. So, when it seems funny and nation of R&B, salsa, and dance. The song describes how "fate . ironic that a relationship ends, keep can playa part in the story of the on trusting. Face the pain. Ask God heart," how unforeseen influences to help you heal from the loss. Then can affcct a relationship. I agree move on with your life, paying spethat many aspects of life can alter cial attention to your deeper needs ou I' relationshi ps. As the song and desires. These are new pathmcntions, even if we think a rela- ways to a life of renewed satisfactionship is "perfect,". we may tion and meaning.

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The made-up characters of celebrity land By CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

I just read that Justin Timberlake and Brittney Spears broke up. It is on the cover of US magazine, with a three-page article inside. On the same cover, it said that Nicole is getting even with Tom by still being beautiful and successful even after he dumped her, and Drew is dealing with her breakup by being naughty in public, It's all there, with pictures. It must be true, with II color photos! It must be important, because those magazines are everywhere. Keeping us in the know is big business these days. Everybody wants to know who got manied, who broke up and who suspects who is cheating on whom. Magazines are just the start. We have "entertainment news shows," and even the local news now regularly devotes time to the doings of the stat·s. All that stull must matter to a whole lot of people. But I wonder why. How does it affect

their lives'? At 20, Brittney would be way too now control much of the media in our coun- has changed hands, making sure you can see young to go out with me, even if! were avail- tty and across the world, These companies own the label clearly. Why? Because there's big money in movable. Why should I care if she and Justin are a huge pOltion of the TV networks and the loon the outs? I watched her cal TV stations, the cable ies and music. The people who invented and special recently. Brittney . .- - - - - - - - - - . . companies, the movie stu- control media land have learned that the more wasn'tagreatsingeroreven ,=~~ dios, the radio stations and you think about Justin and Drew and Denzel "\ '\and Brittney and Jennifer and Brad and Halle, an especially gifted dancer, the magazine publishers. but she had a lot of energy Everything is now an the more likely you are to buy tickets and CDs. Truth and fiction have blended. I'm sure and put on a tenific show. advertisement for someHow should the state of her e thing else. When a new that somewhere there is a real human being love life change whether or g movie comes out, the TV named Brittney Spears, who sings, dances and not I enjoyed the show? entertainment shows do a poses for pictures. But I will never meet that People care, because story on the actors, and the person, The Brittney we read about in the Justin and Drew and Denzel and Brittney and local news talks about how the film did on its magazines is a made-up character. We watch Jennifer and Brad and Halle are the members opening weekend. The fan magazines do per- her mythical life the samc way we'd follow a of the royal family in the mythical world of sonality proliles, and even the old-line news character in a TV show. The Brittney of the magazines is no more media land. It's not the same world the rest of magazines - now owned by the same comus inhabit. panics that make the movies - fall in line by real than Frazier or Sponge Bob Square Pants. Your comments are welcome. Please adMore and more, it seems people in our real doing big stories about the new film. world receive constant infOlmation about the The movies arc an adveltisement too. Ev- dress: Christopher Carstens, do Catholic lives of people in media land. elY time a star drives a celtain car or drinks a News Service, 3211 Fourth St. N.E., WashFewer than 10 international companies certain soda, you lllay rest assured that money ington, D.C. 20017.

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New Testame~t places: Caesarea Philippi Caesarea Philippi. What a strange and distant name. As with most biblical names we tend to gloss over them because oftheir difficulty in pronunciation and no real relevance to what we are reading - . and especially to us today. Be careful with this . ancient city. It was one of the most important places in the New Testament record because of the issues and institutions that arose out of its . history, the political, religious, economic and social . context of the life and times of Jesus' ministry was formed. Caesarea Philippi was situated near the northern extremity of the land of Israel, about four miles east of Old Testament Dan, 150 miles north of Jerusalem and 30 miles east of the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Near the foot ofMount Hermon, it has several deep and flowing springs, one of which is the headwaters of the Jordan River. In the Old Testament it is probably identified with Baalgad (Joshua II: 17) and Baalhermon (Judges 3:3). Our emphasis is on the inland city to the north, near the border with Lebanon, originally called Panias. It was the site of many forms of pagan worship, probably because most ancient pagan religions were centered at sites with flowing water.

The name Panias is derived· from the time of Greek control after the conquest ofAlexander the Great and the worship of the god Pan. This worship was centered at the cave and the flowing springs on the high bluffs overlooking the city. Following the death of Alexander, his world was divided among four of his generals. Palestine was allotted to Ptolemy of . Egypt and then was lost to the successors general Selucius who ruled Syria in a savage war in 198 B.C. The Syrian rule was brutal to the Jewish people and resulted in the Maccabean revolt of 167 B.c. (This is the basis of the deutero-canonical books of 1st and 2nd Maccabees). The Romans, in 63 B.C., conquered the area, stabilized the volatile situation and set Herod the Great as king. He built a temple and worship center at Panias dedicated to the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus, proclaiming the divinity of the Roman leader. Herod's son and successor, Philip, renamed it Caesarea Philippi, in honor of Tiberius Caesar and himself. Caesarea Philippi became a center of Greek-Roman culture and diverse pagan worship with a varied array of deities and

their promises etched in the walls. These factors, along with the cosmopolitan sophistication of pagan thought, made this ancient site (that had even been the worship center for Canaanite gods two millennia before) the perfect place for Jesus to meet with his disciples, in retreat, and make his historic announcements about divinity, the Church, discipleship and resurrection. Standing amid the sheer cliffs and caves that were strewn with inscriptions celebrating all manner of pagan gods, Jesus elicited the famous "Philippi confession" from Peter where the disciple spoke forcefully into the niches and caves that proclaimed others to be god, and said of Jesus, "You are the Christ, the son of the Living God." This dramatic scene, recorded in Matthew chapter 16, follows with Jesus making four great historic predictions: 1) about the Church, the Ekklesia, the community of the redeemed; 2) about the keys of the kingdom, or the authority of the Church; 3) about his impending death and resurrection; and 4) a call to discipleship, using the example of his own obedience to the Father. Ask Dr. Dig My brother and I made fun of our uncle's bald head at a family picnic. My grandmother said a bear would tear us apart for that. She said it was in the Bible. Then the priest at church said we'd better sleep with one eye open. Are they kidding? Tony in Kentucky

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Dear Tony: One thing I learned early in life is that if your grandmother says it is in the Bible, it usually is. Read 2 Kings 2:23-24. And maybe it would be easier for you and your brother to take shifts sleeping.

Dr. John Heird is a Bible historian and archaeologist. He is Ii writer and lecturer on biblical backgrounds and is the development director for the Diocese of Little Rock. Write him at drdig@lampcom.com.

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