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CARDINAL JOHN J. O'Connor, right, of New York, talks with Cardinal Roger Etchegaray of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" before' the start of the Vatican assembly of the world's cardinals. (CNS/ UPI-Reuters photo)

Cardinals discuss abortion, sects VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The world's cardinals went to the Vatican in April to launch a frontal attack ·on legalized abortion and the mentality behind it.

At a meeting convoked by the pope, the cardinals said the problem has grown beyond personal morality to encompass social ethics and the pressing need to legally protect the lives of the weak and defenseless.

Their plan calls for Catholic politicians to reverse the tide of legalized abortion, for a high-level church document by Pope John Paul II on the contemporary dangers of abortion, and for improved pro-life activities by bishops even if this goes "at times against the grain." .

The plan was developed at an April4 to 7 special meeting of the College of Cardinals to discuss contemporary threats to human life and the threat to Catholics from the rise of sects. The pope invited all 141 cardinals to the Vatican meeting; 112 attended.

It was thefourth time that Pope John Paul has held a special meeting of the cardinals to discuss pressing church issues. The previous meetings concentrated on Vatican finances and structural reforms of the Roman Curia, the church's central administrative offices.

Abortion quickly became the main issue at the April meeting and dominated the final conclusions. The conclusions on sects were general, leaving specific initiatives to local bishops.

Speakers during the meeting said that there are up to 50 million abortions a year.

The conclusions were contained in an April 7 communique which said that abortion "is no longer solely a problem of individual morality" and is "corroding the ethical foundations of, authentic democracy" by downgrading the value of life.

"The social and juridical legitimacy of abortions has had a strong negative influence" promoting the idea of a "selective application" of the right to life, it said. The cardinals cited growing social acceptance of abortion as a positive value and the movement to legalize euthanasia.

Society has moved "from an acquiescence when confronted with a legally allowed moral evil to its justification, and even to its paradoxically asserted obligation," it said. The process has occurred where the "dominant mentality no longer recognizes the value of human life," particularly of the "poor, handicapped or gravely ill," it added.

The cardinals asked Christian politicians and other public figures sensitive to human values "to conform their legislative and political initiatives to the undeclin~ble duty to respect human life."

The communique also blamed a "false feminism which sees the promotion of women according to male categories" and pushes in the background the woman's "specific vocation of custodian of life."

The tone of the abortion discussions was set on the first day by the pope and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith..

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BOSTON (CNS) - The NaEducators will be sold campaign tional Catholic Educational Asso- kits and other promotional prociation and the U.S. Catholic Con- ducts with the theme of "Discover ference announced last week at the Catholic Schools" to teach them annual NCEA convention that they" how to market their schools using were launching a $1 million nation- buttons, billboards, posters, and wide advertising campaign to pro- banners, how to raise funds, how to deal with the press and what mote Catholic education.

In another program, cospon- activities to use locally to promote sored by the NCEA and the U.S. Catholic education.

Catholic Conference Department The NCEA and USCC paid for of Education, each member of the the kits but are hoping product U.S. Congress will be invited to sales to schools will help cover the visit a Catholic elementary or cost and that the schools, in turn, secondary school in his or her will sell products such as buttons home district. and T-shirts at a profit and use the The advertising program is being earnings to pay for local advertislaunched for several reasons, said ing, said Father Stephen O'Brien, officials, who noted 'that the na- executive director of NCEA's chief tion's 9,000 Catholic schools are administrators of Catholic educagetting lots of attention as the tion. movement for choice in education Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, gathers strength and as different the U.S. bishops' secretary of edustudies praise the back-to-basics cation, said she hopes the camapproach of Catholic educators. paign will fulfill a goal called for Newly appointed U.S. Educa- by U.S. bishops: to make sure that tion Secretary Lamar Alexander all parents who want their children has said he supports. choice, and to attend Catholic schools will be Catholic educators are hoping they able to do so by 1997. will be included in any choice proLast November U.S. bishops gram that may develop in the approved a pastoral message future. promising more financial and Officials said they also hope the moral support for Catholic educaadvertising campaign will help clear . tion. up myths they said' exist about In a related development, NCEA Catholic education, myths such as officials announced that they will Catholic schools getting rid of sponsor a national congress on problem children rather than deal- Catholic schools for the 21st cening with them and Catholic teachers tury Nov. 6-10 in Washington. lacking certification to teach.

Educators, government officials,

parents, business people will be invited to attend.

The NCEA said it was holding the congress "to harness the power of the wave of enthusiasm and commitment for Catholic schools." .

Congressional Visits Sought The congressional program would seek, in addition to visits from members of Congress, the completion by' members of a follow-up questionnaire to determine their positions on issues affecting Catholic schools.

Project details were outlined in letters to Catholic school superintendents from Oblate Father William F. Davis, USCC representative for Catholic schools and federal assistance, and Father J. Stephen O'Brien, executive director of the NCEA's department of chief administrators.

The priests said their organizations would prepare draft letters for superintendents to use in inviting members of Congress to visit a school between April and the opening of the National Congress on Catholic Schools in November 1991.

The USCC and NCEA planned to develop the questionnaire, provide lists of members of Congress and suggest guidelines for school selection.

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NEW ENGLAND .BISHOPS process into Hynes auditorium at opening liturgy of National Catholic Educational Association convention. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, second from left on side nearer camera, bows as prelates approach altar. (Kearns photo)

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Peace comes person by person says Dalai Lama ITHACA, N~Y. (CNS) --The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Chinese-occupied Tibet and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, told a crowd of more than 12,000 people March 26 that world peace will emerge one person at a time.

"World peace does not come from the sky or from the earth, but world peace must come from individuals," he told his audience at Cornell University in Ithaca, his second stop on a U.S. tour, which concludes April 18.

The 56-year-old Buddhist leader's hourlong speech to 6,000 in the lecture hall and another 6,000 listening to him by closed-circuit television stressed love, compassion and nonviolence.

All human beings have the same potential for happiness and the key is a mental attitude, he said.

"Every human being by nature wants happiness and joy. We do not want suffering. The purpose of our life, the purpose of our existence, is happiness."

The Dalai Lama emphasized the importance of developing "a good heart" to achieve happiness and peace.

He cautioned his audience to be aware of how destructive jealousy and anger can be. "If you just let anger come, eventually it increases.

Once you realize anger is negative, anger is a troublemaker, even that realization should make a difference."

At a press conference, the Dalai Lama was asked if, since the use of force in the Persian Gulf ended Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, he would condone the use of force to free Tibet.

He said no but that Western governments should put "friendly" pressure on China to grant independence to his Himalayan homeland.

Crowds met the 56-year-old religious leader at every public event in Ithaca, and tickets went quickly.

One Cornell professor attributed the interest in part to the fact "we're just coming out of war."

Jean Marie Law, assistant professor of Japanese religions, told Catholic News Service that people are interested in what the Nobel Prize winner has "to say about peace." .But she said, he's also "seen as the embodiment of com-. passion and gentleness."

The Dalai Lama, who exercises temporal as well as spiritual leadership, was exiled to India in 1959 when the Chinese crushed a Tibetan uprising after occupying the country in 1949. He had worked for nearly a decade to try to preserve a degree of autonomy for his people while appeasing the Chinese.

The Dalai Lama, whose title means Ocean of Wisdom, has had frequent contact with Catholic leaders, including two popes Pope John Paul II and Pope Paul VI. He is the 14th person to hold the office. Dalai Lamas have ruled Tibet' since the 17th century and are seen as the earthly incarnations of the Buddhist Lord of Compassion.

In 1935, as an infant, he was chosen to be Dalai Lama by the country's Buddhist hierarchy.

AMONG THOSE preparing for next Wednesday's Catholic Charities Appeal kickoff are, left, Rev. John F. Andrews, Cape and Islands area Appeal director, and Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, honorary Appeal chairman. (Hickey photo)

Appeal "kickoff slated The kickoff of the 50th annual ing invocation, with Rev. Msgr.

Catholic Charities Appeal will be John J. Oliveira, diocesan chanheld April 17 at Bishop Connolly cellor, offering the closing prayer.

Kenneth Leger of Fall River will High School, Fall River, beginning with a 7 p.m. reception fol- . lead the audience in the National lowed by an 8 p.m. meeting. The Anthem at the opening of the meeting, and Catherine Quental of Appeal provides funds for maintenance and expansion of dioce- Somerset will close the program with a rendition of God Bless san apostolates of charity, mercy, America. Father William L. Boffa, social services and education. of St. Vincent de Paul director Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be summer camps, will explain this the keynote speaker at the meetAppeal apostolate. ing. It will be his 21 st year as Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan honorary Appeal chairman. director of the Appeal, will be More than 550 priests, religious master of ceremonies at the meetand laity from all areas of the dio- ing, explaining techniques and cese are expected to be present mechanics of the charity drive.

April 17. They will hear Deacon The Special Gift Phase of the Claude A. LeBlanc of New Bed- Appeal begins April 22 and ends ford, this year's Appeal chairman, May 4. The parish phase is schestress the role 'of the laity in the duled for Sunday, May 5, when campaign.

20,000 volunteer solicitors will visit Rev. Msgr.' Henry T. Munroe, the homes of 350,000 diocesan vicar general, will deliver the open- . Catholics.

Obituaries Sister Desmarais A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated AprilS for Sister Wilfred Desmarais, RJM, 77, who died April 2 at Mt. St. Rita's Health Center, Cumberland, RI. She was a member of the Jesus Mary Cenacle in Providence.

A Fall River native, she was the daughter ofthe late Napoleon and the late Vitaline (Breault) Desmarais and was christened Alida Desmarais.

She entered religious life in 1931 in the province of Quebec, Canada, and professed final vows in Sillery, Quebec, in 1938.

In Canada she served in missions to Free Indians and later taught, and was a librarian principal at schools of the Providence diocese.

Surviving her are a brother, Wilfred Desmarais of Fall River, and two sisters, Delia Tessier of Providence and Elsie Bernier of Brockton.

Father Parente Rev. Gaspar L. Parente, 68, n:tired pastor of St. Theresa Church, Patagonia, Ariz., and a Fall River native, died April 4 after a long illness.

He was the son of the late Dominik and the late Louise (Tamborella) Parente and attended Davis elementary school and BMC Durfee High School in Fall River.

He studied for the priesthood at the Stigmatine Juniorate in Wal'tham and at the Pontifical College Josephinium in Worthington, Ohio. He was ordained for the diocese of Tucson, Ariz., June 4, 1949.

He was assistant pastor and pastor at several Arizona parishe's before being named pastor at St. Theresa's in 1972. He served there until his retirement in 1978.

Surviving him an~ three sisters, Josephine Toomey, Fordy Mitchell and Rose Rousseau, all of Fall.

River, and two brothers, Peter.

Parente of Fall River and Domenic Parente of Fresno, Calif.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - After struggling for years to balance its budget, the Vatican has asked the world's bishops to examine specific ways in which dioceses can shoulder more of the' financial burden.

Opening an unprecedented twoday meeting of bishops' conference presidents April 8, Vatican officials emphasized that the Holy See could not keep relying on Peter's Pence - a papal discretionary/fund - to cover annual deficits.

Instead, a more permanent solution is needed, one based more on financial certainty than on a "methodology of hope," said U.S. Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka, head of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. Cardinal Szoka, one of the first speakers to address the meeting, said the Vatican had an operating budget deficit of some $5~ million in 1989, the latest in a string of shortfalls dating to the early 1980s.

As in most years, the worldwide Peter's Pence collection was expected to make up most of the 1989 difference.

But the cardinal noted that Peter's Pence was intended for papal charity projects and other important tasks - for example, meeting the "urgent needs of the church in Eastern Europe," he sai<L Cardinal Szoka's remarks were echoed by other Curia officials, who insisted that a solution is needed quickly.

Archbishop Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, said the Vatican's precarious finances made it "more' urgent than' ever" to examine "practical forms thr<>Ugh which the various dioceses can contribute to the needs of the Apostolic See." "The Church of Rome gives much to the particular chu.!ches throughout the world, and it is therefore fair that it expects much from them in return," he said.

Cardinal Jose Castillo Lara, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, said canon law clearly indicates that local churches should help finance Vatican operations. This is not a simple "exhortation," but a "clear obligation," he said.

The Vatican realizes that how this is carried out will differ from diocese to diocese, he said. What is expected from the heads of bishops' conferences, he路 said, is that they face the problem resolutely.

Cardinal Castillo Lara also offered a brief but spirited defense of the Vatican's overall fiscal administration. The Holy See's chronic deficit, he said, is not the result of bad management but"of"the radical disproportion" between its intake and its growing expenditures.

Austerity measures have already been adopted, he said, but they are not enough. Nor would it be productive to eliminate some Vatican agencies, he said.

Like others, Cardinal Castillo Lara based his remarks on Canon 1271 of the Code of Canon Law, which states that bishops "are to assist in procuring those means whereby the Apostolic See can properly provide for its service of the universal church."

The Vatican further emphasized that point by arranging for biblical scholar Jesuit Father Albert Vanhoye to tell the meeting participants that the "debt" of particular

churches to the Apostolic See was recognized in St. Paul's time, when Christian communities sent collections to the "mother church" in Jerusalem.

The priest said St. Paul also put his finger on an important pastoral trait: the "art of stimulating generosity."

The Vatican financial picture is especially worrisome because the Holy See's annual investment income is relatively limited, while operational costs have increased steadily. In 1989, income was about $88 million while expenditures totaled more than $140 million, for the most part covered by Peter's Pence proceeds: But Peter's Pence was down $5 million in 1989. Additionally, it is subject to exchangemarket fluctuations. Much of the collection comes from U.S. Catholics, for example, and the recent drop in the dollar's exchange value further impacted the 1990 Vatican budget.

Attending the meeting were more than 100 presidents of bishops' conferences, Curia officials and cardinals.

On April 9, Pope John Paul II asked the prelates to report back to local bishops on the meeting so they can "seek and find the most appropriate solutions."

He explained that the Vatican's financial needs reflected expanded pastoral services of the central church administration, as well as fairer wages paid to its employees.

The overall needs today cannot be met even if Peter's Pence is applied to the budget, he said.

Meanwhile, he added, entire local churches and peoples are 路"at the limit of extreme poverty" and deserve Vatican aid.

"It is true that we need to proceed with rigorous criteria of austerity and poverty, but at the same time we must provide whatever is indispensable" for the church's pastoral work, he said.

Sterilization rapped BRASILIA, Brazil (CNS) The Catholic bishops of Brazil have denounced a requirement by several major companies in the nation that potential female employees present a sterilization certificate before being hired. The country's bishops' conference termed the requirement "scandalous and unacceptable." Many companies require sterilization to avoid granting maternity leave to workers.

AIDS hits children HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNS) - Between 25 and 30 percent of all people who die from AIDS in Zimbabwe are children, said the country's leading Catholic bishop.

Archbishop Patrick F. Chakaipa of Harare, addressing a recent church-sponsored health workshop, also said at least 9,000 Zimbabweans had died of AIDS since 1985 and that 500,000 are infected by the disease's H IV virus.

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Dr. Wims will speak at DCCW convention Diocesan Council of Catholic Women president Madeline C. Wojcik has announced that Dr. Lois A. Wims, assistant professor in the administration of justice department at Salve Regina College, Newport, RI, will be the keynote speaker at the DCCW's.38th annual convention April 20 at St. Ann's parish, Raynham.

Dr. Wims, a Rhode Island native, received a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in law enforcement from Bryant College, Smithfield, RI, in 1977; a master's degree in criminal justice from Salve Regina in 1981; and a doctorate in psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 1989. She holds FBI certificates in homicide and advanced homicide investigation; and sex crimes.

She was the first female police officer in Central Falls, RI, and received several commendations during her 1977 to 1985 service.

While employed as a police officer, Dr. Wims began teaching on the college level. In addition to her position at Salve Regina she teaches psychology and criminal justice parttime at Rhode Island College.

In 1984, she was named Rhode Island's Young Career Woman and in 1987 was named Woman of the Ye~r by the Cranston Business and Professional Women's Organization. She was featured in the April 1990 issue of Rhode Island Monthly and is listed in Who's Who Among American Women and Who's Who in Rhode Island in Education.

Dr. Wims is also involved in community theater as a singer and actress and is on the board of directors of the Miss Rhode Island Scholarship Pageant.

She is married to Sergeant Normand E. Gamache J r. of the Central Falls police department. They have two children, Kyle, 6, and Ellary, 3.

. DCCN sets seminar The Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses will host a daylong seminar, "AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases," beginning at 9 a.m. May 4 at St. John the Baptist parish, Westport. Lunch will be provided and qualified participants may earn 6 continuing education units.

Presenters, from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Sexually Transmitted Diseases program of the Greater New ·Bedford Community Health Center, will be Jacqueline Roy, BSN, RN, program coordinator; Amelia M. Cabral, nurse educator; and Barbara Teixeira, administrative assistant.

Also, the DCCN has available scholarship monies for persons beginning or furthering their nursing education.

Information on the seminar or the scholarships is available from Betty Novacek at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, 674-5741 ext.

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MACAO (CN'S) ~ The scheduledl999 reversion of Macao from Portuguese ownership to China is shaping church authorities' decision to transfer the relics of 59 Japanese martyrs to their homeland. Macao Bishop Domingos Lam Ka-tseung said that the diocese is considering a request made by the Japanese bishops' conference for the transfer of the remains.

'''Romero'' TV showing boost for priest NEW YORK (CNS) - For priest-producer Father Ellwood Kieser, the airing of the film "Romero" on· CBS-TV means breaking even as a b~sinessman and landing way ahead as an evangelizer.

The movie, which is the first ever produced by a U.S. priest for theatrical distribution,' tells about the last three years in' the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador. The prelate was felled by a bullet in 1980 as he said Mass.

The movie airs on network television April 16, 9-11 p.m. EDT, BROTHER WICKMAN and that means millioQs of people will have the chance, to see the account of the shy l;:hurchman who became an outspoken fighter for the poor.

"Romero" cost $3.4 million to produce and was seen by half a The diocesan Department of million people when released in Education has announced that BishU.S. theaters in 1989. Then it was op Daniel A. Cronin, and Brother distributed abroad and went into Michael McKenery, FSC, provinvideo release. cial of the Brothers of the ChrisThrough television, millions tian Schools, have confirmed the more people will learn of the rebirth appointment of Brother Robert J. of a man who stood up to a corWickman, FSC, to the post of rupt military regime and paid the principal at Bishop Feehan High ultimate price for speaking out.

School, Attleboro, effective July Telling the tale on film was I. expensive, said Father Kieser, a Brother Wickman will succeed Sister Mary Faith Harding, RSM, Paulist priest, in a telephone interwho has served the school for 27 view. But, given the audience poyears, 17 as principal and who will tential for screen material, it was take a sabbatical leave for per- "cost effective," he said.

The movie "was worth every sonal and professional renewal. nickel, every moral conviction and Brother Wickman, a native of Queens, NY, entered the Brothers every ounce of creative energy that of the Christian Schools in 1968. went into it," he said.

Not only have a lot of people He holds a bachelor's degree from already seen "Romero" in theaters Fordham University and a master's degree in educational admin- and on video, many more have istration from St. Mary's College, read about the movie or seen ads for it, he said.

Winona, MN. Televising "Romero'l brings the Previously he was an assistant to people in one, more way, Gospel principal at Xaverian High School, he said.

"From an evangelistic Westwood, where he served on a. perspective, we're way ahead." three-person team of administrators. His responsibilities lay chiefly in the areas of academic affairs, curriculum development and stuWASHINGTON (CNS) dent discipline.

Father Kenneth F. Jenkins of the Sister Ann Moore, CN 0, dioce- diocese of San Bernardino, Calif., san superintendent of secondary has been named to a Jemporary schools, commented, "I look forpost as assistant general secretary ward to welcoming Brother Robert for the National Conference of as the administrator of a school Catholic Bishops-U.S .. Catholic with strong traditions in the Attle- Conference. He will assist in planboro area and am convinced that ning and implementing the Conhe will make a great contribution ference Assessment Project, the to furthering the cause of Catholic bishops' ongoing review of finansecondary education in this area." ces and structures.

Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, diocDuty esan director of education, added, "The day returns and brings us "As I also welcome Brother Robert to the diocese,. I wish to publicly the petty round of irritating conexpress my deep gratitude for the cerns and duties. Help us to perdedication and personal witness form them with laughter and kind that Sister Mary Faith has brought faces, let cheerfulness abound with to Bishop Feehan High School industry. Give'us to go blithely on during her administration. She has our business all this day, bring us prepared a solid foundation for to our resting beds weary and conthe next generation as the Feehan tent and undishonored, and grant school community begins to look us in the end the gift of sleep." toward the year 2000."

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From the business perspective, there's also good news. With the sale to television, the priest finally has earned back costs.

That's no minor matter for a producer who intends to go on making movies. Now he can put together the financing for his next production - the story of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker.

At the domestic box office, "Romero" grossed $1.9 million, an amount shared in various percentages by the theaters, the dist'ributor and the producer.

Abroad, it made more - $2.5 million. The only foreign markets that remain unsold are Eastern Europe and Japan.

Father Kieser estimates that the foreign press reviews were three to one in favor of the movie. In the United States, the reviews were two to one in. favor, though, he said, "not infrequently the unfavorable reviews were more critical of the church than of the film."

A sale to video netted close to $1 million and some 57,000 cassettes were sold to video stores. For the first 15 weeks, the movie averaged two rentals per cassette per week.

Now that it's being broadcast nationally, Father Kieser hopes "the ratings will be large enough so that it will become established as a television perennial."

That's possible because "Romero" is being marketed by Orbis Communications, a major TV syn-

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"Romero" was a "powerful dramatization" of a powerful story.

Raul Julia as the churchman was "brilliant." Because of graphic scenes of violence in the context of justice issues, the U.S. Catholic Conference classified the theatrical version A-II - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating' was PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

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themoorin~ Open Minds and Hearts The face of the nation is changing. No longer is it white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, although the WASPs have not yet lost their sting. Nor is it white European, be it Baltic or Alpine.

The recent national census has clearly indicated that Americans are developing a distinctly Oriental countenance, in that during the past decade the number of reported AsianAmericans has more than doubled.

The census showed a population gain of nearly 108 percent among Asians and Pacific Islanders, whose numbers grew from about 3.5 million in 1980 to 7.5 million last year.

The nation's shifting racial and ethnic makeup is the result of several factors. Immigration of Asians and Hispanics is at an all-time high and fertility rates are generally higher in minority groups than among whites. The statistics clearly indicate that cultural diversity accelerated more in the 1980s than in any other decade.

Indeed, it can confidently be stated that even compared with the period of high immigration early in this century the 1980s will be seen as a period of remarkable ethnic change. We are talking about immigrants from all corners of the world.

America is still the immigrant's dream and Asians are the newest dreamers. The opening mortths of the 90s have only corroborated these facts, which should not surprise us.

First and foremost, the w.orld is shrinking. Communication and transportatio~nfacilities girdle the planet. It is possible to be anywhere on,Earth in less than a day since the introduction of the jumbo jet. Communications, most recently via fax, have set a standard few dreamed possible even five years ago.

Aside from this, the fact is that the nations of the Far East are home to the largest populations on the planet, outstripping all other areas individually and in combination. Leaving India 'aside, China and Indonesia are reaching the two billion mark.

The Pacific Rim nations will in all probability determine the direction of the 21 st century.

What does all this mean for the ordinary American? For a beginning, it should be indicated that we must clear our vision and abandon stereotypes. Until now, our sights have been focused on Europe with an occasional glance in the direction of Central and South America. After all, many still identify all Hispanics with Spain. White Americans feel more comfortable with Hispanics than with blacks and haven't even giv,en Asia a thought except for Japanese import art and tourists.

Actually, the white ascendancy doesn't quite know what to do about Asians; many are still on the level of Charlie Chan movies, while oth~rs are fearful, possibly in the wake of the Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese wars.

At best, the Asian picture is muddled and this is unfortunate. Our self-inflicted fog does not permit us to evaluate fully what is and what will be in our land.

But we cannot delay implementation of an Asian immigration policy. Many Asians are already here and many more are coming, whether legally or illegally, while we have yet to feel the brunt of immigrants from China and Hong Kong. By 2000 the arrival of newcomers will have become a tidal wave.

May we hope that open minds and hearJs will rule the day in these m~tters. The tragic history of American bigotry is written in stone, blood and tears. We have a.long wayto go to achieve an open society. We must start by opening our hearts.

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"Let the little children come to me and don't prevent them.

Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Matt. 19:14

Sorrow tinges post-war joy By 路Father Kevin J. Harrington Pope John Paul II scathingly denounced the Persian Gulfwar in his Easter Sunday message, asserting that it was a darkness that had cast a shadow over the whole human community. In effect, he spun the globe continent by continent for his listeners and pronounced it to be intolerably filled with hunger, tyranny and war.

Indeed, throughout the Gulfwar, John Paul made his opposition abundantly plain nor has that opposition waned since the guns were silenced.

The Pope's Easter Sunday message seems in stark contrast to President Bush's call for national days of thanksgiving last weekend, April 5-7, for the safe return of our troops.

While as Americans we have e,very right to feel a sense of relief that our casualties were relatively low, as members of the human family, it would be morally wrong if we felt no sense of sorrow for the 100,000 Iraqi soldiers, not to mention the so-called collateral damage of the untold number of Iraqi civilians whose lives were also extinguisheq because of the allies' fierce bombardment.

We can all learn a lesson from a rabbi who lived 1700 years ago and commented on the events surrounding the Exodus event.路 A Palestinian sage, Rabbi J ohanan bar Napaha, is credited with preserving his commentary in the authoritative compilation of Jewish law and lore known as the Babylonian Talmud. The rabbi recounted that during the Exodus, when the Egyptian armies were drowning in the sea, the angels in heaven broke out in a song ofjubilation.. ,But God silenced ~hem, .

saying, "My creatures are perishing, and you sing praises?"

Certainly, Moses and Miriam led the Israelites in celebrating their escape from captivity with song and dance in much the same way as many of today's young soldiers and sailors rejoice in their safe return home. But the rabbinic tradition criticizes rejoicing on the part of the unendangered angels, and calls them mourn. Even the daily Hosannas of the angels were halted by this heavenly rebuke. As a nation, are we as magnanimous as this Palestinian sage suggests that we should be?

This beautiful story, preserved in writing and reenacted in a touching ritual during the Jewish Seder meal, is a poignant reminder that however just our cause may

praye~BOX God in the Family May the Mother of the Church be the hope and consolation offamilies, and may her Spouse; the Holy Spirit, guide the family in its union with the teachings of Christ, so they may be a fitting example offaith and charity in the service of their neighbor, and bring honor and glory to the Father of families in heaven.

Amen. (Rom. Brev. 4th cent.)

be, it 'is morally wrong for us to celebrate victory without mournfully acknowledging the terrible losses involved.

In the Passover Haggadah prepared by Reformed Judaism's Central Conference of American Rabbis, Seder participants are asked to spill a drop of wine for each of the 10 plagues inflicted on Egypt under the pharaoh. ihis ritual teaches the Jewish people that their wine of celebration is ,diminished by the celebrants' consciousness of the sufferings of the plagues involved.

On Good Friday, Christians prayed during the General Intercessions for those who do not believe in God with these words: "Grant that, in spite of the hurtful things that stand in their way, they may all recognize in the lives of Christians the tokens of your .love and mercy, and gladly acknowledge you as the one true God and Father of us all."

Pope John Paul II's Easter message must come as a solace to the Palestinians, Lebanese and Kurds whose cries for their right to exist with dignity, justice and freedom have fallen upon deaf ears. His words must also solace those who suffer famine in the Sudan and Ethiopia, are ravaged by civil wars in Angola, Mozambique, Liberia and Somalia and live under tyranny in many corners of Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Many hurtful things stand in the way of unbelievers. The challenge for believing Christians is to look beyond the narrow interests of nationalism and seek a new world order not based on the fragile peace of armed deterrence but on God's love and mercy.

This is the only way to a true and lasting peace.

P9pe asksjlist end to Ku~dish crisis

Come toknow Jesus Sunday's readings: Acts 3:1315,17-19; 1 John 2:1-5; Luke 24:35-48 People deal with sin and forgiveness differently. Sometakefor granted they are evil and always will be; they simply learn to live with unforgiven sin. A few consider themselves blameless; they believe others are guilty. We Catholics commonly believe everyone sins, but our blame and guilt can be removed by a good confession.

All Christians must take a stand on this issue. Jesus' followers have always believed that his death/ resurrection intimately ties into our experience of sin and forgiveness.

Luke depends on this theology when he quotes Peter's Pentecost speech in our first reading. "Reform your lives!" the apostle proclaims.

"Turn to God, that your sins may qe wiped away."

The. author of I ~J ohn b~ings' everyone into the circle of the forgiven ...... If anyone should sin," he writes, "we have, in the presence of the Father, Jesus Christ, an intercessor who isjust. He is an offering for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for those of the whole world."

Luke, in today's gospel pericope, presumes that forgiveness is the primary reason for Christian evangelization. "In his (the Messiah's) name," Jesus declares, "penance for the remission of sins is to be preached to all the nations, begin- 1 ning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of this."

It is important to remember that confession, as we know it, was not part of early Christianity. When the gospel authors and letter writers mention how faith in Jesus leads to forgiveness of our sins, they had to have had 'something other than sacramental absolution in mind. Sadly, our dependence on a sacrament of reconciliation clouds the way we look at their basic understanding of reconciliation.

Listen to today's readings carefully. How' are people forgiven?

The process seems to revolve around "knowing." Thl: gospel's first words are, "The disciples recounted what had happened on the road to Emmaus and how they had come to know Jesus in the breaking of bread." (Remember, "Breakin'g of Bread" is one of the earliest names for the Eucharist.)

DAI LV READI NGS April 15: Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24,26-27,29-30; In 6:22-29 April 16: Acts 7:51-8:1; Ps 31:3-4,6-8,17,21; In 6:30-35 April 17: Acts 8:1-8; Ps 66:1-7; In 6:35-40 April 18: Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9,16-17,20; In 6:44-51 April 19: Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1-2; In 6:52-59 April 20: Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116:12-17; In 6:60-69 April 21: Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1,8-9,21-23,26,29; 1 In 3:1-2; In 10:11-18

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN The disciples in the upper room also come to know him. "Why areyou disturbed?" he asks. " ... Look at my hands and my feet; it is really I. Touch me, and see that a ghost does not have flesh and bones as I do." The command to proclaim a remission of sins comes only after they recognize him.

John reminds his community of the best way to demonstrate their familiarity with the Lord: "The person who claims, 'I have known him,' without keeping his commandments, is a liar; in such a one there is no truth."

Yet under certain circumstances, a lack of knowledge can get one off the hook. Peter, in the first ,reading, forgives the Jews for putting "to death the Author of life," because... "you acted out of ignorance." Since they did not know who Jesus was, they are not guilty of murder.

Why does knowledge or ignorance of Jesus bring about guilt and forgiveness for his followers? To understand this, we must understand the biblical meanin~ of "to know." For us Greek-thinking people, the word implies an intellectual familiarity with some person, thing or idea. But the Semitic authors of 'Scripture oniy know what they have experienced. To know someone means to have a relationship with that person. If we just read about him or see a picture of her, we could not biblically say that we know them.

Our faith revolves around building a relationship with Jesus. We do what he commands not so that we will one day get to heaven, but because such actions will eventually make us one with him. And when we identify with him' we actually become him: (Remember how Jesus addresses Saul in Acts?

"Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?") The Christian becomes "another Christ." No wonder we are forgiven. We have become another person. Our sins were' committed by someone else. The person we have become is totally guiltless.

Perhaps we Catholics have spent too much time learning about Jesus, andnot enough time learning Jesus.

INS abuses cited WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Hispanic ministry office of the diocese of Grand Island, Neb., has filed a complaint against the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for alleged abuses committed during the arrests and detention of 19 illegal aliens. Father Miguel Guevara of the Hispanic ministry office charged that INS treatment of 19 Mexicans "went beyond the bounds of human decency and law."

One Word "Do you want to know my one word, my synonym-for happiness?

I'll tell you. It's appreciation. " Gary Cooper

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Iraq's Kurds face extinction unless world leaders intervene to find "a just and adequate solution," said Pope John Paul II after the Iraqi government's bloody suppression' of a Kurdish revolt. ' "Not only 'do thousands of babies, women and elderly people risk dying of cold and hunger, but the very survival of the entire cqmmunity has been' put in danger," the pope said. .

"The invocation for help by so many innocent people must not go unheard," he said April 7 during . his midday "Regina Coeli" talk from his balcony window overlooking St. Peter's Square.

Below several Kurds waved Iraqi flags. The "Regina Coeli" is the church's midday prayer during the time leading to Pentecost.

The pope appealed to leaders of governments and "all those who have at heart the fate of peoples so ' that a remedy is found for such a tragedy."

The pope's call came after the U. N. Security Council condemned Iraq's repression and at least 300,000 Kurds had escaped to neighboring Turkey and Iran. News reports from the arel!- spoke of up' to I million more Kurds trying to escape over treacherous terrain under threat of Iraqi attack.

The U.N. resolution did not call for puni'tive action in case of Iraqi non-compliance.

Iraq has proposed a partial amnesty for Kurds but Kurdish opposition leaders abroad have rejected it.

Kurds are an ethniC minority in Iraq and the neighboring countries of Syria, Turkey and Iran.

They began an armed revolt in northern Iraq against ,President Saddam Hussein after Iraq lost the Persian Gulf War to aU .S.-led coalition.

The United States aM other coalition members have begun airdropping relief supplies to Kurds but have said they will not militarily support the rebellion.

The pope's April 7 talk also appealed for the release of hostages held in the Middle East and asked aid for people 'suffering because of the civil wars in Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.

In Lebanon and Iraq, "for years numerous personrt have been held in prisons, without any news about them," said the pope: .

The pope asked government and guerrilla leaders of Sudan to open "corridors of peace" so that relief supplies can pass through disputed areas to reach the millions of people who are dying of hunger.

Somalia and Ethiopia "are still

threatened by war and by the lack of the most essential means for sustenance," he said.

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By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Some expressions rooted in our culture just go together naturally, as the old song says, like love and marriage, and horse and carriage.

Another one is women and children. And now a national group of mOen, that for 10 years has fought what it calls gender discrimination, is trying to get another linkage accepted: men and children.

A prime mover behind this effort

Fathers' rights: linking men and ,children is Ken Lewis, a Pennsylvania-based psychologist, who mainly specializes in custody evaluations in divorce cases. "Ever since I was born I've been hearing 'women and children.' Try to say 'men and children' and you can't. The words can't fall out," he told me recently. '\t's time to show the world, says Lewis, that men are willing to take responsibility for children and that children are safe with men. The dynamic psychologist, who says he was the first father to be awarded custody of his children by the courts back in the late '60s, says bluntly that when it comes to father's rights in this countrY "men have been shafted."

The first step in getting the mes'sage across that men路 are crucially important in the lives of their children - both in intact marriages and in divorce - has been a

name change in the men's group Lewis is associated with. Founded as the National Congress for Men in 1980, the group now is officially named The National Congress for Men and Children.

Lewis said that from the 1600s to 1900, fathers were the true head of the family and it was almost automatic that should there be a divorce, the children would be given to the father as his responsibility to raise and educate. Now, more than 90 percent of the time, the children are awarded to the mother.

"The watershed period was the start of this century when the industrial period replaced the agrarian one. The father's role changed, earning a living and being focused outside the home, leaving the mother with the home responsibilities.

Lewis maintains that if men continue to be left out of their childrens' lives - as happens so often as a result of litigation in divorce cases, "we will continue to see a garbage generation of children."

Single mothers now make up 8 percent of all households, up from 7.5 percent in 1980. Single dads make up just 1.5 percent of all households, up from I percent in 1980.

David K. Garrod, executive director of the Indiana Council for Children's Rights, has concluded that "the usual approach of awarding custody tei one parent is stacked against the children." Courts breed hostility in custody battles, and with 90 percent of the I million children affected by divorce each year going to the mother, Garrod says, "before long abput half of

them only get to see their father as often as once a year."

Children are the ones who are being cheated because so many of them are being cut off not only from their dads, but their relatives, too.

"The issue is not custody or visitation, but access. Every child should have access to two paren.ts," says Gilbert Quinones, also a member of the NCMC. "For every man that cannot see his children, there is a grandmother that cannot see her grandchildren."

The bottom line is always the same, Lewis emphasizes: When courts "abort fathers from childrens' lives," the children are the victims.

Lewis has my full agreement that the time has come to repair the damage we've done to families, recognize the importance of "men and children" and make the '90s the decade of childrens' rights.

Husband's "temporary divorce" idea spells trouble By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY

Dear Mary: My husband of 15 years has served me with divorce papers. The whole time he keeps telling me how much he still loves me and our two kids ages 13 and 8.

He says "to trust him" and that he wants to remarry me some months after the divorce.

I asked ifhe would rather have a

separation, and he says no, he needs this divorce because it will give us a new start. He wants his freedom fot awhile, says he needs to prove somet~ing to himself. He has even told the children that he plans to remarry me and has also told this to his parents.

He is 41 years old. I don't know if I can trust him. This has really destroyed our family. I am alone here, no relatives.

I was married briefly before and received an annulment to that marriage. My questions: Should I trust him? He wants to still act as though we're married, still have sex. Should I after the divorce?

How does the church look at this? If I remarry someone else can

I still receive Communion? Please lawyer who will protect your tions, church or women's support advise me soon. Thank you. I still . children's rights to support. groups. love him. - Illinois Your status in the church and If you have no job skills, now is Given his age and his. bizarre the time to acquire them. Job your situation should you remarry behavior, your husband seems to training offices, often government ne-.:d to be assessed on an individbe having a midlife crisis. Serv- funded, exist in most communi- ual basis. Take these questions one ties. Explore your options with at a time as they arise and consult ing you with divorce papers indiwith a priest in whom you have cates that it is a very serious them. confidence. situation.

Keep up old friendships and Although your husband has dealt Can you trust him? I cannot find seek new ones. All change is you a.grievous blow, you have the a single reason to do so. Since he stressful, and you face changes richer opportunity. He has some has chosen to divorce you, do not' of major proportions. Fatigue vague idea of proving himself. accommodate him by acting as his and loneliness will likely be You have the challenge of making problems. wife. a fruitful life for yourself and your Unfortunately, many "single children. Good luck.

You need to do what is neces- again" persons are shocked and Reader questions on family Iivsary to provide for yourself and dismayed when they find that their , ing or child care to be answered in your children. While he might opt longtime married friends no longer print are invited by The Kennys; out of being a husband, he still has include them socially. Seek new 219 W. Harrison St.; Rensselaer, responsibilities as a father. Get a friends through work, organiza Ind. 47978.

Fresh outlooks on路 the lives of saints By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. I am a convert to the Catholic faith of many -years and have become interested in learning more about the saints, who they were and why they are saints. My other Catholic friends aren't much help.

Is there a book you could recommend? (New York)

A. Until recently I've been reluctant to answer this question which dozens of others besides yourself have asked. So many books which present themselves as lives of the saints are greatly deficient in scope, in historical reliability or in solid Catholic theology about saints and their role in our Christian lives.

The sugary, washed-out images which in the past so' often characterized pictures and statues of the saints have their parallels in what is written about these same saints.

Many Catholics know the story, for example, of how photographs of St. Therese of Lisieux were doctored after her death by wellmeaning members of her commun-

ity to make her look like a saint "ought to look." The result could best be described as a painted doll.

They did the same with her autobiography. Many passages which reveal her spiritual struggles, her occasional serious disagreements with her superiors and other supposedly unsaintly feelings, even her grammar, were "cl~aned up" so that, it was explained, people would not be scandalized. .

Only within the last 30 years or so have we been able to see her as she looked, and read her as she wrote, both of which reveal a remarkable, holy and very human woman, who died less than 100 years ago but whose intimate love

for God is even today an inspiration for millions of Christians.

At any rate, there is a new book, "Saint of the Day," which marvelously 路fulfills all of the above requirements for those saints in the church's present liturgical calendar. I recommend it highly.

The life sketches are usually one or two pages, but they hit the important points. A spiritual comment and quote by or about the saint are included. The book is edited by Father Leonard Foley and is published by St. Anthony Messenger Press.

Of course, for those with more time and some extra dollars, the classic source for extensive relia-

. ble information on many hundreds of saints (and numerous others still in the canonization process) remains "Butler's Lives of the Saints." The latest revised edition of the four large volumes is available in soft cover through bookstores.

A free brochure on baptism answering questions about sponsors, requirements for baptism and children who die with'out baptism, is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

RespecTeen lists adolescent risk factors By DOLORES CURRAN

RespecTeen is a study of 46,000 young Americans in grades six through twelve and yields significant information for all who live or work with youth. Underwritten by the Lutheran Brotherhood, the study was conducted by SearcH Institute of Minneapolis.

Suppose, Search Institute writes, that a vaccine were discovered that

would inoculate adolescents against at-risk factors which prevent them from maturing intohealthy adults.

What would parents and communities be willing to do with such a vaccine?

In order to answer this question, Search listed twenty at-risk indicators, including items like sexually active, riding with someone who has been drinking, vandalism, and school absenteeism.

Two groups of factors arose that reduce the likelihood of adolescents' participation in risky behavior. One group identifies assets external to the adolescent but present in family and community.

I, Family Support: Family life

provides high levels of iove and supporJ, 2. Parent(s) as social resource: Adolescents view their parents as people they can go to when they need advice. comfort. and encouragement. 3. Parent communication: Students have frequent, in-depth conversation with their parents,

4. Parent involvement in schooling: Contrary to widespread practice, parents do not playa handsoff role when their teenager enters secondary school, but continue to show interest in their children's school work and success in school throughout the high school years,

5. Other adult communication: The student has frequent, in-depth conversations with adults other

than his or her parents 6. Other adult resources: The student knows non-parent adults to whom to go for advice and support. 7. Positive

school climate.

In addition to the above, the research affirms five external controls on behavior as an essential part of the adolescent's support network, I. Parental standards: Students know what their parents expect of their behavior and know the penalties for inappropriate behavior. 2, Parental discipline: Parents see that students are disciplined for violating family rules. 3. Parental monitoring: Parents expect to know where the adolescent is going. with whom. and for how long,

4. Time at home: The .student's best friends are what parents refer to as "good kids" - young people who model responsible ,behavior.

Finally, there are four elements that fit into the category of external assets which largely depend on activities provided and supervised for youth by adult members of the community: involved in music;

involved in.school extra-curricular activities; involved in community organizations or activities; and involved in church or synagogue activities. All of these lower the risk factors in adolescence, The above is a synopsis of a free four page report available by calling 1-800-888-3820.

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to attend the workshop who would be willing to complete a mailed questionaire to help further understanding about suicide bereavement may contact the Hyannis office.

WASHINGTON (CNS).---Three is that it is "too Catholic-oriented," Persons wishing to register for reporters who covered religion in said Ostling, a Protestant who has either program may contact Fourthe 1970s and 1980s have faulted a covered religion at Time since 1969. nier at Catholic Social Services, Ostling said the study "puts recent study that says secular media 261 South St., Hyannis, tel. 771coverage of the Catholic Church together isolated bits of data out "New England hos/"tality 6771. Also, suicide survivors unable over the past three decades was ofcontext" and should have looked with a European Flair" skewed in favor of church critics. at "whether a particular series of The writers - Richard Ostling, stories is bad or unfair."

What the study found, he said, associate editor of Time magazine, Marjorie Hyer, retired religion "is not a sign of bias, much less Bed G> BreaJUast writer for The Washington Post, anti-Catholicism, but rather reand Kenneth Briggs, former relig- flects what is of importance and Sales and Service ~ ion writer for The New York Times interest in what's going on." for Domestic _ 495 West Falmouth HIghway and Industrial ~ - also disagreed with a statement Miss Hyer said church critics BOB FOURNIER (Route 28A) P.O Box 895 that the findings revealed anti- might have gotten more space in 995·1631 West falmowll, Ma. 02574 Catholicism.

The Washington Post than mem2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE They made their comments in bers of the hierarchy, but said that Open year round NEW BEDFORD (508) 540·7232 interviews in early April, after the was the nature of journalism. report, "Media Coverage of the "Whatevet deviates from the Catholic Church," was released norm gets to be news," said Miss T~e Cape ~od ~ffice of C~thol.ic __ Marc:h_2(j in }Va~ltington-,- Th~ _~whocovered religion at The __ Social Services ulll __I:IyannIs Will report, based on an analysis ofthe Washington Post from 1972 to host a three-part program for perthree publications and the "CBS 1989. sons who have lost a loved one Evening News," said reporters cited At the Post, especially in the throug~ suicide. more critics than defenders of '70s she said "sometimes the SeSSIOns, to be conducted by church teachings. 'reb;ls' were qu~ted more than the area. director of ~atholic Social The report studied coverage dur- mainstream" because the rebels Services Bob FournIer, MA, MSW, ing three five-year blocks, 1964- "made them'selves available to the will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. April 24, May 8 a~d May 22. Each will 68, 1974-78 and 1984-88. It was press." co-sponsored by the Knights of "What we tried to cover at the focus on a different aspect of the Columbus and the Catholic League Post was what affected people's suicide be~eavement ex~~ri~nce: for Religious and Civil Rights. lives and what they were interested Part I, Detachment, Will dlsIt was written by S. Robert in," she said. "A lot of that is sex cusshowthebere~vedcan."~emem­ Lichter and others from the Wash- and power," she said. b~r the dec~ased In a p~slt1ve way Briggs said the report "did not without feeling preocc~pl~d or overington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs. make an extremely strong case" ~helmed by the loss, said FournThe 93-page study said report- and questioned its "dividing up the ler. ,,' .". ers often covered religion as if it territory between the official Part. 11, S~cla~ ~elah0r.'s, Will were politics and treated contro- church, which backs the church ~eal w.lth m~lOtal?lOg social relaversies "asconfIicts between the (teaching) 100 percent," and any- t~onshlps with fnends and rela.... IlEA. church hierarchy, on one side, and one else, called "dissident." tives and at church, the workplace, COUIICI ....... lower-level clergy, lay Catholics "The categories are simplistic" etc., after a loss. and non-Catholics on the other." said Briggs. ' In Part Ill, "Self-Image," parF~ nOMn 14 HOt/, 5...1(1' B . h d I" ticipants will examine how the loss Russell Shaw, spokesman for Cho,let Velolo. P'et fl' d . f . nggs, w 0 covere re IglOn at h t h e Knights of Columbus, said the Times from 1974 until he began . as a lecte ~helf sel -esteem, abdCOMPUTE MEA. $YSnMS when the findings were released f ree lanc'lOgm . 1985 ,sal'd th aa t t Ity to ffunctIOnIfh" day-to-day, and MTALLIO t hat they showed evidence of"anti- th T "th I sense 0 contro 0 t elf lives. "you HiVE' HAD SElVlCE terte w~s a ways atn Opportunity for discussion will Catholicism." e 1mIeS unusua effor 0 give space 0 b 'd d II . b h " T he report is a little surprisff' I t f th e provi e at a seSSIOns, ut t e ing," said Ostling. "I hate to have it 0 ICla pronouncemen s o . e program is intended to be an edu'd h I I . church, such as excerpts of major t' I th th sal t at persona Iy or Time documents." ca IOna ra. er a~ a supp~rt magazine in general is anti-CathoWh th th t h group expenence, said FournIer, l' • e er ey go as muc space . h ..

I . Id OffU 4' OAIL GlM AVI.• fAll IMI notIOg t at It IS open not. on y to hc. oubt a latr-minded reader of as d"d ISSI ent s h e sal'd h e couId't n our magazine could come to that persons who have expenenced a .. loss, but also to persons in counconclusion." say. .

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"Often teachers critique themselves, frequently saying they had no idea how they were coming across in the classroom."

The videotapes can, of course, also be used to document positive classroom activities and teachers quite often request them for this purpose; or Poyant will note that a lesson plan includes an interesting project that would be worth filming for the benefit of other teachers.

Post-taping, he and the teacher hold another conference, he makes notes on it, both he and the teacher sign the notes and they go into the teacher's file.

"Of course," said Poyant, "I also pop in and out of classrooms and-leheek -lesson-pIans-weeldy;-- --The main thing I emphasize with the tapes is that you're not being taped to bag you - just to help you."

The fact that Poyant was a 1990 recipient of the NCEA Distinguished Principal award indicates that helping is indeed his purpose.

"Catechism for the Universal Church," proposed by the cardinal at a 1985 Synod of Bishops. The With over 15,000 delegates, including scores from the Fall River cardinal is a member of an internacommission on the catechism diocese, and hundreds of speakers, panelists and exhibitors, the 88th tional and Father Schonborn is its main annual convention, exposition and religious education congress of the editor. Father Kelly, also a catecommittee member, is exNational Catholic Educational Association took place last week in Boston. . chism ecutive director of the NCEA DeIt was the largest meeting yet held in 1991 in Boston's enormous Hynes partment of Religious Education.

Law said the catechism auditorium, said an employe. Conventiongoers, scattered over 14 hotels willCardinal not be a question and answer linked by shuttle buses, gave the city's economy a shot in the arm as they treatment of faith as was the ramous Baltimore Catechism but explored department stores and sampled the cuisine of area restaurants. will be a "statement of the content of faith expected to help internaMs. Williams said reporters Asked for a specific instance in lize the teachings of Vatican Coununderstand the importance of not which she did something differ- cil II." He said it is anticipated that it will be adapted by each country The delegates got a taste of dis- reporting troop movements and ently as a result of her Catholic w~~needs.-other information that may affect edocafiofi~sne recoufilealUi-occaHynes~ The aim of the catechism comrium after the convention's first national security, but she said the sion on which she met a sister in an mittee, added Father Schonbom, censorship during the Persian Gulf elevator after having given a talk. liturgy, celebrated April I by Car-' "Today you've done the Lord's is to provide principles and allow dinal Bernard Law and the bishops War was so intense and so subjeclocal churches to apply them to tive that "our freedom to report work," the nun told her. of New England, including Fall "I hope I do that every day," she their individual situations; and River Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. was one of the casualties of war."

She compared the coverage in said she responded, adding that "I Father Kelly said that the cateThe cardinal warned the delegates Vietnam and the coverage in the try to be fair and honest at all chism does not state any new teachof a demonstration outside the ings, that its purpose is simply to Persian Gulf War. times." auditorium by members of homoassist teachers to do a more effecIn Vietnam, reporters had two sexual and reproductive rights tivejob. restrictions no pictures of dead groups. He counseled the educators to go "quietly and prayerfully soldiers until the families were noAt another NCEA convention about your next activity in the tified and no information on troop movements. press conference, Cincinnati Archpeace we have experienced here."

The U.S. government kept insist- bishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, presiThe demonstration proved noisy but peaceful, with Boston police ing America was winning the war, dent of the National Conference of At a special-interest convention but reporters out in the field were Catholic Bishops, who addressed remaining alert as about 70 particsession, Dennis R. Poyant, princiipants, some clad in cardinal-red seeing a different scenario and NCEA Seminary Department delepal of St. Mary's School, New robes and mitres, chanted slogans once U.S. officials saw that the gates on "The 1990 Synod of Bedford, gave a standing-roomwar was being lost, they blamed Bishops and Reflections of Semisuch as "Teach Safe Sex" and only crowd of NCEA delegates an the press for the loss, she said. nary Life," responded to a ques"Curb Your Dogma." . explanation of evaluating teacher In the Persian Gulf War, jour- tion concerning bishops' reactions performance via video camera. The nalists were forced to write their to a study finding that young method involves setting up a video stories on typewriters after their priest~ would prefer to choose their camera in the back of a classroom computers were confiscated for own living accommodations rather so it will capture as wide a view as reasons not made clear and they than being assigned to a rectory. possible. "Then you leave," said The archbishop noted that alterThe first general NCEA session were ordered to wear military uniPoyant. featured Mary Alice Williams, co- forms that she said made them eas- nate arrangements would add to He said teacher and students the financial burden of a parish anchor of NBC News' "Sunday ier targets. may initially be uncomfortable with "Most journalists will tell you but also admitted that on an occaToday." Although her listed topic the camera but rather quickly tend was an examination of the rela- red Hawaiian shirts are their best sion when he had defended rectory to forget its presence. living, a priest retorted, "Dan, if tionships of news coverage, educa- protection," she said.

At a pre-taping conference, In 'her remarks Ms. Williams you had to live in some rectories, tion and values, she chose to disPoyant said he and the teacher cuss censorship imposed by the also praised women religious for you wouldn't say that." discuss what will be looked for on U.S. military on correspondents showing leadership in the country, With regard to Catholic educa- the tape. It is understood that no leadership proven in their opera- tion, the bishop said he foresees an one views it but he and the teacher. covering the Persian Gulf war.

"The government feared that if tion of schools, hospitals and other increase in the number of interpa- "If a teacher then wants the tape rochial elementary schools and for personal use, that's fine;' he the public knew how gruesome the Catholic organizations.

At a press conference preceding added that public schools, taking a said. "Otherwise, we erase and war was, they'd turn against it," she said. "We Americans ought to her convention address, she de- leaffrom the Catholic book, should reuse it." have some ~y. It was not George scribed herself as a product of solicit support of parents and Taping is not intended to set up Bush's army, but ours. It was not Catholic education and a fan of should incorporate values into their an adversarial relationship between curriculum as much as possible.

George Bush's fight, but our fight." all-girl schools. principal and teacher, he empha"The public needs to understand "No one ever told me I couldn't Cardinal Law, Rev. Christoph sized. "It's not I versus them; it's that healthy adversarial reporting do something because I was a Schonborn, OP, and Rev. Francis what can we do together." does not mean journalists are woman," she said. "By the time Poyant said that in practice he is D. Kelly spoke to reporters on the unpatriotic," she said. they did, it was too late." development of the forthcoming saved a good deal of critiquing.

A taste of dissent

Extended care is major interest

Press conferences

Video evaluation of teachers

The large attendance at Sister Michaelinda Plante's presentation on the nuts and bolts of school extended care programs indicated the interest of NCEA delegates in the topic.

Sister Plante, a Sister of Mercy. is associate superintendent of diocesan schools and among her responsibilities is supervision of the extended care programs offered in 15 diocesan elementary schools.

For the most part, programs are geared to pupils in kindergarten to grade 4, she said, "but there's an argument for serving older children too."

Ideally, she continued, extended care time should be "happy, restful, fun, challenging and safe" and should certainly be more than a babysitting service.

Programs need a great deal of planning, emphasized Sister Plante, and should not be run by an already busy school principal but by a director responsible to the principal.

Such a director requires the attributes of a super-mom, being organized yet flexible, able to handle emergencies, loving and creative. Almost without exception, the director will need to work

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understandingly with single, divorced or separated parents, often a majority among those using extended care services.

Sister Plante pointed out that local, state and federal regulations for extended-care programs must be followed and noted that government aid such as for school breakfast programs comes with lots of paperwork - but does cut down on expenses.

Many hands make light work, she advised, saying that parents, grandparents and high school students in Christian service programs are valuable resources for extended care directors.

Among precautions to be observed;s1retined awareness;-ctis:" tody problems in the case of divorced parents if, for instance, one parent is not supposed to have contact with children. There is also need for care in checking on program workers. "Don't hesitate to have workers fingerprinted and to run a police check," she said, reminding her hearers of several nationally publicized cases of pedophiles working in nursery programs.

In the Fall River diocese, where many languages are spoken, she noted, "be sure to have someone who speaks the language of parents."

Sister Plante also emphasized that while discipline is needed, it should not 'be of the classroom variety. "We should express more love in the extended care program, remembering that some of the children are our neediest, she said.

That attitude was echoed by a 4-year-old who said "I stay in extended care because in extended care people have time to love me."

Child spirituality is Coles' topic Students need to be fulfilled spiritually and morally as well as learn to read and write in school, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University told Catholic educators April 2.

"Sure, children need to read and write but that is only the beginning," said Robert Coles, author of"The Spiritual Life of Children" and 50 other books, and a keynote speaker at the NCEA parley.

"Children also need spiritual and

moral literacy," Coles said. "History has shown, as in the Holocaust era, that people can be well educa!ed, but not thoughtful and kind."

He decried the idea that education should not teach values, noting that so-called value-free teaching actually teaches "that we have no values~ and pointing out that at a minimum civic values such as honesty and cooperation can be conveyed.

"The Spiritual Life of Children" is an extensive study of children's spirituality,bl¥ledonasurveyColes conducted of 5,000 fourth through 12th-grade students focusing on their ethical and moral standards.

"ClrtRtren;-tiKe everyone-elSe,wonder 'where we came from; 'who we are' and 'where are we going,' " he said.

He showed a moving series of slides of drawings made by terminally ill children depicting their ideas of God and heaven. One little girl drew herself swimming and attempting to reach an island. "But I won't get there;' she said, indieating that instead she expected to ascend to a region of light she drew above the island.

Coles said his survey revealed that children are greatly influenced by their environment when making moral and ethical judgments.

The influence of today's society and its pressure to succeed is a key reason for the decline in morality in children, he continued. His surveyfound that about 65 percent of high school students said they would cheat on a test and that less than 10 percent of those surveyed said they would go to a member of the clergy or a teacher for personal advice.

Coles praised Catholic schools for instilling in students the core values of honesty, respect and morality.

Peer ministry advice offered The development of peer ministry programs in schools and parishes was the topic addressed by NCEA convention speaker Joseph Moore, president of New England Consultants in Ministry and a campus minister at Cardinal Spellman High School, Brockton.

Moore is a member of and active in Holy Cross parish, South Eas-

ton. Noting thatthe word ministry derives from the Latin word for servant, he pointed out that peer ministers, for example students ministering to other students, are "there for others."

Moore said the characteristics of ministry are embodied in the parable' of the Good Samaritan, a member ofa disdained group, who went out of his way to help a man attacked by robbers. Those who have themselves been victimized, as the Samaritan was by society's prejudice, are often the best helpers, said Moore. Touch can be healing, as the Samaritan showed when he bound up the robbed man's wounds. And ministry can beinconven1erif (the-5amarffanwent out of his way to help) and is not always appreciated (there is no mention that the wounded man expressed gratitude to his rescuer).

Usually, Moore said, peer ministers cannot remove people's problems, but they "can stand with the victim." Speaking from the experience garnered from his peer ministry program at Spellman High, he noted pitfalls of .which leaders must be aware.

"Your peer ministers may form an elite group without even realizing it," he said, while parents may feel threatened when youngsters confide in peer ministers. He added that sometimes social misfits apply to become ministers and that this is "a very tricky thing to handle without making a student feel even more rejected than previously."

Moore offered practial suggestions for peer ministry leaders, saying that a program should include careful screening of applicants, a public commissioning ceremonyand possibly use of an identifying symbol by the ministers.

Among"lOcommandments"for group leaders, he listed: _ Don't give advice. People need to solve their own problems.

Advice hinders solutions.

- ' Don't be afraid of silence. It has a creativity and pressure of its own.

- Keep group discussion focused on one person's problems at a time.

Moore told the educators that peer ministry can be offered in group or one-on-one settings, that it can become part of tutoring or mentoring programs or follow , Turn to Page 10

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A peer ministry group should be nourished by its own meetings and by periodic retreats, he added.

Teachers must be formed in faith .

Saying that throughout his Catholic education, he had no lay teachers, Father Richard W. BeauIleu,'ifiocesafi -aitectot ofeducation, told some 100 educators at last week's NCEA convention that today 85 percent of Catholic schoolteachers are laity, as are 50 percent of principals.

Although many laypersons are as cQmmitted as any of the oldtime sisters, brothers and priests, he said, many lack formation in their faith. Supplying that formation is a major responsibility of diocesan education offices, he said, stressing that the spirituality ofteachers is the most important element in Catholic schools. .. After all," he pointed out, "teachers have children more than anyone else except parents ~ for about six hours every schoolday."

Father Beaulieu said that spirituality is the responsibility of all Catholic school teachers. "You can't say, 'I teach science" not religion'; and it does matter what teachers do on weekends."

The director listed four points he said he checks when he visits diocesan schools: I. Before a teacher can teach faith, he or she must be a believer.

If a teacher isn't committed, the children will get a mixed message as to the importance of what is being taught; . 2. Teachers must be able to teach the formal content ofreligion; 3. Teachers must show students that the institutional church is special to them; 4. Teachers s.hould participate fully in the sacramental life of the church and should lead their students to appreciate that life.

Father Beaulieu said that nonCatholic teachers can fit into Catholic schools but added that they "should share the school's sense of mission. He said that the spirituality expected of teachers is expected equally from a school's principal.

"He or she affects the teachers as they affect the students," he declared.

Why do parishes run schools, he queried, answering that it is "to teach as Jesus did," and noting that the Vatican II Declaration on Christian Education calls the Cath~ olic school the principal aid to parents in training their children and also stresses that the schools are "everyone's responsibility."

Aids to broken families discussed In a presentation that frequently had her hearers at the NCEA convention gasping in shock or sorrow, Sister Mary Christopher O'Rourke, guidance director at St. Anne's School, Fall River, discussed ways in which schools can assist single-parent families.

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then described a father who drank and beat his wife, while the youngster "got under the bed with the baby" to avoid his notice.

"Academics is low on the list of priorities in such cases," said the Sister of Mercy sadly.

Most of her presentation, however, dealt with traumas faced by single-parent families and ways of helping such families achieve a measure of stability.

Money is often a major problem when families split up, she said, frequently dictating a move by the parent with custody of the children to less expensive living quarters. ~"fhen --the- childrenehange schools, lose their friends and find themselves in a whole new world," she summed up.

She spoke of the difficulties faced by young unwed mothers and of the case of a child who wandered all over the school. "Finally I asked the mother, barely out of her teens, to come into school. It turned out she was taking the child to a different relative every night, giving the youngster no sense of stability. I suggested that she keep the little one at home and establish a nighttime routine. She looked at me in surprise. 'I could do that,' she said ~ it had just never occurred to her."

After a few months, the child was much more settled in school, reported Sister O'Rourke.

She said that in families going through a period of crisis it often happens that an older child is forced to assume too much responsibility. She cited the case of a sixth grader referred to her for a consistently disheveled appearance.

It turned out that the single parent in the family had to be at work at 4 a.m., so it fell to the child to get two special-needs siblings up, dressed, breakfasted and offto the schoolbus and then cleanup the kitchen before she went to school herself.

"No wonder she was untidy," commented the guidance director.

When parents separate, she said, it is important that neither spouse bad-mouth the other to the children. "We all derive much of our self-esteem from our parents," she said, "so parents must not tear down each other's image."

If people in a broken marriage can see themselves as responsible adults who have children they care about, there is promise that the family will stabilize, said Sister O'Rourke. "Counselors need to assume that this will happen," she said, and not treat families as if problems will be permanent.

She said that whereas young children will tell a counselor everything that's happening in their family, young adolescents tend to act out .their troubles but not to talk about them. She said such youngsters need reassufllnce that anger itself is not bad, but actingout behavior can be counterproductive.

Sister O'Rourke advised giving young adolescents some responsibility, such as working with younger students. "It works well most of the time," she said, noting that with adolescents it's better to work with a group than one-on-one.

Always take talk ofsuicide seriously, she said. "Never assume that they don't mean it."

Counselors should be familiar with psychiatric resources, she said, but should "try not to send youngsters to people who immediately put them on drugs." She recommended workshops for all school

personnel on methods of helping students and said that teachers and other workers should ideally "keep track of kids and let them know you care how they're doing."

On the lighter side of a grim subject, Sister O'Rourke told of a child who asked her mother, "When am I going to meet my other mother and daddy?"

"What other mother and daddyT' responded her astounded parent.

It turned out that most of the little girl's playmates had "other mothers and daddies" they visited on weekends and during vacations and she was feeling deprived.

Catechists hear of Bible. h.er.oines "Women ofthe Old Testament" were discussed by Patrick Reid, Ph.D., associate professor of religious studies at Providence College, at an NCEA session designed for catechists and directors of religious education.

Dr. Reid noted that although the Old Testament is usually studied from the perspective of men involved in key events of salvation history, it is noteworthy that at most such events women are also very significant participants.

"I will not attempt to make [such women] Christian saints nor liberated 20th-century feminists," he wrote in a handout distributed at his lecture. "I simply examine them as presented to us in the Biblical record."

Discussing Eve, Dr. Reid said that although she was the person who introduced sin into the world, she had a good motive: she wanted knowledge of good and evil, not a bad goal. He said she was actually a more interesting character than Adam and pointed out that although her role after the fall from innocence is usually neglected, she was in fact the mother of all living persons, affirming God's presence by giving life.

Also discussed were the "matriarchs," who, said Dr. Reid, should have equal billing with the Old Testament patriarchs. He listed Sarah, the wife of Isaac; Rebekah, very much the Jewish mother, who used "all her wiles" to insure the survival of her son Jacob; the women of the Exodus who defied the pharaoh's command to kill baby boys and thus made it possible for Moses to live. The mothers resisted the genocide of their people, noted Dr. Reid, while the men did nothing.

Speaking ofthe prophetess Miriam, he said that her Song of the Sea in the 15th chapter of Exodus is probably the oldest writing in the Old Testament. Used during today's Easter Vigil liturgy, it is thought to have been written in about the 13th century before Christ.

Also noteworthy, said Dr. Reid, were the "foreign grandmothers of the Messiah," Tamar, a Canaanite, who insured the line of Judah when her father-in-law neglected her rights, arid Ruth, a Moabite, whose devotion to her mother-inlaw forms one ofthe favorite ofall Bible stories and who became the mother of Obed, grandfather of David.

He listed as "women of wisdom" Abigail, who saved David from slaying the innocent; Tamar, who continued the line of Judah; and Rahob, a harlot who affirmed that the God of Israelwas the true God. Women who triumphed in times of persecution were Esther, who saved the Jews from a pogrom; and Judith, "a theologian and wise woman of action," actually a com-

posite of many Old Testament heroines.

Mark's story told by his father On the final day of the NCEA convention, in one of the few sessions that ran overtime, for 22 minutes, to be exact, Jay Hoyle, a teacher at St. John the Evangelist elementary school, Attleboro, told a hushed audience the story of his son Mark, a hemophiliac who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and died in 1986 at age 14.

Hoyle, a member of St. Dominic's parish, Swansea, channeled his grief into writing a book about his 'SOrl"s otier, 1ftave tife. "Mark always wanted to be famous," Hoyle told his audience. "While he was alive we protected him from the media, but then I wrote the book to give him his wish."

The media attention came because Mark was the first AIDS patient in the nation who attended public school with the consent of school authorities and the support of many parents of his schoolmates.

Hoyle's account of his son's illness is dotted with references to diocesan clergy and laity who rallied to the family's side during Mark's 16-month ordeal.

When he was a patient at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, schoolchildren waved and talked to him through his window. He was visited

by Red Sox player Russ Gibson and Father James Fitzpatrick, then parochial vicar at St. John Evangelist parish, Attleboro, brought him over 200 cards from parish schoolchildren. Later it was Father Fitzpatrick who gave Mark the last rites.

When he was still able to travel, he and his brother, also a hemophiliac, attended a healing Mass offered by Father William T. Babbitt, now a parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, North Attleboro.

He was also visited by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

Among high points of Mark's life was a day deqicated to him at Fenway Park, during which he met the Red Sox team, sat in the dugout and in general received VIP treatment. His friends formed a group, Friends of Mark, to raise money to pay for a cure, if that became possible. Newspaper and television publicity made him nationally known to the extent that a letter from Texas addressed simply

to "Mark, Swansea," reached him.

A confirmed practical joker, Mark's last words were a request for his father to bring him joke items so he could play pranks on the nurses at the hospital towards which he was being taken by ambulance.

Earlier he had said to Hoyle, "Dad, I think it would be better ifI just died, then you wouldn't have to take care of me and I could watch over you from heaven."

His father related several episodes which made him think that Mark is indeed watching over his family. On one occasion, he said, he was at Mark's grave and said "Mark, if you can hear me, send a bird to perch on your stone."

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the stone. Thinking it might be coincidence, he said "Mark, another one," and a second bird joined the first.

"One more," said Hoyle, and a third bird arrived. At that point, related the father, I said "Enough, Mark! No more birds!"

The boy's funeral was the largest ever held in Swansea, said his father, with a two-hour wait needed to pay respects at his wake. His Mass was offered at Holy Name Church, Fall River, due to the small size of St. Dominic's. Father Fitzpatrick was his homilist.

Both Mark's elementary and junior high schools an; visible from his gtavesite, as is the Little League field where he loved to play.

His most recent tribute came when it was announced that a new elementary schoolwas to be built in Swansea. It will be the Mark Gardiner Hoyle Memorial Elementary School.

As his father said, "How many 14-year-olds have had a school named for them?"

Other memorials are a scholarship fund which has already awarded $12,500 in college grants. It is benefited by an annual road race, this year to be held beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 19, at Cardi's Furniture Store in Swansea.

At home, the Hoyle family has added a ne~ member, a 9-year-old adopted girl who arrived on Mark's birthday.

"She loves her brother Scott, now 16," said Hoyle, "and she prays to her brother in heaven."

The Reason "We were born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more." ~ St. Joseph Cafasso

ETHELYN MARTIN, right, of the National Catholic Education Association explains the "Discover Catholic Schools" marketing campaign to an educator during the NCEA's 88th annual convention. (CNS photo)

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Abortion is a sign of the "struggle between the culture of death Continued from Page One and the culture of life," affecting whether members of Congress the future of the church and society, would: , said the pope.

- Support such options as Cardinal Ratzinger said aborgrants, vouchers or tuition tax tion represents a real "war Of the credits to assist parents choosing powerful against the weak, and Catholic schools for their children; war that aims at the elimination of - Back legislation requiring that the handicapped, of those who are students and teachers at non-public bothersome and even those who schools "participate in federal eduare simply poor and 'useless.''' cation programs on a fair and Despite the work of pro-life equitable basis" with public school movements, the church is losing students and teachers; ground in its efforts to protect the - Favor mandating direct fiunborn, Cardinal Ratzinger said. nancial aid to parents of students He was the first cardinal to suggest eligible for Title I services if the a new church document on the public school districts cannot or need to protect human life and its will not provide the services. social and political dimensions.

Archbishop Laghi Cardinal John J. O'Connor of In a major convention speech, New York said an "anti-life cliArchbishop Pio Laghi, head of the mate" has been created by wealthy Vatican CongregationJor Catholic pro-abortion organiza~ions. CarEducation, told educators that they dinal Giacomo Biffi of Bologna must remain true to their mission said the increase in Italian aborof educating children in all areas, SPRING FLOWERS were part ofthe nature scene that decorated the sanctuary for Easter tions has been accompanied by including those of values and widespread doctrinal confusion services at S1. Louis de France Church, Swansea, where Father Andre P. Jussaume.is pastor. morality. among the people.

The scene, designed and constructed by parish sexton Raymond Leduc Jr. with th.e assistance The communique also criticized "Catholic education is the educa- . population control programs using of Arthur Paul Jr. and Father Philip N. Hamel, included a waterfall and reflectmg pond to tion ofthe whole person," he said. artificial birth control, experiments illustrate the Easter theme of life-giving baptismal waters.

He praised V.S. Catholic schools on embryos, aspects of genetic for their successes, including eduengineering, war, illegal drug trafcating minorities and having low ficking and the arms trade. dropout rates and encouraged the Regarding sects, the communeducators to continue their pursuit ique said their growth is a threat to of choice in education, to maintain the church because aggressive schools' strong. Catholic identity recruiting methods cause "numerWASHINGTON (CNS) - Not and more students are spending assistant chaplain and Urban I m- and to strive to better meet the ous Catholics to join religious needs of V.S. Hispanics. all students' were in Cancun on spring break in service." mersion director. communities foreign to their tra"Our Hispanic brothers and sisspring break. For many the tradiDuring the weeklong program, At the Christian Appalachian dition." . tional pursuits of beach parties Project, instead of tossing beach 20 students lived in Arrupe House, ters have a lot to offer our church," Catholic groups targeted by sects and ski trips are giving way to a balls, student volunteers tossed the Jesuit residence for the New Archbishop Laghi said. "They are include "youths, migrants and those growing interest among college 50-pound bags of free seed potaEngland province, and performed a warm community with a deep less reached by pastoral programs students in volunteering their time toes and fertilizer int.o the pickup volunteer work in Boston neigh- commitment to family. We must providing solid formation and ade"- . to Help others:according 1'0 volun- trucks of low-income families as borhoods, including refurbishment provide access to our schools to quate church structures," said the teer groups and campus leaders. part of the project's Garden Pro- of low-income housing, outreach their children." communique.

The Archbishop urged his hearservices for the elderly and workat The Christian Appalachian Pro- gram.

The church needs a "new evaners to remain strong in their leadthe Boston Food Bank and two ject, a non-sectarian organization They also worked as teachers' .gelization" sparked by a "healthy ership of schools. . soup kitchens for the homeless. founded by a priest in Lancaster, theology" to help Catholics red is- . Ky., reported that volunteers filled aides at the. organization's pre"There will be new crisis and Quincy (111.)

College students schools, helped to repair homes of cover their identity, it said.

Michelle Zimmerman and Carin new challenges, but what is not every available bed during the the poor and elderly, spruced up The threat must be faced with spring break period. Several other the cabins of the project's summer Bohumolski found that the nine needed is pessimism," he said. "evangelical charity and pastoral campus groups could not be accom- camps and took on a variety of days they spent in Oaxaca, Mex- "What is needed is leadership in courage," it said. ico, as part of the "Women to faith and creativity." modated and were to come later in other assignments.

At an April 8 press conference Women Experience," a program the year.

The project, founded and headed sponsored by the Maryknoll order, Cardinal Francis Arinze, president The Extended Service program

by Msgr. Ralph Beiting, reported of the Pontifical Council for Interwill change their lives forever. at St. Michael's College in Col- receiving an "unprecedented numreligious Dialogue, said specific The two lived in a small Marychester, Vt., placed 43 students ber of calls" from col1ege groups measures were not developed beknoll mission built into a mounand staff members in IO-day vol- offering to serve as volunteers this BOSTON (CNS) - The Society cause it "is the primary job of the tainside and worked with the poor unteer assignments around the year. Of the 15 colleges that sent ofSt. James the Apostle has named local church to figure out what country, and could not find service groups of volunteers during spring while helping to build much-needed Father William T. Pearsall direcresponse to give" based on the roads. sites for 24 other people. break 1991, five were taking part tor of the organization. sects in their region.

"As I look back on it now, these At Jesuit-run Boston College, for the first time.

During the cardinal's meeting, Father Pearsall, a priest of the people gave me a deep appreciaspeakers fisted spiritual famine, "we have always had more appliBoston archdiocese, will oversee At St. Michael's College, stu- tion for the things I have," said dent volunteers were joined by col- Miss Bohumolski. "They want very the Catholic missionary society psychological problems, deficien- cants than we could accommolege staff members, including the little, yet give so much." cies in church structures, the action date," said Kerry Maloney, direcand regularly visit the organizaschool's vice president for admintion's 39 parishes in Bolivia, Peru ofthe devil and poverty as reasons tor of a program that chooses "We want to spread a new students by lottery to spend a week istration and business, at six pro- awareness of the lives these and and Ecuador. why people join sects.

The Boston-based society, foundCardinal Arinze suggested that in Boston's economically depressed jects in Alabama, New York, Con- other Third World people lead," the devil might be behind the sect areas during school breaks. necticut and the District of Colum- said Miss Zimmerman. "We caned in 1958, is comprised of dioceSpring break volunteer projects bia. san priests on temporary leave phenomenon. not ignore these people; they are from their dioceses for missionary Data compiled by the Latin took place all over the country and Among the projects were clean- our equals and we must continue work in Latin America. It curAmerican bishops show that there in Mexico. They ranged from tutor- up and construction work near to help them." rently has 83 members from the were 8 million non-Catholics in ing children to assisting the elderly, Selma, Ala., for the rural poor; the region in 1974 and that the from repair projects to "immer-· service to battered and homeless V nited States, Canada, Ireland.

England, Scotland, Wales, Ausnumber jumped to 30 million in sion" experiences with the poor, women and homeless men in Washaccording to The Catholic Colle- ington; work at soup kitchens and tralia and New Zealand. Among 1985.

Some Latin American govern- gian, .newsletter· of the National a center for young p~ople under them is Attleboro native Father WARSAW, Poland (CNS) ments dissatisfied with Catholic Catholic Student Coalition, based stress in Hartford, Conn.; and serPope John Paul will visit 12 towns Donald J. Bowen, who has been a social positions "promote the in Dayton, Ohio. vice to runaways, e'motionally in nine days during his fourth trip member of the society since 1973, expansion of these groups, giving Although some have credited troubled young people and Sal· to his native Poland in June. serving in Peru and Bolivia. them full support," said Cardinal the national spirit during the Per- vadoran refugees at v'arious site, . according to PAP, the official PolMiguel Obando Bravo ofNicarag- sian Gulf War with spurring more in New York state. ish news agency. He also will make He Assists ua.

Boston College's Urban Immerstudents toward service projects, a two-day visit starting Aug. 15 to "For the multitUde of worldly According to African church David Klopfenstein, executive ad- sion Program was created in 1988 attend an international youth gather- friends profiteth not,· nor may figures there are more than 1.0,000 ministrator of the National Cath- to give students a local alternative ing in Czestochowa. the site of strong helpers anything avail, nor sects in black Africa with more olic Student Coalition, said inter- for performing community service Poland's holiest shrine, the Black' wise counselors give profitable than 10 million members. work, in addition to the volunteer est in service projects has been Madonna. The pope's previous counsel, nor the cunning of docCardinal JozefTomko, head of growing on college campuses for a programs sponsored by the unitrips to Poland. a predo~inantly tors give co.nsolation, nor riches the Vatican Congregation for the versity's Chaplain's Office in while.

Catholic country. attracted millions deliver in time of need, nor. a secret Evangelization ofPeqples, blamed of Poles to open-air Masses and place defend, if Thou, Lord, do "There's been a building taking Appalachia and Haiti. much of the rise of sects on doctri"It seemed we could do this kind were seen as playing a major not assist, help, comfort, counseL, place over the past few years," said nal confusion spawned by dissimorale-boosting role in the coun- inform, and defend." - Thomas a Klopfenstein, a 1990 graduate of of mission right here in Boston," dent theologians. try's struggle against communism. Kempis Wake Forest University. "More said Ms. Maloney, Boston College

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In death:they:were still divided VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A few days before the death of rebel Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, one of the final minidramas of his life was being acted out in a French court.

The court fined the outspoken archbishop the equivalent oUI ,400 for remarks he had made about Muslims, finding him guilty of racial defamation and incitement to racial hatred.

The incident was a marginal one in Archbishop Lefebvre's long and fiery career, yet it illustrated well the gulf that had come to separate him from the rest of the church.

Just as the archbishop's anti-Mus-' lim comments were landing him in legal trouble, Pope John Paul ~I was calling an unprecedented VatIcan summit aimed, in large part, at building bridges to Muslims after the Persian Gulf war.

More than two years after an official schism, the two men and their churches .:- were still moving in opposite directions. .

It is all the more fascinating, therefore, to discover just how far the pope and the Vatican Were willing to bend to accommodate Archbishop Lefebvre, right up to his death on March 25.

The Vatican hinted at this when, in a statement expressing sadness at the 85-year-old prelate's passing, it said the pope had offered to lift .Archbishop Lefebvre's excommunication if he had only shown some sign of remorse.

According to Vatican sources and one cardinal involved, there was in fact a secret Vatican effort to obtain that "gesture of· repentance" - a deathbed return to the fold which could undo some of the damage wrought by the archbishop's years of disobedience.

Cardinal Silvio Oddi, a retired Curia official and a longtime friend of Archbishop Lefebvre, had al, ready made one attempt at reconciliation last December, when he extended a "peace feeJer" to the archbishop through an· Italian journalist.

But Archbishop Lefebvre's reply was disappointing, Cardinal Oddi said in an interview March 27.

True to the principles that brought him into schism, the archbishop continued to deny that the real church resided in Rome - and to hold fast to his belief that the

teachings of the Second Vatican Council were in many ways a betrayal of church tradition.

When Archbishop Lefebvre was operated on for stomach cancer in mid-March, Cardinal Oddiagain moved into action. On March 18, he said, he received high-level instructions to make the offer of papal forgiveness and removal of punishment in exchange for even a sign of repentance.

Cardinal Oddi telephoned Archbishop Lefebvre's collaborators in Switzerland on March 21 to arrange a personal visit to his bedside.

"I was assured that he was out of danger, so Idecided to wait until after Easter to make the trip," Cardinal Oddi said. The archbishop died four days later. It was uncertain whether he had heard of the pope's final offer.

Had Archbishop Lefebvre's aides deliberately misled the Vatican envoy? Did they fear that a lastminute reconciliation would have compromised the future of their Priestly Society of St. Pius X? .

Cardinal Oddi did not think so.

"This was certainly not a deception, but a surprise, I think, when Msgr. Lefebvre took a sudden turn for the worse," he said.

Still, the cardinal felt particular regret at having failed, in the end, to help remove what the pope has termed the "deep affliction" brought upon the church by the schism. Cardinal Oddi, perhaps as much as anyone at the Vatican, worked hard behind the scenes to bring Archbishop Lefebvre back into good standing, both before, and after the schism of 1988.

"He had more than 250 priests and six seminaries - so there must have been something good about the man. It really inakes me sad," said Cardinal Oddi.

A onetime Vatican visitator to the Society of St. Pius X, Cardinal Edouard Gagnon said that

although Archbishop Lefebvre planned for his hierarchical succession by illicitly ordaining bish-. ops, there will probably be difficult times ahead for his organization. Cardinal Gagnon spoke in an interview with the Italian magazine 30 Giorni (30 Days).

"I foresee internal divisions. He was undeniably charismatic and succeeded in holding together·a galaxy that, in· reality, was very diverse," Cardinal Gagnon said.

Whether the archbishop and his society will havea significant lasting effect on the church and its unity is another question - one that has long been debated. In 1976, when Archbishop Lefebvre was first suspended from his priestly ministry, Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner said the conflict "was a curious little episode causing no change in (church) history."

Despite the fact that some leading Vatican officials today consider the archbishop a tragic figure, others in Rome are less worried about the breakaway group.

Said one Vatican official: "It's certainly not the first .break from Catholic unity. As for how long it's going to continue to be a thorn in the church's side, I don't know."

He'll keep tabs VATICAN CITY (CNS) Poland's nonviolent revolution from communist rule to democratic government should be an example for other Eastern European countries. said Pope John Paul II in greeting Lech Walesa, Poland's electrician-turned-president. At a recent Vatican meeting. the pope s~id he would continue influencing political life in his native Poland. as it seeks to restructure after more than 40 years of communist rule..

The pope also encouraged Western nations to provide economic aid and ease Poland's foreign debt problems as it struggles to rebuild its economy.

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Pope walks revised Way of Cross on Good Friday ROME (eNS) - When Pope John Paul II walked the annual Way ofthe Cross on Good Friday, March 29, several famHiar stations had changed.

Gone was St. Veronica, who for centuries had appeared at the sixth . station to wipe Jesus' brow with her veil. Missing, too, were the the times Christ fell under the weight of his cross as he dragged it to Mount Calvary.

Most surprising of all, perhaps, was the absence of Jesus' sorrowful meeting with his mother, the traditional fourth stop on the Via Crucis.

For the first time in memory, the papal ceremony - broadcast on television to millions of Catholics worldwide - introduced an "updated" Way of the Cross. The new version cut out episodes that were not mentioned in the New Testament, adding others that are better grounded in scripture.

The revised itinerary begins with the Agony in the Garden and proceeds to Jesus' arrest after his betrayal by Judas. Both are major events in Christ's passion but have been left out of the accepted Via Crucis text for several centuries.

Another new station is Peter's denial of Christ - an event described in detail by all four evangelists. The next two stations describe Jesus's judgment by Pilate, and his being scourged and crowned with thorns. The revised text keeps the appearance ofSimon of Cyrene, who helps Jesus carry his cross, and· the meeting with the women of Jerusalem.

On Calvary, the stations r~call­ ing Christ being stripped of his garments and being nailed to the cross have been simplified into one station marking his crucifixion. A new station is dedicated to Christ's promise of redemption to the good thief who was crucified with him. . Another new station recalls the scene of Christ on the cross, with Mary and the disciples atthe foot.

There are still 14 stations in all: Jesus in the Garden of Ge'thsemane; Jesus, betrayed by Judas, is arrested; Jesus is condemned by the Sanhedrin; Jesus is denied by Peter; Jesus is judged by Pilate; Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns; Jesus takes up his cross; Jesus is helped by Simon of Cyrene to carry his cross; Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem;

Jesus is crucified; Jesus promises redemption to the good thief; Jesus on the cross, with his mother and St. John at the foot of the cross; Jesus dies on the cross; Jesus is placed in the tomb.

The stations - almost as old as Christianity - have ranged in number from five to 30. They have varied throughout history in the scenes depicted and the order of events.

The practice 'of using "stations of the cross" for meditations on the sufferings of Christ originated with medieval Holy Land pilgrims who believed they had identified actual sites of the Passion in Jerusalem. Franciscans and other religious orders promoted the practice, sometimes using different episodes. Jesuits in the early 1600s, for example, promoted a sevenstation Via Crucis that began with the Agony in the Garden.

The traditional 14 stations of the Way of the Cross, which have remained more or less unaltered since the early I700s, were introduced by Spanish Franciscans in the mid-1600s.

Vatican Master of Ceremonies Msgr. Piero Marini, in a commentary in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, said the latest changes were not meant to replace the traditional text of the Way of the Cross, which "remains fully valid and may be taken up again in the future."

Instead, he said t the aim was to show the "extraordinary richness of the Via Crucis, which no single program can fully express." The added episodes are not really new, but have been "retrieved" from texts popular in past cent.uries, he said.

"The 1991 Way of the Cross spotlights the tragic play of personalities, the struggle between light and darkness, between the truth and falsehood which they incarnate," said Msgr. Marini.

The new stations encourage Christians "to cry over our sin as did Peter; to become open to Jesus, the suffering Messiah, as did the good thief; to remain close to the cross of Christ as did his mother and disciple; and to gather with them the word that saves, the blood that purifies, the spirit which gives life," said Msgr. Marini.

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Learning about Cancer

By Richard Hellwig, MD Chief, Medical Oncology St. Anne's Hospital Fall River Si!lce April has been designated as Cancer Control Month by the AQlerican Cancer Society, I would like to explain ths disease in some detail.

Cancer is actually a group of over 100 diseases which have many different courses ·and patterns of behavior. The common denominator is the fear of pain, suffering and death which the word engenders.

Innumerable myths regarding cancer's course and treatment have developed over the years and it is the aim of this article to offer accurate and current information regarding the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of the more commonly seen cancers in the IJ nited States today.

Cancer care is evolving rapidly .and it is crucial that patients get their information from knowledgeable physicians and nurses, not from the personal experiences of friends or relatives.

For example, the word leukemia may terrify some, but there are 10 kinds of leukemia, each treated differently. The most common type is chronic lymphocytic leukemia, usually found by a blood analysis in patients having the blood tested for a different reason.

The disease usually remains dormant for many years, not requiring treatment, and while fatal for some patients, it is often not a cause of death.

In contrast, acute myelogenous leukemia, another form of the disease, must be treated immediately and· with very powerful chemotherapy (drugs which attack cancer cells), usually requiring a monthlong hospital stay. Despite this, few patients are cured. So it becomes obvious that leukemia has many manifestations.

Once a cancer is diagnosed, blood tests and X-rays are ordered to find out if it has spread to other parts of the body. This is called "staging" and is frustrating for the patient and his or her family, who are anx:ious for treatment to begin.

But it is vitally important since it determines the intensity of treatment and helps predict the future, known as prognosis.

For example, if a breast cancer .is removed and has not spread, the chance of a patient being alive and free of disease in 10 years is about 90 percent. If it has spread to bone, liver, or lung, the chance of being alive in five years is less than 10 percent.

There are basically three different ways to treat cancer: remove it by surgery, shrink it with radiation or destroy it with chemotherapy.

Radiation and surgery are known as local therapies because they attack the cancer where it is found.

Chemotherapy is called systemic treatment because the drugs travel throughout the body destroying cancer cells which may have spread, but have yet to be detected by examination, blood tests or X-rays.

Sometimes all three treatments may be used. More recently, chemotherapy and radiation may be given together prior to surgery in an attempt to shrink the tumor, .~hus lessening the scope of an

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I have tried to show that the diagnosis and treatment of cancer are complex and always evolving.

Thanks to new discoveries and equipment, of the one million patients diagnosed with cancer this year, 50 percent will be cured.

With increased early detection and more effective medication and equipment, the treatment of cancer will continue to progress.

Readers are invited to sllbmit questions to be answered in this column. They may be sent to Public Relations Dept., St. Anne's Hospital, 795 Middle St., Fall River 02721.

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Youth and youth advisors from Forum, two youth presenters spoke the 12 New England dioceses met on the role of youth in today's last month in Nashua, NH, for the church. The bishops responded to sixth New England Y6uth Gather- the presentations and accepted GENERAL CONTRACTORS ing. Themed "Building the City of questions from the floor. ParticiGod - Celebrating our Heritage," pating bishops were Leo O'Neil of 55 Highland Avenue the conference focused on the mul- Manchester, NH; Peter Rosazza Fall River, MA 02720 ticultural nature of church and of Hartford, Conn., Joseph Gerry 678·5201 of Portland, Maine; Roberto Gonsociety.

28 youth and adults from the zales of Boston and Thomas Dupre Fall River diocese attended the of Springfield. entire conference, while 13 attended Saturday's activities ended with the Saturday program. The con- an international food fair f~atur-_ tingent was led by Sister Mary ing Italian, Chinese, Mexican and Golden, MSBT, Edna Donoghue American dishes and a dance that and Father David Costa of the included variQus internatiomll J. TESER, Prop.

Diocesan Office for Catholic Youth . dances.

I RESIDENTIAL Ministry and includeQ youth and Bishop O'Neil, host of the event, INDUSTRIAL adults from Our Lady of the celebrated the conference's conCOMMERCIAL Assumption and St. Anthony par- cluding Mass on Sunday and chal253 Cedar St., New Bedford ishes, New Bedford; Our Lady of lenged the youth to go beyond the 993-3222 Victory, Centerville; Our Lady of status quo to be Christ's light in the Cape, Brewster; Holy Cross, the world.

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Also, St. George, Westport; St. ALWAYS MON'EY A\1\IIABLE OUR LADY'S Patrick, Wareham; St. Mary, NorFOR HOME PURCHASE OR ton; St. Michael, Fall River; St. RELIGIOUS STORE John Neumann, East Freetown. . IMPROVEMENT Man. - Sat. 10:00 - 5:30 P.M. The conference began with diocesan group meetings. The groups GIFTS then joined for a community buildCARDS ing program, for which each diocese was asked to provide fourBOOKS foot cardboard figures of young people dressed in clothing particu673-4262 lar to a culture or an area of their diocese.

936 So. Main St., Fall River Presenting figures representing the Fall River diocese were youth groups from Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Michael's parishes and members of the Diocesan Youth Advisory Board.

Also, each group contributed slides of parish youth activities.

Saturday's keynote address was delivered by Rev. Warren Savage, director of Cathedral ",igh School Individual Retirement Accounts in Springfield. He challenged lisfrom Citizens-Union. teners to go beyond differences in color and culture to love as Christ loves. . Among workshops were "Build- . ingthe Multicultural City of God," a presentation by Father Jack Oliveira and St. Michael's parish youth group members Lori-Ann Ferreira, Kathy Viveiros, Filomena Pavao, CHRISTIAN PRO· LIFER Phillip Viveiros, Kevin DaPonte and Danny Oliveira. .

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By Linda Rome Suicide and depression: two words that worry parents of teenagers. Recently a mother of a 14year-old boy confided in me that she was terrified her son might do something desperate. He had even said he wasn't sure he wanted to keep on living.

What could be wrong with her son's life, I wondered. ·He's a talented, committed, sensitive Christian with good grades and a stable family life. He doesn't drink or take drugs.

The turmoil of adolescence is almost a cliche, but surely simply making it through the teen years isn't enough to cause a person to . consider suicide! Yet a little more often than·once a month in a town with 100,000 people a youth commits suicide.

What tip-offs are there that a teen might be in danger of suicide?

Three things to look for are depression, an experience of loss, and stress.

Depression .can be hard to recognize, but usually. there's. a deep sense of sadness present, coupled with feelings of hopelessness and a sense of worthlessness. A teen might withdraw from friends and family, or sUddenly become aggressive or apathetic; grades might drop and themes of depression and death are sometimes. reflected in essays and artwork.

When a teen experiences a loss, perhaps the death of a parent or the unexpected loss of health from illness or an injury, it can be difficult to cope with the feelings of grief and disappointment. For teens the loss of status, self-esteem or self-confidence.can be equally devastating - especially to someone with a fragile sense of self. Stress contributes to suicidal actions, especially when a number of stress-

ful events are clustered in a short time frame.

Such things as a move, a pregnancy or a divorce in the family can be stressful events. You need to listen carefully to a friend who has experienced such losses or stress. Parents need to listen, too.

Unfortunately, some adults have a tendency to downplay what is a critical issue to a teen, when what really matters is communicating that someone cares.

What should you do if you think a friend might be suicidal? First, listen and let your friend know you want to help. Be as affirming and supportive as you can. Then get help! Contact a suicide prevention center, a school counselor, priest or psychiatrist and ask for help.

And try to keep such things as guns, potentially lethal drugs and alcohol away· from your friend.

A betrayal offriendship brought on the crisis with my friend's son.

At school, longtime friends had decided to shun him - refusing to let him sit with them at lunch, calling him names in the hall and mocking him when he tried to find out why he des~rved such treatment.

After four or five weeks of trying to handle the situation on his own,· he lost heart. Luckily his mother took his pain seriously.

She encouraged him, and she set up a meeting with a trained counselor to help him cope with a situation that deeply threatened his self-esteem.

At last report he's hanging in there, looking forward to the end of school and hoping that next year will be better.

It's Possible "It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to loye him."-P.T. Forsyth

OFFICERS OF Smarts, a Juriior Achievement Company, present a check representing candy sale proceeds to Sister Imelda of the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River. The students, all from Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, are, from left, Cassia Picard, David Silva and Stephanie Schuller.

They met on the dance floor in the old high-school gym They fell like a rock, she kinda liked him And his heart beat like thunder as they moved across the floor When the music was over, she slipped out of his arms And out the door Well a man loves a woman but he can't understand Why she is sad when she stares at the ring on her hand She-sits in some club where the long shadows fall Drops a coin in the jukebox not the phone on the wall So close, yet so far away So close, yet so far away We believe in tomorrow maybe more than today We're so close, so close Yet so far away Some people think that if you really believe That's what you need to solve all tlJe mysteries I know someone who just heads for the sun She says I don't want to grow wise I just want to stay young There's a restless look in your eye There's a secret hurt in my heart And the dream that pulls us together girl Is a dream that's going to tear us apart There's a restless look in your eye Are you looking for someone way up here We gotta fight to keep it together girl For the dream that keeps us So close, yet so far away Who would have thought girl That we would end up this way Written by Daryl Hall and George Green. Sung by Daryl Hall and John Oates (c) 1990 by Arista Records Inc. I'VE BEEN a Hall and Oates and hurt. The couple "met on fan for a long time, so to see the dance floor in the old highthem back together and in the school gym." and "fell like a Top ·40 with "So Close" is rock" into love. 1\0 details are exciting. given for "why she is sad when The song presents a story of she ·stares at the ring on her hand," but they both know that teen romance lost to disillusion

"the dream that pulls us together ... is a dream that's going to tear us apart."

Falling in love on the dance floor certainly is romantic, but such relationships often have no future. Lasting relationships need better foundations than that.

When considering the future of romantic relationships, or any relationships which are important to you, try asking yourself these questions: I. How honestly have you faced your differences in goals, personality and interests? Are you even aware of these differences?

2. What do you know about each other's family life? We all bring our family backgrounds into a romance. Are both of you aware of family problems and have you discussed how they might affect your future life together?

3. What happens when there is a conflict? Is anger expressed, faced an9 eventually resolved?

Anger that is either avoided or used unfairly against another injures and sometimes kills love.

4. What do you most want to give and receive from the relationship? Does the other person have this to give? Can what you genuinely want to give be received?

5. What role does God play in each of your lives? How will the spiritual closeness· of an enduring love be built between you?

When I was young and failing in and out of love no one asked me these questions, but I would have been helped ifsomeone had. Falling in love·on the dance floor bring!! a great emotional rush, but love that e'ndures also takes lots of careful thqught.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3 Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

All Saints'Oscar nominees Outstanding Contribution to

By Hilda Young tion signs at their peaks; Marlene Music in Liturgical Life: Michael With the Academy Awards still Ender who got the parish council fresh in our minds, we at Caffeine Sharp for taking guitar lessons to pass a resolution "that no meetprior to leading the music for this Club decided All Saints Parish ing of any organization, commitshould consider establishing some year's folk Masses; Arnold Cleaver tee or ad hoc body will last more for accidentally dropping the over- than 90 minutes; Nancy Warren, Oscar presentations of its own. head projector that flashed hymn It did not take us long to come parish secretary, who has created a verses upside down and/ or rev- funny typographical error in every up with a few categories and ersed onto an obscure wall of the nominees: one of our well-read Sunday bulBest Homily: Our pastor, Fa- church; Richard White for con- . letins for the past 15 years. ther O'Kneel, for his "money talk" vincinghis wife, Gloria, to pass on Best Caffeine Club Scripts: "How high C notes, particularly in songs I Faked an Appendix Scar to Get titled "When I Say Tithing, Do where there are none.

You Think I Am TalkingAbout a Out of Being Parent's Club ProGeorgia Baby With New Teeth?"; gram Chairperson"; "Dances With Unique Contributions to Parish Disease: My Years in the Crying the visiting missionary from Zambia for somehow convincing my Life: Darby McMurchiefor paint- Room"; "Silence of the Slams: daughter there are higher goals in . ing the parking-lot speed bumps How One Person Dealt With The day-glo orange and posting eleva- Pain of a Kneeler on His Instep." life than owning and operating your own mall; our permanent deacon, Rod Goodman, for his homily "Trust and Children: Do We Smell Our Kids' Breath to Make Sure They Have Brushed Their Teeth?"

Outstanding Achievement by a Religious Education Teacher: Mary.anne Applegate for teaching eighth grade CCD longer than anyone in parish history - six months (accepting for her will be her therapist, Dr. Lawrence); Lillian Hanford who singlehandedly oversaw the design and execution of 23 angel costumes for the Christmas ST. JOSEPH'S School eighth graders pass along care program (luckily she began the packages to be packed on postal trucks for mailing to troops in executions after the children had exited their outfits); Bruce TanSaudi Arabia as part of a February support-the-troops project bark for creative use of audiovisat the New Bedford school. Upon completion of Operation ual materials (using the filmstrip Desert Storm, returning service personnel have expressed projector to break the fire-alarm appreciation for such efforts, which fortunately are no longer glass during his "Christmas cannecessary. dies" class).

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Apr. 12: 1991

in our schools

St. John Evangelist School

Students at St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro, are visiting the elderly and disabled at Hillside Adult Day Health Center each month to' share artwork, songs and poems. Also, every month children send notes or cards to the sick and shut-ins of St. John's parish.

All studel"!ts attended Leland Faulkner's "Light Theater," a mime and magic show, April II at the Knights of Columbus Hall.

School nurse Beth Collins will hold an immunization health clinic II a.m. to noon April 24 at City Hall. .

The second annual father-daughter dance will be held 7 to 10 p.m, May 10, and mothers and sons will compete in a June 2 softball game.

A softball game planning meeting will be held at 7 p.m. April 24.

Volunteer committee members Caryn Dunlap, Donna Knight and FEEHAN PRINCIPAL Sister Mary Faith Harding and scholarship winners, from left, Mary Richards are working on a front row, Megan Collins, Anne Brown and Tracy Gordon; rear, Peter Behmke, Scott Schilling "Bring Beauty to Life - Volunteer" theme to represent St. John's and Timothy Comeaux.

School on Attleboro's Volunteer Day, April 23.

The next to last roller skating Sch~ol party of the school year will be For the third consecutive year, ke, son of Peter and Joan Behmke of North Easton; and Anne Brown, . held 6 to 9 p.m. April 23 at US Bishop Feehan High School, Attle- of Seekonk; and Tracy Gordon, daughter of Donald and Francine Skates with St. Mary-Sacred Heart boro, is awarding six scholarships daughter of Thomas and Earlene Brown of Attleboro.

School. to provide financial assistance to Gordon of Wrentham.

The scholarship program supincoming freshmen.

Leadership scholarship recipients plements Bishop Feehan's financial The scholarships were esta- are: Scott Schilling, son of Paul aid program. Present and incoming blished through a development and Lorraine Schilling of North students are encouraged to apply program begun three years ago in Attleboro; Timothy Comeaux, son for need-based aid by calling the conjunction with the school's 25th of George and Maureen Comeaux school at 226-6223. anniversary observance. At that time members of the business Holy Family-Holy Name and community, friends of the school, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel schools in' parents and alumni contributed to New Bedford will sponsor concur21 students at Bishop Connolly spring will be student coordinator a capital campaign to provide for rent walI<-a-thons on May 18.

High School, Fall River, recently of the Connolly sailing club. renewal of facilities and financial A T-shirt contest is underway completed a weekend peer trainJuniorJonathan Whittenhall atassistance to students. for Holy Family-Holy Name stuing program directed by Colleen tended the 19911eadership seminar The $500 scholarships are adents, with the winning design to Smith and Roland LaCroix, faculty sponsored by the Military Order warded in two categories: prinbe worn by walkers at the event. moderators of the Connolly Alco- of the World Wars. Held recently cipal's scholarships, awarded to Painters' caps bearing the school hol and Drug Awareness Team, in Fairhaven, the event featured the male and the female student logo will also be worn. and George Angelo, drug educa-' discussions with local and state who scores the highest on the That evening the two schools tion advisor. level leaders. school's entrance exam;' and will hold a dance at Mt. Carmel "The purpose of the weekend leadership scholarships, awarded School. was to educate ourselves as well as The Connolly stude,nt governto applicants whose academic, Further information on the event to help others," said Miss Smith. ment is expanding its recycling extracurricular, character and is available from Kevin Keighley "The students were able to share campaign leading up to Earth Day. service records indicate they are of the Holy Family-Holy Name their ideas and opinions concern- Over the next several weeks clean exemplary students.

Parents' Organizing Committee, ing various adolescent issues such recyclable items including plastic Principal's scholarship receip- as drug and alcohol abuse, self996-3944, evenings. forks, knives, and spoons and glass ients from the 1991-92 incoming awareness and decision making." and plastic bottles may be brought freshman class are: Megan Collins, These issues were illustrated to the school on Wednesday and daughter of William and Patricia through videos, group discussions, Friday mornings. The campaign Collins of Wrentham; Peter Behmrole playing exercises and sharing will end May 3. personal experiences.

Connolly hockey players Eric The program is the first in "High Stubbert, Brian Camara, Jayme Climbing Skills," a three-stage, Michael J. Donly, headmaster 90-hour peer training process 'de- Carvalho and Glenn Martin reThe Boston-based Arson Watch of Coyle-Cassidy High school, has cently traveled to Michigan for veloped by Angelo. program is sponso·ring·i.ts .

Reward announced that William Tranter, national tournament action. All • annual poster contest for Massaa teacher and coach at the Taunare members of the Cape Cod Rev. Paul Sullivan, SJ, coordi- Whalers All-Star team, which won chusetts .public, private and parton School for nine years, will nator of the Advanced Placement the Massachusetts state title. ochial school students in grades 5 assume the duties of athletic direcprogram at Connolly, has anthrough 8. tor on July I. Connolly will be the ,site of the nounced that the school will exThis year's contest theme is Tranter will replace Steven Winpand its AP offerings in the 1991- second annual Ed Lambert Bas- "Smoke Detectors: Save a Life." slow, athletic director for the past 92 school year to include psy- ketball Tournament April 12 to 13 Prizes of$250, $100 and $50 will 10 years. Winslow will remain at chology. The honors course in and 20 to 21. be awarded to entrants in Level I the school as an instructor in the The drama society will present psychology has been developed by (7th and 8th grade) and Level 2 physical education department arid faculty member Ted Pettine. ' Anne of Green Gables ,at 8 p.m.

(5th and 6th grade). head coach of the football and AP is a natiQnal program coor- April 26 and 27.

Schools may submit up to '10 baseball teams. dinated by the'College Board which entries per class. Winners will be Tranter is a graduate of Coyleannounced May 10, with teachers Cassidy and of Stonehill College, . allows high school students to earn of winning'students also acknowlNorth Easton. Presently he is head' college credit. Connolly has been part of the program for 25 years, Bishop Stang High School, edged. Prize presentations \ViII be of the social studies department, and at present students can earn made shortly thereafter.

Nort,h Dartmouth, is holding a faculty manager of athletics, and Coptest rules: Mass of Thanksgiving this morncodirector of the peer leadership. AP credit in calculus, French, English literature, U.S. history,-biol- ing for the safe return from OperaI. Artwork should be On 8 1/2 program. ogy, chemistry and studio art. . tion Desert Storm of servicemen x II or 18 x 24 heavy construction He has been an assistant coach and women with Stang connec- paper. Slogans and mottos are for track and basketball and has • permitted but not required. Work Junior Shawn Connell was tions. been head coach of the girls' basThe service personnel, including may be' in color or black and named Athlete of the Year by the ketball team for eight years, winNewport County YMCA. She has Jeffrey Fox, and theirfamjlies, are white. ning three league championships 2. The back of the entry should and the Division III state title in participated in Connolly's track special guests of honor atthe liindicate student's name and grade; and soccer programs and this turgy.

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school name, address and telephone number; teacher's name.

3. Artwork should be reviewed and selected by classroom teacher, school principal or art teacher.

4. All posters must include the 24-hour Arson Hotline telephone number, 1-800-682-9229.

5. All entries become the prop~ erty of the Arson Watch Reward program and will not be returned.

6. Decision of the judges will be final.

7. Entries must be received at Massachusetts Fair Plan, 3 Center Plaza, Boston 02108, by May 3.

Final results posted for CYO basketball Albert VaiOancourt, associate director of the Fall River Area CY 0, has released a summation of the recently completed Fall River Area CYO Basketball League season.

In the Junior A Girls' Division, Our Lady of Grace, Westport won the regular season title, then defeated St. George of Westport in two straight games to win the playoff championship, In the Junior B Girls' Division, St. George of Westport took the regular season crown and defeated Our Lady of Grace, Westport for the playoff championship.

St. William's won the regular season Junior A Boys' title only to lose to Santo Christo, two games to one, in the playoffs.

Our Lady of Fatima, Swansea, took first place in the Junior B Boys' Division, then defeated St. Anne's to take the playoff series.

Notre Dame won the regular season crown in the Junior C Division and then defeated St. William's in two straight games to take the playoff championship.

Santo Christo fillished in first place in the Prep Division and also took the playoffs by defeating St. Michael's, two games to one.

In the Senior B Division, St. William's took a one game playoff from Santo Christo and finished in first place while in Senior A, Santo Christo won the regular season title but lost to Holy Ghost in two straight in the playoffs.

Vaillancourt remarked that over 800 young people took part in this year's program and he looks forward to even more participation next season. Special thanks were extended to the referees, sc;:orekeepers'and timers and to assistant directors John Medeir'os, Charlie Medeiros and Rick LePage' for their efforts this year.

'Cult head'on lam WASHINGTON (CNS)- U.S. marshals have intensified a nationwide search for anti-Catl1olic pamphleteer Tony Alamo ,on charges that he owes the Int.ernai Revenue Service about $8 million in back taxes. He is also sought for alleged involvement in a child abuse case in California and for threatening, to kidnap a federat' judge in Arkansas. Alamo, a flamboyant country singer turned evangelist known for his biting attacks on the Catholic Church, is also believed . to have stolen his wife Susan's body from an Arkansas mausoleum. He has evaded arrest since October 1988.

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O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE O.L. FATIMA, SW AN SEA Youth ministry lock-in retreat 8 Father Mark Hession, ethics comp.m. April 17 to 8 a.m. April 18, mittee vice chairman at St. Anne's parish center. 0 LV /0 LH Guild Hospital, FR, will speak at a parish luncheon noon April 17; reserva- pro-life committee-sponsored eventions: Lillian O'Neill, 775-1626, or ing of reflection on "The Precious Audrey Loughnane, 362-2082.

Gift of Life: Confronting Complexities Ambiguities and'in Health Care ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, . Issues," 6:30 p.m. Sunday, church HYANNIS hall. A question period and refreshHoly Name Society meeting folments will follow. lowing 9 a.m. Mass Sunday; guest speaker Harold Russell will discuss CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, FR Disabilities in the 1990s. Boy Scout Mass for deceased members 8:30 Troop 63 will hold monthly collec- a.m. April21, Holy Rosary Church, tion of redeemable bottles and cans followed by communion breakfast.

8 to II a.m. Sunday and will pick up Dorothy J. Levesque will speak. donations. Information: David BisDeadline for reservations with Celia bee, 771-3067.

Corcoran or Lorena Pacheco is April 15. Transportation can be arranged' HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO and elevator service is available at Reception for Miyoko Perry, who the church. completed RCIA and became newlyinitiated parish member at Easter ST. VINCENT'S HOME, FR Vigil, after II a.m. Mass Sunday.

Volunteers needed to plan the first St. Vincent's Children's Festival to HOLY NAME, FR be held Sunday, Sept. 22. Events will Holy Name School father-daughinclude 10 km walk, family enterter dance 6 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. tainment, child welfare speaker, HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON employee recognition ceremony and Kolbe Men's Guild breakfast 8 to games. Information: Father Joseph 10:30 a.m. April 21.

Costa, 679-8511.

CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUPS GATHERING 234 Second Street Cape and Islands Charismatic ' • fall. River, MA oml prayer groups will gather 7:30 p.m.

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by River of Life. Information: Ethel Mitchell, 432-4435; Bill Mulcahy, 420-1889.

ST. JAMES, NB First Class Second Class CYO general meeting 2 p.m. SunFirst Class Presort Carrier Route Coding day, church hall.

Third Class Bulk·Rate Zip Code Sorting ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Third Class Non Profit list Maintenance Ladies of St. Anne communion 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday; meeting 7 ALL TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS p.m. April 16..rectory.

Cheshire labeling on Kirk·Rudy 4·up CHRIST THE KING MASHPEE labeler. And Pressure Sensitive Labeling RCIA classe~ begin 8 p.m. April 22 and run monthly until late fall, Inserting, collating, folding, then twice monthly until next year's metering, sealing, sorting, addressing, Easter Vigil April 18. Call parish sacking, completing USPS forms, office to register. direct delivery to Post Office ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO ... Printing . .. We Do It All! Attleboro District Serra Club Altar Call for Details (508) 679-5262 Servers' Night 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, parish center. ,-

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Dofl Hyacinth Circle 71 Daughters of Isabella, NB, meeting 7:30 p.m:April 16, Holy Name CCD Center, Mt. Pleasant St. Entertainment will be "Peace and Joy" video presented by Frank Patterson.

WIDOWED SUPPORT Diocesan Office of Family Ministry is sponsoring weekend retreat for widowed persons April 26 to 28, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth.

Information: 998-3269 or 999-6420.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Grades 9 through 12 youth retreat April 26 to 28, Father Sullivan House, Sandwich; limited to 20 retreatants.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, N. DARTMOUTH Youth group meeting 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday, hall. New Ladies' Guild officers: Emily Santos, president; Patricia Janiak, vice president; Frances Ward, treasurer; Isabel Medeiros, Betsy Peckham, secretaries.

SACRED HEART, NB Father Andre Patenaude concert 2 p.m. Sunday.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Vincentians meet following 10 a.m.

Mass Sunday. Grade 2 Mass of Presentation 10 a.m. Sunday. CYO players'/coaches' Mass 11:30 a.m.

Sunday followed by awards ban~ quet. Women's Guild dinner meeting 7 p.m. April IS. Youth ministry awards banquet 7 p.m. tomorrow, church basement; adult advisors meeting 7 p.m. April 16, center.

HOLY NAME, NB Couples' Club dinner and square dance 6: IS to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK The parish will present "Something for Everyone," a variety show, at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow and 2 p.m. Sunday, Seekonk High School.

ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE "We Break Bread Together" after 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

SS PETER AND PAUL, FR CYO outing to Quincy Market leaving 8:45 a.m. and returning 3 p.m. tomorrow.

DCCW Taunton District Council officers for 1991-93: Mrs. Daniel Couture, president; Mrs. Richard Arikian, vice president; Mrs. Thomas Telesmanick, recording secretary; Mrs. Alberto DiSanto, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Thomas King, treasurer; Mrs. Edward Franco, auditor.

Mrs. Leo Plouffe was elected 4th vice president on the diocesan level.

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CATHOLICS Cape and Islands support group potluck supper 7 p. m. April 21, St. Pius X Family Life Center, Barbara St., S. Yarmouth. Those attending are asked to bring an entree for two people. The recently divorced or separated are invited to small group discussion or one-lo-one ministry beginning at 6: 15 p. m. Information: 362-9873, or Father Richard Roy, 548-1065.

EMMAUS/GALILEE Galilee monthly reunion 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown.

PORTUGUESE MASS, CAPE COD A Portuguese-language Mass for the Brazilian community of Cape Cod will be celebrated by Father John Gomes of Our Lady of Angels . parish, Fall River, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis. Confessions in Portuguese 6p.m.

MARK G. HOYLE MEMORIAL ROAD RACE Fourth annual Mark G. Hoyle Memorial Road Race.will begin 10 a.m. May 19 at Cardi's Furniture in Swansea. Race T-shirts will be distributed to first 750 registrants. Trophies will be awarded to top three runners in five divisions. Special prizes will be awarded to first place overall male and female runners; first male and female finishers in' Junior and Senior divisions. Postrace raffle for all entrants. Information: Jayne Wilson, 678-5801.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR A mother-daughter communion breakfast and a living rosary cerem- . ony, both in May, will be discussed at a Council of Catholic Women meeting at 7 p.m. April 16.

Men's Holy Name Society and Ladies' Rosary Sodality will jointly attend 8 a.m. Mass Sunday; Rita Santos and Constance Domingoes will speak on family values and Our Blessed Mother at fellowship immediately following. Rosary Sodality meets 2 p.m. Sunday.

SACRED HEART, FR The Women's Guild is offering the Rose E. Sullivan Scholarship to a senior student whose mother has been active in the Guild for the past five years. Applications may be obtained at area high school guidance offices.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Children's liturgy 10 a.m. Sunday.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The Women's Guild monthly meeting has been changed to 7:30 p.m. April 24, parish center. Life in the Spirit seminar will run eight <;onsecutive Fridays beginning April 19; information: Muriel Rego, 678-9586, or Mary Viveiros, 674-7146.

ARCHBISHOP ROMERO COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE Greater New Bedford Jobs with Peace will sponsor a commemorative service for El Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero (assassinated March 24, 1980) at 7 p.m. April 19, St. Joseph's Church, 1960 Acushnet Ave:, ~B. Prayer, music and speaker will be included. lnformation: Jobs with Peace, 990-8804.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN . All invited to parish mission April 21 to 26 to be led by Redemptorist Fathers John Hennessey and Raymond Weitham of Mission Church· in Roxbury, the community affected by the Charles and Carol Stuart tragedy.

The mission, which will focus on personal conversion and full participation in the life of the Christian community, will be introduced· at liturgies 4 p.m. April 21 and 8, 9:30 and II a.m. April 22. A Mass of anointing of the sick will be held at 2 p.m. April 22 in St. Joseph's School auditorium. During the week the missioners will conduct a 7:30 a.m. service before.daily Mass and will also hold mission services at 7 p.m. They will visit the sick, shut-ins and nursing home residents and speak to schoolchildren at St. Joseph's and in parish religious education classes.

Information: rectory, 994-9714.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Youth ministry-sponsored Easter egg hunt for children 4th grade and under after 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

LaSALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO Retreat for separated, divorced, widowed men and women May 3 to 5, led by Rev. Gil Genest. Retreat for families, "Dare to Be Different," May 10 to 12, will invite families to explore what values and qualities make them unique. No age limit.

Information: 222-8530.

St. Anne's offers scholarships St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, in conjunction with the Portuguese Community Health Care Committee, is for the fifth year accepting applications for three $1 ,000 scholarships for the coming academic year.

Scholarships will be awarded in the following categories: .- Employee of St. Anne's or member of an employe's immediate family. Requirements: bilingual/ bicultural; graduating high school senior accepted to or person enrolled in an accredited college or university in nursing or allied health profession.

- Employee advancing his or her career. Requirements: graduating high school senior or other employee pursuing a degree in nursing or allied health profession at accredited college or university.

- Community scholarship. Requirements: bilingual/ bicultural; resident of Greater Fall River (Fall River, Somerset, Swansea, Westport', Dighton, Freetown, Rehoboth, Tiverton, RI).

The hospital scholarship committee may request an interview with applicants prior to the final selection.

Applications are available at local high school and college guidance offices or by contacting 51.

Anne's at 674-5741 ext. 40 I or 2020. They should be returned to the hospital's human resources or public relations office, 795 Middle St., Fall River, 02721-1798, by 4 p.m. April 30.

Scholarship recipients will be announced during National Hos'pitals Week at St. Anne's Annual service award banquet May 15.

Stonehill to host adult education information night The evening division of Stonehill College, North Easton will sponsor an adult education information night for adults considering a return to college 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 24 in Donahue Hall on campus.

The three-part program addresses concerns of individuals planning to return to college, including balancing family, job and studies, finances, study skills and program choices.

The session will be presented by Stonehill administrators Richard Grant, assistant dean for academic services, who will discuss the role of adult continuing education, and Eileen O'Leary, director of student aid and finance, who will discuss methods of financing parttime education. Three current evening division students will discuss their experiences upon returning to school.

The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and there will be ample opportunity for questions. For further information, call 230-1470.