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A MOTHERLY GREETING - Travelers entering Fall River from Rte. 6 in Westport are greeted by this billboard extolling the attributes of a Catholic education at Notre Dame School in Fall River.

(Photo by Dave Jolivet)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: As we begin our annual Catholic Charities Appeal, to assist the needy of our diocese, I suggest we call to mind the words of 0ur Lord, from Gospel of St. John: "I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly" (In 10:10).

The more abundant life of which Christ speaks refers, of course, to his offer and gift of etemallife in heaven. But it is also true that God t cares deeply about our lives here on earth, and the more abundant life Christ came to bring us includes a life of fulfillment and happiness here 'and now.

For many, however, the more abundant life Christ desires for us is hindered by hardships llI1d trials, and the lack of even the most basic needs, such as adequate food, clothing and housing. For others, life is less abundant and less joyful, due to the scars of disadvantage, unemployment, chronic illness or personal and family tragedy: In order to help others experience the more abundant life Christ offers us, we conduct our annual Catholic Charities Appeal to fund ,I

Public not hearing the truth about embryonic stem-cell research

By GAIL BESSE ANCHOR CORRESPONDENT

CAMBRIDGE - People are not hearing the truth about human embryonic stem-cell research even as politicians push to subsidize the grisly practice with both state and federal tax dollars.

The truth is that promising alternative research - on adult stem cells - is being conducted but largely ignored by the media and scientists intent on public funding of this research that requires killing human embryos.

That's the assessment of Dr. James L. Sherley, a nationally re~足 ognized Pro-Life scientist who was honored at Massachusetts Citizens for Life's April 13 dinner for publicly voicing the oftenignored moral side of this issue.

Sherley, 49, is the first and only black faculty member of MIT's biological engineering division.

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a recent interview. "We've already found from adult cells how to address certain diseases and have not had to kill a single person to do this. Scientists know it's unlikely embryonic stem-cell research will work. It's a ploy to get more research funding."

Sherley's assessment has been echoed in recent pleas from ProLife advocates, the nation's Catholic bishops and President George W. Bush.

Just as abortion is legal in the U.S., so is killing human embryos.

The recent heated debate in Congress and on Beacon Hill has focused on who will pay for this research that has not produced one successful treatment.

Despite this fact, the U.S. SenContinued on page 13 - Truth

USCCB criticizes Senate funding of embryo research

BOSTON - The Roman Catholic bishops in Massachusetts recently released the following statement, responding to remarks of Gov. Deval Patrick indicating his support for expanding destructive research on human embryos in Massachusetts: "The Governor of Massachusetts announced recently his commitment to encouraging Massachusetts scientists, possibly with the use of public .funds, to create human life in the laboratory, and then to destroy the embryos for "humanitarian" reContinued on page 13 - Bishops

WASHINGTON (CNS) -An official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized the U.S. Senate's "fixation on destructive research" after the Senate passed a bill that would provide federal funding for stem-cell research involving the destruction of human embryos.

"Many members of Congress remain dazzled by irresponsibly hyped promlses of 'miracle cures' from the destruction of human embryos, although experts in the field increasingly admit that treatments from this avenue may be decades away," said Richard M. Continued on page 13 - Senate

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Catholic Charities Appeal slates 66th annual campaign in diocese Weekend kickoffs preview May 1 opener FALL RIVER - More than 600 people gathered in three different locations across the Diocese of Fall River this week to "KickOff' the 66th Annual Catholic Charities Appeal, which officially begins on May 1.

These annual launchings in the Attleboro-Taunton, Cape Cod and Islands, and Fall River and New Bedford areas found committee members, pastors, and other supI,

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the important agencies and apostolates ofour diocese that bring necessary services and aid to those in need. Our Lord seeks our help and cooperation to bring this abundant life to others. He asks us to be collaborators with him in the important work of helping others discover the fullness of life he desires for us.

Most ofus will not have the opportunity to meet the many people who tum to the Church for help, but I ask you to remember them all, as you consider your donation to the Catholic Charities Appeal. Each year, thousands of people gratefully receive the help they need from the Church here in our diocese, and this is made possible due to your generous support. Through your generosity, we as a Church, can help them to discover the more abundant life that Christ came to bring us.

With gratitude for your support, and requesting your prayers for the success of the Appeal, I am

porters and workers from the 94 parishes of the diocese attending.

Mike Donly, director of Development for the diocese, said the significance of these events is not only to bring attention to the "kickoff' of this extremely important yearly endeavor to fund the dozens of agencies and apostolates sponsored by Catholic Charities here in the diocese, but also shine Continued on page 19 - Appeal

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Pope to meet Brazilian youths', politicians, open major assembly

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI will meet with young people, recovering drug addicts and political leaders before opening a major assembly of Latin American bishops in Brazil in May. The pope will also canonize a Bmzilian Franciscan, Blessed Antonio Galvao, during his May 9-13 visit.

It will be his first papal trip to the Westem Hemisphere, and the main purpose is to inaugumte the fifth general conference ofbishops from Latin America and the Caribbean. The pope celebmtes an opening Mass May 13 aml.presides over the first session of the conference later in the day.

It will also be a busy trip for the pope, including much tmveling.

On May 9 the pope'will fly from Rome's Leonardo da Vmci Airport to Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport. After welcoming ceremony and a speech by pope, he will tmnsfer by helicopter to Campo de Marte Airport in Sao Paulo and tmvel in a popemobile to St. Benedict Monastery. He will greet and bless the crowd from the balcony of the monastery.

On May 10he will celebmte aMass there, and meet with President Luiz Inacio Lula da,Silva:in-,Bandeimntes Palace. Later he is to meet with repre:! sentatives ofother ChristiatYchilrehes and other religions in 路St. Benedict Monastery. At night he will meet with

and address young people in Paulo Machado de Carvalho stadium.

The pope will canonize Blessed Antonio Galvao on May 11 during a Mass at Campo de Marte Airport chapel. Later he is to meet with bishops of Brazil in Sao Paulo cathedral.

He will then depart by helicopter for the heliport of the basilica of Our Lady ofAparecida, where he will be welcomed by local authorities. Later he will travel in the popemobile to Bom Jesus seminary in Aparecida.

On May 12, following Mass in the seminary, the pope will visit the "Fazenda da Esperanca" (Farm of Hope) in Guaratingueta, meet with its community; lunch with officials of the fifth general conference of the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean and with members of the papal entoumge before returning to: Bom Jesus seminary.

On Sunday, May 13, he will celebrate Mass in the Basilica of Aparecida to inaugurate the fifth general conference of the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the open area in front of the sanctuary, and offer a homily. After Mass and the recital of the ''Regina Coeli" pmyer and a talk by the pope, he will return to Bom Jesus seminary. . ',In路theeveninghe.will depart in a helicopter for Sao PaulO:-Guahtlho~ International. AiI;port .'in ~Sao :Pln:ilo,: and depart forRome, arriving on May 14 at Rome's Ciampino airport.

LEAVE A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW - A souvenir with a picture of Pope Benedict XVI is displayed in a store in Aparecida, Brazil.

Pope Benedict will visit the famous Marian shrine when he travels to Brazil in May to open the meeting of the Latin American bishops' council, or CELAM. (CNS photo/Paulo Whitaker, Reuters)

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PEEPING AT THE POPE - People look through a window of the birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI in Marktl am Inn, Germany, April 13. The museum in the house where the pontiff was born was to open to the public in mid-April, to mark the pope's 80th birthday April 16. (CNS photo/Michaela Rehle, Reuters)

路Pope Benedict at 80: Blowing on the coals of faith, tradition VATICAN CITY (CNS) When Pope John Paul II turned 80 in 2000, it fueled yet another round of speculation about whether the ailing pontiff might break with tradition and resign. . In ~ontrast, .Pope Benedict XVI's 80t6' birth'day 'Monday finds 'him ," with 'the 'wlncHn'his' sailS''-''. '.',' . ''Tne' pope's new book on Jesus was being released in several languages, an event that will no doubt launch the Christological themes of his pontificate into wider circulation.

In March the pope published a major document on the Eucharist, and sources said he was preparing to release a long-awaited decree lib.eralizing use of the Tridentine Mass.

Following a recent Vatican sume.

IT!it) ,the pope's announced letter td Chinese Catholics was anticipated eagerly in April, in hopes that it could offer a new path of dialogue with the government and help heal internal Church divisions.

Meanwhile, the pope was preparing for his first papal trip to the Western Hemisphere, a mid-May journey to Brazil for a crucial planning session among Latin American bishops.

Pope Benedict, who marked the second anniversary of his election Thursday, seems fit and energetic in public appearances. He glides through crowds and lingers with well-wishers and often delivers his most incisive remarks off the cuff.

Although the pope sometimes suggests he may have little time in office, he shows no sign of ill health or failing stamina. During Holy Week, he seemed unfazed by the heavy schedule of 10 major liturgies and encounters.

The pope is one of very few top Church officials not obligated to hand in his resignation on or before the age of 80. For cardinal and bishop members of Vatican congre-

gations, 80 is the mandatory retirement age. Bishops must offer to resign as heads of dioceses when they turn 75, and so must the heads of offices of the Roman Curia.'

That leaves Pope Benedict as the oldest among chiefVatican officials, but the others are not far behind. l'oday's Vatican is a senior-citizen crowd:' Of the heads of the 25 main Vatican agencies, only one is under the normal U.S. retirement age of 65.

The average age of top curial officials today is almost 73. That's more than 10 years older than the average age under Pope John Paul at the two-year mark of his pontificate.

In part, that's because 80 percent of curial leaders are holdovers from the eni ofPope 10hn Paut.' That could change significantly over the next 12 months, when 10 of the 25 current department heads will be of mandatory retirement age..

To a great extent, then, Pope Benedict has a chance to put his own mark on the Curia in the coming year. The changes could affect Vatican agencies dealing with liturgy and sacraments, ecumenism, sainthood . causes, health care, justice and peace, interreligious dialogue, Eastern churches and Vatican finances.

The fact that the pope has not already put his own team in place and has introduced few major changes at the Vatican has disappointed some of his strongest supporters in Rome.

"His problem is that he doesn't want to offend anyone," one Vatican official remarked recently.

Some journalists, too, have been frustrated that the "Ratzinger revolution" they predicted has failed to materialize, at least in the dramatic form they had foreseen.

Joaquin Navarro- Valls; the former Vatican spokesman under

Popes John Paul and Benedict, tackled the issue in a commentary written for the Rome newspaper La Repubblica.

The pope is certainly cautious, Navarro-Valls said, but that should not be confused with indecision or timidity. He said the pope is acutely aware that ne's called to make seri~ ous judgments with lasting consequences for the Church and that often need "the right timing and the right maturation period."

Navarro-Valls said the pope's style seems to embody an intellectual seriousness: the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas' "diligent and subtle inquiry," which is never in a hurry.

The pope's patience also has been evident in his teaching style during his first two years. His back-to-basics approach has aimed at gently prodding people to question the values of today's dominant culture and to make space in their lives for the divine.

In his one encyclical and in many talks, he has concentrated on the simple and positive core of the Christian message: love of God and love of neighbor.

When he has the world's stage, the pope tends to set aside intellectual sophistication and doctrinal complexity. At the recent Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday, he summarized in seven easy sentences the relationship between Christ's passion and the suffering of today's world. ''This is the profound intention of the prayer of the Way of the Cross: to open our hearts and to help us see with the heart," he said.

"Our God is not a distant God, untouchable in his blessedness: Our God has a heart," he said.

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CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE On the subject of immigration, note speaker, noted in his talk, "ReWASHINGTON - President Bush said to the 1,600 gathered for ligious Faith and Our National George W. Bush praised Catholic the breakfast that "we must have" Identity," how many federal social schools and pressed for immigra- a national policy "that enforces our policies first enacted in路 the 1930s tion reform in remarks delivered at laws and upholds the dignity of ev- could be traced to "Rerum the fourth an~ual National Catho- ery single person in the United Novarum," Pope Leo xm's encyclic Prayer Breakfast in Washington. States. And now is the time for the lical that ushered in the era of "America's Catholic schools United States Congress to get a bill . Catholic social teaching.

"Today our struggle is to achieve playa vital role in our nation. The to my desk that I can sign."

Bush's only reference to the Iraq the same success using Pope John schools were built by poor immigrants, they were staffed by legions War was asking his audience to Paul IT's encyclical, 'Evangelium of dedicated nuns, brothers and "pray for our soldiers and their Vitae,' and the Church's teaching tradition on the dignity oflife priests - and they have in the defense of unborn hugiven millions of Americans "Today, these sqhools are also man life," Archbishop Wuerl the knowledge and character they need to succeed in life," serving thousands of non-Catholic said.

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He said the Pilgrims, bechildren in some of nation's poorest "Today, these schools are neighborhoods. I appreciate the tre- fore they embarked on the also serving thousands of mendous sacrifices that many dio- Mayflower in 1620, entered non-Catholic children in ceses are making to keep their in- into the Mayflower Compact, in which they "determined some of nation's poorest ner(-city) schools going. I am worthat they would recognize two neighborhoods. I appreciate ried that too many of these schools principles by which their freethe tremendous sacrifices that many dioceses are mak- are closing and our nation needs to dom would be guided: the law ing to keep their inner(-city) do something about it," the president of God and the common good." schools going. I am worried added to applause.

Today, ''what faith brings to that too many of these schools are closing - and our world is a way of seeing our nation needs to do s路omething families in harm's way. And 1 ask life and reality, a way of judging about it," the president added to ap- that you pray that in a troubled right and wrong, a norm against plause. world America may always remain which we can see our life measured Referring to the D.C. School a beacon of hope and of freedom." in light ofthe wisdom of God," ArchChoice. Incentive Act, which cre- He added, "I am in awe of people bishop Wuerl added. "We simply ated a voucher fund to give about like Cpl. Michael Blair," a Marine cannot put aside an of this convic1,700 low-income District of Co- who was wounded by an explosive tion of how we live and make imlumbia parents whose children were device lastMay in Iraq and who led portant decisions and still be who we in low-performing public schools the audience in the recitation of the are as Catholics and as heirs to the an opportunity to enroll the children Pledge of Allegiance.

American dream of personal freein nonpublic schools, Bush said, "I At the conclusion of Bush's re- dom, faith and the common good." will continue to work to help these marks, an unidentified woman was Current and former Bush adminschools reach more children in led out of the hotel ballroom where istration and congressional memneed, so that our children have the the breiliast was being conducted bers and several bishops, were inskills they need to realize the full after she shouted at the president. troduced. promise of the United States of Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of

ATLANTA (CNS) McDonald's COrp. has reached an agreementwithaFloridafurmworker organizationtopayapennypt(rpound more for tomatoes to increase wages and to improve working conditions for the workers who pick them.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and McDonald's have announced that they also would work together to develop a new pode of conduct for tomato growers and increase fannworkers' participation in monitoring compliance.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and various religious orders and Church organizations had been among supporters ofthe campaign to get an agreement with McDonald's. . Signedin Atlanta, the agreement puts an end to a two-year campaign by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to pressure McDonald's to pay more for the 15 million tomatoes it uses annually in U.S. restaurants. McDonald's reportedly buys fewer than 1.5 percent of Florida's tomatoes.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center he heads helped broker the agreement, as he did with a similar agreement two years ago between the coalition andYum Foods, the owner of Taco Bell and KFC restaurants. "'Ibis is a clearand welcome example ofpositive industry partnership:' said Carter in a press release issued by the coalition, also known as CIW. "It demonstrates also McDonald's leadership in social responsibility and CIW's in)portance as a voice for farmworker rights:'

He encouraged other companies to follow the lead ofMcDonald's and YumFoods.

The one cent increase per pound oftomatoes will mean workers who now receive 40 to 45 cents for picking a 32-pound bucket of tomatoes will earn 72 to 77 cents per bucket, according to Florida newspapers.

Last September, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Policy urged McDonald's to use the company's purchasing power to insist that produce suppliers meet high ethical standards in how they treat workers.

This year, the Dominican Sisters ofAchian, Mich.,joinedtheAFL-ClO Reserve Fund in filing a shareholder's resolution with McDonald's pressing for a companywide code of conduct for suppliers andcontractors basedon the International Labor Organization's principles. Co-filers included the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa, and the Jesuits of the New Orleans province of the Society of Jesus.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers began in 1993 as a small group of workers who met in a hall at a Catholic parish in Venice, Fla. It now bas more than 2,500 members who work in agriculture on the

East Coast.

A caravan that was already under way to pressure McDonald's with protests atthe company's headquarters in Oak Brook, m., would continue, said Lucas Benitez, coalition leader. The emphasis would be changed to announce the news of the agreement with McDonald's.

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Retired.Episcopal bishop and wife return to Catholic Church ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS)- Bishop Daniel W. Herzog, recently retired Episcopal bishop of Albany, and his wife, Carol, have left the Episcopal Church and re-entered full communion with the Catholic Church. Both were raised as Catholics and joined the Episcopal Church as adults.

In a letter to his successor, Bishop William H. Love, Bishop He~og said his decision was a result of the decision of the 2003 General Convention of the U.S. Episcopal Church to affirm the election and ordination of an openly gay man, Bishop Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hamp-

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turmoil was not merely extemal. It also caused a lot of hidden tears."

In his view, he said, the power the convention claimed in taking its action "negated any previous authority on which I had relied. It caused me to engage in a fresh examination of apostolic teaching and authority."

In a letter to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori he resigned from the House ofBishops and asked to be removed from ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church. She said March 28 that she would undertake the canonical procedures to qo so.

Episcopal New,S Service said Bishop Herzog "is apparently th~ third bishop in the histOry of the Episcopal Church to become a Roman Catholic." It said Bishop Levi S. Ives of North Carolina left the denomination to become a caiholic in 1853 and Bishop Frederick Kinsman of Delaware did so' in 1919.

Bishop Qarence C. Pope Jr. of Fort Worth, Texas, attended Catholic services for a while after his retirement in 1994 but subsequently returned to the Episcopal Church, it said.

The ordination of Bishop Robinson has provoked worldwide controversy in the Anglican Communion, to which the U.S. Episcopal Church belongs.

This February the primates of the communion's 38 provinces around the world called on the U.S. HouseofBish-

ops to make "an unequivocal common covenant" that they will not authorize the blessing of same-sex couples and to affirm clearly that they will not consent to the ordination ofany other candidate for bishop who is living in a same-sex relationship unless some new consensus on that issue emerges throughout the communion.

The primates warned the Episcopal Church that communion with other Anglicans would be at least damaged if it did not meet their conditions by the end of September.

Bishop Herzog said he delayed his departure from the Episcopal Church until after his retirement so that he would not "walk away from my office and leave vulnerable this diocese which I love." He had headed the Albany Diocese since 1998.

News ofBishop Herzog's decision came less than a month newly retired Suffragan (Auxiliary) Bishop David 1. Bena had requested and received permission from Bishop Herzog to transfer to the Anglican Province of Nigeria, whose primate, Archbishop Peter Akinola, has been among the world leaders in fighting Anglican acceptance or blessing of same-sex unions.

Since he was simply transferring from one province of the Anglican Communion to another, Bishop ~ena said, "I am neither renouncing my orders ~ abishop nor I abandoning the communion of the church."

In a letter to Albany Episcopalians Bishop Love said that unlike Bishop Bena, who remains an Episcopal bishop in good standing, "Bishop Dan's decision has necessitated the resignation of his orders as bishop, priest and deacon. As such he will not be able to function in an ordained capacity within the diocese or iarger Anglican Communion."

Bishop Herzog, 65, was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1971 and a bishop in 1998. He grew up Catholic and, according to the Albany Times Union, graduated in 1964 from St. Bonaventure University, a Franciscan-run institution in. St. Bonaventure, N.Y.

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Cardinal George returns home after breaking a femur in a fall CHICAGO (CNS) - Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George returned home from the hospital on Easter after falling and breaking the upper part of his right leg while blessing food baskets a day earlier.

Cardinal George, 70, apparently slipped on water on the marble floor at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church April 7, landing on his hip and breaking the top of his femur, according to a statement from the archdiocese.

Cardinal George uses a brace on his right legbecause ofcomplications from polio and has said it's not uncommon for him to fall because ofthe brace, so he resumed the service. As that proved

painful, however, he later was taken to the Loyola University Medical Center, where the break was found.

After spending. the night in the hospital, Cardinal George went home the next morning, but did not participate in the scheduled Easter celebrations. The statement said the cardinal celebrated Mass in the private chapel at his residence.

Cardinal George was scheduled to accompany a pilgrimage to Rome marking his 10th anniversary as archbishop of Chicago. Local media reported he would not make the journey, though the group would go on without him.

AN EDUCATED GUEST - Elizabeth Maneeley of Sacred Heart School in Warner Robins, Ga., speaks with Franciscan Sister Rose Pacatte in the exhibition hall during the recent National Catholic Educational Association convention in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Owen Sweeney III, Catholic Review)

Nuncio tells NCEA convention teachers are world's 'greatest artists'

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life, encourage a vision and par- . ticipate in the unfolding of God's BALTIMORE - Calling teachmission." ers "the greatest artists in the Ristau presented two major world," Pope Benedict XVI's repNCEA awards to Catherine resentative to the United States Hickey, secretary for education opened the National Catholic Eduand superintendent of schools in cational Association convention in the Archdiocese of New York, and Baltimore last week with praise for Sister pominica Rocchio, a Sister the "special qualities of mind and of Charity who is路former superinheart" that educators bring to their tendent of schools in the Archdiowork. cese of Newark, N.J. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, aposCardinal Egan noted that he had tolic nuncio to the U.S., said many been "a student of these two teachcall Michelangelo the greatest arters" who taught him to begin each ist ever because of his sculpmorning with a salute. . "Sister Dominica liked to tures such as "The Pieta," which depicts Mary holding "But I think the greatest artists of hear my heels click as well," her son Jesus after his cruci- the world are teachers, because you he said with a laugh. "Dr. fixion. sculpt the best of what you are, not Hickey is not so demandThe marble sculpture, on in a piece of marble but in human ing." display near the entrance to beings who are the glory of God," Hickey, who received St. Peter's Basilica at the the Msgr. John F. Meyers he said.

Vatican, manages to convey Award for outstanding supboth Christ's acceptance of port of Catholic education, suffering and his "full confidence president; and Ron Valenti, super- heads a system made up of 279 in his mother," the archbishop said. intendent of schools in the Balti- schools "and she knows every "But I think the greatest artists more Archdiocese, also addressed principal and every problem, and of the world are teachers, because the opening session of the conven- every pastor as well," the cardiyou sculpt the best of what you are, tion. nal said. not in a piece of marble but in huHe praised Sister Dominica, Several speakers noted the hisman beings who are the glory of torical importance of the choice who received the C. Albert1<.oob God;" he said. of Baltimore as the site of the con- Merit Award given annually to a "Each of us has forgotten a lot vention because it was the first distinguished Catholic educator, of what we were told in school," Catholic diocese in the U.S. and for her commitment to inner-city he added, "but a lot of what's in- once the home of St. Elizabeth Catholic secondary schools.

In New York, where each innerside us is from the example of Ann Seton, considered the teachers." founder of the U.S. Catholic city Catholic high school has at Archbishop Sambi said he was school system. least 65 percent of the student body the son and brother of schoolteachArchbishop Wuerl said the role living below the poverty line, 98 ers and that Pope Benedict, from of teachers in Catholic schools is percent of the students graduate in whom he brought greetings, "un- "not just the communication of in- four years and 95 percent go on to derstands perfectly the labors, the formation, but to show a way of college, Cardinal Egan said.

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greatness and" the usefulness of the mission of education, since he was "a teacher for a large part of his life."

Nearly 10,000 people attended the Baltimore Convention Center for the April 10-14 NCEA convention on the theme "Anchor of Faith, Harbor of Light."

Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore; Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York; Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, chairman of the NCEA board of directors; Karen Ristau, NCEA 0

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LONDON - The hdad of Great Britain's military qiocese has come under fire fromi;politicians, military leaders ahd the media after he welcomed' Iran's release of 15 sailors and IJ;larines as religiously motivated i' "good deeds." " BIshop Thomas Burnsiof the Bishopric ofthe Forces was called naive, accused of wishful thinking and was the subject ofseyeral critical newspaper editori!ils.

Meanwhile, the Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI had;i sent a written appeal to' Ayatollah Ali ' leader, Kh ameneI,. I ran ' s supreme "urging the release of the '14 men and one woman captured 'by Iran in contested waters March 23. ,An informed' Vatican;~source said that in an ,effort to ~ueil increasing international tensions ,over the crew's seizur,f Pope Benedict sent the letter for "exclusively humanitarian" teasons. . The Vatican would proYide no details on the contents of,I the let, ter or wheri it was sent.

Bishop Burns, who eatlier had app~aled for the release of the service personnel, said the decision II by the Iranian governmerit to free ,theni was "not just ,as tIle result of diploriulcy,'; but was' ita,'n act' of mercy", in accordance with Islam,' ,I His comments came after Iran's announcement that the hostages would be freed and ,a day before they were handed over to ,the Brit, h IS E~bassy and flown l:lOme: .

"Faith in a forgiving God has been exemplified in aCtion by their good deeds," the bishop said of the Iranians.

Liam Fox, defen~e sppkesmim ' for the Conservativ<,? Party, critiCized the bishops' comments as "naive in the extreme." , "This is a regime that!illegally captured our servicemen and held t1;lem in quite'dreagful conditions for some time," Fox, a Catholic,told the Londbn-based ,

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- People follow a Way of the Cross procession in Havana April 6. Auxiliary Bishop Juan de OIOS Hernandez Ruiz of Havana said that, "after difficult times the Cuban government is beginning to understand the role of the Church." (CNS photo/Claudia Daut, Reuters)

Cuban bishop says Holy Week came at time of mO,re Chu'rch-state' harmony

By CATHOLIC , ' NEWS SERVICE' HAVANA - Holy Week in Cuba was marked with processions, a Way of the Cross through the streets of Old Havana and official permission to ~roadcilst radio messages to the faithful.

The celebrations came at a time when'relations with the socialist government have been characterized by "a process of greater understanding," said Auxiliary Bishop Juan de Dios Hernandez Ruiz of Havana.

For the third time in recent years, a Cuban government television channel also broadcast the Good Friday Way of the Cross from Rome, led by Pope Benedict XVI. The news program aired on all 10cal TV channels showed images of the papal Easter Mass and part of the pope's Easter message.

"After difficult times, the Cuban government is beginning to understand the role of the Church," Bishop Hernandez told journalists shortly before leading the Way of the Cross on Amargura Street in Old Havana., He was referring to the confrontations between the Catholic Church and the government followittg the rev91ution in 1959, when t~e island's leaders officially declared Cuba a socialist country.

On April 6, hundreds of peQple wound through the streets from the Havana cathedral to the Church of Cristo del Buen Viaje (Christ of the Good Journey),.

A group carried statues of Jesus and Mary and a huge wooden cross through the streets on their shoulders, while followers sang and prayed, Two announcers with megaphones described each station, while residents watched the proces-

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Catholic processions were prohibited in Cuba from 1961, shortly after President Fidel Castro came to power, until'pope Jo~ PaulU's historic visit to the island in January J 998.

Bishop Hernandez said now was a time "of dialogue" in the country.

"We are in a process of greater understanding. I belieye t~at is positive. It is ajourney, ~ as with any journey we expect that rather than. obstacles we will find paths along which we can walk more quickly," he said. "For Cuba's Ca~olic community, this is important. It is a way of normalizing the life of the Church. I think we are making progress."

The bishop said that Churchstate relations had not changed during the last eight months ul).der the administration of Defense Minister Raul Castro, who, has been acting as president since July 31, while his brother, the president, co~valesces froin intestinal surgery.

"Everything is the same. There are no substantial changes," Bishop Hernandez said.

'In the future, the bishop said, any changes in the country will require , "great understanding by the international community and dialogue that will enable us to move ahead in a civilized way."

He added, "Insofar as possible, we hope that the life of the Church and its mission of evangelization normalize, and I think that is also' the government's wish.", Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino said in a late-March inter, view with the Spanish daily El Pais

' . that at this moment in history Cuba needs "dialogue, not pressure."

Unlike some other countries in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba does not recognize the days of Holy Week as hO'J;idays, and people go to work and school as usual. .

One Havana priest, Father Fernando de la Vega, said it was "a disadvantage that the days are not holidays, because we had to hold all the liturgies at night:" However, he noted that many young people participated in the liturgies.

Thais Gonzalez, who grew up Catholic, said Holy Week was "an incredibly beautiful time, even though we are not all Catholic. The Cuban people were always very, religious. We have a spirituality fr.om birth. Children must grow up in a climate of peace, harmony and respect for'the Ten Commandments.'"

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The Sunday Times of London asked in an April 8 editorial, "Can ~nybody seriously believe that the Iranian president, having milked the seizure of British forces for all it was worth, has a higher moral authority because he makes a couple of religious references?" ,Col. Edward Armistead, a former officer in the British army's Coldstream Guards and member of the Church of England's General Synod, said Bishop Burns was "guilty of wishful tl1inking."

Bishop Burns told Catholic News Service April 10, "I am disappointed that quotes taken from statements issut!d before the release of the captives were taken out of context and misconstrued.in media reports this ~e~k. ,. , " , hMy role as Catholic bishop for the.arriie'd'totces isla offer pastoral support to 'those serving in the forces and their families," he added. "I want to emphasize that all of my comments were to encourage the safe release of the 15 service personnel from Iran. We should give thanks that they have returned safely to their families in the U.K."

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On Monday, Pope Benedict celebrated the 80th anniversary of his birth and baptism with the publication of a book on the love of his life. Entitled Jesus ofNazareth,the work, he writes, is the fruit ofa "long interior journey" stretching throughout his adult years. It is a very personal work, begun when he was a cardinal and, as a testimony to its importance to him, finished during the few free moments he has had as pope. It is a "personal seeking of the Lord's face" in which he seeks to defend his Savior, Lord, and boss from various distortions that have been made over the course of the last 50 years.

Over the cl;mrse of his youth, Benedict writes in the preface, he grew to recognize in Jesus that "God was made visible and the image of the just man could be seen." Beginning in the 1950s, however, various Scripture scholars began to try to separate the "historical Jesus" from the "Christ of faith," to say that the man Jesus of Nazareth was not the same divine bard about whom St. Paul and the evangelists wrote and in whom the early Church believed. The figure of Jesus became, the young'Ratzinger noted, "ever more uncertain," "less defined'~and even "contradictory." Various "reconstructions" of Jes\ls emerged, "from the revolutionary enemy of the Romans who opposed the established power and naturally failed, to the gentle moralist who allowed everything and inexplicably ended up by causing his own ruin."

These reconstructions, Benedict says, were "more photographs of the authors ~d their ideals" than portraits of Jesus. Nevertheless, their cumulative impression infected theologicaI schools and seminaries and through them ''penetrated profoundly into the common consciousness of Christianity."

Benedict wants to present the Jesus of the Gospels as the true Jesus of history, a figl!fe far more persuasive, logical ~d "historically honest and convincing" than the reconstructions of the last decades. In it, he does not want to dismiss out of hand all of the scholarship of the past half-century, but to test it by challenging many of its assumptions and by retaining what . is good.

While the book is by Joseph Ratzinger the disciple and theologian and "not at all a magisterial act" ofthe succes~or of St. Peter, it is clearly consis- . tent with the thrust of Benedict's magisterium, which has focused on the person, teaching and deeds of Christ. Benedict said he felt an urgency to publish the first 10 chapters of it - from Christ's baptism to his transfiguration - since he "did not know how much time and how much strength" would be granted him by the Lord to complete the work.

All Christians should rejoice that on Benedict's birthday, he gave us this gift, by which, with his characteristic candor and clarity, he will help us sort through the confusions engendered by those who have sought to remake Jesus of Nazareth in' their image rather than be remade by him into his. In this birthday present, Benedict hopes to give us the greatest gift possible, Jesus Christ, and help us to seek his face with similar diligence, wonder and grateful love. Let us not leave this gift unopened.

Troublesome Trends Over the past few weeks, as Christians were focused on the events oCthe passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Massachusetts' Governor Deval Patrick's'attention was onother things.

Right before Holy Week began, the governor declared that he would work to persuade the Public Health Council, whose membership he appoints, to eliminate restrictions on embryonic stem-eell research. He said he wants to make sure that "scientists can perform their research uninhibited," which means uninhibited by any ethical restraints. He wants to give scientists not only the green light but also the green backs to destrOy embryos at the same stage of existence we were. a few days into our life-span. Seeking to help some human beings by killing others is not ethical science. The four bishops of Massachusetts, in a statement we have reprinted on the front page of this edition, have called on the governor to support only ethical stem-eell research, research that ~oesn't destroy life under the guise of saving it.

On Monday of Holy Week, in open defiance of Massachusetts law, the governor was at it again. He ordered the state Department of Public Health to record the "marriages" of 26 out-of-state same-sex couples whose unions are invalid under Massachusetts law because they are invalid in their respective home states.

As the governor marked his first 100 days in office, the media focused its attention mostly on his various gaffes, like upgrading his official vehicle to a Cadillac, spending tens of thousands of tax payer dollars on drapes for his office, and placing ethically~objectionable telephone calls to secure special favors for past clients with companies that do business in the Commonwealth. But these recent decisions are more momentous. In one, he is pushing to use tax dollars not just to ride or to work in style, but tei destroy innocent human life; in another, he is not just pushing the envelope of the unethical behavior concerning conflict of interest, but openly violating the ,laws of the Commonwealth which he swore a solemn oathIto uphold.

On Good Friday Catholics throughout the Commonwealth prayed for those who serve us in public office, "that God may guide their minds and hearts so that all men may live in true peace and freedom." Let.us continue to pray in particular for our governor, so that he may dedicate his mind and heart, first, to allowing all men to live, including those threatened at the earliest stages of existence; and secolldly, to helping all people to achieve the ''true peace" that will come only through ordering their freedom not merely to the rule of just law. but more profoundly to the truth; about man, woman and marriage. .

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"BRETHREN, JOIN IN FOLLOWING MY EXAMPLE, AND O~SERVE THOSE WHO WALK ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN YOU HAVE IN US" (PmLIPPIANS 3:17).

P.reaching with boldness During these days of the Easter word were baptized, and there were it remains the message of Christ, season, ihe readings in the liturgy added that day about 3,000 souls'" and the message of Easter.

(Acts 2:37-38, 41). recall the courageous preaching of I remember the time I preached the ApOstles, who were emboldened On another occasion, while at the funeral of a person who was by the knowledge of the Lord's . unknown to the parish. As usual, I outside the temple in Jerusalem, resurrection and the power of the Peter again addressed the crowds offered a reflection on the Christian with a challenging message: "The Holy Spirit. As a result of the LOrd's mystery of life and death, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and . victory over the grave, the Apostles importance of Christ's message of did not hesitate to preach-the Easter repentance and the consolation of Jacob, the God of our fathers, message of repentance. glorified his servant Jesus, whom offered by God's gift of mercy.

-In the Acts of the Apostles, we you delivered up and denied ~n the Later, however, I learned that hear of St. Peter's address to the presence of Pilate, when he had members of the deceased's family crowds on the day of were furious with me for the words of the homily.

Pentecost, when he stood They felt that I had up with n~w-found confidence and proclaimed, unfairly and uncharitably ''Men of Israel, hear these implied that they and the deceased were in need of words: Jesus of Nazareth, a God's mercy.路I remember man attested to you by God being initially stung by the with mighty works 3l)d complaint, but then wonders and signs which realizing, with assurance, God did through him in that my words were none other than your midst, as you yourselves know - decided to release him. But you the Gospel message of repentance - this Jesus, delivered up according denied the Holy and Righteous 'to the definite plan and foreknowl- .

One, and asked for a murderer to be and eternal life.

Even in our day of hYPersensiedge of God, you crucified and granted to you..and killed the tivity and the often paralyzing fear killed by the hands oflawless men.

Author of life, whom God raised of offending others, we cannot. fail But God raised him up, having from the dead. To this we are to preach the Gospel, which loosed the pangs of death, because it witnesses" (Acts 3:13-15). This . unavoidably includes the message was not possible for him to be held time, the consequence for preach-路 of repentance. We rriay have to by it" (Acts 2:22-24). ing this message was arrest and Such a message might strike . choose between offending those imprisonment by the priests, "but who resent that message, and many today as too audacious and many of those who heard the word offending the Lord of Life, whose perhaps even insulting, since it did believed; and the number of the message it is, and who has commisnot avoid the sensitive truth of who men came to about 5,000" (Acts sioned us to preach it. But that and what caused Christ's death. Yet . 4:4), and when released from choice is an easy one. prison, the Apostles "continued to the result of this bold message was one of remarkable pastoral success: speak the word of God with W!1en we put into the deep by boldly and charitably preaching the boldness" (Acts 4:31).

"Now when they heard this they Gospel message of repentance, we were cut to the-heart, and said to Recalling the Apostles' bold might sometimes touch a nerve, but preaching of repentance, and the Peter and the rest of the Apostles, that might just be when the Easter 'Brethren; what shall we do?' And success it met among the people, Peter said to them, 'Repent, and be message begins its powerful work should encourage each 'of us who baptized every one of you in the of conversion. arem:nbassadors for Christ not to Father Pignato is chaplain ai name of Jesus Christ forthe hesitate to offer the same message forgiveness of your sins; and you of conversion, and without apology. Bishop Stang High School in Even if the message may not North Dartmouth and is secretary shall receive the gift of the Holy to Bishop George If. Coleman.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI was deeply saddened

by Monday's massacre at Vrrginia Tech in .Blacksburg and prayed for the victims and their families, said the Vatican secretary of state.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone sent a telegram to Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of. Richmond, Va., expressing the pope's condolences to all those affected by the April 16 shooting that left at least 33 people, includ-

ing the killer, dead.

Cardinal Bertone said in the wake of the "senseless tragedy" Pope Benedict asked him to assure the victims, their families and the entire school community of his prayers.

Pope Benedict "asks God our Father to console all those who mourn and to grant them that spiritual strength which triumphs over violence," Cardinal Bertone said.

Bishop DiLorenzo said his heart

goes out to the parents and family members of the dead students. ''At this time one cannot help but think of the endless years ofcominitment, of love and care these parents have invested in their children and then have it all cut down by a bullet is tremendously sad," he said. ''The tragedy really hit home with me," he said, because he learned of it at a chancery luncheon thatincluded two women who have children study-

'Allowed' be our name It was April 15, 1947 when Jackie Robinson made history becoming the first black to be "allowed" to play America's Pastime.

Imagine that. He was allowed to playa game. What a proud moment in history. Not only was Robinson allowed to play ball, he was allowed to $it in the back of the team bus; he was allowed to stay in hotels other than his comrades; he was allowed to be ridiculed and insulted by players, coaches and fans.

It was one of the greatest displays of American goodness since black U.S. males were "allowed" to vote in 1870.

It was April 1967 when K. Switzer entered the prestigious Boston Marathon. Less than three miles into the race, officials noticed K. Switzer was, of all things, a woman. A race official chased her and tried to rip the number off her back. F~ve years later, women were officially "allowed" to run in the marathon.

What a proud moment. Almost as momentous as when America "allowed" women to vote in 1920.

White women.

According to Webster the wordsmith, allow means "to permit." In order to permit, one has to have authority over someone or something else.

Just where did the powers-thatbe gain such authority?

Are these the same figures who shut America's borders to immigrants and round up illegals and ship them out?

Thank goodness for these authority figures that the Native Americans didn't have such an attitude when our ancestors barged into this land, polluting pristine waters and fouling the air. No, as a matter of fact, the first Americans were rounded up and "allowed" to live on useless parcels of land.

Today, the powers-that-be are seeking to "allow" science to tinker with life much like a high school experiment. Learned men and women are allowed to terminate and dispose of unborn

children and embryonic stem cells in the same fashion as a group of teens pithing the brain of a frog in science lab.

Imagine the horror story Mary Shelley could come up with today.

At least her Dr. Frankenstein harvested body parts"from poor souls who were already dead.

Despite all the wonderful "allowances" bestowed on U.S.

citizens through the years by America's authoritarians, not much has changed.

African-Americans are still victims of racism and bigotry.

Look at the Don Imus fiasco.

Despite having ridiculed fellow human beings for decades, the "1Man," had a large, loyal following.

After having debased young female student athletes, this disgusting "entertainer" got his due. Yet, somehow, I feel he'll come out of this smelling. like a rose.

Women in America today still have to fight for all they deserve..

Yet it seems OK to many folks that they're allowed to be dehumanized and degraded on TV, in movies and in magazines.

American authority seems to have a problem with allowances regarding Guatemalans, Mexicans, Hondurans, Brazilians, Salvadorians, Cambodians, Muslims, etc.

Seems eerily reminiscent of Christ's passion doesn't it? Jesus was ridiculed for being a Nazarene; Peter was singled out as a Galilean; Simon was forced to help carry the cross because he was from Cyrene. And don!t forget the biblical accounts of those nasty Samaritans.

There isn't one of us who wouldn't do all they could to escape poverty and violence and give our families a better life.

Unborn children and life in its most basic stage are defenseless

against those entrusted to heal and cure. The elderly face a similar battle.

In the history of mankind, there's not a single empire that didn't fall because of its immoral way of life. The good old U.S. is the greatest empire, or super power the world has yet seen. But as she continues her selective allowances, it seems inevitable a similar fate awaits.

Doesn't anyone fear the day when America is overrun and we're rounded up and "allowed" to live out our existence on useless parcels of land?

If America would only drop to its-knees and ask the Father for guidance, the allowances would carry more weight and benefit all people.

America celebrated the person of Jackie Robinson this week. I felt it was a hollow gesture. There should have never been a "color line" to cross in the first place.

There are still many, many "color lines" in our country. I just hope after all is said and done, that the Almighty will "allow" us into heaven for all eternity.

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ing at Vrrginia Tech. He sJid that fortunately their children. were not harmed. i Father James Arsenault, of St. Mary's Parish, the only Catholic parish in Blacksburg, spent I more than three hours at the hospital with those who were wounded bef6re heading over to the university to help there.

The church was operi: with the Blessed Sacrament exposed for adoration, followed by a spbeial Mass Monday night.

The university presid~nt, Charles Steger, called the shootings "a tragedy that we consider of II).onumental proportions." The first shooting occurred Monday about 7: ~i5 a.m. Two ' I I hours later the same gumrian attacked a classroom in Norris Hl:Ul, an engineering building, shooting more than 40 people before he was .killed. The death toll as of Tuesday had risen to

33.

The April 16 sho<:>ting was the deadliest on-campus attack in U.S. history. Before that the worst was at the University of Texas in Austin in 1966, when a gunman climbed a clock tower and killed 16 people before police killed him.

Last year on the first day ofclasses for the 2006-07 school year at Vrrginia Tech, an escaped inmate was captured near the campus after he allegedly shot and killed a sheriff's deputy and a security guard. While the search for the inmate was on, classes were canceled, the Vrrginia Tech campus was closed and students and staffwere ordered to stay indoors.

Vrrginia Tech has about 25,000 students. Approximately 800 to 1,000 of the students regularly attend Sunday Mass at the Newman Center or are involved in activities there.

Mass. woman dies; life marked by e~traordinary events WORCESTER (CWNews.com) - Audrey Santo, a yo~ng Massachusetts woman who lived most of her life in a comatose; state, surrounded by unexplained spiritual phenomena, died at home on Saturday, April 14. As a toddler, Audrey Santo suffered a traumatic accident, which- aggravated by medical errors-left her in a condition known as akipetic mutism.

She spentnearly20years路inabed. in her family's home in Worcester before finally succumbirig to cardiopulmonary failure. Thousands of visitors came to pray at the silent patient's bedside over the years, and'. many reported extraordihary events.

There were reports of bleeding Hosts, statues that exuded oil, and a scent of roses in the bedroom. Offi-

cials of the local Worcester Diocese investigated the reports without reaching any definite conclusion.

"We may never fully understand the causes of various paranormal events which have been reported,"---' said Worcester Bishop Robert McManus upon hearing ofAudrey's death. He added, however, "Everyone who visited their home was . touched by the unswaying commitment to life that 'was exhibited each and every day by the Santo Family and by the extensive network of friends and volunteers. God works in mysterious ways, but most importantly, he works through each of us to make his love present for those who are most in need."

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Living in the light of the Resurrection Our Gospel for the third Sunday of Easter offers us several vivid images of our new life in the risen Christ.

Only such powerful images can really convey what our new life in Christ is, because that life is not first and foremost a system of philosophy or even theology, but sacrament: a sacramental life which is our sharing in the risen life of a divine person, Jesus Christ. The events told in this Gospel, Jesus' appearances after his resurrection to his disciples, set out some of the elements of that truth.

We begin with the disciples, alone once again.

Mer the Resurrection of the Lord, they know he is risen, but have no clear idea what that will mean. They're about to find out. They've returned to what had been their trade before they met Jesus, but they fish all night with no

success. When Jesus appears to them, they don't know him at first because the risen body is so spiritual, so ''unearthly,''. it can be recognized only when the Lord. wills it to be.

Seeing their discouragement and fatigue, Jesus commands them to cast their nets one more time; they obey him, and haul in a huge catch of fish.

This miracle reveals to us the mystery of our collaboration with the Lord. Without him we can do nothing: we can work all through the night, all through our lives, and accomplish nothing. But with Jesus present, and with our loving obedience, we can work miracles. And there's more: by our obedience to him, and only by it, we fully recognize Jesus and his working in our lives. "It is

the Lord!" says the beloved disciple to Peter, and everything changes, in this Gospel and in our own lives.

One more charitable act than we're ready for, one

more step in faith when we're weary, and the miracle happens.

Jesus then feeds and nourishes his disciples not with anything miraculous, but with the very fruit of their own labor, the fish they had just caught. The food that nourishes and builds up the Church, taken, blessed, and given back by the Lord, is the

fruit of our own labors, the work of our own hands. Our everyday lives have become sacramental in the light of the Risen One. Now the story goes deeper, as we move from a dialogue that has been external and communal to one that is internal and personal. Jesus is about to heal Peter of his wavering and cowardice. He had denied Christ three times; now the Lord brings him back with three questions (Do you love me?) and three commands (Feed my sheep!). And how does the healing come about? Not with some mysterious or symbolic rite, but with an act of dialogue that is fully human, open, and free, but also urgent.

I'm sure this conversation wasn't an easy moment for

Peter, and we're told that he was distressed after the third question, but he does indeed answer, and hears the words that will shape the rest of his life and his death as well: "Follow me!" With Peter, we too hear this command, and our life and death are transformed, just as his were.

The moral of our story?

Only a personal and ongoing contact with the sacrament of God, the person of Jesus Christ, makes possible the life we are called to lead, a life lived in the light of the resurrection. Call, command, miracle, dialogue, mission: all are quite impossible without an ongoing Easter at the center of our lives.

Father Johnson, o.c.s.o., is a parochial vicar at Our lAdy ofthe Assumption in Osterville.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat, Apri121, Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2,4-5,18-19; In 6:16-21. Sun, April 22, Third Sunday of Easter, Acts 5:27-32,40b-41; Ps 30:2,4-6; Rv 5:11-14; In 21 :1-19 or 21:1-14.

Mon, April 23, Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24,26-27,29-30; In 6:22-29. Thes, April 24,Acts 7:51-8:1a; Ps 31:3cd-4,6ab,7b,8a,17,21ab; In 6:30-35. Wed,April25, Mark, Evangelist, 1 Pt 5:5b-14; Ps 89:23,6-7,16-17; Mk 16:15-20. Thurs, April 26, Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9,16-17,20; In 6:44-51. Fri,April27,Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1-2; In 6:52-59.

Mount Athas objects Last December's visit by sured the depth of the chasm Pope Benedict XVI to Ecumeni- between Catholicism and some cal Patriarch Bartholomew of parts of the worlds-withinConstantinople revived specula- . worlds of Orthodoxy. Recent tion that the millennium-long comments on Benedict's division between Rome and the December pilgrimage Christian East might soon end. by the Orthodox That was certainly the dream of monks of Mount Athos Benedict's predecessor, the suggest that the Servant ofGod John Paul II, division is deep and who really did seem to believe wide indeed. that Rome and Constantinople Mount Athos, a could achieve ecclesial reconcraggy peninsula in ciliation by the end of the 20th northern Greece, is century, so that a millennium of . home to 20 selfdivision - the formal split governing Orthodox monasterhaving taken place in 1054:ies. In fact, Mount Athos is would be succeeded by a new virtually a country unto itself; millennium of unity, in a return its formal designation in Greece to the relations that prevailed in is the "Autonomous Monastic the first centuries of Christian State of the Holy Mountain." No history. women or female animals are It was a noble vision, but it allowed on Mount Athos; may not have accurately meavisitors are strictly limited; only

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And, while Mount Athos comes under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patri-

archate of Constantinople, the Athonite monks, who regard their monasticism as what they term "the non-negotiable guardian of the Holy Tradition," were very unhappy with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the way he treated his Roman guest in December.

Why? Because, the monks' complained, "the pope was received as though he were the canonical bishop of Rome."

There were other complaints, . but that was the first listed in a statement released last December 30 by the Assembly of Representatives and Superiors of the twenty monasteries: Why was Bartholomew treating Benedict as though the latter were, in fact, the bishop of Rome?

Well, if we can't agree on that, we do have, as Jim Lovell

told Mission Control, a problem.

To be sure, Athonite monasticism, "the non-negotiable guardian of the Holy Tradition," is a particularly stringent form of Orthodoxy. And if the monks of Mount . Athos have their dubieties about the ecumenical openness of Patriarch Bartholomew, it is, perhaps, not surprising that they imagine Benedict XVI as a usurper and a teacher of her- . esies. Yet this Athonite intransigence reflects a hard truth about Catholic-Orthodox relations after a millennium of division: namely, that, for many Orthodox Christians, the statement "I am not in communion with the Bishop of Rome" has become an integral part of the statement, "I am an Orthodox Christian."

The obverse is not true. I very much doubt that there are more than a handful of Catholics around the world whose confession of Catholic faith includes, as a key component, "I am not in communion with the Patriarch of Constantinople." The truth of the matter is that, outside historically Orthodox countries and certain ethnic communities, the thought of how one stands vis-a-vis the Patriarch of Constantinople simply doesn't

enter Catholic heads. Perhaps that's a problem, but it's nowhere near as great an obstacle to ecumenical progress as the conviction in some Orthodox quarters that non-communion. with Rome is a defining characteristic of what it means to be "Orthodox'."

1054, it now seems clear, was not a date-in-a-vacuum.

Rather, the mutual excommunications of 1054 were the cashout, so to speak, of a driftingapart that had been going on for centuries, driven by language and politics, to be sure, but also by different theological sensibilities. Are those two sensibilities necessarily Churchdividing? The Catholic answer is, "No." But that is emphatically not the answer of Mount Athos, and of those Orthodox for whom the Athonite monks are essentially right, if a bit over-the-top.

All of which suggests that John Paul II's dream of a Church breathing once again with both of its lungs is unlikely of fulfillment anytime soon.

Unless, that is, Islamist pressures compel a reexamination within Orthodoxy of what a lifeline to Rome might mean.

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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The tip is the hat day. Women who were big into Sunday 15 April 2007 hats outdid themselves at Easter.

Second Sunday of Easter New York had the Fifth Avenue Homeport Easter parade and Boston I've been keeping an eye out for Easter bonnets. A few little girls are sporting them, but that's about it. ofa Hats, dear readers, ~.~ ~~tsti::(etlest . have gone out of style.

Gone are the ,:--,:.-.:2 .~Y=F..atJieiotrm.'~ famous hatters Goldrick including Hedda Hopper of Hollywood toasted the O'Neil Familyand Senator Mary Fonseca of the 10 girls and mother dressed Fall River. My mother would identically. You could read all never enter a church without a about it in the newspaper's head-covering, even if it was rotogravure section. just a Kleenex. This was based Men also routinely wore hats. on something St. Paul wrote They removed their hats upon about proper etiquette in his

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The exception is "styl'n" young men who wear their permanently-affixed baseball caps with the visors cockeyed or backwards.

Faithful Anchor reader Genevieve Mooney writes to enlighten me on "whoopee

Dear mom and d,ad, hit the road! pack in soft-sided, duffel bags With so many fantastic sites so that, if necessary, the bags to see in this great country of can be squished under seats ours, all-family car trips are a and around bodies in the car. great American tradition. If No one, not even mom, is you have been meaning to take allowed to pack more personal that ultimate family road trip, gear than can fit in one duffel, I'd like to encourage you to making it possible for all seven '~ust do it" this year! Time of us to fit in one mini-van for away from the house and the an indefinite length of time. regular routine can be just the Food: Eating away from thing to open everyone's eyes to the ....- - - -_ _-~"'!'!!"'_ _ wonderful world God has created, to rejuvenate family unity, and I I to spark some new 1 ~',~11 interests in the kids.

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Finding the Time:' home can get expensive. We Many of us are Obligated to the save money on food with two same family gatherings or strategies. First, no matter vacation activities and locawhere we are lodging (tent, tions each year. This makes it hotel, or friend's house), we really tough to squeeze in a keep healthy breakfast food trip to a different, dream like bagels and bananas destination with just our available for everyone to eat nuclear family. To help solve for fast, morning nutrition. this difficulty my husband and Second, we switch to having I use a strategy we call "piggytwo meals a day instead of backing." This consists of three. Thinking of our morning taking two shorter trips at the food as a snack, we usually same time. When driving to have a large, picnic lunch visit extended family we take a around 11 a.m., and then a few days on our own to visit large dinner at an inexpensive unique places en route to the restaurant around 5 p.m. USIng traditional gathering place. A these strategies our food word to the wise: if possible, expenses on road trips are take your nuclear family trip rarely more than what they first. This will avoid the would be if we Were eating at perception that you are home. "leaving early" from the Don't leave Jesus behind: extended family gathering.

Attending Mass at new Packing: Bringing enough churches is one of the highclothes can be a challenge for lights of our road trips. After a long car trip. We solve this Sunday morning Mass in problem by never packing for Williams, Ariz., near the Grand more than four days. If our Canyon, everyone was invited voyage lasts longer than that, to the church hall for a potluck we schedule in a trip to a local breakfast. Our children were laundromat (and pack deteroverwhelmed by the generosity gent and quarters). We also

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of nearly all hotels. If you plan ahead or have computer access on your trip, you can find Mass times anywhere in the USA at www.masstimes.org.

Expect the Unexpected: Car trips invite serendipity; embrace it! Budget extra time to stop at random historical markets and spare cash to eat at quirky ice cream stands.

Leave the IPods, the VCR, and all but one, emergency-useonly cell phone at home and tune into each other. Remember that mom and dad set the tone, so make an extra effort to pray together daily and to communicate well. Trust me, conflict will occur, but it's up to you to stop it from escalating into a cross-country family feud!

I hope these ideas encourage you to take that family trip of a lifetime while your kids are still at home; Oh, and don't forget to pack a good sense of humor (you can't overpack in, this area)!

Heidi is an author, photog. rapher, andfull.time mother.

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9 hats." Her father owned a dry goods store well-stocked with these stylish hats. Being functionally illiterate in the world of fashion, Gen kindly informs me that felt whoopee hats came in bright colors. They resembled a cloche, she says, (whatever that is) but with a broader and shapeable brim. Seems whoopee hats were "must-haves" in the era of the flappers. Gen still regrets that by the time she was old enough to wear one they had gone out of style. They never came back.

When my sister Mary moved to Colorado some years ago, she mentioned in a telephone conversation that she was looking for a group of women who just wanted to have fun.

Being the older brother, I responded wisely with two words: "Red hat." She had never heard of the Red Hati Societyd had only read aboutit in the . newspaper the day brfore; but I pretended to be an authority on the subject (as I often do). The Red Hatters is an organization for mature women who enjoy each other's company. There are no dues, no bylaws and very few rules. You have to be of a certain age and you have to wear a purple dress with a red hat. The Brewster Red Hatters tell me that on their birthdays, Red Hatters reverse the colors. Red Hatter groups call themselves such names as "The, Mad Hatters," "The Scarlet O'Hatters," and "The Red Hat Mammas." They thumb their noses at haute couture and kick up their heels. I like their style.

Did you know there's an Ancient and Honorable Red Hat Society for men? It's very exclusive. There are less than' 150 members worldwide and you must be invited to join by the pope himself. We call them the cardinals (not to be confused with the St. Louis baseball team). Official regalia of a cardinal once included a scarlet broad-brimmed hat. Even to this

day, being named a cardinal is said to be "receiving the red hat." There's only one ecclesiastical red hat in New England.

Archbishop Sean Cardinal O'Malley of Boston wears it, but only figuratively.

Another custom was that upon the death of a cardinal, his red hat was suspended from the rafters of his cathedral church - something like retiring your number in the sports world.

(Dave Jolivet, Anchor sports columnist, take note). Cardinals no longer wear large red hats.

In some of our big-city cathedrals, though, you will still see the old red hats, faded and dusty, hanging from the ceiling.

Even today you will notice a red hat in the personal crest of a cardinal.

There was a time when the various ranks of clergy could be identified at a glance. The tip was the hat, called the biretta.

The basic black model was that of a philosopher. A doctor of philosophy had a biretta with a tassel instead of a pompom.

Higher ranking clergy's birettas were color-coded to signal their office.

In our day, parish priests wear many hats. The most important is that of parochial ministry. But there are other hats on many priests' hat racks.

Maybe there's the hat of a canon lawyer, or a vocation director, or a newspaper columnist; or the hat a retreat director, or an educator, or a television producer; or the ha~ of chaplain in a prison or a convent or a hospital.

These are just some of the diocesan hats. Several of our priests wear hats on the national level.

I'd tip my hat to my multitasking brothers -'- but which hat?

Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Bernard Parish, Assonet.

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Peter Hoss: An extraordinary example for fellow Catholics By

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can do. Ministering holy Communion has been a great joy for me."

SWANSEA - Asked whatthe secret to living In his free time, Hoss is active in the parish a long life, 98-year-old Peter Hoss didn't hesi- Senior Citizen's Club which meets on Mondays, tate in giving his answer: "Make God a part of he bowls in a senior league on Tuesdays and plays your life."

Whist at the Council on Aging on Wednesdays.

Hoss does so by praying the rosary frequently He also enjoys doing crossword puzzles. and serving as an extraordinary minister of holy "I enjoy playing cards and keeping busy," said Communion at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Hoss.

Swansea several times a month.

"He never misses a beat," added Father Ciryak.

As we. sat down in his living room to chat, "He is always willing to help and inspires other Hoss was surrounded people to use their by a wall of photos. gifts and talents to There were images of serve the Lord and he and his wife, his the community." children and imporHoss has also been tant gatherings a lector and collected through the years. for Catholic Charities He leaned in close for many years. He because his hearing was chancellor of the aid was not working Morris Park Knights properly and exof Columbus Council pounded on his earNo. 566 and served as lier secret and cited a board member and the importance of treasurer of Bristol prayer.

Elder Services. He is "Prayer is central a 1985 recipient of in my life," he said. "I the Marian Meda1. pray all the time and Hoss also was inbad things that might volved with the have seemed gigantic Narragansett Retreat at the time are not so League for several bad. GQd_.has been years. good to' me. He's He said that angiven me the time and other secret to a long I try and cooperate life is "a good marwith him." riage." He was marA native of New ried to his wife Helen Jersey, Hoss was born for 58 years and rein North Bergen and cal1ed the birthdays said his parents in- NINETY-EIGHT YEARS YOUNG - Anchor Per- of his three children stilled good Catholic son of the Week Peter Hoss. with ease. "I was values in him growblessed with a good ing up. "I have been memory," he said with a smile. close to the Church since 1 was young and served . His three children range in age from 58 to 7 I. as an altar boy," said Hoss. He would later be- In addition he has nine grandchildren and 10 come president of the Holy Name Society and great-grand children. spent several years on a Troop Committee for "My wife was in CatholiC Memorial Home for Scouting. five years," recalled Hoss.. "I would get up there Hoss was commissioned to be an extraordi- for breakfast everyday and I would stay until supnary minister of holy Communion in 1981 and per was done." some of his fondest memories are of bringing Hoss worked as an accountant for the Young Jesus to the homebound.

Corporation in Fall River and prior to that was a "I used to visit people at the former Purdy credit manager at Robertson Factories of TaunNursing Home of Swansea and they were always ton. eager to see me. They would all gather together Hoss has seen many changes in the Church and you could see it in their eyes. They were ex- through the years and said, "I remember when cited that Christ was coming to them." there were four or five priests in a parish and He brought Communion to the home until he there were long lines for confession. A good was struck by his first heart attack. Years later he Catholic would go once a month a very good would have a second, but he has not slowed down. Catholic would go once a week." He added, He s.till drives around town and said that being "What hasn't changed is basic faith." able to distribute Communion "has been a reWhen he's not driving around town, Hoss enwarding experience. It's been very humbling." joys watching the Boston Red Sox on TV. "My His pastor, Father Michael Ciryak, praised the father was a big fan of the New York Giants baseefforts. "It's an awesome thing," said Father bal1 team and I enjoy the games. I remember Ciryak. "He is filled with joy and very dedicated when seats were $ 1. 10 and hot 'dogs were 10 to the Church. He's been involved for a long time cents." and is a good man and a good sou1."

As I left his apartment'he offered a last piece "Father said I am the oldest extraordinary min- of advice that has served him well, "Take it day ister of holy Communion in the diocese," said by day."

Hoss. Asked if people should get involved in their Submit nominations for Person of the Week parishes, Hoss replied "Yes, they should volun- to theanchor@anchornews.org or The Anchor, teer their time and show other people what they P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

A LABOR OF LOVE - Pope Benedict XVI looks at a copy of his new book, "Jesus of Nazareth," presented to him at the Vatican April 13. (eNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Reuters)

In new book, pope quoted as seeing no conflict between faith, science

By MICHAEL LAWTON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

However, Pope Benedict said, God cannot be used simply to explain COLOGNE, Germany - Pope away the problems.

Benedict XVI has said that he sees ''It's not as if! wanted to stuffdear no conflict between faith and science God into these gaps," he said. "He's in the exploration of the universe's too big to fit into such gaps." development, but he has criticized Pope Benedict also took a firm those who see evolution as an expla- stand against science books' tendency nation for everything. to suggest that things came about by The remarks, made in a discussion nature and evolution. he hosted at Castel Gandolfo, south ''The question has to be asked: ofRome, with some ofhis former stu- What is nature or evolution as (an acdents in September last year, have tive) subject? It doesn't exist! If one been published in a German book says that nature does this or that, this titled "Schoepfung und Evolution" can only be an attempt to summarize ("Creation and Evolution").1he book a series of events under one actor was published April I I by the Sankt which, as such, doesn't exist," the Ulrich Verlag publishing house. pope said.

The students have met annually Nature and evolution are made up since 1978 with their former doctoral of many individual steps, and the supervisor, but this is the first time pope insisted that one must look bethey have published the lectures and yond nature and evolution for a guiddiscussions. ing principle.

During the discussion, the pope Pope Benedict said science had said it was not a matter of "deciding discovered large areas of rationality either in favor ofa creationism, which and had given people new underout ofprinciple excludes science from standing. its considerations, or in favor of a But, he said, "in its joy at the greattheory of evolution, which under- ness of its discoveries, it has tended plays its own gaps and refuses to see to take away from us dimensions of questions which go beyond the meth- reason which we still need." odological possibilities ofnatural sci- .

Questions raised have to be anence." ~wered by reason and "can't just be What was important, he said, was left to religious feelings," said the ''the interplay ofdifferent dimensions pope. of reason, an interplay which opens . Evolution, even if it includes irraup into the road to faith." tional, chaotic and destructive proThe pope argued that ChristianitY cesses, seems to have its own ratiowas a religion ofreason, but a reason nality, said the pope. It has adopted 路,that was wider than the limited scope the few positive mutations which ocof modem science. curred and exploited the limited posFor the pope, science reaches its . sibilities which evolution has offered. limits when its assumptions can no' ''Where does this rationality come longer be tested. from? Is there a causative rational"We can't bring 10,000 genera- ity?" the pope asked. tions into the laboratory," he said.

"Naturally there is rationality in That leaves "gaps in the possibility nature, but that doesn't allow us to ofproving or disproving (the theory) have complete insight into God's by experiment" plan," said Pope Benedict

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NOT-SO-BASIC TRAINING - U.S. Army basic trainees kneel on the floor after receiving Communion during Sunday Mass at Fort Jackson, S.C., March 25. The Mass was concelebrated by four priests who were undergoing training in the Chaplain Basic Officer Leadership Course to become Catholic chaplains in the Army. Two other Army chaplains also concelebrated the Mass. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

'Commando crawl' and all, priests train to be chaplains

By CHRISTINA LEE KNAUSS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

FORT JACKSON, S.C. - As the soldier leaned out over a length of rope stretched 20 feet in the air over a net, he began the "commando crawl," a careful, handover-hand movement across the .rope to a wooden platform on the other side. The other men and women in his platoon waited on the ground below and cheered him as he slowly made progress.

The casual observer would never guess the man on the rope, a first lieutenant, was also a Catholic priest, Father Mario Rosario, studying to become a chaplain in the U.S. Army.

He and eight other Catholic priests were among approximately 130 students in late March at the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School at Fort Jackson, near Columbia.

Father Rosario, a native of the Philippines, and three other priests were enrolled in the Chaplain Basic Officer Leadership Course, the initial three-month course to become a chaplain. They graduated AprilS. Five other priests, already chaplains, are taking the-Chaplain Captain Career Course, or C-4.

Catholic priests are a minority in the ranks of Army chaplains, even though it is estimated that one in four soldiers in the Army is

Catholic, said Oblate Father David A. Kenehan, an Army colonel who serves as deputy commandant at the chaplain school.

Priests who become military chaplains are also soldiers. Their lives include daily and weekly Mass, prayer and other elements of a civilian priest's life.

But they dress in regulation camouflage battle-dress uniforms.

They study military regulations and procedures, wake up early to go on five-mile marches, learn how to put on a gas mask in less than nine seconds, and rappel off a 60foot wooden structure known as Victory Tower.

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"It's important for the soldiers to see the chaplains doing the same things they do," Father Kenehan said.

The shortage of Catholic priests in the Army resembles in many ways the shortage of priests in the civilian world. With an increasing shortage of priests in the United States, more dioceses are relying on missionary priests from overseas.

Of the nine priests in training at the chaplain school, all but one were foreign-born. They came from the Philippines; India, Poland, Kenya and Nigeria.

Once they complete chaplain training, Catholic priests are usually assigned to serve as chaplains for a division. As chaplains, II they minister to soldiers from all denominations, not just!~ Catholics.

"You're used a lot over thereat one point when I was over, there were only two Catholic priests who covered the whole of Baghdad," said Father Christopher Opara, a

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"The work I did showed me how important the priest is in the combat context. Catholic soldiers especially need their priests because it takes a priest to make sure they get the spiritual attention they need."

Priests who want to serv~ as chaplains must first receive approval from their bishops, and can be recalled at almost any time if a serious need arises in their home diocese. Newly ordained Catholic priests, unlike most other new clergy who become chaplains, also must serve in a parish for three years before they can become fulltime chaplains.

Priests who have already completed one or two tours in combat areas in the Middle East say the issues soldiers face these days are daunting, especially strained marriages and family ties because of long, multiple deployments. Add this to the daily stress of combat, homesickness and the pain of losing friends and fellow soldiers, and the work of the Catholic priest as chaplain becomes even more vital, they say.

READY TO TAKE FLIGHT - Father John Baptist Gabriel, center, and other soldiers do exercises as part of their training in the Chaplain Basic Officer Leadership Course at Fort Jackson, S.C., March 27. Father Gabriel, a priest of the Diocese of Neyyattinkara, India, completed the course AprilS and is set to serve at Fort Hood, Texas.

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Broadcasting classification and Directed by Jack Donohue, the Motion Picture Association of likable cast works hard in trying America rating. These classifica- to put over a thinly contrived ' tions refer only to the theatrical story and give some fresh appeal version of the films below, and to lackluster musical numbers. do not take into account DVD re- Romantic complications. The leases' extra content.

USCCB Office for Film & Broad"The Doris Day Collection: casting classification is A-I Volume 2" (1948-1954) general patronage.

The wholesome queen of "On Moonlight Bay" (1951) ~ 1950s musicals receives her secPleasant nostalgia from Booth ond packaging of musicals from Tarkington's "Penrod" stories DO NOT DISTURBIA - Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer star in a scene from the movie "Disturbia." that era. Each of the six spiffy about a 1917 Indiana family For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo/Paramount) digital transfers - which also in- whose bemused parents (Leon clude Day's 1-948 movie debut, Ames and Rosemary DeCamp) gamelike movie eschews character stabbing and a bludgeoning, and a "Romance on'the,High'Seas':'and : try to keep up with their'mischiedevelopment as well as narrative logic gruesome morgue image. The in a drawn-out series of brutal USCCB Office for Film & Broadcastits 1949 follow-up; "My Dream - vo'us grade-school soil and his is Yours" (both classified A-II big sister (Doris Day), who's in beheadings, impalements and evis- ing classification is 0 - morally ofadults and adolescents) - comes love with the college boy cerations that overwhelm the intrigu- fensive. The Motion Picture Associawith Warner Brothers cartoons (MacRae) across the street. Diing premise of the legendary tion of America rating is R - reand shorts of the era. None were rector Roy Del Ruth relaxes with Norsemen arriving on American stricted. Under 17 requires accompa(C~i ~'t()viite rated by the Motion Picture As- the mundane distractions of shores many centuries before Colum- nying parent or adult guardian. sociation of America. All are rec- small-town life, the sweet innobus. Excessive violence and gore. The ''Year of the Dog" (CaIIV~Ulllte~ ommendable as pleasant family cence of period songs and the USCCB Office for FIlm & Broadcast(Paramount Vantage) viewing. uncertain course of young love.

NEW YORK (CNS) - The fol- ing classification is 0 - morally ofQuirky tale - by turns, wryly "By the Light of the Silvery Undemanding family fare. The lowing are capsule reviews of mov-' fensive. The Motion Picture Associa- amusing, sad and thought-provoking Moon" (1953) USCCB Office for Film & Broad- ies recently reviewed by the Office tion of America rating is R - re- - about a lonely office worker The sma1l40wnuItldiana路拢am- . "casting"classification' (s rA-I for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. stricted. Under 17 requires accompa- (Molly Shannon) whose beloved ,nying parent or adult guardian. ' ily of "OnMoonlight-Bay~'(.'te- .-'gen6ral'patronage.:~"'\ v> r路 o -'ConfetenceofCatholic BishOps. beagle dies suddenly, prompting her ''Perfect Stranger" (Revolution) turns in a sequel centering on the *** ''Disturbia'' (paramount) to reevaluate her priorities as she inTrashy, utterly nonsensical thriller teracts with her hunting-obsessed misunderstandings between the "Essential Classics: Family Reasonably suspenseful thriller in strong-willed daughter (Day) and Films" (1939-1985) the tradition of Hitchcock's "Rear about an investigative reporter (Halle neighbor (John C. Reilly), an animal her World War I sweetheart (Gor"Willy Wonka & The ChocoWindow" about a teen (Shia Berry) who, with the help of a sleazy rights activist (peter Sarsgaard), her don MacRae), with a comic sublate Factory" (1971) LaBeout)-underhousearrestafter computer-savvy co~eague (Giovanni paranoid boss (Josh Pais), best friendplot involving the upright father Screen version of Roald anemotionaloutburststemmingfrom Ribisi), sets out to expose the big-shot officemate (Regina King), and up(Leon Ames) and a French ac- , Dahl's children's story about a his dad's death-who begins to'spy advertising executive (Bruce Willis) scale brother (Tom McCarthy) and tress. Directed by David Butler, candy manufacturer (Gene on the neighbors, eventually suspect- .who may have murdered her child- sister-in-law (Laura Oem). Writerthe proceedings are lighthearted, Wilder) who conducts an electri- ing one (David Morse) of being a hood friend after an adulterous affair. director Mike White's low-keyed wholesome family fun, with fying tour of his factory for the serial killer. Director DJ. Caruso The ill-conceived script - peppered comedy avoids the predictable as it charming musical numbers and five lucky children who learn that ("Taking Lives") handles his serial- with so many gratuitous uses of the explores the validity of its heroine's warm period nostalgia. The greed and selfishness can be their killer theme with relative restraint, f-word it's almost risible - strains increasing obsession with dogs and USCCB Office for Film & Broad- own reward. Even the punish- with the emphasis squarely on sus- credulity at every turn, and most of animal rights; performances are casting classification is A-I ments, occasionally a bit grue- pense. Some violence including two the seamy sexual elements have little finely etched and a compassionate general patronage. some for younger children, are in murders, an image of a corpse and dramatic justification, though we'll worldview informs the whole film.

"I'll See You in My Dreams" good fun. Director Mel Stuart some discreet shots of other dead credit director James Foley with Briefinnuendo and sexual banter and (1951) manages to avoid the cloying bodies, a disturbing car accident, bringing some visual flair. Nonstop mild profanity. The USCCB Office Sentimental biography of sentimentality of similar some crude and crass language and rough and crude language and some for FIlm & Broadcasting classificasongwriter Gus Kahn (Danny children's movies, though it's profanity, skimpy costuming, under- profanity, heavy sexual content in- tion is A-ID - adults. The Motion Thomas) tracks his start during never quite as magical as one age drinking, suggestive dancing, cluding a graphic premarital encoun- Picture Association of America ratWorld War I, marriage (to Day) would have hoped. The USCCB brief suggestions of infidelity and ter without nudity, briefpornographic ing is PG-13 - parents strongly cauand Tin Pan Alley triumphs, then Office for Film & Broadcasting underage viewing of pornography. images, adultery, child abuse, some tioned. Some material may be inapDepression doldrums until re- classification is A-I - general The USCCB Office for Film & violent encounters including a bloody propriate for children under 13. newed success in Hollywood. Di- patronage. The Motion Picture BroadcastingclassificationisA-illrected by Michael Curtiz, the en- Association of America rating is adults. The Motion Picture Associagaging performance by Thomas G - general audiences. All ages tion of America rating is PG-13 almost overcomes the script's admitted. parents strongly cautioned. Some showbiz cliches and formula ob"The Wizard of Oz" (1939) material may be inappropriate for stacles, but Day's credible as the Dorothy rides her tornado to children under 13. supportive wife and, along the the magic land over the rainbow ''Pathfinder'' (Fox) Relentlessly violent tale about a way, is an enjoyable review of in director Victor Fleming's clasKahn lyrics, including the title sic that skyrocketed Judy shipwreckedVtking lad taken in and song. Restrained treatment of Garland's career and has given raised by a Native American tribe, marital misunderstandings and generations of families prime en- until 15 years later when now as an Scheduled celebrant is domestic difficulties. The tertainment again and again. The adult he (Karl Urban) sets out, virtuFather Rodney E. Thibault, USCCB Office for Film & Broad- USCCB Office for Film & Broad- ally single-handedly, to exact revenge casting classification is A-II casting classification is A-I on returning Vikings who have parochial vicar at adults and adolescents. general patronage. The Motion slaughtered his adopted tribe and are Corpus Christi Parish "Lucky Me" (1954) Picture Association of America bent on killing every other tribe in in East Sandwich Pleasant formula musical in rating is G - general audiences. their path so as to lay claim to the which a superstitious singer All ages admitted. land. Director Marcus Nispel's video '0'

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MORE THAN JUST AN EXPERIMENT - Families with children who were once frozen embryos listen to U.S. President George W. Bush speak out against the federal. funding of embryonic stemcell research during an event at the White House in Washington . July 2006. The president used his first veto in his five~and-a­ half-year administration to block legislation expanding embryonic stem-cell research. On April 11 the Senate approved S. 5, a bill permitting destruction of human embryos in federally funded stem-cell research. The president has promised to again veto the bill. (eNS file photo)

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Doerflinger made his comments late April 11 following an evening vote in which the Senate approved S. 5, a bill permitting destruction of human embryos in federally funded stem-cell research, by a 63-34 margin.

Should S. 5 become law, "millions of taxpayers would be forced to promote attacks on innocent human life in the name of scientific progress," he said.

Since President George W. Bush has promised to veto,the legislation, however, and its backers do not have enough votes for an override in the House or the Sen-' ate, "we expect that this terrible burden will not be placed on the American people now," Doerflinger said.

In January the House passed a similar measure, H.R. 3, by a vote of 253-174. The House vote was 32 votes short of a two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.

Doerflinger criticized those who continue advocating destructive research on human embryos, saying, "This debate continues to divert attention and resources away from the demonstrated therapeutic promise of morally sound research using adult and cord blood stem cells."

Before the House vote in January Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged legislators to "consider the fundamental moral line" they would cross if they approved the measure.

By a 70-28 vote the Senate also passed S. 30, a bill that would promote alternative ways to pursue stem-cell research without destroying human embryos, but

Doerflinger said in an interview that it was uncertain whether the Democratic leadership would let that bill come to a vote in the House or, if so, what form it 'would take.

The USCCB favors "a lot of things in S. 30" but has reservations about a provision that would allow use of "naturally dead embryos" for stem-cell research, he said. He said there are concerns in the pro-life community about how strict the standards would be to prevent abuse of that provision.

Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, criticized the Democratic leadership in Congress for "political demagoguery, making claims for embryonic stem-cell research that go far beyond any evi~ dence."

"Not a single human patient has yet been helped by stem cells obtained by killing human embryos," he said. "Meanwhile, many thou. sands of human patients have been helped with other types of stem cells, obtained in noncontroversial ways that do not require harming human embryos."

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, . praised the 34 senators who voted against funding "research that requires the destruction of human life."

The Bush administration said in an April 10 policy statement that the president "strongly opposes" S. 5 and would veto it if it reached his desk. "The administration believes that research on alternative sources of stem cells is extremely promising and provides robust opportunities to advance science without compelling American taxpayers to participate in ongoing destruction of human embryos," it said.

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ate April 11 approved a bill that would authorize federal funding of it. The House approved a similar bill in January. .

A conference committee will send a final version to President Bush; who said April 10 that he would veto the bill. His veto could prevail as neither the House nor Senate approved it with margins wide enough for an override.

Bush said it "crosses a moral line that I and many others find troubling."

New studies over the last three weeks indicated that adult stem cells have shown promise in treating diseases from Type 1 diabe-. tes to heart damage. According to the Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council, adult stem cells have shown success in treating 72 different diseases and injuries.

Sherley's own research focuses on adult stem cells - discovering the intricate machinery they use to divide, and harnessing this machinery to coax adult stem cells to grow better in laboratory conditions. In 2006 he won a prestigious Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health, a $2.5 million grant for scientists taking innovative approaches to biomedical problems.

The rush to use embryonic stem cells is not based on ignorance of the fact that human life begins at the stage of a single cell, Sherley said. The problem is disregard for its value.

And the issues gets further clouded when politicians and the media don't specify what kind of stem-cell research they're talking about. "I'm concerned with how information is being disseminated without making distinctions," Sherley said.

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All four Massachusett~ bishops voiced similar concern April 6 about the dangerous moral freefall implied in Gov. DevalPatrick's March 30 announcement that he plans to dismantle state restrictions on embryonic steIP-cell research put in place by fortner Gov. Mitt Romney.

The Massachusetts '. Legislature in 2005 actually legalized hum.an cloning (calling it "somatic cell nuclear transfer") for embryonic stem-cell research.

But Romney's regula~ions still banned scientists from setting up embryo "farms" or from importing stem-cell lines from' other states that allow them" Yet in news reports, Patrick stressed global comp~tition and ignored the moral implications involved.

MCFL executiv~ director Marie Sturgis said in reaction, "We're appalled. These are human beings. Science should be guided by ethics and morals.'~" And Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley wrote in his online blog, cardinalseansblqg.org April 6: "When the media promote embryonic stem-cell research, they often give the impression that those who oppose it are some sort of religious fanatics ', ... In actuality, the scientific cutes are coming about through ,'the ethical ways of doing things."

Research on adult stem cells and those from umpilical-cord blood or placenta or l:!one marrow is fine because no harm is done to the donor, points out Father Tadeusz PacholczYf' education director for the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Only research using embryonic steIrt cells raises "insuperable moral opjections" as it sanctions the direct exploitation "

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search purposes. He charactep.zed ences' should pursue. objections to this research as .

We oppose the ~xpan,sion of, 'ideological poHtics' and stated and the use of taxpayer money for, any research that destroys human' that 'I want science to prevai1.' ;, The governor minimizes the life.

The use of public funding for profound moral concerns at stake and. attributes to science unethical research' that has not the exclusive authority to deter- produced a single clinical benefit mine right and wrong. History is a misuse of public monies. We has demonstrated that science call on the governor to refrain must be governed by ethical from promoting any such policies principles rooted in the fpnda- as they are utterly inconsistent mental values of human dignity with good science and human digand sanctity of human life or it nity. will become the engine of great We encourage t~e governor to destruction. Destroying human support stem-cell research which life is never humanitarian. Nor respects the innate dignity of huis the taking of human life nec- man life. Remarkable achieveessary in the fight to find cures. ments have been attained by usResearch and therapies using ing ethical sources of stem cells, placental and adult stem cells including umbilical cord blood, continue to meet with great suc- placental tissue and adult. cells. cess without ethical cost. This is We support stem-c~ll research that the direction that the 'life sci- does not endangeF human life, is 'I

and destruction of one person by another.

Exploitation - whether of the unborn or because of race - is a violation of basic human rights, .

Sherley noted. He made national news earlier this year when he staged an II-day hunger strike at MIT in a dispute over his being denied tenure, a move he said was a combination of prejudices against his race and his opposition to embryonic stem-cell research.

MIT officials disputed his claims, but did acknowledge that minorities are under-represented on the faculty, launched a review'" of employment practices, and. agreed to further talks with Sherley.

"Blacks ,and other minorities should pay attention to these life issues, because if we continue to move in the direction we're going, it will be those populations who will be most affected:: Sherley said~ Although blacks comprise only 12-15 percent of the U.S. population, a disproportionate 37 percent of all babies aborted are black.

Embryonic stem-cell research will require massive donations of women's eggs, exploiting women's bodies as raw material for experiments, according to Catholic Citizenship, a Bostonbased lay-run group that encourages Catholics to participate in the legislative process.

Catholic Citizenship has urged people to oppose both federal and state funding of the embryonic stem-cell research by contacting their elected officials.

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Teachers, coaches urged to help athletes learn right from wrong BALTIMORE (CNS) - Catholic teachers and coaches have an important role to play in teaching student athletes about moral and ethical lines that must not be crossed, an official ofMajor League Baseball told participants in the National Catholic.Educational Association convention recently in Baltimore. "Catholic schools are not afraid to ask a lot of their students," said Joe Garagiola Jr., senior vice presidentofbaseball operations for Major League Baseball. "But when you ask a lot you can get extraordinary results:' Garagiola., son of the famous catcher and baseball commentator, admitted that there are pressures on coaches, teachers, parents and the athletes themselves at every level ofplay - to win, to keep student athletes eligible to play, to get more playing time for their child and to succeed at any cost.

But he suggested that other sports could benefit from a system similar to the minor leagues in baseball, which he called "a pretty humbling experience, Where you're not in the nicest hotels and there are lots of 4 am. wake-up calls." "Many of the problems in the other sports stem from the sense of entitlement that their athletes bring to the sport," he said. But Garagiola said coaches and teachers must help athletes learn early in their careers that they may have "a special talent or a special gift ... but that does not make them a special person:'

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BY THE BOOK - Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, autograph a six-foot copy of a cover of the "Baltimore Catechism" at a celebration held April 11 during the National Catholic Educational Association convention in Bahimore. (CNS photo/Owen Sweeney III, Catholic Review)

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The Vatican in 1994 released the "Catechism of can Catholics of his generation, Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore knows why God made him. the Catholic Church," which now serves as an impor''To know, love and serve him," Cardinal Keeler said, tant source for religious education in the United States paraphrasing the often-repeated answer he memorized and around the world.

"We used the (Baltimore) Catechism right from the as a child from the famous "Baltimore Catechism."

The familiar passage from the catechism is just one beginning all the way through high school," said Carof many standardized responses the thick primer of- dinal Keeler, noting that nuns exposed'him to the book.

"It was also used throughout the English-speaking fered on questions related to doctrine, morality and all world - in Africa, in Asia," the 76-year-old prelate things Catholic.

The "Baltimore Catechism" was mandated by the told The Catholic Review, Baltimore's archdiocesan American bishops who met at the Basilica of the Na- newspaper. "It meant something for those people too." tional Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Vrrgin Like Cardinal Keeler, Cardinal McCarrick said he Mary in Baltimore during the Third Plenary Council路 studied the "Baltimore Catechism." The book's users of Baltimore in 1884. It was used by schools and par- depended on rote memory to learn the answers, he ishes to help Catholics of all ages learn their faith until said. the book's strict question-and-answer format fell out ''The strength of it is that it stayed with you," said Cardinal McCarrick, who at 77 can still recite pasof favor in the rnid-1960s.

In a nod to the historic significance of the text, Car- sages from the catechism. ''The weakness of it was that sometimes you didn't dinal Keeler joined Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, and Archbishop always understand what you memorized," he told the Donald W. Wuerl of Washington in signing two large Review.

In a swing away from the doctrinal focus of the ~eproductions of. the covers of early editions of the "Baltimore Catechism;' many religion textbooks of catechism April 11.

The event was held at a Baltimore hotel during a the 1970s and '80s often focused more on God's love. breakfast marking the l75th anniversary of Wtlliam "It has to come together," Cardinal McCarrick said.

"You can't路have one without the other;' otherwise you have a skewed vision of life because life is love put into practice. Love has to spring from truth."

Cardinal McCarrick said the challenge of Catholic education is to help people internalize the faith, You have seen the movie, now read what but also understand ~t - a point echoed by CardiJes~s says about the meaning of His Passion nal Keeler. Recent religion books have moved in as dictated to stigmatist, Catalina ~vas. that direction, Cardinal McCarrick said.

This 48 page book bas tbe"lmprimatur" and is William S. Dinger, president of Sadlier, said recommended for meditation. Mrs. Rivas was the question-and-answer format of the "Baltimore featured in the recent FOX-TV special, "Signs Catechism" was right for the times it was used. from God", that was broadcast worldwide.

Modem textbooks now attempt to teach children about the faith and encourage them to apply the To receiDe this book, sendYOll1' IUI1IIt tmd o.ddreI6 faith to their lives in age-appropriate ways; he with '12 for ,hippm, & htuuIIing to: said.

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For Africa's future, educate women, Vatican's U.N. nuncio says UNITED NATIONS (CNS) - The best and cheapest way to prepare Africa for a better future is to educate all its youths, especially girls and young women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said recently. Addressing the 40th session of the U.N. Commission on Population and Development, the archbishop said that according to projections, by 2050 a large portion of Europe's population will be dependent elderly but "Africa is set to have the lowest dependency ratio in the world."

'This projection should hand that continent an unprecedented advantage in economic terms, as a young and numerous workforce should be available to it until at least 2050, while the demogiaphic dividend in most other regions will have run out," he said. He said it is important ''to assure that Africa will not miss this window ofopportunity for economic development," and in the view of the Vatican's U.N. delegation, ''the most decisive investment to be made here is in education." Since many of the people who will make up' Africa's workforce in the coming decades "are already born and are already of school age," Archbishop Migliore urged immediate efforts to achieve primary education for all African children by the year 2015. He said that according to an estimate by the U.N. Secretariat, meeting that goal ''would cost $9 billion estimated in 1998 dollar value." "By any estimate, this can hardly be considered a high price to pay for such a prize," he said.

French cardina1 urges Catholics to follow Christianity in election LYON, France (CNS) - A French cardinal has urged Catholics to follow Christian principles in the Apri122 presidential election. "I'd like Christians to be Christians and'speak out more," said Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon. He said that meant "defending what, in the view ofChristians, is right for everyone:' 1\velve candidates are vying to succeed French President Jacques Chime. In a recent TV interview, Cardinal Barbarin said he saw the emergence ofa "new, exceptionally dynamic generation" ofFrench Catholics whose faith had developed outside "previous frameworks and structures." ''The terms right and left don't fit Christians, whose actions should be guidedby the love Christ showsfor people and for life," Cardinal Barbarin said. ''We should remember democracy is only a means of action. It's the best we have, but it isn't God and it can sometimes lose its head," he added.

In a statement in his diocese's Eglise de Lyon magazine, Cardinal Barbarin said Christian politicians were "called to show a coherence between their faith and engagement, the Gospel spirit and service to the current society," adding that Catholics should oppose "a capitalism which becomes purely financial:' A record 44.5 million French citizens registered to vote, and 42 percent said in an April 8 poll that they were still undecided.

Orthodox leader says US. follows Western ideology on rights MOSCOW (CNS) - A Russian Orthodox leader said U.S. government attitudes toward religious freedom follow a Western "ideology of human rights." "U.S. experts are superficial and biased whenjudging the Orthodox Church's approach to understanding human rights and the problems of church-staterelations," saidMetropolitan Kirill ofSmolenskand Kaliningrad, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations. "As a political mechanism, democracy makes it possible for various value systems to coexist. It isn't identical to the ideology developed in the West, without other civilizations and cultures being taken into account," he said The Orthodox official recently told the state-owned Rossijskaya Gazeta weekly that he had sent a late-March letter to the U.S. ambassador to Russia in response to claims in a U.S. State Department report that religious minorities face discrimination in Russia Metropolitan Kirill said he had informed Wtlliam Bums, the U.S. ambassador, that the Orthodox Church was concerned about a "radical-liberal interpretation of human rights" and would condemn human rights notions that "humiliate human dignity and undermine conventional ethical principles:' "Support for same-sex marriages, drug addiction, prostitution and death by lethal injection in the West shouldn'tbe made the criterion ofdemocracy in society," Metropolitan Kirill added. "Nor should they make everyone think: they're useful, right and ethically acceptable."

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"Diocesan publications can light the fire of faith that warms hearts to action for the good of all," the CPA board said in a statement released last week. ''Recently the Italian Federation of Catholic Weeklies announced a bold initiative, the opening of76 new diocesan newspapers. The goal ... was that each ofItal)"s'226 dioceses would have at least one publication to serve its members," the board said. ''That same type ofemphasis is in the United States and Canada," it said.

CPA members include a wide range of national and international Catholic newspapers, .magazines and newsletters, but the 173 diocesan newspapers ofthe United States and Canada that belong to the association form nearly half of its member publications. ' Helen Osman, CPA president, told Catholic News Service that the board statement was sparked by the strong support Pope BenedictXVI expressed for the diocesan press ata meeting with the Italian federation last November.

The pope said diocesan papers "can represent significant places ofencounter and'attentive discernment for lay faithful involved in the social and political arena," promoting dialogue and "cbnvergences and objectives for joint action in the service ofthe Gospel and the common good." ''Continue to be 'newspapers of the people and among the people,' stages for a loyal exchange and deb~ among diverse opinions in

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Diocesan newspapers "serve a vital rolein our local churches;' the board said in its statement. ''They are vehicles ofevangelization and accountability, offering a way for Catholics to make their faith relevant to their daily lives." '''The great value of a diocesan newspaper is that it is edited for the needs of a local audience by editors who live within the local Church and are sensitive to the information needs oftheir readers," it added.

The board said that in many·Catholic households ~e diocesan newspaper may be the only Catholic reading material that comes into the home.

• It added that a diocesan newspaper offers the local bishop an opportunity to reach out directly to his people on a regular basis. ''As one bishop noted, it may be the only time his flock hears from their shepherd other than when they receive his annual appeal for a contribution to diocesan funds," it said. .

Diocesan newspapers offer readers "areliable source of information about Church news," written by professionaljoumalists committed to exploring ''the full and richer story of tlie Church" often not Coveredin secular media, the board said Osman said that after the papal comments last November the CPA board decided it should deyelop a new statement on the value of the diocesan press. A draft circulated by email led to various suggestions and refinements, and a final version was adopted by the board in a recent telephone conference call, she said.

The full text of the statement is available on the CPA Website, www.catholicpress.org.

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Dear Fr. Landry: I was pleased to learn that The AnchtJr will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary as the official Catholic newspaper of the Diocese QcFall River. As the Apostolic Nuncio and personal representative ofthe Holy Father Pope Bent:dict XVI, I am pleased to send my'greetings to you and your devoted staff on this august milestone in the history ofyour diocese. At the same time, 1 take this opportunity to thank all ofyou for many years of faithful service to the Church.

In June of 2006, Out Holy Father addressed the media of the Italian Bishops' Confence and he shared with them words that I am pleased to offer to you and your staff: /n your work as communicators inspired by the Gospel, constant discernment is therefore essential..../t is also your task to sustain and promote the new, Christian experiences that are being born. and to help' them to develop an ever clearer awareness.oftheir own ecclesial roots and ofthe role that they can play in the society and culture... All this, dearfriends. is parl ofyour daily labour, ofa lask that must not be carried out in an abstract 'or purely intellectual way. but with attention 10 the . thol/sands ofaspects ofthe practical life ofapeople, its problems. its needs and its hopes. May the certainty that the Christian faith is opf!JI to "whatever is true. ,honourable, just, pure. lovely. gracious" in the Culture ofpeoples, as the Apostle Paw taught the Philippians (ef. 4: 8), sustain you and g;ve you courage in your labours.

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STATIONARY POSITIONS - Fourth~ and sixth-graqers from Notre Dame de Lourdes School, Fall River, performed a living Stations of the Cross' with the help of Father Crai,g A. Pregana who portrayed Jesus. At right, Hazelin Alves and Taylor Burns prepare for their roles.

HOME FROM ROME - Seminarian Peter Fournier speaks to third-grade students at St. Pius X School in South Yarmouth, during a recent visit. He was on hand to speak about his ~ervice time as a volunteer giving tours of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. .

SHARING THE BURDEN - Fourth-graders from St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, present a Living Stations of the Cross during Holy Week. From left: Meaghan Lawler, Jack DiPietro, Shannon Lawler and Owen Conroy. ' .

KEEPING THE PEACE - Corporal Eric Lawson holds his niece Olivia Brewer during a recent visit to the kindergarten classes at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North.Attleboro. He was on leave from a peacekeeping mission in Kososvo and visited the students who made him thank you cards, Lawson and his unit are collecting school supplies, blankets and warm children's clothing for students in Kososvo', Dqnations can be.sent to: Ryan McKay, attention: RM4136, 404 S. Summit Street, 'Bancroft, Iowa 50517-8026,

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IT ALL ADDS UP - Bishop Feehan High School Math Team high scorers, Seniors Bridget Endler and Billy Anderson receive congratulations from their coach, Jacquel.ine Briant, following the playoffs. The Attleboro school's team. placed sixth out of 19 teams in a recent math competition.

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Bishop says World Youth Day will be 'an enormous grace' for Australia BALTIMORE (CNS) -Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, Australia, said he feels hosting WorldYouth Day 2008 will be "an enormous grace" for his country and added that the event is the biggest "single thing you can do to encourage our youth."

The bishop, who is chief organizeroftheJuly 15-20intemational event, made the comments April 10 to a group of about 50 people at the National Catholic Educational Association convention at the Baltimore Convention Center.

At the final Mass atWorldYouth Day 2005 in Cologne, Germany, Pope Benedict XVI announced to the crowd that the 2008 gathering would take place in Sydney. Since then the country has been planning for the big event.

Bishop Fisher said he has ''really been praying about" the theme: ''You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses."

"Jesus calls us to go to the ends of the earth as witnesses ofour faith and many young people think Australia is like the end of the earth;' said Bishop Fisher jokingly.

He said the goals ofWorldYouth Day 2008 will be to enable youths to be witnesses of God, experience the power of the Holy Spirit, and have a moving and sanctifying pilgrimage in faith.

As part of the preparation plans, a Website has been launched to encourage and路 answer participants' questions. Among its many links is one for an "e-pilgrimage."

The site - www.wyd200Rorg - offers preparatory materials for parishes, schools and individuals planning tojoininWorldYouthDay, as well as an opportunity for those who cannot travel to Australia to share in the preparations.

Anyone who registers for the epilgrimage online will receive Iila-

terial that includes advice on traveling and staying in Australia, prayers, testimonials from young people and general information. A DVD and downloadable posters also have been created. "'There is a sense of ownership" for the youths of Australia about World Youth Day, said Bishop FIsher. ''When the WorldYouthDay cross arrives the excitement will build and build."

The cross is traveling with pilgrims through Africa and Oceania and will arrive in Australia in July 2008.

The bishop encouraged the audience to bring their youths before the event to experience the culture ofAustralia and of New Zealand.

The Days in the Diocese will be held July 10-14, giving young people an opportunity to live with an Australian family as ~ey travel and explore the country.

The opening Mass will be celebrated by Cardinal George Pell of Sydney. The papal welcome will be held the afternoon of July 17. The pope is to ride into Sydney on a boat in full view ofthe hundreds ofthousands of young people standing on the shore to greet him. It will be Pope Benedict's first papal visit to Australia Reconciliation will be offered all week along with eucharistic adoration and a vocations expo.

A pilgrimage to Royal Randwick Racecourse, the site of the closing Mass, will take place July 19, followed by an evening vigil. During the vigil young Catholics will come forward to be confinned by the pope. On July 20 the pope will celebrate the final. Mass.

"I hope that they may walkaway with a great sense of God's power within them;' said Bishop Fisher. '"TheChurch was started by ... young people and they did great things. I think God can do that again:'

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By CHARLIE MARTIN WHAT GOFSAROUND Hey gir~ is he everything you wanted in a man You krww I gave you the world You had me in the palm ofyour hand .

So why your love went away I just can't seem to understand Thought it was me and you babe Me and you until the end But I guess that I was wrong Just so confused about it Feeling theblues about it I just can't do without ya Tell me is this fair?

Is this the way it's really going down?

Is this how we say goodbye?

Should've krwwn better when you came around That you were gonna make me cry It's breaking my heart to watch you runaround 'Cause I krww that you're living a lie That's okay baby 'cause in time you will.find.

Refrain: What goes around, goes around, goes around Comes all the way back around What goes around, goes around, goes around Comes all the way back around What goes around, goes around, goes around .Comes all the way back around What goes around, goes around, goes around Comes all the way back around Now gir~ I remember everything that you claimed You said that you were moving on now And maybe I should do the same Funny thing about that is I was ready to give you my nome Thought it was me and you, babe And now, it's alljust a shame And I guess, I was wrong Don't want to think about it Don't want to talk about it I'm just so sick about it

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Can't believe it's ending this way Just so confused about it Feeling the blues about it I just can't do without ya COn you tell me is thisfair?

(Repeat third verse.)路 (Repeat refrain.)

Let me paint this Ricture for you baby You spend your nights alone And he never comes home And every time you calI him All you get's a b~ tone I heard you found out That he's doing you What you did to me Ain't that the waY it goes You cheated girl My heart bleeds girl So it goes without saYing that you left mefeeling hurt Just a classic case A scenario Tale as old as' time Girl you got what yqu deserved And now you want somebody To cure the lonely nights You wish you had'somebody That could come anti make it right . But girl I am't somebody with a lot ofsympathy You'll s~e (Repeat refrain.)

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You should've listened to me, baby Because What goes aroUfUl comes back around Sung by Justin 'limlH!rlake Copyright 2006 by BMGlJive Justin Tunberlake's latest release is ''What GoesAround" Tunberlake first achieved pop icon status with the "boy band" N'Sync. I waS not much of a fan of the group and Thnberlake's new solo sound attracts rite even less. Yet his record sales show that Tunberlake is doing quite well iJ the music business. ' No matter your:: reaction to his music, ~'What Goes~und" presents an important point to consider. The song's narratorexpreSses his anger that

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his former girlfriend cheated on him, leaving him for another guy. From his perspective, '1 gave you the world;' and he thought that it would be "me and you until the end." He desperately tells her that '1 just can't do without ya" However, he knows that ''what goes around ... comes all the way back around" He's right. The way that we treat others will eventually be what we receive from life. Therefore, we all need to be mindful of what we "plant" in life; someday the harvest will be ours to either enjoy or endure.

What is interesting is how the guy misses his own point. The bitterness that he expresses to his ex-girlfriend, . plus his lack of sympathy about how, her new boyfriend leaves her, are also seeds. Do they represent what he wants to find sprouting in his future life?

How he reacts to her behavior remains a choice. He doesn't have to deny his pain, but he can respond differently, perhaps with forgiveness and kindness.

The song prompts us to make a thorough assessment of our own behavior. Ask yourself: What am I planting that will in time manifest in my life? Do I respond to peers with understanding when they make mistakes ordo I gossip about theirfailures?And further, how easily do I passjudgment on others, especially those who are different in culture, race, social status or sexual orientation?

Jesus spoke about such an awareness. He cautioned us that we will all "reap what we sow." He asked us to remove alljudgment on others lest we also be judged. Jesus encouraged us to keep finding the best in ourselves and respond to others with generosity, kindness and forgiveness.

This is quite a challenge. Yet we can be sure that we are planting many seeds that bring love to our world and into our personal futures.

Comments are always welcome at: chmortin@swindiana.net or at il25W 2OOS, Rockport, IN 47635.

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A hunger for God路 Blessed Easter! As you read this article, we are two weeks into the Easter season, but as I write this article, it is Easter Sunday morning. Last night, at the Easter Vigil, many people were welcomed into the Church through the sacraments of initiation. 1 was present as one of my students, Tayler Neugent, was baptized, confirmed, and received first Communion, and what an honor it was. It made me wonder at the hunger of this young man to seek the sacraments, and it made me realize how important living our faith is. It was the lived faith of the school community that stirred in this young man the hunger for God that was always there~ In preparation for receiving the sacraments, Tayler was in-

structed in the faith through the RCIA program in his parish.

Knowledge of our faith is the first course in feeding our hunger for God. A recent news article reported that only half of Americans can name '~ one of the four Gospels, most can't name the first book of the Bible, and only one third know that Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount. Religious ignorance is rampant in this country. . Americans, it seems, are uninformed regarding all of the major world religions, including their own. By removing all mention of religion in our public schools, we may have

unwittingly taught that religion is unimportant. Yet world events are shaped by religious

beliefs every day. In our society, we seem to stress the feeling of spirituality more than the knowledge of religious beliefs. But feelings can shift like the sand, and we have been warned to build our house on rock.

In the Chapel at Bishop

Stang High School, under the tabernacle is written "Learn of Me and find peace of soul." It doesn't 'say "feel good about Me and find " peace of soul" ... it says learn. We all have more to learn about our faith, and our religious. education should never end.

Whether it's reading the latest Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Benedict, Sacramentum .

Caritatis, or fin.ding a Bible study class, or exploring the spiritual writings of the saints, there is always more to know.

We have the whole world at our fingertips with ,the internet.

There is no excuse for those of us who have sqch advantages in

the world to remain ignorant.

Gaining knowledge aimed at strengthening our religious beliefs needs to become a priority.

I pray that God will increase our hunger for him, and that our hunger will lead us to search and to learn. I pray that this generation of young Catholics will overcome the ignorance that our society has handed down to them. I pray that there will be a revival of Spirit-filled, educated Catholics to inspire and lead us through this 21st century.

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Bush expected to meet formally with pope in early June, says Vatican

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President George W. Bush is expected to have his first formal audience with Pope Benedict XVI in early June, the Vatican spokesman said.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi said April 14 that Bush is expected to visit the VatiCan June 9 or 10 after participating in the summit of leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized countries in Germany.

Bush made his last visit to the Vatican for the April 8, 2005, funeral of Pope John Paul n. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict, celebrated the funeral Mass.

The president had met Pope John Paul three times.

The president's brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, led the U.S. delegation to Pope Benedict's inaugural Mass.

Also April 14, Father Lombardi told reporters that former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami would visit Pope Benedict at the Vatican May 4.

Khatami was scheduled to be in Rome for a conference on dialogue and peace sponsored by the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Iranian Embassy to the Vatican.

Blakesley tune wins 'March Music Madness' online competition PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) "Come to Jesus" by Josh Blakesley won the fourth annual "March MusiC Madness" contest sponsored by spiritandsong.com to find the best .Catholic contemporary song. . "Come to Jesus" triumphed over another of his songs, "Be Lifted High," in the ''Final Four."

Blakesley had three songs in the 64-tune online competition, which featured a bracket-style elimination process like the NCAA "March . Madness" basketball tournaments.

Other songs in the music : competition's ''Final Four" were ·~'Holy Spirit, Come to Me" by 1ulie Hoy and "Your: Grace Is Enough"

by Matt Maher. ''The thing that I've found most

satisfying about 'Come to Jesus' is . its versatility," Blakesley said in a release announcing his win. "I've used it in concerts and praise and worship venues. It can also be used for gathering, offertory or Communion.

"It's great throughout Ordinary Time, but also has powerful signifi·cance during Lent or Advent. It's always amazing to watch how God chooses to use a song," he said.

Spiritandsong.com is the con·temporary music division of OCP, the new name for Oregon Catholic Press. Those who visited spiritandsong.com's Website during March and early April could make their choices at each stage of the ·competition.

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PLEADING FOR OUR PLANET - Greenpeace activists display a banner, which says "Don't Destroy Congo's FC?rests," on the Cinquantenaire monument during a recent protest in Brussels, Belgium.

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Ghanaian describes to CRS how climate change affects local farmers

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homeless, while farmers in the other areas are now deafing with warmer ROCHESTER, N.Y. - When winters and increased drought, Hippolyt Pul was a young boy, flooding and food insecurity.

Poor and· impoverished people farmers in his home country of Ghana often referred to the feast of will inevitably have a harder time the Ascension as ''the feast of the adapting to new weather patterns . than will their more affluent counbean leaf." .. " Rain came like clockwork each terparts, according to Bishop Tho- . year right after Easter, so farmers mas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., planted their first seeds no more chairman of the U.S. Conference of than two weeks after the holy day. Catholic Bishops' Committee on ''The black bean was one of the International Policy.

"The poor by the very definition first crops to be planted, as its leaves of poverty have inadequate reserved as an important 'stopgap food sources to ad,dress many problems, for the many households whose graincluding climate change. They ofnaries would have run empty by this time of the year," Pul recently Wrote ten live in the flood or drought in an email to Dennis Fisher, edu- plains (and) depend upon natural cation program officer for th~ resources for sustenance,"'Bishop Northeast regional office of Catho.- Wenski told the Catholic Courier, lic Relief Services, the U.S. bish- newspaper of the Rochester Dioops' overseas relief and develop- cese.

"An easy example is New Orment agency.

The rainfall was so consistent leans. While no ,one can say (Hurthat "by the time Ascension was ricane) Katrina was caused directly celebrated, the hungry would be fed by climate change, one can easily with the bean leaves. By the third see that the poor were dispropo~­ week of June, the bean crop itself . tionately affected," he said. ''This was taken in to boost household is usually the case in most of these . food security," wrote Pul, director natural disasters."

Poor people have fewer reof CRS' West Africa regional office.

But farmers in Ghana no longer sources to deal with life's chalrefer to the "feast of the bean leaf," , lenges to begin with and do not ' said Pul. The rains have become need more hurdles to jump, noted erratic in recent years, affecting the 'Kathy Dubel, justice and peace cotraditional planting season, and he ordinator for Catholic Charities of believes the disruption is caused by Chemung and Schuyler counties in the Rochester Diocese. global climate change.

The issue ofglobal climate change Ghana's bean farmers are not the only ones to feel the effects of glo- has been on the Catholic Church's. . radar since at least 1990, Dubel noted, bal climate change.

CRS staff in Bangladesh, Af- when Pope John Paul IT mentioned it ghanistan, Zimbabwe, Niger and in his World Day of Peace message, Nicaragua also have witnessed titled 'The Ecological Crisis: A Comchanges in their local weather pat- mon Responsibility."

More than 150 Catholics in delterns, Fisher said. Severe flooding in Bangladesh has left many people egations from Ohio's six Catholic

dioceses were expected to attend the daylong event in Columbus and its series of conversations as well as presentations from leaders in the fields ofscience, energy, education, business, theology, government, agriculture, health care, human services and environmental protection.

The relationship of climate change with Catholic social teaching was one of the key issues to be discussed. An address by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, papal nuncio to the United Nations, was also scheduled.

The conference will allow delegates and Church officials to "listen and learn" about the complexi- . ties climate change presents to society, according to Dan Misleh of the Washington-based Catholic Coalition on Climate Change. He spoke to the Catholic Universe Bulletin, newspaper of the Cleveland Diocese, in advance of the event.

Ohio was chosen for one of a series of such gatherings nationwide because of its political importance as a swing state in elections and its critical position in the national economy with its heavy industrial base and vast farmlands.

In San Francisco, a national summit was to take place at Grace Episcopal Cathedral, with George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Affairs and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, representing the archdiocese.

"The condition of our earth, the home for our children and grandchildren and their children's children, is more and more in our hands," Wesolek.told Catholic San Francisco, the archdiocesan newspaper. "We must learn to treat it with care. The environment is a justice issue."

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ATTLEBORO - John Polce will bring his Bethany Nights Program to the National Shrine of Our Lady of La SaletteApril27 at 7:30 p.m. It will include music and prayer and is held in the main church. For more information call 508-222-5410.

ATTLEBORO - A Bible study on the Gospel of John is ongoing at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette. It meets in the Reconciliation Chapel each Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon through May 26. For more information call 508-222-5410.

CENTERVILLE - A workshop entitled, "Becoming a Church of Lifelong Learners," will be held April 25 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Victory Parish, 230 South Main Street. It is presented by John Roberto. For more information call 508-775-5744.

CENTERVILLE - Maryknoll Father Robert McCahill will present, "Serving the Poor in Bangladesh," tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Our Lady ofVictory Parish. He spent 30 years living in Bangladesh and will talk about his experiences and give a slide presentation. Refreshments will be served.路 FALL RIVER - The program "Adoption by Choice," will be presented Sunday from 1-3 p.m. at the Catholic Social Services Office, 1600 Bay Street. It is for individuals and families interested in adopting a domestic newborn. Refreshments will be served. For more information call 508-674-4681.

TAUNTON - The annual convention of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will be held May 5 at St. Anthony's Parish, 126 School Street beginning at 7:45 a.m. with coffee and registration. It is themed, "Because My Mother Said Yes," and it will include talks by Atty.

Philip Moran and several Bishop Connolly students about their experiences on the March for Life. For more information call 508-672-6900.

!Miscellaneous ATTLEBORO - A healing service in Portuguese will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette. For more information call 508-222-5410.

BUZZARDS BAY - The Guild of St. Benedict Joseph Labre, a support group for families and friends ofthose with emotional troubles, depression and mental illness, will meet April 29 at 3 p.m. at St. Margaret's Church.

Meetings include prayer and an opportunity to share with one another.

For more information call Timothy Duff at 508-759-1903.

CHATHAM - A Day with Mary will be held April 28 beginning at 8:45 a.m. at Holy Redeemer Parish, 57 Highland Avenue. It will include the celebration of Mass at 9:50 a.m. and will conclude at 3:30 p.m. Attendees are asked to bring a bag lunch. For more information ca1l508-984-1823.

FALL RIVER - District One of the Fall River Diocesan Council ofCatholic Women will meet Apri126 at 7 p.m. at Holy Rosary Church. Installation of officers will be led by Father Horace Travassos, moderator of District One during the Mass. A short business meeting will follow. Affiliates are asked to bring refreshments.

For more information call 508-6736145.

NEW BEDFORD - To mark the 90th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's appearance at Fatima, the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue will be at Our Lady of Fatima Parish April 29 at 3 p.m. The rosary will be prayed and Benediction held.

RANDOLPH- The Sisters ofCharity will hold its annual Elizabeth Ann Seton Award Luncheon Sunday from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at Lantana. For more information call 800-247-6509 or via Email: rqrevite@schalifax.org.

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FALL RIVER -:- The Providence College Concert Chorale and I Cantori will present a concert to ~en颅 efit the St. Mary's Cathedral Pipe Organ Fund April 29 at 7 p.m. at the cathedral on 327 Second Street. For more information call 508-678-1 054.

FALL RIVER - A Bazaar and Penny Sale will be held Sunday at Sacred Heart Church from II a.m. to 5 p.m. It will include arts and crafts, books and international food. For more information call 508-673-0852.

NEW BEDFORD - A pipe organ and choir concert will be held April 29 at 3 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It will have a patriotic theme in honor of our service men and women. The concert will be directed by David Touchette and will feature brass and percussion accompaniment. For more information call 508-264-8010.

SWANSEA - A Spaghetti and Meatball Supper and Penny Sale will be held tomorrow at St. Francis ofAssisi Parish, 530 Gardners Neck Road.

Food will be served at 5 p.m. and the penny sale will follow at 6:30 p.m.

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NORTH DARTMOUTH - The diocesan divorced-separated support group will meet April 25 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road. Refreshments will be available. For more information call Bob Menard at 508-673-2997.

F. Petrie, SS.Cc., Provincial of the USA Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (SS.CC.), announced this week the findings of an investigation into an allegation of misconduct made last fall against Father Christopher Santangelo, SS.Cc. The investigation was conducted by an independent investigator and evaluated by the Sacred Hearts Congregation's abuse prevention review board in compliance with the policies maintained by the Congregation and accredited by Praesidium, Inc., a private company that assists religious orders in implementing professional standards to ensure the safety and quality of their ministries.

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Father Petrie said that: from the findings established through the inI, vestigation and docum~nted in a detailed report, there is no proof to substantiate the allegation of misconduct brought again'st Father Christopher Santangelo and the Sacred Hearts USA Eastern Coast Province.

Father Sant3I!gelo waS serVing as pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Fairhaven, at the time the allegation was brought to the attention of his religious community. The allegation concerned an incident that was , alleged to have taken place prior to his assignment in Fairhaven. As mandated by policies of both the Sacred Hearts Congregation and the Fall River Diocese, Father

Santangelo was placed on leave while the investigation was conducted.

Father Santangelo denied the allegation and willingly complied with the investigatory process.

Father Petrie said that Father Santangelo will be reassigned to active ministry in conjunction with other personnel changes taking place throughout the province. In addition to New England, the SS.Cc. USA Eastern Coast Province has Missions in South Texas; Seat Pleasant, Maryland; Artesia, N.M.; Bahamas; India; Japan and the Philippines. Currently, Father Santangelo will assist Father Petrie at the annual Sacred Hearts Congregation inter provincial United States Conference.

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light on what he thinks is the major strength of the Appeal; "the fact that the Appeal is parish based."

"It really is a yearly grassroots effort on the part of each and every parish community," he added. ''The fact that they take this period of time each year, from May 1 until June 15 ~o garner as much support for the work of the Catholic Charities agencies and apostolates, and do it as.acommunity of:caring.and,com- .\ passionate Pari'shioners 'is the :true', beauty of this endeavor."

He made it clear, "This is the one and only time during the year that the diocese asks its parishioners to assist it in ministering to the liter-

In YourPrayers Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks April 18 Rev. Hugh B. Harrold, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield, 1935 Rt. Rev. John F. McKeon, P.R., Pastor, St. Lawrence, New Bedford, 1956 Rev. Joao Vieira Resendes, Retired Pastor, Espirito Santo, Fall River, 1984 Rev. Wilfred C. Boulanger,M.S., La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, 1985 Rev. George E. Amaral, Retired Pastor, SI. Anthony, Taunton, 1992 April 19 Rev. William Wiley, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton, 1855 Rev. Msgr. Leo J. Duart, Pastor, 51.

Peter the Apostle, Provincetown, 1975 Rev. Daniel E. Carey, Chaplain, Catholic Memorial Home, Retired Pastor, St. Dominic, Swansea, 1990 April 20 Rev. Edward F. Coyle, 5.5., SI. Mary Seminary, Baltimore, Md., 1954 Rev. James E. O'Reilly, Retired Pastor, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk, 1970 Rev. James P. Dalzell, Retired Pastor St 'Joseph, Woods Hole, 1999

ally tens of thousands of individuals and families who "turn to the Church in their time of need. The response has been tremendous, with nearly 40,000 parishioners contributing almost $4 milliort to fund the work of Catholic Charities last year.

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Health facilities across diocese host informational programs

HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH - Marian Manor Administrator Ray McAndrews, left, meets with guest-speaker Dr. David Banks, center, and Admissions Director Cecile Sanders at a recent open house held at the Taunton skilled nursing and rehabilitative facility. Below, Marian Manor employees, from left, Dietician Kristen Hatch, Food .",-Service Director Maureen Camara, and Food Service Supervisor '7~~ Elisha Dumont, take part in the recent "Peers and Empowermenf' monthly meeting of the local chapter of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind. .

TAUNTON - Valuable information and networking among attendees were offered at recent presentations held at extended health care facilities in the Fall River Diocese.

Area legislators and representatives of adult day health centers attended a March 30 Legislative Breakfast at Bethany House in Taunton. Speakers included program directors, a participant in a day care program, and a family member's testimonial. Also speaking was Brian Foss, treasurer of the Massachusetts Adult Day Service Association.

Topics included "What Are Adult Day Services?" and "Who Benefits from Adult Day Health Services?" and discussions fol-' lowed on "What Can Legislators Do to Help?"

A question and answer period followed the presentations and breakfast.

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Services Director Maureen Camara, and Food Services Supervisor Elisha Dumont - all from Marian Manor in Taunton - were recent guests and presenters at the "Peers and Empowerment" monthly meeting of the local chapter of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind.

The group meets monthly at the Taunton Council on Aging.

They were invited by "Peers and Empowerment Coordinator Alice Maynard. Her son, Steven Silva, is employed in the Dietary Department at Marian Manor.

The nutritional topics included hydration, calcium and osteoporosis, cardiac nutrition and the importance of exercise.

Nutritional snacks such as fruit and whole grain, low-fat muffins were served and each attendee was given a gift bag with yogurt, cereal bars and nutritional information.

Marian Manor also held a recent open house, with tours of the

facility and a presentation by Dr. David Banks, a psychotherapist, who spoke on dementia and related behaviors.

It was offered to help inform an~ educate on behaviors somewhat typicalfor those affected by Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias.'

In' oti)er news, Anne Marie Kelly, RN-C, CHPN, BC was selected by the American Society for Pain Management Nursing's Achievement and Recognition Committee as the 2007 Nurse Excellence in Pain Management of the Older Adult award.

It was presented during the ASPMN National Conference held in March.

Kelly is pain management educator and consultant for the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, as well as the Diocesan Health Facilities system of five skilled nursing and rehabilitative facilities sponsored by the Fall River Diocese.

DCCW to hear Pro-Life speaker at annual convention on May 5

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TAUNTON -Attorney Philip Moran, a founding director of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life, will be the keynote speaker at the 54th annual convention of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at St. Anthony's Parish in Taunton on May 5.

Moran will speak during the morning session of the all-day gathering that includes a business meeting, lunch, awarding of the Our Lady of Good Counsel Awards by 路Bishop George W. Coleman, as well as a Mass celebrated by the bishop who will also be the homilist.

The theme for the convention hosted by St. Anthony's Parish and pastor Father Henry S. Arruda, is "Because My Mother Said Yes." Students from Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River will present a program focusing on their experiences at the Pro-Life March last January in Washington, D.C. Director of Campus Ministry Angela Barek and DCCW District I President Helen Flavin will coordinate the program.

Moran, whose law offices are in Salem, is a graduate of the College of Holy Cross, Salem State College and Suffolk University.

His many affiliations include director of the National Right to Life Committee, Inc., director of the Massachusetts Citizens of Life as well as its president in 1978 and 1979; director and

president of the Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund, general counsel for the Catholic Alliance, and membership in the Pastoral Council for the Archdiocese of Boston, and the Knights of Malta.

Some of the honors he's received include Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in the World; the Ignatius O'Connor Award ,for Mass. Citizens For Life; the Gold Medal of St.

Patrick; and the Family Faith and Freedom Award.

Convention registration and coffee begins at 7:45 a.m., followed by opening prayer by Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC, moderator of the council.

Adrienne Lemieux, co-chairman of the convention along with Emma Andrade, will give the greeting and introductions.

DCCW President Maureen Papineau will lead the business meetings.

FAITH MESSAGE - Board members of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women readying for its May 5 convention include, seated, President Maureen Papineau and convention co-chair Adrienne Lemieux; and standing, District III President Beatrice Pereira, registration chairman Mary Jo Foley, and raffle chairman Noreen Mendes. (Photo courtesy of Maddie Lavoie)