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Sadness, anger follow end of Waco standoff WASHINGTON (CNS) - The deadly and violent end to the cult standoff in Waco, Texas, "fills me with sadness and anger," said an Austin parishioner who organized a prayer vigil near the Branch Davidian compound.

"What saddens me the most is that in the name of Christianity, and religion, people were killed," said Michael Guerra, a lay ministerat St. Austin's parish in Austin, Tex., in a telephone i,nterview with Catholic News Service.

On April 19, cult leader David Koresh reportedly ordered a mass suicide that, took more than 80 lives in an inferno at his Texas compound after federal agents attacked with tanks and tear gas.

"David Koresh, we believe, gave the order to commit suicide and they [his followers) all followed willingly," FBI agent Bob Ricks said at a press conference. Later reports said some cult members might have been shot by other cult members while trying to escape the fire.

Federal authorities had tried for 51 days to avoid such an ending, repeatedly saying they were willing to wait out the standoff that started with a Feb. 28 raid on the cult's compound.

-"The death of the members of the Branch Davidians is a very tragic event and of course we are saddened by it," said A ustin Bishop John E. McCarthy in a statement released April 20., The bishop said the "most painful part" of the tragedy was the loss of innocent lives - the children and adults in the compound and the federal agents who died earlier.

"We offer our prayers to all the victims and their families as well as those who have spent nearly two months dealing with this situation," he said.

After weeks of various tactics, the FBI used tanks to poke holes in compound buildings and spray tear gas inside, hoping to force out their 95 occupants, including 17 children.

The tactic turned into a nightmare when fires engulfed the buildings. Nine people survived, including a woman who left the compound in flames.

Guerra, who prayed and fasted near the location of the cult's compound in mid-March, said that in the fourth day of his vigil, he received a phone call from Bishop McCarthy, suggesting that it would be better for Catholics to pray and fast in their homes.

"I think he was afraid the media might interpret our efforts as part of a theatrical circus" instead of the prayer it was meant to be, Guerra said.

He said it was painful to leave his location because he wanted to stand in contrast to the messages given by Koresh.

Guerra said that the Branch Davidian group was formed as a nonviolent group to live an alternative lifestyle.

"Waco citizens knew them to be pacifists," he said. "But the great irony is that they ultimately ended in this violence," Father Isidore Rozycki, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, two miles from the Branch Davidian compound, said many of his parishioners own property bordering the compound and that all parishioners had prayed daily for a peaceful conclusion to the 51-day standoff.

He said special services will be held to pray for cult members and others killed in the standoff.

During its deadly end, he walked to a nearby hill "gave general absolution" over the whole area, and "prayed for those people inside" as he watched the compound burn.

ON THE AIR: Behind the scenes at Vivendo a Nossa Fe. See page 8. (Hickey photo)

PRINCIPALS IN Wednesday night's Catholic Charities Appeal kickoff, left to right, top to bottom, Bishop Sean O'Malley; 1993 Lay Chairman Claire McMahon; Diocesan Appeal Director Father Daniel L. Freitas; Father David A. Costa, leader of a gathering song and Evening Prayer service; Father George C. Bellenoit, Diocesan Director of Ministry to the Sick; Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, Diocesan Vicar General, who offered the meeting's closing prayer.

52Jnd Appeal but first for bishop Wednesday night's kickoff meeting for the 52nd annual Catholic Charities Appeal was another first for Bishop Sean O'Malley as he addressed some 700 priests, religious, and lay campaign volunteers gathered at Bishop Connolly High School for a briefing on programs that benefit from the fundraising drive.

Also explained by Appeal director Rev. Daniel L. Freitas were time-tried campaign techniques; other speakers were Rev, George C. Bellenoit, diocesan director of ministry to the sick. and Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, 1993 lay chairman for the Appeal.

Living, Breathing Figures Listing-figures of those assisted by the many apostolates financed by the annual Appeal, Bishop O'Malley stressed that the numbers were "living. breathing figures who make the work ofchar-ity and the financial figures all worthwhile."

The text of his address follows.

My brothers and sisters in the Risen Lord. it is with a spirit filled with the joy of Easter that I greet you this t:vening at the annual kickoff meeting for our 1993 C;ith-

olic Charities Appeal. "Resurrexit sicut dixit! He has risen as He said!" Alleluia! The living Christ fills His holy people with the new life of grace, "Light has conquered, darkness vanishes."

The Lord is here with us this evening. in our gathering and in our prayer of the Church which we have celebrated together. This evening I am happy to greet you and share with you some ofthejoy of this season. Most of you are experienced at the work of the Catholic Charities Appeal, so it

was most gracious of you to make me so welcome at my first opportunity to serve as honorary chairman of this fifty-second Charities Appeal.

I take the occasion to single out the honored guests here on stage: Father Daniel L. Freitas, our Appeal director and the priest area directors, as well as Mrs. Claire McMahon, who will serve as our 1993 Charities Appeal chairwoman.'

I offer my personal thanks to Claire and to Father George Bellenoit for their inspiring words about some of the works of charity which are supported through the proceeds of the Catholic Ch,arities . Appeal.

The feast of the Resurrection reminds us that the power of Christ. the Light of the World. is always victorious over the shadows of death which seem to surround us on every side, Our annual observance of this feast also reminds us that this struggle continues in every generation, even to this very day.

When wejoin our prayer to Christ's in the beautiful liturgical celebrations of Holy Week, we are joined Turn to Page Nine,

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Maronite diaconal ordination tonight At a Mass scheduled for 6:30 tonight, Subdeacon Donald Massoud of St. Anthony of the Desert Maronite Church, Fall River, will be ordained as a permanent deacon in the Maronite rite.

The ordaining prelate will be Bishop Francis M. Zayek of the diocese ofSt. Maron in Brooklyn, NY. which serves all Maronite Catholics in the United States.

Subdeacon Massoud has prepared for the permanent diaconate with men from the Fall River diocese under direction of Rev. John F. Moore. direCtor of the diocesan deacon program. The diocesan candidates will be ordained at II a.m.

May 22 by Bishop Scan O'Malley at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Many priests, permanent deacons and deacon candidates from the diocese will be present for tonight's ceremony.

Subdeacon Massoud is a guidance counselor at BMC Durfee High School of Fall River and has for 35 vears been associated with the Fall River Junior Twilight Baseball I.eague, at varying times as manager, umpire and league president. He is the husband of Donna Massoud and the couple are the parents of Alexandra. 18, and Jonathan. 17.

Pro-life task in Clinton era seen same as before HUNTINGTON, Ind. (CNS)"On pro-life, our task as church is the same after the election as it was before," Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston said in an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic weekly.

The cardinal distinguished sharply between personal and institutional relationships when he was asked if Catholic leaders will try to cultivate the kind of warm personal relationships with President Clinton that they enjoyed with President George Bush.

"There is always a personal level of relationship, and I don't think you can'create that. It exists or it doesn't exist," he said.

"I think it is important," he added, "for the church, through her national structures, to be involved in these next four years with the administration on those issues on which we hold common viewpoints and objectives."

Asked about the church's approach to the new president on pro-life issues, Cardinal Law said, "President Clinton has been very eloquent on some pro-life issues with which the church has long been associated - for example, the poor and the sick. We would hope that there could be ways in which he could see the necessary :and inexorable logic linking that 'sensitivity on some pro-life issues to other prq-life issues such as the right to life of the unborn. We have a challenge before us to try to make that case."

He said the church's basic job remains the same. "All we are trying to do is communicate a vision of life, of the human person, of society - and we have to keep on doing that, and we have to do a much better job than we have in the past."

Pope aims to reestablish hierarchy in Albania VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II's April 25 visit to Albania is intended to help lift the country from the spiritual and material ashes left by tough communist rule.

The pope plans to ordain four new bishops, reestablishing a Catholic hierarchy that was erased during 47 years of repression that saw the outlawing of all religious activity.

It will be the first papal visit to Albania and the pope's 58th trip outside Italy. The current government, elected in 1992 to install . democracy, hopes the trip will give it a good international image, helpful in garnering aid for a depressed economy.

The 12-hour visit will put the pope next door to the republics that were once Yugoslavia and give him a chance to plead for an \,,:.•...::~3~:::.::.:;;;G,J2. end to their fighting.

REV, DANIEL L. Freitas (left), diocesan and Fall River Albania is a unique platform for preaching peace. It is a country area director of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal, is where Catholics, Orthodox and assisted in Fall River by Rev. John F. Andrews. They stand Muslims live together peacefully, beside Bishop Sean O'Malley, Appeal honorary chairman. compared to the troubled former (Gaudette photo) Yugoslavian republics where close ties between ethnic identity and religion make for divisions in the population.

There are about 2 million ethnic Albanians in Serbia, and the Albanian government is concerned that Serbian "ethnic cleansing" Mrs. Michael J. McMahon of Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan policies may be applied to them.

Fall River, this year's diocesan director of the Appeal, speaking of In Albania, Catholics are II to chairman of the Catholic Charities donors to the Special Gift phase, 12 percent of the 3.3 million popuAppeal, reports today that the said, "These contributors, with lation. Muslims form 65 percent, Special Gift phase of the Appeal, great generosity and enthusiasm,. and the Orthodox 18 percent. which started Monday and ends support the Appeal for its contriAll suffered under a government May I, is doing well, with 250 Spe- bution to the community for peothat declared Albania the world's cial Gift volunteer solicitors con- ple in need. They really pour out first atheistic state in 1967. tacting some 3000 professiona:I, their hearts for the Appeal."

The Catholic plight is symbolfraternal, business and industrial Special Gift solicitors in the Fall ized by St. Nicolas Cathedral in groups in southeastern Massachu- River, New Bedford, Taunton, the northern city ofShkoder, where Attleboros and Cape and Islands the pope is scheduled to ordain the setts.

The Appeal, now in its 52nd areas of the diocese are asked to four bishops. The cathedral was year, helps support many diocesan make reports to area headquarters converted into an indoor sports apostolates, including those of as soon as possible. All reports arena under communism. charity, mercy, education, social should be filed by May I, the end Two months before the pope's of the phase. services and health care facilities. visit, Cardinal JozefTomko, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, visited Shkoder to consecrate the new cathedral altar.

"I saw churches destroyed, facades bricked over to hide the very eight-point "criteria for health care form of a church. But I also saw a WASHINGTON (CNS) ~ To reform" presented to members of population very open to Jesus include abortion coverage in a national health care reform plan Congress last year by the U.S. Christ," he said upon returning.

Catholic Conference, the bishops' Archbishop-designate Rrok K. would be "a moral tragedy, a serpublic policy arm.

Mirdita of Durres-Tirana, one of ious policy misjudgment and a major political mistake," accordIn his letter, Bishop Ricard chose the four bishops to be ordained by ing to the head of the bishops' three criteria for special emphasis the pope, said the visit will mark Domestic Policy Committee.

- priority concern for the poor, the rebirth of religion.

Franciscan Father Daniel Gjegaj, Auxiliary BishopJohn H. Ricard respect for human life and preservdirector of Vatican Radio's Albanof Baltimore made the comment in ing pluralism. ian section, said rebuilding the a letter to Hillary Rodham Clin"When there is a question of church means forming new priests ton, head of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. allocating scarce resources, the de- able to deal with current realities Copies of the letter also went to fenseless and the poor have a com- and present the church according pelling claim to special considerato the teachings of the Second Vatmembers of Congress. tion," he wrote. "Therefore, we ican Council after the decades of The letter spoke about all aspects isolation. of health care reform and said the will strongly support measures to "They must be well prepared to U.S. Catholic Church had both ensure true universal access and dialogue with Muslims and be "strong convictions about health rapid steps to improve the health aware of the socioeconomic and care, human life and human dig- care of the poor and unserved."

On the topic of abortion, Bisl:lOp political situation," said Father nity" and "broad experience" in Ricard said a recent New York Gjegaj, an ethnic Albanian from the field. the Kosovo region of Serbia.

Catholic-sponsored health care Times poll showed that three out Relations are good with the and long-term care facilities serve of four Americans oppose includMuslims but there are "some about 40 million people in the Uni- ing abortion coverage in a national health care reform plan. ted States each year.

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traces of Islamic fundamentalism" that could cause problems. he said.

There are no problems with the Orthodox as in other East European countries, where battles exist over mutually claimed church property, he said.

The pope's visit is a stimulus to build the future and a recognition of the sufferings of the past, he added.

"It is a reward for martyrdom," he said.

Archbishop-designate Mirdita, 53, is the youngest of the bishops to be ordained. He is an ethnic Albanian born in neighboring Montenegro. He worked for 20 years with Albanians living in New York and moved to Albania after his appointment last December.

The others are typical of the 29 priests who survived the communist era. Archbishop-designate Franco Illia o'f Shkoder, 75, spent 20 years in prison after being convictedasa Vatican spy in 1967. His auxiliary, Bishop-designate Zef Simoni, 64, practiced his ministry clandestinely until his arrest in 1976, then spent 12 years in jail.

Bishop-designate Robert Ashta of Pulati, a 74-year-old Franciscan, was forced to give up the active ministry during the persecutions of the 1960s and 1970s and was for II years a water plant construction worker.

Several hundred priests went underground during the long communist reign. Many of their tribulations have been recorded by Ana Luka, 48, an Albanian novelist who moved to Rome two years ago.

Ms. Luka, who works in Vatican Radio's Albanian section, secretly gathered eyewitness testimony of church persecution. She tells stories of priests beaten to death, drowned in latrines and forced to¡ hold rifles for propaganda photos showing the church as a rebellious institution.

Catholic marriages had to be performed secretly because of the "tremendous fear," she said. "I had to keep my marriage certificate hidden not to lose my job."

Government officials are hoping the visit offers "a new image to the world" of Albania, said Foreign Minister Alfred Serrequi, a Catholic.

It will be "a very big, historic event for Albania," said Prime Minister Alexander Meski after a February meeting with the pope to discuss the trip.

Meski's government was elected in 1992 after a 1991 general strike forced the communists to resign.

The new government inherited an economic nightmare with inflation at 150 percent and unemployment estimated at 70 percent.

Annual per capita income was $1,300.

Since the fall of communism, tens of thousands of Albanians have fled the country in search of . better economic conditions. Many went to Italy but most were returned as illegal immigrants.

Commenting on the situation in August 1991, the pope urged the international community to aid Albania "to insure for all its people better living conditions in their homeland."

Realization "May the Lord help you to realize why he made you. Let your life bring his joy, patience and love to others."-Father Bill Modystack

School in Min neapolis, told the educators during a workshop that Catholic schools "still have a way to go," in the fight against racism.

A key thing schools can do to better serve minorities, he said, is to actively seek out minority teachers and staff members. "Catholic schools have to find a way to recruit and retain administrators and teachers of color to serve as role models, not only for students of color, but for all students," The notion of being sensitive to students' cultural differences was repeated in other convention workshops and during the final session.

Yolanda King, theeldestdaughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King J r., challenged the delegates to help students appreciate the differences of each cultural and ethnic community.

"We can't accept things as they are if we want to move forward," she said.

FaileD officers to be remembered at Cathedral Mass Police officers, firefighters and department chaplains throughout the Fall River diocese have been invited to attend a memorial Mass for department members who died in the line of duty.

To be celebrated at noon Tuesday, May 4, by Bishop Sean O'Malley, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, the liturgy will include the reading of a solemn roll call of fallen police and fire . personnel.

Representatives of police and fire departments, who have been asked to wear full dress uniform, will assemble at 10 a.m. at Kennedy Park, across from St. Anne's Church, Fall River, to march in formation to the cathedral.

They will be escorted by the Emerald Society of the New York City Police Department. The society is comprised of police officers who play bagpipe music at many parades and other functions throughout the nation.

Family members of fallen officers are especially invited to attend the Mass and priests and parishioners thr-oughout the diocese are also welcome.

Mother Teresa worker slain in EI Salvador SAN SALVADOR(CNS)- A man working for .Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity has been shot to death in EI Salvador. said a Salvadoran bishop.

Auxiliar'~( Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez said Mother Teresa of Calcutta has requested a full investigation into the murder of church workcr Wilfredo Barrera in a working-class neighborhood of San Salvador April 2.

"The holy woman said she found it difficult to understand how this could happen to someone dedicated to charity," Bishop Rosa Chavez said during his homily April 18.

The bishop also said a string of gruesome murders in the previous two weeks indicated that rightwing death squads that killed thousands of suspected leftists during EI Salvador's 12-year civil war were still active.

A young couple recently was kidnapped and murdered in the southern town of La Libertad.

"She was gagged and had her throat cut and the young man was tied by the hands and feet with clear signs of torture. These are typical signs of the death squads," the bishop said.

AU. N. report on the worst human rights abuses of EI Salvador's civil war said the army-run death squads were financed by prominent right-wing businessmen and remain a threat despite the war's end last year.

Better Days "To be merry without offending God is better any day than grumbling and quarrelling."-St. Francis Xavier

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Ms. King, a lecturer, actress, producer and director, acknowledged that the educators' jobs called for "constant commitment," particularly against the backdrop of a society th'at is "mentally and spiritually on the verge of bankruptcy."

"We have a big job to do" she said, emphasizing that multiculturalism should not be an isolated program in a school, but an integrated part of it which "requires a total examination of curriculum and textbooks."

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Teachers became students at NCEA convention NEW ORLEANS (CNS) ~ More than 13,000 Catholic educators, inCluding 13 from the Fall River diocese, who gathered in New Orleans changed places with their ~tudents.

Instead of giving lessons or organizing meetings, they took notes and listened to speakers discuss practical teaching tips and challenges facing Catholic schools nationwide.

From April 12 to 15, principals, teachers, board members and religious education instructors attended general sessions, liturgies and workshops at the National Catholic Educational Association's 90th annual convention.

The workshops covered diverse subjects, including fostering student's faith, using computers, organizing science fairs, dealing with AIDS and racism, teaching sex education and improving marketing techniques and multicultural integration.

The theme of the four-day meeting was "Catholic Educators: Telling the Good Ne'ws Story."

At a convention Mass, Bishop J. Terry Steib .. bishop-designate of Memphis, told the educators to recognize Jesus in their struggling students and to '~'embody the Christ" they proclaim to others.

"We must lead others in paths of repentance. and be penitent ourselves," the former auxiliary bishop in St. Louis told the educators.

None of the covention speakers told the educators they had an easy job.

George McKenna III, a California public school superintend·· ent, told the educators in an April 14 general assembly that they were in a "war for children's spirits and souls."

"Let none get away. Fight as hard as you can for your stu-

dents," said the superintendent of Inglewood Unified School District in Inglewood, Calif.

McKenna told the educators they had the power to end the cycle of violence because of their special role in children's lives.

"Go back and do the most difficult job of all," he told them.

Part of the teachers' jobs includes talking to their students aboutsex and AIDS. During a workshop, MercySistcrToni Lynn Gallagher, the HIV coordinator for San Francisco's archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools, said AIDS education should be integrated into family life programs at parishes and schools.

"Be very familiar with what the church teaches," she said. "Know what the facts [about AI DS) are. If . you don't know, you can't answer questions."

Convention delegates were also . urged to fight against racism ·and work to maintain Catholic innercity schools.

Christian Brother Robert M. Hoatson, administrator of Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers, N.Y., told educators that the Catholic Church should be opening, not closing, inner-city schools.

"Why do inner-city Catholic schools close five times faster than other schools?" the educator asked. citing recent school closings in dioceses across the United States.

He told them that urban Catholic schools historically served as beacons of hope and opportunity for earlier waves of immigrants.

"Will we make the same commitment to African-American, Latino, Asian and Indian children that we earlier made to Irish, German.

Polish and Italian children?" he asked.

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themoorin~ Earth Day Every Day This past week, and especially yesterday, Earth Day, conscious efforts have been made to arouse awareness of our environment. Observances were held nationwide to increase appreciation of the gifts of nature entrusted to our care. Many local groups have sponsored projects ranging from cleaning beaches to sprucing up city parks as a demonstration of public concern for planet Earth.

But these initiatives, along with such efforts as Save the Bay, Stop the Outflow Pipe (STOP), and the massive endeavor to detoxify New Bedford harbor and Camp Edwards on Cape Cod are reminders of how poorly we have taken care of our environment.

The last century of ind ustrial development has taken a terrible toll and the raping of nature would have continued unabated had it not been for p~blic outrage at our polluted beaches, 9ur lakes destroyed by acid rain, our cities choked with garbage, not to mention the human waste floating in our rivers and our contaminated shellfish beds and drinking water.

Yet, even amid such evidence, there are those who still oppose environmental cleanup. Myopically focusing on shortterm goals, they continue to demand that the status quo continue. Many industrial giants are frantically lobbying to that end, while others use the weapon of ridicule to combat environmentalist organizations. Fortunately, despite such opposition, much progress has been made by ecologists; however, much more must be done, especially by individuals.

The refuse that lines our highways and exit ramps and the filth that litters our city streets is are clear indication that many people have no concern for their surroundings. It's beyond mere carelessness; it's a product of our disposable society. We have been programmed to throw everything away, from babies to bottles.

Let no one suppose that our disregard for human life itself does not affect our attitude towards the gifts of nature. If we cannot cherish, support and nurture human existence, is it surprising that we violate nature?

Most people seem to ignore or deny the link between the natural and the supernatural. This agnostic approach to life in all its manifestations is nothing less than self-destructive.

When we support the destruction of life itself, why should we hesitate at irresponsible discarding of products of our own making? Once we condone abortion, why should we care about the environment?

After all, when we celebrate the gifts God has given us, we celebrate creation itself. It is in this context that we view ourselves as stewards of the planet; but right now our stewardship is receiving very poor marks.

But there are glimmers of hope. Many who previously centered their concern on human life have broadened their view to . include all life. Likewise, many who seemed solely interested in conserving and preserving nature have realized the importance of all life. Many who are saving whales are also saving babies!

It cannot be overemphasized how important it is for each and everyone of us to care for Earth and all its gifts to us. All of us can and must do our part if those who are given birth are also to be given an environment in which to live and grow.

In this spirit, we should make every day Earth Day.

catholic Charities' Helping Hand Some 12.3 million individuals received social and emergency services from Catholic Charities agencies across the United States in 1991, compared to 3.4 million who needed help 10 years ago.

Source: Catholic Charities USA Diocesan Survey

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Cathedrals: an acquired taste

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Onc ofthc most spiritually uplifting momcnts in my life was my first visit to Notrc Dame Cathedral at Chartres. France. a few years ago. I had ccrtainly looked forward with great anticipation to thc visit. but my encounter with thc cathedral was an experience that went bcyond my imaginings. I have always had a fascination with church art and architecture. but nothing could have prepared me for the scnse of awe and wonder elicited by the sight of this grand Gothic edifice.

I would suggest that anyone who visits Paris take the train to visit Chartrcs. The cathedral is visible for milcs hefore you enter the city and nothing obstructs y{)ur vision cxccpt rustic farmlands. In 1194 most of the original RomaThe Editor nesque church on the site of the prescnt cathedral was dcstroycd by firc. All that remained was the crypt under the church and thc west front. The new church which . followcd was not simply a replaccment hut the cmhodimcnt of a whole new way of thinking.

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less: the weightless expression of his spirit."'

While the bcautiful Notre Damc Cathedral is a grcat tributc to the grandeur of the human mind. it is also a testimony to the faith of the countless craftsmen and laborers who with chisel and mallet left to future generations a legacy of their Without doubt. proportion and faith in stone and glass. Laboring a love of geometry were at the from sunrise to sunset. they inheart of the intellectual atmosphere credibly rebuilt Chartrcs in 20 to out of which this great medieval 30 years. Their choice of Gothic monument grew. God was seen by . architecture was no doubt innuthe huilders as the architect of the enced by the devastating. nature of universe. to be emulated in a tcmthe firc that destroyed their first pic fitting his glory and honor. The church. Wood used in older great art historian Kenneth Clark churches. particularly in roofs and remarked in his landmark book. spires. was a fire hazard; hence the "Civilization," "Man had always predominance of stone and glass found himself limited by problems which rendered new churches less of stability and weight. Now by vulnerable. devices of the Gothic style - the A local priest-historian contrashaft with its cluster of columns. dicted the popularly-held belief passing without interruption into that stained glass windows were the vault and the pointed arch - he used to instruct the illiterate memcould make stones seem weight- bers of the congregation about thc truths of faith. He claimed that without a university degree in the study of iconography. it would be impossible to decipher the meaning of the Chartres windows. which The mcdicval rebuilding of Charcover some 22.000 square feet. tres incorporated a knowledge of .

In the thirteenth century. cathegeometry and stone masonry that drals were more than places of had only recently been perfected in worship; they were a center for lesser projects. Gothic architecture Incline unto my aid, 0 activities of all kinds. Our guide was the perfect vehicle to display displayed a 700-year-old decree God! 0 Lord, make haste the harmony discovered in the banning the throwing of balls and to help me! Glory be to the 'impersonal laws of geometry and the launching of "missiles" (stones, Father, and to the Son, and mathematics expressed many cenpresumably) at pirds who had the turies before by the Greeks. to the Holy Spirit, as it was misfortune of wandering within in the beginning, is now the walls. This decree convinced Medieval buildcrs may not have known Ncwton's laws of motion. me that appreciation of cathedrals and ever shall be, world but their nying buttresses demonis an acquired taste and one for without end. Amen. which I am most grateful! strate that they knew how to bal-

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Acts 2:14,22-28 1 Peter 1:17-21 Luke 24:13-35 Today's gospel pericope is one of the most important in the Christian Scriptures. Much more than just a recollection of the appearance of Jesus to two disciples on the road to Emmaus, it answers the very pressing question of the early Church: how does the risen Jesus show himself to his community?

As confirmed in our first two readings, everyone's faith in Jesus begins with faith in his resurrection. "He was delivered up by the set purpose and plan of God," Peter proclaims; "you even used pagans to crucify and kill him.

God freed him from death's bitter pangs, however, and raised him up again, for it was impossible that death should keep its hold on him." Or, as the homilist ofI Peter writes, "It is through him you are believers in God, the God who raised him frol)1 the dead and gave him glory."

Yet, if we believe Jesus is really alive among us (and not just vacationing in heaven), how do we experience him? Does he show up in our homes at regular intervals, or come to parish council meetings when we need him, or give scheduled audiences to church leaders?

The first Christians also wondered about Jesus' presence. But they were much more practical than we. Remembering what he had said the night before he died, they reasoned that celebrating the Lord's supper was the primary way of coming in contact with him.

Luke agrees. His entire Emmaus passage springs from that insight.

Commentators have frequently observed that he structures the story around a eucharistic model.

Jesus begins by using Scripture to clarify the experiences of the two disciples (the Liturgy ofthe Word), and ends by sharing a meal with them (the Liturgy of the Bread).

Since modern scholars agree there are no predictions of Jesus, as SUCh, in the Hebrew Scriptures, we'd love to have a recording of the Lord's conversation with his two friends. Because Luke knew nothing of historical biblical criticism, he saw no problem in Jesus beginning " ... with Moses and all the prophets" and interpreting "...for them every passage of Scripture which referred to him."

Daily Readings April 26: Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24,26-27,29-30; In 6:22-29 April 27: Acts 7:51-8:1; Ps 31:3-4,6-8,17-21; In 6:30-35 April 28: Acts 8:1-8; Ps 66:1-7; In 6:35-40 April 29: Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9,16-17,20; In 6:44-51 April 30: Acts 9: 1-20; Ps 117:1-2; In 6:52-59 May 1: Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116:12-17; In 6:60-69 May 2: Acts 2:14,36-41; Ps 23:1-6; 1 Pt 2:20-25; In 10:1-10

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Pro-life official criticizes assisted suicide guid'elines

Knowing Jesus in the breaking of the Bread

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN Though we avoid symbolic explanations of biblical texts today, such methods of exegesis were common during the period of the evangelists. With no way of reaching the mind of the original sacred authors, they simply thought every line of Scripture referred to whatever they were experiencing when they wrote. So, looking for (and discovering!) "deeper meaning" in each passage, Christians constantly found Jesus' death and resurrection throughout the Hebrew Bible.

But no matter which system of biblical interpretation we employ, it's important to' use Scripture as a tool in unmasking the risen Jesus in our midst. Our homilies must be rooted in the liturgical readings.

It's absurd to base them on anything else. (Perhaps the reason many faithful leave our weekend liturgies without "burning hearts" is because many ministers of the word don't make Scripture the heart of their preaching.)

Likewise, we must see the significance in the Lord being present in the actual "breaking of bread," not just in the bread which remains after the breaking. This phrase, one of the earliest ways of referring to the Eucharist, implies an action instead of a thing.

Participation in the Lord's Supper originally meant joining together in a meal with others who followed and remembered Jesus.

And in the middle of that joining and remembering we, like the two Emmaus disciples, should recognize the risen Lord among us. (No wonder Pius XII insisted the bread consumed at a particular Eucharist be the bread consecrated during that celebration, not bread taken from the tabernacle. We are to consume the Jesus revealed during our remembering, not the Jesus who appeared at a former celebration.)

Perhaps we so rarely discover the risen Jesus today because we do not recreate the circumstances in which he usually appeared to his first followers.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - An refused to indict him in the case. official of the U.S. bishops' SecreDoerflinger said the criteria tariat for Pro-Life Activists has proposed by Quill, Dr. Christine criticized two articles in The New K. Cassel of the University of ChiEngland Journal of Medicine for cago and Dr. Diane E. Meier of proposing criteria under which Mount Sinai School of Medicine physician-assisted suicide should in New York were similar to those be permitted. used in the Netherlands for physiThe articles were published after cian-assisted suicide. a proposal to legalize physicianDescribing the Dutch euthanaassisted suicide was defeated in sia experience as "a pretty comCalifornia by a 54 percent margin. plete failure," Doerflinger said a "Naive is the kindest word I government commission found last have" for the articles, said Richard year that thousands of patients' M. Doerflinger, associate director lives' were ended without their for policy development in the pro- consent. life secretariat.

"Penalties exist in theory in the In the first article, three doctors Netherlands," he said, "but once proposed what they called "clini- you've become accustomed to the cal criteria that would allow phy- process, it's no longer seen as a sicians to respond to requests for very big deal to ignore the safeassisted suicid'e from competent, guards." incurably ill patients."

Among guidelines proposed by The threl~ included Dr. Timothy Quill and his colleagues were: Quill of the University pf Roches- The patient must have an ter School of Medicine in New incurable, although not necessarYork, who admitted in a previous ily terminal condition, characterJournal article that he provided a ized by unrelenting pain. lethal dose of medication for a .

- All reasonable steps to relieve terminally ill patient. A grand jury patient's pain must have been.tried.

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Friday, April 23, 1993 - The patient must request death "clearly and repeatedly," with any sign of uncertainty canceling the request. The patient, the doctor and the consulting physician must sign consent forms.

In the second article, Dr. Howard Brody of Michigan State University .in East Lansing, Mich., argued in favor of viewing assisted death - including both physicianassisted suicide and active euthanasia - as "a compassionate response to one sort of medical failure, rather than as something to be prohibited outright or as something to be established as a standard policy."

Brody said it was "inappropriate medical practice" for doctors to adopt a" 'never say die' attitude in the face of worsening illness" and said assisted death would allow Americans to "regain the trust in physicians' compassion that we have all too nearly lost."

Doerflinger said the authors of the Journal articles and other supporters of physician-assisted suicide present an "emotional case" which "ignores all the less than noble motives for persuading people to end their lives early."

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Criteria for use of hymns in Catholic liturgies \

"What a Friend We Have in Jesus," "The Lord Is My Shepherd," By .

"Beautiful Savior" and "Faith' of Our Fathers." (Iowa) FATHER A. I'm not really sure what you are asking. Perhaps it's because I really don't know what a "LutherJOHN J. an" hymn is in the first place.

For one thing, many Lutheran DIETZEN churches sing what most of us would call Catholic hymns. "Holy God We Praise Thy Name," for Q. I was a Lutheran before join- example, a longtime Catholic favoing the Catholic Church 14 years rite, is common in many other ago. I am now 43 years old. Is it Christian churches, including the permissible to sing a couple of Lutheran, which picked it up in Lutheran hymns at my Catholic the original German. funeral? These songs were so much "Faith of Our Fathers," written a part of my childhood, and there. . by an English Catholic priest, will be a lot of Lutheran relatives Father Frederick Faber, is a staple at that time. in Protestant as well as Catholic Songs I have in mind are like worship.路

On the other hand, "A Mighty Fortress is our God," a hymn we Catholics know well, was written

by Martin Luther. "Away in a Manger," "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" and, in fact, most other traditional Christmas hymns were written by Protestant clergymen.

Much more critical than which denomination first sang a hymn is its musical, poetic and of course theological quality. The main criteria for music in the Catholic Church were outlined some years ago by the American bishops' Committee on the Liturgy.

Briefly, music must meet three tests to be used at the Eucharist or other official liturgies.

First, it should be basically good music, both in composition and performance. Music does not be-

come appropriate for the liturgy simply because the notes hang together and the composer or performers are well-intentioned.

Second, music must be liturgi~ cally correct. It should fit liturgical seasons and feasts and give proper opportunity for the congregation to participate in those parts of the Mass which are theirs.

A response to the Preface ("Holy, Holy, Holy"), sung by a folk group alone, would offend this requirement, as would a solo "Our Father."

Finally, music must be pastorally appropriate, not necessarily something the pastor likes, but selections that will help -this congregation at this time to pray and worship God together.

Obviously, many songs can be used at appropriate times in our liturgy.

As for your funeral, which I hope is not imminent, please talk with your parish priest about the music you desire.

For further details, one may consult "Music in Catholic Worship," available from USCC Publications, 3211 Fourth Street N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1194.

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Some days parents just can't rejoice and be glad By DOLORES CURRAN

(This is a rerun of a column I wrote a generation ago, updated for today's young parents.)

One of my' favorite posters depicts a tired and cranky toddler with a bowl of spaghetti turned upside down on his head. The cap-

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Marriages can grow stale and loveless. We wrote an earlier column in; response to several readers who said their marriages lacked emotional fulfillment.

It brought a further flow of letters from readers who said they too have unfulfilling relationships but had chosen different routes to fulfillment.

We described some of these

tion reads, "This is the day the Lord hath made; rejoi'ce and be glad in it."

Sometimes scripture gets a bit lofty and it's good to put it into perspective. Any parent has dozens of days with children who look like that cranky spaghetti eater and it's foolish to pretend that we rejoice over them.

Religious tracts on parenthood often paint the good mother as ever sweet and smiling as she wipes up the milk which has dripped through the crack in the table onto her slacks. Never have I read a

prayer celebrating a good loud down-to-earth mother tantrum.

That's because we aren't supposed to have them, just as we aren't supposed to have children who overturn bowls of spaghetti on their heads.

When we pull out a sheet of 100 .29 stamps and discover that a son has used them as an artist's pad for his marking pens, we don't praise his creativity. We scream irrational things, about allowances, carelessness, and maybe even hint of stupidity.

When we spend hours on a fam-

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How good it was for me to be reminded recently that we can see Christ in ourselves and in every other living person. The reminder came from a scholarly man from Syria. .'

It began with a conference by the Omega I nstitute which I attended in New York. The theme was "A Revolution of Hope, Changing the World From the . Inside Out." The purpose of the conference was well stated. It called for a revolution to challenge "our darker legacy" - war. starvation, racism, broken communities and the stress-

rejoicing. On the last feast of the Holy Family, ours wasn't, so in a burst of parerttal impatience, we sent them to bed earlier than usual.

When we got ready for bed later, we found on the pillow in carefully disguised handwriting an excerpt from that morriing's gospel: "You who are wives, be submissive to your husbands. And fathers, do not nag your children lest they lose heart."

What did we do? We laughed to the point of exhaustion, truly rejoicing in that day that the Lord had made.

When marriages grow stale ,and loveless options and asked readers what they think is going on. Are husbands inconsiderate? Are wives somehow contributing to the situation?

'Again our readers responded.

Some wives wrote sad letters describi",g marriages without emotional support, in which the wife had stayed but had given up any hope of emotional fulfillment.

Other letters came from wives who had left the marriage and were better off. As one writer put it, formerly she was lonely; now she was al'one but not lonely.

Finally, some readers shared experiences of growth in marriage.

Although they agreed that it takes two to make a marriage, they sug-

gested that nevertheless each has been able to experience individual growth. ' A New Jersey reader writes, "In my marriage of 24 years my husband has been very affectionate, but emotional support is often lacking between us. It's something we are still working on.

"I love my husband and I know he loves me. Sure I try to focus on the positive, and I find-satisfying activities of my own. And at times, when I need lots of emotional su pport that he can't seem to give me, I find it in prayer."

A New Jersey husband of 23 years wrote that we do not rely enough on Christian idealism and on God's plan for our lives.

"I too was afflicted with the 'if

The name of Jesus is the By

ily activity like camping or crafts, only to hear the children whine, "Why do we hafta do this? Why can't we just watch television," we're apt to blow our halos. At that moment we don't gaze fondly upon the fruit of our vine and pray that they continue to multiply.

These outbursts, of course, are always followed by bouts of good old Catholic guilt. Will God forgive me for blowing up? Why can't I rejoice after a meal they refused to eat?

However, we've found that the children also have problems .with

ful imbalanced demands of modern life."

The conference had a number of workshops. but the one to which I was attracted had the intriguing title of."Sustaining Hope."

The leader was Abdul Aziz Said, listed as a participant in the ArabIsraeli peace talks and an experienced guide for people interested in the relationship between their spiritual and political lives.

I learned much from this fine teacher, especially from a story he told about how he came from Syria to American University in Washington, D.C. While there, his 5-year~0Id son was in Catholic school.

One day the son came home from school and told his father he had learned about a man named Jesus that day. He asked his father, "Did you ever hear of him?" 'The father answered "yes," and went to a map, pointed to Bethlehem. where Jesus was born and

then to a place nearby in Syria where the little boy had been born.

His son then asked him if he knew Jesus. Again the father said "yes." The son asked, "Did you play with Jesus?" He answered. "yes." The child then asked, "Did you play soccer with him?" the father again answered. "Yes." Elated. the child said he was going to tell his teacher the next day about how his father played with Jesus.

Said told those of us attending the workshop that he could just see the nun's face and figured he'd better explain something to his soh. So he began, "You know, Jesus told me once' that .he has many names."

Said went on to tell his son soine of the names Jesus has - and they went from Mohammed to St. Paul to Martin Luther KingJr. to many more. He told the boy that the

she would only change' syndrome. , I had to ask some

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about myself to get out of that pit.

"I had to realize that in our marriage, my primary role is to be a help to my spouse's growth in holiness and she in mine.

"That I am first called at all times to be that person, man and husband, my Father in heaven planned for me to be.

"And at all times to remember that my wife, my bride, is the greatest gift my Father has given to me - especially when times are at their toughest for any reason.

To be most tl1ankful for the difficult moments ....

"I have learned that Christian wisdom is for me to simply become,

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to be, that servant leader, to be , patient with myself, toris\( making and learning from mistakes, and always to surrender to God's real presence within me. And to be ever more grateful for everything at all times."

Our first writer indicates that growth is possible. Our second writer indicates that while we struggle with day-to-day problems we should always strive toward the ideals of Christian marriage.

Clearly getting from here to there is the challenge for couples today.

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name of Jesus is the name of your classmate. your neighbor. your coworker your boss, your child.

It is so easy to forget that truth first spoken by Jesus himself when

he said, "I was hungry and you fed me." I was grateful to this man from the Mideast who so beautifully reminded us that Christ is to be found in our neighbor.

Reconciling urged after King verdict LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Fol- ask. 'How might I promote heallowing the split verdict in the ing and reconciliation on my own Rodney King beating trial, Cardi- block and in my own neighbornal Roger M. Mahony of Los hood?''' Cardinal Mahony said.

Angeles urged each resident of the "Now is our opportunity to make city to find ways to bridge "the a personal commitmentto identify gaps and chasms that still divide specific ways .of bridging the gaps us." and chasms that still divide us."

"Now is a time for hope and The cardinal said the riots after reconciliation," he said in a state- the April 1992 acquittal of the four ment issued shortly after a jury police路 officers in a state trial convicted police Sgt. Stacey Koon . "demonstrated very clearly that a and Officer Laurence Powell of violent response to the verdicts violating K.ing's civil rights by using will not and cannot serve the cause or permitting excessive force in the of justice and equality."

March 1991 beating. Officer TheoThe 1992 verdicts sparked three dore Briseno and former Officer days of rioting in Los Angeles that Timothy Wind were acquitted. left 53 people dead and caused $2 "It is imPl:ra~i~l: that each of us billion in damage.

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Centering prayer Dear Editor: I was grateful to read Dolores Curran's recent articles on centering prayer (Anchor March 26 and April 2). I would like to suggest one subtle change in "how one goes about it."

We do not try "to empty" our minds. We do not try "not" to think. We sit with the intention of being attentive to the Divine Presence. We accept the fact that we are human and that our minds will wander. When the mind wanders, we lovingly allow for our humanness and gently return to the sacred word as a symbol of our intention to be in the Divine Presence.

Contemplative Outreach is a nationwide network providing support and instruction for people interested in the practice and spirituality of centering prayer. Further information may be obtained from our centering prayer group at St. Joseph's parish in Taunton, from Brother William Murphy's' group at Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick, RI, or from Ed Larkin, 59 Old Fields Road, Sandwich.

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Women in the church Dear Editor: I read .with interest the letters of Margaret Diggins and Alice Beaulieu on women priests, and as an interested neutral would like to chime in.

Ms. Beaulieu notes that women are not discriminated against in the church as they are EMs, lectors and cantors, which is true, but then she points to the Last Supper as "ordaining priests."

1f so, his "priests" soon deserted him when the Roman soldiers came for Christ. On the way to his cruci-

April 25 1940, Rev. JohnJ. Wade, Assistant, Sacred Heart, Fall River 1955, Rev. Raymond J. Lynch, Chaplain, Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River ' April 26 1982, Rev. Ubalde Deneault, Pastor Emeritus, St. Joseph, Attleboro April2.?

1925, Rev. Francis J. Bradley: D.O., Rector, Cathedral, Fall River 1949, Rev. Romeo D. Archam-' bault, St. Anne, New Bedford April 28 1959, Rev. StanislausJ. Goyette, Pastor, St. Louis de France, Swansea April 29 1987. Rev. James Leo Maguire, Pastor. Monterey Diocese, California 1989, Rev. Adolph SZelagpwski, OFM Conv, Paro<;hial Vicar, O.L. Perpetual Heip, New Bedford Apr.il ~O. 190Q, Rev. John A. Hurley, Pastor, St. M.ary, North Attleboro 1930, Rev..David F. Sheedy, Pastor, St. JohnE:vangelist, At*boro . .

fixion it was only the holy women of Jerusalem, Veronica and Mary Magdalene with his mother who stayed and suffered with him.

Ms. Beaulieu seems to forget that women in those days were not granted equality with men. Muslim and Japanese women are only now emerging from this state, but American women since pioneer days have shared life's burdens with men, and are now equal in all respects but pay in most of the professions.

Even in Jesus' time, women were active in spreading his Good News, the same as the chosen 12, and it was to Mary Magdalene he made his first appearance after the Resurrection.

Should the Last Supper be used as a permanent measure of Catholic action, perhaps our priests should still pronounce the words of the Elevation in Aramaic.

Bill McLaughlin Mashpee

Some questions Dear Editor: I thought I'd take a few minutes and express my thoughts on things.

I feel that we as Christians are losing ground to the ways of the world. Maybe 1 am out of touch with reality and it is no longer necessary to do good and avoid evil and [remember that] "dust thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul."

This seems to be the rule rather than the exception. All the trash that is on TV as if this is the way to go! No one refuting this garbage!

Even in church, the people are not called to task and reminded that there is a hereafter and we are all to be judged by our actions and the example we set. It seems that we are the "voice of one crying in the wilderness" as John once said.

1 suppose affluence breeds this philosophy of "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." People need to be constantly reminded that we are to be held accountable and we had best be ready. There is nojustice in this world, only in the hereafter.

They'll say there is no hereafter, but logic cries out for justice and that's what the hereafter is all about. Too often we are not reminded that man has an immortal soul which lives on after our short journey here is past. It seems we need to wake up and not be lulled to sleep by the way of the world: cheating, stealing, drugs, misconduct, etc.

It seems that the Christian soldiers of confirmation are either dead or fallen a~leep. Where are the Knights and the Holy Name men? Where have all the nuns gone? The Catholic schools?

The Marines '1eed a few good men - we need them for God's army too. As you may note, I'm quite concerned and others out here are also. We need to be awakened to the dangers of Satan and his followers. What happened to the prayer at the end of Mass to St. Michael the Archangel?

Confession? What's that? Church )ocked ~ tooma.ny bad guys. We . used to visit Christ in the tabernacle.W'hat happened?" .

James H. Duffy Jr. .

Taunton

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France, Swansea; St. Michael, Ocean Grove; and St. Jean Baptiste and Blessed Sacrament in Fall River.

The golden jubilees will be marked at a 2 p.m. Mass May 2 in the Chapel at Mont Marie, followed by a reception.

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The campus minister will work in a predominantly Catholic environment and will need to identify with and value the college's Catholic heritage, as well as assist in the development of religious opportunities for persons of different traditions: To qualify, you must have a MA in Theology; M. Div. required. Experience in community service organizing and the Christian justice movement preferred. Send cover letter, resume and three references by May 15, 1993 to: Rev. Daniellssing, C.S.C, Director of Campus Ministry, Stonehill

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Retired religious collE~ction head is named WASHINGTON (CNS) - Sister Janet Roessner, former executive director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, has been named director of the Tri-Conference Retirement Office, which conducts the annual national collection to aid retired religious.

Sister Roessner, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, had been interim director since the office's first director, Sister Mary Oliver Hudon, took a position in Rome with her religious community, the School Sister of Notre Dame.

Under Sister Hudon's leadership, the Retirement Fund for Religious Appeal has become by far the largest national collection in U.S. Catholic history, averaging just under $25 million each year to ease unfunded retirement liability of religious orders.

The Tri-Conference Retirement Office is a project of LCWR, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

"I hope to be able to continue what S'ister Mary Oliver started so well," Sister Roessner told Catholic News Service. But after six years of the U.S. bishops' IO-year mandate for the collection, she said she "fears that the momentum of the early years will diminish."

To counteract that, she said, it is important to "keep in contact with the people on the local level, and to continually encourage religious to take part in the appeal."

Sister Roessner 'said that the first inkling of the seriousness of religious orders' unfunded retirement liability came il} the early 1970s.

In 1971, religious were permitted to join the Social Security system, but some orders, said Sister Roessner. could not afford to get their members into the system.

Other problems included escalating health care costs and the rising median age of religious.

"The compensation system that had been used in the past" was another factor, Sister Roessner said. Religious were paid a fraction of what lay employees made for church and school work.

Today, however, she said, "Dioceses for the most part are williilg to bring the compensation system to a level that is more just."

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SISTER JUDITH COSTA and Diane Norte, a production assistant for Cable TV of East Providence, edit a program in the studio's control room.

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Cable TV.show helps Portuguese-speaking connect faith, daily life

By Marcie Hickey When Sister Judith Costa, SSD, entered religious life, she never imagined it would lead her to a world of bright lights,' cameras, knobs, switches and multiple screens.

But the complex scene inside the studio control room at Cable TV of East Providence has become familiar to the Sister of St. Dorothy, who grew u'p in that city and is now director of religious education at St. Joseph's parish, North Dighton. As a religious ed~ ucator concerned about meeting the spiritual needs of Portuguesespeaking Catholic immigrailts, Sister Costa came to realize that "we need to be creative in extending God's kingdom-and communications is the way to go today."

With no prior experience in television producing, in December 1989 Sister Costa, herself a native of Portugal, launched what she

calls a ~'Iabor of love"-the Portuguese-language religious cable program Vivendo a Nossa

have路 included clergy, educators . teers began with little knowledge Sisters of St. Dorothy and on prisocial workers and psychologists. oftelevision production but a great vate donations from such organiThe Palm Sunday program feadesire to nurture the faith of zations as the Knights of ColumFe (Living Our Faith). , tured Bishop Sean O'Malley and immigrants trying to adjust to unbus and Portuguese prayer groups Father Joseph Costa, director of familiar surroundings. to stay on the air.

Each Wednesday evening she St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, in may be found in the East ProviThe Dorothean said she began The Portuguese Channel, with a discussion of the events of Holy dence studio with her volunteer her unique ministry "be,cause I felt 478,000 subscribers, has been "very Week. crew, filming and editing inthat for Christians a IO-minute gracious to us," airing the prostallments of the half-hour program homily on Sunday is not enough. gram free of charge and Cable TV "We hope to help people make a for distribution to various cable St. Paul is right-faith comes of East Providence provides the connection between faith and daily through hearing. Words have a lot studio time. . systems in Massachusetts. Rhode life. Any topic that enhances the Island and California. In the Fall human person will contribute to of power... People need to be fed "Working with the staffs of both River diocese it airs at 9:30 p.m. spiritual growth," explained Sister with the word of God from Scrip-. cable systems has been such a posiSaturdays on the Portuguese ChanCosta, who spends 10 to 12 hours a ture so that their lives can be trans- tive experience for me," said Sister week on program-related work in nel (Channel 20) and at 2 p.m. formed by that knowledge." , Costa. "They do a great service to While English-language resour- the community. But I am a firm Sundays on Fall River/ New Bedaddition to her fulltime parish job. ces for evangelization are plenti-. believer that nothing we do for fo'rd Channel 13.

"Why do I choose to do this on ful, therds little available in PorGod is lost. Our God is a God of Vil'endo is conducted in inter- my time off from the parish and view format, with guests usually the responsibilities'of religious . tuguese, she said. And so Sister abundance, and I a~ sure their Costa, who holds a bachelor's kindness does not go llnnoticed .or speaking in a series of programs community? It is easy-I think I degree in education and a master's - - unrewarded by. him." . '. covering such topics as prayer, am 'a woman in love,''' she said. "I in'pastoral' psychology and has'! Sti~Ws'must be filmed 'weeks'in' morality, the Gospel of Mark and live intensely. I' afways' have. I taught for years at Catholic schools, advance to allow for editing and Lenten Scripture readings .. Other '. enjoy being alive and I want to live saw cable television as a prime distribution; in fact, many of them series have been about marriage it to the fullest. ed ucational tool. are prerecorded during the summer. and annulments, parenting. subSince she must operate one of "The Catholic Church has 2,000 "Summer is pretty intense-we the three cameras used in filming 路stance abuse and AIDS. Guests years of accumulated wisdom," might have to record three or four the show and also runs the studio she said. "Our tradition is rich, programs one after another," said control room, Sister Costa is seland, in a sense, we do not have to Sister Costa. For the past two dom the program's host. That task reinvent the wheel, but we do need summers she has had assistance falls to one of the volunteer crew to rediscover our symbols and from sisters from Portugal. One members, usually Jose Rocha.

Sister Costa assembled the rituals." was a social worker and educator team-about nine in all-from PorWhen the idea of a cable TV from Lisbon and the other serves program came to her, however, "I in Rome. Neither had TV expetuguese-speaking members of her wondered, how am I going to do rience, but Sister Costa needed home parish, St. Francis Xavier in this? I don't know anything about someone who had "facility with East Providence, where she served Mortgage money now available. before coming to North Dighton such things!" the language and material. In the in 1988. .

She enrolled in a six-week U.S. province, wedon't have many AI Medeiros, Navigius Hamel, communications course at Rhode sisters who speak Portuguese well Victor Silva and Joe Tavares are (lJJAlHOUSlNG Island College to learn the basics, enough."

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"I'm sure. the Lord has lots of plans for us in the future," Sister Costa said with certainty. "God is real to me, and if I can help others SISTER JUDITH arranges the studio stage as volunteer experience him as I have, I feel I camera operators Al Medeiros and Navigius Hamel look on. have brought them home for we were created for him." .

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52nd Appeal, first for bishop Continued from Page One with Him in this struggle. We share in His betrayal. His sufferings and death, and in His ultimate victory and everlasting life.

Every day, in our own lives and the lives of our brothers and sisters, we see evidence of this struggle. Violence, racism, war and devastation, poverty and hunger are as close as the evening news or the morning paper. We can literally reach out and touch the suffering face of the Lord in those around us. The recent tragedies in our public schools in Dartmouth and Acushnet are sad reminders. Yet for most of us our call as believing Christians beckons us to be"in the world," and not "of the world." In. other words, we are called to bring God's transforming love to bear on our society and to avoid being seduced by the false values of materialism and individualism.

In today's Gospel reading from St. John, Jesus says to Nicodemus: . Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world might be saved through him. (J n. 3: 1617) What a tremendous love this is for the eternal God to take upon Himself the weakness Of humanity and to transform it ihto life eternal! This is the joy which we celebrate. the power of the light to' overcome all manner of darkness.

The theme of this year's Catholic Charities Appeal is: "Your Sacrifice Will Assure Our Success." I' am sure that each of us here has experienced in our lives how diffi~ cult it can be to sacrifice. My brother priests and religious here present have sacrificed a secular career and family and endure many ~ of the little sacrifices of parish life - the experience of the early morning call at the door for assistance or the inconvenient telephone call inquiring as to the time of the Midnight Mass. .

Married couples give up personal plans and preferences to establish a home and a family.

Parents of infants are awakened by those ever-so-gentle howls demanding to be fed, or changed, or merely held. All these sacrifices. as well as the many other sacrificial demands all of us are called to respond to in our daily lives. can often test the patience of.J ob. Yet I ask you again, in the Lord's name. to sacrifice by contributing generously to this Appeal so that the good works done in the Lord's name may continue.

In the former rite for marriage, there was a wonderful exhortation by the priest before the couple exchanged their vows. In part. the exhortation read: Sacrifice is usually difficult and irksome. Only love can make it easy. and perfect love can make it a joy. We are willing to give in proportion as we love. And when love is perfect, the sacrifice is complete.

I believe there is great wisdom in these words. not only for newlyweds, but for all of us who would follow the way of charity. If we love the Lord completely, then our sacrifice to assist those in need will be complete.

St. Franciscalled begging "having recourse to the table of the . Lord." Despite the mendicant tra-

dition of my Franciscan family, I have never found it easy to beg for money. However. in the name of those who will be assisted through the efforts of this Appeal. I beg you to continue to be generous in your gifts of time and money in support of Catholic Charities.

Usually. this kickoff address would contain some of the financial report of the proceeds of last year's Catholic Charities Appeal.

This report is published in this week's edition of the Anchor, which is available for you as you leave the auditorium tonight. It is a valuable part of the responsibility that I have to be a good steward of the proceeds of this Appeal. It is important for the donors to know

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exactly where their donations are going.

Some may be concerned that the money from the Charities Appeal might be used for the diocese's legal liabilities. We must be clear in assuring our donors that the monies from the Appeal are used exclusively for the purposes announced in the campaign literature and the Anchor.

Consequently. as I was preparing to address you this evening, I asked Father Freitas to provide me with some idea not only of what was being spent, but also who was being served in the various apostolates supported by the Appeal. The reports provided by the various departments were

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interesting reading indeed. Permit me to share some of what I learned in these reports.

As you know, people of all ages are served by our diocesan apostolates: from the defense of the innocent unborn, pregnancy counseling and adoption services, educational and youth ministry programs, marriage preparation and services to the widowed, divorced and separated. the pastoral care of the sick _. about which Father Bellenoit spoke a few minutes ago - as well as the aged. the immi, grant and the refugee; all these arc assisted through the efforts of our Catholic Charities Appeal.

But the sheer scope of these efforts was a surprise to me. Based

Statement of Revenues and Expenditures 1992 Catholic Charities Appeal L TOTAL RECEIVED, Net Proceeds 1992 Appeal II. DISBURSEMENTS, Made or AlIocated Fiscal Year Beginning July I, 1992

$2,172,947.33

I. SOCIAL SERVICE AND CHILD CARE

a. b. c. d. e.

Catholic Social Service Saint Vincent's Home Saint Vincent's Camp Diocesan Special Apostolates Catholic Youth Organization

, 2. 'APOSTOLATES'TO TH1E SICK a. Pastoral Ministry to the Sick

472,400.00 100,187.00 85,850.00 124,000.00 70,300.00

852,737.00 '

306,306.00

306,306.00

3. EDUCATION a. Diocesan Education Center b. Scholarship Aid Program c. High School Capital Expenses -Connolly 10,000.00 -Coyle Cassidy 50,000.00 -Stang 50,000.00

209,200.00 70,000.00

110,000.00

389,200.00

4. PASTORAL ENDEAVORS a. Diocesan Family Life b. Dioc. Assessments usec, Mass. Cath. Conf. c. Charities Appeal Office d. Development Priestly Personnel/ Priests Council e. Liturgical f. Permanent Diaconate g. Campus Ministry h. Communications 1. Youth Ministry J. Developmental Disabilities k. Office for Religious 1. Pro-Life Activities m. Capital Improvements n. Misc. (Vocations, Ecumenics, etc.)

III.

96,800.00 88,229.76 94,400.00 7,155.00 22,069.41 45,000.00 56,900.00 , 54,800.00 73,400.00 27,000.00 36,700.00 , 12,830.00 7,530.50 8;642.00

631,456.67

TOTAL

$2,179,699.67

NET PROCEEDS OF 1992 DISBURSEMENTS MADE OR ALLOCATED Deficit

$2,172,947.33 2,179,699.67

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upon the reports I have received to date~ approximately 179.114 men,

women and children are affected in some way by the apostolates supported by the Catholic Charities Appeal! That means that a number of persons greater than the combined populations of Fall River and New Bedford were affected by your response to the 1992 Catholic Charities Appeal.

As I look around this auditorium this evening. I am impressed and gratified by. the great number of you who have come from all over the diocese. But you could fill nearly 200 auditoria of this size with the many people who have been assisted through your gifts and efforts in last year's Appeal.

These people are not mer.ely a \ faceless collection of strangers: they are our brothers and sisters. They include scores of pregnant women who are counseled and referred by our Catholic Social Services. The agency counseled over 1.100 people. 59 women received pregnancy services and another 1.000 people were assisted by ot her agency services.

They are the innocent unborn and concerned individuals who are protected and guided through the efforts of our Pro-Life Apostolate. Over the last year more th:1O 5,500 people participated in the various pro-life programs. Our diocese was second in the country in Project Life Sunday with over 80,000 participants. I am grateful for the support and participation of so -many of you in this important effort.

They are the thousands of students and young people who are guided and ed'ucated through our' departments oCEducatiori. Youth Ministry and CYO. Not counting the students in our schools or CCD programs, over 3,000 people were beneficiaries of the Charities Appeal. Hundreds of college students were assisted through our Catholic Campus Ministry which is funded by our Appeal.

They are seen in the nearly 3,000 young couples who were prepared for Christian marriage and the over 800 who shared in programs assisting the divorced and separated. Over400 participated in var- . ious programs to assist the widowed. All of this was coordinated through the Office for Family M inistry, and this office is funded through the Catholic Charities Appeal.

They also include the many thousands of infirm who we visited and provided withsacramental ministry through the efforts of our chaplains and volunteers in our Pastoral Care of the Sick Department. Over 160.000 visits were made. The Eucharist was brought to over 100,000 sick in the hospital and over 13,000 received the Sacrament of the Sick while in the hospital. We know the consolation that the ministry of the Church is to the sick and dying. This department is also funded through the Catholic Charities Appeal.

These are the "figures"; figures in need, the living, breathing figures who make the work of charity and the financial figures all worthwhile. With your continued sacrifice. we can indeed assure our success.

Looking back at last year's Appeal. we are overwhelmed at the response of the many individuals who helped to make it such a success: individuals like yourselves, Turn to Page II .;..-

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An ideal for families

By Mitch Finley I had no trouble picking a topic for the first chapter of my new book on family "life. The unanticipated welcome given a magazine article I had written saying that' family life is good, worthwhile and holy, "warts and all," made the choice easy.

The response to my article had been somewhat mystifying. Naturally, as a writer I was happy to know that people found something I wrote helpful and encouraging.

But what had I said that was so remarkable?

The article had merely expressed my conviction that family troubles, family conflict and kids going astray are not signs that a family is less than it should be. All this is . simply part and parcel of family life, which like all Christian vocations is supposed to bring both cross and resurrection into our lives.

"What makes family life sacred," I wrote, "is not to attain some kind of pristine perfection, but the fact that to live with people as lovingly as you' can is to live with God ....

"What makes a family holy is not to be totally free from conflict or to become a group of people who never hurt' one another.

Rather, holiness in families comes ftom learning'to forgive and be reconciled and learning to face up to our problems and try to do something about them ....

"I n family life ... holy means struggling day after day to bring creative order - if only a bit - to the chaos."

Where do family people get the idea that their families are not holy? Maybe it's from misinterpretations of lines in Scripture.

In Matthew's Gospel, for example, Jesus says, "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (5:48).

Perhaps family people hear this and envision an otherworldly bliss that knows no trouble, no need to struggle, no pain, no suffering. But this isn't what Matthew's Jesus means at all.

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Take a look at the context.

Jesus' "be perfect" teaching comes at the end of a longer saying about the need to love everybody, good and bad alike.

Jesus instructs us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. For does not God make the sun to shine on good and bad people alike? Do not "the righteous and the unrighteous" both enjoy the benefits of the rain?

Be on good terms with everyone, Jesus says.

So, trying to love and forgive indiscriminately is to "be perfect."

Is this not the ideal families strive for?

The m'essage that permeates my book, "Your Family in Focus: Appreciating What You Have, Making It Even Better," is this: family life - your family life - is holy because God is there, and ordinary, everyday family life, wit h all its joy and anguish, is a major path to holiness.

Catholic families could show St. John of the Cross a thing or two about "the dark night of the soul," and they could teach Sf. Teresa of Avila something about ecstasies,

CYO basketball champs listed The Fall River CYO basketball season is now complete. Division champions are listed as follows, with regular season champ first and playoff champ second unless it is the same team.

Junior A Boys: St. William.

Junior B Boys: Holy Name, St. Stanislaus B!. Junior C Boys: Notre Dame CI. Junior A Girls: Our Lady of Grace I (also won diocesan championship). Junior B Girls: Holy_ NameB!. ' Prep Boys: Santo Christo.

Senior A Boys: St. William.

Senior B Boys: St. Michael (also Sam Priestly Tournament champions).

A league banquet will be held in May.

'CA t,' FISH: Curiosity got the best of this cat in Calermore,QK. The feline gave up o~,the mounted prt~y event~ally - perhaps in search of smaller fish to fry! (eNS photo)

Concerns of the long-distance caregiver

By Bill and Monica Dodds "Mom wrote and told me she's going to be on crutches for the next four weeks. It wasn't until later that it occurred to me that the bathroom's on the second floor of her home."

"Dad says the hospital is releasing him today but I don't know how he's supposed to get back to his apartment, let alone keep track of all the medicine he needs to be taking every day."

"I've called Mom every night for the last three nights. There's still no answer."

"Long-distance caregiver" is a relatively new term used to describe an increasing number of adult children who live in one part ofthe country, but are trying to monitor an aging parent's health and wellbeing in another. While it has no formal job description, most who find themselves in this role say that with it come worry, frustration, guilt and enormous telephone bills.

How do I know if Mom is eating right? Why didn't she tell me she was going in for that test? How many voice-mail messages do I have to leave before her doctor calls me back? What's going on there?

The urge is to hop on a plane and go find out. However, commitments to spouse, children and a job, not to mention high airfares, often make that impossible.

The telephone can be an invaluable tool for monitoring a parent's , well-being.

-Make sure your name, address and phone number are posted by your parent's phone with a note asking that you be contacted if there is a problem.

-Be certain your parent;s doctor has the same information as well as any home-care providers (visiting nurse, housekeeper, physical therapist, etc.) who may be working with your mother or father.

-Exchange names, addresses and phone numbers with a neighbor, friend or fellow parishioner who is already in regular contact with your parent.

-If your parent is going to be released from a hospital or nursing home. ask to speak to the discharge planner well before your parent is scheduled to go home so you will be aware of what services your parent needs.

-If you are looking for health or service resources in your parent's area, call telephone information for that area code and ask for "information and referral for senior citizens programs." (M ost areas have "case-management services."

Through a state-subsidized or private program, a case manager can coordinate the team of professionals working with an elderly person.)

When you talk to your parent on the phone: -Pay attention to what Mom or Dad is telling you. Is there something new going on? For example, is she talking about friends dying? Is he suddenly concerned about a particular ache or pain? . -If both parents are still living, spend time talking to each alone.

Ask Mom how she's doing and how Dad is doing. Ask Dad the same.

-Call frequently and regularly.

Agree on a time that's good for both of you. Mark it on your calendar so you. don't forget. ~Suggest that Mom orpadjot down a few notes between calls to get ready for the next one. You do

the same. That way neither one of you will forget something important that needs to be discussed or a bit of news or gossip that will be fun to share.

"answers" often means meeting with stiff resistance, not just from an aging parent but from siblings playing a role in taking care of Mom or Dad. Ask how you can help and offer The Visit suggestions. Work with your parTelephone contact works best ent and siblings. when coupled with visits to Mom -Think small. Prioritize those or Dad. Those visits - limited as needs. Begin with suggestions that the time might be - go a long way are least threatening and that allow toward meeting the parent's needs' your parent the greatest amount of and calming the caregiver's wor- independence.

'Maybe this is the visit to set up ries. Here are some suggestions: -Plan ahead. Call your par- some sort of housekeeping. Next ent's doctor and others working time might be right to arrange some financial matters, but it can with your parent, and arrange help if you begin that process now appointments to discuss how your by raising the issue with your mother or father is doing. Those parent. meetings should include your -Realize you are not going to parent. fix all the problems in one visit.

- When you do meet, have your -Remember that your role as list of questions and concerns ready, long-distance caregiver is somebased on what your parent has thing new not just to you but to said - and not said - during telsociety. In days gone by, most ephone conversations and on what members of the extended family you have observed during this visit. lived close to one another; those (How have your parent's health who moved far away returned inand living conditions changed since frequently. if at all. the last time you were home? Are there new needs?)

Automobiles, interstate highways,jets, telephones and a host of -Don't panic at what seem like other advances have made the role drastic changes. Because you of long-distance caregiver possible. haven't witnessed those changes More suggestions and a care on a week-by-week basis, the difmanagement worksheet are availference between now and six able in an American Asociation of months ago may seem more startRetired Persons' free booklet titled ling to you than to your parent or a "Miles Away and Still Caring: A sibling who has been around more Guide for Long-Distance Carefrequently. givers."

Failure to mention changes to AARP asks that you include the you does not mean they have been title and stock number (012748) hiding them from you. These othwhen making your request. Write: ers simply don't see them. You AARP Fulfillment EE0263, Box each have a unique perspective; all 22796, Long Beach, CA 90801are helpful when trying to make an 5796. Allow six to eight weeks for accurate evaluation. delivery.' ' -Swooping in with all the

Confessions about confession

By Dan Morris I was recently around a group of cradle Catholics. This probably should not have surprised me since I was sitting in the All Saints parish basement "doing" coffee and doughnuts after Mass.

What did surprise me was how the group turned surly when I casually mentioned I enjoyed confession.

"You, you, you what?!" exclaimed my neighbor, Bud. He slapped his forehead. "Oh, yeah, I forgot. You're a convert."

Everyone then nodded sympathetically to my wife. "Listen to this," she told the group, "the guy claims he never once had a twinge of conscience for forgetting a sin for confession."

"Big deal," another neighbor, Nancy, intoned. '~There was a period of time between the ages of 9 and II where I took crib notes to confession with me."

Bud nearly jumped out of his chair. "You too? Listen to this. I was confessing away when Father says, 'Hey, what's that paper rustling in there? You eating a candy bar in confession?"Oh, no, Father: I said. '( just kneeled accidentally on a bulletin.'''

Everyone gasped (except yours truly, the uninitiated). Bud continued.

"Yeah, right. Now I had lied during confession. What could I d.o?· Save it for next time- which would 'void this confession and leave me in a double-dirty state 'of sin for the dunition?Or go back in line and hope Msgr. O'McClaskey :would n'tre(;ognize my voice;second time around? .

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kind of penance I'd get - maybe a parole officer, or something."

"What did you do, Bud?" someone asked.

"I started writing my crib notes in pen on my fingers."

If I understood the group correctly, a kind of "pass-it-on" sense of what was a sin seemed to be practiced. My wife claims confessions were often reviewed with friends before and after a session in the "box."

Apparently, the fondly remembered and feared Msgr. O'McClaskey was not the type of churchman who would tolerate a confession phrased in the uncertain.

Forexample, it would be unwise to confess, "If it is a sin to put road kill frogs in your sister's underwear drawer, I confess it. If it's not, I'd like to do it again."

"We'd make sure everyone knew it was a sin to think about Spin and Marty while you were saying the rosary - that sort of thing," spouse explained.

However, it also appears the most heinous sins were not mentioned to friends -like going into your parents' room while they weren't home, "Didn't you all walk around with guilty consciences?" I asked blithely. ·"Of course we did," Bud said proudly. "We were good Catholics.... ,

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52nd Appeal, first for bishop Continued from Page Nine generous indivict uals who share the light of Christ in this darkened world.

As we prepare for this year's 1993 Catholic Charities Appeal, I thank you all for your efforts in the past, and I ask you tojoin with me in my first effort with this Appeal. If we all work together, all sacrifice together, we can succeed and continue to fund these valuable programs and others which call for our serious concern.

Only love can make sacrifice easy, and perfect love can make it a joy. May your love be perfect and may your sacrifice be a joy.

May the Risen Lord give you the fullness of joy during this Easter season.

Pastoral Care Manifests Christ Discussing the work of the diocesan department of Pastoral Care for the Sick, Father George C. Bellenoit said, "I come to share with you tonight the workings of a very valuable ministry in our diocese, the functioning of which is almost totally dt::pendent on the Catholic Charities Appeal and its success. My words tonight are about pastoral care of the sick, your relatives and friends, and our brothers and sisters."

Father Bellenoit's address follows. .

The reason for pastoral care of the sick is found clearly in the life and ministry of Jesus as he offered comfort, care, and healing to the blind, the deaf, the hemorrhaging, the paralyzed and the feverish. His love and care continue to be evident today in the Church and in the world in many ways, but specifically through e~ch of us, as we reach to embrace those in need, especially the sick and the suffering in body, mind, and spirit.

The Pastoral Care Department of the diocese has humble roots, beginning in 1974 at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River. The department gradually expanded in the late 70s and early 80s to include the establishment of fulltime pastoral care departments in most of the major hospitals in the diocese.

Presently, eight hospitals from Cape Cod to Attleboro enjoy the ministry of fulltime chaplains.

Twelve sister chaplains and eight priest chaplains minister to the spiritual, emotional, and psychological needs of patients, their families, and hospital personnel. Two hundred and ninety-six volunteers, most of whom are special ministers of the Eucharist, assist the chaplains in bringing the Lord's healing strength and comfort to the sick in the Eucharist.

Our hospital chaplains visit the sick regularly in intensive care areas, emergency rooms and rehabilitation and routine patient care areas, celebrating the sacraments of penance, and when appropriate and possible, the anointing of the sick, and Eucharist. Through pray. er, weekly celebration of Mass, and a ministry of listening and presence, chaplains join with other hospital professionals in an interdisciplinary ministry which provides the patient and the family with an atmosphere where the Lord's healing touch can be felt.

During this past year, 164,292 visits were made to the sick in the hospitals of the diocese. As amazing and staggering as this figure may be, what is more important is the personal interaction which took place between God and his people

through the chaplaincy instrument.

We will never know the number of people who are alienated from the church for years and who are given the grace to return to the fold. For many patients, contact with a chaplain is the first contact they have had with the official church. community for a significant period of time.

For other active members ofthe Church, the ministry of the chaplains is an important link for them with the faith community from which sickness has temporarily removed them. Often the dying and their families can be heard remarking about the support they and their loved ones have received from the sister and priest chaplains.

Those afflicted with AIDS, who often feel alienated, experience acceptance and support. Oncology patients and cardiac patients, through a wholistie approach to their care which includes the chaplain, have access to many of the coping tools appropriate to the acceptance. of their illness and necessary life style changes.

Whether the need be in the nursery, caring for the needs of a' seriously ill baby and its family, the trauma room ofthe emergency department following a motorcycle accident, or the bedside of a patient preparing for kidney surgery, the Lord is present through the ministry of chaplains, day and night, seven days a week. Truly, the impact of their presence, their prayers, and their sacramental celebrations is invaluable.

It is not uncommon to hear chaplains and special ministers of the Eucharist remarking that th<;Y-o often feel that the patients whom they visit do more for them than they do for the patients. Yes, ministry works both ways. The sick and suffering frequently have much to teach us, the chaplains, about the mystery of suffering and God's comforting presence in the midst

of their pain. I personally am often humbled by the strong and deep faith of people who are experiencing extreme pain and the anguish of accepting a terminal disease.

Two individuals immediately come to my mind.

The first is a woman about 38 years of age. She is a frequent patient in the hospital due to her severe respiratory distress. She is unable to work or recreate. Most of her waking hours at home and in the hospital are spent dependent on oxygen. Yet, her attitude is one of amazing acceptance. She wears a genuine smile, receives communion regularly, and when asked "How are you doing?" always responds by saying "I'm fine." Her response is genuine and she is a moving example of someone who has accepted and integrated a chronic disease into her lifestyle.

The second is a man also young in age, approximately 45, who is slowly dying of AIDS. ~e contin~ uously, has nausea, difficulty breathing, diarrhea, the sweat.s, and general overall pain and weakness. He is a man of considerable education and enjoys a good conversation when his condition permits. He has accepted death comfortably and willingly shares his faith, and finds great strength in frequently receiving the Eucharist.

Both chaplains and Eucharistic ministers remark that there is something very unique and special about this man who, without complaint or bitterness, accepts the pain of each day while waiting to meet his maker.

These two individuals and the many other patients and families to whom I have ministered over .the years cause me to reflect on what is of real value in life. Is it not faith in the Risen Lord? And is He not the reason for pastoral care?

Yes, pastoral ministry touches the lives of the faithful from birth to death at critical junctures of

MARY AND THE CHRIST CHILD shield the flame of life in this modern icon created fo offer' solace to AIDS patients by Father William McNichols, S1, a former pastoral minister to such patients. Victims inthe Fall River diocese are among those aided by the Catholic Charities Appeal. (CNS photo)

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their lives. Chaplains are trained professionals ministering with their peer professionals mostly in public institutions. Thus there is a coexistence of the Church and the public sector. In this collaborative over the years, respect for the Church and the diocese has grown while the sick have received continuous care.

Another invaluable arm of the Pastoral Care department is the Pastoral Care Education to the Sick program. This program was established six years ago for the purpose of preparing men, women, and religious, for ministry to the sick in their parishes, in hospitals, in nursing homes, and skilled nursing facilities. Over the years that it has been in existence, approximately 160 people have. participated from many geographical areas of the diocese including Martha's Vineyard. The entire parish community are the beneficiaries.

The educational team for the course consists of diocesan sister and priest chaplains, parish priests, and educators from Emmanuel College who are trained in ministry to the sick. A sampling of the topics covered in the twosemester course are sacraments, the church, suffering, loss, grief, and listening skills. This coming September the course will begin its fifth season and we are hoping for a full complement of people interested in developing their skills for ministry.

In conclusion, may I say that the Pastoral Care ministry of our dj~足 cese is a valuable treasure and you and your brothers and sisters are the recip,ients. The amount of money expended, $306,000, in relation to the number of people touched with the healing presence and love of the Lord througg our Catholic chaplaincy in all areas of our diocese is incalculable.

I pray that we may continue to not only maintain but also expand our ministry over the coming years because of the genuine belief, care and dedication of each of you to the Catholic Charities Appeal and its many charitable endeavors.

"Your Sacrifice Will Assure Our Success." ,

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to complete his dream. The dream is to fund the many apostolates in our diocese to enhance the spiritual and physical well-being of as many as possible through the Catholic Charities Appeal - not only to fully fund but, hopefully, to be able to expand these diocesan agencies.

He had Father Freitas put the mechanics ofthe Appeal in motion since he knew the foundation must be in place. This evening Bishop O'Malley is attending his first ground-breaking and will lay the cornerstone so thatthe 1993 Appeal will get off to a.flying start. The district directors will then lay the foundation in their respective areas and you and I, the workers, will go out into the community armed with enthusiasm and determination to make this a most successful Appeal.

We all recognize that this is not an easy challenge. Many of our faithful contributors may feel it difficult to give their usual donation. I urge each of you to explain the pledge method" of payment as an alternative to your special gift contacts and your parish contacts.

Payments may be made monthly, quarterly or semi-an~ually.This is a great means of not straining a budget with a single payment. _ Let's talk about a few of the diocesan apostolates which depend on the funds derived from the Appeal. Family values have been widely discussed during the recent election and in our daily newspapers. I turned to Father Travassos, director of the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry, for a few thoughts on hoW much good work is done for families and in bringing family values to the people of our diocese.

Father Travassos said that over the past year every aspect offamily has benefited from this ministry.

Severalthousand couples were prepared to enter into matrimony through the hundreds of programs which were held in all corners of the diocese. The Office of Family Ministry also reached out to those of our people who have experienced the pain of separation and divorce.

Its ministry to families has also touched the lives ,of those who have experienced the death of a spouse.

Building Castles 'In the year ahead, it is also Following is the address of Mrs. MichaelJ. McMahon, 1993dioce- hoped that programs can be established to respond to the needs of san lay chairman for the Appeal.

First, I wish to thank Bishop the children offamilies fragmented O'Malley and Father Freitas for by separation and divorce as well the singular honor of serving in the as those grieving because of the capacity of lay chairman of this death of a parent or other family year's Catholic Charities Appeal. I member. Father is looking forassure you I do not take this ward to a successful Appeal so responsibility lightly and will work that these important family proto the best of my ability for the grams may continue and, in some instances, be expanded. success of the 1993 Appeal. , In considering other apostolates, I would like to begin with a quotation from Thoreau: "If you have a natural progression for me is to built castles in the air, your work turn to the diocesan pro-life aposneed not be lost. That is where tolate. Father Fernandes, the diocesan director of this apostolate', they should be. Now put foundahas said that prayer is indeed the tions under them."

Many people do dream of build- foundation and motivation of the pro-life apostolate. Without coning their personal castles. In their stant prayer, this central focus of dreams, they hire an architect to the church's mission will not bear draw up the plans, they examine fruit. and approve the blueprints, have We hilVe read of the participathe foundation laid, attend the tion of so many members of our ground-breaking ceremony and lay diocese at the Rally for Life in the cornerstone., They continue to dream that the construction work- , Boston and the March for Life in Washington, DC, and the imporers will then complete the castle tant part Bishop O'Malley played according to specification. at both events. It was inspiring to We have someone with us this see so many clergy and laity from evening, the shepherd Of t~e diothroughout the diocese at the pro~eseof Fall River, who has a different dream but knows it needs all of the aforementioned ingredi.ent~, .~ ..... _ .Turn to Page 16

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Canon law seen in crisis

The Anchor Friday, April 23, 1993

New catechism review board established VATICAN CITY(CNS) - Pope John Paul II has established a Vatican commission to review 4ueStions about the universal catechism and promote its use, Vatican officials said.

Clarificationof any ambiguities is expected to be made in a future Latin text of the catechism. to which all other versions will have to conform. the officials said.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. heads the commission. Its members include other officials of the congregations for doctrine and clergy. the Synod of Rishops and the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. Archbishop Sepe. secretary of the Congregation for Clergy. said so publication of the catechism far only in French. Italian and Spanish had been followed by a great number of observations and 4uestions from experts in the field.

Part of the new commission's work will be to make sure the Latin text. still in preparation. responds to any areas of possible misunderstanding or confusion. he

THIS RAPHAEL-DESIGNED Vatican tapestry, shown undergoing repairs, is noncontroversial, unlike many of .the artist's politically-slanted frescoes. (eNS/ James L. Stanfield photo 漏 1991, National Geographic Society)

Vatican political art mirrors artful papal politics of 16th century

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Ten years after the Code of Canon Law was updated, a leading Vatican official said church law is in crisis - not because the precepts are not good, but because people do not feel bound to follow them.

To improve the situation. pastors have to recognize that governing according to canon law is an essential part of their local ministry. said Bishop Julian Herranz. secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts.

Bishop Herranz's speech opened an April 19-24 International Symposium on Canon Law at the Vatican. The meeting of more than 500 experts was convened to review a decade of experience under the new code, published in 1983.

'Bishop Herranz described the updated code as "pastoral," but said it still faces opposition by those who see all church law as an obstacle to the spontaneity of the faithful and the working of the Holy Spirit.. .

Some view canon law as VIOlating the principle of democracy forgetting that the authority of church law does not rest on "popular sovereignty." he said. Others in the church have been affected by the prevailing trend toward moral relativism in society, he said.

All this has helped fuel a "crisis of obedience to canonical norms." making it d.ifficult for church law to guide personal cond uct and relations among the faithful, he said. The sense that church law is obligatory has been weakened, he said.

Bishop Herranz said pastors need totake the lead in remedying the situation. That means overcoming the artificial antagonism between canon law and路 pastoral care, he said.

The new code, by emphasizing such principles as the fundamental equality of all the faithful and other teachings of the Second Vatican Council, clearly has a pastoral spirit. he said. Yet this has been insufficiently understood. even by some ordained ministers. he said.

The governing role of a bishop. for example. is just as essential as his tasks of teaching and sanctifying - but this is sometimes obscured by "pastoralist demagogy" in the church. he said.

Bishop Herranz said the code has been generally well-received by bishops around the world; but in order for it to be better accepted and understood. every bishop should further study the pastoral nature of church law, he said.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Anticipating events, Raphael Many popes well-versed in the art and his students finished the work of politics were also experts in the in 1517. politics of art.

It proved to be a political disasThey decorated waiting rooms ter for the papacy. and dining halls with paintings Maximilian died in 1519. Dedepicting their outlook on tem~ spite papal lobbying, Maximilian's poral events. grandson, Charles V, was chosen Some of the best known works by the electors. Charles V was the survived the centuries and can be most powerful European ruler in seen today in the Vatican musethe first half of the 16th century. ums. They range from triumphal His choice as emperor added wide battle scenes of Christian armies stretches of Central Europe to the vanquishing pagan enemies to lands he already ruled as king of subtle allusions to political pacts.

Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands The art recalls eras when popes and most of the New World. were also secular rulers of central Charles, a staunch Catholic, was Italy and had armies and artists at angered by the papal opposition, their command. but bided his time. Then, in 1527 In Renaissance times, one of the when his troops were in Italy fightbest fusions of politics and art ing the French, his army ravaged combined the ideas of Pope Leo X Rome for nine months. About with the talents of Raphael, a giant 4,000 people died, convents were in his field. violated, churches defiled and the Pope Leo ruled from 1513 to Vatican library pillaged. The events 1521 and was no stranger to the art became known as the Sack of Prayer day for youth world. His given name was GioRome.

CHICAGO(CNS)- TheCath- vanni de Medici, a member of the The fresco was damaged but not Florentine family which paid for olic Church Extension Society is destroyed. sponsoring the fifth annual Day of the training of Raphael and most Raphael and Leo X had died Prayer for the Faith of Our Chil- of the other famous Italian artists several years earlier. But Charles of the Renaissance. dren April 25. at least .had the satisfaction of Raphael and his students were The day is set aside for Cathohumiliating another member of li"cs nationwide to pray for Ameri- already painting frescoes in papal the Medici family, Pope Clement ca's young people, according to apartments when Pope Leo was VII. Father Edward J. Slattery. presi-' elected, and the new pope conAnother fresco is of the victory dent of the Chicago-based Exten- tinued their services. in 849 of Leo IV over the Saracens Raphael used allegory to con- at Ostia, a seaport city outside sion Society, who established the vey the politics of Pope Leo. He prayer day.

Rome. Again the face is of Leo X "Many young people are faced depicted historical scenes. But on and the allusion is to his declarawith more destructive forces than the historical personages he placed tion of a crusade against the Turks, their parents and grandparents ever the faces of the pope and his anticipating a victory that did not had to consider when they were contemporaries. come about in the pope's lifetime.

One room is dedicated to events . young, such as drugs, alcohol and Church politics was also fair promiscuity. We must both pray in the lives of previous popes game for art. and act because the greatest num- named Leo. The Self-Defense of Leo III The most politically pointed ber of poor people in America are shows the pope swearing an oath fresco shows the coronation 111800 to God in rebuttal to charges made children," he said.

Church leaders throughout the of Charlemagne as Holy Roman against him by nephews of his country have expressed support Emperor by Pope Leo III. The predecessor, Pope Adrian I. Again for the idea of praying for young face of Charlemagne is that of the face belongs to Leo X and the French King Francis I and the face . work is a warning to his ecclesial people. .

To celebrate the day of prayer, of the pope is that of Leo X. critics. The scene - with appropThe reference is to a 1515 meetFather Slattery will celebrate a riate Latin inscription - alludes路 Mass to be televised by the Eternal ,ing between King Francis and Leo to the 1516 Lateran Council deciWord Television Network at 2 X when the two agreed upon sion that the pope answers only to p.m., EDT. The Mass will be pre- church-state relations in France.

God for his actions. ceded at I:30 p.m. by a program Part of the pact was papal support Missing from all these frescoes featuring five young Catholics dis- for Francis as Holy Roman Emare scenes pointing out that Leo cussing their views offaith and the peror at the death of the incumIII and Leo IV are saints. bent, Emperor Maximilian.

Catholic Church:' .

Leo X is not.

The catechism was first written in French, and Cardinal Ratzinger referred to that text as "definitive" in a presentation last December.

Rut Vatican officials say the Latin translation. once completed. will be the modcl text for all modernlanguage versions of the catechism.

"The Latin will be the edition to be used as a point of reference when problems arise. All the translations. including the French. will have to conform to this text." said Msgr. Rafaello Martinelli, a doctrinal congregation official and a member of the new commission.

Msgr. Martinelli said the commission would also promote the universal catechism as a model for national catechisms worldwide. He said the commission's f~mnation illustrated that the catechism's publication was a "starting point." not the end of the project.

Catholic-Jewish pioneer dies WASHINGTON (CNS) escaped from them twice, once in Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher, 89, Vienna and again in Paris." Msgr. a Catholic convert from Judaism Higgins added. and a world pioneer in Catholic. He was a prolific writer and Jewish relations. died of a heart apologist whose works ranged from multivolume tomes to hundreds of attack April 18 at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. N.J.. essays, magazine' articles.and letwhere he had been admitted two ters to the editor - the latter often weeks earlier for surgery for cancer to The New York Times. of the colon.

Born Feb. 2. 1904, in Moravia.

Msgr. Oesterreicher was one of then part of the Austro-Hungarian the chief architects of the section Empire, John M. Oesterreicher on Judaism in "N ostra Aetate." converted to Catholicism while he the Second Vatican Council declawas studying medicine at the Uniration on other religions. which versity of Vienna 1922-24. In 1924 he entered the Theological College started a new era of understanding between Catholics and Jews. of the University of Graz, and in In 1953 he founded the Institute 1927 he was ordained a priest. The of Judaeo-Christian Studies at following year he earned an adSeton Hall University, South vanced degree in theology from Orange, the first institute of its the University of Vienna. kind in the world and a model for others that followed. He remained its director until his death and was a distinguished university profesWARSAW, Poland (CNS) sor and scholar in residence at the The World Jewish Congress has university. 'said it is considering "decisive His last public appearance was steps" following the failure of Poat a March 21 celebration of the land's Catholic Church to move a institute's 40th anniversary. controversial Carmelite convent Msgr. George G.Higgins. a felfrom the site of the former Nazi low pioneer in Catholic-Jewish concentration camp at Auschwitz. relati0ns. called M sgr. OesMeanwhile, the Vatican congreg~颅 terreicher "a scholar of the first tion which oversees religious orders rank, a man of great personal has written the bishop of the charm and integrity and. not least. Auschwitz area saying that the a man of great personal courage. nuns should move to their new "An enemy of Hitler, he was quarters at 'a nearby interfaith pursued by the Gestapo and center.

Move delayed

Convent issue settlement termed helpful ROME (CNS) - The apparent settlement of the Auschwitz convent controversy is a "very. very helpful step" toward reconciling Jewish and Polish Catholic memories of the Holocaust. said Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore. president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The archbishop commented after Pope John Paul II wrote the Carmelite nuns at Auschwitz. Poland. urging them to move to a new interfaith center outside the former Nazi death camp. Local church leaders said the nuns would leave their current convent. as foreseen in an earlier agreement.

Archbishop Keeler said the solution was in keeping with recent efforts by the Polish church to better understand Jewish history in Poland.

Last year. he accompanied a Catholic-Jewish delegation to Auschwitz and discussed 'the convent and related issues with Polish Catholics and Jews.

At that time. Archbishop Keeler said. one Polish Jewish leader explained that Jewish and Polish Catholic survivors of the Nazi camps have their own set of memories. and over the years they've grown further and further apart about what occurred.

Resolving the Carmelite convent issue helps bridge this gap. Archbishop Keeler said.

"What's beginning to happen now is a reconciliation of memories. and the removal of the convent issue as an obstacle to the reconciliation process is a very. very helpful step." he said.

He said he hoped the interfaith center would become a new focus of attention and cooperation between Catholics and Jews. At least some of the Carmelite nuns were expected to take up residence at the' center. which will offer meetings. courses and other programs on the Holocaust.

Archbishop Keeler said the Polish bishops' conference had shown extraordinary leadership in trying to sensitize Catholics to Jewish concerns and history. He cited a recent message to all Polish parishes marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. a pastoral letter on relations with Jews and new seminary education programs on the Jewish role in Polish history.

At the samc time. he said. the Polish church is conterned about "anti-Poland" attitudes that ignore the positive experiences of Jews in pre-World War II Poland. There also should be awareness of the great suffering endured by Poles in the war. he said.

Vatican seeks unity VATICAN CITY (CNS)- The Vatican is committed to the search for unity with the Anglican Communion and to the pastoral care of Anglicans who may want to join the Catholic Church, says a spokesman. Respecting the freedom of conscience of those Anglicans who do not believe their church has the authority to validly ordain women priests "is not an obstacle to the ecumenical journey," said Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

He said that discussions with Anglicans who want to leave their church are being handled by the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

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Do we pass like tourists through our surroundings?

By Father Eugene Hemrick Hordes of tourists are besieging Washington. D.C. this spring. standing in awe before the magnificent monuments. Teenagers rush to the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution while others meander over to the Capitol and its beautiful rotunda. and lines several blocks long form at the White House.

When these tourists return home. how many will have noticed or will remember the inscriptions on the famous monuments and buildings?

To miss them is really to miss the meaning of the city. which has a way ofcommunicating many important lessons about what makes a person and country great.

A bronze plaque at the Naval Monument pictures women holding their children and waving to husbands boarding a ship. "They who wait also serve." its inscription reads - a lesson in solidarity. a reminder of how vital it is to be with another in thought.

But more than that. for me this plaque turns upside down the notion that waiting is a passive activity. as those who have waited at the bedsides of sick children or friends know from experience.

I was reminded by Admiral David Farragut's words - " Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

- that total self-abandonment is sometimes the way to face and overcome danger or anxiety.

On the FBI building I read these words by Theodore Roosevelt: "To waste, to destroy our natural resources. to skin and exhaust the land ... will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which ought by right to be handed down to them amplified and developed."

To champion ecology, it seems. is an older cause than we think.

Isn't it time to take it more seriously?

An inscription attributed to John Adams _reads. "There is no real glory in this world or any other but as arises from. wisdom and knowledge." Here is a reminder of the power of good education. The inscription affirms the sacrifice of parents who. often at great ex pense. send children to school or continue their own education as adults.

Abraham Lincoln reminds us.

"N 0 man is good enough to gove(n another man without that other's consent." For anyone in charge of others, Lincoln's insight paves the road to mutual collaboration and greater effectiveness.

Inscribed under a statue at the nation's Archives, one reads, "What is past is prologue" - beautifully summing lip the reason to study history and to remember the past.

Another inscription advocates the quality of c1earsightedness needed to practice the true virtue of prudence: "The Constitution is not honored by blind worship; the more open-eyed we be.come. as a nation, to its defects ... the nearer will we approach the sound and practical genius of the great and honorable statesmen of 1787."

Here is a reminder to squarely face our problems and to avoid denial when they seem overwhelming.

These inscriptions are a few found within just a small part of Washington. So'me no doubt will say. "This is good to know. bur I may never get to Washington."

Which leads me to suggest that the next time you enter a church you look around it. Many churches are filled with inscriptions addressing both human and divine wisdom.

Unfortunately. we sometimes act like tourists in our own surroundings, moving through places too quickly and missing the powerful messages around us not only for living wisely but for experiencing a blessed lifl~.

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'By Charlie Martin

ANGEL

By Christopher Carstens It seemed like such an oldfashioned question, coming from one so young. Still, there David sat, with his handsome 14~year­ old face as serious as it could be, and he said he was really concerned. "Was it a sin when I joined a gang?"

The question confused me because teens don't usually ask their therapists about sin.

I can hardly remember what I said. Probably it was some dumb psychologist answer like, "I don't know for sure. What do you think?"

But I spent the next week thinking about what he had asked.

When I was a kid, the nuns told us that "Jesus cries when you commit a sin." Does Jesus cry when a kid joins a gang?

I think maybe he does. It isn't because David's choice was immoral. It's because a teen who joins a gang has been let down by the people who should have given him better choices.

When a teenager joins a gang, it's because there's a sense of acceptance and membership that he or she can't find anywhere else.

'The sad fact is that many families don't support each other the way they need t6. Sometimes it's. because the economic realities keep' parents at work for long hours, leaving nobody at home,to supervise the kids. ' Other families have tragically believed that there's absolutely nothing they can do, so they just let the kids go their own way.

David goes out at night, and nobody says anything. When a family lets a 14-year-old boy go off into the night to steal, use drugs

and maybe get, killed - when noboby has the energy and will to stop him - I think maybe Jesus cries. ' Where aTe the schools and communities? In most cities, as soon as classes are over in the afternoon, the schools become silent empty buildings. School activities and community recreation programs have been forced out of existence because the money that supported them just went away.

David says there's nothing else to do, and he's telling the truth.

When a city provides its teens with no alternatives to mindless violence, those kids have been poorly served.

And where is the church? In my community, many members of gangs are Latino, Filipino and Vietnamese. Almost all of those kids come from Catholic families.

Why wasn't anybody from David's parish working with him, keeping him involved in activities that would build his community up, rather than letting him hang out with the group that's tearing it down? ", When everybody around him has given up hope, no wonder David goes with the gang.

Our families, our schools, our communities and even ourchurches haye all ,done the same thing.

They've decided that nothing can be done to save David and his friends from the streets. They've given up trying, and they just hope that in some way those ~ids will come out OK.

I carry the future And stilI want to hold you close Right now I need that from you So give the morning Sharing another day with you Is all I want to know And baby, I tried to forget you But the light of your eyes stilI shines You shine like an angel A spirit that won't let go I did want to tell you The things I don't want to know myself Was afraid to show You gave me a reason Reason to face the truth o yes you did To face the truth, Face the truth, face the truth ,Written by Jon Secada and Miguel A, Morejon.

Sung by Jon Secada (c) 1992 by FBK Records AS THE saying goes, "When of the future includes the desire "to hold you close" while "sharyou're hot you're hot!" And Jon Secada is sizzling when it ing another day with you." ,Could this "truth" be somecomes to music. "Angel" is his thing painful about himself or third straight release to reach the charts off his debut disc. perhaps a way that he has acted The combination of piano, which hurt his girlfriend or their love? strings and Secada's outstand. 'If so, then this song builds ing vocal ability take this rehope that we can move beyond cording to "hit" s.tatus.

The song descnbes the power those problems that spill over of hope. For the guy in the into our relationships.

For example, what if the song, his girl is an "angel" who "gave me a reason ... to face the "truth" has to do with the guy's truth." . lack of direction in life.This girl The song doesn't clarify the might hesitate to get involved cu~rent s~at.e of their rel.at!onwith a guy who lacks purpose ship. Yet It IS clear that hIS Idea and self-motivation.

Being hooked"up with someone who isjust drifting through life doesn't lead to the satisfaction and meaning that most people seek in a long-term relationship.

Yet, if a relationship becomes dear to us, we are more likely to examine these behaviors that ,are sabotaging love. This do~sn't !mply that we should change Just to please someone else. In fact, the best genuine motivat,ion for change always comes from within.

However, we may li~e in denial of our problems until something or someone is about to be lost. Faced with the possibility of loss, we grow in awareness of the truth of our behavior. We can no longer have it both ways.

Either we work at change or encounter significant loss and hurt. .

When this is the case, name directly what it is about yourself that must change. Bring others into your life who will help you change. Seek their guidance and support. Design a clear action plan about how this will occur.

However, be realistic. There are no magic wands, so the only alternative is patient and persistent effort, including how you can learn from those occasions when you fail to reach your new goal.

Most of us need "angels" in our lives to help us become more the person we want to be.

Whether this angel is a parent or a trusted adult, sibling, friend or dating partner, his or her caring brings out the best in us.

Our 'partis to d'o the work -that turns hope into reality.

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Youth ministy eLI week set for June The Diocesan Office for Catho- Holy Name parish, Fall River, is lic Youth Ministry (OYM) will spiritual director. Team members sponsor the sixth annual Christian are: Carl Bordman, Our Lady of Leadership'lnstitute June 27 to Fatima parish, Swansea; Joan CutJuly 2 at' Cathedral Camp, East tie, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Freetown.

Sister Beth Henken, MSBT and This intense yet fun-filled learn- Diane Zine, St. Patrick, Wareham; ing experience seeks to provide an Frank Lucca, St. Dominic, Swanopportunity'for young people to _sea; Fath~r Greg Mathias, Corpus develop leadership and ministry Christi, Sandwich; Bernadette skills. Throughout the week, youth Sylvia and Sister MariannaSylparticipants and adult team mem- vester, RSM, Our Lady of the bers' will be challenged to share Assumption, New Bedford; Father insights and knowledge, fostering Doug Sousa, Espirito Santo, Fall one another's learning experience ,River; and Chris Tanguay, OYM. in both large and small group Lisa Kelly and Leona Braley of the settings. ' ' OYM will b~,program coordinaFive workshop sessions will cover tor and support staffJor the week. leadership styles, communicatio'n, As in the past, CLI is open to group dynamics" consensus seek- high school age youth from dioceing and planning; small group ses- 'san parishes and high schools. sions will deal with prayer, comParticipation is limited to 60 perm).lnity building, morality, youth - sons. Brochures and registrat'ion ministry and affirmation. forms were mailed in mid-March The prog.ram team consists of to youth m,inisters, religious edu.14 speci~lly t~ained adults, i~c!ud- cators and parish priests and the I~g lay myn .and wpm~n, relIgIous. registration deadline is May 14. slste~s,!-n~.9Io_cesan pnests: Fa.ther For further information or addiDaVid CO,sta of th.e OYM I~ dlrec~ tional-brochures, contact the youth tor and .Father JIm Mede!ros of ministry office at 763-3137.

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. OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS: At Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, science fair wmners are (top photo, from JeftÂť Danielle R~sconi, Devon Shimkus, Julie Beals, James Boyle, Peter Fletcher, Jeffrey Tenney. Tandy .Tec~nology-S,cholars are seniors (from left) Amanda Terra, Kathleen McGlynn and Melame Rogers and teacher Sister Mary Catherine ' Burns, S USc.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Apr. 23, 1993

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OUR LADY OF LOURDES School, Taunton, held its annual science and art fair April 12 to 15 .. Fourth and fifth grade winners are pictured above. All winners are listed below.

Robert Thompson, Janelle Grundy, Science Fair Grade 4 (pictured. top left): Julie Nelson De Barros.

Grade 5 (pictured, top right): Gilbert and Danielle Miller, second place; Bernadette Amaral, first Greg Perry, first; Sarah Kelly and place. Third place winners are- Cynthia Festa, second. Placing FIEST A: Brother Edwin Morales, FFI, of Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford, a native of Puerto Rico, was a special . guest at a fiesta culminating the study of that country by fourth graders at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River. Joining Brother Morales in sampling Puerto Rican foods are Geneva Szulweski and Jesse Mello.

The celebration was held in the parishhall, deeorated with palm trees, Puerto Rican items and a "marketplace." Brother Morales spoke about religion and culture in Puerto Rico and students sang a Spanish song.

The program was organized by fourth grade teacher Douglas Medeiros; who incorporates science facts, vocabulary, math skills, religion and other aspects into class study of various states and countries.

This photo was mistakenly included with information published in the Apri/16 Anchor about a Passover seder at SS. Peter and Paul.

third are Michael Botelho, Lisa Moitoso, Nicholas Miller.

Art Fair Kindergarten: Nicole Rogers, first; Briana Balboni, Brittany Pacheco, second; Kyle Caetano, Brian Riccio, Tracy Pelletier, third.

Grade I: Sonia Rocha, first; Paul Myers, Elizabeth Cordeiro, second; Derek Lima, Carlos Silva, Kevin Correia, third.

Grade 2: Isabelle De Barros, first; Christopher De Sousa, Keith ~igeon, se-eend; Jama I:;-oDico, Nathan Gomes, Brian Costa, third.

Grade 3: Nicole Pereira, first; Steven Botelho, Monica Vieira, second; David Monty, Andrea Caetano, Kevin Duarte, third.

Grade 4 (pictured, bottom left): Danielle Miller and Janelle Grundy, second; Robert Thompson, first. Third place winners are Nelson De Barros, Nicholas Vieira an'd Justin Manganero.

Grade 5 (pictured, bottom right): Sarah Kelly and Sergio Lagneau, second; Cynthia Festa, first. In third place are Michael Botelho, . Lisa Moitoso, Nicholas Miller. .

Bishop Connolly Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, seniors Mike Donnellv of Somerset, Pedro Fernandes ~f Fall River and Jen Osborne of Tiverton, RI, were recently named Fall River Herald News AIl-Scholastic Indoor Track Athletes.

Donnelly, a senior captain and two-time Eastern Athletic Conference all~star, capped off a remarkable season with a 9:42.6 finish at the New England meet, just 1.6 seconds shy of the school record.

He averaged 10 points in each dual meet and was unbeaten in the 600, 1,000, and the two-mile. In the two-mile he was tops in the EAC, EAC-SCC and Class D meets and fifth in the All-State Meet.

Fernandes, a first-time EAC allstar, was unbeaten during the dualmeet season in the 50-yard hurdles and lost only once in the 50-yard dash. In the hurdles, he captured first. place at the EAC Meet and second in the EAC-SCC and Class C meets.

Miss Osborne, also an EAC allstar, was the winner of the twomile in the EAC and EAC-SCC meets. She placed third in the Class D Meet, eighth in the AllState Meet and fourth in the AllNew England Meet.

Three Connolly seniors were recognized as Tandy Technology Scholars. Elizabeth Sisson received a certificate as an outstanding math/ computer/ science student, and Stephanie Schuller and Catherine Torphy received certificates for academic excellence as members of the top 2 percent of their class.

Tandy honored 23,259 graduating seniors and also teachers nominated by schools nationwide.

M()vies Recent box office hits

1. Cop and a Half, A-II (PG) 2. The Adventures of Huck Finn, A·II (PG) 3. The Crush, (No Classification) (R) 4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, A-II (PG) 5. Born Yesterday, A-III (PG) 6. Point of No Return, 0 (R) 7. The Crying Game, A-IV (R) 8. Unforgiven, A-IV (0) 9. Jack the Bear, A-III (PG-13) 10. Groundhog Day, A-II (PG)

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: At-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

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Bishop Stang The Bishop Stang drama club will present "Damn Yankees" May 6, 7 and 8 in the auditorium of the North Dartmouth high school Performances have also been scheduled for local elementary students, whose teachers will be given in advance a synopsis of the production and vocabulary words introduced in the play.

Cast members are Mark Che' kares, Amber Murphy, Kevin Grant, Kara Roth, Ian Heim·begner, Kelly Wilbur, Charlene Aubin, Scott Waite, Brian Santo!i and Jodie Zukowski.

Angela Paquin is director and Suzanne Christie is musical director. Wendy Hall is choreographer, and Gary Rego is artistic director.

Video technology has been employed in rehearsal sessions, enabling cast members to critique their performances.

For further information, contact 'Bishop Stang High School at 996-5602.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Ri~er-Fri., Apr. 23: 1993

SUMMER MINISTRY EXPERIENCE The Sisters of S1. Joseph of Springfield will sponsor a summer ministry experience for individuals age 20 or older July 10 to July 25 at Holyoke, Springfield, Worcester and Providence, RI, sites.

Volunteer opportunities include working with the homeless, elderly, or incarcerated women; serving in a food pantry or shelter; or coordinating Bible and recreational youth - programs.

For information contact Sister Maryanne Guertin, SSJ, Mont Marie, Holyoke, (413) 536-0853 ext.

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LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing service led by Brother Armand Binette, MS, 2 p.m. Sunday. Service will include opportynity for individuals to be prayed over and anointed.

ST. ANTHONY of the DESERT, FR May crowning after II a.m. Mass May 2. Exposition of Blessed Sacrament will follow until 6 p.m. with holy hour 5 to 6 p.m., St. Sharbel Chapel, 300 North Eastern Ave. ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Father David Landry and Sister Annette Bibeau, pastoral ministers at Morton Hospital, Taunton, seek volunteers to serve as extraordinary eucharistic ministers; those interested may inform Msgr. Thomas Harrington or Sister Beth Mahoney.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CA THOLICS, ATTLEBORO Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

Sunday, St. Mary's rectory, N. Attleboro.

CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAS Meeting II a.m. April 27, Our Lady of the Cape parish center, Brewster. Officers will be elected.

Information: 896-5645; 394-8737.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Women's Guild invites guild members and parishioners from area parishes to living rosary 7 p.m. May II. Serra Club will attend Mass for deceased members April 26.

EMMANUEL COLLEGE CAPE COD ALUMNAE CLUB Spring social and luncheon noon May I, Tara Hyannis Hotel and Resort. Speaker will be New Bedford Mayor Rosemary Tierney, Class of '53. Information: Jeanne Gaffney Costello, 428-5118.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Easter egg hunt Sunday; participants meet in parish center II a.m.

SACRED HEART, FR Judy Correia, recently elected president of the women's guild, and nine officers will be installed at 45th anniversary banquet 6:30 p.m. May 3, Venus deMilo Restaurant.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER "Parenting as a Peacemaking Profession" 2 to 4 p.m. -Sunday, parish center.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Marian concert by Nicolai Lomov May I; information: 695-5248.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLlCS, NB Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

April 26, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth, with professional storyteller Deacon John Welch.

LaSALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO "Contemplative Retreat: The Journey Homeward" April 30 to May 2, facilitated by Sister Elaine Twitchell, SND, will explore how the mystery of God's love through intimacy with Christ can transform us. Discussion of great mystics, private reflection time and question period included. Sister Twitchell works in the fields of lay ministry enrichment, religious education, spiritual direction and retreats. Family Retreat May 14 to 16: a weekend of quality time to live and share together as a family. Information: 222-8530.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet, confirmation retreat April 25.

ST. ANNE, FR St. Anne novena service 3 p.m.

Sunday, shrine, followed by healing service until 5 p. m.

EMMAUS/GALILEE Emmaus 97 April23 to 25, Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown; palanca room open after 7 p.m. Mass at St. John Neumann Church. ClosingMass 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Neumann Hall; palanca will be collected for a mini-Emmaus retreat to be held in Las Vegas, NV.

BOYS TOWN, Neb. (CNS) Effective ministry with youth from different cultures is rooted in understanding the cultural issues facing those youth, according to experts who addressed a recent national symposium at Boys Town.

"You have to pay attention to cultural differences if you hope to reach young people," Nsenga Warfield-Coppock told people at a recent symposium on fostering spiritual growth among youth.

Ms. Warfield-Coppock, a Washington psychologist, said those ministering to African-Americans must remember that they have an African perspective on the world.

"Just because we are no longer in Africa does not mean we are not Africans," she said. The "African belief system" centers on the essential interdependence of all people and things in the universe, she added.

Ms. Warfield-Coppock, author of "Transformation: A Rites of Passage Manual for African-AmerST. JOHN EV ANGELIST, ican Girls," stressed that young ATTLEBORO people should know their family Ladies Guild annual banquet 6:30 history and cultural background. p.m. May 19, Theodore's Landing, "We should teach our young Plainville. Entertainment by Harpeople to identify and celebrate monettes of Attleboro. Reservations: Janet Collette, 222-6343, by May 14. those things unique to their culture," she said. Rites of passage BUILDING BLOCK are important because they impart MINISTRIES sacred history, help young people Tony Medeiros and a team from to know God and enable people to Building Block Ministries will present large screen TV program "Rock bond with others, she said. and Its Role" 7 p.m. April 28, TaunBefore people can effectively ton Catholic Middle School. reach out to Asian-American SACRED HEARTS RETREAT youth, they must "understand the CENTER, WAREHAM cultural issues facing these youth," Engaged Couples Weekend May said the Rev. Don Ng, director of 7 to 9. Marriage Weekend May 28 to the Department of Education for 30. Information: Joe and Maureen Discipleship of American Baptist Habershaw, (401) 723-7975.

Educational Minis.tries in Valley Forge, Pa. "Asian-American youth represent a great mosaic," said Mr. Ng. "There are Burmese, Cambodian, Remembering the birthday card Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Japaand applying it to the Appeal, I nese, Korean, Laotian;Thai, Vietbelieve that in the same way as I namese and others. Each has a disshow Michael's picture, you and I tinct culture, language and history. have to bring the Catholic Chari"Culture also sets Asian-Amerities Appeal to the eyes and ears of can youth apart from American the community and show everyone youth," he said. "The Asian ancesthe good and vital work that is tral culture may serve to keep accomplished throughout the dio-' youth closely connected to those cese by our many apostolates. specific cultural values 'at the We have been cautioned by the media not to donate to charities without knowing how the money is disbursed. When you take this week's Anchor home tonight, you will-see a listing of where and how the 1992 Appeal money was used.

Please cut this out and bring it with you as 'You go to your designated contacts. Personal contact is the best means of communication -and you will impress people if you know your subject and can answer questions regarding distribution of the funds.

I accept the challenge of working to make this a successful Appeal and I ask you to join with me in accepting this challenge. , I conclude with a few words from Hebrews, verse 10, chapter 6: "God ... will not forget your work and the love you have shown him by your service past and present to his holy people."

52ndAppeal, first for bishop gram resettled five persons: three from Liberia and two from Vietlife Mass celebrated at St. Mary's nam. Several families from VietCathedral on March 25, the sonam, Thailand and Ghana are on lemnity of the Annunciation. the waiting list to enter the counBishop O'Malley delivered a try. This program operated on a beautiful homily during this Mass. no-fee basis.

I was especially impressed by his Catholic Social Services conreminder that the Catholic church tinues to sponsor on its premises is not anti anything - that we are for three days a week the Fall for life and respect for.all human River Community Soup Kitchen life. with volunteers coordinated by St. Some of our brothers and sisters Patrick's parish. Apprpximately are hurting. -I asked a friend of 100-150 persons are fed each day. long-standing, Father Graziano, There are several more programs the director of the Diocesan De- sponsored by the Catholic Social partment of Catholic Social ServServices as outlined. in' their pamices, how his department has re- _phlet which has on the cover page spondedto the needs of these these words from Isaiah: "All you people. who thirst come to the waters..."

Father Peter shared a great deal Time does not allow a reflection of information with me. I didn't on all of our diocesan apostolates, realize how many aspects of life but know that all the directors Catholic social services touch, care share Bishop O'Malley's dream. for and reach out a loving hand to.

The last thought I would like to I will mention a few of the proshare with you is regarding comgrams: munication and a birthday card I • In 1992 the counseling pro- received from my grandson a few gram handled 499 cases in 3,574 years ago. It read "Happy birthday to my grandmother." Expectsessions.

• The pregnancy services pro- ing a flowery verse telling me how gram, operated on a no-fee basis, great a grandmother I really am, I cared for 59 women and their opened the card and was startled to read "who even shows my picfamilies.

• Eight children were placed for ture to perfect strangers."

I sheepishly have to admit that adoption. There were 21 approved couples on the waiting list of the is true and, yes, I still have a picture with me at all times! (I can adoption program.

• Sixteen children were in foster introduce you to Michael in percare for a total of 486 days. The son this evening tiS he is here with foster care program had nine li- his mother, my son-in-law, relacensed foster homes and operated tives and friends to make up my private cheering section - thank on a no-fee basis.

I was particularly interested to you for attending this evening's see that the refugee services pro- program.)

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Cultural issues important, youth ministers told

Also on Program Wednesday night's program began with a reception and informal greeting of Bishop O'Malley. A gathering song and Evening Prayer service were led by Father David Costa and Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan vicar general, offered the closing prayer.

expense of not being included in the larger American culture."

Asian-American youth must also contend with self-image problems due to the lack of Asian role models in movies, television and sports.

"The mass media often unfavorably portray Asian-Americans as drug dealers, martial arts villains, gang members and prostitutes," Mr. Ng said.

People from different cultures must learn to live together and in harmony with God, said the Rev. Reaves Nahwooks, pastor of the Indian Community Church in Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. Many ,problems between people are the result of misunderstandings, he said, with some people thinking of Native Americans as second-class people primarily because they think and act differently. , "One of the biggest differences is we do not speak the same language," he said, adding that the 1.9 million Indians in the United States belong to nearly 300 tribes, each with its own language.

Different perceptions and beliefs form different value systems, he said, with young Native Americans experiencing confusion when attempting to deal with two value systems - tribal customs and "Western thinking."

"One of the differences worth mentioning is that the tribal system recognizes age as important because of the wisdom that comes with age. In Western thinking, youth is emphasized because young people are the future leaders and will be important in the world ahead," said Mr. Nahwooks, a Comanche who grew up in Oklahoma.

Sister Veronica Mendez, direc7 tor of a Hispanic ministry program at Mundelein Seminary in the archdiocese of Chicago, discussed Hispanic spirituality and its implications for fostering growth in youth.

"Whenever Hispanics are asked to list their 10 most important values, the family always comes first," Sister Mendez said, but "in the U.S., Hispanics see money as being valued No. I by many people," he said.

GREETING MEMBERS and guests at the annual Bishop's Night of New Bedford Catholic Woman's Club are, from left. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley; Mrs. Joanne P. Long, club president; Rev. John P. Driscoll, moderator; and Miss Marguerite A. Ronan, first vice president.