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CHARITIES APPEAL leaders: from left, Charles Rozak, lay chairman; Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan administrator; Father Daniel L. Freitas, Appeal director. (Hickey photo)
51st Appeal underway The 51 st annual Catholic Chari- that the work of the Diocesan Pro,ties Appeal was launched Wed- 'Life Apostolate be brought to our nesday evening with a gathering at attention this evening as we launch Bishop Connolly High School,Fall our 51 st Catholic Charities Appea!. River; ofclergy, religious and laity " The theme' of this' year's Appeal, from all areas of the diocese. ~'Be 'as generous as God has been On the slate of speakers were . to you," is a poignant reminder Diocesan Administrator Msgr. that everything we have, especially Henry T. Munroe; Appeal Direc- the precious gift of life, is given by tor Father Daniel L. Freitas; God himself. How tragic it is when Charles T. Rozak, lay chairman of so many who have received this the Appeal; and Marian Desrosi- gift of life try to deny it to the ers ofthe Diocesan Pro-Life Apos- innocent unborn; and how joyful tolate, one of the organizations it is when committed people of all benefiting from the Appeal. religions raise their voices in defense of the unborn. Mission of Evangelization _"Ail of us here this evening are In his address, Msgr. Munroe _celebrating the great festival ,of summarized achievements of last Easter. It is the feast of life during year's Appeal and outlined this which we recall the suffering, death year's needs, stressing the Appeal's and resurrection of, the Lord of "mission of evangelization." Life. His death destroyed the power Crediting his predecessors, ofsin and restored us all to new life Bishop James E. Cassidy, 'who in Him. I am sure that each of us began the Appeal 5 f years ago; has reflected' on the beauty of the Bishop James L. Connolly; and Church's liturgical rites during now-Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin, these days. In many of our parish Msgr. Munroe said, "In 1992, it is churches throughout the diocese paramount that the, traditions of these riteshave been celebrated in the past and the needs of the pres- the presence of catechumens and ent be met. As the people of God in candidates who entered into full the diocese of Fall River await the communion with the Holy Cathoappointment of a new bishop, we 150 d I f a u ts rom must fulfill the role to which we lic Church. Nearly over a'dozen of our parishes rehave been called - to evangelize ceived the sacraments of initiation by deed, ministry,' and service to at the Easter Vigil this year. our brothers and sisters." -, "This great sign ofthe:vitality of Recognizing his fellow meeting the faith in our own diocese is ,speakers, Msgr. Munroe noted based on the p'rayer and work of that, "I take special note of those, many people. Priests, catechists, here on the stage this evening: sponsors,' godparents, and the Father Daniel L. Freitas, Dioce- 'faithful Catholic in the pew all san Director of the Appeal, arid the other priest-area directors who work- together to make the mesh collaborate with him in this vital sage of the Gospel known to t ose who have not yet heard about-the work. I greet Mr. Charles Rozak, Lord Jesus. Because God has been who serves as the 1992 Lay Chairman of the Appeal, and his lovely generous in giving the gift of faith wife. Likewise, I thank Mrs. Marian Desrosiers,' a member of our Diocesan Pro-Life Committee, for her inspiring words regarding the apostolate for life which is assisted through the Charities Appeal."It' is particularly, appropriate
to us - priests, deacons, religious, and laity ~ we are able to share generously the faith with others; Because of this generous giving, there is an increase in faith, both for the one who gives arid for the' one who receives. . "F 0'[ over 50 years, the work of the Catholic Charities Appeal has provided much of the financial support for the apostolic endeavors of the dioce~ of Fall River. In a very real sense, this cooperative effort is evangelization. It provides the means which helps fund our diocesan offices and ministries. Each year, under the direc'tion of dedicated parish priests, thousands of parish-based volunteers give their time and effort to canvass the entire diocese on Catholic Charities Appeal Sunday and to make the follow-up calls. Many here this . evening have been an important this mission, and I takepart this ofopportunity to thank you and all our volunteers for assisting the diocesan family in this mission of evangelization. Likewise, I express my thanks to those many faithful contributors who each year respond with a spirit of sacrifice and compassion to our, Appeal. "The 1991 Catholic Charities Appeal achieved a record net amount of $2,246,676.38. This r~presents 'an increase of over $70,000 or 3.3 percent over the previous year. Each dollar collected was allocated to various Diocesan institutions, offices and apostolates. Not only was the total sum of the Appeal di~bursed, but, indeed, a small deficit was incurred once again this past year. Let me briefly review just how the funds of our 1991 Catholic Charities Appeal were aIlocated. "The greatest portion of the proceeds of the annual Appeal went, as it customarily does, to maintain the operational programs Turn to Page 10
WASHINGTON (CNS)..L The execution of convicted killer Robert Alton Harris in California shortly before daw~ April21 :e~ded a series of last-mmute repneves and started what several rel,igious and human rights leaders contend will be an escalation of execJtions. Harris' death made California the third state this year to r~sume executions after decades without them. Executions in Del~ware March 14 and Arizona ,April 6 were the first for those states in 45 -and 29 years, respectively. T,he last California execution was 25 years ago. II ' Mother Teresa and bishops from the San Francisco and Los Angeles archdioceses and . the dioceses of . • I San Jose and San Bernardmo were among -those urging Gov~ Pete Wilson to commute Harri~' sentence to life imprisonment. I "You will set our state on 'one of ,two -paths which have no visible end: the path of I).uman~ lawmaking 'and law enforcement or the .. path of fear anq, reV,enge," wrote San Jose Bishop Pierre DuMaine in an April 9 letter. ! "Your choice will reach far be- yond your personal conscierice and political leadership," Bishdp DuMaine said. "It will set the Citizens of California on a path thh will follow long after you andl I and Robert Alton Harris are dead." In the hours before Hartis was killed, the Supreme Court r~jected folir stays of execution granted by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court.bf Appeals. Th(;: last appeal came ~hortly before 4 a.m. when Harris was already strapped into a chair in the gas chamber at San Quentin prison. The final appeals on Harris' behalf contended that execution in
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the gas chamber constituted cruel and ~nusual punishment prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court rejected that appeal, with the dissent of justices Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens. In his dissent, Stevens agreed execution by lethal gas is extremely and unnecessarily .painful, -and cited eyewitness accounts of the execution April 6 in Arizona's gas chamber. Donald Eugene Harding took 10 minutes and 31 seconds to die after lethal fumes we're released in Arizona's gas chamber, Stevens noted in agreeing that California's execution should yield to further study of the cruelty claim. Harris took 11 minutes to die. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony had'argued that executing Harris would open the "floodgates" with many more executions to follow. Califor'nia has 330 inmates on death row. San-Francisco Archbishop John R.Quinri told Wilson that continuing with the execution would "contribute'to the psychology of violence and disdain for human life which is increasingly such a problem in our society." ,Harris was convicted of killing two teenage boys in order to use their car in a 1978 armed robbery. In the ensuing 14 years he was given reprieves for e~ch of five execution dates. In 1990 he came within 12 hours of being killed before the Supreme Court granted an indefinite stay of execution. That reprieve let stand 'a federai appeals court ruling that allowed time for further study ~f Harris' Turn to Page Eight
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CHARITY BENEFIT WINNERS: from left, Sister Rita Pelletier, SSJ, spiritual airector, and Mary Vigeant, president, of the St. Mary's parish! New Bedford, Women's Guild, accept a check from Carole V;ena, manager of Filene's store at the Silver City Galleria malJ in Taunton. The Guild participated in a Charity ShoppfngDay at the store, earning a $2,500 grand prize for selling the most tickets (734) and another $2,500 for highest attendance at t~e event (427). (Kearns photo)
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Fri., Apr. 24,1992
Diocese to host canon law parley in Hyannis As diocesan administrator, Msgr. Henry T. Munroe will host the 1992 Eastern Regional Conference of Canon Lawyers, to be held May II through 14 at the Cape Cod Conference Center in Hyannis and to have as its theme Visions for the Future. The program will begin at 7 p.m. May II with a prayer service, followed by an address by Rev. Edward G. Pfnausch, a canon law department faculty member at Catholic University, Washington DC, and former executive coordinator ofthe Canon Law Society of America.' His topic will be What Will We Do: Canon Law and Canonists in the Next Millennium. The evening will conclude with a reception. The evening will conclUde with a reception. The May 12 program will include presentations by Rev. Donald J. Gilbert and Dr. John Wallace. Father Gilbert, adjutant judicial vicar for the diocese of Manchester, NH, will discuss Adult Children of Alcoholics: The Issue of Discretion. Dr. Wallace, director of treatment at Edgehill Newport center for alcoholism and chemical dependency in Newport, RI, and noted for his publications in the
dependency field, will speak on Alcoholism: New Light on the Disease. On May 13, Sister Margaret Mary Modde, OSF, and Atty. Lawrence Singer will offer a' morning session on What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do: Uniting Civil and Canon Law in Catholic Health Care Institutions. Sister Modde, a canonist, and Atty. Singer, a civil lawyer, are affiliated with a Chicago law firm and are experienced in mergers and affiliations involving Catholic and secular health care facilities. The afternoon program will offer Rev. Theo Rush, OFM, who will speak on canonical implications of covenant communities. Father Rush, who holds doctorates in canon and civil law, is affiliated with Mother of God Community, Gaithersberg, MD, and is a specialist on base and covenant communities. The May 14 concluding program will be presented by Sister Sharon Euart, RS M, and will consider possibilities for collaboration among canonists, the Canon Law Society of America and bishops. Sister Euart isan associate general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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"Mt. Carmel Vespers" to be heard again on Sunday At a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, a 40-year tradition will be revived at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford. At that time, Vespers No.2 in C, composed in 1896 by Albert H. Rosewig, will be heard. The event will feature Mt. Carmel's newly rebuilt Hook & Hastings organ, to be played by David Langevin, the Southeastern Massachusetts Festival Orchestra, directed by Dr. Josef Cobert, and the Mt. Carmel Festival Chorus, directed by Dr. Robert T. Adams. The event recalls, said Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, pastor of Mt. Carmel, that the Rosewig Vespers were sung yearly at the parish from 1923 to 1963 on the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Indeed, he said, they came to be known as "the Vespers of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel." Rosewig, a prolife composer, was organist ~nd choir director of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Philadelphia, composing the Vespers for his choir there for organ and four voices, with solos _ for each voice and tones ranging .from high soprano to low bass. Sunday's rendition, however, will be the first time the Vespers have been accompanied by a symphony orchestra. The arrangement is by Dr. Adams, a member ofthe music faculty at UMass/ Dartmouth, who collaborated with Dr. Cobert, also on the UMass/ Dartmouth music faculty and Langevin in organizing Sunday's concert. In addition to the Vespers, the program will offer Festival Dedication, composed especially for
the occasion by Dr. Adams, with orchestra, organ and chorus; and selections from the works ofJohann Sebastian Bach, Widorand Vivaldi. Soloists will be Marianne Adams, Frances Trafton, Larre Nelson, Michael Touloumtzis, Kathy Goes and Nacy Fitton. At Mt. Carmel, the Vespers were directed from 1923 to 1954 by organist Louise Pothier and from then until 1963 by Margaret Souza. During those years, said Msgr. Mendonca, the solo parts were assigned to parish choir members and being chosen for one was "a very coveted role." He'said that" Albert Rosewig's Vespers may never again be heard at Mt. Carmel," but "whether they are or not, the fact will ever remain that Sunday's performance will have been a strong affirmation of the past, and indeed, the reverberation of its echo will long be heard into the future." Msgr. Mendonca explained that Vespers, the evening prayer of the Church, is traditionally prayed at close of day and is part of the Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office, which is recited daily by all priests. The Hook & Hastings organ to be used Sunday has been rebuilt by the Delisle Organ Company of Fall River, a painstaking undertaking that began in 1989 and was only completed on Tuesday of this week. It has 80 ranks and 2337 pipes and its rebuilding involved individual custom tooling of many parts and reuse of as much of the old instrument as possible. '
St. Anne's to hold free health fair St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, will join with radio station WSAR to host a free health fair from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 14, at White's of Westport. With the title "Communicate: Health! '92," the event will address the needs of senior citizens from noon to 4 p.m.; of families from 2 to 6 p.m.; and of the business community from 4 to 8 p.m. Seminars and booth exhibits will target specific groups: for example, an orthopedic booth will emphasize disorders ofthe hip and knee during the senior segment; scoliosiscand sports injuries during the family period; and back disorders and other problems of weekend athletes for the business community.
Over 50 booths will be sponsored by St. Anne's and others will be sponsored by agencies and organizations offering services that complement those of the hospital. Free screenings will be offered for cholesterol, blood pressure, cardiac risk factors and diabetes. Clinics will offer stop-smoking and stress-relieving advice and information on sports injuries. A teddy bear and doll clinic will provide TLC for stuffed animals and favoritedolls. Seminars will be conducted every half hour until 7:30 p.m. and will discuss such topics as understanding Medicare bills, detecting scoliosis, the characteristics of a good mammogram and signs and symptoms of a stroke.
.The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated April 22 at St. Mark's Church, Attleboro Falls, for Sister M. Vincent Ferrer Cox, RSM, 93, who died April 18 at Mount St. Rita Health Centre, Cumberland, RL ' Born Teresita Cox in Westerly, RI, on June 5, 1898, she was the daughter of the late James and Ellen (Corrigan) Cox. She entered the Sisters of Mercy on July 2, 1920 and professed final vows on Dec. 26, 1922. She was a graduate of St. Patrick's School, Fall River, and St. Xavier Academy, Providence.' She held a bachelor of arts degree and a certificate in theology from Providence College and a master's degree from Catholic Teachers College in Providence. She taught at Tyler School, Providence, for 17 years and was administrator of St. Aloysius Home for six years, supervising its move from Providence to Greenville, RL She taught at St. Mary's and St. Joseph's schools, Pawtucket, and at St. Mary's School in Bristol, all in Rhode Island. She served as principal of Sacred Heart School, East Providence, and was'superior of St. Xavier's Convent, Providence. She taught at Holy Trinity School, West Harwich, from 1967 to 1971, then was assistant to the librarian at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, until her retirement in 1980. Sister Cox is survived by two nieces, Sister Mary Noel Blute, RS M, Episcopal Representative for Religious in the Fall River diocese, and Barbara Crossen of Norwood; two nephews, Francis J. Cox Jr. of Franklin and Edward M. Blute of Harwich; and grandand great-grandnieces and nephews.
Genocide charged VATICAN CITY (CNS)- The current U.N. embargo against Iraq "is a genocide," said Chaldean Patriarch Raphael I Bidawid, whose headquarters are in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The embargo "has not struck a blow against the army or the regime, but the people instead," he said in Vatican Radio interview. "This embargo is something very grave" and is killing about 100 babies daily, said the patriarch. It has caused "malnutrition for lack of food, deficiencies in public health for lack of medi-' cine," he added. "One could impose embargo on weapons or so many other things, but not on the very lives of the citizens," he said.
Missionary dies KATMANDU, Nepal(CNS)American-born Jesuit Father Marshall Moran, 85, regarded as the pioneer of modern education in Nepal, died April 14. Father Moran, who spent more than 40 years in the Himalyan Hindu kingdom, died in Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi, India, where he was admitted for treatment of a heart ailment. In 1951 he was one of the first foreigners to move to Nepal, then a remote, little-known land which barred all but a very few foreigners. He had been invited there to begin a boys' school. He became a Nepalese citizen in 1956.
creased membership in the parish Holy Name SoCiety. His next assignments were as parochial vicar at the New Bedford parishes of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, St. John the Baptist, and Immaculate Conception. He was named pastor of St. Anthony's Church, East Falmouth, in 1966, serving there for II years until his assignment to St. Anthony's in Taunton in 1977. During his 44 years in the priesthood, he was also a notary of the diocesan matrimonial court and a pro-synodal judge. He was noted for his ability as an administrator, and as a pastor he supervised building of an extensive addition to St. Anthony's in East Falmouth. He also initiated a drive to replace the St. Anthony's, Taunton, parish center that was destroyed by fire in March 1990. Parishioners at the Taunton parish honored him upon his retirement with a testimonial at which parish groups made presentations and Father Amaral addressed the group.
Pope asked to revoke GU's Catholic status
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Father Amaral dies at 69 Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, administrator of the Fall River diocese, was principal celebrant and many diocesan priests were concelebrants at the Mass of Christian Burial Tuesday at Holy Family Church, East Taunton, for Father George E. Amaral, whodied April 18.
Father Amaral had retired from the pastorate ofSt. Anthony's parish, Taunton, last June. Born in Raynham Aug. 14, 1922, he was the son of Manuel and Maria Constantina Amaral who migrated to the United States in the early part of this century from
their native island of St. Michael, Azores. . Father Amaral was a graduate of South Street School, Raynham, and Msgr. Coyle High School, Taunton. He prepared for the priesthood at St. Charles College and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and was ordained May 31,1947, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, by Bishop James E. Cassidy. His first assignment was to St. Michael's parish, Fall River, where he remained for four-and-a-half years and was especially successful in work with youth. He also in-
Principal named for St. John's School Sister Ann Therese Connolly has been appointed principal of St. John the Evangelist elementary school in Attleboro. A member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence, she succeeds Sister Martha Mulligan, RSM, who has been named principal of Mercymount School in Cumberland, RI. Both appointments are effective in July. Sister Connolly is currently principal of Sacred Heart elementary school in Kingston, a school
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owned and operated by her religious community. She has held the post for nine years, the maximum allowed by her congregation. Earlier she was principal of schools in Virginia and Connecticut. In announcing her appointment, Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, pastor of St. John's parish and school director, said "St. John's is grateful to the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence for making it possible for this exceptional administrator to lead our parish school. "Sister Ann Therese, certified by the Massachusetts State Board of Education as an elementary school principal, comes to St. John's with over 20 years' experience as an administrator of Catholic schools. We welcome her to our school community. "St. John's also appreciates the 38 years of service rendered by the Sisters of Mercy. Our outgoing principal, Sister Martha Mulligan, has provided outstanding leadership in the tradition of the many Sisters of Mercy who have educated the children of the Attleboros." The appointment of Sister Connolly followed a search conducted by a committee composed of School Advisory Committee members, the school faculty and the parish staff.
WASHINGTON (CNS)- Leaders of a group trying to remove Georgetown University's Catholic status said they have asked Pope John Paul II to revoke the university's Catholic identity. Attorney Manuel Miranda, representing the Georgetown Ignatian Society, formed to protest presence of an abortion-rights student group on campus, said the pope should have received the petition April 2, and that it was also sent to four Vatican congregations that could be "tangentially involved" in the case. The petition asks the pope "if he has jurisdiction" to rescind Jesuitrun Georgetown's Catholic status, Miranda said. If the pope states that Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington has jurisdiction, the petition asks the pope "to remand it to the cardinal for further action." Cardinal Hickey has said he could not act on an earlier petition submitted by the Ignatian Society, saying it was "flawed" and in any case he was not the competent authority to revoke Georgetown's Catholic status. He later rejected an appeal asking him to reconsider. . In early 1991, Georgetown officials recognized GU Choice, the abortion-rights group, by according it the same privileges as other campus groups, such as access to funding from student fees and to other university benefits. The Ignatian Society announcement said "many contributors are refusing any further donations" to Georgetown because of GU Choice's presence.
Expulsion deplored WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Jesuit Conference has joined Central American Jesuits in protesting EI Salvador's expulsion of a California Jesuit. Jesuit Father Steven Kelly, 43, was recently deported from EI Salvador after trying to prevent members of the Salvadoran National Police from forcing peasant farmers off their ranch in the municipality of Jiquilisco. A statement issued by the office of Father Jose Maria Tojeira, Jesuit provincial in Central American, denounced the "arbitrary and contradictory process by which Father Kelly was deported."
Food need urgent VATICAN CITY (CNS)- If it is possible to deliver sophisticated weapons to warring factions in Sudan, it should be possible to deliver food to starving Sudanese civilians there, said two bishops from the country's southern region. Bishop Paride Taban ofTorit and Bishop Joseph Abangite Gasi of Tombura and Yambio said international relief agencies are reluctant to help suffering civilians because of persistent rumors that the Muslim-dominated government is preparing a new offensive against Christian and animist populations of the south. The bishops' appeal for international assistance was published in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
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themoorin~ Teen Pregnancy One of our local secular newspapers recently featured a front-page story on unwed mothers. The statistics for that area of our diocese indicated that half the births in the past year had been to single mothers. Such disturbing figures cannot be swept aside. The problem of single-parent families, especially in urban areas, is enormous. Few can deny that such situations nurture helplessness and exacerbate the seemingly never-ending cycle of welfare. It must be admitted that limited education, subservient jobs and feelings of personal frustration contribute to teen pregnancy as an expression of social rebellion. Abusive parents, emotional voids and absent family direction are also factors in many situations, while sex is equated with love, pregnancy is seen as acceptance and teen culture as a way of life. Put all these realities into a social melting pot where marriage is merely something'read about in tabloids, and it's no wonder there is a teen mom welfare crisis. Yet, with all this, nowhere does there seem any mention of moral or ethical values. Sex outside marriage, be it to make oneself eligible for welfare or for personal pleasure, is still an abuse which devalues individual responsibility and accountability. Most teen moms seem to declare their independence by means of uncontrolled rebellion, while chemistry and nature combine to foster biological forces that can lead to growth or destruction, with each person making the choice. Here is where a secular society fails. Based on the premise that if it feels good, do it, young people are in fact encouraged to walk a path devoid of moral or ethical guidelines. 'It is tragic that our modern media have become the great oracle of human values. They are spokespersons of false gods which have encouraged and developed examples of amoral lifestyles. Deprived teens watching the glamour of soap operas want the glitter and gold such productions portray, but they do not think of the inevitable consequences of mQ.~t soap opera.l,ife-: styles. Our newspapers headline failed lives and misplaced values. Seldom do they feature teens who feel that moral and ethical guidelines are important to them and to society as a whole. The result too often is that young people espouse false ideals.. Given our times and mores, it is imperative that we make real attempts to eliminate mixed messages conveyed by the media that, in effect, encourage license. Newspapers and other media outlets should be prodded by patents, schools and churches to deliver a consistent and positive message supporting wholesome living, not only for adolescents, but for all. Special attempts should be made to defuse the social and peer pressures that contribute to engulfing fragile teen egos with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. Above all, there must be consistent efforts to promote values in relationship to behavioral expectations. The time is at hand to recognize the failure of permissive principles as an accepted guide for character development. The tragedy of wasted and limited lives has over and over proved the worthlessness of the anything-goes attitude. Young people have unique inner strength. It should be encouraged, not exploited, reinforced, not ripped apart, challenged, not ignored. Such positive thinking cannot but help many young people towards healthy decisions with regard to their present and future lives. The Editor
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A SALVADORAN GIRL AND HER BABY BROTHER AWAIT RETURN TO EL SALVADOR AFTER LIVING IN HONDURAN REFUGEE CAMPS AS DID MANY SALVADORANS DURING THE II-YEAR CIVIL WAR IN THEIR HOMELAND
"Return to the land of thy fathers." Gen. 31:3
Temptations for voters By Father Kevin J. Harrington found money to raise their salaries . Nothing has. proven more mer- and ke~p.Jhlii;r,p~J:ks.Wbi!~ fil\sjl!g curial than the mood of American our,nation's •.indebtneSli, and,.for voters this election year. Congress this they must be hell accountais held in contempt with scandal . ble. However, as former House after scandal fueling voter outrage, Speaker Tip O'Neill was fond of while voter turnout for the presi- noting, all politics is local. As long dential primaries is at an all-time as our legislators meet our needs, low. A pervasivefeelingthatgovern- we are content with reelecting them. Over three decades ago Presiment cannot govern is in the air, and every political candidate from dent John Kennedy stirred the President George Bush and Gov. nation with his call for people to Bill Clinton to Patrick Buchanan, ask not for a· country that would. Jerry Brown and H. Ross Perot is serve their needs but to ask to intent upon capitalizing on voter serve their country. Over a decade anger by presenting himself as ago, then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan asked the Amerirunning against the established order. . can people, "Are you better off Some good old-fashioned com- than you were four years ago?" We cannot change our elected mon sense seems in order. In spite of dissatisfaction with elected offi- officials until those they represent cials, Americans keep returning change their expectations of what incumbents to the House and government can reasonably be Senate with amazing regularity. expected to accomplish. As long Politicians receive donations from 'as voters want only their own special interest groups promoting interests to .be served by their their own political agendas and elected officials, we can expect candidates risk losing the monies leaders who will promise to give us if they fail to prove to political everything without raising our action committees that they con- taxes! There are two temptations hard sistently vote in their favor. Our founding fathers were satisfied with a system of government that demanded that congressmen and senators face their electorate every two or six years. I question the wisdom of tinkering with the Constitution by limiting terms but believe that reforms in the way Prayer for Selection campaign money is raised and spent can neutralize the advanof a Bishop tages of incumbency. Lord God, you are our Politicians have an uncanny eterna!.'lhepherd andguide. knack for convincing the electoIn your mercy grant your rate that government can meet more needs than the budget will Church in the dioce.'le of allow. There is no doubt that our Fall River a shepherd who nation's education and health care will walk in your way.\· and systems need improvement. We all who.'le watchful care will want a lot of things from government, but we are $400 billion in bring U.'l your ble.uing. deficit and $4 trillion in debt. Amen. Nevertheless, our legislators have
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to resist in face of an economic recession. The first is to blame the p,olitic1ans {ciT every~Ji:i:ilg thai'is wrong in our society. The second is to succumb to the belief that money can solve the problem. The first temptation must be resisted because scapegoating elected representatives does nothing to help our democracy achieve its constitutional function. Throwing the bums out might make us all feel a lot better, but unless we elect i'n their place people with ideas that work, we won't be any better off. The second temptation must be resisted because the more we depend on federal money for public welfare, the less likely we are to save a portion of our own income to meet our own needs. There is a third temptation, which is by far the worst, and that is to despair. Our founding fathers believed that nobility did not reside in human beings because of an accident of birth but that every human being was endowed by the Creator with unalienable rights. Sadly, some politicians reflect some of our less noble qualities. But fortunately, our founding fathers left in our hands the ability to control our destiny.
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Jesus' work Acts 5:12-16 Revelation 1:9-11,12-13,17-19 John 20:19-31
But Luke is perhaps the most ingenious in conveying this concept. Scripture scholars are quite certain that both Luke and Matthew copied from Mark's Gospel when they composed theirs. Biblical students constantly study how each evangelist used this resource. Some commentators mention that though Luke often follows Mark verse by verse, he seems to have ignored 6:54-56. Mark summarizes Jesus' healing ministry in these lines; pointing out that peo.pie brought "...the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. They laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed." Others, knowing that Luke also. wrote the Acts of the Apostles, suggest we might be looking in the wrong place for Mark's summary. Luke did not include it in his first volume (the Gospel), he put it in his second (Acts). It's part of today's first reading. We might
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overlook it because 'here Jesus is not the agent ofthe cures; Peter"is! One of the Lord's discipies is so able to be identified with him that "...people carried the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that when Peter
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passed by at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them." Every Christian community continues Jesus' work. He lives and ministers within it. He is not, nor ever has been, in one more than another.
We. are often amazed to discover we are loved. Why would By FATHER ROGER anyone give themselves to us? If KARBAN we were important or famous, . maybe we could expect such a "There is nothing to fear," he proresponse. But since we are just claims. "I am the First and the ordinary, love surprises us. Last and the One who lives. Once 1 Sign up for Direct Deposit The same can be said about was dead but now 1live - forever at Citizens-Union. No lines. God's love of our communities. and ever," We rarely judge our local churches The Lord's word is most comextraordinary. We frequently hear forting. John's church follows CITIZENS~lJNl(l\i .; \\1'1( ;" IW\l\ Christians defend their inactivity someone who cannot be spoken of by bad-mouthing their fellow pa- in the past tense. They can never rishioners: "When those people use "was" about him. He simply stop being hypocrites and start "is." This community is just as doing what Jesus wants them to much before Jesus' eyes as were do, I'll get involved in my parish!" the original Twelve. Many feel that real Christian communities are things ofthe past. We have to go to Scripture or church history to find out about them. supportive church community at a BELLEVILLE, Ill. (CNS) They no longer exist today. .. , ..., j; . . Our early Christian authors con- The Gospel story of two apostles' vulnerable moment of their lives. But ifsomeone's religious comtrip to Emmaus after the death of . tradict this belief. They regard their communities as places where Jesus illustrates a valuable way of munity "doesn't show up, they "" ... , the risen Jesus actually lives and dealing with grief, a speaker told won't ever forget it either." 100% OF YOUR DONATION IS A session by Darcie Sims, a . participants at a national bereaveworks. No matter how soon or USED TO PROVIDE FOOD, Fargo, N.D., psychotherapist was how long after the Lord's histori-' ment conference. FALL RIVER natives Dr. Jeremiah and According to Luke highlighted 24: 13-32, the by a joyous parade, SHELTER, MEDICAL CARE, cal ministry, he is present in the Virginia Lowney with a family awaiting two apostles were walking to the complete with party hats, balloons FOR YOUR FAMILY EDUCATION sponsorship in Jeremie, Haiti. churches for which they write. town of Emmaus shortly after the and kazoos. Always emphasizing their conPeople coming through the death . I WANT to share my blessings by supporting one of the hemisphere's poorest families. gregation's importance, these au- crucifixion when they met up with a stranger. He urged them to talk ofsomeone close eventually need a Enclosed is my check for family/ies. I wish to pay: thors teach that unless people can experience Jesus among them, they about what upset them and they symbol of joy - permission to let -'T1onthly (525 per family); -semiannually (5150); -annually ('300) cannot appreciate what he did dur- related stories about Jesus. S.oon the happy memories of a loved one Please acknowledge my tax deductible gilt with a photo of my family in Jeremie, Haiti after, their companion revealed take the place of the pain of loss, ing his earthly life. NAME: _ Ms. Sims said. himself to be their teacher and This radical concept is most friend, risen from the dead. "-We cannot protect people from ADDRESS: _---'_-:.:.. -:--''-''-_ clearly s.tate~ iJl 9u.r. Oosp~, p!=fi, A 'simple question to' tlie'ilpos~ pain, but we can go together in cope. The Thomas story is mainly _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TEL:--;_ remembered because of its last路 ties allowed the grieving men,' search ofthe parade." Please mall to: Haitian Health Foundation/Save a Family Program line: "You became a believer be- "shocked and numb because ofthe c/o Dr. Jeremiah Lowney, 100 Sherman St., Norwich, CT 06360 Success violent death by execution of their cause you saw me. Blest are they For more information or to volunteer for program call (203) 886-1466 "Success is a journey. not a who have not seen and have be- friend," to relate their memories of lieved." As terrific as Thomas' him, explained Patrick Del Zoppo, destination."-Ben Sweetland faith proclamation is, we who have director of the Ministry to the not physically touched the risen pereaved for the Archdiocese of Lord are presumed to be at no dis- New York and a professor of advantage. Jesus' resurrection bereavement counseling. "Storytelling after death helps completely destroys the inferiority which naturally comes from chang- the bereaved person to claim the ing times and geography. All indi- relationship with the deceased," at viduals and communities are now Del Zoppo told participants at the equal. ..and can make the same recent conference at the shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleproclamation of faith. 111. A similar theme pops up in our ville, Relating memories helps surviRevelation passage. Though the vors heal, Del Zoppo said. "It author's community came into be- . makes the grieving experience legitiing long after Jesus' historical min- mate," Featuring the istry, Jesus still communicates with The conference, cosponsored by it. Not even a persecution-forced the National Catholic Ministry to VESPERS No. 2 in C by Albert H. Rosewig (1896) exile can stop him from giving a the Bereaved and the Belleville special message to his people. shrine, was the first such national traditionally sung at Mount Carmel Church on the gathering of bereavement counseFEAST OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL AllY READING lors. In addition to dis.cussing various aspects of the grief process, for forty consecutive years - 1921 to 1961. April 27: Acts 4:23-31; the .conference offered guidelines for beginning or augmenting parPs 2:1-9; In 3:1-8 DEDICATING bereavement ministry. April 28: Acts 4:32-37; ish"People Mount Carmel's newly rebuilt who are grieving do not Ps 93:1-2,5; In 3:7-15 need explanation, but consolation," Hook & Hastings Organ (80 ranks/2337 pipes) April 29: Acts 5:17-26; said another speaker, Dominican with David Langevin - Organist Sister Carleen Maly, a pastoral Ps 34:2-9; In 3:16-21 minister froin Altamonte Springs, April 30: Acts 5:27-33; Fla. "Grieving people need to know Ps34:2,9,17-20; In 3:31-36 they are able to share with their May 1: Acts 5:34-42; Ps fellow parishioners their rotten The Southeastern Massachusetts Festival Orchestra times as well as their happy times," 27:1,4,13-14; In 6:1-15 said Sister Maly. 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Hard decisions for working couples riage and family intact. Ironically, her husband was not happy about the move either. But he felt he had no choice. His wife insisted he did have choice. She felt that her job was so good that he could leave his company and look for employment with another company within commuting distance of their present home. Even if he made less money, together they could still have a good income, she reasoned, without the turmoil of making a drastic move and disrupting all of them, including the children. This was not the first family I've enc;:ountered with the problem of whether to relocate or stay put and try to redesign the employment picture. I n all cases, the major factor causing friction was the wife's employment.
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A women I know was distressed a while ago. Her husband was being transferred to another state and she was disturbed by how this would disrupt her life. She loved her job and made good money. It had taken her a long time to get where she was in the firm. Yet now she had to face giving it all up in order to keep her mar-
As a real estate professional noted recently, "The working spouse issue is a growing one. Ninety percent of relocated employees are male and more than 50 percent of wives are working women." Homequity Inc., a national relocation management company, once published a report showing that more than half the corporate executives and other employees who are offered better, more lucrative jobs to relocate are reluctant to do so. Others flatly refuse to go. This is different from the past when employees asked to relocate willingly complied and wives, mostly nonworking, understood the need for moving. Then, as now, most relocation offers came with attractive in-
d ucements, such as a pay raise and help in finding a new home. But today "the cost of living difference bothers a lot of people asked to move. A move away is usually a move up, but it often means relocation to a more affluent community where housing and living expenses are higher and the wife's income possibilities are lower:' said Doug Madeley, Homequity's senior vice president for marketing. "Even though the employer pays for all the moving expenses and increases the salary, it doesn't make up for the emotional and psychological impact and the loss in total family income:' he says. In the end, my friends moved 1,500 miles away. The wife has not yet found a comparable job. She's
working as a secretary with a temporary agency. Her son is havinga tough time making new friends. Her husband is doing fine with his work, but misses his old buddies at the health club. The one ray of light, she says, is the church. They are getting active in their new parish and that gives them hope of getting comfortable. Another couple chose not to relocate due to the wife's pleading. She's still happy with her job and home. But he feels resentment over having had to take a job that's a comedown. The whole family feels the father's unhappiness. This problem of whose job is the one to consider when relocation looms is coming up more and more. It is a situation that has no easy answer.
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versation, I asked, "How did her weekend at the beach goT' "I didn't ask." "How are her allergies?" "She didn't say." "Did she get the mail we forwarded?"
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We have two young adults workingabroad and another in graduate school 1,000 miles away. This, as most parents learn, is not a generation of letter writers but of phoners. So, if details of their lives are to be learned, it has to be by phone - or so many words to the dollar. I was out when our daughter called and talked with her dad, so when he filled me in on their con-
could request a dispensation so she might be married before someone other than a Catholic priest, such as a judge, minister or a Jewis~ rabbi.
FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. A family member who is Catholic recently became engaged to a young Jewish man. They both seem happy and would like a church wedding with a priest and rabbi officiating. Is this possible? What steps must we take to arrange it? (New York) A. Two approaches are possible. First, the Catholic partner
Our daughter is better at writing than her brothers and we love getting letters because we can reread
them. Still, it's nice to hear their voices. I take notes when they phone so I can "reread" their calls. It's too easy to forget details when we cover so many topics in five precious minutes. When the phone bill arrives, we sometimes groan but then I think about our forebears who never had the opportunity to hear again the voices of the children they sent abroad. In those days, even a letter was expensive and took months to cross the ocean. So I count our blessings. I'm happy they can call, want to call and that there are mother questions and father questions. It keeps the family in balance. .,
This procedure, officially called a dispensation from the form (of marriage) can be granted by their diocesan bishop after the necessary marriage preparations have been completed as required in your diocese. A second possibility is to have the marriage in a Catholic church before a priest. The groom's rabbi could be part of the ceremony, read a Scripture passage, offer a blessing or prayer, or present some reflections appropriate for the weddin,g.
Both of these possibilities are' open as far as the Catholic Church is concerned. They both depend, however, equally on the rabbi's beliefs and convictions about such sharing of ceremonies. Some leaders of Jewish congregations, as well as clergy of other denominations or churches, are more open than others to these kinds of participation with clergy of other faiths. Ask the bride to learn all necessary details from her parish priest. She and the groom will need also to talk with his rabbi. Q. What is the Didache, which you mention sometimes in your column? Where can I obtain a copy? (Ohio)
A. The complete text of the Didache is available now in the Ancient Christian Writers series (Vol. 6, Paulist Press). The full name of the work is "The Teaching [didache) of the Lord to the Gentiles Through the Twelve Apostles." Written in Greek, it apparently originated in Syria somewhere around the year 125. Despite the name, its 16 chapters contain much more than a list of apostolic teachings. Included among other topics are sections on church structure, some sacramental liturgies (including a remarkably familiar description of what we now call the liturgies of the Word and the Eucharist at Mass), and even policies concerning
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charitable and social works of mercy. The Didache was almost completely unknown until little more than 100 years ago, in 1883, when a metropolitan ofthe Greek Orthodox Church published an II thcentury manuscript. Since then the document has become the major source of information about the early church in the generations immediately after the first apostles. A free brochure on annulments is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to the same _address.
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It's a nice division of responsibility. If we're' both on the phone, though, the conversation plays like a ping pong game. I say, "Did you try that recipe I sent?"
cut it off, even if they're paying for it. But parents are always watching the budget. A friend of mine who is in her fifties says her mother in an assisted-care living center sends her coupons, explaining, "I can't use these any more and it's such a shame to waste them." When I was my children's age -and 'Father James DeGiacamo says we were never their age weekly letters were the medium of exchange. Long distance phone calls were frightening because they implied urgency or emergency.
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"I don't know." There are mother questions and father questions. Mothers ask about health, social life, relationships, and personal issues. Dads ask about cars, work, weather, and finances.
, She says, "Yes, it was great." Jim says, "Did you have any trouble with your tax forms?" She replies, "Just a little." I say, "Were you able to find the spices you needed?" and Jim says, "I thought the part about your student loan was confusing." Basically, we carryon two conversations simultaneously. When we finish the call, Jim and I then interpret to one another the information we each gleaned, i.e. "That recipe is the one we had at. .." and "There was a clause on her tax forms ..." We take turns, too, on saying, "Well, this is expensive. We better cut it ofL" This way, neither of us becomes the killjoy. The kids nel'er
Dear Dr. Kenny: My father has cancer. I don't know how long he has to live, maybe six months. I feel awkward about visiting him, and I don't know what to say when we do. He rarely brings up the subject of death, and when he does I try to sidestep it. Now I find myself wanting to avoid him. I feel guilty about that. We've always been close. - New Jersey Once a person receives the sad news that death will come sooner for him or her than for the rest of
us, an even sadder event occurs. You also, together with everyone The terminally ill person receives else, are reluctant to reflect on only one-fourth as many friends your own death. Seeing your father and visitors as before. may remind you that your time on Yet dying people want and need earth is also limited. family and friends. The No. I findA second reason for avoidance ing in most of the personal research is the feeling of guilt. "Why am I on death and dying is that the alive and healthy when you are dying person was grateful for the dying?" We feel as though we must visit ofthe researcher. How ironic! apologize for our good luck. They particularly welcomed the This feeling is, of course, irrachance to talk with someone about tional, but nonetheless real and death. -lurking just below the surface. You, along with the rest of us, Guilt makes us all uneasy and feel uneasy about vi'siting the dying awkward with the dying. for two main reasons. The first is You must overcome your awkdenial. As one ~hilosopher re- wardness. You need to be with marked: "Death is like the sun. It your father now, Remind yourself cannot be stared at." that we are all mortal and that you Visiting your father means fac- and I will be joining him soon ing mortality. You feel better with enough. the fantasy that he will always be Plan your visits. What can you there. To keep that fantasy alive, say and do? Don't be afraid to talk about you avoid him.
death. Your father's death is with you in the room and must be faced. Avoiding it would be as strange as trying to talk about the coffee table when there was an elephant in the living room. Admit your awkwardness to your father. "I know you have some tough news, Dad, but I find it very difficult to talk about." Or more directly, "I understand the doctor says you have six months." Life is too short for all of us. Help your father make the most of what he has. Trips. Special TV shows or videos to watch together. Dinners. Card games. Just because one is dying is no reason to stop living. . Don't be afraid to joke and laugh. Laughter does not mean we take things lightly. It means, rather, that we are able to see the absurdity in certilin situations.
Finally, ask your father, "Is there anything at all I can do for you?" You may be surprised at his answer. He may have some important unfinished business with which you can help him. No one is wiser than the person who faces and comes to grips with his or her own death. To be with your father now is not only loving; it will be a privilege and experience. Don't miss it. Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address: The Kennys, 219 W. Harrison, Rensselaer, In 47978.
Casting Vote "God predestines every man to be saved. The devil predestines every man to be damned. Man has the casting vote."-anonymous
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Unknown Child Dear Editor: One place there is a Tomb ofthe Unborn Child is in Virginia. It reminds me of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington. Pro-life folks by their activities work to make abortion illegal so these kinds of memorials will never be needed again. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, wrote a book, Pivot of Civilization. "If we must have welfare, give it to the rich, not the poor," she wrote. "More children for the fit, less for the unfit." Sounds like Nazi Germany. This is Planned Parenthood's main reason to build abortion chambers in minority neighborhoods and to enter our children's lives and our schools under the disguise of health care. Mary Rita Crowe Rochester, NY
Reform urged CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) - South African President F.W. de Klerk "must push ahead fast with reform" after a whitesonly referendum showed 68.7 percent favored continued change in the country's apartheid system, says the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference. They "have lifted the shadow that hung over Codesa," said Bishop Wilfred Napier, conference president. "Codesa" is the name given to negotiations among the government, the African National Congress and 19 other organizations. South Africa's current constitution does not allow blacks more than 70 percent of the population - to vote in national elections.
April 25 1940, Rev. John J. 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 April 27 1925, Rev. Francis J. Bradley, D.D., Rector, Cathedral, Fall River 1949, Rev. Romeo D. Archambault, 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 Szelagowski, OFM Conv., Parochial Vicar, O.L. Perpetual Help, New Bedford April 30 1900, Rev. John A. Hurley, Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro 1930, Rev. David F. Sheedy, Pastor, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro May l' 1882, Rev. Francis J. Quinn, Founder, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, Founder, Sacred Heart, Fall River
WASHINGTON(CNS)-Complaints about TV ads that promote adoption over abortion have led one cable network to drop the 30second spots. But another said it will continue airing them. Brian Lewis, a spokesman for CNBC, a news and information cable network owned by NBC and based in Fort Lee, N.J., told Catholic News Service April 16 that CNBC dropped the ads after employees and viewers complained. CNBC employees said that because the ads had no disclaimer stating who paid for them, people could think CNBC was "taking a position," Lewis said. "Viewers just had a problem with us running the spots in genera!." The ads, part of a media campaign estimated to cost $20 million, were paid for by the Arthur S. De Moss Foundation. The foundation, based in Philadelphia suburb, "has a history of not seeking publicity for itself or its associates, but rather of letting its projects speak for themselves," said a statement from the foundation. Cable News Network received several complaints. However, the . ads had passed CNN scrutiny for content and substantiation and "to be sure there's no libel" or "unnecessarily graphic material," said Steve Haworth, spokesman for the Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System. Turner also is airing the ads on its Headline News, TNT and WTBS networks. "We've gone with De Moss ads, ads for Planned Parenthood and" the National Abortion Rights Action League, Haworth said. One De Moss ad asks "What could be more important than the right of someone to be born?" and opens with a couple learning they can adopt a child. A voice-over explains: "Last year over 50,000 women found families to adopt their unexpected children. They decided, instead of abortion, to tough it out and bring their babi~s into the world. They held to their belief that nothing is more precious than human life. To all these mothers, the families that adopted these children would like to say, 'Thank you.' Life. What a beautiful choice." Another ad pictures children outside a school and says they were "unplanned pregnancies that could have ended in abortion." The ads caught pro-life and proadoption activists by surprise. Helen Alvare, director of planning and information at the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-life Activities, said "pro-life people are ecstatic because the ads are so good and somebody has the money to promote them." "Nobody I spoke to in the prolife movement had any knowledge these ads were coming out beforehand," she said. Mary Beth Seader, vice president of the Washington-based National Committee For Adoption, said she "never heard of De Moss before this happened." She objected to criticism of the ads. "Some pro-choice groups oppose adoption," she said. "We find that very distressing. One of the things we've seen happen in last few years is increased attacks on adoption by some in the prochoice community while we're here trying to defend a choice. We don't take a position on abortion. We believe that adoption is so.mething that should be discussed on its own merits."
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SEN.DANIEL Patrick Moynihan, D-N. Y., will receive the University of Notre Dame's 1992 Laetare Medal, awarded annually to a Catholic whose work has enriched church and society. He will receive the medal at May 17 commencement exercises. The Laetare Medal is so named because its recipient is announced each year on Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent. "Laetare" is the Latin word for "rejoice," the first word in the entrance antiphon of the Mass that Sunday. Born in 1927 in Tulsa, Okla., Moynihan moved with his family to New York when he was 6 months old. He grew up in Hell's Kitchen and other New York slums. He shined shoes and sold newspapers to supplement the family's public assistance. Active in Democratic Party politics since 1953, Moynihan is the only person in American history to serve in four successive presidential administrations. He was assistant secretary of labor in the Kennedy and Johnson cabinets, chief domestic advisor to President Richard M. Nixon and later his ambassador to India, and United Nations ambassador under President Gerald R. Ford. Moynihan is in his third term as U.S. senator from New York, but the first active senator to receive the Laetare Medal. Three former senators, including then-President John F. Kennedy in 1961, have been given the award. Moynihan is also the author of 15 books and the recipient of 55 honorary degrees, including a doctorate from Notre Dame in 1969. (CNS photo)
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Director cites Catholic roots to "City of Joy"
RELIGIOUS FOLK ART: "Our Lady of Solitude" and "Jesus Nazarene," sculptures attributed to Juan Miguel Herrera, are among 100 pieces of art featured in an exhibition of religious folk art from the American Southwest scheduled to travel to six American cities. (CNS/ Walters Art Gallery photo)
Nurses announce scholarships, fall parleys Over 100 health care professionals attended the spring meeting of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses. held at St. John the Baptist parish center, Westport. The topic of anger was discussed by Dorothy J. Levesque, director of ministry for divorced, separated, remarried and widowed persons in the Providence diocese. It was announced that three scholarships will be awarded to persons continuing education in the field of nursing. Applications are available from Joan Morin, telephone 775-3121. Information on membership in the nurses' council is available from Betty Novacek, telephone 674-5741, ext. 2081. Planned for the future isa meeting of New ,England diocesan nurses' councils, to be held Oct. 16 to 18 at the Marriott Hotel, Andover. The Fall River diocesan council will hold its fall meeting Oct. 24 at St. John the Baptist center. Information on both events is available from Mrs. Morin or Mrs. Novacek.
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Director Roland Joffe's "City of Joy" is set in Calcutta, a city steeped in Hinduism, but it reflects Catholicism as well. Joffe said the church influence stems from the book by Catholic author Dominique Lapierre on which the movie is based. The church influence also comes from interviews Joffe conducted with missionaries - including nuns and brothers at Mother Teresa's homes for the dying, where he even volunteered himself for a day. Even the film's star, Patrick Swayze, worked at one of Mother Teresa's clinics in Calcutta. Swayze washed people and "made them comfortable in their last hours," Joffe said. Joffe said he did not set out to convey Catholic themes. "A film shouldn't proselytize," he said. The movie is about "brotherly love," a Christian concept that also "has a match in Hindu society," he said. Joffe, who also directed the Oscar-winning movies "The Mission," about an 18th-century Jesuit mission in Brazil, and "The Killing Fields," about post-war Cambodia, spoke about "City of Joy" in a telephone interview prior to the film's opening in mid-April. There is no doubt Lapierre's Catholicism "imbues his book" but "it imbues the movie a littie less," Joffe said. Nevertheless, two priests who work in Calcutta and a nun who runs a school there figured into his development of the character Joan Bethel, played by Pauline Collins. She runs a clinic and befriends Max, played by Swayze. In the movie, Max teasingly calls her "Sister Joan" because he thinks she lives like a nun and acts as if she were his older sister, Joffe said. The priests asked not to be portrayed specifically, Joffe said, though they did approve his making a story similar to theirs. They told him they sought "to live the life ofthe poor," Joffe said, and "not to be deified and become heroes, but to be submerged into the community." The nun behind the character is Sister Mary Cyril, head of the Loretto School for Girls.
She is "a great administrator, with tremendous charm," said Joffe. "After I met her I thought it should be a woman playing this part" of clinic administrator. Joffe even added a reference to celibacy. Joan comments to Max that her single life of service evolved from her not having much luck loving one man, which led her to love many instead. Joffe said that he once heard a nun explain celibacy that way. Several scenes show clinic work. Joffe witnessed such efforts by Mother Teresa firsthand. "She would have made a wonderful film producer," Joffe said. "She's got that strength of character. She's a tough cookie." He said he admired her ability to run programs in Calcutta, a city he said is marked by bribes and corruption. The director also visited a clinic run by Dr. Jack Preger, a Westerner and Jewish convert to Catholicism, who works around India's version of organized crime, Joffe said. Corruption runs through the health care system, "even at the nurse level," said Joffe. Sometimes "you actually pay to get someone to attend to you." Overwhelming scenes of poverty permeate the film, but Joffe called it "a strengthening movie" and predicted viewers would leave it "with a sense of their own strength." It heralds the "man one would pass on the street and never look at," said Joffe. "I wanted to make a film that affirms the human spirit and praises the human potential and the courage of everyday people." Gerri Pare, in a review for the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting, lauded the movie for merging an Easterner's "passive resignation" with a Westerner's "American aggressiveness" to convey "universal emotions that evoke the resiliency of the human spirit." "That's a tall order for any movie, and 'City of Joy' is admirable"for both trying and in large part succeeding," she said. The USCC classified the movie A-II - adults and adolescents citing "brief violence and' mild sexual innuendo."
Execution Continued from Page One mental condition. Other appeals focused on a pattern of violence throughout Harris' life. He was born more than two months prematurely after his father kicked his pregnant mother during an argument. Other appeals noted a history of being abused as a child and his mother's extensive alcohol consumption while she was pregnant. In April Mother Teresa, as she had in 1990, personally appealed to the governor to stop the scheduled execution. During a phone call to Gov. Pete Wilson, Mother Teresa asked that Harris' sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. In 1990 the founder of the Missionaries of Charity and Nobel Peace Prize winner had urged then-Gov. George Deukmejian to spare Harris as Jesus would have. At the time, Deukmejian told Mother Teresa he understood her concern but that he had sworn to uphold the law, including capital punishment.
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Painting of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha sent to Quebec C AUG H N A W AG A. Quebec (CNS) - A painting of .BJesSl:d. Kateri Tekakwitha that' was in-' spired by a reported miracle attributed to the beatified Native American has been given a permanent home in the sanctuary of the mission in Caughnawaga where she was buried. Ceremonies permanently installing the painting. "Lily of the Mohawks." were held April 12 during a special Mass honoring Blessed Kateri. The painting by Arizona artist Marlene McCauley has been shown widely during the past 18 years. Mrs. McCauley did the painting in 1974. shortly after her 4-yearold son Peter was cured of a yearlong partial deafness in both ears which had been caused by an infection. Mrs. McCauley. at the recommendation of a priest friend. had asked Blessed Tekakwitha to intercede in her son's case. The boy's hearing was suddenly restored on April 18, 1973, the 317th anniversary of Kateri Tekakwitha's baptism. Ear surgery planned for Peter was canceled after doctors decided it was no longer necessary. . Later. documents stating that the cure has no medical ex planation were sent to the Vatican CongregatiQn for Sainthood Causes. The McCauley family traveled to Rome in 1980 to witness the beatification of Blessed Kateri. She was the first North American lay person to be beatified. In 1985. the family presented Pope John Paul II a videotape of "Lily of the Mohawks." a pageant they had Produced. Kateri was born in 1656 of a Christian Algonquin mother and a Mohawk father in the village of Ossernenon along the Mohawk River in what is now the state of New York. Her parents named her Loragode - meaning sunshine. At age 4 she .w.as,orphan~d a.n~ .. .. .: .
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Priest quits groups PHILADELPHIA(CNS)-The head of Catholic Social Services in the Philadelphia archdiocese hai, resigned membership in two na路路 tional organizations over their pro.. abortion stand. Msgr. Joseph P. Garvin, who is also archdiocesan secretary for human services, quit the National Association of Social Workers and the related Academy of Certified Social Workers. "The pro-abortion stance of the NASW becomes more and more pronounced every year with little tol.. erance for those like myself who believe that unborn children have rights along with those of us who were fortunate enough to born," Msgr. Garvin wrote in letter to the organization's executive director, Mark G. Battle.
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MARQUETTE, Mich. (CNS) - ''I'm not Mother Teresa. Bob's not Ghandi. We're just Bob and Caryl." They describe themselves as just ordinary people, but Bob and Caryl Bournique have begun to play an extraordinary role in the lives of homeless women and families in Marquette. Since October 1990 they have opened their home to more than 50 single women or families with children, for periods ranging from one to three or four months. They call their home Loaves and Fishes Hospitality House. It is their latest step in a spiritual journey that began in 1984 when Bob, then an FBI agent, enrolled in the Marquette diocesan Lay Ministries Leadership School and met Caryl. Caryl, then a nun, was adult religious education coordinator at St. Michael Parish in Marquette and became Bob's spiritual director. The two became very close, and after prayer they came to see marriage and working together as the path God wanted them to take. She obtained a dispensation from her vows and the}' married in 1986. They moved into his lakefront home on the south shore of Lake Superior'in Big Bay, about 25 miles west of Marquette. They went through Renew, a widely used program of parish renewal and lay leadership, and joined Pax Christi, the Catholic peace movement. They studied and reflected on the U.S. bishops' 1986 pastoral letter on the economy. From those and other experiences they came to the conviction that they should simplify their lives. "We started on that tack, first by just getting rid of some of the extraneous 'things we had around the house," said Bob, a 55-yearold native of Butler, Pa., in an interview with The Upper Peninsula Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Marquette. "Then we got rid of the house," interjected Caryl, who is 44 and comes from Peoria, Ill. They sold the house in 1988. For Bob the next step was more drastic. He resigned from the -FBI, where he had worked for 17 years. "I had grown such in my faith that I knew now that some ofthe things that I had to do as an FBI agent were not in keeping with the Gospel," he said. . He took up nursing as a second career. He became a licensed practical nurse and is employed parttime at Marquette General Hospital. In 1990 they bought a home in Marquette and converted it into an emergency shelter for homeless women and children. Within two . weeks it was filled to capacity, with four women and four children. The Bourniques said that initially they had to work through the idea of letting strangers into the house, but they soon learned there was something more difficult: letting their guests be themselves. "It's easy to let them come in the house and feed them and supply those kinds of needs, but the hard part is living with them and sharing each other's lives," Bob commented. "And the reason it's hard is the reason it's hard to live with anybody," Caryl said. "It's not hard because they're homeless. It's hard because they've had different life experiences." Caryl described their work for the homeless as "an opportunity that God has given us ... part of . \ our ~~9Ie faithj~!1P~ey:'
"We don't look on it as charity, generally. It's just a justice issue," said Bob. "We're the stewards., God gave us what he gave us, and we're supposed to share it with other folks." Families and single women are referred to the Bourniques by local agencies like the St. Vincent de Paul Society. By last December, 14 months after they first opened their doors, they had received requests to serve 159 people. They sheltered 53 people - 30 of them children - but had to turn down the requests of the other 106 because they had no room. The requests for help escalated sharply last October and November, following state cutbacks on public assistance, Bob said. He said the Marquette area could use at least two more emergency shelters. He and Caryl hope they can eventually expand their home from four guest bedrooms to seven, but'they will need volunteer help to do it. In accord with the principles and ideals of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement, with which they are loosely affiliated, Bob
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Continued from Page One sheer immensity of the task. Over in the apostolates for Family Life, the centuries, the light of faith has been kindled to scatter the darkPastoral Ministry to the Sick, Social Services, Child Care, edu- ness of racism, slavery and discrimination of all kinds. The growth cation and pastoral endeavors. of the Church is built upon the "Some disbursements are made labors of faith-fil1ed men and for capital expenses, such as the women who shared their light with debt service for St. Vincent's Home, others. The list ofthose reco~nized and the al1ocations for capital for their holiness by the Church is improvements that have been made a hall of fame of evangelization: at Coyle-Cassidy and Bishop Stang Blesseds Kateri Tekakwitha, Junihigh schools. We were also able to pero Serra, and Katherine Drexel; set aside additional monies to help and Saints Elizabeth Ann Seton, pay for some of the needed repairs John Neumann, Rose Phillipine to diocesan buildings, specifically Duchesne, Frances Xavier Cabrini. the Catholic Youth Organization [They) al1 stand in the history of on Anawan street, Fall River, and evangelization in the Americas as the Diocesan Health Facilities high points of light in the sharing Office. of faith and Gospel-based hope. "We have been able to maintain "There were many thousands of the 'traditional' programs in the others, people just like ourselves, current fiscal year. $472,400 has been allocated to Catholic Social . who witnessed to their faith every day. It is through this effort that Services, the largest single expenthe Gospel message is preached. diture of the Appeal. $306,306 has been spent on our Pastoral Minis-路 Today, as we reflect on 500 years of evangelization, we realize that try to the Sick. An amount of the mission is far from completion. $120,960 has been expended for "In our own country, so blessed Special Apostolates, principally the with an abundance of this world's Apostolate for the Spanish-Speaking. The sum of $53,175 was allogoods, we are still dismayed at the cated for Diocesan Communicapoverty, hunger, and homelessness tions. This funds not only the which exists side-by-side with great Diocesan Communications Office wealth. As 'children of the light' but also the budget for the Televi- we are called to do all that we can sion Mass Apostolate. The Dioce- to alleviate the causes of suffering and to show by our words and san Apostolate for Persons with Disabilities has received $26,295, actions the truth that each person and the Office for Religious re- is created in the image and likeness of God. ceived an al1ocation of $32,545. "The Diocesan Education Cen"In the words of this year's ter received $209,200. We are happy motto for the 1992 Catholic Charito report that for the second year ties Appeal, we are cal1ed to: 'Be as in a row, the Most Reverend Daniel generous as God has been to you.' Looking"ahead to the next five A. Cronin, our beloved former bishop, had increased the Scholar- hundred years of the Gospel mesship Aid Program for the students sage in this land, we must make the in our diocesan schools to the concerns of our less fortunate amount of $70,000. This is the brothers and sisters our own. With second year in a row that we have your help, and the assistance of so been able to increase this amount .many others throughout the dioby $20,000. The Campus Ministry cese, we can bring a little more to program received $54,350, and the those in need. Office of Youth Ministry received "As we look to the future, we $73,400. St. Vincent's Camp, under can see that the needs of those its revised day camp format, re- assisted by the Catholic Charities ceived $88,430, and the Office of Appeal remain great. The work the Permanent Diaconate was allo- involved wil1 be an effort of coopcated $43,800. This past year was eration by all. I thank all of you the first year that a budget was who have agreed to be 路a part of constructed for the pro-life activi- our Annual Appeal. To Father ties, and the total sum of $10,325 Freitas and the priests who assist was spent in this area. I anticipate him, I offer my thanks and my that this particular area will con- prayers for continued success. I tinue to grow in the next few years. thank this year's chairman, Cha"This is a summary ofthe manner rles Rozak, and the many dediin which the proceeds of our 1991 cated. workers represented by you Catholic Charities Appeal were in the auditorium tonight. By channeled to the many agencies of working together, we can make the diocese, and by them to those the 1992 Catholic Charities Appeal who are the beneficiaries of the a great success. The need is clear, services. The Appeal remains the our duty as Christian evangelizers single source of funding for the should supply the necessary zeal various apostolates and agencies for the mission: 'To be as generous throughout the diocese. as God has been to us.' "For your generous support and "May the Risen Savior fill you that of all of our benefactors, I and your loved ones with the blessexpress my heartfelt thanks. ings of the Easter Season. May he "Significantly our 51 st Charities bless the work of the 1992 Catholic Appeal takes place as we observe Charities Appeal and prosper the the 500th anniversary of the voyage efforts of evangelization that the of Columbus and the arrival of the Appeal helps to support". Gospel message into the AmeriAs Generous As God Has Been cas. The voyage of Columbus and Charles Rozak offered the folthe other explorers to this land was an encounter of many peoples lowing words on his role as Appeal and of this land. However, as the chairman and the role of layperHoly Father, Pope John Paul II, sons in the work of the Appeal: "When I was approached by said at the opening of the Quincentenary observance: 'It is a history Diocesan Director Father Freitas, containing more light than sha- and asked if I would accept the chairmanship for the 1992 Catholic dows.' "As we look back at the heroic Charities Appeal, I felt honored efforts of Christian missionaries to and elated. One of his requests was bring the light of the Gospel to this that I give a short presentation in continent, we are impressed at the reference to this year's theme: 'Be
as generous as God has been to you.' "It may sound trite or old fashioned, but what I am about to say is true. I think most of us, if not al1 of us, at one time or another see in the newspaper, hear on the radio or see on television people suffering from the lack of basic life necessities: food, clothing, shelter, good health, employment. "When you see or hear these pictures or stories does it just go in one ear and out the other, 'out of sight, out of mind?' Do you ever ponder for a moment and think, 'Gee, it's too bad for these people,' and let it go? Or, do you stop for a moment and think, 'I could be in that person's shoes. There, but for the grace of God, be I.' "It enters my mind, and it enters it often. I say to myself, 'Charlie, you have your health, you can meet your obligations, now why
don't you dig down just a little deeper and make that next contribution just a little bigger.' "If and when you are solicited for contributions, do you ever try to increase that donation regardless of how small the increase may be? Wel1, now is the time; this is the place - the 1992 Catholic Charities Appeal. Can you be as generous as God has been to you? "The recent earthquakes in Turkey, dramatically brought into our homes through newspaper and television reporting, showed us the face of suffering and pain. Here is a need. Again, I say, 'there but for the grace of God be al1 of us.' But we do not have to travel the globe to find those in need. The needy are right here in our own diocese, in our cities and towns, in our parishes. For the past 50 years the good people of the diocese of Fal1 River have seen the need and have
responded generously. This 51st Appeal unites our diocesan church. Every aspect of our common Catholic life - and even beyond - is' touched in some way by this work of charity. Allow me to illustrate. "Across the diocese, hundreds of sick men, women and children are visited each day in hospitals and nursing homes. The healing presence of Jesus is brought to the pain of their lives through the Appeal-funded pastoral ministry to the sick. "Young couples preparing for the sacrament of marriage are enriched by the Marriage Preparation programs of the Family Life Office. The hopeful presence -of Jesus is brought to these young couples as they prepare for lifetime commitment. "Catechists and religious educaTurn to Page 16
Statement of Revenues. and Expenditures 1991 Catholic Charities Appeal J. TOTAL RECEIVED, Net Proceeds 1991 Appeal II. DISBURSEMENTS, Made or Allocated Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 1991
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1. SOCIAL SERVICE AND CHILD CARE a. b. c. d. e.
Catholic Social Service Saint Vincent's Home (Debt) Saint Vincent's Camp Diocesan Special Apostolates Catholic Youth Organization
2. APOSTOLATES TO THE SICK a. Pastoral Ministry to the Sick
472,400.00 110,000.00 88,430.00 120,960.00 70,300.00
862,090.00
306,306.00
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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
389,200.00
110,000.00
4. PASTORAL ENDEAVORS a. b. c. d.
Diocesan Family Life Memberships, Conf. Charities Appeal Office Development Priestly Personnell Priests Council e. Liturgical f. Permanent Diaconate g. Campus Ministry h. Communications i. Youth Ministry j. Developmental Disabilities k. Office for Religious I. Pro-life Activities' m. Capital Improvements n. Misc. (Vocations, Ecumenics, etc.)
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98,700.00 91,212.50 94,400.00 5,782.00 24,120.00 43,800.00 54,350.00 53,175.00 73,400.00 26,295.00 32,545.00 10,3Z5.00 78,512.00 9,312.50
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NET PROCEEDS OF 1991 DISBURSEMENTS MADE OR ALLOCATED
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An environmental mindset By Father Eugene Hemrick When I was a teenager our home had a dirt driveway that one year needed to be dug out. It was early spring and the frost in the ground made digging near impossible. In utter frustration I found a pick and began ever so slowly to chip away at the surface. Once I broke through the top layerthejob became asnap because the frozen ground came out in big hunks quickly. That simple experience taught me that once you find the right approach, you can conquer the earth with speed and ease. Wonderful as this fact is, it has a dark side. It means we've found approaches that destroy forests at the rate of one and one-half acres per second and along with them thousands of living species that never can be replaced. It means we continue to generate waste in the United States at a rate that exceeds twice the average body weight of every American every day. It means dead dolphins wash up along the Mediterranean Coast, their immune systems weakened by too much pollution. It means we have found quick and easy ways to break through
Gulf war resister freed early WASHINGTON (CNS) - Capt. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, an Army Reserve physician convicted of desertion for refusing to go to the Persian Gulf, was released from prison April 6 after serving eight months of a 30-month sentence. Ms. Huet-Vaughn, a Catholic, was one of the most vocal critics of the war, calling it "immoral, inhumane and unconstitutional." Army Secretary Michael Stone granted her clemency. During her imprisonment, Amnesty I nternational called Ms. Huet-Vaughn one of28 U.S. "prisoners of conscience" because of their jailing over conscientious objection, according to the Rev. L. William Yolton, executive director of the Washington-based National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors. Ms. Huet-Vaughn "fit the classic conscientious objector pattern," Mr. Yolton, a Presbyterian minister, told Catholic News Service. She worked at a poverty clinic in Kansas City, Mo., and "was active in Catholic pacifist activities," he added. Now released from the reserves, Ms. Huet-Vaughn "will be free to speak" on issues of war and peace, Mr. Yolton said. "That's what got her the big sentence." Mr. Yolton said the 3D-month sentence had originally been cut in half before Stone granted clemency. Ms. Huet-Vaughn, 40, was one of just two women jailed for refusing to report to their units when th~~ were called up in the Gulf CriSIS.
He added that while 90 percent of all conscientious objector claims were approved by the end of the Vietnam War, only 10 percent were approved during the Gulf War. Mr. Yolton said Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif., was to introduce a bill in late April giving greater protection to conscientious objectors. Gulf War objectors, he added, had given input to Dellums' staff in the bill's drafting stages.
the barriers that have kept our vast forests, oceans and river systems in order. In doing so we have set in rapid motion destructive forces that may be irreversible. In the book "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" (Houghton Mifflin), Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) tells us that the ecological destruction we are experiencing is the result of our loss of faith in the future. We are losing touch with the earth and losing the desire to invest in longterm plans for the environment. I would add that severe economic problems also have focused our attention on personal survival. Once we are so focused, survival of the environment tends to become a secondary concern. To stop environmental destruction, Gore calls for a Global Marshall Plan, a Stewardship Council and a Strategic Environment Initiative. He would like to see our massive technological developments made a reality in poor nations so that they can phase out old technology injurious to the environment. The Stewardship Council would act much like the U.N. Security Council, monitoring the global environment, however, rather than dealing with war and peace. Whenever I hear talk like this on ecology, I wonder what each of us presently is doing about the environment. If we aren't doing anything, the spirit needed to make Gore's global vision possible won't be there. . Which leads me to raise some simple questions. How much of the paper and aluminum cans we use ourselves get recycled? One-fourth? Half? All? When did we last walk to a destination instead of driving when the opportunity presented itself? Is energy efficiency at home a priority for us? What about our workplaces? If environmental responsibility at work costs a business something in terms of dollars and cents, do we consider it out of the question? Obviously, such questions concern particulars. What about our mindset? Do we feel the new focus on preserving the environment is a kick that will go away once all this scare of global warming settles down? Are we still waiting to be convinced that action on behalf of the environment is truly necessary? In terms of history, it didn't take long to place our environment in jeopardy. It needn't take long to set it right if we are properly disposed to do so.
Lawsuit dismissed NEW YORK (CNS) - A federaljudge has dismissed New York Rabbi Avi Weiss's lawsuit against Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, ruling that the rabbi failed to give the cardinal proper legal notice ofthe lawsuit. Rabbi Weiss made international headlines in July 1989 as leader of a demonstration against a controversial Polish Carmelite convent at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. He has been trying for more than two years to sue Cardinal Glemp for slander because of critical remarks about the demonstrators the cardinal made in a subsequent homily.
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Archbishop Romero diaries to be released as book WASHINGTON (CNS) - Diaries taped by Archbishop Oscar Romero have been translated and transcribed for a book to be published by St. Anthony Messenger Press in the fall. In 1990 then-Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, now a cardinal, acquired English-language book rights to Archbishop Romero's tapes from the Archdiocese of San Salvador for the U.S. Catholic Conference. In March of that year, Cardinal Mahony, who at the time was chairman of the U.S. Bishops' international pOlicy, committee, announced that the USCC planned to translate and publish the diaries. He noted that Archbishop Romero "belongs to all of us now, to all those who work for justice in the world and for peace, especially in Central America, especially in his beloved EI Salvador." The USCC later licenst:d St. Anthony Messenger Press of Cincinnati to publish the Englishlanguage version ofthe diaries. St. Anthony will publish it under the title"Archbishop Oscar Romero: A Shepherd's Diary." The tapes are "pretty much a record of the daily events, who he met, what he talked about," said Lisa Biendenbach, managing editor for St. Anthony Messenger Press, a Franciscan publishing house. She added that they are "definitely not a spiritual diary, but more a chronicle of what happened." Archbishop Romero was shot to death March 24, 1980, as he celebrated Mass at San Salvador's Divine Providence Hospital. No one has ever gone to trial for the murder, but a right-wing death squad is suspected. He was made archbishop of San Salvador in 1977, and in the last two years of his life he kept a diary of his activities and his reflections of each day's happenings. To prepare the soon-to-be-released book, three sources were used: the tapes themselves, a Span-. ish transcription of the tapes, and a Spanish version of the diaries published by the Archdiocese of San Salvador in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the archbishop's assassination.
Irene B. Hodgson, a Spanish professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, made a translation from the three sources. Tom Quigley of the USCe's Office for International Justice and Peace is editing the translation. . The USCC, Ms. Biedenbach said, has "total control over approving all the copy." The San Salvador Archdiocese retains all rights to the tapes. No plans have been announced to release the tapes in audio form. The USCC will receive no royalty income from the book, according to Dan Juday, director of the USCC Office for Publishing and Promotion Services.
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YOUTH DAY HOPEFULS: Pope John Paul II greets Steven Lethao of the archdiocese of S1. Paul-Minneapolis after celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in S1. Peter's Square. Lethao, as well as Timothy Teuber of the same archdiocese and Xochitl Ruiz of Denver (center) was among young people from three U.S. cities awaiting announcement of the site for the 1993 WorId Youth Day. The pope announced that he had chosen Denver for the celebration. (eNS/ Reuters photo)
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Israel's ambassador to Italy briefed Pope John Paul II on the Mideast peace process and reiterated Israel's desire for full diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The pope met at the Vatican with the ambassador, Avi Pazner, who recently was assigned to Italy. The Vatican called the meeting a "courtesy visit." An Israeli embassy spokesman, Raphael Gamzou, however, said the two had discussed a number of substantive issues. The ambassador briefed the pope on the recent peace talks and on "the efforts of Israel to promote progress toward full pacification with our Arab neighbors and the whole Arab world," Gamzou said. Pazner also described to the pope what Israel sees as obstacles to Mideast peace, including "Islamic fundamentalism," Gamzou said. The ambassador used the meeting to emphasize Israel's longstanding desire for full diplomatic recognition by the Vatican. Diplomatic relations with Israel
been a sensitive issue at theVatican. The Vatican has said it recognizes Israel and its need for security, but has refrained from diplomatic relations because of unsettled "legal difficulties." These difficulties, in the Vatican's view, include the presence of Israel in the occupied territories and its relations with Palestinians, Israel's annexation of the holy city of Jerusalem, and problems of the Catholic Church in Israel and Israeli-occupied territories. During their meeting, Pazner thanked the popeforthe Vatican's recent message of condolences after a terrorist bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that left 29 people dead and hundreds wounded. Pazner, a former Israeli government press spokesman, took up his Italian assignment in December. The Vatican maintains a delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine who has contact with Israeli authorities. The Israeli embassy in Italy has an official in charge of liaison with the Vatican.
Activist priest leaves Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (CNS) - Father Andres Giron, a land reform activist and politician, has left Guatemala to consider his possible resignation from politics. "I feel run down and can no longe~ take the internal political war and the frustration of never changing anything," Father Giron, a member of the Christian Democrat Party, said before his departure. Father Giron, suspended
from the active priesthood after taking his congressional seat in violation of canon law, iii March defied his enemies and vowed to stay in the country despite assassination attempts and death threats. After being a legislator for more than a year, he said he feels the only option for change is a social "revolution, to push the private sector into a corner so as they cannot get out." .
CATHOLIC RELIEF Services provided goods and the Pentagon provided aircraft for an emergency airlift of 60 tons of baby food to the Russian Far East. The Good Friday shipment was the first in a 900-ton supply being sent to the area over the next six months to relieve severe shortages. of infant formula. The charity has received a $41 million grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department to provide 30,000 tons of food to the Russian Far East. According to some stories, the shortages are so bad that traders travel as far as Moscow, thousands of miles away, just on the rumor that formula IS available, CRS said in a news release. Whatever supplies are made available in the Far East are then sold at exorbitant prices, according to the stories, the agency said. At CRS headquarters in Baltimore, the agency's relief coordinator for Khabarovsk, Karel Zelenka, said the agency will begin distribution "as soon as the formula is off the plane." CRS is the international development and relief arm of the U.S. Catholic Conference.
* * * * FOLLOWING PROTRACTED international negotiations, a new interfaith center has opened close to the former Nazi wartime concentration camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland. The center, located about 300 yards from the camp wall, grew out of a controversy over the site of a Carmelite convent which
soured international Catholic-Jewish relations for a time. The Carmelites, who were located in a building next to the former camp's wall, are expected to be re-housed at the center complex this fall. When fully operational, the center will organize meetings, courses and gatherings aimed at fostering mutual understanding among national and religious groups. It will also encourage study oUhe culture and fate of the Jews - who were 90 percent ofthe Auschwitz camp's 4 million victims.
**** PATRICK W. KENNEDY, a permanent deacon with 18 years of experience in fundraising, has been named development director for the North American College in Rome. For the last II years, Kennedy had been part of the development team at Covenant House in New York, the last four as assistant to the president. aefore that, he spent seven years as editor of Foundation News, a trade journal for the fundraising industry. Kennedy, 56, is a deacon of the Diocese of Trenton, N.J. He and his wife are the parents of three grown children. The college, founded in 1859, has 200 American seminarians and priest enrolled. The number is up over previous years, according to Msgr. Edwin F. O'Brien, rector.
* * * * CONTROVERSY HAS arisen over the cathedral under construction in Managua, Nicaragua. Some ridicule the design, which
includes 63 small domes and a 115foot bell tower. Others see cultural imperialism and millions of dollars ill-spent in a city where thousands live in cardboard and tin shacks. But Managua Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo defends the design, domes and all. "The domes are going to be seen from below, not above," he said. "It's going to be very beautiful."路 With the help of U.S. pizia magnate Tom Monaghan, the 54.5 million cathedral is slowly rising from a Managua lot. Local church leaders hope the site will be visited by Pope John Paul II in October, when he is scheduled to go to the Dominican Republic.
* * * * PRESIDENT CORAZON Aquino denounced as "a brutal act of terrorism" a grenade attack on an Easter Sunday procession in the southern Philippines that killed at least II people and wounded more than 70 others. Many of those hurt were children dressed as angels for the parade. The grenade, wrapped in a white handkerchief, exploded in a crowd of 7,000 Catholics watching a proc~ssion bearing statues ofthe resurrected Christ and the Virgin Mary outside St. Michael's Cathedral in Iligan city on Mindanao island. Moslem youths seeking revenge on a gang of Christian teenagers who earlier beat up a Moslem were suspe~ted in the attack. Unable to find the Christian gang, the young Moslems apparently vented their anger on the worshipers, said national police chief Cesar Nazareno.
Church reviewing cases of Czech priests ordained under communism VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia is continuing a case-by-case examination of the status of men - some married - who are clandestinely ordained to the priesthood during 25 years of harsh communist rule. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Vatican spokesman, said recent newspaper reports suggesting that the Vatican has revoked the priestly status of most of those secretly ordained is not true. A spokesman for the Czechoslovakian bishops has said that perhaps 80 of the 300 or so clandestinely ordained priests are mar~ ried. Two or three women also have claimed they were ordained to the priesthood by a Catholic bishop. "You have to start from the point that when someone is validly priest ordained a priest, he is forever," Navarro-Valls told Catholic News Service. "The problem is, were these ordinations .valid? If they were, then they can continue," he said. In the case of the women, the ordinations were not valid, he said, both because one must be male to be a priest and because the bishop who apparently ordained the women had been imprisoned and was mentally ill, Navarro-Valls said. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was in
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Czechoslovakia in late March and early April to help Czechoslovakian bishops figure out how to clarify the status of those secretly ordained and determine the role they may have in church now. The clandestinely ordained men were given until April 12 to present themselves to their local bishop and request the normalization of their status. Final figures on the number of men who had come forward were not yet available at the Vatican~ Many ofthe cases had not been resolved. Navarro-Valls said Cardinal Ratzinger told him he was "very optimistic that everything can be resolved" and that there was good will on all sides. Frantisek X. Halas, Czechoslovakia's ambassador to the Vatican and a personal friend of Archbishop Miloslav Vlk of Prague, said the normalization of the priests' status is "part of learning to live in a normal, open society." Halas said the statement included a clear declaration that all mar-
riages and other sacraments performed by the clandestine priests are valid. . The main problem with determining who was validly ordained in the secrecy under which the church had to operate is the lack of official church records. The priests will be asked to supply names of witnesses and anything else that might help prove their valid ordination at the hands of a bishop. Navarro-Valls said the Vaticanapproved normalization process includes allowing those who were validly ordained after marrying to request permission to continue their priestly ministry in the Easternrite church, which ordains married men. Men who married after ordination, a practice which is not permitted in either the Latin or Eastern rites, will not be allowed to continue functioning as priests, he said. The theological, doctrinal and liturgical knowledge of validly ordained priests will be examined, Navarro-Valls said. The educational requirements are "not a punishment, but a real need" for those whose priestly education was severely limited under the communists. Navarro-Valls said the individual priests and bishops involved in the clandestine ordinations were doing what they felt they had to do to keep the church alive.
Holy Land 'trijj:set STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (eNS) - FIRE, a Catholic evangelistic ministry, plans an international rally in Jerusalem as part of aNov. 9-16 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. FIRE, an acronym for Faith, Intercession, Repentance and , Evangelization, has attracted more than 300,000 people for annual rallies since its founding in 1983. The group's mission, says a FIRE brochure, is to "apply the Gospel
to'the current confusion and error in the world affecting Catholics' faith, reach nominal Catholics by calling them to make a personal commitment to Christ and his Gospel, and challenge and strengthen faithful Catholics' commitment." Leaders include Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan, president of the Franciscan University ofSteubenville. Lay Fl RE leaders are Ralph Martin, founder and leader of
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Word of God, an ecumenical community in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Ann Shields, head of the community's Servants of God's Love women's group. Information on the Jerusalem trip is available from Mark Nehrbas at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH 43952.
Facts and Figures St. Mary-Sacred Heart School 57 Richards Avenue North Attleboro, MA 02760 Telephone (508) 695-3072
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NCAA Woman of Year also excels at life FORT WORTH, Texas (CNS) - For children living temporarily .at JLC.Q.t}l9.I!l;;T.VD_ .cri&is,Jcejlt~J:--in. Fort Worth, the young woman they call Mary Beth provides muchneeded hugs, an ever-present smile, and a helping hand to guide them . through the day. It'sjust another example of Mary Beth Riley doing ordinary things in an extraordinary way. Last Qctober, Ms. Riley was named the first national winner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Woman of the Year award. She was cited on the basis of athletics, academics, commimity service and leadership. She had previ,ously been New York's NCAA Woman of the Year and recipient of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Award of Valor. Before going to Texas last August, Ms. Riley graduated summa cum laude from Jesuit-run Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y., where she majored in English and Spanish. At Canisius, she successfully battled Hodgkin's' disease while competing in cross-country and track. The second of eight children, Ms. Riley credited her parents for her understanding of Christian service. "From the very start my parents taught in words and action that a person has a fair'amount of relationship with their neighbor automatically built in," Ms. Riley said. "We were educated in our religion, but also on what it meant to act on it, to be involved in what's going on in the community." She described her favorite Scripture passage, "Love one another as I have loved you," as "the bottom line throughout the whole Gospels and part of the reason why I'm here, doing what I'm doing." Ms. Riley, 22, said "running and being the fastest kid in the class - gave me a sense of confi-
dence, accomplishment and identity." 'Three years ago, two days after Christmas during her'sophomore year at Canisius, Ms. Riley was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer thatattacks,the lymphatic system. She continued to run while receiving chemotherapy., ," "Everyone has a battle to fight. With mine..it was important to me " to stay as normal as possible," Ms. Riley said. "I kept running because I didn't know what I'd do if I stopped. There was a sense of normality in the midst of aU the craziness going on." Now she runs 40 miles a week "for fun. Now' I run because I feel healthy. I'm able to think as the sun's coming up, to put my world in order and face the day." After graduating she joined Volunteers for Educational and Social Services, a Christian service organization sponsored by the Texas Catholic Conference, to put her Spanish to use. She volunteers at the Assessment Center of Tarrant, a crisis center for abused children run by diocesan Catholic Charities. She works with about 20 children at a time who have been physically and/ or emotionally abused. "Maybe, just maybe, something that happens here will open their minds and make some tiny change deep inside," Ms. Riley said. She doesn't sit around waiting for the five-year mark that would give her an all-clear from cancer. "Life is happening," she said. "I'm not crossing out X's for the next two years! I never wanted to feel like life is on hold, from the start, that's why I did go to school and kept running. "Out of anything bad there can be some good," she said, "and I have learned a lot about how, faced with adversity, I can still come out on top."
Founding dates: St. Mary, 1890; Sacred Heart, 1923; Consolidated, 1972. Principal: Mrs. Alberta Goss Director: Rev. Marcel Bouchard Tuition: $1000, less $25 for each additional child in a family 92 boys, 125 girls in kindergarten through grade 8 Specialty offerings: instrumental music, band
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Born of the fusion of two schools with deep roots in the community and nourished with more students and resources from nearby parishes, St. Mary-Sacred Heart School is truly a consolidation. The school's antecedents are St. Mary's School, established in 1890, and Sacred Heart School, established in 1923. The two were merged in 1972 as St. Mary's School and classes were moved to the smaller Sacred Heart School, a brick building on Richards Avenue, in 1981. Today SMSH School serves 217 students in grades kindergarten through eight. Most students are from the North Attleboro parishes of St. Mary, Sacred Heatt and St. Mark, but nine other parishes are represented as well. The building of a faith community is one of three facets ofthe school's philosophy. The other two are teaching doctrine and giving service. The students are 10'Vingly encouraged in all three areas by Father Marcel Bouchard, school director, and pastor of Sacred Heart parish; Mrs. Alberta Goss, principal, and her staff of dedicated teachers. . "Religious. doctrine.路and .academic.-pur-suits~are.-inteRwinedthroughout our students' lives and careers," said Mrs. Goss. A solid grounding in their Catho.Iic faith gives them a "way ofliving," she said, while they learn to apply their academic, artistic,' athletic; musicili and spiritual 'gifts. ' '. . Besides religion classes at every level, beginning with The Jesus Story in kind~.rgarten, the students receivespiritual education and enrichment through liturgies, formal prayer services and informal prayer. Father Bouchard, a familiar face to all students, is an active guest in religion classes and often helps plan liturgies. . . Miss Lillian Labrie, second grade teacher, and Sister Doris Desrosiers, first grade teacher, lay the foundations for first eucharist and first penance in their religion classes. The sacraments are admini&tered at the students' individual parishes during th'eir second grade year, but Father Bouchard celebrates a special Mass for all of them shortly thereafter so they can receive the eucharist as a class within their school community. Academics have always been a strength at SMSH, and the 1991-92 school year has introduced some innovations. Fifth graders are "parents" this year-thanks to their teacher, Mrs. Ellen Guillette! they have adopted two animals at th'e Capron Park Zoo in Attleb9ro-a skunk and a ground cuscus. Two integrated curriculums this year focused on water themes. Third and fourth graders tied their studies to an Under the Sea theme after a visit to the New England Aquarium. Fifth through eighth graders underscored their lessons with river images after attending a production of "Big River" at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy. ., The science curriculum has for several years included a science fair for grades 6-8, with winners progressing to diocesan competition. This year, rented kits from the 'Boston Science Museum are bringing hands-on scientific learning within grasp of the younger children as well. Mrs. Mary Jane Burke offers a strong course in literature to seventh and eighth gJ:aders. This year Mrs. Barbara Conners is instructing several eighth graders in algebra, in addition to her regular . challenging math classes for the upper g r a d e s . . After-school offerings at SMSH include a winter basketball program, Brownie and Girl Scout troops, and, new this year, an instrumental music program and school band. Frequently the school community intersects with the community at large. Ms. Colleen Barrett's third graders, for instance, are given several opportunities to join in commu- , nity activities. ' "Tour guides have commented to me about how well-mannered and well-behaved our children are," said Ms. Barrett. "I feel the children are united by the awareness that they are par:t of a very special community, and they represent that community through their deeds and actions. "In part, this feeling stems from being together since kindergarten, for most ofthem, along with their knowledge that we are all united through Christ." . A strong doctrinal program and spiritual community lead naturally to service. The school adopted a needy family during the Christmas season. The seventh-eighth grade homeroom also collected items for needy newborns which were distributed through Birthright of the Attleboro area. According to one anecdote in the school's written history, Father Louis Dequoy worked diligently during the early I920s to begin Sacred Heart School, even before the church itself was completed. "Give me my school," he asked, "and I will give you your church." His school changed, moved, consolidated and moved back, but it endures. It's poised for the 21st Happy kindergarteners century.
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PEACE OF MIND By Christopher Carstens She doesn't mind when the group she hangs out with calls her Little One or Sweet Thing. After all, in the world of the street gang, everybody has a name other than 'the one their mother gave them. But it makes her mad when they call her Huera - Spanish for blondie - or Gringa which means white girl. Those names bother her because they remind her that she's different. She speaks with the softened vowels of a Spanish accent, as if she learned Spanish in her early childhood and English when she needed it for school. But she doesn't even know the Spanish words for "car" and "jacket" or "drive-by shooting" - all common topics in her everyday conversations. She doesn't know those words because she doesn't speak Spanish. Her name is Irish, and when her parents moved from New Jersey to Southern California they had no idea that within three years their daughter - by then 14 would be running with a Hispanic gang. It places its claim on the streets of San Ysidro, a dusty California town trying to grow into a city, with the Mexican border on the South. The gang members call themselves Varrio Sidro Locos, "The Crazy Boys From the Neighborhoods of SanYsidro." She hasn't been "jumped in," the ritual beating that marks true gang admission, nor has she participated in any of the acts of violence that mark the true member. She has written VSL on walls in neighborhoods claimed by Otay, the gang directly to the north, but ,
she hasn't shot at any of its members. She insists she would "get down," go with the fight wherever it led, but she hasn't yet had the chance. Because she doesn't really belong. She is still the white girl, the one who is different. And she doesn't belong at school anymore because her appropriated accent and her hairstyle and the inch-long "tails" of black makeup drawing from the corners of her eyes call out "gang," and the straight kids with B averages and dates for the dance back away in suspicion. Huera says the members of her gang understand her problems. Maybe they do. ,At least the gang doesn't tease her about her weight. She'd heard so much of that. She couldn't stand another "Look, a beached whale," from the straight kids. So now when'it starts, she stares them down and spits out, "Say that infront of my home boy, Nestor." The teasing quickly ends. Nestor is known. Maybe Nestor is her home boy, maybe he isn't, but they won't risk meeting Nestor and five or six of his close friends on the way home from school. She knows. She knows Nestor and the rest ofthe VSL will protect her. She knows. Or she thinks she knows. Maybe th'at's why she felt so bad about the rape. She sobbed under her breath while the police drove her to the emergency room, but she didn't give them any names. Nestor would say he was sorry. She knew he would. After all, she's his home girl. He would say it was just the drugs, he'd never hurt his little sister on purpose.
Too many things have come and gone I didn't really mean to stay so long Because memories are not what they seem Flowers fade like a summer's dream Lost words are never found Hand in hand we stood our ground If I'd talk to JFK I could tell you what he'd say 'Imagine it All we need is peace of mind Then one day Every heart will fall in line All we need is peace of mind Love is strong, love goes on Hey, did you know that your brother's gone He didn't even know the Viet Cong If crystal clouds would fill the sky Lucy lives on the other side A world full of grownups says Live and learn as my daddy says Generations passing in time All searching for a sign Imagine this Looking back at reality I can see so easily Looking back as I close my eyes I can imagine what life could have been for me How do you know where you are I never really thought you would go this far For memories are not what they seem Flowers fade like a summer's dream Looking back as I close my eyes I can see that you're really in love with me Written by L. Howe, L. Reny. Sung by One to One (c) 1992 by A&M Records Inc. "IMAGINE IT. All we need to One's debut release, "Peace is peace of mind. Then one day, of Mind." every heart will fall in line. . . . I really like the song. As I write this column, the song is Love is strong, love goes on." Can you use your imaginajust edging into the charts, but I tion to ponder what these lyrics predict it will be a quick riser. suggest? They come from One Most of us would agree that
peace of mind is a much desired goal. Yet we lose this emotional sense when worry, fear or inner hurt afflict our lives. We may find ourselves obsessing about current or coming circumstances and lose our peace of mind. The song offers some clues on how to re-establish this peace. I affirm the song's stress on the imagination. However, instead of imagining "what life could have been for me," I encourage people to focus the imagination on the future. Rather than looking back over what cannot be changed, use the imagination to layout a blueprint for what you want your life to become. F or example, if you are considering a certain career, begin to imagine what your life will be like when actually working in your chosen field. See your satisfactions and the joys gained through this work. Imagine yourself getting past any perceived obstacles to reach this goal. The song also stresses how "love is strong, love goes on." Indeed, this is true. We can go nowhere in life where God's presence does not follow us. At times we may be depressed or inwardly broken by life's pain. Yet God's love is strong, persistent. If we open our hearts to receive God's love, our healing will begin. Even as the grieflingers, our lives begin to sprout new promise. When we merge the power of our imagination with an awareness of how much we are loved, our peace of mind gets built upon a lasting foundation. Any of us might lose it from time to time, but we have within us the resources to rediscover inner peace. Allow both your mind and your heart to show you the way. Your comments are welcomed by Charlie Martin, R.R. 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635
Mixed media impressions By Dan Morris The Vatican has issued a new document encouraging church leaders to take better advantage of modern communication technology. I suggest starting with a universal prayer to St. Anthony for those of us who have lost our remote-channel changers. The document is titled" Aetatis Novae," which means neither"New Wave Antenna" nor "No Way Dude" for, those of you a little rusty on your Latin. (Actual translation: "A New Era.") , It took five years to create, exactly how long it takes the average Catholic to learn to program his or her VCR. Protestants take slightly longer, but they do not have Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to pray to. , The document said the church should be more actively involved in the secular media, especially in shaping media policy. I hope this includes demanding a return to the NFL's instant replay review and holding networks to the fire for running Roseanne rer-
uns back-to-back and calling it a special. Satellites, cable TV, fiber optics, videocassettes, compact discs and computer imaging should all be considered for church use, it said. It did not mention overhead projectors like the one my parish uses to put hymn words on the wall, but that might have been an oversight. Recent media developments have been a "revolution," itsaid, clearly an insightful allusion t6 how liitle houses in the country, former busstop sheds and the produce section' of many supermarkets have beel) converted into video-renial shops. The pastoral instruction also wants bishops to provide "media formation" for Catholic seminarians. This might mean seminary classes like "Fiber Optics and Faith" or "The Old Testament on Able. Cable and Cain." But it could also lead to overhead projector transparencies that parishioners can read from the back pews.
JOHN McBRINE, second left, a seventh-grader at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, won a trophy and $200 savings bond in the Region III Science Fair at Bristol Community College for the best overall project in the junior division. Other SMSH entrants were, from left, Greg Aubin, grade 7; Jarrod Gingras, grade 8, who won a second place award; Danielle Corriveau (front), grade 8, third place; Lindsay Chablois, grade 8; and Tim Conrad, grade 7, third place. Mrs. Barbara Connors was science fair coordinator and advisor at SMSH.
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DOMINICAN ACADEMY, Fall River, eighth-graders Vanessa DeMarco, left, and Kimberly Patricio, right, and seventh-grader Kathryn Elbert were high scorers in Global Challenge .'~2, a n~tionwide current events and geography exam admlOlstered 10 February to junior high and high school students. As a group, DA seventh-graders scored nine points a~ove the national average for their grade level, while DA eIghth-graders scored six points above the national average. (Gaudette photo) .
St. Francis Xavier The third quarter honors list at St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, lists 45 students in grades I through 8 meriting honors. Highest honors went to Benjamin Jagla, grade 1; Andres Carreras, Allison Fossella, Jennifer Jackson, John Jannis, Sarah Martins, Erin McKenna, Colleen McKnight, Andrea ~oreira, Collette Pelletier, Lauren Pimental, grade 2. Allison Boudreau, Catherin Courcy, Nick Duarte, Julia Moreira, Derek Roy, Lindsey Surprenant, grade 3; Rebecca Coons, Erin Fogg, Anne Herer Kerry O'Malley, Kathryn Pimen~ tal, Elisabet Rodrigues, Kate Santos, Karen Sawicki, grade 4; Rose-
St. Anne's Three junior high school students at S1. Anne's School Fall River, merited recognition' at a recent regional science fair: Adrienne Bacon, second place; Adam Chapdelaine, third place; Jeffrey Figueiredo, honorable mention. Chapdelaine has also received an All-American Honorable Mention Scholar award in the Pop Warner football program.
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CYO basketball champs listed The Fall River area Catholic outh Organization has completed Its basketball league season. A list of regular season and playoff champion teams follows with reg·· ular season listed first: Junior A Boys: Holy Name, Santo Christo; Junior A Girls: Holy Name AI, Holy Name A2; Junior B Boys: St. William, Santo Christo; Junior B Girls: St. Jean B1. St. George. Junior C Boys: St. Stanislaus" Holy Name; Prep Boys: St. Mi·· chael, St. Michael (Diocesan Champions): Senior B Boys: Santo Christo 2, Santo Christo 2; Senim' A Boys: Santo Christo, Santo Christo; Junior AA Girls: Our Lady of Grace (Diocesan Champions). The basketball league banquet is scheduled for early May.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Overdosing on TV violence causes aggression, according to a psychologist who has studied violence and aggression for more than' 30 years. The psychologist, Leonard D. Eron, chairman of the American Psychological Association's Commission on Violence and Youth, stressed the impact of viewing violence at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. The hearing examined what induces violence among the young to aid the senators in devising strategies to combat it. "Television violence' affects youngsters of all ages, of both genders, at all socioeconomic levels and all levels of intelligence," Eronsaid. "There can no longer be any doubt that heavy exposure to televised violence is one of the causes of aggressive behavior, crime and violence in socie~,'~ Eron said. It's a "vicious cycle," in which "television violence makes children more aggressive and these more aggressive children turn to watching more violence to justify their own behaviors," he said. Eron also said that if watching . TV violence led to aggression, the opposite could be true and hazarded the opinion that "if media violence is reduced, the level of interpersonal aggression in our society will be reduced eventually." Franciscan Sister Regina Haney, acting executive director' of the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education department of the National Catholic Educational Association, said in an interview she strongly agreed that TV impacts on children's behavior and value system. Often youths think "there's no other option in a situation but a violent reaction," she said. Television doesn't offer peaceful ,approaches to solving conflicts, and as a result violent methods become for many youngsters "how you deal with 'conflict and disagreement," she said, She also said that TV violence can be misleading and keep young people from seeing that "violence has permanent consequences." "On TV," she said, for'example, "a character is shot to death on one show and then appears alive on another." Mercy Sister Camille D' Arienzo, a professor in the television and radio department of Brooklyn College, said television "desensitizes" peol!.l!=. Its dominance of the airwaves "diminishes access to heroes' and heroines as role models," she said. Whe{l "gratuitous violence consumes peoples' lives it is hard to have room for positive models of behavior which inspire and encourage and show alternatives to violence for problem-solving." .
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IL FOR UNBORN: University 'of Dayton students gather for a candlelight vigil for the unborn held recently on the campus of the Dayton, Ohio, Catholic University. More th~n 2,000. wooden crosses were set up to memorialize'unborn children kIlled each day in abortion clinics. (CNS photo)
JAMAICA, N.Y. (CNS) - An era has ended with the retirement of Lou Carnesecca after 24 years as men's basketball coach at St. John's University. Carnesecca, 67, listed two reasons for leaving: "N.o. I, I still have half of my marbles left. No.2, I have a wonderful taste in my mouth about basketball." He compiled a 526-200 record at Vincentian-run St. John's and was elected to ttieNational Basketball Hall of Fame in. January.·
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Poverty rate rising among children in young families WASHINGTON (CNS) - The poverty rate for children in families headed by pers ')ns under 30 has doubled to 40 p,~rcent in one generation, according to a new report. "The much heralded period of economic growth from 1982 to 1989 bypassed young families and they are now suffering dramatic additional losses from the current recession," said the report, called "Vanishing Dreams: The Economic Plight of America's Young Families." The report, released April 14 by the Children's Defense Fund and Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, looks at government statistics from 1973 to 1990 to assess the status of young families. In March 1991, there were 9 million families headed by someone younger than 30, the report said. Those families contained 10.6 million children, one-sixth of the nation's total. Overall, those families experienced a 32 percent drop in median income between 1973 and 1990. The poverty rate for children in young families rose from 20 percent to 40 percent in the same period. The drop in income and rise in child poverty occurred whether' the family was white, black or Hispanic, whether it was headed by a single parent or a married couple and whether the head of household was a high school graduate or a dropout"the report said. Only young families headed by a college graduate showed a slight increase in their median .inkQ.me. The report also said the problem is n~t ~ust urban or regional. with nearly three-quarters of the .children of young families living in pov~rty outside the_cel!!ral ~iti~s. "The implicit message to young Americans is frightening clear: bearing and raising and nurturing children may no longer be compatible with active pursuit of the American dream," said Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund. "No society can convey this message for long if it hopes to survive and prosper." She called on Congress to enact a refundable children's tax credit,
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a national plan for universal health care coverage and full funding for the Head Start early childhood education program. "America's young families cannot wait another year for a response ,to the economic disaster that has struck them," Ms. Edelman said. "While the deterioration of their econ~ic status will not be reversed quickly or easily, immediate steps must be taken by Congress in 1992." She said the United States spends "$9,718 per second for defense against vanishing enemies but. only $707 per second on child health and only$70 persecond on HeadStart."
Ateent box ottIce hit. i. Basic Instind, 0 (A)
2. Wayne's Wortd. A-III (Po-iS) 3. My Cousin VInny. A-Ih (A) ... The LawnrnoWer Man. A-III (R) ~.
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SymboiS" following reviews JOHANNESBURG, South ind,cate both. general and Africa (CNS) - The president of Catholic Films Office ratings, the southern African bishops' con- which do not always coincide. ference says the police' and army' General ra~ngs: G-suitable are failing to stop. violence in the black township of Alexandra. Bish- for general viewing; PG-13op Wilfrid Napier of Kokstad tel- parental guidance strongly ej!honed South Africa's minister. suggested for children under of law and order, Hernus 'Kriel, to demand "proper policing" of the t3; PG-parental guidance township. He spoke on behalf of suggested; R-.-restricted, unCatholic and Protestant church suitable for children or young leaders who recently gathered for teens. an annual meeting. "How many Catholic ratings: At-apdeaths 'do we need to prove that the South African Police and the proved for children and adults; South African Defense Force are A2-approved for adults and failing to protect our people?" they adolescents; A3-approved asked in a statement after the for adults only; A4-separate meeting. classification (given films not m.orally offensive which, however, require some analysis GOD'S ANCHO' and explanation); O-morally offensive.
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CAPE COD AIDS COUNCIL Buddies needed for HIVand AIDS patients. Three-day training session May I to 3. Information: George or Jason, 775-5111. VINCENTIANS, TAUNTON District Council Mass and meeting 7:30 p.m. May 4, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Taunton. 234 Second Street Fall River. MA 02721
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MARRIAGE ENCOUNTI<;R FALL RIVER DIOCESE Couples interested in information on forthcoming Marriage Encounter retreat weekends may contact Bob and Gail Enos, 52 Grove St., North Dartmouth 02747, tel. 9944446. OL HEALTH, FR Joseph de Oliveira is parish chairman for the Catholic Charities Appeal. He is Holy Name Society president, active in the parish choir and CCD program and an assistant to his father in maintaining parish property. ST. LOUIS, FR Secular Franciscans will meet following 6:30 p.m. Mass May 13. Linda Aguiar will speak on services available to those experiencing family violence. All welcome. SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, ATTLEBORO Support group meeting 7:30 to 9 p.m. April 26, St. Mary's rectory, North Attleboro; information: 695-6161. CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Confirmation retreat, St. Mary, New Bedford, tomorrow. CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Job Seekers Support Group meeting 7:45 p. m. April27, parish center. Information: Carl or Joanne Claussen. 823-0425. LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing service and Mass 2 p.m. Sunday at People's Chapel, including teaching, prayer and individual anointing. All welcome. Seminar, "Develop Your Spiritual Energies," 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 2 at the shrine, cond ucted by Sister Philomena Agudo, FMM, pastoral psychologist and former coordinator of the shrine pastoral counseling center. Information: 222-5410.
SEPARATED/DIVORCED, CAPE COD Meeting 6: 15 p.m. Sunday, SI. Pius X parish center, South Yarmouth. Theme: Children of Divorce: Responding to Their Needs. SACRED HEARTS RETREAT CENTER, WAREHAM Presentation on how to set up and run a food pantry 7:30 p.m. April28. A pantry is scheduled to open in Wareham on May 2. 5TONEHILL COLLEGE, N. EASTON Evening division adult education information night 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 27, Alumni Hall. Concerns of those returning to school after a time lapse will be addressed, including embarrassment, time management, study skills and financial aid. All welcome. Further information: 2301470. ST. STANISLAUS, FR Kindergarten teacher Ann Varley has created an "Angel of the Good News" at the empty tomb of Christ in the church vestibule. The angel points to the worship space of the parish's temporary church, where Christ is now to be found. The school's traditional "Dyngus Day" comes Monday, when students, protected by rain gear, douse one another with water pistols as a celebration of baptism and Easter joy. ST. JAMES, NB Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 7 p.m. each Wednesqay and Saturday in the church hall. Information: Leo, 994-8188. ST. ANNE, FR A memorial to Rev. Rene Patenaude. OP will be placed on the former grounds of St. Anne's Little League baseball field on Forest Street, now a parking lot for St. Anne's Hospital. All former League officials, managers and players are invited to attend 10 a.m. Mass May. 3, followed by ceremonies at the former field and refreshments in 51. Anne's School cafeteria. WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO Attleboro area widowed support group will gather for Mass and a meeting at 7 p.m. May I at St. Mary's parish center, North Attleboro.
BIRTHRIGHT, FALMOUTH Open House I t04 p.m. Sunday at Homeport. 320 Gifford St. REGIONAL ULTREYA Cape Cod regional ultreya meeting 7:30 tonight at O.L. Victory Church, Centerville.
CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUPS Cape Cod and Islands dean~ry will sponsor gathering of Catholic Charismatic prayer groups 7:30 p.m. Apri127, Corpus Christi parish center, Sandwich. Speaker will be Father Robert Kaszynski.
51st Appeal underway hearts of all and allow us to pro- . Continued from Page to vide for those less fortunate than tion personnel in all of our parishes are offered training and re- ourselves." Pro-Life Apostolate sources for their crucial work of Marian Desrosiers, Cape Cod sharing and teaching the faith. The Word of Jesus is proclaimed representative to the Diocesan through the Appeal-funded edu- Pro-Life Apostolate, spoke on behalf of the charities that benefit cation projects. "Y outh of our parishes and from'the annual Appeal. The mother of six children, Mrs. schools are encouraged, supported and directed by the programs, re- Desrosiers told how she became treats and resources offered by the involved with the pro-life commitAppeal-funded Office for Youth tee after losing two other children, one just before birth and the other Ministry. The life-giving friendship of Jesus is offered to our young shortly after. As a result, she said, she and her men and women. "Hundreds of men and women, husband "began to look more closecarrying the burden of pain, lone- ly at our lives and realized what liness, fear and confusion are was most important to us, our served by the counseling and ad- children." vocacy ofthe Catholic Social ServBecause of her experiences. she ices. The encouraging presence of continued, "I then began to receive Jesus is brought to these people many phone calls from women I through Appeal-funded programs did not know but who were given and offices. my number from others. Some had lost children, were in difficult "Across the diocese, parishionpregnancies, and some' had had ers are gathering for discussion and education concerning pro-life abortions." Helping to heal these women issues. The truth of Jesus is shared by this newest of Appeal-funded and "to restore the dignity to our children and to our families ... is programs, the Pro-Life Office. "These are but a few examples why Ido pro-life work," said Mrs. Desrosiers. of the need and the response here, S peaking of parish projects such at home. It is with a sense of humility that I ask your assistance. God as a rosary for life, participation in is so generous. With a sincere the Respect Life Walk in Boston effort by everyone, this 1992 Cath- each October, and baby showers olic Charities Appeal will certainly for needy mothers, she concluded, show our response to this gen- "We must learn ways to be there, to give material support for these erosity. "The house-to-house phase will young mothers if we are to win this begin on Sunday, May 3. Let us battle." , put our.shoulders to the wheel, our More on the Catholic Charities shoes to the pavement and our fing- Appeal kickoffand Mrs. Desrosiers to the doorbells. ers'address will befeatured in next "May the Holy Spirit open the week s Anchor.
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SUNDAY, MAY 3 NOON TO 3 P.M. 20,500 volunteer solicitors will visit 114,000 homes in the areas of Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro and Cape Cod and The Islands. The appeal provides care for the unplanned pregnancy, the youth, the handicapped, the engaged couples, marriage counseling, the sick, the poor, the elderly, family life, education and the needs of many other people.
HONORARY CHAIRMAN - REV. MSGR. HENRY T. MUNROE, Administrator of the Fall River Diocese DIOCESAN DIRECTOR - REV. DANIEL l. FREITAS DIOCESAN CHAIRMAN - CHARLES T. ROZAK, ATTLEBORO FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. YOUR GENEROUS GIFT HELPS THE NEEDS OF MANY PEOPLE.
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POLLUTED SKIES: Two little girls playa block from a smoke-belching factory in Mexico City, where record levels of pollution have forced the government to shut schools, ban private cars and curtail production at factories for days at a time. (eNS photo)