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Bishops warn youth School-based clinics can mislead them

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For Fr. Valine, it's always time to make the doughnuts CHICAGO (NC) - A 90-yearold Dominican priest who raises money for his three remote parishes in the Salt Lake City diocese by selling doughnuts to tourists has won the Catholic Church Extension Society's annual Lumen Christi Award.

Father Joseph Valine earned the nickname of the Doughnut Priest by selling doughnuts to visitors to the scenic Utah area he has worked in for almost 50 years. The priest still covers a territory twice the size of Rhode Island.

"Father Valine's life reflects the work of many, many priests and religious working quietly but with grace in the rural parts of our country," Father Edward J. Slattery, president of the society, said in announcing the award.

The Extension Society raises money for Catholic mission work in poor and isolated areas of the United States. Yearly it presents the Lumen Christi Award to a person who exemplifies the missionary spirit ofthe U.S. church. Father Valine will receive the award, which includes $2,500, May 7 in Chicago, where the Extension Society is based.

The Dominican priest, a native of Portugal who came to the United States in 1906, has served in mission areas of Utah for47 years.

He 'has established seven parishes and missions in a mostly Mormon state that has only 43 Catholic parishes.

Needing money to build his churches, Father Valine first farmed 260 acres of alfalfa which was sold to local dairy farmers. Then he took a job as caterer. When those

activities became too physically taxing, he turned to doughnutmaking. He sells his wares after Sunday Mass at St. Dominic's mission in Bryce Canyon, Utah.

Father Valine's first assignment, in 1941, was as founding pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Logan in northern Utah. He also started a parish in nearby Brigham City.

In 1947 he went to the then newest mission parish in Richfield. A year later he moved to St. Bridget's in Milford, a remote railroad town which became his base of outreach to other small towns in southwestTurn to Page Six

WASHINGTON (NC) School-based health clinics mislead youths about premarital sex, contraceptives and abortion, according to an unusual bishops' committee statement addressed directly to young people.

The "Statement to Youth on School-Based Clinics" was approved by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Administrative Committee March 23 and released in late April. It was prepared by the bishops' Committee for ProLife Activities.

The statement said the committee wants to "challenge local communities across the country to drop the idea of school-based clinics" and wants schools, teachers and parents to teach young people "honesty, moral, responsibility, promise-keeping, self-control, commitment, and respect for other persons."

In their message to young people the bishops' committee said

"premarital sexual intercourse is a risky venture, a behavior that will violate your moral principles and your hopes for happiness." The committee urged young people "to say no to premarital sexual activity."

The U.S. bishops at their November general meeting approved a lengthy statement objecting, on moral and practical grounds, to providing birth control services at school-based clinics. That statement called for federal and state laws as well as local school board policies to be amended to exclude such services from public schools.

"Several bishops said the statement was good but that there was a need fOf a shorter, more pastoral statement, possibly one directed to youth," said Richard Doerflinger, assistant director of the NCCB Office for Pro-Life Activities.

The committee's shorter, less technical statement to youth is "an outgrowth" of the bishops' comm:ents, he, said April 26.

According to the statement, clinics may promote the attitude that all youths are sexually active but "that is certainly not true."

"We do not believe that sexual activity among young people is inevitable," the statement said.

Clinics provide information about abortion and refer young people to abortion clinics, the statement said, but abortion "not only destroys the unborn child, but it also has severe emotional and physical consequences for the teen-age mother, and may have emotional consequences for the father as well."

School-based clinics claim that making contraceptives available to young people will reduce teenage pregnancy, the bishops' committee said, but contraceptives have not led to fewer teen-age pregnancies.

It added that "we believe that the wide availability of contraceptives confirms teen-agers in their Turn to Page Six

CCA parish phase is Sunday Over 20,150 volunteer solicitors will make house-to-house calls to parishioners this Sunday for donations and pledges to the 47th annual Catholic Charities Appeal. Some 115,000 homes representing more than 325,000 people will be visited between the hours of noon and 3 p.m. in the diocese's 112 parishes.

The Appeal funds maintenance a1')d expansion of diocesan apostolates of charity, mercy, education, social services and health care.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin wrote to every family in the diocese this

week asking for generous support of the 1988 Appeal.

His letter follows: I am happy to announce the 47th annual Catholic Charities Appeal of the diocese of Fall River. This is a special appeal to you to request your generous support of the many social, educational, charitable, and pastoral programs of our diocese for the care ofthose in need. It is the 18th Appeal in which I have acted as honorary chairman, and I ask your

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"BE ATTENTIVE, 0 Lord, to our supplications and bless these ships and all who sail thereon," prayed Very Rev. Barry W. Wall, rector and pastor ofSt. Mary's Cathedral, at Fall River's first-ever Blessing ofthe Fleet ceremony last Sunday. Father Wall and retired Navy Chaplain Cecil L. Newbert, right, now ehaplain at Seaman's Bethel, New Bedford, who also offered prayer, left the Heritage Park event with large bags of lobster, clams and fish, gifts of the fishermen. (Gaudette photo)

enthusiastic and generous response.

The theme for the 1988 Appeal is "Only Hope of Many People."

It reminds us that the Church was established by Christ to be a sign of hope and salvation to the whole world. We truly are signs for the world when we help one another as brothers and sisters and care for our neighbor in the name of Christ.

Our annual Catholic Charities Appeal is a real means by which all of us, together as church, are that sign of hope for all whom we serve in our diocese.

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Appeal director, has suggested serious consideration ofthe pledge system as a way of making a substantial offering over an extended period of time. The generosity of parishioners is indispensable to the ultimate success ofthe Appeal.

Parishioners have received contribution cards by mail and solicitors have received their contact lists. Returns should be made to parishes on Sunday. Parishes and area centers will be contacted for their reports on Sunday evening.

The parish phase officially closes May II but Appeal books will remain open until May 20 for latearriving donations, which may be sent to Catholic Charities, PO Box 1470, Fall River 02722.

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Government education vouchers are symposium topic CHICAGO(NC) - Government vouchers for private education are no more unconstitutional than having city firefighters or police officers visit parochial schools giv'ing safety lectures, said an official of the U.S. Department of Education.

"Public money does not mean public-school money," said Charles J. O'Malley, executive assistant for private education in the Department of Education.

O'Malley and Patrick Daley, vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, debated the merits of education vouchers during an April 16 symposium at the University of Chicago.

Government vouchers have been proposed as a way to subsidize education costs for all students regardless of where they go to school. They would be issued to parents to cover all or part of education costs in private or public schools.

O'Malley said that although he l>pent several years teaching and coaching in Catholic schools, he never thought of himself as no longer being part of the public.

And just because a child is enrolled in a private school does not mean they must give up public benefits. he said.

"The students 1 taught can use the facilities of a park built with public money. they can research their Catholic or Lutheran school homework at libraries established with public money." he said.

"They can even cross the tho. roughfare in front of their school with the help of the school-zone sign and the school crossing guard or police officer," O'Malley said.

"They may also have representatives of-the local fire department. funded with public money. instructing them (on) what to do in case of fire."

Daley. whose union represents about 456.000 teachers. said the adoption of a voucher system would send a message that public schools "are no longer capable of providing the kinds of educational services children need. and we must now look elsewhere."

Another problem with implementing a voucher system. he said. would be maintaining controls on

the system. "Programs that give money to people immediately create their own constituency of supporters. Reversing such programs or even revising them, except in the direction of more funds. is almost impossible." Daley said.

Public money is "derived from all taxpayers to benefit all," said Mercy Sister Mary Brian Costello, superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago, and a resp.ondent at the symposium.

Choice in education, she said, means "choice for all citizens and assistance to back up that choice."

Franciscan Sister Ann Kalscheur, a teacher at St. Charles

Lwanga School in Chicago, said that minority groups make up her school's entire student body, and that about 45 percent of them live in public housing, The annual tuition rate of$465 for Chicago Housing Authority residents is a considerable burden on the families. she said.

A public school principal, John J. Garvey of Foreman High School in Chicago, said that while "every child has a right to a free public education," there is "no provision for a free religious education."

Parents have a choice, he said, but choosing a church-related school "requires a sacrifice."

"Sacred pastors" - what about laity? ' NEW YORK (NC) - The church's new Code of Canon Law has made great strides toward incorporating the teaching of the Second Vatican Council but still has a way to go in making the laity participants in the life of the church, says a canon law professor.

Jesuit Father Ladislas M. Orsy, canon law professor at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., said the lack of full incorporation is seen when the new code calls the laity to respect their "sacred pastors" but does not call the clergy to respect the baptized, Father Orsy was keynote speaker at a recent convention of the National Planning Conference and the Parish and Diocesan'Council Network, The tonvention program included presentations and workshops on such topics as enabling disenfranchised groups to be heard in the church. stewardship of financiaI resources. interparish collaboration. parish management and ecumenical planning. It also offered field trips to the South Bronx and Greenwich Village. where the church is at work meeting human needs.

Father Orsy's theme was participation in the life of the church. He

noted that many groups today are seeking to participate more actively, Although he emphasized the work of laity in such arenas as parish councils, he also noted that clergy desire to participate in diocesan life and bishops in the supreme teaching and governing authority, The pastoral letters of the American bishops are evidence of the latter, he said.

Vatican II, he said, took the church back to an earlier period when the emphasis was on baptism. That sacrament later came to seem somewhat "commonplace," he said, and greater attention went to the sacrament of orders and the role of priests and bishops.

He said the need now is not to take anything away from priests and bishops but to restore the "ancient balance" by renewing attention to the baptized.

Father Orsy said many of the most difficult current church problems are related to ecclesiology, the study of doctrine relating to the church. The question of ordaining women. he said, does not involve any uncertainty over the "capacity" of women but concerns the question of whether or not the church can change a practice unvarying throughout its history.

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Special Gill & parisb listings win continue 10 appeal weekly in order received by tbe printar until all have been listed,

CAPE AND ISLANDS area participants in the Catholic Charities Appeal shown with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Appeal chairperson Gertrude R. O'Brien are. from left, Rev. Leonard M. Mullaney, JoAnn Baker and Jesse Costa, all of St. Anthony'S parish, East Falmouth.

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"Next miracle" QUEZON CITY, Philippines (NC) - Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila, Philippines. has urged the nation to make land reform its "next miracle," calling it "the best way to start to turn a miraculous political change into authentic social transformation ... and make a political democracy also an economic one."

He spoke at a Mass before Pres-

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ident Corazon Aquino and hundreds of thousands gathered to' celebrate the anniversary of the 1986 revolution that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos.

The cardinal, who has often referred to the 1986 revolution as a miracle, said that working toward land reform is the finest way to recapture the vision of 1986.

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AT EXEMPLIFICA nON of Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus members of Bishop Cassidy Assemby held last Sunday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, from left, James Madruga, Donat Brim, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, John Conroy, Steven Holmes. (Rosa photo)

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Father Francis T. McFarland, director of the Boston Catholic Television Center, will be keynote speaker for the 35th annual convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, to be held Saturday, May 21, at St. Mary's parish center, South Dartmouth.

The New Bedford district of the diocesan council will host the convention, at which Dorothy A. Curry, council president, will preside and Mildred Almeida will be general chairman.

The Marian Year theme €or the meeting will be "Do Whatever He Tells You," words spoken by Mary

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at the marriage feast of Cana.

Registration and a coffee hour, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be arranged by Mary Galvin, will principal celebrant and homilist at begin at 8 a.m. on May 21 and the the convention Mass. Moderators convention will open at 9 a.m. of DCCW affiliates will be concele- . Reservations for the convention brants. luncheon, chaired by Theresa LewFather McFarland will speak in is, with Lydia Pacheco assisting the morning and the afternoon with decorations, will close May 6 session will feature workshops pre- and may be made with district sented by the church communities, presidents Muriel Patenaude, Fall community, family and. interna- River; Mrs. Galvin, New Bedford; tional affairs and organization Lillian Plouffe, Taunton; Agnes services commissions ofthe council.

Rose, Attleboro; and Mary MiRespective commission chairmen kita, Cape and Islands. are Alice Loew, Betty Mazzucchelli, Ellen Calnan, Mary Vieira Convention Speaker and Madeleine Lavoie.

Father McFarland, ordained in 1957, has been a parochial vicar and secretary for the Boston archdiocesan' marriage tribunal. He also taught in diocesan high schools whiie pursuing graduate studies at Boston College.

ST. CATHERINE WAS THE 23rd CHILD OF Beginning as assistant director.

A DYER AND HIS WIFE. BORN IN SIENA .of the television center, he was AROUND 1347. AS A CHILD SHE WOULD appointed director in 1976. He SAY THE HAIL MARY ON EACH STEP AS conducts three weekly radio proSHE CLIMED THE STAIRS. AT AGE 7. SHE grams, is host of a Sunday teleMADE AVOW OF VIRGINITY. THOUGH vision Mass and directs the teleHER PARENTS TRIED TO PERSUADE HER TO MARRY. AT 15 SHE ENTERED THE vision Mass seen at 9:30 a.m.

THIRD ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC. SHE Monday through Friday on UHF COMBINED A LIFE OF ACTIVE CHARITY Channel 25.

WITH THE PRAYER OF A CONTEMPLA· Father McFarland also superTIVE. AROUND 1375. CATHERINE vises a cable network offering 14 RECEIVED THE STIGMATA BUT THE WOUNDS WERE VISIBLE ONLY TO hours of religious programming HERSELF. daily in over 50 communities within HER WISDOM AND ADVICE WERE the Boston archdiocese.

SOUGHT BY CIVIL LEADERS AND EVEN THE POPE. UNDER PAPAL AUTHORITY SHE TRAVELLED THROUGHOUT ITALY. CONVERTING CITIES TO THE FAITH. THE POPES HAD BEEN LIVING IN FRANCE BECAUSE OF UNSETTLED TIMES. CATHERINE MADE A SPECIAL VISIT TO POPE GREGORY XI AND SAID. "HOLY FATHER. GOD WANTS THE HEAD OF HIS CHURCH TO LIVE IN ROME. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL GO THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE." AND SOON ROM~ AGAIN BECAME THE HOME OF THE POPES. SHE FORETOLD THE TERRIBLE SCHISM WHICH BEGAN BEFORE SHE DIED. DAY AND NIGHT SHE WEPT AND PRAY·ED FOR UNITY AND PEACE. SHE DIED AT ROME IN 1380 AT AGE 33. SHE WAS PROCLAIMED THE SECOND WOMAN DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH IN 1970. HER FEAST DAY IS TODAY AND IT WILL BE CELEBRATED BY THE DOMINICAN SIS· TERS OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA IN FALL RIVER AT ASPECIAL MASS.

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the mooril'\9-.., A' Fulfillment of Faith This Sunday thousands ofthe diocesan faithful will be going from doof to door to solicit funds for the annual Catholic Charities Appeal.

This year's Appeal theme is "Only Hope of Many People."

Hope is faith lived. As believing Christians we are challenged to live our faith. There really is no such thing as passive faith -that's escapism for the indolent.

Faith of its nature demands action - not mere belief but also good works. The Epistle of St. James puts it right on the line for all who claim to be members of the faithful. The saint writes: "What good is it to profess faith without practicing it?

Such faith has no power to save. If a brotlier or sister has nothing to' wear and no food for the day and you say to them, 'Goodby and good luck.: keep warm and well fed,' but do not meet their bodily needs, what good is that? So it is with the faith that does nothing in practice. It is thoroughly lifeless."

(James 2: 14-17) This goes to the heart of our diocesan appeal. It is a very concrete reminder that everyone who shares the faith must also translate it into a positive program of action.

This process should take place not only on the personal level but also on those, of community and church. Those who have been confirmed in their faith have a personal obligation to fulfill their beatitudinal responsibilities; but above and beyond that there is a communal witness to be given by the body of believers.

This is done by sharing in the corporal and spiritual works of mercy initiated and sustained by the Church. .

We are members, as St. Paul reminds us, of one body. No member can function apart from the body. It is essential to make this evident in fact and deed.

On the diocesan level, the effort to fulfill this basic mandate is exemplified by our annual appeal on behalf of those around us who are in need.

A family that has concern for all who gather about its table does not neglect those who are less fortunate. Just as families help their needy members, so those who gather around the eucharistic table should reach out to their brothers and sisters.

Thus, what we do this Sunday is not merely fulfilling a social need or playing at good works)n the marketplace. Rather, our acts of charity flow from the nature of being Christian. We have an innate responsibility and corresponding duty to act on behalf of those traveling the road of poverty, suffering and neglect.

The motivation for going from door to door as a collector and giving not just from our surplus but from our need is indeed Catholic charity, which identifies our church as Christian, not by what it mutters but by what it does.

Sure, there are times when we complain about the process but in most situations these are but individual gripes.

One never spreads the good news of hope by ~linging to uncertainties and disbeliefs. Hope is a light which does not curse the darkness. A lack of conviction in this regard is a lack offaith and we should remember that those who turn to us for hope and help are not well served by lack of conviction or skepticism.

Mayall who take time to participate in this year's Catholic Charities Appeal make their effort one of pray.erfui renewal and faithful service. .

Then and only then will we truly become the only hope of many people.

The Editor

"I was sick and you visited me." Matt. 25:36

Laity misled on pastoral?

WASHINGTON (NC) Church personnel and even some bishops are guilty of teaching what they think the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter on war and peace "should have said rather than :-vhat it does say," a federal government official has written in a new book.

Church leaders teaching about the 1983 pastoral letter have "confused the faithful," wrote Matthew F. Murphy, an information officer for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

His book. "Betraying the Bishops: How the Pastoral Letter on War and Peace Is Being Taught," is published by the Washingtonbased Ethics and Public Policy Center.

John Carr. secretary for social development and world peace for the U.S. Catholic Conference, which was among church agencies criticized by Murphy, said in an interview that in the vast majority of cases church officials have "conscientiously tried to reflect the pastoral letter in its fullness."

"I wouldn't want to defend every effort to share the letter. but overall I think the pastoral letter and the process of sharing it has enriched the church ... and helped us to think through what it means to be a peacemaker in the nuclear age," he said.

Staff members of the USCC Department ofSocial Development and World Peace were involved in assisting the bishops write and implement the 1983 pastoral.

Murphy wrote the book while at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based conservative think tank, under the tutelage of Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian-philosopher. Murphy said he was on the government payroll at the time.

In the book's foreword, New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor, one offive bishops on the pastoral letter's drafting committee, said he disagreed with some of Murphy's

statements but added he had "personally witnessed too many misrepresentations [of the pastoral letter] to be sanguine."

"Indeed, in some instances," wrote Cardinal O'Connor, "one gets an impression of a kind of guerrilla warfare designed to subvert what the bishops intended, and to present what some seem to believe the bishops should have intended."

In his book, Murphy, who is Catholic, criticized church officials for: - Presenting the pastoral letter as a "pacifist document" and teaching nonviolence as the only response to unjust aggression.

- Failingtodistinguish between teachings that are morally binding on Catholics and "prudentialjudgments" with which Catholics may disagree.

- Using the pastoral letter as support for the nuclear freeze.

- Presenting selective and unbalanced teaching on the pastoral letter and promoting "an antimilitaryapproach."

Carr said that in the pastoral "the bishops did call for halts in testing and deployment ... you can't walk away from that. I suspect Mr. Murphy wishes the bishops hadn't said that, but they did."

In a recent interview, Murphy said he wrote the book "to help the bishops and the people entrusted" with teaching about the pastoral letter.

He stressed that he does not believe a "blanket misrepresentation" of the pastoral letter has occurred and said he "absolutely" supports the U.S. bishops' practice of issuing pastoral letters "to provide moral guidance."

While Murphy said he is concerned about the effect of churon leaders' interpretation of the pastoral on the nation, "my secondary concern is for the country, my primary concern is for the Catholic faithful."

In the book, Murphy singled out the USCe's Administrative Board, the National Catholic Educational Association, the USCe's Department of Education and the USCe's Department ofCommunication as agencies he says have misrepresented the pastoral.

In a chapter on "errors" in diocesan teaching materials on the pastoral, he cited the New York, Boston, Chicago and Detroit archdioceses and the diocese of Bridgeport, Conn.

In its 1984 statement on political responsibility, the USCC Administrative Board quoted from the pastoral letter and statements of Pope John Paul II, but did not distinguish between morally binding teachings and recommendations, Murphy said in the book.

Carr said church leaders have made "deliberate efforts to clarify that point." He said the principles of the pastoral letter have been presented to Catholics "more as a challenge than as a specific agenda;" Murphy wrote that columnists writing in the NCEA newsletter Momentum used the pastoral letter selectively, stressed an "antimilitary" and "pacifist" approach and failed to communicate the "balanced presentation of the bishops."

Patricia Feistritzer, editor of Momentum, said that the journal; published for teachers, has presented a "balanced view" of the pastoral letter.

"It may be true that we emphasize a nonviolent Christian approach.... That is because we espouse Christian principles, among them nonviolent solutions to conflict, an approach modeled

by Christ," said Ms. Feistritzer.

Murphy said that the bishops make it clear the pastoral letter should be used' "in its entirety [and] complexity" as a guide for church educational programs on war and peace.

No parents wanted I was standing at an airline counter in Denver in late August last year when a customer next to me asked the agent "Is there any room on #352 to Boston? I brought my daughter to college and she told me to go home early."

I laughed aloud because our departing son wouldn't even let us take him to college and stay on for Parents' Week. I knew a little of what this man was experiencing.

Most colleges have a parents' orientation lasting anywhere from a day to a week when they come to deposit their precious freshman cargo. Since two of ours chose schools 1500 miles away, we fully expected to load the car and get them settled.

But each diplomatically suggested that we forgo that pleasure and visit them later when they were settled and knew the territory well eno.ugh to show us around.

So that's what we did with our daughter and son. We got them cheap fares. They took their clothing and then, after six weeks, we visited them with a carload of stereo equipment, lamps and other necessities they found they couldn't live without.

I know that it makes sense to hold Parents' Week when parents bring children to college but it's a terribly awkward time for the kids.

They're thrown into a new milieu where they want to establish an

identity and friends as soon as possible.

But they have their parents hanging around and they don't know what to do with them. Sure, there are teas, tours and activities for parents while freshmen are busy with the same but there are too many surplus hours to fill in. between, hours where kids feel torn. between spending time with new roommates and spending it with parents.

As much as they love their parents and know they won't see them again until Christmas, they wish they would leave. They don't want their parents around when they're arranging their first room away from home because we tend to offer suggestions like, "You need to arrange your closet," while they are more interested in putting up posters.

Good parents know when to get lost. And their feelings aren't destroyed when their kids let them know when, gently or otherwise.

The father from Boston wasn't hurt. He and I both chuckled over our freshmen's comfort in telling us they didn't want us around at this time. Some children can't do this without destroying parents' feelings and we were happy ours could do so.

It starts much earlier, of course.

When we set out to walk them to kindergarten and they tell us to go back home at the corner, we feel

Marathon memories Every year"l find myself at the starting line of Washington's Marine Marathon asking myself the same question,

added extra color by wearing their Sunday best - red jackets, gold buttons and snow-white trousers.

At the beginning of the marathon, I dedicated it to those friends who had supported me in the past.

At the II-mile mark I nodded to the place where Msgr. Frank Lally stood when he cheered me on to complete my first marathon. We had worked together, but now Mr. Boston, as we called him, was with God. At the 13-mile mark I tipped my cap to the spot where Father Rollins Lambert stood for the past. nine Marine marathons. He is now director of human relations in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

As the miles continued, so did the saluting to those who had been there to support me in the past.

This year the marathon taught me that being alone doesn't have to mean loneliness. If we remain involved, if we immerse ourselves

"Why are you torturing yourselfl" Each year I find a new answer.

This year, for the first time, I came alone, with no one to sup.port me. I experienced an empty feeling. To overcome it I decided to drink in the atmosphere of the marathon more than usual.

It starts at the Iwo Jima monument in Virginia. The' area, on a hill, offers a spectacular view of the Potomac River and Washington's monuments.

It was a gorgeous morning and a delightful mixture of people was on hand.

There was a team from Bell Telephone Company wearing the same shirts. Their excitement spilled over as they posed for pictures. It was a joy to hear them kid around.

Next to them was a gray-haired man in his early 60s who looked as if everything was riding on his completing the marathon.

WASHINGTON (NC) - BishWives mothered their running op Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, husbands and vice versa.

In fact, the whole atmosphere N. Y., has been elected to a threewas nurturing. Many people seem- year term on the Committee on ed to have had injuries and the Priorities and Plans ofthe National sounds of sympathy could be heard Conference of Catholic Bishops. U.S. Catholic Conference. He all over.

Running outfits ranged from defeated Los Angeles Archbishop polka dots, stripes, solids and every Roger M. Mahony and succeeds imaginable color to a bizarre suit Bishop William H. Keeler of Harwith a different color for each leg. risburg, Pa., whose term expired.

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temporarily rejected. But, obediently, we go back because we know they are saying, "This is my turf now and I want to face it without Mom." When it comes time to register for junior high classes, we fully expect to go along and help them choose teachers, hours and lifetime success only to have them tell us they're going with the guys.

Message: "No parents wanted."

Kids develop different ways of letting parents know when they need them and when they don't.

It's natural that we want to be needed and to be an integral part of their lives but it's also natural that they pull away from us gradually and make their own decisions in life. Some will be wrong decisions. They will learn from them as we did.

Instead of feeling hurt when they subtly tell us to get lost, we can thank God they're becoming their own persons and applaud them f-or their courage and confidence in facing new situations without us. The alternative might be accompanying them to job interviews when they're 30.

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FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

in some event, if we keep our eyes open to the sights around us, loneliness doesn't need to take over.

I also learned that memories, even painful ones, can be turned to forces for good if, instead oftrying to forget them, we salute them.

Honest answer's complex Q. Some time ago a reader asked you, "Do you have any explana. tion concerning the need for confession before receiving Communion? Is it every time one goes to Communion?"

I found your answer confusing and evasive. Why must you answer a simple question with an explanation that goes back to the Middle Ages? I certainly would appreciate having you answer the question in language I can understand such as: "Yes, you must receive confession at least once a month or before Communion, or whatever, or no."

Please try to answer a question that is on all our minds with an answer most of us poor Catholics can understand and follow. (Maryland) A. I did not respond to the question the way you wish because an honest answer is just not that simple. For one thing. I disagree heartily that "most of us poor Catholics can understand and follow" only simple yes or no rules.

I believe most Catholics and most other Christians increasingly hunger for a deeper personal relationship with God and with Jesus.

They are not satisfied any longer with merely "obeying the rules of the club."

They also are aware that no friendship. whether with another. person or with God. happens without sincere efforts toward deeper understanding of oneself and the other. and a deep desire for intimacy. Such a relationship. with God or man or woman. does not come about solely by following a set of regulations.

The only purpose of this column is .to support people in coming to that kind of intimacy with God. My intention is not to be a yes-orno answer machine, but to help Catholics understand their faith better so they can live it more deeply.

I felt that. happily. the woman herself wanted more than that; she wanted an explanation.

I could have answered with one word. but behind her question was obvious confusion about the meaning of the sacrament of penance. its relation to the other sacraments and its place in the sacramental life of Catholic people.

In my view the simple directive type answer, which unfortunately we Catholics have wanted and received too often in the past. would have been worse than no answer at all. It would have supported many readers and perhaps the woman herself in the serious misconception that simply following regulations. not understanding how the sacraments play an intimate role in building our friendship with God. is the most important thing.

April 30 1930, Rev. David F. Sheedy, Pastor, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro 1900, Rev. John A. Hurley, Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro May 1 1882, Rev. Francis J. Quinn, Founder, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, Founder, Sacred Heart, Fall River May 2 1963, Rt. Rev. M.P. Leonidas Lariviere, Pastor, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River May S 1973, Rev. Leo M. Curry, Chaplain, Catholic Memorial Home 1985, Rev. Albert Rowley, I expand on some ofthese points SS.CC., in residence, St. Francis in my brochure on confession, but Xavier, Acushnet I am pleased you asked the question because I believe many CathoMay 6 1905, Rev. Thomas P. Elliott, lics still would like their faith to be summed up in a list of black and Founder, St. Mary, Mansfield 1980, Rev. Asdrubal Castelo white rules.

Branco, Retired Pastor, ImmacuAgain. relationships simply do late Conception, New Bedford . not grow that way. They demand

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

patience, sincere pursuit of greater understanding and knowledge. prayer, genuine care for the other person and continual reflection.

A mechanical view of our religion which sees our faith obligations. even our sacramental life, as a series of dos and don'ts stunts the entire spiritual process and makes a personal. loving friendship with God all but impossible.

Q. You recently answered a woman concerning devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. How can you deny that the Blessed Virgin appeared at Fatima? The evidence and statements of the church certainly indicate approval of this event. (Indiana) A. I do not deny or even question that Our Lady appeared to the children at Fatima. Because of the evidence and longtime approval by the church, even though I do not have to accept it to be a good Catholic, I'm convinced the events happened, and feel strongly that the message of prayer and penance fOl'the conversion of the world is valid. It is. in fact, straight out of the Gospels.

The question to which you refer concerned how some devotions relating to the Mother of Jesus can, and occasionally do, get out of hand theologically and spiritually.

The fact that this danger exists, however, does not rule out the possibility that God and the saints, including Our Lady. do speak to us in special ways at special times.

A brochure, "Mary, Mother of Our Lord," answering questions people ask about Our Lady, is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

Cathedral celebration Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, general chairman of a committee organizing celebration of the 150th' anniversary of St. Mary's Cathedral parish. Fall River, has announced that a jubilee Mass, a banquet and a souvenir booklet are among planned events.

Plans for the Mass were discussed at a recent committee meeting. It is scheduled for 5 p.m. May 15at the cathedral, and the banquet will follow at White's of Westport.

Information on banquet reservations, which close May 5, and souvenir booklet listings is available from the cathedral rectory, 673-2833.

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Continued from Page One ern Utah, and he began celebrating Mass at the Grand Canyon, Continued from Page One Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks. harmful sexual behavior.... The In 1957, the sale of S1. Chrisonly 100 percent safe way to avoid topher medals to tourists helped an unwed pregnancy is to reserve build St. Christopher Church in sexual activity for marriage."

Kanab. Two years later the indefaAlso, the statement said, "schooltigable Dominican built St. Dombased clinics lead you to believe inic's. In 1978, aided by the Extenthat contraceptives can prevent all sion Society, he replaced World the negative consequences ofteenWar II Army barracks with a age sexual activity" but "there are church for Catholics in frame serious medical, emotional, moral Milford. and spiritual consequences of preFather Valine's latest building mature sexual activity,'" project is at his mission parish in "Clinics deceive you by not tellPanguitch, where he plans to have ing you about the physical and an A-frame church by the end of emotional realities of sexuality and the summer. by failing to teach you about the "I n these little places, there were respons'ibility of sexual intimacy," no churches and few Catholics, the bishops' committee told young but I felt the need to establish a people. place for them so that the people Regarding AIDS, the statement would know these Catholics existed said: "Please remember: for unand that the church was here to married teen-agers the only sure stay," Father Valine said. ./) way to avoid the sexual transmisAlthough far beyond the age at sion of AIDS or any other sexuwhich most priests retire, Father ally transmitted disease is to refrain Valine said he has no plans to stop from sexual activity." working. He Jikes to tell people he The full text of the bishops' wants to live at least until the year ,_.. . 1';. message follows: 2000, when he would be 103. ·..Ii 1 ."No one wants my job!" he NEW BEDFORD Catholic Woman's Club hosts Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at annual joked. "Bishop [William] Weigand Bishop's Night. Left, Lillianann Motta, first vice-president; right, Theresa Lewis, president. says I get the most prayers of any We are writing to you, the youth (Rosa photo) priest in the diocese of Salt Lake . of our country, about a very imporCity. The priests are all praying tant concern that touches your that I will never die so that none of life. 'them will have to take over my Response: We do not believe ics say they must give young peoPremarital sexual intercourse is • Human sexuality is a gift from that sexual activity among young ple information about abortion a risky venture, a behavior that. parishes," God and an important part of people is inevitable. In fact, clinics and refer them to abortion clinics will violate your moral principles your total personality. Integrating may even promote the attitude in order to provide a comprehen- and your hopes for happiness. We Underground church your sexuality with all the facets of that everyone is sexually active. sive answer to teen-age pregnancy, know that pressures from our reported in China your life is a lifelong process that That is certainly not true. We Response: Abortion is not the society to become sexually active can be most difficult in the teen believe in your ability to choose are great. We encourage you to VATICAN CITY (NC) -Inan years when you face so many another way of living - to learn answer! Abortion not only destroys resist these pressures - to say NO unusual public acknowledgment, it also has the unborn child, but changes and challenges. the positive values of honesty, reto premarital sexual activity. a Vatican official who visited China Human sexuality is also a gift sponsibility, promise-keeping, self- severe emotional and physical conWe challenge local communities at the end of March said he met sequences for the teen-age mother, that is designed for the total union control, commitment and respect across the country to drop the idea with Chinese Catholics loyal to the of a man and woman in marriage. for the other person that will help and may have emotional conse- of school-based clinics. In their Vatican. quences for the father as well.

In a This union expresses t~e deepest you to reserve your sexual activity.

"In China, Catholics with ties to society that already contains far place, we encourage schools, parform of human intimacy and is for marriage. ents and churches to: us still keep alive the faith in their too much violence, adults should meant to enrich the life-giving love - Provide you with the best souls," said Italian Archbishop Claim No.2: School-based clin- be helping young people to deal and commitment of married couics claim that making contracep- with the problems of pregnancy information about human sexual- Fiorenzo Angelini, propresident ples. . ity - how it is a marvelous gift of the Pontifical Commission for We know the pressures you face tives available to you will reduce without promoting the violent from God that should not be Health Care Workers. teen-age pregnancy. solution of abortion. every day to become involved in "In my meetings with these peoResponse: Even though contraClaim No.5: School-based clin- abused. sexual activity. We know that some Help you to think critically ple of faith I was able to strengthen ceptives are widely promoted in ics lead you to believe that once young people do become sexually about the sexual messages you the human, Christian and pastoral involved and that a number of our society, especially through you have become sexually active find on television, in songs, in meaning of my life as a man, priest you will always be sexually active. teen-age girls become pregnant commercials and advertisements, music' videos, in advertisements, and bishop," he said in an interthey have not led to fewer teen-age each year.

Response: Teachers and coun- and to compare these messages view with Vatican Radio. pregnancies.

We believe that the You may also be aware of an selors do not assume that teen- with the positive understanding of In 1957 the communist governeffort to set up clinics in your wide availability of contraceptives agers cannot understand the harm human 'sexuality that you are ment approved formation of the confirms teen-agers in their harmschools to provide contraceptive of drugs and alcohol simply because learning.

National Association of Patriotic services as a solution to teen-age ful sexual behavior. You are being they have experimented with them.

- Teach you honesty, moral Catholics, which rejects Vatican told to deal with your sexuality by pregnancies. This is something that In fact, people are encouraged to responsibility, promise-keeping, ties. However, an underground is happening all over the country. using pills and devices, instead of "Say No to Drugs!" and are helped self-control, commitment and re- church loyal to the Vatican conMany people think that the only learning about the beauty of sexuto overcome drug and alcohol spect for other persons to help you tinues to exist. way to help you cope with your ality in God's plan and the responabuse. The same is true for teen- reserve sexual activity for marriage.

Archbishop Angelini, traveling sexuality is to provide you with sible values that will help you grow agers who have been sexually ac- Support you in living these on an Italian passport, visited as a sexual person.

The only 100 contraceptives. They assume that tive. They can learn responsible positive, healthy values.

China in March as part of an Italyoung people will be involved in percent safe way to avoid an, un- . values and change their behavior. ian delegation and addressed a We, the Catholic bishops of the is to reserve wanted pregnancy sexual activity and cannot a~hieve We believe in your ability to change health symposium.

United States, pledge our energies the self-control that will lead to sexual activity for marriage. for the better, to open yourself to a The archbishop told Vatican in working with you, your families Claim No.3: School-based clinhealthy physical and spiritual morally responsible way of life.

Radio that Chinese government and your schools to help build a ics lead you to believe that contragrowth. society in which the positive values officials "received me with respect, We know that there are better ceptives can prevent all ofthe negof human sexuality will be lived with affectionate sympathy." ·solutions. Because we care about ative consequences of teen-age "This is a sign of great hope for and appreciated. you and your growth and devel- sexual activity. the future" in church-state rela·opment, we would like to help you Response: Premarital sexual actions, he added.

Has your p:arisha senior develop healthy attitudes about tivity has adverse consequences At the health symposium, he citizens' group? If so, let The "sexuality. We waQt you to under- for you. There are serious medical, spoke on the humanizing of mediAnchor knowl ,. stand that school-based clinics will emotional, moral-and spiritual We'd like to compile a list VATICAN CITY (NC) - Sal- cine. present real dilemmas that you consequences of premature sexual "My presence - and everyone ofsenior$' organizations in man Ghaffari, Iranian ambassamust face. We want to support you activity. Clinics deceive you by not knew that I was a Catholic archthe diocese. Your club's dor to the Holy See, has sent the 'in living in a way that will lead to telling you about the physical and name, when and where you Vatican a videocassette and pho- bishop - was received not just true and lasting happiness for you. emotional realities of sexuality and meet plus the name of your tographs of dead and wounded well, but very well," he said.

Let's look at some of the claims by failing to teach you about the The archbishop said he visited director/coordinator and civilians following an alleged Iraqi made by supporters of school- responsibilities ofsexual intimacy. how he or she may be reached chemical bombing of an Iraqi Kur- several churches, including two in based clinics.

Please remember: for unmarried are all we need. dish city. Ghaffari said he hoped Peking, which were recently reClaim No.1: School-based c1in- teen-agers, the only sure way to lust write The Anchor, the pictures would move Pope opened. · ics assume that you will be sexu- avoid the sexual transmission of In recent years, Vatican officials P.O. Box7, Fall River02722 John Paul II to take some action. · ally active and cannot learn how to AIDS or any other sexually transwith the information, or call Iran says the chemical bombing have noted a loosening of restricmake wise and responsible choices mitted disease is to refrain from 61$·7151 and ask for loe killed more than 5,000 civilians tions on religious worship and the about sexuality. Their solution is sexual activity. and injured more than 7,000, main- reopening of churches entrusted to Motta. to give you contraceptives.

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Sharpeville Six Dear Editor: The Anchor's report on South Africa's "Sharpeville Six" (March 25) was direct and relevant. Given the uncertain nature of the evidence presented in the trial, the Pretoria Supreme Court did the only right and courageous thing in postponing the executions, and hopefully in justice calling for a new trial or acquittal.

Having recently returned from a lecture series in South Africa I am saddened at the nation's tragedy which is a far more complex and deep-rooted problem than Americans, mindful of their own civil rights process, realize.

Pressured from left by black extremists and from the right by classic neo-Nazis, the government, including the judiciary, is caught in a vise of unbearable political threat. This small step of temporary compassion in postponing the execution is a sign that hope may yet triumph. We should, all of us of good will, strongly support the South African churches and the judiciary in its efforts for justice and clemency.

R.F. Delaney Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Just perfect Dear Joe Motta: I can't tell you how pleased I am with the article you wrote about me ("Praying the children home," April 15).

Everything was just perfect.

I'll be in touch with you as to the results of the article. Thank you so much.

Priscilla daRosa Fairhaven

Glory age Dear Joe Motta: Journalistically, your article on "Spirituality in the Golden Age" (Anchor April 8) was superb. Your . use of the word "dynamite" really summed up how I feel about my glory age! Then, of course, it made me feel so very good!

You did, in beautifully concrete words, catch the essence of what I was trying to convey.

Thank you very much and God's blessing on His Word as interpreted by your words.

Sister Vera Herbert, SUSC Taunton

"Down the road" PH ILADELPH IA (NC) While unity with other Christian denominations, particularly with Orthodox churches, "is definitely down the road," diversity in worship is likely to continue, says Harrisburg Bishop William H. Keeler, former ~hairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and now the bishops' moderator for Catholic-Jewish relations.

Because Roman Catholics and Orthodox had a shared faith until the II th century and retain common beliefs regarding the sacraments, church structure and ministry, unity with the Orthodox will probably come before communion with other Christian denominations, he said, "but I can't put a timetable on it."

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"I feel that the mission was accomplished, tha(the president recognized clearly my primary purpose for coming here, and that was to show my solidarity with the bishops of Cuba and to show that the church in the United States and the church in Cuba and throughout the world is one church," the cardinal told reporters April 21 in Havana.

Cardinal O'Connor was in Cuba at the invitation of the Cuban bishops' conference. He participated in celebrations marking th~ 200th anniversary of the birth of Father Felix Varela, a Cuban hero who served in the archdiocese of New York after his exile in the early 1800s.

The cardinal said Castro seemed pleased with the concept of the church as a "bridge for peace," which the cardinal repeated throughout his trip. "He seemed intrigued by it," the prelate said.

Some of the items the two men discussed would serve as "bricks in such a bridge," said the cardinal, citing: - Release of more than 400 political prisoners.

- Immediate issue of visas for additional foreign nuns to work in Cuba.

- An agreement to explore a cooperative effort on behalf of AIDS patients that would involve the archdiocese-affiliated New

Rosary rally Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant of a Knights of Columbus/ LaSalette Shrine-sponsored pro-life eucharistic celebration 3 p.m. May 7 at the Attleboro shrine.

The bishop will also deliver the keynote address at a 4:30 p.m. living rosary.

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Castro also indicated willingness to permit visits to ailing Cubans by members of their families residing in the United States.

Cardinal O'Connor said he would look into Castro's complaint that medicines sorely needed in Cuba are being unfairly embargoed by the U.S. government.

The cardinal said he supposed "a lot of people feel I've been exploited, and that I permitted Castro to use me." But he said "These are risks taken for the good of souls."

In Cuba, he was greeted by wildly enthusiastic crowds at the country's two major cathedrals and he said the trip left him optimistic not only about the church in Cuba but about its future relationship with Castro.

The cardinal said "there's no question" the enthusiasm of worshipers he encountered was "due to the faith of the people, which is very deep."

During his stay, Cardinal O'Connor met with Cuban bishops and was guest of honor at receptions given by Archbishop Giulio Einaudi, the papal nuncio in Havana, and John Taylor, chief of the U.S. interests section in the Cuban capital. .

At the late night session with Castro, the Cuban president not only expressed great admiration for nuns, but said he would "take 10,000 of them" if they were. available.

In addition, Castro praised Pope John Paul II for his efforts toward peace and said he would welcome the Holy Father to Cuba at an appropriate time.

The Cuban leader also praised the U.S. bishops, particularly for their opposition to nuclear war.

Cardinal O'Connor arrived a half-hour late for his night meeting with Castro because enthusiastic crowds at Havana Cathedral, where he had celebrated an evening Mass, delayed him.

"When I was young and used to go to church, Mass didn't last this long," Castro told him upon his arrival.

"They didn't have such good preachers then," retorted the cardinal.

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Overpopulation not. U.S. problem, says MRS head WASHINGTON (NC) - Not unchecked population growth but "ecologically unsound technology" produces environmental pollution. said Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, executive director of the USCe's division of Migration and Refugee Services during testimony opposing a bill to create a U.S. population policy.

He spoke at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Census and Population.

The bill, H. R. 2212, proposes the population policy and seeks to improve methods for collecting, analyzing and implementing natural resource, environmental and demographic data.

Dawn Glessner Moore, chairman of the Southern California Population Committee ofthe Sierra Club, said that "overgrowth" in the Los Angeles metropolitan area has contributed to smog, problems with sewage and garbage disposal, freeway gridlock and the destruction of "habitats necessary for animal survival."

But the MRS director said it is "naive" to argue that preventing population growth will "decrease the severity of such societal ills as poverty. ignorance, hunger and disease." He maintained that the United States is not threatened by overpopulation.

"In fact, scholars have begun to point with alarm to our rapidly aging population due to low birth rates," he said. .

Expressing concern the bill would link immigration policy with population policy "too tightly," Msgr.

DiMarzio said this would "legitimate an approach which blames a society's ills on its victims simply because they exist.

SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - A 73-year-old Puerto Rican nun known in the Fall River diocese for parish work and in New York and Puerto Rico for her achievements with juvenile delinquents has been named 1988 recipient of United Way of America's Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award.

Sister M. Isolina Ferre, a Missionary Servant of the Most Blessed Trinity from Ponce, Puerto Rico, was presented with the award at a recent national United Way conference of volunteer leaders in San Francisco.

Sister Ferre is well known to the Fall River diocese. In 1940, when she was known as Sister Thomas Marie. she opened her order's Wareham Cenacle with two other sisters. The trio served that town's St. Patrick parish and its then missions of Marion, Onset and West Wareham, teaching CCD, visiting parents of school-age children, the elderly and the sick, instructing converts and taking censuses.

Marion native Sister Thomasine Twomey. MSBT, a former Wareham religious education coordinator now working with Hispanics in Roxbury, entered the community through the influence of Sister Ferre.

Sister Twomey told The Anchor Sister Ferre worked in Wareham for about five years. She said that her friend of almost 50 years did missionary and social work with Wareham's Cape Verdean community, "finding out who needed sacraments and religious education" and helping meet "physical and emotional needs."

'The Roxbury nun said Sister Ferre holds "at least 10 honorary degrees" and the Rockefeller Foundation's Public Service Award.

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ham Cenacle said that Sister Ferre, known as "the Mother Teresa of Puerto Rico," is 'a lively person, not likely to retire for quite a while.

Sister Raymond added that Sister Ferre's brother, Luis Antonio Ferre, founder of Puerto Rico's Statehood Party, was for one term the commonwealth's governor.

Sisters Twomey and Raymond also noted that Sister Ferre was selected by President Reagan to represent the United States at the recent World Congress of Women in Copenhagen.

In 1957, she began working with black and Puerto Rican youth gangs and the juvenile justice system at the Dr. William J. White Community Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. The nun, who holds a master's degree in sociology and criminology from New York's Fordham University, was executive director of the center. in 1963-68.

After 10 years in Brooklyn, she returned to Ponce, where she founded a program called Youth and Community Alerted in response to the area's unemployment, poverty and high delinquency rate.

The program expanded into the Center for Orientation and Services and later was renamed Centro Sister Isolina Ferre, which is funded by the United Way. Today several centers exist, including an independent health unit.

Sister Ferre gained earlier fame for her work in Appalachia as well as on Cape Cod. ' United Way's de Tocqueville award is named for Alexis de Tocqueville, a French philosopher and historian who visited the United States in 1831 and later wrote admiringly of the American characteristic of addressing unmet human needs on a voluntary basis.

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By Joseph Motta When George Angelo was 10 years old, his family vacationed at Yellowstone National Park. While there he saw, among other things, a park ranger.

Years later, newly-earned Southeastern Massachusetts University diploma in hand, Angelo applied for a seasonaljob with the National Parks Service.

That ranger "must have left an impression," he laughed.

Angelo, for eight years a teacher at Fall River's Bishop Connolly High School, has spent the last 10 summers at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, as aU .S. Department of the Interior park ranger.

The member of St. Julie Billiart parish, North Dartmouth, stays busy the rest of the year at Connolly. He currently teaches freshman biology, senior environmental science and senior anatomy and physiology. He is resource person for the Jesuit school's student Alcohol and Drug Action Team and, with colleague Brother Michael Barnaby, FIC, is Ski Club coordinator/ coach.

Angelo has also been the school's athletic trainer for the past seven years. So when summer rolls around, you'd think he'd be ready for a breather.

But not George Angelo.

"The minute it [school] lets out I'm on a plane," he said, explaining that "I love both worlds."

The teacher/ranger is a park paramedic and teaches medical skills to other rangers. He coordinates park medical rescues and is in charge of the recreation area's fire cache. Angelo has also been involved with coordinating VIP visits to the Grand Tetons and has been commissioned as a park law enforcement officer.

The latter job involves what Angelo calls interpretation.

"I've never had anyone contest a speeding ticket," he noted, explaining that he lets lead-footed drivers in on what happens when a fastmoving car hits an animal (elk, for example, will often come right through a windshield).

Angelo recently received a special achievement award for reviving a woman who suffered cardiac arrest in a park lodge.

"I love the job," he said. "You get up in the morning and the Grand Tetons are right there.

You've got to be happy."

Grand Teton National park is a good place for a Catholic to have a summer job. Angelo attends Mass at the park's Chapel of the Sacred Heart, "the only Catholic church in a national park."

The Wyoming nature haven also offers opportunities to get in touch with one's spiritual side.

"Watch the eagles flying," Angelo said, "watch the otters play in the middle of a stream. Any place that allows people to be in touch with their thoughts can offer a chance to reflect on their own spirituality."

Angelo stresses that "you have to care about people for this job" and "you have to be able to communicate with animals.

"It feels special," he said, "to be protecting things for generations and generations to come," adding

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(Motta photo) that he hopes he leaves park visitors "with inspiration to care about wild things."

Over 20 Connolly students recently traveled to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone with Angelo and Brother Barnaby as part of a school Ski Club trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

At 2 a.m. one day in Yellowstone, Angelo said, he found his students outside, wrapped in blankets, waiting for the next eruption of the famous Old Faithful ~eyser.

"It was almost an all-night vigil,"

Angelo smiled. "They were so fascinated by what nature had to offer."

Angelo recently gave a slide

presentation on his park experiences to youngsters at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River. His listeners were members ofSt. Pete's Environmentally Aware Kids, an after-school club for students in grades three through six which meets monthly to discuss environmental issues and learn how they can help prevent pollution and destruction of natural resources.

SPEAK members, according to SS. Peter and Paul's principal, Kathleen Burt, were entertained

by Angelo with tales of encountering bears in the woods and rafting on the Snake River.

She said Angelo also detailed the dangers of being unprepared in the forest.

usee urges genocide treaty passage WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference has urged Congress to pass legislation, delayed 40 years, that would make genocide a crime in the United States.

Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, USCC general secretary, wrote to members of Congress calling on them to make the United States the 98th country to implement the Genocide Convention.

He also urged that a death penalty, sought by some members of Congress, not be included in the legislation.

The United States signed the treaty in 1948 but it remained mired in the Senate from 1949 until the Senate voted in February 1986 to ratify. However, that ratification required the enactment of legislation to make it a federal

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Msgr. Hoye said the long delay "continues to be a source of embarrassn.ent and anti-U .S. propaganda." He added that the treaty should not be delayed by demands for a death penalty provision.

"Rather than underscoring their importance, the use of the death penalty would diminish the values of human life and dignity that this legislation is designed to protect," Msgr. Hoye wrote. "Therefore, we oppose its use in case of genocide as we have in all federal legislation."

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Where we disagree is in parental strategy, the means to achieve our goals in raising our children. You assume that "ignoring" means per-

mitting and doing nothing. Ignoring is not doing nothing. I use ignoring as a rather effective way of getting rid of certain behaviors of which I disapprove.

Haven't you ever been ignored?

Remember the last time someone failed to respond to your "hello."

If you are like most people, you probably felt badly all day.

In our recent column, I said that I ignored magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, and focused my attention on the positive side of sex - the pleasure, the importance and the beauty. I will not give these magazines any time or attention because Idon't wanttoencourage them in any way.

A danger in making a concerted effort to get rid of these magazines is that parental attention will keep them in the spotlight. Maybe the youngsters simply will hide them or look at them elsewhere. I wish to focus not on the tawdry but on the bright and loving side of sex.

pornographic by our laws. In fact, these particular magazines are tame compared to others which portray sexual intercourse, sadism and unusual sex practices. If I found them around the house I would quietly throw them out.

Your response confuses being moral with being negative. One can be more effective as a teacher by being positive, by stressing the "good."

Your response confuses making a statement with effective discipline. To say something does not mean you will obtain compliance automatically. The essence of good discipline is to be effective, to raise children to be happy and loving and capable adults. .

I am not content as a parent to rest on the assumption that I have done my part by firmly stating what is right. Authoritative statements do not make good parenting. Achieving the desired outcome is the best measure.

In addition to getting rid of the nude magazines, you suggest that we focus on legislation to end pornography. First of all. Playboy and Penthouse are not considered

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Shame: is it the master emotion?

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Psychologists now are tracing "We know much too little about an extreme sense of shame to parshame," said James Campos, a ents' failure to respond to an inpsychologist at the University of fant's strivings to show compeIllinois who has organized an intertence. Babies need to feel that their national conference to study shame efforts matter to their parents. in children. "\t's been the ignored Without that, they may feel inferemotion in psychology." ior and unlovable.

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Considering the power of this painful emotion, I am struck even more by how cruel it is to inflict shame on another person, especially a helpless child.

Parents, teachers, medical personnel and anyone in positions of power and authority have to be particularly conscious of their responsibility never to humiliate those who are powerless. When power is wielded to denigrate others, it doesn't teach but only hurts.

Black Catholics want "room at the top" HOUSTON (NC) - \t is time for the Catholic Church to "make room at the top" for blacks, who "without apology ... are serious about our role and our place" in the church, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Francis of Newark, N.J.: said at a Houston workshop for' pastors in black parishes.

Black Catholics have a great need right now for "a God-eentered place to be somebody," and the church can be that place, he said in a keynote address.

Bishop Francis, one of the nation's 12 black bishops, said the workshop was an opportunity for "our white shepherds" to learn "through black eyes and black ears" what black Catholics have seen and heard.

"While we were satisfied to enter the church and adhere to your agenda we discovered that in our journey from Africa ... we car.ried more baggage than our masters realized ... than the Catholic Church could see," the bishop said.

Now blacks are "unpacking" and finding the church "is not just another way station, it is home," he said. "And we intend to be treated like family and to treat others as family."

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St. Louis, Paris share ancient treasure ST. LOUIS (NC) - Both Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis and the Louvre Museum in Paris hold a piece of an ancient hymn to the god of fire.

While the Louvre has a staff of experts to translate the cuneiform inscriptions and catalogue its collection, the seminary's library does not. It is looktng for a scholar to write and publish a description of its collection of almost 100 ancient clay tablet fragments.

The centerpiece of the Kenrick collection is a tablet discovered in 1985 to be the long-missing half of a tablet at the Louvre.

Joined, the two pieces provide the major portion of an ancient Sumerian hymn to Nuska, the god of fire. Scholars at the Louvre and at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., believe the tablet dates back to 2000-1800 B.C. A translation and commentary on the text of the hymn is being written by Antoine Cavigneaux of the Louvre. .

Cuneiform writing, which uses a variety of wedge-shaped characters, was the mode of writing used until the downfall of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires in the seventh century B.C. Kenrick Seminary, which is staffed by the Vincentian Fathers, has a collection of 92 cuneiform pieces, said Jacquelin Page, seminary librarian. Most seem to be tallies of shipments of grain, flour and other foodstuffs, or lists of donations to the temple, she said.

Why the hymn tablet got separated in the first place remains a mystery, Ms. Page said. "Discoveringjust how it got here and how the whole thing surfaced has been fun."

Apparently Vincentian Father Charles Jean, a scholar of Semitic languages at L'Ecole du Louvre in

Paris, collected the pieces in the early part ofthis century, she said.

In 1935 a priest at the Vincentian motherhouse in Paris sent the Kenrick hymn fragment and other tablets to Vincentian Father Charles L. Souvay, a Scripture scholar at the St. Louis seminary.

The Louvre hymn fragment and other pieces of Father Jean's collection were kept at the museum.

Ms. Page said that in the late 1930s and early '40s, the cuneiform tablet fragments were used in an Old Testament class at the seminary. Many were reproduced in scholarly journals.

In 1948 a Yale professor visited the seminary and asked to borrow some of the tablets, she said. He cleaned and catalogued them and published some line drawings of the inscriptions.

Benjamin Foster, a professor of Near Eastern Languages at Yale, came across the old journals and wrote to the seminary, thinking the hymn fragment might match the one at the Louvre.

The library commissioned professional photographs of the fragment in 1985 and sent them to the Louvre where the match was confirmed.

NEW ORLEANS (NC) - Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans told U.S. Education Secretary William J. Bennett that New Orleans area Catholic schools are prepared to answer his challenge to educate the most disadvantaged students.

During a visit to Xavier Prep in New Orleans April 15, Bennett repeated his call for Catholic schools to help educate the bottom percentile of public school students and said he supports a voucher system to meet that goal.

Archbishop Hannan said that if funding were available, "we'd like to do it on a large scale. We're willing to have a partnership with the public schools."

Archbishop Hannan said he and Howard Jenkins, superintendent of archdiocesan schools, have discussed plans to accommodate the extra students. One possible avenue, iffunding was available, would be to keep open Our Lady of Good Counsel and St. Gabriel elementary schools, both of which are scheduled to close in May. "We would like to do it any way possible," Archbishop Hannan said. "If government funding is not available, then we would welcome help from businessmen, the Chamber of Commerce or anybody else interested."

On April?, during the National Catholic Educational Association convention in New York, Bennett challenged Catholic schools to help educate the worst 5 percent to 10 percent of public school students and ask state or local governments for financial aid. At Xavier, he stood by his remarks, which he admitted have drawn some antagonism.

"Some people have interpreted the plan as pro-Catholic and antipublic schools, but I'm in favor of

good schools," Bennett said at a press conference foUowing his Xavier Prep visit.

"If the Catholic schools do take in those kids and educate them, they should be compensated for it," Bennett added. "There are constitutional ways it could be done, like educational certificates or vouchers. The voucher idea is a very good idea."

Bennett cited a study of two Chicago inner-city schools, one public and one Catholic. The educational cost in the public school was $5,000 per student, with a 50 percent dropout rate. Fifty percent of the remaining students ranked in the bottom I percent nationwide.

"That's not a good investment for $5,000," Bennett said.

The graduaton rate at the Catholic school in the same neighborhood was 96 percent, with 90 percent attending college. Xavier boasts ora 98 percent graduation rate, of whom 85 percent go to college.

Bishop is U.8. head of Polish group GREEN BAY, Wis. (NC) Bishop Adam J. Maida, the son of a Polish farmer who immigrated to America, has been appointed U.S. episcopal moderator of the John Paul II International Foundation, dedicated to preserving and promoting Polish culture.

The bishop's first trip to his father's birth place will be a September pilgrimage sponsored by the foundation.

A former president of the Canon Law Society of America, he is also chairman ofthe board of the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center in Braintree, Mass.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Samples have been cut from the Shr()Ud of Turin, popularly known as the Holy Shroud, and handed over to scientists, who hope to determine the cloth's age through carbon-14 , testing, the Vatican said.

In a videotaped operation April 21, ex perts removed a rectangular strip of material totaling about one square-inch from the shroud, revered for centuries as the burial cloth of Christ. The samples went to three laboratories selected to carry out the tests..

The cutting was overseen by Cardinal Anastasio Ballestrero of Turin, Italy, where the shroud is kept.

The shroud, measuring 14-feet3-inches by 3-feet-7-inches, bears !'IC lIPI rhotos the image of what appears to be a crucified man. Even if the cloth is Like the rest of us, the pope has his weary moments. dated back 2,000 years, the tests will not indicate the identity of the image.

The sample belongs to the "main body" of the shroud, but was represerves confidentiality against moved in a way that did "the least and 22 judges work in a RenaisVATICAN CITY (NC) - A any system-crashing hackers. sance mansion called the Chanpossible damage to the cloth," the year after a computer system revoThere are two main reasons why Vatican said. No part ofthe image cellery, a Vatican enclave located lutionized its daily routine, the next to one of Rome's largest computerization has not speeded was expected to be removed.

Roman Rota is still issuing deciopen-air markets. They park their up most annulment decisions, said The three laboratories, includsions with its traditional deliberate Msgr. Turnaturi. First, built-in ing one at the University of Arizcars in a courtyard faced with 44 speed. technical procedures - notifica- ona in Tucson, each received three St. Celestine V is best known for granite columns, leftovers from an In the cubbyholes of the church's what Italians call the "great ref- highest marriage court, the elec- ancient Roman theate'r in the vic- tions, citations, reviews - take sealed, unidentified containers. One weeks or months to conduct long- held the shroud sample, while the usal." Born in 1215, he was a tronic transformation is apparent. inity. An Italian cardinal built this Benedictine monk who lived as a Piles of paper have disappeared lavish residence in the 1400s with distance by mail. When outside others held pieces of cloth from hermit. He was widely regarded from desks, and miles of hikes to the winnings from a night's gam- experts are consulted, the time the 1st, 11th or 14th centuries. increases. for his holiness, and a community the archives have been eliminated. bling, facing it with marble pilThe control samples were furSecond, the Rota is frequently of hermits eventually grew up The hum of the computer has lar- fered from the Colosseum - with f1ished by the British Museum, breaking new legal ground with its which is supervising the tests. Italaround him. He became its abbot gely replaced the thump of heavy papal permission. decisions. Most of its work is in ian and French experts supervised in 1274.

Two flights up a marble stairvolumes on research tables. appeals cases in which two lower the cutting of the shroud.

His five-month reign was beset Next September the Rota's work- case - past the spot where Count courts haye reached different opinPellegrino Rossi, papal prime minby intrigue and problems. AccordThe other testing laboratories load will be further lightened when ions. ing to the New Catholic Encyc- ordinary appeals from local Rome ister, was stabbed to death by an are Oxford UniversitY'in England . "I n these'situations, we cannot and the Federal Institute of Techiopedia, Pope Celestine, "realizing cases are removed from its jurisdic- Italian revolutionary in 1848 -are hurry up the process," Msgr. Turthe Rota offices and chambers. his incompetence," declared it a nology in Zurich, Switzerland. tion. nat uri said. pope's right to resign and did so on According to Douglas Donahue, Does all this mean that annul- The visitor enters beneath a ceiling Over the years, the Rota has a University of Arizona professor Dec. 13, 1294. ment requests are moving quickly painted with cherubs and griffins, broadened some annulment cate- who will participate in the tests, past oil portraits offamous church through a streamli'ned system?

Fearing Celestine might become gories. One example is the "mis- the radiocarbon dating should take judges.

Once inside, blinking comNot really. The Rota passed the unwilling center of schismatic taken identity" argument. It was about a week and should be accujudgement on 184 cases in 1987, puter lights can be seen in every intrigue, his successor, Boniface once held that only if a husband or rate to within 300 years. Some office. just 15 more than the previous VIII, had him confined to a mounwife lied about their physical idenThe computer system', a gift hope the tests will eliminate the year. Fewer annulments were actain castle. He died in 1296 and tity could an annulment be recogDetroit Archbishop aranged by possibility that the cloth might be tually granted - 113 against 123 was canonized in 1313. nized.

Edmund Szoka, has worked witha medieval fake. in 1986.

Today, misrepresenting any numRota officials bristle at the sug- out glitches since its installation in ber of"determining" qualities may gestion that they should now be February 1987, said Msgr. Egidio be enough. For example, in 1987 1111I111I11I11I1111I11I1111I1111I11I111111I11I1111I11I1111I11I1111I11: able to clear many of the 700 or so Turnaturi, a Rota official. the Rota granted an annulment to cases still on the docket. They All cases are now processed on Couples whose cases go to the an African man whose bride proved point out that they are making the system, which also permits not to be a virgin. The ruling was Rota are usually called in for an just processing annullaw, not electronic consultation of the arch~ . .- ' based on the argument that the interview. They may consider the ments. ., ives. The standard language on the of the woman was impor- setting intimidating but there is no virginity The Rota's 25 office employees screen is stil Latin, which probably tant culturally and individually to badgering of witnesses, no Perry Mason-style courtroom scenes. The the bridegroom, the Rota said.

In this case, Msgr. Turnaturi Rota's public courtroom has been added, the bride also turned out to used only twice in the last 20 years, neither time for a marriage case. be pregnant prior to marriage. ,:,:,'1:: " , , ' : : Judges do much oftheir work at In another recent case, an Ital1 "The trophy for home. When they meet to consider woman believed she was marian the city champs, "...and the winner in rying a doctor, something that had assigned cases, it is in groups of in the men's the women's singles division is..." always been very important to her. three. The name "rota" probably senior league..," When her new husband turned derives from the r;otating schedule out to be a charlatan, she obtained that places each judge on three separate teams. an annulment. '/J:i:4..:IJ'~·· .. '. ."

There are three "defenders of While adultery is a common (ii}i element in many cases, it is not in the bond," who always argue • ,', Upresenting' ': • ' , itself grounds for annulment. One against annulment. "Promoters of John, in their first ' reason is that church tribunals do justice" make sure the law is fol. let me read you formal appearance, ' not really "annul" a marriage, but lowed to the letter. Canon lawyers the inscription. , "With the highest esteem as man and wife, declare that the sacrament of matri- normally represent both spouses and respect, to a man Mr. & Mrs...." mony was never actually valid. in the process, as well. from his men," The cost of all this can add up.

Thus the search goes back to the o.riginal"l do" at the altar, to see if Rota fees are usually below $600, infidelity can be shown to have but lawyers' fees are often higher been an intention of the man or and costs of outside consultations woman, a difficult matter to prove. are extra.

But the Vatican helps poorer C~ses of coerced marriage are rarer now than in the past, most people through the process, Msgr.

OF WESTPORT coming from Africa. The majority Turnaturi said. The Holy See, in of annulment requests are now fact, picks up the tab for about Making Your Day Since 1955 based on psychological reasons, half the cases it considers, he said.

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AQUILA. Italy (NC) - The remains of St. Celestine V, the only pope to resign his papal office. are found by police a day and a half after they had been reported stolen from the urn in which they had lain unmolested for more than 450 years.

Police reported the intact remains of the saint were found April 19 in a niche in a cemetery in Amatrice, a small town near Aquila, from which they had been stolen.

The theft ofSt. Celestine's bones had been discovered April 18 by a nun-caretaker of the Basilica of Santa Maria di Colle maggio, on the outskirts of Aquila, a medieval city about two hours east of Rome.

It has housed the remains of the hermit pope since 1517.

Italian press reports said the unidentified thieves stole only the bones, leaving the silver and crystal urn in which they were kept and other church objects untouched.

A spokesman for the Franciscan monks responsible for the church said the only object of monetary value was a gold ring on one of the saint's fingers, worth an estimated $800.

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The Johnson children, Marc, II. Kimberly, 8, and Brandy, 3, hopped with excitement.

Their parents were on their way to the altar again.

The Johnsons were among 10 couples from St. John the Evangelist parish in Hapeville whose marriages had never been blessed by the church who were about to receive the sacrament of matrimony before their fellow parishioners.

"It was almost like I had never been marrjfd before." Mrs. Johnson said after the celebration. "It gave a sort of new meaning to our marriage." she said.

In an interview with The Georgia Bulletin, newspaperofthe Atlanta archdiocese, Father Michael· Woods, pastor of St. John's and initiator of the event, said the couples weren't just renewing their vows. "This was the actual sacrament of marriage as recognized by the church," he said.

Father Woods' awareness ofthe need for such a ceremony grew from the parish's monthly baptismal class. Upon interviewing new parents, he realized many, for a variety of reasons. had been married outside the church.

"It struck a chord in me," he said. as he realized the couples "felt the pain of exclusion."

The priest <lesignated a Saturday Mass as an opportunity to celebrate the sacrament of matrimony. For four weeks the parish bulletin announced the date and listed conditions for participation: that couples had to - have been married in civil ceremonies or in another church;

- have been married at least two years; - be doing their best to practice their faith; - know there were no obstacles to having their marriage blessed by the church.

Carl and Helen Rutherford, for example, were wed 25 years ago before a justice of the peace in South Carolina. At the time the difficulties involved in marrying a. non-Catholic turned Rutherford away from a church that he said didn't seem to have the answers for which he and his fiance were looking.

"I've seen the church change an awful lot," said Rutherford. "The warmth and support -I've enjoyed it."

Father Woods said he was particularly moved at people's anxiety to rejoin the church community.

"They truly looked forward to being back in the sacramental life of the church," he said. "They really missed ... and wanted so much to receive Eucharist."

After the marriage celebration, the priest said, there was a wedding feast in the parish hall. "It wasn't piecemeal or finger foods. but a killing of the fatted calf - a welcome home."

In the month before the marriage ceremony. Sunday Masses at the parish included homilies on relationships. ranging from those between children and parents, to teen-age dating. engagement. marriage, and the place of the divorced and separated within the church.

Also offered was an evening of catechesis: "Why Have Our Marriage Blessed in the Church When Our Marriage Has Been Blessed in So Many Ways Already?"

Next'year, Father Woods said, he hopes to expand the marriage catechesis to two evenings and involve this year's "newly marrieds" in the celebration.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., April 29, 1988

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A task for youth VAT1CAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has urged youths to help rebuild Europe's civilization by maintaining and developing its Christian traditions.

Speaking to students during a recent Vatican audience, the pope said Europe's "spiritual patrimony" should inspire and guide solutions to present-day problems.

The pope said that "the Europe that one wants to build will be at the level of its glorious past if it can affirm the fundamental values that characterize its history: those human and Christian values that animate its long cultural evolution, offering to the world that splendid flowering of civilization, to which we are all in debt."

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Hilda's Little League laws

By Hilda Young At caffeine club the other morning. several mothers were comparing experiences as veterans of Little League baseball. Realizing the knowle!ige being shared would be helpful to families about to embark upon their first season. I took notes and now pass them on as "Hilda's Laws of Little League."

- Betty's batting average postulate: Parents increase a' child's batting average significantly by leaving to buy a hot dog when their child is at the plate.

- Hilda's rule of opposition: The other team always has at least three players whose voices are deeper than their coaches and who appear to have been shaving for three years.

- Linda's law of rained-out games: Games are called because of rain only when your team is ahead.

- Suzanne's umpiring absolutes: Umpires always favor the other team. Umpires always -call more strikes on your child. Grumbling about the umpire guarantees you will be asked to umpire.

- Volunteerism vector: Parents who complain loudest about the condition of the field are least likely to show up on work party days.

- Uniform theory of uniforms:

Your child is always the last to receive his or her uniform so it is two sizes too large or too small.

Chances of various parts of the uniform being left at home expand geometrically with the distance that must be traveled to a game. The dirtier the uniform, the happier the child. The other team always has nicer uniforms.

- Basic laws of Little League photography: I. Chances of your child makinga Hall of Fame play are directly related to how far out into the parking lot you have walked to retrieve the camera.

2. Someone will walk in front of the camera 85 percent of the times you snap what you knew to be a classic sports photo.

3. More than 90 percent of your child's best plays come after you have run out of film. Corollary: Saving two or three shots for your child's best plays wreaks havoc with the child's chances for a great game.

- Suzanne's principle of sportsmanship: Sportsmanship tends to be fostered in proportion to the number of runs by which your team leads.

Send comments to Hilda Young, 25218 Meadow Way N.E., Arlington, Wash. 98223.

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Q. What should you do if you hate yourself! (Wisconsin) A. Since you don't say why you hate yourself, it's necessary to offer. you a variety of approaches to your problem.

If your parents constantly are putting you down and criticizing you and bawling you out, that little by little coul,d make you hate yourself. You should teIl them very directly how ml1ch their negative attitude hurts 'your feelings and how bad it makes you feel.

TeIl them plainly that the way they criticize you so much is making you hate Yourself.

Hyou hate yourself because you cannot do very weIl in any of your studies, or because you are so clumsy that you cannor excel in

any sport, or because you don't seem to have any talent for extracurricular activities, then be aware that plenty of other young people have felt something like you do.

They tend to look at their bad points and their deficiencies. They focus so much on these that they become extremely dissatisfied with themselves and some finaIly hate themselves.

Now take a second long, close look at yourself. Search for just one good quality. maybe such a seemingly small thing as your talent for being friendly and pleasant to others.

When you find that good quality, focus on it and try to cultivate it. In time you probably will discover that you ha~e other good qualities too.

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Was "groovin' "and "ridin'around Perhaps the activities have

Although many young people experience feelings of dissatisfaction with themselves these usuaIly are dispeIled in time.

But if this feeling of hating yourself continues for a prolonged period, talk ~ith your counselor at school or seek some other professional help.

As you deal with your problems in concrete ways, try also to recall from time to time that God created you out of love. He loves you not only at the moment of your conception but also on this very day. and tomorrow and forever.

Mindful of this, say to yourself from time to time, "I am a worthwhile person and God, my Father, is loving me with an everlasting love...right now."

Send questions and comments to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Educational Fair Holy Family-Holy Name School, New Bedford, will hold its annual educational fair at 6:30 p.m. May 18. This year's fair is dedicated to Mary.

The program will begin with a musical presentation, "Sir Oliver's Song." An open house showcasing student research on various aspects of Catholic faith will follow.

All school friends are welcome.

Persons wishing to attend are asked to contact the school, 993-3547.

changed, but looking for a good time appeals to teens of any generation. Often an evening's fun includes getting together with peers. Group gatherings allow teens to take on different roles and learn about social situations.

However, such fun times turn into dangerous occasions when drugs or alcohol are involved.

National awareness campaigns have helped all of us recognize this problem.

Through schools and other organizations, young people have worked together to lessen these threats to surviving the teen years.

It is a compliment to many people's efforts that more and more teens are saying no to drugs.

Yet, more netds to be said about drinking. Many teens think they face little danger when they have a beer or two. However, mix drinking with peer pressure and the result often is greater consumption. Drinking alcohol influences how safely one Can operate a car.

A more hidden danger for some is the gradual process of becoming an alcoholic.

Teenage alcoholism is an ex. perience fiIled with tragedy. It can become a ravenous lion devouring one's pride, good relationships and hopes for the future.

The individual often tries to cover up the problem through lies to parents, teachers and friends. Lying destroys self-esteem and alienates the alcoholic from family and friends.

Eventually, the teen may get in trouble with the law or school authorities.

In 20 years you will Want to describe your teenage fun with laughter, not tears. You will want to feel satisfied about the person you were then.

Care enough about yourself today to say no to drugs and teenage drinking.

Your comments are always ·welcome. Address Charlie Mar~ tin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 41114.

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Bishop Connolly High School Students at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, are competing in the Massachusetts Bar Association's third annual statewide mock trial tournament.

This year's trial case involves a late night shooting in the fictional town of Massbar.

The prosecution, students Frank Camara, Lori Raposa and Karen Viera, contends that the case's defendant intentionally shot one member of a group of teenagers.

Thomas Ferrarini, David Rosseter, Shauna Sanft, Mark Turgeon and Wayne WhittenhalJ, the defense, claim the gun went off accidentally while the defendant was protecting himself.

Archdiocesan U. MIAMI (NC) - The Miami archdiocese will assume sponsorship of St. Thomas University in July, Miami Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy and university officials have announced. The school is currently administered l:>Y the Augustinian Fathers of Villanova, Pa., who will be leaving in July, said Thomas Murphy, vice president for university relations, who noted that the archdiocese's sponsorship "retains the Catholic identity" of the university.

In the past the university has had financial problems and conflicts among top administrators.

In 1987, its law school was denied accreditation by the AlJ1erican Bar Association but Murphy said accreditation was renewed in February.

Heads CU board WASHINGTON (NC) - Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E.· Pilarczyk has been elected chairman of The Catholic University of America's board of trustees effective Sept. I. A trustee since 1983, he is also vice-president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Ferrarini, Miss Sanft, Wendy Forsee and Greg Rounds, witnesses, make statements and provide additional testimony.

Attorney Clement Brown and faculty member Edward T. Pettine are working with the students.

Coyle and Cassidy Latin students at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, recently attended a Classics Day at the University of MassN;:husettsBoston. The day was spolfsored by the university's classics department and· the Massachusetts Junior Classical League.

- At the. gathering, Bernard F. Barcio appeared as "Fabius the Tribune," a member of Julius Caesar's army, and rewarded careful listeners to his words with prizes.

Students also heard lectures by area college and university professors.

The day ended with Barcio, reappearing as "Father Guido," encouraging students to join the ranks of high school Latin teachers.

Gospel comic book VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II received an unusual gift at a recent general audience: a Jesuit-prodllced comic book version of the Gospels in Chinese.

The comic book is aimed primarily at the 30 million Chinese living outside China, said Father Pietro Vanetti, who presented the comic book to the pope.

"Chinese, when they live in Cath. olic countries, are easily disposed to accepting the Catholic religion," he said.

The comic book is a translation of an Italian-language edition issued three years ago by a Jesuit publishing house in Milan, Italy.

The Jesuits also plan to produce an Italian-language comic book of the Acts of the Apostles and a twovolume comic book on the Old Testament, said Father Vanetti.

FATHER RICHARD G. Andrade, parochial vicar at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, leads a first communion rehearsal. Reception of the sacrament is scheduled for May 8. Congratulations, kidsi (Gaudette photo).

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Parents find Christ i.n caring for Mary COON VALLEY, Wis. (NC)For Rosie and Woody Roningen experiencing Christ in their lives means caring for their 25-year-old daughter.

When Mary Roningen suffered a neck injury at the age of 15, doctors told her parents to place her in a nursing home.

But Mrs. Roningen, who describes herself as a "stubborn Polack," insisted on bringing her daughter home. That was 10 years ago.

Mary was flipped off a motorcycle and landed on her head, damaging her upper spinal cord.

Doctors told the Roningens that their youngest daughter, a straightA student, would live her life in a vegetative state.

Mrs. Roningen quit her job as a nurse's aide to care for Mary fulltime. She and her husband brush aside any praise for the continuous care they have given Mary. "If she were your child, you would do the same," they say.

Mary's condition has improved far beyond what doctors thought was possible. Her memory has returned and she understands what

people are saying and she can communicate with them.

Early each morning, the Roningens lift Mary out of bed and onto a wheeled ambulance cart. Mary and her mother begin their day by praying the rosary at 6:20 a.m., and they recite an Act of Contrition each night. On Fridays Father Edmund Doerre, pastor of St. Mary's parish in Coon Valley, brings communion and visits. On Sundays, Mary and her mother watch a televised Mass together.

Mary spends much of her day in the living room watching television from the ambulance cart; she has to remain lying down. Mary's favorite star is Tom Selleck, and when his show "Magnum P.I.'· comes on, she cheers.

Mrs. Roningen rarely leaves the house, except to go to Mass on Saturday evenings. "I miss interacting with people," she said, "but I've adjusted since at heart I'm a homebody."

She said it is the family's faith in God that saves them from self-pity and bitterness. Mary "is like Christ in our lives and offers us the chance to help and take care of her."

Basketball roundup A summary of the 1987-88 Fall River area CYO basketball season: Junior A Boys' division: Espirito Santo won the regular season and playoff championships, then defeated St. Ann's, Raynham, for the diocesan championship.

Junior B Boys: Sacred Heart, returning to CYO play after an absence of several years, captured the regular season championship but were defeated in playoff finals

by Holy Name.

Baseball meeting Albert "Val" Vaillancourt, associate director of the Fall River area CYO, reminds all Fall River area parishes wishing to enter a team into the organization's baseball league that there will be a meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Anawan Street hall to which they should send a representative.

Practice times win be arranged at the gathering, and league rules will be discussed.

The league will begin play in June.

Junior C Boys: Notre Dame captured the regular season and playoff championships.

Junior A Girls: St. Stanislaus was victorious in regular season and playoff competition, but took on the powerful team from St. Mary's,New Bedford, in the championship series and fell in two straight games.

Junior B Girls: St. George, Westport, captured the regular season and playoff crowns.

Boys' Prep: Santo Christo was regular season champion and St. William's captured the playoff crown before defeating St. Ann's.

Raynham, for the diocesan championship. . Boys' Senior A: St. Joseph's captured the regular season championship and Santo Christo took the playoff series but was defeated two out of three for the diocesan crown by St. John's, New Bedford.

Boy's Senior B: St. Anne's won the regular season championship and SS. Peter and Paul captured the coveted double elimination Sam Priestly Memorial Tournament.

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

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

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; 4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); a-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the films.

NOTE Please cheek elates and times of television and radio programs against local listings, whieh may diller from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "Zelly and Me" (Columbia) Sensitive fil,m explores' a gentle child's heartbreaking attempts to cope with her grandmother's volatile and irrational demands. Written and directed by Tina Rathborne from childhood experience.

A2,PG ..Appointment with Death"(Cannon) - Lackluster adaptation of an Agatha Christie whodunit fea-

tures an all-star cast with Peter Ustinov again in his role of super sleuth Hercule Poirot. Brief violence. A2, PG "Colors"(Orion Pictures) - Explores the conflicts between a volatile rookie cop (Sean Penn) and his laid back veteran partner (Robert Duvall) as they patrol and 'attempt to control the youth gangs of East Los Angeles. Many scenes of intense violence, heavy drug use, much profanity, a few graphic sexual encounters'and one flash of full frontal nudity. 0, R Film on TV Sunday, May 1,9-11 EDT (NBC) - "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) - Solitary roamer of the post-Armageddon Australian Outback, Mad Max(MeIGibson) chances upon a backward settlement and is forced to fight in the Thunderdome arena, emerges as hero for a tribe oflost children and has a showdown with the settlers.

Rather violent but fairly intelligent entertainment. A3, PG-l3 Sunday, May 1, (CBS) - "For Our Times" - In this rebroadcast of a 1986 program. CBS reports on the rising rate of domestic violence across the country and the efforts of the religious community to alleviate the problem.

Religious Radio Sunday, May 1 (NBC)-"Guideline" - Mary Megee, producer of the recently-aired PBS special, "On Television: Public Trust or Private Property," discusses the changes in the television industry brought about by deregulation.

She's "Wheel of Fortune" contestant ROCKFORD, Ill. (NC)- When Dominican Sister Rosa Rauth isn't playing the organ, giving piano lessons or acting as a chauffeur for her community, she is practicing "spinning and buying a vowel."

Sister Rauth is preparing to meet Vanna White and Pat Sajak as a contestant on "Wheel of For-? tune," a nationally syndicated game show.

"Lots of people are giving me free advice, want to be my coach," she said. "Two people have offered to loan me their box game of Wheel of Fortune."

I n April 1987, while in California for a math teachers' meeting, she tried out for the show. She passed a written test of 15 puzzles, but was eliminated after the first mock game.

Eleven months later, Sister Rauth was back in the small room above the Celebrity Theater at the corner of Sunset and Vine in Hollywood.

Once again she passed the written test of word puzzles dealing

with people, phrases and titles.

After playing the mock game, she was one of five people called back for a second interview.

The 18 people at the callback were divided into groups of three. as they are on the show, and played two games. They had a chance to show off their game strategy, select prizes and try the bonus round.

After she returned to St. Patrick's Convent in Rockford, Sister Rauth was notified that she would be a contestant on the show. In June they will call and tell her when her show will be taped.

For now, it's a matter of waiting and practicing. "I have to improve my reactions to spinning and buying a vowel," Sister Rauth said.

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HEALING SERVICE NOTRE DAME, FR Healing service beginning with 2 Boy Scout Troop 15 attending p.m. Mass Sunday, S1. George's Moby Dick Council Buddy CampoChurch, Westport; doors open 12:30 ree May 20 to 22, Carver. p.m.; wheelchair accessible; all welSECULAR FRANCISCANS, come.

POCASSET ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM St. Francis of the Cape fraternity First communion parents' meetreception and profession ceremonies ings 10 a.m. tomorrow and 7 p.m.

7 p.m. May 3, St. John Evangelist May 3.

Church, Pocasset; Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, will celebrate Mass , LaSALETTE SHRINE, and speak; information and rides: ATTLEBORO Robert Collyer, 563-2654, Upper Healing service 2 p.m. Sunday, Cape; Dorothy Williams, 394-4094, People's Chapel, includes teaching, Middle and Lower Cape; inquirers songs of praise and eucharistic celewelcome. bration; celebrant: Father Andre A. Patenaude, MS; music ministry by VINCENTIANS, FR Sister Lucille Gauvin, OP; all welVincentian district council meetcome. Marian devotions 7:30 p.m. ing May 3, Notre Dame Church, May Tuesdays, People's Chapel. Led Fall River; 7 p.m. Mass celebrated

by Father Fernand Cassista, MS, by pastor Father Ernest E. Blais. A each will consist of a sermon, reflecMass for the late Father Edward J. tion and a prayer service; music minSharpe, pastor of St. Patrick's paristry by Father Pat and Sister Lucille; ish, Somerset, was celebrated Wedall welcome. nesday.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA SACRED HEART, FR Rosary 6:40 a.m. weekdays. Mass New Women's Guild officers: Lu2 p.m. Wednesdays at Country cille Caya, president; Elsie De MeneGardens Nursing Home, Swansea. zes, vice-president; Rita Caouette, Young people's Mass 10 a.m. Sunday. secretary; Pauline O'Neil, treasurer.

May crowning 9 a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Mass and healing service with HOLY NAME, FR Father William T. Babbitt 2 p.m.

Nominations for youth group May 8. Hugh Donnelly is CCA parofficers' council now open; informaish chairman, Donna Gilmore and tion: Fathet Thomas A. Frechette, Mary Kennedy are secretaries.

679-6732. Song leaders and choir members needed.

SERRA, ATTLEBORO Attleboro District Serra Club altar FAMIL Y LIFE CENTER, servers' night 6:30 p.m. May 10, St. N. DARTMOUTH Mary's Church hall, Seekonk.

Diocesan Department of Edt;cation pastors and principals' meeting SS. PETER & PAUL, FR 10 a.m. May 5.

Women's Club meeting May 4 CARE SESSIONS includes 6 p.m. devotion to Mary, Catholic Adult Religious Enrich- potluck supper and address on Cathment series 7 to 9 p.m. May 2, 9,16 olic Social Services by agency direcand 23, St. Thomas More parish tor Father Peter N. Graziano. hall, Somerset; resource person: ST. JAMES, NB Father Freddie Babiczuk, parochial CYO general meeting 2 p.m. May vicar at Espirito Santo parish, Fall IS. River; topic: The Person and Ministry of Jesus Christ; S1. Thomas ST. ANN, RA YNHAM More parishioners and parishioners Father Ray Bourque, OMI, of of St. John of God and St. Patrick, The Truth Will Set You Free televiSomerset; S1. Michael, St. Louis de sion and radio ministry, will speak France, S1. Dominic and Our Lady on "The Holy Spirit and St. John" of Fatima, Swansea; and St. Peter, after 7 p.m. Mass May 9; informaDighton, are welcome. tion: Mary Leite, 822-2219.

Ileering pOintl PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit n.ws It.ms for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, G2722. tum. of city or town should be Included,.s well.s full dat.s of all actlyItl.s. Pl......nd news of future reth.r th.n pest .vents. Note: W. do not normally carry n.ws of fundraising actlvltl.s. W. are happy to c.rry notlc.s of spirituel progrems, club meetings, youth projects .nd similar nonprofit a~tlYltl.s. Fundralslng projects may be adY.rtlsed at our regular ret.s, obtalnabl. from Th. Anchor busln..s offlc., t.l.phone 875-7151.

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O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE Bible study group meets 9:30 a.m.

Wednesdays, church hall; all welcome. Guild student assistance awards available; information: 4287433.

ST. ANNE,FR Meeting to prepare for 25th anniversary of parish Girl Scouting 7 p.m. May 23, home of Noella Melancon; leaders and former leaders welcome. Parish school students are participating in a child abuse prevention project.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON May crowning and novena devotions 7:30 p.m. Monday; first communicants will receive brown scapular. The pari~h is hosting the area Hospice's annual service Tuesday evening.

ULTREYA, FREETOWN AREA "An Evening with Father Gilles Genest, MS," with 7:30 p.m. liturgy May 4, St. John Neumann parish hall at Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Baptisms at 11 a.m. Mass first Sunday of each month; information on instruction and preparation: rectory, 758-3719.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Holy Name Church, Fall River, post-confirmation retreat today through Sunday. St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, confirmation II retreat tomorrow and Sunday.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK First Friday holy hour 7 p.m. May 6, chapel. Youth choir rehearsal II :30 a.m. tomorrow, parish center; the choir will sing on first communion day, May 7. 19 Cub Scouts will receive Parvuli Dei awards at 9 a.m.

Mass Sunday. Renew groups-sponsored friendship hour after 10:30 a. m. Mass first Sunday of each month, church basement. Women's Guild scholarship forms available at church entrance and area high schools.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Father Zygfryd Landowski, visiting from Poland, will celebrate 9 a.m. Holy Rosary Mass Sunday.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Newcomers' potluck social 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, church hall. May crowning 8:30 a.m. Sunday; children invited to bring flowers.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Ladies' Guild banquet May II, Hawthorne Country Club, N. Dartmouth; information by May 6: Aida Poitras, 994-3635. Ladies' Guild scholarship winners: Tina Couto, Steven Tetrault, Bethany Newby and Kristy Lynn Bielefeld. Reception for retiring religious education director Clara M. Weeks 2 t04 p.m. Sunday, rectory.

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ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Confirmation I students' day of recollection 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 22, school hall. Camp applications available from Honore Vaillancourt, 994-4437. Hospitality Sunday will be hosted by the Youth Ministry.

May crowning at 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Celebration of 40th ordination anniversary of Father Raymond Robida May 22 at Kate Corey's restaurant, Westport; information: 6727501. Installation of Women's Guild officers II :30 a.m. June 5, Joseph's, Mattapoisett. Testimonial for Father Clement E. Dufour June 5, White's of Westport; information: Bob Gouveia, 678-1745.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Bible study Tuesday mornings. convent.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Children's Mass (grades one and two) 10 a.m. Sunday. Parish council election this weekend.

ST. ANNE, NB Greater New Bedford Choral Society, directed by Gerald P. Dyck, performance of Beethoven Mass in C major 7:30 p.m. May 15, church; evening hymns and spring songs. sung a cappella, will open the program.

NEW BEDFORD DEANERY All welcome to Morning of Praise and Worship 9:30 to 11:30a.m. May 14, St. John Neumann Church, Cathedral Camp grounds, East Freetown.

Father Robert S. Kaszynski, diocesan liaison for the charismatic renewal, will speak.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Denver Archbishop J. Francis Stafford, Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, has appointed five Catholics as church representatives to the National Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission.

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN May crowning at 9:30 a.m. Mass May 8. Family Mass 9:30 a.m. Sunday, coffee and doughnuts follow, church hall. Parish council meetings 7 p.m. May 3 and 7 p.m. June 7.

Fourth dominga: Nelson Viveiros, 24 Alpine Avenue, Fairhaven.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Frank Popoli are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Homecoming reunion for couples who participated in parish Marriage Encounter weekend 8 p.m. Sunday, Father Clinton Hall.

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ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Testimonial honoring the 40th ordination anniversary of pastor Father Louis R. Boivin May 22, Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea; information: Muriel Patenaude, 672-3586; dinner celebration will follow 11 a.m. Mass of thanksgiving.

The commission is the principal arm of the NCC dealing with theological issues involved in Christian unity, said Atonement Father Thaddeus Horgan, associate director of the bishops' ecumenical committee and one of the five appointed to four-year commission terms.

The others are Father John Foley, professor of Christian history at St. Louis University; Holy Cross Father John T. Ford, professor of theology at Catholic University in Washington; Rosemary Jermann, a specialist in early church theologians and editor of Theology Digest; and Father Christopher Schreck of S1. Vincent de Paul Seminary, Boynton Beach, Fla.