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STONEHILL SYMPOSIUM participants included, from left. Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, Administrator of the Fall River diocese; David Mulligan, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health; Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., Harvard School of Public Health; Rev. Robert J. Kruse, e.S.e., executive vice president, Stonehill College; Most Rev. Emerson Moore, Auxiliary Bishop of New York; John Ahearn, associate director, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; Arthur Lomba, Foreign Language Department, Eastern Nazarene College; Sister Patricia Keaveney, S.N.D., principal, Cathedra] High School, Boston. (Bauman photo)
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Attorneys for two pro-life organizations said oral arguments before the Supreme Court April 22 reflected efforts to make Pennsylvania's abortion case into a political issue. The court heard arguments in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, which pits the family planning and abortion provider against the state of Pennsylvania in a debate over whether any local regulati'on of abortion is constitutional. Burke Balch, state legislative director for the National Right to ! Life Committee, said he was particularly struck by the "absolutism" of the argument presented by Kathryn Kolbert, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who represented Planned Parenthood. Ms. Kolbert insisted that the court base its ruling on the 1973 Roe decision legalizing abortion. ': "She kept insisting on an all-ornothing position," Balch said. The argument was purely politi,", cal strategy, according to Balch ., .. .. if . : 1\ '.':~
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Healy A ward to Father Oliveira By Pat McGowan At a 'recent symposium on Racism and the Church. held at Stonehill College. North Easton. Rev. John J. Oliveira became the first recipient of the Bishop James A. Healy Award for distinguished service in promoting a more fraternal society. Father Oliveira. parochial vicar at St. Anthony of Padua parish. Fall River. and a member of the ministry team at Charlton Memorial Hospital. Fall River. has for years worked with the diocesan Portuguese community and has been an advocate of multiculturalism. The Healy Award, 'presented jointly by Stonehill and the Fall River diocese, memorializes the first bishop of Negro blood to be consecrated in the United States. The prelate, son of an Irish immigrant plantation owner and a black slave, was born in Georgia in 1830. In 1875 he was named the second bishop of Portland, Maine. In a diocesan schools contest held in connection with the workshop. $75 bonds for an essay and a poster on the theme "Towards Establishing a More Fraternal Society" went to essayist Jessica Torres of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, and artist Kelly Boiros. a fifth grader at St. Mary Primary School. Taunton. The Stonehill workshop participants discussed ways of eliminating racism in the church and in
church schools. Speakers included panelists New York Auxiliary Bishop Emerson J. Moore and Deborah Prothrow-Stith. MD. of the Harvard School of Public Health. They agreed that the church offers advantages in combating racism. especially since it can approach the problem from the religious point of view. Small group workshops dealt with employment and affirmative action; health care and racism; racial diversity' in Southeastern Massachusetts; and racism in education. At the latter, black and Cambodian students, both from Cathedral High School, Boston,
discussed racial harassment they had experienced. Both. however. said they feel affirmed in their school community. Father Oliveira Father Oliveira dates his involvement with multiculturalism from his seminary days. Although a grandson of immigrants on both sides of his family, he said he grew up in a climate more interested in assimilation of newcomers into the American mainstream than in preservation of their cultural heritage. As a child. he spoke Portu-
and Helen Alvare, spokeswoman for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Balch and Ms. Alvare, both attorneys, attended the Supreme Court session. "More than anything, it was an attempt by the ACLU to put before the American people their political agenda," Ms. Alvare said of Ms. Kolbert's emphasis on Roe. "That strategy was far less a legal one than it was a political one," she added. Balch saw the discussion as an attempt to cast the Pennsylvania case as "all or nothing," making it seem that any reduction of the legal rights drawn from Roe would constitute outlawing every abortion. "If they're pulled into debating the specifics of the [Pennsylvania] law, they will lose," Balch said. Pennsylvania's 1988 and 1989 law mandates a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion may be Turn to Page 13
Last Saturday was grey and chilly but within St. Francis Xavier parish center in Hyannis the mood was sunny and spirits were high as nearly 200 members. guests and chaplains of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women gathered for their annual convention with Cape and Islands District members as hostesses. Keynote speaker Roberta Par,; adise. coordinator o~ youth mi?is~'I try at O~r Lady of Victory pansh. -: ~entervIlle ..drew on her own exper¥]Iences to Illustrate her theme. I, "Recognizing the Moments of Joy ~! throughout Life."
She told of a little boy who kept singing the Easter alleluia. He was too young to understand its meaning but explained to his parents "I like the way it feels in my mouth." She related thejoy of "laughing again" after her husband had come successfully through life-threatening surgery and emphasized the importance of having family members or longtime friends who can share memories and stories. As a youth minister she also stressed the importance of young people in today's church: and closed with a story affirming the significance of her audience. Turn to Page 13
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guese phonetically. but as a semi-Ili._. narian began formal study of the ~, language. .~ Ordained in 1977. he has always Ii served in Portuguese parishes. ii' affording him the opportunity to I. meet new immigrants and learn I: firsthand of their problems. i Over the years, he has become ' involved in the Portuguese Health I:; Care Committee at St. Anne's Hos- ;~ pitat. Fall River, a group now also reaching out to Cambodians and other ethnic minorities. Additionally. he is a trustee of the Fall River public library. another institution eager to serve all sectors of the community; and is Portuguese Apostolate representative for Massachusetts and Rhode Island to the Office of Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees of the Migrant' and Refugee Services of the U.S. Catholic Conference. In short. he deserves the Bishop Healy Award. ,.;1,
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THE 1992 winners of the DCCW Margaret Lahey/Our Lady of Good Counsel Award, from left, Mary Ponte, Fall River District I; Mary Vieira, Taunton District III; Mary Pestana, Attleboro District IV; Joanne Baker, Cape and Islands District V. Not present: Anita Turner, New Bedford District II. (Lavoie photo) I
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Opus Dei beatification criticized ROME (CNS) - As Opus Dei, an international Catholic organization, prepared a five-day celebration for the beatification of its founder, a U.S. journalist repeated criticisms of the Vatican's handling of the case. Ken Woodward, religion editor of Newsweek magazine, said at a Rome news conference that the speed with which the beatification of Msgr. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, Opus Dei founder, was approved shows the group's "extraordinary power in the Holy See" and its influence on Pope John Paul II. The pope is scheduled to beatify the Opus Dei founder at a Vatican Mass May 17. Woodward was in Rome to promote the Italian translation of his book, "Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't and Why." Similar assertions made in January by Woodward were denied by Opus Dei officials. Several days before Woodward's April 27 news conference, Opus Dei, Latin for "God's work," issued a detailed program of May 17-21 activities at the Vatican and in Rome to honor Msgr. Escriva. Opus Dei said 120,000 people from many countries are expected to attend the ceremonies. Its program lists Masses for different language groups celebrated by 17 cardinals, 12 of whom head Vatican agencies. The program says that during the five-day period there will be a public display of the closed coffin with the remains of Msgr. Escriva at Rome's St. Eugene Church, run by Opus Dei priests. Ceremonies will end with a May 21 procession to return the coffin to its permanent location in Rome's Holy Mary of Peace Church, said the program. Such elaborate celebrations with widespread participation by cardinals and Vatican officials are unusual to mark a beatification. Opus Dei is a tightly knit organization headed by a bishop. It has 75,000 lay members and 1,300 priests. Its purpose is to influence secular life through the professional activity of its members. Msgr. Escriva died in 1975. In 1990, the Vatican declared he lived a life of "heroic virtue" - the first step to sainthood by which it must be proven that a person's life reached a high level of spirituality. The miracle needed for beatification was approved in July 1991. Woodward said Opus Dei prevented critics of Msgr. Escriva from presenting evidence to the Vatican Congregation for Sainthood Causes. He made the same criticism in a Jan. 13 Newsweek article. At the time, Opus Dei issued a denial, saying that the Vatican heard 92 witnesses, II of whom were critical of Msgr. Escriva. It, also said that the speed by which the case was examined is the result of streamlined Vatican norms and the organizational ability of Opus Dei. The next step in Msgr. Escriva's cause is proof of another miracle, needed for sainthood.
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PAX CHRISTI retreatants participate in group discussion facilitated by Father Joseph M. Costa, at center in right-hand photo. (Mancini photos)
Pax Christi retreat, Holocaust forum examine prejudice, injustice Recent and forthcoming events have and will afford participants the opportunity to examine their attitudes towards violence, injustice, bigotry and racism. A Pax Christi retreat weekend examined the injustices associated with the colonization of the Americas by Europeans; and a public forum, "Holocaust: Can It Happen Here?" will invite Greater Fall Riverites to explore anti-Semitism and other forms of racism. The unusual Pax Christi retreat took place recently at St. James on the Sakonnet House of Hospitality in Tiverton, RI. Bringing together a dozen members and friends of the Southeastern Massachusetts chapter of Pax Christi, USA, it had as its theme "The American Journey, 1492-1992: Call to Conversion." "For 500 years," explained a booklet that guided participants through the weekend, "many of the pathways in the Americas have been pathways of injustice, along which too many people have carried the burdens of conquest and exploitation. "For 500 years, peoples indigenous to these lands and AfricanAmerican peoples brought here as slaves have resisted this violence. Now, reclaiming and proclaiming their proud location in the flow of history, they are giving prophetic voice to their view of the quincentenary." The U.S. branch of Pax Christi, an international Catholic peace organization, for its part saw the quincentenary observance of the often bloody and violent introduction of Christianity to the New World as an opportunity to emphasize justice and nonviolence and in that spirit to express contrition for past and present injustices done to Native Americans, African-Americans and today's immigrant arrivals to the United States. Over the course of the weekend, facilitate'd by Father Joseph M. Costa, executive director of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, and moderator of the area Pax Christi chapter, the retreatants shared their own ancestra,l heritage, describing what had brought their forebears to the American shores. They studied the discipleship journeys in the Gospel of Mark and read some'little-known historical accounts and legends detailing the horrors of the conquest and the reactions of the conquered to their masters. Why .do this? "If you name a demon, you can give it away," explained Father Costa, illustrating the concept by reminding the retreatants of the peace and sense of relief felt by someone who has made a good confession after what may have been a lapse of years.
"We have within ourselves the feelings that cause wars, prejudice and hatred," pointed out Father Costa as the group discussed the Gospel story of Jesus healing a woman who had suffered with a hemorrhage for a dozen years, following that cure with restoration to life of the little daughter of Jairus, a synagogue official. Among lessons learned from that Gospel by the retreatants was that Jesus was as available to a woman considered unclean and an outcast from society as to a child of a highly-placed family. Bringing the comparison to the present, retreatants concluded that unless society's movers and shakers respond to the needs of society's marginalized they will not themselves find salvation. Looking backwards over the weekend, they saw that they had examined four "journeys": that of Europeans to the Americas; that' of each person's own cultural history; that of the disciples as related in Mark's Gospel; and that of each person's "discipleship journey as a person of faith living in a world of oppression and inequity." Hopefully, each person left the weekend resolved to become a part of the solution to today's multifaceted problems of prejudice and injustice. Holocaust Program Not part ofthe Pax Christi weekend but closely allied to it in spirit will be a free public forum, "Holocaust: Can h Happen Here?" scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at Bristol Community College Arts Center on Elsbree Street in Fall River. Among questions to be disc,ussed . will be: • Is it possible in today's society for hate to unite a group such as Hitler's storm troopers? Could such a person become the leader, of a nation today? •
Are schools doing enough to promote multiculturalism? If not, should young people be oriented toward a wide spectrum of cultures at an early age?
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Why does there appear to be an increase in antiSemitism today? Why are Jews "convenient" targets for hate?
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What role does the recession play in contributing to the atmosphere of hatred and bigotry?
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Why are there groups which, even today, attempt to revise history by claiming that the Holo-
caust did not occur or that the numbers of those killed have been exaggerated? •
Can hate crimes happen in Greater Fall River? If so, what can be done to prevent them before they occur?
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What role do political' leaders play in preventing' or containing racism, bigotry, and hate?
The program will feature a panel of community leaders and educators who will explore conditions which contribute to religious, ethnic, racial and other forms ofbigotry and hatred. Cochairmen are Citizens' Scholarship Foundation Founder Dr. Irving Fradkin and Mike Moran of the Family Service Association of Greater Fall River and WHTB Radio. According to Fradkin, the program will be the first of its kind in the area. , "In recent years,;' he sai'd, "h~te groups have 'been' far more vocai than patriotic organizations. We've seen a dramatic increase throughout the country in racism, bigotry, domestic violence and crime and we need to analyze the reasons for this." , ' 'Among paneJists on May 12 will beFall River Mayor John Mitchell, who has also contacted PresidentBush, Governor Weld and other state politicians, requesting letters of end,?rsemen.t ffJr the progralp in the hope that !!uch support would encourage other communi- . ties to mount sim'ilar projects. ' Also panelists are Fall River' Superintendent of Schools John CorreirQ; Police Chief Francis Mac~ Donald; NorfolkCounty Di~trict ' Attorney William Delahunt; James WilCox, teacher of a Holocausf course at Fall River's Durfee High School; Sam Rim, president ofthe Cambodian Community of Greater Fall River. Also Fall River churchmen Rev. Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor ofSt. Stanislaus Church; Rev. Donald Mier, pastor of First Baptist Church; Rabbi Norbert Weinberg of Congregation Adas Israel; and Rabbi William Kaufman of Temple Beth El. Sponsoring organizations, all in Fall River or Greater Fall River, include the Chamber of Commerce, the Jewish Community Council, the Council of Churches and the city's ad hoc Human Relations Task Force.
FLINT, Mich. (CNS) - Father George B. Zabelka, Catholic military chaplain to World War II's Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb crews who later became a passionate advocate of nonviolence, died in Flint April II at the aM of 76. Ordained in 1941, Father Zabelka was an Army chaplain from 1944 to 1947 and in 1945 was stationed on Tinian Island in the Pacific as Catholic chaplain to the 509th Composite Group. He was with the 509th in August 1945 when its airmen flew the missions that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Returning to parish work in the Lansing diocese, he witnessed firsthand the effects of racial fear as many of his white parishioners moved out following the arrival of black neighbors. He joined the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in his civil rights march on Salem, Ala., and again when Dr. King formed Resurrection City in Washington to protest economic discrimination against blacks. When Dr. King was murdered in 1968, "George Zabelka was the only white wl1tJ was able to walk the streets with the black men and women who were trying to prevent Flint from going up in flames," said fellow pacifist Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy , Father McCarthy, spiritual coordinator at the Melkite-rite Seminary of SI. Gregory the Theologian in Newton, recalled meeting Father Zabelka at a retreat on nonviolence. Father Zabelka challenged Father McCarthy's nonviolent approach, citing America's World War. II struggle against th~ Nazis and asking, "What about all those children destroyed at Auschwitz?" Father McCarthy said he did not know Father Zabelka's background when he shot back at him: "What about all those children destroyed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?" "Unbeknown to me until several years later, he left that retreat centerfightinground one 'of what was to be a two-year battle for his faith," Father McCarthy said. In a Christmas letter to friends in 1975 Father Zabelka wrote that he "must do an about-face" because he had come to realize that Jesus . requires nonviolent love toward friends and enemies, Father McCarthy said. Father Zabelka made numerous peace pilgrimages in his final years, including one in 1984 to Hiroshima,and Nagasaki to ask forgiveness personally from survivors of the 1945 bombs.
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Medjugorje is shelled ZAGREB, Croatia (CNS) The Bosnian town of Medjugorje has been shelled by the Yugoslav Army, and many of the people have been evacuated, the Zagrebbased Christian Information Service has reported. The report said there were no working telephones, electricity or water, and as of last week the front was about two-and-one-half miles outside the city. Medjugorje, a town in BosniaHerzegovina, has been the site of alleged Marian apparitions since 1981. Bosnia-Herzegovina has declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Christian Information Service said St. James Catholic Church had been closed "for some time now." Easter Mass was celebrated in the basement of the parish office, the report said. "Only men capable of carrying arms have remained here," said Ivan Dragicevic, one ofthe youths who claims to have seen Mary. "Women, children and old people have been sent to relatives or friends, to the Croat.ian coast and abroad." In the week after Easter, he said, there were about 50 pilgrims most of them Italian - in the village. They brought medicine and food by truck, he said. Father Slavko Barbaric, who remained in Medjugorje, told Christian Information Service about the shelling in the village. "So far, six cluster bombs have been fired at the Medjugorje parish, but only one exploded in the area which is not inhabited," he said. "Plus there have be'en more than4,,000,.<:IifW,re'nf.slleIl.s. fite~f at·: the parish.'" - - . . ,., '" Father Barbaric said it was "a miracle that nobody was hurt at Medjugorje after all those heavy attacks." The report said that in Medjugorje and the neighboring town of Citluck, people often spent nights in air raid shelters. Fighting enipted in Bosnia-He~ zegovina as the European Community and United States recognized the republic as an independent state. The republic had escaped much of the earlier fighting in the breakup ofthe Yugoslav fedej-ati~n.
When Marian Desrosiers spoke at the April 22 Catholic Charities Appeal kickoff meeting about her work in the diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate, much of her inspiration for that work was close at hand: husband Joe on stage beside her and their four children in the front row of the auditorium at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. Mrs. Desro'siers, speaking on behalf of organizations that benefit from the annual Appeal, also spoke of inspiration from family members who could not be with her: her mother and sister, both of whom died of cancer; son Marc Edward, who died from a birth defect shortly after he was born; and daughter Mary Elizabeth, who died in the womb in the ninth month. Their deaths - but more so their liyes - ~~re a force'that motivated Mrs. Desrosiers to "speak out and claim back the dignity all children and people deserve, no matter what their condition in life." Mrs. Desrosiers is a member of the Corpus Christi parish pro-life, committee in Sandwich as well as Cape ,Cod deanery representative to the diocese's gro~ing Pro-Life Apostollite. "Our goal," she said of the parish committee, "is to educate and enlighten our parish to the beauty and dignity of life in all stages." As the battle began that day in
SISTER BIBIANE GAGNE, seQ, of Sacred Heart Nursing Home, New Bedford, will celebrate her 50th anniversary of religious profession duringa May 16and 17 observance in Quebec for sisters marking significant anniversaries. A native of Framingham, she entered the Sisters of 'Charity of Quebec novitiate in Quebec City in 1940. She
chose the community because of their diversity of professions and dedication to the poor. She professed final vows July 15, 1942, then taught English in elementary grades in Quebec. She was then as-signed to Mount St. Joseph School, Fall River, until 1962. ' Transferred to the FrancoAmerican School in Lowell, she taught intermediate grades and was later named librarian in 1972. In 1984 she returned to Mount St. Joseph School, where she worked in the business office until the school closed in 1986. She now works iIi the business office at Sacred Heart Home. Among others celebrating jubilees May 16 and 17 will be three former Sacred Heart Home sisters: Sister St. Alexisde-Rome, 80 years; and Sisters Cora Asselin and Cecile Fortin, 60 years.
Closer to home, the parish has sponsored baby showers for Birthright, a holy hour for life, and a rosary for life, after which two unwed mothers spoke about their struggles. "They shared how difficult it is today because most people feel abortion is the only 'smart' alternative," Mrs. Desrosiers said. "One mother shared that her support and help came through the Catholic Charities Appeal and how we need more support right at home in our own parishes. We must learn ways to be there, give material support. for these young mothers if we are to win this battle."
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MARIAN AND JOE Desrosiers and their children. (Hickey photo)
For Marc and Mary For Mrs. Desrosiers, this prolife work is very personal. The death of Marc, their third child, led Joe and Marian Desrosiers to "look more closely" at their lives and realize "what was most important to us - our children. They were a gift from God ...and we were to enjoy them and count each day a blessing." After Mary Elizabeth's stillbirth, she said, "We held her, loved her, and baptized her in a private room. ... We were then able to allow Mary to leave us and be placed in the good Lord's hands." She said that the "dignity and , love we showed our deceased infant
Pro-Life Apostolate is focus at CCA kickoff By Marcie Hickey
the U.S. Supreme Court over a Pennsylvania law that restricts access to abortion, Marian Desrosiers told meeting participants that "Our Lord willjudge us as a nation on this issue. Many who go for abortions do not have all the facts. "We do," and therefore "it is our
problem. .. Euthanasia, too, "is becoming a sad reality in our nation," said Mrs. Desrosiers, explaining how her mother and sister's acceptance of suffering stood in contrast to the right-to-die movement. "Their suffering was beyond explanation, but because of faith they stayed calm and prayerful, offering it up for others. The world seemed to stop for a while the last few days of their lives," she said. "We showed our love for each other and they found peace and dignity." Outlining her parish pro-life committee's activities, Mrs. Desrosiers described participation in such annual events as the Respect Life Walk and Assembly for Life in Boston and the March for Life in Washington, DC, the latter on the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. She was also among nine committee members who in December made a sixday pilgrimage to Mexico City to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn.
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THE ANCHOR - Dioc~~e of Fall River - Fri., May I, 1992
themoorin~ On Being Generous . In a time of job losses, limited employment and radical income cuts, many people in our area are having more than a hard time not just making ends meet but merely surviving. Both Fall River and New Bedford, the major cities in the Fall River diocese, are posting what are among the highest rates of unemployment in Massachusetts, with many manufacturing plants either already closed or announcing imminent shutdowns. Throughout the diocese welfare caseloads are increasing and soup kitchen lines are lengthening, while St. Vincent de Paul societies are being called upon ever more frequently for assistance. With all this, we are well aware that federal and state governments have moved and are moving to reduce what is actually their fair share of the cost of aiding the needy. As far as the federal bureaucracy is concerned, it seems that it is more important to continue financing defense and weaponry programs than to assist citizens jobless and helpless through no fault of their own. In this atmosphere, a very heavy burden devolves upon private charities. Never in recent memory has need been so widespread and resources so limited. Thus, as we prepare for our diocesanwide Catholic Charities house-to-house appeal on Sunday, it is well that we recognize the nature of the situation facing us. Our Appeal-funded agencies are already doing a heroic job, most notably our Department of Catholic Social Services. Its four offices, located in Attleboro, New Bedford, Fall River and Hyannis, are on the cutting edge of public need and are doing all they can in this time of recession, more properly called depression. Our agencies are not motivated by politics but by faith. Guided by Gospel values, they are instruments of the Church as they teach out to the needy, regardless of race, creed or ethnic origin. However, even in these times, .more could be done. Most Catholic Charities funding comes from about 60 percent of registered parishioners. On the average, some 40 percent of our people do not contribute to the annual Appeal. This year it is vital that this group be reminded of the desperate needs being met by our agencies and of what their contributions can help accomplish. As we try to urge our elected officials to become more sensitive to legislation meeting people's needs, we should also be mindful of our own responsibility as members of a faith community. Good works are the manifestation offaith and go to the heart of charity. .As committed volunteers visit diocesan homes this weekend, let each of us do her or his best to respond to the 1992 Appeal路 slogan: "Be As Generous As God Has Been to You." The Editor
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WASHINGTON (CNS) - As the dispute between Caterpillar Inc. and the United Auto Workers cooled down at the end of a fivemonth strike, supporters of a proposed federal law to ban the hiring of permanent replacements for strikers hope the issue will heat up in Congress. Passage of the striker replacement ban, now pending in the Senate, has long been a priority of the U.S. Catholic Conference, the bishops' public policy arm, but the recently settled Caterpillar strike also led another Catholic organization to take a stand on the issue. Caterpillar's threat to hire permanent replacements for strikers at their Illinois plants was widely seen as the key impetus to the union's decision to send 12,600 workers back to their jobs while contract negotiations continued. I n letters April 13 to union leaders and Caterpillar top management, Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond, Va., president of Pax Christi USA, said the national Catholic peace organization considered support for unions a key part of the quest for economic justice. "As part of the Catholic peace and justice movement we are beginning to see the importance of maintaining strong unions in order to ensure economic justice in the United States and to prevent corporations from exploiting workers around the world," he said in identical letters to two UAW leaders. The Caterpillar situation is not isolated. Ie 1989, Eastern Airlines permanently replaced more than 15,000 strikers and Greyhound replaced 5,600. International Paper replaced about 1,700 workers in 1987. In the 1990s, the New York
Daily News and Pittson Coal Co. hired replacement workers during strikes but fired them when the strikes ended. Striker replacement legislation has been languishing in the U.S. Senate since early last year;,asimilar bil! passed in, the Ho路use. iast July by a 252-174. vote. Backers of the Senate legIslation say there are路 enough votes to approve the bill but not the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster, much less the 66 needed to override a likely veto !?y President Bush. There is a long history of support for unions in Catholic social teaching. "The experience of history teaches that organizations of this type are an indispensable element of social life, especially in modern industrial society," said Pope John Paul I I in his 1981 encyclical "Laborem Exercens"(On Human Work).
praye~BOX Prayer for Selection of a Bishop Lord God. you are our eternal...hepherd and guide. In your mercy grant your Church in the diocese of Fall River a shepherd who will walk in your way... and who,..e watchful care will bring us your ble.uing. Amen.
"Workers should be assured the right to strike, without being subjected to personal san路ctions for taking part in a strike." "When employers are allowed to off~r permanent jobs to strike~rt:;akers, ,str!kers lost; .~heir jobs. It'& that:simple," Bishop Frank J. Rodimer of Paterson, N.J., told a Senate subcommittee in testimony on behalf of the USCe. "If workers lose their jobs, what does it mean to have a right to strike? If there's no effective right to strike, what does it inean to have a right to organize?" he asked. The legislation is not without its fierce opponents. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in an April 9 talk to the Alliance to Keep Americans Working, described the striker replacement bill as "one of the most unfair, lopsided, special-interest pieces of legislation in recent memory." "What the unions cannot win through collective bargaining, they hope to win through Congress," Hatch said. Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., a cosponsor of the legislation, sees it differently. "Having permanent striker replacements has not been historically good for business and not good for employees and in a community like Peoria, for example, or Aurora, it will create major tensions to the community," he said in the final days of the Caterpillar strike, "I think we ought to be avoiding that if at all possible." Simon said he thought the Caterpillar situation would "strengthen the possibility" of a Senate vote on the legislation, but he would not speculate on when the vote might be scheduled or what its results might be.
Sisters of Mercy elect regional .leadership' team
Authority, faith in conflict Acts 5:27-32,40-41 Revelation 5:11-14 John 21:1-19 Sunday's first reading depicts By FATHER ROGER the conflict which inevitably occurs between God's people and the KARBAN world's authority structures. probably is one of the earliest The latter operate best when the accounts of Jesus' post resurrecstatus quo faces no challenge. Their tion appearances. It formerly cirsecurity revolves around "keeping culated independent of chapter 20. things the way they are." Always Else there is no way to explain why trying to maintain the circumstanthe disciples would return to fishces existing when they came into ing after Jesus' commission: "As power, they desperately fear anyone the Father has sent me, so I send who "comes to make all things you." Placing it in its present posinew." tion, the author was forced to add Here Luke shows that because connecting links such as "once the Jewish religious structure had again," and "the third time Jesus clashed with Jesus, it must now appeared ..... But when we remove clash with his followers. these additions we see that the narThis new group is unbelievably rative describes the first time the persistent. Arrested, jailed, then disciples experience the risen Lord. miraculously freed, Peter and the Jesus' followers seem to know apostles immediately return to the nothing of what happened at the temple area (instead of running for Jerusalem tomb on Easter Sunday their lives) and resume preaching morning. Despondent and withthe word! Again hearing the high o~t direction, these Passover pilpriest's threats, Peter responds in grIms eventually returned to their the only way a Christian can: "Betfamilies and, on this day, to their ter for us to obey God than men!" work. There, in the middle of They leave this latest trial happy doing what they had done all their ..... that they had been judged lives, they discover Jesus is alive! worthy of ill treatment for the sake Notice how he calls them to of the Name." share a meal. Most Gospel resurTheir unusual determination rection appearances happen in the flows from a belief that "the God context of eating; to stress the of our fathers has raised up Jesus importance of the Lord's Supper whom you put to death." If death for the early Christian communis the worst punishment officials ity. There, more than anywhere ca,n. j~.fl.iC!.' .....tbe. _I,.o!d~s ,~is~il'}.e~ have nothmgto fear. ',Jesus ,·has ';else,)es1JS' to,lf~wers r~cogrtize his:. living presence. " . . already shown them it can be Yet once they start believing in overcome. his resurrection, he immediately With an authority / faith conflict begins outlining the implications going on all around him, the author of such faith. In this case, he preof Revelation deliberately describes pares Peter for martyrdom. Jesus' Jesus in terms normally reserved invitation to "Follow Me!" is now for high potentates of the Roman a call to imitate his life by first Empire. No longer is the emperor imitating his death. the one who is "to receive power Perhaps we modern Christians and riches, wisdom and strength, do not appreciate the consequenhonor and glory and praise." Now ces of the Lord being alive. V nlike such compliments are reserved only his first followers, we rarely face for "the Lamb that was slain." persecution and death for our beLoyalty to Jesus has replaced lief. For us, Jesus' resurrection Loyalty to Jesus has replaced simply proves he's God. It has no loyalty to the empire. Once again other implications. the Lord's resurrection is the basis Our Sacred Authors, one with for this action. the Lord through faith, believed Both these readings make Sunthat once we recognize his presday's Gospel pericope even more ence in our day by day living, we significant. have an obligation to extend that Though found in the last chappresence to others by the way we ter of the last Gospel, this story live. If we always live without conflict we probably also are living without understanding the real May 4: Acts 6:8-15; Ps meaning of Jesus' resurrection.
The Sisters of Mercy of the Regional Community of Providence have elected their leadership team for 1992-1996: Sister Rosemary Laliberte was reelected regional president; Sister Barbara Riley was elected vice president; and Sisters Sheila Harrington, Rosellen Gallogly and Carol Mary Morrison were elected team members. Sister Laliberte has been a member of the Mercy Leadership Team since 1982, six years as team member and the last four as president. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from Salve Regina V niversity and a master's degree in , religious education from Boston College. Sister Laliberte taught in Rhode Island and at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, before going to Honduras where she taught at Instituto San Vincente from 19671971. She has been a parish director of religious education and an outreach worker for the Catholic Association of Regional Education in the Providence diocese. Sister Riley is the daughter of the late James and the late Helen (Crowley) Riley of Fall River. A graduateofMt. St. Mary Academy. she holds a bachelor's degree from Bryant College and master's degrees from Catholic University and Boston College. Before being elected to the leadership team four years ago, she was peace and justice coordinator for her community for seven years and also spent a year in Texas working with refugees. In the Fall River diocese she taught at M"t St. Mary Academy, Fall River; and Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. She was also director of religious education at Immaculate Conception Parish, North Easton, and St. Joseph Parish, Taunton. Sister Harrington. a New Bedford native, is the daughter of Evelyn (Towers) and the late Patrick Harrington. A graduate of Holy Family High School. she holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish and French from Salve Regina University and a master's degree in pastoral care from Emmanuel College. She also has a certificate in spiritual direction from the Center for Religious Development in Cambridge. She worked for Project NonEnglish in New Bedford and the New Bedford School Department before going to Honduras in 1976.
May 5: Acts 7:51-8:1; Ps 31:3-4,6-8,17,21; In 6:30-35 May 6: Acts 8:1-8; Ps 66:1-7; In 6:35-40 May 7: Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9,16-17,20; In 6:44-51 May 8: Acts 9: 1-20; Ps 117:1-2; In 6:52-59 May 9: Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116:12-17; In 6:60-69 May 10: Acts 13: 14,43-52; Ps 100:1-2,3,5; Rv 7:9,1417; In 10:27-30
Church influential ROME (CNS) - The Catholic Church can positively influence world cultures and the way cultural values are translated into the political and social order, said Father Richard John Neuhaus. In a recent lecture at Rome's North American College, a V.S. seminary, the author of "The Catholic Moment" said there are no human guarantees that the church will have such influence, but without the commitment of all Catholics it has no chance at all. The first ingredient ofthe Catholic moment he said, is the church being th~ "premier voice, embodiment and exemplar of God's justifying grace in Jesus Christ."
RI. Sister Harrington has two sisters in religious life: Sisters of Mercy Patricia Harrington, chairman of the math department at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, and Kathleen Harrington, director of the 'JohnBoyd Day Care Center in Fall River; a brother's Father Brian J. Harrington. pastor ofSt. Patrick parish, Somerset. A cousin, Sister Mary Cecile, of Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, Taunton. is also a Sister of Mercy. Father Kevin J. Harrington, parochial vicar at St. Patrick's parish. Fall River, is also a cousin. Sister Gallogly has been a member of the leadership team for the Sisters of Mercy as well as the
director of Market Ministries, a shelter for the homeless in New Bedford, since 1988. Prior to that she worked for the New Bedford School Department and Project Non-English. A graduate of St. Xavier Academy, she holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Catholic Teacher's College, Providence; and a master's degree in elementary education and drama from Catholic University, Washington. Sister M orrison is presently pastoral administrative assistant at St. Patrick parish, Providence. She holds a bachelor's degree from Salve Regina University and a master's degree from the U niversity of Rhode Island. . She taught at Mt. St. Mary Accademy, Fall River, as well at four schools in Rhode Island. The new leadership team will take office July I.
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By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny:. am a 4S-yearold woman in good health.• am of moderate weight, but each year I put on a few pounds. This year I am determined to begin an exercise program. What exercises should • choose? How should I begin? • do have some pain in my
How to get the most out of aerobic exercising joints, probably from arthritis. Any tips to stay with it? (Indiana) Choose an aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercises stretch the heart and lungs. In this they differ from musculoskeletal exercises (e.g. situps, touch-your-toes, etc.) which are designed to develop muscle tone and a trim body. The advantage of aerobic exercise is that it changes the way your body handles what you eat. If you are performing IS or more minutes of aerobic exercise daily, your body will automatically keep the calories available for immediate use by turning them directly into muscle, rather than storing them in fat. Examples of aerobic exercises
are walking, walk/jogging, running, running in place, swimming, going up and down stairs, bicycling and exercycling. Other examples include skipping rope, roller skating, rowing, skiing, cross country skiing, and handball. Dancing can have an aerobic effect. In addition to aerobic dancing, you might try putting on a soft rock or country western tape and disco to the music. Another simple indoor method would be to step on and off a small one-step stool. How do you know if you are exercising enough to obtain the aerobic benefit? A change in breathing pattern and an increase in pulse to about 125 beats per minute are the obvious measures. How-
ever, taking your pulse while exercising can be a nuisance. Noting the change in your breathing is much easier. Go until your breathing changes. If you are going too fast to talk with someone, you are going too fast. Exert yourself, but not overly. Long slow distance is more beneficial than speed. How often must you exercise? Five days per week for a minimum of IS minutes per day is necessary. To get the aerobic benefit, you need 15 minutes of "heavy breathing" for a continuous period at least five days per week. What about your arthritis? Do what you can. You have many possible exercises to choose from.
Select those which cause less pain. Vary them. Do different activities on successive days. With the advice of your physician, you may want to take an anti-inflammatory medication (such as aspirin) before exercising. This will help prevent irritation. Currerit research indicates that you cannot have a successful weight loss program without regular exercise. The best tip I can give you for keeping the weight off is to stay with your exercise program. Good luck! Questions on family living and child care are invited by the Kennys; 219 W. Harrison St., Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.
Homage to my patron saint By ANTOINETTE BOSCO
Lately some people have commented on a medal I wear on a gold chain. I got it in December when I was visiting my son Paul, who collects coins and commemorative medals. As I was sitting on his couch, I put my hand down near a litter of papers and books when I felt what I thought was a large coin. I picked it up and, to my surprise, it was a
copper medal of St. Joseph of Cupertino, the saint I have always considered to be my patron. His feast day is Sept. 18, my birthday. Paul was delighted and he gave me the medal. What Paul didn't know was that I had wanted all my life to have a medal of my patron saint. My medal shows the saint in levitation, with the inscription "who flew by the grace of God." Because of the many recountings of his ability to levitate, he has become the patron saint of pilots and air travelers. I was about 12 when I first read about St. Joseph of Cupertino. He was born Joseph Desa on June 17, 1603. His father, like St. Joseph of the holy family, was a carpenter. Joseph was born in a shed because
his father was in debt and their house was up for sale. Joseph's father died when the boy was young. Joseph's widowed mother was what we would call emotionally abusive. She treated him as though he were a nuisance because he was slow and forgetful and embarrassed her. Young Joseph was a classic loser. He apprenticed to a shoemaker but he couldn't make it. He entered the Capuchins as a lay brother but kept dropping plates and never learned how to light a fire. The Capuchins had to let him go. Eventually his uncle, a Conventual Franciscan, got Joseph admitted .as a novice. He worked in the stables and began to improve somewhat. They called him the
dummy, and it seemed he'd never make it to ordination. But Joseph of Cupertino had one strong point - his devotion to the Blessed Mother. When it came time to be tested, he was asked to talk on the phrase "blessed is the womb that bore thee." So eloquent were his words that he passed and was ordained. By this time Joseph appeared to possess special gifts. With testimony from numerdus witnesses. he was credited with powers to heal. levitate and communicate with animals. But these gifts troubled his fellow Franciscans. Joseph was not allowed to celebrate Mass in public, could not take meals with his brethren or appear at public functions. F or the last 10 years of his life he
lived in strict seclusion in a lonely friary, completely cut off from the outside world. He could not even send or receive letters. He died in 1663. He was canonized in 1767. After my son gave me the medal, I decided to read again about this extraordinary saint in Butler's "Lives of the Saints." I was inspired at reading again Joseph's response to a cardinal who wanted to kno.w what souls saw during an ecstacy. "They feel as though they were taken into a wonderful gallery shining with never-ending beauty where in a glass, with a single look, they apprehend the marvelous vision which God is pleased to show them," said Joseph of Cupertino.
Teen moms and their moms By DOLORES CURRAN
Being a teen mom is tough, and so is being a teen mom's mother. When I recently addressed an Oklahoma Child Abuse Conference on parenting education, I found in my workshop many social workers and educators who work solely with teen moms. Some of these teen moms are married, some not. Some live with their parents, some close by, and some distant. Each living situation has its own stresses and rewards. These young mothers range in age
from 14 to 20 and most have dropped out of school. For diverse reasons, they have chosen to keep and rear their babies rather than abort them or put them up for adoption. They don't have an easy life. At the very time their hormonal development tells them it's time to separate and become independent, they are forced to become more dependent upon their parents. At a time when teens are seeking an identity, they are suddenly mothers whose search for individuality must be put aside. At a time when most teens are learning to relate over pizza, sodas and silliness, they are tied down, watching television between feeding and diapering babies. Their resentment can become over-
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Q. I am a sponsor fn our parish catechu man class. A priest teaching one of the sessions told us that someone once determined from the Bible that the earth was only about 6,000 years old. I find that fascinating! But he had no further details. Have you heard of this? (Texas) A. It is extremely fascinating, especially in light of the information we have today about the his-
parental limits, advice, and authority. But they are also mothers and so they have a prior right in determining how they are going to rear their babies and live their lives. When there's a conflict, grandmothers can pull authority and teen moms can revert to adolescent behaviors. "It happens daily," social workers told me. "They disagree over the simplest thing - whether the baby is warm or cold - and it escalates into a fullblown adolescent-parent standoff. The teen mom storms off to her room with the baby and turns on her music. Grandma reacts and everything explodes." My heart goes out to both. Many mothers of teen moms who have anticipated liberation sud-
denly find themselves locked into caring for a baby as well as a teen. They don't deserve the flak but they aren't going to abandon their daughter and grandchild. They're as trapped as the teen mom. What's the answer? Each has to grant the other space and respect. The teen mom has to give up behaviors like slamming doors and rolling eyes and grandma has to give up control, unsolicited advice and criticism. They have a lot of years ahead to share and love each other and they can ruin future relationships during these relatively brief years of adolescent parenthood. Lots of families make it work. It's tough but love is tough at times and this is one of those times. Say a prayer for teen moms and their moms.
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whelming and often the child becomes the victim. An eightysomething woman who married at IS and had a baby at 16 illustrated a lifelong grief over losing her young years with the comment, "I can't even remember -not being married." Teen moms have predictable stresses: dependency, poverty, isolation, loneliness, stigma, envy, and hopelessness. When you're 16 with a baby, it's easy to do the math - you'll be 34 before that child reaches maturity. And to a 16-year-old, 34 is old age. The issue, however, that professionals brought up as being most stressful concerned the relationship between teen moms and their mothers. It's understandable. They are still teenagers, after all, so they exhibit typical teen reaction to
tory of the earth and of the human race. Your priest might have been speaking of at least two people. During the 17th century, Archbishop James Ussher of Ireland, after much careful adding up of figures from the book of Gepesis, determined that the world was created in 4.004 B.C. Some time later, a Dr. John Lightfoot of Cambridge University, England, claimed to prove that the exact moment of the creation of Adam was "October 23, 4004 B.C., at 9 o'clock in the morning." I suppose there is someone somewhere who still believes that. To my knowledge at least, even those who reject any evolutionary explanation of the creation of the
world would find it difficult to swallow those figures. Q. For 13 years I have not been allowed to receive communion because I am a divorced Catholic married to a divorced Catholic. We have tried to get an annulment but have not been successful. The problem seems to be that because my husband was married to a Catholic in the Catholic Church and the other party cannot be located, we have been told there is no hope. My marriage doesn't seem to matter because I was married to a Baptist in a Baptist church. This is very confusing to me! I hope you will answer. (Missouri) A. I am truly sorry that you have had to be away from the sacraments for so long.
You say your husband's annulment pr9cess has been stopped because his former wife cannot be found. That sounds strange. Always in the procedure for annulment an effort is made to contact a previous spouse, if nothing else to allow him or her to enter whatever comments could be useful in the deliberations. However, the situation you describe is not at all uncommon. Normally it should not stop the process. It seems to me there may be a misunderstanding somewhere. I suggest you contact the priest again, or another priest, or even contact the tribunal of your diocese. Explain the situation and ask if the process may be resumed since in such circumstances some judgement can usually be reached
considering only the material which is available to the tribunal. . I wish you luck. Obviously from your letter the sacraments and a full participation in the life of the church are extremely important to you. A free brochure answering questions on cremation and other funeral regulations and customs is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.
Bundles of Sin "Every man carries the bundle of his sins upon his own back." John Fletcher
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Cancer support Dear Editor; The article entitled "Facing the impending death of a loved one" by Dr. James and Mary Kenny in the April 24th issue was enlightening and hopeful. The suggestions they make can be difficult to implement, however, without support and encouragement. There are two groups within the Fall River diocese where such help can be found. Hospice Outreach in Fall River sponsors a support group called "Significance" for family and friends of cancer patients. The support group is facilitated by a social worker and a registered nurse, and is a safe place to share feelings, to ask questions, and to be with others who share in a simSTUDENTS AT Incarnate Word School, Chesterfield, ilar situation. The group meets on MO., depict French settlers at an event at the NCEA convenThursday evenings from 7:00-8:30 tion in St. Louis. (CNS photo) . p.m. at the Bay View Retirement Community in Fall River. Readers can call Hospice Outreach at At NCEA parley: 673-1589 for dates of the next session. St. Luke's Hospital Oncology Dept. in New Bedford sponsors a support group for cancer patients and their family members. The group is facilitated by a social The average per-pupil cost for a ST. LOUIS (CNS) - More worker, who is assisted by members Catholic school student is $1,800 than 12,000 Catholic educators of the oncology team (dieti~ian, took time out recently for a long compared to $5,000 for a public nurse, chaplain) on a rotating basis. look at what the leading U.S. edu- school student. This group meets on Monday evenAlexander said President Bush's ings at 6 p.m. in the White Home cation official called "the national educational choice proposal- now worry in America" education. Lounge, next to St. Luke's Hospibefore Congress - would help Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC, an tal. Readers can call St. Luke's at 997-1515 and ask for the oncology associate director of religious edu- elementary and secondary school cation at the Diocesan Depart- students in much the same way the department for more information. The American Cancer Society ment of Education, was among federal government aids their younger and older siblings through also sponsors support groups and several principals and educators in day care subsidies and college ..atWndl\(lce, {rom the .F.aU Ri.ver trains support group leaders. Readgrants or loans. ers can call 1-800-4-CANCER to "'diocese; " The education secretary acU.S. Secretary of Education volunteer for training, or to acquire knowledged that "some people are information about locations of sup- Lamar Alexander was a main speaker at the 89th annual conven- very frightened by the prospect of port groups. giving more people more choices There is no charge to partici- tion of the National Catholic Eduin all schools." But parental choice cational Association, held April pants of these support groups. is "such an inevitable, reasonable, Deborah Osuch 20-23 in St. Louis. thoroughly American idea" that if He and other speakers endorsed Fairhaven it meets resistance, then "we're not the concept of choice in education explaining it as well as we should," as a way to improve the nation's he said. schools. John Chubb, senior felOther speakers stressed .educalow at The Brookings Institution Dear Editor, tors' unique role in the lives of the in Washington, said current public My praise and admiration to you, Father Moore, for your edi- opinion supports the idea of edu- children they teach and the schools' responsibility to continue aiding torial, "Getting a Right Focus," in cational choice, which he described the poor. the April3rd Anchor! I am proud as "the fundamental educational Poet Maya Angelou urged Caththat you and other priests are reform." olic teachers to be "rainbows" for Support for educational choice brave enough to confront the "sectheir students because they can ular ideas" and stand firm on the also was reflected in the slogan for Church teachings on the use of the second national marketing "open'the doors for the gloom of ignorance to disappear." condoms. Thank God that we still campaign for Catholic schools: Ms. Angelou, who is also an have priests who speak out, stand- "Choose Catholic Schools - The Good News in Education." educator, actress and historian, ing up for what is right! The campaign, which grew out spoke movingly of how teachers When there are "lectures" by influenced her life, even bringing certain supposedly qualified lay of the traditional Catholic Schools her out of a five-year period of persons on how to control AIDS, Week observance, is a multifaceted muteness that began when she was the mention of condoms should effort to promote something Cath7. She opened her speech with a not be made. It should be stated olics have long taken for granted, song: "When it looked like the sun that the use of condoms is gravely according to Mercy Sister Lourdes wasn't going to shine anymore, sinful and the only way to control Sheehan, USCC secretary for education. God put a rainbow in the clouds." AIDS is total abstinence! "We've known Catholic schools Jesuit Father William J. O'MalWe should be able to depend on ley, author and theology teacher at our Catholic parishes, confident are good, but we haven't been very Fordham Prep in New York, said that no one speaking against the good at communicating that to in an interview with the St. Louis church teachings will be allowed public," she said. Among evidence released durReview during the convention that to speak their ideas! ing the convention was a study convincing Catholic students of God and Our Lady Bless You! showing that eighth-graders in the value of their faith is akin to Alice Beaulieu Catholic schools score higher in convincing the grand dragon of New Bedford reading, mathematics, history, sothe Ku Klux Klan of the value of cial studies and science than their civil rights. Who's to Blame? public school counterparts. He said students in a Catholic "Why blame the world? The Robert J. Kealey, executive dihigh school religion class may be world is free of sin; the blame is rector of the NCEA's department baptized, but most have yet to be yours and mine."-Abu'l-ala-alof elementary schools, said the converted from materialistic views Ma'arri results - together with a finance and self-absorption. ............................ report on Catholic elementary "The only person who they beschools released at the convention lieve is important is themselves - show "our students are succeed- and maybe a few friends," he said. GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS ing very well at less than 50 percent One workshop highlighted ways of the cost of public education." some Catholic high schools are
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Lillian Demanche, St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford; Mary DeRosa, O.L. Victory, Centerville; Catherine Fewore, St. Joseph, Woods Hole; Paul Fitzsimmons, Sacred Heart, N. Attleboro. Rosalie Ghelfi, St. Patrick, Falmouth; Dr. and Mrs. Victor Haddad, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Eileen Haggert, Immaculate Conception, Taunton; Sister Dorothy Kelley, RGS, Cranberry Pointe Nursing Home, Harwich. Elizabeth Kelley, St. Patrick, Falmouth; Diane and Pauline Kenney, Christ the King; Mashpee; Sister Rachel LaFrance, SCQ, Sacred Heart Nursing Home, New Bedford; Sister Therel'e Landry, su~t",l)t,:.Ml\ry, N. Attteboro. Therese L'Homme, Sacred Heart, N. Attleboro; Brother Camille Lessard, Notre Dame, Fall River; Lorraine Mahoney, St. Patrick, Falmouth; Marsha Marcell, O.L. Cape, Brewster; Bunny McKenna, St. John, Pocasset. Peter Milner, St. John, Pocasset; Linda Nasson, O.L. Mt. Carmel, Seekonk; Clotilde Oliveira, St. Elizabeth, Fall River; Diane Pereira, O. L. Fatima, New Bedford. Kathleen Peterson, Immaculate Conception, Taunton; Diane Pigeon, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Sister Celine Rainville, SUSC, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Mary A. Schruckmayr, St. Elizabeth Seton, N. Falmouth; Virginia Rowland, St. Elizabeth, Edgartown. The fifth pastoral care education course offered by the Fall River diocese will begin Sept. 9 of this year and end April 20, 1993. Further information is available from Sister Agnew, PO Box 600, Pocasset 02559, tel. 564-4771.
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Health volunteers recognized WASHINGTON (CNS) The archdiocese of Washington's Health Care Network will receive a national"Point of Light" award today. Dr. William Battle. a cardiologist who volunteers his sen'ices to the network. will accept the award from President Bush at a luncheon in the White House's state dining room. also to be attended by Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey. The network was' founded in 1983 to "improve access to health care for the poor. homeless and medically indigent in the Washington area." It refers people to over
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CONVENTUAL FRANCISCAN Brother Valentine Jablonski has been crafting icons out of pins, gems and beads since 1954. For an elaborate image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, he used blue, green and red rhinestones, fake pearls, stones, some precious and some semiprecious gems, all held to-
Remember when Nothing endures but change, a Greek philosopher said, but I claim that doesn't always make change right. Becoming a senior citizen means you have seen lots of changes, but you don't have to approve them. I'll concede that most changes are for the best, like central heating, air conditioning and electric blankets. But I remember a lot of good stuff that has virtually disappeared - making our lives less full of grace. Remember the Palmer Method? When you get a handwritten letter with flowing oval letters easy to read, you can be sure your correspondent is eligible for the American Association of Retired Persons. Pupils learn to print their letters first today. What's wrong with the Palmer Method? Remember courtesy? When young people stood up or offered their seats 'when older folks, priests or sisters entered a room or boarded a bus? And who tips his hat now, if he has one, to a religious, saying"Good morning, Sister," or "Father"? It's even chancy to hold or open a door or to step back on entering an elevator for some women today,
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Pro-Life Apostolate is focus at kickoff Continued from Page Three L. Freitas, who told meeting parstory about one ofthe more rewardticipants that though "we have [in 2.5 children were enough for any ing moments in her pro-life ministhis diocese), as they say in canonicouple, so all future children would try. At Mass last Mother's Day, she cal language, a vacant see, all not be celebrated. other things will be the same" with "I knew in my heart, " Mrs. Des- offered to watch three children, this Appeal. rosiers continued, "that Mary was one of them a two-month-old boy, saying 'Speak for them, Mom, for while their mother stepped out Pointing out this year's theme, all th.e children and people who with their grandmother, who was "Be As Generous As God Has not feeling well. cannot speak for themselves.' " Been to You," Father Freitas said, When the mother returned she "Each of us can come up with Mrs. Desrosiers began counselseemed to know Mrs. Desrosiers, ing women who were dealing with many ways God has been generous "but 1apologized because I did not to us over the years... ln his name problem pregnancies or who had rec?gnize her," said Mrs. Des- let us ask our brothers and sisters lost children, either through naturosiers. ral causes or through abortion. to be generous, and may your gift "She said that was because we "I first shared my experiences represent a generous sacrifice on had never met in person, but she your part." with them and learned uncondiwas the woman I had helped two tional love for all of them," said The parish phase of this year's years ago whose little boy lived for Mrs. Desrosiers. Catholic Charities Appeal begins only one hour. This baby 1 was "I encouraged them to name Sunday with a house-to-house apholding was her new son. their babies, pray for them at peal from noon to 3 p.m. At that ..... As·1 looked at his smile Mass, and eventually led them time 20,500 volunteers will visit through tear-filled eyes," Mrs. back to the sacrament of reconci114,000 homes in all areas of the . Desrosiers concluded, "the Lord's liation" because, she said, "no matdiocese. The parish phase continues words rang in my ears: ter how a mother loses her child, through May 13. " 'Amen I say to you, whatever she always blames herself....She Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, who you did for one of these least needs God's love and merc)! to chaired the Appeal for many years brothers of mine, you did for me.' " touch her through us and show her before his retirement in 1990, how to forgive herself." proved that he has not lost his Parish Phase Beginning enthusiasm for the charitable enDuring her sixth pregnancy, Mrs. Also speaking at the Appeal deavor as he led participants in a Desrosiers recounted, she received kickoff were Msgr. Henry T. Munclosing prayer. a particularly affecting phone call roe, diocesan administrator, who "There is no better thing in our from a woman who had been told delivered the keynote address, and diocese than the Catholic Chariin her fifth month of pregnancy lay chairman Charles Rozak. An ties Appeal," he declared. "It is the tha't she carried a severely deformed opening prayer was offered by life-blood of our diocese!" fetus who would not survive long Msgr. John J. Oliveira. outside the womb. Doctors recomThe speakers were introduced Special Gifts listings mended abortion. by Appeal director Father Daniel appear on page 13 As Mrs. Desrosiers spoke to the woman, "she was amazed to hear that this was a child within her. ... No one had ever called this fetus her child." Several months later the woman called to thank Mrs. Desr~siers. She had continued her pregnancy and gave birth to a son, who lived for just one hour. "She talked about how in that one hour their little boy taught them so much about life," and how she became angry when hospital personnel talked clinically about the fetus she had lost. "She finally told them all she had a beautiful little boy and to stop calling him a fetus. She wanted him treated with dignity because he was her son." "This is why 1do pro-life work," Mrs. Desrosiers emphasized -"to restore the dignity of our children EXPO OPENING: Austin Two Moons, a chief of the and our families. If we do not, the Northern Cheyenne tribe, prays as he blesses a waterfall that very fabric of family life will be forms the entrance to the U. S. pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville, torn away;" Coincidence Mrs. Desrosiers closed with a
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Our Lady's Message April 25, 1992 Dear Children: Today also I invite you to prayer. Only by prayer and fasting can war be stopped. Therefore, my dear little children pray and by your life give witness that you are mine and that you belong to me because. Satan wishes in these turbulent days to seduce as many souls as possible. Therefore, I invite you to decide for God and he will protect you and show you what you should do and which path to take. I invite all those who have said "yes" to me to renew their consecration to my son Jesus and to his heart and to me so we can take you more intensely as instruments of peace in this unpeaceful world. Medjugorje is a sign to all of you, a call to live these days of grace that God is giving you. Therefore, dear children, accept the call to prayer with seriousness. I am with you and your suffering is also mine. Thank you for having responded to my call.
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..... THE POPE leaves a confessional in St. Peter's Basilica after hearing confessions on Good Friday. (eNS/ Reuters photo)
Frequent confession urged VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has urged Catholics to go to confession often to demonstrate that they know sin exists and that forgiveness is not just a personal matter between an individual and God. At a recent general audience, the pope said receiving the sacrament is an important part of the life of the priesthood of all the baptized. . By confessing their sins, asking pardon and trying to live a holier life, those receiving the sacrament participate in the "fundamental task of the priesthood to eliminate the obstacle of sin which obstructs a life-giving relationship with God," he said. When discussing the sacrament, he said, "one needs to recognize that in recent times in many places there is a crisis" of the faithful not receiving the sacrament. The two main reasons Catholics in some places are not participating in the sacrament are a "weakend" sense of sin and difficulty in understanding the church's role in the relationship between God and an individual, he said. In a climate which emphasizes personal freedom and the total independence of the individual, it is difficult for people "to recognize the reality and gravity of sin" and to understand their guilt before God, he said. Others "do not see the necessity and usefulness of turning to the sacrament," preferring to ask God directly for pardon. Although sin is first of all an offense against God and a rejection of his love, the pope said, it also hurts the church. "Just as the Christian community is strengthened by the good we do, so too is it wounded by our transgressions," the pope said. "Reconciliation with God necessarily involves reconciliation with his church, to which Christ entrusted the power to forgive and retain sins." Pope John Paul urged Catholics to receive the sacrament fre-
quently, even when they have not committed a serious sin, because the sacrament helps one to "resist the power of sin and to grow steadily in holiness of life." "In their efforts to grow closer to God," he said, "sinners are never alone; they are always supported by the church in charity, fellowship l\n~ pra:ter."
Vatican, Mongolia plan diplomatic relations VATICAN'CITY (CNS) - The Vatican and Mongolia have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations and exchange ambassadors, the Vatican announced recently. The announcement said that with the end of a communist monopoly on power in Mongolia in 1990 and the passage, this February of a Mongolian constitution that guarantees "religious liberty. and other fundamental human rights," the way was opened for full diplomatic relations. The apostolic nuncio to Mongolia and the Mongolian ambassador to the Vatican are expected to be named within a few months. The vast majority of Mongolians are Tibetan Buddhists. Exact figures on Buddhists, Muslims and Christians are unknown. Information published with the Vatican announcement said, "Currently there is a small number of Catholics who live in the capital, but they are not Mongolians." The Catholic community in Ulan Bator, the capital, consists mainly of foreigners serving in the diplomatic corps, with international organizations or working in the technical sector. A small group of Christians are known to have reached Mongolia in the seventh century on a mission to China. Franciscan missionaries arrived in the 13th century, about the same time that Tibetan Buddhism became the region's majority religion.
THE SEATTLE archdiocese recently took up a special collection to benefit parishes in three counties of the archdiocese where the timber industry has fallen on hard times. Tighter regulation of logging in national forest lands, sparked in part by the spotted owl controversy, has contributed to unemployment, according to Father David Rogerson, pastor of St. Mary Parish in Aberdeen, Wash. So has a nationwide recession. Several million acres in the Pacific Northwest have been identified as the prime habitat for the endangered Northern spotted owl. Timber, despite the many drawbacks, is still the top industry in the region. But "for every job lost in the timber industry, two [additional] jobs are lost in supporting fields," Father Rogerson said. Food, clothing and money were donated to aid the parishes. No immediate tally was available of the amount collected. Father Rogerson said some areas of the region hope to rebound somewhat. Some towns could become ports, tourism is an option, and the region is viewed as an "alternative lifestyle area" by people who don't care about "climbing the ladder and getting ahead," he added. Still, "you're replacing $14-anhour jobs with $6-, $7-an hour jobs," Father Rogerson said.
•••• A VISIT by Pope John Paull! would help solidify peace in Lebanon, said Lebanese President Elias Hrawi. a Maronite Catholic. "The fighting has stopped. But peace should be sealed with an extraordinary event: the visit of the Holy Father." he said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. Much of the 16 years of fighting in Lebanon has pitted Christianled militias against Muslim-led units. Hrawi was interviewed in Beirut by L'Osservatore Romano reporter Antonio Chi la, who was in Lebanon with a church delegation carrying a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes for the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon. The"arrival of the statue, blessed by the pope, is part of the preparation for the special Synod of Bishops on Lebanon: No data or place 'has been announced for synod. Organizers say it will probably be held in 1994 at the Vatican or in Lebanon. Hra wi said he invited the pope during a private meeting at the Vatican last October. The special synod would be"a valid motivefor the visit," the president told L'Osservatore Romano. Last February Joaquin NavarroValls, Vatican spokesman, said that a papal visit to Lebanon "still is not on the program." Previously, Vatican officials said a Lebanese trip would be possible only when adequate security could be provided for the pope, his entourage and the people who would attend his public events.
*• • * POPE JOHN Paul II and Prime Minister Vitold Fokin of Ukraine discussed Ukraine's domestic problems during a recent meeting. Msgr. Piero Pennacchini, vice director of the Vatiean press office,' said the short time between the establishment in February of Vat-
ican-Ukrainian diplomatic relations and the prime minister's visit is "a sign of a mutual desire for an effective and advantageous collaboration between Ukraine and the Holy See, also for overc.oming internal difficulties." In March the pope named Msgr. Antonio Franco, an official in the Vatican Secretariat of State, as apostolic nuncio to Ukraine. While the pope and Fokin were meeting, the Ukrainian foreign minister met with Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, who is in charge of the Vatiean Secretariat of State's section for relations with states.
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THERE SHOULD be "no conflict between fidelity to the spirit and fidelity to the church and her magisterium," the pope recently told several hundred international charismatic leaders at the Vatican. He praised the charismatic movement for promoting a solid spirituallife based on the power of the Holy Spirit and asked the leaders to "seek increasingly effective ways" to show "complete communion of mind and heart with the Apostolic See and the college of bishops."
* • • • A WOMAN clerk at the Vatican bank, saying she was forced by company policy to resign when she married, is suing to get her job back. A Vatiean spokesman said the case was under review, that forced resignation for reasons of .marriage is not a current bank policy, and promised that ifthe claim is true, such dismissals ~'wilI:not., happen again." Stefania Graziosi, 28, said she
was terminated on her wedding day after working for almost a decade at the bank, which reportedly was concerned about the high costs of maternity leave and subsequent family benefits.
• • * • THE WORK of nuns and priests in Albania would be impossible without Caritas, said a Yugoslavian priest who works in the formerly atheistic country. The Italian Catholic aid organization distributes supplies and food to the needy without regard to their religion, said Father Marko Sopi, who said that Albanians suffer terrible shortages, but also yearn for "spiritual food" such as rosaries, crucifixes, prayer books and religious literature. The last baptisms in Albania took place in 1966. The number of Catholics in the country is unknown but it is estimated that they form about 15 percent ofthecountry's population of approximately 3 million.
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LIBYA'S LEADING churchman, Bishop Giovanni Martinelli of Tripoli, has called the U.N.sponsored embargo against the North African nation a Western overreaction that hurts the cause of peace. He suggested that the embargo, designed to force Libya to turn over suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, was being enforced for "electoral or economic reasons." President George Bush, a strong proponent of the'sarllctions, is expected to be the Republican candidate for president this year.
Court convicts in Italian bank scandal MILAN, Italy (CNS) - An Italian court convicted 33 people, including several leading businessmen, of charges relating to the $1.2 billion collapse of Italy's largest private bank - a case which touched the Vatican bank. But Vatican bank officials, including U.S. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, could not be tried in the case ofthe Banco Ambrosiano because their Vatican status gave them immunity from prosecution. A three-judge tribunal in Milan issued the verdict April 16 and handed out prison sentences to those convicted. The convictions were immediately appealed, and no sentences will be served before the appeal process is over. Among those sentenced was Carlo De Benedetti, chairman of the Olivetti company and one of Italy's top business figures. He was head of Banco Ambrosiano for 65 days in 1981-82, several months before it went bankrupt. 'Prosecutors had attempted but failed to try Archbishop Marcinkus and two other officials of the Vatican bank, known officialIy as the Institute for the Works of Religion, or lOR. The lOR was a shareholder in Banco Ambrosiano. The Vatican has always denied
any wrongdoing. It said its bank was an unwitting victim of the fraudulent schemes of Banco Ambrosiano president Roberto Calvi, who is believed to have diverted the funds for hidden projects aimed at gaining control of the· bank's stock. Calvi was found hanging under'a bridge in London in 1982. A British court was unable to determine whether his death resulted from suicide or murder. The bank was liquidated by the Italian government after it was discovered the financial institution had debts of more than $1 billion. In 1987 prosecutors issued arrest warrants for Archbishop Marcinkus and the other lOR officials, who were all living inside Vatican City. They were charged with complicity in fraudulent bankruptcy. The Vatican rejected an extradition request, citing its sovereign status. Prosecutors continued to refer to the lOR's presumed role in the banking scandal during the trial, however. In summation arguments, the Vatican bank was accused of giving systematic support to Calvi in his illicit operations. In 1984, in an agreement with Banco Ambrosiano's former creditors, the Vatican bank made a "good-will" payment of about $240 million. Archbishop Marcinkus retired as lOR president in 1989 when the bank was reorganized. The restructuringplaced lOR management largely in the hands of lay professionals, and provided for closer church oversight of its operations.
. THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May I, 1992
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Abortion case Continued from Page One performed, requires that women seeking abortions be told about their alternatives and fetal development, and provides for notification of husbands and of parents of minors. Key figures on both sides of the abortion cotroversy believe the court will soon issue a ruling that negates the effects of Roe. But opinions were varied about whether the Pennsylvania case would be the foundation for overturning Roe altogether. At a press conference after the' session, Ms. Kolbert predicted "women will be returned to the back alleys or self-induced abortions should our arguments be rejected, as may well be the case." Several times during her halfhour argument she avoided efforts by the justices to get her to focus on specifics of the Pennsylvania law. She told them the central question in the case was the standard on which a ruli"ng would be based and emphasized her support for using Roe as that basis.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Ernest D. Preate J r., who argued the state's case, took issue with Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion in the 1973 Roe vs. Wade case. After Preate quoted - "virtually word for word," he said later - from Roe vs. Wade, Blackmun asked Preate if he had ever read Roe vs. Wade. He chalked up Blackmun's question as "part of the argument," but Preate added "I don't think Justice Blackmun is correct. Roe does not stand for the principle that there is abortion on demand in America." Some speakers on the steps outside the Supreme Court said they expect the case to be used to overturn Roe. Melody Gage of Americans United for Life, a law firm representing abortion opponents, said, "The court made this case to overturn Roe vs. Wade. We hope that it will." If it is overturned, "we favor the issue to go back to the states," she added. "Roe vs. Wade is bad law."
ATLANTA (CNS) - Atlanta Archbishop. James P. Lyke, 53, has been hospitalized for a recurrence of cancer, which has spread to the lining of his right lung. The archbishop had surgery last year when it was discovered he had kidney cancer. Archbishop Lyke underwent a biopsy at St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta after being admitted April 24 with fluid in his right lung. The 'test revealed that renal cancer had metastasized to the lining of the lung. The archbishop had undergone surgery in January 1991 to remove his right kidney. Tests at that time showed no spread of cancer and he was given a good prognosis. But at an April 28 news conferend:,' Dr. 'Carlos Franto, "a;n oncol" ogist, said his prognosis was now "guarded" and "uncertain." Franco said he expected the archbishop to begin immunotherapy treatment in an attempt to enhance his body's disease-fighting system. Surgery is not possible because of the location of the cancer and radiation and chemotherapy are not appropriate, Franco said. The archbishop's doctors said his overall health was excellent and that he was an ideal patient because of his responsive attitude .. Archbishop Lyke will receive immunotherapy for two to three months as an outpatient. Travel outside the archdiocese has been restricted by his doctors for the next six weeks, but he will be able to do administrative work within the archdiocese. Archbishop Lyke was installed as archbishop of Atlanta June 24, 1991. He is the second black Catholic archbishop in U.S. history; Archbishop Marino was the first.
President's Message DCCW president Mary Mikita recapped the year in her message to members. expressing the mingled sorrow and pride members felt at the departure of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin to become archbishop of Hartford. In her formal message. included in the convention packet of materials. she stressed the importance of the new Respite Care program being sponsored by the DCCW to assist family members caring for aged or infirm persons within the home. "Fall River DCCW is ready and willing to train respite workers." she wrote. Others welcoming the convention attendants were Mrs. James H. Quirk. convention chairman; Miss Margaret Everard. Cape and Islands district president; and Rev. Edward C. Duffy, district moderator and host pastor. Very Rev. James F. Lyons. diocesan moderator. also greeted the women and introduced Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan administrator. who spoke on Archbishop Cronin's continued warm regard for the DCCW and for his part encouraged his hearers to persevere in their work and in their spirit of love. Msgr. Munr.oe then presented the Diocesan Council's annual Margaret M. Lahey/Our Lady of Good Counsel award to a woman from each council district. The 1992 winners are Mary Ponte. Holy Rosary parish. Fall River; Anita Turner. Our Lady of the Assumption. New Bedford; Mary Vieira. S1. Joseph. Taunton; Mary Pestana, Our Lady of M1. Carmel. Seekonk; Joanne Baker, S1. Anthony. East Falmouth. . The award recognizes outstanding dedication and service to the recipient's parish council and to
other parish ministries, as well as to district and diocesan activities. For the luncheon, which followed the convention liturgy, the parish center was transformed into an attractive dining area with the council colors of blue and white used for napkins and tableclothes and each table centered with daffodils. Afternoon Workshop During the afternoon workshop period, convention-goers overflowed a parish center classroom into the hall for a presentation by Father Robert A. Oliveira on prayer. Ingredients of prayer, he said, are praise, thanksgiving, petition and gratitude; and its characteristics include mutuality, listening, honesty and sweat - keeping at it even when the effort seems unrewarded. Suzette Sears, whose topic was "The Tragedy of Romania's Children." offered a special attraction: her daughter. one-year-old J uliana. whom her father and mother adopted last year in Romania. and who won all hearts at the convention. Mrs. Sears described the plight of 130,000 children in Romanian orphanages in words and with slides, explaining that President Nicolae Ceausescu, executed in 1989, had decreed that every woman must bear at least five children or be heavily taxed. Many such children were born into dire poverty and were abandoned, to be taken to orphanages where they live under unspeakable conditions which, when shown on U.S. television, sparked a national outcry and many aid efforts. Marilyn Hannus of Hospice of Cape Cod described the work of hospice in caring for terminally ill patients at home; and Dr. Genevieve Fitzpatrick. a faculty member at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater. discussed her methods of presenting facts on sexuality and on AIDS to her students.
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F ewer seminarians WASHINGTON (CNS) - For the seventh straight year, the number of U.S. Catholic seminarians has dropped at all levels: high school, college and post-college theology studies; But there are signs of a possible reversal of the trend at the critical post-college level, according to data released by the Washington-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. In the three academic levels combined there were 6,441 seminarians at the start of the current school year, down 562 or 8 percent from last year.
Wrong Channel "Sin is energy in the wrong channel."-St. Augustine of Hippo
CONVENTION PRINCIPALS: Very Rev. James F. Lyons, DCCW diocesan moderator; Mrs. Andrew W. Mikita, diocesan president; Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, diocesan administrator. (Lavoie photo)
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May I, 1992
By Charlie Martin
HUMAN TOUCH
By Tom Lennon Chris arrived promptly at 8:30 one Saturday morning. He needed the work and the money badly. At the gym the day before, we had talked briefly about the leaves to be raked, the mulch to be put around the shrubs and the grass to be cut. He worked hard for several hours. When he was done, I invited him in for something to eat. I had known him casually for about a year, but after lunch I began to know him much better. "I need all the money I can get these days," he said. "The baby will be along in about three weeks, and Debi will have to quit her job for a while when that happens." "Where do you work, Chris?" "Down at Crosse and Farrar. I do custodial work. Part time." His face clouded. He seemed tense. Then he said, "There won't be much money coming in when Debi quits. Even if that's only temporary, it's gonna be a bad time." Little by little he told me the story of his life after high school. He had been able to land a job right away, and the first thing he did was move out of the home where he had grown up. Almost immediately life seemed good. He was living on his own, had a car, went to lots of parties and had lots o(girls. He drank and drugged. In the next few years he lost several jobs because he couldn't follow orders. But he always seemed to land a new job. Eventually Shelley moved in with him, and after a year she became pregnant. After the baby was born she and Chris fought a lot. Finally she walked out on him and took the baby. He hasn't seen Shelley or his son since.
Five months later Chris met Debi, and she moved in with him. Two years later she became pregnant, and soon afterward they got married. Chris made a valiant effort to turn his life around. He quit the booze and the drugs. He began working out. Then he and Debi began searching for a church to attend. But that day at my house, Chris felt his future looked bleak. "Tom, I gotta make at least $400 a week to take care of Debi and the baby and pay all the other bills. But I don't know where the hell I'm gonna even earn that kind of money. I've got no special skills and I haven't gone beyond high school. I'm afraid the job I have could fold up any time. I feel like a nobody." For a moment I thought this strong young man was going to cry. We sat in silence for a few minutes before he spoke again. "Myoid man was an alcoholic. He never took any time with me, never told me all the things a guy needed to know. He didn't even believe in God, so we never went to church. If only I'd had parents who guided and protected me more - lots more!" That last sentence lingered in my mind. That evening I thought about all the young people I've known who griped to me about their parents being overprotective; Their moms and dads are the courageous men and women who work hard at being good parents, trying their best to steer their children in the right paths. Today as Chris tries to straighten out his life, he thinks about those loving parents- the kind of parents he believes he never had. He hopes that he and Debi will be like them.
A Statement on Medjugorje We, the people of Medjugorje, in the long-standing, internationally-accepted tradition of recognizing the non-col)1batant status of sites of special cultural and religious significance, do hereby solemnly ordain and declare Medjugorje to be an Open City. In the past ten years, this village has become hallowed ground, a place of pilgrimage for more than fifteen million people of all faiths from all over the world. As such, it has been instrumental in changing millions of lives for the better, and those lives have touched the lives of countless others. From the beginning, Medjugorje has been open to all peoples,from the East and from the West. That tradition continues: all are welcome here; none are excluded. Ort~.odox, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, and any others may worship here side by side, in peace and harmony, Peace has always been our watchword, Visitors invariably comment on the extraordinary peace of this place. And recently, Medjugorje has been called an "oasis of peace" in an increasingly stormy desert. There a're no military installations here, no barracks, no communications centers, no industrial sites. We do not even have police. We therefore declare Medjugorje to be an Open City, a combat-free zone of 'peace, Indeed, this is what it has become: 'a place where people may set asi~e the things of the world, to concentrate on the things of God. This is the 'message of Medjugorje, and in that spirit, we, her people, make this declaration to our Serbian, Muslim, and Croatian brothers and sisters, and to all the world. We ask all people of good will to honor it, and we pray that it will be a step towards what all of our hearts desire: peace for our land. For the people of Medjugorje,
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You and me we were the ,pretenders We let it slip away In the end what you don't surrender Well the world just strips away Girl, ain't no kindness in the face of strangers Ain't going to find no miracles here Well, you can wait on your blessings my darlin' I got a deal for you right here I ain't coming round searching for a crush I just want someone to talk to And a little of that human touch Just a little of that human touch Ain't no mercy on the streets of. this town Ain't no bread from heavenly skies Ain't nobody drawing wine from this blood It's just you and me tonight Tell me, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm asking is too much I just want something 10 hold on to And a little of that human touch Just a little of that human touch Girl, I'm feeling the safety rise Well, it comes with a hard, hard price You can't shut off the risk and the pain Without losing the love that remains We're all riders on this train So you've been broken and you've been hurt Show me somebody who ain't Yeah, I know I ain't nobody's bargain But I need a little touch up and a little paint You might need something to hold on to When all the answers, they don't amount to much Somebody that you can just talk to And a little of that human touch Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm asking's too much I just want to feel you in my arms And share a little of that human touch Share a little human touch Feel a little of that human touch Feel a little of that human touch Share a little of that human touch Feel a little of that human touch Give you a little of that human touch Give me a little of that human touch Written and Sung by Bruce Springsteen (c) 1992 by Bruce Springsteen, Columbia Records DO YOU like the Bruce rent hit is prereleased as a casSpringsteen sound? If so, "Husingle off Springsteen's new disc. man Touch" is for you. His curThe song features the classic
Springsteen style: straight-on rock! "Human Touch" focuses on an all-too common experience - deeply felt loneliness. The person in the song seems desperate to make a connection with another individual. He asks his girl: "In a world without pity, do you think what I'm asking is too much? I just want something to hold on to and a little of that human touch." Most of us feel lonely from time to time. But some people have more than their share. They seem unable to break out of its painful grip. Perhaps this is ironic, but one of the more effective ways to overcome loneliness is by reaching out to other hurting people. Everyone needs the touch of a caring friend. Sometimes the best way to receive such nurturing love is to give it. To do this, one does not need to look far. Consider those in class with you. Are there any classmates who are not well accepted or liked by their peers? Ma-ybe your stereotypes or prejudices are getting in the way of seeing these people for who they really are - fellow human beings who need acceptance. Reach out with the human touch of friendship. Yet do not be surprised if your concern is treated with rejection or skepticism. Hurt breeds mistrust. However, be persistent. Demonstrate that you want to know them for who they really are, not for what others say about them. As Christians we turn to the example of Jesus to learn more about how to respond to others.The Gospels ardilled with stories about how Jesus touched people both physically and with his caring heart. Jesus understood how loneliness injures the soul's wellbeing. As his followers today, we too are called to help heal others' loneliness. Reach out genuinely, supportively. See miracles happen once more in your own and in others' lives. Your comments are welcomed by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, In 47635.
Students make video to help hungry OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) The concern of sixth-grade students for the world's hungry children has resulted in the production of a video to boost ariti-hunger efforts. The students, from Rosary School, were seen in March on Cable News Network, which came to film a segment for its "CNN News Room" program. The students felt not much was being done to help hungry children around the world, so they wanted to do something about it. They contacted their legislators and local television and radio sta- ' tionswith hand-drawn 24-inch by 30-inch "postcards," and decided to make a video to send to other sixth grades to get more help. Response to the postcards was not great. But they sent one remaining postcard to CNN headquarters in Atlanta. In one week CNN's Janice McDonald indicated that CNN would come and film a program. In Oklahoma City, Cox Cable said they would make the sixthgraders' video.
The students created a script, had tryouts for the parts for the video, "Voices from the Next Generation," and memorized their lines. "They're.working to keep hungry, sick kids from dying," Mrs. Keefe told The Sooner Catholic, Oklahoma City's archdiocesan newspaper. .
"The U.N. World Summit for Children Implementation Act of 1991 is presently in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs," she added. "But nothing much has happened." But as a result of the postcard campaign, she said, they'd heard federal lawmakers from Oklahoma will co-sponsor it.
ON THE AIR: Noelle Moorad and Casey Ashmore, sixth-graders at Rosary School in Oklahoma City, co-anchor their class video aimed at helping hungry children. Linda Straka of Cox Cable, left, operates the video camera, while William Walker of CNN films the scene for the cable network. (CNS photo)
The Anchor Friday, May I, 1992
Rights denied to GU Choice WASHINGTON(CNS)-Georgetown University has revoked official recognition of a student-run club that dealt with the abortion issue.. School officials announced they had denied G U Choice access to university benefits on the grounds that the student groups violated an agreement to stick to open discussion on abortion, instead moving into abortion-rights advocacy. Jesuit Father Leo J. O'Donovan, head of Jesuit-run Georgetown, said in a letter to the university community that enforcing the agreement with the year-old group was "extraordinarily difficult and ultimately unmanageable." G U Choice had been given the privileges of any other campus group, such as access to funding provided by student fees and to other university benefits. Father O'Donovan denied that Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey, the Vatican or a group that has sought to have the Vatican revoke Georgetown's Catholic status had any part in the decision. Rumors that he had been summoned to Rome to discuss the controversy were"simply not true," he said. Kelli McTaggart, a graduating senior who stepped down in March as GU Choice co-chair, said the gro:Jp "no longer exists," but that a new group, Georgetown University Students for Abortion has been formed. It is not receiving university benefits. Cardinal Hickey called Georgetown's decision "consistent with the commitment of Georgetown University asa Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher learning." Ann Sheridan, president of the Georgetown Ignatian Society, which filed petitions first with Cardinal Hickey and later with the Vatican to revoke Georgetown's Catholic status, hailed the move but called it a "save-face" measure by the university. "We're grateful that they're gone," Mrs. Sheridan said of GU Choice. "It's unfortunate that there wasn't enough moral courage to say why." .
Developer named WASHINGTON (CNS) - Patrick W. Kenned'y, 5(l, a perman~nt. deacon with 18 years fund-raising experience,' has. been named development director for. the North, American College in Rome. For the last II years, Kennedy was on , the development team' at Cove- , nant House in New York, the last, four as as.sistant to the president. Before that, he was edit<lr of F oun- , dation News, a trade jour.nal for the fund-raising industry. A dea-, con of the diocese of Trenton, N.J., he and his wife a~e)he parents of three grown children.
Salve R,egina . Among 62 students inducted into Sigma Phi Sigma, the National Mercy Honor Society, 'at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, were Kathleen O'Brien of South Easton, Kathleen Brennan ofNorth Attleboro, Christine Piscatelli of Mansfield and Melissa Taylor of Attleboro. The inductees ,were selected on the basis of scholastic achievement, fidelity and service to the university.
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MILE HIGH CITY: The city skyline soars above Denver Civic Park as church officials announce that Pope John Paul II has chosen the city to host the 1993 World Youth Day. (eNS photo)
1993 youth rally: Czestochowa it ain't Fortunately, the papal visit will VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Now that Pope John Paul II has chosen fall on a weekend. Denver as the site of World Youth It marks the first time the pope Day in 1993, people at the Vatican will celebrate the youth day rally are wondering whether the jam- in a country that is not predomiboree-style event of recent years nantly Catholic. But Rome is lookwill transplant well to North ing beyond crowd size this time around, and finding some other America. Many church officials predict a advantages. very different kind of rally in Vatican officials are hoping that Colorado - one with fewer nUITl- the clean air, wide-open spaces bers, more direct participation and and mountain peaks of Denver a fuller schedule of papal activities. will provide a rarefied setting for In picking Denver to host the the pope and strike an environyouth meeting and his own visit, mental chord with youths. While air fares will cut down on the pope was taking some chances. The other cities considered - Buf- the number of youths able to attend fOlio, N.Y., and St. Paul-Minne- from outside the country, the Vatapolis - both have larger Catholic ican is aware that the United States populations and are within easier is largely a country of recent immitraveling distance of other urban grants, reflecting worldwide ethareas. nic diversity in a way other nations Denver, the "Mile High City," do not. Denver's Hispanic connection lies in one of the most sparsely populated regions of the United in particular gives youth day '93 a States. special focus; the' archdiocese is "It's not going. to b~ a.nother one of several that have started Czestochowa,'" said one top Vati- . 'outre'ach program~ to 'Hispanic can official. young people. The comparison is bound to be Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, presmade. Last August, 1.5 million ident of th'e Pontifical Council for young peo'ple swarmed at the Po- the Laity, said the pope wants the U.S. visit to "crown" the' current lish Marian shrine at Czestochowa where, between papal eveMs, they fifth centenary celebrations of the discovery and evangelization of sang and prayed latl'( into thenight. Many came ~ith backpacks and the New World. But along with celebrating, there a bus ticke't, participa'nts' in a ' continent-wide pilgrimage.: 'Of may be some protesting, accordcourse, Poland alone - which'is ing to David' .~orral, a young. only ,slightly bigger th,an Colorado Denver Catholic who was in Rome - has more than 35 million for the pope's announcement on Catholics. Palm Sunday. He said Hispanic The 1989 World Youth Day people and others will want to rally in Santiago de Compostela, hear what the pope has to say Spain, drew about 600,000 young about the church's actions during people in a siinilar display of ex- the "conquest" of native peoples. Youth Day meetings in the past cited devotion. "The thing to remember is that, have tended to be five-day maraCzestochowa and Santiago are thons with a papal talk or two at natural pilgrimage sites in August. the end. For most of the young The pope was there at a time when people, the pope remains a distant there would normally be many figure on an altar or platform, people anyway," said Paul Hender- with little chance for dialogue. son, who works with youth groups Things may be different in Denfor the U.S. bishops' conference. vcr. Already, U.S. planners havea Denver and the rest of the Uni- commitment for two-and-one-half ted States have no grand pilgrim- days of the pope's time - and that age tradition like Europe, and no may be stretched by another day monthlong August holiday, either. or two, said Father Dennis
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 1,1992
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ST. MARY, NB Guild meeting 7 p. m. May II, parish center; topic will be drug awareness. Children and grandchildren are invited to attend. Make-yourown-sundae social will follow. ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Sunday Mass with Father William T. Babbitt 2:30 p.m. Sunday. 234 Second Street Fall River, MA 02721 Web Offset NewspaperJ Printing & Mailing (508) 679-5262
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ST. ST ANISLAUS, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday concluding with evening prayer and Benediction. D. of I. Alcazaba Circle 65, Attleboro, meeting 7 p.m. May7, K. ofe. Hall, Hodges St. May baskets will be made for shut-ins.
COPING WITH ANGER CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE WORKSHOP Youth group talent show 3 p.m. Survivors, a local chapter of the Sunday. Women's club potluck/ National Coalition of Cancer Survi- guest night dinner meeting 6 p.m. vors, will sponsor the workshop May 13; Arnold Carr will speak on "Coping With Anger" 7 p.m. May20 "Shipwrecks of Cape Cod." Information: Annemarie Finn, 477-5654. in the Nannery Conference Room at Eucharistic adoration today through St. Anne's Hospital, FR. Dorothy J. Levesque, director of ministry to 8:30 a.m. Mass tomorrow. separated, divorced, remarried and ST. ANTHONY, NB widowed persons in the Providence St. Anthony Centennial Comdiocese, will present the program, mittee will meet 2:30 p.m. May 17, covering such topics as Dealing with church basement, Nye St. entrance. Personal Anger, Acceptingand Cop- Past and present parishioners, as ing with the Anger of Others, and well as school alumni, are welcome From Anger to Peace. Survivors, a to attend. The parish's 100th annisupport group for persons diagnosed versary will be observed in 1995. with cancer and their families, meets LaSALETTE SHRINE, second and fourth Wednesdays at ATTlEBORO St. Anne's. Both the workshop and Margaret Andersen, a New York support meetings are free and open to the public. . City actress, will perform the oneperson drama "Rahab: the Story of ~T. FRANCIS of ASSISI, NB a Changed Life," based on the ScripWomen's League annual mystery ture chapter of Joshua, 6:30 p.m. ride May 5; leaving church parking tomorrow at the Shrine. Those lot 6 p.m. attending are invited to 4:30 p.m. ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Mass at the Shrine. Guild living rosary 7:30 p.m. May As part of LaSalette's centennial 5 followed. by business meeting and celebration, a dinner-concert featurice cream social. ing Father Andre Patenaude will be DCCW held 6 p.m. May 9 in Shrine cafeteTaunton District living rosary 7 ria. The concert will be dedicated to p.m. May6, St. Ann's parish, Raynthe Blessed Mother whose appariham. tion at LaSalette, France, in 1846 was the inspiration for the religious ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET community of the Missionaries of Holy Rosary Sodality will hold LaSalette, who are celebrating 100 public recitation of the rosary duryears of ministry in the United States. ing the month of May at 6:30 p.m. For information on either proweekdays, 4 p.m. Saturdays and 8 gram call 222-5410. a.m. Sundays. SACRED HEART, ST. PATRICK, FR N. ATTLEBORO Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. "An Evening with Rev. Francis May 4 with calendar party, square O'Brien & Company" will be presdancing, election of officers. ented in the church at 8 p.m. May 15 CATHEDRAL, FR under auspices of the diocesan chapA shrine honoring the Blessed ter of the National Assn. of Pastoral Mother will have prominent place in Musicians. Area company members the church throughout the month; include Joanne Mercier and Rev. rosary will be prayed prior to 9 a.m. David Costa. Further information: and 12:05 p.m. weekday Masses. (401) 658-2122.
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SEPARATED/DIVORCED, FR FR area support group meeting 7 p.m. second Tuesdays and fourth Wednesdays, O.L. Grace Church Westport; spiritual director Father Gerard A. Hebert. ST. JOSEPH, NB To serve on the prayer line, or to submit a petition, call Claire McCardell, 995-5095 between 9 and 10 a.m. or 7 and 8 p.m. The prayer line is available to all. ST. ANTHONY of the DESERT, FR Crowning of statue of Blessed Mother after I t a.m. liturgy Sunday followed by Exposition of Blessed Sacrament until 6 p.m. with holy hour 5 to 6 p.m. in St. Sharbel Chapel. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR Women's Club Marian prayer service and crowning 7 p.m. May 4.
THE LORD'S CHOIR, ASSONET Ecumenical children's choir with members from nine area churches will present a musical Easter story 2 p.m. Sunday, United Church North Main St., Assonet. ' REV. RENE PATENAUDE MEMORIAL Following 10 a.m. Mass Sunday at St. Anne's Church, FR, a memorial will be placed on the former grounds of St. Anne's Little League baseball field on Forest St. (now St. Anne's Hospital parking lot). Refreshments will be served at St. Anne's School following ceremonies. All former officials, managers and players of the little league are invited. O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Dr. Edward Tynan, superintendant of Barnstable School System, will speak at Men's Club meeting May 12.
Medical technology makes dying "humanly harder," says ethicist DUBUQUE, Iowa(CNS) - Our high-tech medical culture has changed human dying from what it was in our past and made it "humanly harder," with more pain and suffering, according to a Chicago ethicist. Jesuit Father James F. Bresnahan, co-director of the ethics and human values in medicine program at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, gave the keynote talk at a recent conference on "Issues in Death and Dying: Ethical, Legal and Religious Perspectives" held at Loras College in Dubuque. "Frequently we have made human dying humanly harder," he said. "This presents us with moral and legal challenges of utmost urgency to which we have not, as yet, effectively responded. "We have made our dying involve more pain and suffering than would have been the case if our hightechnology medical care had not achieved its unquestionable success in prolonging life and delaying the onset ofthe terminal phase of illness or injury," Father Bresnahan added. He said we must respond to this by making hospice-type relief of pain and suffering just as central to modern medicine as we have made the search for cure or delay of dying. "But, in fact, we do not accept relief of pain and personal response to suffering as central to good doctoring and medical caring," he said. "If we fail in our moral duty to remedy this inadequacy, we will be partially, if not mainly responsible for the eventual decriminaliz- . ing of active euthanasia, with all the lamentable consequences that will entail."
In another talk to the conference, Janine Idziak, a professor of philosophy and director of the Bioethics Resource Center at Loras, said most health care money spent on an individual in his or her lifetime comes in the last month of life. "Would it be better to spend more on prenatal care for women, rather than putting so much money into life-sustaining procedures at the end of an individual's life?" she asked. In his new book, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center in New York suggests that people be denied acCess to certain types of treatment after about age 80. "Around age 80, people feel they have lived a full life," Ms. Idziak said of Callahan's position. "Doesn't it make more sense for us to use our health care resources to make sure that everybody gets a chance to live a full life, rather than spending tremendous amounts of money for a heart transplant for somebody who is 85 years old?" On the issue of futile medical treatment, Ms. Idziak said the medical profession has been operating under the principle that if a patient chooses to forgo a lifesustaining treatment that is excessively burdensome or futile, it is morally permissible to forgo the treatment. "We are now reaching the stage of asking the question, 'if someone wants a futile medical treatment, can he/ she have access to it?''' she added. "Some feel that an individual getting futile medical treatment takes away health care services from others who could benefit from it."
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FOLLOWING POLISH tradition, Father George Taraska, OFM Conv., blesses decorated baskets of Easter foods at Holy Rosary Church, Taunton. (Kearns photo)