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FALL RIVER, MASS.
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Confronting a continent's problems
Pope in 4 African nations By NC News Service In his April 28-May 6 trip to Africa, Pope John Paul II tried to shine a light on a corner of the continent that has known more than its share of darkness in recent years. The countries he visited - Madagascar, Zambia, Malawi and the French department of Reunion -are known to the Western world largely for their social problems: widespread poverty, growing foreign debt, an influx of refugees and high rates of AIDS. In Antsiranana, Madagascar, for instance, even for a pope who has kissed and blessed hundreds of infants, meeting baby Angelica was something special. Abandoned in February at the age of9 months on the doorstep of a church-run orphanage, the tiny Malagasy girl was presented 10 Pope John Paul II as he left the altar following a Mass April 29. He lifted her in his arms and gave her a big kiss in front of some 20,000 people. Then he handed hl:r back to orphanage worker Mar:,e Agnes Soanesy and made the Sign of the Cross over both.
It was a gesture her caretakers some, 150,000 people - nearly hope will ~elp find Angelica a one-third the island's total population - the pope beatified a 19thhome. "Nobody wants her. We thought century French missionary, Brother if the pope could meet her, it Scubilion Rousseau, whose efforts .would awaken interest in her case," to educate black slaves helped pave' explained Sister Jeanine Couve, a the way for slavery's abolition on French nun who runs Holy Family the island. The pope praised the missionOrphanage. In Madagascar, 55 percent of ary's ability to live the Gospel, the population is under 'age 20. then called on Reunion's modern The swelling numbers of poor chil- population to do the same. He voiced concern about social dren are most visible on the streets changes in Reunion, a mostly of major cities. Their presence was dramatically Catholic ~Iand where French culillustrated later that day during a ture has dominated in recent years. youth rally in Antananarivo, Mad- He cautioned youths that "keepagascar, when two barefoot girls ing up with one's neighbor" was ~ their stomachs swollen from -becoming the driving principle in hunger - walked unexpectedly Reunion, and, apparently referring onto the papal platform and stood to a jump in the divorce rate, said marriage was "a union that no next to the pope. The oldest, 3-year-old Monik, human court can dissolve." The pope traveled to Zambia on carried her I-year-old sister Zin on her back. The pope hugged them the African continent May 2 in a for about a minute until a Vatican French Concorde jet, flying for the first time at supersonic speeds. official led them away. He repeatedly praised Zambia From Madagascar, Pope John and neighboring Malawi for "hePaul traveled to the French island roic" efforts at hosting hundreds of Reunion in the Indian Ocean of thousands of refugees. most of for an overnight visit May I. Celebrating Mass May 2 for Turn to Page Six
CCA at $902,139 First returns from parishes and Special Gift solicitors show a total of$902, 139.86 already collected in the 1989 Catholic Charities Appeal. Special Gift solicitors are asked to make final returns by tomorrow. Parish volunteers will continue to call on parishioners not contacted last Sunday. The parish phase ofthe Appeal will close May 17 but Appeal books will remai:l open until I p.m. May 26 for final donations. Parishes surpassing 1988 final Appeal totals will be enrolled on the 1989 parish honor roll. Already listed are Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, report-
ing$21,217, and St. Peter, Dighton, reporting $5,020. Last year 105 parishes were listed and Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Appeal director, said of this year's campaign: "We -are anticipating that every parish 112 - will be on this year's honor roll. We must have substantial
increases in every parish to surpass llist year's total of $1,974,486.85. Leading parishes, parish totals, special gift listings and names of parish donors appear on pages 2 and 12 ofthis issue of The Anchor. Listings will continue to /appear weekly in the order received by the printer until all have been recorded.
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Father Robert A. Oliveira, director of Continuing Formation of Clergy and Laity, has announced a priests' study day to be held from 10:30 a:m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, at Cathedral Camp, Eas't Freetown. Father James O'Donohue, a ,professor of moral theology 'at Boston College, will address the question of Human Sexuality: Magisterial Teachings and Pastoral PAPAL HUGS: From top,-Pope John Paul II embraces Practice. His two presenlations baby Angelica; Monik, 3, and her sister, Zin, 1, barely visible will focus on theological principles at left of his hand; and irrepressible President Banda of of sexual morality and specific applications of Church teachings. Malawi. (NCj UPI-Reuters photos)
ON SUNDAY,1"heresa Wesloh's Mother's Day schedule will include helping her son and pastor, Father Ferdinand J. Wesloh, distribute holy communion at St. John the Baptist parish, St. Louis, where she is also a lector. (NC photo)
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leading Parishes ATILEBORO AREA St. John, Attleboro SI. Mary, Seekonk SI. Mark, Attleboro Falls MI. Carmel, Seekonk Holy Ghost, Attleboro
24,641.00 20,364.00 14,791.00 14,043.00 9,054.00
CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS AREA SI. Pius X, So. Yarmouth 40,134.00 Holy Redeemer, Chatham 19,499.00 O.L. of Victory, Centerville 19,201.00 Corpus Christi, Sandwich 16,907.00 SI. Patrick, Falmouth 16,645.00 FALL RIVER AREA Holy Name Our Lady of Angels O.L. of Fatima, Swansea SI. Thomas More, Somerset SI. John of God, Somerset
25,587.00 22,430.85 21,217.00 17,861.00 12,671.00
NEW BEDFORD AREA MI. Carme: SI. John the Baptist SI. John Neumann, E. Freetown SI. Julie Billiart, No. Dartmouth SI. Patrick, Wareham
17,025.00 13,775.00 11,745.00 11,741.50 9,786.00
TAUNTON AREA Holy Cross, So. Easton St. Paul SI. Joseph Immaculate Conception, O.L. of Lourdes
15,970.30 12,517.00 12,420.00 10,476.00 10,069.00
Parish Totals ATILEBORO Attleboro Holy Ghost SI. John SI. Joseph SI. Mark SI. Stephen
9,054.00 24,641.00 9,000.00 14,791.00 8,558.00
Mansfield-SI. Mary North Attleboro Sacred Heart St. Mary Norton-SI. Mary Seekonk MI. Carmel SI. Mary
4,72&.00 8,163.00 8,048.00 14',043.00 20,364.00
CAPE COD &THE ISLANDS AREA Buzzards Bay-St. Margaret Centerville-O. L. of Victory Chatham-Holy Redeemer Cotuit-Christ the King Falmouth-SI. Patrick Nantucket-O. L. of the Isle North FalmouthSI. Elizabeth Seton Oak Bluffs-Sacred Heart Osterville-Assumption Provincetown-SI. Peter Sandwich-Corpus Christi South Yarmouth-SI. Pius X Vineyard HavenSI. Augustine FALL RIVER AREA Fall River SI. Mary's Cathedral Blessed Sacrament Espirito Santo Holy Cross Holy Name Notre Dame Our Lady of the Angels Our Lady of Health Sacred Heart St. Anne SI. Anthony of Padua SI. Joseph SI. Louis SI. Mathieu
9,085.00 8,841.00 7,876.00 12,347.00 5,755.00 10,233.50 6,400.00
SI. Michael SI. Patrick SS. Peter & Paul St.Stanislaus SI. William Santo Christo Assonet-SI. Bernard Somerset SI. John of God SI. Patrick SI. Thomas More Swansea Our Lady of Fatima SI. Louis de France SI. Michael Westport- O.L. of Grace SI. George St. John the Baptist
8,432.50
8,652.00 19,201.00 19,499.00 10,655.00 16,645.00 9,194.00 15,502.00 4,788.00 10,031.50 6,173.00 16,907.00 40,134.00
12,671.00 8,308.00 17,861.00 21,217.00 10,444.00 7,612.00 8,086.00 2,168.00 10,912.00
NEW BEDFORD AREA New Bedford MI. Carmel Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of Perpetual Help SI. Anne SI. Francis of Assisi SI. Hedwig 51. John the Baptist SI.·Kilian SI. Lawrence St. Theresa AcushnetSI. Francis Xavier East FreetownSI. John Neumann FairhavenSI. Joseph SI. Mary Marion-SI. Rita Mattapoisett-SI. Anthony
4,540.00
7,912.00 2,231.00 8,213.00 3,033.00 25,587.00 5,680.00 22,430.85 7,463.00 6,932.00 4,822.00 9,491.00 5,402.00 5,743.00 2,524.00
TAUNTON $700.00 SI. Joseph Conference
NATIONALS $400.00
$300.00
Massachusetts State Council. Knights of Columbus $100.00
Our lady ot Victory Guild. Centerville ladies Association of the Sacred Hearts. West Harwich $250.00
Auburn Construction Co.• Inc.. Whitman
Montfort Fathers, Dighton
Campbell Oil Company. TiSbury
$50.00
Holy Family Conference, East Taunton
SI. Anthony Council of Catholic Women. East Falmouth Ally. Joseph H. Beecher. Hyannis Knights 01 Columbus. Pope Paul VI Council #7312 Chatham $125.00
ATTLEBORO
6,061.00 4,755.50 2,575.00 8,041.00
$2200.00 Krew. Inc.
Teatickel Hardware. East Falmoufh $200.00
$100.00
Rosecraft, Inc.• Woonsocket A. Caponigro &Company. Inc.
Bonito Construction Company. East Falmouth George Botelho. Inc.. East Falmouth E.r. Mello Electrician. Falmouth Souza's Texaco Station. East Falmouth Spartan Cleaners. Hyannis Action Carpets. Buzzards Bay John·lawrence Funeral Home. Inc.. Marstons Mills Reef Realty ltd.. West Dennis
$125.00 Richardson·Cuddy Insurance Company Attleboro lions Club $100.00 Morse Sand & Gravel Corporation Stephen H. Foley Funeral Home
$35.00 . Bergevine Bros. $25.00 Floyd's Dis. Exec. Clothing Evergreen Gardens
$125.00 SI. Jacques Conference Mary K. Nichols, AlIorney·At·law
$1000.00 Falmouth Toyota. East Falmouth $500.00 Great Rock Tractor Company. Bourne 'SI. Joan of Arc Guild. Orleans
Sears Roebuck Company, Vineyard Haven, Coca Cola Bolliing Company, Vineyard Haven, Baker Monument Company, Fal· mouth. Barrett Real Estate, Inc., East Falmouth, Golden Sails Restaurant, East Falmouth. Jenkins, Cole & Gleason. Falmouth SI. Anthony Women's Club. East Falmouth, Misty Hill Floral Design ltd.. North Eastham. Island Electronics, Vineyard Haven. Maco's, Inc.; Ryan Family Amusements; Quintal's Restaurant; Capl. Harris fish Market; Elizabeth's Boutique; Phil's Rent a Wreck; Canal Electrical, Inc.; Mezza luna Res· taurant. Buzzards Bay, Doane, Beal & Ames, Inc., Hyannis. Jim's Package Store, Oak Blufls, Robert Joy & Sons, Inc.• North Harwich
PARISHES FAll RIVER _ 51. lIary's Cathedral $450,00 Rev. Horace J. Travassos; $260 'Claire Mullins; $200 Cathedral Women's.Guild; $125 M-M laurence A. Coyle, M·M James Coyne, M·M Richard Grace. Claire O'Toole; $100 Mary Caouette, lillian Cullen, Ruth Hurley, M·M James A. O'Brien. Jr.. Eileen A. Sullivan; $50 M·M Gerald Holleran, Mary T. Hurley, Mrs. John McGinn. William P. O'Brien, In Memory ot Francis J. O'Neil, Daniel Shea, Eleanor Shea. Mrs. Ernest Moniz. M-M Edward C. Raposa, Mrs. Edward J. Smith, Colleen - Sullivan. $40 M·M Duarte Farias, Mrs. lydia Pacheco, M·M Roger Vezina. $30 M·M Joseph Botelho, M·M Fred R. Dolan, Mrs. Irene Lamothe $25 Amelia E. Bariteau, Mrs. Edward Belly & Family, M·M Patrick Carney, Robert Coulombe, Honora Coyne Mrs. William Ellen, Gail Pragana. M·M John Ready, lillian Reardon, M·M Philip Rocha, Arthur Russell, Helen M. Shea, Kathleen Sullivan, Veronica SutCliffe, M·M leo Thibault, M·M Antone Franco,Jr.. Mary A. G:ngras, M·M Thomas Harkin, M·M William A. Johnson, Mrs. John Koska, Mrs lucille levasseaur. Mrs. Eva levesque, M·M Daniel P.lynch, M·M William Mayelle, Mrs. Michael McConnon, M·M George McDonald, Barbara Nikinas
Aleixo. Miles, Murray & Rounds, P.i:. SI. Anthony Conference Alan M. Walker & Company, Inc. I.C.!. American. Inc., Dighton $75.00 SI. Peter Conference, Dighton
SlOOO.OO White's of Westport Siades ferry Trust Company $1200.00 Fall River Gas Company $1100.00 $600.00 . Compass Bank . $500.00 AClumber Company
$50.00 American Wallpaper Company Ally. Peter Collias Ally. William P. Grant Nate lions Poirier, Inc. Aime Pelletier, Electrical Contractor Assonet Bootery Assonet Inn Smith Office Equipment Company American Rent·A·Car Eastern TV Sales & Service John's Shoe Store The Red Velvet Florist Plumber's Supply Company Carlos Matos Drug Store $40.00 Roger Dufour & Son Piano & Organ Hadley Insurance Agency, Inc.
$35.00 Oak Grove Auto Sales $33.00 R. Andrews Co.. Inc. $30.00
$250.00
Sherwin, Gottlieb, lowenstein & Rapoza
$200.00
~rmburg
Trends, Inc.
$25.00
Catholic Woman's ClUb In Memory of Rev. Adrien E. Bernier John Brazlnsurance Agency. Inc. $175.00
$50.00
$150.00 Almeida Electrical, Inc. Arkwright Finishing Div. United Merchants & Mlgrs., Inc. Chace Curtain Co., Inc. SJ.R. General Contractors, Assonet
Insurance Agency. Cox Paper Company, Imperial Glass Company. South End Toyota,lacava & Sowersby Auto Parts, AI & Paul's Rent·A·Car, Ideal Bias Binding Company, Catholic Association of Foresters, Our lady of Fatima Court, Catholic Association of Foresters, Our lady of Victory Court, J. Fred Beckett & Son, Fairhope Fabrics, Inc.. Frank S. Feitel· berg Real Estate, Gemco Electrical Company, Inc.. Giroux· Audet Insurance Agency. Quality Produce, Cut·Price Pools of Somerset, Ally. Bernard Saklad, Allorneys Thompson. Reed & Boyce, John G. lage Corp.. Uni·Con Floors, Inc., Boynton Hardware & Grain, Assonet, Piping Systems, Inc., Assonet, Ship Side, William Stang Assembly, Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, Railings Unlimited. Henry Jacobson, Bridget Thornton
$125.00
$40.00 Gondola Cafe. Inc. Grenier Catering
$75.00 Gustave Mattos Electrical Contractor Holy Name Women's Guild
$300.00 Thomas P. Egan, Inc.. Somerset Beacon Garment Co.. Inc.
White Spa Caterers
Sacred Heart Women's Guild Edward A. Roster, Esquire Viner &Viner Mold Makers. West Bridgewater Assiran, Ellis & Pontes, Attorneys
$89.00 Andy's Rapid Transportation, Inc.
$400.00 Silva·Faria·Somerset funeral Homes
$60.00 Silva funeral Home
$25.00
CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
Charlie's Oil Co.. Inc.
$200.00 Immaculate Conception Women's Guild SI. Paul.Women·s Guild
$100,00
Eva's Sophisticated Junk. Falmouth Tip for Tops"N Restaurant, Provincetown Puntan Clothmg Company, Hyanms . A.B.C. Oil Company. Vineyard Haven Thomas ft. Peterson Realtors. West Harwich . Waystack Realty, Dennisport Ma's, Inc.• Buzzards Bay Buzzards Bay Pharmacy
Ross-Simons of Attleboro. Inc.
$3400.00
$250.00
$50.00
$75.00
FALL RIVER
Duro finishing Corp.
Immacul;te Conception Conference
Mrs. James r. Waldron Economy Body & Radiator Works
$25.00 Immaculate Conception Youth Group. Andy's Market, SI. Jacques Women's Guild, SI. Germain & Son, Radio Station Wpep, Beauvais Bicycle Shop. Georgio's, Dighton, lassen's Chevrolet Dighton. Stacy's Beauty Salon
Sl75.oo Sacred Heart Conference
3,000.00 2,010.00 10,476.00 10,069.00 9,148.00 1,465.00 12,420.00 4,458.00 12,517.00 5,020.00 2,840.00 9,935.00 15,970.30
11,745.00
$350.00
$200.00
MUlcahy Engineers. Cranston. R.I.
TAUNTON AREA Taunton Holy Family Holy Rosary Immaculate Conception Our Lady of Lourdes Sacred Heart SI. Jacques SI. Joseph SI. Mary St. Paul Dighton-51. Peter North Dighton-SI. Joseph Raynham-SI. Ann South Easton-HolY Cross
7,138.00
Taunton District Council of SI. Vincent De Paul Society $400.00
11,741.50 9,411.00 9,786.00
$35.00
Durfee.Aitieboro Bank $500.00
North OartmouthSI. Julie Billiart South Dartmouth-SI. Mary Wareham-St. PatriCk
Edward F. SI. Pierre, Inc.
$600.00 ·R.M. Packer Company. Vineyard Haven Holy Trinity Thrift Shop. West Harwich
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17,025.00 4,092.00 4,883.00 2,620.00 5,000.00 1,961.00 13,775.00 1,502.21 5,187.00 6,463.00
$2000.00 Arley Merchandise Corporation
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Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Corrigan. Somerset $100.00 Durfee·Buffington Insurance Fall River Shopping Center Association
Blessed Sacl1ment Church $100.00 Mr. Maurice R Stebenne, M·M William Therriault; $80.00 A Parishioner; $75.00 M·M Roger Lauzon; $50.00 M·M leo Paul Beaudoin. M·M Albert Beaudoin, M·M Stephen Evans, Mr. Robert levesque, AParishioners;$41.00 Parishioners; $40.00 Miss Yvonne Lafon· taine; $30.00 AParishioner $25,00 Miss Arlene Ferreira, M·M Albert Suprenant. Mr.louis SI. Marie, AParishioner, M·M Jon.athan King, M·M Michael Dumont, M·M Roger Garant, M·M Everett Cabral M·M Roger Daniels. M·M Daniel Paquette. Memory of The Lemay Family, M·M Henry langlais, M·M Roland lavoie, M·M Norman labrie Holy Cross $100.00 Oolores Dean, Franciscan Fathers, Holy Cross Mens Club. Raymond Kret, Standard Pharmacy; $50.00 M·M Ben Beben, M·M Thomas Bednarz, John Rys. M·M Robert Ciosek, Szewczyk Family; $40.00 M·M Stanley Nowak, M·M Felix Piekos; $35.00 Helen Gosciminski,Jean Krupa, In Memory of John A. Pietruszka; $30.00 M·M Walter Witengier $25.00 M·M Edmund Boronski, M·M Arthur Caron, Albert Cartiei, Holy Rosary Society, Ted Kaminski, M-M Anthony Kokoszka, M·M John Midura,ln Memory of John Piekielniak, Veronica Pietraszek, Veronica Pietraszek, Stella Pietruszka, Sally Pirog, Stanley Polka, Helen Pytel. Julia Pytel, Charlotte Swanton, Evelyn Szulewski Sl. William $225 M·M Daniel Araujo; $125 M-M JamesFinglas; S100 M·M VictorSt Denis, M·M Harry Kershaw, M-M Gilbert A Faria, Mrs Sophie Rzasa; $60 M·M leonard Bernier; $50 Mrs Howard Worthington. M·M Clement Paquelle, M·M Beniamin Boudria, M·M louis Viveiros, M·M David Lafrance; $40 M·M Paul HMartin. Paul Costa. M·M Fred Chlebek, M·M Herbert Boff; $35 M-M William Sewell, M·M Manuel Viveiros, M·M Romeo laioie; $30 M·M Norman Pigeon, M·M John Powers, M·M Paul S~lIar. Mrs
Special Gift & parish listings will continue to appear weekly in order received by the printer until all have been listed.
louise Shea, M·M John Bates. M·M Anthony Viveiros; $25 Mrs Michael Biszko, Henry Raposa, M·M Walter Jacintho, M·M John Maitoza,ln Memory of William Desmond Crowley. M·M Antone Oliveira, M·M James McKnight,ldalina P Mello, George Hathaway, Susan Hathaway, Dorothy Winslow. M·M Robert E Cosgrove, Mrs Brenda Berube, laura Nobrega, M·M George Bessette, M·M Joseph Martineau, Mrs Arthur Deschenes. M·M Rocco ladicola, M·M John Beattie. M·M Walter Janick, M·M Alfred Vieira, M-M Paul Forand, M·M Jose Estrela, M·M John Wilson, M·M louis Perreira, Mrs M Potts Notre Oame Parish $1250.00 Rev. Ernest E. Blais; $600.00 Rev. Daniel A. Gamache; $25.00 M·M John Bronhard, Mr. Gerard Berger, M·M Roland levesque, M·M louis levesque, M·M Armand Dallaire, M·M Paul Cadrin. M·M Ronald Salmons, M-M Richard Cloutier, Miss Dorothy McMillan, M·M Normand Thiboutot, Mrs. Blanche Dugal, Miss Diane Dugal. M·M leopold Baraby, M·M Roger Richard, M·M Tom Citrone, M·M Michael Napert. M-M James Medeiros, M·M Rene Monast, M·M Donald Poulin, Mr. Wilfrid Desmarais, M·M Eugene Hubert, Mrs. Alice Guillemette. M·M Gerald Stamand, M·M Robert Pheniz, M-M Romeo Parent, M·M Rosaire lariviere, M·M John Sentner Jr.. M·M Paul Dumais, M·M Timothy Tansey. M·M Robert Boutin Our lady of the Anaels $2000 Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes; $450 Charles Veloza; $375 SI. vincent de Paul Society; $200 Rep. Robert &Patricia Correia; $150 M·M Carlos Dionizio; S) 10 M·M Tobias Monte; $105 In Memory of lillian Theodore, In Memory of Irene Michaels $100 M·M John F. Branco, Holy Rosary Sodality. Council of Catholic Women; $50 M-M Victor Santos Jr.. Arthur furtado, M·M Joseph Silvia, M·M Jose Andrade. George Tonelli, M·M Albert Tanguay, Holy Turn to Page 12
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Diocese of Fall River -
Fri., May 12, 1989
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NOTICE For the next few weeks, some regular Anchor features will not appear, due to publication of Catholic Charities Appeal listings. All will return as soon as possible.
in walk-in visitors to the Birthright office at 1100 County St., Somerset, from 223 to 348. Ages of those assisted range from 14 to 40 years old, with many in the 15 to 17year-old range.
"We thank God," says the newsletter, "for giving us the opportunity to talk with these troubled women and to help so many of them reach a conclusion that includes life for their babies."'
CAMP ACA Sr. Florentina Calvo
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE & CULTURE CAMP
Sister Florentina Calvo, OP, who served at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, and then atthe Dominican Sisters' infirmary at their provincial house in Dighton for nearly 47 years, died May 7 at age 78 in her native Colombia, where she was interred. A memorial Mass will be offered for her at 9 tomorrow morning at the provincial house chapel, 3012 Elm St., Dighton. Her friends are invited to attend. An appreciation of her life. written by a fellow religious, follows: Sister Florentina Calvo came from Colombia to the United States in August, 1942. She was then a very young religious, having volunteered to leave her country to come to serve at St. Anne's Hospital. She served at St. Anne's Hospital long and well in the operating room and in the delivery room. When the hospital gave up its obstetrical service, Sister Florentina was asked to care for the older sisters. This, she did with the same total commitment that she had brought to the hospital's patients. For the past 20 years, all the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation who have died in Dighton have been cared for, assisted in their agony and prepared for burial by Sister Florentina. But her heart was failing, she was getting old, and she knew that her days of serving others were coming to an end. She then made a decision which surprised everyone. even those who lived with her: she asked to go back to Columbia. This was, in many respects, a very painful decision for those who loved her and also for herself. When asked why she did it, she simply said: "This is something that I have to do." For better than 50 years of religious life, Sister Florentina had always done what she had to do. She bade farewell to her numerous friends on Sunday. April 30; on Tuesday. May 2, she left for Bogota. She had a few days to meet family and friends. On Sunday, May 7, she died of a massive heart attack.
A RESIDENTIAL SUMMER CAMP WHERE BOYS & GIRLS LEARN FRENCH OR ENGLISH IN ARELAXED ATMOSPHERE.
SR. FLORENTINA CALVO
JUNIOR SECTION 9-12 JULY 16 - 22
BIRTHRIGHT members George and Audrey Shot!, left, sign in with Janet Barbelle and Eleanor Gagnon for the 15th anniversary dinner of the Greater Fall River chapter of the organization. (Torchia photo)
FOR MORE INFO. CALL 995·3662 OR WRITE TO: ,MERCIER,. 883 LUCY ST.• NEW BEDFORD, MA 02745
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Fall River Birthright looks back at 15 years By Pat McGowan "Because. in" God's plan. for however long you shared your g(jts with Birthright. even in the seemingly smallest e.flort. you are part of the nurturing which. supported Birthright and helped it grow. and made it last. you will forever be a member of the Birthright .rami~l'. .. That was the expression of gratitude that headed an invitation to a recent Mass of Thanksgiving and a dinner celebrating the 15th anniversary of Birthright of Greater Fall River. The event took place at St. Dominic's Church and parish center in Swansea and gathered scores of people who have at various times been associated with the pro-life organization since it began in Fal~ River in 1974. At the Mass, Father William G. Campbell, pastor of St. Dominic's, was principal celebrant. and Fathers John P. Cronin, Edward E. Correia and Roger J. Levesque were concelebrants. Father Correia, the homilist, said that Birthright had reached many women in 15 years because "the Lord Jesus ha's multiplied the efforts of vol unteers. He will always give us miraculous multiplication if we let him be the source of our life." At the following dinner, Janet Barbelle. regional Birthright consultant for Massachusetts, noted that Birthright, which provides women with "the alternative to abortion"' by means that include counseling. referrals to community resources, shelter. maternity clothing and layettes, medical and legal care. assistance with job placement and adoption information, has gone from aiding 50 women in its first year to nearly 500 in its 15th. Ms. Barbelle spoke of a young women .she took into her home who afterwards wrote her a letter that "thanked me for being a mother when her own mother would not be."' That is the sort of reward Birthright volunteers can expect, she said, telling her audience that "you were chosen by the Father" for the sensitive apostolate. Father Joseph M. Costa, parochial vicar at St. John of God parish, Somerset, and a Birthright board member, was the dinner speaker. He noted that Operation Rescue, which sees pro-lifers blocking the doors to abortion clinics and submitting to arrest for their efforts,
"makes people think how sacred life is if men and women are willing to go to jail for it. "It's an important witness that has power to touch people's lives,"' he said, adding that participation in Birthright is also such a witness. "It's not in the public forum,"' he ,continued, "but for the families and lives touched by it, it ha~ a powerful impact."' Ms. Barbelle reported that thfTe are at present 600 Birthright chapters in the U.S. and Canada, as well as many in other countries. The Fall River unit was organized by Tom and Maureen Donahue, -then Somerset residents and now living and working in Mexico; and by June and the late Russell Pa.rtridge. The present director is Eleanor Gagnon. There are 17 chapte rs in Massachusetts and Ms. Ba.rbelle said plans are underway to open the 18th in Falmouth. A newsletter earlier distributed to Birthright volunteers noted that St. Michael's parish, Fall River; St. George, Westport; St. Michael and St. Dominic in Swansea; and St. Christopher in Tiverton, R.I., ha.d held Birthright baby showers, providing the Fall River chapter with baby clothing, blankets, toiletri,~s and food. There is always a need for cribs and other baby furniture, the new:;~ letter noted, and anyone able to make a donation may call 6751561 to make arrangements for pickups. New volunteers are a constant need and information on this program is available at the same telephone number. 198!! was a "startling and worrisome year,"' said the newsletter, with a jump in calls for information and assistance from 193 in 1987t0271 in 1988 and an increase
SENIOR SECTION 13-18 JUlY9-22and JULY 23 - AUG. 5
SPRING FAIR HOLY NAME SCHOOL Saturday; May 20 • JO AM to 3 PM Raffle Crafts Games Baked Goods 850 Pearce Street, Fall River, MA
IN CELEBRATION OF LIFE Please join us Wednesday, June 7, 1989 as we dedicate the new addition to Harold K. Hudner Oncology Center at St. Anne's Hospital Fall River, Massachusetts High Mass will be celebrated by His Excellency Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, STD 4:00 p.m. at St. Anne's Church A Program of Celebration and Reception will follow
Presentation given by Peter J. Deckers, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery University of Connecticut Director of Surgery Hartford Hospital
OUR LADY'S RELIGIOUS STORE Mon. . Sat. 10:00 ' 5:30 P.M.
"You gave me life and were so kind and loving to me and / was preserved by your care. .. (Job 10:/2)
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themoorin~ Support a Community Effort So often we fail to appreciate our need of the arts. In fact, they usually either occupy a minor place in our lives or are left to the machinations of a snobbish elite. - Just pick up your local paper: the arts per se receive very little type; in contrast, the sports section is practically a pa'per in itself. Turn on the television, even the cable channels: the arts receive very little coverage by comparison to the local Little League and similar undertakings. In some circles, if one' mentions music, plays or exhibits, derogatory comments can be expected. Yet long after athletes have crossed their last finish line or hit their last ball, the arts continue to sustain, mold and develop the human spirit. We spend millions on weapons to.destroy: we give little to help the creative endure. One reason why we have such a narrow vision of the arts is that we fail to make them a significant part of our educational endeavors. For most students, art is merely crayons, paints and the school. play, while many schools are so busy babysitting that they have no time for art appreciation. Indeed, some classrooms are but one step in decor from the county jail. In such an atmosphere, the youthful human spirit is often suffocated and civilized living suffers accordingly. The daily headlines testify to this. In light of all this, it is sad to see that the Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford is in danger of closing. Ever since its revival as an arts center for southeastern Massachusetts, it has brought the are!! events ranging from theatre to symphony, ballet to musicals, giving thousands opportunities to attend cultural attractions locally. A wonderful part of the Zeiterion schedule has been its outstanding productions for schoolchildren, including hundreds from our parochial schools. Our young people have had a special door opened for them by theatre pieces geared to their level of comprehension. Not only are youngsters given the opportunity to attend live theatre, they have also seen stories and readings, so often relegated to mere reading sessions, brought to life in productions geared to their learning levels. It would indeed be an educational loss if the Zeiterion were to curtail such special efforts. Live theatre is a dramatic experience for children, challenging their creative abilities in these days of printouts and dehumanizing media. The many who have been beneficiaries of the Zeiterion, should do all they can to assure its continualwe. Members of the Catholic Church, which has such a glorious history as a patron ofthe'arts, should feel a special obligation, not merely to help meet the theatre's present deficit, but more importantly. to encourage public attendance and involvement in its many artistic undertakings. So often we lament the lack of civilizing challenges in our social order. Here there is an opportunity to help remedy this lack. More voices are needed to spread the news that we have a center for the performing arts and that community support is needed to keep the theatre alive and well in southeastern Massachusetts. The Zeiterion effort oeeds more than goodwill. It should have the patronage of all who care about the arts and what they do for us all. The Editor
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Catholics make voices heard By Richard H. Hirsch Director, U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film & Broadcasting NEW YORK (NC) - There's a fresh wind blowing through NBC, CBS and ABC following a remarkable series of grass-roots protests against what many parents see as a new wave of objectionable programs on network television. Ironically, the protests have not been directed primarily at the networks, but rather at the advertisers who buy time on network shows. Among the significant results of the protests are the following: - Pepsi withdrew its commercial featuring Madonna because of complaints from such organizations as the' Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association. Pepsi said the organization "confused" its ad with the singer's controversial "Like A Prayer" video aired on the music video channel MTV. - Domino's Pizza canceled its ads on NBC's "Saturday Night .Live" because of "offensive skits," which also were cited by the American Family Association. - Terry Rakolta, a Michigan housewife, complained to the sponsors of the Fox network situation comedy "Married ... with Children" and drew solicitous responses from concerned advertisers. - Christian Leaders for Responsible Television, an organization connected to Mr. Wildmon, announced that following its monitoring of the April 27-May 24 "sweeps," it intended a one-year boycott of one or more of the "leading sponsors of sex, \;,iolence, profanity and anti-Christian programming on television." - Amid all this activity CBS and NBC announced the appointment of new heads of their "resur-
rected" standards and practices departments, but claimed the move had no causal relationship to any recent consumer complaints. In addition, hundreds of readers responded to aU .S. Catholic Conference column published in Catholic newspapers (Anchor, Feb. 17) which criticized the sleazy NBC made-for-TV movie, "Full Exposure: The Sex Tape Scandals," and urg~d people to form an "informal coalition" between the country's major advertising agencies and other concerned consumers. The USCC Office for Film and Broadcasting offered to share a list of the names and addresses of top advertising agencies with anyone who contacted it. The office to date has received over 500 written requests for this list. In replying to these requests, the office suggested how readers might go about composing their own letters to these ad agencies and asked for copies of any replies readers received from ad agency management. By any yardstick, 500 letters represent a significant response from the readership ofthe Catholic press. M ore to the point, the actions of the national advertisers noted above is almost unprecedented in recent times. What's happening out there, and why now? Network management is responding in a variety of ways to these questions. Some give the expected answer that the networks haven't changed their standards at all. On the other hand, Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC's entertainment division, admitted in an article in The New York Times April 23 that "people are saying they want a different texture in their programming." Texture? Then there are those who admit that the pellmell rush to ready
programming for the air after the writers' strike last fall left insufficient time for network review of the product; that the cutback in all three networks' standards and practices divisions left few, if any, staff to review programs; that the popularity of VCRs has made the complaint process far more streamlined for those who tape programs for future review and analysis. Bill Carter, author of the Times article quoting Tartikoff, contends in it that in the early '80s the complaints directed at the networks fox explicit sex and violence on prime-time network programs were essentially dismissed by network management because they originated with religious organizations which the networks considered out of the mainstream of American life. What distinguishes the current phenomenon from these previous campaigns to clean up television is what is perceived by network advertisers as the grass-roots origins of these complaints, despite the fact that Mr. Wildmon's American Family Association has been a vocal player in several ofthe recent approaches to major advertisers on the networks. Where is all this going? Is this simply a passing phenomenon? More to the point, is there any consensus about what the U.S. public really wants from the medium of television? That is the subject for another discussion. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I11I11111 THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-o20). Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass. Published weekly except the week of July 4 and the week after Christmas at 887 Highland Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02720 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. SUbscription price by mail postpaid $1".00 per year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor. P.O, Box 7. Fall River. MA 02722.
Work or get out? Like many of you, I support several organizations and movements by sending annual dues and swelling membership lists. Because of my schedule, I am unable to participate actively in most of these groups. I skim their newsletters and support their goals but that's about it. Last week I received a periodical from one of these organizations with a hard-hitting editorial on lack of active participation on the part of members to the effect that if you aren't willing to work for us, why are you a member? Just paying your dues and reading our material isn't enough. Get involved or get out. At first I felt the usual guilt and then I became angry. My irritation has dissipated but I am wondering about the message in that editorial, particularly whether other national groups agree. I have always felt that if I support a group's goals and know I can't get out and canvass, make calls, stuff envelopes, attend meetings or picket, I can at least support them with my dues. I assumed organizations welcomed this financial and moral. support even if members were inactive, but after reading the editorial, I'm not so sure. The editorial charged, in essence, that people like me are salvaging our conscience by paying our money and that's all.
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I wonder if most organizations feel this way and, if they do, why DOLORES they don't state it in their membership appeals, such as, "Only CURRAN members willing to work are welcome." I belong to a wide variety of groups: Bread·for the World, Gun Control. Older Women's League, ,these is valuable to any grouP. Common Cause, Catholics Speak effort. Out', Cornerstone for Peace and I suspect that most people who Justice, Committee Against Capi- support by paying dues only wO'uld tal Punishment, Sanctuary, SOAR, come under the category of enab ler. numerous family, church, and writ- They enable the active member!! to ing organization and others. Added be active without having to stop up, these dues come to a tidy sum. and drum up the always-necessary But there's no possibility that I money. can play an active role in all groups. I'm not going to identify the Even keeping up with what's going group with the hard-hitting editoron in them and remembe'ring to ial but I think it's potentially harmsend my dues gets shaky at times. ful in that it could spill over into I believe organizations need a other groups. If people like me variety of members - those who read it and figure they shouldn't can work but not give and the belong to organizati.ons in a dues reverse, those who write letters to sense only, it could be costly to editors, those who enable others organizations who don't operate by public support of mutual goals on that premise. and those who take leadership. If Bread for the World can !,ay In her book, "Women's Realto Congress, "We have 500,000 ity," Anne Wilson Schaef writes, members who suppprt feeding l:he "Leadership means to facilitate to enable others to make their con- hungry," it has a lot more clout tributions while simultaneusly than if it has 5,000 active membfTs. making one's own." She defines' I am interested in knowing how major organizations and movefour kinds ofleaders: the visible or one in charge; the enabler who ments feel about this. Would you may not be called to lead visibly prefer nonactive meinbers to conbut enables leadership to function : tinue paying dues or to get out" If well; the nudger, who is frequently it's the latter, are you willing to put labeled a troublemaker; and the that message clearly in your memmodel of group goals. Each of bership appeals?
WASHINGTON (NC) - Keeping family reunification the "linchpin" of the U.S. legal immigration system is not just a "sentimental notion" but essential for social and economic stability, says Doris M. Meissner. Senior associate at the
Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she said that family reunification has been "getting a bad name these days" because immigrants in the last decade have lower skill levels than did past immigrants.
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What's s/he worth? By coincirience I received in the 485 compensation was 92 times same mail delive.ry two statistical the average factory worker's reports which dramatically illus- $21,725, 72 times a teacher's trate that across the board execu- $22,008 and 44 times an engineer's tive pay is growing out of all pro- $45,680. porti'on to increases in what other But that's only part of the story. people in the United States make, The report says that corporate from the worker on the plant floor chiefs not only set new records on to the classroom teacher. the pay scale, with some earning as The first report, an AFL-CIO much as $40 million in salary research paper titled "Families bonuses and stock options, but Struggling to Make It," clearly also established a new high in demonstrates from official govern- golden parachutes, with some rement sources that after allowing ceiving more than $40 million on for inflation family incomes in . retirement. 1987 were barely above the levels Business Week says these figof 10 years earlier, just 2.8 percent. ures represent a disturbing trend: In sharp contrast, from 1967 to Executive compensation has "mush1977 real income had risen 11.2 roomed to a level that is difficult to percent. Real family incomes would justify." It concludes, "If corpohave suffered an absolute drop in rate directors don't do something recent years had it not been for the risil)g percentage offamilies with a working wife, rising from 32 per-. cent in 1967 to 38 percent in 1977 May 13 . to 45 percent in 1987. 1955, Rt. Rev. Osias Boucher, In short, family income inequality is growing rapidly. Low- and Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall middle-income families are receiv- River ing an increasingly smaller share May 16 of their nation's income. 1941, Rev. William McDonald, The contrast between that rep'ort SS, St. Patrick, Falmouth and Business Week's annual sur1960, Rt. Rev. J. Joseph Sullivey on "Executive Pay: Who Made van, P.R., Pastor, Sacred Heart, the Most - And Are They Worth Fall River itT' is shocking. The report, which 1981, Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis, lists the compensation of several Retired Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall hundred corporate executives, River shows that this year, for the first May 17 time, chief executives took home 1951, Most Rev. James E. Casan average of $2 million in total sidy, D.D., 3rd Bishop of Fall compensation. The report notes River 1934-51 that critics claim that rewards outMay 19 weigh the- performance of most 1940, Rev. Ambrose Lamarre, CEOs. Perhaps that's why the magazine's annual executive·com- OP, Dominican Priory, Fall River 1988, Rev. Arthur C. Levesque, pensation scoreboard is titled, "Is Pastor, Our Lady of Fatima, New the Boss Getting Paid Too Much?" Bedford The answer is clearly yes.. 1941, Rev. Thomas Trainor, -In 1988 the CEO record $2,025, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River
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Y 'about this troubling trend, someone else will." . But there is a deeper issue here. No one is arguing seriously for income equality across the board. But the present level of inequality is offensive morally, especially in view of the fact that many companies continue to give executives fat increases while slashing blue ,collar and managerial compensation. Union leaders are upset. They refer to CEO compensation as the "annual executive pigout." United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber was right on target when he observed recently, "On the one hand (executives) say that intense foreign competition re~ quires sacrifices, restraint and discipline. Yet they then turn around and demonstrate none of those qualities by awarding themselves more compensation for a year's effort than could be spent in severallifetimes." I have read more than a score -elf books and articles on the putative virtues of democratic capitalism. The arguments are persuasive, tip to a point. But the time has come, it seems to me, for their authors to balanee the score and to start talking about some of the defects of Americanstyle capitalism. The ever-widening gap between executive compensation and the compensation of other people in the American economy is unaeceptable morally.
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Pope in 4 African nations Continued from Page One
Celebrating Mass in Lusaka, them fleeing strife in Mozambique.. Zambia, May 4, the pope said the church wanted to bring spiritual He urged international agencies to comfort, especially to victims of see the situation "not in political AIDS and those who lack medical terms alone but as'a deepiy human care. Zambian President Kenneth drama" and to 'provide assistance. Kaunda, who lost a son to AIDS At a Mass in Kitwe, Zambia, the in 1986, sat in the front row at the TraIn to be a Professional pope's reception was enlivened by Mass. An estimated 15 percent of ·SECRETARY near-continual song and dance, Zambians are believed to suffer ·EXECUTIVE SEC. characteristic of African liturgies. from AIDS or the related virus. ·WORD PROCESSOR But also typical was the sparse In Malawi, the pope was welcrowd - about 50,000 people, less comed and at times upstaged by than half the number expected. the country's president-for-life, Organizers noted that the visit Hastings Kamuzu Banda. coincided with a fuel shortage in With a charismatic combination Zambia, where buses are few and of humor and national pride, Banda THE HART SCHOOL where most people had to walk transformed a stiffly orchestrated • D1v. of A.C.T. Corp. Narl. hdqtre. Pompano Sch. FL , miles to see the pope. airport ceremony into a bantering session with the pontiff. In the end, a grinning pope gave ,the elderly leader a big hug of appreciation. Banda, walking with difficulty and carrying an elephant-hair flyswitch, greeted the pope as he stepped off the plane in Blantyre May 4 and instead of sticking to a prepared text extemporized much of his talk, to the delight of the REV. VAL LA FRANCE, a.p. pontiff and the crowd. SPRING MISSION: "IS IT LOVE OR IS IT LUST?" The president said the Catholic Church has made great contribuMeet Fr. Val tions to Malawi "in all aspects of life." Saturday, May 13 - 6:30 P.M. Turning toward the pope, he Sunday, May 14 - 12:10 & 3:00 P.M. added "Because we have many Catholics in the Malawi Congress Mission Talks - 7:15 P.M. (Cafeteria) party." ., The party, tounded by Banda, is Sun. thru Wed., May 14-15~ 16-17 the only one allowed in the country. "Alcoholism: A Family & Terminal Disease" When a laughing pope stood up and hugged Banda, the president Tues.lMay 16 - 2nd Talk of the Evening put his head on the pope's chest and appeared reluctant to release Sunday, May 14 - 1:00 P.M. the pontiff. . ANNUAL HAITIAN PILGRIMAGE DAY The pope had a tough act to follow and drew applause only when ~e departed from his text to
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NEW YORK (NC) - Novelist and,sociologist Father Andrew M. Greeley said criticism 'of Jesuit Father Timothy S. Healy's appointment to head the New Yor-k Public Library could be seen as antiCatholic, but said it also may be well-grounded. Father Greeley's remarks came in a letter to the editor in The New York Times. It was the latest in an , ongoing debate over whether a public institution should be headed by a member of the clergy. The appointment of Father Healy, now president of Georgetown University in Washington, has generated a number of letters to the editor in The New York Times. One letter was from U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., a Catholic, who suggested that the controversy fit into a history of anti-Catholicism in America and, with his customary wit, recalled some colorful examples. Father Greeley agreed that opposition to Father Healy was based on ,"anti-Catholic stereotypes" but wrote that in recent years the stereotypes have been confirmed for some in actions of Catholic leaders, particularly New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor. The cardinal "has issued instructions to Catholic public officials on policy decisions, he has told Catholics what kind of candidates do not deserve their votes, he has informed them what films not to see and what books not to read," • said Father Greeley.
say he was praying especially for the nation's president. . Banda, a medical doctor who was educated in the United States, has led Malawi since 1964, wht<n the country became fully independent. His age is officially given as 83, but observers say he is in his early 90s. Not all Malawian Catholics were amused by his upstaging of the pope. To some churchmen, Banda's use of the papal visit to his government's advantage underlined the "Is it inconceivable that the carchurch's weak political voice in the . dinal, especially if a television African nation. -According to a missionary camera or a micropilone is placed priest who requested anonymity, in front of him, would tell Father the president's one-party hold on Healy that a good Catholic librar-. national life has effectively silenced ian should remov,e books supportthe church on issues of human ing abortion and homosexuality from his library?" Father Greeley rights and democratic reform. He described the public respect asked. Cardinal O'Connor has been the church is forced to show the involved in controversies related president as "a farce." to the actions of public officials "It's a great pity the president regarding abortion and homosexuhas to be here - it really is. He ality. always upstages the guest," the priest said. The cardinal, who holds a docAcknowledging that Malawi. has torate from Georgetown Univerin fact enjoyed econ'omic progress sity, serves on the New York Pubunder Banda, the priest added that lic Library board that chose Father after 25 years without political Healy, who is to begin his new job opposition, the country is "paying sometime this summer. the price" in other areas. In his letter, Moynihan noted He said the lack of political that a Catholic priest, Father Chaexpression in Malawi has resulted rles C. Pise, was appointed chain some 30 or 40 people being plain to the U.S. Senate in 1832 detained in recent years, several of and served only a year. The first them "good Catholics." The numCatholic priest to hold the posiber is growing, he said. tion, he l:xerted such influence Bishop Felix Eugenio Mkhori that, the senator added facetiously, of Chikwana, who welcomed Banda "it has not proved necessary" to to the Mass site, said Malawi's name another Catholic priest to church "has its own way" of raisthe post since then. ing political issues. Moynihan recalled that in 1854 ·"In other countries, you write in Pope Pius IX donated a block of the papers and denounce things. marble toward construction of the But this is not our way," he said. In Washington Monument in the Malawi, criticism of the governnation's capital. The marble was ment by religious and other publistolen and Moynihan speculated it cations is not tolerated. is at the bottom of the Potomac A Vatican official said it would River. be unrealistic for the pope to critiMoynihan said he did not wish, cize the political system in a counFather Healy's tenure to be as try like Malawi. brief as that of Father Pise, or to "Where's the alternative? Some see the Jesuit priest tossed into African countries are just now New York's East River. moving away from tribalism. A "But should it come to either," European-style democracy cannot Moynihan concluded, "we may be be' imposed here," he said. sure that he will be ever mindful of the glorious tradition of Jesuit ............. martyrs. In the latter eventuality, I, for my part, will seek to obtain a GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS federal grant for the library as a gesture qf national reconcilia-------tion."
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With outstretched mms he cious in the sight of God and reaches with love to his because of this the practice of children unborn. abortion must come to an end. Margaret J. Knight Your weekly newspaper has been Brewster a powerful tool in helping people learn the value of a pro-life stance. Thank you for your effort in dealing with this critical issue. Dear Editor: LOST AND FOUND Especially in these days when I weep for them . the fate of unborn babies is a matI don't even know them ter of such urgency, we need also or what would become of to think about how we can help to them. giYe babies at nutritional risk a I do so wonder why they are good start in life. being destroyed for a crime WIC, the Special Supplemental unknown. Food Program fofWomen,lnl'ants They don't put up a fight or and Children, provides a specially retaliate. tailored package of nutritious f,()ods They are innocent, a preto low-income, undernouri:ihed cious gift. pregnant women, infan.ts and chilWhy is there a need to cause dren under five. them pain? Children cannot wait until toIf their presence means nothmorrow for good nutri.tion. Their ing then why is there a batbones, bodies and minds are formtle to wipe them out? ing today. Unfortunately, many They do exist! All that is mothers and their children who meant to be is present at need WIC are turned! away for conception, or can we act lack of funding. like magicians and with illuCongress has the opportunity sions make them disappear? this year to pass legislation so that I turn to my God, he weeps all hungry mothers and children too. can receive WIC benefits. You can
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Dear Editor: In response toa letter to the editor in your 4{28{89 edition, I feel that it was very unfair to accuse the Anchor of a "Republican bias." To my knowledge, the Anchor never provided overt support for any political party. However, the paper has every right to comment upon issues which affect the morality and quality of life of its parishioners. Church leaders around the world have always spoken out against corruption and improprieties which injure all citizens. In a strongly partisan tone, the writer also comments that the"Democratic party, while not above criticism, stands for the common person..." while stating that others "have their own selfish political agendas." This is an extremely unfair and . untrue generalization. The Republican party is the party of Abraham Lincoln and millions of AmerAuxiliary Bishop Joseph T. icans who believe that government should be used to empower people Dimino of the archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, has anrather than politicians. The "common person" is not nounced that Columbus, 0., Bishwell served when any political party· op James A. Griffin will celebrate becomes a monopoly and repres- Mass at the 54th annual convenents the interests of its leadership tion of the Catholic War Veterans and special interest groups rather at 3:30 p.m. Aug. 12 in the chapel than ALL of the people. Regard- of the Pontifical College Josephiless of the party which we may num in Columbus. The homilist for the Mass will favor, limiting terms in office of Congressmen and state legislators be Archbishop Joseph T. Ryan of the Military Services archdiocese. would benefit all. Concelebrants will be Bishop DiJon L. Bryan mino; CWV Bishop Protector; and Marstons Mills Auxiliary Bishops Edward Pevec and Gilbert l. Sheldon ofthe Cleveland diocese. Many CWV post chaplains from across the nation' Dear Editor: will also participate in the liturgy. Enclosed please find a poem The theme for the Mass will be written with my heartfelt convic- "The Challenge of Peace," based tion that preborn children are pre- on the 1983 pastoral letter of the
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Women hold high usee posts WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Conference of Catholic Bishops and its twin agency, the U. S. Catholic Conference, are models for putting women in high church posts, but there is still 'a way to go; say several women in such posts at the NCCB-USCe. Father Robert N. Lynch, NCCBUSCC general secretary, on April 18 appointed a nun to the position of associate general secretary, the highest post a woman has ever held in the conference. Mercy Sister Sharon Euart, NCCB-USCC director of planning, will take over her new post July 3. "In some cases when women are the first to hold a position a woman has to prove.her ability first," said Sister Euart. "I would like to think the inclusion and recognition of women in decision-making is because they are qualified and not 'simply because they are women." Sister Euart will supervise several NCCB secretariats including liturgy, ecumenical and interreligious affairs, pastoral research and practices, laity, and marriage and family life, as well as the staff for the committee writing the bishops' pastoral letter on women. There have been significant changes in the past 10 years in the conference with regard to women, said Dolores Leckey, executive director of the Secretariat on Laity and Family Life and one of the first women to hold a leadership position in the conference. "There is a genuine effort to utilize the competence and skills of women;" said Mrs. Leckey, who for 10 years was executive director of the Secretariat on the Laity. In December 1987, she was named to head the newly established Secretariat for Laity and Family Life. Many women interviewed said they believe women can still have influence in the conference without ordination because as staff members, the bishops rely on them for information to make decisions. Some women said, however, that their input is limited because only bishops are allowed to vote in the conference. "We can vote internally, but we can't vote in the full conference and that's where the decisions are made," said Beverly Carroll, director of the NCCB Secretariat for Black Catholics. "There are mo're women managers in the church now than there were 20 years ago and the conference is setting a clear tone and stage at what local dioceses will look like in staffing, but it's still evolving," added Ms. Carroll, who has held her post since January 1988. "There's always room for change and improvement," said Emma Navajas, associate director for immigration at USCC Migration and Refugee Services. She and Dawn Tennant Calabia became in early 1989 the first women to be named associate directors in their department, a move Mrs. Navajas said shows strides have been made.
as administrators in the conference as opposed to 98 men. Those interviewed pointed to several factors' they said led to more women being in high-ranking positions in the conference. Society has changed its attitude toward women and the conference has tried to reflect the attitude by actively encouraging more women and minorities to apply, Ms. Grunert said. "The conference has actively sought out qualified women to hold major leadership and decision-making positions within the conference," Meehan added. "It's not so much the gender that's being looked at, but the skills and commitment." Father Lynch and his predecessor, Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, have' supported an increased role for women in the conference, sevenil of the women said. "The vision of leadership is important," Ms. Carroll said. "[Msgr.] Hoye and [Father] Lynch have a balanced approach to ministry. That opened a lot of doors for us. It made the knocking worthwhile because it didn't fall on deaf ears." "I see myself very much as their [men's] equal," said Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Frances A. Mlocek, NCCB-USCC director of finance since June 1984. "That's recognized by the executive staff, which is very affirming. They ask my opinion for a sense of direction." Sister Mlocek has just been elected 'president of the District of Columbia Institute of Certified Public AccouQtants. Beginning July I, she will head the 3,OOO-member organization. Its activities include being a liaison to Congress and state and local governments. It sponsors educational seminars and offers technical advice to' federal standard-setting agencies. Sister Mlocek, a certified public accountant since 1959, holds a master's in business administration from the University of Michigan. The Washington Accountant magazine said her "titles and responsibilities are much more than
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Sister Sharon Euart an indication of her exceIlent accounting skills. They are also a natural result of her deep devotion and love for two things: God and accounting." The NCCB-USCC women said they experienced few proble~s at the conference, but some said they felt they had to make an extra effort to prove themselves. "Some bishops took some time to see that I could be an effective financial administrator," Sister Mlocek said.· . Mrs. Navajas said she has experienced discrimination working for other organizations and she feels the conference has a generally "open" attitude toward women. But Ms. Carroll said more women and minorities are needed in the' upper echelons of NCCBUSCC management. "Any time you have a more balanced discussion, the policies may not change, but the discussions will be fuller," she said. "We haven't reached the goal of the best thinkers for the management team. If we had, we would see more women, more Hispanics, more blacks and more Asian Americans."
Father Val LaFrance at LaSalette
On Tuesday his second talk of Rev. Val LaFrance, O.P., a Dothe evening will be;:"Alcoholism: A minican preacher from New JerFamily and A Terminal Disease." sey will be at LaSalette Shrine in Himself a recovering alcoholic, he Attleboro for five days beginning will share his personal struggle tomorrow. He is described as "a dynamic 'with this disease, examine its symptoms and offer practical adCatholic evangelist who is on the vice. road 40 weeks each year preaching People of all ages are invited to the gospel message as no one else attend the mission, say shrine offican. He has been called a 'cross cials, "and meet Father Val Labetween Bob Hope and Fulton France - an actor, a stand-up Sheen'. His sermons are spellbindcomedian, a man of God." ers and his stories are hilarious, but his message is direct and very spiritual! He answers difficult questions about the realities of everyday life such as alcohol, sex and human relationships. He shows where to find the emotional, physical and spiritual strength to live as believers." . Father LaFrance will preach at the 6:30 p.m. Mass tomorrow and "What rules here is the validity' at 12: 10 p.m. Mass on Sunday, as of your argument, not your sex," weIl as at a 3 p.m. Sunday Beneshe added. diction service. Regina Grunert, NCCB-USCC He wilI also preach a mission manager of human resources, said titled "Is It Love Or Is It Lust?" at that in 1988, II of 33 director posi- 7: 15 p.m. each evening Sunday tions in the conference were held through Wednesday in the shrine by women. And according to Tom. cafeteria. He will also preach at Meehan, NCCB-USCC director the 12:10 p.m. Mass Monday, of personnel, more women hold Tuesday and Wednesday, giving administrative positions in general different homilies at noon and in because 106 women are classified the evening. FATHER LaFRANCE
Grappling with the debt By Barry Linehan Maria Antonia was distraught. "How are we going to feed our kids?" she pondered aloud, staring at the corrugated tin roof of her cinderblock house on a hillside of Barquisimeto, a city five hours southwest of Caracas. She understood the fear and rage vented .by other Venezuelans when they took to the streets in late February to protest austerity measures imposed by the Venezuelan government as a result of pressure from the International Monetary Fund (lMF). "We have become slaves of the debt," she asserted. Maria Antonia is among a growing number of Venezuelans making the connection between her country's' external debt and the economic problems which plague the people of this Caribbean nation. . The spark that ignited the riots was a 30-50 percent increase in fares for public transportation equal to about 7 cents on urban routes. It may not seem much to North Americans, but for working Venezuelans it meant paying as much as 28 percent of their salary just to get to work and back. Bus fares were only the latest increases on things that for the poor mean survival from one day to the next. The price of milk had gone up 300 percent just the month before, and food shortages developed as some shop owners hoarded supplies in anticipation of further price increases. Supermarkets and grocery stores were primary targets of the looting that took place in February. Venezuelans also felt betrayed when President Carlos Andres Perez agreed to the 1M F's terms - Perez, who was swept into office last year on the promise that he would not bleed the Venezuelan people to payoff the country's $30.5 billion debt. The 1M F terms. included cuts on subsidies for food and public transportation, wage freezes without price freezes, higher interest rates and higher taxes. Tulio, a 40-year-old builder living in a barrio of Barquisimeto, still struggles to understand how the 1M F strategy will create economic prosperity. Before, he found enough work to fill about one week per month. The rest of the time he traveled by bus to different parts of the city to find work. Now it not only costs him more just to find work, but jobs are scarcer
since the 28 percent interest rate on home mortgages decimated the housing industry. Tulio carries the burden of paying back a debt he neither accumulated nor benefited from. Calls for cancellation of the debt abound. Venezuelans admit that part of the responsibility for the crisis lies with their government. Mismanagement, capital flight and corruption shortcircuited the development strategy financed by the loans. However, Venezuelans argue, outside factors controlled by creditor nations, e.g. the drop in the price of oil Venezuela exports and skyrocketing interest rates on the loans, are also responsible for the nation's treasury. The February riots caught many. observers, even Venezuelan government officials, by surprise. However, it was no surprise to U.S. Catholic missioners. Regina Gavin, a Maryknoll Associate Lay Missioner from Needham, recalls, "In 1986 when I was in Venezuela during Holy Week, representatives from the barrios I joined in a city-wide V.ia Crucis, or, Way of the Cross procession planned by the marginalized during which people of the barrios con-. nected their suffering with the suf-' fering of Jesus on the cross. The. organizers had the support of the local bishop and it was their way of saying more attention has to be paid to the economic conditions / that are holding these people' hostage." . The magnitude of the suffering has prompted the Venezuelan church to begin critical reflection on the moriil and ethical implications of the debt crisis. "A sizable and growing segment ofthe Church
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is in solidarity with the aspirations of the poor," says Father Leo Shea, a Maryknoll priest from Melrose, who heads a justice and peace commission formed by rdigious communities in Venezuela. "The Church is assuming its role, its responsibility as an organization which says its prophetic stand must be a preferential option for the poor," said the priest. One example is Archbishop Tulio Manuel Chirivella-Vare!.a of Barquisimeto, who spoke out after the February riots. "We must pay attention...to the silence, the suffering and the word of the masses as they cry out to us to recognize their human dignity... We lament these actions [sacking and looting] and we feel pain at the numb(:r of victims and at the violence in general, but at the same timt: we equally reject the looting of the powerful who have impoveri!;hed our country...The challengl~ of creating a new society ... has prompted us to urge a change of attitude and of the heart - one that will lead us down the road of a more social model where there. exists more participation and more of a sense that we are brother:;." The outcome of debt negotiations in light of the riots is not yet cleaL It is clear, however, that the Venezuelan church will conLnue to play a prophetic role as the voice of those being crushed under the weight ofthe debt, challenging political and economic structures . Pope John Pauill has referred to as "structures of sin" that perpetuate injustice against the poor. Barry Linehan is a Mission Educator at Maryknoll's New England Mission Education Centel' in Chestnut Hill.
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Recalling the sea .' The ice was gone from Lake Although I used to get carsick Hiawatha this morning when I and queasy on a front porch swing, checked from my bedroom win- I never had a touch of seasickness dow. Record-breaking cool weath- in my ocean travels. Crossing the er had kept its grey and mushy North Atlantic through a midwinter storm is bound to test your cover long past its time. Lake Hiawatha is a tiny jewel, stomach, but I didn't eat much of fed by Minnehaha Creek on its the greasy food anyway. way to Minnehaha Falls, but the Unlike the QE2, which has an return of its sparkling ways means International Food Bazaar, the spring has surely returned to the S.S. Charles H. Lanham was a Liberty ship with a crew and an midlands. National Maritime Day is just officers' mess. We called the latter around the corner (May 22), and "Harry Hands' Hash House" in its arrival reminds this old salt of honor of our Aussie steward, who other larger bodies of water, some- , 'served lamb whenever he could. times beautiful, sometimes terrible Another crossing on a Liberty to behold. ship delivering UNRRA grain to International travel is cheaper Bremerhaven, Germany, was a and more common now, but you cinch - going over. The radioman cannot appreciate the ocean fully and I played chess high on a for-' from a porthole seven miles above ward mast to pass the time. I postit. When Uncle Sam was paying ported my paper work until the travel costs during World War II, return trip; then stormy seas made you got to know the ocean well it impossible. -like it or not. I thought my seafaring days Daughter Molly is in Ireland on were over when I swallowed the a five-week tour of Europe with a anchor, as the saying goes, and college chum celebrating their went back to my first love brand new masters' degrees. What reporting on a metropolitan daily they saw of the North Atlantic I do paper. In 1950, however, I was not know, but I wish they had the offered a free trip as second in time and money for a surface command of a Holy Year pilgrimage. voyage. I received a "private invitation" The trips to Rome were spon(make that computerized letter) sored by national federations of -from Cunard Lines the other day Catholic college students and Newoffering me the opportunity to man Club members. As one ofthe "experience the ultimate rite of latter and an "experienced" sailor, passage to or from Europe" on the I was made assistant lay director. Queen Elizabeth 2. You would not believe the ships My rites of passage across the pressed into service to make these North Atlantic were not made on crossings. One, the S.S. Roma, luxury liners equipped with casi- was reportedly once Hitler's yacht. nos, pools, boutiques, beauty sal- The other, the S.S. Liguria, was a ons and t he like. Life aboard cattle prewar Italian passenger vessel. boats, Liberty ships and converted A few days out of New York, the' yachts is. well, more ordinary. Roma developed a starboard list.
A poem about Mrs. Margaret P. Mello, 85, a lifelong member of St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, loves trees and sent The Anchor the following poem, saying "Could you find a space in the Anchor for it, if you think it is all right. I am sure our good Lord was thankful for the tree he created, he made so many of them. I love to see theIll coming to life every spring." Mrs. Mello, although confined. to a wheelchair, is active in St. Patrick's Women's Guild and the 4 Seasons Seniors. She has four children, II grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
The Seasonal Tree Many millennia ago, when. our Blessed Father was
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路Rationing health care? , By BERNARD CASSERLY The old tub kept tipping until it halted about halfway over, or so it seemed. With more than 400 frightened college kids on board, I demanded that the skipper take action. It took our inexperienced crew most of the voyage to shift ballast in the tanks and get us up. It's an odd feeling crossing the ocean sideways. Returning on the Liguria, I no-路 ticed that the crew was taking lifeboat drills but,not the passengers. I wasted a lot of time arguing with the skipper that the law of the sea required that passengers take part in the drills. I reported him to the Coast Guard on our return, but at sea, the captain is the law. My recollections of life at sea seem to recall only the problems, but shipping on the North Atlantic is always exciting. Sailing the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal and down the coast of South America was like a dream. And crossing the Pacific on glamorous Matson liners to Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia to bring backAmerican G I war brides was ocean travel better than any TV commercial. And to think I got paid for it! It doesn't take much, spring on Lake Hiawatha, Maritime Day, Molly in Dublin's fair city or a travel folder from Cunard's QE2, to get me to thinking with John Masefield that "I must down to the seas again,..." That this is the resurrection of new life, Coming at this time and telling us That we do have a resurrection after life. Thank you, dear Lord, for letting us see This way to our resurrection. This goes on year after year Revealing the miracle of God's tree.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Ra- there was a need for a heart transtioning health care is inevitable, plant," Callahan said. "We must but how it should be done is a decide between need and desire." point of contention, say two mediKapp said Callahan's assumpcal ethicists. tion of "homogeneity among the Daniel Callahan, director of The elderly" is wrong and that giving Hastings Center in Briarcliff Man- the federal government the power or, N.Y., an ethics think tank, and to decide at what age certain mediMarshall Kapp, a professor in the cal benefits should be denied viomedicine in society department at lates the right to privacy. Wright State University in Day"You can't deprive the elderly ton, Ohio, discussed their views at because of their age," said Kapp. a 'Washington conference on cur- "It violates their due process and rent controversies in the right to their right to privacy in health care live or die. decisions." , Callahan said the fairest method Kapp said other ways to help of rationing health care would be ration health care include creating to base it on age or, in the case of a "comprehensive, universal nanewborns, on weight. tional health insurance Of national For example, he said medical health service" and continuing pribenefits for life-sustaining treat- vate medical care, but forcing both ment should be denied after pa- to operate on "tight cost controls tients reach a certain age, and based on effectiveness." The Cathfunding should go to quality insti- olic University of America was tutional or home care for the among conference sponsors. elderly. Plans for rationing health care "A cruel imbalance exists becoverage for the poor are already tween support for life-extending, high-technology medicine and that- being drawn up in the state of Oregon and in Alameda County in less fancy medicine necessary for a California. decent quality of life, notably afTwo years ago, Oregon officials fordable long-term institutional decided not to pay for transplant care and decent home care," Caloperations and they ,have begun lahan said. ranking medical procedures as to But Kapp, a critic of Callahan, their effectiveness. Alameda said there was a "softer" approach County officials said they should to rationing health care. have a similar list by summer. He called for eliminating medical care found futile and nonRationing health care is also an beneficial, for informing patients, issue in other countries. In March families and professionals of the 1988, a clinic in Sweden said men likely outcome of expensive mediover 75 and women over 70 with cal treatments, and for respecting cancer could no longer count on a patient's wish to limit care at the receiving radiation treatments. , end of life. The Vatican newspaper L'Os"Rationing by age or disability servatore Romano denounced the reflects a lack of respect for the Swedish decision as "tragic and aged and resuits in scapegoating, startling" and compared it to symbolic devaluing of the elderly euthanasia. and disabled," Kapp said. "It has a The Catholic Church absolutely ripple effect on other services to these groups and sets a dangerous rejects euthanasia, defined in a 1980 Vatican declaration as "an precedent." Callahan, author ofa book called act or commission which of itself "Setting Limits: Medical Goals in or by intention causes death, in an Aging Society," said a vicious order that all suffering may in this cycle has been created in the medi- way be eliminated." , cal field because people wish to ---- ---------extend their lives and medical practitioners need patients to test the GOD" ANCHOR HOLD' effectiveness of new technologies. "About 100 years ago, people didn't think heart failure meant
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When a senior citizen takes advantage By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: My to-yearold son has a paper route and it's his job to collect every Saturday. If someone does not pay him for their paper, it comes out of his income. He has one elderly woman on his route who won't answer the door. If she does, she tells him that he's being rude and. impertinent asking for money. She has not paid in over two months. I don't know what to say to my son. I want him to have respect for older persons. Yet I hate to see him "ripped off." What do you suggest? (lIIinois) Respect for the elderly should not extend to being abused by the elderly. Being older is not a license for being a louse. ' But old age is an honor and calls for deference. We need to show appreciation of years weathered, of life experience. In honoring seniors, whether they "deserve'路 it or not, life itself is honored. Tolerance and honor, however, do not extend to being used and cheated. Being a paperboy is itself
a hard job and worthy of its just recompense. Suppqrt your son. Help him learn the proper way to handle this difficult situation. It would be disrespectful to pound on the elderly woman's door, to call her names or to play mean pranks on her. Here are some better ways to respond. Inform the newspaper. Perhaps it will collect for your son. However, it may take the position that collection is your son's problem. After all, it takes no loss because it has already charged him for the papers. You and your son together might write the woman a brief but polite letter, requesting payment within 0I1e week. Otherwise he will stop delivering the paper. As his mother, you might call the woman for your son. Let him hear you speak politely but firmly to her. If that does not result in a payment, you might help your son file in small claims court. That is what
judges and courts are for, and in small claims court he can present his own case to an arbiter withoutany additional legal expense. What a nice way for him to learn our system of fairness. The question of respect vs. "being used" is a common one. Within the home, grandparents sometimes take advantage of their senior position to order small grandchildren around unfairly. The wise parent tells his child: If you think Grandpa is wrong or unfair in what he's telling you to do, come to me. You must always respect Grandpa. But there are times you may want to check with me before you obey him. Thank you for raising a hard and touchy question.
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Teens' right to privacy By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: My husband and I have g'otten into a big argument about our son's right to privacy: Our son is 16. Six mo'nths ago, my husband found some'condoms in my son's pocket. Now he believes he can search our son's room wh'enever he feels like it." I'll admit he found a few "interesting" letters and one marijuana cigarette, but I don't believe that this justifies my husband's snooping. What do you think? Please help. Our son has threatened to leave home. - Pennsylvania We live in a society that values privacy highly, and parents need to extend this privilege in appropriate measure to their children. On a more practical level, parental snooping usually won't work very well. Once the teen becomes aware that his or her room is not safe, he or she is likely to find new places to hide questionable materials, usuillly out of the home. Snooping then becomes an unfortunate game, where the parent searches and the teen finds new places to hide. Other teens will react as your son has, with anger. They will threaten to leave home or even run
away if they cannot have some, ' ,pnvacy. " Some parents feel they need to' control every aspect of their child's I life. As the child grows older, par-I 'ents become more worried, because I the consequences of sex and drugs, and driving fiist are too severe..So SOnte parents attempt constant surveillance. . This is a mistake. First of all, teens need some room to grow, even to get into mischief and pay the consequences before they leave home. If trouble. happens, better that it happen at home while parents are there to help. I Second, such overcontrol is' based on a false assumption that parents, by enforcing every rule tightly, will ingrain a habit of good behavior that will last a lifetime. Not likely. M ore often, the teenturned-young-adult runs wild as soon as he or she is free. What to do? Actually, our society has some sensible guidelines for searching a room or house or car, rules that tell both when and how. To search an adult's private domain, a search warrant is required. Parents might adapt these same procedures to'deal with room search. When does the child's right to
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privacy become secondary to the parents' need to know'? Whenever the parent has a strong and warranted suspicion thllt something very serious is going on, something serious enough that the cortsequences may endanger the child's life. Examples would be suicide talk, suspicion of pregnancy, drug use or a runaway. In the case of suicide talk, I would be looking for pills and sharp objects. With a funaway, I would want to find any information to help me determine my child's whereabouts. How do you search a room? If the child is available, you should inform him or her, and let the child be present if he wishes. This may not be as "pleasant" as snooping, but it is fairer and aboveboard. Further, it is treating your child like the adult· you hope he will become. ' With these practical safeguards, you can generally assure your child's right to privacy and at the same time satisfy your legitimate parental need to know. Good luck!
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"Young Turk" theologian still battles the establishment
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FATHER HARING
ROME (NC)' - The thin, angular priest with the polka-dot silk scarf tucked neatly around his neck smiles as he enters the room where 150 people are waiting to hear him talk. The scarf hides the signs of his battle with throat cancer, which nearly cost him his life and which forces him to talk slowly, through his esophagus by swallowing gulps of air first. Although apologetic for his raspy speech, he is proud that the cancer has not silenced him.
The priest is Redemptorist Father Bernard Haring, a 767year-old young Turk stilI fighting for church reforms and for greater openness -by church officials. The well-known and widely published moral theologian was in Rome for an April news conference to mark publication of a book-length interview with him by the Italian publishing house Borla. The book, "Faith, History, Morality," is his intellectual biography in question-andanswer form. At the press conference he said Pope John Paul II should be as flexible on birth control teachings as he is .with the teaching, "Thou shalt not kill." Noting that the church accepts the "legitimacy of defensive war" even in the nuclear age while also recognizing the moral legitimacy of nonviolence and pacifism, he said "If the pope can accept this flexibility on such a decisive norm, I don't understand how you can deny such flexibility to a norm which is not so drastic." Father Haring's new book includes 67 pages of previously unpublished documents relating to the 1975-79 scrutiny of his views by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, especially his criticisms of the church .stance on birth control. The congregation eventually dropped the case. without taking action, and Father Haring continues questioning the birth control issue. He is also an advocate of more sweeping reforms of the Roman Curia, the church's central admin-
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istrative offices, than those undertaken in the p'ost-Vatican II era. He recently reiterated a suggestion he made more than 25 years ago during the council, that the doctrinal congregation close down for a few years and take a sabbatical in order to break its historical connection to the Inquisition. Father Haring also wants an organization like Amnesty International to work within the church to protect the rights of its members. His attitudes offighting authority predate his attack of church institutional structures. As a young German priest and pacifist, Father Haring served in the German medical corps during World War II because conscientious objection was not allowed. His advocacy of nonviolence to troops. caused him to be brought before military courts four times. "Luckily there were some intelligent generals, and nothing happened to me," he recounts. Father Haring also tells how in 1940, in. a German-occupied Ukrainian town, he and other priests went door to door one night in the Jewish neighborhood, urging people not to obey a German order to report to a central roundup point for relocation because it would probably mean their death. "When, the following night, I met a soldier from my unit who was beside himself, almost mad, I understood that he had participated in the mass execution of Jews, who were obliged first to dig their own graves," he recalls.
Before deciding to become a priest, Father Haring flirted with Marxism, attending Communist Party meetings. Although he quickly lost interest in Marxism as a theory, studying it had a lasting effect on him. "It developed in me an understanding, which accompanied me all my life, about the cause which pushed Marx to write 'Das Kapital,' especially those regarding the instrumentalization of religion as support and justification for unjust conditions," he recounts. As a priest, Father Haring has fought. his religious battles inside the church, and often from positions of influence. Before the beginning of Vatican II he was among experts who helped write the draft documents for study by the world's bishops. In 1964, Pope Paul·VI named him to a special commission to study the birth control issue. Although the majority of commission members favored changes in church teachings, Pope Paul reaffirmed the immorality of using contraceptives. Also in 1964, the pope chose him to preach the weeklong Lenten retreat for Vatican officials. For 40 years, Father Haring taught
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moral theology at pontifical Universities in Rome. In returning to Rome from his home in West Germany for the presentation of the new book, Father Haring violated one of the church's unwritten rules: that a dissenting theologian does not talk about his dissent in Rome, the pope's backyard. At the news conference, though, Father Haring said his dissent is not with the pope and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the doctrinal congregation, but with inadequate clerical institutions and attitudes inherited from the past. "My book is above all a warning not to look for a scapegoat," he said. "I have a great faith in God and even in this pontificate to consider the good things in the book so that the church can take a step forward toward a greater openness," he said. At 76, the yoqng Turk knows how to surround raspy criticism in a silk scarf.
Scripture pitfalls VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II praised biblical scholarship, but said some methods of studying and .interpreting Scripture "constitute danger for the faith." He told a Vatican panel that differing methods of Scri'pture study may leave theimpresc sion of a "certain confusion," but at the same time show the "inexhaustible richness of the word of God."
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Father Doyle marks jubilee A priest whose ministry included helping to liberate a World War II concentration camp will celebrate his golden jubilee of ordination at II a.m. Mass May 21 at St. Patrick's parish, Fall River; of which he is a native. "I was baptized, confirmed and said my first Mass at St. Patrick's," said Father Edward Paul Doyle, O.P.,81. Professor emeritus of philosophy and theology at Providence College, he resides at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory at the college and is chaplain at Summit Medical Center, a Providence nursing h'ome which he visits daily and at which 'he celebrates Mass monthly. Additionally, he celebrates Mass weekly at St. Joseph's Living Center, also in Providence, and at Heritage Hills Nursing Center in Smithfield, R.l. Father Doyle's April, 1945, experience as chaplain to the U.S. Army's 104th TimberwolfDivision that liberated Nordhausen, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, left its indelible mark on him. He said that when he and the division's medical battalion re,!ched N ordhausen, they found 1,000 barely-alive survivors and buried some 5,000 "mutilated, beaten and starved skeletons." Father Doyle remains national chaplain of the Timberwolves, all of whom are invited to hisjubilee Mass. Recently he spoke at Temple Emanu-EI in Providence, telling Holocaust survivors and other temple members that Nordhausen had made him realize the consequences of ignoring the JudeoChristian tradition of love of God and neighbor. His most recent address on the Holocaust and the. lessons to be drawn from it was on May I to schoolchildren at Providence City Hall.
itary worlds and now ministry to the aged. He is looking forward eagl:rly to his May 21 jubilee and notes that in tribute to his rank as a m~.jor in the Army Chaplain Corps, Father William W. Norton, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, has arranged for children to bring the American flag to the altar as part of the liturgy. The Mass will be-followed by a parish reception in St. Patrick's school hall. . The jubilarian will also be- honored at Providence College on May 17, where he will be among five confreres celebrating anni, versaries.
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Hooray for the scholars! Highest honors at the Fall River high school have gone to seniors Meredith Abbate, James Agar, Karen Beaulieu, Glen Chretien, Stephen Couto, Alexandra DaSilva, Lori Hennebury, Derek Leahy, Monique O'Brien, Helena Pacheco, Jeffrey Pereira, Robyn Rego, Bartholomew Reid, Natalie Troya, Jennifer Tung, Aimee Vezina, Catherine Wilcox. ' Juniors Laurence Bell, Amy Benedetti,- Jennifer Brogan, Jen-" , nifer Cabral, Jennifer Charland, Alanna Coffey, Jeffrey Conroy, Jennifer 0' Alio; Noreen Daly, Monica DaSilva, Nuno Ferreira, Kerry Geoghegan, Claudine Leblanc, Katherine Lybrook, Lisa Matos, Betsy Mello, Brian Michaud, Maria Mihos, Maria Mutty, Samantha Ollerhead, Kristen Perry, Gregory Seider, Tami Theroux, Rita Viveiros. Sophomores Eric Belanger, Jamie Borges, John Clappi, Anne Conforti, Heather DeSiinone;Eric Governo, Porsha Ingles, Bruce Mason, Muffy Merrick, Philip Nadeau, Khoi Pham, Melissa Sheldon, Kevin Soares. Freshmen Christina Fasy, Frank Garand, Tiffany Gauthier, Brian BISHOP Stangjunior Stella Littlefield, Meredith Lowe, Cassia Pacheco models at a recent . Picard, Sarah Rodgers, Leah Torschool fashion show at which chia, Yvonne Troya. . Cheers also to II seniors; 17 jun- over 40 students modeled iors, 7 sophomores and 20 freshclothes ranging from sportsmen meriting high honors; and 16 wear to wedding attire.. s,eniors, 20 juniors, 16 sophomores and 15 freshmen rating honors. 50 freshmen recently saw a production of Macbeth at North Shore Musical Theatre in Beverly, acAt St. Jean Baptiste School, companied by faculty members Fall River, recent students ofthe month Roland Lacroix and Father Robert in kindergarten through 8th.grade , Levens, SJ. were Ashley Robinson, Michael Senior Gregory Ciosek ha~ re- Pacheco, Jessica Kronsberg, Jonceived an Iris Leadership Award athan Pimental, James 'Mitchell, from Elmira College, Elmira, NY. Nicole Marchand, ChrisRego, MiIt includes a $1000 scholarship, chelle Desmarais and Rachel renewable annually. Moniz.
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library. Tell one of the,librarians about your vocational interests and ask her to guide you to books about what life is like as a politi~ cianand as a social worker. . Consider too what further edu. catiori you will need. At some point take a look at yourself with questions like these in mind: Would you enjoy standing up before a crowd of people and mak. ing' a speech? How would you react to unfriendly questioners or being booed? Are you outgoing and somewhat aggressive? What leadership qualities do you possess?, Are you rigid and unbending, or can you make reasonable compromises when necessary? Are you generous, willing to give of your energies and time? Can you come in close contact with human suffering and not be overwhelmed by it? Could you
deal with human suffering day after day after day? Are you willing to help people who at times may seem not to want it or to resent it? A final consideration: money. While it is true that some politicians do.- become rich [without being crooked], quite a few do. not·. And there are few. soCial workers who have struck it rich. Will you be willing to live on a modest income, especially as the years go on arid you' see former classmates buying fine homes in the suburbs? These cautionary words are not meant to attack your idealism or to. discourage you from achieving worthy goals. They are intended to help you chOOSe your vocation with your eyes wide open to reality. Your questions are welcomed 'by Tom Lennon, NC News, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
Bishop Feehan Recent events at the Attleboro high school have included presentation of a play, "Shattered Lives," about two teenagers and their experiences as high school seniors affected by substance abuse. A Fine Arts Weekend included performances by the school jazz band and combo, its show choir and dancers from "42nd Street." An art exhibit in the auditorium foyer was also a weekend high-
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By Linda Rome We all have illusions about the way we are or the way the world is. Sometimes our illusions are a source of comforting self-protection. Other times our illusions shield us from personal fla~s which may hurt ·us or others. We could grow beyond these illusions if we stopped pretending. For example, I always used to blame my children for delaying me as I made their school lunches in the morning. At the last minute I was always hunting for milk money and stuffing lunch boxes into backpacks. Then one day I made a decision: we would all be ready for school a half-hour early from now on. Anyone not ready would have to put a nickel in our poor-people's bank for every five minutes he or she was late. Within a week, I was the only person paying the bank. I routinely underestimated the time it took to pack lunches and so I was always running late. It was a kind of lie to myself, an illusion, about the source of my problem. But everyone paid for my illusion in angry words and hurt feelings; We usually associate telling the truth with what we say to others. But it is just as important to be honest with ourselves. Read the following questions and use them to start a discussion at home or in your youth group or with friends: In the first five discussion points, choose as many responses as apply .. I. I think I can stand up to peer pressure even though: a. I haven't worn my new pants since my friends laughed at me in them. b. I can't talk about my faith because my friends think it's corny.
c. I wouldn't be caught dead at the mall with my parents because my friends might see me. 2., I'm my own person and I want my parents to stop treating me like a child even though: a. my' parents pay· for all my «Iothes even though I have a parttime job. b. when I borrow.the car I sometimes replenish the gas, but I never pay for oil or a car wash. c. my grades are lower than they should be because I turn in my, homework late. 3. Which of the following always takes longer than you anticipated? a. Homework. b. Talking on the phone. c. Washing dishes or doing other chores. d. Getting ready for school in the morning. e. Learning a new skill. 4. I think of myself as an organized person who always meets his or her obligations although: a. I keep my room in archeological order, layer upon layer. b. I am often late for an appointment c. it's usually two weeks or more before I write thank-you letters. 5." think of myself as a generous person. a. I give at least a dollar to every charity that asks me. b. I will loan my best friend my favorite CD or sweater, but not my brother or sister because they have their own. Answer yes or no to the next two statements. 6. Everyone knows I don't mean any harm by my sarcastic remarks. Sarcasm and irony are simply my way of being funny. 7. I don't always tell my parents where I am going or when I'll be back because they should know how responsible I am but I worry when they're not home when they said they would be.
400' at ar~a CYO banquet Four hundred people packed McGovern's Restaurant, Fall River, on May 3 for the annual Fall River Area CYO awards banquet. Guest of honor and main speaker was Providence College basketball coach Rich Barnes, who stressed the impor~nce of education.. Asking rhetorically whether young people would rather be great athletes or great scholars, he said "If you choose athletics, at age 35 you're looking at the end of your real productivity. If you choose scholarship, that will remain with you for a lifetime." Saying that young persons shoiI1d have a dream and work hard to' make it reality, he cited the example of PC player Carlton Screen, named. team co-MVP with Marty Conlon. At the beginning of the season: said Barnes, Screen set himself the goal of leading the team and the Big East in assists and steals. He led PC in both categories and the Big East in steals, coming second in assists. "This," said Barnes, "was due to his having a goal and working hard to achieve it."
H'e·ad table guests,. in addition to Barnes, were Father William Shovelton, pastor of St. William parish, Fall River; ,Father Francis Mahoney, a former CYO director and pastor of Holy Name parish, Fall Ri,ver; Father Jay 'Maddock, Fall River area CYQ director and viceofficialis of the diocesan marriage tribunal; Albert Vaillancourt, Fall River CYO associate director; Fall River Park Commissi.oner Gilbert Amaral and his wife Kathy; and Ken Ford.. Jason Andrade of the. Holy Name Junior Boys C team was awarded a week at the Rick Barnes basketball camp to be held at Providence College. . Award-winning teams and coaches honored at the banquet were St. William's Senior A, Senior B, Prep Diocesan Champs and Junior A Boys; St. Michael's Junior B Boys, regular season; St. Mary's Junior B Boys Playoff Champs. . Holy Name Junior C Boys and Junior A Girls Playoff Champs; St. George Junior A and B Girls, regular season; St. Jean Baptiste Junior B Girls Playoff Champs.
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headed San Diego narcotics cop (James Belushi) and his police dog partner (Jerry Lee) corner a slick drugczar(Kevin Tighe). but much of this comedy caper focuses on the duo's personality problems. Deteriorates into implausible :nacho heroics and vulgar sexual innuendos. Rough language, intense comic book violence and sevl~ral vulgar innuendos involving the dog's sexuality. A3, PG-13. "Loverboy"(Tri-Star) - A tasteless comedy about a dopey college student (Patrick Dempsey) who earns his tuition by parlaying a pizza delivery route into a sex-forhire service for unhappy Hollywood wives. The savvy older women (Barbara Carrera, Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher) turn him from bumbling bozo to bon vivant in a few weeks, but earn him the wrath of their husbands whose cheating has led them.to stray in the first place. 'Although everyone is reunited with the proper mate in the end, and the college student makes
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Dallas cop, is the basis for this compelling documentary that reexamines the crime and explores the fine line between guilt and innocence. A chilling look at the man unjustly convicted of the murder, the man who fingered him and the legal eagles responsible for the conviction. Rough language and repeated murder portrayals. A3
TV Program In April the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging its "Pet Sematary" (Paramount)1973 decision legalizing abortion. Stephen King's adaptation of his The Texas case which led to that· best seller about a Maine family landmark decision is dramatized who move near a dangerous highin "Roe vs. Wade," Monday, May way and two cemeteries: one for 15,9-11 p.m. EDT on NBC. family pets squashed on the highHolly Hunter stars as Norma way, the other for those who want McCorvey, mimed Ellen Russell· loved ones to return from the in the film, a young woman who in dead. While relevant questions 1.970 sued the attorney general of about the finality of death are . Texas, for the right to have an raised by the family's 6-year-old abortion. Her l;lwyer, Sarah Wed(Blaze Berdahl), her toddler broth,dington (Amy Madigan), presented er's afterlife transformation into a the case in the name of Jane Roe in gruesome slasher is depicted in order to protect her client's privacy. horrific detail. May incite or frightThe program stresses that an en children when they see how abortion is a painful decision. It. easy and what fun it can be to slash also presents bearing a child and their family. Also includes gratuigiving it up for adoption as wrench. tous suicide. 0, R .ing but seems wrongheaded when "Winter People" (Columbia) it suggests that adoption is even Melodramatic tale of love and more tragic than abortion. It is revenge in the snowy North Carol- unlikely to satisfy people on either ina hills during the Depression. side of the abortion issue. But it is When an honorable, uncomplicated one of television's better attempts city man (Kurt Russell) falls in to deal ~ith a co~troversy that is love with a bad-luck country wo- . basic to our notion of humanity as man (Kelly McGillis), he must a nation and as individuals. prove his manhood to her family Sunday, May 14, (NBC) and protect her from the wild mountain man who fathered her "Guideline": Patrick,Kennedy, speillegitimate child. A family feud cial assistant to Father Bruce Ritsubplot, while key to the suspense, ter, discusses Covenant House reis poorly realized and reflected habilitation programs for homeless primarily in scenes of violence. youth. This film delivers little more than attractive actors emoting in an implausible drama beautifully shot in lush rural landscapes. Rough language, a grisly, bear hunt and some sadistic violence. A3, PG-13 TV Film Wednesday, May 24, 9-11 p.m. EDT (PBS) "The Thin Blue Line" (1988) - The 1976 murder of a
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DISABILITIES APOSTOLATE Signed Mass and social 2 p.m. June 18, St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. Sign language tapes are available through the Disabilities Office, 243 Forest St., Fall River, tel.. 679-8373. ST. ANNE, NB . Spring concert presented by the Greater New Bedford Choral Society 7:30 p.m. May21: "Seven Last Words. of Christ" by Theodore Dubois and "Requiem" by Gabriel Faurl. ST. MARY FAIRHAVEN Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 9 ·a.m. to 7 p.m. each Wednesday. SS, PETER & PAUL, FR May crowning 9:30 a.m. Mass May 21. New CYO officers: Danny Britland, president; Jamie Soares, vice president; Kim Goncalo, secretary; Mike Medeiros, treasurer. Women's Club banquetJune I, Somerset Lodge. ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Ladies of St. Anne Mass and installation of officers 7 p.m. May 17, followed by reception, business meeting and program, Kathie and Her Clowns;" presented by Kathie Barboza. FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Evening of recollection 6:30 p.m. May 15, Women's Guild, St. Patrick's parish, Somerset. ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH May crowning tomorrow. Roses for Life at weekend Masses. Information night for potential converts 7 p.m. June 12, church hall. BL. SACRAMENT, FR First communion 10 a.m. Mass Sunday. Roses for Life at weekend Masses. O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER First communion I p.m. tomorrow. Volunteers needed to transport Brewster Nursing Home residents to monthly Mass and Benediction and to assist with Wednesday bridge group. Roses for Life at weekend Masses. ST. WILLIAM, FR First communion at j I:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. CCD registration weekend of May 20 and 21. HOLY NAME, FR The church bulletin rep9Tts 270 communion calls made each Sunday at the eight nursing homes within the parish. New special ministers of the Eucharist are needed; information at the rectory. First communion 9 a.m. tomorrow. MARIE'S PLACE, FR This distribution center is in need of clothing, especially baby clothes. Information 672-2641. P AX CHRISTI, FR The newly-formed Pax Christi of ·Southeastern Massachusetts will meet at 6 p.m. June 4 at the Holy Union Sisters' provincial headquarters, 550 Rock St., Fall River. Members work towards peace and promote nuclear disarmament. All welcome. LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO The annual Haitian pilgrimage day at LaSalette Shrine will be held at I p.m. Sunday, May 21, and will include recitation of the rosary, celebration ofthe Eucharist and making of the Stations of the Cross. People of Haitian heritage from New England, New York and New Jersey will attend and pray for family and friends living in Haiti amidst poverty and lack of social justice. All welcome
ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT First communicants and their families are invited to attend 9:30 a.m. Mass May 21 to celebrate "It's about Going Forth To Make a New World." Adult choir reharsals 7:45 p.m. May I I and 18. ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR . National Hospital Week was marked with a service awards dinner at which Portuguese Health Care Committee scholarships were a warded to Helen Branco, Maria Ferreira and Linette Grace. Volunteers were recognized at a recent luncheon at which awards for 100 to 6,000 hours of service were ,presented. 6;00-hour recipients were Evelyn Mahon and Joseph Tavares. National Nurses' Day was celebrated May 8 and nursing support staff were recognized May9. ST. JOHN, POCASSET Parish council nominations are being received. High school seniors will be.honoredat a brunch following 10:30 a.m. Mass May 21.. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Spirit of Jesus prayer group Pentecost celebration j 2:30 p.m. May 13, parish hall. Mass celebrant Father Bob Masciocchi; speakers Bernie O'Reilly, Cheryl Finn; music by Espousal prayer community of Waltham. CAMPUS MINISTRY, FR BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE Dr. Herbert Benson,' a cardiologist and chief of Behavioral Medicine at New England Deaconess Hospital, will speak on .IThe Relaxation Response: The Bridge between Religion and Medicine," at 7 p.m. May 24 at Bristol Community College Arts Center. Sponsored by the college Change for Life program and supported by Catholic Campus Ministry, it is open to the public at no admission charge. HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH Ladies' Association installation luncheon, noon May 23, Christine's Restaurant, West Dennis. To be seated: Hilda Dagenais, president; Jeanne Downes, vice-president; Dorothy Nelson and Ruth Sheehy, secretaries; Kay Gilmore, treasurer. HOLY CROSS, S. EASTON All wishing to learn about divorce and annulment procedures are invited to a meeting at 7:30 p.m. May 17 at the parish hall. Father Jay Maddock, vice-officialis of the diocesan marriage tribunal, will speak. DIOCESAN ULTREYA The Diocesan Ultreya meeting for Cursillistas will be held at Bishop Stang High School, N. Dartmouth at 7:15 p.m. May 19. A witness talk by Anne Marie Kelly will be followed by a liturgical celebration. HOLY TRINITY, W.HARWICH Communal anointing and May cr!Jwning 2 p.m. May 21, followed by refreshments. For information or transportation, call the rectory, 432- ST. MARY, SEEKONK First communion II a.m. Mass 4000. Applications for college scho- 'tomorrow. Women's Guild meeting larships are being accepted by the Ladies' Association. First commun- 7:30 p.m. May IS. Youth and adult leaders' meeting 7:30 p.m. May 16, ion 9 a.m. Mass tomorrow. parish center. DIVORCED/SEPARATED, IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON A video presentation by Clayton TAUNTON Roses for Life available at weekBarbeau with discussion to follow on "Coping with Feelings: Emotions end Masses. and How to Handle Them" will be ST. FRANCIS CEMETERY, featured at a support group meeting TAUNTON Memorial Mass 10 a.m. May 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. May 21 at Immaculate Conception church ha,II, Taun- St. Francis Cemetery, weather permitting. Chairs may be brought. ton.
ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Women's Guild 20th anniversary celebration and past presidents' night begins with 7 p.m. Mass May 17. A buffet will follow. Applications for college scholarships for high school seniors available at rectory. Confirmation class walkathon 10 a.m. May 13. CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT MASHPEE Beginning May 29, the daily parish Mass will be at 8:30 a.m. at Queen of All Saints Chapel. The food pantry is in need of pasta, sauces and canned goods, especially vegetablt:s.
Valiquette to head First Friday· Club Normaild Valiquette of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, has been elected president of the Fall River area First Friday Club su~ceedingDaryl Gonyon. His term will begin' with the club's October meeting, at which Mass will be celebrated' by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. L Valiquette is a graduate of Prevost High School, Assumption College and the University of Montreal. He has been a teacher for 30 years, for 23 ,years te/iching French at Henry Lord Middle School, Fall River. He is a past president of Bishop Connolly High School Parents' Club. president of the Francophone Association and active in his parish. Robert J. Nagle, former superintendent of Fall River schools, was reelected vice-pres; ident; Kenneth Leger was named treasurer for the 14th consecutive year; and Joseph Deschenes was elected secretary. The Fall River area First Friday Club, the longest-running such club in the United States, will conclude its 42nd year with its June meeting at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River. Retired professional baseball umpire James Duffy will speak.. ST. JAMES, NB Roses for Life available at weekend Masses. ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Parish organizations, first communicants and confirmands will participate in a living rosary at 7 p.m. May 22. Refre~hments will follow. CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Confirmation retreat tomorrow for St. Bartholomew Church, Providence. ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Roses for Life available at weekend Masses.
Msgr. Higgins a Vatican consultant. VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has named Msgr. George G. Higgins, a longtime specialist on labor issues, as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Msgr. Higgins, 73, an adjunct lecturer for the Department of Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, writes a column for National Catholic News Service. For more than 30 years he handled labor and social justice concerns for the U.S. CatholicConference before retiring in 1980. In May 1987, the National Federation of Priests' Councils gave its annual President's Award to Msgr. Higgins, calling him the "dean of American Catholic social action."
ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR Healing service and Mass with Father William Babbitt, 3 p.m. May 21. ' ST, THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Rosary prayed daily during May before 9 a.m. Mass. SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO St. Mary-Sacred Heart School second graders and their families will attend 7 p.m. Mass Monday. ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN
First communion II a.m. tomorrow. Roses for Life at weekend Masses. ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR Council of Catholic Women meeting 7 p.m. May 16. Plans will be made for the St. Anthony celebration June 10 and I I. ST. GEORGE; WESTPORT Needs of the elderly, shut-in, hospitalized have been discussed at 'a parish advisory meeting and visitors have been appointed for area hospitals. Nursing homes will also be contacted for names of parishioners. Those interested in such ministry may contact Father Roger LeDuc, pastor. ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Parvuli Dei Cub Scout award recipients are Sean Dailey" Christopher Eighmy and Gregory Vandette. Marian devotions 7 p.m. each Tuesday of May. First communion, living rosary, May crowning and confirmation ceremonies Sunday will begin a yearlong observance of the parish centennial. ST. JOSEPH, NB Sacred Heart tridum begins fol10wing·I I a.m. Mass May 31. Prayer meetings 7 p.m. each Wednesday, rectory basement.
Dr. Robert Donovan 'Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided and Father Robert C. Donovan was principal celebrant at the. Mass of Christian Burial for Dr. Robert J. Donovan, 82, of Marshfield, a retired physician. Dr. Donovan, who practiced medicine in Brookline for over 50 years and was for many years physician for St. John's Seminary, Brighton, and chief medical officer for the Catholic Order of Foresters, died April21. His Mass was offered A pril24 at St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Brookline, where he had been a lector for 15 years. Concelebrating the Mass were priests of the Boston archdiocese and priests and deacons of the Fall River diocese. Dr. Donovan's eldest daughter, Mary Louise Ruth, and his youngest son, William J. Donovan, were lectors and Deacon William A. Martin of St. Patrick's Church, Wareham, where Father Donovan is a parochial vicar, was deacon for the Mass. Dr. Donovan, a native of Boston, was a graduate of Boston College and of Boston University School of Medicine. He was surgeon emeritus at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Brighton, where he died. He is survived by his wife, Mary (McCarthy) Donovan; by a son, Edward D. Donovan of Marshfield, in addition to William Donovan of Hudson and Father Donovan; and by six daughters. In addition to Mary Louise Ruth of Hingham, they are Kathe'rine M. Cullen, Irvine, Calif.; Elizabeth H. Carroll, Brookline; Dorothy MacDonald, Stoughton; Frances McManus, New York; and Clare M. Schwelm, Plymouth. Also two brothers, Paul Donovan of Needham and Leo Donovan of Plymouth; a sister, Mary Scannell of Yarmouthport; 19 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.