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REV. MR. FARIA

REV. MR. JODOIN

Ordin.ations tomorrow At an 11 a.m. M:ass tomorrow in at 2 p. m. Sunday at St. Anthony's. St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, Concelebrants wil1 be St. Anthony's Bishop Sean O'Mlllley will ordain pastor Father Manuel P. Ferreira Rev. Mr. Andre H. Faria and Rev. and Father Henry S. Arruda, pasMr. Charles A. Jodoin to the tor ofSt. John the Baptist parish, priesthood for the Fall River dio- New Bedford. Also participating cese. All are welcome to attend. will be three priest-natives of St. Rev. Mr. Faria Anthony's parish: Father Bento Andre Hum'berto Faria, born Fraga; pastor of St. Paul's parish, March 23, 1966, is the son of Taunton; Father David Andrade, Andre H. and Maria S. (Moitoso) Parochial vicar at St. John of God Faria and a native ofSt. Anthony's Parish, Somerset; and Father Manuel Andrade, who resides at CathoParish, Taunton. He has three brothers. Dennis, Paul and lic Memorial Home, Fal1 River. , F a t h e r Arruda will be homilist. Michael. He attended Tllunton public Serving as deacons will be Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Souza, recently schools, graduating from Taunton High School and entering St. John's ordained to the diocesan permanSeminary. Brighton, in 1984. He ent diaconate; and Rev. Mr. K. earned a bachelor's degree in libMichael Lambeth of the diocese of eral arts from the seminary col1ege Trenton, NJ. in 1988. Dionisio DaCosta wil1 be music In 1989 he began studies at St. director. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, where A reception will follow. he received a bacca!laureate degree Rev. Mr. Jodoin in sacred theology and a master of Born Nov. 7, 1967, Charles divinity degree last month. Albert Jodoin is the only child of Charles R. and Joyce (Strong) After ordination to the diaconate in January, he served at Queen Jodoin and a native of St. Thereof the Americas parish in Washingsa's parish, New Bedford. ton, D.C. He attended St. Joseph's School, 10 He will celebrate his first Mass T t P _ _ _ _ _ _ _•• .u.r.n_o_.a.ge •

Holocaust survivors speak

They don't want the w<)rld to forget By Marcie Hickey "I personally believe III the goodness of mankind." Sam Natansohn's simple declaration, coming at (he end of chilling testimony of Holocaust atrocities. is a seeming incongruity, an unexpected ray of hope in a dark account. For Sam and his wife Sidonia have had many reasons not to believe in the goodn.ess of humanity. Their youths spent in the terror of Nazi forced labor and concentration camps, they saw family members and friends stripped of

all they had and killed, their people decimated by Hitler's "Final Solution" to exterminate the Jews. In recent years. there is a new kind of trauma. evidence that in the ashes of the death camps, hate lingers. Revisionists assert the Holocaust never happened; 22 percent of American adults believe them, according to one recent poll. For the Natansohns, it is time to speak out-not only for themselves but for the millions like them whose stories were silenced in Nazi gas chambers. Turn to Page II

This week's Anchor details the results of the 1993 Catholic Charities Appeal here in the Diocese of Fall' River. This was my first Appeal as Bishop of Fall River, and I want to take the occasion to thank al1 the priests, religious. and laity who have given of their time. hard work, and money to make the 1993 Appeal successful. I am especially grateful to the Reverend Daniel L. Freitas, the Diocesan Director of the Catholic Charities

Appeal, and Mrs. Claire McMahon, this )lear's lay chairperson. I am grateful to the clergy, religious. and laity of the Dio-

cese and the many benefactors who have respond,ed so generously that we were able to realize an increase over the amount from last year's Appeal. In spite of the recession that has hit our area so hard, people have once again demonstrated their spirit of sacrifice in their wil1ingness to share'with those in need. The total collected, in excess of $2,226,000.00, will aHow us to continue the many pastoral and social activities sponsored by the Diocese.

Suspects arrested in. Mexican cardinal's slaying GUADALAJARA, Mexico (CNS) - Mexican police have arrested seven men on suspicion of . I t ' th e d rug-re ltd IIlVO vemen III ae slayl'ng of Card'lila I Jua n J esus . Posada s Gcam po 0 f G ua d a IaJara, . b u t some M' d bt th eXlcans ou eo ff'1. I versIOn . 0 f h'IS d ea th . cIa Government authorities say Cardinal Posadas was killed by mistake in a shootout at the city airport after gunmen confused his car with that of Joaquin Guzman Loera, head of the Sinaloa, Mexico, cartel. However, one official at the Guadalajara cathedral echoed the feelings of many Mexicans, saying it would have been "impossible [for gunmen] to have mistaken a religious figure dressed in a black suit and a white collar for a drug trafficker." And a leading Mexican newsmagazine reported eyewitness accounts that contradict the official version of how the cardinal died. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the city's cathedral for Cardinal Posadas' May 27 funeral, and condolences came in from al1 over the world. The 66year-old cardinal had served as vice president of the Mexican bishops' conference and first vice president of the Latin American bishops' council. At a memorial Mass at the Vatican, Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Angelo Sodano said Cardinal Posadas' death "leaves us with a sense of dismay and indignation at the gratuitous and savage violence of which he was a victim," He said the church had lost a "truly exemplary pastor" whose life was "cut down by a murderous hand." Cardinal Posadas paid with blood for his "generous service toward the cause of the Gospel," he said. Speaking in Spanish at his May 26 general audience, Pope John

Paul II prayed that "the blood shed by the exemplary pastor, who generously dedicated his life to the: service of God arid the church, would be an urgent call to reject unjustifiable violence, which causes so much suffering and death and threatens peaceful coexistence." Two of the suspects arrested by the Mexican government said they traveled to Guadalajara a week before the shootout with a dozen other men to kill drug lord Guzman. They did not admit to taking part in the cardinal's killing but said they were involved in the gun battle, which left seven people including the cardinal - dead. They said they then boarded a plane and flew to Tijuana, Mexico.

The Mexican government has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Guzman, his fellow Sinaloa drug chief Hector Salazar Palma, and brothers Ramon and Francisco Arellano Felix, heads of the Tijuana cartel. Mexican officials said Cardinal Posadas was trave:ling in a car identical to the one Guzman was expected to use and was the victim of a bungled "hit" ordered by leaders of the rival Tijuana cartel. A government source in Mexico City said the gunmen were high on drugs at the time of the shooting. The cardinal died May 24 of gunshot wounds rc:ceived in tne parking lot of the airport, where Turn to Page 10

PAYIN G RESPECTS: Standing next to the coffin of Cardinal Posadas are Archbishop Adolfo Suarez Rivera of Monterrey, Mexico, president of the Mexican bishops' conference, and Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Behind Salinas is Archbishop Girolamo Prigione, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to Mexico, whose plane Cardinal Posadas was awaiting when he was killed by gunfire at the Guadalajara airport. (CNS/ Reuters photo) .J

Leading Parishes ATIlEBORO AREA St. John the Evangelist St. Mary, Seekonk Mt. Carmel, Seekonk St. Mary, Mansfield St. Mark, Attleboro Falls

$52,203.00 38,838.00 35,518.00 33,195.00 30,000.00

CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS AREA $85,357.50 St. Pius X, So. Yarmouth 71.929.00 St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis 46,488.25 Our lady of Victory, Centerville 40,811.51 Holy Trinity, W. Harwich 36,969.50 St. Patrick, Falmouth FAll RIVER AREA Holy Name, Fall River St. Thomas More, Somerset St. Stanislaus, Fall River St. John of God, Somerset Holy Rosary, Fall River

$45,310.00 26,651.00 26,209.00 26,119.00 25,702.00

NEW BEDFORD AREA Mt. Carmel, New Bedford Immaculate Conception, New Bedford St. Mary, So. Dartmouth St. Julie Billiart. No. Dartmouth St. Mary, New Bedford

$43,720.58 34,485.00 28,903.00 27,775.00 26,265.00

TAUNTON AREA St. Ann, Raynham St. Joseph, Taunton Immaculate Conception, N. Easton St. Mary, Taunton St. Anthony, Taunton

$24,682.00 21,614.80 20,034.00 19,885.00 19,260.80

Parish Totals ATIlEBORO AREA Attleboro Holy Ghost St. John St. Joseph St. Mark St. Stephen St. Theresa

$11,032.00 52,203.00 9,833.00 30,000.00 12,627.88 18,371.00

33,195.00

Mansfield-St. Mary North Attleboro Sacred Heart St. Mary Norton-St. Mary Seekonk Mt. Carmel St. Mary

Our lady of the Angels Our lady of Health Holy Rosary Immaculate Conception Sacred Heart St. Anne St. Anthony of Padua St. Elizabeth St. Jean Baptiste St. Joseph St. louis St. Michael St. PatriCk SS. Peter & Paul St. Stanislaus St. William Santo Christo Assonet-St. Bernard Somerset St. John of God St. Patrick St. Thomas More Swansea Our lady of Fatima St. Dominic St. louis de France St. Michael WestportOur lady of Grace St. John the Baptist

9,018.00 19,460.00 17,415.50 35,518.00 38,838.00

CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS AREA Brewster-O. l. of the Cape $26,315.00 Buzzards Bay-St. Margaret 16,048.00 46,488.25 Centerville-D. l. of Victory 31,337.76 Chatham-Holy Redeemer East Falmouth-St. Anthony 30,799.00 4,592.00 Edgartown-St. Elizabeth 36,969.50 Falmouth-St. Patrick 71,929.00 Hyannis-St. Francis Xavier Mashpee-Christ the King 34,995.00 12,802.00 Nantucket-D. l. of the Isle North Falmouth30,079.50 St. Elizabeth Seton 6,830.00 Oak Bluffs-Sacred Heart 26,024.00 Orleans-St. Joan of Arc 18,412.00 Osterville-Assumption Pocasset33,030.00 St. John the Evangelist 6,937.00 Provincetown-St. Peter the Apostle 36,336.00 Sandwich-Corpus Christi 85,357.50 South Yarmouth-St. Pius X Vineyard Haven7,975.00 St. Augustine Wellfleet6,789.00 Our lady of lourdes West Harwich40,811.51 Holy Trinity 13,736.00 Woods Hole-St. Joseph FAll RIVER AREA Fall River St. Mary's Cathedral Blessed Sacrament Espirito Santo Holy Cross Holy Name Notre Dame

NEW BEDFORD AREA New Bedford Holy Name Assumption Immaculate Conception Mt. Carmel Our lady of Fatima Our lady of Perpetual Help Sacred Heart St. Anne St. Anthony Padua St. Casimir St. Francis of Assisi

$11,909.50 4,704.00 16,116.70 4,455.00 45,310.00 13,465.00

$200

Special Gifts

St. Ann Women's Guild, Raynham Westcott Construction Corp., No, Attleboro

$150

NATIONALS $1,000 In Memory of John J. Oliveira

$500 Sacred Hearts Community. Fairhaven

$150 Rev. William J. Beston, C.S.C.

$100

$350 American Press, Inc.

$150 Norm's Catering and Take Out

$100 States Nitewear, Inc. Jose S. Castelo Insurance Agency, Inc. Fairhaven Lumber Company

$50

A.P, Whitaker & Sons, Inc., W. Bridgewater

Poyant Signs, Inc. Silverstein Family Store New Bedford Credit Union

NEW BEDFORD $500

ATTlEBORO $650

Perry Funeral Home

. St. Ann Conference, Raynham

Parishes NEW BEDFORD St. Mary $800 Rev. John F. Moore; $500 St. Mary's Bingo; $300 Rev. Mark R. Hession; $100 Gerald N. Pepin Sacred Heart $50 St. Anne Ladies Guild St. Theresa M/M Andre Lemieux St. Lawrence $500 M/M Richard T. Saunders, Sr.; $100 M/M Philip C. Beard, In Memory of Rev. William R. Jordan, In Memory of John Joseph Francis Murphy; $60 M/M Arthur B. Walsh; $50 Mrs. Genevieve F. Baillargeon, M/M Roland Dumas, Mrs. Anne E, Hooper, M/M Robert Sullivan $50 M/M Paul F. Cardoza, Albert P. Porter, Francis J. Powers, Daniel P. Sullivan, Robert Gelette, Ronald &Maria Vaz, M/M Paul Saunders St. Joseph $1,500 St. Joseph Bingo; $100 M/M Wayne Pimental; $75 M/M Raymond Belanger; $50 M/M Ovila Fortin, M/M Jorge Correia Holy Name $100 Mrs. Doris Law-

renee, Francis Smith; $60 M/M Norris Walecka; $50 Albert E. Frates O. L. of Mt. Carmel $150 Portuguese Prayer Group; $100 A Friend; $50 M/M David F. Martins Immaculate Conception $600 Rev. Jose A. Dos Santos O.L. of Assumption $75 St. Vincent de Paul; $50 Rose Marie Sanchez, Ana Miranda, Antonio Livramento FAIRHAVEN St. Joseph $100 St. Vincent de Paul -Fairhaven; $75 Mrs. Roberta Braley, M/M William Carey, M/M I)()nald Sullivan; $50 Mrs. Gerard C. Benoit, M/M Donald Blanchette, M/M Philip Harding, M/M Walter Silveira, Jr., Mrs. Helen Sullivan, Mrs. Mary Tucker St. Mary $100 St. Mary Conference; $75 DeKuyper, Escolas, Plaud & Rudler Families MATTAPOISETT St. Anthony $50 M/M John R. Duff, Jr., M/M Robert Lawrence, D-M William J. Quinlan

Aleixo Insurance Agency, Inc. St. Joseph Holy Name Society. No. Dighton

$125 Duvernay Council #42, L'Union St. Jean Baptist, No. Attleboro

$100 Knights of Columbus #82 St. Mary's Youth Ministry, Seekonk

$60 Mello's Auto Service Center

$50

18,035.00 6,825.00 25,702.00 6,097.00 16,073.00 13,073.00 10,764.00 7,013.00 7,908.00 11,319.00 5,030.00 13,405.00 14,876.00 10,894.00 26,209.00 12,124.00 19,590.00 11,503.00 26,119.00 14,718.00 26,651.00 23,648.00 15,746.00 16,734.00 12,397.00 13,676.00 16,196.00

$15,090.00 4,012.00 34,485.00 43,720.58 8,259.00 7,767.00 6,582.00 4,434.65 7,420.00 5,010.50 5,473.00

St. Hedwig St. James St. John the Baptist St. Joseph St. Kilian St. lawrence St. Mary St. Theresa AcushnetSt. Francis Xavier East FreetownSt. John Neumann FairhavenSt. Joseph St. Mary Marion-St. Rita MattapoisettSt. Anthony North DartmouthSt. Julie Billiart South Dartmouth-St. Mary Wareham-St. Patrick Westport-St. George

CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS $700

13,468.00 6,978.00 6,159.00 18,532.00 27,775.00 28,903.00 26,265.00 12,001.50

Great Rock Tractor Co., Pocasset

$300 Robert McGrath, Sr., Nantucket

$200 Lewis Funeral Home, Nantucket Hyannis Tara Hotel &Resort

$100 E. T. Mello Electrician, E. Falmouth Sisters of the Holy Ghost W. B. Marden, Nantucket

$50

FALL RIVER St. Mary's Cathedral $1,000 Rev. Horace J. Travassos; $50 Claire O'Toole, In Memory of Francis J. O'Neil St. Michael $500 Anonymous; $100 A Friend; $50 M/M Deodato Sousa, Cecilia C. Oliveira, Anonymous St. Stanislaus $1,750 St. Stanislaus Bingo; $925 Rev. Robert S. Kaszynski; $200 Margaret Peart, Jan & Nora Torres; $160 M/M Walter Phillips; $150 Alice Kret, M/M John Polak, M/M Raymond Romagnolo, St. Stanislaus St. Vincent de Paul; $140 John Polak, Jr. $128 M/M Robert Emond; $125 Deacon Frank & Mary Mis; $104 M/M Phillip LaPointe; $100 M/M Thomas Cournoyer, Mary Dube, Stanley Lach, Judy Ann Rebello, Harry Sears, Ann Marie Viveiros; $90 Beverly Demoura; $80 M/M J. Scott Mitchell $75 Pamela Demoura, M/M Robert Wilbur, M/M David Feeney; $65 M/M Paul Murphy; $60 M/M Peter Homen, M/M Walter Wisniewski; $50 M/M Joseph Ciosek, M/M John Coroa, M/M James Faris, Jr., Paula Gagnon $50 M/M John Hadfield, Anna Krezel, M/M Leo Lavoie, M/M Jose Lindo, M/M John Luddy, Maynard Family, M/M Louis Mazurek, Mary & Adrien Perry, M/M Mil-

$16,346.00 6,443.00 10,773.00 15,211.00 13,425.00 19,260.80 11,026.00 21,614.00 19,885.00 11,882.00 7,075.00 13,803.00 20,034.00 24,682.00 16,574.00

FALL RIVER $750

$400

WAREHAM St. Patrick $520 M/M Louis L. Uva; $450 In Memory of Edward G. Griffin; $200 M/M Thomas Costello, In Memory of James D. Murphy; $150 M/M Melvin Prada; $125 M/M Joseph Day $100 Ronald C. Biever, M/M Donald P. Leaver, Barbara McMahon, M/M Christopher O'Toole, M/M Chester Rusinoski, M/M James Vicino, Jr., Jeffrey York; $75 Mrs. A. Getchell; $60 M/M Raymond Bourne $50 M/M Joseph Cardoza, M/M William Giblin, M. Isabel Keady, M/M Dennis Mattos, Mrs. Catherine M. Morrison, M/M Michael Murphy, Mrs. Antonio Tavares

ACUSHNET St. Francis Xavier $60 M/M David Lira

22,200.00

Atty. Arthur Raposa, E. Falmouth Hallet Funeral Home, So.uth Yarmouth

St. Peter Conference, Provincetown

Atty. Joseph C, Paruti, E. Falmouth Briggs Landscaping & Backhoe Service, Falmouth Teaticket Hardware

EAST FREETOWN St. John Neumann $50 M/M Wayne A. Therrien

8,059.00

TAUNTON AREA Taunton Holy Family Holy Rosary Immaculate Conception Our lady of lourdes Sacred Heart St. Anthony St. Jacques St. Joseph St. Mary St. Paul Dighton-St. Peter North DightonSt. Joseph North EastonImmaculate Conception Raynham-St. Ann South Easton-Holy Cross

Assiran, Ellis & Pontes, Attorneys Robertson Factories, Inc. Nite & Day Golf Course, Raynham P. A. Restaurant, Inc.

NORTH DARTMOUTH St. Julie Billiart $200 M/M Robert J. Lang; $100 Benilde F. Costa, M/M Fernando P. Medeiros, M/M Antonio M. Pacheco, M/M Kenneth C. Petitti; $50 M/M Raymond Coderre, MlM Paul Connolly, M/M Roland A. Dumas, Joseph E. McCormick, M/M Jean-Pierre Nuss

2,319.00 11,171.00 18,500.00 11,739.00 3,106.82 18,203.00 25,390.00 9,608.00

Waring-Ashton & Coughlin, D.D. Sullivan, Driscoll, O'Rourke Funeral Home

$500 Sullivan Funeral Homes

$250 Hathaway Funeral Service

$200 Aluminum Processing Corp. Jackson Company, Inc. Medeiros Bakery Knights of Columbus, Cassidy Council #3669, Swansea

$100 Trends, Inc.

$50 Lilwson Memorials ton Rebello, St. Stanislaus Women's Guild, M/M A. Sousa, M/M Thomas Terpak St.Elizabeth $450 Rev. Arthur T. DeMello; $50 St. Elizabeth Federal Credit Union Santo Christo In Memory of Patricia A. Costa, M/M Ireneu C. Trinadade & Nadine' Holy Name $500 M/M Daniel E. Bogan, M/M John J. Mercer, M/M John M. Almeida; $100 Mildred Malone; $75 M/M Kenneth Fiola, Jr., J. Waldron; $50 Rudolph La Vault, In Memory of Edward C. Roe Immaculate Conception $100 Immaculate Conception St. Vincent De Paul; $50 Immaculate Conception Women's Guild, Edward Ferreira, M/M James Gillet Espirito Santo $250 Friend of Espirito Santo; $200 AParishioner; $150 St. Vincent De Paul Soc. Espirito Santo Conf. St. Anne $100 Arthur N. Picard St. Jean Baptiste $220 AFriend; $55 Maurice Milot; $50 M/M Brian Hayden, St. Vincent de Paul Conference Holy Rosary $100 Holy Rosary Merrymakers; $75 M/M Joseph Guidotti; $50 Jaye Bronhard Lecomte, Margie Lima, M/M Robert Worsley, M/M Gerald Mauretti

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Four priests will celebrate significant anniversaries of ordination this month. They are Msgr. Raymond T. Considine and Fathers Ernest N. Bessette, Manuel T. Faria and James F. Kenney: Msgr. Considine Msgr. Considine marks 65 years as a priest on June 9. He lives in retirement at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, the first of the four diocesan nursing homes for which he supervised construction as Diocesan Building Commissioner. Born March 25, 1902 in New Bedford, the son of the late John and the late Alice (:\1 urphy) Considine, Msgr. Considine attended Holy Family grammar and high schools in his native -city. He studi~d f9r fh~: p'i-iesth_ood at St. Charles' Collegt:, Catonsville,' MD, and St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, NY. He was ordained June 9,1928 in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rochester, with assignments following at Sacred Heart parish. Oak Bluffs; St. Patrick, Wareham; St. Mary, Taunton and St. Patrick, Fall River. In 1934, he was sent by Bishop James E. Cassidy to Rome to work and study in the office of the Propagation of the Faith, where his brother, MarykrlOll Father

Father Canuel Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., was principal celebrant and diocesan priests were concelebrants Wednesday for the Mass of Christian Burial at St. Anne's Church, Fall River, for Father Robert T. Canuel of St. Anne"s Monastery. He died May 30 at a.ge 61.

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John Considine, was a consultor. Returning to Fall River, Msgr. Considine was for 17 years secretary to Bishop Cassidy. In 1951, he was appointed pastor of St. William's Church, Fall River, where he served until his retirement in 1977. Named domestic prelate in 1959 by Pope John XXIII and protonotary apostolic in 1966 by Pope Paul VI, Msgr. Considine offered varied and devoted service in many diocesan posts during his active ministry. An authority on gerontology, he supervised construction, maintenance and operation of the diocesan health facilities for the aged. He was a Massachusetts delegate to the first White House Conference on Aging in 1960. In 1944, at the request of Bishop Cassidy, he established the Diocesan Catholic Charities Appeal, serving as its director for 32 years. He also founded the diocesan office for the Propagation of the Faith and directed it until his retirement. Internationally known for his work for the missions, he was a key organizer of an aid program for leper colonies. He was a member of the former diocesan administrative council, diocesan director of the Holy Childhood Association, a dioceBorn June 7. 1931. in Pittsfield, he was the son of the late Theobald J. and the late Eliza(Otis) Canuel. He attended parochial schools in Pittsfield and Bennington. Vt.. before graduating from St. Anne's School in Fall River in 1,945. He then entered Montfort Preparatory Seminary, Bay Shore. NY. receiving the habit of congregation in 1951 and professing first vows in 1952 at Maybrook Novitiate. Hartford City. Ind. He pursued further studies at St. Louis de Montfort Seminary, Litchfield, Conn., and was ordained March I, 1958, by Bishop John F. Hackett of Hartford, Conn, After pastoral studies, he served at Montfort Fathers parishes and directed the community's shrine in Litchfield. He began ministry in the Fall River diocese in 1975, serving as parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis; Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville; St. Mary's, New Bedford and Notre Dame de Lourdes and St. Anne's parishes in Fall River. He is survived by a sister, Lucille Fontaine of Swansea; a brother, Paul Raymond Canuel of Fall River; three nephews and a niece.

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A new clinical trial of an investigational drug for treatment of Alzheimer's Disease has begun at The Miriam Hospital. Patients are being enrolled now for diagnosis and inclusion in this study. For infonnation call the Cognitive Disordelrs Unit at The Miriam Hospital, 331-8500, ext. 2975.

FATHER KENNEY san consultor, a member of the Massachusetts State Council on Aging and a board member at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. In addition to the late Maryknoll Father Considine, Msgr. Considine's deceased brothers are George, Walter and Msgr. Arthur G. Considine. Another brother, Francis, is a retired certified public accountant. Father Bessette Ordained June II, 1938, Father Bessette is celebrating 55 years in the priesthood. He lives in retirement in South Dartmouth. Born June 28, 1911, in New Bedford, he is the son of the late Noe and the late Ida (Coderre) Bessette. He attended 'Catholic schools in Vermont and St. Michael's College, Winooski. HI': prepared for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and was ordained by Bishop Cassidy. As parochial vicar, he served at Our Lady of the Isle Church, Nantucket; St. Stephen's, Attleboro; St. Anne's, New Bedford and Notre Dame, Fall River. He was administrator at Holy Rosary Church, New Bedford. He was pastor at Our Lady of Fatima and the former St. Hyacinth parishes in Fall River and at St. Joseph's, Attleboro, where he served for seven years before his retirement in 1981. In 1984, St. Michael's College named him a recipient ofthe alumni association Golden Knight Award, presented annually to an alumnus celebrating his 50-year class reumon.

Father Faria Ordained June 12, 1938, Father Faria also celebrates 55 years as a priest. He resides in retirement at St. Michael's parish, Fall River. A native of St. Michael, Azores, he was born May 3, 1914, the son of the late Manuel Tavares Faria Turn to Page 10

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Holyday and Holidays The cry of veterans from coast to coast this past Memorial Day was one of dismay and discouragement. It seems that the non-observance of this national holiday is hitting a nerve with veterans from all branches of the service. The question was the same everywhere: What has happened to the focused public celebration of the day? Why is its prime observance centered in malls and shopping centers? There can be little doubt that meaningful celebration of Memorial Day is a thing of the past. Except for a few tattered parades and meaningless political speeches, it has simply become an excuse for a long holiday weekend. Many families have little time to pause and visit the graves of loved ones: They're too busy opening the summer season in endless lines of traffic. If the truth be told, veterans should not be surprised that our patriotic and national holidays have lost their meaning. The surprise is that they have survived at all, even in token form. As America is converted into a crassly pagan and capitalistic social order, all obstacles are dismantled to the almighty dollar. In our own church the encroachment of the secular has made many turn to adore the golden calf. The catalyst of commercialism, the difficult state of the economy and the ever-increasing need for survival income have led more and more people from the pews to the checkout lines. One cannot help but note that the family of the church is yet suffering the theological speculation of the Seventies. Members of that generation are now the indifferent parents who feel no obligation of community worship. Once responsibility to the commandments was eradicated, any form of accountability also vanished. It is estimated that about 40 percent of American Catholics worship each week at the celebration of the Eucharist. For 60 percent, a holy day'means little. Why should we get upset when the indifference extends to a holiday? It is precisely in our inability to stand up to secularism even in our own church family that we are now experiencing holiday fallout such as the current Memorial Day situation. And let it be said loud and clear, things will not turn around and reverse themselves. Only people can do that. It should be obvious that if we cannot give time to reverence the Lord, we cannot expect any respect for our civil days of remembrance. Until we once more recognize that the days of rest was important to the Lord then we will continue to be blind even to the most sacred of times decreed by Caesar. It is impossible to say if we will ever return to the so-called "good old days" when people were consistent in their worship of God and observance of state celebrations. However this does not mean that we forget the torch and continue to walk in the darkness of psychological and social ignorance. We need days of rest and days of civic celebration in order to meet our anthropological demands. If we neglect our God, it is logical to say that we will deny His Creation even as it is played out in the rites and rituals of our daily lives. By doing this we set ourselves on a trail of secularism that will make pagans of us all. Each of us has the obligation to sustain and maintain those things, those events, and those holidays which bring us together and make us one. Such is the celebration of Memorial Day, which clearly shows how fragile and broken we are in our living. The Editor

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Notjust the economy, stupid! By Father Kevin J. Harrington If you followed last year's presidential election, you will undoubtedly recall the catch-phrase, "It's the economy, stupid." Few would disagree with the observation that Bill Clinton's victory over George Bush in November had everything to do with the economy. But despite President Clinton's promise to focus like a laser beam on the economy, other issues have seemed to preoccupy him during his first four months as president. One of the most disturbing aspects of his presidency is his overriding interest in dismantling what little protection the unborn have against abortion. Between his executive orders and his legislative efforts the president seems to think that his election is a mandate to endorse the radical feminist agenda and subsidize the abortion industry. President Clinton, as a candidate, promised to do everything he could to make abortions safe, legal and rare. As president, he is clearing the way for the abortion pill R U-486 to make its way to the United States without a full understanding of its inherent health hazards. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court abolished the abortion laws of the 50 states and gave the United States the most radical abortion regime in the Western world. Aborti()O on demand, for any reason, at any time in a pregnancy has been American policy for the past 20 years. No other democracy has anything like this: not Canada, Britain, Germany or Sweden. For every three children born in America one is aborted!

In 1976 Rep. Henry Hyde (R, Ill.) spearheaded a bipartisan amend-

ment to ban the use of Medicaid funds for abortions. During the last 17 years, only 13 states have allowed appropriation of state tax dollars to fill the void left by the withdrawal of Medicaid funds; Massachusetts is one. President Clinton now wants abortion included in his new health care plan. He also wants Congress to drop the Hyde Amendment. The cost of federally funded abortions has been estimated by the Alan Guttmacher Institute as 125 million dollars a year. Almost one quarter of all abortions per year would be financed by the government. 312,000 unborn children's lives would end compliments of the U.S. Treasury, with an average of 50 cents taken from the wallets of 250,000,000 Americans every year.

Patroness of Our Land Mary, Immaculate Virgin, Our Mother, Patroness of our land, we praise and honor you and give our-. selves to you. Protect us from every harm. Pray for us, that acting always according to your will and, the will ofyour Divine Son, we may live and die pleasing to God. A men.

Federal funding does not cover' all sorts of elective medical procedures. Abortion is an elective procedure. Most Americans do not favor abortions of convenience, which comprise 95 percent of abortions performed in America today. No one has to have an abortion today. Across the country, there are thousands of voluntary organizations eager and willing to provide medical and financial help to women in distress. As President Clinton advances his so-called "pro-choice" agenda, another disturbing phenomenon has emerged: the concerted effort to curb the free speech of pro-life demonstrators. Pro-life activists won a significant court decision in January, when the Supreme Court ruled in Bray vs. Alexandria that a reconstruction-era civil rights law, the Ku Klux Klan Act, does not give federal judges the right to bar anti-abortion protesters from blocking access to abortion clinics. Another effort is now underway to enact The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which would make federal felons out of thousands of women and men who are acting in our nation's proud tradition of peaceful, non-violent protest. The very people who ask the government to keep out of a woman's abortion decision are now asking Big Brother to intervene and use the full weight of the federal government to protect the abortion industry at the expense of our First Amendment rights of free speech. The American voters, hopefully, will see that there are more issues than the economy out there. President Clinton will have to answer to the electorate in 1996!

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God is more than a forl1rlula Exodus 34:4-6,8-9 II CorinthiaJlls 13:11-13 John 3:16-18 How can people who live in a universe containing over 200 billion billion stars (that's billion billionl) believe they completely understand the God who created each one? Yet every Trinity Sunday many of us are seduced into thinking that one statement from one ecumenical council teaches us everything we need to know about God. The majority of bishops meeting at Nicea in the year 325 certainly agreed that there is just one God, and that in that oneness are three persons - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- but none of them ever envisioned the day when followers of God would simply memorize their formula, recite it back in religion classes, and think they had "mastered" the divinity. Thankfully our Sacred Authors knew nothing of ecumenical councils or catechism classes. They worked solely from experience. That's why the truths they passed on help us to reflect much more on our own familiarity with God than on some preconeeived notions divinity. The author. of Exodus, for instance, had come face to face with a God who was one with his/ her people in spite of their virtue or wickedness. No matter - what God's attributes - no matter how gracious and. merciful how slow to anger and J:ich i"ri ki~ane:ss -: God still marched through the wIlderness with "a stiff-necked people." Moses knew he could pray the Lord to "Come along in our company," though in the same breath he had to plead, "Pardon our wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own." The Chosen People weren't much, but they were God's. And they had discovered God was with them even before they were forgiven. More than a thousand vears later, Jesus also asked his followers to reflect on their experience of a God who was totally committed to them. He was much more interested in proclaiming God's love affair with his/ her people than in teaching theological dogmas. The logic and forcefulness of Jesus' message helped his disciples re-examine their own encounters with God. One of the first who did

DAilY REJWINGS June 7: 2 Cor 1:1-7; Ps 34:2-9; Mt 5:1-12 June 8: 2 Cor 1:18-22; Ps 119:129-133,13~i; Mt 5:13-16 June 9: 2 COl" 3:4-11; Ps 99:5-9; Mt 5:17-19 June 10: 2 Cor 3:15-4:1.36; Ps 85:9-14; Mt 5:20-26 June 11: Acts H:21-26;13: 1-3; Ps 98:1-6; Mt 10:7-13 June 12: 2 Cor 5:14-21; Ps 103: 1-4,8-9,11-12; Mt 5:3337 . June 13:· Dt 8:2-3,14-16; Ps 147:12-15,19-20; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN this in writing was Paul. Today's short pericope from the ending of his second letter to the community at Corinth shows some of the insights produced by such reflection. . Like so many scriptural passages, It only makes sense when we read it backwards. The last verse is the reason Paul writes the first two verses. He ends his letter with the liturgically-familiar statement: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all!" The Apostle believes God's personality is demonstrated by grace, love and fellowship. That's why we must mend our ways, encourage one another and live in harmony and peace. God's followers should always try to imitate God's personality. This process of reflection doesn't stop with Paul. 30 years after II Corinthians, John's community shows that it has begun to understand how Jesus himself is the most meaningful expression of who God is. Ifthe Lord came so that we "may not die, but may have eternal life," it's only because first "God so I~ved the world that he gave [us] hiS only Son.:' Jesus didn't accomplish these great things completely by himself. . It's interesting that the evangelist points out that "God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him." Even the earliest Christians had to take part in the struggle to see God as a loving friend instead of a vengeful judge; the struggle to follow the basic instincts with which God has graced us. Certainly nothing's the matter with expanding our knowledge of God to include an insight of the Christian community which came three centuries after Jesus' death and resurrection. But if we don't understand and appreciate the insights which came before, we could misinterpret the place and importance of those latter dogmas. Only those who experience God's love can truthfully say they know God.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FAll RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of LORETTA D. GRECCO is unknown. We cite LORETTA D. GRECCO to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Wednesday, June 9, 1993 at 2:30 p.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the ARNOTT:'GRECCO case? Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person. Loretta D. Grecco, mustseeto it that she is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation. Jay T. Maddock Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts on this 26th day of May, 993.

ROME (CNS) - A Vatican official said his recent meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein went well, despite criticisms voiced in the Iraqi press afterward. Cardinal Achille Silvestrini~ who traveled to Iraq in early May, said he thought the president and others gave th(: Vatican delegation a warm welcome. "The talks [with Saddam Hussein] and the reception throughout the four days of my visit indicated a completely positive attitude," Cardinal Silvestrini said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Avvenire. The cardinal said he learned only after he had left the country that the Iraqi government newspaper had bid him a frigid farewell. The Iraqi newspaper said Cardinal Silvestrini had "talked nothing but politics" during his visit and would never return to Iraq. "Frankly, I don't know how to explain these comments," Cardinal Silvestrini said. He said Saddam had treated him "cordially" during a discussion lasting about two hours. The Iraqi newspaper was a.pparently reacting to a suggestl~>n by <;ard,inal Silvestrini during hiS teleVised meeting with Saddam that Iraq should "feel Israel's pulse" in an effort to promote peace. Cardinal Silvestrini said he had wanted to make the point that while the Iraqi population is suf~ fering under an economic em bargo, the world's ~ttention has shifted elsewhere, and it will take new attitudes and initiatives to change the situation. The cardinal said he told Saddam that "even your adversaries recognize that you are capable of strong and resolute decisions. This happened in war; why not have the courage for peace?" "The [Iraqi] president spoke in a calm manner, arguing point by point," the cardinal said. Saddam said Palestinians should be the ones to decide on the terms of a just peace with Israel. He described the current embargo against Iraq as an unjust measure suffered by no other country. Cardinal Silvestrini said he agreed economic restrictions a~ai nst Iraq should be eased, especially to reduce the suffering caused by the lack of medical supplies and basic necessities. But he said that lifting the embargo would be easier if Iraq made signs of good will and fulfilled U.N. resolutions. The cardinal said he found Catholic churches in Iraq and Jordan to be alive and energetic. He said that when he read Pope John Paul II's goodwill message to Iraqi church leaders, it was always met with applause. The pope said in his message that the weak and the poor should not suffer for crimes for which they are not responsible. "Everyone wants the pope to visit," and the pope wants to go to Middle Eastern churches, Cardinal Silvestrini said. But Vatican officials have said such a trip is unlikel~ before a regional peace accord IS reached. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I111111111111111111 THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Second Class Poslage Paid al Fall River. Mass. Published weekly excepl the week of July 4 and the week afler Christmas at 887 Highland Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02720 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price by mail. postpaid $11.00 per year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor. P.O. Box 7. Fall River. MA 02722.

sioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army andllater served as a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger Officer in the U.S. Pacific Command. He remains attached to the U..S. Army with the rank of captam. He entered Pope John XXIII National Seminary, Weston, in 1989 and spent summers with the Chaplains Service Overseas in Germany, italY and Ft. Monmouth, NJ. Ordained to the diaconate in December, he se:rved at Holy Rosary Church, Rochester, NH. He will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving on Sunday at Holy Rosary and will celebrate Mass at Our Lady of the I:;le at 6:30 p.m. June 12.

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Diocesan native to be ordained Rey. Mr. Kevin William Cody, a native of Our Lady of the Isk parish, Nantucket, will be ordained to the priesthood tomorrow for the diocese of Manchester, NH. Bishop Leo E. O'Neil will be or·· daining prelate in 'ceremonies at St. Joseph's cathedral in Man·· chester. Rev. Mr. Cody, born Oct. 23 1954, is the son of Joseph M. and Elizabeth (Toner) Cody. He has two sisters and a brother; another brother is deceased. He was an altar boy at Our Lady of the Isle. He attended Nantucket public school and Providence College. Upon graduation he was commis··

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I have long been a fan of Dr. Robert Coles, the Harvard psychiatrist who has written extensively about children and women in crisis. Especially important is his work on the religious and spirituallife of children. Recently I had the privilege of meeting Coles and hearing him give a keynote talk. He told how he had evolved from a "bellyach-

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. In a recent column the questioner asked about interfaith communion and said she hoped our rules don't end up like no meat on Friday; "all who disobey it are condemned to hell." You answered that her remark about "condemned to hell" was another whole column. You are mistaken if you think we were not told in the '30s and '40s we could be conderimed to hell because it was a mortal sin to eat meat on Friday. And I can

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: Our phone bill is way too high, thanks to two teenagers. They both have several friends who are a long-distance call away. They talk for hours. When I try to get them off the phone, they complain that I'm nagging or I'm inhibiting their social life. I'd

ing, complaining" medical student to a man open to learning from others. His empathy was energized soon after he received his medical degree from Columbia University. He cared especially about those who were suffering, victimized or despised and relegated to a state he called "invisible." Coles told the story of a youth stricken with polio and confined to an iron lung respirator. One day Coles was visiting him when a lightning storm developed. The youth became agitated and pointed to the iron lung. Finally Coles understood. The youth, being kept alive by this electrical machine, was fearful he might die if there was a power failure.

"I was still too dumb to get into his vulnerability," Coles recalled. In time, Coles worked with many youngsters who were suffering and facing their own limited lifetimes with courage and maturity. "I heard from them what it means to be a human being," Coles said. Coles then told the story of Ruby, a 6-year-old black girl in Louisiana chosen to integrate a classroom of white children in the 1960s. White parents rebelled by not sending their children to school. As Coles recalled, it became Ruby's "fate for a school year" to be taken to school by federal marshals each day, passing through mobs taunting her, saying they would kill her.

One day Ruby stopped before the threatening mob and appeared to say something before the marshals escorted her into school.

this prayer. "I say the same thing every day," Ruby said. "Please God, try to forgive them, for they just don't know what they're doing."

Coles had been brought on the scene as a child psychiatrist to monitor any emotional or psychological damage being done to Ruby. Naturally, he had to know what the child had said to the mob. To his surprise she told him, "I was talking to God." Ruby said she prayed at home for those people every day.

These were, of course, "words that had been said before ... when Jesus faced the mob," Coles .reminded us, remarking that the "moral sensitivity" of this child stunned him.

But that morning she had been rushed. When she saw the crowd, she remembered and stopped to pray. Coles asked her what she said in

In passing on what he had learned, Coles said that we must make distinctions between knowledge and truth, factual information and wisdom, character and intellect, ideas and the lived life.

"If you don't know that, you don't know anything," Coles affirmed.

Friday abstinence was symbol of Catholic identity produce a dozen classmates who can verify it. I assure you that you have no idea of what we lived with. (Ohio) A. Judging from your letter, I'm older than you are and have the same experience of Catholic schools of those years as you do. I n many ways some explanations of Catholic rules, especially about what is a mortal sin, wen; distorted. What sinful circumstances and evil intentions, for example, could conceivably be present to make eating a cheeseburger on Friday begin to be, even objectively, a serious sin? We would, I think~ ask such questions more readily and realistically today. . If you remember, there are three conditions necessary for a serious sin: I) serious matter; 2) sufficient reflection that's what I am doing is a major sinful act, rejecting God;

and 3) full consent of my will (knowing all the consequences and free to act otherwise if I wish, I do it anyway). These heavy requirements for mortal sin should move us to tread carefully when talking about serious sin, then or now. Another reason for the moral weight then placed on Friday abstinence was that it became, for many years, a major symbol of Catholic identity. I remember well a mother of several children, most of whom were at one point sick for over a week. She was exhausted from being up 24 hours for three days.' She asked a priest acquaintance if she could eat on Friday the only food she had in the house canned chicken soup. He said no, that wouldn't be proper for a Catholic.

She tells me today she doesn't know who is sillier, the priest for his answer or she for askin,g. When Pope Paul VI revised the church's penitential practice in February 1966, he made it clear he was emphasizing the essential role of self-denial in our lives. He meant to push people to examine their lives more deeply, to discover more genuine signs of their Catholic identity with Christ. Nine months later, when the American bishops abrogated the obligation of Friday abstinence except during Lent, they followed the Holy Father in stressing the importance of Christian mortification. Without making it a law, they even recommended vohJn~ary' abstinence from meat on all Fridays as an act of self-denial. As all of us who lived through

the 1960s and '70s remember, many Catholics were angry and confused and had no. idea where to start looking for this deeper identity. A story made the rounds of a woman who exclaimed, "If the pope and the bishops want to go to hell that's their business, but I'm not going to eat meat on Friday." More than a few, it seems, are still lost. They keep searching for some other law or practice or commitment that will securely identify the "real, loyal" Catholics. In some ways, and with q:rtain serious precautions, there may be nothing wrong with that. The Friday abstinence experience, however, makes us want to be sure w~'re searching in, the ri&ht place. . ,!Qq~s~,on~_'!1IJ~,b~ s~nt,~p.Fllt~J~r John Dietzen, ~oly Trintiy Church, 704 N. Main St,;Bloomington,lII. 61701.

Curtailing chatty teens' phone marathons appreciate any suggestions. Louisiana One parent joked that the phone had fused with her teen's ear and removal might require surgery. M ore and more, the telephone has become a major medium of Communication for young people. You have two. problems: How to get your teen (or anyone) off the phone after a reasonable period and how to control long-distance calls. Cutting calls short is a problem in most families. The best approach is to ha ve a written policy or effective tactic. One simple policy places a limit

of 15 minutes on all calls. That allows for incoming calls and for others to use the phone. Modern technology may supplement and help enforce any policy. Call waiting makes it possible for incoming calls to be heard, though some regard such interruptions as rude. Another policy is the "egg-timer rule." In general, calls are not limited, but anyone who needs the phone may flip the three-minute egg timer to set a deadline on the one talking. That gives the user three minutes to finish up the conversation. Having set a ,policy, you need a

method of enforcement. I suspect that nagging' has proven ineffective and leads to arguments. My suggestion would be to choose a tactic that is tangible rather than verbal, something you do rather than something you say. Many phone retail services offer "call control" devices which can be preprogrammed to limit conversations to a certain length of time (e.g. 15 minutes) or to block longdistance calls or calls to a certain area code or a certain number. To get past the block, you must first dial a secret access code. Call control can be self-installed on your existing telephone line.

Cost for the unit from most retailers is from $80 to $150. Some telephone companies have similar technologies available through their regular services. If you yourself must limit the calls, ask nicely once. Then instead of nagging, simply unplug the phone. Or get on the other line and remain there until they have finished. , Another tactic is to have the only family phone located in the most public place (e.g. the kitchen). Calls tend to be shorter when an audience is present. A phone in your teen's room is an invitation to phone abuse.

A mid-life crisis built by two By DOLORES CURRAN

Have you ever started to read something you thought was meant to be humorous only to d-iscover halfway through that it's serious? On my way to the bathtub one evening, I picked up an old (June 2, 1992) issue of Family Circle magazine. The tub is where I read the women's magazines that portray both a luscious chocolate cake and the latest diet on the cover. I encountered an article entitled "The Mid-Life Crisis" written in a

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his/ her paragraph style by a Hollywood screenwriting couple, Martin and Sybil Adelman Sage. Martin was very funny describing his fear of aging, his unfinished novel, and his extra fat. Watching a scantily-clad aerobics instructor on late night TV, one who looked straight into his eyes and asked, "Wanna do this with meT' he turned and gazed upon, his sleeping wife in her cotton nightgown with little bluebirds on it, and he was depressed. So he decided to make her over in the image of the TV nymphet. He began by asking her to toss out her favorite Army surplus Bermudas, She agreed, as caring couples do when one partner detests the other's dress or jacket. She asked him

what he would like her to wear instead. "Let me see," mused Martin. "Straps were good. Stretching things that showed you where to look were good. Black lace was good." I continued chuckling as Sybil agreed, telling us, "After we dropped off my Bermuda shorts at a nearby thrift shop, we went to a sporting goods store, where we picked out an assortment of colorful bicycle shorts and halters. Upon returning home, I felt entitled to gratuitiously toss a perfectly decent pair of Martin's shorts." But Martin wasn't finished. A few days later, he told Sybil her bras "took her lush, womanly body and vacuumlocked it like Tupperware." When Sybil agreed to go

lingerie shopping with him, I began to suspect this wasn't a spoof but a serious how-to-save-your-marriage article. I was right. Folks, this is one sick couple, but let Martin tell it. "Armed with a MasterCard, we tore from mall to shining mall. When we seemed to be winding down, I suggested Sybil update her hair. ..." After that, it was jewelry and so on. Sybil crowed, "Friends noticed that stylistically I'd gone from a younger version of Barbara Bush to an older approximation of Cher. ... However unsettling his requests may have been, the result has been to rejuvenate our relationship." And, in what would have been a

wonderful line to end a wry and witty artiCle, Martin supplies us with his final truth, "I'm not getting older. She's getting better." I don't know why Family Circle printed this article as serious stuff. It would have been great humor on' a topic devoid of it. But I wonder about all those women who read the article wondering, "If I turn in my cotton nightie for black lace, if I aspire to be Cher instead of Barbara Bush, will it improve our marriage?" The answer is no if you are a mature couple and recognize that marriage is based on more important values like intimacy and acceptance. Then, again, if you're married to a Martin, you might want to play along with him until you both get older and recover.

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Women and church Dear Editor: In his May 14, 1993 column in The Anchor, Msgr. George C. Higgins wrote of gender bias in the workplace and rightly condemned employment discrimination of any kind as "a menace to decent society." Of course, Msgr. Higgins speaks as an authoritative voice of the Catholic Church and his intentions are noble. As a committed Catholic woman I urge all members of the clergy to listen to the voices of women who want dialogue and discussion about their roles in the church where an outmoded tradition and shaky theologybat' tbe.iF participation in God's institution on earth where justice and equality should prevail. Rembert Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaukee, urges in the Dec. 6, 1992 Op Ed se:ction of the New York Times that the church "keep the doors open to further discussion and continue the important, even if painful, dialogue between the church's tradition and modern insights - [because] only by embarking on such a course will the church be sure that all members, especially women, will truly be partners." Msgr. Higgins' very valid viewpoints will be much more significant both to the world at large and to our own members when women of the church are not hampered in their worshipalld calling t9 serve their God by hierarchical gender bias. Margaret Bowen Diggins Cotuit

Should think twice Dear Editor: After reading a press release in which our senior senator from Massachusetts lauded the League of Women Voters at their convention in Marlboro last week, it was not surprising. The senator is a cosponsor of the federal Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), legislation which is vigorously opposed by the Catholic bishops because it would be an abortion-on-demand vehicle. FOCA was also sponsored by local Representatives Meehan and Markey, both Catholic. Shouldn't Senator Kennedy and his 'fellow representatives think twice before opposing the leaders of our faith on abortion issues? Let us all pull together and use all of our efforts to wipe out Roe v Wade from the statute books! Thomas A. Walsh Morality in Media of Mass. Needham Heights

A n alternative to Kevorkian Dear Editor: This letter is prompted by the frenzy of recent suicide deaths in which the so-called Suicide Doctor, Jack Kevorkian, "assisted." As I write this, Kevorkian has been involved in the sixteenth such death, and each death was accompanied by widespread coverage in the media. The greatest danger in this situation of media attention is that it

may give terminally ill people the impression that Kevorkian's way is the only alternative to futile, expensive and often painful medical care. That is absolutely wrong. For terminally ill patients and their families, .there is another choice called Hospice care. It is a form of care for the terminally ill that enables them to live as fully and as pain-free as possible before they die, allowing them to spend their last days in dignity, making peace with themselves and their loved ones. Hospice treats all the needs of such patients through a team that includes physicians, nurses, counselors, therapists, clergy, aides and Y.01unteers. I n most ~ases the patient can be cared for at home with a relative or close friend serving as "primary caregiver." Hospice also tends to the needs of the patient's family, giving them support and advising them how best to handle the many practical and emotional problems involved. Hospice is becoming increasingly k~own and more widely used. Last year, for example, Hqspice Care of Greater Taunton cared for

June 5 1954, Very Rev. Thomas J. McLean, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis 1970, Rev. Msgr. Louis Prevost, Pastor Emeritus. St. Joseph, New Bedford June 8 1961, Rev. John S. Czerwonka, Assistant, St. Stanislaus. Fall River June 9 1945, Rev. Timothy J. Calnen. Pastor, 51. Joseph, Woods Hole 1966, Rev. Joseph S. Larue, Pastor, Sacred Heart. North Attleboro June 10 1915, Rev. William H. Curley. Pastor, SS, Peter and Paul, Fall River 1949, Rev. George A. Meade, Chaplain, St. Mary's Home, New Bedford June II 1973, Rev. Msgr. Augusto L. Furtado, Pastor Emeritus, S1. John of God, Somerset 1986, Rev. Richard J. Wolf, S.L Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River

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Continued from Page One and the late Alexandrina (do Rego Silva) Faria. He attended Angra Seminary, Terceira, and was ordained forthe Angra diocese. He came to the United States in January, 1975, and was parochial vicar at St. . Michael's until 1985, when he was named parochial vicar at St. Anthony's parish, Taunton. He retired in 1989.

Eucharistic parley to promote social action VATlCAN CITY (CNS) Tying church social action to evangelization will be a major aim of the 45th 1nternational Eucharistic Congress in Seville, Spain. Scheduled during the June 7-13 congress a re workshops in six languages linking social action to the . overall theme of "The Eucharist and Evangelization." TlJe motto of the congress is "Christ, Light of Nations." - -~J' workshopsi'1a-n to tie~he theme to theology, religious education, liturgy. pastoral programs and ecumenism. Pope John Paul 11 plans to attend the final two days of the congress and preside at the closing Mass. A traditional goal of eucharistic congresses has been to proclaim the "social kingship of Christ" in societies that are growing increasingly secular and atheistic, said Cardinal Edouard Gagnon. president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses. Father Ferdinand Pratzner, pontifical committee secretary, said that local preparations for eucharistic congresses have a history of' being linked to promot~ng social works.

Preparations for the previous congress, in 1989 in Seoul, South Korea, spawned a church movement called "One Heart and One Body." For the year preceding the Seoul congress, the movement invited Catholics and non-Catholics to periodically fast and donate the money they saved to the poor. The donations totalled almost $1.5 million, he added. I-n-emovemenralso-promoteo programs for adopting babies and donating blood and organs. In Seville, congress preparations have included establishment of a drug rehabilitation program for youths. The program was developed with the aid of Caritas, the archdiocesan charity organization. and more than 160 youths have been under treatment in the first year. Spanish organizers also developed a solidarity campaign to promote education and action programs to help immigrants, people on the margins of society and the poor in the Third World. The Solidarity Campaign also emphasizes pro-life activities to help people contemplating abortion and to work with the terminally ill.

Suspects arrested Continued from Page One he was to meet the Vatican ambassador to Mexico, Archbishop Girolamo Prigione. The cardinal's automobile was riddled by as many as 40 rounds of various calibers. The coroner said many of the shots that hit the cardinal were fired from as near as three feet. Bishop Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, said that "calling it a drug trafficking affair is the easiest way out." He said he neither believed nor accepted that the cardinal was mistaken for someone else. At the funeral, Archbishop Adolfo Suarez Rivera of Monterrey, president of the Mexican bishops' conference, called on Mexican law enforcement authorities to come up with "credible explanations" for the murder of Cardinal Posadas and other drugrelated violent crimes. The weekly magazine Proceso quoted witnesses who said a gunman forced open the cardinal's car before shooting him.

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"The cardinal had one foot outside of the car," one witness was quoted as saying. "They [gunmen] saw him, identified him." Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, one of 40 concelebrants at Cardinal Posadas' funeral, said Cardinal Posadas "was strongly opposed to the two elements that took his life: drug abuse and guns. He stood tall and vigorous against the incredible spread of weapons in Mexico and in the United States and devoted many efforts to help stop the spread of narcotics among everyone, but especially among young people." The cardinal's death has fanned fears that Mexican drug barons are developing influence like those of their counterparts in Colombia.

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PARIS (CNS) - A tiny relic of Christ's cross, authenticated by the Vatican, was auctioned recently in Paris in a sale denounced by the French church. The relic. a fingernail-sized piece of olive wood in a silver and glass case. was sold for $18,000 at the Hotel Drouot auction house to an unidentified buyer. The relic was a gift in the 19th century from the Patriarch of J-etusalem to the wife of the French foreign minister. Proceeds of the sale will go to a charity for .autistic children. But the archdiocese of Paris and a spokesman fOf'the Catholic Church in France protested the sale. "This sale goes against the law of the church," said a Diocesan '" spokesman...It could lead to religious sanctions, whatever the proceeds are used for or whatever the CNS"pIlolo good intentions oftbe seller or the buyer." POSADAS

AT THEIR ANNUAL communion breakfast, St. Pius X Council Knights of Columbus of South Yarmouth presented Family ofthe Month awards to, from left, Nathalie and John Giorgio; Lucy and Noel Hebard; Helen and Joseph Trzcinski; Margaret and Herbert Molway. Standing, third from left, Grand Knight William CahilL Honored, but not present were Helen and Antonion Gabriele and Angeline and William Lionetta.

Child abuse, health care on bishops' agenda WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Catholic bishops will discuss major issues ranging from clergy sexual abuse of minors to national health care reform when they meet in New Orleans June 17-19. Most of June 18 will be devoted to discussion and workshops on men and women religious. More than 120 of the bishops will stay on after the meeting is over for a June 20 workshop on implementing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church in their dioceses. Diocesan, school and parish religious education leaders from around the country are also expected to attend. Action items before the bishops are: - The age of confirmation in U.S. dioceses. - Revamping and expansion of the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America. adding services and making it available directly to parishes. - Approval to spend an additional $2 million· from NCCBUSCC reserves for this summer's World Youth Day in Denver. - A request to the Vatican for authorization to write two original. English-language eucharistic prayers for eventual approval and use in U.S. churches. - Approval of a proposed theme, purpose and format for the bishops' 1994 special assembly. The bishops will elect a new conference secretary to complete the term of Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez. who recently resigned as archbishop of Santa Fe, N.M., after allegations of sexual misconduct. The bishops have had at least five closed-door sessions in recent years on sexual abuse of minors by priests but the New Orleans meeting will be their first treatment of the issue in a public forum. The bishops' health care discussion is expected to follow up on a special meeting ofthe U.S. archbishops in Chicago in May for a preliminary round of discussion on national health reform. The bishops have long urged

major health care reforms but strongly oppose Clinton plans to include some abortion coverage in his health care proposals. The presentation on religious life will be a follow-up on efforts to improve relations between bishops and religious. It will include smallgroup workshops and a wholegroup session and will be the largest single item on the New Orleans agenda. The proposed increase in the World Youth Day budget stems from increased expenses because the number of young people going to Denver this August is far higher than expected. The age of confirmation proposal is that in the Latin rite in the United States confirmation will ordinarily be conferred "between the age of discretion, which is about the age of 7, and 18 years of age" with due regard for exceptions for circumstances such as danger of death or other serious causes. A proposal on new eucharistic prayers is the first step in a long process. The Vatican has said that bishops' conferences may not compose original eucharistic pra'yers without prior permission. The finished prayers would require approval both by two-thirds of the U.S. bishops and by Rome.

Refugees shut out ROME (CNS) Western Europe is slamming the door on refugees fleeing from civil conflicts in more than 30 countries, say church and government migration experts. As an example, they cite tight restrictions on more than J million people who have abandoned their homes in the former republics of Yugoslavia. Most are forced to live precariously in breakaway republics. Experts fear that the situation mirrors a growing tendency to reject foreigners in a post-Cold War era marked by the rise of ethnic, racial and national antagonisms as well as declining economies and rising unemployment.

Father Kenney, Father Kenney celebrates his golden jubilee in the priesthood on June 5. Born Jan. 19, 1918 in Fall River, he-is the Son of me late James and the late Harriet (Korzeneski) Kenney. He graduated from BMC Durfee High School in Fall River and attended Providence College. He prepared for the priesthood at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, NY, and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and was ordained June 5, 1943 by Bishop Cassidy. His early assignments were at St. Mary's Cathedral; St. Louis parish, Fall River; a second term at the Cathedral; and at Holy Family parish, East Taunton. In 1966 he was named pastor at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, Osterville. Later he was pastor at St. Mary's, North Attleboro, resigning in 1971 to serve as secretary for the Diocesan Office for Administration and Finance. He continued in that position when named pastor at St. Louis in 1972. He was pastor at St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, from 1974 to 1982, then pastor at Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich. He retired in 1984. Father Kenney also ~eld positions as Fall River area and later diocesan CYO director and Scout chaplain. He served as a judge on the diocesan marriage tribunal, and he holds a master of education degree from Bridgewater State College.

Ordinations Continued from Page One New Bedford, and Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, graduating in 1985. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and English literature in 1989 at St. John's Seminary College and received a master of divinity degree from St. John's School of Theology last month. While in the seminary he was a religious education teacher at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, St. Joseph, New Bedford; St. Brigit, Lexington and St. Joseph, Malden. He also did pastoral work at Perkins School for the Blind; Greenery Rehabilitation Hospital, Brighton; Framingham State Prison, and Cameron House, an adolescent girls' detention center. He was a department head, program director and head counselor at Cathedral Camp. East Freetown. Following ordination to the diaconate in January, he served at St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth. He will celebrate his first Mass at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at St. There'sa's. Concelebrants will be Father Roland Bousquet, St. Theresa's pastor, and priests of the Fall River diocese, archdiocese of Boston and the Society of Jesus. Music will be led by George Campeau, Jr., music director at St. John's Seminary. A reception will follow.

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Women and church Dear Editor: In his May 14, 1993 column in The Anchor, Msgr. George C. Higgins wrote of gender bias in the workplace and rightly condemned employment discrimination of any kind as "a menace to decent society." Of course, Msgr. Higgins speaks as an aurho ritafive voice of the Catholic Church and his intentions are noble. As a committed Catholic woman I urge all members of the clergy to listen to the voices of women who want dialogue and discussion about their roles in the church where an outmoded tradition and shaky theology bar their participation in God's institution on earth where justice and equality should prevail. Rembert Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaukee, urges in the Dec. 6, 1992 Op Ed s~ction of the New York Times that the church "keep the doors open to further discussion and continue the important, even if painful, dialogue between the church's tradition and modern insights - [because] only by embarking on such a course will the church be sure that all members, especially women, will truly be partners." Msgr. Higgins' very valid viewpoints will be much more significant both to the world at large and to our own members when women of the church are not hampered in their worship and calling t9 serve their God by hierarchical gender bias. Margaret Bowen Diggins Cotuit

Should think twice Dear Editor: After reading a press release in which our senior senator from Massachusetts lauded the League of Women Voters at their convention in Marlboro last week, it was not surprising. The senator is a cosponsor of the federal Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), legislation which is vigorously opposed by the Catholic bishops because it would be an abortion-on-demand vehicle. FOCA was also sponsored by local Representatives Meehan and Markey, both Catholic. Shouldn't Senator Kennedy and his fellow representatives think twice before opposing the leaders of our faith on abortion issues? Let us all pull together and use all of our efforts to wipe out Roe v Wade from the statute books! Thomas A. Walsh Morality in Media of Mass. Needham Heights

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)Anglican Archbishop George Carey may give terminally ill people the of Canterbury, spiritual leader of impression that Kevorkian's way some 70 million Anglicans worldis the only alternative to futile, wide, will teach the subject he expensive and often painful mediknows best - Anglican theology cal care. That is absolutely wrong. - at the University of Notre Dame For terminally ill patients and this summer. their families, there is another choice called Hospice care. It is a Archbishop Carey, selected in 1990 by Queen Elizabeth II to sucform of care for the terminally ill that enables them to live as fully ceed retiring Archbishop Robert and as pain-free as possible before Runcie, will teach a one-credit summer ses-ston-course-~ttert-------- they die, allowing themi"ton-<s"'p..-ennrld--===------=----===--==== their last days in dignity, making CLAUDINE LeBLANC, right, of Assonet, a junior at "Anglican Theolugy: Roots and peace with themselves and their Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT, receives a scholarship Branches" July 26-30. loved ones. from Diane Chuka, president of the university's staff associaHospice treats all the needs of tion. Miss LeBlanc, a member of the sociology Honor Society, such patients through a team that has been governor of her residence hall floor, a member of the SHAWOMET includes physicians, nurses, counselors, therapists, clergy, aides and class council and a lector at the campus chapel. She volunteers GARDENS volunteers. In most cases the at a local soup kitchen and for Sunshine Kids, children whose 102 ShawometAvenue patient can be cared for at home parents have AIDS. Also working at an adult day care center Somerset, Mass. with a relative or closefriend serv- for the elderly, she plans to pursue a master's degree in social ing as "primary caregiver." Hos- work with a concentration in gerontology. Tel. 674-4881 pice also tends to the needs of the patient's family, giving them sup3112 room Apartment port and advising them how best more than 60 terminally ill patients think that his way is the only way 4112 room Apartment to handle the many practical and and their families in our communshould be advised that they are IncUIeI hell, lid wiler, stove, .... emotional problems involved. wrong. ity and has served over 500 since fl'1gemor and malnten1nce service. Sister M. Thomas More, O.P. Hospice is becoming increas- its inception 10 years ago. NationTaunton ingly known and more widely used. wide the total was well over 210,000 Last year, for example, Hospice patients. Hospice has become so Care of Greater Taunton cared for accepted that it is now covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurers. Unlike Dr. Kevorkian, Hospice operates openly. Hospice Care of For those interested in working as neutral Greater Taunton, now a program JuneS of the Visiting Nurse Association mediators in conflict resolution negotiations 1954, Very Rev. Thomas J. of Southeastern Massachusetts, is' between adults and young people. McLean. Pastor. St. Francis Xav- a community-based organization certified training provided. Intensive, ier, Hyannis that opens its arms to everyone. 1970, Rev. Msgr. Louis Prevost. Further information about our For applications. call Craig Gaspard Pastor Emeritus, St. Joseph, New service can be obtained by calling I. F.II RIver Bedford us at (508) 823-5528 or writing to COMCARlIERVICES, INC.· 674·1616· June 8 us at 88 Washington Street, Taun1961, Rev. John S. Czerwonka, ton 02780. Assistant. St. Stanislaus, Fall River Although our service is provided only for terminally ill cancer and June 9 1945. Rev. Timothy J. Calnen, AIDS patients, experience has taught us that the earlier Hospice Pastor, St. Joseph, Woods Hole 1966, Rev. Joseph S. Larue. is involved in a case, the more Pastor, Sacred Heart, North Attle- effective our help can be. For this reason, and because it is also good boro "THE MORE YOU HONOR THE personal planning, we invite all June 10 inquiries - even those in which MORE I WILL BLESS YOU" 1915, Rev. William H. Curley, there may be no immediate need Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall for Hospice care. FOR A HANDMADE CHAPLEf, INSTRUCTIONS River It is neither our place nor our AND DEVOTIONAL BOOKlEfS SEND $5.00 TO: 1949, Rev. George A. Meade. intention to pass judgement on Chaplain, St. Mary's Home, New THOMAS SCHIFANO Dr. Kevorkian or on the people Bedford 28 SIPPICAN RD. - WARERAM, MA 02571 whose desperation drove them to June 11 seek his services. But those who 1973, Rev. Msgr. Augusto L. Furtado, Pastor Emeritus, St. John of God, Somerset 1986, Rev. Richard J. Wolf, S.J., Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River

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Continued from Page One and the late Alexandrina (do Rego Silva) Faria. He attended Angra Seminary, Terceira, and was ordained for the Angra diocese. He came to the United States in January, 1975, and was parochial vicar at St. Michael's until 1985, when he was named parochial vicar at St. Anthony's parish, Taunton. He retired in 1989.

Eucharistic parley to promote social action VATICAN CITY (CNS) Tying church social action to evangelization will be a major aim of the 45th International Eucharistic Congress in Seville, Spain. Scheduled during the June 7-13 congress are workshops in six languages linking social action to the . overall theme of "The Eucharist and Evangelization." TIJe motto of the congress is "Christ. Light of Nations." Other workshops plan to tie the theme to theology. religious education, liturgy. pastoral programs and ecumenism. Pope John Paul 1\ plans to attend the final two days of the congress and preside at the closing Mass. . ' - A traditional goal 6feucharisfic congresses has been to proclaim the "social kingship of Christ" in societies that are growing increasingly secular and atheistic, said Cardinal Edouard Gagnon. president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses. Father Ferdinand Pratzner, pontifical committee secretary, said that local preparations for eucharistic congresses have a history of' being linked to promoting social works.

Preparations for the previous congress, in 1989 in Seoul. South Korea, spawned a church movement called "One Heart and One Body." For the year preceding the Seoul congress, the movement invited Catholics and non-Catholics to periodically fast and donate the money they saved to the poor. The donations totalled almost $1.5 million, he added. The movement also promoted programs for adopting babies and donating blood and organs. In Seville. congress preparations have included establishment of a drug rehabilitation program for youths. The program was developed with the aid of Caritas, the archdiocesan charity organization: and more than 160 youths have been under treatment in the first year. Spanish organizers also developed a solidarity campaign to promote education and action programs to help immigrants, people on the margins of society and the poor in the Third World. The Solidarity Campaign also emphasizes pro-life activities to help people contemplating abortion and to work with the terminally ill.

Suspects arrested "The cardinal had one foot outContinued from Page One he was to meet the Vatican ambas- side of the car," one witness was sador to Mexico, Archbishop quoted as saying. "They [gunmen] Girolamo Prigione. The cardinal's saw him, identified him." automobile was riddled by as many Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of as 40 rounds of various calibers. Los Angeles, one of 40 conceleThe coroner said many of the brants at Cardinal Posadas' fushots that hit the cardinal were neral, said Cardinal Posadas "was fired from as near as three feet. strongly opposed to the two eleBishop Juan Sandoval Iniguez ments that took his life: drug abuse of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, said and guns. He stood tall and vigorthat "calIing it a drug trafficking . ous against the incredible spread affair is the easiest way out." He of weapons in Mexico and in the said he neither believed nor ac- United States and devoted many cepted that the cardinal was mis- efforts to help stop the spread of taken fOf someone else. narcotics among everyone, but esAt the funeral, Archbishop pecially among young people." Adolfo Suarez Rivera of MonterThe cardinal's death has fanned rey, president of the Mexican fears that Mexican drug barons bishops' conference, called on are developing influence like those Mexican law enforcement authoroftheir counterparts in Colombia. ities to come up with "credible explanations" for the murder of Cardinal Posadas and other drugrelated violent crimes. The weekly magazine Proceso PARIS (CNS) - A tiny relic of quoted witnesses who said a gunman forced open the cardinal's car Christ's cross, authenticated by the Vatican, wa.s auctioned recently before shooting him. in Paris in a sale denounced by the French church. The relic, a fingernail-sized piece of olive wood in a silver and glass case, was sold for $18,000 at the Hotel Drouot auction house to an unidentified buyer. The relic was a gift in the 19th century from the Patriarch ofJetusalem to the wife of the French foreign minister. Proceeds of the sale will go to a charity for.autistic children. But the archdiocese of Paris and a spokesman for'the Catholic Church in France protested the sale. "This sale goes against the law of the church," said a Diocesan ,'- spokesman. "It could lead to religious sanctions, whatever the proceeds are used for or whatever the eNS good intentions of th~ sener or the CARlnN'AL POSADAS )-.' buyer."

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AT THEIR ANNUAL communion breakfast, St. Pius X Council Knights of Columbus of South Yarmouth presented Family of the Month awards to, from left, Nathalie and John Giorgio; Lucy and Noel Hebard; Helen and Joseph Trzcinski; Margaret and Herbert Molway. Standing, third from left, Grand Knight William Cahill. Honored, but not present were Helen and Antonion Gabriele and Angeline and William Lionetta.

Child abuse, health care on bishops' agenda WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Catholic bishops will discuss major issues ranging from clergy sexual abuse of minors to national health care reform when they meet in New Orleans June 17-19. Most of June 18 will be devoted to discussion and workshops on men and women religious. More than 120 of the bishops will stay on after the meeting is over for a June 20 workshop on implementing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church in their dioceses. Diocesan, school and parish religious education leaders from around the country are also expected to attend. Action items before the bishops are: - The age of confirmation in U.S. dioceses. - Revamping and expansion of the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America, adding services and making it available directly to parishes. - Approval to spend an additional $2 milIion -from NCCBUSCC reserves for this summer's World Youth Day in Denver. - A request to the Vatican for authorization to write two original English-language eucharistic prayers for eventual approval and use in U.S. churches. - Approval of a proposed theme. purpose and format for the bishops' 1994 special assembly. The bishops will elect a new conference secretary to complete the term of Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez, who recently resigned as archbishop of Santa Fe, N.M., after allegations of sexual misconduct. The bishops have had at least five closed-door sessions in recent years on sexual abuse of minors by priests but the New Orleans meeting will be their first treatment of the issue in a public forum. The bishops' health care discussion is expected to follow up on a special meeting of the U.S. archbishops in Chicago in May for a preliminary round of discussion on national health reform. The bishops have long urged

major health care reforms but strongly oppose Clinton plans to include some abortion coverage in his health care proposals. The presentation on religious life wiII be a follow-up on efforts to improve relations between bishops and religious. It will include smallgroup workshops and a wholegroup session and wiII be the largest single item on the New Orleans agenda. The proposed increase in the World Youth Day budget stems from increased expenses because the number of young people going to Denver this August is far higher than expected. The age of confirmation proposal is that in the Latin rite in the United States .confirmation will ordinarily be conferred "between the age of discretion, which is about the age of 7, and 18 years of age" with due regard for exceptions for circumstances such as danger of death or other serious causes. A proposal on new eucharistic prayers is the first step in a long process. The Vatican has said that bishops' conferences may not compose original eucharistic pra'yers without prior permission. The finished prayers would require approval both by two-thirds of the U.S. bishops and by Rome.

Refugees shut out ROME (CNS) - Western Europe is slamming the door on refugees fleeing from civil conflicts in more than 30 countries, say church and government migration experts. As an example, they cite tight restrictions on more than J million people who have abandoned their homes in the former republics of Yugoslavia. Most are forced to live precariously in breakaway republics. Experts fear that the situation mirrors a growing tendency to reject foreigners in a post-Cold War era marked by the rise of ethnic, racial and national antagonisms as well as declining economies and rising unemployment.

Father Kenney celebrates his goldenj"ubilee in the priesthood on June 5. Born Jan. 19, 1918in Fall River, he is the son of the late J ames and the late Harriet (Korzeneski) Kenney. He graduated from BMC Durfee High School in Fall River and attended Providence College. He prepared for the priesthood at S1. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, NY, and S1. Mary's Seminary, BilTtlrilore-,-aiidwas ofdaiiie<rJune'-5, 1943 by Bishop Cassidy. His early assignments were at St. Mary's Cathedral; St. Louis parish, Fall River; a second term at the Cathedral; and at Holy Family parish, East Taunton. In 1966 he was named pastor at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, Osterville. Later he was pastor at S1. Mary's, North Attleboro, resigning in 1971 to serve as secretary for the Diocesan Office for Administration and Finance. He continued in that position when named pastor at St. Louis in 1972. He was pastor at St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, from 1974 to 1982, then pastor at Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich. He retired in 1984. Father Kenney aJso held positions as Fall River area and later diocesan CYO director and Scout chaplain. He served as a judge on the diocesan marriage tribunal, and he holds a master of education degree from Bridgewater State College.

Ordinations Cont~nued from Page One New Bedford. and Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, graduating in 1985. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and English literature in 1989 at St. John's Seminary College and received a master of divinity degree from St. John's School of Theology last month. While in the seminary he was a religious education teacher at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford. S1. Joseph, New Bedford; St. Brigit. Lexington and St. Joseph, Malden. He also did pastoral work at Perkins School for the Blind; Greenery Rehabilitation Hospital, Brighton; Framingham State Prison, and Cameron House, an adolescent girls' detention center. He was a department head, program director and head counselor at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown. Following ordination to the diaconate in January, he served at St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth. He will celebrate his first Mass at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at St. There-sa路s. Concelebrants will be Father Roland Bousquet, St. Theresa's pastor, and priests of the Fall River diocese, archdiocese of Boston and the Society of Jesus. Music will be led by George Campeau. Jr.. music director at St. John's Seminary. A reception will follow.

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fear of Allied bombings. While the Germans fled to underground bun.. kers, the prisoners were lockee! into a fifth-floor room in the factory. At one point, "we broke open the doors and ran into the forest," Mrs. Natansohn recounted. "WI: made contact with French POW!; who said the war was coming to an end and gave us courage to hold out." With nowhere else to go, the women returned to the factory, but before the end of the war they were herded into cattle cars and again sent away, this time ending up at Theresienstadt (Terazin) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The camp's typhoid-ridden and starving population was liberated only weeks later by the R us~ian army, but by then "I was too sic:< to realize what was going on," said Mrs. Natansohn. Finally released, she and her mother spotted her father's name on a list of concentration camn survivors. "We were the only [Jey,'ishl family who returned intact" to Kosice, she said. Three years later they joined relatives in the United States.

"That is when I really started to speak, when the Holocaust started to be denied," Mrs. Natansohn said with a note of incredulity.«1 think, how can they! How can they say it didn't happe:n! I was there." "We were witnesses to the unspeakable and incomprehensible, horrors of the Holocaust and attest to its gruesome reality;' said her husband. "We cannot leave unchallenged the revisionism [which denies] its occurrence or its extent." And yet Natansohn remembers a Polish Catholic woman who risked her life to shelter him and his mother from the Nazis, a woman who many years later saved a box of fresh strawberries for his visit because she remembered he'loved them. And he believes in goodness. "There were very few examples" of it during the war, "but they were there," Natansohn said. "This woman was a heroine in every aspect of the definition." The Natansohns, who live in Sharon, have been speaking about the Holocaust to high school and college students and various organizations for years. Recently they brought their message to Fall River, speaking at Durfee High School and later at a public gathering at the Chamber of Commerce. Their visit was :;ponsored by the Diocesan Department of Education, the Greater Fall River Interfaith Council, the Human Relations'Task Force and the area Council of Church(:s. At Durfee, the :'latansohns were introduced by Jim Wilcox, a history teacher and Holocaust expert, and Dr. Irving Fradkin, Interfaith Council founder. - j " , ·j'ljatansohn. a',retired -research scientist for GTE Laboratories, and his wife, a realtor, met in the United States after both left postwar Europe. Married nearly 42 years, they have four children and three grandchildren. Like many who went through the Holocaust, "they never wanted to talk about it," said Dr. Fradkin. But Holocaust survivors "won't be around forever. They speak because they don't want it to happen to you. They want you to value the freedom that exists in this country." They don't want the world to forget. Sam's Story For Sam Natansohn, born in Rzszow, Poland., the Holocaust began with the 1939 Nazi invasion of his homeland. He was 10 years old. The German army forced the 24,000 Jews from Rzeszow and surrounding towns into a ghetto"a very small area, fenced, guarded by police so that no one could get in or out," Nata,nsohn said. "We didn't know at the time, but this was the beginning of the implementation of the final solution." On July 7, 1942, the Germans began a selection process of the ghetto population. Some were sent to labor camp~" others put on trains to a then-unknown destination. "Those who couldn't make it were shot on th'e spot. The street was littered with bodies," said Natansohn. "They were taken to an extermination camp in southern Poland," though at the time, "the Germans said they would go to Russia and work and have more food." Natansohn survived the selectioh process because his mother worked for the German army. At age 13, he too was forced into slave

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS Sidonia and Sam Natan·· sohn answer questions after speaking at Durfee High School in Fall River. (Hickey photo) labor building railroads. By this time he had lost most of his family-his father, grandparents, aunts and uncles. "They shot both my grandfathers and my father," he said. His 16-year-old sister "tried to escape and pretend she was a Polish girl," but a Polish man identified her as a Jew. She was sent to Auschwitz, where she died in the gas chamber. said Natansohn. "The going price for a Jew those days was a quart of vodka and two pounds of sugar." Sam and his mother survived because they heard of a Polish Catholic woman who was willing to shelter escapes. They deliberated escape for days: "Did we have the right to endanger her life'? lfwe escaped, would there be retribu'tion against others [left in the , campI'? And would it be easier 10 die here with the group than [to get caught and] die alone, probably with torture'? "But we knew our days were numbered. We broke out." The Natansohns made their way to the home of Karola Kusnierz, her husband Kazimierz and their three-year-old daughter Maryla. For seven months they lived in near-total darkness in the Kusnierz's basement, eating what little food the family could spare until the German army claimed the property and gave the Kusnierz family a day to evacuate. They headed for the home of Mrs. Kusnierz's sister Maria-bringing the Natansohns with them. "That very night we left the house, a water main broke and the cellar was flooded," Natansohn recounted. "It shows how lucky you needed to be to stay alive. It was not skill or strength or anything but luckand thinking perhaps that divine providence intervened." The Natansohns remained safely sheltered in the home of Maria Wisniewska until they were liberated by Russian troops in July 1944.

Sidonia's Story Mrs. Natansohn, born in Kosice, Slovakia, was \'4 years old and "concerned about school and boys, not too concerned about politics" in 1944, when the Nazis invaded her country. But life turned very rapidly into "a tragedy," she said. As 10,000 Jews were marched out of town. "Some people cried, some cheered." An only child Sidonia was deported with her parents to Auschwitz in Poland, a three day

journey in cramped cattle cars, without food. She remembers the scene as they staggered off the car into the camp: a gate bearing the sign "work liberates you"; emaciated Polish Jews in striped uniforms. One asked how old she was, and urged her mother to claim she was 18. They did what the man said, though they didn't know why until they faced the man at the head of the line. There the infamous Dr. Joseph Mengele "stood in white gloves, pointing right and left, deciding who would live and who would die. The people who went left went straight to the gas chambers." All under 18 went left, "My mother pulled me hard to the right," said Mrs. Natansohn. . Then, separated from her father, she and her mother were "stripped and shaved, given one' dress to wear and some clogs" and were sent to the barracks where they were to live. For a while they were sent to a forced labor camp, doing useless work "digging ditches and the next day filling in-just to torture us," But when Russian troops neared, they were sent back to Auschwitz' and again faced Mengele. "We stayed three or four months-I don't know how long. We didn't measure time," Mrs. Natansohn recalled. At night people would "begin to scream or go mad and were taken away," From the crematoriums came "heat and flames and the stench-but still we did not know [the truth]. They said they were burning garbage." In the middle of the night, the prisoners would be roused and paraded outside the barracks to be counted. "I don't know why they had to count us-there was nowhere to run," since the camp was surrounded by an electrified fence, said Mrs. Natansohn. They continued spending their days in useless labor, "just waiting to be killed." And yet, "our will to live was so strong, very few people went to the fence to commit suicide." Periodically groups of women were sent tl) Germany to work in munitions factories. But each time the selection took place, "I was too emaciated," Mrs. Natansohn said. Finally she and her mother concocted a plan. Sidonia and another girl hid behind the barracks where about 500 selected for factory work were sent. Her mother opened the window and the girls were smuggled into the group unnoticed. In Germany, the terror of the crematoriums was replaced by the

Reflections Perhaps the biggest shock for Mrs. Natansohn after the war was that the world had known abollt the camps.' During her imprisonment, "we would compose songs, exchange recipes, and plan what we would do when we got back. Most importantly we told each other, 'If yeu survive, tell the world.' "We took it for granted that the rest of the world didn't know, or they would have stopped it. B'Jt after the war, we learned that not even the railroads [to the camps) had been bombed." Herhusband has kept in contact with the family who sheltered him, even visiting them with Sidonia in 1975, and for years he sought recognition for the extraordinary deeds of the now-deceased Karo la Kusnierz. He enrolled her name in Jerusalem's Alley of Righteous Gentiles Among Nations, honoring Christians who tried to help Jews during the Holocaust. But she would never admit her actions, he said, for there was "s1 ill a climate of prejudice" even long' after the war. The Jewish population of Poland, three and a half million

before 1939, is now about 15,000, Jim Wilcox noted. "I n hindsight, it is just enormous what happened," Mrs. Natansohn said. "Innocent people were sent to the gas c:hambers routinely-just for being different, having a different religion, thinking differently politically." . Though she and her parents survived, her grand parents, two aunts and six cousins perished in the camps-along with her entire class of 1944. At the conclusion of her presentation, Mrs. Natansohn paid tribute to those classmates and their never-realized futures in an original poem. Her voice still s.oftly accented, she read the Czech names of longdead youths, then told the teenagers sitting before her, "I want you to see my tattoo." Rolling up h(:r sleeve, she revealed the number stamped on her left wrist at AU:lchwitz, But she did not recite it. "Oddly enough," she said, "I do not know this number by heart." She never wanted to have it removed, she said, "because I think it is a badge of honor, to remind people again and again of what happened" during the Holocaust. Half a century has not erased ,that horror, whil;h com«s alive again for Sam and Sidonia Natansohn each time they tell their stories, But they persevere because they want the world to know "what bigotry and hatn:d can do" and because they believe that "the true manifestation of the human spirit" is found in charity like that of Mrs. Kusnierz. They want the world to know they defied the atrocities and lived... a fact their family celebrated once again last month, when Sam Natansohn's mother turned 90 years old. '

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Gift will help expand largest Matian collection DA YTON, Ohio (CNS) - A retired industrial engineer in Oklahoma City who had a devotion to Mary left more than $400,000 and a collection of Marian artifacts to the Marian Library on the University of Dayton campus. The gift is more than 10 times larger than any other individual donation in the 50-year history of the Marian Library, which holds the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of printed materials on Mary. Arthur W. Clinton Jr., who graduated from the University of Dayton with a bachelor's degree in business in 1953, also left $260,000 to the Mariological Society of America, based at the Marian Library. The former senior industrial engineer for AT&T Technologies died at age 61 last August from a chronic respiratory illness. The bequest to the. Marian Library will become part of an endowment providing funds for the purchase of Marian books and other printed materials. The funds left to the Mariological Society of America, a Catholic theological association dedicated to studying Mary, will be used to provide financial assistance to doctorai and postdoctoral students anywhere in the world working on Marian projects. "Arthur Clinton was a very devoted, religious man committed to spreading devotion to Mary," said Marianist Father Thomas Thompson. director of the Marian Library. Those who knew Clinton describe him as very quiet. religious but. most of all, shy - someone who 'would collect soup can labels for schoolchildren in his parish, but never attended a church supper.

He loved to travel, picking up Marian art from all over the wofld. The Marian Library's collection now includes Clinton's oil paintings. mosaics. porcelain statues. stamps, even emergency currency issued in Germany after World War I and Marian labels on "Liebfraumilch," a German wine known as "the Virgin's milk." Alexander H. McPhee J r., Clinton's first cousin who graduated in 1970 from the University of Dayton, said Clinton enjoyed a long connection with the Marianists. Clinton was a longtime friend of the late Marianist Father Richard Dombro. who taught at his high school in Brooklyn before joining the university's philosphy faculty. Laura Bilodeau, a secretary at St. Eugene parish in Oklahoma City, remembers registering Clinton at the church in 1978. He was extremely devoted to his mother as well as Mary, she said. "After his mother died of Alzheimer's disease about three years ago, he had 100 Masses a year said for her," she said. "He was just a very kind person and very generous." . That generosity will allow the Marian Library to continue to build its world-renowned collection, established almost entirely through donations, according to Father Thompson, who's writing a history of the library in commemoration of its 50th anniversary this October. "As former President Father Raymond Roesch once remarked. the Marian Library was not born with a silver spoon in its mouth, but it does have a muJtitude of friends," Father Thompson said.

POPE JOHN PAUL II has been awarded Poland's highest honor, the Order of the White Eagle. At a ceremony at Warsaw's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, President Lech Walesa said the Polish-born pope was being recognized for his indispensable support in the struggle for freedom. The ceremony, which marked the anniversary of Poland's 1791 "Third of May Constitution," took place simultaneously with a commemorative Mass in Krakow's Wawel Cathedral. The White Eagle award dates back to 1705 but was discontinued after World War II. Pope John Paul was the first recipient since it was re-established after the fall of communism in 1989.

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to hearing the church's point of view, though contrary views could eventually prevail. The Vatican delegation, he said, is contending that population growth is not the major cause of environmental degradation, and that people should be enabled to pursue spiritual values as well as economic development. "What is important to us is the well-being of the family unit," Bishop McHugh said. Although the Clinton administration has a different approach to population questions than the Reagan and Bush administrations, Bishop McHugh said, the effect this will have on U.N. policy remains uncertain. The International Conference on Population and Development will be held in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 5-13. 1994.

THE 10 ALBANIAN Franciscan Friars who survived their nation's communist persecution **** have been joined by eight foreign THE NORTH American Colfriars in re-establishing the Franlege in Rome has presented its ciscan's headquarters in Rome. Rector's Medal to the Catholic The Franciscan province in Daughters of the Americans to Albania, based in the northern city thank the group for its "selfless ofShkoder, dates back to the time dedication to and support of the of St. Francis, the order said. priesthood." The re-establishment of the Presenting the award at a recent province is being aided by the dinner, Msgr. Edwin F. O'Brien, eight friars from Italy. Montene- rector, praised the Catholic Daughgro and the Kosovo region of Ser- . ters' "spiritual, moral and finanbia. Several friars from other pro- cial support" for the U.S. semivinces are also preparing to go to nary in Rome. He said the organizaAlbania, the Franciscans said. tion had made a $250,000 gift to The Franciscans, Salesians and the college's endowment fund. Jesuits in Albania are路cooperating EdnaJane Nolte, national regent in an effort to open a center for to the Catholic Daughters, accepted teaching theology and philosophy. the award. "Vocations to the priesthood * * ** have always been a major item of AUXILIARY BISHOP Paul Uu support by our membership," she Shuhe of Yixian, China, secretary said. general of the pro-Vatican underThe Catholic Daughters have a ground bishops' conference, died chapter on. Cape Cod. last month while in hiding from Chinese authorities. .* * * * The 74-year-old bishop died in THE NOTRE DAME Institute Kangzhuang, in northern China, for Catechetics in Arlington and reportedly of a heart ailment. It is the Franciscan University of Steubelived he was buried in a cemetery for deceased bishops in Chunmuyu, southwest of Beijing. Crackdowns on the pro-Vatican. underground church in China resulted in Bishop Liu spending ROM E (CNS) - Eight years to nearly 26 years in jail, detention or the day after he was named to .he under house arrest for his faith. College of Cardinals, Cardinal In April 1992, six months after Bernard F. Law of Boston took he completed a three-year term in possession of his titular church in a re-education labor camp, the ailRome. ing bishop escaped from an "old "We may have set a historic people's home" - a euphemism record" for time elapsed between for a detention center - to seek when a cardinal is assigned a church medical care, sources said. To avoid to symbolically bind him to the being rearrested, his whereabouts diocese of Rome and the date the were kept secret. formal possession ceremony is held. Bishop Liu was respected in the the cardinal told reporters. underground church, and sources The Church of Santa Susanna, said thousands of Catholics flocked Chunmuyu to attend memorial which Pope John Paul II had assigned to the Boston prelate in Masses. 1985. was closed because it needed **** structural repairs and because of a dispute over use of the church. THE SECOND of three meetU.S. Catholics in Rome, guided ings of the committee preparing by Paulist Fathers, have called for the 1994 international populaSanta Susanna their parish since tion conference was held at the 1922. But the cloistered Cistercian United Nations recently with a nuns who lived in an adjacent condelegation representing the Vativent found the American presence can present and determined to distracting and made various attake an active role. The Vatican's observer status . tempts to evict them .. Addressing the Santa Susanna gives it the right to sit alongside other delegations and participate community, Cardinal Law said, "I know you have been like a pilgrim in discussions, but not to vote. Bishop James T. McHugh of people and. please God. you are Camden. N.J .. who was leading home." After worshipping temporarily the delegation. said he thought the international community was open at other Rome churches, the Amer-

benville in Ohio will cosponsor a conference on the new "Catechism of the Catholic Church" July 9-11 in Crystal City. Va. The conference is aimed at all teachers, catechists. priests. seminarians and members of religious congregations. Speakers will include Pamela Jackson; assistant professor of liturgical theology at Boston College; Resurrectionist Sister Marie Pappas, professor of catechetics at Dunwoodie Seminary in Yonkers. N. Y., and at the Notre Dame Institute; Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Mary St. Mark McLaughlin, dean of the institute's summer p'rogram; and N orbertine Father Alfred McBride, former director of religious education for the National Catholic Educational Association. For information about the conference, call the Christian Conference Office at the Franciscan University -of Steubenville at (800) 437-8368.

* * * * A PASTORAL visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II will have to wait until the government there is more open to such a visit, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano said. "If there is not a willingness by the local authorities for a trip, one cannot force the issue. sd it has to mature," said Cardinal Sodano. There has been speculation for several years over a papal visit to Cuba, where Fidel Castro runs one of the last communist governments in the w,orld. While religious -rreedom' iii' constitutiOilaliy guaranteed, its practice is still restricted in some ways by authorities. Catholics represent about 40 percent of Cuba's population. The pope has made it clear he wants to make the trip, but he added that despite invitations from the bishops and the government, agreement could not yet be reached on a timetable.

Cardinal Law ends eight-year wait for titular church icans returned to Santa Susanna at the beginning of the year. \ The solemn ceremony of possession and the Mass that followed were celebrated under scaffolding erected to protect Mass-goers from the possibility of pieces of the carved ceiling falling as roof repairs continue. The scaffolding is expected to be in place for some time, including when Pope John 'Paul - on one of his customary Sunday visits to Rome parishes - celebrates Mass June 27 at Santa Susanna. Cardinal Law said his formal tie to Santa Susanna is "a bond of affection." with his only responsibility "to love this community and pray for this community路... he said. Cardinal Pio Laghi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. who was apostolic nuncio to the United States when Cardinal Law received his red hat, participated in the Mass. Also attending were U.S. CardinalsJames A. Hickey of Washington; William W. Baum. head of the Apostolic Penitentiary; and Edmund C. Szoka, president of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.

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Women farmworkers WASHINGTON (CNS) - Women farmworkers from around the nation recently visited the U. S. bishops' headquarters asking for more church help in lobbying Co ngress and fighting labor abuses. Some 25 women, from as far away as Apopka, Fla., and Yuma, Ariz., spent an hour at the U.S. Catholic Conference building in Washington talking about thc:ir concerns with Franciscan Sister Adela Gross, U.S. bishops' migra.nt specialist, and Irma Nolla, associate director of the bishops' Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs. The farmworkers said there are isolated instances in which an order of nuns or a parish pastor has helped organize migrant workers in a particular community, but cited as well migrant communities where there is no church presence. They said migrant women, in particular, experience isolation and mental health problems, rising a.t 2 or 3 a.m. to prepare meals and continuing to work late into the night. The women said migrant families often face "double costs," sending money to their homeland to support family members struggling to eke out a living there as well as feeding and housing their own families in the United States. They spoke of hundreds of children working in the fields in the United States instead of going to school, noting that child labor laws often don't extend to farm work. Ms. Nolla, in addressing the women, said that all Hispanic Catholics in the United States are migrants, "far away from our roots, traditions and families." Yet, she said, they are becoming one people, setting aside national identities and no longer emphasizing that "I'm Puerto Rican, I'm Colombian, I'm Mexican." "Faith, culture and tradition is what we have in common," she said. She called it no accident that Latin Americans have in recent years immigrated to the United States in large numbers. "God has

a plan" for Hispanics to nourish the U.S. church, she said. But she told them to leave behi:ld the notion that they are "pobrecitos," a poor and marginated pe'ople. Instead, she said, concentrate on progressing in this country, "not only in terms of jobs, but as far as education for our children, heilith and housing." One of the women, Hazel Filoxsian of Fort Pierce, Fla., told Catholic News Service that federal child labor laws that protect "an Asian child working in M.cDonald's" offer no protection to migrant farmworker children. SJte told the story of a young Mexican boy who was killed i.n Florida in 1988 when a citrus loading machine backed over him. The grower was fined $1,000, which she said was the equivalent to a slap on the wrist.

church ltJ.elp After Ms. Filoxsian heard about the case and interested a lawyer in suing the grower, one ofthe wealthiest men in Florida, the case was settled out of court for $500,000. The child's parents now own a ranch in Mexico and all their children are in school, said Ms. Filoxsian. According to a spokesman for the Washington-based Migrant Legal Action Program, due to exclusions in the Fair Labor Standards Act some owners of small farms don't have to pay agricultural workers the minimum wage, and 12- and 13-year-old children are permitted to work in agriculture while they would be prohibited from working in industry. In addition, occupational safety and health regulations are not as stringent for agriculture as they are for industry.

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By Christopher Carstens The t.:nd of school is approaching. and all over thc country, /illions of teens are out looking for summer jobs. The competition is pretty rugged. This has been a tough year for the t.:conomy, and therc will probably be fewer jobs for teens this summer than last. Frankly. there are a lot of adults out there looking for the kinds of jobs that only teens would acccpt a few yt.:ars back. If you're looking for a summer job this year, you'd better plan on a real hunt. There are jobs to be found. but tht.: successful applicant will be searching a lot farther than the stores right around the corner. Here are some tips for landing summer work in a tough economy. I. Get word out that you're looking. Ask your parents' friends and your friends' parents if they know anybody who's hiring. Your best opportunity comes when somebody who already knows you is looking for an employee. Anybody who knows you're looking for work is a potential source for a really good lead. Of course, it's already a little late in the job hunt.ing season ~ the real job-hunting pros started looking in March. Next year. remember that an early start gives you a jump on the competition. 2. Apply lots of places, and don't 'get discouraged. Persistence is really important. Some kids get turned down three times and decide that "there aren't any jobs." They usually spend their summers watching MTV and wishing they'd found work, I've known kids who applied 35 places before landing a summer job. 3. When you get an interview, remember to be 10 minutes early

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PRINCIPAL'S ACHIEVEMEl'lT AWARD winners at Bishop Siang High School, North Dartmouth, pictured with principal Theresa Dougall, are, from left, incoming freshmen Kathleen Aleardi and Nicholas Conway, Old Rochester Regional Junior High School; Richard Amaral, Ford Middle School, Acushnet; Jeffrey Figueiredo, St. Anne's School, Fall River; Ryan Roy, Oak Ridge School, Sandwich; Philip Pereira, St. James-St. John School, New Bedford; Christopher Connor, Edward C. Stone Middle School, Bourne; Michael Hayden, St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River; Anthony Signorella, St. James-St. John School; Sarah Walde, St. Michael's School, Fall River. The eighth-graders received plaques for overall academic achievement and for performance on the Stang, placement exam.

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS: Patricia Pimental, left, and Jessica Santos, both of Taunton, have been awarded the third William M. Halpin Memoriat Scholarship at Taunton Catholic Middle School. The scholarship is given to graduating students who will attend Coyle and Cassidy High School, who have attended Catholic schools throughout their school years, and who have demonstrated good citizenship, academic achievement and financial need. Presenting the scholarships were William Halpin's widow, Gail Halpin-Chalifoux; principal Kathleen Simpson; gnd representatives of Paine Webber in Boston, where Halpin was employed at the time of his death.

Coyle-Cassidy High School Amanda Marie Terra is valedictorian and Kathleen Egan McGlynn is salutatorian for the Class of 1993 at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton. Both students are Taunton residents.' Miss Terra, who will attend Stonehill College. has received a National Honor Society Scholarship. At the school's recent Honor's Night she received the American Association of University Women Book Award, a certificate for academic excellence and awards in advanced placement English, advanced placement biology, word processing and religion VI. Previously she received the Bausch and Lomb Science Award and the Harvard Book Award. During her senior year, she was the winner of the Century III Leadership and VFW Voice of Democracy essay contests and was a Tandy Technology Scholar.

She has been a two-year member of the National Honor Society, serving as president in her senior year. She also participated in the Latin Honor Society, Portuguese Club, the school's weekly publication "U pdate" and the softball team. She is also an accomplished pianist. Miss McGlynn has been awarded more than $15,000 in academic awards and grants to attend Boston University. She has also received the Bristol County Retired Teachers' and the Taunton Women's Club scholarships. She is a Tandy Technology Scholar and as ajunior was recognized as the top student in her English class. S he served as vice president of the National Honor Society and was a member of the Drug and Alcohol Awareness Group, the

TOP STUDENTS in CoyleCassidy's Class of 1993 are Amanda Terra, top, and Kathleen McGlynn. yearbook staff. and the winter track and cross country teams. She volunteered for the Taunton Girls' Club, the National Honor Society tutoring program, the Mothers' Club fashion show and the annual Coyle and Cassidy auction.

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. Cheerleading tryouts for the 1993-94 school year will be held at I p.m. June 12 at the school. For information contact athletic director Bill Tranter at 823-6164.

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iBis'hop ··C'(uinolly::.','. Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, 1993 graduates Stephanie A. Schuller of Portsmouth and David B. Silva of Fall River were named Teenagers of the Year, each receiving a $100 scholarship from the Elks of Greater Fall River. Miss Schuller has been a participant in the spring track team, drama society, National Honor Society and yearbook staff. A fouryear member of Junior Achievement, she was vice president of finances in her senior year. She was the delegation leader at the Region One Junior Achievement Conference, at which her delegation earned first place and she finished third in the "Outstanding Young Businesswoman of the Year" competition. Silva has been a participant in the National Honor Society, Connolly Choir and Junior Achievement. He served as a National Honor Society tutor, attended the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar and was a student intern for Rep. Al Herren's re-election campaign. Bishop Connolly recently introduced foreign languages to eighth-graders from SS. Peter and Paul and Holy Name schools in Fall River. Connolly's National Honor Society chapter developed activities for the IO-week program, designed to give the visiting students a working knowledge of French, Spanish and Portuguese. "It was a great opportunity for both our students at Connolly and for the visiting students to be able to interact and exchange ideas," said Jim L'Heureux, Connolly admissions director and liaison for the program: "The eighth-graders got some exposure to different foreign languages and it has helped them decide which language they would like to study in high school. Our students loved the chance to be on the 'other side' and teach. The enthusiasm on both sides was absolutely contagious!" That enthusiasm was shared by SS. Peter and Pau.l principal Kathleen Burt and Holy Name principal Dennis Poyant. "My students would be outside: my door excitedly speaking to me in the different foreign languages they were studying," said Miss Burt.

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French National honor societies, Latin Junior Classical League. marching band, chorus/folk group, drama and cross country. She i!; also a member of the Greater Bos.. ton Youth Symphony Orchestra. She is a National Merit Com' mended Scholar and has received a gold medal for writing, a certificate of merit on the National French Exam, the UMass-Amherst Chancellor's Award, the RPI medal for excellence in math and science, the Brown University Book Award and the Daughters of the Ameri·· can Revolution Good Citizen Award. She was the winner of the Breadloafs Writer's Conference and earned the Arion Foundation Award for musical and academic excellence. She has rated all-district and all· state for her mastery of the viola.

"The students looked forward to their visits to Connolly each week," Poyant added. "And their enthusiasm lasted throughout the week!" NHS . moderator Joyce Costa coordinated the program with the assistance 'of foreign language department members Suzi Silvia, Carole Cordeiro and Suzette Andrade. The following students completed the foreign language program: from SS. Peter and Paul, Michael Affonso, Joy Ainsworth, Maegan Carvalho, Adam Iveson, Adam Jolivet, Christine Pelletier and Heather Rocha. From Holy Name: Rachel Gagne, Nicole Gaspar, Tara Goode, Catherine Hancock, Jenny Lynn, Kimberly O'Brien and Richard Pavao.

Bishop Feehan Nita .Patel is valedictorian and Timothy Famulare and Erinn Hoag are co-salutatorians of the Class of 1993 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. Miss Patel, a resident of Nor-

folk, has served as president of the Spanish National Honor Society and treasurer of the student coun· cil and the debate club. She has been a member of the National Honor Society, Latin Honor Society, peer counseling, chorus/folk group, yearbook, literary club, math club, medical careers club, and the concert band. She was on the volleyball and spring track teams and participated in the Feehan big brother/sister program and the committee on cultural awareness and racial equality. She is also a candy striper at a local hospital. She has received the Bausch and Lomb Science Award, the Book Award, and an award for excellence on the National Latin Exam. Timothy Famulare, a Norton resident, has held the offices of president of Students Against Drunk Driving, treasurer of thl~ Spanish National Honor Society and recording secretary of the student council. He has participated in the National Honor Society, chorus/ folk group, yearbook, drama and debate groups, the math club and the academic decathalon. He attended last year's diocesan Christian Leadership Institute and has been an officer for his parish youth group. He served on the planning committee for last fall's diocesan youth convention. He also participated in the Aca\ dia Institute of Oceanography i:1 ~aine last summer. His academic awards include the coach's medal and honorable mention in the academic decathalon, Holy Cross Book Award, and bronze medal.for debate. Erinn Hoag, an Attleboro resident, has been yearbook editor and vice president and president of the academic decathalon. She has participated in the National and

Eastern Television Sales And Service FOURTEEN STUDENTS at St. Joseph's School, Fair': haven, were inducted into the National Junior Honor Society May 12, and officers for the 1993-94 school year were installed. Membership is based on scholarship, leadership, character, service and citizenship. Paulette Dansereau is NJHS moderator.

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New hearing set on Pennsylvania abortion law

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) Debate over the Pennsylvania abortion law that requires parental consent, a 24-hour waiting period CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME, ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE FR Dr. Thomas Moore, author of the and informed consent will conBMC Durfee High School string New York Times bestseller "Care of tinue in court, a Pennsylvania judge orchestra, directed by Judy Bento, the Soul," will speak at the parish has ruled. will perform for residents 10: 15 a.m. 7:30 p.m. June 14. A psychotheraV.S. District Judge Daniel H. June 10, auditorium. pist and former Benedictine monk, Huyett III has decided in favor of ST. ANTHONY of the DESERT, Dr. Moore is currently writing his allowing a new challenge to the second book. FR 1989 law. which has never fully Exposition of Blessed Sacrament SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Peace Fraternity, taken effect. He set a hearing date noon to 6 p.m. Sunday with holy hour 5 to 6 p.m., St. Sharbel Chapel, West Harwich, annual visitation and of Aug. 23 for the challenge brought reception ceremony, conducted by by Planned Parenthood of South300 North Eastern Ave. TWO TEACHERS RECOGNIZED: St. Mary-Sacred Anne Martinous, SFO, N.E. Re- eastern Pennsylvania. ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Heart School, North Attleboro, will honor Sister Doris Desgional Minister. 2 p.m. June 13. Planned Parenthood argued that Rosary. litany of Sacred Heart of Holy Trinity Church. West Harwich. June 1992 V .S. Supreme Court the rosiers (left) June II and 12 as she leaves the school after 24 Jesus and Benediction of Blessed Father Cornelius Kelly, OFM, spir- decision on the law set new guideyears as a first grade teacher. She has also taught second grade Sacrament 7 p.m. Tuesdays in June. itual assistant, will celebrate Mass lines for laws restricting abortion, and speak on "What Are Your PriorCCD and been a Girl Scout Brownie leader. VINCENTIANS, TAUNTON ities?" Business meeting, dialogue saying that the restrictions must District Council Mass 7 p.m. June June II will be designated "Sister Dor~s Day," with a 7. Immaculate Conception Church, and refreshments will follow. Rosary not place an "undue burden" on will be recited 1:30 p. m. for end to women seeking abortions. The pre- school Mass at 9:30 a.m. to be followed by presentations by Taunton. Business meeting will fol. abortion. Inquirers welcome. Infor- vious standard said laws must show school children. low in parish hall. mation: 394-4094. "a compelling state interest." . On June 12, the two parishes wni~h operate the merged The court upheld the la w's pro- school will sponsor a farewell party for Sister Desrosiers in St. ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Food pantry collection is held visions on informed and parental LEARY Mary's parish hall after the 5: 15 p. m. Mass. Sister Desrosiers' each first Sunday. consent but rejected a spousal conformer students are encouraged to attend. sent requirement. ST. MARY, NORTON PRESS Fourth-grade teacher Christine Haughey will represent Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey St. Mary's Ultreya 7:30 p.m. June Heart in the Buzzard's Bay Rim Project, a St. Mary-Sacred 8, parish center meeting room; all that he felt cersaid in a statement MAILERS Cursillistas welcome. tain the law would be upheld again National Science Foundation program designed to improve and called tI uyett's ruling "outscience education in Southeastern Massachusetts. SEPARATED/DIVORCED rageous." CATHOLICS, NB The project will develop a cadre of science teacher leaders Joan Coombs, executive secreSupport group meeting 7 to 9 p:m. who will be qualified in scien~e instruction and peer coaching. June 9, Family Life Center, N. Dart- tary of Planned Parenthood of . Grants will pay for summer workshop stipends, materials for Southeastern Pennsylvania, called mouth; video program: "Happiness Is an Inside Job." the ruling"an outstanding victory" participating schools, and substitutes for teachers attending for those who believe the Pennsylworkshops and seminars. D. of I. vania Legislature did not have at St. Patrick's Circle meeting 7 p. m. June9, Old Town Hall, Somerset. A heart the interest of women and dessert buffet is planned. Members their "right to legal. safe medical asked to bring wrapped gift for services." Approximately 130 children and St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, Yankee swap, absorbent material "The V.S. Supreme Court has will offer a symposium on child their families are seen for evaluafor cancer pads and nonperishable upheld the Pennsylvania Abortion tion and treatment eac" year, the foods items for distribution to soup Control Act," said state Attorney sexual abuse 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. majority of whom are under eight June 10 at White's of Westport. kitchens. General Ernest D. Preate Jr. "It is The conference, "Integrating years of age. CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH constitutional. Judge Huyett can- Clinical and Legal Aspects of Child The program is the only one of . Job Seekers Support Group meet- not overrule the V nited States Sexual Abuse Evaluation: Multi- its kind in the region' to receive a Court." Supreme ing 7:45 p.m. June 7, parish "enter. disciplinary Intervention," is de- federal grant from the Massachusigned for professionals from a setts Office for Victim Assistance variety of disciplines, including through t.he Victit;ns of Crime Act. social workers, educators, psychol- The $64,000 annual grant assists in ogists, nurses and physicians. subsidizing the cost of services for Featured speaker Kenneth D. vi.ctims a.nd their families, resultHerman, PhD, JD, director of the ing in services provid.ed without Pediatric Division of tht; Law and direct cost to families. These Psychiatry Progra.m at Massachu- monies, which are derived from setts General Hospital, will address criminal fines and bail forfeitures', the conference's title topic and are collected by the federal governalso "Courtroom Skills for Clin- inent and distributed to states to icians." be used specifically for victim Other topics and speakers will services. be: - "Clinical Protocols," K. Lee Weilie, LICSW, clinical coordinator of St. Anne's Hospital PediWASHINGTON (CNS) - Beatric Sexual Abuse Program and cause the U.S. government requires chair of the Sexual Abuse Sub- public and private schools to committee of the Child Protection remove asbestos hazards, it should CO\Jnci! of Greater Fall River. provide enough money to help - "The Role of the School," them get the job done, a Catholic Edward D. Costar, PhD, coordi- official said. nator of Ancillary Student ServProposed funding of $200 milOUR 31,000 READERS ices for the city of Fall River; Anne lion for fiscal 1994 "is the absolute Bosi, MA, ~ounselor at BMC minimum needed" to continue the ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR . Durfee High School, Fall River; cleanup, said Father William F. WEEKEND AND VACATION Martha Gladding, LCSW, clinical Davis, an Oblate of St. Francis de social worker at St. Anne's Hos- Sales who is USCC representative FUN EVENTS pital. for Catholic schools and federal - "The Role of the Department assistance. of Social Services," Sandra Hart, He told the House appropriaFOR INFORMATION MEd, and Judy LaFlamme, MA, tions subcommittee on the VA, intake supervisors for the Fall CALL H V 0 and independent agencies River Department of Social Servthat asbestos removal will cost ices. close to $800 million for the more For information, con~act Lee than 8,500 U.S. Catholic elemenWeille at 674-5741 ext. 2270. Today t~ry and sec;ondary schools. is the registration deadline. St. Anne's Pediatric Sexual GQ to Them This Message Sponsored By the Following Business Concerns In the Diocese of Fall River "We don't' get to know people Abuse Program provides evalua~ tion and individu~l and group when they com.e to us; we must go FALL RIVER TRAVEl,. BUREAU DURO FINISHING CORP. therapy to victims of sexlJ~! abus~ ~o ~hem to find o~t what they are GILBERT C. OUVEIRA INS. AGENCY GLOBE MFG. CO. between the ages of two and ZOo like."-Goethe

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