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Papal trip to Austria sparks controversy VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II will meet several times with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim and visit a former Nazi concentration camp during a June 23-27 visit to Austria.

The Vatican has released a detailed trip itinerary, expected to be dominated by the pope's controversial visits with Waldheim.

The itinerary does not mention Waldheim's name, simply listing a

June 23 eveni"ng meeting with the Austrian president, government officials and the diplomatic corps.

Waldheim is also expected to meet the pope at airport arrival and departure ceremonies, a protocol requirement since both are heads of state of countries having diplomatic relations.

Waldheim has been accused by international Jewish groups of Turn to Page Six

Changes announced As well as giving first assignments to two priests ordained last Saturday, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has announced changes affecting four other priests of the diocese.

Father Jose M. Sousa, JCL, who has been studying canon law at the University of St. Paul in Ottawa, will be a diocesan vicechancellor, residing and having faculties of a technical assistant at Our Lady of Health parish, Fall River. His assignment was effective June 6.

Father James F. Buckley, now pastor of St. Margaret's parish, Buzzards Bay, will become pastor

of Holy Redeemer parish, Chatham.

Father Horace J. Travassos, who has been parochial vicar at St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, will be rector of St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, while Father Barry W. Wall, the present rector and dean of the Fall River deanery, will be pastor at St. Anthony's parish, Mattapoisett.

The three assignments are effective July I. Father Sousa Father Sousa, a native of St. Turn to Page Three

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BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN imposes hands on Father George Scales at the climactic moment of ordination, top picture; stands with Father Daniel Lacroix (left) and Father Scales after the ceremony. (Motta photos)

Losing at wrestling but winning with God

By Joseph Motta FATHER SOUSA

FATHER TRAVASSOS

FATHER BUCKLEY

FATHER WALL

Dan Lacroix just lost a wrestling match to God. And he couldn't be happier.

Lacroix and George Scales, both 28, were ordained to the Fall River diocesan priesthood by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin last Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

The new Father Lacroix will be parochial vicar at Holy Redeemer parish, Chatham, effective July I. He will be temporarily at Holy Name Church, New Bedford, from June 15 until the July date.

Father Scales will be parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, effective June 15.

Many family members and friends were on hand for the beautiful ordination ceremony. Most probably knew much about the decision-making processes the ordinands went through before entering the seminary.

"It's been a wrestling match with the Lord for many, many years," Father Lacroix told The Anchor.

The New Bedford native said when he entered St. Mary's School, New Bedford, as a second grader in 1967, the late Father Bernard H. Unsworth, then St. Mary's pastor, provided him with a fine example of priesthood.

"He was a very warm and generous man," Father Lacroix said, "the true image of 'Father.' " By eighth grade, Daniel Lacroix knew that priesthood "was something I could do." A career in teaching or the law was also high on his priority list.

The future priest didn't think much more about a priestly vocation while a student at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. In fact, he later became a secondary school history teacher.

But God didn't give up on Dan

Lacroix. While the future ordinand was a teenage religious education teacher at St. Mary's, Father John A. Perry, now pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, and then a parochial vicar at St. Mary's, hired him for the summer as a religious education clerical worker.

"That introduced me to rectory life," Father Lacroix remembered, "seeing how the priests live.

"They were always on the go, always dealing with people, very active, never boring."

He worked at St. Mary's for six summers, in the process meeting Father Brian J. Harrington, then a parochial vicar at the church.

Father Harrington, soon to assume duties as pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, was another fine example for Lacroix.

"There's no one quite like him," Turn to Page Six

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Two brothers mark jubilee Two Brothers of Christian Instruction who served at the former Msgr. Prevost High School in Fall River last Sunday marked their diamond and golden jubilees in religious life at a Mass and banquet at their American provincialate in Alfred, Maine.

Brother Patrick Menard, Msgr.

Prevost principal in the 1930s and I94Os, celebrated his 60th anniversary. A native of Montreal, he followed his Fall River assignment by service in Alfred from 1946 to 1955 as assistant to the provincial superior. In 1955 he became superior of American brothers and in 1964 was elected first assistant general of his order.

For the next six years he resided at the order's headquarters on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, following that by service in Southampton, England, as superior of the brothers' English province.

Returning to the United States in 1977, he taught in Alfred, then at Walsh College, Canton, O. For the past three years he has directed the American province for a second term and has just been succeeded

by Brother Jerome Lessard.

Brother Drouin Born and raised in Biddeford, Maine, Brother Edmond Drouin, son of the late Hermenegilde Drouin and Mrs. Fedora Drouin, still a resident of Biddleford, studied with the brothers in Alfred from 1935 until he entered the community's Canadian novitiate in 1938.

After teaching in schools in the province of Quebec, in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and at Msgr. Prevost in Fall River, he earned a master's degree in library science at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. and became Librarian at La Mennais College in Alfred where a challenging assignment awaited him: organizing the transfer of thousands of volumes to the newlybuilt Walsh College in Canton, 0., where the Alfred college was being relocated.

After II years as head librarian in Canton, Brother Edmond engaged in research work in education which took him to city and town archives in France and Italy, and to Washington, D.O., libraries. In 1980 he earned a doctorate at Catholic University, after which he continued his research work.

Now living in the brothers' community in Canton, he has continued research while working in nearby parishes.

Induction rites set for cardinals VATICAN CITY (NC) - On June 29 Pope John Paul II will concelebrate Mass with 25 new cardinals and give them their official rings. At the Mass he will also bestow palliums, white woolen bands worn around the. neck, on new archbishops who head archdioceses.

The new cardinals will receive red birettas on the eve of the Mass at a public consistory at which they will be formally inducted into the College of Cardinals. A secret consistory will precede the public rite, providing a traditional opportunity for the. pope to discuss important issues with the cardinals.

ANCHOR business manager Rosemary Dussault with her pro-life ad that took third place in the "Best Single Ad Originating with the Paper" category in the annual Catholic Press Association newspaper contest. Right, Anchor staffer Pat McGowan admires CPA citation held by her longtime friend Barbara Jencks, for 40 years a Providence Visitor reporter, feature writer and columnist. Ms. Jencks received the citation for her record as author of Jottings, the longest-running column in the Catholic press, and as recipient of the first Providence Visitor Publisher's Award. (Motta photos)

Anchor among CPA award winners BOSTON (NC) - U.S. Education Secretary William J. Bennett told Catholic journalists that the country could win the war against drugs by teaching that drug abuse is wrong and by enforcing existing anti-drug laws.

The journalists also heard from Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston that the Catholic press should not be "a clone" of the secular press and from an American at the Vatican, Archbishop John P. Foley, that their publications should better reflect the church's universal-. ity.

The speakers commented during the May 25-27 Catholic Press Association convention in Boston.

The Anchor was represented at the meeting by Rev. John F. Moore, editor; Msgr. JohnJ. Regan, financial administrator; business manager Rosemary Dussault and reporters Joseph Motta and Pat McGowan.

Miss Dussault took third place honors in the CPA newspaper awards contest for a full-page prolife ad in the category of Best Single Ad Originating with the Paper.

Also Massachusetts winners were The Catholic Observer of Springfield, winner of first place in the General Excellence category for diocesan papers with a circulation of 17,000 and less; and The Pilot of Boston, second place in the Best Regular Column category for "Sports Corner" by Clark Booth.

banquet the St. Francis de Sales Award went to Henry Libersat Jr., editor of The Florida Catholic, which serves five dioceses in Florida.

The award, fOf outstanding service to the Catholic press, is the highest honor granted by the CPA. The CP A board also gave a special St. Francis de Sales Award to James A. Doyle, retiring after 30 years as CP A executive director.

During a Mass homily, Bishop Anthony G. Bosco of Greensbury, Pa., honorary CPA president, The neighboring Providence Vis- urged the journalists to work always itor garnered third place in the to improve the quality of their Best Photograph category with stories.

"Songs of Christmas" by Ernest "Seek to convey the truth, and I Myette. And longtime Visitor col- hope you seek to do it well and umnist Barbara Jencks received a that you want to write well," he special citation for her work over said. "News stories should follow the past 40 years. the canons ofthe art and also be as At other convention sessions polished as Scripture." members studied a five-year plan In his address on winning the for CP A activities and at a closing war against drugs, Bennett called it wrongheaded to push for legalizing drugs as the solution because it "repudiates... the moral basis of law." He said it would "undering individuals to falter as they mine" a respect for the law that approach. keeps many young people away "Waters do drown," he said. from dru~s.

"Are you willing to bear the conIn a homily at the liturgy opensequences of prophets, of John the ing the annual convention, CarBaptizer, of Jesus the Nazarene? dinal Law said Catholic journal"Are you willing to bear witness ists "don't do it UournalismJ the in word and deed to the death of. same way others do it" because the the Lord? Are you willing to drink Catholic press is "rooted in church of the bitter cup of burnout and of teaching."

He added that journalists not exhaustion? Are you willing to work the long hours, sometimes interested in that mission could without the recompense of grati- use their talents in other magazines a.nd newspapers. tude?" he asked.

A main focus of the convention . The bishop said that while God is loving, he is also demanding and was a long-range plan for the CPA that ministry involves ongoing con- developed last fall at a think-tank meeting of the association's Longversion and reinitiation.

Range Planning Committee.

Included among proposals are calls for providing more minority )'10 Desolation representation in the CPA, improv"The Lord said: I will not ing the Catholic press' image, develleave you desolate; I will come oping a Newspaper-in-Education program and expanding services to you." - John 14:18 to CP A members.

Airport priest loves job MANILA, Philippines (NC) One of the happiest priests in Manila seems to be Father Modesto Teston, who claims the world as his parish.

Father Teston is chaplain of Ninoy Aquino International Airport whose crowded departure area lends credence to his claim. .

People from all parts of the globe are there, crying, kissing, laughing, embracing, arguing.

"I love the crowds, the movement, the excitement and bustle," Father Teston said.

He said he also loves the drama of an international airport and the tales ofsmuggling, gunrunning and romance in the skies.

He ministers to airport employees and the travelers, customs officials, stewardesses and pilots who pass through its doors daily.

He celebrates daily Mass in a small chapel and also in a departure lounge.

Counseling is a big part of his job. "The biggest problem is stress - occupational stress in pilots and air controllers, but also the stress of a young Filipina stewardess or airline employee who has to work in companies with very different standards of work. Or maybe it's one of our young conventraised girls in a jam with a foreigner who has a different view of morality," he said.

"Imagine what it's like for a young girl who has been strictly raised when suddenly she's free in another culture, often in a jet set, playboy world witq drugs and everything."

Even janitors and toilet attendants suffer a kind of culture shock, Father Teston said. "They're tipped in dollars. All of a sudden, they're relatively well-off, so they head for the discos and bars and their families suffer."

The priest said he is sometimes asked to meet female entertainers returning from Japan with grievances against their Japanese employers. His role is to prevent thugs from Japanese crime syndicates from accosting the girls at the airport and intimidating them into silence.

Father Teston, who is also pastor of Our Lady of the Airways Church near the airport, is building a small hostel near the church for people who arrive in Manila with no friends or relations and nowhere to turn.

Be "bees of Jesus," educators told PITTSBURGH (NC) ---., religious educators must be "bees of Jesus, producing honey but always carrying the sting," said Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., keynotespeakerata national religious education conference.

"Today, there is much conversion of mind and heart that has to happen, beginning with ourselves," he said.

Those preaching the Gospel, he said, must include a "prophetic dimension" as they announce both the "good news" and the bad.

He spoke at the 52nd annual meeting of the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education, held in Pittsburgh. His topic was "Christian I nitiation: Source for the Ministry of the People of God." The waters that initiate Christians into mission and ministry, the bishop said, are awesome, caus-

Catholic leader 0 K WASHINGTON (NC) - Nearly 90 percent of Americans would vote for a Catholic presidential candidate, and 70 percent place some importance on a president having strong religious beliefs, according to a new survey. A majority also backs laws against satanism, rejects government financial assistance to church schools, and refuses to vote for a homosexual or atheist as president.

The survey was commissioned by the Williamsburg Charter Foundation. a nonpartisan group probing the role of religion in America. Among its trustees is St. Louis Archbishop John L. May.

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Bishop quits Democrats NEW YORK (NC) - Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan of New York is "dropping out" of the Democratic Party because of its stance on abortion, but is not becoming a Republican.

"All my adult life, I have voted in Democratic primaries, whenever I was close enough to the polls to vote on primary day," he wrote in a letter to the editor of Catholic New York, archdiocesan weekly newspaper.

"I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood where almost everyone was a Democrat, because it was the party of the poor man, of the little person," he said in the letter.

"I did not vote in this year's primary - and for me, it signaled dropping out of the Democratic Party because of its total unconcern for the fate of unborn children." he said.

He said he would not join the Republican Party because "I grew up with the idea that it was the party of special interests, and my years in Newburgh have not yet disabused me of that," he wrote.

Bishop Vaughan, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Newburgh, N. Y., was among those arrested for blocking access to abortion clinics during the May 2-6 "Operation Rescue" in New York, noted that "the last two governors of our state [Hugh L. Carey and Mario M. Cuomo) have been Catholics who were pro-life before running for governor, and changed to get a nomination...

"The Bork hearings were probably the breaking point for me," Bishop Vaughan wrote, referring to the U.S. Senate hearings that led to rejection of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. The bishop said attacks on Bork by Democratic Sens. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Joseph R. Biden of Delaware and Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, all Catholic, "left me ashamed to be a Democrat."

VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope John Paul II called on U.S. bishops from the Southwest to prepare for the third millennium of Christianity by promoting individual confession, the Eucharist and clear church teaching on social and moral issues.

It is a time for the church to proclaim Christ's teachings on such issues as justice and chastity without "any remnant of fear at the prospect of displeasing the world" and to proclaim the value of priestly celibacy, the pope said.

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SISTER Ines Mercedes, OP (center), and Sister Dorothy Ruggiero, OP, respectively superior .general and provincial superior of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, call on Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in the course of the superior general's official visitation of the U.S. province. The community's motherhouse is in Tours, France. In the Fall River diocese, sisters staff St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, and Marian Manor, Taunton. (Kearns photo)

Changes announced Continued from Page One Michael, Azores, is the son of Adelino R. and Maria C. (Melo) Sousa.

He prepared for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, and was ordained June 22, 1985, by Bishop Cronin at St. Mary's Cathedral. He was parochial vicar at Espirito Santo parish, Fall River, for II months before being assigned to graduate study.

Father Buckley Father Buckley was ordained by Bishop James L. Connolly at St. Mary's Cathedral on Jan. 6,1959.

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OFFICIAL Pastoral Assignments Reverend Jose M. Sousa, J.C.L. from Graduate Studies in Canon Law at the University of Saint Paul in Ottawa, canada, to Vice Chancellor with residence and faculties of a Technical Assis.. tant at Our Lady of Health Parish in Fall River.

Effective June 6, 1988 Reverend James F. Buckley from Pastor of Saint Margaret's Parish in Buzzards Bay to Pastor of Holy Redeemer Parish in Chatham.

Reverend Horace J. Travassos from Parochial Vicar at Saint Patrick's Parish in Somerset to Rector of Saint Mary's Cathedral in Fall River.

Reverend Barry W. Wall from Rector of Saint Mary's cathe.. dral in Fall River and Deanofthe Fall River Deanery to Pastorol Saint Anthony's Parish in Mattapoisett.

Effective July I, 1988 First Priestly Assignments Reverend Daniel W. Lacroix, Parochial Vicar at Holy Redeem.. er Parish in Chatham, effective July I, 1988, with a temporary assignment as Parochial Vicar at Holy Name Parish in New Bed.. ford, effective June 15, 1988.

Reverend George B. Scales, Parochial Vicar at Saint Mary's Parish in Mansfield, effective June JS, 1988.

Since then he has served the diocese at St. Mary's Cathedral; Sacred Heart, Fall River; Immaculate Conception, North Easton; St. Joan of Arc, Orleans; St. Augustine's, Vineyard Haven; and since 1981 at Buzzards Bay. Father Travassos Father Travassos, a Fall River native, served on the faculty of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, before entering St. John's Seminary, Brighton.

Ordained May 12, 1972, he was parochial vicar at St. James parish, New Bedford, then served as assistant chancellor from 1976 until he was appointed parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Church, Sandwich, in 1983. He has been at the Somerset parish since 1985. Father Travassos is also chairman of the Diocesan Ecumenical Commission and diocesan liaison with the Committee on Evangelization. Effective July I, he will assume directorship of the diocesan Office of Family Ministry and the Family Life Center, both in North Dartmouth.

Father Wall Father Wall was ordained Feb. 2, 1962, by Bishop Connolly. He was parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, and at the cathedral before being named to the pastorate of Sacred Heart parish, Fall River, in 1979, where he served until returning to the cathedral as rector and pastor in 1986. Last October he was named dean of the Fall River deanery of the diocese and he has also been moderator ofthe Fall River Catholic Woman's Club.

With a special interest in diocesan history, while a seminarian he helped produce the original necrology list of deceased priests which appears weekly in The Anchor. During both his terms at the cathedral he prepared parish histories. His most recent project has been a visitors' guide to the venerable church, now at the printer's.

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themoorin~ A Time for Patience When searching for answers to the great questions of history, Americans want responses that are simplistic, clear-cut and concise.

Our cultural patterns and social habits have made us that way. In general, we have little time or patience for the complex, metaphysical and abstract. This fault has been intensified by our new reliance on a computer-printout mentality. In our haste and restlessness, we deal rather poorly with questions that seemingly defy solution. , A perfect example of this attitude was provided by the American reports on the recent Moscow summit. The media, . knowing its viewers and readers, treated the affair like a Disneyland happening. Moscow was used as a backdrop for some of the tackiest reporting jobs ever turned in, with the onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral providing the magical kingdom background for interviews and reflections worthy of Mickey Mouse or Goofy. The whole thing was typical of an approach that cannot or will not go beyond the superficial. Perhaps that is why so many Americans have such a poor understanding of Russia.

It is a mysterious country. The intrusion of Communism into its history has had the effect of a local anesthetic, serving to lull the masses. As a political system it has been a prop for tyrants and dictators. Although in time of actual warfare, it has enhanced a collective effort, it cannot cope with the problems of today's social order.

Basically, Communism is a shortsighted political system that cannot face new ideas or profit by past experiences. As a result, Russia is beginning to show the flaws and faults bound to surface when new ideas and methods are inevitable.

The present general secretary, Mr. Gorbachev, knows well that the system must change, evolve and expand if Russia is to enter the 21 st century on equal terms with other world powers.

He deserves much credit as he seeks solutions to the problems that are his patrimony.

Afghanistan and Soviet Armenia are but the tip of the iceberg. The nations and peoples that make up the Soviet Union reflect the pressures of nationalism. The ancient enemies of Russia are always on the prowl for revenge, from the Baltic to the Black Sea. And one cannot forget the religious factors that have survived the holocaust of Soviet Socialism. It is of great interest that the Soviets are allowing, even encouraging the celebration of one thousand years of Christianity in Russia.

Officialdom, in fact, has gone beyond mere formalities to promote the various religious events to be hosted by the Russian Orthodox Church. Ceremonies in Moscow later this month will be attended by Christian religious leaders from all the world. The Vatican delegation will be headed by Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the papal secretary of state, who will carry a personal letter from the pope to Gorbachev.

And from June 19 to 26 formal talks will get underway in Finland between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican on the status ofthe Ukrainian Church, considered illegal in Russia but numbering about four million clandestine members.

Incidents such as these. should give us great hope. Mother Russia is not without soul. Her spirit may have been stifled by political forces, but the hearts of her people continue to hope.

For the West it is a time for understanding. We cannot and should not expect instant solutions to problems that have plagued Russia for centuries.

If freedom and liberty are to have a chance in Russia, our role is to be patient.

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"Learn of me for I am meek and humble of heart." Mt. 11:29

To swap or not to swap WASHINGTON (NC) - Debt for development swapping: the World Bank and brokers on Wall Street sing its praises, but some church officials question its ethical implications.

On the surface, the swaps appear favorable for all involved: - The creditor takes a business loss but is given a U.S. government tax break and has its books cleared of a problematic loan.

- The debtor country no longer Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. has to pay a debt in dollars, harder bishops' international relief and to come by than local currency, development agency, and U.S. mis- and has a say in how the local cursionary orders are being wooed by rency into which the debt is transU.S. bankers who contend that a lated will be used. process called debt. for develop- The development agency can ment swapping is a way for relig- increase its projects in the developious groups to whittle away at the ing nation. "Say it had a budget of Third World debt while increasing $500,000 in that country, and with their efforts to assist the poor. a favorable exchange rate gets an Martin M. McLaughlin, con- extra million and can triple its sultant to the U.S. Catholic Con- program. That's very tempting," ference's Office of International said McLaughlin.

- The developing country's poor Justice and Peace, said that while he didn't categorically oppose such people benefit from the expanded swaps, he had strong reservations programs.

While it looks like a "win-win about their appropriateness for situation," said McLaughlin, "what church agencies. the [swapping] organization is John Swenson, CRS deputy ex- doing is buying into the system. It ecutive director, said a proposal is saying, first, that it recognizes that CRS participate in the swap- the debt as just, and secondly, it is ping was "under review." accepting the general outline of He said that swaps could "theo- the international financial system." ,This tacit endorsement of the retically" result in CRS multiplying its effectiveness in developing system, he argued, runs counter to nations, but added he was doubt- the U.S. bishops' 1986 pas~oral on ful that the efforts of agencies like the U.S. economy and Catholic CRS could do much to lessen social teaching which, he said, Third World debt, expected to "raised serious questions about reach $1.245 trillion by year's end. the fundamental justice of the To partake in debt for develop-' international economic system."

It also runs contrary to a statement swapping, an agency purment in the 1987 Vatican docuchases at a discount or is given a ment on the Third World debt that portion of a developing country's said paying the debt should not be debt from a creditor, usually a achieved "at the price of the First World bank. asphyxiation of a country's econThe agency then goes to the omy," according to Jesuit Father developing country's appropriate Peter Henriot, director of the government authority and offers Washington-based Center of Conto accept as payment for the debt cern. the equivalent of its face'value or He said he feared developing possibly discounted value in local countries' "manufacturing of pesos" currency. The local currency is to to pay agencies in local currency be used within the developing would increase their inflation. country on mutualIy agreed-upon The Vatican debt document projects. called for bold new measures to

alleviate the debt crisis such as erasing some of the debt owed by poor countries.

"Does [swapping] legitimize current economic structures? Are we just prolonging the economic and political problems facing the peoples of the Third World? As a church-related group are we being co-optedT' Father Henriot asked.

The answer is yes says Maryknoll Father John Geitner of the Maryknoll Fathers and JJrothers' Justice and Peace Office, whose order was among those invited to debt swap.

In his view, the amounts missionary organizations could contribute to solving the Third World debt "are so piddling, they're not worth it."

The U.S. government's "hidden agenda" in development swaps, he charged, is to "co-opt private voluntary organizations so we won't criticize" its involvement in debt for equity swapping, a debt reduction technique that the priest said enables U.S. multinational corporations to obtain control of viable Third World businesses through exchanging purchased portions of debt for developing nations' local currency, which is then invested in local industry.

An argument in favor of swaps, said McLaughlin, is that major revamping ofthe international economic system is unlikely to happen soon and any effort to reduce the debt is better than none.

Bankers promoting the swaps argue it would be unethical for a church agency to pass up an opportunity to multiply its good deeds in developing countries.

CRS donors, he said, could view a CRS decision not to swap as "CRS not getting the biggest bang for its buck" and might refuse to continue to donate.

Confronting these ethical questions is the task facing church organizations.

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Parental software Why is it nobody has come up with compu~er software for disciplining children? I pondered this when I read about computer therapy for adults which begins something like this: "I am depressed because ..."

There follows a list of choices: "I feel unappreciated."

"I'm never caught up."

"My spouse ignores me."

"Life has lost its meaning," etc.

The correct answer is punched and then a new series of questions appears. Therapists use it to get clients' history before meeting them personally.

Since so many home hassles are repetitive, why not build them into a similar program and save weary parents and children the chore of saying the same things over and over?

For example, when a chi.ld whines, "That's not fair," we can ask him to pull the phrase up on the screen. "It's not fair because ..." (choose one): "Mom doesn't like me as much as she does the others." * "I did it last time." * "I have something

important to do." *"I'm old enough to make my own decisions."

The child punches # 1 and the computer asks: "Mom doesn't like me because ..." (choose one): "I'm a boy." * "I'm a girl." * "I complain and argue." * "I don't get all A's like my sister." * "My room's a mess." * "She's on a diet."

The child punches #3 and gets the question: "I complain and argue because ..." And so on. The final question could be: "Here's what I can do about it:" "Give in." * "Fight and get punished." * "Do what she wants but do it slowly and badly." * "Bargain with her." * "Say I'll do it this time but not next time." * "Get sick." * "Move out."

By the time a child completes the program he will be out of steam and tired of the whole business. If he enjoys the argument and most children do - he's less likely to start another if he knows his mother will say, "Pull it up on the computer."

I am offering this idea to a potential programmer out there looking for an eventual Nobel

On lay service How can a lay person best serve the church?

With all that is happening to the church, that question has become increasingly relevant.

The fuller recognition given to the baptismal call of the laity since the Second Vatican Council is one reason why. The shortage of priests and religious is another.

It is predicted that by the 21 st century we will have far fewer priests and sisters. Some dioceses may have up to 70 percent fewer priests, according to the latest studies.

Many people see the lay movement coming to the rescue of parishes. According to the latest data, we now have more than 100 lay ministry training centers in the United States and more are being established. The laity are being trained in roles that range from .parish administrator or parish council member to coordinator of religious education, parish liturgist, adult education director, lector or eucharistic minister.

The data on lay volunteerism tell us that inquiries to organizations such as the Jesuit or Maryknoll lay volunteers have increased 300 percent.

But when we think of the lay movement, should it be considered only in terms of work done in a parish? The question often not asked is "What about the lay person in the marketplace?"

Millions of Catholics go to work each day and have the potential to conduct themselves in such a manner that everyone can know they are followers of Jesus. They also live in neighborhoods where their homelife could be an outstanding example of Catholic living.

If they truly celebrate the liturgical year with its Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter and Pentecost cycles, and strive to imitate the lives of the saints whose feasts we commemorate, what might the neighborhood become? If they practice the social teachings of the church in their fullest sense, what would happen to the marketplace?

The famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov once wrote a short story about an elderly woman who lived in a humble peasant village.

The woman had lost her husband and had never fully recovered from her grief. Yet she carried on, talking little about her sorrows but rather listening to those of others.

She kept her house neat, reflecting the purpose still in her life. She was there to give a helping hand to others, but she made no display of doing so. She was steady, reliable and strong. I think that in Chekhov's eyes she represented the best

Will he, won't he?

ROME (NC) - The "climate is being created" for a trip by Pope John Paul II to the Soviet Union, says Anatoly Krasykov, a vice director of Tass, the official Soviet news agency.

The most important condition, he said, was an improved general atmosphere between church and state. "I am absolutely sure that this climate is being created," he declared.

On the other hand, Konstantin Kharchev, chairman of the USSR Department of Religious Affairs, was quoted in a recent issue of 11 Messaggero, a Rome-based Italian newspaper, as saying that a papal trip to the Soviet Union was hampered by a lack of diplomatic relations and the Vatican's refusal to accept the Soviet Union's borders.

Justification needed NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic hospitals will be increasingly pressed to justify their tax-exempt status, says William J. Cox, a vice president of the Catholic Health Assn. He said federal, state and local governments were seeking ways to increase revenue, thus nonprofit hospitals would have to start documenting the community service that has been their traditional justification for receiving tax-exempt status.

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Peace Prize. To prime the pump, here are some argument starters most commonly heard in families: "I did it last time." * "Why are you looking at me?" * "It wasn't my fault." * "You promised." * "But I don't have any homework." * "He hit me first." * "My room is clean." * "Everybody else is going." * "Do I hafta go to church?" * "That's dumb." * "Because it's yucky." * "Why do you always get so mad?" * "He's such a crybaby." * "I didn't lose it. I just can't find it." * "It's too early to go to bed." * "I'm not going to wear my boots." * "Dad said. * "I am acting my age." * "How come he gets to do it at his age?"

These are just starters but you get the idea. If our homes are to be invaded by technology, let's make it work for us. We might even consider this program a computer game for parents.

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of mother Russia in the marketplace.

Perhaps in thinking of the lay movement it is best not to think of it solely in.terms of new ministries that are closely attached to a parish or religious order, but to think of it as people in the marketplace and how they can reflect the best of mother church.

June 11 1973, Rev. Msgr. Augusto L. Furtado, Pastor Emeritus, S1. John of God, Somerset.

1986, Rev. Richard J. Wolf, SJ, Bishop Connolly High School June 12 1966, Rev. Thomas H. Taylor, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton June 13 1974, Rev. Edward F. Donahue, S.J., B.C. High School, Dorchester, MA June 14 1982, Rev. Msgr. Joseph A. Cournoyer, Retired Pastor, S1. Michael, Swansea 1980, Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan, Retired Pastor, S1. Joseph, Fall River June 16 1975, Rev. James McDermott.

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Numbers of the Psalms Q. My copy of the Bible is the Douay version which I used to think was the only correct Catholic translation.

The numbering ofthe Psalms in my Bible is different from the Protestant Bible. My 22nd psalm, "The Lord is my Shepherd," is the 23rd psalm in the Protestant translations.

Can you explain? Is there another approved Catholic version of the Bible now? (Illinois) A. The reason for the difference in numbering the Psalms goes back to before the time of Christ.

Protestant versions generally follow the numbering as found in ancient Hebrew texts of the Scripture. Somewhere around 200 or 300 years before Christ, a group of Jewish scholars in Alexandria (Northern Egypt) translated this Hebrew text into Greek.

Even at this time, many Jews dispersed in other countries of the Mediterranean world could not speak or read Hebrew. The new text, called the Septuagint, was intended primarily for them.

For various reasons, the translators of the Septuagint ended up with a different numbering of the Psalms, combining some and dividing others into two parts.

When Christians came along and began to spread throughout the Greek-speaking world,' they understandably relied most of all on this Septuagint translation, with its numbering of the Psalms, as their "official" version of the Old Testament.

Catholic translations (as well as the earliest Protestant traqslations) followed this tradition all the way up to modern times. Later Protestant translations used the old Hebrew numbering.

Today, for reasons of scholarship which are beyond the scope of this column, nearly all translations follow the Hebrew numbering, which means you will not find your problem in current editions of Scripture.

Your other question about official texts is far more difficult to answer. First of all, it is important to keep in mind that biblical scholarship has advanced light years since your Douay-Rheims Catholic translation was completed about the year 1610.

Thanks, for instance, to an array of archaeological discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Scripture scholars have at their disposal scores of ancient biblical texts found only in this century.

In 1970 an English text using the best scholarship available was completed under the title The New American Bible. Since this text was commissioned and published under the auspices of the Catholic bishops of the United States, it might be called an official version.

It and other excellent scholarly translations, are available in different editions and formats.

Many other versions and translations are church-approved, however. Some, such as the Jerusalem Bible, are also authorized for use at Mass and other liturgies.

Q. My husband and I never get

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We live in a retirement town, but would still like to receive the sacrament ofconfession sometimes.

Can you give us any advice?

(Missouri) A. Many older or sick people are in circumstances similar to yours. Few if any priests with whom I am acquainted would not be sensitive to your needs, if they knew about them.

Why not phone or write to your pastor, tell him your situation and ask if you could come to see him at a more possible time for you. Perhaps he would come to your home when he is in the neighborhood, particularly if other Catholics live around you.

A free brochure on confession when one has not committed serious sin and other questions about the sacrament of penance is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

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Receives doctorate Joan M. Kelly, a Taunton native and a 1967 graduate of the former Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, was awarded a doctor of ministry degree at commencement exercises held last month at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind. Currently a director of religious education in the diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., she holds a master's degree in religious studies from Catholic University, Washington, DC, and a master's in counseling psychology from Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn.

Her parents, John and Agnes Kelly, are members of Sacred Heart parish, Taunton.

Controversial trip Continued from Page One committing war crimes as a World War II officer in the German army.

He has denied the charges. An international commission sponsored by the Austrian government said he was not guilty of war crimes, but knew of atrocities and did nothing to stop them.

Paul Grosz, leader of Austria's tiny Jewish community, has said he will protest the meetings and the pope's 1987 Vatican meeting with Waldheim during a morning meeting with the pope June 24 in the capital of Vienna.

Such visits with heads of state are aimed at m~king "Waldheim presentable to the world," Grosz said a month before the pope's scheduled arrival.

The 1987 pope-Waldheim meeting "brought a flurry of antiSemitic manifestations and has been a great burden to Jews in Austria," said Grosz.

About 150 people, some wearing concentration camp prison uniforms, demonstrated outside the Vatican at the time of the 1987 meeting. ; Grosz said Austrian Jews do not plan to demonstrate during papal trip meetings with Waldheim, but Austrian Jewish and Catholic leaders expect protest demonstrations by non-Austrians.

Since the pope is scheduled to meet Waldheim the first two days,

Austrian and Vatican church officials fear that the controversies generated will overshadow other important papal events and messages.

The pope also has to face criticism from Austrian Catholics over his appointments of bishops during the past two years. There have been widespread complaints from clergy and lay groups, mostly that the Vatican has bypassed names submitted by local clergy and church groups in favor of littleknown candidates lacking in leadership qualities. Others say the Vatican is trying to change the social, ecumenical and international activism that marked the church under Cardinal Franz Konig, who retired because of age in 1985.

During a Vatican meeting last year with the Austrian bishops, the pope strongly defended his right ''to be free to appoint bishops" of his choice and told the hierarchy it was up to them to resolve "difficulties and conflicts" caused by the nominations.

The pope will have a chance to reiterate the message at a June 24 meeting with the bishops' conference and in a series of meetings with Catholic groups in six cities.

Slightly more than 85 percent of Austria's 7.6 million population professes Catholicism.

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Vienna appointment unexpected VATICAN CITY (NC) - Before being named archbishop of Vienna two years ago,. Cardinal-designate Hans Hermann Groer was a Benedictine monk living at Austria's Maria Roggendorf Monastery.

Today, the head of one of Europe's oldest and most influential Sees still returns to the monastery every two weeks to perform his duties as spiritual director for a community of Cistercian nuns he founded there.

The 68-year-old archbishop also maintains his contemplative ways, rising at 4 a.m. every day for an . hour of meditation before facing his archdiocesan tasks. . The Vienna archbishop was named a cardinal May 29 along with 24 others and will be formally installed in the College of Cardinals June 28.

As a religious and a contemplative with a strong devotion to Mary, Cardinal-designate Groer is a model of the type of man Pope John Paul II has often been drawn to when naming bishops.

His appointment was unexpected and controversial. The pope bypassed all three of Vienna's auxiliary bishops and its entire diocesan clergy to give him the sensitive See vacated with the retirement of Cardinal Franz Konig in 1985.

The cardinal-designate was born in Vienna in 1919 and was baptized Hans. The eldest of three children, he entered a minor semi-. nary when he was 14 and was ordained a diocesan priest in 1942.

He obtained a doctorate in theology with a study ofthe theological controversies of the 16th century.

As spiritual director of the Legion of Mary, in 1969 the cardinaldesignate began organizing Marian pilgrimages to the then-abandoned Marian shrine at Roggendorf on the 13th of every month.

At the age of 61 he became a Benedictine monk and renamed himself after Blessed Hermann the Cripple, an 11th-century Benedictine monk who was a renowned scholar despite severe birth defects.

The cardinal-designate joined a Benedictine community at Roggendorf, where he subsequently founded a community of sisters.

Unlike his predecessor, the cardinal-designate has avoided EastWest and ecumenical issues, focusing more on spiritual renewal. But he has also made clear his firmness on more contentious matters.

In an interview with the Italian Catholic monthly "30 Giorni" in 1986, the cardinal-designate said a theologian "could never speak with the teaching authority of the bishop," and said it was important for bishops to pick advisers who "accept in full Revelation."

"I admit it is not always easy to find collaborators ofthis type," he added.

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Winning with God Continued from Page One the new priest said. "You can tell that he enjoys what he's doing."

Not every priest Father Lacroix ever met, though, was a great ad for vocations.

In another diocese he had some contact with a pastor he considered "lethargic and uninterested."

It troubled him.

"This is not what it's all about," he remembers thinking. The effective priests he had known at S1.

Mary's came to mind. They were what priesthood was all about.

God was still at work. Lacroix next taught for two years at a Catholic school in the Providence diocese. His students often asked why he wasn't a priest.

In 1982, Jim Calnan, a friend from Bridgewater State College; now parochial vicar at Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich, invited him to visit St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Another nudge.

"The guys were upbeat, they were happy" Father Lacroix remembered.

And so Dan Lacroix finally entered the seminary. And he's happy to note that the priests he's encountered since that time, notably Father John F. Moore, S1. Mary's present pastor, and Fathers John J. Murphy and JohnJ. Perry, pastor and parochial vicar at Holy Name parish, New Bedford, where he served as a transitional deacon, have reinforced the examples set by the good men he knew earlier.

(The two Fathers Perry, by the way, are unrelated.)

Father Scales Osterville native Father Scales first started thinking about the priestly life as a freshman at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross.

Like Father Lacroix, he had met some fine priests as a child. Their example, together with those of the priests at Holy Cross, "was a catalyst of sorts" and George Scales found himself writing to the Fall River chancery to inquire about the diocesan priesthood.

"The church has always been very good to me," the new priest said. "It's been a constant in my life."

George Scales enjoyed the chal- . lenges he encountered as a transitional deacon at Attleboro's St. John the Evangelist parish.

"The seminary prepared us to be parish priests," he explained, "serv- . ing all members of the church, not just a particular group. That's the greatness of the diocesan priesthood."

When Scales announced his intention to his family, members "were supportive of the idea." Some of his friends "were surprised but they thought it was great," he said.

Why havc<n't more young men chosen life as a priest?

Father Scales pauses and glances heavenward before answering.

"There are more distractions now," he says, explaining that too often he sees success measured by the worth of homes and other possessions.

"Young people, in general, first ask themselves what occupation they should choose in order to have the best lifestyle, rather than first asking themselves which way of life they should choose in order to serve God." The new priest also sees a decline in personal contacts between priests and young persons contributing to the so-called vocations crisis. That lack of interaction comes, he thinks, from priests being increasingly tied up with matters that take them away from their congregations.

Finally, Father Scales says there is "haziness" about a priest's identity.

To him, a good priest is "a man who loves the church, who has a good grasp of the teachings of the Catholic faith ... and possesses personal qualities such as kindness, patience, maturity, those sort of things."

Father Scales hopes he'll be a good example to the young people he'll meet.

According to Dolores Tarantino of St. John the Evangelist parish, who attended the ordination, he'll have no problems in that department.

Ms. Tarantino's daughter Maria, finishing eighth grade at St. John's parish school, knew Father Scales as a deacon. "The students love him," Ms. Tarantino said. "He reaches out to them.

"I'm so proud to be here [at the ordination]," she continued. "I was thrilled to be a part of it."

86-year-old Noella Leclair watched her grandnephew, Father Lacroix, give one of his first blessings to a friend. "He's such a good boy," she said proudly. "He's got such good character."

Towards the end of the ordination ceremony, Bishop Cronin addressed the congregation. "I am delighted to be able to present to you two new priests," he said to applause. "These two young priests are a momentous example of the generous youth of this generation who have both feet on the ground!"

Hope rekindled TORONTO (NC) - When British' Columbia's Premier Bill Vander Zalm announced that his province will provide no money for abortions except when a woman's life is endangered, he rekindled hope in pro-life groups stunned by a 5-2 Canadian Supreme Court decision striking down Canada's abortion restrictions.

Even abortions in cases involving rape and incest will not be eligible for funding, said the provincial premier, a Catholic. Instead, Vander Zalm's government will spend about U.S. $3.2 million on educational programs urging women to carry pregnancies to term.

It's a fake WASHINGTON (NC) - U.S. bishops have been warned against a forged letter that appears to be from the papal pronuncio and an accompanying report on spacebased weapons supposedly from the Pontifical Acadeiny of Sciences, The fake letter appears to be signed by Archbishop Pio Laghi, papal pronuncio to the United States.

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The bishop noted that the ordination was held on the eve of Corpus Christi, the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, and that the new priests would say their first Masses on the feast itself.

That and the fact that they were ordained during the Marian year will be for them "a source of happiness as the years go on," the bishop added.

Bishop Cronin said that Fathers Scales and Lacroix were young boys when Pope John XXIII died 25 years and one day earlier.

"These men have been formed in the ways of [that pope's] Second Vatican Council," the bishop said, "and will be working in virtue of that knowledge, training and formation.

"What a wonderful time for two new priests to begin their ministries, armed with church tradition but, as modern young men, full of energy and zeal.

"Through your teaching," he said to the ordinands, "may others come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Master."

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About half an hour after the ceremony ended, almost everyone was gone.

George Scales and Dan Lacroix were preparing to leave, too. They shook hands.

"It has to seep in," Father Lacroix said. "It doesn't seem real yet."

"I'm very happy," said Father Scales. "The Mass and having all the people there just confirmed what I've believed in all along."

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Father fathers fathers RIMINI, IT ALY (NC) - The newest priest in the seaside resort of Rimini is a 69-year-old father of seven, including three priests with whom he recently concelebrated his first Mass.

Father Probo Vaccarini, a widower, was joined in his first Mass by his three eldest sons - Fathers Francesco, Giovanni and Giuseppe.

A fourth son, Gioacchino, is thinking oLbecoming a monk.

Of Father Vaccarini's three daughters, the youngest, Maria Luisa, 22, still lives at home and will become the new priest's housekeeper.

Father Vaccarini attributed his vocation to a 1949 meeting with the late Padre Pio, a world-famed Italian mystic who became Father Vaccarini's spiritual adviser until his death in 1968 and about whom the new priest has written a book.

After his wife's death in 1970, Father Vaccarini, a former railway worker, continued to raise his children and began taking courses in theology. In 1985 he was ordained a permanent deacon and the following year decided to become a priest.

Father Vaccarini said he and his wife did not preach at their children.

"They saw our example," he explained. "My wife and I went.to Mass every day, trying to live intensely during the day the Communion received in the morning. : He said his parishioners will not be able to say he does not understand their experiences as laity, parents and spouses. "The family was my greatest joy," he added.

Book of blessings to be published WASHINGTON (NC) - For the first time in 104 years. the U.S. bishops are preparing a book of blessings and prayers for Catholics to use at home.

"Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers" was approved by the bishops' Committee on Liturgy last year and by the bishops' Administrative Committee in March.

The November 1988 publication of the book has been announced by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The last time the U.S. bishops issued a collection of prayers was in 1884, during the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore.

The new book will provide prayers for everyday and seasonal use and for special times. such as during a pregnancy or when welcoming guests. There are daily blessings for washing. dressing and leaving the house. a Christmas tree blessing and a blessing before leaving on a journey.

Prayers of praise and thanksgiving, such as the ancient "Te Deum" prayer. are included along with selected psalms and New Testament references for each of the 15 mysteries of the rosary.

"Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers" is the fruit of consultations with parents. pastors, various bishops' committees and experts in liturgy, English, Scripture and doctrine. Information on ordering it will be announced nearer its publication date.

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By Msgr. George C. Higgins Pope Leo XIII, on opening the Vatican Archives a century ago, said, "The first law of history is not to dare to utter falsehood; the second, not to fear to speak the truth."

This statement brings to mind the quality - intellectual honesty - that many would say is the distinctive trademark of Msgr. John Tracy Ellis of The Catholic University of America, the distinguished historian, teacher and author now in his 80s who recently celebrated his 50th anniversary of priestly ordination. He has never dared to utter falsehood and, even more to his credit, never feared to speak the truth.

One might argue that that's the least one could expect of a historian. What does it tell us about his distinctive contribution to American Catholicism?

Yet, given the climate in wh~h he has had to function for most of his priesthood and given the fact that he has been an outspoken, controversial commentator on the present state of American Catholicism as well as a chronicler of its past, Msgr. Ellis' intellectual honesty has been almost "sui generis" and has had significant impact.

Recall the angry reaction to his articles and speeches in the 1950s on the failure of American Catholicism to nurture intellectual excellence. That they created such a furor, coupled with the fact that an equally frank discussion today would hardly cause a ripple, is one measure of how far we have come in the interim.

If American Catholics are more sophisticated in this respect than we used to be and have developed a certain cultural maturity, much credit belongs to Msgr. Ellis.

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great debt to Msgr. Ellis and his colleagues for having kept alive a sense of history among us during the darkest days of what some call the era of non-historical orthodoxy, that period which historian Eric Cochrane says "encouraged American Catholics ... to ignore their own specific experience and simply to import acritically the answers to their theological questions from the very different environment of West Europe."

In understand Msgr. Ellis' recent interviews, I get the impression that,like many of us, he yearns for a moratorium on strife and contestation in civil society as well as church life - for a greater measure of civility and peace.

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Msgr. Ellis is not discouraged by this, however. He would likely agree with Newman that "unbelief is in some shape unavoidable in an age of intellect and in a world like this ... (and that) it is one great advantage of an age in which unbelief speaks out, that faith can speak out too; that, if falsehood assails truth, truth can assail falsehood."

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A Dominican's musical message Important events in the life of Sister Lucille Gauvin, OP, 36, seem to occur at Attleboro's LaSalette Shrine.

The Dominican Sister of St. Catherine of Siena, a full time staffer at the shrine since last August, is among the Fall River diocese's most visible and talented music ministers. The Fall River native learned to play the guitar at 16. As a teen and a novice, she played at the then very popular folk Masses and for many years led a folk group at St. Anne's parish, Fall River.

While in the novitiate, she successfully auditioned for membership in "The Reconcilers," a music group led by LaSalette Father Andre A. Patenaude, then new to LaSalette Shrine and now its director.

With Father Pat and the lay members of the seven-person ensemble, Sister Lucille performed at LaSalette and at parishes all over New England.

The Reconcilers first appeared at a CCD Congress in Durham, N.H. That 1973 performance "was pretty wild," Sister Lucille said. "It energizes you ...[it) opened up a whole new dimension in my life: music ministry to so many people!"

The group performed together through the early 80s. And it all started, of course, at LaSalette Shrine.

It was at Sister Lucille's senior high school retreat at LaSalette that she decided to join the community which had educated her at Fall River's Dominican Academy,

then a kindergarten through grade 12 institution.

"I felt I had a call from the time I was very young," Sister Lucille said. "I changed my mind a few times along the way, but I had this very strong feeling deep within me that this was what I wanted and this was what God was calling me to."

Looking back, she says, she can see that the St. Catherine of Siena sisters were God's instruments in ,reaching her.

Not everyone appreciated or understood her life choice ("Most of my friends felt like I would be giving up a lot") and some tried to dissuade her. But she "overrode" them, let prayer help her to and through her decision and entered the Dominican community in 1969.

Final profession came in 1975.

"I enjoy the work that I do and the people that I minister to," she said. "I just feel that there are a lot of people out there searching, and they come here for some of the answers."

Sister Lucille is happy she's among those helping others to find their way. It makes the challenges of a contemporary religious life worthwhile, she says.

She has been involved with shrine music ministry and programs since 1973, when she began with The Reconcilers. Previous to becoming a fulltimer at the nationally known religious center, she taught at St. Anne's School and Bishop Connolly High School, both in Fall River.

As Sister Lucille entered her 30s, she became more concerned with ministry to adults. One of her shrine activities is directing A Prayer Experience, guided meditation and shared prayer sessions which incorporate music.

"I get so much out of being here myself," she smiled. "Everybody here is sharing their faith. It's been a great experience for me. I'm the one with the prayer experience!"

Sister Lucille also directs LaSalette's Terre du Coin Cafe series, a Marian year program. Cafe sessions include recollection, a meal, a prayer service, a singalong and a presentation by a LaSalette staffer.

She teaches Scripture on Thursday evenings to a class of about 24 at the shrine and is in charge of the shrine sacristy, coordinating for the lay volunteers "who do much of the work." She is also a shrine program team member, and coordinates First Friday evenings of intercessory prayer.

Shrine teams have offered Marian year presentations at parishes in and out of the Fall River diocese and Sister Lucille is often a team's "music person." She also plays at healing services with Father Pat. "The guitar is almost my other half," she says.

She lives on the grounds of LaSalette in an apartment with another sister. "I feel very welcome here," she says.

Several of the songs she sings are originals. "Only This," from the Book of Micah, was penned when she took her religious vows.

Her very upbeat "Jesus Has a Song" is often used at Cursillo and ~ other retreats. Sister Lucille also sings lead on some of her own music on several of Father Pat's . albums.

"When I'm singing," Sister Lucille said, "I'm really praying the words. I feel like I'm reaching other people. Sometimes someone tells me something I sang was something they needed to hear! .. Music says something that nothing else can."

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Three young men for priesthood A West Barnstable man has been ordained for the diocese of Manchester, N.H., a Taunton man will be ordained a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross tomorrow and a native of Fall River has been ordained to the transitional diaconate in the Franciscan Order.

Father Loughnane Father John Loughnane, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Loughmine of Point Hill Rd., West Barnstable, was ordained in Manchester on May 28.

The first priest to be ordained from Our Lady of Hope Church in West Barnstable, he celebrated his first Mass at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville on May 29.

Father Loughnane is a graduate of Barnstable High School and Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md. He has been assigned to Holy Rosary Church, Rochester, N.H. Father Boffetti Rev. Mr. James T. Boffetti, C.S.C. will be ordained to the priesthood at II :00 a.m. tomorrow at Holy Cross Church, South Easton. The Most Reverend Howard J. Hubbard, D.O., Bishop of Albany, will be the ordaining prelate.

Father Boffetti is the son of Raymond J. and G. Louise Boffetti of Taunton. A city native, he attended Taunton public schools and Coyle-Cassidy High School from which he was graduated in 1972. He graduated from Stonehill College, North Easton, in 1976, then worked as an administrative law judge for the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare and as a research analyst for the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Father Boffetti was involved in public service as a member of the Taunton School Committee from· 1978 until 1982. He chaired the committee from 1979 to 81 and

from 1980 to 1982 was on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.

He began preparation for the priesthood at the University of Notre Dame, made his novitiate year near Albany, N.Y., and professed first vows as a religious of Holy Cross in August 1983. He returned to Notre Dame for the master of divinity degree and as part of his program served as a student chaplain at Dea~oness Hospital in Boston, prison chaplain at St. Joseph County Jail in Indiana, and teaching assistant at the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame.

He has been serving as a deacon at both Holy Cross Church, South Easton, and on the campus ministry staff at Stonehill College. He will continue next year as.a Stonehill campus minister on a fulltime basis.

He will offer a Mass of thanks-

giving at 2 p.m. this Sunday at St. Mary's Church, Taunton and at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, June 19, at Holy Cross Church, South Easton.

Deacon Camara On May 14, Friar Michael M. Camara, OFM, was ordained to the transitional diaconate at St. Kilian's Church, New Bedford, by the Most Reverend Maurus Muldoon, OFM, D.O., Bishop of Olancho, Honduras. Bishop Muldoon formerly served at Regina Pacis Center, New Bedford.

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Castro indicated, however, that 49 of the 433 would not be allowed to leave prison until they are granted U.S. visas, said Jesuit Father Richard Ryscavage, deputy director Qf policy for the USCC's division of Migration and Refugee Services.

Among those to be freed, he said, are 21 long-term political prisoners kno·wn as "plantados," whose release the U.S. bishops have urged since 1985.

These "plantados" or "rooted ones" are said to have resisted Castro's political indoctrination and

prison rules, and are often harshly treated.

Father Ryscavage said that if the 21 are freed, only seven "plantad os" on the bishops' lists will remain imprisoned. He called the move to free the 21 "encouraging."

Castro, he said, has been reluctant to release the "plantados" because of the "publicity surrounding them when they arrive in Miami."

Cardinal O'Connor discussed the possible release of Cuban political prisoners during an April visit with Castro in Havana.

The cardinal said in early June that the list from the Cuban president delivered to him by the Cuban ambassador "was a direct followup to my talks with President Castro."

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By Dr. J, mes and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: How do you keep an elderly person occupied? My mother is 75. Two years ago, when my father died, she gave up the family home and moved to an apartment. Although she is well, she claims to have no interest in anything.

We have gotten books and magazines from the library. She never opens them. We have given her various puzzles and solitaire games.

These too go untouched. We have tried books with beautiful illustrations about places or subjects that once were meaningful to her. Again, no luck. She does not want to join senior citizens groups and attend their activities. !

Watching television seems to be her only activity outside of eating and sleeping. When she comes over, she will do certain simple tasks around the kitchen if I ask her. But we feel we have tried everything, and nothing works. Any suggestions? - Wisconsin You have many good ideas, and you have pursued them with very little encouragement. You seem to be doing your best to help your mother live a fuller, richer life.

The problem you describe is extremely common. Perhaps your mother is still grieving for the loss of your father. In addition, she has been uprooted from her home.

Probably many of her old friends have either died or moved away.

We can understand her' grief, ment source for your mother. You but we cannot' share it. We who need time for your family and are younger have never faced what friends and for yourself. Your own she must face now. needs are legitimate.

Sometimes elderly persons seem Try to analyze your schedule. to sink into a permanent depresAllow time for your mother and sive state. As with your mother, time for your own family and nothing is interesting, nothing their needs. Then accept the fact that children or friends do can help. you are doing all you can.

There is no help, they seem to say.

Part of your acceptance might At the same time they cause mean accepting the fact that your their children to feel uneasy and mother does not require a stimuguilty, as though saying, "If you lating environment. She does not were good children, you could want to do things or go places at help me out of this."

You have two challenges: to , this time. If she is choosing such a life at present, it is not your responhelp your mother the best you can and to cope with your feelings of sibility to overrule her.

Support from others can also be guilt and failure.

You seem to have done a good a great help for you. Do not be job of providing interesting things afraid to share your problems with to do. Your best chance to involve your good friends. Often you will your mother seems to be by doing find that other people with elderly parents have faced or are facing things with her.

Take her' to family gatherings. the identical problem. They might Arrange gatherings where she will give you ideas for reaching your be included. Get her out freqlJently mother. At least they can offer you for a walk, a shopping trip, per- support and remind you that you haps a lunch date. Your mother are not alone with your problem. does not have the incentive to do Finally, although you have not things herself. She may do things if gotten much response, keep trying you join her. . to interest your mother in people Listen to your mother. She may and places and things. While she give you some hints. Perhaps she has shown no interest so far, your would like to talk about her earlier efforts may eventually be rewarded. life. Perhaps she would enjoy reguReader questions on family livlar visits .from her grandchildren ing and child care to be answered or other youngsters. in print are invited. Address the At the same time, you cannot be Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's the sole and exclusive entertain- College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Testing mania no help to children

By Antoinette Bosco Every time I turn around I hear another story about test-crazy parents and educators. The latest victims are Georgia's 93,000 kindergartners who have to pass a 90-minute multiple-choice exam for promotion into first grade.

The Georgia State Legislature mandated the standardized achievement test for 5-year-olds as part of its plan to improve the public school system.

Officials expect 10 percent of kindergartners to fail the exam.

Nearly 10,000 5-year-olds will be labeled failures when they've barely had a chance to learn anything yet.

Critics charge that the tests aren't reliable.

Children's "bodies and minds just aren't ready for (testing) in kindergarten," said Marilyn Gootman, a specialist in early learning at the University of Georgia.

Yet in middle-to upper-income families, testing preschoolers seems to be the "in" thing to do. A mother I know has had all her children rigorously tested.

"My 5-year-old stays home with me because her IQ is extremely high," she explained. "But my 3year-old is slow. She attends a remedial program every day now to bring up her reading scores."

Another young mother brags about her child's reading skills.

"He's only two, and he recognizes 17 letters of the alphabet."

What is this obsession \lith intelligence levels and reading scores?

Today, rank and status are a big issue. Too many parents push their children to achieve for the sake of the parents' egos. Whole communities are guilty ofthe testing mania.

Other experts point out that testing will discriminate against children from 10w-incolT'e families, a recurring factor in poor test scores.

Irving Kamil, a New York City' school principal, wrote an insightful essay criticizing the publication of the annual ranking of the city's public schools.

Kamil's school ranked very high this year. "That means little to me," he said. "Our staff is excellent, and the work they do with the children is outstanding."

But the ranking of Kamil's former school had been poor. "I was the same principal, and the staff at that school was also excellent," he said.

The difference, Kamil explained, is the socioeconomic level of the children. The emphasis on testing and ranking skirts this central issue.

"Is the reading test to be considered some kind of competition. an annual Olympics, in which all entrants supposedly have equal chances of success?" he asks.

It's no mystery that children who come to school properly fed and clothed, without fear of disaster or homelessness, will do better on their reading tests.

Facing middle age

By Hilda Young My husband has this aging pair of bell-bottom jeans that he keeps in his bottom drawer. About every six months, when he thinks no one is watching, he'll try to fit into them. I call them his 50 Is because that's about how old he'll be before he ever does.

"If you .suck in anymore, you'll black out," I snickered when I walked in on him this morning.

"Funny," he exhaled.

"Why do you torture yourself with such unrealism?" I asked.

"Face it. You're approaching middle age and your middle shows its age."

"Shame, woman," he said. "How can you tromp on my dreams?

Make light of my hopes? Deny me..."

"Spare me - or should I say spare tire?" I interrupted. "You're letting your imagination write checks your body will bounce literally. Besides, you're not that overweight...

He winced. "That's like me telling you you're not that pregnant. or you don't have that many new wrinkles or your chin doesn't sag that much.

"I get the picture," I snapped.

"Why don't you just invest in a new pair of jeans? Haven't you heard the radio advertisement where the guy with the deep, outdoorsy voice says they have these jeans designed especially for men with a 'skosh' more room?"

"What's a skosh?"

"My guess is that it's somewhere between the volume and style ofa gunnysack and a wheelbarrow."

I couldn't help it. He shouldn't give me straight lines like that.

"Maybe it means you can extract your wallet from your back pocket while you're still wearing the pants," he grumbled.

"Take heart," I said. "One out of three Americans is overweight. Just think of bell-bottoms as a double entendre."

"Make fun," he said, "but I've seen you try to get into that old skirt from high school that you keep way back in the closet. Do the pleats still spread when you try to tug it on?"

I stuck my tongue out at him.

"How about a couple of fried egos over easy for breakfast?" I asked.

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Papal bypass of South Africa lauded VATICAN CITY (NC) - Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu called Pope John Paul Irs decision not to visit South Africa during his upcoming pastoral visit to the region an "eloquent statement."

"It speaks to the perpetrators of apartheid and to the victims," said the archbishop, winner ofthe 1984 Nobel Peace Prize.

Apartheid is the official South African government policy of racial segregation.

St. Anne's doctor wins award Dr. Nick Mucciardi, pulmonary department codirector at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, took first place in a contest sponsored by the Massachus'etts Thoracic Society for the best clinical case presentation of 1987.

The case involved a St. Anne's patient being treated for lupus erythematosus, a disease characterized by eruption of scaly red patches, often on the face. She developed severe bleeding of the lungs, causing respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation.

Following a lung biopsy to confirm his diagnosis, Dr. Mucciarc;li treated the patient with cortisone.

Extremely rapid improvement fol. lowed.

The case was considered a valuable teaching example because it demonstrated accurate diagnosis and a wise choice of treatment. Dr. Mucciardi's presentation competed with entries from major Boston teaching hospitals and other regional and community hospitals throughout the commonwealth.

A graduate of McGill university Medical School, Montreal, he has been on the St. Anne's staff since '1985.

Archbishop Tutu was among church leaders who visited the Vatican last month to discuss the South African situation.

The pope told the delegation that the church'rejected "all forms of racial discrimination." But he urged South Africa's Christian communities to use "only peaceful means" in the struggle for racial equality.

"I know the anguish that you experience as you see, day by day, the terrible toll that the system of apartheid continues to take on the lives of individuals and families, and on society itself," the pope told them.

This September the pope will visit countries bordering South Africa, but will not visit the whiteruled nation.

Sexism, racism worsen prison sentences, says bishop ARLINGTON, Va. (NC)- The spend an inhumanely short time In "already difficult experience of inthe hospital for delivery and recarceration" is made worse in the covery, then are returned to prisUnited States because of sexism on. An abnormally high percenand racism, said Auxiliary Bishop tage of babies are born with AIDS, John H. Richard of Baltimore. he said.

"The treatment of the incarcer"If you are vulnerable in this ated is symptomatic of wider social society, you're expendable," he ills," the bishop said at the ninth said.

National Convocation of Jail and The antilife attitude is expressed Prison Ministers, held at Maryby society's treatment oflife behind mount University in Arlington.

More than 250 prison and jail bars,life that is old and infirm,life ministers, most of them Catholic, that requires patience, and life came from 30 states to discuss the impaired by accident of birth, he plight of blacks and women behind said. bars. The convocation's ongoing Life has become cheap, he said. opposition to the death penalty "Nationally, Americans are on the and the incidence of acquired im- ... run to purchase a gun." . mune deficiency syndrome among prisoners also were discussed.

Christian faith and democratic Bishop Ricard', one of the 12 ideals should lead to reform in the U.S. black bishops, said that in the criminal justice system, he said, U.S. criminal justice system, ac- and especially to reducing the numcused blacks are convicted more ber of people imprisoned and the often than accused whites, they length of jail sentences. receive tougher sentences, and they "It's wrong to prolong the are more likely to be given the wrong," he said, adding that society death penalty, especially ifthe vicbelieves "more in retaliation than tim was white. rehabilitation."

The problems women prisoners face are different, he said, but they Many offenders belong in hosare rooted in the same attitudes of pitals instead of jails, said Bishop white male superiority.

Ricard, who had a clinical psyToo many women enter prison chology practice before being pregnant, the bishop said. They named a bishop. "

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DUBLIN, Ireland (NC) - Ireland's drug problem, which was feeding the spread of AIDS, is under control because of efforts by the church, government, parents' groups and youths, said the coordinator of the' Irish bishops' task force on AIDS. "The drug problem now appears to be contained," said Father Paul Lavelle, who directed the Dublin archdiocese's drug program before being named AIDS task force coordinator.

He said most AIDS victims in Ireland are intravenous drug abusers.

Twenty people have died of AIDS in the Republic of Ireland, and there are 750 certified carriers of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Father Lavelle said he suspects some 750 other carriers have .not been tested.

The majority of the nation's 3,500 drug addicts are in Dublin.

Four babies in the city have AIDS, and another 34 are carriers. Their mothers were drug abusers.

Ireland's government and the Catholic Social Service Conference of the Dublin archdiocese have . funded a "youth-to-youth scheme" under which eight young people are employed fulltime to visit schools, youth clubs and training centers, encouraging young people to resist experimenting with drugs and supporting drug-free activities. They also emphasize the high family and moral standards.

Father Lavelle has also set up a support group for prisoners with AIDS and their families.

The Irish bishops' conference organized the AIDS task force last year, stressing the need of a compassionate, caring attitude toward victims.

Task force members include medical professionals, hemophiliacs and homosexuals.

EILEEN George will lead a public healing service at 2 p.m. Sunday at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. A wife and mother of eight, she was diagnosed with cancer in 1980 and given six months to live; but she has survived to conduct a teaching and healing ministry. Sunday's service will begin with Mass and music ministry

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The. Vatican waiting game VATICAN CITY (NC) - To play the "waiting game" at the Vatican press office, you need a pen, a notebook and a few good sources.

As reporters discovered recently, an ample supply of patience also helps.

In late May, journalists who had waited months for several major' decisions found them all threatening to happen at once.

Then they all threatened not to happen - at least for the time being.

At issue was Curia reform, the naming of new cardinals and Vatican reconciliation with dissident Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The conventional wisdom May 20 was that these three important items were finally resolved and dramatic Vatican announcements were¡imminent. Pope John Paul II was back from his South American trip and wanted to clear his desk.

Everything was set.

The days passed. By the end of the following week, the conventional wisdom had been revised.

The new version went something like this: The Archbishop Lefebvre case was running into unex. pected snags, Curia reform might come in late June, and don't look for cardinals before the fall - all, of course, subject to change.

The wait was on again.

The press office, located near St. Peter's Square, is part observation post and part rumor mill.

Reporters do their pacing in a main room equipped with a long wooden table, typewriters and telephones. At times of acute news anticipation, they te~d to gather in small knots around each fresh fact.

The choicest gleanings are exchanged one-on-one in the shadowy corners of the briefing auditorium, or under the portico that faces St. Peter's.

Old-school Italian journalists known as "Vaticanisti" generally rely on their good standing with a favorite cardinal when it comes to news leaks and tips. Other reporters collect many pieces of intelligence from lower-echelon sources and try to fit them together. . As the waiting game drags on, scenarios are frequently rewritten.

In late May, based on a few leaks, a few facts and some guesswork, here is one assessment of how .things stood: - The Archbishop Lefebvre scenario: Both sides were letting on that they had an agreement.

The archbishop would accept the Second Vatican Council teachings that he had previously rejected, and his suspension as a bishop and priest would be lifted. His Priestly Society of St. Pius X would become a church-approved religious institute of "pontifical right" - in other words, answerable to the Holy See and, in a limited way, to local bishops. The group would be allowed to keep the Tridentine Mass.

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On May 23, Archbishop Lefebvre was supposed to seal the accord with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation. By all accounts, the archbishop did not arrive until May 24, when the two might have met and signed yet another "accord" that was not, however, final.

Meanwhile, there were rumors of rumblings among bishops' conferences. On May 26, presidents of the French and Swiss bishops' conferences arrived in Rome, apparently for an evening meeting with Cardinal Ratzinger. By then, the process was beginning to look like the final days ofthe INF treaty negotiations.

-As journalistic patience wore thin, press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls was asked to clarify the situation. Navarro-Valls, a Spaniard who has tried to demystify the Vatican's relationship with the press by speaking clearly to reporters, said simply: "As soon as a definitive decision is' reached, ample information will be given."

The universal interpretation was: "It's on hold. Maybe next week."

- The Curia reform scenario: The long-awaited announcement of reform of the church's central administration - a touch-up rather than an upheaval- was supposed to come May 22, Pentecost Sunday. What held it up was internal discord over a major new agency to deal with Vatican labor issues, which the Vatican wants to unveil at the same time. The disagreement seems to be focused on how strong a voice employees should have in the new agency's management.

The good news here is that the Curia reform document is printed.

The bad news is that it might be held hostage to Vatican labor problems, which tend to drag on and on.

The Curia changes might coincide with replacement of up to to top Vatican officials who are expected to retire, including several cardinals. The prevailing wisdom now looks for the announ~ement on June 29 - the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul - with a threemonth "vacatio legis" before the reforms take effect.

- The cardinals scenario: Many expected new cardinals to be named on Pentecost Sunday, too. Others recalled that the last time the pope named cardinals, it came at the end of a Wednesday general audience. When both those days passed, reporters looked ahead to May 29 - Trinity Sunday and a perfectly adequate day to announce new cardinals. Some insiders were betting that the pope would wait" until September.

A few days later, on May 29, the pope proved some wrong and a few right when he announced 25 new cardinals. Impatient reporters wondered: could Curia reform and the Archbishop Lefebvre solution be far behind? They settled in for another week ofthe waiting game.

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Chinese cardinal-designate is a "Maryknoll boy" WASHINGTON (NC) - A Maryknoll missionary said Cardinal~designate John Baptist WuCheng-chung of Hong Kong, a son of poor farmers in southern China, is probably the first Maryknoll-trained bishop to be named a cardinal.

"A number of Maryknoll boys have become priests and bishops, but I'm sure that this is the first one to become a cardinal," said Maryknoll Sister Magdalena Urlacher, 81, who worked for 16 years in Cardinal-designate Wu's native Kaying Diocese in Meixian, in the Chinese province of Kwangtung.

Pope John Paul II named the 63-year-old Chinese bishop and 24 other churchmen cardinals May 29. They are to be installed in Vatican ceremonies June 28.

"Bishop Ford must be proud of this," said Sister Urlacher, referring to Maryknoll Bishop Francis X. Ford, founder ofthe first Maryknoll-run seminary in China and bishop of Kaying from 1935 until his death in a Chinese prison in 1952.

"The formation of native clergy and sisters was Bishop Ford's first priority," she said, and it was the American missionary bishop who sent young John Baptist Wu Chengchung to the seminary.

In a telephone interview from the Maryknoll Sisters headquarters in Maryknoll, N.Y., Sister Urlacher said the cardinal-designate was from a poor family, the son of converts.

"He's from a small village on the Kaying River," she said. "They were farmers. His mother did laundry for the church and the priests."

While in the seminary he spent summers helping his' parish priest in the village and working in the fields at home, she said.

A seminarian when mainland China fell to communist rule, the cardinal-designate could not return home after his ordination in 1952, so he worked in Taiwan, where

Sister Urlacher served with him and saw his pastoral style firsthand.

"People felt free to come to him" she said. "He had a warm, relaxed nature. If you went to visit him, you could be sure the visit would last a few hours."

Maryknoll Sister Mary Diggin's, 64, who worked in Hong Kong from 1953 to 1986 and plans to return there in 1990, cited the cardinal-designate's "love for his Chinese culture" and recalled his visits to mainland China in 1985 and 1986.

"Because he was a bishop, he had to wait to be invited by the Chinese government," she said.

On the second trip he was permitted to go to his home village where he "saw his mother after almost 40 years."

Afterward, he told the nuns in Hong Kong about the trip and showed them pictures of his mother wearing a quilted coat he had brought her, the nun said.

Sister Diggins, who currently works in Maryknoll's development office, said that when Cardinaldesignate Wu returned home there was consternation because he was not permitted to offer Mass there.

But he acknowledged that he should have sought permission before the visit, she said.

Sister Diggins also said C.ardinaldesignate Wu has worked hard for ecumenism in China, especially with Buddhists and Taoists.

Sister Jeanne Theophane Steinbauer, 76, who worked in Cardinaldesignate Wu's home village when he was a boy, said his entrance into the seminary was a break with culture because he was the eldest son and by tradition was expected to marry, carryon the family name and take care ofthe family. Because of this the church usually did not accept eldest Chinese sons into the seminary, she said.

An exception was made for Cardinal-designate Wu because "he wanted to be a priest so badly," she said.

BANGKOK, Thailand (NC) The Asian bishops' top theological advisers recommend rejecting the Vatican's draft statement on the authority of episocopal conferences, saying the document is unrealistic and lacking in its presentation of church structure.

"The bishops would be justified in responding that this text, as it now stands, should not be used as a basis on which to continue the study of the status of episcopal conferences," said the Theological Advisory Commission of the Federation of Asian Bishops The commission said the draft adopts positions "difficult to reconcile" with the development of bishops conferences since the Second Vatican Council, which could "forclose" their further development.

The three bishops and nine priests of the advisory body said the document's discussion of issues such as collegiality and the teaching role of bishops' conferences "does not represent an adequate response to the 1985 synod's request for a study ofthe theological status of episcopal conferences."

The Vatican document, "Theological and Juridical Status of Episcopal Conferences," says conferences should not accumulate power at the expense ofthe central authority in Rome or of individual bishops. It calls them "useful organs for examining, debating and coordinating important ecclesial problems at the national or supraregional level," but warns that they "have no competence to establish doctrinal and moral contents" nor the teaching authority reserved to the pope, the world's bishops in union with the pope, and to individual bishops in union with the pope or in their dioceses.

The draft also warns of "excessive bureaucracy" in conferences that could intimidate individual bishops into regarding conferences as "a type of supragovernment of the dioceses."

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The nun also said that before he became bishop of Hong Kong, Maryknoll facilitated observation visits by him to the archdioceses of New York and Chicago, where he picked up pointers on how to run a large diocese.

Maryknoll Father Peter Barry, who recently worked with Cardinaldesignate Wu in Hong Kong, said the bishop ofthat diocese has to be a strong administrator.

Although only 5 percent of the area's 5.5 million people are Catholic, "one-quarter of all the children in Hong Kong are in Catholic schools" and the diocese has an extensive social services system, Father Barry said.

The missioner, who heads the Office of Chinese Research and Liaison at Maryknoll headquarters, said that with Hong Kong returning to Chinese control in 1991, Cardinal-designate Wu will have a key role in establishing how the church will exist under communism in a nation where union with Rome has been a major area of disagreement.

Between now and 1997, he said, "concordats will be worked out" concerning "freedom for the church," and Cardinal-designate Wu "will play a major role in that."

CYOsummer schedule set Albert Vaillancourt, associate director of the Fall River area CYO baseball league, has released the league's summer schedule. Play began June 6 with each of six teams slated for 25 games before August playoffs.

To be in contention are teams from St. William, St. Michael, St. Anne, Notre Dame and Immaculate Conception parishes in Fall River and from St. Bernard's in Assonet.

St. William's, says Vaillancourt, "will combine a number of outstanding vet<:rans with some new talent as they seek to challenge again for the championship." Always in the playoffs since being a league member, the team is coached by ex-Durfee and SMU greatJohn Medeiros, adds Vaillancourt.

For St. Michael's manager Jack Alves it will be a rebuilding year, since age requirements have forced departure of veteran players who led the team to two championships.

For St. Anne's team, coached by former player Steve Mauricio, hope lies in returning veterans.

Mauricio wil be aided by Brian Farnco, Brian Dias and Fred Heinig.

"Notre Dame should be in the hunt till the end," says manager Ron Chouinard, who is looking to strong pitching, good defense and depth on the bench to bring the team a good year.

It's the first year for St. Bernard's, whose team will be managed by John Raposa, aided by John Vaillancourt and Gerry Lavoie. "Good arms and speed" are among player pluses listed by Raposa.

Immaculate Conception, defending regular season champions, are ready to "do it again this year," reports manager Armand Berube, who adds that "anyone of the starting nine can hit for power, plus I have plenty of depth on the bench."

With seven games already played, the remainder ofthe June schedule follows. All games are at Fall River parks and all begin at 6 p.m.

June 12: Lafayette, Notre DameImmaculate; Maplewood, St. Michael-St. William June 13: Kennedy, St. Anne-N otre Dame.

June 14: Kennedy, ImmaculateSt. William; Lafayette, St. BernardSt. Michael.

June 15: Kennedy, Notre DameSt. William;' Lafayette, St. BernardImmaculate.

June 16: Kennedy, St. MichaelSt. Anne; Lafayette, St. BernardNotre Dame June 19: Kennedy, St. Anne-St. William; Lafayette, Immaculate-St. Michael.

CRS does it right NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic Relief Services is important in the West African country of Togo primarily because of its emphasis on involving local people in their own development, says Togolese Vewonyi Adjavon, a CRS staffer.

"Most of our projects include training of local people," he said.

Although Togo has a development policy, he explained, it is often unrealistic. In one case, plowing with oxen was introduced to areas that had previously used only hand tools, but no training in the use of oxen and plows was offe~ed to farmers.

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"Reunion Trunk"awaits 1988 A major project of the senior creative writing class at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, has been preparation of a "Reunion Trunk," to be opened at the 10year class reunion in 1998. The "trunk," actually a taped package, contains five essays from each class member. It will be kept in the school library. ,The essays iue: - A description of the room in which each student sleeps or a characterization of a friend made in the last year of high school.

- Acriticalessay on Coyle-Cassidy, the people of Taunton, and Taunton as a city, designed to be given to someone wishing to make his or her home in Taunton.

Award to Giroux NEW YORK (NC) - Robert Giroux, editor and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Inc., will receive the Catholic Book Club's Campion Award. Honored as an "outstanding Catholic in the literary field," he has edited such authors as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

He helped establish Father Thomas Merton as a published author and said the Trappist monk's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," was "the biggest best seller of my career."

The Campion Award is named after St. Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest put to. death in 1581 in London.

-A forecast of each student's life from 1988 to 1998.

- Letters written to themselves about being a teenager in 1988.

- A news release describing either the student's wedding or funeral.

Bi~~op s~bbatical ROCHESTER, N.Y. (NC) Bishop Matthew H. Clark of Rochester said he will take a fivemonth sabbatical beginning in Octoberfor"Ongoing renewal and new challenges." Writing in the Courier-J ournal, diocesan newspaper, Cardinal Clark, 50, said he needs to "step aside for a while from the day-to-day demands of my ministry." He said he hopes to learn Spanish, perhaps at a language school in Mexico. The sab'batical would also include his annual retreat and recreational activities, he said.

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NEW YORK (NC) - At a recent New York lecture, Notre' Dame University theologian Father Richard McBrien warned against church officials engaging in singleissue politics and said he hopes the nation's Catholic bishops will avoid any appearance of political partisanship in the 1988 presidential campaign.

The theologian's address on religion and politics .was the 20th annual John Courtney Murray Forum Lecture, sponsored by the Jesuit magazine America. Father Murray, who died in 1967, was a Jesuit theologian noted for his work in developing Catholic theory on church-state relations.

Father McBrien said he sees indications that in the 1988 presidential campaign the U.S. bishops want to avoid their 1984 experience when, he said, they were "embarrassed" by apparent partisanship of some bishops with regard to candidates' stance on abortion.

The priest said the experience led the administrative board of the U.S. Catholic Conference, a group of 50 elected bishops, to tighten the language of their quadrennial .political responsibility statement.

The 1984 statement said it was the policy of the bishops not to endorse any particular candidates for office. Father McBrien said the 1988 statement, which the board issued last October, closed a 1984 "loophole" by adding language that said the bishops have a policy against eith<:r 'en90rsing "or opposing" particular candidates.

"There are, of course, two ways of endorsing candidates," Father McBrien said. "One is by an outright statement of endorsement.

The other is by attacking your favored candidate's opponent, as happened in the 1984 campaign."

Father McBrien said the 1988 political responsibility statement is clearer than those of previous years in opposing a one-issue approach to elections because it states explicitly that "a consistent ethic of life should be the moral framework from which we address all issues in the political arena."

Catholics are not the only ones guilty of one-issue politics, he added.

"Many Jews are increasingly prone to judge candidates solely on the basis of their support, or lack thereof, for the state of Israel," he said. "We hear less and less about the broad social agenda consistent with the historic concerns of the great prophets of old: Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos, Micah and the others."

Father McBrien said religious leaders have a constitutional right to participate in the political process but should impose restraints on themselves as a matter of prudence.

Noting that the Catholic Church forbids its clergy from running for partisan political office, he criticized Protestant clergy in politics, citing presidential candidates Pat Robertson, who relinquished his ministerial credentials during the campaign, and the Rev. Jesse ~ack­ son, ~ "The church and its leaders become less credible and therefore less effective as independent moral critics of public policy if they be-. come politically too closely identified with those who legislate and execute that policy," Father McBrien said.

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"Operation Rescue" WASHINGTON (NC) - Organizers of an "Operation Rescue" abortion protest in early May claimed victory after some 1,650 participants, including New York Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan, were arrested for disrupting business at three New York abortion clinics. "Three out of four days we kept the clinics closed," said Juli Loesch, Operation Rescue media coordinator.

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What's· on Y.OUf. mind?

Q. I really want there to be .peace i~ .the worJd and s,omebody to run it right. I always pray for 'this at Sunday Mass, but is there anything else I can do besides pray about it? (New Jersey) , A. Hete are a number ofsugges,tions. They pertain not only to world peace but also to the orderly life of smaller communities.

In your social studies classes learn all you can about the processes of government and the skills of participatory citizenship. Both your national and local governments are instruments for building peace.

You don't have to wait until you are an adult to attend meetings of your local governil)g body occasionally, for example the city counril.

Maybe some summe~' day your family can make a trip to your state capitol and see the legislature in action and talk to your state senator and representative.· From time to time try to do more than watch the evening news: Read a newspaper or browse a news magaine. Seek to learn a bit more about what's going on in the world, what might be endangering peace and what might be promoting it.

As you strive to understand the issues, be sure to listen to more than one side of the question. listen with an especially attentive ear to people with whom you disagree.

Learn to write well thought-out fetters to your state and national lawmakers as well as to other government officials. Express yourself clearly and temperately. Angry words are usually not helpful.

Learn to speak in public too, because you may wish sometime to speak at a town or city council meeting. Again, try to refrai'n from anger. Remember that what you

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seek is a peaceful, orderly community.

There are other areas also where you should seek to build a peaceful atmosphere. Even in the best of homes there will be occasional squabbles and a few cross words.

But might you, in a general way, make a greater effort to promote harmony in your house?

At school and in your social life might you also play the role of peacemaker when possible? What skills do you think are involved in attempting to ward off the things that threaten peace among acquaintances? ' Your efforts at peacemaking may not always' be ap.preciated and they may not always bear visible fruit. At times the task of peacemaking may seem slow, monotonous and even very difficult.

When you become discouraged, keep in mind that Jesus once said peacemakers are blessed "for they will be called children of God." That's quite an honor. , Send questions and' comments to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005

Galvin' wins Donovan award Kevin M. Galvin, a senior at BMC Durfee High School, Fall River, was recently named 11 th winner of the Father Charles A. Donovan Scholarship Award to Boston College.

Funds for the $8,000 four-year scholarship are raised by BC alumni through all-star hockey games at Fall River's Driscoll Rink. $46,000 has been awarded since 1960 to candidates demonstrating scholarship, leadership and need.

Galvin, active in athletics, is a member of the National Honor Society. A brother is also a BC student.

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Dominican Academy Students from a Navajo mission school in St. Michael's, Ariz., recently visited second and fifth graders at Dominican Academy, Fall River, accompanied by their principal, Sister Consolata, SBS, and Dominican Sisters Annette Roach and Claire Sinotte, who have worked at the school. . The Navajo youngsters shared some of their traditional customs and exchanged mementos with D.A. students.

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Bishop Connolly Among spring sports results at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River: the boys' tennis team is 12-1 and vying for a conference championship and a trip to the state championship meet. The girls' team is 7-4 and 5-1 in division II. The boys' track team finished 5-3 for a third place finish in di~ vision II; the girls completed with 4-2-1. Both teams finished first in the conference meet. Eight boys and seven girls qualified fpr the state class meet.

The baseball team is hoping to qualify for the state tournament, and the girls' softball team stands third in division II. The golf team is division champion and will participate in state sectionals today. Four team members will play in the state individual tournament.

The A cycling team finished seventh out of 40 schools in the New England championship. The B team finished 12th in a field of 40.

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SSe Peter & Paul School 47 students in grades four through eight at SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, were recognized for their efforts at a recent awards night at which Diocesan Department of Education director Father Richard W. Beaulieu spoke on academic excellence and his personal school memories.

Eighth graders Gloria Pacheco, Brian Soares, Daphne Martins and April Arruda received Who's Who Achievement and Service awards.

To be eligible for the award, sponsored by "Who's Who Among American High School Students," youngsters must have a B average and demonstrate leadership in school programs.

Fourth grader Jason Revoredo received an Award of Merit from the Young Writers' Contests Foundation for his story "OhNo, Rudolph's Nose is Green." His entry was among 500 finalists chosen from entries submitted by 10,000 primary grade students.

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Bishop Feehan Seniors Christie Carges, Julie Pinsonnault, Laura Hennessey and Laura O'Gara, have been named Commonwealth Scholars by the Massachusetts Board of Regents.

Christie and Julie will attend college in Worcester, Christie at Holy Cross and Julie at Assumption. Laura Hennessey will enroll at Boston College, and Laura O'Gara at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

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Also at the Attleboro school, sophomore Julie Toscano has been named one of three winners in a League of Women Voters/Bank of New England-sponsored essay contest on "If I Could Talk to the Next President. .." The competition was open to high school students throughout Massachusetts. .. ..

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Freshman Amy Matoian placed fifth among Latin I participants at a recent state Junior Classical League convention at Wakefield High School.

Stars" at the school are Andrea Webster, Thomas Reis, Brandon Webster, Stacy Santos, David McCaughey, Stephanie Richard, Stacy Tabicas, Jennifer Costa and Alan Mello.

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Youngsters recently participated in a citywide drug-awareness program and also had the opportunity to learn square dancing.

Bishop Stang The top 10 graduates at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, and the schools they have chosen are Nancy Hunter, six-year medical program at Boston University; John O'Donnell, U.S. Air Force Academy; Jerilyn Latini, University of Lowell; Jason Fournier, U.S. Naval Academy; Kristen Cote, University of Rhode Island.

Lisa Bozoyan, Holy Cross; Richard Roberts, Boston College; Deborah Laverty, Manhattanville; Denise Kissell, Marquette; James Gouveia, Yale.

Ranked first and second in their classes: juniors: Tara Medeiros and April Asato; sophomores: Thomas Pacheco / Cathrine Baptiste and Meghan Foley; fres~rrien: Erin Hayden and Stacie Fels/Gregory Vrona. .

At the school's academic awards night, sophomore Meli~sa Garde received the Hugh O'Brien leadership award, senior Andrew Makin the Century III award.

Juniors Tara Medeiros, Sean Hayden and April Asato'won the College Club of New, Bedford, Holy Cross and Wellesley College awards respectively. ..

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Sophomore Lori Roy participated in recent Freedoms Foundation Youth Conference in Valley Forge, P A, representing Plymouth Bay Girl Scout Council. A member of Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport, she is a lector and is active with the youth group. At Stang she participates in chorus and drama activities.

Over 150 U.S. teens attended this year's conference. Since 1965 the gathering has given students a unique opportunity to participate in discussion with government, industry and academic authorities.

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing: PG-13-parentalgui· dance strongly suaested for children under 13: PG-parentalguidance suggested: R-restricted. unsuitable for children or young teens.

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

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

NOTE Please check dates and tImes of television and radio programs against local listlnal, which may diller from the New York network schedules lupplied to The Anchor.

Island heiress (Mariel Hemingway) becomes involved with overage yuppies whose parties end with card games in which the winner must guzzle a fatal dose of sherry.

A sea of angst, artsy cinematography, somber music and meaningless dialogue. Implications of incest and lack of conscience on the part of suicide club members.

A3, R "Babette's Feast" (Orion Classics) - Film version of a story by Karen Blixen set in a rugged Danish fishing village in the late 19th century. Shows the impact of a French housekeeper (Stephane Audran) on two sisters who watch ovettheir pastor-father's aging followers. Concludes with the consumption of an exquisite meal, with. focus on its sensual and religious implications and its healing effect on the sect and the Frenchwoman who prepares it. In Danish and French with English subtitles A2,G .

"Bulletproof'(CineTeleFilms) Comic-book thriller in which a cop/ secret agent (Gary Busey) New Films "Slaughterhouse Rock" (Taurus wipes out a band of terrorists staEntertainment) - Even some funny tioned in Mexico and recaptures a moments can't save this teen hor- U.S. Army tank without tarnishror film set on Alcatraz Island ing his "bulletproof' reputation. which student (Nicholas Celozzi) Ridiculous. Intense, gruesome viovisits with his friends to confront lence and one nude scene. 0, R "Midnight Crossing" (Vestron) the source of his bad dreams - the marauding ghost of a cannibalistic - When they are stationed on an commandant who once inhabited island off Cuba in 1959, two U.S. Alcatraz. Much bloody gore and Navy men hide a fortune in stolen violence, with several nude scenes, money. One (Daniel J. Travanti) a violent rape attempt on a coed returns almost 30 years later with the sailor-son (John Laughlin) of and some profanity. 0, R his now-deceased cohort to re"Crocodile Dundee II" (Para-' trieve the dough. A few scenes of mount) - Now a savvy New York- bloody violence, fleeting nudity in er, the Australian adventurer (Paul some brief graphic sexual scenes Hogan) is up against some Colom- and incidental profanity. A3, R bian drug dealers (Hechter Ubarry "White Mischief'(Columbia)and Juan Fernandez) who kidnap True story of the debauched lifehis journalist girlfriend (Linda Koz- styles of wealthy British colonists lowski). Some rough language and living in Africa in 1940-41, and the comic-book violence. A2, PG adulterous affair between an earl "The Moderns"(Alive Films)- (Charles Dance) and the young Set in Paris in 1926, this romantic wife (Greta Scacchi) of an aged drama follows the travails of some landowner(Joss Ackland). Includes American expatriates. Recreates a frontal nudity, a graphic sexual wonderful sense of the period and advance on a corpse, much explicit the artistic milieu that flourished sexual language and a few intense then. Some nudity, brief violence scenes of bloody violence. and implications of sexual hedo"Willow" (MGM) - Fantasy nism. A3, no Motion Picture Asso- charts the making of an unlikely ciation of America rating. hero named Willow (Warwick "Rambo III" (Tri-Star) - One- Davis), who attempts to protect a man wrecking crew John Rambo baby girl prophesied to' bring the (Sylvester Stallone) returns to the downfall of a wicked sorceress battlefield. Intense, explosive vio- (Jean Marsh). Breathtaking chases, lence, simplistic politics and rough dramatic sword fights and some language. 0, R fearfully violent creatures. A2, PG "Rikky and Pete" (United ArFilms on TV tists) - Australian road picture June 17,9-11 p.m. EDT Friday, pairing a brother-sister team (Ste(CBS) "Jaws III" - This second phen Kearney and Nina Landis) who leave their wealthy family to sequel is slow-moving, talky and start a new life in a mining town. generally dull. The big fish inspires Brief nudity and much rough lan- little fear. Much violence. A3, PG Tuesday, June 21, 9-11 p.m. guage.A3, R EDT (CBS) "Lassiter" (1984) "Stormy Monday" (Atlantic Re- Tom Selleck stars as a womanizleasing) -Intriguing thriller set in ing detective forced to become a England tracks the shady tactics spy in this espionage thriller. Vioused by an American entrepreneur lence and nudity. 0, R· (Tommy Lee Jones) to control a Wednesday, June 22, 9-10:30 nightclub district. Fine acting, gorgeous cinematography and an in- p.m. EDT (PBS) - "Testament" credible jazz-blues score. Admira- (1983) - A family in a small bly written, directed and scored by American community attempts to newcomer Mike Figgis. So.me vio- cope with the aftermath of a nuclear war. Includes a restrained bedroom lence and fleeting nudity. A3, R scene. A2, PG TV Programs "The Suicide Club" (Angelika Films) - A bored, depressed Long Wednesday, June, 10:30-11 p.m.

EDT (PBS) ) - "It's Up to Us: The Giraffe Project." - Among those honored by this national non-profit organization that aims at inspiring citizen activism by awarding those who "stick their necks out for the common good" is Father Bill Wassmuth, who braved attacks by the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations group to stand up for equality and human rights in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.

"Deaf and Blind," June 17-25, PBS - Frederick Wiseman's career as an documentary filmaker has been long associated with public television, not only as a provider of production funds but, more importantly, as a showcase for some of the 22 features he has made since 1967.

Wiseman's latest, "Deaf and Blind," consists of four films documenting the education and training programs at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind.

The first, "Blind," airs Friday, June 17,9-11 p.m. EDT followed by "Deaf' on Saturday, June 18, 9-11:45 p.m. EDT. The third program, "Multi-Handicapped," airs Friday, June 24, 9-11:00p.m. EDT. The series concludes with"Adjustment and Work," on Saturday, June 25, 9-11 p.m. EDT. Wiseman's method is to place his camera in the midst of things, film whatever happens and then select that which seems most representative. He records social reality and leaves it to viewers to decide the meaning and significance of what is shown.

Such "cinemaverite" documentaries use no narration or music track to guide the response of the viewer. They require total attention and the result can be extraordinarily involving.

In "Blind," Wiseman introduces the seeing to the complex of the sightless. He does this brilliantly by building a major sequence out of the painstaking progress of a blind young toddler making his way alone from a second-floor classroom to a first-floor office and. back again.

We also discover that the problems of communication for the deaf are not purely physical. A central sequence in "Deaf' observes a meeting with a young deaf boy who has threatened suicide, his mother, the school principal and a counselor.

The occasion is highly charged but the educators keep on a constructive course and the session ends with a measure of reconcilia-

tion between caring mother and confused youth. Wiseman is detached but never coldly clinical in observing human reactions to a serious problem.

It is through the accumulation of such scenes that the world of the disabled and those who work with them is experienced directly and challengingly. One gains understanding of what it means to live with a handicap and of the patience and persistence required to compensate even partially for a disability.

The final program"Adjustment and Work," centers on an Alabama facility that teaches deaf and/ or blind adults to live somewhat independently.

Each TV program is self-contained, but seeing the series as a whole provides a fuller understanding of the diversity of needs in helping the disabled become more fully part of society.

These are not easy films to watch because they make no judgments and do not end with uplifting conclusions. But Wiseman makes us think about the gifts of sight and hearing that we tl\ke for granted

and about what it means to be deprived of these gifts.

Religious TV Sunday, June 12 (CBS) - "For Our Times" - The first of a twopart report on the current debat~ in the Netherlands over the question of legalizing euthanasia as a medical procedure.

Religious Radio Sunday, June 12 (NBC) "Guideline" - Travel consultant Joan Paul discusses summer excursions for senior citizens.

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Iteering pOintl NOTRE DAME, FR Children attending Our Lady of the Lake or St. Vincent de Paul camp may bring applications to the parish St. Vincent de Paul store from 2 to 4 p.m. any Tuesday.

ST. JOSEPH, F AIRHAVEN Adoration from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Mass for all high school graduates 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE First grade CCD students are being registered this month at both Cotuit and Mashpee. Nonperishable foods are collected regularly at church entrances for the needy. Cub Scouts are collecting bottles and cans. Container at rear of church.

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WIDOWED SUPPORT, NB New "Bedford area ecumenical widowed support group meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, St. Kilian, New Bedford, rectory basement; video presentation: "Coping with GrieP'; information: 998-3269.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape fraternity meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday, St. John Evangelist" parish center, Pocasset; Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, will celebrate Mass and inquirers welcome; information and speaker; rides: Robert Collyer, 563-2654, Upper Cape; Dorothy Williams, 394-4094, Middle and Lower Cape.

ST. ANNE, FR St. Anne novena 3 p.m. Sunday, shrine; healing service follows to 5 p.m. Parish school end-of-year liturgy I p.m. Monday, church. " LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO Directed silent retreat June 20 through 28 features daily meetings with a director; guided silent.retreat June 20 through 26 features meditation on Scripture, liturgies, daily conferences and opportunities for spiritual direction; information: 222-8530.

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME,FR Birthday party/ coffee hour 3 p.m.

June 17, auditorium; entertainment

by Dave Nadien. Father's Day concert by the Privateers 2 p.m. June 19, auditorium. New residents welcomed: Marie Dion, Jessie Cunningham, Elise Feeley, Evelyn Krysa, Gertrude Paris, Marjorie Farrell, Edna Trenholme, Ida Chagnon, James Burns and Margaret Constantine.

SACRED HEART, FR Father James Blaney ofthe Oblate Fathers will speak at weekend Masses on his community'S work in the Philippines.

HOLY NAME, FR The parish welcomes Father Bernard Vanasse as a parochial vicar.

Father Patrick Quigley will speak at weekend Masses on the work of the St. Patrick Fathers.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED, FR Area separated, divorced and remarried Catholics will meet 7 p.m.

June 14 and 22 at O.L. Fatima church hall, 560 Gardner's Neck Rd., Swansea. " DISABILITIES APOSTOLATE, FR Monthly Mass 4 p.m. June 26, followed by Italian dinner, St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. Information: Father Joseph Viveiros, 6798373 (voice/TTY). Faith and Light community meeting 3:30 p.m. June 12, Sacred Heart parish ball, Fall River; Faith and Light pilgrimage noon Aug. 14, rain or shine, Jerico Grounds, Holyoke.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Parish farewell to Father Kevin Harrington 5 p.m. Sunday with Mass and reception.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Father William Campbell, pastor, expresses gratitude for prayers for his father's recovery from illness.

O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE Choir will be heard at 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow.

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SACRED HEARTS Fathers William McClenahan (left) and Leo C. King will be feted by the Chatham community from 3to 5 p.m. Sunday in the parish hall of Holy Redeemer Church. Each has served the parish twice, for a combined total of20 years. Father McClenahan will become mission procurator for his community; Father King will be parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier Church, Acushnet. They will be succeeded at Holy Redeemer by diocesan priests.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Eight Cub Scouts received Parvuli Dei awards last Sunday.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR No June meeting for St. Clare Fraternity.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Women's Guild banquet at Dunfey's follows 6 p.m. Mass Monday.

Parishioners will participate in Cape Walk for Homeless 2 p.m. June 26.

Information: Lois Binda, 420-0140.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Sacred Heart devotions are held at 7 p.m. each Tuesday in June.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET The parish extends thanks to Mr. Bruce Morril, SJ, who has been organist at two Sunday Masses for two years, as he travels to California for theology studies.

ST. JAMES, NB CYO awards banquet Sunday, Thad's restaurant.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Mass 2 p.m.

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O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Second year confirmation candidates are asked to make an appointment with one of the parish priests for an interview. Ushers needed for 4:30 p.m. Saturday Masses at Immaculate Conception mission.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Kristin Caldara and Joseph Sullivan are recipients of Women's Guild scholarships.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO "Terre du Coin Cafe" Father's Day brunch with speaker, music and fellowship 9:30 a.m. June 19; information by Sunday: Sister Lucille Gauvin, OP: 222-5410.

NOTICE Recent cutbacks in postal service have been delaying reception ofmany Steering Points announcements.

Please try to mail or telephone your notices to reach us by Tuesday at the latest: PO Box 7, Fall River 02722 or telephone 617-675路7048.

NAPR, FR All are welcome at a 3 p.m. liturgy Sunday at St. Thomas More parish, Somerset, sponsored by the diocesan chapter ofthe National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Choir members, cantors, instrumentalists, folk groups and organists of diocesan parishes are especially invited to participate. Information: Mrs. Joan Cuttle, 673-3662.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Parochial school graduation 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Class night 6 p.m. today.

DOMINICAN LAITY, FR St. Rose of Lima chapter meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, Dominican Academy, Park Street.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM CYO members graduating from school will be honored at 5 p.m.

Mass Saunday and at a following picnic.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK CCD registration will follow all Masses June 19. Grade 4 students will assist at the 10 a.m. Father's Day Mass the same day. Vincentians meet after 10 a.m. Mass June 12.

Parish women are invited to a cookout/eat-in June 20 at the parish center. Information: Ann Costa 3998791. Deposit bottles and cans may be left behind the parish center. Proceeds will benefit youth programs.

Youth ministry meeting 7:30 p.m.

Monday, parish center; committee meeting same time and place June 14; deep-sea fishing trip June 18.

SHA CLASS OF '48, FR 1948 graduates of the former Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, will hold a reunion July 29 at the Quequechan Club, Fall River. Information: Peg Leger, 672-7781, a.m.; 675-1311, p.m.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Vincentian meeting 7 p.m. June 16, rectory. Congratulations to Kevin Raposa, recipient ofthe CYO Msgr.

Maxwell Award, only the fifth presented in the last seven years.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Members are sought for a parish choir to begin in September. Information: Sheryl Walsh, organist; Sr. Theresa Bisson, OP; Rev. Thomas Lopes. Present ushers and new volunteers will meet 7 p.m. June 14, parish center. Catechists will meet for Mass, supper and evaluation 4 p.m. tomorrow.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Vincentian meeting 7 p.m. June 13, rectory.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Hospitality Sunday June 12, hosted

by Women's Guild. Also on Sunday graduation at 2 p.m. Mass. Gratitude is expressed to an anonymous donor who has contributed $1,000 to the parish school debt fund.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON New Women's Guild officers: Eileen Haggery, president; Dorothy Brennan, vice-president; Theresa Johnson, Grace Place, secretaries; Rose Ralko, treasurer.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Missioning celebration for Father Stanley J. Kolasa, SS.CC., pastor, 2 p.m. June 26, parish hall. Father Kolasa is being transferred to Nassau, Bahamas.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA A thank you card has been received from the sisters of Father Louis Boivin, pastor, who is transferring to St. Joseph parish, New Bedford. "Your kindness to his family will always be remembered," they wrote in expressing appreciation for a parish testimonial to their brother.

FIRST FRIDAY CLUB, FR Members closed their season with a Maronite Mass and Lebanese supper at St. Anthony ofthe Desert parish, Fall River. Msgr. Normand Ferris gave a presentation on the various rites within the Catholic Church. A day of recollection is planned for club members Oct. 29 at Ephpheta Retreat House, Manville, R.I. Information: Daryl Gonyon, 677-2544 days. New officers: Daryl Gonyon, president; Robert Nagle, vice-president; Joseph Deschenes, secretary; Kenneth Leger, treasurer.

FATHER LUCIEN Jusseaume, chaplain at Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, looks on as Lauri Braley crowns the Blessed Virgin at a recent Mass at the diocesan home for the aged. Melissa Braley,left, also participated in the ceremony.

Father Jusseaume gave everyone at the liturgy a Miraculous Medal.