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FATHER'S DAY

"I fall on my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that Father from whom all Fatherhood in heaven and on earth takes its title." Eph. 3:14-15

Vatican names new

pro-nuncio to U.8.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) ' hop Agostmo . Cacciavi . '11 an, A rc hb IS . .m · ,s representative 63 ,t he Vatican India since 1981, has been named · . t he new aposto IIC pro-nuncIO to the United States.

He succeeds Archbishop Pio Laghi, the Vatican's representative in the United States for nearly 10 years. Archbishop Laghi earlier this year was appointed head of the Vatican Congregation for " EducatIOn. Cathohc

The appointment of Archbishop CaccI'avI'llan, who thus holds the rank of Vatican ambassador to the United States, was announced at, the Vatican June 13.

Archbishop Cacciavillan also was named the Vatican's permanent observer to the Organization of American States based in Washington. Archbishop Laghi also held that position.

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Seven diocesan priests and one religious order 'priest are affected by changes announced by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Five pastors are moving from one parish to another; one pastor will assume an additional pastorate; and one parochial vicar has been named pastor.

The changes are effective June 27.

Also, a new chaplain has been named at the diocesan nursing home Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, effec:tive July I. ' In addition, the retirements of three priests have been announced.

Uetirements Bishop Cronin has accepted the request of Father Bertrand R. Chabot to resign for reasons of health from the pastorate" of St. Anthony of Padua parish, New Bedford. , A North Attleboro native, Father Chabot attended high school and collegl: in Quebec. He prepared for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md., and was ordained in 1946.

His first assignment was at S1.

Anthony's as parochial vicar, and he has been there ever since, becoming pastor in 1969 and establishing what is believed to be a diocesan record for serving uninterruptedly in one parish as vicar and pastor. The retirement is effective June 27.

Also retiring as of June 27 is Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, for 29 years . hpastor F II at R' Our Lady of Angels pans, a Iver. he graduated A Taunton native, from N Otfi~ Dame University in 1938,. His relationship with his alma mater has continued through ' to t he F'19htapiam t he years....A~ ch .109 I' h f b II ns oot a team, he rare Iy misses a game, at home or away.

0 I'd' amel).m 1942 a ftel' stu d'les at S t. Bernar,d' s S ' R oc hesemmary, NY 'd h S ' f tel'" an t e emmary 0 Angra, Terceira, Azores, he served at St. John the Baptist parish, New Bedford, and at S1. Antho,ny of Padua and Santo Christo parishes,

vicar trom 1'I» to 1970 and as pastor beginning in 1988.

He was parochial vicar at St. Louis de France parish, Swansea, from 1948 to 1952 and then was pastor there from 1970 to 1988. He also se'rved as a parochial vicar at St. Hyacinthe parish, New Bedford.

Father Roland Bousquet, pastor at Our La~y of Grace parish, North Westport, since 1982, will become pastor at St. Theresa's parish, New Bedford.

I. Ordained in 1954, he served at Born in Fall River, he studied at Notre Dame parish, Fall River; St. Hyacinthe and S1. Alexandre col- Joseph, New Bedford; St. Jacques, leges, Quebec, and prepared for Taunton; and S1. Louis de France, the priesthood at S1. Mary's Swansea, before being named Seminary, Baltimore. administrator at St. Roch, Fall River, in 1972. His was also pastor He was ordained in 1941 and assigned as curate to St. Stephen's at St. Stephen's, Attleboro, beginning in 1974. parish, Attleboro. He served at Among his diocesan appointSacred Heart, New Bedford, on ments were various postions on two occasions for a total of 24 the diocesan marriage tribunal and years and at St. Hyacinthe's New service on the board of examiners Bedford. of clergy and in the New Bedford He was later pastor at S1. .area pre-Cana program.

Mathieu's, Fall River; St. George, Father Richard L. Chretien, Westport; and finally at St. Roch, pastor at St. Theresa's parish, New Fall River, until 1982. He was also Bedford, since 1983, will assume Episcopal Representative for Relithe pastorate at Our Lady of Grace gious from 1968 until 1982, when' parish, North Westport. Previously he assumed the chaplaincy at Our he served at St. Joseph's, New Lady's Haven.

Bedford; Sacred Heart, North Attleboro; and S1. George, Pastors Westport.

Father Marc H. Bergeron, He has served as chaplain to parochial vicar at St. Joseph's paryouth groups and to the Attleboro ish, New Bedford, from 1970 to area pre-Cana program and has 1975 and again since 1983, will been greater New Bedford area become pastor of that parish. director of the Catholic Charities He also served as parochial vicar appeal for several years. at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Father John A. Gomes, since New Bedford. During the 1970s, 1986 pastor at Sacred Heart parhe served on the Family Life Bureau, in the pre-Cana program ish, Oak Bluffs, will become pasand on the diocesan marriage tor at Our Lady of Angels parish, , Fall River. tribunal. He was also chaplain for A native of Madeira, Portugal, the New Bedford Guild for the he came to the United States at age Blind.

5. Ordained in 1969, he then served Father Louis R. Boivin, pastor as parochial vicar at Our Lady of at St. Joseph's, New Bedford, will Lourdes parish, Taunton and St. become pastor at St. Theresa's Anthony of Padua, Fall River. parish, South Attleboro. He served Turn to Page Three twice at St. Joseph's, as parochial Fall River, before assuming his pastorate at Our Lady of A!,~els.

Msgr. Gomes is also retiring from his long-held posts as moderator of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, coordinator of the annual Bishop's Charity Ball and director of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal.

The retirement of Father Lucien Jusseaume as, chaplain of Our Lady's Haven will take effect July

sparks outcry, WASHINGTON (CNS) Word that a physician who advocates euthanasia helped a woman commit suicide with a so-called "suicide machine" that sends lifeending drugs into her veins has sparked several sharp criticisms of the incident.

Mixed in with the criticisms were some measures of support for the move, along with questions asking when - or if - anyone should be given help to commit suicide.

The death of Janet Adkins, 54, of Portland, Ore., with the help of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired phy-

sician from suburban Detroit, is believed to be the first known U.S. instance of medically assisted suicide.

Laurie Anne Ramsey, spokeswoman for the Chicago-based Americans United for Life, said, "This kind ofthing is the next step in terms of the devaluing of human life." ' The suicide of Mrs. Adkins, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, took place June 4 at a public campground in Holly, Mich., outside of Detroit, because Turn to Page 13

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Friday, June 15, 1990 2 Reactions mixed on flag-burning decision WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Supreme Court's June II ruling that the Constitution protects flagburning drew mixed reaction from Catholic spokesmen.

An official of the Knights of Columbus, which said it was alarmed when the court announced a similar ruling on a different law a year ago, expressed "regret" over the new, 5-4 high court decision and support for whatever legal methods may undo it.

But a Georgetown University law professor, Jesuit Father Robert Drinan, said efforts to pass a constitutional amendment banning flag-burning would be "ill-advised."

In a case that closely paralleled a similar dispute last June, the Supreme Court said a new, national law banning flag-burning was impermissible under the Constitution's First Amendment, which protects freedom of ex~ression.

The court said the law, known as the Flag Protection Act of 1989, restricts free expression.

"Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered, and worth revering," said Justice William J. Brennan, writing for the court majority.

"We don't agree with the outcome" of the case, said Russell Shaw, director of public information for the Knights of Columbus.

"We regret it. We've always felt from the beginning ... flag-burning was just in a different category from other forms of protected speech."

"Flag-burning goes beyond expression of a political opinion," Shaw said June II. "It's a repudiation of certain fundamental values ... that hold the whole" nation together, he said. In a way, Shaw said, destroying the flag is "a repudiation of patriotism itself."

When it comes to reversing the court's decision, "whatever will work has our support," Shaw said.

One means of reversing Supreme Court decisions is through a constitutional amendment, which would need to be approved by two-thirds of the House and Senate and then by three-fourths of the states.

"I'm opposed to the amendment (campaign)," said Father Drinan, a former member of Congress.

"It's ill-advised."

Expressing support for the outcome of the case, he said that "it's not surprising" the court again ruled the way it did.

"We don't need an amendment (to the Constitution) or even a statute" to ban flag-burning, Father Drinan said.

Father Drinan noted that the issue is likely to command-considerable attention in Congress, however. "The people are lining up" on the issue on Capitol Hill, he noted.

The 1989 law in question exacted penalties against "whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground or tramples upon" the U.S. flag.

Congress enacted the law in 1989 after the Supreme Court ruled, in a case involving a Texas law, that the Constitution protected flag-burning as a form of free expression.

Brennan, in his majority opinion, recalled that Congress had cited "a purported 'national con-

WOULD-BE GORBACHEV host family members Marcia, Cecilia and Richard Brand stand in front of the barn on their Farmington, Minn., 650-acre dairy farm. The Brands were philosophical about their near brush with history, saying a farm visit would probably have provided a relaxing interlude for the Soviet president. (CNS photo)

The visit that never happened ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) - As it says in the Bible, in the 22nd chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel: "Many are invited but few are chosen."

That verse took on special meaning for Richard and Cecilia Brarid, a Catholic farm couple, and for Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul and Minneapolis, during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's brief visit. Gorbachev stopped in Minnesota for several hours June 3 after concluding a summit meeting in Washington with President Bush.

The archbishop had to cancel an ecumenical prayer service when participation by Gorbachev was scrapped a few days before his visit.

A trip by Gorbachev to the Brand farm, near the Twin Cities, was cancelled in mid-afternoon June 3 - just as reporters were ready to board buses to take them into the countryside for the event.

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canceled, the family was whisked to the metropolitan airport, where they met Gorbachev.

"It's four days we'll never forget," Richard Brand said later in an interview with the Catholic B'ulletin, archdiocesan newspaper.

Gorbachev "expressed his regrets that he couldn't come to the farm.

In fact, he invited us to Russia."

Should they ever get to the Soviet Union, the Brands would have plenty of knowledge to share about farming. Their 650-acre dairy farm supports three householdsthat of Richard and Cecilia; their son Greg; and other, son John, daughter-in-law Brenda, and grandchildren. Three other adult children live elsewhere.

The Brands are parishioners at St. Joseph Church, where their five children attended the parish school. The school secretary, Fran Johnson, said it was no surprise the Brand farm had been selected for Gorbachev's visit. "They've had people from other countries visit

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their farm before," Ms. Johnson said. "My husband says it's a class operation. Talk about an all-American family - this is it."

Cecilia Brand coordinates funeral lunches for the church and used to help out at the school as well. Daughter Marcia, a physical therapist in Hopkins, Minn., said that "I think the morals and values we learned growing up on the farm have helped me."

When the farm excursion was canceled, Richard Brand said he was most concerned for the friends and volunteers who had missed a chance to see the Soviet president.

"You don't realize,the help we got from people," he said. "We learned through this experience that ,there's really a lot of good people in the world."

He said he also felt sad about Gorbachev having missed out on the visit. "He would have enjoyed this," Brand said. "(t probably. would have been the most relaxing part of the trip."

Obituaries

sensus' favoring a prohibition on flag-burning. Even assuming such a consensus exists, any suggestion that the government's interest in suppressing speech becomes more A Mass of Christian Burial was weighty as popular opposition to celebrated June 9 for Sister Marie that speech grows is foreign to the Jeanne Cranshoffwho died June 7 First Amendment." at Villa Fatima, Taunton.

He was joined in the majority Born in Brussels, Belgium on opinion by Justices Antonin ScaNovember 22, 1901, she was the lia, Anthony M. Kennegy, Harry daughter of the late Isidore H. and A. Blackmun and Thurgood MarAlice M. (Helskens) Cranshoff. shall.

She was educated in Switzerland Dissenting were Justices John' and entered t he Sisters of St. Paul Stevens, who wrote the disDorothy in 1921, traveling to Porsenting opinion, Sandra Day tugal for her novitiate. In her long O'Connor, Byron R. White, and years of service, she held offices of, Chief Justice William H. Rehnteacher, principal, and superior in auist.

"We are aware that desecration Switzerland, England, Portugal, of the flag is deeply offensive to . Macau, Brazil and the United many," Brennan said. "But the States.

Arriving in America in 1,939, she same might be said, for example, dedicated her following years to of virulent ethnic and religious epithets, vulgar repudiations of education, teaching at Mt. Carthe draft, and scurrilous carica- mel, New Bedford; St. Elizabeth, Bristol, RI; Jesus Saviour School, tures.

Newport, RI; and Our Lady of "If there is a bedrod principle Fatima High School, Warren, RI. underlying the First Amendment, She also served at St. Fr'ancis Xavit is that the government may not ier 'parish, East Providence, and prohibit the expression of an idea Holy Rosary parish, Providence. simply because society finds the She retired to Villa Fatima Conidea itself offensive or disagreeavent in 1987. Sister Cranshoff held ble," Brennan wrote.

Sister Cranshoff a bachelor of science in education and a master's in modern languages from Boston College. She spoke several languages fluently and used this knowledge in her missionary work.

Survivors include Madame Audrey De Ridder of Ostende, Belgium, and Valerie Cawley of Holden.

Sister Drewniak Felician Sister Wilhelmina Drewniak, 95, of Our Lady of the Angels Convent, Enfield, Conn., died June 5 after a long illness.

A native of Poland, she came to the United States at a young age.

She was the sister of the late Aniela Pierce Piszcz of Fall River.

She entered the Felician Order 74 years ago. At one time she served as a cook at St. Stanislaus Convent in Fall River.

Survivors include nieces and nephews in Fall River and in Poland.

T ACOMA, Wash. (CNS) - A resolution to oust Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., from the Knights of Columbus because of his position on abortion was taken off the agenda of the Knights' Washington state convention at the last minute.

Officials attributed the resolution's removal to a letter from Supreme Knight Virgil Dechant, international head of the Catholic fraternal organization. .

One Knight described the letter as "direct orders" against the resolution, but the Knights' international public affairs director, Russell Shaw, said Dechant simply explained the policy of the international leadership on the issue and had sent the same letter to every state council before state conventions began this spring.

A national campaign calling for the Knights to oust the Massachusetts senator and several other prominent Catholic politicians who back legalized abortion was begun last October by four pro-life movement leaders whom Shaw described as "right-wing."

They were Joseph Scheidler, director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League; Benedictine Father Paul Marx, president of Human Life International; Father Charles Fiore, chairman of the National Pro-Life Political Action Committee; and Judie Brown, president of the American Life League.

Another politician the four targeted was Gov. James J. Florio of New Jersey. Florio resigned from the Knights in May, shortly after BishopJamesT. McHughofCam-, den told the New Jersey state convention that "pro-choice" public figures who are Knights are an "embarrassment" to the organization.

The resolution at the Washington convention was slated for a vote "But when the vote was due, State Deputy Everett Turner skipped from Resolution I to Resolution 3. Our resolution was No.2," said Knight Dan Thulin.

Thulin told The Progress, Seattle archdiocesan newspaper, that when he questioned the omission, Turner told the 300 people at the convention it was because of direct orders from the Supreme Knight."

Shaw said the position of the Knights' leadership, outlined in Dechant's letter to state deputies, is that membership in the Knights is open to any man who is a "practicing Catholic."

It is up to the church's pastoral authorities, not a lay organization, to decide who is considered a practicing Catholic, Shaw said.

"U nless and until the church's pastoral leaders take the position that one cannot be pro-choice and be considered a practicing Catholic, it is not appropriate for the K of C to take that position unilaterally," he said.

But he said many officials of the Knights "would be quite happy if pro-choice politicians who are members of the Knights would either change their, position or resign."

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'Retirees, pastors Continued from Page One From 1977 to' 1984 he was a pastoral minister at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River. He was then assigned as parochial vicar at St. John of God parish, Somerset, before assuming his present post.

While in Taunton, Father Gomes was assistant director and then director of the area CYO program.

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Father Edmond R. Levesque, who has been pastor at St. Theresa's parish, South Attleboro, since 1982, will become pastor at St. Anthony of Padua, New Bedford.

He was previously parochial vicar at St. George, Westport, and pastor at Our Lady of Grace, North Westport. He formerly served on the diocesan marriage tribunal and as chaplain to the Westport-Dartmouth Knights of Columbus Council and St. Vincent de Paul Camp.

Father Joseph D. Maguire will remain pastor at St. Elizabeth's parish, Edgartown, while assuming an additional pastorate at Sacred Heart parish, Oak Bluffs.

He was ordained in 1970 and was parochial vicar at St. James,.

New Bedford; St. Patrick's, Somerset; and St. Patrick's, Falmouth, before being. assigned to St. Elizabeth's in 1988.

Chaplain' On J.uly I, Father Roy Yurco, SS.Cc., will assume the chaplaincy. at Our Lady's HlJ.ven.

ANew York native, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in 1962. In his priestly career, he has been involved in high school ed ucation, has served several curacies in and out of the Fall River diocese, has been a hospital chaplain and has held several positio~s within his congregation.

He has served as pastor of St. Boniface Church, New Bedford, and vicar of the Sacred Hearts Community provincial house in Fairhaven.

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OFFIC=IAL Pastoral Assignments Reverend Marc H. Bergeron from Parochial Vicar at Saint Joseph's Parish in New Bedford to Pastor of Saint Joseph's Parish in New Bedford. . Reverend Louis R. Boivin from Pastor of SaintJoseph's Parish New Bedford to Pastor of Saint Theresa's Parish in South Attleboro.

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FATHER CHRETIEN

Chaplain , His ~xcellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has accepted the nomination' of the Very Reverend . Richard Mcl'{ally, SS.Cc., Provincial, and has appointed' the Reverend Roy Yurco, SS.Cc., as Chaplain of Our Lady's Haven in Fairhaven. ,Effective July 1, 1990 Retirements . On F~bruary 2, 1990~ Bishop Daniel A. Cronin accepted the request of Reverend Bertrand R. Chabot to resign for reasons of . health from the Pastorate 'of Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in .

New Bedford, Massachusetts to be effective June 27, 1990.

Bishop Daniel A. Cron'in has accepted the resignation of Reverend Monsignor Anthony M. Gomes, P.A., from the Pastorate of ' Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Fall River. In retirement, Monsignor Gomes will reside in his own residence effective June 27 1990. . , Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has accepted the resignation of Reverend Lucien Jusseaume as Chaplain of Our Lady's Haven in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. In retiremelJt, Father Jusseaume will reside in his own residence effective July I, 1990.

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Having had the enormous advantage of education in church-sponsored institutions from nursery to graduate school, many have turned their back on the real church of the 90s. In fact, many such Catholics are among one of the more divisive forces in the church. Their standard of church accountability and responsibility depends on social statutes rather than revelation.

Even more deadly are the upwardly mobile church members who have taken a theology course. They want a church of sociological liberalism, getting involved in so-called relevantissues but making sure religion doesn't get in the way. Often in their haste to reach the top rung of the ladder they simply ignore the real world in which the church exists.

The Catholic Church in America is still an immigrant church with all that implies. There are many who refuse to accept this reality, yet it is imperative that all in the church family begin to realize that we are in for sweeping reforms that will open the floodgate of immigrants to this land. Ecclesial separatism, a lingering historical fact in America, will probably become even more blatant. The people on top usually squash those on the bottom, even in the church.

CNS/KNA pboto The United States is about to redefine its immigration policies for the first time in 25 years. Under new legislation in A FRENCH VILLAGER DECORATES HER WINDOW IN PREPARATION FOR THE Washington, immigration q~otas would be greatly expanded.

FEAST OF CORPUS ~HRISTI. JUNE 17 From Hong Kong to Russia, Brazil to Iceland, Poland to Cambodia! people are eager to come to the United States.

"I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this Such an influx would impact all aspects of our lives, including . bread, he shall live forever." John 6:51-2 our church life.

There are many who oppose increasing immigration quotas.

There is concern for job competiton. Many feel that racial difficulties will intensify, especially in the low-paying job market and that American school dr<?pouts will be_severely television seldom captures the ideas drugs, alcohol, tobacco, porno-.

By Father Kevin J. Harrington challenged. and values that undergird our graphy or gambling at the expense We are all familiar with the However, no matter the problems, more immigrants are on assertion that our society is suffer- society. of more urgent needs in their homes I truly believe that most of us and the world. the way. They will be different from those of the past. Many ing from a deterioration of values Our collective well-being requires will be well educated, others will possess special job skills, and practices. The long list of know the difference between right some will even have a few million yen in their pockets. All this lamentations over the breakdown and wrong. Our problem is less improvement in our individual beone of knowing than of acting havior so that more and more will demand of us vision, openness and a spirit of innovation, of the family is altogether too according to our knowledge. How often we will do what we know to commonplace. What is missing is especially in our schools, work places and churches. many people. for instance, are be right. On a large scale, such a will to change that can only origreally influenced by the warnings individual actions can shape the Would that we Catholics become an important catalyst in inate with the individual. found on packs of cigarettes and institutions, such as schools, that . It is easy to point the finger of the process of acceptance. To live the Beatitudes can be a difficult personal challenge, but we are told by the Lord him- accusation at our schools, churches, containers of alcoholic beverages? are supposed to be shaping good The gap between knowledge and citizens. We also need to be self that the blessed are those who welcome the stranger. Every voluntary associations and governpractice is indicative of the spirit- reminded that, while we are social ment. It is far more difficult but far new tide of immigration has its detractors who resort to bias more worthwhile to face our indi- ual malaise that grips our nation. beings and many of our values Its symptoms are manifold: TV come from those around us, there and prejudice in the attempt to preserve their own status. Yet vidual failures. evangelists pervert their message is a higher power at work in shapUnfortunately, the 19th century's when all is said and done we are all immigrants, save for the for the sake of self-aggrandizement; ing our beliefs and we will be held emphasis upon rugged individualNative Americans. public officials yield to special accountable as individuals on the ism has become our dominant For our church, immigrants have always brought with them interest groups in order to prolong day of our final judgement. value. We have somehow forgotrefreshing renewal. Our strength and spirit as Catholics have ten other strands of our cultural their time in office; industry profSin may mar our human nature its from products that provide no so that our hearts are pulled their very roots in the contribution of our immigrant ancestors heritage: In the first half of the benefit to the consumer; develop- asunder and confused by unruly to the United States. Those who would deny this do little to 17th century, Governor John Winbuild up the community of the church family; indeed, such throp, the, first governor of the ers ravage our natural resources desires, longings, drives and pasand pollute our fragile environ- sions, but God has not left us Massachusetts Bay Colony, dedivisiveness, no matter how rational and sophisticated it may clared ment for a quick profit; private defenseless. He has sent us his Son that our true freedom was seem, breaks apart the body. citizens cheat on their taxes to and the Holy Spirit to teach us the freedom to do what is good,

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To him arid his contemporaries, success was not measured in material wealth but in the creation of a community in which a genuinely ethical and spiritual life could be lived.

I am of course aware that the past often looks better than the present when viewed through the romantic filter that we often attach .to our memories. Television has mastered the dubious art of providing us with such a filter.

Thirty years ago the television program "Leave It To Beaver" romanticized white, middle-class suburban life as much as "The Cosby Show" today romanticizes black, upper-class urban life. But

increase their discretionary income; and millions of Americans devote a large portion of their income to

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o Word of God, I offer myself wholly to thee; of thine infinite goodness and mercy do thou accept my offering, unite it to thine own andgrant me thy blessing. Amen.

how to live in this passing world with our hearts set on the world to come.

Until we recognize that we are pilgrim people and that this world cannot satisfy our deepest longings, we will lack sufficient incentive to change ourselves.

A genuine reformation may be beyond the hopes of a single generation, but improvement is desperately needed. Noone goes to heaven alone. We are individually responsible for shaping our lives according to our ideas and values. ·We should not be content simply to conform to the ideas and values around us.

Staying close to God is what it is all about!

Mother at home wants out Dear Mary: I am the mother of four small children. I don't work outside the home. My husband is a good father and a good provider.

My problem is I feel so controlled.

He complains that I'm gone too much in the evenings. I don't feel two or three times a month going to meeti~gs or church functions is too much. He plays racquetball . and golf.

I'm with my children all day. We are in a new area and I don't know many people. I love spending time with him and the kids, but I spend so much time taking care of every one but me. - Kansas Most people who go out only two or three times a month would feel abused and cheated and be playing "poor me." Your letter shows none of this.

To be a good supporter of others as your situation demands, you must have enough personal time for rest, reflection and support from others. Your personal needs seem quite reasonable and modest.

Look for ways to meet your own needs. Personal contact with other moms during the day is a possibility. While women have cared for children for millennia, they have not usually stayed within four walls.

The isolation of women and children is peculiar to our culture and is one of the main issues raised by the feminists of the '50s and '60s.

What does a woman do to avoid isolation while raising children?

Meeting other mothers is not easy. Gone are the days of chatting' with a neighbor over a backyard fence. That neighbor is either a) away at work, b) inside with the air conditioning on or c) rushing from house to car to cram too many errands into too little time.

Seek places where mothers congregate. If you take your children to a park or playground, strike u'p a conversation with other mothers and children. If your children attend a preschool program, introduce yourself to other mothers.

In your church groups take the initiative to introduce yourself to others. You might suggest a simple mutual activity such as a walk or visit to a local park with your children. As you become better

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY acquainted, invite other mothers and children to your home.

Daytime activities for you are another way to meet your personal needs. exercise can be rejuvenating and fun. Perhaps you can hire a teenager to babysit after school for an hour. Use this time for a brisk walk, jog or bicycle ride.

Try taking your children to a pool or beach. If you go with another mom and her children, take turns watching the children while each of you has a short period for vigorous swimming.

Local health clubs often feature times especially for moms and small children. You might be able to work out at a health club once or twice a week while your children play in a supervised nursery.

Time for reading and reflection might meet your needs. Again you can hire a babysitter just for an hour or two and use the time to read at a nearby library.

Your husband needs your help to understand how you feel. Try to get some daytime activities you enjoy. Let him know how much they benefit you.

Rather than arguing with him, let your happiness and _enthusiasm show him that when you have some personal time, the whole family benefits.

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By DOLORES CURRAN

Readers: I received the follow\, ing letter from a midwestern reader last winter. I asked his permission to print it and he agreed on condition that he and the town remain anonymous.

I went to an out-of-town Mass last week for First Saturday. There were about 15 people there. I thought it was nice to see such

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. Our daughter was married in the church and was left with four children, no money and no place to live..

She depended on her (amily for shelter and food for her children and herself.

Noway was there money necessary to apply for an annulment even if she wanted to, but she felt to have the church say she was never. married would be the same as telling her children they were illegitimate. .

There is really no difference between divorce and annulment and some day the church will

devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.

After Mass. while I was still kneeling, I heard some'one say, "Y ou better tell Father there is a man knocking on his door and he doesn't look too whippy."

Then, moments later, the comment, "Yeah, you're right. They always know where to go when they want something."

Also, "I've seen them walk around the block and get picked up by their buddy."

Kneeling there, I could only guess what they were talking about.

Unfortunately, I found out that my guess was right - a beggar was seeking help.

I was shocked to hear such comments from people who just participated in Holy Mass. I'm thinking if a man can't go to the

church for help. where can he go?

We should feel honored that a beggar does know where to go to get help, Even if 80 percent of those we help are running a con game, what about the 20 percent we help that truly need our help? How can we, as Catholics, be so callous and self-righteous? How can we receive our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and then be so arrogant an.d judgmental?

If this man who was in need cannot turn to us for help, where can he turn? He can find his way to shelter, food, and clothing by simply turning to crime or selling drugs or himself. What have we done to give this man help or self-respect?

I drove around and found the man who was seeking help. I got

out of my car and talked with him for a few minutes. I gave him what money I had. It wasn't much and when he accepted it, he seemed embarrassed to be in a situation of need. I felt ashamed it wasn't more and that I couldn't do more for him.

I drove away from that town stunned at what my ears had heard and my eyes had seen. It's not just that town, I know, but how can we call ourselves Christian and display such a cruel and uncaring attitude for those God has given us to prove our worthiness of his kingdom?

On a separate sheet of paper, my correspondent wrote, "I've decided路 to write this and send it to a Catholic paper because we as Catholics have to monitor ourselves before we can monitor others. If I

sent this to a secular paper, I'm sure the editor would have a field day criticizing the churched people who claim to care.

"I hope you can find some way to relate this letter to your readers.

In your own way, please heip spread this message. My writing and self-expression are poor so please take the information and refine it so that the importance of what I have fel,t and written is not lost in my inadequate use of words."

Well, my friend, your words are just fine. I doubt there is a reader over eight who won't understand and relate to your experience. You have spoken to us from the heart, a heart filled with the Spirit.There's nothing I can change or add to improve your message. Thanks for sharing yourself and your spirit of God's love with us.

Fees not a requirement for annulment process realize this as we lay people do.

(Pennsylvania) . A. I will not attempt to respond to your final sentence now. The subject has been dealt with numerous times in this column.

Two points related to the rest of your question probably need to be repeated.

First, no one in our country to my knowledge has ever been denied access to the church's annulment process because of a lack of money.

Some fees are always requested to help defray the considerable expense of such a procedure, but every triounal with which' I am acquainted has accepted cases in which the petitioner is unable to afford even a minimal contribution toward the costs.

I am aware that 'sometimes certain parish priests are reluctant to accept the work involved in annulments, and cite huge costs to discourage possible petitioners.

But tribunals and bishops are 'poses of church law and of civil anxious to help, whether or not fee law. payment it possible.

Q. Can a Catholic serve as a In many, perhaps most, diocese, justice of the peace? We are aware parishes are encouraged to pay of two or three Catholics who are these fe'es if the individual cannot. ,justices of the peace and it is the Second, if an annulment is, opinion of our group that this is granted, children of the marriage not possible. are riot considered illegitimate, The Catholic Church does not either in church law or civil law. recognize justice ofthe peace wedIf the man and woman in quesdings. So should Catholics be pertion were free to marry in the first forming this service? (Massachuplace, such a marriage is called a setts) , "putative" marriage. Everyone A. You and your group are thought it was a marriage and there was no obvious reason to obviously confused on a lot of points. think otherwise.

First, the Catholic Church does The fact that some condition was present throughout the mar- recognize marriages by ajustice of riage that enabled it to be annulled the peace, or judge or any other later does not change the fact that civil official, unless one of the parthis couple was thought to be mar- ties is a Catholic bound by Catholic ried by everyone, probably includ- Church law to be married before a priest. ing even themselves.

Their children would thus be Second, even if a Catholic should considered legitimate for all pur- come before such a civil official to

be married in violation of the laws ofthe church, the official would be acting properly and morally in marrying them.

As a friend, a civil official might counsel such a person (if the official knows it is, a Catholic acting against church law) about the religious implications of what is being done.

But the official is acting properly and morally when officiating at such a marriage ceremony, even ifthe Catholic partner may be acting against church regulations in entering such a marriage.

A free brochure explaining Catholic teaching and practice on annulments is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

Today's dad is more 'important than ever By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

I have just seen the first issue of. a new magazine that made its debut in January. No, it is not another fancy and slick publication for women. This one is for a very special group of people, long neglected in the publishing world - dads. ' That, in fact, is the name of the magazine - Dad (Creative Publishing Group Inc., Newton, N.J.).

It is aimed at the men "who balance family-related and work-

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK Every time I study current statistics on immigrants to the United States and reflect on what is happening in the church I suffer an anxiety attack.

A recent publication titled "The

related roles and take a more participatory approach to child rearing," as Dad's publishing director, Wendie Blanchard, puts it.

Especially interesting is that the publishers and editors of this magazine are a healthy mix of men and women although the fiveperson advisory board is all male.

A member, Brian K. Blanchard, who is on the cover of the first issue, contributed a brief commentary on being a father.

"I feel like the demands of modern-day fatherhood are greater than they were when I was a kid," he wrote, mentioning such matters as divorce, working mothers, homelessness, increased leisure time, two-career families, single-parent families and even toxic waste, tel-

evision and a global economic community.

Fortunately, he implies, it is now socially acceptable for fathers to be more a part of their children's growth years. "We are involved fathers, and our kids are going to be better for it," he states.

Addressing fathers, managing editor Robin W. Dente explained why a magazine such as Dad has emerged. "Up till now, 'parenting' was practically synonymous with 'motherhood.' Your significant roles as 0' u rt urer, protector, teacher, guide and special friend were neither addressed nor met on a regular basis. Dad magazine was created especially to help fill this void."

Unquestionably, today's fathers are more important than ever in

their, children's rearing. For as Dick Woods, president of the National Congress for Men, reports: "N ow 70 percent of the mothers of minor children work outSide the home, over 80 percent of children will be in child-care or preschool before age 5."

He added, "M ost fathers are employed in the service industry, with more flexibility in their schedules and the ability to do some of their work at home; and most young fathers are expected to share household duties, including childcare."

With the emergence of Dad magazine, we have another recogni'tion that fathers are essential parents too. What is most worthwhile in its approach is its positive feel.

While not avoiding difficult ques-

tions of divorce, child custody, money and job responsibilities, it deals with them sensitively and honestly.

The first issue of Dad was dedicated to the memory of Michael Lippert (1916-1980). "An involved father before it was fashionable, a man of incredible intelligence, charm, wit and humor, a tireless cheerleader for his wife and three children, and a loving memory for his grandchildren, his legacy has made Dad possible," wrote the editors.

I say God bless him, and I believe I am speaking for all fathers who know, as editor Dente puts it, that "being a father isn't an act of biology, but one of daily commitment, participation and love."

Evangelizing immigrants: is ethnic memory fading?

Church and the New Immmigrants: A Pastoral Response," published

by Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities, reveals that: -One-fourth of U.S. population growth currently can be attributed to immigration. Of these new arrivals, it is estimated that twothirds are traditionally Catholic.

-By the year 2000 almost onethird of the projected 80 million Catholics in the United States may be Hispanic.

-The Catholic portion of to-

day's immigration is the equivalent of one new parish every four days - 2,000 to 3,000 people.

- Today's immigrants encounter a Catholic community whose ethnic memory is fading fast.'

-The parish remains'the mainstay of immigrant care in the United States.

These facts indicate that immigration is presenting a real challenge to the church - one it ought to respond to. But will a church preoccupied with other pressing problems be able to do so?

In some dioceses large numbers of parishes are closing. Of more than 180 dioceses, 70 report that they have priestless pa'rishes right now; many more dioceses project priestless parishes in the near future.

Granted~ some parishes have outlived their usefulness and should be consolidated. But I worry that the needs of immigrants will be overlooked as attention is given to .parish consolidations and to resolving the financial problems.

There are indications that many

present seminarians will be less activist as priests than has been the past generation of priests.

At a time when the church needs priests who can organize formation teams to serve diverse groups in parishes, who can encourage a missionary spirit among permanent deacons and establish multicultural approaches to catechesis, we could be getting just the opposite.

It seems that the finding that ethnic memory is fading fast in the Catholic community is dead right.

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A paraphrase Dear Editor: Have you heard - the T word is being lisped in the WhiteHouse?

To paraphrase your editorial of May 25: Well, they have done it again. The proposed tax paekage conjured up to bail out the United States' trillion dollar deficit bears witness to indifference. self-indulgence and inefficiency.

Refusing to face real issues of Iran contra, S6tL banker scanda" and HUD money earmarked .for homeless going to cronies as payoff for favors rendered, the entrenched members of the establishment socked it to their constituents.

Even now, White House offi· cialdom refuses to admit crass failure in its management of the United States. The lackluster leadership of our president has this nation reeling on a downward spi· . ral. We have become sacrificial goats.

In some ways it might seem we deserve such a state of affairs.

After all. we are the ones who continuouslyelected Mr. Reagan. the actor, and now his understudy.

It is the middle class that will have to sacrifice to bahmce the budget. They want responsibility, dependable government. sensitive to the needs of all citizens. As they ~ry to. balance their own budgets and pay their hills, they feel their government should do the same.

Those who work hard do not want to see their money go for excessive taxes nor frittered away by incompetent politicians. Yet this is exactly what is happening in the United States. For over a year, the gang in the White House has made a bad situation worse.

It boils down to the fact that eitherthey do not want to change a patently disastrous system or they are incapable of objective evaluation of their actions.

Every voter who seriously desires

change shouh;l. note the politicians who are obstrtreting reform. As we know, party machines are well entrenched in the executive White House and have effectively brought us to our presen~ fiscal chaos. Is it

JuneU 1973, Rev. Msgr. Augusto L. Furtado, Pastor Emeritus, St. John of God, Somerset 1986. Rev. Richard J. Wolf. SJ. Bishop Connolly High School June I2 1966. Rev. Thomas H. Taylor.

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any wonder that the United States has become one of the largest debt· or nations within the last 10 years?

If such a political mentality continues, it takes no crystal ball to predict that unemployment will increase and recession will become endemic.

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RICHMOND, Va. (CNS) Mercy Sister Cora Billings, director of the Richmond Diocese's Dear Editor: I would like to take the oppor- Off... for Black Catholics, has tunity to thank you and your staff assumed the added title of parish on creating such a professional pastoral coordinator. She is beadvertisement for National Nurs- lieved the first U.S. black nun to ing Home Week (Anchor, May hold such a position.

Sister Billings will do almost ll). YOUT work not only met my , expectations, it surpassed them in everything but celebrate Massand every way. It was a pleasure work· administer the sacraments at a laring with you on this project. Again, gely black parish in Richmond. "'.fs a great responsibility. a thank you for such a well thought great challenge. But I'm the kind out and professional job. of person who realizes that anyDaniel J. Sulger thing. may accomplish I cannot Administrator·in-training do on my own," Sister Billings told Marian Manor, Taunton Catholic News Service.

A non-resident "priest moderator"' from a Richmond parish will handle sacramental·ministry at the Dear Editor: Not to know the saints is not to parish and collaborate with Sister Billings. she said, "but 1 will have know what it is to be a Catholic. the most responsibility."

Rev. Rawley Myers Sister Billings' open-ended parColorado Springs. CO ish assignment is the first to come from a Richmond diocesan policy enacted last October to make Donordained parish leaders a central feature in serving a growing Catholic population with ~ewer priests.

Would the parish have had the shut down were she not named· pastoral coordinator?"When I look around the other dioceses, that's the pattern I see," said Sister Billings.

She said Richmond Bishop Walter F. Sullivan "asked me would I he willing to do it. I thought about it. I prayed about it. I thought it would be something I'm capable of doing."

She does not foresee changes in parish life and ministry. Her goal is "to really empower the people of the parish. The coordination and the collaboration is very importanL .. I'm very much interested in spirituality and growing with people."

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Acushnet student is society inductee Nelson S. Amaral of Acushnet has been inducted into Phi Eta Sigma at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Phi Eta Sigma is a national honor society for students who have earned at least a 3.5 out of a pass,· ble 4 grade point average duringtheir freshman year. Amaral, a finance major. is the son of Edmundo and Jesuina Amaral of SI. Francis Xavier parish.

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By Being the father of the bride lars were lack in style. I must bave isn't very difficult today, but I convinced her. guess it never was. Once you~e Some flmity traditions were BERNARD given the bride away, after all, ignored, however. The organ did what's left for you to do? not playtllc"Bridai Chorus" from My wife and I played traditional Wagner's "Lohengrin," as it did CASSERLY roles in the nuptials of our second when my ..ife and I were wed in child, Martha, the other day, and Sacred Hart Church, BeUe Plaine, we bad a wonderful time. Follow- MN, nea~ 39 years before.

It was nothing like the wartime 1 didn't 'ven propose it, as I did wedding of my friend Eddie, a ing tradition made it easy, and weddings bave morecustomstban to a scandalized organist in 19SI. Navy airman home on leave. As

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When she said "Here Comes the best man, I had been told by his sance in values so that attitudes any celebration I can think of.

Catholic Newl Service toward tbe elderly can change."

The father's billlCSt cball.nge is Bride" _ not allowed, I eoun- service pals to make his departure She noted, "Most elderly prefer escorting his daughter down the tered that it was always used at as painful as possible.

DENVILLE; N.J. (eNS) - Exto receive services at hom.... aisle and notfalling on his face. It weddings 'n my home parish.

We in the bridal party chased perts in the field of aging from the The muiic was not on the "white the newlywed. in our cars, despite United States anlll2 Latin Ameri- Among her recommendations were wasn't easy. The center aisle ofthe can and Caribbean countnes agreed adult day care, support groups for St. Paul, MN, cathedral mUit be list," whatwas officially allowed in gas rationing, to try to discover in a eonference at a Catholic hos- caregivers, regional geriatric as- 200 feet long, alld the stone floor those daY', but my paltor had a their hotel. Theydidgctaway, but pital in DeDvilie that care of the· sessment centers and advisory stan- was cov.red with a shifty white mindofhilown. He always claimed it was after midnight when they elderly must be a collaborative dards for nursing homes. runn.r. that it wa, played at his mother's reached their hotel. Rooms were Mohamed Sharif, deputy direcBeautiful as a bride should be weddin,lBck in Ireland lon, a,o. scarce, and their reservatioDJ had effort. , tor of tne U.N. Center-r-oruev~------on- bel wedding---day. Ma.tha Tbe white list hasnowdilippeared; becn CIlIlccUed. opment and Humanitarian Affairs, floated toward the high altar, a the "BridII Chorus" is not illegal They spent their wedding niaht said that humanitarian aspects vi~ion in ivory and lace. The anymore. On the other hand. it at his mother-in-law·s. Eddie ItiII were not enough. "The elderly cathedral organ thundered, and doesn't aWC"r on today's recom- claims he slept in the bathtub, but musthelpthemselves.ltmustcomc every guest turned round and mended list, either. he does exaggerate. When I got Some OlhertraditioDJ were kept, married, Eddie chased my bride from within first. They should not stared. just be beneficiaries. They must be Unli.ke "The Sound o.f ~Ulic," and some activities added which I and me furiously, but we lost him alert, active and prepared to influ- operatl~ nUDS were notsmgmg the hope will lake root. Martha and in a plume of dust and rocks on a ence policy structure that concerns processIonal. OD the other hand, Paul were ,howered with birdseed, country road. them."

Martha was not gliding up the not rice, .. they came down the tookina bact althe wedding of Another cosponsor was the ro- aisle \>y herself, but with me, her sunlit catledral lteps. And they Paul and Martha, I f'....... the gioDal office of the U.N. World proud father. . took a hase and carriage, Mar- good traditioDJ were kepUnd the H.alth Organization.

There had ~n some qu~stlon ha' '1 u_" • badoncadropped.CIarke'."TrumJulia Tavares de Alvarez the about my role In that Walt,ID my :h.:'::~ti::~v~~t::~: petVoluntary"wuaareatprocesDominican Republic's ambass'ador mind at least. I didn't kDOW for walkers Wived as they cIip-clopped sional, perfect for a aIowina bride to the United Nations, spoke about sur~ that I would have the hODor o'er the cily atrceta. aDd a mighty cathedral.

The newlyweds were not chaaed the problems of the elderly in the until the dress rehearsal.

Third World, where 40 percent of I was prepared,anywa>:. My40When i1came time to leav.the through the strecta and their hotel the people live in poverty. year-old tux was cleaned,.ts K.hru- wedding laace, the couple got room wu...till open. They did not "Dying of old age is an euphem- shchev-style trous~rs taken m. I awayrathcr*Iy,1 thought. Paurs have to spend their weddina nipt ism for dying of starvation," she h,!d~ted~ome.shJnys~oesanda car was filed with ballOODJ aDd at the home of the bridegroom" said. "The future of millions of wmg-tlp shirt WIth a bib front. I big rubbe, balls, and lome knobs mother-in-law. Ju.t as well, linee that'. my hOUle, toil.

Third World individuals depends told Martha that satin shawl col- and hand... were arcased. on these initiatives."

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . ; ; . - - - - - - - - - ; . , - . . ;. .. . ; - - - - She said there was need to act now although the long-term effects of an older society might Dot be evident for another decade.

"The time bomb is ticking," th.

Girls in white dresses and ambassador said. "In the year 2025, veils and boys in formal suits, grandparents will outnumber babies by·2 to I." the first communion class of She said the elderly "are a na- St. Mary's parish, Fairhaven, tional resource of great importance.

They don't need charity, but they joined their prayer pals at Our do need .jump-startto help them- Lady's Haven for a special Mass. selves."

Bishop Frank J. Rodimer of The Fairhaven nursing Paterson, N.J., who addressed the home's activity room was the plenary session of the conference, site of a liturgy for the childsaid care of the elderly was an ren, parents and residents. For important concern of the church. the students it was a time to He said that "we live in a world where life is not valued" but said get dressed up again; they had the conference "gives me an ex- made their first communion a traordinary sense of optimism." week earlier at St. Mary's.

For the residents it was a time to remember their Own first A statewide election ofthe Masbership consists of40 senators and· communions. It was an opporsachusetts Silver-Haired Legisla160 representatives drawn from tunity for both groups to give ture will be held on Thursday, the same voter districts as the thanks for the new friends September 13, with the assistance General Court. It has the distinc- who have. been praying for of area agencies on aging, home tion of being the only advocacy them since their initial meetcare corporations., senior centers group whose members are elected ing in February. and councils on aging. by their peers.

Senior citizens eligible for a Candidates must file nominaFather James R. Nickel, two-year term as representative or tion papers carrying the signatures SS.CC., pastor of St. Mary's, senator must be Massachusetts reg- of 2S registered Massachusetts istered voters, aged 60 or older, voters age 60 or older aDd residing and Father Lucien Jusseaume, and reside in the district they seek. in the district of the candidate. chaplain at the home, con-· celebrated the liturgy. Plants to represent. Present incumbents Nomination papers.must be filed and former members oftbe Silver with the SHL by June 27. Cam- decorated the altar and the Haired Legislature may seek re· paigning by candidates will begin children's pictures formed the election. on July 12 and continue to election The Silver,Haired Legislature day. Nomination papers are now center of a flower made from (SHL) was adopted in Massachu- available at local councils on aging construction paper. setts in 1980 to provide an educa- or from the office of the MassaA statue of the Blessed tional and advocacy training{ ac- chusetts Silver-Haired Legislature, Mother was crowned by a tion program for the elderly. It is a One Ashburton Place, Boston, . _ 02108. young participant while the grassroots, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the development elders sang "Immaculate Crown of Dicnity and promotion of legislation, parMary." In a closing ceremABOVE, FIRST communicants sing "His Banner Over "Old age is a crown of dignity ony, the first communicants ticularly that affecting the .Iderly.

Me"; beiDw, Father Nickel and Father Jusseaume distribute Patterned after the General Court when it is found in the ways of sang "His Banner Over Me" of the Commonwealth, its mem- justice." - Provo 16:31 communion to participants.

Collaboration called key element in elderly care

Prayer pals reunite

Silver-Haired Legislature to elect

Pro-nuncio Continued from Page One A priest for41 years; Archbishop Cacciavillan entered the Vatican's diplomatic corps in 1959. He work~d as part of the diplomatic corps In the Philippines and in Spain before returning to Rome to serve in the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1967-76.

Pope Paul VI in 1976 named Archbishop Cacciavillan to be apostolic pro-nuncio to Kenya.

He was transferred to India by PopeJohn Paul II on May9, 1981.

While remaining apostolic pronuncio tQ India, Archbishop Cacciavillan also was appointed apostolic pro-nuncio to Nepal in 1985.

Archbishop 'Cacciavillan was born Aug. 14, 1926 in Novale Di Valdagno in the province of Vicenza, Italy. He was ordained a priest ofthe Diocese ofVicenza on June 26, 1949.

According to the Vatican, Archbishop Cacciavillan, in addition to his native Italian, knows English, French, Spanish and German.

Archbishop Laghi was named apostolic delegate in the United States on Dec. 10, 1980, and was elevated to apostolic pro-nuncio in April 1984 after the United States and the Vatican had established formal diplomatic relations three months earlier.

Prior to ,1984, the Vatican's representative in Washington carried the title of apostolic delegate.

His role was largely'that of representative to the church in the United States, and he did not hold the rank of ambassador.

Welcome needed WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Catholic Church must be more aggressive in making Asians feel welcome, according to a report based on nationwide hearings on church response to Asians in the United States. "There were many reports of attending Mass in an •American' parish and feeling totally isolated," said the report. '''Coldness' was described on many occasions."

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Rev. Scott N. Brodeur, SJ, a former teacher at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, and Rev. James R. Mattaliano, SJ, who will be:; chaplain there this fall, will be ordained to the priesthood tomorrow at St. Joseph's Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester. The ordaining prelate will be Bishop Lawrence A. Burke, SJ, of Nassau, Bahamas.

Father Broduer Father Brodeur is a native of New Hampshire, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brodeur of Hollis, NH. He is a 1979 summa cum laude graduate of Boston College.

After a year at St.· Meinard School of Theology in Indiana as a seminarian for the Diocese of Manchester, he entered the New England Province of the Society of Jesus and pronounced first vows in 1982. In 1984 he earned a licentiate in philosophy at Centre Sevres, . the Jesuit house of studies in France.

He taught French and Spanish at Bishop Connolly during ,the 1984-85 school year. He then began two years of studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and later at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He completed his theological formation at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, where he

His father continued. "Oh, 1 know you've wondered about the cleansers and sprays and the funny shaped brush we keep under the bathroom sink.

"And I've heard you and your brothers snickering about the tissue spool when it gets low. We want to tell you about it all ourselves so you won't be operating with half truths."

"What do you mean 'operating,'?" he asked suspiciously.

"You're getting older now, buddy," spouse told him. "It's time you learn how to do it yourself."

He visibly shuddered at times as we described the intimate details, leaving out nothing - and trying our best to explain it all within the framework of our family's value system.

Occasionally he would mumble "Gross," "Yuck," and "But I'm too young." When we were done, we asked him ifhe had any questions.

Slackmouthed, he shook his head "no."

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"I don't think so," he replied, "but it sure is hard to see them growing up so fast."

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By Hilda Young We watched our Number 2 son open the refrigerator, peruse its contents and ask in a voice that sounded like it was shifting gears, "Who's the dork who snagged the last leftover hotdog?"

I turned to my husband. "You know, it really is time for 'the talk' with him."

Spouse nodded. "¥eah. 1 think we told his brother a little too early." (All he could say was "Yuck," "Gross," "No way," and "I could never do that!")

"Son," my husband started, "come and sit with your mother and me. We have something to talk with you about, part of growing up - part of the mystery of life, especially family life."

"I wondered when you guys were going to start quizzing me about my sex education class," he smirked.

"It's not that," 1 smiled gently, gulping. 1 felt like 1 was about to ruin his innocence. I couldn't do it.

"Your dad will tell you."

Spouse shot me a "dirty trick" look. He squared his shoulders.

"No use skipping around the bush, son. This is how it is: The toilet bowl does not clean itself.

Not only that, the toilet tissue roll doesn't change itself either."

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received a master of divinity last year.

Currentl!y doing a licentate in Sacred Scripture at the Biblical Institute in Rome, he plans to begin a doctorate in biblical studies in 199 I. Fllther Mattaliano 'Father Mattaliano is a native of 'Arlington, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph·R. Mattaliano. .A 1979 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he received a master's degree in counseling from Loyola University, Chicago.

From 1983 to 1986 he worked as a counselor at Boston College High School.

He prepared for the priesthood at Regi~ College in Toronto, where he received a master of divinity in 1989, and at Boston College, where he will recl~ive a master's degree in spirituality. ' He has also served as a deacon at. St. Anthony's parish, Cambridge.

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Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, USCC education secretary, said that asbestos cleanup costs which over the next three decades are estimated to reach about $6 billion for public and Catholic schools alone - are "staggering beyond belief and fall upon poor, rural, innt:r-city and middle-class suburban schools without exception."

She commented in testimony before .Senate and House appropriations :;ubcommittees in an effort to inGrease asbestos cleanup funding to $I25 million for 1991.

Asbestos, used for years as an insulating material, later was found capable of causing various forms of cancer when its microscopic ' fibers are 'inhaled.

The 1986 Asbestos Emergency Response Act requires schools to inspect buildings for asbestoscontaining materials and have them removed or contained.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 15, 1990

Tourists in Rome: a mixed blessing for natives

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Any day of the week, Pope John Paul II can look out his window and see throngs of tourists passing through St. Peter's Square, pari of the 5million-plus multitude that comes here annually.

The pope frequently makes their day by giving a speech, celebrating Mass or jusfwaving.

This year he added a gentle reminder to them to watch their manners.

In a letter to European bishops written in his name by Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the pope noted that tourists sometimes neglect their religious obligations and路 adopt "a relaxed moral behavior, which is a source of moral harm and scandal for those who welcome them."

Whether Rome, which has seen it all, could possibly be scandalized by anything tourists might do is a good question but it fits in with the city's view that tourists can be a mixed blessing. Through the ages, things have not always gone smoothly during the pilgrim season.

In the Holy Year of 1450, a church chronicler described how pilgrims were packed sO'thickly around St. Peter's that they had to be separated with sticks to prevent accidents. Despite the precautions, 200 people were crushed to death one afternoon when a papal blessing was called off and the crowd rushed away across a nearby bridge.

Modern tourists are less likely to stampede, but their manners are still the subject of hot debate in Rome - especially during this World Cup year.

From his fourth-floor perch above the square, the pope can witness one of the most cursed aspects of mass tourism: the maneuverings of excursion buses (aptly called "torpedoni" in Italian) as they befoul the air, dam up traffic and add to the constant Roman din.

But for a closer look at tourist etiquette, one should ask the six women guides who work St. Peter's Basilica. To hear them talk, modern pilgrims are getting a bum rap.

"They're generally very polite and well-behaved. There are exceptions, of course, but those are rare," said a' guide who handles English-speaking groups.

The Vatican did have a recent problem with people sunning themselves in front of the basilica, so barriers were placed around the front steps.

"People were lying down, taking off their shirts and putting on suntan oil, just like the beach," said a German guide.

The Vatican enforces a dress code inside the church - no short shorts, short skirts or sleeveless dresses are allowed, and torsos must be covered - but on a crowded 5summer day offenders can "slip through," she said.

Ushers must now and then remind visitors to finish sandwiches and soft drinks outside, and on the porch of the basilica one can see a few cigarettes hastily stubbed out.

St. Peter's was built on a scale to match Renaissance pilgrimages and mass tourism and has held up well under four centuries of assault.

Michelangelo's gleaming "Pieta," which was damaged by a hammerwielding madman in 1972, stands in the distance behind glass, a kind of collective penance imposed on visitors eager for a closer view. But the guards recall no other recent acts of vandalism inside the church, where thousands pass daily.

I he granaeur or Ine oaSlllca seems to awe tourists into silence.

Where else could you find a quiet, attentive group of third-graders listening to their teacher's lengthy archeological review of the statue of St. Peter? True, the saint's foot has been worn away with kisses, but that's allowed.

Next to the church, in front of the Vatican's ceremonial Bronze Gate, Swiss Guards stood immobile on a recent afternoon as schoolchildren picnicked on the steps below. The kids were careful to pick up their plastic cups, pizza crusts and soft drink cans before they moved on.

The financial side of tourism is not lost on Romans or the Vatican. The Vatican Museums, the post office and the bookstores help Vatican City run in the black and also aid the rest of the Vatican's financially strapped operations.

The pastoral value of tourism is' recognized at the Vatican, too.

After all. a tour of the city of Sts. Peter and Paul is itself a pilgrimage.

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Three years ago, the Vatican WI closed parts of St. Peter's to tour . groups, complaining of noise. A RO~E (CNS) - The Society few months later, officials realized ofJesus, Catholicism's'largest male they had made a mistake and re- religious order, plans to take opened the basilica, the guide said. advantage ofthe growing freedom "I remember Italian newspapers 'in Eastern Europe by helping to blaming the Japanese for that, but rebuild the region's church and it wasn't true.' The Japanese are society, said superior general Faprobably the most polite and re- ther Peter-Hans Kolvenback. Faspectful. They are grateful, too ,ther Kalvenbach outlined Jesuit when they leave, they make a small plans and problems in a bookbow," she said. length interview publsihed in April.

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DURING THE FIRST public celebration of Holy Week in the Ukraine in 44 years, Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, center with white headdress, and Auxiliary Bishop Julian Voronovsky, both of Lvov, are encircled by Catholics taking part in a traditional Easter dance, Archbishop Sterniuk will lead bishops from the Ukraine meeting at the Vatican this month.

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Ukrainian bishops to meet at Vatican VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has called the world's Ukrainian Catholic bishops to the Vatican to set strategies for the legalization of their church in the Soviet Union.

The June 25-26 meeting will include 10 clandestinely ordained bishops in the Soviet Ukraine.

Its purpose is "to consider the question of the legal recognition of the Byzantine-rite Catholic Church in Ukraine and the recovery of its goods," which were given to the Russian Orthodox Church by Josef Stalin's government in 1946. . The meeting was announced one day after the Russian Orthodox Church elected .Metropolitan Alexei of Leningrad to be patriarch of Moscow, the church's highest position.

Ukrainian Catholic efforts to VATIC AN CITY (CNS) recover their church property reCatholics around the world should quire negotiation with the Russian come to the Holy Land to give the Orthodox. church moral support at a time of Ukrainian Catholics also want political stress, said the Latin-rite Orthodox to invalidate a 1946 the patriarch of Jerusalem. government-manipulated synod Patriarch Michel Sabbah. in a that made the Ukrainian Catholic letter to bishops' conferences and Church part of the Russian Orthopilgrim groups worldwide. said dox Church. that by making the trip pilgrims Planning (or legalization and could "contribute to the rebirth of' normalization of the Ukrainian the Jerusalem church."

Catholic Church in the Soviet "We are making' an appeal to Union will include discussions on you, an encouragement to take the how a new Soviet law on freedom road to Jerusalem again. to come of conscience and religious associto pray in its places of redemption. ation will affect church life. Nato know its local churches," he varro-Valls said. said.

The pope wants the meeting "to The patriarch said visitors have always been an important part of contribute to the solution of the difficulties which still exist in the church in the Holy Land. and Ukraine and to give an increased their presence is an' essential sign to this well-deservself-confidence that the holy places are "not only ing church, which was able to offer history and archeology. but cona heroic testimony to its Catholic tain a message that can and must faith in particularly'difficult cirbe understood."

He said "the continuous and cumstances," Navarro-Valls said.

Although the Ukrainian Catholic .numerous presen'ce of pilgrims Church was outlawed in 1946, it constitutes a moral and spiritual has an estimated 5 million believsupport for. loc.al Christians. who ers in the Soviet Union. are so sorely tried." The letter was Over the past two years, the quoted inreports by Vatican Radio and Italian newspapers June 10. church's bishops, clergy and faithPatriarch Sabbah said he was ful have publicly declared their making his appeal "above all faith and have recovered about because of the situation created 1,000 of the 4,000 churches they after the political events that have had prior to 1946. involved the Holy Land."

Only seven of the parishes are The last three years have seen a legally registered with the governPalestinian uprising suppressed by ment, but authorities have not Israeli occupation forces. Hundreds interfered with services at the of young Palestinians have been others: ... killed, as well as some Israelis.

The takeover of churches being This spring, Jerusalem was the used by the Russian Orthodox has center of religious controversy led to tensions and allegations of when a group of Jewish settlers, violence in the Ukraine. backed by Israeli government The work of a commission formfunds, tried to move into the ed by the Vatican and the Moscow Christian sector of the city.

Patriarchate to assign use of church Christian leaders protested by buildings was disrupted in March closing Christian holy places for when Ukrainian Catholic Archone day. The number of visitors bishop Volodymyr Sterniuk of has since declined, observers said.

Lvov walked out in protest.

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took a position that was too strong and did not give the other participants a chance to present their needs," said Basilian Father Mykhailo Havryliv, a pastor and author in the Ukraine.

"We are ready to present new ways to resolve these problems," Father Havryliv said,during a,June 8 press conference in Rome. He was one of nine Ukrainian Catholic leaders touring Germany and Italy in late May and early June.

"We now call upon the Moscow Patriarchate, in this time of its own changes and restructuring, to open a new chapter in its relations with the Ukrainian Catholic Church," they said in a statement.

"Without religious liberty and equality for all, there can be religious liberty and equality for none," the June 8 statement said.

The delegation of Ukrainian bishops from the Ukraine will be led by Archbishop Sterniuk: Bishop Sofron Dymterko of Ivano-Frankovsk, formerly called the Diocese of Stanisloviv; and Bishop Ivan Semedi of Uzhgorod and Mukachevo.

Another question likely to' be discussed at the meeting is the status and assignment of the 10 clandestinely ordained bishops recognized by Ukrainian Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, the Romebased major archbishop of Lvov.

He wasn't guilty VATICAN CITY (CNS) Hungary has annulled the life sentence given Hungarian Cardinal J ozsef Mindszenty in 1949, reported Vatican Radio.

The cardinal. convicted in the early days of communist' rule on controversial charges of treason, espionage and illegal money changing, came to symbolize Catholic opposition to the communist government.

The government's decision was based on a new law allowing review of the arbitrary trials' conducted under the previous communist rule, said Vatican Radio.

Cardinal Mindszenty was temporarily freed during a popular uprising in 1956 and made it to the U.S. embassy before Soviet troops crushed the uprising. He was granted asylum in the embassy and stayed there until 1971 when, under Vatican pressure, he agreed to leave Hungary. He died in Vienna in 1975.

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Kevorkian, 62, told The New York Times that he did not commit murder because Mrs. Adkins pushed the button that administered the fatal drugs. All he did, he said, was insert the tubes through whic~ the drugs flowed.

After Kevorkian dripped a saline solution through the tube, Mrs. Adkins pushed a button that released thiopental, which caused unconsciousness. The machine after a minute stopped the thiopental flow, replacing it with potassium chloride, which stops the heart and brings death within minutes.

Condemnations of the physicianassisted suicide were quick and many.

Vincentian Father John Gouldrick, director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said in a written statement, "The immorality of suicide and physicianassisted suicide is clear.... Noone was enriched by (Mrs.. Adkins') decision or that of Dr. Kevorkian" in assisting in the act.

We have to face a basic fact of life: sickness is always burdensome to some degree," Father Gouldrick said. "By prematurely terminating her life, Mrs. Adkins has prevented others from carrying her burden and becoming more human in the process."

Dr. Joseph R. Stanton of Needham, Mass., a member of the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, said in a written statement that "it is easier to sell death induction if it is the doctor rather than a thug who pulls the trigger."

Stanton said, "It is worth remembering in this hour that the medicalized killing of helpless patients in the Third Reich was judged by this nation at Nuremberg to be a 'crime against humanity.' Is nof once in a century ·more than enough for a society to stumble willy nilly down the path that leads inevitably to the induced death, homicide of human beings in the back of vans."

Mrs. Adkins died in Kevorkian's Volkswagen van at the campground.

Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, told The Washington Post that the episode was "a.moral outrage" and "a rash, imprudent action."

Christine Cassel, a professor at the University of Chicago Medical Center, told The Washington Post she understood the situations of persons who have no hope of recovery who want to die, but asked "Is 'it really OK to kill someon~ you have known for a half ali hour?"

Kevorkian and Mrs. Adkins met over a meal at a nearby restaurant shortly before the suicide at which Kevorkian gave his consent to her· wish to commit suicide. Mrs. Adkins had learned of Kevorkian and his machine from articles about him.

"What if she was misdiagnosed?"

Ms. Cassel said. "She could have had many years of productive life left. What he (Kevorkian) did really cannot be condoned."

Mrs. Adkins' husband, Ron, told a Portland television station that ".it's not a matter of how long you hve but the quality of the life you live, and it was her life and her decision and she chose."

But James Bopp Jr., general counsel to the National Right to Life Committee, said, "You can-

. not accept the quality of life as a standard, First you withdraw the respirators, then the food and then you actively kill people. It's a straight line from one place to the others."

A poll issued by USA Today June 8 said 68 percent of 724 people polled by telephone said there are circumstances in which the terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives.

In other questiosn, 28 percent said Kevorkian should be charged in Mrs. Adkins' death, while 19 percent said he should lose his medical license.

In a 1987 article, Kevorkian said he fully expected to be arrested after supervising the death of his first patient, but would defend himself in court to force government, the public and organized medicine to face the issue.

An Oakland County Circuit Court judge last week issued a temporary restraining order telling Kevorkian to stop using the machine and to not use any other means to assist in a suicide.

Unlike most states, Michigan has no law against assisting suicide, but Oakland County Prosecutor Richard Thompson said his office was investigating whether other charges may be brought against Kevorkian.

Author praises Catholic schools BALTIMORE(CNS) - Across Baltimore's airwaves can be heard best-selling author Tom Clancy talking about the benefits of his Catholic school education.

Clancy, author of the novel "The Hunt For Red October," is just one of about 25 successful Catholics, including some known around' the country, making radio spots touting Catholic schools. . It's part of a marketing effort started last year by the Baltimore archdiocesean school department to beef up enrollment.

Clancy attended Catholic grade and high school and Jesuit-run Loyola College, all in Baltimore.

He told The Catholic Review, archdiocesan paper, that when the school department asked him to do a radio spot, he agreed because he got a "very good education" from Catholic schools.

Part of Clancy's radio spot goes as follows: "Maybe I didn't come up with the idea for 'The Hunt for Red October' while I was in Catholic school, but I will say my Catholic education taught me the value of thinking for myself."

Among others doing the ads are ABC-TV sportscaster Jim McKay, a Baltimore city councilman, business executives and a local television news anchorman.

The _phones have been "ringing off the hook" since the commercials began to run, said Catholic school officials.

"We have had tremendous response in terms of phone calls:; said Lawrence Callahan, archdiocesan superintendent of Catholic schools.

Doreen Klose, director of the marketing effort, said that high school ·open houses last fall had greatly increased attendence due to the radio spots.

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Fall River Dominican Fathers honored The Dominican Fathers of 51.

Anne's Priory and Shrine, Fall River, were honored by the French Institute of Assumption College at a banquet held in Worcester June

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JESUIT FATHER Daniel Berrigan, 69, poet and peace activist, has taken up a ministry to AIDS patients and has made a connection between that work and his longstanding antinuclear stand.

In the patients' deaths, he said in a recent interivew, he sees a message about the plight of the nation, with its current nuclear weapons capability and its continued research to further nuclear armament.

"They are telling us about the death of a lot more than themselves," he said. "They are a message about a culture embracing death and huckstering death."

Father Berrigan was formerlya parttime volunteer at a home for ·incurable cancer patients. But more recently he has assiste:d AIDS patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, run by the Sisters of Charity and the archdiocese of New York.

His latest book, "Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS," is based on his experience.

As a way of building friendship, the priest sometimes brings AI DS patients to his apartment in a Manhattan building where members of his Jesuit community live, and cooks a meal for them. He vis. its them in their apartments, too, when they are well enough to be out of the hospital.

Father Berrigan said he sometimes is asked for Communion, the rite of anointing or some other priestly ministry, but that he mostly helps patients and visits with them.

Father Berrigan spoke of the strain of continually seeing young men who had become his friends "dying out of time." But he said the "real heroes" were those working fulltime in AIDS ministry without the respite he finds in his other activities. (CNS photo)

A certificate of merit was read by the chancellor of Assumption College, Rev. Wilfrid J. Dufault, A.A. and presented by Dr. Claire Quintal, directress of the French Institute and a member of France's Legion of Honor.

The certificate, written in French, reads in part as follows: "In presenting this certificate of merit, the French Institute of Assumption

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in our schools Bishop Connolly Students at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, recently cast ballots to select student government members' for 1990-91.

EJected student body officers were Philip Nadeau, president; Ryan Doyle, vice-presid'e'1t; Eric Belanger, secretary;. and Eri~ 'stubbert, treasurer.

Class officers, in the same order, are: , S'eniors: Amy AI1Jleid!l, Christopher Condon, Christiana; Carroll, Jodie Medeiros. Juniors: Greg Czarko~ski, Mered"it'h Lowe, Jane Peterson, Joel Andrade: Sophomores: Mike qonnelly, Catherin~ Martin, Katie' Abrams, Tommy Pavao. .*.

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- Muffy Merrick, Christina Fasy; coaches' awards - Meredith Lowe, Anne Conforti Softball: outstanding player Missy Iacovelli; coaches' awardTami Theroux Baseball: S MCall-stars - Matt Palma, Michael Gendreau, 'Robert Kennedy, Conrad Paquette; MVPs - Gendreau, Kennedy; unsung hero - Scott Tripp; coaches' award - Paquette; league umpires' sportsmanship award and scholarship' -Gendreau " Baseball was Connolly',s most successful spring sport, with the Cougars finishing secondin SMC Divisio,n II ,and qualifying for tournament play for the first time since 1984, The team has advanced to the sectional finals, the highest of a~y Connolly' baseball tea~. '

JACQUELINE VITOR, a student at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, was the winner of a design-a.:Tshirt contest sponsored by the Diocesan Department of Ed'u"cation for Catho.\ic Schools Week. The idea originated with Ka!hleen A. Burt; principal of SS Peter and Paul School, Fall.

River, and the contest was open to all students in diocesan elementary schools. Congratulating the winner is her principal, Sister Adelaide Furtado, SSD. Second place went to Julie Solomon· of Dominican Academy, Fal~ River, and third to Raleigh Dugal of St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet. InaIl, 39 students ,submitted designs.

Bishop Connolly honored its spring athletes at an awards ceremony June 5. The highlight of the Bis~opStang evening was the presentation of seven special awards by athletic Bishop Stang High School jundirector Cindy DeCosta. Brian' ior Erin Hayden will study converRamos was the recipient of an sational Russian and biomedical outstanding achievement award ethics during a seven-week cbllegeand Alanna Coffey and Jeffrey prep program at Brown University Conroy were named scholar-aththis summer. Ranked first in her letes of the year: Noreen Daly and class at the North Dartmouth Kevin Aguiar received sportsman- School, she was this year's recipToday is the last day of school at ship awards and Keri Hanley and ient of the Harvard College Book Notre Dame School; Fall River.

Michael Gendreau were mimed Award.

Students will attend Mass and ... .* .* .* athletes of the year. receive their report cards before Eleven students who had been The boys' winter track squad dismissal. captured their third state indoor selected as athletes of the month A number of students received during the 'school yea'r received class 'D' title in the'last four years recognition in recent contests, medals. and the boys' basketball team 'Awards for individual sports advanced to the quarterfinals of, Malinda Costa of grade 3 created follow. stat,e play to highlight the winter, a poster entitled "Everyone Needs Plants" for an Earth Day poster sports season, Golf: Outstanding golfer contest.

Her entry was displayed Coach Mike O'Brien's harriers Craig Bernat at Chestnut Hill Mall April7-May were led by John Ford (high jump, Sailing: appreciation awards 7, First-grader Nicole Carrier won high hurdles); Kevin Dakin (shotAmy Gerrior, Jason Ryan put), Adam Braillard (mile), Matt $50 in a supermarket Easter poster Tennis: MVPs - Kyle Costa, contest for kindergarten through Danielle Jusseaume; most im- ,Sullivan (1,000), and the'relay team grade 6. of Braillard, Chris Brady, Mike proved - Nicole Raymond ,Lionel Desrosiers, a third grader, Track: most valuable runners- Silva, and Peter Clark to garner a awarded a certificate of excelwas top honors. tie for the state's Brian Ramos, Jeanne McLaughlin; lence by Dale Johnson, president The basketball team used a pressCara McDermott; SMC all-stars ofthe International Reading Asso- Brian Ramos, Jeanne Mc- ing/ running style employing 10 or ciation, for his entry in a nationLaughlin, Muffy Merrick, Mere- more players per quarter to finish wide essay contest on How Impordith Lowe, Jen Amigone, Catherine at 13-7, Coach Al Catelli's crew tant Books and Reading Are to defeated arch-rival Fairhaven in Torphy; rookie of the year Me. Catherine Torphy; most improved ,the tourney's opening round before The first-place winner in the - Katie Abrams; unsung heroes bowing to 3rd seed and 18-2 Medrecent' grade 4 science 'fair was way, in overtime, .

Nicole Cote for her project on the hedgehog. Second-place winners wer'e Matthew Valero, Michael Corriveau and Gary Ouellette. In On June 10, St. John the Evanthird place were Stephanie Menard, gelist School, Attleboro, graduated Leanne Berube and'Nicole Manci-' Sales . And Service 34 students du~ing a'lit,urgy 'Of .

-. . thanksgivi'rig celebrat~d at SC John ~Ci~gest n\n recent field \rips, I the Evangelist· <;:hur~h by pastor visited Charlton Memorial Hos'piMsgr, Daniel F. Hoye.

Diplomas were awarded,by~prin-: tal and grade 3 toured St. Anne's RCA'· ZENITH ~ SyLVANIA H ospit'al during .Nati'onal' 'Childcipal_Sistl;r Martha ,Mul,ligan.

1196' BEDF'ORO STREET ren and Hospitals Week. F:irst and RSM .. · , , " fourth graders visited the East End. A number of stu'dertts received 673-9721 branch of th'e Fall'River Liorary' special awards.~' ;" ., .Leslie Araujo. was .honored"for' for a'tour and story oour. Stu'de'nts in kin'dergarten. through" grade 3, perfect attendance and Christopher Lange\;in "receiVed the' ·St.,' John~ attended a' recent':performance 'of ;parish aWard. Holly Grochmal', TheVelveteen Rabbit at tile Prov.;.COL'-EG~ $TUDENTS; > received the Jean Car,roJI award' idence Performing Aits Center, .and the Daug'hters, of, the Ameri- , and grade 4 through 6 saw The ,Starting Pay.,$11.05 "can Revolution award for Ameri-' Wind in the Willows at the Zeiter" ,Full/Part Tirmi Summer ,', ion The·atre. " can history.

Mark Damiano, MichaeIKotch Recent ed'ucatiOl:u~1p'roj~cts have~ Positions Available, , :, "and Stevany Tortorella were recipincluded'four sessions on drug and , Immediate'IY, " ients of both Who's Who Achieve-' alcohol abuse for grades 2 through 'ment A wards and Presidential: 4 presented by Sharon Carey of ,Full Training.

Academic Fitness Awa,rds. Steven' the Fall River Public School Advancement Possible.

Chouinard was also ~ Who'~,Who Department and a 10-week pro'MUST ARTICULATE! ' award winner, and Evan Ruzanski gram on fire safety -for, grades I, 3 received a fourth Pnrsidential, and 5 spons.ored by the Fire (508) 999:.3784 Academic Fitness Award.

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Grade I students wrote and illustrated several books as part of their reading/ writing experiences, and third graders participated in a Mother's Day' contest sponsored by the Fall River Herald News.

Each third grader wrote a letter telling why his or her mother should be named Mom of the Year, and all of the letters were pu blished in the Herald News.

The third graders are also involved in a 'Writing Pals prograrn' with the Rancho School in Livermore, Calif. Their teacher, Claire Allard, visited California in February, where she exchanged ideas with Rancho School students and teachers, who made a video for her to bring back to Fall River. The program has been a success at Notre Dame for four years, and several students have continued to correspond after leaving grade 3.

As a religion project on "loving your neighbor," third graders made cards for elderly shut-ins. The project included a visit from a Florida senior citizen, who told the students about his retirement state.

The school earned three computers, two disc .drives, two printers and 20 comput,er programs through the S'top & SliQP register receipts Program.. " ,o.n May 30, Notre.Dame'hosted hot .dog lunch a'rid farewell' program for pri,ncipal Sister.

Claudette , I • Lapointe" RJ M ,,:-vho Will assume new duties in France in ~eptember. , SO kindergarten' students. held S\epping-.Up ceremony on,~ti':le. 8, a~~ eigh,th graders gra,d~ated With a, Mass at Notie Dame Church on Mo~,~.~y. '.'

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Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, recently presented academic, extracurricular and special awards to underclassmen.

Students were honored for participation in such activities as Students Against Drunk Driving, the Feehan yearbook, band, debate, the French Honor Society and the Math League. Awards were also' given for perfect attendance and for excellence in academic subjects.

Several students merited special awards: college book prizes went to Brett O'Brien, ~rown U niversity; Jonathan Cherry, Holy Cross; Marjorie [lacuna, Salve Regina College; and Lisa Houghton, Smith College.""

For achievemerit in mathematics and' sci'ence, Keith Collins received the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Award'and the Bausch Lomb Award. ' Deirdre Carraher and Todd Carges were wi'1ners of "I Dare You'" lea'dership awards, and faculty member Virginia Jolin was named a: Tandy Technology out:s'tandl.~g teacher. .

H'oly Name School There were several days of graduation related activities to celebrate the grad'uation of 22 students from Holy Name:: School, Fall River. On June 6, the class spent a day at Frank Davis Resort in Connecticut. Swimming, boating, games and many other activities made the day a memorable one, Class Night, which was held on June 8 was an enjoyable, sentimental, and moving event. The evening began with a Junior Achievement Bowl in which the finalists, of a previously held bowl competed for the championship.

The winners received Junior Achievement jackets and all participants received pens. The graduates then presented a class will, class prophesy and slide show, all of which amused and delighted the audience offamily, friends, clergy, faculty and staff.

A special thanks was extended to Mrs. Lorraine Smith for her dedication and help given to this class. The yearbook was dedicated to Joseph Saulino, Holy Name School fourth grade teacher who died in May. The honor was accepted by Atty. John Saulino, brother of Joseph Saulino, After the graduates presented the faculty with gifts ofappreciation, Catherine Assad, mother of an eighth grader, sang a song dedicated to the teaching staff. Refreshments, signing, of yearbooks, and tears topped off the evening.

'Graduation; preceded by a Mass at Holy Name Church,'took place on the evening of June 1'. The homilist, Father Thomas I:rechette, gaVe his ,thoughts on the; special C.atho,lic, ed~cati(Jn., prOVided at H(Jly .Name· School. He told the stu.dems,hpwspecial they are, both individu!llly and.asa cJass. Appreciation to the faculty for their dedication to quality education was also expressed. Readings for the Mass were done by the'graduates.

"Diploriias we~e p'rese!1t~d to the gra~uates by V~ry Reverend Francis Mahoney, pastor; Father Frechette, 'parochial vicar; Patricia Wingate, p"riilcipal;:and Elizabeth Lavigne, eighth' grade 'homeroom teacher,

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I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Didn't really mean to see you again But I only pass by as a friend All of this time I stayed out of sight I started wondering why Now I wish it would rain down Down on me I wish, I wish it would rain Rain down on me now Yes, I wish it would rain down Down on me Yes, I wish it would rain on me Said you didn't need me in your life I guess you were right I never meant to cause you no pain But it looks like I did it again So your hurt is gone Mine's hanging on inside I know it seems to me now That I'm just waiting on your sign I realize that I let you down But now in my heart of hearts I'm never going to get you back again Written and sung by Phil Collins, (c) 1990 by Atlantic Recording Corp.

WHAT HAPPENS when the vocal style and powerful choral romance is over for one person, work in the refrain. From a but not for the other? musical standpoint it's a winner.

This appears to be the situaThe song gives little information in "I Wish it Would Rain tion on what happened to cause Down." The song is filled with the separation b4t it is clear feeling, energized by Collins' that it was only one person's

decision. The other realizes that "you didn't nc:ed me in your life," but his hurt keeps "hanging on inside." He's been "waiting on your sign" that she's changed her mind, but his hope is dying. He is left with depression and pain.

How do you get out of such a state? To go on without someone you love is very difficult and seems overwhelming if you think about the future. It is helpful to focw; only on one day at a time.

Cry when m:eded, but if possible share your tears with someone who cares. Even if at first they only help a bit, do some things that have brought you satisfaction in the past.

While it is important eventually to accept the loss, it does not mean that pain should dominate your life. Part of getting beyond depression is to act in non-depressed ways.

The song implies that the two continue to sec: and talk to each other. Sometimes such encounters cannot be helped, but in general it· is better to avoid being with the past romantic partner. Time and distance do help the healing process.

No matter what constructive steps are taken, at times we will feel like wishing it would rain down on us. During these times, try to have faith in yourself and in God who sees our tears and sends strength for discovering a new life.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, Ind., 47635)

Going out to dinner Maybe you'd like to take a date to an elegant restaurant. Or maybe a prospective employer might take you to lunch or dinner to look you over.

So, just for the experience, let's go out to dinner right now - with you as the host.

First, you should make a reservation in plenty of time. During holidays, it is best to call several . days in advance.

Simply phone the restaurant and tell the person who answers that you would like "to reserve a table for two (or four or six) at 7:30 on this coming Thursday.'~ The person will ask for your name and probably your phone number.

On the night of your big dinner, arrive at the restaurant on time.

Tell the head waiter or hostess who greets you ·that you have a reservation for two in your name, then wait for him or her to lead you to the table assigned to you. . As you walk to your table, check the noise level. If the music is loud and spirited, and people are talking in lively and loud voices, go with the flow; but if you hear soft classical music and people are speaking softly, go with the flow again.

If you open the menu and your eye falls on some words in French, do not panic. In most places a description of the item in English is immediately under the French in smaller print, and you simply ask for the steak or whatever. ..

Usually there are several groupings of foods. If you wish, you can order an appetizer, a. salad, an entree (that's the main dish), and a dessert. Or you can skip one or more of them. Maybe none of the

appetizers appeals to you. Or maybe you'll be too full for dessert.

What about all the knives and forks? A good rule is to work from the outside in. Since the salad will arrive early, use the first fork for it.

When the entree comes, use the second fork. .

If there's a very small knife, it's for your butter, and you lay it on the small dish provided for your -roll. If you order steak, the waiter will likely bring you a knife especially for it, one with a serrated blade and maybe a wooden handle.

If you order soup, you will get a large spoon for it. Don't scoop the soup directly into your mouth.

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The $1000 scholarships went this year to Robyn MedeirosandJoseph Oliveira.....Recipients of the $500 grants were Lisa Curry, Michelle Demers, Sarah Deston, Steven Ferrara, Carolyn Foley, Daniel Houle, Carla Johnson, Sara McKenna, Marc Medeiros, Adam Pelletier and Janine Vales.

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance sug·gested; 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-separa~e 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 list· ings, which may differ from the New York network schedulessupplied to The Anchor.

tension in a few scenes involving wild animals but otherwise it is a welcome, gentle experience for the young and adults who enjoy the beauty of nature. A I ,G "Another 48 Hrs."(Paramount): Another teaming of Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte as the convict and the cop in a savage sequal revolving around their efforts to avoid extinction by hit men and uncover the identity of the drug kingpin who wants them dead. Billed as an action-comedy, director Walter Hill's film offers little humor but revs up violence to the max, with a steadily accelerating pace of brutal shootings at close range that take precedence over such niceties as storyline and characterizations.

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Normally two $1000 scholarships are awarded annually, but this year an additional II scholarships of $500 each were presented in recognition of support given Mark at Case High School, Swansea.

Mark, who would have graduated this year, was honored by his class- . mates.immediately following graduation ceremonies, when they placed a wreath on his grave. Many girls also laid roses at his head~ stone.

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SACRED HEART, FR Women's Guild executive board and standing committees meeting 7:30 p.m. June 19, parish hall.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Calix meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday, parish center.

EMMAUS/GALILEE Annual family picnic noon-6 p.m.

July 8; Mass at I p.m. Information: Maggi Farren, 724-3795.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Annual scholarship dinnner 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, parish center; 1990 scholarship winners will be annolJnced. Children's baptisms are scheduled for the last Sunday of each month; catechesis meeting with parents and sponsors is held On first Sundays.

HOLY NAME, FR Children's. family Mas.s 10 a.m.

Sunday. Year-end Mass9a.rn. Monday, school. Youth grol,lP appreciation dinner for parents 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, school. Boys entl;:ring fourth grade or older may sign up this weekend t.o become altar servers.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Newly-elected Ladies' Guild officers are Helen DeMarco, president; Margaret Hickey, vice-president; Mildred Mullen, secretary; Ann Woods, treasurer. Men's Club' officers for 1990-91 are Donald Dunn, president; Hank Caruso, vicepresident; Jack Shea, secretary; Charlj:s Stephens, treasurer.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Catechist appreciation liturgy and buffet at St. Theresa's 5 tonight.

Seminarian Andre Fa.ria will speak on vocations at Masses this weekend.

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THE AMERICAS A group is being organized on the Cape; information: Mary Sheehan, 888-2867"evenings.

ST. JAMES, NB .

Vincentians meeting 7 p.m. June 20, parish center; food drive June 23-24. .

O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE CCD registration for new students for 1990-91 continues through June 30 at rectory.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Timothy Graham is the winner of the OLV Guild Fr. Tom McMorrow Scholarship; Patrick Clark is the winner of the Vincent and Rose Curran Scholarship.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN New altar servers will be commissioned at 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

Adult discussion group last meeting of season 7 p.m. June 21 at the home of Larry and Elaine Ferreira.

Addicted to Love, a free program on co-dependency, will be offered at St. . Luke's Hospital 7 p.m. June 20.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE RCIA catechists workshop 7:30 p.m. June 18; catechumens class 7:30 p.m. June 25. New parishcouncil officers are John Tolchinsky, president; Paul Becker, vice-president; Helen Gillis, secretary.

Women's Club installation gala June 19, Wianno Club.

PASTORAL CARE EDUCATION PROGRAM The Diocesan Office of Pastoral Care for the Sick will offer a pastoral ministry education program for those who wish to serve the sick and elderly of the diocese at home, in nursing homes and in hospitals. The program will begin in September and run through April 1991. Information and application forms are available from Sister Shirley Agnew, RSM, assistant director of pastoral care, at PO Box 600, Pocasset 02559, tel. 564-4771. Application deadline is June 30.

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, HYANNIS Donations of new infant-size sleepers, undershirts and blankets are needed for unplanned pregnancy and adoption programs; items may be left at the office 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. The next In Memory Still bereavement group for those who have lost a.Ioved one through suicide will begin July 18; those interested may contact Bob Fournier, 771-6771.

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·L.SALETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO Teach the Children Well I, enrichment program for catechists, July 9-13; facilitated by Rev. Gilles Genest, M.S., Mrs. Felicia McKnight and Sr. Patricia Cocozza. Children may participate in a concurrent Bible school. Information: 222-8530.

ST. MARY, MANSFIELD All night prayer vigil for vocations and world peace 7:30 p.m.

June 22-7:30 a.m. June 23. Begins with Mass to the Sacred Heart and ends with Mass to the Immaculate Heart.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Father George Almeida will celebrate the II a.m. Mass June 24 for his mother, Anna Almeida, and in thanksgiving for his 25 years of ministry. Annual Feast and festival this weekend; activities noon-II p.m.

Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Sunday. First procession 6 p.m. Saturday; Sunday procession following II a.m. Mass.

ST. ANNE,FR Newly-elected officers of the St. Anne Senior Citizen Club are Herve Tremblay, president; Albert Lavoie, vice-president; Elphege Minville, secretary and Raymond Brodeur, treasurer.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS NB area meeting 7-9 p.m. June 25, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth.

Atty. Bl;:tty Ussach Schwartz will speak on legal questions regarding divorce. Information: 994-8676 or 998-1313.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Feast of Corpus Christi: exposition of Blessed Sacrament following 8:30 a.m. Mass until 10:30 a.m. service of the Word and benediction.

SACRED HEART FEAST The Men of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary ofthe NB area invite all to a five-hour vigil in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus beginning at 7 p.m. June 22 and ending with a concelebrated Mass at midnight, St. Jos.eph's Church~ Adam and Spring Sts., Fairhaven.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Emmaus retreat June 15-17.

Diocesan priest study week June 18-21.

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Volunteers needed to work in St. Vincent de Paul store during the week; see Antoine Garand for information.

CATHEDRAL, FR Feast of Corpus Christi: exposition of Blessed Sacrament following 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday until 4:30 p.m. benediction service.

ST. PATRICK, FR Holy hour 7 p.m. Sunday.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR School faculty day of recollection 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday. Feast of Corpus Christi: exposition of Blessed Sacrament 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Sunday. Acolyte rehearsal 11:30 a.m. tomorrow.

PRO-LIFE ROSARY Knights of Columbus and LaSalette will conduct a living rosary for pro-life tomorrow. Program begins at I :30 p.m. with guest speaker Msgr. Daniel Hoye; Mass at 4 p.m. celebrated by Father Robert Kasynski. Information: Mel Gonsalves, 548-5774; Ed Enos, 540-3207.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Knights of Columbus will attend 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday; communion breakfast follows.

Summer films seek youth audience WASHINGTON (CNS) Hollywood is spending megabucks to lure movie viewers - especiaIIy young ones - into theaters for summer 1990.

But the effort is "troubling," said' Henry Herx, director of the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

"The fact is there are few pictures really for young people among the predicted blockbusters," Herx said.

To attract the traditional summer vacation audience, studios have engaged in an unprecedented spending spree, laying out anywhere from $30 million to $60 million per' picture to promote such films as "Dick T racy" with Warren Beatty, "Total Recall" with Arnold Schwar~ zenegger. and "Days of Thunder" with Tom Cruise. .

Sequels to past hits also· are rolling.onto the screen, such as:" Back to the Future Part III" and "Gremlins II: The. New Batch."· Videocassette promoters likewise are ready to profit from vacation movie-viewing. Among their summer rental offerings are "Harlem Nights" with Eddie Murphy and "Back to the Future Part II." Herx in a.n interview said summer movie fare poses problems for more than one reason.

In the past, summer movies have been "family films," but in rece'nt years studios have substituted "these dumb adolescent movies" that usually have some adult fare.

The USCC classified both as A-

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III - adults. "Back to the"Future" was' criticized for "implicit acceptance of sexual promiscuity as standard teen-age behavior."

"Gremlins" was criticized· for its "fierce, violent, savage sight gags."

Today, almost every film that studios intend as traditional family drama has "implications of sexual hanky-panky and hardedged fright and violence," Herx said.

It is contemporary HoIIywood's "idea of general audience appeal films," he said, but "many of these aren't good for people of any age, especially teen-agers."

The introduction of adult material in films that the Motion Picture Association of America rates as PG - parental guidance suggested - is "troubling," said Herx.

Right now, with many of its PG movies, Hollywood is promoting a "hothouse environment" in which "a kid goes directly from childhood' into an adult world."

Movie executives acknowledge that the youth market is their primary one in summer.

Roger Birnbaum, president of pt:oduction at 20th Century Fox, which· this summer will release "Die Hard II," starring Bruce Willis, put it succinctly: "Kids can see thr,ee pictures a week. There are no school nights."

Paul Eisele, president· of The Fairfield Group Inc., a media analysis company with headquarters in Westport, Conn., said that "the biggest audiences are kids," and said that is why studios release their pictures during vacation.

Clarity "It's up to us to bring this authenticity, this simplicity, this directness, this unburdened clarity to our looking. If such a thing as living life fuIIy interests you then ifs up to you to learn about it and live ie'-Joan Atwater