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By MaricE: Hickey The summer blockbuster season is here!

But alas, where can you find that rarity in entertainment which offers substance over rampagingdinosaur special effects; less wanton obliteration than the latest Terminator outing; and high ideals over c1iffhanging !;tunts?

Which offers, say, a catchy blend of music, nostalgia and humoreven an extra-ordinary appearance by the diocesan ordinary?

Fear not-family entertainment is not extinct. It was spotted recently in Mashpee at the latest vehicle of Priests for Life (Part Trois).

That melodious sound emanating from Cape Cod last Sunday was the doing of 10 musicallyinclined clerics-seven diocesan priests and three seminarianswhose talents at times also leaned precariously toward the comedic.

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VAT1CAN CITY (CNS) - In the new"Catechismofthe C 0 olic Chur()h" we learn that . tq.rTI;initYl;;i~ifelUini· hierarchy. .· , i ; t : Is this a revolution in Catholic teachjfigs? No. grammar rules of French, agender-obviQl.l~langua The ori&inal tl~Xt9{!he cate9~!~,~,app '.

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COLD FEET were not a problem for Priests for Life, performing last Sunday in Christ the King parish center, Mashpee, where their sandals and rendition of St. Francis' Prayer for Peace paid tribute to sandaled Franciscan Bishop Sean O'Malley.

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Charity, justice linked 1to Eucharist SEVILLE, Spain (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, in Spain for a sixday visit, said the country's increasingly secular society needs to rediscover traditional religious values - starting with love for the Eucharist.

Leading ceremonies in Seville June 12-13 to close the 45th International Eucharistic Congress, the pope said the church's social work is inseparably linked to celebration of the Mass.

Love for the Eucharist inevitably leads to acts of charity and justice, he said.

"One cannot receive the body of Christ and feel distant from the hungry and the thirsty, from the exploited, the outsiders, the imprisoned or the sick," he told some 300,000 people at a Mass June 13.

To illustrate his point, the pope later traveled to Dos Hermanas outside Seville to bless a new church-run home for the aged, where he hugged elderly residents and chatted with them briefly. The center, built on the grounds of a Jesuit rectory, houses 48 poor people who had nowhere else to go.

"These people are so happy.

They never dreamed the pope would come to see them," said a nun who works at the residence.

The pope stressed that the social projects connected with the Eucharistic Congress - including a drug rehabilitation program and centers for the sick - were not merely symbolic add-ons.

"These works of charity are not something superfluous and incidental, but represent the very demand of the sacrament," he said.

The Eucharist is an "action"

sacrament that orients Catholics toward love, he said, and leads to a recognition that modern society must better respond to the needy in its midst.

The pope cited in particular Spain's growing unemployment, estimated at 22 percent of the work force. The lack of jobs "is placing many families in situations of anguish" and raises basic ethical questions about the economic system, he said.

It was the pope's fourth trip to Spain, and he was greeted warmly - first by King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia, then by large crowds that turned out in the southern Spanish city to cheer the papal motorcade.

The pope kept the focus on the Eucharist, and his first major event was adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Seville's Gothic cathedral, the fourth largest in the world.

He watched as 10 boys wearing plumed sombreros and striped cost limes performed the "Seises," a traditional dance of the Andalusian region, in front of the Eucharist. The dance combines courtly movements and music, accompanied by castanets.

At a Mass the safT\e day, the pope ordained 37 priests and said

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the whole church was "filled with joy" at their vocations. Among them was a disabled Spaniard who managed to get in and out of his wheelchair to join the new priests in prostrating themselves before ,the pope.

The pope's sermon outlined the elements of a "good pastor": promoting the Eucharist as the center of church life, a willingness to spend much time hearing confessions, preaching inspired by solid church teaching and respect for the promise of priestly celibacy.

He said the pries~ must be merciful and "teach people that God loves them infinitely and is always waiting for them."

The pope also announced that the next International Eucharistic Congress will be held in 1997 in Wroclaw, Poland. He said he was happy that a former communist country of Eastern Europe will be able to host such a meeting.

The Seville congress brought together 12.000 people from more than 70 countries. Official delegates, appointed by their national hierarchies, numbered 7,000. The rest registered as individual participants.

Participants were continually challenged to see the Eucharist as the key to a vigorous evangelization that includes concern for solving social problems.

The Eucharist is the "summons and stimulus" to defeat apartheid, ethnic cleansing, the "ages-old oppression of women" and child exploitation, said Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila, Philippines.

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50th anniversary NOTRE DAME,lnd.(CNS)-I.ooking back on 50 years of priestho'ld. Holy Cross Father Thcodore M. Hesburgh recalled some "magic moments," such as anointing his mother as she died or celebrating Masscs at the South Pole. in China and in Moscow.

Prcsidcnt of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987 and now its presidcnt emeritus, Father Hesburgh celebratcd a recent jubilee in the university's Sacred Heart Basilica, wherc he was ordained in June 1943.

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"The poor of the Third World are getting poorer. despite the rhetoric about development. ... It's killing the people and it's killing the earth," said Columban Missionarv Fathcr Sean McDonagh in a sp~ech at DePaul University, in Chicago.

Father McDonagh, who spent 20 years in the Philippines and now teaches in Australia, is author of two books. "To Care for the Earth" and "The Greening of the Earth."

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ren to Third World debt. In the Philippines 40 percent of the state budget goes to foreign creditors, he said.

In -1960, according to a U.N. report he cited, the richest fifth of the world's people were 20 times better off than the poorest fifth., At present rates. by 2000 the richest fifth will be 100 times better off than the poorest fifth.

"The ordinary person in the street would assume that we are quite generous toward the Third World. that we are subsidizing them. The fact is, the opposite is true," Father McDonagh said.

Over a recent eight-year span. he said, there was a net transfer from the South to the North of $480 billion.

"The debt has a boomerang effect on the First World," he said. He argued that it has contributed to increased drug trade. environmental damage and bank failures that taxpayers have to underwrite.

The First World has ethical, legal and theological reasons to ease the Third World's debt burden, he said.

He said that in Scripture "people and the environment have prior rights over the rights of property."

Preparing for British ministry, Polce sets farewell concert Supporters of religious composer, guitarist and singer Jon Polee are sponsoring a concert by him at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June . 26, at the Taunton Expo Center, theformer Taunton Dog Track on Route 44 at the Taunton-Dighton line.

The concert will be a farewell U.S. appearance for the artist, who is moving to England for several years to conduct his ministry of evangelization and music at the invitation of Bishop Ambrose Griffith of the archdiocese of Newcastle upon Tyne and Hexham.

Polee, 45, has been ministering in the northeastern, southern and midwestern United States for nearly 20 years. His area appearances have included many concerts at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, where he has drawn audiences of over 1000 persons.

A native of Providence and now a member of St. Julie Billiart parish, North Dartmouth, Polee's musical career began with rock, blues and solo acoustic performances at area colleges and nightclubs. In 1974 he sang and recorded Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire" with Ken Lyon and Tombstone for Columbia Records. Also included in the album was "Take a Lesson from the Children," a Polee original. In the same year. he decided to leave the field of con-

temporary music for his present ministry, which has taken him to Catholic, Protestant and independent" churches and organizations in the United States and twice to venues in England.

He has opened concerts for Dion DiMucci, Phil Driscoll and Kathy Troccoli and has issued six cassettes of original compositions which present Gospel stories, often in the words of Jesus.

Commenting on his move to England with his wife Debra and six-year-old son David, Polee said "It's an honor to be invited by Bishop Ambrose to move our ministry to England for a time. For me personally, it is encouraging to have support at the heart of the church.

"During years when the ministry went through low times and periods of trial, we were encouraged by the words of Jeremiah 29:11-'For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.'''

Polee added that he hopes to return to the United States occasionally during his time in England, possibly to make concert appearances.

Information on tickets for the June 26 program is available from Tony Medeiros, tel. 824-8378, or Jeanne Boucher. (40 I)767-3343.

STEUBENVILLE,Ohio(CNS) - Some 1,200 Catholic charismatic leaders from 30 states and four foreign countries met in Steubenville earlier this month to exchange views on how God is working throughout the world.

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Word of God community in Ann Arbor, Mich., spoke at the Catholic Charismatic Leaders Conference about a recent visit to Lithuania by a team from FI R E, a Catholic alliance for faith, intercession, repentance and evangelism.

In speaking to the Lithuanian people through an interpreter, "I had nothing but the word of God:' Ms. Shields said. "I read those people passages of Scripture, and the Holy Spirit began to work. I saw people change."

Ms. Shields urged conference participants to rely not on themselves but on their faith in God. "Preach your faith with your life, and watch what happens to your prayer group, your family, your parish community," she said.

Other speakers also stressed the need to put God's plans before one's own ideas. "Rejoice in the fact that he is calling us to do his work," said Bill Beatty, former executive director of the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

Babsie Bleasdell. who founded a Word of Life Prayer Community in Trinidad and Tobago, spoke on her fear of the "new church" after the Second Vatican Council.

"I wanted to go to heaven, and I knew the Catholic Church was the sure way. But the church was changing," she said. But in the end, she added, "my fear of hell was stronger than my resistance to Vatican II. To bend your heart to the church is to bend your heart to God." At a conference Mass, Third Order Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan, president of Franciscan University, suggested ways for charismatic leaders to treasure the word of God in their hearts: seize the word by writing it down, rereading it and memorizing it; pray the rosary which brings together the most important truths of faith; attend Mass and receive Communion often in order to find the deepest meaning of life in the Eucharist.

Budget increased DENVER (CNS) - World Youth Day '93 has increased its budget to accommodate more than 110,000 people who have already signedupfortheAug.II-15event in Denver and the tens of thousands more who are still expected to register. "We underestimated the popularity of the event," said Baltimore Archbishop William H. Keeler, president of World Youth Day '93. Due to the anticipated participation, the U.S. bishops have increased the events's projected budget to $6.5 million, up from a previous $4.5 million based on an estimated 60,000 persons attending the event. None of the events will require admission fees from registrants.

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Mixed' Rlarriage communion OK'd at some vveddings VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican's new ecumenical directory encourages local bishops to consider allowing limited sacramental sharing for couples in a mixed marriage.

The revised norms for ecumenical activity, relea~,ed by the Vatican June 8. do not expand church laws on when a non-Catholic may receive communion but do emphasize local bishops' authority to grant exceptions in very limited circumstances, induding at some weddings, Vatican. officials said.

"We have tried to present our laws. but in the most ecumenical way possible," said Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy. president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. , The council published the "Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism" with papal approval and after consultation with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and with a special commission representing several curial offices.

Five pages of the 100-page document focused on "mixed marriages" between "a Catholic and a baptized Christian who is not in full communion with the Catholic Church."

The document :;aid the perfect sharing of life that should be part of marriage is mort~ easily attained when both partners belong to the same faith, but that the reality of mixed marriages requires that the church reach out w such couples and that it help them see what they share as Christians.

The directory said that ordinarily the wedding of a Catholic and non-Catholic cou:~le takes place outside the context of a Mass to avoid problems <:onnected with eucharistic sharing in the presence of non-Catholic witnesses and guests.

"For a just cause. however, the diocesan bishop may permit celebration of the Eucharist" and may allow the non-Catholic spouse to receive communion "in keeping with the general norms" of the church.

"Although the spouses in a mixed marriage share th<: sacraments of baptism and marriage, eucharistic sharing can only be exceptional," it said. , The decision ilb<lutwhat consti,tutes a sufficient reason for allow" ing eucharistic sharing is left to the local bishop "because healone can" judge some ofthese elementS know', ing the local situation," C'ardinal Cassidy said. ' While the directory cannot ex~ , pand the possibilities presented by canon law, "it is sa.ying 'apply the norms, but in a benevolent way,''' said Msgr. Eleuterio Fortino, undersecretary of the council.

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Obituaries

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Sr. Marie Constant The Mass of Christian Burial was offered yesterday at the chapel of the Dominican Sisters of S1.

Catherine of Sienaon Park Street, Fall River, for Sister Marie Constant St. Amour, 91 ,who died June IS. She was a FalI R'iver native, the daughter 'of the late Honore and Alexina (Provost) S1. Amour, and was a professed sister for 71 years.

During her active career she taught at S1. Anne School, Fall River, and S1. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, as welI as at S1. Peter School, Plattsburgh, NY. Sister S1. Amour is survived by three sisters, Jeannette Whitehouse, Middletown, Conn.; Gertrude Franco, Portland, Conn.; and Marie Ange Bouchard, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Father Keliher The Mass of Christian, Burial was offered Monday, June 14, at St. Mary's Church, Seekonk, for Father Cornelius J. Keliher, who died June 9, on his 86th birthday.

Born in Taunton in 1907, he attended Immaculate Conception grammar school and the former St. Mary's High School in that city. He attended Boston College for two years, then entering St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, NY. He was ordained May 21, 1932, by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy.

He was associate pastor at St.

Patrick's Church, Wareham, OUf Lady of the Assumption, Osterville, and St. Louis, Fall River, before joining the U.S. Navy as a chaplain. He served in the chaplain corps from 1944 to 1946.

Returning to the diocese he wa; assigned as associate pastor at SS. Peter and Paul parish, Fall River, where he remained until 1956, when he was named pastor ofS1. Mary':; parish, Seekonk, where he supervised construction of a new church and catechetical center and where a Father Keliher scholarship fund was established in his honor. He was appointed pastor of St. Mary's, North Attleboro, in 1971, retiring from that post in 1981.

For many years he was modera.. tor of the Diocesan Council 0:" Catholic Nursesand taught at tht: former St. Anne's Hospital School of Nursing. He also served on th(~ Diocesan Board of Education aild as chaplain of Benedict. Circle, North Attleboro Daughters 0:: Isabella.

In retirement, Father Kelihe:lived in South Attleboro. He as.. sisted regularly at weekend Masse:; and at penance services at St, Mary's, Seekonk, where he wa:; pastor for 'IS years, and also took part in preparation of children for reception of the sacraments 0:< reconciliation and first Eucharist.

Father Keliher is survived by a . nephew, Dr. Alan KeliherofTopsfield; and three nieces, Patricia Barlitta of Dedham and Vivien Thompson and Joan Hannon, both of Boston.

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A Happy Event Sneered at by elitists, ridiculed by professionals and dismissed by critics, Norman Rockwell did what he did best; he gave us a picture of ourselves.

Last week the nation celebrated the opening of a special place dedicated to perhaps the most famous and beloved of all American artists. On the outskirts of his Massachusetts town of Stockbridge, there is now a museum housing the largest collection of Rockwell art anywhere.

It's not a hushed and sacrosanct spot but a people's place where men, women and children can come and see themselves without having to depend on so-called art experts to interpret farfetched conglomerations of color or almost incomprehensible forms. In the style of Winslow Homer and in emulation of the Dutch masters, Rockwell brought to canvas the feelings and psyches of people as they reacted to the events in their lives.

America needs more Rockwells and more places in which we may view our culture depicted with vitality and honesty. Too many in the' world of art are far removed from everyday life.

They impart their accolades to what appeals only to the eccentric or the snob. In so doing, they give art a false aura and promote dishonest expressions of appreciation for what one thinks one is supposed to admire. As a result, too many people have been turned off and turned away from true art.

The Rockwell museum is an attempt to bring'art back to the people, who need it, whether or not they realize that they do. In a social order dominated by tech'nology and crass commercialism, appreciation for the arts too often goes by the board.

What this really means is that the man who, in Shakespeare's words, "hath not music in his soul" is in the truest sense losing that soul. Commitment to the arts is measured not by donations and dollars but by the spirit of each art lover.

Too often, in our media-dominated existence, people become drones, enslaving themselves to the forces of secularism in the search for the so-called good life. Trapped by a tunnel vision of their own making, they seldom see real light. The only things that seem to count are making money and buying things.

And there are some supposedly successful people who, after gaining all the toys the world can offer them, seek to buy art.

So often vast private holdings or massive endowments are nothing more than someone's'effort to make up for what he or she has missed in the world of music, painting, architecture or sculpture. Such persons are acquirers, not appreciators.

The urge to create art 'is basic and is found in every civilization. Often in the simplest societies the arts are the most beautiful; indeed, when they truly express a people's soul, they are most apt to be devoid of pretense. They are honest, a ' quality sadly lacking in the lifestyles of too many of us. ' Only in simplicity wedded to personal integrity will we find the room to allow art to be part of our lives. Too much of our living is cluttered, as if we dwelt in the midst of a continuous massive rummage sale. Meanwhile, our failure to nurture the arts has had a devastating effect on our society.

The opening of the Rockwell museum is a welcome ray of hope, reminding us that in spite of all the darkness surround": ing us, there are things that can lift us, if only for a moment, from the indifferent, the violent and" the careless to the peace, joy and beauty that the arts restore to the soul. Let us hope that such happy events will one day surpass the sadness that we too often encounter in daily life.

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Presidential decisions disputed

By Father Kevin J. Harrington A lack of common sense can only be compensated for by an abundance of experience. The early days ofthe new presidential administration have seemed remarkably lacking in both areas. During his first 100 days President Clinton stumbled. in my opinion, when he invoked his powers as commanderin-chief to lift the bans on women in combat and on homosexuals in the armed forces. Not surprisingly., few experienced officers agreed with the president's decisions. Lifting those bans flies in the face of conventional wisdom as well as of years of military experience.

Let us begin by examining the presidents, decision that Secretary of Defense Les Aspin should file legislation permitting women to fly aircraft in combat. Most American prisoners of war during the Vietnam War were pilots and were subjected to horrible tortures. It is hard enough for Americans to stomach the thought of their sons, husbands, fathers' and brothers suffering such a fate, but are we ready to envision the same or worse treatment of our daughters, wives, mothers and sisters?

Clinton also wants the Army and the Marines to'assign women to field artillery and air defense units. No doubt it will be simply a matter of time before the Marines will be required to justify exclusion of females from front-line combat.

Common sense tells us that we should not disregard the physical differences between the genders that bear on their combat capability'. U.S. Olympics team members are chosen purely according to their capabilities and men and women compete separately. If this is considered appropriate when a medal is at stake how much more

should it be taken into account ing the genciers undermined' milwhen human life is at risk! Women itary effectiveness because male have 40 to 50 percent less upper- soldiers spent altogether too much torso muscular strength and 25 to time and effort trying to shield 30 percent less muscular capacity their female counterparts from than men. Little wonder that the the worst effects of battlefield Air Force requires men to run 1.5 conditions. miles in 13 minutes and 20 seconds I do not think society benefits while setting women's time at 15 from trying to make male soldiers minutes and 30 seconds. When change the behavior that makes lives are in jeopardy, who needs a them want to shield their mothers, slower and weaker comrade? wives, daughters and sisters from Israel deployed women in com- harm! bat during its desperate 1948 war Lifting the ban on homosexuals for independence. Because of the in the armed services will not in nation's small population in rela- any way make our military more tion to its larger Arab neighbor, prepared to fight. Daniel T. Bross, women are still subject to the mil- executive director of the AIDS itary draft, but they have never Action Council, recently called for since been intentionally placed in an end to HIV testing by the milcombat situations. itary, saying "Someone's HIV staOne could argue that an excep- tus shouldn't be a determining factionally physically fit woman could tor for a job, and the military is a equal the strength, speed and job." stamina of a male colleague and But a potential enemy does not therefore should not be excluded see an adversary as just doing a from front-line combat. However, 路job. Nobody depends more on Israel's experience was that mix- readiness for instant deployment than does the military.

Furthermore, effectiveness in I combat depends upon the morale and health of the combatants. A Los Angeles Times poll found that three-fourths of enlisted personnel surveyed opposed lifting the military's ban on homosexuals because For Father's Day of the anticipated adverse effect upon morale.

God our father, in your And a 1990 American Medical wisdom and love you made Association report stated that all things. Bless our father.

"Young homosexuals are 23 times Let the example of his faith more likely to contract a sexually and love shine forth. Grant transmitted disease." If we forget that military service is not just that we, his family, may another job, we are in danger of honor him always with a sacrificing human life on the dual spirit of profound respect. altars of sexual equality and gay Grant this through Christ pride. Common sense tells us that our Lord. Amen. it is better to do what is right than to be politically correct!

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Santa lClaus Jeremiah 20:10-13 Romans 5:12-15 Matthew 10:26-33 In a recent interview, Rabbi Harold Kushner mentioned that many people have the wrong idea about God and religion. They think God is just a Santa Claus character who's supposed to grant all our wishes, and .they assume religion is the system we employ to present our wish list - in a way which forces God to give into our requests.

According to Rabbi Kushner, this popular concept of faith contradicts the biblical concept. Instead of helping us acquire "new stuff," the Sacred Authors tell us that God and our religion should be helping us understand the "stuff" we already have; instead of praying for important Ithings to happen, our faith should be showing us the importance of the things already happening!

Fortunately this concept is behind today's readings. Otherwise there would be no way to understand the three passages, which simply don't fit the image of a Santa Claus God but demand much more sophistication.

Those who believe that religion teaches us how to overcome pain and suffering had better not read chapters. II to 20 of Jeremiah, in which the prophet shares his deepest thoughts and :fears.

No other part of Scripture is more depressing. Though Jeremiah has given himself to- Yahweh as completely as possible" he, finds very little consolation in his prophetic ministry. God always seems to desert him at the most crucial times, and the message he proclaims triggers hatred in everyone who hears it.

"All those who were my friends," he observes, "are on the watch for any misstep of mine. 'Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail and take our vengeance on him.'"

Persecution is hard enough to endure even when we believe we'll one day be rewarded with heaven.

But at this point in Jewish history, no one knows anything of a heaven or hell! After death, everyone believes both Jeremiah and his persecutors will end up in Sheol, believed at that time to be the abode of all the dead, with all reward and punishment expected to come during life on Earth.

DAILY READINGS June 21: Gil 12:1-9; Ps 33:12-13,18-20,22; Mt 7:1-5' June 22: Gn 13:2,5-18; Ps 15:2-5; Mt 7:6,12-14 June 23: Gn 15: 1-12,1718; Ps 105:1-4,6-9; Mt 7:1520 or Jer 1:4-10; Ps 71:16,15,17; 1Pt 1:8-12; lk 1:5-17 June 24: Is; 49:1-6; Ps 139:1-3,13-15; Acts 13:2226; lk 1:57-66,80 June 25: Gn 17:1,9-10,1522; Ps 128:1-5;. Mt 8:1-4 June 26: Gn 18:1-15; (Ps) lk 1:46-50,53-!i5; Mt 8:5-17 June 27: 2 Kgs 4:8-11,1416; Ps 89:2-3,16-19; Rom 6:3-4,8-11; Mt 10:37-42

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (CNS)Prayer, unity and more creative approaches to educating people about the pro-life cause are the best ways to fight the. Clinton administration's stand on abortion, says Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia.

The cardinal commented in an

By FATHER ROGER interview with Gerard E. Sherry, KARBAN in Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic' newspaper in HuntingThat's why the prophet pleads, ton. He was interviewed by Gerard "Let me witness the vengeance you E. Sherry, a free-lance writer who take on them, for to you I have lives in Santa Clara, Calif.

"Not only do we have to pray entrusted my cause." The only way he can be certain that he's doing for the president but it places a the right thing is to see God punish greater obligation on us," said the those who are trying to stop him cardinal.

"We must become more confrom doing it.

But it never happens. When we vinced of our position, have a read the next verses (not included .gre.ater unity among all those in our liturgical selection) we hear components that have previously Jeremiah cursing the very day on worked for the same cause but not which he was born. Obviously the. always united," he added.

"I think that what will happen prophet doesn't get the "good stuff" during this administration is that from God. the pro-life movement will become Still, Jeremiah remains faithful.

Somehow he knows it's more im- stronger," he said. "It will also, portant to believe that .....the Lord perhaps, become more creative in is with me..." than to constantly finding methods to educate our . experience things which prove that people."

Cardinal Bevilacqua, who met belief. His faith brings him much more assurance than do the results several times with President Bush during the president's years in of his ministry.

Though as a Pharisee Jesus does office, said that "as a general rule I believe in a heaven and hell, he still don't favor close ties to any politican't promise his followers any cal entity."

"Was I used by tne Bush peomaterial things on this earth. Yet, "Do not let men intimidate you," ple?" he asked. "Yes, but not in an he commands. "Do not fear those abusive way.... I feel that with who deprive the body of life but government officials, I. think it ¡cannot destroy the soul." In other best to deal with them by supportwords, "Don't stop doing what ing, encouraging and thanking you should be doing just because them for positions that are in conformity with the church's policies. you're hated for doing it."

Yet Jesus' most compelling rea- I think there should always be a son for being fearless springsJrom friendly relationship, but never too intimate." how important the Father thinks He said the Clinton administrawe are...... 00 not be afraid of anytion sometimes "tends to conform thing," he insists. "You are worth more than an entire flock of with the [bishops'] conference's positions - in eco.nomic matters sparrows."

The only problem is that God's at times, and in social action issues.

In that sense, we cooperate." esteem rarely breaks through Cardinal Bevilacqua said Cathenough to erase the pain of being olics today are "more independent human - the kind of pain even in their evaluation, in their thinkJesus experienced. ing" as well as "more materialistic, Paul believes all humans sufmore affluent" than their pre-World fer because one human (Adam) War II counterparts. He criticized brought sin into the world, creatthe growth of "an erroneous type ing an environment in which it is of individualism" in recent years, impossible to live without sinning.

"Yes, we must follow our conBut another human (Jesus) so comscience, but it must be a correct pletely gave himself over to that suffering environment, that he was able to bring life to everyone.

Paul teaches that we buy into Jesus' life by our own personal suffering - a suffering no one can avoid, not even those who follow , God. This biblical theology is certainly a lot more complicated than our simple notion of a Santa Claus God. Yet, just as children eventually get old enough to ask the right questions about Christmas, so our simple notions of life begin to crumble when we get old enough in the faith to ask the right questions about human nature and God's love.

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.II-year-old asks, "Why can't women be priests?" thinking about how you want to live your faith.

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN· Q. Why can't women be priests?

I am only II years old, but I also want to be a priest. Men and women are equal, and since a priest talked to us about vocations I think this is the way I want to serve the church. (New Jersey) A. Thank you for your letter and for the serious way you are

The direct answer to your question is simply that. in accord with its practice and tradition, the Catholic Church teaches that women cannot be ordained priests.

I cahnot respond more fully to your question without making the answer far more complicated and lengthy than is possible here.

I mainly want to congratulate you for your obviously sincere desire to serve God and all the people God loves.

That. of course. is always the main thing to think about and plan for: how to live a life giving praise andhonor to God, and how

to help people know God's love for them and respond to that love in their lives.

This is the main vocation for all of us who are followers of Jesus Christ.

In case anyone is wondering, I'm not answering you this way just because you are a girl. For boys as well as girls your age. I believe the important thing at this point is not to decide on a specific vocation, but to learn to say yes to God in every way possible. wherever and whenever his call is heard.

Practice doing that and I promise everything will fall into place when the time comes.

Dear Readers, Several times in the past 20

years I have responded to hundreds of letters from mothers who have had miscarried children. All of them ask not only about our church's teachings but about where they can obtain help.

I want to call attention to two sources of support and information. The first is Compassionate Friends, which has chapters throughout the United States.

Compassionate Friends is for parents (or other relatives) who have lost a child, either before or after birth.

You can contact their national headquarters in Oak Park, III., by calling 312-323-5010.

Another group is newer than

Compassionate Friends and is centered in England. But it already has proven its worth to many mothers and fathers whose children died before birth.

Write to Althea Hayton, 89 Harpended Rd., St. Albans, Herts, AL 3 6BY, England. A leaflet setting out suggestions, Scriptures and prayers is available.

Mrs. Hayton hopes to establish, with the approval of her bishop, a national place of pilgrimage and prayer for families who have lost their children in this tragic way.

I welcome whatever further information people who are involved in this valuable service and ministry might send.

What fathers really want.is appreciation By DOLORES

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Father's Day looms along with a national agonizing, "What are we going to get Dad this year?" . The advertising industry tells us men want ties, cologne and liquor.

Don't believe it. This is the same industry that claims women long for pasta machines.

I don't presume to speak for all dads because I'm not one, but I've listened to a few thousand in my years of parenting education, so

I'll plunge in and share with you what I believe dads really want.

First, some reflections on what they don't want. They don't want breakfast in bed. They don't want useless or expensive gadgets. In fact, they don't want expensive anything if finances are tight.

Dads don't like cute things from boutiques, new ties;puppies, after-. shave, or the "latest style" in anything.

What do they like? Food is a good bet. Tickets to ballgames are good. Anything for the car is good.

Anything the kids make for them (brownies, toys, cards) is especially . good.

If we must give Dad things, these will do. Men don't put a high priority on opening packages. They

prefer experiences, help with chores, and appreciation from time to time. They like to be told they're good fathers and that they are loved.

It's a paradox that what we yearn most to hear is often most difficult for others to express. So, instead of telling Dad he is{ was a good father and that we love him, we seek out a card that says it. He can then read it and say, "It's a nice card. Thank you."

Maybe the,best gift we can offer is the risk of embarrassing him and ourselves by sharing what he means to us in our own words.

We can say it to him in person or on the phone if he's a distance away. If it's tough to say, we can begin with, "I don't want to

embarrass you, Dad, but I have never told you I loved you or thanked you for heing my dad and' I want to do that now."

and to put a higher priority on us than work.

Dads like the rest of us, are products of their time and families.

He might respond in any num- Being a good father 40 years ago ber of ways: gruffness, tenderness, implied being a good provider, gratitude, silence, change the sub-. more than a nurturer. Rather than ject, make a joke, or, as poet focusing on what our dads didn't RobertBly's father did, ask if do, let's thank them for doing you've been drinking. How he what they did do for us. responds is not important. He has This, I believe, is the gift fathers heard the words he's been longing want. They want to be appreciated to hear and we've expressed the and acknowledged. Nobody ever feeling we're longing to express. thanked them for paying the sewer What if we don't believe he has bill but life would have been conbeen the father he might have siderably diminished if they didn't. been? We may feel hypocritical Wrap that gift, if you like, but telling him he's been a good father. write your own card. Your words We wanted him to be more availa- will be treasured long after the gift ble, tender, and affirming, perhaps, is forgotten.

When will jobs become part of economic recovery?

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

When you listen to someone like Sen. Pete Domenici(R-N.M.) talk about the shortage of jobs in America. it's scary.

Domenici recently addressed 180 people from Connecticut, emphasizing this crucial problem and asking, "How do you turn a jobless recovery into a robust economy?"

The contingent had been invited

. to Washington by their own Sen. Christopher Dodd for a blitz course in major issues facing Americans.

Participants heard the problems spelled out by senators and toplevel White House administrators.

Of all the issues discussed, I felt none was more pressing than the one raised by Domenici, White House budget director Leon Panetta and Department of Labor Secretary Robert Reich: Why is the U.S. job market in such serious decline?

It is "paramount to find out why the American economy is recovering [when] the new jobs being created are so small in number," Domenici said. "This has never

happened before in American history."

Panetta noted that for the first time in U.S. history children might not be able to enjoy the things that were available to their parents.

The "fundamental American dream" has been fading away, he said.

I could relate to that. My immigrant Italian father lived by that dream. He believed his hard work would allow his children to get an education that would guarantee we would never be jobless.

That's not true today. College graduates needing ajob and a paycheck are finding the employment scene bleak. Reich cited three con-

cerns about national unemployment.

First, he said, the country has had an unemployment rate of 7 percent or more for the past 17 months. There are 10 million unemployed and another I million "too discouraged to look" for work.

Second, there is a greater gap today between the skills that jobless people have and the new skills that are needed, Reich contended.

In other recessions, "about 40 percent got their old jobs back after, the recovery. In' this [recovery] only about 14 percent are getting' jobs back."

Reich's third concern is that an increasing number of Americans are working for less. About 18

percent of the work force is working fulltime but "not earning enough to keep a family of four out of poverty." Another 12 percent are not even earning enough to keep themselves out of poverty.

Expressing the problem of economic recovery is always easier than coming up with solutions.

But the Washington movers and shakers who spoke to us expressed one common urgency: The terrifying culprit is the deficit, followed by a burgeoning healthcare debt.

Let us pray that Washington gridlock, which puts politics before people, is overcome for the sake of the greater good and that our elected leaders make decisions that will make us strong again.

Broadening possibilities for adoption

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You have' pinpointed some. of the' hard facts about adoption' today: healthy white infants a.re extremety sCilrce and the adoption MARY process is' tedious, lengthy and expensive.

J(ENNY· If you still seek a healthy white. infant, follow all leads: Research Dear Mary: My husband and I . and read current books at the library; call all agencies you might' are interested in adoption. reasonably deal with.

One agency told ·us there isa Consult lawyers (the vast majorsix-year waiting list for healthy ity of healthy, white infants are white infants. Another agency that· adopted privately through lawydeals with foreign adoption said it ers); follow up information from would probably entail a trip to the family and friends. adopted child's country, and costs Open yourself to other possibiliwould range around SIO,OOO. ties. Look for children where they My husband and I are in our are available.

30s. We have a son, 9, and a Becoming a foster parent is one daughter, 10. We have a lot of option. In some cases foster chilroom in our hearts and home. We dren become eligible for adoption always wanted a large family and and foster parents can become I am unable to have any more permanent parents. children. - Indiana Since these cases are in-the

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minority, however. you need tobe with· medication. When medical . SNAP (Special Needs Adoption" Placement program), social . willing to accept foster children.as .. bills wilL be high, subsidy' is often such. . available through state programs. workers will work with you after Another alternative is to con. No good adoption worker 'wants· ~Iacement as welL sider children more'commonly 'to foist children upon you orsad-.

Adoption maybe difficult but" available for adoption: older dIe you with a task beyond your . few things in life bring greater children, sibling. groups, minority' desires. A good adoption worker _rewards. childen and children with disa- wants good placements where the Questions are. invited by The ' . family and the child(ren) being bilities.

Kennys; 219 W. Harrison St. Suite "Since you' have already enjoyed . placed fit together well.

4; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978. the experience of birthing and raisIn some cases, as in Indiana's ing babies, you might be willing to ------------------------~ .....- - take older children.

A sibling group might be the choice for you. Unless someone is OTT AWA (CNS) - The Can- throughout Canada but was also willing to take them as a group. the adian Conference of Catholic Bish- available directly from her service. children suffer not only the loss of ops has released a French-language The Canadian edition contains their biological parents but also of edition of the "Catechism of the minor corrections sought by the their brothers and sisters.

Catholic Church," but still awaits Vatican following last November's Suggesting a child with disabilian approved English translation. release of the catechism in France; ties strikes fear into many prospecit also contains color photos, while Claire Dube, director of the tive parents. However. disability conf~rence's Publications Services. the first edition, published in covers a wide range.

France, contained black-and-white Some children have a chronic said the 680-page document was sent to French-language bookstores photos. illness which· ean be controlled

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order admitting HIV victinls to U.S. WASHINGTON (CNS) - A federal judge's order to release HIV-infected Haitians held at Guantanamo Ba'y, Cuba, and allow them into the United States was welcomed by the head of the U.S. Catholic bishops' agency for refugees.

Jesuit Father Richard Ryscavage said the June 8 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. was "a long overdue measure of justice and a humanitarian act of compassion for those who have suffered twice - first in fleeing Haiti where they were subject to human rights abuse and second in being su.bject to very difficult physical and psychological conditions in the refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay." Father Ryscavage is executive director of the Office of Migration and Refugee Senices for the U.S. Catholic Confen:nce, which has helped resettle 5,500 Haitians admitted at Guantanamo since last year.

Judge Johnson in New York ordered the U.S. government to release immediatdy 158 Haitians who have been held at the naval base for nearly two years because they or members of their families have tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The refugees are among 40,000 Haitians who fled their country following the 1991 coup that ousted the president, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide. All have been found to have a reasonablf: fear of persecution if forced to return to Haiti, but they were not allowed to enter the United Statf:s because of a U.S. ban on the entry of HIVpositive immigrants.

In a 53-page ruling, Johnson said the Bush and! Clinton administrations showed "outrageous, callous and reprehensible" behavior by refusing to provide adequate medical care for refugees living in a shantytown on the naval base. He called the area "nothing more than an HIV prison camp."

Father Ryscavage urged the Clinton administration not to appeal the court order and to accept the Haitians into the United States. His agency is prepared to help resettle the refugees, and had already assisted 24 HIV Haitians released from Guantanamo since April 5, he said. Johnson previously ordered 50 Haitians with symptoms of AI DS released to the United States for treatment.

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Barbara Flores grew up in Dangriga, a town in southern Belize, Central America. The missionary Sisters serving there very much impressed her - so much so that she deJit cided to serve Christ as a "Sister."

RIGOBERTA MENCHU addresses Guatemala City Today, Sister Barbara is in charge of catrally after announcement that President Jorge Serrano Elias echetical would step down. proBelizean Sister grams in Barbara Flores Belize City. Impressing her now VA TlCAN CITY (CNS) decades," Ms. Menchu said. "Thl~ are the city's religion Guatemala must be cleansed ofthe same can be said regarding corrupteachers. ''They have so corruption and impunity that have tion." reigned there for decades, said But the most immediate chal- little to work with but they Rigoberta Menchu, winner of the lenge, she said, is to end the civil are so committed to their Belizean Sister Francine Vasquez 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. war. at Mercy Kitchen "The president has the task of faith," she noted.

-The Guatemalan people are satisfied with the June 5 congres- taking concrete steps in this regard, Another native Belizean Sister is Francine Vasquez, who sional election of Ramiro de Leon and I believe he can do it," she Carpio as the nation's president, said. runs Mercy Kitchen, also in Belize City. There, every day, "The popular longing for peaCI~ Ms. Menchu told Vatican Radio.

De Leon replaced Jorge Serrano has not been taken seriously," shl~ 100 elderly men and women are fed a hot breakfast and a Elias, who suspended most of the said. "The new president has in hi, main meal. The Kitchen opened in 1986 to serve the city's hands'something very important: constitution May 25.

"Certainly, it is not enough that the enormous expectations of a elderly poor, Sister Francine explained. .Ji.""

Nobel prize winner says Guatemala needs new start

there is a new president, even if he is worthy of our respect," she said in a June 12 interview.

De Leon must act quickly to end the 33-year-old civil war, stop human rights abuses, bring the guilty to justice and end widespread corruption, she told the Jesqit-run radio station in a telephone interview.

Ms. Menchu said the Guatemalan people expect a lot of de Leon because of his past as the government's human rights ombudsman.

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THE PLA YERS: Father Degagne leads fellow Priests (and seminarians) for Life in song. From left they are Father Dufour, Richard Wilson, Aaron Gendreau, Fathers Tosti, Fernandes and Baker, Michael Racine, Fathers Roy and Driscoll. In a revolutionary act, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and

John Adams are portrayed by Gendreau and Fathers Fernandes 'and Driscoll; many hats were part of the acts of Fathers Dufour and Norton; Father Tosti and Bishop O'Malley have solo acts. (Hickey photos)

Singing priests rate standing 0; bishop has a cameo Continued from Page One Like previous performances in 1986 and 1991, however, the fun' had a serious purpose: to raise funds for the diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate and in this case the Cape Cod offices of Birthright, a pregnancy counseling service which assists women with unplanned pregnancies in choosing alternatives to abortion.

The sell-out crowd at Christ the

King parish center contributed nearly $6,500 for the cause, prompting a thank you from regional Birthright consultant Janet Barbelle. Quoting a hymn sung earlier during the concert she told the audience, "You are all we have; you give us what we need."

Among those attending the concert was Father Francis Connors, founder of Birthright on the Cape.

In his much-anticipated appearance during the middle of the program, Bishop Sean O'Malley thanked the performers for showing "we can not only enjoy ourselves but publicly acknowledge our commitment to the pro-life cause."

The stage was his for an act billed "Quodcumque Dixerit Facite (so to speak): He Can Do Whatever He Wants!" (a twist on the the bishop's epi'scopal motto, "Do whatever he tells you.")

Given carte blanche, the bishop said he considered singing (but "the few songs I know are alii rish protest songs"); pulling a "M illi Vinilli" and lip synching to Placido Domingo. or, given the hype for the newly-released Jurassic Park imitate a few "dinosaur mating calls."

1n the end he decided to delve into his considerable anecdotal repertoire. beginning with the story of a rivalry of sorts between St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure to compose the most beautiful music for the feast of Corpus Christi.

After hearing St. Thomas' works performed before the pope, a chagrined St. Bonaventure tore up his compositions in deference.

"1 feel much like St. Bonaventure today ...... Bishop O'Malley said in. reference to the performers who had preceded him on stage. but added that he had warned the priests there are "strict penalties" for upstaging the bishop.

His cameo garnered three standing ovations, added to one at the finale for the entire show. . The celebrated ensemble boasted seven members reprising their Priests for Life roles: -Parochial vicars Fathers William F. Baker, St. Mary. Seekonk; Richard E. Degagne, Notre Dame, Fall River; Jon-Paul Gallant. Holy 路Name. New Bedford; Richard M. Roy, St. Joan of Arc. Orleans; and Pro-Life Apostolate head Father Stephen A. Fernandes. Christ the King.

-Father Clement Dufour, pastor of Sacred Heart Church. New Bedford.

-Seminarian Michael Racine, attending Holy Apostles Seminary, Cromwell. Ct. The group had also cultivated some new talent since its last performance: St. John's (Brighton) seminarians Richard Wilson and Aaron Gendreau. whose repertoire included impressive solos from Les Miserab/es. Accompanist Larry Poulin, organist from Holy Name Church, Fall River. "made us all sound good." Father Fernandes noted.

Also debuting was Christ the King pastor Father Ronald A. Tosti. showcasing talents on the . harp he claims to have developed because "in the next life I did not want to be among the unemployed."

Irish pieces "Londonderry Air" (better known as "Danny Boy") and a 17th-century composition, as well as the modern piece. "Soaring," were solid entries for Father Tosti's celestial resume. prompting Father Fernandes to comment that Father Tosti's is a unique talent among the diocesan priests.

"N one of the others play the harp. Though we all hope to some day," he quipped.

Also a man of unique talent is Father Baker, who traditionally keeps the nature of his skit under wraps until the curtain rises.

H is stream of anecdotes. mysteriously billed" Ready or Not. Here He Comes." might easily have been headlined" A funny thing happened on the way to the rectory.....

The multitalented Father Degagne was seen leading the ensemble in a capella renditions of sacred music. performing a piano solo of Clair de Lune by Debussy. and joining Gendreau to sing "Perhaps Love." Father Fernandes offered the vocal solo "Somebody Bigger Than You and \."

Even the audience had a turn during a sing-along of four famil-

iar hymns, which the ensemble claimed was' practice for Mass, though without a sermon in between.

The thrifty Ben Franklin would have approved of the show's economical use of costuming.

It took only two hats and an inside-out jacket to transform Father Fernandes into Franklin and Gendreau and Father Gallant into Franklin's colleagues John Adams and Thomas Jefferson for a rendition of "The Egg" from the musical /776.

Father Dufour. too. wore many hats. serenading the audience with "Because of You" (in "Tony Bennett hat"). " 'Til There Was You" (as Professor Harold Hull from the Music Man) and "It Had to Be You" (as Fred Astaire).

For a final song. "I Have Loved You." he performed as himself in a previous incarnation. wearing the biretta he's saved from his days as a new priest.

While he did not credit the BeatIes among his sources of musical inspiration, he did say he has come to a new appreciation of their song "When I'm 64." havingjust attained that sagacious age the day before the performance.

Also wearing a distinguishing hat was Father William Norton of St. Joseph's parish in Woods Hole.

Just in from walking his "Catholic dog Murphy." Father Norton assumed the stage to share" An Irish Letter from Home." a misguided missive from a mom in the Old Sod who writes slowly because she knows her son can't read.

Costuming reached its most elaborate when. in tribute to Bishop O'Malley, the ensemble emerged on stage for a musical version of St. Francis' Prayer.

Pants cuffs had been prominently rolled up to reveal ten pairs of sandaled feet. one hundred bare stretching the length of the stage in counterpoint to those of the sandaled figure beholding the scene from the front row.

Screening of seminarialJls seen way to forestall clergy sexlJal abuse Catholic mora,1 tradition spells out the criteria for a Hjust war. HIn !the use of armed force the U.S. bishops have stressed that all the criteria, not just some, must be met simultaneously before war can be considered morally justified.

This spring the~ bishops said that a "strictly limited use of force" was one of the solutions to the ongoing Balkan crisis, as were continued negotii1tions and economic sanctions,

E ARE THE JUST WAR CRITERIA: ~ ~ Just cause: War must be necessary to deter or repel unjust aggression. ~ ~ Competent authority: The appropriate lawful authorities must authorize the use of force. >- ~ Right inte:ntion: Some intentions, such as punishing an aggressor or recoverinq material possessions, are not considered sufficient justification for the violence of war. Others, such as protection of human rights and defense against real or threatened injury, may justify war. >- ~ last resort: Military action is justified only when all peaceful alternatives to deter or reverse aggression have been exhausted. ~ ~ Probability of success: There must be a sufficiently clear prospect of success to justify the human and other costs of engaging in war. >-~ Proportioll1a,lity of goals: The human and other costs of war must be mea~ured against the values at stake and the anticipated outcome. ~>- Proportiolnality of means: In the conduct of the war, the military means used must be commensurate with the evil that one is seeking to overcome. ~ >- Discriminiition: The principle of noncombatant immunity must be preserved. Civilian populations cannot be targeted.

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All I \\rant for Father's Day

By Dan Morris Father's Day is a funny thing. I suspect I am nOl: unlike a lot of dads when I tell my child ren one of the following whl~n they ask what I'd like for that annual festival of hardware store commercials: -Nothing.

-Just a card.

-A Corvette tour around the Bahamas with Julia Roberts.

We don't feel particularly comfortable with Fllther's Day. I'm not sure exactly why. Maybe it's that being a dad is such a fundamentaL deep, powerful part of your being that commemorating it with Snoopy cards, golf balls and rainbow trout ties while Tim Allen hawks hardware seems a bit silly.

Maybe it's that being made a minor fuss over demands an appropriate response - one that's awkward or corny to generate.

Maybe it's because at some level we really do know what we want for Father's Day - a level to which we have not completed the walk up the stairway.

One Father's Day I freaked my children. I gave each of the four a note a week early. It read, "I n case you're wondering what I'd like for Father's Day. here it is. Please do something nice for someone you don't particularly care for. Write it down in a Father's Day card. I won't tell anybody about your 'deed' if you don't want me to."

If nothing else, I wouldn't have to loan them any money Saturday afternoon so they could buy me a box of chocolate-covered cherries before the mall closed.

Maybe I would get away with conveying a message: One of the best gifts parents can ask is that their children live good, moral lives.

Meanwhile, I overheard No.2 son remark to his brother, "What is all this religi ous garbanzo on Father's Day? Criminy."

H is brother agreed."1 wonder if giving a 'World's Best Dad' coffee

mug to my English teacher counts."

Truth is that what I would most enjoy for Father's Day becomes more clear every year. It's pretty straightforward. I would like my children just to be around.

They could grouse about going to Mass. Argue with each other about who gets the sticky bun with the most frosting. Watch a Mariners-'- Yankee game. Pull a few weeds with me. Let me bark at them for wrestling Qn the sofa.

Help their mother with dinner.

Talk about the time they were little and we were attacked by a skunk on a camping trip.

Yet it's hard to ask for that. It can't be bought, wrapped and presented. Let's see Tim Allen franchise that one.

Maybe the funny th,ing about Father's Day is that, without permission, it often forces fathers to think about being fathers. And it's a big deal.

On the other hand, a Corvette trip around the Bahamas with Julia Roberts has its appeal, too.

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By Catholic News Service Pope John Paul II and Dr. lad E. Dyrud, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago, agree that the best way to prevent cases of sexual abuse by clergy is to improve the screening of seminarians.

"Efforts at treatment of sexual abusers of children in or out of the clergy have been bitterly disappointing," Dr. Dyrud told a recent Vatican-sponsored conference on the priesthood, held in Rome and sponsored by the Congregation for the Clergy and the Gregorian University.

Because a successful treatment program for sexual abusers does not appear to exist, the only way to prevent sexual abuse by clergy is to try to identify potential offenders before they are ordained, Dr. Dyrud said.

The process must begin by helping the candidate examine his calling and his spiritual and psychological stamina to live it out, the doctor said.

"We must ask ourselves what in the selection process permits us to fail to identify people with this fatal flaw," he said. "My notion is that we relv too much on our shared idea( rather than assessing the candidate's ability to achieve it."

Screening candidates for tendencies toward pedophilia, a sexual attraction to children, is possible and necessary, he said.

"But the most critical screening would have to be for inadequate impulse control," he said. "A person may have weak spots in his character, inhibitions of a variety of sorts, but if his impulse control is adequate, this need not preclude his becoming a good priest."

Dr. Dyrud said "a major overhaul" is needed in attitudes toward sexuality within seminaries and in the culture at large.

"Much too much has been made of sex as a performance issue in this society," he said. "I am suggesting that it is important for a person - clergy or laity - to have a comfortable awareness of himself as a sexual person, just as much when it is inappropriate to act on it as when it is appropriate."

Seminary formation also must deal with issues of loneliness, he said.

Candidates for the priesthood as well as priests must learn how to be set apart, alone in a crowd "and still not be plagued by loneliness," Dr. Dyrud said the emptine~;s experie,nced by priests he has treated does not seem to reflect an inadequacy on the part of the priest.

Instead, he said, it seems to show "inhibition which appears to have arisen from their having been trained to deny their sexual nature rather than recognize it as part of their humanity and then to be aware of its influence in their lives."

The doctor said that denying the sexual aspect of one's nature is not a life of sacrifice, but of negation.

But being aware of one's sexuality does not mean one must act on it, he said.

"Without awareness there can hardly be a vow of chastity," he said. "One must know what he is not acting on."

the priesthood," the pope earlier this month told bishops from Uta~'" Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming that he shares the grief that allegations of clergy sexual misconduct have brought tJ U.S. Catholics.

"I share your sadness and disappointment when those entrusted with the sacred ministry fail in their commitment, becoming a cause of public scandal that undermines people's trust in the church's pastors and damages priestly morale," he continued.

All candidates for the priest:hood in the Latin rite must know that the celibacy requirement is seen as being "profoundly linked" with a priest's sharing in Christ's care for the church and that the rule "is not just a passing legal norm."

The formation of seminarian:;, including their "healthy psychosexual development," should help them "to accept joyfully and live serenely" a celibate life, the pope said.

Pope John Paul praised the U.S. bishops' revised program for

priestly formation and said he wanted to urge th(: bishops "to be demanding in the selection of candidates, to provide well-qualified priests for seminary ministry, and not to compromise the standards required by the challenges facing priests today."

Because the local bishop calls· candidates to the diaconate and priesthood, he ,must feel "personally responsible before the Lord and before the church for the decisions he makes in this regard," the pope said.

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Nun, 97, still on track with daily walks BALTIMORE (CNS) - She may not walk as fast as she used to, but 97-year-old Sister Francesca Lindner still walks 1.6 miles a day.

"I guess the only disadvantage to being 97 is that I can't quite walk like I used to," said the Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart.

Sister Lindner, who lives at The Villa, a retirement community for members of several religious orders in Baltimore, has practically defied the forces of nature, remaining as active and healthy as any young career woman of the 1990s.

Daily walks are just one of her many activities. ,She also tutors a 12-year-old boy in religious education, visits nursing homes, sews, crochets, goes to the symphony and, of course, prays and attends daily Mass.

"God has been very' good to me," she said.

Standing only about 5 feet tall, Sister Lindner carries her rosary with her everywhere, usually in the pocket of the habit she made herself. She fondly refers to her rosary as her "partner."

Staying active is what keeps her feeling so young, Sister Lindner says. Inclement weather doesn't stop her from getting daily exercise. lfit's raining, she simply pops the Richard Simmons tape into the VCR and starts exercising.

Energy and activity have always been traits of Sister Lindner, who grew up as an only child on the family farm in Portland, Ore. At the age of 29 she traveled on a train across the country by herself to train to become a Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart.

"A vocation is a calling from God," she said. "My faith has always played a big part in my life.

Without it, I never would have been able to cross the country."

She has lived in Baltimore for about 15 years. Before that she worked in various states, including New York, Virginia, Texas and even in a mining town in Arizona.

Sister Lindner said she never

attended Catholic school and wanted to dedicate her life to teaching the faith to other children who didn't go to Catholic school.

She continues that work today with a 12-year-old boy who has not yet been baptized. She met the boy's mother on one of her many walks through the neighborhood.

And she continues to educate herself as well by taking classes in canon law at the convent.

Sister Lindner makes sure to read the newspaper every day and watch the television news. She says she is frustrated,sometimes by the lack of moral standards in the world today, saying "there's so much of that sex business now."

But it's not all hard work for Sister. Lindner. She knows the importance of having a keen sense of humor and a little fun.

"Well, I love ice cream and I love to go out to eat," she said with a smile. "I also like to go to concerts and other events."

Sister Lindner is usually the first one to sign up for trips and activities offered at the convent.

"I'm always game for whatever," she laughed.

Councils on Aging Mansfield Birthday party I p.m. June 25.

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FAMILY REUNION: When Jean Duval, 83, came to live at Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, last year, he joined his three sisters (from left) Marie Louise, Virginia and Antoinette.

It was a happy reunion for these four remaining members of a close-knit family, as Jean recently reflected. Of 11 siblings in the family, three married, while the rest lived together in their New Bedford family home throughout their adult lives. Their lives revolved around family, $1. Anthony's parish, hard work in the textile mills and music.

"We sang as a family - we could sing with the best ofthem," Jean recalled. He added that he's always enjoyed the "popular ballads," especially those that form a "romantic picture," such as "1 Love You Truly."

"Now we are all together again," said Marie Louise, 92, She, Antoinette, 82, and Virginia, 93, have adjacent rooms on the third floor, and Jean, who lives on the second floor, is a regular visitor. (From the Spring 1993 CareGiver, newsletter of the Diocesan Health Facilities)

Words that kill Is the United States sliding down the slippery slope toward euthanasia? No, according to one American medical ethicist and philosopher. It's already there. ' "If you begin destroying innocent persons, whatever the story

$25 million raised for aging religious WASHINGTON (CNS) - The fifth annual appeal of the Retirement Fund for Religious raised nearly $25 million to be given in grants to needy religious communities for their aged and infirm members.

A total of $24,609,127 came in from the collection taken up last December in most U.S. dioceses.

The annual appeal is sponsored by the Tri-Conference Retirement Office, ajoint effort of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. In announcing the results of the appeal Sister Janet Roesener, a Sister ofSt. Joseph and director of the Tri-Conference Retirement Office, said grants from the 1992 collection will be distributed to 619 congregations this year.

In addition to giving grants, the retirement office also advises religious congregations on how to set up retirement plans and keep them strong financially.

Five years ago the U.S. Catholic bishops voted to conduct the annual appeal for 10 years. Each of the first four collections also raised just under $25 million, bringing the total amount from the five appeals to nearly $125,000,000 and making it one of the most succesful Catholic Church collections.

According to the Tri-Conference Retirement Office, the median age of religious men and women in the United States is now 65. There are more religious over 80 than under 50.

with which you accompany your lethal deeds," according to John M. Dolan of the University of Minnesota, "it is not possible for you to slide down a slippery slope....

You are already at moral rock bottom." .

"Available evidence suggests that euthanasia is indeed on its way to becoming a routine procedure in our hospitals and nursing homes," said Dolan, co-chair of the Program in Human Rights and Medicine and an associate professor of philosophy at the university.

Language is being used to prepare for the "lethal transformation of medicine" that is already underway, Doland told a recent religion and medicine seminar in St. Paul, MN, sponsored by the Catholic League and the University of St. Thomas.

"The corruption of language leads to the corruption of life," he said. Advocates of euthanasia speak of the "right to die," he said, when they mean the right to kill. They speak of "life- abbreviating measures," when they mean killing.

"Members of the Hemlock Society do not commit suicide," Dolan said, "they 'engage in self-deliverance.' They speak of 'physician aid in dying' when they mean killing by physician.".

He told his listeners that language of the kind George Orwell "warned us about is employed to mask lethal projects.... And physicians and ethicists speaks of'withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration' when they set about cutting off some disabled person's food and water."

In an effort to put a new twist on the language of euthanasia, the American Life League, a national pro-family, pro-life agency. decided to publish a list of terms needed by students of "obitiatry," the new science for people who help people kill themselves.

"You Just Kill Me: An Obitia:trist's Handbook" is the title they gave their imaginary text. It was designed as a "special service for

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BERNARD CASSERLY those who don't want to be caught dead failing an obitiatry 'final,' and for those who just don't want to be caught dead." Below are some of the definitions from the glossary of death: RIGHT TO DIE: highway sign to attract drivers to your clinic (Alternative: Left to Die).

FREE WILL: a loss-leader to attract new patients.

IMMINENT DEATH: someone in your waiting room.

DUTCH EUTHANASIA: A finance plan offered to couples who want to be killed together but billed separately.

VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA: You volunteer to kill your patient.

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA: You have to chase your patient around the room to relieve him or her of unbearable suffering.

TERMINALLY ILL: Patient is still breathing.

UNBEARABLE SUFFERING: Patient is still breathing.

PROLONGED DYING PROCESS: Life.

CORPSE: The patient has successfully completed treatment.

LIVING WILL: your insurance.

BYPASS PROCEDURE: If your patient has a blocked artery, bypass treatment and administer lethal injection.

STERILIZED NEEDLES: unnecessary in obitiatry.

MALPRACTICE: Patient leaves your office under his or her own power.

A copy of the complete and unexpurgated version of "You Just Kill Me," which appeared in the A.L.L. Newsletter for Marchi April 1992, may be obtained bv writing the American Life Leagu~, P.O. Box 1350. Stafford, VA 22554.

Mass attendance has dropped dramatically ove', the last decade.

From 25 to 30 percent of Spain's Catholics are now thought to attend regularly, and the rate is no better in most of Western Europe.

Seville Archbishop Carlos Amigo put it bluntly: "I'm afraid many of the faithful are bored at Mass."

He was counting on the Eucharistic Congress to help revitalize the sacrament for the country's Catholics. . While the pope is aware that beautiful liturgies and good preaching can help draw the faithful back to Mass, he wants Catholics to understand that the grace received in the Eucharist is the most importand thing.

Start with the Eucharist, the Mass, and the rest will follow, is the core of the pope's message.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 18, 1993

Helping teens cope dock Charitable Trust, it will train SEATTLE (CNS) - Students at Jesuit-run Seattle University . 30' students to work with teens, emphasizing the importance of will launch a pilot program to help good personal relationships with local teenagers deal with peer parents and peers. Beginning in pressure, confusion and loneliness.

1994, paired students will partici"Some teens don't understand that pate in internship providing outthe changes they are going through reach to teens in church youth are normal parts of growing up," groups. They also will lead a sixsaid Rosemarie Anne de Luca, week lecture series. concluding with program director for the universia weekend retreat for the high ty's new Institute on Humanit}es school students. and Family Structure. Funded by a three-year grant from M.J. Mur-

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Eu(:haristic Congress priests needed to celebrate Mass Continued from Page One ery in so many cities of Asia'~ and and the low numbers of Catholics "boys made prostitutes so they can who bother to attend.

The pope knows that unless earn a living for their families" by catering to men from the deve- these problems are solved, the sacrament cannot fuel what he called loped world, he said June 9.

It also includes abuse of young the "new evangelization needed so laborers such as "mine workers in much in the world."

In predominantly Catholic their late teens (who) cough away Spain, the clergy shortage began in airless tunnels.... he said.

The keynote speaker, Cardinal in the 1960s. Today nearly 10,000 Joachim Meisner of Cologne, parishes - almost half the counGermany, said June 7 that the try's total- are without a resident Eucharist helps Christians spread priest. The number of Spanish the faith by aiding them in becom- priests has shrunk 15 percent over ing good examples to others. the last 20 years and their average "The faith is never transmitted 'age is now 55. by publicity or propaganda," he Meanwhile, the pope stresses said. the essential connection between Australian Father Anthony Mc- the Eucharist and the priesthood.

Sweeny, superior general of the .. He told a group of U.S. bishops in Order of the Most Holy Sacra- June that while alternative Sunment, said the value of the Eucha- day services are a temporary answer rist is being lost because the Mass for priestless parishes, no parish has become meaningless to many should "resign itself to being withCatholics in secular societies. out a priest to offer the Eucharist "Liturgical renewal, therefore, for them." must always be a church priority," He urged the U:S. bishops to he said. become personally involved in the During the (:ongress, special search 'for vocations and asked Masses were heid to promote Spanish bishops to do the same ecumenism, Catholic' unity and . during a Mass in Seville June 12, reconciliation. Provisions wert;' when he ordained 37 new priests. made for 24-hour adoration of the .' Last year the pope wa~ buoyed Blessed Sacramf:nt. by statistics showing the first Congress participants also got a increase in the number of priests taste of Spanish popular religion worldwide since he was elected in as five religious processions coin1978. But that picture is clouded cided with the eUl:haristic gathering. by the fact that the ratio of priests per Catholic conti~ues to slip everyLast Word where - especially in Europe.

But the last word at the congress Mass attendance, say Vatican belonged to the pope, who tirelessly urged 'emphasis on the Eu- officials, is more difficult to measure. But enough is known to concharist as the center of church life.

He left no doubt as to how strongly cern the pope.

At the Vatican in May he said he believes in this simple pastoral prescription. As he prayed before bluntly: "The data on participathe Blessed Sacrament in the Seville tion of the faithful at Mass is not cathedral June 12, he seemed to satisfactory." He stressed that weekly Mass attendance is not offer an example to the rest of the optional and is not just a "ritual church.

But two obstacles worry the gesture."

In Spain. surveys indicate that pope: the persistent shortage of

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12 Friday, June 18, 1993 Scrub 2nd homes say congressgoers SEVI LLE, Spain (CNS) - First World people should be more interested in providing housing for the homeless in Third World countries than in buying second homes for themselves, said the final message of the 45th International Eucharistic Congress.

Societies should be more "worried about the true well-being of people than the growth of their own wealth," it added.

The final message followed several days of liturgical celebrations, speeches and workshops on the congress theme of the Eucharist and evangelization. The congress was held in Seville from June 7 to 13.

Community interests must take priority over personal interests, the message said.

Putting personal interests first leads to wars, injustice, corruption, drug trafficking, international terrorism and the debasing of human sexuality, said the message.

"The Gospel must make people of the First World discover that the concern we must have for a healthy body cannot shield us from the deformed bodies of poorly nourished children in the Third World," it said.

"The unbridled race for wellbeing that causes people of the Northern Hemisphere to possess a second house should transform itself into a just concern for pro.viding a home to all those lacking one in the Southern Hemisphere," it added.

'Daily Mass needed, says pope VA T1CAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II has encouraged priests to celebrate Mass daily, even when the faithful are not present.

Celebration of the Eucharist with or without a congregation gains new grace for the whole church, the pope said at a recent general audience.

Likewise, priests are encouraged to make daily visits to the Blessed Sacrament as an important element of their spiritual life, he said.

The pope stressed that the Eucharist is the focus of church life and should be promoted through "a climate of prayer" in churches.

He said sacred art, songs and music have'a legitimate place in preparing people for Mass and accompanying the liturgy.

AN INCONSPICUOUS sensor perches on a ledge of the Sistine Chapel to monitor air quality in order to protect the chapel's priceless Michelangelo frescoes. (CNS/Carrier Co. photo)

Trouble with people is that they breathe

Sistine Chapel cleans up its act VACTICAN CITY (CNS) - It wouldn't be so bad that 2 million people pour into the Sistine Chapel each year to view Michelangelo's priceless frescoes - if only they didn't breathe.

Or perspire. Or track in dust and bacteria. Or give off 400 British thermal units of heat per hour for every upturned head.

Ten years ago, Vatican Museum officials discovered that the crowd's carbon dioxide emissions, estimat~ ed at 6,000 gallons per hour on a busy day, were slowly daqiaging the painted walls and ceiling.

Even worse were the 150 pounds of water tourists deposit hourly in vapor and sweat, and the wide fluctuations in humisity and temperature that follow the visitors.

The plaster surface of the 480year-old frescoes was expanding, contracting and absorbing the moisture.

The experts sounded a quiet alarm: the Sistine Chapel's microcli mate was threatened, and with it the 10-year restoration job on Michelangelo's ceiling. When they found fungus growing on the newly cleaned frescoes, officials really began to worry.

"We studied it, and in theory the best thing would have been to'seal the chapel off, pump it full of inert gas and never let anybody see it again," said Frank Philip, a U.S. technician with the Carrier air conditioning company who worked on the project.

Fortunately for the world's tour-

ists, an alternative was devised and has now begun operating: an $800,000 environmental control system that relies on 75 computerized mini sensors and chemical scrubbers to keep the Sistine's air pristine.

The system, expected to protect the restored artwork well into the next century, was a gift of the Carrier Corp.

"For us, it was a chance to demostrate our technology," said a company offi,cial.

The cleansed air means the Vatican can avoid drastic, measures that have been used in other museums, such as limiting the number of people allowed in the chapel or,restricting the amount of time each visitor can spend gazing at Michelangelo's biblical scenes.

The chapel floor measures just 130 by 40 feet, holding up to 700 visitors a't a time.

"It wouldn't be right for a person who has made such an effort to arrive in the Sistine Chapel to be pushed out after five minutes," said Fabrizio Mancinelli, a supervisor of the Michelangelo restoration project.

Actually, museum officials say, tourists weren't the Sistine's only problem. For years traffic fumes and dust particles floated in through the chapel's 12 open windows while drafts blew up from an old ventilation system below the floor.

The new climate control system keeps temperature and humidity

nearly constant through sophisticated monitoring devices, with results logged around the clock in 路a nearby computer room.

"The hard part was hiding all this. Nothing could detract from the artistic impact," said Philip, who spent months studying the problem with other technicians.

The camouflage job has worked; most visitors today don't notice a thing. Sensors half the size of a little finger take the frescoes' temperature. They can be spotted only with binoculars in their locations along the ceiling frescoes, which include scenes of the Creation, the Temptation and the Flood. . Larger humidity and dew-point monitors were placed out of sight on a ledge running below the 68feet-high ceiling.

The experts also managed to conceal the system's pipes, cables and the "chiller" - a room just behind the chapel that looks like a laundromat. There big scrubbers replace the Sistine's atmosphere 1.7 times an hour, squeezing the water out and filtering the air with chemical pellets. , The result is a nearly pure environment, perfect for protecting the painstaking cleaning job that removed centuries of grime from the frescoes. Museum officials now look forward to next spring when work on Michelangelo's Last Judgment wall fresco will be completed, the last stage of the restoration project.

Meanwhile, the tourists crane their necks in comfort.

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia believed it in 1978. Now the diocese of Rome is of the same mind - Giovanni Battista Montini, better known as Pope Paul VI, should be declared a saint.

"I've always regarded him as a likely candidate for beatification and canonization," said Philadelphia's retired archbishop in an interview with The Catholic Standard and Times, Philadelphia archdiocesan newspaper.

The cardinal recalled the pope's funeral Mass in St. Peter's Square on Aug. 12, 1978, a rite which he said told much about the pope's character.

"He wanted a simple coffin made of wood and he got it," Cardinal Krol said. "They did not put the coffin on a stand; it was placed on the ground in front of the basilica with an open book of the Gospels on top of the coffin. It was a gray day with a bit of a sprinkle. When the wind came it turned the pages in both directions. I thought, 'Even in death the Gospel is part of him.'''

Contemporaries and biographers have accused the pontiff of indecisiveness, calling him "a Hamlet," a name which puzzles Cardinal Krol.

"He was decisive, very decisive," the cardinal said, noting that a telling example came during the Second Vatican Council.

Then-Archbishop Krol said that coordinating committee members "read everything that came up, sometimes two or three times. It was an extra-exaggerated effort to be conscientious. He [Paul VI) simply came' out and said, "The next session will b~ the last, no matter what." '''If it'weren't for Pa'ul 'VI," the cardinal said, "I think we would still be attending the council."

Although the pope' could act decisively, he was always willing to take advice, according to Cardinal Krol. During one meeting between the two, the pope looked at the cardinal and said, "You know what I'm doing. You can see it. I want you to tell me if you think [I should be] doing somethi'ng I'm not. Give me your honest opinion."

Pope Paul VI was criticized for his 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae," which rejected artificial birth control. But Cardinal Krol maintains the document was the pope's "greatest single achievement.

"It was amazing how he foresaw what is happening today. His concept was, there was a tendency to emphasize self-satisfaction and gratification, whic'h would undermine marriage."

Revised ecumenical directory seen affirming commitment to unity VATICAN CITY (CNS) Catholic officials and ecumenical leaders have called revised Vatican guidelines for ecumenical activity a reaffirmation of church commitment to Christian unity.

"The obvious and most important conclusion is that ecumenism is a duty, not an option," said Bishop John M. Sherlock of London, Ontario, a member of the Canadian bishops' ecumenical commission.

"Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism" was released June 8 at the Vatican by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. It explained why the Roman Catholic Church is committed to ecumenism and provided guide-

lines and rules foreducation, shared prayer and cooperation among Christian churches.

The Rev. Konrad Raiser, secretary general of the World Council of Churches, said he welcomed the document's publication and its reaffirmation of "the main orientations given by the Second Vatican Council for Roman Catholic participation in the ecumenical movement."

The first chapter, which explained why the Catholic Church is committed to ecumenism, "provides a carefully considered theological framework ... which could inspire further ecumenical discussion about the understanding of the church and its unity as communion." Mr. Raiser said.

Bishop Sherlock said the directory, "will stimulate a new sense of urgency both in the ecumenical movement generally and in the whole process of formation for ecumenism at all levels of education, from Catholic elementary schools to universities and seminaries."

Bishop Raymond J. Lahey of St. George's, Newfoundland, a

member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said the directory "not only provides guidelines for ecumenical activity, but suggests many practical ways in which ecumenism can be promoted."

Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the council, told reporters that the directory's reaffirmation of church commitment to ecumenism was not a response to what some people see as a slowdown in ecumenical activity.

"Certainly, we must say that the ecumenical journey is a longjourney, but we have taken many important steps in a short time" given the thousand-year split between Roman Catholics and Orthodox churches and the 400-year

split between Roman Catholics and the Reformation churches, he said.

The directory shows how far Catholic-Orthodox dialogue has progressed and the "almost full communion" that exists between the two churches, he said.

The cardinal also hailed the recent decision of Roman Catholic and Anglican bishops in England to form a joint commission to discuss the situation of Anglicans who want to enter the Catholic Church following the Church of England's decision to ordain women to the priesthood.

"In such a delicate situation, it is a big step forward in ecumenism that they have decided to work together." the cardinal said.

-'-findings were displayed a~a recep-" THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall tion for faculty and staff. .:. . .

Latin is anything but a "dead language" at Bishop Feehan. 2:l students received awards for Ninety-six eighth-graders gradachievement on this year's National Latin Exam, administered annu- uated from Taunton Catholic Midally to more than 87,000 students dle School June 7 in ceremonies at in the United States and eight for- St. Jacques Church in Taunton.

Class of 1993, wherever the winds Music was provided by the S1. eign countries. may take you."

Feehan Latin students recently Jacques chorale and graduate Paul Famulare, too, told classmates Ventura, student council president, toured the classics collection at the not to measure success by awards offered a welcome.

Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, collected.

School chaplain Father Arnold where they studied ancient sarco·· Rather, the awards night should Medeiros celebrated the graduaphagi, mosaics, sculptures, Roman be an opportunity to "honor those weapons, jewelry and other exam- tion Mass, with concelebrants who have shared their gifts with ples of classical Etruscan, Roman Father Richard Beaulieu, director the people around them to improve of the Diocesan Department of the Feehan community and make and Greek culture.

Education; Father Thomas MorAlso adding perspective wa:; our world a little happier."

Father David Costa, school cha·· rissey, St. Jacques pastor; and "A tangible award is never plain, who spoke to Latin I stu·· Taunton pastors Father Bento enough" thanks for the many peo- dents about his visits to St. Peter's Fraga of St. Paul's parish, Father ple who "share a special part of Basilica in Rome and the ancient Manuel Ferreira of St. Anthony's themselves every day...for exam- city of Pompeii. parish and Father Jay Maddocik ple, our parents, teachers and of St. Mary's parish. guardians [who] encouraged our Also participating were Deacons self-esteem and self-confidence."

Michael Murray and Thomas "Words cannot describe our Bishop Stang High School, Souza, both fathers of graduates, thanks and appreciation," said North Dartmouth, recognized the and Deacons John Cwiekowski cf Famulare, "so let our successes top 10 students in each class at its Holy Rosary parish, Taunton, and and our achievements express our recent academic awards night. They William Martin of St. Patrick's love for you." parish, Wareham. are: Some students "may not win an In his homily, Father BeaulieJ Class of 1993: George Dos Sanaward, but that does not mean tos, Alison Fleming, Nicole Pois- reminded graduates that they mmt they are not successful," Famulare son, Jennifer Borden, Christene strive to make a difference in their continued. "Many times, our suc- Patenaude, Danielle DaCosta, world, no matter how insignificant cess lies in the smiles of people Anne Marie Ferreira,Eric Lopes, their efforts might seem to som<:. whom we have helped with home- Brett Antonio and Michelle The good that you do as individuwork, or an athletic event, or even Rapoza. als for individuals can make all the just stopped to listen to. Of course, Class of 1994: Anabela Vasconce- difference to the world as a whok, our best award is knowing that we los, Amanda Lima, Rosemary Fer- he said. have done our best despite our nandes, Selena Bates, Matthew Prayers of the faithful were own limitations because good Gross, Jason Williams, Jessica offered by graduates Steven GOlIenough is never good enough."

Byron, Kathryn Negri, Andrew lart, Amanda Paolella, Andrew He concluded that "as long as Kissell,Andrea Perkins.

DeAvila, Lisa Hughes and WiLyou believe in yourself, it will be Class of 1995: Mark Oliveira, liam McLaughlin. easier for others to believe in you James Olden, Sandra Pereira, Kate Offertory gifts, also presented too."

Prior, Nichole DaCosta, Eric Liv- by students, included water, wine • • • • ingstone, Victoria Marcelino, Mi- and symbols of their school years National Library Week in May chael Mehrtens, Rachel Brune, Setlh including a rosary, uniform, pair.t brush, Bible, calculator, book, was a focus for celebration at FeeCorreia. han as the schooi contiilUes its' Class of 1996: Marissa Oliver, school newspaper, beaker and ' library expansion. ' Brian Jusseaume, Jacob McGui- globe.

Diplomas were conferred by In September the school library gan, Daniel Osuch, Peter Hayden, will relocate to an adjacent build- Jessica Belanger, Kelly Wilber, principal Kathleen Simpson and ing, the Nazareth Center, and will Kristen Enos, Matthew Mailloux, teacher John Lanagan.

Guidance coordinator Daniel feature 275 new books as well as Cari Hergenhan. new research materials and comSpecial a wards presented 0 n Thompson announced names (If 23 honor graduates and the folputer systems. awards night included: Library director Sheila Haskins Hugh O'Brian Leadership Pro- lowing award winners: Presidential Academic Effort has garnered information for the gram award to James Olden, who expansion at two recent conferenwill attend the leadership seminar Award: Kerrie-Jean Angeley, Cara ces: the Massachusetts Library for high school sophomores at Giovanoni, Lisa Hughes.

Association convention in FramingBoston University. ham and an international conferHoly Cross Book Award (outence on "Computers in the Library" standing junior): Amanda Lima. held in Washington, DC. Wellesley College Book Award Thirty students graduated from For National Library Week, the (high ranking junior): Rosemary St. John Evangelist School, Attle-Ii'brary staff sponsored a project Fernandes. boro, June 6. Msgr. Daniel F'.

Anabela Vasconcelos received Hoye, pastor and school director, which had students and faculty complete a survey indicating their the College Club of New Bedford celebrated the graduation Mass favorite book or author and the and Harvard Book awards as the and conferred diplomas along with reason for their preference. Survey highest-ranking junior. principal Sister Ann Therese Connolly. A reception followed, hostd by the Class of 1994.

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Taunton Catholic Middle School

Bishop Feehan High School Bishop Feehan's Class of 1993 heard from valedictorian Nita Patel at graduation ceremonies June 4. Miss Patd recalled choosing the Attle~oro high school over her local public s<:hool as a freshman because "I was, and to this day, still am amazed with the warmth of the s(;hobI... The students and teachers seem to have a glowing school pride that can be seen in their smiles. Their eyes shine with care, concern and excitement. Their voices ring with life."

She used the nursery rhyme about the "eensey weensey spider" as a metaphor for her classmates' experience through four years at Feehan and their going out into the world.

Like the spider they have woven beautiful and intricate tapestries in their relationships and accomplishments at Feehan, but now the "rain" of change is "gently washing away our web," she said.

"Although the rain may fall, eventually the sun will shine," she continued, noting that their "design" is unique and cannot be duplicated.

"It is our experience, our unique design, that we have presented to the world to see," for "Feehan has given us the skills to create something beautiful," said Miss Patel.

"We must not forget that we have the ability to add something beautiful to the world . " As in the rhyme, "The future is sunny and filled with challenges," she said. "... We must not create patterns to impre:~s othersand·we must not conform to anyone else's designs. We must weave our own designs with pride and loyalty to our own beliefs allld values," Paraphrasing author Ayn Rand, Miss Patel conclluded by telling her classmates, "'Oon't work for anyone else's happiness, my fellow spiders - show them yours show everyone that it is possible show them your beautiful designs - and the knowledge will give them courage for theirs."

The class's co-salutatorians, Erinn Hoag and Timothy Famulare, spoke at Awards Night ceremonies the evening before graduation.

Miss Hoag began her address by holding up a dandelion, declaring that despite the weed's reputation as a "pest," its tenaciousness is for her a symbol oJ "independence and conviction."

"Virtually all gl~niuses who have ever graced the earth with their presence are dandelions in their own right, scorlll~d by society for their revolutionary ideas, but persevering nonetheless to leave their mark upon the world."

She told those assembled for the awards program that the difference between receiving an award and an actual achievement is that "achievement is in the doing, not in plaques won or medals garnered."

"Achievement loses its meaning when its fundaml~ntal focus is not to create, to grow or to learn but to win a prize," said Miss Hoag.

Those who have "persevered simply because they loved their work, their creation" are "the dandelions of my world, a beautiful flower indeed," she concluded, blowing the seeds from her dandelion prop and saying, "Good luck,

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Special awards given were: Perfect Attendance: Jessica Cmnin; Daughters of the American Revolution History Award: Daniel O'Brien; Mark G. Hoyle Memorial Award: Jane Coogan; Jean Carroll Memorial Award: Katie Schroth; St. John's Award: Matthew Robinson.

For the fourth quarter of the school year, 64 students achieved honor roll status at St. John':;, nine of them earning high hono!:;.

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Salve Regina On the dean's list for the 1993 spring semester at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, are Shelagh Ann Booth of West Wareham, Mark Cardelli and Lisa L. Duarte of Fall River and Paula J. Mathieu of East Freetown.

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HEATING, INC. CLASS ACTS: Nursery schoolers in Mrs. Shirley Pinto's class at Taunton's S1. Mary's School (Coyle-Cassidy's Class of 2006?) watch 1993 Coyle-Cassidy High School graduates march toward their baccalaureate Mass. (Breen photo)

Elks Scholarship: Maureen Hamel.

William H. Halpin Memorial Scholarship: Patricia Pimental, Jessica Santos.

Presidential Academic Achievement Award: Alicia Brillo, Matthew Buckley, Brian Cabral, Jason Dolf, Joanna Gately, Kathleen Lynne George.

Maureen Hamel, Nathaniel Howe, Caroline Iacono, Kelly Karsner, Ryan Kelley, Aimee Margaret Levesque.

Steven Matos, William McLaughlin, Eamon Medeiros, Steven Neumeister, Erin Nunes, Kathryn Souza.

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Bishop Connolly Readying for graduation May 29 at the Fall River high school are, from left, Beth Driscoll, Kristen Neves, Joseph Oliveira and Melanie Arruda; David Silva makes a last min~ ute phone call; Bishop O'Mal~ ley and Connolly principal Father JohnP. Murray, SJ, head for ceremonies. (Studio D photos)

.Coyle..Cassidy As Mark Doherty of Lake~ ville completed his high school education, Sister Eugenia Mar~ garet Ready, SUSC, completed her 50th year of teaching; George Haley presents altar candle at baccalaureate Mass on graduation day, June 3; new graduates of the Taunton high school (from left) Gary Santos, Anthony Jardin, Heather Thompson and Re~ becca Leary with Bishop O'Malley; (from left) Heather Barney, Denise Bailey, Jenny Avelar and Nicole Allison at ceremonies. (Breen photos)

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Graduates Christine Robillard (left) and Kelly Fitzsimmons with teacher Joan Drobnis; valedictorian Nita Patel of Norfolk addresses her classmates; among those making up a graduate collage are (bottom, from left) Tom Warren, John Cavallo, Piyush Zaveri, Andrew Harrison; (upper row, from left) Mike Ryan, Mike Powers, Christopher Goyette, Stephen Graney, Mark Sta. Ines, Cory Almedia; the Class of 1993 heads toward ceremonies and freshly-minted diplomas at the Attleboro high school on June 4. (Breen photos)

Bishop Stang Senior class officers (from left) Maggie Green (secretary), Alison Fleming (treasurer), Christene Patenaude (vice president) and Liz Krudys (president) plant a class treebefore graduation ceremonies June 6; new graduates of the North Dartmouth school, from left: Katie Harrington, Nicole Pothier, Rebecca Babineau, Ericka Lopes; Bethany Wenzel' David Dias, Susan Geagan; Maureen Zukowski, Sherry Petrin, Kelly Medeiros.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 18, 1993 Student government elections were held recently at Bishop Connolly High School, Fal1 River.

Winners are as follows, listed in. order of president, vice president, treasurer and secretary:

SEPARATEDjDIVORCED,NB Support group meeting 7 to 9 p.m.

June 28, Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth; Atty.

Betty Ussach will speak on legal matters pertaining to separation and divorce.

OUR LADY OF PURGATORY, NB The St. Joseph Sodality, the largest organization within the parish, recently launched a yearlong celebration of its 75th anniversary with a diamond jubilee liturgy and induction of new members by Father Charbel Semaan, pastor. A brunch followed and included a video presentation.

ST. JOAN of ARC, ORLEANS Vincentians' food pantry collection Sunday. Cub Scouts Matthew Johnston and Paul O'Brien have received the Parvuli Dei emblem.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Sign-up sheet is located in candle room for persons willing to provide paper bag lunches for the homeless at Salvat~on Army soup kitchen in Hyannis.

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SEPARATED j DIV 0 RCED, TAUNTON Support group meeting at 7 p.m.

Tuesdays June 22, July 13, July 27 at St. Joseph Church, No. Dighton.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Calix group for Catholics recovering from addictive diseases will meet 6:30 p.m. Sunday, parish center; family members welcome. Mass will be celebrated.

GREATER FR FOOD PANTRY Volunteers needed to pick up food from local markets and deliver it to the food pantry on a regular basis. A van or pick-up truck also needed.

Information: Frank Vieira, 672-5381. .

CYO GOLF, NB The 34th NB CYO Golf Tournament will be held 9:30 a.m. June 25, NB Municipal Golf Course. Four divisions will accommodate entrants up to age 25.

ST. MARY, S. DARTMOUTH Recipients of Msgr. Arthur G. Considine Scholarships are Anthony J. Catulo, Kevin Barry, Kimberley Ann Cordeiro, Mark A. Balestracci, Bridgit K. Bruce, Stacey A. Oliveira, Jennifer Saulneir, Jennifer L. Cortereal, Kerry Ann Espinola and Christopher Correia.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Sunday Mass with Father William T. Babbitt, parochial vicar, 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Communion breakfast- for the widowed will follow 10 a.m. Mass Sunday; information: Sister Florence Richard, 695-7989.

ST. MARY, MANSFIELD All night prayer vigil begins with 7 p.m. Mass tonight and continues with Exposition of Blessed Sacrament until 7:30 a.m. Mass tomorrow.

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Class of 1994: John Roderick, Kevin Roy, Joshua Campos, Matthew Doyle.

Class of 1995: Jennifer Rezendes, Sheila Reilly, Richard Sisson, Miriam Laranjeira.

Class of 1996: Kevin Donnelly, Ellyn Hayden, Katherine Bounds, Aaron Brum.

1993 graduate Tanya Paquette received the $300 Westport Fair Committee Scholarship toward her education. at the Massachusetts School of Art. Connolly student Garth P. Holman was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout at a recent Eagle Court of honor at Founders Brook Park, Portsmouth RI. Holman has been refurbishing the park for several years as his Eagle project.

By Charlie Martin

CAT'S IN THE CRADLE My child arrived the other day He came into the world In the usual way But there were planes to catch And bills to pay He learned to walk .

While I was away And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it And as he grew he'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, Dad, You know I'm gonna be like you."

And the cat's in the cradle And the silver spoon Little boy blue And the man in tbe moon "When you comin' home, Dad?" "I don't know when, But we'l get together then, You know we'll have a good time then."

My son turned 10 just the other day He said, "Thanks for the ball, Come on let's play Can you teach me to throw?"

I said, "Not today.

I got a lot to do."

He said, "That's OK." And he walked away But his smile never dimmed It said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah, You know I'm gonna be like him."

My son came from college Just the other day, So much like a man I just had to say "Son, I'm proud of you Can you sit for a while?"

He shook his head And he said with a smile "What I'd really like, Dad Is to borrow the car keys See you later Can I have them, please?"

I've long since retired My son's moved away I called him up just the other day I said, "I'd like to see you, If you don't mind."

He said, "I'd love to Dad, If I can find the time.

You see, my new job's a hassle, And the kid's with the flu But it's sure nice talking to. you, Dad It's sure nice talking to you."

And as I hung up the phone It occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me Written by Harry Chapin and S. Chapin. Sung by Ugly Kid Joe (c) 1992, PolyGram Records Inc. UGLY KID JOE'S latest doesn't possess the musical release is a remake of the late quality or emotional intensity Harry Chapin's classic ''Cat's in of Chapin's original, I'm glad to the Cradle." Chapin is one of see his music receive further my alltime favorites. recognition.

The song's story concerns While the current version

For the Eagle Scout ceremony, . he set up an array of Scout paraphernalia, patches and equipment, including an Eagle Scout badge sash belonging to his grandfather.

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opportunities lost. A father has a son but fails to find time to build a relationship with him.

Later in life, the father tries to reestablish a friendship with the son, but now it is the son who is too busy.

After a particularly disappointing phone call, the father realizes that his son had "grown up just like me, my boy wasjust like me."

The unspoken message in ''Cat's in the Cradle" concerns priorities. Al1 路of us, no matter what our age, experience many demands on our time. Consequently, we must decide where relationships fit into' all these demands.

This is especially true for family life. Children learn to value what they see. If parents do not make the giving of time to their children a priority, there wil1 not automatically be close bonds within the family.

As in the song, children will simply go on with their lives, with the parent-child relationship becoming increasingly unimportant.

If you are a teen who feels that what the song describes is true in your life, know that there is still hope. There are actions you can take that might change the situation.

For example, tell a father or mother you want to know more about his or her life. Ask parents about their current hopes, disappointments or goals.

Gently encourage them to share more of their feelings with you, and if they do, listen carefully. You are not responsible for whatever their current. experience may be, but your listening will help you understand more about their joys and pains.

Further, take the initiative and invite a parent into a -fun activity. Your mom or dad might be a little surprised to be asked to go with you to an arcade, music store or movie. He or she might accept!

Finally, be expressive with your gratitude. Notice what your parents do for you. Tell them you're thankful. This helps them realize that you don't take them for granted.

Every good relationship requires mutual effort. L can't tell you if your parents will reciprocate actions such as those listed here. However, you'll never know unless you take the risk.

Do so before the opportunity to build for the future is lost.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.