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The new Our Father:

Trespasses, temptation out; sins, time of trial in WASHINGTON (CNS) - A proposed new English version of the Our Father avoids such archaic English forms as "who art," "thy" and "trespasses."

Back in the 1970s, when the U.S. Catholic bishops first voted on an English translation of the Mass, they decided against the new Our Father and instead chose the .traditional version.

Now, however, they are a couple of years away from considering a new translation of all the Mass prayers and the International Commission on English in the Liturgy will once again include the new Our Father.

ICEL is a joint commission of English-speaking bishops' conferences, formed to pool financial and scholarly resources and provide a degree of uniformity to English texts used in Catholic liturgical rites around the world.

In a progress report on the new Mass translations recently sent to the bishops' conferences, ICEL included the proposed new version of the Our Father: Our Father in heaven, haIlowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.

Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil.

For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. (Amen.)

The report acknowledged that "change is no new thing in the history of this prayer" and even in Scripture there are two versions -Matthew's and Luke's.

The commentary noted that the proposed new translation retained the word "daily" even though that translation of "epiousios," the original Greek word, "is notoriously uncertain."

It discussed the line, "Save us from the time of trial," at some length.

"Two errors must be avoided in this line," it said. "The first is the misconception that God would 'tempt' or entice people to .evil, and the second is to think that the original Greek word 'peirasmos' means 'temptation' as it is meant today. The reference here is primarily eschatological - a petition for deliverance from the final 'time Turn to Page Nine

The 'P,erot phenomenon: good or bad?

By Laurie Hansen WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Ross Perot phenomenon makes the U.S. bishops look prophetic.

Last October, when their administrative board issued its 1992 election year statement on political responsibility, the bishops warned of a growing "public cynicism" and disenchantment with politics.

"This alienation is a dangerous trend, threatening to undermine the heart of our democratic traditions," the board wrote.

Today, cynicism and disenchantment with the political process are reasons frequently cited by political observers for the national attraction to Perot, the Texas billionaire who portrays himself as a political outsider who if elected president will put an end to Washington gridlock.

The bishops haven't been the only ones concerned about where the political process is heading.

Republican political consultant Ed Rollins told college students in February that his "great fear" was "that we are going to have an accidental president one of these days."

"We are going to '" elect somebody who is very charismatic, who

understands the process very, very well,but who has some very significant flaws because he is a total unknown," commented Rollins, who - perhaps ironically - was recently appointed Perot campaign manager.

Alan Ehrenhalt, author of "The United States of Ambition," says one reason Perot has captured the nation's imagination is "whatever the average voter is angry about, that voter can hold out hope that Perot's angry about it too."

The anger goes deeper than just frustration with politicians, Ehrenhalt told Catholic News Service.

"The standard ofliving has been going down. People are earning more but only because they're working longer hours, That's not fun. People see their life chances slipping away, and a transfer of income" from the middle class to the wealthy, says Ehrenhalt.

People are tired of negative campaigning, he says. "Twenty years ago we didn't have people trashing each other during campaigns. What happens with negative campaigning is somebody wins, but public confidence in politicians goes down," he says.

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OKLAHOMA CITY Archbishop Charles A. Salatka speaks during a session of the U.S. bishops' spring meeting at Notre Dame University. (CNS photo)

At bishops' meeting:

Women's pastoral tops agenda NOTRE DAME,lnd. (CNS)Vigorous public debate about a still-controversial pastoral letter on women was the highlight ofthe spring meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference June 18-20.

In a daylong session closed to the press, some 240 bishops also discussed ways of dealing with the issue of priests who sexually abuse children.

Meeting on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, the bishops also discussed the need for a new Catholic engagement in evangelization and problems the church faces in trying to deal with aggressive proselytism by other groups directed especially at Catholic immigrant groups.

Participants voted - inconclusively - on a new Lectionary for Mass, approved new norms for national shrines and decided to change the way they assess dioceses to fund their national offices.

The bishops approved funding of $4.5 million, including $1 million to be collected from dioceses, for the August 1993 World Youth Day in Denver, an event that will feature a visit by Pope John Paul II.

In a secret session, the bishops learned from Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey that the Vatican had established a second canonical conference of U.S. women religious superiors alongside the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, whose status remains the same. (See story on Page 8.)

Women's Pastoral In a straw poll June 18 the bishops voted to move ahead to-

ward a possible vote this fall on their proposed pastoral letter on women's concerns.

But there was clear evidence that they probably have a long way to go before they can agree on what to say or how to say it.

Whether the final document would remain a pastoral letter was unresolved. Other possibilities are making it simply a public 'statement by the bishops, without the character of teaching authority generally associated with pastoral letters, or issuing it as a document of the committee that wrote it.

"The truly critical or neuralgic issue is that of ordination [of women]," said Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin.

"I think we really have to address that," he said, and "put more emphasis on why the church holds what it does."

Most bishops addressed the issue from the perspective of wanting the proposed pastoral to explain church teaching on the male-only priesthood more fully and convincingly.

But at least two bishops ex-

Ordination set Hartford Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin will return to the Fall River diocese Saturday, July 11, to ordain Deacon James Medeiros to the priesthood. The celebration will take place at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Priests ofthe diocese are invited to concelebrate the Mass and all diocesans are welcome to attend the liturgy.

The new priest's first Mass will be offered at 2 p.m. July 12 at St. John of God parish, Somerset.

pressed opposition to or serious reservations about the teaching itself.

Retired Bishop Charles A. Buswell of Pueblo, Colo., declared: "The church is guilty of sexism when it denies ordination to half its people because they are women."

He said that although the proposed letter is described as a pastoral response to the concerns of women in the church and society, "it seems to be a response more to our own concerns and the concerns of the Vatican."

New Ulm, Minn., Bishop Raymond A. Lucker, one of several bishops who unsuccessfully urged dropping the pastoral letter, said that "right from the start we had very serious difficulties" with writing a pastoral.

Although the bishops had no problem making suggestions to society about its treatment of women, "we had difficulty applying Jesus' teachings to the daily life of the church itself," he said.

He urged dropping the pastoral in favor of "a brief positive statement" on things the bishops could clearly agree on, such as their consensus that sexism is sinful. .

"We also need to name what divides us," he added, "and especially we need an open and honest study on the question of the ordination of women."

Open discussion of the pastoral letter took up most of the first afternoon of the bishops' meeting.

Earlier, the discussion narrowly missed being closed to the press, as Portland, Ore., Archbishop William J. Levada asked the bishops to talk about the letter in executive session.

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DSS seeking case review volunteers

The Anchor Friday, June 26, 1992

Dr. Robert Sullivan Dr. Robert J. Sullivan, 71, for over 20 years chief medical officer at the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River and for his last eight years a patient at the .home, died June 6.

Hundreds attended his funeral at S1. Mary's Cathedral, paying tribute to a man famous for his sparkling intelligence and offbeat sense of humor.

His humor persisted in death as, in fulfillment of his request, a battered cane was laid atop his casket, together with a hand-lettered card reading "Hand me down my walking cane; I'm 'going to catch the midnight train."

Friends recalled how in an era when few physicians made house calls, he visited a homebound patient and when asked his fee responded, "Well, that stew you have cooking smells pretty good.

How about a bowlful?"

On another occasion he hosted . a study group at his home, delighting in watching those arriving recoil as they approached his front door, from the bottom of which protruded what seemed to be a human foot afflicted with a horrendous skin malady. On closer scrutiny it proved to be a lifesize, fuji-color photo clipped .from a medical magazine.

More seriously, Dr. Sullivan was described at his funeral Mass by close friend Daryl Gonyon as a brilliant physician, a pioneer of holistic medicine, a musician and an路 avid geologist.

Although bedfast during his last years, he retained a keen interest in church affairs, often listening to talk shows on both domestic and foreign radio and thinking nothing of calling an overseas program if he felt faith or family values were in need of defense.

In his homily, Father Horace Travassos, Cathedral rector, recalled that once he passed Dr. Sullivan's door while carrying the Blessed Sacrament. "Panis angelicus!" shouted the physician. That hymn was played at the funeral Mass.

The rector also recounted that on another occasion Providence Bishop Louis E. Gelineau passed the door. In honor of his French extraction, he was saluted with a harmonica rendition of "Alouette."

Dr. Sullivan, a Fall River native, was the son of the late Dr. Frederick J. Sullivan and Elena (McKenny) Sullivan. A deceased brother was also Dr. Frederick J. Sullivan. He is survived by two sisters, Alice G. Sullivan of Fall River and Ruth Golden of Somerset, and by several nieces and nephews.

He was a graduate of Providence College and of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. . After service as a medical officer in the U.S. Army, he was chief resident at Philadelphia General Hospital before beginning to practice in Fall'River.

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Is Catholic health care ministry losing its sustaining power?

Catholic hospital administrators discuss motivation, money NEW YORK (CNS) - Catholic health care ministry is in danger of losing the power that has sustained it, a priest warned in a New York address.

Jesuit Father John C. Haughey, ethics professor at Loyola University in Chicago, explained that the power comes from today's health care workers sharing in the motivation that inspired religious orders to found health care institutions and early lay employees ~o work with them.

Drawing on the contemporary philosopher Alasdair Macl ntyre, Father Haughey said the "story" of how an institution came to exist and what it stands for must become a lived reality among the contemporary people who operate it.

He spoke at the Catholic H ospital Administrative Personnel Program, a weeklong course offered twice each year at St. John's University in Queens.

Catholics who run hospitals, universities and other church-related institutions start to think of themselves as competing with non-Catholics, he said, rather than remaining true to the original inspiration that is their strength.

Some hospital personnel who do not grasp the original inspiration or "charism" of the founders, Father Haughey said, may give efficient service as professionals for a time, but think of themselves, he said, as performing a task rather than responding to a vocation.

And their presence, he said, tends to set a business perspective in tension with the "pastoral and mission" outlook of those who still share the founders' ideals.

But Father Haughey warned hospital administrators that the story of the founding of a health care ministry is misused when it路 is employed only for nostalgia, public relations or justification of "keeping things the way they have always been."

Instead, he said, the true charism of a founder is found in understanding that Christ inspired him or her. In Catholic hospitals today, he added, new chapters of their "story" cannot be written in exclusively Catholic terms because of the interfaith character of the staff. "The present chapter of the

story has to be written by the people in the facility," he said.

Father Haughey noted that the parable of the Good Samaritan showed Jesus to be concerned about the intrinsic quality of an action, not the religion of the one who performed it.

The number of people lacking health insurance has grown in the recession, she said, not only because of people losing jobs, but also because many jobs do not include health benefits.

Black and Hispanic workers are more likely than whites to have jobs lacking medical coverage, Miss Uninsured Poor Friedman said. And she said emAt another session of the hospiployers trying to control insurance tal administrators' program, Emily Friedman, a writer and lecturer on . costs are sometimes pressed to fire health care issues, said that Catho- an employee with AIDS or ask a lic hospitals should telt' people pregnknt employee to get an aborabout the needs of the poor rather tion if there is likelihood of a than about their own financial genetic defect. "Cost containment is a moral issue," she said. problems.

Witti a lack of adequate reim"The public doesn't understand bursement, Miss Friedmanacknowyour finances and doesn't care about whether you're losing ledged,'Catholic hospitals will have to place limits on how much they money," she said.

People generally do not believe doCor the poor. But the emphasis, a hospital will go out of business, -she said, should fall on giving she explained, thus complaints basic services to as many people as about lack of adequate' reim- possible.

She also called for administrabursement do not offset the "public image" loss that comes from tors of Catholic hospitals to become turning away uninsured poor peo- more vocal about medical systems with extensive resources that fail ple.

The best strategy for Catholic to do their share of providing serhospitals, she said, is to serve as vice to the poor.

"If some providers are socially many of the poor as they can and simultaneously campaign for a irresponsible, stop being so dainty system that meets the needs of all. about it," she advised. "It is not impolite to get feisty."

Addressing the topic Care of the Poor: Can Catholic Hospitals Survive? Miss Friedman challenged the administrators to ask themselves whether they should survive.

"Are you needed?" she asked.

"In your annual retreats, there should be an hour to spend on the question Is this place necessary?"

She said there were more hospiThe Mass of Christian Burial tal beds than needed in some was held June 18 in Montreal, communities, and continued support of two or more systems in a Canada, for Father Henri Laporte, single city might become imprac- OP, 87, who died June 15. He was pastor of St. Anne's Church, Fall tical.

The nation needs to find ways of River, from 1957 to 1963.

He was born and receiv'ed his taking money from less essential services to ensure primary health early education in Richmond, P.Q., care in basic areas such as prenatal Canada, then prepared for the priesthood at the Seminary ofSherservices and immunizations that brooke, Quebec. reduce infant mortality, she said.

After entering the Dominican She forecast that the problem of Order in 1928 he was ordained giving health care to the uninsured May I, 1933, in Ottawa. He was poor, combined with the rapidly bursar at the monastery in Quebec escalating costs of insurance for those who have it, will move the from 1935 to 1938, then was pastor of Notre Dame de Grace Church, United States to a national health care system in 10 years "regardless Quebec, until 1942. He then entered the Canadian Navyand was Roman of who is elected president."

OBITUARY Father Laporte

The Massachusetts Department of Social Services is seeking volunteers to review cases of children placed in foster care.

Volunteer case reviewers must be age 18 or older, participate in a one-and-a-halfday training session, and commit to reviewing at least one case per month over a oneyear period. Reviews take place at various locations across the state and take one to two hours.

"We need people who are concerned about children and who want to make a difference in their communities," said DSS commissioner Gerald W. Robinson.

Over 230 children are reported abused or nelected each day in Massachusetts. More than 10,000 of these children are in foster homes or other temporary care. By law, each child's case is reviewed every six months to ensure that necessary services are being provided.

The review is conducted by a threemember panel which includes a volunteer from the child's community.

Robinson noted that volunteers are commonly matched with children ofthe same ethnic background.

While most children in foster care are white, persons of other backgrounds - including African-American, Latino and Cape Verdean are also needed and encouraged to apply.

The DSS reported that in 1991; 88,748 children were reported abused or neglected. The figure represents a seven percent increase over 1990 statistics and the fourth straight year in which child abuse reports increased. From 1988 to 1991, the number of children under 18 on the caseload grew by 24 percent; and the number of children placed away from home increased by 43 percent.

Robinson hopes to curb this tide by refocusing the state's child welfare agency on strengthening families and providing more family support services. . . "Nowmorethanever,acommunity-wide effort is needed to combat child abuse," he said.

For information on becoming a volunteer case reviewer, call (617) 727-0900 ext. 451.

Fighting abortion VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Catholics cannot disagree about the immorality of abortion but can differ about the best way to fight legalized abortion, said Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.' U.S. Catholics support .church teachings on abortion, Archbishop Pilarczyk said in a recent telephone interview with Vatican Radio. "Most Catholics are quite aware that abortion is the killing of an unborn child. I believe that most Catholics would say that that's not an a~ceptable procedure," he added.

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Catholic Command Chaplain in charge of all recruiting and training centers in Canada.

In 1946 and 1947 he was chaplain on the cruisers Uganda al1d Ontario. He was later appointed Command Chaplain ofthe PacificCoast in Canada.

H! left the military in 1957 when he came to St. Anne's. There he did much to embellish the church, purchasing marble altars and railings, stained glass windows, and the Casavant organ.

to know while still maintaining a Catholic viewpoint."

On the diocesan level, she has considered curriculum development an ongoing challenge for herself and for teachers. She was pleased to see establishment of substance abuse programs in elementary school and higher grade levels.

"They address problems that lead to abuse and to HIV infection and AIDS," said Sister Moore, adding that they also "make connections between drug abuse and .self-esteem issues."

The educator lauds teachers for developing curriculums for students of hoth high and low abilities.

In her years at the education office, Sister Moore said, she has seen "the wonderful staff of our diocesan high schools (grow) to a great sense of responsibility for total education, not just what happens in the individual classroom."

She added that besides providing an excellent education, Catholic schools prepare students to make faith-based decisions in today's society.

New Directions

Knowing that "the educational concerns of the diocese are centered right here has made it exciting," she said. "And the national work has enabled me to bring back something enriching for all of us."

The principals and school personnel "have been so receptive to looking at things in a new way," she continued. "We have experienced real growth in our schools."

As she seeks a new ministry, Sister Moore's philosophy should suit her in whatever she does.

-"I don't:think anyone minds a challenge," she said, "when they can meet it with the support I've had here."

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In the past for Sister Ann Moore Plante, RS M, associate superinAfter that she will begin a new that declaration has meant summer tendent for diocesan elementary ministry that is yet undecided. "I vacation. This year, however, it schools, offered a three-day leadAn Excellent alternative means farewell as she leaves her ership workshop for new Catholic hope it will have something to do with education," she said. post at the Diocesan Department school principals in New England She has spent many years in that to ~ay Care for tt~ose hard of Education for a yearlo,:!g sab- last .August at Mont Marie in Holyoke. This year they will offer field, having been a teacher and batical and then neW horizons. pressed by the economy.

For 12 years the Sister of the the program Aug. 2 to 5 for prin- principal on the elementary and Congregation of Notre Dame has cipals and also for potential secondary levels at schools in Connecticut and New York before been associate superintendent of administrators. should contact diocesan schools, responsible for As associate superintend~nt, Sis- becoming associate superintendent the diocese's four' secondary ter Moore has been diocesan repre-' in Fall River.

A native of Waterbury, CT, she their Pastors or Members of schools. In that time she has worked sentative to various Catholic and holds master's degrees in theology with faculty and staff in such areas public educational groups. the St. Vincent de Paul from Providence College and counas curriculum, policy, personnel, "What we do in this office is not seling and English from Iona Col~ recruitment and development. just work with principals and teachSociety in their Parishes.

Her primary concerns in work- ers but network with other agen- lege, New Rochelle, NY. She was also a member of her community's ing with diocesan educators, she cies," she explained. novitiate team and provincial counsaid, have been ongoing formation .• For FREE Camperships.

In the city of Fall River she has cil before coming to Fall River in of teachers and defining and proserved on committees dealing with 1980.

She is working this summer moting "the Catholicity of our For Boys 5 - 13 years. alcohol and drug abuse, teen preg- with her successor, James McNaschools." nancy, AIDS education, teen peer mee, at the education office.

The concerns are inevitably counseling and service activities.

One of the rewards of the past Greater Fall River, New Bedford bound together, as Sister Moore She has been involved with the 12 years, she said, has been '~being pointed out, "We're asking our.

Taunton and Attleboro Areas teachers to be role models and Old Colony School Superinten- able to work in this office and with . dents group for Southeastern Masthe people who are part of it.

'We faith models. Any (Catholic school) teacher takes on that responsi- sachusetts and the New England are very supportive of each other sponsored by The Catholic Charities Catholic Superintendents organi- in our ministry, and to have been bility."

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Sister Moore met twice yearly zation, the former dealing with associated with these people has issues affecting education in the made my work easier." with the high sch901 religion teachers and chaplains to discuss state, the latter with regional Cath- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~*~***~~~~~*~~*~~.~~*~~~v~ "s.piritual directions" and "prayer olic school issues; ~, ~ One recent concern of 'the New : life of the schools." These educaIs Our Lady ~ tors, she said, "create the faith' England Catholic superintendents, Calling You : atomsphere that should always be . she said, has been "formation of : parents' groups to be spokesper- ~ part of the schools."

To Come to : sons for the services the state should ~ That is not to discount the role be rendering (Catholic school) chilof other teachers in modeling faith, dren. she added. ~ The associate superintendent also Nationally Sister Moore was a ~ met regularly with principals and delegate to the National Congress : If so, guidance and development person- on Catholic Schools for the 21 st : cordially invites you to experience an inspiring : nel "to shar~ ideas and needs and Century, held in November in Washaddress ways we can help the ington. She has been a member of schools." . the National Catholic Educational : to this very special spiritual center of the world. : Ongoing formation, which Sis- Association's secondary executive ~ ~ ter Moore has directed through committee and chief administrateacher retreats, prayer days and tors board. ~ ~ leadership training, re,:ognizes that Through NCEA she has been : Sept. 10 - Sept. 17, 1992 : educators "need support in Their involved in discussion of national All Inclusive : faith" just as their students do, she issues affecting Catholic schools, said. such as the "school choice" and : Call now in MA at 1-800-649-3390 or 508-336-3090 : A reteat for secondary faculty funding proposals. She also helped ~ Reserve early, space will be limited for this special feast day. ~ and staffthat Sister Moore offered develop the NCEA's AIDS cur: Ask us about our optional post tour to Rome, Assisi, Loreto. : last year will be expanded this year riculum, which addresses "all infor- ~ . ' , ' ill to include elementary level per- mation kids and teachers needed ~~~~~~~~***~~~~********~**~****~~*~~*~~~~~~~*~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~.~

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the moorins.-, A Call for Fairness Media coverage of the first news conference of Bishop Sean O'Malley was indeed gratifying and appreciated by the diocesan family. But noteworthy both by their absence from the scene and lack of even adequate news service coverage of this major story were the Cape Cod Times and the New Bedford Standard-Times, both Dow Jones subsidiaries.

These newspapers Serve an area in which more than halfthe population is Catholic, yet they have done little to cover events of vital importance to our faith community. ' On the other hand, when it comes to coverage of matters that are embarrassing or derogatory to the church, it seems no effort is spared. In fact, both newspapers have gone beyond factual coverage and have printed editorials openly hostile to the church and its leaders.

In a recent attack on Cardinal Law, for instance, the New Bedford Standard-Times published unwarranted and defamatory material that was far removed from reality. Similarly, the paper cast aspersions on the character of the late Cardinal Humberto Medeiros.

One wonders why newspapers in such heavily Catholic areas wish to defame church leaders as a matter of what appears to be editorial policy. Seldom do persons of prominence in other faiths receive such treatment from these papers. They do not dare vilify Jewish or black religious leaders as they do their Catholic counterparts.

Indeed, it seems this is open season on Catholic-baiting, with attacks based largely on half-truths, secondhand infor,mation and often even street gossip. Tireless efforts are apparently made on all levels of the media to "get something" that will smirch or sulIy. But when positive news opportunities arise, these critics are nowhere to be found.

Admittedly, deplorable and embarrassing accusations have come to light in recent months, but it should also be remem.bered that legal matters are often impossible to discuss in the public arena, and that in our society the presumption is that an accused person is innocent until proved guilty.

No person, institution or community should be judged guilty by the media and sentenced by editorial decree. It is wrong for the press to encourage what amounts to a lynch mentality. The person of Cardinal Bernard Law and the memory of Cardinal Medeiros do not deserve to be judged via headlines or editorials. Our judicial system is based'on constitutional rights and freedoms. It does not give the media the right to abuse their own cherished freedom of the press, degrading it to mere license. ,It should be stated unequivocally that the Catholic community of this diocese deserves much more than it is receiving from the secular press. The church should not be fair game for those who would foster a mind-set that encourages discrimina':' tion and intolerance. And Catholics should not sit back passively as their leaders are unjustly attacked, ignored and defamed.

Not only in the case of current allegations, but at all times, we as a community should claim the religious freedoms and rights that are ours under the Constitution and should respond to attacks on our church. Compassion, fairness and impartiality are n0t-and should not be one-sided.

As we in the Fall River diocese prepare to install our new bishQp, let us hope that those who have a reporting responsibility to the entire community will fulfill their obligation equitaThe Editor bly and honestly.

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IN ATLANTA, AN ANGRY MOB ATTACKS A MAN IN REACTION TO THE VERDICT IN THE RODNEY KING CASE

July 4: The land of the free and the home of the brave?

Can this hot summer be cooled?

registration drives, and by ad- All South Side churches, Catholic WASHINGTON (CNS) While climatologists. predict that dressing the homelessness issue. and non-Catholic, were invited.

That, said Capuchin Father Earth may be a degree cooler this "One other Catholic priest year due to volcanic ash spewed David Lippert, associate pastor, showed up," Father Pfleger said. out last year by Mount Pinatubo, gave Sacred Heart credibility to He has predicted "we're going to see a lot worse" if urban ills are -nobody is predicting that things 'addres's the rioting.

It's essential for aparish' to be 'ignored. "I'd love 'to 'be" proven will cool down in the nation's -cities. involved in its community before a wrong," Father Pfleger said. "I crisis hits; he said.

Pick a city. Pick a spark. don't say it to be prophesying. But "Gone are the days where you're I'd like it to be a warning." , Los Angeles: the Rodney King beating trial verdict. Atlanta, San credible for just wearing a Roman Government officials are "asleep Francisco, and a handful of other collar. You have to prove your on the job," he said, and "most of us are pushin' the snooze button." cities: sympathy rioting, as it were, credibility," said Father Lippert.

Father Michael pfleger, pastor In Flint, Mich., a riot reflecting over the King verdict. Chicago: the hometown Bulls' win in the of St. Sabina parish in Chicago, , anger over the King verdict was NBA championship. Shreveport, said it took 15 years for the South averted when Rick Nix, head of La.: black anger at an Arab's Side parish to get a good name in the Black Catholic Concerns Office for the nearby diocese of Saginaw, murder of a black man. Washing- the community.

Mich., did crowd control. ton: a bar brawl among Hispanics.

It was his neighborhood that Boston: police cancellation of a bore the brunt of a celebration But he wasn't alone. Standing free outdoor concert. turned ugly, with scores of injuries with him for two nights were high "The frustration is nationwide," and 1,000 arrests, but rather than school-age black men and women said Thomas Shellabarger, urban being discouraged, the priest car- to whom he had given leadership issues policy adviser for the U.S. ries on. training the weekend before.

Catholic Conference's Department "I don't think the church is His training program has been of Social Development and World doing enough. We're not as in- in place for a decade. Nix said he Peace. volved i:t 1992 in social justice as would like to take it nationwide.

But where is the church in these the churcl: was in the '60s," Father In Shreveport, where tensions , times of crisis?

Pfleger saici. linger following May's fatal shootThrough such works as the Cam"We've been neglectful in ad- ing of a black man by a Palestinian paign for Human Development dressing the issues. We've gotten convenience store clerk, "we are and Catholic Social Services, the into this posture of unleashing working really hard on race relachurch was among the people be- statements and unleashing pastor- tions," said JoAnn Czerwinski, fore the latest string of urban erup- als but we're very slack on action." diocesan director of social ministry. tions, but "in its own modest way," He told of a May meeting he But the effort isn't easy. CathShellabarger said, "because we hosted to forge a community conolics number about 38,000 or 5 don't have the money of govern- ,sensus in the wake of the Los percent of the total population in ment."

Angeles riot. Comedian and social the diocese. Most Catholics live in What the church has, though, activist Dick Gregory was featured. the diocese's rural areas. Shrevehe added, is "the philosophy and port; population 198,525 in the theology that we are part of a 1990 census, is half black. And the community." diocese has only two integrated Community activism is paraparishes and one historically black mount, leaders of local churches parish in the city.

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER told Catholic N~ws Se~ice.

The black parish, Ms. Czerwinski The Washington disturbance was Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River said, is middle class in a poor reined in with the help of Sacred neighborhood, "They really haven't 887 Highland Avenue P.O. BOX 7 Prayer for 'Families Heart parish. Its ministry has gotten very involved in the comFall River, MA 02720 Fall River, MA 02722-0007 focused on neighborhood Hispanmunity," she said. "We've ,been lnyourmfinuegoodnes~ Telephone 508-675-7151 ics - many of them Salvadoran trying, but it hasn't been working."

FAX (508) 675-7048 we beseech you, 0 Lord, to immigrants - for at least eight Working with other denominawatch over our household so Send address changes to P.O. Box 7 or call telephone number above years, when Capuchins assumed tions in Shreveport is the most that as it relies on the hope pastoral care of the parish. hopeful option to Ms. Czerwinski. of your heavenly grace u Since then, the parish church "We can't go it alone, that's for EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER may be defended by your and school have built community sure," she said. "Where most peo- I Rosemary Dussault Rev. John F. Moore protection.

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Jesus offers freedom I Kings 19:16, 19-21 Galatians 5:1, 13-18 Luke 9:15-62 Sunday's three readings call to mind the '60s saying, "When you're up to your waist in alligators, it's kind of hard to remember that your original intention was to drain the swamp'" In the middle of all the rules and regulations, the theologies and denominations, the disputes and authority structures, it's also kind of hard to remember that Jesus' original intention was to bring us freedom!

Paul says it in Sunday's Galatians reading: "It was for liberty that Christ freed us... Remember that you have been called to live in freedom ..." he could not be more emphatic.

The Apostle is confronting Christians who are dangerously close to building their faith on the Mosaic Law. Forgetting their liberating relationship with Jesus, they are about to step back into the enslaving security of rules and regulations. Yet their actions make sense. It is always easier to follow a system than a person. It is always safer to know concretely what God demands every day than to wake each morning with just a longing to discover his will through our love of him and those around us.

Pointing out the irony of their regression, Paul reminds his community that this emphasis on such "fleshly" things as circumcision and food has actually led them to give "free rein to the flesh." Though

_-Daily Readings June 29: Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-9; 21m 4:6-8,17-18; Mt 16:13-19 June 30: Am 3: 1-8;4:1112; Ps 5:4-8; Mt 8:23-27 July 1: Am 5:14-15,21-24; Ps 50:7-13,16-17; Mt 8:28-34 July 2: Am 7:10-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 9:1-8 July 3: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 117:1-2; Jn 20:24~29 July 4: Am 9:11-15; Ps 85:9,11-14; Mt 9:14-17 July 5: Is 66:10-14; Ps 66:1-7,16,20; Gal 6:14-18; lk 10:1-12,,17-20 July 6: Hos 2:16-18,2122; Ps 145:2-9; Mt 9:18-26 July 7: Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-10; Mt 9:32-38 July 8: Hos 10:1-3,7-8,12; Ps 105:2-7; Mt 10:1-7 July 9: Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8-9; Ps 80:2-3,15-16; Mt 10:7-15 July 10: Hos 14: 2-10; Ps 51:3-4,8-9,12-14,17; Mt 10: 16-23 July 11: Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:12,5; Mt 10:24-33 July 12: Ot 30:10-14; Ps 69: 14,17,30-31,33-34,36-37; Col 1:15-20; lk 10:25-37

Doctorate earned

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN

Patrick C. McCarthy, music director at St. Anthony's Church, Mattapoisett, a licensed independent clinical social worker, ,has earned a doctoral degree in clinical social work from the Boston Graduate School of Social Work.

His doctoral dissertation, completing seven years of parttime study, discussed adult children of alcoholics.

Dr. McCarthy was formerly director of the New Bedford area Catholic Social Services office and now has a 10-year-old counseling practice in'Mattapoisett, in which his expertise is working with individuals and couples in recovery.

He is also an adjunct professor at Boston University's School of Social Work.

Dr. McCarthy and his wife, Kathy, have three sons.

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"Get on the ball" FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CNS) - With the rapid growth of Islam, Buddhism and other nonChristian religions in the United States today, it's time for the average Catholic to get on the ball about spreading the word of Christ, according to Greer G. Gordon.

The Boston University faculty member spoke at the recent annual meeting ofthe National Council for Catholic Evangelization in Fort Lauderdale. "We do have to be very conscious, if we believe in Christ, to be on the move," she

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Throughout Scripture, God's call is always a call in freedom 10 freeWASHINGTON (CNS) - An dom. Even if a prophet invites organization representing leading someone to be his disciple, as in Catholic foundations has chosen our first reading, the invited can Jesuit Father William J. Byron to still reject the invitation. When receive its Distinguished Catholic Elisha says to Elijah, "Let me kiss Leadership Award. Father Byron, my father and mother goodbye, president of The Catholic Univerand I will follow you," the master sity of America for the past 10 replies, "Have I done anything to years, is resigning that post in July 6:45 AM you?" In other words, "You're free to continue writing and lecturing WJDA SUNDAY to do whatever you wish." Unless and to assume pastoral duties at AM WPLM THURSDAY we respond freely, how will we Holy Trinity parish in Washingever be able to discover freedom in ton. The award is given by FounAM WARE SUNDAY our calling? dations and Donors Interested in Through Sunday's Gospel peri- Catholic Activities to the individAM WKRI SUNDAY cope, Jesus teaches that we should ual who has best demonstrated never be slaves to ourselves or creativity, initiative and leadership Is Now Being Produced By The Franciscan Fathers At: others. ,in contributing to the renewal and James and John first catch the growth of Catholic life. brunt ofthis teaching. Angered by Samaritan rejection, they ask, "Lord, would you have us call down fire from heaven to destroy them?" But instead of annihi)ating Samaritans, Jesus "turned toward Sales 'and Se~vice -.....a ~ Join Us For Prayer, Meditation, James and John...to reprimand , for Oomest!c ~ and Industrial them!" We who follow the Lord And Petition In Honor Of St. Jude. must be free enough to push 995-1631 beyond the confines of our own 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE SEND US YOUR SPECIAL INTENTIONS. emotions. Our response to rejecNEW BEDFORD tion can be more limiting than the actual rejection.

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Kitchen remedies for stress confess that an afternoon of cookfor a friend, the first piece of ing would only raise my stress woodwork I had ever attempted. level. Cooking is more chore than While sawing, sanding, hammerrecreation to me. ing, and making lots of noise in my All this just proves that one pergarage, I came up with a theory son's stress reducer is another's regarding men's ability to deal nemesis. Some folks get in the car with anger better than women. and drive around to reduce stress.

"Traditionally, men filled the I can't relate to that, either, but I role of constructing things, wheknow I've met some of them on the reas women were not encouraged road. With people shooting each to take on such tasks. Have you other for changing lanes without ever felt the .power of swinging a signaling, I'd prefer that such peo- . hammer and hearing it meet the ple stay home and bake. head of a nail? Or used an electric An intriguing column on the saw to cut a piece of wood?

"As I swung my hammer, I . topic of how people reach for calming techniques appeared in could feel my anger flowing through Sunrays, the newsletter of Survi- my shoulder and arm ... bam! The vors United Network dedicated to nail caught it. When the bookcase ending the cycle of sexual abuse. was finished, my friend and others Author Diane Clark wrote, "Last complimented me on my'finJ: craftsyear I offered to build a bookcase work.' Was I the only one who

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DOLORES CURRAN

When her stress level is up, my friend Jenny heads for the kitchen.

Not to eat, as I do, but to chop, simmer, and bake. Her kitchen takes on a post-cyclone look with flour swirling in the air instead of dust. Her favorite stress beater is bread. "I don't knead it," she says.

"I slap it, punch it, and abuse it until I've calmed down."

I admire her resourcefulness but

recognized it as a product of my angerwork?"

Because abuse survivors have so much pent-up anger from childhood and are often so terrified of expressing it, newsletters and support groups focus efforts on helping members learn not to fear anger but to welcome it and deal with it in a number of effective ways.

One of these is offered by Diane Clark who, at the close of her short column, wrote, "I remember a recipe published in the Kaiser Permanente Employee's Club cookbook, a pinch of this, a way that we traditionally-trained women can receive praise for 'working on our anger' - The joy for me, whether with the bookcase or a delicious

plate of Aggression Cookies, is not only releasing my anger in the act of making them, but also accepting praise."

Karla McMechan's Aggression Cookies 3 C. Brown Sugar 6 C. Oatmeal 3 C. Flour 3 C. Margarine or Butter I T. Baking Soda Put ingredients in huge bowl and mash, knead, squeeze and beat it until you have worked out all your frustrations. The more you beat this mixture, the better it is. Then form it into small balls on an ungreased cQokie sheet. Butter the bottom of a small glass, dip it in granulated sugar and mash the balls flat. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

. And that, my friends, is the only recipe you're ever likely to read in this column.

More on children not sleeping through the night

By Dr. JAMES & MARY "

KENNY Dear Mary: I read your column about the single parent with the 2-year-old who kept getting up at night. Since I was a single parent for over 10 years, I felt it might be helpful to bring a few. things to your attention.

This parent has a right to sleep at night, especially faced with the challenges of working and raising a child by herself.

She should first make sure there

is nothing physically wrong with the child and there are no emotional problems that need to be dealt with.

After that she should sit the child down and .explain (2-year- oldscilO understand simple language) that mother needs to sleep at night so you must not wake her.

A child should not be allowed to control an adult.

When you are a single parent, bringing the child to bed with you is not a good idea. Some day that mother is going to get married and not want the child in bed with her.

The child is going to feel pushed away. - Washington Thank you for your observations.

Sleeping through the .night is a major concern for parents. When friends ask parents about a new-

born, one of the first queries is, "Does (s)he sleep through the night?"

Many parents regard sleeping through the night as a matter for discipline. Sleeping is "good" behavior. Waking is "bad" behavior.

Such judgment of children is wrong. Are you guilty of bad behavior when you have a wakeful night?

Do you always know why you are wakeful? If we cannot understand our own wakefulness, how can we possibly determine the exact cause of our child's?

Gregory White, physician and father of II, says, "No one is entitled to a full night's sleep."

However, as you rightly observe, it is important for parents to get a good night's sleep. It is precisely

for this reason that I suggested letting the child sleep with the parent.

In our culture sleeping with the parent is often considered weird, abnormal or even wrong. Yet h"u': mans are probably the only mammals that sleep apart from their infants. And in most human cultures it is commonplace.

Nor will sleeping with parents become a habit that goes on forever.

Many infant behaviors - breastfeeding, sucking a bottle, a thumb or a pacifier, holding, rocking are criticized with the comment, "Do you want him/ her doing that in kindergarten?"

In.fact, children develop rapidly, and their behaviors change with their needs and development.

Meet the need as it occurs, and the child will move forward to

new challenges and new behaviors.

If you do not want your child to s'-e~p in your bed, by all means find other solutions. However, in our culture many parents feel guilty about letting a child into their bed.

They need to know it is all fight.

Being a parent is tough; being a single parent m.ore so. Parents of 2-year-olds need to remind themselves they are the child's chief ally.

Night wakefulness is not bad behavior. It is a problem. Turning it into a battle creates a no-win situation. Instead parents need to look for loving ways to deal with it.

Reader questions on family living and child care are invited by The Kennys; 219 West Harrison St.; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Becoming strong in broken places My friend's divorce settlement . left her with very little and today she lives in a tiny cottage, too small to share with her daughter.

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

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A divorced friend of mine wasin terrible distress. Her daughter, 18, was having serious emotional problems. The daughter lives with her father.

My friend was frantic when she got a call saying her daughter had run away. To make matters even more impossible, the woman's former husband doesn't talk to her.

FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. Our Catholic newspaper had a recent article about a new book identifying the real words of Jesus in the Gospels.

I thought we already had the words Jesus spoke. Or aren't we supposed to believe the Gospels when they tell us Jesus said somethin2? (Florida) A. With no tape recordings or videotapes of Jesus, and only comparatively few and often conflicting records such as the Gospels to go by, it is all but impossible to .~.

she got diabetes. By the time she was 65, the illness had begun to affect her eyes. At 72 she is virtually blind. .

She mourns her lost vision, but she has not given up on life. Miraculously, she has, through her faith in God, found a way to keep a purpose in life. She cooks and almost daily makes a meal to send to her neighbors, an older couple who are past being concerned about proper nutrition.

By reaching路 out to them she'is on her way to being healed and whole again. She is "becoming strong at the broken places."

Another woman, a professional musician, had a slight stroke which made it impossible for her to play

her instrument. Not long after, her husband, much older than she and depressed from a business downturn, attempted suicide.

She got him to the hospital in time to save his life but not to prevent brain damage. She has cared for him for many years.

But even though her life completely changed direction, she found something previously missing she found God. She too has become strong bec'ause she opted for wholeness after the world broke her. t suppose many people we meet could tell such a tale of how life broke them mildly or deeply. But when you heard of those who grew stronger at the broken places, you encounter nobility.

Where are路 the real words of Jesus in the Gospels?

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When she got the news 'of her daughter's disappearance, she called. Her tears didn't surprise me.

Yet I felt there was a strength there.

After all, she had made it through a traumatic time after her marriage fell apart. And she pulled herself together with the help of her faith in God, enough to find her tiny house and get a job that paid enough to cover her expenses.

Realizing ~hat she had somehow found a way in the previous few years to survive with regained

strength, I reminded her ofthe line from Ernest Hemingway's"A Farewell to Arms": "The world breaks everyone, then some become strong at the broken places."

I reminded her that she had done that and she would help her daughter do the same.

Somehow that thought gave her consolation.

I find it inspiring when people heal to become stronger after an experience that breaks them.

I think of my Aunt Justina. She was alwa'ys an active person, kind to others, especially those who were poor and needed food or clothes. She also was devoted to her Catholic faith.

She was relatively young when

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identify with certainty the exact words of Jesus.

The best we or biblical researchers can do is say that the evidence points to this or that reading as more probable than another.

Much research of this type is going on, by the way, and it can add immeasurably to our understanding of Jesus and his life and message.

We are able here barely to touch on your questions about what Jesus says in the Gospels, but a few reminders may help.

First, even the Gospels themselves often differ significantly in . their quotes of Jesus.

To mention just two examples, the Lord's Prayer is different in Matthew and Luke (and both of them are different from the one we use); and the words of the institution of the Eucharist at the Last

Supper differ from Gospel to Gostures into the form we have them, weren't nearly as interested in pel. grammatical. details as we are.

Second, most ancient texts from which our modern' Bibles are The precise words that were translated have nothing like quoused, or the syntax, were far less tation marks, or even periods. significant than the meaning.

Punctuation of the kind we use For them the more important was unheard of. concern was that the mind and In those manuscripts, phrases teaching of Jesus be by faithfully and sentences simply run into each passed down, and then translated other. from a form of Aramaic (the daily When a verse reads, "Jesus said such and such," did the author mean that to be a: direct quote or VATICAN CITY (CNS) - With rather simply the idea that Jesus expressed, what we would call an improved prospects for world harmony, nations should do more to indirect quote?

The answer comes down finally reclaim the enormous resources to an educated judgment by the that had been devoted to the arms race and use them for peaceful translator.

Third, and perhaps most impor- projects, Pope Johil Paul II told a tant, the people who listened to group of scientists in Rome. RealJesus, and those who eventually locating these resources can help put the Gospels and other Scrip- . foster peace and "improve the con-

language of Jesus, though he probably knew some Greek and Latin) to Greek, and eventually to other languages.

The Gospels as we have 'them contain their own spiritual power as the word of God. The most important traits we bring to them are openness to that word and faith.

Peace better use for resources ditions of life for millions of our brothers and sisters in need," the pope told participants in an international symposium on conversion of nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes.

Ready Excuse "Every vice has its excuse ready."-Publilius Syrus

A special mother Dear Editor: Family members are so happy and pleased that it was suggested the Anchor do an article about our mother [Anchor, June 12). She is very special and has been the best role model for all of us, especially since her life has been very difficult at times. She always managed to rise above it and kept going, never complaining, looking to the bright side. She will always say, "There's a reason for everything."

So many friends and parishioners of Our Lady of Grace commented on the article during our parish festival this past weekend.

To my mother's amazement, the

president ofthe parish Senior Club read the whole write-up at their meeting Monday.

Marcie Hickey did a good job as always. Sincerely hope [the article] will be an inspiration to others, if possible, to remain active. Once again, than,k you.

Madeleine Lavoie Westport

--Battling

"Let us be kind to·one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." - Ian Mclaren July 3 1942, Rev. Thomas P. Doherty,

Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford

June 27 1863, Rev. John Corry, Founder,

St. Mary, Taunton. Founder, St. Mary, Fall River 1933, Rev. Dario Raposo, Pas-

tor, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton 1980, Rev. Msgr. Thomas F. Walsh, Pastor Emeritus, St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro 1984, Msgr. Bernard J. Fenton, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, North Dighton June 28 1947, Rev. Thomas e. Gunning, Assistant, St. Lawrence, New Bedford June 30 1952, Rev. Simon Pease, SS.Ce., Administrator of Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven 1961, Rev. Alphonse M. Reniere, O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River July 2 1967, Rev. Gerard A. Boisvert,

Assistant, Notre Dame, Fall River

July 4 1955, Rev. James A. Coyle, S.T.L., ·Pastor, Holy Name, Fall River July 5 1943, Rev. J.F. LaBonte, Pas-

tor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford 1985, Rev. Edward P. Versailles, M.S., LaSalette Shrine July 6 1963, Rev. Edmond Francis,

SS.Ce., Pastor, St. Mary, Fairhaven July 7 1965, Rev. James E. Lynch, First Pastor, St. Joan of Are, Orleans July 8 1887, Rev. Edward J. Murphy, Pastor, St. Mary, Fall River July 10 1938, Rev. Pie Marie Berard,

O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River 1972, Rev. Maurice E. Parent, Pastor, St. Michael, Swansea 1987, Rev. John E. Morris, MM, Retired, Maryknoll Missioner; Rev. Theodore M. Morin, MS, LaSalette Shrine.

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"SHOREWAY ACRES IS A SURE THING" It's 'What Life On Cape Cod Is All About" ~tw En~ldnJ

Dear Editor: The editorial, "A Man Named Sean" (Anchor, June 19), was most informative.

May I add that the quick arrival of our newly appointed bishop was certain proof that he is punctual, obedient and has a true spirit of detachment.

Welcome, Bishop O'Malley: God and Our Lady bless you.

Alice Beaulieu New Bedford

will make a very good president.

Cardinal Ricardo Vidal ofCebu, 350 miles southeast of Manila, welcomed Ramos as the country's next president and encouraged the next government to pursue peace initiatives with the communists and rebel soldiers.

Ramos, who defended President Corazon Aquino in seven failed coups d'etat since she took office in 1986, said he was considering granting amnesty to rebels as long as they laid down their arms and their leaders faced charges in court.

Msgr. Achilles Dakay, Cebu archdiocese spokesman, said Cardinal Vidal was asking Ramos to address the insurgency problem the Christian way, by dealing with its root causes, particularly the economy.

"Reconciliation has been the central theme of Cardinal Vidal's sermons since the election fever started," Msgr. Dakay said. "He doesn't want the next three or six, years wasted."

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Filipino bishops. support first Protestant president MANILA, Philippines (CNS) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines will support former defense secretary Fidel Ramos, who is set to take over as the country's first Protestant president June 30.

"The CBCP is going to be behind Ramos 100 percent," said Jesuit Father James Reuter, spokesman for the bishops. "I don't think we will have any trouble with the fact that he is a Protestant - no way."

The bishops "will back him up and everybody will work together - I can guarantee you that," Father Reuter said.

The priest commented during a .courtesy call by Asian church leaders on President Corazon Aquino at Malacanang presidential palace.

The Philippine Congress ended its official count of the votes from the May II elections on the night of June 17.

Ramos won with 21.4 percent of the 25 million votes cast, followed

by Miriam Santiago.

"The church is never going to militate against anybody because of his religion," Father Reuter said. "Ramos has a great devotion to the Virgin Mary, and I think he

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The couple had five children.

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In dynamic psychotherapy, there are two triangles: the triangle of conflict and the triangle ofthe person. Both are crucial to the healing of the person. In 25 years the triangle of conflict, including Church, priesthood, celibacy, women's rights and their ecclesiastic place, annulments, speaks of chaos and change.

Twenty-five years ago, on May 20, 1967, I said "Adsum": I am here and willing to be a priest. The psychological cost of that commitment was then unknown to me and to my wonderful classmates who include Henry Arruda, Dick Chretien, Brian Harrington, Jim Morse and John J. Oliveira. ' The Church's journey in these turbulent years has been fascinat-

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ing. All who have traveled with her on the ecclesiastical road have been wounded by constant criticism from within but have also been applauded for their courage and persistence.

The priesthood is a way of life unique to the bearers of its beauty and its burden. Personnel choices seem never really thought out and one often feels one is merely filling an open spot; the ego needs of pastors may make it difficult to share a rectory and a parish program as brothers; the assistant or parochial vicar may be made all too well aware that he is guest in the pastor's castle; while religious sisters faithful to their vocation, although considered really important to education, CCD, hospitals and nursing homes, are still striving to find their place in the changing role of women in the Church.

In 1968 I stood in the yard of St. Kilian's School, New Bedford, closing for lack of money, and watched the kids leave it for the last time. Since then, IS more diocesan grammar schools have closed for the same reason, to the sadness of priests and parents and

the mounting crisis of Catholic education.

In contrast to that loss, I have seen the marvelous emergence of Cursillo, ECHO and Emmaus retreats, Engaged and Marriage Encounter, Pre-Cana programs and the permanent diaconate - all signs of a church that strives to reach out to the world in love.

But parish life needs scrutiny in three important areas: its liturgy, its leadership and its lethargy in matters in which action is demanded by the Gospel. Admittedly, priests are fewer and demands are greater, but the times require concerted effort to offer the best in liturgical celebration, to effect spiritual response through homilies challenging parishioners and to maintain respect for the traditional while relinq uishing that which is transient and nonessential.

The age of the laity is here and we had all better make the most of it! The laity are the Church.

Priests come from the laity only to serve them; the laity are not put on earth to serve the priests. Eucharistic ministers, lectors, parish councilors and permanent deacons

are called through baptism to make the Church a reality in this world.

I have seen the best kids embrace the Church and the best kids leave it for multiple reasons and my heart is alternately elated and broken. The kids say "the Church is not relevant"; "it's not with the times"; or they say "it's important to me and to my family"; I need Christ and find him in my parish family": the mixed bag of the seventies, eighties and nineties.

In all this, parish priests are wounded healers and thus in the weeks to follow we will discuss the priesthood and the laity and their roles in the 90s.

Twenty-five years ago, I crossed over into the triangle of conflict and the triangle of being a person in the midst of a loving Church, also in conflict. I am not sorry that I made the decision to serve God and his people. There have been countless sacramental moments, the empathy and compassion of fellow Christians, the beauty of newborn babies and newly married couples. The sick and dying have reached out to me as they did

FATHER NORTON to Christ and I have been there for them. Young men and women have entered religious life, enriching all of us by saying "yes."

All these memories and many more have made these 25 years a mixture of bliss and burden, of victory and pain, of agony and ecstasy. It's the Paschal journey, it is the privilege of making the Risen Christ real and present in our wounded, confused world.

Poll says two-thirds of Catholics back women's ordination NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)--:Two-thirds of U.S. Catholics now think women should be ordained priests. according to a nationwide Gallup Poll sponsored by a coalition of Catholic groups seeking changes in church practice.

The coalition released the poll results at a press conference at .the University of Notre Dame concur-

rently with the spring meeting of the U.S. bishops.

The poll found American Catholic disagreement with the church on a range of issues from abortion and birth control to women priests, married priests and popular election of bishops.

Asked about the poll, Bishop

Raymond J. Boland, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Communications, said polls are only "of transient value. The church decides its doctrine on the basis of 2,000 years of tradition."

He also noted that the poll reflected only current views of American Catholics. while the church is a worldwide institution.

The Perot phenomenon Continued from Page One Ehrenhalt also cited public dissatisfaction with 12 years of divided power "with the party holding the White House sniping at the party in control of Congress" and vice versa.

John Carr, the U.S. bishops' secretary for social development and world peace, says Perot's popularity, combined with reduced participation in state primaries and poor showings in the polls for incumbent politicians, stems from a national feeling "that we've somehow lost our moorings."

"There's the violence in L.A., paralysis in the government, the recession hanging on," notes Carr.

Perot, he told CNS, "represents a reflection of the people's frustration."

On the positive side, a Perot candidacy may force other candidates to clarify their positions on certain issues, says Carr.

And Ehrenhalt says a third party candidacy may discourage negative campaigning and "force the political parties to take stock of themselves."

Perot's surging popularity, combined with public pressure, also could convince President Bush to join the other contenders in an issue-oriented debate, according to Carr.

But the facts that Perot grew popular before much was known about his stands on the issues indicates a serious problem with the current political process, he said.

"We end up knowing so much minutiae about the candidates and not much at all about [their positions on] the big questions," he says. "

Among known Perot positions: He says he favors permitting abortion; supports reducing the deficit by cutting $180 billion a year by eliminating wasteful spending and ending Social Security and medicare subsidies to affluent retirees; and opposes the proposed free trade agreement with Mexico. In Texas, he pushed for improved early childhood education and equalized funding for poor school districts, but backed reforms opposed by teacher's unions, such as merit pay and teacher competency exams.

Carr warns voters unhappy with the status quo that a candidate preaching change can lead the country to an even less desirable situation.

"Whether we're talking about the sitting president, a 12-year governor or outsider Perot - the same question has to be asked: who has the values, vision and skills to lead the country?" says Carr.

John Frendreis, political science professor at Chicago's Loyola University, says that an outsider may not make the best president.

Governing effectively requires not only the ability to identify problems but also to devise solutions, he says.

Coalition-building, another requisite, "is not something an outsider can easily do," he says.

Resolving conflict, achieving compromise and understanding the importance of symbolic activities, also required, "are things that politicians are generally g~od at," he points out.

In contrast to times past when presidential candidates "were stan-

dard-bearers and represented something other than their own ambitions," today's candidates are "products of self-nomination," says Ehrenhalt.

They are presidential candidates today for no reason other than each one "looked in the mirror one morning, saw a president looking back and said, 'Sure, why not?'"

As a result the "supply" of candidates has nothing to do with the "demands of voters," he says.

Frendreis maintains a third party candidacy is "bad for the country." What is needed, he says, is "precisely the opposite - a strengthening of the two-party system."

He also urges voters to link their votes for Congress and the president. Split-ticket voting that produced divided party leadership in Congress and the executive branch "has allowed both parties to avoid bearing responsibility" for the nation's critical problems, he opines.

Gets medical degree William J. Butler, Jr. son of William J. and Rosemary (Williams) Butler of New Bedford, has received a medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Butler is an honors graduate of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, and graduated magna cum laude from Boston College.

True Possession "I have held many t~ings in my hands. and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."- M. Luther

A "fact sheet" from the bishops' Catholic could vote in good conpro-life office given to reporters science for a political candidate covering the meeting also questi- , who supports laws permittingaboroned the methodology of polls tion.

- On abortion, 13 percent said that survey Catholic opinion on it should be illegal in all circumabortion. It said such polls fail to stances; 33 percent legal only in distinguish between active and inactive Catholics and said church- rare circumstances; 21 percent legal in many circumstances; 31 percent going Catholics "are strongly prolegal in all circumstances; and 3 life." percent no opinion.

The new Gallup Poll was con- On the morality of abortion, ducted by telephone interviews in the views were slightly stricter.

May with a scientifically selected random sampling of802 U.S. Cath- Thirteen percent said it was never olics. It had an accuracy rating of moral; 41 percent only rarely; 26 percent in many circumstances; 15 four percentage points, meaning percent in all circumstances. Five that most of the time results would percent expressed no opinion. reflect the views of the entire U.S. ' - Three-fourths of Catholics Catholic population within 4 perthought parish councils should be路 cent plus or minus. able to decide parish policies, According to the poll. the numincluding use of funds, not just ber of U.S. Catholics backing advise the pastor. women priests and married priests - Four-fifths thought bishops has continued to climb in recent should consult lay people on quesyears despite strong efforts of Pope tions of sexual morality.

John Paul to reaffirm existing - Just over two-thirds thought church policy and discourage exparishioners should be able to pe~tations of change. choose their own pastors. Similar The Vatican has said the church numbers thought priests and peodoes not consider itself able to ple should elect bishops. ordain women for reasons includ-Four out of five Catholics ing Christ's example in choosing said it is possible to disagree pubonly men as apostles, the unbroken licly with church. teaching and retradition of the church that should main a good Catholic. be considered "normative," and - Catholics were split, 46 perthe fact that in celebrating the cent approving, 48 percent disapEucharist, a priest acts in the per- proving, 6 percent undecided, on son' of Christ, who was a man. the morality of homosexual activIn a 1974 poll 29 percent of U.S. ity in a committed relationship.

Catholics backed women priests.

Despite such disagreements 84 That number climbed in the next percent thought Pope John Paul II years to 47 percent. Between 1\ is doing a good job of leading 1985 and 1992 it jumped 20 points, the church. to 67 percent agreeing that "it Among the few areas touched would be a good thing if women by the poll in which a majority of were allowed to be ordained as Catholics agreed with the U.S. priests." bishops were two in the area of Support for married priests has social justice. Seventy-four percent also grown. though not as dramatwere willing to pay higher taxes ically. In a 1971 Gallup Poll 49 for a universal national health care percent of U.S. Catholics favored program and 79 percent thought married priests. In the new poll the public spending to fight poverty percentage was up to 70. and homelessness was more imporOther data in the new poll intant than military spending. cluded: Leaders of the groups releasing - About 87 percent of those the polf said the results showed polled felt Catholic couples should that groups calling for church be free to decide on methods of reforms are not dissidents from birth control. the far left but reflect grass roots - Seven out of 10 thought a lay opinion.

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MAJED MOUDED, MD (left), and Azhar Q. Mustafa, M 0, have been elected to the board of directors of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. Dr. Mouded is a graduate of the University of Damascus Medical School in Damascus, Syria. He specializes in endocrinology, diabetes and internal medicine.

Dr. Mustafa, a medical school graduate of Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany, is an allergist and also specializes in ea,r, nose, throat and facial plastic surgery.

Striker replacement bill dies WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Senate has killed'for this year legislation that would have banned companies from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers.

Supporters of the bill gave up their fight in mid-June after a second failed attempt to end a Republican filibuster on the legislation, which had been backed by Catholic leaders.

The vote was 57-42, three votes short of the 60 needed to end the filibuster and nine short of the number needed to override a threatened presidential veto.

"I accept the fact that we've lost this round," said Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, the bill's primary author. "But as long as

workers continue to lose jobs because of this cruel and unjust striker replacement law, we will continue to fight to change the law."

U.S. Catholic Conference representatives had testified before several congressional panels in support of the striker replacement legislation.

"When employers are allowed to offer permanent jobs to strikebreakers, strikers lose their jobs.

It's that simple," said Bishop Frank J. Rodimer of Paterson, N.J., in testimony before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of the USCe. "If workers lose their jobs, what does it mean to have a right to strike?"

Diocesan Health 'facilities office awards five scholarships Five Diocesan Health Facilities employees received $1,500 scholarships at a recent luncheon at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, executive director of the facilities, presented the awards.

Recipients are Claire S. Souza, a certified nurse aide at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, who will obtain a practical nursing license from Diman Regional School of Practical Nursing; Karen Wales, a certified nurse aide at Marian Manor, Taunton, who will attend the licensed practical nurs-

ing program at Bristol Plymouth Technical Vocational School; Joanne Roque, assistant director of nurses at Madonna Manor, North 'Attleboro, who will study for a bachelor of science degree in nursing at Salve Regina University; Stacy Sykes, a dietary assistant at Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven, who will continue studies in the physical therapy assistant program at Newbury College; and Nancy R. DeSouza, case mix/ Medicare/ quality assurance coordinator at Our Lady's Haven, who will pursue a bachelor's degree in health care management at Lesley College.

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Although the primary peril alluded to seems to be that of apostasy or renunciation of the faith, it added, "a reference to any occasion of testing, including the lure to sin, is not excluded."

Referring to the closing lines, "For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever," the report commented: "The presence of this doxology in many Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, even if not the earliest and most reliable ones, and in quotations by early Christian writers (for example, the 'Didache'), reflects the normal jewish practice of concluding prayers of petition with a doxology of praise. This formula has enjoyed a wide and long use. It is therefore commended for liturgical use."

According to the progress report, acceptance of the new translation "has been growing steadily but is still far from universal. Many Christians are deeply attached to more traditional versions."

Although the U.S. bishops would have to approve the new version of the Our Father for liturgical use before it could be used in Mass or in other liturgical rites, anyone can use it for private or non-liturgical prayer. , Father Ronald Krisman, director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for the Liturgy, said the bishops have not yet been surveyed on the new version, but he suspected their main concern would not be with the translation itself, but with the "need for a lot of catechesis" before' making such a change.

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Fall River man earns Lisbon fellowship Robert E. King, a nominee of the Rotary Club of Fall River, has won a Rotary International Fellowship to study at the University of Lisbon in Portugal.

The one-year fellowship allows students to travel as goodwill ambassadors to any Rotary host country.

An alumnus of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, King graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He studied Portuguese at both the high school and college levels, and attended a slimmer course at the Centro de Linguas in Lisbon.

He has assisted in translating citizenship documentation for recent immigrants and has written for several local publications.

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UNICEF warned UNITED NATIONS (CNS)The Vatican has warned UNICEF against proposals from some nations that the agency engage in activities aimed at family planning "or other similar interventions." A statement presented to the annual meeting of the board of UNICEF - the United Nations Children's Fund - said the Vatican "views with concern" the call of some donor countries for the agency to involve itself further in activities that "surpass its specific mandate."

Existing policies have built trust in developing countries, the Vatican said, and UNICEF should not risk losing this confidence by imposing "intrusive dictates" of the wealthier nations regarding the "appropriate" size of poor families. ..,

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ROBERT AND DORIS LaChance are the picture of grandparently pride as they hold their twin grandsons, from left, Brendan and Joshua Lopes. (Olan Mills photo) .

Robert LaChance shares tips on happy retirement

By Pat McGowan Robert M. LaChance, 67, ofSt. Dominic parish, Swansea, retired two years ago after a total of 45 years spent behind the counter of mom and pop markets, one long gone in Fall River's South End, the other, Rudy's Country Store, still flourishing on Route 103 in Swansea.

Over those years LaChance was the confidant of hundreds of customers and he developed a realistic philosophy with regard to retire. ment: if you never did anything but work during your active life, you'll be bored to tears when you retire; but if you had a good family life and a good relationship with your wife, .you'll love retirement because you'll have unlimited time to spend with your loved ones and pursue whatever other interests you've developed over the years.

It sounds simple, but a lot of LaChance's customers never learned that lesson, he said. He has; and declares, "I love retirement."

He also loved running a mom and pop market. He started in the business as a youngster, when he assisted his father, Emile LaChance, at LaChance's Market at Fourth and Morgan streets. When the younger LaChance opened his own market at South Main and Osborne Streets, he retained the

name, remaining at the site 14 years until he moved to Swansea and boughtthe Route I03store. Today a travel agency occupies the Fall River site.

In retirement, a trim LaChance tries to get in a three-mile walk every day and play golf several times a week. He credits his 45 years of seven-day-a-week work at his markets for keeping him in shape to enjoy his leisure years.

Over those years, he said, the work was shared by his wife, Doris, who "came in two or three times a day to help in the office." The couple has two children and twin grandsons Joshua and Brendan, nearly 3 years old, who are among the joys of their grandparents' lives.

LaChance has 11 living brothers and sisters. One brother, Normand, drowned at age 19. Most of the family has remained in Massachusetts, with one sibling in Tennessee and another in Maine. All will converge on Fall River June 28 when their brother, Father Pierre E. Lachance, OP (who does not use a capital C), celebrates his 50th anniversary of ordination at a noon Mass at St. Anne's Church, Fall River.

It'll be one more happy event on brother Robert's retirement calendar.

EIGHTH-GRADERS from the Wilbur School in Little Compton, RI, recently entertained residents at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, during a potluck luncheon. The students visit the nursing home each month as part of a gerontology class. Pictured are residents Ann Livesey and Edna Pierce and students, from left, Cara Dunn, Bethany Leeming, Rudy Paul and Scott Medeiros.

The Good Old Days "What was it like in the good old days?" a little boy in my daughter Lisa's second grade classroom asked me the other day. His classmates stopped waving their arms . to get my attention and waited for my response.

It was question and answer time in Room 202 at St. Joseph's School in West St. Paul, MN. I was backed into a corner on a tiny chair while some 20 second-graders sat on the floor and flooded me with questions.

How old was I? What was it like in World War II? Did any of my friends get killed? Did I know his grandpa? Did kids wear uniforms when I went to school? Did I ever drop any bombs? What's it like on an ocean liner?

I can't remember what I had to say about the "good old days."

Had I said that? I mostly talked about the Great Depression. We were poor, I think I said, without a father, but we went to a great Catholic school - like theirs.

During my half hour as guest lecturer I read from the Bob the Dinosaur book; recited the "Little Red Schoolhouse," a poem from my childhood and answered a ton of questions. There wasn't enough' time for me to swing my favorite old sea chanty, '!Oceana Roll."

What was happening in one of St. Joseph's second grade classrooms that sunlit morning was a process that is increasingly popular today in both public and reli-

gious schools. Seniors an.; sharing their memories with the young.

The process is absolutely vital if the church is to succeed in keeping alive traditions which seem to have disappeared in the surge of renewal that has rocked the faith since Vatican II. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, WI, cited the problem in his much-quoted talk to the Catholic Press Association last May. Older Catholics are having difficulty in passing on the faith to children, he said.

"Years ago, one couldn't walk into a Catholic home without seeing' a crucifix and a religious picture hanging on the wall," he said.

"Today, you enter middle-class Catholic homes in our suburbs. and you will not find any sign of any religious object."

While the public media made the most of Archbishop Weakland's charges that American Catholics were tending to ignore the pope, or to disagree with him, they overlooked his pleas for Catholic schools and the Catholic press.

The archbishop had no easy answers to the problems of either the Catholic schools or the Catholic press. As Catholics become more like everybody else, "insiders" he called us, we tend to abandon the schools, the press and the practices of the past.

Visits by grandparents and other seniors to Catholic schools is part of the solution. We can talk about

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the role played by our faith in our lives during wartime and depression, and a link will be forged across the barriers of time.

Not every senior is lucky enough to have a daughter who is a Catholic school teacher, but not to worry. We can pass on the great teachings of our faith in many ways. Archbishop Weakland mentioned religious objects in the home.

We Americans pass on our traditions in other ways all the time.

Independence Day is almost upon us, and our children and grandchildren get countless messages about the importance of that national holiday.

The Stars and Stripes fly over the front door. Patriotic music pours from radio and tapes. A big family picnic with hamburgers, potato salad and homemade strawberry ice cream is scheduled. Everybody comes and old stories are retold.

Like other Americans, Catholics know how to celebrate the Fourth of July in grand style. I suggest that even older faith traditions deserve similar attention before they disappear forever.

Home safety for the elderly

By Monica and Bill Dodds

Baby-boomers have grown up viewing everything from cameras to contact lenses as disposable.

However, their parents, who lived through the Depression and at least one world war were taught to make due with what was on hand.

To use it up. To wear it out.

Unfortunately, that means some elderly people are "making do" at home with a hodgepodge octopus of ancient extension cords rather than having a wall outlet fixed, or buying one cord of the proper length and electrical rating.

They are "wearing out" items like toasters or space heaters or fans to the point that there is danger of a shock or fire.

Anyone with an elderly family member should examine that person's home with safety in mind.

First, are the basics covered? No overloaded electrical outlets. Sufficient smoke detectors. A bathmat in the tub. No exit doors blocked by furniture. No drapes, furniture or other flammable items near electric baseboard heaters.

Many fire departments, insurance companies and others are happy to provide a safety checklist.

A list more particular for an elderly person's house can be obtained from a variety of sources, including county extension services, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, local utility companies and senior groups.

These are a few suggestions: - Stairs, inside and out, need sturdy handrails and must be well lit.

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. '.L. The bathroom needs a "grab bar," which is not an empty towel rack. Grab bars are designed to bear an adult's weight. Medical supply stores offer dozens of similar safety items.

- A kitchen should have it sturdy step stool or none at all.

Bulky and heavy items should be moved to lower cupboards.

- Put a night light in the bedroom or make sure a lamp can easily be reached from bed.

- Get rid of clutter. Furniture buried in mounds of mail and floors stacked with old newspapers and magazines can make it difficult for anyone to get around.

-:- Toss prescribed medication no longer neeqed or past its expiration date.

- Make sure medicine bottles are labeled clearly in print large enough for the senior to read. (The same applies for household cleaners.) If the person has trouble

remembering what medicine to take when, use a seven-day medication dispenser (available at drugstores.)

- List important phone numbers in large print that can be read without glasses by each telephone.

These could include relatives' work and home numbers, the doctor's office and the general emergency number, 911. Also program them into any speed-dial systems. Write down the home address. When a crises arises, anyone can forget his or her own address.

Be safety conscious. For instance, don't smoke in bed (or just before nap time in that favorite chair).

Don't use stairs for storage.

Most of these suggestions aren't new to seniors and they may seem a little annoyed as they answer, "I kno~, I know." It's probably the same answer their children gave years ago when their parents first taught them these valuable lessons.

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SAINT SEEKERS: Therese Mueller, an 87-year-old sociologist, and he~ husband, Franz, 91, have spent much of their lives advocating for canonization of a married couple.

The couple, married 62 years with five children, believes heroism should be given due consideration when it comes to parents. "In our day and age, to have children is heroic," said Mrs. Mueller. "To see them through childhood is heroic.'"

Women's pastoral tops agenda Continued from Page One Youngstown, Ohio, Bishop James W. Malone led opposition to that proposal, arguing that "to draw a curtain over our discussion would exacerbate further the sensitive feelings of people in the church" who disagree with the church's treatment of women.

Despite their remaining difficulties with the document, many bishops had strong praise for various aspects of it - especially the process itself, which bishop after bishop described as constructive and beneficial.

The pastoral's drafting committee, headed by Joliet, Ill., Bishop Joseph L. Imesch, insisted on wide consultation with Catholic women as a basis for drafting the pastoral.

The document is right to say that sexism is a sin, said Helena, Mont., Bishop Elden F. Curtiss.

But "in my opinion radical feminism is a sin as wel1," he added.

At a press conference after the debate, when Bishop Imesch was asked if the committee can come up with a document acceptable to the bishops by this November, he said they would try, but "it'l1 take a miracle."

He compared the committee's work of nearly I0 years on the document to playing "a 20-inning baseball game - you don't care who wins any more, you just want to get the game over."

Reflecting on the possible reaction of Catholics to the bishops' debate over the pastoral, he said, "I hope women wil1 see we are concerned about their concerns.

For those who want us to say things we cannot say, it will not satisfy them."

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Child Sex Abuse In their session dealing with child sex abuse by priests, the bishops, assisted by experts in the field, "considered the pastoral, canonical and legal aspects" of the issue, said Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

He stressed that among the 53,000 U.S. Catholic priests, "relatively few" have engaged in child sex abuse. "Yet we also recognize that one case of a priest sexual1y abusing one child is one too many.

The effects of such behavior are truly tragic."

The archbishop told reporters that he did not know how many cases of alleged abuse there were in the U.S. church, how many dioceses were involved or how much it has cost the church.

But one knowledgeable source, who declined to be quoted by name, later told reporters that more than 100 of the 188 U.S. dioceses have faced at least one case.

Archbishop Pilarczyk acknowledged that the church has made mistakes in the past regarding priests and sexual abuse, but he noted that most of society did not understand the problem of child sex abuse until recent years.

"People tended to treat sexual abuse as they did alcoholism - as a moral fault for which repentance and a change of scene would result in a change of behavior," he said.

"Far more aggressive steps are needed to protect the innocent, treat the 'perpetrator and safeguard our children.", He reiterated the five main guidelines for action which the NCCB for the past five years has urged al1 dioceses to fol1ow: - "Respond promptly to all al1egations of abuse where there is reasonable belief that the incident has occurred.

- "If such an allegation is supported by sufficient evidence, relieve the al1eged offender promptly of ministerial duties and refer him for appropriate medical evaluation and intervention.

- "Comply with obligations of civil law with regard to reporting of the incident and cooperation with the investigation.

- "Reach. out to victims and their famiiies and communicate sincere commitment to their spiritual and emotional wel1-being.

- "Within the confines of respect for the privacy of the individuals involved, deal as openly as possible with members of the community about this incident."

He noted that the NCeB "cannot pass rules and regulations which bind" diocese&, except in very limited areas of church law.

Nevertheless, he said, more and more dioceses have "taken the above guidance to heart" and adopted policies and procedures to han~le such cases.

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Those who gave presentations gregations to welcome people] is Sister King was project director were two lawyers, two doctors and an indictment of all of us," she of the CARA study, designed to four bishops from dioceses that said. assess the impact of aggressive have developed strong policies in She also told of a Hispanic proselytism on immigrant Catholic the face of difficult public con- woman who told her that she had populations. It was conducted in troversies over pedophile priests: attended Mass at the same parish 1990 with visits and interviews in Cardinal Bernardin; St. Paul- for 30 years and never been greeted ethnic and multicultural parishes Minneapolis Archbishop John R. at church by the priest or another in eight dioceses with large immiRoach; and Bishops Harry J. Flynn parishioner. The woman assumed grant populations. of Lafayette, La., and Donald W. it was because her skin was brown.

Among the most common forms Wuerl of Pittsburgh.

From her experiences in the of proselytism directed at CathoThe others were Dr. Fred S. study, Sister King said, she could lics that the study uncovered were Berlin, director of the Sexual Dis- tell the woman that being unwel- attacks on Catholic beliefs or pracorders Clinic of Johns Hopkins coming at church was not an tices: claims that priests and nuns Medical Center, Baltimore; and "Anglo" trait - "it's Catholic." are immoral, that Catholics can't Dr. Frank L. Valcour, vice presiIn another session on evangeli- be saved and that devotion to the dent for medical affairs at S1. Luke zation, the bishops were told resaints or Mary is idolatry.

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usee signs brief for fleeing Haitians WASHINGTON (CNS) -'The In collaboration with the CathoU.S. Catholic Conference has join- lic Legal Immigration Network, ed in a friend-of-the-court brief the conference resettles and assists filed in support of a lawsuit object- in providing legal and social serving to a new U.S. policy of return- ices to almost 65 percent of incoming Haitian boat people to Haiti ing Haitian refugees. without first hearing their asylum The friend-of-the-court brief arpleas. , gues that the new administration The suit was brought by member policy violates the government's groups of the National Coalition "binding duty not to forcibly return for Haitian Refugees against Gene refugees to their persecutors."

McNary, commissioner ofthe U.S. The Bush administration mainImmigration and Naturalization tains that Haitian boat people are Service. It was filed in the U.S. fleeing for economic reasons rather Court of Appeals for the Second than out of fear of political perse- .

Circuit in New York in February. cution. Administration officials say Chairman of the board of the coalition is Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia. Coalition member organizations include religious, labor and Haitian human rights groups.

ROME (CNS) - Jesus, the The friend-of-the-court brief, priest who gave his body and blood filed in mid-June, says the new to nourish hungry souls, still walks Bush administration policy on with believers through history, Haitian boat people violates prinPope John Paul II said during his ciples of international and domeshomily at a June 18 evening Mass tic law. The policy directs the U.S. at the Basilica ofSt. John Lateran.

Coast Guard to return boat people The Mass preceded a traditional to Haiti without first interviewing Corpus Christi procession through them to determine if they have a the streets of Rome, from St. John's real fear of persecution. to the Basilica of St. Mary Major.

In addition, it says, the Bush (In many dioceses, including policy sets a "frightening prece- those in the United States, the dent" that erodes refugee protec- feast, which falls on the second tions around the world.

Thursday after Pentecost, is celeIn stating its reason for signing brated the following Sunday.) the brief, the USCC, public policy "There exist different categories arm of the U.S. bishops, said that of hunger which torment the great its refugee assistance personnel had human family," the pope said in found that "an overwhelming ma- his homily. jority" of Haitian boat people al"There was the hunger which . lowed into the United States before transformed entire cities and counthe new administration policy was tries into graveyards. There was put into effect held "strong politi- . the hunger of the extermination cal asylum claims." camps, products of totalitarian These Haitians had "a genuine systems. fear that their life or freedom "In different parts of the globe, would be threatened if they were there still exists today the hunger returned to Haiti," the USCC said. of the Third and Fourth worlds; Emma D. Navajas, associate di- men, mothers and children, adults rector of immigration for Migra- and the old die there of hunger," tion and Refugee Services, told he said. .

Catholic News Service, "It is simply "The hunger of the human ornot acceptable that many Haitians ganism is terrible - it is the hunger are not allowed to benefit from that exterminates," he said. protection offered under U.S. law.

But there is another kind of "That Haitians are knocking on hunger, he said, the hunger of the our door for help compels this soul. The death it brings is not country to follow and enforce the confined to this world, but is eterguidelines enacted by the Refugee nal, the pope said.

Act of 1980, which required a case.Jesus gave himself to satisfy that by-case determination of refugee hunger and bring eternal life, he eligibility," she said. said. After Jesus multiplied the The USCC's department of Miloaves to feed the hungry crowds gration and Refugee Services has that followed him, he told them of been resettling refugees since the another bread: "I am the living I920s and is presently the largest bread come down from heaven; U. S. refugee resettlement organizawhoever eats this bread will live forever." tion.

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they have seen no evidence that any Haitian boat people sent back to Haiti have been persecuted upon their return.

But the brief contends the U.S: government is violating both U.S. immigration law and binding international agreements with its current practice of returning Haitians.

Among international agreements cited is the U. N. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees which . pFOhibits sending a refugee back to "the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membershipofa particular social group or political opinion."

The 路friend-of-the-court brief notes that INS asylum officers when allowed to interview fleeing Haitians - had found more than one-third to have credible asylum pleas. "By simply turning back boats without an adequate opportunity to hear claims, the Coast Guard is likely to return people who would be in grave danger and who me~it asylum," it said.

The brief says the government's suggestion that Haitians fearing persecution apply for asylum at a refugee processing center .at the U.S. Embassy in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince "offers no real protection since the embassy is inaccessible to many in the countryside."

It says many Haitians will not make the trip to the embassy for fear of encountering members of the Haitian military en route.

An additional deterrent, it claims, is knowledge that the refugee processing service at the embassy has been "extraordinarily restrictive" in its decisions on refugee claims:

Not the answer RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNS) - Birth control is not the answer to solving the world's environmental problems, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, papal secretary of state, told participants in the recent Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Cardinal Sodano, the highest Vatican official to address the meeting, reiterated the Vatican's opposition to a "devastating dictatorship" by which rich countries tell the poor how many children they should have "with the threat to condition development aid to this desire."

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The The consortium, whose name Vatican has formed a new canoni- means "association of perfect charcal organization, the Council of ity," was established in 1971 by Major Religious Superiors of Wo- sisters concerned about what they men in the United States, parallel considered loss of distinctive eleto but not replacing the 36-year- ments of religious life in many old Leadership Conference of Wo- women's congregations. men Religious.

The announcement from CarThe action culminates years of dinal Hickey's office said the new efforts by a minority of U.S. women council and the LCWR "are not religious who have opposed the linked organizationally. They have directions of LCWR. eq ual canonical standing from Washington Cardinal James A. Canons 708-709 which envision Hickey, Vatican liaison since 1989 the possibility of more than one to women religious not affiliated conference or council for religious with LCWR, announced forma- in a particular country." tion of the new group to the U.S. Mother Vincent Marie Finnebishops during their spring meet- gan, general superior of the Caring at the University of Notre melite Sisters of the Sacred Heart Dame. of Los Angeles, heads a steering Superiors of 84 religious con- committee to form the new council. gregations, representing a com"We pledge to cooperate with bined total of 10,113 sisters, form the episcopal conference and the the council's initial membership. LCWR in strengthening religious There are about 99,000 women life in the United States," she said. . religious in the United States.

The LCWR-CMSM statement The LCWR and the paralle.l called the formation of the new U.S. men's organization. the Con- council "a new and troublesome ference of Major Superiors of Men, precedent." issued a joint statement saying "LCWR and CMSM are conthey were "saddened and profoundly disappointed" at the Vatican cerned that establishment of this separate council will open old decision.

Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk wounds within and between conof Cincinnati, president of the gregations," it said. "Such an action National Conference of Catholic is contrary to a primary function Bishops, issued a brief statement of leadership - to .promote unity welcoming the new council on and understanding."

The LCWR and CMSM said behalf of the NCCB. He said that when he was in- that when the Vatican's Congregaformed of the Vatican's pIims, "I tion for Institutes of Consecrated indicated to the Holy See and to Life and Societies of Apostolic the officers ofthe Leadership Con- Life was working on formation of ference of Women Religious that I the council, both U.S. groups and hoped that such action would not the International Union of Superbe understood as a criticism of iors General opposed it. The interLCWR, which has existed since national union is a Rome-based 1956. I was told by officials of the canonical organization of heads of Holy See that this was not the women's religious orders.

Cardinal Hickey, recently reapintent of its action."

Archbishop John R.路 Quinn of pointed as Vatican liaison with U.S. sisters not in the LCWR, said San Francisco, who headed a major he will work with the new council Vatican-mandated study of U.S. religious in the 1980s, said, "I n in that capacity.

In a secret report to the U.S. faith and obedience to the church I bishops obtained by Catholic News accept this decision and pray that the new council will be effective . Service, Cardinal Hickey also said that the Forum of Major Superfor the church."

He noted that Consortium Per- iors will be dissolved. The forum, fectae Caritatis, to which many of like the consortium, included a the new council's members belong- number of religious superiors who are not in the LCWR. ed, will now be dissolved.

"First socialist" HAIFA, Israel(CNS)- Former Soviet Pre.sident" Mikhail Gorbachev, visiting the land where Christ once taught, described Christ as the world's "first socialist" and praised him as a herald of human rights. Gorbachev visited Capernaum, once a city in ancient Palestine along the Sea of Galilee and now ruins, during a four-day, private trip to Israel. He said Jesus was the first person in history "attempting to achieve a better life for everyone." Gorbachev added, "Only for him was it possible to

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Three Kinds of' Souls "In the face of evil there are three kinds of souls: those and call it good; those who see evil in others, but not in themselves; and those who carry the burden of another's woe and sin as their own."-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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That line underneath a reproduction of a 16th-century Raphael painting of Mary and Jesus, sums up the philosophy of the Church Ad Project, which operates independently of any denomination and sells advertising materials and ideas for newspaper or direct-mail ads by any church.

The organization, based in the St. Paul suburb of Eagan and formerly called the Episcopal Ad Project, is continuing its l4-year tradition of producing dramatic religious advertising with its latest release of six ads.

The Madonna ad has a headline that reads, "Introduce your children to the original Madonna."

According to the Rev. George Martin, an E-pi~copal priest and director of the ad project, "We discussed the wording on this headline for a number of months before we finally thought it was right."

Another ad in the latest series depicts Raphael's painting of the Transfiguration and reads, "In an era of corporate restructuring, try an organization where top management hasn't changed in 2,000 years."

Jim Newcombe, who wrote the ad about top management, felt the issue is quite topical. .

"These are recessionary, turbulent time," Newcombe said, "and even people in the Fortune 500 companies can relate to the message of this ad."

The ad was shown to a number

of people in its developing stages, Mr. Martin said. "This ad brought forth an immediate, almost visceral, response, because so many people have been affected by job uncertainty in recent months," he said. "People are looking for something that can be a constant in their lives."

Other ads use more contemporary symbols. One pictures an Easter bunny stuffed animal and reads "Has the true meaning of Easter gotten a little fuzzy?"

"Church people know right a way the answer to this question," Mr..

Martin said. "What we are doing with this ad is giving churches a way to state the issue in a way that leads to an invitation."

Another is clearly aimed at baby boomers who are having children.

The ad shows a child's pacifier at the top of the page and a Bible at the bottom. In between is a headline which states, "After they're

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Dr. Vincent Rue, director of the Institute for Abortion Research and Recovery, said abortion encourages selfishness in men and promotes the exploitation of women.

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"Men involved with abortions hurt as much as women do," said Trish Schickert, associate director of the National Office of PostAbortion Reconciliation and Healing. But often they don't have an opportunity to make their feelings known, she said.

Ms. Schickert was among speakers at the recent conference "Healing Visions" at Marquette University in Milwaukee. The meeting was sponsored by her office, the university and the Milwaukee archdiocesan Office of Human Concerns and Respect Life.

The Rev. Wayne Brauning, a Presbyterian who is writing his doctoral thesis in ministry on men and abortion, said he has found that 'men wrestle with three main issues: rage, powerlessness and isolation.

"Men hold it all inside and don't let it out;" he said. "These guys are hurting, but they don't want counseling. We need to do something about the men filtering into our churches who have been involved in abortions."

Men can be attracted to postabortion support groups if they are encouraged to attend with their wives, said Ken Freeman, director of .. Last Harvest· ministries. Although dealing with men is a challenge, he said, they can begin the recovery process when given a safe place to share their feelings.

Two of these men, accompanied by their wives, told the conference what led to their personal recoveries and how they became involved in their present support ministry.

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to your parents. It's yours - and you're so proud of it.

But when you arrive in the school parking lot, the unthinkable happens. You have stopped a moment to let two students walk in front of you to the other side of the lot.

While you are stopped,. another student driver backs into your door - hard.

Then you realize that the. offending driver is Brian, the person whom you have always wanted to lock in a rocket and send to another planet. Never have you wanted.so much to punch his face in as you do today.

After a king-size brouhaha, you manage to arrive at your first class on time - and things get worse.

It's religion class, and right when you would least like to hear about this topic, the teacher is discussing Jesus' words,. "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute .you.... When.sOl:neone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well" (Mt. 5:44, 39).

Even as the teacher repeats these words of Jesus, you are visualizing Brian's face.a.nd striking him on the right 'and left cheeks - as hard and as fast as you can. Grrrrrrr!

You tune out the rest of the class, thanking your stars that the teacher didn't call on you: . Many hours later your temper has cooled clown - a bit. But a nagging thought disturbs you. Do you have to write off Jesus? No way! That would be a tragic outcome.

Instead, first consider some surprising behavior on the part of Jesus and OIie of his saints.

When Jesus was being interrogated the night before he died, one of the temple guards struck· him.

Jesus did not turn the other cheek.

Instead he said, "If I have spoken. wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?" (lK 18:23).

So Jesus did not follow his own words literally. And much later on, St. Paul did not turn the other cheek when he was struck. Instead, he exclaimed to his tormentor, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall" (Acts 23:3).

Many centuries later, St. Thomas Aquinas taught that Jesus' words about turning the other cheek were not a command to tolerate evil and injustice but a command against a vengeful spirit.

We don't have to be human doormats and let people walk all over us. Nor should we tolerate injustice. Justice is a virtue.

In our relationships with other people, there 'will be times when we have to confront injustice and have to try to right situations that are wrong. At times this may require strong language and even strong action. Brian does need to be told emphatically to watch where he's going - and to pay for the damage.

But vengeful actions are out,.

Sometimes the snow comes down in June Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon I see the passion in your eyes Sometimes it's all a big surprise Because there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love It's not the way I hoped or how I planned But somehow it's enough And now we're standing face to face Isn't this world a crazy place Just when I thought our chance had passed You go and save the best for last All the nights you came to me When some silly girl had set you free You wondered how you'd make it through I wondered what was wrong with you Because how could you give your love to someone' else And share your dreams with me .

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for . Is the one thing you can't see.

You went and saved the best for last .

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Sung by Vanessa Williams (c) 1991, Longitude Music Co., Moon and Stars Music, Virgin Songs Inc, and PolyGram Records Inc. SEVERAL TEENS wrote to his dreams -with her, she has ask that I review Vanessa Wilgiven up on a romance,judging Iiams' "Save the Best for Last." that "our chance had passed."· Yet, a surprise has now ocHer hit reached the top of the charts this past April.. curred. They find themselves The song describes surprise "standing face to face:' with a. ilJ relationships. The girl in the friendship that has grown into a song has been hoping that a romance. friendship will turn into a roo· ! Finding a romance through mance. However, the guy has ffiendship is one of the best been giving his love to someone ways to fall in love. The qualielse. And even though he shares ties of love that most help a

relationship endure are found in friendship. Clearly, the couple in the song share their feelings with each other, and they experience genuine emotional support within the friendship.

However, what if you are like the girl, enjoying a friendship with someone, but still wanting more? How do you put aside your disappointment when the relationship is not what you hoped for or planned?

In any relationship, romantic or otherwise, it is important to focus on the good. You don't have to deny disappointment in order to see the benefits of friendship. We all need lots of love, but usually we can only have one romance at a time.

Romantic love is important, but a lasting friendship is one of life's cherished treasures.

After ·recognizing the good, determine if you should seek romance elsewhere or wait and see what occurs in the friendship. One of the reasons that the couple in the song could find romance was because the girl was still available. Perhaps her waiting was happenstance, or perhaps it was by choice. In your own case, make. a clear decision about what best serves your life as you now live it.

Finally, let the other person know that you would be interested in more than friendship. Do this in a way that affirms the value of the friendship but also conveys your open'ness to growth and change in the relationship.

Surely, it's OK to hold on to your hope. Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the best ones occur when you least expect them.

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These we must struggle against, and even as we oppose and correct and confront our neighbor in a situation of injustice we must try to love him or her, and seek some good for him or her, difficult as that may be.

As you can see, Jesus' words seriously challenge us. But they are by no means impossible.

Rather, they are calculated to make us happy.

Mexican bishop gets support MEXICO CITY (CNS) Thousands of Catholics marched through villages and towns in the state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico, to denounce what they see as a smear campaign against a local bishop. Church workers and reporters in Chiapas told Catholic News Service that worshipers in 30 of th~ st~~e.'s ~2 mu?,i.cipalities

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Coyle-Cassidy High School Before breaking for summer vacation, the Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, student body elected 1992-93 Student Council representatives.

Senior Matthew Perkins of Lakeville is the Coyle-Cassidy student body president. Ryan Powers of South Easton was elected as vice-president, Plymouth's Anthony Maffini was selected as secretary; and Rebecca Leary of Taunton is treasurer.

Next year's senior class officers are president Joy Cabral, vicepresident Steven Furtado" secretary Nichole Rich and treasurer Greg Napier.

Juniors' elected Kenny Wong as president, Lisa Freitas; vice-president, Julie Amber; secretary, and Sarah Savas, treasurer.

Sophomores will have Lisa Centamore as president, Joshua Dion as vice-president, Katie Dunlap as secretary and Julie Beals as treasurer.

The incoming freshmen will elect officers and representatives in the fall.

Brian Dickinson, is the faculty moderator of the student council.

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In the spirit of next month's Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, the students in Sister Mary Catherine's and Sister St. Paul's physics classes held a "Physics Olympics"to test and prove theories that they had studied during the school year.

The day's events included a "Slow Bike Race" in which participants had to pedal a bicycle through a course in the slowest time possible; a "Foil Carrier" in which students had to build an aluminum foil "boat" that could carry as much weight as possible without sinking; and the traditional "Egg Drop" where teams had to construct a paper container to hold an egg that was dropped from the school's roof. The winner was the team whose egg was dropped from the highest point in the fastest time without breaking.

When the smoke had cleared from the day's grueling competition, the gold medal went to the team of Matt Moniz, David Nicol, Felix Perez, Ted Sauerbier, Jeff Tenney and Jessica Wronski.

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Two Coyle-Cassidy graduating seniors were awarded Army ROTC scholarships. Jonathan O'Reilly of

Norton received a full, four-year ROTC scholarship. He will attend the University of ,Notre Dame.

Jason Drewniak earned an ROTC scholarship for study at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.

The awards were presented by Captain George Borden of the Providence College ROTC office prior to graduation.

Graduates Brian' Ferris ofTaunton and Tammi Balboni of West Bridgewater received a scholarship given in memory of Larry George, a member of the' Coyle-Cassidy Class of 1992 who died of cancer in 1990. The $500 awards were given at 'the gra'duati'on ceremony by CC headmaster Michael J. Donly.

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Michael Martone of Mansfield, who just completed his junior year, represented the school at Boys' State at Bentley College in Waltham.

During the week-long program, Martone studied the workings of municipal and state government.

As a project, the young men built up governments from the beginning and were elected to positions within those mock governments.

Martone was selected as a commissioner of public works in his town.

He was sponsored by Mansfield American Legion Post 198.

St. Anne's School St. Anne's School, Fall River, eighth-graders have received the following scholarships to Catholic high schools: Melissa Bouchard and Joanne Dinis ($200 from Home and School Association); Susan Ross ($250 Ernest J. Lavoie and Roger Mercier Memorial Award from St. Anne's parish committee); Jonathan Thiboutot ($250 Albert H. and Irene L. St. Martin scholarship, desk set and name plaque from St. Anne's Credit Union).

Other awards given at graduation: St. Anne Home and School Association: Jennifer Almeida, Heather Leach, Shaun Medeiros, Jennifer Fauteux and Derek Raposo.

St. Anne Credit Union Outstanding Citizenship: Michael DeSa and Jennifer Almeida.

Presidential Academic Fitness: Melissa Bouchard, Billy Farias, Jennifer Leatherwood, Wendy

Maia, Matthew Pacheco, Jonathan Thiboutot.

Principal's Award: Jeffrey Perry.

Christian Living: Joanne Dinis, Shaun Medeiros. French: Shaun Medeiros, Jason Revoredo, Jeffrey Perry. Art: Ivo Jorge, Jonathan Thiboutot, Jennifer Leatherwood. Service: Lorriane Cost~, Robert Ferreira. , Perfect Attendance: Lorriane Costa, Matthew Pacheco.

Altar Boy Awards: Aaron Fournier, Joseph Freitas, Joseph Mailloux, Jeffrey Perry, Jonathan Thiboutot.

St. Joseph's School At graduation exercises at St. Joseph's School, Fairhaven, awards were presented as follows: . P.residential Academic Fitness

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Awards presented to students in other grades: Fairhaven Junior Improvement Association Citizenship Award to 'seventh-graders Christopher Olson and Rebecca Shaw.

Rotary Club Citizenship Award: Matthew Jarvis, grade 6; Fairbank 'Fourth of July composition contest: Jessica Cummings, Matthew , Jarvis, Amanda Lopes.'

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Bishop Stang Bishop Stang High School athletes and their parents gathered June 2 for a spring sports banquet at the North Dartmouth school.

In addition to awards presented to spring athletes, three major annual sports awards were, given to seniors, with winners selected by coaches and the Stang administration.

Daphne Sorell of Fairhaven earned the Theresa Dougall Award for the outstanding female studentathlete of the year. She has bet;n on the cross country, winter and spring track teams and will attend the University of MassachusettsDartmouth in the fall.

Thc Carlin Lynch Award for an outstanding male student-athlete

went to Christian Correia of Fairhaven, who participated In football and winter and spring track.

He will attend Tufts University.

The John C. O'Brien Award, given in memory of the legendary athletic director at Stang to the outstanding scholar-athlete of the year, was presented to co-winners Margaret Bowen of Little Compton and Laura Geagan of Wareham. Both are members of the National Honor Society. Miss Bowen, who participated in field hockey and winter and spring track, will attend Brown University, and Miss Geagan, a participant in cross country and winter and spring track, will attend Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.

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Home-schooling said most important apostolate today FAIRFAX, Va. (CNS)-CathoIic home-schooling is the single most important apostolate in the U.S. Catholic Church today, says Jesuit Father John Hardon, an internationalIy known theologian and au.thor.

"America is converting to the pagan condition that the Roman Empire had before Christ came into the world," Father Hardon said at the second annual Catholic home-schooling conference, held earlier this month at Paul VI High School in Fairfax.

He warned an estimated 700 home-schooling parents that there is a highly organized campaign working to destroy the Catholic Church in America. "Parents have no option," he said. "You must become the principal teachers of your children."

He told parents not to let anyone take from them their authority to ed ucate their child ren and encouraged them to make sure their children reached their heavenly destiny.

Father Hardon, who has prepared courses for the Catholic Home Study Institute in Leesburg.

Va., said he was in Rome recently to meet with Vatican officials. He assured parents, "from the highest authority in Rome," that Catholic home-schooling is approved and blessed by Pope John Paul II. Plans are under way to create a national Catholic home-schooling association that would encourage parents and provide them with guidelines, Father Hardon said.

The theme of this year's conference was "Forming Young Catholics Through Home-Schooling."

Attendance was doublethat of last year's inaugural conference.

Scott Hahn, a home-schooling father of four and professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, presented "The ABCs of Home-Schooling."

"We are the·ones carrying forward the most radical social, economic and political program of all because we, as families, are on a mission, not only to raise and ed ucate our children but to image the Blessed Trinity," he added. "We're out to change the world, one diaper at a time."

Hahn, a former Presbyterian minister who converted to Catholicism six years ago, quoted from Scripture, the Code of Canon Law, the writings of popes and documents of the Second Vatican Council to prove the value the church places on Catholic home-schooling.

"There's nothing wrong with handing off our children to professional teachers," he said. "We're not here, in any way, to decry, complain or criticize parochial schools or, in some cases, public education.

"We have not opted out ofCatholic schooling," Hahn added. "We have Catholic schools in our homes.

What we are doing is right at the heart of the church."

Other conference speakers included New York Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan and a panel of home-schooling experts.

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Fall River Maryknollers mark anniversaries Two priests from the dioce-se of FalI River are among MaryknolIers who wilI be honored this summer at anniversary celebrations beginning today at MaryknolI headquarters in Ossining, N.Y., and continuing with celebrations with family and friends.

The FalI River Maryknollers have given a total of 110 years of service to the Church as priests and missioners.

Father Leo Melancon, a FalI River native, is celebrating 60 years of service as a priest. After his ordination in 1932, he taught philosophy in MaryknolI seminaries.

In 1944 he was assigned to Peru and later to Bolivia. In 1951 he went to Mexico, where he spent over 30 years, teaching in Mexican

seminaries. In retirement, he resides at the MaryknolI mission education and development center in Los Angeles.

Father David I. Walsh of New Bedford, was ordained a half century ago. In 1942, he was among the first Maryknollers to be assigned to Latin America, going to Bolivia. He has served in that country ever since.

MaryknolI, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, was organized by the U.S. bishops in 1911 to represent the U.S. Catholic Church in overseas mission. Today MaryknolI priests, brothers and lay missioners work in 28 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. .

Foreign aid benefits donors • more, says magazine VATICAN CITY (CNS) Foreign aid programs need overhauling because they provide more benefits for the donor countries than for poor nations, said an editorial in a Rome-based Jesuit magazine.

The magazine criticized "the incredible and cruel fact" that poor countries pay $45 billion annually to rich countries in foreign debt servicing. This is equivalent to the aid rich countries give to poor nations, it said.

The editorial appeared in a recent issue of La Civilta Cattolica, which is published twice a month.

The magazine's editorials are reviewed by the Vatican Secretariat of State before publication.

The editorial commented onlhe June 3-14 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Industrial world programs for solving ecological, development and overpopulation problems often are really plans for maintaining the dominance of the developed countries, it said.

The editorial calIed this "a new form of neo-colonialist exploitation." .

The best way to keep p'opulation .growth from destroying the environment in poor countries is by helping these nations "to escape the hellish spiral of debt which crushes them," it said.

The foreign debt stifles economic progress and forces destruction of precious natural resources, such as forests, "to obtain the money necessary to pay the interest on the debt," the editorial added.

It criticized developed countries

for giving foreign aid with strings attached, such as requiring purchase of equipment in the donor country and giving construction contracts to companies from the donor country.

"The aid certainly brings some benefits to the receiver country, but it carries greater benefits for the furnishing country," it said.

Money that is "wasted each year in the furious arms race" should be diverted to development needs, it added.

Each ye~r $1 trillion is spent on arms and armies, "a sum that could be enough to eliminate hunger in the world," it said.

The editorial also opposed con" ditioning aid to population control programs using contraceptives, mass sterilization and abortion.

The overpopulation issue is "often an alibi of the developed and rich North," it said.

Population control programs try to "maintain the position of dominance and wealth" and to avoid a future situation in which "the South 'invades' the North and puts its well-being in danger," it said.

Salve Regina Local students on the spring semester dean's list at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, are: Mark Cardelli,·Lisa L. Duarte and Sheryl Lynn Grant of Fall River; Marybeth Goslin of Westport; Paula J. Mathieu of East Freetown; Christine. Piscatelli of Mansfield and Barbara Starkie of New Bedford.