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Priesthood ordination of Transitional Deacon Jay Mello is July 7 By

APOSTOLIC BLESSING - Father John J. Perry blesses a sign heralding the new parish of St. Jude the Apostle in Taunton. Father Perry, pastor of the newly-formed parish, led a procession on June 9, from Immaculate Conception Church to St. Jacques' Church, to celebrate the first Mass at the home of the new parish, and for the unveiling of the sign. (Photo by John E. Kearns Jr.)

Charities Appeal hits record amount FALL RIVER- The 2007 Catholic CharitiesAp- it had been worth it when the final total was anpeal has recorded the highest total in its 66-year his- nounced. tory, $4,306,352, eclipsing the previous high regis"What a testament to the living out of the Gospel tered in 2005. message by the tens of thousands of diocesan parishWhat is amazing is that it surpassed the 2006 to- ioners who looked beyond themselves to consider the tal by $369,774.37, needs of those less for a remarkable 9.4 "'--I-w-is-h-to-ex-p-r-es-s-m-y-sin-ce-r-e-gra-tt-'tu-d-e-t-o-al-l-w-h-o-s-u-p-p-ort-e-d-thi-'s'" fortunate ," stated percent increase. year's Catholic Charities Appeal. The all-time high amount raised Mike Donly, coorThe excitement by the Appeal this year is another sign of the tremendous generos- dinator of the Apfollowed a little ity of the good people of our diocese, as well as the dedicated peal for the diocese.

"It also makes us more than six work of those who help to make the Appeal such a success. In weeks of hard work particular, I am grateful to the members of our chancery staff and feel that we are getin the 95 parishes of the volunteers in our parishes throughout the diocese who work ting the message out the Diocese of Fall during the Appeal for love of those who seek assistance from the that the Appeal River, and a fren- Church. As a result of the Appeal's success this year, we, as a funded agencies are zied couple of final diocese, will be able to continue the important work carried out doing. remarkable days in the Catholic by our apostolates and agencies to help those in need. work even though Charities Appeal their resources are With aeep appreciation and esteem, I am Office that could leSincerely yours in the Lord, being stretched to gitimately be dethe limit and bescribed as a "bee~ .,. / /J ~ yond. We are alhive" of activity. .,.

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Choosing chastity Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series.

By GAIL BESSE ANCHOR CoRRESPONDENT

Some have felt "invisible:' They struggled to' reconcile their samesex attraction and their faith.

Some sought affirmation from support groups and clergy who con-

doned their being sexually active, but their hearts remained restless in the "gay" lifestyle.

Finally their own consciences and years of experielJce led them to choose. When they understood the Catholic Church's teaching about human sexuality as a gift from God, they embraced the vir-

tue of chastity.

A group that's helped many to develop that virtue is Courage International, a spiritual support system for Catholics with same-sex attraction who want to live chaste lives.

There are three chapters in MasTum to page 18 - Courage

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FALL RIVER - With just a few weeks to go until !Ie realizes the priesthood he's long been an. . . an d stud路]1 拢 TranhClpatmg ymg Jor, sitional Deacon Jay Mfllo is also looking forward to the summer he'll spend hoping t6 influence other young men to t9ink about becoming a priest too~ "I'm the only one being ordained a priest in the Fall River Diocese this year ... and there were none last year, so if I can help bring someone to even beginning to discern a vocation to the priesthood by offering a positive perspective, it will be time well spent," Deacon Mello, 27, said last week.

"While it isn't recruiting as such, the effort means laity and the parishes becoming actively involved, especially in prayer," he added.

Following his pries,~ly ordination on July 7, at 11 a.m., by Bishop George W. Col~man in St.

Mary's Cathedral in Fall River, Deacon Mello will be living out of a suitcase for a few weeks as he blitzes parishes across the diocese weekends giving homilies on vocational discernment.

"It will be much like what Father Karl C. Bissinger did after he was ordained," the deacon said.

But before that the new priest will celebrate his first Mass - on Sunday, July 8, at 2 p.m., in SS. Peter Parish at Holy Cross Church - where he grew up and was an altar server, and where his parents, Robert and Natalie Mello, are parishioners.

The homilist will be Father Roger J. Landry, executive editor of The Anchor, and pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford.

Assisting him in putting on the vestments of the priest will be Father William Callahan, OSM Conv., who has been the Tum to page 20 - Ordination

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IN GOOD COMPANY -Jay Mello, right, then a seminarian, greets Pope John Paul II with Bishop George W. Coleman at an audience at the Vatican in Augost 2004. .

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Take truth, justice to the world's streets, says Vatican document

By CAROL GLATZ

''travels with us and sits beside us" and gives motorists the hope of "arriving VATICAN CITY- Truth,justice, safely at their destination." charity and hope must be taken to the The guidelines presented a "Ten streets, lanes and alleyways crisscross- Commandments" for safe, careful and ing the world's cities and villages, said Christian driving, urging people to a new Vatican document "courteously give way to pedestrians:' The 59-page instruction, ''Guide- never drive while impaired, avoid unlines forthePdstoral Careofthe Road," pleasant behavior such as "rude geslooks at ways the Church can evange- lures, cursing, blasphemy:' and keep lize and offer pastoral care to the mil- vehicles serviced regularly. lions of people who are on the road, 'The vast majority of car accidents be they motorist$, truck drivers, pros- are the result of serious and unwartit:utes, streetchil!hen or the homeless.' . ,rantedcarelessness- if notdownright The Pontifical Council for Migrants stupid and arrogant behavior by drivand Travelers released the document ers or pedestrians:' it said The Church June 19. can do more in advocating road safety The growing number of people education, and Catholic radio can take forced to live on the street and an in- "advantage ofits personal training posufficient number of pastoral re- tential" since people often listen while sponses to the homeless have they are in the car. prompted the Vatican to sponsor its The guidelines looked at ways the first international congress dedicated Church can help offer pastoral care to tothe pastoral careofhomeless people. prostitutes as well as free these women During a press conference present- from the "extremely serious problem" ingthedocument,thecouncil'ssecre- ofhuman trafficking and the sex trade. tary,An:hbishopAgostino Marchetto, announced the special congress would be held at an unspecified date in November.

Byissuing the guidelines, the counVATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope cil hopes to enlighten and encourage Benedict XVI has chosen 'The Hunational bishops' conferences, par- man Family: Community of Peace" ishes and lay movements to reach out as the theme of next year's World to those on the world's highways and Peace Day message, the Vatican anbyways, An:hbishop Marchetto said nounced.

The document said that ''the plight The awareness that all populations of the poor no longer moves people; belong to a larger family created by they have become a problem of law God is especially important in today's and order, and irritation toward beg- world, which faces "a crisis of intergars is increasing." national organizations" and other seThe Bible "censures any form of rious problems, the Vatican said in a irritation or indifference toward poor recent statement. It did not elaborate. people," said the document, which The pope will write a message on urged people to look upon the home- the theme, to be released ahead ofthe less with respect and love as if a home- World Peace Day celebration Januless person were Christ ary 1. Pope Benedict's two previous The road has become a place messages have focused on truth and "where we spend a great deal of our the person as fundamental elements lives:' the document said, and the of peace.

Church is called to tackle the dangers The Vatican said the pope chose and risks present there. the theme of the unity of the family Onistians are called to be prudent because he was convinced that ''the and comteous drivers who not only perception of a common destiny and follow traffic safety rules and regula- the experience ofcommunion are estions, but buckle up, knowing Jesus sential factors for the realization of CAlHOUC

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LENS - Vatican photographer Arturo Mari poses with Pope John Paull! aboard a flight to Poland in 1987. Mari recently retired after spending 51 years photographing six popes. (eNS photoNatican)

After six popes, 51 years, Vatican photographer hangs up his cameras

By CINDY WOODEN CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY -Afterhaving spent 51 years photographing . six popes, Arturo Mari has hung up his cameras, retiring as the Vatican's official photographer.

Mari, the main photographer for L'Osservatore Romano, the . Vatican newspaper, entered into retirement without fanfare at the age of 67.

He began his career at age 16, working for an agency on an assignment to photograph Pope Pius XII wearing a crown and being carried on a gestatorial chair at a beatification ceremony.

He documented Pope John XXIII announcing his plans to convoke the Second Vatican Council.

And he was in St. Peter's Square in 1981 to capture the image he described as "the photo I truly never would have wanted to take" - Pope John Paul II lying

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in his secretary's arms. after being shot.

He accompanied Pope Paul VI to the Holy Land in 1964 and has been on every papal trip abroad since. Considering that Marl said he could take up to 3,000 shots at a normal. weekly general audience, the trips were a major source of papal images.

In a June 17 interview with Avvenire, the Italian Catholic newspaper, he said that when Pope John Paul went to Argentina in 1982, "I left Rome with 600 rolls (of film) - there weren't digital cameras then - and, once there, the nuncio had to go out and buy another 200."

He also told Avvenire that being a papal photographer means being close to the pope, not only physically, but also mentally and spiritually as well.

"Without such a feeling, everything is flat; it becomes a shot anyone could take," he said.

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While religious orders, especially women's congregations, are in the forefront ofhelping such women reach safety, more needs to be done in working with the "customers" who ''need help in solving their most intimate problems and in finding suitable ways of directing their sexual tendencies."

The social condemnation of those who exploit women through prostitution is not enough, it said; clients must be punished by laws.

The Church needs to start educating people when they are young, helping them develop "correct judgments regarding human and Christian relations, respect, dignity, human rights and sexuality."

1be problems people on the streets share are not just exposure to drugs, alcohol, crime, violence, HIV/AIDS or prostitution, but also ''the tenible evil of the 'death of the soul,''' it said "All too often, even though in the full bloom of youth, these people are 'dead inside,''' the statement said

Pope chooses family as theme for 2008 World Peace Day message the common good and for the peace of humanity." ''Every person, every population is called to experience and feel themselves part of the human family conceived by God as a community of peace," it said.

The Vatican statement cited the Second Vatican Council's teaching that the world's populations form a single community and have a common origin in divine creation. ''Every group must take into account the needs and legitimate aspirations ofevery other group, and still more of the human family as a whole," it said, quoting from the council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ("Gaudium et Spes.")

Just as the dignity of the person created in the image of God is affirmed in the Old Testament, the idea of the unity of the family is also one oCthe original truths of Christianity, the statement said.

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Diocese continues 'above and beyond' approach to sexual abuse prevention

By DAVE JOLIVET,

EDITOR

FALL RIVER - Since the 2002 Dallas charter sessions by the U.S. bishops, the Fall River Diocese has been in the forefront of protecting children and educating them, their parents, teachers and religious education intstructors in the area of sexual abuse.

"I see the bishops' charter and the 'compliance of dioceses across the country as making the Catholic Church a leader in the prevention of sexual abuse of children," Denise Porche, coordinator of the diocesan Office of Child Protection, told The Anchor.

Porche was hired by' the Fall River Diocese's Office of Catholic Social Services to educate and train all diocesan employees, volunteers, and students, as mandated by the USCCB's Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.. . The training and education process includes background checks of all individuals, employees or volunteers, who work with children throughout the Diocese ofFall River.

Porche has taken the process even further by conducting audits of all diocesan schools and Reli-

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gious Educatiqn programs. The pur-· tion and prevention." She added, pose is to ensure that the proper "We stress that we are about abuse education and training is available prevention education, not sex eduand presented where it should be. cation. That'.s important."

"We began the diocesan audit proShe went on to say that th~ dicess last year, and we've completed ocesan abus~ prevention programs 25 parishes," said Porche. ''We visit have ·b.ecome a model for secular each parish and school personally, so groups in the area. "I've given preit will take some time before the pro- sentations to secular groups that cess is complete, but we're finding were very impressed with the way we do things," she added. very good results so far."

Cecilia Felix is the principal of Porche told The Anchor that the process is not just an audit per se, Holy Family-Holy Name School but also a dialogue between her of- and a DRE at St. Lawrence Parish, fice and the pastors, principals and both in New Bedford.

"The staff at the school does a directors of Religious Education.

"We take feedback from those we great job in support of the bishops' speak with and try to incorporate it charter," Felix told The Anchor. into our existing training pro- "They understand -the need for grams," said Porche. "We've had abuse prevention policies and they such success with the feedback, that take them very seriously."

Felix said Holy Family-Holy we've taken some of the ideas and shared them with other dioceses Name routinely runs CORI backacross the country." ground checks, the children take The Fall River Diocese coordi- part in the LURES abuse prevennated the first national conference tion program, and the school reguon abuse prevention, in Providence, larly hosts talks from social workers. The same procedures are folR.I. in 2006.

"We're trying to create a culture lowed at St. Lawrence Parish.

"We make sure the children are of change in the Church," said Porche. "We want to change ·atti- given tips on the do's and don'ts of tudes with regards 'to abuse protec- behavior," she said.

Policies &. Procedures. of the Fall River Diocese Please note that the policies & procedures described below have been abridged for this publication. Complete policies and procedures are available for· review by contacting Catholic Social Services or by accessing the Diocesan Website www.fallriverdiocese.org.

Felix praised the wd~k of Linda Pacheco from the BriJtol County Sheriff's Department. "Linda does a wonderful job with the children.

I Recently, she's shared the 'I-Safe' program with them, advising of the dangers the Internet can offer. Parents and teachers hav¢ also benefited from the prograrfi.· "In the school and in the St. Lawrence Parish Religibus Education program, we offer cpildren and adults great programs for abuse prevention and awareness," said "

Felix. "People who take advantage of them are very grateful they did.

And based on feedback, we know there are those who wish they had."

Felix also pointed out the fine work done by Sue Massoud at Holy Family-Holy Name. "Sue is my tech person and it's not just technical issues with her," said Felix. "She is a campus minister of sorts, infusing the faculty and students with a Catholic message that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and should be protected and respected."

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Procedures to be followed when a Bishop's Delegate shall be the designated Employee or Volunteer of the Church in agent to investigateJreport the allegation cleric or religious brotheror sister in the the Diocese of Fall River is accused of both to the Massachusetts Department of Diocese ofFallRiveris accusedofsexuol Sexual Abuse of a Minor or Sexual Mis- Social Services and to notify the Modera- misconduct with a minor The Diocese commits itSelf to the foltor of the Curia. conduct with a Minor .

3. The alleged perpetratoremployee or lowing action: volunteer will be notified ofthe allegations *There will be an immediate response GENERAL PROCEDURES 1. When there is reasonable cause to made against himlher, and given an op- to all allegations of sexual misconduct by believe a child under the age of 18 is suf- portunity to respond during the initial in- a cleric or religious brother or sister with a fering serious physical or emotional injwy vestigation process. Anyone affiliated with minor. For allegations of such conduct resulting from sexual abuse inflicted upon Catholic Social Services will be notified made by a person who is an adult at the time the allegation is received by the Dioby the Bishop's Delegate. him or her by alay employee or volunteer, 4. The initial investigation involving cese, the response shall be made within a the person in charge, or their designee, of such institution or facility, Diocesan Di- non-elerics should include interviews with reasonable period of time, not to exceed rectororDepartment, Agency, Apostolate, the accused employee orvolunteer, theper- thirty (30) days. *.If an initial review reveals that the Program and Institution, as well as Pastor, son making the complaint, and any within the Diocese where such alleged witness(es). The interview will be extended allegation is credible, the cleric orreligious abuse has been reported shall immediately to members of the alleged victim's family .brother or sister will be placed on adminreport such allegations to the Director of and with the alleged victim if permis~ion istrative leave pending further investigatheAbuse Prevention Unit ofCatholic So- is given by a parent or guardian to inter- tion. Administrative leave involves the cial Service. He or she will then notify the view the minor, and it is deemed appro- transfer of the residence of a cleric to anModeratorofthe Curia and the Massachu- priate. When ayoung child is interviewed, other residence, the private celebration of setts Department ofSocial Services. If fol- it should be done by a recognized expert Mass, and restriction of his celebration of lowing an initial investigation by the Di- in this field. Interviews should be per- the Sacraments. The alleged offender will rector of the Abuse Prevention Unit of formed in person, but telephone interviews not be permitted to celebrate Mass pubCatholic Social Services, it is determined might be micessary in exceptional circum- licly, to wear clerical garb, or to present himself or herself as a priest or religious that the allegation of abuse has substance, stances.

5. If after these initial interviews the brother or sister. The Diocese will con.the volunteer or employee is to be suspended with pay (if applicable) pending allegation has been found to be initially tinue to pay the salary and benefits of a credible, an oral report of the suspected clericwhile on administrative leave. the outcome of the final investigation. * Any suspected case of sexual misIf theMassachusetts DepartmentofSo- child abuse or misconduct must then be cial Services finds the allegation to be sup- given immediately to the Moderator ofthe conduct with a minor will be reported to civil authorities. ported and subsequently the alleged per- Curia as described above in number I. * Confidential counseling will be of6. The personnel file of any employee petrator is found not guilty by a court of law, a decision shall still then be made as or volunteer against whom an allegation fered to the alleged victim and hislherfamto whether or not the employee/volunteer has been finally substantiated by the Mas- ily. * No cleric against whom a credible shall be reinstated. Such a decision con- sachusetts DepartmentofSocial Services, allegation of sexual abuse of a minor has cerning reinstatement shall be made after is to be properly noted.

7. If an allegation ofchild sexual abuse been made will be given any assignment a consultation by'the Moderator of the Curia with the head ofaDiocesan Depart- or misconduct involves aparish employee in or by the Diocese of Fall River or be ment, Agency, Apostolate, Program or In- . or volunteer, the pastor should contact the authorized to seek pastoral work olitside family ofthe alleged victim and offer spiri- the Diocese. stitution or the Pastor.

It should be noted here that both the 2. If the allegation of sexual abuse in- tual care and support, as his function is volves a cleric or an employee ofCatholic strictly pastoral in nature. Catholic Social law ofour land and the law of oUr Church Social Services, then the normal investi- Services will be available to provide con- calls for the presumption qf innocence. gative procedures of the Bishop's Review fidential counseling and/or identify other While every allegation will be investigated Turn to page 18 - Policies Board shall apply and in all such cases the resources for assistance.

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Bishops challenge Catholic politicians on abortion issue

By NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE'

WASHINGTON - Catholic politicians from both parties have been challenged by Catholic bishops on the issue of abortion.

Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, R.I., criticized Republican presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for saying he is "personally opposed" to abortion but would not impose that view on others.

Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson,NJ., took issue with 18 Catholic Democrats路 in the U.S. House of Representatives who denounced Pope Benedict XVI's statement en route to Brazil that politicians who support路 abortion should not receive Communion.

The House members said the pope's words "offend the very nature of the American experiment," but Bishop Serratelli said the politicians were refusing "to allow the pope freedom of speech and the Church freedom of religion. Now how American is that?"

Bishop Tobin's criticism of Giuliani came in a M~y 31 "open letter" published in the Rhode Island Catholic. Providence diocesan newspaper, after the bishop received an invitation to "attend a reception with a photo-op" for a $1,500 campaign donation.

"I would neVer support a candidate who supports legalized abortion," the bishop wrote. "Rudy's public proclamations on abortion are pathetic and confusing. Even worse, they're hypocritical."

Bishop Tobin said Giuliani's stance on abortion reminded him of "the sad figure of Pontius Pilate in the Gospels, who personally found no guilt in Jesus, but for fear of the crowd washed his hands of the whole affair and handed Jesus over to be crucified."

"I can just hear Pilate saying, 'You know, I'm personally opposed to crucifixion but I don't want to impose my belief on others,'" he added.

Bishop Tobin said Giuliani's "defection from the Catholic faith on this moral issue" was not unique, with "Catholic politicians of both parties, nationwide, (following) a similar path in abandoning the faith for the sake of political expediency."

He named as examples Democratic Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry of Massachusetts, Patrick Leahy ofVermont, Joseph Biden of Delaware and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, as well as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. "How these intelligent men and women will someday stand before the judgment seat of God and ex-

plain why they legitimized the .death ofcountless innocent children in the sin of abortion is beyond me," Bishop Tobin said.

The bishop's column prompted a protest to the Internal Revenue Service by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which said it represented a violation of federal tax law by the DioceSe of Providence, "a nonprofit religious entity'" "Although (Bishop) Tobin may express his individual views on political candidates, federal tax law prohibits the use of nonprofit groups' resources to engage in partisan politics," the organization said in a June 13 letter to the IRS. "The IRS has repeatedly warned nonprofits not to use organizational resources to intervene in elections."

Michael Guilfoyle, director of communications for the Providence Diocese, said Bishop Tobin was not telling anyone how to vote and has "every right to challenge public officials on important moral issues."

Bishop Serratelli's comments on the Catholic Democrats came in a June 7 column in The Beacon, Paterson diocesan newspaper.

"It is arrogant to insist that the Church does not have the right to her own teaching," the bishop wrote. "Certainly, a politician has the freedom to reject the Church's teaching. But let's be honest. To choose to be pro~choice is to reject the Gospel of life. It is to be not faithful to Church teaching."

In their May 10 statement, 18 of the 88 Catholic members of the House said they were concerned with Pope Benedict's warning to "Catholic elected officials that they risk excommunication and would not receive .Communion for their pro-choice views."

Although they said they "agree with the Catholic Church about the value of human life and the undesirability of abortion," the House members said "religious s~ction in the political arena directly conflicts with our fundamental beliefs about the role and responsibility of democratic representati~es in a pluralistic America" and "clashes with freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution."

Bishop Serratelli said Pope Benedict "is right when he insists that supporting abortion is incompatible with the reception of holy' Communion."

"Why should the Church not have a right to voice her teaching on this important issue in the public square?" he asked. "She must speak and speak often.

Abortion may be for some just a political issue. But for the innocent child, it is a matter of life or death."

PEACE TRAIN - Father Luis Angel Nieto, associate pastor of Resurrection Church in Los Angeles, and representatives of other religious, social service and labor organizations announce the Dreams . Across America Tour recently. The national train tour aims to close the gap between immigrants' and citizens' views of immigration reform by encouraging the sharing of personal family immigration stories. (CNS photoNictor Aleman, Vida Nueva) .

.Immigrants share struggles, dreams on American tour

By ANDREA SLIVKA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

land after the 'couple had worked for years with the U.S. immigration system to have her status leWASHINGTON - After travgalized. His six-year-old son is an eling together by train for five American citizen, but the couple days, a group of immigrants and decided it would be best for him their supporters representing more to be with his mother in Poland. than 40 countries arrived in WashAmanda Figueroa, another parington June 19 to join an interfaith ticipant, said 'this story also march to the White House. touched her because the father The Dreams Across America could only tell his son that he Tour included more than 100 imwould see him again sometime, but ,migrants and citizens who traveled he didn't know when. across the country to bring a .

Other immigrants had human face to the immigracome from Africa, India, tion issue. A group of Catho"I want to share our dreams and Peru, El Salvador, Afghanilic parishioners and clergy to be able to change the minds of stan, Iraq,' Korea and from the Los Angeles Archthe people who see us as criminals, Mexico, among other coundiocese participated in the and for them to know that we are tries. journey.

Th'e Dreams Across "I want to share our hardworking people, and with our dreams and to be able to work we have contributed to the America Tour ended when change the minds of the greatness of this country, " said Doris participants joined a mobilization of immigrant families people who see us as crimi- Castaneda. and faith leaders to march nals, and for them to know from an interfaith prayer serthat we are hardworking people, and with our work we have it is almost impossible, she said, vice to the White House June 19.

The service and march were orcontributed to the greatness of this for her to find legal workers for her country,'" said Doris Castaneda business that employs close to 60 ganized by the Fair Immigration through an interpreter. She is origi- 'Hispanic workers. She wants to Reform Movement and ended with nally from Guatemaia and cur- pass on the pusiness to her grown immigrant children delivering a rently attends Our Lady Queen of sons but expects it will have to Father's Day card to the White the Angels Parish in Los Angeles. close in the next few years unless House to symbolize the fathers The group arrived in Washing- immigration reform is passed, pro- who have been separated from ton just as the Senate was going to viding for more workers to enter their children, according to a release. reconsider a bill tha,t had been the country legally..

After shelving the original bill She wants Congress to pass a shelved about two we~ks earlier. . During the trip, the Dreams comprehensive immigration re- that the Senate spent two weeks Across Arne'rica participants' form bill this year that will do more consideri ng, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., reintroduced shared both their frustrations with than just secure the borders.

But even though she is c;on- a slightly different' version of it the current immigration system and their dreams of building bet~' cerned about her own business, she June 18. The new version is insaid she was humbled hearing the tended to address some of the obter lives in the United States.

Cathy Gurney, a commercial immigrants' stories and their jections of senators who blocked the first one from going to a final landscape owner from the Los An- struggles with the system. geles Archdiocese, was struck by She remembered one tour par- vote. Among the changes was a the story of a mother and daughter ticipant who told the others that his stronger emphasis on enforcewho emigrated from China. The wife had just been deported to Po- ment. mother's immigration papers came through easily, but the 16-year-old daughter's background check was not processed for five years. The daughter is now 21 and must start the process over again, facing the possibility of being deported.

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The cardinal did inform the Vatican he was undergoing sorgery and the archdiocese will be run by Bishop Malooly, assisted by the other two auxiliary bishops of Baltimore Bishops Mitchell T. Rozanski and Denis 1. Madden - until he can return to work.

"I'm sure he'll be telling me what to do tomorrow," Bishop Malooly said with a laugh. "He does bounce back quickly. That has been his track record."

Earlier in the day, as the cardinal underwent surgery, well-wishers and fellow Catholics prayed for the arch-. bishop of Baltimore during a 12:10 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine oftheAssumption ofthe Blessed VIrgin Mary in Baltimore.

Traditionally, 15 to 20 people attend the 12:10 p.rn. weekday Mass, but more than 60 attended the June 18 service, along with memberS of the media.

Several employees of the Catholic Center in Baltimore used their lunch hour to attend the Mass to pray for the cardinal's speedy recovery.

"We really wanted to come and show our support and to give him that extra prayer," Tracy Dernoga told The Catholic Review, Baltimore's archdiocesan newspaper. She attended the Mass with her co-workers in fiscal services, Tricia Wienecke and Tyra Johnson. .

'1 was happy that we were able to gather and pray," said Lauri Przybysz, coordinator for family and marriage enrichment. "It's important .for the community."

BALTIMORE - Shortly after undergoing brain surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore June 18, Cardinal William H. Keeler was crackingjokes with a family member, which officials from the Archdicx:ese of Baltimore said was a sign the procedure went well.

In the surgeryl' - which archdiocesan officials confirmed began around 12:30 p.m. and was completed around 2 p.m. - neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson ibserted a tube into Cardinal Keeler's brain to drain excess cerebrospinal flu,id into his abIi dominal cavity.

Head trauma the cardinal received during an October car accident in Italy is believed to be the cause ofthe accumulation of cerebrospirtal fluid in the brain ventricles, otherwise known as hydroencephalus, archdiocesan TRAGIC LOSS - Members of the North Charleston Fire Department stand at a memorial at the Sofa spokesman Sean Caine isaid.

Super Store in Charleston, S.C., June 19. Nine firefighters died battling a blaze that raced through the ' Cardinal Keeler suffered a broken furniture store and warehouse in Charleston in the early morning hours of June 19. (CNS photo/Chris ankle during the accident, but continKeane, Reuters) ued to walk poorly lOIig,after the bone healed, which can be a symptom of hydroencephalus, Caine said.

"He was moving slowly, kind of shufiling," said Auxiliary Bishop W.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE The organization provides ser- Francis Malooly of Baltimore at a families of the Charleston Fire DeCHARLESTON, S.C. - As partment who died in the terrible fire vices, benefits and information, and post-surgery press conference. "Some other days chaplain of the South Carolina this morning," he said. "We also cer- a relief fund for about 16,000 active days he was doing fine and .1 Firefighters' Association for the past tainly express condolences to the and retired firefighters and their he could hardly move. lie was never in any discomfort. His mind was fine:' 23 years, Msgr. Joseph R. Roth has members of the fire department who families.

Cardinal Keeler, 76, was to remain made a habit of writing to the fami- are greatly distressed by what has He is the only Catholic ch~plain lies ofeach of the 80 or 90 members happened. We hope ,and pray that in the 102-year history of the asso- in the hospital for at least three days, who die each year. they will be able to receive God's ciation and recently was inducted at which time doctors Jill determine But he never expected to have to choicest blessing of peace in this into the association's Hall of Fame. if he can return to his downtown Balwrite to nine families at once, as he tragic situation."

In an interview with the Miscel~ timore residence, or enter a rehabiliwill now do after a fire in a CharlesAt the time, Bishop Robert J. lany at the time of his induction, tation program in a mt!ilical facility, ton furniture warehouse claimed the Baker of Charleston was in New Msgr. Roth said he first got involved lives of nine firefighters in the early Mexico for the spring retreat of the with firefighting in 1983. Over the morning liours oOune 19.

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish- years, Msgr. ,Roth served as chapMsgr. Roth, vicar general for the ops. lain for fire departments in Sullivans Diocese of Charleston, spoke briefly Msgr. Roth said he was heading Island, the Isle of Palms, Aiken, • Prompt 24 Hour Service • Automatic Deliveries with The Catholic Miscellany, to a meeting with the firefighters' as- Myrtle Beach and the city of • Call In Deliveries • Budget Terms Available Charleston diocesan newspaper, by sociation at a local fire station to de- Charleston. He also serves as chapI • Free Estimates telephone June 19. termine what help was needed and lain emeritus for the South Carolina You Never Had Service "We offer the condolences of the to possibly arrange chaplain's visits State Fire Chiefs' Association and Until You Tried Char/ie's Diocese of Charleston to the nine to the families. 'the State Fire Instructors Associa. _ We're located at ... tion.

46 Oak Grove Ave., Fall River "Being a chaplain keeps me busy, orca/l ... nf~~TIeS and as a Catholic I'm sort of alone 508~675-7 426 • 508-674-0709 out there because we justdon't have a large Catholic clergy presence in WASHINGTON - Marie Powell, build on her record of achievement." the fire community," he said. "There assistant secretary for ,·...rental advoIn her role as assistant secretary are a lot of firefighters who are cacy in the education department of for parental advocacy since 2002, Catholic." the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish- Powell has coordinated efforts to Late in the afternoon June 19 the ops, has been named executive ~­ assist state and diocesan Catholic coroner released the names of those Sept. 13-25; ()ctober 5-12,2007; October 15-23, tor of the USCCB Office of Catholic school advocacy organizations to who died in the warehouse fire, and 2007; Febru~ry 16-24, 2008; April 19-27, 2008; Education, effective July 1. communicate effectively to public Msgr. Roth began visiting their May 15-27, 2008; June 28-July 6, 2008; Sept. 22-30, Msgr. David Malloy, USCCB policy organizations the needs of firehouses.

2008; October 6-18, 2008; October 27-Nov. 4, 2008; general secretary, announced Catholic school students, families Those who died were: Capts. and educators. .

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Total Cost: $2,290 William "Billy" Hutchinson, 48, "Marie Powell has enjoyed a disAs superintendent of schools in Mike Benke, 49, and Louis Mulkey, RomeNenicelTuscany/Florence. tinguished career as a teacher, ad- the Diocese of Arlington, Va., from 34; Engineers Mark Kelsey, 40, and (Lake CompISorrento/CaprilPompeii...) ministrator and tireless advocate for 1986 to 1995, she supervised the Bradford "Brad" Baity, 37; Assistant the,rights ofCatholic school students personnel and educational programs Engineer Michael French, 27; and Contact: and their families in education," of more than 30 Catholic schools. Firefighters James "Earl" Drayton, Anthohy Nachef, PhD (Theology) Msgr. Malloy said. "It is a back- She facilitated the opening of five 56, Brandon Thompson, 27, and 508-340-9370 ground which makes her well suited new parish schools and the merger Melven Champaign, 46. Together E-mail~ an@catholicteachings.org to her new post at the conference in of two others into an expanded edu- the men had about 131 years of serWebsite: www.TourOfltaly.us which I know she will continue to cational program on two campuses. vice with the fire department.

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When governments declare a special day or year to commemorate a person or an event, it remains almost always honorific and on the periphery of . people's attention and daily life. When the Church proclaims a liturgical year, however, it is meant to influence and enliven all aspects of the Church's life.

The celebration of St. Paul's birth is meant to help all Catholics reflect on the meaning of his life and the meaning and direction of our own. ''Be imitators of me, as 1 am of Christ," he wrote in his first letter to the Christians in Corinth (1 Cor 11:1).This year is a grace-filled occasion for the Catholics of the Diocese of Fall River to ,get to know St. Paul much more deeply, so that we might imitate him as he emulated the Lord. ' If we do imitate him, this Pauline year will have several characteristics.

It will first be a year of deep conversion to Christ. St. Paul's famous conversion was not from a dissolute to a holy life, but from a false notion of a holy life to a true one. Prior to his metanoia, Saul had been Pharisaical Jew and believed that holiness came through one's own actions in rigorous adherence to the letter of the Mosaic Law. After the road to Damascus, he recog. nized that holiness is mostly God's work, not ours. It is a life of faith in response to God's love. It is allowing Christ to live within. ''Itis no longer 1 who live, but Christ who lives in me," he wrote to the Galatians. ''And the life 1 now live in the flesh 1 live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me" (Gal 2:19-20).

The conversion called for in this Pauline year is to make Christ the center of one's whole life. For Paul, Christ was ''the pearl of great price" that made everything else in his life pale in comparison: "I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord",(phil 3:8; cf. Mt 13:46). Paul's great anxiety was for Christians to make everything else distant second in comparison with the person of Christ. His prayer for us this year would doubtless be what he expressed several times to the early Christians: "My little children, I am in labor pains until Christ be formed in'you" (Gal 4:19; cf. 1 Cor :4:14-15; 1 Thess 2:7-8).

Secondly, a year of St. Paul will be one dedicated to evangelization.

More than any other figure in the history of the Church, St. Paul spread the Gospel. He brought it on foot to Antioch, Pisidia, Laconia, Galatia, ,Macedonia, Ephesus, Philippi, Thessalonica, Corinth, Berea, Athens, Melitus, Rome and probably Spain. Through his letters, he brought the message of Christ to many other communities as well. He acutely felt the pain of Jews living externally as he once did under tqe yoke of the Mosaic Law, and wanted to bring them the liberating good news of the law's fulfillment in Christ. He also hungered to preach Christ to the Gentiles so that they might know and love the one, true God. His motivation was sImple: ''The love of Christ impels us ... so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised" (2 Cor 5: 14-15). This year of St. Paul is gift for us to rekindle in our hearts this type of evangelicallove:_ Thirdly, a Pauline year will be a time for the study of sacred Scripture. It , -- obviouslywill include examination of his, missionary journeys in the Acts of the Apostles and the great truths that the lJoly Spirit inspired him to write in his letters. But it will also lead us to the Gospels - especially St. Luke's, which was based on the preaching of St. Paul - and to the Old Testiunent, 'which Paul knew intimately through his yeaesat the feet of Rabbi Gamaliel and incorporated so brilliantly in his oral and written preaching.

Fourthly, a truly Pauline year will lead to renewed appreciation for the gift of the Church in God's plans. There are many today who try to separate Christ from the Church he founded. Saul of Tarsus once did the same and persecuted the Church thinking he was doing God's will. At his famous conversion, however, Paul recognized that Christ perfectly identified with his Church when he said, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" (Acts 9:4). .Paul spent the rest ofhis life preaching the connection between Christ and his Church. To the Corinthians, Ephesians and Colossians, he described the Church as Christ's own body (l Cor 12:27; Eph4:12; 5:30; Col 1:24). To the Ephesians, he also said that the Church was Christ's bride (Eph 5:21-33), made one in the one-flesh eucharistic consummation of their loving union (1 Cor 10:17).

St. Paul crisscrossed Asia and Europe to found Churches with a structure to keep us a loving bride and a unified body.

This reads to the fifth and final point.A Pauline year wilt be one dedicated to ecumenism. St. Paul has always been seen as the great ecumenical figure, ' 'held in great stature and esteem by all Christians and invoked as a specIal ecumenical patron. It's not by coincidence that the pope marks the,annual octave ofChristian Unity with au ecumenical prayer service aro~d St. Paul"s ton\~. It's also notby coincidence that Benedict, whose foremost. apostolic objective is the reunion of Christ's brothers and sisters, has convoked'a year of St. Paul. For the last 2,000 years, Paul haS taught that Christ is not 'divided, that. ''there is one body and one Spirit, ... one hope that belongs to your call, . 'one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all" (Eph 4:3-4; 1 Cor/H13). A Pauline year dedicated to conversion, to Christ, to the studying and spreading the Gospel, and to the meaning of the Church in God's plans, sho~d flourish, please God, in ecumenical progress.

Last November, Pope Benedict declared that St. Paul "shines like a star of the brightest magnitude in the Church's history, and not only in that of its origins." May the Lord help that star to bum ever brightly in our Diocese throughout the upcoming year!

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BROTHER JOSEPH MARIE RUNS A VINTAGE TRACTOR JUNE

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BY AREA FARMERS. A TYPICAL DAY BEGINS AROUND 4 A.M. FOR BROTHER JOSEPH AND THE

IN CLARK, WYO., IN THE CHEYENNE DIOCESE.

REST OF THE MONKS, WHO KEEP ALIVE A TRADmON THAT IS AT LEAST A THOUSAND YEARS OLD.

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"NEVERTHELESS WE URGE'yOU, BROTHERS ••• TO ASPIRE TO LIVE A TRANQUIL LIFE, TO MIND YOUR OWN AFFAIRS, AND TO WORK WITH YOUR OWN HANDS, AS WE HAVE INSTRUCTED YOU"

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St. Teresa of Avila' True reformers of the Church always rise up from the heart of the Church and work for reform from within the Church. The opposition they face is usually from. those in the Church who refuse or fail to follow Christ. Promoting such reform often places a person into the deep, and such was tJte case for St. Teresa ofAvila.

St. Teresa lived in Spain during the 16th century. At a young age, she entered the Carmelite convent in Avila, and dedicated herself to the practice of contemplative prayer.

Althougli she was graced with extraordinary mystical experiences, such ,as divine visions, she was censured by skeptical spiritual directors and dismissed by others as delusional.

In addition to writing her works of mystical theology, St. Teresa set out to reform the Carmelite Order, which had become tolerant of serious indiscretions. Carmelite convlfnts wer~ known more for their social gatherings, as undisciplined nuns entertained sorts of visi~ors in the convent parlors, th!ID ' for their life of prayer. , In respo~e, St.' Teresa decided to eStabiisli a new convent for those who desired to reform their lives and live their religious profession more since~ly. This effort of ' reform was opposed by many, however, including the prioress of St. Teresa:s original convent, who even tried to imprison St. Teresa to prevent her'reforms. Eventually, 8t.

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Only by the intervention of King convent where the nuns lived a , Philip n of Spain and the Holy See more austere life, according to a rule of poverty and a concentration was St. Teresa once again freed on prayer, made possible by a from the persecution of those who ' strictly eriforced cloister. resisted her work and ultimately recognized as a true reformer of the , In a very short time, numerous Church. other convents were established The deep challenge for St. throughout Spain with St. Teresa's Teresa was the opposition she faced from those who were both resentful of and intimidated by her sanctity.

What made this opposition even more painful was that it came from members of the Church who held positions of authority, but who sought their own comfort and standards of mediocrity, instead of what was guidance. Similar houses of reform also began for the Carmelite friars, truly good for the Church.

The darkness and fear of this also after overcoming strong opposition from those who resisted deep water, however, did not greater discipline in the religious prevent St. Teresa of Avila from persevering in her work of reform, life. After St. Teresa's reputation as so that the Lord could use her as an ' ·a true reformer spread, she was , summoned by a delegate of Pope inst:ri.m1ent to m~e certain repairs Pius V to return prioress to her in his Church. For love of Christ original convent to implement the and the Church, St. Teresa was not, reform there. After initial resistance afraid tc;> Pllt into the deep, in spite of insults and perSecutions, so that from the nQDS, St. Teresa was his . ultimately aca;ptedas a trusted and she could jrelp the LOrd bride. By'her heroic virtue and beloved superior, whp restored discipline,'order and a life of-prayer steadfast commitment to reform~ S,t. within the convent. ', Te~a ,ofAvila gives us yet another example o~ what it means to put Opposition to St. Teresa, however, did not end there. As other into the cteei~.

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creed, no organized structure, and no single moral code. Yet Hinduism is not so internally diverse as to lack the basic contours that mark the religions of the East: It views divinity and the world as ultimately identical, and it considers the different world religions to be various

faith.

In the middle ofthe second millennium before Christ, Aryan tribes migrated to India from the north. The blending of their religion with those of the native Harappans and Dravidians (in northern )' and southern India, respectively) produced potpourri of different gods and legends that would become the \~~YFather .; world's third largest ThQrnas,M. Kocik religion after Christianity and Islam: Hinduism.

Until the 19th century, the word attempts to get at the same thing.

"Hindu" had no specific religious It is easy to see why Hinduism meaning, and simply referred to might appeal to spiritual seekers who crave religious experience the people living east of the Indus River, whatever their religiouso but abhor orthodoxies. beliefs. It was only when the Since it would be a feeble census introduced by the British attempt to understand any religion or culture while ignoring its colonial authorities in 1871 , history, let us now examine the included Hindu as a religious main stages of Hinduism's designation that many Indians began to thiDk of themselves'as development. Hinduism underHindu. went significant transformations during its long history, changing Hinduism has no single god whom all must worship, no fixed as it encountered new teachings,

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with minor gods evolving into major ones. The earliest period is the Vedic (from the Sanskrit word Veda, "knOWledge"), roughly spanning 1500 to 500 B.C. This period is noted for the worship of many deities, some greater than others, thQugh there is evidence of an earlier stage in which a creator god named Dyaus-pitar, the "Sky-father," was worshiped. (Note the phonetic resemblance to the Latin Deus Pater, "God the Father.") From the Vedic period come Hinduism's sacred texts, the Vedas. The earliest of these, the Rig Veda, 'is thought to be the world's oldest religious scriptufe and possibly th~ oldest document in any IndoEuropean language. Itisa collection of hymns to the ancient gods, some of whom - Vishnu and Shiva, for example became very important in later Hindu worship. Three other Vedas were composed featuring hymns, incantations, rituals, meditations, philosophical musings, and advice both spiritual and mundane. Attached to each

Sailboating through the Alps There are several reasons I'm enjoying the fact the Red Sox are in a sort of cruise control right now. Foremost is it's taking less toll on my nerves. It's much easier to absorb a Sox loss with a double-digit lead in the American League East.

With the Sox on a roll and the Patriots in fine shape going into the NFL preseason next month, I find my sports life becoming a bit more continental. .

I'm getting a kick watching Formula 1 auto racing with drivers and venues from across the globe.

It's pretty cool to see glorified go-karts manufactured by such international corporations as MercedesBenz, Ferrari, Renault and BMW. It's a refreshing change from the Chevys, Dodges and Fords of " NASCAR. I find myself rooting for the young British phenom, Lewis Hamilton, who was the first Fl rookie to win consecutive pole positions and races - in Montreal and Indianapolis on consecutive weekends.

And just this week, the America's Cup finals are taking place in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Spain.

As with Fl racing, the world series of sailing has an international flavor. Boats from the U.S., England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and even China all

vied for the chance to race the defending cup cnamps Switzerland.

Can you imagine what having a champion emerge from a landlocked country does to sailing powerhouses like the U.S., England, Australia and New Zealand? It must be how Canadians feel about the Stanley Cup finding a home in the frozen

tundra of Anaheim, California.

As we speak, the Kiwis from New Zealand are duking it out with the Swiss across an eight-12 nautical mile race course for the sailing supremacy of the world.

This is truly a world s'eries, as opposed to the U.S.'s arrogant claim of a World Series in baseball.

The America's Cup is the purported oldest sports trophy in the world. The races began in 1851 near the Isle of Wight when the U.S. defeated the Brits. The U.S. held the cup until 1987, a total of 25 championships, when the Aussies took home the hardware and brought the races to Australian waters.

America recaptured the cup in '88 and held onto it until the .

Kiwis won the next two events.

That set the stage for the' Swiss, who couldn't even sail the cup back home. The Alps got in the way.

Right now, the best-of-nine series is tied at one race apiece.

The live races, usually two hours in length, are held at about 8 a.m. our time, so I watch the replays at 6 p.m. on the Versus Channel. The same channel that carried the Stanley Cup finals. I guess that shows just how far ice hockey has fallen in this country.

I don't have to worry about hearing who won the race before watching the replay at night - no one seems to care around here.

But I find it great fun to watch the races, despite my ignorance of the strategies and rules.

I used to watch the races on the telly (continental lingo) when they were held in U.S. waters, N.Y., Newport, R.I., and San Diego, so I know enough to understand. And I enjoy learning more as I watch.

I'm rooting for the Kiwisonly because their homeland 'actually has a coastline. I guess that's the Canadian blood in me.

Regardless who wins, the Ameri~a's Cup, much like Fl racing, provides a refreshing change from the sometimes stifling world of win-at-all costs U.S. sports.

But, lest I forget - Go Sox.

of the Ve4as are the Brlmmanas, lower caste, maybe even as an treatises instructing thd priests animal or plant. How we are how to carry out the sabrifices to reincarnated will be determined by karma, the cumulative effects I: the gods.

Toward the end of the Vedic of our good and bad deeds in one period, a new set of writings was' life. appended to the Vedas: the Only with great effort could we escape from the cycle 'of birthUpanishads. UpanisJuid means "those who sit near," aAd implies death-rebirth and enter the listening closely to the i:secret blissful state of moksha: the doctrines of a spiritual Iteacher. realization that nothing else but ' The Upanishads heralded a new Brahman exists. This is to be stage in the history of Hindu obtained through yoga, a combireligion. Whereas Vedic religion nation of mental and physical centered on the sacrifices to the exercises whereby we tap our gods, the Upanishads f()Cus on hidden divine energies and so philosophical questions such as come to pure awareness that our deepest self is not "I" but atman, the purpose of life and jithe nature of ultimate reality. They deny not which is Brahman: Atman is only the reality of this tvorld but Brahman. This 'seems equivalent also the reality of the iridividual to saying that I am God; it bears self. The real self in me, in'you, repeating, however, that atman is and in every apparently other not the individual self and person is not individual ego but Brahman is not the personal God atman, universal self, ~hich is of the Bible. .

Next, we will survey the identical with BrahmaA, the "great one," the Univetsal Soul subsequent stages of Hindu that permeates all thin~s. To be tradition. Then we will use the one with Brahman is tlle goal of _ light of divine revelation to search out the "seeds of the Word" in every human being. Unless we break free from all other desires, Hinduism that point to the including the desire fo~ existence fullness of truth in Christ. as a distinct person, we are Father Kocik is parochial vicar trapped in the illusion Of individu- at Santo Christo Parish in Fall . River. ality and So cannot unite with Brahman; we must instead be reborn into the world df appearCAPE COD ances, either into a higher or

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Following Jesus with no excuses During my teen-age years, I remember well that sometimes at the dinner table with my family I would come out with a blazing, youthful passion for justice.

My father would always respond in the same way: "Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven;" he would say, "and all these things will be added like a tip, yes, like a tip, a gratuity added freely, not owing."

I found this hard to take at first, it seemed like a cop-out. I have, however, over the years

struggle for wholeness.

Jesus needs to penetrate and ,overcome this stubborn idea, that man is autonomous and that Jesus is a help.

As we celebrate this Sunday's Mass, we too need to learn this lesson. How often we think that we are on our own and that, perhaps, if we are lucky, Christ might give us a little help as we face the challenges of our life all by ourselves!

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In this Sunday's Gospel, we see Jesus seeking to enable his listeners to comprehend this very point. His most dramatic phrase is this: "Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." The problem is this: the followers of Jesus think that he is there to teach them something. They think that they have to integrate Jesus' message into their lives and continue their

to do, some responsibility to fulfill. They find Jesus' call interesting, provided it does not get in the way of the fulfillment of their responsibility.· Jesus wants them, and us, to know that it is not so. The call to follow Jesus is a call to a totality of life and freedom, as we read in the secorid reading.

It is not a call that leaves us autonomous, carrying our own responsibility, trying to factor

the Gospel message into our Jesus faced the problem of life. It is rather a call to a how we follow him head on. relationship in which all is For this he founded his Church, resolved, in which the peace enlivened by the Holy Spirit, and happiness we seek is freely - his mystical Body, so that we given. We do not need to build could follow him in 2007 just a perfect world. We do not need like Peter, James, and Mary to design a well-balanced life.

Magdalene and others did We need to answer Jesus' call, before us. . The question for us is: Do we follow the Church? Or do we pick and choose'when we follow her?

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to follow him, to adhere to him.

Then a good life will open up to us and justice will be served as the fruit of our life in him.

Does this seem unreasonable? Do we end up saying, . ''Then what about this, that and the other concern of ours?"

Could it be that we have been "looking back" for so long that we no longer know the power of Christ? Do we really follow him?

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We often hedge our bets and continuously try to provide for an escape route, an alternative path to freedom, for this is what sin is: the pursuit offreedorri and happiness independent of God. The reason why we feel alone with the burdens of our lives might be because we hedge our bets and try to follow Jesus from afar. He tells us, however not to be afraid of him or the commitments of faith: "Come to me all you who find

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When the Church says, "The use of artificial contraception is not compatible with the human vocation to love and thus is not of Christ," how do we respond?

Do we take a distance and say, "Not so close! Now you are invading my space?" Are we following Christ "from a

and my burden light."

Let us come to Jesus where He may be found - in the Church, the Christian community, where we can find freeaom, justice and truth.

Even to us who belong to the Church, Jesus still says "Come and see," for we have not yet risked everything on following him..

Father Carvill is pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Attleboro.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat, June 30, Gn 18:1-15; (ps) Lk 1:46-50,53-55; Mt 8:5-17. Sun, July 1, Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 1 Kgs 19:16b,19-21; Ps ]6:1-2,5; Gal 5:1,13-18; Lk 9:51-62. MOD, July 2, Gn 18:16-33; Ps 103:1-4,8-] 1; Mt 8:18-22. 'lUes, July 3, Thomas, Apostle, Eph 2:19-22; Ps 117:1-2; In 20:24-29. Wed, July 4, Gn 21:5,8-20a; Ps 34:7-8,]0-13; Mt 8:28-34. Thurs, July 5, Gn 22:1b-19; Ps 115:1-6,8-9; Mt 9:]-8. Fri, July 6, Gn 23:1-4,19;24:]-8,62-67; Ps 106:1-5; Mt 9:9-13.

The coming crisis 'in episcopal demographics As of June I, the Diocese of Birmingham had been without a bishop for two years, while the diocese of Pittsburgh, not to mention the entire state of Arkansas,.had been bishop-less for over a year. Without significant change, and soon, this gla~ial pace in the appointment of bishops is going to create a severe crisis of absentee Church leadership.

An exaggeration? Try this thought-experiment: There are 222 months between July 2001' and December 2025. During that period, 165 diocesan bishops and 52 auxiliary bishops in the United States will reach the canonically prescribed retirement age of 75.

That might suggest that a total of 217 bishops will have to be

replaced between Independence Day 2007 and Christmas 2025 - which is a lot of bishops.

Things are actually more complicated, however, for such a simple calculation doesn't take into account the Ordinaries who will be transferred from one diocese to another, the bishops who may die before 75, or the bishops who may have to retire or be retired. Nor does that simple calculation reflect the need for new bishops to fill the new dioceses that must be created as the Catholic population of the United States soars from 65 million today to perhaps 100 million in 2025.

Taking all of these factors into

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account, a conservative estimate would suggest that the Church in America must be given at ,' least 250 new bishops between now and December 2025: one

new bishop about every three and a half weeks.

Which will come as something of a shock, I expect, in Birmingham, Little Rock, and Pittsburgh - and perhaps in .both the nunciature in Washington and the Congregation for Bishops in Rome.

For the past two centuries, the Catholic Church shrewdly and tenaciously wrestled with various kinds of governments in order to regain, or, in some instances, gain, the power to order its internal life according to its own standards - to appoint bishops without political interference. In the mid-19th century, the pope had a free choice of bishops in a small minority of dioceses around the world; today, the pope enjoys

the freedom to appoint bishops in the great majority of dioceses in the world. This remarkable freedom, unprecedented in Catholic history, is one of the signal accomplishments of Vatican diplomacy since the French Revolution.

Yet that accomplishment is now being jeopardized, not so much from external enemies as from internal sclerosis. The present system for vetting candidates for the episcopate, and then getting them appointed and installed in a timely fashion, needs a major overhaul. Not only does it work too slowly; it doesn't work strategically. The actuarial table's have made clear for more than a decade that the senior episcopal leadership of the United States would have to be dramatically reconfigured in the last half of the first decade of the 21 st century. Yet there seems to have been. no strategic plan to guide this process.

Appointments to both diocesan and metropolitan sees are handled independently, one at a ,time; on only the rarest of occasions does consideration seem to be given to how a move on one part of this complex

chessboard affects other possible moves down the line.

Moreover, there is virtually no consultation on the appointment of bishops with knowledgeable members of the Church outside the ranks of the clergy, and such consultation is exceedingly rare with the lower clerical orders. Reformed, evangelically-focused criteria for judging a man's fitness for the office of bishop, for which many rightly called in ,the wake of the crisis of 2002, do not seem to have been devised, much less implemented. And all of this is happening - or, better, not happening - at a moment when episcopal credibility remains the most severe casualty of the long Lent of five years ago.

The risk of business-asusual? Congregationalist ultramontanism, if you'll pardon the phrase: a Catholic Church in America in which people love their parish priests, love the pope - and have little sense of connection to the local bishop, That's not what Vatican II intended in its reform of the episcopate, nor is it what Christ intended for his Church.

George Weigel is a senior fellow ofthe Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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Gold watches and black socks Friday 29 June 2007 - at sea Do they still present gold watches to people retiring? But then I'm not retiring. I'm moving to a new assignment. I never wear a watch anyway. I use my cell phone. The parish "Fare-Thee-Well Committee" has to be more creative. What to give a priest - a lifetime's supply of black socks?

There isn't a thing I really need. I already have too much stuff.

When it comes to packing, that's problematic. Living alone in a rectory, you tend to spread out into every room. Then there are my collections - the largest being some 500 Nativity sets.

When I phoned the movers to make arrangements, the first

question was "How many rooms of furniture do you have?"

"None," I answered, "but I have lots of Christmas decorations."

There are priests, dear

readers, who carry all their earthly belongings in a fanny pack. My predecessor at St. Joseph Rectory, North Dighton, Father Jim McClellan, is among them. I saw his two small suitcases, packed and ready to go. Another is Father Ed

Correia of St. Michael's Church in Fall River. Rumor has it that he needs only a shoebox, although I suspect this is apocryphal. I envy such men at times like this. So does Father Rick DeGagne. He travels with a grand piano!

I remember my first "Last Sermon." It was given at St. Ann Church, Raynham. It had turned out to be only a threemonth assignment. Being young and foolish, I thought the parishioners would be weeping uncontrollably at the news of my reassignment. I was wrong. As I stood at the front door saying my good-byes, one man came up to me and vigorously shook my hand. "Welcome!" he said.

"Welcome?" I asked. "Aren't

Mom and dad's new groove Parenting different children is a bit like using a mixing board to get the best sound out of different songs. Almost from the moment they are conceived, different children march to the tunes of different drummers and therefore need us to adjust our styles of love and discipline in order to help them develop into the adults that God and we want them to be.

For example, some children are motivated by concrete, external rewards and others need only words of praise to do what is asked of them. Some children need mild and others need steep consequences to learn not to repeat bad behavior. It is our parenting challenge to discover the musical mixing that will move our different children toward the future point of dancing on their own to the tune of what is right and good. As it is with a mixing board or with the settings of a home or car stereo, I think we can make several adjustments in the playing of our "parenting song" to bring out the best in our different children. Here are some ideas.

The speaker location: Especially when we listen to music in the car, songs can be optimized to reach different passengers by moving the sound from the front to the back or to the side speakers. We can think of maximizing our parenting song in the same fashion. Depending on the ages and personalities of our children there will be times when they need us to play our

parenting song from front and center, voicing exactly the ways we expect them to behave. At other times it will best for us to play our song or to coach our children from behind and let them learn by experience. At still other ages and for other personalities, our children will learn best when we are neither in front nor behind, but playing the song right alongside them.

The volume: It goes without saying that screaming and

yelling are not good parenting techniques, but neither is continual silence. There are ages when, and children for whom, our parenting has to be consistent and clearly heard, like that of a rousing Sousa march. There are up and down times for everyone, and specific children for whom our parenting has to provide respite from the loud and crazy world, and be like the easy listening of elevator music.

Bass or treble: Here is a really interesting idea. Some children respond better to the feminine parenting voice, or the "treble." Some respond better to the masculine parenting voice, or the "bass." Still others respond best to a good balance of the two. Both bass and treble voices are necessary, of course, but I can recall times when something said by my mother

carried a lot more weight than the same thing said by my father, and vice versa. Scmetimes it is best for one :tuent to be quiet and for the oilier to speak up, even or maybe especially, if this is not the usual parenting pattern.

Frequency of play: Every child needs to hear the consistent refrains of love, respect, and unconditional acceptance, as well as those of direction, discipline, an::! guidance. Like the words of a song played over and over again, the refrains we use get burned into our children's little brains.

Who doesn't remember ~ that little adage dad or > mom "always" said? The question is, do the refrains or adages we choose to repeat convey hope and joy to our own children, or pass on anxiety and despair?

With all of our children, the ultimate parenting challenge is to play our parenting song in ways that cause our children to want to turn up the volume of family and faith, rather than cause them to simply tune us out. Keeping this in mind can help when the challenges are great, and we feel like we've exhausted every parenting trick in the book. Besides, learning to "sing a new parenting song" from time to time, and from one child to the next, keeps us parents on our toes too1 Heidi is an author, photographer, andfull-time mother.

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you the new guy coming in?" he inquired. "No," said I, ,"I'm that old guy going out."

There is so much to say and so little time left in which to say it. This has been a terrific assignment for me. It's because of the wonderful parishioners here - such spirit, such cooperation, such generosity iil time and talent! I don't want my swan song to be all about me. I must tell these people about the joy they've given me over the years.

It's their song, not mine.

Then there are the Fare-TheeWell socials. Nothing is worse than some formal seated affair with long, boring speeches. It feels like a wake. It is a wake.

I still remember the farewell I was given at St. Pius X Church in South Yarmouth. Parishioner Mary Knowland and company arranged a lovely garden PartY. They rented a tent. Mary, a professional artist, made sure that ~verything was classy but comfortable for both young and old. Mary gave me a scrapbook of parish memories. I have it still.

It happened that the day before that party, Bisllno~ CIrOmnn arrived on an official pastoral visit. The tent was already in place. When the bishop noticed the tent, he remarked t6 Msgr.

Henry Munroe, the p:j,stor, "You certainly went out of your way to welcome your bishop here today, Monsignor." "That tent's not for you, bishop," confessed the pastor. "It's for Goldrick's event tomorrow." I held my breath, fearing I'd be shipped but to Cuttyhunk in a canoe. The bishop, as always, acted with aplomb.

The first Fare-Thee-Well event here in the Village was a delicious clam boil conducted in my honor by the Knights of Columbus and the Women's Auxiliary.

They know I like food. The place was packed. Sir Knigh~ Tom

Marcucci (aged 90) came in his wheelchair from Catholic Memorial Home. Brother Knight AI Silvia, who is under Hospice care, arrived from home with his wife Mary.

The parish gave me an informal luncheon on my last weekend. They invited neighbors and friends. Attendance broke all records but there was more than enough food. Extra food was shared with the poor. There were lots of laughs and some tears were shed as well.

Parishioners lovingly created "surprise" gifts representing my ministry here - a lovely scrapbook of memories and a custom-made compact disk. I try to get a handle on what goes on around here. I had spied the "Creative Memories" scrapbook workshop van in the parking lot.

This gathering of "scrappers" was not scheduled. I had also seen photographers filming the church. I was, however, surprised by a mounted collection of all my Anchor articles.

"Vacation time is not much a part of your annual' routine," they told me. The committee contacted a travel agency to find out where in the world (like Csrmenn Sandiego) they could send me.

"Pick your own destination," they concluded. The Knights of Columbus also arranged the deed to a timeshare for me. The men insisted this was not my farewell gift. "Now, please go! Happy trails to you," they said. I can take a hint.

Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in North Dighton.

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God desires to convert the entire world and to call it to salvation and to the way towards Himself, who is the beginning and the end of every being. In a special way, little children, from the depth of my heart, I call you all to open yourselves to this great grace that God gives you through my presence here. I desire to thank each of you for the sacrifices and prayers. I am with you and I bless you all.

"Thank you for having responded to my call."

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Dedicated couple reaches out to others

By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR TAUNTON - Fully aware that their salvation is a gift from a loving God and can't be earned, Jeanne and Francis Souza are spending their "retirement" years making certain that love is reflected in innumerable selfless and charitable works towards others.

"They have great faith and it is shown in their dedication to the needy and so much service, especially in their commitment to the St. Vincent de Paul ministry here at Annunciation of the Lord Parish," said Father John A. Gomes, pastor.

"The Church and their parish are very important in their lives, as easily seen by all they do in so many areas of ministry, and we are fortunate to have them as parishioners," added Father Gomes.

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holy Communion, a member of the Parish Council and the Women's Guild, and has coordinated her parish's annual Family Cookout and Raffle.

For many years she was called upon to make a meat loaf on a monthly basis, which would be given as a meal to a needy family. And she is a regular at volunteering her services for the many penny sales.

Not to be outdone, Frank, a Korean War veteran, and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, serves as a collector, usher, and greeter at the 8 a.m., Sunday Masses and plays a major role in coordinating the Mothers' Day Rose sales at the parish as well as for the Pro-Life movement.

He has represented his parish at Pro-Life rallies in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life. He also assists in providing security for

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Council 82, For the and a Past Souzas, their Grand Knight. busy service He is a 27years began year-member follow i n g of the Edward their retireD 0 u g 1a s ments in White Fourth Degree As1998; he after a career as a sembly. welder, and For many she as a nurse years Francis at Taunton has helped State Hospic hap e ron e tal. They were many trips parishioners when the par'\ ish sponsored at the former Sacred Heart a CYO group.

The Parish which ANCHORPERSONSOFTHEWEEK-FrancisandJeanneSouza in ' 2000 (Anchor photo) couple's sermerged w i t h . .-rice to the the former Our Lady of Lourdes Parish to be- ,Church has not-gone unseen, as the Fall River come Annunciation of the Lord.

Diocese awarded each of them its Marian Medal: Jeanne and Francis ."Frank" Souza wed on Frank in 1999 and Jeanne in 2004.

Nov. 14, 1958, and with two adult sons and an Although their commitmentto Church and paradult daughter. "Retirement meant time on our ish life is a busy one, they've also made sure their hands and we didn't just want to sit," Jeanne com- dedication to one another stays fresh as well. Seamented in an interview in their home last week. soned travelers, they've taken more than a dozen How active and dedicated are they? cruises as well as motor trips across the U.S. Within the St. Vincent de Paul ministry, where But that slowed down after Jeanne was diagFrank is president, Jeanne assesses families for nosed with breast cancer and Frank with colon voucher eligibility, processes intake information, cancer. "But we're both cancer survivors," Jeanne and the couple delivers flowers and food baskets said with a smile. Frank quipped, "Is there any to the needy during the holidays. On Tuesdays, other option?" for four hours, Jeanne also volunteers more time In what seemed like a silly question, What do sorting clothing at Taunton's new St. Vincent de the Souzas do in their leisure time? "While there Paul Society center. isn't much, I'm working on a quilt, and Frank, On Wednesdays, the couple assists at their who is quite a reader, also still putters -:- he's parish's food pantry, handing out foodstuffs to welding a trailer for family members," reported approximately 100 to 120 families; and on an- Jeanne. "We're staying pretty active." other day help out another pantry in the commuThe Anchor encourages readers to nominity. nate others for the Person of the Week - who Their busy dedication won them the St. and why? Submit nominations at our email Vincent's coveted Top Hat Award; Frank in 2003 address: theanchor@anchornews.org, or write and Jeanne last year. to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA Jeanne is also an extraordinary minister of 02722.

SILENT CONVERSATION - Pope Benedict XVI prays at the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, June 17. The pope made a pilgrimage to Assisi to mark the 800th anniversary of the conversion of St. Francis. (eNS photo/Maurizio Brambatti, Reuters)

In Assisi, Pope Benedict follows in John Paul's earlier footsteps VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope mean suppressing one's own faith Benedict XVI's recent visit to Assisi convictions; and, for the Christian, was an emblematic event, demon- respect for others does not negate the strating once again that this pontifi- duty to announce Christ as the unique cate is more about continuity than savior.

These were the same caveats revolution. .

For some at the Vatican, Assisi noted for years by Pope John Paul.

Nor did Pope Benedict have problong ago came to represent the excesses of dialogue and the dangers lems with people seeing St. Francis as a special saint for the causes of of political activism. .

The birthplace of St. Francis was peace and ecology. The important the site of the famous interreligious thing to remember, he said, is that encounter convened by Pope John what transformed St. Francis and Paul II in 1986, when the represen- made him sensitive to these causes tatives of IS faiths assembled in the was his conversion to Christ.

What distinguished Pope city's holy places to pray for peace.

The absence of Cardinal Joseph Benedict's Assisi pilgrimage was, in Ratzinger - now Pope Benedict- fact, his focus on the person of St. from Assisi that day was interpreted Francis and his relationship to the as a self-distancing from the interfaith faith. St. Francis did not find God through social activism, but became initiative.

So when Pope Benedict made his . a man for others precisely because own pilgrimage toAssisi June 17, the he was "a man of God," the pope stage seemed set for a papal correc- said.

There were obvious parallels with tive or reprimand, and perhaps a the pope's pilgrimage in April to the change in direction for dialogue.

Instead, the pope made it clear that northern Italian city of Pavia, where not only did he consider the 1986 St. Augustine is buried.

The pope chose to highlight these Assisi meeting a prophetic idea and a "moment of grace" but that dia- two very different saints because both logue with other religions should be are examples ofdramatic conversion. considered an essential part of being As young men, they were dedicated in similar ways to material pleasures a Christian.

He spoke of St. Francis as a man before an encounter with Christ radiofdialogue and peace, recalling how cally changed their lives.

In Pavia and Assisi, the pope conthe saint had spoken with "meekness" with the sultan of Egypt, yet fidently told young people that if they without ever hiding his own Chris- search for deeper meaning in their lives, as Francis and Augustine did, tian faith.

In the end, rather than rein in the they will find it in Christ and his GosChurch's outreach to other religions, pel. He also warned that this search for deeper meaning and for a space the pope gave it strong support.

As usual, he added some qualifi- for contemplation is not easy in a ers: Dialogue must never be religious world filled with "noisy but empty indifferentism; tolerance does not voices."

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A FRESH COAT OF PAINT ..:..- ceiling and wall lunettes in the St. Sylvester chapel at the Sanctuary of the Scala Santa in Rome are seen after being restored. The artwork was painted by influential Aemish landscape artist Paul Bril in the 16th century. (CNS photo/courtesy of Pontifical Sanctuary of the SCala Santa)

Scala Santa chapel: Under the soot and grime, a real treasure

By CAROL GLATZ

A whole pictorial series of brilNEWS SERVICE liantly colored, 16th-century frescoes VATICAN Cl1Y - When a Vati- by influential flemish landscape artcan-led team of art restorers started ist Paul Bril and others had been1Iidscrubbing and scrutinizing what was den under the dust and dirt. undemeathcenturies ofsoot andgrime And now, after seven years of caked on the ceiling and walls of a . study, planning and restoration, pilmajor shrine in Rome, they made a grims flocking to the Sanctuary ofthe spectacular discovery.

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treated to the visual treasure when they enter its chapel of St Sylvester.

Salvaged from the chapel's crumbling and blackened walls are ''these very beautiful landscapes" extolling the beauty "andexuberanceof natme;' saidArnold Nesselrath. director ofthe Vatican's Byzantine, medieval and modem collections and head of the chapel's restoration work.

The landscape style had been developed in northern Europe and was

brought to late-Renaissance ''Roman culture by artists like the Bril brothers;' he told Catholic News Service.

Pope Sixtus brought in about 40 artisans to paint more than 18,000 square feet of frescoes throughout the building, which was built in the late 16th century to house the Holy Stairs and other sacred treasures.

According to tradition, the Holy StairsaretheonesJesusclimbedwhen Pontius Pilate brought him before the crowd and handed him over to be crucified. The 28 marble steps have been covered with thick wood panels, now worn smooth from centuries ofhuman traffic. The curious cani still catch a peek ofthe ancient marble underneath through open slats on the risers.

Thanks to almost $500,000 in grants from the Los Angeles-based J. Paul Getty Trust and additional fundingfromtheprovinceofRome,asmall portion of the complex - the St. Sylvesterchapel- has been returned to its original splendor.

Even the chapel's large wooden choir stalls were refurbished - a task that involved lots of patient scraping.

But earlier restorers were responsible for some ofthe damage inflicted on the frescoes.

A white, lead-basedpaint had once been used to brighten the paintings.

But the white pigmenteVentually oxidized, turned brownisn black and blocked out the image it was intended to highlight Oils, sticky glues and varDishes also had been app,ped to shine up sceiJ.es dulled by time and dimmed··: by candle smoke aDd so6t.

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Chemicals, state-of-the-art laser technology and "mechanical cleaning;' which sometimes means using good oldelbow grease, got rid ofmost of the sticky substances and dirt. But the oxidized lead patches would not budge.

With help from the Vatican Museurns' research department, restorers devised a way to chemically reverse the oxidation process, and dark blotches disappeared like magic. Restorers also repaired the flaking and crumbling plaster by injecting adhesivesandspecialmortarunderthefrescoes andessentially gluing everything back to the wall.

The years ofresean:h, planning and restoration will be appreciated by many:Between2,<XXlandI5,<XXlpilgrims a day visit the Sanctuary ofthe Scala Santa.

Many come to climb the shrine's stairs on their knees, pray attheSancta Sanctorum and venerate a silver and jewel-covered Byzantine image of Christ The shrine and itscareare entrusted to the Passionisls. who led the carnpaign to win recognition and grants forthe restoration of the frescoes. Now with just one cbapeI repaired and resplendent, they are wondering where fuwre funding will come from so they can tackle the rest of the dark, dingy and, in many areas. decaying interior.

Today the dirty culprits are no longer smoky candles, but the hundreds of cars, ~l buses and buzzing mopeds hdcbing exhaust just a few yards from the shrine entrnnce.

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4; Catholic Charities Appeal , PARiSHES AcusMet St. francis Xavier: $500-Mary Emsley; $125-Paul & Ann Desrosiers; $lOO-Michelle Cordeiro, Ronald & Joanne Fortier, Custodio & Maria Cabral.

Assonet St. Bernard: $3OO-D. Patricia Powell; $200-Dennis & Margaret Read; $100Randall & Diane Cordeiro.

Attleboro St. John the EwngeIist: ~M&M Gerard Hickman, M&M Robert Mangiaratti; $lOo-Anne Carroll, M&M George J. Geisser, T. Patriarca & D. Lamontagne, M&M Paul J. Thorpe.

St. Stephen: $420-Joseph & Eileen Hodge; $150-Daniel & Grace Collette; $lOO-Normand Johnson, St. Stephen's Women's Club.

BormrdsBay St. Margaret: $lOO-M&M Victor Barrows, Ernest Perry.

Chatham Holy Redeemer: $5OO-M&M Richard Mack, M&M Eric Whiteley; $25o-M&M Francis J. Gorman, Jr.; ~M&M Richard J. Rochette; $l50-James J. Augstell, M&M Andrew C. Marx. Paul A McKenna; $l25-M&M Thomas Groux; $lOG-M&M William Browne, M&M Cornelius DeBonte, Jr. East Freetown St. John Neumann: $700-Fred & Constance Tuffile; $600-M&M James "Whalen; $Scm-A Friend, Dr&M James P. Tracey, John & Therese Rita; $350-M&M Stephen P. McGraw; $250-M&M Ryan Levesque; $lS6-M&M Annand E. Houde, Jr.; $IOO-M&M Josepb Martino, M&M Mark Pepin, M&M Malcolm Hathaway. &!st SmtdwidJ Corpus Christi: $5C1}-Anne Valentine; $2S0-M&M Paul J. Manganella; $UeOM&M Frederick B. Dempsey, Dr&M George C. Willenborg, M&M Edward J. Walsh, M&M William F. Doherty.

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Holy ~amily: $2GO-M&M Blair Bourque, M&M James Withers; $185Frances Winterson; $lOO-M&M Roy Mitton, M&M Brian Korladri, M&M Gus Roca, M&M Daniel Cox. M&M Rui Silva.

M&M Kenneth Poole, M&M Bradley Fitzgerald, M&M Joseph McDonald. M&M John LePage, M&M Armando Rodrigues, M&M David Podgurski, M&M David Cardoza, Theresa Gomes, Christiano Victoria, Daniel Bartel, Ronald Souza.

Beverly Coelho.

FairlIaven St. Mary: $150-M&M John Roderiques; $l25-M&M Daniel Costa; $100-Pauline Brunelle, Karen MedeirosMayall, M&M Leo Surprenant.

FaD River St. Mary Cathedral: $loo-earnl Cioe, Olivia Sotomayor.

Espirito Santo: $250-Charismatic Prayer Community; $2OO-Holy Rosary Sodality.

Good Shepherd: $tso-M&M Francis C. Tmsley; $1OG-Ziggy's Plumbing & Heating.

Holy Name: $1.OOO-M&M John Sbrega; $606-Dr&M Kevin Kilroy; $250Andrea J. Bartley; $14S-M&M Michael Coughlin; SlOG-Ann Marie Sandell, M&M Ronald Gagne, M&M Dennis Pavao, M&M Antonio Castro, Roger M. Morgan, In Memory of Donald E. Sylvia., Sr., Tedeschi Food Shop, Nora Popp.

Holy Trinity: $500-M&M Albert Beaudoin; $350-M&M Dan Araujo, In Memory of Thomas Cadima; $US-Holy Trinity Pro-Life Committee; $IOo-In Memory of Charest & LaAamme Families, M&M Richard Silvia., Joanne Fernandes, M&M Ronald Hipolito, Mary Sewell, M&M Eugene Smith.

Immaculate Conception: $100Deborah Longchamps, Immaculate Conception Women's Guild.

Notre Dame: $2Oo-Knights ofColumbus-Bishop Stang Assembly; $150-M&M Armand Raiche; SlOG-Edward Ahaesy, M&M Donald Chabot, M&M Norman Lamontagne, Pauline Levesque.

St. Anne: $200-Beverly A_ Dowty.

St. Anthony of Padna: $IOO-R. Bettencourt.

St. Joseph: $lllO-PameIa Lima.

Ss. Peter and Paul: $2S0-A Friend; $20a-M&M Joao Costa, M&M Arthur Pregana; $lSO-Fiorence Fournier, M&M William Tansey; $lOO-Parish Rosary Society, M&M Arthur Hoole, M&M Robert Latinville, M&M Alfredo Sousa, M&M Helen Chrupcala.

St. Stanislaus: $SOO-A Friend; $300M&M Gilhert Benard; $171.50-St. Stanislaus School Children; $125-M&M Scott Mitchell; $1OG-Monika & Adam Gdanski, M&M John Hadfield.

Santo Christo: $125-M&M Nelson Mateus; SlOG-Maria Amaral, M&M Duarte Costa., M&M Helder Fernandes, In Memory of Patrick Meno, M&M Manuel Silva., Fall River Sports Club.

Falmouth St. Patrick: $48O-M&M Louis Tessier; $150-Teaticket Auto Body; $100-Kathryn Driscoll, M&M James Sawyer.

Hyannis St. Francis Xavier: $l,OOO-Dennis Farrington; $300-M&M Lucien Poyant; $2OG-M&M Wayne Prince; $lOO-Peter Bennett, Diane Downes, M&M Mark Galkowski.

Mansfield St. Mary: $l,OOO-M&M James D. Collins; $4S0-M&M Robert Pietrafetta; $400-M&M Camille L. Saulnier, M&M Alan J. McKenna; $200-M&M Andre J. Charpentier, M&M C.M. Fillmore, JM&M Robert A. Freeman, M&M Carlos Silva; $ISO-M&M Robert C. Crowley; $100M&M Robert Carroll, M&M Thomas FItZgerald. M&M Paul Landon, M&M Gary M. Lewis, M&M 1. McCormack, Carlos Medeiros, In Memory of Timothy & Helen Barrett, Kathleen Owens, M&M David R. Piccirilli, Judith C. Post, M&M Marc St. Jean, M&M Michael T. Stallings, M&M David 1. Anacone, M&M Richard D. Arieta, M&M WI.iliam E. Moore III. Martha's Vineyard Good Shepherd: $300-Robert & Jeanne Ogden; $150-M&M Raymond A. Farland; $:B.3S-M&M Otis Rogers, Jr.; $100M&M William F. O'Brien.

Mashpee Christ the King: $3,OOO-M&M Robert Tischler; $I,OOO-M&M Joseph Fisher; $750-M&M Raymond Ayers; $SOO-M&M Kenneth Patrick, Frederick Wanner, M&M Philip Fma., M&M Walter Kennedy, M&M George Mackoul; $300-M&M Robert McCarthy; $250-M&M James Kelley, M&M Walter Carlson, Jr.; $200-Ronald Donway, Jane Delea; $150-M&M James Pender, M&M Paul Gaudin, M&M Joseph Apicella., M&M Arthur Broussard, M&M Daniel Murphy; $lOO-M&M Brian Veroneau, M&M Marshall Atwater, Mary Lou Crowley, M&M Joseph Lynch, M&M Paul Sullivan, Vmcent Puleo, M&M Fred McDonald, M&M WI.iliam Brackett, Mary Quinn. M&M Edward Walsh, Joan Shields, M&M George Logan. M&M Jack Lynch, M&M Arthur Mulrain.

Mattapoisett St. Anthony: $200-M&M Edmund Butler, Mary Stellato; $IOO-M&M William J. Quinlan.

Nantucket St, Mary/Our Lady of the Isle: $2,OOo-M&M John B. Penrose; $1,000Francie Z. Bovers & Brian F. SChereschewsky, M&M Edwin A. Lemherg; $6oo-Deuise Olsen; $500-M&M Richard Lewis; $2Oo-Grace Coffin; $ISO-Diane M. Breault; $IOO-M&M Richard Bellevue, M&M Robert Garrabrant, M&M Francis McGarvey, M&M Michael McInerney, St., Mary's Rosary Group, M&M Peter Sylvia, Richard Travaglione.

New Bedford Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: $200-Donald Buckley, M&M George Viveiros; $IOO-M&M Lawrence Almeida, M&M Roger Deneault-In Memory of the Denault & Lecomte Families. Sheila Praisner.

Our Lady of the Assumption: $200Alice Leighton; $IOO-Bernardino Silva, Lawrence Drayton, M&M Thomas 1. Pina.

Our Lady of Fatima: $lOO-M&M Duarte Leonardo.

Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. James: $l,400-Rev. Richard D. WI.ison; $300-Rev. Michael S. Racine.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel: $500-A Friend; $4GO-A Friend; $250-H~ly Ghost

Society; $ISO-M&M Hildeberto J. Sousa; $l77-A Friend; $lSO-M&M Carlos Alves; $12S-A Friend; $lOO-A Friend, M&M Jose Antonio Freitas, M&M Walter Freitas, M&M Steven Garcia, Victoria Madeira, M&M Jose Melo, Annette Scrocca, Ezilda Duarte, Mount Carmel Seniors, M&M Joao Medeiros, Maria G. Fonfinha, Mount Carmel Portuguese Prayer Group, M&M Peter Serdahl, Anonymous.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help: $2.000Conventual Franciscan Friars, OFM Conv.; $l,ooo-Our Lady of Perpetual Help Bingo, Special Memorial, Anonymous, Parish Anniversary Gift, A Friend, In Thanksgiving; $500-M&M Lionel Dubois & Family, Anonymous, Special Intention; $400Fryderyk Gorczyca; $3OO-Helen Arabasz; $2S0-Anonymous M&M Richard Machnowski; $200-M&M Steven Hunt & Family, M&M Thad Irzyk, M&M Edward Jarosik, Frank Michalski, Anonymous; $lSO-M&M Mitchell Gacek, M&M Robert Cyr, Helen Los, OLPH Ladies Society; $125-M&M Tadeusz Blecharzyk, M&M Edward Jablonski; $l20-Joseph A. Sobolewski, Jr.; SlOG-Anonymous, M&M Rodney Cejka, Mrs. U1ena Chaberek, M&M Ronald Correira, M&M Jan Domagala, Stephanie Frasier, Michael Gonet, Stanley Grabiec, In Memory of Frank & Rosalie Jeglinski, Nancy Kondziolka, Helen Koss, M&M Joseph Michalski, M&M Alfred Pelczarski, M&M Paul Pabis, Mrs.Walter Palys, M&M Walter Polchlopek, M&M Frank Slowik, M&M Felix Witkowicz, Dr&M John Wolkowicz & Family.

St. Anthony of Padua: $17S-M&M Timothy Greene.

St. Francis of Assisi: $SOO-Moira Tierney, St. Vmcent de Paul Society; $200In Memory ofAnita Ghilardi by Rev. Kevin Harrington; $lOO-M&M Paul Arruda, Sheila Azevedo, M&M Edward Manley III. St. Joseph-St. Therese: $2S0-Anonymous, M&M Roland Boisvert, M&M Liberio DaSilva; $150-Anonymous; $100Anonymous, ADabel DeSousa, M&M Scott Talbot.

St. Lawrence Martyr: $I,300-S1.

Vincent de Paul Society; $200-Maureen Bertrand; $ISO-Marc Lemieux; $126-F10renee Coleman; $IOO-M&M Wayne Arruda, " M&M Paul Baptista, Kathleen Manning, M&M Manuel Lima, M&M Jeffrey Marden, Dorothy Koczera, Virginia Whalen.

St. Mary: $l,OOO-In Memory of John J. Oliveira; $300-M&M Edward Santos; $160-M&M Timothy Rezendes; $125M&M William R. Silveira; $lOO-M&M Christovao Borges, M&M Brian Esteves, M&M John DeMello, Dina & George Mello & Family, M&M Rene LeBlanc, M&M Michael K. McCormack, In Loving Memory of James Mendes.

North Attleboro Sacred Heart: $l,sOG-M&M Russell Kenney; $l,OOO-M&M Warren Boehling, M&M Ronald Tondreault; $SOO-M&M Gregory Pion, Steven & Terese Reynolds; $300-M&M Herbert McEvoy, Patrick & Jennifer McMorran; $2S0-Kenneth Giacoppo; $200-M&M David Mello; $100M&M Victor Mercurio, M&M Joseph Pavao, Jr., M&M John Adams, M&M William Larocque, M&M Richard Mercure, Amy Bergeron, Adam & Linda Sholes, William & Karen Ryan.

St. Mark: $l,200-Deacon&M Richard Gundlach; $200-John & Beatrice Kearney; $IOO-Robert Armstrong & Susan McCutchan, M&M Christopher Nolan.

North Dartmouth St. Julie Billiart: $2S0-M&M Fernando A. Lemos; $200-M&M John Kalisz; $l25-M&M Dennis P. Bruce; $UOSusan Pawlak-Seaman; $IOO-M&M Matthew Payette, M&M Robert Peckham, M&M Robert Ladino, M&M Paul Rioux, Dolores Santos, M&M Antonio Ferreira, Knights of Columbus.

North Dighton St. Joseph: $l25-Mary P. Vargas; $100Jack & Jean Mello.

North Easton Immaculate Conception: $200-M&M Christopher Vaughan, Richard Kent, Jr.; $lOO-M&M John Morningstar, M&M Gerald Noonan.

North Falmouth

"St, Elizabeth Seton: $SOO-M&M Robert Chisholm, M&M Dominic DiMartino, Patricia Heath; $4OO-Dr&M Paul Spinale; $360-M&M Robert Averill; $3OO-St. Elizabeth Seton Guild; $250-Judge&M Roger Champagne, Dr&M Andrew Dorr; $200M&M Richard Giere, M&M Matthew Murphy; $17S-M&M Mario Morini; $150Ed Hannon; $l25-M&M Robert Antonucci; $IOO-Charlotte Conchieri, Doris Halpin, Margaret Innis, M&M Clifford Long, William Lynch, M&M Nicholas Verven, Ruth Woodward.

Orleans St, Joan of Arc: $3OO-Ronald Lech; $250-M&M George Walsh; $lOO-M&M Douglas Dineen, M&M James O'Connor, M&M David Salerno.

Osterville Our Lady of the Assumption: $2,400M&M Philip Dauby; $l.OOO-Josee Laplante, George E. Mahon; $SOG-Mrs. T. Joseph McCook, M&M Robert E. Verrando; $300-M&M Wilson Perry; $2S0-Mrs. Philip Guidrey; S200-Mrs. William J. Joyce; $ISO-Richard A. Bennett, M&M Henry' Ciampi, M&M Allen J. Donaruma; $125M&M Richard J. Perry; $lOG-M&M Joseph Amaral, Dr&M Thomas Antkowiak, Fred M. Bean, M&M Robert Coyne, Patricia Croston, John R. Davidson, M&M William Edmonds, M&M Thomas Higgins, Francis 1. & Rita A. Madigan, M&M John Szymanski, M&M Carl A. Trica, Gerard & Mary Wojkowski.

Pocasset St. John the Evangelist: $1,000Bernie & Kaye Ferioli; $SOO-M&M Robert Armour; $lOO-M&M Fred Comings, Julius A. Ghio, Merry & Eric James, M&M Gilbert Joly.

Provincetown St. Peter the Apostle: $1,200-St. Vincent de Paul Society; $300-John Cook; $IOO-Irene O'Sullivan, Mary Anne Costello, Paula J. Perry.

Raynham St. Ann: $4,400-Leo & Jane Champagne; $l,lOO-M&M Michael Emard; $400-Francis Balfe; $3S0-M&M William Rota; $2OD-M&M Dennis Carvalho, Helen Lounsbury, M&M Paul Quigley, M&M Thomas zaks; $170-M&M Alan McRae; $150-M&M Joseph Aliberti, M&M Edward Cabral; $l30-M&M Edward Ennes; $115M&M Kenneth St. Martin; $lOO-M&M Joseph Andrade, M&M Daniel Cabral, M&M David Caron, M&M David Hiltz, Robert Keith, M&M Eric Kivlan, Maryann Miller-Brown, M&M Patrick Murphy, Craig Roque, Dorothy Smith, M&M Eduardo Arruda, M&M Francisco DeAndrade, M&M James Machado, M&M Christopher Madden, M&M John Palmer, M&M Gilbert Santos, M&M Eric Tetreault.

Seekonk Our Lady of Mount Carmel: $600M&M Edward Barbehenn; $SOO-M&M Alan Sherrerd. M&M Shawn Smart; $365M&M Michael Caswell; $250-M&M David Agostini, M&M John Segalla; $200-M&M Michael Pomerleau; $IOO-M&M Charles Gaylor, M&M Joseph Rebello, M&M Richard Silva, Anthony Soboda, M&M Anthony Spagnolo, St. Vmcent de Paul Society.

Somerset St. John of God: $SOG-M&MA.E. Gut; $IOO-Albertina E. Cordeiro.

St. Patrick: $200-St. Vincent de Paul Society; $IOO-M&M Edward Rausch.

St, Thomas More: $IOO-M&M Normand O. Brodeur.

South Dartmouth St. Mary: $lO,OOO-M&M Patrick Carney.

South Yannouth St. Pius Teuth: $SOG-Stephen Nocrasz, Mrs. Albert Anastasio; $200-Christine Schott; $150-M&M Clayton Stalker; $100M&M Steven Sozanski, M&M Stephen Clifford, Mrs. James Williams, Robert W. Clark, M&M Donald T. O'Connor, Deborah Hoothay, M&M John Crockett, M&M John Cifelli.

Swansea St. Dominic: $IOO-Mrs. Gilbert DeMattos, Paul Nadeau, Mario A. Andreozzi, M&M Benjamin Massa, Holy Spirit Society.

St, Francis of Assisi: $IOO-Carol Hanley, M&M Jose Rebello, M&M Jose

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St. Louis de France: $125-M&M Daniel Buckley; $lOO-David W. Levesque, M&M Edward Violette.

Taunton Annunciation of the Lord: $250Darlene Lucas; $lOO-Jean M. Miller.

Holy Rosary: $lOO-M&M Joseph Budzinski, Mrs. Robert Nichols, M&M Jeffrey Hathaway.

St. Anthony: $300-Emily McClellan; $200-A Friend; $150-M&M Manuel Travassos; $lOO-Nuno R. Cabral, Leite & Son Plastering, Keith F. Lima, M&M George Pereira, Nuno R. Cabral.

St, Jacques: $300-M&M Dana Higginbotham; $lOO-Mrs. Albea Milot.

St, Joseph: $6oo-In Memory of Reis & Antunes Families; $300-David Bisio; $250-M&M Joseph Teixeira; $lSO-David Lima; $120-M&M John Doehler; $100Peter B. Gay. St, Paul: $200-M&M James Murphy; $12S-M&M Ralph Cabral; $IOO-M&M Michael Eason, Robert Burns, M&M Edmund Teixeira, M&M Stephen M. Desimone, M&M Henry Arsenault, Jr., Mary K. Natho.

Wareham St. Patrick: $1,OOO-Paula & John WI.ik; $3S0-Kenneth & Elizabeth Ferreira; $125John Ruzgis; $lOO-Patricia Schaaf.

Wellfleet Our Lady of Lourdes: $SOO-M&M Joseph F. Snape; $lOO-Sandra Stocker.

West Harwich Holy Trinity: $1,200-M&M D. Michael Schaffer; $400-Richard & Sandra Ellis; $300-M&M John J. Mahoney, Tim & Ellen Wolcott, Marjorie C. Tivenan; $200-Steve Grubiak, M&M Peter Looby, James F. & Alice G. Rappolt, Kathleen Kirkpatrick; $17S-Norma C. & John B. O'Brien, Jr.; $ISO-Paul J. & Eunice Maloney, Marguerite E. & Edward T. Martin, Marguerite E. & Edward T. Martin; $IOO-Gertrude M. Dean, M&M Herbert J. Delaney, M&M Frederick E. Giannelli, Jr., Arthur B. Harding, Blanche Hunnewell, M&M Leo J. LeFort, M&M James Marceline, M&M David J. Marshall, M&M Lloyd McDonald, Donald F. Moriarty, Mrs. Walter Mulhall, Mrs. Clement F. Smith, Joan Sullivan, Arley Makurat Cline, M&M Michael Gurney, Deborah Merigan, M&M T. Robert Reynolds.

Westport St. George: $l,OOO-M&M Paul Gracia.

St. John the Baptist: $150-Dr&M Curtis Mello; $lOO-M&M Kevin Clark, M&M Paul Zuber, M&M Edmund Thadeu.

Woods Hole St. Joseph: $3,OOO-Dr.&M Thomas Gregg; $l,SOO-M&M Gerard Boyle; $1,2S0-Dr&M Alexander Heard; $I,OOO-E. Van R. Milbury; $SOO-Dennis E. & Adrienne Okon, Glenn P. Kelly; $400Honorable&M Lawrence Cameron; $300Mary Louise Klimm, Dr. John B. & Phyllis Taylor; $250-Dr. Johanna Stephen, Richard 1. & Paula C. Tredeau; $200-Neil & Brenda Scannell, Dr. Norman & Jayne Starosta; $12S-Susan G. Gallagher; $IOO-Mary Lou Canepa, Patricia Harcourt, Lester & Rosalie Jackson, Gene McAuliffe, Robert Clarkin, Ann B. Lehan, Brenda M. Dugan, Daniel J. & Ann M. McNichol.

BUSINESS & COMMUNITY Attleboro $300-St. Mary's Catholic Woman's Club, Mansfield.

Cape Cod & the Islands $l,OOO-Holy Trinity Women's Guild, West Harwich; $300-Spanish Apostolate of Cape Cod. Fall River $2,OOO-SladesBank; $1,700-Spanish Apostolate; $IOO-The Proper Fit. Taunton $l,OOO-Davolffaunton Printing, Inc; $6OO-St. Ann's Women of Spirit, Raynham; $400-Reed & Barton Foundation; $350Knights of Columbus-St. Ann's Council #10289, Raynham; $200-St. Joseph-St. Vincent de Paul Society; $17S-Knights of Columbus-St. Joseph's Council #11914.

National $lOS,OOO-Paul A. Duchaine Charitable Endowment Fund; $SO,OOO-Maurice C. Duchaine Charity Fund; $880-In Memory of John J. Patota, Fall River.

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29) 2007

Diocesan Pastoral Planning debuts creation of online community

By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER - The diocesan Office of Pastoral Planning recently launched an online campaign to . help bring information to people and allow them to collaborate with one another using the newly created DFR Pastoral Planning Yahoo Newsgroup.

Yahoo Groups is a feature of the popular Yahoo Website. The newsgroups allow people to create sites where others who share the same interests can post messages, receive information updates and stay connected to one another through those common interests.

According to Doug Rodrigues, consultant' to the Office of Pastoral Planning, the idea of creating a Yahoo Group has been in the works for some time. It officially launched on June 22 and at press time 44 people have joined the group.

"We hope it will provide greater networking and communication between the Office of Pastoral Planning, parishes, schools, diocesan offices and other apostolates in the diocese," said Rodrigues.

"Our intent is to bring different representatives together to form an online community where participants can bring forth ideas, ask questions, share success stories and resources." The office will also be posting important information and dates.

Members of the online community. will also be able to request that copies of Anchor articles written about pastoral planning be sent to them via email.

"We sent more than 350 electronic invites out to people and another 600 have been invited to join the online community via regular mail," said Rodrigues. "We really hope people will use it to network and collaborate online. It'~ a chance for them to share their stories. It's such an effective way to communicate."

Currep.tly in the works is a Pastoral Planning Website and Rodrigues said they will be meeting with a web designer this summer to set it up. "We hope to have it up and running in the fall," he said.

Father David M. Andrade,. director of Pastoral Planning, is excited to see the development of a Website. "We're working on it this summer and it's very important that we use every means of communication available. This is the age of the Internet and it's key in terms of how people gather information."

One hope said Father Andrade,."is that people will be able to share their ideas and stories with one another and be a support to each other."

For more information call the Pastoral Pla1)ning Office at 508-673-1851 or via email at planning@fallriverdiocese.org.

Cardinal praises Bush for vetoing embryonic stem-cell researc~ bill

By JERRY FILTEAU CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

continue to produce new clinical advances on a regular basis, most WASHINGTON - President recently showing. benefits for paGeorge W. Bush June 20 vetoed a tients with juvenile diabetes," he bill to expand federal funding for said. He said a recent research break. medical research on human embry- through has shown that ordinary onic stem cells, saying it "would adult cells can be reprogrammed to compel American taxpayers, for the become pluripotent stem cells, first time in our history, to support showing that "science not only raises the deliberate destruction of human new ethical questions but at times can help address them." embryos."

"Tragically, some embryonic Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. bish- stem-cell advocates in Congress ops' Committee on Pro-Life Activi- have dismissed such advances or ties, praised the veto. "This bill even greeted them with suspicion, would not actually enhance stem- as though medical progress were less cell research, but divert federal funds genuine or praiseworthy when it refrom legitimate research toward av- . spects early human life," the cardienues requiring the destruction of nal Church always supports scieninnocent human life," he said. ''The tific research ''that genuinely Sl';rves cause of science is not enhanced but the human person." diminished when it loses its moral The vetoed bill was titled the compass."

Stem-Cell Research Enhancement In conjunction with the veto, Act of 2007. It passed in the Senate Bush issued an executive order call- Aprilll by a 63-34 vote and in the ing on federal agencies to strengthen House June 7 by a vote of 247-176. the nation's commitment to research Neither vote reflected the two-thirds on pluripot~nt stem cells. majority that would be needed to Adult stem cells from a variety override a veto. of sources, including bone marrow, The day before the House voted the placenta and umbilical-cord to relax the funding restrictions on blood, have led to successful treat- human embryonic research, Cardiments for a number of diseases. nal Rigali had urged it to defeat the .

Adult stem cells are called pluripo- bill. tent because they have the power to In a letter to all House members, tum into many ofthe 200-plus types he said, "Embryonic stem-cell reof differentiated cells found in the search has been as disappointing in body. its results as it has been divisive to Embryonic stem cells are called our society. Pursuit of this destrucomnipotent because they can tum tive research will almost certainly into any ofthose differentiated cells. require you to embrace more and Cardinal Rigali welcomed the more egregious violations of moral executive order. "Adult stem cells norms in the effort to bring its 'prom-

ise' to fruition." ''Ethically sound research using nonembryonic stem cells has continued to advance, helping patients with over 70 conditions in clinical trials," he added. "Since Congress debated this issue last summer, further evidence has emerged on the versatility of adult stem cells and on the ability of adult cells to be reprogrammed to rival the flexibility of embryonic cells."

Democratic leadership had made the bill a top priority when the Democrats gained control of Congress this year. It would have ended the Bush administration's six-yearold policy limiting federal funding of human embryonic stem-cell research to projects that relied only on colonies of embryonic stem cells created before Aug. 9, 200 I, the date that policy was announced.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination next year, accused Bush of putting "ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families."

White House press spokesman Tony Snow responded, ''This actually is putting science before ideology. There are many people who believe that you have to force taxpayers into making a choice of destroying human life - destroying an embryo in order to proceed with embryonic stem-cell research. That would be an ideological position." ''The president does not believe it's appropriate to put an end to human life for research purposes," he said. 'That's a line he will not cross."

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" assure people that tlte quality of number of donors once again; St. servi~e and ministry offered by Peter the Apostle in Provincetown these agencies is our highest con- has tripled its Appeal total since cern, and that the money donated 2002, and had another significant "is not being eaten up by adminis- increase this year even while. building a new church following trative costs," he ad~~d. ''The 94 cents of every dollar the devastating fire that totally donated that we say is going di- destroyed the older building; rectly to the agencies funded by the Holy Rosary Parish in Taunton Appeal is a true figurf and one that continues to increase signifiwe are very proud of! It's not easy cantly each year and has more 'to keep administrati~~ costs at this than doubled its Appeal revenue low level, and it is due solely to since 2001; and S1. Killian's, a the sacrifices and good steward- small inner-city parish in New , ship of those involved," he contin- Bedford has more than tripled since 2001, to mention only a ued. . few.

With 65 percent of the parishes "The entire Appeal is about exceeding their previous year's tosharing, but there was one area that tals, and one-quarter j,of them realseemed to show itself vividly durizing double-digit percent ining this Appeal in particular, and creases, Bishop C,oleman exmade a very strong statement pressed how pleased, he was and about the very essence of the Apquickly added that 'lhe wasn't at peal," Donly pointed out. all surprised at the rerp.arkable gen"We have seen how parishioerosity of the parishioners of the ners from two, three, and somediocese." times four parishes, who have reThe statistics reveal the parishes . cently come together to form new with double-digit percent increases parish communities due to mergwere: Holy Ghost in tttieboro, St. ers, truly take on the new parish Mark's in Attlebo~o Falls, S1. as their own and show their Mary's in North Attleboro, S1. awareness of the fact that the Mary's in Mansfield, Our Lady of pride they have in their Church the Cape in Brewst~r, Christ the is not in the building that houses King in Mashpee, 0ur Lady of it, but rather in the spirit of this Lourdes in Wellfleet}Holy Trinity new community of parishioners," in West Harwich, S~~ Joseph's in Woods Hole, Holy Name in Fall he said. ''They show the pride they have River, Immaculate Conception in in their new parish community by Fall River, S1. Bbrnard's in looking beyond themselves and Assonet, S1. John of God in Somsharing what they have with those erset, St. Patrick's in Somerset, who have so much less. This type Our Lady of Grace in Westport, St. of unselfish sharing, this respondGeorge's in Westport; S1. Killian's ing to the needs of .others, is the in New Bedford, S1. Ftancis Xavier very essence of what the Catholic in Acushnet, S1. Mary's in Fairhaven, S1. Rita's ill Marion, St. Charities Appeal has always been Anthony's in Mattapoisett, Our based on here in the diocese," Lady of the Holy Rosary in Taun- Donly concluded.

I' A list of final parish totals and ' ton, St. Jacques in Taunton, and other information will appear in Holy Cross in South Easton. next week's Anchor.

There have been some remarkable accomplishments in the parishes across the diocese, and in Montie Plumbing some cases this yeaIj" is simply a & Heating Co. continuation of som~ of the great Over 35 Years strides being made. Examples inof Satisfied Services clude: St. Ann's Parisq in Raynham Reg. Master Plumber 7023 which has nearly tripled its total JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. since 2000, eclipsed $100,000 for 432 JEFFERSON STREET the first time this year~ and accordFALL RIVER 508-675-7496 ing to the pastor has increased the "

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The Anchor is seeking to hire another full-time reporter. Applicapts need to possess journalism and photography skills, adequate computer skills to be trained in layo'ut and Website activities, and deep knowledge of the practice of the Catholic faith. Those interested are asked to email or send a resume, several examples of their writing, and a list of references to Fr. Roger Lahdry, PO Box 7, Fall River, MA02722, fatherrogerlandry@anchornews.org. Compensation dependent on experience. Interviews will begin on June 27.

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'Champions' on the field, and in their faith, highlighted on DVD

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NEW YORK - If you were thinking the macho sports .world might be incompatible with a deep Catholic faith, you need to hear the uplifting testimonials of the baseball greats interviewed on the new DVD "Champions of Faith: Baseball," produced by the new film and video division of Tom Allen's Catholic Exchange, in association with American Family Media.

The 65-minute documentary focu~es principally on six luminaries of the sport, and illuminates how their faith has informed their lives and careers.

They are 12-time National League All-Star catcher Mike Piazza, now with the Oakland Athletics; two-time National League All-Star shortstop David Eckstein, now with the St. Louis Cardinals; 12-year major league pitcher Jeff Suppan, now with the Milwaukee Brewers; five-time American League All-Star first baseman Mike Sweeney, captain of the Kansas City Royals; twotime manager of the year Jack McKeon; and major league coach Rich Donnelly, now with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Handsomely shot in high definition video and narrated by sportscaster John Morales, the film also features a plethora of brief faith-basedaffirmatio~s from other managers, coaches and players which, though slickly edited, threaten to wear thin.

But once viewers are into the longer segments that anchor the documentary, the result is genuinely absorbing and inspiring; Each of the principal subjects explains how he turned to God when at his lowest ebb and was not disappointed. , Sweeney, for instance, whose .father gave up a c~eer in minor league baseball to raise a family, reached a point where he felt his路 life was in shambles, but after reading the Bible and returning to Mass, sure enough, he made the

team. Eckstein, in turn, relates how he sustained an injury that kept him out of the game for a. month, but rather than railing against fate, he reasoned it was God's plan, and after recovery, did indeed lead his team to a championship.

Eckstein and Suppan are covered in the same segment. They were teammates, but time went by before each discovered that the other one was Catholic. Subsequently, they got into the habit of attending Mass together. .Donnelly's account of his teen-age daughter's sad struggle with a brain tumor that brought him back to the Catholic faith from which he strayed is extremely touching, especially his recounting of a clever remark the girl made during her illness .which turned out to be almost miraculously prescient after her death.

Manager McKeon, who would fervently pray to "the Little Flower," St. The~ese, thought his career was over until he got a call. from the Florida Marlins and led them to a World Series victory.

Two of the stories involve onthe-field altercations with other players that end in reconciliation: Piazza's run-in with Roger Clemens after the latter threw the shard of a bat at him, and Sweeney's attack on Detroit Tigers pitcher Jeff Weaver. (Elsewhere, Piazza's meeting with Pope John Paul II is dutifully recounted.)

Catholic or not, anyone with a spiritual bent is sure to be moved by the experiences of these men, and we look forward to the next installment in this projected series.

"Champions of Faith" can be ordered online at: www.championsoffaith.com. or by phone at: 877- 263-1263. .

Forbes is director of the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. More' reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies. \

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 Sunday, July 1 at 11:00 a.m.

Scheduled celebrant is Father Marc H. Bergeroq, pastor of St. Anne's Parish in Fall River

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN - Steve Carel! stars in a scene from the movie "Evan Almighty." For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie CapSUles below. (CNS photo/Universal) Carter) and others in an "ultimate fighter" tournament where athletes battle not to the death, but to the "knocked-out," while the master of ceremonies (Eric Roberts) has a secret agenda. Hong Kong actionmovie director Corey Yuen fills the IC~' ~'l()viie movie with wire-work stunts in which martial artists take superhulCall[)~Ulllle~ man leaps, and no one really gets NEW YORK (CNS) - The fol- hurt except for the bad guy. A few lowing are .capsule reviews of instances of crude language, fremovies recently reviewed by the quent crass language, a couple inOffice for Film & Broadcasting of stances of mild profanity, brief parthe U.S. Conference of Catholic tial nudity, much skimpy costuming, crude humor, a morning-after Bishops. bedroom scene and much action "1408" (MGMlDimension) Adaptation of a Stephen King violence including explosions. The short story has 'Mike Enslin (John USCCB Office for Film & BroadCusack), the writer of guides to casting classification is A-III --: occult phenomena, spending a adults. The Motion Picture Associagenuinely frightening night in a tion of America rating is PG-13 haunted Manhattan hotel room dur- parents strongly cautioned. Some ing which he must confront a past material ,may be inappropriate for tragedy and his skepticism about children under 13. ''Evan Almighty" God, the afterlife and anything re(Universal/Spyglass) motely otherworldly. Swedish diDelightful contemporary spin on rector Mikael Hafstrom assaults the the Noah story, as a TV anchorman senses with a barrage of well-exturned congressman (Steve Carell) ecuted special effects, but this is instructed

by God (Morgan Freeelaborat~, discomfiting ghost. tale man) to build an ark in light of an - part horror story and part superimpending flood, much to the skepnatural thriller - exploits the suftical consternation of his colleagues fering of a child and ultimately undercuts itself with too many twists. on Capitol Hill (John Michael Countless violent and morbid im- Higgins, Wanda Sykes and John ages and references, including , Goodman), his wife (Lauren Gramany to suicide, frequent crude and ham) and three young sons. Impartprofane language, and some sexual ing an overall message about how references. The USCCB Office for one act of random kindness can Film & Broadcasting classification change the world, director Tom is A-ill - adults. The Motion Pic- Shadyac and screenwriter Steve ture Association of America rating Oedekerk skillfully combine slapis PG-13 - parents strongly cau- stick, sentiment and surprising revtioned. Some material may be in- erence - these elements beautiappropriate for children under 13. fully embodied in Carell's seriocomic central performance - while ''DOA: Dead or Alive" the paired animals and the flood (Dimension) Mindless but bloodless action effects are wonderfully dC?ne. A movie, based on a video-game se- smattering of mildly crass lanries, pitting four bikini-clad young guage, humor, irreverence and in'women (Devon Aoki, Jaime nuendo. The USCCB Office for Pressly, Holly Valance and Sarah Film & Broadcasting classification

is A-IT - adults and adolescents.

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable路for children.

"Sicko" (LionsgatelWeinstein) Michael Moore's excoriating documentary expose of the American health care system, in which he sets out to demonstrate that people in countries such as Canada, England, France and even Cuba where tax-based socialized medicine results in patients having seemingly few if any out-of-pocket expenses, receive superior medical treatment.

Moore's approachis audacious and unabashedly one-sided, but with his breezy, sardonic commentary, the film is highly entertaining and makeS a strong case for our present system being strangely at odds with the otherwise humane aspects of the American character. However, he's on shakier ground when he suggests the system is a nefarious plot to keep us in fearful submission. Brief shot of a man stitching his own wound. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-IT - adults and adolescents.

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents strongly cautioned. Some material路 may be inappropriate for children under 13.

Movies On-line Can't remember how a recent film was classified by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops?

Want to know whether to let the kids go see it? You can look up film reviews on the Catholic News Service Website.

Visit catholicnews.com and click on' "Movies," under the "News Item" menu.

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$ The Anchor news briefs House passes bill reversing Mexico City anti-abortion funding policy WASHINGTON (CNS) - An amendment reversing the federal government's Mexico City policy banning federal aid to groups that promote abortion as a family planning method passed 223-201 in the House June 21, although the bill to which the amendment was attached could f~ce a veto from President George W. Bush. '''1 will veto any legislation that weakens current federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage," Bush said in a letter to Democratic leaders in both houses of Congress. The Mexico City policy does not allow federal funds to go to agencies that perform and promote abortion as a family planning method in developing countries. The policy, instituted in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, was so named because it was announced at the U.N. International Conference on Populati~n held that year in Mexico City. It was rescinded by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and reinstated by Bush in 2001 in one of his first acts as president. The amendment on the Mexico City policy was attached to a State Department and foreign operations funding bill. House Republicans offered an amendment June 21 to leave the Mexico City policy intact. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee's 'subcommittee on state and foreign operations, sponsored a competing amendment to expand contraceptive aid but clarified that the aid would be restricted to U.S.-donated contraceptives and would uphold the ban on other types of assistance to groups that promote abortion. It was that amendment that passed. Opponents of her amendment said the groups getting the aid would be freed up to use other resources to provide abortions. ' Poll finds broad support for raising tobacco tax to fund health care WASHINGTON (CNS) - Regardless of their age, gender, race, party affiliation or socioeconomic status, Americans support a 75-centper-pack increase in the federal tobacco tax to fund health care coverage for the nation's uninsured children, according to a new poll.

Even 51 percent of those who describe themselves as current or occasional smokers support the increase and use of the funds to help uninsured children, said the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in releasing the results of a nationwide survey. The Catholic Health Association has been a strong supporter of moves to expand health insurance coverage for children and their parents through the State, Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCRIP, and Medicaid, and backs an increase in the tobacco tax to reach that goal, Michael Rodgers, CHA senior vice president for public policy and advocacy, told Catholic News Service. In addition to being a significant source of revenue for SCRIP expansion, he said, a higher tobacco tax "could have a prohibitive effect" on young people thinking about starting to smoke. ' Religious groups help Portland families divided by immigration raid PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) - Religious groups, especially Catholic parishes, have mobilized to support families divided after federal immigration agents made arrests at a Portland food processing plant. "I ask you to put whatever political leanings you have aside," Father Dave Gutmann told worshippers at Holy Cross Church. Members of the S1. Vincent de Paul Society stood outside the doors of the church taking cash and checks for the families, many of whom are parishioners who have been left without a wage earner. Many of the 167 workers detained after a recent raid of a Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. plant consider Holy Cross, Holy Redeemer, S1. Andrew and other Catholic parishes on Portland's north to be their spiritual home. The raid was for use of fraudulent Social Security numbers. Those arrested face possible deportation. The arrests came after a six-month investigation by federal' agents, who charge that Americ~n Staffing Resources, a North Carolina employment agency, conspired with Fresh Del Monte to hire illegal immigrants.

Armed men kidnap eight Christian students in northern Iraq ROME (CNS) -Armed men kidnapped eight Christians on their way home from university exams in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Seven students and one professor were taken at gunpoint June 20 after a:grl:mp of men forced the bus in which the'students were traveling to come to a halt, an informed source told Catholic News Service, Approximately 50 students and professors were riding the bus heading home from exams in Mosul when "a caravan of cars" surrounded and stopped the vehicle, according to a AsiaNews report. Both AsiaNews and the unnamed sou~ce said only the Christians were targeted and taken away after the kidnappers looked at the passengers' identification cards. Iraqi identification cards specify a person's religious affiliation, the source said, and "just by reading someone's name you can know they are Christian, Shiite, or SunnL"

Our readers fespond Educational tsunamis Do you remember when we were brought to the beach by our parents? Their advice about the tide is ringing through my mind. 'The tide is changing. Be careful! Don't venture out too far."

Do you remember how horrified we were as we watched the news during the tsunami not long ago? Children were playing by the shoreline and were excited because the water's edge seemed to be receding. Then, faster than they could see ,it coming, they were swallowed up by the tidal wave that swept through the village. Parents and children were separa~ and parents were powerleSs to do anything to stop it from happening.

Perhaps if it could have been predicted, things could have beeh different. Parents could have kept their children out of hanns way, and the children would be alive and well today.

Well, fellow Anchor readers: the tide is changing! Be careful!' Don't venture out too far. .

The tide I'm referring to is the Massachusetts Health Frameworks. If House Bill 597 (H597) and Senate Bill 288 (S288) are approved, parents will have to stand by pow.erless, and watch their children be swept away by the tide. Parents will lose their right to prevent their children from playing too close to the water's edge.

As parents, we have the right to teach our children the difference between right and wrong in regards to moralbehavior. We have the right to teach them about matters regarding life, love, sexuality, reproduction, abstinence and marriage according to their age and ability to comprehend such matters.

If H597 and S288 are passed, we will lose that right. We will lose that one-on-one teaching moment. We will lose the right to say, ''No, I don't want my child learning about that just yet. He or she is not ready, or they are not at that maturity level yet." Who knows your child better than you? Is it the teachers who will teach them these things? Is it the legislators who will be making these laws? Is it the lobbyist who is pushing for these matters to be forced upon our children before they are ready?

We need to speak up. Log on to http://votervoice.net/ target.aspx?id=catholic: 15817854 Please tell your legislators not to pass these bills. If we don't speak up now, watch out for the tide!

Barbara A, Wenc, Fall River A voice for the distaff side picture caption says "All About Women" (The Anchor, page 20, May 18). And the picture is filled with women.

But the main speakers at the recent annual convention of the .Diocesan Council of Catholic Women were men!

Isn't it time for Catholic women to honor the life experiences of other women? Frankly, I'd be more interested in hearing Ms. Flynn speak of her years at the Vatican. And are there no women lawyers whose story needs to be told, a story other women could appreciate and possibly identify with?

Have you ever heard ofany women speakers at the Knights of Columbus or Holy Name Societies?

Catholic women, let's start celebrating the lives and experiences of the women in our communities. It's been a long time coming.

Margaret A. Murphy, Falmouth Th~

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. The sad loss of famlly values I have been involved in the Marriage Amendment movement since it inception in 2002, gathering petition signatures, attending lobbying days, Constitutional Conventions, rallies and calling, writing and visiting legislators.

What took place on June 14 was one of the saddest days of my life as I watched mostly young people rejoicing to think they had achieved a victory - a validation - by coopting:and changing the definition of marriage.

Actually my sadness was not only for these people but also for the Commonwealth, and for our nation's loss of traditional family values. But the greatest measure of my sadness Was for our Church hierarchy, which fliiled to teach the faithful what such a decision would mean.

The timidity of the bishops in enforcing the Church's teachiIlg by requiring the pastors and clergy to speak froni the pulpit was, in my mind, the reason for this failure. The silence was deafening! In many cases, it was left to us, the laity, to take up the cause. Maybe a bulletin notice - if that - and often times,that too originated from the laity.

Who will be answerable when the traditions we hold so dear ~ diminished and overturned? Who will be responsible 'Yhen our children and grandchildren are taught that this lifestyle is normal and acceptable? What a sad day.

Doris Toohill, Orleans

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Treating homosexuals with dignity , I am writing this letter out of concern for the article " Facts about Same-sexAttraction" in the June 1edition of The Anchor. The article sets out to counter misinfonnation and seems to me to say that same-sex attraction is a disorder that is treatable and correctable. Although there are people who are confused about their sexuality and after therapy feel that they are heterosexual, there are others who go through therapy and feel that their truest, most authentic self is a person who is homosexual. It is to this latter group that the article does a great injustice; as so many have gone through long, arduous jOl.\lTleys often seeking both psychological and spiritual counseling and at the very least merit to be treated with dignity.

The 1997 Message by the U.S. Bishops Conference's Committee on Marriage and Family," Always Our Children;' said that the Christian community needs to offer its homosexual sisters and brothers understanding and pastoral care.

The June 1 article says, "Defenders and promoters of homosexuality ,try to cover up the scientifically documented serious promiscuity, inability to maintain sexual fidelity, partner abuse,' and psych~logical and medical illnesses associated with the lifestyle." I would suggest that these issues are broader than the homosexual lifestyle and point more to how wounded we are as human beings and ,how we live out our sexuality in ways that are hurtful to {)\uselves and others, ~hether as heterose~ or homosexUalS} Maybe we shoul~ call for a dialogue on sexuality. . i , In the future,lhope that The Anchor will be more inclusive as it covers issues and will be vigHaritto not do injustice to any group of people. I would ask that y,ou print this letter to help us 'as Catholics continue the refl~tion of how we reach out pastorally to our sisters anci btothers who are homosexuals. ' Sheila M. Matthews, Somerset

come of the up and down voting of our Legislature, together with the lack ofinterest ofmany clerics and so-called -Catholics in bur parishes. I'm 78-years-old and have been following the workings of our Legislature and emailing the legislators and called the Governor's office to no avail.... Thank you fot' your vital interest.

Vu-giDia G. Leyland, North Andover Looking ahead I'm hoping after the June 14 Constitutional Convention, the Massachusetts bishops will ease up on their persecution and marginalization oftheir gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. But reading the front page of the June 22 Anchor, I kinda doubt it.

Eddie Mantez, Fall River

, .Truths must be taught early .

The vote against the marriage amendment by a majority ofour CathQlic legislatOrs reflects the poorCatechesis ofCatholics for; the last 30 years. These legislators are of the re)igiously'impoverished generation of Catholics who were not clearly taught the Commandments, nor the consequences of disobeying, them.

The, Campaign for Marriage will not succeed Ull;1ess the Church.does a better job of teaching the laws given to US br God for our happin~s and salvation. Children in Religious E,ducation programs must ~ taught early on that aU ofGod's Commandments require certain acts and forbid others. It is imperative that our youth, who are bombarded by the meili~ with pagan concepts of love and marriage, be instilled With respect for their bodieS as temples of the Holy Spirit and as expressions of God's plan for sharing in his creative power.

They must be taught the value of-modesty, purity, and chastity emQodied in the Sixth Commandment. Unless the Campaign for Marriage focuses, on early education, it is bound to 1 Time to counter misinformation fail in the long run.

Bravo for an excellent article on same-sex attraction. Once Charlotte LeBlanc, West Harwich

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College of Holy Cross intern organizing Christian Service program at new Cape school

By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR

ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE - Bishop Feehan High School students listen intently as Bishop George W. Coleman gives a homily during a recent Mass at the Attleboro school. He spoke about the importance of faith now and as they get older. The bishop visits. each of the high schools each year and said recently of the students, "I am always impressed by their sincere reverence and prayerfulness."

A BANNER YEAR - The Bishop Feehan High School Marching Band and Color Guard completed its most successful competition season last year and is gearing up again with practices beginning this summer. They are directed by Joseph Taylor who last year led them to First Place in the state competition..

. be invqlved in the service projects;' Keavy exHYANNIS - College of Holy Cross Senior plained.

Lucy Sweeney is spending the summer utilizing For Sweeney, the June through August serher Christian Service program skills at the new vice project takes up wJ:tere she left off as a rePope John Paul IT High School as it readies to treat leader and extensive involvement in the open in September. chaplain's office at Holy Cross.

The 21-year-old, whose home town is Cotuit, "While the internship doesn't involve me spetold The Anchor last week that she enjoys being cifically as a teacher, it brings me into the educahome following a study year abroad in Spain, tional setting and passing on principles and beand also as an intern assisting the new school in Iiefs, as well as organizing welcomings and meetorganizing an activity for its Christian Service ings between teachers, parents and students," she program as well as coordin~ting a social event explained. and welcoming activities in preparation for its The school or educational setting "will be new ..--~ .... .... to me - be:cause I'm majorSeptember opening. ''It's very exciting and being in Spanish literature, ing able to work in an educagrammar and culture, with a tional environment adds an minor in visual arts,". interesting whole new dirnenSweeney noted. sion and a wonderful experiShe was a top student at ence as well;' said Sweeney.

Barnstable High School, "I'm a proud Cape Cod where she graduated in 2004 native and by virtue of my and is a dean's list performer time at Holy Cross, a strong at Holy Cross, where she bebeliever in Catholic educagins her final year in the fall. tion;' she added.

At college she has been inChristian Service is a volved not only in Christian leaming instance ofedueation Service, but also in Pax 路that brings those who take Christi, Holy CrossWomen's part into real life instances of Rugby, and in her freshman the Catholic faith and Chrisyear in competitive sailing. tian lifestyles. Its mission and Asked whether a girl from Lucy SWEENEY a little town on the Cape can the theology it supports are supported by behavior. Stufind happiness after spending dents are directed to service projects that pro- a year studying in Majorca in the Balearic Ismote justice and peace and the opportunity.to lands in the Mediterranean - one of the most respond to Jesus' call to feed, clothe, comfort, beaqtiful areas in the world - Sweeney anteach and help ''the least of my brothers and sis- swered, ''While Spain was gorgeous, and the ters;' as pointed out in Matthew 25:31-46.

Spanish language and Catalan dialect and culThose involve real service in such activities turaI difference and art can make one forget the as soup kitchens and food pantries, as well as rest of Europe, the answer is definitely yes;' asservice to the young and elderly in nursing homes serted Sweeney. preschools, half-way houses, schools and home''I have lived in the same house in Cotuit all less shelters. my life and the Cape is so very beautiful too."

Her internship was made possible via a stiShe resides with her.parents, Susana and Jack pend reflecting the generosity ofthe Holy Cross Sweeney - a realtor and retired math teacher at Club of Cape Cod as well as the Holy Cross Falmouth High School respectively, "and we are Alumni Association, said the new high school's members of St. Anthony's Parish in Falmouth." principal, Christopher Keavy, as the new school With an extensive background in visual arts community takes shape with ongoing entrance . that encompasses the world's great paintings and exams, applications, family and student inter- the study of sculpture as well as many courses in views and registered students.

Spanish, Sweeney isn't sure what the future holds.

'The Holy Cross Oub here on the Cape has "I have always been inspired by languagebeen very supportive of our school;' he said. especially Spanish - and art, and have taken "We're fortunate and grateful to have Lucy business courses as well. With all the changes in Sweeney as an intern for the summer and she the world, being able to speak Spanish and its . has a long and strong experience in Christian dialects are becoming increasingly important ...

Service, a faith formation, and we're going to especially now in the United States," she noted. tap that," he added.

"Yet when the opportunity came to become "Our goal is for the intern to be involved in involved even further in Christian Service, I setting up a Christian Service activity for stu- jumped at it. I competed for the internship placedents, as well as coordinating a social event. In ment. Now I find that the educational environthe long-term it means creating a relationship ment is a great experience and I'm loving it," with area service agencies that in the future will she said.

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LONG MAY SHE WAVE - Students from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in New Bedford recently got a first-hand account of what it is like to be a soldier, when vetera路.ls Roland Gendron and John Remedis visited the school. A presentation included information on the different flags of each armed service branch and why men and women soldiers defend freedom.

SCHOOL MASS - Father Richard M. Roy, pastor of 81. John the Evangelist Parish in Attleboro, celebrates a recent Mass for students in the school's gymnasium.

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By CHARLIE MARTIN - CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE theme has been a natural choice for -Trust your passions. Part of many YouThbe tributes from family your individual soul is what brings I'm staring out into the night Trying to hide the pain members to loved one$ now in Iraq zest arid meaning into your life. or Mghanistan. "Home" is off What you are truly passionate abOut I'm going to the place where love I, And feeling good don't ever cost a Daughtry's self-name4 debut disc is also how yo~ can also bring thmg that produced his first big hit ''It's much good into the world. So be at Not Over." home with your energized, And the pain youfeel's a different When life takes us far from passionate self. kind ofpain Refrain: home or into situations that leave us -Never judge yourself harshly.

I'm going home unappreciated, we all benefit from a On this learning path, you will place where we can ju~t be make some mistakes, even some Back to the place where I belong really big ones. Let these mistakes ourselves and be lovedl a place we And whe,!! your love has always call "home": ''Well I'm going back be your teachers about how you can ,been enough for me home, back to the place where I live differently. Instead of feeling I'm not running from belong, and where your love has down, be compassionate, know that No, I think you got me all wrong always been enough f<1r me." time is on your side and that God I don't regret thjs life I chose for me Sometimes, however, home does will help you shine forth.

But these places and these faces not offer such an envir6nment.

-Take time each day to connect are getting old Some homes are filled more with with God. Being with God is an So I'm going home pain and suffering than love. This is essential part of being at home with Well I'm going home why everyone must find a ''home'' yourself. No one knows you or The miles are getting longer, it that cannot be lost, must learn to be loves you as thoroughly as God. Yet seems "at home" with oneseUi. This way, you are likely to find yourself so .The closer I get to you no matter where you g9 or what busy that you forget about this I've not always been the best man happens in your physiCal home, always present, loving connection. orfriend for you you can still be "at honie" in your But your love remains true Train yourself to spend five minutes a day in quiet talking with God or And I don't know why spirit.

I just sensing his love for you.

Do not hear this suggestion as You always seem to give me minimizing the importance of a Your life is likely to be challenganother try, so ing. At times you will be' lonely and , (Repeat refrain.) physical home full of 19ve. When such is available, few aSpects of life perhaps physically far away from Be careful what you wish for those whom you know love you. are more helpful or meaningful.

'Cause you just might get it all II Other times those in your home You just might get it all' How can you be at home with may be going through their own yourself?

And then some you don't want -Always respect yourself. trials and difficulties and not be Be careful what you wish for 'Cause you just might get it all Refuse to compare yourself to able to create a true home for you. others. You carry wittnbII you the At times like this look within. Learn You just might get it all, oh well ,image and likeness of the Creator. to be at home with yourself and (Repeat refrain.)

You ha~e distinctive and very with the God who is always with Sung by Chris Daughtry personal ways of manifesting the you.

Copyright 2006 by RCA Your comments are always Chris Daughtry's ''Home'' got a wonder and mystery of the God welcome. Please write to me at: big boost when it was chosen as the who dwells within. Never forget chmartin@swindiana.netorat who you really are as the bearer of exit song for American Idol !I' 7125W 200S, Rockport, IN 47635. contestants leaving the show. Its God's presence. i

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THE PALM-MER METHOD - Students from St. Francis Xavier School in Acushnet hold up their helping hands during a recent gathering. They wrote down on Jesus' helping hands what they learn from a Catholic education.

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Two roads diverged Recently, I waS,reminded of a poem by Robert Frost. When I heard the familiar words of this poem, a smile caressed my face and a tear gleaned in the comer of my eye. I do not have time here to provide the verses of the entire poem, instead I will supply you with the pivotal last lines. ''1\vQ roads diverged in a yellow wood; and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

It's amazing how this poem keeps popping up at various points of my life. My first enCounter with Frost's poem was not in my literature class. Rather, I was introduced to it in choir during my freshman year. The song - I didn't realize it was originally a poem at the time -.:... was part of the spring concert line up. I thought it was just another simple song with a melody that reflected the nature of which the poem talks about. I sang it at the concert and then deleted it from my memory bank. Three years later, ' those last two lines made it to the cover of our senior class yearlx>ok as a reflection of the choices we were

about to make as'young adults entering the world I smiled and thought ''how appropriate" and shelved my yearlx>ok the day after gradUation.

I met up with Frost again a couple of years later in my college lit class after I cruinged my major from pre-vet to English. Once again it was a pleasant meeting, although the tinkling of the old high school piano was clearly missing. And just like the time before, Frost and I I completed our tasks - ' wrote an essay, took a rriidterm exam, received a I grade, and then we parted ways. But I still didn't quite get it. : Then this week, as I sat at one of our CLI. Masses and liStened to Father Dave Frederici's homilies, he shared the entire poem with the team and candidates. And when I again heard those last two lines, '''!\vo roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference;' I found myself reciting the poem

with Father David and smiling.

You see, this poem reflects the choices I,have made in my life. I was usually never one to confonn to society's definition, or should I say stereotype ofa teen-ager, or a young adult, or for that matter an adult. But this hasn't been more true since

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Each of us, no matter how young or old, faithfilled or not, reach impasses in our lives, also known as the fork-in-the-road, in which we mustichoose to go with the flmy or blaze that less traveled path for ourselves.

All of us have the gift of-free Will given to us by God. Butas we are invited and encouraged to live our lives as Christian disciples, the paths we should choose are ndt always the I ones that appear the easiest to travel; the paths with the well 40rn tracks that require no effort to teach our destinations. But as Christians, we are called by our baptism and therefore challenged to t3ke that i,

retmning to $e Church in 2002. For me, that was the less traveled path, Frost talks about - a path to God, truth, faith, hope, and love. And it has been a glorious journey since I set foot along the path. For me, this poem is the perfect expression of the direction

my life has taken. It always re-enters my life after I have made a lifechanging decision. This my affirmation, my God-moment, ifyou will.

Now that the summer is in full-

unknown and less traveled path for if we have the faith in our Lord, and truly feel it in our hearts, then the road less traveled will be one filled with God's grace, mercy, and unconditional love for us. All we have to do is trust and believe because we never know how many of those affirmations or Godmoments we will find on those less traveled paths unless we trust enough to venture among them.

So my dear, eighth-grade, high school, and college graduates, the coming years will be faced with challenges too numerous to discuss here, but you will encounter many paths along the way. And as Father David asked this year's CLI. team and grads, ''Which path will you choose?"

Special thanks goes to Father David Frederici and the 2007 CLI. Candidates and Team for inspiring this article.

Crystal is the Youth Ministry Coordinator at St. Lawrence Parish in New Bedford and an assistant in the Diocesan Youth Ministry Office. cmedeiros@dfrcec.com

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5. The accused cleric or religious that an accusation does not mean that Springfield and Boston - and 120 : testimonies.

Especially for Massachusetts someone is guilty. Such a judgment can brother or sister is to be advised of his/her worldwide. Because the organization be made only after all parties are heard and right to retain independent legal and carespects confidentiality, members go . members, the annual Courage. na- the evidence is reviewed. nonical counsel. He/she shall also be protional conference is "marvelous," by first names.

The procedures do not detail the pr0- vided with a list of approved clerics or re''Many ofus don't make our mem- Msgr. Harrington said. "People real- cesses that are found 1n the Canon Law of ligi9us brothers or sisters appointed by the the Church. In orderto appreciate the rights Bishop from which to choose a "support bership in Courage public, but its ize that they're not alone." and obligations of the clergy in a more advocate," but not for the purposes of ei''There are a ton of people out complete manner reference needs to be ther actively participating in the proceedministry is very much needed," said there living chaste lives," said Steve, made to the procedural and penal laws of ings or rendering civil or canonical law Charles, a long-time member. advice.

Mark, 37, stressed that the group a Boston member since 1990. "It's the Church.

6. Upon receipt of an allegation, the PROCEDURES. doesn't try to change people's sexual not an easy process, but it does work 1. A Review Board shall be established Delegate shall notify the Review Board attraction from homosexual to hetero- - if you work at it. And there are by the Bishop to serve as an advisory body which shall meet within forty-eight hours . sexual, but helps them cultivate holi- many good priests who help." in general matters concerning the issue of . of the completion of the initial review, In addition, fasting can help sexual misconduct and to serve as a moni- when the alleged victim is a minor, and ness.

"It's just a great reliefto share the people gain self-mastery, noted Fa- toring and advisory board when a specific within a reasonable period of time upon accusation ofsexual inisconduct by a cleric completion of the initial review, when the deepest part of yourself with others ther Roger Landry of New Bedford, or religious brother or sister with a rninor alleged victim is no longer a minor. If the who have the same struggle and to who volunteers as a spiritual director is made. The Board will have no less than alleged victim is presently a minor, the be told, 'You're called to chastity. You to participants in Courage. He also 7, but no more than 10 members, at the Delegate shall immediately notify the can do that and we're here to support suggests people examine whether a Bishop's discretion. The members shall, proper civil authorities, as required under State Law. at a minimum, include: parental relationship needs healing. you in that attempt.'"

- An appropriately credentialed men7. If the Delegate, after nxeiving the Brian, another Courage member, ta! health worker who has expertise in results ofthe initial review, concludes that Courage began in New York in the accusation of sexual misconduct has 1980 and is endorsed by the Pontifi- credits Catholic teaching on sexual- matters concerning child abuse; - A civillawyet, some credibility then, by virtue of his exity with helping him gain self-respect cal Council for the Family.

- A canon lawyer; ecutive power of governance, the Bishop Members have five main goals, and maturity. He realized that "same- A priest with a pastorallparochial as- may immediately place the accused cleric or religious brother or sister on immediate said Father RjchardWilson, chaplain . sex attraction is not in itselfa sin, that signment; - An adult survivor of child sexual administrative leave, pending the results for the New Bedford chapter and pas- it's a cross I didn't freely choose, a abuse', of further iilvestigation, including profestor of Our Lady ofGuadalupe Parish sign of an objective disorder that in - A parent of a victim of sexual abuse; sional evaluation of the accused. The prono way detracts from my dignity. at St. James Church. fessional evaluation is to take place at a and recognized treatment facility. Administra- A lay person.

"But as a sign of that dignity, r m First, they try to live chaste lives The members ofthe Review Board are , tive leave does not carry with it any prein accordance with the Church's held accountable for what I do," Brian appointed by the Bishop, for a term offive sumption of guilt Temporary residence is teaching on homosexuality. The said ''I'm challenged to overcome the years, which can be renewed. The Review to be provided by the Diocese with no con"Catechism of the Catholic Church" effects of this disordered inclination Board is composed of men and women, tact with minors. The priest's or deacon's Nos. 2331-2359, states that while a by training in virtue and by relying lay and clergy, who have (or gain) exper- faculty to preach is removed and the priest's faculty to hear confessions is suspended tise in the area of child abuse. homosexual inclination is not in it- on Christ."

2. The Bishop shall appoint a Delegate and he is advised to celebrate Mass priBoth Courage and Encourage, its from among the members of the Review vately. If the cleric or religious brother or self a sin, "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are con- partner organization for family mem- Boardto serve as his representative in cases sister refuses to cooperate, the appropriate trary to the natural law.... Under no bers, were mentioned as ministries in involving an accusation ofsexual miscon- procedures ofcanon law shall be invoked. after an investigation has been comcircumstances can they be approved." accord with Catholic teaching in new duct by a cleric or religious brother or sis- If ter with a minor. The Delegate will chair pleted, the accUl!ation is found to be with''There's certainly hostility to this pastoral guidelines issued last No- the Review Board. The Bishop is free to out merit, the Diocese will assist with apmessage in society now," Father Wil- vember by the U.S. Conference of appoint a substitute Delegate as circum- propriate measures to respond to any harm stances warrant. The Bishop's Delegate done to the cleric's or religious brother or son said. ''But these relationships are Catholic Bishops. sister's reputation and ministry, especially him in these matters. This perThe guidelines give a standard by represents just not good physically or emotionson may be any member of the Review if the accusations were made public. ally for the people involved, and the which bishops can evaluate diocesan Team. For various reasons'a substitute or The Review Board is to give its recalternate Delegate may be named to as- ommendation to the Bishop as soon as poSChurch is truly looking for the good programs for orthodoxy.

Since that conference, when eight sume the role. It could be that the Delegate sible. It is noted that administrative leave of their eternal souls. That's why it's is not available at the time or that a par- has no direct parallel in canon law but it so important that we keep offering bishops praised Courage, interest in ticular case may call for a certain type of has proven to be a useful instrumentto propeople the opportunity to understand the group has picked up, according person being named by the Bishop, e.g. a tect both the accused and the accuser. It to its founder Father John Harvey, an woman rather than a man, someone who should be clear that administrative leave this." does not imply guilt but rather a need The second goal is to dedicate Oblate of St. Francis de Sales. In a speaks a foreign language, etc. .3. Upon receipt of an allegation of for time to pursue a serious accusation. one's life to Christ through service to phone interview from St. John the sexual misconduct with a minor by a cleric The cleric's or religious brother or sister's others. To do this, members are urged Baptist Church in New York, he said or religious brother or sister, the Delegate faculties are removed on a temporary bato frequently attend Mass, to receive that 10 new chapters have formed in (or a substitute Delegate) shall conduct a sis. Finally, the evaluation of the cl~ric or preliminary investigation and shall file a religious brother or sister is to take place the sacraments of reconciliation and the past six months. report with the Department of Social Ser- at a recognized treatment facility. Ordiholy Eucharist, to regularly pray and As the bishops suggest, Courage .vices, if required. This initial review is ex- narily this evaluation takes place over sevseek spiritual direction. advises'those with same-sex attrac- pected to be completed within twenty-four eral days. If the accusation is without merit, Members try to give good ex- tion not define themselves primarily to seventy-two hours of the receipt of an it is important that any damage to the ample to others, work to build chaste, in terms of their sexual inclinations. allegation involving a victim who is a mi- cleric's or religious brother or sister's repunor. For allegations by adults who were tation and ministry be addressed. supportive friendships and stress felThis outlook gave consolation and minors at the time ofthe alleged act(s), the When sexual abuse of a minor by a lowship. They follow a -l2-step pro- hope to Ben, a Massachusetts man initial review is to becompleted within two cleric is admitted or established after an gram similar to that of Alcoholics with same-sex attraction, who wrote weeks of the allegation's receipt. If the appropriate process in accord with canon or religious brother or sister is a law, then for even a single act of sexual Anonymous. of his conversion in an online post cleric member of a religious order, his religious abuse ofa minor - past, present, or future "Fellowship is a big plus," noted on Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley' superior is to be notified and made part of the offending cleric will be permanently subsequent steps in the process, with due removed from ministry, not excluding disMsgr. Thomas Harrington, who pre- blog. viously led the chapter for 10 years.

'1 began reading the "Catechism" regard for the requirements of canon law. missal from the clerical state ifthe case so 4. The initial review will ordinarily in- warrants. In every case involving canoni"People realize friendship is possible and discovered a Church that ac- clude interviews with the accused cleric cal penalties, the processes provided for without genital experience," he said. cepted me for who I was while still or religious brother or sister, the person in canon law shall be observed.

8. Appropriate and confidential counAt a typical meeting, members asking me t? 'take up my cross' and making the complaint, and any witnesses. pray together, discuss an article or follow Christ just as it asks of all hu- The review may include interviews with seling is to be offered to the alleged victim members ofthe alleged victim's family and and hislher family. When necessary, the a Scripture reading, and share manity," Ben wrote. ''For the first time the alleged victim himselfJherself (with a needs of the parish and wider community ideas.

I felt like I was being defined not by parent or guardian's consent if with a mi- should be included in the response of the Boston Courage Chaplain Father my emotions or sexuality but just by nor) and it is judged appropriate to do so. Review Board.

9. All applicable civil reporting laws The Delegate, and in certain limited cirJohn M. Sullivan of Melrose has my hurnanity alone. That meant so ' cumstances, another individual, at the are to be followed. found the book "Beyond Gay" a great much to me:' Any suspected case of child abuse in路 Delegate's direction, is to talk to the key resource. Author David Morrison re(Portions ofthis article originally people involved and as many others as he/ volving an alleged victim who is a minor counts hisjourney from the active gay ran in Our Sunday VISitor by the same she feels' are warranted. The intent of the is to be reported to civil authorities by the subculture to conversion in Christ author and are reprinted with the initial review is to clarify the nature ofthe Delegate. This step recognizes the legiticlaim. When a small child is interviewed mate right of the state to be involved in through the Catholic faith. The Cour- paper's permission. Next pan: ad- this is to be done only by a person with these cases. Allegations ofsexual abuse of age Website, www.couragerc.org, vice to relatives.) recognized expertise in this specialized a minor received when the alleged victim

is no longer a minor shall be reported to the office of the district attomey for the district where the alleged abuse occurred, when reasonable cause exists.

I0.1f the alleged misconduct isa matter of public record, the Diocesan Office of Communication shall issue a statement and serve as the ongoing路 liaison with the media. The members ofthe Review Board should not serve as spokespersons.

II. The alleged victim and family will be kept informed of the response of the .Diocese through regular reports from the Review. Board or its representative.

12. These written procedures are to be . given to every incardinated cleric or religious brother or sister ministering in the Diocese of Fall River.

13. These procedures are to be reviewed on a yearly basis or as needed, by the Sexual Abuse Review Board and must be approved by the Diocesan Pastoral Council and the Priests' Council.

14. Anyone wishing to report an incident to the Bishop's Delegate should call Catholic Social Services at Fall River (508) 6744681. Catholic Social Services shall immediately thereafter contact the Delegate.

15. The Board shall have no jurisdiction over cases of allegations involving a cleric, or religious brother or sister who, at the time of the Delegate's receipt of the allegation, has resigned or is deceased.

16.The investigation ofreligious brothers or sisters should devolve to their community, ~d the Diocese stands ready to refer the matter to the Review Board for its investigation if the religious community lacks procedures of its own to deal with this issue.

17. In the event that any of these procedures shall be determined to not be in compliance with the Essential Norms for

DiocesanlEparr:hial Policies Dealing With Allegations ofSexual Abuse ofMinors by Priests orDeacons ofNov~mber 13,2002, or any amendments or revisions thereto, then the Norms and not these policies shall govern.

'MANDATES I. Prior to being hired, each prospective

Diocesan and parish employee shall complete an infonnational questionnaire, to be filed with the Director of the local entity or the pastor, where applicable. , 2. All volunteers shall complete the volunteer questionnaire. A copy shall be kept on file at the local parish or local Diocesan agency, to be inspected by the Deans at their annual visitation to the parish or by the Directors of the individual Agencies of the Diocese.

3. The infonnational questionnaire for an employee and the volunteer questionnaire for a volunteer shall be updated as needed so that the infonnation is current. . 4. An employee/volunteer who may have unmonitored access to children shall be trained by the Office for Child Protection of Catholic Social Services. This training is mandatory and attendance is documented.

5. Each employee/volunteer shall be given a copy of the Diocesan procedures regarding the sexual and physical abuse of children, and shall, in writing, acknowledge receipt'ofsame.

6. The Diocesan Education Office and the Office for Child Protection of Catholic Social Services are to provide mandated, regular education for students, concerning sexual abuse.

7. The Diocesan Education Office and the Office for Child Protection of Catholic Social Services are to provide mandated, regular education for religious education students, concerning sexual abuse.

8. Background check on Criminal Offender Record Infonnation (CORl) shall be conducted on every current diocesan employee/volunteer having unmonitored access to children. A background check is also to be done on all new employees/volunteers prior to having unmonitored access to children.

9. Each employee/volunteer/priestJdeaconlreligious will sign and strictly follow the , Code of Conduct as a condition of providing services to the children and/or youth of our parishlschooVDiocese.

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FALL RIVER - Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is held each Friday following the 8 a.m. celebration of Mass at Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish, 529 Eastern Avenue.

For more information call 508679-1991.

NEW BEDFORD - Perpetual eucharistic adoration is held at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street. For more information call 508-888-7751.

IHeaUng Services BREWSTER - La Salette Father Richard Lavoie will lead a healing service July 4 at 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Cape Parish, 468 Stony Brook Road. For more information call 508-3853252.

ILectureslPresentations ATTLEBORO - Musician John Polce will perform tonight at 7:30 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette. His "Bethany Nights" program combines prayer and music and includes audience sing-a-Iongs.

For more information call 508222-5410 or visit the Website: www.johnpolce.com.

FALL RIVER - Upcoming programs on the local Portuguese Channel include "How to Read the Bible," July 4 at 9:30 p.m.

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EAST FREETOWN - Cathedral Camp is accepting registrations for its summer program.

Cathedral Camp is a day camp for children between the ages of four and 13. Sessions run through August 17. For more information call 508-763-8874 or visit the Website: www.cathedralcamp.org.

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ATTLEBORO - Pro-Life advocates picket and offer prayers on Wednesdays from 4-5 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:30-9 a.m. at "4 Women's Clinic," at the corner of Park and Emory streets, where abortions take place on those days. Participants are needed to pray and picket to help save the lives of unborn children.

HYANNIS - The Cape Cod Pro-Life Group welcomes volunteers to pray the rosary on Wednesday mornings at 10 o'clock in front ofthe abortion clinic located at 68 Camp Street.

ISocial Events

CENTERVILLE - A yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of Our Lady of Victory Parish will begin July 1 with a Mass at 3 p.m., followed by a dinner at the Cape Codder Resort and Spa in Hyannis. For more information call 508-7755744.

ISupport Groups ATTLEBORO - The Building' Confidence in the Spirit Support Group will meet July 12 at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph's Parish, 208 South Main Street. Their aim is to assist people in reaching their potential regarding confidence in all aspect of their lives. For more information call George Largess at 508-2260116.

NEW BEDFORD - Courage, a support group for people experiencing same-sex attraction, but strive to live the Church's teaching on chastity, will meet tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the rectory at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 233 County Street. At the same time, Encourage, a support group for family members will meet. For more information call Father Richard Wilson 508-9929408.

Theological colloquy to be held on Cape Cod July 16-20 CRAIGVILLE - As part of its ecumenical outreach, Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville, is assisting the United Church of Christ in planning the 24th annual Craigville Theological Colloquy.

The conference will be held July 16-20 at the Craigville Conference Center. The theme this year is: "In a world of violence and suffering, how can we believe in an almighty and all-loving God?"

The colloquy will feature several prominent guests, including keynote speaker Dr. David Bentley Hart, Randall Distinguished Chair in Christian Culture at Providence College and author of ''The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?" (2005).

For more information, contact the Craigville Conference Center at 508-775-1265, or at craigvillecc@capecod.com.

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Sister Antoinette Lord, SJA; served at bishop's residence FALL RIVER Sister Antoinette Lord of the Sisters of Sainte-Jeanne d' Arc, 75, who had served for the past four years at the residence of Bishop George W. Coleman, died June 24 at Charlton Memorial Hospital.

Sister Lord was a member of the congregation whose motherhouse is in Quebec, Canada.

She leaves four sisters, including Sister Marie-Therese, also a

member of the Sisters of SainteJeanne d'Arc, two brothers and nieces and nephews, all of Quebec; as well as her Sisters in the congregation.

Her funeral '----' Mass was celSISTER e" bra ted ANTOINETIE LORD Wednesday by

Bishop Coleman in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption.

Mother Pauline Talbot, SJA, on behalf of her religious community, wishes to thank the doctors, nurses and medical staff at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Critical Care Unit, for the dedicated and professional care given Sister Antoinette, and for the compassion and concern shown her and those near to her during her illness.

Sister Marie Joseph LeBlanc, SSJ; was a religious for 79 years HOLYOKE-SisterofSt Joseph ofSpringfield Marie Joseph LeBlanc, 95, who ministered for 79 years, died June 22 in the Mont Marie Health Center here.

Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Ernest and the late Rose Anna (Dansereau) LeBlanc, she entered the Sisters of St Joseph of Fall River from St Joseph Parish in New Bedford and earned a bachelor's degree at Rivier College in Nashua. N.H. She became a member of the Sisters of St Joseph of Springfield when the congregations merged in 1974.

Sister LeBlanc taught at St Joseph, St. Therese and St. Anthony parish schools in New Bedford; Blessed Sacrament, St. Matthew and St. Jean Baptiste schools in Fall River; and St Michael's in Ocean Grove, Swansea.

After retirement she was a teacher's aide, a receptionist at Blessed Sacrament Convent in Fall River, and did volunteer work with the elderly.

She leaves a sister, Alice LeBlanc ofNew Bedford; nieces and nephews; and her Sisters in Community. She was

also the sister of the late Sister Bertha LeBlanc, SSJ; Sister Roseanna LeBtallc, CSC; SisterLillian LeBlanc, CSC; and Albert, Emile and George LeBlanc.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated

Thesday in Mont Marie Chapel in Holyoke. Burial was in Mont Marie Cemetery there.

The Sampson Family Chapels in Springfield, was in charge of arrangements.

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While there are fewer priests than before, "there are many of us who want to work hard to do what needs to be done and really have the desire to perform the work," said Deacon Mello, "to be as Pope John Paul n said, proactive in the ministry. Marriage issues and here in our diocese immigration too, affect our parish communities and as priests -we will be part of those."

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He added, "So I'm eager knowing that after my studies I'll be coming back to the Fall River Diocese to serve. I hope to learn more about the diocese and to get to know all the priests better."

He was ordained to the路 diaconate October 5, 2006 in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by Bishop Edwin O'Brien of the Military Archdiocese.

Since his return to the diocese earlier this month, he has been in residence and assisting pastor Father John J. Oliveira at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford.

As a youth he pursued culinary arts and graduated from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School. As a seminarian he attended the Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, graduating in 2003 with bachelor's degrees in philosophy and theology.

That same year he was sent to .

Rome where he continued his studies in sacred theology.

Summer assignments have included stints at Cathedral Camp in East Freetown as a counselor, as a member of chaplaincy teams at St. Luke's and Cape Cod hospitals; assisting at various parishes; studying Italian in New York and Portuguese in Lisbon; and during his time in Rome as a guide to the Scavi, the excavations beneath St. Peter's Basilica.

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EVERYTHING'S SHIP SHAPE - The weather was perfect last Sunday for the annual Blessing of the Fleet festivities in Provincetown. Top photo, St. Peter takes to the sea again aboard a local fishing vessel. At left, Father Henry J. Dahl, left, pastor of St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Provincetown, and Msgr. John A. Perry, pastor of St. Patrick's Parish in Falmouth, enjoy the day after blessing the fleet.

Below, traditional Portuguese dancers add to the excitement of the day in Provincetown.

(Photos by Dave Doolittle)