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High court rules in abortion, comatose patient cases

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''No one knows whose womb bears the Chief:' -Ancient African Proverb

WASHINGTON (CNS) - In June 25 decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against withdrawing food and water from Nancy Cruzan, a young Missouri woman in a persistent vegatative state; upheld an Ohio requirement of parental notification in teeiliage abortions; and allowed Minnesota to demand notification of two parents, as long as a cOllirt can intervene to circumvent that rule.

Following are statements from Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, presidelilt of the National Conference Qf Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Catholic Conference, on the pnrental notification' decisions; and from Mark E. Chopko, general counsel to the U.S. Catholic Conference, on the Cruzan case. The statements are followed by Catholic News Service reports on the decisions.

Archbishop's Statement The Catholic Bishops of the United States have spoken often and forcefully about the need to restore respect for life in our society.

State legislatures around the nation have responded to this need by enacting laws which restrict and regulate abortion. Today the Supreme Court endorsed the legitimate interest of the parents of a pregnant adolescentto be involved in the decision whether to end the life of her unborn child. The result is a victory for family unity.

The U.S. Supreme Court's June 25 decisions in State of Ohio v.

Akron Center for Reproductive Health and Jane Hodgson v. State of Minnesota recognize the right of states to strengthen the involvement of parents in the decisionmaking process of a minor seeking an abortion. States have a legitimate interest in assisting pregnant minors and encouraging parental responsibility. A reasonable legal requirement to notify parents when pregnant minors seek abortions implements this interest.

Legislatures have reflected the sentiment ofthe overwhelming majority of Americans by enacting such reasonable requirements. Today's decisions, and the Court's ruling in Webster v. Reprot!uctive Health Services last summer, recognize that state legislatures are the traditionalforum for resolution of public debates of this kind.

Parents have an Obligation to give their children guidance and hope. A pregnant teenager is in crisis: she should have the benefit at the very least, of parental gui: dance and support. The Church praises the opinion in the Ohio case for its special understanding of the need for compassion among family members at such a time of crisis.

The Catholic Church will continue to work with young people and their parents to address their needs and prepare them to meet life's challenge~. The Catholic Church values the strength of the family as the cornerstone of our society's stability and will continue to provide material and spiritual assistance to pregnant teenagers and their families.

General Counsel's Statement Today in the Cruzan case, the United States Supreme Court wise-

Iy refrained from creating a fundamental constitutional right to refuse medical treatment that would prevail over all other concerns, including those of the family, the medical facility, or even a concern about life itself. In entering this case, the U.S. Catholic Conference had one purpose, namely to advance our firm conviction that this case did not involve this kind of constitutional "privacy right."

In addition to the interests of Nancy Cruzan and her family, there are many other legitimate interests involved in this case, including those ofthe medical profession and of the community as a whole, as expressed in the laws of the State of Missouri. The Court's decision allows these considerations' to be weighed in future cases and by other legislatures. To that extent, this is a commendable result.

On the other hand, although a fair balance among these interests can best be achieved through the ordinary processes of the common law, the Court today went further by casting its decisional language in c.onstitu~ional ter~s. By finding a Itberty mterest 10 refusal of treatment f~r a comatos~ p~rson ~~d ~,ssummg a constitutIOnal nght for ~ compe.tent ~e~son, the Court IS, tr~admg .. dl~fl~ult ground. It has mVlted theJu~.lcla,ry to ?ec~~e a ~orum offuture leglslatlOn 10 thiS area.

For the family. of Nancy Cruzan, these are surel~ difficu~ttimes.

They have and will contmue to hav~ oU,r de~p sympathy. In filing a br~ef I.n thiS case, we expressed n.o vle,w on Nancy <?~uzan's tragic sltu~tlOn: Our posItion was that her.sltuat~on should ~ot ~e res~!ve~ by mV,okl?,g a ~onstitutlOnal ~nvacy nght w~l~h wou~d outwel~h all ot~er le~ltlmate mterests 10 case~ ,mvolvmg patients in her condition. On that point, the Court and the Conference agree, Parental Notification WASHINGTON (CNS) - In separate rulings June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Ohio requirement of parental notifica·tion in teenagers' abortions and allowed Minnesota to demand notification of two parents - as long as a court can intervene to circumvent that rule.

The court ruled 6-3 to uphold the Ohio law in Ohio vs. Akron Center for Reproductive Health

. and 5-4 to strike down a Minnesota measure demanding strict notification ofa teenager's two parents.

But it turned around and subsequently ruled 5-4 that the Minnesota law is valid as long as the teenage girl has the option of going to a court to avoid notifying both parents.

Ohio's law, which had been struck down by the Cincinnatibased 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1988, requires 24-hour notice to' a parent or guardian, or use of a judicial bypass, before a minor can obtain an abortion, unless she h;as already produced written parental consent for the procedure.

"We reverse" the appeals court, the Supreme Court majority held in the Ohio case, "for we determine that the statute accords with our precedents ,.. and does not violate the 14th Amendment" to the Constitution.

Allowing girls to avoid informing parents by going to court instead is called a "judicial bypass," The Minnesota law under attack was. upheld in 1988 .by .the St. Louis-based 8thY.S, CirCUit Court of App~als, which overruled both a three-Judge panel of~ha~ appeals court and. a lederal dlstnct court but questioned. ~he ,concept of a two-parent n?tlflcatlOn. Mmnesota s statute de~anded that 48 hours before havmg an abortion a pregnant minor under age 1.8 had, to have. her physician prOVide wntt,en notice to both her pare,nts - even in c~ses of parental divorce or separatIOn, although the girl could alternatively get court ~pp~oval for t~e abortion. While fmdl~g fault With the two-parent reqUirement, the app~als court agreed to .a~low a versl(~n. ~f the law contamlllg the posslblltty of judicial bypass. .

In its first 5-4 decision on the Mi,nnesota law, the'Supreme Court pomted "to the unreasonableness ~f th~ Minnes.ota two-parent notiflcatlO.n req~uement and to the ease With which the state can adopt less burdensome means to protect the minor's wl~lfare." "~e therej~ore hold that ~his r~quIrementvlOlate~ the Constltutlon," declared Justices John Paul Stevens, WilliamJ. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Sandra Day O'Connor.

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Countless numbers of people suffering from catastrophic diseases are waiting for a particular child to be born, They don't know the baby's name. They may not even be aware that they are Walting. But that special child will hold in its hand the cure for their disease. This baby could be born now, tomorrow, next week. It could be the child you are canying. or the baby you WIll shortly conceive. It could hold a million lives in its soft little hand.

Starving families in Third World countries -and in our own-are hoping for the birth

of a child who will bring them the answer to world hunger, who will help us to feed ourselves and our neighbors, and teach us to sit down in peace and break bread together. Whose womb bears this child?

Could it be yours?

Any moment now, some mother could give birth to the child who will erase racial barriers, tear down walls, teach us to respect each other-and ourselves-for who we really are. The time is ripe. Isit here? Is it now? Is it you?

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THE ABOVE AD is one of series being used in a pro-life campaign sponsored by the eight dioceses of New York.

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Seven Birthright centers in diocese

Love is what's needed OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) ."God didn't choose a social worker with a dozen degrees" to begin Birthright, said its founder, Louise Summerhill.

"You don't have to have a paper of any kind" to be a Birthright volunteer, she told the crisis pregnancy service's 19th annual convention in Oklahoma City earlier this month, "just a lot of love and compassion, and [to] believe in life."

Nearly 400 volunteers from the 625 Birthright centers worldwide attended the convention. They included Janet Barbelle, regional

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Birthright consultant for Massachusetts and a member of St. Dominic parish, Swansea, and Jeanne Lincoln, director of Birthright of Attleboro, a member of Community Covenant Church, / Rehoboth.

"I'm not a saint, not a Mother Teresa," said Mrs. Summerhill, who began the first center in donated space in a basement office in Toronto in 1968. Since then the emergency counseling service for distressed, pregnant women has spread around the world.

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LOUISE SUMMERHILL, founder of Birthright, with Native American children who performed during Birthright's Oklahoma City convention. (CNS photo)

75 years oj service to the people oj God The following history of St. Margaret parish, Buzzards Bay, is condensed from material gathered by Father Stephen Torraco of the faculty of Assumption College, Worcester, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Italo Torraco, are longtime members of St. Margaret's. The full history will appear in a booklet to be issued following the parish's 75th anniversary celebration, which will take place Sunday, July 1, with a 1 p.m. high Mass, followed by a buffet in the parish center. ' What is today St. Margaret parish, Buzzards Bay, was originl!.Ily part of Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich, established in 1829 and the mother church of Cape Cod. St.· Mar-garet Church • Buzzards Bay However, as the Cape population of a state-of-the-art parish center, grew, additional parishes were Interestingly, the first baptism· construction of an addition to the for which ground was broken in in the new parish was of Leonard church to accommodate summer needed' and in April, 1911, St. the summer of 1968. Among those Margaret had its beginnings with a Burgess Ill, a greatgrandchild of visitors to the area, who increased present at the groundbreaking was Mass offered in the Buzzards Bay Thomas Wallace. the winter population of the parish original parishioner Thomas Walhome of Thomas Wallace, a home Within six months of his appoint- from 1,800 to some 7,000 souls. lace, by then 97 years old. which is now St Margaret's rectory. ment as St. Margaret's first pastor, The addition, in use by Easter of Soon the Mass location was Father McNulty was transferred, The new center was dedicated shifted to Franklin Hall in Buzto be succeeded by Father Leo- 1960, added 60 feet to the length of by Bishop James L. Connolly on zards Bay, a historic building nard Daley, who served until 1954, the church behind the altar, thus July 20, 1969, a day also made located behind the present St. when he became pastor of St. placing the altar in the center of famous by Astronaut Neil Armthe church and unwittingly anticiMargaret Church, then successivelY , Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis. strong's historic moon walk. pating, for at least half the congreto Bourne and Firemen's halls.

In 1971, St. Margaret's celeSucceeding Msgr. Daley was gation, the Vatican II liturgical For three years Buzzards Bay brated its first quarter century as a Father David O'Brien, who served reform that saw Mass offered facMasses were offered in the various from 1955 until 1962. During his parish in its own right with a Mass halls by priests from Corpus, , pastorate a former Buzzards Bay ing the people. of thanksgiving offered by Bishop Christi: then in 1914 FatherJoseph schoolhouse building was purMeanwhile, not only the num- Daniel A. Cronin.

Lyons, newly-named pastor at chased and moved to the rear of be'r of summer Massgoers but that Some physical changes took Corpus Christi, determined that St. Margaret's for use ,as a cate- of children enrolled in the kinderplace at both St. Margaret's and Buzzards Bay Catholics need'ed chetical center and morning garten and catechetical programs St. Mary's in 1976 as reconciliatheir own house of worship. continued to increase, necessitat- tion rooms were constructed in kindergarten.

Sparked by a $5,000 donation, accordance with directives for Both the catechism program and ing purchase of a house in Onset large for those days, from Mrs. implementation of the new rite of kindergarten were conducted by for parish meetings and classes.

Margaret Hall, a summer visitor, Following Father O'Brien at St. periance in the universal church.

Missionary Servants of the Most money was collected and St. MarMargaret's was Father Lester Hull, At that time St. Margaret's bapBlessed Trinity who also aided in garet, named for Mrs: Hall, was who oversaw refurbishing of the tismal font was relocated next to taking the parish census. dedicated July 4, 1915, by Bishop church in 1963. A special parish the pulpit, symbolizing the conIn 1955, at the time that dioceDaniel F. Feehan, assisted by then moment came in 1964, when a tes- nection between baptism and hearsan women's guilds were forming a vicar general Msgr. James E. Castimonial dinner honored Sister ing the Word of God and also prosidy, who was later to succeed diocesan council in order to affilThomas Jude of the Missionary viding maximum visibility for bapiate with the National Council of Bishop Feehan.

Servants of the Most Blessed Trin- ,tisms celebrated in the context of The new church remained a mis- Catholic Women, St. Margaret's ity, known throughout the United Mass. formed its first women's group, at sion of Corpus Christi until 1946, States for her education programs first the Guild of St. Margaret and The parish's work in the area of when Bishop Cassidy, who had in and known in the Fall River dioreligious education for adults was 1934 foilowed ~ishop Feehan as later renamed the Guild of SS. cese as the person responsible for recognized in 1977 when Father ordinary ofthe Fall River diocese, Margaret and Mary in order to St. Margaret's outstanding cate- Timothy J. Goldrick, then parochrecognize members who attended erected it as a parish in its own chetical initiatives. ial vicar at St. Margaret's, was right, having as a mission St. Mary's St. Mary's mission in Onset. Over Father Hull served St. Margaret's ,asked to describe the many prothe years the guild has remained Church, which had until then been until 1966, and Father John G. grams underway at that time. s.erved by St. Patrick's parish, active and deeply involved in parCarroll, who succeeded him, re- Among them were Bible study, ish life.

Wareham. mained in Buzzards Bay until 1981. various forums, Marriage EnAlso formed in 1955 was the Named as the first pastor of St. His pastorate was a time of change, counter, Cursillo and a neighborMargaret's was Father Thomas parish conference ofthe Society of tran~ition and growth as the devel- hood church program involving St. Vincent de Paul, which conMcNulty, one of whose first acts opments of Vatican Council .Il small-group meetings in parish was to purchase the former Wal- tinues to serve area needy; and the homes.

1960 saw the establishment of were realized on the parish level. ,lace home, previously mentioned, The church complex also grew Also innovative was a pastoral have it moved adjacent to the Brownie, Girl and Boy Scout physically as Father Carroll service team formed in 1977 to church and renovated for use as a troops.

In 1960, Father O'Brien initiated planned and supervised building implement ways in which parishrectory.

ioners could join in ministry with their priests. 1977 also saw addition of two rooms to the parish center and provision of ramps at both the church and center to permit handicapped access.

In 1980 parishioner Tom McDavitt was ordained to the permanent diaconate for the Boston archdiocese and in June of the same year, Father Torraco, whose complete parish history forms the basis of the present article, was ordained for the diocese of Abaetet'uba, Brazil. As a young seminarian he had frequently worked for the parish in which he now celebrated his first Mass; and after ordination, while studying for a doctorate in theology at Boston Collegeand serving on the faculty of Assumption College, he has continued to offer weekend Masses at St. Margaret's and has conducted confirmation retreats, days of recollection and an Advent triduum in the parish.

In 1981, Father Carroll concluded the longest pastorate in parish history and now lives in retirement in Sandwich. He was followed from 1981 to 1988 by Father James F. Buckley', who remodeled the rectory, waterproofed all parish buildings and installed new stained glass windows and carpeting in St. Margaret's. Outside, he established a Marian shrine at St. Margaret's and aFranciscan shrine and prayer park at St. Mary's.

With special concern for children, he installed swings and other play apparatus behind the rectory and encouraged existing groups for older youngsters.

The haunting words of Jesus, "Could you not watch one hour with me?" took on special meaning in the parish as Father Buckley sought volunteers to establish perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. In terms of spiritual activity, he also established Advent, and Lenten triduums and the novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. .

Following Father Buckley was the present pastor ofSt. Margaret's, Father Ronald Siciliano, OFM. Coming to the parish in 1988, he has built on the material and spiritual accomplishments of his predecessors, refurbishing the church and renewing and deepening spirituallife and the ministry of music.

St. Margaret's 75 years will be fondly and prayerfully recalled on July I, as many past pastors, parochial vicars and members of Father Siciliano's Franciscan community join with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, principal celebrant, to concelebrate a Mass of thanksgiving.

Mary church's role model, avers pope

NEW EUCHARISTIC ministers line up preparatory to entering St. Mary;s Church, New Bedford, for recent commissioning ceremonies. Commissionings also took place at St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth, and 81. John Evangelist Church, Attleboro. (Rosa photo)

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John' Paul II said at a recent general audience that Mary's obedience to God was an expression of human freedom and remains a model for the church.

She was prepared by the Holy Spirit from birth to accept the responsibility of bearing Christ, the pope said. Her words of acceptance at the Annunciation "are the result of the Spirit's power at work in her through grace, as well as an authentic expression of her free will," he said.

Her response showed the maturity of a person who "allowed her will to be conformed to that of God," and is an example of what the term "enlightened conscience" signifies, he explained. He added that "Mary's humble obedience, born of love, is a model for all who are invited to follow Christ in faith."

Laugh "T 0 get the most out of life, don't take yourself too seriously."

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Father Antoine Charest marks golden jubilee Father Antoine Charest, SM, parochial vicar at St. Jean Baptiste parish, Fall River, celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination with a dinner and reception for relatives and friends Sunday afternoon at White's of Westport.

A parish celebration for the golden jubilarian is planned this Sunday at the II a.m. Mass. A special choir will provide music for the service and a reception will follow at the parish hall until 4 p.m.

Born in St. Germain, Kamouraska Country, Canada, on June 13 1911 he is the tenth of II childre~ of L~dovic and Anna (Tardif) Charest. .

In'i914 the family moved to New Bedford and became members of St. Anthony's parish: Father Charest attended the parish school and at 14 left home to begin studies for the priesthood. He studied five years at Eymard Seminary in

Suffern, NY, then entered the Society of Mary.

Thereafter he studied philosophy and theology at the order's seminary in Washington, DC, and spent, a year at Sylva Maria college and seminary, Framingham, where he was ordained June 24, 1940, by the late Cardinal Richard J. Cushing.

Father Charest began his ministry as a teacher with assignments at Maryvale Seminary, Bedford, and St. Anne's parish, Lawrence.

He later assumed parochial duties at parishes in Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Semiretired, he has been assigned to St. Jean Baptiste parish for 14 years.

A sister, Lucie, is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross and Seven Dolors and has devoted her career to teaching in Canadian schools. A brother, Charles, is a Father of the Blessed Sacrament serving in New York City.

The Anchor Friday, June 29, 1990

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SOME OF ABOUT 300 demonstrators who protested church positions on AIDS and gay and abortion rights during June 16 ordination serv.ices at Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston.

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religious freedom and free speech should be outraged."

Zakim said the Anti-Defamation League recognized Cardinal Law for "dignified respect for those with whom the church or he personally may disagree. The church itself is deserving of great respect as an institution."

He said he hoped "this horrible incident is an aberration, not the beginning of a new trend of civil disorder."

Zakim asked, "What is happening to us? Labels like racist, antiSemite, Nazi, white supremacist and homophobic are tossed around with little regard for accuracy, understanding of history or respect for the'rights of those indicted by such terms.

"Disagreement, however deep, became the door through which verbal firebombs are tossed," he said.

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BOSTON (CNS) Cardinal Bernard F. lLaw, commenting on some 300 demonstrators on AIDS and gay and abortion rights who tried to disturb a recent ordination service, said June 22 it'was "a great , First A~:sigI1"'I~nt,/. honor to the church to be singled Reverend John M. Sullivan, Paro(;hiIU out as the opposition."

More piuishin Somerset.

The New England regional director ofthe Anti-Defamation League ,Assigomellts of B'nai B'rith,- Leonard Zakim, also criticized the protesters and Reverend David M. Andrade from Cllaplain at~aint'AIW~:s' said, "To rea.d and hear about the Hospital, Fall River, to Paro_chiaIVicar::at Saint John.of Qpe,t'" indignities hurled at the church is Parish in Somerset. ..i.. .........Id', .II';.;··: •. too disturbing for the ADL to Reverend David J. Costa from Parochial Vicll,f at Saint Thomlls. -remain silent."

More parish, Somerset, to Paro~hiaIYicaf,llt~lliQt~llrkl.~F'atl~hi< Both leaders labciled as "outin Attleboro Falls and Chaplain at Bishop Feei:lan High Schoolirt . rageous" the June 16 protest outAW~~ .side Boston's Cathedral ofthe Holy Cross while II men were being Reverend William M. Costello from Parochial Vicar at Saint ordained inside.

Mary's Parish, Norton, to Parochial VicaratSaiilt Anthony1s> Parish in Mattapoisett. ' "In anger, in tasteless vulgarity, in lies and menacing actions," Reverend TimothyJ. Goldrick from Parochial vicar~t s~i~t'­ Cardinal Law wrote in The Pilot, John Neumann Parish, East Freetown, to Parocllial YicarJlt Sllj~t his \. archdiocesan newspaper, "a Theresa's Parish in South Attleboro. . . ' . ., . . .• ,., grQup of a few hundred protested.

The protest oi;tensibly was directed Reverend Philip N. H.amel from Parochial V'<.;arll,t Sa!pt",; against me: 'outlaw Law' was the Patrick's Parish, Falmouth, to Parochial Vicar at Saint Louis de France Parish in Swansea. battle cry.

"In fact, however, the protest Reverend Kevin J. Harrington from Parochial Vicar at Sai,t was directed against church teachMark's Parish, Attleboro Falls, and Chaplain at Bishop Feehlih' ,.' ing on abortion and human sexuHigh School to Parochial Vicar at Saint Patrick's Parish in Flill ality," he wrote. "It was an outRiver. ' i i i / rageous effort to impede the right to worship."

Reverend Gerard A. Hebert from. Parochia.lVi<';llf a~~acr;~~{t Heart Parish, Taunton, to ParochialVicar at Our Lady Of Gra~e "..,-,.

Cardinal Law recounted the Parish in North Westport. noise of the protesters, that a ..:(::':::;;:::"'." mother of one of those to be Reverend Richard M. Roy from Parochial Vicar at Our LadY9f ordained had her dress "splattered Grace' Parish, North Westport, tOPllr()chia~. Vi<;.ar ll,t., Sain~ with mustard," and that another Patrick's Parish in Falmouth. .

-' mother and newly ordained son needed a police escort to their car Reverend Albert J. RyanfromParochial Vicar at Saint·Frandi~:j; "through a menacing mob."

Xavier Parish, Hyannis, to Parochial Vicar at Saint Domini<;ls Parish in Swansea. . , ;0" The Boston Globe, the cardinal commented, characterized the proReverend Bernard Vanasse from Technical Assistant at Saint test as "peaceful.'"

Anne's Parish, Fall River, 'to Parochial Vicafat S~cre(fHeart He said it was "sad for Boston Parish in Taunton. _ : . · r . .' _: . I ( that such an outrageous protest . should have occurred."

Reverend Arthur K. Wingate frorn Parochial' Vicar at Saint "It is sad, for it is a barometer of Dominic's Parish, Swansell, to Chaplain '.•.flt Ciltholic M~ll1ori~l .. the degree to which our society Home in Fall River. . """ '... .".'." . .'...... . . "'••.•"., . '• has accepted a culture of dehuHis Excellency, the MostReverend Daniel A.CTonlti,Bishopo1';{ manization and death.

Fall River, has accepted the nomination of the Very Re~ereng "Given the moral wasteland into Roderick A. Crispo, O.F.M., Provincial, Province ofthe Immac44 we have sunk, however," which late Conception, Franciscan Friars, and has appointed the Revthe cardinal wrote, "it is a gre~t erend Michael M. Camara, O.F.M.,as Chaplain at Saint Anne's ' honor to the (:hurch to be singled Hospital in Fall River. . out as the opposition."

Those in the cathedral, he said, were remindf:d of the church's Effective July 11,1990 "struggle between light and darkness" that would continue "until the end of tim,~."

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The Flag and the Fourth Our celebration of the Fourth of July should take on an added dimension of concern this year.

Unfortunately, the holiday finds us immersed in an in-house battle on the flag. So far, all this inflammatory issue has done is to pit Americans against each other. Most who have chosen sides have done so with pre-determined emotions. The result has usually been media histrionics.

It's sad to s'ee something such as this divide the legislative and executive branches of government. There are life and death issues worth more adrenalin than a symbolic battle sure to slip from virtuous patriotism to ardent nationalism.

This is the precise danger. Patriotism is based on love and loyalty. It is not a mind-set to be slavishly enforced. It flows by ., its nature from the recognition of one's heritage.

On the other hand, nationalism is exclusive and narrow, encouraging blind obedience. Taken to its extremes, it holds that matters of national interest are more important than basic human freedoms and rights.

In the present atmosphere of flag-waving, one wonders if we are beginning to tread a path that exalts a symbol over human beings. The Supreme Court has warned of this. Indeed, our flag would lose its significance should it fail to symbolize the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Nevertheless, one should not condone the hooliganism of flag burners. For the most part, those who demonstrate their emotions by attacking the flag have their own problems, indicated by_the excesses of their behavior.

For politicians interested in creating smokescreens, such an intense and passionate issue as protecting the flag is a godsend.

One has to give the question little thought. It's pure feeling. In such an atmosphere Congress thrives as the real issues of homelessness, AIDS, abortion, the environment' and the budget are swept aside by an onslaught of emotion. In such a climate, needs are ignored, rights are abused and freedoms are denied.

As efforts escalate to push for a constitutional amendment protecting the flag, it would be well to remember the true significance of the flag. It is not an abstraction but a tangible sign. It's planted in the earth in order to be seen. It sends a message to all who view it, a message as varied as the viewers.

In an ever:"changing world and a time of political turmoil, there is little doubt that to the peoples of Poland, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslavakia and Romania, our flag means far more than to many Americans on both sides of the current issue.

The newly liberated peoples of Europe and the hopeful lands ofthe East want what we have. They would enjoy our material comforts, of course, but still more they yearn for the spirit of freedom so many of us take for granted. Let's keep this in mind as we enjoy our national celebration of independence and as we fly our flag this Fourth of July.

We should not swerve from the constitutional course set by our Founding Fathers. In our zeal to do what we think is right, we must not destroy the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Noone should be crushed because liberties have been denied and no flag should be burned because freedom has become license.

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THE FOURTH OF JULY

"He conducted them...all the night with a light of fire." Ps. 77:14

Married priests, bishops meet, SANTA CLARA, Calif. (CNS) - Married priests and some of their wives and children came to pray at the site of the U.S. bishops' special assembly June 23 and later met with four bishops for an informal dialogue.

About 150 members of CORPUS, the Corps of Reserve Priests United for Service, left their third annual conference on a married priesthood at San Jose State University to go to nearby Santa Clara University, where they conducted a "Prayer Service for the American Catholic Church."

More than 200 bishops were attending the June 21-27 retreatstyle assembly, held every fQur years to give bishops an opportunity for extended prayer and reflection.

Bishop Donald Wuerl of Pittsburgh, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry, called the dialogue with CORPUS members which followed the prayer service "a good conversation" among friends.

CORPUS president Anthony Padovano of Morris Plains, N.J., a noted author and former seminary professor, said he was gratified by the bishops' willingness to meet.

The meeting was arranged at the request of CORPUS, Bishop Wuerl said, and the group's request for ongoing structured dialogue is to be brought before the priestly life committee.

The hourlong prayer. vigil, attended by several bishops, began shortly after the bishops finished celebrating a Mass at Santa Clara University.

As the bishops filed out of church, many embraced and spoke with CORPUS members, men with whom the bishops had served or

with whom they had been on;lained.

The prayer service invoked the blessing of St. Joseph, "a married man who lived with Mary and nurtured the child Jesus."

"For most of his life, Jesus depended on a married man and married woman for his safety, education and life," the opening prayer reminded participants.

After meeting with Bishop Wuerl and Bishops R. Pierre DuMaine of San Jose, John Marshall of Burlington, Vt., and John Favalora of St. Petersburg, Fla., Padovano said the bishops suggested ending their dialogue in prayer.

Robert Charpentier of Kensington, Calif., CORPUS vice president and a classmate of Bishop Wuerl at the North American College in Rome, said it was the "first time he seen and given the bishop a hug in 23 years." It "felt good."

Frank-McGrath of Chicago said the dialogue was in "no wayan adversarial meeting. There is a

praye~BOX .Prayer jor Fath(!ri?'

St. Joseph, protect the fathers who come to you.

You know their hardships and their hopes. Assure them that they do not labor alone. Teach them to find Jesus near them and to watch over him faithfully as you did. Amen.

-Pope John XXIII

problem within a family and we were certainly made to feel that we are still part of that family. We have disagreements, but we are still brothers."

Padovano said he asked the bishops that a permanent liaison between CORPUS and the bishops be permitted in order to encourage ongoing dialogue. "We are not insensitive to the political pressure" the bishops feel, he added.

"We also asked that a married priest be permitted to address the National Conference of Catholic Bishops as a sign of unity - an extraordinary sign to the church at large."

Bishop Wuerl "was not in a position to grant those requests," Padovano said. "We did not expect commitments."

Added Padovano, "We are happy where we are. Weare not coming to this dialogue wounded. Celi~acy and the way we lived it made contributions 'to our lives. I did not resign because I was disenchanted with celibacy, the priesthood or the church. I just met someone I loved."

Charpentier said the group discussed with the bishops ,the pain they feel at the ordination of former Episcopal priests who are being received into the active ministry with their wives and families.

Bishop Wuerllatersaid that "we are at a point where a consultative model of governance has flowered in recent years. We consult, listen and dialogue with different constituencies. We had that today. We are seeing much more of it."

"We still love Christ. We still love our church and we still think the bishops are important," Padovano said. "Otherwise, we wouldn't be here today, in prayer and asking for dialogue with them."

Couple needown home Dear Mary: My 65-year-old mother lives with us. We do not have any children yet. My mother became a widow 25 years ago.

We live on a little farm where my mother spent the first 12 years of her married life. We lost our farm during the farm crisis. My mother later moved in with us.

She has a big beautiful home, but it is full of her pet dogs and cats. This home was truly grand, and now it looks awful.

We have good jobs and want to make repairs and start over with our lives, but my mother is resistant. She threatens and may have removed my name from her will because I want to clean and repair the buildings; She refuses to socialize. She refuses to do any household tasks.

ThaI' is my job.

My husband and I did all her chores and farm work for five years. We never received a dime or a thank you.

My cousins work for her. She pays them a wage and takes them to eat. My cousins think she will give them her farm when she dies.

They live off welfare.

My mother tells me she hates my husband. I truly love my depressed mother and my husband.

He's a good decent man and a good provider. - Iowa I applaud your efforts to respond lovingly to both your husband and mother. You face a host of factors: your mother's failure to accept her husband's death; her preference for your cousins and unkindness toward your husband; her failure to do household tasks.

In view of all these problems, you and your husband need to review your priorities. You say that you want to fix up your home and start over. These are reasonable priorities. I doubt that you can realize them in your present circumstances.

I suggest you plan to move as soon as possible. You can begin to invest your time and money in a place of your own.

Tell your mother at a time when your relationship is at its best. Tell her you are moving to develop a place you can call your own, much as she had in the early years of her marriage.

Do not say anything about the housework, the pets or your frustrated efforts to help her. Simply tell her what you seek as you look toward the future.

This move could change your relationship with your mother. As you recognize, she seems to be immobilized by depression, and your presence has enabled her to live this way.

Now you are leaving. You might become bogged down in guilt and attempt to do everything for her.

This would be a mistake. You and your husband need to think through when and how'you can help your mother. Perhaps you can offer to help her with housework for two or three hours on Saturday.

Perhaps you can invite her to dinner at your new home once a week, forcing her to socialize. Plan specifically what you will do for her and stick to it.

Your move might cost you your inheritance. On the other hand, you might already have lost it.

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Judge Beatrice Hancock Mullaney

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY Unless you are willing to relinguish it, you will spend your whole married life trying to please your mother.

Your desire to preserve and improve the home of your childhood is understandable and admirable. But the odds are against you.

Put your efforts into a new home and a new life.

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EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of VICTOR J. FERREIRA is unknown.'

We cite VICTOR J. FERREIRA to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, July 9, 1990 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the SOUSA路FERREIRA case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Victor J. Ferreira, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this, the 25th day of June, 1990.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FAll RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of CHARLES VAUGHAN is unknown.

We cite CHARLES VAUGHAN to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, July 9, 1990 at 2:30 p.m. at887 Highland Avenu~, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the MARTINEZ-VAUGHAN case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Charles Vaughan, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this, the 25th day of June, 1990.

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Father Lc.:onard M. Mullaney, pastor of St. Anthony's parish, East Falmouth, was principal celebrant Wednesday for the Mass of Christian Burial at St. Joseph's Church, Fall River, for his mother, retired Judge Beatrice Hancock Mullaney, 84. Judge Mullaney was stricken June 24 while attending the 67th reunion of the class of 1923 at BMC Durfee High School, Fall River. She was a class member.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided at the Mass and many priests of the diocese were concelebrants.

Judge Mullaney was the widow ofJoseph E. Mullaney. She resided in Westport at the tim~ of her death, where she was a member of St. John the Baptist parish and of its women's guild. Previously she was for malllY years a member of St. Joseph's parish, at which her funeral Mass took place.

Born in Fall River, she was the daughter ofthe late Fred Hancock and the late Margaret E. (O'Lolighlin) Hancoek Wade. She was a 1919 graduate of St. Joseph's School, whc:re she ranked first in her class, and attended BMC Durfee High School, both in Fall River.

She earm:d a degree from Boston University School of Law in 1927, passed the bar, and returned for a master's degree, which she was awarded in 1928.

She was appointed judge of probate in 1955 by Gov. Christian Herter. For the next 20 years she presided, mainly in Fall River, over 10,000 divorce, separation, custody, equity, land and will cases.

She received two honorary degrees, a doctor onaw from Stonehill College in 1956 and a science degree from the former Bradford Durfee College of Technology, now Southeastern Massachusetts University, in 1958.

She was an official observer at the United Nations for the International Federation of Women Lawyers in 1967, 1968 and 1969.

Boston University awarded her the Silver Shingle for distinguished service in 1972, and she was the recipient ofthe BMC Durfee High School Outstanding Alumni Award in 1975. The Class of 1923 established a Durfee scholarship in her honor ~hen she retired.

In 1973 she was the first woman in the Fall River diocese to be invested as a Lady of the Eques-

Father Grannell Father Christopher Grannell, SS.Ce., 52, a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts since 1956, died June 22 in Nassau, Bahamas.

The son of the late James and Angela [Lee] Grannell and a native of Country Clare, Ireland, he entered reiigous life in Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, professed final vows in 1959 and was ordained a priest in 1962.

He served in Japan for 22 years and in the Banamas since 1985.

A funeral Mass was celebrated in Nassau Iby Bishop Lawrence Burke, S.J. on June 26. Another Mass was offered today at 5t.

Joseph's church, Fairhaven, and interment was in the Sacred Hearts Community Cemetery, also in Fairhaven.

trian Order of the Holy Sepulcher by the late Francis Cardinal Spellman. The award was for her work with children and particularly for her role in founding the Junior Foresters in Fall River.

She was a past member of the Diocesan Board of Education, and of the Fall River Commission for Christian Community and a past president ofthe Fall River Catholic Woman's Club. She was a debate coach at the former Sacred Hea.rts Academy, Fall River, and at Emmanuel College, Boston.

She was the recipient of the1981-82 Family of the Year Award from the New England Fraternal Congress of the Catholic Association of Foresters.

Over the years, she was president and for 24 years a director of Family Service of Fall River, for 17 years a director of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children of Fall River and a trustee at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River.

She was a member of the Governor's Commission on the Establishment of Family Court, a Massachusetts representative to the White House Area Conference on Youth, a member of the Governor's Massachusetts Judicial Survey Commission, a past advisory board member of the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare, a member of the board of advisers and first chairman of the board of trustees at Stonehill C 01-

lege, North Easton, and a member of the board of directors and vicepresident of the Boston University Law School Alumni Association.

She was a member of the Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations; the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers; the American J udiciature Society; and the International Federation of Women Lawyers.

In addition to Father Mullaney, she is survived by sons Vincent S. Mullaney of Hingham and Attorney Joseph E. Mullaney Jr., of Boston and Westport; daughters Arline M. Angell of Easton, Conn., and Margaret M. Panos of Westport; 18 grandchildren; 16 greatgrandchildreri; and a nephew.

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, ANTOINETTE BOSCO

, When I was 1路1 years old we lived in Albany, N. Y., and at the time my parents rented the top floor of a three-story city house.

The owners lived in the basement. They were a lovely older Italian couple with a few grown children. One of their sons had recently married and he and his wife lived in the middle flat.

My "job" that summer was to take care of my little brother Joey, then 3 years old. I took him to the park or let him play on the sidewalk, under my careful eye.

Joey and I also visited my neighbor on the second floor, a young and happy mother-to-be nicknamed Catuzza, which meant, my father told me, sweet little Catherine. She was indeed sweet.

She was also beautiful and I loved to be near her.

Catuzza was well into her pregnancy that summer and it was evident that she was often lonely. She knew very little English and during the day missed her husband a great deal. He was a shoemaker and worked long hours to provide for his family. She enjoyed the company of myself and Joey. My little brother had golden curls which

she would twine around her fingers. Her smile would always make me feel that she was wondering about her own child in her womb. . Sometimes when the baby would kick, she would let me touch her stomach, and once when Joey was close by he too put his hand on her, much to her embarrassment.

As the summer came to an end, we made plans to move to a flat in another part of the city. I never saw Catuzza again until just a few years ago.

My brother Joe grew up to establish a career with the New York State Labor Department and to become seriously ill at age

35.

The doctors diagnosed him as having a fatal disease called hairy cell leukemia.

Joe was determined to live despite the odds., There was a strong , ray of hope in the doctor he eventU;llly found - a most respected Albany hematologist by the name of Frank Lizzi.

That was a familiar name to me and one day when I was visiting my brother in the hospital I told him that when he was a tot we had lived in a house where our landlord was named Lizzi.

Joe remembered that. In fact, he said our one-time landlord was the late grandfather of his Dr. Lizzi.

Was it possible that his father was a shoemaker and his mother named, Catuzza?

Yes, said Joe. Not only that, Dr. Lizzi was just three years younger than himself, my brother told me - as a realization hit both of us.

Catuzza's baby was to become the doctor who would save Joe's life! For Dr. Lizzi did just that, keeping him alive until we got the miracle we prayed for - interferon, effective in the one form of cancer Joe has, hairy cell leukemia.

Last year I watched Joe and Dr. Lizzi on television as they participated in a telethon for leukemia research. What I saw for a moment was not two fine men in their early 50s. I saw a goldenhaired child with his hand on the tummy of a somewhat blushing mother-to-be.

I marveled at the mystery of connections that are so truly built into God's plans for us. Never would any of us have been able to imagine that the unborn baby would one day return that touch, carrying life with it. '

How to measure your leisure level

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK Like it or not, we live in a time of blood pressure-cholesterol consciousness. Whether at a shopping mall or a convention, machines and nurses appear on the scene to take our blood pressure or cholesterol count.

Unfortunately our stress level, a frequent cause of high blood pressure, cannot be easily measured.

Nor do we have a good means of measuring that which counters

stress best, our true leisure level.

Leisure is not idleness. Idleness means we have lost the spirit to work and to become the person we are meant to become. In order to grow spiritually or to l>e physically fit, we need to work at it.

If we despair because of our weaknesses and do nothing, we fall into idleness. Living examples of this can be found in many of those on skid row - men and women who have stopped' working at being what they should be.

Leisure is a mental and spiritual attitude of inward calm and silence.

It means not being "busy," but letting things happen. The reason for letting things happen comes from a recognition of mystery in life, that is, from a recognition that we

don't know everything nor should we attempt to control everything.

In leisure, we place our confidence in God's mysteries.

But leisure is more than just letting go. hi the book "Leisure: The Basis of Culture," Joseph Pieper writes: '''God ended his work which he had made and behold it was very good.' In leisure, man too celebrates the end of his work by allowing his inner eye to dwell for a while upon the reality of the Creation. He looks and he affirms: It is good."

Piper tells us that standing back and cherishing the good in what we see is true celebration. It can be something as simple as cutting the lawn, doing fine trimming, turning over the soil in the flower beds,

and once finished stepping back and enjoying it as a work of art and a reflection of God's beauty.

Several questions arise, however, to test our understanding of leisure. Do we think of leisure in terms of doing nothing - perhaps sitting on a beach or staying in bed as long as we desire? This is not leisure. Rather, it is resting. Or it may be idleness.

Leisure emphasizes activity, a mental activity in which we look at some aspect of our life and fully, though tranquilly, absorb it into ourselves.

It is leisure if yo'u get away from work and go to another place? Not necessarily, for leisure does not entail running from something unpleasant. Rather, it is a stillness

needed to refocus our powers of looking in order to enter more deeply and peacefully into life.

Finally, we must ask when the last time was that we truly celebrated - that we so enjoyed what we saw or did that a festiveness came over us and we were refreshingly happy. , Leisure is the heart of culture and the basis of a healthy heart. To live wisely in the midst of a society that is constantly on the run we might recall Holderlin's beautiful jmage of leisure and transfer its meaning into our life: "I stand in the peaceful mowing "Like a loving elm tree, while ' sweetly life ptays "And twines around me like vines and clusters of grapes."

Vacation now, reap rewards later By DOLORES, C.URRAN

With vacation season upon us, the hassles often loom greater than the rewards. There comes a time when we ask, "Is it worth it?" By the time we deal with pet and lawn care, recalcitrant teens, and buying enough underwear to outfit an army unit, we're ready to stay home and sit under a tree.

I know the syndrome weil. For 20 years, we trekked a thousand miles to visit grandparents., W. e've been through the summer ear infections with alien doctors" the

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cheap motel rooms jammed with, five active bodies, and the teenage "do we have to's?"

Was it worth it? Definitely yes.

In looking back on our vacation experiences, we realize that these are the stuff of family memories.

We forget the hassles and treasure the fun, the bonding, and the outof-the ordinary experiences.

When our young adults reminisce about the good times we had, Jim and I exchange that look couples share when they've lived together a long time. It says, "Hey, we ,did it. It may have been mis,'erable at the time, but the memories are good."

I don't want to give the impression that we didn't enjoy our trips.

We did, but younger parents need to know that kids readily forget the hassles that we remember in

While we marvelled over the favor of the positive memories.

Nations, replayed an excited If there's one lesson we've learned canyons in Utah, they muttered, account to his friends, when we that might be of value to younger "When can we get back to the returned home. He didn't know I parents, it's that kids complain as motel pool?" When we insisted was within earshot, of course. part of life, whether they mean it upon the nature talks at Carlsbad Now that our young adults tell or not. We shouldn't take these Cavern, they were interested mainly us how much they enjoyed our grumblings too seriously because in the tarant,ula they captured on trips, I regret I took their comthey forget them as quickly as they the hood ofthe car. While we read plaints and lack of response seriousdocuments in the National Armake them. ly. I beg other parents not to fall Take those wall-to-wall bodied chives, they ogled foreign tourists. into the same trap. nights in motels. While we rememIf I had it to do over, I would What I'm saying is that kids and ber the hassles:ihey recall the fun. laugh when they say, "Big deal. So parents will never enjoy the same They laugh about sabotaging us, vacation on the same level. Or at somebody carved fou,r presidents about the sleep talker, and how least admit enjoyment. It isn't cool , on a mountain. I'm going to look for lizards." , they smuggled potato chips under for a child over 5 to show'pleasure.

And that's what we ended up the covers.

'The more parents say, "Isn't this doing one trip. Catching lizards.

They also reminisce about resist- fun?" the more they shrug. ing our insistence that they enjoy ,,' But retrospectively they share They still talk about it and we all laugh. I won't even go into the historical monuments and muse- their enjoyment. I recall the'time ums. "Why didn't you make me go SonNumberOne, who sneered his ,time a shoe box of 18 New Orleans chameleons got loose in the car. to the Kennedy Library?" they say. way through our two-week history "I didn't know that someday I'd " trjp to Yorktown, Jamestown, Wil-. But believe me, the hassles are worth it - 20 years later. wish I'd been there." We sigh a lot. liamsburg, D.C., and the United

Problems for interfaith:couple '

,FATHER 'JOHN J. ,DIETZEN Q. I am a lifelong Catholic.

My fiancee is Presbyterian. We decided to marry in her church.

We live in two distantly separated cities and have attended the Catholic Engaged Couples Encounter.

The minister of her church will not marry us unless we go through counseling sessions on week nights, which is impossible for us to ar-

range. He will not accept our En- completed, the same as if the margaged Encounter as a substitute. riage were to take place before a We finally found a minister who priest in the Catholic Church. will marry us without counseling - You indicate that you have made sessions, and a place for the wed- an Engaged Encounter, so perding that meets our budget require- haps, you are already in contact ments.' with your own local pastor. If not, Can a dispensation from form contact him right away, explain be obtained in this situation? your situation and follow his advice (Kansas) , in'the rest of the preparations for A. A dispensation from the your wedding. , Catholic form of marriage may be Q. I am a Catholic woman' petitioned in a situation such as married to a divorced Catholic yours. man for 20 years.

I'm not sure from your letter To date the marriage has not that you are pursuing your prepa- been consummated because of my rations for marriage in counsel husband's impotence. Although I with a Catholic priest. Before a ' was not told of this condition dispensation from form is granted, before our marriage, I decided to all usual preparation programs re- remain married. quired by the diocese must be Neither of us were young, both

in the 40s, and we have enjoyed situation for you. I could give no our life together. During the years spec:ifi9, advice, howey~r, without we have attended Mass but never talking with you personally and kn~wing a lot more abopt the cirr~ceive Communion.

We recently moved to, a small cUl11stances that you indicate in town: one Catholic ch~rch, one your letter. ,I can understand your not wantpriest. During Mass everyone but ing to discuss'this with your local ourselves receives Communion. priest, but since you just moved to It's not a comfortable condition ,and I expect this will become a this smaller community. you must problem shortly for my husband have priest acquaintances elseand he will not even attend Mass where. If not, you might approach ,with me. Our parish priest is not , a priest in your diocesan chancery one we would be able to speak to office or tribunal"explain the situaabout this problem; he is much too tion and follow his advice. busy to listen.

The mere fact that you have'not Since there has been no sexual enjoyed a sexual relationship since life between us, can we receive your marriage would not automatically and immediately make it Communion at this time? possible for you to receive the A. At least two avenues are open which might resolve this sacraments.

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Family in danger Dear Editor: The traditional family is in grave danger.

In the Boston area, three groups are counseling single women and lesbians who want to become mothers without marriage or personal involvement with a male, without having to become "victims" in the traditional family sense.

For $250, two vials of carefullyscreened sperm are available, with "How-to" instructions for selfinsemination. Will this be the next chapter in school sex education classes?

Over recent" years, "family" has quietly been changing from father, mother and children to any group of people living together.

The frightening aspects of this drastic change in family definition are the long-range effects on our legal system. Court cases will pile up as "rights" will be argued and demanded. Lawmakers who are supported by militant feminists and gay and lesbian organizations will accuse traditional family loyalists of being discriminatory, bigoted or, worst sin of all, lacking in compassion.

Protection of the historicallyconstituted family is a deadly serious issue. The people we elect to Congress are in a position of introducing laws that can totally dissolve the integrity of our nation and create chaos. We must be sure .that they not only uphold the Constitution but a]so the laws of nature.

Will frozen sperm in the supermarkets be the next high-tech industry?

Ann e. Pfizenmaier Centerville

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Letters are welcomed but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit. if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and include a home or business address. They do not necessarily express the editorial views of The Anchor.

Dear Editor: I was very moved by Father Bernard Survil's letter in the June 8 Anchor. It is true that as a country we have. allowed untold suffering to be visited upon many innocent people, our sisters and brothers in Christ, through the military assistance we have given to the contra forces in Nicaragua and to the government of EI Salvador.

Father Survil's suggestion of asking our legislators in Congress to cosponsor the" Harvest of Peace Resolution" would, as he said, be a way to help to make up for some of the damage caused by our illadvised military spending. The "Harvest of Peace Resolution", S. Con. Res. 91 in the Senate and H. Con. Res. 259 in the House of Representatives, calls on the nations of the world to cut military spending by half by the year 2000 and redirect resources toward ending hunger and meeting basic human needs.

As we enter the last decade of what could be considered the most violent century in history, we have it in our power to respond to the noticeable signs of change occurring all across the globe. Today we have a unique opportunity to link our faith as Catholics to our support of public policies that reflect the Christian vision of a just and peaceful world.

Ruth Dunning Brewster

Diocese of Fall River - Fri., June 29, 1990

THESE FIRST Eucharist students were among those participating in a recent crowning of the Blessed Mother at St. Julie !Jilliart parish, North Dartmouth. Parishioners joined the children in prayers and hymns. .

World's Ukrainian bishops meet after half century VATICAN CITY (CNS) Dialogue and reconciliation with the Russian Orthodox Church are fundamental obligations ofthe Ukrainian Catholic Church as it normalizes its life in the Soviet Union, Pope John Paul II said at the first meeting in 50 years of the world's Ukrainian bishops.

The Second Vatican Council asked the Ukrainian and other Eastern-rite churches to be a "bridge to unity" with the Orthodox churches, the pope said.

The council's statment asks the churches to be "a bridge, then, in no wayan obstacle," the pope told Ukrainian Catholic bishops June 25.

The pope spoke after spending an hour with the 10 bishops from the Soviet Ukraine. It was the first time the bishops, who were ordai~ed to the priesthood and consecrated clandestinely, had ever met a pope.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church was forcibly merged with the Russian Orthodox Church in 1946.

Although it is still illegal, authorities have not prevented the church from functioning publicly and ~ave even registered a handful of its parishes.

After initial greetings, Pope John Paul and the bishops sat in a circle, with the pope asking them about their experiences in prison or in Siberian exile and about their consecration as bishops.

Later the pope and the bishops from the Ukraine joined Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, Romebased head ofthe Ukrainian Catholic Church, ,and the 18 bishops from Ukrainian Catholic jurisdictions in the West.

The cardinal said the meeting of all the world's Ukrainian bishops is an occasion for which "we have prayed fervently and sacrificed unceasingly."

"It is true that the time of the persecution for our church in Ukraine has ceased," he said, "but the church must still struggle for· her very existence and pastoral work."

The full legalization of the church is expected when the Soviet government adopts a freedom of conscience law now being discussed in the Supreme Soviet.

June'30 1952, R,ev. Simon Pease, SS.Ce., Administrator of Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven 1961, Rev. Alphonse M. Reniere, O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River July 1 1967, Rev. Gerard A. Boisvert, Assistant., Notre Dame, Fall River July 3 1942, Rev. Thomas P. Doherty, Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford July 4 1955, Rev. James A. Coyle, S.T.L., Pastor, Holy Name, Fall River July'S 1943, Rev'. J.F. LaBonte, Pastor, Sacn:d Heart, New Bedford 1985, Rev. Edward P. Versailles, M.S., LaSalette Shrine . July 6 1963, Rev. Edmond Francis, SS.Ce., Pastor, St. Mary, Fairhaven July 7 1965, Rev. James E. Lynch, First Pastor, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans . July 8 1887, Rev. Edward J. Murphy, Pastor, St. Mary, Fall River July 10 1938, Rev. Pie Marie Berard, O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River 1972, Rev. Maurice E. Parent, Pastor, St. Michael, Swansea 1987, Rev. John E. Morris, MM, Retired, Maryknoll Missioner 1987, Rev. Theodore M. Morin, MS, LaSalette Shrine July 13 1979, Rev. Arthur P. Deneault, M.S., L~ISalette Father

WASHINGTON (CNS) Hungary's Catholic primate credits improved conditions for the church in his country to the Blessed Virgin. .

Cardinal Laszlo Paskai of Esztergom said during a Washington visit that during 1988, the 950th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian king St. Stephen, the country rededicated itselfto Mary.

Since then, virtually all restrictions on the church in Hungary hilve been lifted.

- "Providence is writing history; it's not necessarily us humans," he said.

Hungary is in a period of social, economic and political reform that is orienting the country more toward the West. Recently, the ruling communist party dissolved itself and reorganized as a Westernstyle socialist party.

Although the law lifting religious restrictions has not been enacted, "life is proceeding already under the new rules," said the cardinal. This does not necessarily mean more people go to church, but "rather that the churches can fulfill their missions better than before," he said.

In concrete terms, that means religious instruction can be conducted more freely and religious orders can be reorganized and updated, he said.

In the past, Cardinal Paskai has referred to the "lost generation" of Hungarian Catholics: Parents of school-age children never received religious instruction because of 40 years'of church restrictions.

Since 1964, Hungaria~ priests have been allowed to travel to Rome for post-graduate studies, and seminary professors also have been trained in Rome, he said in the Washington meeting with reporters.

"All theological books can and have been coming into Hungary," said Cardinal Paskai. The number

of seminarians has grown within the last seven to eight years, he added.

He said the Hungarian church is not as extensively organized as Western churches, but hopes to sponsor a papal trip in the fall of 1991.

The Catholic Church joined other denominations to help the recent flow oftens ofthousands of East German refugees emigrating to West Germany by way of Hungary, he said.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II asked God's blessing on the people of Iran and asked international aid organizations, including the Vatican's Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," to meet "the . immediate needs of the people stricken by the tremendous earthquake." .

An estimated 50,000 people died and some 100,000 were reported injured as a result of the June 21 earthquake, which reportedly registered 7.7 on the Richter scale.

"Shocked by the tragic catastrophe which devastated the northwest region of Iran, the Holy Father commends to merciful God the numerous dead," said a June 23 Vatican telegram to Archbishop Giovanni Bulaitis, pro-nuncio to Iran.

The pope asked Archbishop Bulaitis to express his "heartfelt condolences to the Iranian authorities and through them to the bereaved families."

The telegram offered eQcourage- . ment to "the rescuers in their difficult task of saving lives" and said it was hoped that "international solidarity will contribute to the effective relief of people.sorely tried in order to assuage their suffering that they may return to a normal life."

A June 23 Vatican statement said that in addition to Cor Unum's assistance, the Vatican was asking international Catholic aid agencies to "commit themselves immediately to providing material emergency aid to alleviate the suffering of the innumerable injured and homeless."

In the United States, Catholic Relief Services, the international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic Church, was accepting donations for victims of the earthquake.

Caritas Italy has also made an appeal for funds and for help by national and international agencies. As a first step, Caritas anno.unced it was sending 50 giant tents valued at about $120,000 to the stricken area.

Caritas officials said the need for aid goes beyond any ideological, political or religious lines.

Caritas Italy and Cathoiic Relief Services are members of Caritas Internationalis, the worldwide. umbrella agency for national Catholic relief and aid efforts.

Iran accepted a U.S. offer of assistance for earthquake victims.

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PUEBLO, Colo. (CNS) Pueblo Bishop Arthur N. Tafoya has said he wants to sell his residence to ease the diocese's financial crunch.

"It's something I've been thinking about since I was made bishop.

I've wanted to have a simpler lifestyle," Bishop Tafoya said.. "Now with the difficult financial situation in the diocese, it seemed like the right time."

The diocese has had financial troubles since late 1989, when it took $92,093 from reserves to meet its 1988-89 budget.

Earlier this year, three fulltime and several parttime jobs were cut.

The Chronicle of Catholic Life, Pueblo's diocesan newspaper, was closed, with production being shifted to. the Catholic Herald, newspaper of the neighboring diocese of Colorado Springs.

"Many people have said to keep it [the house], and others have said to sell. But expenses toward keeping it up are so high, and now with the financial crunch, I thought it was the best thing," Bishop Tafoya said in announcing his decision.

Retired Pueblo Bishop Charles . A. Buswell applauded ,the idea.

"I think it's wonderful. It's in keeping with the spirit of what the diocese ought to be," he said.

"It's a good symbol - well, more than a symbol really. It's an actual situation that is very meaningful."

The nine-room house, which has not been appraised, is a few blocks from the diocesan cathedral and chancery. Built in 1895, it was bought by the diocese in 194 I as the residence of its first ordinary, Bishop Joseph C. Willging.

An outside porch has been converted to a chapal and in 1964 the house's Victorian styling was modified to a Spanish colonial look.

If Bishop Tafoya moves, he does not want to purchase another house. "At first I thought I could move into a rectory and torment some pastor," he joked.

He said his best prospect may be the rectory of a Pueblo church closed in 1988.

Father Ed Nunez, diocesan chancellor, said some furnishings of the present house which include several antiques and religious artwork, w,?uld go to the bishop's new residence, with other belongings possibly appraised and put up for sale.

U .8. Catholics urged to aid renew.al of Eastern Europe 'WASHINGTON(CNS)- u.s.

Catholics have a responsibility to take advantage of the political openings in Eastern Europe, says the administrative board of the U.S. bishops.

"We are citizens of one of the handful of nations capable of moving the world, beyond the Cold War and its legacies," the 50-bishop board said.

"Consequently, we have a grave human, moral and political responsibility to ensure that our government takes prudent, but ever more determined steps to replace what our Holy Father has called 'the logic of the blocs' with a new vision," the board. said.

The remarks were made in a "Statement on the New Moment in Eastern and Central Euro'pe" recently approved by the administrative board, which represents the views of the U.S. bishops between their general meetings.

The board said Catholics should work to form a system "grounded in solidarity - the path to authentic peace and integral development."

It said efforts to rebuild Eastern and Central Europe should be seen as part of a response to Pope

John Paul l1's call for global solidarity.

It also called for deeper cuts in weapons as part of that system.

The statement also said the bishops thanked God for developments in Eastern Europe and prayed the people there would "have the strength and wisdom to construct new, more just societies in a spirit of peace and reconciliation."

It praised the "faithful witness to the Gospel and the courageous moral leadership" of Catholics suppressed for decades.

The statement recognized the "fragile nature" of Eastern and Central Europe. It credited Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's openness and restructuring policies for creating an environment for the current changes, but added that "only.a deep yearning for a renewal of society based on truth, justice, freedom and solidarity can explain what is occurring."

Generosity "In God there can be no selfishness, because the three selves of God are three subsistent relations of selflessness, overflowing and superabounding in joy.. .'! Thomas Merton

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Feehan student's business blossoms Story and pictures by Marcie Hickey At a time of year when many high school students are searching for the ideal summer job - one that will provide valuable work experience as well as funds to set aside for college - Bishop Feehan High Schooljunior Matthew Lan. gevin isn't job hunting.

Instead, he's running his own business at his Norton home.

And in addition to gaining work experience and savings for college by selling his home-grown chrysanthemums, Matthew has another goal: he plans to donate some of his profits to Feehan to finance a needy student's education.

It's his way.of"giving something back" to the Attleboro school, where he is an honor student in the top. 10 percent of his class, a member of the National Honor Society and participant in three sports.

The project took root, so to speak, in March, and "Matt's Mums" have since taken over a one-acre plot in the Langevins' spacious backyard, where 3,000 plants have been neatly potted and arranged on a tarpaulin to be carefully nurtured by the l7-year-old entrepreneur until, hopefully, a rainbow of blossoms appears in August. . Although this is Matthew's first business venture, it is not his first gardening project. A green thumb runs in the family, as attested by the Langevins' extensive garden, and last year the young businessman grew about 2,000 mums for a local garden supply store.

WATERIN G THE plants is a two-hour-a-day task but this irrigation system helps get the job done.

Last year's trial-and-error experience is benefiting this year's mums, said Matthew, explaining that he's learned to create more plants with cuttings and grow them "bigger and better" through use of a new fertilizer.

However, the garden store didn't need his mums this year, thus Matthew had to find a new market. for his seedlings.

Mapping out a two-mile radius from his home, he planned a doorto-door campaign and projected possible earnings from sales. of pots containing one, three or five plants.

"I ended up last year selling some to the public and it went pretty well," he said.

When he and his father formulated their objectives for the business, saving money for college was a major concern, said Matt, but "we also thought about doing something for the school."

Don and Anne Langevin helped their son with paperwork, including obtaining order forms. ~nd designing a brochure contammg descriptions and growing instructions for the 16 varieties of mums he is offering.

His strategy and goals set, Matthew brought his plan to Feehan principal Sister Mary Faith Harding, RSM. "I think it's a great thing that he's doing," said Sister Harding.

"And it's a project that he's doing totally on his own. He brought in a very organized plan, how he was going to grow them and market them. Everything was very well planned out."

Matthew immediately won fans - and customers - at Feehan.

Sister Harding distributed order forms to the faculty and sent a letter of support to the school community commending the student's "ingenuity and zeal."

"It's a pleasure to be able to assist him in his generous and willing desire to support his school and to help someone less fortunate obtain a good Christian education," she wrote.

Next came the difficult part: getting the business off - or, in this case, into - the ground.

"This year it's easier because I know what to do," said Matthew.

"Last year we built an irrigation system, so we already had a water supply."

Watering, fertilizing and maintaining the plants takes about two hours a day, he said.

"They're all potted now. That was the'tough part," he said.

In addition. there was the time spent canvassi;lg the neighborhood for customers and keeping.accurate records of who ordered what.

"My family helped out a lot," witi:I keeping track of sales, said Matthew, noting that the six-inch, one-plant pot has been his best seller.

"Most of the people have known about [the project] and at least bought one," he said. .

August 15 is the pickup date for those who ordered, but Matthew has invited customers to come look at the plants beforehand if they wish. .

He plans to deposit his earnings in the bank and then write a $2,650 tuition check to Feehan, which Sister Harding said will be added to the school's scholarship fund.

After completing his remaining year of high school, Matthew said, he ·would like to major in biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Holy Cross College.

Not that he plans to close the flower shop any time soon.

"I plan to keep doing it," he said. "As with any business in its first year, I think people are a little skeptical now. But once people learn more about it and see the finished project, it will be a lot easier."

Not among the skeptics is Sister Harding.

"He's a very ambitious, very bright student," she said. "I'm sure he'll make it very successful, knowinghim."

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A senior patriot

The 'Fourth of July was a major Or how about "We' must all American holiday when I was grow- hang together, or assuredly we ing up-as important in the mid- shall all hang separately"? He dle of summer as Christmas in the expressed that immortal line, middle of winter. memorized by children everywhere Today it's seen mostly as a chance (at least when I was growin~ up) at to get out of town. I wouldn't be the signing of the Declaration of surprised to see the date changed Independence. to the first Monday of July,just to I'd do more than quote Frankturn it into another long weekend. lin, however. I'd tell about his

By Ron Pollack higher poverty rates for older Patriotism was more respecta- incredible career as printer, writer, People talk a lot about women's women. ble long ago, and a major event in postmaster, inventor, scientist, Look around at the older women the celebration was the Independrights, but there isn't much talk politician and statesman-most of you know. about one serious concern of many ence Day oration, usually de- which came after he "retired." of the neediest But if many women: the right to live a decent claimed by a civic leader or politielderly are women, women are Right off I'd remind members of life in your later years. cian in the neighborhood parks of Planned Parenthood, Zero PopuUsually people don't talk about also filling the ranks of activist my youth. women's issues and the problems senior organizations, the groups That oratory had a flavor all its lation Growth and theW orld of older Americans in the same who are fighting to improve the own. Accompanied by foot races, Population Council (on the remote breath. But the majority of older well-being of the most vulnerable , doll buggy parades and the recita- chance any might be reading) that among us.

Americans are women. tion of the Gettysburg Address, it if Franklin were conceived today, They are women like Madeline The financial situation of older rang with history, tales of valor he might never have been born.

But on Jan. 17, 1706, Benjamin women is often particularly harsh. Helbok of Denver, Colorado, who and stories of great Americans.

An unexpected household expense, is crusading for affordable health I've never been invited to give a Franklin became the 15th child in a sudden siege of illness, a new care. Or Freda Mulkem, who is Fourth of July speech, but I did a family of 17 children. Successful expensive medication - these can fighting to block health insurance lead the singing of the Merchant in writing, printing and publishincreases in Massachusetts. put their limited budgets into the Marine hymn from a park band- ing, he was able to retire at age 42 One issue on which older women in 1748. red. stand on the Fourth. (It became a is long are speaking out these days He established the nation's first Older women are 'twice as likely solo; nobody else knew the words.) free library, first successful newsto be poor as older men. One out term care. Of course, that's not If I had the chance, I know what of every six women over age 65 is surprising: when you think about American hero I would speak paper, first department store and living below the poverty line. the role that many 60-year-old about: Benjamin Franklin. He died first fire insurance company. The Among black older women, the women playas caregivers for their April 17, 1790,200 years ago, and "Large Family News" of June/ July 1968, now extinct, listed a few situation is even worse: one out of husbands or their 85-year-old he was a senior patriot. three;: are surviving below the pov- parents.

You could do a great oration on other accomplishments: Parenting their parents erty line, as are one out of four Franklin just by quoting his suc"He founded the University of Hispanic elderly women.

After years of taking care of cessful Poor Richard Almanacs, Pennsylvania, fathered the U.S. their children, they now are par- which he published annually for Poverty doesn't just happen Weather Bureau, ... developed 25 years. How's "There never was the principles of magnetism, proved If you are an older woman hav- enting their parents. When it comes that lightning and electricity were ing difficulty making ends meet, to caregiving, they are the "sand- a good war or a bad peace" for the same, invented the lightning look back on your life for a mo- wich generatiqn." They know what openers? ment. Consider how the financial they're talking about when they difficulties you now face may be speak out for far-reaching reforms due to inequities you faced as a in how our society pays for long woman all through your life. Pov- term care. pass by, the dragonfly disappears,

By Antoinette Bosco Once you reach your fifties or erty among older women doesn't hopefully replaced by a being with just happen; it reflects the eco- sixties, it starts getting tricky to try Aging, it has been said many enough curiosity to search the past, nomic problems to which women to distinguish between women's times, is happening to all of us. to ask the perennial questions: issues and aging issues. aut, after of all ages are vulnerable.

That's why when a book comes Who am I? How did I become all, why try to separate them?The out with a title like "The Courage what I seem to beT' You interrupted your career to thing to do is to get on with the job to Grow Old," it is an immediate raise your children, you couldn't of solving the problems that interSome contributors to the book, eye-catcher. go back to work because there like British journalist, social critic fere with this basic right of both This particular book, published wasn't day care available, you women and men: the right to live a

by Ballantine last fall, contains and Catholic convert Malcolm worked for a lot less per hour than decent life throughout all of your essays by 41 prominent men and Muggeridge, born in 1903, conthe men in your workplace, you years. women aged 66 to 92 who share template the "prospect of death." had only Iimitedjob opportunities their wisdom about growing old. In beautiful prose he writes: Ron Pollack is executive direcas a woman: all these problems "I can say with truth that I have The book is, however, much more. translate over a period oftime into tor of Families USA Foundation It is also a heart-catcher, full of never, even in times of greatest wisdom, generosity, faith and preoccupation with carnal, worldly Senior Watch is an editorial service of Families USA Foundation and egoistic pursuits, seriously poetry.

Surprisingly; the book was edited doubted that our existence here is by a 30-year-old, Philip Berman, a related in some mysterious way to graduate of Harvard Divinity a more comprehensive and lasting School. He admits that at first he existence elsewhere.... It must had some anxiety at the prospect be admitted that as the years pass of someone his age editing the ... our world and living in it come essays of people like film critic to seem decidedly overrated; as St. Judith Crist, psychologist Albert Teresa of Avila put it, no more Ellis and journalist Malcolm Mug- than a night in a second class hotel." geridge.

Still, Mr. Muggeridge acknowlBut he says in his introduction that he was "soon overcome by a' edges, "The hardest thing of all to quiet joy born from the knowledge that I was helping to assemble a rich, inspiring patchwork of wisdom drawn from more than 3,000 "Unity 90," billed as America's years of collective human experi- first national pro-life videoconfer-' ence." ence, will be broadcast live with There is so much here to reflect tape segments tomorrow from upon. .

Chicago, and will be shown in According to Rosemary DeWorcester from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Camp, born in 1910, the actress First Assembly of God Church. who played James Cagney's mother Among religious leaders particLUCILLE LACOSTE, left, and Doris Filipek were in the movie "Yankee Doodle ipating will be Mqther Teresa of committee members for the recent golden jubilee reunion of Dandy" and acted in so many Calcutta, Archbishop Anthony other films and television shows, the Class of 1940 from Holy Family High School, New Bed- one needs courage in old age to Apuron of Guam, John Cardinal O'Connor of New York, Dr. Jerry ford. The celebration included a Mass at St. Lawrence Church, "forgo complaints" and conquer Falwell, Reverend James Robison, New Bedford, celebrated by Father John P. Driscoll. A buffet the fear of examining one's life. Archbishop Roger Mahony 'of Los Angeles, Dr. Richard Land of for alumni and their guests followed at the Country Club of She writes poetically: "Our youth and most of our the Southern Baptist Family Life New Bedford. A brunch was served at the country club the middle years are spent like the life following day.. of a dragonfly skimming the water; 47 participated in the activities, with alumni returning we seek the sun, flowers and food, from Mexico, Colorado, Kentucky, New York and Rhode unaware of the depths below or -the sky above.... As the years Island as well as Massachusetts.

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rod, the parlor (Franklin) stove, bifocal lenses and the copying press."

Nearing 70, he helped write the Declaration ofIndependence, managed a military alliance with France, drew up the peace treaty with England and influenced the adoption of the Federal Constitution.

One of his last political actions, not long before his death' at 84, was supporting an effort to get the first Congress of the young nation to consider abolishing slavery.

Franklin's family and personal life was marked by problems and misfortunes. Unfortunately, he did not live up to all the advice he served up in Poor Richard Almanacs.

When you consider how much of his life's work came after his early retirement, and how his genius as nation builder, inter.national peacemaker and drafter of historic documents blossomed in his late 60s and early 70s, I think you will agree Benjamin Franklin stands high as a senior patriot, in this, the bicentennial year of his death.

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explain is that death's nearness in some mysterious way makes what is being left behind - I mean our earth itself, its shapes and smells and colors, all that one has known and loved and lived with - the more e~trancing."

I interviewed one of the contributors, psychologist Marion Pease Davis, and she told me something that indicates how seductive is the theme of this book.

She related that she carried a copy with her on a plane "and people from California to Connectic.ut asked to see it." After they read some of it, virtually all said they were deeply touched and "turned the book back to me with tears."

The clue for the enduring energy of the people in the book, so full of life, may lie in what the editor wrote: "If there is a single message in this book, a common wisdom that unites these men and women, it is surely their belief that one must continue to create or at least live creatively fight up to the end."

"Unity 90" videoconference tomorrow Commission,. Reverend Richard John Neuhaus and Rabbi Yehuda Levin.

TV star Tiffany Brissette, Pat and Debbie Boone, singers Deneice Williams, Annie Herring and guitarist Tony Melendez will also appear.

Joining them will be pro-life leaders Nellie Gray, Judie Brown, Father Paul Marx and physicians Mildred Jefferson, Bernard Nathanson and Joseph Stanton. .

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H~gh Continued from Page One However, in a separate opinion, four justices wrote that they "conclude that the two-parent notice requirement with the judicial bypass is constitutional." The four were Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the second opinion, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and Justices Byron White and Antonin Scalia.

As the fifth justice joining them, Mrs. O'Connor wrote in her own opinion that the Minnesota law, as long as it has the judicial bypass, "passes constitutional muster because the interference with the internal operation of the family required by" strict two-parental notification without a court alternative "~imply does not exist where the minor can avoid notifying one or both parents by use of the bypass procedure."

In its ruling on the Minnesota law, the court also decided by a 6-3 margin that the 48-hour waiting period tied to notification is acceptable.

The court majority in upholding the Ohio law consisted of Kennedy, Rehnquist, White, Stevens, O'Connor and Scalia. "We discern no constitutional defect in the statute," they wrote. "Regardless of whether Ohio could have written a simpler statute, H.B. 319 (the law in question) survives a ... challenge."

In the Ohio ruling, the majority recalled that the court, over the last 15 years, has upheld various state statutes involving either parental consent to a teenage daughter's abortion or parental notification. "Notice statutes are not equivalent to consent statutes because they do not give anyone a veto power over a minor's abortion decision," t.he majority said.

So far, the court noted, "although' our cases have required [judicial) bypass procedures for parental consent statutes, we have not decided whether parental notice statutes must cont!lin such procedures. We leave the question open."

Kennedy, in a section of the opinion reflecting his views and those of Rehnquist, White and Scalia, added that "the Ohio statute, in sum, does not impose an undue or otherwise unconstitutional burden on a minor seeking an abortion. We believe, in addition, that the legislature acted in a rational manner in enacting H.B. 319."

"It is both rational and fair for the state to conclude that, in most instances, the family will strive to give a lonely or even terrified minor advice that is both compassionate and mature," Kennedy, Rehnquist,~ White and Scalia continued.

"It would deny all dignity to the family to say that the state cannot take this reasonable step ... to ensure that in most cases' a young woman will receive guidance and understanding from a parent," they said. ~.

The court, asa group, did not use either the Ohio or Minnesota case to comment in general about the merits oflegal abortion or Roe vs. Wade, the court's 1973 decision that authorized abortion nationwide.

Cruzan Case WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Supreme Court in its first decision in a so-called "right-todie" case June 25 ruled against withdrawing food and water from li- young Missouri woman in a "persistent vegeta~ive state."

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Stevens wrote a separate disIn a 5-4 ruling in the case of Nancy Beth Cruzan, the high court senting opinion in which he said sided with the Missouri Supreme the Constitution - with its guaCourt, saying that a state's interest rantee of a person's right to the in preserving life may supersede "compatible" values of life, liberty the wishes of the family in cases and the pursuit of happiness where a patient is in an irreversible requires the 8tate "to care for Nancy coma-like state.

Cruzan's life that gives appropWriting for the court, Chief J us- riate respect to her own best intertice William H. Rehnquist said ests."

"Because Nancy Cruzan did not that Missouri has a "general interest in the protection and preserva- have the foresight to preserve her tion of human life" and has the constitutional right in a living will right to require "clear and con- or some comparable 'clear and vincing evidence" that Ms. Cruzan conVincing' alternative," he said, wants to die before it allows the "her right is gone forever and her withdrawal oflife-sustaining meas- fate is in the hands of the State ures.

Legislature instead of in those of The high court ruled that the her family." state "did not commit constituIn a separate opinion concurtional error" in concluding that ring with the majority, Mrs. O'Conevidence presented was not clear nor pointed out that the high court's and convincing' proof of Ms. Cru- decision on Cruzan hplds only· zan's desire to have hydration and that the Constitution permits a nutrition withdrawn. state to require "clear and convincRehnquist was joined in the ing evidence" of Ms. Cruzan's desire opinion by Justices Byron R. not to be kept alive via a feeding White, Sandra Day O'Connor, An- tube. It does not, she wrote, "pretonin J. Scalia and Anthony M. clude a future determination that Kennedy. the Constitution requires the states Dissenting were Justices William to implement the decisions of a.

J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, patient's duly appointed surrogate.

Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul "Today WI: decide only that one Stevens. state's practice does not violate the Lawyers for the 32-year-old Ms. Constitution; the more challengCruzan, inj ured in a 1983 car acci- ing task of crafting appropriate dent that left her in what has been procedures for safeguarding incomdescribed as a "persistent vegetapetents'liberty interests is entrusted tive state," had urged the high to the 'laboratory' of the states," court to decide that the constitushe said. tional guarantee of liberty in the Scalia in his concurring opinion 14th Amendment should permit said that while hejoined the majorthe withdrawal offood and water. ity, he wished the court had anAs guardians and petitioners in nounced "clearly and promptly, th'e court case, her parents, Lester that the federal courts have no and Joyce Cruzan, sought permisbusiness in this field." sion to stop the food and water He said that he was not suggestbeing administered to her through ing that "I think it desirable, if we a tube, surgically implanted in her were sure that Nancy Cruzan stomach, that is keeping her alive. .wanted '1.0 die, to keep her alive by The 14th Amendment declares the means at issue here. I assert that no state shall make a law only that the Constitution has nothabridging the privileges of citizens, ing to say about it." "nor .. deprive any perso'n of life, liberty or property, without due process of law."

In the majority opinion Rehnquist wrote that while a "compeVATICAN CITY(CNS)- Now tent person has a liberty interest under the Due Process Clause in that the Berlin Wall has crumbled, refusing unwanted medical treat- Europe need:; to be spiritually rement, this does riot mean that an built, Pope John Paul II said in a incompetent person should pos- recent message to German Catholics. sess the same right.."· "Despite !oocial, culturaI" and He noted that not all incompetent patients will have loved ones economic complexities, no state or to make decisions for them, so the society can n:nounce the basics of state can "legitimately seek to safe- morality," he said.

The pope' sent the message to guard the personal element of an 126,000 participants in an annual individual's choice between life and . congress of Gl:rman Catholic organdeath." izations, held this year in Berlin.

It said the state is also "entitled The pope said that being Catholic to guard against potential abuses requires "a very intense spirit!lal by surrogates who may not act to life....' ' protect the patient." ."Belonging to Catholic organiIn. a dissenting opinion, Brenzations and associations is not nan said Ms. Cruzan "is entitled to enough; the Fiteri;l yannot be those choose to die with dignity." of social commitment or oppor"Nancy Cruzan has dwelt in , tunity," he sa.id. ,that twilight zone for six years.

He called for the "spiritual She iS,oblivious to her surroundrebuilding" of Europe 'and said ings and will 'remain so," wrote that the destruction of the Berlin Brennan. He said. he believed that Wall once again makes the city a "Nancy Cruz!ln has a fundamental "symbol of hope." \ right to be free of. unwanted artifiA united European society must cial nutrition and' hydration" and be founded on respect for freedom that the right "is not outweighed of thought, conscience and reliby any interests of the state." gion, he said.

Doctors have said that without receiving food and water through Alttributes the tube Ms. Cruzan would die of "The Church is accustomed most starvation and dehydration. With it, she could live for 30 years or fittingly to attribute to the Father more, though little hope has been those works of the divinity in which' power excels, to the Son given for her recovery. those in which wisdom excels, and Joining Brennan in his dissentthose in which love excels to the ing opinion were Marshall and Holy Spirit." - Pope Leo XIII Blackmun.•

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Birthright parley· Continued from Page One "God did want Birthright," said the white-haired mother of seven.

"He was saying at the time all this started, 'You don't abort, you help.' " "Birthright, God's Family" was the theme of the convention. The non-denominationalorganization's name comes from its motto: "The right of every mother to give birth - the right of every child to be born."

A convert to Catholicism, Mrs. Summerhill described for the convention her mother, who, she said, was "a religious woman, but not churchy. She sent us to Sunday school, but we didn't go long."

Her father was "a confirmed atheist until the day he died," she said.

She recalled wanting as a !,4year-old something to show that God exists. "I had to know," she said. , She would pull her bed over to the window "so I could look up at the stars. I'd ~e speaking to God." At 17, she said, she "got the gift of faith" an'd became a Catholic "because I was hungry for God. But that's another story."

Mrs. Summerhill told how her mother miscarried when she was 10. "A doctor came to the house and asked, 'Did you take anything to bring this on?' She practically ordered him out of the house, I carried the same hate for abortion."

Birthright remains almost entirely a volunteer organization, but growth has necessitated hiring some staff members, she said.

Dioces,an Birthrights LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro will host a statewide Birthright conference Oct. 12 through 14, said Ms. Barbelle. It stresses in-

formation, formation and spiritmil support for the Birthright task, she said, noting also that participants are welcome to come for any or all of the program.

"We realize that many volunteers have family responsibilities and can't give a whole ,weekend," she said, explaining that Friday evening is devoted to general information about Birthright, Saturday to formation of volunteers and Sunday to spirituality.

Mrs. Barbelle said there are seven Birthright centers in the Fall River diocese, all chronically in need of volunteers and donations. All offer free pregnancy tests, baby and maternity clothes and baby furniture. All also have information on low-cost medical care, shelter homes and housing, financial and legal aid, professional counseling, adoption procedures and continuation of education during pregnancy.

Their locations and telephone numbers follow: Birthright of Attleboro, 48 Bank St., Attleboro, tel. 226-2220 Birthright of Falmouth, 161 Spring Bars Road (above the Fashion Barn), tel. 457-0680.

Birthright of Martha's Vineyard, Church and Main Streets, Vineyard Haven, tel. 693-4137.

Birthright of Cape Cod, 10 E. Main St., Hyannis, tel. 771-1102.

- Birthright of New ,Bedford, 398 County St., tel. 996-6744.

Birthright of Taunton, 78 Broadway, tel. 822-2921.

Birthright of Greater Fall River, 1100 County St., Somerset, tel.

675-1561.

There is also a tollfree Birthright hotline: 1-800-848-LOVE.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) church ceiling - a matter longPaulist FatherJohn J :Foley thinks known and of little concern. The Umberto Eco, author of the medie- fire department ordered the church val monastery mystery, "The Name closed," said a brief history of the of the Rose," could handle the parish prepared by Father Foley. labyrinthine tale of how Rome's The nuns said the ceiling sag American residents lost their was caused by a broken beam, and church to a group of cloistered that the fire department ruled the nuns. church unsafe.

Father Foley, pastor of the parVarious churches provided temish of Santa Susanna, says he can- porary space for Mass for the not give Eco an ending for the Americans until a long-term but book until the dispute over the use also temporary arrangement was of Santa Susanna Church is settled made with an aristocratic Italian with the 15 Cistercian nuns who .family for use of their private' live in the attached monastery. church, St. Agnes, in Rome's hisThe latest development in the to ric Piazza Navona.

Santa, Susanna feud is grist for The church office remained at conversation wherever Americans Santa Susanna and daily Mass gather in the Eternal City. was celebrated in the sacristy. The The efforts of the Paulist priests parish's English-language library and parishioners to regain their remained as well.

"From 1985 to 1989, the abbess church have been supported by the cardinal-vicar of Rome, the Vati- repeatedly objected to the continued, though limited, presence can Secretariat of State, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See and of the American community at the president of the U.S. bishops' Santa Susanna," Father Foley's conference. report said.

Meanwhile, the nuns are trying Cardinal Ugo Poletti of Rome to protect the life of contemplative drew up an agreement allowing prayer and manilellabor begun by the Americans office space and use their Cistercian foremothers at of the church on Sundays. It also Santa Susanna in 1587. required the parish to pay the nuns Their only public witness, there- for cleaning the church and forbade its use for non-liturgical fore their only opportunity for attracting new vocations,'was their functions.' presence behind a grill at Masses The Paulists signed the agreein the church. Through a spokesment; the abbess did, not. Howwoman, they have said they did ,ever, the monastery spokeswoman not like sharing the space with the said, if the cardinal insisted, the Americans. nuns would be obedient.

The U.S. consulate estimates The cardinal has asked the Vatithat 30,000 U.S. citizens live in can to attempt a settlement. The Rome and its suburbs, and about Congregation for Institutes of Con10,000 of those are thought to be sec rated Life and Societies of Catholics.

Apostolic Life has asked Father The Paulists' busy ministry to Foley and Abbess Maria Roberta American Catholics, including relig- Cappiotti to come in for a chat. ious education and two Sunday Masses with a regular attendance The first clause of the rejected of about 400 people, "suffocates agreement stipulated that the the fragile life of the nuns," the church rector would be nominated .monasteryspokeswomantoldCathby the U.S~ bishops. Because a olic News Service. monastery chaplain is usually rec"A contemplative life is very del-' tor of an attached church, the nuns icate," she saia. "It needs space ,felt the agreement violated the and silence." Sharing space 'with traditional ,ordering of their life.

The Paulists "are saying they the Americans, she opined, was want to be the owners and the "like being in the middle of a marketplace." bosses of the church," the spokesMysterious things have happened woman said. . at Santa Susanna Church, the pasWhile the Paulists said tensions tor and parishioners said. began in the mid-1980s, the nuns "In April 1985 someone called said there were always problems the attention of the Rome Fire and that the community always Department to a slight sag in the hoped the Americans would find

another home in Rome, where Catholic churches abound.

"The writing was on the wall," said J 0 Cleverly, the parish librarian. . .

Library volunteers said that when the electricity and telephones failed, they chalked it up to Rome's aged utilities.

But they had a hard time explaining other things, like the lack of library visitors. Then they'd discover that all the doors had been locked.

In April 1989 a Paulist.attached to the parish tried to open the office. His keys no longer worked and all the office furniture and supplies were piled in the open courtyard.

The abbess told them she had the furnishings removed in order' to do repair work in the office. The ceiling had been pulled down.

As 1989 ended, so did the library operation. The locks there had also been changed.

The nuns said the library had to be closed to fix the leaky roof. The Americans said the work involves only the outside of the building.

The nuns said they have to pay a tax on the library space and the Americans weren't reimbursing Jhem.

On a hot mid-June' day, the floor of the former parish office was dug up and an archeologist was examining human bones buried beneath.

In short, no one connected with the church is getting any rest.

Don't Let Him .Go "If you find no pleasure or consolation in meditation, do not be disheartened. Try vocal prayer, confessing your unworthiness and saying with Jacob, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.' " St. Francis de Sales

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The October world Synod of Bishops' probably will focus on ways to increase spiritual preparation among priesthood candidates and strengthen their formal education at seminaries, said a top Vatican synod official.

Archbishop Jan P. Schotte, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, said worldwide responses to a synod preparatory document emphasized a "need for better and deeper spiritual formation for candidates" who are entering seminaries from a fast-changing society.

The monthlong synod's theme is "The Formation of Priests in Circumstances of the Present Day." "One main issue is the need for deeper faith formation and commitment to one's faith in the Catholic community. That's where a lot of problems start [for priests). They are much more challenged and much less supported," said Archbishop Schotte.

Another concern is the need for well-prepared teaching staffs for

seminarians and for ongoing formation of priests.

Overall, the synod will look to the future, not rehash the past, said the archbishop.

"I would say it's really a critical moment in evaluation," he noted.

"The question the bishops will be trying to answer is what kind of priest do we need in the coming years."

The archbishop said the documents of the Second Vatican Council gave a "very good orientation" regarding priestly formation but that "You have to look periodicilily to see how we have worked with these changes."

Archbishop Schotte said the questions of married priests and women priests probably would be marginal at the synod.

"They are outside the agenda but that doesn't mean they won't crop up in discussions," he said.

The synod' secretariat is now preparing to publish the synod's "instrumentum laboris" or working document, he added.

Santo Domingo tr~p to mark ,evangelization of Americas VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the evangelization of the Americas must be "a new call to all to follow" the Gospel, Pope John Paul II said.

"True evangelization cannot remain only on the level of a simple proclamation of the salvific message, but it must infuse with the spirit of the Beatitudes the daily relations among people and with God," the pope said.

He made his comments in a recent ceremony welcoming the Dominican Republic's new ambassador to the Vatican, Ramon Arturo Caceres Rodriguez.

The pope said he would inaugurate the'I992 celebrations in North and South America - marking the arrival of Catholic missionaries who traveled with Christopher Columbus - with a visit to the capital city of Santo Domingo.

The Dominican Republic, the pope said, was where "the cross of Christ was planted five centuries ago" and from where the faith spread to other parts of the Americas.

"The process of evangelization, which began with the first missionaries, exemplary for their selfsacrificing spiritual and social work, and which in five centuries has passed through diverse ecclesial and socio-political changes, must continue in our day," he said.

The message which the church preaches must also "project itself into the future, taking into account the clianging situations of the persons and the peoples in their historical situation," he said.

"The spirit of the Beatitudes," he said, can have a profound influence on "the criteria for judgment, social values, trains of thought and the principles which inspire behavior and models of life, that is to say, above all upon the cultural process of a people."

The church, the pope said, "wishes to collaborate with the various civil causes so that our beloved sons and daughters of the Dominican Republic, making progress in their Christian life, may also reach a greater social wellbeing as the fruit of solidarity and justice."

Pope ordains 47 priests VATICAN CITY (CNS) Earlier this month, Pope John Paul II ordained 47 priests from 18 countries, telling them to be witnesses to the Gospel in every part of the world.

The new priests should trust "not in their own talents, but in the secret strength ofthe Holy Spirit," the pope said.

He urged them to study church doctrine well so they could teach it accurately and meaningfully to today's adults.

Six ofthose ordained were from the United States, including Father James R. Larkin, 60, the oldest of the group, a member of the Missionarit;s of the Holy Apostles.

Of the total, 22 were members of Opus Dei, an international movement founded in Spain. Opus Dei members are traditionally ordained in large numbers during the annual Mass in St. Peter's.

Opus Dei makes a point of seeking out vocations and members among professionals. This year its .group included a 41-year-old former paratroop instructor for the Irish contingent of the U.N. special forces in Cyprus, a 45-year-old Mexican cardiologist and a South Korean dentist.

Recipe "If you want to be happy for an hour, take a nap. If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a year, inherit a fortune. But if you want to be happy for a lifetime, help somebody else." - Proverb

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"Support, creativity, openness, understanding, meeting new friends, learning skills, and becoming great leaders" were some of the expectations voiced on Sunday when 60 young people between the ages of 15 and 18 arrived at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, to begin the third annual Christian Leadership Institute. The program, sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Catholic Youth Ministry, and , presented by the Center for Youth Ministry Development, Naugatuck, Conn. concludes today.

Participants represented 23 urJENNIFER MEDEIROS, a sixth-g'rader at Our Lady of ban and suburban parishes of the diocese. Mike Moseley, director of Mt. Carmel School, New Bedford, won a contest to design a the youth leadership department T-Shirt for the school's recent Walk-A-Thon fundraiser. of CYO of the archdiocese of Many of the custom-designed T-shirts were worn during the Detroit, directed the program. He ' event to promote school spirit. Congratulat.ing Jennifer is has been training youth and adults for leadership in youth ministry school principal Sister Adelaide Furtado, SSD. for the last nine years.

Rev. David Costa was spiritual director. Comprising the remaindei of the team were Rev. Bill Baker, St. Mary's, S,eekonk; Jim Medeiros, St. John of God, Somerset; WASHINGTON (CNS) - That He says it's time we stopped thinkRev. Richard Roy, Our Lady of Grace, Westport; Jackie Galione, black apartheid must not replace ing of 'you' and 'me,' and started St. Mary's, Sf:ekonk; Bobbi Para- white apartheid was a key message thinking of 'us.' " A second message the South dise, Our Lady of Victory, Center- Nelson Mandela proclaimed durAfrican leader delivered during his ing his 13-nation, six-week whirlville; Judi Moniz, St. George, Westport; Donna Martyniak, St. wind tour away from South Africa. visit to the United States was that Instead, said the popular 71- the time was not right to lift ecoAnn's, Raynham; Lisa Kelly, St. Mary's, Norton; and Edna Donog- year-old African National Con- nomic sanctions against South hue and Sister Mary Golden, gress leader who spent 27 years in Africa.

"Apartheid is doomed. South MSBT, associate directors of the prison before his Feb. 9 release, South Africa must become a nation Africa will be free," Mandela said youth ministry office.

The goal of CLI is to develop "which banishes forever racism in in New York. But ~e warned that sanctions should not be lifted and individual leadership potential and all its forms."

This conviction is part of what that the international community to offer hands-on experience for participants. To this end, skills enables Mandela to "transcend" must not become complacent beworkshops, personal 'support racial barriers, Roburt A. Dumas, cause of limited reforms instituted groups, social activities, and prayer adviser to the U.S. bishops on in recent months by South African and liturgy were experienced dur- Africa, told Catholic News Serv- President F. W. de Klerk.

"We should not lower our ing the week. I n addition, the pro- ice. If Mandela's dreams can be gram involved role-playing, case realized, South Africa "may one guard," Mandela said, adding that day be the light that's going to for all the racial reforms instituted stud~es, journaling and ;group dysince his release from prison four guide the world," ,he said. namics.

When Mandela talks of South months ago, he still cannot vote Were the expectations voiced Africa's future, "he doesn't just and blacks continue to be killed on Sunday ffii~t? Most definitely.

The young church of Fall River is address black people; he speaks of because of South Africa's system eager and well··prepared to serve in all South Africa," noted Dumas. of racial discrimination.

Opponents to sanctions say they leadership roles in parishes, schools "He points out that there are white people who died in the struggle mean fewer jobs for black South and community. ... that have participated in every Africans and, thereby, worsen their ~­ B:alance aspect of our struggle, that have plight.

"In the Father resides unity, and The U.S. bishops, Dumas said, occupied positions in the ANC at in the Son equality, and in the all levels." following the lead of the South Holy Spirit the perfect union of Mandela, said Dumas, has rec- African bishops, have supported unity and equality." - St. Augus- ognized whites' fears. '~He's tried economic sanctions against South tine to reach the people where they are. Africa.

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By Christopher Carstens Tomorrow is Saturday, and every Satudlay morning .you do your chores around the house. It's one of your mom's rules from ancient history.

But tonight Denise calls and asks you to go shopping tomorrow at the new mall. Her dad will drive, and you'll be home by ,2' o'clock.

You explain about the chores, and she tetls you how much fun it will be cruising the stores and.looking fo'r cute' guys. You decide to ask your mom if you can do chores late "just this.once." :What does your mom say? It depends! Your. mom's answer is' linked to what happened the last time you asked for a special cha'nge in the. rules. If eJ!:perii:.nee ha~ shown her that. yo'u really w,iIl come home and do your. 'chores with no hassle, s'he is almost cer~ .' .~·:~oc.k~t. funofdr,~alll~J~9m~!rUe;:. " " { ' " 3 "~.~,~~~.91.e.g[y~~.~mqn,~y.'i tain to say yes. But if she expects a :'\T~ese ate' things dial you cannot b t . Y · r r o w i o dokiild:an:dpui'tt!riilg bunch of problems she probably willtn'sist that you do the chores at ')',wantydu :l1ymy side;. : . '\.. " .\'.:. .•.•. .t•. . .h.·in..• .g..•. ~. •. •. f()r..• . . .y.•. . .o.•. . .u. rs·e.•. •. .lf... .·. •. .i.'.•. ·. .' F.·.. .• ;•.•. . . . .•. •.•.•. •.•. '..•'.• •. •. :::119.•. lieeP 'y.ou·satisfi.ed· :..i.··.··•.· ·······.·.: ,.·.A ·i.I• • .·• . ·,·•. '..,. < •••.~.•.••i ' •J.''4.; .•.A"·st h""e~ong spggests, . .' . rea"'1;Ize:: the regular·time. . j'Written Ily 'Reggie (jaJlo"ay, yineent, Cal~o'!ay, Mel~in~hat·:.I1Poc~~tf\in of d~ea~s"is.:.: Trust in hUinarirelationshit>s' is Genlry,B~linda··LipscOmb;:sungby (;)8,1I0,!,.ilY(e),1982by :•. ,·the';k~y :t()·bu·ilping.:m~a~ingi actually a fairly simple thing. You . .••. " . .<. '~BS ~.ecordS Inc.! i ' .•...•.. aild·(;h~lle:ngein,.you·ilife:':, ' trust people wh<;n your exp.erience YOU LlKEto: wear,the' spo's 1i6petahav¢;~lots~hdiqtS:;MO~~·f·cap.·h~rp;/usr~acli:Jhe.i;1:: shows' that you can depend on . them to do what they say they will latest fashions Of ch:lve'i classy of m~ney.'~;The'song'doesil'td~earris,bu.tev~ri ih~re impor-,>';: ·;!'?a~?~~ybeJy.ouWllDt;y,oii~.,. .t~ll u~whatthep~rso~;;~iJl<!.otant,<j.~;.per~9rial~~J1l~:!!me~.~·';,';1 . do, and not do what they say 'they won't do. . .' . ..'. : ali;)um or disc coUection'to"oe'" >'with 'aU this mone'y;'but;~ei Ask God toguideyou'in {.

If you share ~omethingper~~nal. ;s~£ondJP nOI1~? c.;. . .•.• • "Want~:1ve p~pver~.i~l .. c,~~e.':lln<! '.' :;;~~tai~ing·:~?th ;Jhe )~n,er:;fpd. ';. ···Finallcingsuchdesires/takes, < wimts"to eai ittClo.".;" . .. 'huterresoiJrcestoacliiev~ alife' with a friend who promises to keep it confidential, you feel re~lly dis:;rppney, Copsequently, YOH . · ',. The.perspn inJP.e S?ng say~ full o(love;p~aceand happiness. .:might fiQ.,d,yourself agr~eing wittr; that his real goal isto h~veaJife ." Your ~oDltne'nts·are:welcoriled;.; . appointed when three .other kids ask you about it during sixth .the title of Calloway's -recent· full oC"love, peace an<!haPl)i~alwai'~ bytbarliiMllrlin, IlR" period. Even if the infOl:mation ",bit;"lWannaBeRich.~'·.},; "ness."iIIe ~ants~~~lltlj~things· ':3, lIoX )82, R~c~P9rt,.lnd.; Ji'rhe sq.pg ,descri~es o~~per~. that IQversdo,"knowing that 'I4763SI..'· . ';'. she pass~d along was no big deal, ",'. ',' .

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"The Vikings play better than say something like "I think Presithe Bengals!" dent Bush was wrong in sending If the listener to thai statement· troops to Panama because..... Give is from Cincinnati, he may well an explicit reason, or several if you shout, "You're crazy!''', and a hot can. argument will be under way.

And don't expect to win an But in spite of the shouting and argument by such a simple statethe strong opinions and sometimes ment as, "Well, I disagree with the lack of logic, it is likely to be a that." Instead you have to deal friendly argument, one that pro-with the issue directly, state your vides amusement for participants reasons foryour disagreement, and and bystanders. give some facts to back up your Arguments about sports usually viewpoint. are like that. The fun is everything.· . The point is, try to have facts or But some other arguments are . idea~ ·or both to convince your quite different. They can be frus- opponent of your opinions and trating, bitter, fruitless and put beliefs.

If you do have facts and ideas, strains on a friendship.

This is less likely to happen,. you are much more. likely to keep however, if you keep certain guide- your cool when the argument heats lines in mind. up. And an argument is much Don't argue about likes and dis- more likely to be productive if likes. You'll just look silly if you both participants stay cool and try to convince someone that oran- avoid letting the discussion degen. ges taste better than apples. They erate into a shouting match. may to you, but they don't to ev. The ability to argue skillfully' eryone. Certainly there are no rules can pay surprising dividends in or laws about what you must like our future. In the United States or dislike. today, the shortage of priests and Yes, you can explain why you religious makes it more and more enjoyed'a certain movie, but your necessary for laypersons to be the boyfriend is just as free to explain ones who will bring the truths of why he didn't care for· the same Christ to those outside the church. movie. And it isn't likely that Sometimes this will involve a good either of you can change the oth- deal of explanation, discussion and er's taste in motion pictures. argumentation. .

Don't say things like, "I think Then is when the ability to argue President Bush is stupid." Instead, productively will be so valuable

If a friend breaks small prom.ises, you. tend not to trust them with big things. That's the way we feel' about people' who aren't .reliable. . In the same way, 'small unkept promises are not lost on your parents. If you say you'll do the dishes and then you forget, you show yourself to be a bit unreliable. If you "forget" your commitments again ilnd again, your parents stop listening to what you say. A little at a time, your word loses its value. . Teens often protest that they may 'be 'unreliable in small things, but that 'they are certainly trustworthy when it counts. Those little promises - "I'll pick up those nylpps you need while I'm at the storc,:" -:- .are almo~t never lifeand~death' matters.

But.if. you fall into the habit of breaking little prQmi,ses, your parents ,can gradually .lose. faith in your ability 'to .k~~p the big ones, like "I'll come home on time," or"I won't drink.while I'm out" or "I'U . drive careruily.': And when your pa'rents don't trust you they give. you less and les~ space. They' check on you more often and you ~ind up with less freedo.m. .

So, ho~ do'you get your parents to trust you? Simple. Dowhat you say you will do. Don't do what you say you won't do. ,Make a personal commitment to .keepiilg your 'word in small things,.and it is absolutely guaranteed that. over time your parents will come to trust you more in the big things.

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LENNON Parents need to do something now, or I fear that the same spirit will infect younger children, and for you. This will mean having even very young children like my own.

'Just the other day I said to one sound' knowledge of pur faith and of them, the oldest, "I have told why you think as you do.

Also crucial in such work will be . you a thousand times, I do not skill at staying cool and maintain- want to see 'you wearing clothes ing a loving attitude, toward the like that."

"S'orry, mom," she laughed reperson whom you are telling about .

Jesus and his comqlunity of be- belliously, "but they say we're suplieve·rs. posed to wear a cap and gown to high school graduation."

See what I mean?'l told her just hardly 'yesterday; while 'she was WASHIl'!GTON (CNS) - A makin'g mud cookies for showpatient has given Georgetown Uni- and-tell, that she was growing up versity Medical Center $8 million, too fast and to knock it off.

'Will she listen? Not when all her the largest single private gift it has ever' received from an individual. friends are doing the same thing.

"Don't you mean you think you The donation of Frank J. Pasquer,illa and his wife, Sylvia, of John- are too young to have a child gradstown, Pa., will fund improvements uating from high school?" she went to center facilities for outpatient on, adding smart-alec talk to direct and ambulatory care, for cardio- disobedience.

"See?" I snapped. "Trying to put vascular disease treatment and for financial aid to medical and bio- words in my mouth. That's not medical students. Pasquerilla, head what I mean at all.

"Y ou graduate from high school, of a large shopping mall development corporation began receiving then you'll want to go to college or medical care at Georgetown Uni- something, then you'll want to get married or move to some place ' versity Hospital in 1980.

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weird like Detroit or Atlantic City - and for heaven's sake, you'll be with people who are talking about marriage and having children of their own - and maybe even both . at the same time."

"Do I detect a latent fear of being called grandma?" she asked, trying to disguise her unbridled rebelliousness under a gentle smile.

"That. stea'ms my bifocals," I told her. "I am more than prepared to age with grace, Unfortunately, Grace' is letting her kids do anything they want:"" like string four-letter words together that ,make your hair stand on end. Like (I shuddered) 'auto loan' and 'rent deposit' and ..." .. 'Deposit' has more than four letters," my firstborn interrupted.

"You're missing the point," I tried again. "Your swing set is hardly even worn. There are years of use left in that nylon jump rope with the bright-red handles. If your dad can find the chain, I know your bicycle will pedal like new."

She hugged me. "You're not going to wear that old dress to graduation are you?" she asked. "I think you wore that thing to my First Communion, and how long ago was that?"

"Hardly any time at all," I assured her:

in our schools .Bishop Stang Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, recently observed Earth Week with speakers, films, activities and environmental awareness programs.

Students viewed a Nova episode, "Are We Swimming In a Sewer?", which included a segment on New Bedford harbor, and heard speakers including Professor Helen Conrad of Bristol Community College, who discussed the ecology of a primeval forest, and Dr. Alan Hankins of the Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies, who spoke on post Earth Day activities.

Other undertakings were energy and water, saying p10jects, paper and aluminum canrecycling anda prayer service. Deposit refunds from the cans were used ~o "adopt" a whale. . :.

A campuscleanup which realized 57 bags of trash was followed by planting of a flowering cherry tree. and two blue spruce trees on the school grounds.

wi'nners received a no-uniform day and an afternoon cookout courtesy of the faculty-who came in second by a mere 114 feet.

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The Spartan golf team finished 13-4 overall and 9-1 in conference play this spring, becoming the first golf team in the school's history to capture the SMC Division 2 title.

The squad was led by captains Matt Osborne and Dave Carvara.

Carvara and teammate Tim Schmitt were named to the New Bedford Standard Times All-Star Team.

M()~vie§""" Recent bl)X office hits 1. Another.I8 HRS., 0 (R) 2. Total Re(~II, 0 (R) 3, Back to the Future, Part III, A-II (PG) 4. Bird on a Wire, A-III (PG-13) 5. Pretty Woman, A-III (R) 6. Cadillac Man, 0 (R) 7. Teenage Mutatrt Ninja Turtles, A-II (PG) 8. Fire Birds. A-III (PG-13) 9. The Hunt for Red October, A-II (PG) 10. Driving Miss Daisy, A-II (PG)

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Youth'exec named OMAHA,. Neb. (CNS) Michael Ellis of St, Cloud, Minn., has been named the new' executive director ofTeensEnc<,)Unte~'Christ, a national youth e,vangeIization program. Ellis, who had been youth coordinator for St. Peter, Parish in St. Cloud, replaces Notre Dame Sister Joy Connealy. Teens Encounter Christ sponsors weekends of Christian living that concentrate on teaching high school juniors and seniors to put their faith into daily practice.

Gets Bible award NEW YORK (CNS) - Archbishop John' F. Whealon of Hartford, Conn.; has received the annual American Bible S~ciety Award for effectively advocating "the Bible cause" and promoting the wider distribution of Bibles in his 'archdiocese and throughout the world.

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A tennis camp for students ages views are aVlliiable by calling , 5 to 15 will be held on the Con- . the 900 number listed. nolly campus in July under the Symbols following reviews direction of Connolly girls' tennis indicate both general and head coach Tim Miller. Classes will run 9 a.m. to I p.m, daily durCatholic Films Office ratings, ing two sessions: July 9 to 13 and which do no~ always coincide.

July 23 to 27. Information may be obtained from the Connolly Athletic Office, 676-1032.

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The Connolly'Alumni Associatiorl is 'planning a'summer tennis tournament· ~nd, a fall golf tournament. Details of the events will ' be discussed at ,a' July 10 Alumni Association mt;eting beginning .at 7 p.m. in Connolly's Father Wolf· Conference Room. ,

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St. Anne's School, Fall River, conducted its kindergarten graduation on June I. Graduating were 26 students in Brenda Gagnon's class, 26 in Elaine Guay's, and 24 in Palmina Levesque's.

The graduation program inCluded a welcome by the children and several songs.

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Recent 'top rentals Father Stepheil F. Dawber, 'SJ, of Bishop Connolly High School, , , 1. Back to·the Future, Part 11.

Fall River,' lias a.nnounced the "A-II (P(~) 1990 recipients !>f the Connolly ; 2. The Fabulous Baker Boys, parochial school scholarships: The , A-III (A) principal of each di'ocesan grade 3. The little Mermail. A-I (G) school is invited to nomina'ie a 4. ~arlem Nights. 0 (A) .

Social studies departmerit chairgraduating 'student for the paI:tial person Peter Crowley and eight 5. The Bear. A~I (PG) scholarship and awar9s are based, sophomores recently visited the 6. Look Who's TaIki~,O (PG-13) on tqe !ltud~nis' academic,achievenation's capital. Sites visited )n- . ment and character. Th,e recipients 7. National ~n's Christmas ' cluded the Capitol, the Smiths'onVacation. A-III (PG-13) are: ' ian Institution and Mount Ver8.

Sa, of LDVe. 0 CA) , Fall'River: Teresa Carreiro, St. 9. Black Rain, '0 (A) , n'on. The group toured oCt he city Ann.e School; Natalie Assad, ~oly by night and visited Arlington Name School; Shannon Tavares, ' , 10. Dad;. A-II (PG) , National Cem'etery', where two Dominican Academy; ,Rebecca students placed a wreath o·n the' Lopes, ,St. Jean Baptiste School; Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Jaime Rebello; St.Stanislaus School; Jason Cabral, St., Michaei's Stang accumulated six miles of School; Patrick Griffin; Notre pennies-$5,100-in a yearlong' Dame School; Elizabeth 'Silva, ~18d WIIh pellIISSOlol Vllllty @ 1990 CNS Graotics ' penny drive. Freshman l:tomeroom Espirito Santo School ' 303 collected some 3;400 feet of New Bedford: Elizabeth SylVia, N OTE:Bel~inning this week, pennies totaling over $500 to attain St. James-St. John School top honors in the contest. The the Anchor will present the Fairhaven: Andrew LaBrecque, ' current top to movies and St. Joseph's School

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STUDENTS AT Bishop Feehan' High Schoo), Attie- , boro; ,recently' elected class and student council officers, pictured with student council moderators Alan Kazarian, 'far left, a.nd Sister Patricia Harrington, far' right. The students are (back row, from left): student council officers Gino Del'Sesto, Jason Adamic, Todd Carges, Brett O'Brien and Heidi Hartzell; senior class officers Dee Carraher, Keith Wade and Robert Brennan. Kneeling are junior class officers Joseph Warzycha, Martha Casey and Deirdre Palermino; sophomore class officers Cory Almeida, Kelly Myies, Tony Cipriano.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri'., June 29, 1990 . ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Father David Costa will celebrate a farewell Mass II :30 a.m. July 8.

-SS PETER AND PAUL, FR South African priest Father Ralph DeHahn will speak on his work in Cape Town at Masses this weekend.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR 1990-91 RCIA program information: Father Robert Kaszynski, PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN 672-0423, LaSALETTE SHRINE, are asked to submit news Items lor this ATTLEBORO ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall Grace Markay will lead .. A Day of SWANSEA River, 02722. Name 01 city or town should Prayer and Healing Through Music" . The parish will hold a reception be Included, as well as lull dates 01 all actlvfrom 1-7:30 p.m. July 14 at LaSalette for departing parochial vicar Father Itles, Please send news 01 luture' rather Shrine, Attleboro. Preregistration is Richard Beaulieu on June 8. than past events. Note: We do not normally carry news 01 fundraising activities. We are required; deadline.is July 10. Dinner happy to carry notices of spiritual proand liturgy are included in the day's ST. MARY, SEEKONK Youth softball 6-8 p.m. Sunday, grams, club meetings, youth projects and program. Information: 222-5410. similar nonprofit activities. Fundra'slng North School Field. Explorer Post I projects may be advertised at our regular youth group meeting 7:30 p.m. July rates, obtainable from The Anchor busl9, parish center.' nesl oHlcR, telephone 675-7151.

On Steering Points Items FR Indicates ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Fall River, NB Indicates New Bedford.

Holy Ghost Feast Mass for Dartmouth Holy Ghost Club, 9:30 SECULAR FRANCISCANS a.m. Sunday. Parishioners who have W. Harwich Fraternity Mass and not received parish census form are meeting 2 p.m. July 8, Holy Trinity asked to call the rectory.

Church, W. Harwich. Celebrant will HOLY NAME, FR be Father John Lazanski, OFM. Rosary is prayed 5 p.m. daily.

Information: Dorothy Williams, Retreat renewal 6:30 p.m. Sunday, 394-4094. school. Past retreatants welcome.

ST. MARY, N. ATT.LEBORO From July 7 to Labor Day all . . . . - 2 3 4 Second Street Masses will be celebrated in parish ~Fall路River. MA 02721 center. There will be no healing ser~WebOffset vice in July; the next service will be _ _ Newspapers 2:30 p.m. Aug. 5. ~ Printing & Mailing ORDER OF ALHAMBRA (508) 679-5262 Monthly meeting of Region One Council of Caravans 8 p.m. July 13, Loyola Hall, Holy Cross College, GRACE MARKAY Worcester.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO First Class Second Class O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Youth group liturgy II a.m. July First Class Presort Carrier Route Coding Youth ministry Lock-in retreat, I. Parish calendar planning meeting this weekend.

Vincentians will colThird Class Bulk Rate Zip Code Sorting 7:30 p.m. June 2, parish center. lect donations this Sunday.

Third Class Non Profit List Maintenance ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, Father Walter Downs of the MisALL TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS HYANNIS sionaries of the Sacred Heart will Donations of new infimt-size speak at Masses July 7 and 8.

Cheshire labeling on Kirk路Rudy 4路up sleepers, undershirts and receiving labeler. And Pressure Sensitive Labeling CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH blankets for unplanned pregnancy Inserting. collating. folding.

A representative ofthe Missionarand adoption programs may be left metering. sealing. sorting. addressing. ies of Mary Immaculate will speak at at the office 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.

Masses July 7 !!-nd 8. sacking. completing USPS forms.

The next In Meniory Still bereavedirect delivery to Post Office MASS. CITIZENS FOR LIFE ment program for persons who have ... Printing . .. We Do It Alii Cape Cod chapter will sponsor a lost a loved one through suicide behealing Mass 7:30 p.m. July 10, St. gins July 18; information: Bob FournCall for Details (508) 679-5262 Francis Xavier Church, South St., ier, 771-6771.

Hyannis. All welcome. Information: 778-5651.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN ''It is the Tight of every pregnani woman Family Mass 9:30 a.m. Sunday; refreshments will follow. There will to give birth. ... and the right of be no exposition of Blessed Sacrament and no Benediction.on July 4; every child to be born." there will be one morning Mass at 8:30 a.m. Sacred Hearts Association officers are Katherine Hart, president; Louise Alfonse, secretary; Ilene Rego, treasurer.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH An Emergency Pregnancy Service Senior choir practices 7: 15-8: 15 p.m. Wednesdays in the church.

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This Message Sponsored by the Following Business Concerns in the Diocese of Fall River DURO F1NISH!NG CORP. GLOBE MANUFACTURING CO. GILBERT C. OLIVEIRA INS. AGENCY GEORGE O'HARA CHEVROLET FALL RIVER TRAVEL BUREAU

THE 1990 Summ.er Concert Series at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, begins tomorrow with a 7:30 p.m. performance by Dean Stevens, a Costa Rican singer, songwriter and guitarist.

His concert will include Spanish liberation songs and will be preceded by a 6:30 p.m. outdoor Mass in Spanish in honor of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero.

Also part of the Concert Series will be a Mass for Life at 6:30 p.m. July 7.

Music for the liturgy was composed and will be led

by Mark Gabriel Girardin, a singer, guitarist, keyboardist and composer for the People of God's Love community in Providence.

He is artistic director and cofounder of the Liturgical Arts for Life Ensemble.

Among other upcoming shrine events is a healing service to be led by Redemptorist Father Edward McDonough at 2 p.m. July 7. The public is welcome at all events.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Ecumenical service at Craigville Tabernacle 8 p.m. Sunday; a complimentary 6 p.m. supper for choir members will be served before 7 p.m. rehearsal. Information night on trip to Bermuda 7 p.m. July 9, parish center.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Catholic Women's Club officers are Joan Duggan, president; Barbara Cress, vice-president; Lecky Tcilchinsky, treasurer; Brenda Sansone and Dee Allick, secretaries.

PRINCIPAL NEEDED Catholic Primary School Taunton Area Position Open August 1, 1990 Application Deadline July 20 Contact

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ST. JOSEPH, F:AIRHAVEN Homecoming Mass 9:30 a.m., children's Mass II a.m. Sunday; Legion of Mary meets Sunday evening.

VINCENTIANS, FR DISTRICT Eucharistic devotion and meeting 2 p.m. July 8, St. Vincent de Paul Camp, 573 Adamsville Rd., Westport.

BIRTHRIGHT Birthright of Greater Taunton is planning a one-day training program for potential volunteers to a.m.-4 p.m. tomorrow at the Birthright office, 78 Broadway, Taunton.Information: Catherine Poirier, 823-1481; Rosalie Connors, 824-7281.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO During July and August, parish Mass on Tuesdays and Thursdays will be at 10: 15 a.m. at Madonna Manor; other weekday Masses will be in the parish chapel at regular times.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Share the Word Tuesdays after 9 a.m. Mass; half-hour program gives overview of following Sunday's Scriptures.

EMMAUS/GALILEE Family picnic noon-6 p.m. July 8, Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown. Information: Maggi Farren, (401) 724-3795.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Men of the parish are requested to meet 6 p.m. July 2 on parish grounds to set up booths for upcoming St. John of God Feast.

Irish prelates 0 K Medjugorje trips MAYNOOTH, Ireland (CNS) - The Irish bishops, without endorsing alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, said Catholics could make prayer pilgrimages to the town.

A bishops' conference spokesman, Bishop Joseph Duffy of Clogher, said that people could make pilgrimages to the Yugoslavian site, provided that they were not officially organized pilgrimages by bishops or priests.

The bishops "approached this discussion with pastoral interest and concern: interest because of the spiritual benefits which many . people seem to derive from Medjugorje; concern because of the various claims of messages and apparitions."

Bishop Duffy noted that priests travel to Medjugorje to provide spiritual and pastoral help for pilgrims, not as pilgrimage organizers.

Since 1987 a commission of the Yugoslavian bishops' conference, established at the request of the Holy See, had been investigating claimed apparitions and private revelations. The commission has not given an opinion on the supernatural character of the alleged phenomena.

The commission will forward its opinion to the Holy See. "Only when this process is com-plete will we have the judgment of the church, whether positive or negative," said Bishop Duffy. "Until the church gives its decision, no one is entitled on behalf of the church to presume a favorable judgment regarding the happenings at Medjugorje."

Albania lags behind VATICAN CITY (CNS)-The . Vatican has asked Albania to join the rest of Europe in guaranteeing religious and human rights according to the 1975 Helsinki accords.

Albania is the only European country that has not signed the accords, which establish a framework for respecting rights and for cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe.