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HAVING A GOOD TIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? ALT AR BOYS from around the diocese take enviable possession of Long Pond at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, during the camp's annual Altar Boy Day.

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WOlmen's rights si; fleminism no VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The church must support the rights of women and seriously reflect on their role in the church. but without compromising with an "extreme" and ideological form of feminism. Pope John Paul II told a group of U.S. bishops.

In dealing with the question. church leaders should be careful not to raise false hopes. particularly on the church's refusal to ordain women as priests. the pope said to some 30 bishops from Eastern and Southern states. in Rome for their consultative "ad limina" visits. His talk examined the many kinds of assistance lay people are able to provide pastors in the Uniled States. a situation which he called a "blessing."

The role of women in the church needs to be addressl:d with "a keen sense of its importance" and with an eye toward the profound transformations that have affected women's place in society, he said.

"Respect for women's rights is without doubt an essential step toward a more just and mature society, and the church cannot fail to make her own this worthy objective," he said. He cited his own efforts and those of bishops to appreciate women's contributions to the church.

The pope said he was concerned, however. that in some circles there is dissatisfaction with the church's position on women - especially. he said, among those who fail to distinguish between women's human and civil rights in society and their ministries and functions in the church. This can easily lead to "presenting false demands and raising false hopes," he said.

"What is certain is that the question cannot be resolved through a compromise with a feminism which polarizes along bitter, ideological lines." he said.

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Bishop Sean O'Malley has announced retirements of three pastors; appointment of 10 pastors and two administrators; seven assignments to special ministries and new placements for six parochial vicars.

In 1968 he was incardinated in the Fall River diocese, and was for a year parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield. before being assigned to his present parish.

Msgr.Patrick J. O'Neill, has been pastor of St. Julie's Church. North Dartmouth, since 1986. He leaves Retiring Pastors the parish of over 2.000 families Rev. Clarence P. Murphy, since after overseeing a building project 1969 pastor of Our Lady of the which saw the size of the church Assumption parish, Osterville. was doubled and a new wing added to born on St. Patrick's Day, 1920, in the building to accommodate meetBoston, the son of the late William ing rooms, a kitchen and parish and Ellen (O'Keefe) Murphy. He offices. prepared for the priesthood at Montfort Seminary and at St. He was born in Fall River in John's Seminary, Ottawa, Ont..

1931. the son of the late Patrick Canada. and Sarah (Coogan) O'Neill. His He was ordained as a Montfort brother. Father Cornelius O·Neill.

Missionary March I, 1947. there- who shares his love of sailing. is after teaching in the Montfort pastor of Sacred Heart parish.

Seminary at Bay Shore. N.Y .• " Taunton. serving as a parochial vicar in Ordained in 1957. he served as Ozone Park. N.Y .• and from 1957 parochial vicar at Immaculate Conto 1968 holding administrative ception Church. Fall River. and positions in the Montfort com- St. Thomas More parish. Somerset. munity. including the years from and was successively acting super1962 to 1966 as superior of the intendent and superintendent of former Montfort house in Taunton. diocesan schools as well as cha-

plain of Bishop Stang High School.

North Darmouth.

In 1973 Msgr. O'Neill was named diocesan director of education when the department was reorganized. In that capacity he was president of the Department of Chief Administrators of Catholic Education of the National Catholic Educational Assn .• and was also chairman of the Independent School Commission of the New England Assn. of Schools and Colleges.

In 1974 he was named a domes~ tic prelate and in 1975 was named pastor of SS. Peter and Paul parish, Fall River, where he served until his appointment to St. Julie's.

Msgr. O'Neill is noted for his mechanical accomplishments, enjoying repairing electrical fixtures, and he is remembered at SS. Peter and Paul's for his leadership in organizing the Niaga.ra Neighborhood Assn. in that area of Fall River.

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Anglicans, Catholics oppose euthanasia

Friday, July 16, 1993

Priests, seminarians to meet July 25 Priests and seminarians of the diocese will attend an evening of priestly fraternity with Bishop Sean O'Malley at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 25, at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.

Arranged by Msgr. John J. Smith, diocesan director of vocations, and Rev. William L. Boffa, director of Cathedral Camp, the program will include 6:30 p.m.

Evening Prayer at St. John Neumann Church, followed by a social hour and supper.

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WELCOMING THE rector and vice-rector of the Catholic University of Portugal as they visit the Fall River diocese are from left Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, pastor of Our Lady of M 1.

Carmel parish, New Bedford, and Bishop Sean O'Malley. Third left is Lisbon Auxiliary Bishop Jose DaCruz Polycarpo, university rector, and beside him is Father Isidoro Alves, university vice-rector. (Hickey photo)

New Bedfordites protest cable TV cuts in religious programming Alice Beaulieu, a member of St. Joseph parish, New Bedford, and an active member of the Legion of Mary, has reported on a June 30 meeting of herself, other interested persons and New Bedford city council members with Janice Rogers, manager of Whaling City Cable TV of New Bedford.

Ms. Beaulieu stated that all present objected to the recent slashing of viewing hours for the Inspirational and Eternal Word television channels.

Ms. Rogers said that Whaling City made the cuts because a survey it conducted indicated that the two religion channels were the least watched by viewers.

City Councilor Cynthia Kruger inquired if channel management had received petitions with over 1,000 signatures plus many postcards objecting to the cuts. Ms.

Rogers countered that petition signers may not have been aware of what they were signing and that the postcards "were something the Church had given to send out."

She added that the viewer survey indicating low interest in the religion channels had been conducted by an independent company.

Pressed by Councilor Kruger as to the nature of the survey, Ms. Rogers said it consisted of 203 random telephone calls to subscribers. Councilor Kruger pointed out that since Whaling City has 28,000 subscribers, 203 contacts amounted to less than one percent of viewers. She said that "the message being sent out to the New Bedford people is 'We will not give you religious programs.'''

Ms. Beaulieu, speaking on behalf of those signing petitions and sending postcards and noting that she for one had canceled her Whal-

Obituaries Irene Racine The Mass of Christian Burial was offered June 14 at St. Anne Church, New Bedford, for Irene Desorcy Racine, 94, who died June 11. Among her 10 children is Permanent Deacon Leo W. Racine, who serves at St. Theresa parish, New Bedford.

Mrs. Racine was the widow of J. Arthur Racine and the daughter of the late Paul V. and Josephine (Allaire) Desorcy. A native of Brompton, P.Q., Canada, she had lived in New Bedford for 72 years.

In addition to· Deacon Racine, she is survived by her sons Paul G. Racine, Taunton; Fernand O. Racine, South Dartmouth; Rene V. Racine, Acushnet; Robert A. Racine. Westminster, Calif.; and by daughters Marcelle I. Kirouac, Helen Aubut and Lorraine Racine, New Bedford; Blanche Pedro, Acushnet; Pauline Wade, Alexandria, Va. She also leaves two sisters, Helen Bertrand, Acushnet; and Evelyn Loranger, New Bedford; 46 grandchildren; 61 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; and nieces and nephews.

Evaristo Lagoa Father Raul Lagoa, parochial vicar at St. Michael's Church, Fall River, offered the Mass of Christian Burial for his father, Evaristo Lagoa, on July 7 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford.

Mr. Lagoa died July 3 at age 83.

A native of St. Michael, Azores,

he lived in New Bedford most of his life and was a tinsmith and a self-employed carpenter.

He was the son of the late Manuel and Maria Lagoa and the husband of Mary (Dias) Lagoa, who survives him. In addition to Father Lagoa, he is survived by another son, Charles A. Lagoa of South Dartmouth; and three daughters, Mary Ouimette of New Bedford, Teresa Gifford of South Dartmouth, and Eileen Peters of West Palm Beach, Fla. He also leaves 10 grandchildren, five greatgrandchildren and nieces and nephews.

FATHER FERNANDO AUGUSTO VEIGA, 76, former superior of the Portuguese Vincentian Fathers in the United States, who worked for many years in the Fall River diocese, died July I in Chaves, Portugal.

A native of Sao J oao da Pesqueira in the Viseu District of Portugal, he entered the Vincentian community and was ordained in 1942, subsequently serving in a seminary in Felgueiras, Portugal, as a pastor in Chaves and preaching throughout the country.

Also in Chaves, he founded a center of studies and missionary residence for the Vincentians.

ing City service, said it was an insult to ask people such as nursing home patients and shut-ins to watch the religious channeJs at the inconvenient hours of 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. weekends.

The argument was also advanced that the viewing cuts had been mandated by the federal government but protester Peter Zajac stated that the Fall River and Somerset cable systems carry the religious channels in question 24 hours a day.

The meeting concluded with the decision to hold another meeting, with Whaling City representatives, three city councilors and interested members of the public in attendance. At that meeting, said Ms. Beaulieu, "it is hoped to reach an agreeement with the cable company which will be acceptable to the public."

He came to the United States in 1955, working in parishes in the Fall River and Providence dioceses as well as directing the work of his community in this country.

For many years he made his headquarters at the Vincentian Mission House in Fall River, from which he assisted in parishes and offered spiritual direction.

He is survived by nieces and nephews.

A memorial Mass will be offered for him at 7 p.m.

Monday, July 19, at Our Lady of Angels Church, Fall River, among the parishes where he ministered.

FATHER VEIGA (1971 photo)

MANCHESTER, England (CNS) - There should be no change in Britain's law banning euthanasia, the country's Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops have said in a rare joint statl~ment.

Restating the Christian belief that human life is a gift from God to be cherished, the bishops said that patients "cannot and should not be able to demand that doctors collaborate in bringing about their deaths, which is intrinsically wrong."

The Church of England's House of Bishops and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales gave their views in a joint submission to an inquiry from a committee of the British Parliament.

The House of Lords Select Co~mittee On Medical Ethics is hearing evidence on the issue and will continue to do so until December. The committee is likely to give a report early next year.

Although euthanasia in Britain currently is illegal, pro-life advocates and church officials fear a growing campaign in favor of its legalization.

The bishops said: "Both churches are'resolutely opposed to the legislation of euthanasia even though it may be put forward as a means of relieving suffering, shortening the anguish of families or friends, or saving scarce resources."

The bishops did not say that seriously ill or dying people should be kept alive by extraordinary means for as long as possible.

They said the right to personal autonomy is not absolute and must recognize the respect due to human life.

If euthanasia were legalized, the bishops said, it would be difficult to guarantee that patients' requests for it were truly voluntary and not the result of undue pressure from doctors or families.

"There is a distinction between deliberate killing and the shortening of life through the administration of painkilling drugs," they said in their statement.

"There is a proper and fundamental ethical distinction which cannot be ignored between that which is intended and that which is foreseen but unintended," the church leaders said.

The bishops stressed that a recent decision of the House of Lords in the so-called Tony Bland case should not be used as an argument to change the law. Bland, severely injured in 1989, had been in a persistent vegetative state for four years when his family and doctors won the right to withhold artificial feeding earlier this year. He died soon afterwards.

The bishops said that doctors' primary duties were to ensure that patients are as free from pain as possible, and are given as much information as necessary about their treatment.

"To accede to requests for voluntary euthanasia would result in a breakdown of trust between doctors and their patients," they said.

"Medical treatment might come to be regarded by the vulnerable person as potentially life-threatening rather than something which confers benefit," the bishops stated.

They also said that the lessons learned from the hospice movement about care of the terminally ill should be applied throughout Britain's national health service.

MSGR. O'NEILL

FATHER SHOVELTON

FATHER BELLENOIT

FATHER CANUEL

FATHER GENDREAU

FATHER B. HARRINGTON

FATHER K. HARRINGTON

FATHER.MADDOCK

FATHER NEYLON

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL Retirements His Excellen,:y the Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. has accepted the requests of the following pastors to retire for reasons of health: Rev.' Msgr. Patrick J. O'Neill, St. Julie's Parish, North Dartmouth.

Rev. William J. Shovelton, St. William's Parish, Fall River.

Bishop O'Malley has also accepted the request to retire of Rev. Clarence P. Murphy, Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, .Osterville.

His Excellency the Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., announces the following appointments: Pastors Rev. George C. Bellenoit, Pastor of St. Patrick's Parish in Somerset, while remaining Director of Pastoral Care to the Sick.

Rev. Paul E. Canuel, Pastor of the new Parish for the Hispanic Community of the greater New Bedford Area, while remaining Director of Diocesan Apostolate to Hispanics.

Rev. Richard R. Gendreau, Pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in North Dighton.

Rev. Brian J. Harrington, Pastor of St. Julie's Parish in North Dartmouth.

Rev. Kevin J. Harrington, Pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Attleboro.

Rev. Jay T. Maddock, Pastor of St. William's Parish in Fall River, while remaining Judicial Vicar.

Rev. Bruce M. Neylon, Pastor of St. Mary's Parish in Seekonk.

Rev. Thomas L. Rita, Pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Osterville.

Rev. Richard Roy, Pastor of St. Stephen's Parish in Attleboro.

Rev. Stephen B. Salvador, Pastor of Holy Ghost Parish in Attleboro.

Administrators Rev. William M. Costello, Administrator of St. Mary's Parish in Taunton.

Rev. Arnold R. Medeiros, Administrator of St.' Elizabeth's Parish in Fall River.

Special Ministry Rev. Gerald P. Barnwell, Chaplain at Taunton Catholic Middle School and Coyle-Cassidy High School with residence at Sacred Heart Rectory in Taunton.

Rev. James A. Calnan, Chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital with residen<:e at Sacred Heart Rectory in Fall River.

Rev. John P. Cronin, Diocesan Director of Ministry to Sick, Retired and Senior Priests and Diocesan Director of Catholic Cemeteries.

Rev. Edward J. Healey, Chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital with residence at St. JFrancis Xavier Rectory in Hyannis while remaining Director of Ministry to Hispanic Catholics on Cape Cod. Rev. Raul Lagoa, Chaplain at Bristol Community College while remaining Paro(:hial Vicar at St. Michael's Parish, Fall River.

Rev. Albert J. Ryan, Chaplain at St. Anne's Hospital with residence at St. :\t1ary's Cathedral Rectory in Fall River.

Rev. John M. Sullivan, Chaplain at Sturdy Memorial Hospital with residence at St. Mary's Rectory in North Attleboro.

Parochial Vicars Rev. Richard G. Andrade, St. Pius the Tenth Parish, South Yarmouth.

Rev. Michael Camara, OFM, St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedfo路rd.

Rev. James Ferry, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Taunton.

Rev. James M. Fitzpatrick, SS. Peter and Paul Parish, Fall River.

Rev. John C. Ozug, St. Thomas More Parish, Somerset.

Rev. Bernard Vanasse, St. Dominic's Parish, Swansea.

All changes effective July 28, 1993

FATHER ROY

FATHER SALVADOR

Three retirees; ten pastors Continued from Page One been pastor of St. William's parish, Fall River, since 1977. He is a Fall River native, the son of Margaret (Meagher) Shovelton and the late Albert E. Shovelton. Ordained in 1946, he was subsequently parochial vicar at Our Lady ofthe Isle parish, Nantucket, at St. Louis, St. Joseph and Sacred

Heart parishes, Fall'River, and at St. Thomas More parish, Somerset. In 1969 he was named pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk, serving there until his appointment to St. William's.

He has been an area director of the Catholic Guild for the Blind and chaplain to the Seekonk Knights of Columbus.

Pastoral Appointments Rev. George C. Bellenoit, director of the Diocesan Departmentof Pastoral Care for the Sick, will be pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, while continuing in his diocesan ministry. He is a New Bedford native, the son of Domenica (Bollea) and the late Orner Bellenoit.

He was ordained May 13, 1972, and served at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, and at St. Mark's,.

Attleboro Falls, as parochial vicar before being assigned to the hQspital ministry at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, in 1983.

While serving at St. Mark's,.

Father Bellenoitwas Attleboro' area vocations coordinator and area chaplain for Girl Scouts and Camp' Fire. He was also chaplain for Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.

Rev. Paul E. Canuel, coordinator of the Diocesan Apostolate to Hispanics, will remain in that position and will be pastor of a newly-established parish for Hispanics in the Greater New Bedford area. Since 1983 he has been pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Attleboro, where he has spearheaded a Turn to Page II

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THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., July 16, 1993

themoorin~ Earth, Fire & Water What a week it has been for the media. World events have been reduced to water and sun. For endless hours the seers of television have discussed the flooding caused by the Mississippi River and the overheated East Coast. Sitting in their comfortable television studios, they talk .to drenched or scorched stringers, fielding banal questions on the first-grade level. What makes their reporting so completely awful is that they think the Army Corp of Engineers works for God. As they survey waterlogged farms and view newly-created inner-city fountains, their accompanying gabble seems to flow from primordial mindsets.

When they are eventually reduced to redundancy, they call on the weather forecasters. These poor souls, of course, are damned if they do and damned if they don't report what the anchor person concerned wants to hear. When attention switches to the all-important satellite weather map, it is almost like a visit with the Delphic oracle. Indeed, what is expected from the meteorologists is far beyond reason. And remember, when they are giving the television weather report they are doing it in a reverse procedure to render the satellite map intelligible. Is it any wonder that they need all their props and 'gimmicks to provide clear reporting?

As we continue to suffer through the summer of'93, would it be too much to consider how previous generations coped with the environment? Perhaps we have tried to control our climate to such a degree that we forget we are mere visitors on this planet earth.

There was a time, even now remembered by some, when people learned to live with nature and not fight it.

Before air conditioning and man-made levees, before swimming pools and flood-control gates, people survived the vagaries of nature because they respected them. They built houses in villages, not on beaches; they sought high ground for a home rather than a site below an earthen dam; trees were an important consideration in natural protection for homes.

In short, there was a more common-sense partnership with nature rather than continuous attempts to battle uncontrollable forces.

It seems to take a raging river, an extreme ozone level or a breached sand bar to make us realize we don't own the real estate around us; we are merely squatters.

Our intervention strategies have done little to put an end to brownouts, polluted water and ruinous septic systems. One week of nature on the loose and millions lose everything, down to their drinking water. Our dependence on what we make and produce has done very little to aid the victims of flood or heat.

We have also realized that we must fend for ourselves and let common sense be the measure of our actions.

In asocial order that wants man's inventions to determine standards of living, perhaps we are being taught a very important lesson oflimits. We simply cannot have all we want, where and when we want it. Each of us must recognize the realities of nature. When we refuse to do this, we become victims of our own selfishness.

In this difficult summer, as we cope with the facts and forces of our environment, perhaps we might be blessed with a renewed vision of our true place in God's creation.

The Editor

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POPE JOHN PAUL II PRAYS AT A MASS DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO SPAIN

"0 how have I loved thy law, 0 Lord! It is my ~ditation all the day."

Ps.118: 97

Can religion, governmett interact?

WASHINGTON(CNS)-Draw- The philosophy contrasts with ifanslated 'i~to the idea that 'I ing governments into the role of approaches that would give made mine, let them work hard society's caretaker mayor may not government a stronger role in and get theirs.... be an appropriate application of assuring that all people have access The theory of allowing the free religious precepts, said speakers at to land, other commodities and . market to dictate who owns propa recent forum on religious liberty. social benefits. erty, what prices and wages are "To regard the Bible as an ecoThe new catechism due out in and who succeeds is all well and nomic treatise is fraught with peril," English this year instructs Cathol- good, except that it lacks the social warned Rabbi Daniel Lapin at the ics "that they must take account of context that Judeo-Christian traconference sponsored by the Cato their pastors' belief that economic ditions emphasize, according to Institute, a Washington-based systems ordered around the idea Father McGovern. public policy research organization. of individual liberty and limited The Gospels offer a challenge to Panelists at the daylong session government also tend to promote capitalism, not to reject its fundatried to evaluate whether religious the kind of moral virtues and teachings mandate governmental social relationships that the church mental institutions but to question how those function, he said. involvement in addressing socie- is interested in advancing," he said.

"Christian anthropology, which "Is concern for the poor a funty's woes. They included economic theorists, writers, researchers and sees the necessity of human liberty damental guiding norm in evaluating economic policies? Do the bibflowing from the very nature of the clergymen. lical injunctions against economic The difficulty of attempting to human person, is what provides injustices toward the poor still apply Scripture to political theory the basis for the greatest experihold, and if so, where do w~ find is illustrated by a peculiarity of the ment in political freedom in hisJewish faith, said Rabbi Lapin, tory - the American Republic," injustices in today's society and founder of Toward Tradition, a Father Sirico said in a prepared what must be done to correct group that brings Jews and Chris- text. them? Do not concentrat.ions of tians together on national issues.

He concluded that the Catholic wealth and power still tend to corThroughout his world travels he Church's social teaching sees some rupt and lead to injustices?" has never encountered a copy of sort of democratic capitalist order Father McGovern said he teaches the Torah, the Jewish Mosaic as the most morally preferable that conservatives emphasize inscriptures, that differed from any approach to a national economy. other copy by so much as a comma With the decline of socialist dividual responsibility and strivor single phrase, he said. Yet des- governments over the last few years, ing for excellence, while liberals pite such unanimity in scriptural liberation theologians will have to stress equality, inclusion of all and roots, disagreement within Juda- "rethink the tools of social analy- the need to change social condiism is so widespread that even sis they employ," according to tions to achieve more equality of opportunity. choosing a chief rabbi for the Uni- Father Sirico.

He cautioned, however, that ted States has proved impossible.

Liberation theology finds in Two priests on different panels Scripture the principles and inspi- those attitudes are' influenced by drew contrasting pictures of what rations for working to free people one's social conditioning. For the Catholic Church's approach to from unjust social structures. The instance, he said, if he had grown involvement in government should Vatican has praised some aspects up in the inner city or on a remote be. of the theology but been critical of Indian reservation, the success rate for him and his schoolmates there Paulist Father Robert Sirico, .its use of Marxist social analysis. would be much different than, say, president of the Acton Institute in In a subsequent discussion, Jesuit for him and his classmates at Grand Rapids, Mich., which stuFather Arthur F. McGovern, phiGeorgetown University. dies religion and liberty, said early losophy professor at the Univerdisciples of St. Thomas Aquinas sity of Detroit-Mercy, said efforts were among the first to apply such as land reform supported by 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.111111111111111 THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Second moral theory to economics. liberation theologians in El Salva- Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass.

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All-day adoration initiated at Our Lady's Chapel

Good is always mixed with e'vil

Father "'rands Mary of the Angels, Father Guardian at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford, has announced initiation of all-day adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at the chapel.

He explains the devotion in the following article:

Wisdom 12:13,16-19 Roman:. 8:26-27 Matthew 13:2-43 One of the most difficult experiences disciples of God confront is to be drawn up to God at the very time we're tied down by our human restrictions. Only those who have gone through the first can correctly appre<:iate the second.

Thankfully, our biblical authors are among those people.

Often we coml: across Scripture passages which lead us to reflect both on the tension such experiences bring to our human condition and on the way God helps us work through that tension. T oday's three readings are just a small sampling from a large body of work.

The author of Wisdom, for instance, addresses the phenomenon of power from this perspective. As humans, we're limited to seeing power as the ability to do what we want to do, when we want to do it; such a dangerous element that we speak of absolute power corrupting absolutely. Most of the time we work at curbing, not increasing power in ourselves and others.

Yet when we I~xperience God's power, all human limits and dangers disappear. We simply can't compare what we do with what God does. The writer describes something impossible' for us to understand: " ... Your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all." The Lord operates totally differently from us.

But we can't just stand around all day applauding God. If we follow the Lord we must imitate the Lord, no matter what our limits.

As the Wisdom author puts it, "... You taught your people by these deeds that those who are just must be kind; and you gave your children good ground for hope that you would permit repentance for their sins." God's exercise of power should both prompt us to exercise power compassionately, and inspire us to change constantly for the better.

Paul, on the other hand, isn't interested in power; he's concerned with prayer. Yet he still deals with the same issue as the Wisdom author: how can we imperfect human beings communicate with an all-powerful God and be certain we're heard? If I have diffi-

DAilY RIEADINGS July 19: E:< 14:5-18; Ex 15:1-6; Mt 12:38-42 July 20: Ex 14:21-15:1; Ex 15:8-10,12,17; Mt 12:46-50 July 21: Elt 16:1-5,9-15; Ps 78:18-19,23-28; Mt 13:1-9 July 22: Sg 3:1-4 or 2 Cor 5: 14-17; Ps £i3:2-6,8-9; J n 20:1-2,11-18 July 23: [)( 20:1-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt D:18-23 July 24: Ex 24:3-8; Ps 50:1-2,5-6,14-15; Mt 1 3:24-30 July 25: 1 KitS 3:5,7-12; Ps 119:57,72,76-77,127-130; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN culty understanding my dog's incoherent barking, won't God have problems comprehending our babbling prayers? Most of the time we don't even know what to ask for.

"Not to worry," the Apostle advises. "The Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be expressed in speech. He who searches hearts knows what the Spirit means..."

The Spirit transforms our limited prayer into something God both understands and wishes to hear.

Jesus takes up another dimension of this same issue. All through his ministry, the Lord proclaimed the presence of "the reign of God." He believed God is powerfully among us,_helping us become new people. But how do you explain and describe that omnipotent presence to finite hu"mans?

Jesus chose'to go the parable route; "developing parallels from events and situations with which everyone was familiar, but almost no one ever thought of applying to God's actions. When we read about Jesus "explaining things to his disciples when they got home," we're usually dealingwith an early Christian allegorization of the Lord's parables; emphasizing something different from the point he originally tried to convey.

Today's gospel passage contains three classic comparisons: the weeds in wheat, the mustard seed, and the yeast in the dough. Each demonstrates how God's actions are different from what we might anticipate, yet can be perceived if we know what to look for.

The mustard seed and yeast force us to go beyond our limited way of seeing God working only in really "big stuff." We who follow the Lord must begin looking for him! her in the smallest parts of our daily lives.

The weeds remind us that there's no perfect system, no perfect church, no perfect community,"no perfect theology. Just as the fields have weeds, so, despite God's presence, we'll always have to deal with good mixed with evil. Weeds never stop farmers from planting; imperfection never stops Christians from experiencing God. It's all part of the tension.

Bill discriminatory DENVER (CNS) - Farmworker advocates meeting in Denver have called on Washington Gov. Mike Lowry to reject a provision of a state health care reform bill because it excludes farmworkers from coverage. And, they said, it would set "a dangerous precedent" if adopted nationwide.

The bill has been cited as a model for national health care reform. In a statement. eight farmworker organizations said that in general they support the bill, passed by both houses of the state Legislature. but called it discriminatory for singling out farmworkers.

Classic expressions of Catholic devotion, whatever variations they may have undergone in the course of centuries, are solidly based on the life and teaching of our Blessed Savior. The rosary, for instance, is a kind of prayerful elaboration of all the mysteries offaith contained in the angelic salutation to our Lady. The Stations of the Cross are a way of sharing with the saints and the Sorrowful Mother the mystery of her Son's passion and death.

So, too, with adoration of J~sus present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. The practice of exposing the Eucharist is clearly a response to his invitation: Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened, and r will give you rest (Mt 11,28); and again to the plea to his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane: Could you not watch one hour with me? (Mt. 26,40).

On June 13, the solemnity of the feast of Corpus Christi, daily except Sunday exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from after 6:50 a.m. Mass until after 4:30 p.m.

evening devotions began at Our Lady's Chapel.

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Have you heard about barriers to listening? as "a dead sinner revised and edited.")

come from InnerAction. The rest are mine. Here are the barriers: By , don't like what I hear. We tune Listening creates problems in relationships, of course, like the out as soon as we hear something DOLORES man who explained his' divorce to which doesn't fit into our expea friend with, "She said I didn't rience or preconceived ideas. Psylisten - or something like that." chologists call this cognitive CURRAN But here I want to talk about lis- dissonance. 'don't like the person speaking. tening within groups.

I suspect we've all experienced this To do so, I'm borrowing Franone. If there's someone at the fam"H ow do you get people to ciscan Communications InnerA cily reunion or in the church group listen?" the frustrated adult educa- tion list of barriers to listening as a tor asked" in a workshop. "Eve- springboard. The facilitator's guide who really annoys us, we simply ryone wants to talk but you can't explains, "Everyone has barriers stop listening when he or she talks.

It's our way of punishing them for have a worthwhile discussion if within themselves that keep them being unlikable. nobody wants to listen." from really listening to others.

"Personal bias or past experience It's an age-old problem. Shake- Which items below describe your condition me to devalue what , speare referred to it as "the barriers? (It may help to think of hear. When we've already expedisease of listening." Humorist -someone to whom you don't listen. rienced a bright idea, we don't Ambrose Bierce, who outraged Why not?)" want to listen to someone suggestleaders in 1906 with his Devi/'s Those who share in small groups ing it. "I wish I knew as little about Dictionary, defined a bore as "a might find this list helpful in creat- it as he does," is a common mute person who talks when you wish ing more satisfying discussions for reaction. him to listen." (He defined a saint all. The italicized phrases below' I think I already know what the

other person is going to say.

Familiarity can breed deafness.

I am uncomfortable in particular situations. When the subject gets touchy, as in the use of contraceptives, we get nervous and block out others' words.

Some words trigger defensive blocks in me. When someone says "feminist," "traditional," "stewardship," or even "tofu," we quit listening because we know what's coming and it irritates us.

I tune out people who don't speak well or are not attractive.

When someone uses poor grammar or says, "You know," every five seconds, we assume he isn't educated as well as we are so he has nothing worthwhile to share.

I tune out certain people who have nothing valuable to tell me.

"He's just a priest. What does he know ab0.':lt family?" or "She's just

a housewife. What does she know about theology?" are common examples.

Ifrequently use listening lime 10 prepare my response. We are so intent on what we're going to say, we don't hear what others are saying. We're like actors rehearsing our lines and waiting for our cue to speak.

Life is so complicated. 'find it .difficult 10 concentrate in the present. Our bodies are here but our minds are elsewhere. We may be here because we feel obligated to be, but we're still at work or at home mentally. So we put on faces like those we put on during a sermon.

If any of these barriers touched a nerve in us, we might want to focus on them and on our responsibility to the groups in our lives.

A ware ness is the first step to recover)'.

A parish to call home: mobile society's loss?

By ANTOINETTE

BOSCO

Those fortunate enough to live most of their lives in a family home and to belong to a parish they can call "home" are specially blessed.

They often have a peace and serenity derived from these close ties.

Living most of one's life in the same parish offers the comfort of being known. recognized and ac-

cepted. The parish often is a lighthouse during the calms and storms of a family's life.

This thought was driven home for me most recently when I went to my grandson Larry's wedding in Tinley Park, III., south of Chicago.

Larry is the first of seven children of my son Sterling and his wife Bernadette. Naturally my first grandson has always had a special place in my heart.

Some friends are surprised that I have grandchildren well into adulthood. Sterling was adopted into our f~mily in 1951 when he was 15. His son Larry was being married at St. George Church where Sterling and Bernadette and

all their children have been receiving and giving love for 35 years. It struck me at the wedding that a true gift in Sterling's and Bernie's life has been the continuity of the parish.

But whereas they have been in one home all the decades of their marriage, I have been a transient.

I've had to move II times from the 1950s to now, and the longest I was ever in one parish was nine years. I have no long memories of "my church" in a particular place.

Two months before Larry's wedding I had another experience that caused me to reflect on the gift of being associated for a long time with one parish. My brother-inlaw had died, and 1 was with my

sister Rosemary, who lived in the same parish in Albany, N.Y., where all her children were baptized.

Rosemary has been an extraordinary minister at the parish. Her children have provided music for Masses. When her husband died, her pastor could talk of him from knowledge gained over many years of knowing him.

I remember when we went back to her home after the service at the cemetery. I felt something akin to envy that my sister had such a true support network that began decades ago and continues today.

An awful lot of Catholics today are in the position I'm in. Whether it's because of jobs, ma"rriage or

maybe even restlessness, we've been movers.

That's probably not going to change. Nor does it mean that mobility is a negative thing.

Church and parish are always there, and always the place where we find spiritual nourishment and the opportunity to give of ourselves.

Our way of life - mobility has changed the concept of tradi- . tional neighborhoods and the faces in our parish congregations.

But for those who stay in place through the years, connected to their parishes, there is indeed a reward. I felt it at a grandson's wedding and a brother-in-Iaw's funeral.

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MARY KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: My 14-yearold son lost his hearing when he was 4 years old. In spite of o"ur best efforts to be supportive and loving parents, he is rude and cruel to us and to our other two children.

There are no counselors for the hearing-impaired in our area. He does well in school, but at home he is angry and bitter and seems to blame us for his hearing loss. Any suggestions? - Texas The real problem of deafness is

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Q. It has been my understanding since becoming a Catholic 35 years ago that certain conditions should be present when we receive communion.

A certain young man makes no pretense of living a Catholic life.

He is married outside the church,

being cut off from the normal way of communication. The deaf person may feel left out of conversations, slighted, teased, different from other people, ignored or treated like a baby. This leads to frustration.

Frustration, failing to attain perceived goals, leads to anger.

People often take out their anger at home where it's safe. Children commonly behave and show good manners at school and with friends and save their worst for their family.

Whatc~n you do to help your son? First, I'm not sure from your letter whether he is hearing-impaired (i.e. has some hearing) or whether he has lost all hearing (deaf): There is a big difference.

Hearing-impaired persons can be helped with a thorough evaluation and hearing aids that make

the most of what hearing they have. With deaf persons, you need to focus on other means of communication.

Words and sound are not the only way to pass on information and affection. Your family may find it a grace to learn the full spectrum of communication, to learn how to "talk" in other ways. Your son may profit from being able to teach you what he has learned if you will let him.

Touch is an important medium.

You may want to touch your son's hand or shoulder before speaking to attract his attention. Physical contact is also a good way to express comfort and love.

Facial expressions are major clues to meaning. Tones of voice may be lost on the hard-ofhearing, but the look on your

face can tell what you wish to "say."

Speak distinctly, without overexaggerating words. Lip-reading is a valuable asset for the hard-of"hearing. Be in good light so your son can see your lips.

Don't be hesitant to write things out. Have a bulletin board for messages, house rules, changes in schedule, even a thought for the day.

Lear!) sign language with your son. Your entire family should be adept at sighing.

Broadening the ways in which your family communicates may ease some of your son's frustration. In addition to focusing on his hearing loss, you also need to emphasize his strengths. .

What does he enjoy d'oing? What

does he do well? What skills would he like to learn?

Drawing, painting, sculpting and woodwork are possible areas of development. He may enjoy learning to write poetry and fiction and narrative prose. Competitive electronic games, like Nintendo, may help generate a fascination with computers and all the possibilities they offer for programming and communication.

Your son appears to be expressing his frustration and anger in the only safe haven he knows. You may help him past this stage by broadening your means of communication and by emphasizing his other strengths.

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Communicants must show reve路rence for sacraments partakes of no prayer life; he ignores the religious education of his children either at school or home and" only attends Mass at weddings or funerals or big feasts.

On those few occasions he receives communion.

He does not see anything wrong with his actions. This is creating a serious problem in our family, and I find it difficult to deal with. Do you have any insights that could help us? (Illinois) A. Before answering further. I want to make clear that what he is doing, if you describe the situation acc\lratcly. violates a serious law

of our church concerning reverence for the sacraments.

Obviously neither I nor any other knowledgeable and believing Catholic could condone what is happening.

You ask my insights about what you can do. First, he needs to hear plainly' that what he is doing is hurtful to his family and terribly confusing to his own children and others.

Whether that fact means much or little to him will be determined by whatever faith he still possesses.

This means, at very least, that if you or anyone else sincerely wishes

to help, shouting to him about his failures will not be very productive.

Some seem to feel, in these painful circumstances, that by strongly restating Catholic truths, we will change what is happening.

It seems clear that whatever his problem is, it is not lack of knowledge or a need to be "straightened out." It is a problem offaith which somewhere along the line has been badly damaged.

I路 realize this places the problem at a much more spiritual and difficult level to deal with. But this is where any sincere efforts must lie - in prayer, giving him something to hop.e. for. and a genuine .cxpe-

rience of an unconditional love to which he may sometime be attracted to respond.

I especially urge you to explain the situation this way to your children and family. Sometimes we betray our own weakness of faith by insisting there must always be a quick fix: Just yell louder and longer and maybe something will happen.

I sincerely believe that for you. and for the countless others in similar situations, the only real, effective solutions are found in humility, everyday goodness and a tremendous lot of patience.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Senate confirmed Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn as the new ambassador to the Vatican in a unanimous voice vote June 30.

"I really feel a great sense of honor with this opportunity," Flynn said in Boston after the vote. He said he would use the job to "promote social and economic justice" on such issues as world hunger and vioknce in Northern Ireland.

Flynn, 53, had smooth sailing in the Senate after he resolved an apparent dissatisfaction with the narrow definition of his duties and MSGR. JOHN J. REGAN, pastor ofSt. Patrick's parish, budget as ambassador following Falmouth, officiates at Fourth of July Blessing of the Fleet at meetings with Clinton administration officials.

Falmouth Harbor. 65 boats participated in the ceremony.

At' Flynn's June 23 confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Flynn's beliefs and commitments make him "a perfect fit" for the ROME (CNS) - For women But "for the woman who is role of U.S. ambassador to the facing a high risk of rape, use of raped, sexual relations have Holy See. contraceptives is a legitimate form nothing to do with an act of love The brief hearing was marked of self-defense which does not vio- between husband and wife," the by absence of opposition to Flynn's late church teaching, according to .article said. confirmation. No Republican coman article in an influential Jesuit "It is only a brutal aggression mittee members attended, and the magazine. against her personal dignity and Democratic senators' questions reThere is a basic distinction her liberty, in the very delicate and flected little of the small-but-vocal opposition to the United States . between conjugal relations, which important area of the procreative must remain open to procreation, act," it said. Often there is an elehaving formal diplomatic ties with and the "brutal aggression" ment of racial hatred in rape, it the Vatican. involved in rape, said the article. added.

Flynn, in the middle of his third The article, by Jesuit Father "In this concrete situation, it is four-year term as mayor, resigned Giacomo Perico, was published in morally licit that the woman, to his postJuly 12 and went to Washthe July 3 issue of La Civilta Cat- avoid possible pregnancy, take i"ngton for State Department brieftolica. Because its editorial con- recourse to the only means availaings. tent is reviewed at the Vatican ble, which is contraception," it prior to publication, the magazine said. is often thought to reflect Vatican In doing so, the woman is proCHICAGO (eNS) - Sexualthinking. tecting values of extreme impority, drug and alcohol abuse and The article appeared in response tance for her psychological and fear of AIDS are the three greatest to moral questions raised by the emotional future, it said. concerns of teenagers, according situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, In Bosnia, there were also reports to a survey published by Extenwhere human rights experts have of nuns raped by soldiers. The sion magazine. 45 percent of resverified that rapes - particularly article said nuns would have the pondents listed sexuality among of Muslim women - have taken same moral right to take contratheir top three concerns. Next came place on a large scale. ceptives under those circumstandrug and alcohol abuse, listed by The church teaches that artifi- ces; their having taken religious 33 percent of respondents, and cial birth control contradicts the vows has no bearing on the quesfear of AIDS, named by 17 perdesign of marriage by closing the tion. it said. cent. The magazine, distributed by conjugal act to procreation.

In March, a Vatican spokesman the Chicago-based Catholic Church said the Vatican had never forExtension Society, published the mally stated whether it is licit for survey in anticipation of Pope nuns to take contraceptives when John Paul II's World Youth Day there is a real danger of rape, and in Denver this August. that no overall policy had been devised to cover such cases.

At that time, a Vatican official noted that in the absence of a formal teaching by the church, one Prayer of Spouses July 17 relies on the conclusions of 1960, Rev. William J. Smith, approved theologians. He, too, Lord Jesus, grant that I Pastor, St. James, Taunton said the dominant theological view and my spouse may have 1981, Rev. Edmond Rego, was that any woman could u:;e true and understanding Associate Pastor, Espirito Santo, contraceptives to prevent pregFall River love for each other. Grant nancy when t.here was a high risk of rape.

Jul:r 18 that we may be filled with 1968, Rev. Adalbert Szklanny, faith and trust. Give us the St. Patrick, Fall River grace to live with each other 1984, Rev. Lionel G. Doraisi, in peace andharmony. May SSS., native of South Attleboro PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) we always bear with one Jul:r 19 When President Clinton attended and another's weaknesses 1934, Most Rev. Daniel F. Feea forest conference in Oregon han, D.O., Second Bishop of Fall grow from each other's recently. he heard numerous cries River 1907-34 strengths. Help us forgive for help and a challenge by Seattle 1975, Rev. Francis M. Coady, one another's failings and ArchbishopThomasJ. Murphyro Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall see the Northwest timber crisis as a grant us patience, kindness, River moral issue. "God surely wants us cheerfulness and the spirit 1992, Msgr. Joseph R. Pannoni, to care for all." the archbishop Pastor Emeritus, Holy Rosary, ofplacing the well-being of said, "the forests, the workers who Taunton one another ahead of self. labor in the forests and the comJul:V 20 munities whose livelihood has been May the love that brought 1983, Rev. loao Medeiros, dependent on the forests." Archbius together grow and maRetired Pastor, St. Elizabeth, Fall shop Murphy. the only religious ture with each passing year.

River leader among the 50 participants Bring us both ever closer to Julv23 at the one-day conference. said the you through our love for 1893. Rev. P;ltrick F. Doyle, church stands ready to assist White Founder, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall each other. Let our love House efforts toward resolution of River the seemingly insoluble dispute grow to perfection. A men.

1938, Rev. G,~orge B. McNabetween timber and environmenmee. Pastor, Holy Name. Fall River tal interests.

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HOL Y UNION Sisters of the Fall River and Groton provinces of the community are commissioned as delegates to the collegial assembly of the international order, this year to be held in Southampton, England, July 18 through Aug. 15.

Seated, from kft, Sisters Mary Ellen Ryan, Mary Jean Audette, Paula Coelho, Theresa Horvath, Rita Theresa Goulet (Groton province superior), Patricia Heath; standing, Sisters Virginia O'Hare, Mary Lou Simcoe, Marie Baldi, Eugenia Margaret Ready, Eleanor McNally (top picture); below, other community members bless the delegates. The ceremony took place in the chapel of Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton.

Holy U'nion Collegial Assembly to open Sunday in England Holy Union Sisters of the Fall River and Groton provinces ofthe community will arrive in England tomorrow for a collegial assembly of the international sisterhood.

Held every six years, the meeting will take place this year in Southampton from July 18 through Aug. 15.

Delegates from the Fall River province are Sister Patricia Heath, provincial; Sister Mary Jean Audette, director ofthe legal office of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious/National Assn. of Treasurers of Religious Institutes, Silver Spring, MD. Sister Paula Coelho, pastoral associate/ director of ES L program for Haitians at St. Angela's parish, Mattapan; Sister Theresa Horvath, pastoral care director at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore; Sister Virginia O'Hare, provincial treasurer.

Sister Mary Ellen Ryan, pastoral minister at St. Mary's parish, New York City.

Attending as firs,t alternate and a member of the communications team for the assembly will be Sister Eleanor McNally, director of development for the Fall River province; and also present will be Sister Eugenia Margaret Ready of the faculty of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton; and Sister Marie Baldi, principal of Newport County Catholic Regional School, Portsmouth, RI. Support staff members will include Sister Alice Michael, coor-

dinator of cultural and ethnic religious education and director of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults for the Brooklyn, NY, diocese, who will translate assembly proceedings into Spanish; and Sister Mary Lou Simcoe, a campus minister at Bristol Community College, Fall River, who will videotape assembly sessions.

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LISBON. Portugal (CNS) The Catholic Church must cooperate with the secular media and avoid boxing itself into a media "ghetto." says Archbishop John P. Foley. Catholic media are important for presenting accurate. inspiring and informational articles about the church, but there should not be "a Catholic ghetto in communications," said the U.S. archbishop, who is president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. To get stories told accurately in the secular media, the church must provide information and assistance to their reporters and editors, he said at a recent meeting at the Catholic University in Lisbon.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Legislators in California are trying to clamp down on illegal immigrants, while a congressman from their state and human rights activists are worrying about abuses by federal agents charged with enforcing existing laws.

Underlying both activities are fears that a new tide of immigrants is creating hardships for people who reached the United States first, say Catholic social activists who are trying to smooth tensions and protect legal and illegal immigrants as well as citizens who get caught in the middle.

"When the economy is tight, there are pressures for jobs and resources, people get afraid and the tendency is to lash out," said Gregory Kepferle, chairman of the Sc-::ial Action Directors of California and director of parish social ministry for the diocese of Oakland, Calif.

That lashing out may be overt, like two April assaults against a 20-year-old student at the University of California at Davis.

Irma Munoz told police that after receiving hate mail for some time, she was attacked on her way home from the library. Her assailants wrote messages on her body, including "go home" and "wetback," and Ctlt off her hair. The next day she was attacked again, Kepferle said.

Or attacks may be institutionalized, like abuses by some immigration enforcement agents including beatings, rape, illegal detention and intimidations that have gone unpunished.

In conjunction with the May release by the human rights monitoring group Americas Watch of its latest report on abuses by the U.S. Border Patrol, "Frontier Injustice," freshman Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., introduced a bill to create an independent office to handle complaints about immigration authorities.

Despite heightened scrutiny by legislators, community activists and the press following an earlier report, "beatings and other forms of mistreatment are still common during the arrest and detention of undocumented immigrants, U.S. citizens and legal residents," the report said.

Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., cited cases in which Border Patrol agents went onto public school grounds in violation offederallaw, searching for suspected illegal immigrants.

"They went into a school after one young man thinking they had probable cause [to arrest him] because he had been seen eating in a Mexican restaurant," Pastor said.

"I'm not saying the INS is filled with abusers," Becerra said, adding that most agents of the immigration service and its Border Patrol are hard-working, dedicated and overworked. Nor is mistreatment directed solely at Latinos.

"The problem is the INS assumes Latinos to be illegal," Becerra said.

"And I'm not sure that happens to others."

Under Becerra's proposal, an independent commission would process complaints about the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Border Patrol and the Customs Service, all of which enforce federal border laws. Americas Watch said illegal immigrants, aliens with legal residency in the United States and citizens have all been victimized and had their complaints ignored.

Trying to change attitudes that breed an "anti-immigrant environment" is part of what Jeff BoninoBritsch does as program coordinator for the Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services in the archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Efforts range from a legislative network that encourages newcomers to the United States to participate in the electoral process to retreats that pair poor immigrant congregations with wealthier, better-established parishes for a weekend of learning about each other.

"People really dive into that, especially when they see the Catholic social teaching perspective," Bonion-Britsch said.

But such efforts are fairly recent and are up against well-organized campaigns to discourage immigrants from settling in. Kepferle said racism, prejudice and xenophobia are gaining a fo~thold among Californians who want to blame someone for their woes.

California's Catholic bishops are rallying against a slew of bills they say target new immigrants as scapegoats for the state's economic problems.

Alpong them are proposals to allow only legal residents to use public services or to attend state colleges and universities; require anyone seeking emergency medical treatment paid for by the state

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The bills represent what a May 12 statement by the C~lifornia Catholic Conference said is "a growing anti-immigrant sentiment in a state beset by major demographic changes and economic pain."

The bishops said the bills would force schools, hospital, housing agencies and other public entities to act as arms of the INS. "Our church's t(:aching sets a higher ethical standard for guarding the rights ofthe undocumented within our borders than do current U.S. law and policy. The church must necessarily concern herself with the common good and the human rights of all persons, no matter what borders they cross," they said.

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Bracing for memory loss

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: I'm 80 years old and starting to get more forgetful. I find my mind wandering.

I feel irritable much of the time.

Am I getting Alzheimer's? Is there anything I can do to slow it down? What can I do to prepare for it? (Iowa) Some mental faculties decline as we become older. Memory for recent events is often a problem.

We also become less adept with abstractions, such as working with numbers.

Not all the changes are bad ones.

For example, what some might call the aimless meandering of the mind may well be a healthy phase.

The mind is freed to tell stories about the past. to escape the routine mental structures of time and place and sticking to the topic.

This is a help to integrating one's life, a phase of older age that Erik Erikson calls part of the person's natural development.

The best way to prepare for possible Alzheimer's disease and/ or impaired memory is to take advantage of the good side.

Go with your wandering mind. . Keep a journal. Write down your daily thoughts, especially any stories from your past. Don't try to be literary. Simply tell the stories with as much detail as you can remember.

For older persons memory for the distant past is often better than what has occurred more recently.

Include your ideas and philosophy in your journal. What has life taught you? Your reflections

on the meaning of things are doubly helpful. They help you to pull your life together, and they help others to learn from your shared experiences. They are your gift.

You say you often feel irritable.

I'm sure you feel you will offend people you love. Write letters to those people now, telling them how much you appreciate what they have done for you, how much they ·have meant to you.

These thoughtful letters will serve as insurance against possible bad days to come. If you become cranky, your friends and family will have the letters to fall back on, to know how you truly feel about them.

Letters are not the only means to store thoughts and best wishes against a rainy day. If you are not a writer, try a tape' recorder. Put. your thoughts and feelings on tape.

Better still, use a video recorder.

What finer way to record your well-wishing than to make a videotape for a friend. Let your mind wander a bit, tell them a few stories and tell them how you feel about them. What a treasure that would be for your friend to have such a personal gift.

Finally, you ask how to prevent Alzheimer's. All we know is to stay healthy. Watch your diet. Avoid fats and salts and sugars. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables and grains.

Equally important, get some kind of aerobic exercise daily. Walking, dancing, exercycling, swimming and climbing up and down stairs are all good ways to keep the blood flowing through your brain.

APOSTOLIC BLESSING: Louise Combs, 92, holds an apostolic blessing from Pope Good luck. I think you are wise John Paul II presented to members of the Flathead Indian Tribe by Jesuit superior general to look ahead.

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Chatham Volunteers needed to read COA newsletter onto audio cassette for bli·nd and visually-impaired members. .

Lloyd Nelson was named Chatham Senior Citizen of the Year. A native Rhode Islander, he and his late wife Faith moved to Chatham in 1978. He has been a COA volunteer since 1982, serving as a bus driver and in organizing fairs, at which he is famous for his white elephant tables. He serves on the Lower Cape Outreach Council and has been the town's Fourth of July Parade marshal for the last six years. In December he married Edith Valentine, also an active COA volunteer. Nelson was honored at a COA reception June 4.

Mansfield Free eye screening I to 3 p.m.

July 21; open to all Mansfield senior citizens. Appointments necessary; information: 261-7368.

Edgartown Monthly birthday parties will be held July 20 and Aug. 24; reservations required. Potluck cookout 12:30 p.m. July 28; reservations required. Coffee and baked goods available during morning coffee hour 9 to II a.m. Tuesdays all summer. "Island Profiles and Landscapes," photography by Mark Allen Lovewell, will be on display at the senior center in August. A reception for Lovewell will be held

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Dentistry for All The Massachusetts Dental Society offers Dentistry for All program for seniors who need dental care but feel they cannot afford it.

Care is provided at reduced fees for persons on a limited income and not covered by prepaid dental insurance or Medicaid. Information: 651-751 I or 1-800-342-8747 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Dennis Jack Delaney was named volunteer of the year for the Dennis COA by Elder Services of Cape Cod. A lorigtime volunteer, he is a member of the board of directors for the Friends of Dennis Senior Citizens and for the Council on Aging and is also president of the Men's Forum.

Provincetown Persons who live alone, are homebound or handicapped may register with the COA "Storm List." The COA will inform them of impending storms and assist them with storm preparations.

July 23 topic is Nutrition and Health: Eat Well, Age Well. Following topics are: Fat and Cholesterol: Be in the Know... Say No to Fats; Count on Sodium: Shake the Salt Habit; Food Safety; and Sharp Shopping: Making Your Food Dollars Count.

Idaho. Ms. Combs is the great grand-daughter oflgnace Saxa, the Iroquois who first asked the Jesuits to establish missions among his people in Montana. (CNS photo)

Praying twice I'm afraid the art of singing is becoming extinct. Aside from "Happy Birthday," what was the last song your family sang together?

I love to sing, because I grew up in a family where mother played the piano, sang in the church choir and encouraged us to raise our voices in song. Of course, we didn't have a TV set then, and we didn't own a radio until we were in our teens.

We Casserly kids did have a phonograph for a few years, but the spring broke early on, and you get very tired turning records· by finger: Today it's hard to inspire kids to sing when they can hear top vocalists and music groups on tape and radio and see them on video and TV. One place ordinary people are encouraged to sing is in church, but even there it takes a choir to get the congregation going. Next to Christmas, the season of Holy Week and Easter has the largest number of religious songs both glorious and familiar.

Nevertheless, it's still hard to get people in the pew to raise their voices to the Lord. Philip Brunelle, one of my favorite musicologists, claims their voices are "cobwebbed" from lack of use.

This talented music director,

organist, choirmaster, composer and performer on "Prairie Home Companion" told a group of Minneapolis, area ministers during Lent last year that "Most people, 99.99 percent of them, don't sing at any time in the week except for Sunday morning."

I bumped into a young woman from my home parish while grocery shopping one Saturday. She smiled and said, "I know you.

You're the one who sings so loud at St. Helena's." I gulped, responded feebly, and resolved to cut my decibels in the future.

Maybe people don't sing out)n church because the hymns keep changing. Brunelle demonstrated on an upright piano how some of the most popular Lenten hymns evolved over the years. People like to sing different parts, he said, "but there are no more four-part hymnals around."

One of the most popular hymns, "0 Sacred Head Surrounded," was originally in Latin, he said. "There was one stanza for each day of Holy Week, but only the seventh made it to the United States." It was originally a popular song, he said, called "My peace of mind is shattered by a young maiden's charms."

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"All Glory, Laud and Honor," Brunelle said, originally had 39 verses. It was designed for use in Palm Sunday processions. He is a true believer in congregational singing, claiming that it builds fellowship, instructs members in their faith and sustains them in their daily lives.

Although Catholics are now singing many more hymns of Protestant origin than we used to, we're never going to catch up.

That's because our sisters and brothers in faith sing many more hymns per service than we do.

How long has it been since your parish sang any of the top five hymns from this list of the most popular in a survey of 10,000 Americans aged 5 to 96? In order, . they are "Amazing Grace," "How Great Thou Art," "In the Garden," "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Whata Friend We Have in Jesus," Wasn't it St. Augustine who said: "He who sings prays twice."

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Thre!e retire; ten pastors'

Rev. Richard R. Gendreau, who will be pastor of St. Joseph's Church, North Dighton, is at present pastor of St. Stephen's Church, South Attleboro. He was born in Fall River in 1941 and is the son of Eyma:rd and Blanche (Proulx) Gendreau. He was ordained in 1969.

Subsequently he was parochial vicar at St. Michad's and St. Louis de France parish.es in Swansea, and at St. James parish, New Bedford and St. George parish, Westport. While at St. George, he was also chaplain at the former Southeastern Massachusetts University, now UMass-Dartmouth.

He was named pastor at St. Stephen's in 1986. .

Rev. Brian J. Harrington, the new pastor of St. Julie's parish, North Dartmouth, has been pastor of St. Patrick"s parish, Somerset, since 1988, and prior to that time was past9r of St. Francis of Assisi parish, New Bedford, where he was appointed in 1984.

He was born in New Bedford, the son of Evelyn (Towers) Harrington and the late Patrick J. Harrington. His three sisters, Sisters Patricia, Kathleen and Sheila Harrington, are Si.sters of Mercy.

Ordained in 1967, he was pa-' rochial vicar on two occasions at .

Sacred Heart parilih, Taunton; at St. John, Attleboro; St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis; St. Mary, Norton; and St. Mary,. New Bedford, before becoming: pastor at St. Francis Assisi.

Concurrently with his various assignments, Father Harrington was a teacher and chaplain at the former Msgr. Coyl.e High School in Taunton; diocelian and Taunton area director of the Catholic Guild for the Blind; chaplain and instructor at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro;. and chaplain for the Attleboro Guild for the Blind, Wheaton College, Norton, and the New Bedford Serra Club.

Rev. Kevin J. Harrington, a Wareham native and the new pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Attleboro, is the son of Edmund A. and Isabelle (Gomes) Harrington. Born in 1950, he was ordained in 1975 and was subsequently parochial vicar at St. John Evangelist par-

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ish, Attleboro; St. Mary, North Attleboro; St. Joseph, Taunton; St. Mark, Attleboro, and most recently at St. Patrick, Fall River.

Father Harrington has been an Anchor columnist for many years and at various times has been coordinator of the Hispanic apostolate for the Attleboro deanerv and chaplain at Bishop Feeha~ High School, Attleboro.

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He was born in Fall River in 1940, the son of Beatrice and the late Robert M. Canuel. Ordained in 1966, he was parochial vicar at Blessed Sacrament parish, Fall River; St. Patrick, Wareham; Immaculate Conception, Fall River; and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk, before joining the St. James Society in :I 975 and thereafter serving in Peru for seven years.

There he was instrumental in arranging for his sister and brother-in-law to adopt a Quechua Indian tot and hie himself took a young Quechua t(:enager under his wing, arranging for his education at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, and Rhode Island College. The young man has since married a Guatemalan woman from Father Canuel's Attleboro parish and he, his wife and two children are established in North Attleboro.

Before becoming pastor at St. Joseph's, Attleboro, and following his return from Peru, Father Canuel was parochial vicar at St. Stephen's parish, Attleboro, and St. Jacques, Taunton.

Rev. Jay T. Maddock, named pastor of St. William parish, Fall River, was born in Attleboro in 1949, and is the son of Mary (Dugan) Maddock and the late James W. Maddock. Ordained in 1975, his initial assignment was as parochial vicar at Sacred Heart parish, Taunton. He then went to the North American College in Rome from 1977 to 1979 for graduate studies leading to a licentiate in canon law.

Returning to the diocese, Father Maddock was parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception in Fall River, remaining in residence after his appointment in 1980 to oversee daily operations of the diocesan marriage tribunal, of which he was named vice-officialis in 1986 and judicial vicar/ officialis in 1989. He also assists in operation of the Fall River area CYO. At various times Father Maddock was in residence at Immaculate Conception, Fall River, and St. William, Fall River. He also served as temporary administrator at Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea. o

Rev. Bruce M. Neylon, new pastor of St. Mary's parish, Seekonk, was born in Fall River in 1948.

Ordained in 1975, he has been a parochial vicar at Holy Name parish, Fall River, and St. Patrick, Wareham. In 1985 he was appointed chaplain at Sturdy Hospital, Attleboro, with residence at St. John Evangelist rectory in that city.

He is an advocate for the diocesan marriage tribunal and at various times has been spiritual director for the Attleboro Guild for the Blind and. area director for the Fall River CYO. Rev. Thomas L. Rita, new pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption parish in Attleboro, is a New Bedford native and the son of the late Louis L. and Veronica (Early) Rita. He was ordained in 1970 and thereafter was parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield; St. Anthony, East Falmouth; and St. Mary's, South Dartmouth. From 1977 to 1984 he was director of St. Vincent's ijome, Fall River, and from 1981 to 1986 also directed the former St. Mary's Home, New Bedford.

For many years Father Rita was diocesan director of pro-life activities and he has also been a Knights of Columbus chaplain in Mansfield; assistant director and director of the Attleboro area CYO and assistant director of .the Diocesan Office of Social Services.

He goes to Our Lady of the Assumption from St. Mary's parish, Seekonk, where he has been pastor since 1987, also assisting since 1990 in marriage preparation programs in the Attleboro area.

He is a judge in the diocesan marriage tribunal.

Rev. Richard M. Roy was born in New Bedford in 1950, the son of G. Albert and Claire (LeComte) Roy. ·Ordained in 1975, he was parochial vicar at Sacred Heart,

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 16, 1993

KATHLEEN BURT, principal of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, was among educators honored at a reception marking the 10th anniversary of a teachers' advisory panel which aids Eastern Edison power company of FaH River in developing appropriate energy education programs for schools.

Taunton, then in residence at St. Mary's, Taunton, while serving as chaplain at Coyle and Cassidy High School in that city. In 1988 he was appointed parochial vicar at Our Lady of Grace, Westport, in 1990 at St. Patrick, Falmouth, and in 1992 at St. Joan of Arc, Orleans, from which he will go to his new assignment as pastor at St. Stephen, Attleboro.

Father Roy has also served as a juvenile court chaplain in Attleboro; and spiritual director for the Cape and Islands Separated / Di· vorced support group.

Rev. Stephen B. Salvador is the new pastor of Holy Ghost parish, Attleboro. He was born in 1947 in New Bedford, the son of Seraphim and Agnes (Borges) Salvador and was ordained in 1974. Subsequently he was parochial vicar at St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro; St. John of God, Somerset; and St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River.

Other assignments have included service as chaplain of St. Patrick Circle, Daughters of Isabella; Fall River and New Bedford area Boy Scouts; and diocesan chaplain of Boy and Girl Scouts and Camp Fire. As a chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, he was in residence at St. John the B,aptist parish, New Bedford.

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"We are all careening through _space, clinging to a cannonball. ... An invisible force holds us in our own armchairs while the earth hurtles like a boomerang; and men still go back ~o dusty records to prove the mercy of God."':-G.K. Chesterton

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) - If you're one of those Catholics wh 0, has abandoned confession, come . back and give it another try, says Father John Forliti.

It might be hard, but you'll be glad you did, he adds.

"Confession is a wholesome and graced act," Father Forliti wrote in a Page One feature in a recent issue of the Catholic Bulletin, St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocesan new:;paper.

He reminded readers that in the Gospels, when the prodigal child returned and admitted he was wrong, "the father threw a huge party."

"Many Catholics today are rediscovering the sacrament of reconciliation, confession," he wrote.

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"Isn't it time to join them?" For anyone uncertain about how to go to confession, he offered a quick review of choices available, what to do and what to expect.

The priest. who is pastor of St. Olaf Parish in Minneapolis, noted that in ordinary situations it is up to the penitent whether to go to confession face-to-face with the confessor or from behind a screen.

"Either way, the setting respects our human condition," he said.

For individual reception of the sacrament, he said: "If you want a particular priest-confessor, call and make an appointment, or find out when and where your choice 'of confessor is offering the sacrament and receive it them."

Women's rights/feminism Continued from Page One pie claim a right for women to be admitted to the ordained priesthood. In its extreme form, it is the Cnristian faith itself which is in danger of being undermined,'! he said.

The pope said these types of feminism are sometimes marked by forms of "nature worship" and celebration of myths and symbols that have taken the place of true Christian worship.

"Unfortunately this kind offeminism is being encouraged by som,~ in the church, including som(~ women religious, whose beliefs, attitudes and behavior no longer correspond to what the Gospel and the church teach," he said.

As pastors, he said, bishop:; should challenge these i'ndividual:; and groups and call them to "honest and sincere" dialogue on the: issue of women's expectations.

The pope said the church's long.. standing practice not to ordair, women as priests is a distinction of roles that "in no way favors the superiority of some over others."

He called on the bishops to help the faithful understand and accepl the church's position and said it would "amount to a betrayal of them if we fail to do so."

He said that while the role of the parish has always been one of the strengths of the U.S. church, this community sense has been weakkened somewhat by the fragmentation of modern life, especially where issues of doctrine or liturgy have polarized people.

"A great effort is needed by priests and laity to renew parish life" as a communion that values the complementary gifts of its members, he said.

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At the same time, he said, church members should n:alize that there is a difference between the lay and priestly roles.

He said some bishops had mentioned that the emphasis on baptismal equality can lead to "minimizing the real distinction between the royal priesthood of all believers and the ministerial priesthood" ofthq:lergy. Bishops should make clear that this difference "has nothing to do with 'power' understood in terms of privilege or dominion," he said.

In priestless parishes temporarily administered by lay people, bishops should make sure the faithful do not consider this a normal situation and do not confuse their responsibilities with the sacramental role of the priest, he said.

Nor should anyone "interpret the decreased number of active priests - a situation which we pray will soon pass - as a providential sign that lay persons are to replace priests," he said.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican is sending little reminders of the 25th anniversary of "Humanae Vitae" to addresses throughout the world. ~he mailing list and th.e cost of po~ta~e ~re pr~>vided by tourists, Vatican employees and Rome residents who use the Vatican post office s .hghtwelght aerogrammes to write to family and friends.

The 180,000 aerogrammes commemorating Pope Paul VI's encyclical on human life married love and procreation went on sale June 7. . , ' The encyclical, published in July 1968, reaffirmed church teaching that artificial contraception is morally wrong.

The aerogrammes, costing about 60 cents apiece, are the least expensive way to send a'letter outside of Italy using the Vatican post office. ' , The neW aerogram me features a watercolor of a mother holding a child. Under it is written in Italian . ' ..

"1968-1993, XX V anniversary of the encyclical letter Humariae Vitae.' " . T~e .watercolor is an original by Irio Fantini,-painted especially for the aerogramme, said Augusto FlOnlh, se~retary of the Vatica?'s stamp and coin office. The office issues one aerogram me design each year, hesa~d. The "Humane Vitae" commemoratives are expected to last until April or May 1994.

Convent continues controv-ersial WARSAW, Poland (CNS) The last- Carmelite nuns have vacated the Auschwitz convent that .drew worldwide Jewish protest, but their super-ior has stirred up another controversy by renting the building to a Polish nationalist group.

Father Marek Glownia, director of the interfaith center built near the former Nazi death camp as part of a Catholic-J ewish accord drawn up to settle the controversy, said he had protested the Carmelite mother superior's decision to rent the building to the Polish War Victims Association. Father Glownia said her decision was "completely wrong" and that it was made without notifying local church authorities.

He described the members of the association as mostly elderly people with an "extreme nationalist character."

The controversial convent, situated just outside the Auschwitz fence, became the focus of international protest by Jewish gr'oups.

They said the convent - and a fund-raising campaign supporting it -violated the special meaning of the site as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

The last of the nuns left the building, which is owned by the local town government, in early July, years a:fter the CatholicJewish agreement called for their move.

Father Glownia said six of the 14 nuns had moved into the new convent at the interfaith center.

He said that the others might have returned to their motherhouse in Poznan, Poland, or to Carmelite convents in Krakow and Kielce.

The interfaith center's convent remains unfinished because of a shortage of funds, but the chapel and living section are fully functioning, Father Glownia told Catholic News Service.

The Polish newspaper Gazeta

Wyborcza reported that the Carmelite superior had given the war victims association a 30-year lease on the building and its surrounding garden at a re~t of about $350 annually. The mother superior and the association signed an agreement to that effect shortly before the Carmelites' own rent arrangements were terminated by the town council, the newspaper reported.

Father Glownia said,the mother superior had not announced the decision in advance or made any effort to notify local church officials.

He said the chairman of the association was a former functionary of Poland's secret police who had been released from prison in 1990. The man had been held of suspected involvement in a communist-era corruption scandal, Father Glownia said.

"On the one side, the so-called 'convent conflict' is over," the priest said. "But the head sister has done something which, in my opinion, she had no right to do. I don't know what she was motivated by

when she rented the building to the association. But the decision is particulady regrettable given that this isa small political organization composed mostly of elderly people with an extreme nationalist character."

Mieczyslaw Janosz of the war victims association said his group would use the building - which once housed the gas used in Nazi death chambers - as an archive documenting the "harm suffered

by Poles through persecution by aggressors in 1939-45, as well as under post-war totalitarian governments."

Father Glownia added that he had heard about the lease agreement "by accident."

"This is not a matter for the church, nor for the Carmelite convent," he said. "It only concerns this one sister, whom someone persuaded to act in this way and to do something which I decided to protest publicly about. This incident will have political implications and will not serve the interests of Poland."

K of C donates millions NEW HAVEN, CQnn. (CNS) - Knights of Columbus members, including many in the Fall River diocese, gave more than 41 million hours of community service and nearly $93 million to church, community and youth programs last year.

The figures are based on reports on 1992 activity received from 78 percent of Knights of Columbus organizations.

"These figures represent a remarkable outpouring of generosity by members of the order occurring during a period when many people experienced very real economic pressure, with increased demands on their time," said Supreme Knight Virgil Dechant.

Of the monetary contributions

to charity, $78 million were raised and contributed by local and state units to programs within their own jurisdictions.

The remaining $14.5 million came from earnings on the Knights' assets, given by the organization's Supreme Council to national and international programs.

The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic family fraternal service organization with more than 1.5 million members in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines and several other countries.

Seven Pits "Seven pits lie open before the good man - and he escapes; only one lies before the wicked man and he falls into it."-the Talmud

VATICAN CITY (CNS) their individual sessions and durWhen you want decisive action at ing group luncheons. Officials of the Vatican, it helps to go right to the U.S. bishops' conference also the top. spoke to him about it during their U.S. bishops may appreciate that spring visit to the Vatican. fact after a timely intervention by "The bishops came here and Pope John Paul II on the problem asked for an expression of papal of sexual abuse by priests. concern. For many of them it was In a June letter to the U.S. epis- a very painful matter, and the copate, the pope called sexual abuse pope understood this," said Vatia great evil and said he shared the' can spokesman Joaquim Navarrobishops' "sorrow and concern" over Valls.

Until this spring, the pope had recent episodes, especially for the not spoken publicly about sex abuse young victims involved. He also by priests. Several Vatican offiannounced the formation of ajoint U.S.-Vatican commission to study cials interviewed in March did not church legal procedures dealing expect the pontiff to deal with the issue directly during the U.S. "ad with sexually abusive priests.

The pope's bluntly worded let- limina" visits. Privately they expressed deep concern, but were ter had two immediate effects: - It demonstrated that distress apprehensive that any Vatican over sexual abuse - once consi- statement would only end up focusing undue attention on the dered a quasi-taboo subject at the problem.

Vatican - was not limited to the The pope's letter warned that local church but is shared at the the question of sexual abuse must highest levels of the hierarchy. not be treated with "sensational- It broke up a bureaucratic ism" by public opinion or the mass logjam on a U.S. request for more media. But in saying this, the pope efficient legal procedures against was not being defensive, Navarropedophile priests.

Valls said. , By the time the lett'er became "The mentality is not a defenpublic, the curial wheels were sive one. There is a will to face the already i~ motion. The six-man problem and resolve it, without commission named by the pope hiding anythin'g," the spokesman met in what may be record time: said. .

After a [our-day (and' evenin'g) When the,fifth group of U.S. l')1arathon session in J,u'ne, the commission placed a preliminary 'bishops arrived' in -Rome in late set of recommendations in the June, the pope heard repeated . thaQks for his efforts. The pope's , pope's haQds. ' ' "The thin'king was that a pas- action "cleared the air in a wontoral question of this importance derful way" and the bishops wanted shouldn't wait," said one Vatican to show their gratitude, said Archbishop William H. Keeier, presiofficial. , That thinking clearly came from dent of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. above.

The episode demonstrated that For months, U.S. bishops on their, "ad limina" visits had been in an organization like the Vatitelling curial 'officials about their can, catching the boss's ear can make a big difference. deep concern over cases of sexual abuse and the inadequacy of church law to deal quickly and decisi"vely with proven offenders. They WARSAW, Poland (eNS) pointed out that in addition to the The head of the Catholic Church scandal and the pastoral suffering, in, European Russia has expressed these cases were opening up dio"grave concern" over a proposal to ceses to massive lawsuits. tighten state control of religion.

Since last year, Cardinal He also condemned official obstaAnthony J. Bevilacqua of Philacles to church activity. Archbishop delphia had been leading quiet negotiations with Vatican officials Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the Moscow-based apostolic administrator over simplifying the laicization procedure for known offenders for European Russia, said in an interview with a Polish Catholic among the clergy.

The bishops kept saying they newspaper that all denominations received a good hearing at the Vat- in Russia oppose a proposed law ican, but there did not appear to be which would empower the legislamuch follow-up. Some Vatican ture to, among other things, reofficials reacted without much establish a church-monitoring Exenthusiasm to what they consi- perts Consultative Council. The dered "short-cut" methods of laic- measure would also impose tighter izing priests. They pointed out restrictions on the registration of that priests have rights, too, and foreign-based religious communithe church has a responsibility to ties operating in Russia. them.

Light Up One group of bishops was told "Better to light up than merely that if they wanted action, they'd to shine, to deliver to others contembetter go directly to the pope. plated truths than merely to contemThat's what they did. The bishops plate."-St. Thomas Aquinas raised the issue with the pope in

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NEW ORLEANS (CNS) Mary Fisher, an HIV-positive mother who mesm,~rized the country at the 1992 Republican National Convention by calling for compassion for AI DS patients, has challenged Catholic health care providers to offer Ihope to a "staggering pilgrimage" of infected sufferers.

"The religious community in this nation has, at best a spotty record with regard to living out their own faiths when confronting AIDS," Ms. Fisher told the annual Catholic Health Association assembly held recently in New Orleans.

"Push open the doors which have stood between God's uninfected people and his infected children, and come out," she urged.

"Come out as one who speaks for God. Don't wait any longer. Bring the healing Gospel to the staggering pilgrimage."

Ms. Fisher, founder of the Family AIDS Network, contracted the AIDS virus from her late ex-husband, who was a drug user. Her children have tested negative for the virus.

Since her stirring nationally tel-

evised speech at the Republican convention, Ms. Fisher, who was brought up as a Jew, has told her story in churches and temples across the country. Poking fun at her lack of theological training, she calls herself "America's only Episcopalian Presbyterian Catholic Baptist Jewish woman who's an HlV-positive Republican."

Ms. Fisher pleaded for compassion from "those who are quick to judge," even when HIV activists are "angry young men losing weight and losing life, howling in rage and hurling condoms at passing limousines" or "prostitutes. slinking out of sight" "These are not objects of pity," she said. "These are human beings Her message: There are 14 mil- shaped in God's image, moving lion people worldwide and nearly. toward God's future, pilgrims."

Ms. Fisher said her faith that 2 million Americans infected with the AIDS virus, including persons there was a "divine purpose" to her suffering "helped carry me over from all walks of life. tortuous territ0ry in those first, "I think of them as a great, long, staggered days." But she admitted shuffling band of pilgrims," Ms. to moments of doubt Fisher said. "I visualize that band "I want to know that God is allas a ragtag army of people drawn powerful, able to cure what science from every race and tribe, color cannot understand," she said. and character.

"Actually, I want to be a little girl, '~I am there, somewhere between certain that God is strong enough the Kenyan beggar and the Chi- to pick me up when I stumble and nese merchant, the Philippine pros- fall.

"When one of his children in the titute and the Hispanic addict, the pilgrim band can go on no further African-American .executive and the child waiting on New York's and death comes calling along our streets," she said. "I am there, ranks, I imagine I see God on the edge of the crowd, bent over, weep·· kicking dust and swallowing grief, ing," she said. "And, suddenly, I moving toward an uncertain future am frightened. Because I want on the road to AIDS."

No fair shake for women, minorities across TV spectrum WASHINGTON (CNS) Women, minoritie:;, the elderly and the disabled are usually underrepresented on television primetime. daytime. children's and news shows and, whe:n numerically well-represented, are vastly misrepresented in image, according to a new study.

Those findings were released at a recent press conference of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

"Children are no longer being told about people, life and values by parents, by schools, by churches or others in the community in which they live, but by people with something to sell," said George Gerbner, who conducted the study.

The IO-year study examined more than 19.000 characters on more than 1,400 programs on broadcast and cable networks.

Prime-time, daytime, children's and news shows were :;tudies.

As women age., "they are portrayed as more evil." Gerbner said, adding that "they are at the bottom of the pecking order in the world of television .... Older women - that's where we get all our witches," he said.

"We want to be respected," said actress Kathryn Swink, 38. "I had a good career. Then I turned 35. I no longer have a career.

"I have'friends, more successful than I. who are losing their homes because they can't find work. We're not babes. and we're not grandmothers."

On Saturday-morning TV. children "hardly ever see a grownup woman in a positive and nurturing role," said Gerbner, dean emeritus of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

During prime time, blacks are represented in numbers proportionate to their population but they are "vastly underrepresented in children's programming," (icrbner said. Thc study also found that for each black featured in bus-

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iness news there are more than six reported on in crime news.

Hispanics, Gerbner said. have only "one-third of their [population) strength on television" and are "hardly visible" on children's show, while Asian-Americans are "conspicuous by their absence" on the small screen.

Senior citizens are "represented· as ineffective and as losers most of the time," Gerbner said. Portrayals of mentally ill people, he added. are "perpetuating a stereotype of the worst kind" and the 43 million disabled Americans are represented by only 1.5 percent of the roles on prime time.

"The disabled are often used as metaphor," Mary Jane Owen, executive director of the National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities, told Catholic News Service.

"Even Shakespeare used it" in "Richard Ill," Ms. Owen said.

While the real Richard III wasn't hunchbacked, "to portray the evil, [Shakespeare] made him a crippled king."

Notable exceptions like" Murphy Brown" and "The Cosby Show" notwithstanding, Gerbner said. what the study counted was "aggregates that people absorb over a long period of time." . Toey Caldwell of the Screen Actors Guild. who is black. verified the findings from an actor's perspective. "We know what we're being auditioned for," he said.

"We know the role's that we get.

And we're telling you there is a problem."

Sister Angela Ann Zukowski, president of Unda-USA, an organization for Catholic communicators. told CNS. "I agree with the findings 100 percent."

"We need to take seriously the question of how our culture is being formed in this country." said Sister Zukowski. a Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart and executive director of the Center for Religious Communications at the University of. Dayton.

"Given a choice, people choose nonviolence" on TV, Gerbner said.

"The top 10 shows are nonviolent."

But commercial television public TV was not studied - is "dollar-driven," pushing advertis.. ers into sponsoring "the cheapest and most reasonably popular form of programming." Gerbner said.

Those shows, he added, are "formulaic" action series with sty I,· ized violence that are easy to sell to foreign markets.

Sister Zukowski said that dur,· ing a recent trip to Trinidad and Tobago. she noticed that 95 per.. cent of the TV shows were U.S. imports. She said she was asked.

"Are the people in your culture satisfied with the images of women on television?"

Reed Farrell of AFTRA said hi:; union negotiated a pact with the networks that gave the union a say in "portraying the American scene" in its fullness on daytime soap operas. "We've had great change in ... the way the world is being shown." he said.

Even so, the study noted that women, the majority of soaps' watchers. conStitute a minority of characters on daytime TV. Women have a better chance of delivering the news, the study said.

Thirty-five percent of all new:; anchors were women, while 20 percent of authorities quoted 011 TV news and 17 percent of news· makers were \Vomen.

Barry Gordon of the Screen Actors Guild said the unions would seek alliances with other groups to pressure networks. producers and advertisers for fairer portrayals of women and minorities.

A Prayer "Our prayer is that men everywhere will learn finally to live as brothers, to respect each other's differences, ~o heal each other's wounds, to promote each other's progresss, and to benefit from each other's knowledge."-·Adlai Stevenson

MARY FISHER speaks at Catholic Health Association assembly. (CNS photo) God to be stronger than death ane beyond the reach of grieving."

She called on all Christians to share that compassion.

"The Christian community wa:; born into a manger of oppression and was nurtured on a Gospel of compassion," Ms. Fisher said.

"How then could the doors to great cathedrals swing shut when

those who were dying begged for grace? ... .

"If AIDS were indeed the judgment of God, it would not infect the pilgrim band," she added. "It would, instead, rain cklwn on those who jeer and cursc~:'the pilgrims.

And it would rain hardest on those who hurl their judgments from temples, and pulpits."

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By Christopher Carstens How can this be happening? for applicants with a variety of You waited all year for the last day interests, and sometimes the stuof school. All your daydreams dent with a history of volunteer were filled with long, warm days experience will get in ahead 'of someone with somewhat better spent having fun, fun, fun.

So how come you're sitting in grades. If you can find volunteer the living room watching cartoons work in a field related to your in the afternoon and feeling so desired career, it will help even more. bored you can hardly stand it?

One problem is that teen wouldIn most families, M om and Dad be volunteers hope for more direct are at work, so they aren't around involvement in their chosen work for distraction. Lots of life's fun than the typical volunteer situathings cost money - and the typition makes possible. Look for cal teenager's Saturday allowance something that comes close. hardly lasts through Sunday afterFor example, if you're interested noon. in teaching, it is unlikely you will

By Wednesday, the bank is be able to get a job actually teachalmost always empty. It seems like ing a class. However, it is relatively the only choices left are MTV and simple to be a volunteer tutor or a eating all the food you can find. classroom aide.

Here are two options for the One teen I know is interested in not-yet-working teenager who's being an artist. He worked one looking for escape from boredom- summer as a volunteer in the local related brain death. children's museum, and he still I. Take a class. Sounds weird at regards it as one of the most fun first, but there are lots of different things he ever did. things you can learn during the The interesting thing is that now summer, things that are fun to he's thinking about teaching. The study and not at all like algebra. volunteer experience ,not only filled Maybe you could take stained up his summer, it gave him'some glass or a course on modeling. clearer ideas about what he'd like Summer gives you the chance to to do with the rest of his life. 'take those courses without having For a -list of volunteer ,options, the burdens of "real school." call your local United Way agency 2. Volunteer. The world can be a , or ask your pastor. You may find better place, and the energy and an open door to a whole new enthusiasm of teens can go a long career path. way toward making important Your comments are welcomed changes. Volunteering is especially

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Black Catholic youth celebrate faith KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS)"We are promoting our faith in God," said Tenisha Kent, summing up a 'national gathering of 8SS African-American Catholic youths in Kansas City July 8-11.

It was the biennial convention of the Junior Knights and Da'ughters of Peter Claver, and nearly one-fifth of the group's 4,800 members nationwide attended the meeting. , "Claverism is using our influence as Christians and as AfricanAmericans to uplift others," said Joseph Babineaux.."We have a special opportunity as leaders of youth to make a difference by our example." St. Peter Claver was a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary who devoted his life to serving African slaves in South America.

M iss Kent, an honor student at Scotla'nd Ville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge, La., is active in dance and a statewide organization of teen-agers engaged in community service.

Babineaux is a two-year varsity starter in football at Jesse H. Jones High School in Houston, a "B" student and active in an organization of top young men who perform community service.

The two were elected Junior Supreme Lady and Junior Supreme Knight at the convention.

Accompanying the young people, who came from 22 states and ranged in age from 7 to 18, were more than ~OO adult chaperones.

Auxiliary Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Galveston-Houston, national chaplain of the Junior Knights and Daughters, called the, turnout "inspiring."

"You hear so many' negative things about young people, 'especially African-American young people," he said. "Here,you have a group from around the country coming together. What binds them is that they are Catholic and they live Catholic values."

"Here they have a support system as they strive to live by Christian values and the values of St. Peter Claver," he added. At a closing Mass, the bishop told the young people never to forget who they ate.

"The real portrait of AfricanAmericans is that we are a strong people, a surviving people," he said. "This may be the best-kept secret in America. If so, it is time to let the truth be known."

Well we're going to, Yeah we're going to Get it right this time We're going to, Really, going to Raise it to the sky People are ready To forgive a few mistakes Let's get started, Form a 'party Don't you know How long it takes? .

C'mon people Let the fun begin We've got a future And it's rushing in Call all the minstrels From the ancient shrines Pass down the message That it's right this time Well I'm trying Yeah I'm trying To lay it on the line Trying to, Really dying to, 'Get it right this time So many headed For the way it's gonna be Believe it When you see it Happening to you Know it's real C'mon people Let t,he world begin We got a future And it's charging in Written and sung by Paul McCartney (c) 1993 by Capitol Records got a future and it's rushing in."

PAUL McCARTNEY ranks We need to "call all the minhigh among the leading musistrels from the ancient shrines," cians of the past 30 years. Curtelling them to "pass down the rently, he's back on tour prommessage that it's right this time." oting his new disc "Off the Ground." From this collection, I totally agree that the future the single "Cmon People" is is ours to form. We need a clear vision of what we want, an getting considerable radio air time. effective way of communicatThe song describes a hopeful ing this vision and the courage vision for our world. McCartto begin living it in our own ney asks us to see how "we~ve lives.

Golf Team. Both are students at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

The annual Fall River area CYO Pavao, a senior, and Damiano, golf tournament will be held July ajunior, averaged under 40 strokes 23 at Fall River Country Club. per nine holes this spring and qualRegistration fee is $S. According ified for the state regional tournato club regulations, collared shirts ment. ' must be worn.'

Pavao was also selected to the Participants will be divided into all-Eastern Athletic Conference Seniors, born on or after Jan. I, Team.

1967; lntermediates; born on or after Jan. I, 1974; Juniors, born Five earn scholarships on or after Jan. I, 1977; and Cadets, born on or after Jan. I, The Ladies Guild of Our Lady 1979. ' , of the Cape parish, Brewster, has The top two finishers in each awarded scholarships to: division will advance to the dioceTracy Greene, a physical thersan CYO tournament to be held in apy. major at Ithaca College, Ithaca, Pocasset Monday, Aug. 16.

NY. Albert Vaillancourt, associate James Knight,a nursing student director of the Fall 'River are<;t at Fitchburg State College.

CYO, expressed gratitude to Tom Marc Rancourt, a political sciTetreault, Fall River Country Club ence major at the University of golf pro, and the club members for Massachusetts-Amherst. making the facility available for Marie Zweigman, who holds an the tournament, to be directed by associate's degree in secretarial Everett Smith. science and is working toward a bachelor's degree in business adminiGolf honors to two stration.

Kerry Spencer, majoring in hisJim Damiano and Tom Pavao tory at Siena College, Loudonhave been named to the 1993 Fall River Herald News All Scholastic ville, NY.

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Cartney .are doing their pan by challenging us to take steps to transform our planet and heal its many peoples.

Yet lasting change begins with each person's commitment.

Begin your own commitment to world change by daring to dream big!

Let's create a world where racism and prejudice no longer exist. No longer will a person's culture, skin color, personal creed or sexual preference be a factor in determining his or her dignity. We will clearly acknowledge that each individual is God's son or daughter.

Let's create a world filled with unconditional generosity.

We will give and give until hunger, poverty and homell:ssness are banished from the planet.

Sure, such a world requires lots of strategic planning and creative thinking. Yet now is the time to visualize what the healing of all this human suffering would look like. Now is the time to increase our spirit of giving so that progress toward eliminating these problems can continue.

Finally, let's create a world based on Jesus' teaching of nonviolence. Let's put so-called "military solutions" to international problems behind us as a human race.

Let's take specific steps to empower this dream by no longer being willing to hurt others with the weapons of sarcasm, ridiculing words or gossip.

Instead, we will deal directly . with our anger toward othl:rs.

Try this week to work out fair and respectful resolutions to any conflicts that develop with friends and family members.

Could all of this actually happen? Well, you will sec it when you believe it and take steps to help the dream be realized in your small corner of the planet.

"Cmon people... We're going to get it right this time."

Your comments are welcomed

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

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JENNIFER Santos of North Dartmouth was among recipients of college scholarship grants at a recent convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters.

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Bishop Connolly High School Scholarships and awards were presented to graduating seniors at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. at a senior banquet.

Michael Donnelly was the recipient of the first Christopher M, Leahey Memorial Scholarship. established in remembrance of the 1987 Connolly graduate who died in an automobile accident last year.

Like Leahey. Donnelly was an honors student who excelled in cross country and track.

Funding for the scholarship comes from an annual road race.

Donnelly won that race last August and was also Connolly's Athlete of the Year for 1992-93. He will attend Providence College.

This year's Leahey race will take place Aug. 8; for information contact Connolly's development office at 676-1476.

Among other honors given at the banquet were: Melanie Arruda: bronze medal (physics). Jennifer Azeved!o: Veronica Beaulieu Community Service Award. Westport Young Woman of the Year Scholarship. Gerald! CabelIon: music award.

Caroline Cabral: leMoyne College grant. Mar4uette University scholarship.

Cindy Cabral: Fairfield University scholarship. Michael Cancilliere: Elmira College Founders Scholarship.

Eric Canedy: Twenty-First Century

St. Mary's School At graduation ceremonies ill St. Mary's School, New Bedford, the first Sister Louise Angele Christian Service Award was presented to Kerrin Boutin. The award goes to a graduate who like Sister Angele exemplifies the qualities of charity and service to others. A plaque honoring Sister Angele. who retired this year. will hang in the school foyer.

For outstanding achievement in religion, Jessica Desrosiers was the recipient of an honor certificate and savings bond in memory of F. Orner Grenon. presented to her by Mrs. Rita Grenon.

Gary Trahan nnd Susan Desnoyers were honored as Parents of the Year for service to the School.

Bishop Stang Student Council officers for 1993-94 were elected prior to the close of school at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

Elected were: Kristen Janiak, a senior from North Dartmouth, president; Colleen Carney, a junior from South Dartmouth, vice presiden; John Pedro, a senior from Westport, treasurer; and Michelle Neves, a junior from Fairhaven, secretary.

The officers n:cently attended the International Student Leadership Institute at UMass-Dartmouth. The program emphasizes involvement, service, loyalty and initiative (lSLI) as qualities important to leadership.

Bishop Stang senior Jessica L. Byron has been named an editor of High School Today magazine for the coming school year. She is among five student editors selected from Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island schools.

New offices of the Stang chapter of Students Against Drunk Driving are Natalie Mailloux, president; Anabela Vasconcelos, vicepresident; Jason Williams, treasurer; Rosemary Fernandes, secretary.

Award. Andrea Ciosek: University of Hartford Alumni Grant. Westport Young Woman of the Year scholarship. Brian Comeau: class salutatorian award.

Tonya DeMelo: Spotlight Program Award: Sheriff Nelson Drug Awareness.

St. Anne's Credit Union and Citizen Scholarship Foundation scholarships.

John Farley: drama award (overall best performance). Pedro Fernan'des: Twenty-First Century Book Award.

Heather Fletcher: drama award (best assistant director. 1993). Lynn Gifford: Wareham Educators Association Scholarship. Kevin Lang: Bristol County Estate Planning Scholarship.

William Losch: silver medal (computers and law), New Bedford Educators Association Scholarship. Joseph Mendes: University of Hartford scholarship and grant. Kristen Neves: Hartwick College scholarship.

Tanya' Paquette: bronze medal (art). literary magazine outstanding contributions award. Boston Globe Scholastic Art Gold Key Award. Principal's Award (volunteerism). Pell Grant. SEOG Grant.

Westport Fair Committee Scholarship.

Stephen P. Borden Memorial Scholarship.

Kristen Rogers: bronze medal (biology). Sarah Anne Ryder: Outstanding Senior and All Around Student Award. school winner of Fall River Evening lioness speech Competition, Jesuit Secondary Education Association Ignatian Award. Xerox Award (history).

Daniel St. Laurent: bronze medal (chemistry). Massachusetts College of Pharmacy Scholarship. Stephanie Schuller: silver medal (world literature and math): Bausch and lomb Science Award: Georgetown University Ignatian Award: Tandy Technology Scholar: Fall River Elks. Junior Achievement. Fall River Carousel lions Club scholarships and scholarships from six colleges and uni~ versities. Aaron Sheldon: New England Institute of Technology Book Award.

David Silva: silver medal (religion.

U.S. history). Outstanding Senior and All Around Student Award. yearbook award, JSEA Ignatian Award. Harvard Book Award,'Principal's Award (volunteerism). Spotlight Program Award: scholarships from Junior Achievement, Fall River and Massachusetts Elks. and four universities.

Elizabeth Sisson: Tandy Technology outstanding mathematics and science student. Maryann Souza: bronze medal (Portuguese). certificate for excellence from Massachusetts Foreign language Association.

Lauren Stiles: bronze medal (Spanish), certificate for excellence from Massachusetts Foreign language Association.

Monica Sylvia: bronze medal (psychology). outstanding Catholic high school graduate. top high school psychology student certificate. Bristol County Estate Planning and Massachusetts Elks scholarships.

Catherine Torphy: silver medal (English and French), class valedictorian award. Tandy Technology Scholar.

National Merit Scholarship Commended Student. Boston Globe Scholastic Art Silver Key Award. Georgetown University Honorary Bellermine Award. Holy Cross Book Award. certificate for excellence from Massachusetts Foreign language Association. Francophone Association Scholarship.

Also given were 26 Presidential Academic Fitness Awards. II Salt of thl: Earth Awards. and 10 seniors were named Most Admired Students.

For the fourth quarter marking period at Connolly. 78 students achieved highest honors. 50 high honors and 37 honors.

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THE MSGR. GEORGE Maxwell Award, given to a teenager outstanding in religious studies, character and ser.. vice, was presented at a recent liturgy at 55. Peter and Paul Church, Fall River, to Thomas McCaughey by Father Gerald P. Barnwell.

St. Mary Sacred Heart Schooll Coleen Barrett and Denise Flynn; . 'both teachers at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, are among 45 teachers from Sou· theaster Massachusetts taking part in "Our Watery World," a two· week workshop begun July 6 and sponsored by the Museum Insti· tute for Teaching Science(MITS).

The program is designed to help teachers make science and math "kid-accessib;e" through investigatory, hands-on, inquiry-driven activities. Taught by local museum educators, it emphasizes ways to introduce science and math into other curriculum subjects.

MITS, which has run science workshops for teachers since 1986, is coordinating four programs simultaneously in Massachusetts.

Local sessions have been held at The Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies, Manomet Bird

Observatory, South Dartmouth Children's Museum and ocean Quest.

Three graduate credits will b(~ awarded by Bridgewater State College to teachers who hav,~ attended all sessions, completed a daily journal and created an original science lesson plan.

Stonehill College The Father Eugene Green/ Beta Xi Scholarship Fund has received a $2,000 donation from the college's evening division "Coffee Concession" fundraiser, managed

by Linda Sullivan, Beta Xi treasurer and a member of Holy Cross parish, South Easton. The fund honors the late Father Eugene Green, director of the Stonehill writing program. Scholarships go to evening division students outstanding for community service.

Jazz Masses draw throngs at Sacramento festival

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) - The sweet and hot strains of traditional jazz flowed from building after building, including the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, during Sacramento's recent 20th annual Dixieland Jubilee Jazl Festival.

Yearly, nearly 100.000 toetapping traditional jazz fans converge on Sacramento for the country's biggest festival of its kind.

And for the past 12 of those years, the Sacramento diocese has been serving the spiritual needs of jazzloving Catholics by offering a Jazz Mass.

Sacramento Bishop Francis A. Quinn said he thought of the Mass when he became the city's bishop 13 years ago.

"I saw such crowds at the Jazz Jubileeand I said. ·Well. thechurch should be where the people are, and so we ought to become part of this festival and do something,''' * * * * Bishop Connolly will sponsor Bishop Quinn told The Tidings, the third annual Thomas P. Keyes the archdiocesan newspaper of Los Memorial Golf tournament July Angeles.

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So the next year he celebrated The event is held in remembrance the first Jazz Mass at the diocesan of the 1984 Connolly graduate cathedral, situated in the middle of who died in an automobile acci-' Old Sacramento. dent three years ago. It is organThe Mass. a unique blending of ized by his father. Edward Keyes. lively jazz rhythms. liturgical dance golf coach at Connoll~' and a retired and traditional liturgical chant and Durfee High Schopl teacher. practice was an instant hit with

festivalgoers and musicians alike.

This year, about 7,500 peopl~ attended the cathedral's three jazz Masses.

Works sung by the 100-voic<: choir at Jazz Mass '93 included "Hail Holy Queen" - the version made popular in the recent film "Sister Act"; a chant version ofth.;: "Our Father" and a new composition, "Come and Go with Me!" by Father CarIJ. Steinauer. diocesan director of worship and Jazz Mass coordinator.

In the past years, musicalluminaries such as Dave Brubeck have played at the Jazz Mass. This year, a jazz trio and jazz band accompanied the singers.

"The Jazz Mass serves Catholic needs and it really makes a great statement for the Catholic Church," Father Steinauer said.

"It's especially appropriate on Pentecost; from the many voices of the human family we were able to speak today by way of one mu~­ icallanguage. It was an inspirited. faith-filled event."

Bishop Quinn defended the propriety of usingjazz in the M a~s by noting the musical form's "rel.giolJs underpinnings," having originated from old Negro spiritual:;.

"The Mass is not a performance: it's a prayer," he added. '" think Lian] fits in beautifully. You know.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (CNS)Often misjudged by others and left to cope alone with life's complexities, singles should be helped more by their churches in finding fulfillment, says a Pennsylvania ecumenical group.

"Singles exist within all of our congregations," said the Pennsylvania Conference on Interch urch Cooperation in a statement. "Their needs are sometimes unique and sometimes shared by those who are not single. Yet, as a specific segment of our churches, singles have often been neglected or their presence unintentionally devalued."

The statement challenged churches to do a better job of ministering to singles and urged unmarried people to take the initiative in their congregations. ' The Interchurch Conference consists of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, public policy arm of the state's Catholic bishops.

"In many of our churches the traditional ministerial emphasis has all too often been toward those who are married or towards families. Often those who are single. those who worship alone, feel isolated and lonely even within their own faith communities," the statement said.

Noting that more than one-third of the U.S. population is unmarried, the statement cited New Testament references to the value of single people in the life of the church and pointe:d out some of their problems.

Singles are often misjudged by others," it said. "They are frequently thought of as carefree or irresponsible and selfish (the 'swinging singles'). Som(~ may consider singles to be more financially stable than those who must support a spouse or a family. At times even their sexual orientation may be questioned.

"All of these generalizations involve misconceptions that perpetuate the myths surrounding the single life."

The religious group said churches should incorporate singles into ministry, education, parish programs and worship; and should choose language that reflects their presence in the community. For instance, the group suggested churches avoid terms like "family picnic" when the whole congregation is invited.

The statement also challenged singles to participate in communal faith experiences.

"Together we form a single people. the one Body of Christ. Each member is different and performs a diverse function of that Body.

Without one member or another, the entire body suffers and its work is diminished," the statement concluded.

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we also have polka Masses and mariachi Masses and other expressions of different cultures."

Bishop Quinn. who at age 72 has submitted his resignation to Pope John Paul II before the mandatory retirement age of 75. said that this year would be his final Jazz Mass as bishop of Sacramento.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 16,1993

fteering pOintl PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit news Items for this :column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be Included,as well as full dates of all acllvltIes. Please send news of future rather than past events.

Due to limited space and also because nollces of strlclly parish affairs normally appear In a parish's own bullelln, we are forced to limit Items to events of general Interest. Also, we do not normally' carry notices of fundralslng acllvilles, which may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone (508) 675-7151.

On Steering Points Items, FR Indicates Fall River; NB Indicates New Bedford.

HOSPICE OUTREACH, FR Volunteers needed to coordinate loans of supplies and equipment to patients and to deliver supplies in a van or truck. Hours are flexible.

Information: 673-1589.

LaSALETTE,ATTLEBORO At LaSalette Shrine: Vietnamese Pilgrimage Day 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow, coordinated by Father Joseph Diem of St. Peter's parish, Dorchester; Healing Service conducted by Brother Armand Binette, MS, 2 p.m. Sunday. All welcome.

August events at the Center for Christian Living: Aug. 6-8: a retreat, "Changing the Legacy," offering strategies for changing behavior patterns. Recommended for those in 12-step programs. Presented by social workers Leo LeBlanc and Gloria Jane Legere. Aug. 20-22: "Truly Native-Truly Christian," a weaving together of the Christian and Native American traditions. Presented by Sister Jose Hobday, OSF. Aug. 23-24: "Clergy Misconduct: Sexual Abuse in the Ministerial Relationship," a workshop presented

by Associates in Education and Prevention in Pastoral Praclice with presenters Patricia Liberty, a Baptist clergywoman and Sister Elaine Shaw, OP. Recommended for clergy, religious personnel, seminarians, pastoral counselors, psychotherapists and other religious leaders.

Aug. 27-29; "The Real Man-the Journey towards Balance," for men wishing to explore their maleness.

Presented by Dr. Joseph Martos, a co-author with Father Richard Rohr of several books.

Information on all programs: (508) 222-8530.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON CODA (Co-Dependents Anonymous) meet at 10:30 a.m. each Tuesday in the parish center. This group aids those involved with addicts or persons suffering from illness. All welcome.

CATHEDRAL, FR The Cathedral choir is in need of a grand piano for rehearsal use. Prospective donors may contact Father Horace Travassos, rector.

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SACRED HEART, FR Appreciation reception for parochial vicar Father George Bellenoit following 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Reception for Father Brian Harrington. pastor, follows 10:30 a.m.

Mass July 25.

SUMMER SPLASH, CATHEDRAL CAMP E. FREETOWN "Summer Splash" program including swimming and sports 2 to 6 p.m.

Aug. 8, Cathedral Camp, East Free-' town, for junior high through high school students. The event will end with a commissioning ceremony for youth going to World Youth Day in Denver.

BETHANY WEEKEND Weekend retreat Aug. 20 through 22, at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, for persons age 20 and over, "who have accepted Christ in their lives." Information: Pat Medeiros, Bethany Retreat, 532 Main Rd., Tiverton RI 02878.

DIVORCED/SEPARATED, N. DARTMOUTH Planning board meeting 7 p.m.

July 20; Sister Jane Hogan, OSF, lecture on getting rid of loneliness, 7 p.m. July 26; open discussion meeting 7 p.m. Aug. II; Pat McCarthy, DSW, lecture on communicating with children. All meetings at Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth.

NEWMAN CENTER, AMHERST Celebration of University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Amherst College Newman Center and retirement dinner for Newman Center director Father J. Joseph Quigley will be held July 31 at the center.

Events begin at 10 a.m. and include welcome, panel discussion on impact of center, lunch, Mass and 7 p.m. buffet. Information: (413) 549-0300.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Seminars for those interested in learning more about AIDS or working on behalf of patients will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays Aug. 18, Sept. 22 and Oct. 20 in Room 134 in the hospital's Clemence Hall. Topics in order of dates will be Hospice of Mission Hill, Boston, conducted by admissions counselor Nancy Shearer, RN; a panel discussion on those affected by AIDS; and Sunrise House, Providence, RI, conducted by Jeff Austin, director and Margaret Smith, clinical supervisor.

ST. ANNE, FR The 122nd annual novena in honor of Good St. Anne begins tomorrow with services in the shrine daily at 3 .and 7:30 p.m. The novena will be preached by Rev. John R. Foister, pastor. The .parish is initiating a spiritual adoption program for babies at risk of abortion, with prayers asked for such a .bahy.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Volunteer needed to build a few bookcases for new pre-school department; also needed, puzzles, books and toys for 3 to 5-year-olds.

RJM celebration set The Religious of Jesus and Mary of the American province will hold a celebration July 31 in honor of the March canonization of foundress St. Claudine Thevenet and the beatification of Blessed Dina Belanger, also a Religious of Jesus and Mary.

Bishop Sean O'Malley will be principal celebrant of an II a. m. Mass at Notre Dame Church, FR, followed by a luncheon at White's of Westport.

Reservations requested

by July 20 at the Thevenet Mission Center, 672-7952, or write to The Religious of Jesus and Mary, 632 Highland Ave., FR 02720.

LEGION OF MARY Father Gerald Fitzsimmons, a Montfort Father from Bay Shores, NY, will be retreat master for a Legion of Mary weekend retreat Oct. 29 to 31 at the Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth. Information: Alice Beaulieu, 157 Truro St., NB 02745, tel. 995-2354.

WASHINGTON -(CNS) Saying "never again" to the H010caust is not enough, a group of religious leaders said, recommending that preachers devote at least one sermon a year to the H010caust or anti-semitism in general.

At a press conference on Capitol Hill, the 18-month-old Committee of Concerned Christians, whose members include the Rev. Richard Halverson, U.S. Senate chaplain, said an estimated 62 million U.S., Canadian and European churchgoers will hear such a sermon this year thanks to their efforts.

A thousand clergy in 16 states and territories have joined the

Solemn Novena in honor of

SAINT ANNE Saint Anne Parish and Shrine Corner Middle and South Main Streets, Fall River, MA

July 17 to 25, 1993 Preacher: Rev. John R. Foister, Pastor Theme: A History of the Old Testament Faith

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OL VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Summer Sunday Masses are celebrated in the parish center at 9:35 and 10:50 a.m.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Soup, crackers and canned vegetables needed by food pantry. All welcome to contribute.

ST. JAMES, NB Recyclable bottles and cans are being collected by sexton Andrew Rivet with proceeds to benefit the parish.

ST. MARY, MANSFIELD Boxes will be at church doors July 24 and 25 for monthly food collection for St. Joseph's Food Cellar in Attleboro.

VAT1CAN EXHIBIT, SALVE REGINA COLLEGE Selected facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts from the Vatican Library are on display at the McKillop Library of Salve Regina College, Newport. To continue through July, the exhibit is on view at regular library hours. Information (40 I) 847-6650, ext. 2374 or 2276.

SACRED HEART, NB Cancelled postage stamps are being collected to assist the missions.

Information: Octave and Lucille Pimentel, 992-5402.

Youth group po.ol party I p.m. tomorrow. Information: 994-9870.

BIRTHRIGHT, NB The NB office of Birthright, directed by Mrs. Gordon Baker, is in need of volunteers who can help a few hours a month. Information: Janet Barbelle, 674-0180.

Saying "never again" t() Holocaust not enough

122nd Annual

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ST. JAMES, NB Alcoholics Anonymous meeting 7 p.m. each Wednesday and Saturday, church basement. All welcome.

On Monday, July 26, the Solemn F~ast of Saint Anne, Masses will be celebrated at 7:15,10:00 a.m., 12 noon and 7:30 p.m. Following the 7:30 p.m. Mass there will be a procession in the upper church concluding with the veneration of the relic of Saint Anne. Devotions will be held in the shrine at 3 p.m.

committee, based on the strength of a 1991 mailing to 5,000 Los Angeles ministers asking for a Holocaust sermon. Rather than the expected 40 ministers, more than 400 signed up immediately.

A Cuban-American Catholic priest, Father Raul Comesanas, said he sees a parallel between the Holocaust and events in his native country.

"History and the signs of the times are clear we have not learned our lesson," said Father Comesanas, pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Union City, N.J. He added that underground tunnels in 路Cuba's major cities are not meant for shelter in case of a U.S. invasion, as Cuban president Fidel Castro has proclaimed, but "the bishops and the people know that these tunnels are going to be used for genocide in case of open rebellion."

Committee members expressed deep concern over the plight of Bosnian Muslims. Also alarming the committee were the results of a poll it commissioned which said 54 percent of Americans' believe a Holocaust the Jews in could happe'1 again.

Ben Friedman, a Jew who cofounded the committee, said the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, "Nostra Aetate," was "the first bright light in 2,000 years of Christian-Jewish history," but "still over 80 percent of the Catholic people have never heard of'Nostra ':\etate....

To contact the Committee of Concerned Christians, write 222 N. Rose St., Suite 104, Burbank, CA 91505 or phone(818) 848-3442.