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Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin imposes his hands on the head of James S. Medeiros. Be, low, the new Father Medeiros stands with the former Fall River bishop, who traveled from his present see of Hartford for the cere, mony. (Hickey photos)

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Black Congress delegate "still floating" With eNS reports "I'm still floating" was the reaction of Ms. Dorothy Lopes when asked her impressions of the seventh National Black Congress, held in New Orleans July 9 through 12.

"The gift of the black church to the larger church became very evident to me," she said in describing the meeting of some 2,700 people, including six cardinals and 91 of the nation's bishops. Of the bishops, nine of the country's II active black bishops were present.

The event was "successful, powerful and offers a great challenge to black Catholics nationally and in the diocese of Fall River," said Ms. Lopes, a lector and eucharis-

tic minister at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, New Bedford, and one of eight parishioners who attended the congress. .

She said the delegation will meet in the near future to decide how best to share with the parish the insights gained in New Orleans.

After a July 9 opening Mass celebrating the richness of AfricanAmerican culture through music and ritual, congressgoers turned to the task of developing a framework designed to iinplement the gathering's theme: The AfricanAmerican Family.

Particularly scrutinized were the internal structure of AfricanAmerican family life, the role of the African-American male, the

effects of racism on families and ways of making the American church more aware and inclusive of African-American culture and concerns.

"How?" asked Auxiliary Bishop J. Terry Steib of St. Louis, chairman ofthe U.S. bishops' Committee on Black Catholics, during the closing Mass of the congress July 12. "I don't know how, but somehow!"

He was responding to questions raised by delegates on how to implement in their home dioceses the actions of the congress.

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Pope is recovering from surgery VATICAN CITY(CNS)- After The pope's medical ordeal was awakening at 4 a.m. July 15 to say played out hirgely in the public Mass, Pope John Paul II under-' eye. In a remarkable contrast with went surgery at 6: 15 a. m. to remove centuries of Vatican reserve on a benign tumor, and doctors pre- papal health matters, he persondicted the pope's 'long-term recov- ally made the surprise announceery prospects are "absolutely good," ment about his physical condition a Vatican spokesman said. during a Sunday Angelus blessing During a nearly four-hour oper- July 12. ation at Rome's Gemelli PolyNavarro-Valls said the pope had clinic, doctors removed a moder- been suffering from an "intestinal ately sized tumor and performed a dysfunction" and a small amount resection of the colon. the lower of pain for a few days. part of the large intestine. the VatThroughout pre-operative tests, ican said. he was alert and comfortable, his The 72-year-old pontiff tolerated spokesman said. He said Mass in the operation well and regained his room and walked unaided, consciousness rapidly afterward, awaiting doctors' instructions. press spokesman Joaquin NavarroThe Vatican had quickly ruled Valls said. out early speculation that the pope's He said the non-cancerous nature problem was related to his June of the tumor was confirmed in visit to Angola. It was clear that biopsies before and during the the pope was not suffering from a operation and "it is confirmed 100 viral or bacterial infection, Napercent" that no malignancy was varro-Valls said. The Pope's July 12 arrival at the Gemelli clinic found.

At the same time, surgeons took seemed in many ways like one of out the pope's' gall bladder when his Sunday parish outings. The gallstones were discovered during smiling pontiff, in traditional white robe and skull cap, greeted wellthe procedure, he said.

Doctors confirmed that the wishers at the hospital entrance tumor had nothing to do with the and' patients who looked down pope's previous intestinal opera- from their windows. He walked into the building slowly bu·t tions following an assassination attempt II years ago. unaided.

In medical terms, the tumor He is staying in the same IOthfound is a tubulo-villous adenoma floor rooms he had in 198 I. They found in this case in the sigmoid include working space for himself colon with localized cellular alter- and a personal secretary, Polish ations, a Vatican statement said.

Msgr. Stanislaw Dziwisz. In 1981 Patients who have had such a the pope spent a total of76 days in tumor removed are usually exam- the hospital in separate recoveries ined regularly afterward for possi- from the gunshot wounds and a ble recurrence. subsequent viral infection.

The pope is expected to remain The pope had been expected to in the hospital until about July 25, leave the Vatican July 15 for his then go to his summer residence annual two-week holiday in the outside Rome for further rest.

Italian alps. Navarro-Valls said The surgery was performed by a that he hoped the pontiff could medical team headed by Dr. Fran- make the trip "as soon as possible." cesco Crucitti, who also operated Hundreds of get-well wishes have on the pope's intestines following been pouring in to the Vatican and a 1981 assassination attempt.

Navarro-Valls said that among The pope's anesthesiologist, Dr. them was a "moving" letter from Corrado Manni, said the growth Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who was the size oran orange. shot the pope in 1981, causing "About 10 days in the hospital is serious intestinal wounds. normal in these situations," said It will be up to the pope to Navarro-Valls, who has a medical decide whether to make Agca's letdegree. ter public, the spokesman said.

The pope's body functions were Agca is serving a life sentence in an normal during the operation and Italian prison. he regained consciousness quickly, President George Bush expressed Navarro-Valls said. his wishes for the pope's speedy In describing the operation, recovery in a message delivered to Navarro-Valls read from a medi- a top Vatican Official by Ambascal bulletin issued by the surgical sador Thomas Melady. team.

Other messages were received The operation was "curative be- from the Palestine Liberation cause the lesion was of a benign Organization, expressing the wishes nature," said the bulletin. of PLO leader Vasser Arafat; the "H is cardiovascular, respiratory, Israeli ambassador to Italy; and hematological and metabolical func- most other ambassadors at the tions have constantly remained Vatican. within the norms," it said.

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NCCW units work for environment

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SALT LAKE CITY (CNS) Catholic teaching on the Eucharist has 'become "so watered down and distorted over the past 25 years" that immediate correction is needed, according to Bishop William K. Weigand of Salt Lake City.

Writing in tile Intermountain Catholic, Salt Lake diocesan newspaper, Bishop Weigand called the Eucharist the "most central teaching of our Catholic faith." He said "a whole generation of Catholics has been raised with imprecise language and a vague understanding" of it.

The bishop, whose diocese covers the entire state of Utah, said most Catholics do not understand that when they receive the Eucharist they "are really and truly receiving the body and blood, soul and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, under the appearance of bread and wine."

He told Utah Catholics to "stop referring to holy Communion as the 'bread,' the 'wine,' rather than 'the body of Christ,' 'the blood of Christ.'"

"Sloppy language gradually shapes (that is, misshapes) our understanding," he added.

Bishop Weigand cited several possible reasons for the current lack of understanding of the Eucharist among Catholics.

"Have the simplification of the rites of the Mass, the change from Latin to the vernacular, the reception of holy Communion on the hand, standing rather than kneeling for holy Communion, etc. bred an informality and familiarity that has gradually and imperceptibly eroded our full Catholic under. standing of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist?" he asked.

Among other possible reasons, he suggested: - "The fact that few people anymore make visits to church to pray before the Blessed Sacrament (and in some cases can't because their church is left locked) ...

- "The too infrequent use of the rites of Benediction, holy hour and annual eucharistic devotions with the.exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.. ..

- "The growing lack of prayerful silence in our churches....

- "The lesser concern of people to receive holy Communion worthily," that is, without a mortal sin on their souls.

But Bishop Weigand said "the most influential factor has been the catechisms and teachers' guides in use the past 20 or more years" which caused "a weakened understanding of Christ's real presence" out of a "desire to avoid technical language for young children and thus to speak more on their level."

"I don't believe any of this has been conscious or intended," the bishop said. "But the situation must be aggressively addressed and corrected."

He called on "pastors, directors of religious education and catechists to totally reteach the full Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist during the coming year - at all levels of parish life."

He asked Catholic parents "to consciously and periodically review this essential Catholic doctrine with your children, young and not so young, attempting to re-form their understanding when appropriate."

FOUR DAYS before his unexpected hospital admission, Pope John Paul II admires a pedal car, complete with papal flags, presented to him by youth from Tirrenia, Italy, who stand at attention beside the gift. (eNS/ Reuters photo)

Pope is recovering from surgery Continued from Page One King Hussein of Jordan sent flowers to the pontiff, and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sent a message saying the pope was in his thoughts.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in an interview with an Italian TV station, said she was concerned about the pope's health.

"One has to accept the will of God. I am sure the good Lord will take care of him," she said.

Religious obligations count for indulgences says Vatican ruling VATICAN CITY (CNS) Prayers and pious acts required of religious are valid for obtaining indulgences, said a Vatican ruling.

As examples, the ruling cited recitation of the rosary and Bible readings.

"Such prayers and pious acts have value toward the acquisition of an indulgence" by members of religious orders, it said.

The ruling said the question arose because norm 24 of the Manual of Indulgences says that "an indulgence cannot be obtained by a work that one is obliged to perform by law or precept" unless a concession is explicitly given or the obligation comes from a sacramental penance.

The ruling was issued July I by the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican office responsible for nondoctrinal matters regarding indulgences. An accompanying article said the ruling clarified the norm, regarded by some religious as am biguous.

The prayers and pious works required of religious are valid toward indulgences because their vows and obligations "originate in a free choice of the state of life," said the article, written by Msgr.

Luigi De Magistris, the NO.2 official at the Apostolic Penitentiary.

These obligations of religious "do not take away from their acts of piety the ability to obtain an indulgence, and add even more value as they reflect the virtue of religion," said Msgr. De Magistris.

An indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment for sins forgiven in confession.

Navarro-Valls said cardinals and bishops from around the world had sent messages to the pope and announced local prayer initiatives.

In Lorenzago di Cadore in northern Italy, where the pope had planned to spend part of July hikiilg in the mountains, the local bishop said people were still hoping the pope could arrive later in the summer.

A papal Mass scheduled for July 19 was to be celebrated by local clergy instead, for the intention of the pope's good health, he said.

At the Vatican, Cardinal Virgilio Noe, in charge of ceremonies in St. Peter's Basilica, scheduled a service to pray for the pope's speedy return to good health. He asked that all Masses in Vatican City include an intention for the pope's recovery, and that special prayers be offered at midday.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, papal vicar of Rome, asked Rome's parishes, convents and monasteries to offer special prayers for the pontiff.

The pope had at times appeared tired in recent months, but kept up his full schedule of official meetings, working lunches and liturgical ceremonies. During his recent trip to Africa, he moved slowly

Notre Dame choir on Quebec tour This weekend the choir of Notre Dame de Lourdes parish, Fall River, will be heard in French and Latin hymn selections at two of Canada's most famous basilicas.

On Saturday members will sing at 5: 15 p.m. Mass at the Basilica/ Cathedral of Notre Dame de Quebec in Quebec City and on Sunday at noon Mass at the Basilica of St. Anne de Beaupre.

The choir is directed by Mrs. Jeannette Masse and will be accompanied by Sister Gertrude Brault, RJM. While in Canada, choir members, spouses and friends will also visit points of interest in and around Quebec City, including the Citadel, Mt. Morency and Ste. Anne waterfalls. and will take an evening cruise on the St. Lawrence River. The group will return to Fall River on Monday.

through a relatively easy sched ule; though he sometimes looked drawn, his aides said he remained in general good health.

About 4])00 Poles attended Mass in St. Peter's Basilica the morning ofthe pope's operation and prayed for his "full recovery," while in the pope's native Poland. continual prayers were offered.

OBITUARY Sister Fitzpatrick The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 13 at Sacred Hearts Convent, Fall River, for Sister James Marie Fitzpatrick, SUSC, 92, who died July 10, She had resided at the convent in retirement.

Born Mary Fitzpatrick in Fall River, she was the daughter of the late Michael and the late Mary Ann (McLoughlin) Fitzpatrick.

She resided in New Bedford in her youth, attending St. Kilian's School, New Bedford High School, New Bedford Vocational and New Bedford Textile Schools. She was active in St. Kilian's parish, where she was president of the Children of Mary.

She was a store clerk before entering the Holy Union Novitiate in Fall River on Feb. 29, 1939.

With the religious name Sister James Marie, she professed first vows in 1940 and final vows on Aug. I, 1946.

She attended the Sacred Hearts School of Education in Fall River and Villanova University in Pennsylvania, then beginning a 30-year teaching career in the commercial department at St. Mary's High School, Taunton.

She later taught primary grades at Immaculate Conception School, Taunton, and at schools in Maryland and New Jersey.

In 1970 she began secretarial work at Il1?-maculate Conception School, then was an office aide at Taunton Catholic Middle School and St. Mary's School in Taunton.

She retired in 1986.

She is survived by cousins, Frances Cavey, James McLoughlin and John McLoughlin, all of Rhode Island.

WASHINGTON(CNS)-Catholic women throughout the United States are contributing to solving the global environmental crisis.

Their actions through the National Council of Catholic Women ranged from private pledges of greater ecological awareness to the launching this spring of a nationwide project, "The Earth: In Our Hands," "This is no less than a moral challenge," Annette Kane, NCCW executive director, said of the new project, ajoint effort with the U.S. Department" of Agriculture's Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service.

The project - funded by groups that include the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and the North American Conference of Christianity and Ecology - will help affiliate organizations begin a wide range of initiatives affecting the environment.

"The grim evidence of environmental crisis is visible in a multitude of ways including polluted air and water, loss of farmlands, wetlands and forests, extinction of species and global warming," said Pat Janik, NCCW program director.

"It became clear to our leadership that with the power of nearly I million women in over 8,000 affiliates across the United States, we could truly make a difference," she added.

Suggested 'i~itiatives include a conservation education program for community, church or youth groups; an anti-litter campaign; adoption of. a section of a local stream; fish and wildlife habitat protection and improvement; establishing a conservation learning trail in a local park or recreation area; or organizing community mulchmaking when leaves fall in autumn.

The affiliate organizationjudged to have done the most outstanding work in natural resource conservation over the next two years will receive an Environmental Stewardship Award at the NCCW biennial convention.

In a spring mailing. NCCW leaders also encouraged individual members to join in a worldwide Tree of Life project by pledging themselves to actions designed to improve the environment.

Suggested pledges included reducing 1992 gas mileage by at least 25 percent; planting at least 10 trees and caring from them until they can survive unaided; and organizing a recycling project at work, school or home.

Pledge-bearing postcards formed a huge tree disp)ayed at the recent Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a sign of the. worldwide support for delegates' efforts.

DCCW event cancelled The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women has cancelled its summer social event, An Evening on Cape Cod, which had been scheduled for Aug, 6 in Hyannis.

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Father Boff quits SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS)Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, a well-known Brazilian theologian whose confrontations with the Vatican over theological matters have received wide attention, is leaving the Franciscan order and the priesthood. Fathe,r Boff, one

of Latin America's leading liberation theologians, has left the Franciscan residence in Petropolis, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and bought an apartment in Rio. He said he would continue his theological work. "Everything has a limit. I arrived at my limit," he said.

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Assignments affect four priests In his first priestly assignment, newly-ordained Father James S. Medeiros will serve on a tempor~ ary basis as parochial vicar at Holy Name Church, New Bedford: Father Medeiros was ordained last Saturday by Hartford Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. His assign- . ment is effective July 25.

In other recent assignments; Father Gerard A. Hebert has moved from the post of parochial vicar at Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport, to the same post at St. Patrick parish, Falmouth, effective July I. Effective July 22 are the transfers of Father Freddie Babiczuk from parochial vicar at Espirito Santo parish, Fall River, to parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis; and Father Douglas H. Sousa from graduate studies in Rome to parochial vicar at Espirito Santo parish.

Father Hebert, a native of Attleboro, is the son of Joseph L. Hebert and the late Cora (Champagne) Hebert. He graduated from Providence College in 1977, prepared for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, 'and was ordained June 6, 1981, by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, He was previously parochial vicar at St. Thomas More parish, Somerset, and Sacred Heart, Taunton.

He has completed graduate stud- . ies in canon law at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and is ajudge in the diocesan marriage tribunal. Until his transfer he was spiritual director for the Fall River

area Ministry to the Separated and Divorced.

Father Babiczuk was born in Taunton, the son of Freddie and Cacilda(De Cruz) Babiczuk. After graduation from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he prepared for ordination at St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Ordained May 23, 1986, by Bishop Cronin, he has served at Espirito Sa'nto until now.

Father Sousa, also a Taunton native, is the son of Hugo and Maria (Carmen) Sousa. He entered St. John's Seminary College after

graduation from Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, and earned a bachelor's degree in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained to the diaconate at St. Peter's Basil, ica in Rome by Cardinal Edmund Szoka, and to the priesthood June 29, 1991, by Bishop Cronin.

Father Sousa served as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk, for the summer of 1991, returning to Rome in October of that year for graduate st'udies at the North American College.

Lay Maryknollers like the life MARYKNOLL, N.Y.(CNS)Overseas service as a Maryknoll lay missioner may be emerging as a lifetime vocation for some participants.

"We are now developing a longterm program, and looking at the probability that many people will stay with Maryknoll," said Samuel Stanton, appointed program coordinator this year after two terms of service in Chile.

The 18-year-old lay missioner program was established with the goal of enlisting lay Catholics for three-year terms of service.

But many have found the work so fulfilling, Stanton said, that they have signed up for a second term, while others have repeatedly renewed their contract.

Stanton was interviewed at Maryknoll headquarters as a group of lay missioners was winding up a three-week "return/ renewal" session after 'completing a term abroad. .

Three couples and three of the seven single missioners in the group are signing up for another term, he said.

Stanton said the lay missioners do not see themselves as substitutes for the declining number of Maryknoll priests and brothers, but as lay Catholics participating in the mission of the church.

Their service includes areas such as pastoral and health work, communications, education, agricultural extension, leadership training and community development.

Stanton said most lay missioners work in Latin America perhaps because Maryknoll is more closely associated with that region in the public mind and because language study there seems less daunting than in Africa or Asia.

The program, he said, has 148 people serving in 17 countries.

About a third have served more than one term.

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July 17 to 25, 1992 3:00 and 7:30 p.m. in the shrine Preacher: Rev. John R. Foister, Pastor Theme: THEMES FOR WORSHIP On Sunday, July 26, the Solemn Feast of Saint Anne, Masses will be celebrated at 8:00, 10:00 a.m., and 12 noon and 6:30 p.m. Following the 6:30 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.

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OFFICIAL First Assignment Rev. James S. Medeiros, temporarily assigned as parochial vicar to Holy Name parish, New Bedford.

Effective July 25, 1992 Pastoral Assignments Rev. Gerard A. Hebert from parochial vicar at Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport, to parochial vicar at St. Patrick parish, Falmouth.

Effective July 1, 1992 Rev. Freddie Babiczuk from parochial vicar at Espirito Santo parish, Fall River, to parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis.

Rev. Douglas H. Sousa from graduate studies in Rome to parochial vicar at Espirito Santo parish, Fall River.

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Reversing the Policy of Death "We are stewards of creation" states an often-used Mass preface. This perception was reinforced at the recent United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro.

It is our belief as Catholics that the Creator has placed human beings at the center of his world, commissioning them to be its responsible stewards, not its exploiters. The root causes of our ecological breakdown lie in the squandering of resources and the accumulation of excess goods by a relatively few members of the human family. .

Both our ordered universe and our common heritage point to the necessity of developing a sense of stewardship in the heart and conscience of every individual. And the obligation of a responsible steward is to conserve and enhance the goods entrusted to him/ her rather than to be one who plunders and destroys. In short, we as a world family can no longer be arrogant in our approach to solving ecological difficulties.

First and foremost, respon'sible stewardship demands consideration of the common good. No one person, one group or one nation should place itself beyond this reality of natural law. As hard as it may seem for those who have dedicated themselves to the accumulation of worldly goods, the universal good transcends private interests and national boundaries, reaching beyond the present to future generations. We should never forget that the whole of creation is everyone's heritage.

Of the 100 heads of state that gathered for the Rio conference, none was more out of step than President Bush. Arrogantly and self-righteously, he told the world community that he did not accept the idea of a global ecology program.

In what will doubtless be remembered as one of the most embarrassing moments in our nation's history of diplomatic relationships with the rest of the world, he reiterated his capitalistic philosophy, which in effect ignores the international common good in favor of an America-first, go-it-alone attitude.

This stance ignores the ethical and moral dimensions involved in preservation of the environment of our planet. It is tragic that the United States refuses even to join the other nations of Earth, far less assume a leadership role in preserving and conserving the bounty God has given for responsible use, not wanton abuse.

We know too well that the robber barons of American industrialization have in the name of so-called progress reaped fortunes at the expense of both workers and nature. But time has caught up with them and all of us. The sins of the past are today's burden and will be tomorrow's punishment.

Our economy is enslaved to an outmoded and archaic menta·lity that is burying us in our own waste and garbage. The air and water are polluted and the land is all too often toxic; yet our national leadership seems unconcerned for the welfare of either our own nation or the world at large.

M r. President, the scandalous and unjust pattern of consumption and waste of our precious resources by those concerned only for immediate profit must be corrected. You have failed to honor the moral and social obligation of this country to face and resolve the problems of the environment. In your own person, our government has refused to accept the life or death challenge to seek and implement ecological solutions that meet the criteria of truth and justice.

Mr. President, reverse your policy of death!

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Taxexempt Catholic organizations need to know the Internal Revenue Service's list of political do's and don'ts, U.S. Catholic Conference general counsel Mark E. Chopko said in a 19-page memo to the nation's bishops.

He warned that financial penalties for engaging in prohibited political activity can be drastic. And if the offending Catholic organization is·one of about 30,000 which receive their tax-exempt status under a single group ruling, a violation could lead the IRS to require a review ofthat whole group ruling.

The first financial loss, he said, is loss of tax-exempt status, which means that the organization could no longer receive tax-exempt contributions. In addition, the IRS can impose escalating excise taxes on the organization and its officers for any political expenditures it makes. . According to Chopko's memo, the first rule for church agencies is when in doubt consult your diocesan or state Catholic conference attorneys. In his words: "Determining what constitutes political campaign activity often can be a close question requiring consultation with legal counsel."

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"Nonetheless," he said, "issueoriented speech is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and is entirely proper even within the Section 50 I (c) (3) regulatory framework."

Section 501 (c) (3) is the part of the I RS code that classifies and regulates tax-exempt charitable and religious organizations.

Prohibited activities, Chopko said, include: - Endorsements, direct or indirect, of any candidate, including virtually anything that smacks of rating candidates on various issues.

- Financial support for any candidate, party or political action committee.

- Formation of a political action committee.

- Distribution or authorization of any campaign literature or other material that could be interpreted as supporting or opposing a particular candidate or party.

Within that framework Chopko spelled out a wide range of possible political activities and the sometimes blunt, sometimes highly nuanced IRS positions on what is allowed.

He said one of the most common sources of confusion is the distinction between lobbying and political campaign activity.

Lobbying is working for or against legislation, he said. A 501 (c) (3) organization can do this as long as "it does not constitute a substantial part" of its total activity, he said.

Among permissible activities during an election campaign, Chopko cited:

- "Candidate education," because informing candidates on church positions or urging them to adopt such positions is lobbying, not political campaigning.

- "Voter education," provided a number of precautions are taken to avoid bias or partisanship.

- Distribution of voting records of legislators or candidate questionnaires, with the same proviso against bias.

- Nonpartisan voter registration drives.

- Nonpartisan public forums, debates or lectures.

In discussing bias prevention, Chapko emphasized that not only the content of materials, but even the format and method of distribution playa role in determining whether something put out by a church agency meets I RS tests of non-partisanship.

"All polls, questionnaires, voter guides and voting records, etc., should be reviewed by the organization's legal counsel prior to publication or distribution," he wrote.

All educational materials should carry an explicit disclaimer that they are not intended to endorse or oppose any candidate, he. said.

But, he added, "the mere inclusion of a disclaimer will not 'bless' materials that are in fact biased" for or against a particular party or candidate.

He said that if a church agency wants to sponsor a political forum, "the sponsoring organization may not indicate its views on the issues being discussed, comment on candidates' responses, or in any other way indicate bias for or against a particular candidate, party or position."

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Culture and faith Genesis 18:1-10 Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 As far as we can tell, the historical Jesus never spoke a word in Greek. Yet, except for a half dozen small instances, he speaks only Greek in the Christian Scriptures.

If we understand the reason for this shift in language, we will also understand what Luke is trying to convey in today's well-known gospel pericope.

Everyone belongs to a specific culture. We wear certain clothes, eat particular foods and speak distinctive languages. We have customs, values and idioms which differ from other people's customs, values and idioms.

When culture gives us a background against which to live, it can be a very freeing element. But when it leads us to believe that things can only be done in one way, culture can be enslaving.

We often forget that Jesus also belonged to a culture. A Palestinian Jew in the first third of the first century, B.C., he proclaimed his faith against the background of an almost insignificant, specialized culture. He was able to convey his message effectively, because everyone to whom he preached spoke Aramiac, professed Judaism, and thought synthetically.

But after his death and resurrection. Jesus~ followe,rs quickly began to convey that same message to people who spoke Greek, professed paganism. and thought analytically.

They could make this switch because they be.lieved Jesus was still alive and working in their midst, no matter the culture in which they found themselves. Though he died as a participant injust one culture. he rose and lives as a member of all cultures. So if gospel readers speak Greek. the Lord speaks Greek.

But just as much as Jesus was subject to his culture he was also in tension with it. T~day's gospel passage clearly shows this.

Jewish women fitted into certain slots .. When Yahweh, for instance, appears to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre, Sarah is "in the tent." Abraham entertains

DAilY READINGS July 20: Mi 6:1-4,6-8; Ps 50:5-6,8-9,16-17,21,23; Mt 12:38-42 July 21: Mi 7:14-15,1820; Ps 85:2-8; Mt 12:46-50 July 22: Sg 3:1-4 or 2 Cor 5:14-17; Ps 63:2-6,89; Jn 20:1-2,11-18 July 23: Jer 2:1-3,7-8, 12-13; Ps 36:6-11; Mt 13:10-17 July 24: Jer'3:14-17; Jer 31:10-13; Mt 13:18-23 July 25: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1-6; Mt 20:20-28 July 26: Gn 18:20-32; Ps 138:1-3,6-8; Col 2:1214; lk 11:1-13

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN the guests; Sarah does the cooking. Abraham hears the prediction of a son; Sarah can only eavesdrop behind the entrance flap. The good news is proclaimed against a very predictable cultural background.

But the tensions arise when Jesus proclaims his good news against the same cultural background.

Martha, the enforcer of culture, demands that Mary do what women are expected to do: "Tell her to help me." Jesus, the announcer of faith, never wavers: "There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."

He who is forced by culture to make certain that all his Twelve, are men - else no one would see the comparison with the twelve sons of Jacob - now wrestles with that same culture when a woman is denied one of the privileges which only men enjoy: instruction in the faith.

Since Jesus still lives in their midst, the early Christian community must also deal with acceptance and tension. Culture can be a help or hindrance in conveying ' his person and message.

Paul certainly shows this conviction in our Colossians pericope.

He steps completely outside Jewish culture in order to bring Gentiles into full church membership. .....1 am a minister," he writes, "in accordance with God's stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God, the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. .. lt is Christ in you, the hope for glory."

Knowing the early church's mentality on faith and culture also helps us understand the 1976 responses of the Pontifical Biblical Commission on the question of w?~en's ordination to the priestly' mJnlstry of the Eucharist. The member scholars voted 17-0 that the Christian Scriptures do not settle the question in a clear way, once for all; 12-5 that neither Scripture nor Christ's plan alone excluded the possibility.

Like Paul, we should continually be ..... suffering... on behalf of his [Christ's) body. which is the church." Only when we finally recognize the "Christ in you," will we really be faithful to the historical Jesus and 'to the risen Jesus ....at the same time.

Petition for priest SEOUL, South Korea·(CNS)South Korean Catholics have launched a petition drive to secure release of a priest jailed for violating the country's ban on travel to communist-ruled North Korea.

Father Moon Kyu-hyun is serving a five-year prison term for breaking South Korea's national security law. At a recent Mass held for the success of the drive, Bishop Vincent Ri Byong-ho of Chonju diocese said the rapidly changing world order also has changed people's emotions and views on Korean reunification.

LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, will host its third annual Catholic Tent Revival, themed "My Place in This World," Aug. 2 to 5 with sessions 7 to 8:30 each evening.

Sunday's speaker will be Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, who will address "The Christian's Role in Today's World."

On Monday Father Val La France' will speak on "Obstacles to Growth and Grace in Today's World."

Fathers Andre Patenaude and Richard Delisle, MS, both of the shrine, will offer Tuesday's program on "Healing and Reconciliation: A Necessity in Today's World."

On Wednesday evening, Grace Marka.y will speak on "Celebration of the Gift of Life in Today's World." Music will be provided by the United in Christ Music Ministry.

Gatherings will be held rain or shine and all are invited to attend.

For further information call 2225410.

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Soul not neglected at Olympic Games BARCELONA, Spain (eNS)Athletes will be able to exercise their souls as well as their muscles during the Summer Olympics at Barcelona.

For keeping the spirit in form, organizers hav~ built a fish-shaped building with sections for Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists.

The five have been dubbed the official religions of the July 24Aug. 9 games.

The building is called the Abraham Center after the biblical patriarch and was built by the, archdiocese of Barcelona on land donated by the city. After its Olympic use the center will become a parish church.

"During these years of organizing the games, we have received requests from athletes and delegations asking that religious services

be guaranteed," said a booklet on the center prepared by Barcelona's Olympic organizing committee.

Many athletes "consider religion as an important part of their lives and also of their dedication to sports," said the booklet.

The five official religions were chosen because each historically has had a large number of athletes as members, it said.

Information about services of other religions in the Barcelona area also will be available to athletes, organizers said.

The Abraham Center will also p~ovide religious services for OlympiCS for the handicapped, to be held Sept. 3-14.

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Recently, I was having a conversation with my daughter Mary about how hurtful incidents in our youth affect us for the rest of our lives.

Surprisingly, we dis~overed parallel experiences in our lives that illustrated how important it is for

When and where did this blessing begin? Could it be done everywhere? (Mississippi) A. First, if you haven't talked with a priest about receiving communion only under the form of wine, please do so. It may be possible for you. _

FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q.I have been a Catholic all my life and just recently learned I could r.eceive a blessing at communion time if I went up and crossed my arms. Both of my nonCatholic daughters-in-law are happy they can do it too.

I am 84 and because of cancer surgery have not been able to recei.ve communion for years.

Finding out about the blessing was wonderful.

DOLORES CURRAN

I met a Catholic couple in their thirties with an adopted five-yearold. They are in the upper middleclass bracket and she is a stay-at-路 home mom. They are infertile.

"I wish you'd write something about our situation," they told me.

"We don't want to rear an only child. Our son is five, so if we want him to have a sibling relationship, we can't wait any longer. So we've put ourselves into the baby market."

informed me that she didn't ask to have been born either. She said God made that decision, not her.

And she told me to ask God's forgiveness for what I had said.

Mary told me that when she was a youngster she once blurted out to me that same denunciation, "I didn't ask to be born." I, probably having had a rough day, replied somewhat impatiently, "No one asks to be born."

I haven't reformed yet. But I did learn that when life gets'tough it's easy to fall back on a feel-sorryfor-self stance -like wishing we'd never been born. What we are really complaining about is that we are not in control of our lives.

A higher power brought us here and

wants us back. What is involved in getting from first breath to last is solidly wrapped in mystery.

The conversation with my daughter didn't end on that philosophic note. We realized that in both instances - how my mother answered me and how I answered Mary - the effect on the child was overlooked. The child had been made to feel unwanted.

I wish I had answered, "True Mary, you didn't ask to be born, but what a wonder it was that God sent a spark of his love into this ' world and it became you.

"And by the way, isn't it great I had you? And imagine, I didn't have to ask. Now that's what I call a gift."

I don't know where the practice you describe began, but it is observed in many places.

A Catholic who is not receiving communion, young children or people of other faiths who wish to do so, approach the communion station with the rest of the congregation. They cross their arms over their breast as a sign they do not receive communion but wish to receive blessings.

The priest or eucharistic minister places hi~ or her hand over the individual and says a brief blessing; for example: May Jesus our 'Savior keep you always in his love.

Amen.

Priests and people who take advantage of this opportunity see several good points about it.

For one, it gives Christians of other faiths, who cannot normally receive communion at a Catholic Eucharist, a way of sharing in the communion part of the Mass.

Others point out that it can be a reverent and humble way to acknowledge our religious divisions, and a prayer that the Holy Spirit will heal the family of Christ on earth.

It also allows children who have not yet made their first commun-

ion to share this time with their families. I have found it tends to increase their interest and desire for full sharing in the Eucharist.

To my knowledge, two main objections have been offered against this practice.

It has been suggested that having people come forward for blessing confuses the liturgical sign of the reception of the Eucharist, thus reducing the significance of receiving holy communion itself.

However, it seems that's not what happens. If anything, the blessing increases a wareness of the great privilege and reality of receiving the Eucharist.

Liturgy scholars with whom I have discussed the matter see no reason to object to the practice.

Another objection is that people who become accustomed to the practice in one parish will be confused or embarrassed when their request fora eucharistic blessing is not recognized in another.

Whether or not this disadvantage outweighs the advantage is, of course, a matter of pastoral judgment of the parish priests and others responsible for the liturgy.

A free brochure explaining Catholic annulments is available by sending a stamped, selfaddressed envoI ope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to the same address.

They advertise' in small town papers in the Midwest: "Loving couple desperately wants baby for older adopted brother. Mom a fulltime mother, Dad a professional.

Strong Christian value system. Can give child a comfortable home, lots of love and enrichment, anda college education. Willing to respect confidentiality or openness in child's relationship with natural parents. Will pay all costs plus pregnancy compensation. Write for brochure."

They have spent $3000 promoting themselves. Last year, they were joyous over receiving a baby but the mother returned within a week to reclaim the infant. "I know some people say we're buying a child," they told me, "but

they aren't infertile and frustrated.

We aren't buying a child as much as selling ourselves to unwed mothers."

Second true story. Andrea, 29, Catholic, and unwed, found herself pregnant by a man who didn't want to be a father or husband.

She contacted a Catholic adoption agency which paid her prenatal, delivery, and hospital expenses.

She agreed to turn the newborn over to them for adoption.

However, during her pregnancy she was bombarded by lucrative offers from couples who for one reason or another, were unlikely to receive an agency adoption.

"The older the richer they were, the more they were willing to pay," Andrea said.

She received "ads" with color photos of beautiful homes with lavishly decorated nurseries. All promised to give the child time" love, and comfortable living. "I was tempted," she said. "I was in the highest bracket because both the father and I were white, educated and drug-free. One couple offered my expenses plus $12,000."

Andrea didn't succumb to the temptation but she did end up keeping her baby.

There's something troubling about this scenario of desperate couples marketing themselves. Part of it is in the economic package promised and part the almost irresistible temptation for the birth mother to receive some lucrative compensation for bearing the child.

But most of my reservations

spring from the reality that there are thousands of children out there already who need families and homes. They may not be newborn, white and perfect but they are children who can give and receive love.

Foster parenting is readily available. Many of these children have handicaps, but who better than infertile couples should understand that pain?

A third story springs from a newspaper article about a childless couple who have reared 17 foster children of all shades, handicaps, and neediness. "Yes," they reported, "there's pain when they leave but it just comes a little earli~r than for natural parents. And there's always another child out there ready for love."

When your adult children reject your values

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I) Dr.JAMES&' MARY KENNY Dear Mary: What are we to say to our children and how are we to act toward them when they reject all our values?

They have sex outside of marriage. One has divorced, another lives with the person she is engaged to. They don't go to church regularly.

We were not brought up this way and didn't think we brought them up that way either. - Iowa Many parents of adult children face the same problem. We suggest these ideas in dealing with this relationship: I. The upbringing you gave \.

be born. We are here without having had a choice about whether we wanted this life or not.

About a year later, life soured for me a lot. I was taking care of my little brother all the time, confined to the house, never able to have friends or play sports. My Italian parents, true to the Old World tradition that a teenage girl stayed in the house until her father found her a husband, began sheltering me.

I kept thinking Aunt Grace was right about the burden girls were stuck with. Especially angry one day, I remember blurting out to my mother, "I didn't ask to be born, did I!" She reacted with anger. Sh'e

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parents to be on guard in their responses to the feelings expressed by children.

When I was about II my Aunt Grace conveyed the idea to me that life for a girl was going to be tough and we didn't deserve such a fate. She had always resented not being able to have the freedom men had in her day.

My aunt had followed this with the invective that we didn't deserve this because "we don't ask to be born."

I was 'fascinated. This idea of questioning why we were born was new to me. Up until that point, I never had questioned my existence or anyone else's.

Of course, none of us asked to

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them does not cause this behavior.

Many other influences outside your values affect their decisions. ' 2. You are not responsible for the behavior of your adult children.

3. Lecturing or criticizing will not change them. They know you well and they know your values.

But how do parents get over the hurt caused by the behavior of their children?

Consider the behavior of your children a cross you have received at this time in your life. Each cross can affect us in one of two ways: It can be a burden that makes us angry or depressed, that alienates us from God and our neighbor; or it can be the opportunity to learn, change and grow.

How might you grow from this experience?

First, consider not what to tell your children, but what to tell yourself. You cannot change others, onl~ y?urself.

Your letter says that your chil- justice, the merciful, the peace- do to alleviate injustice in your community or in the world at dren have rejected all your values makers.

How can you become more con- large? Join with others to develop about sex, marriage and memberscious of these Christian values in ideas and programs. ship in a church community.

Sexual morality is important. It You are wise enough.to recog- your own life? Every news story nize the importance of fidelity. gives you opportunities. Try these: is not the only value in the life of a As you read the newspaper or Christian. Some Christians who Faithfulness is the characteristic never offend against sexual moralthe Old Testament uses to describe watch TV news, focus on injustice and violence in our own society. ity show no concern about povGod's commitment to his people. erty, violence and injustice in our You might resolve to pray each Christian morality includes more day for a specific person or group communities and in our world. than an ethic of sexuality. Perhaps Questions are invited by The in the news who is the victim of ' this is an opportunity for you to Kennys; 219 W. Harrison St.; violence or injustice. examine your own values and to What might your local parish Rensselaer, Ind. 47978. become more conscious of the full message of Jesus.

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Mercy nuns address justice issues at conference Outside/Inside Dear Editor: It is appalling to listen to the wailings and cries of members of liberal organizations who advocate the "woman's right to choose" in abortion matters, as thousands of the defenseless unborn are slaughtered in abortion mills each year.

Of course, the rights of the unborn are never considered.

Ray Kerrison, a New York City journalist, was right on target when he wrote that the TV news industry always tells us about confrontations outside these abortion clinics, but never, never are we told of what happens inside these clinics, as the TV people refuse to go inside the clinics and get the facts!

Never is the public told how many women are killed each year in legal abortions, nor how many are mutilated by bungled surgery.

We will never know who owns these abortion mills, nor how much money is made by them. The qualifications of the doctors are never mentioned. The TV networks never tell us what happens to the legs, arms, hearts and heads of the aborted unborn! Where are these body parts disposed?

The true story of these abortion mills is one of bloody, brutal, and ugly happenings!

Thomas A. Walsh Morality in Media of Mass.

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About angels

Even while. I am asleep Do thou watch and keep All the evils from my door And with your safety evermore Let me live all free from sin Please, dear angel, let me win.

In your full and soft wingspread Let me rest my weary head.

Jean Quigley Rehoboth

Earth's largest diocese has 20 priests WASHINGTON (CNS) Earth's largest diocese is far bigger than the United States, has 20 priests, embraces nine time zones and has an abortion rate so high that it is not uncommon for a woman to have 15 or 20 such procedures.

Bishop Joseph Werth, 40, the apostolic administrator of Siberia and eastern Russia, blames the high number of abortions on the facts that they are "freely allowed" and that "women are not told of the consequences, nor that it is murdering a child."

One of the first two Catholic bishops in Russia since the 1930s, Bishop Werth said he did not know whether women are dying as a result of having many abortions.

In the region, "most of the people are non-believers," he said.

"Those that do believe don't know the Ten Commandments."

"La.ter, when they're told by a priest that [abortion] is a sin, they become alarmed," he said.

Poverty contributes to the high rate of abortions, said the bishop.

Dear Editor: Recently, I was given a guardian angel pin. I was pleased to be .

"Life is so difficult. To raise a . remembered so thoughtfully and big family in Siberia is very diffibegan to think about why angels cult for financial reasons. Buying are so special. So many biblical shoes and clothing for the chilreferences to angels depict them as dren" is a constant challenge, he comforters who come to banish said. fear. Their greetings to mortals Bishop Werth commented in a often begin with the words, "Do telephone interview with Catholic not be afraid." Thinking on this, News Service during an II-day the following poem came to me: visit to the United States.

Be beside me angel dear, A member of the Lithuanian Banish every thought offear.

Jesuit province, he was appointed When the many storms of life to his post in 1991. His enormous Seek to cut like sharpest knife, diocese extends from the Ural Step into my path of harm Mountains, directly north of eastProtect me with your saving ern Iran, to Alaska. It is 5,000 arm. miles long and 2,000 miles wide and includes nine ofthe world's 24 time zones.

Bishop Werth, who traverses his territory by plane, train or van, said he is still discovering Catholic communities that worship in secret.

July 18 He frequently hears from Catho1968, Rev. Adalbert Szklanny, lics who want to establish parSI. Patrick, Fall River 1984, Rev. Lionel G. Doraisi, ishes. Until now, they have gathered in homes because under the ComSSS., Native South Attleboro munist Party most old church July 19 buildings became theaters or con1934, Most. Rev. Daniel F. cert halls.

Feehan, D.O., 2nd Bishop of Fall The scarcity of priests is his River 1907-34 major challenge, the bishop said.

1975, Rev. Francis M. Coady, Pastor, S5. Peter& Paul, Fall River When he was named to the territory, it had only three priests. He July 20 has raised that number to 20, with 1983, Rev. Joao Medeiros, Re- the majority coming from foreign tired Pastor, SI. Elizabeth, Fall countries. River While in the United States, the July 23 bishop was seeking priests and 1893, Rev. Patrick F. Doyle, nuns interested in working in Founder, 55. Peter & Paul, Fall Siberia and eastern Russia and River was also looking for financial back1938, Rev. George B. McNa- ing, as he has done in Germany, mee, Pastor, Holy Name, Fall River Poland and Italy.

The Justice Conference of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas met July 2 to 5 in Pittsburgh, PA, where approximately 125 sisters in attendance approved three statements dealing with national and international justice issues; endorsed the Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act; and called for a halt to U.S. testing of nuclear weapons.

The first approved statement supports Detroit Sister Elizabeth LaForest, RS M, and her companions, jailed July 6 after being sentenced for protest actions at Wurtsmith Air Force Base, a nuclear weapons storage facility. Formerly a professor at the University of Detroit-Mercy, Sister LaForest will celebrate her golden jubilee in religious life in August.

The conference also approved sending a letter of protest to the American Hospital Association regarding its selection of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf as closing speaker for its July 27 to 29 convention in Denver. The .letter, which refers to the large number of deaths attributed to U.S. involvement in the Gulfwar, the outbreak of epidemics in Iraq and shortage of medical equipment and supplies there, urges the AHA to recommit "to promoting health and fostering life in our country and the world."

A third statement calls for restoration of the Haitian presidency of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

It asks the Organization of American States and the U.S. State Department to continue to promote total application of the embargo against Haiti; demands that U.S. assets be frozen and visas of all coup leaders and their supporters be revoked; and that the U.S. refuse to recognize Marc Bazin as Haiti's prime minister.

The statement also supports national legislation that addresses refugee issues and the return of Aristide.

The Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act endorsed by the Mercy conference would correct abuses in provision of benefits to miners • affected by black lung disease and to widows and children denied such benefits.

Calling for a halt to U.S. nuclear testing and support of the Nuclear Testing Moratorium Act, the convention encouraged participation in "Healing Global Wounds" activities at a Nevada nuclear test

site Oct. I to 12 and urged Congress to mandate that the National Academy of Science study effects of nuclear testing on earthquakes and on human health.

The justice conference promotes justice education throughout the 7,000-member Mercy Institute and provides speakers and resource persons for workshops and community events.

Conference speakers included Patricia Gowens, editor of Welfare Mothers Voice, a bilingual newspaper distributed in 35 cities; Sister Barbara Moore, RS M, legislative aide to New York state Rep. Louise Slaughter; Nancy Sylvester, IHM, outgoing director of NETWORK, a Catholic research and lobbying group based in Washington, DC; and May Cronin, RSM, who has worked in Latin America for 20 years.

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The priest: servant In response to requests from many readers who enjoyed Father William W. Norton's summer 1991 series of articles, the pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, has agreed to write another series.

In the planning since the beginning of 1992, it considers the roles of priest and laity in the contemporary church.

The Editor A man goes off to the seminary with many questions: Who am I? Why me? What does it mean to be ordained a priest? In the fall of 1958, I thought the answers to those questions were easy. The emphasis was on functions, on roles. We defined a priest in terms of what he could do that the unordained person could not do. We discovered such powers as "This is my Body," "This is my Blood," "I

of God, footwasher of men

absolve you" - powers awesome, unique and crucial to Catholicism.

But, for all their significance, the fact is that these holy functions take terribly little of priests' time.

What about the rest of their daily existence?

As one priest wrote "Of all social roles, it has been observed [that that of I the priest calls for the widest use of untrained capacities."

Within this vague job description, we find priests believing their job to be entrepreneurs, parish coaches, psychologists or family therapists, golfing experts, Father Brown crime solvers, once-a-week bingo callers.

But what is the real call to priesthood? Once as a seminarian, I heard Father Philip King give a Holy Week retreat based on the Christ of the Gospels. I remember

that he spoke of Christ as the Suffering Servant, the priest who even washed feet.

He said that the act of washing another's feet could not be required of even the lowliest Jewish slave, but that Christ used that moment to teach his new priests that their service would include being like a servant who even washes feet. In other words, if you want to be God's man, you must wash the feet of your fellowman.

Over my years of priestly service I have seen priests - happy priests - who want no more than to be a servant. They serve in public hospitals, mental hospitals, some are reforming alcoholics, some are found in soup kitchens or working in food distribution centers for the hungry.

Some priests are so funny they could appear on Saturday Night

Live or be professional comics.

Some priests are not sure if they fulfill people's role expectations, but priests are human beings first and people usually can tell if their priests are serving their parish families as happy fellows who happen to wait on God, and wait on men, too, and who really love their God and his people.

Priesthood is service. Priesthood is an immense labor ofIove. It was once described by Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire who said: "To live in the midst of the world without wishing its pleasures; to be a member of every family, yet belonging to none; to share all sufferings; to penetrate all secrets...to heal all wounds; to go from men to God and offer God their prayers; to return from God to men to bring pardon and hope; to have a heart of fire for charity and a heart of

FATHER NORTON bronze for chastity; to teach, pardon, console and bless always.

What a glorious life; and it is yours, 0 priest of Jesus Christ!"

Stang, UMass-Dartmouth alum brings musicals home to Southeastern Mass.

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Ms. Cabral, a performer since age five, launched on her career career track as a youth at Immaculate Conception parish, New Bedford, and at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, where she was a member of the Class of 1972.

She was in a choir at Immaculate Conception, where then-pastor Father Henry S. Arruda "gave me my first big job" at age 12 as a member of a special performance choir, she said. .

In high school, Ms. Cabral and\ her sister, Beth LeCuyer, and brother, Fred Cabral, were prominent participants in the music department, band and drama and glee clubs. "We were 'the performing arts family' at Stang," Ms. Cabral recalled.

Mrs. LeCuyer now teaches parttime at Stang, while their brother is teaching theater in Switzerland.

TERRI CABRAL, managing director of The Rep, curTheir parents, Duke and Mary rently offering the musical "The Marrano." (Hickey photo) Cabral, are still parishioners at Immaculate Conception.

Written by Rick Lewis and While studying at UMass-Dart- 'Oklahomas' all the time-to get away from the old standbys." showcasing tunes from the '40s mouth, Ms. Cabral was involved Their aim, she said, is to provide and '50s, "It's a fun show, with lots in student theater and also founded a folk choir at her home parish, family-oriented entertainment and of memories for anyone from age 30 to 70," said Ms. Cabral. where she was music director. After an alternative to the video glut.

The shows feature a mix of prograduation she choreographed "We're so used to video nowshows for both Stang and UMass .it's interesting to see live theater," fessional and local actors, among them George Charbonneau, an before she continued studies in the she noted.

English teacher at New Bedford performing arts in Hartford, CT. The first production, "The Mar- High School and director of the She later taught at U Mass-Dart- rano," postulates that Christopher New Bedford Festival Theater at mouth and gave dance lessons in Columbus was among the Marra- the Zeiterion, who plays King New Bedford, earning recognition nos, Spanish Jews who were forced Ferdinand in "The Marrano." in 1978 as an Outstanding Young to convert to Christianity because "A lot of local kids and adults Woman of the Year in New Bed- of the Inquisition but who secretly have the opportunity here to be in ford for her contributions to the practiced their Jewish faith. In- a production with professional spired by Simon Wiesenthal's "Sails actors," Ms. Cabral noted. It's an arts. of Hope," it is based on a book by opportunity she would have loved Later shl; taught dance in ConManuel Mandel, Charles Osias to have had when she was first necticut and Pennsylvania.

Kelman and Mark Bramble. Bram- going into peforming, she said.

In 1986, Ms. Cabral moved to ble, also the author of Broadway Holland, MI, where she and Gra"I've been involved in this a long hits "42nd Street" and "Barnum," time," she·added. "I like to enterham ran a summer playhouse will direct the Rep musical. theater. Off-season she continued tain people-I still perform when I Its elements are "drama and can. But I enjoy teaching, too." teaching dance, sang at weddings romance, full costumes and sets" and choreographed productions Whether she will'return to Southin a show that examines Colum- eastern Massachusetts perinanently particularly appropriate for Holbus' motives in exploration, Ms. "depends on how successful this land: a Christmas show on Hans Cabral described, adding that "it operation is," she said. "I want it Brinker and a show for the spring will also be the first time anyone to be a successful season because I Tulip Time festival. She was also anywhere seen it!" an oldies radio station disc jockey want to come back" to the area.

The second show is set in a for a time and sang in her parish.

"I missed it," she continued. "I 1950s TV studio, where the sister like seeing old friends back here.

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Confirmation: our personal Pentecost

By Father Pierre Lachance, OP The following article is an abridged version of a teaching given by Father Lachance to diocesan charismatics last Pentecost Sunday. Those wishing the complete text may obtain it from him at 818 Middle St., Fall River 02721 or by caIling 678-5322.

Legalized euthanasia would pressure elderly, he says LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Legalized euthanasia would put tremendous pressure on the elderly to "get out of the way" by choosing physician-assisted suicide, according to a Jesuit ethicist.

Jesuit Father Richard McCormick, professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Nancy Hooyman of St. Louis recently presented a workshop on euthanasia at the Catholic Health Association's annual meeting, held this year in Anaheim, Calif.

In an earlier phone interview with The Tidings, Los Angeles archdiocesan newspaper, Father McCormick said elderly persons "who feel they are causing emotional distress for their families or who are costing too much medically would face enormous coercion" to end their lives through physician-assisted suicide.

"They would constantly be putting the question to themseives, 'Is now the time to ask for it? Or is my family wanting me to ask for it?'" he said. "And that's a terrible situation for someone to face in their last days."

Among forces fueling the growing popularity of the euthanasia movement in the United States, he said, are an increase in patient autonomy; support for euthanasia by physicians inadequatelY,trained in pain management; transformation of medicine from a human service to a cost-effective business; and the vigorous defense by some pro-life groups of continued nutrition and hydration for those in a persistent vegetative state. . A patient's right to choose a particular treatment is not absolute, Father McCormick said. The attitude of "if the patient wants it, then it's OK, is a distortion of autonomy," he said. "The patient has got to have a properly informed conscience."

As health care becomes more business-oriented, it "divorces itself from the moral tradition that precisely made it a profession instead ofa business," Father McCormick said.

In a morally vacant system, he added, "the doctor becomes one who responds to patient desires, doing whatever the patient is willing to pay for. And that's a very dangerous situation to have with physician-assisted suicide."

Doctor's support for euthanasia reflects their general lack of adequate training in treatment of the profound physical pain often associated with terminal or chronic illnesses, he said.

If better training, and thus better pain management, were available, he said, requests for physician-assisted suicide would begin to disappear.

During his Anaheim presentation, Father McCormick criticized some pro-life groups for insisting that patients in persistent vegetative states be kept on artificial nutrition indefinitely.

"Some groups believe that arti- . ficial nutrition and hydration brings a great benefit to these patients' lives - preservation of life," he said. "[But] we must distinguish a medical effect on an organ from patient benefit."

The' church must continue to advance moral arguments against euthanasia, Father McCormick said. With a euthanasia initiative on the California ballot in November and similar initiatives likely to appear in other states, "we must become politically active right away to make sure they are defeated," he said. .

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"Love a man even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth."-Father Zossima

In 1972 Pope Paul VI wrote: "Confirmation perpetuates the grace of Pentecost." But if confirmation is our personal Pentecost, why aren't our lives changed when we receive this sacrament as were the lives of the apostles on the first Pentecost and those of the early Christians when the apostles laid hands on路 them to confer upon them the Holy Spirit?

The change that then occurred was not purely within the soul; it was visible to all, so much so that when Paul arrived at Ephesus he immediately noticed something missing in the disciples and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" (Acts 19: 2) It turned out that these disciples had not even heard of the Holy Spirit.

On the other hand, when people are baptized in the Spirit in charismatic circles, something happens that others can see. They come alive as Christians in a new way and, like the apostles, are so filled with joy that it radiates from their faces and they want to share it with others. They become "witnesses to Jesus Christ," something confirmation is supposed to accomplish in its recipients.

Why doesn't that happen? Surely, when the bishop confirms, the . grace of the sacrament is given, but it bears fruit only if we are properly disposed. If we expect little, we get little.

Can something be done to make confirmation work? Here are a few thoughts on the subject:

Confirmation builds on baptism.

B'aptism lays the foundation of our "new life in Christ." It is not enough to have the life of grace; we must become "alive in Christ." We must accept him as our Lord and experience a meaningful conversion to him if our confirmation is to bear fruit.

That is preciseiy what the Life in the Spirit seminars offered by the charismatic movement help us do.

They change people's lives.

What is confirmation supposed to do in us? According to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is the sacrament that makes us come of age spiritually. This implies a certain degree of Christian maturity. You are no longer primarily concerned with receiving; it's time to give, to take responsibility for others in the church and in the world.

I like to think of confirmation as a point of transition from childhood to adulthood in Christ. Sure, adulthood doesn't happen in an instant, but there comes a time when we are accepted officially' into the adult community of the church. We in turn accept our new role in the Christian coinmunity.

Confirmation is our official "rite of passage."

When we are confirmed, we are making a serious commitment. We need to realize the adult responsibilities we are accepting; to be a witness to Christ and to serve the church.

A last question: how can we make confirmation "work"?

1. Age is important. I do not think that a person is usually 'mature enough to make the adult commitment that confirmation presupposes before age 16.

The confirmation program, to be effective, must provide for a conversion experience. I strongly recommend incorporating the Life in the Spirit seminars into the con-

firmation program. They are not geared to making one a charismatic, but to forming a mature Christian and they are suitable for adolescents as well as adults. Charismatics familiar with teaching these seminars could offer them in parishes where the pastor agrees.

The Diocesan Service Committee for the Charismatic Renewal has been contemplating this service to parishes for a year or so.

3. The preparation for confirmation is not so much a preparation for reception of the sacrament, as for living adult life in Christ,just as preparation for marriage is not so much preparing for the wedding as for the whole of married life.

4. Prayer should be an important part of preparation for confirmation. I am not talking about formal prayers. What we need is a personal relationship with the Lord. We need to fall in love with Jesus. We need a fervent desire to receive the Holy Spirit and his gifts. That's how the Apostles and Mary prepared for the coming of . the Holy Spirit at Pentecost: "Together they devoted themselves to constant prayer." (Acts 1:14) The confirmation retreat is a propitious time for this kind of fervent prayer. Bishop Joseph McKinney tried this with remarkable success.

See his recent book, "Perpetuating Pentecost: Prayer Preparation for Confirmation and Pentecost."

5. After confirmation, if our newly confirmed are to persevere and grow spiritually, they need a support group, perhaps a Catholic youth fellowship. This seems im- . portant to me. It is also the role of the sponsor to provide spiritual support, thus sponsors should be chosen wisely.

In conclusion, with proper preparation and followup, I believe that we can make the sacrament of confirmation a tremendous means of Christian growth.

NRLC sees beginning of new pro-life era ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) Pro-lifers today are facing "the end of 20 years of prayer and the beginning of pro-life work," a panelist told a workshop at the National Right to Life committee convention in Arlington.

Scott Fischbach, field coordinator for the national group, and two other panelists spoke on "State Development: Preparing for Life After Roe." The three centered their remarks on the Freedom of Choice Act now pending in Congress and on the abortion case now' before the U.S. Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.

"We cannot overestimate the effect" that the Freedom of Choice Act "will have on all of our efforts," Fischbach said. "The truth is the fight is just beginning."

Raimundo Rojas, NRLC Hispanic coordinator and director of Florida's Right to Life affiliate, urged people to "keep education materials in your cars and in your , lunch pails."

"Education is the foundation for continued success after Roe," he said.

Marjorie Higgins of the Florida group emphasized the need for educational expertise on the Casey decision, expected by early July, and on the terms of the Freedom of Choice Act; "Under no circumstances can we flub this," she said. "Every NRLC chapter and state affiliate has to understand the new terms."

Mrs. Higgins advised participants to check the accuracy of their pro-life materials, conduct themselves in a professional and businesslike manner and educate Congress as well as local officials about the proposed legislation.

"We want to be outgoing and talk about it," she said. "Don't assume they are not going to be interested."

At another workshop, Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the national group, described the Freedom of Choice Act as "a congressional license which insulates the abortionist from any restriction."

The bill, which has some 140 House and 35 Senate cosponsors, reads: "A state may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy - 1. before fetal viability; or 2. at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. A state may impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of women."

The bill does not say when viability occurs and does not define the word "health." According to the National Right to Life Committee, the sponsors intended a broad definition of health, to include emotional health, and leaves the discretion to the person performing the abortion.

"The dilemma for the pro-abortion路movement is that when you

get into specifics, the American people are primarily on our side," Johnson said. "Pro-abortionists will try to frame the issue in general terms. They hve a marketing plan for FOCA - to package it as a status quo bill."

But, he said, the bill is not status quo, prohibiting states from enacting any restriction on abortion' practices beyond requiring sani-. tary conditions at abortion clinics, and is not in line with public opinion.

According to national polls, Johnson said, 73 percent of Americans do not believe abortion should be permitted afterthe first 12 weeks of pregnancy, except to save the mother's life, and 80 percent favor parental consent requirements.

Kathryn A. Hazeem, an associate legal counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, said the Casey ruling will set the timetable for the Freedom of Choice Act. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., is the ranking minority member on the subcommittee.

"We're waiting for a ruling on Casey," she said. "Once that happens, I anticipate a great deal of pressure on Congress to pass [the] Freedom of Choice [Act]. Our job is to reveal what this bill would actually do." .

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 17, 1992

FATHER JOSEPH BYRON celebrates Mass at Our Lady of Mercy parish in Potomac, MD. (eNS photo)

You're never too old to quit smoking

By Ron Pollack

now, you may live longer. And feel better.

Are you feeling sluggish and short of breath? Tired, yet unable For Your Wallet to sleep through the night? You Quitting also means good news may think it's just old age. But if for your wallet. If your brand costs you smoke, it may be the cigarettes $1. 75, and you smoke a pack a you light up, not the number of day, you can save $639 a year by birthday candles you light. quitting. That's more than enough You might think it's too late to . for a roundtrip plane ticket anystop smoking; that the damage is where in the country. If you smoke already done. That's not true. two packs a day at that price, According to a recent report by you'll save almost $1300 a year. the Surgeon General, quitting has Not to mention the savings jn major and immediate health benebreath mints and health bills. Quit fits for men and women of all ages. now, and take a healthy vacation Even if you've been smoking for40 with the savings. . or 50 years, your body can repair a lot of the damage caused by For Your Family smoking.

When you smoke, you're not Here are three good reasons to only hurting yourself. You're hurtquit today. ing the people who like to be around you - your husband. your For Your Health wife, and especially your grandIf you stop smoking now, your children. Spouses of smokers are circulation will quickly improve. more prone to emphysema, lung Your lungs will start to repair cancer and other health problems. themselves. You'll breathe easier, Children who spend time with walk farther, and cough less. In smokers get sick more often. And other words, you'll start living a grandchildren learn from you. Why healthier and more energetic life teach them unhealthy habits? If right away. you won't quit to add years to your Within a year of quitting, your lile and dollars to your wallet, quit risk of heart attack will drop to for the people you love. that of someone who has never Take a look at the big picture. smoked. Your risk of stroke will also be lower. The Surgeon Gen- Ex-smokers polled six months after ral's recent report on the Health stopping say they feel calmer and Benefits of Smoking Cessation says more in control without cigarettes! the chances of dying from smokIt's never too late to stop smoking-related illness drops shortly ing. You'll feel better, live longer, after quitting and continues to save money, and stop hurting the drop for at least 10 to 15 years. IO people you love. to 15 years after quitting, the risk Ron Pollack is executive director plummets to that of someone who of Families USA Foundation never smoked. If you quit smoking SENIOR WATCH IS AN EDITORIAL SERVICE OF FAMILIES USA FOUNDAnON

Priest battles Alzheimer's disease POTOMAC, Md. (CNS) - For the past five years, Father Joseph Byron has waged a quiet but very public battle with Alzheimer's disease, which has no known cause or cure.

In the mid-1980s, he first noticed he was beginning to have some difficulty speaking. A battery of tests in 1988 confirmed he had Alzheimer's.

When the priest told each of his three brothers of the diagnosis, "we'd have a crying session, [but] not too long. That was it, and we go on."

Alzheimer's is only the latest battle faced by Father Byron, 67.

As an infantryman in World War II, he was wounded by a shrapnel burst. "I look back [and think], why was I not just terribly afraid? But it was just something to be done, and we did it," he told the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Washington Archdiocese.

Father Byron was among a group of 39 local priests disciplined by Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle for publicly dissenting from Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical "Humanae Vitae" ("On Human Life").

He did not regain his priestly faculties until 1971 after a Vatican congregation took up the appeal of Father Byron and 18 other dissenting priests. "We lost a lot of people. I lost a lot of friends," Father Byron said, commenting on those who left the priesthood over the controversy.

He also recalled a traffic accident in a Washington suburb that left a little girl trapped in a vehicle.

Father Byron walked to the site and held the hand of the child's mother while she awaited word on her daughter, who later died.

"There was nothing to say, just wait," he said. He later told a

friend that consoling the mother in those anxious moments was the hardest thing he ever had to do.

Now the struggle with Alzheimer's takes center stage. In an open letter in 1989, he told of his illness to the 5,000 members of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Potomac, Md., where he was pastor.

He followed experts' advice and remained busy and active for as long as possible.

He would spend long hours each day preparing his homilies on note cards. When preaching and reading the Gospel became too hard, he had to rely on a deaconfor help.

Even celebrating Mass grew more difficult.

"Even to get the simplest Mass, I have to do an awful amount of time getting ready. Even the things [I'm] reading on a page, sometimes I look at a phrase, and it's like I never saw it" before, Father Byron said. .

"The one thing I do not want to do is to get..." Father Byron paused and explained, "This is another word I never can get, so I wrote it." He left his chair and retrieved a slip of paper. On it were two carefully printed words: "DE-PRESSED." "DE-PRESSION." "Depression," Father Byrol) said. "The one thing I don't want to do is that. If I feel it coming on, the first thing I do is pray, and the Lord has been good to me."

In such moments he often leaves the rectory at Our Lady of Mercy to do errands. He can no longer drive, but can take the bus and subway on his own. Parishioners often give him rides or join him for dinner and a movie.

At one Saturday afternoon Mass in February, Father Byron seemed

My aching back!

How's your aching back? If you don't have one now, and you're an American adult, there's an 80 percent chance you will eventually join the club.

Back pain not only makes you miserable and unfit for human companionship, but it's second only to the common cold in lost U.S. working time. Its price tag is $80 billion (that's a B) a year.

It affects all ages, but we older Americans are prime candidates because our spinal discs get thinner and less flexible with age. Almost all the people I met in traction, wheelchairs and therapy sessions recently were seniors.

I became an expert on back pain since I woke up one morning in late May unable to put my shoes on without excruciating pain in my lower back and left leg. Sciatica, I guessed. I was right. You can't read all those medical columns without learning something.

After three days in the hospital, two weeks of therapy, several doctors' visits, a spine care seminar and lots of time to read booklets like "Back Basics" and P9sture pamphlets, I'd like to keep you from joining the back pain majority.

With the help of a $3 million MRI (magnetic resonance imager), doctors discovered a bulged disk pressing on a back nerve which irritated my sciatic nerve and made me miserable. short-tempered and afraid to move.

As of now I am done with pain pills, muscle relaxers and inflam-

mation reducers as well as therapy. But I am into some fancy new exercises, and I embrace them because they seem to drive away my pain.

Though no one knows what triggered my problem, there are a lot of good guesses. My bad habits include poor posture, sitting down too much, not walking and failing to exercise my hamstrings. I thought only athletes had hamstring problems.

If you sit down on the job as a clerk, secretary, writer, computer operator or manager, or you drive a bus, truck or taxi, have I got news for you! If you want to stay among the 20 percent who will escape back problems, it will help if you follow these suggestions: DON'T: I. Slouch when you sit or stand.

2. Lift without bending your knees and keeping your back straight.

3. Twist when you lift things.

4. Rest or sleep on a soft sofa or bed.

5. Rely on biking or swimming alone; 路backs need walking, walking, walking.

DO: I. More walking. Daily after work is best. But walk at least 30 minutes a day thrice a week. 10minute walks three times a day are even better.

2. Support your lower back with a pillow or rolled towel on your office chair or your car seat to provide proper spin~1 alignment.

to take special joy in the sign of peace, slowly walking up and down the church's main aisle. He smiled happily as he shook hands with the people he has served for nearly 10 years.

One week later, the moment he feared the most happened. Celebrating Mass, he lost his place several times. Friends in attendance cried as they watched him struggle.

Immediately afterward, he met with Msgr. John Enzler, the pastor, to tell him he could no longer celebrate Mass by himself.路 He asked the younger priest to concelebrate with him the next day.

"I wanted to die," Father Byron said later, betraying the sadness he fights hard to keep in check.

He again turned to prayer: "I asked the Lord to let me not be ...

I asked him that I not be ... that thing I can't say . . . depressed about it."

But before that first concelebrated Mass was over, "I was completely, complefely at peace," Father Byron said. "I was saying to myself I can still say Mass as long as I need to, for a while, it's just that I won't be in controL'" He continues to concelebrate Masses, make communion calls, attend meetings and help however he can. Daily he prays for many special intentions: his fellow priests, his family, his friends, his parishioners. And he says a simple prayer for himself.

While Father Byron can no longer give homilies, Msgr. Enzler said the priest speaks through example.

"Here's a man who has given himself completely to the will of God. At every step of his illness, he has been willing to give it over to the Lord," Msgr. Enzler said.

"That has been, for the priests, staff and parishioners, his greatest sermon."

By BERNARD _ CASSERLY

3. Get rid of your paunch. Lose weight. More weight in front means more strain on the back.

4. Stand more and sit less. Take standing breaks every half hour.

Sitting puts 300 pounds of pressure on your back - standing only 200.

5. See a physical therapist. If you have spent half your life sitting down, like me, you are just路 waiting around for back pain to happen. Act now, and you'll always be able to get your shoes on feeling no pain.

praye~BOX The Creator of Man

o God, we are grateful for Your mercy and compassion to the fallen human race. May the grace of the Holy Spirit enlighten us to live the truth of Jesus in mercy and in fidelity to Your holy will. Amen.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 17, 1992

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I "THE GIFT of the black church to the larger church" is exemplified in this photo of ne; lay leaders graduating from a training program in the Chicago archdiocese. (CNS photo)

Black Congress delegate "still floating" Continued from Page One health care, welfare reform, job training and opportunity, multicultural curriculums and minority scholarships.

They also ratified II pastoral statements on marriage, laity, children and youth, religious education, Catholic schools, evangelization, pastoral ministry to families and African-American ministries.

From the mountaintop of the congress, which has "renewed and educated us," Bishop Steib said, "we have to descend to the valley to help others to walk in God's ways. It's an old walk - with a new strut."

Congress workshops included sessions on communicating within families, the sacrament of marriage, African-American catechesis, the impact of AIDS, race and politics on African-American families and African roots in the early church.

At a workshop on "The AfricanAmerican Family and the Issue of Life in the Womb," Dr. Mildred Jefferson surveyed her audience with a smile. "It's rare I get to address a gI:OUp of faces that look like mine," she told the delegates.

"I'm rarely invited to black congresses anymore. because of the message I bring," said Ms. Jefferson, three-time president of the National Right to Life Committee.

A general surgeon at Boston University Medical Center and a faculty member at the university's medical school, she said that "while African-Americans make up 12.1 percent of the population, we .represent 44 percent of the abortion population," she said. "If the present rate of abortions (4,400 a day) continues, by this time next century, there won't be an· indigenous population derived from people like us."

At a special afternoon symposium for bishops July 10, sociologists cited grim statistics on the status of African-American families in U.S. society. .'

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At an event held at Xavier University for the nearly 400 youth attending the congress, a poet told them to look to Pope John Paul II as a role model rather than to singer Michael Jackson. _ Speaking at the nation's only black Catholic college, Nikki Giovanni, professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg,. Va., said if there is one thing that young people can learn from Jackson, it is that talent and money are not enough.

"I urge you to read to people, donate time to nursing homes, hospitals," she said. "Make people's lives better.... There is great satisfaction in serving humanity."

The poet said that when she looks at the African-American community, she is disheartened and angry at high crime levels, soaring teen pregnancy and rising male teen mortality rate stemming from drug sales. .

But she says that from the time African-Americans were brought to this continent as slaves, blacks "have taken little scraps and made quilts."

This gives her confidence that once again the younger generation will be able to "put their patch in place" and overcome the turmoil in their communities.

Education is the key to solving problems within the community, she said, disputing the claim that education involves blacks trying to become white.

"We don't want to make you white. We want to make you credible. If we wanted to make you white, Michael Jackson shows you what to do," she said.

Anyway, in her view, whites don't have too much about which to be proud.

"I'm not picking on white people, but who would want to be those people. They don't have an honorable history. Look at it," she said. "They stole land and raped slaves. Is that something to brag about?"

Hecker Award to Abp. Hunthausen BOSTON (CNS) - The Paulist Center Community in Boston has presented its annual Isaac Hecker Award for social justice to retired Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen.

"By his bravery, farsightedness and compassion, he encourages all of us who work within the church and want to see its commitment to justice and peace expand," said Joan Smith of the Hecker award committee.

Archbishop Hunthausen is the 19th recipient of the award, first given in 1974 to Catholic Worker founder and activist Dorothy Day..

Named for Paulist founder' Isaac Hecker, the award recognizes an outstanding American Catholic who has been a leader in church efforts to bring about a more ·just and peaceful world.

The 70-year-old archbishop, who retired last year, has drawn national attention because of his public stands on the rights of the poor, n·ucleiu disarmament, the role of women in the church, gay and lesbian issues and environmental justice.

The Vatican removed Archbishop Hunthausen's authority in five key areas in 1986, but his full authority was restored in 1987.

The Paulist center is a faith community. of Christian believers in the greater Boston area who come together for worship, growth and social activism.

ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) The abortion pill RU-486 "can· seriously harm and kill women," officials of the National Right to Life Committee told participants in the organization's recent national convention in Arlington.

Richard Glasow, education director, and Douglas Johnson, federal legislative director, led a convention workshop exploring "fact and fiction" surrounding RU-486.

According to Glasow, 90 per-. cent of U.S. cities do not have an abortion clinic, but with RU-486 "the abortion business could proliferate everywhere in the country."

"Most of the media and the public don't understand it," he said, adding that it is not a contraceptive or a "morning-after pill."

The abo·rtion process when using RU-486 is most often a two-drug process, with the need to use prostaglandin or a synthetic steroid, Glasow said.

Women in the Third World often do not have access to drugs and medical treatment that are usually needed as a follow-up to RU-486, he added.

Johnson said the national group opposes the use of RU-486 for abortion, research on it as an abortifacient and federal funding for research on its use for abortion..

The Food and Drug Administration issued an import alert in J ulyl989 prohibiting private citizens from bringing the drug into the United States for personal use.

In· other talks at the convention, Wanda Franz, president of the National Right to Life Committee, and Alan L. Keyes, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate from Maryland. compared abortion to slavery.

There is a new civil war, "except one side does all the killing," said Ms. Franz. "It's a war declared by legislators, not by babies."

According to Ms. Franz. the abortion industry generates over $1 billion a year. "As in any other war. there are profiteers." she said.

"There's no financial poverty here. but a profound poverty of values."

She said presidential candidates H. Ross Perot and Bill Clinton both suppor~ the "radical" Freedom of Choice Act which supports

unrestricted abortion, but that President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle "have been consistent and principled in their resolve to protect the innocent child in the womb."

Keyes, who is running against Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, said many voters wish the abortion issue would just go away, as many hoped the slavery issue would go away before the Civil War. "In the forgotten years, the years of silence, the years the issue did go away, there was still suffering," he said. "For those who are trampled, the issues never go away."

·Priests on rise VATICAN CITY (CNS) Vatican worldwide figures for 1990 showed the first annual increase in the number 'of priests under Pope . John Paul II. The 1990 figure was 403.173. This was 1.694 more than seminarians under the current pope, but is still far short of the number of priests in 1979. the first full year of Pope John Paul's reign. There were 416.336 priests in 1979.

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Catholic Giving Lags Catholic households contributed on average less money to the church and charities in 1989 than members of all other religious groups in the United States.

Catholics -$515

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16%

American Cancer Society

10% 10% 6%

United Way Salvation Army

Protestants - $842

American Red Cross Muscular Dystrophy Association National Coalition for the Homeless

Jews -$1,854

All other religions -$1,075

American Heart Association/Heart Fund

Percentages show the percent of household income given.

Source: 1990 Gallup Poll for Independent Sector

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Church is one, holy, catholic, apostolic-and broke VATICAN CITY (CNS) Despite spending reductions and an increase in worldwide contributions, the Vatican is still struggling to make ends meet.

A June Vatican statement said the Holy See posted a record $87.5 million budget deficit in 1991. It managed to cover the gap by using funds from Peter's Pence, the annual papal collection, and other sources.

The 1991¡ deficit was a few mil~ lion dollars less than predicted, in 'part because of Vatican belt-tightening. The statement said expenditures totaled $196 million, a drop of about 8 percent from 1990.

Regular income also decreased, h'owever, from $127 million in 1990 to $108 million last year.

Peter's Pence, a fund once used only for papal charities. was again dedicated to the budget shortfall in 1991. The Vatican also cited other income derived from its appeals fo;' greater worldwide giving. These contributions netted slightly' more than $62 million.

The remaining$25 million deficit was covered in part by applying $3.6 million from a Vatican City State surplus. The rest was made up through special contributions given by institutions and .foundations, which were not identified.

The Vatican noted that its strained fiscal situation has made it impossible to establish a separate pension fund for its approximately 900 retired employees, who continue to be paid out of the operating budget.

For years, Vatican financial experts have warned that unless worldwide giving increases, the

Holy See would have to begin selling off part of its investment patrimony to pay for annual operating costs.

The latest Vatican statement expressed "satisfaction" that contributions have, in fact, increased, and said a thank-you letter has gone out to bishops around the world.

PeteJ:'s Pence , Meanwhile. the priest who manages the Peter's, Pence collection says it has diversified in recent years and increased from some sources.

The bulk of the fund still comes from the annual parish collection, taken up, in the Fall Riverdiocese. the first weekend of August. but about 40 percent is now donated by individual patrons, religious ,orders and foundations, said Jesuit Father Arturo Martin Menoyo.

Vatican officials would like to find additional new sources so that "the pope can manage Peter's Pence in the manner he sees fit." Father Martin said.

One such source is private foundations. which raise capital and donate the annual interest to the Vatican. The model in this field is the Papal Foundation. begun by retired Philadelphia Cardinal John Krol and other U.S. churchmen.

Last year Cardinal Krol presented the pope with a check for $750.000.

More foundations are being established, and the income from them was up 160 percent last year.

Father Martin said. In addition, existing groups like the Knights of Columbus continue to provide important aid. he said.

Another source is the world's myriad religious orders.

"It's truly admirable to see the spirit of sacrifice and love toward the Holy Father shown by small group's of female' religious. who st;nd a sizable check every year," said Father Martin.

The pope looks at the Peter's Pence collection from a missionary viewpoint. said the priest.

The pontiff also strongly believes in the traditional value the church attributes to charity: its ability to sanctify, to strengthen faith and to obtain forgiveness of sins. he added.

Financial Picture In past centuries, the Vatican ran its operating budget out of papal strongboxes filled with gold coins. When the coffer's emptied. new taxes were imposed or ecclesial favors were sold.

Today, shrunk to a tiny citystate, the Vatican's economic clout is relatively feeble. Its investments and real estate holdings amount to around $350 million and return a net $40 million a year - small change for an institution with hundreds of offices and 3,400 employees.

So it bothers Cardinal Rosalio Jose Castillo Lara when he hears someone ask: "Why doesn't the pope sell the Vatican and move into an apartment?"

"How unrealistic, when you consider not only what the Vatican is, but the function of papal government of the church," retorts the cardinal. .

Cardinal Castillo Lara. the son' of a Venezuelan coffee producer. oversees administration of the Vatican's economic patrimony. In a recent interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. he provided a breakdown of expenditures and income for 1992.

"This is not a rich church," he stated bluntly and pulled out figures to prove it.

TheVatican receives little income from its various congregations, councils and commissions - $2.2 million in 1992. That's not surprising, since they are basically service organizations.

Income at Vatican Radio, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. the Vatican's printing house and bookstore were all up

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this year. totaling nearly $30 million. But they're still net losers the Vatican poured in twice that much money to keep them operating.

Officials reason that although .these media are in the debit column, the return comes in the form of evangelization.

Salaries are the biggest single expense: more than $100 million for Vatican and city-state employees in 1992. And lay employees want salary scales, set in 1985. revised upward.

Over $40 million will be spent this year keeping the Vatican citystate running smoothly. On the job list are fixing the roof on St. Peter's Basilica, trimming the gardens, installing a new telephone switchboard and expanding the clerical guest house. The Holy See spends another $12.5 million to operate 100 or so papal nunciatures around the world.

Cardinal Castillo Lara is eager to deflate several myths about Vatican finances.

One is the common view that the Vatican owns half of Rome. In fact, he said, most church property is held by the hundreds of individual religious orders headquartered in the city. Almost all Vaticanowned office buildings are used for Vatican business.

It's true that the Vatican owns about 850 apartments, a potential mother lode in Rome's inflated housing market. But it's wealth only on paper, the cardinal said -nearly all of them are occupied by employees at fair-rent prices.

Another myth is that of the Vatican's ~rt treasures, Cardinal Castillo Lara said.

"They are an incalculable treasure, but economically they do not represent real wealth: they're not convertible," but "more a source of expense." he said.

The cardinal likes to quote a fellow Latin-American prelate, who states: "I can do more with one

dollar than the pope can with Michelangelo's Pieta."

The famous statue is in St. Peter's Basilica, where entry is free, but most Vatican art is in the Vatican ,M.useums" which now ch~rge$8 .admission. Last year, the museums yielded $21 million, the biggest in-house source of Vatican income.

For years rumors have had the Vatican as the controlling interest in multinational companies. To the contrary said the cardinal, Vatican investments today are smallscale, amounting to no more than a 7 percent share in a single company.

PopeJohn Paul II's most visible activity, his international trips, cost the Vatican practically nothing, he noted. They are financed by local churches.

Much recent Vatican spending is of a hidden variety: for computerization of offices and updating of other technology, including new offset presses at the printing plant.

Perhaps the biggest myth is one fueled by the splendor of papal ceremonies, with floodlights dancing off a baroque altarpiece and golden vestments creating an ofttelevised impression of splendor.

Cardinal Castillo Lara, knows the other side of the coin: his offices have a typical rundown Vatican look with water-stained ceilings and a waiting room furnished with an old rug and an ashtray.

"It's a dump," said one employee succinctly.

Vatican officials emphasize that they have asked their own offices to hold spending to a minimum, as they appeal to local churches for contributions. The new Vatican financial Gospel, it seems, is twofold: pinch pennies and pass the plate.

In Proportion "A minor saint is capable ofloving minor sinners. A great saint loves great sinners."-Rabbi Israel Baal-Shem Tob

Balancing work and relationships

Anger and aging parents

By Bill and Monica Dodds "I'm only trying to help and Dad gets so mad at me," Robert says, describing his father, a 79year-old widower dying from cancer.

"I know his health is failing, and I want to make the most of the time we have left together. I really do. But we just seem to set each other off.

"Then I go home and iny wife and kids drive me right up the wall, and at work I feel like I'm on the edge of blowing up all the time.

Stuff that didn't used to bother me is just making me nuts."

He shakes his head.

Anger can be a dominant emotion in the aging parent-adult child relationship for a lot of reasons: reasons that would be easier to identify and understand if both people weren't already so drained physically and emotionally.

If 1 am the parent, my point of view 'is that there have been so many changes, so many losses, my life seems out of control. Other people or the hard, cold facts of aging and nature continue to chip away at what I can do - at who I am.

If 1 admit 1 need extra help in a particular area, the cost for that help seems outrageous and, as I have done so many years, I want to continue to save diligently for my "old age."

Then, too, 1 can feel angry because I think my child owes me something in return for all my years of parenting. I might not think I'm getting a fair shake. At the same time, I can feel resentment - the perfect breeding ground for anger - that our roles as parent and child are reversing.

If 1 am an adult child, I am angry at what's happening to my mother or father whose health

By Mitch Finley While 'Paul Tsongas was making his recent bid for Democratic Party candidate for president, many people may not have recalled that back in 1984 Tsongas had a book out called "Heading Home."

He told the story of his battle with cancer, his affection for serving in Congress and his decision not to seek an all-but-certain second term in the Senate. He explained that his decision was motivated by his desire to spend more time with his wifeand three young daughters.

Time spent on our closest human relationships is time spent exceedingly well. We tend, however, to take family and friends for granted.

For some people, work dominates life.

According to recent studies, most people say that they value family and friends above work. But the same studies show that we don't tend to put our time where our mouth is.

Husbands and wives spend but

continues to deteriorate. I want to reverse it. I don't want to become the "parent." I may want to ignore the whole situation.

I'm mad at my parent for getting old. Mad at him or her for fighting me when I try to help. Mad at health-care professionals who may be doing their job all right but don't seem to understand that this is my parent and that makes it different. Mad at siblings who are doing nothing or only the wrong things.

And I'm mad at God when I can't see what the point to all this is and lay the blame on him.

Then I come home and my

By Mitch Finley spouse and children may feel resentful that I'm spending so much "Short of having sharpened time with Grandma or Grandpa, bamboo sticks shoved under your and I just don't have any energy fingernails, is there anything more left. misery-inducing than being the At work and out in public, the parent of a l3-year-old boy?" slightest problem can make me For several months Slider's son clench my teeth and seethe. had been consistently disrespectIdentifying why a parent and ful, rebellious and downright obadult child are having these feel- noxious. "I'm ready to throw in ,ings can be an important first step. the towel," he said. "Let him do It can also help you as a caregiver whatever he wants, whenever he if you: wants to do it,just so he leaves me - Remember Mom or Dad is alone." not necessarily mad at you. Vou A psychologist or expert would, may simply be the target because no doubt, have much good advice you a're there or because you make for my friend. Not being such an him or her face those fears head . expert, however, all I could offer on. were a few thoughts on a spiritual- Try to find some time .for ity for parenting teenagers. yourself. Look for a support group "Fact is," I suggested, "what or good friend where you can we're'talking about here hits at'the "dump" som'e of that anger. heart of the Gospel: loving your - Forgive yourself. neighbor and the mystery of death - Keep in mind that, just as in and resurrection." your relationship with your spouse "Beg pardon?" Slider said. and children, getting angry with a "It seems to me," I said, "that parent doesn't mean you don't parenting in general is, to paralove that person. phrase Dickens, the best of times - Go back and apologize. Don't and the worst of times. let guilt over that anger eat you up.

"The key is not to despair dur-' Vou can start over again. ing the bad times. Because really what you're talking about is loving

a few minutes a week talking about topics of any real importance.

Parents and children ditto. Friends rarely talk about any but the most incidental aspects to their lives.

Granted, we would all like to find more meaning in relationships and shake the death-grip work can gain on our lives. But, in practical terms, how can we give more time to our relationships with God, family and friends?

First, never underestimate the power of prayer. Find a few minutes each day for a form of prayer that suits you best, then stick to your determination to be a daily practitioner of prayer. If anything can "grease the skids" to make the attempt to give more time to family and friends successful, prayer can.

Second, look at the schedule you follow in a typical week. Are there ,"windows of opportunity' in your week when you could spend time with family and friends that you now use in other ways?

Second, carve out regular times in your week when you will take the trouble to be with spouse and children. Some married couples put themselves on the calendar: "Each Monday evening we will go out together."

Parents can give each child, on a regular basis, an afternoon or evening of undivided attention, time to simply enjoy each other's company.

Finally, in addition to normal participation in the life of your parish, set aside some time each month to be with a small faith community of some sort. Vou may need to help organize one. My spouse and I join'a few other couples one evening each month for shared prayer and time to listen to one another's joys and sorrows.

These practical tips are easy to talk about, not so easy to I,ive out.

But the rewards to be gained from even the smallest success are beyond calculation.

A spirituality for parenting teens limits whether they're aware of it when it's no fun and embracing the or not." cross believing that resurrection is Slider nodded, his face still someplace on the other side."

"Go on," my friend urged. "I'll ' showing doubt. "But what do you mean that this is part of a "spiritulet you know if this begins to ality" for parenting teenagers?" sound too spacey."

"Look at it this way," I sug"OK," I said. "I think the tempgested. "To not give up is to die to tation, when parenting gets tough, self, to pick up our cross daily. is to give up. The kid doesn't need "To keep on trying to be patient, you to feed and dress him anymore. He can cross the street by to keep on trying to stay in touch himself now. So when he starts with the kid on more than a superficial level, to maintain the limits acting like a jerk the inclination may be to say, 'Forget it, let him and keep on enforcing them, all this is to remain faithful to your fend for himself."' vocation as a parent.

"Right," Slider said.

"It would be a lot easier to set "I understand," I said, ~'but an adolescent needs his or her parents the kid adrift, but that would do him a great injustice in the long as much as a baby or child does. run."

He or she needs parents in differ"I think I see what you mean," ent ways now.

Slider said thoughtfully. "But it "It's a big mistake to distance sure gets lonely out there someyourselffrom a teen to spare yourtimes, even when you have a spouse self misery. to share the load."

"Teens need to know that there "Hey," I chided him, "you know are still limits - and definite conas well as I do that there are supsequences if they overstep those port groups for parents of teenlimits. agers. All you have to do is locate "Sure, teenagers are likely to one that sounds good to you.

"And one other thing," I added. complain, moan, sulk and some"Ves?" times verbally abuse their parents, "At least once a day, tell your teachers and whoever else is handy. son you love him."

All the same, they appreciate those

Kids should respect the family trust

CHILD'S PORTION: undaunted by the size of his serving, a toddler enjoys a summertime favorite. (eNS photo)

about inherent dangers and are

By Linda L. Rome mature enough to circumvent cerWhat is trust? What does it tain problems. On the other side, mean in our everyday living? though, parents will often trust In a family, trust is more than a teens to make healthy choices about two-way street. The more people choosing friends, avoiding drugs the more the complications. But and driving carefully, to name a the more family members can trust few instances. each other to be there for each other, the healthier and happier Family members expect each that family will be. other to be honest.

Teens often shout "You don't We expect the truth from each trust me!" at parents who won't let other - even if it's embarrassing them stay out past curfew or go to or a little painful. Only a parent, an unchaperoned party. Somehow sister or brother cares enough to a teen knows that questioning a tell you there's celery caught beparent's trust cuts to the quick. tween your teeth.

Why? Because trust is more than Of course, we trust family meman unspoken promise to be good or sensible. It is someone's belief in . bers to be tactful as well as supportive. Vour parents may delight in you as a certain kind of person. your musical ability. You know In families, we extend trust to each other in many ways. For you're not good enough for Carnegie Hall but you like to think example, we believe that each family member makes decisions or you're talented enough for recitals gives advice with our best interest at home. at heart.

But what happens when family Parents may deny something a members don't help each other teen wants because they know and break basic trusts?

First, pain. Always disillusionment. And finally, estrangment.

Which means you no longer feel at home together. Vou feel alone, cut off, unloved. And because of the dual nature of trust, you need to extend yourself to earn that trust.

Test your trust quotient with the following statements: - I return what 1 borrow in the same shape I borrowed it.

- I tell my parents about changes in my plans.

- I believe my sibling when he or she apologizes.

- 1 believe my parents want what's best for me even when we disagree.

- I try to respect my parents as individuals.

- I believe my parents try to respect me as an individual.

- I can trust my parents with a secret.

Did you score 100 percent? If not, add a little more trust to your family environment and see what dividends can be yours.

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By Charlie Martin

I'LL BE THERE

By Linda L. Rome Young people don't have to wait until they're adults before they ever "lay down" demands of their own lives in order to take time to help someone else.

I know this from my ownexperience, for I received help from others - of all ages - during my recuperation from a recent illness.

The real eye-opener to me came while at Mass recently, the first I was well enough to get to in several . weeks. That's when the pieces of an unsolved mystery fell into place.

The whole picture shimmered into sight like a photograph in a developing pan. I saw each of my friends laying down the demands of their lives, forgetting their own cares and worries for a friend.

I have always been able to interpret the meaning of "feed the hungry, clothe the poor." But what I've puzzled over and been a little frightened by are Jesus' words: "N 0 one has greater love than this; to lay down one's life for one's friends."

Those words always seemed kind of frightening to me. I thought "to lay down one's life" meant "to die." I'd hoped privately I'd never be put to the test of that ultimate sacrifice.

Then came a series of wonderful remembrances at Mass - images of my friends helping me - and I began to see new meaning in laying down one's life.

I saw Mandy, a junior high schooler who had replaced my regular day nurse who was off

duty. Mandy asked where I hurt.

She comforted me by her presence; she accepted my pain; she held my hand. She wasjust a teen but I remember her as one of my best nurses.

I remembered the friend who brought popcorn and a bag of snack-sized Snickers I could treat the nurses with; another who found time to write a note every week I missed work; another who took me shopping when I was home from the hospital and couldn't drive.

I thought of Rita who cleaned my bathrooms as an "early birthday" present; of Anne who became my walking and exercise partner; and another friend who taught me to pray the Liturgy of the Hours.

I thought of the countless meals brought to our door, the neighbor who took my daughter to her piano lesson; and another who sat with me when I was too nervous to be alone.

Then I had the answer to my question regarding how may times are we asked to lay down ·our lives for a friend. We do it as often as we have a friend in need.

And so, during this time of summer, try to notice the opportunities to practice Jesus's entreaty to lay down your life for a friend.

Talk to your widowed neighbor; help a friend in summer school study; help out at the summer festival; invite a friend who doesn't have a ride to go to the pool with you.

Look for opportunities and without a doubt you'll find them.

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By Dan Morris As you probably have heard, liturgical Scripture readers will soon be dropping the words "this is" after they finish the readings.

So~ instead of saying, "This is the word of the Lord," they will say, "The word of the Lord," after the first two readings, and, "The Gospel of the Lord," after the Gospel. . .

I have It on good authority it is. not true that what a majority of these readers really wanted was to drop pronunciations of words like Abijah, Zechariah, Zebedee, Idumea and Boanerges, but the U.S. bishops and the Vatican wouldn't hear of it. And they definitely did not ask to substitute nicknames like Zeek or Zeb. The U. S. bishops Committee on the Liturgy recommended the change so parishioners would stop confusing the Lectionary with the actual reading and because the new practice will be more direct.

The new practice will solve this.

Parishioners will have to find new things about which to bicker, such as the proper enunciation of Emmaus.

The directness of the change

makes good sense to families everywhere. For example, very few parents say, "This is the word of your parent," but rather use the more direct; "Because I said so!" or even simply, "Because!"

It is unclear if the liturgy committee has actually considered replacing the "this is'~ phrase with "because God says so!"

And, it is doubtful they seriously studied the option, "Listen to me when I am talking to you," despite the feeling among some that this carried a sense of the Latin missal's original text, "Verbum Domini."

The U.S. bishops' decree says the change must take place no· later than the first Sunday of Lent, Feb. 28, 1993, perhaps in part to give Il;ctors a chance to spend Lent repenting for what they have done to words like Herodias, Bethsaida, Gennesaret and Canaanite.

Free Agent

You and I must make a pact We must bring salvation back Where there is love I'll be there I reach out my hand to you I have faith in all you do Just call my name And I'll be there I'll be there to comfort you I'll build my world Of dreams around you I'm so glad I found you I'll be there, 0 so strong 111 be your strength .

You know 111 keep holding on Let me fill" your heart With joy and laughter Togetherness, well it's All that will matter Just call my name and 111 be there I'll be there to protect you With an unselfish love I'll respect you Just call my name And I'll be there In case you find someone new I know she better be good to you 'Cause if she doesn't Then I'll be there Don't you know baby I'll be there I'll be there Just call my name I'll be there Written by Hal Davis, Berry Gordy, Willie Hutch and Bob West. Sung by Mariah Carey (c) 1992 by Sony Music Entertainment Inc. REMEMBER the Jackson love. One person pledges to "have faith in all you do," "fill Five? Whether you know of Michael Jackson's original your heart with joy and laughter,,, and "build my world of group or not, it is likely you have heard Mariah Carey's redreams around you." All the make of their "I'll Be There." other person has to do is "just Her live-eoncert version jumpcall my name and I'll be there." ed 24 places on the charts in one These are lofty statements. In week, a record for the 1990s. our real world of disappointments, broken promises and Looks like Mariah is on her way to her eighth straight No. I. relationships that don't work as The song celebrates enduring we hoped, these statements may

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seem more like reflections of someone's innocence about how difficult life can be.

That statement also can be heard as assertions of love's power and potential. Occasionally, we need a song to remind us what love can do if we really practice it. In fact, if we pull the song beyond its romantic context, we are encouraged to see how freely given love changes our world every day.

What would happen if each of us made a commitment to practice love? Let's imagine.

First, Earth itself would be significantly affected. Each person would be committed to do his or her part in restoring our environment. All of us would examine our lifestyles and find more ways to care for the Earth.

Further, no week would go by without each of us doing something extra to benefit those who suffer in our human family..We would volunteer more to help in programs that reach out to others. We would share more money. We would genuinely care about others' lives, no matter what part of the planet they might live upon.

Certainly, each of us would fill our hearts with compassion.

Doing so, we would stop judging others or putting them down.

We would make more effort to understand what life looks like through others' experiences.

Responding with this kind of love does not mean we would always agree with others. Nor does it imply we would like their behaviors or decisions. However, and more important, we would look beyond immediate circumstances and remember to see each person as God's son or daughter.

Impossible you say? And you ask, will life on this planet ever be as I described it?

Well, it depends how willing we are to accept Jesus' challenge to believe and practice love. It depends how much each one of us is willing to make the pledge, "Where there is love, I'll be there."

Your comments are welcomed by: Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

Bread for the World Urges Congress to Increase Fnnding for

WIC, Head Sta rt and Job Corps

"Conscience cannot be cajoled.

It cannot be bribed. It cannot be coerced. It cannot be silenced. It

can be disobeyed, for man is a free agent. But it cannot be disobeyed with impunity."-John A. O'Brien

OVER 200,000 commuters each week pass by this display on the roof of Bread for the World's office in Washington, D.C. The organization is attempting to increase funding for three successful and cost-effective programs that can help end childhood hunger. (Reinhard photo)

UNICEF-church relationship seen at risk NEWYORK(CNS)- UNICEF is set for a family planning battle next year that could jeopardize its relationship with the Catholic Church.

At a recent meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York, the UNICEF executive board asked agency director James P. Grant to submit a policy paper on family planning. Action on it would come during the 1993 annual meeting "with a view to approving it prior" to a 1994 international meeting on population and development.

John Klink, a New York businessman who represents the Vatican's U.N. mission at UNICEF meetings, said in an interview that some governments have stated they intend to try to get UNICEF to start distributing contraceptives.

Past efforts have been blocked, he said. UNICEF currently limits its family planning activity to education on the advantages of "birth spacing," without specifying methods. Whether that policy will prevail in next year's debate, he said, , remains uncertain.

"If the policy changed, we would have to totally reassess our entire relationship," Klink said.

Much is at stake, he emphasized. The Vatican and the church's

many institutions serving the world's children have "an enormous common interest with UNICEF in enhancing the welfare of mothers and children," he said.

"I am concerned," he said, "that some countries will try to drive a wedge between those commonalities. " The Vatican gives UNICEF formal endorsement by making a symbolic contribution of $2,000 a year. It was among the first signers of the 1989 Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, a document of special concern to UNICEF. Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, then Vatican secretary of state, attended the 1990 Children's Summit and signed the document prepared there. This past February, Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, president of the Vatican Council for Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, declared church support for UNICEF's breast-feeding campaign.

Klink said he did not find members of UNICEF's New York Secretariat or field staff - now some 5,000 in 127 countries - calling for distribution of contraceptives, but that pressure came from certain board members - mostly representing Westem developed countries.

Area Religious Broadcasting The following television and radio programs originate in the diocesan viewing and listening area. Their listings normally do not vary from week to week. They will be presented in the Anchor periodically and will reflect any changes that may be made. Please clip and retain for reference.

On TV Each Sunday, 8:00 a.m WLNE, Channel 6. Diocesan Television Mass. Those in the Greater New Bedford area who do not have cable TV see a rebroadcast of the Mass at 11 a.m. on UHF Channel 20 Portuguese Masses from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford: 12:15 p.m. each Sunday on radio station WJFDFM, 7 p.m. each Sunday on television Channel 20.

"Confluence," 10:30 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent , participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director ofsocial services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Episcopal Bishop ofRhode Island, and Rabbi Baruch Korff.

"The Beat," produced by Building Block Ministries of Taunton and aired on many cable systems in the Fall River diocese features videos from and information on contemporary Christian rock artists. Check local listings for times and dates.

Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday to Friday, WFXT., Channel 25.

"Breakthrough" 6:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 10, a program on the power of God to touch lives, produced by the Pastoral Theological Institute of Hamden, Conn.

"Maryson," a family puppet show with moral and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thursday, Fall River and New Bedford Cable Channel 13.

"Spirit and the Bride," a talk show with William Larkin, 6 p.m.

Monday, cable channel 35.

On Radio "Be Not Afraid," 15 minutes of . music and Gospel message coordinated by Father Craig A. Pregana, parochial vicar at St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, is heard at 8 a.m. Sundays on station WARA, 1320AM. The Catholic clergy of the Attleboro area sponsor the program.

"The Beat," Christian rock music and information produced

by Building Block Ministries of Taunton, is broadcast at 6:00 a.m. Sundays on station WVBF Boston, 105.7 FM, and may be heard in the Attleboro, Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton deaneries.

Charismatic programs with Father John Randall are aired from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday on station WRIB, 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at I p.m. each Sunday.

"Topic Religion," presented by two priests, a rabbi and a Protestant minister, is broadcast at 6:06 a.m. and 9:06 p.m. each Sunday on station WEEI Boston, 590 AM. ProgFams of Catholic interest are broadcast at the following times on station WROL Boston, 950 AM: 'Monday through Friday 9, 9:15, 11:45 a.m.; 12:15, ' 12:30, I p.m.

A Polish-language Mass is heard from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. every Sunday on station WICE, 550 AM. The rosary is broadcast at 5:45 a.m. Monday through Saturday and the St. Jude novena at 9: 15 p.m. each Thursday on WPLM Plymouth, 1390 AM, 99.1 FM. Both programs are simulcast.

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"I got weird answers for that," he said. "Coffee, cold showers... [students didn't know that] nothing but time will sober you up!"

Hennessey also discouraged drinking non-alcoholic beers. which he sees as a marketing ploy designed to get students "used to drinking beer" so that "pretty soon you'll be drinking the real thing."

After the school presentations.

Hennessey spoke about drinking and boatingtothe814 U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla, of which his mother is a member.

The display portion of his project. originally set up outside the Durfee library, was moved to the SOBERING THOUGHTS: Eagle Scout candidate Den- Fall River Public Library on North nis Hennessey stands beside the display he created as part of a Main Street when school closed.

Headed "Don't Be a Fool, Drinkproject discouraging teen drinking. Formerly at Durfee High ing's Not Cool," it illustrates points School, the display is in the Fall River public library for the and fact~ fro!Tl his lecture. summer. (Fall River Herald News photo) Hennessey. a member of the Durfee theater company, completed his project by writing. directing' and videotaping a play.

Performed by fellow Scouts, it was shown at the Troop 50's court of honor June 30.

By Marcie Hickey body. how blood-alcohol concenTitled "Friends" after a song Dennis Hennessey remembers tration is figured. and penalties for sung frequently at Hennessey's conhearing in eighth grade that two of drunk driving. his friends had been killed in a car "For instance, I included that if firmation classes, the play consists accident. you get caught in Massachusetts of five scenes about a student's, "They were drinking. stole a car with a blood-alcohol level of 10 death in a drunk driving accident.

It opens' at a party 'at which and rammed it up a tree." the 16- percent. you lose your license for year-old recalled with a look of 120 days. and if you refuse to take teenager Eric consumes a few beers lingering disbelief. "\t's hard to a breathalyzer test. it's the same among tolerant friends. When the group hears a car crash down the talk about." penalty." said Hennessey.

The haunting lesson was reinA particularly impacting por- street, they suddenly realize that forced in the next two years when tion of the presentation listed Eric has left the party...

The second scene depicts the four other students he knew got penalties for drunk driving in other into a car after drinking and hit countries. such as El Salvador. victim's agonized father being conanother vehicle. The teens. except where "your first offense is your soled at the hospital; next. Eric's the driver. were killed. Then an- last. Execution by firing squad,' buddies attend his funeral. filled other friend was injured when the Hennessey recounted. "That got with guilt because "He was drunk and I didn't stop him. My best car she was operating was hit by a their attention!" friend is dead." drunk driver.

Also making an impression on The friends make an agreement Now Hennessey wants young listeners was a video. made at the not to drink anymore and to bring people to listen and heed the warn- Fall River police station. of a ings about driving while intoxi路 mock OWl arrest during which this message to their classroom.

Finally. at another party. they cated (OWl) so that they don't Officer Tom Giunta led "suspect" prevent a classmate from drinking "become another statistic," Hennessey through the arrest proWhen it came time for him to cess from filling out forms to tak- and making the same mistake as Eric. propose a service project to earn ing a breathalyzer test and being Hennessey hopes that his story the rank of Eagle Scout. it didn't locked in a cell. ' take Hennessey long' to decide Hennessey emphasized to stu- about Eric will remain just that what his topic would be: "Prevent- dents that the experience was not -fiction. He does not want any more friends to be injured or killed ing Teen Drinking." at all pleasant -'-- even when the because of alcohol.

"I figured everybody should officer was a friend and the arrest "Insist on your right not to know about it - it's one of the wasn't real. drink," he tells peers. "Don't drink biggest killers of teens in AmerThe illustration seemed to have ica." said Hennessey. a lifelong an effect on Osborn School stu- and drive. and don't get in a car member of Our Lady of Angels dents. who sent letters thanking with a drunk driver. Take their parish. Fall River'. where he was Hennessey for the advice - and' keys away!" confirmed this spring. expressing their desire to avoid A Boy Scout for six years. he is such an experience. Some felt sorry currently a member of St. Anne's for Hennessey because "they The second annual Fall River Troop 50. as his own parish no thought I had really been arrested!"

Also included in the video was a Area CYO Baseball League alllonger has a troop. He will be promoted to Eagle Scout in Sep- visit to the Charlton Memorial star game will be played at 6 p.m. tember after completing a final Hospital morgue and a funeral Sunday at Kennedy Park. requirement. parlor to show "what happens if Nationals: John Depippo. Jack He began the service project-a you don't live," Hennessey con- Bevilacqua. Jeff Paglicua. Jim half-hour lecture presented at three tinued.

Bastile and Paul Economos of S1. schools. a school'display and an He did not shelter his audience Bernard's. when it came to the cold equation original play - in December with Steve Lavoie. Joe Pacheco. Dave the beliefthat "teenagers are among "drinking + driving = death."

Gaspar and Jay Correia of St. the hardest groups to reach. They "A cemetery is not a place for a Michael's, Fall River. Mike Heath, class reunion," he said in the pres- Kevin Sardinha and John Botelho are subject to peer pressure and risk-taking and are more likely to entation. "We are still young. We of St. Anne's. Fall River. have our whole life ahead of us. I drink than others. Teens should be Americans: Greg Harrison, Eric made aware of what they are doing don't want to be killed by a drunk Shecter. Craig Lasson and Marc driver. I don't want anyone in this Pavao of St. William's. to their bodies when they drink."

He composed his presentation class to be killed because of a Joe Perriera, Alan Kotlarski. with information obtained with drunk driver. Don't get in a car if Jeff Moreira. Steve Couto and the driver is drunk!" the assistance of Linda Pacheco.

Keith Dumaine of Our Lady of head coordinator of Bristol County As part of the Durfee lecture. he Grace. Westport.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving conducted a surveyofthe drinking Marc Turgeon. Ed Frazer and (MADD). He then visited health behavior of 174 health students Cory Hebert of Notre Dame, Fall classes at BMC Durfee High ages 14 to 20. He found their River. Conrad Paquette of Notre School, where he will be a junior awareness of the topic was high Dame'was selected for the all-star next year; eighth-graders at Henry because the message is so preval- team but cannot play due to an Lord Middle School; and sixth- ent today. plus they had previously injury.

Regular season play resumes graders at Osborn School. all in studied it in health class.

Still, Hennessey said, there were July 21 with teams scheduled to Fall River. misconceptions. especially with complete their 25-game season July His presentation included a description of alcohol's effect on the regard to methods of sobering up. 30. Playoffs begin Aug. 2.

Teen educates peers about dangers of 'alcohol '

All-Star game set

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 17, 1992

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ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO "Summer Happening" for children ages 5 to 10 will be held 9 a.m. to noon daily July 27 to 31. Activities will include video Bible study, crafts and music. Children under age 5 may attend if accompanied by an adult willing to help.

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Diocesan administrator Msgr. Henry T. Munroe will preside and be principal concelebrant. Refreshments will follow.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, NB Support group meeting with open discussion 7 to 9 p.m. July 20, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth; information: Louise Reinsch, 991-4019.

ST. MARY, NORTON Monthly meeting of breast cancer support group 7:30 p.m. July 22; open to patients, family and friends.

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HUNGER WALK; FR A community Walk for Hunger and Home is planned for Oct. 18, with planning sessions to be held this summer. Proceeds will be divided among participating food and'shelter agencies. Further information: Sister Kathy Murphy, OP, Dayspring Ministries, 675-5780; Rev. Joseph Tripp, Greater Fall River Food Pantry, 679-6835; Abraham Ehrenhaus, Fall River Community Soup Kitchen, 672-4823.

St. Anne play As part of a July 24 to 26 festival in honor ofSt. Anne, St. Ann's parish, Raynham, will stage a play about the saint's life at 7 p.m. July 24 in the parish center on North Main St. (Rt. 104). Written by a parishioner, it will feature performers from the parish and is open to the public, free of charge. Refreshments will be served, also at no charge. The center is handicapped-accessible and air conditioned.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS, CAPE COD Support group meeting 7 p.m.

Sunday, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth. Joanne Creel will speak on "How to Create a Life as You Want It." New participants welcomed from 6: 15 to 7 p.m. Information: 362-9873 or Father Richard Roy, 255-0170.

RETREAT FOR COMPULSIVE EATERS "A Cry for God's Compassionate Healing," a retreat for compulsive eaters directed by Sister Mary Sullivan, r.c., will be held Dec. 4 to 6 at LaSalette Center for Christian Living, Attleboro. Focus will be on what shatters and what heals one's life. Emphasis on personal inner work and small group process. Also included will be guided imagery, quiet reflection, time with retreat director, invited input, video presentation and larger group sharing.

Deadline fOr registration is Aug. 15.

Information: 222-8530.

MCFL Cape Cod chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life will meet 7 p.m. July 21, meeting room of Stop and Shop, Independence Park, off Rt. 132, Hyannis. All Welcome.

Marian conference set in Baltimore BALTIMORE (CNS) - More than 5,000 people are expected to attend the Marian International Conference of Baltimore sched uled for Sept. 11-15.

The conference will focus on Mary and her role in the Catholic Church today and will also celebrate 500 years of faith in North America.

In addition to daily Masses, a Saturday youth rally, and pilgrimages to religious sites, the conference will feature presentations and discussions on the Sacraments, scriptures, family life and youth.

Speakers will include Manila Cardinal Jaime Sin; Archbishop Dominic Tang, exiled from Canton in the People's Republic of China; and lecturer and telev.isionl radio personality Father Kenneth Roberts.

Baltimore Archbishop William H. Keeler, a conference organizer, said it comes at an important time since "many see the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the downfall of communism as the beginning of the fulfillment of Mary's promise at Fatima."

HOLY CROSS BROTHER Richard Gilman is going to be a doctoral student and a college president at the same time.

He says he expects computers to lighten his load and is thinking of writing his doctoral dissertation on "distance education," instruction received via satellite and computer networks. (eNS photo)

Computer will help him cope, new president says DAYTON,Ohio(CNS)- Holy Cross Brother Richard Gilman is not your typical college student.

He enrolled in the University of Dayton's doctoral program in education leadership last fall to prepare to become president of Holy Cross College, a two-year liberal arts Catholic college located across the street from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. When the 48-year-old Cleveland native takes over the presidential post, he will launch an $8 million capital campaign for the private college and work toward doubling its enrollment to 1,000 by the year 2000.

But not on Tuesday afternoons.

That's when he'll jump into his car and listen to "some wild music to clear the mind:' while making the four-hour commute back to the University of Dayton, where he'll finish two night classes this fall.

He's planning to take comprehensive exams next summer and carve out time the following year to finish a dissertation.

"I do sleep - sometimes in class even," he jokes.

"My schedule is pretty ambitious at the moment. It's been intense," concedes Brother Gilman, who finished three summer classes before jetting to Le Mans, France, this month for a chapter meeting of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. He's one of 65 elected delegates from around the world.

While other doctoral students this summer wrote papers and worried about the job market, Brother Gilmanjuggled class work with hiring a new admissions director for the college.

Still, he never dreamed of becoming a college president. "My goal always was to be an outstanding teacher," says Brother Gilman,

who began his career as a mathematics instructor at St. Augustine's College in Ghana, West Africa.

Later he was president and principal of an Akron, Ohio, high school where he nearly tripled its endowment from $400,000 to $1.1 million and helped boost the school's enrollment by 13 percent while 'attracting a diverse student body of inner-city and suburban kids."

"I look forward to seeing if my success at Archbishop Hoban was an accident or whether I can replicate it," he says with a smile.

"When I was named presidentelect of the college last summer, I told the trustees I wanted to spend a year preparing. The University of Dayton's Ph.D. program is not designed to tell you how to be a college president. Rather," he says, "it teaches you how to be a leader."

Brother Gilman believes that "distance education,'.' instruction provided via satellite and computer networks, may be the wave of the future for small colleges seeking a niche in the ilighly competitive student recruitment market. He's tentatively planning to write his dissertation on the topic.

"Using the electronic means available really doubles your productivity," he says. "I'use my computer for everything - from library research to making contacts through electronic mail with people all over the country."

Realizing the challenge of juggling his simultaneous roles as college president and a doctoral student in the fall, Brother Gilman has ordered a laptop computer with a modem and fax capabili-' ties. He'll be able to conduct college business in Dayton, or on the road. "I don't anticipate too much down time."

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