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FIGHTING FLOODING: Volunteers in Des Moines, Iowa, fill sandbags to try to prevent further contamination ofthe city's drinking water by overflowing rivers. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for assistance for Midwest flood victims from dioceses nationwide. (eNS photos)

Diocese to aid flood victims with CNS reports Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., has authorized a collection in Fall River diiocesan parishes this weekend to alid the victims of flooding in the Midwest, in accord with a national response to the disaster requested by the National Conference of Caltholic Bishops.

Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore, NCCB president, said after consulting with bishops in the affected areas of the country that "an appeal for a national response is very much in order."

The six weeks of flooding in the Midwest have caused at least 30 deaths and $10 billion in damage a nd left some 16.000 sq uare miles of farmland under water. The American Red Cross estimates that at least 22,000 homes have been damaged.

Donations will be funneled through local Catholic Charities agencies in the flood-stricken areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and South Dakota, Archbishop Keeler said.

"The director of the Catholic Charities USA Disaster Response Office reported that many people in the affected areas are facing a horrendous uncertainty about their future," he said. "There is a need to provide them with material goods to rebuild their homes, financial assistance to meet their living needs and counseling support to ease their fears and an.xieties."

The Disaster Response Office, along with the U.S. bishops' conference, represen.ts the Catholic community during domestic disasters., .'

As the Mississippi River and its tributaries continued to flow over their banks, flooding Midwestern cities and towns, Catholic churches became places of refuge and parishioners did everything from filling sandbags to providing food and shelter.

Severe storms have pelted a large area of the Midwest since April, and flooding began in late June: On July 10, President Clinton formally declared Iowa, Illinois and Missouri major disaster areas, clearing the way for federal relief of $1.2 billion.

Jane Gallagher, Catholic Charities USA Disaster Response director, said that financial assistance will help address specific needs, but that the agency also wants to provide support over the long haul.

"Many people in the affected areas are facing a horrendous uncertainty about their future," she said. "We want to help ease them back into some sense of stability by providing them with material goods to rebuild their homes, financial assistance to meet their living needs, and counseling support to ease their fears and anxieties about what has happened to them."

In St. Louis, Catholic Charities spokeswomen Karen Wallensak said the local disaster relief team, led by Catholic Charities and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, has visited areas affected by the flooding. But the main work will come, she said, when the floodwaters recede and people begin to return to their homes.

Bishop William H. Bullock of Madison, Wis., said that the,

Catholic response to the floods afflicting the Midwest must go beyond tears to include prayer and a helping hand. The bishop recently came to Wisconsin from the now beleaguerptj Des Moines diocese.

"When I look at the TV coverage this past week of Wisconsin and of my beloved city of Dt:s Moines from which I came to yOIl, I must admit to tears," "But tears are not enough. Sandbagging, a check to relief victims and honestto-God prayer is expected from all of us."

He added. "Sometimes it's too easy to forget when the news coverage ceases, so my plea is: pray for the victims, lend a helping hand if you can and dollars if they are needed."

Early Catholic response to the floods included an Illinois Catho~ lie college's transformation into a Red Cross center and a sandbagging factory.

In Quincy, III., city officials billed the sandbagging effort in the parking lot of Quincy University's football stadium as a "beach party."

Jeff Jansen, director of administrative services for the city, said more than 8,000 volunteers helped out over a five-day period, filling sandbags that were transported to areas where they were needed to prevent flooding.

The local chapter of the American Red Cross also moved its flood relief operation into Quincy University's Retreat Center. It was one of more than 20 Red Cross centers operating in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)- The new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Raymond Flynn, discussed the crisis in Somalia and other world problems during his first meeting with top Vatican officia1.s.

- -Flynn presented copies of his credential letters July 17 to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, and the ambassador said the two held "very substantive" talks for about 40 minutes.

--"My first comment to the cardinal was a message from the prei;ident that he's looking forward to meeting with the Holy Father on the issue ofthe youth in the world ," Flynn said afterward. President Clinton is scheduled to meet Pope John Paul II at Denver's Regis University Aug. 12, shortly aft er the pontiffs arrival in the city. The encounter, the first between the new president and the pope, was confirmed this month when the Vatican released the complete schedule of the pope's Aug. 9 to 16 visit to Jamaica, Mexico and Denver.

In discussing Somalia, Flynn said he stressed the humanitarian purpose of U.S. and U.N. activities there.

"I spoke to the president [before coming to Rome] and he wanted me to very clearly affirm that our aim is two-fold: to bring food and to bring peace," Flynn said. He said he thanked Cardinal Sodano for the pope's early support of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. ]n recent weeks, however, the Vatican newspap,~r and the papal press spokesman have been critical of U.S. and U.N. military actions in Somalia and have questioned whether the original humanitarian aim of the intervention had been forgotten.

Flynn said his message for the Vatican was that the United States was acting out of moral responsibility and that its "only interest" was to bring peace and relieve hunger in Somalia. . "You have warlords who aren't interested in helping their own people, so they're going to fight the efforts of people of good will to bring some sort of economic relief and some sort of humanitarian aid," he added.

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Catholic presence v~lried in Operation Rescue events WASHINGTON (CNS) - Operation Rescue abortion protests got a mixed reaction from Catholic leaders in the seven cities targeted for the "Cities of Refuge" campaign July 9-18.

In Dallas, Bishop Charles V. Grahmann addressed about 300 participants in a nightly rally that was part of the campaign. In Philadelphia and Minneapolis, Catholic leaders had seemed to discourage Catholic participation ,n comments before the Operation Rescue campaign began.

In San Jose, Calif., Bishop It. Pierre DuMaine said the protests should prompt discussion about· abortion itself and not on the demonstrations and counterdemonstrations. "The focus changes from the issue to the ruckus and nobody gains anything from that," he said.

Operation Rescue protests also took place in Cleveland, central Florida and Dallas. The campaign included such tactics as blocking clinic entrances, prayer vigils and educational seminars, sidewalk counseling and picketing outside the homes of abortion clinic employees.

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by Operation Rescue's national headquarters in Summerville, S.c., more than 10,500 people officially registered to take part in the pretests. Police arrested 593, pro-life

activists and 32 counterdemonstrators.

According to Operation Rescue, 39 pregnant women told sidewalk counselors or pregnancy center staff members during the "Cities of Refuge" campaign that they had decided not to have abortions as a result of the protests.

Michelle Cramer, an Operation Rescue spokeswoman, told the Catholic Courier, Rochester, N. Y.. diocesan newspaper, that the women will receive support and material assistance from pro-life groups in their respective areas.

Ms. Cramer reported, for example, that one homeless woman in Dallas - who was six months pregnant - changed her mind about having an abortion after talking with a sidewalk counselor.

In addition to finding the woman housing, pro-life officials are pro. viding help with medical care and counseling, she said.

In addition to the seven targeted cities, the protests also spread to nearby communities. In Wilmington, Del., for example, protesters from Philadelphia took part in a rescue at the Brandywine Valley Women's Center July 10. That center's porch collapsed under the weight of pro-life activists, effectively closing the clinic.

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Diocese of Fall River -

Sc()ttish Cardinal Gray dies

Fri., July 23, 1993

Bishops ask Congress to retain Children's Initiative WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Catholic Conference has urged Congress to retain provisions of a so-called "Children's Initiative" in the federal budget when House and Senate conferees meet to reconcile differences between their budget bills.

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The "Children's Initiative" is being promoted by a coalition of groups, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, that advocate better social policies for children.

Writing on behalf of the USCC to the House-Senate conference committee on budget reconciliation, Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard of Baltimore said the provisions in question reflect "key priority issues" for federal assistance identified by the bishops in their Catholic Campaign for Children and Families.

Bishop Ricard chairs the Domestic Policy Committee of the USCC, the bishops' national public policy organization.

He asked the House and Senate conferees to include in their joint budget: - Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit to assist parents who work at low-payingjobs.

The Senate version, which would cut the House version by about $1.9 billion, "significantly weakens the proposed EITC expansion," Bishop Ricard said.

- The Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Act, which would permit families with children to subtract higher housing costs, as elderly and disabled persons can do already, in determining their eligibility for food assistance. The House bill.would add nearly $600 million to the 1994 budget and some $1.65 billion in 1995.

- The Childhood Immunization Initiative, which in the House version "will provide free vaccine to children who are uninsured or whose health insurance does not cover vaccine," the bishop said.

The initiative would cost about $730 million in 1994 and $830 million the "following year.

- Family Preservation and Support provisions, approved by the House but cut by the Senate, that would provide $1.5 billion over the next five years to improve outof-home care for children and to help protect children at risk of being removed from their homes.

Last March, just before Clinton's State of the Union address, Bishop Ricard wrote to members of Congress praising the thrust of Clinton's proposals "to put the needs of vulnerable children and families first" in his economic package.

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MOTHER TERESA greets well-wisher in Bombay following her release from a hospital where she was treated for exhaustion and weakness. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

Mother Teresa recovers from exhaustion BOMBAY, India (CNS) Nobel peace prize winner Mother Teresa, 82, spent two days earlier this month in Bombay's Nanavati Hospital, suffering from exhaustion and weakness.

"She is now recovered," said Sister Gertrude of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity order of Roman Catholic nuns.

Mother Teresa had been in Bombay July 8 on a visit to members of her order and had been scheduled to leave for the southern city of Bangalore July 10, Sister Gertrude said.

Instead, she flew back to her base in Calcutta.

Mother Teresa was fitted with a pacemaker after a heart attack in 1989 and has been advised to cut down on her charity work and travels.

In December 1992 she was taken ill while in Mexico and was later flown to a California hospital with bacterial pneumonia and a heart complaint.

On a recent visit to one of her order's houses in Rome, Mother Teresa fell, ending up in the hospital with broken ribs.

The frail nun is regarded as a living saint for her work among the desperately poor and sick all over the world.

President named for apostolate for mentally retarded CINCINNATI (eNS) - The . "They're included in the regular new president of the National religious education program and Apostolate with People with Men- are included in all groups of tal Retardation has seen some ministry." church programs for-the mentally A University of Dayton service retarded go out of business because club called "Faith in Action," which of their success. worked to include people with Jill Johnson, who teaches oral mental retardation in Dayton-area communication to children with churches, also recently disbanded, learning disabilities at Springer saying it had reached its goals for School in the Cincinnati suburb of inclusiveness.

Hyde Park, gave as an example Ms. Johnson, recently appointed the "Friends of Jesus" program for to a two-year term as president of the retarded at her parish, Bellar- the apostolate, said the focus of mine Church at Xavier University. the national organization has It disbanded when it achieved changed since it was founded in its goal of making the mentally 1968 by a group of clergy who retarded an integral part of the wanted to provide an opportunity parish community, she said. for spiritual formation to mentally Mentally retarded parishioners retarded people. The apostolate's "are well, well accepted," she said. headquarters are in Columbia, S.c.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope John Paul II sent condoknces to Catholics in Scotland July 20, the day after retired Cardinal Gordon Joseph Gray died at the age of82.

The cardinal, former archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, had been hospitalized for about a week after suffering a heart attack.

In his telegram, Pope John Paul said he was "grateful for the cardinal's many years of distinguished service to the church" and was "mindful of his outstanding example of humble dedication."

Cardinal Gray's death leaves the College of Cardinals with 149 members. .

When he was named a cardinal

by Pope Paul VI in 1969, he was the first resident Scottish cardinal in more than 400 years. For centuries after the Protestant Reformation, cardinals were foreign subjects or lived abroad during times of tense relations between Great Britain and the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal Gray was known for his ecumenical efforts and for his promotion of Catholic media.

Under his leadership of the St. Andrews and Edinburgh archdiocese from 1951 to 1985, relations with other Christian churches were intensified. The cardinal promoted the publication in Scotland of a Bible translation that was acceptable to Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

Born in Edinburgh on Aug. 10, 1910, he was ordained in 1935.

\ AMONG THOSE helping Diocesan Council of Catholic Women president Bella Nogueira and Cape and Islands District V DCCW moderator Father Edward C. Duffy plan the first Evening on Cape Cod with Bishop O'Malley are Madeleine Lavoie, DCCW treasurer; and Maureen Papineau, publicity. The event will take place 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 5 at the Tara Cape Codder Hotel, Route 132, Hyannis.

"-It still looks at spirituality, but it also looks at the whole person," she said. "The thrust now is really to get these people as actively involved in parish life and the parish community as they can be."

With the Washington-bas(~d National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities, the apostolate cosponsors a program called "On the Move," which serves as a resource for diocesan inclusion efforts. "On the Move" provides funding for programs and speakers for parish and diocesan awareness seminars.

The apostolate has published a booklet addressing the residential, financial and educational needs of family members of those with mental retardation. It also offers information and pastoral counseling to parents with mentally retarded children.

The organization publishes a quarterly journal and a bimonthly newsletter for its more than 800 members, who include priests, nuns and religious brothers, family members, parish lay ministers, advocates and those with mental retardation.

Ms. Johnson, who holds a doctorate in education from the University of Cincinnati, first became involved with the apostolate in 1983 and has served on its board of directors since 1990. She has lived in a group home with mentally retarded people to learn to serve them better.

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The Mass' of Christian Burial was celebrated July 17 at Holy Name of Jesus Church, Bridgeport, Conn" for Michael P,Voytek, 80, who died July 14. He was the father of John M. Voytek, OFM, parochial vicar at Holy Rosary Church, Taunton, and the husband of Irene (Kocar) Voytek.

Born in Portage, Penn., he had resided in Bridgeport for the past 70 years and was a retired foreman for Remington Arms Co., where he had been employed for 40 years.

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In addition to his wife and Father Voytek, he is sUirvived by five other sons, Michae:l W. and Joseph EXECUTIVE PLAZA F. Voytek of Bridgeport, Peter B. 101 preSide.nt Ave." Fall Rive~ Voytek of Fairfield, Conn., Adam Route 6, East & We1!#. ~ J. Voytek of Brandon, Fla., and (;£J Stephen M. Voytek of Phoenix, Ariz.; and four daughters, Valerie A. Reynolds of Lovell, Maine, Perpetua A. Turner of Stratford, Conn., and Christina A. Gonda COMMITTEE MEMBERS planning Catechetical Leadership Convocation, Sister and Mary Ann Voytek of BridgeEugenia Brady, SJC, Sister Kathy Kandefer and Margaret Borders, meet with Bishop Daniel SHAWOMET water. ..

He is also survived by a sister, P. Reilly of Norwich, CT, who hosted planning sessions~ GARDENS Sister Francine Voytek, SSND, of 102 Shawomet Avenue Trumbull, Conn.., 15 grandchildSomerset,.· Mass. ren, two great-grandchildren and· nieces and nephews.

The Seventh Biennial New Eng~ ciate director of religious educa- Catechesis" as his topic and· Ms. 1el.674-4881 tion for the diocese of Fall River.

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Leadership will take place Aug. 17 Principal speakers will be Dr. 4112 room Apartment through 19 at the Springfield Mar- . Ernest Collamati, chairperson of Registration· information is Providence College President riott Hotel in Springfield. the religious studies department of available from Office of CatecheIncludes heat, hot water, stove, reo .

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With the theme "w ords of Hope: Regis College, Weston, and Elinor Fleet Bank-RI Chairman and CEO Light for Our Times," the meeting Ford, chief executive officer and 06606-2892.

Thomas J. Skala, PC '65, and will be sponsored by the New Eng- president of Sadlier Publishing Co. John W. Flynn, PC'61, recently land Conference of Diocesan Di- Workshops will be presented by retired vice chairman, Fleet Fi- rectors of Religious Education and Father Tom Lynch, pastor of St. nancial Group, have announced a the National Association for Par- James parish, Stratford, CT; corporate pacesetting gift of ish Coordinators/ Directors of Rel- Michael Carotta, executive direc$500,000 from the Fleet Charita- igious Education. tor of the Department of Religious ble Trust to help launch the colMaking arrangements for the Education of the National Catholege's new fundraising campaign gathering are Sister Kathy Kan~ lic Educational Association; and this fall. The gift includes a defer, director of religious educa- Lois McKinney, director of the $300,000 direct grant and an adlii- tion for the di·ocese of Norwich, Office for Catechesis of the diotional $200,000 to substantially CT; Margaret Borders, Region I cese of Bridgeport, CT. match the $237,000 contributed by representative for the parish coorFather Lynch will discuss "NurFleet PC alumni employees dinators/ directors association; and turing Family Spirituality"; Mr. through the Fleet/ Providence Col- Sister Eugenia Brady, SJC, asso- Carotta will have "Excellence in lege $200,000 Alumni Challenge.

The total amount of $737,000 will enhance PC's overall academic For TV, she always had to rise PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CNS)programs and will support the establishment of an executive in Venerable actress Loretta Young· early. Now she sets her alarm for lOa.m., "and I sleep until 10 a.m.,''' residence, "The Fleet Distinguished said that with few exceptions, she Miss Young said. She goes to daily Visiting Lecturer." The position literally hates today's movies.'

Mass at noon.

And with the "junk" she is asked will benefit students in the colShe said that she did indeed lege's four undergraduate business to read, fans will probably never keep a "swear box" on the set of see her in the movies again, she departments and the Providence added. Young people should stay "Come to the Stable" for those College MBA Program.

The fall campaign will focus on· away from acting careers "if they who used profanity on the set. She said it was hard to keep the sweet, financing various needs identified value their souls," she said. kind, generous mood of a nun in in "Providence 2000," Providence The 80-year-old actress, speak- habit when those on the set were College's strategic plan aimed at ing at a recent ,Providence College maintaining and strengthening the scholarship fund raiser, said one swearing.

She put a pink bow on the box, Dominican institution's mission as recent movie she enjoyed was a comprehensive liberal arts col- "Dances With Wolves," which she hung it on the front of a camera, and anytime someone used the lege. . has seen several times.

We have a new roof! Extensive exterior work on our Lord's name in vain, they had to Miss Young said she was lucky deposit a quarter..

SCHOOL/pARISH CENTER has been completed! to be performing during a time "Hell" and "damn" earned the when Hollywood producers took speaker a ID-cent fine, and "all Catholic Te~nt Revival All new windows by the fall care of their young stars. other four-letter words were free.

The fourth annual Catholic "If they had no clothes, the stu- That didn't mean anything, just a We have reached 65% of our goal!

Tent Revival will be held at dio would provide nice clothes," lack of vocabulary," Miss Young LaSalette Shrine, Rt.118, Attleshe said. "Today's stars, I don't said. Each week she brought about boro, Aug. 1 through 4 with the know where they get their clothes, $200 to a Catholic hospital for theme" Amen! 11 Believe, I Beor if they wear any at all." unwed mothers.

• Windows may be donated in honor of or in memory long!" Gatherin:~s will be held 7 Miss Young said her favorite Of her leading men, Miss Young to 8:30 p.m. each evening, with role was "The Farmer's Daugh- said Spencer Tracy was the most of a loved one. speakers Father Val La France ter," for which she won an Oscar, • Plaques will be placed beside each donated window. pleasurable to work with because Aug. I, Grace Markay Aug. 2 but she also liked "Come to the he was "a superb craftsman."

• The cost of a window - $750.00 - may be paid in and Father John Randall Aug. Stable," a movie in which she Miss Young said she truly fell in 3. Bishop Sean O'Malley will be installments. played a nun in a convent. love with God about 30 years ago. celebrant and homilist for the • Donations of any amount are welcome.

She would consider returning to Since then, she has made several closing liturgy Aug. 4. Father the screen should it be remade, but pilgrimages, including one to Joseph Gosselilll, MS, Shrine admitted it wasn't likely. Worse Medjugorje in the former YugoGod bless the manyfamilies who have alrea~y donated! superior and director, is master yet, if it were remade, her charac-· slavia. "You always feel like a of ceremonies. Handicapped acter would "probably leave the con- child if you know God loves you For further information call: cessible; free ~Idmission and vent and do bad things," she said. and you trust in him," she said. parking. Participants asked to Miss Young, a Catholic, has . One advantage age gives he" Dr. John Fletcher: 992-6053 Irene Beauregard bring canned good donations. starred in 87 motion pictures and she said, is that she can let God For more information call the Cecilia Felix, Principal: 993-3547 Mary Lou Francis 165 episodes of TV's "The Loretta control her iife. "If I'm tired, I just Shrine at 222-5410.

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the moorins.-, A New Target for Bigots Americans have a great tendency to generalize. We like to lump everyone together, but over the years we have made some very nasty mistakes in our collective thinking. For example, in the last century it was the common attitude that the only good Indian was a dead Indian.

This thinking still lives in our current horrendous approach to the true Native Americans, who are among the most poorly treated ethnic groups in our land.

Another instance of American discrimination is found in the nation's treatment of American-born Japanese in the days of World War II. Simply because of their race, they were herded from their homes into what amounted to concentration camps.

Now another group has become the focus of national misunderstanding and a media target of inaccurate allegations and sp~cious speculation. Ever since the bombing of New York's World Trade Center, Arab-Americans have experienced the bigotry of their fellow countrymen.

Somehow people have been led to believe that each and every Arab, even those born in this country, is working for Saddam Hussein or the Ayatollah. The "redneck" attitude that permeated Desert Storm seems to have become a mind-set; and as a result all Arabs have become targets for our national tendency to discriminate. What happened to American Indians and to Japanese-Americans is now happening to Arab-Americans.

Few of us in the United States realize that the world is seeing a war for the soul of Islam. The revival of Muslim fundamentalism has been swift and deadly and the progressive and moderate voices of the Arab world are gaining less and less attention.

In this battle of ideals and values, it is the fanatic who is gleaning t~e headlines: tourists can no longer tra'vel safely in Egypt because of Muslim extremists; in Turkey 38 writers and artists were burned to death in a hotel; while in Algeria Muslim terrorists went on a murder spree with Algerian intellectuals as their target. Like events are taking place daily in Iran and the Sudan.

It is more than unfortunate that such atrocities are blamed on Arabs as a group, with little attempt made to point out that the vast majority of Arabic peoples in this country are neither fanatics nor terrorists. Arab-Americans are a rainbow coalition in their own right. To be sure, the vast majority are Muslims, but millions are also Catholics or members of other Christian denominations. Certainly they have anthropological ties with the Middle East, as do all of us, but this does not make them assassins.

We simply have to break the stereotype that seems to be on continuous replay and avoid encouraging a witch-hunt atmosphere in which the innocent suffer equally with the guilty.

What is actually going on in the Muslim world is a quest for power. Those who scream holy war, apostasy and heresy are the ones who wish to sit in the chairs of the mighty. We must expose these fanatics for what they are: power-hungry路 murderers.

In the process, we should not fear to defend the millions of Americans of Arab descent who came to this country to escape lhe very forc~s now dominating our headlines. They have a right to all the freedoms given them by our Constitution.

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Humanae Vitae: prophetic wor(ls

By Father Kevin J. Harrington This month marks the 25th anniversary of"Humanae Vitae," Pope Paul VI's encyclical reaffirming the condemnation of artificial birth control. There will be very little celebrating of this anniversary in society at large. Many who disagree with the Church's teaching point to this document as the. watershed event that kept the Church from evolving into an institution more to their own liking.

Some dissidents, such as Father Richard McBrien, even go so far as to consider this encyclical to mark the end of the spirit of reform ushered in by the Second Vatican Council!

Now with the benefit of a quarter century of hindsight Pope Paul VI's words appear very prophe'tic indeed. The Holy Father warned that a contraceptive mentality would betray the true God-given purpose of sexuality - the transmission of life - in favor of recreatiqn. Clearly, today many people do believe that the primary purpose of sexuality is pleasure and they look to technology to spare them the consequences of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Also, many women resent a male Roman Catholic hierarchy enforcing upon them moral teachings that they perceive as preventing them from attaining liberation.

But have a'rtificial birth control and abortion on demand liberated women from the consequences of sex? Why should pregnancy and childbirth be perceived as burdens?

When recreation supercedes procreation as the purpose of sexuality, disastrous consequences are inevitabl~. God's laws written in nature cannot be turned upsidedown without undoing reverence for life.

Pope Paul VI predicted three damaging consequences of widespread contraception use: moral decline, the demeaning of women, and increased government intervention concerning procreation.

Now, after more than 20 years of federally-funded sex education, sex-related problems among teens are soaring. Passing out condoms has undercut the values of parents ,and the commendable efforts of teens to delay having sex. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that specializes in reproductive health, estimates that up to 36 percent of women in their early 20s will get pregnant while relying on male use of condoms in the first year; and with the supposedly foolproof pill, up to 18 percent of teenage girls get pregnant in the first year. If condoms cannot reliably prevent' pregnancy what does that say about our teenagers' chances of being exposed to HIV, the AIDS virus?

Reducing sexuality to a form of amusement reduces women to the status of mere sex objects. This is most visible in a media attitude exploiting sex, but there are countless unknown victims who are also appallingly exploited. Women are not sex objects and in the real world they are the ones left behind in the debris of broken relationships as a record number of single mothers struggle to raise their children in poverty with little or no help from males.

Pope Paul VI viewed contraception as a violation of natural law.

The fact that the Church has become countercultural in our times is as sure an indicator as any of how sinful practices can cloud the mind and weaken the will. St. Thomas Aquinas, in the 13th century, asserted that the Ten Commandments are natural law precepts that received a divine sanction in the Mosaic Law. The need for the law's articulation was the result of sin.

The Angelic Doctor further asserted that our distorted appetites deviate the mind from truths it should know straightaway. Byour mode of life we can render ourselves all but incapable of recognizing the obvious in the moral order.

As Jesus put it more succinctly: "Let anyone with ears listen!"

(Matthew 11:15).

Blending the old with the new I Kings 3:5,7-12 Romans 8:28-30 Matthew 13:44-52 Those who live life fully learn how to blend the old with the new: to develop a proper tension between tradition and innovation. The same is true for those who want to live their faith fully. They continually strive to meld their minds with the mind of God; to discern what they can fall back on. from what they have to create from scratch.

That's why Solomon makes his famous request in today's first reading: "Give your servant...an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong." The king knows that being faithful to God demands much more than just collecting and learning rules and regulations.

True disciples develop "understanding hearts." Their conscience eventually becomes more important than their memory. But this only happens when WI~ develop a knack for fusing the new with the old.

Jesus the reformer learned how to do this, and presumed his followers would imitate him. But, as the scandal of hundreds of Christian denominations attest, he didn't . pass on a precise recipe for the proper mixture. Some change everything, others change nothing. Most, comfortable with the old, concede the new only after long periods of conflict and frustration.

More than any other evangelist, Matthew, a Jewish/Christian, reveals his struggle to integrate these two elements. In today's pericope Jesus proclaims, "Every scribe who is learned in the r,~ign of God is like the head of a household who can bring from his store both the new and the old."

As both a devoted Jew and a follower of Jesus, Matthew doesn't let his commitment to tradition stop him from accepting the new frame of mind which the Galilean carpenter brought to religion. It's no accident that the three miniparables in today's third reading are found only in Matthew's gospel. He's reflecting on his own faith experience when he passes on stories about the "buried treasure which a man fOl:,nd in a field" and the "merchant's search for fine pearls."

He knows the excitement of discovering the unexpected in the middle of the (:xpected, and he

U.S.hunger problems discussed WASHlNGTON(CNS)- More than 80 panelists offered their perspectives on what the nation's hunger problems are and what it might take to relieve them now and for the future at a forum sponsored by tht; U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The mid-June forum was the largest federally sponsored symposium on hunger since a 1969 conference that spawned such

By FATHER ROGER programs as the nationwide food KARBAN stamp system and the Women, Infants and Children nutrition grasps the consequences of having clinics. That conference was envito sell "all he had" in order to sioned as a start for identifying the acquire it. nation's hunger problems and beAnd if wc separate the latter ginning to work at eliminating Christian interpretation ofthe third them. parable from J.esus' original story, Among last month's pan~lists we also see how this anecdote is were Cabinet and Congress mempertinent to Matthew's experience. bers, food stamp recipients, direcOmitting the two verses which tors of charitable organizations, begin with "That is how it will be clergy, an entertainer-turned-ad· at the end ofthe world ... ," gives us vocate and a restaurateur who disa completely different view of the cussed problems of sharing leftLord's parable. It's an image of over food with the homeless. everyday life, not a description of Religious institutions are the Final Judgement. responsible for much ongoing work Jesus seems to be reflecting on in relieving hunger, reported the the tension which combining the Rev. David Beckman, president of new and the old has brought into Bread for the World, a Christian his own life and ministry. Just as a citizens' anti-hunger advocacy dragnet forces its handlers to sort group. Nationwide, 100,000 priout the useless from the useful, so vate agencies distribute food to the God's presence forces us to distinneedy and 350,000 religious comguish the helpful from the detrimunities are involved, he said. mental in the traditions which all "Our religious teachers may religions cherish. We can't keep disagree on many things," said everything and still be faithful to M r. Beckman, a Lutheran pastor.

God and God's people.

"But they all require us to be responsible to society."

There's only one problem: Those who are insecure in their faith Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., probably don't know what Matchairman of the Senate Agriculthew's talking about! Anxious ture, Nutrition and Forestry about whether or not they're going Committee, 'said hunger problems to heaven, preoccupied with fears are as blatant as the daily lines at of eternal damnation, they're scared . soup kitchens and as subtle as parto change anything. Every tradition- ents who don't eat in order to feed shaking event brings about a their children. parallel shaking of faith. Their Others referred to a "hunger of reasoning is foolproof: if those the spirit" that afflicts people who who followed the old ways made it have given up hope of being able to heaven, then why should we risk to properly care for themselves God's anger by changing? and their families without government assistance.

This seems to be why Paul, "The worst hazard is the mindalong with all the other writers of set of'us vs. them,'" seen in people the Christian Scriptures, spends so who think that if they are able to much time assuring us of God's feed themselves, everyone should love and care. "We know," he be able to do so by working hard reminds the Romans, "that God enough, said David T. Ellwood, makes all things work together for assistant secretary for planning the good of those who love him."

He even speaks about our being and evaluation for the U.S. De"predestined to share the image of partment of Health and Human Services.

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Espy said he was seeking links between the private sector and government to fight hunger through economic development, health care. welfare reform, education and assistance programs. By the end of the day. he had listed scores of ideas, problems and questions. That list will be the basis of a staff retreat which he said he hoped will help him formulate specific tasks for the Agriculture Department.

Hunger activist and comedian Dick Gregory questioned the priorities of a nation where murderers are fed. clothed and sheltered while childr,en go hungry. '" hope we're here today to talk about wiping out hunger." he said.

"Because God has already taken care of providing the food, we're just standing in the way of people getting it."

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Statistics discussed at the forum show that: - Five million people in families with at least one full-time worker are considered poor.

- Children under age 2 who have inadequate nutrition are in danger of developmental deficiencies that may never be overcome.

- Half the schoolteachers interviewed in a 1990 study reported some students were poorly nourished. .

- Five million children under age 12 go hungry sometime each month.

- The Department of Agriculture spends 53 percent of its $62 billion budget primarily on nutlition services, while 28 percent goes to agriculture programs.

- Only one ofthree households eligible for food stamps receives them. About 90 percent of those eligible are elderly or working poor who don't have time to apply.

- In 1910,41 percent of the cost of food was returned to farmers.

In 1993, 9 percent is returned.

Marketingand packagingaccoullted for 44 percent of food costs in 1910, compared to 65 percent today.

Opening the forum, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy said the impetus for focusing on hunger as his first major project came from Rep. Tony P. Hall's much-publicized fast this spring. Hall. DOhio, protested Congress' failure to reauthorize funding for the House Select Committee on Hunger as it sought ways to cut budgets.

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It's risky' to develop substitute signs of the cross A. This formula, along with a few others I've heard of, can be a legitimate prayer. There's nothing wrong with it as it stands. As your good Catholic instincts seem to be telling you, however, big-time problems arise when this prayer is presented as a substitute for the traditional sign of the cross.

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN Q. We are wondering about a new sign of the cross.

A young priest in our parish likes to say, "In the name of the Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier."

He doesn't do this at Mass, but he claims these are traditional names for God, and it's all right to use them instead of the usual sign of the cross.

Is he right? (Florida)

Most Catholics and other Christians know that the mystery of the Holy Trinity, three persons in one God, is the fundamental doctrine of our faith.

The fact that there is "within" God an' eternal community of existence, a mutual exchange of life and love that we call three persons, is something we would know absolutely nothing about unless Jesus himself had told us. Theologians refer to this inner divine life

as God's action "ad intra," on the inside.

This inner life of God is the core of all Christian beliefs. Without it all other crucial elements of our spirituality' - the incarnation, Eucharist, sacraments, the church as we know it - would be unthinkable.

Since the beginning, Christians have approached this mystery with the utmost reverence and care. It was in the name of the persons of the Trinity that Christians were, and still are, baptized into the faith of Jesus Christ.

It is in their name, as in the sign of the cross, that all Christian prayer and important action take place.

I n light of the centrality of this great mystery it is highly significant that this "new" sign of. the

cross is not an explicit invocation . significant to many of us, but to equate' Creator, Redeemer and of the Trinity at all.

True, our creeds sometime Sanctifier with Father, Son and Holy Spirit is theologically and attribute creation to the Father, spiritually dangerous and contrary redemption to the Son and sanctito Christian and Catholic tradition. fication to the Holy Spirit; but The pitfalls in this substitute these attributes or titles all involve actions that theology calls "ad sign of the cross, if it is indeed presented as such, indicate the extra," outside of God. As such, they are each and all actions of all extreme care and accuracy we must three persons, not only of one. exercise when we begin tampering with traditional terminology about In other words, they are not God. Trinitarian personal actions but "God" actions.

I n fact, one need not even believe in three divine persons to use this prayer. Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, reject belief in the Trinity but staunchly believe that God is their Creator, Savior and Sanctifier.

These differences may not appear

A free brochure outlining Catholic prayers, beliefs and practice is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

. Church: head trip. or heart trip?

By DOLORES CURRAN

Pollster George Gallup J r., who has studied American religious behavior for 40 years, delivered some stirring words on the state of today's churches in a recent interview. Church members, he asserts, don't invite people to church, the institutions don't nurture people's spiritual lives, and are sometimes viewed as boring, unfulfilling and too family-oriented.

The good news is that religious beliefs, more than age. education,

economics, or political persuasion, affect how people think and live their lives. More than 90% of Americans believe in God or a universal spirit, more than 80% pray, and one-third say they have had a personal religious experience.

"Churches are still the best way to reach people. Six of 10 Americans can be found in a religious service at least once a month," Gallup claims. And, he adds, social scientists and other researchers are beginni'ng to study religious beliefs more closely, noting that mental health professionals are increasingly apt to consider their patients' religion.

So the promise and hope are there but what's troubling is that so many churchgoers are not finding the spiritual fulfillment they seek. According to Gallup, many

churches fail in preaching, which above and below that level. Then should be "a great drawing card. there are the ideological differenToo many people either don't rem-: ces. Taking care not to offend ember what the preacher said or' those left or right of center, we sit. feel worse when they leave church on the center line. than when they went in."'

What's the answer? I believe it Those are tough words to swallies in getting out of the head stuff low for homilists who spend hours and into the heart stuff. And so preparing their sermons. They don't does Gallup, who said that minishave an easy task. With the possiters, priests and rabbis need to talk ble exception of graduation about peoples' spiritual needs and speeches, which nobody wants to their religious doubts. So many hear, delivering a homily which homilies are directed to the mind meets the needs of everyone in the . that they m'iss the heart. pew is the toughest public speakA homilist can deliver a brilliant ing job around. For starters, we interpretation of the gospel text have all ages and levels of underbut if it doesn't touch people's standing. What is thought-provokexperiences, it remains briefly in ing to one parishioner is incomthe head. Richard McBrien once prehensible to another. wrote that if it doesn't pass the "so So vocabulary, references~ and . 'what?" test, a homily is a failure. If illustrations are geared to a median parishioners admit the words are eighth grade level. This bores those wonderfully delivered but go out

thinking, "So what?", thos~ words won't comfort them or <:hange their lives.

A priest friend told me the best homily he ever delivered and the one that garnered the most genuine parishioner response was on how he felt when his dog died. There's a lesson in that. When people can identify with the feelings of the homilist, their lives are touched.

We are a terriblv head-centered and theology-ce~tered church.

Many homilists are afraid to touch feelings, their own. or those in the pew. It isn't surpris~ng to me that the evangelical churches are growing because they recognize the simple truth that people don't attend church for theological und~standirtg. They come to have their spirits touched and lifted.

Why can't we understand this?

Church dropouts return - but to different religions By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Many inactive Christians are coming back to church, but not to the same churches they once abandoned. The most startling reappearances are being made by the baby boomers.

Recently I picked up a book by sociologist Wade Clark Roof titled "A Generation ofSeekers,"(Harper Collins) which studies what happened to t~e boomers. Did they drop out of church? And if they

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Traditional Protestant churches were down substantially. Episcopal Church membership had declined 29 percent, with Presbyterians down 32 percent and United Methodists down 19 percent. .Roman Catholics showed a 23 percent gain. Southern Baptist congregations were up too, by 38 percent, and Seventh Day Adventists were up 92 percent.

But the huge increases were in the Assemblies of God, up 121 percent, Mormons, up 133 percent, and the Church of God, up 183 percent.

I'm not sure if comfort and religion are meant to be constant bedfellows. I think the Gospels make' clear that sometimes, to keep the

word of the Lord, we have to be willing to be mighty uncomfortable.

Just read the Sermon on the Mount, and proceed to the Last Supper and the action that follows, and it becomes clear that faith has to do with our relationship with Christ. If, like Christ, we are a contradiction to worldly values, we must be willing to accept the discomfort that goes with this.

Religion goes much deeper than feeling good.

It's good news that booml~rs are coming back to religion, but let's hope this desire for faith is true and solid enough to pass on, so that as the boomers' children proceed into adulthood they will choose not to drop out of church in the first place.

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did, are they staying away or com- to "get people involved in the act ing back? of faith," he wrote.

When the results were in, Roof Roof also says that "boomers was astounded. He discovered that talk in similar ways ... (and) their baby boomers had left the churches language has to do with, 'I'm lookof their youth in large numbers as ing for a place where I feel comthey settled into their jobs. But , fortable."" now a good percentage are coming Time magazine picked up on back, looking for religion. Only this subject recently. The headline guess what? Most were not return- spelled out the situation: "The ing to denominations they once Church Search." The magazine knew. They're shopping around. said: "Baby boomers dropped out That's why Roof cafls them in record numbers. Now many are "seekers." finding spiritual home again "Boomers are looking for and American religion will never action," Roof writes, adding that be the same." they are also looking for an idenThe Time story included a chart tity. "And the evangelicals, with titled "Changing Churches," their more clear-cut beliefs and showing the rate of loss and gain in boundaries," provide this, along church membership between 1965 with lively music, big video screens and 1989. The statistics showed and congregational microphones how severely the memberships in

Dear Mary: My daughter is about to enter third grade. She has had some difficulty learning to read, and she was in a special class with a reading specialist during the school year. This has been helpful.

Her teacher emphasized that we should keep up her reading skills over the summer. We visit the

library, but I would like more suggestions. - Pennsylvania Most communities offer summer programs to encourage y'oung readers. Since you visit the library, you undoubtedly have already found such programs.

Your challenge as a parent is to keep up your child's. enthusiasm through the long, slow summer days. One way to keep it alive is to join your daughter in a summer reading and writing program.

Writing involves your child even more than does reading.

Reading leaves one with ideas, information, 'emotional experien-

ces and memories. Writing leaves one with a tangible product.

How do you begin? Read library books with your daughter. When you find one you both particularly like, suggest that she write a book using the library book as a model.

Is the book in verse? Start telling a story using rhymes. Is the book about summer experiences, pesky little brothers? Suggest she write about a similar experience.

To add to your daughter's enthusiasm and your own, write a book about your own experiences to share with your daughter. What

do you remember from your second grade? Write about a summer experience you had as a child, a trip you took, a fish you caught, something that frightened you and how you resolved it.

Don't forget poetry. Reading some books of children's poetry.

Then try writing your own poems in similar styles.

Set your poems to music. Use melodies you know with your poems for lyrics.

The books you and your daughter write are to keep, to cherish, to read and reread. Make them sturdy and beautiful. Illustrate them, using

just a few words per page. Design a nice cover giving title and author.

Perhaps you can laminate the cover .or use a heave, colorful paper.

Combining reading and writing has many benefits. It involves your daughter far more than reading and produces a product which can be kept, treasured and reread.

Many people are immobilized by the sight of a blank sheet of paper. They never answer ktters, never give their loved ones the pleasure of sharing their thoughts.

By helping your daughter read and write, you can help her discover the pleasures of both.

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All welcome at July 26 concert Denise Morency Gannon, director of music at S1. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth, and a member of the music staff at Our Lady of Victory Church. Centerville, will present a musical interpretation of "Everyone's Way of the Cross" by Clarence Enzler as part of the celebration of the feast of St. Anne at 7 p.m. Monday, July 26, at St. Anne's Church, 890 Brock Ave .. New Bedford.

Mrs. Gannon has composed the music she will sing and she will be accompanied by a string quartet. oboe and classical guitar. The program is open to the public at no charge.

She said the Enzler work is a meditation prese:nted as a dialogue between Christ .and those present on the Way of the Cross. The musicians who will be with her are Ann Danis, principal violinist and concert mistress; Cheri Markward, second violin; John Comes, viola; Perry Rosenthall, cello; and Elizabeth Doriss. oboe. Mrs. Gannon will play the classical guitar. .

She is a graduate of Bishop Stang High School and Notre Dame College, Manchester, NH. where she earned a bachelor's degree in music:. She has taught music in the New Bedford public school system. and was also music director at St. Mary's Church, South Dartmouth; children's choir director at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, and music director at St. Luke's Hosp~tal, New Bedford.

She is a member of St. Mary's parish, New Bedford, where she is a volunteer music teacher at the parochial school.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Dearest Lady of Guadalupe, fruitful Mother of Holiness, teach me your ways of gentleness and strength. QUE~en of Martyrs, help me to walk valiantly amid the sharp thorns strewn acrOSi~ my pathway.

Invoke the Holy Spirit to fortify my will to frequent the sacraments so that I may shun eVE:ry occasion of sin.

Help me, as a living branch of the vine that is Jesus Christ, exemplify his divine charit~(, always seeking the good of others. Aid me to win souls for the Sacred Heart of my Savior.

Keep my apostolate fearless, dynamic and articulate, to prodaim the loving solicitude of our Father in heaven so that the wayward may hleed his pleading and obtain pardon, through the merits of your merciful Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Fire damages NCCD/USCC building WASHINGTON (CNS) - A fire the evening of July 7 left a 20-by-30-foot hole in the roof, lingering smoke and water damage at the headquarters building of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/ U.S. Catholic Conference in Washington.

The blaze in an attic-level equipment room apparently started when a hot diesel generator ignited nearby wooden roof supports, said Douglas Cissel, general services manager for the building.

Firefighters broke a hole in the roof of the 4-year-old building to find the source of smoke billowing from above the fifth floor short ly after 6 p.m.

Flames shot through for a few minutes after firefighters broke open the smoldering roof, but the blaze was extinguished quickly.

Fourengine companies and three ladder trucks responded to the alarm, but the fire was confined to a small area in the roof over the equipmc;nt room at one end of the building. Water soaked through to a meeting room and the conferences'law library on the floor below, however, and thick smoke fill(:d the 170,OOO-square foot building.

Several dozen employees working after office hours were evacuated without incident. Most remained in the parking lot, watching firefighters troop into the building and gather on the roof near the source of the fire.

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Cissel said staff engineers, the fire marshal and insurance investigators would check the extent of damage to the roof structure as well as damage from smoke and water on lower floors. The building was aired out overnight and offices opened for business as usual the next morning.

According to Cissel, despite abnormally hot weather, the generator ~as operating as usual

to supplement main power sour;;es in the building. Cissel said based on initial investigations. the wooden beams could have b(:en smoldering for hours or days before breaking into flames.

When the building opened in 1989, its construction value Vias approximately $19 million. Total cost of the project, including f-Jrnishings and equipment, was $26.9 million.

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CYO golf tournaments will be held for the Taunton area Aug. 2 and the Attleboro area Aug. 5, with the champion and runner-up in each of four divisions receiving trophies and advancing to a diocesan tournament to be held Aug. 16 in Pocasset.

The competitions will be 18hole medal play tournaments with participants in the following divisions: seniors, born on or after Jan. I, 1967; intermediates, born on or after Jan. I, 1974; juniors, born on or after Jan. I, 1977; and cadets, born on or after Jan. I, 1979.

The Taunton area event, chaired

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HAPPY CAMPERS: Denizens of Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, on a busy summer day included 300. altar boys and adult advisers from diocesan parishes on their annual outing and 60 teens attending the sixth annual Christian Leadership Institute sponsored by the Diocesan Office for Catholic Youth Ministry.

At top, Father Edward J. Byington, director of the altar boy event, presents a first place trophy to Father Robert S. Kaszynski's team from St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, which bested the 20 competing teams in a dizzying round of soccer, track, softball, basketball and volleyball matches. Second were Father Byington's own altar servers from Sacred Heart, Fall River, followed by Father Bill Baker's crew from St. Mary's in Seekonk. Mugging at right are boys from St. Mary's parish, Taunton.

Circumnavigating the camp simultaneously were the CLI youths, divided into teams of six to traverse a unique obstacle course. The communitybuilding exercise involved assigning each team member a handicap so that all had to work together to complete a series of tasks, including assembling a puzzle, doing chinups, playing hopscotch, climbing into a rowboat and crossing a bench. .

Led by Father David A. Costa ofthe youth ministry office and II adult team members, the teens spent a week at the camp learning leadership skills.

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By Marcie Hickey Like most recent college grads, Diane Lynch is ready to go out into the world.

And she's going a lot farther than most.

This fall she will put her degree in Spanish and economics from Providence College to work in Tacna, Peru, as one of 20 to 25 young adults select<:d each year by the Jesuit International Volunteers to staff projects among the poor in five countries.

Miss Lynch, a parishioner at St. Mary's, Mansfield, and a 1989 graduate of Bishop. Feehan High School, Attleboro, will be stationed at the Center for the Working Child in Tacna, where most children must begin working at age six to help support their families.

The center, offering recreational and educational act.itivites for the working children and their parents, is operated by three to five Jesuit volunteers a't a time, each staying for about two years. A school nearby is run by the Jesuit .order.

JIV, directed by Father Vin De ola, SJ, commits its participants to "the promotion of justice in the service of faith." A successor to a previous international volunteer program centered a.t Boston College, JIV is based act Georgetown University and ha.s projects in Micronesia, Nepal, Jamaica and Belize as well as Pew. The Center for the Working Child was founded in the late 1980s by Boston College alumnus Jeff Thilman, who has since written a book on the experience.

Land for the project was donated by the Peruvian government, but the center must generate its own' resources and relies heavily on U.S. donors.

By creating structure and stability for families, the center is intended to reverse the downward spiral into poverty and lack of opportunity into an upward one of hope and possibility. It is a place where families can come for the tangibles of clean water, showers, vitamins and medical supplies and the intangibles of community and affirmation, Miss Lynch explained.

Children, who have little opportunity for schooling and work for meager tips shining shoes, washing cars or selling ci.garettes, have a place to learn and have fun; in sh?rt, to "have a childhood," said MISS Lynch.

Mothers, many of them single parents with no inoeome of their own, come to the center to cook meals and to wash clothes in washers from U.S. donors. Some have jobs at the center and ultimately hope to operate a bakery to generate more income.

Each volunteer, Miss Lynch explained, is assigned a group of children to take under his or her wing.

In addition to supervising them at the center, the volunteers visit their homes to "make sure everything is okay," and to "see where they're coming from, to see what life is like for them."

On the Right Track So far Miss Lynch has seen Tacna-a desert are:a at the tip of Peru with a population around 200,000-only on video. But she has no reservations about her decision to spend the next two years of her life there.

"All through Feehan and PC I had planned to dedicate some time

to fulltime volunteer work," she said. "I'm going in with a completely open mind. I'm not expecting to see one thing or another.

Whatever needs to be done, I'm going to do it."

It's a path, she says, that she's been on all her life, guided by signposts of ."very small things" that have prompted her to seek out international volunteer ~~rvice. , "Since I was a child dropping off clothing at a homeless shelter, or putting my pennies in a Lenten Rice Bowl, or watching the evening news and seeing the sadness in Cambodia, I was very sensitive to social injustice," she said. "It is only natural that I would devote a few years to help overcome injustice somewhere."

She credits her .parents, themselves international volunteers in the 1960s, with laying the groundwork. Her mother worked in Peru in the Papal Volunteers in Latin American program and her father was an independent Jesuit volunteer in Jamaica.

"The way I was raised and the things they exposed me to sensitized me to the idea that life in the United States is not like life everywhere," said Miss Lynch. Children in other countries' don't necessarily have the opportunity to go to. school or even to "open the refrigerator and find food" she said. ' As she was growing up, she saw her parents "always involved in small, quiet efforts" such as bringing food for church meals for the needy.

And "every time we'd go up to Boston to the orthodontist we'd be dropping off clothes at the Pine Street Inn," a homeless shelter, she recalled.

Her college experiences, too, put her on track toward "improvmg the situations" of underprivileged c~ildren. She spent eight months m Barcelona, Spain, last year iIi a study-abroad program and in volunteer work during the Summer Olympics. While it wasn't ~ c.ase o~ "seeing a lot of poverty," hvmg WIth a single mother of two sons who was not home very often opened her eyes to another kind of deprivation: "children growing up on their own" without much adult support.

Last fall, Miss Lynch tutored at an elementary school in Providence, where encountering many children from disadvantaged backgrounds "made me feel incredibly lucky for all the things I've been given .. .I have been incredibly blessed with my family, devoted ~eachers and coaches, and basically a very easy life."

And yet she does 'hot see 'the prospect of a simple life in an impoverished community far from home as a sacrifice. "I don't think I'm giving up all that much" she said. "I think I'll definitely'come back with so much, that these people will share so much with me."

Diane Lynch's departure is set for November. Like all Jesuit International volunteers, she is expected to provide at least $2,000 of the $8,000 per year needed to cover her expenses during her time abroad. Organizations assisting her include Providence College and the Fall River Propagation of the Faith.

Miss Lynch said she chose the Jesuit program over larger volunteer organizations because she was "really moved by the attitude of the Jesuits" and because she wanted a program with a strong faith and community aspect.

The Peru volunteers live together in a house adjacent to the center, and "I wanted that kind of support," she said. "I know there will be things that will take me by surprise" and she will want to talk about them with others sharing the same experience.

But, she says firmly, "I know what I'm getting into and have no reservations. I know this is what I was meant to be doing."

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DIANE. LYNCH

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., July 23, 1993

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Friday, July 23 - 7:15 P.M. PRAYER VIGILl.OR VOCATIONS FR. PAT & TEAM Saturday, July 24 - 6:30 P.M. OUTDOOR CONCERT WITJH NANCY BENETTI OF BOSTON All are invited - good-will offering.

Sunday, July 25 - 2:00 PM HEALING SERVICE WITH MASS

REV. ANDRE PATENAUDE, NLS. 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. CH][CKEN BARBI~QUE to benefit La Salette Youth Pilgrimage to Denver $10.00 Donation

Anyone wishing to assist Diane Lynch withJIV expenses may contact her at 382 Elm St., Mansfield 02048.

New personnel at Memorial Home Catholic Memorial Nursing Home. Fall River. has named Albertina Barbosa as admissions director, responsible for assisting individuals and families in learning about the home and its services. She will also be a liaison to Fall River area community groups and organizations.

A Fall River resident, she is a licensed social worker and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts/ Dartmouth.

Anne M. Racine of New Bedford is the facility's new director of therapeutic activities. She has experience as an art therapist and as a consultant in art, music, dance and poetry therapies for elders.

She holds a master's degree in education and a certificate of advanced grad uate studies from Fitchburg State College. She has sp~cialized in the psychology o( agmg and the role of the arts in working with patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Fall River resident Aline Tetrault, RN, is the new coordinator of in-service education for employees. She has 10 years of experience as a critical care instructor and has been an educational consultant for instructional films. . Mrs. Tetrault holds a nursing dIploma from St. Elizabeth's Hospital School of Nursing, Boston, and a master's degree in clinical health care education from the University for I-iI umanistic Studies, Del Mar, CA.

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Vietnam. For some, a word that stirs up very personal memories; for all of us, it is a name that has been written on the pages of American history.

These days, the Church in that southeast Asian nation Sees progress, though limited, toward religious freedom. At the end of 1991, a congregation of 15,000 attended the first ordination of a bishop since the Communist takeover in 1975. Several months later, in February 1992, the government asked a group of local Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Religious Sisters in the southern part of Vi;;;;;;-reopen Church-run schools. Also last year, authorities allowed the re-opening of a fifth seminary.

Yet with the steps forward, there are "steps back," such as the limiting of priestly ordinations. This past summer, 43 men were ready for ordination; the government permitted only 37 to be ordain~. .

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Just Asking:

Why do k.ids underachieve?

What's life's real purpose?

By Mitch Finley Catholic News Service Every spring in the city where I live about 50,000 people gather to pick 'em up and put 'em down.

They run, jog, walk or wheelchair for about seven miles, and at the end they get a T-shirt.

As Dave Barry might say, I am not making this up. eNSI Reuters photo I personally have yet to participate in this annual celebration of DAVEY ALLISON fitness. Last spring for the first time my good spouse and two of our three sons did join' in, so I have WASHINGTON (CNS)-Sepquently spoken in the Fall River a ,feeling that next year I may arated and divorced Catholics must diocese, emphasized the importance finally capitulate and get a T-shirt move beyond their suffering and too.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS)of "saying yes to self." experience life more fully, said It's not that I have anything America lost more than a stock car "You don't have to say yes to speakers at a recent conference in racing star when Davey Allison, everyone else all the time," she against fitness. It's just that I have Washington. a sneaking suspicion: If we Ameri- 32, died July 13 from injuries sufadded.

Ms. Levesque is executive direc- . cans have a problem with any- fered in a helicopter crash, accord"Do not become professional thing, it's death. tor of the North American Coning to a priest who knew him well. divorced or widowed people," said I know all about Elizabeth The country lost a good, sound one workshop speaker during the ference of Separated and Divorced Kubler-Ross and her stages of individual who had God and church annual international gathering of Catholics, an organization founded dying, and how "in" it was a few at the center of his life, said Father the North American Conference in 1975.

She urged participants to change years ago to talk about death. All Dale Grubba, a photojournalist of Separated and Divorced Caththeir image of the church, espe- the same, when push comes to who follows the NASCAR circuit. olics, held earlier this month at cially if they pictured it as stern shove I think we bend over backAllison's Catholic faith was Catholic University in Washingand harsh. She said those whose ward to avoid death or thinking "central to everything he did," said ton, D.C. parents were divorced when they about death.

Father Grubba, a priest of the The message was repeated in When it comes to facing our diocese of Madison, Wis. It was a keynote addresses throughout the were children might suffer shame own mortality, we'd rather n.ot, trait he inherited from his parents, conference, attend.ed by about 250 and could "get down on the entire thank you.

NASCA R living legend Bobby Alpeople. Participants included wid- [church] institution."

All of which leads to my suspi- lison and his wife, Judy.

But "we need to rediscover owed people. church," she said. "What gives life cion that today's fitness-nutrition "Judy has to feel like Rose The opening speaker, Jesuit trend contributes nicely to our Kennedy," the priest said of Alliand enfleshes the church is each Father John Powell. told particitraditional discomfort with death. . son's mother in an interview with and everyone of us here today." pants to "expunge the word Where, I queried myself, is the the Catholic News and Herald, the Ms. Levesque urged participants 'blame'" from their vocabulary and happy medium here? Surely it is Charlotte diocesan newspaper. to join support groups and to instead, take personal responsibilregain their self-worth. "Divorce possible to have a healthy concern "Just how much suffering can a ity for their actions. and death are heartwrenching times; for staying physically fit and for family take," the priest added.

Father Powell, an associate prothey are times we need to grieve," eating the right kinds offoods and fessor at Loyola University in ChiDavey's brother, Clifford, died she said. But she also insisted the still take seriously the fact that, at age 27 in an accident last summer cago and author of such bestgrieving process needs to end, say- yes, I am going to die. sellers as "The Secret of Staying in at Michigan International SpeedIt's good to remind ourselves as way. Bobby hasn't raced since he ing, "I know what is good for me, Love," emphasized that those exand I'm going to dare to reach for we raise that fork of tofu to our crashed at Pocono Speedway, Pa., periencing divorce or separation it. I'm going to dare to take the lips that, yes, I'm still going to die. in June 1988. need to concentrate on getting to From a Christian perspective, life's next step."

Davey Alli.son died at a Birknow themselves.

The workshop speaker, Eliza- purpose is love of God and neigh- mingham, Ala .. hospital of head In a presentation filled with beth Barca, told the 20 or so peo- bor, not exercise and good nu- injuries suffered when a helicopter anecdotes, he continually reiterple in her session that they were trition. he was' piloting crashed at Talladated the need for introspection, Nowhere in the Gospels does ega Superspeedway. "responsible for creating" their own suggesting that participants closely lives and they should take the Jesus raise his finger in the air and examine why they do what they "They have got to be devastated declare, "I say unto you, take up by this," said Father Grubba of "vital steps" to do it. do.

Ms. Barca, former director of your running shoes and get your- Bobby and Judy Allison. "But Father Powell also challenged participants to change their atti- Separated and Divorced Ministry self in shape; cut down on red meat even when Clifford passed away, and eat more apples and broccoli." they didn't think it was God puntudes by forgiving others and pray- for the Archdiocese of Newark, I don't think one of Mother Tere- ishing them and they didn't give up N.J., urged participants to first ing. "When we turn our lives over sa's mottos is "No pain, no gain." on their faith." to God in desperation, God acts," "let go of the past."

It's a matter of keeping things in "You don't need another trauma As busy as the Allison family he said. balance, I suppose. It's good to was with racing, they always had to discover the love of God, you're Dorothy Levesque, the July 9 pump away on the old exercise time for Mass, said Father Grubba. ready," she said. keynote speaker, who has frebike and eat lots of grains. But not Whenever the priest said Mass for as an end in itself. Staying fit and the family in their home and in eating right should support our hotel rooms, he recalled all the dedication to a Christian way of children would run up to Davey. life. .

"He was the uncle who always The fitness-nutrition trend need grabbed them and tickled them not be just another way to engage and pretended to wrestle with in a denial of death. It can 'be part them," Father Grubba said. "He loved people and people as a result of a balanced Christian spirituality. would flock to him, even the little The goal of staying fit and eatkids.

He was one of those people ing right, as that of reading, going who seemed to attract people." on a retreat and taking a day off Father Grubba said the Catholic now and then is to make us better Church suffered "a tremendous able to love God and give loving loss" with Davey Allison's death. service to other people.

"Like Alan Kulwicki (the defendAll of which is rather liberating, ing NASCAR champion who died don't you think? For one thing, it in a plane crash April I), Davey makes it much less of a cultural was a good, s,?und, practicing "sin" to wrap your chops now and Catholic. then around a big 01' juicy ham"I n this day and age, here you burger. What the heck! had two people who were treSEATTLE RESIDENTS Michael De Lorenzo and his mendous examples of dedication and determination and good clean Fall in Love wife Linda share a book with their children Kala, left, and "Fall in love with life-with living," he said.

Sharon Rose. In a statement marking the 25th anniversary of Davey Allison and his wife, Elichildren, older people, middle"Humanae Vitae~" Pope Paul VI's encyclical on marriage, the agers, sports cars; the theater, zabeth. had two children and were U.S, bishops' pro-life committee said the encyclical "reminds longtime members of St. Aloysius music, books, cities, hills, the sea, us that parenthood is a privilege as well as a responsibility." the Bible-with everything except parish in Bessemer, Ala .. in the Birmingham diocese. (eNS photo) money."-James Angel

Divorced/ widowed urged not to be "professionals"

Loss of Allison widely mourned

By Catherine Haven Catholic News Service Sometimes they're labeled burnouts.

Other generations called them flower children, beatniks, losers.

Sometimes they float through school so anonymously they aren't called anything at all.

They're unmotivated students - absent from school activities, earning undistinguished grades below their potential - not even motivated enough to drop out.

Perhaps if we could pinpoint what motivates a student to unmotivation, we could deal with it. Someone recently described the 1990s as the "digital years"-there is no past, there is no future, there is just the present.

Today's kids have seen the future and, well, yawn.

Or maybe they're just burned out. By the time they've hit high school, have year-round sports, summer camps, music lessons, computer clubs and all those nifty advantages once denied their parents robbed them of the carefreeness of childhood, so that now they want it back?

Like the proverbial mid-life crisis that propels their40-some'thing elders into new lives, loves and pursuits of happiness, is an unmotivated student's glide through school a silent plea for a sabbatical from competition?

Years ago, Abraham Maslow developed a theory that people of all cultural backgrounds were motivated by five needs.

In order of importance, the needs 'are: physiological (oxygen, food, liquid, rest, shelter and sex); safety (security, stability and order; a need for a security blanket against personal harm, anxiety, violence and fear); belongingness (to love and be loved), esteem (a desire for strength; achievement, adequacy, competence, freedom and independence) and self-actualization (Maslow states that when a person has satisfied all previous needs, "what a man can be, he must be.")

Apply that theory to today's teen-agers. By virtue of their very being as teen-agers, physiological needs occupy a good portion of their time. If they're struggling with neighborhood or domestic violence, does it matter who Anne Hathaway is? If they're grappling with their own sexuality and pending adulthood, will they care why a minor European archduke from a country that no longer exists was assassinated more than 70 years ago?

Those once popular motivators called "college" and "good job" ring hollow when we hear of colleges vying for enrollment now that the .baby boom's gone bust.

And that good job? Buyouts, cutbacks and bankruptcies which have nuked mom's and dad's job security graphically illustrate that good grades and a college sheepskin are no inoculation against unemployment or underemployment.

High school isa timefor making decisions and charting a future.

That's pretty scary. no matter what your age. Motivation - of course. it's there. Acknowledging it and harnessing it is the problem.

Maybe wejust need to reiterate that n6 matter how important these decisions are or seem to be, there's no need to be worried into inaction.

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Operation Rescue Continued from Page One

urban locations. A local priest praised the pro-lifers' composure in the protests.

"I believe the Lord is pleased with the control, the quiet and prayerfulness of the Catholic and non-Catholic pro-life people," said Father John' R. McFadden, associate pastor of St. Charles Borromeo parish, who has been involved with Operation Rescue.

In a July 9 talk at the Valley Forge Hilton near Philadelphia, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry indicated that the movement would be expanding beyond the pro-life cause. He condemned "the Sodomite movement, pornography and government-sponsored humanist, Godless education." . Attempts to enforce a new city ordinance imposing penalties on protesters who block abortion clinics failed when Municipal Court Judge Louis Retacco ruled the blockade law unconstitutional July 13.

Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia, who had warned against any use of violence to fight abortion, praised the ruling for its message that "to' regulate selectively by legal mandate one group of protesters is perhaps the grossest form of capricious government and is ·now considered unconstitutional." , In Jackson, Miss.,the campaign closed quietly July 18 with an evening service at Cornerstone Church. There were 56 arrests in Jackson during the campaign, most occurring when protesters crossed police lines at the Mississippi Women's Medical Clinic. ' ' Tanya Britton, local spokeswoman for Operation Rescue, '. claimed victory as she stood outside the cli nic fence July 16. "This clinic performs about 30-50 abortions every time it is open," she said. "Today only about seven women have gone in and we think some of them were plants."

ticketed for trespassing at the Wilmington prote:sts. Those people were not included in the numbers given by Operation Rescue for arrest.s because Wilmington was not one of the targeted cities, Ms. Cramer said.

Protesters in th,e San Francisco suburb of Los Gatos also caused what police chief Larry Todd called "a near riot" when they crossed police lines July 14 outside the Choice Medical Group offices. Operation Rescue spokeswoman Sue Finn called the incident, in which 33 people were arrested, a "peaceful and nonconfrol1ltational rescue."

In Cleveland, the Rev. Joseph Siovenecsaid he did not measure the success of the campaign in terms of arrests or even in the number of women turned away from abortion clinics. Rather, he said, the goal was to spread the message. that Op~Jration Res.cue is peaceful and prayerful and to attract more mainline churches to join itscause.

The 'message \~as~.' mainly for Protestant and no'ndenominational pastors like himself, Mr. Siovenec said. But the gro~lp has relied on strong Catholic participation as well. . , "We've always had a good Catholic presence in Cleveland and a good Catholic presence nationally," he said, estimating that from 25 percent to 40 pf:rcent of Operation Rescue's supporters are Catholic.

St. Christine Catholic Church in Euclid, Ohio, hosted several "Cities of Refuge" rallies, along with an Assembly of God church in Willoughby.

Cleveland parti<:ipants·included Catholics on both sides of the abortion issue. Jane Reilly, a Lakewood resident who is a national coordinator of Catholics for a Free Choice, said her group helped train those who support legal abortion to defend clinics.

In Melbourne, Fla., where there "We see a highly judgmental, were no arrests, Operation Rescue righteous attitude pounding down supporters set up a mobile crisis on the backs of women," she said. pregnancy center across the street Operation Rescue said the largfrom the Aware Woman Center est number of participants over for Choice and provided free counthe 10 days was the 3,400 who seling to 40 women. Seven of the joined protests in Minneapolis. woman tested positive on free pregDuring the campaign, only one nancy tests and said they will keep Operation Rescue supporter was their babies rather than have aborarrested, while 15 people who back tions. abortion were arrested on such One pro-life activist was arrested charges as assault and battery, at a Daytona Beach, Fla., clinic, vandalism and stalking. and the Rev. Keith Tucci, execuThe archdiocese of St. Paul and tive director of Operation Rescue Minneapolis had criticized Opera- National, was taken into custody tion Rescue's tactics before the on his return to Florida July 18 on group arrived, fearing that con- , 41 contempt of court charges refrontations would harm local pro- lated to an earlier protest. life efforts, But Janet Krocbeski, director of the archdiocesan Division of Outreach, said the "Cities of Refuge" campaign was successful because LAFAYETTE, La. (CNS) it improved the public's percep- Catholic Charities USA has given tion of Operation Rescue and ex- a $1 million grant to the Lafayette posed the true colors of the pro- diocese for ongoing rebuilding in choice movement. areas devastated by Hurricane AnFather Robert Fitzpatick, pas- drew last August. Bishop Harry J. tor of St. John the Evangelist Flynn in announcing the grant Catholic Church in Little Canada, said the money will be used in part Minn., which served as the site for to aid seasonal workers and for one of Operation Rescue's evening establishing new businesses or for prayer rallies, said people shouldn't training workers in another field. be surprised at the peacefulness of The money will also target the the protests. needs of women and children in "All the talk about violence was the areas of literacy, job skills and media hype," he said. "The whole post-traumatic stress. Programs to point is not to create violence but repair and renew damaged houses to call for a conversion of the will also continue, added Bishop heart."

Flynn. Workers from Habitat for Philadelphia was the site of the Humanity and volunteers from most pro-life arn:sts, with more parishes have been giving time on than 400 at various city and sub- weekends to help repair houses.

UKRAINE VISIT: Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chi·· cago (right} talks with a young doctor (left) at Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi Hospital in Lvov, Ukraine, during a recent visit by a U.S. church delegation. The building, used as an abortion clinic under communist rule, has resumed its former identity as a Catholic hospital. (CNS photo)

Flood victims Continued from Page One, . Several companies in the Quincy ,area let employees leave work early to help fill sandbags. At Catholic Social Services of the Springfield.

III., diocese, area director Bob Haas has been letting employees take time off to help. One employee at his office has been left homeless because of the flood, he said.

Bishop Daniel L. Ryan of Spring.. field asked pastors of the 171 par.. ishes in the central Illinois diocese: to take up a collection for flood .. relief assistance at Masses last weekend.

The collect.ion was to be used for flood damage costs not covered by insurance and to support Pro.. ject Isidore, a program of the: diocesan Office orR ural Life that will provide grants for farmers whose properties are damaged by the flood.

As ofJuly 19, St. Patrick Church in Grafton was the only parish property in the diocese that had been damaged by the floods. With the parish hall already flooded, the rising Mississippi River had entered the church and was creepingdoser to the rectory.

Volunteers had already removed the Blessed Sacrament, crucifixes and wall hangings and put the church's pews on cement blocks.

But Pat Arnold, a parishioner at St. Patrick's, worried that the can·,

cellation of church services' then: and other fallout from the flood will sink the parish's already tenu·· ous financial status.

"We're really, really going to b,: put back on our heels," Mrs. Arnold said. "We barely made it [financi· all] when everybody was at church every'week:" , Church World Service, aid. agency of the National Council of Churches, appealed to member congregations to send funds and to begin assembling bedding. health, food, kitchen and cleanup kits for flood survivors.

The kits are, part of Church World Service's "Gifts of the Heart" program, which offer,s a direct way forp'eople to be of·assistance to disaster survivors. The program was launched after Hurricane Andrew, and hundreds of such kits were sent to hurricane sur,· vivors.

John F. Coppinger, national president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, also appealed for donations for flood relieffrom the 60,000 Vincentians in this country.

He reminded members that dis.. aster relief' continues after th<: tragedy is no longer news and cited the' society's ongoing efforts and assistance to the victims of Hurri.. cane Andrew.

Continued from Page One of the Holy Father on those efforts," he said.

After meeting with Cardinal Sodano, Flynn held talks with Assistant Secretary of State Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re. By presenting a copy of his credentials immediately, Flynn was able to begin carrying out the functions of an ambassador ahead of his formal accreditation ceremony with the pope, expected in September.

The Vatican, in a statement on the meetings, said the new U.S. ambassador had "expressed the desire of the United States to cooperate with the Holy See on the great issues of the present time."

Increased U. S. -Vatican cooperation was a recurrent theme in Flynn's remarks after he arrived in Rome July 15 to take up his diplomatic post. He described the U.S. government and t~e Vatican as "two voices of enormous influence in the world."

"I 'think there's a tremendous opportul)ity to build bridges between the president and the Holy Father. There might be differences of opinion on some issues, but I think you're going to see there's really common ground on issues of social and economic justice," he 'said.

He saic:l that Clinton, as a governor, would sometimes quote from the pope's social documents.

Flynn said the president had "tremendous respecC' for the church's work in, areas of hunger, homelessness, AIDS and other health problems.

In addition to his Vatican meetings, Flynn also met with leaders of Rome's San Egidio Community, a lay Catholic organization which does extensive social work and which helped mediate a negotiated settlement to the civil war in Mozambique.

Flynn said the group was "a clear example of how advocates for the poor and nel~dy can make a difference. " During his first four days in Rome, Flynn also toured Italian Boys Town facilities and attended Mass with his wife and four daugh, tel'S at Santa Susanna, the church of the American community in Rome.

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The Anchor Friday, July 23, 1993

Few Lefebvre follower:s returning to Catholicisln

War orphans' story shows Peru's plight LIMA, Peru (CNS) - On Jan. 28, Miriam Pantigoso, a 16-yearold Peruvian girl, suddenly became the mother of 10 kids.

Early that day members of the Maoist terrorist group Sendero Luminoso burst into her modest hut in the lower-class district of Villa EI Salvador, located at the edge of Lima. They killed her father, Alejandro Pantigoso, 33, a candidate in the Jan. 29 mayoral elections, and her mother, Guillermina, 36, who tried to protect her hu路sband.

Miriam is the oldest of Alejandro and Guillermina Pantigoso's II children; the. youngest just 7 months old.

Even though she is being supported by her grandfather, she has turned into the real mother and father of her 10 brothers and sisters.

Miriam is taking her new role seriously, and has had to drop out of school to carry it out.

She cooks the family meals with the help of her 14-year-old sister, changes her brothers' diapers, and says she has even thought about working as a maid in order to keep the family going.

Miriam's drama is representative of thousands since Sendero Luminoso, Spanish for "Shining Path," started its "revolutionary war" in May 1980.

According to official sources, more than 50,000 Peruvian children have been orphaned by the war. Most of them lack the resources just to subsist.

The existence of the children of war is basically a human but also a social problem that could endanger the country's future, according to Bishop Luis Bambaren Gastelumendi, president of the Commission for the Family of the Peruvian bishops' conference.

Bishop Bambaren's concern is based on a recent psychological study among the children of war.

According to the study, more than 65 percent of the children show "a

POPE JOHN PAUL II takes a breather during a mountain hike while on vacation in Northern Italy earlier this month. (eNS/ Reuters photo) prematurely adult and pitiless approach to reality."

The family commission has been asking Peruvian entrepreneurs to get involVed路路in a nationwide project to guarantee shelter and a "reconciling education" to the orphans.

Despite the critical economic situation that affects Peruvian industry, Luis Vega Montefferri, president of the National Confederation of Businessmen, has committed himself to analyzing "seriously and thoroughly" the possibility of launching such Project.

In the meantime, Miriam waits patiently and said she considers herself lucky.

"We have received a lot of help after my parents' death," said Miriam. "Yesterday, Mrs. Susana [president Alberto Fujimori's wife] came here and brought beds for us.

"She also brought rice, beans, noodles and some other vegetables. Now everybody helps us.

"However, I know this will only be during the time we appear on TV," she said. "But at least we have received something that a lot of other people have never had and won't ever have in their lives."

VATICANCITY(CNS)-The of a Catholic or Catholic: moveVatican has had limited success ment with the church.

Vatican statistics show that 65 reincorporating followers of the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, priests currently belong to Vatfive years after his movement's ican-approved organizations for definitive split from the Catholic ex-followers of the archbishop.

Church.

- There are also 153 seminarians Despite an aggressive program and two religious orders for women of special pre-Vatican II liturgical numbering 110 members. permissions, Vatican officials inThe seminarians, '!iowever, are volved in the program said that not ex-followers of the arch bishop, only a handful of priests havl; but young men in good standing returned to thefold, while Archbi- with the church who prefer a shop Lefebvre's movement con- seminary which has the pre-Vatican inues to grow.

II liturgy, said a Vatican official.

The main organization for A main reason is that many of the archbishop's followers, who priests is the Priestly Fraternity of call themselves "traditionalists," St. Peter which has its headquartare attracted by more than just ers and seminary in the diocese of opposition to post-Vatican II Augsburg, Germany. It has 29 liturgical reforms, said Vatican priests working in Germany, Ausofficials. The traditionalist move- tria, France and the United States. ment gives them a broad-based Its seminarians total 83.

Archbishop Lefebvre opposed theology and numerous pastoral programs in keeping with their liturgical reforms which changed beliefs, said the Vatican officials, the Mass language from Latin to who asked not to be named. the vernacular and which changed the order of events and prayers in The archbishop's followers also the Mass. Traditionalists prefer oppose Vatican II teachings on what they call the Tridentine Mass, religious liberty and ecumenism. in force for 400 years before VatiTheological dialogue on these issues . can II and which the Vatican now with the Vatican reached an allows according to the 1962 impasse just before the 1988 split. Roman Missal, the last VaticanArchbishop Lefebvre, a Frenchapproved missal prior to the postman who was formerly archbishop conciliar reforms. of Dakar, Senegal, died in 1991 at Extending permission for the age 85, leaving behind an organi- 1962 Latin Mass has not slll~ceeded zation now estimated by Vatican officials at more than I million in reincorporating lay followers of Archbishop Lefebvre because they followers' ministered to by more are also opposed to other church than 200 priests. The movement is teachings, said Vatican officials. strong in French-speaking, EngBut it has sparked renewed inlish-speaking and German-speak- terest in the 1962 Mass by Catholing countries. ics in good standing who do not Its biggest base is in France, support the other positions'of Archwhere it has about 500 pastoral bishop Lefebvre, they added. centers and 20 schools, said VatiOne Vatican official said there can officials. was initially a "fair amount of At the time of the split Vatican questioning," among English-speakofficials estimated the movement's ing bishops about the value of followers at fewer than 500,000. extending permission for the 1962 Pope John Paul II declared the Mass but that this skepticism has archbishop and his movement in largely been overcome because of schism in July 1988 after the arch- requests for such liturgies. bishop ordained four bishops in Now there are about 70 U.S. opposition to Vatican instructions. dioceses which allow it on a weekly A schism means the definite break basis, he said. .

What "Humanae Vitae" said WASHINGTON (eNS) - In the 25 years since Pope Paul VI issued "Humanae Vitae" ("of human life"), a debate has continued over his teaching that it is immoral for married couples to use artificial means of birth control.

The pope published his 7,500word statement July 25, 1968, in the form of an encyclical, a pastoral letter exercising his teaching authorityyver the whole church as pope.

The encyclical itself was divided into three main sections: the state of the question, doctrinal principles and pastoral directives.

In his brief description of the state of the question, Pope Paul spelled out the arguments raised by those who were urging a modification in church teaching.

He noted the arguments about population growth, changing social and economic conditions that make it more difficult for couples to have large families, scientific advances giving people more control over natural forces and their own lives, and various theological arguments for a modified understanding of the role of procreation in conjugal relations. __ .e:

He opened his analysis of the doctrinal principles with an appeal to a total vision of the human person and an understanding of conjugal love as grounded fundamentally in "God, who is love."

True conjugal love, he said, must bi: "fully human ... total ... faithful and exclusive until death ... [and]' fecund, for it is not exhausted by the communion between husband and wife but is destined to continue, raising up new lives."

Responsible parenthood can be exercised "either by the deliberate and generous decision to raise a numerous family or by the decision, made for grave motives and with due respect for the moral law, to avoid for the time being, or even for an indeterminate period, a new birth," he said.

He reaffirmed church teaching that for serious reasons a couple may limit sexual relations to the woman's natural infertile period.

But he said there is an "essential" difference between such natural family planning. and a positive intervention to prevent conception.

The church's teaching about what is morally right or wrong in regulation of birth "is founded on

the inseparable connection, willed

by God and unable to be broken by man on his own initiative, between the two meanings of the conjugal act: the unitive meaning and the procreative meaning," he said.

Conjugal acts "do not cease to be lawful if, for causes independent of the husband and wife, they are foreseen to be infecund, since they always remain ordained towards expressing and consolidating their union," he said.

But it is something altogether different for the couple to act positively to make the conjugal act "intentionally infecund," he said.

"Excluded is every action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act or in its accomplishment or in the development .of its natural

consequences proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible," he said.

"The church is coherent with herself when she considers recourse to infecund periods to be licit while at the same time condemning; as being always illicit, the use of means directly contrary to fecundation, even if such use is inspired by reasons which may appear honest and serious," the encyclical says. "In reality there are essential differences between the two cases; in the former, the married couple make legitimate use of a natural disposition; in the latter, they impede the development of natural processes."

Pope Paul went on to warn of consequences of contraceptive practice - among them a "wide and easy" road to marital infidelity, a lowering of sexual morality, especially among the young, and the danger of men losing respect for women and reducing them to "a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment."

In the final section of the encyclical, on pastoral directives, Pope Paul acknowledged thai the church's teaching "will easily ap- .

pear to many to be difficult or even impossible" to fulfill.

He urged couples to develop "solid convictions concerning the true values of life and of the family" and to work together to achieve the discipline needed to follow the church's teaching. He predicted that couples who did so would find their lives and marriage enriched. . He asked educators and the media to create a social climate more favorable to chastity.

He urged government authorities not to permit contral~eption, abortion or sterilization as means of regulating births.

He asked scientists to improve natural family planning methods, "providing a sufficiently secure basis for a regulation of birth founded on the observancl~ of natural rhythms."

He called on priests to "expound the church's teaching on marriage without ambiguity" and at the same time show patience and goodness toward those who had difficulty following that teaching. He said they should follow the example of Christ, who "was indeed intransigent with evil but merciful towards individuals."

Celibacy is Christ's ideal for priests, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church has become more convinced throughout the centuries that celibacy is valuable for its priests and that it follows Christ's design for the priesthood,' Pope John Paul II said.

The pope, at a special general audience following his mountain vacation, said the church's commitment to celibacy among Latinrite clergy remains firm despite modern obstacles to living a celibate life.

But the existence of married priests in the' early church and among some Eastern churches today shows that celibacy "is not demanded of the priesthood by its nature," the pope said, quoting from the Second Vatican Council.

While the discipline of celibacy is not imposed on all churches, he said, "there are no doubts about its suitability and even congruence with the requirements of sacred ordination."

Priestly celibacy reflects Christ's call to his disciples to leave everything and follow him, the pope said. While not all of the disciples renounced marriage, it is clear that the Apostles, Christ's closest collaborators, did so.

"Jesus did not promulgate a law, but proposed an ideal of celibacy for the new priesthood he instituted," Pope J10hn Paul said.

The ideal was affirmed with increasing insistence and consistency throughout the church's his~ tory, he said.

"One can understand that in the first phase of the propagation and development of Christianity a great number of priests may have been married men, chosen and ordained following the Jewi:,h tradition," he said.

But gradually, "on the basis of experience and reflection, the discipline of celibacy was progressively affirmed" to the point of becoming part of the canon law of the Latin-rite church, he said.

The pope said the church's commitment to priestly celibacy "reflects her conviction that the voluntary renunciation of marriage 'for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven' is a particularly appropriate sign of the priest's special consecration to Christ and to the mission of his church."

"It is also the source of greater freedom in serving God and his people and a sign of the world to come," he said.

The pope asked those at the audience to pray that more people would receive and esteem the gift of celibacy and that the gift would be understood and lived more generously.

Repatriation sought V ATICAN CITY (CNS) African church leaders have called for a nationwide effort to welcome back the estimated 6 million people driven from their homes by the war in Mozambique. At a regional planning session, participants also pledged the church's defense of human rights for the refugees including the right of returnees to reacquire land. The plan was outlined in a final document issued by the Interregional Meeting on the Repatriation and Reintegration of Mozambican Refugees and Displaced People, held in the M 0zambican capital of Maputo.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 23, 1993

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Holiness called first response to sex altluse

FATHERS RI(HARD Ward, 67, left, and Thomas Beattie, 60, are beginning new careers as priests in the archdio.. cese of Seattle. Both are widowers. (CNS photo)

Two widowers begin priestly ministry SEATTLE (CNS) - A decade ago anesthesiologist Dr. Richard Ward and electrical contra,ctor Thomas Beattie were family men, successful in work and marriage.

But last month they began new work and joined new families by becoming priests in the Seattle archdiocese.

Both men said their wives prompted them to pursue their vocations, in their dying days, encouraging them to follow their long-held ambitions of serving God through the priesthood.

Father Beattie, 60, told The Progress, Seattle's archdiocesan newspaper, that he first thought about becoming a priest when he was 14. But the direction of his life changed when his parents divorced and he dropped out of high school to join the Air Force for four years. He eventually started his own electrical contracting business, obtaining his high school diploma when he was in his 30s - married and with children - because he wanted kids "to know how important a diploma is.'

His wife, Joan, whom he had met in the Air Force, died of cancer in 1986 after 30 years of marriage.

During'their years together they had talked about what the other would do if death separated them.

Father Beattie mentioned more than once that he might become a priest.

"About two months before [Joan] died, she was in her rocking chair in the living room," he recalled.

"She said, 'What are you going to do after I'm gone, marry a young blonde?' And I said, 'Hev, that sounds like a good idea.''' His wife smiled and said, "Get serious, Tommy." When he told her he might consider the priesthood, she said it was a good idea, as long as he didn't give all of their money to the church but saved "some for the kids." There are six of them and 10 grandchildren. _ Father Ward, who turns 68 in August, said he "didn't get the message" that he should be a priest until he was "a physician and married with three children."

As an anesthesiologist, he was on the faculty of the University of

Washington M ed,ical Center in Seattle for almost 30 years. Before that he was an Air Force flight surgeon; he also served in the Navy during the Korean War. He and his wife, Norah, who died in 1987, were married for 37 years.

He said that in the 1950s, when there was talk of a married priest·· hood, he and his wife had dis.. ,cussed the possibility of him join.. ing the ministry. "We even inquired about it, but we didn't get any information back," he said.

A few years before his wife died.

Father Ward said, she was "in.. credibly supportive" of the possi.. bility he might join the priesthood after her deat h.

When he did enter the seminary, he left a lot behind. He turned ir. his medicallieense, saying, "if I'n: going to do it, I'm going to do it. and I can't be horsing around wit!"; a bridge behind me." He also dispersed his material wealth, giv·· ing his $600.000 house and red Porsche sports car to his thret: children. He gave another car and some stocks to the church.

Of his work as a priest, Father Ward said he figures he will bt: "busier than a bird dog," and that he has no fears. ''I'm just incredi.. bly amazed at the gifts I've been given .... I'm also very impressed at the extent to which so many peo·· pIe seem to be involved in my min.. istry with me," he said.

Both newly ordained priests studied for the priesthood at the Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wis., a seminary for men with late vocations.

"The average age here is 43,"· said Peg Boyles, spokeswoman for the seminary, which will see 26 alumni ordained this year. "We believe the experience they've had in their lifetime is certainly a plus for them," she told The Progress.

Fathers Ward and Beattie agree.

"M Y health is good, and I keep charging away and don't take 'no' for an answer." said Father Ward.

"My life experience isn't going . to hurt," Father Beattie noted. ''I'm learning a lot from [younger priests], so age works both ways ....

I think it's having the wisdom to . know that you can stilt learn some.. thing from anybody, no matter how old they are."

NEW YORK (CNS) - Tht' "pursuit of holiness" on the part of the entire church should be tht first response to clerical sexua: misconduct, said Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York.

"The responsibility for holines!. ... is not exclusively that of priests nor are priests solely accountabk if God's people fail to be holy," the cardinal said. "We are all one ir. the mystical body of Christ. We all profit one another with our good·· ness, hurt one another with "our eviL" Cardinal O'Connor's comment~; came in "An Exhortation: Callec. to Holiness," which accompaniec. a new statement of the New York archdiocese's policies and proce.. dures on clerical sexual misconduct.

"If my finger is infected, my 'entire body can become sick Priests do not appear out of no.. where. They are products of our society, called and given specia. graces by God, but very mud: affected by our entire society," Cardinal O'Connor said.

"It is unlikely that we will have c, holy church if our priests are not holy, but it is also unlikely that we will have a holy priesthood if the people of the church are not holy.

The call to holiness is directed to all of us. Holiness is reci procaL" The cardinal cautioned aga'i1J.s': the "irresponsible" notion tha': every sexual offense is a result o~:' psychological illness. Many, he said, "may be just plain sinfuL" Cardinal O'Connor added, "Giv.. ing sins psychological labels doesn't always make them psychological disorders. In my judgment, this i~; where we can too readily misleac. ourselves. The sinner does no': always need a psychiatrist, he need~; a priest. He does not always need psychotherapy; he needs confes.. sion, absolution, penance and c; firm purpose of amendment."

He said, "Let us not now com.. pound our failures by wringing our hands and blaming every fault on 'sickness.' It is long since time

to get down on our knees, to beat our breasts, to ask God's mercy and to pursue the vocation to which we are all called - the vocation of holiness."

Having clerical sexual misconduct come to light, the cardinal .said, "is purifying our beloved church."

It is not enough, he said, to note that only a small number of priests have been found to be sexual abusers. "How much cancer does it take to destroy the entire body?" he said.

Cardinal O'Connor said fairness to both victim and victimizer '~is not always as easy to come by as' some might assume,:' and that confidentiality laws can lead to accusations of a coverup.

"I want more than anything to reach out to a victim, to a family, to a parish," he said.

The New York archdiocese is defending itself against several multimillion-dollar lawsuits in the wake of abuse accusations against two priests. A priest who was parochial vicar of a Poughkeepsie parish pleaded guilty in October to sodomizing a teenage boy. He served a 90-day jail sentence and is on five years probation. Another priest has been accused of sex ually abusing teenage boys at two parishes.

"We must admit, without 'blaming the victim,' that some people believe the church has 'deep pockets' and can pay claims of any size, or that the church is insured against all such claims. This is foolishness," he said.

"If a claimant should want to bankrupt the church, or prevent the church from educating the poor, taking care of the sick, and so on, should the bishop not use appropriate legal means to prevent this?"

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 23; 1993

I. Notice again what each family member does that contributes to your well-being. In fact, for a week keep a written list of the everyday types of kindnesses you receive from,each ' family member.

By Charlie Martin

HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY

you're going to go to class or skip it and sleep in.

When I stepped on a college Many first-year students tend to campus as a student last fall, I lean toward one oftwo extremes. I realized I had no idea what I had know people who never missed a gotten myself into. class or a homework assignment, - Sure, I'd read all the literature and I know people who go to class and returned all the forms. I'd once a week. even spent a night there. But all The trick is to find a balance. that had nothing to do with the There can be a benefit to skipping . enormous reaIlzation that. I was· classes every once in a while to going to spend the next four years sleep in or finish a paper that's of my life in this place. due, but if you do it too much you Everybody tells you that college risk flunking out. . is different from high school .,:-' I can't tell you which classes to that it's more work, more fun, "the skip and which homework needs best four years of your life," and so to be done. That's for you to figure on. But nobody really talks about out and decide for yourself. But I the transition between high school can tell you that the extremes and college. One day you're a high aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Written by Van Morrison, sung by Rod Stewart, (c) 1993, school kid, and the next you're The complete party animal missWarner Brothers Records for the United States and WEA supposed to be a college "man" or es a significant part of the college International for all other countries. "woman." experience, the intellectual chalOFF ROD STEW ART'S of a romantic context, but it It's like some miracle transfor- lenge, and risks being thrown out "U nplugged ... and Seated" disc could apply to any valued relamation is supposed to occur be- of school. That's what I believe. is his latest chart-climber, "Have tionship.

Sometimes those most tween June when you graduate And the "nerd" misses another Told You Lately." taken for granted are those we I from high school and September' important aspect - the social life I l'k . b ' t ' d live with, namely our parents, ~hen you go off to college. brothers sisters.

I e It ecause I remln s,us - and instead lives a rather ,borUnfortunately, it doesn't work ing, stressfull life. Therefore, the to ask ourselves whether we re Ph' h" b . , er aps t IS IS ecause we that way. As far as I can tell, the sooner you can find the balance taking someone s love for h f h d t ranted. see s~ J?uc 0 t em an s op transition really takes place. during that is best for :you, the happier g . perceiving the events and rouyour freshman year at college. and more fulfilling your college Too often we get caught up In tines in our lives together as And it's not some sort of magical experience will be. life's deman.ds and fail to tell special. occurrence that happens all by This may sound like it takes a To break out of this spell of others how Important they are itself. lot of work and a lot of maturity, to us. familiarity, consider these A lot of it is just exposure to but actually once you decide to The song appears to flow out actions. different people and different idea·s. find the right balance for yourself, But this exposure is useless unless the rest comes' rather. easily. And you're open to the ideas that are once you figure out what's right presented. for you, you can relax and enjoy - I think a lot of growing up is just college to the fullest.

Hammer song - "You've got to

By Ian Jones Jessica is the daughter of psyfiguring out which ideas you believe pray just to make it today" - she Increasingly, U.S. Catholic teens tells students how intercession to in and which ones you don't. And chologist and Catholic News Serwho are searching for guidance in the Blessed M other brought her even more depends on being able vice columnist Dr. Christopher a tumultuous world seem to turn through personal struggles.

Carstens. to accept someone else's belief in to the Virgin Mary as a role model.

Your comments are welcomed "Older children want a deeper you to do your homework or to go Encouraged to do just that by inner spirituality," she said. Ms. by her father, c/o Catholic· News to class.

Catholic high schools around the Webster leans away from showing So its up to you to decide whether Service, 3211 Fourth St. N.E. country, students cite benefits from students films on Marian appariyou need to study or whether Washington, D.C. 20017-1100.

Marian devotion. tions, because they are unimpressed "I see Mary as a real person, not by them. as real as my own mother, but as I "It's great to see kids not going pray, I picture her," said 16-year- in for the science and wonders old Sara Carpeaux, a student at part," she said. "They want 'to Bishop Ireton High in Alexandria, know 'how's she going to straighten Va. out my family' and 'what she's Helen Brewer, a morality and going to do for me now?'''' social justice teacher at Paul VI Dominican Sister Alethaire FosHigh School in Fairfax, Va., said Mary appeals to students who ter, religion teacher at Bishop relate to the fact that "the Blessed Ireton, finds that "saying a decade Mother had to struggle with a lot or two oftheRosary with the class is an efficient way to focus prayer." of questions."

The Rosary is a useful tool for Correlations between the life of incorporating Mary into the stuthe Blessed Mother and the concerns of young people today· ~ dents' lives. Ms. Webster starts "unjust situation, unwed mother, them off slowly, a decade at a time, young woman seeking shelter in a to keep their interest.

"Basically, I show them that I world that didn't want .to· offer it to her" - are comforting and instruc- pray, and these are the answers I get. We've seen a lot of kids really tive, the teacher said.

Karlene Webster agrees. A lay- change," she said. "It's just amazwo'man who gives talks to confir- ing to watch Mary work."

Sister Foster, who ,lectures on mation classes and high school .

Marian apparitions to provide a students about prayer, she said historical context for Mary in the that when you relate what you're DEVOTED TO MARY: Sara Carpeaux and Matt Stefmodern world, emphasizes the fans (standing), students at Bishop Ireton High School in going through to what Mary went apparitions' message of divine love through, then you learn about the Alexandria, Va., have looked at the place of the Blessed Blessed Mother. and the need to repent.

Mother in their lives in religion classes taught by Dominican "I talk about her power to interMs. Webster brings the ta:Ik to Sister Alethaire' Foster. (Hoyt photo) cede for us in our everyday lives in the teens' level. Quoting an MC

By Jessica L. Carstens

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Have I told you lately That I love you Have I told you There's no one else above you You fill my heart with gladness Take away all my sadness Ease my troubles That's what you do For the morning sun In all its glory Greets the day with hope And comforts you You fill my heart with laughter Take away and make it better Ease my troubles That's what you do There's a love left to find And it's yours and it's mine Like a sun And at the end of the day We should give thanks and pray To the one, To the one

2. Then find a way 1'0 tell the person that you have been noticing the little things he or she does' for you. Buy a card and write a message of gratitude or talk to him or her. You might even give a small gift for no. other reason' than to n~af­ firm this' person's importance to you.

3. The song suggests that "at the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray." Actually, this is a powerful way to acknowledge another's value.

Lovingly and gratefully bring a person's name to our God, thanking God for the opportunity to share your life with this person.

4. A further way to manifest gratitude is to do something for another without being asked. for example, does one of your parents generally do the laundry? Surprise Mom or Dad by getting it done yourself. Be creative. There are many ways you can spontaneously demon.strate that you do not take for granted the tasks other family members do for you.

5. Finally, don't forget what the song suggests, directly expressing love. Actions are always more imortant than words, but each of us also needs to hear that someone appreciates our efforts. If your family does not easily show affection or gratitude, this step may be difficult but you may be surprised at the light and love you bring into your home.

Your comments are welcomed

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

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terms of personal temptation, sins, decision making, and prayer," said Sister Foster.

Student response is generally positive, although some do miss the point, the nun said. After showing a video on recent apparitions which included many pictures of Mary weeping, Sister Fostl~r said, "one little girl said, 'I don't get it.

Why is Mary so stressed out?'''

Others get the point more quickly.

Sara Carpeaux, who was introduced to Mary through Catholic school education, said she became closer to Mary through her 20year-old sister, who has a devotion to Mary. Sara now see Mary as a strong role model in her life.

"When I'm going to say something to a person, I think of how I'm acting -would Mary want me to,do it? How would she act?" she. said.

• .: 16-year-old Matt Steffens, another junior at Bishop Ireton, says that at times, "for teens, Mary is someone they can more easily turn to than Jesus, because she is a motherly, figure." , Steffens says that Mary is increasingly becomi'ng an important figure for young people..

"Many of her apparitions are to young people. They give us hope and show us that in someway we are communicating with God through Mary," he said.

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SISTER S:KATEBOARD, a.k.a. Sister Teresa Zukic,' displays the form that made her a skateboard champion in her hometown of Siebenkamp, Germany. The Vincentian nun is a parochial schoo!l teacher in Hanau, Germany, where she easily outdoes most of her students in the skateboard department. (eNS/ KNA photo)

Food panttyneeds replenishing The Coyle-Cassidy High School Food Pantry is in need of donations for the summer months.

The pantry's June distribution "nearly wiped us out," said pantry co-coordinator Mkhael Cote. "We gave out record numbers of groceries, and, with school out until September, it is difficult to replenish our supplies. There are a lot of families in the greater Taunton area who use our food pantry to get them through the end of the month."

The food pantry has been in operation nearly a year and is primarily supported by donations from Coyle and Cassidy students and staff.

The school is now asking for donations from the citizens of the greater Taunton community.

"Perhaps area farmers, who are able, can donate some summer produce to help the pantry during this tough time," added Cote.

Donations can be dropped off at the school on Adams and Hamilton Streets in Taunton during weekday business hours, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Further information may be obtained by cfllling the school at 823-6164.

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While many olf her colleagues and most of her students have been vacationing eluring these summer weeks, Coyle and Cassidy mathematics teacher Sister St. Paul Collard has, just completed an intensive thre:e-week seminar on contemporary topics in math and computer sci.ence held at the Busch campus of Rutgers University, New BrunswiCk, New Jersey.

The Leadership Institutes, funded by the National Science Foundation, are designed for selected

high school and middle school teachers, supervisors of mathematics and computers, and elementary mathematics specialists who have a strong commitment to implementing change in mathematics education.

Sister Collard was enrolled in a program preparing teachers to introduce discrete mathematics, the study of math in real world situations, into the classroom.

Bishop Stang George M. Dos Santos of New Bedford, a 1993 graduate of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, was named the school's recipient of the Principal's Award of Excellence. The award goes to a student who represents the ideals of Bishop Stang High School, with attitude, academic performance and school.and community involvement among factors considered.

Dos Santos was class valedictorian and had perfect attendance throughout his high school years.

He was a participant in the National Honor Society, math team, newspaper staff, yearbook, Citizen's Bee Club and soccer team.

He will attend New York University, where he is the recipient of the CAS Scholar Award and a stipend for cultural activities.

The Principal's Award of Excellence was established in 1989 by principal Theresa E. Dougall. The first recipient, Michael Spencer of New Bedford, graduated this year from the College ofthe Holy Cross in Worcester and will join the religious studies department faculty at Stang this fall.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - ' Blessed Teresa de Los Andes, described as young and sporty and filled with the love of God, became Chile's first native-born saint earlier this year.

Discalced Carmelite Father Simeone Tomas Fernandez, promoter of Blessed Teresa's cause for sainthood, said, "when she was riding over the crags and slopes of the Andean range, she could have been taken for a mythic and fearless Amazon."

Blessed Teresa was a Carmelite novice when she was stricken with typhus. She was allowed to profess her religious vows early and died one week later. Her death in 1920 came at age 19.

She was born Juana Fernandez Solar, part of a wealthy family in Santiago, Chile.

Father Tomas told Vatican Radio that the young "Juanita" ha<! no extraordinary experiences that suddenly changed her life, but as a teenager she wrote, "God began to take my heart for himself."

In the 18 years before she entered the convent, she had a normal life of family, school and friendships.

"She was enraptured by nature, which is so beautiful and over- ' whelming in Chile: its mountains, clefts, rivers, beaches, singing birds, flowers and the splendid sunsets over the ocean," the Carmelite priest said.

He said her young life was a "harmonious synthesis of the divine and the human with prayer, study, household chores and sports, in which she was very enthusiastic."

"Teresa did only this - live,' believe and love," he said.

"As a beautiful. pleasant, sporty, happy, balanced, helpful and responsible young woman," he said, Teresa de Los Andes is a model and example for everYOf1e in the church, "above all for leading young people to follow Christ."

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MALGORZATA FABER

Polish teen is early arrival in Denver DENVER(CNS)- Malgorzata Faber, a 17-year-old from Poland, took to heart advice to show up early for World Youth Day by arriving two months ahead of time.

She arrived in mid-June, without a place to stay and without a full command of English language.

But she knew one thing: she had wanted to be at 1993 World Youth Day ever since she attended the youth event two years ago in her native country.

"I don't know what the Spirit has [in storel for me,"she told the Denver Catholic Register, archdiocesan newspaper. But "I can pray that the Spirit will make it a good experience," she added.

To pay her airfare to Denver, which she saved money on by planning so early, Miss Faber cleaned houses and waited tables.

Just a day before she was to leave, she found out that the Polish family she was planning to stal' with had moved. But she was determined to go to Denver, and

Students' act of charity results in $200,000 bequest CHESTERTON, Ind. (CNS)"Wild Bill" Allen never forgot the kindness of the fourth-graders at St. Patrick School in Chesterton, diocese of Gary.

When the students gave Allen a winter coat to keep warm against winter's chill, he sent them a thank you note. And when Allen died four years later, he left nearly $200,000 to the school.

Allen. an eccentric who had no surviving family, obviously thought the students' act of charity was a "big deal," said fourth-grade teacher Carolyn Darstek, but for them, "it wa~ just one of those things."

"The children are always doing acts of mercy, collecting food for

Bishop Connolly Eleven students at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, have been named to Fall River Herald News all-scholastic sports teams.

Named to the tennis team were singles Jon Ruel, Jared Pieper, Ted Buxbaum, and Kate Marino and doubles Frank Hill and Jason Ruel.

Honored for spring track were Mike Donnelly, Pedro Fernandes, Jen Osborne and Liz Peters. Todd Arnold was named to the baseball team.

the poor, visiting nursing homes," she told the Northwest Indiana Catholic, diocesan newspaper. Students also sent books and monel' to a Catholic school destroyed b} a tornado in the neighboring dio·· cese of Joliet. Ill., she added.

"We just did it and went on to other things," she said of the gift of the coat. "We certainly didn't expect this."

Father Lawrence Heeg, pastor of St. Patrick Church, said the episode was "a shot in the arm" to the school and parish, but it will not change the way the parish or school operates.

"The parish is always quietly helping others," he said. "We don't do that because we expect a reward, but because we believe in the Christian values we teach. Our children are inculcated with a consciousness of the poor and needy from the first grade on."

Allen's bequest will be used to establish an endowment fund for the school, so that it can continu~ to teach future generations ofCatholic school students the Christian values practiced by Ms. Darstek's fourth-grade class four years ago and every day.

The students are so used to giving to others," Ms. Darstek said.

"Usually they get a hug or a handshake or a smile in return. This time was a little different."

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neglected to tell her mother about the housing detail.

However, she did discuss her plight with Jim and Stacy Gardner, who sat next to her on the plane.

Fortunately, the brother and sister from Denver were willing to help.

Jim Gardner took Miss Faber to the Catholic church nearest his home, St. Vincent df: Paul in Denver. The director of religious education at the parish, Marlin Vitale, offered the young woman housing. With five children grown up and gone, she and her husband have a big empty house.

"I agreed to take her in before I met her," she said. "When I did, I knew I made the right decision. It's been a wonderfUl experience."

"People here make me very welcome and happy," said Miss Faber.

"I am very happy I am here."

At the insistence ofSt. Vincent's pastor, she called her mother to tell her she is OK, and she has learned more English during her time in Denver.

As one of about 200 Polish youths attending World Youth Day, she described Pope John Paul II as "the hope for the world" and said she is "proud that he is Polish."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 23, 1993

Iteering pOintl ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Reception for departing parochial vicar Father Richard Roy noon to 2 p.m. Sunday.

ST. ANNE, NB Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick will be celebrated 5 p.m. Sunday. Information or transportation: St. Anne's rectory, 997-9271.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL GOLF TOURNAMENT Friends and supporters of S1.

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by Aug. 2. Informa!ion: 674-5741.

ST. PATRICK, FR Reception for departing parochial vicar Father Kevin J. Harrington will follow II a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Reception for departing parochial vicar Father John M. Sullivan will follow 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR Reception for departing parochial vicar Father Gerald P. Barnwell will follow each Mass this weekend.

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

Sunday, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth; topic: "Healing the Wounds of Rejection and Fear."

New participants welcomed at 6:30 p. m. Information: 362-9873, 2550170.

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER A Marriage Enrichment Program designed to improve communication for married couples and renew values of marriage, family and faith will be held Aug. 13 to 15 in Newton, sponsored by Worldwide Marriage Encounter. Information: 1-800-3670343.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Pro-life rosary noon Tuesdays.

SACRED HEART, NB The Feast ofSt. Anne will becelebrated at 5 p.m. Mass Sunday followed by ice cream social in parish hall sponsored by St. Anne Society.

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Parish histories prove gold mine for researchers WASHINGTON (CNS) - Parish histories not only reveal statis, tics, they present changes and provide a legacy for a new generation of Catholics, say some church historians, Three women who conducted in-depth and very different parish histories presented their studies during a workshop at the recent annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association in Washington.

The women had not only pored through volumes of old bulletins and baptismal records, but had gathered oral history by talking with elderly parishioners.

Mary Brown, who conducted a 100-year study of Our Lady of Pompeii in New York, used the parish's archives which included sacramental registri~s and old photographs.

She said the historical record she worked on served the elderly parishioners who now make up most of the parish in the Italian neighborhood. The intervie'ws "gave them something to do," and "explained a lotaf the church activities," because they revealed h'ow many parish events follow a • l tradition. .

-.A Sister Dorothy Blatnica deREUNITED: At a 30-year reunion for the Class of 1963 scribed her history of Our Lady of of the former Sacred Heart elementary school, Taunton, are, the Blessed Sacrament in Cleveland, as a "window to observe at top .from left, Brenda (O'Keefe) Clemmey, Nancy (Saben) African-Americans claiming their Brown, and Diane (Furtado) Silvia. Below, clockwise from rightful place in the church." left, are former teachers of the Class of 1963 Sisters Eugenia In compiling a 30-year history Margaret Ready and Doreen Donegan and classmates Joyce of the African-American parish, Sister Blatnica, a Vincentian Sis- (DeMello) Dibona, Janet (DeMello) Lapointe and Joan Kelly.

About half ofthe class's 42 members attended, along with ter of Charity, primarily used interviews. two other former teachers, Sisters Anne Des Roches and Mary She said that the conversations Bridget McGettigan. Memoribilia on display included class with parishioners both preserved photos and pins, graduation booklets and a travel diary of the the legacy of the parish and encouraged younger members. A story, eighth grade class trip kept by one of the class members. for example, of an African-Ameri"The memories were fresh and most classmates recogcan refused admittance to the nized one another," said Ms. Brown. Classmates not in attendKnights of Columbus, "displays ance "were all fondly remembered and we hope to see you in heroism which cannot be lost" and five years." also "challenges exclusive historical practices which still exist in the church," she said.

Sandra Mize's 40-year study of the rapidity and "superficiality with SEVILLE, Spain (CNS) - The Little Flower parish in South Bend, which we realize our celebrations," Mass is misunderstood by many Ind., monitored the growth of a he added. progressive parish. By examining Catholics who regard it as an The Mass teaches through its saved bulletins, lectures, homilies "escape" or "pause" in their daily and pastoral letters, Mrs. Mize put lives, Cardinal Carlo Martini of prayers, Bible readings and rituals and requires participation by the Milan, Italy. together the pieces of a parish which has occasionally been dubThis is often the fault of church people, he said.

The consecration of bread and bed "Wild Flower." leaders who fail to stress the EuRecords indicated that lay in- charist as a communal event that wine and the reception of communion have communal imporvolvement in the parish began as teaches people about their faith early as 1949, when a homily while stimulating them to trans- tance, he said.

Christians become Christ's "holy encouraged families to attend Mass form society according to the depeople, his church," he said. together. Three years later, the sign of Christ, he said.

"The special and specific fruit of families were strongly encouraged The cardinal opposed viewing the holy Mass is the building of the to participate in a program de- . the Mass as "the search for an Christian community in the comsigned for them. In the '60s, the exotic, aesthetic or ecstatic expemunion of life," he said. This inparish abandoned the class format rience." Nor should it be solely volves "sharing our destiny with of religious education and further regarded as "therapy" because it is our brothers in the faith." developed its family network. "psychologically soothing," he By 'receiving communion, a Mrs. Mize said this parish study added.

Christian "learns to think, act and was not typical because the parish The teaching aspect of the liturgy love according to the criteria dichad had the same pastor, who kept is often undervalued because of tated by the spirit of Christ," the everything, for 35 years. She called IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111 cardinal said. her study unique because it showed ing, David J. O'Brien of Holy The Mass's closing phrase "how a parish articulated a sense of itself." She pointed out that sim- Cross College, Worcester, said , "the Mass is ended, go in peace" is a "missionary mandate," he said. ilar parish histories could give recently received the American This raises the "urgent probchurch historians and theologians Catholic Historical Association's lem" of applying the teachings in more insight into today's churches. .' John Gilmary Shea Prize for his the Mass to the world, he added.

Other topics discussed at the biography of Father Isaac Hecker, The cardinal complained of a 73rd annual meeting of church his- founder of the Paulist Fathers. torians included 19th-century UltraThe Shea prize is the associa- "disquieting" decline in interest in montanism, monastic women in tion's most prestigious annual liturgical education in "pastoral the old and new worlds, the secu- award, given for the most signifi- programs ofthe 1980s and 1990s," larization of Christian colleges, cant contribution to Catholic his- as ifthis was an "embarrassment."

The Mass must achieve "the and religious'orders ofthe Catholic toriography by a U.S. or Cananecessary balance between action ref<1rmation~' dian author published in book and contemplation," he said.

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