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'FALL RIVER - For almost a year now they have been told that as young Catholics they are "the salt ofthe earth" and "the light of the world."

After six days as pilgrims attending the 17th World Youth Day in Toronto, Canada, the group of 260 inspired local teens and young adults from across the Fall River diocese have come to realize what it means to live that, and are eager to pick up the torch of faith and show the world that Christ is alive in them and the Church.

On Sunday, two days before he left to begin a 10-day trip to Canada and then travel to Guatemala and Mexico, the pope said he was looking forward to being with , the world's youth and that the gathering from would bring hope to a world darkened by the events of September 11 and by con-

flict in the Holy Land.

The pope said he was making the trip so he could once again personally experience World Youth Day's "pilgrimage of fraternity across the planet." He said he wanted to pray and rejoice with the 250,000 young people attending, and help make it an encounter of faith.

Looking rested and alert after nearly two weeks at the papalvilla in Castel Gandolfo, the pope said that, for a week, Toronto would become the "world capital of youth, who are the future and the hope of the Church and humanity."

"Many tragic events have thrown a dark shadow upon the world. But Jesus urges his disciples not to be afraid, and repeats to them: 'You are the salt of the earth....

You are the light of the world,'" he said, citing the Gospel passage that inspired the theme of this year's World Youth Day. What was to be a true and challenging pilgrimage - called "very penitential" involving many hours of travel, sleeping on hard floors of schools and roughing it without the availability of showers and other perks they were used to, began Sunday.

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Catholics to rally for Jesus on Cape Cod September 7 HYANNIS - It;s billed as a FIRE Rally, an op- "Intercession" - a call to united prayer as our from personal and corporate sin to a Christ-centered, portunity for Catholics to rekindle their faith, and most important spiritual weapon available for renew- Spirit-filled life according to the demands of the Gosthe all-day event will be host to talented speakers ing the face of the earth; pel; .- "Evangelism" - an invitation to spread the and inspirational music.

- "Repentance" - an exhortation to turn away Planned for September 7 at Good News of salvation and The Cape Cod Melody Tent .....----......,..---.-~_ """,.\",.';;:::..;;.'<;: the gift of autilentic Catholibeginning with a 9 a.m. Mass cism. celebrated by Bishop Sean P. The FIRE Team members O'Malley, OFM Cap., the who will participate are Farally is being sponsored again ther Michael Scanlan of the Third Order Franciscans, by the Cape Cod Prayer Group Deanery. chancellor of Franciscan UniThe event, initiated by layversity and author of numerous books and tapes and remen, hopes to build on its first success in 1995 for what is cipient of the Pontifical acknowledged as an old-time Award; Sister Ann Shields, revival atmosphere. More S.G.L., superior of the Servants of God's Love and than 2,300 attended that year.

To be presented by the cohost on the weekly TV proFIRE Team of the Franciscan gram "The Choices We University in Steubenville, Face"; Peter Herbeck, a layOhio, the 9 to 5 program will man and vice president of Reinclude noted authors, TV newal Ministries, as well as a personalities, lecturers and leader of pilgrimages in Eastevangelists. ern Europe, Africa and North FIRE is an acronym that America; and Father Dave stands for: Pivonka of the Third Order - "Faith" - a challenge L.-._ _~==-__-" '-..ill. Franciscans, speaker, director to Catholics to renew and SISTER ANN SHIELDS, S.G.L.and FatherMichaelScanlanoftheThird Order Franciscans, of Youth Outreach at deepen their relationship with shown here at the 1995 FIRE Rally on Cape Cod, will return for another such rally in Septem- Franciscan University and a ber. (Anchorfile photos) Turn to page 13 - FIRE the Lord;

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Boston priest pleads innocent; shooter plans insanity plea BOSTON (CNS) - A retired Boston priest pleaded innocent to sexual'abuse charges, and a' Baltimore man's lawyer indicated he would argue temporary insanity over charges the man shot a priest.

In Boston, Father Paul R. Shanley, 71, pleaded innocent to charges that he took boys from religion classes at St. Jean's Parish in the Boston suburb of Newton, and sexually abused them, sometimes in a confessional.

Father Shanley has been in police custody since his arrest in San Diego in May. He was indicted in June on 10 counts of child rape and six counts of indecent assault and battery in cases dating between 1979 and 1989.

Meanwhile, in Baltimore, the attorney for Dontee D. Stokes said his client suffered from a mental disorder at the time he is accused of shooting Father Maurice 1. Blackwell.

Stokes pleaded not guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to charges of attempted first-degree murder in the May 13 shooting in Baltimore.

Attorney Warren A. Brown said in court documents that his client, 26, lacked the mental capacity to follow the law at the time the priest was shot three times in front of his home. Stokes told police Father Blackwell sexually assaulted him

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over a three-year period when the priest was pastor of St. Edward's Parish. He said he shot him because Father Blackwell refused to apologize.

Stokes had reported being assaulted in 1993, but police concluded there was too little evidence to prosecute. The Archdiocese of Baltimore offered Stokes counseling, which he declined, and sent Father Blackwell away for counseling. He was reinstated as pastor ' of St. Edward 'three months later, after psychologists told him he MISSION AWARD recipients were recently named through Diocesan Health Facilities. would no longer be a threat in terms From left with executive director Msgr. Edmund J. Fitzger~ld are: Charlene Harrison, Maof any kind of sexual abuse.

Father Blackwell's faculties as donna Manor; Mary Anna Arruda, Catholic Memorial Home; Mary Ann Cook, Sacred Heart a priest were removed in 1998 af- Home; Donna Marshall, Our Lady's Haven; Msgr. Fitzgerald; and Cindy Pelcarski, Marian ter the priest admitted to sexually Manor. The award recognizes staff members for a positive attitude, commitment to service abusing another youth years before and dedication to residents. . the Stokes incident, when he was a seminarian.

In Boston, Father Shanley was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bond after entering pleas on the 16 charges.

An attorney who represents several alleged victims said three of them knew each other from catechism class at St. Jean's. Personnel files released by the Archdiocese of Boston earlier this year showed the Church had had complaints about Father Shanley going back to 1967.

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Vatican judicial official named auxiliary bishop of San Diego WASHINGTON (CNS) Msgr. Salvatore J. Cordileone, a Vatican judicial official since 1995, has been named auxiliary bishop of San Diego.

He will be ordained to the episcopate August 21 in the Church of the Immaculata at San Diego University.

At 46, he will become the third youngest bishop in the United States. Only Auxiliary Bishop Joseph S. Vasquez of . Galveston-Houston and Bishopdesignate Michael F. Burbidge of

Philadelphia, both 45, ·are younger.

San Diego Bishop Robert H. Brom said he was pleased to have a second auxiliary bishop, given the increasing workload of the Southern California dioc'ese which covers two counties and borders Mexico.

The rapid rise of the Catholic population with its multicultural diversity "has resulted in growing demands for episcopal ministry," Bishop Brom said in a statement.

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Mass legislature lets Protection of Marriage Amendment die By

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BOSTON - By a 105 to 46 vote the Massachusetts Legislature voted to adjourn last week without taking up an amendment that would have reaffirmed the definition of maniage as a union between one man and one woman.

The vote effectively kills the Protection of Marriage Amendment which 130,000 Massachusetts voters last year petitioned' to put on the ballot as a referendum question.

It also means the four-year process to amend the state constitution with language reaffirming the oneman one-woman concept of marriage will have to start from scratch in 2006. . "Those legislators who refused to be swayed by the extreme misrepresentations by the amendment's opponents deserve our most heaItfelt gratitude," said Gerald D'.Avolio, executive director of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference after the July 17 vote.

"They stood tall despite a withering stream of attacks accusing supporters of the amendment of harboring bigotry and hate," D'Avolio added.

The MCC, the public policy office for the Catholic Church in Massachusetts. supported the amendment as a necessary response to the threat ofa case now before the Massachusetts courts seeking to overturn the traditional definition of maniage under the present state constitution.

The opponents, with one exception, "ignored the amendment's reference to benefits that are 'exclusive to marriage,''' according to Daniel Avila. the MCC's associate director for policy and research.

Those would include the right to be identified as being manied and to be eligible for a maniage license.

Health care is not an exclusive benefit because unmanied people already get health care services from the government, Avila pointed out.

"It was entirely unfair to base

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In last week's Anchor, the story about Guaimaca incorrectly listed Sister Ceballos' phone number. The correct number is 508-669-5425.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of WAYNE ERNEST FRAZIER is unknown.

We cite WAYNE ERNEST FRAZIER to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Tuesday, August 6, 2002 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Av路 enue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give tes路 timony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the Parker路 Frazier case?

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

(Rev.) Paul F. Robinson, O. Carm., J.C.D. Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts on this the 17th day of July, 2002.

opposition to the amendment on legal opinions that did not even bother to read all of the amendment's language," Avila said. "The amendment was not a bigoted attack on anybody's access to public service benefits."

Maria Parker, the MCC's asso" ciate director for public policy, said those voting against adjournment - who in essence voted for the maniage amendment - were under "tremendous pressure to oppose the amendment. Their courage is inspiring," she said.

Parker expressed her "great disappointment" with other legislators who "voted against us without even

giving us the courtesy of allowing us to visit them, or after treating us with uncalled-for hostility in their offices."

Parker also applauded the members of MCC-Net, the Conference's new legislative alert network, who "responded so positively to our plea for calls to the legislature". Parker said that "we have a long way to go to reach the point where the Catholic voice will be heard fully in every district and taken seriously as a guide for every public action.

However, more people in the pews are beginning to realize that their involvement at the state house and in the grassroots is crucial. We can't

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 26, 2002 fight these battles alone."

A breakdown of how the'legislators voted, provided by the MCC, showed that all of the senators in the region within the Fall River diocese voted to adjourn, thereby voting against the effort to bring the amendment to the floor for a vote.

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All these words aptly describe the current crisis that the nation faces in the wake of Enron, Tyco, World Com and Arthur Anderson to name but a few corporations that are dragging this country into a true economic and moral crisis. Once again we're living capitalism to its extreme. Time and time again this country has been plagued by economic greed. It's one of our worst national enemies and it keeps rearing its viperous head despite so-called governmental checks and balances.

During the last decade America was determined to make money.

From boardrooms to executive offices the name of the game was profit. No matter how much money was made it was never enough.

Inventive avenues were developed for fast m~ney. During this process the moral order was simply ignored. The collusion of executives and accountants created a smoke screen. Regulatory laws were pushed aside. Politicians were too busy collecting campaign monies for their own ambitions. The more money they raised the more indebted they became to their benefactors.

To add to this economic disaster the global dimensions of greed have been exported by a gluttonous desire for profit. American business methods and practices were exported as the ideal norm.

They became standard guidelines for developing our global economy. While all this economic activity was being generated we now know how executives were developing their own offshore financial havens. People who served on audit committees were not barred from a fiscal relationship with corporations. Executives were buying stock while their employees were denied such purchas~s.

Corporate officers who made fortunes from false accounting statements are not required to repay those ill-gotten goods. The litany of financial woes increases each day and the nation is paying a very big price for this greed.

Thousands of people have lost jobs. There are people who have seen their life savings dissolve in a twinkle of an eye. The American public is losing its faith and trust in the market and Fortune 500. No one can determine when the end will come. From all indicators we are in for a long haul as more and more corporations bite the dust. We might be reeling from 9/11, however we have not seen anything yet as greed continues to unveil its hidden secrets.

Government must act to stem this flood of corporate failure.

The frenzy of politicians attempting to cover their own actions in this regard should not be allowed to continue. The president and vice president should come clean about their own involvement in corporate dealings. The Senate and the House have no choice but to implement reform laws that will effectively regulate all corporations.

Simple old fashion truth and honesty should be the standard of corporate accounting procedures. The courts must uncover the coverups and bring to justice those executives who have managed by fraud. The Securities Exchange Commission must do its homework independently and effectively. All agencies of government that are involved in regulations must work together and develop formulas that will indeed restore trust and confidence in America's corporate life. Let's really clean up this mess that greed caused in our lives.

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StiIia nation under God

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A court ruling this summer in California holding that the words "under God" should be eliminated from the Pledge of Allegiance has most Americans shaking their heads in disbelief. ' This ruling is tragic because American tradition is built on the belief that the glory of this nation is founded on faith in God. It is true that the country believes in separation of church and state, but it is equally true that it doesn't believe in separation from God. To learn how basic God is to the nation, all we need do is visit the nation's Capitol, which is full of religious artwork.

At an entrance to the U,S. Capitol, we are met by a beautiful frieze overhead in the middle of which stands Liberty flanked by a woman leaning on an anchor, who represents hope, and a blindfolded woman holding scales, who represents justice.

John Quincy Adams, who inspired this frieze, saw justice as

the hope of America's freedom.

This frieze lauds a cardinal virtue, justice, and the moral virtues of hope and freedom - the same virtues the Bible praises as ways of living a wholesome life.

At the same entrance stands a statue of peace, which is an attribute of love, and just above the doorway are the words, "faith," "hope," "love" and "leniency."

If, as some would have it, God is not seen'as the source of faith, hope, love and mercy, it becomes easy to fall into perverted selflove, self-reliance, blind ambition and misplaced leniency.

When creation forgets its Creator, life's blueprints get lost.

Interestingly; the U.S. Supreme Court also is adorned with reminders of God's role in American history.

On the frieze over its east side sits Moses' with the Ten Commandments, which are the basis of the Judeo-Christian laws governing the country, The laws of our Western World are founded on a belief that God, not humankind" provided the blueprints for

living in peace and harmony.

This belief is reinforced in the motto "In God we trust," found everywhere on Capitol Hill, state capitals and on our currency. The nation forever is reminding itself that its prosperity is not of its own making, but is a blessing from God. This is why we keep singing "God Bless America."

In an excelIent sociological study, Robert N. Bellah found that Americans want freedom and will do anything to achieve and preserve it, "but once they achieve it, they don't know what to do with it."

This leads me to ask: What really would be proved by doing away with "under God" in the Pledge of AlIegiance? Do those who champion this action really see it as a means of solidifying the nation?

Or are we witnessing the sort of behavior found in people who forever champion freedom, though they haven't a clue of its divine essence or of how divorcing God from freedom ends up enslaving LIS?

The cold, hard facts Before the great Ted Williams passed away, whenever I heard reference to him, I thought of a bat ... squarely meeting a small, alabaster sphere, propelling it over an emerald field of green, into a sea of hotdogchomping fans. Since his death, whenever I hear of Wi lIiams I still think of a bat ... suspended upside down in a frozen cave.

Williams' life was fairly enigmatic for such a highprofile individual. But in death, he's a Stephen King story.

Never one to mince words when he did speak with the Press, how great would it be to get a quote from him about his current solidstate of affairs?

I really don't know much about Williams' family life, but after three marriages, and with his offspring squabbling over the temperature of his remains, Ted is not likely a candidate for husband or father of the century. But I' llieave the judgment issues to a higher authority.

As a public figure, Ted was my idol when I was a youngster being bitten by the Red Sox bug that infected me with an incurable and tormenting disease .. Consequently, it bothers me a great deal to know my childhood hero is on ice. The Kid has become a Kidsicle.

I never saw him play, but when it came to Ted Williams, I was the 60s version of SpongeBob SquarePants, absorbing all I could about the man. I knew that. as a

hitter, Williams had ice water in his veins as he stared down an opposing pitcher. And now, sadly, he still does.

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onship and then ... I can't go back there.

Even last weekend, we watched with horror as the Home Towne Team found a way to lose two out of three to the Yankees in a series they should have swept. We've seen it all ... almost.

But knowing that the greatest player who ever donned a Red Sox uniform is currently playing the lead in "The Big Chill," is too much to bear. My greatest fear is that my grandchildren may some day see Williams play for the Sox ... and I couldn't.

My greatest hope is that cooler heads will prevail and the Williams' cold war will cease.

Then maybe those warm memories of the Kid will return.

And whenever I think of the Splendid Splinter again, I won't have the urge to nuke a TV dinner. In any case, as a Red Sox loyalist, I'd like to say "thanks No. 9." Thanks for the great baseball legacy you left behind. We may not experience the ultimate thrill of victory, but at least we can still brag that you always were and always will be a Red Sox. And no matter where you are now, that's cool.

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Shortly after he retired, I met him at his sports camp in Lakeville. To ask for his autograph, I had to gaze skyward, as if scanning a mighty oak tree.

Today, my hero is part of the Petrified Forest.

During the Splendid Splinter's two-plus decades with the Sox, he often gave the Press the c'old shoulder. Now, I'm sure there are some in the fifth-estate who find his current situation quite ironic.

All of this is much too difficult to take, even for a Red Sox fan. We are so accustomed to the unusual. We live with knowing we once had Babe Ruth, but management sold him to the Yankees to finance "No, No, Nanette," (when the Kid-sicle was barely one-year-old). We've survived having a man named Bucky loft a fly ball, which would have been an out.in any other ballpark but Fenway, into the Sl.';reen dashing our World Series hopes. And who can forget being one strike away from that elusive world champi-

Dave Jolivet, editor of The Anchor, is a former sports writer/editor, and regularly gives one fan's perspective of the unique world of sports.

Comments are welcome at davejolivet@anchornews.org.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 26, 2002

Stonehill's president emeritus receives papal cross award EASTON - Father Bartley MacPhaidin, C.S.C., president emeritus of Stonehill College, received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (For the Church and the Pontiff) papal cross from theologian Dominican Father Georges Cottier, at a recent, special ceremony in Rome.

The award was instituted by Pope Leo XllI in 1888 as a honor of distinction. It is presented to clergy and lay persons who have given distinguished service to the Catholic Church.

The award also pays tribute to Father MacPhaidin's devotion to the Holy Father.

In recognizing Father MacPhaidin's commitment to education, Father Cottier, a papal theo-

logian, cited his role in creating study abroad possibilities for Stonehill students as well as for students at the Autonomous University of the Assumption in Rome.

At the request of Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., Father MacPhaidin led the initiative to bring LUMSA students to the United States, leading a successful visiting teachers program in Massachusetts.

F.ather MacPhaidin, in Rome for a visit, learned about the award just the day before the ceremony.

"I am usually not surprised but this caught me off guard," he said.

"It is an honor that humbles me in many ways."

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Editor: I pledge that I shall always recite the Pledge of Allegiance only with the words "under God" regardless of the outcome in the courts.

The judge and 'the Ninth Circuit Court of AppealS' had better edit the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution was adopted "in the year of the Lord."

Will the court force the U.S. Treasury to redesign our money? Otherwise. those supporting this tragic decision should never spend a dollar bill again. If the court decision stands how are our First Amendment rights anchored? Everyday, every Federal Court, including the Ninth Circuit, opens with: "God save the United States and this honorable court."

This is not a matter of establishment of religion. The Pledge does not create a national church. It does not place the United States under the receivership of the pope. It does not endorse Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism or any Christian Church and does not preclude the practice of any religion. Agnostics and atheists need not fear the Pledge; it is my hope they would recite it with me.

This issue crosses ideology, party and religious affiliation.

After September II, Americans did two things. They rallied around the flag and they swelled religious institutions. It is a shame that the single public bond that links the two institutions has now been shattered.

Brock N. Cordeiro Dartmouth

Editor's note: The following is a letter sent to Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., from 13 parishioners of St. Mary's Parish, North Attleboro.

We, as parishioners of St. Mary's Parish, North Attleboro, and the greater Catholic community wish to express our deep concern regarding the current scandal within our Church. . The inherent evil brought about by abusive priests and mainly the inexplicable negligence of the hierarchy has brought pain and suffering to so many; the children who were victims of sexual abuse as well as the faithful men and women religious and the laity.

The trust that has been taken for granted by all Catholics and particularly the parents of young children has been broken. In view of all the current revelations, it is only natural that parents would be

hesitant about involving their children in traditional Catholic youth programs.

Under your faithful guidance, the Fall River diocese has taken the lead for over a decade in dealing with this problem directly and honestly. The forceful leadership you have shown is deeply appreciated by all members of the diocese and we thank you for your pastoral care.

We strongly feel that the programs you instituted should stand as a working model for the Church at large and we support your efforts to this end. Our faith as a parish is strong and our prayers will be with you during this time of great decision.

God bless you for your spiritual leadership on behalf of all parishioners.

Faithfully,

Eugene M. Mullen Karen Smith Kerry Vigorito Edward G. Lambert Jr. Virginia A. Lambert Norman M. Svendsen Jr. Judith A. Svendsen Caro. A. FeIIini Donald F. FeIIini Valerie Sheridan Marlene Carr Paul J. Roche Marcia E. Roche

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 26, 2002

ATTLEBORO - Singer-musician John Poke will present Bethany Nights, an evening of song and prayer tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the La Salette Shrine.

The Holy Apostles Choir will be featured in concert at the Shrine Church at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. They will perform traditional hymns and . contemporary spiritual music.

A Mass and healing service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. It will be led by La Salette Father Richard Lavoie and include the opportunity to be prayed over individuany. For more information call 508-222~4l0.

EDGARTOWN The Catholic Parishes of Martha's Vineyard announce a parish mission entitled "Listen to Your Life," August 5-8 beginning at 7 p.m. each evening at S1. Elizabeth's Church. It will be led by Dominican Sister Peggy Devlin. For more information call 508-693-0342.

FAIRHAVEN - A Bereavement Support Group for adults dealing with the death of a spouse will meet every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. August 14 through September 25 at the Nurse and Hospice Care Community Office, 62 Center Street. For more information call 508-999-3400.

FAIRHAVEN - The Life Teen group of St. Mary's Church will sponsor a Beach Mass August 10 at I p.m. at the Fort Phoenix State Reservation. It win be held in the gazebo.and attendees are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch.

Music and voneyball win fonow.

For more information call Carol Fauteux at 508-992-7300.

Q. A friend of mine is angry at concerning their intentions for perher pastor for the way he treated manence and fidelity and children her daughter and her daughter's in their married life, their freedom fiance, a Protestant. They told the to marry and other elements that priest they would like to be mar- could affect the validity oftheir married in a local park, a popular riage, usually not only in Church law place for marriages in our city. but in civil law as well.

In my pastoral experience I've They were told they couldn't. not seen couples leave the Church They were also unhappy over held September 13-15. It offers couples a chance to heal and re- the premarriage meetings they over things like this. Just the opponew troubled marriages. Redis- were expected to attend cover yourself and your spouse and questions they were and a loving relationship in mar- asked about their intentions when they get mar. riage. For more information call 1ried, which they consid800-470-2230 or the Diocesan too personal.

Office of Family Ministry at 508- ered My friend says it's no 999-6420. wonder young people are

By Father leaving the Church when ORLEANS ~ A Separated- they are treated this way.

John J. Dietzen Divorced Catholics Support Why couldn't the rules be - - - - - - - - - - Group will meet Sunday at 7 p.m. relaxed for couples like . in the parish center of St. Joan of this? Are these actually Church site. By far, most of them not only Arc Church. It will include a video rules or just the pastor's? (Ohio) cooperate with these requirements, presentation of Dr. Harold A. From the information you they aPPre<::iate them and are grate.: Kushner's "When Bad Things give, what the pastor told the couple ful the Church wants seriously to Happen to Good People." For are not his personal rules. General help them deal with the awesome more information can Father Ri- Church law requires that marriages forces in society that threaten to unbetween two Catholics, or a Catho- dermine their hopes and ideals. chard Roy at 508-255-0170.

These regulations reflect the fact lic and another baptized person, be NORTH DARTMOUTH - . celebrated in a parish church unless that our buildings of prayer and A day-long retreat entitled "Where the bishop gives permission for the worship are holy places where the Am I Going?" will be held August ceremony elsewhere (Canon 1118). most sacred events - and the celEach diocese, yours included, ebration of the sacrament of mar24 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the provides some form of miuTiage riage is one - should take place; Family Life Center, 500 Slocum and that the Church is obliged to pr~paration program, which is Road. It is sponsored by the Diocobligatory for all couples. Usually support couples in every way posesan Family Ministry Office and these include lecture-discussion ses- sible to prepare for, and live in, a will be led by Dorothy J. sions and a professional "inventory" good and faithful Christian marriage.

Levesque. to help the couple identify and unChurch law (Canon 1063) binds derstand their views and expecta- pastors to assist all the faithful of that NORTH DARTMOUTH tions about life together, finances, faith community in preserving and An "Evening of Prayer for Voca- sexuality, in-laws, spiritual commit- increasing the holiness of Christian tions," will be held August 7 at 7 ments, and otherelements critical for marriage. One way they are to do p.m. at St. Julie Billiart Church. a healthy and.s~ng marriage rela- this is to provide instructions for Refreshments and an opportunity tionship." :', brides and grooms before their marto meet those preparing to serve Further'questionnaires are filled riage concerning the holiness and as priests in our diocese will fol- out sometime before the wedding meaning of marriage, and be sure low. For more information can Father Craig Pregana at 508-6751311.

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Interestingly, as I received your question, I happened to note in your own diocesan newspaper a letter to the editor responding to aprevious letter similar to yours. The woman's comments are worth repeating.

"Maybe if more young people saw marriage as the sacrament it is rather than a rite of passage that entitles them to a priest and achurch whenever they desire them, they wouldn't feel 'pushed' from the Catholic Church.

"I won't deny that sometimes things don't go as well as planned between the priest and the engaged couple due to personality conflicts and previpusly conceived notions. But I do not feel the majority of priests nor the Church deserve the bad rap they get because things didn't go the way the couple or their family specify. ''The Church is performing a sacrament, not a show. And like every other sacrament there are procedures that need to be followed so the sanctity ofthe sacrament will be honored aI"!d preserved."

That is well said. I hope the couple (and her mother) reconsidered, and with a little faith came to see that maybe the Church was asking something very good and valuable for them and their marriage.

A free brochure in English or Spanish, answering questions about baptism, is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651.

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The renewed threat of nuclear war

NORTH DARTMOUTH A Separated-Divorced Group will meet July 29 from 7-9 p.m. at the Diocesan Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road. Guest speaker Patrick McCarthy will address the topic "Parenting in Divorce."

FAIRHAVEN - First Friday SWANSEA - The Vocation Mass, 7:00 p.m., August 2 at St. Mary's Church, North Main Team from St. Michael's Church Street. Sponsored by the Men of will sponsor a Mass for vocations the Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven July 30 at7 p.m. It will be celChapter every first Friday. An are ebrated by Father Jeffrey Cabral welcome. Spend time with the and refreshments will fonow.

Blessed Sacrament in a Holy Hour WEST HARWICH - ' The fonowing Mass. Afterward you are invited for refreshments arid Celebrate Life Committee of Holy Trinity Parish will hold its.monthly friendly social time. meeting Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at FALL RIVER - The Catho- Holy Trinity Church, 246 Main lic Memorial Home is offering a Street. For more information call Family Connection session en- 508-432-4000. titled "What's New in Alzheimer's Research?" August 14 from 5:30Catholic Chariti~s 6:30 p.m. It will be presented by Appeals returns Diane Leclair and Maureen Hebert and will be held in the home's soPARISHES larium. For registration informaEast Sandwich tion call 508-679-00 II. Corpus Christi: $150Nicolina Rossi; $100-M/M FALL RIVER - Continuing Robert G. James, John H. their centennnial activities, S1. Adams, Dorothy Costello, M/ Michael Parish is celebrating its M Robert F. Kilduff, Marie annual feast August 2-4. For more McGrath, Kathleen Burke. information, Ca11 508-672-6713.

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The threat of nuclear warfare has been hanging over. rity adviser William P. Clark said was contradictory to our heads for months now. I've actually heard some U.S. nuclear arms policies, which he strongly defended. people say this is tolerable so long as it stays "over there, This meant, of course, that the bishops had moved between India and Pakistan." How naive could anyone squarely into an uncomfortable place':'- addressing the be in this day and age - where retaliation has become moral and theological dimensions of a crucial issue the norm - to think that a nuclear blast could ever be which is enmeshed in political complexities. confined to one area?

Even some noted Catholics, such as the conservaI think this is a good time to remember the courage tive columnist William F. Buckley Jr., chastised the our bishops demonstrated bishops. He wrote in TIme nearly 20 years ago when magazine: "I resent ~hat they took up the issue of must be viewed as a certain nuclear arms policy. Spepolitical opportunism. The cifically they were workbishops are entitled to a preing on the draft of a docusumptionof moral attenment dealing with tion, but there is no pre"whether and how our resumption of their enjoying

By Antoinette Bosco ligious-moral tradition can a special knowledge of assess, direct, contain and these (nuclear arms) mathopefully help eliminate ters." In other words, our the threat posed to the human family by the nuclear bishops were just naive when they were saying that arsenals of the world." we have a moral imperative to do everything possible The bishops were bold enough to consider "con- to avoid war! demning first use of nuclear bombs" and "a verifiable I believe that in taking a stand against the nuclear American-8oviet freeze on nuclear weapons stockpiles." buildup, the bishops were closely allied with Pope John Coincidentally, as the bishops met on this crucial Paul II, who decidedly made 'the prevention and abolitopic, the New York TImes published a report that, in tion of nuclear war a fundamental policy of his papacy. effect, proved how harsh the realities ofa nuclear threat I'll never forget how that year, when the U.S. insulthad become. It said a U.S. intelligence survey asserted ingly celebrated the anniversary of Hiroshima by testthat 31 countries would be able to produce nuclear ing yet another nuclear weapon - an action soundly weapons by the year 2000 ~ in addition to the six blasted by many worldwide - the pope was on a holy countries that at that time already had these: the United pilgrimage to Hiroshima!· States, the Soviet Union, France, Britain, China and Today, at a time of post-September 11 emotions, no India. one may dare to criticize anything the administration in Now, in this year of 2002, do we really know where Washington does out of fear of being called unpatriotic.. i~ the world such weapons are lying in wait to be trigWhile we decry nuclear weapons verbally, we still stockgere<l, perhaps setting off the end of the world as we pile them. But the action taken by our bishops 20 years know it? . ago must be remembered.

When the bishops were meeting two decades ago, The bishops deserve admiration and support for dothey came under attack for working on a document ·ing what men ofGod should do: Stand up courageously which then-President Ronald Reagan's National Secu- as witnesses to the underlying value of human life.

The. Bottom Line

When you lose a tiny object If you have ever dropped a tiny or the animators of '''Bugs World" pleadings could have been consetscrew in the grass, you can ap- if these miniature items are eaten, strued as having a religious nature. preciate how a lot of pew Catho- . pulled into secret underground However, in this instance it was a lics in the field don't pay too much caverns, turned into dandelions or, good thing no cows were'present. attention to the distinctions be- more technically, "just made to Winston is a veteran of droptween superstition and popular pi- disappear." But they do. ping little things in grass. He knew ety. Let me comment on the sociYou could pick through the the consequences - a' trip to the ology, theology and olliehardware store and being oxen-ology of this. blasted by the garden My great friend Winhose. The latter was ston was helping me work within my reach. on my dive boat recently.

"You see where it The boat was resting on its landed?" he squeaked. trailer in my yard, which "In the grass," I reon good days passes as a plied, reaching for the

By Dan Morris pasture, only without the hose. cows. Winston dropped a "Wait," he pleaded. littie setscrew off the boat ....-----------W~ "Maybe we can find it." into the grass.

"True," I said, "and Those of you who have grass with a crew of50 people man- maybe we can slap wings onto this dropped little things into the grass ning magnifying glasses and never boat and make it into an airplane." know that the roots of grass and find it. Or bring in a backhoe and "Wait, wait, wait," he said desweeds are teaming with zillions of search all the dirt within 40 feet perately, "don't you Catholics little creatures equipped with bug with a flour sifter and never find it. have some kind of voodoo or , radar. As soon as a washer, screw, So my non-Catholic buddy something for times like this?" nail, nut or bolt hits the ground, Winston watches the tiny screw "Well," I said, testing the wathese wee beasts beat feet (and jump out of his hand and drift ter pressure, "we could ask for St. they have lots of feet) to the ob- through the air toward oblivion. Anthony's help." ject. It then disappears. Forever. He manages to make several comHaving never heard of St. AnAnd ever. Amen. ments about the event before the 'thony but being quite up to speed This is a hard-and-fast rule of screw even reaches the black hole with my accuracy with a water the universe. It has yet to be deter- of Lilliputian boat fittings. Given hose, Winston bellowed, "St. Anmined by the scientific community different tones and accents, his thony, help me." Any. remaining

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The offbeat world of Uncle Dan

St. Louis priest travels to baseball's 'cathedrals'

By JIM RYGELSKI CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

ARNOLD, Mo. - There are baseball fans and there are superfans like Father Richard Rath.

Take the baseball motif throughout the rectory of St. David Parish in Arnold, where he's pastor. In addition to the framed photographs and the collection of baseballs adorning the wall, there are even kitchen curtains displaying the St. Louis Cardinals logo.

And there are the stories, such as how he almost caught the first of Mark McGwire's then-record 70 home runs on opening day in 1998.

"I had my hands on it but I couldn't hold it," he said, demonstrating how the groping arms of the sea of humanity around him dislodged it.

And the priest's baseball enthusiasm gqes well beyond his attending 20 to 25 games at Busch Stadium in St. Louis every year, including an opening-day ritual for which he buys a block of seats for friends.

Over the past decade the St. Louis archdiocesan priest has seen games in each ofthe other 29 Major League ballparks, plus some stadiums that are now just a memory, such as TIger Stadium in Detroit and Municipal Stadium in Cleveland.

He admits he was not a great baseball player as a youth. "They put me in right field, where I couldn't do any harm," he told the St. Louis Review, the archdiocesan newspaper.

But Father Rath, 47, nevertheless developed a passion for the national pastime.

Not long after his 1988 ordination, he found,a way to take his love for baseball on the road. In 1992 a priest friend told him about a

Smithsonian Institution tour ofeight baseball 'stadiums.

That was the start of his annual trek, which for most years has been with Jay Buckley's Baseball Tours of La Crosse, Wis. Dressed every game in a Cardinals red cap and red T-shirt, Father Rath has joined men and women of all ages, professions and areas of the country - and with different team loyalties - on these annual pilgrimages to what the tour calls the "cathedrals of baseball."

He usually spends a week or two on these bus tours, averaging about 10 games a year. The most ambitious was a 12-ballpark visit that s'tarted with a doubleheader in Chicago's Comiskey Park and ended with a doubleheader in that' City's Wrigley Field.

Father Rath acknowledged that he's rarely seen the Cardinals on the road during his annual bus trips, and that in the beginning he missed seeing his favorite team. But he said that was offset by the experience of seeing America's ballparks.

One of his favorite places is ,Wrigley Field. "You have to like it for the nostalgia," he said. He'll long remember his visit to Boston's Fenway Park, now the oldest ballpark in use. "I had to walk through five inches of peanut shells to get to my seat. It was like they hadn't cleaned up from the night before," he recalled.

"But it was worth it to see the Green Monster," the park's famed 37-foot-high left field wall, he said.

Surprisingly, despite New Yorkers' reputation for being inconsiderate, Yankee Stadium employees were among the most courteous he's encountered.

Those road experiences have

made him appreciate St. Louis and its fans all the more. "It's the best baseball town around," he said ofSt. Louis. "Nowhere else do you see fans wear the team colors as they do here."

The priest is no autograph seeker, snapshot taker or much of a souvenir collector, though he does retain soft-drink cups bearing the hometeam logos of the ballparks he's visited. Instead, Father Rath's keepsakes of his trips are primarily the good times he has with his companions.

"There's great camaraderie among the people," he said. "A lot of them go every year, so we see each other then. I exchange Christmas cards with several of them."

While he sees the annual baseball stadium trips as needed relaxation, he finds them offering useful insights for his faith, and he hopes, the faith of those around him.

An Arizona resident on the tour would wake his sleeping colleagues by saying, "Fire up, sports fans," as he walked up the aisle of the bus.

Father Rath said he used that incident in one of his homilies for Pentecost in stressing how the fire of the Holy Spirit should awaken Catholics.

This season, he'll go only between the St. David rectory and Busch Stadium, opting to use his vacation time to visit Rome later this summer with some priest friends.

But next season Father Rath intends to make his 25th consecutive Cardinals home opener - and to ,resume the life of a traveling baseball fan.

"I've got to see the new ballpark in Cincinnati when it opens next year," he said.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 26, 2002 cows would have stampeded. Winston then hopped off the boat, landed on the "grass," bent over and - to our joint amazement picked up the setscrew which is about the size of a BB. I expected it to be dripping with screaming, radar-festooned; minute critters. Not so.

"Do you believe this?" Winston almost stammered. First I gave him a serious look.

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"Don't be thinking you can run to the racetrack and invoke St. Anthony's help," I said. Then I squirted Winston with the hose anyway.

"There," I laughed, "St. Anthony would probably have wanted to wash your mouth out with soap too."

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SATURDAY'S events are scheduled from 10 AM to 10 PM. A handmade quilt called "Double Wedding Ring" will . be available for raffle. In addition the fair will offer a Country Kitchen, as well as a large selection of traditional, ethnic and gourmet foods. Ice cream too! Other points of interest include: Music, Arts & Crafts, Silent Auction, Grandma's Attic and Jewelry.

For the children, there will be Face Painting, Games, Moonwalk, Beanie Babies, Hair Wraps, and much more.

A CHICKEN BARBEQUE will be held from 5:30 PM to 7 PM. Advance:J reservations are recommended. Tickets are $10.00 for Adults and $6.00 for Children 12 and under. Call 508-636-2251.

Our Auction begins under the tent at 7:00 PM. SUNDAY'S events are from 8 AM till NOON. A PANCAKE BREAKFAST will be held during these hours in the Church hall. Tickets for our Quilt Raffle and New England Auction will still be available. Grandma's attic will also be open for late bargain seekers.

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Former alllbassador says abortion as evil as 9/11 attacks

By PETER FINNEY JR. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE NEW ORLEANS - Former U.S. diplomat Alan Keyes told a Pro-Life conference in New Orleans he equates the evil of the September 11 terrorist attacks with the evil of abortion.

While the attacks manifested. i'a disregard for· the intrinsic worth of innocent human life," he said, they were rio different nor more appalling on a moral level than the fact that abortion has destroyed millions of unborn babies since it was legalized virtually on demand in 1973.

Keyes, who was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council during the Reagan administration, made the comments in a speech at the American Life League's recent, annual Celebration of Life World Family Conference in New Orleans. .

"If we pray down destruction on the head of Osama bin Laden for that violation of innocent life," Keyes said, "we have to be aware that we pray down destruction as well on a nation that is willing to enshrine in principle a right to administer the self-same blow to those innocent lives of our offspring that ought to be more sacred in our obligation to God than any others."

Keyes, the host of "Alan Keyes is Making Sense" on MSNBC, delivered the keynote address to hundreds of American Life League members. He scoffed at the suggestion by some in the media that the terrorist attacks were an example of "new evil."

"That evil may have come from Osama bin Laden, but it was not the discovery of new evil," he said. "What we saw September 11 in the collapsing buildings, in the death toll, in the grief of the families was the awesome consequeilces that arise when we ignore th~ intrinsic meaning and worth .of innocent human life. Let us not . pretend that we made such.a dis- .. covery on SepteJ;Ilber 11. . ''What we discovered that day

was the real consequence of evil in ourselves," Keyes added. ,''The evil doesn't come from without; it doesn't fall like raindrops on your head. Evil wells up from the hearts of human beings."

Keyes called the terrorists' attacks a "lightning bolt" that "ought to revolt the conscience of every decent human being regardless ()f nation, background or creed."

"It's no accident that this crisis comes upon us in such a way that it focuses oilr attention on this one simple truth: that liberty cannot survive when we have rejected that authority which enjoins upon us our respect for innocent human life."

"People ask me, 'Why do you care so much about that mass ·of tissue in the womb? What's with that emotional obsession you have with fetuses?'" Keyes said.

"A decent conscience must feel the terrible loss of that word of glory spoken in the womb, must wonder every day what truth we have missed, what mercy we have forgone when we have suppressed out of our world all those millions of thoughts in the mind of God, thoughts intended for us. I do care about that," he said.

Moral relativism also makes it easier to understand the current financial scandals that have damaged the U.S. stock market and the sexual scandals in the Church, according to Keyes.

"What generation of business leaders who were taught to believe that they could do anything for their corporation wouldn't at the end of the day conclude that they were right to do anything for themselves?"

Referring to sexual sins, Keyes said: "We've got a lot of folks wandering around this world who think they can sin on Saturday and praise the Lord on Sunday and that somewhere in that scheme, you will still be walking the walk," he said. ''There is a standard ·of truth, and we depart from that standard at the peril of our salvation."

A WOMAN moves a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe across the square in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Pope John Paul II will canonize visionary Juan Diego at the shrine July 31. (CNS photo by Jorge Uzon, AFP)

MEXICAN: PILGRIMS. from the state of Queretaro carry banners showing an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe as they make their way.to Mexico 'City recently. Juan Diego, the indigenous man to whom the vision of Mary appeared in 1531, will be canonized by Pope John Paul II in Mexico City July 31. (CNS photo from Reuters)

.Canonization preparations under way for Guatemala's 'Hermano Pedro'

By JILL REPLOGLE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

oners and hospital patients. their crutches and other evidence One w~ll-kilOwn legend says of healing miracles at the altar as a ANTIGUA, Guatemala --,- Be- that Hermano Pedro went so far sign of gratitude. Now, people are hind the crumbling, elaborate ba- as to lick the woun"s of the sick, a asked to leave the items at. a muroque facades ofAntigua, prepara- role usually given to animals at the seum inside the church, where they tions are under way for the canoni- time: are displayed along the walls. zation of the town's favorite son, Hermano Pedro often fasted, deHermano Pedro's remains were Blessed Pedro de San Jose priving himself of all comforts, in- transferred years ago to a new loBetancur. cluding sleep, ~d sacrificing him- cation in the same church, but many Hermano Pedro, as he is known, self physicall:{to demonstrate his people believe the original altar is is revered throughout Guatemala faith. his true resting spot. andCentralAmericaforhisrniracu- . Every Holy Thursday, he made "Everyone wants to visit the old lous curing of the sick and dedica- an evening pilgrimage on his knees altar, because that is where the tion to the poor. to all the city's churches, carrying. miracles are made," said Myrna Pope John Paul II is scheduled : a cross over his shoulders. Then, Arana, an Antigua resident. to canonizeHermano Pedro Ju1y~O .. still carrying the cross: he would The Arana family has special in Guatemala· City. join the, procession of the reverence for the healing saint beOfficials in Antigua, where· Nazarenes, which left at 1 a.m. cause when Myrna's son, Daniel, Hermano Pedro's remains are in- Good Friday. was young, he had dreams about terred, have set up a special schedTestimonies said miracles oc- Hermano Pedro. ule to handle the expected influx curred because of Hermano Pedro's "One time, Daniel's brother was of pilgrims. intense faith. sick with a fever," said Arana, "and So many pilgrims are deterAt San Francisco Church, the Daniel said to me 'Don't worry, mined to visit Hermano Pedro's wall above the altar dedicated to mom, Hermano Pedro told me he remains and altar at the Church of Hermano Pedro is a mosaic of will cure him.'

San Francisco in Antigua that a plaques thanking him for his help "Daniel prayed and prayed over schedule was set up to allot the and is tainted black from burning his brother and, within a few hours, weekend days preceding the pope's candles. In the past, those cured left the fever had broken," Arana said. visit to people from different areas of the country and those from other spots in Central America. .

Lectures, art exhibits and a documentary have been scheduled t6 help offer a glimpse into the life and work of the man often referred to as the "St. Francis of the Americas"; he founded the l3ethlemite Brothers and Sisters in 1653. The order grew throughout Central America but now has about 10 brothers.

Pedro de San Jose Betancur, born March 19, 1626, in Spain's Canary Islands, journeyed to the New World at the age of 24, eventually arriving in what was then Guatemala City, now Antigua, in 1651.

He studied in Jesuit and Franciscan seminaries, and in 1658 opened an infirmary and hisfirsto school for poor children. He also visited the poor and sick in their AN ELDERLY Guatemalan woman holds up a poster dehomes, taking food and small picting Blessed Hermano Pedro de San Jose de Betancur in change. He did the same for p~s- Antigua, Guatemala. (CNS photo from Reuters)

French chef makes Girls and Boys Town home for 40 years

By ELIZABETH WELLS

"First it was just a job for me, then a challenge, then a mission."

OMAHA, Neb. - Pierre Bossant could have He added, "When I started working with the kids, I worked anywhere in the world. The French pastry chef wanted to know how they are, where they come from. chose Boys Town in 1962 and has seIVed in its kitch- You see the pain. They get in your heart so you feel ens for the past 40 years. you need to give something of yourself."

"I have had many job offers but I stuck with Boys Girls and Boys Town is a residential facility for atTown. I guess there was something there to keep you risk, abused, abandoned and neglected children. It is coming back," Bossant said. nonprofit and nonsectarian. The facility's name was He may not seem to have a lot in common with the changed to Girls and Boys Town in August 2000 to youths he selVes at what is now Girls and Boys Town, more accurately reflect that its clientele is now' about west of Omaha. But the similarities are there.

50 percent girls.

He knows what One of the goals it is like to face of Girls and Boys challenges and take Town is to provide a control of your life. safe, loving environHe was a child livment for children ing in France durwhile teaching them ing World War II. the skills and deciHis mother died in sion-making prothe war, and his facesses necessary to ther was taken prisbe successful, exoner by the Nazis. plained John "I was eight Melingagio, years old when the Bossant took a war was over," he permanent position told The Catholic with Boys Town, Voice, newspaper seIVing first at the of the Omaha Archcamp and then as diocese. "I saw supervisor of the quite a bit." main dining hall and His godmother manager of the Visiand godfather tors Center Cafe. adopted him, but Dave Bartholet, the economy in' manager ofthe Visipostwar France tors Center Cafe, atmeant that at age 13 tributes Bossant's he had to help with continued presence expenses. That's in the kitchen to his when he began aplove ofwork and the prenticing as a kids. bread, pastry and 'The guy likes to ice cream chef. work. You can't A short stint in keep him out of the the French army kitchen," Bartholet placed' him in said.

North Africa, Over the years he where he heard PIERRE BOSSANT prepares lunch for residents at Girls has shared the story about a position as and Boys Town in Omaha, Neb. What started out as "just of his childhood a chef at Brandeis a job" for the French pastry chef has developed into a during V/orld War II Department Stores mission to help young people who find that life isn't al- with the Girls and in Omaha. ways a piece of cake. (eNS photo by Elizabeth Wells, Boys Town youths.

"America was He said it is good for Catholic Voice) them to know how something for me even when I was a kids lived during hard times. kid," Bossant said, recalling the American role in the Bossant said that, while his godparents did what liberation of France. they could to care for him, he could relate to the needs Brandeis sponsored his immigration to the United of the youths at Girls and Boys Town.

States in 1960. He arrived knowing no English.

'They are great kids. They need somebody," he said.

"It was a hardship, but you learn. You learn how 'They want to reach out to find somebody to care for nice it is to have the freedom to express yourself with- them. out having to watch your back," Bossant said.

"I get to see the kids that used to work for me in the After two-and-a-half years at Brandeis, "a friend kitchen. Now they are lawyers and doctors," he said. told me about a cook's position for (Boys Town) "I've seen Boys Town do a great job with some of summer camp in Okaboji" in Iowa, Bossant said. those kids."

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Des Moines editor named chancellor DES MOINES, Iowa (CNS) - Des Moines Bishop Joseph L. Charron appointed Tom Chapman, editor of The Catholic Mirror newspaper since 1994, as chancellor of the diocese.

Anne Marie Cox was named to replace Chapman.

The chancellor assists the bishop and the vicar general in the day-to-day administration of the diocesan offices and serves on the bishop's executive committee.

A major area of responsibility for the chancellor is to help coordinate pastoral planning for the diocese and work as staff resource person for the Diocesan Pastoral Council. In the Diocese of Des Moines the chancellor also helps to oversee the pastoral seIVi~es of the diocese, including Catholic Charities, Catholic schools, faith formation and vocations ministry. Canon law also calls for the chancellor to be responsible for the record-

keeping and archives of the diocese.

Chapman was appointed director of communications for the diocese in 1990 and since 1994 also has been editor of the newspaper..

As chancellor, Chapman succeeds Father David Fleming, who remains pastor ofAll Saints Parish in Stuart. Father Fleming was appointed chancellor in 1998.

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., July 26, 20029

Sister of Providence aDlong 29 sentenced for ,SOA protests

By MARY ANN WYAND CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

INDIANAPOLIS - Sister Kathleen Desautels, a Sister of Providence of St. Mary-of-theWoods, will spend six months in a federal prison for trespassing at the former School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., during a protest last year.

Sister Kathleen, 64, an Indianapolis native and a staff member of the Eighth Day Center for Justice in Chicago for the past 16 years, was arrested last November with 100 other human rights activists for trespassing on the U.S. Army base that houses the school, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.

Last week, U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth sentenced Sister Kathleen to six months in prison after a trial in Columbus, Ga. In all, 29 of the 37 co-defendants received prison terms of three to six months, with some also being fined; seven others were sentenced to six months' probation and one was found not guilty.

The group also included three Catholic priests - Fathers William O'Donnell of Berkeley, Calif.; Louis Vitale of San Francisco; and Jerry Zawada of Cedar Lake, Ind. Sister Kathleen had pleaded not guilty to federal trespass charges in connection with the peaceful protest held annually at Fort Benning. She bas partici-

pated in the protest organized by the School of theAmericas Watch since 1997, bas been arrested there severaltirnes, and has been joined by other Sisters of Providencein pastyear~.

She also has traveled to Nicaragua, Colombia, Haiti and Guatemala, wbeJ'e she learned about the attacks on people in those countries by SOAgraduates.

Opponentsof.the school 'Say its graduates include military officers who are responsible for civilian ma'Ssacres .and other human rights abuses in Latin America.

The U.S. Department of Defense, which runs the school, 'says the program teaches Latin American military personnel democratic principles and respect for 'human rights.

Speaki.Qg on bebalf of the other defendants, Sister Kathleen said, ''We believe we 'have done everything the law allows or suggests, and when you ,:get ,3 deaf 路ear, we believe we have a FlI'St Amendment right to pmtest."

Providence Sister Ann Margaret O'Hara, general superior of the congregation, said the order supports Sister Kathleen.

Responding to the sentencing of the 37 defendants, Maryknoll Father Ray Bourgeois., founder of the School of the Americas Watch, said: ''Those who speak out for justice are facing harsh prison sentences, while SOAtrained torturers and assassins are operating with impunity."

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NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are home videocassette reviews from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting. Theatrical movies on video have a USCCB classification.

All reviews indicate the appropriate age group for the video audience.

"Beijing Bicycle" (2002) Dramatically slim yet sometimes poignant story set in Beijing about one bicycle coveted by two teen-agers, a country boy" (Cui Lin) who needs it for his livelihood, and an arrogant city slicker (Li Bin) who views the bike as a means by which to路 attain social status.

Clearly reminiscent of Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief," director Wang Xiaoshuai's film adequately conveys the significance of the bike while offering a fresh perspective on Beijing's back streets, but the film needs trimming and contrivances too quickly pile up. A few vicious beatings, brief rear nudity; and minimal crass language. The U.S. Conference of 路Catholic Bishops classific.ation is A-III - adults. (Columbia TriStar) "Charlotte Gray" (2001) Weak drama set during World War II about a young Scottish woman (Cate Blanchett) living in London who joins the French Resistance hoping to save her pilot boyfriend (Rupert Penry-Jones) who has been shot down. Based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks, director Gillian Armstrong somehow turns spying into banal work, while stripping the film of any sense of urgency, suspense or passion and ending on a pointlessly melodramatic note.

An implied sexual encounter, some war-related violence and fleeting rough language. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III - adults. (Warner Bros.)

"Hart's War" (2002) Contrived drama set in a World War II German prisonerof-war camp in which a young American lieutenant (Colin Farrell) is forced to defend an African-American pilot (Terrence Howard) falsely accused of murder while their colonel (Bruce Willis) uses the distraction to plan a daring escape. Well-intentioned lessons about racism in director Gregory Hoblit's film can't compensate for narrative inconsistencies and one-di mensional characterizations. Some strong war violence including grisly images, fleeting nudity and sporadic rough language with profanity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III - adults.

(MGM) "Impostor" (2002) Unremarkable sci-fi thriller set in the year 2079 about a government scientist (Gary

Sinise) accused of being an alien spy sent to blow up Earth who can only prove his innocence with the help of his doctor wife (Madeleine Stowe) and a street thug (Mekhi Phifer).

Adapted from a short story by 'Philip K. Dick, director Gary Fleder's overwrought film is dull indeed, awash in murky lighting, dizzying jump-cuts and pointless chase scenes. A brief, shadowy sexual encounter, several violent scenes, an il1stance of rough language and some profanity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III - adults.

(Dimension) "The Laramie Project" (2002) Smug film version of writerdirector Moises Kaufman's theatrical play about the reactions of townsfolk in Laramie, Wyo., to the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, a young gay man who was repeatedly beaten and left to die tied to a fence on a rural road. Although thoughtprovoking in part and with an impressively large ensemble cast, the documentary-style film is pretentious in its delivery and simplistic in its outlook, only thinly veiling its agenda to promote hate-crime legislation.

May be fine for older adolescents who view it with parents.

Intense homosexual subject matter. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III - adults.

"The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001) Darkly quirky tale centers on a broke, long-estranged husband (Gene Hackman) who pretends he's terminally ill in order to win back his newly engaged wife (Angelica Houston) and the affection of his three skeptical children (Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow and Luke Wilson). With comic compassion, director Wes Anderson depicts gradual maturing in a madly dysfunctional family. An attempted suicide, implied promiscuity and substance abuse, brief nudity, some rough language and minimal profanity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III - adults. (Touchstone) "A Walk to Remember" (2002) A popular and shallow high school senior (Shane West) finds himself unexpectedly falling for a seriously religious classmate (Mandy Moore) who brings out the best in him despite her own personal crisis. Director Adam Shankman's earnest teen romance travels a predictable route but excels in affirming faith values as a positive and joyous part of life. Some sexual references and fleeting crass language. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. (Warner Brothers)

STUART LITTLE and Margalo become fast friends in the family comedy "Stuart Little 2." (eNS photo from Sony Pictures)

Here's a 'Little' bit more fun NEW YORK (CNS) - His adventurous spirit intact, the plucky white mouse adopted by the Little family IS back in the nearly-as-charming "Stuart Little 2" (Columbia).

Nestled across the street from Manhattan's Central Park, the contented Little household now has a baby girl, and Mom and Dad (Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie) couldn't be happier. Except for one thing - pint-size Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is game to do everything a normal boy like his brother George (Jonathan Lipnicki) does, but Mom is terrified Stuart could be hurt.

Minor misadventures on the soccer field and in a toy plane further convince Mom that George should keep Stuart in his sights at all times. But with George sometimes off playing with his pal, Will, Stuart's a)ittle lonely - or a lonely Little.

Swooping into Stuart's life one day is Margalo (voiced by Melanie Griffith), a tiny golden bird apparently fleeing the vicious Falcon (voiced by James Woods). Stuart, instantly smitten, takes her in while her wing heals and all the Littles welcome her with open arms, even that fraidy-cat furball, Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane).

Never having had a loving family of her own, and unaccustomed to such caring kindness, Margalo feels terrible since she's actually in cahoots with Falcon. When he threatens to devour Stuart if she doesn't steal from the Littles, she sadly complies and flies the coop.

Sure that Margalo has been snatched, Stuart enlists Snowbell and sets out to rescue her from Falcon.

Meanwhile, George tells a little white lie to the big Littles lest they worry about their little white mouse who has gone missing. And soon the fur is flying when Falcon, Snowbell, alley cat Monty, our hero Stuart and his maiden-in-distress all collide

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"Eight Legged Freaks" (Warner Bros.)

Dopey horror flick in which an engineer (David Arquette) and a sheriff (Kari Wuhrer) try to save their Arizona mining

over a dazzling diamond ring. _ Director Rob Minkoff is back to helm in the new adventure based on the characters from E.B. White's classic 1945 children's story. The colorful sequel retains the endearing qualities of the original, although the story'sJreshness and originality suffer a bit. Bits cjf sly humor (mostly from Lane's snippy Sn9wbell) liven the familiar situation and two birds add anew element. Less successful are the extremely obvious music track selections.

What's not obvious is how seamlessly the humans blend with (five) Persian cats playing Snowbell, and the animated creatures-- whose fine detailing is amazing. The picture-postcard visuals of the Littles' townhouse and the romantic:~ed New York City they live in are also handsomely realized. . Davis and Laurie are appealing as the idealized parents who carefully teach their children such life lessons as seeing the silver lining in a cloud, and not lying. The movie also treats themes of friendship, optimism, bravery and forgiveness in an upbeat, kid-friendly manner that should entertain children.

However, scenes of the vicious Falcon, his razor-sharp talons set to pounce, and the extended scene of a cab careening through Central Park with pedestrians in imminent danger make the movie a bit too intense for very young children, and the cabbie mutters "hell' in passing.

But for the over-seven to over-70 set, the spunky Stuart again proves to be a mighty mouse and a tiny treat.

Due to a few menacing scenes and brief naughty language, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

town from being overrun by murderous giant spiders. Director Ellory Elkayem maintains a feeble comic tone through the. increasing chaos and mayhem but the plot's sheer predictability renders it instantly forgettable. Recurring fantasy violence, fleeting sexual innuendo and a few crass expressions. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-IIadults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned.

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

"K-19: The Widowmaker" (Paramount) Fact-based, Cold War submarine drama set in 1961 as the

captain (a grim Harrison Ford) and executive officer (a convincing Liam Neeson) clash onboard a Russian sub whose malfunctioning 'core reactor could melt down with catastrophic results. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the tense tale of honor, counge and human drama is marred by its sluggish pace and some blunt characterizations. Brief violence, images of injured seamen and fleeting rear nudity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. The MotionPicture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

u.s. bishops' official asks Senate action to ban human cloning WASHINGTON (CNS) children' but does not give govSeveral Pro-Life groups supA U.S. bishops' Pro-Life offi- ernment endorsement to the de- port a temporary moratorium as cial has asked the Senate to fol- struction of cloned embryos," a better-than-nothing policy. low the majority recommenda- he said.

"We strongly favor a permation of the President's Council "Without further delay, the nent ban on all human cloning," on Bioethics by favoring at U.S: Senate should join Presi- said Douglas Johnson, legislaleast a temporary legal ban on dent Bush, the House of Rep- tive director of the National all human cloning. resentatives, and the Right to Life Committee.

Without federal legislation, President's Council on Bioeth- "However, we could support "the most irresponsible of re- ics in supporting at least a tem- legislation to temporarily ban searchers will create our na- porary ban on all human clon- human cloning." tional policy by default," said ing," said Doerflinger.

Ken Connor, president of the Richard Doerflinger, deputy diHe cal1ed "morally lJnac- Family Research Council, said rector of the U.S. Conferthat, "in an environment ence of Catholic Bishops where that which is not Secretariat for Pro-Life prohibited is permitted, a Vatican and U. S. Church officials temporary moratorium on Activities.

A majority of the bio- have opposed all human cloning human cloning is better ethics council recom- because it involves reproduction than no ban at all." mended outlawing human Connor favored fundoutside of sexual intercourse by a cloning for reproduction ing of "alternative and and favored a four-year married couple. But Church leaders ethical avenues of remoratorium on human have added that, if cloning occurs, -search" which could lead cloning for biomedical re- the human embryos or babies to medical cures. search. , The bioethics council formed have the rights and dignity The moratorium would report highlights the poprovide time to debate of human beings. litical divisions on the huand review the state of man cloning issue. Presihuman 'embryo research dent Bush-favors a ban on with the goal of proposing "an ceptable" any proposal that cre- all human cloning and said he ethical1y acceptable public ates cloned human embryos but would veto legislation that does policy to govern these scientifi- prohibits their survival. not include a total ban. The cally and medically promising The bishops' official said House has passed a total ban but morally challenging activi- any four-year moratorium bill. The Senate is considering ties," said the majority recom- should be used for public dis- rival bills ranging from a total mendation in the recent coun- cussion on forming public ban to limited bans that would cil report. allow research cloning. policy.

A minority recommendation Currently, researchers canVatican and U.S. Church ofagreed with the ban on repro- ficials have opposed all human not use federal funding for huductive human cloning but sup- cloning because it involves re- man embryo research. Any furported federally regulated use production outside of sexual in- ther legislation would apply to of cloned embryos for biomedi- tercourse by a married couple. privately funded research. cal research.

But Church leaders have added Ten members of the 18Doerflinger rejected human that, if cloning occurs, the hu- member bioethics council facloning for research, saying it man embryos or babies formed vored the majority recommeninvolves the destruction of hu- have the rights and dignity of dation and seven members supman embryos. numan beings. ported the minority position.

"No one has succeeded in Supporters of human cloning One member did not vote. The crafting a feasible, enforceable for research say it could open council was appointed by Bush and morally sound ban that the door to cures for a variety to advise him on bioethical iscovers only 'cloning to produce of diseases. sues.

Life, government integrity said at stake in assisted suicide case

By ED LANGLOIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE PORTLAND, Ore. - The sanctity of life and the integrity of government are at stake in a federal appeal to thwart Oregon's assisted-suicide law; say Church leaders.

Answering charges that the U.S. Department of Justice is wasting taxpayer money on extended court action, those troubled by assisted suicide say the expense is a moral obligation.

"When you start evaluating human lives against a little money, that's ridiculous," said Dr. Gregory Hamilton, a member of St. Pius X Parish in Portland and spokesman for Physicians for Compassionate Care.

"It is very important that the rights of the seriously ill are protected as the lives of everyone

else are protected."

In June, U.S. attorneys filed an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The government is hoping for a reversal of an April federal court decision that left the Oregon assisted-suicide law in force.

Gov. John Kitzhaber and the state sued last November after U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft ruled that federally controlled drugs could not be used for lethal prescriptions.

Assisted suicide is not a legitimate medical practice, Ashcroft said, directing drug agents to pull the prescribing licenses of doctors who write lethal prescriptions.

But U.S. District Judge Robert Jones ruled in April that Ashcroft had overstepped his authority, using federal drug law in a way that Congress never in-

tended.

"If the taxpayers in Oregon beHeve the attorney general is wasting our tax dollars, then they will have to remember it when it comes time to vote again on this administration," said George Eighmey of Compassion in Dying, a pro-assistedsuicide group.

But Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said the Bush administration did not initiate the problem.

Bob Castagna, executive director of the Oregon Catholic Conference, said the ultimate question before the court is whether there really is a uniform drug law in the country.

In Oregon, there have been 91 assisted suicides reported in four years.

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Maintain hope despite Church troubles, USCCB president tells priests ST. LOUIS (CNS) - Look , with true Christlike hope and to the future with hope, Bishop determination."

Wilton D. Gregory of The meeting was a time to Belleville, Ill., told priests of focus on the safety of children the Archdiocese of St. Louis. and establish procedures to enBishop Gregory also dis- . sure that every child would be cussed the accountability of safe in every church environbishops and the need for a ment, he said. closer association with lay "Dallas was a beginning people as a result of recent and not an end. Dallas left unevents in the Catholic Church resolved many other issues," in the United States. He is Bishop Gregory said. "Among president of the U.S. Confer- those is the matter of the acence of Catholic Bishops, countability of bishops - this which adopted the "Charter for has been noted on more than the Protection of Children and one occasion and will continue Young People" at its June to receive careful scrutiny both meeting in Dallas. by the bishops ourselves as The document outlines the well as by our priests, religious response of U.S. dioceses to and faithful. May I say it acts of sexual abuse of minors should receive that altention."

The people of the Church by members of the clergy.

Bishop Gregory was invited have every right to expect to discuss "A bishops to faithJoyful Recom- - - - - - - - - - - fully, prudently mitment to He suggested that an~ candi?ly ~x足 Priestly Minis- "we must go forward in ~rclse thel~ mmtry." His recent faith in hope and in Istry, BI.shop talk focused o n ' Gregory said. answering the love for our people as "We must question "Where proud sharers in the find ways to proDo We Go From priesthood of Jesus vide an accountHere?"

Christ." ing for our stew"Forward in ardship that both hope is where we respects the are destined to proceed," unique relationship bishops Bishop Gregory said in the talk enjoy with the Holy Father and at the archdiocesan pastoral the vital connection we must center. He noted that priests always maintain and seek to cannot return to the same un- strengthen with those we are questioned and presumed pub- sent to serve." lic esteem that they might have The future of the priesthood known at the beginning of their "wil1 necessarily include a priesthood. But he assured much closer association with them the future will lead to "a our faithful laity," Bishop Gremuch better place." gory said.

He suggested that "we must That relationship, "congo forward in faith, in hope trary to the suggestions and and in love for our people as perhaps' in spite of the maproud sharers in the priesthood nipulative designs of some of Jesus Christ." He urged the protagonists," he said, must priests to build a more support- not "result in the loss of our ive bond. sacramental identity as priests Because of unsettling recent of Jesus Christ." events, "there has never been Lay people represent wisa moment in the history of the dom and life experiences that Church in the United States must never be ignored in the where bishops and priests may strengthening and building up have needed one another of each local church, he said. more," he said.

The laity has every right to "We bishops must admit' expect and demand priests to that we may not have been pru- be holy men, generous men dent in all of our past decisions and dedicated men of faith, the and you, my brothers, must bishop said, adding that the enlikewise acknowledge that you tire Church likewise is called did not always call one another to holiness of life, no matter to holiness and integrity of life. one's calling.

He called for candid conIn short, we must re-examine how we are to be real brothers versation between bishops and to one another," he added. priests.

The Dallas meeting was "The great danger of the possibly the most significant in present moment is that the the U.S. bishops' history, he Church becomes alienated said. "It was a time when we among itself," Bishop Gregory needed to chart a new direc- said. "Clergy (alienated) from tion. I think we were able to their people, bishops from do that - not with absolute their priests and their people, perfection and not with defini- this is the greatest danger that tive and absolute clarity, but we face."

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Bill to protect infants born alive approved WASHINGTON (CNS) - The supports" the legislation which U.S. Senate gave final congressional "would ensure that infants who are approval to ,the Born-Alive Infants born alive, at any stage of developProtection Act; it was then headed â&#x20AC;˘ ment, are individual human beings to President Bush, who was ex- who are entitled to the full protections of the law" and "would propected to sign the legislation.

The bill, approved by unanimous vide guaranteed legal protection consent in the Se'nate last week whether or not the infant's delivery wQuld guarantee certain rights un- was natural or the restilt of an aborder federal law to children born alive, tion."

Cathy Cleaver, director of planeven if it occurs during an abortion.

The House approved the legislation ning anQ information at the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life by a voice vote in March.

In another abortion-related ac- Activities, called the Born-Alive tion, the House Judiciary Commit- Infants Protection Act "commontee approved the Partial-Birth Abor- sense legislation that is unfortunately FANS OF the Boston Red Sox baseball team are photographed with the "Green Monster" tion Ban Act, designed to respond needed at this time when lives of mascot at Fenway Park in Boston. (eNS photo by Fred LeBlanc,Catholic Observer) to concerns mised in the U.S. Su- children born and unborn are bepreme Court's Stenberg vs. Carhart coming increasingly seen as more expendabIe." decision in 2000. ''This bill simply addresses how The Born-Alive Infants ProtectionAct would amend the legal defi- we as a society should see the child nitions of "person," "human being," who survives an abortion, and how "child" and "individual" to include we should define that," she added.

The House has three times apa live birth that has occurred as part

By PEGGY WEBER of an abortion procedure. The bill proved bills banning partial-birth husband, Bill, who was from people.

CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE defines a child as "born alive" only abortions, and the legislation passed "This will be a team ,that will Framingham. She and her husband if he or she displays a heartbeat, res- Congress twice but was vetoed by BOSTON -:- Sarah McKenna work during the day and at the have a 16-month-old daughter, piration and/or voluntary move- President Clinton on both occasions. has a dream job. games. They will be the face of the Jameson ments after "the complete expulsion President Bush has said he would They moved to San Diego for At age 27, the native of the Red Sox," she said. ,or extraction from his or her sign a bill to ban partial-birth abor- Springfield diocese is director offan ''They'll be giving gifts to chil- Bill's job, and McKenna began mother." tion. , services at Fenway Park in Boston, dren and helping senior citizens to working with the San Diego Padres More than half the states have the home of the Red Sox. Douglas Johnson, legislative ditheir seat and taking pictures of on what turned out to be a successrector for the National Right to Life enacted laws to ban partial-birth "Basically, I take care of the in- people so fans can have their memo- ful campaign for a new ballpark, Committee, said the legislation was abortion, and polls have shown that dividual fan," she said. ries captured at Fenway," she said. called Qualcomm Stadium. needed because "some newborn in- at least 70 percent ofAmericans sup- , That is how she met Larry Since spring, Fenway Park has McKenna graduated in 1992 fants, especially those who are born port such a ban. been full almost every night. More from Cathedral High School in Lucchino, Red Sox president and "Americans agree: Partial-birth than 30,000 people have Gome to Springfield. In 1996, she graduated CEO, and Charles Steinberg; the alive during abortions, have been abortion has no place in a country each game to watch their beloved from Dominican-run Providence team's executive vice president for treated as nonpersons." ''This bill says that every infant which believes in compassion and team play.

College in Rhode Island with a de- public affairs. Making their acquainborn alive, even during an abortion dignity for all," Cleaver said. "Un"If it's cold, rainy or hot, our fans gree in health care policy and man- tance led to her getting the fan posiand even if premature, is a full legal . born children suffer terrible pain, come," she said in an interview with agement. tion at Fenway. McKenna learned , person under federal law," he added. and women suffer risks to their The Catholic Observer, Then she and some girlfriends at Christmas she would be working In a statement last March, the health. This procedure must be Springfield's diocesan newspaper. hopped in a car and headed to Port- for the team.

Bush administration said it "strongly .stopped."

What does she like best about She and several other people land, Ore., where she worked briefly from the Boston Red Sox have ini- for the single-A Portland Rockies, a baseball? "I think I like the entertiated new programs this season that farm team of the Colorado Rockies. tainment aspect of baseball. I like the are focused on fans. Their motto is "She's got four brothers who say way it has a real family atmosp~ere.

"Fan Friendly Fenway." they should have that job," A lot of memories are created at the "Right now I'm helping to start McKenna's mom, Chris Keaney, ballpark, especially at Fenway," she up a new program of Fenway Am- said with a chuckle. "But Sarah has said.

"I think my Catholic faith has bassadors, who will be out and talk- worked hard to get where she is. ing and proactively meeting fans on When she worked for the minor taught me the lesson of patience. a day-to-day basis," she said. league team in Oregon, she pulled And I think of the idea of doing McKenna said they actually in- tarp and sold tickets. She leamed unto others as you would have terviewed all 3,500 at a meet-and- about baseball from the grass roots them do unto you has helped. It is basically a good rule to go by," she greet session at the park and nar- up." roweg the group down to about 240 In Oregon, McKenna met her said.

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LEAGUE CITY, Texas (CNS) - For Carl Walz, returning home to family and friends was of primary interest following his six-month traveling excursion.

Still, one cannot underestimate the dmw of gmvity.

St. Mary Church, Walz's home parish,joined earth's gravitational pull in welcoming the astronaut back to League City with a recent Mass and reception in his honor.

Walz is one of the two NASA astronauts who broke the American endurance record with 196 days in space 'onboard the International Space Station.

Following an introduction by pastor Msgr. Eugene Cargill, Msgr. Frank H. Rossi presented Walz with a diocesan medal of recognition from Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston.

Walz, a U.S. Air Force colonel and veteran of four space flights, said the actual flight "was only one part of the whole experience, which staf!ed about five-and-

a-half years ago for me and for my family." ''The thing that really made itendurylble was the support and encouragement I received from my family and from you all during this odyssey," Walz said. "I had some Bible software up onboard the space station and my wife, Pam, would send me the readings for every Sunday and holy day. So I was able to get the readings and use some of the commentaries on the software."

In an interview following the presentation, Walz said one of the things he missed during the flight was his Church community.

"Actually, I had a greeting from Msgr. Cargill when I was in orbit at Christmas time, and it had pictures of the parish and sanctuary (with decorations):' he said.

"It was very nice. Those things that remind you of home are very special."

The astronaut said his faith also helped him during those long stretches confined to the station.

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Two buses left from Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River, two more from Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth and another from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Seekonk.

Joining them were two buses carrying 93 young people and chaperones from the Providence diocese which also left Sunday morning from the Cathedral there.

Among them were 23 teens and adults from Jesus Saviour Parish in Newport, R.I. According to Mrs. Penny Rinfret, coordinator of religious education at that parish, the young pilgrims, many of whom had been pilgrims to Fatima in Portugal last year, will be involved in missionary outreach to the poor and needy while in Toronto.

All groups came together at the Cathedral Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, NY They spent Sunday night at St. Mary's Institute.

On Monday the Fall River contingent split into two groups, one went to Vincenti an-run Niagara University in Niagara N.Y., which is near Niagara Falls, and the other went to Canisius College, a Jesuit-run college which is closer to Buffalo. On Monday night the groups visited the illuminated falls.

On Tuesday morning they left for Toronto, arriving there at noon. The pilgrims are being housed at Brother Andre High School in Markham, Ontario, about a half hour's travel from Toronto.

The travelers will be joined

by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., on Saturday for the overnight vigil service. They will celebrate Mass with him on Sunday; and on Monday will join him at Mass and breakfast

before heading home.

From Providence, Bishop Robert E. Mulvee and Auxiliary Bishop Robert J. McManus will join the groups this weekend and along with many other U.S. and foreign bishops take part in the vigil and other liturgies.

"We have approximately 355 people from southern New England," said Bud Miller, director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Fall River diocese, who is also making the trip.

"Among us are 102 'non-teens' that include about 30 young adult chaperones and another 70 adult chaperones."

"These young leaders were spiritually pumped up for the trip after a year of getting ready," said Miller. "It became a powerful time, fun in many ways, and perhaps even very historic. It might well be the last opportunity - in such a youth forum - that young people will have Pope John Paul II with them, challenging them to be the saints he wants them to be."

Miller said the next World Youth Day is set for 2005 in Germany. "But given the pope's increasing physical debilitation, his presence there seems doubtful," said Miller.

Among those on the bus that left from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Seekonk was Father Hernando Herrera, parochial vicar there and executive director of the diocesan Office of Young Adult Ministry.

"After a year of learning and forming our young people we're ready for this," he said. He was not amazed with the unexpected large turnout that included thousands of priests.

"Young Catholics have responded so generously to every invitation our Holy Father has ever made - beginning with the

first World Youth Day he initiated in 1984."

He said it was a very demanding pilgrimage, but added, "that is what a pilgrimage is." .

Father Herrera noted that the Holy Father has proposed several, young saints or Blesseds as patron saints for the event to Toronto "and their heroic lives are really incredible."

Among those are Pierre Georgio Frassati, St. Theresa of Lisieux, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha and Blessed Ghiana Molla, a modem day doctor and mother.

"I added St. Maria Goretti, a 12-year-old Italian martyr of the early 1900s, to the list in the prayerbook I prepared for the teens to use on the bus I was on," he said. "We'll be praying our way along," he added.

Every one of the young people - from an estimated 150 countries - will have the opportunity to receive a rosary furnished by Holy Cross Family Ministries in North Easton. .

The family prayer and media ministries is fulfilling a request by the Holy Father to present each registered participant with a rosary during this major event, to teach them about how to celebrate their faith.

"This was a daunting task, but we were excited to meet the challenge," said Holy Cross Father John Phalen, president of Holy Cross Family Ministries. He delivered another 30,000 rosaries in person and led WYD participants in prayiI1g the rosary on Wednesday.

Also, the Ministries offered a screening of Family Theatre Productions' half-hour TV drama, "The Secret of Horse," starring martial arts expert Ernie Reyes Jr. The pilgrims are slated to return July 29 about 9 p.m.

Website to provide 'virtual experience' of WYD WASHINGTON (c'NS) - People unable to attend World Youth Day in Toronto can have a virtual experience of events through the eyes of six U.S. young' adults attending the event, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Department of Communications.

Beginning Monday, the U.S. bishops' World Youth Day staff planned to post a daily online journal of articles and photographs compiled from reports by the six participants on the Website www.wydusa.org.

Pope John Paul II was scheduled to attend some of the main events of World Youth Day, being held July 23-28.

A similar online journal was provided for the previous two international youth events in Paris and Rome.

"Parents, particularly, have commented how reading the online journal has helped them stay in touch with their children at World Youth Day and to appreciate what the experience means for them," said the USCCB in an announcement. .

Also, as a follow-up, the U.S. bishops' Subcommittee on Youth and Young Adults has posted on the Website a post-World Youth Day

resource manual to help leaders of young adult ministries keep the spirit of the event alive in their parish communities.

"This resource manual was designed to assist young adult ministry leaders build upon the energy and enthusiasm of World Youth Day, especially for those young adults who had the opportunity to attend the event in Toronto," says its introduction. "A full range.ofreflections, discussion questions, group activity suggestions, and further links can be found here."

The USCCB said the manual was compiled and edited under the supervision of Ana Villamil, associate director of the bishops' Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth.

It incorporates ideas from diocesan and parish staff members as well as original material written by Dominican seminarian Dominic Langevin as a project for his pastoral internship.

Noting World Youth Day can be a "peak experience followed by a let-down," Villamil said in a statement that the resource was developed "to help people convert a short-term pilgrimage into a lifelong journey in the grace of Christ."

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Those state representatives who voted not to adjoulJl- "and therefore were with us on the issue," said D' Avolio, were: Reps. Michael 1. Coppola of 1st Bristol; Robert Correia of 1st Bristol; John Lepper of 2nd Bristol; Elizabeth Poirier of 14th Bristol; Michael Rodrigues of 8th Bristol; George Rogers of 12th Bristol; David B. Sullivan of 6th Bristol; and Philip

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Voting to adjourn and let the amendment die were state Reps.

Demetrius Atsalis of 2nd Barnstable; Antonio ED. Cabral of 13th Bristol; James Fagan of 3rd Bristol; David L. Flynn of 8th Bristol; Thomas George of 1st Barnstable; Shirley Gomes of 4th Barnstable; PatriciaA. Haddad of 5th Bristol; Robert Koczera of lith Bristol; Matthew D. Patrick of 3rd Barnstable; Ruth W. Provost of 2nd Plymouth; John Quinn of 9th Bristol; William Straus of 10th Bristol; and Eric Turkington of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket.

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former member of the National Evangelization Team.

The moderator will be David Thorpe, and the music ministry, Tongues of Fire, will be on hand.

Bishop O'Malley, who urged people to attend the rally, said, "I pray that the FIRE of the Holy Spirit may descend upon all who participate in this spiritual event, and that the gifts of the Holy Spirit will be given in abundance."

Mrs. Marilyn Klob, who with her husband, John, are members of the Cape Cod Prayer Group Deanery sponsoring the event, told The Anchor that the deanery, established nearly IS years ago, is comprised of members of prayer groups from across the Cape.

"This is the second time the Cape was chosen for the FIRE

Rally and because it is sought internationally, we feel we are very lucky to be able to offer it here again," Mrs. Klob said.

The food court at the The Melody Tent will be open beginning at 8 a.m., and there is adequate space on the grounds for picknickers and tailgaters.

Pastors on Cape Cod have responded with enthusiasm to the rally with personal financial support and have allowed the needed registration forms for anyone wanting to attend the rally to be available at their church doors.

For more information on registration and to receive general admission tickets contact: Cape Cod for Jesus, PO Box 210, Centerville, MA 02632-2048.

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Knights of ColuDlbus name essay contest winners ATTLEBORO - The St. John's Council No. 404 Knights of Columbus recently announced the winners in its annual essay contest. It was open to students in seventh and eighth grade with first-prize winners receiving a $300 savings bond, second place a $200 bond, third place, $100; and honorable mention, $50.

Seventh-grade winners were: Meredith Keating, first; Stacey Allen, second; Laura White, third; Diana Desmond, Sarah Freddo, and Heather Tullos, honorable mention.

Eighth-grade winners were: Heidi Ludwig, first; Shala Murphy, second; Caitlin St. John, third; Caitlin Knipper, honorable.mention..

THESE CHILDREN were honored for having perfect or near-perfect attendance for religious education classes at St. Louis de France Church, Swansea. From left front are: Carver Ricci, Victoria Martin, Ashley Leite, Lauren Coulombe, Jared Neville, Kelsey Parent and Steven Carberry. Middle: Colby Bergeron, Alison Vautrin, Tyler Curry, Nicholas LaRoche, Ryan Beaudette, Tyler Marchand and Alicia Curry. Back row: Pastor Father Roger LeDuc, Alyssa DeSorcy, Julienne Desrosiers, Brynn Hussey and director of religious education, Paulette Normandin. Also recognized but not pictured are: Eric Barrar,Joseph Cabral, Ryan Casey, Joshua Ferreira, Andre Gadbois, Megan and Sara Goddu, Amanda Grimes, Tess Koolen, Brittany LaRoche, Leah Lessard, Lauren Martin, Dylan Pacheco, Bianca Pacheco, Angela Paulo, Ashley' Perry and Kelsey Roberts. ,

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TEACHER OFTHE YEAR Joan Drobnis displays ~ plaque she was given upon being named Teacher of theYear by the _ Attleboro Area Chamber of Commerce. She teaches Spanish at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, and has been STUDENTS IN Marianne McGlynn's fourth-grade class at the St. Anne School, Fall River, doing so since 1979. She is being congratulated by Vice Prinrecently repainted the fences used for the Mother's Day Tea. The annual gathering of parcipal Karen Brennan, who nominated Drobnis for the award. ents and students is sponsored by the third-grade class.

R A C H E L HENDERSON, a senior at Bishop Feehan High School in 2001-02 was one of five Catholic high school students in the U.S. and Canada to receive a $1,000 scholarship from Fireside Catholic PUblishing. She was awarded the prize based on her essay answering the question, "How is your religious education influencing your life?"

FIFTH-GRADERS Ethan Barnes and Michael Pratt enjoy a game of Wiffle Ball during St. Mary's School's annual field day at Cathedral Camp~ Eas.! Freetown. Students, teachers and . parents from the New Bedford school enjoyed games and activities during the afternoon.

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By MICHAEL BROWN CATliOUC NEWS SERVICE

NEWPORT, R.I. - This summer, while some young people were spooning their second bowl of cereal or staring mindlessly at reruns of their favorite cartoon, children in St. Mary Parish's religious education program were learning more about their faith in concentrated classes.

Most parish religious education programs take place during the traditional school year - September through May - for one hour a week. However, at St. Mary's in Newport and at a handful of other patishes in the Providence diocese, students attend an intensive twoweek summer program covering the same curriculum.

Molly McGregor, pastoral assistant and religious education director, said the summer program, which began its 10th year when it opened July 8, has been a huge success and is well-received by students and parents.

The program is based on the "Loreto Model," which originated in the Diocese ofWorcester, Mass.

McGregor said she "had heard good things" about the prograrn a decade ago, when shejoined a parish delegation traveling to Worcester to observe classes and study the cUiriculum.

Then, St. Mary's religious education leaders spent a year setting up the program in the parish and educating parents about it before formally initiating it in 1993.

During the two weeks of the program, students in kindergarten to eighth grade attend classes from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday. They also attend one Sunday session, beginning with 9:30 a.m. Mass and finishing up at 12:45 p.m., and host a pro-

gram of music and readings for parents on the night before the last session.

The students also gather on three Sundays during the regular academic year - once during Advent, Lent and in April or May - for "prayer days," beginning. with 9:30 a.m. Mass, followed by the sacrament·ofreconciliation and finishing at 12:45 p.m.

All told, the students spend the same 35 hours in training as their school-year counterparts do when attending weekly classes.

First Communion and confirmation programs are still held during the regular school year, McGregor told The Providence Visitor, diocesan newspaper. .

The program is staffed by a principal, six teachers and a music teacher. With 10 to 12 students per class, and two sessions each summer, it is easy to accommodate the more than 140 children who register for the program.

"There's a great deal of learning going on here," McGregor said, because it's a "much more consistent learning experience."

While traditional hourlong religious education programs need to review the previous week's lesson before beginning new material, "we felt we could do more with the children with a larger block of time," she added.

The summer format also allows the classes to go on occasional field trips, including visits to the Cathedral ofSS. Peter and Paul in Providence, a local Greek Orthodox church and the nearby Truro Synagogue, McGregor sai~. This year's studentS visited St. Lucy Church in Middletown, built in the 1950s, to compare it with their own church, built nearly a century earlier.

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By CHARLIE MARTIN • CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Thought that I was going crazy Just having one of those days Didn't know what to do Then there was you First refrain: And everything went from wrong to right And the stars came out and filled up the sky The music you were playing really blew my mind It was love at first sight Second refrain: 'Cause baby when I heard you For the first time I knew . We were meant to be as one Was tired of running out of luck Thinking 'bout giving up yeah Didn't know what to do Then there was you (Repeat first refrain.)

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Sung by Kylie Minogue Copyright (c) 2002 by Capitol/EMI Some reviewers call her the "European Madonna." Entertainment Weekly says that her new CD "Fever" is proof that disco lives. Rolling Stone lauds her newfangled techno style. Who? Why of course Kylie Minogue! Along wit:·, the hype, Minogue's new album is rising quickly on the charts.

If you are a hopeless romantic then Minogue's new hit single "Love At First Sight" from the

"Fever" album is the song for you.

You could probably put yourself right into the character's thoughts when she sings: "And everything went from wrong to right. And the stars came out and filled up the sky. The music you were playing really blew my mmd. It was love at first sight."

-Ask her friends, particularly the more honest ones, what they like and dislike about the individual. She is much too lost in romance to be objective in her evaluation of him. She needs to be open to both positive and negative feedback.

- When going on dates she should arrange to see this person ~"1f.7 a~~,£; in a variety of situations. She ~fJlA « ~ ~ should especially observe how he treats others. Does he show most ~ people kindness and respect? ~ - She should notice how he responds when they disagree. (If ~ they never disagree that means ~ ~1ft,1Jg neither of them is risking much in getting to know the other.)

Do they try to find solutions that both of them can accept?

Or docs he just try to get his way?

- Does he have a life outside of her? For example, do his . interests sometimes keep him from having time with her? If not, • then she has become his primary focus. No matter how attracted she feels, beware! Over time, she Well, maybe it was love, but will be overwhelmed by his needs probably not! Perhaps she is ex- and grow tired of being responperiencing sexual desire or in- sible for his happiness.

- What moral values seem to tense emotional infatuation, but love implies commitment. Any- guide his decisions? Are they one who makes a commitment compatible with hers? If not, is over a first meeting is headed for she willing to put aside some of a ton of disappointment and hurt. her most importan(qualities just So what should this girl do? I to be in this romance?

Does love at first sight exist? would suggest a few common It's clear what my opinion is. sense steps: - Slow down the pace of the You may have a different view. relationship. No more than one E-mail me and give me your perdate a week helps to keep emo- spective on my advice. I'll try to tions from doing her thinking in- share your thinking in a future stead of her brain! Also, phone column.

Your comments are always conversations should be limited, say no more than a couple a welcome. Please address: chmartin@swindiana.net. week.

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By AMY WELBORN CATHOLIC NEWS' SERVICE

When my oldest son was tive, about a week before Christmas he made one request, offered in the saddest little-boy voice you could imagine: "All I really want for Christmas is a Pound Puppy."

If you're around my son's age (he's 19 now), you might remember what a Pound Puppy was: a sad-looking, flattened out, stuffed dog. Pound Puppies were all the rage for a while, but like all rages they eventually went out of fashion, leaving little kids clamoring for something else for Christmas.

Well, of course, my son got his Pound Puppy. He was just too pitiful to be denied.

Christopher lives away from home now, but on a recent visit he discovered that his old, be-

loved stuffed dog is still around - being hugged by his 15month-old little brother. Christopher didn't mind, being the generous fellow he is.

Seeing his Pound Puppy again, however,reminded him of his other childhood toys, and he told me of a recent conversation with friends in which they'd spent the good part of an evening recalling their favorites: Pound Puppies, Transformers, Masters of the Universe and so on.

I wasn't surprised to hear about such a conversation taking place, even between a crew of pierced, tattooed, sports-minded "very cool guys."

When I taught high school, I found that teens loved - really, really loved - talking about their childhood diversions, especially their favorite toys and cartoons.

It was kind of funny and sweet, to tell the truth, seeing these kids reminiscing like they were old geezers chatting about

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the good old days. I'll bet you know how it is. You probably like to think about your old stuff too.

Why is that?

Teens may not be decades and decades old, but they still have pasts to think about, p~sts that have brought them to where they arc now. And for most teens, just

like adult~, the point they're at now is full of a lot more pressures than years past were.

After all, when you were 10 you weren't worrying about college. When you were six you didn't have a job to go to or grades to keep up, and nobody made you feel as if every decision you made was going to have a potentially momentous effect on the dreaded rest of your life.

And everyone was content to let you play rather than nag you about "responsibility." Right?

No wonder you like thinking about those toys. No wonder (admit it) you don't mind chilling out in front of a favorite cartoon once in a while - when you have time. Sure, you want to grow up, but thinking about the .fun you had when you were a kid helps keep you in touch with that

very important part of life - fun.

But thinking about all the old stuff should remind you of something else as well. Life goes on.

What fascinates you today is probably going to fade in importance in the future. The external stuff that you think is vital and important right now - clothes, hair, music - probably is going to seem outdated, even childish, in 10 years or maybe less.

And once again, you'll look back, just like you look back on your toys today. You '11 look back with fondness at the fun you had.

You'll look back in embarrassment at how lame it seems now.

But I hope you won't look back in regret for paying too much attention to things that pass and not enough to other things - relationships, love, faith that do not.

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Carmelites elect Prior Provincial DARIEN, m. - The Order of Carmelites of the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary has announced the election of Father John F. Russell, O. Carm., to the position of Prior Provincial. ' Father Russell succeeds Father Leo McCarthy, O. Carm., who' completed his second, consecutive, three-year-term. ' The new prior is the Provinces' spiritual leader and' the' official representative of the Province to the General Curia in Rome and to other ecclesial and civic authorities.

Father Russell, 67, is a native ,of Springfield, Mass. He was professed into the Carmelite community in 1954 and ordained a priest

on July 25, 1960. He holds a doctorate in systematic theology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., following undergraduate degrees at the Lateran University in Rome and a master's degree in educational' administration-' from Roosevelt University in Chicago.

He has served his community as a vocation director, teacher, spit:itual director,.director of novices and assistant provincial.

Father Russell has maintained an extensive writing career, his articles appearing in many publications including The Irish Theological Quarterly, Church Magazine, Studies in Spirituality and Pastoral Life.

FATHER BRIAN J. Harrington, spiritual advisor of the New Bedford Serra Club, speaks during the group's final meeting before summer. The Serras, who work to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life will elect new officers August 7. With Father Harrington are president John E. Hoyle and former president Joseph S. Avila.

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BLANCHE PEPIN and Alice Torres of S1. Mary's Parish, Fairhaven, prepare fixings for its recent Ice Cream Social.

More than 60 people enjoyed the event held after a 10 a.m.

Mass.

Vatican Radio boldly goes where no staff has gone before: the Web VATICAN CITY (CNS) With a tiny budget and a core staff of two, Vatican Radio has begun experimenting quietly with what project leaders expect to one day completely revolutionize the 71year-old broadcaster: multimedia Internet radio.

Over the past year, the radio's Internet-development team consisting of two American employees with radio and sound experience but no formal Web training - has refined concepts, worked out bugs, and tried to convince higher-ups that the risks of the new media are worth the plunge.

Now they say they're ready to show off the fruits of their labors, which they describe as an edgy and informative Catholic site with few parallels.

"What we're trying to do is offer in an attractive format really compelling, interesting and even fun Catholic stories or stories from a Catholic point of view," said Stephen Banyra, 42, the site's Web master and former director of the radio's English-language news program.

"We also wanted to give it a bit of a commercial feel to make it accessible to a wider audience, not just Catholics," he said.

For Vatican Radio, the project represents a formidable institutional gamble. Since its inception in 1931, the Jesuit-run broadcast establishment has felt the weight of its responsibility as the "pope's radio" and informal Vatican representative, and purposefully leaves little to chance. The vast majority of the programming it sends out over the airwaves is still pre-recorded.

But the Holy Year 2000 marked a turning point. For the first time, the radio launched a continuous live, multilingual program that featured listener ,callins and roaming correspondents armed with cell-phones and miniCD recorders. It was called "Jubilaeum" and hosted on 105 FM, the radio's most powerful frequency in Rome.

"The jubilee year was the revolutionary tum-around year," said , S~an Patrick Lovett, who came up

with the jubilee programming Based on the number of Econcept and for years directed the mails the site gets; Banyra estiradio's English-language features mates that already about 1,000 section. visitors daily find their way there He said the radio had started through search engines or word to realize that it was "preaching of mouth. Some E-mails have to the converted," and that, if it come from places such as China, wanted to have any role in the Ukraine, and Botswana. world of communications in the One E-mail on the site's mesthird millennium, "it would have sage board is from "Tom S.," 30, to open up and start路 interacting': ofCambridge, England, who said with that world. he stumbled a,cross the site while But the radiq also had to corrie looking for:an Intem",t radio to grips with the risks of live broadcast of a loc'al soccer match. broadcasting, in which "you' ,"I've just added your site to never quite know what's going to my favorites. J think路 it's just a happen" and even sometimes "un- , terrific idea," wrote the 30 c yearcomfortable" things take place, old, \Yho: said, he had been to Lovett said. For example, he said, church "~nly a' few times~' in the early in the jubilee year, a' priest past decade.' being interviewed live in-studio "I've always found it difficult, made an unexpected plea for or- to look ar'any man (priest or not) daining women as priests, which and believe wholeheartedly the has been formally ruled out by things they'say. Isn't it odd ':-but ' Pope John Paul I I . ' also true - that a voice without "The sky didn't falL The build- human presence is so much easier ing didn't collapse. The pope to relate to?" he said. didn't resign," Lovett said. "And Banyra, who responds to evit gave us a springboard" to look ery message he receives, atat the issue in greater depth by tributes some of the interest alinviting in other priests and mis- ready shown in the site to the opsionaries who explained the portunity to make "a direct link pope's position, he said. to the Vatican. They write to the The "Jubilaeum" concept was 'Vatican,' and they get a response deemed such a success that when back. I think really that's somethe jubilee ended, the program thing that's new." was slightly reworked and rePlans for future development named One-O-Five Live. It include installing a Web cam in broadcasts in Italian and English the One-O-Five Live studio, and and is the main sourcefor the con- broadening its base of creative tent of the radio's interactive site.' , content. For this summer's U.N. Lovett heads both projects. sustaina~le development conferBanyra and an assistant, Mat- ence in South Africa, for instance, thew Sherry, a 29-year-old former the site has been promised daily sound engineer for the Eternal 'audio reports and political carWord Television Network, update , toons from Jesuits following the the site's content five days a }Veek .' meeting as nongovernmental obfrom their computer terminals in servers. an old sound studio on the fifth Through all the innovations, floor of the radio's headquarters Banyra said, he's made it a priornear St. Peter's Square. ity to anchor the site in the Audio offerings include a live church's liturgical life in a way connection to the radio broadcast that is appropriate to the radio's as well as on-demand links to se- primary spiritual mission: Each lected programming, currentiy all Internet broadcasting day starts in Real Player format. Banyra with 6:30 a.m. morning prayer said he plans to start offering and Mass in Latin, andis capr'ed higher-quality MPEG files in the with night prayers in Latin at II fall to facilitate distribution of the p.m. programming to radio stations Vatican Radio's One-O-}~ive around the world that might want Live Website can be found at: to rebroadcast them. http://I05Iive.vaticanradio.org.