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European church faces a variety of problems, issues WASHINGTON (CNS) - Dramatic and changing events in Europe continue to involve the Catholic Church both at the international and local level.

In Western Europe, the German bishops began working on plans for moving some offices. Some conference offices currently in Bonn will follow government offices to Berlin, once again the capital of a united Germany.

And as the all-Europe bishops' synod, scheduled for November, approaches, a Belgian priest-sociologist urged planners to include the issue of migrant workers on the agenda. Without farsighted policies on Europe's part, he said, "enormous tensions" are inevitable.

Meanwhile, the church in Eastern Europe continues to be troubled by issues ranging from the debate

over abortion legislation in Poland to the breakup of Yugoslavia.

In Yugoslavia, church leaders inthe breakaw~y republics of Croatia and Slovenia are part of the chorus of criticism against the country's federal government.

Back in Germany, the process of consolidating what was two countries for the past 45 years proceeds, and the Catholic church is part of the process.

The milestone decision June 20 by the German parliament to move government and parliamentary offices from Bonn to Berlin has led to discussions within several church offices on whether to follow the government's lead.

The most important central office of German Catholicism, the secretariat of the German'bishops' conference, intends to stay put, its

director, Msgr. Wilhelm Schaetzler, told reporters in late June.

However, the Commissariat of the German bishops, also called the Catholic Office, will make the move since it functions primarily as the church's liaison office to the German federal government, said the agency's director, Msgr. Paul Bocklet.

He estimated it will take the government at least four years to move.

Officials of the Central Committee of German Catholics, the national agency which represents Germany's Catholic laity, said they would like to wait and see what develops.

The Catholic Military Bishop's Office will move to the reunited Germany's once and future capital.

While the German bishops are

pondering their moves, a Catholic sociologist is urging all the bishops of Western Eurqpe to take heed of the thousands of migrant workers.

European and other, who might be heading for their territories.

"If Europe is not prepared to invest heavily in Eastern Europe, including Russia. and in North Africa, many millions of people will invade...... Jesuit Father Jan Kerkhofs told a "Rerum Novarum" centenary conference organized by England's Catholic bishops.

"Enormous tensions will be created," he added. "Indeed, we already see the beginning in France and Italy. where hundreds ofthousands of black workers are landing without passports."

Father Kerkhofs said, "For many of these so-called 'invaders' work means survival."

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Poland's bishops were looking at the survival of another class of human beings - unborn infants.

The country's centrist Democratic Union Party. reviving a national debate about abortion, said July 16 it had proposed new legislation after the country's parliament blocked church-backed proposals for abortion restrictions.

The party proposes allowing abortion after rape or incest, to save a mother's life or in cases of material hardship. which would have to be certified by a special commission.

The draft would allow only public service doctors to perform abortions and provide a three-year jail term for private physicians who do so.

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There are a lot of 'us VATICAN CITY (CNS) There are more than 919 million Catholics, 17.5 percent of the world's population, according to the latest Vatican figures.

The statistics show that the increase in Catholics has kept pace with the overall population growth through the 1980s.

The figures were released July IS by the Vatican's Central Office for Church Statistics and are for 1989, the last year for which there are worldwide figures. They summarize data scheduled for publication in the 1989 Vatican Statistical Yearbook.

The 1988 Catholic population was 906 million.

Msgr. Pietro Silvi, head of the statistics office, said the Catholic population figure includes an estimate of 13 million Catholics in countries under communist rule in 1989 - such as in Eastern Europe, China, Cambodia and Laos where it was impossible to gather reliable data.

Msgr. Silvi told Catholic News Service that political changes in

Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union should result in reliable figures for 1990 from that region.

The figures released showed 42.4 percent of the Catholic population in Latin America and 31 percent in Europe. Europe, however, is decreasing in percentage of Catholics, while Latin America is slowly increasing. The data did not include country-by-country breakdowns.

The data compared 1989 figures with those from 1978, when Pope John Paul II was elected.

The figures also show a steady decrease in the number of priests and a steady rise in the number of major seminarians and ordinations.

There were 62,670 major seminarians in 1978 and 93,405 in 1989, a 49 percent increase. Ordinations rose from 5,765 to 7,686, a 33 percent increase.

But the increases fell short of offsetting the drop in priests resulting from deaths and abandonment of the active ministry.

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BISHOP DANIEL A. Cronin greets a small parishioner during a recent pastoral visit to Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville. Pastor Father John A. Perry (center) and parochial vicar Father John J. Perry look on.

Archbishop urges easing of embargo against Iraq WASHINGTON (CNS) - The head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Policy has asked the U.S. government to see that the embargo against Iraq be "more narrowly targeted" so that there can be more "humanitarian relief to suffering Iraqis."

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III, Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis said Catholic aid organizations in Iraq report "a widespread and .growing incidence cif disease and malnutrition, especially among children, the sick and the elderly."

"The embargo is directly and dramatically harming the civilian population, especially the most

vulnerable, in ways not originally foreseen," Archbishop Roach told Baker. "These changes in objectives and impact suggest the need to reassess the moral questions posed by the embargo."

sanitation and health care systems, Archbishop Roach said.

"The embargo, as now applied, unduly risks violating fundamental moral norms and prolonging human suffering," he said. "We The archbishop said the embargo must prevent [Saddam Hussein's] "should be maintained until Iraq regime from continuing to threaten complies fully with the cease-fire peace and security in the region, resolutions" ofthe United Nations, but the means we choose to achieve but should be combined with "an this legitimate end should reflect easing of the restrictions on Iraq's our abiding respect for human life ability to use its resources to meet - and not further jeopardize the lives the essential human needs of its and health of the most vulnerable population...

Iraqis."

The freed-up resources could In a letter to Abdul Amir Alallow Iraq to rebuild its decimated Anbari, Iraqi ambassador to the food distribution, water supply, United Nations, Archbishop Roach

urged Iraq "to comply immediately and fully with the cease-fire resolutions" and to "end its duplicity and evasion on the question of its nuclear capacity."

Such actions will prove to the international community that Iraq "has adopted a new and unwavering commitment to respect the security of its neighbors and the fundamental rights of all its citizens," he added.

The letters, dated July 16, were made public in Washington July 19.

In a separate letter July 19, 'nine religious leaders from Northern California urged President Bush to "lift all non-military sanctions

in order to prevent further civilian deaths from disease and hunger."

The group included Auxiliary Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla of San Francisco, along with representatives, of the Methodist, Lutheran, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Jewish and Buddhist faiths.

"It would be an unnecessary tragedy for thousands of innocent Iraqis to die long after the military hostilities have ceased," the leaders said. "The sanctions imposed by the U.N. were intended only to ensure an end to military threats and we believe lifting of sanctions will not contribute to Iraq's nuclear or military capability."

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Brother Dionne retires After 29 years of training future teachers. Fall River native Brother Conrad J. Dionne FIC. retired recently from the teacher preparation program at' Walsh College, North Canton, Ohio.

Born in Fall River, Brother Dionne is ~ native of Notre Dame de Lourdes parish and attended the former Msgr. Prevost High School before entering the brothers' novitiate in Alfred. Maine, in 1935.

He holds two bachelors' degrees from the University of Montreal, JUST·INSTALLED officers of the Taunton District Council of Catholic Women: from masters' degrees from St. Michael's left, Paula King, treasurer; Grace DiSanto and HelenI Telesmanick, secretaries; Jean Arikian, College. Winooski, Vt.• and Catholic University of America; and a vice president; Adrienne Lemieux, president; with outgoing president Martina Grover and doctorate from Fordham Universi- Rev. Paul G. Connolly, district moderator. (Photo courtesy of Taunton Daily Gazette) ty.

He came to Walsh College in 1962, where he established and directed the teacher preparation BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNS) - It·s in 1828 in Dublin. Ireland. when program which since 1964 has In 1965. the Federation of the official. Twenty-five regional com- she used her inheritance to open a Sisters of Mercy of the Americas produced 666 graduates. munities of Sisters of Mercy uni- center for the poor. sick and uned- formed to regularly share ideas Other positions he held over the ted as one institute July 20, form- ucated. When townspeople and and offer support. Eventually. a years were dean of students. regising one of the largest religious church authorities frowned on the common constitution for all the trar. director of secondary educaorders in the world. idea of lay women living together units in the United States was writtion. and professor of English and The 7,400 Mercy sisters from 29 as a community. she applied to ten and groundwork was laid for secondary education. countries and 45 of the 50 U.S. Rome and eventually founded the the new institute.

In 1985 he became a permanent state~ were linked in a ceremony in Sisters of Mercy as a religious The Mercy nuns were to remain parttime professor of education Buffalo during which 3.000 women order. ' in Buffalo for a two-week chapter and supervised student teaching representing the various communEarly in the 20th century. indi- to set an agenda for the next four by secondary education majors. ities signed a document as co- vidual congregations - or units years as well as elect a president Walsh awards a Brother Confounders of the Sisters of Mercy of - of Sisters of Mercy flourished rad J. Dionne Education Scholarand four councilors as the admimthe Americas. around the United States. The istrative team. ship yearly to the graduating senior A decree from the Vatican for- limited resources of some units led being certified as a teacher "who Headquarters and central offibest exemplifies the qualities of ' mally establishing the order was them to unite as the Sisters of ces of the order will be in Silver read during the fOlmding event. It Mercy of the Union. while others Spring, MD.• a suburb of Washingkindness. sincerity. dedication and culminated a W-year proces.s to re~ainedindependent. ton. professionalism that have marked unite the smaller organizations. the life" of Brother Dionne.

Buffalo Maypr James D. Grif'In 1985 tribute ~arking'Brother Dionne's 50th jUbilee, another Fall ' fin proclaimed'July 20 as "Sisters of Mercy Qay." ~ , " " ' River native. Broth~r, ~obert A. A series of playlets was used to Francoeur. 'Walsh's second presirelate the history of the Sisters of dent and now professor of philoMercy from their founding and and for five years she chaired the sophy and ~usiness, noted that through their establishment in the Miss Alberta pageant.

Brother Dionne's hobbies were Americas. A segment in Spanish In retirement she returned to "gazing at the stars, feeding the The Mass of Christian 'Burial and another performed in mime was held Wednesday in the chapel New Bedford. where she was superbirds, starting electric fans. killing stressed the diversity of cultures the weeds and cleaning." ofSt. George Manor, Manchester, ior at St. Anthony's Convent for the sisters incorporate.

He called Brother Dionne "a NH, for Sister Irene ,Desaultes, six years and served at St. Luke's The first House of Mercy was real treasure to have around, a CSC, 76, a former pastoral minis- Hospital. At one time she was established bY,Catherine McAuley brother who shows his interest in ter at St. Luke's Hospital, New director and treasurer of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. all of us, not in words but in Bedford who died there July 21 In May 1987, Sister Desaultes deeds," and "a paragon of civility after a one-year illness.

MEXICO CITY (CNS) - A celebrated 50 years in religious life who occasionally carries courtesy Born in New Bedford, she was Mexican priest, the first non-Euroat ceremonies in Manchester. Monto excess. In this area at least he , pean elected superior general of the daughter of the late Hughes treal and Alberta. never sins by omission." and the late Anastasie (Fafard) She is survived by a brother, In retirement, Brother Dionne the Discalced Carmdites in the Desaultes. ' William A. 'oesaultes, and a sister, w,ill reside in Alfred, at the Ameri- order's700-year history, says he She attended St. Anne's School· -wants 'to' be a "bridge"·'between canpro'vince-motherhouse~of the Jeanne Patenaude. both of New Rome and Latin America. Father and Holy Family High School in Bedford, also by nieces arid Brothers of Christian instruction. , New Bedford. then received a civil _A siste~, 'Mrs'-Leonel Di:ipui~. Camilo Maccise,54, former' proservice appointment with the Imm- ' nephews. vincial superior 'in .Mexico, will resides in Fall River wlij.:re she is a igration and Naturalization Serlead the order for the next six member of St. Joseph's parish. vice in New York City. years. ...

In 1937 she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in The Mass of Christian Burial.

Montreal as Sister Florian and was celebrated Wednesday at Mt. , thereafter taught five years at St. St. Rita Convent, Cumberland, Women Affirming Life. Inc. WALI's media task force. chaired Joseph's School. Springfield.

(W ALI), a group of Catholic pro- by Mary Ellen Bork of Washing, RI, for Sister Mary Scholastica In 1944 she was assigned to the Heaney. RSM. 96. who died Sunfessional women, has launched a ton, D.C., will develop a speaker's province of Alberta. Canada. where day at the convent. multifaceted effort which calls for bureau of women from across the a more visible role for' Catholic nation who will be available to she completed a degree in business A native of Fall River, she was women in support of the Catholic speak in a wide variety of forums: administration and founded St. the daughter of the lat~ Thomas Church's pro-life public witness.

Joseph's Business College in Grand H. Heaney and the late Mary M. ,television. radio. college campuses, Prairie. Alberta. For 17 years she (Barrett) Heaney.

W ALI will focus its efforts and women's organizations. through task forces or{ education. was dean of the business adminisShe entered the Sisters of Mercy The education task force. headed media outreach and pr;ayer. tration department. obtaining a in 1917 and professed final vows

by Janet Smith'of the University master's degree in business and July 3, 1919. During a long teach"We hope to change a certain of Dallas. will place strong emcertification as a public accoun- ing career. she taught at several cultural perception that a: woman phasis on educating young people tant from the University of Seattle. schools in the Fall River diocese. professional is also. inevitably of high school and college .age Following her teaching years. including St. Patrick's and St. ·pro-choice·... said Frances Hogan. regarding the facts about abortiOn. Sister Desaultes joined her order's Joseph's schools in Fall River and a Boston attorney and WALI presMother Assumpta Long of Nashprovincial council and for 13 years St. Kilian's and St. James schools ident. "Women have long been the oversaw construction of convents in New Bedford. She was later backbone of pro-life work in Cath- . ville. Tenn.• chairs the task force in the Alberta province. olic dioceses and community pro- on prayer. which will call upon principal of St. Mary's' School, She was also a pastoral minister North Attleboro. life work nationwide," said Hogan. Catholics and others to pray and and directed choral groups in her "They head pro-life organizations sacrifice on behalf of life. Catholic She is survived by two nieces. parish. and provide many of the services dioceses and others will be asked Mrs. Vincent McNamara and Mary For eight years she directed the S.wan, and a nephew, Edward available to pregnant women. their to invite their members to pray for the success of pro-life efforts.

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Brother Eli Pelchat. CSC. a native of St. Mary's parish. Norton. where he was an altar boy. who now ministers at Bishop McNamara High School. Forestville.

Md .• is marking his golden jubilee in religious life.

Professing final vows in the Congregation of Holy Cross on Sept.

2, 1941. he then pursued studies at the University of Notre Dame and in 1942 was given a "temporary" assignment at the Notre Dame post office - an assignment that turned into 25 years of employment. He worked-as a clerk. then assistant postmaster. and was then appointed the campus's seventh postmaster by President John F. Kennedy.

During that time he was also a lector and parttime organist at an area parish.

In 1967 he was assigned to the Pius XII School for boys in Chester. NY. where, he was assistant child care counselor and assistant to the treasurer. He participated in youth retreats as well as in area Cursillo weekends and was also a lector and eucharistic minister at St. Columba's Church in Chester.

He was assigned.to Bishop McNamara in 1979 and has served there as administrative assistant. director of admissions. registrar, and moderator of the McNamara Women's Guild. a position he presently holds. .

He has participated in high school and young adult ECHO retreat weekends,and is a eucharis'tic minister at Mt. Calvary parish in Forestville: He celebrated his golden jubilee with fellow religious in th'e spring"

Obituaries

Sister Desaultes

First non-European

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Women's pro-life role emphasized

BROTHER PELCHAT

900-ANTHONY PATERSON, N.J. (CNS) ~ The Franciscans have come up with a high-tech. solution to the age-old problem of raising money for the poor.

By dialing 1-900-ANTHONY, a nationwide number named for the patron saint of the St. Anthony's Guild of Paterson, callers donate $2 to Franciscan ministries and hear an inspirational two-minute message. The messages' change weekly.

St. Anthony's Guild, supports ministries including four Anthony Houses for the poor and homeless on the East Coast, Franciscan soup kitchens and other services for the needy.

"If they had had telephones back then, Francis and Anthony probably would have done their joyful begging for the poor in a similar way." said Lisa Broderick, president of Talisman Communications in New York, which with AT&T helped the Franciscans develop the 900 telephone service.

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The Anchor· Friday, July 26, 1991

I)ebra Polselli heads 'Pax Christi Pax Christi of Southeastern Massachusetts, the area chapter of an international Catholic peace movement, has named Debra PolseIli as its coordinator for the comingyear. She succeeds Rev. Joseph M. Costa, executive director of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, who was among founders of the local chapter in 1989.

Meetings are held at 7 p.m. the first Sunday of each month from September through June, either at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, or at St. Vincent's' Home.

The home will be the site of a planning meeting to be held Sept.

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Peace activist Gordon Zahn, founder of the Center on Conscience and War in Charlestown, will speak in October on the history of war and in November on the peace witness of Franz Jaegerstaeter, a German peasant beheaded during World War II for refusing to serve in Hitler's army.

Other topics to be discussed at meetings include Central America and Haiti and a retreat is planned for March, 1992.

New members are welcome and are invited to attend the Sept. 8 meeting.

F ATHER JAMES R. Nunes, MS, was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin on June 8 at St. Joseph's Church, North Dighton. He celebrated his first Mass the following day at St. Joseph's with concelebrants Father John Cronin, St. Joseph's pastor, and Father Camille Doucet, MS, of Our Lady of the Cape parish, Brewster. Father Leo-Paul LeBlanc, MS, was the homilist.

Father Nunes, the son of Shirley Nunes ofTaunton and the late Robert Nunes and the grandson of Amarill Coyle of Taunton, is a member of the pastoral team at Our Lady of the Cape. He is chairperson of the pastoral ministries committee of the Cape Cod AIDS Council and directs the parish AIDS outreach committee.

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occasions and was honored many times for his contributions to racial ha{mony, he set the tone for his episcopate when he was asked about civil rights demonstrations at his first press conference as a bishop-elect.

He said such demonstrations had a place and he had no objections to clergy participation in them, but he himself would "have so many things to do as a Catholic bishop that I personally will not have time to be considered a civil rights leader."

As an auxiliary in New Orleans, Bishop Perry was also archdiocesan vicar general, consultor, vicar for religious and coordinator for higher education.

"N.ew England ho.l/,itality wllh a European Flair"

AUXILIARY BISHOP Harold R. Perry leaves St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, last Jan. 12 following a Mass celebrating his 25th anniversary of episcopal ordination. (CNS photo)

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Bishop Perry, first 20th-century U.S. black bishop, dies NEW ORLEANS (CNS) Auxiliary Bishop Harold R. Perry of New Orleans, who in 1966 became the first U.S. black bishop in this century, died July 17 after a long illness. He was 74 years old.

When he marked his 25th anniversary as a bishop in January, the number of black bishops in the country had grown to 13.

He was named a bishop Oct. 2, 1965, shortly after the final threemonth session ofthe Second Vatican Council opened, and he attended the last session ofthe council as a bishop-designate.

A Louisiana native and a priest ofthe Society ofthe Divine Word, he was head of the society's southern province when he was made a bishop.

He was a charter member of the board of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice and strong proponent of racial justice and civil rights, but he preferred to work quietly on such issues and was rarely in the national spotlight.

Born Oct. 9, 1916, in Lake Charles, La., Harold R. Perry was the eldest of six children of Frank Perry, a rice mill worker, and his wife, Josephine, a domestic cook.

They were devout third-generation French-speaking Catholics.

Despite financial limitations, they educated their children well and sawall of them become professionals - their sons were a doctor, two dentists and a priest and both daughters became school teachers.

Young Harold entered Divine Word Seminary in Bay St. Louis in 1930, at the age of 13, and was ordained a Divine Word priest in 1944.

In 1958 he was named rector of the Bay St. Louis seminary and while there was among religious leaders invited to the White House to discuss peaceful desegregation of public accommodations with Presid~nt John F. Kennedy and 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

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His work as seminary r~ctor and as Divine Word provinicial since 1964 - he was the first black in both those posts - caught the attention ofthen-Archbishop John P. Cody of New Orleans, who asked Rome to make him an auxiliary bishop in New Orleans.

Archibishop Cody was subsequently transferred to Chicago, where he later became a cardinal.

But less than a week after naming his successor in New Orleans, Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, Pope Paul VI named Bishop Perry as the new archbishop's auxiliary.

He was ordained a bishop Jan. 6, 1966, the 22nd anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.

In one of his first homilies as a bishop, delivered at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-

tion in Washington two weeks after his ordination, Bishop Perry sharply reproved the white Catholics who were then moving out of neighborhoods in droves as blacks moved in.

"Neighborhoods are' changing because some Catholics refuse to be the neighbors of Negroes," he said. "Such persons - and God forbid that you are among them -simply cannot be listening to the promptings ofthe Holy Spirit, the personification oflove."

In a 1969 address to the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, he warned that the church "must stop trying to make black men white who want to become Catholic."

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the ·moorin~ Let's Get Going It is tragic to read that Governor Weld and Lt. Governor Cellucci have determined to implement anti-life programs that . will mean death for the unborn. Weld and his road man are preparing legislation that would not only permit girls to get abortions without parental approval at age 16 instead of the present age of 18, but would require approval of the procedure by only one parent.

A longtime supporter of abortion rights, Weld is determined to checkmate any conservative attempt to place limits on the current Roe vs Wade ruling. Having the support offree choice an9 other liberal abortion groups, the governorfeels he can act to keep the Commonwealth in the forefront of pro-abortion programs.

What is unfortunate about this action is that Weld's proposals extend far beyond the single issue of abortion. His planned legislation is an uncalled-for intrusion into family life, taking as it does an inherent right from parents. Weld is in fact attempting to strip from parents the right to even the slightest involvement in decisions regarding a child caught up in the difficulty of an unexpected pregnancy.

It is abhorrent that it could even be contemplated that life or death decisions concerning one's child should be arrogated to a . third party who in many cases may be totally indifferent to the situation. Such a so-called counselor is unlikely to provide the love, understanding and concern that most parents would manifest towards a daughter facing an unplanned pregnancy.

Cellucci's remarks on the proposed legislation reflect the attitude that family problems s.uch as divorce and abuse may push a young girl towards abortion. But even given such complicating factors, it should be obvious that it is unrealistic to presume that a l6-year-old has the maturity needed to decide whether a baby should live or die.

All statistics and other facts indicate that today's youth are slower to mature than their counterparts of earlier days.

Among the reasons for this are drugs, alcohol, peer pressure and the very real acceptance of suicide as a way out of problems. Indeed, these are the issues that should be tackled by our government in place of its thrust in the direction of lifedestroying programs.

The state should know by now that "big brother" cannot be mother and father. Rather than implementing destructive laws, the state should strive to support and strengthen families by way, for instance, of initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty, addressing the situation of the homeless and controlling substance abuse.

In the light of such urgent and neglected issues, it is absurd that our governor should want to spend tax dollars and tie up the legislature in an ongoing debate to ensure that life is more precarious in Massachusetts.

This issue should be of prime concern to all who hold that not only is life 90d-given but also that the family is ordained by him. We in the church who believe in the sacredness of both life and family must not be voiceless in the face of this attempt by the state to further interfere in the rights and obligations of parents.

We sent thousands and spent millions to wage the Gulf War in order to defend f~eedoms from an interfering state. Yet here at home we are allowing our government to dictate whether or not one should have the right to life itself.

Let's get government on track to care for the common good, not to undermine it by deceptive and insidious legislation that will give impetus to the destruction. of the heart of life, the family. ',·The Editor

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POOR CLARE ABBESS SISTER BERNADETTE MULLER STANDS WITH A FEW OF THE 70 MINIATURE HORSES HER COMMUNITY MEMBERS RAISE IN BRENHAM, TEXAS, TO SUPPORT THEIR CONTEMPLATIVE LIFESTYLE (See story page 10)

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Church and state: a new day dawning?

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By Father KevinJ.Harrington In the past few centuries the relationship between government and religion in the western world has changed drastically. Before the French and American revolutions, practically every country had its state church - Catholic or Protestant. But in the United States the Bill of Rights ruled out any structural relationship between church and state, a separation which has served both government and religion reasonably well..

Our Founding Fathers were not as hostile to religion ·as many of today's secularists would lead us to believe. The noble goals of liberty, equality and justice reflected deeply-felt religious principles.

However, contemporary western secular thought presumes that in our "enlightened" society religious believers should be allotted at best a marginal role in the body politic.

The assumption seems to be that reason can supplant faith and answer the moral problems of the day.

Similar to the secularist thesis, yet different, is the Marxist thesis, which contends that although a useless historical relic, religion is troublesome enough to warrant a thorough rooting out. .

These ideologies have been exported to different' parts of' the world, but the failure of secularism to protect the rights of society's most vulnerable and the failure of Marxism to empower workers have become painfully obvious. Without a religious vision the American civil rights movement would have been denied the very leadership that was needed to enact change; while the remarkable transformations unfolding in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union would not have occurred.

The task of shaping a peaceful global community which honors human dignity and respects human rights is far from completed.

Events in Lithuania and Latvia are a rude reminder that the Soviet Union still is not a democracy.

Ethnic tensions within the Soviet Union and recently in Yugoslavia are signs that democracy is not a panacea for problems such as bigotry. The secularists and the Marxists seem to acknowledge the crumbling of-their empires but are apparently caught between the fear of letting go and the dread of holding on.

During the past decade, religion has proven more relevant than the secularists and Marxists would

praye~BOX Prayer jorJustice' A Imighty and eternal .God, may. your grace enkindle in all o/us a lovefor the many unfortunate people ~hom poverty and misery reduce to a condition of life unworthy ofhuman beings. A rouse in the. hearts ofthose who callyouFather a hunger and thirst for social justice and for fraternal charity in deeds and in truth. Grant, o Lord, peace in our days: peace to souls, peace to families, peace to -our country, and peace among nations. A men.

have us believe. The major social and political events of the last decade have been shaped by religious faith and the spiritual dimension of human existence. The highly visible role of the Church from Soweto to San Salvador, from Poland to the Philippines and from Washington to Moscow is a tribute to the remarkable influence of Pope John Paul II. Those who assert the need to build an inpenetrable wall between church and state should be reminded ofJoseph Stalin's cynical remark almost 50 years ago when he was confronted with papal criticism: "How many divisions has the pope?" It was a rhetorical question from a power-obsessed maniac who defined strength by brute force.

There is a beautiful story told of Pope John XXIII who ended an audience with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's son-in-Iaw-with this magnificent remark: "They tell me, sir, that you are an atheist. But surely you will.not forbid an old man to send a bles,sing to your children." It was John' XXIII's ·dream to 'see across ever.Y barrier · the face of a brother. .In his own gentle way he kept tQat dream very much alive.This ideal recalls.a stQJ:Y which reveals a great deal of wi~dom. An ancient rabbi asked his- students how they could tell the night had · e~ded and' the day was on its way ·back. One said,. "Could it be when you can see an animal il\ 'the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or'll dog?" Another said, ','Could it be when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell whether it is a fig or a peach?" The rabbi replied: "No. It is when you can look on the face of any man and see that he is your brother. If you cannot do this, then no matter what time it is, it is still night."

Shared meal promotes true unity 2 Kings 4:42-44 Ephasians 4:1-6 John 6:1-15

The multiplication of the loaves and fishes is the onb miracle narrated in all foul Gospels. But in our three-year cycle (It' weekend Scripture readings, WI". are only given one accoun~ of the event: John's. Ana th~: way i,. is inserted into today's eucharisttc formulary shows little ap~reciation "rJ.\' each evangelist's dist1nct','!,~ theoiogy.

This is the yea:i for Mark'E Gospel. Yet when i.!: comes timt: to use his narrative 0\ 路;.he ~ncldent, we are suddenly gi.ver; Johp.'s Gospel for the next Hv"l weekends, (Reminds me of a \ime in ~he seminary when the suppiier accidentally sent the wrong middle ree'. for our Sunday night movie. Probably both movies were good Hut neither made sense when L was mixed with the other.)

Gospels are not b.iographies of Jesus; they are theoiog~es of Jesus.

Their authors are no~ as much interested in telling wha~ happened as they are concerned with giving the implications ofwha i. happened.

If these writings had been published in our modern newspapers we would find them on the editorial page, not the news pages.

Though John tells the same story as Mark, he does so from a totally different perspective. Their theologies are quite diverse. We cannot replace one with the other. But we still have to pIa'! iht; hana we're dealt.

As we wiH ,ee during the next weeks, John'!; chapter 6 shows how the early church useri the multiplication to teach the Eucharist.

The Lord's Supper was originally a complete dinner. Jesus' first followers consumed more than a sip of wine and a ~mall piece of bread. They ate an entire meal.

The Eucharist was '\ rea! dining . experience. not just a symbolic feeding. This is路 why John has Jesus command ..... the people to recline." They are being prepared for a feast, not a snack.

This is also why the disciples .... .gathered twelve baskets full of pieces left over by those who had been fed with the five barley loaves." The Lord's Supper was

DAILY READINGS July 22: Sng 3:14 or 2 Cor 5:14-17; Ps 63:2-6,89; In 20:1-2,11-18 ..

July 23: Ex 14:21-15:1; (Ps) Ex 15:8-10,12,17; Mt 12:46-50 July 24: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1-6; Mt 20:20-28 July 25: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1-6; Mt 20:2-28 July 26: Ex 20:1-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 13:18-23 July 27: Ex 24:3-8; Ps 50:1-2,5-6,14-15; Mt 13: 24-30 July 28: 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11,15-18; Eph 4:1-6; In 6:1-15

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN always viewed as providing much more than the community needed.

There was even enough to take care of those who were not present. No matter how many dined, others were welcome to participate.

Elisha's bread miracle in our first reading also produces more than the people can eat. Such abundance is a traditional sign of God breaking into our world. The Lord is always calling us to go "beyond" what we are presently experiencing. {Also notice the similarities in the two miracles. John certainly knows his Hebrew Scriptures.)

Yet if we are to understand the gospel story as the author intended, we must combine it with today's passage from Ephesians.

Paul regards the faith as more than just a system to get us into heaven. He believes that, if lived correctly, Jesus' message will change the makeup of every culture and society. So the Apostle logically begs his community to ..... make every effort to preserve the unity which has the Spirit as its origin and peace as its binding force.

There is but one body and one Spirit,just as there is but one hope given all of you by your call. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all, and works through all, and is in all."

If we are .....to live a life worthy of the calling we have received..." we must develop a passion for unity. Everything we do as followers of the Lord should be directed to bringing diverse people and situations together. And since humans have discovered nothing better than dining together to symbolize and promote unity, we Christians had better use this custom to perfection in order to accomplish Jesus' will.

Long before any theologian' thought of the Lord's Supper as a reenactment of Jesus' passion. death and resurreClion, or as a saving sacrifice to bring us grace, the church regarded it as a commem. orative meal: a dining experience which so helped the participants become one in Jesus that he himself became present in the very food and drink which nourished their unity.

Not a miracle man ROME (CNS) - Ukrainian Cardinal Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky of Lvov knew the faithful in his homeland had serious social and religious problems, but after three months in the Ukraine, he said the reality is far worse than he expected. Starting catechism classes, seminaries and diocesan . chanceries, improving ecumenical relations, teaching people about Christian marriage, morality and ethics are among the most urgent tasks. "I am not a miracle man," the 77-year-old Eastern-rite cardinal said during a visit to Rome. "I am an old man and I've never worked a miracle."

Community founder named Venerable

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Marie-Esther Blondin, a native of Canada who founded the Sisters of St. Anne in 1850, has been given the title of "Venerable" by Pope John Paul II. In the Fall River diocese, her community serves at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, and members are also in pastoral ministry at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, and Morton Hospital. Taunton.

The status of venerable is the first of three steps toward sainthood. The others are beatification and canonization. Being declared venerable is based on a judgment by the church of a person's having either died a martyr or Jived a life of heroic virtue.

Marie Esther Blondin, known in religion as Mother Marie Anne, founded the Quebec-based,Sisters of St. Anne to provide Catholic . education in secular and religious subjects to country boys and girls.

At that time, boys and girls were traditionally taught separately, and poor country children received only a few years of elementary education.

Four years after founding her. community, Mother Marie Anne was asked to step down as its superior by Montreal Bishop Ignace Bourget because of accusa-' tions made against her by the sisters' chaplain.

Though she protested the decision as unjust, she accepted the decree of authority and spent the rest of her life in obscurity, performing menial tasks. Her influence on her growing congregation came primarily from her contacts with young sisters in formation, and through her lengthy correspondence with sisters who had left the motherhouse to found mission houses in Quebec, British Columbia and the United States.

In the United States, Sisters of

St. Anne serve in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire" Florida, Maryland, Arizona and' West Virginia as well as in Massa- i chusetts. U.S. provincial headquarters are in Marlborough.

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Why are we all so i'nterested in celebrities?

In 1938, when I was in fifth grade, she made an appearance at a downtown store in Albany, N. Y.

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

Last week I 1:aught an old movie on television called "Show Business," starring Joan Davis, the wise-cracking comedienne, who later starred in the,'50s TV series called "I Married Joan."

Of course, J immediately had to tell everyone my Joan Davis story.

It was a big time for little kids when a movie star came to town and a group of us went to the store to see her. We were .classmates at Cathedral Academy, and that day Sister St. Anthony had passed out chance books which we were to sell, a nickel a chance.

There we were at the store and one of my buddies got a bright idea. She dared me to sell a chance to Miss Davis.

I had a reputation for being spunky, but this was asking a lot.

Then I got to thinking, Miss Davis probably had a lot of money and

this was for a good and important cause.

How I got the courage I'll never know. But somehow I squirmed through the people, got right up to this very chic red-haired woman and-asked, "Miss Davis, will you buy a chance?"

The shock from the adults present was audible. Miss Davis looked at me like I'd dropped off Mars.

A protective man escorting her fumbled in his ppcket, pulled out a quarter, pushed it into my hand and with a look that- could kill ordered me to disappear.

I want to tell you I was one excited little girl as I returned to

my group. I took out my pencil and the chance book, and immediately wrote down on five chances, "Joan Davis, Hollywood."

better known as Captain Kangaroo, and his wife.

You can imagine how pleased my kids were to tell all the other kids that their mother had met TV's Captain Kangaroo. I want to tell you, discipline was a breeze for at least a few weeks. All I had to say was, "Captain Kangaroo would want you to .....

The next day I was the talk of the class. Then word got around to a couple of other classes. Suddenly, I was a celebrity too. And then I learned something that even back then I thought was rather pathetic. Apparently we are so in awe of celebrities that even a nobody can get famous for a day by having direct contact with someone who has a name.

Sometimes that's not all bad, thQugh. Years later, when I was working for The Long Island Catholic, I interviewed Bob Keeshan,

I've never figured out why we're so turned on by big names. Gossip columns are so popular that even those who write them become celebrities.

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I guess it just goes to make life a little less dull, and if we're lucky, some celebrities may truly brighten the scene a bit.

Using social skills to prevent unhelpful comparisons By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY

Dear Mary: How can I enlighten a mother-in-law who is doing a very harmful thing to my child? l\ty husband comes from a family of four, all of whom are married and have children. All the Irandchildren live dose to their grandparents.

Generally we get along well but what both~rs me is that Grandma

By DOLORES CURRAN

A 29-year-old friend from England visiting us last year shared some of his observations about life in suburban America. The size of our lawns - or gardens, as he called them - surprised him, especially in areas of scarce water.

The number and variety ofchurches astonished him.

But what intrigued him most was the prevalence of basketball hoops attached to garages. "Do they come with the house?" he

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. Would you please explain what anointing is, as when a priest comes to anoint a person who is very ill. How does that differ from the last rites?

I am a convert of a number of years, but never had occasion to ask about this ceremony until someone said that I should suggest it to my sick husband, also a Catholic. (New Jersey) A. Many Catholics arbstill confused by,this sacrament, unless

makes comparisons between her grandchildren, always in the presence of the parents and the children themselves. My 6-year-old is compared unfavorably to his cousins.

My son is a normal little boy, better at some things, less good at others. I feel her comparisons are going to hurt his self-esteem and make him unsure of himself.

Since he is starting school next year, I don't want him to begin by feeling inferior. What can I give Grandma to read that might stop this practice? ;... Indiana Comparing children is an unfortunate practice in which many people indulge. Often an older brother or sister is held up as a model.

While using models to inspire children is a good idea, setting brother against brother or sister against sister is not. Competition and jealousy develop between brothers and sisters, who often grow to hate the "model" child.

Teachers too can indulge in this behavior. Younger children in the same family are compared to a model older brother or sister who attended the school in earlier years.

Your mother-in-Iaw's style of comparing grandchildren suggests that she might have used this unfortunate style on her own children. Giving her reading material is not likely to work if it means changing a style which she appar-

ently has used for years and which, in her view, works for her.

Your first approach might be a direct one. Ask in a nice but direct way, "Please don't compare Jason to others." If you prefer, have your husband do it.

If the practice is longstanding, Grandma might be unwilling or unable to change. If that is the case, you must either change your own behavior or change the situation.

To be effective, you must do this without getting angry and without confropting her.

When Grandma begins to compare your son to another, ignore the comparison itself. Instead, try one of these techniques.

I. Turn the conversation by ask-

ing Grandma about one of her own interests. "Are those the bulbs YO\hplanted last fall? They seem to be doing real well." And you are off on an entirely different subject.

2. If distraction does not work, invent a situation to leave the scene and take your son with you.

"Jason, do you know where Daddy and Uncle Mark slept when they were kids? Let me'show you."

Trying to change other people rarely works. When it does not, try using your own social skills to change the subject.

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,asked. "How do they play with just one hoop? I never see anyone using one." .

We pointed out that when there's snow on the ground, few kids play basketball but when the weather is nice, it's a rare block one can travei without seeing a couple or' kids jumping around a backboard.

His questions made me think about this simple piece of equipment. It's hard to imagine our family life without one. Many's tl?e time my kids released pent-up energy at the hoop. Many's the time I suggested it - sometimes strongly.

"Out of here!" I'd order when they decided to wrestle in the living room. Or, when they'd say, "There's nothing to do," I would

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give them a choice: wash' the'kitchen floor or practice shots.

We Often fail to be thankful for things like basketball hoops. Yet .they have made life more bearable for thousands of parents. It's interesting that basketball developed in the inner city where active youngsters didn't have the luxury of baseball diamonds and soccer fields. A creative YMCA teacher developed the game and it became an instant success.

Our backyard abuts a schoolyard with several outdoor hoops where kids play until dark' almost every summer evening. It's a far better use of energy than "cruising around looking for excitement."

Our own backboard met its end a few years ago in a fierce wind-

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storm. After years of faithful service, it left us just as our last son did.

But the game goes on when our young adults return home. They simply use the neighbor's hoop.

Sometimes he plays with them, sometimes not, but he's not possessive of his hoop and driveway.

I've heard people complain about the bomp-bomp-bomp of their neighbor's kids playing basketball, but I like to hear it. From my office, I hear a few bomps, a laugh, a grunt, a few more bomps and then a pause for conversation.

There seems to be a male ritual of communication which emerges when shooting baskets or fixing cars. Why should we complain about a few bomps when we so

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bemoan the lack of male communication and intimacy?

Last year we took a simple hoop and sponge ball with us to Ireland where we have a constant stream of kids visiting us. The girls like to sit and talk but the boys get antsy.

So we stuck the hoop to the outside of our front window with suction pads and the boys were captivated. They soon developed their own games and rules.

We've discovered that a boy can't pass a hoop without trying his skill. Perhaps we'd be better off investing in backboards and balls than in more seminars on how to deal with gangs, drugs and other juvenile issues. It's worth considering.

Anointing of sick means same as "last rites" they have had an opportunity to receive it themselves.

For along time, into our own generation, this sacrament was known as extreme unction, from a Latin phrase which means literally the last anointing. Partly for this reason it became customary that it be received only in imminent danger of death.

Even today some Catholics fear that death is only hours away ifa friend or relative calls the priest for this anointing.

The bishops at Vatican Council II noted that this sacrament is more fittingly called "anointing of the sick," and called for a revision of the ritual to reflect more appropriately this understanding.

Ac~ording to our present ritual, an individual need notbe in danger

of death, but "dangerously ill" either from sickness or advanced age.

In other words, older people are considered eligible for the sacrament simply because of their general infirmities.

If there is a "last' rite" when death is near, in Catholic tradition it is not anointing of the sick but the holy,Eucharist.

In fact, the church has a special name for holy Communion when it is received by a dying person. It¡ is called Viaticum, literally something which is to be with us "on the journey" through death into eternity.

I hope you take your friend's advice and give your husband an opportunity for the spiritual benefits of this sacrament. As the

bishops said in the council, by this anointing ofthe sick and the prayer of the priests who administer it, the whole church commends those who are ill to the suffering and glorified Lord, asks that he will lighten their sufferings and save them, and asks those who are ill to contribute to the welfare of the whole people of God by associating themselves and their pains with the passion and death of Christ

("Constitution on the Church," No. II).

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Mother Teresa visits Iraq , BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNS) Mother Teresa, who has devoted her life to helping the world's poor, recently completed a longplanned visit to Iraq to see how she can help deprived families. Mother Teresa, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in the slums of

Calcutta and elsewhere; ,was accompanied by a priest and two other nuns. The purpose of the visit was "to expand her work and reach out to the needy in society, the poorest of the poor as she calls them;' Father Kevin Doheny told Reuters, the British news agency.

THE. ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall·River -.Fri., July 26,1991

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Marian apparitions honored PITISBURGH (eNS) - Thou- from Mary and Jesus. Led by sands of people recently traveled priests carrying banners, thouto Pittsburgh for a 1991 Eastern sands marched in a rosary prOcesregional conference on "Appari- sion through downtown Pittstions of the Mother of God and burgh',"joinin:g in prayer and son.

Her Divine Son." Speakers in- .for the intention of world peace cluded experts on apparitions through the conv.ersion of manaround the world and on vision- kind and the triumph of Mary's aries claiming to receive messages Immaculate Heart.

Teacup memories

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Dear Editor: Recently I celebrated yet another birthday and it seems such events prompt a host of memories from years gone by. This year the recollections seem to have centered around a gift my mother gave me - when I was just a teenager. She presented me with a bone china teacup. Over the years on various occasions another cup was added to my collection.

To some this gift would seem different and indeed it was. As I look back, the cups have a great deal of significance. In those days ----theR---wenn't- many-~xtI'a--funds_available for "frills," so my mother's sacrifice to give me this bit of elegance was very special. It also lent a note of celebration to a simple cup of tea. Even the strongest and heaviest teas tasted sweet when sipped from the china cup. With this gift my mother seemed to be saying tbat even when life is bitter and harSh it can be made tastier when experienced in style and with love.

Over the years I have used my ,:ups whenc:ver I need~ a special lift. Each tlme I do, memories of my mother flood my mind. It appears she has gifted me with more than just the china, she has indelibly etched a loving memory on my soul. Even though she is no longer with us, I feel her close to me each time I sip my tea.

God bestows toving gifts upon us too if we but take tbe time to thiak about them all. Since be is the aut~or of alllo~e I cannot help bllt feel closer to Him because'of a bone china teacup.

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MATT DEVENNEY holds his son David during a visit to the Community Stewpot, where the father met his death. (CNS photo)

.Letters to toddler recall life of slain dad

JACKSON, Miss. (eNS) Yea.rs before he learns to read, 20month-old David Devenney is receiving seores ofletters from people he doesn't know. . , The letters are part of an attempt to help David remember his father, 33-year-old Matt Devenney, executive director of the Community Stewpot in Jackson, who died at the hand of a homeless man June 19.

Dear Editor: More than 500 people attended Having participated in several pro-life anti-abortion demonstra- Devenney's June 22 funeral at St. tions, it has always amazed me, Therese Church, where the Devenwhen I see among those counter- neys were parishioners.

"So many people were asking demonstrating some pro-choice mothers accompanied by their what they could do to help," said small children. I wonder about Kathy Devenney, Matt's 31-year. those children - when they reach old widow.

At a friend's suggestion, "I asked the age of reason, will they, knowing their mother was in favor of people to write down for David abortion - consider themselves what they thought about his father fortunate' she did not have them or how they knew Matt," she said in an interview with Mississippi killed ofCbefore'their birthdate?

Will they, with such a parent, be Today, newspaper of the Jackson . enjoying their lives .in spite of the Diocese.

"All I could tell David is how I horrible question hanging over' their lives? I just can't s~em. to knew his father and I thought it remove these questions from my would be good if other people mind particularly when I read could tell him something Matt had opinions favoring abortion from said or just whatever they wanted mothers, fathers, orgrandparents. to say about him," Mrs. Devenney Sure makes sense, a poster I saw added.

By the end of June, more than at a recent demonstration against 100 letters from Matt's friends, Planned Parenthood: "Kill Some, coworkers and the homeless peoKeep Some."

Frank L. Cutler ple he helped had heen received at the Devenney home. More were Bridport, VT piling up at the soup kitchen where Devenney had worked for the past five years.

"I am prayirig for you and your whole family," wrote Bonnie J. Brantley, once homeless. "Matt July 17 was a very, very nice man. They 1981, Rev. Damien Veary, SS.CC., will never get another man like Former Pastor, St. Anthony Mat- him.... I stayed once in two of his tapoiSett shelters for the homeless. God bless you."

July 19 1913, Rev. Mathias McCabe, John D. Smith, a 37-year-old Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River homeless man who often ate at the Community Stewpot, was charged July 31 1865, Rev. Daniel Hearne, Pas- in Devenney's death. According to tor, St. Mary, Taunton . witnesses, Smith shot Devenney

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twice in the chest after the soup kitchen director told him to leave because he was carrying a weapon.

The Community Stewpot is a collection of ministries which feed, clothe and house the homeless:'in Jackson. It is supported by 55 congregations and 500 volunteers.

Devenney came to Jackson in 1985 to work with the poor through Volunteer Opportunities in Community Experience, sponsored by the Diocese of Jackson. He met Kathy, also a volunteer, and began volunteering at the Community Stewpot, where he became assistant director in 1986 and executive director in 1990.

Holly Strong, a street person who had eaten at the soup kitchen and later chose Devenney as her child's godfather, fashioned her thoughts about Devenney into a poem, "Matt's Halo."

A section from the poem says: "With every person he came near/ He spread a little sunshine and cheer./ And when he was about 3 feet away,/ Somebody suddenly called out'his name./ As be turned it all became clear./ For sitting about an iach above his hair/ Was a gold halo made of light/ And suddenly everything was alrite."

Fellow St. Therese parishioner and friend Jeanette Hicks wrote to David, "What a devoted, loving father he was. He was so proud of you. I last saw you together on Tuesday night, June I !th. The occasion was the celebration ofthe 25th anniversary of the priesthood of our pastor, Father Tom Lalor.

"Your dad held you in his arms close to the doors. I suspect he thought if you became restless he would slip out. Mother Kathy was close by. You were a good boy and soon slept. My last glimpse of you was one I like to recall today. He cradled you so gently in his arms and you slept. Did you dream of angels? Could you know that soon Jesus would welcome your dad to know the bliss of heaven in his _presence?"

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Dominicans have served in therIF'all River diocese for over 100 years. Sister Gertrude G'ldette, a longtime photographer for the Anchor and a I ominican of St. Catherine of Siena, has visited every Do llinican community in the diocese and is responsible for m lst pictures on these pages.

SISTER CAROL Mello, OP, shows St. Anne's Hospital lobby mural to volunteer Mrs. Louise Chapdelaine. The display depicts Marie Poussepin, foundress of the Dominicans of the Presentation, and announces the health care philosophy of the community.

THE ENTRANCE to Dominican Academy and the motherhouse of the Dominicans ofSt. Catherine of Siena is on Fall River's Park Street. The community's centennial year is noted by the wreath above the door.

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DOMINICAN OF the Presentation Sister Therese Joseph Hazera, works in St. Anne's Hospital library, where she is assistant librarian.

SISTER ELIZABETH Menard, (P, prioress general of the Dominicans of St. Catherine of Siena, talks to '~ost Rev. Damian A. Byrne, OP, master general ofthe worldwide Domin !:an Order, who was in Fall River to attend IOOth anniversary ceremonies f( her community.

DOMINICAN of St. Catherine Sister Lorraine Beauchesne is secretary for St. Anne's parish, on the same block as the Dominican motherhouse.

A YOUNG Dominican Academy student holds the school shield.

RETIRED DOMINICAN Father Antoine M. Lanoue takes an Anchor break at St. Anne's priory.

VERY REV. Pierre E. Lachance, OP, left, pr or of the Dominican community at St. Anne's Church, Fall River, and director of St. Anne's Shrine, visits Re.v. Thomas ~ Landry, OP, at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. Father Landry I was twice pastor of St. Anne's parish.

PANORAMIC VIEW of the he~ t of Dominican presence in Fall River; from left, Dominican AcadeJ V and motherhouse, St. Anne's Church, St. Anne's Hospital, as seen fl m Kennedy Park.

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MEMBERS OF the Dominican Academy class of 1941 gather for their golden jubilee with their homeroom teacher, Sister Mary Thomas, OP, now95, third from right in top row.

DOMINICANS OF the Presentation Sisters Jussina Pulikkottle,left and Martha Ines Toro work in the kitchen of their Dighton provincial house.

GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS at Dighton provincial house of the Dominicans of the Presentation. ;

A CLOSER VIEW of St. Anne' Hospital, with original chapel at right.

for the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who founded the Dominicans ofSt. Rose of Lima to care for cancer patients, overlooks Fall River's Mount Hope Bay.

SISTERS MARY Imelda, left, and Mary Bosco care for a patient at the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home.

'Litu'rgists propose h:oly day changes WASHINGTON(C1IJS) - At a meeting in)une the U.,S. bishops' Committee on the Liturgy ap, proved a set of proposals which could leave U.S. Catholics with only two holy days of. obligation - Chril!tnlas, Dec. 25, and the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8.

Any decisionon holy days must be approved by two-thirds of the nation's bishops and confirmed by the Vatican.

An alternative set of committee

propo~als would abolish the obligation for most holy days whenever t1.le holy day falls on Saturday or Monday; and only Christmas and Ascension Thursday would remain annual holy days of obligation.

The proposals were reported in the June jssue of the Committee on the .Liturgy Newsletter.

The last time the nation's bishops voted on any changes in holy days

of obligation was in 1983 but after long and lively debate they made no changes in traditional U.S. practi<;e.

The first set of new proposals would involve four separate votes whether to: - Remove the canonical obligation of Catholics in the United States to attend Mass on Jan. I, the feast of Mary, Mother of God. ---, Remove the Mass obligation

on Aug. IS, the feast of the Assumption.

- Remove the Mass obligation on Nov. I, the feast of All Saints.

- Transfer the observance of the Ascension from Thursday to the following Sunday, the Seventh Sunday of Easter.

The alternative set of proposals, to be:considered only ifthe first set is rejected, would ask the bishops

to decide whether to remove the obligation to attend Mass on Jan. l,Aug.15,Nov.landDec.8whenever those dates fall on a Saturday. ora Monday. .

At present six holy days are o bserved in U.S. Latin-rite churches: Mary, Mother of God, Jan. I; Ascension, the Thursday after the Sixth Sunday of Easter; Assumption, Aug. ! 5; All Saints, Nov. 1; Immaculate ':onception, Dec. 8; Christmas, Der. 25 .

Actor's aware of responsibilities

KEVIN DOBSON

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) - . York for the baptism of a grandIt's been nearly two decades since niece. "'Knots' is a show about . actor Kevin Dobsolt was cast ac family values."

Detective Bobby Crocker on the Some viewers might take issue hit TV series "Kojak," but he re- with that assessment of "Knots members what Father Maurice Landing," which has featured some Lenihan said when he told the steamy characters and story lines, priest about his big break. but Dobson is proud of his Mack "Are you aware of what the MacKenzie character. responsibilitiesare?" asked Father "Mack is a go'od guy. That's all I Lenihan, the late pastor of Our Lady of Fatima parish in Queens, want to be," says Dobson, who came to "Knots" in 1982. The N.Y., where Dobson grew up.

Today, Dobson says he thinks show begins production on its 13th often of the question as well as of season this summer. the advice. Father Lenihan gave The character that he plays on him about creating and maintain- television isn't too different from ing a good image. As Mack Mac- the real-life Dobson. A devoted Kenzie on the CBS nightime soap family man and practicing Cathoopera "Knots Landing," Dobson lic, he and Susan, his wife of 23 plays a strong-willed lawyer but years, have three children and are feels that his main role on the show active members of St. Francis de Sales Parish in Sherman Oaks, is that of husband and father.

"It's all about family," Dobson Calif. There Susan teaches CCD said during an interview with The and Kevin was a lector until a couTablet, newsp~per of the Diocese ple of years ago when he "read the of Brooklyn, while visiting New wrong prayers" at midnight Mass

on Christmas Eve and d. ecided it was time to quit. n-The fourth of ··seven Cibildien, Dobson has fond memorie 's of his childhood. He played CY(') baseball and was an altar boy.

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They ineluded a sizable contincent of parish pastoral musicians from the Fan River diocese, many of them accompanied by - members of their choin.

They wer. Sister Mari*Dna Sylvester, RSM, of Our Lady of the Assumption parish, New Bedford; Denise Morency Gannon, St. "..lie's, North Dartmouth; Nancy Smith, St. Jo~n the Baptist, Westport; Joanne Mercier, St. John the Evancelist, Attleboro.

Also Lynn Guilmette, St. Georce, Westport; Ada Simpson, Corpus Christi, Sandwich, :Elaine Nadeau, St. Mary's Cathedral,' Fall River; George Campeau, music director

at St. John's SeJninuy, Bripton, and a member ofSt. John the Baptist parish, New Bedford; and Sister DorothLAnne Len,erich, OLVM, St. ,"~New Redford. j' ~ '. j i • 1 .

Clergy, relrgious anc£lalty came from all parts ofthe United States, as well as from Canada, the Bahamas an4 Aust...'" to attend tbe 14th annual convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. "Singing a New Church" was the theme of the convention.

The association is an organization of more than 8,700 parish musicians arid clergy dedi.cated to fostering the art of pastoral music.

Although its focus is on Catholic liturgy, some members are from other faiths..

Father John Buscemi, wh'o is a teacher and columnist for Today's

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Grqorian Chant Parish and a priest of the diocese concern expressed for musicians of Madison, Wis., on leave of and liturgists afflicted with the In other churcb music news, the absence from active ministry, told HIV virus, AIDS and AIDS-relat- St. Gregory Foundation for Latin participants that today's church ed complex. During the conven- Liturgy will sponsor its first worlc"needs to develop a new ecclesiol- tion rooms were available to HIV- shop in Gregorian chant Aug. 11ogy based on intuition'and expres- positive persons, where they and 23 in Long Branch, N.J. .Intended for choir directors, sion, rooted in rhythm, sound and otbers c~uld gather to pray. color. We have been a monochro- t .At thp convention's closing lit- -.cantors, organists, priests and deamatic church for t_oo long." pfsr, IfOlhilist Fatber Raymond cons, the evening sessions will exHe called the '90s the most vio- ~st, J¥lstor of St. Theresa of plain how to read chant notation, lent decade in this millennium and 'Avila partsh in Washington, spoke how to lead it and methods of mus-discussed issues that face society and sang of the many walls he said ical accompaniment. A parallel and divide the church - celibacy, divide today's "sick churcb," as he institute tailored to the needs of male presiders, racism, sexism, termed it. ;semim,yians also will be held.~ho~ophobia and others.

• 'I. He sAid the church in the United ' Tb,c f«Jundation, established in "The Eucharist has not trans- States is not responding to the 1989 bY'Father Peter Stravinskas~ formed us like it should," he said. needs of women, youth and other _ is committed to the promotion of "Our. new· vocation should be to groups_and·that people from for- Latin-lapguage celebrations ofthe beal the church, heal the earth. .eign Il,ncls should be welcomed. ,liturgy according to the rites proThrough our brokenness, we can "These groups are singing their mulgated in response to the Second see our healing and become strong songs on the otber_side ofthe wall, Vatican Council. and we have to listen to them and Further information is available again." . - The- healing theine was part of welcome them," tbe Mrican-Amer- from the foundation at 207 Adams the opening night's service for ican pastor said, "before we can St., Newark, N.J. 07105, tel. (201) 344-6847. anointing of the sick, with special sing a new church."

Nuns breed champion miniature horses (See picture page 4) BRENHAM, Texas (eNS) .An order of nuns who started breeding miniature horses in 1986 just to raise money to maintain their contemplative lifestyle is developing a reputation for raising. champions.

The 13 Poor Clare sisters, who raise some 70 American miniature . horses on 98 acres near Brenham, are modest about their champion horses and say they simply provide a means to operate their Monastery of St. Clare in the peaceful Texas countryside about 75 miles northwest of Houston.

"Our main work is prayer but we have to support ourselves," said Sister Mary Angela Chandler.

"It's just a means to an end. It

enables us to lead a contemplative life. Our work fosters our prayer life. Our prayers foster our work.

It's not a distraction."

In early June, three of their miniature horses took grand championship prizes at a horse show in Houston. Sister Chandler said it is common for their horses to win prizes when they are shown, something the nuns do only now and then to publicize their stable. The horses are sold to other breeders and as pets.

"It lets people know we are breeders and it's good advertising," said Sister Chandler. "We get a lot ofrespect from the miniature horse industry. We're not a bunch of nuns/on the lark."

More than 21,000 visitors came to the nuns' farm last year.

"The visitors keep telling us it's so peaceful and we're 'so joyful," said Sister Chandler.

The order, which was based in Corpus Christi for a number of years, originally bred birds and later cats to raise funds for the monastery. When the sisters moved to Brenham, their att.ention turned to miniature· horses, which they say are perf~ctly suited to their spiritual life, the terrain and their material needs.

A horse is a miniature if it is no taller than 34 inches in height.

Although only small children can ride the miniatures, they can pull a cart or wagon, carrying up to two adults for about 10 miles, said Sister Chandler.

Some of the older Duns make

ceramics which they sell at an art barn on the farm grounds, and the sisters also bake altar breads for area churches and sell a book,

"Sister Bernadette: Cowboy Nun from Texas," an autobiography by the abbess, Sister Bernadette Muller.

Grants for disabled available MERRIFIELD, Va. (CNS) Grants totaling 51 million will be awarded in coming months to nonprofit organizations that work with otber groups to increase employment and independe,nce of people with disabilities..

The grants were a~nounced July 1 by the Funding Partnership for People with Disabilities, a consortium of 19 private grant-makers.

Proposals for grants must be re, ceived b~Rt. 16';:' .Grants will go to coalitions of two or more groups and most will

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Dobson is involved with II ous charitable endeavors, i~uding the National Salute to ospitalized Veterans, the Art ritis Foundation, the United gro College Fund and the Mu . Jar Dystrophy Association. An livid ballplayer, he founded and managed a celebrity softball team the Hollywood All-Stars that r&\sed money for local charities at bllllparks across the United States.

A Catholic agency close to ~s beart is Little Flower Childret(s Services,' headed by Msgr. JOhh - _ Fagan, a· Brooklyn priest. Last year, Dobson promoted the agency's Precious Children campaign to find foster families for babies with AIDS.

Many from diocese at pastoral musicians' parley PITTSBURGH (CNS)...;.. Close to 4,000 people gathered in Pitts-1mrgb earlier this month to sing Gc>d's praise, share stories and le~ more about their ministry of music and worship.

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Projects may address a wide range of subjects, including employment, health care, insurance, transportation, education, public attitudes and accommodations, social services, technology, independent living and career preparation.

Grants applications and further information may be obtained from the Funding Partnership for People with Disabilities at (800) ADA3885. In Washington or for TDD, call (202) 457-0318.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall 'River-Fri., July 26,1991

European church faces problems Continued from Page One The church-supported draft made no exceptions for abortion and set jail terms for doctors who performed abortions.

Political survival and ethnic solidarity has been at issue in Yugoslavia, the fractious federation of republics on the Adriatic Sea. Establishing a confederation of sovereign states among the republics of Yugoslavia could bring peace, but it won't happen until the country's Serbian majority ends its dominance over Croatia and Slovenia, the Croatian primate said.

Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb, the Croatian capital, said there is no future for a Yugoslavia made up of "oppressors and the oppressed."

In a July 13 interview with Avvenire, a Milan-based Catholic

newspaper, Cardinal Kuharic said the Serbian-led central government is clinging to its "politics of Greater Serbia, of the expansion of the Serbian territory over the land of Croatia using every means, not excluding war:" Sloyenian Archbishop Alojzij Sustar of Ljubljana said Slovenian soldiers in the Yugoslav federal army based in Serbian-controlled areas are subject to "inhuman treatment."

The archbishop's complaint was contained in a letter to Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle and reported by: Vatican Radio July 15.

Yugoslavia has been on the brink of civil war since Slovenia and

Croatia declared independence from the central government in June. One of the reasons cited for independence was Serbian domination of national affairs.

Slovenia is heavily Catholic while Serbia is mainly Orthodox.

"News arrives from barracks throughout Yugoslavia of the in-, human treatment of soldiers," said Archbishop Sustar, Slovenia's Catholic leader.

"The most vulnerable are 'Slovenian soldiers in regions where Serbians reside and in barracks where there is.only one Slovenian solider or only a few Slovenian soldiers," he said in the July 13 letter.

A lot of us Continued from Page One percent during the same period, from 418,522 to 401,479.

The net result was the the ratio of priest per Catholic went from 1,800 Catholics per priest to 2,258.

Also decreasing 'from 1978 to 1989 were the ranks of brothers and women religious. The number of brothers dropped almost 16 percent, from 74,792 to 62,942.

Women religious dropped nearly 10 percent, from 984,782 to 885,645.

Sharpiy on the -rIse was the number of permanent deacons.

Their number just about tripled from 5,562 to 16,603.

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St. Mary/Sacred Heart School has new principal, Rev. Marcel H. Bouchard, director ofSt. Mary'sl Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, has announced appointment of Mrs. Alberta M. Goss as school principal, effective Aug. I. ' Mrs. Goss succeeds Sister Mary Martin Delahanty, OP, who has become principal of a regional Catholic school in the Providence diocese. .

The new principal previously taught at St. Luke's school, Barrington, RI, for 14 years. She holds a bachelor's degree from Bridgewater State College and is completing work for a master's degree in educational administration from Providence College.

She was chosen froma field of several candidates interviewed by a search committee composed of the St. Mary I Sacred Heart School di~ector; the outgoing principal; Elizabeth Poirier representing the school advisory council; Marilyn Enross, representing the faculty; and Jerome Kennedy, representing parents and students.

In making the announcement Father Bouchard said, "Once again I would like to thank Sister Mary Martin for {lll that she has done while with us. Mrs. Goss comes to us with a great deal of experience in Catholic education, much enthusiasm, and many great ideas for continuing the excellence in Catholic education that we have worked so hard to achieve and maintain. I look forward to the contributions she will make to our -', school."

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Contributions to the "Foster Parents Mission Club" in Fraser, Michigan and to various Hospitals in memory of ,SHIRLEY BABIEC....

Donald & Carolyn Babiec and Family Edward Babiec Joe & Mary Babiec Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Babiec Mr. & Mrs. Joel Balkum Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Betley Elaine Breen

Robert & Marge Breen (Roller Palace. Inc.) New England Chapter Allen & Flo Days Janice Higgins Evelyn. Eileen. & Steve Lafer Nellie Lima Susan Maiolo

Dorothy Mendes Angela Monsour Frank & Joy Newberry Judy Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Charles Santoro Jim & Linda Sullivan Nancy & Chester Szczotka Mr. & Mrs. Ed Young. Jr.

Contributions to St. Julie's Church in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Russell Arredondo Verna Arruda Cathrine V. Audette Louise Averill (Girl Scout Tr. #1020) Ted & Roberta Babiec Joseph & Mary Babiec Raymond & Tillie Babiec Edward J. Babiec Donald & Carolyn Babiec Roy & Marge Babbitt Joan Bobrowiecki Joel & Teri Balkum Patrick & Mary Ann Breault Elaine Breen Anna Calassa Hal & Eileen Carpenter Joe & Paula Carvalho Helen Cinquini .

Sister Pauline Cinquini Jay Collins. Jr. .

Mrs. Mildred Collins Robert & Charlene Conway Amy Copeland (Girl Scout Tr. #1050) Karyn Foley Cormier Doc & Dot Cournoyer Paul & Joyce Couture Walter & Jennie Cwiek Fred & Nancy Doyle Fred D'Adamo Mrs. Diane L. Dom

Mrs. Angelica Dupre Joan & Jerilyn Feener Ray & Joan Fontaine Helen Freitas Dayle Hebert Don Homans Lulu Johnson Norman & Barbara LaCroix Victor LaFrance Ralph & Elizabeth Laganelli Lincoln Park Skating Club, Jay Matthews & Don Monteiro Ernie & Rose Mauretti Paul McNeil Ed & Irene McCarthy A velino & Dorothy Mendes Ronnie Milton (Racquet Club of Paxton) Estelle Misiaszek Robert. Sharon & Matt Morgan Joseph & Irene Nazzaro N.E.C.A. Committee Doris Neville Angelino Pacheco Loretta Pelletier Don & Sue Perkins Lydia Ramalho Joseph. Sylvia & Theresa Rego Jean Rizzuto Leo Rousseau Bill & Ethel Robinson Mary Rodriques

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Mrs. L. Rogers Emile Stanek Ann Santoro Joe & Isabel,Santos Mr. & Mrs. Severino 'Silver City Skating Club Skate Plus Skating Club Estella Souza Starwheels Skating Club Starwheels Rollettes Barbara Stewart Barbara Sullivan Douglas Sullivan Terrance & Naomi Sullivan Jeff Sullivan Ted & Janice Talanian Bill & Jeanne Tatro Lorraine Theroux Shirley Thibault Lou & Jean Trefes Lionel & Laura Sylvia Bob & Laurianne Vigeant John & DeeDee Viol~ Armand & Mary Viera Gerald & Mary Viveiros Gerald & Joan Viveiros Mary Viveiros Gail B. Waite Peter & Patrice Washburn Albert & Ann Weiser Sherry Westgate Terry Young

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,AN CITY (CNS) ~ Pope 1 II plans a sentimental me to renew old memo, tomb of his parents and with sts ordained in Poland the sa. year he was. ., The schedule for the Polish.born pope's Aug. 13-20 trip to Poland and Hungary has the pope arriving on Aug. 13 in Krakow, Poland.·and immediately going to' the cenietery where his parents are buried..

On tile following day, he plans a seven-nour visit to his hometown of Wad0wice to lunch with Polish priests also ordained in 1946 and to dedicate a new church.

The.pope was born in Wadowice OJ) May 18, 1920. He was archbishop of Krakow from 1964 until his election as pope in 1978.

Pope John Paul is scheduled to spend most of his time in Poland at Cze$tochowa to celebrate the sixth World Youth Day Aug. 15.

H wilt be the first time for the annual celebration to take place in an East European country formerly under communist rule.

Money's still short. v ATICAN CITY (CNS) - In a sharp setback in the battle against budget tleficits, the Vatican has had to d:ip into its investment portfolio for the first time since £984 to help erase a 1990 shortfall.

A Vatican statement said that the $78 million deficit was primarily covered by private worldwide contributions, mostly from the Peter's Pence collection, but that $7.7 million also had to be taken from Vatican invested funds.

Vatican investments are composed of interest-bearing bank accounts, stocks and bonds. This means that interest-earning principal has been reduced. Unless it is replenished, the normal result will be lower interest income.

- The statement was issued last month after the meeting of the papally appointed council of cardinals studying Vatican finances.

Tiie situation marks a sharp downturn in the past two years in the Vatican's fight to cover its chronic budget deficits. In 1988 private contributions more than covered the deficit, and in 1989 a combination of private contribu~ tions and profits from the Vatican City-State made up the difference.

The main problem is skyrocketing costs for running the Holy See, the administrative offices which oversee eperations ofthe universal church. Holy See expenses in 1990 were 30 percent more than in 1989.

The Vatican has a separate budget for the Vatican City-State, which records annual surpluses from 'commercial operations such as !lales of Vatican museum tickets, stamps and. coins. . .

The private contributions which helped offset the 1990 deficit included a single donation' of$12.5 million, said the Vatican statement.

It did not name the donor. Most of the private donations, $57.8 million, came from the annual worldwide Peter's Pence collection, which increased 19 percent from the previous year after stepped-up efforts by the world's bishops to promote the collection.

Pope asks for unity VATICAN CITY (CNS) - It is not enough for Christian churches to have "partial relationships" which

On Aug. 16, the pope is scheduled to arrive in Hungary, another country which recently shook off communist' control.

In Hungary, the pope is scheduled to visit six cities and take a 90-minute boat ride along the

Danube River between Esztergom, the Hungarian primatial see, and the capital of Budapest.

He is also scheduled to celebrate five Masses and meet government officials, the diplomatic. corps, Calvinists and Jews.

The final day of the papal visit, Aug. 20, will include a procession in Budapest with the preserved right hand of St. Stephen, the 11 th-century king who promoted the spread of Christianity. The hand, the remains of the saint's

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around the Vatican stop short offull communion, Pope John Paul II said.

The lack of Christian tinity "continues to put obstacles in the way of the mission entrusted by Christ to his disCiples," the pope told members ofthe.World Council of Churches' Faith and OrderCommission. "In the Catholic view of ecumenism," he said last month, "the task of achieving, with God's' grace, the full visible unity of Christians must always be a priority."

The pope praised the work of the Faith and Order Commission, which is concerned with Christianity's theological and doctrinal divisions. . The commission's "special contribution [to ecumenism] has been to keep before divided Christians the goal of seeking visible unity in the one apostolic faith, a unity which will have its highest ecclesial expression in eucharistic communion," he said. "The world is passing through a time of radical change" and "people everywhere are seeking the values upon which to build their societies and their lives," the pope said.

"They need to hear the message of God's saving grace spoken 'in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.' They need to'hear 'themessage ofreconciliation' which has been entrusted to us in the Gospel."

"But the efforts of Christians to witness to the Lord are often obscured by our divisions," he said.

Christians must commit themselves "with fresh vigor" to building unity, . so the world may believe.

Patients are people ROME (CNS) - Doctors must avoid regarding patients as "biological material to be manipulated," says Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Doctors face the temptation of seeing their relationship with patients as "technical contacts with living organisms," he said.

This hinders development of a human rapport in which the patient is seen as a person "in a fragile

condition, a person asking for help," he added.

Cardinal Ratzinger spoke at the Dermatological Institute of the Immaculate Heart, a Catholic hospital in Rome.

Church opposition to euthanasia can bl: better understood in terms of a.human doctor-patient relationship, the cardinal said.

As "all life comes from the mystery of the cross and the resurrection of Christ, everything is useful, even suffering," he added.

The cardinal said "genetic intervention is licit when it helps the embryo to be healed and to develop his personal being."

Church medical ethics is not a rigid system of answers which "takes away man's responsibility by prescribing for him absolute norms," he said.

People with too technical a view of medicine are the ones who avoid answers to questions about the meaning of birth, death and pain and the ultimate meaning of life, said Cardinal Ratzinger.

"Perhaps to flee from such anguishing questions, man seeks to assure for himself complete ownership of life," he said.

Cardinal Ratzinger favored formation of bioethics committees in hospitals to·reflect on moral issues arising from new technological developments and to offer moral guidance to medical persomiel on 'specific issues, . They included: - What can be considered licit "artificial intervention" to' cure sterility in couples?

- What arti the "ethical limits" of genetic engineering when used to improve or modify "specific or individual characteristics" of a person? .

-'- How should doctors react if

they diagnose, prior to birth, imperfections which they cannot treat?

- What are the criteria for respecting the donor in organ and tissue transplants?

Medical personnel must remember "the sacred character of the medical art," said Cardinal Ratzinger.

"A purely technical, utilitarian action would end up leading to the self-destruction of human dignity," he said.

No easy answers VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The state must lead the battle against drug addiction, which has reached "colossal proportions" worldwide, says Pope John Paul II. In a recent talk to former Italian drug addicts and their families, the pope argued against easy answers that would accept or tolerate continued drug use by addicts.

Describing the problem is easy, he said, but "treating it is difficult" and requires a strong commitment by society.

"Above all, action by the state is necessary, because the phenomenon involves public life," he said. The state has the responsibility to devise policy that helps addicts and their families; and educates young people in the proper use of freedom, he said.

The pope made clear his opposition to the legalization of addictive druBS. "One cannot morally accept a behavior that goes against the common good and attacks one's health, upsetting one's mental balance with grave consequences for oneself and others," the pope said.

Individuals cannot do everything they want, he said, especially when their behavior leads to an increase in crime and to the breakdown of _ moral norms.

Rather than resigning itself to evil, he said, society needs to take a "pugnacious" attitude toward it.

Society also needs to recognize that the drug addict is "often more a victim than culpable."

"He or she is a sick person, who bears the consequences of a mis-

arm, which is clenched into a fist, is the prized religious relic of Hungarian Catholicism and traditional processions with it were outlawed during most of the communist rule.

The Hungarian parliament paved the way for the papal visit by approving a law which allows for the gradual return of church buildings confiscated since 1948 by the communist government.

On July 10, the parliament approved a 10-year plan for the return ofschools. hospitals, churches, convents and monasteries. Prior to communist rule, about 70 percent of Hungarian schools were run by religIOns. It will be the pope's first trip to Hungary }Vhere 61 percent of the 10.6 million population professes Catholicism, Hungary has about 2 million Calvinists and about 500,000 Lutheran.

It will be the fifth papal trip to Poland, where 95 percent of the 37.9 million population professes Catholicism. taken education or a deformed social environment," the pope said.

He said addicts sometimes come from broken or troubled families, but not always.

"In fact, many families who have tried to educate their children in the best way are innocent victims of this painful phenomenon," he said.

The pope spoke during observance of a U.N.-sponsored International Day Against Drug Abuse.

Summit talk SUSA, Italy (CNS) - Interrupting an Alpine vacation for a day of pastoral activity, Pope John Paul II told local Catholics that "holIness is a summit to climb."

The "steep and majestic peaks" of the Italian Alps "speak of the mystery of God," the pope told youths from the Susa area.

Ea'rlier July 14 the pope beatified Bishop Edoardo Giuseppe Rozas of Susa and told those attending the Mass that "your diocese, situated at the foot of the Alps, allows you to contemplate the majesty ofthe mountains which in their age-old silence express the mystery of God and encourage one to look toward heaven."

For the third year in a row, the pope was vacationing in nearby Les Combes, where his daily activity from July 10 to 20 included several hours of walking and hiking in the Alps.

He asked the people of Susa to be like Bishop Rozas, "who, imitating the climbers of your mountains, freed himself from every earthly burden not needed for the journey toward perfection."

"Peaks, as you know well, are scaled'by first climbing the rocky spurs. It is on these crags that one measures one's strength and stamina and ability to ascend. Many stop and retrace their steps."

"To reach the summit of holiness requires steps supported by charity, risking, striving and not· giving up in the face of difficulty," he said.

During his meeting with the youths, the pope told them that Christ "knows you personally, he loves you and he relies on you, on each one of you."

To know Christ means to meet him "inside, in the depths of your heart," he said.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) -ABC's hit st;ries "Roseanne" promotes an important Gospel value in underscoring the virtue of fidelity each week.

Of course, seeing this means ignoring matters of taste. But, like it or not. tastefulness - which is determined by culture and era but not by the teachings of Jesus - is not a Gospel value.

The ABC comedy program, with its controversial star, Roseanne Barr, is a weekly example of staying committed even in the face of adversity. Some people might not like the character of Roseanne Conner because she's fat or because she's fresh, but she's praiseworthy because she hangs in there - she's loyal to her husband, sister and . kids.

Fidelity is core to the JudeoChristian ethic_ From the Old Testament, when Yahweh formed a covenant with his people, to the New Testament, where Jesus promises to be with us even to the end of time, commitment is the value par excellence. Judas has become society's archvillain because he was unfaithful and betrayed one who loved him. Being faithful is a preeminent Scripture theme, and "Roseanne" embodies ROSEANNE BARR and it. (eNS/ ABCphoto) Roseanne Conner is the kind of person who stands with you when no one can stand you. You might The Conners and Jackie are a not want her to accompany you to community.

Admittedly, Roseanne's a whina job interview, but if you needed someone to sit with you in the er, but she's got a lot to whine about: money is perennially short, emergency room, she'd be there.

You also could cry in her kitchen if any job she can find is pure you lost your spouse, your job or drudgery, and her mother drives her bonkers. But she doesn't quit, your dog. she copes - and deserves credit Each week, the sitcom shows Roseanne faithful to Dan, her car- for that. penter husband, played by John Of course to see "Roseanne" as Goodman. She loves him - be- a Gospel-filled show demands a cause she loves him. It's not because leap of faith for many since one he's an excellent provider - he's has to wade through bad publicity only employed sporadically; nor about some of Roseanne Barr's because he's dashing - like his off-putting behavior. Indeed, if wife, he's portly too. Roseanne only IOpercent of the news reports . loves Dan for Dan - no strings are true, Roseanne has major probattached. lems in her private life, but maybe The pair find fulfillment in each not too much unlike many of the other and in the rest of the family rest of us, who fortunately go - the three kids: 15-year-old boy- through life sans paparazzi, crazy Becky, 13-year-old tomboy Another example of fidelity apDarlene, and little guy D.J., as pears in a more conventional situawell as Roseanne's younger sister, tion comedy, NBC's popular "The the mixed-up, thin Jackie Harris.- Cosby Show." However, not by a

have referred to the "nafurallaw" comment as evidence that Th'omas is predisposed to oppose legaiized abortion.

- But Danforth- said the 'comment was "a throw-away line;" which he compared to senators turning the forrri of address "my distinguished colleague" into a "full-fledged en'dorsement of everything your colleague has ever- said."

Thomas was a prosecutor when Danforth served as Missouri attorney' general. Later, Thomas was on Danforth's congressionalstaff.

In addition to abortion-rights supporters, most of the -Congressional Black Caucus has come out in opposition to Thomas' c;:onfirmation to the Supreme Court.

Caucus members say Thomas turned his back on the aspirations of minorities, Among groups that have given their support -to the nomination are several organizations against

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Someone once said that everyone is miserable, but the rich are more comfortably so. That in mind, there's less to admire in Dr. Huxtable, played by Bill Cosby, and his lawyer wife, played by Phylicia Rashad, than in the Conners.

Nevertheless, while life is easier for the Huxtables, they still are to be commended for speaking of the kind of commitment that can teach all viewers a lesson in relationships. It's one which enhances not only marriages, but also parentchild and sibling relationships, friendships, career and citizenship.

And so Roseanne may well be someone to follow - not for her dietary habits, elocution, or apparel, but for commitment in hard times. Roseanne holds on in adversity, When the going gets tough, Roseanne gets tougher.

Thomas"'naturallaw"view said no clue to abortion ideas WASHINGTON{CNS) - The views on "natural law" that have stirred up controversy over how Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas might rule on abortion cases were drawn from..one comment that was little more than a "throw-away line," according to Thomas' chief backer in the Senate.

Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo., who formerly employed Thomas and has served as his liaison in arranging meetings-with members of the Senate, said Thomas told him he has "formulated no views on the relationship betWeen naturallaw and aborti'on."

In a 1987 speech to the Heritage Foundation, Thomas praised an essay as a "splendid example _of applying natural law." The essay

by Lewis Lehrman called the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion a "coup" against the Constitution.

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abortion that have said Thomas wiUadhere to the Constitution in his rulings.

The National Urban League, meeting in Atlanta, voted July 21 to remain neutral 011 the' nomination.

Thomas, who is black, was nominated July I by President Bush to fill.the seat soon to be vacated by retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall, the only .black to l)ave served on the Supreme Court.

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By Charlie Mattin'

ISLAND OF SOULS

By Linda Rome others: Listen to the faith stories I spent four days recently at the teens tell and what emerges is the Catholic Youth Center in the dio- significance of relationships - of cese of Worcester with 15 folks people touching lives, of making from around the country partici- the presence of Jesus come alive. pating in a think tank sponsored Most teens I have talked with by the National Federation for speak of their faith in the language . of relationships, seeing faith Catholic Youth Ministry.

Our goal was to put flesh on a through the lens of a relationship paper dealing with the evangeliza- with Jesus Christ, caring adults tion of young people. Through our and other youth. discussions I learned much about For them, understanding the how we as church treat our youth life and the person of Jesus is key and how faith speaks to them. to understanding faith. Jesus is a For me, fourfactors emerged as role model. He is strong, couragekey considerations: ous, gentle and humble.

-Faith needs to speak to daily Jesus understands what life is life experiences. , about and challenges us to move -Faith is built on relationships beyond ourselves to others. (with Christ and significant others).

3. Family: Family, particularly , -Family is essential in faith parents, deeply touches the lives of formation. young people. Teens speak of the -And faith is nurtured through family as "what keeps me going ... a w.elcoming and hospitable com- is always there for me .., helps me munity - a eucharistic community. to grow ... provides love and staI. Faith and life: We are familiar bility ... a sense of belonging." with the saying, "Church is boring, But some youth experience famI get nothin' out of it." ily as a source of pain, stress, conThis and' other oft-repeated fusion and rejection. That millions phrases speak of a disconnection of children roam the streets of our between the life we lived and faith cities to escape family problems (the message ofthe Gospel). Many highlights the necessity of strengyouth associate faith or religion thening family life. solely with going to Mass on SunThe faith of youth is first nourday. There is a disconnect between ished in family. As much as young Sunday and the other six days of people seek independence from the week. the family, it is their primary How do I treat my friends at community oflove and belonging. school and in the neighborhood? Teens need their parents and a lovWhat do I do to care for those less ing family environment. fortunate than myself! It seems 4. Community which welcomes that if faith doesn't relate to life and affirms: J-isten to most Catholic experiences it won't have much to teens speak of their parish experience and alongside their comsay to me.

2. Relationship with Jesus and plaints about boring Masses is the desire to be accepted and welcomed into the community.

Young people say that they do not always feel welcomed or FUNERAL HOME included in parish activities. Rarely are they invited to 'participate in 550 Locust Street Fall Ri ver, Mass. decision making, the parish council or its committees. Most activiRose E.: Sullivan ties for youth seem to be separated ,William J. Sullivan Margaret M. Sullivan from other parish functions. , My fear is that we miss wonder672路2391 ful opportunities when we exclude young people from parish life, when we segregate the young church from the adult church.

Ybuth need intergenerational experiences.

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Billy was born within sight of the shipyard First son of a riveter's son And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow Her great hull would blot out the light of the sun And six days a week he would watch his poor father A working man live like a slave He'd drink every night and he'd dream of a future Of money he never would save And Billy would cry when he thought of the future Soon came a day when the bottle was broken They launched the great ship out to sea He felt he'd been left on a desolate shore To a future he desperately wanted to flee What else was there for a riveter's son A new ship to be built, new work to be done One day he dreamed of the ship in the world It would carry his father and he To a place they would never be found To a place far away from this town Trapped in the cage of the skeleton ship All the workmen suspended like flies Caught in the flare of acetylene light A working man works till the industry dies And Billy would cry when he thought of the future Then what they would call an industrial accident Crushed those it couldn't forgive They brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance A brass watch, a check, maybe three weeks to live And what else was there for a riveter's son A new ship to be built, new work- to be done That night he dreamed of the ship in the world It would carry his father and he To a place they would never be found To a place far away from this town A Newcastle ship without coals They would sail to the island of souls Written and sung by Sting (c) 1991 by A&M Records Inc. IF YOU regularly follow this off Sting's new album "The column, you know that I usuSoul Cages." You may be familally write about the Top 40. iar with his chart hit"All This However, I do consider special Time," also from the album. requests, especially when the As an aside, I want to comreader includes the lyrics with mend 'Sting for the message the request. about the environment he placed Recently, a teen from Omaha, on the CD longbox. His pledge Neb., asked me to review Sting's to work toward a more envir"Island of Souls." The song is on mentally sensitive way to

St. Mary's School Recent graduates of St. Mary's School, New Bedford, carried into summer memories of a two-day class trip to New York City that included stops at the Museum of National History, the World Trade Center, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the U.S. Stock Exchange and the United Nations. All stops were designed to bring to life topics discussed' during the school year.

The students attended Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and later saw a Broadway show, which reinforced their appreciation of the arts after a just-completed school production of Romeo and Juliet/ West Side Story.

Grant Menard played Romeo and, Laurie Beaulieu played Juliet in this version of the annual "Shaking Up Shakespeare." The entire 6th through 8th grades rounded out the cast.

33 eighth graders then bid farewell .to St. Mary's in graduation ceremonies June II. When school resumes in the fall they will be scattered among New Bedford, Fairhaven, Old Colony Regional, Bishop Stang and Coyle Cassidy High

Schools and Greater New Bedford Vocational High School.

Awards at graduation included the Christian Service Discipleship Award, presented to Tracey Petitjean, and the newly-instituted Parent of the Year Award, given to Diane LaCoste and Robert Petitjean. , Recipients of the first annual St. Mary's Ladies' Guild $100 scholarships were 7th graders Laurie Beaulieu, Jacqueline Vigeant and Anne Marie Vardo.

SHA reunion A c'ommittee of graduates of the former Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, is making plans for an all-years SHA reunion to be held Saturday, Aug. 3. Members of the classes of 1916 through 1977 are invited to attend, as are faCUlty, families and friends.

The festivities will begin at 5: 15 p.m. with a Mass offered by Rev. Edward' J. Byington, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Fall River.

A reception at the Venus de Milo restaurant will follow, with a buffet dinner scheduled for 7 p.m.

package CDs is an e'xample of how all of us can help our hurting Earth - one small yet important step at a time.

"Island of Souls" might well be subtitled "Billy's Story." Billy is the song's persona, presenting a sad account of what has happened to his dreams.

The song relates Billy's wish to have more time with his father, a shipbuilder who works long, tiring hours.

Both father and son dream of a much different life, but tragedy intervenes. In the song's words: "What they called an industrial accident crushed those it couldn't forgive; they brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance, a brass watch, a check, maybe three weeks to live." ' For Billy and his father, the dream ran out of the time.

The song reminds me of the importance of living in the here and now. We need our dreams; they provide direction for the future. Yet we also need to focus on the richness and opportunities of today. ' For example, young people often dream of meeting the right person to date and eventually marry. But perhaps, in the here and now, marriage is a very distant possibility.

Remember, then, that the lasting bond that sustains marriage is the deep friendship between the two partners. And one does not even have to be dating to have friendships.

The friendships you establish now may not lead you to the person you eventually marry, 'but they will enrich your current life and allow you to build skills important for attaining the larger goal of an enduring, satisfying marriage in the future.

But hopes for the future should not lead us to ignore the importance of our present.

The song encourages us to think creatively about our current lives. We ask God to guide us today toward some part of what we dream about for the , future.

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Local student gets Holy Cross schohlrship Michael Spencer, son of Isabelle and Edwin Spencer of New Bedford, has been" awarded the Charles Dana Scholarship at Holy Cro~s College, Worcester. A 1989 graduate of BishOp Stang High School, North Dartmouth, he is entering his junior year at Holy Cross. The $6,100 scholarship recognize's acad~mic excellence and leadership ability.

Spencer, who excelled at Stang, ranks 28 in a class of 723 at Holy Cross and participates in student government and the crew team.

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- The Romanian immigrant real':izes her new life is much different than what she could have expected had she returned home.

In Romania, she said, students who fall behind in their studies often are left to fen~ for themselves, while classmates move ahead. There her career choices likely would have been limited to another circus stint or a job as a factory worker.

"I didn't want to be like that," said Miss Girleanu. "I wanted to be what I could."

The desire to succeed was instilled in her at age four when she began practicing gymnastics. For the next seven years, she worked out four to five hours a day, seven days a week. Like many young girls in her country, she dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion like Nadia Comaneci, star of the 1976 games, who trained in the same building as Miss Girleanu.

At age II, with her grades suffering, Miss Girleanu quit gymnastics. Two years later, she was ·asked to join the Romanian S'tate Circus as an acrobat. For two years she toured Romania, Finland and Holland before she and members of her t~ou pe were signed

by Ringling Bros. . · Miss Girleanu is happy with her life in the United States.

"If I would have continued in gymnastics, I would have been a gymnast and that's it," she said. ·"Now, I have school and an educaOANA GIRLEANtfNSpholO" tion." . .....

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) Many youngsters dream of running away from home to join the circus, but Oana Girieanu did just the opposite.

She ran away from the circus to find a home in America.

A native of Romania, then 14year-old Oana(pronounced Wana) came to the United States in 1986 .to perform with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus after impressing a talent scout during a European tour with the Romanian State Circus. For the next 12 months, she performed as an acrobat in cities across the nation.

On the eve of her one-year contract's expiration in December 1987, she left Ringling Bros. in Nashville, Tenn., and boarded a plane to New York. Once there she went to the police and told of her desire to defect.

Police brought her to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Manhattan. Officials contacted Father Robert Vitaglione, a Brooklyn priest who heads a volunteer agency that assists the indigent at immigration proceedings; They asked the priest to house Miss Girleanu until other arrangements could be made.

Father Vitaglione brought Miss Girleanu to the rectory at St. Joseph's, Parish, where he is pastor. Two weeks later she enrolled at Bishop Loughlin High School 'in Brooklyn, barely speaking a. word of English and not knowing anyone at the school. .

The early months were difficult as the new student struggled with English. Father Vitaglione recalls playing word games with Miss Girleanu to improve her vocabu~.' lary and speaking ability. "She really put herself'toit,'~ he said.'

Perseverance paid off. In three and a half years at Loughlin, 19year-old Oana has become proficient in English and has mastered every other subject. She ranks first among all Loughlin seniors and is a member of the National Honor Society and the student newspaper staff. She also received an AllScholastic Award from The Tablet, Catholic newspaper of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

While mathematics is her favorite subject, Miss Girleanu ranks all the others as her "second favorite." In the' fall, she will attend Russell Sage College, an all-girls school in upstate New York, on a minority leadership award covering tuition and fees. She plans to major in physical therapy.

"She's still a little bit shy in terms of relationships," said Father Vitaglione. "I see her developing academically, athletically and intellectually. I see a positive, sound development."

Although Loughlin doesn't have a gymnastics team, the 5-foot-linch Miss Girleanu has been a fixture on the school's volleyball team

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HAMMOND, Ind.' (CNS) American and Polish students at St. Casimir School in Hammond have learned, th~t friendship is a universal language that needs ilO translator.

Adjusting to the American school was difficult for the seven Polish sutdents, who came to St. Casimir speaking no English. Still they qlade friends quickly. ,'.

Speaking through transl~tOI:,Fa-.. ther John Barasinski, parochial vicar at St. Casimir, sixth grader Robert Po~otski, WJlO arrived from; Gdynia in northern' Poland 10 days before' Easter said, "It was easy to make frie.nd~ .by sign language, joking, hiughing' 'and getting into trouble.~' Still, said.second grader Martin Stanko, who cilme two' years ago from Rzeszow, Poland, via Italy' and France, :'it was a 'Iittle lonely" . the first year."It's easietthis year," Principal Mary Jane Bartleytold the Northwest Indiana Catholic, newspaper o( the diocese of Gary, Ind., that the Polish students were given Ameican "buddies" to help them become familiar with school routines and English.

She also got volunteers to work one period a day with the immigrant students to teach them English fundamentals.

Eighth grader Anna Panek, who came from near Krakow three years ago, was a straight-A student in Poland, but said she was frustrated by the transition from one school to another.

"I didn't like it, I wanted to go back," she said.

Most frustrating, she said, was "getting lost in the middle of a sentence" when someone would speak to her. "They'd just keep talking, and I'd stand there with a blank look on my face," she recalled. . Now, Anna will be gofng to Bishop Noll Institute on a leadership grant. " . .

Miss Bartley said students often did not let on how much English they actually understoqd l perhaps to: give them more time to feel comfortable in their ~ew surround- ' ings.. .

"I remember when I realized that Anna Panek understood English," she said. "We were lining up for a procession, and I told aj~ke,

to some of the girls who were in line, and Anna laughed. That's when I knew she understood more than she was letting us know."

While the students are learning English they are not given grades on their report cards, Miss Bartley said, except in math, which requires no English.

Robert Pok6rski doesn't let a langu!1,g~ barri~r keep hiIl)..froJ.ll providing sound effects fpr a puppet theater class. , Agnes Stanko, Martin's' fifth grade sister, said she ,received two ungraded'repor'. card.s before she felt ready to be gra<ied, Now, she's an ."A" student, a~ she was in Poland. , She said she misses the slower pace of Polish life. "Everything here is in a hurry," she said.

Martin, although he misses his best friend in Poland, likes living in the United States.

What does he like best? Grin~ ning, he replied, "McDonald's,"

Mirror, "0 let me so long eye Thee, till I be turned into Thee, and look upon me till Thou art formed in me, that I may be a mirror of thy brightness, a habitation of thy love, and a temple of thy glorY,'~ -Thomas Traherne

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CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Vincentian Food Sunday July 28; items needed for pantry include canned soups, vegetables, fruits, meat and fish. Also, cereal, crackers, peanut butter, jelly, pasta, jello, puddings, cake and muffin mixes, soap.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Youth mjnistry is collecting returnable bottles and cans; they may be left at boiler room door behind parish center. Registration forms for senior group may be picked up at church entrances and returned in collection basket. Grades 6 through 8 youth meet 2 to 4 p.m. and high school youth 8 to 10 p.m. July 30.

ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE Two dozen eyeglasses were donated by parishioners to Vosh International for distribution in Third World countries.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Altar boys' outing to Rocky Point July 29. Boxes for contributions of eyeglasses to be distributed in Third World countries by Vosh International are in candle room and at front entrance of church.

HOLY NAME, FR New altar boys meet 6 p.m. Monday, church.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Father Richard Lavoie will be celebrant for healing Mass 7:30 p.m.

July 31. Music by River of ·Life music ministry. Information: Christine Vadeboncour. 385-2465.

MASS IN PORTUGUESE Father Manuel Ferreira of St. Anthony's Church, Taunton, will celebrate Mass in Portuguese for Brazilian community of Cape Cod '6:30 p.m. July 28, St. Francis Xavier Church. Hyannis. Confessions in Portuguese 6 p.m.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Vincentians ask parishioners to donate one food item a week to be placed in box near St. Joseph altar on south side of church.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO RCIA inquiry session following 11 a.m. Mass Sunday, parish center.

All parish organization chairpersons should attend calendar planning meeting 6:30 p.m. Monday. rectory.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET St. Patrick's Fellowship meeting 7 . p.m. Sunday; all attending Aug. 3 to 5 retreat at LaSalette should attend.

Persons interested in attending retreat may contact Bill Courville, 675-7949. CCD teachers needed .in grades 4 through 6; call Janet Rausch, 673-1241, or rectory.

ST. ANNE, FR Feast of St. Anne Mass 7:30 tonight, shrine, followed by candlelight procession. St. Anne novena service 3 p.m. Sunday, shrine: ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT At Masses this weekend Father Ferry D'Cruz will speak on missions in the diocese of Trivandrum, south India.

WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Romantic evening with dinner and short presentation for married couples 7 p.m. Aug. 3, Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport. Information: Bob and Gail Enos, 994-4446.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Youth group trip to Rocky Point 4:30 p.m. July 31.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED CATHOLICS Attleboro area support group meeting 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Mary's parish center, North Attleboro; information: 695-6161.

NICOTINE ANONYMOUS Recovery group uses 12-step program to help persons live without smoking. Meets 7 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, 466 North Main St. (next to Unemployment Office), Fall River.

Information: 672-1083, 245-5208, 379-9818.

O.L. HEALTH, FR Prayer meeting in Portuguese 7:30 p.m. tomorrow; all invited. An English prayer group will be considered if there is interest. Parishioners desiring to have a dominga for next year may contact Father Steven Furtado.

Baptism schedule, beginning in August: in English first and third Sundays; family will attend 10 a.m.

Mass with baptism to follow. In Portuguese second and fourth Sundays; family will attend noon Mass with baptism to follow.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Parish Boy Scout Troop 63 will hold an Eagle Court of Honor for Matthew Michael Dumas 2 p.m.

Sunday, church; reception to follow in parish hall. RCIA sessions begin 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6, parish center; information: Deacon Dick Dresser, 775-5389, or Marilyn Lariviere, 7757781.

"AN EVENING ON CAPE COD WITH BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN" Bishop of Fall River PRESENTED BY DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7:00 p.m.

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TARA HYANNIS HOTEL Bishop Cronin will receive people of the diocese & summer residents

REFRESHMENTS, HORS D'OEUVRES MUSIC FOR DANCING BY THE MUSIC PLUS COMBO AMPLE SEATING RECEPTION WILL BENEFIT THE CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE

ST.MARY,NB Youth group dance featuring D.l.

Jesse Garcia from:FUN-107, 7 to II p.m. Sunday; information: Amy Bedard, 995'()347. Women's Guild Summer Sunset Cruise aboard Schamonchi 7 p.m. Sept. 12; tnformation: 995-0537,995-1223, or rectory 9953593 (9 a.m. to noon).

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, ATTLEBORO Upcoming fall programs: "Hidden Mourning," dealing with heal~ ing and grieving regarding abortion; "Hope for Healing," addressing issues for adults who grew up in dysfunctional families; "Communicating for Life," improving communications, problem-solving and conflict resolution within marriages. Information; Patricia Staebler, 226-4780.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Mass. Citizens for Life will distribute Roses for Life at weekend Masses.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N.FALMOUTH Bible discussion group meets Sunday; information: Fairhursts, 5636961. Men's Club food drive this weekend; donations may be left in church hall.

SACRED HEART, TAUNTON A missionary priest will speak at Masses this weekend. Choir members' annual cookout Sunday at director/ organist Joanna Alden's home in Raynham. Religious education teachers needed for grades I through 8; special volunteers needed for first class. New teachers' books available in sacristy; please return old books.

For more information contact religious education office. The parish has 10 new eucharistic ministers.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Baptism preparation meeting 7 p.m. July 30, church hall.

HOLY NAME, NB At Masses this weekend a mission priest will speak on relief efforts in .

Virac, Philippines, following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER COMMUNITY Catholic Charismatic prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Blessed Sacrament Church, FR. ST. JAMES, NB Persons wishing. to join prayer ministry for parish needs may contact Father James F. Greene.

Indiana to-year-old not scared to speak at UN UNITED N~TIONS (CNS)Sarah Mansfield, a IO-year-old from St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic school in Michigan City, Ind., wasn't scared when she stood where popes and presidents and kings stand when they address the United Nations.

"There's mostly just kids here," she said after delivering her report at the recent U.N. observance of World Children's Day. Sarah's school was picked to represent the· United States at the international event because of an environmental project by the fourth and fifth grade classes, and Sarah won a drawing to see which student would make the trip.

She was one of a dozen or so children from countries throughout the_world reporting on how they had helped create a better environment.

World Children's Day is sponsored by the World Children's Day Foundation in Washington, with cooperation by UNICEF. The foundation encourages elementary school children to take responsibility for building a better world.

At the United Nations Sarah took the seat of U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering.

Watching with great interest from the spectator gallery were her fourth grade teacher, Kathy Schroeder; fifth grade teacher Andi Haas; kinderg~rten teacher Sandy Biela, who designed a quilt the classes made; and principal Theresa Glowacki.

Sarah came with a brief prepared speech to read but said she had memorized most of it.

"I worked with my classmates in the fourth and fifth grades to com-

plete a project called 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,' "she told the hall full of children and the adults accompanying them.

"Our local landfill will be filled within four years," she reported, indicating one urgent reason for recycling more material rather than dumping it.

"We started a recycling program in our school. ... We wrote to our mayor, who visited our school to explain our city's recycling program. We also wrote poetry, held a rummage sale, adopted an area of our main beach to keep litter-free and picked up litter from our school grounds."

St. Stanislaus Kostka school is within walking distance of Lake Michigan, and Sarah said that after she and her classmates saw how many cans and other pieces of litter had been left on the beach, she thought people should be urged to stop doing it.

Her father reported his consciousness had been raised. "She makes me separate the plastic milk jugs and aluminum cans for recycling, things I wasn't normally thinking about," he said. "I'm very proud of her and all her classmates."

Sarah also told the World Children's Day audience that her school held a prayer service to help everyone become more aware of the need to "save our earth."

"I tell the kindergarten children that God is smiling when he sees us recycling," said Ms. Biela.

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