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Bishop Sean 0 'Malley speaks on Porter case, asks prayer Following comments he made June 16 during a press conference in the Fall River diocese, Bishop Sean O'Malley has issued a statement on the case of James Porter, a former diocesan priest alleged to have been involved in many instances of child sex abuse.

The bishop's statement came , from the Virgin Islands, where he is making final preparations for his installation as Bishop of Fall River on Aug. 11. It follows:

pledge myself as Bishop to deal. as openly and effectively as possible with this problem today. As we learn more about this terrible sickness of pedophilia, we will be able to find more compassionate ways to reach out to all whose lives have been so tragically affected, perpetrat,ors and victims. Indeed, perpetrators of these crimes are often first themselves victims of another pedophile.

The task of the Church community is to work for healing. Understandably, the present atmosphere is charged with anger and indignation, but it is in a climate of reflection and prayer that we must seek solutions that will help

Once again I am deeply saddened by continuing allegations concerning M r. James Porter's criminal activities even after therapy in New Mexico. My heart goes out to all the victims; and, although we are unable to undo the evil of the past, I

people rebuild their lives, realizing that God is always with us even in the darkest moments. His love is stronger than death, His love casts out fear..

The president of the US Catholic Bishops' Conference has recently articulated the outline of the Church policy regarding pedophilia. The tragic experiences of the past have helped forge these present policies which hopefully will allow us to deal with future cases in a way that will obviate mistakes of the past.

Finally, I call on the Catholics of the Diocese to pray for the victims and their families.

Episcopal installation plans under way

JUDY MAJOR with her wandering statue of St. Francis and a couple of the photographs documenting its travels. (eNS photo)

St. Francis, aka Frank, travels far and wide EUGENE, Ore. (CNS) - A statue of St. Francis of Assisi owned by Eugene resident Judy Major got the ride of its life when thieves took it on a cross-country trip, sending its baffled owner photos along the way.

The snapshots show the saint in front of a roller coaster at a California amusement park, beside historic monuments in Philadelphia, and on a visit to Dolly Parton's Dollywood in Florida.

Thieves snatched the two-anda-half-foot tall concrete figure from Ms. Major's yard in April.

At the Eugene police station, case No. 92-6525 became the humorous and holy mystery ofthe missing icon, while Ms. Major, a' Third Order Franciscan, began to think she would never see her saint again.

Then strange letters began arriving in her mailbox, addressed to "The Good People." First came a ransom-style note, printed with magazine cut-out letters, saying, "A note to say St. Francis is well.

You will see him again. Promise."

The note was signed, "Chet and Winkie."

A May 6 communication reported that St. Francis - "We call him Frank" - would be taking a

trip. A photograph showed a man with a mop scrubbing the statue.

"Here he is getting a bath for his adventurous vacation which will be exciting and filled with good times," the letter said. "The car is gassed, we have our road maps, and tomorrow we hit the road.

We'll keep you posted about Frank's adventures. You will see him again. Promise."

The thieves also began sending letters to a columnist at the Register Guard, Eugene's daily newspaper.

A letter to Ms. Major postmarked from Phoenix noted, "As you can see by the picture, Frank has been having quite a time. It's a journey filled with sightseeing (Mount Shasta), spiritual insight (Rosie the palm reader), adventure (roller coaster!) and exploration of a different flora (cactus)."

In another note, Chet and Winkie lamented that the statue insisted on listening to his favorite radio station - elevator music. "We reached a compromise, no radio.

He calls it sacrificing; we call it boring:' they wrote.

The letter continued, "The palm reader in Southern California has confirmed that yes, a bird in the Turn to Page II

Plans are under way for the Aug. II installation of Bishop Sean O'Malley as the sixth bishop ofthe Fall River diocese. Under direction ofthe diocesan chancery office, a committee is planning the many details involved in the ceremony.

With diocesan administrator Msgr. Henry T. Munroe as advisor, invitations to the cathedral rite are the responsibility of Msgr.

John J. Oliveira, diocesan chancellor. who is also serving on the liturgy subcommittee.

Msgr. Oliveira explains that due .to the limited capacity of S1. Mary's , Cathedral. admission will be by invitation only. However, WLNETV Channel Six wiH carry the installation ceremony live, beginning at 2 p.m. Aug. II. Other " channels, including Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network, will carry a delayed broadcast at times to be announced.

Serving with Msgr. Oliveira on the liturgy subcommittee are Fathers Jon-Paul Gallant, David Costa and Richard Andrade and Mrs. Madeleine Grace.

Accommodations are the responsibility of Father Michael K. McManus and transportation and hospitality arrangements will be handled by Father Jay Maddock.

Fathers Richard Beaulieu, Edmund Fitzgerald and Peter Graziano are in charge of receptions; and Father John Moore, Father Stephen Avila and John Kearns form the communications subcommittee.

Father Horace Travassos will plan flowers and other decorations for the cathedral; and the usher corps will be comprised of cathedral ushers and young men from Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. .

Father Edward Byington will . make traffic and security arrangements. rt

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Pope leaves hospital ROME (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, smiling and waving to well-wishers, walked out ofa Rome hospital where he spent 17 days for intestinal surgery.

The 72-year-old pope left the Gemelli Polyclinic July 28 to the cheers and applause of some 300 patients, doctors and nurses.

Dressed in his traditional white robes, he strode about 100 steps through the lobby and out the main exit into a waiting car. On the way, he stopped to kiss a baby and thank his team of doctors.

WHAT HAPPENED here on Aug. 4, 1892? For the gory details, see pages 8":9.

Installation Mass At the installation Mass, to be attended by many cardinals, archbishops and bishops, Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, the representative of Pope John Paul II to the Church in the United States, will read the letter from the Holy Father naming Bishop O'Malley to head the see of Fall River.

Cardinal Bernard Law, .metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Boston, of which Fall River is a suffragan see, will present and install the new bishop.

Following the cathedral ceremony. Bishop O'Malley will receive the public at a reception at Bishop Connolly High School, 373 Elsbree Street, Fall River. All are welcome at the gathering, which will begin about 4:30 p.m.

The pope was taken to his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome, where he was expected to spend about a month.

Doctors approved the pope's release from the hospital after a final medical check-up. They told him he was doing well but should

continue to take things easy for about two months.

A medical bulletin released July 28 said the pontiffs condition 13 days after surgery was "good and getting better." He now needs "an adequate period of rest in order to gradually resume his normal activities," it said.

"The medical team has prescribed a certain period of rest. It's up to the patient to accept it or not. I think the pope will respect our advice," said Dr. Francesco Crucitti, the pope's surgeon.

The doctors said the pope will not require any extraordinary medical care. They predicted a full recovery from the operation in which a benign colon tumor and the gallbladder were removed.

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usee head discusses homosexual document WASHINGTON - The head of the nation's Catholic bishops has commented on a Vatican document recently sent to the U. S. bishops concerning Catholic response to legislation with regard to discrimination against homosexual persons.

The statement of Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, follows: Attention has been drawn in recent days to a document from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith entitled "Some Considerations Concerning the Catholic Response to Legislative Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons."

From time to time, various Roman Congregations communicate with individual bishops and bishops' conferences throughout the world on a variety of matters regarding Church teaching and discipline. Most often, these communications are elaborations of positions previously articulated by these same Congregations.

Several week禄 ago, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith sent some "considerations" to the bishops of this country for their reflection when dealing with legislative proposals concerning the rights of homosexual persons.

The Congregation's concern is that proposals to safeguard the legitimate rights of homosexual persons not have the effect of creating a

new class of legally protected behavior, that is, homosexual behavior, which, in time, could occupy the same position as non-discrimination against people because of their race, religion, gender, or ethnic background. The document rightly warns against legislation designed more to legitimate homo-, sexual behavior than to secure basic civil rights and against proposals which tend to promote an equivalence between legal marriage and homosexual lifestyles.

Bishops will continue to evaluate local legislation with路 these "considerations" clearly in mind. However, as the "considerations" note, ~'it would be impossible to foresee and respond to every eventuality in respect to legislativ'e proposals in this area..."

I believe that the bishops ofthe various local Churches in the United States will continue to look for ways in which those people who have a homosexual orientation will not suffer unjust discrimination in law or reality because of their orientation. In our teaching, pastoral care, and public advocacy, bishops will, of course, continue to strive to be faithful to Church teaching on homosexuality, to uphold the values of marriage and family life, to defend the basic human dignity and human rights of all and to condemn violence, hatred and bigotry directed against any person.

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PONTIAC, Mich. (CNS) - By dismissing murder charges against Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the judge went beyond his "authority" and "competence" by "suggesting that assisted suicide is 'an alternative'" for patients in pain, according to a church official.

Oakland County, Mich., Circuit Judge David Breck is "woefully misinformed" in concluding that suicides could be kept to a minimum by teaching .people about "the benefits of hospice," said Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director for policy development for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.

Breck July 21 dismissed firstdegree murder charges against Kevorkian, who helped two chronically ill Michigan women commit suicide.

His 32-page ruling said Michigan has no law against assisted suicide and that prosecutors failed to show Kevorkian actually triggered the devices Sherry Miller and Marjorie Wantz used to kill themselves Oct. 23, 1991.

Breck requested, but did hot order, Kevorkian to stop counseling people with chronic illnesses who want to die until the state Legislature has a chance to consider the issue.

Doerflinger noted that neither

of the women was terminally ill and that only one of the four people Kevorkian has helped to commit suicide claimed to suffer unmanageable pain. Ms. Miller had multiple sclerosis and Ms. Wantz suffered from chronic pelvic pain.

In 1990 Kevorkian was charged with murder for helping Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins inject herself with a fatal dose of drugs.

That charge also was dismissed because the state does not have a law against assisted suicide.

Kevorkian also was present when Susan Williams killed herself May 15 by inhaling carbon monoxide.

He has not been charged in her death but a coroner has ruled the death a homicide. She had multiple sclerosis.

"What Kevorkian is practicing, and what Judge Breck is defending, is an 'open season' on depressed women with physical disabilities," Doerflinger said.

None of the four would have qualified for hospices, which help the terminally ill.

"Kevorkian's claim that this is a 'medical service' is outrageous," said Doerflinger. "Because it is the antithesis of sound medical practice. Not everything a doctor takes it into his head to do is a 'medical service' - it only qualifies as such if it serves the life and health of a patient."

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Father Hehir to be Cambridge pastor BOSTON (CNS) - Father, J. Bryan Hehir, an associate vice president at Georgetown Urtiversity in Wa~hington, is returning to fulltime p'arish work as pastor of a Cambridge church.

Since 1973 he has worked outside his home archdiocese of Boston and has become a leading authority on Catholic social policy.

He currently is counselor for social policy for the U.S. Catholic Conference, in addition to his duties as associate vice president of church, society and the university at Georgetown and as professor of ethics and international politics in its School of Foreign Service.

Previously he was director of the USCC Department of Social Development and World Peace and staff director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee which wrote the 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace.

In December of that year he keynoted a study session on the pastoral at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. .

Effective Aug. II, Father Hehir will take over as pastor of St. Paul parish in Cambridge, near the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

While the parish assignment might seem an unusual change for him, he considers it an interesting, challenging post.

"Harvard has been like a second home to me," Father Hehir said.

Between obtaining his doctorate there and frequent stints on campus as a guest lecturer, he has spent much time in the Cambridge community.

Father Hehir also will be an associate at the CenterIor International Affairs at Harvard and will be chaplain to the Harvard-Radcliffe community.

"It's like going home," he said.

"Going home to my diocese, home to a pastoral challenge."

A native of Lowell, Father Hehir studied for the priesthood at St. John Seminary, Brighton. After ordination he served in West Acton and Waltham, and pursued graduate studies at Harvard.

From 1984to 1989, Father Hehir was a MacArthur Fellow. The recipient of various social justice 'awards, he has written numerous articles on politics, religion, human rights, economics, morality and other ethics-related questions and has lectured throughout the country.

He succeeds Boston Auxiliary Bishop John P. Boles at the parish post.

WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) - A Kansas judge overturned the trespass conviction of an abortion protester July 21, saying testimony at her trial proved life begins at conception and that her actions prevented a greater harm.

Sedwick County District Court Judge Paul Clerk overturned the conviction of Elizabeth Ann Tilson, 33, of Wichita, stemming from her arrest during an Operation Rescue blockade of an abortion clinic last summer.

A Catholic priest who leads the Lambs, of Christ, a group that leads abortion clinic blockades, called the ruling a major victory.

The priest, Father Norman Weslin, said the ruling would encourage more blockades, caHing it "an open door to every clinic in the country."

Mrs. Tilson admitted trespassing during Operation Rescue's six weeks of protests at a Wichita clinic last summer. But she said she d.id so to prevent the loss of potential life.

Clark agreed with defense witnesses, including a French geneticist flown in to testify, who said life begins at conception.

"The scientific community is of the opinion that life begins at conception and harm is the result of termination of life under most circumstances," Clark's ruling said.

Mrs. Tilson's "wrongful act is forgiven in the eyes of the law under the doctrine of justification by necessity," it said.

Mrs. Tilson "sees through her heart," Clark wrote. "Her inner voice tells her that the premature termination of pregnancy by surgical procedure terminates life. By intuition, she maintains that it can also Cause great psychological harm to the woman, the father of the baby, the grandparents and brothers and sisters involved."

Clark said Mrs. Tilson's intuition was upheld by evidence presented by defense witnesses.

The mother of four children had been sentenced to six months in jail and fined $1,000 for trespassing. She is a member of Kansans for Life and was represented by the Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville, Va.-based think tank that opposes abortion.

Obituaries

NEW YORK (CNS) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta will receive the first Knights of Columbus Gaudium et Spes Award at the Knight's Supreme Council convention Aug. 4-6 in New York.

The foundress and superior of the Missionaries of Charity will also be the main speaker during the first night of the convention, which is. expected to gather cardinals, bishops and at least 2,000 delegates.

"Clearly, this is a case where those who bestow an honor are honored by its acceptance," said Supreme Knight Virgil Dechant.

"Few if any of our contemporaries are as widely and wholeheartedly admired as this remarkable woman who has captured the attention of the world by a simple stratagem: preaching and living Christ's message oflove," he added.

The Gaudium et Spes Award is named for the Second Vatican Council document that affirms the church's commitment to humanitarian service.

In a letter to Dechant, Mother Teresa said she accepted the award "for the glory of God and the good of the poor we serve."

The Knights of Columbus has had a long association with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity. They volunteer in several of her homes with the organization's "Operation Share" program.

Brother May The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 24 at Our Lady of the Star Chapel, De La Salle Christian Brothers Center in Narragansett, RI, for Brother A. Joseph May, 75, who died July 18 in Killeybegs, County Donegal, Ireland, while on vacation.

A teacher at St. Peter's Boys High School in Staten Island, NY, he was a native of Seekonk.

The son of the late James L. and the late Margaret (McGrath) May, he entered the Christian Brothers novitiate at Barrytown, NY, in' 1933 and professed final vows in 1940.

From 1955 to 1963, he taught religion, art and mathematics at ~a Salle Academy, Providence, RI. He also taught in Albany, Brooklyn, Astoria and New York City, NY. He is survived by a sister, Margaret V. Hebert, of Johnston, RI. He was predeceased by two brothers, Lawrence and Thomas May.

Sister Aylward The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 23 at Mt. St. Rita Convent chapel, Cumberland, RI, for Sister, M. Philomena Aylward, RSM, 81, a center resident who died July 20.

Born Josephin.e Aylward in Ireland, she was the daughter of the late John and the late Brigid (O'Hanrahan) Aylward.

She entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1927 and spent much of her career in Belize, British Hond uras, teaching at St. Catherine Academy.

She also taught at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, and St. Mary Academy., Riverside, RI, before her retirement in 1989.

She is survived by two sisters, Mary Mangan and Philomena Brennan, in Ireland, and three brothers, John Aylward in Ireland and Lawrence and Michael Aylward, both in England.

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Two new principals named Angela L. Stankiewicz has been appointed principal of St. Mary's School, New Bedford, succeeding Dennis R. Poyant, new principal of tloly Name School, Fall River.

Ms. Stankiewicz earned an undergraduate degree in elementary education from Bridgewater State College and was awarded a master of education' degree from Lesley College in 1990. Since 1978, she has been on the faculty of SS. Peter and Paul School in Fall River and has earned a reputation as an outstanding teacher and capable manager.

Ms. Kathleen Burt, principal at SS. Peter and Paul School, said that Ms. Stankiewicz has been a "creative force around our school and will surely bring that same

kind of enthusiasm to her new position at St. Mary's. We will miss her."

Poyant began his career in Catholic schools in September of 197 I. He taught at St. Joseph's School in New Bedford and became principal at St. Mary's in 1975. A graduate of Msgr. Coyle High School, Taunton, and the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, he holds a master's degree in history from Providence College.

During his term as principal at St. Mary's, Poyant earned several honors from the National Catholic Educational Association and was NCEA New England regional representative for elementary schools for several years.

Two vice principals The Diocesan Department of Education has announced appointment of vice-principals for academics at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, and Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro: Sister Judith Dolloff, RSM, at Bishop Stang and Sister Maria Jude LaPoint, CSJ, at Bishop Feehan.

Sister Dolloff is returning to Bishop Stang High School to succeed James McNamee, now associate superintendent of di'ocesan schools.

She is a veteran teacher and administrator who brings with her organizational skills and a lifelong commitment to the value of Catholic education.

She holds a bachelor's degree from Mt. St. Mary College in Nashua, NH, and master's in administration from Boston University. She has wor~ed extensively on continuing education projects and participated in a wide range of professional development activities.

In welcoming her back to Stang, principal 'Theresa Dougall stated that "We were indeed very fortunate to learn of Sister's 路interest in returning'to the area and we look

forward to 'enjoying her enthusiasm and personal witness to the ministry of Catholic education we share here at Bishop Stang."

Sister LaPoint is also a veteran secondary school administrator.

A member of the Congregation of St. Joseph of Albany, NY, she served most recently as principal of St. Gregory High School, Dorchester. She was previously a teacher and administrator at schools in New York State and in the Boston Archdiocese.

LaPoint earned a bachelor's degree from the College of St. Rose, Albany and a master's degree in business education and administration "from the University of North Dakota. She is currently completing an additional master's degree in education administration.

She has been active in numerous professional educational organizations, frequently attends conferences to maintain professional awareness, and published the article "What's the Catch, Sister?" in the September 1991 issue of Momentum Magazine, a publication. of the National Catholic Educa-. tional Association. '

COLUMBUS,-Ohio (CNS) An 18th-century Vatican tapestry never before on public display will be exhibited at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus.

Titled "Faith, Justice and Charity," the tapestry was begun in 1775 and took 12 years-to weave.

Until recently the 260-square-foot masterpiece was the backdrop for the papal throne in the Sala Ducale, an audience hall in which popes traditionally received heads ofstate.

It was woven in Rome at the Hospice of St. Michael, a Vatican . workshop established in 1693 to train artists and artisans. It will hang in the Josephinum chapel . from this September until June 1993 as part of observances marking the centennial of the Josephinum as a pontifical institution.

The theme of the series is "The Arts: A Tapestry Woven by Many Hands."

Famed rabbi dies NEW YORK (CNS) - Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, 66, a prominent figure in Catholic-Jewish relations, has died of heart failure at a New York hospital. After being executive vice president of the Synagogue Council of America, in 1960 he was named interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee. From 1983 until his retirement in 1990, he was the committee's international affairs director and remained active in interfaith relations.

SALINAS, Calif.. (CNS) Cesar Chavez, president. of the United Farinworkers union,joined by more than 6,000 field hands in the nation's largest vegetable-producing center, marched here to protest low wages and poor work'. ing conditions.

Chavez, a prominent Catholic known for his activism on behalf of farmworkers in the 1970s, told marchers July 26. that "Ia causa . [the cause] is not dead."

The march and rally followed similar events in the state's Coachella Valley in May and early June. That march, accompanied by a worker walkout, resulted in wage increases for grape workers.

In early July, two marches took place in the San Joaquin Valley as farmworkers路from Coachella, following the migrant stream, moved there.

At the Salinas march, Chavez said workers must start imme-.1 diately to "reclaim their dignity."

"The growers must respect you if they want peace," the labor leader told farm workers. . He condemned what he called growers' increasing use of "psychological terror." A surplus labor pool has enabled growers to threaten workers with job loss if they don't increase their work pace, say UFW officials.

Beginning in 1970, with a huge strike that dramatically reduced vegetable shipments from the "salad bowl of the world" for nearly two weeks, the UFW made Salinas its stronghold.

But currently the union has only a handful of contracts with Salinas Valley vineyards and none with growers and shippers of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower and other valley crops.

Farm labor observers have noted

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increased activity by Chavez through.out California.

He is mending fences with a former organizing rival - ' the Teamsters Union - against .whom he fought a bitter jurisdictional battle over farm workers' concerns at heart.

"The most important thing is that farm workers need to be unionized. I think this is a step forward for both unions. The main enemy is the growers," said J ohn~ son. . Chavez still has several thousand California farmworkers who are UFW members, some of whom earn more than $6.50 an hour, with medical and other benefits.

But mos.t workers are not represented by any union. Labor contractors hire them, assign them to growers and deliver them to the field.

Under this arrangement, work conditions usually are poor, wages are low, there are few if any benefits and housing is often substandard.

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DUE TO a special issue . welcoming Bishop Sean Patrick O'Malley to the Fall River diocese, many of our regular features will not appear in .the Aug. 7 issue of the Anchor. ,

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themoorin~ In for the Long Haul Now the media want to run the Catholic church by surveys.

In a state where over three million citizens are registered members of the church, it is suggested by 40 I pollees that the church be governed by popular vote. Because of admitted' , difficulties involving a very few clergy, the media propose to alter the church's way of functioning.

Misleading information, half-truths and insinuations have permeated practically every newspaper story concerning cases of clergy misconduct. It is mor~ than obvious, although one would not gain that impression from secular headlines, that the new bishop of the Fall River diocese intends to be sincere and compassionate in the resolution of issues within his competence; but although he has not yet been installed, he has been the target of media innuendos that are less than honest.

Some say it's orily media attention to cases of alleged clerical transgressions that have brought them to public notice. Others will note the attitude of lawyers who maintain that the only , way to get what you want is to hit the church where it hurts, in the pocketbook. Currently there is much of this confrontational mind-set, a great deal of it nurtured by the insatiable secular press.

N ow that same provocative press wishes to expand its selfassigned role of dictatorship by telling the populace what Catholics should believe and how they should run their church. The prime target seems to be our hierarchical structure. It is open season on cardinals and bishops. God help any one of them if he flubs publicly. It will be the stuff of the morning news.

There are those who feel that every church directive must be validated by a poll; but let us remember that God so loved the world He didn't send a committee and that revelation does not depend upon cub reporters seeking to make a name for themselves at the expense of another's good name.

Everyone, including church leaders, has a right to that precious gift and it does not serve this nation well when the sole purpose of church news reporting is negative and destructive of institutions which, for all their human failure, try to do God's will according to their religious beliefs.

Having disposed of the hierarchy, it is easy for the media to continue by dumping on the parish priest, often portrayed as a raving malcontent. Some polls suggest that priestly problems would vanish if Father could only marry. It is obvious that such a mentality is unfamiliar with the caseloads of our probate courts.

To be sure, celibates have their difficulties; but marriage is not to be regarded as a mere convenient solution for problems.

F or the believer, it is a holy sacrament, a fact often overlooked by newspapers. Celibates with problems need professional care. A Dear Abby or Ask Beth approach to life will not guarantee psychological health. ' As for us in this local battered church, we must not lose heart. We need to join in supporting Bishop O'Malley and one - another.

Above all, we should not let ourselves become victims of a secularistic attitude that religion is the opiate of the people.

This line of thinking was promulgated by the Moscow newspaper Izvestia for many years and in the long run it did not work.

Together let us pull together for the long haul, determined to give our new bishop the support and cooperation he deserves from all of us.

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Class divisions said acute

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HUNTINGTON, Ind. (CNS)Los Angeles Cardinal. Roger M. Mahony has warned that both nation and church are becoming increasingly class-divided, like "gated communities" where "you have to have your card to get in the gate."

"We are not only moving toward a class society in this country, we are doing so in the church, too," said Cardinal Mahony in an interview with Gerard E. Sherry of Our Sunday Visitor, a weekly national Catholic newspaper based in Huntington.

"The separation is becoming much more 'acute and more visible," said the cardinal.

He said the sentiment behind the creation in U.S. neighborhoods of "huge compounds where you have to have your card" seems to be that "we don't want any of those people living in here."

The resulting separation is "part of the tip of the iceberg" that led to the race-related riots in Los Angeles, said the cardinal.

He said the church has a major role to play in bringing communities together.

"If we allow our parishes to become isolated enclaves, if we allow our parishes to become, in a word, gated communities, in which no one else is welcome, then we become part of the problem," he said.

Cardinal Mahony said that after the recent riots, some Los .Angeles suburban parishes "took it upon themselves to contact parishes' in riot-torn areas, giving help, visiting stricken people of all races and ethnic backgrounds. There was a genuine outpouring of concern."

He said the Catholic Church has a weighty responsibility because of its diverse membership. "We are the only major religious denomi-

nation t\:1at truly has everybody in it."

Cardinal Mahony spoke of a nationwide spiritual vacuum manifested in racism as well as "on the freeways with anger and irritability," and in "enormous conflicts in marriages, in familie,s."

Last year in Los Angeles County alone, he said, there were 771 gang-related murders. "More'and more people are turning to violence as a way to deal with the conflict, the tensions and the pressures," he said.

The church needs to "help people learn how to ask for arid receive forgiveness - how to give' forgiveness," he said.

The cardinal said Sunday homilies need to tie together church teaching and everyday life.

He said shortly after the Los Angeles riots he began receiving phone calls from people saying that "their priests in their homilies made absolutely no mention of the riots - not even in the prayers of the faithful."

"It seems as ifthey acted as if the riots were disconnected from reality. I think we need to find a way to lift up, through the Sunday homily, the contemporary reality we are facing in our country and in our parishes, together with the' faith life and practice of the church, in some orderly fashion," said Cardinal Mahony.

Cardinal Mahony said in the interview that the church's impact on the entertainment industry has been "minimal."

But, he said, since early February when he publi~ly cited what he believed to be a "downward spiral in values content" in movies and television, he has had "a wonderful off-the-record dialogue" with leaders ofthe Screen Writers Guild and the Directors Guild, pointing out that "their biggest money-

makers are films that appeal to the 'family."

The church's role shouldn't be to "set down rules and regulations," he said, adding that the industry is "very sensitive about censorship."

But, he said, "there has to be a level below which good films should not go. We are asking that there be no exploitation of violence, no unnecessary use of foul language, no exploitation of promiscuity and the like."

Cardinal Mahony said one reason the church appears to have little impact on U.S. culture is that most U.S. Catholics "have never been evangelized.'

"N ow that is a very sad thing'to say, but we have never engaged our people in a process of evangelization - a process in which they themselves come to discover the person of Jesus Christ, the power of the Gospel and the excitement of discipleship in following the Lord."

He called one of the "saddest failures" of the U.S. church its failure to prepare Catholic laity "to function articulately and knowledgeably from Catholic principles" in the political world.

Cardinal Mahony said he is embarrassed at times "to hear Catholic politicians enunciate something they think is Catholic teaching" that clearly isn't.

But the blame doesn't go to politicians alone, he said. "I don't think we, as a church, have equipped them, have called them to educated Catholic witness in the world. It's one of the unfinished agendas for 'the church in this country."

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bor by fire whe you live next door."-Publius Syrus

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follows no system Ecdesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 Colossians 3:1-5,9-11 Luke 12:13-21 If we removed Ecclesiastes from the biblical canon, Scripture would lose some of its credibility.

The Bible is basically a book of theology. It's not a history manual, a science text or a collection of biographies. The Sacred Writers are theologians; not historians, scientists or biographers. Like Jesus, they show us the implications of God working in our lives.

Though theologians are essential to the faith, they have one glaring weakness: their teaching revolves around patterns and systems.

This certainly helps us remember what things to do and when to do them, but it can also give us a false sense that God is locked into such structures. How can anyone squeeze an infinite God into finite patterns and systems?

Theologians are always trying.

Paul, writing to his Colossian community, strives (probably for the umpteenth time) to demonstrate the implications of dying and rising with Jesus. His pattern is clear: if we have died with the Lord, we also will have died to "fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desires, lust...lying." If we have risen with the Lord, then we should expect to "set our heart on what pertains to higher realms where Christ is seated at God's right hand." One of the signs that we have undergone this transformation will be our profound unity with everyone. "There is no Greek or Jew here," the Apostle proclaims, "circumcised or uncircumcised, foreigner, Scythian, slave, or free. Rather, Christ is everything in all of you."

Also using a theological pattern in today's gospel pericope, Jesus warns the greedy to beware. An overwhelming concern for this world predictably implies a lack of concern for the world to come.

"Someone may be wealthy," the Lord teaches, "but possessions do not guarantee life." True wealth is "to grow rich in the sight of God." His example of the rich fool - a person so intent on amassing wealth

DAILY READINGS Aug. 3: Jer 28:1-17; Ps 119:29,43,79-80,95,102; Mt 14:13-21 Aug. 4: Jer 30:1-2,1215,18-22; Ps 102:16-23,29; Mt 14:22-36 Aug. 5: Jer 31:1-7, Jer 31:10-13; Mt 15:21-28 Aug. 6: On 7:9-10,1314; Ps 97:1-2,5-6,9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Lk 9:28-36 Aug. 7: Na 2:1,3;3:13,6-7; Dt 32:35-36,39,41; Mt 16:24-28 Aug. 8: Hb 1:12-2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 Aug. 9: Wis 18:6-9; Ps 33:1,12,18-22; Heb 11:12,8-19; Lk 12:32-48

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN for security's sake that he enters eternity unprepared - fits the schema perfectly.

But let's return to Ecclesiastes.

Its author, Q'oheleth, ("the teacher") is one of the strangest of all biblical figures. He's anti-Bible!

I know a religious community of women who once set up a commission to explore whether they should continue to exist. They reviewed the reasons for which they were originally founded and asked if those reasons were still valid. If any religious community should continue, it's one which is not afraid to question its existence.

When I think of Qoheleth, I have the same feeling about Scripture as I have about these women.

He questions all theological systems. Though they bring security to the way we conceive of our relations with God, each has exceptions to its pattern.

His quickly recognized refrain, "Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!" sums up his teaching.

Writing against the background of the third century B.c. wisdom movement, he disagrees that spend-

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ing a lifetime acquiring knowledge of the patterns in God's actions, then imitating those patterns in our own life, will make us happy.

He deftly parodies one of the movement's main beliefs: hard work will bring God's favor. "Here is a man who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill," he writes, "and to another, who has not labored over it, he must leave his property... what profit comes to a man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun?"

Our sole liturgical visit with this author forces us to rethink the very basis of theology. He very perceptively teaches that we cannot start with patterns, then work our way back to God. We,asJesus continually encourages his followers, must first come into contact with God. Only after having such personal experiences can we validly start on patterns - patterns which will change as our personal experiences of God deepen. If we did it any other way, our faith would end up being just a relationship with a system, never an experience of a personable God ....and Scripturewould be completely meaningless.

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Bishop Luis Alfonso Santos of Santa Rosa de Copan, 55, who declined to identify the party which offered him the candidacy, said, "I don't aspire to nor am I seduced by political power."

He called the country's electoral system unjust because any candidate has to have the support of economically powerful groups to win.

The victor, Bishop Santos said, "is indebted to those who brought him to power. He therefore cannot take any measures which benefit the poor majority against the interests of the economically powerful who put him where he is."

The. Central American country has improved its economic per. formance, principally with the help of the International Monetary Fund, whose austerity programs have allowed it to reschedule debts and obtain new credit.

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DIETZEN Q. I have been going to confession once a month ever since I started and am now 82 years old.

In the last 15 or 20 years I, have not found any two confessors who administer'this sacrament the same way. Each one seems to do his own thing.

I get a lot of satisfaction out of

Is there a formula for confession? face-to-face confession, but I still wonder about the formula to use.

Reading of Scripture and praying together with the penitent have vanished. I miss that a good deal.

(Wisconsin) A. Some use of Scripture and prayer with the penitent should be included in every celebration of the, sacrament 'of penance. The introduction to the Rite of Penance makes that clear.

Apart from that, it is true that the newrite'p'rovides the confessor with many options - different' prayers, Scripture reading~, ways of welcoming the penitent and so ¡on. So differences among priests are understandable.

Before going further, it's worth remembering that even in the "old

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KENNY Dear Dr. Kenny: Our son is 16 and says he is old enough and responsible enough to set his own hours for coming home at night.

His idea of a reasonable curfew is between midnight and 2 a.m. What do you think? - Indiana You are wise to set a time for your son to be home. The later the hour, the more serious troubles

church," confessors came in wide varieties. Some were' matter-offact and as brief as possible; some took time to advise and help.

Some, whether what was confessed was missing Mass or murder, always gave the same "two Our Fathers and two Hail Marys" oth'ers tried to tailor the penance to specific needs of the penitent.

I have two considerations that might help. The next time you go, tell the priest exactly what you told me. 'Whatever his options, a good confessor will be sensitive to the individual experiences and needs of the penitent.

Most priests really try to do this, especially if someone is as serious and concerned ab~ut it as you seem to be.

Second, maybe your problem is just too many priests. Pick one you feel is helping you, and stick with him. You will be more at ease, and it will give the priest an opportunity to help you more effectively.

Q. Why is incense used in our Catholic churches at funerals and other special Masses? (Texas) A. As I have explained more fully in the past, the use ofburning incense in religious ceremonies as a symbol of prayer goes back to ancient times.

Pagan religious rites included it.

Scripture refers to it often in connection with Jewish ceremonies.

(See, for example, Exodus 30; 34-38.)

Christians at first refused to use

incense because of its relation with pagan Roman worship, but eventually incense became quite common, espeCially at Mass.

It is both a symbol of prayer to God and of honor to holy things.

This is why the altar, the pe'ople, the body of the deceased at funeral Masses, the Easter candle and other sacred objects are often incensed during liturgies.

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What is a reasonable curfew?

By are available. Alcohol, drugs, speeding in a car and sex increase in likelihood as the night progresses.

Midnight to 2 a.m. for a 16year-old is too late. That's asking for trouble. A typical curfew for 16-year-olds in our community is 9-10 p. m. on school nights and 1012 p. m. on Friday or Saturday nights.

Many parents today are concerned that their children are running free or at least want to. Some children are more difficult to control than others. Other children are downright defiant.

Knowing when teens should be home is one thing. Getting them to

comply is another. Stating an order or giving a command, no matter how sternly or forcefully presented, does not guarantee compliance.

Here is a curfew plan that has had success with many teens.

I. Meet with your son and agree upon a base time for curfew. Prepare for your meeting by finding out from other parents what the usual times are in your community. I have already told you what I think.

2. Focus on the positive. Set up a plan where you respond with more time and attention when he is home on time than when he is late.

3. Let him earn "late time."

Obviously he wants to stay out later. Let him earn that privilege by coming home within curfew most of the time.

4. No exceptions. Let the earning late time be the only way he can stay out later. This is a good way to avoid long and unpleasant arguments about whether his planned activity merits a later curfew on a particular evening.

5. Agree on a penalty. For example, each IS minutes (or part thereof) that he is out past curfew requires one-half hour of housework before he can go out again.

In ,other words,-he is "grounded" until he works off the penalty. You,

might have a "penalty jar" prepared with slips of paper, each one containing a job taking about onehalf hour (e.g., wash the kitchen woodwork, do dishes, clean the bathroom, etc.). The more that you can agree upon ahead of time, the less likely you are to have an unpleasant confrontation when he's late.

Good luck! You are right to be concerned about curfew. Getting teens home on time is an important facet of discipline.

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Violence has become a health hazard , By

ANTOINETTE BOSCO

The American Medical Association is alarmed by the escalating problem of violence in Americaalarmed enough to take an unex- pected stand on the issue.

In a surprise move, the AMA took the position that violence, particularly among young people, has escalated to such proportions that it should be treated as a public health problem. Furthermore, says the AM A, firearms should be licensed like automobiles.

Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general, now with

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DOLORES CURRAN

"Spare the rod and spoil the child," is not to be found in the Bible, though I hear it frequently from parents in workshops who quote God as justification for spanking children.

Rutgers professor Philip Greven, who has studied the religious roots of punishment, notes that the maxim actually comes from Samual Butler's 1664 poem "Hubridas." Though selected biblical texts have long been used to justify using physical force on children,

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the National Safe Kids Campaign in Washington, D.C., 'stated the case. ~'We believe violence in America to be a public health emergency, largely unresponsive to methods thus far used in its control," he said.

The A M A cited statistics showing that for teenagers. between IS and 19, firearm homicides are the second leading cause of death, after motor vehicle accidents. In ,one specific study of II th-graders in an area not considered exceptionally dangerous, more than five percent reported owning a handgun and 34 percent reported "easy access to handguns."

The A M A looked at the situation of firearms in the home and found: First, safety factors are too often disregarded. Researchers from Harvard University found that over

one-third of a group of 605 gun owners kept their weapons loaded, and more than half kept them unlocked.

Also. assaults with firearms within a household - compared to other kinds of weapons - are three times more likely to result'in death.

Clearly, guns are lethal weapons, and they are increasingly in the hands of people who seem to think nothing of harming - even fatally harming - another person. More and more, these guns are in the hands of young people.

Often news stories tell of the deaths of innocent victims who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. One such death occurred when a S-year-old child on his school bus was killed by a bullet merely because he was seated

It's the doctors who are seeing in the pathway of gunfire being the destruction of human life that tra~ed by two rival gangs.

In the wake of this tragedy, the r~sults from weapons, and they're Connecticut legislature debated a the ones saying it is an "acute pubpackage of proposed gun-control lic health emergency ... beyond the measures. In the end, the legisla- reach of the criminal justice system working alone." tQrs approved measures that heightThe AMA wants to mobilize ened penalties for those who pro"the broad array of existing revide guns to young people. But the legislators could not agree on sources in medicine, mental health, social services and substance abuse general restrictions of the availservices toward the prevention of ability of firearms. injuries and deaths from violence."

The major argument for this They say this even while acknowdefeat appeared to be economic. ledging the "impediments" they Connecticut is a major producer are up against, which they say are of firearms in the nation, particu- "the depiction of violence on telelarly the Colt's Manufacturing Com- vision and in other media, and pany, which is 47 percent owned ready access to handguns." by the state.

It is getting late. We must supI think, however, that the time port forceful policies todiscourhas come to listen to what the age - and prevent - the acquisiAMA is saying, regardless of the tion and use of guns by youngsters economic fallout gun producers - who have absolutely no business may have to suffer. possessing a firea~m.

Spare the rod or 'spare the child? this doesn't happen to be one of them.

When parents ask my views on physical punishment of children, I am very frank:"1 did spank when our children were little and I regret it. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't spank unless the situation waslife threatening."

Often parents take this as criticism of their use of spanking and r'm sorry about that. Each parent has to decide how to discipline and I refuse to get sucked into the moral rightness or wrongness of spanking. I simply wish I hadn't spanked and rve told our grown children that.

"After an article on Greven's Spare the Child appeared in our local newspaper, a "Christian" reader wrote a strong rebuttal, citing five' references in Proverbs

which advocat~ using the rod on children: "Do not hold back discipline from the child; although you beat hi with the rod, he will not die," (23: 13) etc.

The reader added her own words, "T 00 many children today are bringing shame to their parents. It is because we have departed from this and other biblical guidelines."

Maybe. But why cite only the Old Testament? I agree with Greven that while generations have used the Bible for justification for hitting kids, these same generations have ignored Gospel texts calling for a merciful approach 'to raising children. I n the Gospels, says Greven, readers will not find even the slightest indication that Jesus advocated any form of corporal punishment for children. Rather, love was the prescription.

For parents who are struggling with the spanking/ beating dilemma (and a spanking can easily become a beating), I suggest a careful reading of Alice Miller's For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.) It's in most public libraries.

It's a horrifying but enlightening look at how parents in this.J cen• tury were encouraged to millct cruelty on children to break their will. One minister urged switching children as :young as six months on the grounds that any child who is disobedient "chooses to receivl': pain."

The acceptance of this behavior as good parenting has filtered down through the generations and I see much of it in my work. But, I ask parents, would n't you rather change

children's behavior so you don't have to hit them? Let's focus on how to change behaviors we don't like, not on how to spank more a better. After all, if spanking were effective, we would only do it once.

Abuse denounced v ATICAN CITY (CNS) Vatican and Asian church experts have denounced abuse and exploitation of Asian migrants and refugees, whose numbers are rapidly increasing. "The anguish and pain of millions of our brothers and sisters, marginalized and too often forgotten," require greater assistance from local churches, said a final statement by the First Consultative Meeting of the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in Asia.

Clinton quotes Bible selectively

Boston auxiliary bishop resigns due to health

BOSTON (CNS) - Auxiliary Bishop John J. Mulcahy of Boston has resigned for health reasons.

Dear Editor: Pope John Paul II accepted the During Governor Clinton's accep70-year-old bishop's resignation tance speech at the Democratic July 21.

Convention July 16. he spoke of Bishop Mulcahy, who had been' the babies being born in our coun- an auxiliary in Boston since 1975, try and his concern for them; he was to continue as chairman ofthe did not express any concern for Archdiocesan Marian Commission the unborn babies being aborted and spiritual director ofthe Living from in their mothers' wombs. He Rosary and administer confirmastated that he was not pro-abortion, tions as his health permits. that he was pro-choice. How ridDetails aboutthe bishop's health iculous - both produce the same problems were not made public, results. Actually, Governor Clin- but a statement from Boston Carton had a strong anti-abortion dinal Bernard F. Law referred to position until the late '80s.

Bishop Mulcahy's "chronic illness" Mr. Clinton quoted, a few times, and said "my appreciation of him from the Bible including Psalm _ hasgrowndeeperasIhaveobserved VIII. Evidently he has forgotten his generosity of spirit in thelace Jeremiah 1:5 wherein the word of of illness." the LordcametoJeremiah. "Before Born in 1922, in Dorchester, I formed you in the womb I knew John Mulcahy was ordained to the you, before you were born I dedi- priesthood in 1947. cated you, a prophet to the nations He was rector of Pope John I appointed you." God also had XXIII Seminary for Adult Vocagreat expectations for the lives of tions from 1969 to 1973, and was the millions Of unborn babies who pastor of St. Mary's Parish in were aborted (slaughtered in their Lynn, at the time of his appointmother's wombs). mentasbishop. He then was bishop Genevieve E. Foley for the north region of the Boston New Bedford archdiocese.

"There is a time for everything - a time to work, and a time to retire," Bishop ,Mulcahy said in a statement. "My time to retire as regional bishop has come. AuxilWASHINGTON (CNS) - By iary bishops, priests, brothers, mail ballot the U.S. bishops have religious women, the laity and my approved a revised English edition family - to each one of you, I say ofthe Lectionary for Mass, Volume countless thanks for everything."

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The revised translation is most notable for its use of inclusive or gender sensith'e language where A study of the Gospel of St. possible without violating the meaning of the text. It incorpo- Matthew will be held at St. Anrates the New American Bible's thony of Padua Church hall, Fall recently revised translations of the River, from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays Sept. 9 to Oct. 28. Topics and New Testament and the Psalms.

Its first volume covers readings speakers are as follows: Sept. 9: Prologue and Introducand responsorial psalms for Sundays and major feasts in the church tion, Infancy Narrative.; Father Freddie Babiczuk. Sept. 16: The year.

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Poles, Jews vow closer links WARSAW, Poland (CNS) After five days of meetings in Poland, American and Polish Catholic leaders and top members of the American Jewish community committed themselves to develop closer links between the two faiths.

The 27-member American delegation, including representatives of the U.S. bishops' conference and the American Jewish Committee among others, met with nf th" PnH~h Ri"hons' Commission for Dialogue with Judaism, chaired by Archbishop Henryk Muszynski of Gniezno.

They discussed initiatives undertaken by the PoliSh church in recent years "to overcome the evils of the past and build a more harmonious future between Catholics and Jews," the leaders said in a statement on the July 20-24 visit.

The d~legation was led by Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore and Rabbi Jack Bemporad of Temple Israel, Lawrence,.N. Y. Among the delegates were: Cardinals John J. O'Connor ,of New York and Bernard F. Law of Boston; Eugene Fisher, associate director of interreligious affairs of the U.S. bishops' conference; and Rabbis James Rudin ofthe American Jewish Committee and Leon Klenicki of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

The Americans visited the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau and prayed for the people who were killed there.

"We were humbled, awed and enraged by that vast factory of death" they said in the statement.

They also visited the new Center of Information, Meetings, Dialogue, Education and Prayer in Oswiecim, the Polish town near the death camp. The center grew out of an agreement between Polish and Jewish leaders signed in 1987 following a controversy over the location of a Carmelite convent next to the death camp wall.

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THE SOFA where Andrew Borden was found slain 100 years ago next Tuesday once stood against this wall in the Lizzie Borden house at 230 Second Street. Fall River (top photo); Leary Press (center photo), where the Anchor is printed, now wraps around the Lizzie Borden house, a favorite camera subject for tourists; in bottom photo, in the print shop where some think Lizzie's ghost walks, Father John F. Moore, Anchor editor, checks an issue with Carlton Gagnon, center, a printer; and Ronald Evans, Leary Press president. (1980 Anchor file photos)

IN THIS 1980 file photo John R. McGinn, now deceased, and his wife Josephine stand on stairway often used by Lizzie Borden. Noteworthy isabestairwell's beautiful plasterwork.

THE BORDEN HOUSE on Second Street 'as it was in August, 1892 (at top); center, Andrew Borden as he was found on his couch against the wall where a television set now stands; bottom, Abby Borden, beli~ved struck down as she was making the bed she lies beside.

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Elderly speak up!

Do you feel in your bones that there's a gathering storm against the elderly in the United States? I do.

So does L.L. ("Laurie") Cavanaugh, 76 years young, retired editor, publicist and promotion director who keeps a sharp eye on the role of media in society from his year-round cabin on the shore of Chippewa Lake in the North Woods of Minnesota.

Laurie and I were wordcrunchers years ago on the now merged Minneapolis, MN, Star, and we still cut up a few touc~s as members of the "Wordos," a group of grizzled grammarians which meets irregularly to deplore the state of language in the media. ems;loo, like politics, our aches and pains, media ethics and the good old days when we, were young. Sometimes we even complain ab6ut how the elderly are treated in the media.

"Anyone picking up Social Security has been attacked as greedy, selfish and unwarrantedly wealthy," Laurie wrote the Wordos the other day, grumbling in particular about the national media, specifically Newsweek, the Washington Post and CBS. He resents the implication, he said, "that there is a correlation between elderly comfort, characterized as excessive, and infant illness, malnutrition and death.

"The charge that [the fact that] some elderly persons are approaching death in relative comfort and dignity is somehow the cause of

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egregious social neglect and poverty itself, is, I maintain, a scandalously mean-spirited assertion." BERNARD He cited a piece in the Post's national edition last October enCASSERLY titled "The 800-pound Gorilla vs. the Hungry Baby," noting that the gorilla was, of course, anyone 62 or over.

More recently, Harry Smith of some publicity for the local AARP CBS did a piece showing "wealthy chapter. ancient Floridians disporting them-But he has strong feelings about selves in tropical splendor, clink- the media moguls responsible for ing champagne glasses ... "while he badmouthing the elderly. backgrounded all this with inner "These younger people who city路 filth, poverty, disease and commit these editorial monstrosiinfant death." ties did not experience the Great "What usually comes in these Depression, did not fight World gems of logic," Laurie wrote, "is War II, have no sense of the basic additional bolstering of the vil- liberality of the Constitution or lainous characterization of us "aemocracy itself," he said. oldsters as the dramatic example "They're searching for scapegoats of the collapse of the catastrophic to blame for failures in' social illness insurance program. compassion, really caused only by "Completely ignored is the one simple fact: This, among the peculiar financing thereof - that world's richest societies, is the one is, a system analogous to taxing that is taxed the least and takes the the farmer for farm aid, or only poorest care of the indigent." those going to school for public Laurie Cavanaugh concluded his education, and so forth." epistle to the W ordos by drawing a Besides informing his fellow line in the sand on the beach of Wordos about the media's gather- Chippewa Lake. How many other ing storm against the elderly, he older Americans are ready to stand fired off complaints to CBS, the with him?

Post, and Newsweek, which also "Like many old persons," he ran a piece claiming the elderly said, "I'm happy to continue to had no right to "our largesse." pay my dues, and to 'pay even Unlike the TV -style retiree, more. I'd be happy, in the time I Laurie does not garden, play tenhave left, to be subject to a means nis or wet a line in Chippewa Lake. test, to see whether I'm entitled to He and his wife Joyce, a former the Social Security and the comlibrarian, love to read and keep up pany pension, based on it, that I have earned." their s 1/ 2-acre spread. He does

Power of attorney a valuable tool for elderly

OVER 400 people enjoyed the seventh annual family day picnic held recently at Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven. Resident Lillian Lemaire, top, was visited by son Rene, daughter-in-law Vivienne and great-granddaughter Danielle Tanque, while resident Donald Sylvia, below, was escorted by staff members Natalie Bean and Wanda Hardy, who dressed as clowns in accord with the day's theme, "Under the Big Top."

Elder driving is topic Newton resident Jacqueline Anapolle, the Registry of Motor Vehicles' Director of Elder Affairs, was among keynote speakers at the National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities held in Denver, Col. Her topic, "Review of State Policies Affecting Older Drivers," outlined some of the auto licensing practices of all 50 states as well as the Canadian provinces in regard to older and/ or physically and mentally impaired drivers.

'Other highlights of Ms. Anapolle's address included the need for state policies that ensure prolonged driving privileges without compromising safety. She also pointed out the special needs of the aging driving population relative to the importance of establishinglicensing operations which identify, diagnose, and take remedial actions for the deficiencies of experienced drivers. By the year 2020, 50 million older persons will be eligible to drive, with almost half over the age of 75.

Massachusetts was used as an example of the increase of drivers

60 years and older. Ms. Anapolle stated the number of drivers over 60 years has nearly doubled. Drivers 75 years and over have more than tripled, increasing from 59,000 in 1970 to 187,000 in 1990. She also pointed out during the same time frame, the 16-24 age group has experienced almost a 30 percent decline in growth rate.

Ms. Anapolle concluded her speech stating, .. As states move to address the special needs of the aging driving population, they must take great care to establish procedures which protect elders' ability to drive safely as well as enhance their individual mobility."

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: My motber is In her mid-80s. She has no other relatives around except me.

Sbe has several savings accounts.

I have asked her to give me power of attorney so tbat I can take care of her accounts if she becomes incapadtated. Sbe refuses.

Sile seems' to feel sbe cannot trust me. She has no reason to mIstrust me.

I explained to her that if I ever had to file for guardianship, it would be expensive.

Her mind is not as sbarp as it used to be. IUrichtens me tbat ifI had to pay her bills I would have no access to her money. What should I do? - Pennsylvania You are. right to distinguish between power of attorney and guardianship.

A power of attorney gives one person legal authority to act for another. It can be broad or can cover one purpose. It can cover all future undertakings or be limited as to time and circumstances. In your 'mother's case, it could be structured simply to use her money to pay her bills if she is incapacitated.

A power of attorney can only be given by a person who is competent, although 路it can continue should the person become incoompetent. The person giving the power of attorney arranges for her own affairs.

A guardian is appointed only if a person is incompetent. Whereas a power of attorney can be canceled at any time, a guardianship cannot easily be canceled.

As you have discovered, a power of attorney is much simpler. Here are some suggestions.

I. Consult other relatives even if they live at a distance. Explain your concerns. Openness on your

part now should alleviate any family dissension should a crisis arise.

2. Continue to inform yourself about alternatives. Your local council on aging or bar association might have publications giving legal information for older citizens. A librarian can also direct you to useful information.

3. You have already talked to your mother, but she wouldn't listen. Bring up the subject again.

Since she is reluctant to face the problem, she may need to hear about it more than once. . Emphasize that a power of attorney gives her the power to decide who takes charge in a crisis.

If she waits for the crisis, others will decide for her. . 4. Get a power-of-attorney form worded as you think necessary. A bank might be able to furnish a form. Go over it with her word for word. Explain that it takes effect only if she is incapacitated. If you

have the document ready. she may be more wil~ing to consider it.

5. If she rejects the power of attorney, perhaps your name can be added to at least one bank account. This plan might give you access to enough money to handle an emergency.

6. If you need anything more than a simple power of attorney, consult a lawyer. The money you spend now might prevent more costly expense and delays later.

If you do not have a lawyer, ask trusted friends to recommend one.

Discuss fees ahead of time. Develop specific questions you want the lawyer to answer, and specify the services you need. Being brief and specifying your needs should keep costs to a minimum.

Despite her reluctance, your mother needs you more than ever now. Keep trying until you get a solution both you and your mother can accept.

VATICAN SPOKESMAN Joaquin Navarro-Valls updates reporters on Pope John Paul Irs condition outside Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic, where the pope underwent surgery July 15. (eNS photo)

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Continued from Page One He also prayed for the victims of expected to spend a month free of Mafia violence in Italy, saying appointments, with outdoor walks recent attacks had threatened civil at the summer villa and limited peace. He denounced continued personal work. The spokesman fighting in the former Yugoslavian did not rule out the possibility of a republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina and remarked that the people of late~August papal vacation in the the war-ravaged region were alnorthern Italian mountains where the pope was to have spent· ways in his thoughts.

Italian President Oscar Luigi two weeks in July. ' Navarro- Valls acknowledged Scalfaro paid a visit to the pope's that keeping the pope away from hospital bedside July 23 and wished visitors at Castel Gandolfo might the pontiff a full recovery. He was not be easy. He said the pope was the first lay leader to meet with the "feeling fille'" and was "eager to pope since the surgery. resume his traditional working Get-well wishes continued to ' pace." . , pour in. They included 37 bouThe pope's personal physician quets of flowers sent by Swiss was expected to be on hand at the Catholics and a message from Iraqi summer residence, which is located President Saddam Hussein. about 15 miles south of Rome.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta comOn the evening before departing posed a prayer for the pope's health the hospital, the pope paid a visit that was printed on Page I of the to the children's cancer ward and Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore spoke briefly' to 15 patients and Romano. In it, she asked for a their families. The patients, some return of the pope's strength so of them seriously ill, had sent the that he could continue to greet pope a get-well message during his "the children, the orphans, the widows and the poorest of the ·convalescence.

On July 26 the pope, looking world."

Polish President Lech Walesa, pale and thin, made his first public appearance after the surgery when meanwhile, invited the pope to' he waved to onlookers from his visit his homeland during the r~­ hospital room. He smiled and stood covery period.

Asked by reporters who would for about half a minute at a winpay the pope's medical bill, hospidow following a noon blessing.

Doctors said it was normal that tal authorities said the Vatican the pope had lost weight following was expected to cover it, as it did the operation. They said he was in 1981 when the pope recovered gaining it back gradually after from an assassination attempt. The Vatican's health plan operates beginning a solid-food diet.

In a taped Angelus talk broad- under an agreement with the cast by Vatican Radio, the pope Gemelli hospital; the cost of suragain thanked people worldwide gery and the suite of rooms being for their prayers and get-well used by papal aides would be extra, however. wishes.·

MARIANIST FATHER Joseph Davis, founder and first executive secretary of the National Office for Black Catholics, died July 24 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 54.

A Marianist since 1956, he was ordained to the priesthood in Dayton, Ohio, last year by Archbishop James F. Lyke of Atlanta. He was associate pastor of a Cleveland parish when he died.

Father Davis was also a writer and teacher, and served twice in Africa.

Funeral services were scheduled for July 29 in Cleveland and July 30 in Dayton, where Father Davis grew up.

Continued from Page One Europe, although the police do A native of Macon, Ga., hand is definitely worth two in the not think the thieves ever made it Father Davis was executive bush. This was good for Frank to across the ocean. letter addressed to "Friends director of the National Office . hear, since he will forever hold his of AFrank" said "Thank you. He little concrete dove in his hand. for Black Catholics from 1970 Frank doesn't believe in palm will be loved and missed .... We will to 1977. readers, he says they are of the miss Frank greatly. It is hard to let him go. Please treat him well. We Then-Brother Davis was occult. We agree~" love him." The note was again credited with a role in greater Ms. Major eventually received signed

by Chet and Winkie. letters from Michigan, Indiana, freedom for black expression - Ms. Major,has no idea who was Texas, New Mexico,'Florida and in the liturgy, a growing sensiresponsible fOf the caper. "I was a tivity to black contributions Pennsylvania. little worried at first because I After a supposed trip to Europe, didn't know what kind of nuts I to the church, and heightened the thieves wrote, "We want to was dealing with. After a while, awareness of the value of come home. He is tired. Traveling Catholic education in urban takes a lot out of you. Frank yelled though, I started enjoying the letters," she admitted. areas. at us. This hurts. We might come Since his return, St. Francis has He was a columnist for the home early, especially if this abuse remained in her front room. She National Catholic Reporter, continues." plans to cement him to her birdIn late May, Ms. Major opened bath to thwart any future thieves. and contributed to the magaher front door to see her St. FranThe culprits are still at large. zines Review for Religious, cis, bird in hand and map on Sgt. Bob Wilson of the Eugene U.S. Catholic Historian, Com- shoulder. The map traced the saint's theft division said he'd "like to monweal, Cross Currents and route across the country and into meet them someday." the NCEA Journal.

In Father Davis' first ministry in Africa, he taught, chaired the English department and served as principal of St. Patrick's College in Asaba, Nigeria, until the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war in 1967.

In his second African stay, Father Davis was Marianist regional superior in Englishspeaking Africa from 1979 to 1986.

After returning from Africa, he entered the Marianist seminary in Toronto and received a master of divinity degree in BISHOP TOD D. Brown of Boise, Idaho, is lead man in 1990. the raft on a three-day white water trip on the Salmon River in He is survived by his mother, Idaho. Others in the group included friends and relatives of the five brothers and three sisters. bishop and several Boise priests. (CNS photo)

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Pope hopes for peace in Liberia VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has expressed hope for a lasting peace in Liberia fostering national reconciliation and the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees: The church also needs to rebuild, as "this terrible war has in many cases brought to

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - For the first time since the Second Vatican Council, the Vatican press office is getting a high-tech face lift.

In May, workmen began a major renovation that is expected to take at least two months. When it's over, reporters will have access to updated fax, phone and telex services; desk-modules with computer compatibility; and modernized interview and press conference rooms.

But before arriving injournalistic heaven, there's a purgatory: scribes these days are working to the sound of the jackhammer, in an atmosphere of dust and darkness. And to top things off, the bathroom has been demolished.

Behind the renovation project is the Vatican's 55-year-old press spokesman, Joaquin NavarroValls, a Spanish journalist who took 'over direction of the press office in 1984. He lobbied the Secretariat of State for months before funds were finally allocated last spring. , .

The two-phase project is expected to cost around $2 million. That's a major expense during the Vatican's current belt-tightening period.

"The point here is not only to install technological changes, but to better respond to people's right to information" about the pope .and the Vatican, Navarro-Valls said.

The Vatican's first press center was set up earlier this century in a small room beneath papal offices, where reporters shared space with on-duty firemen. Later, enlarged press facilities were established in the offices of the Vatican newspaper. During the Second Vatican Council; the press office moved to its current site across from St. Peter's Square.

Since then it has limped along. with no major modernizing. Journalists labored among broken typewriters, shaky phone lines and piles of official bulletins, advisories and mail stacked up on various tables.

About 20 press office "regulars" managed to obtain much-coveted but tiny desks, while the rest worked on an oversized table in the middle of a large hall. During press conferences, sound problems were frequent and ear-splitting, and it was difficult to make a decent tape-recording.

All that will change, says Navarro-Valls. The press office also hopes to make available a computerized thematic index of Pope J ohri Paul II's pontificate - his trip, speeches and sermons - which took five years to assemble, One of the more controversial aspects of the renovation is that each ofthe Vatican's approximately

300 accredited journalists will be given a magnetic 10 card, which will serve as a pass-key to the building. In the past, the press office has been an unofficial gossip center for assorted busybodies, clerical and lay, who would wander in and trade information. That era will come to an end.

This summer was expected to be a quiet period, a perfect time for reconstruction. Reporters and their desks were herded into a dim corner of the building, the press conference room was cut in half and the jackhammers started ripping apart the old walls. Most journalists drifted off on vacation.

But Vatican news is not always predictable.

When the pope made a surprise announcement July 12 that he was going into the hospital for an eventual intestinal operation, there were only three reporters in the press room: an Italian, a Pole and a Japanese.

In the week that followed, the reporters flooded back and the Vatican's press facilities were stretched to the limit. Press briefings took place in a sweltering conference room (the air blower was out of order), and reporters found phones going dead as workmen shifted lines.

Overall, the Vatican's handling of the pope's successful surgery was given high marks by reporters for candor and timeliness. But another episode in,July illustrated that the Vatican press office is still somewhat at the mercy of the Roman Curia, the network of Vatican administrative departments.

After a doctrinal congregation document on homosexual rights legislation was leaked in the United States, it took the press office six days to make a statement and rel~ase the text at the Vatican. The doctrinal congregation was simply working at normal curial speed.

The episode led reporters to wonder whether their newfangled journalistic technology will be any help in breaking down some ofthe traditional barriers that exist between Curia and the press.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - A U.S. Catholic delegation back from the beleaguered Balkan republics condemned Serbia's military campaign and called for "urgent action" to save thousands of refugees.

"By all accounts this has been a particularly savage war" with all sides guilty of committing atrocities, said delegation leader Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of.

Newark, N.J., in a post-trip statement. But he said most international observers the group spoke' with said "the vast majority of atrocities can be laid at the doors of Serbia."

The archbishop has called for strengthening international sanctions against Serbia, which he accused of conducting a "ferocious campaign" to drive out non-Serbians in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina in an effort to achieve ethnic cleansing.

He said the delegation feared for the safety of Bosnians unable to find refuge from Serbian artillery fire. He said "only urgent action by the international community can save those who survived."

Archbishop McCarrick is a member ofthe U.S. Catholic Conference International Policy Committee. He was accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Dale J. Melczek of Detroit; Father Drew Christiansen, director of the USCC Office of International Justice and Peace; Shep Lowman of the U.S. bishops' Migration and Refugee Services; Father George Sarauskas of the U.S. bishops' Office to Aid the Church in Central and Eastern Europe; Karel Zalenka of Catholic Relief Services; and Father Anthony Petrusic, president of the Croatian Catholic Union of the United States.

The delegation visited Croatia earlier this month at the invitation of Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb, the Croatian capital.

Serbia has been accused of a campaign of grabbing land and forcing non-Serbians out of territory taken by its armed forces or the Serbian irregulars it allegedly supports.

Meanwhile, refugees have been streaming by the hundreds of thousands out of the many battle zones. The flood has forced Croa-

tia, already sheltering more than 650,000 refugees and displaced persons, to close its borders to avoid being overwhelmed by the demand for sanctuary.

Croatia has become"a victim of its own success" in caring for refugees, Archbishop McCarrick said, quoting the head ofthe U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Balkan operations, Anthony Land.

The number of refugees now in Croatia equal 15 percent of the Croatian population, the archbishop said. "This would be like accepting 40 million refugees" in the United States. Care ofthe displaced costs $2 million per day.

Archbishop McCarrick and members of the team had some criticism of the European Community Monitor Mission handling of the refugee situation.

They said the head of the mission denied the presence of thousands of refugees trying to cross the border from Bosnia-Herzegovina into the Croatian city of Slavonski Brod, despite the refugees' assertions to the Catholic delegation on July 15 that EC monitors had been there and seen them two days before.

The refugees said the monitors asked no questions, according to a delegation statement.

The EC officials said "hello ... then tipped their hat and went away," it said, reflecting the refugees' statements.

Archbishop McCarrick told the Newark Star-Ledger the EC action reflected a "pro-Serbian foreign policy." , Father Christiansen told Catholic News Service that while atrocities have been committed by all the warring factions, the preponderance of offenses are being committed by the Serbians. The Serb forces are conducting "systematic destruction" in the non-Serbian areas, he said.

He called the Serbian activity a "terrorist war" that targets civilians and their property.

In one Croatian town, Nustar, more than 900 homes had been destroyed by Serbians during the period of heaving fighting in that country, he said.

"Serbian aggression is driving the problem," Lowman said. And

while most of the current violence is Serbians against Muslim Slavs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the international community is "so caught up in the web of its own historical remembrances" of past Balkan conflicts it consistently puts the current strife in Croatian-Serbian terms.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata has accused the warring sides in former Yugoslavia of deliberately causing a mass exodus of refugees.

Writing in the German weekly Die Zeit, Mrs. Ogata said the number of refugees was growing by more than 10,000 a day and European countries had a duty to offer them sanctuary.

"The vast majority of refugees were brutally forced out of their houses by those damnable practices known as 'ethnic cleansing,''' the commissioner, a Japanese Catholic, wrote in the article.

Father Petrusic, in an interview with the Northwest Indiana Catholic, described seeing a middle-aged man in the Croatian town of Lipik carefully trimming a neat hedge in front of a demolished home.

"His parents had been killed there and this was his memorial to them," the priest said.

He said the message that refugees gave the delegation to take back with them was "to tell the truth, the aggression must stop."

There have been several ceasefires, all short-lived, in the Balkan wars.

Fighting in Bosnia picked up before a late-July, EC-brokered cease-fire took effect. It was the 39th such brief halt in the fighting.

EC special envoy Lord Carrington and the UN commander in Sarajevo, Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, blamed all parties - Serbs, Muslims and Croats - for violating the cease-fire.

More than 7,500 people, many civilians, have been killed in fight-路 ing since Bosnia's Muslims and Croats voted in March to split from Yugoslavia and form an independent state. That move sparked a rebellion by Bosnia's Serbs, about 31 percent of the 4.3 million population.

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Despite discouragements, great expectations remain In response t9 requests from many readers who enjoyed Father William W. Norton's summer 1991 series of articles, the pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, has agreed to write another series.

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

The Editor This morning I went to the Falmouth soup kitchen to serve a meal to those who come to the door hungry in many ways. As I finished clearing the empty plates, one of those who had eaten came and said, "Thank you, Reverend; it was delicious!"

Priesthood can be delicious and serving one's fellow man just delightful. Surely the beautiful words of the famous novelist and 1989 Laetare Medal winner Walker Percy come to mind: "My hero is the parish priest."

Why a hero? Priests are called to be everything to everyone. We live where we work; we work where we live; on call every day (except for

AN C protest could increase violence, says archbishop CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) - A mass protest campaign launched by the African National Congress to force political change could spiral out of control and increase the level of violence in South Africa, the president of the southern African bishops' conference said.

A weeklong general strike planned to begin Aug. 3 as part of the African National Congress's campaign "makes me nervous," said Archbishop Wilfrid Napier.

"The ANC may score a few political points but even more people will be out of work as a result and they could well lose their goodwill and tolerance towards each other," he said July 26 in a telephone interview from Kokstad, where he serves as bishop until August. He was named archbishop of Durban in June.

Archbishop Napier also said that drastic changes are needed in the thinking and training of the state security forces before they will be able to function impartially in enforcing the law.

According to the archbishop, "there has been much violenceinciting talk," both from congress members and people opposing the mass action campaign. The campaign is set to last until President F. W. De Klerk agrees to African National Congress demands on stopping violence and the election of an interim government.

"Mass action should be used only as a last resort," the archbishop said.

Additionally, "a weeklong uncontrolled strike may well break our economy, which is already in a very bad way," he said.

In late July, about 30 church leaders met in Johannesburg with business leaders and路 trade union leaders and urged a one-day strike instead of a weeklong protest. .

They were also scheduled to meet with De Klerk and ANC leaders.

In another Johannesburg meeting, Archbishop Napier told United Nations special envoy Cyrus Vance that the South African church leaders agree with "a perception in the black community

days off) for everything from the simplest request to the most catastrophic of human situations. Many priests have little oftheir own: no wife or children to meet their emotional and human needs. None of my classmates or yours truly have a home to call their own. Parish priests must support themselves: that is, they buy their own cars, pay for the insurance, buy their own clothes! and some even try to support elderly parents or other family members on a small income.

Rectories are a blessing as we could not afford meals, laundry, heat, light or telephone if the parish did not supply it. Yet priests are often criticized for wanting the same security laymen and women . take for granted.

We do hope that people realize the role of a priest in the 90s is demanding and deserving of respect - respect for a noble profession and for a sacred commitment made to God for humanity's spiritual good.

I remember the day I was ordained and assigned to St. Kili-

an's parish in New Bedford, a 25.year-old going to a 70-year-old pastor.

He told me, "We never eat in the kitchen; pay for your own longdistance phone calls; always put your cassock on whenever you come to the dinner table or the front office."

Welcome, Willie Norton, to the rules and regulations of priestly decorum. I know times have changed, but it can be difficult indeed to live among older and often broken priests and to deal evenhandedly with both liberal and and conservative Catholics. In short, being all things to all men is a costing life and one quickly learns that the Gospel demands discipleship.

When a priest retires, he has a small pension and if he is able and willing, he can help with weekend parish Masses. But many priests are not well enough for that; indeed, some must take early retirement due to illness. Yet they need to be needed.

Diocesan priests know only par-

ish life and have no religious community on which to fall back.

Retirement, even at age 75, which is mandated by diocesan law, can pose psychological difficulties for a man who has spent his life serving the Catholic community and who is suddenly no longer needed.

As priests, we worry about the quality of spirituality in the youth, middle-aged and elderly. The recent Supreme Court decisions upholding the abortion case of Roe vs Wade in 1973, and banning prayer at public school graduations cause many thinking priests to ask "Are we becominga Godless society? Where and when will our country be 'one nation under God'?"

As your parish priests, we stan<i before you Sunday after Sunday affirming that which we feel is important to God and to the Gospel. We dare to say that God expects better things from our sophisticated, technological, socalled civilized society.

As our people become better educated, the Church that is the people of God must be concerned about morality in the 90s: kids engaged in premarital sex; the reality of AIDS; our local Falmouth schools distributing con-

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FATHER NORTON doms with their false promises of safe sex; parents and pupils confused and in conflict over JudeoChristian ethics and often finally reacting to the situation with apathy or utter indifference.

Well, we may ponder the great issues of the day, but remember that the priests of your parish are still calling you to the things that matter to God. We have great expectations and we dare to be God's men in your midst,praying for your daily and hopefully receiving your prayerful love in return.

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THE PETER'S PENCE collection, to be taken up this weekend in diocesan parishes, helps support the Church in missipn dioceses and also aids countries suffering war, oppression or natural dis3;sters. that De Klerk is not interested in handing over power."

"If De Klerk comes out well in free and fair elections then so be it, bU,t he must avoid the temptation to gain popularity by letting'blacks go on killing 路each other so that their organizations lose credibility," Archbishop Napier said.

There have been charges that police were instigating or encouraging some of the black-on-black violence in the townships.

However, Archbishop Napier said, it is difficult for the police and the defense force to change and to be impartial after so many years of fighting the anti-apartheid forces.

"To expect change [froin the security forces] too quickly is 'unrealistic," Archbishop Napier said. "They must be prepared psy-

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in her heart for this man and for the good times that they shared.

Maintaining a positiye outlook can be a real help in life.

Positive attitudes stem' from, the perception that God wants usto find happiness, and that even if the current situation is not what you hoped for, new opportunities will deveIop, Given such trust· in life's good" ness, one doesn't have to control every event or relationship.

Instead, we accept life as it is, being mindful of our deepest goals, and yet finding the good in relationships or situations, even when they don't measure up .to what we want or hoped they would be.

By Charlie Martin

I WILL REMEMBER YOU

By Christopher Carstens

read the papers and talk with their neighbors and watch the news on Why is it, teens ask me, that television., Kids think they're imparents are so sure they can't trust mune to every sort of problem. somebody they never ·even met?

But parents hear stories about Here's the teen's point of view. addiction and murder and all You have some friends, kids you· manner of frightening things hapmet at the fast food place down the pening to teens. The older you get, street. You drink sodas, make jokes the more dangerous life can seem. and talk about music and sports.

Here's the bottom line. These Your parents turn all paranoid really are dangerous times for kids just'because you're spending time with lots of empty time on their with some kids they don't know. hands. Whether they're hanging It's like they're stilI telling you to out on the streets of Los Angeles stay out of strangers' cars. They or Ida Grove, Iowa, there are aren't strangers - they're your pals. drugs and alcohol and all sorts of You know your pals are OK. really dangerous trouble waiting You know they don't smoke pot in five minutes from home.

Parents have an obligation to the parking lot or steal stuff out of know what their teenage sons and stores. daughters are doing and who The problem is that parents read they're doing it with. Parents who the papers too much, and they don't know what you're up to have take all that stufftoo seriously. All given up a critical part of their role they remember is the stories about in your life. teens who got addicted to drugs, involved with some sort of deviants It can be a drag for parent and or killed in a drive-by shooting. teen alike. It would be a lot easier And there's the parents' point of if you could just come and go and nobody hassled you. But since view. The kid they've raised is loitthere are so many dangerous choiering with a bunch of guys down at ces to be made, the responsible the burger joint, and it looks like parent has to keep checking on trouble.

You hope your son is OK, but. what's up in your life, day after who knows about those other kids. day after day.

What can a teenager do to make He says they're his pals, his friends, but who can be sure they're not it easier for everybody? Easy.

Introduce your parents to your offering him alcohol or dope. friends. Bring your friends around He comes home and you ask the house, and stay long enough what he did. "Nothin' much, just for your parents to get a good look talked." So why was he there two at them, hear how they talk, see hours? Who are those kids, anyhow they act. way? Parents worry, troubled by the fact that these unknown peoIt's amazing how much better ple seem so important in their life can go when your parents get a child's life. little more comfortable with your Parents worry because they do friends.

I will be walking one day Down a street far away And see your face in a crowd And smile, knowing how you made me laugh Hearing sweet echoes of you from the past I will remember you Look into my eyes while you are near Tell me what is happening here See that I don't want to say Goodbye Our love is frozen in time 111 be your champion and you will be mine I will remember you Later on when this fire is an ember , Later on when the night is not so tender Give it time though it is hard to remember, darling I will be holding 111 still be holding you I will remember you So many years come and gone And 'yet the memory is strong One word we never could learn Goodbye .

True love is frozen in time 111 be your champion and you will be mine I will remember you So please remember I will remember you Written by Amy Grant, Gary Chapman and Keith Thomas.

Sung by Amy Grant (c) 1991 by A&M Records Inc. HOW DO YOU REMEMBER those who have made your life happier? Amy Grant's ".

Will Remember You" describes a woman's pledge to remember another person, The song appears to be written from the present point of view. The woman doesn't want to say "goodbye." Yet, the tone of the song suggests that the relationship is changing and perhaps that the two no longer will go together.

StilI, this woman believes that "true love is frozen in time," and no matter what, "I will remember you." I respect this woman's positive attitude.

She seems to realize that often we date many people before finding the person whom we choose to marry. Her focus is on what was good in the relationship, including "how you made me laugh."

She knows .that there will always be an affectionate space

Her positive attitude spiIIs over into her statement, "I'll be your champion and you wiII be mine." This means that they will continue to speak well about each other, encourage each other's hopes and be available to help each other through Iife's hurts.

To have this type of contact is to form a lasting friendship, even though the romance is over. This friendship can become a vaIued resource that heIps each person discover more of Iife's promise and potential..

In this sense, the coupIe doesn't need to say goodbye.

Rather, they can continually say hello to the support, caring and encouragement avaiIabIe to each of them through their friendship.

The teen and young adult years are a time to meet Iots of peopIe and date severaI individuaIs. As you do, look for the good in each person.

When a genuine bond of the heart develops, let it evoIve into a friendship. Doing so will keep your heart full of love and your life filled with positive experiences.

Your comments are welcomed

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

Father of the bride .By Dan Morris When I try to offer frugal alter- .

To avoid potential burn blisters,' natives to financial bloodletting I now moisten a fingertip and test (granted; It's a challenge to grow my VISA card before taking it all floral decorations in 90 days, but the way out of-my wa,lIet. When it . stilL), spouse puts her ingex fin~ . makes that hot.iron '~pssst.".sound, ger to my lips and informs me, I shove it bac.k qui'ckIY.and'hope it "This i.s our only daughter: ~eare doesn't melt:my·d·river:s I~cense. going to do it right. Pipe down." ,You see, my dal\ghter will be I put my foot down, howeve,r, arrived in a few months. She, her : when it was decided, we would not fiance and my wife'(and not the onlY'subsidile tljxedos for the person obviously' excluded here) ushers, but that I myself would are planning' a "mollest, simple rent one. That was it.

I was not about to wear'one 'of celebration'which wiII emphasize the marria.ge;n?t the wedding day:'.' those pricey, frilly-sleeved mon7.

Translated 10 1992 terms, thiS key suits with a red cummerbund means ~e, an;: ~ot e~pect~d~o, tak~ .. -.es,peci.ally.w.h~!1Jhem~!,!ey,c,ould, out .mor~.t.hJin.a ~.eco~d,r~\(?r.~gage ", h'ave gone'to a.n·eedy <;ause dr eye!).' anq .perhaps ,acoupl~ of.· ~otes, .: ii go'oq w:eekend"fishiilg trip.:':·.' from guys named Mickey' and " I" '1«' . k "',11' "'h" , ... . Knuckles to.payJor this "~odest" , '. ,w,ou .. StlC, Wit.. t e tradli . . ..,' . . . .' ·tlOnaI black-and-white model, I even. ,'. .'. explained' t' . 'f' h' ,11 • My wife has come loose at the . . 0 .my wl.e, w I~ IS "seams," For years·the woman has har? to' do, ~Ith an mdex fInger ' tight . . .. . ' agamst your hI'S.. . been'so some. peopIe credit·.. , As a measure· of .good faith, her with 'making , LincoIn look though, I offered to buy spouse a sideways on the penny.'

Now when my daughter sugnew casting rod so I couId show gests outrageous things like havher how to use it this weekend for ing someo'iie besides my aunt Shirthe cutthroat opening, She pulled out my VISA card. ley make the wedding cake, my wife says, "That's nice."

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SIBLING 'Ac'Hn:'VERS: Coyle-Cassidy'student Ka'ie Tenney receives' a State Science FaiT citation from-Secretary of'State Michael Connolly; her brother Jeffrey is participating in the'''N. ew , Frontier's in Math aria Science" summer prbgram at Worcester Polytechnic'Institute. ',' .,

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An honor student, Miss Tenney Also an honor student, in his

junior year Tenney was named to "Who's Who among American HighSchool Students," received a third pIace award in the National Physics Bowl a'nd was a member of Coyle-Cassidy's physics olympics team. He earned regionaI science· fair and history essay awards and took a college credit physics course at Harvard Uni' versity.

Both Tenneys are lectors and CCD aides at St. Mary's Church, Taunton. .

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BOYS OF SUMMER: Junior counselor Chuck Shehadi (left center), who will be ajunior at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, this fall, enjoys an afternoon with campers at St. Vincent's Camp in Westport. Below: campers are kept busy with swimming and sports as a group splashes at the shoreline, Manuel Cotto serves a volleyball and Russell Sanson tosses a frisbee. (Breen photos)

Happy campers to be found in Westport The summer camp season has reached midpoint for the Catholic Boys Day Camp, the St. Vincent de Paul Camp, and the Nazareth Day Camp with near-record enrollment reported. Nearly 260 campers have participated in the second session ending today, which included boys from Attleboro and Norton as well as Taunton. The St. Vincent de Paul Societies of the Attleboro deanery sponsored the youngsters for two weeks of baseball, swimming, arts and crafts, and many other favorite camp activities.

The camp welcomed boys from Fall River in the summer's first session and is preparing for New Bedford campers beginning on Aug. 3.

Among summer highlights so far have been a trip to the circus in New Bedford's Victory Park, a bowling trip for the Nazareth Camp, closely-contested victories in soccer and softball over rival Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, and, in the spirit of the Barcelona games, the camp's own Olympics Day. Camp director Father William L. Boffa, caretaker Ernie Sennett

and the grounds staff have reconstructed the camp's baseball diamond, enlarged the aviary' and

bird cages and improved the archery range and picnic areas.

Coordinating and overseeing all aspects of camp activities is assistant director Bill Breen of Taunton, a Coyle Cassidy High School faculty member. He has brought many new dimensions to camp life, including restoration of the Honor Tribe of the Order of the Cross and Arrow.

The boy's camp staff is composed of 20 counselors, mostly teachers and colle~e students, led

by head counselor James Conforti of Adamsville, RI. At the Nazareth camp, Robert Wood is head counselor, working with a staff of seven counselors and aides. The camp nurse, on hand at all times, is Mrs. Lenore Souza of Swansea, and Mrs. Lisa Garcea of Brockton is camp secretary.

There are openings available at all camps before the summer season ends on Aug. 28. For information contact the camp office at 636-4375.

Talent sought for World Yo~th Day WAS HINGTON (CNS) - The organizing committee of World Youth Day'93 is launching a talent search for musicians, actors, dancers and other artists for the international celebration slated for Aug. 11-15, 1993 in Denver.

Organizers are also seeking persons skilled in facilitating group discussions to volunteer at the event. Liturgical celebrations and community service opportunities will play a key part of World Youth Day. Thousands of persons are expected to attend the event in which Pope John Paul II is scheduled to participate.

World Youth Day '93 is geare~

for persons ages 13 through the 30s. It marks the fifth such Vatican-sponsored international assembly. Previous international celebrations took place in Rome; Buenos Aires; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and Czestochowa, Poland.

Individuals and groups who wish to perform at World Youth Day should send a brief resume, program description, name and address of a contact person and, when appropriate, a cassette of a performance to World Youth Day '93, National Office, 3211 Fourth St., N.E., Washington, DC 20017.

For further information call (202) 541-300 I.

Winners in the annual Fall River Area CYO Golf Tournament, held July 27 at the Fall River Country Club, were as follows: Michael Frasier of Fall River captured the Senior Division crown with a score of 75, while last year's champion, Dave Purdy of Swansea, finished second with a 71. In the Intermediate Division, Brandon Bouchard of Fall River took first place honors with a 72, the best overall score of the tournament. Jamie Codega of Fall River, who captured this division last year, finished in second place with a score of 8 I. In the Junior Division', Luke Brisson of Somerset took first place with a score of88, while Cass Fitzgerald of Fall River finished second with 107.

The Cadet Division completed its nine hole tournament with two golfers tied for first. Andy Horovitz of Somerset was declared the winner by the system of matching cards. Ted Bouchard of Fall River also shot a 50 but after tying Horovitz on the first three holes, shot a 7 on the fourth as compared to Horovitz's 6.

The winners and second place finishers are now eligible to play in the Aug. 17 diocesan tournament at the Pocasset Country Club on Cape Cod. Father Jay Maddock, director of the Fall River Area CYO, expressed thanks to Tom Tetreault and the members of the Fall River Country Club for again hosting the area tournament. Special thanks also went to tournament director Everett Smith of Fall River.

B.C volunteers help children in Belize Ten Boston College undergraduates in the university'S Ignacio Volunteers Program are concluding their summer vacations in Belize, Central America, to run a camp for 180 schoolchildren from poor families.

An aim of the program, explains director Theodore Dziak, SJ, a BC assistant chaplain, is to foster an enduring sense of unity and commitment among the BC par~ "N.ew England hoSI"I<Jllly wllh a European FlaIr'

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The volunteers spent June and July devising creative ways, such as games and activities, to teach the youngsters. English, math, geography, history and art. During their Central American stay, July 29 through August 25, they are performing additional community service projects developed with the youngsters and supervising activities at a summer camp.

An important component of the program, Fr. Dziak notes, involves student reflection on their experience. Participants will meet during the upcoming fall semester to discuss their observations, participate in service projects, and share their experiences with the campus community.

Boston College established the Ignacio Volunteers Program last year, in honor of university's 199091 Ignatian Year observance which commemorated the 450th anniversary of the founding of the Jesuit order by St. Ignatius Loyola.

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LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO The Rhode Island Christian music group Spirit will be featured in the Shrine outdoor summer concert series at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Spirit members Aime Brissette, Robert Brissette and Don Lawrence have performed at liturgies, prayer meetings, rallies and coffee houses and have recorded two albums.

The concert will be held in the outdoor chapel or indoors if it rains.

Concert-goers may attend 4:30 p.m.

Mass prior to the program. Information: 222-5410.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Food donations for Fall River Community Food Pantry will be collected in baskets at church doors this weekend.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Sl!nday Mass with Father William T. Babbitt 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The annual Afternoon with the Sisters will be held 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 30 at the convent on 125 Broad St. HOSPICE OF CAPE COD . Support groups offered are: Bereavement Groups, eight-week support groups for all who have recently lost a loved one, meeting at various locations; Losing a Parent as an Adult, eight-week support group meeting at Hospice Office in Yarmouth port; Caregivers, ongoing support group for persons caring for the seriously ill, meets at Hospice Office; Coping, an eight-week support group for young widowed person, meets at Hospice Office. Information: Maureen Corrigan, 3621103. Also, Bereavement. Groups for Children are offered for children coping with the loss or impending loss of a loved one; meetings are held at Hospice Office. Information: Susan McCarthy, 362-1103.

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SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Peace Fraternity will meet 2 p.m. Aug. 9, Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich. Father Cornelius Kelly, OFM, will celebrate Mass and speak on "How to Envangelize the Young." Business meeting, dialogue and refreshments will follow. Rosary will be recited at 1:30 p.m. Young couples and singles are encouraged to attend. Information: Dorothy Williams, 392-4094.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE KIDNEY FOUNDATION CAR "Introduction to the Bible" Scrip- CAMPAIGN ture study course will begin the even- .

The National Kidney Foundation ing of Aug. 4; information: Alice or ~f Massachusetts will accept dona. Millard Cramp, 477-3672. Donations tions of unwanted cars with profor food pantry may be left at church ceeds to aid their research and servientrances this weekend. First Friday ces. Donors can deduct the car's fair daily Masses will have pro-life theme market value on their income tax. with general intercessions offered by Free pickup service. Information pro-life committee.

I~80()';542-400 I. CATHEDRAL CAMP, SEPARATED/DIVORCED E. FREETOWN CATHOLICS, NB Cardinal Spellman H.S. youth August meetings: on the 12th, retreat today through Sunday.

Dorothy Levesque will speak on "Trust"; on the 24th the video ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN "Visitation-Making It Work for Clean, lightweight clothing will be Children and Parents" will be shown. co!lected in an August clothing drive; Both meetings 7 to 9 p.m. at Family chtldreri's sneakers and lightweight Life Center, North Dartmouth. blankets will also be accepted.

Bishop Wuerl's catechism a bestseller PITTSBURGH(CNS)-Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh was a young priest working in Rome when, at his boss's urging, he and two other theologians decided to write "The Teaching of Christ," a Catholic catechism for adults.

Three years later, in 1976, they published their book. Since then the English edition has sold 350,000 copies - an average of nearly 22,000 a year or 60 a day for 16 years. It is published by Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic publishing house in Huntington, Ind. It also has been translated into at least 12 languages, from the standard French, Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese to lesserknown languages such as Croatian, Korean and Tagalog, the main native language of the Philippines.

Bishop Wuerl said the book has succeeded over the years because it "offers a clear and concise presentation of every aspect of Catholic faith and teaching and does so in the language of sacred Scripture and the Second Vatican Council."

One of his co-editors, Capuchin Father .Ronald Lawler, said that

when "The Teaching of Christ" Cardinal Wright said it should be appeared, a number of popular "relatively easy" to produce such a catechisms in circulation "were very book if a group of writers shared loose in doctrinal and moral state- the work.

Schneider said he would proments. They were not very Catholic." vide financial assistance so the The other co-editor was Tho- writers could concentrate on promas Comerford Lawler, Father ducing a text.

The two Lawlers and Bishop Lawler's older brother, now 72, Wuerl recruited a group of schowho lives in Alexandria, Va., and continues his work of the past lars to contribute to the catechism three decades as a co-editor of the in their areas of expertise - and Ancient Christian Writers series. soon found out how difficult it is Father Lawler, now 65, was for scholars to write a basic cateordained in 1951. He was full-time chetical work. catechetical consultant to the Pitts"When they write about a subburgh diocese until this February, ject, they take it for granted you when he added the job of educaknow the basic things and they tion director for the Pope John answer all kinds of disputed quesXXIII Medical-Moral Education tions that are alive today," Father and Research Center in Braintree.

Lawler said.

Bishop Wuerl, ordained a priest After extensive editing and rein 1966 and now 50 years old, was writing, they had a workable manuvery much the junior partner in the script, which they sent out to 70 editorial triumvirate. He had just theologians and bishops for final turned 34 when "The Teaching of evaluation.

Christ" was first published.

"We were looking for praise but In an interview with the Pitts- received further work," Father burgh Catholic, Bishop Wuerl's Lawler said. Some evaluators sent diocesan newspaper, the bishop back 30 to 50 pages of notes and and Capuchin priest recalled a suggestions. dinner conversation in Rome that "The Teaching of Christ" has marked the start of the book. been updated twice since 1976 In the early 1970s, when Bishop most recently last spring. The latest Wuerl was a priest serving as peredition uses inclusive language and sonal secretary to Cardinal John a new translation of Scripture. It Wright, ,prefect of the Vatican Conadds several topics, such as suigregation for the Clergy, a group cide, euthanasia and in vitro fertilfrom Pittsburgh came to visit the ization, which were not treated in cardinal, who was former bishop earlier editions. of Pittsburgh. The group included Father Lawler said newest transSummer often means new child Father Lawler, Pittsburgh buslations of the book include Lithcare arrangements for your child- inessman Frank Schneider imd uanian and Russian. He said he ren. Whether it's summer camp, a . Bishop Anthony Bosco, now bishop believed the Lithuanian translanew sitter, a relative or a combina- of Greensburg but then an auxil- tion was done, although he did not tion ofthose, arrangements for the iary of Pittsburgh. know ifit has been printed yet. He children's emergency care should . At .dinner, the conversation believed the Russian translation, be made as well. :Injuries or sick- turned to the need for a solid, con- begun several months ago, was ness can happen at any·time - and temporary catechism for .adults. still being worked on. if parents are .not available to authorize medical treatment, critical time can 'be lost.

St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has available medical consent forms, in Portuguese and English, which provide a parent's consent for a child to be treated in an emergency situation. By completing and returning the form to be kept on file at St. Anne's, parents ensure their children can receive medical attention without delay.

St. Anne's Hospital is also making available free child files Jor documenting children in case they are lost. The kit provides space for fingerprints (ink pad supplied), a .photo, physical description and safety tips.

The medical consent forms and BESTSELLER: Cardinal John Wright, then prefect of I. D. kits are available at St. Anne's and at the Community Developthe Vatican Congregation for Clergy, looks over the first copy ment Recreation ,main office on in 1976 oC'''The Teaching of Christ," a Catholic catechism for Bank Street. adults which has now sold 350,000 copies in English. Presenting the book were co-editors, from left, Bishop (then Father) Not To Worry Donald W. Wuerl; Thomas Comerfor~ Lawler and Capuchin "If you are standing upright, Father Ronald Lawler. The cardinal died in 1979. (CNS don't worry if your shadow' is crooked."-Chinese proverb .photo)

St. Anne's Hospital offers medical consent forms