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Litmus test that wasn't: Souter and abortion WASHINGTON (CNS) - Take it from the president himself: An abortion "litmus test" was no "must" in nominating a new Supreme Court justice, Not that some activists on both sides of the abortion issue wouldn't have preferred one, DetermjningwhereJudge David H. Souter stands on abortion soon became the best guessing game in Washington, with uneasiness in both anti- and pro-abortion camps.

According to President Bush, who tapped Souter July 23 to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice William J. Brennan, "it is not appropriate in choosing a Supreme Court justice to use any litmus test."

Bush emphasized repeatedly that he did not know - or ask - Souter's views on abortion. Appointing a new Supreme Court justice is "far broader than that. I have too much respect for the Supreme Court to look at one specific issue and one alone."

Some pro-lifers worry that Bush may have glossed over the abortion issue.

"The red flag went up when George Bush said there has been no litmus test," said Judie Brown, president of the American Life Lobby. "I don't know how many times Republicans think they can hoodwink pro-life people but this is about the last straw."

The American Life Lobby is circulating a petition questioning Souter's background. "We are officially withholding support until our questions are answered," said Robert Evangelisto, press spokesman for the group.

Pro-lifers cite three concerns about Souter.

The first is Souter's vote with the majority, while on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, to accept the concept of a "wrongful birth" of a child. In so doing, he' and other judges ruled that doctors should test for birth defects, and inform pregnant women, allowing them to decide on an abortion.

"When parents are denied the opportunity to make this decision" about giving birth to a deformed child "important personal interests may be impaired, including ... personal autonomy, which may include the making of informed reproductive choices," the New Hampshire court said.

In a concurring opinion, Souter discussed the hypothetical plight of a doctor who opposes abortion but has a· pregnant patient who carries a deformed fetus and might want an abortion.

A "timely disclosure of (the physician's) professional limits based on religious or moral scruTurn to Page II

English Mass to honor first u.s. diocese BALTIMORE(CNS)-Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore, the 13th successor of Jesuit Father John Carroll, the first bishop of the United States, will be homilist at a bicentennial Mass Aug. 15 in the English chapel where Father Carroll was ordained to the episcopate.

The archbishop's visit to the chapel ofSt. Mary of Lulwbrth Castle in Dorset, England, will be part of the commemoration of the bicentennial observance of the establishment of the U.S. hierarchy.

When the U.S. bishops convened their annual general meeting in Baltimore on Nov. 6, 1989, they commemorated the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Baltimore as the first U.S. diocese and the appointment of Father Carroll as its first bishop.

Father Carroll, however, was not ordained a bishop until Aug. IS, 1790. He was named archbishop of Baltimore in 1808.

The chapel Mass, to be celebratedAug.15byBishopChris-

topher Budd of Plymouth, England, will be but one of a series of events Aug. 14-17 at Lulworth marking the bicentennial. , The chapel is on the estate of the Weld family. Bishop Carroll taught Thomas Weld, who later became Cardinal Weld.

Besides the Weld-Carroll friendship, the Weld family also was on friendly terms with King George III, who permitted them Turn to Page 11

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THE NEW STAINED GLASS WINDOW AT ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHAPEL, . FALMOUTH HEIGHTS

St. Thomas mission once a. parish

ReltlOvated Cape chapel blessed Last Sunday was a special day in the history of St. Thomas the Apostle Chapel, Falmouth Heights, a summer mission of St. Patrick's Church, Falmouth. It saw the blessing by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin of the newly renovated building on Falmouth Inner Harbor which has been serving Cape Cod vacationers since the early years of the ce:ntury. Under direction of Msgr. .J ohn J. Regan, pastor of St. Patrick's, the mission interior has been painted and carpeted and the pews repaired and refinished, while a new celebrant's chair, deacon's bench and processional crucifix enhance the sanctuary.

But the centerpiece of the project is the chapel's magnificent

stained glass window that spans the back wall of the sanctuary. Fifteen feet wide and four feet high, it depicts Christ calming the waters, an appropriate subject for a harborside place of worship.

The window is the work of Oer-, man artist Franz Schroeder and particularly worthy of note, says Msgr. Regan, is the empathy with which he captured the facial expressions of the apostles as they seek to cope with the tumultuous seas.

Once a Parish St. Thomas the Apostle has an interesting past, including the fact that at one time it was the parish church and St. Patrick's was its mission. What follows is the stor)' ofthe chapel by parishioner Kevin

F. Smith, a young man with a deep interest in local history.

The picturesque St. Thomas Chapel, overlooking Falmouth Harbor has been a favorite place of worship for local residents and summer visitors alike for many years. The special ambiance of St. Thomas Chapel is a result of its lovely location, architectural simplicity, and the spiritual serenity found within.

In order to learn the early history of the building that is now the Chapel it is necessary to understand the history of Falmouth Heights.

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Rachel has her priorities straight She's only nine, but Rachel Buguey of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, has her priorities straight. Very straight. Here's the letter she sent liS: My Dad brought me by the abortion clinic at Camp St. in Hyannis. 'We prayed and he explained what goes on there. It was sad to hear that the other doctors sharing the building couid deal with it. I like babies a lot and I don't want to see them be killed. I'm nine years old and 'sometimes take care oft-abies I like it because it's fun. It s disgusting to see pictures of little babies killed because even ifyou can't see them in the mother it s still a baby. I would like to see all babies grow up. Even ifit 's a handicapped child, The priests and the pastors should get all their people and bring them

down to the abortion clinic to hold signs and encourage the mothers not to do it.

More people should be down there. Thank You.

P.S, My Dad typed this but I spoke the words for him. Thank You.

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Mother Teresa endorses Rosary for Life

ARLINGTON, Va: (CNS) Publicly favoring abortion disqualifies a man from membership in the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, the Irish-American group resolved at its 85th national "May God's blessing be with convention, held in July.

Rosary for Life on October 13th...

According to the resolution we shall join you in praying the adopted by more than 500 at the rosary on that day specially," Arlington convention, the new rule Mother Teresa states in a letter to applies to renewal of membership Patrick Benedict of Memphis, as well as to new applicants.

Tenn., a member of the alI-volun"We are proud to take this teer Rosary for Life organization. stand," said outgoing president . "Our prayers aTe with your Michael Coogan of Dayton, Ohio. movement that. Our Lady -may "Our Holy Father asked all bless it and use it greatly to save Americans to stand up and be the lives of many unborn babies. ' heard on this unspeakable crime May more and more mothers be and we are' responding to that helped through it to love and want call," Coogan said. their babies," Mother Teresa's letWilliam S. Farrell of Sudbury, ter continues.

Mass., national pro-life chairman, The support of one of the most said the "resolution and our selec/ respected and admired persons on tion of New Orleans as the site of AT PRESS CONFERENCE announcing sponsorship of a new regional health care the 1992 convention will send a Earth comes less than three months before the first-ever worldwide ~elivery system .by Charlton Memorial and St. Anne's hospitals, both in Fall River, representaclear message to our political leadRosary for Life,. a prayer event in tives take questiOns from reporters. From left, Sister Dorothy.Ruggiero, OP, chairman of St. ers that the killing ofthe unborn is support of unborn children and Anne's Hospital; Frederic C. Dreyer Jr., president of Charlton Memorial and Charlton Health a tragedy." pregnant mothers and for the New Orleans was rejected for System; Alan D. Knight, president ofSt. Anne's and St. Anne's Health System. (Kearns photo) intention of changing the hearts of the 1992 Democrafic National abortionists and their supporters.

Convention, according to Democratic chairman Ron Brown, beSaid Benedict, "It is very inspircause the Louisiana Legislature ing to have the support of Mother BOSTON (CNS) - Religious Pilot said, "The classic invocation those who so glibly exalt license to passed a bill to ban all abortions Teresa. She is the world's greatest except to save the life ofthe mother example of being pro-life. I hope rights and anti-pornography groups of the First Amendment for abso- some throne of liberty," he said.

Attorney General James Shan- and in cases of rape and incest. others will join her on October in Boston have protested an exhibit lute freedom of expression is reCharles Welsh of Centerreach, 13th and be a part of the Rosary of Robert Mapplethorpe photos peated with the stridency of a non has said he will not prosecute in Boston. worn-out cliche and used to cover because the exhibit does not vio- N.Y., pro-life chairman for Hifor Life." bernians in his state, said the HiAn editorial and a column in up obvious debauchery." !lite state obscenity law.

Individuals may become inbernians' resolution was "a first The Pilot, Boston's archdiocesan When the exhibit, "Robert MapArt, the advertisement said, "has volved with the worldwide Rosary for a major Catholic organization, for Life by being local coordina- newspaper, also opposed the exhi- no absolute freedom" when it con~ 'plethorpe: The Perfect Moment," and we hope that our example will bit, partially funded by the National in Cincinnati this spring, opened travenes community standards. tors. These coordinators will have help others to take up this matter."

Endowment for the Arts. the City'S Contemporary Arts ~en颅 Morality in Media asked that participants meet at Catholic George Clough of St. Louis was Officials at Boston's Institute of ter and its director were indicted' calls be made to the Massachusetts churches to proceed to local aborelected the new Hibernian presiContemporary Art disagreed with on obscenity charges. attorney general's office and the tion centers and there pray the The Pilot editorial, written by dent at the four-day convention to rosary. If circumstances prevent the objections raised against the office of the Suffolk County diseditor Leila Little, said some ofthe succeed Coogan and St. Louis wh~ch includes photoexhibit, trict attorney to ask them to such prayer, the rosary may be photos

by Mapplethorpe, a New Auxiliary Bishop Edward J. graphs of homoerotic images. "uphold existing laws" against obprayed at church.

York artist who died of AI DS, O'Donnell was named national A two-hour invitation-only pre- scenity.

A planning manual for coordi- view ofth exhibit July 30 closed 20 Jesuit Father Paul J. Murphy; depict "extremely offensive sexual chaplain. nating a local Rosary for Life is The Ladies Ancient Order of minutes early when 250 protesters in a Pilot column, also said a court aberrations" that flout "the legal available from Worldwide Rosary from a gay coalition gathered out- challenge might be called for.

Hibernians, also meeting in Arlingstandards of public decency." for Life, P.O. Box 40213, Mem- side the museum's doors chanting ton, elected Dolores Voelker of The dictum "art for art's sake," "Citizens must vindicate that phis, Tennessee 38174. slogans to protest discrimination wisdom [of community standards] the editorial said, ought to be Whitestone, N. Y., to succeed Mary and violence against homosexuals. in the home, on the street, and interpreted as "art for the sake of Bradley McEnery of Providence, R.I.,.as president.

A full page advertisement by before the courts by challenging God, and for everybody's sake.

Art for art's sake, with this readMorality iii Media of Massachuing, will temper the triumph of setts in the July 27 issue of The individualism.

BILOXI, Miss. (CNS) - Biloxi It clearly opposes," it continued, Bishop Joseph L. Howze says the' "a Mapplethorpe exhibit, which Montie Plumbing attempts to recreate society in a Baltimore Catechism was an "inHeating Co. adequate tool" for religious educaWASHINGTON (CNS) - A pagan image and thus risks societion, even though some Catholics Over 35 Years U.S. Catholic Conference official ty's own demise." of Satisfied Service The Catholic League for Reli- recall it with nostalgia. Bishop expressed disappointment over Reg. Master Plumber 7023 gious and Civil Rights said the Howze wrote in his diocesan newsfailure by Congress to override the paper that his' aim was not to JOHN'S SHOE STORE JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. veto of the family leave bill but Institute of Contemporary Art re- "condemn or approve any presentceives $623,000 a year in federal, 295 Rhode Island Avenue expressed optimism that such leave' 432 JEFFERSON STREET day book of religious instruction," eventually can be "the law of the state and,local taxpayer subsidies. but to point out that for more than Fall River, MA 02724 Fall River 675路7496 Philip Lawler, a Catholic League land."

75 years there has existed a "cateVoting 232-195, the House of spokesman, told the Boston Globe chetical movement to improve the Representatives fell short in a bid that a consortium of groups opof religious instruction." teaching to reverse President Bush's veto of posed to the exhibit has been stud- He added that not all modern the. Family and Medical Leave ying legal issues to close the display. textbooks of religious instruction At a Boston press conference, Act, approved by the HQuse in are satisfactory but that the BaltiCHRISTIAN PRO.L1FER May and the Senate in June. It the Rev. Sargon Y. Ibrahim, a more Catechism method was "mere takes a two-thirds majority to United Methodist minister .and memorization" and "doomed to APOSTOLIC HELPER president of the American Freeoverride vetoes. failure."

ADVISOR The legislation demanded that dom Coalition, said the "issue. is employers provide workers with not censorship, it's sponsorship."

T RUE RESTORER Christian Eyes up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to . Mr. Ibrahim said, "The mar"The eyes of the world see no care for a newborn, newly adopted ketplace should sponsor these exhiHOLY MEDICATOR or sick child, or ailing elderly par- bits. Let the American people de- further than this life, as mine see ONE ANTI.ABORTIONIST ent, or to allow the employee to cide what's right and what's wrong, no farther than this wall when the THOMAS PAST~RNAK recuperate from a serious medical what's art and what isn't, and not a church door is shut. The eyes of CAREGIVER Pharmacist problem. Firms employing fewer few people in Washington, D.C., the Christian see deep into eterLOVING INSTRUCTOR than 50 persons would have been who want to impose on us with our nity." - St. John Vian,ney 202 Rock St. exempt. own money what will be exhibited." 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 INFALLIBLE SPECIALIST Fall River "We are deeply disappointed," THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-o20). Second A Mission said Sharon Daly, USCC director CHARITABLE' THERAPEUTIST Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass.

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abortion neutral CHICAGO (CNS) - The AFLCIO Executive Council, meeting in Chicago, adopted a recommendation July 31 to remain neutral on abortion.

"The AFL-CIO ... adopts a carefully considered policy of deferring to the individual judgments of its affiliates and their members on reproductive issues," said a policy statement, adopted with only three dissenting votes.

"The AFL-CIO yields to the good and sound judgment of union, members - expressed persuasively and emotionally by unionists on both sides of the issue - that they choose' to pursue their goals on reproductive issues within political, legislative and legal arenas as their individual consciences dictate," the statement said.

An 18-member panel of the Executive Council had recommended continued neutrality July 30 to the full 35-member council.

"The differences of opinion about reproductive issues, including abortion, that now divide American public opinion are mirrored in the labor movement," the statement said.

AFL-CIOspokesman Rex Hardesty told Catholic News Service the Executive Council action brings to an end a debate over abortion within the union that started last November.

The statement applies to the AFL-CIO, its state federations, and its local central labor councils.

Msgr. George G. Higgins, retired secretary for social concerns for the U.S. Catholic· Conference and a longtime labor advocate, told CNS in a July 31 telephone interview from Washington when informed of the panel's recommendation, "Very good. That's good news, better than I expected."

Msgr. Higgins, who had testified in June before the panel, said he had thought the panel would suggest the "possibility of some kind of compromise, some general statement" about the right to privacy, a main tenet of abortion rights advocates.

The policy statement acknowledged that unions have "staunchly and fervently defended the right of all persons to privacy, to personal belief and to self-determination on matters of religion, thought, conscience and family."

Msgr. Higgins said he recommended in his testimony that the union stay neutral on abortion. "I had 20 minutes, and I played on that theme," he said.

"I did not get involved in the debate on abortion. I scrupulously avoided that," Msgr. Higgins said.

Prior to and since his testimony, he said he did not talk with "anybody on either side" on the panel.

Pro-life allies oflabor had-urged continued neutrality, saying the issue was too divisive for the union and would harm union organizing efforts.

Abortion rights activists arguing for their position contended that a change from neutrality would appeal to women and minorities, two groups the AFL-CIO needs to court to boost its membership, currently at 14.2 million.

The National Right to Life Committee and Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York had threatened a campaign to persuade union members who oppose abortion to withhold part of their union dues had the AFL-CIO adopted an abortion rights stance.

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Call (508) 996-8054 Mornings or Evenings PLANNING AN interfaith service to be held Sunday at Heritage State Park in conjunction with Fall River Celebrates America are, from left, Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, pastor, St. John of God Church, Somerset; Helen Babin, Jewish Community Council; Rev. William Campbell, pastor, St. Dominic Church, Swansea; Donna Futoransky,. chair of special events for the observance; and Linda Oliveira, First Baptist Church, Fall River.

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OBITUARY Wilson Curtis The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Tuesday at Holy Name Church, Fall River, for Wilson W. Curtis, 70, who died July 27.

He was a recipient of the Marian Medal, conferred by the diocese for exceptional parish service. chairman of the joint planning committee of St. Anne's and CharIton Memorial Hospitals in Fall River, and an advisory council member at St. Anne's Hospital.

He was a third degree Knight of Columbus, a 20-year member of the Fall River First Friday Club and a former lector at Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, where he resided before moving to Fall River. As a former board member of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, he was deeply involved in pro-life activities, encouraging many young people to participate in events such as the annual Jan. 22 March for Life in Washington, D.C. A banker and financial planner, Curtis was also active in numerous civic and interfaith activities, including the Fall River soup kitchen; the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Moby Dick Boy Scout Council, in both of which he was a past president.

A native of Bayonne, N.J., he was the son of the late Wilson W. Curtis Sr., and I;:mma (Eberhardt) Curtis. He is survived by his wif~, \'eronica (Porubsky) Curtis; four daughters, Pamela Smith and Kathleen Friar, both of Fall River, Lorraine Curtis-Crapper of Boston and Barbara Curtis-Wuensch of Devon, Pa.; two sisters, Blanche D. Cheesman and'Viola H. Curtis, both of Houston; a brother, Charles H. Curtis of Orlando, Fla.; four grandchildren and 16 nieces and nephews.

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"The essence of action is accomplishment. To accomplish means to unfold something into the fullness of its essence, to lead it forth into this fullness."-Martin Heidegger

a.m. Sunday at Heritage State Park, Fall River, as part of the annual Fall River Celebrates America observance.

Among participants in the service. to be held outside the Heritage Park Visitor's Center, will be Rev. William Campbell, pastor of St. Dominic's Church, Swansea; Helen ,Babin of the Jewish Community Council; Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, pastor ofSt. John of God parish, Somerset; and Linda Oliveira, First Baptist Church, Fall River.

Fall River Celebrates America is this year 'honoring the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard. In keeping with that occasion, Coast Guard Chaplain Lawrence Russo will also speak at the service, to which all are welcome.

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themoorin~ Let's Face Some Facts A national commissio,nformed to investigate the' health of . American teenagers has issued ,its initial report and it's more than pessimistic. In general, it indicated that our teens are plagued with physical and emoti~nal,problems.

The panel"a cross section of medical, business and educa., tionalleaders, found that hundreds ofthousands oCyoungsters .are suffering from the effects of drug abuse, alcoholism, sexu- ' ally transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies and a 'vast array of other social and emotional problems. Academic failure-is rampant among them and many are driven to suicide.

The commission, brought together by the National Associa-' tion of State Boards of Educators and the American Medical, Association, put it on the line, sta'ting: "Never before has one generation of American teenagers been less healthy, less cared for or less prepared for life than their parents at the same age." ' _, What an indictment!

Some facts are horrendous: for example; government statistics show that each year one million teenage -girls become pregnant and two and one half million adolescents contract one or another sexually transmitted disease. Consider also that 'the teen suicide rate has doubled since 1968 and that almost 15 percent of teens have attempted -suicide.'

'J\11studi-es' Ofr the sUbjeccshow"that suicld-e''-stattSti"cs -are-' actually vas~ly underreported. Indeed, parents and other relatives tend to do all they can to cover up such suicides, as they cover up other teen situations they deem embarrassing to themselves.

Drug and alcohol use is out of control among many teens, with drug and/ or alcohol-related accidents the leading cause of death among all- teens, regardless of social status. Two milli-on teens are considered regular drug users..

Proposed solutions are for the most part quite unsatisfactory. Many social do-gooders feel that money is the answer: pump money into programs and everything will take care of itself. ' It is true that specialized services are need~d but they must have soul. What good is it to have access to counseling and other services if they are mere stopgaps? This is not to say that we should stop providing services, but that they must go beyond what we have offered up to the present.

Although it may seem a hopeless task, it is imperative that we support all efforts to strengthen, improve and reinforce family life. Many grasp at each new thought or program that comes along, but we already have the solution. We have simply failed to use it.

Let's get down to the simple but not easy work of appreciating the family as the heart of our lives. It was basically the brokenness of families that gave rise to the depressing report cited above. As the family breaks apart, so does society.

The traits of accountability and responsibility so essential to the formation of character do not long endure when "if it feels good, do it" becomes the standard of life.' No matter how they may behave, teens want and need loving parents.

The church is perhaps the last social unit that dares to hold famili~s to a standard, that urges themto become all they can be. We cannot accept separation,divorce and irresponsibility as acceptable norms. All around us we'see the results of such . acceptance: ' May each of us reinforce what is right and be right in what 'we reinforce.

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But as a result, the USCC is "at WASHINGTON (CNS) - Stu- the merits ofthe issue," they're apt a clear disadvantage," although, dents of U.S. government once to vote with the PAC, he said, A reform bill pushed by Demo- he said, in the case of day care the .participated in lengthy debates on whether elected public officials crats calls for partial public financ- USCC view may ultimately trishould vote according to their con- ing and other incentives for candi- umph "because we have common sciences or the wishes of their dates who comply with voluntary sense on our side."

In general, noted Carr, the perspending limits. A Republican constituents.

Today the question is more accur- proposal rejects public funding and sons the USCC tries "to speak for ately put as "his constituency, his spending limits in favor of abolish- - the poor, the unborn, victims of conscience or his campaign fund?" ing P ACs, curbs on electioneering injustice - don't make big politibelieves John L. Carr, secretary by labor unions and steps to cur- cal contributions."

Current campaign finance polfor social development and world tail out-of-state campaign financicy also means one must either peace at the U.S. Catholic Con- ing. ference.

Meanwhile the 280,OOO-member have money or be able to raise Campaign finance _reform has Common Cause, the biggest U.S. large amounts of money to run for been proposed on Capitol Hill public advocacy group, maintains office.

Under the current system, says again and again with no results. that any effective campaign reform Patricia Vrabel, spokeswoman for This year, too, campaign finance must include: bills were stalled in the House and - Dramatic reductions in the Network, a Washington-based Catholic social justice lobby, congresSenate in mid-July. The USCC, flow of PAC contributions. public policy arm of the U.S. - Measures to shut down the sional incumbents "are never really bishops, has taken no official posi- political party "soft money" system. vulnerable" during election years, except in cases' of scandal. tion on the proposed legislation.

- Campaign spending limits.

Some 80-90 percent are reelected Few would disagree with the - Significant "new, clean" cameach time, said Ms. Vrabel. contention that the current system paign resources.

"It could be they'deserve to be of campaign financing is out of Political party "soft money" hand. PAC or political action com- refers, to campaign contributions reelected. But if you need to spend mittee contributions to congres- raised from sources and in amounts S2 or S3 million to launch a camsional candidates rose from S12.5 that are illegal in federal elections paign, the system is Closed to peomiliion in 1974 to nearly Sl50 mil- and spent by state political parties 'pie who 'plaY be, very good candilion in 1988. on activities benefiting federal. dates," she said.

Elected offfcials, she said, learn .

A longtime congressional ob- candidates. server who asked not to be identiThe USCC has taken;stands on it is more necessary to be responfied said even lobbyists have begun ,numerous policy issues 00' which sible to, campaign contributions to think the system has gone awry. large P ACs have supported the than to their own constituents. In "A powerful member of Con- opposing side, such as'child care, turn, more and more citizens believe gress is having a fundraiser and family medical leave,' minimum their votes don't count. .

"We have fewer people particiwould like to see you there. Dan wage and housing policy.

Rostenkowski's AA [administra. About day care, Carr said, "the pating than in many other countive assistant] calls and says he church is advocating for child care, tries. People here have become disreally hopes you can be a part of poor kids, and diversity" of pro- illusioned," said Ms. Vrabel.

Is proposed campaign reform this. What are you going to say?" viders that allows for church-runlikely to get through? "I'm a skepasked the observer. Rostenkowski, day care.

D.lII., is chairman of the influen"Others disagree and that's their tic," said Carr. Those who must tial House Ways and Means Com- right," he said. "The NEA (National vote for reform, he notes, benefit Education Association), which from the current system. mittee.

Ms. Vrabel is more optimistic, And if members of Congress spends millions on campaign conhave to vote on an issue and the tributions, is among those who pointing out that more and more frequently public pressure is forctwo options presented are "equally disagree, We don't spend a dime, repugnant or equally favorable" which we shouldn't" as a church ing the government to examine expenditures. or the elected officials don't "know organization.

Tips on taming temper Dear Dr. Kenny: I am 15 and I lose my temper a lot. I speak mean to my mom and sometimes break or throw things.

A lot of stuff at school gets me upset. Then I come home and mom wants to have those long talks, which are really nagging.

Finally, I blow up.

Afterward I'm sorry. What can I do to control my temper? Indiana . I gave your question to my panel of experts, six girls your age whom I call the "Sassy Six." Each week I meet with these girls to talk about life skills. They too are concerned with handling their anger. .

As I listened to the ways they hold back their anger, I learned something you referred to: the cause of their irritations was not primarily parents or teachers, but friends.

The girls were eager to tell how they succeeded in keeping their tempers. That was another lesson.

We adults too often lo'ok to the failures, the blowups. We seldom applaud victories of self-control.

"I smile and keep my mouth shut and walk away: ... I keep telling myself, 'Keep your mouth shut.'

Sometimes I imagine there's a teacher nearby who might report me," said one.

That got us started.

Becky chimed in: "A girl came in to work and bitched me out about my [our] boyfriend. I had to keep my mouth shut or I could lose my job."

Paige chipped in, "I'say what I think but I say it to myself sometimes, not out loud where I could . get in trouble.'~ "I'll stick my shirt in my mouth," contributed Tara.

"Not me," said Ann. "I keep a diary. Actually, it's more like a 'mad' book or gripe sheet. Whenever anyone gets to me and I can't or don't want to get them back, I

Priests serving' migrants, refugees discuss their apostolates

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY write it down in my book. Sometimes I even write in my imaginary revenge." .

"If my mother is on my case with one of her 'forever' lectures, I'll put my hands over my ears and say 'OK, OK.'~' Paige spoke up again: "I cut back on my cuss words by spelling them. It takes longer. Sometimes I make up new nonsense bad words."

"One time me and my mom got into a fight," commented Shelly.

"I just wrote my mother a letter three pages long. Even if you don't give it to her, youreel better."

"When I'm angry, I go to my room, shut the door and listen to loud music. J call it 'Bang your head music.''' This comment- by . Tara got us laughing.

Ann kept· on with the humor approach.' "If my brother interrupts me, I interrupt him back: 'Do you mind if I interrupt you while you're interrupting meT" Paige contributed the filibuster approach. "Once someone ticks me off and I know I'm right, I just . keep talking till they give up."

Tara had the last word. "Sometimes you' just have to refuse to play the shouting game: If they call me and start something and 1 feel I'm losing it, I hang up. If they bitch me out at.school in the hall-' way, .I walk ,away. If I can't get awaY,I pretend I have a mute but~ ton in my mind like on a TV remote control. I push my mufe button."

Good luck with your temper! I hope my experts have helped you.

Questions on family living or child care to be answered in print. are invited by the Kennys,219 W. Harrison St., Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Bible official optimistic NEW YORK (CNS) - The first Catholic to become a general officer ofthe American Bible Society said that "miracles have taken place" in. the growing cooperation of recent· years among Christians commit-

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Maria I. Martinez said she had no difficulty fitting into the Bible Society, and has been warmly welcomed by her evangelical colleagues. She noted that in the past many Protestants have accused 'Catholics of ignoring the Bible but that Catholics have shown new interest in the Scriptures in recent years.

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beloved St. Joseph, adopt me as th.y child, preserve me from the occasion of sin and through thy intercession with Jesus grant me a spirit of sacrifice' and humility, a love for Jesus and devotion to Mary, thy spouse and my mother. Be with me living and dying and obtain for me a favorable judgment from our merciful Saviour.

Amen.

The annual Peter's Pence collec·tion will be taken up in diocesan churches this weekend. Originally for the maintenance of the pope and for papal works of charity, it has in the past few years gone for various Vatican expenses. It originated in England in the 8th century and was at that time a tax of . one penny per household, collected on the feast of St. Peter, hence its name.

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Immigrant-advocates expressed concern over lack of U.S. financial assistance for refugees and over proselytism by fundamentalist sects at a recent National Migration Conferencf:. .

They also said the Catholic Church has 'missed opportunities to reach other people on the move, such as those passing through air-· ports as well as circus and ship workers.

The conference, sponsored by the International Catholic Migration Commission, the U.S. Catholic Conference and Catholic Charities of California, had as its theme "Aliens and Strangers No Longer."

U.S. financial assistance for refugees has plunged even as the number of refugees soars, charged Father Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, a Jesuit priest who has been called the "grandfather of migration."

Father Fitzpatrick, a professor emeritus at Fordham University, said that the U.S. per-refugee contribution to the United Nations has dropped from '$20 in 1985 to $10 in 1989..

"When we read that ourgovernment will spend possibly $500 billion to bail. out the savings and· loan associations for people who will certainly not die if their .accounts are not protected, why -in the name of God - can't they find at least $1 billion to feed the millions of starving people who will certain Iy die if aid is not'forthcoming?" he asked.

During fiscal year 1989, Father Fitzpatrick said, 85 percent of the 100,000 political asylum applica. tions filed with the U.S. Immigration and 'Naturalization Service. were from EI Salvador, Guatemala, .

Haiti and Sri Lanka.

The United States, he said, accepted only 3 percent of those refugees,' while welcoming large numbers from the Soviet Union and EasternEurope.

"What happens' to that great spirit of generosity when the cries come from Central America and Haiti? Why the deaf ear to them?"

Father Fitz.patrick asked ..

While the United States is not responsible'for oppression in Eastern Europf:, ."we are directly and immediately involved in the oppression th;at drives the people out of EI Salvador," he said. "We train the army that enforces, the oppre~­ sion, and we supply them with their guns and bullets....

Americans should create a situation when: refugees have some sense of identity, continuity and security among their own, the priest said. ..

In some cases, however, fundamentalist sects are not onlY,making new immigrants feel welcome. but are using coercive techniques to convert the refugees, many of whom are Catholics resettled in the United States,by'the Catholic Church, salid· another conference speaker, Father Peter Zendzian, associate director of the USCC'

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Office for the Pastoral Care, of much of his day is devoted to, Migrants and. Refugees. . counseling. circus employees who .

Some proselytizers tell new- are homesick, have problems with comers they will get their immi- circus management or coworkers, grant children kicked out of school or are alienated from the church.

The church's Apostleship of the if they don't join the sect, Father Zendzian said. Others threaten to Sea fails to reach. many U.S. seago to the newcomer's landlord and men, reported Father Sinclair get them evicted. Catholics n)ust Oubre, who ministers to seamen at increase outreach to the immigrant, . the port of Beaumont, Texas.

"Though we do an OK job with he stressed.

The Catholic Church has also deep-water seafarers, we have baremissed opportunities to reach other ly any presence to the barge men "people on the move," said priests along our rivers, the shrimpers working in airport, circus and ship and fishermen along our coasts nor to the roughnecks who drill ministries. .

"I'm very disheartened that air- for oil in the Gulf of Mexico," he port chaplaincy has not grown said.

The Appstolate ofthe Sea intermore rapidly," said Father John venes on behalf of seamen with J amnicky, since 1982 Catholic chaplain at Chicago's O'Hare In- ship officials concerning pay, liv- . ing conditions, work safety and ternational Airport. repatriation.

L~st year, 60 million people passed through the airport, said Father Jamnicky, adding that "Since there are so many people in airports throughout this country, . the church better be there. Otherwise, we're missing an opportunity to serve."

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By ANTOINETTE

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I've just read an item in the newspaper that is a new variation of an old theme: "If they give you lemons, make lemonade."

The story concerned a wedding that didn't take place and how the bride-to-be-that-wasn't saved the day.

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Kathleen Gooley was supposed to get married in the city of Norwalk, Conn., in June. All the plans were made, including reservation of the reception hall.

The prospective bridegroom, however, called off the wedding in April. Ms. Gooley had to notify friends, relatives and guests.

She also notified the reception hall, which had already received payment of $5,800, but would refund only $1,350.

It was a gloomy bit of news on top of the called-off wedding.

But then a friend, Rinda Farnham, who would have been Ms. Gooley's maid of honor, came up with an interesting idea for how not to lose $4,450. She suggested

having a party for the homeless in place of.the reception.

And so the women invited 150 homeless people to a dinner with hors d'oeuvres, garden salad, fruit cup, stuffed chicken breast, string beans almondine, baked potatoes, cake and ice cream. ~eople who often went without a hot meal from one week's end to another were served amidst chandeliers, pink tablecloths and band music. . As a very personal welcome, Ms. Gooley's ll-year-old daughterTara handwrote a note for each place setting which said "Hope you have a great day. Love, Tara."

According to The New York Times report of the story, several

business donated flowers and favors and turned it into a happy day. and provided transportation for Kathleen hasn't had time to be guests. Some came from homeless depressed. She's been too busy shelters, some from abandoned thinking about this party." cars.

I felt like shouting "hurray!"

One 30-year-old mother came when I read this story. with her 7-year-old son; a 47-yearIt was interesting to see how old man who had lost his job these two women had taken a sad because of alcohol commented that event and turned it into something it had been "a long time" since he wonderful for others. In the prohad been to anything like this cess they, too, were rewarded. party. , I have always felt that the key to Another man said, "Even when being happy is to be able to preyou're homeless, you try and main- vent the bad things and setbacks tain some' pride and dignity. At from sinking into us. something like this, you can. This If we can channel negatives outwoman did a wonderful thing. She . ward and focus our thoughts and made us feel like real people again." actions outside ourselves, as KathMs. Farnham said, "We took leen and Rinda did, we're on ~he something that was really tragic way to being healed.

With the help of Marthas, a big job can get done' By

DOLORES CURRAN

Every week our daily paper runs a list of organizations seeking volunteers and describing the needs, skills, training, and commitment required. I am always surprised at the variety of volunteer opportunities offered.

Most weeks I find nothing I feel qualified to do but ev~ry so often something speaks to me. "I could do that," I say to myself. And I clip"

By FATHER JOHN J.

DIETZEN Q. Must we have a good excuse to attend a Saturday evening Mass instead of Sunday Mass? A local parish priest says that the Saturday vigil Mass was intended to be a substitute only if one had a good reason.

From my observation, most attendees at the Saturday vigil Mass do so on a routine basis. My interest is kindled by an article in a national Catholic magazine in which a bishop says "Beware ofthe

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

Internal church controversies can sap the Church's strength needed to address other pressing probrems and to bring the best the church can offer to society.

At a time when technocrats need the guidance of divine wisdom as they shape the future ofan increasingly technological society, and when ecologists need a better grasp of the link between the earth and its Creator, Rome and the Church's theologians are entangled with the question of dissent: Some might argue that the recent

it for that fantasy time when I don't have any travel commitments.

that, When we can't say no to a request to teach religion but really Last week I talked about com- . dislike it, we aren't doing anyone any favor. We're poor teachers if mitted and haphazard volunteers. we don't like teaching or children.

I believe one reason volunteers , don't stay the course is that they Do I have a positive attitude choose the wrong activity, Per- toward those I will serve? If I feel haps they have idealized expecta- street people are basically shifttions and find drudgery instead. less, I shouldn't work in a soup Sometimes they expect more grat- kitchen. If I believe teenagers are itude than they get and when it's spoiled and untrustworthy,' I not forthcoming, they burn out, shouldn't chaperone a youth retreat, If, on the other hand, I feel The time to examine volunteer empathy for these populations, I possibilities is before we make a will make' a good volunteer. commitment. We need to ask some basic questions. Do I really enjoy Am I able and willing to truly this kind of work? Some people commit myself to the time, scheenjoy soliciting for funds. I can't dule and tasks required? This may do it, 1 hate asking people for be the most foundational quesmoney sol never vohmteer fo~ tion. I know it is for me. I know I

can't volunteer for anything requiring a weekly commitment because I have weeks when I'm gone. So I must be an ad hoc volunteer. Call me when you need a brochure or press release. I can write that on my own time.

Do I need ongoing gratitude and affirmation? Let's be honest.

We aU like to be thanked, but some need it more than others. If that's us, we should look for volunteer opportunities like one-onone literacy learning, for example, where gratitude is more likely to occur than in large group work where it is often more assumed than expressed.

Last year I read a church bulletin appeal explaining about the

Marthas. Marthas, it said, are people who help others. They are organized around one person (listed each week in the bulletin) who knows the time and talents oCher group and gets them started on a job. Marthas are men who say, ". can't cook, but I'll ... "Marthas are women who say, "I'll cook a dish for you, but not the whole meal."

Marthas are people who say, "I'm tired of cooking but I'll drive someone to the doctor or I'll shop for, the food." Marthas are people who say, ". work, but I could make a dish for a funeral dinner."

Marthas are people who can say no when it's not convenient, but usually say yes. hi short, with the help of Marthas, a bigjob can get done.

No problems with,attending Saturday evening Mass 8atureJay vig.~l. It is an exception . to be used orlly if you carinot go on Sunday.... If you have a real reason, gratefully go on Saturday, but your job is still. to observe Sunday as the Lord's day."

I would like your comments.

(Ohio) I, too, have serious questions about Saturday evening vigil Masses. . From earliest Christian history the first day of the week, Sunday, was the day when Christians gathered to celebrate the "breaking of the bread."

The fact is, however, that the church's present regulations are very specific.

The Vatican's instruction on eucharistic worship which deals with

this pri~ilege places no restr:ictions at all on one's right to fulfill the Sunday obligation on Saturday evening.: The .code of canon law (1248) says simply: Anyone satisfies the precept to participate in the Mass by assisting wherever it is celebrated in the Catholic rite either on the day (Sun4ay or holy day) itself, or in the evening of the preceding day. Again, no conditions .or restrictions.

Q. Would you explain how Jesus is a descendant of the House of David when St. Joseph, his foster father, is the only one whose connection with David is mentioned in the Bible?

I thought a descendant is a person in the bloodline. What does

'this h~ ve .to do with Mary?

(California) . A. The Gospels have two genealogies of Jesus. That in Matthew runs from Abraham to Jesus; in Luke the genealogy runs from Jesus back to Adam.

As you indicate, both focus on Joseph as the immediate ancestor of Jesus.

This is understandable in light ofJewish tradition, which extended well into the New Testament years.

Joseph was the legal father of Jesus and in Jewish law his ancestry determined the ancestry of Jesus.

Considering the close family relationships within which marriages took place, it is possible, even perhaps likely, that Mary's ancestry was similar to that of

Joseph's. Btit. .the Gosp~ls do not tell us.

In Jewish culture during the time of Jesus, women played a minor public role;, their function was generally "limited" to that of wives and mothers.

Thus we would not expect the mother of Jesus to assume a central role in establishing the legal arid religious ancestry of Jesus, even in the Gospels. . A free brochure outlining Catholic marriage regulations and explaining the promises in an interfaith marriage is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to him at the same address.

Internal dissent shouldn't sap Church's 'strength instruction from Rome warning theologians about public dissent from Church teachings is nothing more than a family getting its own house in order: But when there is a family squabble, we also find ourselves saying, "There has to be a better way of living than this!"

What might the Church be able to do better if there were more harmony, or less focus on dissent itself? For one thing, she might be able to bring to light the many shades of meaning that are to be found in every truth she holds..

Let me explain what I mean with an example from the world of art.

In the 1890s, the French impressionist Claude Monet created many paintings of such subjects as the Rouen Cathedral and the Seine

River as it looks in the morning, old course come alive with new near Giverny. ,color.

It is similar for theologians. As The latter is my favorite. Monet painted this scene 21 times, each in the Monet paintings, no matter time the same subject and painted what truths the Church teaches, from the same perspective. But individual theologians can find in them previously unconsidered dimwhat variety!

As the eye moves from one ensions. Yet the truth itself is much painting to the other, it is met by like the Seine: it remains the same.

What an impact religion could varying images, each uniquely capturing the subtleties of the have in society if, while preserving early morning light and the hover- what is essential in theological truths, it also brought out their ing mists. rich array of colors.

Of these paintings Monet said, Take ecology, for example.

"I have never been bored with the Scripture is filled with vivid images Seine; to me it is always different." of how God views Earth. Each It is much like this in the world image is a lesson in the awe in of theology. A professor once told which God holds his creation. Each me that when he teaches 20 stu- image of God's involvement with dents, he usually garners 20 new creation awaits the artist who can ways of seeing what he has been reveal all its subtle colors. trying to teach. Each student has Our generation needs a better questions which make the same understanding of the kind of awe

for Earth that leads to true respect and reverence for it.

But it will take all the Church's strength to bring out the riches of this and other truths that can benefit society. It is a strength that shouldn't be sapped by internal controversy:

New Scottish body ABERDEEN, Scotland (CNS) - Scotland's Catholic Church became a full member of a national body of churches for the first time with the recent appointment of Aberdeen Bishop Mario Conti as coleader of Action of Churches Together in Scotland. The organization of mainline Scottish churches replaces a Scottish Churches Council on which the Catholic Church had observer status.

'Advislei's to aid North American Semin~lry in Rome

He's real priest Dear Editor: You printed a letter from an Arthur Romero (Anchor, March 30) concerning the media and its "assault" on the church. Specifically, he cited an advertisement by a "profit-making alcohol rehab" which features a priest named, "Father John.'.:.c The alcohol rehab in question is Gosnold on Cape Cod, a nonprofit corporation based in Falmouth and Hyannis. During the 18 years we have been serving the communities ofSoutheastern Massachusetts, we have helped many people from many backgrounds with alcohol and other drug problems. In those years when our revenues exceed expenditures, we always put money back into programs in order to expand services and increase free care to the needy.

I want to assure Mr. Romero that Father John is a real Catholic priest, not an actor. He is a recovering alcoholic who strongly believes in the benefits of treatment for alcoholism. Father John stands alongside doctors, lawyers, white collar and blue collar workers who have successfully recovered from the disease of alcoholism following treatment in facilities such as Gosnold.

Acceptance of alcoholism as a disease is growing each day as more and more scientific evidence is discovered supporting this concept. I sincerely hope that reade'rs of the Anchor do not reinforce the stigma of alcoholism as a moral issue, but rather support the concept of alcoholism as a treatable illness worthy of compassionate support, understanding and help.

Paul Rothfeld President / CEO Gosnold on Cape Cod

St. Anne's installs imaging technology

VERY REV. William Kelley, SVD, has been appointed to a third term a's rector of St. Augustine's Seminary, Bay St. Louis, Miss., by the superior general and council of the Divine Word Missionaries in Rome.

A native of Mansfield, he was a member of St. Mary's parish prior to entering St. Augustine's as a seminarian in 1963. Since his ordination in 1967, he has served in various positions in the southern province of the Divine Word Missionaries..

Strength in unity WASHINGTON (CNS) Bishops need the brotherly collaboration of their national conference to confront such problems as the alienation of women, priestly malaise and a restless laity, says Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin. Episcopal unity is especially important when "people inside and outside the church make money by attempting to portray ... a divided hierarchy," he s'aid. The cardinal discussed the work ofthe National Conference of Catholic Bishops in a talk at the NCCB's recent retreatstyle assembly in Santa Clara, Calif. '

In a, continuing effort to provide staff and patients with the latest medical technology, St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, recently WASHINGTON (CNS) installed a state-of-the-art Father Charles Hagan, a priest of computed tomography imaging the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, system.

The CT 9800 Quick Computed has been named representative for Tomography Scanner permits , higher education and campus minstudies of the head and body with istry in the U.S. bishops' Department of Education. His position is unprecedented speed, detail and one of two in the recently reorganaccuracy.

Custom-designed software pack- ized department's new Division of Educational/ Institutional Conages have cut image time in half, reducing examination time to about cerns. The other is representative 15 minutes and improving patient for Catholic schools and federal comfort. In addition, more effi- assistance. cient X-ray use decreases patient exposure to radiation while allowing the operator to perform several scanning, calculations, processing and display functions simultaneously. .

Aug. 5 1917, Rev. MartinJ. Fox, Founder, St. Paul, Taunton 1934, Rev. Thomas A. Kelly, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River Priests of the diocese will attend Aug. 6 a retreat to be held Sept. 3 to 7 and 1961, Rev. Joseph P. Lyons, repeated Sept. 10 to 14 at CathePastor, St. Joseph, Fall River dral Camp, East Freetown.

Aug. 7 The retreat master will be Father 1986, Rev. John F. Hogan, PasSimeon Gallagher, OFM Cap., retreat and mission director at St. tor, St. Julie Billiart, North ' Patrick's Friary in St. Louis. He is Dartmouth 1987, Very Rev. Roger L. Gagne, noted nationally and internationPastor, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls ally as a retreat master.

Retreat reservations should be 1880, Rev. William Brie, Founmade by Aug. 10. der, St. Joseph, Fall River

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Priests' retreat set for September

WASHINGTON (CNS) - A new board of advisers for the North American College recently met in Washington to find ways of boosting enrollment and financially aiding the st:minary residence in Rome.

Composed of four alumni and seven laypeople, the group will give advice on financial management, fund raising, spiritual formation and vocations, according to Patrick C. Healy, college director of development who works from the bishops' headquarters in Washington.

Healy said 138 seminarians were at the college this year and the number would drop to 125 next year, represelltinga loss of$250,OOO in revenue.

The actual annual cost for each seminarian was $17,QOO, he said, with $7,000 subsidized by the U.S. bishops. Thf~ $10,000 a year tuition is paid by sponsoring dioceses, although in the case of some poor dioceses, seminarians obtain student loans, Healy said.

Although the seminarians live at the collegl~, they attend pontifical universities in Rome, which award them degrees.

Pope Pius IX in 1855 requested U.S. bishops to establish an American seminary in Rome as many other countries had done. The college was founded in 1859 as a residenceand house of formation for U.S. seminarians and graduate students.

The first ordination of an alumnus was on June 14, 1862. Pope Leo XIII gnmted the college pontifical status Oct. 25, 1884.

Members of the'new board are: Anthony Adducci, Scottsdale, Ariz., president of Technology Enterprises in St. Paul, MiQn.; Helen F. Boehm, Trenton, N.J., chairman (If Boehm Porcelain Studios; Father Robert L. Kealy; chancellor of the archdiocese of Chicago.

Russell Kendall, Houston, Texas, attorney and former student at the college;' Rayola McLaughlin, New York, national regent of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas; Phil North, Fort Worth, Texus, retired chairman of the Tandy Corporation; Father Joseph S. Quinn, administrator of St. Peter's Cathedral, Scranton, Pa. Or. James T. Sehn, chief surgeon at Prince Welliam Hospital, Manassas, Va., James Serritella, Lincolnwood, Ill., attorney and chairman of the board of the Center for Church/ State Studies at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago; Msgr. Lawrence M. Purcell, pastor of St. James parish, Solana, Beach, Calif., and former rector of North American College; Father G. Warren Wall, chancellor of the diocese of Mobile, Ala.

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Priests "have faith" in TV suit WASHINGTON (CNS) - A mystery writer and five Detroit archdiocesan priests have filed suit for $1 million in damages against ABC-TV and Twentieth Century Fox, charging them with stealing an idea the six say they had devel-

oped for a TV series. The priests and author William Kienzle argue that the concept of the failed 1989 ABC sitcom "Have Faith" was theirs. The series was produced by Adam Productions, a division of 'Fox.

Remote life a challenge' for U .S~nuns in Brazil RODRIGUEZ ALVEZ, Brazil (eNS) - Three American nuns who have worked in a remote Amazon village for 13 years say their life is too challenging for them to want to return to the United States.

"Anything your heart desires to do is here," said Sister Rita Witt, a Sister of St. Francis of the Holy Eucharist. "To go back to the States and work in a parish would be dulL" "I've had to make life-threatening decisions," said Sister Juanita Thomas, a member of the same order. "I just can't imagine going back to a hospital in the U.S. and passing out pills."

When the nuns arrived from their motherhouse in Independence, Mo., the local teachers in Rodriguez Alvez had only a thirdgrade education. Now those same teachers run a training course for new teachers. ' Sister Witt, Sister Thomas and Sister Andrea Kantenerlive with three Brazilian nuns and serve a 2,OOO-member parish along the Jurua River. Their work includes

jobs at a small hospital, where they help pregnant women and those too ill or poor to make the boat ride to Cruzeiro do Sui; the closest city.

Currently, two young girls who' have been sexually abused live with the nuns as wards of the state.

The orphanage in Cruzeiro do Sui is not equipped to deal with sexually abused children, Sister Witt said, and the adoption process is very expensive in Brazil.

Education is the key, said Sister Witt, and that is where the church can play an important role. Besides their hospital work, the nuns have implemented programs to educate the'people of the Jurua River..

Recently the nuns offered a workshop on land reform for rubber tappers. Other programs have been on topics such as the right to health, the right to land and women's rights.

"We're not going to scream for rights for people who don't want to scream for their own rights," Sister Witt said.

Sister Witt's face becomes animated when 'she speaks of the

struggles of the rubber tappers in the Amazon rain forest.

"This whole area is like a feudal system," she said. "People have a mentality of dependence. It's my personal belief that the government keeps them dumb to exploit them."

Sister Witt coordinates the Cen-ter for Human Rights, an organiz~tion of religious and lay members, in Cruzeiro do SuI. She has to travel three hours by boat for evening meetings in the city.

"The sisters in my parish worry about me -like what happened to Chico Mendes could happen to me - but I don't think about that," she said. "The landowners call us communists, say we should be taking care of the church."

Francisco "Chico" Mendes, an internationally known activist for the rubber tappers, was murdered in eastern Acre in December 1988.

Sister Witt said her beliefs are not always well-received by her superiors, and the nuns have had some "ru'n-ins" with their bishop, Bishop Luis Herbst of Cruzeiro do SuI.

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TIJUANA, Mexico (CNS) Dust devils danced under the hot suit as a small group of people crowded through the rustic iron gate to La Mesa Mexican State Prison at Tijuana, a few miles south of San Diego.

It was visiting day for inmates and for some the beginning of a cursillo, an intensive Catholic weekend experience consisting of talks, liturgies, singing and discussions.

Outside the jail women and children waiting to be admitted carried baskets of fruit and canned goods. Inside, it resembled a small village with carpenter and barber shops, food stands and video game arcades. But rough treatment and body searches by khakiclad guards left little doubt it was jail.

Raul Erives has been coming here for a dozen years to help conduct the cursillo, a Spanish word meaning a brief course.

"The handball court is our meeting hall," Erives said in an interview with the Southern Cross,

newspaper of the diocese of San Diego. "We installed everything in here - the toilets, the little kitchen. We provide the food, the tables, the chairs, the writing materials."

He led the way to the handball court, filled mostly with shirtless young Mexican men. The court also doubles as a cinema and activities hall for the jail..

For four days in a row, the San Diego cursillistas use it in their attempt, they say, to turn hardened convicts to Christ.

The cursillistas who lead the cursillo have been traveling to the prison for 12 years. They are part of an original group of 12 men from San Diego brought together by a cursillo they made in the Maria Islands, off the coast of Nayarit state in Mexico.

Since then "we have worked together as a team," said Luis Cabrera, one of the group's leaders.

On other weekends, Cabrera and' some of his friends provide musical accompaniment for liturgies

for U.S. Hispanics who are inmates at a correctional facility in Otay, Calif., on the Mexico U.S. border.

Through the music, he said, the hearts ofthe inmates gradually are softened to accept Christ's message. "We repeat the songs over and over," he said. "Pretty soon the words start to sink in."

Cabrera says Mexican prison authorities have complimented the cursillisias on their work at the Tijuana jail.

"They informed us that 80 percent of the inmates usually return to jail after they leave," he said.

"But 80 percent ofthose who make the cursillo don't come back to jail.

"All of these men leave here with a hunger for Christ and many leave prison life forever," Cabrera said. "The inmates who are converted stay on to become internal Christian leaders."

The 12 cursillistas said that with their inmate helpers they strive to bring the experience of Jesus to the men who are locked up from society.

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By Barb Fraze EL CHARCON, EI Salvador (CNS) - In a wooded hollow a few miles from the coast of EI Salvador, about 20 children sit on benches under an ancient fig tree.

Behind the tree, a stream bubbles past. In front of the tree, a 19-year-old Salvadoran man prints a letter on a large chalkboard.

Carefully - ignoring the crow of the rooster, the barking of dogs and the song of birds from above - the children print the same letter in their notebooks. Occasionally a child uses the notebQok to swat at a mosquito.

Two dozen feet away, about 25 children sit on benches underneath a cement and wooden shelter without walls. These children repeat vowel sounds after their young. instructor, the second level of a program designed to teach children reading and simple math.

The children, ages 7-13, are attending a "School Under the Tree," a project ofthe Archdiocese of San Salvador's Program of Basic Education.

The archdiocese has about 200 first-level programs and 150 second-

level programs throughout EI Salvador, said Jose Otmara Menjivar, technical director. for the programs.

"With children, we work where there are no schools," he said.

With the help of UNICEF, the archdiocese did a study to find a common vocabulary for children.

The list is different from that used in a formal first-grade class, said Otmara.

Teachers receive instruction in how to combine words, how to speak in public, teaching reading, math and "how to treat a child so he won't go away and not come back," said 17-year-old Douglas.

Lemus, a teacher at the EI Charcon school.

Lemus said he volunteered to teach because "there's a great need in this village."

"There's a lack of people who can teach the people to do something," he said.

Lemus works with the first level, a pre-reading and writing program.

When the children can write everything they have been taught, including their names, they advance to level two.

"Romero" available on video NEW YORK (CNS) "Romero," the 1989 theatrical movie about San Salvador's slain Archbishop Oscar Romero, in now available in its original English version and with Spanish subtitles or dubbed in Spanish.

Vidmark Entertainment, which paid $1 million for video rights to "Romero," plans to spend another million for a national campaign to publicize the video,cassette.

The release is being promoted through brochures, posters, "Romero," T-shirts, a promotional video and even a four-color, lifesize standing figure of Raul Julia in his role as Archbishop Romero.

The company took a "substantial" risk in spending so much on "Romero" but saw it as a good comercial investment, said Sam Pirnazar, vice-president for marketing: "I have no doubt that we'll not only make back our expenses but earn a profit because it's a good quality film with wide appeal," he said.

The film earned a Christopher

Award and an International Catholic Film Office award. It was also named "best film on a Latin American theme by a non-Latin American director" at the Havana Film Festival.

Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, executive producer of "Romero," is optimistic about the video.

"Many who had read about the movie wanted to see it and were frustrated when it didn't play in their area," he said.

The theatrical release of "Romero" last August was limited compared to the kind. of release given major Hollywood products.

By mid-January, Father Kieser said, "Romero" had been shown in some 345 movie theaters in over 250 cities and 'towns, bringing in some $1.6 million at the box office.

Father Kieser said he was gratified by the support the movie got from parishes, schools and Catholi,c organization's. Since its January release on l6mm film for the educational market, "Romero" has already had more than 100 book~ ings, a "terrific" response, he said.

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The children come two days each week for two hours. Classes are in the mid-afternoon, so the students have never had a problem with evening rains, said 19-yearold Oscar Gueverra, another teacher. Sometimes the classes are small; sometimes more children "ome, he said.

"Some of them have to help their fathers with the harvest," Gueverra said.

Lemus added that most of the students are boys.

"Most of the girls stay at home helping their mothers," he said.

Gueverra, who attended school in nearby La Libertad, said he volunteered to teach because he saw the necessity of children knowing how to r,ead.

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"Ice" 'worse than crack WASHlNGTON (CNS) - "Ice," a new street drug described as "smokable speed," is adding tothe drug threat in the United States, according to Father Daniel Egan, known as "the junkie priest" for his work with addicts.

Ice, or methamphetamine, cheap to buy and producing almost instant euphoria, is coming into the continental United States from Honolulu and Toronto, the priest said.

The Atonement Friar, who got his nickname in the '60s, when he worked with heroin addicts said that the effects of ice last' for hours, and it pushes the body "beyond its boundaries," overriding signals such as hunger and the need to sleep, he said.

It's worse than crack, he said, because it's "cheaper, it's easier to make, it lasts longer than crack .and it may be more addictive, perhaps, than heroin."

The presence of ice in the United States means that "it's going to be a long and dangerous summer," he said. "Ice is here and, like crack it ' won ,t go away. Once it catches on it will spread like a prairie fire." ,

Mass Continued from Page One !o build the first Catholic chapel m England following the Reformation.

According to Father Michael G. Murphy, whose parish takes in Lulworth Castle and who has organized the commemorative events, the chapel "looks like a Greek mausoleum."

Lulworth Castle, built in the 17th century, today is a ruin.

Fire destroyed it in 1928. " "Sir Joseph and Lady Weld live at the manor at East Lulworth," Father Murphy told The Catholic Review, Baltimore's archdiocesan newspaper in a phone interview. ' Father Murphy said he first became aware of the Carroll history at a library in Lowell, Mass., while visiting the United States in 1972.

Fifteen years later he found himself appointed to his present parish in Dorset County in southwest England on the English Channel.

Although he lives at The Priest's House in the nearby town of Wool, he said "since 1628 there has been a Catholic priest attached to the castle."

Father Murphy first wrote to the archdiocese of Baltimore in 1988 proposing his plans.

Among planned events is an Aug. 14 talk about Father Carroll in the chapel by Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala., who served on the bishops' bicentennial committee. On Aug. 17 Father Francis Kelly of the National Catholic Educational Association is to talk on "200 Years of Catholic Education in America." An English priest-historian will discuss the Catholic scene in Dorset at the eild of the 18th century.

Father Murphy said the Duke of Norfolk, "the senior Catholic peer of the realm," may attend some of the events.

A ~ALV ADO RAN holds her baby as a volunteer health worker moculates her and another tot in the background looks on apprehensively. Church and government workers and local volunteers are working to reduce the high infant mortality rate in Central America. (CNS photo)

Souter and abortion Continued from Page One pies, combined with timely referral to other physicians who are not so constrained, is a question open for consideration in any case in which it may be raised," he wrote.

One case awaiting Supreme Court action involves rules preventing doctors at federally funded family planning clinics from providing abortion counseling or referrals to pregnant patients. Rightto-life forces vociferously oppose such referrals.

Souter is also drawing attention because of a 1981 letter he wrote at !he behest of New Hampshire judges. The letter discussed judges' reactions to proposed state legislation demanding parental consent to a teenager's abortion, unless the minor had obtained a judge's approval. . ~outer wrote that the JUdges objected because the legislation would allow society "to leave it to individual justices of this court to make fundamental moral decisions about the interests of other people" without any standards to guide them.

He said some judges believe abortion under such circumstances would be morally wrong while other judges believe they could not make such a decision for another person. The measure: he said, also ~ould encourage "shopping for judges," producing inconsistency.

Souter's involvement as a member of the boards of two' New Hampshire hospitals providing abortions also is being scrutinized.

Former colleagues at the facilities say they do not remember thilt Souter ever suggested abortion is wrong.

While associated with the hospitals, "did he ever do anything to stop the slaughter," Mrs. Brown asked. "If not, whyT

As a hospital board member "Souter's role in these pro-abortio~ policies remains unclear" the National Right to Life C~mmittee said July 26.

The National Right to Life Committee disagreed with the decision in the "wrongful birth" case.

Yet, the group added, the ruling "reveals nothing regarding Judge Sputer's views on whether Roe vs.

Wade is a correct interpretation of the Constitution." Similarly, his letter opposing a judicial role in teenagers' abortions "reveals nothing regarding Judge Souter's views on Roe vs. Wade or ... abortion or the legality of abortion."

Joseph M. Scheidler, president of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Act jon League, said a judicial nominee's abortion position "should be a litmus test." But that doesn't mean Bush needed to make the litmus test public, he added.

"I think Bush knows exactly where Souter stands on abortion" ,Scheidler said. "I think it's smart" ?f the president to downplay the Issue, he added. "I don't want it to be public."

An abortion rights backer agreed that Bush knows Souter's views on abortion.

"I don't believe it was not a litmus路test for Bush, no matter what he s.ays," said Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice. But once Souter's judicial philosophies were apparent, for Bush "it was real easy not to have to ask" specifically about abortion, she said.

. Continued from Page One ~o have resembled an open pavilm.outh's highest point of land along IOn. In 1914, a building to be used Vmeyard Sound. With its dramatic as a poolroom and store was added bluff and spectacular ocean vistas to the dance hall.

Up to this time, the onlyCatholic it was a beautiful site covered with wild brush and vegetation. Fal- parish in Falmouth was St. Joseph's mouth Inner Harbor was then a Church in Woods Hole. St. Patland-locked, fresh water pond rick's Church was founded in 1899 known as Deacon's Pond. Except as a mission of St. Joseph's. Anfor Salt Works, structures designed other mission, the Church of the to produce salt from salt water the Immaculate Conception was openentire area of Great Hill was vadant. ed in 1915 in North Falmouth.

Due to the large number of resiTradition holds that it was the summer encampment of Narragan- dents and guests seeking Catholic sett Indian Queen Awashonks dur- wors.hip in Falmouth Heights, a ing the .early 1600s. In 1870, a public Mass was offered in a prigroup of Worcester businessmen vate home next to the Terrace purchased Great Hill, renamed it Gables Hotel during the summer Falmouth Heights, and proceeded months.

As the number of Catholics into develop it into a summer resort consisting ofseveral hundred house creased, Father Kennedy, pastor lots, four hotels, an observatory ofSt. Joseph's, leased the property known as Harbor View Park, and and landscaped parks. The land along Deacon's Pond was reserved transformed it into St. Thomas for the residents' horses, and sev- Chapel, in which the first Mass eral stables were built along the was offered July 4, 1918. The shore. The development of Fal- property was purchased in 1921.

In 1928, St. Thomas was desigmouth Heights was a success as this newspaper notice of 1890 nated a full parish and St. Patrick's its mission. Father James Coyle attests: was assigned as pastor and since One of the most delightful there was no rectory, he rented a resorts bordering Vineyard nearby cottage on Forest Avenue Sound. Here we find, most as his residence. This continued emphatically, a fashionable for three years. watering place. The scenery, In 1931, the situation was re-' whether maritime or inland is romantic and charming. The versed, St. Patrick's became the view is grand, interesting and parish and St. Thomas, the mission.

Father Coyle referred to the instructive.

The final act in the transforma-' chapel as his "beloved little chapel tion of Great Hill into a first-class on Falmouth Inner Harbor." It summer resort occurred in 1907. was a very simple building, conAfter much discussion, Fal- sisting of the center section of mouth Inner Harbor was created today's chapel, with open porches out of Deacon's Pond. The land on the side from which the overbetween Vineyard Sound and the flow crowds would hear Mass. pond was removed and the entire In 1948, structural work was pond dredged. George W. Goe- begun on the building and addithals, builder ofthe Panama Canal tions were made where the porches was hired as the engineering con- formerly stood. According to a recent parish history, the 6: 15 Mass sultant. . The popularity of Falmouth on Sunday was the "chambermaids' Heights as a vacation spot and the special," since attendants were opening of the new harbor created mainly restaurant and hotel emnew interest in the land bordering ployees who had to report early for work. Golfers and fishermen the harbor.

Several stables were converted also attended and some families into dwellings. There is some rowed to early Mass from yachts speculation that the building that anchored in the harbor.

Architecturally, St. Thomas now houses St. Thomas Chapel Chapel remains a simple building. was once a stable. .

What is certain is that in 1911 In fact, its beauty evolves from its Harbor View Park opened for bus- si~plicity. The weathered gray iness on the present site of St. shmgles, and the white and blue Thomas Chapel and became a wooden trim reflect the salt air and very popular place for dancing blue water that symbolize Cape and recreation. On the Fourth of Cod. The round stained glass win-' July there were fireworks and a dow over the main entrance was band concert as well as dancing. the gift of an anonymous donor.

An advertisement for the event Another small stained glass winstated, "No objectionable person do": to the left of the sanctuary, admitted." . depicts S~. Thomas the Apostle, The building's appearance is said patron samt of the Chapel.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 3, 1990

New Anglican head favors ecumenism LONDON (CNS) - Anglicanism's newly appointed spiritual leader favors furthering ecumenical links with the Catholic Church and shares with Pope John Paul II a sense of mission toward the environment but also plans to lead the Church of England into ordaining women.

The new archbishop of Canterbury, 54-year-old Bishop George Carey of Bath and Wells, England, is to succeed Archbishop Robert Runcie early next year as head of the world's nearly 70 million Anglicans. His appointment was announced July 25 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's office.

Reaction from British Catholic leaders was positive.

Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England, said, "I look forward to a continuation of the excellent working relationship which I have enjoyed with (Archbishop) Runcie."

Bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Arundel and Brighton, cochairman of the Anglican-Roman PERMANENT DEACONS ordained in 1987 gatherdurCatholic International Commising a recent reunion at St. Louis de France parish, Swansea. A sion, called Bishop Carey "a man Mass of Thanksgiving was followed by dinner for the deacons of ecumenical vision."

"The ordination of women is and their wives. obviously one thing that I hope we wiJI settle as a church," the bishop said. "I have always been a supporter oCthe ordination of women to the priesthood. I am well aware ROME (CNS) - The role of a gence, of materialism as .the preof the fears of many people. PeoCatholic theology professor is not dominant value in U.S. society, he ple are going to be hurt. said.

"As the archbishop of Canter- so much to proclaim faith as to bury, I want to be a pastoral arch- , explain it, said Jesuit Father WilFather Byron said the focus on bishop, whatever decision is made." liam J. Byron, president of The more and better material goods Catholic University of America, made." has been accompanied by greater Bishop Carey said that another Washington. access to information, but has deof his priorities will be the , If a college examination shows a creased the value of reflection. . student to have faith, but not environment.

- "The information explosion in Bishop Carey is a true "cock- understanding, "the student-be- America eoexists with a wisdom ney" - born in London within the liever deserves an 'F,''' Father drought," he said. sound of Bow Bells.

Byron said during a recent speech While Catholic schools must reaHe left school at 15 with little in at the North American College in lize the values their students bring the way offormal educational qual- Rome. to school with' them, the schools ifications _-and told reporters , Father Byron's talk at the semithat for two years afterward he nary run by the U.S. bishops was have an opportunity to provide a type of education others cannot or was "unchurched." titled "Catholic Education in But he later gained a reputation America: FulfiJIing the Teaching will not, he said.

Father Byron also called for as a scholar, earning a doctorate Mission oCthe Church in a Plural"creative thinking and stronger for a study of church order, and istic Society." political will" to release public was a lecturer at three Anglican "Theological investigations and colleges. the communication of theological funds for Catholic elementary and In one of is books, Bishop Carey understandings" at coJleges and secondary schools. wrote: "I believe that Jesus was universities presuppose an earlier While the schools have a religcrucified, buried and that his cold, proclamation of the faith, usually ious mission, they also serve nadead body was raised alive by in the form of cat'echesis, he said. tional int,erests by educating for God." Catechesis "looks to a body of literacy and social adjustment, he But he added that "if it is of any for'mulated doctrine," he said. But said. comfort to others, I have never "it neither speculates nor attempts "For Catholic education to surfound it easy to believe in God." to enlarge the body of doctrinal vive in America, it must achieve Bishop Carey has suggested that understanding" as theology-does. and maintain quality at all levels," clergy, including bishops, should In higher education, "a certain he said. no longer be appointed for life. He freedom is required for the theolo"Getting better will require also said that bishops should be gian to serve the church, indeed to more money and probably fewer reviewed by a group of their peers help the bishops of the church, schools," Father Byron said. "It every five years, and if necessary, united as magisterium with the wiJI also nequire fewer offerings, a be encouraged to step down if it is bishop of Rome, to understand narrower yet excellent range of felt they are not serving well. better the faith they proclaim," courses of instruction within a Father Byron said. . . %'~-' . given schooL" ' M·' .

While bishops and theologians "'#'11 f ... ·*t \ must work together, he said, the more than 250 Catholic colleges and universities in the United States ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. must also be guaranteed institu(CNS) - Noted journalists Jane tional autonomy.

Pauley and Sarah McClendon will receive awards from St. BonavenIf a local bishop or other church ture University and its mass comauthority granting permission to teach Catholic theology is seen by munication department. Ms. Pauley, NBC News correspondent and the courts to be "extrinsic to the college ... there could be'trouformer "Today" show co-anchor, ble," Father Byron said. wiJI receive the Douglas Edwards Such influence may jeopardize Award, l~stablished in 1986 to governrhent financial aid to stuhonor the: veteran CBS newsman.

ANGLICAN -Bishop George dents if it is seen as contributing to Sarah McClendon, who has covCarey, named as the next arch- the establishment of religion in ered Washington since 1944, will of the First Amendment be given the Bob Considine Award, bishop of Canterbury, with violation of the Constitution, he said" awarded :,ince 1978 in memory of his grandsons. (eNSj UPIAnother challenge to Catholic the Hearst newspapers columnist Reuters photo) education at all levels is the emerand broadcaster.

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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) ~ In successive weeks, Pope John Paul II has made seminaries the topic of his Angelus talks at his summer r.esidence at Castel Gandolfo.

On July 22 he called for more emphasis on obedience in seminary training and on July 29 he discussed qualifications needed by seminary directors and teachers.

Training must help students become accustomed to a "disposition of obedience to authority," he· said July 22. , Basing tHeir attitudes on the actions of Jesus, priests must exhibit a "fun!Jamental conformity to' the will ofthe Father,':,which in the church is represented by obedience to the pope and one's local bishop or religious superior, the pope said.

Seminarians and priests should exercise "an obedience animated by faith" to the decisions of people in authority and recognize in those decisions "divine will." the pope said, Such obedience, he said, "is not· realize.d without certain sacrifices," but it ,"contributes to the fruitful'ness of the priestly ministry and, above all, joins the priest to the obedience which characterized the sacrifice of the cross and to the fruits of this sacrifice," The pope also said that the promise of obedience made by priests ha~ "reciprocal obligations" ~ bishops and religious superiors should see priests as "brothers and friends". and do all'they can to ensure ~heir spiritual and materi~1 well-being.

On July 29, the pope asked the upcoming synod of bishops to provide guidelines for choosing priests as seminary directors and teachers. . They should "possess an intense spiritual life and be witnesses of a sincere faith which, through their comportment, inspires all," he said.

The monthlong syn09 on priest,Iy formation begins Sept. 30. ,The church recognizes "the importance of the quality of educators for priestly formation," the pope said.

"Those who receive the mission to prepare youths for life and priestly ministry are called to a great responsibility," he added.

Seminary directors and teachers help students "overcome the difficulties on the road to priestly ordination," he said. , "The next synod will not fail in taking this demand into account, recommending to the bishops an adequate concern for the selection of.those priests who should..direct and teach in seminaries," he said:'

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v ATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II said his recent trip to Mexico showed "improving relations between church and state." He added that the decision' he and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari recently made to exchange personal representatives was another good sign. "I experienced the deep faith of the Mexican people and their great love of Christ and the church," the pope said at a weekly general audience.

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Vatican considers sponsoring area AIDS meetings WATERBURY, Conn. (CNS) A top Vatican" official dealing with the church's response to AI DS said that problems in organizing a conference for people with AIDS at the Vatican may lead instead to regional conferences for those with the disease.

Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, said that while "it is possible" to organize a gathering of people with AIDS at the Vatican, "it is not easy" to match the size of last year's 1,200-delegate AIDS conference at the Vatican.

Archbishop Angelini 'spoke to reporters during a recent visit to the Sts. Martin and James Respite in Waterbury, a group re~idence for people with AIDS run by the archdiocese of Hartford, Conn.

Archbishop Angelini said italian law restricting the manner in which large groups of people with infectious diseases can gather, and concern about the church's ability to provide emergency medical care for AIDS patients far from home in the latter stages of their disease, make such a large-scale gathering difficult. . The archbishop said he wastry-, POPE JOHN PA UL II stands in prayer May 25, 1985, after elc;vating 28 to the College" of ing to organize a series of smaller meetings, each with 100 to 200 Cardi~als, among them Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law. (CNS/ UPI-Reuters photo) delegates, in various nations.

Delegates and outside activists at the first Vatican conference on acquired immune deficiency syndrome last November complained that no presentations were made One of the most obvious changes by AIDS patients themselves.

VATlCAN CITY (eNS) ~ In a current members of the college way, naming new members for the who have never been ordained Pope John Paul II has made in the One priest who has tested posiCollege of Cardinals is like ap- bishops. He and Italian Cardinal College of Cardinals is the increas- tive for the HIV virus registered ing humber of nationalities repre- . his complaint by unfurling a banner poin~ing'a new justice for the U,So , ' Pietro Pavan were exempted from 'Supreme Court.

'Pope John XXIII's ruling that pri- sented. which said, "The Church Has At the end of the 1988 consis-' AIDS."And a man who has since It not only gives the pope a ests named to the College of Carchance to reward trusted advisers dinals should be ordained bishops tory, the college had members from died of AI DS said he was tired "of 62 countries. The 15 deaths since being told by others what people and recognize the value of an indi-' before they are formally enrolled, vidual or his diocese, it allows him Although 53 cardinals h~ve been then have lowered the nu'mber to with AIDS are like and think" to indirectly influence future deci- created since Cardinal Alfonso 55 ~ but it's still more than the 43 when he was denied an opportunity to speak. sions such as electing his successor. Lopez Trujillo was named during countries represented in 1967.

As of July 30, only 46 percent of Unlike tr e high court, the Col- the same 1983 consistory, none is Father James Graham, who lives lege of Cardinals does not get a younger than the 54-year-old arch- the 110 cardinals eligible to elect a ·with AIDS patients in ail innerpope were Europeans. Their per- city Waterbury neighborhood, new member as soon as one retires bishop of Medellin, Colombia. or dies, There isn't even a maxicentage fell below 50 percent for helped mediate the dispute at last By the end of 1990, the church's the first time in 1988. mum number of vacancies that year's conference by proposing , cardinals will have a combined age triggers a consist\?ry, Pope John Paul's influence also establishment of a Vatican-based of 10,600 years, After the 68 card iSince the last consistory, in June nals whose birthdays fall between can be measured by the percentage international information network of cardinals he named to the col- for Catholic AIDS ministers.

1988, 15 cardinals have died and Aug, I and Dec. 31 are finished The group, known as the Interseven others have turned 80,' mean~ celebrating, the average age of the lege ~ 55 percent of the entire membership and 66 percent of the national Christian AIDS Network, ing they are ineligible to elect a 145 cardinals will be 73, I. electors. has its headquarters at the Hartnew pope. By mid-November, six Th'e most "common month for a The college membership includes ford archdiocese's office for AIDS more members, including retired cardinal's birthday party i's FebruPhiladelphia Cardinal John J, ary, when 19 members mark the 59 named by Pope Paul VI', five ministry.

Archbishop Angelini said there Krol, will be octogenarians.' anniversaries of their birth. The named by Pope John XXIII and According to church law, the 'slowest months are January and 'one ~ Canadian Cardinal Paul are no current plans for a specific Emile Leger ~ named' by Pope papal pronouncement on AIDS; maximum number of voters al- April with seven each.

Pius XII. saying that the published proceedlowed is 120. The last time the Two cardinals share Pope John Among the electors,' only 37 ings of last year's conference pope named cardinals he included Paul's May 18 birthday ~ French were not named by Pope John. amounted to a kind of "magistean exception to the rule, having Cardinal Francois Marty, who was Paul. Thirty-five were given their. rial document" dealing with the 121 voters until one member cele- born in 1904, and Italian Cardinal AIDS crisis. red hats by Paul VI and two Francesco Carpino, born'one year brated his 80th birthday about a ~·It is very easy to speak, but not received theirs from John X~III. month'later. later. easy to act" on AIDS, Archbishop Another ind,ication of Pope John B~ing 10 voters short of the Another. pair was born on Angelini said. "It is not easy to Paul's interest and influence may upper limit has not sparked-rumors '. Christmas ~ Italian Cardinal accept this work," he added, callbe seen in the fact that he inducted of an upcoming consistory. Pope Sergio Guerri, born in 1905, and ing help to people with :'IDS a each of Poland's five cardinals John Paul has allowed a greater West German Cardinal Joachim of justice, not charjty. question into the college. . number of vacancies to exist in the Meisner in 1933., Archbishop Angelini compared past. those in Catholic health care who He installed 14 new cardinals in work with AIDS patients to the 1979,18 in 1983,28 in 1985 and 24 Good Samaritan. in 1988. The first three groups "Many people still do not know .included one or two churchmen Jesus Christ," he said when asked already too old to vote. if the church was doing enough for One of those is now the oldest AIDS victims. member of the college, French Cardinal Henri de Lubac, who "Christ gave us the example of celebrated his 94th birthday in his own human suffering and his February. He was an 86-year-old code of service to the sick. The Jesuit priest when Pope John Paul church must continue to teach the named him a cardinal in 1983. example of the man on the road in Cardinal de Lubac is one of two the parable," he said. ~

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Peace Day theme VATICAN CITY.'(CNS) Respecting the conscience of others is a key to peace, said the Vatican in announcing the theme chosen

by Pope John Paul II for the 1991 World Peace Day. The theme is: "If You Want Peace, Respect Everyone's Conscience."

"There are always violent consequences" when individual consciences are not respected, especially in their search for, God, said the Vatican announcement.

"Any sort of violent oppression of the conscience provokes equally violent reactions, and this is true for individuals as for communities and peoples," it said.

"An important and indeed prim-, ary place ought to be given to the' rights of conscience and to the duties which correspond to'them," it added.

The duties of conscience' require each person "to base his or her personal choices on honesty with self, on respect for the choices of, others, and on the universal vocation to truth, in other, words the vocation to seek God," it said.

The. ch,ur~h '!onsigers cP!lsciell.ce the "sanctuary" where "the human person is alone with God," said the Vatican announcement.

World Peace Day is celebrated Jan. I. In a recent letter to an English bishop, Pope John Paul warned against oversimplifying the value of conscience as an arbiter of right and wrong, saying it needs the input of church teaching.

It is a Christian's duty to "inform and educate (conscience) through the guidance of an authority in order to bring it to maturity and , perfection" he said.

The letter was sent to Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville of Birmingham as part of ceremonies commemorating 19th-century British theologian Cardinal John Henry Newman.

Values clash NEW YORK (CNS) - A basic clash over values such as the family is dividing the United States, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas were told at their recent convention in New York. "America is in the middle of another civil war," said Gary L. Bauer, president of the Family Research Council in Washington. "Two great value systems are clashing, and only one of them will prevail."

Bauer, a Southern Baptist, said that the joint efforts of Catholics, evangelicals and others could "transform" the nation.

Ruling praised WASHINGTON (CNS) - U.S. Catholic Conference general cou,nsel Mark Chopko has praised a recent California court ruling upholding a law providing federal aid to children in private schools.

In the case, Walker vs. San Francisco Unified School District, U.S. District Judge William Orrick ruled that federal funds may be 'Iegally appropriated for books, filmstrips, computers, videos and other instructional materials for students in public, private and parochial schools without causing excessive entanglement of church and state.

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"Vital legislation" WASHINGTON (CNS)-Calling the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1990 "vital legislation," Youngstown, 0., Bishop James W. MaIone, chairman of the U .S:bishops~ Committee on Domestic Policy, has asked members of the Senate to pass it "without delay and without amendments which we believe would weaken civil rights protection for all Americans."

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He says they'rfe singing his song and asks that the song not be per- York a few weeks' afterward, "I formed dUriilg""Pharifom -Of the -:was stunne,f even more;" Repp' Opera's'" Chicago run. sa,id, because while the recording When he first played a record- gave just one instance' of the ing featuring "The Phantom of the allegedly plagiarized melody, Repp Opera" music, "I just listened to it said he heard the melody repeatand I said immediately, 'That's my edly in the musical's overture, song,''' Repp told Catholic News 'reprises and incidental music.

Service during a July 24 telephone "The infringing Phantom Song," interview from Trumansburg, N. Y. ,as the suit .calls Webber's song, When seei,ng the musical in New "was largely copied from plaintiffs' copyrighted song 'Till you ....

Repp and K&R Music, a publishing firm he manages, are the Broadl~asting plaintiffs. ' Defendants in the case are The following television and radio programs originate in the Webber; the Really Useful Group diocesan'viewing and listening area. Their listings normally do not PLC and the Really Useful Co., vary from week to week. They will be presented in the Anchor periodiWebber's London and New York cally and will reflect any changes that may be made. Please clip and licensing firms; MCA and Polyretain for reference. gram Records, which have issued "Spirit and the Bride," a talk On TV recordings of "The Phantom of Each Sunday,8:00a.m WLNE, show with William Larkin, 6 p.m. the Opera" music; Hal Leonard Monday, cable channel 35.

Channel 6. Diocesan Television Publishing Corp., which has pubMass. Those in the Greater New On Radio lished "Phantom' of the Opera" Bedford area who do not have "Be Not Afraid," 15 minutes of sheet music; and those to whom cable TV can see a rebroadcast of music and Go:~pel message coorWebber licensed Chicago perforthe Mass at 11 a.m. on UHF dinated by Father Craig A. Premance rights to "The Phantom of gana,.parochinl vicar at St. John Channel 20 the Opera."

Portuguese Masses from Our the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, John Eastman, an attorney for Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, is heard at 8 a.m. Sundays on the Really Useful Co., told CNS New Bedford: 12:15 p.m. each station WARA, 1320 AM. The July 25, "The complaint is without Sunday on radio station WJFD- Catholic clergy of the Attleboro merit. That's all there is to say."

FM,7 p.m. each Sunday on tele- area sponsor the program. ' Repp's song, "Till You," was vision Channel 20., "The Beat," Christian rock copyrighted in 1978 and is pub"Confluence," 8:30 a.m. each music and inftumation produced lishedby K&R Music, the suit said. Since then, 13,000 albums Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel by Building Illock Ministries of and 23,000 pieces of sheet music program moderated by Truman Taunton, is broadcast at 6:00 Taylor an~ having'as permanent a.m. Sundays on station WVBF have been sold containing the so·ng. participants Father Peter N. Gra- Boston, 105.7' FM, and may be The suit said Rapp has performed "Till You" in concert 100 times liano, diocesan director of social heard in the Alttleboro, Fall River, before audiences totaling 100,000. services; Right Rev. George Hunt, New Bedford and Taunton deanEpiscopal Bishop of Rhode Island, eries.

Repp, 48, is best kno~n for his 1960s songs" including "I Am the and Rabbi Baruch Korff.

Charismatic p r 9grams with Resurrect'ion," "AlIelu'" and "The Beat," produced by Build- Father John Randall are aired "Peace My Friends.'" ' ina Block Ministries of Taunton from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday , 'In a federal court in Chicago and aired on many cable systems through Friday on station WRIB. last year, Repp was awarded the in the Fall River diocese features 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at I copyrights to more than 50 of his vldeQs from and information on p.m. each Sunday. ,; songs when the former copyright contemporary Christian rock art"Topic Religion," presented by holder, FEL Pl,lblications, failed Iits. Check 10calUstings for times two priests,. a rabbi and_ a P.rotto pay him royalties on licensing and 'dates. ~ .estant ,miriist'~r'; "is broadcast ·at rights to them.

Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday to 6:06 a.m. 'and '.,i:06 p.I11.: each , Webber's musical success include Friday~ WFXT; Channel 25.

Sunday on' station WEElBos."Jesus Christ Superstar," "Cats," '. "Breakth!ough"6:30a.m. eachtont590 AM. "Evita," "Joseph and the Amazing Sunday, Channei 10, a program Prografns of Catholic intere'st Technicolor Dreamcoat" and"As.on the power of God to touch are broadca.st ai the following pects of Love," currently on Broadlives, produced by the Pastora'-- '.limes on station' WROL Boston, way.

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HOUSE OF PAIN It's a little past supper time I'm still out on the front porch Still on my behind waiting for you _Wondering if everything was all right Mama said come in boy don't waste your time -I said I got time he'l be here soon.

I was 5 years old and talkin' to myself Where were 'you Where'd you go Daddy can't you tell?

I'm not trying to take it And I ain't the one to blame No there's no one home In my house of pain.

Wasn't worth the time A boy needs a daddy like dance to mime And all the time I looked up to you I paced my room a million times _ And all I got was one big'line The same ol_d lie ' How could you. , I was 18-and still talkin' to myself Where were you Where'd you go Daddy can't you tell?

I didn't write these pages, And my script's been rearranged No there's no one home In my house of pain If I learned anything from this It's how to live on my own Sung by Faster Pussycat, written by,Taime powne;Brett Steele, (c) 1989 by Gypsy Fetish Music . if;,

AREADER-FROM Springfield, V~., asked me to review Faster Pussycat's "House of Pain."

The reader writes, "The song is a child's story of his parents' divorce. He was only 5 and yet

Care- bill backed , WASHINGTON (CNS) --,- Jesuit Father Richard A. McCormick, -a Christian ethi9s professor at ,Notre Dame University, recently testified in suppo'rt of a Senate bill that would require health care providers to ask patients- whether

the experience was tr~umatic: The song is very touching and sad because of the truth involved. I'm asking you to review this song because its message may open some people's eyes."

This is a song about a deep they wanted to sign a statement specifying what kind of'care they want should they later become incompetent to make decisions for themselves. He told a Senate subcommittee that "there is a basic human right of seif-determination with regard to acceptance or rejection of medical treatment" and a

sadness in a child ofdivorce. At age 18 he is "still talkin' to, myself' and wondering why his father is not part of his life. In terms of the emotional support that every child needs, he realizes that "there's no one home in my' house of pain."

Sometimes there may be a sense of relief, especially where there has been physical and emotional abuse. However, divorce always marks the death of the dream of living in an intact, loving family. ' If you are a teen living in a "house of pain," please consider these suggestions: I. Don't blame yourself. Children and teens are not responsible for adults' choices and actions.

2. Don't withdraw. Share your hurt, anger or sadness with trusted friends and adults.

3. Just like physical hurt, the injury of divorce requires a time of recovery, often filled with big swings in emotion. Help yourself get through bad days by reaching out to those who care about you.

4. Live one day at a time, trying not to predict how your relationship with your parents will work out. Many teens maintain very close bonds with both parents.

5. Don't turn to. drugs and alcohol for relief. The only way beyond th'e pain is to live through it with the support and love of those who care about you.

6. Ask an adult at your school or parish about sUppOJ:t groups for teens whose parents are divorced. Peers can help each other through this painful transition.

7. Ask God to help you through this time. Open your heart to receive God's guidance, stre~gth and love -as ways to heal the hurt and rediscover life's promises.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 181, Rockport, Ind. 47635. _corresponding obligation to facilitate exercise of that right.

Either/Or "One who does not give up prayer cannot possibly continue to offend God habitually. A person will either give up prayer, or stop sinning." -St. Alphonsus Liguori

Media Facts from Catholic News Service

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By Tom Lennon My teen-age informants tell me that in the summer some of you start watching daytime soap operas.

Often you· watch them not because you're gung-ho about the soaps but because you're bored.

You would prefer to be swimming, at the amusement park or just hanging out with friends.

Those who flick on the television to see what the young and the restless are doing with the days of their lives as the world turns run the risk of getting hooked. , If this has happened to you, here's a first suggestion: Don't watch passively. Be alert and e)tamine the soaps carefully.

You may find to your surprise that a kind of school is in session and that, for better or worse, these daytime dramas are trying to teach you something.

One recently had an extended story dealing on teen alcoholism.

Another dealt with AIDS; Lots of information was packed into the sometimes stilted dialogue.

In addition to information, several ideas are packed into the conversations, not all ofthem good. It is important to challenge such ideas and raise questions about them .

For example, what view of marriage is given on the soaps? Is it like real life?

If a young person thought reallife marriage was like the soaps, might he or she come to expect

very little happiness from marriage?, How often do the soaps present a Christian view of life? Or as the main gods mon~y; power, sex and booze? What other false gods are presented? ' Pay attention also to the highly artificial nature of .the soaps. . The writers have th~ lerribly difficult job of creating cliffhanger situations before every -commercial. They have to hold their audience.

-, . Notice also how anxiety is created in'the audience.

Just as one set of characters is getting out of a troublesome situation, another set begins facing new . dangers this is another gimmick to keep the audience coming back.

Often dramatic situations are created by making sure the characters don't talk to each other about their problems. . , Much of the tension could be ,instantly relieved by having the -characters talk frankly to one another; ,but then, of course, there'd , be no drama. , The more closely you examine the soaps,' the more artificial you will find them. While they might for a time help to relieve boredom, they are n'ot' nearly as much fun as real life. . .

Real life is where you find friends, good things to do, lively action arid a world of authentic growth and happiness far removed from the weird, dreary world of the soaps.'

There's no w~y to enjoy car tra.vel with kids

By Hilda Young

Truth is, he couldn't prove it actually stuck, but it gave my Ijust did something I've wanted. spouse something to lecture him to do for years: I resisted reading a about (litter, rudeness, danger, story on ".How a Family with tooth· decay) for several miles.

Youngsters Can Enjoy Car Travel."

In addition, Mr. Don't-EverThose stories are fairy tales.

Chew-G,um-in-the-Car-Again-AsGive me realism, like the head- Long-As-You-Live could play "Did line I saw last week: "Father of Not; Did Too" with his brother Four Rips Turn Signal Arm From and sister for at least an hour a day Steering Column and Chases Chil- for the rest of the trip.' dren Around Rest Stop."

Car games are a staple oftips for I did not even read the bold- travel with kids features. Howfaced little headli.nes ab.ove each of ' ever, our children play several I the 10 car travel tips. Why always have yet to find in print.

IO? Why not fo~r or seven or ll?

Among them: finding the raunchI invariably fec;I that the author iest personalized license plate, seehas about si,x good id,eas and is ing who can get away with sticking going crazy trying to, dream- ~p their feet under dad's seat the most another four - like advising times and steamy window tic-tacagainst letting children less than 5- toe. pump gas at the self-f,'ill.

Of course, there are rousing Or avoiding use of road atlas rounds of Begging for Weird Pets, Whose Turn for the Window?, pages to start campfires.

Or~ advising against the kids' Turn Up, Turn Down, Turn On, breaking out the badminton set to Turn Offthe Radio and Rear View play in the freeway median while Mirror Eye Contact Tag. My spouse claims his favorite is dad changes a flat.

Actually, that was nearly the a takeoff on Beat the Clock, in highlight of our last trip for our which each family member tries to secure his or her own personal restll-year-old. ' It ranked just behind "hucking" room stop within a given time a wad of gum against the side of a frame, such as the first hour after bus that passed us doing some- we leave the motel. where between 70 and 90 miles per I'll bet he checks for newspaper hour on a two-lane road near Mis- reporters before he plays it again, soula; Mont. though.

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The TV industry bears some responsiRecent top rentals bility for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and the 1.2 1. The War of the Roses, A-IV (R) . million unwanted pregnancies affecting teen-agel's annually, says 2. Steel Magnolias. A-III (PG) 3. Tango & Cash, 0 (R) former U$. Surgeon General C. 4. Always. A-II (PG) Everett Koop.

5. She-Devil, A-III (PG-13) Television "can do a lot to influ6. Back to the Future, Part II, ence young people," Koop said at A-II (PG) an NBC press conference in Los 7: My left Foot, A-III (R) Angeles promoting forthcoming 8. Gross Anatomy, specials on modern-day health conA路III (PG-13) cerns.

9. Music Box. A-III (PG-13) He urged television to be a good 10. The Bear, A-I (PG) influence on youths and said that "the best way to get health messages across to kids, for example, would be in a sitcom."

Koop singled out soap operas for particular criticism, saying that "young people who watch soap I operas got the impression the only RlIlInted wilh pernission ot Variety @ 1990 OIlS G'apl'ics reason you got out of bed in the Symbols following reviews morning was to jump into some'indicate both general and body else's bed."

The series on health concerns, Catholic Films Office ratings, to be hosted by Koop, will address which do not always coincide. such issues as rising medical costs, General ratings: G-suitable the "skyrocketing increase in sexfor general viewing; PG-13- ually transmitted diseases among parental guidance strongly teen-agel's," the problems of aging, inadequate pediatric care, suggested for children under and according to NBC. .

13; PG-parental guidance After the press conference Koop suggested; R-restricted, un- told Catholic News Service in an suitable for children or young interview that television "can emphasize morality" to address teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-ap- the problems of unwanted pregproved for children and adults; nancies.

"I think that an awful lot of A2-approved for adults and people who are concerned about adolescents; A3-a'pproved the health of teen-agers, as I have for adults only; 4-separate been for about 50 years, need to classification (given films not recognize that )Vhen you are dealmorally offensive which, how- ing with teen-agel's it is extraordinarily difficult to change behavior. ever, require so~eanalysis "If you go to any high school and explanation); O-morally senior class anyplace in this country," he continued, "and give them offensive.

Ii quiz on AIDS they know every answer. Then 'you ask them if they have 'change'd their behavior SANTIAGO, .Chile (CNS) because of that, they 'say 'No;' The Chilean bishops' conference whether it is abstinence or use of a said it hopes to contribute to a condom or any of the 'other things "new evangelization" of Latin that might protect them from the America with a focus on the poor. very things we're talking ilbout."

They said that the gap between "lam convin'ced you cannot Chile's rich and ,poor has been make a teenager change his or,her growing.. The bishops, in a docu- behavior on the basis of fear of ment titled '~A New Evangeliza- remote consequences,'" he added. tion for Chile," said that Pope 'Reiterating his concern about John Paul Irs 'calls for' a new the message given by TV soap's, he evangelization of the region pose added, "if a kid who is in highspecial challenges for Chile. , school comes home' from school and sees three soap operas and Nourishment . everybody in the soap operas is "Ideas are nof unlike food, involved in extramarital relationvitamins, or vaccines. They invoke ships or something, she is going to inherent potential for growth and grow u'p with the idea: 'Everybody development and can 'affect the does this,' so when my boyfriend course of evolution."-Dr. Jonas says 1 should do it, I guess I'd bertel' do it.''' ' Salk

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V'oc:ition'directors discuss recruitment, revival BALTIMORE (eNS) - "We need to get on fire again" about vocations, Father Edward Griswold, executive director of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors, told a national gathering of 200 vocation directors in Baltimore.

A need to revive enthusiasm for religious vocations was one of their major concerns and they also discussed problems of recruitment, priestly identity, the public's view of priests today and the religious formation of women.

Father Griswold said that despite widespread concern over the decline of vocations to the priesthood and religious life, the numbers today may be "more realistic" than they were in the unusual peak years of the 1950s and 1960s, the years often cited in comparisons.

The most dramatic drop has occurred among women religious.

From 1969 to 1989 the number of sisters has df:clined by 38 percent, from 167,167 to 104,419, according to figures in the Official Catholic Directory, an annual publication listing data from every U.S. diocese.

The number of diocesan and religious priests dropped II percent, from 59,620 in 1969 to 52,948 in 1989.

Over the past two decades the number of brothers also dropped dramatically - a 41 percent decline, from 11,755 to 6,977. But in terms ofsheeJl" numbers and impact on the life ofthe church, the loss or5,000 brothers did not compare with the loss of nearly 63,000 nuns.

Discussions during the conference highlighted changes in the work of vocation directors over the past 20 years.

They are now concerned with recruiting permanent deacons, who were not a factor in church ministry 20 years ago but number more

GEORGE ROGERS of Taunton h,as been appointed associate academic dean for continuing education at Stonehill College.

He will administer the programs of the college's evening division, Center for Communityand Professional Education and summer sessions.

A graduate of Boston State College and Boston College, he has done advanced study 'at Indiana ,) niversity of Pennsylvania. Married wi(h five children, he is a lector and eucharistic minister at St. :Paul's parish, Taunton.

than 9,000 today. They also work to develop lay ministries and recruit candidates willing to make a commitment of one or two years to church ministries and apostolates.

Father Griswold said people's perceptions of priests and religious are a major obstacle to vocation recruitment.

"I believe that there's still a mentality out there that religious are something other than human," he said.

While the church of the 1950s and '60s drew most of its vocations from those who entered seminaries and convents as teenagers, new recruits today are typically in their middle to late 20s, or even in their 30s or 40s, he said.

Father Griswold described the changing role of the priest, with the expansion of lay involvement in many ministries formerly cohsidered part of the priest's domain, as "a community issue for the whole church," not just a vocation recruit'ment question.

Sister of St. Joseph Kathleen Power, associate vocation director in the Diocese of St. Augustine, Fla., said one of the most pressing vocational issues is what kind of formation program is needed for women "to become an integral part of the church today leading us into the church of tomorrow."

She said women are in an "ambiguous" position in the church today, but "my experience is that women religious will remain faithful, with a great hope for greater' collaboration. "

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ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Sunday Mass with Father William T. Babbitt, parochial vicar, 2:30 p.m. Aug. 5.

SACRED HEART, FR Michael J. Patota, a 1990 graduate of BMC Durfee High Scho'ol, is the recipient of the Rose E. Sullivan Scholarship given by the Women's Guild.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR A Holy Ghost missioner will speak on his congregation's work in Sierra Leone, West Africa, this weekend.

Seniors' outing to Colt State Park Aug. 6; rain date Aug. 13.

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ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Altar boy trip to Rocky Point leaving church parking lot 10:30 a.m. Monday.

SACRED HEART, NB Eugene Sasseville is the new CCD coordinator.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH First Saturday Mass 9 a.m. tomorrow followed by rosary. Bible discussion group meets Sunday; information: O'Keeffe, 548-8735.

FEAST OF SENHOR DA PEDRA, NB Feast Committee of NB will sponsor the Feast of Senhor Da Pedra Aug. 17-19, Madeira Field, Madeira Ave., North End of NB. Events include moving of statue of Senhor da Pedra from school hall to Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Earle St., 7 p.m. Aug. 17; II a.m. solemn Mass and 2:30 p.m. procession from Immaculate Conception Church Aug. 18.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Ultreya 8 tonight, R.E. center.

Gregory Norbet, formerly of Weston Priory, will appear' in concert 8 p.m. Sunday, parish center.

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SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Women's Guild and Vincentians will collect nonperishable grocery items for needy of parish this weekend; collection llaskets will be placed at Church St. entrance for use any time.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Monday adoration begins following II a.m. Mass and ends at 4:45 p.m. with Benediction. Prayer meetings 7 p.m. Wednesdays in August; 7:30 p.m. on Aug. IS. ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Junior High dance 8-1 I p.m. Aug. 9, festival tent.

CYNTHIA Villari will lead a workshop, "A Healing Journey with Mary of LaSalette," to a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 18 at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. The program will include healing prayer, guided imagery and liturgy. Preregistration requested.

As part of the shrine's summer concert series, the Rays of Sunshine will perform a musical, "The Message," at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4.

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A "tent revival" featuring preachers from Isaiah 43 Ministries and Father Richard Delisle of LaSalette Ministries will take place Aug. 13 to 16 and will be themed "Because You Are Precious To Me." Information on all progra~s: tel. 222-5410.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Youth group meeting 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 6, parish center; volleyball follows.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Help needed in soup kitchen; information: Joe Begnoche, 9927371. Children's Mass II a.m. Sunday. May Roses for Life drive netted $422.

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ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Father William Boffa will celebrate this week's television Mass to be aired 8 a.m. Sunday on WLNE channel 6, featuring staff members and campers at St. Vincent's Camp in Westport. Vincentians will accept canned good donations in baskets at church entrance this weekend. Monday devotions 7:30 p.m. preceded Iiy rosary at 7: 10 p.m.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E.FREETOWN Cardinal Spellman High School retreat Aug. 3-5.

Chaplains can .aid stressed vets, says priest LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) Chaplains have an essential role in helping heal veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders, said the director of research for chaplains at the Veterans Administraton Hospital in Washington.

"The psych-ological problems of many Vietnam veterans may reflect a need for forgiveness and/ or absolution," Father Pat Devine told the Times ·Review, newspaper of the Diocese of La Crosse, in an interview.

Father Devine, a priest ofthe La Crosse diocese, has done a preliminary study to find "the importance of religious convictions in the healing process" of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders and the role a chaplain can play in healing them. Much work lies ahead though, he said.

His study, however, has captured the attention of Edward Derwinski, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs, who is expected to meet with Father Devine to discuss the study.

Some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders are low selfesteem; self-destructive habits; anger, particularly at God; alienation, especially from institutions such as those implicated in' the veteran's involvement in a war; and a ·Ioss of faith.

In the study, Father Devine distributed 182 questionnaires to seven veterans' centers and two national veterans' groups - the Disabled American Veterans and Vietnam Veterans of America. About 180 veterans responded .to the questionnaire, which addresses the respondent's relationship with God, posttraumatic stress disorders, religion; and themes of forgiveness and guilt over the role of both the United States and the respondent in wars, especially Vietnam.

Initial study results show that the symptoms and spiritual needs

of the two national groups and seven centers differed, he said.

Veterans from the centers seem to show more symptoms of the stress disorders than their counterparts in the national groups.

Father Devine said the finding may indicate that veterans from the national groups are "mainstreamed" now and are "coping with life, marriage and job" more effectively.

The two groups also show distinct spiritual needs, he said.

Veterans from the centers show that "although they are angry at the church and political leaders and think they have been shafted, they still feel a personal relationship with a higher power," he said.

"They are turned off to institutions, but they believe in God and that God cares," Father Devine l>aid of the veterans from the centers.

The military chaplain occupies a unique position in helping biblical faith become apparent and alive for the Vietnam veteran, Father Devine said.

The research director said he knows firsthand about the healing process of veterans' stress disorders.'

He was with the occupation forces in Japan after Worid War II, and after his ordination in 1961 he was a military chaplain from 1966 to 1971, including a year in the Vietnam War. He had to overcome his own survival guilt from Vietnam. During the war, he was scheduled to be a passenger on a helicopter one day, but missed it. It crashed, killing all but one. Also in Vietnam, a friend was killed in battle. .

It took him a long time to visit his friend's mother, he said.

It turned out "to be a necessary healing experience, as is grief," he said. "She needed me, and I needed her. We needed to talk of his death."

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SECULAR FRANCISCANS New West Harwich pre-fraternity will meet 2 p.m. Aug. 12, Holy Trinity Church, W. Harwich. Father William Kane, SVD, will celebrate Mass and speak on "The Four Hs of St. Francis." Information: Dorothy Williams, 394-4094. Inquirers welcome.

EMMAUS/GALILEE Monthly reunion 7-10 p.m. Aug. 12, Neumann Hall, Cathedral Camp, E. Freetown. The new planning committee will be introduced.

ST. ANNE, FR Fellowship summer retreat Aug. 10-12; information: Normand Morrissette, 674-5267.

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CUATITLAN, Mexico (CNS) - A Mexican bishop with close ties to C~ban President Fidel Castro says he believes Cuba's Communist Party might agree to open party membership to Catholics and other believers. Retired Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo of Cuer-

"Holy and Global" NEW~' YORK (CNS) - With "Holy and Global" as their theme, . black clergy and religious recently held their annual national meeting in New 'York, focusing On common interests with blacks in other nations. Liturgies and presentations stressed the pan-African heritage and spirituality of U.S. blacks.

navaca said he believes it "probable" that a February congress of Cuban communists will alter party statutes limiting membership to atheists.

Award for CHD CHICAGO (CNS) - The Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops' self-help program for the poor, has been recognized by ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, with its Outstanding Organization Award. Over the years, said ACORN executive director Steven Kest, CH 0 has given some $2 million in grants to local ACORN chapters.