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IN 1959, Mother Angeline, left, visited the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River for the silver jubilee celebration of Mother Cecilia Helen, right, then the home superior, (Anchor file photo)

Mother Angeline's -canonization eyed Permission has been granted to the Carmelite sisters for the Aged and Infirm, who operate the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, to proceed with the cau!!e for canonization of their foundress, .Mother M. Angeline Teresa McCrory.

Word of the action by the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints came on July 15 from Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., in whose diocese the community's motherhouse is located.

Mother Angeline died Jan. 21, 1984, on her 9lst birthday, at St. Teresa's Motherhouse in Germantown, N.Y. Bishop Hubbard presided at her funeral Mass on Jan. 25 and Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was among concelebrants.

Born in County Tyrone, Ireland, Mother Angeline later moved with her family to Scotland where she entered the Little Sisters of the Poor. In 1912 she went to France for study and made her first profession of vows in 1915. She was transferred to Brooklyn, N. Y., later that year.

After discussing her concerns for the aged with the late Cardinal Patrick Hayes of New York, Mother Angeline founded her Carmelite order in 1929. The order began with seven members and now has nearly 300. They staff 29 residences for the elderly in the United States and one in Dublin, Ireland.

Mother Angeline was the order's mother general,for 49 years until poor health caused her to retire.

She received numerous awards

and honors for her work with the elderly, including the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award from Pope John XXIII and the Benemerenti Award from Pope Paul VI. In 1978 her community honored her with a "Universal Decree of Recognition." It decreed and declared "for airtime'; that Mother Angeline was forever Superior General Emerita of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and "is acclaimed throughout the whole church as the true and only Turn to Page Six

ROME (CNS) - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's top doctrinal official, said bishops' conferences have some "legislative competence" but said such conferences could interfere with the governing of individual dioceses.

Cardinal Ratzinger said his fear was that "anonymous and collective government could substitute the personal responsibility ofbishops" and "fragment the spiritual identity of the universal church." , The cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, made the comments in an interview published July 30 by the Rome newspaper II Messaggero.

The status and authority of bishops' conferences is under study by the doctrinal congregation and other Vatican departments. In 1988, a first draft of a Vatican document outlining limits of the 'role of such conferences was sharply criticized by bishops in the United States and elsewhere.

"A certain legislative competence of bishops' conferences does exist and corresponds to the true diversity of situations," Cardinal Ratzinger was quoted as saying in the interview.

"The real problem is deeper.

The bureaucratic organization of bishops' conferences could damage the freedom of the bishop in governing his diocese, as well as the free development of decisions' during assemblies of bishops," he said.

The cardinal expressed apprehension that the "anonymous power" of conferenceS could "fragment the spiritual identity of the universal church and create particular identities that are sometimes opposed to each other."

In more general remarks, Car-

dinal Ratzinger said "authority in . inplaees such as his native West the church is in crisis" because the Germany, the protests also reveal concept of authority is under a desire to "reject Rome" and to attack. The trend in the church, he stake out an independent position.

On other topics, Cardinal Ratsaid, reflects a "mistaken egalitarzinger said: ianism" found in modern society.

As part of the solution, he sug- The "drastic requests" comgested that "authorities themselves ing from excommunicated Archneed to re-learn to be authorities." bishop Marcel Lefebvre's Priestly That means church leaders should Society of St. Pius X indicate there make clear that the person in au- is no chance the Vatican can bring thority is not simply exercising his it back into the fold. will, "but is obeying the Lord's He said the breakaway society is will," he said. still pressing for negotiations but Commenting on groups oftheo- only on its own narrow terms. logians who have recently chal- Efforts to integrate the self-styled lenged the Vatican, the cardinal "traditionalist" group were broken said the protests involve compli- off when Archbishop Lefebvre orcated issues dealing with the dained four other bishops and was church's teaching authority, the excommunicated in 1988. reforms of the Second Vatican "I cannot see, at the moment, Council and the role of the indiTurn to Page Six vidual conscience. But he said that I

Divine Worship Office established by bishop Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has appointed Rev. Jon-Paul Gallant, .S.L.L., director ofa newly-established Diocesan Office for Divine Worship. Father Gallant will also serve as chairman of the Diocesan Commission for Divine Worship and will retain his position as parochial vicar of Holy Name parish, New Bedford.

As commission chairman, he succeeds Father James F. Lyons, pastor of St. Patrick parish,Wareham.

The appointments were effective Aug. I. Father Gallant holds a licentiate in sacred liturgy from the Pontifi-

cal Liturgical Institute in Rome, where he chose. the sacrament of penance as a thesi!l topic. In the thesis he explored the historical development of the sacrament from its origins in Scripture through its use in the early, medieval and preVatican II church.

He continued to a textual study of the current rite of reconciliation, showing how its prayers reflect the theological revision of the sacrament decreed by the fathers of .

Vatican II. Explaining the difference between the Diocesan Commission for Divine Worship, which has existed for years, and the new Office for Divine Worship, Father Gallant said that the commission, which includes members of the diocese schooled in liturgy, liturgical art and sacred music, functions in an advisory capacity to Bishop Cronin.

When the bishop accepts guidelines or directives suggested by commission members, it will be the function of Father Gallant's office to implement them. The office will also implement rulings coming from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops or from the Vatican. It will, for example, be involved in introduction of a new rite for'funerals expected to be promulgated in November, said Father Gallant.

Summing up the function ofthe new office, Father Gallant quoted Pope John XXIII, who compared liturgy to "the village fountain," continually providing fresh water to those who draw from it.

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The Anchor Friday, August 4, 1989

AIDS workers ask national collection

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)- ton, co-director of Lazzaro Center U.S. Catholic AIDS ministers in New York and a coordinator of meeting recently at the University the AIDS ministry conference, said of Notre Dame called for a national representatives of religious orders, campaign by the Catholic Church, diocesan AIDS ministries and comparable to the U.S. bishops' community workers from at least WASHINGTON (CNS) - A. Campaign for Human Develop- 35 states were at the six-day Virginia Catholic woman has路gathment, to raise money for ministry conference. ered more than 200,000 signatures He said that in addition to talks to AIDS victims. nationwide from women opposing and workshops on AIDS ministry, 1980s wounded the body "The the National Organization for Woof Christ with AIDS; the 1990s one of the main purposes of the men's support of abortion rights. must heal it," said the over 200 conference was to "supply care for uN 0 W has erroneously assigned the care-giver" by giving particiministers in a statement. itself the role of representing the pants an opportunity for mutual They described themselves as views of women and there are support and enrichment.

"Catholic men and women on the hundreds of thousands of us who "There's a high rate of burnout front lines of this ever-intensifying disagree with NOW's pro-abortion in this ministry," he said. battle" and said the church's "presphilosophy," Ellen Commerce of ent efforts to respond to this dreadHerndon, Va., told Catholic News ful epidemic are not enough."

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"We urge the establishment of a Mrs. Commerce, a 35-year-old ST. VINCENT'S campers and their Vincentian hosts national collection and fund simThe Mass of Christian Burial mother of four, commented as she ilar to the Campaign for Human was offered Wednesday at St. Anne delivered several boxloads of peti- enjoy a cookout.

Church, Fall River, for Richard Development," the group said. tions to Rep. Christopher Smith, "Such an annual drive would raise G. King, 55, of Tiverton, who had R-N.J., House cochairman of the badly needed monies for new initi- been foreman at St. Mary and Pro-Life Caucus. atives, educate and sensitize the Sacred Heart Cemeteries in New Mrs. Commerce began her petiBedford for the past four years. body of Christ and enflesh the tion drive in mid-April, days after growing commitment of the peo- Previously he had been a truck NOW held a pro-abortion march driver for many years and had in Washington joined by some religious, ethnic and racial back- ple of God to AIDS ministry."

Nearly 100 boys,between ages 7 300,000 people. grounds. and 13, all from Taunton, RaynThe group quoted from the 1987 served in the Massachusetts NaShe said she got help gathering ham, Dighton and Easton, have Head Counselor Greg Mathias, statement on AIDS by the 50- tional Guard.

He is survived by his wife, Claire signtures from the National Council been enjoying a memorable two- a seminarian entering his third bishop Administrative Board of of Catholic Women, the Christian week vacation at St. Vincent's year of theological studies at St. the U.S. Catholic Conference, G. (St. Laurent) King, a son, David Action Council, the National Con- Camp, Westport.

John's Seminary in Brighton, re- which said the church's response R. King, of Norfolk, his parents, Their attendance was made pos- ported that the Taunton young- to those with AIDS "will be judged Arthur and Josephine King of Fall ference of Catholic Bishops and dioceses all over the country. sible by the St. Vincent de Paul sters had a "good deal of energy." to be truly effective both when we River, and three brothers, Arthur Jr. of Westport, Raymond of Gas"This is truly a grass-roots move- Society, active in the 15 parishes in Camp nurse Patricia Dolan, other- .discover God in them and when tonia, NC, and Thomas of Somerment," Mrs. Commerce said. "We greater Taunton. wise a professor of nursing at South- they, through their encounter with set. have no office, no organizational The overnight boys' camp is eastern Massachusetts University, us, are able to say, 'In my pain, structure and no budget. We simply conducted in conjunction with day said the boys were healthy and dis- fear and alienation, I have felt in Lingering have the support of thousands of care programs for youngsters from inclined "to come running to the your presence a God of strength, "Everything comes too late for women who previously were unin- the Fall River-New Bedford area .. hope and solidarity.' infirmary to' complain of minor volved but now want to be heard." and for retarded boys and girls.

Franciscan Father Jay Pinker- those who only wait." - Hubbard scrapes and aches."

Gail Quinn, director of program All activity takes place at a 90-acre Junior counselor Ted Zachowitz, development for the NCCB Office ~ite near Horseneck Beach owned for Pro-Life Activities, said sev- by the diocese of Fall River. Camp- a top athlete at Coyle-Cassidy, eral persons from the office met ers swim at the beach and in an said there were minimal discipline with Mrs. Commerce and called Olympic-size swimming pool on problems during ball games and fishing expeditions. diocesan pro-life directors nation- the camp grounds. . wide asking for support in the Father William L. Boffa, And the Vincentians said thank project. parochial vicar at St. Joseph's par- you to all the people who made the "When we started, we intended ish, Taunton, and chaplain at camp experience possible. to just poll our own friends," said Coyle-Cassidy High School, TaunMary Claire, Mrs. Commence's ton, is camp director. mother. "We didn't expect it to A staff of over 40 men and spread but it did. When we started women supervise activities. 'They getting hundreds of letters every include several seminarians preday, the mailman asked us what paring for priesthood.

Priests of the diocese will attend kind of business we were running."

While the basic expenses of oper- retreats at Cathedral Camp, East Mrs. Commerce said she agrees ating and maintaining the camp, Freetown, either from Sept. 4 with many of NOW's other stands, which includes 10 substantial build- through 8 or from Sept. II through but that it is not addressing them ings and many other structures, 15. while it is focussing on abortion.

The Sept. 4 through 8 retreat are met by the Fall River diocese, principally from annual Catholic will be conducted by Father Hugh Charities Appeal revenues, the cost F. Crean, vicar for clergy in the of sponsoring individual overnight dioc.ese of Springfield, Mass. A campers is borne by parish units of former co-pastor and former director of clergy education in the dioA Spiritual Connections com- the St. Vincent de Paul Society. In cese, he has also been active in every instance, participation of mittee has been formed in the youngsters in the camping pro- clergy formation on the national greater ~Slll River area to help gram would have been economi- and international levels and has integrate mentally retarded adults been a consultant to the National cally impossible for their families. into church communities.

Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Parish units fund this program, as With the aid of social service The Sept. 11 through 15 proagencies, committee members seek they do all their activities, from gram will be directed by Msgr. contributions received in the to match such persons with comchurches and from gifts made by Angelo M. Caligiuri, pastor of panions who will transport and societies, and individuals in the Infant of Prague parish, Cheekaccompany them to services and towaga, N.Y. He is a former semiother church activities. It is esti- community. nary professor and was for 15 This year's camping experience mated that some 500 developmenyears vicar for religious in the Bufbegan in the midst of a downpour tally disabled persons in Fall River, falo diocese.

Westport, Somerset, Swansea and with buses leaving St. Mary's parBoth priests have had extensive ish parking lot crammed with soggy Freetown would benefit from the experience in directing retreats. but enthusiastic prospective campprogram. ers. Once at camp, however, the Further information is available from Karen Leonard-Evans or weather began to break and the boys began a program of fishing, Nancy E. Arruda at 678-2901, ext. athletics, Indian ceremonies and Archbishop Edward T. O'Meara, 288, or from Maggie Hyland, 672handcrafts. chairman of Catholic Relief Serv2266 any of whom will also arrange At midweek, Vincentians, led ices, the overseas aid agency of the presentations of the program to DURING A recent pastoral visitation to Our Lady of by district council president Daniel U.S. Catholic Conference, has ischurch groups.

Victory Church, Centerville, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin installed Couture ofSt. Ann's parish, Rayn- sued an urgent plea for aid to ham, hosted a cookout for campers Lebanon, whose people have suf- James Phalan, CSC, as an acolyte, a step on the road towards Ability and staff. fered for years the hardships of priestly ordination. At top, he stands with, from left, Rev. The largest single parish group war. Donations may be sent to "If a man can have only one James Duane, CSC, Holy Cross Fathers vice provincial; Phakind ofsense, let him have common was sponsored by St. Joseph's par- Catholic Relief Services, 1011 Ian; his mother, Mrs. Katherine Phalan; and Rev. John A. ish.

Parish Vincentian president sense. Ifhe has that and uncommon First Ave., New York, NY 1022.

Perry, Our Lady of Victory pastor. Bottom, the bishop greets sense too, he is not far from genius." Roland Ducharme noted that par- They should be designated as aid ticipating boys represented various to Lebanon.

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Two retreats set for priests

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BISHOP OTTENWELLER

Couldn't picket, walk away, says jailed bishop STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS) - Bishop Albert H. Ottenweller of Steubenville, ·who spent six nights in jail for an Operation Rescuc. demonstration, said the experience was scary, but his "conscience" would not allow him to abandon the abortion protest.

"It is a jarring thing to be put into a paddy wagon, hauled off to

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the police station and be booked and fingerprinted and spend time incarcerated," he told the Steubenville Register, diocesan newspaper. "I could not just picket and walk away. My conscience just would not let me do that."

Instead, Bishop Ottenweller sat down in front of the entrance of a Youngstown abortion clinic July 15 and was arrested with 46 other protesters. He was charged with criminal trespassing for failure to leave the premises of the Mahoning Women's Center after repeated requests from police officers.

The bishop said his decision to block the clinic's entrance was solidified by the thought that the work of the clinic's employees was to kill, a thought that he said "hit me very hard."

"Once we were arrested, ,there was no way 1 could leave those people," he said. "Everyone just had a tremendous respect for life.

It would have been like the shepherd running away from the sheep."

Bail for the bishop and many of the protesters was set at $500, but the protesters chose to remain in jail until they had a hearing because they said the bail was too high.

The bishop said he didn't expect his jailing to last nearly a week, but he likened the experience to a retreat.

"We prayed, prayed and prayed, and I have to say that I was scared a lot of times," the bishop said.

"With trespassing the lowest misdemeanor, the severity with which our bond was set came as a surprise. We felt they were trying to discourage others from engaging in this type of protest."

At their hearing July 21, Bishop Ottenweller and the others were all found guilty. They had changed their original not guilty pleas to no contest, said a diocesan spokesman.

They were fined $180 apiece and given 30-day jail sentences, which were subsequently suspended. All are on "non-reporting probation" for one year, said the spokesman.

The bishop said he had mixed emotions when he was released. It felt good to be free, but the killing of the unborn continued, he said.

"We [the church) tend to duck out on issues, like civil rights and Vietnam," the bishop said. "And the same thing applies in the case of Germany and the Holocaust.

We just turn away from issues and then later people say, 'How could they have let that happen?'''

The bishop apologized to Cath 7 olics embarrassed by his incarceration.

"If someone were being killed in your neighbor's yard, you would trespass to protect that person and everyone would applaud," he said.

"I was doing the same thing, only this human being I was trying to protect was unborn. There are times when your conscience tells you that you've got to do something. Otherwise you're not true to yourself."

Operation Rescue uses aivil disobedience and demonstrations to close clinics and convince pregnant women to have their babies instead of aborting them. A number of Operation Rescue protesters had chained themselves to the doors of the clinic July 15, preventing entrance to prospective clients.

The Anchor Friday, August 4, 1989

Croagh Patrick mining opposed WESTPORT, Ireland (NC) Spiritual and environmental hazards might outweigh possible economic advantages if a holy mountain used by St. Patrick is mined for gold, said an Irish archbishop.

Burmin Exploration and Development Co. would have to present a comprehensive and compelling case for public acceptance of the mining, said Archbishop Joseph Cassidy of Tuam, Ireland, to a parish committee in the town of Westport, about five miles from Croagh Patrick, the mountain where St. Patrick spent a period of prayer and penance in the fifth century.

Environmentalists are campaigning against prospecting for gold on Croagh Patrick, a place of pilgrimage for 1,500 years.

Burmin has obtained a prospecting license, which allows it to explore the mountain. Before the mountain could be excavated, the company would need additional permission, and procedures would include public hearings.

On the last Sunday of each July, thousands of pilgrims ,?Iimb Croagh Patrick to attend Mass. A chapel is on the mountain's rocky summit.

Archbishop Cassidy told the committee that Burmin had assured him that if the company was permitted to mine, it would not interfere with the pilgrimage path leading to the summit and would take precautions against pollution.

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But the archbishop said the mountain represented an incomparable accumulation of spiritual wealth and belonged in spirit to the whole Christian world.

"There is more wealth on the surface of that mountain than could ever be taken from inside," he said.

"To be passionately protective about Patrick's m01.!ntain ... is an instinctive and enlightened response."

He added that Croagh Patrick was in an area of outstanding natural beauty, and any advantages from mining could be greatly outweighted by the disadvantages.

Title X criticized WASHINGTON (eNS) - Carl A. Anderson, Knights of Columb1.!.s vice president for public policy, has criticized Title·~ continuation in comments to the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Title X of the 1970 Public Health Service Act provides family planning funds to public and private agencies. Anderson called it an "insult" to parents.

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His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River has appointed the Reverend Jon-Paul Gallant, S.L.L., as Director of the Diocesan Office for Divine Worship. At the same time, Father Gallant will serve as the Chairman of the Diocesan Commission for Divine Worship.

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All God's Children The heartbreak and hurt occasioned by Father George Stallings' establishment of Imani Temple, a breakaway black church, has surfaced some important questions to which the Catholic church in the United States must bring its uniquely American honesty and objectivity.'

All arguments aside, there is no nation in the Catholic family quite like ours. One can travel the world and find no other place quite like these United States. The rainbow of color, religion and ethnicity shines over the land and millions are trying to reach our shores as the Congress, whether well or ill-advised, struggles to meet the demands of would-be immigrants.

All this brings its problems. It's great to say that we are the home of the free and the brave but we must then prove it.

Today more than ever, millions are trying to become a part of the American dream: Hispanics from all areas of Central and South America, Asians from the war-torn remnants ofthe Far East and Europeans from the totalitarian nations - all seek citizenship within our evolving democracy.

They bring with them not only hopes and dreams for a better life but also their national, tribal, religious, linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The American miracle is that we have done so well on so many levels to blend this diversity into the fabric that is ours.

Yet the process has not been painless. America has always tested the newcomers, minorities and the downtrodden. The most recent arrivals are the ones who suffer most until they are able to climb a few rungs on the social ladder.

What is true in secular life is also true of our varied religious expressions. Religion has always caused confusion and one's religion can occasion as much discrimination as one's color or ethnicity. There is almost nothing in America so divisive as religion.

The Catholic community in this country is indeed in the ,throes of religious tension. Sufficiently mature to cope with the blatant anti-Catholicism that still permeates many areas of our life, the church has become well established in the United States.

However, although many do not seem to realize it, we are still an immigrant church. Separating faith from fact, many church members have settled into the mainstream of American life. They have a limited tolerance level for new church members, especially if they happen to be a different color, speak a different language or come from a different culture.

Because of this, there are in-church difficulties involving blacks, Hispanics and Vietnamese. Too often, acceptance in the church family is based on secular considerations. If you're moneyed, established and accepted, then you have made it as an American, be you Catholic, Jew, Moslem or Protestant.

But if you are struggling, floundering and hurting, then you become a member ofthe great unwashed. Unfortunately, the ~ame concepts are often reflected in the family of the church.

As.!!e continue to live the American experience, may all of us in the Catholic family become more sensitive to the needs of all who worship in our home. The fabric of the family must not be torn asunder by prejudice, bias, and outright bigotry.

May we all pray that the Catholic family in this country will always have the generosity and will to welcome in its midst all God's children.

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The centrality of the Psalms

By Father Kevin J. Harrington The starting point of prayer in the early church was the Book of Psalms. Their centrality to both private and communal prayer in our J udaeo-Christian tradition was recently reinforced by an anecdote shared with the press by the Soviet dissident Anatoly Scharansky.

Released from a labor camp after serving a 13-year sentence, he flung himself into the snow and refused to continue when his escorts tried to confiscate his Book of Psalms. .

In an interview, he recounted, "I said I would not leave the country without the Psalms, which helped me so much. I lay down in the snow and said, 'Not another step.' " And he added, "Without religion I could not have withstood all that I have suffered."

The emphasis upon the Psalms can be puzzling to the modern reader who is aware of the bloodthirsty or at least vengeful nature of many of them. The psalmist calls upon God to destroy his enemies in a horrible manner and gloats over their SUbsequent destruction. At other times, he expresses a simpleminded conviction that the good always prosper materially while the wicked always end up paying for their wickedness.

The explanation, of course, is that the early church fathers were not privy to our recent biblical scholarship that explains the change and development in the people of the Old Testament's understanding of God and God's way reflected in the Bible, including the Book of Psalms.

The author of Psalm 137 cer-

tainly must have perplexed gener- that interpretation ofScripture needs ations of people who have prayed no more than a willing heart, the the Psalms by his petition, that Holy Spirit and a Bible.

God smash the heads of his eneNevertheless, despite occasional mies' babies a~ainst the rock. difficulties of interpretation, the Our early church fathers, such Psalms belong to the great prayers as Origen, gave an allegorical of the Church, and when we pray interpretation ofthis passage, sug- them they are as truly our own as gesting that the psalmist was actu- . those prayers we offer In our own ally asking God to destroy little heartfelt words.

The Psalms join us as a comthoughts t~at might inflame a person's passions. munity, shape us, form us and Butthe author of Psalm 137 was teach us at a deep level who we are in all 'probability actually asking and who God is.

God to kill his enemies' babies The Liturgy of the Hours makes according to the cruel custom of priests and religious familiar with the time. the Psalms. But familiarity can at However, the Psalms are truly a times breed contempt and it is book of the people of God, and important to heed the advice of the there is something profoundly right ancient monks who centered their about the church's insistence over lives on their prayerful recitation. the centuries that Scripture is for Origen exhorted his companions worship and for growth in the life to savor the Psalms line by line in of God. It has the same ability to order to counteract the temptation reveal God and ourselves to us as it to regard their reading as a chore ever did, although often what it to be accomplished rather than as reveals is far more or far different an opportunity to draw closer to from the intent of the original God. The laity may not have the luxauthor.

This concept may prove a stum- ury of time to pray the psalms _bling block to our Protestant daily but they are the prayers of brethren who have been taught the body of Christ, of which we are all a part.

When praying a Psalm, my advice would be to put yourself in the presence of God and let whatever comes to you come, remembering, however, that prayer is a gift, a being in the presence of God, not an exercise in analysis.

For Help Following this method, you may God, come unto my find Scripture becoming a real assistance: 0 Lord, make revelation for you as you encounter aspects of God, yourself and haste to help me. Amen. other people you may never before (Ps.69:2) have known.

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The school bully I remember it well, the year of our neighborhood bully.

He was II when he moved in and 12 when he moved out, a pattern ofIife that may have caused his behavior.

He wasn't a happy child and he had no friends but he controlled the neighborhood and schoolyard.

Mothers took turns standing outside before and after school to protect their children from him. He so terrified one little girl she developed school phobia and became physically ill.

One in seven children in our society is either a bully or a victim, so it's a problem that affects all of us. If one II-year-old boy can change the nature of a neighborhood in an incredibly short time, it becomes a community issue.

What creates a bully? The February, 1988, issue of Psychology Today offered a thoughtful piece on the topic: "Schoolyard Menace,"

by Marjory Roberts. For parents and teachers of bullies and victims, it's worth finding and reading.

The major shared trait of bullies is that they themselves are bullied by parents and/ or older siblings.

Abuse and violence are common methods of home discipline. When a parent hits a child to stop a behavior, the child hits a sibling or classmate for the same reason.

Secondly, mimy bullies feel ignor-

A. I can understand your confusion. There is a similarity between the words. Excommunication, however, involves more than simply the inability lawfully to receive communion.

As you know, I am sure, any gravely s~rious sin prevents a person from rec~iving.h~ly comm\ln,Ion withoui bayjns;receiyed tlie sacrament of.penance, unless "a grave reason is preseni and there is no opportunity of confessing" before that communion and if one intends to confess that sin at the first opportunity (canon law 916).

But not every mortal sin results in excommunication.

When one is excommunicated it means that not even the sacrament of penance may be received (apart from danger of death) unless that excommunication is "lifted," normally at the same time, by the proper church authority.

You are surely aware that the church sees itself as much more than a refined and highly organized club. It is a communion of people who have been baptized, believe in Christ and who share the mission given by the Father to Jesus and the church in the world.

Christian faithful have been consecrated as the people of God. For this reason, says ch\lrch law, "since they have become sharers in Christ's priestly, prophetic and royal office in their own manner, they are called to exercise the mission which God has entrusted to the church to fulfill in the world, in accord with the condition proper to each one" (Canon 204).

The canon further explains that this church society "subsists" in the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and the bishops in communion with him.

Thus when individuals are excommunicated it means more than that they have committed some serious sin. It also. means that they have withdrawn themselves from the communion of believers by an action unusually and gravely harmful to that community.

By present church law, seven offenses are defined as having such gravity that they automatically separate a person from this kind of communion with the church.

Among them, for example, are violation of the eucharistic species of bread or wine and violation of the seal of confession by a priest.

Many very stringent conditions must be present, however, before an excommunication is incurred for any of these ar other offenses. I have explained this more fully in past columns.

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ed, neglected or unwanted by their parents, which causes low self- DOLORES esteem. In an attempt to regain self-worth, they use physical force CURRAN to intimidate others. Their behavior prevents them from making friends, thus intensifying the low self-image. They're on a merry-goround they can't get off without handling personal anger in their help but they reject help because curricula. They teach alternate ways . they don't see their behavior as the of reacting to conflict: avoiding, negotiating, and cooling off before problem. reacting.

They also teach victims Which brings us to a third characteristic of bullies: they are para- the best ways ofdealing with bullies. noid. If, for instance, someone Some parents object to this kind accidentally brushes into them, of education on the grounds that it they perceive it as deliberate hos- detracts from basics and invades tility and react violently. They're family privacy. They hold that the ready to explode at any moment job of teaching children to deal so others avoid them, which adds with anger lies with the parents. to their paranoia.

I disagree. Parents who cannot Because bullies grow up into deal with anger cannot teach childeven more aggressive adults, they ren to do so. If the cycle is to be are likely to become wife and child broken, techniques must be taught abusers, thus perpetuati'ng the outside the home, in school, church, cycle. One in four will have a crim- and organized sports. inal record by age 30 compared Parents of children who are bulwith one in 20 among non-bullying lies or are bullied should support children. schools that deal with the issue. If What about their victims? In a a school is not dealing with it, par1983 study, students named "fear ents might ask for a session or two of bullies" as one of their most of parenting education to help serious concerns. This fear often them deal with it. Schools, parents results in feigning illness or skip- and communities can either nurping school. In the extreme, it has ture or retard growth of violence even resulted in suicide. in the coming generation by their In an effort to address the prob- choice of whether to educate or ignore builies. lem, some schools incorporate

Excommunication Q. Your recent answer concerning a civil marriage between a priest and a divorced Catholic· . w-Oman·states in part, "Remarriage after divorce no longer results in excommunication as it did under previous law."

Further on you state, "With their rejection ofthe discipline and sacramental integrity ofthe church, they should not be receiving the Eucharist as long as their present circumstances continue."

Father, those two statements appear to be Inconsistent. Please clarify. I had assumed that If you are not excommunicated you may receive the sacraments. (Rhode Island)

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sports in context Have you a son or daughter involved in interscholastic athletics?

If so, you might be interested in the comments of Paul D. White, principal of Valley Center (Calif.) Middle School. In a newspaper article on the sorry state of public education in the United States, he expresses his belief that high school interscholastic sports have gotten outrageously out of hand.

He speaks of school systems which overlook star athletes' drug use, fix their grades and allow them to remain illiterate. He also mentions school budgets dependent on gate receipts.

White proposes a ban on interscholastic sports, arguing that physical activity and competition are fun, healthy and harmless, but that all three benefits can be realized through a strong program of physical education and intramural sports.

Before we agree or disagree with White; perhaps a brief history of athletics is in order.

In the ancient Greek world, Plato asked what education should be.

He said that it "seems difficult to discover a better one than that which our forefathers adopted gymnastics for the body and m\lsic for the soul."

With Greece in a state of perpetual war, Plato thought that athletics should prepare a person for it. For this reason he was interested primarily in such sports as

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wrestling, archery, throwing the javelin, marching and camping.

Interestingly, during Plato's time, Hellenic culture gradually moved away from war and developed in other directions. As Greece became more cultured, the arts were preferred over gymnastics.

The Greeks and Romans gave us several good principles for athletics: Competition always had the good of another as its primary. goal. Gymnastics as preparation for war aimed at protecting the Greek nation. It also was seen as a way of ensuring a healthier, more disciplined nation.

Historically, when both nations became more cultured the emphasis on sports bowed to inteilectual pursuits.

I'm not sure whether White's proposal to ban interscholastic sports is on the mark or not.

Whether sports are played interscholastically or intramurally doesn't seem to be the problem.

The problem seems to be whether those who direct sports events have moral character.

White is correct in questioning the value of sports. By their nature, they are meant to be of service to the people who engage in them and to society.

Too often we are seeing sports take a toll on the individual and the nation. Perhaps the time has come to reflect on what the true educational mission of sports has been - and what it should be today.

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Letters are welcomed but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit, if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and include a home or business address. They do not necessarily express the editorial views of The Anchor.

Trustees speak Dear Editor: The board of directors of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has joined a statewide initiative and signed the following Trustee Declaration regarding the present financial crisis facing Massachusetts hospitals: As trustees of hospital governing boards throughout the Commonwealth, we represent the range of citizenry in the communities we serve. We are business owners and company executives; we are active in community affairs; we are educators and public servants.

As trustees, however, we are volunteers, devoting our time to a non-profit organization that provides vital community service. Collectively, our institutions have provided over 10,000 years of service, a legacy of which we are both proud for past accomplishments and energized by for the unmet challenges of the future.

We are, however, alarmed and distressed to see the rapid erosion in the fabric of health care services. Over the last five years, we have witnessed unprecedented pressure on our institutions that-challenges our ability to care for our patients. Most of us have had to face cutbacks in services and staff even as our hospitals serve older and sicker patients..

Now more than ever, our patients deserve accessible quality health care services. Yet it has become increasingly difficult - and at this point, next to impossible - for us to ensure that we can continue to provide these services.

Government cutbacks and failure to pay bills on time have placed health care in serious jeopardy. We cannot in good conscience abdicate our responsibilites by remaining silent while we see the deterioration of our strong vibrant health care system. Unless emergency action is taken, we fear this deterioration will lead to serious intelTUptions and erosion of service.

We understand that fiscal constraints at the state and federal level do exist, and that they are increasingly tight. Too, there are tremendous pressures on the business community to contain health insurance costs; as among the largest employers in most communities, hospitals are themselves very sensitive to the need to contain these costs for our own employees.

But health care's pockets are not deep. We are not a system that can long afford to withstand government payment backlogs that stretch out for years. The government must pay its obligations on time 路and fully pay the costs of providing service. When that is impossible, our lawmakers must be made to realize that all patient care is threatened, and that an alternative is needed.

We require immediate action to allow us to protect patient care in our communities. We must have

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financial self-determination at the local level for our hospitals, as already exists in most other states.

The hands of our hospitals must be untied if we are to adapt to an environment marked by successive years of cuts in Medicare and Medicaid payments, by an endless .series of broken promises, and by a lack of any clear regulatory design.

To untie hospitals' hands, we call for the cessation of stateimposed limits on hospital revenues, and appropriate support for hospitals that treat primarily publicly-sponsored and uninsured patients. We also call for a more flexible approach to regulation that eliminates duplication andencourages innovation in meeting needs.

This flexible approach carries with it a serious local accountability on our part. As the leaders of our local hospital boards and stewards of health care in our communities, it is our responsibility to achieve .an appropriate balance between the availability of health care services and the financial strains that may be placed on the community. If granted this responsibility, we pledge to carry it out in a fashion that meets community needs in the most prudent manner consistent with maintaining the quality of service we all expect and deserve.

St. Anne's Hospital Corp.

Sr. Dorothy Ruggiero, OP Chairman

Prayer's the answer Dear Editor: We should never be given bad news without a reminder of the solution. When reading "Dial-aporn ban overturned" (Anchor, June 30), I was reminded of an effective strategy given by Mother Teresa of Calcutta when she heard of"The Last Temptation of Christ."

She told us in Merciful Love magazine "to tell America if they intensify their prayer before our Eucharistic Lord ...if they implore the power of God through the increased recitation of the holy rosary... then our Blessed Mother herself will see it that this film is removed from your land."

That is the real answer. It isn't necessary to join an organization or wait for someone to call you.

You can make a difference right where you are, in your daily life and sufferings. Pray an extra rosary, make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, invoke St. Joseph and the other saints.

Our Mother Mary said "Nothing is accomplished without prayer."

It was her answer to a priest years ago calling to her for help in a crisis. Certainly we are in a crisis today and this news of our Supreme Court decisions is beyond words.

I myself spend many hours before the Blessed Sacrament and pray many rosaries. Please encourage people to pray, pray, pray for all our needs. Our Lady is saying this at Fatima and elsewhere. Pray for peace with justice.

Julia M. Gallagher Attleboro

TRAPPIST FATHER Pius Hanley of New Melleray Abbey, Peosta, la., enjoys the company of his three sisters who traveled from his native Ireland to visit him on his 81st birthday. All members of the Order of S1. Marie Madeleine Postel, they are Sister Celine, standing, who had not seen Father Pius for 63 years; and Sisters Bernadette Marie and Margaret, left and right, who last visited their brother 13 years ago. (CNS photo)

Risk seen in bishops' conferences Continued from Page One any possibility that the situation can be healed. The circle has closed back on itself and Archbishop Lefebvre's followers have taken refuge in a type of 'fanaticism of the chosen,' " Cardinal Ratzinger said.

He said he hoped that a dialogue would eventually be possible with "new generations" ofthe rebel society.

- "As far as AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is concerned, whoever dares to say that humanity must free itselffrom the confused sexuallibertinism that makes the disease communicable is exiled from public opinion and is considered irredeemably' unenlightened."

AIDS is a fatal disease spread primarily through sexual contact and intravenous drug use. In the United States and Europe, most of its victims have been homosexuals.

Aquino aids Philippine schools MANILA, .Philippines (CNS) - Philippine President Corazon Aquino has signed a bill into law that for the first time gives substantial government financial help to private school students and teachers. The law is intended to help the poorer 70 percent of the country's 2.5 million private school students, about 65 percent of whom attend Catholic schools. "Not all will be happy with the new law...

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Longtime North Attleboro residents remember Madonna Manor as the Hotel Hixon before it was opened as a nursing home in 1966. Inquiries regarding admission to.the 120-bed home are welcomed by Tracey Strothers, director of social services.

but this represents the best and most realistic response to the present situation," Mrs. Aquino said after the signing.

Dugal certified in radiation oncology St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has announced that Raymond L. Dugal, M.D. has become board certified in radiation oncology.

Dr. Dugal, a native of Fall River, was born at St. Anne's Hospital.

He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Nowa radiation oncologist for the Harold K. Hudner Oncology Center at St. Anne's, he is licensed in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and Rhode Island and certified in internal medicine as well as radiation oncology. He is a lecturer on radiation therapy at Harvard Medical School.

Canonization Continued from Page One foundress ofthe congregation after God and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel."

A statement issued by the Carmelite Sisters notes that Bishop Hubbard joins them "in thanking Almighty God for the graces bestowed upon the Church through the ministry of Mother Angeline.

He joins the sisters in their joy at this news."

Also expressing delight at the word from Rome was Bishop Cronin. He noted that the opening of Mother Angeline's cause for canonization was a testimonial to the work accomplished by her during her lifetime and now by her sisters in the Fall River diocese and in the many other locations of their homes.

Death penalty no solution to crime, says archbishop ATLANTA (NC) - The problem of serious crime in the United States will not be solved by use of the death penalty, but by "a generous application of the Christian values offaith, love and respect for life," said Atlanta Archbishop Eugene A. Marino at a recent interfaith meeting in Atlanta launching a national campaign against capital punishment.

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Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968, told participants that she remembers "wondering what would happen to the guy who killed him."

"I didn't want him to die just because my father died," she said.

"I don't want any other family to have to go through what our family was going through.

Capital punishment, she said,

. It's How You Look at It "A problem is an opportunity in work clothes." - Anon.

"won't bring back my father or anyone else's father."

Martin Luther King III, a Fulton County, Ga., commissioner and son of Martin Luther King Jr. who was assassinated in 1968, also told participants that "killing James Earl Ray would not bring my father back."

The meeting included a ceremony during which several national 0

religious leaders signed an antideath penalty statement promising "to use all of the resources available to us to abolish the death penalty."

Among national organizations signing the statement were the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and Pax Christi U.S.A.

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by Father Brad Reynolds STEVENSVILLE, Mont. (CNS) - A hundred years ago, Jesuit Blackrobe missionaries endured pelting rain, searing heat, mosquitoes, icy rivers, rattlesnakes and saddle sores to bring Christianity to the Indians living in the area known as Montana.

This summer two Jesuits are facing those same trials, plus thundering tractor trailers, traffic snarls and treacherous railroad crossings as they retrace the historic route of the Blackrobes during a 980-mile trek on horseback across Montana.

Luke Lar-son, a Jesuit scholastic studying for the priesthood, and Father Pat Conroy are commemorating Montana's centennial dressed and outfitted like Blackrobe missionaries as they journey to original mission sites throughout the state.

The pair left Stevensville, site of St. Mary's, the first Jesuit mission, on June 4, and expect to end their journey in Ashland Aug. 9.

Both Jesuits are determined to make the trip as authentic as possible by refusing rides in any motorized vehicles. They wear muslin shirts, black pants, suspenders, boots, wide-brimmmed black hats and cassocks with crucifixes tucked into their cinctures. They have even replaced their eyeglasses with the wire-rimmed spectacles worn in the last century.

At the end of each day they pitch camp, setting up canvas tents and spreading out a buffalo robe and wool blankets for sleeping. In the morning they brush their teeth with bonehandled toothbrushes and shave with straight-edge razors.

They bathe in streams along the way.

Their trip is one of the official projects sanctioned by Montana's Centennial Commission this summer.

"The Jesuits had such a big role in Montana's history," Larson said.

"I thought we ought to take part in the centennial in some way."

When the Blackrobes established their missions in the territory, they also established many historical firsts, including the first permanent white settlement in Stevensville. They built the first grist mill,

sawmill, school and pharmacy in the state, bred the first cattle, planted the first agricultural products, and started the state's first musical band. Father Anthony Ravalli, the first ph'ysician in Montana, has a town named after him.

Both Jesuits learned firsthand about the hardships of early missionary travel but Father Conroy said that 20th century traffic is one of the biggest hazards.

"You never know what will spook a horse," he said. "Big semis, bicycles, culverts. After you've been c10mping along for a couple of hours you get kind of hypnotized.

Something whizzes past you and suddenly you're in a rodeo."

The stamina of the Blackrobes impressed Larson.

"They must have had incredible willpower just to keep doing what they did," he said. "There's days when I dread putting on the cassock and climbing back on that horse again."

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"Never bejore in the his· tory oj Christianity had II . native people initiated the i process oj evangelization . on their own like that. " to 25 miles a day, usually following roads leading from one mission site to the next. Their trip often coincides with the route taken by explorers Lewis and Clark and wagon trails used by early settlers.

In addition to their saddle horses, they brought two mules packed with their tents and gear.

For motorists, the two men in black cassocks on horseback have proved an arresting sight. Many slow down to wave and shout words of encouragement. Cars pull off the road as people stop to look.

Those with cameras often jump out to snap a picture.

As the Blackrobes pass through Montana communities, they invite residents and tourists to join them around their evening campfire as they recount the history and adventures of the Blackrobes.

The first Blackrobe to come west was Father Peter DeSmet, a Belgian Jesuit who arrived from St. Louis in 1840. Larson and Father Conroy remind people at

their campfire talks that Flathead Indians from the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana traveled to St. Louis to find Blackrobes and invite them back to evangelize their people.

"Never before in the history of Christianity had a native people initiated the process of evangelization on their own like that," said Father Conroy, who has spent the last five years working with the Colville and Spokane tribes in Washington state.

Much of their journey has been through Indian land, and a number of tribes have joined in the commemoration. At Holy family Mission, on the Blackfoot reservation, outside Browning, Indian riders joined the Jesuits for the last three miles as they approached the old mission sire. .

Three large tepees were erected next to the church, and the Blackrobes and Indians spent two days celebrating their common ties with songs, games, meals and a Mass that included first communion for several youngsters.

Before leaving the reservation, Larson and Father Conroy rode to the site of a mass grave containing the skeletal remains of 16 Blackfoot Indians that were returned to the tribe last fall by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. A delegation of Indians joined them in blessing the grave and praying over it.

Henry Evans, a Blackfoot elder, prayed in his native language and then spoke to those assembled.

"The Blackrobes were very holy and strong," Evans said, "and it is good that we are here now to pray together."

The two have experienced hardships on their trip, but they said that what they will remember most are the meals and celebrations they shared with people in the small communities throughout Montana.

"Those early Jesuits - DeSmet, Cataldo, Ravalli, all of them were working for the greater glory of God. And I think they found it out here in Montana," Larson said.

"It's a thrill to retrace their steps and find [their spirit) still alive in the country and in the people who live here."

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Dear Mary: I'm at my wits' end regarding my mother-in-law. Since my 4-year-olds were born she's constantly interfered. It seems as though I can't do anything right.

When I nursed, she'd say, "You don't feed them enough." To get her off my back, I'd nurse again only to hear, "You feed them too much." Now she doesn't allow us to discipline our children. We've tried discussing this rationally with her but to no avail. Please answer in your column soon. (Wisconsin) You casually mention your 4year-olds. You must be the mother of twins. The rest of us do not advise parents of twins, we just observe with admiration and awe.

Your mother-inolaw seems critical of you because you threaten her. In raising twins, you are doing something which she may feel she could never do and It may make her uncomfortable.

To make herself feel better, she may feel she must put you down, thus proving to herself that you are not doing a good job. She is probably unaware of this interaction.

There is a way to soften your mother-in-Iaw's attitude toward you, but it will take a great deal of maturity on your part. Assuming that you threaten her, you need to support and affirm her. This constitutes a role reversal of sorts, since children generally look to parents for affirmation and support, not the other way around.

Make a mental or written list of your mother-in-law's good qualities and talents. When with her, take opportunities to pay attention to them. If she is a good cook, ask her for a recipe. Ask her advice on caring for your home or raising house plants. If she is active in clubs or volunteer organizations, ask her about her current projects.

Although the subject of children is touchy, ask about her experiences as a mother. Ask her about raising your husband. Mention his good qualities.

Affirming your mother-in-law, is of course, a tall order. To do it, you may need support yourself.

Here are some ways to get it.

I. Remind yourself that you and your husband are in charge of your children. Grandparents, doctors,

friends, books and columnists can all give advice, but making decisions rests with you.

2. Take time to be together as a family. You do not say where your mother-in-law lives, but from your frustration she must live rather close. Since your husband seems equally upset by this situation, enlist his help in finding ways you can do things as a family without grandma.

3. Find other people who support your ways of raising children.

Rely on their friendship. Brothers and sisters and their families, friends, neighbors can give you a lift. Keep your friendships with them alive by visiting them and inviting them to your house.

Try to find ways to affirm your mother-in-law by listening to her and admiring her good qualities.

Spend time as a family apart from her. Have confidence in yourself and rely on your friends to buoy that confidence. Those of us who have never raised twins have great respect for you!

Reader questions on family living or child care to be answered in print are invited by The Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Silent steam-letting has no side effects

By Antoinette Bosco Recently I read a newspaper story abut Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman and expert at verbal comebacks. Example: responding to a woman who said she would put strychnine in his coffee if he were her husband, Churchill responded, "If I were your husband, madame, I'd drink it."

I remember a great conversation I had with a nasty boss. With absolutely brilliant logic, I told him that some of his administrative decisions were inefficient, demeaning to the secretaries and contributing to creeping low morale. He never turned away.but politely allowed me to finish.

There was only one drawback to my moment of glory. He never heard me. The conversation took place only my mind.

How often we're at our best in conversations after the fact, with ourselves or trusted friends and relatives? We relate the incident, adding all the things we should have said, but didn't.

I remember a long-ago incident after I'd attended Sunday Mass with fidgety 5-, 3-and I-year-olds.

As I left, a fiftyish woman gave me a dirty look and told me her children had been angels in church when they were little.

I smIled defensively, gathered my children and got into my car.

By the time I got home, I had answered her all right.

"Just when did you begin to suffer loss of memory?" I said to the invisible woman, squelching her beautifully. • Once I worked at a university and a woman who worked in the same building remarked to no one in particular, "You have to be divorced to get ahead around here."

I ignored her but as a divorced woman and the only professional worker in the group she was addressing, it hit me dead center.

I talked to her that whole evening, telling her that while she had been pampered by her husband, I had been working 18-hour days to support my six children, writing articles until 2 a.m. after a fulltime

day job. I gave her her comeuppance all right.

But by the time I saw her again, all the fire was gone. I smiled and passed her by.

Are our private conversations wasted time? I think not. I see them as therapeutic, helping us let off steam without paying the possible price.

I used to think my mental conversations were a kind of cowardice that kept me from speaking

directly to the offender. But as I move through the years, I see a kind of biblical wisdom in the silent steam-letting. It allows you to turn the other cheek without suffering the psychological and practical side effects of suppressed anger, such as ulcers, colitis and headaches, or losing a job or a friend.

So I expect I will keep on being the brilliant exposer of others' shortcomings for the benefit of me, myself and I.

Our summer vacation

By Hilda Young Family photo albums lie. I am looking at the prints from our most recent camping trip. Here's one of my husband standing in front of our tent smiling. He has written "home away from home" under it.

It should read, "Grinning maniac standing in front of moldy canvas structure used as breeding facility for 70 species of insects. Off-season storage unit for rusty fishing hooks coated with dried worms."

Just before this picture was taken this man was sharpening sticks he had torn from unsuspecting firs and pounding them into the ground with a nat rock, alternately striking the hand holding said tent stakes, disrupting Mother Nature's quiet with R-rated shrieks.

How about this shot of daughter hanging her swimsuit from a tree? Mr. Tent notes, "Out on a limb."

Gag. It should say, "Rare shot of girl child standing during trip.

Only time she breathed hard was blowing up air mattress."

Then there is youngest son roasting a hot dog. You guessed it: "Boy and dog."

It should read, "Pyromaniac on break." Give this kid a stick and a campfire and he'll be happy for life. Burn stick. Put it out in dirt.

Burn again. Blow it out. Make air designs with smoke. Burn again.

See if you and your brother can "spit" it out.

Check out oldest son splitting wood. Notes his father, "Chipping off the old block."

Give me a break. It should read, "Humanoid eating machine conducts research on edibility oftrees."

He offered to leave his sleeping bag at home if we would bring the refrigerator instead.

Here's one of yours truly sitting on the dock with my feet in the water.. Spouse's caption reads, "Cooling her heels."

Cute, cute. It should read, "St. Cookstove puts out smoking tennies caused from squatting too long and close to cooking fire.

Amazing woman able to handle a frying pan so hot it vaporizes cooking oil three inches from surface."

I don't remember how they got me to smile.

Award winners ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (CNS) - St. Bonaventure University has named veteran CBS newsman Eric Sevareid and USA Today founder Allen Neuharth to receive its annual communications awards for extraordinary professional performance in journalism. Neuharth, recently retired chairman of Gannett Co., is the recipient ofthe Bob Considine Award, named after broadcast reporter Bob Considine who died in 1975. Sevareid will receive an award named after a fellow CBS reporter, the Douglas Edwards Award.

Archdiocese OKs gayIlesbian group CHICAGO(CNS) - The Archdiocese of Chicago has granted formal recognition to a new organization for gay and lesbian Catholics.

The organization is called AGLOChicago, an acronym for Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian OutreachChicago. It will operate "within the framework of the authentic teaching and discipline of the church," according to the archdiocese.

A 1986 Vatican document taught that homosexual activity is sinful and that homosexuality is a "disordered sexual inclination" but urged full pastoral care for homosexuals and protection of their rights.

A "memo of understanding" between the archdiocese and AGLOChicago said the organization will be "entitled to the same consideration as, and observe the same policies and procedures" as other archdiocesan organizations.

The group will devise its own organizational structure and be responsible for its own funding.

While archdiocesan parishes will continue to have primary responsibility for ministering to members who are homosexual, the organization "will encourage and assist ... in this ministry where necessary, appropriate and helpful," the archdiocese's statement said.

Jerry McEnany, a former leader of Dignity-Chicago and one of the founders and co-directors of AGLOChicago, said that "recognition as an organization of the archdiocese exceeds the expectations we had as we began working with the archdiocese a year and a half ago."

The archdiocese discontinued allowing Dignity to sponsora weekly Mass at a Chicago parish after Dignity-USA passed a resolution in 1987 opposing church teaching on homosexual activity.

Archbishop likens prison to retreat VATICAN CITY (NC) - A Vietnamese archbishop said he considers his 13 years of prison and house arrest a ":ong spiritual retreat" that has prepared him to dedicate his remaining years to church service.

"Certainly these last 13 years have been difficult, but it was a time that gave me an opportunity to pray a lot, as in a long spiritual retreat," Coadjutor Archbishop Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, 61, of Ho Chi Minh City told Vatican Radio.

"I offer those years to Mary and S1. Joseph and am thinking only of the future, to dedicate whatever time is left me to the service of the church," he said.

The religious situation in Vietnam is improving, with the government allowing a greater social role for the country's religious orders, Archbishop Nguyen Van Thuan said in the recent interview.

Last November, he was released after being detained without trial since 1975.

It was unclear whether he would resume his pastoral duties in Ho Chi Minh City. Earlier, he reportedly volunteered to remain near Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital.

He said the biggest problem facing the church in Vietnam is formation of lay people, religious and especially priests. There are 50 or 60 seminary candidates in Hanoi, he said, but 'professors and facilities to instruct, them are lacking.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 4,1989 ier, who served from 1959-67, said his life was transformed by living with the handicapped.

After eight years as a Royal Canadian Navy officer, "I was geared to efficiency," he said.

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others" and to recognize "where --the wounds of people arel" It was a "gradual traqsformation inside myself," he said. "I was called to slow down, not be a doer, to understand that the heart ofthe church is being in communion" with others.

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Jean Vanier discusses philosophy of L'Arche WASHINGTON (NC) - Cana- a true experience of God," he said. dian-born Jean Vanier, who in "You can see on their faces an 1964 founded the international incredible peace."

L'Arche communities for the menThe L'Arche communities, seen tally retarded, said the program's , as family, offerretatded people an growth shows that L' Arche is alternative to institutions for life. "essentially God's work" and "that Communities range in size from Jesus is present in it."

12 persons, the smallest L'Arche In a recent interview at a L'Arche community, in Mexico City, to residence in Washington, he said 400 persons who live in small he never envisioned that in 25 groups in the original L'Arche years the program would expand community in France, Vanier said.

The message of L' Arche is not to include 90 communities in more that its residents are objects of than 20 nations.

Communities are to open soon charity, but rather "sources of life in Uganda, Zimbabwe, -Austria and can transform us," he said.

L'Arche's "next challenge" is and Japan, the 60-year-old Vanier "how to help care for the carers," added.

Nor, he said, did he think 25 or the "assistants," as they are years ago that it would be the men- called. They live with the retarded, tally handicapped who would voice and in the first two years, receive a a truth theologians have pondered stipend, and later a minimum wage.

People from "a competitive socifor centuries - that "we're all ety geared to promotion" find it God's children."

Vanier's visit to the nation's cap- hard to "go down the ladder to do ital marked L'Arche's 25th anni- little things with love," Vanier said.

"We're an issue-oriented society," versary.1t camejust before he was to receive the Companion Order Vanier said. "With issues, the eneof Canada, that nation's highest my is outside ourselves. In community, you find the enemy is civilian ·honor.

L'Arche - French for "the Ark" inside. We have to help people disand chosen as a symbol of refuge, cover their own brokenness" diversity and hope - was begun hidden under such things as "power, when Vanier, a philosophy teacher, success and sports."

About 400 men and women beopened a home with two mentally tween ages 25 and 35 have through retarded men from an institution their work made a lifetime comin Trosly, France. mitment to L'Arche. Some will Vanier, a Catholic, said that live in a L'Arche community; oththrough the program people have ers will do parttime service and seen "incredible growth" in some follow the L'Arche spirituality. of the retarded and that L'Arche That spirituality, he said, is best attracts many young adults who described by the "covenant" beseek to know God through the tween the Blessed Mother and handicapped.

John the Apostle, which came He recalled a Scripture discus- when Christ, looking down from sion in which one retarded man the cross, said to his mother, volunteered that he knew what "Woman behold your son," and to God would say to him when they John, "behold your mother." (John met in eternity. Vanier said the 19:26-27) . discussion leader politely asked L'Arche is ecumenical, though what God would say and was in each country the association stunned to hear the man reply, tries to be linked to a bishop, said "He'll take me in his arms and say Vanier. Currently, the organiza'You are my beloved son.' " tion is studying which prelate to be Similar experiences have occurr- linked to in the United States, he ed in other L' Arche communities, said. said Vanier.

Vanier, the son of Canada's 19th "Many ha,ndicapped people live governor general, George P. Van-

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It's back to school in Rome for U.8. bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS) From Aug. 28 to Sept. 22 in Rome as many as 67 U.S. bishops will go back to school for four weeks of theological updating and discussion.

Their host will be the North American College, known by its inhabitants as the NAC - the seminary residence in Rome funded by the U.S. hierarchy.

For one month the bishops will put their hectic schedules on hold in order to live together, study together and talk to each other about the church and its place in the contemporary world.

The unusual program will be the fifth of its kind since 1974, when the then rector of the North American College, who now is Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington, instituted the series, formally known as "The U.S. Bishops'Theological Consultation."

The primary goal of the program is to give the bishops an opportunity to be together for an extended period of time and develop a deepening sense of fraternity, said North American College's vice rector, Father Stephen Orr. The program also allows bishops a chance to "share and discuss a variety of theological topics," he' said.

This year's theme - "The Church in the Contemporary World" was chosen with an eye to the 1989 bicentennial of the establishment of the U.S. hierarchy, Father Orr said.

While the theme stresses the contemporary, many talks will dwell on the history of the church.

In classrooms at the 438-yearold Gregorian University, the bishops will 'listen to and discuss presentations by a number of theologians, including Sulpician Father Raymond Brown and Jesuit Father Gerald O'Collins.

A noted biblical scholar, Father Brown will discuss the New Testament church and today's church.

Father O'Collins, dean oftheology at the Gregorian and author of

several books on Christology and the Resurrection, will also discuss the New Testament church.

Divine Word Father John Fuellenbach will talk about the biblical foundation of social justice ministry; Jesuit father George Ashenbrenner, the spiritual director at North American College, will discuss current trends in North American spirituality.

Jesuit Father Francis Sullivan, author ofthe book "Magisterium,"

will discuss the spirituality of St. Paul, and Jesuit Father Gerald Fogerty will discuss the "mutual understanding between the Holy See and the U.S. church."

Five days a week. the bishops will hear one presentation each morning, then discuss the subject for the rest of the day.

During their stay in Rome, the bishops will reside two blocks from the Gregorian, at Casa Santa Maria dell'Umilta, a house for North

American College graduate students.

With Roman university classes not beginning until October, the Casa's empty rooms will be opened to the bishops.

Scheduled to attend the program, among others, are Baltimore's new Archbishop William H. Keeler, Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala., Archbishop Edward T. O'Meara of Indianapolis, Archbishop John R.

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Epis.copal appo.intments indicate new VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Lack tion of the nation's Catholic hierof communist opposition to nam- archy in the near future. ing oLa bishop for 'Byelorussian Catholics in the Soviet Union and Byelorussian Appointment "of three new bishops in CzechoFather Giovanni D'Ercole, assisslovakia seems to indicate a "new tant Vatican press directot, said .spirit" '-guiding Soviet .policy in the nomination of Father Konsuch matters, say Vatican officials. drusiewicz was "an event of great Nam,ed as apostolic administra- , importance for the life ofthe faithtor for the diocese of Minsk in ful in Byelorussia."

Byelo.russia was Father Tade~s~ On a larger level, he added, this Kondrusiewicz, 43, a canon law represents the second major step expert who completed his church taken by the church during the studies in Lithuania. After his orSoviet Union's current liberalizadinaiionin 1981 he worked as a tion campaign. The first, he said" pastor in a Lithuanian sanctuary was the naming of several Lithuuntil last year, when he was transanian bishops last March. ferred to, a parish in his native "The authorities of the Soviet Hyelorussia.

Union and Byelorussia were in~ His appointment restores pas- formed of the pope's decision. I,n toralleadership to the area for the the new spirit adopted by the Soviet first time since World War II, In government, they courteously inannouncing the appointment, the formed the Holy Father that they Vatican said, in an unusual state- had nQ difficulty with the appointment, that it had not been opposed ment," the Vatican statement said. by the Soviet government. The Byelorussia, also known as White Vatican noted a "new spirit" guid- Russia, is a Soviet republic of ing Soviet policy on such matters. about 10 million people. Vatican The Czechoslovakian appoint- officials estimate there are about 2 ments followed years of intense million Latin-rite Catholics there, negotiations between the Vatican with 60 priests and more than 100 and Czech communist authorities. active churches.

The Vatican said it hoped ongoing The Vatican statement said the talks would lead to full reconstruc- new bishop will have pastoral re-

Sov~et sp~rit,

Quinn of San Francisco and Archbishop Patrick F. Flores of San Antonio. Because of the bishops' demanding schedules, cancellations may occur up to the last few days before the program begins, Father Orr noted.

The college is the appropriate sponsor of such a program for bishops. So many future church leaders have spent time at the NAC that had it been located in Los Angeles, it would probably be dubbed the Seminary of the Stars.

It is still the place a bishop is likely to send a promising seminarian.

While the quality of the education at pontifical universities is subject to debate, it is in Rome that seminarians get a firsthand look at the universal church in all its cultural, racial and ritualistic diversity.

It is also where Vatican officials have a chance to meet fast-track seminarians who may later be invited to work in a Vatican congregation or in the diplomatic service.

The NAC, founded in 1859, is funded and administered by the American bishops, although it is technically a pontifical institution.

For nearly the first hundred years of its existence it was located at the Casa Santa Maria, a former convent given to the U.S. bishops

by Pope Pius IX. U.S. seminarians sought to repay the pope's generosity in 1870 when 13 of them tried to volunteer for the papal army to resist the invasion of Rome .by the forces of the king of Italy. Pope Pius refused their offer.

In 1953 the college moved to its present site on the Janiculum Hill overlooking the Vatican.

This summer's theological consultation·will not be the college's only event marking the bicentennialof the U.S. hierarchy. In the fall the college will commemorate it with speeches by such noted U.S. Catholics as Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia and Jesuit Father William J. Byron, president of The Catholic University of America.

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sponsibility for all Byelorussian we've been petitioning the Holy See for, in private audiences, since Catholics. .

The Minsk diocese has been 1979," Father Robert Tamushanvacant since early.in World War ski, head of the Byelorussian proII, when Archbishop Boleslao gram of Vatican Radio, said July Sioskans was forced to leave the 25.

"Catholics in Byelorussia have a country. He died in exile in Belvery strong faith and they had no gium in 1981. the churcl,1 in Byelorussia was . shepherd. We hope this new bishop repressed during the Stalin years will be able to inspire leadership, and afterward,' but has been al- especially in introducing the Byelowed to legally operate. Recently lorussian language in the liturgy," more churches have been reopened, he said.

Currently, much ofthe liturgy is reflecting the general reform movement under Soviet leader Mikhail in Polish, with only two priests celebrating Mass in Byelorussian, Gorbachev.

Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, according to another Vatican Vatican secretary of state, said in source. 'Western Byelorussia was 1988 that' reestablishing church . part of Poland until 1939, and' Postructures for Byelorussian Catho- lish influence has remained strong lics was a priority. Until now, the throughout much of the republic.

Poland's Cardinal Jozef Glemp church in the Soviet Union has had formal structures oniy in visited Byelorussia in 1988 and Lithuania and Latvia, both Baltic 'was greeted by large crowds of faithful. It is estimated that more republics.

"This appointment is something than 500,000 Catholics of Polish origin live in Byelorussia.

New Czech Bishops The Czechoslovakian appointments, announced July 26, were: - Father Josef Koukl, 62, named bishop of Litomerice, in Bohemia. He has taught moral theology at the seminary in Lito-

merice and has worked extensively with young people arid couples.

- Father Frantisek Tondra, 53, named bishopofSpis, in Slovakia.

Since 1982 he has been pastor at a Marian shrine and an official of the Spis diocesan tribunaL - Father Frantisek Vanak, 73, named a bishop and the apostolic administrator of' Olomouc, in Moravia. A canon law expert, he has headed a •parish in the 010mouc Archdiocese and served on the archdiocesan tribunal.

In a statement, the Vatican said Bishop-designate Vanak would have the same powers as a residential bishop and that his position was eventually expected to be upgraded to archbishop.

At the same time, the Vatican announced that the administrator it named last year to the Trnava Archdiocese, Bishop Jan Sokol, 54, was being promoted to the full rank of archbishop there.

Father Giovanni D'Ercole, assistant director of the Vatican press office, said the Vatican would continue negotiating with Czechoslovakian authorities. The aim, he said, was not only to fill the remaining diocesan vacancies but to "normalize the situation of the Catholic Church and the faithful.

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Archbishop Romero film due this month LOS ANGELES (CNS)":"'- "Romero." a major motion picture about assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, is slated for release this August.

The movie stars Raul Julia as the prelate who was fatally shot in 1980 as he said Mass. It is to premiere in New York and Los Angeles Aug. 25. Showings in other cities, including Washington, San Antonio, Miami, Chicago and San Francisco, will begin Sept. 8.

Produced by Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, president of Paulist Productions in Pacific Palisades, Calif., "Romero" may mark "the first time a Catholic production company has made and released a commercial feature film," the priest said. .

Filmed in Mexico, "Romero" is directed by Australian John Duigan, who directed "The Year My Voice Broke," and scripted by John Sacret Young, writer for the hit ABC-TV series "China Beach."

It centers on the last three years of the life of Archbishop Romero, an outspoken critic of EI Salvador's military dictatorship and right-wing death squads.

The movie received more than $200,000 in funding from the U.S. bishops.

At the 15th Seattle International Film Festival, "Romero" received a standing ovation. Afterward, a review in Variety, the movie industry trade newspaper, said it "has the potential to become one of the' most politically influential films of the 1980s."

It called the movie "compelling and deeply moving" and said its appeal "lies in its ability to present a complete political situation in a very personal, dramatic manner, emphasizing one person's belief that he can make a difference."

Father Kieser in 1983 traveled

with Young to EI Salvador to meet with people who knew the slain churchman.

There he learned that Archbishop Romero was "a mouse of a man," who "became a tiger struggling for justice and defending the rights of his people," Father Kieser said in a statement about the movie.

"He knew his defiance of the military and denunciation of the oligarchy would cost his life. Yet he chose to go ahead. His is a story of contemporary Christian heroism."

Father Kieser said that interviews with people who knew the prelate showed him to be "a deeply , flawed, traditional churchman, rigid, frightened and neurotic" and a leader "few of his priests wanted [as archbishop] and more than a few detested."

Archbishop Romero, he said, became "a fierce tiger of a man -rooted, centered, whole and healthy" and a figure "joyfully luminous in his defense of the poor."

From a theological point ofview, his life "was high Gospel density, the story of a weak and wounded man who is dragged kicking and screaming into heroism but who finally lets go and surrenders his life to God and lets God act in him and speak through him," Father Kieser said.

"Romero," which had a $3.4 million production budget, received $238,000 from the Catholic Communication Campaign, $50,000 from the U.S. Catholic Conference's Latin American secretariat, and $100,000 from the Paulist order. Other funding came from foundations and loans, Father Kieser said.

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Joy "The secret of happiness is renunciation."- Carnegie

YONKERS, N.Y. (NC) -Catherine Hickey, a lay delegate to the congress on Catholic education held at the Vatican in April, said in a recent interview she sees a gap between the commitment of university presidents to Catholic identity and what is actually seen on campus.

She also urged better promotion of why choosing a Catholic institution of higher education should be relevant to prospective students.

Mrs. Hickey, a Yonkers resident who is principal of a Catholic elementary school in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., said she went to Rome to represent Catholic parents, who, she said, are "consumers" of Catholic education "looking for a continuation of the Catholic formation their children get in elementary and high school."

In September, she will become the first lay superintendent of schools for the archdiocese of New York.

She was one of six lay people invited to attend the April 18-25 meeting by the Congregation for Catholic Education. Approximately one-fifth of the 175 participants in the meeting were from the United States and four of the six working groups were headed by U.S. educators.

The congress met to consider a draft statement on the mission and norms for Catholic institutions of higher education.

Mrs. Hickey, the mother of six daughters, was not a voting delegate but gave an intervention in a plenary session.

In her address, she asked college and university presidents "to bridge the gap between their vision and the implementation of that vision to the students," "The perception of many Catholic parents is that there is little difference between Catholic and secular colleges and universities," she added and called it "a loss" that Catholic institutions did not, in her view, reflect the vision university presidents showed at the meeting.

In the interview, Mrs. Hickey said her daughters made their own choices of colleges, primarily on what they considered best for their majors. Three went to Catholic universities, and three to secular institutions.

"The Catholicity of the institution was not one of the criteria," she said. "It seemed to be not relevant. The sad part is the Catholic

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSmS Since the actual place of residence of SUSAN MARY GLACKEN is unknown. . We cite SUSAN MARY GLACKEN to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, August 14, 1989 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the POWERS·GLACKEN case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having knowledge of the residence of the above person, SUSAN MARY GLACKEN, must see to it that she is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this 25th day of July, 1989.

colleges and universities are not promoting the relevancy of it. I don't know how much they can," Mrs. Hickey holds a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in educ~­ tionfromJesuit-run Fordham Umversity and a master's degree from a state college.

To her, evangelization and formation are important to the mission of Catholic higher education.

The formation your Catholic clients seek, she said in her address, "is, very simply, support for the teachings of the church. Those of you who are concerned with brainwashing and indoctrination have to be aware of the serious indoctrination of pragmatism and narcissism to which our young people are subjected in their lives," In the interview, Mrs. Hickey said that for her, evangelization included not merely reaching the unbaptized but the unchurched, including young people who have dropped out of parish life.

"Can't the Catholic university share in that mission?" she asked.

She said she objected to one of the 10 recommendations passed by the congress to guide the rewriting process for the norms. It said, "A clear distinction should be made between the mission of evangelization given by Christ to the church through the apostles and the teaching and research that constitute the mission ofthe Catholic university,"

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But she said that many such graduates do not know ~nough about Catholicism to teach religion in a parochial school, and that the archdiocese has to provide supplementary training.

Mrs. Hickey said she was not advocating political or religious conservatism, noting that her own background includes involvement with the Catholic Worker movement. ."I don't want to bririg back the Baltimore Catechism or the Tridentine Mass, and I'm for Vatican II and ecumenism and all that," she said. "I am just trying to raise awareness that there's something missing,"

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Remember when the days were long And rolled beneath a deep blue sky Didn't bave a care in the world With mommy and daddy standin' by But happily ever after faDs And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales Tbe lawyers dwell on small details Since daddy had to Oy . .

But I know a place where we can go That's still untouched by men We'l sit an~.watch the douds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind You can lay your head back on the ground And let your hair fall all around me Offer up your best defense But this is tbeend This is tbe end of the innocence o beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshare into swords For this tired oldman tbat we eleded king Armchair warriors often rail .

And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dean up all details Since daddy bad to lie Who knows how long this will last Now we've come sO far, so fast But somewhere back there in the dust That same small town in each of us I need to remember this So baby give me just one kiss And let me take a iong, last look Before we say goodbye Written by Don Henley, B.R. Hornsby, sung by Don Henley, (c) 1989, The David Geffen Company

WHEN I first heard "The End of the Innocence," I thought, "Yes, another great

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A. Your question presumes that all guys feel exactly the same about outgoing girls. You seem to expect an answer that, in effect, would stereotype guys, at least in their attitudes toward girls.

The truth is that various guys feel differently about various kinds of girls. Some indeed are ill at ease with a really outgoing girl. They're not quite sure how to deal with all that emotional energy.

Others, however, feel uncomfortable with a girl who is quiet, a bit· shy or maybe downright introverted. They are likely to complain that they have a difficult time keeping a conversation going with her.

Still other guys say they prefer a girl who might be characterized as middle-of-the-road, neither energetically outgoing nor shy and quiet.

Your question sounds as though you are a girl who is really outgoing. From what already has been said, does it follow that you should

Don Henley. But when I got the record, sure enough, Hornsby's name was listed in the credits.

What the s.ong is about is not as easy to recognize as Hornsby's style. Its story seems to exist in the present and the past.

Certain. images hint at a child's memory of a divorce, but there is also a reference to a current relationship that is experiencing "the end of the innocence."

In both story lines, the dream of what someone wanted in life appears to be dying.

This person as a child, and perhaps now as an adult, hoped for "happily ever after." In his grief he believes that his "fairy tales" of lasting happiness have poisoned his feelings.

He still longs for a magical place to escape the pain, "a place where we can go that's still untouched by men." However, he realizes that the reality of hurt cannot be escaped and aU of us face "the end of the innocence." Indeed, hurt is part of most lives.

Unfortunately, these early hurts can become ghosts that haunt our teen-age and adult lives. The hurting child in each of us needs caring, support and mpst of aU, God's healing.

In my work in a parish, I meet with many hurting people.

They show me how strong and resilient the human spirit can be. God's grace working in the midst of our hurts helps us to go on with our lives, and some· times even grow more loving.

Only in fairy tales are there no aches in people's hearts. But even when we come to the end of the innocence, growth and healing remain.. This is the type ofylife our God wants us to live. our comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635 try to change your personality drastically?

By no means. There are plenty of guys who very much like a really outgoing girl and it would be a mistake to stereotype them. You may end up with a boyfriend who is outgoing or you may find that some very shy guy likes you and wants to date.

But there is a deeper reason why you should not seek to alter your personality. It's much better to follow the advice old Polonius gave to Hamlet, "This above all - to thine own self be true."

You'll be a much happier person if you don't have to keep adjusting some kind of mask.

You'll be a more relaxed person if you are not constantly trying to be someone other than you are.

If you are true to yourself, people will sense your honesty and like you the better for it.

This is not to say you cannot seek to improve yourself, to eliminate the flaws in your personality.

For example, if you try to lessen the selfish impulses, it is likely that you simply are seeking to become . what you know you are meant to be - a kind and generous person.

But in trying to become a better person, don't let others force you into some sort of mold, a kind of person that is simply not you. That way lies trouble.

Your questions are welcome always. Address Tom Lennon, 1311 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

By Dr. Christopher Carstens Your best friend comes over after school. "There's something I need to talk about, but you have to promise not to tell anybody, OK? Last night I took an overdose of aspirin. I tried to kill myself."

So what do you do now? Here is a friend, trusting you with an intimate life-and-death matter, and you promised not to tell. Loyalty says you should keep your mouth shut. But this doesn't seem like the kind of secret you want all to yourself.

Recently, the newspapers and magazines have been full of articles on teen suicide. You might start to imagine that teenagers commit suicide whenever somebody gives them a dirty look. Fortunately, that isn't so. The good news is that completed suicide remains a very rare event.

The main killer of teens is the auto accident, followed by homicide. Suicide remains a distant third.

The rate of suicide has gone up and down over the past three decades, but today it is about as it was in 1910. For teens between 10 and 14, one in 250,000 dies of suicide, and for older adolescents, ages 15-24, the rate is about one in 10,000.

But there are lots more attempts, as many as 200 for each teen who actually dies by suicide. And it is very, very difficult to predict which attempters will go on to finish the job. Even professionals have a hard time deciding who is likely to repeat the 'attempt.

There is also good news here.

The impulse for suicide usually passes quickly. It is always wise to seek counseling during a time of crisis, but most teens do very well, and the majority do not attempt suicide again. Even a few sessions of counseling can help someone

through a difficult time, and then they're back on their way once more.

People don't tell just anyone abouttheir suicidalthoughts. When a fri:end decides to share this particular secret with you, you have been chosen as a lifeline. Your friend is saying, "I am in great pair.l. Please help me."

Since it is so difficult to tell thos,e who are in greatest jeopardy from those who will be fine on thei:r own, the only safe bet is to take any suicide attempt seriously. .·First, listen to your friend and be s,upportive. Never say things like, "You just want attention," or "If you really meant it, you'd have donl= it right." The last thing your friend needs is something that sounds like a put-down.

Sc:cond, don't try to take on the problem yourself. No. matter how good a friend you are, you can't carry somebody else's burdens.

Teens who have attempted suicide need friends who care about them, but they also need skilled professional help. You need to help them get it.

Third, break the hold of secrecy.

Tell somebody who can do some· thing. Teens often come to a therapist after a friend told their parents about a suicide attempt. Others make the appointment because a friend told the school counselor.

Teens are afraid that telling the secre:t will ruin a friendship. That hardly ever happens. Remember, the friend was looking for a lifeline and selected you. People in pain ofter.: want others to be messengers, to communicate the things they cannot bring themselves to say.

If you tell, the worst that can happen is that a friend will be angry at you. If you don't tell, the outcome can be much more permanc:nt. Remember, this is the secret you never want to keep.

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON students Maureen Murphy and Kim Sirl talk with Miriam Beach (center) after helping the 80-year-old South Bronx resident clean her home and shop for groceries. A group of students from the university recently spent a week in the South Bronx, where they helped convert an old orphanage into a health care facility for women and children with AIDS and assisted a neighborhood agency run by Christian Brothers. (CNS photo)

Taunton Scripture safari has creation as theme Children ages 5-12 recently participated in a week-long summer Scripture Safari program at St. Joseph CCD Center in Taunton.

The program began with a Creation Day. a safari hunt in which children were asked to look around their homes for signs of God's gifts. After bringing in parakeets. moths. fish. beetles. gerbils. rocks and leaves. among other creations. the children participated in a play on creation for which they made the props and enjoyed a snack of animal crackers.

During the week the children saw videos about creation. Jonah. and feelings and the teachers performed a play entitled "Noah's Ark." At a daily crafts period. creations included a "Closer Look Bug" that helped students discover God's creation all around them. headbands and Jesus scenes made from aluminum pie plates and colored felt.

The children also learned the action songs "If I were a Butterfly.....Amen..... Praise the Lord."

"Father Abraham." and "His Banner over Me Is Love."

On the final day of the safari. the children made tambourines and marched from the parish center to St. J oseph's church grounds. singing "When the Saints Go Marching in." A prayer service was held. helium balloons were released and the children were presented with certificates.

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Charismatics will meet in Springfield An Eastern Regional Charismatic Conference will be held Aug. 18 to 20 at the Springfield Civic Center. Speakers will include Father Tom Forrest. Rev. Joseph Garlington. William Betty, Sister Linda Koontz, David Thorpe and Father Gerald Brady.

A youth conference will be held Aug. 19. Father Ray Borque. a Charismatic Renewal advisory board member. will speak and music will be by Living Waters and Jon Polce. Living Waters has been ministering since 1975 at retreats. conferences, coffeehouses, prisons and youth programs through music. drama and personal testimonies.

North Dartmouth resident Jon Polce specializes in original Christian music and has recorded four albums.

Further information may be obtained from Mary Campbell, tel. 413-739-7563.

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-13-parent.al guidance strongly suggested for children under 13: PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted. unsuitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: Ai-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which. however. require some analysis and explanation): O-morally offensive.

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NOTE Please check dlates and times of television and radio programs against local list· ings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "Eat a Bowl of Tea" (Columbia): This beautiful comedy about family life in New York's Chinatown circa 1949 focuses on the pressures on one newly, married Chinese-American couple (Russell Wong and Cora Miao) to have children. Since postwar ChineseAmerican communities had few Chinese women and girls due to previous immigration restrictions. this couple's childbearing abilities and his impotence are fraught with intergenerational and cultural pressures. Nicely captures Chinatown's fla VOL Brief violence. ad ulterous liaison. some rough language with sexual innuendos. A3.

PGI3 "Shag: The Movie" (Hemdale): Set in 1963, this nostalgic flick tracks the last weekend fling of four high school grads at Myrtle Beach, S.c.. where boys, the Sun Fun Festival and a shag dance contest are big attractions. The pretty. sheltered girls (Page Hannah, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish and Phoebe Cates) meet boys. fall in love, dance the shag and party.

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Before rehearsals started. the non-handicapped students studied /' cerebral palsy and reported on the disability for other classes who would see the show.

Having been oriented to the handicaps of their partners. there was little awkwardness during rehearsals as both groups were just kids trying to help each other remember what to do.

One loses virginity and breaks her engagement, which se~s .the stage for a realistically agofilzmg moral dilemma. Some locker-room language with mild sexual vulgarities.

A3.PG "Turner & Hooch"(Touchstone): When a neat-freak small-town cop (Tom Hanks) has to befriend the "The Madonna of Medjugorje," nasty watchdog of a murder victim Thursday, Aug. 17, 10-11 p.m. on (John McIntire). he grows to love PBS: Rerun of a BBC program the dog, and he and it solve the originally aired on PBS last murder but not before the pooch , summer. It recounts the reported destroys Hanks' tidy home life and appearances of Mary to six childenables him to fall in love with the ren on a Yugoslavian hillside in feisty local veterinarian (Mare the summer of 1981. When throngs Winningham). Entertaining and began coming to the hillside. the affecting with a positive view of children moved to the Medjugorje family life. Minimal locker-room parish church, where the visions language. brief violence, implied allegedly continue daily. Neither sexual encounter. A3.PG the Vatican nor the local bishop "UHF" (Orion Pictures): Music has recognized the manifestations parodist and pop culture satirist as authentic but thousands of pil"Weird AI" Yankovic is a loser grims continue .to visit the area, who takes over a faltering family- including many from the United owned UHF station and salvages States. it with offbeat shows. Apart from a tasteless animal show which may encourage kids to mishandle pets, this is inoffensive slapstick. Minimal rough language, vulgar antics. cartoon violence. A2.PG 13 "Valentino Returns" (Skouras): Train for careers In A lackluster 1950s coming-of-age drama about the frustrations of a young male (Barry Tubb) searching for sexual action on Saturday night in his pink Cadillac. His nutty estranged parents and his troubled sexual conquest have more film potential than he. The film fizzles into small-town vignettes that lack punch. Some rough language, sexual vulgarities, implied promiscuity. nudity. A3,R TV Film Sunday, Aug. 13,8-11 p.m. EDT (ABC) - "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"(1980): The Starship Enterprise crew is back with William Shatner. now an admiral, and Leonard Nimoy, as Spock. to battle an Train to be a Professional ominous alien. Spectacular ·SECRETARY special effects with characters secondary. Trekkies will find it ·EXECUTIVE SEC. nostalgic but youngsters may get ·WORD PROCESSOR bored. AI.G TV Programs "Something Magical," Monday, Aug. 14, 10:30-11 p.m. on PBS: A documentary on children with cerebral palsy joining Philadelphia THE HART SCHOOL a Dlv. of A.C.T. Corp. elementary school pupils to put on Nat1. hdqtr.. Pompano Bch. FL . a musical.

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BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER COMMUNITY, FR Meetings 7:30 p.m. every Friday night, Blessed Sacrament Church, South Main St. All welcome. Annual retreat, Sept. 29-0ct. I, Our Lady of the Lake Retreat House, E. Freetown, with retreat master Father Richard Andrade. Members of other prayer groups welcome. Information: Fred Demetrius, 644-2375.

ST. ANNE, FR The parish expresses gratitude to all who contributed to the success of the annual St. Anne Novena and to the anonymous donor of $1 00 to the church and $100 to the school.

ST. LUKE HOSPITAL, NB Volunteers needed to help terminally ill patients and their families.

Training sessions twice a week beginning 7 p.m. Sept. 12. Information: 997-1515, ext. 2520.

SS PETER & PAUL, FR New members needed for folk singing group at 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass. First practice session 7 p.m.

Aug. 16 at church.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET First Saturday Mass 8 a.m. tomorrow followed by the rosary.

Parish council meeting, 7 p.m. Aug. 9 to plan parish picnic.

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HOLY NAME, FR Women's Guild Executive Board meeting,7 p.m. Tuesday. Holy Name School Parents Group meeting 7 p.m. Aug. 16.

"CAMPUS-ON-THE-CAPE" Trinity College of Washington D.C. will hold its biennial Campuson-the-Cape luncheon at noon, Aug. 17 at the home of Paula Hanrahan Connolly ('51), 17 South St., E. Dennis. Alumnae and friends welcome. Reservations: Patricia Pendergast, 15 Edgewood Rd., Harwichport, MA 02646 by Aug. 12.

BISHOP STANG, N. DARTMOUTH Twentieth year high school reunion, Nov. 24, Century House, Acushnet. Information: ~oan Dias, (508) 996-4058 or Claudia Angelo Soares (508) 994-3802.

ST. KILIAN, NB Healing service, 3 p.m. Sunday.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Blood drive, 5:30-9 p.m. Thursday in the parish center.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH All parishioners are invited to join a prayer group to meet every Monday 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Theresa's Hall.

Meetings will be led by Deacon Dick Murphy and Bill Mulcahy. Pro-life rosary novena 8:30 a.m. each first Saturday. (note time change).

ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Parish picnic I p.m. Aug. 20 across from the church. Rain date Aug. 27.

BIRTHRIGHT Falmouth office open for service at 161 Spring Bars Rd., tel. 4570680. Birthright is a nonprofit, interdenominational and non-political organization offering alternatives to abortion.

CATHEDRAL, FR Parish census will begin soon for apartment residents. Volunteet aides' needed. Information at rectory.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER' Sunday is Harvest Sunday; please leave donations in boxes at church entrances. St. Vincent de Paul Conference thanks all who support aid to needy of Cape Cod. LASALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Ninth annual Polish Pilgrimage Day commemorating the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, 1:30 p.m. Aug. 27. Bishop Alfred J. Markiewicz of Rockville Center, N.Y. will speak.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Legion of Mary picnic, noon-4 p.m. Sunday, rectory grounds.

Rosary and benediction after lunch.

All welcome. Religious education teachers needed for grades 2 and 3, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Mondays.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Spirit of Jesus prayer group healing service, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 17.

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ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET The rosary is prayed every Thursday at 3:30 p.m. The parish expresses gratitude to John and Mariann DeCambra for their $100 gift to beautify the parish grounds, given in memory of Inez DeCambra.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON "Calix" group communion breakfast will be held Aug. 13 following 8:30 a.m. Mass, instead oftime previously set.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH First Saturday rosary after 9 a.m.

Mass tomorrow. Charismatic prayer group 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Bible discussion group Sunday; information: Jan and Dale Fairhurst, 563-6961.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Sunday Mass with Father William T. Babbitt, 4 p.m. Sunday. Family Resource Center homeless shelter needs volunteers;' information: Eileen Kane, 226-5722. CCD teachers needed in all grades.

New office Continued from Page One tain," he said. "It will be the job of the new office to point the way to it."

Father Gallant, a Fall River native, graduated from St. Jean Baptiste grammar school and Msgr.

Prevost High School in the city.

He attended Stonehill College, North Easton, for two years before entering on studies for the priesthood, first at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, then at the North American College in Rome.

Ordained in St. Mary's Cathedral July 22, 1978, he was then parochial vicar at Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport, and at the cathedral before he returned to Rome in 1985 for the three years that led to his licentiate in sacred liturgy.

He came back to the diocese last year and was parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception Church, Fall River, from July, 1988, until he was appointed to Holy Name, New Bedford, in June of this year.

While at Immaculate Conception, he served on a team that planned workshops introducing priests, religious and laity of the diocese to the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

SEPARATED AND DIVORCED CATHOLICS Attleboro area support group meeting 7 p.m. Aug. 13, St. Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Ultreya 8 p.m. tonight, Religious Education Center. The parish thanks the Ladies' Guild for their help in obtaining new church carpeting.

VISITATION, N. EASTHAM Pilgrim Virgin statue will be at the church Aug. 12-22. Novena celebration honoring the Assumption at 9 a.m. Mass weekdays and regular Masses Sundays and Holy day, holy hour 7 p.m. daily. Topics will be Mary's visitations at Guadalupe, Paris, LaSalette, Lourdes, Knock, Fatima and Medugorje.

Information: Father Nichols, 225-0170.

0.[" ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE ".Rose For Life" drive will be helel at weekend Masses.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, N. UARTMOUTH Bible Vacation School 9:30 a.m.noo:o Aug. 14-17. Registration forms at church entrance.

ST, MARY, FAIRHAVEN Texas mission clothing drive will takl: place throughout the month ofAugust. Donations may be left inside the side door of the church between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The parish thanks Ed Allaire and Emily Lacoste for installing new railings on the front stairs of the church and the New Bedford students who made the railings. Maryknoll Missionaries will speak at Masses Aug. 12-13.

Help for L.A. poor LOS ANG ELES (CNS) - Two broadcasters and two charitable organizations have joined forces for Project Help, which has distributed more than $1 million worth of new clothing to the poor and homeless of Los Angeles.

The project was established by Heart of the Nation, a Californiabased producer of Catholic television programs, and the De Rance Foundation, a Catholic charitable foundation in Milwaukee.

The De Rance Foundation contacted the broadcast retailer Home Shopping Network, which donated the clothing. The Los Angeles St. Vincent de Paul Society distributed the clothes through about 26 charity and service organizations.

"Everything went really well," said St. Vincent de Paul's Los Angeles store director Ron Holt.

Holt said organizers hope to make the giveaway an annual event.

Among distributors of clothes were Catholic Charities; Jewish Family Services; and St. Anne's Maternity Home and Shelter Partnership, which serves 150 homeless shelters in Los Angeles.

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