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Connecticut spiritual leader mourned at services today With CNS reports Funeral services were to be held today at the Cathedral ofSt. Joseph in Hartford, Conn., for Hartford Archbishop John F. Whealon, 70, who died Aug. 2.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was to be among concelebrants of the funeral Mass. He is accompanied at the service by diocesan chancellor Msgr. John J. Oliveira.

Bishop Cronin issued the following statement of condolence following Archbishop Whealon's death: It is with profound sadness that I have learned of the unexpected death of Archbishop John F. Whealon. He was a model priest and bishop who brought to his ministry true holiness and scholarly dedication. Devoted to his priests, religious and laity, Archbishop Whealon led those entrusted to his care by quiet yet strong example. I express my sincere sympathy to all in the Archdiocese of Hartford. May Archbishop WheaIon now enjoy eternal rest in the vision of the mysteries he so faithfully preached on earth.

Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston was to be principal celebrant and Hartford Auxiliary Bishop Peter A. Rosazza was to be homilist at the funeral Mass.

As he. had requested, Archbishop Whealon was to be buried in a simple wooden casket at Mount St. Benedict Cemetery in Hartford. He had headed the archdiocese since 1969.

The prelate had been undergoing a minor six-minute surgical procedure at St. Francis Hospital

and Medical Center when he suffered an irregular heart rate and rhythm. Doctors worked for more than an hour to resuscitate him, said Dr. Frederick L. Geary, the senior attending physician.

An autopsy showed that a previous cancer had recurred in Archbishop Whealon and that "significant and longstanding heart disease" had predisposed him to the cardiac arrest that led to his death.

Dr. George Barrow, director of' pathology and laboratory medicine, said that the autopsy indicated - contrary to what doctors originally reported - recurrence of leimyosarcoma, a tumor which arises from smooth muscle tissue.

The archbishop had undergone a

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number of surgeries for recurring cancer since 1978..

He was admitted to the hospital July 27 after fainting during Mass.

Doctors said the fainting was due to a combination of abdominal cramping and side effects of a cardiac medication prescribed for high blood pressure.

The Aug. 2 procedure, considered routine even for outpatients, was to replace a shunt between the archbishop's kidney and bladder necessitated by adhesions following previous cancer surgery.

The archbishop was to have been released from the hospital the morning he died.

Bishop Rosa~za will administer the Hartford archdiocese until a successor to Archbishop Whealon is named. He received the news by telephone while on a trip to Eastern Europe.

Auxiliary' Bishop Paul S. Loverde told reporters at a press conference that archdiocesan officials had been rejoicing Aug. I that Archbishop Whealon "would be going home" from the hospital.

"This morning Archbishop Whealon has indeed gone home," said Bishop Loverde.

He praised the archbishop as a "true shepherd" of the church.

"The passing of time will reveal more clearly how immense is our loss. We shall miss him so very much," he said.

Others expressed their sadness over the news of his death.

Bishop Joseph F. Maguire of Springfield, Mass., said the archbishop was a "model for all priests Turn to Page 10

Sanctions put Iraq on brink of starvation, CRS reports WASHINGTON (CNS) Without large-scale reljef intervention, the population of Iraq faces mass starvation, according to Lawrence Pezzullo, executive director of Catholic Relief Services.

The combination of damage to the nation's infrastructure during the recent war for Kuwait, of international sanctions preventing Iraq from purchasing food, and of poor conditions for this year's crops has put Iraq "on the brink of a major humanitarian crisis," Pezzullo said in testimony Aug. I before the House Select Committee on Hunger.

Bishop James A. Griffin of Columbus, Ohio, warned the committee that the international embargo "as now applied, unduly risks violating fundamental moral

norms and prolonging human suffering." ..

He and Pezzullo urged the einbargo be restructured. Bishop Griffin said it should "be reshaped, but not abandoned, to allow the use of Iraqi resources to meet the essential human needs of its population." Bishop Griffin is a member of the Bishops' Welfare Emergency Relief Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

But a State Department representative said the U.S. government will not release Iraqi funds held in this country to buy food for Iraq.

"U·.S: private and official claims against Iraq far exceed the total official Iraqi assets now held in U.S. banks," said Melinda Kimble, deputy assistant secretary of

state for international organizations.

"These assets nevertheless offer some protection for U.S. citizens who could still sustain significant losses if the claims are not ultimately paid," she said. Relaxing sanctions to allow Iraq to sell oil and buy supplies would not guarantee supplies would reach people who need them most, Ms, Kimble said.

Since sanctions were imposed against Iraq last August, commercial commodity imports have been reduced to a trickle, resulting in a BOYS OF SUMMER: Things are jumping at Westport's squeeze of reduced supply and ris-Catholic Boys Day Camp, where summer activities are in full ing prices, Pezzullo said. Before swing. Among the host of events: a myriad of,sports, swimsanctions, Iraq imported about 70 percent of its food, he explained. ming in the camp pool, and outings to the camp beach at This year Iraq will spend only Westport Harbor. See story page 13. (Breen photos) Turn to Page 10

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Archbishop Weakland profiled in New Yorker, Wall Street Journal NEW YORK (CNS) - Milwau,kee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, whose stated willingness to ordain married men and whose archdiocesewide hearings on abortion have spurred controversy, was profiled in The New Yorker magazine and the Wall Street Journal in July.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee released no official reaction to the articles.

The New Yorker's two-part, wide-ranging profile of the Milwaukee prelate refers to Archbishop Weakland's trai~ng as a concert pianist and his 10 years as abbot primate for the Benedictine order worldwide, explores his feelings about loneliness and fall~ng in love, and details a 1990 trip: to El Salvador he took with a ,d~legation of church leaders. ': : The profile by Paul Wilk,es includes comments from Archbishop Weakland on why he thin~she has provoked the ire of Vatican of, ;: ficials.

Last fall Vatican officialsblocked an honorary degree the t:h~ology department of the pontifi¢al University of Fribourg in Swi(zerland wanted to bestow on tije evercandid 64-year-old Mil~aukee archbishop.

J' The degree was mpllnt tp honor, Archbishop Weakland for,his role as chairman of theU.S.~ishops' committee that wrote tP,e 1986 pastoral letter on the y.'S. ~onomy. , According to The NewrYorker, Archbishop Weakland, who was appointed archbishop by Pope Paul VI, said he a'greed with Pope John Paul II's assessment that since the Second Vatican Council the church h:ad gone "too far,!"'but disagreed with the pope's position of"clamping down on dissent wherever he senses it." Such an approach, he said, "doesn't really clarify or help."

The article said Archbishop Weakland sees "a natural tension built into Christianity. The church has always struggled to preserve the purity of the Gospel in the light of a ch~nging world. It is the ageold struggle to combine human truth - wherever it is found with the revealed truth that comes from God." Archbishop Weakland said that the pope at the beginning of his papacy looked to the United States and "found that all these popular, pastoral bishops, appointed before his time, were going off in various directions and were not in step with Rome."

"The American conference of bishops had begun to practice the principles that we are used to in a democratic society. But the church is not a, democratic institution, and the pope wanted to restore control to the Vatican," said the archbishop.

As an example of the pope exercising control, he refers to an incident involving Milwaukee Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. Skiba's appointment in 1979. Between the announcement of Bishop Skiba's appointment and his consecration as bishop~ the archbishop said he 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

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ARCHBISHOP WEAKLAND The Vatican was unhappy with a report written by Bishop Skiba as chairman of a Catholic Biblical Association committee charged with examining whether Scripture precluded the ordination of women. The lengthy report, which did not advocate ordaining women priests, stated that' Scripture did not preclude women priests.

Archbishop Weakland and Bish-: op-designate Skiba made a lastminute trip to Rome, where they drafted a placating statement put- . ting Bishop Skiba's findings in the context of church teaching and promised to have it published in ' Milwaukee's newspapers;' ' ,v Milwaukee newspapers,' however, "didn't play the,statement as Skiba backing down but gave it the angle that he stood behind what he had originally written," said Archbishop Weakland.

The articles were sent on to Rome, "but, fortunately, it being the pre-fax era, they didn't arrive in time for Rome to respond. So, while Skiba's career was certainly stalemated right off the bat, he was consecrated a bishop," said the archbishop.

In the article, Archbishop Weakland described the National Conference of Catholic Bishops as a "strange group" that, as "the prime teachers, come together to discern how best to lead o'ur people. And then there is a little of the Mafia in it, too.... Conspiracy of silence.

Never criticize each other in public."

He said if he were the president ofthe bishops' conference, "I think I would have a profound feeling that these men do not have their hearts in it - that they want to go home and run their dioceses as they darn well' please. And why not? You quickly learn that these public [annual national bishops1 meetings are not the place to make policy. You make policy at home, quietly. You try to move things there, not in Washington," he said.

Asked to comment on loneliness, sometimes cited as a reason priests leave clerical life, Archbishop Weakland said the problem "comes down to celibacy."

"The trick in dealing with celibacy is to understand that there is no true substitute for the intimacy of marriage," he said.

"We were taught that the Divine Office, your community, your prayer life were substitutes, but they are not. Travel, an intellec-

tual life, and, in the case of a ,bishop, power: these are not substitutes, either," he said.

"I'm over 60 - for me, it's not about sex. When it hits me hardest is not when I'm in trouble or want to pour my heart out because I'm depressed. It's when I have a great idea that I'd like to share with someone, when I've heard a new piece of music and want someone to sit down and listen with me," he said.

"Men who leave the priesthood because of the loneliness are not weak. They are simply good men who have fallen in love with good women," he said. "If we are alive, we are continually falling in love."

The archbishop said he is continuously falling in love. "I have to be on guard not to let my emotions run away, not to make excuses to see someone who has set off the spark. So far, I've done pretty . well," he said.

The July II Wall Street Journal article, which quotes the Milwaukee archbishop's friends as well 'as his foes, says Archbishop Weakland "manages to broach almost every topic that orthodox Catholics say shouldn't be discussed."

It quotes an anti-abortion activist who contends the archbishop listens to far too, many who challenge churclt authority. , But it also say's Cardinal Joseph' L. Bernardin 'of Chicago sees his neighbor to 'the north as a loyal churchman who understands ecclesiastical obedience. .

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Father Walsh 'Ca;din~f r~e~~~r~r iaw':~~s !the pnncipal' 2~iebi-arit 'litithe" Mass of Christian Burial offered July 29 for Father Paul T. Walsh,57, who died July 26.

Father Walsh, pasto,: of St. Charles Borromeo parish, Woburn, was the brother of Perman~ ent Deacon Vincent P. Walsh, who serves at Holy Trinity parish, West Harwich.

A close friend, Father Paul Berube, pastor of St. Zepherin parish, Wayland, said of Father Walsh, "Everyone he knew felt that they were very special to him.

He had that ability of making everyone feel special."

Born in Dorchester, Father Walsh prepared for the priesthood at ,St. John's Seminary, Brighton, and was ordained in 1960. During his priesthood, his posts included those of parochial vicar, campus minister at Lowell College, director of vocations at St. John's Seminary and episcopal vicar for the Framingham vicariate of the Boston archdiocese.

He was pastor of St. Elizabeth of Hungary parish, Acton, from 1983 to 1989, when he was named to St. Charles Borromeo; In addition to Deacon Walsh, Father Walsh is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Eleanor Doherty and Mary and Rita Walsh, all of Milton.

Rejection "We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount..." - General Omar Bradley

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Father Illig, noted evangelist, dead at 64 WASHINGTON (CNS) - Paulist Father Alvin Illig, founder and director of the Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association since 1977, died Aug. 2 from complications resulting from cancer of the colon, lung and liver. He was 64.

Among Father Illig's main evangelization tools were Share the Word magazine, believed to be the world's largest Catholic Bible study program, and a series of annual teleconferences o'n evangelization, whic.h were discon,tinued after last ye~r '.', ',: , '. , .

He was in the Fall River d'iocese in October, 1979; to kick off "We Care, We Share," a massive evangelization campaign that aimed to reach every home in the Fall River diocese,. At-that tim~ Fa~her I1l!g, who was th~n'ex~uttve dm~.Ctci~ ofthe U.S. bishops evangeltzatlOn" com~ittee, told .representatives of ~ll d~~cesan pansh~s that ~vangeItsts ~ust be creative, danng, try ~res? tdeas, but remember that the Job tS at best 40 percent drudgery.

"Work hard, pray, try to bring ~hrist .and the person you're work109 wtth together - then step back, pray and let God do his work."

Bishops, he told his audience, "see themselves as shepherds, but they should turn their cro~ks upside down.and m.ake them fishhooks!

The smgle biggest reason for the 70 million unchurched Americans is apathy on the part of the churched."

Funeral Masses were held for Father Illig in Washington and in Los Angeles. Burial was in Los Angeles; his native city.

In an interview with Catholic News Service last November, shortly after it was learned his cancer was inoperable, Father Illig said, "I've prayed all my life for God's will. I don't want it [cancer).

You don't want it. The doctors don't want it. Nobody wants it.

But it's God's will. And I've had a wonderful life."

Convent collapses COCHIN, India (CNS) Twenty-two people were injured in the southern state of Kerala recently when a convent under construction collapsed. The building at Chunangamveli was to be a novitiate for the Congregation of Mount Carmel. Its concrete roofing of the first floor was being completed when a wall supporting part of the roof collapsed, burying the workers. Sixteen of them, mostly women, were treated in a nearby Catholic hospital.

TOKYO (CNS) - Christianstyle weddings have become so popular among non-Christian couples in Japan that the pheno'menon has spawned a business headed by a Protestant minister, the Rev. Honda Sadao.

Rev. Sadao heads a group of 640 ministers and choir singers who perform such weddings in 285 hotels across Japan.

In the month of June alone, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Hong Kong, Mr. Sadao's group arranged 2,500 weddings.

Mr. Sadao said he hopes that by offering weddings with Christian rites to non-Christians, he can give a glimpse of Christianity to a large segment of the population normally beyond the reach of missionaries.

Taking advantage of the phenomenon, a number of entrepreneurs are providing hotels with' "Christian wedding ceremony equipment."

This usually includes a cross, stained-glass window panels, a lectern and taped hymns. The package sells for around'$ i4,500 and one company reports sales of the package to more than 240 hotels. ' Several years ago, the archdiocese of Guam was also making money from the marriage fad.

Japanese couples paid $50 to be married by a Catholic priest in a civil ceremony held in a Catholic Church on the western Pacific U.S. territory.

The ceremony was part 01 a package a~~anged'by J~partese tour . fir.ms whi¢H. inc1u4·ed;tr~ilsp.or(a-' tion and a honey'in:oon at a' beach hotel. More than 1,000 couples per year were buying the tour.

The archdiocese had provided the service for 15 years until 1986, when Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana called a halt to the practice. He said it had failed in its intended purpose of attracting Japanese tourists to the Catholic faith.

"The possibility of welcoming someone to join our church is no't only remote, but appears never to have successfully produced results ' to date," he said.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS-) - The Vatican and Albania plan to reestablish diplomatic relations, said Albanian Prime Minister Ylli Bufi after a 30-minute private meeting with Pope John Paul II. A Vatican statement did not mention diplomatic relations but said the meeting was "a prelude to further positive developments" and praised Albania for "formally committing itself' to respect human rights and religious liberty.

The Vatican noted that two Vatican delegations have visited Albania this year to open contacts with the government and to gather information about Catholic life.

The Vatican and Albania broke diplomatic relations after a communist state was proclaimed in the Balkan state in 1946, ushering in a harsh period of religious repression. In 1967 Albania declared itself the world's first completely atheist state and public worship and religious organizations were outlawed. The nation is the ancestral homeland of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who recently visited there.

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Guatd against "redefining death," ethicists caution OMAHA. Neb. (CNS) - "We need to guard against redefining death in an effort to get organs for transplants." said Joseph Allegretti, assistant director for law and religious ethics at Creighton University in Omaha. during a recent Institute on Ethics and Health Care.

Allegretti said there are concerns about "harvesting organs." adding that one hospital has been sued for keeping a body on artificial life support to preserve organs after the family requested that treatment be withdrawn.

Allegretti's talk on "Death.

Dying and the Law" also focu~ed on the case of.Nancy Cruzan as an example of what can happen when the state and family clash over whether treatment should continue despite the lack ~f benefit f':lf t~e patient.

Miss Cru?:an. who was in a serious cilT accident in 1983. lIved', in a "vegetative state for eight years." Allegretti said. before herr, parents were allowed to remove the feeding tube' that kept her alive. .' ' " "The balance of benefits and .. burdens is considered 'in tal)dng about o~dinary and extraordinary measures of sustaining life." All€;7 gretti said.

In a session on.'~At the Edges Qf Life: Neonates and the Elderly."

Winifred J ... Pi.nch, assistant professor . of nursing at Creighton, said medical care for infants has undergone three phases in the past 40 years: rescue; discrimination and neglect; and utility.

In the rescue phase. "the philo- , sophy was .\0 do everything ~ne could...·said Ms. Pinch. "We haven't totally gotten out ofthat phase of care in the nursery."

In the 1970s care shifted to the discrimination and neglect phase. where decisions to withhold treatment were made in cases of infants born with serious ailments.

Care now falls into the utility phase. which deals, among other things. with harvesting organs of the terminally ill or of anencephalic babies. born without some or all of their brains.

"Should we not perhaps look at the resources we're using for this nursery and the amount of money being invested in that nursery for fragile newborns?" said Ms. Pinch.

"And what are we doing with the children who survive." she added, "children who get through that experience but who live with the outcomes that are not perfect?

We need 'to think about those infants once they leave.. '" In another ·session. "D·r'. Death and the Suicide Machine," Charles Dougherty. 'director of Creighton's CentedorHealth'Pol- . icy and Ethics. discussed the case of Janet A(fkins. who use'd 'Dr: Jack Kevorkian's "suicide machine'; , to end lier'life last·year.

"One' of olir mosi fundamental ethical principles is that di'rect kill· ing of humans is wrong, incl'uding the direct 'killin'gof 'onesel(;'-' Dougherty said. "Human life ,h'as an intrinsic. value, il dignity 'and· sanctity that 'mu'st" be' respeCted even in its most reduced state." .,cHe added, "The involvement of Dr. Kevorkian raises other objections. Helping to kill patients. even those who ask for death. is inconsistent with the mainstream of the western medical tradition. reaching back to the time of the Hippocratic Oath...

"Doctors should not be killers."

Dougherty also argued for establishment of a national health insurance program. citing that 37 million Americans have no private or public health insurance.

The uninsu'red include more than 50 percent of African-Americans. nearly a third of Hispanics and a third of all Americans ages 19-24.

Dougherty said the end result is that money can be a barrier to health care for people with limited incomes. The uninsured are also less likely to receive adequate prenatal care. This lack of insurance is one ofthe reasons behind America being ranked 19~h, am.ong nations 'In terms of infant mortality, :he added. '. ,Some experts believe that' constantly 'increasing' medical costs will be controlled only If health care'is rationed.

Dougherty said health care ratiol)ingalready exists in the U.S.' free market system. because many hospitals, ~nd d,octors are located, il):c1O,se proximity to people~bo can afford their. services. As a result. low-income areas are not attracting new hospitals. or large n~mbers of physicians.

Child trafficker's arrest is hint ,. of growing trade·' RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil (CNS) - Brazilian police recently arrested a child trafficker at Rio de Janeiro's main bus terminal moments before she was to hand over a IO-day-old baby boy to 'customers." . :.' .

The arrest is important but"it is nothing compared to the increasing business of child trafficking, because up to now we have caught no big shots." one member of the Brazilian federal police said.

More children disappear in Paraguay. Brazil, Peru and Honduras than elsewhere, according to the International Catholic Office for Childhood, based in Montevideo.

Uruguay. _The price of each child ranges between $1.000 and $10.000, depending on the child's skin color and health.

The child trade concerns both· police and the Catholic Church.

"We have clear indications that there is a steady, immoral commerce of Latin American children,"said Cardinal NicolasdeJesus Lopez Rodriguez. head of the Latin American bishops' conference,' kn'own by its Spanish acronym.as CELAM. ~'It is even possible that many of them are used, for organ' ,trans- . plants,. even though· we still' don't' have'enough evidence't he said.'

Although there are periodic;' widespread allegations that ·Latin· American children are being sold as)~y~ organ }>ankS. n<:5 s.olia:evi:: dence has been made public that such a trade exists. .' . "The Latin American 'bishops have ,'decided to take action as, soon'as We gather and confirm the dispersed information about this." the cardinal said.

CEl.;AM has appointed 'Bishop Luis Armando Bambaren Gastelumandi of Chimb6te. Peru. to investigate the storieS. Bishop Bambaren Gastelumandi is president of the Peru bishops' commission for the family and a consultant to UNICEF.

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"City Slickers" a welcome push for commitment WASHINGTON (CNS) - The hit movie "City Slickers" promotes commitment and "takes a welcome. respectable stab at questions which lie at the heart of a strong marriage and family life," a church official said.

H..Richard McCord, director of the National Conference ofCatholic Bishops Secretariat for Family, Laity. Women. and Youth. said he welcomed the film.

"We need all the help we can get." he said.

FATHER EVARISTO TaMcCord added that the film. vares, former pastor of St. which was produced by as well as Antl:lOny of Padua Church, stars comedian Billy Crystal, proFall River, will be honored motes fidelity "in a lighthearted Aug. 25 with a Mass and tes- and entertaining way - notwithstanding some off-color ·humor timonial dinner. The priest, and vulgar languag~." who served at St. Anthony's "City Slickers' focuses on three for 10 years, was transferred men in mid-life crises who take a June 26 to Immaculate Con- vacation driving cattle across the ception parish, New Bedford.

Southwest to recapture their youth. . Father Tavares will 'con-' "Their vacation is a true journey celebrate'the II a.m. Aug. 25 - two weeks on the dusty trail Mass at St. Anthony's with with all its pleasures and perils -

present pastor, Father Edward Correia. The testimonial dinner will follow at 12:30 p.m. at White's of Westport.

During hi~ tenure, at St. Anthony's, Father Tavares instituted devotional prayer sessions to the Blessed Mother and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

He also effected renovations of the. ~hurch~ rectory arid general grounds.

Information on the testimonial may be obtained by calling 679-5923. 678-7021, 6785898, or 674-5470.

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"The cattle drive is a search for answers," McCord said. For a while the men appear lost, "but all three come through it into the light - each with a story. an answer, a direction about commitment."

The movie deals with "some important issues for men." especially as husbands and fathers, McCord said. Not the least, he said. is how a married couple can "remain committed over a lifetime and still take delight in their love."

Gerri Pare, of the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting. said in a review that "viewers 'should have no beef with 'City Slickers··.. and called it "it sassy summer' send-up that's sweet and spirited without getting mushy or macho."

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the. mooril'\9..-., Taking up the Cross As the church in America continues to face the country's social moods and mores, it is also faced with some very difficult in-house problems.

The most obvious of these is the graying of clerical and religious communities. All one needs do is go to a liturgy in which large groups of priest are participating and the aging is evident. There are very few young priests. Here in our own diocese there are under 10 seminarians. With retirements, sickness and death always a reality, there is little argument that the church indeed faces some difficult personnel decisions.

Fewer priests mean fewer services.

While this situation is of great concern, there are many other situations just as much in need of attention - inner city parishes, for one. With the decline in' population and the continued flight from urban crime, many parishes that were once thriving communities are now empty shells. Many have been forced to close for lack of parishioners and corresponding support, becoming victims of crime, vandalism and arson. It's a shame that so many wonderful church buildings acrossth'e "nation face this fate but these are the hard facts.

Another grave situation seldom addressed rationally is that offinances. Let's face it, for most people the local church is on the bottom of the contribution list. Very few Catholics support their church generously. Some dioceses in the south and southwest have resorted to tithing, but in the northeast, where the average weekly church gift is about one dollar, it's very difficult to meet escalating heat, light, repair and insurance coSts. If a parish has a school to support, then about 80 cents of every dollar goes to salaries, leaving very little for repairs, replacements and new programs.

Decent salaries must be paid to both lay and religious teachers but too often tuition and freewill offerings just do not meet expenses. Catholic schools are a great product but do not get the support they deserve; certainly not from the state, but in too many cases not even from their beneficiaries. " . , . The litany of problem's seems' unending. For some "iCis "simply too overpowering and they become paralyzed. But if this pattern of inaction continues, so will the confusion that so many dioceses now face. The action needed should be seen as a process involving all in the church family. Too often bishops and administrators are made the scapegoat for others' neglect.

Pastors, religious and the laity must be willing to work in concert with leadership and not merely opt out when they can't get their own way. .

Parish councils and finance committees must be seen as basic to management. The laity should realize that they have to take a proper role in addressing issues and cooperation in solutions. Too many who get involved want to run the ship, not help guide it.

All in all, interesting and trying days lie ahead. No one ever said "church" would be easy - certainly not the Lord himself.

There are .noshort cuts, only the long haul. With a prayerful sense of what we are and a practical vision of what we can be, we can all help make our church the dynamic catalyst that it should be in our land. .

The E-ditor Let's get to work and take up the cross.

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Blessed art thou, 0 daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth." Jdth 13:23

The Church and sexual morality enjoyment of .sex nourish your

By Father Kevin J. Harrington There is no area in. which the union, for children can come from Romari Catholic Church is more it.

-This has never been an easy criticized and ridiculed than in its efforts to uphold its traditional teaching to impart; and with the teachings regarding sexual moral- adven~ of artificial contraceptives ity. 23 years ago Pope Paul VI's it has become even more difficult. reaffirmation of the church's stand Contraceptives were initially deveagainst artificial contraception in loped with"married persons in mind, his encyclical Humane Vitae (On but the larger market did not esHuman Life) set off a storm of cape the attention of manufacturprotest against church teaching ers with the result that during the and has been considered by some past 30 years, sex has become a as a watershed event that triggered pleasure totally distinct from childa decline in church attendance. bearing and even marriage.

Society no longer looks upon Father Andrew Greeley, in his book The Catholic Myth, even sex outside marriage as sinful or blamed the encyclical for the decline reprehensible but as an acceptable consequence of adolescent hormon-in church collections! .

But no one canjudge the church's al development. Church leaders effectiveness by a standard such as are dismissed as unrealistic obattendance or revenues. Sociolo- structionists when they resist efforts gists may be tempted to use a bot- by health officials to distribute condoms as a means of reducing to~ line approach to evaluate the church, but her leaders must never the likelihood of pregnancy or of forget that true success is measured contracting AIDS or other sexuby her faithfulness to Christ's ally transmitted diseases.

On a recent talk show, a person teaching. When Jesus met with resistance because his hard sayings advocating promotion of abstinproved too much for some of his ence rather than condoms as a disciples, Peter was not among means of avoiding unwanted conthose who abandoned the Master. sequences of sex was shouted down He simply asked: "Where else can by an adolescent counselor, who we turn for the words of everlast- informed the audience that she told her students to think of coning life?"

Today's successor of Peter, Pope doms as an "air bag."

I wonder if that same counselor John Paul II, likewise refuses to conform Catholic sexual morality believes the advent of air bags to popular opinion as some theo- "exempts her students from learning how to drive safely, logians have urged him to do.

By the time American girls reach Catholic teaching on this subject can be summarized briefly: the age when they are considered wait until marriage, then let your mature enough to drive an auto-

mobile, 38 percent as of 1988 had had sex, a figure considerably higher than that of 23 percent in 1973.

Standards and statistics may change, but the laws of human biology and of the human heart do not. People are terribly hurt by casual sex, first among them those eith~r aborted or born as a result of it followed by those deprived of a relationship that truly satisfies their deepest hunger for love.

We all know the rational arguments for abstinence from sexual intercourse; the church, however, has the additional and never-ending challenge of making known to every generation that human beings are not merely complicated animals but are created' little less than the angels: Sex is sacred for three reasons: first, because the intent of sexual intercourse is to procreate an immortal soul; second,' because sexual intimacy and fidelity are meant to mirror the spiritual intimacy and fidelity between God and his people; and third, because sexual pleasure reflects the eternal ecstasy for which our souls are destined in heaven, All our public sex education programs center around the fear of deadly disease or of an unwanted pregnancy. With the notable exception of the Roman Catholic Church no one seems to touch upon the fact that a~ unrepented sinful choice can destroy the very life of the soul!

Finding the route to God I Kings 19:4-8 Ephesians 4:30-5:2 John 6:41-51 It is no coincidence that bibliCal

authors often portray faith as a road, path or way. Our beliefJends itself to journey imagery because it constantly leads us from one place to another. We are a pilgrim people, always treading the path the Lord lays out before us.

Yet because we are dealing with faith, we know there can be no map for this road. We recognize the general direction. but we are not always certain about which specific route to take.

Like Elijah, in today's first reading, there are times when we want to get out of the faith business. He had just won the famous Mt. Carmel dual with the 850 prophets of Ba'al and Asherah. Yet now he is running away, frantically trying to escape the wrath of Queen Jezebel, whose prophets he has executed. It was hard enough to struggle with impossible odds and win the conflict. But because of this new threat on his life, he is much worse off now than he ever was before. "This is enough, 0 Lord!" he begs. "Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

Yahweh refuses to grant his prophet's wish. Instead, he sends an angel to give Elijah food and water, enabling him to walk .... .forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb."

Elijah is the only Israelite ever to return to Mt.- Horeb (Mt. Sinai).

He reverses the path his ancestors trod during the Exodus, hoping to find the same strength and consolation they experienced at this sacred place. Yet if those who chose our liturgical readings had permitted us to hear just a few more verses, we would discover that Yahweh does not want Elijah to be at Mt. Horeb. On his arrival, the Lord immediately sends him back north to begin -a process which will eventually rid the country of JezebeJ. Though Yahweh had given him food and drink to continue his journey, Elijah had been traveling along the wrong road!

Likewise we cannot be 100 percent certain about the path on

DAILY READINGS Aug. 12: Dt 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-15,19-20; Mt 17:22-27 ' Aug. 13:, Dt 31:1-8; (Ps) Dt 32:3-4,7-9,12; Mt 18: 1-5, 10,12-14 Aug. 14: -Dt 34:1-12; Ps 66:1-3,5,8,16-17; Mt 18: 15-20 Aug. 15: Rv 11:19; 12:16,10; Ps 45:10-12,16; 1 Cor 15:20-26; lk 1:39-56 Aug. 16: Jos 24:1-13; Ps 136:1-3,16-18,21-22,24; Mt 19:3-12 Aug. 17: Jos 24: 14-29; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-8,11; Mt 19:13-15 Aug. 18: Pry 9:1-6; Ps 34:2-3,10-15; Eph 5:15-20; In 6:51-58

By FATHER ROGER KARBAN which our faith leads us. God often changes our road even while he assists us. This seems to be why Paul simply encourages his Ephesian community, "Follow the way of love, even as Christ loved you."

We know that whatever road we take, we must always .....get rid of all bitterness, all passion and anger, harsh words, slander, and malice of everykind.~' In place of these, we must ..... be kind to one another, compassionate, and mutually forgiving..."

We can choose from many different paths in carrying out these commands. For instance, men once thought they best showed love, kindness and compassion to women by walking along as their guides and protectors. Now, unless they are willing to become supporters and partners, they can legitimately

be accused of "malice of every kind."

Though we believe we must constantly move toward Jesus, we know that while we are on this earth we will never completely come face to face with him. Like St. Ignatius of Antioch, we must respond, "No!" when someone asks if we are Christian. At no point in our lives are we ever more than "becoming" another Christ.

We are grateful to John, the last evangelist, for helping us see that the process of becoming is just as important as being. Using a theology of "realized eschatology," he teaches that though we are still struggling along the road we have already reached the end of our journey. Speaking of his body which he is about to give us as food, Jesus proclaims, "Let me firmly assure you, the person who believes has eternal life." We already possess the very thing for which we are striving.

According to John, faith in this bread being the actual body of Jesus causes it to become lifegiving food: "I myself am the living bread come down from heaven.

Anyone who eats this bread shall live forever ..."

No matter how hard or uncertain the road, the Lord is always with us along the way. If we really experience his life-giving presence, we will never again hesitate to change over to the new paths to which he directs us.

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The new head of the Discalced Carmelite order said he expects Carmelite nuns living in a controversial convent near Auschwitz, the former Nazi'death' camp in Poland, to move to ~ new building by October 1992.

Father Camillo Maccise, superior general ofthe men's order, said that while construction on a new convent is progressing, "as far as we know it will be impossible to move" to new quarters in less than a year.

Theo Klein, a leader in the French Jewish community and vice president of a Catholic-Jewish council planning an interreligious center near the new convent, gave journalists in Paris a copy of a recent letter from Father Maccise.

The letter said the 16 Polish nuns would move by October 1992 to a new convent outside the boundaries of the former concentration camp.

The Carmelite superior said he expects to make his first visit to the . Polish convent this November.

While Discalced Carmelite nuns have their own superiors, the superior of the men's order exercises some leadership over most of the women!s monasteries.

According t~>,newspaperreports from Paris, Father Maccise's letter to Klein acknowledged that in the past there had been a "lack of comprehension and respect due to Jewish memories by the Carmel family."

After the cloistered convent was established at Auschwitz in 1984, Jewish leaders and other religious groups asked the nuns to move off the grounds of the death camp where 4 million people, 90 percent of them Jews, died during World War II. International Catholic-Jewish relations were chilled for years over the failure to move the convent with its prominent cross from a site which Jews consider a holy

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number WASHINGTON (CNS) - First Communions in the United States did not jump 26 percent from yearbefore levels as reported in the 1991 Official Catholic Directory.

Instead they went up closer to I I percent. ,The higher number was due to an error in figures from the Archdiocese of Detroit, which reported an extra 100,000 first Communions: 129,082 instead of the actual

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29,082. It reported 21,394 the previous year.

The national figure for 1990, reported in the 1991 directory, should be 776,809 instead of 876,809. The previous year figure was 697,848.

Detroit archdiocesan spokesman Richard Laskos attributed the mistake to a clerical error.

Even so, the II percent increase is slightly misleading since nine dioceses did not supply a number for 1989 first Communions, on which the I I percent increase was based.

PRAYER VIGIL FOR VOCATIONS FATHER PAT & TEAM Friday, Aug. 9 - 7:15 PM TWILIGHT GARDEN CONCERT CHILDREN'S CHOIR MARK GIRARDIN Saturday, Aug. 10 - 7:30 PM SUNDAY SERVICES - AUG. 11 1:30 Devotions 2:00 Audio-Visual Presentation 3:00 Benediction 5:00 Audio-Visual Presentation

place and a symbol of the Holocaust. But a plan was ultimately forged. which would establish a convent afi(~ an interreligious center off the site.

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did God create us to live together?

No reasonable woman would choose a man as a lifelong companion. And no thinking man would choose to live life with a creature he so steadfastly refuses to understand.

We baffle each other. We irritate each other. We malign each other. And we don't.think we can live without each other.

- ,We can, of course. But sometimes, I wonder about God's wisdom or sense of humor. Why does he attract us to a gender so unlike ourselves? For reproduction, we're told, but God could have designed us to reproduce like amoebas, splitting into two, four, and eight without living together.

I think God fashioned us as men

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DOLORES CURRAN

I have a clipping somewhere in my files - can't find it, of course - where a woman explains the breakdown of her marriage. "The reason we couldn't get along," she said, "was that he was a man and I was a woman."

Why, in the Great Plan ofThings,

and women to teach us a lesson "Not really. I enjoy the people but -that we don't have to under- there's no real challenge..." and stand each other. What don't women she's off. understand about men? (I leave it Men can rememger every detail to males to write the reverse.) We of past wars and World Series. don't begin to comprehend their They can tell you what car they, style of communication. They're were driving at any given week of their lives. Why, then, can they not bottom line people~ Ask a man how his children are remember the names of people and he says, "Fine." Ask a women _they met last week at a social and she launches into a half-hour _affair? Has there ever been a wife portrayal of their activities, aller- who didn't run through the list of names in the car on the way to a gies, and antics.

Ask a man how he feels about dinner party? anything and he recites facts, not Why don't men admire the same feelings. Asked "Do you like your qualities in women !is they do in new job?," he answers, "It's close men? They like a man who is in to home, it has growth potential control, who refuses to be pushed and there's not likely to be a around, who is assertive and independent. But they despise these merger in the near future."

Ask a woman and she replies, qualities in women.

Women, on the other hand, like people who are, fair, caring, communicative, tender and nurturing - whether they are men or women.

Men put gender on qualities while women see them as neuter.

Why do men save boxes dfk'eys?

Why do they think everything ,is' either-or rather than "maybe also?'"

Why do they make such a'big deal out of being sick? Why do' they pursue women if they don't like them?

In thinking about all this, I've changed my mind about amoebas.

I read recently that oysters change sex frequently. One year, they're female, the next, male. That's a better answer to understanding each other, I think. I wonder how they get along as mates.

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It was a sight to see: fathers and mothers'in.Zagreb, Yugoslavia, exiting buses from Serbia ,and Croatia with one serious cause uniting them. These parents had taken the virtually never-beforeheard positiQn, that their sons had , a right not t,o,:be ,forcerd into m~l颅 itary ,service~

At last pare'nts"p'rotest"s'ending 'iJi~irchildren to 'w'ar

'.. As the TV cameras recorded mother brought me to ~onder day commemorating the'death of her. Maybe Billie- Backer was ahead -, this spectacular sight, we were told why ,parents of servict;men and '. her son'in the service of his coun- of her time, because I can't imagine that about 110,000 men in Yugo- women had, banded together to ,'try. She started petitions and sold ~th~t U.S. -parents 20 to 25 years 'Slavia's'180,000-man army were ,say ",No, we, ~on:t senq 0llr c~ild- ,banners with her'son's name to ago \.Vouldhave j'oined as a united serving 12 months of compulsory ren ~o be victim,S of that violenc,e." ,raise mote money- and she was 'force to try to s'ave their sons from violent death in battle.

H,er,name was Billie Bac,ker and dead serious. duty. Their average age is'19.

Watching the, Yugoslavian parThe.<;~~ntry, with its half-dozen she wasll "gold star mother." Her '. : She told me, "My son died and republics at odds, was facing the son had been killed in Vietnam ' th'e,earth didn't shake and no'one ents, I wondered'whether the time threat of civil war. But as those and she never stopped asking why. noticed." She wondered how par- finally has -arrived When people parents saw it, the violence made I met her because I was a repor- 'ents could sit comfortably in their will- come forth "unexpectedly to no s e n s e . ' ter in the'late '60s, and she was homes while their children Were say "enough" to war. .

I'm not making ajudgement on As one father asked, "Who or considered a character. Billie ,taken from them and sent to wars. which wars were in'sane:. - But I what are our children defending? Backer had taken ,the insurance She wanted to know why the firmly believe that war: now has We sent them to" the army to money the govenlmentgave her parents didn't protest. become outmoded, a senseless way It didn't take too long for the defend us from the enemies, not for her dead son and rented small from our people." . storefront in a'shop'ping area of , money to run out. Billie Backer to resblve'c'oriflicts.

So God' bless those parents in To see these parents joining for- Commack on 'Long Island iri order ,had to 'give' up her storefront. I .' don't know what happened to her. Yugoslavia who believe the same, ces to try to save their sons was an to promote her cause.'"

This mother wanted a day set But w.hen I saw the Yu'goslavian and may whaCthey have begun incredible sign of hope.

During the Vietnam War era a aside each year as a national holi-parents on television, I thought of catch on-throughout the'world.

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,,-oearyr. Kenny:' MY,lQ-yearold son is always'getting hito fights.

The school"called to say' he's a problem on the playground, and he's been kicked offthe school bus for a week. " He's not mean, but trouble seems to find him. His sC,hool grades are good, and he does his cliores: I've lectured till I'm hoarse: and I've punished him with spankings and grounding. Nothin2 seems to work.

How do I get him not to fight? ' Ill. Discipline is all the things we do to shape and mold the behavior of our children. Punishment is not the only way to change behavior.

Positive approaches may work better. Here are some suggestions.

Focus on giving him something fun and 'useful to do on the school bus and playground. Try keeping him busy.

Can he put on headphones and listen to a favorite tape on the bus?

Playa hand-held computer game?

Take a lap board and draw? Any task that he can do in his seat might be helpful.

Perhaps he will do better interacting with another student. Find him a seatmate. Can they play some computer sports games, checkers or cards?

The same psychology might be worth a tryon the plliyground.

Can you or the teacher set some athletic minigoals? How many bars can he cross hand over hand on the monkey bars without dropping off? How far .or high can he jump?

Keep stats. ' Again, your son might work better with others. Ca~:you or the teacher organize any 'playground games that involve running or jumping and setting up obstacle courses? Perhaps y.o~r so.o 'could help in organizing sQme competitiv'e games or junior Qlympics.

Perhaps he has learned .that fighting gets him attenti0!l' Let's teach him that he can get attention for not fighting: . ' A simple idea would. be to keep a chart. List dates doWn the lefthand side and put problem'places

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is 'your way of saying thank you for good behavior.

You mightkeep,ajar full of slips of,p.aper, each one}Vith a'small treat or surprise written ~>n it, such as privileg.!=s or small gifts.Your son could; select a slip when he :earns 'a set number, of points.

Reader questions on family living and child care 'to be answered iit,pr~nt ~rt; invited by T"e Kennys; Ask your son what he'might like ' 219 W. Harrison; Rensselaer, Ind. ' to earn with his points. The rew~rd 47978.

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If your son does not fight.on the school ,bus, on a give~ day, he "receives a,point. If he doesget into aJight, even if '~it's the oth~r guy's , fault," he gets a zero. Same.with the playground.

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VATICAN CITY(CNS)- The Pontifical Council for the Laity ha~ approved the U'.S.-b~sed Asso,ciation of Perpdual Eucharistic Adoration founded bY,Australian ' L. Owen Traynor, who now lives in the Los Angeles a'rchidiocese.

The association arranges perpetual exposition ~( the Blessed Sacrament, in churches or chapels where prayer continues 24.hours a day, with each worslliperagreeing to spend one' houta week in adoration.

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winter, and rearrange the cooling system in the summer because·t.he Sunday basket is no longer weighed Dear Editor: down, not because' of economic I offer the following: An Open conditions but because the unsatLetter To Father John J. Dietzen. 'isfied parishioner is led to believe With due respect, I daresay that that "the church's policies and attisometimes you avoid "hitting the tudes are almost everywhere much bullseye." I can understand it; but more flexible than formerly." Who I do not appreciate it. ' suffers then? Those who remain In the July 19, 1991 issue of this with Christ. paper you discuss the "territorial I am not aware of any evidence parish." Your explanation tends to support your statements and, to reduce the pastor or his priests lastly, why would a parishioner or both to persons without rap"preserve Isome sense of responsiport with their flock, the bishop's bility toward the people of [his or choice as scraping the bottom of her) territorial parish" when he or the barrel and the blood, sweat, she deliberately chooses to separtears and financial sacrifice of. the ate from the community? ancestral community which made.

When you walk out on your possible the building of the temple community, you walk out on that to an anachronism. to that little lamp.

Why, then, do we kowtow to the little box next Atty. Dominic A. Caronna "wayward pilgrims" if we must Chatham turn down the thermostat in the

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Benetton ads unappreciated Ads for the "United Colors of company without a corporate conBenetton" are encountering gale- science and one devoid of a sense force winds' of disapproval these of social responsibility. The imdays. A new series of ads for the pression given by the ad is scurriItalian manufacturer of casual lously false and patently unjust." clothing features a striking photoJohn B. Walsh, spokesman for graph of a handsome black-clad the Boston archdiocese, said the priest kissing a white-robed young ad was "offensive and insulting nun. and it will hurt people who are That particular ad was turned Catholic. It was picked for that down by a third of the magazines reason. While I don't deny Benetto which it was submitted and has ton's right to publish the picture, been denounced by the Catholic celibacy is very special, and our League for Religious and Civil priests and nuns are very special to Rights and the Boston archdiocese. us, and the ad does not respect The League said the ad was people." "grossly exploitative and offenAlso taking exception to the sive" and characterized it as con- priest and nun ad was Sally Greenceived by an obviously cynical berg, a Boston civil rights counsel . profit motive." It called upon for the Anti-Defamation League Benetton to withdraw the ad and of B'nai B'rith, who said it seems to apologize to the Catholic com- "to deliberately provoke tensions munity. and be divisive."

Catholic League President John Another ad in the new series M. Tierney stated: "The tawdry shows a little blonde girl with a sensationalism of this shameful ad black boy whose hair has been should be apparent to everyone. formed into horns to give him the This cheap publicity stunt gratui-' 'appearance of a small devil. It has tously insults Catholics, callously been objected to by the National demeans priests and religious, and Association for the Advancement profanely mocks the solemn vows of Colored People. of celibacy. Benetton is attempting to make money by appealing to a prurient interest at the expense of Catholics. The utter lack of respect towards the religious sensibilities ,of Catholics mark Benetton as a CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) - The "Inkathagate" scandal of secret government funding of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party, and allegations of military involvement inblack-on-black Aug. 12 violence, has. put South Africa 1974, Rev. Victor O. Masse, into a political tailspin and raised M.S., Retired Pastor, St. Anthony, concerns for critical negotiations New Bedford ' on future majority. rule.

Aug. 13 The country's Catholic bishops 1896, Rev. Edward J. Sheridan, welcomed steps 'taken by PresiPastor, St. Mary, Taunton ' dent Frederik W. de Klerk to deal with the scandal, but African 1964, Rt. Rev. LeonardJ. Daley, National Congress president NelPastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis son Mandela said he found de Aug. 14 Klerk's moves "woefully disap1947, Rev. Raphael Marciniak, pointing."

OFM Conv., Pastor, Holy Cross, . De Klerk demoted two cabinet Fall River ministers and announced reforms, including appointment of a civilian 1969, Rev. Conrad Lamb, advisory committee on secret pro~ O.S.B., Missionary in Guatemala jects. It was an effort to regain credibility after the scandal threatAug. IS 1926, Rev. Charles W. Cullen, ened negotiations toward majority Founder, Holy Family, East Taun- rule in the white minority-dominton ated country.

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SISTER DORIS Gott~­ moeller, president ofthe Institute of Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.

Sisters of Mercy electh)l)s complete , The new Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas has elected a five-member leadership team to guide the new order.

Elections were held during the institute's recent founding chapter in Buffalo, NY. As announced last week, Sister Doris Gottemoeller, RSM, ofCincinnati was elected the first president of the new institute. Elected' councilors were Sisters Patricia McCann, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Marie Chin, Cincinnati/ Jamaica; Amy Hoey, Windham, NH; and Mary Waskowiak, Burlingame, Calif.

Sister McCann, a native of Latrobe, Pa., entered the Pittsburgh Sisters-of Mercy in196I. Prior to her election as councilor she was vice president of the Pittsburgh Sisters of Mercy.

She has been on the faculty of St. Vincent' Seminary in Latrobe; worked on' formation programs within the order; and taught in Pennsylvania secondary schools.

Sister Chin, born in Jamaica,

Nun, possibly oldest in England, dies SIDMOUTH, England (CNS) - When she was born, doctors didn't expect her to live more than a few days. But when Mother Mary Helen, possibly England's oldest nun, died in July, she was 104 and had been in religious life for 81 years.

Her mother died giving birth to her, and she was educated from the age of 12 by the Religious of the Assumption, the order she later joined in 1910.

Born Margaret Bell, the nun made final vows in Spain in 1914.

In her long career.in England she was a convent boarding school teacher, convent superior andgeneral counselor to the superior general and was the first member of her province to obtain a university degree.

She returned to Sid mouth, site of her first teaching post, in the mid- I960s and lived there until her death.

"She was a highly intelligent woman, and very gentle," said Sister Mary O'Gorman, a member of her order.

"We will all remember her with great affection and a lot of love.

She was my first superior, and she was a darling lady and a lovely person."

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entered the Cincinnati/ Jamaica Sisters of Mercy·in 1961. She has directed formation programs and been regional coordinator for the Sisters of Mercy in Jamaica and has directed retreat programs in the Caribbean and' the United States. Prior to her election she was on sabbatical.

Sister Hoey, a native of East Boston, entered the New Hampshire Sisters of Mercy in 1952. She was previously executive director of the Federation of the Sisters of Mercy; has been president and a council member for the New Hampshire Sisters of Mercy; and has held teaching and'administrative positions in elementary through undergraduate education.

Prior to her council election, she was a member of the three-person administrative team that implemented the new institute.

Sister Waskiowak, a San Francisco native, entered the Burlingame Sisters of Mercy in 1'966.

Prior to her election she was director of a spirituality and confere~ce

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center in Burlingame. She has also worked in parishes and in Sisters of Mercy formation programs and taught in California Catholic high schools.

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas was officially formed July 20, uniting 7,400 Sisters Of Mercy of North, South and Central America, Guam, and the Philippines. Members live and work in 29 countries and in 45 of the United States. Headquarters are in Silver Spring, Md.

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Every conversion is spiritual surrender. For many, the drama is played out in the depths of the soul. It is not easy. It does not make the Globe, the N. Y~ Times or the Wall StreetJournal. God simply takes us and makes us what he will.

I am accepted by God as I am and not as I should be! Selfacceptance is to live my life to the fullest with God as my goal, guardian and guide. The more I come to understand how much God loves me, the more I can accept myself as belonging to him.

I am precious to God. God's only Son died for me and felt I was worth dying for. He died for us.

He rose for us. He prays with us. I pray to him for grace to accept the things I can change and for the wisdom to know what I cannot change. Acceptance is acknowledging how precious my life is or can be.

I live because God wants me to live. I die only when God wants me to be with him forever and ever.

Paul Tillich defines faith as "the courage to accept acceptance." He means acceptance by God. Very few people really accept themselves and it is true that selfacceptance can never be based on my own self, my own qualities.

Such a foundation would collapse.

Self-acceptance is an act of faith.

When God loves me, I must accept myself; I cannot be more demanding than God. An excellent example of faith is that of Mary Magdalene when she crashed Simon's dinner party. We remember the story: the whispering of the crowd; her gesture of washing Christ's feet with ht;r tears and drying them with her hair; the embarrassment involved, both for her and Simon; the acceptance of Jesus; his telling Simon that because Mary has loved much, much has been forgiven her; and finally the fact that she fell at Christ's feet a prostitute, but there recovered her self-respect and rose as a lady.

Surrender to God means giving up one's addictions, which prevent

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God's gracious acceptance of us.

Among addictions with the most far-reaching effects is surely alcoho)ism; and here God is assuredly the alcoholic's refuge and strength; indeed, a primary tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous is that a person must admit his or her powerlessness with regard to drinking and must turn to what the organization calls a Higher Power.

Much of the material on alcoholis'm that follows is taken from "I'll Quit Tomorrow," an excellent book

by Vernon Johnson.

It is estimated that 10 percent of FATHER NORTON the drinkers in America will become· ently.

As an addict becomes alcoholics. There are an estimated obsessed with drugs or alcohol, so 12 to 15 million alcoholics. This disease involves the whole person, does his or her family. Both tend physically, mentally, psychologic- to deny, rationalize and blame ally and spiritually. Its most signif- others for the situation.

- Seek professional help:- AA, icant characteristics are that it is primary, progressive, chronic and Narcotics Anonymous, AI-Anon meetings for relatives and friends often fatal.

No one is really cured; you of alcoholics are terrific services available on a personal basis, as become a recovering alcoholic.

Catholic Social Services, the are The alcoholic is likely to be an Way and local counseling United achiever. Phlegmatic individuals centers. seem less likely to become addicted - Don't blame addicts, just to alcohol; they just live along, and reach out to them! Be your loving the frustrations of life don't seem to get to them, while sociopaths self; try to be detached without showing anger and re·sentment; appear to lack values or a conscience and do not become alcohol- simply do not accept the addict blaming you for the addiction. If ic. you lose the loving approach, you Recovering alcoholics have typreally give an addict more reasons ically suffered crises caused by the to turn to drugs or alcohol. Somedisease in such areas of their lives times "tough love" is the approach as marriage, job and health. Their that "I love you and refuse to see judgment is increasingly impaired you destroy yourself." Such a nonand eventually they entirely lose combative but firm stance can touch with their emotions. A true finally cause an addict to seek alcoholic is unable to recognize help. It's harder to be an alcoholic the fact and attempts to confront or a druggie in the face of one who him or her are viewed as meddling. really loves you.

Coping with Addiction ' - Sometimes' you must step How to cope with a loved one back and let the addict hit the pits who is addicted to drugs or alcohol: or just crash on his or her own, not - Realize that people drink or trying to protect the person from take drugs not because they are the consequences of addiction.

- Reach out to God and rememweak or depraved but because they feel they need them. They do ber that no one was born to live not misuse them to be abnormal or and die as a alcoholic or druggie. to stand out; they behave abnor- We should never say that addiction is hopeless. We must keep up mally because they are addicted.

- Realize that addiction affects our faith in the God who never each member of a family differ- sleeps and who loves us.

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - On the surface, Catholic actor Macdonald Carey had it all: a successful acting career, a beautiful wife, six children and a house in Beverly Hills. He also had a drinking problem, which he details in his new book, "The Days of My Life."

Carey, 77, who acted in 40 films from 1942-1980 and is perhaps better known for his 25-year career as Dr. Tom Horton on the TV soap opera "Days of Our Lives," offers a frank account of his life as an alcoholic before he attained sobriety nine years ago.

In the book, published by St. Martin's Press, Carey described how, at age 28, he was "rehearsing my Catholicism but not practicing it." He said he believed in a higher power but wasn't "surrendering to him."

He wrote that he was "trying to control my religion" and used the confessional "to control my absolution so I (could) sin at wilL" Reached by phone after a recent· book tour to New Orleans, Carey said he felt hypocritical going to confession as a Catholic in the days before he achieved sobriety, Since Carey's return to the church - he is a lector and eucha-

finds life after alcohol

ristic minister at Good Shepherd parish in Beverly Hills - his attitude about confession has changed completely.

"Confession is a very important sacrament," he said. "It's too easy for many people to use it the way I did. It's very good for the soul if it's done right. What I confess, I know I'm going to change."

In the book, Carey described how his drinking, one-night stands and emotional remoteness even-

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tually helped to dissolve his 26year marriage. When his alcoholrelated "shakes" became' noticeable on "Days of Our Lives," the 'writers gave his character a stroke so his problems wouldn't be so apparent and he wouldn't have so many lines to forget.

He said his six children were aware of the "awful example" he was giving them. Fortunately, his grown children have assured Carey that they also remember his love and concern for them. When one of his daughters was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he became active in lobbying for better mental, health care and currently is a spokesman for the National Association of Mental Illness.

Today, Carey also volunteers his time for various 'charitable endeavors ofthe Catholic Church.

He was inducted into the Knights of Malta, a Catholic philanthropic organization, in June.

"I am a living example of a man who's been closed offfrom society, finally accepting responsibility by working for others, not just myself," he wrote in his book. "Everything I can do for the church, for mental health, for people enriches me.

For the first time in my life, I'm honestly happy,'·

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"Father" more than religious title for Denver priest ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CNS) - Being called "father" is nothing new for Father Roger Mollison, the 53-year-old pastor of St. Louis Church and School in Englewood.

But the word is more than a religious title - it also defines who he has become to his 7-year-old nephew, Justin James Mollison.

"The day he was born was the day I was assigned to St. Francis Cabrini Parish" in Littleton, Colo., said Father Mollison. "I knew him from day one. It was a terrible thing: he would just sob and sob, and we would hold him. He bonded with me - even before I ever realized what this meant."

Due to what he called "a series of family tragedies," Father Mollison's parents - then in their 70s - found themselves caring for their fatherless infant grandson while the child's mother sought help to overcome problems that prevented her froql caring for Justin herself. ' The idea of working together as a family to help others even to the point of adoption was handed on to Father Mollison by his parents, who died before Justin turned 2.

"It wasn't a foreign thing to take someone in to help them," he said.

"Our parents adopted my brother, and they were always giving a struggling student or a foreign exchange student a place in our home. My older brother has three adopted daughters."

When it became clear that Father Mollison was the only one in the family able to carefor a toddler, he prayed and sought professional advice from counselors, doctors and lawyers before requesting archdiocesan permission to proceed with his plans to care for his nephew. The Archdiocese of Denver granted permission when Justin was 22 months old.

"The little guy was so traumatized when I got him that he stopped talking," Father Mollison said. "I had been told by a nun who was also a family counselor that I somehow needed to provide the child with a feminine influence. I prayed to the Virgin Mother and asked her to be that influence.

"We had just been given a large statue of the Virgin with her arms outstretched and when I brought him home he called the statue 'Mom' so I have a feeling that the Blessed Mother is in this somewhere," he added. "From then on, this was a story of on-the-job training."

Father Mollison, who said he

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"Keeping the Promise" activities to recall summit for children WASHINGTON (CNS) - A coalition of charitable, religious, medical and educational groups is urging churches, temples and mosques throughout the world to hold special services Sept. 27-29 to remind people of· the promises made at the world summit for c.hildren last year at the United Nations.

The "Keeping the Promise Campaign" also planned to promote school activities Sept. 30-Oct.4 and community activities Sept. 29-0ct 13 to mark the first anniversary of the summit.

Religious cochairmen ofthe campaign are Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, and Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

On Sept. 29-30, 1990, high-level delegations from 159 countries met

at the United Nations and approved a document which set seven goals to be met by the year 2000. The goals include reduction of child deaths by one-third, universal access to basic education and completion of primary education by at least 80 percent of the world's children by the year 2000.

"Last year we made a commitment to kids and now we have to follow through," said U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., at a Washington press conference announcing the Keeping the Promise campaign.

"Our kids are in as much trouble in 1991 as they were last year when the summit called attention to illness, hunger and neglect throughout the world," he added. "What we need this year and every year to come is action and prevention to protect our children."

Campaign officials said Keeping the Promise activities were planned in at least 21 countries.

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"We 'had every kind of diaper, every toy.... There was so much love and support at both parishes," he said. "The greatest blessing I see in this is the tremendous respect I have for parents now. I learned so much, so fast. I am actually a single parent and I understand their plight and pressures."

Even though Father Mollison now feels he is able to practice what he preaches about the sancthy of life, he said he would not generally advocate priests adopting children because it is hard work.

"The joy is learning how much God loves me individually through

loving the child," he said. "I thank God every day for this gift."

Father Mollison said he has full custody of Justin and hopes one day to adopt him. "It is a neat experience, although sometimes I wish I was a little younger," he said.

Justin calls Father Molliso,n "Father Roger" or"Uncle Roger."

He attends St. Louis School, where his best grades are in religion and social studies. The priest pays his nephew's school tuition, is active in school-related activities and even attends parent-teacher conferences.

"He knows I am not his birth dad, but that I am his real dad, and sometimes, when we have been talking about these things, he even calls me Dad," Father Mollison said.

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Since it began the program in February, 1990, the missionary order, founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, has rehabilitated 40 women formerly warehoused in jails. The program is located in a Calcutta facility called Shantidan (Gift of Peace).

The women, classified as "non. criminal lunatics" by the West Bengal state government, had been. jailed because the city had nowhere else to put them, reported UCA News, an Asian church newS agency based in Hong Kong. .

Shantidan residents have 10-

cluded handicapped and mentally disturbed women who were jailed as children.

On July 15, Mother Teresa asked for permission to take charge of 15 more women now lodged in a fedeTlil jail in Calcutta.

Some of the women at Shantidan work in the center's shoemaking section. They cut, paste, sew and finish leatherware..

A shoe company gives material and training and pays the women, whose earnings are deposited in their bank accounts to be used when they leave Shantidan.

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One resident, Bonobasi, 42, does not remember her parents. Lost when she was 7, Bonobasi was picked up by the police and spent,

most of her life !n jail 'until being taken into the Missionaries of Charity program.

Dulu, an 18-year-old with a speech impediment, was one ofthe first to arrive at Shantidan. Jailed as a lost child at age 5, she works in the shoemaking section.

One success is Menena,jailed at the request of her parents. She is back in her hometown and is now married.

West Bengal's minister for jails estimates that 1,000 women are still housed in Calcutta's two jails for lack of other accommodations.

Some women reportedly remain incarcerated because their relatives refuse to take them back even after they recover, behave normally and are issued court release orders.

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Sanctions starving Iraq _ Continued from Page One , about half what it did last year to import food, according to Pezzullo.

CRS, the U.S. Catholic Church's overseas relief and development agency, has been providing assistance in the Middle East since Iraq invaded Kuwait last August, Pezzullo said. Shipments offood and medicine into Iraq began in April and CRS workers opened an office in Baghdad in mid-May. The crisis in "Iraq represents an anomaly, according to Pezzullo, because resources must be spent in a country that would be able to provide for its own needs, if not for the conditions resulting from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's' invasion of Kuwait. International sanctions against Iraq include embargoes of most goods into the country until terms set out by the United Nations are met. Iraq also is prohibited from exporting commodities and many countries have frozen Iraqi assets pending settlement of claims. ' U.N. demands call for Iraq to comply with cease-fire resolutions, to adopt policies that respect the security and human rights of its neighbors and to disclose fully its nuclear capabilities.

"Humanitarian efforts directed there could siphon off critical resources that would otherwise go to less developed countries facing major disasters," Pezzullo said, noting there are 30 million people

at risk of starvation in 16 African nations alone.

CRS workers in Iraq have reported trends normally associated with early signs of famine, including: - Use of feed grains for human consumption.

- Family members borrowing <;ereals from each other. ' - Sales of household goods to buy food.

- Migration to cities of farmers in search of day labor.

Iraqis also face a health crisis, Pezzullo reported. Infant mortal- . ity has doubled in the past year; safe drinking water is available to just 20 percent of the population; sewage systems in majof,cities have been cut to a third qf pre-war capacity; hospitals lack essential equipment and medicines; and typhoid and other deadly diseases are spreading, rapidly. Children have been particularly hard-hit by malnutrition, anemia and serious vitamin'deficiencies, he said.

CRS believes the embargo could be restructured so that the terms of the cease-fire are met, without endangering the civilian' population, said Pezzullo.

Bishop Griffin said the U.S. bishops through their national conferences have made the Bush administration aware 'of their 'concerns about the welfare ofthe Iraqi people.

Archbishop Whealon . C~ntinued from Page One and bishops who strive to serve in the person of Christ."

Virgil C. Dechant, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, said the archbishop was a "true spiritual leader" who became a close friend of the Knights of Columbus, which has its headquarters in New Haven, Conn., in the Hartford archdiocese.

Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York said Archbishop WheaIon was a "fine scholar who con'tributed much to the rich history of the church in America."

"Archbishop Whealon played a . key role in the formation of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, where he remained a very respected and influential voice," Cardinal O'Connor said.

Archbishop Whealon was born Jan. 15, 1921, in Barberton, Ohio, a manufacturing town near Akron, and was one of four children. He studied at St. Charles College in Catonsville, Md., and St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland.

He was ordained a priest in 1945 in the diocese of Cleveland.

In 1946 he earned a licentiate degree in' sacred theology at the University of Ottawa in Canada and four years later after studies in the Holy Land and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute at Rome a licentiate degree in Sacred Scripture.

In 1953, he was appointed founding;rector of Bor-romeo Seminary for the Cleveland diocese.

Within eight years, he expanded the facility to five times its original size.

Studying nights and in the summer at John Carroll U.niversity in Cleveland, he earned a master's degree in education in 1957.

He was named auxiliary bishop of Cleveland in 1961 at age 40.

In 1967, he was named bishop of 'Erie, Pa., but after only two years was named to head the Hartford archdiocese. With 770,000 Catholics, the Hartford archdiocese is the natio!1's 12th largest.

Over the years, the prelate proved a vocal opponent of abortion and discrimination against minorities and homosexuals and an advocate for' Catholic education ,and the' poor.

In 1988, he quit the Democratic Party because of what he called the party's "repeated stance in favor of abortion."

On the national level, he was chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pastoral Research and Practices and was a member' of a number of other committees.

Archbishop Whealon was an accomplished linguist, well-versed in Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, Latin and several. modern languages.

He was a former vice president of the Catholic Biblical Association and was a honorary life member of the American Bible Society.

Sudan criticized ROME (CNS) - The Comboni Missionaries will continue criticizing Sudanese government repression despite government complaints to the Vatican, the order said in a statement. The Comboni statement said Sudan complained to the Vatican about an article in Nigrizia, a Comboni monthly magazine published in Italy about Africa. "The article stated that the Khartoum government is keeping hundreds of thousands of civilians as virtual hostages in the souther!} town of Juba, in order to prevent an all- ' out attack by the Sudanese People's. Liberation' Army," said the ~tatement defending the article.

A JORDANIAN worker prepares bags of rice for truck 'shipment to Iraq. Catholic agencies are among groups sending reliefsupplies into the devastated nation. (CNS i UPI-Reuters photo)

Evangelization seen urgent WASHINGTON (CNS) '''There's ajob to be done," Redemptorist FatherTom Forrest told 300 participants at a recent national evangelization conference in Washington. And that job is evangelization. .

"The job that must be done is urgent. And we have no time to waste," Father Forrest said.

EvangelizerS, he added, should take to heart the urgency of Jesus' exhortation to "go quickly."

"His job being done, our job begins," said Father Forrest, international director of Evangeli, zation 2000, conference sponsors.

He' added that Catholics should take Christ's attitude of"I must be about my Father's business."

"No matter what your situation is," said Father Forrest, "you can never say, 'I am excused from evangelization:" Pope John Paul II responded to excuses not to evangelize in his encyclical "Redemptoris Missio" ("Mission of the Redeemer"), by saying, in Father Forrest's words, "No good.

None of them work."

Urgency among Catholics is paramount, he said, because "everyone is in search of the lost sheep of Jesus Christ. And there are wolves out there, ready to tear the sheep to pieces."

Paulist Father Frank DeSiano, director of the Paulists' parishbased evangelization pr~gram, said, "It's very difficult for a parish not to be a series of parishes all in the same building," a problem, he noted, that was acute for multilingual parishes.

Maria Luisa Gaston, national coordinator for the U.S. bishops' fifth centenary observance, admitted to the participants that, even though she goes to church each weekend, "I felt unchurched" after moving from Miami to Washington. .

Ms. Gaston, a single mother, said, "I have not yet found my Christian community ... the one that affirms me and gives me support."

She called Sister Thea Bowman ,- a prominent black nun known for her flamboyant style of evangelizing who died last year - "a

prophet for me. An example of what an evangelist for the Catholic Church is all about."

But, Ms. Gaston asked, when Sister Bowman sang "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" to the U.S. bishops at a 1989 general meeting, "was she feeling like an unchurched Catholic?"

"We need religious education," Ms. Gaston said. "We know about science, TV, sports, but we no so little about faith."

But religious education is not evangelization, she added. "Evangelization is telling stories. It's telling Jesus stories, the way Jesus told it."

Evangelizers' approach to the unchurched, Ms. Gaston said; should be to "love thenieilOugh to tell your story. Trust them enough to tell your pain', that God has .worked wonders in your life, and is not done yet."

During a panel discussion of conference speakers, Paulist Father Kenneth Boyack, assistant director of the Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association, said, "Jesus invites us all to be fishers of men and women. If we never fish, in terms of casting out the net, we will never catch."

Bishop William R. Houck of Jackson, Miss., head of the U.S. bishops'路 Committee on Evangelization, told Catholic News Service that the work of evangelization belongs not only to bishops or pastors, but "belongs to all of us as members of the church."

Prejudice accused TOK YO (CNS) - Japanese guilty of perpetuatmg stereotypes that foreign worke.rs in Japan are lawbreakers, prostitutes and intruders, said speakers at a recent meeting in Tokyo on - foreign workers. The meeting of the Catholic Committee on International Cooperation focused on the effects of new legislation on foreign workers, reported UCA News, a Hong-Kong-based Asian church news agency. Father Honda Tetsuro urged participants to reject discrimination. ~atholics are

EMMITSBURG, Md. (CNS) - The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg has been dedicated as a basilica in a two-hour Mass full of warm words for the first U.S.-born saint.

Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, the apostolic pro-nuncio to the United Stateg, was'the principal celebrant and Baltimore Archbishop William H. Keeler was the homilist at the Mass.

The papal designation of basilica, given to only 35 churches in the United States, recognizeS churches that are outstanding in antiquity. dignity, historical importance or significance as a center of worship and devotion.

The basilica in Emmitsburg houses the tomb of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who moved to Emmitsburg from Baltimore in 1809 to continue her mission of education and vocation. She founded the Sisters of Charity religious order and established the parochial school system in this,country. She was canonized ,in 1975.

Archbishop Cacciavillan told the crowd to follow the example of the saint.

"The basilica is a sign that she is still present, she still has a lesson to give and example to offer," he said. . In his homily, Archbishop Keeler traced the history of St. Elizabeth Ann, calling her a symbol of women religious who have made historical contributions to the church in the United States.

"The basilica of ancient days was the residence or working place of royalty," Archbishop Keeler said. "The bas~lica oftoday houses the royal presence of Christ the King and, here, the tomb of a heroine in Christ's kingdom."

Daughters of Charity Sister Virginia Ann Brooks, provincial superior of the Emmitsburg province, called the day "truly 'a . memorable and historical event of "our time" in horioring"our beloved saint." ' Each year thoUsands of pilgrims journey from all over the world to see the shrine, completed in 1965, and its grounds.

Peruvian poor need service NEW YORK (CNS) - A Franciscan who has worked with poor Quechua Indians in the shantytowns around Lima, Peru, for the past 15 years said economic crisis a'nd terrorism were putting increasing pressure on his ministry. '''Fuji shock' has multiplied the demands on us," said Brother Declan McCabe in a recent interview at St. Francis Friary in New York. "We were serving meals to 1,000 people a day, and within a week we raised that to 2,000."

"Fuji shock" is a popular term for the effect of the drastic austerity measures, including removal of food and fuel subsidies;introduced

by President Alberto Fujimori only 11 days after his July 1990 inauguration. Since going to Peru in 1976, Brother McCabe, who trained in the United States as a practical nurse, has established three medical centers, which he continues to oversee.

Time Flies "You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago, after all. Time shortens up."-Howells

Sister Plante researches development work at nation's Catholic schools

By Marcie Hickey After researching development work at more than 300 Catholic schools from various parts of the country, associate superintendent of diocesan schools Sister Michaelinda Plante, RSM, came to the conclusion she'd hoped to reach: that Catholic schools have a bright future - provided they learn to implement creative approaches to marketing and financial development.

Sister Plante's research for her doctoral dissertation on the knowledge and attitudes of pastors, ,principals and laity toward financial sources for parish Catholic elementary schools, involved sending questionnaires to 350 U.S. schools with a Sister of Mercy as principal.

The schools' pastors and lay governance organizations were also surveyed. Responses came from 315 schools, including the diocese's own St. John the Evangelist School, , Attleboro,and Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taunton. .

Sister Plante began the research in 1985, the year she assumed !}er post at the Diocesan Department' of Education, a'nd received her doctorate this May from Boston College, ' Her study revealed that while development work is a relatively new concept on the elementary school level, such schools can successfully ,adopt the approach to supplement their traditional sources offunding: tuition, fund raising events and parish subsidies.

While, these ~purces ha\;'e bc:en

adequate in the past, said Sister Plante, if schools today fail to find additional means of meeting costs, "we'll find ourselves out of business, or an elite society" that few can afford to join.

The goal of development is thus not only to keep Catholic schools in business but to keep them accessible.

In her dissertation Sister Plante recommends that schools undertake long-range budgetary planning; that dioceses train pastors and principals in development and financial management before they assume administrative duties; and that dioceses implement ongoing education in development 'techniques for school person,nel in the form, of workshops, seminars an'd conventions.

"You can't expect the schools to introduce the techniques unless they have the expertise," she said.

It is important that t,he three school authorities - pastor, principal and lay governance persons - are equally well-informed in order to work together for the financial survival of the school, she continued.

The principal sets the tone of the school "in terms of Catholic identity and academics; the pastor has the canonical authority; and the laity are the ones who use, the school arid teach iIi 'it," Sister Plan'f~ summed up.

Responses to her questionnaires ,showed that pastors "are very supportive of the schools and interested in the finances" whether they ,

manage them themselves or leave' the matter to the principal.

While laypersons' knowledge of financial development techniques proved "not as good as expected," said Sister Plante, she felt that nun-principals "have much more knowledge of financial sources and clear-cut ideas of what Catholic education should be." She noted that this could be expected, given the Mercy community's long experience in education.

Sister Plante concluded that resuIts of the study "point to a need for further study of development . ht'mc Iud e, she sources. " They mig 'd' t d I sugges e ; s I mg sca Itt' e u lon, d e·, ferre d glvmg, ph one-a-th ons, auc"Las Vegas "'ghts · t IOns, m , and · ' t mal'I so I"t d Irec ICI a t'IOns. · S'IS t er PIan t e no ted , F mances, . are Just one aspect 0f d eve Iopt h' ch also encompasses men, ~ I bl" I' h

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profes,sionally published newslet- gram at a recent development ters going out to alumni" - a workshop and, members will ~ttend group to whom Catholic schools a New England Association of in general should appeal for su,p- Directors of De,velopment convenp o r t . t i o n in Octo,ber to learn from "proSchool volunteers are also valu- fessional development people," said able resources who can "take the Sister Plante, place of money" by providing vital Hopefully team members will services, ,Sister Plante added. be available to educate representa:~~:I~~m~is~i~nI~t~~:~~~:' atn~ Off to a Good Start tives of other diocesan,schools, she basic philosophy" - everything At this point, Sister Plante noted, continued, expl~ining that develwhich contributes to the school's "all [Catholic] schools know aoout opment w,ork Will eve~tually beimage. development," a concept which com~ an m-hous7 project under ,Basically the schools have to was introduced nationally to Cath- auspices of the .DIocesan Depart. "sell themselves,': she §aid, "and to olic elementary schools!by the Na- ment of Educ~tlOn. sell their produc,t it has to be a tional Catholic Educational Asso- r" The. educatIOn, office Will run good product." ciation about 10 years ago. ~ev71~p~ent workshops, meet with She believes, however, that the "Some sections of the country, mdlvld,ual schools ,and query worth of the product has already notably the midwestern, western schools as to w~at ~hey expect ~een proven by numerous other and Great Lakes areas' have been from the offic~, said Sister Plante, studies: Catholic schools "are do-' doing itfor inanyyea'r~ before We noti~g,thatattheirNovemberJ990 ing a good job academically' and even thoughtabout it in the East," mc:etmg,t~e {J.S.,~lshop,s mandated ' with relation to the Catholic faith," said Sister Plante who is now fo- that all'dloceses establish a develshe said: "They are an arm of the "cusing on cultivat'ion 'of the incip- opment'Qffice for Catholic schools church in terms ofevangelization." ient'school development programs by I~9~. ' It IS Important, she added, that Catholic school graduates "t,e'nd to in the Fall River diocese. stay in the' church, supp'ort the "We have 22 parish schools and schools "get the educ~tion to,~e~n church, or if they leave they event- three special schools' _ all very 'development wo.rk properly With , ually come' back to the church;" different in approach" which is support on the dl,?cesan level from ~:::':, ,l1l~' ptobi¢m; she ~ol!tinUel;ii is "'viHi1able'tlHhe"exciia:n~~i>fiaeas," the' bishop artd diocesa'nauthori~;: ' ,. ties and on 'the mitionarIevel from " that Catholic schools "dou't"tell "she said. " ' people h'ow goo'd we'are." ", . ;', "We're off to ag09-d start," she t~e ~ationalConference ofCathoDev.elopment is a way to polish continued, noting formation of a lic Bishops and the NCEA, . a s~hool's image and bring it to the development team involving 'per- . ' 'She conclUded that researchmg her dissertation was '''a very good public's attention, she indicated, sonnel from 12 diocesan schools. , ~'A good public, relations pro- 'Among issues the team will exam- experie'nce," for it "reaffirmed ,gram will communicate the sch90l's ine,she said, are "how muth money what I believed ·about Catholic value" and enlist wider commun- the schools Will need for surviyal education: people-expect Catholic schools to survive. They may not ity support, she pointed out', citing .and to' increase teachers' salaries, be the same as they were 35 years the fact that, "a couple of our also an important c'oncern." rdiocesanl schools have excellent, The team used an NCEA pro- ago, but they will survive."

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1992 CATHOLIC Schools Week promotional poster

WASHINGTON (CNS)' Catholic educators said they are pleased with the national media attention Catholic schools have been receiving lately, but realize the future path to full-time self promotion may be difficult.

"We're used to keeping our light 'under our bushel," said Frank Caliva of the New York State Federation of Catholic School Parents.

"But we, must seize the opporfunily to promote the living'daylights 'out of Catholic education."

While the doors of the nation's' 9,000 Catholic schools are 'closed .for the 'summer, Catholic educa'tors are pulling out their own set of education materials - on marketing and public relations - to gear up for a nationwide advertising campaign to promote Catholic education beginning in the faIL The $1 million; first-of-its-kind campaign, made public in April by its creators, the National Catholic Educational Association and the . U.S. Catholic Conference, has received a deluge Of national media attention.

ABC's "Evening News," NBC's "Sunday Today" and Time maga-

zine have all covered the story, while theWashington;Post wrote, "With its emphasis on 'discipline, religion and the academic basics, Catholic educatiQn recently has ,won great, praise, particularly, in ' places where public schools more often resemble holding pens than centers of learning."

"The 'reaction' [to "Catholic schools and the ,campaign] has been very positive and much need.. ed,"'said F(anciscan Sister Michelle Micek, assistant superintendent of Catholic' schools in the archdio'cese of Santa Fe, N. M. "It's about time that we tell our story and tell the public that their investment in ,Catholic education is ,worthwhile and important for the student."

Educators will be sold campaign, kits and other ,promotional products with· the theme of "Discover Catholic Schools", to teach them 'how to market their schools using buttons, billboards, posters, and banners, how to raise funds, and how to deal with the press.

The NCEA and USCC' have, paid for the campaign but are hoping product sales to schools will help cover the cost.

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Father Charles Vavonese, associate superintendent of Catholic schools in the diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., said that it will be the first time many Catholic educators have received formal training in marketing and public relations. .Father Vavonese 'hopes to have two college interns and a marketing consultant helping schools with the campaign. The diocese also plans to air, radio and television advertisements.

Sister Catherine Kallhoff, superintendent of education for the diocese of St. Cloud, Minn., said educators from her schools have been meeting weekly to formulate a local marketing plan for the coming school year. She said she hopes local campaigns will not be aimed against public schools, but will encourage all schools to work together to improve education for all youths. ' Catholic educators say the timing for the campaign is perfect, with their schools basking in praise from a number of studies lauding their back-to-basics approach and with the growing movement toward choice in education.

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Catholicism's unifying force focus of papal trip .

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VATICAN CITY. (CNS) - Pope John Paul II plans an August foray to continue stitching Catholic threads into an Eastern Europe torn by nearly five decades of communist rule.

The Aug. 13-20 trip to Poland and Hungary is the pope's third to the region since the collapse of communism. It should test路 his ability to avoid triumphalism while strengthening the church's role as a moral cornerstone for a reconstructed society.

The pope visited Czechoslovakia in April 1990 and Poland in June.

These trips to countries where kings became saints included strong .papal calls to rebuild Catholic life and to cure crippled societies through Christian values. Although made in nations where Catholicism is woven into centuries of history, the appeals drew some strong complaints that the pope was preaching a religious fundamentalism -. similar to a medieval Christianity and to certain current Islamic trends - in which morality is equated with law.

These criticisms are unjustified, said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, papal spokesman.

"The pope offers the Gospel as the ultimate inspiration of law," the spokesman said. "But he is not proposing the Gospel as a civil code." . Navarro-Valls said the trip would emphasize the positive effects of Christian social values and the role of Catholics in public life. , "This is important at a time when East European countries are rewriting constitutions," he said.

The trip will take the pope to two countries which were leaders in the move to shake off communist rule. Although both have _ heavily Catholic populations, their hierarchies reacted in starkly contrasting manners to the communists.

The Poles were feisty and church support was the main element that kept Solidarity alive as the political opposition movement which replaced the Communist Party.

But the huge support it had among the population is waning as people no longer need it as an umbrella for political activities.

The Hungarians, after a wave of strong repression in the late 1940s and early 1950s, worked hand-inhand with the Vatican to establish a slow but steady pattern of negotiations with the government to resolve church-state problems. The result was a church that remained institutionally alive but without much social influence.

Almost 65 percent of Hungary's 10.6 million people and 95 percent

of Poland's 38 million population profess Catholicism.

Most of the pope's talks about the role of the church in Eastern Europe are expected to be given in Hungary Aug. 16-20. The pope had already stressed this in his first Poland visit this year.

Also, the pope's Aug. 13-16 stop in his homeland will be highly personal as the pope plans to take a break from his pastoral duties to lunch with seminary classmates, visit his hometown church and pray over the tombs of his parents.

The public part will focus on an international Catholic youth rally.

In Hungary, abortion, suicides, alcoholism, divorce, secularism and cons~rt:le~ism are路 main problems facing society, said a Hungarian priest working at the Vatican.

"The pope, must discuss these problems while avoiding triumphalism," he said.

"But he should still show that Catholics are a majority in Hungary and that with their new freedom they should grow in identity with Catholicism," the priest added.

A main problem for Hungarian Catholicism is a lost generation of people virtually untouched by the church because of the restrictions on Catholic education, evangelization and social programs under communism. This resulted in a severe drop in church attendance and in overall identification with church institutions.

But the situation is slowly reversing. A 1990 church-sponsored study shows that the number of people attending church is on the rise since 1988, when 46.5 percent of the Catholics said they never attended church. This figure dropped to 28 percent in 1990.

The survey also showed that the number' of people fulfilling the weekly Mass obligation jumped from 7 percent to almost 14 percent during the same period.

Communist restrictions also put the Hungarian church behind in applying the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, especially lay participation and a greater sharing of responsibility between bishops, priests and laity.

"A certain democracy is still lacking in the church. It is too clerical," said the Hungarian priest working at the Vatican.

Hungarian church sources also hope the pope gives much-needed attention to church social teachings since the end of World WarlI, another gap in Hungarian Catholic life.

These teachings-, especially the role of Christians in political life, can have a great influence in contemporary Hungary, said the sources.

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WORSHIP~RS AT the chapel of the 14.th century Jasna Gora monastery pray before the Icon of.Our Lady of C;zestochowa. Ajeweled silver covering is lifted from the painting each day at sunnse accompamed by a blare oftrumpets. (eNS photo) .

Czestochowa Black Madonna to be World Youth Day centerpiece VAT1CAN CITY (CNS) - To celebrate World Youth Day, Pope John Paul II has chosen a symbol of the scars borne by Polish Catholicism through the centuries.

The Aug. 15 celebration is scheduled at the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, in southern Poland.

The onetime fortress and full-time pilgrimage center also exemplifies the historical intertwining of Polish nationalism and Catholicism.

The shrine houses the icon -- a painting on wood - of Mary holding the baby Jesus in her left arm. Painted on Mary's right cheek are thre.e scars to symbolize the sword strokes which cut into the painting during a 1430 raid by brigands, one of the many profanations of the religious artwork.

The scars were painted by restorers who pieced together the icon after it was torn down from the altar and sliced through by the sword-wielding raiders.

The scars gave the painting one of its nicknames: The Madonna of the Wounded Face. But for Poles they also symbolize the strength of Polish Catholicism which bounces back from suffering and adversity, even from decades of heavy-handed communist rule.

The shrine is a landmark for a pope who wants Eastern Europe. to rediscover its Christian roots as .it gropes for new social and ideological foundations in a post-communist era: The icon is also known as the Black Madonna because the hands and faces of Jesus and Mary have been darkened by age, . Since 1382 it has been housed at Czestochowa on the Hill of Lights, "Jasna Gora" in Polish, above the city. But its history may stretch back to the origins of Christianity.

According to popular tradition the icon was painted in Jerusalem

by St. Luke, one of the four Gospel writers, on a piece of wood from the table used by the Holy Family for their meals. This tradition has the icon eventually coming into the possession of Princess Anna, wife of Vladimir of Kiev, the monarch given credit for Christianizing the Ukraine and Russia.

Many art scholars, however, say the icon was painted between the sixth and ninth centuries with var-

ious restorations before it arrived at Czestochowa.

What is known is that the icon was brought to Czestochowa by Ukrainian Prince Ladislaus Opolszyk, who asked members of the Order of St. Paul, the Hermit, to establish a monastery on Jasna Gora to house the painting.

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The monastery quickly developed into a .major central European pilgrimage site and the monastery was soon surrounded by a small pilgrim city. Fortifications were built in the early 17th century as the site had to withstand attacks from invading foreigners, transforming the monastery into a bastion of Polish independence. After withstanding a 40-day siege by Swedish troops in 1655, Our Lady of Czestochowa was named Queen of Poland and became the protector of Polish nationalism and religious freedom.

The site itself continued to be the scene of major battles, against Russians, Prussians and the French.

The Marian image "has never failed to provide this protection," said a Vatican-prepared background booklet on Czestochowa.

"The Polish faithful of all ages have realized this, bearing the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa wherever they have gone, perhaps drawn on a piece of paper, tattooed on their chest, or scratched with charcoal on the walls of a cell at Auschwitz," added the booklet.

Polish President Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity labor movement which became the main political opponent of the Communist Party, always wears a lapel pin with the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

The pope, in inviting youths to attend World Youth Day at Czestochowa, said: "There, at the most difficult moments of its history, the Polish people have found, in the mother's house, the strength of faith and hope, their own dignity and the heritage of the children of God." It is the first time World Youth Day will be held in a formerly communist country. The bulk of the several hundred thousand youths registered to attend are Eastern Euopeans who have grown up under communism. Tens of thousands are expected from the Soviet Union.. , The pope plans to spend the evening of Aug. 14 with the youths and celebrate a Mass the following morning.

It's back to work for pope after mountain getaway BREUIL, Italy (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, at the end of his third annual Alpine summer vacation, thanked God for the beauty of creation and thanked the people who guaranteed he could enjoy it.

"The beauty revealed in creation cannot but arouse thoughts of recognition and thanksgiving in us," the pope said during a Mass in the town of Breuil.

The pope celebrated the liturgy at the foot of Mount Cervino after

nine days of hiking and relaxation in the Valle d' Aosta region of the Italian Alps.

Things went well, he said. "I spent calm days in meditation and prayer for you and for all the needs of the church. I enjoyed the stupendous landscapes given to you by the Creator."

The pope said that climbing mountains is a way "to embrace, in unconfined spaces, the wonderful works of God."

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. ROME (CNS) - The Mozambique peace talks are moving ahead slowly as the government and Renamo guerrillas jockey for advantage in an eventual multiparty political system, said the talk's Catholic mediator. But the progress is enough to make Archbishop Jaime Pedro Goncalves of Beira, Mozambique, optimistic that an agreement will be reached soon to end more than a decade·of civil war. The "big decisions" about arranging a cease-fire and developing a multiparty system to replace one-party rule have been made, he said.

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Summer in full swing at Westport camp Laughter fills the grounds of Catholic Boys Day Camp in Westport as another activity- and funfilled summer is underway. The camp hosts youngsters ages 5 to 13 from all over the diocese for all or part of the summer.

This year the camp is structured differently than in the past as a result of the closing of St. Vincent's overnight camp. Instead of spending the night in camp dorms, the boys commute by bus from the Fall River, Taunton and New Bedford areas.

"We have had little or no problem with the new system," says Father William L. Boffa, director of the camp. "Everyone seems to be having a great time."

Fall River campers occupied the grounds July I through 12, followed by youngsters from Taunton for the second session, July 15 to 26. New Bedford area campers will arrive tomorrow for a session that extends until Aug':'23.

Besides those chosen by dioce~ san St. Vincent de Paul conferences, an additional 75 to 100 boys from New Bedford, J;aU Rjv.er, Westport and Tiverton, 'RI, enjoy the camp each day.

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Among activities for the young campers have been kickball, dodgeball, soccer, touch football, street hockey, and swimming at both the camp's olympic-sized pool and the camp beach in Westport Harbor.

The Westport campers can boast triumph in the mythical intercamp championship, having bested the Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, crew in the camps' annual soccer and softball rivalry.

Among new attractions at the Boys Day Camp this year are an aviary with exotic birds; a basketball court with baskets adjusted for the littlest campers; a fullsized volleyball court, complete with beach sand and an adjustable net; and refurbi~hed BB gun and archery ranges.

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Late bishop is on the map

PRELATE'S PEAK: Colorado.mountain recently_ named 'in honor' of Bishop Joseph P. 'Machebeuf. (CNS p~oto)

Cancer~st~ic~en priest ST. CLOUD, Minn. (CNS) Last year, doctors wondered wheth- ' er Mark Stang, stricken with cancer, would live lo'ng enough to be ordained a priest.

Today, it appears he lias beaten the odds. The cancer has all but disappeared. He has completed his' studies. And on July I, Father Mark Stang began his first assignment as associate pastor at St. Andrew Parish in Elk River, Minn.

Father Stang believes something very special happened last August when St. Cloud Bishop Jerome Hanus laid hands on him at his priestly ordination - something which healed his body and left his doctors stumped.

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myself," Father Stang told the ~t.

Cloud Visitor,diocesan newspaper.

"Last July, 1 wondered whether I would be'well enough for the, ordination. I really thought that I would be meeting my heavenly Father quite soon," he said.

"But it seems that prayers have' made a difference. Evidently, God has found some work forme to do, on earth."

"Do¢tors~is,coveredan inoperable, lymphatic melanoma in his abdomen in April 1990, shortly before Father Stang was to be ordained a deacon. By last July, doctors gave him only a few months to live.

As a result, Bishop Hanus moved up Father Stang's priestly ordination by a full year. Two days after

for all peoples of the Rocky Mountains."

Ms. Schroeder wrote, "His work left an indelible imprint on the quality of life of the state."

Bishop Machebeuf, known as the "apostle of Colorado," joins the likes of Zebulon Pike as Coloradans with mountain peaks posthumously named in their honor.

To celebrate, Father Richard Ling, a Denver archdiocesan priest and an avid mountaineer, led a pilgrimage hike to Mount Machebeufs summit and celebrated Mass using the late bishop's chalice.

Born at Riom, France on Aug. II, 1812, and ordained a priest Dec. 17, 1836, he became apostolic vicar of Colorado Nov. 23, 1886: He became the first bishop of Denver Aug. 7,1887.

Father Ling also prepared a brochure for visitors to the site, ' with a biography of Bishop Machebeuf, directions for hiking up Mount Machebeuf, and facts about wild flowers, vistas and other features of the area. ,

DENVER (CNS) - Bishop Joseph P. Machebeuf is on the map.

Colorado's first resident Catholic bishop, who died 102 years ago, has had a 12,805foot mountain in the Colorado Rockies named after him by the U. S. Board on Geographic Names.

The Denver Archdiocese's pursuit of a namesake summit began in 1988. A first application for a "Mount Machebeuf' was turned down because the proposed peak was in a wilderness area. U.S. law generally forbids'the naming of places or features in wilderness areas.

The approved site is west of Denver off Interstate 70.

Denver Archbishop J. Fran,cis Stafford enlisted the help'of Colorado's congressional delegation, including Democratic Sen. Timothy Wirth and Rep. Patricia:'Schroeder, to write' endorsements fo'r the prop'osal.

Wirth~rote, "Bis'hop Machebeuf exemplified the highest level of car~ and mutual respect

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - The primate of all Ireland, Cardinal Cahal B. Daly, recently condemned the Irish Republican Army and said it could not bomb and shoot its way to the conference table.

"They do not even seem to know the degree and the depth of revulsion ... with their movement and campaign ... within the Republic of Ireland," he said in one of his fiercest attacks on IRA guerrillas since becoming cardinal in June.

Cardinal Daly urged the IRA, which is fighting to oust Britain from Northern Ireland, to stop the bloodshed.

Recent efforts by the British government to bring Protestant and Catholic political parties to;'gether for negotiations on the future of Northern Ireland have been suspended because of wrangling over 'issues such as negotiating sites'. tHowever; it is still believed the negotiations could be resumed.

-, Siriil Fein, the IRA's political wirig; has accused Cardinal Daly inthe past of being pro-British and 'less 'critical of attacks by Protestant paramilitary extremists.

The cardinal has condemned violence by all sides.

More than 2,000 peace activists from the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland held a protest rally over the killing by IRA gunmen of Irish farmer Thomas Oliver.

The IRA said he was a police informer:, Brian McEvitt, the drganizer of the'rally held near the Irish border with Northern Ireland, said, "It is our way of telling the IRA we abhor what they have done and do not accept their campaign of terror."

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his ord'i'nation, Father Stang'went' to the Mayo Clinic in' Rochester', Minn.

"After a full'day of tests;" he said, "the doctors discovered that two tumors had completely disap-' peared and a third tumor had decreased in size. They' couldn't explain what happened." ~ In April,Father Stang was told the tumor had shrunk still more.

"Docto'ts' aren't even sure if. it is' a' tumor now. They think they may have been treating scar tissue since October."

Few physical signs remain from his ordeal with cancer and the resultant chemotherapy and radiation. His hair has grown back. He has gained weight. His energy level is begining to return.

And he continues to ponder the meaning of what has happened during the past year and "how God has blessed me."

"I really can't explain why things ' happened the way they did. And why I am still alive today. I now realize, however, that my life is not really mine anymore. It is really iri God's hands."

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"My prayers each day are for those who have prayed for me, that God will bless them a hundredfold," Father Stang said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall sage to a clear statement in the song's refrain that "we seal our fate with the choices we make."

I agree. We need to think about what consequences can flow from our choices. Just following a moment's impulse can yield unfortunate results.

For example, a teen who is trying to establish better rapport with his or her parents can sabotage these efforts by disreBy Charlie Martin garding family rules. If you decide to stay out past an agreedSEAL OUR FATE upon curfew, there will be problems.

They say it's never too late And though that might be the case sometimes Not only will you lose a priviThe sad truth of it is lege, but more important, the Opportunity won't knock twice broken trust injures the relaYou can put off until tomorrow tionship. Your goal of having

By Mick Conway But tomorrow might never come more peace with your parents is Gotta think about the future Gary's head felt like it had been set back.

'Cause today will soon be gone split by a hatchet. He lay on his Though most of us realize Where will you be a few years down the line bed motionless, unable to move so that consequences follow choiWill it be everything you've dreamed of much as an eyeball without feeling ces, we still make mistakes, someIt's always harder to do what is right excruciating pain. times big ones. However, I disSometimes one bad decision The slightest sound, however agree with the song that our Can mess up your life small, seemed to penetrate his skull, mistakes "seal our fate."

We seal our fate with the choices we make creating a thunderous volume of A mistake is an opportunity But don't give a second thought noise. to learn. We may regret that we To·the chances we take "I'm dying, I know it," he thought have taken such a painful route Could come up anytime to himself. "I've had hangovers to this lesson, but what we do Better be wide awake ' before, but this one is in the worldwith the lesson is the larger 'Cause we class category.

If I live through issue.

Seal our fate with the choices we make this, I swear I'll never take another Life has a way of bringing u~ Seal our f.te, seal our fate, seal our fate drink." to those lessons that we need to Seal our fate with the choices we make . Famous last wqrds.. Gary had learn.

Most of us would rather' Surely, you say, it's not as bad thought and spoken that phrase' gather these lessons in less than As you ,make it sound many times before, only to break painful ways, but sometimes If we. make a mistake the promise when the occasion arose facing the pain is how we finally You can always turn it back around to drink. get the message.'

Get back on the straight-and-narrow ' Most of Gary's friends drank; so I also disagree ,that "opporWhen I'm through he' had found himself drinking tunitywon't knock twice." While.

Having my, fun, along with them. Each time he we. might wish in. hindsight that After all it's ~ydecision drank, he did so with the idea that we had respon~ed differently to I'm not really hurting anyone he would have' one or ·two beers, an opportunity, we ofte~ receive Before you know . but wouldn't get drunk. ' new chances.

It's gotten way out of hand That didn't work. One or two Perhaps the same opportun~n w~ys that you never dreamed of beers didn't produce the buzz Gary ity ~on't present i~self"but a~,1 ' Never with the price you pay in the end enjoyed. It seemed to take; more hp,.¥e -already suggeste9."lifel 1S:,(': . an'ef.' mOre, beer 'before'he :felt 'the Instead..of being ahead set,up in such a way that.we.can .. . You're starting o,ver again effects. Once 'he started,he·didn't learn and grow. Opportunity stop until either all the beer was, Written and Sung by Gloria Estefan (c) 1990 by Foreign comes to us again and again. gone or until he crossed the line -, . Importe~,Productions and' Publishing, Inc. God asks us to make choices into drunkenness. and thus be co-creators of what right" and that "sometimes one Gloria Estefan's "Seal Our Garydidn't realize it, but he had our lives will be. All of us need bad decision' can mess up your Fate" is an upbeat dance ntimbeen developing an ihcreased tol-' to reflect on what will happen . ber, much like those hits that life." erance for alcohol. It was gradual. because of choices. brought her success early in her We are enco'uraged to "think Close scrutiny, however, would Yet, we are not perfect. More career. The song urges us to about the future 'cause today' reveal a pattern of escalating significant is the ability to learn consider what we choose to do will soon be gone." Each of us drinking. through our experiences. and how these choices affect needs to face the song's quesThen, at age 16, Gary became so our lives. tion: "Where will you be a few Your comments are welcomed drunk at a party that he passed out Ms. Estefan remarks that it years down the line?"

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box on the lawn. He had lain there for can be difficult "to do what is Ms. Estefan brings her mes182, Rockport, Ind. 47635. some time before a passing motorist noticed him. The police were called and Gary was taken to the emergency room in a state of acute alcohol intoxication, The ensuing hours were frightening for Gary and his parents.

Sister Ann M. Moore, 'CND,' The' 250 congress delegates association's membership repres- The doctor told Gary's parents associate superintendent of dioce- include corporate and community' ents more than 200,000 educators that he had overdosed on alcohol.

"Overdosed?" asked his father. san schools has been selected' as a leaders, educators, legislators and serving 7.6 million ~tudents in "Don't you usually refer to over7 " delegate to the National Congress researchers, who will address issues Catholic education at all levels. dose as something that happens on Catholic Schools for· the 21st including Catholic identity, leadwith drugs?" .

Century, to be held in Washing-, ership, the school and society, "Alcohol is a drug," the doctor ton, D.C. November 6 through 10. finance and governance and pub- ' responded. "It's mood-altering The congress, the first event of lic policy. chemical that has the same' effect· its kind, has been called by the President George Bush has been on the body as any other type of National Catholic Educational invited to address delegates at the DAYTON,Ohio(CNS)-Cam- drug that might be ingested. When Association (NCEA) to chart a opening banquet and the Elizacourse for a stronger and expanded beth Ann Seton Award for Educa- pus Ministry Sunday is scheduled someone drinks to the point of Catholic school network for the tion will be presented to several' to take place at the 1,200 organ- vomiting, that is considered an next century. well-known individuals for their ized Catholic «:ampus ministry pro- overdose." grams at U.S. colleges Aug. II, the "Puking, an overdose?" an inSister Catherine T. McNamee, work in support of education.

CSJ, NCEA president said, "EduThe event IS belllg organized by 10 Ist anniversary of the death of credulous Gary exclaimed when his parents told him what the doccation is in the forefront of the the three departments of the Cardinal John Henry Newman. national agenda today, with edu- National Catholic Educational Most campus ministry programs tor had said. "No way! Ijusthad a cational choice heading the list for Association (NCEA): the Elemen- are' called Newman Clubs, after little too much to drink and I got school reform. Given the climate, tary Schools Department, directed the' cardinal. sick because of it. Don't make a big deal out of this." supporters of Catholic schools must by Dr. Robert Kealey; the Chief Campus Ministry Sunday's explore the great opportunity and Administrators of Catholic Edu"Gary, you were found unconschallenges which face Catholic cation, Regina Haney, OSF, act- theme is "They Shall All be Taught cious in the front yard of your

by God," taken from that day's education tomorrow." friend's home. You were so drunk ing executive director; and the Gospel reading, emphasizing that . you had to be taken to a hospital.

The congress also will broaden Secondary Department, Michael all knowledge comes from God. the support for Catholic schools, Guerra, executive director.

If that's not a big deal, I'd like to It is estimated that 35 percent of know what is," cried his mother. celebrate their heritage and comNCEA is the largest private, municate the story of their aca- professional education association all U.S. college students are CathoGary had felt sure he could condemic and religious successes. in the world. Founded in 1904, the lic, or about 4.7 million students. trol his drinking, but each time he

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drank he seemed to drink too much. Now he felt trapped, worried, scared.

As he lay suffering, he knew the time was right to take his dad up on a suggestion he had made.

Gary's dad had heard of a young people's Alcoholics Anonymous group meeting in their community. By all accounts, the kids going to this support group were enthusiastic about their sobriety. Some had, been in treatment programs, others had not. But they were committed to a common cause: recovery from a disease called chemical dependency.

'The first time he walked into the teen AA group meeting, Gary felt embarrassed and out of place..But he was welcomed by kids his own age who encouraged him.'

He was introdliced to the 12 steps of AA: To his surprise, Step I seemed to speak directly to, him: "We admitted we were powerless over alc!,hol,;- that our.lives had. become unmanageable."

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Bishop Feehan High school senior Kerri Simoneau recently completed a four-week summer study program at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. She was among 30 high-schoolage piano, organ, instrumental and voice students to participate in the school's Music Horizons Program.

One of seven vocalists in the program, Miss Simoneau was offered a partial scholarship to the school and was among 22 participants invited to perform in the program's closing recital.

Family members and Miss Simoneau's voice teacher Elaine Saulnier attended the performance, at which the student sang Les Hiles De Cadix by Delibes.

Miss Simoneau is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Simoneau of North Attleboro. Ms. Saulnier is fine arts chairperson and vocal director at Bishop Feehan in North Attleboro.

Tribute to Mary .

PAMPLONA, Spain (CNS) Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain returned home to a triumphant welcome from 15,000 fans and immediately dedicated his winner's yellow jersey to his hometown patron, the Virgin of the Rosary. Rockets fizzed into the sky and the town band played as the 27-year-old Indurain emerged from a helicopter.

He then drove through the town in an open car to the San Andree parish church, where he offered his yellow jersey and the roses he received in a victory ceremony in Paris to the Virgin of the Rosary.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 9,1991

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, NB Feast of Senhor da Pedra Aug. 16 through 18 with transfer of statue to church 7 p.m. Aug. 16 and solemn Mass at II a.m. Aug. 18, followed by 2:30 p.m. procession from Earle Street to Eugenia Street. Band music and other activities will take place during the festival at Madeira Field in the north end of the city.

CATHEDRAL, FR CCD registration Aug. 19,3 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. and Aug. 26, 3 to 4 p.m., in school CCD office. Meeting for CCD teachers and office staff 7 p.m. Aug. 26, also in office.

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ST. CLARE FRATERNITY, FR Secular Franciscans of St. Clare Fraternity will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. II at Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St. HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON An 11:30 a.m. Polka Mass will begin a parish picnic Sunday on the church grounds.

ST. MARY, NORTON Classes for new altar servers will begin in September. Those intereste4 may notify one of the priests.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Parish census forms should be returned as soon as possible.

SACRED HEART SEMINARY, WAREHAM .

Charismatic prayer meetings' and rosary 7:30 p.m. each Thursday.

SAINTS & SINGERS Saints & Singers Chorus members recently participated in a massed choir program at Carnegie Hall, New York City. Offered were Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in Hebrew and Rachmaninoffs The Bells in English. The two soprano soloists in the Bernstein composition were Saints & Singers members Marie Young, Pocasset, and Katherine Allen, Manomet. The program was later repeated in Leningrad with seven choir members participating with Russian'singers. Winners of the choir's 1991 music scholarships are Beth Ann Weaver, Fairhaven, and Susannah Otacki, Acushnet. Those interested in applying for future scholarships may write Charles Hocking, PO Box 2869, Taunton 02780.

ST. PATRICK, FR The parish "Wall on Hall'Street" project is underway.-It will provide parking for cars of persons attending events in the school building.

ST.'MARY,NB A Cubmaster and den leaders are needed for Pack 12. Information: 998-3704. Youth group registration II a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 8. Parents welcome to participate in activities. School volunteers always welcome. Information: Dennis Poyant at school office.

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QUEEN OF ANGELS FRATERNITY, NB Secular Franciscans of Queen of Angels Fraternity will sponsor a day of recollection from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at Cathedral Camp retreat center, East Freetown. Sister Paulette Anne Ducharme, OSU will discuss praying with creation. Also on the program will be a Mass of Creation, group sharing and time for private prayer. Information: Gabriel F. Senna, 758-2890.

MSGR. STANLEY E. Milewski, ,chancellor of the Orchard Lake Schools, Orchard Lake, Mich., will preside and preach at the 11 th annual Polish Day to be held at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 25, the eve of the solemnity of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

Featuring youth of Polish parishes of New England, the Polish-language event will be held in conjunction with World Youth Day, Aug. 14 and 15 at the CzestochowaShrine at Jasna Gora, Poland: The LaSalette program will include a living rosary with tableaux representing the joyful mysteries, a procession and a 3 p.m. Mass.

Members of societies in Polish parishes are asked to wear uniforms or national dress and bring their flags and/ or banners. P~utici­ pants may meet at 9 a.m. at St. Joseph's Church, Central Falls, RI, for an 8.2 mile march to LaSalette, or may go directly to the shrine.

Msgr. Milewski has spent nearly all his priestly life at' Orchard Lake' preparing young people for the priesthood or for positions as lay leaders. He holds office or membership in many Polish church and civic organizations.

OL GRACE, WESTPORT Aug. 12 and 13, church basement, basketball sign-ups for girls entering 4th through 8th grade. Girls must be accompanied by an adult. CCD registrations will follow all weekend Masses except 7 a.m. Sunday Mass on Aug. 17-18,24-25. Those wishing to serve on parish council or finance committee may contact the rectory.

Garden flowers for weekend Masses may be brought to the sacristy Saturday morning.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Clothing drive is in progress for Sacred Hearts mission in Texas.

Clean, lightweight clothing and bedding and children's sneakers in good condition are needed.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Team couples from the Greater Taunton marriage preparation program will hold a cookout at the parish following 4:30 p.m. Mass Aug. 17. Altar boys will have an outing at St. Vincent's Camp, Westport, from 3 to 8 p.m. Aug. 16. Mass and Calix meeting for recovering addicts 6:30 p.m. Aug. 18. New members welcome.

WIDOWED SUPPORT New Bedford meeting 7:30 p.in.

Aug. 12, St. Kilian rectory basement. Topic: Sharing and Caring.

All welcome; nondenominational.

Fall River meeting 7 p:m. each fourth Tuesday, St. Mary's Cathedral School. Information: 999-6420.

ST. JOSEPH, NB The RCIA program for prospective adult converts will recommence in September. Information: Mrs. Boucher, rectory.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER RCIA inquiry classes begin Sept.

9. Information at rectory. The Men's Club honored new Eagle Scout Fred Ackerman with an inscribed plaque.

The rectory should be notified of home or hospital-bound parishioners in order that they may be visited.

Parishioners will be asked to sign a petition Aug. 18, requesting that the local cable company carry Eternal Word Television Network programming.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED SUPPORT GROUPS Fall River members of Separated / Divorced support group meet 7 p.m.

Aug. 13, OL Grace parish center, Westport; members of all support groups are invited toa presentation on Self-Esteem by Sister Jane Hogan, director of the Listening Place in Lynn, at 7 p.m. Aug. 14, Family Life Center,500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth. Cape & Islands group meets 6: 15 p.m. Aug. 18 at St. Pius X Center, S. Yarmouth, for small group and I to I ministry, at 7 p.m. for talk on spirituality by Father Mark Hession. Information: 548-1065; 3629873.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR St. -Stan Seniors meet I p.m. Aug. 12, school. Summer picnic noon Aug. 14, Colt State Park, Bristol, RI. Czestochowa prayer days Aug. 15 through 26, with Mass at 7:20 a.m. and evening prayer at 7 p.m., both with teaching by Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor.

ST. JAMES, NB The newly-organized prayer ministry will begin in September with an installation program. Mission cooperative program will take place at Masses this weekend.

O.L. HEALTH, FR Holy Ghost feast Aug. 17 and 18 with feast mass at noon Aug. 18 and procession following at 3 p.m.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, NB Exposition 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. each Friday at St. Theresa's Church with rosary at 6:30 p.m., followed by Benediction.

ST. MARY, NO. ATTLEBORO Teachers, aides and office helpers needed for CCD program. Informa_ tion: Sr. Pauline Louise.

SACRED HEART, NB CCD teacher needed for grade 7, aides for grade 7 and confirmation class.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Bishop Cronin will be principal celebrant at 10 a.m. Mass Aug. 18; Maryknoll Bishop Joseph W. Regan will speak at Masses this weekend on mission needs.

Stang '81 reunion Bishop Stang Class of 1981 will hold its 10th reunion 6:30 p.m. to midnight Nov. 29 at White's of Westport. All graduates from the North Dartmouth school's, Class of 1981 will receive information by mail by mid-August. John Racine is organizing the event. Questions may be directed to the Stang alumni office, 996-5602.

ST. THERESA,SO.ATTLEBORO Food pantry open 9 to II a.m. each Wednesday. Parishioners are asked to contribute food or paper goods at any Mass. CCD teachers needed: information, grades I to 5, 399-8177; grade 6, 761-7441.

ST. JULIE, NO. DARTMOUTH Dance for parish youth 7:30 to II p.m. Aug. 17, church hall to benefit muscular dystrophy victim Michelle Sabino. CCD registration for new students Aug. 24-25, Sept. 7-8. A Franciscan missioner will speak at Masses this weekend.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Father Anselm Moons will speak on mission needs at weekend Masses.

RCIA inquiry session noon Sunday, parish center. Grades 7 and 8 CCD teachers needed. Volunteers may contact rectory. Also needed: someone to arrange sanctuary flowers on Saturday mornings and a small piano for use at liturgies.

ST. JOHN, POCASSET ,New pastor Father Robert C. Donovan will be installed at 10:45 a.m. Mass Aug. 18by Msgr. John J. Smith, Cape and Islands vicar. A reception will follow in the parish center.

SACRED HEART, NO. ATTLEBORO Parish picnic 12:30 to 5 p.m. Aug. 18, Camp Kerr-Ana, Cumberland, RI. Swimming, games, activities, prizes. The new parish council has held its first meeting. In addition to ex officio and appointed members, elected members are Rosemary Achin, Warren Boehling, Carolyn Edgar, Jerome Kennedy.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS 'Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will speak at 9 and 11:30 a.m. Masses Sunday and will be principal celebrant and homilist at 10 a.m. Mass. Confessions and Portuguese-language Mass 6:30 p.m. for Brazilian community of Cape Cod. Healing Mass and service 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 with Father Edward Serena. Music by River of Life. Sponsored by Cape and Island deanery.

POLISH RADIO MASS The 12th anniversary of the weekly Polish radio Mass heard each Sunday at 7:30 a.m. over Station WICE, 550 AM, will be celebrated Sept. 9.

HOLY NAME, NB Incapacitated parishioners may sit in the front pews in order to receive communion from the ministers without leaving their places. A new sound system partially funded by the Couples' Club has enhanced the choir's ministry.

ST. STEPHEN, ATTLEBORO CCD teachers needed. Volunteers may call the rectory. Choir rehearsals begin 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22. New members welcome. A pro-life steering committee will meet 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 14 to help set up a parish program.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET CCD teachers needed for 4th, 5th and 6th grades, also first year high school. ' ST. MARY, SEEKONK CCD registration at rectory resumes Aug. 20.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET CCD information meeting for prospective teachers 7 p.m. Aug. 27.

Family Festival steak, hot dog and hamburger cookout for festival workers and families 6 p.m. Aug. 26.

praye~BOX To the Holy Trinity Glory be to the Son, who

by His Precious Blood delivered .me from hell, and opened for me the gates of heaven.:Amen.