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FATHER JOHN J. Perry, parochial vicar, and Father John A. Perry, pastor of Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville, of which Our Lady of Hope Chapel is a mission, stand by as Bishop Daniel A. Cronin greets congregation members at the chapel's 75th anniversary.

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In West Barnstable

,Unique Spanish monastic t~hapel celebrates its 75th year ~ The year was 1915. Many Portuguese Catholics were settled in West BarDiitable and attending St. Francis Xavier parish in Hyannis. But they wanted their own chulrch and they also wanted it to resemble the places of worship in their native land.

The story of how everything came together .lor them in Our Lady of Hope Chapel, West Barnstable, was told in 1988 by G. Margaret Rourke, a now-deceased pariishioner who was possessed of a merry pen.

On July 15, when Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and the priests of Our Lady olr Victory Church, Centerville, of which Our Lady of Hope is a mission, met at a special Mass to celebrat,e the mission's 75th anniversary, the attractive blue and white booklet that mar'ked the occasion included etchings by Marjorie Keary and G. Margaret Rourke's delightful history, which follows.

WASHINGTON (CNS) President Bush asked for prayers in an Aug. 8 nationally televised speech in which he outlined the deployment of V.S. troops in Saudi Arabia in an effort to stem Iraqi aggression in the Middle East.

"I ask that, in the churches around the country, prayers be said for those who are committed to protect and defend America's interests," Bush said near the end of his address from the Oval Office.

The deployment of V.S. armed forces - "all in the cause of peacl:," Bush said - came six days after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait, " installed a new government, and later massed troops along the Iraq-Saudi border.

"It became necessary to take this action," the president said. "A puppet regime, imposed from outside, is unacceptable. The acquisition of territory by force is unacceptable."

Bush said V.S. foreign polil:y goals in the Persian Golf crisis are the withdrawal ofIraqi forces from Kuwait, the restoration of the Kuwaiti government, the security of the Persian Gulf, and the pro-

Panama bishops ~sk victim co"mpensation

PANAMA CITY, Panama (CNS) - Panama's bishops have urged the United States to reduce its forces in the country and compensate Panamanians who were wounded'or lost relatives or property in the Dec. 20 V.S. invasion.

"We stress the right to compensation of the dependents and family members of people who died as At the intersection of Route 6A of place" in reference to it, but whatnumber of Portuguese people settl-" a result of the invasion, as well as and Parker Road in West Barnever you call it, officially it is listed ed in West Bamstable. Many were the rights of those who suffered stable, there is a little brick chapel. as "one of the finest examples of fishermen, others farmers, and still physical or material harm," the It has been called the Portuguese, Spanish monastic architecture in others worked in the flourishing Panama bishops' conference said or the Spanish, or the Moorish this country." And there's quite a local brick works. They. were in- in a statement issued Aug. 2.

In the statement, the' bish~ps Catholic Church. Sometimes you story behind it. cluded as part of St. Francis Xaveven hear "funny looking" or "out also called for a V.S. troop reBy the 1900s, there were a goodly Tum to Page II duction.

"The V.S. military presence [in Panama] cannot be justified outside of the areas strictly set asidl: by 'the canal treaties," the statement said.

V.S. troops continue to police the Panamanian capital.

"Panama demands respect from the V.S. government for its terri,· torial integrity, in keeping with the common principles of international law," the bishops said.

The statement also called for American aid in helping repair the battle damage and compensate OUR LADY OF HOPE Chapel, left; at the anniversary Mass, Fathers Perry, to left and those affected by it. In an Englishright of bishop; Msgr. John J. Oliveira, far right. Note the "perfect brick wall" described in the language summary of their docuchapel history. (Gaudette and Dumont photos) ment, the bishops said that it is "a

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tection of American citizens abroad.

Bush's troop deployment announcement came two days after the V.N. Security Council voted to apply sanctions against Iraq to isolate i~ economically from the rest of the world.

"The Vnited States will do its part to see that these sanctions are effective and to induce Iraq to withdraw, without delay from Kuwait." Bush said. "But we must recognize that Iraq may not stop using force to advance its ambitions."

The presence of V.S. troops on Saudi soil is "wholly defensive," Bush said. "America does not conflict. nor do we seek to chart the destiny of other nations. But America will stand by her friends."

The president asked oil-producing nations to increase output to delay the effects of an Iraqi oil cutoff on the world economy. He also asked oil companies to "show restraint and not abuse today's uncertainties to raise prices," and for Americans to conserve oil.

"Standing up for our principles is an American tradition," Bush said.

moral duty of the United States to provide sufficient help for reconstruction and compensation of those who were affected by the invasion." .

The bishops criticized the government of President Guillermo Endara, who was sworn in on a V.S. military base on the outskirts of Panama City shortly before the invasion.

"The Panamanian _~vernment should be autonomC~n its policy-making decisions," the bishops said, echoing charges that Endara is little more than a figurehead president who takes most of his leads from Washington.

Asked about the bishops' statement, Endara told reporters it was full of"very strong criticism" which he considered "totally unfounded." . More than seven months after the invasion there are still conflicting reports about how many people died in the military strike ordered by President Bush to oust military leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. Noriega. the armed forces chief who was the de facto dictator of the country. is in prison in Florida awaiting trial on drug and racketeering charges.

The United States has said some 500 people died but independent individuals and groups place the toll higher.

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Grief, shock expressed over Atlanta problems ATLANTA (CNS) - Archbishop Eugene A. Marino of Atlanta, who resigned his post in July after church authorities learned he had had an intimate relationship with a young woman, remained in seclusion in early August as news of the affair made national headlines.

On Aug. 4, three days after the first news of Archbishop Marino's affair, Father Michael Woods of Atlanta admitted that he, too, "was intimately involved with the lady mentioned in the Archbishop Marino reports." He offered his resignation as pastor of St. Jude the Apostle Parish in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.

The woman, 27-year-old Vicki R. Long, is a former singer and a single mother who three years ago filed suit against a priest in Columbus, Ga., in the neighboring Savannah Dioces.e, claiming he was the father of her daughter. She has tefused to talk to reporters.

Anthony Fontana, a Louisiana lawyer who has specialized in handling pedophilia lawsuits against church officials, told WXIA-TV in Atlanta Aug. 6 that he. is representing Ms. Long. fie said she denies having had any sexual relations with Father Woods, a 48-year-old Irish-born priest.

Bishop James P. Lyke, apostolic administrator of the Atlanta Archdiocese since Archbishop Marino resigned July 10, told reporters at an Aug. 2 press conference St. Anne's Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions that we have received to the Remembrance Fund during July, 1990.

Through the remembrance and honor of these lives, St. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence."

John Arminio. M.D. Raymond Audet Arthur Ayres Lorraine Brault Rev. Roland Brodeur Rev. Daniel A. Carey Helen Chace Helena Cwalina John and James Dowd Alice M. Duclos Joseph T. Drury Richard Dyer Mrs. Mary Fenney Robert Fontaine Claire S. Forczyk Jacobi. Kruczek Wilfred A. Lapre Patrick C. Leary John J. Long Miss Alice B. Masse Romeo H. McCallum Miss Jean McGinnis Louis Medeiros Elizabeth O'Donoghue Antone F. Oliveira Rosealma Ouellette Joseph Pypniowski Mary T. Regan Joseph C.Saulino William Shannon Russell Silvia Dr. Arthur Smith Joseph D. Souza Sr. M. Patricia Sullivan James Tavares .Mr. & Mrs. Francois Thibault Frank Viveiros 'Walter H. White

We are grateful to those who thoughtfully named SI. Anne's Hospi路 tars Remembrance Fund.

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NEW Y<j>RK (CNS) - An ther Ritter cannot be dismissed as the day after a local television stainvestigation of Covenant House "copy-cat" allegations because tion broke the news of Archbishop commissioqed by its directors those allegations were being made Marino~s relationship with Ms. found the ol'ganization was sound long before their public disclosure Long that church authorities learnbut that evidence of sexual mis- and often were disclosed to other ed of the archbishop's two-year conduct against its founder, Fran- persons at about the same times as relationship with her in mid-ApriL ciscan Fath~r Bruce Ritter, would the alleged events.

In early May, suffering chest have forced; his firing had he not pains and exhaustion, the 56-yearControversy over Father Ritter resigned. I old archbishop temporarily gave arose last winter when it was "Even if one were to accept Fa- revealed that the Manhattan disup his authority and went into sether Ritter's explanation of the trict attorney was investigating clusion at a retreat house in New events," the I-eport said, " ... Father allegations by a young man, later York under medical care and spisRitter exerci'sed unacceptably poor identified as Kevin Lee Kite, 25, itual and psychological counseling. judgment in' his relations with cer- that Father Ritter established a.

Bishop Lyke said Archbishop tain residents."

Marino submitted his resignation sexual relationship with him and The repott, released by Coven- used Covenant House funds to as archbishop of Atlanta to Pope ant House Aug. 3, said Father Rit- support him..

John Paul II in early June and the ter spent eVening hours alone in pope accepted it in July.

Similar charges came from other the company of "prostitutes with young men, and controversy also He said the announcement at trou~led pa$ts," and exposed himthe time, that Archbishop Marino arose over a secret trust fund Faself to "charges of improper con- ther Ritter had set up and loans to was suffering from "severe stress" duct that arb impossible totally to board members and staff. and needed a long rest, was true, rebut." , although it was not the whole When the allegations of sexual "It was ir~esponsible for Father story. misconduct surfaced, Father RitRitter, pre~ident of an organiza- ter denied any impropriety. He has Bishop Lyke said that, while tion entrust'ed with the welfare of made no public statements since news of the archbishop's "intimate young peop:le, to have put himself leaving Covenant House Feb. 27. relationship with a woman" was in such a defenseless'position," the not announced at the time of his The McGuire report said that report said.; resignation, the archbishop authoFather Ritter refused to be interRegarding allegations of finan- . viewed by investigators. rized him to confirm it if it be!=ame cial and administrative fi-regularipublic. , It also. said his superior, Father ties at Covenant House, the report Conall McHugh of Immaculate He declined to discuss any details that 1borrective actions had Conception Province in Union found except to say that the relationship, . begun shortly after Archbishop WEDNESDAY, Aug. 15, been taken'l City, N.J., declined to discuss any"This report would be incom- thing except his own service as a Marino was appointed to Atlanta is the feast of the Assumption, in 1988, has ended. a holy day of obligation. This plete and seriously misleading if Covenant House board member.

Father McHugh announced He said Ms. Long has filed a painting, "The Assumption of we did ndt1say that we found far more right Iwith Covenant House March 29 that the order had conlegal claim against the archdiothe Virgin," is by 16th-century than we found wrong with it," it cluded its own investigation of Facese, but he refused to give details.

Flemish painter Sir Anthony concluded. I "The organization is ther Ritter. He did not say whether . Responding to reports that Archbishop Marino had helped Van Dyck. It hangs in the sound and its work is essential and Father Ritter was found innocent or guilty, but said he had been her buy a house and contributed to Widener Collection ofthe Na- effective." j The repc;>rt was submitted by directed to "return to daily living her support, he said that if the tional Gallery of Art, WashRobert J. McGuire, a former New with the Franciscan community." archbishop gave her any money it ington, D.C. (CNS photo) York City! police commissioner Father Alwell said the order was was from his own personal funds. ~ired March 7 by the who was in touch with Father Ritter, but He said the archdiocese "in 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Covenant House board to investi- declined to say anything about his charity" had paid some medical this time of difficulty and sadness." gate all charges relating to the activity or plans. Regarding New bills for her, but it gave no money "Instances such as this misde- agency.

York Times reports that Father I directly to het, and no archdiocemeanor are quite infinitesimal The repo,rt cited extensive "cum-.

Ritter was thinking of leaving the san funds were used to support her compared with the good work of ulative evi4ence" dating back over Franciscans, he said, "We don't or her child in any other way. the church" or with "the previous 20 years th*t Father Ritter"engagknow where that's coming from."

As the nation's first black arch25 years of the archbishop's life," ed in sexual activities with certain In May, Cardinal John J. O'Conbishop, Archbishop Marino was Bishop Lyke said. residents atId made sexual advannor said that rumors Father Ritter widely recognized as the top leader' News that Father Woods admit- ces" towatd other people with might be leaving the priesthood of V.S. black Catholics. ted an affair with Ms. Long was whom he Worked. were false, and that it was "conSeveral of the other 12 black given to his parishioners at SaturIt said the charges against Faceivable" the priest might be given bishops in the country expressed day evening Mass Aug. 4 by Father a post in the New York ArchdioI shock and sadness upon learning Peter A. Dora, archdiocesan comcese. A spokeswoman for the archof the archbishop's resignation. munications director, who read a diocese said Aug. 3 that there had "I guess I'm running through a letter from Father Woods acbeen no further developments whole gamut ofemotions - shock; knowledging the relationship. regarding that possibility. embarrassment, disappointment, a In the letter Father Woods said Those ~ho feel that they speak At the time of McGuire's appointlittle bit of anger," said Auxiliary he had previously "denied any and no ode listens; that they dis-- ment, an oversight committee BishopJ. Terry Steib of St. Louis. such involvement" when ques- cuss appleS and get responses about chaired by William Ellinghaus, Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop tioned by church officials, but "this oranges; qr that their colleagues former president of AT&T, was Carl A. Fisher said he was "really morning, for the first time, I inare somehow not on their wave named to review the investigation. saddened," but he reminded a re- formed ... Bishop -James Lyke, length are Invited to attend a threeIn a statement printed at the porter that "the Bible and .the apostolic administrator, of the session workshop on Stresses of front of the report, the committee world are filled with people who facts."

Communibation. called it "a thorough, careful and .have used their failures as building He said he was not the father of To be directed by Dorothy J. honest appraisal," and endorsed blocks for a better future."

Ms. Long's child and would take a Levesque,1 it will be sponsored by "its conclusions and recommenBishop Lyke, who is also black, blood test to prove it. the Diocesan Office of Family dations." told Catholic News Service that Before he was made pastor of Ministry and will be held at 7 p.m.

Committee members serving with the archbishop's resignation from St. Jude the Apostle Parish in on three T1uesdays, Sept. 18 and 25 Ellinghaus were Holy Cross Fahis Atlanta post does not necessarJune 1989, Father Woods had and Oct. 2, at the Family Life Cen- ther Theodore M. Hesburgh, ily mean an end to his priestly been at St. John the Evangelist ter, 500 'Slocum Road, North retired president of the V niversity ministry.

Parish in the Atlanta suburb of Dartmouth. of Notre Dame; Rabbi Marc Tan"That question will have to wait Hapeville, where Ms. Long was a Noting that stress is often caused enbaum, a retired official of the for his recovery," he said. ;'What is parishioner and eucharistic minis- or increaSed by inability to com- American Jewish Committee; essential now is for him to regain ter. The parish has announced that municate Ieffectively with others, former Secretary of State Cyrus his health. He needs people's sup- she will no longer function as a Ms. Levesque says the workshop Vance; and former Federal Reserve port and prayers." eucharistic minister.

--sessions a're titled "Is Anybody in chairman Paul Volcker.

The Savannah diocesan priest Those Bodies" - How can I get 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington, where Archbishop against whom Ms. Long filed a them to '1listen" to me with their TH E ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Second Marino had served for 14 years as paternity suit in 1987, Father Donal eyes?; "I ~eally Am Speaking Eng- Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass. an auxiliary, said that on "count- Keohane, denied the claim and lish" - How can I get people to Published weekly except the week of July 4 reportedly proved with a blood less occasions we have experienced understartd what I'm saying?; and and the week after Christmas at 887 High- _ his pastoral concern and com- test that he was not the child's "Don't B~ So Stubborn" - How land Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02720 by Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall passion." father. can I helq people to compromise? the River. Subscription price by mail. postpaid Ms. Long has pending lawsuits, "Now," the cardinal added, "it is . Further information is available $11.00 per year. Postmasters send address time for us to respond with similar however, against him and the from the; Family Ministry office, changes to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7. Fall compassion to the archbishop in Savannah Diocese.

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St. Anne's conducts health screening at soup kitchen In a continuing effort to meet a pressing need for primary care and early intervention among the city's low-income, homeless and other needy populations, St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has begun a series of health screenings to improve delivery of services to the indigent.

The first screening was held recently at the Catholic Social Services office on Slade Street, among sites where the Fall River Soup Kitchen operates. Members of St. Anne's senior management team, including board chairman Sister Dorothy Ruggiero, OP, and hospital president Alan Knight, participated in the screening to better familiarize themselves with the problems presented.

The clinic screened 39 persons, checking height, weight, blood pressure and cholesterol level and the presence or absence of diabetes and lead poisoning. Where necessary, individual counseling followed in areas such as diet modification or other changes in life style. Several referrals were made for further medical attention.

The screening was publicized at the soup kitchen in advance. On the day itself participants were checked, had their meal, then returned for a report on findings.

The screenings are a project of St. Anne's indigent care task force, organized 18 months ago to study and respond to needs of the indigent population.

Composed of members of the community, hospital board and staff, the task force found primary

care and early intervention services seriously lacking for the indigent.

"We found that the medically underserved tend to access care only in an emergency" and the system cannot respond as well as if they had sought medical attention earlier, said Curt Wilkins, director of community and social services at St. Anne's. .

"We are finding that a majority of the area's indigent are waiting until their illness is most severe to seek medical attention and, in some' cases, not seeking help at all," said Sister Ruggiero. "At that point, the patient's condition is often more difficult to treat and more costly to the health care system."

St. Anne's, the area's only Catholic hospital, provided more than $889,000 worth of free care to the indigent in fiscal year 1989. According to Knight, that care and activities such as the health screenings are representative of the hospital's overall outreach efforts.

"We consider programs like the soup kitchen screenings natural extensions of our Catholic commitment to' providing health care services to all those who pass through our doors and to whom we reach out in the community," he said.

The results of the first clinic were very pO'sitive, Wilkins noted.

He said further screenings are planned.

"We want to try to access other populations and are looking at other potential sites," he said.

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Fire at Jasna Gora monastery leaves Black Madonna unharmed

IN ST. LOUIS, a McDonnell Douglas Corp. employee watches in a TV control room as company chairman John McDonnell announces that the firm will eliminate up to 17,000 jobs nationally due to defense cutbacks. The St. Louis archdiocesan human rights program has suggested a national "Marshall Plan for peace" to combat layoffs. (CNS/ UPI photo)

Black lrole stressed

NEW YORK (CNS) - The National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus laid plans at its recent annual meeting to participate in the 1992 observance of the fifth centenary of Columbus' voyage by calling attention to the black role in the history of the Americas, said caucus offic(:rs.

They said Precious Blood Father Among workshops at the 76th olic Charities USA Congress which Clarence Williams, executive proannual meeting of Catholic Chari- will begin developing a national ties USA, to be held Sept. 21 to 25 policy statement on families; lead- ducer of the Black Catholic Telin Hartford, will be a presentation ership institutes on strategic plan- evangelization,Network in Detroit,

by Robert Fournier, MSW, area ning, minority leadership prepara- was producing a package of study director of Cape Cod Catholic . tion, resource development and materials. But Holy Cross Brother Social Services. effective presentations; and a gen- . Roy Smith of Catholic Charities in Fort Wayne, Ind., caucus presiFournier will discuss "Spiritual- eral membership meeting. dent, and Father Warren J. Savity: The Missing Ingredient in Work All are welcome to attend the age of Springfield, Mass., vice with Suicide and its Prevention." five-day meeting. Further inforpresident, said involvement in the He has worked in suicide counsel- mation and registration materials 1992 observance would not be a ing and research for 13 years and is are available by calling diocesan matter of ".=elebration" for the at present conducting a 20-week Catholic Social Services at 674caucus. program, "In Memory. Still," at 4681.

"Columbus didn't really do anythe Hyannis office of Catholic thing for us," Father Savage said.

Social Services for persons who Rather, he said, caucus programs have lost a loved one through will emphasize the spirituality suicide. brought by black people enslaved The Hartford meeting is sponin the Weste:rn Hemisphere and Father Stephen A. Fernandes, sored by II New England Catholic, the history of their survival under Charities agencies, including that diocesan director of the Pro-Life oppressive conditions.

Apostolate, has announced several of the Fall River diocese. Some 1000 human service workers, ad- forthcoming activities. ministrators, parish and agency Noting that in response to his Childre~n social workers, counselors, com- earlier request that parishes seek PRINCETON, N.J. (CNS) munity activists and volunteers volunteers for pro-life programs, Delegates to a recent international from throughout the country are many people had come forward, interfaith conference at Princeton expected to be in attendance.

Father Fernandes said that a con- called for religious communities Convention headquarters will ference. for such representatives worldwide to help alleviate the would be held at St. James Church, sufferings of children from povbe at the Hartford Sheraton Hotel.

New Bedford, at 7:30 p.m. Sept. erty, disease, famine, illiteracy, Organizers say the opening genII. At that time possible parish drug abuse and social injustice. eral session will have Washington pro-life committee undertakings Cosponsored by the World ConPost syndicated columnist William and forthcoming regional and ference on Religion and Peace and Raspberry as its kickoff speaker.

Also addressing delegates will be diocesan activities will be discussed. the United Nations Children's Among regional initiatives will Fund, the conference at the PrincePanama Archbishop Marcos A. be the fourth annual Respect Life ton Theologit:al Seminary was in McGrath, CSC, who will speak on Walk to be held Sunday after- preparation for a Sept. 29-30 100 Years of Catholic Social noon, Oct. 7, in downtown Bos- World Summit of Children at the Teaching in the Western Hemton. Last year's walk, noted Father United Nations in New York. isphere.

Fernandes, drew over 10,000 parIn addition to Fournier's workCatholics, Jews, Protestants, ticipants. shop, 31 other sessions will address Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and Shintopics ranging from the effects of On the diocesan level, a holy toists were among the dozen EastAIDS on families to community hour for life is planned for 3 p.m. ern or Western faiths represented problem solving.

Dec. 30, the feast of the Holy Fam- at the conference that drew 150 Other highlights include a Cath- ily, at St. Mary's Cathedral. delegates from 40 countries.

Robert ,Fournier presenter at Charities·USA parley

CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (CNS) - Poland's Jasna Gora monastery was damaged by fire Aug. 7, but its chief treasure, honoring the patroness of Poland, remained intact.

Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, who had been on pilgrimage to Jasna Gora and had been staying at the monastery had left Czestochowa for Warsaw the day of the fire.

Father Jan Watroba said the fire destroyed the roof of the monks' living quarters, the oldest part of the monastery, but did not spread to the nearby chapel containing the Black Madonna of Czestochowa,a revered religious painting.

Black Catholic reflection day set In preparation for the seventh nationwide Black Catholic Conference, to take place in 1992, the Fall River diocese will hold the first of two days of reflection from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth.

The program will include song, prayer, praise and sharing and will be an occasion for African American Catholics and those who minister to them to meet. .Parishes whose members are interested in this outreach are asked to provide the name of a .contact person to Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan vicar for administration,

by Aug. 31. Such persons will work with the leadership team planning the October program and will be liaisons to their parishes.

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the moorif19-.., Borrowed Time Once again this country has failed to read the signs of the times and once again we are self-consciously becoming isola- . tionists. What other conclusion can one draw from the recent summit meeting of the European Community, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the so-called Group of Seven Industrialize<;t Democracies?

The main topic for each was, of course, Germany; yet many Americans just do' not accept this state ofaffairs. For too long we' have retained our postwar mentality, qmcerned in turn with World War II and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

Caught up in our own problems, we really have not realized what has been going on in Europe and its effect on our lives.

So'mehow, we had been led to believe that everything was A-OK in the United States. Now our fantasy world has been intruded upon by factory closings, declining housing starts and an 'outrageous tax imbalance; yet even in the throes of our current economic crisis, we think no one is better off than we.

Well, for those who have been reading the signs of the times in a dim light,it's time to lift the shade, let daylight in and take a good look at the world.

What they will see is that Germany is once again the center of Europe. This truth may gall Margaret Thatcher and her few followers, especially those in this country who cling to her fantasy' of Anglo-Americanism. There is no doubt, however, that Germany emerged from the summit as the victor.

Despite difficulties and hesitancies, a united Germany, led

by Chancellor Helmut Kohl, is the key to the new Europe.

From winning the early backing of the United States to contendiog with Russian reluctance, Kohl has forged a Germany that will- be a dynamic force in NATO and the European eNS photo I Common Market.

VOLUNTEER CAROLE ROBINSON OF CHRIST OUR KING PARISH, MT. PLEASANT, S.c., Accepting the fact of many internal difficulties but having PREPARES FOOD FOR HURRICANEIHUGO VICTIMS. NEARLY A YEAR AFTER THE the will to solve them, Germans have become not merely a HURRICANE STRUCK, AID IS STILL NEEDED BY MANY AREA RESIDENTS I force to be reckoned with but welcomed partners in the Euro"I was hungry and yor gave me to eat." Matt. 25:35 pean family.

The ordinary American citizen, however, seemingly has no interest in attempting to comprehend what is happening.

Many still cling to a Disney image of escapism and a soap opera mentality of what life is about.

By Father Kevin J. Harrington would opp;ose a woman's right to "I made two mistakes and they are Meanwhile our cities are in decay, our schools are farcical both sitting on the Supreme Court." an abortion. Presumably, had The political issues that have He was referring to Justices Earl Dukakis b~en elected president he and our ambitions are juvenile. recently monopolized our headand William Brennan.

Warren haVe appointed a justice " would -Living for the good life, forgetting the God life, we have for lines have become divisive because With due respect to Eisenhower, who refle6ted his pro-abortion all practical purposes made secularism our religion and way of Americans are finding it more and point ofvidw. How hypocritical to he wasn't wrong but the system life. In many areas, notions of responsibility and accountabil- more difficult to achieve a consen- feign outrage at the possibility that was right. Eisenhower could not sus on moral issues. Bereft of a ity are nonexistent.

Bush migh,t also appoint a justice have predicted the issues that would universal religious underpinning, face Warren and Brennan during Chancellor Kohl, for example, took charge of the economic moral standards have been reduced who agreed with him. their long years on the high court.

Our Fou:nding Fathers were persummit and won. America looked on. We simply seem to be to such buzzwords as right of priBoth were appointed at the time designing a system of spicaci<:lUs?n running out of steam, brains, energy, money and willpower. vacy, freedom of choice and free- checks and balances to prevent school desegregation was a major dom of speech.

All around us, our national house is in need of repair. any of the Ithree branches of gov- national issue. When Eisenhower Morality and legality ha've beMassive changes are needed, not just on the level of social ernment frlom becoming too pow- sent troops to enforce desegregacome so intertwined that the opinerful. The beauty of our democ- tion of schools in Little Rock, concern but in our total living. We can't fix up one room and ion of Supreme Court nominee racy is that;Justice Thurgood MarArk., he was upholding the Conall move into it as the rest of the house collapses.

David Souter on abortion is sought shall can speak of President Bush stitution at a time of great diSome might say this picture is too black but when one realize by the media and the Congress as in the mo~t vitriolic of terms yet vision. His. dramatic display of how drugs, alcohol, abortion, crime, AIDS, divorce and por- if it were the Holy Grail. power cleared the air and gave the retain his lifetime job on the bench.

The fact that almost 18 years nography are ruling our lives, one sees that .we are slowly Presidertt Bush is being asked to 'nation a clear signal that business after Roe v. Wade our country is . appoint a ~ustice who reflects his' as usual was over for those upholdsinking into the mud of our own inertia. still divided on the issue of abor- values: not those of retired Justice ing the separate, but equal fallacy.

But these are dynamic days and times. The world will never tion on demand is a clear indicaHow Justice Sandra Day O'ConWillia~).JBrennan. Former Pre~颅 again be the same. We must accept this reality and adjust to the tion that it can no longer be toler- ident nor and Justice Brennan's succesDwight Eisenhower was once changes abroad and those we must make at home. And we ated. State legislatures should enact asked if hi: felt he had made any sor will vote on the constitutionallaws to make 路convenience abor- mistakes ~s president. He replied: ity of the various state laws being must realize that" we are living on borrowed time.

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tions less and less available. Advocates of abortion on demand know that when decisions as to convenience abortions rest with the states rather than the high court, their troubles will begin. The battles in .

Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, Idaho and Pennsylvania demonstrate the widespread reluctance to tolerate abortion on demand.

Who can forget Governor Michael Dukakis' heartwrenching appeal to vote for him in order to ensure a woman's right to an abortion. Dukakis even reminded us of the advanced age of some of the Supreme Court justices and the likelihood that George Bush if elected president would be in a position to appoint justices who

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enacted will determine how far states can go in restricting a woman's right to procure an abortion. The other justices seem to have predictable views.

In general, state legislatures seem to have more regard for the right to life of the unborn child than for a woman's right to complete control over her power of reproduction.

As long as we look to the Supreme COI.!rt or Congress for guidance we will never arrive at a consensus on how restrictive abortion laws should be. Abortion advocates are in a panic because they know that if the people decide, abortion on demand will have to go.

Mature enough to drive?

Dear Dr. Kenny: Should I allow my 16-year old daughter to drive?

I shudder to think of her out there on the highway.• She doesn't realize how serious driving is or how dan. gerous it can be.

I'm afraid she'l go too fast or simply drive carelessly and have a fatal accident. What can I do? She wants to drive so much. - Washing· ton Most teenagers count the days till they can get their driver's license.

In our society, getting a driver's license is like a modern rite of puberty. It represents the transition from child to adult.

How do you know if she is old enough? Or mature enough? You don't.

Age alone is probably not a good measure of maturity. Some teens show very good sense. Others seem to act as if they had no idea that certain actions have troubling consequences.l wouldn't trust them to walk the dog.

One way to decide would be to trust the collective wisdom of society. As a community, we have decided that age 16 is old enough to drive a car.

A better way would be to gauge her maturity using a tried-andtrue measure. She is old enough to act like an adult when she can pay her own way.

I know parents who buy the car; pay for gas and insurance, pay for speeding tickets and then complain constantly about their teen's driving. They are always giving their teen leet'ures about car safety and driving responsibility.

I would do the opposite.

Let your daughter pay the costs and give her lots of encouragement and support. People are more apt to live up to support and praise than they are to grow from lectures and blame.

Driving is a privilege that accrues to those who earn it. What a strong motivation for your daughter to get and keep a job, in order to be able to drive.

What pride she can take in a car purchased with her own money.

You might supplement her funds or even match her money to ensure that the car has adequate brakes, steering and tires. But the teen should pay a hefty portion of the purchase cost.

Next is insurance. Again, a responsible teen should pay. You will need to add your daughter to your already existing policy. To obtain· a policy on her own would be prohibitive. She can' pay the difference between your rates with and without her.

If your rates increase again because of her carelessness, then she must pay a still larger differ- . ence. If, on the other hand, the rates go down because her good school grades have earned her a "good student discount," then she saves.

Of course, she should pay for her own gas. She may think twice about long trips or simply cruising town if she is paying for the.gas.

She should pay any tickets for traffic offenses. Car use might be restricted until fines are paid.

Again, consequences are a fa'r sounder and more practical m.otivation than lectures.

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Aug. 12 1974, Rev. Victor O. Masse, M.S., Retired Pastor, St. Anthony, New Bedford . Aug. 13 1896, R(:v. Edward J. Sheridan, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton 1964, Rt.. Rev. LeonardJ. Daley, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis

By Dr. JAMES & MARY KENNY You have asked an important question. How do we know when the step forward is worth the risk?

How do we know when our sons and daughters are ready for the responsibilities and dangers of growing up?

In the matter of owning and driving a car, you might let them "pay as they grow," using their financial responsibility as a measure of their maturity.

Aug. 14 1947, Rev. Raphael Marciniak, OFM Conv., Pastor, Holy Cross, Fall River 1969, Rev. Conrad Lamb, O.S.B., Missionary in Guatemala

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AlTENTlON: POSTAL JOBS!

Since the actual place of residence of JOSEPH ARMAND OMER LEMARIER is unknown.

We cite JOSEPH ARMAND OMER LEMARIER to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall.River on Monday, August 20, 1990 at 2:30 p.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the CAMMAERTS-LEMARIER case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Joseph ArmandOmer Lemarier, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this 2nd day of August, 1990.

Since the actual· place of residence of RICHARD QUARANTO is unknown. . We cite RICHARD QUARANTO to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Monday, August 20, 1990 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the WATKINS·QUARANTO case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Richard Quaranti>, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this 2nd day of August, 1990.

EDICTAL CITATION . DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FAll RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual· place of residence of BRUCE P. HIGGINS is unknown.

We cite BRUCE P. HIGGINS to appear per· sonally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on Tuesday, August 21, 1990 at 10:30 a.m. at 887 Highland Av~nue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the MAKEIN-HIGGINS case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Bruce P. Higgins, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Jay T. Maddock judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River. Massachusetts, on this 2nd day of August, 1990.

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By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

"The church doesn't need more negative statistics at this time!"

"Negative statistics only create more negativism and give ammunition to those who disagree with the church."

Those are the kind of complaints I have heard after releasing a study prepared for the U.S. bishops titled . "The Catholic Priest in the U.S.: Demographic Studies." The study predicts that by the year 2005, the

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The future church: glimpsing!the whole picture church in the United States will . Eucharist anymore in many parhave fewer priests, they will be ishes and that parishes without older and the ratio of priests to resident priests will fall into a Proparishioners will decline dram- testant type of congregationalism. atically.

Those are possibilities, of course.

If such statistics cause pain, why Still, the voices o(doom reflect a produce them? narrow outlook - one that needs The reason is that if the church to be balanced by other factors in is to plan for a successful future, it the total picture. needs it balanced picture of its What is the picture? present condition. To obtain this, Although we have fewer priests, it needs to learn as much as possi- we also have more fUlltime, dedible about all its ministries. The cated lay persons working in the priesthood is no exception. church. Twenty-five years ago when For the past 15 years the national we had a record number of priests, bishops' conference has been gather- we didn't have lay parish adminising data on church ministries in trators; permanent deacons, reliorder to study which ones are gious education coordinators and effective, where they are most a number of other parish ministers. effective and how to make them Nor were lay volunteers, such as .even more effective. those organized under the auspiThere are some, focusing solely ces of Maryknoll or the Jesuits, as on the priesthood statistics, who plentiful. Parish and financial' predict doom for the church. They councils were unheard of. And the contend that we won't have the position of diocesan chancellor,

. held today lin several places by nuns, was r~served to priests.

As for current concerns about the future a~ailability of the Eucharist in parishes, it should be remembered that in the past persecuted natidns with few priests always fou~d ways to provide the Eucharist. In fact, reverence for the Eucha~ist in those nations greatly increased.

What we,lare discovering today is that past models of the church, which centered everything around the priesthood, no longer are acceptable.ILay participation, the permanent diaconate and cultural changes are ~shering in new models.

Some as~ert that the new models are mo~ing us toward a married prieSthood, Others would object that even this way of thinking reflects' an old model of the church in ~hich everything had to be centered on the priesthood.

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They would contend that geater lay participation will lead to the development bf a much needed, and much better defined, lay spirituality.

Still others would argue that with fewer priests, the laity will appreciate the priesthood more and eventually encourage their children to become priests.

As you can see, our picture of the future number of priests needs to be balanced by a picture of o.ther ministries and cultural changes.

To obtain this total picture, we will need additional statistics on the effectiveness of lay ministry training centers, the permanent diaconate and lay ministries of all kinds.

But when I speak of their effectiveness, what I mean is this: Are these ministries helping us respond better to God's grace? Are we any closer to God because of them?

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Reasons for suicide difficu,t to comprehend By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

In early July the sad report of the death by suicide of Mitch Snyder, advocate for the homeless in Washington, D.C., caused many to mourn. He was a noble figure, a ray of hope to many who saw him as a courageous witness to the intolerable situation of the poor in 'a rich nation.

In conversations I had with coworkers, many said they found it

hard to understand how Snyder could have killed himself since he had his cause to live for and the respect of so many. I could only quote what a priest friend of mine always said when he had to deal with the tragedy of suicide. You can never know from the outside the depth of personal pain another is going through, in spite of appearances that might make him or her look as if everything's fine, he said.

My assumption from what I have read is that Snyder had much personal pain, and in the end did not have the resources of williert to deal with it. But he ieft his mark, a good one, a symbol of hope that people can still care for others.

May he be remembered for this

and not for the act that ended his life.

Mitch Snyder's story brought' back an old memory of a life that was in many ways similar to his. I knew a man back in the '60s, a clergyman from eastern Long Island who was consumed with fighting the injustice of poverty, racial prejudice and war, particularly the Vietnam War raging at that time.

Then one day, unexpectedly and tragically.. this young minister killed himself.

No one has yet written the final chapter on why people commit suicide. The reasons might be too complex for any of us who love life and can cope with its pain to truly

understand. Uitlerent people may have greatly different reasons.

Yet the~e would appear to be one common denominator. Those who end ttieir lives cannot be said to have dohe this by choice. Something had I to drive them to this desperate Jct. I suspect it is despair.

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ted States kill themselves every day. It is the eighth ranking cause of death in the United States.

The suicide rate is highest among the old. In the,age range from 75 to 84, 25.8 persons per 100,000 die each year by their own hand. Males far outnumber females when it comes to suicide, with 24,272 killing themselves in 1987 as compared to 6,524 females. Then there are the survivors.. The national center estimates that each suicide intimately affects at least six other people.

Somehow:it seems as if we should be' doing a, better job of ,'selling" life. If suicide has become the eighth leading cause of death in our nation, this is a health crisis that cries out for study and change.

Tinkerers are a 'b~eed apart By DOLORES CURRAN

I heard a news report on a most wonderful idea last June. It covered an event in San Francisco, a tinkerer's weekend. which drew from afar aficionados in the art of tinkering. Tliey offered exhibits, d.emonstrations and even a tinkerer's ball, but the best part was a booth for tinkering kids.

This bootl} was loaded with old radios, clocks, etc. which were sold to kids for a dollar. They even staffed the booth with tinkering adults who showed the kids how to

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

. Q. I read your column regularly and hope you can answer a question about a large Catholic church in our area called the Polish National Catholic Church. I know there are more ofthem here in our

get into the boom boxes, "by loosening these screws and then ...".

What a great idea.

Anybody who has a tinkering kid or spouse - and I have both - knows they are a unique breed.

They aren't as interested in something that works as how it works.

I can't count the times I've stood with my husband as he studied an object, turning it over and over in his hands, saying, "But I can't figure out how it works. See, this dial "Do we have to understand how it works to use it?'" I interrupt.

"Let's just believe it does."

But life isn't that simple to one who tinkers. Of course he has to understand how it works. The rest of us buy it, break it, and turn it over to him to repair. And let me tell,Young women assessing mari-

tal qualities in a man, you cannot six gathered grandchildren and while the irest enjoyed the sparks go wrong in marrying a tinker for maybe foity-five minutes before unless he's obsessive of course.

Whenever I'm frustrated by the realizing Ithat sparks get boring many electronic devices that pos- . and set the toys aside, Mike plunged sess us, I say in irritation, "I can't and studied, plunged and studied.

Then tie got a hammer and in get this thing to work," and minutes later, it works. Or if I'm toy- front of u~ smashed the toy in two. ing with a troublesome redecorat- Grandma/was horrified and labeled ing project, he gets the gleam of him destr1uctive. He looked at her challenge in his eyes, steps in and in puzzlement and said, "But Grandm~, how does it work?" solves the problem.

I'm convinced tinkerers are born, I was chagrined, of course, but I not made. At age three, they start . knew thisl kid. He came out of the taking their toys apart to see how delivery r60m examining the safety they work. I'll never forget the pins on ijis diapers. His favorite look of horror inmy mother's eyes book at seven was one I found for as my son, then eight or so, smashed him, Whdt Makes It Work?, which a little toy she gave him just an showed illustrations of the inner hour earlier. It was one of those workingsl of light bulbs, hair drymetal disks with a plunger which, ers, and d,ther every day objects we when pushed; emits sparks. take for granted.

She gav.e one to each of about TodayJ at 25, he can repair his I

car, his toaster oven, and his computer - the three essentials in his life. I tried to tell my mother way back then that mechanical toys for him were not playthings but objects that challenged his imagination.

The best toy for Mike was an old clock, a discarded curling iron, or anything else condemned to the trash heap. He was overjoyed when I found a two dollar antiquated and broken typewriter at a garage sale. He spent days taking it apart and studying it.

Tinkers also save everything because, in addition to taking things apart, they put things together.

They keep dozens of little boxes labeled "springs," "wires," and "hooks." They are a hardware store owner's delight. And they're a joy to have around the house.

What is the Polish Nation~ICatholic Church .

I . state. Can you explain where this The situation worsened until, church came from? Is it Catholic? first in Illinois and then in Penn.(Pennsylvania) sylvania and elsewhere, the moveA. The Polish National Catholic ment evolved into outright schism Church began in the United States. and separated from the Roman Its history is complicated and often Catholic Church. The group named confus!ng. . itself the Polish National Catholic DUring the fmal decades of the . Chur~h. . .. last century, several groups of PolIn Its behef and worship, thiS ish immigrants found themselves church is quite similar to ours, at in serious, sometimes violent, dis- least as we were before Vatican agreement with other priests and Council II. bishops, especially concerning This church is distinct, incidenownership and operation of their tally, from another schismatic parishes. (separated) church in the United

States which was in the news recently,: about which some have requested information.

Arch~ishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church 6rSouthern California was of~ciati*g bis~op ~t the May 12 eplscopl;'ll o~dmatlOn of ~ather George ~talhngs, former priest of the Arcpdiocese of Washington, who has started his own AfricanAmeric~n Catholic Congregation.

Since/ Archbishop Bridges apparently is a validly ordained bishop, ihis ordination of Father I j'

Stallings is considered valid but unlawful in the Catholic Church.

According to canon law, no bishop may ordain another bishop without explicit approval of the Holy Father, the pope.

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Eastern Europe WASHINGTON (CNS) Three teams of U.S. bishops are visiting or will visit Eastern and Central Europe, including the Soviet Union, in August and early September to discuss needs in the region and an American Catholic response.

The first team, led by Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, is meeting in Vienna, Austria, with representati:ves of Catholic aid agencies and is visiting Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. The trip began Aug. I and concludes tomorrow.

With Archbishop Mahony, chairman of the USCC Committee on International Policy. are San Antonio Archbishop Patrick E. Flores; Norwich, Conn., Bishop Daniel P. Reilly;. Eri~.!~ ..1Qb1h __ preSIdent of the De Rance Foundation; and Bradley Foerster, a Catholic Relief Services staff member based in Geneva.

Archbishop Flores and Bishop Reilly ace members of the new USCC Ad Hoc committee on Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, a panel appointed in LOCAL ARTIST Alban March by Cincinnati Archbishop Chouinard, a retired Fall Daniel E. Pilarczyk, USCC president. ,

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- A second delegation, led by cently contributed two paintNewark, N.J. Archbishop Tbeo- ings to the interior decor of dare E. McCarrick was slated to his home parish, Notre Dame visit Poland. Czechoslovakia and de Lourdes. His portrait of Yugoslavia Aug. 18 to 30. the Virgin Mary, detailed at Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin and St. Louis Archbishop -top, was installed in the church John L. May, chairman of the ad and blessed by pastor Father hoc committee, will head the third Ernest E. Blais this summer. delegation, traveling to the Soviet Chouinard also painted the Union Aug. 27 to Sept. 6.

- scene from the Gospel story "These delegatioDs represent the of the Prodigal Son which first major slep in what the bishops envisiQn as a substantial program hangs at the church entrance. of aid by American Catholics to Each of the paintings was the long-suffering church in these created from a pre-existing countries.... Archbishop Pilarczyk picture. said.

The usce said the visits are to help ascertain needs and priorities of the church in the region and to coordinate U.S. church aid with the activities ofthe region's bishops. lene" tire wdt"Oll'led but the edilOr mef\les the nlht to condense or edit, if deemed nec:e_ry. All "Equally important," Archbish- leUe,., m~st be silne~ tlnd idelu~e a home or bllSiness op Pilarczyk said, "the delegations lIddrQs. They do 1101 n~ril" eAprcss the cditonaJ VIews of The Anchor will be a key parI of a process of renewing and deepening bonds of solidarity with the church in Central and Eastern Europe --bonds that had been broken or severely Dear Editor: Today I was driving in a torren~ weakened in past decades due to tial downpour and I cQutd ha~dly government interference."

The U.S. bishops intend to open see the road. Slowing to a snail's a temporary office at the usee as pace and incurring the wrath of a clearinghouse for information fellow travelers, I continued to my on needs and programs in Eastern destination. Harder and harder and Central Europe. The office the summer rain came. threatenwill also encourage new initiatives ing to turn roadways into canals.

I must admit to being somewhat

by U.S. Catholics and coordinate fearful, especially after red dashaid efforts. board lights began winking at me each time I passed through the small rivers..

TRENTON, N.J. (CNS) When I reached home and the Bishop John C. Reiss of Trenton safety of my driveway, I relaxed a little. I thought of what keeps you has ordered that politicians favorgoing through such harsh moments ing abortion get no Catholic honand how untouched I trUly was by ors, be barred from speaking on nature's venom. church property and hold no church offices. In a letter to pasI realized that faith is like the tors, diocesan office heads and safety of a car during the rains of school principals, Bishop Reiss life. It propels you, keeps you said he had put into writing longmoving toward unseen destinations standing diocesan policy ';.0 inand assures yOll safety even when struct those concerned about the battered by the elements. seriousness of the issue."

It js very difficult to press onHe aimed his policy at Catholic ward when all around is dark and politicians who are pTo-abortion menacing but God's greatest gift or who claim· to be personally of faith seeded in love is that sus~ opposed '·but will not allow their taining life force. moral principles to influence their Jean Quigley public re~ponsibi1ities."

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For the first time, a Catholic "tent revival" will-be held at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. Taking place at 7 p.m. next Monday

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Letters Welcome Letters to the editor are welcomed. Allietlers should be brier and the editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All letters must be silDed and contain a home or business address.

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Prior Experience: Insurance broker for a casualty agency.

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the nation preaching parish missions. During the revival program they wiU attend daytime training seminars and courses in ministry at LaSalette Center. "'When the sun goes down," he said. "'seasoned mission teams will put into practice the skills and talents they have worked on _and will preach the Good News to the people of Southeastern New England.

"Highly evangelistic in nature," he explained, Kthe evening revival sessions will offer the sacraments of reconciliation, anointing of the sick and Eucharist, as well as the opportunity to reaffirm commitments made at baptism, confirmation or holy orders.

KThis is an exciting new venture in the annals of contemporary Catholic evangelization," Father Delisle concluded.

Getting Through "We should not presume that God will miraculously remove our problems, but we should rather recognize that God leads us through them, supporting and strengthen~ ing us on the way."-Martin H. Padovani

"For a l1umbtor of ~'i'ClrS ·,he thought ofen/firing a telig;ous.r.·QRImuniry woUld fleeti1lgly cross my mind. The thDuSh,s b«a{ne more fr~quent and I~ss fleeting Un/ill had /() make a dedsion ...one which I will tJeJ'er regret. It i.~ a . Mauri/rtllife thur I ha~'e been (·aJled to. CI life liwd roraJI.rJor God lnld ont which is fully rewarded by His lo.~.

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The following stories by Barb Fraze, Catholic News Service assistant foreign editor, were written after she participated in a UNICEFsponsored tour for journalists of Central America. She also took the accompanying photographs, STREET KID Carlos Coy sniffs glue as he admits he wouldn't like his family "to see me this way. I'm lost."

Children are victims SAN SALVADOR (CNS) Seventeen-year-old Marcial Portillo sits in a wheelchair in the surg-

ical- ward of the military hospital in San Salvador. His right leg is a stump, blown off to the hip when he stepped on a mine.

Marcial recalls the day, about two years ago, when he and his twin brother were "recruited" into the army in San Vicente, El Salvador.

"I was going with my family to Mass. It was a holy day. And when we came out of -church, I was re-

OSCAR RAFAEL JULE, held by his mother, is among babies benefiting from a Salvadoran immunization program.

Others are less lucky. The nation's infant mortality rate is 56 deaths per 1000 babies born.

cruited." he said.

The Portillos complained to local officials that their sons were under legal age for military service, but to no avail. Nearly two years later, Marcial lost a leg; his twin is still fighting.

Forced recruiting of minors is among problems affecting children in El Salvador after a decadelong civil war in which 70,000 people including 60,000 civilians -~ have . died.

Children also face becoming orphaned by the war, developing mc;:tItal illnesses, and being put to work full time at an early age.

UNICEF, the U.N. Children's Fund, estimates,that 350,000 Salvadoran children, or one out of every seven ~ have been directly affected by the war. UNICEF estimates that half a million people have been displaced by the war, and nearly 60 percent of those are children.

A UNICEF official said he believes the military gangs who do the recruiting are more interested in physical stature than a child's age when they make their sweeps.

Msgr. Jose Urioste Bustamante, vicar general of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, said that when a bus travels through the city, sol-

diers often force it to stop and pull said, because the ·previous day the young men off. The method is some guerrillas had threatened hi-s common among guerrilla forces, mother. too, he said.

Enmanuel de Jesus Ramirez, The vicar general said many 12, and his two brothers have lived children need psychological treat- at the orphanage for two years. ment to overcome the effects of Their mother is alive, but cannot war. afford to support them.

But at one orphanage in ZaraEnrnanuel's father was caught goza, El Salvador, administrator in cross fire between the guerrillas Herman Aguilarm said, "When and army. the psychiatrist doesn't know the "I don't remember; I was smaller trauma very well, he does more then;' ,he said. harm than good."

Enmanuel is learning carpentry The orphanage - Comunidad and wants to be a carpenter when Oscar A. Romero - shelters some he grows up - bopefullyin a 170· war orphans or children whose peaceful country, he said. parents cannot afford to raise them.

"Maybe everyone will give up so Run by the Sisters of Charity of we won't have a war anymore," he the Incarnate Word of Houston, it said. takes in children from ages 6 "Peace is that all of us are at months to 18 years. peace and not at war. And war is Ana Delmy Masariego, 17, has that they come and kill children lived at the orphanage about six and people," he said. years. A nun said she is safer than if she were at home.

Shortly after Ana's mother died of illness in 1982, her father was on GUATEMALACITY(CNS)a bus. Soldiers stopped it and accused him of being a guerrilla. When l3-year-old Nahaman CarHe tried to explain that it was mona Lopez was kicked to death impossible for him to be a guerrilla by Guatemalan police in March, because one of his legs was severely officials of the local Covenant crippled. The soldiers shot him House affiliate decided to get tough, said director Bruce Harris. anyway.

Since then, Casa Alianza ~ as Ana gave her interpretation of the war: "Neither of them [guerril- Covenant House is known in Spanish - brings charges against "anylas or army] wants to give up."

She enjoys living with the other body who uses physical or sexual girls in one of many houses at the abuse" on the children, Harris said. orphanage.

In a recent interview, he said "We talk to each other as if we Casa Alianza and other child are sisters," she said.

When she leaves the orphanage advocacy groups have brought next year; she hopes to get a job charges against: - Police officers for allegedly using one of the skills she has beating two of Nahaman's friends. learned.

- A 38-year-old man who alleg"I've learned how to be a seamstress, but I also learned how to be edly pays 5 quetzales (just over SI) a baker and administrator," she to sexually abuse cbildren.

- Police officers who forced said.

For now, however, she said she two children to swallow the bags is afraid to go out because she does of glue the kids were caught sniffnot have a birth certificate, an-d ing. ~ Police officers who took teensoldiers could detain h~r.

Jorge Lopez, 12, also lives at the agers into the basement of a shoporphanage. He has studied baking ping center and set attack dogs on and mechanics and currently is them.

"What is distressing is not one helping to make chapel benches.

Jorge said he never knew his case has been concluded," Harris father. His mother was shot by said.

"These kids are not angels," men hiding in a taxi outside their Harris said. "These children rob, home.

"I think they were guerrillas," he steal '[but] most of them without

Fighting for kids

violence.. They only reflect what society has tausilt them to do."

-The balding Harris - known as -Frente Papa" ("Forehead Papa,,) to' the kids ~ estimates ,_ that between 1,000 and 3,000 children live fulltime on the streets of Guatemala City.

"There is no food on the table at home," and many are victims of physical abuse, often by stepfathers.

Casa Alianza sends out "street educators" to work with the kids.

They carry first-aid kits to help treat cuts or other injuries.

At Casa Alianza, children find shelter, showers, secondhand cIathing, dental care, sports, classes and "more than anything a safe place to live," Harris said.

After three months at the cen~ ter, children can be moved to a group home and a special home has been set up for teenage prostitutes with small children.

The center houses 60 to 70 children per night, who are free to leave if they choose. Each time they return, however, the staff makes it a little harder for them.

Harris said this IS done in little steps: Initially. a child is not questioned; if he leaves. and returns, he might have to promise to brush his teeth every day.

Violence is forbidden in the shelter. Harris said. Children are occasionally expelled for a few hours.

"A child often has hit rock bottom on the streets before he realizes the street is not a good place to be," Harris said.

Cecilio, 12, has been in and out of Covenant House. He fights the urge to return to the freedom of the streets.

"One day I was on the doorstep," C~cilio said. "I saw one of the kids [outsideJeating something I liked. Once I was in the streets, I wanted to sniffglue again," he said.

Cecilia's hair is short ~ he had hi> head shaved after police dumped glue on his head.

"When we arc out in the street and we start smelling the glue, we pass out," he explained. "Then the policemen come and search for the glue and put it on our heads."

The glue dries quickly, he added.

Gasoline or paint thinner is needed to loosen it before the hair can be cut.

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On an overpass in a poor section of Guatemala City, Carlos Enrique . Coy, 14, sat on a wall, sniffing a nearly empty bag ofglue. Wearing worn shoes, brown pants and a blue sweatshirt, advertising "Iowa Peace Institute;" he talked about the Casa.

"I don't like to be there anymore," he said. "I got bored from being there."

Carlos said he pays slightly more than the equivalent of a dollar for a bag of glue. To gelthe money, he steals and sells the merchandise.

MIf we steal from somebody in a car, they don't chase us," he pointed out.

He said he sleeps on the steps of nearby buildings, and if he gets hurt, "the street educators heal us." Although police have dumped glue on his head, once they let him go when he was caught stealing a tire jack, he said.

Carlos knows where his family is and said he would like to return, "but just to see them."

"I wouldn't want to stay," he said.

"I wouldn't like them to see me this way. I'm lost. I'm ashamed for them to see me."

Glimmers of hope LOS AMATES, El Salvador (CNS) - Ana Isabel Polanco's portable cooler carries life for children of Los Amates. Inside it are vaccines for children under 5.

Ms. Polanco walks around puddles to the mud and wooden houses in the village of Los Amates, El Salvador, calling to the mothers inside. She provides their children with oral polio vaccine and vaccination against three of the Third World's biggest killers: measles, whooping cough and tetanus. She also leaves two packets of oral rehydration solutions at each house, with explanations of how to use them. Each year in Central America, 30,000 children under 5 die as a result of dehydration from

drastically over tbe last few decades.

In Costa Rica, 13.8 infants die for every 1,000 births.

In EI Salvador, tllle infant mortality rate is 56 per 1,000 births.

Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua have higher rates of infant mortality.

Church an4 government workers and volunteers anfworking to reduce the dismal statistics: 37 percent of infant deaths, in Honduras are due to diarrheal diseases; 85 percent of Nicaraguan children who died in 1988 were malnourished, 45 percent s'everely so; and only 58 percent of the population of El Salvador has access to latrines or systems ofhuman waste disposal.

"Our big problems are lack of food, malnutrition, murder and torture," said Msgr. Jose Urioste Bustamante, vicar g,eneral of the San Salvador archdiocese.

Since 1985, the Catholic Church in El Salvador has been instrumental in negotiating "days of tranquility," during which fighting ceases and health workers are allowed into guerriHa-controlled areas to vaccinate children.

In Honduras, the government is "designing specific programs" to channel aid directly to mothers and children to help them through severe effects of economic restructuring, said President Rafael L. Callejas.

UNICEF currently is negotiating a deal with Pepsi and Coke to advertise the oral rehydration program on their one-liter bottles the size of bottle needed to mix the salt solution. ',H-",<r;~'A

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ALSO AT the Romero Orphanage, a giirl practices sewing.

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Home care of elderly

By Dr. Jam.....d Mary Kenny

agencies in your' sister's area for further information.

Governments are learning that some people who are put in nursing- home~ could manage in their own homes with help.

Dear Mary: My sister retired three yean alo at the ale of 70.

Sbe bad worked for a medl.aI doctor as a ....ptloDlst.

After beinl bome several months The average person in a nursing sbe fell down ber stairs, bit ber home exhausts personal funds in bead and was brain damaled. Sbe less than two years, and then usuwas also bospttaUzed for broken any relies on government funds. ribs.

- To address this situation~ the After sbe .ame bome, ber CHOICE program is available in memory beun to fall ...d sbe bas some areas through state agencies. ptten worse. The doctor d1aposed The.family pays what they can, Alzbelmer's dIseaae. Now sbe do.. 路 and various home health Care pronot know ...ytblnl that Is lolnl viders come to the home to assist on. the family. A Council on Aging in Her husband ...d daupter are her area should have information paylnl someone to take care of on.such programs. ber, elpt boun a day, 57 or 58 ...

Do not rule out friends to supbour. Tbelr funds are runnlnllow. port your sister and her family. A Is there anyone wbo .... belp tbem church group in tbeir parish might be able to donate a certain number out? - New Jeney. of hours eacb week at no charge.

You have raised one of the most If your sister belonged to a pressing problems ofour day. How businesswomen's club or if her does a family carc for a member husband belongs to a lodge or serwhen the ailing person needs vice organization, the members round-th~lockassistance? might organize volunteers to assist How can an ordinary family the family. afford help in such circumstances?

Such volunteer serviceS are inWhere can people turn for h.lp? valuable for a beleaguered family.

As your relatives realize, proGovernment assistance is availviding fulltime help is ""pensive. able for persons who have few There is no easy answer to the assets or who have exhausted most problem. of their ....ts.

Adult daycare is an option that The local Welfare Department . might be less expensive. Some can explain w~en a person is eliginursing homes provide progt1!J;DS ble for such service and what serfor adults such as your sister on a vices are available. daily basis.

No easy answer is available for Contact nursing homes, a Counthe very hard question which you cil on Aging or other senior citizen have raised.

eHA testifies for national health plan WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Catholic Health Association representative recently told a congressional committee that the United States should join "the rest of the world's industrialized democracies" in establishing a nati<mal health program.

Sister Mary Roch Rocklage, chief executive officer of the Sisters of Mercy Health System in SI. Louis. testified one day after Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan told an Atlanta meeting he would not recommend such a program to the president.

READER Millard G. Cramp of Forestdale has suuested that we carry listings of the reaclings at daily and Sunday Mass both as an encouragement to daily Scripture reading and as a way to unite with daily Mass even if a person cannot attend physically.

Here they are, from tomorrow through Aug. 25.

Your response to this feature will determine whether we continue to carry it. Let us hear from you!

Appearing before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, Sister Rocklage represented the Catholic Health Association whose Select Committee on Indigent Care she chairs.

She urged rejection of short-run approaches to fixing a "dysfunctional" health care system.

"The quick fix wow won't help over time," Sister Rocklage told the subcommittee. which is considering various health insurance options. "You have to have a vision of what the system should be."

A quotable cardinal When the time comes for me to whether my writing might be cash in my chips, one of my fond- unduly influenced by the powerful eR- wishes is to have something I style of this master nf the lanluive said or written be great enoug!> guage. The approved guides for to be publisbed in Bartlett's Famil- newspaper writing call for short iar Quotations. sentences, after all, and Newman's Even bigger than that. I'd like to sentences often seem endless. have a quotation of mine become But who dare raise questions of so popular that even the name of style ahout the genius who prothe author is forgotten. duced hymns like "Lead, 'Kindly These highly unlikely achieve- Light," poems like tbe "Dream of ments came to mind as I contem- Gerontius," a matchless biography, plated my 73rd birthday, whicb, "Apologia Pro Vita Sua," two God willing, I will celebrate Aug. novels, and classics like"An Essay 11. The date is not important~ on the Development of Christian except this year it's also the cen- Doctrine" and "On Consulting the tennial of the death of Cardinal Faitbful on Matters of ConJohn Henry Newman. science"?

Cardinal Newman has been a model of mine ever since toy publie bigh sehool days, when no one ~ informed me tbat be was a Catholic.

His literary output, from his Anglican days until he became a ESMOND, N.D. (CNS) ~ Catholic, a priest and then a cardinal, is so enormous that it surfaFather Witalis Banasiewicz, 84, a ces in most unlikely places. prisoner for four years in the Nazi My favorite Newman quote concen~ation camp at Dachau, shows up regularly witbout attri- Germany, has died. Since 1970, he bution on plaques in nursing had been pastor at 5t. Boniface Church in Esmond. homes~ memorial cards on priestly During World War II, he was anniversaries, even in my World War II "Song and Service Book one of 1.500 Polish priests rounded for Ship and Field." up by the Nazis and sent to Dachau.

"0 Lord. support us all the day He wei~hed only 75 pounds when long," it goes~ "until the shadows U.S. troops liberated Dachau.

"Tbey [the Nazis] gave us grass lerigthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed. and soup or rotten potato soup. Usuthe fever of life is over, and our ally three or four potatoes were the work is done. Then in Thy mercy main meal," Father Banasiewics grant us safe lodging. and a holy later told a U.S. reporter. ~Starva颅 rest, and peace at the last." lion"was so terrible that people ate Newman said it first 路in an Ig34 .anything. If they could catch a cat sermon, and it entered the Ian-. they'd elt it."

Father Banasiewicz said he had guage through the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. His moving been used for malaria experiments words will be prayed, I predict, at Dachau.

"They brought a cage of mosuntil the end of the world.

His rich prose style came alive quitoes and put them between my when I read bis "Idea of a Univer- legs. After I got malaria, I had sity" in my junior high school Eng- fever every day. They would try to lish Class. Miss Morse, a great cure me. Then after a few months teacher, wanted us to be fa~iliar they would infect me with a differwith the greatest writers in the ent type of malaria and do it over again," .le said.

English tongue.

Father Banasiewicz said he volunNewman's work also surfaced in my high school and college Eng- teered t,) learn carpentry. Prisoners wh() did not volunteer were lish classes, but I did not learn his key role in the Oxford Movement forced 10 dig a large grave and and 19th-century English Cath- were executed at the site.

Once the priest was beaten by a olicism until I joined the Newman Club for Catholic students at the guard fH giving a blanket to a sick priest. The beating was so hard University of Minnesota.

Familiarizing myself with his extraordinary werks, I soon was lecturing on his work and was even named a member of the John Henry Newman Honorary Society, now apparently extinct.

As a journalist, 1 wondered

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Efforts to raise the brilliant English cardinal to the ranks of sainthood will be intensified during his centennial year. His influence and popularity continue to grow and some of his works are being republished.. His feast day could be Aug. II. I wouldn't mind sbaring my birthday!

,-wbo.was prisoner at Dachau dies that Father Banasiewicz's face was covered with blood.

"Jesus gave his life. I am complaining because I shed a few drops of blood," Father Banasiewicz recalled saying to himzelf.

The guard also refused him food for the day. but later another official gave him a hat filled with leftover potatoes. "The Lord had given me my reward for accepting suffering," Father Banasiewicz said.

The priest said he "prayed ha'rd" throughout his imprisonment. Oeprived of his rosary beads, he used his fingers to pray the rosary.

When word leaked out that Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler's second in command in the Third Reich, ordered the camp evacuated, and its 30,000 prisoners shot and then burned in a nearby forest, the priests at Dachau began a n(jv~ ena, Father Banasiewicz said.

Three times the camp commander ordered the prisoners out to be shot, but backed down, not wishing to carry out Himmler's order.

On the last day of the novena, Dachau was liberated.

Father Banasiewicz was a chaplain in camps for displaced persons until they closed in the early 1950s. He then emigrated to tbe V oited States and served at parishes in Toledo, Ohio, and Olga, N.D., before his pastorate in Esmond.

TillS MOMENT of spontaneous love between two genera:ions was captured by Ed Lettau of U.S. Catholic Magazine and won him a best black and white photo award in a .

Catholic Press Association contest. (CNS photo)

Our Lady of H~pe,'a Work of Love Continued from Page One ier parish -in Hyannis. By 1913, they wanted a church of their own on the north side, and they would like it reminiscent of the little churches in their homeland. They lucked out!

Their new pastor in Hyannis, Father Mortimer Downing, was not only sympathetic to their needs, but enthusiastic about their part of the Old World.

Mortimer Downing was born in Ireland in 1863. At that time, the Catholic Church was being suppressed in that country and had to have its seminaries on the continent. He attended one in Paris almost in the shadow of the Louvre. Next to his ecclesiastical studies was his love for art and architecture, and he spent so much of his spare time in the Louvre and visiting the cathedrals, his physician warned him that he could get a permanent stiff neck.

His last year, he was assigned to the Basque country to help out. He was ordained in Paris in 1888 and came directly to the Providence diocese, of which Fall River was a part. (His family had moved there during his absence.) Father Downing progressed steadily up the ladder to his appointment as pastor in Hyannis in 1913.

The first thing the new pastor did in regard to ~he chapel here was to get a good architect, a "Matthew Sullivan of Boston."

Sullivan was born in Boston in 1868. He was educated in Boston and served his architectural apprenticeship under the chief architects for the city, working his way to the top. .

At the time the chapel in West Barnstable was being planned, (1913).Father Downing was 50, and Mr. Sullivan 45, and you can't help but think they were in for some fun with this venture!

The George family in the village donated the land, and the then. flourishing West Barnstable Brick Company contributed the bricks at cost. The company foreman, Emilio Silva, handpicked the bricks to go into the chapel and was overseer for much of the bricklaying.

Another member of the parish, Wilton Childs, was builder.

The men in the parish all pitched in and helped out wherever they could as a labor of love. By 1914 the T-shaped foundation hole had been dug and included a partial basement or "undercroft" as it was then called, constructed of fieldstone of which West Barnstable has plenty, to accommodate a wood burning stove. One of the still-active ladies in the parish, Mary Duarte O'Neil who was brought up across the street ftom the church, remembers her father going over every Saturday evening in cold weather and starting the fire in the stove for Sunday Mass.

In the early 1970s, Father John Feeney, Ii retired priest from the White Mountains, took an active interest in the chapel and managed to get central heating installed, the electrical system updated and many other improvements, including a new organ.

"Spanish monastic" is an eclec-' tic term that translates to "the type of architecture that the monasteries would use, that best fitted their customs, needs, and materials available, when they moved into Spain and neighboring countrysides."

This was probably with their growth around the 1300s, when the Christians defeated the Moors

glass in the arch and upper part of the heavy front door. The steps are of brick.

The construction of the church is essentially of brick with stained glass windows, brick buttresses, two ells at the rear, one serving as vestry and the other as Sunday School chapel, and a slate roof over all.

White stucco is us.ed in conjunction with the brick on the tower front and the designs are probably of Persian origin since it has been said the Persians were way ahead of the Arabs artistically, and the best was passed along to the Christian churches. Note the use of stucco and brick on the edges of the tower, called quoins, and the pinnacles and niches on the sides.

The buttresses along the outside walls are built square like chimneys and the cores are filled with stone or concrete for added strength. Bricks are extended inward at their tops forming corbels, like little shelves, for the roof beams to rest on and give a downward thrust. The beams are of big rough timbers just as they came from the mill, now nicely mellowed. The main roof merges with the two ells' roofs with a sort of "jerkin-head" that has a roundroofed dormer with a big rose OUR LADY: of-Hope, window in it, over the altar. In she of the Iltrongneck" stained glass, it shows Our Lady stands both ,. ea with a rose in her hand and in . sideher .. small letters at the bottom has the Latin inscription, "Rosa Mystica, Keary..'etching ,....-.,....:".,:'<..-.:.. ' ", "-'.:" " .-..-." ," Ora Pro Nobis" from the Litany of Our Lady. The inside sash is of tower with a green dome and a big wood that matches the beams and anchor standing straight up on top forms a frame for the window. of it. The anchor is the ecclesiastiThe paired stained-glass windows cal symbol of Hope and a univer- on both sides of the chapel each sal insignia for things nautical, so have in c'ommon an anchor in the befitting our area with its fisher- middle, and white lilies up the men. The.. round dome, on the sides and across the top, the lily square base is classical Byzantine, being the ecclesiastic symbol, .of arid directly under it is a pier and purity as befits a chapel dedicated arch "belfry" that is typically .to Our Lady. The bottom part of Romanesque. This' merging of each window has a Latin word architectural forms took place that is associated with. her. around the third century when the The bricks used in the construcearly church had to move east tion of the building show through from Rome to Byzantium, which to the inside. No wonder Silva was renamed Constantinople. The handpicked them. Some years ago, . whole tower is an integral part of his daughter told us that her father the church construction, and the came home one night fit to be tied. stock and shank of the anchor He'd caught one ofthe bricklayers serve as the usual cross seen on using some "foreign bricks" and Catholic churches. The tower also when you consider what a few offhouses the vestibule and the choir size bricks coUid have done to his loft. otherwise perfect walls, you can't Just below the belfry, pedestaled blame him. It was not until 1927 and coped, is a large statue of Our that Herbert Hoover, then SecreLady with a crown and a big tary of Commerce, declared that anchor up against her. An artist "from henceforth, the standard friend of Father Downing'S, John size of a brick is to be 2"/4"/8" Kirshmeyer, was the sculptor, and inches." (I ncidentally, Silva's this is an original for this church: daughter was the first bride to Our Lady of Hope. (If you have a come out of the chapel.) , chance, take a good look at her There is one center aisle running and see if you don't think she from the front door right down to could "heave that anchor!" in a the altar with seats on either side of pinch; note her good strong neck.) it. The bricks ofthe floor are laid in Below the statue is a round a pattern like a Persian carpet.

The original altar was an intestained-glass "rose window" with an anchor in the middle of it. This gral part ofthe construction, made of brick, stuccoed and painted provides light to the choir loft.

Surrounding it are four plaques white like a huge sarcophagus, a custom dating back to the cataembedded into the stucco, each combs. On top, it had the tabernawith the figure of a phoenix painted cle and three big candksticks on on it. They date back to Greek either side of it with fleurs-de-lis mythology and were supposed to be symbolic of immortality. Either and a cherub's head molded on they survived in eastern architec- each. The oddest thing was that ture from pre-Christian days or there were two phoenixes molded were reintroduced as Arabs and right onto the t~bernacle itself.

But after Vatican II and changes Turks overran Christian countries.

The Moors were Moslems, and in the liturgy, Mass was said in the when they were run out of Spain, vernacular with the priest facing many of their old churches were his congregation. This, together adapted for use by the Christians. with the tremendous population The entrance to the church is growth of the Cape, meant that classical pier and arch, with stained monstrous altar had to go.

who had overrun the Iberian peninsula. The Moors were Moslems and left their mark behind them, as we will see...

The thing you probably notice first about the chapel is its front

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THE' ANCHOR-Dioces.e of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 10, 1990 11· In 1984 comes some real American expertise. Between one Sunday and the next, without skipping a beat, the old goes out and a lovely set of two-toned wooden modern chapel furniture replaces it. Where the old altar was attached to the wall, there must have been some scarring of the bricks but, if so, it has been covered by a large wooden panel called a "reredos" that matches the rest and supports a beautiful big crucifix.

The altar is actually a long wooden table, enabling the priest to face his congregation.

A wooden partition between the vestry and the altar was removed and pews installed giving more seats, and the seats in the Sunday School chapel also were faced toward the altar. But one strong lady in there always insists on standing. She's made of plaster of Paris, an exact copy of herself on the front tower, and she's located on a pedestal of brick, an integral

part of the building - what we might call a "reserved stand.'" , The chapel sails under the burgee of Our Lady of Victory in Centerville, a very active parish, and how it manages to give the services it does over here is one of the miracles of modern times.

In 1988, one of our parishioners, John Loughnane, was ordained a priest. This was the first ordina- ' tion of one of the members of Our Lady of Hope Chapel and we were very proud and wish him well.

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VATICAN AMBASSADOR Thomas Melady with Pope John Paul II in October, 1989, at the time he presented his credentials to the pontiff. (CNS photo)

It's been a very goodyear VATICAN CITY (CNS) - For an academic specializing in international affairs, it has been a good first year as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, says Thomas Melady.

"We have the good .fortune' of being here at one of the most interesting times from the standpoint of the Holy See and world affairs," the American envoy said. He noted . the political changes sweeping across Eastern Europe and. the role Polish-born Pope John Paul II has played in supporting the process.

The first year has been "very enjoyabl~, to actually see things happen such as the transition of what were once authoritarian governments to political pluralism and to see it take place through rapid evolution," he added. '''If you had to keep a timecard on the amount of hours spent with Vatica.n offiCials, Eastern Europe would be very much on top," he said in a recent Catholic News Service interview.

The United States and the Vatican agree on the need to defend human rights, religious freedom and political pluralism, he added.

Other important U.S.-Vatican topics are Lebanon, the Soviet Union, drugs and the environment, he said. . Diplomatic discussions are limited to international affairs, so the Vatican does not raise the issue of U.S. abortion laws, Melady said.

"We would never get into it. It's路 domestic policy," said the ambassador.

Converse'ly, the United States would not raise religious matters such as church appointments and canon law, he said.

Meiady, 63, has split his career between academic and diplomatic life. He was U.S. ambassador to Burundi from 1969 to 1972 and to Uganda from 1972 to 1973. His academic curriculum has been tied mostly to Catholic universities. He was president of Sacred Heart University. in Bridgeport, Conn., and has held professorial and administrative posts at several other 'institutions including Fordham and Seton Hall.

He holds a doctorate in government and international affairs from The Catholic University of Amer-

ica and has written books on Third World political changes, especially in Africa.

The Vatican is "a classic diplomatic post," he said, because its main focus is exchanging information and analyses with another government.

The work also includes analyzing papal speeches for the U.S. State Department, he said.

The U.S. embassy to the Vatican is not involved in activities that go on at other embassies, such as giving visas, providing tax information to U.S. citizens abroad, and supervising economic and military aid programs, he added.

Melady said the aim of the Vatican embassy is not to change papal viewpoints when they are at odds with U.S. policy, but to outline U.S. positions for Vatican officials and to help U.S. officials understand papal thinking.

The value of having diplomatic relations with the Vatican stems from the pope's influence on world affairs, he said, because even though the pope commands no military or economic power, he exerts great moral authority in the world.

"By advocating' political pluralism and religious freedom, he has become a strong and influential force," even in non-Catholic countries, he said.

Recognition of papal influence is attested partly by diminishing' controversy in the United States over diplomatic relations with the Vatican, he said.

The issue did not even arise during his .1989 Senate confirmation hearings, he noted~ "The most important thing is trust. There must be trust oli both sides," he said.

Melady described U,S.-Vatican relations as "excellent" and said there have been no major tensions, not even during the U.S. invasion of Panama last December when fugitive strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega took refuge for several days in the Vatican nunciature.

U. S. officials pressed the Vatican to hand Noriega over to them, but the Vatican said It could not see any legal way to do that and Noriega eventually turned himself in.

Ordinations, parleys with non-Christians on African agenda VATICAN CITY (CN~) - Pope John Paul II will ordain priests and meet with non-Christian religious leaders in Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda duringa Septemberswing through eastern Africa.

To close his IO-day visit, the pope will travel to West Africa to consecrate a controversial and costly cathedral in Ivory Coast and talk with African bishops in a synod planning session.

The Vatican published the complete schedule of the pope's Sept.

1-10 trip in early August. It will be the pope's seventh pastoral visit to the African continent apd his 49th outside Italy.

The trip will take the pontiff from Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to the grasslands of neighboring R wanda and Burundi, the first time he has traveled to the three East African nations. The countries have large Christian populations along with Muslim >and animist communities.

The ordination of priests in each of the three countries underscores the current vocation surge in Africa.

In recent years, the continent has led the Catholic world in ordaining new priests.

The pope's overnight stop in Ivory Coast to bless a $150 million cathedral in Yamoussoukro fulfills a long-stan~ing request by the country's president, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who is said to have paid for the church's construction with family funds.

The Vatican agreed to accept the church as a gift only after social services were installed in an adjoining complex. Some have criticized the cathedral as an extravagance for a country which, like many in Africa, is in economic trouble. The cathedral is designed to hold 8,000 people, and its 7.5 acre' plaza can hold up to 300,000 people.

During the trip, the 70-year-old pope is scheduled to visit 10 cities, deliver 40 talks and participate in 47 events, including 10 liturgical ceremonies.

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The Vatican reacted sharply to searches of embassy personnel and loud rock music played by American units, seen as part of a tactic. aimed at unnerving the deposed leader and those hosting him.

"I wouldn't even call it a point of tension," Melady said of Noriega's stay. "A matter came up and we presented oui point of view and it was resolved in a manner in which we think is very satisfactory," said Melady.

POPE JOHN PAUL II with Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan prior to the archbishop's departure for the United States. (CNS/ Felici photo)

India's loss America's gain NEW DELHI, India (CNS) Rl;lations among the three rites The head of the Catholic Bishops' . were marked by suspicion and Conference of India praised the rivalry until 1987, when Pope John Vatican's pro-nuncio to India as Paul II intervened to settle the he left to take up the same post in matter amicably. the United States.

Archbishop Cacciavillan left "We are sorry to lose you, but India July 29. In addition to being India's loss is America's gain," pro-nuncio to the United States, said Archbishop Alphonsus Mathhe will be the Holy See's permanias of Bangalore, president of the ent observer at the Organization of American States.

Indian bishops' conference, in a message to Archbishop Agostino He succeeds Archbishop Pio Cacciavillan, Vatican pro-nuncio, Laghi, the Vatican's representative in the United States for nearly 10 or ambassador, to India for the past nine years. years, who has' been appointed Archbishop Cacciavillan arrived head of the Vatican Congregation in the United States Wednesday. for Catholic Education.

Archbishop Mathias lauded the The I ndian bishops' deputy pro-nuncio's "delicate handling of secretary general, Father Lucio da . the rites issue as well as his work Veiga Coutinho, said: "Archbishop for the Indian Catholic Church," Cacciavillan is known for his proreported UCA News, an Asian digious memory, extreme joviality church news agency based in Hong and warmth and unique style of . Kong. functioning. By his gentle ways he "You have brought to bear on won the hearts of Indians and all matters you handled a deep made many friends and admirers sense of dedication to the cause of in this country." the church in India," Archbishop During Archbishop CacciavilMathias said. lan's tenure, 13 new dioceses were Three riies exist in the Indian created in India. The 64-year old Catholic Church - the Syro-Mal- Vatican diplomat also played a abar, Syro-Malankara and Latin. key role in Pope John Paul's 10Catholics belonging to the first day visit to India in 1986. two Eastern rites are mostly from Archbishop Cacciavillan was路 the southern state of Kerala. the senior ambassador in New Delhi and the accredited dean of the diplomatic corps since November 1989.

Squting his diplomatic career in 1959, he served in the Philippines, Portugal, Spain and the Secretariat of State at the Vatican. Before coming to India in 1981, he was Vatican pro-nuncio to Kenya.

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NY health care proxy law OK'd by churchmen ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) - A health care proxy bill recently signed into law by New York Gov. Mari'o Cuomo gained the acceptance of ethicists and the state's Catholic bishops.

The law permits competent adults to appoint proxies who would be charged with making health care decisions on their behalf should they become too ill to make such decisions for themselves.

"In good conscience, I do not see how a good Catholic can fail to fill out such a document," Georgetown University medical' ethics professor Robert Veatch told The Evangelist, Albany's diocesan newspaper.

The New York law is the first since the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision forbidding the removal of nutrition and hydration from Nancy Beth Cruzan of Missouri. The court said that since Ms. Cruzan's wishes regarding her medical care were never put in writing, family members could not make treatment decisions based on Ms. Cruzan's spoken wishes. ' The New York bishops worked with drafters of the law to ensure that it did not promote living wills or use language that could be construed as endorsing a person's right to die.

Father Russell Smith, director of education for the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center in Braintree, Mass, told the newspaper there is a difference between a living will and a proxy consent document.

Catholic theologians and bishops have opposed living wills on the grounds that they can lead to a person declining "ordinary means" of treatment, Father Smith said.

He gave the example of a young person who suffers a heart attack.

Emergency rescue teams routinely insert a respiration tube to ensure that the person does not stop breathing before they can get the heart pumping again.

But if that person's living will specifies that a respirator should not be hooked up in the event of a life-threatening emergency, paramedics would not be allowed to use that ordinary measure to save the person's life.

"In that instance," Father Smith said. the person has declined "something that could have gotten him over a critical moment and put him on track for another 25 or 30 years, or the rest of his or her natural life."

A healthy proxy is morally acceptable, Father Smith added, because Catholic teaching has consistently affirmed the person's "right of self-determination with informed consent."

Underthe law, a competent adult can select a family member or other person to serve as a proxy, who will make decisions only in the event that a doctor judges the patient to be incapable.

Artificially administered food and water cannot be ordered withdrawn by the proxy unless the patient, while still competent, clearly stated that wish.

If the person's wishes are not known, the proxy is to act in the patient's "best interests," the law says. A proxy's decisions, it adds, should be "in accordance with the principal's wishes, including the principal's religous and moral beliefs."

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Drug use sinful says Bennett NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) - Federal drug czar William J. Bennett said churches should be more active in combating the sin of drug abuse.

"I ,would hope we would hear more from our pulpits about this issue," Bennett said in an interview in the August issue of Cofumbia magazine, published by the Knights of Columbus.

"If this isn't a sin," said Benn~tt, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, "I don't know what is. It's a form of idolatry, along with everything else."

Bennett, a Catholic, said he was encouraged by a decline in drug use by young people.

"The middle class is beginning to wean itselffrom drugs in America," he said, "but the problem in some inner cities is getting worse."

He said every problem that hits the inner city hits hardest there.

"People who have the most to lose always lose the most," he said.

Saying that "it's possible to regain control of the streets," Bennett said that in "Charleston, S.c., there's no drug dealing in the streets and crime is down 35 percent, drug use is down."

He said that could be done in every city in America.

"Gain order," Bennett said, "and then let other things begin to work - treatment, education programs, job training programs."

But he said that in "more and more situations" children will have to be saved "by removing them from the environment if no one's taking care of them."

In the long run, he said, "we really need a strengthening offamilies, churches and schools."

Legalization of drugs, he said, was "not going anywhere with the American people. It's not going anywhere with the Congress. It's a fantasy."

Those advocating legalizatIOn, he said, "simply cannot tell us what the world will look like after legalization...

They needed "to ask how successful we've been in keeping teenagers from cigarettes and alcohol."

Crack cocaine, Bennett said, is "something much more addictive than gin or beer or wine. If you want to see more' crack babies. if you want to see more lives of desperation - legalize drugs."

Bennett told of talking with people in a Detroit treatment center.

"What they were doing was engaging in a great relearning of the great lessons of our civilization: self-discipine, self-contro •. love, order, compassion. a reverence toward life and to God." he said.

NEW DELHI, India (CNS) Police officials said they have arrested four men allegedly involved in a burglary and rape at a Catholic convent in northern India.

The arrests came close to three weeks after a July 13 incident in which a group of men broke into S1. Mary's Convent in Gajraula, allegedly raping two of the nine nuns living there, and fled with the equivalent of $6,000, UCA News, an Asian church news agency, reported.

The incident raised an unprecedented protest among Christians, Hindus and members of other faiths in the country, which qas witnessed a recent increase in rape cases.

Police reportedly recovered about the equivalent of$5,590 from two of those arrested.

In the Indian ca'pital, New Delhi, about 80 miles south of Gajraula, more than 15,000 people gathered Aug. I to protest attacks on women and church institutions. All Protestant and Catholic institutions closed that day.

A 19-member delegation of protesters, representing Christian and women's groups and led by Archbishop Alphonsus Mathias of Bangalore, president ofthe Indian bish~s' conference, submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Viswanath Pratap Singh.

The memorandum expressed dismay over "the calculated attack, including rape of helpless women," and demanded justice, equality and recognition of Christians as Indians.

It deplored what it described as the "inaction and apathy of the police and local administration," . The memorandum said such a "callous attitude" implied that "the guilty enjoy the patronage of the men in power."

"Along with all people of good will in India, the whole Christian population of about 20 million feels deeply the pain of injustice meted out by the local authorities of Gajraula to the sisters who are robbed and raped," the memorandum said.

It said the Christian community which "faithfully and selflessly served the nation in every field", and "fought for justice for the poor and the marginalized" has "begun to feel a sense of insecurity due to denial and discrimination and subtle interference in the fundamental rights of minorities," In addition to the New Delhi protest, Indians in other parts of the country protested the Gajraula assaults.

In the southern Indian state of Kerala, headquarters for the nuns' order, more than 3,000 schools and 60 colleges managed by the church remained closed July 30.

Protest meetings and prayer services held in the state's 21 Catholic dioceses were attended by Hindus, Muslims, and Christians of other denominations.

In a statement, the Kerala bishops' conference condemned the attack on persons engaged in "selfless service to the nation." ' Cardinal Simon Pimenta of BOrnbay and Bishop Paul Chittilapilly of Kalyan led 90,000 people in a protest rally in the western Indian '''City of Bombay July 30.

India's 13.4 million Catholics comprise about 1.7 percent of the country's 781.3 million population.

A Threat "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,"

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We never talked about it But I hear the blame is mine I would call you up and say I'm sorry But I wouldn't want to waste your time Because I love you, but I can't take anymore There's a look I can't describe in your eyes If we could try like we tried before But you keep on telling me those lies Do you remember, Do you remember Do you remem,ber Do you remember This is no way to make up As it seems that you might have said And the way you look it told me It's a'iook I know that 111 never forget You could have let me know You could have tried to see the distance between us But it seemed too far for you to go So far to go.

Through all my life In spite of all the pain You know how people are far away sometimes But they just can't wait to get there again Tell me do you remember Things you won't rec~1I ' The feelings we'll never find It takes so long to see it Because we never seem to have the time There was always something more important to do More important to say But I love you wasn't one of those things A.nd now it's ~oo late , It's too late;" Written and Sung by Phil Collins (c) 1990, by Atlantic Re~ording Corp.

JUST ABOUT everything gifts is translating genuine emoabout Phil Collins' "Do' You tion into music. , Remember?" speaks of sadness While the song describes hurt - both the song's message of and loss, those who want to lost opportunities and Collins' work at keeping a relationship vocal style. Surely one of his alive can learn a lot from it. The

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following lines remind me of actions that almost always injure relationshi ps: 1. "We never talked about it, but I hear the blame is mine."

Problems or feelings that are not faced turn into resentment, and resentment eventually kills emotional closeness. Blaming also doesn't help resolve difficulties. Rather, honest talk and problem solving that arrive at mutually accepted agreements are important steps for keeping love alive. , 2. "You could have come over to my side.... But it seemed too far for you to go." Love asks a great deal from us.

Genuine love puts aside criticism and judgment and asks, "How can we work this out so that both of us are treated with fairness and respect?" Much is gained by building bridges.

3. ,"It takes so long to see it, because we never seem to have the time. There was always something more important to do."

At times love dies from neglect.

Too easily we take a relationship for granted, forgetting how its beginnings were marked by many joyful times together.

The romance then runs the risk of becoming focused on problems, rather than on the times of shared fun. While problems must be addressed, no relationship can endure before continual, ongoing struggle. Allow laughter and fun to keep your love growing.

4. "There was always something ... more important to say, but" I love you wasn't one of those things." Loveneeds to be ' expressed, both in word and action - something married couples always peed to recall.

To keep love alive, feelings need to be made known and, then those verbal expressions need to be' translated into actions that uplift another's life.

Your comments are welcomed

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

SUZANNE BURKE has been appointed development director at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

Her responsibilities will include implementing of the capital campaign, the annual fund drive and all other fundraising events as well as coordinating public relations and the school alumni association.

Mrs. Burke lives in South Dartmouth with her husband and two children. She is a board member of the New Bedford Day Nursery and treasurer of' the League of New Bedford Child and Family Services.

By Christopher Carstens When I was a kid, as the offering plate was passed around the church my mom would give me a dime to drop in. I suppose that she meant me to feel as if I were contributing, but it seemed more like payingbus fare - something you did because it wasn't right to ride for free.

Now I have a' different understanding of the whole process. lit the Offertory we present God with our lives, or the product of our lives, and we receive them back, transformed; inthe Eucharist. ' That may have been easier for the farmers and country people of earlier. times 'to understand. They raised wheat and grapes; they baked their own bread and fermented their own wine. They brought these things they had produced with their own hands to church, they were taken forward at the Offertory and returned in Communion.

But not many of us grow, grind and bake our own bread anymore.

We work at jobs where what we produce is money - wages - and so when we put money in the basket, we are offering what we have produced. We aren't paying admission to the Mass, we are presenting God with the outcome of our labor.

But when you're a teen and the money you, drop in comes from your dad's wallet, it isn't as if you've put anything of yourself in the, basket. And if you really want to grow and be changed through

your church experience, you need to offer something of your own to ,God. ' As a start, you might try putting some of your own money in the basket. You will feel differently about your offering! ' But money is only one sort of offering. Giving your time and talent are even more meaningful ways of giving to the church.

There probably isn't a parish in America with enough volunteers for its Christian education program. Maybe you cari help out with classes for younger children.

Lots of parishes have summer programs and you may be able to help in one of them. Or your parish secretary may find a volunteer job for you in the church office. ,If you have artistic ability, you might make posters or banners.

Some parishes have work parties, where people spend an afternoon cleaning up the church grounds, bake for the next cake sale or hunt up bazaar or rummage sale items.

Jesus made a simple bargain with us. He said that if we would give o.ur lives to him, he would transform them in wonderful and unexpected ways. For instance, he changes simple bread, and wine into a miracle of love. ' Give Jesus a chunk of the real you - your time, your talent, your love - and he will transform it as certainly as he does the bread and the wine and give it back to you in a way to' enrich every minute of your life.

How to drive Mom crazy

By Hilda Young How to wait in the car while your mother runs into the store to pick up a loaf of bread: Lock the door. Wait until she is just about through the store door, then honk the horn. Grin and wave.

Press your face against the window and make "piggy faces'" at people who walk by. Honk the horn again. Dive for the floor when someone looks to see who honked.

Roll down the window and stick your feet out. Giggle like crazy at ' what people must think.

Roll up the ,window and steam it up with your breath. Try to write, "Hi, Mom" backward on it.

Roll down the window. Do fake burps as loud as you can to see what people will do. If someone 'looks, say, "It wasn't meeeee." Fall back on the seat and laugh until you have tears in your eyes'.

Open the glove compartment.

Unfold the map of the United States and bet your brother he cannot fold it back up again.

Say, "If anyone narks on me for sticking my feet out the window, I'll tell Mom who left the top off the mustard and let it get hard."

Watch your mother tap on the window and point to the lock.

Ask, "Can you read the sign we wrote on the window?"

When she yells, "What?" repeat the question while pressing your face against the window and doing a "piggy face" for her.

When she kicks the car door and shouts, "Unlock the door," ask "How do we know yo~ are our real mother?"

She will answer, "By the way I grind my teeth and shake my fist."

It's the correct answer. Let her in.

Golf tourney aids Bishop Stang R.S. The Alumni Council of Bishop Stang High School' North Dartmouth, recently sponsored the Third Annual John C. O'Brien Memorial Golf Classic at the New Bedford Municipal Golf Club.

Proceeds from the event benefit the scholarship fund established by the council for current and incoming Stang students.

This year's recipients of Alumni Scholarships are sophomores Edward Pac~co of New Bedford, Angela Morris of Fairhaven and Scott Waite of Acushnet, and incoming freshmen Teresa Barnes of Westport and Erica Katz of South Dartmouth.

Over 65 grads and friends of Stang participated in the event.

'w e ha~ suspected as much OMAHA, ~eb: (CNS) - An appeals judge, in overturning trespassing convictions of 18 people who picketed an Omaha clinic, found that, "abortion kills an unborn child - a human life."

Douglas County District Court ,Judge Robert Burkhard in his 17page decision issued July 16 devoted nearly three pages to testimony in the original. trial by Dr. Thomas W Hilgers, director ofthe Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha.

Hilgers' testimony was "of extreme importance," the judge wrote.

The 18 people, including Father Christopher Grimmond of Fremont, Neb., were among 25 arrested

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last Dec. 30 on criminal trespassing charges for blocking the entrance to the Women's Medical Center. All 25 were found guilty in county court Feb. 21, and the 18 appealed.

The protesters admitted violating property laws to prevent "a greater evil," that is, the destruc- . tion of human life in abortions.

Burkhard wrote that Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who performs abortions at the clinic, testified that the fetus "is not viable or human life at the stage the center is doing abortions."

"Assuming, for the sake of argument, that human life does not begin at the moment of conception," the judge said, "there can be no doubt that during the time the center does perform abortions (from the fourth or fifth week to the 20th week of pregnancy) the unborn child has a heartbeat; has spontaneous motion in the 'mother's womb; has a spinal column and the baby's eyes are discernible; has all of its structures and they are growing, developing and maturing." , Burkhard also noted other physical developments in the fetuses, including that "there may be thumbsucking by the child."

Those developments, taken together, show "graphically and beyond question, and as a matter of law, that there is human life in the mother's womb, at the very least, 'when abortions are performed at the center," the judge wrote.

Bukhard said none of those facts was disputed or rebutted by the prosecution. .

"The only rational conclusion that can be reached from the uncontroverted evidence presented in this case is that abortion kills an unborn child - a human life," the judge's decision said.

He said the defendants' actions "were necessary as emergency measures to avoid the imminent death and maiming of unborn children."

"Commentators and case law uniformly agree that saving human life out of necessity generally justifies violation of property rights," Burkhard decided.

The decision was the second time in two months that protesters at the Omaha clinic had won court rulings. A Douglas County jury in June acquitted 17 protesters arrested at the clinic March 10.

Father Gary Rush of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Omaha, who was among those acquitted by the jury, said Burkhard's decision proves the power of prayer.

"It is prayer," said Father Rush, "and we want people to know that we aren't going to give up now."

A maltreatment VATICAN CITY (CNS) -':-The televising of a rock concert by Madonna on Italian state television was "a maltreatment of good sense, good taste and decency," said L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. It was the first Vatican comment on the recent European tour of the controversial Italian-American singer Whose concerts in Italy drew protests by Catholic-related organizations. The show was "clumsily publicized as a culturili event," the newspaper said in an editorial. "A minimum sense of proportion would be appreciated," it added

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Her concern for the disabled, a group she often has featured on NBC programs, is shared with her parents. Her father is chairman of the board of Special Olympics International. Her mother founded Special Olympics in 1968 and also has been active with "Community of Caring," a project she began in 1981 to red uce mental retardation among babies born to teenagers.

Ms. Shriver described her primetime specials - the first is ,scheduled for Aug. 14 - as focusing on people who go against the grain. In later specials, Ms. Shriver will occasionally focus on the disabled.

"The whole point of the program is to show people swimming against the tide, and the disabled certainly do that," Ms. Shriver said.

The profiles will feature the unconventional and show that "people can be interesting and motivating when they don't pay attention to the rules or when they go against what is the conventional wisdom of the day," she said.

Priest - DJ to speak at youth convention The diocesan Office of Youth Ministry will sponsor a diocesan youth convention from I to 8 p.m.

Oct. 28 at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton.

Keynote speaker for the event will be Father Don Kimball, a priest and youth minister from the diocese of Santa Rosa, Calif.

The founder and director of Cornerstone Media, Inc., in Santa Rosa, Father Kimball has 20 years of experience in youth ministry.

He currently disc-jockeys "Reflection: Music with a Message," a popular radio show dealing with relationshi ps.

He has written several books for teenagers and is coauthor of Genesis II, a high school program. He has been an adjunct professor at several universities.

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But if work for television takes too much time, she said in an interview with Catholic News Service, "I'm going to leave it."

Ms. Shriver gave up her Sunday· Morning co-anchor spot on NBC's "Sunday Today" after her daughter was born. ' "I didn't want to have a weekly show where I had to go back East every week, where I had to do a piece every week," she said in the interview in Los Angeles. "I wanted to really raise my kid."

Religion sustains her, she said.

"It's very important to me," said the newswoman. She said her daughter was baptized at St. Monica's parish in Santa Monica, a suburb of Los Angeles where she lives with her husband, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The birth of Katherine changed her value system, said Ms. Shriver, 33. "Television had always been, up until I had my baby, the most important thing," she said. "I lived and breathed it. It was the most important thing," Now it's like way low on the totem pole."

She joked that an NBC official told her she was "the only one trying to get off television at the network."

In place of the regular weekly news spot, Ms. Shriver is working on occasional prime-time specials.

She's seeking a balance - "where I can keep my hand in television and where I can also dedicate myself to my kid."

Catholicism is "my culture and my heritage," she said. "I was . brought up Catholic, went to the convent and was educated by the Jesuits," said Ms. Shriver, referring to her schooling at the Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md., run by Sacred Heart nuns, and Georgetown University, run by theJesuits.

Values learned from her parents - former Peace Corps director R. Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver - strongly affected her, she said.

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• THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 10,' 1990 ' 'CATHOLIC ALUMNI CLUB .... ST~ MARY, SEEKONK' . Sout~easter~ Mass. chapter of the Altar servers' day Aug. 13: 9 a.m. mternatlOnal smgles club monthly Mass followed by field events until noon; swimming, cookout and vol-' meeting Aug. 12 following 6 p.m. dinner, Brass Rail (formerly Pub leyball at Souzas' home until 4 p.m.

Denni~), Rt: 6, Seekonk. Miniature CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE golf mght 7.30 p.m. Aug. ~O" FanParishioners and summer visitors tasy~and, .Rt. 6; me.mbershlp mforare asked to donate food products ~at~on wl1l be avaIlable. Informafor the food pantry's Help the Needy tlOn. 824-8378. program at all Masses this Sunday.

Men of the parish are invited to join ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET judith Moniz will serve as parish the Men's Club; information: Mike Benedict Circle 61 pool party 6:30 Religious education tee:tcher needp.m. Aug. 14; chairperson: Claire ed for 6th grade class meeting 11:30 evangelization director in the new Lane, 477-2022. office of evangelization in the parish CATHEDRAL FR McQuade. a.m. Saturdays; information: Agnes ce.nter; among c~n~erns of the office Ministers ar; available to bring Barboza, 678-5139, or rectory. PrayST. JULIE BILLIART, wl1~ ~e youth mmlstry, RCIA, a~d Holy Communion to the sick and 26, Colt er Group family picnic Aug. N. DARTMOUTH State Farm, Site 2, Bristol, RI. Par- aSSlStl~g CCD staff and worshIp elderly; those who know of anyone Youth group cookout and pool ticipants are asked to bring' their commltte~. .. needing this service are asked to conparty t,omorrow, St. Vincent de Paul The pansh summer festival WIll be tact the rectory. Parish Altar and own food and may bring musical Camp. RCIA inquiry night Aug. 27.

Rosary Society meets monthly to instruments. All- welcome. For in- held on the school grounds on Rte. O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE 177 5 to 10 p.m. Aug. 17, 10 a.m. to pray the rosary for vocations and formation contact prayer group Blood pressure clinic 2 to 4 p.m.

10 p.m. Aug. 18 an.d 10 ~.~. to 4 members serve a few hours of aposcommittee.

Aug. 16, parish center. Cookout for ~.m. Aug. I? AttractlOns.wl1llI~c1ude tolic work every 3 to 4 months; those O.L. GRACE, WESTPORT college students following 5 p.m.

Teachers needed in grades 1-8 hve entertamme~t, a c~l1dr~n s pet interested in joining may contact Mass Aug. 12, parish center. sho:-v a.nd a IO-mlle famIly bIke n~e one of the priests.

CCD and in confirmation program; begmmng at 10 a.m. Sunday. RadIo . information: rectory. CCD registra- station WSAR will broadcast live ST. PATRICK, FR tion Aug. 25-26. Volunteers needed from the event on Aug. 18. Further Any. shut-ins not recelvmg the ~ 234 Second Street to take care of altar cloths and information: Bob Roberts, 636-3045.

Euchanst regularly are asked to call ~ Fall River. MA 02721 church vestments; contact Father CORPUS CHRISTI SANDWICH the rectory, 672-2302. Chap~rones Chretien or Father Hebert. ~WebOffset . ' . needed· for altar boys' outing to _ _ Newspapers ~atechlsts needed f~r gra~es 1,4, Rocky Point 5-10:30 p.m. Aug. 22; ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET "IIII!!I!I Printing & Mailing CCD teachers, substitutes and 5-7, preparatory. sessl?ns m Sep- contact the rectory.

InformatIOn: SIster Doreen ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO IIIiIIiiIIIiI (508) 679-5262 aides needed; contact Janet Rausch, tember. .. f Donegan, 888-8267.

CCD regIstratIOn week 0 Aug. 673-1241, or Father Brian Harring19: 10 a.m. to noon; I p.m. to 4 p.m.

ADULT CHILDREN OF ton, 672-1523.

Monday through Wednesday CCD DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES HOLY NAME, FR . T~erapeutic group will begin mee~- office. ' Altar servers' trip to PawSox game First Class Second Class mgs. m Sep!ember; contact Cathohc ST. ANNE, FR Aug. 20, leaving church parking lot First Class Presort Carrier Route Coding SOCIal ServIces, Attleboro, 226-4780.

CCD teachers, aides, office work6 p.m. ers and supervisors are needed; inforSS PETER AND PAUL, FR Third Class Bulk Rate lip Code Sorting O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Parish festival organizational mation: Father David Landry, 674Third Class Non Proht list Maintenance Lower Cape U1treya 7:30 tonight, meeting following 7 p.m. Mass Aug. 5651, or Jacqueline Brodeur, 678parish center. ' ALL TO USPS SPECIFICATIONS 15. Women's Club invites all women 1510. CCD, registration for new stuST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA of parish to join for new season dents after Masses Aug. 18 and 19; Cheshire labeling on Kirk,Rudy 4,up Teachers needed for new junior beginning Sept. 10; information: classes begin Sept. 17. labeier. And Pressure Sensitive Labeling high Christian education program; Mary Janick, 673-3971; Dot Crad- SACRED HEART information: Nadeaus, 679-032 I. Inserting. collating. lolding. dock,676-8073.

N. ATTLEBORO ' metering. sealing. sorting. addressing.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO ST. THOMAS MORE, RCIA meeting following 10:30 sacking. completing USPS forms.

Elderly, shut-ins and nursing home SOMERSET a.m. Mass Sunday, meeting room. direct delivery to Post Office residents are' invited to a special CCD teachers and substitutes Guild members or parishioners wish. . Printing . .. We Do It Alii Mass and celebration of the sacra- needed on all grade levels; contact ing to participate in LaSalette Famment of the sick 3 p.m. Aug. 19.

Sister Celine Rainville, SUSC, 679ily Festival Labor Day Weekend Call for Details (508) 679-5262 Catechists needed for grades 3-8.

1236(Mondays) or rectory, 673-783 I. may contact the rectory.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N.FALMOUTH Bereavement support group meets 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday, church hall; topic: Helping Ourselves Through Grief. Information: 563-6807, 5488665. Men's Club-sponsored health clinic with free blood pressure, blood sugar and hearing checks 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, church hall.

FALMOUTH KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Memorial Mass in honor of Knights founder Father Michael J. McGivney, 8:45 a.m. Sunday, 5t.

Patrick's Church. Refreshments will be served at Council Hall on Brick' Kiln Rd. after Mass.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Clean, lightweight clothing and bedding are being collected for Texas missions; donations may be left inside side door of church 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

JON POLCE, composer and performer of original Christian music, will be the featured artist for tomorrow's entry in the Summer Concert Series at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. The outdoor performance begins at 7:30 p.m.

Further information may be obtained from the shrine.

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