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Hang in there, prelate tells-black Catholics ATLANTA(CNS) - Black Cath- than a, week after black Catholic olics have fought too hard in the clergy meeting in Milwaukee past to give up on the Catholic announced they would study creaChurch now, Archbishop Eugene tion of an African-American rite A. Marino of Atlanta told black within the church. lay Catholics attending a national "Creating a Spirit of Africanconference last week in Atlanta.

American Leadership" was the "We're not going to abandon theme of the Atlanta conference, Jesus. We're not going to leave this which had some 400 participants. church. Our fathers have struggled Discussion of a separate rite too hard, endured too many sacri- . emerged after Father George A. fices, to give up," he said.

Stallings, former evangelist for the "We're not going to be turned archdiocese of Washington, foundout, turned away. We're going to ed the Imani Temple for black stay with the Roman Catholic Catholics in Washington July 2.

Church.... We've paid too much CardinalJames A. Hickey of Washfor our membership," said Arch- ington subsequently suspended bishop Marino, the nation's only Father Stallings for celebrating black archbishop. unauthorized liturgies.

He commented during a fourAl~hough some observers have day meeting of the National Office for Black Catholics at Emory Uni- suggested Father Stallings is askversity in Atlanta. He is episcopal ing black Catholics to leave the church, he has insisted Imani adviser to the office.

The conference came little more Temple is a Catholic church formed

Assumption mosaic in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

TUESDAY, AUGUST IS, is the feast of the Assumption, a holy day of obligation. Catholics should attend a vigil Mass on Monday or a Mass on Tuesday.

The Eternal Word Television Network will present live coverage of the Solemn Mass of the AsslJJDption of the Blessed Virgin from the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception beginning at noon on the holy day. Archbishop Pio Lagbi, proDuncio to the United States, will be the principal celebrant. ' The annual "Million Candles for Peace'~ ceremony will follow the Mass. This observance, sponsQred by the Catholic Golden Age Association, invites peoPle throughout the nation to pray for world peace and: to light a candle in honor of Mary, Queen of Peace!c

Knights vow all-out pro-life support BALTIMORE (CNS) - In Baltimore this month for their 107th Supreme Council, Knights of Columbus from the United States and other nations heard a plea for strong family policy from Vice President Dan Quayle and established two $2 million funds for Catholic education.

Arch bishop John L. May of St. Louis, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, called strong lay leadership the key to the church of the future.

Supreme Knight Virgil Dechant pledged U.S. Knights to a long struggle to end legalized abortion.

At a news conference after the

meeting, he described a resolution by the Knights, committing the'm to an extensive pro-life campaign and support for a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as the most important action of. the convention.

Some 2,000 Knights and their wives, representing nearly 1.5 million members in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines and other nations, convened at the Baltimore Convention Center for the three-day meeting.

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without the approval of the archdiocese of Washington.

Discussion of the propoged rite and Father Stallings' actions were not on the meeting agenda, but each mention of Father Stallings drew applause from meeting participants.

Walter Hubbard, executive director of the National Office for Black Catholics, said that contrary to news reports saying the organization's board voted to back the proposed rite, there had been no vote taken at the meeting.

"We are asking for reconciliation. Cardinal Hickey has been a good shepherd to us in the archdiocese of Washington. Father Stallings is a good priest. We want reconciliation. That's all we've said.

Period," Hubbard said.

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Pocasset parishioner serves blind from Falmouth home

By Marcie Hickey If you want something done, do it yourself.

For Josephine Fletcher of St. John the Evangelist parish, Pocasset, bringing broadcasts into her home of the Talking Information Center, a radio service for the blind, meant exactly that. Since March, one room in her Falmouth home has served as a local studio for the Marshfield-based radio service.

It is one of a statewide network.

Other facilities are in North Dartmouth, Marshfield, Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Pittsfield and Amherst.

The service offered by TIC includes the daily reading of newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to the National Enquirer, bestselling books, supermarket and department store ads and magazines. Also broadcast are calendars of community events, senior information, cultural program, original radio drama, educational programs and job opportunities for the handicapped. Programming runs daily from 7 a.m. to midnight.

TIC is a non-commercial, nonprofit service for the print handicapped of Massachusetts. This includes the 25,000 blind and legally blind of the state as well as 25,000 others prevented from reading by age or physical handicaps.

Programming is broadcast on special audio signals of FM radio stations and stereo public TV chan-

nels. Such "side band" signals are broadcast in addition to the two channels that carry regular programming and can be heard only with a special receiver. Many stations have donated use of their third signal to TiC. In addition, TIC has obtained use of some alpha numeric channels on cable TV. These channels broadcast video information on the screen while using a radio station for audio background. Over 80 cable outlets now carry TIC programming as their audio channel. It is also available on stereo

TV station WGBX channel 44 of Boston. On some cable systems, TIC is offered as one of many radio stations that can be connected to home stereo.

There is no charge for TI C service, which is supported by federal grants, corporate and private donations, fundraising events and on the state level by the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.

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JOSEPHINE FLETCHER in her office at the Massachusetts Military Reservation with her omnipresent companion, Misha, who was trained at the Seeing Eye School in Morrison, N.J. (Hickey photo) .

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WASHINGTON (NC) -It puzzled Frances Moore Lappe that U.S. residents who would never "take food out of a hungry child's mouth" support with their tax dollars economic and political structures that she maintains do the same.

Ms. Lappe, a best-selling author who credits Catholic social teaching with shaping her views, points out that today one of five U.S. children lives in poverty and thousands of adults are homeless while the richest 10 percent of U.S. residents owns 86 percent of the country's net financial wealth.

Ms. Lappe said she asked herself, "Why do we support economic and political structures that end up creating suffering that we would never tolerate as individuals?"

The only reason she could imagine was a common belief among U.S. citizens that "there are no other alternatives ... that because of some flaw in human nature we can't do any better than" the existing level of economic disparity. As long as such a mentality exists, there will be no remedying of structures that allow hunger and poverty to exist, Ms. Lappe told Catholic News Service.

Hoping to prove there are alternatives by, in her words, "deepening political discourse about our public values," she wrote "Redis-

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covering America's Values," published in 1989 by Ballantine Books.

Ms. Lappe is best known for her 1971 best seller, "Diet for a Small Planet," credited with sparking greater nutrition awareness.

In the introduction to the new book, which is written in pointcounterpoint fashion, Ms. Lappe, who was brought up in the Unitarian church, acknowledges that her views "have been shaped by Catholic social teaching." In fact she cites the new emphasis on a "preferential option for the poor" in the Latin American Catholic Church as "what has given me the most hope of almost anything in my lifetime."

Ms. Lappe was one of many economic experts who testified before the U.S. bishops' committee that wrote the 1986 pastoral letter on the economy.

In her new book, the author urges developing "a floor of decency" that would at the minimum provide all children with good' nutrition, education and medical care, giving them "a fair chance in life."

In the interview, she said she is not calling for "forcing a leveling" of incomes, but asking that differences in income be kept "within a modest range."

Ms. Lappe said her "floor of decency" would not allow individuals "making $1,000 an hour and homelessness and hunger within the same society."

"There are extremes that, I think, disgust most Americans. To say that there can be differences is not to tolerate such gross extremes," she said.

Modern day conservatives, she said, will accuse her of"wanting to coddle the poor and take responsibility from the individual and put it on the state."

To the contrary, said Ms. Lappe, "I'm saying it's the idea that the market is the final and absolute law and arbiter of values that takes responsibility off the corporate decision-maker and off the individual citizen" and talks them out of becoming involved in their community.

But according to the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter, the author argues, "we can't use those excuses anymore, Society is what we have created. There are no absolute laws of property or absolute laws of the market that take us off the hook."

If society defines human by "how much we own" - as she maintains is the case today - then "how you get what you own becomes a lot less important than what you own."

This combined with a feeling "that the rules aren't fair," she said, has led to an increase in crime in U.S. society.

People sometimes allow such a feeling to justify, for example, stealing from the wealthy; she said. Or, the author said, it saps their initiative. Lack of ability to progress, she said, "breeds self-hatred' and self-blame."

According to Ms. Lappe, finding life meaningful enough "so that I want to get up in the morning" only happens when people are made to feel "through social relationships" that they have hope and by working can contribute to bettering the world around them.

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BISHOP DANIEL A, CRONIN blesses one of the youngest members of St. Elizabeth Seton parish, North Falmouth, during a pastoral visit. With him is Father Joseph Powers, pastor.

Religious groups urge end to housing crisis WASHINGTON (CNS) - Catholic and other religious leaders have renewed efforts to urge Congress and the nation to end the crisis in housing and homelessness.

"We have serious problems in this country and it's past time the U.S. Congress started to address them," Rep. Joseph E. Brennan, D-Main, told about 100 housing rights activists at a forum in a church on Capitol Hill.

"We're kidding ourselves in this nation if we don't make an all-out commitment to affordable housing," Brennan said.

The forum he addressed was part of the Housing Advocacy Institute, a series of seminars, speeches and visits to Congress sponsored by Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Golden Age, the Sisters of Mercy McAuley Institute, and the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging, with help from the U.S. Catholic Conference, the local Episcopal church, and other religious groups.

Participants issued "A Call to Justice in Housing," an interfaith statement voicing mutual concerns about the housing crisis and urging all Americans to "join us in our struggle" to alleviate it.

Praising the work of religious groups so far, Brennan uged them to help their elected representatives get busy.

"When you're dealing with your members of Congress, don't think they're gods," he advised. "They're here, they represent you. They work for you."

The church groups' mutual statement declares that "3 million people were homeless last night; 15 million of their brothers and sisters may join them in the next 10 years. This is morally wrong."

"Decent and affordable housing is a basic human right," the document states. "Grassroots church efforts have done much to meet the shelter needs of the'homeless.

But it is not enough and there is much left to do."

The fact "that people depend on us for a cot and a bowl of soup" each night is a national shame, John L. Carr, USCC secretary for social development and world peace, told the groUp. However, Carr added, the ideal solution is not for churches to provide more homeless shelters

because "our commitment is not just to shelter but to decent, affordable housing."

"Society, I'm afraid, has begun to get very comfortable," Carr said. "What is important is not the statements we sign together but what we do together."

Mercy Sister Camilla Verret, a staff member of the McAuley Institute, encouraged cooperation because "the issue of homelessness and lack of housing cross denominational lines. The Sisters of Mercy stand in solidarity with the homeless and the iIIhoused~" she said.

She explained that her own order got involved in housing through "advocacy by accident" after it sold a major property and established the McAuley Institute, a housing advocacy center.

"Every now and then we stumble into something big - and we do stumble," she joked.

"When we consider that more than 3 million persons are without shelter or a place to lay their heads ... we then are compelled as persons of conscience to cry out against the immorality of the present condition," added the Rev. H. Michael Lemmons, executive director of The Congress of National Black Churches.

Father Donald Sakano, a hous.ing expert, told Catholic News Service that New York City alone has nearly 5,000 families, with nearly 12,000 children, "languishing" in shelters for the homeless or on the streets each night.

"We're here to alert whomever. will listen to the social consequences of that," said Father Sakano, assistant director of Catholic Charities' Department of Social Development in the New York Archdiocese. "It's a dangerous situation when the divisions between the 'haves' and 'have nots' are so stark."

However, the priest said he is optimistic ~bout making progress in the current Congress and with President Bush. For one thing, he noted, after eight years of federal cutbacks and lack of attention, "we can see the devastation (that has been) caused."

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ciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration and director of intercultural awareness of the diocese of Jackson, Miss., told meeting participants that "Father Stallings has all of us being taken seriously now.

Some folks who didn't have anything to say to us are now ready to engage in conversation," she said to an applauding audience.

"We are called to share our gift of blackness with the church," said Sister Bowman, who is suffering from bone cancer and spoke from a wheelchair.

Baptism calls all to be leaders, she said. "Go home and teach your pastor, your liturgy committee ... you might even have to teach your bishop. Teach your babies, remind your elders ... your job is to enable, to facilitate, to feed, comfort and teach," said Sister Bowman.

All of the common excuses for not participating, ranging from "I did it last year" to "Father won't let me," aren't acceptable when "Jesus calls you to do his work," said Sister Bowman.

Effective leaders, she said, are not afraid to challenge unjust policies in the parish or diocese and refuse "to tolerate rudeness, racism, sexism."

New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor, in the keynote address, told meeting participants that church leadership must do everything it can to get rid of racism in the hearts of Catholics.

"We have to realize that it is a sin, an obscenity that must be driven out of the church," he said.

The key issue of racism "won't be denied," said Cardinal O'Connor. "Of course there is racism, deep rooted and widespread. I do not believe the church is a racist institute. It is the body of Christ.

But many of us are racist," he said.

While acknowledging more needs to be met, Cardi~al O'Connor said the church has done a lot to combat racism "thanks to our black bishops who have needled us, encouraged us and supported us."

"Blacks must become leaders among blacks," he said. "It is time for the church to grow up and for blacks to assume (the) role ofleadership," he said.

Black Catholic leadership "must be marked by the charism of holiness and grace," he said.

Christ's leadership was demonstrated not by his miracles, but by "hanging on a cross with people spitting in his face," said Cardinal O'Connor. "If he had come down from the cross he would have been a miserable failure," the cardinal said.

"You have suffered and will continue to suffer," he told the mostly black audience. "You must buy into the crucifixion of Christ, pray, meditate, read the Gospels, unite in holy Communion."

When choosing a leader, he said, "look for people with integrity.

There are people running around loose who will promise you pie in the sky," he said.

It was announced at the meeting that entertainer Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille Cosby, who is Catholic, were the first winners of the Archbishop Eugene A. Marino Award for outstanding AfricanAmericans. They were cited for their contributions to family values in their private and public lives.

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trust in God and eventually we'll come out of it all right."

In 1943, when Russia began releasing Polish prisoners, many were fed and placed on a ship bound for Pahlevi, Persia, to begin a new life. Instead, Karas said, it was the end for many, including his mother. She and his brother Blase became ill on board. She later died at a hospital in Pahlevi.

The rest of the family spent the next five years in a refugee camp in India. After the war, four of them went to England, where other siblings lived. The fifth, Blase, joined the Franciscan order in Pulaski, Wis. Sometime later Adam came to Wisconsin.

Karas added that he and .his brothers arid sisters reunited four years ago at his mother's grave to reminisce and talk about how her spjrit has continued to strengthen their lives. ..'

"She has a great influence in my life and 1 constantly call on her help," he added.

A planning meeting for the 35th annual Bishop's Charity Ball of the diocese of Fall River will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at White's of Westport. Invitations to the meeting have been sent to diocesan coordinating committee members. Msgr. Anthony Gomes, ball director, announced that committee assignments will be determined at the meeting which will bring together members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, ball cosponsors.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be the honored guest at the event, to be held Jan. 12, 1990, also at White's of Westport. Proceeds fund four summer camps for underprivileged children as well as other diocesan apostolates.

Louis F. Doherty A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church, East Providence, for Louis F. Doherty, 82.

A native of Providence, he was the son of the late James T. and Katherine (Healy) Doherty. He was the husband of Flore'nce E. Ryan Doherty. He was also the husband ofthe late Isabel (Robertson) Doherty.

Besides his wife, he leaves three daughters, Hope McDowell of Warwick, Sister Mary Nathan Doherty, RSM, of New Bedford, and L. Carol Saunders of East Providence; a son, James W. Doherty of East Providence; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Sister Doherty, retired principal of Holy Family/Holy Name school, New Bedford, will join the faculty of St. Mary School, also in New Bedford, in September.

Aug. 12 1974, Rev. Victor O. Masse, M.S., Retired Pastor, St. Anthony, New Bedford Aug. 13 1896, Rev. Edward J. Sheridan, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton 1964, Rt. Rev. Leonard J. Daley, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis Aug. 14 1947, Rev. Raphael Marciniak, OFM Conv., Pastor, Holy Cross, Fall River 1969, Rev. Conrad Lamb, O.S.B., Missionary in Guatemala Aug. IS 1926, Rev. Charles W. Cullen, Founder, Holy Family, East Taunton

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ADAM KARAS, a Polish-born survivor ofa World War II labor camp i~ Siberia, holds a picture of his family taken before he was born, the only photograph he has of his parents. (eNS photo)

Elder care course openings remain The Geriatric Providers Council of Greater Fall River has announced that vacancies still exist in its course for those giving home care to an ill or elderly person.

Classes will meet each Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. through Sept.

20 at Bristol Elder Services, 182 N. Main St. New members may join at any time, said Dr. David Weed, di~ec­ tor of consultation and educatIOn at the Corrigan Center in Fall River, who helped organize the program.

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Catholic Pole recalls terror of Russian occupation WOODRUFF, Wis. (NC) Adam Karas was 5 when Russia invaded his native Poland in 1939, but he still can recall the terror his family endured while being loaded like cattle into a train car and transported to a labor camp in Siberia.

The next three years were a "living hell," said Karas, a member of Our Lady Queen of the Universe Parish in Woodruff, but he added that most of his memories are pleasant ones because they are of his mother.

He said his mother never let her children fall into despair despite the death and suffering around them and told them God would someday deliver them from their misery.

The saga - which took the lives of his mother, sister and niece happened nearly 50 years ago, but Karas said he still draws from his mother's example of strong will and faith.

Karas, the youngest of 10 children, said his family, like other Polish farm families, was deeply religious.

"It was an unquestioning faith," he said. "You were born with it.

Everything was done for the greater glory of God." His father, Thomas, died in 1938, leaving Felicia Karas to care for the farm and eight children left at home. A year later war broke out

Topics to be covered include safety precautions for the aged and infirm, how to provide such persons with exercise, how to provide bed care and how to handle legal and financial matters.

Also to be covered are medications, nutrition, respite care and family relationships.

The course has been designed by the American Association of Retired Persons to assist those who care for the elderly at home.

Further information is available from Dr. Weed at the Corrigan Center, 678-2901.

in Europe, and Germany and Russia invaded Poland.

For four months the Karas family lived as prisoners in their own home, said Karas. Then at 3 a.m. on Feb. 10, 1940, Russian soldiers took the family as prisoners of war.

"They packed us on cattle cars, about 60 people to a car with no toilets, nothing," he said. "We traveled for almost six weeks before we finally arrived at our destination."

Everyone over age 11 had to work building railway tracks

throug~ Siberia. They were given small amounts of fish, ,soup and bread in return for work they completed, but hunger was rampant.

While in Siberia, Karas said his family would gather in front of their picture of Jesus and secretly pray.

Adam's sister, Angela, died while giving birth to a girl, who died of starvation 18 months later.

Yet, Karas said, his mother "would continue rallying us. She kept telling us that whatever it is.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Some Latin American Christians, unhappy with the plans for a panAmerican meeting of bishops in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Americas, are considering an alternative event. Bishops from North and South America plan to meet with Pope John Paul II in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1992, to commemorate Christopher Columbus' discovery of America and the subsequent arrival of Christianity. During a 1984 papal trip to the Dominican Republic, the Latin American Bishops' Council, known by its Spanish acronym as CELAM, launched a "novena of years" leading up to the quincentennial, emphasizing study, prayer and reflection of the region's future as well as its past.

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themoorin~ Catholic Indifference It really is an uphill battle to be pro-life in Massachusetts.

Governor Dukakis, Senators Kerry and Kennedy and Congressmen Studds and Frank are all outspoken anti-life politicians. The courts have little pro-life sympathy and new judicial appointments are just stacking the odds in favor of anti-life forces.

In addition, the secular liberalism so long the Sacred Cod of the Commonwealth has managed to anesthetize the voting public unfortunately including the majority ofthe state's three million Catholics. The latter group has been more than negligent in pro-life activity from ballot box to picket lines. It is one ofthe more embarrassing realities to surface within the church family. And it really should be otherwise.

Just imagine the effect a truly believing group of such magnitude would have on public policy. If each and every Catholic could manifest his or her faith commitment with regard to the ethical and moral issues of our times, there would be a total impact on our social mores.

What is even more disappointing is that this state has had one of the best church school systems in the nation, from nursery to graduate school. Millions have been educated in Catholic schools and universities, most 'quite successfully if one can judge by their social standing. Yet so very often faith learned never became faith lived.

Too many graduates of Catholic schools have simply sublimated their religious convictions in favor of what the world can give them. These people, in general, will never get involved in any form of public faith expression. They will tell you that privately they are for life but in public they must be anti-life.

This myopic mentality is one ofthe main reasons why approximately 34,000 abortions are performed each year in Massachusetts, 25 percent of them at taxpayer expense. If a pro-life stance is to be affirmed in this state, such people will have to get their heads out of the sand.

The legalization of abortion has shredded the fabric of life.

When life is expendable, every aspect of living is endangered.

Look what has happened to family life since the Roe vs. Wade ruling in 1973. The divorce rate has soared; the institution of marriage has become a farce; children of divorce suffer untold emotional and psychological problems.

The joke in all this is that while we have legalized murder and abandoned life, we attempt at the same time to improve the environment.

For generations we have polluted, contaminated and fouled nature. Now this defilement has become a national issue as we try to clean up the mess. For whom? When we finish aborting and killing, who will be around to enjoy clean air and water?

Isn't it absurd that so many try to save the seals and otters of Alaska, while at the same time having such disregard for the human person?

The battle for 路life is more than the abortion issue. It's all-encompassing and inclusive. Abortion may be the pressure of the present; but the totality of life is the real debate. Those who cherish the gift of life that is theirs should not allow themselves to become blinded by selfishness.

Those wh have been given the promise of eternal life especially members of the believing Catholic community must cherish the total human condition. If we refuse to take a . stand, we are denying the merit of the life and death of Jesus.

To date, too many Catholics have remained indifferent to their faith and to human life apart from their own. Shame!

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"Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." l'flatt. 5:10

Weapon of the weak WASHINGTON (CNS) - The blurred image of what appeared to be a lifeless U.S. hostage hanging from a rope, his shadow swaying on a nearby wall, produced indignation nationwide.

President Bush spoke for many U.S. citizens when he expressed his "outrage" at the "brutal murder" of Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, a member of U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon who was accused of being a U.S. spy.

Acts of terrorism - "selective attacks on civilians and random attacks whose effects are to frighten and to make people feel insecure" - appear to be replacing nuclear war as the major threat facing humanity, said William V. O'Brien, a professor of government at Jesuitrun Georgetown University in Washington.

In O'Brien's view, it's likely the "whole nuclear question will remain dormant" as long as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev remains in power.

Terrorism, "by and large the weapon of the weak," is used primarily by Third World nations or militia whose "prospects for winning in war are poor," according to Jesuit Father John Langan, Rose Kennedy professor of Christian ethics at Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics.

He said the Lebanese Shiites who abducted Higgins, for example, "can say to the United States: 'Do this, otherwise we'll kill your civilians.' They can't say to the United States: 'We'll beat your army.' " The Organization for the Oppressed on Earth, a pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite Moslem group, said July 31 it had hanged Higgins in retaliation for the Israeli kidnapping of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Shiite clerical leader, and two aides.

Prior to his kidnapping, Sheik Obeid had publicly approved of

the abduction of Higgins. Israeli officials said the sheik was involved in planning the abduction.

How to discourage terrorism, whether to negotiate with terrorists in order to free remaining hostages and whether military retaliation for terrorist acts can be justified are among questions raised by the Higgins tragedy. There were reportedly eight U.S. citizens still being held hostage in Lebanon.

While the U.S. bishops' 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace focused on nuclear deterrence and warfare, "there is a real gap" in Catholic social teaching on "revolutionary war, terrorism and assassination," according to O'Brien.

However, he says, somejudgments can be made by extrapolating from just-war theory which was outlined in the classic sense by St. Augustine.

In principle, a hostage rescue mission is justifiable, in Father Langan's view.

But if U.S. hostages are hidden in a crowded city like Beirut, as appears to be the current case, measures must be taken to ensure that innocent people will not be harmed, he said.

Before approving any kind of hostage rescue mission, "you have to have a reasonable expectation of doing more good than harm," said the priest, citing the "proportionality criteria" of the just-war theory.

O'Brien said often terrorists "deliberately hide behind civilians ... buried in slums" so that "surgical" bombing of their offices is impossible.

In such a case, if the United States were to attack, "the (terrorist) groups would have to take some of the blame" for lost innocent lives, he maintained.

Using any kind of military force to try to free the remaining hostages would "increase the spiral of violence and induce countervio-

lence," predicted Robert C. JohanSf'n, senior fellow at the Institute for International Peace Studies at th.e University of Notre Dame.

When the Israelis took Sheik Obeid, "one bystander was killed in the process," he noted. "He, I think, was as important in the eyes of God as was Col. Higgins."

Even if it were possible for the United States to kill everyone holding hostages in Lebanon without harming a single innocent civilian, he: said, such an act would "instill in every 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old in Iran and Lebanon that we are a vicious country that goes thousands of miles from its shores to harm the people of their region."

To stamp out terrorism, he urged ex.amining its root causes and the reasons behind anti-U.S. sentiment in the Middle East.

U.S. backing of Israel in the conflict surrounding the Palestinians' struggle for self-determination, U.S. support of Israeli interests in Lebanon and U.S. military presence in .the region have made Arabs and Moslems "extremely angry at the United States," he said.

"They say, 'What right does the United States have to put military warships in the eastern Mediterranean?' How would we feel if Iran.

Wl~re a superpower and an Iranian warship sailed into Long Island Sound or steamed into the Gulf of Mexico?" asked Johansen.

But looking at the root causes of terrorism is irrelevant, argues O"Brien.

"A bad means is a bad means.

It's like saying a murder rapist should be let off because he grew uII in the ghetto - he's a good boy who grew up in a bad environment," he said. "Terrorism, by definition, is wrong."

Sound Advice "Let deeds match words." -Plautus

Couples must talk Last spring when I facilitated seven groups of young soldiers' wives discussing stressors peculiar to their lifestyle, I was saddened by the recurring complaint, "We just don't talk."

Most had been married five years or fewer and they had already stopped communicating on any satisfactory level. "He comes home and turns on TV," they complained.

"And that's it for the night."

A 1986 study at Seton Hall University found that a lust for talk, not sex, causes women to cheat on their husbands. Another researcher who traced 100 couples married five years found they spend only about thirty minutes a week talking with one another.

I well believe the statistics. If wives can't talk with their husbands, they're likely to find someone else to meet this human need - a friend, a counselor, or an affair.

"I don't know what happened," one said in the seminar. "When we were dating he talked and listened and it was wonderful. But as soon as we got married, he stopped. It's like he was saying, 'N ow that we're married we don't have to talk anymore." She paused and added, "I really miss him."

What causes this phenomenon where intimate communication goes by the wayside in marriage?

Television is one culprit. According to a 1986 Nielson report, television sets are on in American

ho'mes for seven hours and ten minutes daily.

Even the dinner hour is not free from the invasive and captivating power of television. Over 60% of American families have the set on while eating their one meal of the day together.

Our fast pace of life is another culprit. When we're on the fast track all day, we either pass snippets of information or we're too tired to exchange even a rundown of the day's activities.

One family center director quoted in Ladies' Home Journal said people are preoccupied with solitary pursuits - running, aerobics, and working out. The Journal added, "Our stomach and leg muscles have never been tighter, our conversational skills never flabbier."

In healthy marriages, both men and women make a special effort to set aside time for a walk or a slot in the day when they can share thoughts, stories and ideas. But it's difficult to do, especially if there are young children.

In other marriages, there's a one-sided attempt, usually but not always on the part of the wife, to recapture the kind of conversation the couple shared in courtship and early marriage.

When the other partner sees little need for talk, these spouses get frustrated and angry. They feel unimportant. One young wife said, "Even when we go out, he doesn't talk. So now I plan it so we go out

Marriage regulations Q. Would you please advise what times during the year a marriage ceremony cannot be performed for Catholics? Do the restrictions about Lent and Advent still apply? In some places it seems no marriages are allowed on Sunday.

Is this church law? (Indiana) A. No present law of the church prohibits a marriage ceremony at any time during the year. However, basic Catholic respect for the spirit of different liturgical seasons will affect the style of the wedding liturgy and other marriage celebrations. Both the introduction to the Rite of Marriage (No. II) and the introduction to wedding Masses in the Roman Missal indicate that "when a marriage is celebrated during Advent or Lent or other days of penance, the parish priest should advise the couple to take into consideration the special nature of these times."

A wedding ceremony is not prohibited on any day. A wedding Mass may not be celebrated, however, during the Easter Triduum (Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday), Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi or holy days of obligation.

Aside from those days, no general church law would prohibit marriages, including Mass, on other Sundays. Marriages are not performed in many areas on Sunday, however, because of custom or, possibly, even local regulations.

At least two good reasons exist to support such a policy.

First, it helps keep the focus of Sunday liturgies as celebrations of the parish community. Also, other responsibilities to be fulfilled on ordinary Sundays make it extreme-

Iy difficult for a parish priest to give the bride and groom and their wedding guests the kind of attention and care they should receive at this important moment of their lives.

Thus, while Sunday afternoon weddings are common in some parts of the world, they are extremely rare in the United States and in many other countries.

Q. You spoke in a recent column about a Catholic man being married in the Lutheran Church.

What bothers me is not only that a Catholic is married in any other church, but can you tell me if a Catholic priest has to be present in a Protestant church at such a marriage? (Pennsylvania) A. As I hope you know, general Catholic Church regulations require that a Catholic be married before a priest, bishop or deacon.

This is called officially the "form of marriage.

Local tiishops may dispense from that requirement. This dispensation is requested normally through the parish priest who assists the couple in their marriage preparations.

Reasons for sucha dispensation are varied. Perhaps the non-Catholic partner has a particularly close relationship to the Protestant congregation. In at least two cases in which I have been involved, the bride's father or grandfather was pastor of her non-Catholic church.

Whatever the reasons, if the bishop grants a dispensation from the form, it is not necessary that a priest be present for the marriage ceremony. The marriage is per-

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with others. Then he'll talk. But he never talks just to me."

Communication in such marriage degenerates into daily survival messages: "What time do we need to leave?" and, "Your mother called." Is it any surprise that so many spouses 'are lonely in marriage?

I'm afraid the situation won't change until husbands and wives learn that being able to enjoy conversation with one another is the cornerstone to building both a good marriage and a good sex life.

I recall the wife who said bitterly, "He ignores me all day and then wants sex at night. I'm not worth talking or listening to until II p.m."

Marriage Encounter recognized the importance oftalk in marriage years ago and gave thousands of couples a reborn relationship by teaching them how to share intimate conver.sation without threatening personal privacy, which we all need.

For couples who have allowed their communication to degenerate, I strongly suggest a couple communication or Marriage Encounter weekend. It might be the best anniversary gift you can give one another.

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is valued Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life, what parishioners want in a pastor is "sensitivity to the needs of others." Parishioners ranked this before holiness or learning or skill at preaching and organizing.

They want a pastor who understands them and consults them as contributors to the common life of the parish.

Recently I interviewed committeemembers at a parish. They confirmed the Notre Dame findings by telling me that the reason their parish was so alive was because their pastors had given them a sense of ownership and knew how to take a "back seat" when appropriate.

When the Notre Dame study asked about the essential features of a priest's role, parishioners by a wide margin said that it is bound up with the celebration of the Mass..

The study went on to say that virtually all other aspects of a pas-

tor's work could be comfortably shared or taken over by parishIOners.

As I reflected on those findings, I wondered if parishioners today are placing a higher value on their parish and its sacred traditions than ever before. Let me explain.

Neither the government nor civil institutions seem to be able to meet today's need for deep-seated values adequately. Perhaps the reason parishioners desire"greater ownership in the parish is because it is seen as an institution that can deliver needed values.

When parishioners focus on the priest's role as a celebrant of the Mass, isn't it a sign that they are looking for transcendent values, eternal values that no earthly value systems possess?

And doesn't their need go beyond just having a priest who can celebrate Mass? Couldn't it be that parishioners want a connection with the world of eternal values and realize that the Eucharist is the center from which eternal values emanate?

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Understandably, Catholic families frequently hope their parish priest will be present for the ceremony, at least as a friend and for moral support.

Often the priest will take part in the ceremony, which of course, would be fundamentally a Protestant one. The priest may say prayers, perhaps read a Scripture passage or participate in other ways (apart from actually receiving the marriage vows) in whatever ways would be worked out with the minister of that congregation.

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Knights' convention Continued from Page One Iiam H. Keeler of Baltimore highlighted central concerns of the Knights when he urged them to continue and expand their work in defense of human life and on behalf of family life and Catholic education.

He asked them to continue fighting against pornography and drug abuse and to promote Catholic education, including "fairer government treatment" of those who choose Catholic schools.

Dechant called the attitude toward abortion of a new Supreme Court majority an opportunity for the Knights to press for reversal of the court's 1973 decision that prohibited virtually all legal restrictions on abortion.

He said the new high court decision in July permitting some forms of state restriction on abortion "went far but not yet far enough."

Dechant also urged new efforts to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life and reverse the "serious shortage of new vocations."

One of the actions taken by the Knights at a business session was the formation of a new $2 million national fund to help locai councils provide scholarships to candidates for the priesthood and religious life.

The Knights formed another fund of at least $2 million to finance projects and activities of The Catholic University of America in Washington, a national Catholic university established by the country's bishops.

Vice President Quayle spoke to the Knights about politics and family values, praising their spirit of volunteerism, urging them to support Bush administration proposals for child care and asking them to make respect for human life "a bipartisan position" in U.S. politics.

Quayle also predicted a global movement "in the direction of liberty" but said the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua leaves the future of Central America "uncertain."

Archbishop May, speaking at the convention's annual States Dinner, urged the Knights to be a lay force for "a re-evangelization of society."

He said one ofthe central insights of the Second Vatican Council was its emphasis on the church's laity as "co-responsible with the hierarchy for this mission" of spreading the Gospel.

"I am not advocating the heroic or extraordinary," he said, but rather a strong sense of ethics and Christian presency by lay people in work, politics, teaching, communications and other fields.

"All of this is good, honest, human work," the archbishop said.

"It can also be God's work."

Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, thanked the Knights for their financial assistance to communications activities of the Holy See, such as their funding for the satellite transmission of papal Christmas and Easter Masses.

Wives of the Knights, gathered for their annual ladies' luncheon, heard a sharp attack on the Christian feminist movement by Mary Ellen Bork, an author, former nun, and wife offormer Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork.

Feminist efforts are "divisive and dangerous" and "peppered with the seeds of heresy," Mrs. Bork said.

She said a "feminist consciousness . . . has made deep inroads . into the culture" of the United States and "has toppled women from their pre-eminent positions as mothers of future generations."

She described feminists as women "mired in the secular hierarchy of values" who "want to eschew their heritage, to replace their unique position in heaven EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Louis~ Attulco's frilly bonnet and shy smile conceal the multiple and on earth in order to be somereconstructive surgery she has had in this country. The Peruvian girl was two years old and thing they are not." , living on the streets with her mother when her face was partially crushed by a truck. She was She particularly challenged feminists' efforts at "transforming our abandoned by her mother shortly after the accident. She came to the United States under, auspices ofthe New Jersey chapter of Heal the Children, a national volunteer organization that language when speaking about God." provides free medical care to children unabl~ to receive it where they live. She is to return to "The changes they suggest are Peru in several months and will be placed in an orphanage. (CNS photo) not trivial; they are inherently dangerous because they jettison and worse, deny - the traditional and orthodox teaching about God Continued from Page One which we have received through This latest expansion of TIC presentations and p~ofessionally the church," Mrs. Bork said. "They side band signal cost about $85 demonstrates' its growth from the produced shows, such'as a reading are not just adjusting concepts to dollars. In some cases TIC can days of its humble beginnings at a from the Bible every Sunday. make them more palatable to wo- offer assistance with this expense. folding table in a 6x8-feet studio.

"There's something for everymen but are actually a.ttempting to The service was begun in 1978 one," says Josephine Fletcher. "J According to TIC executive direstructure Christian belief." rector Ron Bersani, the heart of by Ed Perry at radio station WTAD can"t imagine who wouldn't have a She called the idea of God as the service is local input. in Marshfield. Perry had heard reas,on to tune in at some time durFather "one of Christianity's fun"From Marshfield we provide about reading services for the blind ing the day. I never go anywhere damental symbols" which feminists and wanted to donate a closed cir- witho~t my receiver." the bulk of the programming," he are seeking to replace with "the Mrs. Fletcher has found the said. "It works just like any other cuit signal for that purpose. Ron idea of goddess."

Bersani became involved when public service announcements parmajor network. We provide 17 While warning of the dangers of Perry sought someone to head the ticularly helpful: it was through hours daily of regional, state, the feminist movement in the project. At the time Bersani, an one such announcement she learned national and international interest church, she also expressed "hope" English teacher at Marshfield High about personal composers, tools programming. There are 'windows' that it will be "like sand in the School, was broadcasting high for writing and printing out music. in the broadcast day that allow for oyster ... the irritant that will school basketball. After volunteer- Always interested in music and insertion of local programming in form the pearl of a new articula- each area." ing to help Ed Perry he researched presently a soloist and song leader tion of the church's teaching on radio learning centers and submit- at St. John the Evangelist, she When TIC was brought to the ted a grant proposal to the Massawomen and their true role in famplans to get a personal composer ily and society, a role that is being Cape 10 years ago, no local pro- chusetts Commission for the Blind. as soon as possible. If not for TIC, gramming was available.

Falmouth demeaned on all sides."

TIC went on the air in June "I probably never would have heard She praised Pope John Paul II's radio station WFAL donated sig- 1978, broadcast by six volunteers about it," she said. nal use to pick up Marshfield pro"spiritual view of women" in his to an audience of 10. It ran 4 hours Bersani cited other programs recent letter, "On the Dignity and grams but there was no local stu- a day, five days a week. whil;h have proved very beneficial dio to provide material.

Vocation of Women."

Now the 17 hour-a-day, 7 day-a- to TIC listeners: a show on comThe pope's views, she said, "are "It was wonderful," she said: week broadcasts by 300 volunteers putf:rs explained adaptations for too often dismissed or misunder- "Now all of a sudden I was able to at 8 radio stations and 75 cable the handicapped, 'and a series on stood" by people "at best unin- hear the Globe and the Herald, outlets reach over 6500 listeners. guid.e dog schools featured repreformed and at worst hostile to the and get shopping guides so I knew Bersani and Fletcher emphasize sentatives who told what different church's teaching on what it is to what was on sale." She had only the importance of the service to schools had to offer and requirebe a person, whether male or one complaint: "Th~re was no local the reading impaired. Said Ber- ments for acceptance. female." news." sani, ':The problem with listening TIC has involved listeners in At their business session, in addiMrs. Fletcher contacted Ron to regular radio broadcasts is that community social events by artion to backing a wide-ranging Bersani and asked.if TIC could you get the same newscast every ranging special activities such as pro-life campaign and forming new begin doing local broadcasts on hour, just a quick capsule. We trips to ball games or the circus. funds for Catholic University and the Cape. The station investigated broadcast columns, Dear Abby, Mrs.. Fletcher, for instance, attendvocations scholarships, the Knights setting up a studio, but no suitable letters to the editor, editorials ed a circus at which professional approved strongly worded resolulocation could be found. things sighted people take for broa.dcasters described events on tions denouncing pornography and However, Josephine Fletcher granted." headphones provided for the visupledging themselves to campaign would not take no for an answer.

Hearing a number of different ally impaired. for decency in the media and "I decided we'd just take a room in articles on the same subject, adds "I got to take my grandchildren against drug and alcohol abuse. my house and do it," she said.

Josephine Fletcher, "helps you to the circus," she said, "and I got They also backed efforts for a Enter Josephine Fletcher. Long formulate an opinion." Being ex- to ride an elephant!" constitutional amendment or leg- one of the Cape station's mostded- posed to in-depth articles on a subShe is pleased that her home islation to prohibit desecration of icated listeners, she grew up in the ject allows listeners to understand stud:;o enables Cape Cod listeners the U.S. flag.

Boston area and attended the Per- varying viewpoints, she said, cit- to hear about local events and As their 1989 international fam- kins School for the Blind in Water- ing last year's presidential election listen to local newspaper articles. ily of the year, the Knights named town. She moved to Cape Cod as an event that required more It's also nice to hear the store and Stuart and Sharon Fitzpatrick and from New York with her three than just news-capsule coverage. supermarket ads, she says. "That their five children, a Catholic fam- children after the death of her With TIC's information service, way I can go to the supermarket ily from St. Johns, Mich., involved husband and is now a receptionist "you were able to make up your with my own shopping list." in a variety of church and com- at the Massachusetts Military own mind," she said.

TIC is valuable not only to lismunity service activities.

Reservation. Formerly a night club TIC offers much more than news, teners, but to its volunteer broadand radio entertainer in New York, however. The center broadcasts casters. All on-air reading is done she was enthusiastic about the employment information specifi- by volunteers. Each goes through possibilities of TIC. cally applicable to the visually a complete training program, and, ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. Said Ron Bersani, "Josephine impaired and keeps the informa- says Bersani, "they learn they have (NC) - The United States and the wanted us to start broadcasting tion on file for interested callers. skills they didn't know they had."

Soviet Union have a common local papers so much that she There is entertainment in the form Jo:,ephine Fletcher does not find enemy in alcoholism, said a Bene- offered the use of a room in her of oldtime radio shows, original it inconvenient to have a radio stadictine priest who recently returned home. Not only that, but she 'con- programming, sports and best-sell- tion in her home. The volunteers from a Soviet-American Confer- vinced' many of her friends they ing books. Three books are serial- come: and go and "do their own should become volunteer readers." ized at a time, each read for an thing," she says. "They're a wonence on Alcoholism in Moscow.

Father Peter Sweisgood, executive The room was soundproofed hour a day. derful group of people - very deddirector of the Long Island Coun- and converted into a studio comReligious programming includes icated and very faithful. And I was cil on Alcoholism, attended the plete with donated equipment and articles from The Anchor and the only pressed into service once!" conference as part of a IOO-member carpeting. The Cape Cod station Boston Pilot, church news, a daily For more information on TIC U.S. delegation of specialists in went on the air from Mrs. Fletcher's non-denominational devotional or to become a volunteer, call the alcoholism treatment. home at 6 p.m. on March 20th. message, news. and information center at 1-800-992-9505.

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Nuns make vows in China's church letters are welcomed but the editor reserves the right to condense or edit. if deemed necessary. All tellers must be signed and include a home or business address. They do not necessarily express the editorial views of The Anchor.

A bsurd opinion Dear Editor: Please refer to Anchor article of JUly 21, "St. Thomas at issue."

In this interesting article I am surprised to see a reference to an opinion of St. Thomas Aquinas which states, "It was widely held that the soul was not present until the formation of the fetus 40 or 80 days after conception, for males and females respectively."

I feel this is an absurd opinion and I don't feel that Aquinas got it from divine providence. If this were true, then any woman who had a miscarriage at two months of pregnancy would hope the fetus was a boy so it would have a soul. ...

Does anyone have any more verification on this point? It is so important to anyone who went through a miscarriage or whose wife died while pregnant.

John F. Waygan Jr. East Falmouth It must be remembered that 13th-century biological science was rudimentary. Aquinas did not have the benefit of today's understanding of the development of the human being. It is consistent church teaching that human life begins at the moment of conception and is precious precisely because each human being has an immortal soul.

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On August 22 I will be 40 years in the convent. I entered August 22, 1949. I am a Carmelite Sister for the Aged and Infirm. May God bless you for the work you are doing for the Anchor. Be assured of my prayers. Say one for me.

God bless you all.

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SISTER REBECCA BETZ, MSBT, following her first profession of vows as a Missionary Servant of the Most Blessed Trinity, will begin her ministry in St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis.

Before entering religious life, she was a caseworker with Catho)ic social agencies in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. During her formation period as a Missionary Servant, she served in Alabama and Virginia.

The Missionary Servants are a community of priests, brothers, sisters, and laity committed to development of an apostolic laity while helping meet the diverse needs of the church. '

Campaign head WASHINGTON (CNS) Ramon Rodriguez, now a program officer with the U.S. bishops' Campaign for Human Development, has been named director of the Catholic Communication Campaign, a major fundraising effort of the U.S. bishops which supports media projects at the national and diocesan levels.

Up health funds urge Irish bishops DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - An Irish church commission has called on the government to spend more money on health care for the poor.

It said the burden of government budget reductions, prompted by Ireland's weak economy, has fallen mostly on the "insecure and frightened sick who happen to be at the wrong end of the social ladder."

The commission, appointed by the Irish bishops and superiors of religious orders, made its recommendation in a discussion document recently released. It points· out that severe reductions in government spending in recent years have closed hospitals and deprived rural areas of health facilities.

"These cutbacks did not cause a uniform degree of hardship across the social groups and the burden very definitely has fallen disproportionately on the poorer section of society," it adds.

The commission says current policy seems to give private medicine an expanded role, but holds that this is not a long-term solution to growing equity problems in

health care. It suggests that welfare homes for the elderly, sheltered employment and homes for the handicapped, and other community services need to be encouraged and funded.

According to the document, private patients have faster access to surgery and medical treatment than those who depend on the public health service.

Underfunding of health has had a political impact. When commenting on his failure to win an overall majority in the June general elections, the prime minister, Charles Haughey, admitted he has underestimated dissatisfaction over health and spending cuts.

This year, the government is spending 6 percent of gross national product on the public health service, as compared with 7.5 percent in 1985 and 7.79 percent in 1980.

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BEIJING(CNS)- Seven young women recently took vows as nuns in China's state-approved Catholic Church. They were the first to enter religious life in the church since its formation in the mid-1950s.

The Associated Press reported that hundreds of people crowded into Beijing's Nantang Cathedral as Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan presided at the ceremony admitting the women into the religious life of the church, which has no ties to the Vatican.

The novices, wearing long black veils topped, with circular crowns of plastic roses, bowed their heads as Bishop Fu told them to be true to their religious training.

The service lasted 90 minutes.

Afterward, one of the young nuns said she was "very excited," adding that the new sisters did not know yet their assignments.

Another, Sister Yang Lijun, said she and the others come from Catholic families. She said she had "wanted to be a nun since I was small, in order to serve people."

It has only been since 1986 that the government-approved church has accepted women into training for religious life.

During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution all churches and church facilities were closed and much church property was confiscated for other purposes.

In the past decade, however, the climate has become somewhat freer for the state-sanctioned church.

Seminaries and convents have reopened and the church is regaining seized property.

But the so-called clandestine church, which maintains Vatican ties in defiance of a government ban on organizational links between Chinese institutions and foreign agencies, operates outside the law.

Its bishops and priests of that church are considered licit ministers by the Holy See, in contrast to the status of the state-approved clergy.

There are no statistics on the number of nuns in the clandestine church, but women have apparently been entering its religious communities for some years.

One indicator of that was the 1984 arrest of an underground bishop in an apparent "sting"-type operation in which a police agent posed as a candidate for religious life. Police arrested the bishop during a ceremony at which the agent was to take her vows.

By various counts there are between 6 million and 8 million Catholics among China's 1.2 billion people.

Respective numbers in the stateapproved and elandestine churches are unknown. Many Catholics loyal to the pope are said to attend statesanctioned services for lack of an alternative.

African liturgy BALTIMORE (CNS) - Members of a Baltimore parish recently attended an African liturgy, thanks to Maryknoll Father Joseph G. Healey, who used elements from liturgies of Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Kenya and other African nations in a Mass he celebrated at St. Ann's parish. "There's no African liturgy as such," he said, noting that in Tanzania alone there are 120 languages, and Mass is celebrated a Httle differently in each ethnic group.

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Soviets ignorant of religion but curious WASHINGTON (CNS) - On a three-week July visit to the eastern reaches of the Soviet Union, Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska, said he found wide ignorance of religion but signs of tentative openness to God. The new Soviet policy of "glasnost" or openness, is being felt not only in the economic and political fields but in deeper stirrings of the human spirit, he said.

"There's a deep sense of curiosity" about many areas of life formerly closed to them, he said.

He celebrated Mass before a group of scientists, most of whom had never met a priest or bishop before, and explained something of his faith to them by analogies with nature, life cycles and the environment.

Archbishop Hurley said he went as one of 49 U.S. doctors, nurses and scientists and other specialists on an expedition sponsored by the University of Alaska's Institute for Circumpolar Health.

He said technically he went as a sociologist ---: he has a master's degree in sociology - but made no secret of his being a bishop or his interest in Soviets' religious attitudes.

In a region where the cities and towns were largely established as forced-labor camps or mining outposts under communist rule, there is no religious tradition, he said.

After he celebrated a Mass there, officials presented him with a book inscribed, "To priest - the first Catholic in Magadan."

He said that during his stay he met with a newly ordained Orthodox priest just recently sent there to build the first church in Magadan's 50-year history.

Another side trip that he and five others in his group took from Magadan was to a research station on the Yana River where scientists were studying the growth and migration of birds.

One of the eight people at the station "was a man from Czechoslovakia. who was the only Catholic

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On another occasion, he said, "when a fellow I met on a ferry boat found out I was an archbishop, he q'uickly made the Sign of the Cross. He told me his grandmother had taught it to him when he was little."

As he asked different peopie what they believed in during the course of his visit, an answer he received a couple of times was "I believe in the future," he said.

Even those who described themselves as believers had only vague knowledge about the Bible or religious truths, he said.

Among non-believers, some were curious about religion but others were not. "I'm just not interested in religion," one scientist told him.

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Lasorda aids Mercy nuns' .fund drive NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS)Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda is going to bat for the Sisters of Mercy of the Union in Nashville.

Lasorda, who last fall led the Dodgers t.o the World Series championship, has promised the nuns a "big night of entertainment in Nashville featuring some of the greatest talent in the United States" to raise funds to build the sisters a new convent.

Lasorda already has raised some $50,000 to build the new convent by agreeing to lose some of his 2I8 pounds in exchange for pledges.

Players Orel Hershiser and Kurt Gibson gave him $30,000 for losing about 40 pounds and Slimfast gave him an additional $20,000 for his use of their weight-loss program. Lasorda's scheduled appearance at a Las Vegas hotel could net him another $50,000 for the nuns.

Lasorda said that the fundraiser is scheduled for Nov. 30 at either the Grand Ole Opry House or the Nashville Convention Center.

Lasorda said he hopes to bring together on stage Pia Zadora, Susan Anton, Don Rickles, Hank Williams Jr., and Frank Sinatra.

"We want to put on a great

show, but most important I want to see all of you sitting in the front row and looking up with great admiration and saying, 'This is for all of us' because we love you very much," Lasorda told the sisters during a visit to the community.

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The nuns are being forced to mClve from their convent because it has become too costly for the sisters to keep up and because it is plagued with fire code violations.

Last fall the sisters kicked off a campaign to raise more than $2 mi:Iion to build a new facility. The nuns said they hope to sell the current property for about $7 million, with funds going to build the new Mc:rcy Ministry Center and cOllvent.

"My goal and dream is to see all of you in the near future sitting, slec:ping and eating in a home that befits all of you because you have dedicated your lives to God," La!lorda told the sisters.

"No matter where I go, I have a great deal oflove and affection for the nuns who taught me because they put me on the straight and narrow path oflife," he said of the Catholic education he received in his hometown of Norristown, p'a.

"I know and appreciate all you do.

You deserve nothing but the best."

Lasorda's fund-raising efforts are not limited to the nuns. Last Ma.y, Lasorda agreed to become spokesman for the new Caritas Ma.stercard. Each time the card is used Mastercard donates a portion of the interest to Catholic Charities.

Third world Christians denounce right wing, urge conversion in new document WASHINGTON (CNS) - Hundreds of Christians from Asia, Africa and Central America have issued a document denouncing right-wing fellow Christians as heretics.

They also called for conversion by all "who profess to be followers of Jesus.".

The document, "The Road to Damascus: Kairos and Conversion," says the church has become a field of political conflict. Some sectors "align themselves with the status quo and defend it passionately, while others align themselves with the oppressed and struggle for change."

"This religious conflict is not ·a mere academic debate," the document says. "What is at stake is the future of justice, peace, freedom and the glory of God." The document was signed by Christians from Nicaragua, EI Salvador, Guatemala, South Africa, Namibia, the Philippines and South Korea.

Included were prominent figures such as Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Cape Town, South Africa, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace t>rize.

Members' of 88 basic Christian communities in EI Salvador, nine Philippine bishops, and hundreds of priests, religious and lay people also signed the declaration.

"Right-wing Christianity is being promoted with vigorous and expensive campaigns in all our countries and in almost all Christian traditions: Catholic, Reformed, Lutheran, Anglican, Evangelical and Pentecostal," the document says.

It speaks of the sin of idolatry and says that "in our countries, the worship of money, power, privilege and pleasure has certainly replaced the worship of God." Its practitioners "use communism or socialism of any kind or even suspected leanings in that direction" to justify persecuting progressive groups in the church.

"Communist regimes and movements must be criticized, too, but they must not be made into scapegoats," the document says.

Fanatic anti-communism is a characteristic of right-wing Christianity, the document says.

"The war against communism is treated as a holy war or crusade," the document says. "Christian values like loving your enemy, forgiving 70 times seven times, compassion, solidarity and calling the sinner to conversion are conveniently forgotten once a person or group is labeled 'communist' or 'subversive.' " The document labels as apostates Christians who "discredit priests and pastors, nuns and theologians, church leaders and Christian communities, harass them, sometimes imprison them, torture and kill them."

Speaking this month at a press conference to release the document in Washington, the Rev. Jorge Pixley, professor of theology at Baptist College in Managua, Nicaragua, said readers of the document might wonder why Christians would call other Christians idolaters, heretics, blasphemers, hypocrites and apostates.

"Right-wing Christians call us communists and kill us. We call you idolaters and call on you to repent," said Mr. Pixley, quoting Father Edicio de la Torre, a Philippine priest and signer of the document. " "In this document we name the sins," said retired Bishop Antonio Nepomuceno, former auxiliary bishop of Cotabato, Philippines.

The document says that "the perspective of Christ is the perspective ofthe poor and oppressed;' and asks people to "realize that whom we are persecuting and whom we are oppressing" is "actually Christ himself," Bishop Nepomuceno said.

The document speaks of the "misuse of Christianity in the ideological war" and how "imperialist leaders" felt threatened when they found an organized Christian presence within popular movements.'

Such a presence "weakens the capacity of imperialism to use Christianity to defend the empire," it said.

"Joint projects are launched with some Third World governments

and security agencies to infiltrate the church, co-opt conservative Christians and 'neutralize' progressive ones," the document says.

"Christianity is interpreted to suit these purposes, while the theology of liberation is accused of being political.

"Christian faith has now been introduced into the political conflict," it says. "Both sides invoke the name of God and of Jesus Christ, and Christians are found on both sides of the political conflict in most of our seven countries."

Mr. Pixley said the document's signers hoped Christians who were unclear about what was happening in Third Wor'ld countries would begin to understand the situation after reading the document.

"I would hope that American Christians will begin to ask 'What do you mean by this?' " said the Rev. Tschenuwani Simon Farasani, a South African Lutheran pastor and theologian.

He said the document calls for "total confession and repentance on the part of the church and governments that have supported apartheid."

Speakers at the press conference said Christians in their countries spent two-and-one-half years working on the document in secret.

Such secrecy was necessary "not because it is subversive theology" but to keep the document from being confiscated. Speakers from South Korea and Central America said their concern was to protect Christians in South Africa.

Auxiliary Bishop P. Francis Murphy of Baltimore attended the press conference to show support for the document. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit sent a letter of support.

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Black American Catholics will discuss liturgy in Rome v ATICAN CITY (CNS) Black American Catholics plan to bring their concerns and perspectives to Rome next November when they attend the "Rejoice! Conference on Black Liturgy."

More than 100 participants are expected to attend the sixth annual Rejoice conference next Nov. 916, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington.

The conference will discuss evangelization of black Catholics and the "African-American cultural contribution to the Roman rite."

While the meeting is not sponsored by the Vatican, its Rome coordinator is Benedictine Father Cuthbert Johnson, an official with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

Father Johnson said the archdiocese's Office of Black Catholics has been preparing for the conference for the past 14 months.

The congregation likes to attend or be informed about liturgical conferences which take place around the world, he said. "But we

are especially pleased that the Rejoice conference is being held here in Rome."

He praised Jacqueline Wilson and the archdiocesan black Catholics office which she heads for the work they have put into the conference.

"I have been impressed beyond measure" by its efforts and organization, he said.

The meeting is expected to discuss religious education and evangelization, liturgy, administration and leadership, music and history from a black Catholic perspective.

According to a statement released by the archdiocesan Office of Black Catholics, "the liturgy is the principal means of evangelization in the African-American community."

"If a people can express their Catholic faith in their own culture and traditions, then that faith can be truly their own without weakening either the faith or the culture," the statement said.

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FATHER VYTAUTAS GORINAS greets his daughter, Grazina, for the first time since 1944. (NCS photo)

Priest, daughter separated in World War II reunite CHICAGO (CNS) - After years .of hopes and dreams, Father Vytautas Gorinas has been reunited with the daughter he had left behind in the turmoil of World War II. Father Gorinas, 72, had last seen Grazina when she was an 8month-old infant and he was a young Lithuanian military officer.

Now, she is 45 and he is a retired priest of the Diocese of Rockford.

Last month, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, joined by another daughter, a son an"d a grandson, he excitedly greeted his oldest child, who was accompanied by a third daughter.

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Later, she joined her father and siblings for a celebration dinner, complete with a special cake. For the first time in her life, she heard family members sing the Lithuanian equivalent of "Happy Birthday."

To her priest-father, it was the enactment of "a father's last dream," one which began in the chaos of World War II. Father Gorinas, then Vytautas Gorinas of the Lithuanian forces, was separated from his wife, Joze, and his baby girl, Grazina when he was captured by German trQops.

Sent to a prison camp, he eventually was reunited with his spouse, but they were unable to return to Lithuania from Germany to reclaim Grazina, who was living with her grandmother.

The couple had twin daughters Milda and Lydija while living in Germany and then emigrated to the United States, where a son, Vyto Jr., was born.

After J oze Gorinas' death at age 32 in 1955, Vyto Gorinas raised his three younger children and worked in a restaurant.

Years later, he heard a call to the priesthood, was ordained and served as a parish pastor. Still he dreamed of being reunited with his now-grown daughter, who had become a concert pianist and then a medical care specialist.

By the time of his 1970 ord.ination, she had married and begun a family of her own.

Over the years of their separation, her father wrote to President Franklin and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, successive presidents and other government officials in an attempt to get clearance for her visit.

Finally his efforts were successful. As a grandson said, the reunion of the family this July was "like a resurrection."

After years of separation in the past, Father Gorinas said in a toast for his family, "The time is now'"

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Lesson for future?

Are today's social crises having an impact on society anything like the long range effect of the drought of the 30s, the Great Depression and World War II? I doubt it.

Like most people who grew up during the second quarter of the 20th century, I have never forgotten these cataclysms.

Will the advent of TV and the Vietnam tragedy have a similar effect on those who were young during the third quarter of the 20th? And how about abortion, the drug culture and AIDS for the traumas of this final quarter?

Ask any senior today about the Depression or World War II and prepare for a long list of memories. The 30s drought was more selective, but it shut down country towns and drove hordes of farmers west.

As a city slicker I did not experience the drought or the dust bowl in person, but my wife's mother and her parents did. In going through some of her mother's souvenirs the other day, Dorothy found a letter from Andrew Forslof, her mother's father.

Dated June 22, 1936, from the tiny town of Crary, ND, the letter from Grandpa Forslofwas written

in pencil on a blue-lined sheet of paper. "It is hot and dry here," he wrote.

"So we don't know how the crops are coming out. If we don't get rain soon, there will not be anything. If it comes good, we could get half a crop. So you see things are not so good here.

"There is hardly any work here except relief. There is no building and hardly any carpenter work. I have had about one day so far this year, and the farmers are so tight you can't squeeze anything out of them.

"But we have plenty to eat yet," he concluded, "and nice flowers in the yard and no mortgage on the house."

The drought spread in the mid30s, especially in the South. Dust storms raged in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and even Colorado.

"Skies darkened to night during midday," the Wall Street Journal reported, "and schools and businesses were closed as choking silt, driven by high winds, blanketed wide areas of the United States, damaging millions of cropland acres."

The drought and the depression reduced the population of Crary from close to 300 in 1930 to little

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BERNARD CASSERLY mon: than a wide spot on the road to Devil's Lake today. Among those who left was my future mother-in-law.

The searing drought resulted in the Soil Conservation Act of 1935, which promoted contour plowing, crop rotation, fertilization and woodland planting. And it worked.

It's still too early to measure the magnitude of the role played by TV and Vietnam in the lives of those who grew up during the third quarter of the 20th Century--our children. All of us have been influenced by TV, regardless of age, but is it for good or ill?

Vietnam split the nation, but what lesson did it teach?

In this, the last quarter of the century, the battle over AIDS, drugs and abortion rages. Who or what will win? What will the seniors of thl: next century say about what we did to stop the carnage? Will there be any seniors?

Capetip health services listed Health services available to Provincetown senior citizens include a cholesterol testing clinic, to take place beginning at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 29 at the Provincetown Senior Center in the Grace Gouveia Building.

Blood pressure clinics are held twice monthly in the office of the town nurse, also in the Gouveia building.

Mammograms will be available by appointment.

For further information on all services, call 487-9906.

Affordable housing The Acushnet Housing Authority is seeking qualified applicants for state-aided public housing for inclusion on a waiting list for a housing program for the elderly and handicapped.

Applications are available by mail or from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Frid'ay, at the housing authority office, 23 Main St., Acushnet 02743, tel. 998-3603.

Eligible persons pay no more than 25 percent of their adjusted monthly income for rent. Income limitations for the Acushnet program are $12,824 for one person; $14,656 for two persons.

, prayer\>Box Prayer Jor Help Ma,y, Mothe, of Jesus, help us to g'ow not of the wo,ld, but mo,e and mo,e like you; help us to know ourselves denied and still follow Him, like you; help us to show we che,ish and forgive and lovingly serve like you. Amen.

TOMORROW through Saturday, Aug. 19, residents of Falmouth Nursing Home will honor the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Fatima. The title recalls Mary's appearances at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917 to three shepherd children, two of whom were recently declared venerable. They died in early childhood, while their cousin, a Carmelite nun, is stilllivi ng.

The Falmouth statue, known as the Pilgrim Virgin, travels to churches, nursing homes, hospitals, schools and private homes as requested. It will be at the Falmouth Nursing Home on Aug. 13, the anniversary of one ofthe Fatima apparitions, and on Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption.

Welcoming and farewell programs will be held in the nursing home's chapel at 10 a.m. Aug. 12 and Aug. 19 and the rosary will be recited at 10 each morning during the week, led by members of the Women's Guild of S1. Patrick's parish, Falmouth.

At 2 p.m. Aug. 18, Father Francis X. Wallace, parochial vicar at S1. Patrick's, will celebrate Mass in the chapel, with music provided by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Deechan of the parish's senior choir.

All are welcome to participate in the scheduled services and to make private visits to the home chapel during the week.

What discipline is best?

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: Your column suggested that punishment is not a very effective way to change behavior. I have news for you. Neither is praise. A business magazine listed reasons given by supervisors why praise is ineffective.

1. Praise weakens control. 2.

"Real" men or women don't need praise. 3. Praise is forced and phony. Managers manipulate employees by using it. 4. Other workers might get jealous. 5. Written praise gives workers too much security.

6. PrJlise can be overdone.

I believe the same reasoning would apply to children. What do you think? (Ohio) A. I appreciate your letter, but I think you need to reread our column. I never said that praise was the discipline of choice. You must have assumed that when I questioned whether punishment worked well to change the behavior of persons over 10.

Praise and punishment come from the same judgmental mindset.

They are both critiques of the person or behavior of another. As such, both can provo!ce negative reactions in the minds of young teens.

Praise has the added problem of setting goals the child may find hard to attain on a regular basis.

Some children are upset by praise

because they feel the implied pressure always to perform well or that they will be blamed and criticized for not succeeding.

Praise often is general and nonspecific. The parent says things like, "Oh, you're so wonderful."

Or, "Aren't you a good little girl!"

While perhaps nice to hear, such generic positive remarks can be used to manipulate. The child may wonder what the parent wants of him or her. On occasion they also have been referred to as "buttering up" or "baloney."

Praise and recognition are both positive responses to the child.

The difference is that praise is judgmental and frequently general, whereas recognition is objective and specific.

The advantage of recognition is that it pays attention to the good that happens. Examples are: "This is the third straight night that you have come home on time." "You have made your bed and picked up your room every day this week." "I see you scored five points and had five rebounds in last night's game."

Those statements are in contrast to vague positive statements like, "You are certainly acting much more responsibly." Or, "You are a great basketball player.': The goal of good parenting is to achieve the desired outcome: to get the child home on time; to get

the room cleaned up; to stop mouthy behavior; to improve grades. Recognition of any evidence of these results is the best way to encourage or guarantee them.

When recognition and praise are used together, they form a powerful combination of good discipline. Generic praise, however, can be as ineffective a discipline as punishment.

Finally, there is a misconception that being a positive parent, one that uses recognition and praise, is the same as being permissive.

I am not a punitive parent.

However, if you ever told my children that I was a permissive parent who let them do whatever thay wanted, they probably would die laughing.

T.he parent who recognizes the good when it occurs will accomplish more than the parent who· is always lecturing or complaining about the bad.

Praise is a two-edged sword. It is positive, but it can be ineffective if it is vague. A parent or supervisor cannot go wrong with recognition and specific notice of good behavior when it occurs.

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

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Conformity and the Dead Poets Society

By Antoinette Bosco My son Peter and I recently saw Robin Williams' new movie, "Dead Poets Society," and find it coming up in conversation at unexpected moments.

It was that kind of movie, touching me, as a parent, and Peter, as a teacher just back from having taught at the Father Duenas Catholic High School in Guam, run by the Capuchin Fathers.

For those who have not seen the movie, the setting is at an exclusive preppy boys' school in the year 1959, when tradition, obedience and discipline were the operative words.

Into this scene comes a teacher who is different. He tries to give the boys a new vision of education and life. He captures their attention by doing what is unusual for a teacher there to do. He has them tear out pages of dull, dense prose from a book, and stand on their desks so as to see the room (and the world) from another perspective.

Williams is the perfect example of someone who makes the distinction between book learning and real education. If you go back to the Latin roots, the word education, "educere," means to "draw or lead out" from within yourself all that you are capable of becoming.

My father taught me that when I was very young. He used to say the Italians had two words to refer to someone who had gone to school.

One is "istruito," meaning "well read," but the other word is "educato," meaning "well bred." My father would then say the important one is "educato," for that means you had gone beyond learning and instruction. You had now become a gentle(wo)man, a real person, fair and just to others, mature.

Williams wants to be an "educator" in the mov;e. He even manages to show hiG :lOys that poetry i3

not sets of fancy words, but that it has to do with life, with the universal longings of the human soul for love, beauty, truth, life and fun.

A group of his students take his message to "seize the day" seriously, leaving their dorm rooms at night to gather at a cave, where they can freely discover the voices of poets past and give vent to their own budding dreams. They are the Dead Poets Society.

Tragedy enters the scene, however, when the father of one of the boys tightens his control on his son when the student goes against his father's wishes to play Puck in Shakespeare's" A Midsummer Night's Dream." He is a father some have known, one who sees parenting as a way to relive his own life, denying his son the right to make his own choices.

I won't give away the movie, but, as might be expected, the headmaster, to appease the parents and save his school's reputation, uses Williams as a scapegoat.

Obviously, the movie is about conformity and how we prefer to destroy those who are different rather than pay attention to their message.

But was the movie also about the teacher's culpability? Maybe by his methods and what he was saying he was stirring too much longing and excitement in his charges, who may not have had the maturity to truly understand.

In the last scene Williams is undeniably a Jesus figure, victim of the crowd, leaving, but seeing that some of his disciples will, perhaps, live as he taught them.

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By Hilda Young Prayer is comfortable, pulling our souls into the rhythm of the sacred by reciting old and familiar words of praise. .

Prayer is grumbling at God to pay attention and answer your prayer now in plain English and maybe throw in a dramatic sign or two.

Prayer is hearing and reading the Scriptures, letting the message saturate our will.

Prayer is seeking joy in the tedium of life from changing diapers and 2 a.m. feedings to being caught in rush-hour traffic.

Prayer is being present to a friend.

Prayer is appreciating God's sense of humor, like answering your mother's prayer, "May your children be meatballs like you."

Prayer is the power ofthe Mass, the liturgies ofthe Word and Eucharist sweeping over you.

Prayer. is t~udging to church

with snarly teen-agers in bad weather when you don't feel well and don't want to.

Prayer is trying to discern God's will in the events of daily life from the dead! car battery to the calls from the school nurse.

Prayer is asking God's forgiveness for the many times you bruise his commandments.

Prayer is being awestruck by creation,.. the beauty of a pansy, a butterfly, a spider's web, the glory of a glacial mountain or the pounding surf. .

Prayer is that wondrous sense of God's presence when you look into the face of your sleeping child.

• Prayer is seeing the eyes of Jesus in the faces of the poor.

Prayer is taking time away from things to do to be alone with God, to listen to him, to be comforted by the Spirit.

Prayer is accepting the fact God might not have anything to say to you at the moment. .t...

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. l,l, 1989

Reversal urged on gluten-free hosts BOSTON (CNS) - A British medical team has urged the Vatican to reverse its ban on the use of so-called gluten-free hosts for Communion.

The team, in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, said its research shows "that so-called gluten-free wafers do contain some wheat starch and trace amounts of gliadin," so they should be considered acceptable within Vatican norms requiring Communion breads to be made of wheat flour.

A reduced-gluten or gluten-free diet is needed by people with celiac disease, a hereditary intestinal disorder in which the lining of the small intestine can be damaged or destroyed by gluten - or more precisely, by the simple vegetable proteins called gliadens that are found in gluten.

"The current (Vatican-approved) compromise of taking only a fragment of wafer or wine alone involves a psychologically unaccep-

Cardinal Ratzinger plotting...what?

Grand Inquisitor?

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - CardinaIJoseph Ratzinger, the church's monitor oftheological orthodoxy, often publicly denies he is the "grand inquisitor" - the figure etched in history as the paramount suppressor of freedom of thought in the name of blind faith.

The cardinal rejected being presented "as one who wants the persecution of certain persons or the restoration of a past inquisition."

The grand inquisitor conjures up images of medieval torture chambers, witch-hunts and burnings at the stake in a methodical effort to erase heresy by eliminating heretics.

In comparison, the strongest weapons used by Cardinal Ratzinger as head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are taking away permission to teach Catholic theology and requiring periods of public silence from dissident theologians, who are not even asked to wear sackcloth and ashes.

Why then, in interviews and during public appearances, is the cardinal frequently asked to compare himselfto the grand inquisitor?

The answer is partly historical.

The doctrinal congregation is traceable to the Roman Inquisition established by popes in early Renaissance times to combat heresy.

Yet, as Cardina: Ratzinger often points out, the Roman Inquisition is not the really infamous one. The infamy is reserved to the Spanish Inquisition begun in 1478 by Pope Sixtus IV. But it quickly became independent of Rome, under'the patronage of the Spanish crown, which also used it as a tool for eliminating political heretics.

The excesses of the Spanish inquisitors were criticized by Pope Sixtus. But his protests did not stem the direction established by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the same monarchs that sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyages.to the Americas.

The Spanish grand inquisitor as the personification of religious repression was ingrained in world fiction by the 19th-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York referred to Dostoyevsky's "chilling" and "terrifying" -'

account of the grand'inquisitor in introducing Cardinal Ratzinger !it a 1988 lecture.

"In essence, you are looking at the grand inquisitor," Cardinal O'Connor said jokingly.

Cardinal Ratzinger reported that the character in question was the Spanish inquisitor. "The Roman Inquisition was never so famous."

Who is this "chilling" grand inquisitor that Cardinal Ratzinger is compared to?

In the novel "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoyevsky has the Spanish grand inquisitor condemn Christ, and the Second Coming, because he gave people the gift of free will to accept or reject him rather than use his powers to command obedience.

The inquisitor visits Christ in his cell and berates him for his teachings.

"It's not the free judgment of their hearts, not love that matters, but a mystery which they must follow blindly, even against their conscience," says the inquisitor.

"We have corrected thy work and have founded it upon miracle, mystery and authority. And men rejoiced that they were again .led like sheep," he says.

Christ remains silent at the end of the accusation. His only reaction is to kiss the inquisitor on the forehead.

The inquisitor releases Christ, but warns him never to return.

"Go, and come no more.... come not all, never, never," says the inquisitor as he leads Christ out of town.

The bishops ofIreland, England and Wales appealed the decision.

A Vatican official said that the Vatican is still cQnsidering the appeal.

Father Peter Verity, press officer for the bishops of England and Wales, said that current practice there is to use a "low-gluten host ... which is valid and which doctors' studies say is not harmful to celiacs."

He said that of the 500 regular worshipers in his own parish, only one has celiac disease.

Moriarty's team said that it analyzed "14 different wafers made for Roman Catholic and Anglican use, of which four were 'glutenfree.' " It found from 2.2 to 4.9 milligrams of gliadin in regular hosts, up to 12.7 milligrams in the larger altar hosts consumed by the priest, but only 0.28 to 0.66 milligrams in the so-called gluten-free hosts.

Pope criticizes selective abortion of handicapped babies VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope John Paul II criticized the "selective abortion" of handicapped children, declaring that the "search for genuine social progress" cannot ignore God's law.

Speaking to scientists, healthcare workers and parents attending an international symposium on Down's Syndrome, the pope strongly defended the "inalienable dignity" of all human beings.

Down's syndrome, attributed to an extra chromosome, causes mental retardation and physical handicaps.

"The protection and defense of the human person," particularly those "who are vulnerable and most helpless: this is the task which the Catholic Church, in the name of Christ, cannot and will not forsake," said the pope.

In his talk the pope said the church seeks a "profound commitment to the promotion of Christian values within our social and health-care institutions."

As a case in point, the increasing use of selective abortion as a means of preventing the birth of handicapped children requires a firm response from Christians, he said.

The solutions to the problems of society must be marked by "respect for human dignity and the defense of the innocent lives of the vulnerable and the unborn," he said.

The pope praised scientists who

Pope notes atomic bomb anniversaries VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II commemorated the "sad anniversary" ofthe World War II bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by praying that atomic warfare never happens again.

"Dear Japanese pilgrims, let us pray together for peace in the world, so that cruel experience does not repeat itself ever again on any people of the earth," the pope said at a recent general audience.

The pope, speaking in Japanese,

table stigma for many patients with celiac disease," said the medical team, headed by Dr. Kieran J. Moriarty of Salford, England.

Celiac disease is especially common among the Irish and British.

In Great Britain about one person in every 1,200 to 1,500 has it. In the United States the figure is about one in 2,500.

In the 1970s the Vatican approved use of so-called gluten-free hosts for those with celiac disease in Ireland.

But in 1982 the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith withdrew the permission. It said celiac disease sufferers could receive Communion under the form of wine alone, but gluten-free hosts could not be used.

A Vatican official said at the time that the congregation believed too much adulteration ofthe hosts was going on, and it was concerned that abuses could affect the validity of the Eucharist.

noted the anniversaries of the destruction "produced by the atomic bomb."

The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped by the United States on Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945, killing more than 100,000 people. On Aug. 9 another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

Japan surrendered Aug. 15.

The pope visited both cities during a 1981 trip to Japan and said that "to remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace."

continue to seek to understand Down's syndrome despite shortage of funds. He also lauded healthcare workers for helping people with Down's syndrome particUlarly know their value, the pope added.

"You, more than anyone, know that, despite their handicaps, these children are worthy of loving care, and readily give so much affection in return."

The pope noted that the term

"special" is being increasingly applied to people "whose physical or psychological make-up or behavior appears to diverge in some way from what is considered 'normal.'''

One thing is certain, the pope added.

"The person who is 'special' is still a human person, possessing the same inalienable dignity and deserving exactly the same respect as any other person."

Poverty a "scandal;" CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, meeting recently with some of the p.oorest families in the world, said widespread indifference to their fate was. an "intolerable scandal."

The pope urged the poor and a non-denominational movement of volunteers to "keep fighting, with clear ideas and with non-violent determination, against these humiliating and crushing types of poverty and against the structures that sustain and increase them."

The pope spoke at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome, where he met with some 350 representatives of destitute families from four continents. Accompanying them were volunteers from the International Fourth World Movement, an organization founded in the 1950s by French priest Father Joseph Wresinski.

Many at the audience live in difficult or inhuman conditions - in welfare hotels, shanty towns, garbage dumps or on the streets of major cities.

"Every form of poverty under which you and so many other families suffer is a scandal. It is an intolerable scandal, when one discovers that these situations of poverty are the result offreedom among individuals and nations - a freedom which has been perverted by selfishness, by dominating power, by attitudes of indifference and exclusion," the pope said.

The pope said he understood that "there are poor people, many poor people, who are at the end of their rope."

Some resign themselves to their situation, some cry in protest against the opulence and waste of rich nations and others are tempted to blame God, the pope said.

He urged a non-violent push for justice in Which the well-to-do are "not all classified as oppressors."

Human beings, he told the group, are capable of evil but can also be moved, through education, to great acts of compassion and justice.

The pope said his own role was to try to "reawaken the consciences of Christians and national leaders" to the issue.

Among those attending were nine poor people from New York and Louisiana, where the Fourth World Movement runs street libraries, works in welfare hotels and offers in-home cultural programs for children. The Washington-based movement is funded by donations.

Indigenous clergy needed, says pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The church should concentrate its missionary activity on developing indigenous clergy, said Pope John Paul II in his 1989 World Mission Day message.

The pope said he wanted to "underline above all the necessity and the value of the presence of indigenous clergy amid the new Christian communities."

Missionaries "have worked and suffered to form new Christian communities by seeking to stimulate the flow from families of the precious fruit of vocations to the priesthood," he said. . "The activity of forming and developing indigenous clergy signals the way of missionary evangelization," he added.

Mission Day will be celebrated Oct. 22 and is accompanied in many dioceses by a collection to aid Vatican missionary projects.

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He has exhibited his work in THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 11, 1989 London, Holyoke and Cleveland.

In 1988, his painting of his backyard wOll second place at the first National Congress on the Church and the Disabled. In addition, a Florida company which employs disabled people featured a Santa Claus painting by him on one of its CAPE TOWN, South Africa ing a "campaign of prayer for jusChristmas cards.

Displayed throughout his home, (CNS) - The southern African tice and peace" begun in 1984 and Kwiatkowski's work includes paint- bishops' conference urged Catho- developing a society in South ings of Robert F. Kennedy and lics to "follow their conscience" in Africa "more fully influenced by "The Amazing Spiderman," nudes, this September's general elections. the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

They called the election process, scenes from nature and religious Less Praise, Please! leaders or themes. The latter include which excludes the black majority, a portrait of Pope John Paul II, a an "obstacle to justice and peace" "Responsibility is the highest weeping madonna, the crucified and said many people consider the praise." - Glasow Christ, the resurrected Christ, system so blatantly unjust that "no Samson destroying the temple and one concerned for justice should OUR LADY'S participate in it."

Moses looking angrily down from The bishops said they will not Mount Sinai.

RELIGIOUS STORE "I get all these religious feelings "dictate to people with the right to Mon. - Sat. 10:00 . 5:30 P.M. all together and I make designs vote whether they should vote or and drawings," he said. "I think whether they should abstain."

GIFTS But they said citizens with the it's just good to paint and draw CARDS vote should remember "the responabout God." sibility they bear for the future of In his work, he tries to capture BOOKS the "design and color and imagi- the country."

South Africa's Parliament is dination of God," he said. "I think 673-4262 God is everywhere. No matter what vided into a house for whites, one 936 So. Main St.. Fall River you see on this earth, there is for representatives oflndian background and one for mixed-race God." One of five children, Kwiatkow- members. The majority black pop,ski credited his family for accept- ulation, 68 percent of the country's approximately 35.1 million peoing him.

"We don't pity him," said Emily ple, is not represented.

The bishops said that even within Douglas, the artist's sister, with whom he lives. "He participates in the three chamber legislature the everything. He doesn't give up eas- "white group retains control."

Train for careers In ily. He tries and tries and tries until There are 178 white members of Parliament, 85 mixed-race and 45 he gets it right."

"By just living and working," he Indian.

"As in the past, we condemn a said, he overcomes the anger assoEDWARD KWIATKOWSKI demonstrates his artistic ciated with having cerebral palsy constitution that prevents people technique outside his Holyoke home as he works on a painting and, instead of dwelling on what from crossing racial barriers and of the pope. (eNS photo) he cannot do, he delights in what working together in unity," the bishops said. he can do.

"I'm glad I can walk," he said.

While some regard the elections "I'm glad I can read. I'm glad I can "as a farce," the bishops said, oth- • help some of the other people on ers believe voting "can do some this earth just by talking." good."

Kwiatkowski said he realizes Those willing to give voting a that some handicapped unborn chance "see candidates standing HOLYOKE, Mass. (CNS) of empty shoes demonstrates his The empty tomb on Easter morn- triumph over the disabilities of children might be killed through for election who propose meanabortion, but he thinks that "every- ingful negotiations to bring true ing symbolizes Christ's victory over cerebral palsy and his cultivation body should live, no matter how justice and peace to South Africa," sin and death. of an artistic talent that gives mean[disabled] they are." they said.

Edward Kwiatkowski's depiction ing to his life. He paints with his In discussing his crucifixion paintright foot.

The bishops said peace is comTrain to be a Professional ing, he said that "we all have got Kwiatkowski, 52, a Holyoke res- God in our souls. God suffered a ing to Namibia, a South African·SECRETARY ident, says art "means a lot to me.. lot in his time and we've got to administered territory on the thres·EXECUTIVE SEC. hold of independence, and to It means you can ... do what you suffer, too." ·WORD PROCESSOR neighboring Angola, where a long want and nobody bothers you."

He also had some advice. "Never civil war seems to be over. AddiHOME STUDY IRES. TRAINING He said painting and drawing give up hope," he said. "Give your- tionally, there are changes within ERIE, Pa. (CNS) - Jesuit ·FINANCIAL AID AVAIL. allow him to "let it all out" and Father Daniel Berrigan, peace activself a chance to live."

South Africa in favor of human "express myself." ·JOB PLACEMENT ASSIST ist and author, will receive the rights and peace among the "opKwiatkowski began his study of 1989 Pope Paul VI Teacher of Cheerfulness posing camps," they said.

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NO MORE RHYME

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When the fear sets in Where the fire burns When I find a place When there's nowhere to turn When the evening sings an eerie song Longing for the day You say I'm wrong You can find your place But never fit in ~nd only wben you've left Do you know where you've been I can see tbe Ught . .

But only when it's gone You can go on waiting But only for so long I know you are right It's not always clear Beeause I've Dever felt the fear Can it stay so good Forever in time I've always felt ~be rhythm ',' Wbat happens wben tbere is no more rhyme Can we face ourselves Uke we face eaeh other We've never felt anything on our own I can't walt much longer to feel any danger I hope we're not living for a lifetime alone Hard to go on It's like waitling for ~he other shoe to drop III never stop believing in you It's just we never had to struggle It aU came too easy' I hope we felt what we felt from the start We've never suffered a broken heart We've been so blinded by all the best We never put 'our love to the test Written and sung by Debbie Gibson (e) 1989 by Atlantic Reeording Corp. for the United States WHO IS the best-known teenager in America? Debbi~ Gib-

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Q. What would you do if a friend of yours was going out with a girlju~1Jor sexual reasons? A lot of people have lost respect for him.

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the motto "Live and let live" has been pushed. These four small words urge you not to try to control other people and arrange their lives for them.

You're likely to find in the long run that no one wants you to control his or her life, and most people will fight off your efforts to do so.

You will have wasted a lot of time and emotional energy for naught.

It's still true, in a general way, that "Live and let live" is a good idea. And you should give careful consideration to it as you try to decide what, ifanything, you should do about your friend.

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tric Youth;' has already produced one chart hit. Currently climbing Billboard's rankings is "No More Rhyme."

1like this reference to rhythm and rhyme as a way of under- . standing relationships. Rhythm speaks of how a couple shares a certain movement offeeling and spirit. Rhyme seems to refer to efforts to match actions and choices.

Every relationship must try to keep the rhythm, but rhyme is not necessary; in fact, forced attempts to do so eventually destroy love.

The song hints at such a situation. The couple has been so close that each individual has not faced him or herself.

Further, they have "never felt anything on our own."

In. this relationship love is being confused with dependence.

Dependent relationships minimize personal growth and frequently .end in hurt and dissatisfaction.

On the contrary, love occurs when two individuals possess strong selves and choose to share their personal identities with each other. They learn to respect their differences,realizing how each person adds color and depth (0 the relationship through individual preferences, views and dreams.

The'couple in the song needs to worry less about the rhyme of their love. They may even need to lose the rhythm for a while, move apart and then decide if they hear a deeper, more personal beat that brings . them together.

This song reminds us that few th,ings in life are as important as being yourself.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635 Having said that, let's raise this question: Might it be a good idea to lay a little peer pressure on your friend? He might give some consideration to the ideas you voice when he wouldn't listen to the words of any adult.

You will have to decide, first of all, the tone of your approach to his sexual behavior. Should it be done in a light manner?

Or should it be a private and heavy conversation?

Or maybe an occasional casual but serious remark, something brief and to the point?

Only you know your friend well enough to decide what the tone of the approach should be.

No doubt you already have thought of some ideas you'd like to talk to him about. Do they include one or so.me or all of the following ideas (which J:;an be expressed in your own words): Using people for selfish gratification doesn't lead to happiness or enhance one's feeling of self-worth.

Trivial sex leaves one feeling ultimately empty.

Selfish sex cheapens a person.

Sexual intercourse should be about loving someone and giving yourself to that person totally, permanently.

Word gets around; respect for you vanishes.

God's plan for sexual intercourse involves marriage.

And, finally, if you have sex without love or without much love. how will that affect your friendship with the God who is love?

By Michael Warren

Whenever I talked with young people about friendship, one issue that almost always comes up is trust. It usually comes up in the context of a key part of friendhship -sharing secrets, hurts and hopes, joys and sorrows.

Some people say that such sharing is dangerous. One girl told me that she shared an important secret with a friend whom she trusted and then, almost right away, everyone knew her secret.

She said, "I put myself and my secret into one person's hands and she passed me around." The girl goes on to say it will be a long time before she makes the mistake of trusting anyone with her secrets again.

Whc;n we put what is most private and intimate about ourselves into another's hands, we ~ant to make sure it will stay there.

The violation of a confidence is a betrayal' of trust. Some people don't take this fact very seriously.

They wouldn't broadcast it over the radio, but they also wouldn't mind telling it to someone they know well. I think that such confiding is a fake form of friendship.

Deep friendship is not based on telling someone else's secrets, but on telling your own secrets.

To me a trustworthy friend is someone who considers the confided secret a sacred trust. Trust is the heart of true friendship. If you tell me something about someone else I have no right to know, something that was confided to you, then I will never tell you anything I want kept secret. The person I

want for a friend is someone who will deserve to have on his or her epitaph, "Here lie all the secrets anyone ever told me."

Are you a trustworthy friend?

Can you continue to be so trustworthy that in the future the word will be out that you are one of those special persons who can keep secret?

A part of being a trustworthy friend involves encouraging other people to keep the secrets they have been told. When someone asks us, "Did you hear about soand-so?" our immediate response should be, "No, and I probably don't want to know." Or if someone blurts out something they ought not to have told us, then we have a right, and maybe a duty, to say, "I wish you hadn't told me that. I have no right to know it."

Are there any exceptions to this rule? Of course. To be trustworthy calls for more than just following formulas. One exception is if someone confides a plan to commit suicide. In such a situation true friendship calls for us to tell someone who could help the person and save your friend's life.

Of course sometimes we might know a secret and not be sure whether for the person's own good we should tell. In such a case we can always seek advice from a third party about what we should do, being careful to conceal the actual name of the person involved.

One thing is for sure, being a trustworthy friend is a key to deep friendship, but it is not always a simple black-and-white matter.

Still, if we commit ourselves to being trustworthy, we will be on the right path.

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"i__ OilL#1 SLAWEK WALES A, 17, son of Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, says he has no ambitions to become a political activist himself. He has been touring the United States with a Polish band. (CNS photo)

Young Walesa visits U.S. MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) - Slawek Walesa, l7-year-old son of Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, says he has no ambition to follow in his father's footsteps, and that he prefers the challenge of a computer to the power of politics.

The youth, vacationing in the United States and promoting Polish heritage, is touring the United States this summer with Polish performer Jan Lewan and his band.

He was in Minneapolis in July.

Catholic artists' parley set BOSTON (CNS) - A national conference for artists in the Catholic Church or people seeking to use their artistic skills in the church will be held Oct. 6-10 in Boston.

The conference, titled "Celebrate the Arts," is sponsored by the Franciscan Canticle, a group of artists based in Huntington, Calif., who use their talents to promote the word of God. Krystal Records, a Catholic recording label run by the Daughters of St. Paul in Boston, is also helping with arrangements.

Franciscan Father Edd Anthony, founder of the Franciscan Canticle, said he hopes the conference will help Catholic artists establish a network to pool and share resources.

Sister Thea Bowman,director of intercultural awareness for the diocese of Jackson, Miss., and a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration, is scheduled as the keynote speaker.

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Lewan interpreted Walesa's comments for reporters during an interview. The band leader, who hosts a TV polka show in Hazelton, Pa., said the youth was scheduled to return to Poland this month, but may return to the United States next summer.

Solidarity seems little more than a buzzword to Walesa. However, he did recall that one of his teachers, who talked to her students about the workers' union, was transferred to another school.

Today, he said, teachers are free to discuss Solidarity in their classes.

And lately, he talks to his friends about politics - "the way the wind is blowing."

When asked whether he had ever feared for his life in Poland, he laughed and said, "I took karate lessons."

Walesa, a practicing Catholic, said he '~believes and listens" to God. "When you have a problem, you go to God," he said.

The young man, obviously uncomfortable with his celebrity status in the United States, said that usually in Poland "people turn directly to my father."

Polish pride was evident as the congregation gave Walesa a standing ovation at the end of Mass and during the evening concert.

Lewan joked that if the youth could take back one thing to Poland, it would be a McDonald's.

He said Walesa probably would eat every meal at the fast-food restaurant.

Soviets film pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II recently met a Soviet film crew which had filmed him during a private audience and will use the footage in an upcoming film on the aftereffects of Chernobyl and the loss of faith in science.

New Films "A Choms ofDisapproval"(Southgate Entertainment): Uninspired film adaptation of the hit British play that follows the travai~s of a handsome, young widower (Jeremy Irons) who becomes the obsession of several married women in the light opera company that he ironically joins for companionship. He falls into two concurrent adulterous liaisons, one with a manipulative, brassy blonde (Jenny Sea-

grove); the other with the long-ignored wife (Prunella Scales) of the company director. Well-acted but otherwise lackluster play within a play. Satiric adulterous liaisons; locker room language. A3,PG "Distant Voices, Still Lives" (Avenue Pictures): Visually beautiful but overall tedious autobiographical film dramatizing filmmaker Terence Davies' working-class family roots in Liverpool, England, during the 1940s and 1950s. Impressionistic posed shots of various family rites of passage and an aggressive use of period music wear thin, become pretentious and ultimately confound viewers about the family's obviously troubled dynamics and economically depressed environment. Catholic rituals and music are the family's only positive unifying forces. Some locker-room language, several rough scenes of family violence and verbal abuse. A3,PG 13 "Friday the 13th Part VIII Jason Takes Manhattan" (Paramount): The sick horror show unravels for the most part aboard a tour ship bound for Manhattan filled with recent high school grads.

Bionic corpse Jason (Kane Hodder) hops aboard to dismember the teens one by one and continues his assault on survivors in the subways and alleys of the Big Apple.

Full of gory details. Some profanity, te~n cocaine use and fleeting nudity, brief teen sexual encounter.O,R "Parenthood"(lJniversal):"Fatherhood" would better describe the focus of this disappointing cornedydrama written and directed by

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male baby boomers about four generations of one troubled American family. Ostensibly about a 35-yearold (Steve Martin) obsessed with proper parenting, the film also hits superficially and often disturbingly upon the parenting missteps faced by his own father (Jason Robards) and the rest of the extended clan.

A catalog of some very real problems faced by modern one-and two-parent households; but much like sitcoms, the vignettes have no depth or follow-through. Some one-dimensional, stereotypical female characters, much vulgar language, sexual innuendoes.

A3,PG13 "Romero"(Four Seasons): Powerful dramatization of the last three years in the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, whose condemnation of human _ rights abuses led to his assassination in 1980. Brilliant performance

by Raul Julia, who invests the title role wit~ an intense spiritual dimension that makes credible Romero's courage in condemning thoimmorality of a ruthless regime. Its graphic scenes of violence are not for the young and immature, though most adolescents will understand the justice issues which they raise.

A2,PG13 TV Film Sunday, Aug. 20, 9-11 p.m. EDT (ABC) "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977): Roger Moore and Barbara Bach star as James Bond and a beautiful Russian spy who find themselve~ united against the usual all-powerful villain bent upon a free enterprise conquest of the world and who employs a steeltoothed henchman named Jaws (Richard Kiel). Styled sex and violence. A3,PG

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Bright lights, big city ROGERS, Ark. (NC) - His training is in opera. His church is on Broadway. His congregation includes actors, singers and other performers.

Father Robert "Tex" Violette has been working exclusively aQlqng theater people since 1981 when he became -artistic director of the Catholic Actors Chapel in New York.

Going from parish priest to Broadway was "simple," he said.

"I took a dare."

St. Malachy's Chapel, made famous in the movie "Going My Way," needed a priest to oversee its church, theater and concert hall. Father Violette's friends dared him to submit a resume.

His opera training and his gregarious personality made him the ideal candidate. He left Louisiana for the bright lights of Broadway.

"The church, I think, sees wisdom in using people where they are best suited," he said. "Last year alone, I logged over 100,000 miles traveling to theaters, concert halls and doing tour appearances."

By living with, studYing with and ministering to performers, Father Violette brings the presence of the church to people who because of frequent travel don't have roots in a parish.

Father Violette has more in common with his parishioners than just working in the same neighborhood. Like them, he must worry about getting work.

He had a part in the Robert DeNiro movie "Once Upon a Time

in America" and has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall. He was on the directing staff for "Kingdoms" at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

The other performers feel he is "one of them," Father Violette said. He has no more guarantee of work than any other performer, and he too has felt the sting of rejection.

"The discouragement level in this business is high," he said. "I'm just like everyone else. I don't rely on the church to help out if I don't get work. I struggle through with the rest of them."

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ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA A group of teenagers and adults are on pilgrimage to Medjugorje, bringing with them prayer intentions from parishioners. Volunteers needed at 1:30 p.m. each Wednesday to wheel patients to the chapel area of Country Gardens Nursing Home for Mass.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Mrs. Aurore Cloutier has donated a sacramentary for chapel use in memory of her husband. Arthur Clbutier. A St. Patrick Father from the diocese of St. George. Grenada. will speak at Masses the weekend of Aug. 19 and 20. A parish picnic is planned from I to 5 p.m. Aug. 20 at Camp Kerr-Ana, Cumberland, RI. Volunteers needed to help organize a parish youth ministry group and to form a religious education committee.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR Healing service and Mass with Father William Babbitt 4 p.m. Aug. 20.

BREAD OF LIFE, FR Father Raphael Muthoka, a priest from the diocese of Machakos, Kenya, will offer Mass and speak at 7:30 tonight for Bread of Life prayer group members at Blessed Sacrament Church.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON Polish parish picnic noon to 9 p.m. Sunday, preceded at 11:30a.m. by a polka Mass.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Members of the newly-formed parish finance council are Atty.

David Gay, Harold Rose Jr. and Stephen Linhares. Singers and musicians are needed at noon each Tuesday to entertain chronically ill patients at Morton Hospital. Meeting 6:30 tonight at rectory to discuss introducing a babysitting service at a Sunday Mass. Possibility offorming a couples' club will be discussed at a meeting Sept. 23.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Ultreya family picnic for Cursillistas Sunday, home of Dwight and Jean Giddings. Youth ministry planning meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday, religious education center. Parishioners are asked to save returnable cans and bottles to benefit Housing for All, an organization working for affordable housing.

HOLY NAME, FR New altar server schedules available in sacristy.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Softball 6 to 8 p.m. Sundays, North School field. NeW altar servers' class starts in fall. Information at rectory.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Spirit of Jesus prayer group Mass and healing service 7:30 p.m. Aug. 17 with Father Andre Patenaude, MS, of LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, as celebrant.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON, N. FALMOUTH An appreciation reception in the parish hall following 5 p.m. Mass Aug. 20 will honor Mrs Patricia Stone, retiring after 20 years as parish CCD coordinator. The Men's Club will sponsor blood pressure, blood sugar and hearing checkups in the hall from 9:30 to II :30 a.m. tomorrow. A support group for people who have lost a loved one meets at 3 p.m. Sunday in the hall. Information: 563-6807.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO New CCD teachers needed; information at rectory.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Father Pat, Rev. Andre Patenaude, MS, will be featured at tomorrow's 7:30 p.m. Twilight Concert at the shrine. He will sing selections from his new record, "Shekinah Glory!," and.from his previous releases. The concert will be preceded by Mass at 6:30 p.m. and will be held indoors in case of rain.

DISABILITIES APOSTOLATE Summer Mass and picnic for those with disabilities begins at 10 a.m.

Aug. 27 at Crystal Springs School, Assonet. Participants should bring lunch, lawn chairs and/ or blankets.

The school pool and .tours of the students' petting zoo will be available. Mass will be offered at 2 p.m. at St. Bernard's Church, Assonet.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Men's Club meeting 7 p.m. Sunday. Felician Sister Mary Felicita Zdrojewski, a former teacher in the parish school, will autograph copies of a book she has written on the mother of St. Maximilian Kolbe on Aug. 14 and 15.

SEPARATED/DIVORCED, NB Support group meeting 7 p.m.

Aug. 28, Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth. Father John Powell video, "Free To Be Me," will be shown. Information: 994-8676.

ST.MARY,NB New altar servers will rehearse at 10 a.m. Aug. 19 and will be installed at 10 a.m. Mass Sept. 24. The Women's Guild seeks members for a bowling league. Information: 995-1434.

Parishioners Joyce Metthe, Susan Casey and Anne Marie Barton recently represented Plymouth bay Girl Scout Council at a national convention in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Metthe, also a parishioner, is currently participating in a Girl Scout Space Odyssey program taking place in Winter Park, Fla. HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Youth group cookout at Jones' residence Aug. 19; group meeting Aug. 20; Rocky Point trip Aug. 26.

Father T.R. Marreddy of the archdiocese of Hyderabad in India will speak at all Masses Aug. 26 and 27.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, NB A Mass celebrating the feast of Senhor da Pedra will be offered at I I a.m. Aug. 20, followed at 2:30 p.m. by a procession from the church which will include five bands. Previously, at 7 p.m. Aug. 18, the statue of Senhor da Pedra will be solemnly transferred from the parish hall to the church.

ST. WILLIAM, FR By the end of August, 9th grade confirmation candidates should turn in summer assignments and their letter to the pastor stating their reasons for desiring confirmation.

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ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Once-a-month volunteers needed for 9:30 a.m. Mass babysitting service each Sunday. Information: Susan Pellagrin, 759-2971.

ST. ANNE, FR CCD teachers needed in all grades.

Information: 678-5322. Gratitude is expressed to St. Anne's Parish committee for a gift of $6,500.

School plane okay COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) Catholic children on Kelleys Island in Lake Erie will continue to fly to ·a Catholic school on the mainland at public expense, thanks to a ruling by a Franklin County judge in Columbus. Common Pleas Judge Frank A. Reda ruled that the children are entitled to transportation to St. Mary School in Sandusky by plane and taxi. "Because the Kelleys Island School District has for years provided such transportation to other children, appellants' children should also be able to benefit from this service and attend the school of their choice," Reda said.

Leaving post WASHINGTON (CNS) Father Thomas G. Gallagher, who for 10 years has been U.S. Catholic Conference secretary of education, will leave that post in January 1990. After a six-month sabbatical, he will return to parish life in New York. Father Robert Lynch, usce general secretary, has named a seven-member search committee to find a successor. "Father Gallagher's contributions to the conference and to Catholic education have been invaluable," said Father Lynch.

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