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K of'C endorse Bork NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The Knights of Columbus, at an Aug. 4-6 meeting in New Orleans, endorsed the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.

At the 105th annual meeting of the Supreme Council, the Knights passed resolutions on abortion and sex education and received messages from Pope John Paul II, President Reagan and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. They also reelected directors, including Supreme Knight Virgil C. Dechant.

The Catholic fraternal society's top policy a'nd law-making body issued a resolution saying that Bork's record shows the controversial judge "to be exceptionally well-qualified for the position ... ; having the proper judicial temperament, intellectual power and breadth of legal experience."

Elmer Von Feldt, director of public information, called the resolution on Bork unusual because, he said, the Knights "ordinarily try to stay clear" of appearing to take part in partisan politics.

But, in this case, he said, "it's a question of public morality and values. We do stand up for values, we do not consider that partisan politics."

The resolution urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to report favorably on Bork's appointment and asked the Senate to confirm the nomination so that the Supreme Court will not begin its fall session with a vacancy.

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MARY, the feast of whose Assumption into heaven is tomorrow, must have appreciated the plight of another young mother attempting to combine art appreciation with handling a wiggling youngster. (NCjKNA photo)

WASHINGTON (NC) - U.S. Catholic officials and some Jewish leaders hope a planned meeting between Vatican officials and Jewish representatives will help ease strained relations between the two groups.

What will be discussed at the meeting and its date have not been set, although officials from both sides expect the meeting to be in late August.

Vatican-jewish relations have been strained since Pope John Paul II met June 25 with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, who has been accused of Nazi wartime activities in Yugoslavia. After the Waldheim meeting, some Jewish leaders threatened not to attend a meeting scheduled with the pope in Miami Sept. 11.

In San Francisco, marchers including survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp - picketed a papal visit fundraiser, and Archbishop John R. Quinn issued a four-page letter defending the pope's meeting with Waldheim.

The Vatican invitation to Jewish leaders was from Cardinal Johannes Willebrands to Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, chairman of the international Jewish Commitee on Interreligious Consultations. Cardinal Willebrands is president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission for Religious Relations with Jews.

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Bishops to help enforce regional peace plan GUATEMALA CITY (NC)Catholic bishops will playa role in the implementation of the new regional peace plan signed in Guatemala City by the presidents of five Central American nations.

Bishops in each of the countries - Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica - will be members of their countries' National Reconciliation Commissions to oversee compliance "in matters of amnesty, ceasefire, democratization and free elections."

The peace plan, signed Aug. 7, outlines measures to take effect in each country within 90 days. These include a general ceasefire, amnesty for guerrilla forces, internal democratization and prohibition on the use of one country's territory for aggression against another country.

In calling for "complete freedom for television, radio and the press," the plan also will affect Nicaragua's Radio Catolica, the Catholic radio station closed by the Nicaraguan government in December 1985' for failure to broadcast a speech by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

Under the agreement, Nicaragua and the other Central American nations must comply with a section calling for "the opening and continued operation of communications media for all ideological groups and the operation of those media without their being subject to prior censure."

According to the agreement, each government must formally invite the local bishops' conference to suggest the names of several bishops as possible delegates to the commission. The govern-

ments will choose one bishop as a national- cathedral prior to the delegate and another as an alter- signing of the accord, Archbishop nate delegate to the commissions. Prospero Penados del Barrio of Each national commission will Guatemala City told the five presinclude one bishop, one delegate idents to be wary of pressure from representing the government, one The United States and the Soviet delegate from an opposition polit- Union and to seek a lasting ical party and one citizen inde- regional peace through their own pendent of the government. effects.

In addition, the United Nations, "You are the ones responsible the Organization of American for peace, and you must build the States, foreign ministers of Cen- peace in Centrai' America," the tral America and the Contad ora archbishop said.

Group - Mexico, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela - will "It is dramatic to see how our be asked to take part in an interna- world has become polarized around tional verification commission to the superpowers and ,how they monitor the progress of the peace don't direct their actions towards a plan. search for truth or the welfare of Some observers have said the peoples, but rather toward the plan contains no mechanism to daily, total and undeniable consolbring about a ceasefire in regional idation of their destructive powguerrilla wars. ers," said Archbishop Penados.

During a Mass in Guatemala's "You are the victims of the pres-

sure that they (superpowers) exercise," he told the presidents. "We are all conscious of the fact that many of the political options which perhaps could lead to solutiol}s must be submitted for approval to those who have the power and wish to impose their will."

The archbishop told the presidents to seek "strength in unity" and "to resist the temptation of giving in to Machiavellian proposals which rather than help politically are detrimental to the happiness, the freedom, and the (mutual) respect of our peoples."

Signers of the peace accord were Ortega, Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, Honduran President Jose Azcona and Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte.

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COUNTERCLOCKWISE from top left: Bishop Cronin is interviewed prior tothe reception by Cape Cod cable channel 11 reporter Kate Ward; Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich, organist Ada Simpson, left, enjoys the evening with parish secretary Carol DeNofrio, who attended with her husband Mike, right, and son Christopher; Charles and Ellen Bush of Hollywood, FL, summer guests of Sally Warren, in music ministry at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, were the first couple on the dance floor; Bishop Cronin addresses guests, while Miss Curry, Mrs. Armstrong and Father Duffy look on; Bishop Cronin with Frank and Dagny Miller of Corpus Christi parish; Rose Linhares, left, and Alice Cabral of Our Lady of the Angels parish, Fall River, were among about 40 persons from their parish who traveled to the reception by bus. (Motta photos)

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Hundreds of year-round and summer residents ofthe Fall River diocese, enjoying almost perfect weather, gathered Capeside August 6 for the fourth annual "Evening on Cape Cod with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin."

Presented by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, the summertime reception, held at the Sheraton-Regal Inn, Hyannis, benefited diocesan charities.

Guests enjoyed refreshments, hors d'oeuvres and dancing to the music of the Chatham Bars Inn Combo.

While addressing guests, Bishop Cronin spoke of his happiness in seeing charities benefit from the gathering.

Another "primary good to come from an evening such as this," he said, "is that we can share greetings, say hello to one another and enjoy ourselves in a socially relaxed way."

The reception was cochaired by Miss Dorothy Curry, DCCW president, and Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, immediate past president.

The bishop was introduced to guests by Mrs. Armstrong and Very Rev. Edward C. Duffy, pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, and the DCCW's Cape and Islands district moderator.

The bishop thanked them, Miss Curry and "all the ladies who put in such hard work" organizing the event. "They are of inestimable help to me," he said, "as the work of the church is carried on."

Joe and Helen Trzcinski of St. Pius X parish, So. Yarmouth, were among attendees.

"We're retired," Mr. Trzcinski said, "so it's a nice evening out," The couple said that they had recently had the pleasure of meeting the bishop during his recent pastoral visit to their parish.

Christina Quirk, age 3, was probably the bishop's youngest guest. She attended with her sisters and parents, Atty. and Mrs. James H. Quirk Jr., also of St. Phis X parish.

Christina informed The Anchor, while casting an eye toward the hors d'oeuvres, that she had attended so that she could "eat some crackers."

Surveying the happy scene later in the evening, the bishop remarked that the reception "creates a sense of family in the diocese, and I think that's great,"

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The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Wednesday at St. John the Evangelist Church, Attleboro, by Father Donald J. Bowen, a priest of the Fall River diocese and a Society of St. James the Apostle missioner, for the repose of the soul of his father, Francis I. Bowen, 90, who died Aug. 8.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided at the Mass.

A Framingham resident, Mr. Bowen was the husband ofthe late Elizabeth (McNamara) Bowen.

In addition to Father Bowen, he is survived by another son, David F. Bowen of Dunedin, FL, a daughter, Ellen Kilbridge of Framingham, a brother and three sisters, Charles A. Bowen, Monica Kirk, Angela Lewis and Mariam Condon, all of Attleboro, seven grandsons and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was- buried in St. John's Cemetery, Attleboro.

Holy Day Tomorrow, tbe Feast of tbe Assumption, tbe patronal feast of tbe Diocese of Fall River, is a boly day of obligation. Vigil Masses tbis evening and morning Masses tomorrow satisfy tbe feast day obligation.

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The annual planning meeting for the Bishop's Ball will be held at I:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at White's Restaurant, Westport. Invitations to the meeting have gone to ISO committee members.

The ball, set for Friday, Jan. IS, at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth, will be the 33rd such event. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be the guest of honor.

On Sept. 27, ball coordinators will meet with members of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, traditional cosponsors of the charitable and social highlight of the winter season. Committee assignments will be made at that time.

Ball proceeds help fund four summer camps for underprivileged children and other charitable apostolates of the diocese.

Judy Soares, daughter of James Soares of Dartmouth and Julia Soares of Our Lady of the Assumption parish, New Bedford, was received as a novice in the community ofthe Sisters of Mercy during an Aug. I paraliturgical service at Our Lady of the Assumption.

A candidate for religious life for the past two years, she will now spend a year in Cincinnati pursuing study of the Mercy community and its four vows: poverty, celibacy, obedience and service to the poor, sick allduneducllted.

For the past year Ms. Soares has served at Amos House, a soup kitchen and shelter in Providence.

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Very Rev. Roger L. Gagne Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant of the funeral Mass offered Monday for Very Rev. Roger L. Gagne, pastor ofSt. Mark's Church, Attleboro Falls.

Father Gagne died Aug. 7.

Homilist for the Mass, attended 'by over 100 priests of the diocese and many St. Mark's parishioners, was Father Horace Travassos.

During his homily, Father Travassos noted that the sudden illness that brought about Father Gagne's death intensified in the early hours ofthe beautiful Aug. 4 Feast of St. John Vianney, the famous Cure of Ars and the patron of parish priests. . l'ather Gagne, the homilist said, was much like the saint. Both had deep love for Mary and the Eucharist, he said, noting that Father Gagne encouraged his parishioners to frequently receive the sacrament of reconciliation.

St. John Vianney spent between 16 to 18 hours a day in the confessional.

The Attleboro Falls priest loved ' his parishioners, Father Travassos said, and would "bend over backward" for them. Father Gagne always began his homilies with the salutation "My dear people," Father Travassos added.

"You were his, and you were dear to Father Gagne," he told those gathered at the Mass.

Father Travassos encouraged priests and those present to not only remember Father Gagne's deep spiritual qualities, but to imitate him. To do that, he said, would be the best way to memorialize him.

Father Gagne was born in North . Attleboro Nov. 3, 1926, the son of the late Arthur and Jeannette (Guindon) Gagne.

After graduation from Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro,

and North Attleboro High School, he served in the Navy, then prepared for the priesthood at Maryknoll Seminary and St. John's Seminary, Brighton.

He was ordained Feb. 2, 1955,

by Bishop James L. Connolly and subsequently served for 17 years as parochial vicar at St. Theresa's Church, South Attleboro.

He was then administrator of St. Mathieu's Church, Fall River, before assignment as pastor of St. Mark's in 1975.

While in Fall River, Father Gagne was a Knights of Columbus chaplain and a Fourth Degree faithful friar. In the Attleboro area he was chaplain of the North Attleboro police department and chaplain of K of C Council 330.

For many years he was assistant area director for the Catholic Charities Appeal and he was dean of the Attleboro deanery from 1983 until the time of his death.

A low-key, affable person, he commented in 1980, on the occasion of a parish celebration of his 25th anniversary in the priesthood, that he was only told'Of the event a few days beforehand, "so they'd be sure I'd be there."

His reaction to the occasion was characteristic. "I thanked everyone at the reception and told them that they weren't honoring me so much as the priesthood of Jesus Christ."

Father Gagne is survived by two sisters, Miss Doris Gagne of North Attleboro and Mrs. Gord'on Feid of Portsmouth, RI, also by a niece and a nephew.

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Undue Interference Austrian President Kurt Waldheim's official visit to the Vatican in ) une more than stunned some American media circles and Jewish organizations. The television coverage given to those who opposed the visit was indeed disproportionate. In one instance, only four pickets were the focus of attention of more than 100 media people. , The resultant reporting was, at the very best, exaggerated.

It is tragic that the attack made on the Church and the Holy Father by some Jewish groups was so vicious and pugnacious.

This was a meeting between two sovereign heads of state. Does the world community have to set its agenda according to standards set by the mere whim of vocal dissention? The State of Israel would never follow such a policy.

One can understand why the mere reflection of Nazism would conjure up the ongoing nightmare caused by the persecution of Jews during the days of Hitler. Yet, to interpose and transfer the blame of this event to the person of the Pope is not merely a show of bad taste. It is appalling in all its ramifications. If the purpose of the objection was to embarrass the Church, it was achieved through the resulting media coverage.

This embarrassment is not new to the lives of Catholics. We are' often treated with more than a modicum of bias and bigotry by the American media.

It is more than strange that those who were so vocal in opposition to the visit of Austria's freely elected president to the Vatican were quite silent when he was secretary general of the United Nations. In all the years Waldheim served in New York he never got the attention he received on his trip to Rome. Surely, one cannot place the blame ofthis oversight on lack of information.

In the turmoil of trouble that has erupted because of the meeting, it is well for all of us to note that Waldheim serves a land that by international law is indeed ,concerned with the correct balance of interest in international relations, with the preservation of human rights, with the safeguarding of freedom and with the promotion of peace.

During the course of his visit with Waldheim, the Holy Father thanked the Austrian nation for the aid it has given and is giving to his Polish countrymen, with special reference to events surrounding the Solidarity movement.

Austrians play, in so many ways, important roles in the international community. Even today, many Jewish refugees from Russia receive their first taste of freedom on Austrian soil. As a recognized neutral state, Austria has been given a particular chance to achieve true peace by contributing in an important way to freedom and' justice among the world's peoples.

It is indeed tragic that such events take place, especially when religion becomes an area of misinterpretation and misunderstanding. It does the world community little good to solve international differences in an atmosphere of confrontation and outrage.

Those who supported the efforts to block the Waldheim visit had little regard for the common good. Their own self-interest and self-importance brought to a rather ordinary happening an exaggerated belief in one's own importance.

The Catholic community should support the vital role that the Holy See plays in world events. It is well that we in the Church always remember that the madness of men never leads to peace and that the harmony of brotherhood thwarts war.

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By Father Kevin J. Harrington

18 years ago the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon, and for the first time a human stepped onto another celestial body. That grand achievement was followed by five other manned lunar landings, the last in December 1972.

I remember the excitement of those. days and my admiration for the astronauts. Our class rings at Providence College depicted the lunar landing and in the midst of the horror of the Vietnam War our hearts and minds were raised by the hope of further planetary exploration.

During the early 70s there was even talk of sending cosmonauts and astronauts on a joint mission.

Such noble pursuits came to a crashing halt with the continuation of the Cold War and the escalation of the arms race. ' Indeed, many politicians made the Apollo program their favorite whipping boy, dismissing it as a pointless endeavor. Little did they think that today half the longdistance phone calls in the United States would go through orbiting communication satellites, and that weather satellites would routinely be used to save lives and property by giving early warnings of storm.

Today we seem on the verge of major success in reducing our arsenal of nuclear weapons and what an opportune time and inspiration

'for world peace it would be for the Soviet Union and the United States to plan a joint expedition to and exploration of the planet Mars.

As we celebrate the bicentennial of our Constitution we cannot help but wonder if those first 13 colonies would have forged a constitutional bond had they not had a common western frontier to absorb their energy, curiosity and attention.

Our planet would be safer if both governments committed themselves to such an endeavor before the turn of the millennium.

It would be nothing less than shameful to waste our dollars on such shortsighted and self-serving endeavors as have characterized our recent space program initiatives. The lure of quick profits has too often motivated use of space technol,ogy for multichannel television, espionage and weaponry.

We are living off the returns of an investment in basic research made over 50 years ago. Our contemporary Silicon Valley geniuses would not be designing new miniaturized electronic marvels today if in the 1920s and 1930s a group of ivory tower university physicists . had not devoted their lives to uncovering the secret behavior of atoms.

Too many politicians want to cut research and development appropriations as a means of balancing the budget. But it should be

remembered that no one envisioned the long-term benefits that came from government support of the U.S. space program. Our hightech boom is a direct result of a research pipeline that begins with theory and ends with new knowledge that can better the human condition. Any rupture of: that pipeline beggars future generations for the sake of a few dollars saved today.

The Soviet Union has already armounced its intention of launching a sample-return mission to Mars that will probe the planet to a depth of 100 feet for signs of life.

It hopes to complete this project by 1996.

Meanwhile in the USA, 16 years will have elapsed from the time Viking I and Viking II touched down until 1992, when the next US spacecraft, Mars Observer, reaches the vicinity of the red planet. Unfortunately, this craft will not be equipped to answer the questions that most intrigue scientists concerning the presence of life on other planets.

My dream is that the 1980s will see the end of the costly arms race and the 1990s will not duplicate the I960s, when Russia and the United States wasted billions of dollars by replicating each other's efforts.

Cooperative space exploration could answer questions for Soviet and American scientists at half the cost of separate programs.'

AKA Mom Names and titles are funny things. We are different names to different people in our lives.

I am Dolores to friends and readers but Dolor, my childhood nickname, to my siblings and extended family.

Because my maiden name was Fox, I am Foxy to some longtime friends. I also had a high school and college nickname which took me years to live down and which I refuse to divulge here.

When Christmas cards come, the mailman must think we have a cast of thousands in our family because of the variety of names on our cards. I can identify friends and eras by the names they use for me.

When I visited Spain as a young wife, a friend refused to call me Dolores. He explained, "Dolores is for old ladies in black. You are Lola and when you were little, you were Lolita." So I was Lola to him and for years, he wrote us, "Dear Jaime and Lola." I suppose if he were living, he would now write, "Dear Dolores," although I'm not wearing black.

Obviously I am not alone in this excess of names. I read a legal notice路 and it says, "Katherine Johnson AKA Katherine Reilly AKA Kaite Johnson AKA Kat'hy Reilly" etc. AKA stands for Also Known As and some notices go on endlessly with the variations on names which identify a single person.

This multitude of names can create confusion when people are trying to locate an old friend or identify a mutual acquaintance.

One of the most difficult problems comes when one grows up and moves from using a title like "Mrs. Curran" to "Dolores." It is especially hard if the person is a former teacher.

When I was a young high school teacher, I was only a few years older than some of my students.

Today we run into each other in the community or at social events and although they may be in their late forties, they fed uncomfortable calling me by my first name.

I always say. "Please call me Dolores." Some can and some cannot. One 48-year-old woman tried but she said, "I just can't call you anything but Mrs. Curran. It just doesn't seem right to call you Dolores after having you as a teacher." We both laughed at her dilemma but I understood it.

Some priests and nuns (even bishops) prefer being called by their first name but a lot of Catholics find this uncomfortable. "I tell them I'd rather be Tom than Father," said one priest, "but If they feel uncomfortable with this, I suggest Fr. Tom. They can usually get their tongue around that."

Last summer I was asked to codirect a weekend workshop with a sister and a bishop. The question came up on what we wanted par-

Changing parishes Suppose you went to Mass and found this notice tacked to the church door: "Sorry.

No more Masses will be celebrated in this church. Because of a lack of priests and the cost of maintaining the building, this parish has consolidated with its neighboring parish."

Such imaginary scenarios are like thoughts about nuclear war: although we know it could happen, we would rather not think about it.

Unfortunately, the parish consolidation scenario is not farfetched. A recent study on parishes conducted at the University of Notre Dame reported: "Parishconnected Catholics are cognizant 'of the decline in vocations at the same time that the parish is growing in size and parishioners expect many programs from their parishes. They express concern that their parishes may be consolidated."

While the word "consolidation" may sound good to one person, it can be a nightmare to another. If you are in charge of a financially struggling organization, a proven strategy for balancing the books is to consolidate. It is one ofthe fastest ways to get the budget in line.

It is also the most difficult maneuver to perform. It would be one thing if an organization were only cold, nonhuman numbers to be manipulated according to the laws of profit. But. it isn't. It is people who have invested their lives and created friendships and memorieli within the confines of the orga'nization. It is not so much a question of balancing a budget as it is of balancing human beings with deep roots in the organiza-

tion. Once those roots are cut, the psychological death is painful.

It is no secret that there isa definite decline in priests, religious sisters and brothers and that this decline will most likely continue.

Nor are many unaware of the enormous upkeep required to maintain elderly and grandiose plfrish plants.

Changing times are forcing the U.S. church to reassess the ratio between the number of parishes it supports and the number of priests

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Alcohol and the Eucharist

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ticipants, 110 religious sisters and brothers, to call us. L said I didn't care but that if it was to be titles or first names. we should be consistent.

I didn't want it to be Bishop, Sister and Dolores. And it certainly would be awkward to use Bishop, Sister and Missus. Or, as the bishop quipped, "Mom." So we tossed the dilemma to the 'group, telling them we preferred first names. They were willing so we used Bob, Mary Anne and Dolores. The informality helped create an openness which we wouldn't have had otherwise. But still some participants had difficulty using the bishop's first name.

They would try and it would come out like this, "Yes, Bishop ... I mean ... uh,... uh ... you said that canon law .. ." and they continued without having to say Bob. When we get into this dilemma we frequently substitute "you" for a first name. Awkward but works.

In the final analysis, I guess the bishop wasn't too far off because Mom is the name I hear most. And I can see my tombstone now: "Here lies Dolores Fox Curran, AKA Mom."

Q. My parents and I recently had a discussion about alcohol and the Eucharist. Is alcohol in the Eucharist at all as part of the accidents that remain after the transubstantiation? My own belief is that after the consecration it smells, tastes and feels like alcoholic wine without any alcohol being present.

Am I right? Or are my parents?

(Florida) A. The transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of our Lord, which we believe takes place in the Eucharist, is on an entirely different level than that of which you are speaking.

It is true, as the Council of Trent says, that Jesus is "truly, really and substantially" present under the appearance of bread and wine but that presence in no way changes the "accidents" of those elements.

The consecrated bread looks, tastes and has exactly the same chemical characteristics and effects as it had before.

The same is true of the consecrated wine. To relate it to your question, the alcoholic effects of the wine would be no different after the consecration than before.

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it has; between reasonable upkeep of a parish and reasonable service to parishioners.

No diocese can avoid this mathematical homework. Undoubtedly we will see churches torn down that once enjoyed a golden age and now serve very few people. National parishes that no longer serve the ethnic group for which they were intended will be merged.

We will see still-functioning parishes consolidated with others because of a lack of priests, while new parishes will be constructed as populations shift.

For some people, these changes will seem like the death of what they hold precious; for others, they will raise hopes for new growth and life.

For anyone schooled in philosophy and bred in deep faith, the death-life process of parishes will be seen as God's way of telling us that the only thing to be concerned about is that his life continues, regardless of the life of buildings.

Don't Worry "Don't worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart." - Phil. 4:6

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I would be much interested in obtaining such a book which would provide guidelines for Mass.

(Texas) A. Two main official ritual books contain the prayers, readings and instruction for the universal church in the celebration of Mass.

One is the Roman rite missal, generally, called the Sacramentary in English. This contains all of the Mass except scripture readings and responsorial Psalms.

The other is the lectionary, in which are found all biblical readings and responsorial Psalms prescribed for Sundays, weekdays, feasts and special occasions through the year.

At the beginning of each book are detailed explanations and instructions on liturgical use of the contents. Among the texts introducing the Sacramentary, for example, is the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.

In addition to brief theological reflections on aspects of the celebration of the Eucharist, the inIn some effort to put a name on struction gives detailed directions this mystery of the eucharistic for all ministers, as well as on the change, the church for centuries materials (altar, sacred vessels and has used certain ancient Greek so on) used at Mass. philosophical categories that have The introduction to the lectionbeen accepted .as "christianized" ary gives in brief detail the rationby some Catholic scholastic theo- ale for the three-year cycle of Sunlogians like St. Thomas Aquinas. day (eadings, the weekday readings (For his efforts in this regard, by and criteria the presiding priest the way, St. Thomas suffered nearly should follow in choosing readconstant attack and condemnation ings that are optional. from various quarters of the church It is usually to that introduction for his theological innovations.) that I refer in answers involving Thus we are accustomed to say the lectionary. that in the Eucharist the substance Most missals and lectionaries changes (transubstantiation) but for ordinary use do not include all the accidents remain the same. this introductory material. .ComThat is one way to put it, of course, plete Sacramentaries and lectionand this terminology preserves the aries are available, however, central truths of this great mystery through any Catholic bookstore. of our faith, but no theologian A free brochure on questions ever claimed that it "explains" concerning confession before first very much. communion is available by sendA few weeks ago during a ses- ing a stamped, self-addressed ension with our little first communi- velope to Father John Dietzen, cants one ?-year-old said to me, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main "My mother told me to ask you St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Queshow the bread becomes the body tions for this column should be of Christ." sent to Father Dietzen at the same After making a silent vow to get address. even with her mother at the first opportunity, I said, "We don't really know. All we know is that WASHINGTON (NC) - CithJesus said when he held the bread and wine, 'This is my body; this is olic and other non-profit publicamy blood'; he told us to eat and tions could face 1988 rate hikes on drink his body and blood to re- two fronts if Congress in its budget member him and what he did for deliberations eliminates an acrossthe-board subsidy known as "revus. And we believe him." enue foregone" and if the U.S. Those words are valid for 7- Postal Service is allowed an acrossyear-olds. And all the philosophies the-board increase. In a report to and theologies in the world cannot members of the Catholic Press very much improve on them.

Association, James A. Doyle, Q. It has been my understand- executive director, said the subing that the lectionary is the book committee of the House Approcontaining the biblical passages to priations Committee which deals be read at Mass. (I am a lector in with postal is~ues voted to cut off our parish.) the revenue foregone funding for However, you occasionally cite reduced rates. "Revenue foregone" the lectionary as an authoritative is a partial subsidy the Postal Servdocument in some of your answers, ice grants the nonprofit press and such as the recent one concerning others in the form of reduced mailMasses for deceased persons. ing costs.

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Bishops ask peace

Reassurance

BEIRUT, Lebanon (NC) Lebanese Maronite Catholic bishops called for national self-salvation and for a frank dialogue between combating factions to end the country's l2-year-old civil war.

"The various ordeals we have suffered should incite us to meet and dialogue in an atmosphere of frankness, so as to determine the me'ans to put an end to the nightmare our country is living," said a communique issued by the bishops.

The communique also stressed that the salvation of the country rests on the Lebanese people themselves.

Breadbasket nation MARYKNOLL, N,Y. (NC)Zimbabwe has a greater potential for food production than any of its neighboring countries except South Africa and could become the breadbasket of its region, acording to Maryknoll Sister Mary Frances Kobets, who serves there as an agricultural missionary.

But many obstacles, most notably civil war in neighboring Mozambique, now impede realization of that potential, she said.

Sister Kobets is an instructor in agriculture at a college for black secondary school teachers southeast of the Zimbabwe capital, Harare.

SISTER AURORA HELENA AVELAR, 84, New Bedford's one-woman welfare agency, will be honored Sept. 12 as Person-of-the-Year by the Prince Henry Society of Massachusetts for her years of service to the needy. Working out of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel convent, where she has lived for over a quarter century, she receives a seven-daya-week procession of Christ's least brethren, seeking jobs, housing, clothing, food and motherly, no-nonsense advice. The family pictured above is typical of the many she assists. Information on her testimonial is available from Ken Ferreira, 997-6434 or Joseph J. Baptista, 993-4380. (Rosa photo)

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Continued from Page One tary of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations, said the Vatican initiative "will go a long way toward healing the wounds" from the Waldheim visit.

Msgr. Bryan Walsh, chairman of the Miami archdiocesan Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission, said the planned meeting was "good news for Miami."

son and now it's history," said the source.

At the Vatican, Father Pierre Duprey, vice-president ofthe Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, said the meeting probably would deal with a broad range of Catholic-Jewish religious issues, but would not include discussionsabout the Waldheim meeting.

Msgr. Walsh said the pope-Waldheim visit and various CatholicJewish meetings that followed might turn out to be "a blessing in disguise" for increased dialogue...

Jewish leaders hope the meeting will help put Vatican-Jewish relations back "on track," said Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, director of international relations of the American Jewish Committee.

About 20 Jewish leaders met for three hours in New York Aug. 5 before accepting the Vatican invitation. In a statement issued after the meeting, Jewish leaders said the invitation followed a July 9 consultation in New York between four Jewish leaders and Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state.

Vatican officials said the meeting would include Cardinal Willebrands and others on the commission for Religious Relations with Jews.

"At the end, it's foreseen that Cardinal Willebrands will present these people to the pope, with a view toward the meeting they will have in Miami," said Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

Gunther Lawrence, director of

public information for the Synagogue Council of America, said Jewish leaders' acceptance of the Vatican invitation "was in no way a quid pro quo" for the Miami meeting.

"At this point everything as far as Miami, while it is going forward logistically, is going to be reviewed after this meeting," he said.

Lawrence also said Jewish leaders were pleased at the roles of U.S. bishops in arranging the meeting with the Vatican. He especially praised Archbishop John L. May ofSt. Louis, president ofthe National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop William H. Keeler of Harrisburg, Pa., chairman of the NCCB Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

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Dear Editor: It is strange and wonderful how God provides us with his constant reassurance. One morning recently my heart was heavy with worry and fear. Deep within the recesses of my soul I felt dismal and without hope.

With that burden weighing heavily upon me, I got into my car and flicked the radio on. Strains of a song blared out, "Just remember I Love. It'll be all right."

I needed just that reminder that God loves me and no matter how sorrowful I feel he will make it all right.

Following that revelation I went to Mass and the gospel of Matthew II :25-30 was read: Christ's words "Come to me all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you" seemed meant just for me.

In his promise I found the answer to my hopelessness. I came to him with my fears and I no longer feel things can't change. How, where and when they will, I do not know.

I have learned from this reflection that God speaks in so many ways and in Christ's words there is comfort. By giving hope he does indeed lift the burden.

Jean Quigley Rehoboth Jewish community in discussions with the Vatican since 1972. Mem-, ber agencies are the Synagogue Council of America, the American Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith International, Israel Interfaith Association .and the World Jewish Congress.

In San Francisco, Archbishop Quinn said in aJuly 29 letter to the people of the archdiocese that the pope's meeting with Waldheim"cannot objectively" be seen as "lack of esteem and respect" by the pope and Vatican for Jewish people. He stressed the pope's position as head of state and said the visit with Waldheim was part of Vatican diplomacy.

Archbishop Quinn, who will host the pope in San Francisco Sept.

17-18, also defended the Vatican's lack of diplomatic relations with Israel, saying the Vatican position did not imply rejection of Israel as a state.

Knights of Columbus endorse Bork Continued from Page One

The Knights noted Bork's comments on the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

In 1981 Bork said; "I am conRabbi Tanenbaum said Rabbi vinced ... that Roe vs. Wade is an Waxman understood that the meet- unconstitutional decision, a serious ing would be with Cardinals Wil- and wholly unjustifiable usurpalebrands and Casaroli and members tion of state legislative authority."

The Knights issued a resolution of their respective secretariats: He said Jewish leaders expect to talk deploring Roe vs. Wade, calling about the pope-Walheim meeting, for a "reawakening of a basic Vatican and Jewish perceptions of moral attitude in our respective the Nazi Holocaust and the issue countries to the end that the dignity of life from conception to of increased anti-.Semitism.

"We were told that the next day natural death once again will be there would be a meeting with the respected."

One resolution called for active pope" that would last 60-90 minutes and would include frank dis- support of an administration bill cussions, not formal statements as introduced by Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., and by Rep. Henry planned for Miami, he sa'id.

Hyde, R-Ill., which would halt But an informed Vatican source said the Waldheim visit was not, federal funding of abortion. Another resolution commended the expected to be an issue in the talks.

Reagan initiative to deny federal The Vatican view is that "it's over - the Holy See received this per- family planning funds to programs

offering abortion counseling and referrals.

The Knights condemned "sex education that fosters and encourages promiscuity" while calling for education on sexuality in keeping with the teachings of the church.

Resolutions were passed against pornography, for tuition tax credits and calling for legislation designating a weekend dedicated to the American family.

In a video message to the Knights, Pope John Paul said that the church today "feels a particular urgency to emphasize the vocation and mission of the laity."

This is why bishops from all over the world will attend the Synod of Bishops on the laity this fall, "to give fresh encouragement and guidance to the ever increasing role of the laity; and so that part of Christ, the church, may be constantly brought up in unity and charity to the greater glory of God," the pope said.

Reagan sent two messages to the Knights, both referring to the anti-abortion fi~ht.

In a telephone message to the Knights Mother Teresa also spoke of the need to protect unborn life.

"Every single child is, from the moment of creation, made in God's image. Every child is created to love, and to be loved. There is much trouble in the world today.

If a mother can kill her own child through abortion, what is left for others - to kill each other?" she asked.

"That is why I pray to bring back the tender love in a family.

The family that prays together stays together," Mother Teresa said.

Last year the Knights donated $66 million to charities and gave more than 20 million hours in volunteer services.

Laywomen evangelists called for by pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has asked for "a wider and more active participation of lay women" in Catholic evangelization.

This should include dialogue with nonbelievers and nonpracticing believers, and the promotion of Catholic culture, he said in his 1987 message for World Mission Day, to be celebrated Oct. 18.

The message stressed the role of the laity in evangelization.

"I wish to encourage a wider and more active participation of laywomen in the undertaking of those services awaiting their generosity and special contribution in the immense field of missionary activities," said the pope.

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SISTER MAUREEN Crosby, at left, with Joanne Merrill next to her and Brenda Medeiros at far right. 8 to lO-year-old students, clockwise from top left, are Michael Sousa, Amy Coelho, Jared DeSousa, Brad Fernandes, Joe Barnes, Beth McGarr, Sarah Potter, Matthew Hagerty, and Cara Persechino.

Bible school delights children

By Joseph Motta At St. Joseph parish, North Dighton, children fOl:1nd out this summer that learning about religion can be fun.

And that pleases Sister Maureen Crosby, SSD, religious education coordinator at the approximately 2500-family parish, who recently directed St. Joseph's third annual Vacation Bible School.

The school, held in the parish center, is in session from 9:30 a.m. to noon weekdays for the two weeks each summer. Children ages 3 through 10 may attend for all or any part of two weeks.

30 youngsters, divided by age into three groups, registered this summer, Sister Crosby said.

"This year," she said, "was very good, even with the babies. They had no problem leaving their mothers. I think the kids are more socially active at a younger age now."

Most of this year's all-volunteer teaching staff were teenagers, she said, and all related well to the students.

Sister Crosby said she had hoped to find adults to staff the classrooms as in past years, "but the teens worked out beautifully."

Parents of registrants were well pleased too, she said.

The classes began each morning with prayer. Then came the day's lesson and craft projects related to it.

"Everybody gets the same lesson," Sister Crosby said, "but it's done according to age level."

Snacktime and a break followed.

Finally there was a video or filmstrip pertaining to the day's lesson and time spent on "more intense" crafts.

One day, Sister Crosby said, the students made Old Testament costumes, going so far as to design sandals from cardboard.

Once a week, she said, student skits are staged and family members are invited to view them. The Dorothean nun added that "99 percent" of parents and grandparents honor the invitation.

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He praised the "traditional occupations" of laywomen in Catholic hospitals, schools and social assistance work, and their "constant presence in the field of prayer and liturgy."

But laywomen also must become involved in "direct evangelization, such as formation of the nuclear family, dialogue with nonbelievers and nonpracticing believets and the promotion of Catholic culture," he added.

Catechists and lay volunteers working in underdeveloped countries provide excellent examples of lay evangelization, the pope said, praising local church programs that sponsor such volunteers.

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DaSilva, a member of Our Lady of Student Michael Sousa, 9, told Lourdes parish, Taunton, and The Anchor that "right now I'm Robbin Silvia, a St. Joseph's pari- learning about the Bible." It's shioner entering her second year important that everybody reads it, of preparation for confirmatiori. he said, "to learn about Jesus and By teaching, Robbin earned God." credit towards her confirmation Amy Coelho, 8, would tell other service project. She said that she kids th~t Vacation Bible School is plans on becoming a regular-season a good idea. religious education teacher after Why? "Because you're learning she's confirmed. more about Jesus, like about him Paula and Robbin's students and the tomb. He went in a tomb were busy with their craft activity when he died." books when The Anchor dropped Cara Persechino, 8, said that by for a visit. she was happy to have learJ!ed, on "We can do things!" four-year- her tour of the church, where the old Sara Coelho exclaimed while Eucharist is kept. making her own iittle Bible. "I like And, since learning is fun at St. it!" . Joseph's, she's bound to remember Jillian Holmes, 3, likes Vaca- that important information.

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"He shall come down like rain SINCE 1825. upon the fleece; and as showers Like their older counterparts, falling gently upon the earth."

Ps. the nursery set visited St. Joseph's 71:6 Church with their teachers and Member F.D.J.C. learned about altars, lecterns, choir lofts and the like.

During her group's church visit, 7-year-old Martha Andrews learned "where the priest keeps all the stuff, like his robes and the clothes he wears for Masstime."

Martha and her 5 to 7-year-old classmates were taught by recentlyconfirmed Lallren Harwood and Confirmation II student Michelle Dutra. They were assisted by Jen Fountain.

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CHICAGO (NC) - Citing her The diocese has a Catholic popzeal as a missionary for 15 years in ulation of 7,000 scattered over a the Diocese of Juneau, Alaska, the 450-mile-long chain of islands and Catholic Church Extension Society coastland covering 38,000 square in Chicago recently gave its 1987 miles in southeastern Alaska. IsoLumen Christi award to Irish- lated mining and fishing camps born Presentation Sister Margaret can be reached only by plane or boat.

McCarthy.

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Father Edward J. Slattery, ExChicago presented her with the tension president, said Sister Mcaward.

Carthy's zeal for home missions Sister McCarthy "has traveled "highlights the possibilities for hundreds of miles a month, some- holiness in the ordinary life of any times taking all-night ferry rides Catholic." and other times bouncing around Sister McCarthy left Ireland at in small float planes," said Bishop age 40 to pursue a lifelong dream Michael H. Kenny of Juneau, who of missionary work in Alaska and nominated her. since ·1972 has worked in almost "I am impressed by how well she every mission area of the Juneau knows the people, Catholic and Diocese. She works at a Juneau non-Catholic alike. They love and soup kitchen and shelter and does respect her and understand how outreach to the poor and to she has dedicated every fiber of her prisoners. being to labor on their behalf."

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She also helped establish a senior citizen nutrition program and a child protection league in the village.

In Juneau, she makes regular 'visits to the regional juvenile detention center and the state's maximum security prison. For four years she has volunteered at the city's only soup kitchen and shelter, the Glory Hole, an interdenominational facility. She helps with cooking and cleaning, finding volunteers and counseling.

She notes that she sees her ministry in Alaska coming to an end: "My work has developed and grown. Now it is time to turn to something new." She feels called to another mission territory Bolivia - and has asked her order to send her out again to serve those in need.

Sister McCarthy will continue to go wherever she is needed. As she told the superiors of her order, "I, too, am responsible for these .injustices. So let me go. Let me try to help."

"Lumen Christi" is Latin for "Christ's light." The Extension Society established the annual award - a bronzed image of Christ - in 1978 to honor Catholics who are outstanding examples of missionary work.

The honor includes a personal award of$2,500 to Sister McCarthy and a $25,000 grant to the diocese for evangelization work.

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she arrived in southeastern Alaska she found its mountains, pine trees and waterways a shocking contrast to the brilliant green fields of her native Ireland. Nor was she prepared for the variety of ethnic and religious groups she encountered. She adop~ed Bishop Hurley's initial advice to her as a motto. "He told me to just go in and see what I could do. That's what I have been doing - reaching out and trying to get personally involved."

She is parish administrator at St. Ann's Mission in Yakutat, a native fishing village of 400 at the northern tip of the diocese. For 13 years she has made twice-monthy plane trips from her convent home in Juneau'to the mission, where she has assisted the people in organizing their regular Communion services, religious education, church maintenance and community outreach.

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The committee is to evaluate the bishops' financially strapped satellite television network and the annual fund raising campaign for church communication efforts.

On the local level, Father John F. Moore, director of the Fall River Diocesan Office of Com'munications, said that he, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and John E. Kearns Jr. of the communications office have responded to a 13-page questionaire sent to them by Archbishop J. Francis Stafford of Denver, the bishops' committee chairman.

The questionaire, Father Moore

said "examined in depth the relation~hip between CTNA and the Catholic Communications Campaign, as it currently exists in the United States.

"From this questionaire," he said, "it is hoped that a consensus of solutions will be'offered to the bishops' committee."

In March the Catholic Commications Campaign funded a $1.4 million "investment" in the network. In 1985 the network received $2 million. The network was founded in 1981 with $4.5 million from the bishops with the expectation that it would become financially solvent within three years.

Besides Archbishop Stafford, committee members are Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Costello of Syracuse, N. Y.; Bishop William B. Friend of Shreveport, La.; Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Norwich, Conn.; Archbishop Robert F.

Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M.; and Bishop William K. Weigand of Salt Lake City, Utah.

The committee was named by Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis, president of t~e ~ational Conference of Cathohc Bishops.

Two committee consultants also participated in the hearings. They were Father Jerome Henson, president of CTNA affiliates association, and Albina Aspell, president of the Catholic Press Association.

The bishops and their consultants divided into two subcommittees, one concentrating on the network and the other on the campaign, to prepare drafts of remcommendations to be presented to the full committee at an Oct. 6 meeting in Denver.

A final report is due next spring concerning the future of CTNA and. the funding of the Catholic Communications Campaign.

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100 solons ask exile end - WASHINGTON (NC) - More than 100 U.S. representatives have called on the Soviet Union to end the isolation of Bishop Julijonas Steponavicius, apostolic administrator of Vilnius, Lithuania, who has been exiled from his diocese for 26 years.

The congressmen voiced concern for the 75-year-old prelate in a letter to Konstantin Kharchev, chair-

man of the Soviets' Council for Religious Affairs, according to a news release from the Washington office of the Lithuanian Information Center. In the letter, the con- . gressmen saii:l Bishop Steponavicius was exiled from the Lithuanian capital to the town of Zagare in northern Lithu'ania "for refusing to acquiesce in the government's interference in church affairs."

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Medicine man priest finds inspiration in nature SIOUX CITY, Iowa (NC) Eagle claws, buffalo hide, sweet grass and sage are items seldom seen on church altars, but fre-· quently found on the sacrificial table of one U.S. Capuchin priest.

That priest, Father John Hascall, is president of the Tekakwitha Conference, a member of the 'Ojibway Indian Nation, and the only Native American medicin·e man who is a Catholic priest.

The Tekakwitha Conference is an organization for the Catholic native peoples of North America.

It is named for Kateri Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk woman whom Pope John Paul II beatified in 1980.

"The eagle is a sacred bird because it flies the highest and brings our prayers to the spirit. Also on the altar are my two helpers, the mink and the weasel. They give me strength and help me all the time in . the way they live," said Father Hascall.

Finding inspiration among such creatures is just one facet of the 46-year-old priest's unique set of beliefs. As an ordained cleric who entered his order right after high school, Father Hascall has been deeply immersed in Catholic tradition and practice.

Yet at the same time, as a native Ojibway, he is also entrenched in the spiritual ways of his people. A member of the White Crane or medicine klan of his tribe, he was elevated to the status of medicine man by his fellow t~be members.

"I didn't choose to be a medicine person. It was the klan, my people.

They raised me in it. ... It's just like a vocation to the priesthood," he said.

In many ways, he added, the tasks of a priest and those of a medicine man are similar. Both work for harmony among people and for physical and spiritual healing.

Through his work Father Hascall said he hopes to gain greater acceptance of Native American traditions within the Catholic Church. He said such acceptance could strengthen Native American Catholics' sacramental lives.

As medicine man-priest he said he hopes to show that Jesus Christ "is the center of the Indian way and that the Indian way is as welcome in the church as any culture in the world."

To accomplish this he incorporates many Native American rituals into celebration of the Mass.

For example, at the beginning of a liturgy he may pay homage to the North, South, East and West, in his native Ojibway tongue.

Among the Ojibway and other Native Americans, the four directions symbolize focuses of worship, the priest said. The North signifies God, the East represents young people and new life, the South symbolizes woman who brings new life to the earth, and the West is the spiritual journey through life.

To heighten Native American interest in the Catholic Church, Father Hascall said, clergy and others must become aware of the healing that is needed within the Native American community.

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What's my role? - Pennsylvania The stepparent, in general, is a parent and needs to act like one, especially with younger children.

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After a divorce there are more players, more room for a child to maneuver to his or her benefit. If you allow yourself to be treated as an extra or fail to clarify your paternal role with the children they will take advantage.

A favorite remark of defiant children attempting to put off a restriction is: "You're not my real dad." I would answer: "But I'm in charge now; I'm your day-to-day dad; and you still have to do what Mom and I say."

The simplest and most basic way for you to clarify and exercise your parent role is to work out a

set of house rules with your wife.

Don't discipline on an incidentby-incident basis. Instead, take time with your wife to write out your joint expectations.

House rules usually cover such items as curfew, dinner time, a chore list, allowance, impermissible language, geographic boundaries to roam, bedtime, etc. If you and your wife agree on these in advance, even writing them out and posting them, you will be more comfortable in enforcing them when the occasion arises.

Stepparenting has recently become quite common. We are still learning the many ways the stepparent role can be fulfilled. However, the obvious general rule is to act like a parent.

Good luck with your new family. Don't attribute all your problems to stepparenting. It is hard to be any kind of parent.

Reader questions on family Uving and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address the Kennys,Boll 871, St. Joseph's Collece, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

The Goetz case continues to disturb us

By Antoinette Bosco The dust has died down since the media blitz coverage of Bernhard Goetz, the infamous "subway gunman." The wheels of law have rolled slowly since Dec. 22, 1984, when the 37-year-old quiet, selfemployed engineer saw himself as being menaced by four youths in a subway and confronted them, shooting them with a 38-caliber handgun.

His action raised questions: Was it a crime? Or was it justifiable self-defense?

Ajury of his peers judged Goetz innocent of felony in the shooting charge. They found him guilty of a gun possession charge.

The case may be over, but it won't easily go away.

It was astounding how much emotion was stirred by Goetz's action. People took strong positions for or against what he did, for the most part in his favor.

At the time ofthe incident, news reports quoted people cheering Goetz and expressing definite reasons for their praise, among them that they "were sick of mean punks hurting innocent people," disgusted with law enforcement bodies that don't protect citizens and are soft on criminals and fed up with feeling helpless.

The frustration expressed in the person-in-the-street interviews on television at the time was pervasive, with a consensus: Good for Goetz. He did what we'd all like to do. He stood tough. He showed those punks. He did it for himself and for us.

With feelings that strong, maybe it is no wonder that people's reactions were in favor of Goetz. He provided an opportunity to experience vicariously how it feels to wield power and to tell the law enforcement system how little its weaknesses are respected.

People applauded Goetz as they clap at the end of a cops and robbers movie when the "good guys" inevitably win. We love conflict to be put into terms of black and white so that we can be vicarious victors, enjoying the sweet triumph of justice.

In reality, while we are a society

regulated by law, its enforcement is often imperfect.

But to glorify what Goetz did is wrong and dangerous. We should' all be very nervous when we get anywhere close to cheering lawlessness.

For all that the law can be weak and sometimes unjust, it tries to guarantee our humanity, our freedom and our rights.

The Goetz case made a colossal noise because it brought to the surface the fact that self-defense, which we like to think is clear-cut, can be confused and a challenge to our laws.

In the final analysis, Goetz is free, but his acquittal should make us uneasy, particularly if others now feel that they too can set themselves above the law to mete out justice or seek revenge.

Consider this: without law, there might not have been four assailants confronting Goetz but 400 or 4,000. Though the law cannot protect us perfectly, without it there would be no protection, period.

Ours then would be a society without order, where nothing could be counted on, chaotic and inhuman, full of grim surprises.

Are you a volunteeroholic?

By Hilda Young The following is dedicated to volunteeroholics.

I confess, I am one. I thought if God did not want me to volunteer for everything, he wouldn't have given my children hands to raise, voices to cry, "My mom will," or little legs to bring them home with notes that start, "Volunteer now or the world will end."

Sure, Ijoke about feigning malaria to escape playground duty, faking labor pains during Girl Scout cookie season and giving a six-digit phone number to the PT A. The.truth is, I was up to a fivecharity a month habit. I started as a social volunteer: baking cookies for the school fair, running a booth at the parish carnival. It snowballed. Before I knew it, I was heading committees, directing phone trees, coordinating car pools.

One day, while I was typing minutes from a parish council meeting, a friend told me about Volunteeroholics Anonymous. Just so you will be alerted, let me share some of VA's warning signs: I. Do you make car pool phone calls at 7 a.m. just to clear your head?

2. Do you buy industrial-size boxes of cookies because you don't have time to meet your bake sale obligations?

3. Do you have newsletters sent to a different address so your family won't know how many groups you've joined?

4. Do you make charity doorbelling rounds alone?

5. Do you lie about how many sacks of donated used clothing you have stored in the garage?

6. Do you live in fear the IRS will audit you for claiming more volunteer mileage than a St. Vincent de Paul truck?

7. Do your friends start conversations with you by saying, "I've already given''?

8. Do you claim you can refuse a phone call from Catholic Charities any time you want to?

9. Do you forget which organization you're an officer in?

10. Do you refuse to admit you are a volunteeroholic even though you skipped your mother's birthday party so you wouldn't miss the UN Children's fund doorbellers?

But I have promised my husband I'm going on the wagon. I hope he doesn't find out it's the Welcome Wagon.

For AIDS victims CHICAGO (NC) - A Chicago parish recently made an explicit outreach to AIDS patients when it held a service for anointing of the sick. Catholic AIDS victims were contacted through hospitals, clinics and support groups at the suggestion of nurses treating them.

The service, also open to patients with other illnesses, was seen as a sign of special church concern for those with AIDS.

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Huge rent hike forces shroud exhibit into storage WASHINGTON (NC) - An Episcopal priest is looking for a new home for his Shroud of Turin exhibit after a giant rent hike forced him to move the exhibit from an Atlanta office building into warehouse storage.

Father Albert "Kim" Dreisbach said the exhibit, on display in Atlanta since 1982, was forced to • move when the office building was bought by Turner Broadcasting Systems chairman Ted Turner and the rent jumped "from $500 to $11,000 a month, plus utilities ... it's incredible.

"I'm in the desert and waiting for God to lead us to Jericho," Father Dreisbach said in a recent telephone interview. "He will deliver us, he just hasn't sent a telegram yet."

Father Dreisbach, who is director of the Atlanta Center for the Continuing Study of the Shroud of Turin, believes the exhibit is the largest collection of Shroud memorabilia in the world. The exhibit took up 6,000 square feet in the office building, he said, but could have filled 7,500 square feet.

The Atlanta exhibit does not include the Shroud of Turin itself.

The shroud is a 14-foot long linen burial cloth which bears the image of a crucified man. It is believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. For the last 300 years the cloth has been kept in the cathedral in Turin, Italy.

The Shroud of Turin exhibit in Atlanta is based on the work of a team of photographers that was part oftests done on the Shroud in 1978. The exhibit includes more than 150 photographs and transparencies, a replica of the shroud, and a three-dimensional "sculpture" of the figure of the man of

the shroud developed from computations from an image analyzer used to create three-dimensional representations from photographs.

Father Dreisbach said offers have come from people in other cities willing to take the exhibit but he hopes it will not have to move from Atlanta. "I hope we are a big enough city to keep the shroud exhibit," he said.

The exhibit was brought to Atlanta after the cancellation of a world tour of the photos.

Father Dreisbach said that, as a ' Protestant, he had been skeptical of all relics. "I came to scoff and stayed to pray," he said.

He sees the shroud as having ecumenical appeal, reaching people of Greek Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant faiths.

It "intrigues the intellect," as well as appealing to a simpler faith, Father Dreisbach said, recalling a little girl, in her confirmation dress, who said after seeing the photos, "I never knew he hurt so much for us - I'm going to try to live better for him."

The point of the shroud exhibit, Father Dreisbach said, is to get people "beyond the linen 'to the Lord."

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WASHINGTON (NC) - In Los Mass except for 200 police on Angeles, 150,000 tickets for the horseback who will ride around papal Masses at the Los Angeles the rim of the crowd.

Coliseum and Dodger Stadium In Columbia, S.c. where a prayer are long gone.

In Detroit, 94,000 free tickets service is the major worship event, are moving slowly, a concern to requests have exceeded the 75,000 ticket coordinator Immaculate tickets available. Another 20,000Heart of Mary Sister Rose Mat- 30,000 persons are expected at the local airport, although the papal thew.

She fears that people have been arrival and departure ceremonies unduly put off by plans requiring have not been billed as public some ticketholders to be at -the events.

In Monterey, Calif., 100,000 Pontiac Silverdome for the 4: 15 tickets for the Mass at the Laguna p.m. Mass by to a.m.

"There will be live television Seca raceway became sought-after coverage of the events on a big prizes when media suggested Anscreen, a pre-events program, and gelenos try going to Monterey the food concessions will be open," after tickets in their archdiocese said Sister Matthew. "I can't see were exhausted.

Calls for Monterey tickets are how it will be such a terrible being referred to local parishes by hardship."

But many in the Detroit archdiocese apparently plan to watch the . pop~ from home on television or in person at Detroit's Hart Plaza, estimated to have a capacity of up to I million people. The pope is slated to give a major social justice VATICAN CITY (NC) - An address there and attendance re- international conference on the quires neither ticket nor arriving knowledge of God and nature sponsix hours early. sored by the Vatican Secretariat of In most places, however, tickets State in September will bring togethfor papal Masses and prayer serv- er experts in theology, philosoghy ices are being grabbed up. Tradi- and physics, the Vatican has antional U.S. vacation spots, such as nounced.

New Orleans and Phoenix, have The conference will mark the gotten ticket requests from all -300th anniversary of the publicaacross the nation. tion of Isaac Newton's "Mathem250,000 tickets were available atical Principles of Natural Philofor a Mass at the University of sophy" - often called the "PrinNew Orleans. With local and cipia" from its original Latin title neighboring dioceses accommo- - regarded as the starting point of dated, workers at the papal visit modern science. It explained how hotline (504-866-POPE) have be- a single mathematical law could gun to fill requests from tour account for the heavens, the tides groups, "some even originating in and the motion of objects on Earth.

"Our Knowledge of God and places the pope is scheduled to Nature: Physics, Philosophy and visit," said one hotline worker.

In Phoenix, however, all 75,000 Theology" will be the theme of the tickets are already spoken for and Sept. 21-26 conference, to be held visitors from up north are being at the Vatican observatory in Casrefused tickets to the Mass at the tel Gandolfo, Italy.

Arizona State University.

The meeting will be organized In Miami, no tickets are needed by the observatory, the Pontifical for the Mass at Tamiami Park, Academy of Sciences, the Pontifiwhich has a capacity of about cal Council for Culture and Greg350,000, while in San Francisco, orian University and will include Candlestick Park has seating for scientists, theologians and philo71,000 persons and tickets are being sophers. It "will be dedicated to distributed through parishes. Some the discussion of some central subpastors are requesting a donation jects regarding relations between for tickets, though this is discour- theology, philosophy and natural aged by chancery officials. Many .sciences," the Vatican said.

Themes will include the docparishes plan lotteries for the trine of creation and cosmology; tickets.

No tickets are required in San heuristic theology - which uses Antonio, where a natural 144-acre experiment and observation to amphitheater is estimated to have reach answers - and its relation a500,000-person capacity. How- to the scientific method; the relaever, local hotels are completely tion between relativity, cosmology, booked with the nearest rooms philosophy and theology; and the now in Austin, 60 miles away. theological implications ofthe law A San Antonio papal visit offi- of thermodynamics and quantum cial said people will stand for the physics.

the diocese, and Ted Elisee, diocesan director of communications, said the diocese is assessing each parish to offset the cost ofthe visit.

Such assessments are a common procedure across the country to cover expenses in the dioceses on the papal intinerary, he said, adding that Monterey pastors were told to months ago what the assessments would be and that they could decide how to raise the money. But, he said, they were told they could not charge for the tickets. The assessments are based on parish population.

He added that a number of pastors have asked for a "free-will offering" in exchange for tickets but that no one would be refused a ticket for lack of money.

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That's why a piece Brubeck has written for the pope's Sept. 18 Mass at Candlestick Park in San Francisco resounds with trumpet and timpani.

The work, "Pontifical Processional," is a strong music statement and includes a fugue Brubeck called "the most triumphant thing I've ever written."

The world-renowned composer c:.nd musician was commissioned to write the work by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, with fund~'lg from the Oblates of Mary li'.llmaculate.

Brubeck, 67, described the composition in a telephone interview from his Wilton, Conn., home.

He said he was guided by images evoked by the Scripture verse he had to illustrate - Mt. 16: 18 and his personal view of Pope John Paul.

"I view the pope as a very strong, powerful, forceful individual," he said. And the text - "you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it" - demanded a strong statement.

The text spoke of "strength, not giving in," Brubeck said.

The processional, which begins peacefully, had a more powerful beginning until advisers discouraged the jazzman from opening with the triumphant fanfare "too regal," he said.

As a result, the pope will enter ~he stadium to music which con"eys peace.

"It's not as pompous as itptight ::ave been," Brubeck said. It also runs contrary to the composer's feelings for the Scripture it illustrates.

The verse "is not a statement of peace for me, but that's what I was able to turn it into," he said.

Although toned down, the work still is "extremely strong," Brubeck said, and conveys that the church founded on a rock has continued since Peter's day and this pope "is going to protect it."

The processional begins with a "peaceful" fanfare followed by a "forceful" chorale, Brubeck said.

What was to have been the opening "triumphant" fanfare follows the chorale and leads into the "mo.re triumphant" fugue.

"It ends exactly where I would like something to end," communicating "a triumphant peace with a tremendous struggle in front of it," Brubeck said.

The Mass at Candlestick Park also includes sections from "Mass, to Hope!," Brubeck's widely applauded liturgical piece written about five years ago which the artist said led him to join the Catholic Church.

Brubeck said jazz, which originated in America and was influenced by gospel songs and spirituals, is appropriate for the papal Mass.

Its roots are "far more sacred" than those of much traditional church music, he said, noting that Bach took the music for "0 Sacred Head Now Wounded,'" a timehonored hymn in Christian churches, "from a drinking song."

Brubeck said he is pleased to compose for the pope.

"Most artists would be thrilled about doing something for the pope ... especially this pope," he said. "He's a great world leader, a peacemaker. He speaks for the poor and oppressed people. And he's an artist himself. The church has a long history of using artists of the period to help the church praise God. It's great to be part of that heritage."

Eight of the conference's 20 participants will be from the United States, including Jesuit Father Michael Buckley, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine.

Other Americans invited to the conference are Jesuit Father Richard Clifford of the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass.; Ian G. Barbout of the religion department of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.; Sallie McFague of the religion department of Vanderbilt Univefsity in Nashville, Tenn.; Father Ernan McMullin of the philosophy department of the University of Notre Dame; Charles Misner of the physics department of the University of Maryland; the Rev. Ted Peters of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, Calif.; and Robert John Russell of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley.

"Principia," published in 1687, announced the law of universal gravitation and delineated basic laws of terrestial and celestial mechanics, still taught today.

Dialogue continues VATICAN CITY (NC) - Catholics and Baptists recently met in Rome to continue their "international conversation" on differences and relations between their churches, according to a Vatican press release. _ The dialogue meeting, the fourth held by the two churches, was sponsored by the Baptist World Alliance and the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.

The purpose of the dialogues is "to come to a better understanding of similarities and differences in Baptist and Roman Catholic doctrinal, ecclesial, pastoral and mission concerns," the Vatican said.

"They aim also at identifying existing prejudices and improving relations" between churches.

The final meeting in 1988 will issue a conclusive report, said the Vatican statement.

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FRANCISCAN Sister Davida Loosbrock sits in a police cruiser used by volunteer chaplains.

Nun/police chaplain comforts the distraught OMAHA, Neb. (NC) - A distraught 19-year-old man sat in jail, waiting to hear about his mother's condition.

"The man was very upset. He told me he was cleaning his gun and it went off, hitting his mother in the head," said Franciscan Sister Davida Loosbrock, talking about her work as a volunteer chaplain for the Omaha Police Department.

"When I talked to him, he still had his mother's blood on his hands," said the nun in an interview with The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Omaha.

Providing comfort for despondent persons was one of the major responsibilities of Sister Loosbrock, who served as one of 12 police chaplains. She returned to Minnesota this summer to help care for her parents and to teach school.

"This young man was concerned about his mother, so I asked a police officer to check on her condition," said the nun, adding that the woman eventually recovered and the shooting was ruled an accident.

A native of St. Kilian, Minn., Sister Loosbrock taught elementary students in Iowa and Illinois for 27 years before arriving in Omaha in 198 I. For six years, she served senior citizens at Omaha's St. Cecilia's Cathedral, setting aside two weekends a month for chaplain duty.

Along with handling death notifications, Sister Loosbrock's duties included assisting in domestic disturbances and suicide prevention.

"The hardest cases for me involve the notification of a family concerning the death of a young person," she said.

In recent weeks Sister Loosbrock dealt with two cases of attempted suicide - an unwed mother of three attempted to slash her wrists and a man threatened to jump off a bridge.

"People who attempt suicide usually feel unloved; they feel worthless," she said. "I tell them that God loves them, and that I care about what happens to them."

When an individual is persuaded to give life another chance, Sister Loosbrock said, "it gives me a good feeling to know that maybe I helped to save someone's life."

The 53-year-old Franciscan nun would like to see more religious serving as police chaplains.

"It's a good way to help people who are suffering," she said.

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MOSCOW (NC) - The Soviet Union did not invite the pope to this year's religious celebrations in Lithuania because the Vatican does not recognize Soviet state frontiers, said a government official. , "We are ready for dialogue with all religious organizations, but it is well known to everyone that the Vatican does not recognize the state frontiers of our country and constantly eJ;Ilphasizes this," said Konstantin Kharchev, chairman of the Soviet Union's Departmen.t of Religious Affairs.

"Is it comfortable to invite guests into your home if they do not recognize you as the master of that home?" Kharchev asked. His remarks appeared in the Moscow News, which quoted his convertion with Harvard University theology professor Harvey Cox, who asked him why the pope had not been invited to June celebrations marking the 600th anniversary of Christianity in Lithuania.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - A bishop and a nun whose arrowpierced bodies were found in an Ecuadoranjungle were "victims of an unjustified violence," said Pope John Paul II. An Ecuadoran bishops' conference official linked the deaths to fears generated among local Indians by land-grabbing outsiders.

The bodies of Bishop Alejandro Labaca Ugarte, apostolic vi"car of Aguarico in Napo, Ecuador, and Franciscan Sister Ines Arango, a Colombian missionary, were discovered Jul~ 22 in Ecuador's Amazon jungle region 160 miles east of the capital of Quito.

Bishop Labaca Ugarte was a leading advocate of Indian rights.

An official ofthe Confederation of Amazonian Indigenous Nationalities said that the Huaroni Indians, who live in the territory where the killings took place, have been involved in violent disputes with petroleum companies drilling on theirlands. The Huaroni may have mistaken the bishop and the nun for company officials, the spokesman said.

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YOU KEEP ME HANGING ON Set me free wby don't you babe Get out of my life why don't you babe Because you don't really love me You just keep me hanging on Why do you keep coming around Playing with my heart Why don't you get out of my life And let me make a brand new start Let me get over you The way you've gotten over me You don't really need me You must keep me banging on You say tbough we're broke up You still just want to be friends But how can we still be friends Wben seeing you only breaks my beart again Get out, get out of my life And let me sleep at nigbt Because you don't really love me You just keep me banging on You say that you still care for me But your heart needs to be free Now tbat you've got your freedom You want to still hold onto me You don't want me by yourself So let me find somebody else Wby don't you be a man about it Set me free Now you don't care a thing about me You're just using me Recorded by Kim Wilde, written by E. Holland, L. Dozier, B. Holland, (c) 1986, MCA Records Inc. WHEN SHOULD one break to break away emotionally from off a dating relationship? a past romance.

The person in the song asks, I thought of this question as I listened to Kim Wilde's remake "Set me free, why don't you of the old Supremes' hit, "You babe." She tells her past love to Keep Me Hanging On." The song stop trying to see her, for it hurts describes the difficulty of trying too much to just be friends.

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What's on your mind?

Q. Tell me how people make proper decisions in any type of situation. (Maryland) A. Recently I spotted a strange bug on the floor of my utility room. It looked like an ant with wings.

My first thought was, "Termites!

Tbey're eating up my house!" But was it a termite? If I consulted a termite exterminator, would he, in order to get my money, tell me it was a termite even if it wasn't?

I drove to the branch library and got a book on insects. A vivid photograph confirmed my belief that l was dealing with termites and then I knew what to do.

Reliable information, often available at your public library, can be enormously helpful in making right decisions.

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attendant, your druggist, the clerk at the hardware store, your parish priest, one of the coaches at school, or whomever else can give you appropriat~ facts and ideas.

Consult also your own experiences. Have you learned anything in the past that would be helpful in making the decision you now face?

Consult also persons especially knowledgeable about the area in which you are trying to make a decision.

For example, if you are thinking of becoming a psychologist or an engineer as your life's work, by all means talk to one or preferably several psychologists or engineers.

Gather all the information you can about the vocation you are thinking offollowing. What are its pleasures and what are its headaches? And what is its likely future?

On almost all decisions, it's a good idea to gather and weigh

There are times when teens ought to consider getting out of a dating relationship: 1. When the other person fails to respect your moral values. If a person pressures you to take drugs, have sex or do anything that conflicts with your own values, the genuineness of his or her love is suspect. Pressure tactics are signs that the other is primarily interested in getting his or her needs satisfied, even at the cost of your integrity.

2. When Ii person lies or breaks promises. Good relationships depend on trust. Do not fall into the trap of believing that the other will change later - after marriage, for example.

3. When a person insists on having his or her own way most or all of the time. Healthy individuals learn how to negotiate their wants and needs. Demanding or manipulating to get one's way is a sign of immaturity.

4. When a person wants most or all of your attention and time.

Such an attitude often means that a person has few interests beyond your relationship. Over time, your love and your growth are likely to be smothered by possessiveness and jealousy.

5. When a person consistently refuses to share his or her feelings. Emotional intimacy is an ongoing need for love's growth.

If, after dating for a while, you sense that you know little about the other person's inner life, perhaps this individual is hiding his or her feelings.

Undoubtedly, other situations could be added to the list. It takes courage to initiate a separation, but such a decision might keep one out of an unfortunate marriage.

Your comments are always welcome. Please address them to Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714.

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SPENDING some quiet time with twin campers Alex, left, and Adam Mercer of Sacred Heart parish, New Bedford, George Telheiro, 18, of the same city's Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, enjoys his duties as a member of this summer's counseling staff at St. Vincent de Paul Camp, Westport. Hey, George, what do you like best about your job? "The kids, just the way they are."

Bishop offers guidelines for Catholic politicians

advice. Sometimes you may wish to ask one or more of your friends what they would do in your place.

In very 路serious situations you may want to go to the school counselor, a favorite teacher, a priest in your parish or one or both of your parents.

Probably one day you will face decision about marriage. Why not begin now to consult your parents and maybe other parents too about the difficulties and blessings of marriage?

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Ask what makes a marriage work. What makes it happy? What can make it a hardship? What should one look for in a partner?

What can one realistically expect from him or her?

Parents can be superb marriage consultants. After all, they have lots of experience which can help you in making what most likely is the most important decision of your life.

Send questions and comments to Tom Lennon,1311 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington D.C., 2000~

Children of Light "There was a time when you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Well, then, live as children of light. Light produces every kind of goodness and justice .and truth." -: Eph. 5: 8-9

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (NC) Catholic public officials can validly say "I'm personally opposed but it's the law" regarding moral evils, but only if they add "and I'm trying to change the law," Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J., said in an interview in Brooklyn. . The archbishop was interviewed following an address at St. James Cathedral, where he spoke in the annual "Shepherds Speak" series.

Now in its eighth year, the series brings bishops from across the country on Sundays between Easter and Pentecost to talk on topics of national interest.

Addressing the topic"American Catholics in Public Office: Fidelity to Church and Constitution," Archbishop McCarrick declared that "the Catholic in pUblic office should do all that is possible to persuade his or her fellow legislators to adopt laws and policies" based on sound moral principles.

Catholics, he said; should not use American pluralism as "an excuse for a lack of courage in regard to affirming one's own Catholic convictions or the morally compelling nature of the church's teaching on contemporary socio-political issues."

In the interview Archbishop McCarrick said a public official must be "faithful to the Constitution," but said fidelity to moral and religious convictions demands an effort to change laws that are bad. These principles apply, he said, not only on abortion but also on treatment of the poor, human rights generally and other issues covered in Catholic social teaching.

Archbishop McCarrick said he was not criticizing any individuals.

"I don't judge anybody," he said.

"My job is to teach clearly on the issues. The people will be smart enough and courageous enough to make the proper judgments."

In his address Archbishop McCarrick noted the constitutional prohibition of a religious test for

office and said Catholic politicians should not "compromise" this protection by distancing themselves from the church as they seek electoral success.

"Catholic m'en and women in public office do not bring credit on themselves by presuming to take for granted the support of their Catholic neighbors while seeking favor from other groups by showing themselves independent of the church or the church's pastoral and doctrinal teaching," he said.

"Not every.issue is, of course, of the same moral magnitude, but for the purposes of this discussion, I would suggest that respect for the dignity of every human person and the protection of fundamental human rights - especially the right' to life and the avoidance of an indiscriminate use of nuclear weapons - are issues in which the moral dimension should be a determining factor in regard to political deci.sion-making," he said. .

In the interview, Archbishop McCarrick said that although he considered right-to-life issues "paramount," he would not necessarily favor voting for a candidate who is "with you on right to life but not with you on the other issues."

Grants available NEW YORK (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference Communication Committee is seeking "preapplications" for its 1988 grants program and will give special emphasis to. projects related to family life, rural life, racism, sexism and comprehensive education for the ordained and non-ordained ministry. The pre-applications are. due by Sept. 9.

Application forms and further information are available from the USCC Department of Communication, Suite BOO, 1011 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022.

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tv, movie news New Films "The Living Daylights" (United Artists) - Timothy Dalton plays the new, more altruistic James Bond who foils an arms and drugdealing scheme by KGB bigwig Jeroen Krabbe and ruthless dealer Joe Don Baker. Mellow treatment of spy thriller includes a conventional romance with agent Maram d'Abo and violence toned down to a level more acceptable for adults and mature teens. A2, PG "Nadine" (Tri-Star) - Warmhearted comedy-romance about a zany, fumbling couple(Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges) whose marriage is reconciled after attempts to exploit profit from a set of highway plans. Southern gentility shows brightly through Miss Basinger's frothy portrait of a 1950s working-class woman. A2, PG "Maid To Order"(New CenturyVista) - A spoiled Beverly Hills he.iress (Ally Sheedy) learns a lesson in humility and caring when forced to work as a maid for a zany couple (Dick Shawn and Valerie Perrine). Romantic fable with a brief moment of comic nudity and some rough language. A2, PG TV Movies Sunday, Aug. 23, 9-11 p.m. EDT (NBC) - "Staying Alive" (1983) - Sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" has aspiring disco dancer(John Travolta) go from chorus boy to star while balancing relationships with two women (Cynthia Rhodes and Finola Hughes). Director Sylvester Stallone romanticizes the amoral behavior of the rough-

hewn hero in this rags-to-riches melodrama. A3, PG Sunday, Aug. 23, 9-11 p.m. EDT (ABC) "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976) - British sci-fi fantasy stars David Bowie as an alien searching Earth for life-sustaining water for his planet. 0, R Thursday, Aug. 27, 9-11 p.m.

EDT(CBS)-"Man, Woman and Child" (1983) - Model American family undergoes trauma when the father's (Martin Sheen) brief encounter with a French woman (Nathalie Nell) is exposed when his illegitimate son comes for a visit. This sentimental melodrama uses flashbacks to depict the details of the past affair. A3, PG Saturday, Aug. 29, 8-11 p.m.

EDT (ABC) "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969) - Secret agent James Bond (George Lazenby) marries a Spanish countess (Diana Rigg) and nearly loses his life as he fights against the sinister SPECTRE plot to poison the world's food supply. A3, PG Religious TV Sunday, Aug. 16 (CBS) - "For Our Times""Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School" relates the stories of Abraham and Isaac, Daniel in the lions' den and John the Baptist.

Religious Radio Sunday, Aug. 16 (NBC) "Guideline" - Stanley Hosie of People for the South Pacific discusses the work of his agency.

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Survey expected to counter stereotype of rich church WASHINGTON (NC) - A newly commissioned survey of church activities and finances could counter the stereotype of churches as sources oflimitless private-sector aid for public needs, a Catholic official working on the new study said.

The Catholic Church is one of 170 denominations in the United States included in the survey of activities and finances of religious institutions. Information about 4,300 randomly selected local congregations is being collected by the Gallup Organization and will be analyzed by Independent Sector, a Washington-based philanthropic coalition.

Virginia Hodgkinson, vice-president ofIndependent Sector, called the effort "the first to attempt a full, nationwide study of the diverse congregations in Amel'ica."

Sister Frances Mlocek, finance director of the U.S. Catholic Conference and a member of the advisory committee, sees the survey as potentially helpful in countering stereotypes about religious institutions. She said that when looking to church institutions to provide necessary human services, the Reagan administration seems to have "a perception of a~ endless resource of funds."

In fact, she said, church resoiJ~­ ces are "stretched very thin" and "there's a limit to how much more people can be persuaded to support" through private-sector donations.

President Reagan has often called for more personal voluntarism and charity to compensate for losses of federal funding in social service programs but churches and other charities have responded that they cannot fill the gap by themselves.

The survey may show Congress the limitations of churches as providers of social services, said Sister Mlocek. It would also counter the old stereotype of the Catholic Church as a hoarder of wealth, she added.

Murray Weitzman, a consultant for Independent Sector, expects the survey to show "quiet people going about their work day after day."

The recent scandal involving television evangelist Jim Bakker is "an unfortunate aberration," Weitzman said, when really there is "a great deal of good being done" by religious groups.

Weitzman said a pre-test shows "there's a lot of people working very hard for very low pay, without the fancy houses and the big lifestyles."

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THIS is Christina, age 3.

She likes meeting bishops and eating crackers. Need more of an explanation, you say? Just turn to page 2 and read all about" An Evening on Cape Cod with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin." It's all there!

No relief NEW YORK (NC) - Jesuit Father Richard A. McCormick recently warned Catholic hospital administrators that study of ethical principles could not relieve them of the responsibility and anguish of individual decisionmaking. "Rules cannot replace human prudence and courage," said the moral theologian in a seminar at St. John's University in New York.

"I am not here to relieve anyone of anguish," he said. "There is no relief available. Beware of ethicists bearing certainties. Steer away from the consoling but deceptive comfort of easy solutions."

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BACOLOD CITY, Philippines (NC) - Catholic lay volunteers have been standing guard at the quarters of Bishop Antonio Fortich of Bacolod since an attempt on his life in late April.

Bacolod City parishes are taking turns providing five people a' night to guard the seminary compound where the bishop has lived since 1985.

Bishop Fortich refused guards offered by Maj. Gen. Renato de Villa, the Philippine Constabulary chief.

The bishop has been an outspoken supporter of the poor and of human rights. Earlier this year, he was chairman of a national cease-fire monitoring committee during a 60-day truce between the government and communist guerrillas.

A right-wing group has claimed responsibility for the failed attempt on the churchman's life April 28.

In that incident, a grenade was thrown from the street into a patio, around which the bedrooms of the bishop and priests on his staff are grouped. The grenade hit a roof and bounced off a tree in the patio before exploding.

"If it hadn't, it would have burst against the door of the bishop's bedroom and killed him," Col. Herman Plotena, Bacolod police chief, said a few hours after the assassination attempt.

Priests throughout the Bacolod diocese are taking turns fasting to show support for Bishop Fortich and are praying for a spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation in the diocese.

The bishop has repeatedly said he forgives those who threw the grenade.

President Corazon Aquino spoke by phone to Bishop Fortich shortly after the incident to express her sorrow.

The bishop's former residence was burned in 1985 after he received telephone threats because he publicized a "frame-up" ofsome church workers in his diocese.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 14, 1987

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O.J". VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ludwig are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary. Holy Ghost Father James F. Daly will speak at all weekend Masses. The parish congratulates Jim Phalan, who recently celebrated his Profession oftemporary vows for the Holy Cross Fathers.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Seniors' meeting Sept. 10. Prayer group meeting with Mass 7 p.m.

Aug. 19, regular meeting 7 p.m.

Aug. 26, rectory basement. Parish council meeting 7 p.m. Sept. 14.

SEPARATED AND DIVORCED, 'NB New Bedford area support group for separated and divorced Catholics meeting 7 p.m. Aug. 24; Family Life Center, No. Dartmouth; video on coping with today's pressures will be screened.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Parishioners Maurice and Helen Hurley are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Prayer group meetings Wednesdays are preceded by 7 p.m. Mass; all welcome.

ST. PATRICK, FR To celebrate the Marian year, the parish is presenting a series of comments on Marian appearances and Our Lady's message to mankind in its bulletin. Youth Activity Group special meeting 7:30 p.m. Aug. 17.

Sullivan photo Women's Guild living rosary follows BISHOP Daniel A. Cronin meets parishioners and vacationers during a recent pastoral 'Mass 7 tonight. The parish congratulates parochial vicar Fathe~ Robert visit to St. Pius X parish, So. Yarmouth.

A. Oliveira on the 10th anniversary of his ordination to the diocesan CATHEDRAL, FR LaSALETTE SHRINE, ST.ANNE,FR priesthood.

A representative of the St. Patrick ATTLEBORO The parish congratulates its couST. JAMES, NB A song and dance celebration for ples celebrating 25th wedding anniAlcoholics Anonymous meets 7 Fathers will speak at Aug. 22 and 23 After Mass Sunday Brunch Masses. Women's Guild board meet- the dedication of a new shrine foun- versaries: Mr. and Mrs. Andre Bernp.m. Wednesdays, church hall.

At ing Aug. 27. tain and garden will be held at 3 p.m. ier, Deacon and Mrs. Robert B. ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Sunday. The focus of the additions Raymond and Mr. and Mrs. NorA Carmelite missionary will speak BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR is a bronze statue of Our Lady of mand Valiquette.

A representative of the St. Patrick at all weekend Masses.

LaSalette, standing on a 12-ton granIt thanks Sister M. Julie Pintal, Fathers will speak at all Masses ite rock, water gently falling down OP, now working at Fall River's ST. STANISLAUS, FR Aug. 22 and 23. Bible study classes its sides into a pool surrounded by a Dominican Academy Convent, for Czestochowa prayer days begin focusing on St. Paul's epistles to the Lunches • Sandwiches • Cocktails stonework rosette. A parterre garden her "devoted involvement" as a tomorrow, end Aug. 26; services Galatians and Romans begin Oct. 7; Tennis Courts Available Now featuring two large earthen vessels teacher in the parish school, relipart of 7:20 a.m. and 7 p.m. Masses information: pastor Father Rene R. filled with flowers leads to the foun- gious education coordinator and daily.

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County Road, Pocasset tain area from the statue of the parish receptionist.

NOTRE DAME, FR 563·7171 Sacred Hear(imd another parterre Father Roger Bisson of the Mis- HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, garden, with the LaSalette cross ST. 7: 15 Marian year rosary recitation Private Function Room sionaries of Africa will speak at all FR fashioned in greenery, lies between a.m. weekdays; all welcome.

Masses Aug. 22 and 23.

Healing sc;rvice and Mass, with the fountain and the outdoor chapel Father William Babbitt, parochial plaza. at St. Mary parish, No. AttleThe celebration will include "The vicar Vessels of Creation," a liturgical boro, 2 p.m. Aug. 23, church; all dance ensemble led by Patricia Beau- welcome. chemin of Warwick, RI; music min- ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT istry by Father Andre A. Patenaude, Mr. and Mrs. Honore VaillanMS (Father Pat), shrine director, court are celebrating their 50th wedand the shrine chorale, directed by ding anniversary. A Carmelite misByron Williams. All welcome; lawn sioner will speak at all weekend chairs are suggested.

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ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET ST. ANTHONY, E. FALMOUTH A Joint Annuity is also availThe parish welcomes Sister Teresa The Woods Hole Cantata ConRainville, SUSC, to its religious sort, directed by Mary Greer, will able so that a spouse, a relative, or education staff. perform Bach's "Mass in F" (brevis) a friend will continue to receive and selections from his "Magnificat" CHRIST THE KING, paym.ents after your death. at the 4:30 p.m. Mass tomorrow.

COTUIT/MASHPEE Catholic Women's Club resumes ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN 10 a.m. Tuesday CCD Center arts If you are interested in helping Adoration until 7 tonight, church. and crafts meetings; all welcome.

Canned goods are needed for the the work of CRS now and in the Altar boys' Red Sox game outing soup kitchen; volunteers needed to future, send for our FREE brotomorrow. End-of-summer teen getorganize a committee to work to together 3:30 p.m. Aug. 29, St. chure today! All inquiries are bring Mother Angelica's Eternal Jude's Chapel; information: Bob Word Television Network to Fairregarded as confidential. and Lucia-camara, 420-1409. The haven; information for both: Joe parish welcomes permanent deacon Begnoche, 992-7371.

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