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A deacon's wife speaks Permanent deacon and Mrs. Eugene L. Orosz of St. Dominic's parish, Swansea, were among diaconal couples featured in an article in the July issue of St. Anthony Messenger, a national magazine with a circufation of over 384,000.

The article, "The Wife of a Deacon: Sharing in Ministry," is by their niece, Kathleen Paiva of the diocese of Orlando, Fla. "One of the ministries we feel God may be calling my husband and me to is the permanent diaconate,"shewrote. "I say'we'because, although Russell would be the one

to be ordained, I assume that ours would be a shared ministry. Still, I wonder, is that really the way it works?"

To find out, Mrs. Paiva interviewed 12 deacons' wives, nine from her own diocese and three from other dioceses, including the Oroszes. Her conclusion was that deacons' wives tend to grow with their husbands and find much fulfillment in their role.

The necessity of the wife's support of her husband's decision cannot be overstated, she wrote, noting that in many dioceses a

man cannot be ordained to the diaconate without express consent of his wife and family. Among the women Mrs. Paiva interviewed, there is now overwhelming support for their husbands' ministries.

But initial responses were more tentative.

For Joan Kinsey, a first-grade teacher, it was a matter of mixed emotions. "I was very apprehensive," she said. "I didn't know how Bob was going to handle it, and I didn't know if I was going to be able to handle [the role] or the Turn to Page Nine

DANCING the night away at "An Evening on Cape Cod with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin," held last Thursday in Hyannis, are Jack and Dorothy Stevenson of Our Lady of the Assumption parish, Osterville. At right, from

Relief Services has been able to continue its work in Nicaragua despite the conflicts of the Sandinista government with the Nicara· guan bishops and with the United States, a CRS official said.

Peter Shiras, deputy director for the Latin America and Carib· bean region, said in a New York : interview that maintaining good working relationships with all parties was "a difficult feat." But he said CRS had accomplished it by addressing "the needs ofthe poor" and employing "as much professionalism as we can muster."

"We've had no administrative I problems," he said of CRS relations with the Nicaraguan government. And the Nicaraguan hierarchy, which has protested the activity of some church groups from outside Nicaragua, has made · no complaints about CRS operations, he said. . .

I ' S~lfas, who was most recent~y In Nlcaragu~ June 30-July.2, said CRS closed Its offi~e there In 198.4 f?r reasons of effiCiency, not pol~· tiCS. All C~ntral Amenca work .IS ; now coo~dInated fr~m an of~ce In Co~ta ~Ica, h~ said. A natIOI~al office IS req~lre~ f?r ~ountnes where CRS IS dlstnbut~n.g U.S. ~ood for Peace commodities, b?t It ~oes not have such a program In NI~~agua. " e 198~ CRS program In NIcaragua, Shlras s~ld, a~ounted to about $300,000 In project support and albout $2~0,OOO worth?~ goods, m?st y. cl?thIng and medl~Ine. He said slml.lar levels of aid were expected In 1986 and 1987.

activity in Nicaragua with the Nicaraguan bishops' conference and the local Caritas organization.

Funds are contributed for agricultural and health projects, he said, and most of these are sponsored by pari~hes. .

He said the U.S. embargo agamst Nicaragua did not affect CRS because, ~sid~ fro~ e~empt forms of humamtanan aid,. It does not send goods from the Umted States. Items needed .for development p~ojects not available lo.cally, he s~ud, are bought from third countnes such as Costa Rica or Panama. He said the U.S. government does not restrict CRS in sending dollars to Nicara~a: . . .

In addition to fmancmg agncultu~al and health proj~ct.s, Shiras said, CR~ has been aiding s~me pers?ns displaced by the figh~mg, partIc~la~ly but. not e~clus1Vely the Mlsklto Indians. Aid for the latter, he said, has been channeled through an ecumenical organization which has Catholic, Episcopal ian, Moravian and Baptist participation.

Although political tensions have not hampered CRS work in Nicaragua, Shiras said, some shifts of emphasis may become necessary.

"We anticipate a worsening in the war situation, and this will probably lead to creation of more displaced persons in Nicaragua," he said. Increased fighting may make it impossible for some of the projects aided by CRS to continue functioning, he said. And escalation of violence, he said, may require some shift of funds from development to relief.

left, Mrs. James H. Quirk Sr., Bishop Cronin, Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Quirk Jr. with their daughters Anastatia, Victoria and Christina. (Motta photos: more on page 8)

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'Terrorism threats affect Vatican museums' gate VATICAN CITY (NC) American fears of terrorism have hit Vatican museums in the cash register, say officials.

With millions of U.S. tourists staying away from Europe this summer, attendance and revenues at the Vatican museums have dropped about 40 percent, the officials said.

"The Americans have abandoned us," said Carlo Pietrangeli, museum director. "They're very much afraid of what can happen here in Europe." He said the number of European visitors has remained about the same.

In June alone, 89,000 fewer tourists passed through the museums' gates compared with 1985, he said. At about $5 per ticket, that represented an admissions loss of $455,000.

July figures are expected to show a similar decline, Pietrangeli, said Aug. 7. Attendance has dropped steadily since last winter, he noted.

At that time Americans began cancelling European vacation plans following several terrorist attacks and threats.

Several U.S. schools with foreign programs have canceled regular tours of the Vatican museums, he said. Even a U.S. "friends ofthe museums" organization canceled a scheduled May meeting in Rome.

The 1986 attendance drop about 25 percent overall since the beginning of the year - has also cut sharply into normally heavy sales of English-language books, art reproductions and tapes, Pietrangeli said. "It's always been the American who bought these things," he said.

The museums are not planning any promotional campaigns to lure vistors. With their unequaled collection of art and antiquities from virtually every period of European history, they have never advertised, Pietrangeli said.

So far, he added, the losses have not affected the museums' hours, manpower or restoration programs, such as the cleaning of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

"But if things keep up like this, that could change," he added gloomily.

Celibacy is free choice says Alaska bishop ANCHORAGE, Alaska (NC) - Celibacy is a free choice priests make, even when it is a cross they bear rather than "a gift from God," said Archbishop Francis Hurley of Anchorage in a just-issued pastoralletter on celibacy.

He urged open discussion of "the value of celibacy and the wisdom of mandatory celibacy," saying that honest discussion of those issues "does not suggest a hidden agenda aimed at changing the present law."

The shortage of priests may escalate the debate over the wisdom of the law, he said, "particularly if it is cast in the context of building up the church and providing the sacraments for the people."

Even though "strong practical reasons can be presented" for changing current church law, he wrote, "there is no indication that the law is about to be changed; ; .. no assurance that a change would increase vocations to the ordained priesthood."

Archbishop Hurley urged priests to accept "the status quo in law" but said that "should never mire us down to a status quo in thinking and reflection." ' In presenting arguments favoring celibacy, he cited those "presented by Pope John Paul VI in 1967: The celibate priest images Christ in a special way; the celibate priest reflects the exclusive dedication of Christ to his mission; the celibate is more free to serve his people; the celibate priest forecasts what awaits all people in heaven, life wrapped up with Christ in 'God." At the same time he acknowledged that "mandatory celibacy is basically a value judgment" and "not an indispensable ingredient of faith."

He noted that the Catholic Eastern rites permit married priests and commented: "The Western church is no more church than the Eastern church; no more or less one, holy, catholic and apostolic. the Eastern-rite priest, who may be married, is no more or less priest ...; no more or less subject to personal sacrifices; no more or less personally characterized by a life of love and commitment to Christ and his priestly mission."

Archbishop Hurley said that for priests attracted to both the priesthood and celibacy, celibacy is "clearly...a gift from God for the sake of the kingdom."

Other priests achieve celibacy when they accept it as a necessary condition for the priesthood and work to make it "an integral part of their lives," he said. "It might never be classed as a gift, but they make it second nature to themselves."

He said other priests find themselves attracted strongly to both the priesthood and marriage.

"Because of mandatory celibacy, these are forced to make a choice between two attractions, both of which are within and for the kingdom of God," he wrote. "The choice is difficult. It might be a conscious acceptance of a cross .... It is usually difficult to choose between two attractive goals in any walk of life. But difficulty does not eradicate the freedom of the choice."

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Increased role for women advocated by NeCD head PHILADELPHIA (NC) Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, while ruling out women priests has called for more effort to involve women in church role open to them.

The president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, made the comments in an interview with the Catholic Standard and Times, newspaper of the Philadelphia archdiocese.

"I do not see the ordination of women as priests in the Catholic Church," he said. "At the same time, I feel that the roles that are now open to women in the church are not sufficiently interpreted and promoted.

"There are liturgical roles such as readers and extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist, and also other roles in which we can and should have women in church bodies, such as parish councils and diocesan councils."

Bishop Malone was in Philadelphia for a convention of the Catholic Daughters of the Ameri'cas. They presented him with $200,000 as the first installment on a $500,000 pledge toward construction of a new national headquarters for the U.S. bishops.

In the interview, Bishop Malone

also expressed support for U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa, saying the bishops "supported the opposite point of view" from President Reagan's in the matter.

He reiterated the bishops' opposition to U.S. aid to contras, the anti-government guerrillas in Nicaragua, and their support of"a diplomatic approach to peace in Central America rather than military confrontation."

Regarding Pope John Paul II's views of U.S. Catholicism, Bishop Malone said 1983 papal talks to U.S. bishops indicated that the pope likes some aspects of American society and is critical of others.

The pope, he said, praised Catholic schools, the commitment of the U.S. church to sacramental marriage and sound marriage preparation, and the generosity of Americans to overseas church activities charitable organizations.

But the pope criticized the high levels of divorce and remarriage in the United States and widespread consumerism, Bishop Malone said. "The call to the Christian believer is a call to asceticism and self-discipline," he added. "We should be willing, in a larger measure, to share."

Planning meeting set for Ball A planning meeting for the 32nd annual Bishop's Charity Ball will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday Sept.

21 at White's restaurant, Westport.

According to Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Ball director, invitations have gone to 150 coordinators and members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. Vincentians and council members are honorary cosponsors ofthe midwinter social event, which will have Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as guest of honor.

AttheSept. 21 meeting committee assignments will be made, said Msgr. Gomes, noting that Ball proceeds help to fund diocesan charities, including four summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children.

Mother Teresa nuns in Louisiana LAFAYETTE, La. (NC) Mother Teresa has promised to send four of her sisters to Lafayette to work among the poor and to care for unwanted children.

"I have no gold or silver to give you, but I will give you four of my sisters," she told some 13,000 people at Lafayette's Cajundome.

"N 0 one should feel unwanted, unloved or unfed. If you don't want a child, I want it. My sisters want it."

A convent for members of her order, the Missionaries of Charity, opened July 16 in the Lafayette diocese.

Judaism primer NEW YORK (NC) - A revised and expanded edition of "Judaism: A Primer" intended primarily for interfaith programs and for Christian audiences has been published by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Written by Lawrence Schiffman, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, the 42-page booklet defines Judaism and traces the history of the Jewish religion. Among discussion topics are basic Jewish beliefs, traditional Orthodox Jewish practices, prayer, ethics, U.S. Jewish practice and the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements within Judaism.

'Church is your ho'rne' Hispanics told LOS ANGELES(NC) -Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has unveiled a pastoral plan for Hispanics designed to promote vocations, halt gang violence, help immigrants and make sure that every Hispanic feels welcome in the largest archdiocese in the United States.

Archbishop Mahony said the plan includes programs to meet the temporal as well as spiritual needs of the estimated 2 million archdiocesan Catholics of Hispanic descent. Its linchpin is a visitation program aimed at contacting every one of them.

Hispanic Youth Corps volunteers will begin visitations shortly and every Catholic organization and renewal group is urged to regard it as a priority, said the archbishop. He said an archdiocesan council on youth gangs will be

formed, noting that jobs and education are ways to counter gangs.

The prelate said a similar effort in the diocese of Stockton, Calif., where he was bishop from 1980 to 1985, contributed to a decrease in gang-related killings from 38 in 1980 to only one last year.

A task force will be set up to oppose eviction of illegal aliens from federal housing, and centers for immigrants will be established to provide shelter, food, medical referrals and job and immigration counseling.

Seminaries and schools will offer night classes in English, citizenship, literacy and adult education in Spanish, At the convocation Archbishop Mahony told the crowd, in Spanish, tty ou have come from distant

places. You have left your homes, your families, your friends, your countries. With this celebration I tell you that Los Angeles is your home. The Catholic Church is your home. I am your pastor."

A Hispanic priest will promote vocations and Spanish classes will be available for priests, according to the pastoral plan.

Also, a new archdiocesan community of religious women will be established for women from Hispanic and other ethnic backgrounds, and the archdiocesan seminary will offer a program for Spanish-speaking candidates.

Parishes with large Hispanic populations will be encouraged to have paid Hispanic youth ministers, with assistance available to parishes that cannot ,afford that expense, said the archbishop.

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John R. McGinn The Anchor lost a friend last Saturday.

John R. McGinn, 84, owner for many years of Leary Press, Fall River, where The Anchor is printed and mailed, died Aug. 9, after a short illness.

He was the husband of Josephine (Vohnoutka) McGinn, and son of the late Delia McGinn.

A Fall River native, he was a familiar sight to hundreds of downtown workers as he viewed the passing scene from his vantage point in front of the Leary Press building.

He took particular interest in The Anchor, especially in the yearly publication of Catholic Charities returns and for many years personally supervised the intricate process of transferring donation listings from parish reports to the printed page.

A self-made man, he directed Smart Advertising, Inc., and the Fall River Mailing Service, Inc., in addition to the Leary Press. He was proud of his eighth-grade graduation certificate from the former Davenport School, which he kept framed on his desk.

He was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral parish, where his funeral Mass was offered Wednesday, and a 63-year member of Local 161, International Typographical Union.

For the past 20 years, he and his wife had wintered in Florida.

Many years ago he was active in local politics.

He is survived路 by a daughter, Mrs. Frank (Barbara) McCoy of Long Island, New York; six grandchildren, six great-grand-childreil and several nieces and nephews.

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Beloved priest is mourned

By Pat McGowan

Sister Lemay The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Monday at Blessed Sacrament convent chapel, Fall River, for Sister Margaret Lemay, SSJ, 71, who died Aug. 9.

A Sister of St. Joseph for 54 years, she taught for 40 years at St. Mathieu, St. Jean Baptiste and Blessed Sacrament schools in Fall River and at St. Joseph School in New Bedford. After retirement in 1972 she continued in the field of education as an aide at St. Joseph Montessori School, Fall River.

A Fall River native, Sister Lemay was the daughter of the late Eleusippe and Philomene (Caron) Lemay. She is survived by a brother, Antonio Lemay of Swansea, and two sisters, Mrs. Marie Anne Levesque, Pawtucket, R.I., and Miss Jeanne Lemay, East Providence, R.I.

Explanation CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago became a central figure in a Chicago homosexual rights battle when in a series of public statements he defended "basic rights" of homosexuals and sharply condemned "virulently anti-gay" attitudes and actions, but opposed the language of a civil rights proposal for homosexuals pending in the city council.

The cardinal said he could not support the specific language of the proposal because "the term 'sexual orientation' is not defined ...and therefore may be interpreted to imply acceptance or approval of homosexual activity or advocacy of a homosexual lifestyle."

"Everyone here today loved Father Hogan - no one more than I," said Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

He spoke to over 1,000 priests, parishioners and friends who on Monday crowded St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth, for the funeral of its pastor, Father John F. Hogan.

Father Hogan, 67, died unexpectedly Aug. 7 at his rectory.

He was known to thousands as director of the weekly diocesan TV Mass and Bishop Cronin took special note of that aspect of his multifaceted ministry, saying "Think of the numbers who greeted him when he entered eternal life: 'I know you - you were on the TV Mass.' " The bishop, whose formal statement is boxed on this page, spoke from his heart in remarks at the end of Monday's Mass.

"I'm trying to induce a smile," he said, "because if you don't smile, you cry."

The bishop recalled that Father Hogan usually whispered a comment or two to him in the course of ceremonies he attended at St. Julie's.

"Today," said the bishop, "I thought I heard him say, 'Gee, Bishop, it's a great turnout.' " Bishop Cronin also noted that Father Hogan had given him a pair of scrimshaw cufflinks with his coat of arms. "I'm wearing them today," he said. "If I'd ever come here without them, I'd have got a whisper!"

Noting the pride Father Hogan took in St. Julie's parish, of which he was the .first and only pastor, the bishop mentione~ especially

its striking stained glass window depicting the Last Supper.

Msgr. Shalloo Homilist for Monday's Mass was Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, pastor of Holy Name parish, Fall River, to which Miss Katherine L. Hogan, Father Hogan's sister, belongs.

Basing his remarks on the first chapter ofthe Gospel of St. John, read at the Mass, he said: "There was a man named John, sent by God." Like St. John the Baptist, said Msgr. Shalloo, Father Hogan accepted the challenge to light up lives and to light the darkness.

STATEMENT Bishop Daniel A. Cronin issued the following statement on learning of the unexpected death of Father John F. Hogan: I express sincere condolences to his family aM to the relipous and faithful of the diocese to whom Father Hogan has been sueh a friend and devoted priest.

Intense and variedlabors marked his more than 41 years in the priesthood but no .postolate enabled him to reach so many as did that of the television Mass each Sunday.

I invite aU who have been touched by him and his priestly ministry to remember him now in their prayers tbat God will grant him the fruit of his labo" and eternal peace.

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"He preached the good, he point- Providence College with a bacheed to the truth and he always lor's degree in philosophy, he preadmired the beautiful- as can be pared for the priesthood at St. seen through St. Julie's Church," Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, where declared Msgr. Shalloo. he earned a bachelor of arts degree, "He came into the world to give also cum laude. light and he was a lighthearted For II years after his ordination man - but he lived a life of caring in 1945 Father Hogan was assofor others ... the litany of his life ciate pastor at St. Lawrence parwas a litany of love of neighbor. ish, New Bedford. An athlete and Everyone of his activities had lifelong sports fan, he directed the something to do with caring and parish's Holy Family High School nothing was unimportant," said and coached its basketball team to Msgr. Shalloo, noting that "stop- several championships. ping to talk to youngsters playing For the following decade he ball" shared time in his life with directed St. Mary's Children's such far-reaching activities as the Home and the New Bedford office television Mass. of Catholic Social Services. His Msgr. Shalloo likened the last affectionate care of home residents days of Father Hogan's life to the was warmly recalled by many, Way of the Cross and his solicinow adults, who attended his wake. tude for his sister and cousins to In 1961 Father Hogan was named that of Christ saying to the women Citizen of the Year by New Bedof Jerusalem, "Weep not for me." ford Kiwanis Club members and Addressing Miss Hogan, he said in 1963 was the Exchange Club "When a star becomes extinct, its Man of the Year and a recipient of rays continue to travel through the club's Book of Golden Deeds space for many years. Father Hogan award. will be like such a star; and, Kay, His posts included chaplaincies you11 never walk in darkness of the Bristol County House of you11 walk in the rays of this Correction, the New Bedford Parpriest. " ticular Council of the Vincentians, To all, he said in conclusion: the Serra Club, the Catholic Nurses' "John, we thank you for teaching Guild, the Massachusetts National us how to live; but more than that, Guard, the New Bedford juvenile John, we thank you for teaching court and the Port ofNew Bedford. us how to die."

Throughout his priestly life he A Full Life encouraged vocations in young Father Hogan, son of the late men and many diocesan priests John and Mary Ann (McMahon) "say they owe to him their decision Hogan, was born in Fall River, to serve the Church.

For years Father Hogan blessed where he attended Davenport grammar school and Durfee High the New Bedford fishing fleet, a School, completing his secondary ceremony which will take place . education at Coyle High School in without him this Sunday.

He is survived by his sister and Taunton.

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the moorina-, Fighting the Drug Plague Few of us want to admit that we live in one of the druggiest areas of the state. Yet all indications point to the fact that abuse of all forms of drugs is out of control in Southeastern Massachusetts.

It is well known that our ports provide ideal entry for drugs from around the world. Like the rum runners of the 20s, today's drug smugglers find our coastline perfect for illicit drug importation.

The results are evident. More and more young people overdose. Just peruse the obituaries and note the early age at which so many die. Many of these tragedies are drug related and proof shouts from the headlines: marijuana is now grammar school stuff, while cocaine and heroin are the mainstays of the drug trade.

Yuppies prefer cocaine because it's not too messy; unfortunates like heroin, it's quicker. Both can be found in abundance from baseball diamonds to nightclubs, playgrounds to back alleys, beaches to bars. They are sought and bought by people of all ages and walks of life. They are killers for all.

With all this stated, very little is actually being done to control the drug problem, never mind eliminate it. President Reagan's new anti-drug crusade holds promise for the future but so far is short on specifics. In the meantime the Coast Guard lacks resources to check all fishing boats and harbors; Proposition 2 1/2 has hampered the ability of local law enforcement agencies to develop police surveillance; the courts have enormous backlogs; and there is insufficient room in our prisons for those convicted of drug-related offenses.

Right now, almost 40 percent of all American kids use illegal drugs. In fact, one out of every 18 high school seniors is smoking an average of 312 marijuana joints daily. And we should remember that drugs like marijuana are often referred to as gateway or steppingstone drugs, meaning that they can lead to use of cocaine, heroin or LSD. It should also be noted that there is an alarming rise in use of so-called prescription . drugs such as tranquilizers, sleeping pills and narcotic agents.

Often all are used together.

It is imperative to realize the enormity of the drug scene here at home and then to take action. There is a strong correlation between broken homes and drug use by children.

You can't fight addiction with ignorance. Honest and open discussion of the drug scene should be on the agenda of every family. Armed with the proper information, you can help your child to say'''no'' to the pusher.

At the same time, children should be encouraged to involve themselves in positive activities that produce a "natural high."

It has been proved that sports, recreational, religious and volunteer activities can substitute for use of drugs. But community involvement is needed for this to take place. Law enforcement agencies must be supported, not thwarted. The few who are in the field need the backing of the many whom they seek to protect and help. For instance, civic organizations should sponsor educational clinics and seminars for those seeking to rehabilitate drug users.

Controlling drug abuse is everyone's concern. Churches, hospitals, police, emergency units and schools, to mention but a few, must combine resources if the drug situation is to be brought under control.

For the sake of today's children, for the sake of future generations, we must keep up the assault on drug abuse. The more fighters we have, the better the chance of making this horrendous problem a thing of the past.

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November's vital referendum

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Massachusetts voters should be alerted to the important human rights issue that will appear on the November ballot: the referendum question as to whether Medicaid funds should pay for tax-funded or "welfare" abortions.

Unfortunately, the secular media are calling the matter an "antichoice" issue supported by a lobby of Roman Catholic and conservative religious leaders.

But abortion is not strictly a religious issue and the upcoming vote should not be considered a referendum on whether or not the Church should involve itself in politics.

It should be understood, of course, that an affirmative vote on the referendum will not of itself halt tax-funded abortions. What it will do is empower legislators to make the state constitution abortion-neutral and enable them to take later action against the taxfunded abortions.

The amendment reads: "N 0 provision of the Constitution shan prevent the General Court [the state legislature] from regulating or prohibiting abortion unless prohibited by the United States Constitution, nor shall any provision of the Constitution require public or private funding of abortion, or the provision of services or facilities therefor, beyond that required by the United States Constitution.

The provision of this article shall not apply to abortions required to prevent the death of the mother."

Obviously the amendment cannot change the disastrous consequences ofthe 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade. Nonetheless it is important to realize that the majority ofSupreme Court justices is narrowing and a reversal of this decision is well within the realm of the probable.

Passage of this pro-life amendment will send a clear message to abortion advocates that the majority of voters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is not comfortable with abortion on demand.

In general, however, American opinion is divided on the question of what morality should be legislated. If one believes that life begins at conception, then obviously a fetus has right to be considered, even at the expense of the mother.

But our present permissive public policy recognizes no such claim.

Ironically, some states hold a person criminally liable for homicide ifloss ofa fetus occurs through negligence such as vehicular homicide. Such legislation makes sense only if we regard a wanted fetus as human but define an unwanted fetus as disposable tissue!

Between now and November there will be a strong campaign by abortion advocates to defeat this amendment. The familiar arguments about hardships caused by

rape and incest will be raised.

These "hard cases" will be used to open a loophole to allow abortion for any hardship imaginable.

The modus operandi is only too familiar. Unfortunately, if only Church leaders speak in favor of the pro-life amendment, we will fall into the trap of labeling abortion a religious issue.

Ultimately, any law must rest on a broad shared conviction or on a fundamental moral or constitutional principle that people are reluctant to deny. Without such broad bases, attempts to legislate will be futile, whether the law involved be permissive or restrictive.

In my opinion, when the Supreme Court admitted that it did not know when human life begins it should have remanded the matter to the legislature.

During the last 13 years the abortion debate has intensified.

The moral problem in a nutshell is whether abortion as a public policy should be considered a proper way to balance the rights of the unborn against the right ofa woman not to have an unwanted child.

Had the Supreme Court remanded the matter to the legislature in 1973 and the democratic process had been allowed to do its work, I am sure there would not be abortion on demand in every state in our union.

The upcoming referendum will test that assumption.

The cost of waiting A friend told me that when he turned 40 he decided to do one thing new every day - try a different food, take a new route to work, whatever. I told him I liked the idea but the task seemed to me to be just one more chore. I can see myself lying in bed at night thinking, "Oh, no - I didn't do anything new today. I failed."

So he will be pleased to know that I did something last week I never did before. I walked out of a doctor's office after one hour and 15 minutes. I was there for a simple matter, something that would have required to minutes at most.

When the nurse took me back to the examining room, two others in the waiting room were asleep.

"Must be nap time," she laughed. I didn't.

I sat another 25 minutes reading diplomas and labels on the bandage boxes. When I realized I'd waited 75 minutes, something went off inside me. I went to the front desk. "I'm not going to wait any longer," I told t!Ie receptionist.

"Oh, that's too bad," she said.

"Why did you have me come at 9 if I'm not going to be seen until I0: IS?" I asked politely. The filled waiting room was listening.

"Well, we're a little behind today," she said. I agreed and started toward the door. "Would you like to reschedule?" she asked.

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"No, thank you," I replied 'with DOLORES as much dignity as possible, having no intention of repeating the CURRAN experience. By the time I got home, the doctor himself had called.

Later he reached me, apologized and scheduled me for the next day when I was treated promptly.

It was a small incident but not She told him she would let him unimportant. Like many of you, I have spent probably a half a year know where to send her records waiting in doctor's and other offi- and why. His reaction was one of ces. I am normally patient and I surprise, as if she were some kind fully understand emergencies. of kook.

What I don't understand though is When we are left waiting endthe practice of over-scheduling to 路Iessly, it has a scarring effect on the point of routinely expecting our self-esteem. We feel unimporpatients to wait an hour. tant . Our anger simmers into rage.

It says to me that the doctor This is particularly true for women doesn't consider my time valuable. who are expected to wait for men It also suggests that he's more who come in after us because they interested in patient volume than "have to get back to work." patient care. Our options are to get To counteract this, we need to angry or get another doctor. And assert ourselves, respectfully letif mine hadn't called personally, I ting our doctor know how we feel intended to do the latter. about inconsiderate attention. If A friend of mine with two we change professionals, we should school-aged and two pre-school let them know why. Maybe they children told me she went for a won't call and apologize but they 12:30 appointment once, leaving may treat the next patient with her pre-schoolers with a neighbor. more consideration.

At 3:30, she was still waiting, anxEveryone's time is valuable ious about her neighbor and her whether he or she "works" or not. older children coming home to an The more powerless people are empty house. the indigent, children, elderly She confronted the doctor, the more they are expected to wait. explaining her situation," he rep- The toll adds up. When one is lied, "Why don't you go home and treated as unimportant, one feels get the children and come back?" unimportant. And that's not fair.

God or mammon? rich" the using of goods in a mean"Vocations have fallen off in North America because its people ingless manner?

Could it also be that many poshave become too rich. They prefer the easy, pleasurable life over the sible candidates for the priesthood sacrifice and restraint that vocanever hear how the priesthood tions require." That observation meets the needs for making life was made by Cardinal Myroslav .and the use of our goods more Lubachivsky, chief archbishop of meaningful? , the world's Ukrainian Catholics, Again and again seminarians report that the good example of a during a tour of Canada. priest attracted them to the priestThe idea that wealth hinders hood.

My guess is that their duty has a long history. Christ response correlates with my interexhorted the rich young man to pretation of Cardinal Lubachivleave everything and follow him, sky's observations. When a priest's and in doing so may have lost a life is analyzed closely, one realizes vocation. that he routinely tries to give subHow often have we seen public sta.nce and meaning to life. figures risk reputation and family In their daily homilies priests try because of greed? All of us know to connect life with the Gospels. how easy it is to get hooked on little pleasures and lose a desire for self-sacrifice.

But if there were less of the pleasurable life and less wealth would we have more vocations to August 17 the priesthood and religious life?

Rev. Cornelius O'Connor, PasIf we get beyond the "Dynasty" TV version of life in America, we tor, 1882, Holy Trinity, West Harwich would see that poverty and hardworking Americans are still plentiAugust 18 ful. And hospitals know that many Rev. Msgr.

William H. Dolan, wealthy people spend considerable time with them because of Pastor Emeritus, 1977, Holy Family, Taunton overdedication to work and family.

Then too there are ample numAugust 20 bers ofdedicated poor people who, Rev. Thomas Cantwell, 8SJ., if Cardinal Lubachivsky's analysis Retired, 1983, St. Joseph's Semiwere correct, could but don't supply . nary, Washington vocations. There also are good Rev. Bernard H. Unsworth, wealthy people whose self-sacriRetired Pastor, 1982, St. Mary, ficing life is inspiring, but apparNew Bedford ently not enough to inspire vocaAugust 22 tions.

Rt. Rev. Manuel J. Teixeira, Do we then ignore Cardinal Pastor, 1962, St. Anthony, Lubachivsky's observation?

Taunton Perhaps it needs a second interRev. William R. Jordan, Paspretation. Could he mean by a tor, 1972, St. Louis, Fall River "pleasurable life" a life that reflects Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, no substance, has no noticeable Retired Pastor, 1980, St. Paul, purpose? Could he mean by "too Taunton

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Christ, the prophets and the saints are studied from every angle in order to get a better angle on life's potential.

I believe many seminarians were inspired to the priesthood because they wanted to imitate this aspect of a priest's life. , And, as some seminarians said, they want to do this in part to say to those whose life seems aimless: "Take another look at yourself and Christ's message. You could be living life more peacefully."

I believe that many who have heard a good appeal for the needy have also been touched by God to give of themselves even more than their money.

If we are to have more vocations it would seem best that we beef up our image of priesthood as a vocation to reach toward life's center and to search for life's meaning.

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On flying flags in church Q. Many churches used to have an American flag and a Catholic Church fllg in the sanctuary all the time. It seems to me a nice idea, but I see it less and less, especially in new churches.

One of our priest friends said he did not think it was permitted, but was not sure. Since our church was repainted those flags are not there.

Are there any rules on this? If so, what are they? (Massachusetts) A. Let's take the two flags separately since the answer is somewhat different for each.

As older Catholics will remember, display of the American flag in churches became widespread around the time of World War II when it was encouraged to exhibit the flag in public buildings. Even then this custom held only in the United States. Catholics of other nations would consider the display of their national flag in church, at least in the sanctuary, as something wholly inappropriate and foreign to the spirit of the Eucharist which knows no national or other political boundary.

In churches of Italy, for example, one sees no Italian flag, or papal flag either, as I will explain in a moment.

As for official regulations, first of all the general instructions on the Roman Missal, which gives primary guidelines for everythi!lg relating to the Mass, does not Itst flags or other national symbols as among the accouterments to be in the sanctuary area for the Eucharist.

Display of such national banners or symbols has never been permitted in flict and no secular symbol is to be prominently displayed in the sanctuary without special permission.

A few years ago the U.S. bishops Committee on the Liturgy responded this way to a question similar to yours: "When Catholics assemble for worship, they bring with them their cultural, ethnic and national identities. These traits should not be devalued or denied unless, of course, there is something in them which is truly inimical to the Gospel of Christ. Still, the liturgy of the church which is expressed in the various cultures of the people must always reflect a church which is truly Catholic."

Then they quote the American bishops' document "Environment and Art in Catholic Worship"(No. I0 I): "Although the art and decoration of the liturgical space will be that of the local culture, identifying symbols of particular cultures, groups or nations are not appropriate as permanent parts of the liturgical environment. While such symbols might be used for a particular occasion or holiday, they should not regularly constitute a part of the environment of common prayer."

Obviously, to display the flag or other symbols of our nation and its ideals at the time of major celebrations or holidays is quite proper arid appropriate. As for permanent display, however, though some churches have done it and still do it, there is no authorization and never has been.

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As to the other part of your question, there is no such thing as a "Catholic Church flag. "The yellow and gold flag with the tiara and keys,. to which I am sure you refer, is the personal flag of the pope, a vestige of the era when the pope was literally "king" of the papal states, which once included most of what is now Italy.

Today the papal fla~ is not even displayed in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. As far as I can learn, its only official display is when the Swiss Guards march in a group; it is their banner as personal guards for the Holy Father.

The only "flag" or standard of the church is, and always has been, the cross. I'm sure the Holy Father wants to keep it that way.

Q. My son's wife divorced him in 1980 after 20 years of marriage and three children.

She remarried and after five years divorced her second husband.

She is now living with my son again and their children are happy that they are together.

For some reason they have never remarried. What is their position as far as the Catholic Church is concerned? How about the law?

(Pennsylvania) A. I assume from your letter that at least your son is Catholic and that they were originally married in the Catholic Church. If so, their marriage is most likely still valid in Church.

Civil law is another. matter. If they were legally divorced, they are no longer husband and wife according to state law. I believe any attorney would warn them of the grave risk they are taking financially. It could cause serious harm to their family. Other types of damage are also being risked.

If you are able to influence them with your advice, I would suggest that they speak to an attorney and to a priest about a civil remarriage and about returning to a fully active Catholic life if they have not done so already.

Q. Does the Catholic Church require that a baby be given a saint's name at baptism? I thought that was necessary but my brother says not. (Ohio) A. Former church law did require that a Christian name, or some name with a definite Christian meaning (such as faith, hope or charity), be given at baptism.

At present this is not so. Church law simply says that parents, sponsors and the priest are to see that no name which is foreign to a Christian mentality is given the child.

Clearly this is not intended to discourage naming a child after one of the Christian saints. It remains an obvious and effective way of introducing the child early in life to part of its Christian heritage, and encouraging that child to begin to take his or her own place in that heroic line of Christian men and women.

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Low profile urged on clergy

Rate change mulled WASHINGTON (NC) - The Postal Rate Commission has recommended changing the rate structure for Catholic and other nonprofit publications by creating new subclasses for nonprofit mail and eliminating an across-the-board subsidy known as "revenue forgone." Such a move "need not entail a radical change" in the level of rates, the commission said. But it also suggested charging mailers more postage for advertising portions of their publications.

James Doyle, Catholic Press Association executive director, said that ultimately there will be rate increases but added that it was clear there will be no increases this year. Catholic and other nonprofit newspapers were hit with three postal hikes at the beginning of 1986.

Papal Wish "We wish that armaments be silenced and that peace be solidified injustice." - Pope John Paul II

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Children are the Corleys' thing When Fred and Bea Corley of Jamestown, N.C., say they enjoy rearing children, it's an understatement. In their almost 30 years of marriage, the Corleys have had eight children of their own, adopted three children with special needs, and have cared for two unwed pregnant teen-agers and 67 foster children.

It's no wonder they're the 1986 recipients of the International Family of the Year Award, of the Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal society.

The award was announced at the 104th annual meeting of the K of C Supreme Council, held in Chicago earlier this month.

In other activity at the convention, President Reagan told delegates that Nicaragua is guilty of"a brutal persecution of the church" and said congressional approval of aid to rebels there is necessary to save the country from the Soviet bloc.

In an address via satellite from Washington, Reagan also reiterated his commitment to the antiabortion struggle and referred to his new anti-drug campaign.

Abortion was a major convention topic. Delegates also considered resolutions on pornography, family life, vocations, evangelization and world peace.

The Winning Family Fred and Bea Corley were chosen for their leadership qualities within their parish, their community and their local unit of the Knights of Columbus. The couple's II children range in age from 8 to 28.

Rusty and Robbie are adopted eight-year-old twins. Rusty is hydrocephalic, has cerebral palsy and is retarded. Robbie is considered a high-risk child because of the circumstances of his birth. The third adoptee, Steven, 12, has cerebral palsy, nephrotic syndrome, a 70percent hearing loss and is retarded.

Despite their handicaps, the three youngest boys have followed in the footsteps of their older brothers and participate in sports to the' extent they can. All are avid baseball fans and practice regularly with the local youth leagues.

"I'm a firm believer in sports," said Corley, an announcer for local high school football games. "From the time they've been old enough to play, the boys and the girls, to

some extent, always have been Corley said of the 67 children she playing or practicing and they have has cared for, "but you have to not had time to get into any kind keep reminding yourself that this of trouble." baby's not yours to keep. It is diffiAll the Corley girls have volun- cult when they leave and you do teered in nearby hospitals as Candy grieve for a time. But you know Stripers. Eileen, 27, and Elizabeth, - they're going to a good home and 23, became registered nurses, a that helps a lot. . fact Eileen credits to the "caring "It's just neat watching them nature" of their family life. develop," she added. "When we "All of our children, including get them from the hospital just two the little ones, have learned to or three days old, all they do is eat share their time," said Mrs. Cor- and sleep. Then by the time they ley. "They know how to help me leave us they're already starting to around the house and they also smile and coo and do all the cute know all about babies - holding things. I think that's what we them, feeding them - and there's enjoy." not one in the house who can't "There's a challenge in giving change a diaper. I know they'll that child at least the best start that make good parents one day." you can," Corley said. "You're In addition to the twins and raising them for a short period of Steven, three other Corley chil- time in a home where love abounds dren still live at home. Michael and you know you're giving them and Joe are high school students away to a home where they will be and altar servers at Immaculate loved."

Heart of Mary Church in High Cooperating with Birthright, a Point. Scott is a college senior crisis pregnancy assistance agency, studying business administration the Corleys have taken into their and working part time as a bar- home two unwed pregnant teentender. He too was an acolyte agers. They have also been involved when younger. with Wednesday's Child, an adopScott noted that as "number six tion service for hard-to-place chilout of II," he has had the advan- dren, and the Piedmont Coalition tage of knowing equally well his on Adoptable Children. older and younger siblings. Because Both parents have led many parof the age differences, he said, it ish organizations. Corley presently is a lector, a parish Family Life seems at times like two different families. All keep close, however, Commission member and grand as evidenced by mammoth phone knight of his K of C council. This involvement is even more impresbills.

The older Corley children include sive when one considers that he Erin, a lance corporal in the U.S. converted to Catholicism 19 years Marine Corps; Elaine, 28, married ago.

"I grew up in South Carolina and working for a newspaper in Tacoma, Wash.; and "Little Fred" and I don't think I saw a live Catholic until I was 18," he ex(even though he's taller than his plained. "I was fortunate to meet a father), also married, a Marine couple of Catholic boys when I veteran and employed at a nuclear power plant. was at college. They were devout For the past 18 years, the Corley and seemed to have a sureness family has included numerous fosabout their faith. Consequently I ter children. Most have been infants went to Mass a couple of times and but one, a 13-year-old girl, was felt at ease in the Catholic Church.

I think that's what attracted me at placed in their home while recupfirst. Then, of course, after we erating from a kidney transplant. were married the kids' involvement She was with them five months in religious education and all put a before she died from surgical comlittle added pressure on me." plications. Mrs. Corley said one At their K of C council, the Coryear the family sheltered seven leys have encouraged andparticiinfants, a time she described as livpated in many family activities, ing virtually without sleep. youth activities and social evenDespite the challenges, both ings for husbands and wives. The parents say that foster care is well Knights' program of which Corley worth the physical hardships and is proudest is the annual drive to emotional heartache. "Each and aid the mentally retarded. every one has been different," Mrs.

HONG KONG (NC) - Since playing a leading role in the toppling of the government of former President Ferdinand Marcos last February, Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila has kept a low public profile and urged his clergy colleagues to do the same.

"The church - and here I speak of only the clergy - should have a low profile in its nation-building work, avoiding the limelight," he said in Asia Focus, a Hong Kong publication. "We will give the laity their chance to restore the temporal order of things, which is their prime duty."

The cardinal said he makes fewer speaking tours and his talks are more church-centered than before the revolution.

"The development of our people is the focus of the bishops, and how to help in their development, since Mr. Marcos is gone," he said.

In one of his few recent public acts, Cardinal Sin issued a pastoral letter to Manila Catholics July I, in which he called for 100 days of prayers and penance.

His intentions, he said, include the new Philippine constitution, now being drafted, as well as future elections and legislation. He also called for more cooperation between different churches and between churches and the government.

"Writing the constitution will take time, but I know it will be ratified, and then there will be elections. After all this is finished, there will be stability," the cardinal said.

"Beautiful" problem He said he wants to give the new government of President Corazon Aquino time to develop "because, after 20 years of the administration of Mr. Marcos, the adjustment is difficult, naturally something complicated."

Focusing on strictly church matters, Cardinal Sin said the Philippines have a big but "beautiful" problem oftoo many seminarians.

"At San Carlos (Seminary), all extra space has been turned into dormitories," the cardinal said.

"We have so many late vocations, but our space is limited. We should perhaps become a little stricter in whom we accept."

In the interview, Cardinal Sin also: - Cited a need for a church labor-relations board. "What has to be extremely clear is that the church is involved with labor and farmers."

- Denied charges that he is anti-Moslem. "I love Moslems.

The awful stories that 1 destroy copies of the Koran (Moslem holy book) are not true. In fact, I read the Koran. I love the Koran."

- Said he would attend the 1987 world Synod of Bishops on the laity, but was unsure as yet what views he would advocate.

Mrs. Corley said that when the call came from Supreme K of C Knight Virgil C. Dechant congratulating them on their selection as Family of the Year, her husband answered the phone and she was startled to see him stand up.

"I thought to myself, who in the world is he talking to," she said, "and then he turned and said it was the supreme knight. He has 31 years of military life behind him so it was almost like he was coming to attention!"

Offices returned

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) - The offices of a Nicaraguan Catholic social agency were returned to the church in June after an eight-month occupation by the ,government. According to archdiocesan officials, they were stripped bare of everything from telephones to a printing press donated

by German Catholics. Msgr. Bismarck Carballo said an estimated $500,000 worth of equipment was missing. The printing press was used to print the church publication Iglesia (Church). Last October government forces confiscated the first issue of the magazine. charging it had not been properly registered with authorities, then occu·· pied the agency's buildings.

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"Russia will spread her errors throughout the world causing wars and persecution of the church."

Caron to resign WASHINGTON (NC) - Wilfred R. Caron, general counsel of the National Conference ofCatholie Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference since 1980, has announced plans to resign by spring 1987. His leg~1 approach to abortion including legislation in Congress and a legal brief filed with the Supreme Court - has drawn criticism from some pro-lifers.

Caron said he is pursuing employment options with law firms and exploring the possibility of "a significant position in the federal government." He did not elaborate.

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1987 to see revised New Testament WASHINGTON (NC) - A revised translation of the New Testament of the New American Bible has a tentative publication date of early 1987, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has announced.

A bishops' committee headed

by Hartford Archbishop John F. Whalon has directed the revision,

done by a five-member editorial board and 10 Scripture scholars.

Changes include style modifications and concern for inclusive language as well as new introductions and footnotes reflecting advances in biblical scholarship.

The New American Bible was first published in 1970. It followed a version used by English-speaking Catholics for 200 years.

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A deacon's wife speaks Continued from Page One expectations that might be put on the role. But then again, we were excited too."

Mrs. Maraquita Steinmetz, a nurse, said, "I was awed and elated at the same time."

Mrs. Miriam Costa and her husband were concerned that his lack of formal education would be a barrier. "He went through eighth grade," she said, "and...the other deacons who were ordained all had degrees and that. How could he compete with that? But they said, 'It's not important.' " Overall, wives entered into their husbands' years of training with positive expectations. The prevailing attitude was, "We're in this together." Indeed, in many dioceses, wives are strongly encouraged to attend all classes with their husbands and to participate in days of recollection and other activities.

Without exception, the women found these classes interesting, enjoyable and thought-provoking. "I learned a lot more about my faith," comments Gladys Alvarez. And through the classes, Mary Lahart decided to become a Catholic.

Perhaps one of the best and most unexpected aspects of participation in the classes was the de.ep sense of closeness and communIty that developed among the wives, as well as among the diaconate families as a group.

Marina Orosz remarked, "Learning to share our lives and our personal feelings with our diaconate family was an act of God's grace working in our lives. It is comforting to know I have a diaconal community to turn to if I need them an<;l their support, just as I hope they will know I am available to them."

It wasn't always easy to get to class though. A few wives had conflicts between their work and the class schedules. Other stumbling blocks centered around family needs and considerations.

As Mrs. Orosz said, "We are busier than ever. We don't have as

much time for social activities and some of our friends have not been as close with us. This could be because we are so busy that we don't have time fOf visiting. The . children are grown up with lives of their own and are [usually] not involved in their father's vocation.

They are proud of him."

One moment of family involvement came, however, when Deacon Orosz officiated at the wedding of his daughter Lisa Ann, while Mrs. Orosz was lector for the ceremony.

In the end, is it worth the sacrifice oftime and energy, the adjustments of personal and family needs, the forbearance with varying levels of acceptance by a pastor or parish community? Every deacon's wife interviewed said it was.

Among rewards mentioned were pride in one's husband's accomplishments, increased closeness to the Church and each other and more opportunities to minister.

Of ministry Mrs. Orosz noted, "Some people will ask me for prayers for special reasons or for advice on Church laws or religious matters. I am pleased to be able to help in any way and that they would have confidence in me."

Each woman treasures special memories from her husband's diaconate that have served as beacons of God's light and love along her way. Several look back with joy on their husbands' first homilies. Others, like Mrs. Orosz, remember tenderly occasions when he baptized or witnessed the marriage of a family member.

One of the most beautiful of these stories came from Mrs. Alvarez, whose husband was already active in migrant ministry. "It was the day before the ordination.

Michael, all the time [during] the four years of his training, felt he wasn't good enough to do this," she says. "But I always told him, 'You're doing this to help these people. You're not going to be a saint, by any means, but you'll be i'n a better position to help them.

That is why you are doing this.• That night we were lying in bed,

he said, 'I am going to call the diocese, and I'm going to tell them, 'N 0, 1am not worthy ofthis.' "But at five o'clock in the morning, a group of migrants came. There were about 20 of them with their guitars [outside the bedroom window], and they all had candles I lighted, and they started singing the most beautiful song in Spanish I have ever heard. The song was about thanking the Father for this new father they were going to have. It was beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

"And right then, at that very moment, he said, 'I have to do it. I cannot let them down.' That was one of the things that really touched me the most. It was fantastic!"

Husbands may wonder if God might be choosing them to serve as ordained ministers. And their spouses may wonder if God might be asking them to minister as a deacon's wife: For those who ponder such questions, these deacon's wives have made some helpful suggestions based on their own experience.: I. Pray! Do a great deal of praying and soul-searching.

2. Look at every aspect of the permanent diaconate. It is a very big commitment and involves many sacrifices.

3. Grow with your husband.

Try to make as many classes as you can so that you know what he's going through. Educate yourself.

4. Be open. If you don't like what you see, speak up!

5. Develop your own ministries and your own prayer-life. You are not your husband; his style is probably different from yours.

"Grow with him, yes; but that doesn't mean you have to read the same books."

6. Be willing to give time, to listen, to be understanding and to be patient. Sometimes it is more important simply to be, rather than do in the Lord's service.

7. If you have small children, strongly consider waiting. One wife . points out, "Too much time is spent away in study and formation."

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Dear Mary: For 31 years of marriage I worked fulltime away from home. My husband never helped with the housework. Believing that the husband is head ofthe family and the wife is heart, he has been absolute ruler. Every check I ever got went into our joint bank account, but the only checks he gave me permission to write were for groceries. Now our sons are grown and my health is failing. I quit work a year ago.

My husband has always been cheap on donations to the church, so I desired to donate some time to charities. I asked him if I could spend one-half day each week for the church and he told me no, never to volunteer for anything.

Please tell me how much duty a wife owes her husband. I resent him forbidding me to volunteer such a small amount of time.

Should I submit to his selfishness?

I feel lowe God some time. (Alabama) You seem to have thought . through your situation rather well.

I do not think you want me to outline your "duties" so much as to support you in your rightful anger.

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The ideal marriage, according to Scripture, is the one in which· the partners cherish each other.

"Cherish" is a beautiful word which means each partner wants the very best for the other.

The pattern in your marriage has existed for over30 years. Changing such patterns will not be easy.

However, you have another factor on your side. You are angry and, in a situation such as you describe, you have every right to be.

Anger is not one of our favorite feelings, but in cases like yours, it can serve a vital function. It can get you moving. Recognize and .use your anger to develop the courage to change.

You recognize that you have done more than you "owe" your husband. Now you want to do what you "owe" to God. What seems lacking is any sense that you are an OK person. God loves you just because you are you.

Walk over to a playground and watch some small children. Notice how they praise God. They move and shout and tumble and totally

enjoy being alive. While I am not suggesting you go down the slide, try to reflect on ho\\l much God loves carefree, joyful people even as he also loves serious, duty-conscious people.

Try to develop a sense of yourself as a beautiful person. Perhaps a prayer group or a Bible study group with other women will help you develop your own self-esteem as a woman.

As you develop your sense of self-esteem, your action toward your husband should become clearer and easier. Of course you can spend time working for the church.

You do not need to ask him. Tell him it is very important to you.

Then do it.

Your ultimate goal is to become a loving person. Your first step toward that goal is to love yourself. As you make some progress in this area, you are apt to become a more contented and happy person.

This is the greatest gift you can give your husband and family. In fact, you just may become the "heart" of your home in the best sense of the word.

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

The fight against the Klan

By Antoinette Bosco It's hard to believe, but reports indicate there is increasing neoNazi and Ku Klux Klan activity in the United States. This includes KKK rallies in my back yard in Connecticut cities, one of which I witnessed.

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my reaction is mixture of horror and almost disbelief. It is difficult to understand how the paramilitary activity of white supremacist groups goes on almost unchecked and why it is so difficult to convict leaders linked to violent crimes and plots.

It is encouraging to see that lawenforcement agencies are more vigorously investigating racially motivated violence than in the past. But much more needs to be done to stop harassment, threats, cross-burnings, swastika-painting and the existence of racially motivated hatred.

We cannot allow the KKK or neo-Nazism to be romanticized.

Our children must be taught to recognize what those groups have done so they will not tolerate their reemergence.

Ultimately, however, elimination of racism requires a change in people's hearts. Children must learn to love children of all races and creeds.

This will happen only through continuing integration and exposure and example from us, the adults in their lives.

Companies, schools, government and social groups need to keep making an effort to integrate.

And as Christians we must be vigilant in opposing hatred and promoting racially-mixed environments where all can learn to understand and love one another.

White supremacist groups operate under a number of names such as The Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, The National Socialist Party of America, Aryan Nations and The Order.

It is particularly disturbing that some Klan and neo-Nazi activity is carried out in the name of Jesus. A group called the Church of Jesus More serious consideration Christ Christian teaches that Jews should be given to the danger are the children of Satan, that posed by the groups and the harm white people are the true chosen they are doing, especially through people and that the United States recruitment campaigns targeted to is the Promised Land. white high school students.

The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center reports in its Klanwatch Law Report that Klan groups in Texas, Alabama and North Carolina conduct paramilitary operations to train members in the use of violence. In Texas a . judge ruled that the local Klan group had violated laws forbidding private groups from organizing as a military company and parading in public with firearms.

In a report on the North Carolina-based White Patriot Party, the Southern Poverty Law Center focused on the group's techniques, including publication of a newspaper called "The Con- , federate Leader" and sponsorship of dial-a-hate phone recordings called "White Power."

The law center and newspaper accounts have reported that the White Patriot Party operates paramilitary camps for intensive training in weapons usage and ambush techniques.

W~en I hear about groups A U.S. PARK police officer and his horse beat the heat on openly parading evil and hatred, a Washington, D.C., afternoon. (NC photo)

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Fire sparks outpouring of help CHICAGO(NC)-"DearFather Clements, I recently heard on the news that your church burned down," said a neatly penned note.

"This isn't very much but it is' my allowance for June."

The enclosed contribution from young Mary Kelley, along with hundreds more from children and adults like her, has started Holy Angels parishioners in Chicago on the path of rebuilding after their 90-year-old church was destroyed by fire June 9.

In less than two months, more than $150,000 Of the $7 million to $8 million needed for rebuilding had been contributed.

An inner-city black parish on Chicago's South Side, Holy Angels serves about 3,400 Catholics. It is headed by Father George Clements, widely known as founder of the "One Church, One Child" program for adoption of black children.

Although in a poor neighborhood, the parish has a reputation

for financial independence from the archdiocese. Many donors said they wanted to help because of the parish's spirit of pride and self-reliance.

"We are proud of the work you have done in the community and in promoting adoptions," wrote a blind retired couple who sent $100.

"Even though I am no longer a practicing Catholic, you seem like a person who is truly dedicated to the church members and the church itself," said the note accompanying a donation from a Californian who was visiting Chicago when the fire occurred.

Asked how long the parish has been financially independent, Father Clements said matter-offactly, "16 years." He has been pastor 16 years.

Six weeks after Holy Angels Church burned down, contributions to rebuild it topped $100,000, said Jo Ann Eacker, archdiocesan coordinator of the fund raising

effort. But the rate of new contributions had slowed to about $200 a week.

The largest single gift was $5,000 from· the Knights of Columbus, she said, but most contributions were from individuals, usually in the $50-$100 range.

Then the archdiocesan newspaper, The Chicago Catholic, ran a story on the drive.

Ten days later, Father Clements said contributions had gone over $150,000.

That is still a drop in the bucket.

It will take $7 million to $8 million, he said, to rebuild the church and replace a condemned school building which housed grades one to four of the parish school.

Father Clements has obtained use of an abandoned nearby pub- . lic school for the younger grades, while separate buildings housing kindergarten children and grades five to eight can continue in use, he said.

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"The ministry is ours,"said Mrs. Haughton, a widely known theologian and spiritual writer who codirects the Movement for North American Mission, a Massachusetts training program for people seeking to serve the poor.

Lay ministers, Mrs. Haughton added, must "respond to the need - the need, not the diocesan budget."

She spoke at the 10th annual Conference on Lay Ministry, held at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. Its theme was "Birthing: Delivering the Minister in Every Christian. " Using the "birthing" imagery, Mrs. Haughton suggested that the

minister is the midwife, not the mother. "The church is where God is.... Our job as ministers is not to tell God where she can give birth" but to assist in the birthing, she said.

Dolores Leckey, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Laity, told delegates that all Christians are called to ministry by their baptism.

Instead of focusing on individual achievement, she said, "baptism is an invitation to join a community of friends." With the focus on the community, she added, baptism calls on Christians to seek ways to serve others.

If all 19,000 U.S. Catholic parishes were organized as communities of friends, she said, their caring . would have an impact far beyond the church.

Author Emilie Griffin told conference participants that God speaks to people in the marketplace as well as from the mountaintop.

Lay persons living out the Gospel must "let others catch fire from our burning bush," she said.

She emphasized the role of prayer in lay ministry. "There is a Spirit in us so strong and so powerful that we only need to consent to it and it can transfqrm us," she said.

Also featured at the four-day conference was a panel consisting ofa doctor, an actress, a nun and a mayor, who spoke of how they viewed their work as a ministry of bringing Christian values and wit, ness into the world.

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Controversial Vatican bank serves people of Church v ATICAN CITY (NC) -

Priests, religious and seminarians dominate the waiting lines in one of Europe's most controversial financial agencies, the Institute for Religious Works. They exchange money, wire funds to different parts of the world and make deposits and withdrawals from interest-bearing accounts.

Blue-suited ushers walk the marble floors offering a smile and assistance. Rank has its privilege as archbishops and bishops are encouraged by motioning tellers to come to the head of the line.

To reach the institute, clients have to climb two flights of stairs or drive up a winding road to a small courtyard where a brass nameplate on a stone palace bordering the courtyard is the only advertisement.

The institute, headed by U.S. Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus, is located in Vatican City and is more commonly known as the Vatican bank. In the 1970s and 1980s, it has been involved in a series of scandals said to have lost it millions of dollars.

The scandals, however, do not involve the priests, Religious and seminarians standing in line, but the Vatican bank's controversial relationships in the 1970s and 1980s with several Italian financiers who had their empires collapse because of widespread illegal dealings. The Vatican bank lost huge sums of money in the dealings, with some estimates ranging in the hundreds .... of millions of dollars. ""The exact sums are not known "- oecause the bank keeps its books closed to the public. And since Italy recognizes Vatican City as an independent state the bank does not come under Italian banking laws which would subject it to investigation.

The church people waiting in line are there because ofthe bank's founding purpose - to provide a central clearinghouse by which Catholic groups in one part of the world can financially aid Catholics in another. Its clients include church organizations, religious orders and dioceses.

The Institute for Religious Works was set up June 27, 1942, by Pope Pius XII, at a time when the church needed a way for its agencies and religious orders to get money to its people and projects elsewhere without coming under wartime Italian control.

Aiding transferral of church funds continues to be the main stated goal of the Vatican bank.

However, scandal and secrecy surrounding the bank can hide this aim.

The most recent public statement of the bank's purpose was given in November 1982 by Cardi-

nal Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state, during a meeting of cardinals studying the bank's operations.

The institute was founded "with the precise purpose of providing for the custody and administration of capital':""- in shares or cash - and of real estate, freely entrusted to the institute itself by physical or juridical persons and destined for works of religion and Christian piety in every part of the world," said the cardinal.

ARCHBISHOP MARCINKUS

HE DOESN'T always wear a miter. Pope John Paul II enjoys trying on a sombrero during his recent visit to Colombia. (NCj UPI-Reuter photo) It "constitutes a Vatican financial organism," but "it is not a bank in the common sense of the word," he added.

"It is natural that the institute has to use also the necessary banking services, but the profit made will not go, as in the case of banks, to shareholders (which do not exist in the case ofthe lOR), but will be used to favor of 'works of religion,' which, among other things, can also make use of loans on conditions notably more favorable than current ones determined by the money market," he said.

The functioning of the Vatican bank has ensured, "in the most difficult and adverse situations of the international order that have occurred (it is sufficient to recall the period of the last world war), the maintenance of the flow of financial means needed by the works or religion in various parts of the universal church, with particular regard to those that found themselves in situations of special economic difficulty," the cardinal said.

Since the 1982 statement and the greater Vatican controls on the bank through a special vigilance committee headed by Cardinal Casaroli, the bank has not become involved in major scandals.

The low profile, however, has not diminished lines at bank win-

dows nor improved the slow servicing of clients, often averaging about seven minutes per person.

Going to the bank provides ample opportunity to chat with a Latin American bishop channeling aid funds to his diocese, an Asian priest setting up a fund for seminarians studying in Rome, or a nun changing money before going to a mission land.

Victory over drugs a resurrection ROME(NC)- Pope John Paul II has called victory over drug addiction a form of resurrection and asked for increased public awareness about the harmful effects of narcotics.

"Is it not perhaps a resurrection to have known how to win over the slavery of drug addiction?" the pope asked at recent ceremonies inaugurating a church-sponsored drug rehabilitation center in Rome.

For people trying to overcome drug addiction, "to carry the cross means to exit from isolation" and to once again "become part of the family of redemption," he said.

"Drug addiction, more than a sickness of the body, is a sickness of the soul," the pope said.

Understanding evil VATICAN CITY (NC) - To understand the problem of evil in the world, one must consider the redemptive suffering of Christ, Pope John Paul II said in a recent weekly audience talk at the Vatican.

Tl)e crucifixion of Christ gave all suffering a "redemptive purpose and value," the pope said.

"To the question, 'How can evil and suffering in the world be reconciled with the truth of divine providence?' one cannot give a definitive response without making reference to Christ," he noted.

The pope spoke to several thousand people in St. Peter's Square.

His talk was one in a series on basic Catholic beliefs.

The pope said that, faced with the age-old question of the presence of evil in the world, "the individual might not find an immediate answer, especially if he does not possess the living faith in the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ.

"Gradually, however, and with the help of faith nourished by prayer, the true sense of suffering is discovereq," the pope said.

It's Better "It is better to be criticized by a wise man than to be praised by a fool." - Eccles. 7:6

Holyoke site of Eastern states meeting

Laity views on laity sought as synod nears WASHINGTON (NC) - Views of U.S. lay Catholics will be sought this fall and winter for the October 1987 World Synod of Bishops, whose topic will be the laity.

Lay ministry in the church and the world, the role of women, and the needs of youth are among topics on which Catholics will be asked to comment in parish or diocesan meetings or in surveys conducted through diocesan newspapers.

The consultation is being sponsored by the Committee on the Laity of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, headed by Bishop Stanley J. Ott of Baton Rouge, La. In August Bishop Ott sent bishops of the country a consultation form and asked them to make it "available to parishes and to other lay groups" in their dioceses. He said he hoped the consultation plan would "encourage honest and constructive dialogue."

"What is most important is that laity have an opportunity to voice their experience, their needs and their ideas regarding their own vocation and mission in the church and in the world," Bishop Ott said.

He urged the bishops to complete diocesan consultations before a series of regional consultations, scheduled to begin next February, take place.

Questions the consultation document asks include: • Views on how the lay vocation is or should be lived in the family, work place, civic life, the parish, the wider church, the world in general; • Views on adult education and spiritual formation to help lay people understand and fulfill their vocation better in those areas; • Positive and negative aspects ofthe large growth in lay ministry since the Second Vatican Council; • The experience of shared responsibility of the laity in the church in such structures as parish and diocesan councils or diocesan synods where those are taking place; • The role of women in the church and in society; • Youth needs.

Dolores Leckey, director of the laity committee's secretariat in Washington, carried out a preliminary consultation this spring through Faith Today, an adult

religious education supplement published by National Catholic News Service and appearing in many diocesan newspapers. In an article, she asked people to write to her about their experiences of faith and God in their lives.

She said she received about 500 responses from that request. She summarized some of them in a second Faith Today article.

The diocesan and parish-level consultations have two main goals, Mrs. Leckey said: • To ensure that U.S. bishops at the synod "really have heard the voices of our Catholic laity."

• "To raise the consciousness of the Catholic laity themselves regarding their vocation and their mission."

Mrs. Leckey said that more than 50 dioceses have already nominated official representatives to a series of regional meetings to be held around the country next February through May under the sponsorship of the bishops.

The consultation for the eastern United States will take place May

I through 3 in Holyoke. Earlier meetings will be in Burlingame, Calif., Belleville, Ill., and San Antonio, Tex. In addition, Mrs. Leckey said, more than 80 national Catholic lay organizations will meet separately in Belleville March 27-29.

Four synod delegates will be elected at the U.S. bishops' meeting in Washington this November.

World synods, representative gatherings of bishops to advise the pope on major concerns facing the church, are usually held every three years. The 1987 synod will be the seventh ordinary assembly since the Synod of Bishops was established after the Second Vatican Council.

The synod on the laity was originally scheduled for the fall of 1986, but was delayed a year after Pope John Paul II called an extraordinary synod in 1985 to discuss the state of the church in general since the council.

The formal topic of the 1987 gathering is "The Vocation and Mission of the Laity in the Church and the World 20 Years after the Second Vatican Council."

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Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; M-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, howe~er, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

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

New Films "Howard the Duck"(Universal): This caustic, cynical and malevolent fantasy-adventure features a fully costumed duck from outer space trying to find his way home after having been accidentally transported to a hostile Earth.

Vulgarity, violent destruction and sadistic humor combine to earn ratings of O,PG.

~LACKENED by thermal radiation following the 1945 atomIC bomb attack on Nagasaki, Japan, this statue of St. Agnes holding a lamb, from Nagasaki's Urakami Cathedral is part of a permanent disarmament exhibit at United Natidns Headquarters in New York. (NCjUN photo)

Emily Post would love it pepper package onto your lap,

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First, you must, must, must eat make the people sitting next to with your elbows pinned to your you think you have chosen not to side, wedged between the armrests eat your salad because it is yellow and your ribs. Forget your upper and limp, not because you are . a~ms. Think of them as growing scared of death of the pressurized dIrectly out of your sides, rooted container housing the orangecolored dressing. in your kidneys. .It is clearly against air eating Begin by wresting your alleged etIquette to avoid the silverware silverware from its plastic prison. altogether and eat your wad of These encasements have been m~shed potatoes by dipping them designed, I have it on good authorwIth the smoked almond given ity, by the same people who heryou earlier along with the plastic metically seal bacon in space age glass of complimentary beverage plastic and ~ho consulted on the of seven sharp ice cubes and no child-proof aspirin bottle cap. liquid.

It is considered rude to grunt and groan or stand in your seat Beside, if you haven't figured while attempting to rip or shred out the silverware, you probably this innocent looking cover. It's haven't broken into the almond definitely tacky to rip it open with package, sealed even more resoyour teeth, spitting the resulting lutely in the shiny material used to make bulletproof vests. Airlines bite of plastic into the air.

You also should be cautious do this in the hope you will leave during this procedure not to shred, .the almonds behind so they can wad or otherwise destroy the nap- pass them off on the next flier.

Back to your silverware. Vetekin usually also inside. Airlines with a warped sense of humor slop ran air travel eaters have learned in tiny packages of salt and pepper, to puncture the plastic wrapping too. with the fork and then saw along W.hen the inevitable happens .the holes with the knife. and you spill an entire salt or Emily would be proud.

"Youngblood"(MGM-UA): Rob Lowe is a young and talented amateur hockey player who must come to terms with the violence of his sport and his determination to be a winner. When turning the other cheek doesn't seem to work, he learns to be tough but still proves he can outclass the brutes. Nevertheless he can't resist a final display of macho combat to satisfy his critics. Brutality, an explicit nude sex scene and ambivalent values ruin this simple tale of sports ethics. O,R Films on TV Sunday, Aug. 24, 9-11:24 p.m.

EDT (NBC) "The Verdict" (1984).

Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) is a down-on-his-luck Boston lawyer who presses a medical malpractice suit against the local archdiocese and its powerful attorney (the late James Mason). Galvin overcomes all odds when he starts to see with his heart instead of his mind dur-

Linkage seen CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (NC) Poverty can be linked to the nuclear arms race and to abortion-ondemand, participants in a recent national conference of Prolifers for Survival were told.

Dr. Consuelo Beck-Sague ofthe federal Centers for Disease Control, keynote conference speaker said, "Because of our peacetime buildup of weapons, funding for development and research in critical health and social areas has decreased."

She added that since legalized abortion-on-demand, social programs for children and mothers are not priority budget items.

Beloved Community "Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Thursday, Aug. 28, 11:30 p.m.-I a.m. EDT (CBS) "The Twelve Chairs" (1970). This comedy starring Frank Langella, Mel Brooks and Dom DeLuise is about a deposed Russian nobleman who learns that the family jewels are hidden in one of 12 dining room chairs. A corrupt and greedy Russian Orthodox minister competes with him for the prize. Cynical slapstick and low-brow comic touches. A3,G TV program NEW YORK (NC) - Marian Aiken, a totally deaf single adoptive parent ofthree severely handicapped children is profiled in "Do You Hear the Rain?," a documentary airing Monday, Aug. 25, 10:30-11 p.m. EDT on PBS. Ms. Aiken, a teacher in a West Virginia school for the deaf, lost her hearing gradually and thus can speak normally. She is adept at caring for her three preschoolers, cerebral palsy victims physically unable to care for themselves.

Her doctor discusses the time and attention such handicaps require - one of the reasons such children are usually "warehoused" in institutions. The cost of institutional care for such a child, we are told, is around $1,600 a month.

Ms. Aiken receives $300 monthly in state aid for each of her youngsters.

What is most rewarding about the program is seeing how these children respond to her mothering, enjoying happy, smiling childhoods.

Religious TV Sunday, Aug. 17 (CBS) - "For Our Times" - The stories of Samson and St. Joseph of Cupertino and a visit to Amish country in Pennsylvania are highlighted in "Marshall Efron and His Simplified and Painless Sunday School."

Religious Radio Sunday, Aug. 17 (NBC) "Guideline" Current programming plans of network television are discussed.

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On being good

By Cecilia Belanger In Acts 11:24 we read, "For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and faith."

The phrases "He's a good man" and "She's a good woman" used to mean something. Today many would try to tell you that "good" is boring and dull. Lately, character seems to mean nothing. One girl I met said she was accused of being "too prim and proper" at work.

What's wrong with being prim and proper? Is it better to be rough and improper?

What's on your mind?

Q. A friend of mine turned 16 recently and has a driver's license.

My parents won't let me 10 places in the car with her driving because they feel she's not experienced enoulh. I know they feel they're protecting me, but why would my friend's mother want to drive us around If she can just hand her daughter the keys to the car? I'm afraid this will put a strain on our friendship: (Kentucky)

A. Your parents' attitude and restrictions may create some momentary awkwardness between you and your friend.

In talking with her, you might emphasize that you do not lack confidence in her ability to drive.

It is simply your parents' concern .,. about her lack of experience. '" If your friend respects you and '" your parents and if she wants the . -~ - best. fot you, there should not be an enduring strain on your friendship. .

You're no doubt right about· your parents wanting to protect you. Once your friend has six months experience and has been in a wide range of driving situations, perhaps your mom and dad will feel more at ease about letting you . ride with her. .

It may be too that your parents feel they don't know enough about your friend and about what I call her "driving personality."

Is she the type of driver who talks non-stop while driving and doesn't give full attention to the traffic situation?

Is she fond of going faster than the law allows?

Does she take unnecessary risks?

Will she want to have five or six other teens in the car and get into some crazy driving hijinks?

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Worrisome questions like these may be plaguing your parents now. It would seem that time alone will give them the assurance

We should rejoice when we meet a "young lady" or "young gentleman." We can see the virtue and the goodness of Christ in these youth. Certainly goodness is more attractive than permissiveness.

Being good might be more important than being anything else. Luke referred to Barnabas as "a good man." And those words should be .sufficient. Is there anything more boring than lengthy introductions listing all the achievements of some speaker?

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that your friend is a driver they would want their 16-year-old daughter driving with.

THIS BOY at Mashpee's Camp Vinhaven, better known as St. Vincent's Home Camp, catches up on a little summer reading. (Motta photo)

Probably you feel frustrated.

You may find it helpful to hear' about Brian, now almost 18. He came to see me about two years ago to air some gripes against his parents.

Although he had enough money . saved up to buy a car, his parents would not give him permission to do so. They said he had to wait until he was 18.

He had his heart set on getting one and was angry with his parents for .being so strict.

Later Brian's dad told me: "It seems to me that in many cases teens do a lot o( ~aturing between the ages of 16 and 18, at least in regard to driving.

"During.that two-year process, I want to protect Brian'as much as I can. I want him to have a better chance of living until he is 18 and of not being crippled or otherwise injured."

And maybe that's sort of the way your parents are feeling these days. . .Send questions to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 10005.

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Perhaps the hurt relates to one person's attitude or behavior. If so, what is needed is an honest sharing that communicates each person's feelings.

The best way to initiate such a dialogue is to ask the other for an opportunity to talk. If your partner cannot do so at the time of your request. arrange another time. Tell the other that you will need him or her to listen and be attentive to wbat you have to say.

While it is important to honestlysbare your feelings, try to avoid blame. It often makes one or both persons feel defensive.

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The conference, preceding the 1987 world Synod of Bishops, which will focus on the role of the laity in the church and world, will focus on the challenge of living Gospel values in the modern world.

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PUILlCln CHAIRMEN Ire asked to submit news Items for this column to 11Ie Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722.. Nlme of city' or town should be Included, IS well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: W~ do not carry news of fundralslnl activities such as binios, whlsts, dances, supp~rs and bazaars.

We are happy to carry notices of spiritual I'rOllram~ club meetinRs, youth proJ~cts and similar n'onprofit activities. Fundrals'"l prolects may be advertised at our relular ra~es, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675¡7151. â&#x20AC;˘ .

On Steerinll Points items FR ,"dlcates Fall River, NB Indicates New Bedford.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Prayers are requested ~or par!shioners Bob and Sharon Fltzpatnck, who recently lost their home and its contents in a fire; Father Thomas Tobin, CSC, will give a parish retreat the week of Sept. 22 for Corpus Christi; the week of Sept. 29 for St. Theresa's mission; containers for food pantry donations are at the church entrance this weekend; prayer meeting 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Father Clinton Hall. Information: 428-9456; parish rosary group meets 7 p.m. Wednesdays, church; rosary recited before 9 a.m. daily Mass.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN The parish Liturgy Commission thanks Don Mulcare for organizing the recent lectors' meeting; altar boys' outing to Canobie Lake Park Aug. 19.

BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER GROUP, FR Foundations, an 8-week course announced in last week's Anchor, will begin Aug. 22 following 7:30 p.m. prayer meeting at Blessed Sacrament Church, Fall River. The previously announced date of Aug. 29 was incorrect.

DOMINICAN LAITY, FR Meeting begins with 7:15 a.m.

Mass Aug. 23, St. Anne's Shrine.

Breakfast follows at McGovern's restaurant, Fall River.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR The Nutrition and Food Service Department will offer a six-week Culinary Hearts Kitchen progr~m from 7 to 9 p.m. on consecutive Tuesdays, starting Sept. 9. The program for person on low-calorie, low-f~t or low-cholesterol diets, will be directed by a registered dietitian.

Information and registration: 6745741, ext. 2634.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Father Andre A. Patenaude, MS, in concert 4 p.m. Sunday, upper parking lot. Bring la,,:n chairs. ~n case of rain, concert wlil be held 10 church. Information: 385-3252.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/ MASHPEE Catholic Women's Club meets 10 a.m. to noon Thursdays, CCD center. All welcome.

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Marriage Encounter weekend Sept. 12 to 14, LaSalette Center for Christian Living, Attleboro. Information: Bob and Laurette Rousselle, 110 King St., Blackstone, MA 01504, or call 883-9681.

NOTRE DAME, FR Youth Center picnic Sunday, Dumont Field; altar boys' outing to' Westport Water Slides Aug. 26; Mass to mark opening of Msgr. Prevost High School reunion 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. Father Paul Carrier, SJ, '67, will be principal celebrant and homilist. Other Prevost priestgraduates will concelebrate. A Brothers of Christian Instruction choir, will be directed by Brother David Touchette, FIC. BL SSED SACRAMENT, FR Pra er meeting 7:30 p.m. Fridays, small c. apel. All welcome.

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Irene L. Fortin, principal, is seeking information on alumni to be incorporated into upcoming Catholic Schools Week activities to emphasize to present students their ability to "Touch the Future," the National Catholic Educational Association 1986-87 theme.

She requests that alumni of the present school, earlier pilot schools on Hope, Grant and Hunter Streets, and former annex schools St. Joseph, St. Raymond and St. Antoine, contact her with the following information: name, maiden name, address, A VIEWING platform next year of graduation and brief descrip- to a Catholic community cention of current occupation and ter in West Berlin gives touractivities.

Mail to St. Anne Alumni Search, ists a glimpse of the East BerSt. Anne School, 240 Forest Street, lin side of the Berlin Wall, Fall River, MA 02722. now over 25 years old.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS (NCJKNA photo) Novena 8 a.m. Wednesdays, Orleans, to Our Mother of Perpetual Help; prayer group meets 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Visitation Hall; first ST. ANNE, FR Parish and Fellowship plcmc Women's Guild meeting of new season I:30 p.m. Sept. 9. New members' Sunday, Isaiah II, Middletown, RI. welcome; the parish family recently ST. MARY, SEEKONK celebrated the second anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous meets 7 the dedication of St. Joan of Arc p.m. Wednesdays, church hall; a Church with a Mass and 'lighting of Consolata missionary will speak at dedication crosses.

Masses Aug. 23 and 24.

COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE The Couple to Couple league of ST. JAMES, NB Bristol County will begin classes on Alcoholics Anonymous 7 p.m.

Sympto-thermal natural family Wednesdays, church hall. planning at 7 p.m. Sept. 11, St. ST. JOSEPH, FR Mary's church hall, Coyle Drive, Father William Kane, 14 years a Seekonk. Information and registramissionary in Ghana, will speak at tion: Pauline L'Heureux, 336-6349.

Masses Aug. 23 and 24.

CATHEDRAL, FR Father Barry W. Wall, pastor, thanks participants in his recent installation ceremony; summer band concert Sunday in the schoolyard HONG KONG (NC) - While will feature the John Moitoza Band. many Indochinese refugees have O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Missionary Bishop Maurus Mul- begun new lives in new countries, doon of the diocese of OIancho, thousands remain in Thailand with Honduras, will speak at weekend little hope of resettlement, says Bishop George Phimphisan of Masses.

Udon Thani, Thailand. Many ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, refugees are rejected for reasons SWANSEA Family celebration Aug. 23 begins ranging from polygamy to disease with 6;30 p.m. Mass. Prayer, and mental disability, said the refreshments and entertainment fea- bishop, in Hong Kong for a meettured. Information: Paulette, 676- ing. Hundreds with severe disabili0029. A Marist missionary priest ties almost definitely will not be will speak at Masses Aug. 23 and 24. accepted by any country, he sa.id, while others do not possess skIlls SEPARATED AND required for migration to counDIVORCED, FR Greater Fall River area support tries such as the United States, Canada, Australia or France. "We group for separa!ed, div?rced and remarried Cathohcs meet 109 7 p.m. must continue to care for them," Aug. 27, Our Lady of Fatima he concluded.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Leaders of 129 U.S. colleges founded by and affiliated with Catholic women's religious orders will launch a joint project to help women in the Third World and other deprived areas fight poverty through education.

The leaders of the institutions, known as the Neylan Colleges, said in a statement at a Washington press conference that they plan to "link their campuses through unified policies, procedures, computers and later satellites" to serve women around the globe.

They compose the Neylan Commission, a subcommittee of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, an affiliate ofthe National Catholic Educational Association.

The commission is named after Edith and Genevieve Neylan, philanthrophists who supported development of higher education services by women religious.

The approach to poverty through higher education "is based on recognition of serious education problems that are the underlying causes of the famine, disease and .conflict that have been the focus of worldwide concern during the past five years, " according to the statement.

School Sister of St. Francis Joel Read, president of Alverno College in Milwaukee and Nerland Commission chairwoman, saId the 129 colleges have programs which directly address the needs of the poor, and she cited strong traditions of education, health care, nutrition and business in their academic programs.

She also highlighted the importance of aiding women in underdeveloped nations.

"In the agricultural societies of the Third World, women are responsible for the production and distribution of food, as well as child rearing," she said. "Over SOO million of these women are illiterate. It is presently not possible for them to make the changes that can bring a positive difference to their families and to their societies. " Sister Brigid Driscoll, president of Marymount College, Tarrytown, N.Y., said that together the NeyIan Colleges have 175,000 students, more than 600,000 alumnae and assets of nearly $1.5 billion.

"We have a major impact, and we can improve that impact with shared technologies and programs," she added.

Sister Driscoll, a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary described the task of the Neyla'n Colleges as "establishing something like an international university," but added that steps to implement the program have not yet been determined.

The 129 colleges -are sponsored by 93 orders of women reli~iou.s, 80 of which have overseas sItes m 77 different countries.

Shrine head resigns WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr.

Harrold Murray, 62, director of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington since 1984, has resigned to return to his home archdiocese of Newark, N.J., where he will head a task force studying the archdiocesan administrative structure.

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SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Welcoming party for new parish school kindergarten students II a.m.

Aug. 23, Father Coady Center; seyeral openings exist for stu~ents 10 the parish school. InformatIOn: rectory, 676-8463.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Concert featuring Father Andre A. Patenaude, MS, Sister Lucille Gauvin, OP, and music ministry group The Shepherd's Voice 4 p.m. tomorrow, Garden of Worship. Twilight Mass follows at 7 p.m.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Father William G. Campbell, pastor, thanks parishioner Henry Baldia for landscaping and renovating various parish properties; parishioners Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barboza have donated a new lectern to the church.

Case returned

WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Supreme Court has returned to Ohio the case of a fundamentalist Christian school which fired a pregnant teacher seeking to continue teaching once her baby was born. The high court unanimously said that the Ohio Civil Rights Commission should have had a chance to settle the dispute between the Dayton Christian Schools and teacher Linda Hoskinson before the courts got involved. In a friendof-the-court brief, the U.S. Catholic Conference, public policy agency for the U.S. bishops, had argued that Mrs. Hoskinson's dismissal was not a matter for government action because it was based on church doctrine.

WOMEN LIKE this New Guinea mother will be helped by the Neylan Colleges' initiative.

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