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OH! WHAT A NIGHT! Bishop's Evening on Cape Cod was held this year on August 6 at the Tara Cape Codder Hotel in Hyannis. The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women sponsored the annual event which drew representation from all over the diocese. At left, Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. greets (from right) Pat Pasternak, Laura Pasternak, Amanda Burns, and Thomas Pasternak. At right, the committee pose: from left, Msgr.

George W. Coleman VG; Bishop O'Malley; Theresa Lewis, DCCW president; Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, PA, VE, DCCW Cape di$trict moderator; JElanne Alves, DCCW Cape district president. (Kearns photos) ,

New principal appointed in Buzzards Bay Charles B. Lindberg, a long time dents," he continued.

A native 9f Quincy, Lindberg resident of Buzzards Bay, has been appointed the second principal of earned a bachelor-of-arts degree in St. Margaret School. The appoint- history and political science from ment was announced by Rev. Will- 'Stonehill College in 1956 and a iam T. Garland, O.S.A., Director of master-of-science degree in counEducation for the Fall River Dio- seling from Bridgewater ~tate College in 1965. cese.

Before becoming a principal, Though new to this particular post, Lindberg is not new to educa- Lindberg taught at Sacred Heart tion nor to St. Margaret's p~rish. High School in Kingston, MA, and For some thirty years, he has served Bourne High School, where he as a principal of elementary schools coached basketball and football, on Cape Cod, first at the E.C. Stone and served as guidance counselor.

School at Otis Air Force Base in He taught for four years as an adBourne, then at the Barnstable junct professor at the University of Grade Six School in that town, with Hartford's Equal Education Center and at Bridgewater State. He is the an enrollment of 600 students.

All the while, he has been an co-author of a four part handbook active parishioner at St. Margaret's series for teachers entitled, "Hands Church, Buzzards Bay, where he On for Tomorrow," and his wife has taught religious education for Alyce and he are the parents of four twenty years, implemented a fam- grown children.

St. Margaret Regional School ily CCD program, and served both opened in the fall of 1994 and curas lector and Eucharistic Minister.

"Charles Lindberg is the ideal rently serves students in grades Kperson for the principalship at St. 5. The school will be expanded to Margaret's School," said diocesan include eight grades over the next superintendent of schools James several years. "We are very McNamee. "He has the experience pleased," Father Garland comas teacher and principal, and he's mented, "that St. Margaret School committed to the Catholic faith and will benefit from the well qualified to St. Margaret's where he is ale and experienced leadership of Mr. ready well-acquainted with the pas- Lindberg during this exciting petor andmany.ofthe parents and stu- riod of growth and expansion."

WYDonWWW , WASHINGTON (CNS)'~ Al- BishopslU.S. Catholic Conference, most 13,000 U.S. teens and young . giving their own perspective of the ' adults planned to head to Paris for events and what they mean to them.

The youth page can be accessed World Youth Day, but for the many youths unable to attend the mid- at www.nccbuscc.org/laity/youth/ August events, -a Web site will of- wyd/journaI. It should be up and fer a chance to still-feel a part of it. running by Aug. 14 and be operaYouths from New Hampshire, tional through Aug. 26. World Vermont, Utah, Missouri, Okla- Youth Day events are from Aug. 19homa and Wisconsin will be filing 24.

Photos and four messages will daily reports via the Web site of the National Conference of Catholic be posted on the page each day.

Correction The send-off Mass for the group travelling to World Youth Day in Paris, France, from our diocese will be held August 17, 5 p.m., at Notre Dame Church, Fall River. Last week's article announced the time as 3 p.m. We apologize for any confusion.

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Feitelberg chairs Scholarship Fundi Dinner

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Aug. IS, 1997

Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM, Cap. has announced the third annual Catholic Schools Scholarship Fund Dinner and has named Joseph H. Feitelberg of the Feitelberg Company to serve as its chairperson. The dinner will be held on Tuesday, Oc-' tober 21, 1997, at White's of Westport.

In 1995, Thomas J. Flatley initiated the program and raised $110,000. With Patrick Carney's leadership last year. a total of $204,000 dollars was raised, allowing 426 financially needy students from 306 families to receive partial scholarships to Catholic schools throughout the Diocese.

Catholic education is once again in a growth phase across the country, as well as in this Diocese. For four consecutive years, Catholic school enrollment has increased nationally. In opening three new schools on Cape Cod, and with many established schools maintaining waiting lists for enrollment, the Diocese is helping to create this dynamic. The disappearance rate, better known as the drop rate, in these schools is less than I % and over 92% of high school graduates are going on to post-secondary education.

These schools collectively save their respective cities and towns in excess

are for the financial support and future opportunity."

The mission of the Catholic Schools Scholarship Fund Dinner is to reach out beyond the parishes to invite businesses and individuals, academic and community leaders to host tables at the dinner in support of need-based partial scholarships.

"Those who invest in these students' education and dreams are evangelizing and creating better students, citizens and community leaders," said Feitelberg. This year's goal has been set at $300,000 and "the key to the

of $41 million annually.

The mission of the 23 elementary, 2 middle, and 4 high schools is grounded in teaching and living values such as faith, integrity, self-esteem, respect, caring, and sharing.

Each and every day, the faculty and staff make an unsurpassed contribu-

JOSEPH H. FEITELBERG tion to the Church's teaching mission to evangelize over 8,294 students.

Each year, some parents committed to providing their children with a Catholic education find themselves in financial difficulties due to the temporary or permanent loss of a job. More and more single parents are working two jobs to keep their children enrolled and many other families are not attending these schools due to their limited financial resources. "No children should be denied this opportunity because they cannot afford to pay the tuition.

These schools exhaust all measures before they let a child go because he or she cannot afford it," said Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, former Director of Education.

"Many of us in the community are thankful for the gifts we have been given and have a desire to give back," said James M. Riley, the dinner coordinator. Though parishes provide significant financial support each year, the need exceeds their ability and the Diocese developed the Catholic Schools Scholarship Fund to assist these families in need.

A partial scholarship helps students receive this exceptional education so their financial struggle need not be lifelong. Being responsible for a school himself, Father Beaulieu stated, "I have experienced firsthand how thankful scholarship recipients

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dinner's success will be businesses, individuals, and the community leaders who appreciate what Catholic education has done for them, coming forward to share their support with these families in need," he said.

If you would like more information on how to help these families, please contact James M. Riley, Dinner Coordinator, Catholic Schools Scholarship Fund, Catholic Education Office, 423 Highland Avenue, Fall River, MA 02720 or call 678-2828.

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October's Red Mass in planning stages

By CHRISTINE VIEIRA

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The Red Mass is a popular name for the Mass of the Holy Spirit offered to invoke God's blessings on the judges, attorneys and others working to provide justice throughout the judicial system. Its name is derived from the color of the vestments customarily worn by the celebrants.

The Mass began in the 13th century in Europe. In London, it was offered at Westminster Abbey at the opening of Michaelmas term. In Rome, it was traditionally celebrated to open the judicial year of the Sacred Roman Rota.

Here in the United States, the Red Mass is celebrated ill many dioceses to coincide with the Supreme Court opening each year on the first Monday in October.

This year, Bishop O'Malley has decided to institute the Red Mass in the Fall River diocl~se, in what he hopes will become an annual tra:.. dition. He has appointed a planning committee, chairc~d by Father Mark R. Hession and made up of a

diocesan cross section ofjudges, attorneys, court personnel and priests, not only to plan the Mass but also to personally invite their colleagues.

"We have the gathering to thank them for their contribution to justice in society and the common good," Father Hession explained, "and to bless their work."

The Mass will be held October 18 at Holy Name Church in New Bedford with a luncheon to follow at the parish center. Those working within the justice system, their staffs and families are invited to attend.

The Red Mass committee has been meeting since May and has planned four award$ to be given annually to individu~ls in recognition of distinguishediservice. The awards are named for St. Thomas More, a Catholic layman lawyer and martyr who refused to compromise principle though pressured by outside sources. One judge, one attorney and one court worker will be honored. The fourth presentation

will be an ecumenical award going to a non-Catholic serving within the justice system. All four awards will be presented during the October 18 Mass.

Members of the committee are, by deanery: Judges James 1. Nixon and Joseph J. Reardon, James H. Quirk, Jr., Esq., Orner Chartrand, Roxanne Viera and Anastasia Perrino from Cape Cod; Judge Bernadette Sabra, Patrick Cunningham, Esq., Kenneth SuIlivan, Esq. and Frederick J. Torphy, Esq. from Fall River; Edward Casey, Esq. and Jerome Coogan, Esq. from Attleboro; James H. Fagan, Esq. and David Gay, Esq. from Taunton; and Joseph Harrington, Esq., Donna Sowa, Esq., Raymond Veary, Esq. and Gloria Arruda from New Bedford.

Other committee members are John E. Kearns, Jr., Rev. Mark R. Hession, Rev. Michael K. McManus and Rev. John F. Moore.

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Webster defines a red herring as a subject intended to divert attention from the main question. For example, to draw a red herring across the track. Well, our former red-haired governor fits this description to a T. This so-called Mexico deal between a Democratic president and a Republican governor on such a sensitive issue as Mexico is thought to be nothing more than a路political ruse.

Many knowledgeable political commentators feel it is merely a smokescreen.

First and foremost, the real losers in the battle between Helms and' Weld are the voters of Massachusetts. When he stepped down from the Golden Dome to battle Helms, Weld showed clearly that the people of the Commonwealth had a very low priority on his agenda.

Why walk away from governorship ofthe Bay State for Mexico?

Several have thought that this was done for two reasons. The power and influence of Senators Kennedy and Kerry with the President cannot be ignored. Why would Clinton reach out to the Republican governor of Massachusetts unless the move had obvious advantages for the upcoming election? On the surface, the absence of Weld would at the outset give Joseph Kennedy a clear shot at the governorship. But we know that he is testing cloudy and murky waters.

Another consideration in this confrontational issue has to do with the Republican party itself. Captured by the conservative coalition, liberals have been all but exiled from the party. The GOP really has no strong or effective liberal voice. Helms stands for everything that Weld dislikes. The fact that he is weak on drugs carries little weight with one who is pro-nicotine. No, it's more than that: the real issues are the Republican party and the presidential nomination. Weld wants to be a powerful force in Republican circles so he can have a hand in choosing the Republican presidential candidate or be party leader for the upcoming campaign. It has been said that instead of going to Mexico, he wants to go to the' New Hampshire primaries to seek his party's nomination.

Whatever the case, it's one of the best political shootouts in recent memory. The present Congress is simply dull. The President is enjoying his status as a two-term candidate. But all that is beginning to change as the fiery Yankee redhead turns up the heat, not only on the members of his own party but also on some Democrats, who are beginning to squirm in their seats.

After all, it's a battle of ideologies. It's not Democrat versus Republican so much as it's liberals in battle with conservatives as to who will control the party, the Congress, the courts and the nation. .

Some will ask why the Church should be concerned with such issues; but it is very important, especially in our pluralistic society, that a proper view exist of the relationship between the political community and the Church. From this perspective, Church members will be able to make a clear distinction between what a Christian conscience leads them to do in their own names as citizens and what they do in the name of the Church.

In this regard, the Church is beyond political infighting; but it should be remembered that it is always legitimate for her to have true freedom to preach and teach the faith.

Some in Washington of both political persuasions would deny this right to her, including, sad to say, some of her so-called members. But let them all take note, that in our civil order, the Church has not only the right but the obligation to pass moral judgments, even on matters touching the political order, whenever basic personal rights make such judgments necessary.

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"All those present ate their fill." Mt 14:20

Whole Picture? Math Scores Down. 'themselves. For them classroom calculators are practically nonOne of my pet peeves is the existent.

However, our President, Bill "new-new math." Most educators were in agreement a decade ago Clinton, is a great believer in the that it was dead and in order to new-new math and those who compete with the math scores of oppose it find themselves exSingapore, Japan, and Korea, cluded from any dialogue about there was a need in American its effectiveness or ineffectiveschools to return to the basics with ness. But math scores have dean emphasis upon rote learning creased, even with free points and memorization. But new-new awarded to every student to up the math is like a bad heresy that con- average SAT score to 500.

This move was designed to tinues to reinvent itself.

Its advocates refer to it as enhance the self-esteem of poorer "whole math," while its oppo- students. Why not also electroninents refer to it as "constructive cally transfer funds to such stumath." The I~tter recalls the di- dents' bank accounts? When consasters of constructive spelling fronted with failure, some inteland grammar and the short-lived lectuals in the math community phenomenon of Ebonics when prefer to change the standard of college English professors proved measurement rather than the less tolerant than college math method of teaching.

Even before our students take professors.

The new-new math was inau- their College Boards their math gurated in 1989, when the Na- ability is in free-fall. The median tional Council of Teachers of percentile scores in math on the Mathematics published standards Comprehensive Test of Basic that denounced a "longstanding Skills taken by more than 3,700 preoccupation with computation students exposed to the new-new and other traditional skills." math showed no growth in conThese so-called visionaries saw ceptual skills and a significant math as an opportunity to gain co- decline in computational skills operative skills that would allow throughout all grades. Incredibly, students to interact with each the Defense Department, which other in order to invent strategies developed the examination, plans to solve problems together. Wait- to change the questions to "better ing for children to invent personal align" them with the whole math methods of long division is as instruction. about exciting as watching wallIn spite of the evidence that the paper dry! experiment is failing, a new test Not surprisingly, high-per- is being devised to help achieve forming countries such as most of better scores by hiding student the Asiatic nations teach the weaknesses in basic skills. But if whole class rather than have small we truly want our students to be groups invent knowledge for competent, creative, and competi-

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tive in the world economy, we must give them something solid to build on. We should re';urn to methods of instruction tha.t have proved successful and abandon those that have been proved to fail.

Outside the ivory tower of the academic world, parents and employers have witnessed t:he decline in math skills both in the home and at the workplace.

Many gas station owners will not hire high school students bl~cause many cannot count chang'~ back without the help of a cash register.

Banks have to farm Ollt jobs overseas to people with math skills to check the validity (If their computers. Cruise ships that seem to work totally by computers always need someone with math skills to verify the computations of those machines. Veteran architects are outrag<::d that newly graduated members of the profession lack the math skills once considered a prerequisite of that occupation. They fear that without application of common math skills in its building an edifice will collapse just as the tower of Babel collapsed for lack of a common language amo:i1g its builders.

There is a saying in the computer world, "garbage in-garbage out" or "GIGO," that is applicable to the greatest instrument of allthe human brain. We should humbly turn to the wisdom ofttle past and reject the new-new math.

Enough already! The Latin acronym so popular in math say.> it all: QED! '

Jerusalem unrest causes border delays

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY BETHLEHEM, West Bank (CNS) - The roadblocks were up again at the border between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and buses were lined lip on the Jerusalem side as tourists traipsed across the border.

Tourists are permitted in, but their Israeli buses must stay out.

"I'm a little bit scared, it is a strange si tuation for us," said Marilena, 35, a member of a Catholic pilgrimage group from Italy, as she walked cautiously through the maze of barricades.

"It is different from what we are used to. I wanted to come to Bethlehem to pray. Now I will pray for peace."

Israel imposed a <:Iosure on Palestinian territories after two suicide bombers killed 13 people and injured 172 at an outdoor market in Jerusalem July 30. Israel has closed the borders in the past, also citing

security reasons.

"The Israelis may be justified in doing what they are doing right now," said Ajay Desia, a member of an Air India flight crew who had decided to come see Bethlehem during a stopover in Israel.

"There have been a lot of security problems. Maybe someone will come out and try to do something.

You never know," Desia said.

By early morning Aug. 6, some 15 groups of pilgrims and tourists had walked across the border to Bethlehem, where Palestinian buses waited to take them to the Church of the Nativity. Despite the closure, tourist traffic was at about 80 percent its normal level, said one of the soldiers at the cheqkpoint.

On the Jerusalem side of the border three Bethlehem University students, who live in Jerusalem, discussed how they would get to their summer classes at the university.

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AN ISRAELI soldier stops and checks documents before allowing Father Tony Zghendi to enter Jerusalem Aug. 6.

Roadblocks were set up between Bethlehem and Jerusalem following suicide bomb attacks on a market a week earlier. (eNS/Hili photo)

Weekly General Audience Message Pope John Paul II Dear brothers and sisters, Continuing our catechesis on the relationship between Mary and the church, we now consider the words of the Second Vatican Council, which describe the Blessed Virgin as the "eminent and singular eHample" of the motherhood of the church [cf. "Lumen Gentium," 63). As the mother of the Son of God, Mary cooperates with matern(]1 love in the rebirth and spiritual growth of all the members of Christ's body, the church. Like Maty, the church also is a mother who brings us new life in the Holy Spirit through her preaching and through baptism (cf. ibid., 61f). The church, as the spiritual mother of the faithful, has her example and model in Mary's holiness, Mary's openness to God's word and her complete obedience to his will. Through the motherhood of Mary and of the church, may we all be brought nearer to the saving love of God revealed in Jesus Christ.

I cordially greet the groups of young people from around the world who will join me in Paris for the World Youth Day. Dear young friends, how much the world needs your l.IJitness to the love of Christl In the days ahead, may you appreciate ever more fully the beauty of God's gift of faith and joyfully shore that gift with others in building a world of justice, love and solidarity.

Upon you and upon all the Ef59'ish-speaking visitors, especially the pilgrims from Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, J apen, Canada and the United States, I invoke the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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yesterday they let us in," said Shirin, 19, a business student who asked that her last name not be used.

"Now we are going to try to go through Beit Jala. This isn't a good way to assure security. I don't know how they should do it, but this isn't fair for both sides."

On the Bethlehem side of the roadblock, 26-year-old Elias Azizeh, a Catholic resident of Bethlehem, was trying to get to his job at a garage in Jerusalem. Since the attack, he had not been able to go to work, but every day he came to try his luck.

"Now we have a problem between Jews and Arabs. There is an uprising," he said. "There is a problem but I don't know how to solve it. ... Israel has the right to take care of its people, but it shouldn't punish everybody."

In Bethlehem, said Azizeh, the stores were empty: since people could not get to work they could not buy provisions for their families.

Israeli police still did not know who was responsible for the July bombing, said Israel Police spokeswoman Linda Menichin.

But Bethlehem Deputy Mayor Jamal Salman said he did not think the market explosion "had anything to do with Bethlehem."

"Everybody is frustrated," said Salman, referring to Israeli- Palestinian tensions, including border closures.

Meanwhile, seminary student Shawki Baterian drives through the border checkpoint in his white van on his way to visit a sick parishioner in the village of Bir Zeit, West , Bank.

Though usually he does not wear his clerical suit, he wears the dark shirt, pants and distinctive collar now because it makes it easier to get through, he said. Nuns and priests are let through by Israeli soldiers without inspection of their documents.

"It is easy to get out (of Jerusalem), but returning is not so easy," said Baterian.

He said when he tells the soldiers he is a seminarian and lives in Jerusalem "they don't listen."

"I think (the Israelis) have the right to use security, but not this kind, this is too strict."

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., ~ug. 15, '1997

Adults should have faith in the young, A recent poll of adult views of teens and children

by Public Agenda, a New York-based research organization, reported "a startlingly negative view of A~eri足 can youth." According to this poll, only 37 perc~nt of adults believe that today's young people will make this country a better place.

Of 2,000 adults polled, two-thirds described youngsters as "rude," "wild," "irresponsible," "spoiled" and "lazy."

The report concluded: "Americans are convinced that today's adolescents face a crisis - not in their economic or physical well-being but in their morals and values."

It distresses me that this attitude is solidifying among adults. We're talking about the future caretakers of our world. Why do we have so little faith in them?

If I seem a bit emotional, you're reading me right. I read this report as I cuddled a grandchild. It bothers me that people may look at my grandchildren, not really knowing them, and draw negative conclusions about them.

I've also got other news items - nice ones - that make me wonder about the 2,000 adults surveyed by PublicAgenda. Do they form their attitudes about youth from the way youngsters are portrayed on television?

Or from news stories they read about youth violence that make them believe violence is the thing among all teens?

I don't know, but I wish they'd read the good stories, too,like the one about the W.W.J.D. bracelets that are selling like hotcakes in Christian bookstores around the country. The initials, which stand for "What Would Jesus Do?" are embroidered on a wristband that sells for $1.50.

The bracelets were created by a company called Lesco in Lansing, Mich., for a local youth group. In an Associated Press story, a camp director, Robert Gregg, who bought the bracelet for his campers, explained: "Teenagers are so impressionable and they face

"ews Briefs North Korea food distribution WASHINGTON (eNS) - Following a U.S. government pledge to send '100,000 tons of food to North Korea, representatives of U.S. humanitarian organizations were seeking North Korean government approval to observe the aid distribution. In Pyongyang, North Korea, in late July, the director of government relations for Catholic Relief Services, Mike Frank, and a representative of Mercy Corps International met the director of the North Korean government's flood rehabilitation committee to obtain approval for a proposed five-member team of U.S. observers. Frank said tentative approval for the team was received following discussions during his July 26-29 visit to North Korea.

No same-sex marriages BURLINGTON, Vt. (CNS) -In the wake of a lawsuit to force Vermont to recognize same-sex unions as marriages, Bishop Kenneth A. Angell of Burlington said that "there can be no confusion" about the Catholic Church's opposition to that idea. "The church's position on marriage is absolutely, clearly defined as a 'faithful, exclusive and lifelong union between one man and one woman, established

by God with its own proper laws,'" Bishop Angell said. "The church's opposition to same-sex marriage has also been vocally and adamantly stated." He commented on the issue July 23. The previous day three same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses sued the state of Vermont and the towns of Milton, Shelburne and South Burlington for the right to marry.

Ex-Nazi must still serve time ROME (CNS) - An Italian court ruled Aug. 7 that former Nazi official and convicted war criminal Erich Priebke would have to leave the Franciscan monastery where he was under house arrest and move to a military hospital. Priebke, 84, had been living in the monastery of San Bonaventura in the city of Frascati southeast of Rome since just before the final phase of the trial ~gainst him start~d in April. On July 22 the former captain in the Nazi elite force known as the SS was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for carrying out a 1944 massacre of 335 Italian Civilians in the Ardeati.r')e Caves outside Rome. Mitigating circumstances reduced the sentence to fixe years. .

Peace groups protest plutonium CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CNS) - Catholic and other peace groups are opposing the Oct. 6 launch of the Cassini space probe because they say its use of plutonium puts people and the environment at risk. NASA officials have dismissed such concerns, pointing to a safety record showing no problems for 23 missions over the past three decades that have used plutonium-based energy. Cassini's cargo will contain 72.2 poundsof plutonium 238, the largest amount ever carried on an exploratory space satellite.

Opposition to the launch drew more than 159 people to a protest at the front gates of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Cape Canaveral July 26 to oppose the launch of the probe that will study Saturn.

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By Antoinette Bosco

ministry as "the response of the Christian community to the needs of young people and the sharing of the unique gifts of young people with the larger community."

Let's pay attention to our bishops. They are mminding us of our responsibility to help our young ones find their way in a society that so often confuses tbem by flaunting sin and selfishness as "cool" and the "way to go."

Last November, after I wrote about some of the fine, caring work youth do through church, school and community groups, Bertha Kalasinski of Yonkers, N.Y., wrote and asked, "Why don't we mention all the good our teenagers do?" She enclosed a poem she had written about "Our Teenagers." It reflects how I feel. I'd like to share her opening lines with you: "This is their world; let them make it good.

"Let them make it better than we ever could," I believe we have to have faith in our youngsters.

More than that, we have to do our share to help them see what values will bring them joy and positiorJ them to make the world a better place.

Man to man: a father writes to his son

Almost 1billion Catholics VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The number of Catholics in the world is creeping toward an official 1 billion, according to the Vatican's Central Office of Church Statistics. The newest edition of the office's "Statistical Yearbook of the Church" said the world's dioceses reported a Catholic population of 989.4 million. The statistics office estimated another 4.6 million live in China and North Korea, where government restrictions prevent reporting to the Vatican. The statistic,al yearbook, reflecting data valid for the year ending Dec. 31, 1995, came off the Vatican printing presses in early August.

tough decisions every day. With this bracelet I think when they come across those difficult situations, they will be reminded of Jesus and seek direction from that."

Fortunately, the U.S. Catholic bishops are not negative on youth. This month they issued a statement calling youth ministry a "top priority." They affirmed youth

Dear Readers: We still receive requests for the following column that we wrote 16 years ago - a letter from a father to his son: Dear Son:Yesterday you left for college. Eighteen years fled by, too full to take time out to summarize my hopes for you. I had a father-son speech planned.

But then a hug and hidden tears seemed more correct.

Now that you are gone, there are only words to send you. I'd like to share my values, those unsaid principles that I hold true and dear. They are my last gift to you as a parent and my first gift to a young adult and friend.

I want to caution you about materialism, to alert you to your emotions and to remind you to treat life with reverence.

Don't let hunger for possessions capture you. Happiness does not lie in ownership of houses and cars and appliances or in consumption of fine foods and entertainment. Most people waste their lives finding out that possessions do not bring happiness. . Materialism is subtle and pervasive. Guard yourself.

I think greed is the modern sin. Your salvation depends on how well .you address this temptation.

Trust your emotions. Give vent to your feelings. May you fire with rage, burn with passion, delight in discovery and dance with exuberance.

You may have heard that strong men are in control of their feelings, that it is unmasculine to show emotions. On the contrary, it is inhuman not to.

Your feelings are what make you real. The heresy that thought and feeling should be separated is the tragedy of modern science. From that dangerous separation come the sterile technologies that spew pollution, nuclear war, abortion and other rational "mistakes."

Someone once told me that true happiness comes from thinking beautiful thoughts. He was wrong.

Happiness is primarily an experience, a physiologically based emotional feeling. It comes from sudden global insights into nature or, even more perfectly, from satisfactory interpersonal relationships. The latter are better known as love.

Do not wait for happiness to happen to you. Don't let your soul be played like a violin. Instead, take the bow in hand, and make your own music. Greet life in its daily confrontations with zest and enthusiasm and a complete and hungry openheartedness.

Finally, show reverence for everything alive: plants and insects, fish and birds, but especially other human beings. You and I are not wise enough to know when lik begins or ends, or which life forms are the most precious.

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Be gentle. Be kind. It was no accident that ,:oined the word "gentle-man," To be gentle is to be manly.

Consideration for others will not come easy. Required is a certain willingness to fly in the face of a "me-first" culture and sometimes put the good of others ahead of your own.

family . Talk ,With Dr. James & Mary Kenny Empathy will help you consider the good of others as truly your own. Someday I pray that you may feel with the poet: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." Then love of others will truly be a facet of your self-regard. You will be . much richer, more actualized, because the "I" :In you will be a "we."

Take these thoughts as lessons life has taught your father. I give them to you not as a comman9, b'Jt that you may realize someday the peace and joy they have given me. Take care. I love you very much.

August 17 1882, Rev. Cornelius O'Connor, Pastor, Holy Trinity,

West Harwich 1996, Rev. Msgr. Maurice Souza, Retired Pas':or, St. Anthony, East Falmouth

August 18 1977, Rev. Msgr. William H. Dolan, Pastor Emeritus,

Holy Family, East Taunton

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Mary, New Bedford 1983, Thomas Cantwell, 55J., Retired, St. Joseph's Seminary, Washington

August 22 1962, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Manuel 1. Teixeira, Pastor, 5t.

Anthony, Taunton , 1972, Rev. William R. Jordan, Pastor, 5t. Louis, Fall River 1980, Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, Retired Pasl:or, St. Paul, Taunton . .......

No Mass available on Sun4ay Q. Two of our children and their families live in It's no wonder that through the centuries Chrisparishes where there is no longer Sunday Mass, tians believed one essential responsibility of the hierarchy was to assure, in whatever way necessary, that except maybe once a month. One of these parishes has a "priestless service" most Sundays. The other , Christian communities had the eucharistic celebration has one occasional~ly. , available to them at least every Sunday.

We always have believed and taught our children that nothing substitutes for the Sunday cel- . , . . - - - - - - - - - - ebration of the Eucharist. We still believe that, but what do you do when it's not available?

Since these services are not eucharistic celebrations, are we still obliged to attend Mass? Are we excused? Will the:.c services gradually substitute for Mass?

As a committed! Catholic I find that impossible

By Father to believe. Is that where we're going? (New JerJohn J. Dietzen sey)

Questions d an A nswers

A. No, it isn't where we're going, though it can sometimes look that way. Many millions of Catholics now have the eucharistic liturgy available to them only a few times a year at best.

Even speaking about the possibility of widespread deprivation of the Eucharist seems unreal, something like asking whether the human race will soon be getting along without breathing.

From the beginning, before all the books of the New Testament were written, each Sunday's Breaking of the Bread (probably the first common name for the Mass) was considered the lifeblood of Christians.

A Christian who missed several times without a serious reason was thought to have abandoned the community of the faithful or was thought to be a member who didn't understand what it was all about and needed more instruction.

Thanking the Father for his gifts to us through Jesus Christ and uniting themselves to his life, death and resurrection in the Eucharistic Prayer, joined to hearing the word of God proclaimed in their midst - all these elements of the Mass were what gave Christians strength and unity.

So your feelings fit very well the tradition of the church.

To answer your specific questions, the obligation , to participate in the Mass on Sundays and other holy days still exists. It binds all Catholics unless they are excused for a sufficiently serious reason.

One can assume, I believe, that no bishop would allow a Eucharistless service on Sunday unless a very serious reason prevented the people,in that community from getting to Mass.

Such services may be offered instead of Mass, but they can never be a genuine substitute for it. There's a radical difference between the two. The duty to participate in the Mass does not transfer to a service without the eucharistic sacritice.

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How to impress your cousin the priest Everyone should subscribe to a Catholic magazine and a Catholic newspaper. This is especially true for Catholics. Of course, it would not hurt non-Catholics one darn bit either.

I am not saying this just because Our Sunday Visitor Publishing offered me a new Porsche. I am saying it because it will enrich one's life in - just call me an old softy - guill and recyclables.

No, it's not that Catholic magazines or newspapers focus on laying a traditional guilt trip on anyone.

Hardly. There are still enough mothers and aunts around to handle that.

The thing is that these weeklies and monthlies carry a lot of fine material that you can set aside to read later - then not get to it. And you feel guilty.

Thus, you will be a better Catholic.

For example, I was chasing a five-pound summer fly with a rolled-up copy of U.S. Catholic magazine just last weekend. I had had the issue on the "reading pile" under the coffee table so I could get around to reading the article titled "Will Your Kids' Faith Fly When They Leave the Nest?"

As it turned out, the now deceased fly actually came closer to reading the piece than I did. I feel guilty.

Thus I am now more contrite.

Just think what these things could do for you if you read the articles. . Actually, just skimming the headlines can be pretty rewarding. For example, when one's priest-cousin Father Kevin shows up, you can drop little remarks like, "I sec the U.S. bishops are having a little tussle with the Vatican over gender language in the Lectionary."

If you luck out, and he does not insist you define "gender language" or "Lectionary," you've scored a couple of points. And everyone knows talking to a priest about church stuff makes you feel like a better Catholic.

Yes, it is true some people are tacky·enough to pul1 copies of St. Anthony Messenger or maybe National Catholic What's-it from the bottom of the "reading pile" and set them on the coffee table just to impress visiting religious, like maybe if a cardinal drops by for a beer or something.

It is more subtle to have just a corner of the publication peeking out conspicuously from the pile. Ruffle the pages and leave it open to an article on spiritual renewal for effect. Or maybe leave a copy or two on the back of the commode.

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Then when Father Kevin says, "I see you've been reading this interview with Father McBrien in the Monterey Observer," you can truthfully say, "You know, I have been meaning to get to that."

And you feel a little glow of guilt all over. Awe~ some.

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Fri., Aug. 15, 1997

Black Catholic seminarians gather at convocation

'Quit' is not in quadriplegic woman's(vocabulary

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By CHARLES WOOD

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) ADAMSTOWN, Md. (CNS) -Accounts of encouraging cross-cultural Whether competing in wheelchair experiences supplemented talk of disheartening bigotry during a July 31- racing, working as a nurse, finAug. 3 gathering of the National Black Catholic Seminarians Association. ishing law school or taking a gruSeventeen members of the association' took part in its 1997 Convoca- eling bar exam, quadriplegic Lois tion at the Christian Brothers Spiritual Center in Adamstown, about 50 Taurman is nobody's quitter. miles northwest of Baltimore.

"Once I've started, I've never The association is an organization primarily for men ofAfrican descent, quit anything in my life," said and those born in Africa, who are in formation programs for diocesan priest- Taurman, 36, who has been a hood or for fully professed religious life as brothers or priests. quadriplegic since she took a Slightly more than 90 men make up the population the association mem- tragic fall from a ladder in 1984. bership is meant to serve, according to association documents, though not Her latest challenge came in all are active members. .

The convocation's facilitator was Divine Word Father Kenneth Hamilton, late July when she took a former association member. Speakers included Holy Ghost Father Albert Kentucky's bar exam, which she described as one of the toughest McKnight, the organization's executive director.

Throughout Father Hamilton's presentations and homilies, participants of her life. Earlier this year she called out their agreement as he addressed topics ranging from a general graduated from law school and spirituality of ministry to specific insights on the struggles that people of for six weeks she studied 12 to 14 hours a day to prepare for the minority status' may face in formation and ministry.

Among the struggles that participants discussed were obtaining broader bar. curricula to incorporate theological perspectives other than those of "Euro She also competes in wheelculture" and the danger of being labeled as.contentious and obsessed with chair races. She was a member of racial issues when trying to counter patterns of behavior that seem racially the U.S. International Wheelchair motivated. .

Team that competed in England, Not all the racial and cultural interactions that participants discussed and she represented the United were negative. .

States in the 1988 Paralympics in One seminarian spoke of a white faculty member and former missionSeoul, South Korea. ary who had initially prompted him to delve more deeply into his own Taurman was 22 years old cultural heritage. when her life changed so drastiOthers said they had been blessed with few or no racially-based hardships or that they overcame a sense of isolation partly by focusing on what cally. She was a mere six weeks they had in common with various classmates from other racial, cultural or away from earning her nursing degree at Bellarmine College, a socioeconomic groups.

Anthony Bozeman, the association's newly elected vice president and a small Catholic institution founded seminarian for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, said that being in the organi- in 1950 by the Louisville Archzation since 1994 has been "a booster shot to reinforce the Christian values diocese and run by the Convenand Catholic heritage that I already gained from my family, parish (and tual Franciscan Fathers.

Catholic education)."

She had earned letters in three .

The National13lack Catholic Seminarians Association fulfills needs and sports in each Qf her fOUf years as instincts similar to those that prompt the formation ot' other religious, civic an undergraduate at Bellarmine. or ethnic organizations of "Iik(:-minded or like-looking people," said And when she wasn't engaged in Bozeman, 37. sports, she loved to keep active Bozeman, who is entering his second year of theology, emphasized that the group is meant to give a culturally supportive context for spiritual growth in almost any kind of physical and ministerial preparation, "not a forum that is simply or divisively race- work.

One October day in 1984 based."

A blending of elements of various cultures was apparent at Eucharistic Taurman was working outside, liturgies and praise gatherings in the mornings, evenings and at night, with cleaning gutters at the home of Bellarmine's president. ' varying degrees of formality or spontan·eity.

"The liturgical experiences particularly made me grateful that by the She was working with a hose grace of God we were able to gather," said Christian Brother Ernest Miller, atop a ladder over a stairwell 29, in an interview. when the ladder suddenly gave He is entering his fifth year of formation, the novitiate year for the Chris- way, causing her to plummet 18 tian Brothers, to become a fully professed member of that community. feet into the stairwell.

Brother Miller, the association's delegate-at-Iarge for 1996-97, said he She landed on her back, covis also thankful the gathering was at a Christian Brothers' facility because ering the stairwell's drain, and the it may have helped other members of his community see why his "connecthose that fell with he~ began filledness with other men of color" is valuable for his overall formation: ing the sp~ce with water.

David Miller, 42, who is to be ordained as a Jesuit priest next year, said It was then that Taurman realthat his seven years in the association have helped him realize "the diversity of experiences, gifts, perspectives and aspirations that marks what we ized she couldn't move.' "I said my prayers," she recalled in an incollectively call the African-American community." terview with The Record, . David Miller was the seminarian association's secretary from 1992-94.

The 17 attendees are studying for the following archdioceses, dioceses Louisville's archdiocesan newsand religious orders: Oklahoma City; Philadelphia; Portland in Oregon; paper.

Birmingham, Ala.; Galveston-Houston; Lexington, Ky.; Mercedarian Fri"I told everybody that I loved' ars; the Benedictines; the Christian Brothers; the Dominicans; the Jesuits; goodbye. Then I thought I'd betthe Josephites; and the Society of the Divine Word. ter tell people I didn't like Participants' countries of origin include Trinidad, Haiti and Nigeria, as goodbye," she recalled. "I think well as the United States. maybe God just let me go to sleep then (because) I don't actually remember the water going over my face." .

When she was found about 90 NEW YORK (CNS) - Wallace of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for D. Muhammed, spiritual leader of Ecumenical and Interreligious Af- minutes later, Taurman was floattheAmerican Muslim Mission, was faw-s, planned to attend the awards ing face down in waist-high wanamed the recipient of the Focolare ceremony. ter. Both of her lungs had colmovement's annual Luminosa The Luminosa Award for Unity lapsed.

Award for Unity. is given annually to recognize in"At that point, technically I The award, announced in July, dividuals whose life and works have was dead," she said. "They did was scheduled to be presented Aug. made a significant dontribution to CPR twice on the scene."

17 in New York. unity.

Taurman was rushed to the In May Muhammed met with Previous recipients include Car- hospital, where she regained conChiara Lubich, a native of Trent, dinal William H. Keeler of Baltisciousness 12 hours later. She had Italy, who founded the Focolare more, ~uddhist professor Abe survived the ordeal but her injumovement, a church-approved "as- Masao, Rabbi Jack Bemporad and ries were permanent. sociation of the faithfuL" Cardinal John 1. O'Connor of New ~~e had completely severed John Borelli, associate director y o r k . · · · · · - "..

\ her spinal cord in two places. To this day she does not have use of her' arms· and hands and has no sensation from the chest down.

But in the months following the accident, Taurman would not let her injuries keep her down.

She got on with her life through rehabilitation and hard work.

Even in recovery she finished the book portion of her nursing degree followed by the clinical part in 1985.

Two years later she earned a master's degree in education and followed up with law school.

"I can honestly say I never said, 'Why me?' or blamed God because thai's pretty ludicrous," she said. "I knew that I was losing a lot, but yet there was still so much open for me, and I had a brain .... With a brain you can do anything."

Taurman says she draws the strength she needs to get through the hard times from her friends, her five siblings, her mother and her faith in God. Taurman's mother, Bonna, raised six children by herself af-

ter Taurman's father abandoned the family. Taurman was only 16 months old at the time. Perseverance is a trait Taurman says her mother has passed on to her children.

"I think that's why I have gotten as far as I have," she said. "I think anytime you do something, whether you like it or not, you should put all the effort in. I ,:;ontinue to be goal-oriented, and I continue to follow that ritual."

Taurman, some of her siblings and her mother sti II belong to Resurrection Church. She says the parish has always been a source of support for her.

"I have a things-to-do list that probably won't stop," she ~;aid.

Now that her studying is over she hopes to spend more time with family and friends and also do some traveling.

"Certainly being hurt has eliminated a couple thomand things for me to do but there's probably tens and tens of thousands of things out there for me to still do," she added. ~

Focolare to honor Muslim leader

LOIS TAURMAN narrowly escaped death in a 1HS4 accident that severed her spinal cord. She has since overcome many obstacles, becoming a registered nurse and finishing a law degree. She said she has never blamed God for her accident and draws strength from her family and faith. (eNS/Karman photo)

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River- Fri., Aug. 15, 1997

Manhattan

By CLAUDIA

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NEW YORK (CNS) - Our Lady of the Scapular and St. Stephen Church in Manhattan shares a piece of art history with tlle U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Both buildings contain work of the 19thcentury painter Constantino Brumidi, considered one of the last masters of the Italian Baroque tradition.

While Brumidi's work in the Capitol is vivid after its recent restoration, his murals in the church remain darkened with age. So tlle parish has launched a restoration project led with patience lUld skill by a team of scholars and art history graduate students.

Many of tlle murals are imprisoned beneaililayers of paint applied over ilie years in misguided attempts to freshen ilie interior or reflect current styles.

One of Brumidi's main works is a stunning mural of the crucitilxion over the main altar. The effects of time and dust and candle smoke have dimmed its colors but cannot hide its beauty. Directly opposite, at the rear of ilie church, are ilirce other major murals that show tlle Madonna and Child, King David and St. Cecilia.

The parish, which launched ilie project in January, hopes eventually to restore more ilian 40 murals cUld paintings executed by Brumidi. The effort has drawn eniliusiastic support from parishioners.

"They love it," Cannelite Failier Kenneili Murphy told Catholic New York, the archdiocesan newspaper. .

The priest, who was pastor for seven years until a new assignment took him to Boca Raton, Fla., July 1, said the restoration is bringing a new vitality to the parish.

Failier Matiliew Faulkner, also a Carmelite cUld ilie current pastor, said the restoration "puts us in touch witll our past, particularly our historic roots as a church with vital and spiritual presence for our neighborhood."

He added, "It unites us in ilie present, as we put our collective efforts and talents into restoring our church, and for the future, as we look toward our celebration (next year) of 150 years as a parish."

Heading the parish restoration corrunittee is John Segreto, a parishioner of 25 years, now ret.ired after a career in communications and graphic arts.

"The church was the center of the community, and we're trying t.o bring it back to iliat," Segreto said.

The church, originally nlUlled St. Stephen, was builtin 1854. In 1990 it was merged with the nearby Our Lady of the Scapular of Mount Carmel. That church was demolished and proceeds from tlle sale of the property funded the renovation of St. Stephen's exterior.

The existing church was designed by JlUlles Renwick, architect of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and the original Smitllsonian Institution building in Washington affectionately called "The Castle."

Renwick designed the church in Romanesque revival style, with rounded arches and a soaring vaulted oeiling.

Its 54 columns, made of green pine, are modeled after a ship's masts, said Segreto, noting iliat Renwick was a yachting enthusiast. "If you tumed the church upside down, you'd tind a hull of a ship," he said, pointing to the ribbed arches.

It is believed that Brumidi did all byt two of ilie murals in the church. Segreto said iliat one tigure in the crucifixion mural, a man in a secunless garment crouched beside soldiers casting dice on the ground, is Brumidi's selfportrait.

In ilie foreground, the tigure oLa woman, protectively embracing a small boy, is said to be Brumidi's wife, Lola, and ilieir son, Laurence. The woman, unlike ilie other figures, wears the garb of an Italian peasant.

The artist's oilier main works in the church are of tlle Sacred Heart of Jesus, ilie Immacu-

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late Conception and the martyrdom of 5t.

Stephen. On the rear wall are frescoes of the Madonna and ~hild flanked by David, traditionally thought to be ilie composer of the Psalms, and St. Cecelia.

Brumidi w~ a master of the technique of architectural illusion known as "trompe d'oeil," which ,means "trick the eye." Art historians believe the church is tilled with examples, but many have been painted over.

Four excellent ones remain, however, on

the side walls in the old main sanct.uary; frescoes of St. Peter, St. Paul and the archangels Gabriel and Michael. At a glance they appear to be statues in niches; a closer look reveals iliat they are painted on the wall.

Parishioners, many of whom are on fixed or limited incomes, have donated $15,000 to the restoration project. Weekly collections have jumped from $2,000 to $3,000, and the parish also is seeking foundation grants to cover costs.

Failiers Faulkner and Murphy as well as Segreto believe that ilie renovation, like the stained-glass windows, illustrates tlle truths of the faitll. They also say that ilie project has brought parishioners of all ages together.

"We're looking forward to working to~ gether," Failier Faulkner said, "but also to ilie time when our church will be restored to th~ way it was when it began."

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Oh, Brother! At ageS7, he's still pumping iron He said he tried to pass on his love for ground director for the city of Pittsburgh. to live out my religious life."

His friendship with two priests influ- sports to students because it helped keep A Pittsburgh native, Brother Palese PITTSBURGH (CNS) - The weight room at the YMCA in downtown Pitts-, played football, basketball and baseball at enced him to enter the seminary. One of them off the streets and out of trouble.

"There's so much violence today beburgh is alive with activity as members Duquesne University Prep and Allegheny them was Father Silas Rooney, older cause kids are bored," he said. brother of the late Art Rooney, who owned High School.

He was also an avid boxer hustle to complete their lunchtime workBrother Palese has been at St. Paul's and trained in the same gym as boxing leg- the Pittsburgh Steelers. "I appreciated their outs.

Monastery on the Most are in their city's South Side 20s to early 40s. In since the mid their midst stands an 1970s. Semireolder member who tired, he still preseems out of place. pares A.ltare Dei But as he begins to Mass cards and use the treadmill, his works at the monpowerful legs show f,Jod bank. astery he is capable of keepHe ~;erves at ing up with his much Mass every younger partners. evening and on At 87, Passionist Sunday mornBrother Benedict ings. "I thank Palese isn't ready to God for my slow down. He has health, :~hat 1 can been a brother for 57 sti II serve Mass years and is the eldest and do my part," member of the local he said.

Passionist community.

Brother Palese "It keeps me on the attends an occaball," he said of his sional Pittsburgh exercise routine "I've Pi rates baseball been doing this since game and likes to I was a kid and 1 enwork in the garjoy it." den.

Brother Palese He ~;aid the works out four or five times a week for, other members of the community about an hour. Belike to kid him sides using the treadabout hi~: workout mill, he lifts weights and uses the stationHis regular workout at the habits but they AT AGE 87 Passionist Brother Benedict Palese isn't ready to give up on fitness. have been supary bikes. He used to YMCA in Pittsburgh includes lifting weights. (CNS/Kaup photo) portive. swim but a shoulder t "They get a injury forced him to kick out of it." he said about the kidding. presence," Brother Palese said. ends Fritzie Zivic and Billy Conn. drop it from his regimen.

After entering the Passionist order, he "They think it's great." He said he plans to Brother Palese played semipro baseball "I try to do as much as I can; I'm not trying to break any records," he told the and was on his way to the minor leagues started out coaching at a prep school in keep up an active life as long as he can.

"I'm going to stick it out until God calls Dunkirk, N.Y. From there he went to a rePittsburgh Catholic, the diocesan newspa- when a knee injury ruined his career.

His interest in religious life emerged treat center in Boston, where he worked me," he said. "I like my religiolJs life, I 'per. "This keeps me moving. The mixture like my prayer life, and I like working out." of sports and prayer has really helped me while working as a lifeguard and play- for nearly 30 years.

Telling the Church's story

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tion, the better, because credible stories able to move Reporters should be ranked among our most pow- others rely on it.

Even with the right kind of backgrounding, reporterful agents of evangelization. The stories they report can give compelling witness to the workings 9f faith ers need additional skills in listening and observing. in people's lives. ' These skills are especially needed if what is listened to is told in another language and what is observed is , During their June meeting in Kansas City, Mo., an unfamiliar setting such as a migrant farm. , the U.S. bishops issued a national pastoral plan on One reason other cultures so often are misunderChurch communication. In it, seven communication stood is that their stories are not told well or accuobjectives are envisioned: rately. Reporters have to do their homework.

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Another factor behind misunderstanding is bias on -2) To influence the values, judgments and aca reporter's part. Telling a credible story requires distions of U.S. society. cipline - not allowing personal preferences to color -3) To tell the church's story. the account.

-4) To protect the communication environment. , ':"""5) To teach communication.

Seasoned reporters learn quickly that not every;.; '-6) To reflect systematically on the quality of one welcomes migrants or good stories about them. 路church communication.

Racism is alive in the church. And there are those who ,", . -,-7) To support one another in a ministry of combelieve that good reporting causes more trouble than munication. it solves. A good reporter needs a thick skin because , "Telling the Church's story" immediately caught good reporting often rocks the boat.

No doubt about it, telling the Church's story is a my eye. Getting the real story on anything is a tough assignment requiring extensive educational backtall order. That's why I think Catholic universities ,ground, intense training, discipline and a tough skin. should be encouraged to take the lead in educating , ~ Take, for example, a diocese getting the story on the specialized corps of reporters needed for our new migrant workers. The reporter's first prerequisite is age - reporters whose work, in fact, helps to tell the proficiency in Spanish. Awareness of the history and story of faith. lifestyle of migrant workers in general would be And I believe we ought to give recognition to reneeded, as would knowledge of these particular miporters who produce outstanding stories on the Church grants. For example, what caused them to leave their and encourage them to help prepare a generation of homes? Was it political upheaval,..poverty or perhaps reporters to succeed them. just wanderlust?

To enlist the talents of current outstanding journalists, however, we need to take care that they are The reporter should be well-informed in what the Church has to say regarding the plight of migrants , not held suspect and that they receive much more and what her track record is on serving migrants. praise than criticism.

The more knowledge the reporteLhas of the situa-

Italian monk offers advice on computers VATICAN CITY (CNS)-A "The computer - like the modem monk living deep in the pen or the hoe in days ,gone by Italian forests had a bit of ad- . - is an expression ofparticipavice for fellow computer users: tion in everyday life whl~re faith Don't let the machine's speed must become action," ttle monk fool you into thinking every added. problem can be solved in the Father Bargellini, whose blink of an eye. monastery installed its first Camaldolese Father computer in 1990, said he is not Emanuele Bargellini, prior of a computer expert, but he has the order's monastery and her- learned from experience. mitage in the province of "These technologies have a Arezzo, Italy, told Vatican Ra- great fascination, a great ability dio computers are a great way to captivate," he said. to get some work done and even "They could become a way to to spread the Gospel. flee reality rather than living The "wise vision" of life that with the hard work of daily the great founders of monastic searching, where answers are orders preached was to find a constructed letter by letU:r, word harmonious balance of work and after word, with a speed much prayer, he said in the Aug. 12 in- slower than that which the terview. means of communication appar"Both the kneeler and the ently allow today," the priest computer" have a role to play in noted. the life of a believer, Father "Interior searching," he said, Bargellini said. "does not alway~ occur with the "The kneeler indicates an at- same velocity of technology. titude of adoration, acceptance One has to learn to live in seand a complete giving of one's cret, in silence and to allow the lif~ to the Lord," he said. answers to seep in."

The importance of investing real money in lay training

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PETER DtlLY

With so few priestly and religious voc.ations these days, education for lay ministry is the wave of the future.

If lay people are e:xpected to take over ministries once done by priests and religious, they will need more than just occasional seminars or adult education lectures.They willlleled the concentrated training that was once given only to seminarians and religious-order members.

This means recognized degrees from rigorous schools. It also means that parishes and dioceses will need to nnvest real money in lay training.

Early this summer my rectory hosted members of the board of directors of the Lay Center in Rome. While Rome is a long way from our parish in Prince Frederick, Md., it is a short distance in terms of the need of our church for the workers trained at the Lay Center.

It was founded a little less than a decade ago because: there were more and more lay students at the six ecclesiastical universities in Rome, but nowhere for them to live and share meals, prayer or community life that are so important to students.

The Roman universities were not designed for lay students but for seminarians and members of religious orders. They have no dormitories.

Thirty years ago there were no

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Open to students in kindergarten through 8th grade, it will offer dance, theater, acting and voice instruction; and participants will appear in many performances during the school year. Transportation will be provided from schools to the academy. Its director is Linda Mercer-Botelho.

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women and almost no lay students at the universities. Following the Second Vatican Council, a small trickle of lay students began to study theology, canon law, Scripture, church history and spirituality.

These students had to make huge personal sacrifices; pay their own tuition and find housing in notoriously expensive central Rome.

Among the lay students in the 1980s was Donna Orsuto from North Carolina. As a doctoral student at the Jesuit-run Gregorian University, she knew what it was like to struggle with studies in a foreign Iflnguage and living conditions in Rome.

Now a member of the Gregorian faculty herself, Orsuto founded the Lay Center a decade ago together with a fellow graduate student, Rickie Van Velzen from the Netherlands. They hoped to provide housing and community life for lay students - men and women, single and married.

Today the Lay Center is overflowing with residents and applicants. It has expanded from its original location in a large apartment on Rome's famous Piazza Navona to a second apartment ("Lay Center II") in a building nearby.

The combined locations have a total of 17 students. But a professor at the Gregorian University remarked, "We could use

five more Lay Centers tomorrow."

The Lay Center is contemplating a dramatic expansion. A suitable apartment building has been found in Rome which would more than double its space. Just the remodeling will c'ost half a million U.S. dollars - money they presently do not have.

Facilities are not the only thing expanding. There are new programs as well. This summer the Lay Center began a threeweek continuing education course for lay ministers.

Designed for lay workers such as directors of religious education, liturgy coordinators, youth ministers and Catholic school teachers, it takes advantage of the classroom that Rome is to acquaint parish workers with the universal church.

So far the Lay Center has lived a hand-to-mouth existence, surviving on rents paid by students and some small donations.

Its graduates work in the United States, Canada, Italy, England, Korea, Germany and beyond. They are theology professors and tribunal officials. They work for Vatican Radio and serve in local parishes and missions.

The training they received in Rome spreads the Gospel to the ends of the e~arth and provides needed new workers for the harvest of the new millennium.

Manors honor employees Madonna Manor announces second quarter Employee of the Month award winners.

Charlotte Brousseau, a certified nurse aide, was April's Employee of the Month. An Attleboro resident, Ms. Brousseau has worked at Madonna Manor for six and one-half years.

Audrey Pike, a dietary aide, was honored in May. An East Wareham resident j Ms. Jacobs has worked at the home for eighteen years.

Brian Foss, a registered nurse, was June's Employee of the Month. He lives in Cumberland, RI, and has worked at Madonna Manor for three years.

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peer recognition program identifies a staff member who has improved the quality of life for residents of the nursing home. Recipients receive a $50 award, a special parking space for the month and their names are posted.

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Home school, religious ed documents produced WASHINGTON (CNS) - Parents who want to home school their children or simply provide their children's religious education at home now have the guidelines to do so in the Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The Pittsburgh Diocese published "Faith Education in the Home" as a guide for home schoolers; and the Chicago Archdiocese has developed official guidelines for home catechesis for students not attending parish-based religious education programs.

Father Kris Stubna, Pittsburgh's diocesan secretary for education, said the home schooling guidelines were drawn up in response to a small but growing number of parents who choose to instruct their children at home.

He told the Pittsburgh Catholic, diocesan newspaper, he hopes the guidelines can serve as a model for the nation.

"This document does not answer every possible question," he said, "but it sets forth some very positive steps."

While the church has long recognized that parents have the primary responsibility of passing on the faith, "it is the church's responsibility to see that the Gospel is taught correctly," he added.

"Faith Education in the Home" states that parents are their children's primary educators, but not their only educators. "The teaching church is the guarantor of the soundness of Christian doctrine - the revealed truth that comes from Jesus Christ - whenever that doctrine is conveyed," it states.

To that end, pastors are charged with providing counsel as families plan catechesis. Parents are to consult diocesan guidelines in preparing their lessons for the year and review their educational materials with their pastor.

And while families will not be subject to formal monitoring, "it is the pastor's responsibility to be sure the children are prepared" to receive the sacraments, Father Stubna said.

Likewise, the Chicago guidelines recognize that parents "have the primary responsibility to ensure the Christian education of their children in accordance with the teachings of the church."

And the new, policy guidelines state that "it shall be the responsibility of the pastor ... to provide for the catechesis of all the faithful" and that "various catechetical roles shall be exercised under the supervision of legitimate ecclesiastical authority."

Carole Eipers, director of Chicago's archdiocesan Office of Religious Education, said the guidelines "really reiterate that both parents and pastor have responsibilities here."

"Parents are the primary religious educators of their children, but they're not the sole ones," she told The New World, Chicago's archdiocesan newspaper.

Eipers said the guidelines grew out of questions put to her office by both parents and directors of religious education about home catechesis. The new guidelines say parents may choose to provide formal, systematic catechesis for their children at home "in extraordinary cases."

"Because catechesis is intimately connected with a person's relationship to a community of faith, if people are being catechized at home, one of the concerns was, where do they get that connection to the larger community," Eipers said.

The archdiocesan guidelines call for a communal dimension to home catechesis, including participation in sacramental programs, retreats and liturgical celebrations.

The guidelines also require parents, religious education directors and pastors to sit down and talk about mutual responsibilities - and to spell them out in a written covenant - - to avoid turf battles.

The guidelines make it clear that the pastor, or his designate, determines the readiness of children prior to the first reception of the sacraments.

Betty Kameron, who oversees the religious education of 2,200 children at St. Elizabeth Seton in Orland Hills, IlL, believes the church needs to listen to parents and their needs.

"If we say parents are the primary educators of their children and then they say they want to do that at home, we have to be willing to work with that;' she said. "However, I also feel they have to be connected to the parish community in some way, because our faith is really lived out in community."

In Pittsburgh, church officials hope that the guidelines will bring together home schooling families who feel they do not fit into parish life and pastors who might see home schooling efforts as a protest against their own efforts.

"In the Footsteps of Christ" a pilgrimage to the

Holy Land.

Golf tournament winners announced Nearly 150 players took part in the recent 15th annual golf tournament sponsored by St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, at the Fall River Country Club. Proceeds will benefit the hospital's newly organized Center for Children and Families, an innovative and family-centered treatment program for children with diverse medical, developmental and behavioral illnesses.

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Pope sends condolences after Korean pl~ne crash

By LYNNE WElL VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II conveyed condolences after the Aug. 6 Korean Air jet crash on Guam that killed at least 200 people.

In a telegram that day to Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan of Seoul, South Korea, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state, said the pope "wishes me to assure you that he commends the deceased to Almighty God and implores divine comfort upon the survivors."

Cardinal Sodano said Pope John Paul was saddened by the news of the incident and sent "the assurance of his prayerful closeness" to the victims' families and "to the authorities."

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port,where it was due to end its flight from Seoul.

Hours later, rescuers reported finding 30 survivors, many with burns, among the smoldering wreckage in the dense jungle.

Conditions made it impossible for investigators to say immediately whether more than 200 people on board had died - but as the search continued, they expressed little hope of finding many more alive.

A number of the survivors were able to walk away from the scene, and some suffered only cuts and bruises.

The flight reportedly was carrying mostly Korean tourists, among them several couples on their honeymoons.

The crash occurred at about 2 a.m. local time after the control tower at the A.B. Won Pat International Airport in Agana lost contact with the plane. An airport landing system that normally leads planes to the runway was out of service.

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Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the ., doctrine of the Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze o( the human will.

Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your flames that they may burn me, consume me, and feed me to form in me the Life of the Divine Will.

Saint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my heart, an,d will keep ~he keys of my will in your hands. You will keep my heart jealously and, shall never give it to me again, that I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. My guardian Angel, guard m,~ defend me; help me in everything so that my Eden may flourish arid be the instrument that draws all men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen.

(In Honor of Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child of the Divine Will)

Singer Dana seeks Irish presidency By

ClAN MOLLOY

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) The Irish Catholic singer Dana has said she is willing to run in Ireland's next presidential election.

In an interview with BBC radio Aug. 6, she said she had discussed the possibility of running for the office with her husband and children.

"With their support, if I was nominated, I would be willing to give up my career and be a candidate for the presidency," she said.

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Gerry O'Mahony of the Concerned Christian Community in Dublin said Dana has indicated that she is prepared to stand for the post next October if she can secure the necessary nominations of four local authorities or 20 members of the Dail or Seanad, Ireland's lower and upper houses of parliament.

"She will be a political candidate and will reflect her great interest in the spiritual and moral welfare of youth, in keeping with the great Christian principles, voted for by the people of Ireland, in the Irish Constitution," added O'Mahony.

Nomjnations forprt(sidential candidates close at the end of September,. and so far no candidate , . I " â&#x20AC;˘. ,'0'" ,"" , 'has been officially! declared.

Dana, '45',' whose reai n'a:ine is Rosemary 'Brown: lives in Birmingham, Ala. She won the hearts of the¡ Irish nation if) 1970 when she won th~ Eurovisiqn Song 1.'''

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Contest, an international pop festival, singing "All Kinds of Everything."

Even though she was born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, she represented the Irish Republic in the annual, televised panEuropean contest. It was the first time Ireland won the contest, though the country now holds the record for the most Eurovision wins.

She has sung for Pope John Paul II three times: in 1987 in New Orleans, singing "Totus Tuus" ("Totally Yours"); in 1993 at World Youth Day in Denver, singing "We Are One Body," the anthem of World Youth Day; and in 1995 in New York again sing-

ing "We Are One Body" - but this time at the pope's special request.

Her albums include several on religious themes: "The Rosary," '''Lady of Knock" and "Hail Holy Queen."

Calling on Irish Catholics to lobby politicians and local authorities for nominations for Dana, O'Mahony said a "National Prayer Crusade for God's Wili for Dana's Candidature" would be launched at [reland's national Marian shrine in Knock Aug. II - the same day that Knock hosted a national pilgrimage for priests, led by her brotherin-law, Vincentian Father Kevin Scallon.

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IRISH CATHOLIC singer Dana is pictured here pl3rforming at the 1993 World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado. (CNS/ file photo)

World Christians to abstain from indirect election in Hong Kong HONG KONG (CNS) - Catholic and Protestant church leaders say they will abstain from sending delegates to the indirect election of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's first legislature next year.

However, church leaders said they would not oppose individual church members campaigning for seats allotted to religious groups, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

The Hong Kong diocesan chancellor, Father Lawrence Lee Len, said diocesan officials disagreed with religions being classified as qualified electors because, he said, the various religions should promote religious and social harmony instead of participating in politics.

The diocese submitted an opinion paper to the government's Constitutional Affairs Bureau July 31, the last day of an eight- day public consultation on the new electorate arrangement.

The Hong Kong Diocese and the Hong Kong Christian Council,a' 20-member association of major Protestant denominations and organizations, are listed under "religion," a designated group of electors who may vote and in turn may be nominated to be legislators. Also included are The BuddhistAssocia- .

tion, Confucian Academy, Chinese Muslim Association and Taoist Association.

"It's unfair for the atheists and religions other than the six major religions here, since the present system has excluded them," Father Lee said.

The Rev. Lee Ching-chee, deputy chairwoman of the Christian Council, added that the new system also was unfair for the more numerous Protestant churches that are not members of the Christian Council.

Views inside the Christian Council are often diverse, and it is hard to have one delegate speak for the whole group, said Rev. Lee, a member of the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China.

Like the Catholic diocese, the Christian Council will not send any official delegate to be an elector, she said.

However, both church authorities said they would endorse their members' Christian identity if anyone wanted to register as an elector candidate through the religion group.

The church chooses to endorse individuals because it respects church members' political orientations, Father Lee said. In principle, priests or religious cannot participate in politics, he added.

Five Christian groups, including the diocesan Justice and Peace Commission, oppose indirect election through electors and fcnctional constituencies, saying it protects the interests of the well-off and professionals but neglects the voting rights of the nonworking se:ctor and the general public.

The principle of equity is further violated by classifying religion as an interest group and a privileged sector, the Christian groups told the government July 31 in their submission paper, which also ca:it doubt on the government's sincerity in view of the mere eight-day public consultation.

The government's propo:;ed election of the first legislature since the handover is based on the Basic Law, Hong Kong's miniconstitution passed by China's parliament, the National People's Congress. in 1990.

The legislature will have 60 seats, 20 filled by geographical constituencies through direct election, 30 by functional constituencies and 10 by an 800-member election committee of four sectors of 200 each: industrial, commercial and financial; professional; labol', social services and religion; and members of the current Provisional Legislative Council and of China':; political structures.

North Koreans await food distribution

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WASHINGTON (CNS) Following a U.S. government pledge to send 100,000 tons of food to North Korea, representatives of U.S. humanitarian organizations were seeking North Korean government approval to observe the aid distribution.

In Pyongyang, North Korea, in late July, the director of government relations for Catholic Relief Services, Mike Frank, and a representative of Mercy Corps International met the director of the North Korean government's flood rehabilitation committee to obtain approval for a proposed five-member team of U.S. observers.

Frank said tentative approval for the team was received following discussions during his July 26-29 visit to North Korea.

"We are in the process of submitting the names now (to the North Korean govemment) and we hope to get a fast tumaround," said Frank in a telephone interview Aug. 6 from the Baltimore headquarters of CRS, the overseas relief and development agency of the U.S. bishops. He added that travel arrangements were already being made so that the team could arrive in North Korea Aug. 19.

The group, to be led by Frank, would include one representative each from CRS, CARE, World Vision, Mercy Corps. International and Amigos Internacionales - all U.S. humanitarian agencies.

The three-month supply of food from the United States is to arrive in the country in late August, said Frank.

"The intention of this commitment was to fill the gap between now and the harvest in late October," he explained.

Widespread famine in North Korea is due to environmental and economic factors, said Frank.

Two years ago, floods devastated the country, and it never fully recovered, he said.

"This coincided With a downturn in their economy, and they had trouble procuring fertilizer, seeds and farming, equipment.

They were hoping to bounce back ... and stabilize with a good harvest this year, but there has been a drought," he said.

Because of the drought, up to 75 percent ofthe maize crop due in October is expected to be lost, he said, adding that "even if the rains come tomorrow, it's too late."

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to be distributed by the U.S. If approval for the team is re- ness of the situation, and to have agencies' team - as well as ceived, Frank said he expects to people respond in support of this 45,000 tons of maize and some remain in North Korea for the effort through their government "blended food" for children un- next three months. representatives and through their "I think it's going to be a long- prayers." der age 6 - - to be administered by the World Food Program, term effort and you will see a Frank said. gradual escalation of aid proThe eyes of Our Savior He said that before the food grams to North Korea," Frank were open arrives, the team would work out said.

"We would hope to have the the details of distribution with World Food Program and the involvement of the American government of North Korea.

Catholic community, whether fiThe 55,000 tons were to be nancially or through their awaredistributed to orphanages, homes for the elderly and hospitals, according to an Aug. 5 CRS statement.

The statement also said CRS has donated $250,000 to Caritas Hong Kong and Caritas Japan for North Korea emergency relief.

The most recent donation of $55,000 was given to Caritas Hong Kong in June.

Before the famine, officials in North Korea's socialist system "made a conscientious effort to make sure all sectors of society received adequate food," said Frank.

"Over the years they've set up an efficient distribution system.

But now there's a shortage of food and they're having trouble across the board.... Some have no access to food. Even the small livestock have mostly disapTHINNING NORTH KOREAN school children eat rations peared," he said. of food in a village northwest of Pyongyang in late June. A team of U.S. observers, including workers from Catholic Relief Services, were awaiting approval to monitor the distribution of 100,000 tons of food to North Korea. (CNS/Bu photo)

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Bishop (:alls for bold action on land mines

By JERRY FILTEAU WASHINGTON (CNS)- The head of the U.S. bishops' conference has urged President Clinton to take "bold action" and "seek an early global ban" on antipersonnel land mines through the Ottawa Process.

"Rapid progress towards a ban depends upon strong, unambiguous, and convincing U.S. leadership now," Bishop Anthony M. Pi Iia of Cleveland, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, told Clinton in a letter made public Aug. 5.

The letter was hand-delivered to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger July 31.

"While not without its shortcomings, the Ottawa Process offers a critical opportunity for an effective, verifiable ban on antipersonnelland mines without unnecessary delay," Bishop Pilla said.

More than 100 nations have joined the Ottawa Process, a fasttrack effort to sign a treaty by this December committing all signatories to a complete ban on anti-personnelland mines of any kind.

While the Clinton administration has declared a policy of seeking a total world ban on such land mines as soon as possible, it has declined to endorse the Ottawa Process.

Instead, it has committed itself to working through the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, which critics say could drag on for years and be entirely stalemated by opposition from a single nation suCh as China or Russia.

"Given the lack of progress in the U.N. Conference on Disarmament," Bishop Pilla wrote, "we

would hope that the V.S. will now become fully engaged in the Ottawa Process.... We believe that bold action by the United States on this vital moral question could improve dramatically prospects for achieving this goal, not in the distant future but before we begin a new century."

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., longtime leader of anti-land mine efforts in Congress, urged the president Aug. 6 to join immediately in the Ottawa Process.

"Time is running out," he said, warning that unless Clinton acted soon "the United States will be on the sidelines" when most nations of the world meet at the treaty table in Ottawa.

Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark , N.J., chairman of the U.S. bishops' International Policy Committee, gave Bishop Pilla's letter to Berger while meeting with him to discuss land mines and otherpolicy issues.

According to the bishops' media relations office, t~e archbishop: - Expressed concern about the stalemated Middle East peace process and difficulties facing Christians in the Holy Land.

- Thanked Berger for the administration's high-level opposition to restrictive religious legislation in Russia and urged similarly strong action on behalf of religious freedom in China.

- Discussed continuing problems of refugees in the Balkans, where the archhishop recently visited, and the impact of the U.S. embargo on Cuba qn humanitarian aid shipments to that nation.

Catholic parishes throughout the United States are being asked

this fall to join a national Catholic Campaign to Ban Land Mines.

Mercy Sister Janice E. Ryan, full-time volunteer coordinator of the campaign for the U.S. Catholic Conference, said a mailing on the campaign went out to the bishops in early August.

The mailing asks the bishops whether they want parish campaign kits mailed directly to their parishes or to a diocesan office which will handle distribution.

Sister Ryan said the kits, which will be sent out in September, include posters, brochures and fact sheets to educate people on land mines and the campaign to ban them. Included in the kits are suggestions for addressing the issue at the parish level through education, liturgy and social action, she said.

An estimated 25,000 people, mostly civilians, are killed or wounded every year by the more than 100 million land mines. scattered in 64 countries around the world - many of them laid during wars no longer being fought.

Pope John Paul II has called for a global ban on such weapons, and in 1995 the U.S. bishops unanimously supported a ban.

A survey of more than 1,000 Americans released Aug. 5 by the National Security News Service, found that more than two-thirds of those who expressed an opinion about a global land-mine ban wanted the U.S. to support such a ban.

Fifty-five percent of those polled favored a ban, 26.5 percent opposed it and 18.5 percent said they had no opinion, the report said.

A Faith That Shines Brighter Than Gold

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Their animals have been poisoned. All for the sake of gold. Yet, the people of the Luzon region of the Philippines have not lost their most precious possession - their faith. A local priest, Father Father Ben (striped shirl) sticks with Ben BeImer, his community through thick and thin. has helped make sure of that. Despite the continuous gold mining that threatens their land, prayer and the Good News of Christ has given the people of Luzon strength and hope for the future.

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THEANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River -;- Fri., Aug. -15, 1997

Emmitsburg's Mother Seton School has lived mis'sion since 1810

By SUZANNE WHITMORE

The Catholic Review, Baltimore's EMMITSBURG, Md. (eNS) archdiocesan newspaper.

She said that in the 1960s and - Mother Seton School is the oldest parochial school in the '70s the school had one lay United States but it faces modern . teacher and 17 sisters. Today, of challenges as it tries to maintain the sisters there, only one is a fullthe mission of its foundress, St. time teacher.

Many generations later and Elizabeth Ann Seton.

That mission is to make sure two moves away from its origithe education it offers is the best nal building, the ~alues of the it can be and remains affordable school's first days still provide the to the families it serves. St. Eliza- foundation for the current路 stubeth Ann Seton, the first Ameri- dents' education and developcan-born saint and foundress of ment. the Daughters of Charity, opened "We've found that Mother Sethe Emmitsburg school in 1810. ton School epitomizes the ideal She guided her community to in Catholic education. It reindedicate their lives to help the forces the values we teach at poor, to nurse the sick and to teach home," said Kathy Moore of Frederick, Md. Three of her chilchildren about the Good News.

The independent school, lo- dren have graduated from the cated in the Archdiocese of Bal- school while two others now attimore, has the support of 13 par- tend and one is waiting to go ishes and has students from Mary- there. land and close-by Pennsylvania.

"We have a strong spirituality It is led by principal Sister in the school. .. ," added Val Mary Catherine Conway, a Mentzer, a parent from Daughter of Charity. Four other Gettysburg, Pa. sisters are also on staff along with What students learn in their re20 lay teachers. ligion and other classes they can Sister Conway returned to practice through a variety ofcomMother Seton School in 1995 af- munity service programs the ter a 16-year hiatus. She had pre- school offers. "Community serviously taught first grade at vice" is a cornerstone of the Mother Seton School from 1968 school's philosophy. to 1979.

Students have raised money for At that time, there were 600 the Johns Hopkins Hospital, constudents in grades one through ducted food drives, collected reeight. Now there are 330, she told cycled cans for their local fire de-

partment and raised money for a halfway house in New York.

A program that pairs seventhgraders with residents of a local nursing home has formed special relationships between the children and the seniors.

The 12-year-olds visit the nursing home once a month as a class and are trained by the staff on issues relating to senior citizens.

Students also drop in on the residents in between the class visits.

Another program is "Prayer Partners" that has older students teaching Christian values by example to the younger ones.

Mother Seton School is also gearing up fortoday's technological advances, thanks to financing from foundation grants and help from benefactors.

The first phase of a technology plan begins in September with construction of a new computer area within its existing media center. The next phase calls for fully computerizing the media center and placing computers in every classroom, increasing the school's Internet access and networking the entire computer system. ''We have made a big effort to avoid being a rich, private school; instead, we have tried to be affordable to our.famiiies," said Sister Conway. ''But we want the best programs too. That is really our mission. We try to keep.true to that."

(School New~~ Stang lists athlete/schola,rs Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, recently announced that this year's John O'Brien Scholar Athlete Award was given to Abigail Feeney of Assonet.

Scholar/Athlete awards were presented to seniors at the Baccalaureate Mass in June.

The John C. O'Brien Scholar

son of Sally and Gus Santos, will be attending the University of Richmond.

The Gilbert Barboza Unsung Hero Award is presented to the senior student-athlete who exemplifies the spirit of cooperation, generosity, and behind the scenl~S work typical of Barboza's li fe.

This student athlete is an important member of his team but usu-

ABIGAIL FEENEY Athlete Award is presented to the student/athlete who best exemplifies the qualities the late athl~tic director, teacher, and coach believed and practiced during his life. This senior is a top student and outstand- . ing athlete who also possesses a spirit of munificence.

Abby captained the teams on which she played (field hockey, basketball, softball), leads by example, and maintains the highest academic standards. The daughter of John and Cheryl Feeney, she will be attending St. Michael's College in the fall.

The Theresa Dougall Award for the outstanding senior female student-athlete and the Carlin Lynch Award for the outstanding senior male student-athlete are presented to multisport athletes who lead by example. They are leaders through their words of encouragement to teammates and through their actions on the fields of play.

Tracy Jackson of Westport is the Theresa Dougall Award winner

MICHAEL SANTOS ally does not receive the n:cognition he or she deserves. n,is year there are two recipients: Rachel Bastarache of Acushnet and

RACHEL BASTARCHE Jonathan Perry of New Bedford.

Rachel, daughter of Loui~;e and Robert Bastarache, will attend Salve Regina University. Jon, son of Barry and Tove Perry, will attend UMASS-Dartmouth.

TRACY JACKSON

PRINCIPAL SISTER Mary-Catherine Conway listens to the concerns of a young student at Mother Seton School in Emmitsburg, Md. The oldest parochial school in the United States tries to maintain its traditional mission and provide an affordable Catholic education amid modern challenges. (CNS/Walker photo)

and the Carlin Lynch Award recipient is Michael Santos of Fairhaven.

Tracy, daughter of John and Paula Jackson, will be attending Franklin Pierce College next fall. Michael,

JONATHAN PERRY

THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Our Rock and Role What do you really want to hear?

By

CHARLIE MARTIN

Listen Hey you're now thirsty Walking in the desert All alone Hey you're now searching Lost in isolation From your sloul The bullets )fou bite From the palin you request You're finding harder To digest And the answers you seek Are the ones you destroy Your anger's; well deployed.

Hey why can't you listen?

Hey why can't you listen?

Hey why can't you listen?

As love screams everywhere Hey you now hunger Feeding your mind with selfishness Hey you now wander Aimlessly around Your consciclusness Your prophecies fail And your thoughts become weak Silence creates necessity You're clothing yourself In the shields of despair Your courage now impaired You crucify elll honesty No signs you see Do you bel ieve And all your words Just twist and turn Reviving just To crash and burn You're fighting To the bitter end If only your heart Could open IUp And listen.

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Written'by Ed Roland Sung by Coillective Soul .

Copyright (c) 1996 by SugarfUzz Music ,

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DO YOU listen well?

Most of us could do better at this essential skill. According to Collective Soul's new hit "Listen," without genuine listening, you can get "lost in isolation from your souL" Indeed, life would improve substantially "if only your heaL! could open up and listen."

An important question for any teen is, Who should I lis-

ten to? , Here are just a f~w suggestions: ' '.

1. First, be sure to listen to • I yourself.

I Doing this reqoires that you slow your life :down and pay attention to yo~r thoughts and feelings. Unfortunately, few people actuall!y do this.

Instead, people reflct to the moment. '

They forget: to pause and ask themselves about the consequences of a choice they are about to make or an action they are about to undertake. Without this type of reflection, real wisdom and guidance are lost.

2. Listen to your parents.

I realize that: this statement might not be well-received by some. Yet I want to express this point of view.

Parents,just: like everyone else on the planet, are imperfect. However, there is a difference between imperfect and irrelevant. Most parents truly care about their teens' well-being.

To consider what your parents have to say about life and the situations you're encountering is a way to attain added insight. Yes, I understand that you ultimately make your own choices. But don't automatically tune out what your parents say.

3. Listen to your friendsyour true friends, that is.

There is a big difference between a friend's caring words and the advice of a peer group. True friends want you to follow values, especially YOl.~r own. They can see when ypur a,ctions violate yourown standards. They call you back to'thqse choices . ~hat, indeecf,:'manifes~,~he best III you., :'.

4~ Listen,to the'voice of God.::·, 'Sornetimespod may seerr\ eltisive; ,God's will m.ay be .diffictilfto discern. Yet, a pr'ayer 'for ;God,'~ guidance never goe·s' unanswered; though ~he, a:nswers' some-: times come from unexpected places. , ' -Learning to listen well takes practice. Also required is a clear' willingness to listen. ' Work:on becoming a better listener today.

Your comments are always welcome. Please address: Charlie Martin, 7125W 2008, Rockport, IN 47635.

Fri., Aug. 15, 1997

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Teen Self-Mutilation

By CHRISTOPHER

CARSTENS

Perhaps it's because "more acHe had a bland calmness as he ceptable" forms of body mutilation talked about his life in ninth grade. have become stylish. Tattoos are School wasn't much fun because, really scars, after all. Lots of kids he said, "mostly teachers don't like pierce their ears, their noses, their me." He wasn't involved in many belly buttons, and some wear studs activities; he didn't seem interested through their tongues and pierced in anything. earrings on their eyelids.

I kept asking questions, looking All these actions proclaim, "I can for points of connection, hunting endure pain, and it makes me cool." for someplace I could contact his Sadly, it becomes harder to stop inner world. as the habit becomes embedded.

He didn't have a lot of friends.

Working in the emergency room, He had a girlfriend. He didn't like I see more and more dangerous much music on the radio. He wasn't wounds. Recently a young woman happy with his parents.

I spoke with talked calmly about Then I asked about the three- opening the veins on her neck. But inch letters scratched on his arm, she was frightened because she wanted to stop, and she felt like she and all of a sudden he lit up.

"They're band symbols. I did it couldn't. with a razor blade." His face glowed Treating the urge for self-mutiwith excitement. lation is difficult. But dealing with I asked why he did it. the damage it can cause is harder.

"I like the way it feels, cutting If you find yourself engaged in myself. Sometimes I do it when I'm self-mutilation, stop now. If you really down and depressed. It makes can't stop, get help.

If you have a friend who is cutme feel better. And sometimes I do it when I'm having fun. It's all the ting herself, make sure her parents same. I like it." know. Yes, you may lose a friend.

His excitement grew as he told But you may help someone who can me about a recent evening when receive help nowhere else. he'd opened a vein on his arm with Don't keep the secret. It may nol a needle. "The blood just poured out get better by itself. all over, it was really cool!"

Your comments are welcome.

The whole discussion was pretty disturbing. It wasn't comforting Please address: Dr. Christopher when he said, "My girlfriend does Carstens, do Catholic News Serit too. Sometimes we cut on our- vice, 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017. selves together."

I've had a number of these conversations'recently. A small na- . tional epidemic of self-mutilation is going on'. Kids are cutting themselves with razors, burning their skin with cigarettes or,lighters, or Recently, fou~ students ~rom St. poking themselves again and again with needles, pins or bits of ,wire.

John the EvangelIst School III Attle. Mostly, they don't ~eem suicidal. boro were honored by a local Elks . , They don't consciously want to be , club.

Att~ndlllg the ?anquet h~ld to dead ..Their goal is to induce pain and sometimes to visibly damage recoglllze outstandlllg.youths III the . their bodies. Some draw a great deal Attleboro area were eIghth gr~ders o(grat"ification from shoWing off Kath~yn Blaha and Todd ~Ixon their scars. , and Sixth grad~rs Marc St. Pierre Girls,do it more often than boys, and M~ghan Simmons. . and self-rilUtilation is particularly ~atle and ~odd were honored for common in young women who th~lr leaders~lp and wer~ presented have been the victims of sexual WIth key challiS and certificates. :t:JIarc and Meghan. won $100 abuse.

This is about kids who feel their s,avlllgs bonds, ~ey ~hal.ns and ~er­ lives are beyond their control. Feel- tlficates for theIr wlllnlllg en.trles, ing unable to affect what goes on chosen from a field of 400, III an around them, they focus their con- Elks sponsored ess~y con~e,st. The fusion and rage inward. Inflicting contest theme was ,;Vhy It s Okay this pain demonstrates their control to Say No to Drugs. of their own bodies.

Our Savior chose to In some ways, this is much the same pattern we saw with an earlier teen epidemic, bulimia.

Still, I've been seeing teens since the early '70s, and I'm startled by how much of this is going on. even those who hated Him Why now?

St. John's youth honored

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LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Christian musical group ;'Brethren" will perf<:>rm a free concert on . Saturday Aug. 16th at 6:30 p.m.

Those attending are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and come early for the 4:30 Mass. In case of rain the concert will be indoors. than past events.

A healing service will be held Due to limited space and also because notices of on Sunday Aug. 17th at 2:00 p.m. strictly parish affairs normally It will be led by Fr. Ernest appear in a parish's own bul- Corriveau, M.S., Shrine Director.

The 17th annual Polish Pilgrimletin, we are forced to limit items to events of general in- age Day is slated for Sunday Aug. terest. Also, we do not nor- 24. The festivities begin at 1:30 mally carry notices of p.m. and include pfocessions, a livfundraising activities, which ing rosary, music, the Sacrament of may be advertised at our regu- Reconciliation, and the celebration lar rates, obtainable from The of mass. The service is in Polish Anchor business office, tel. and will be celebrated by Most Rev. Ignacy Jez. All events. are open, to (508) 675-7151.

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Students take pro-life message to the streets:

By MARY ANN WYAND

of her love for babies and. her desire to speak out against the 4,200 INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) Step by step through state after legal abortions performed e:ach day. state, 15 collegians have been car"I think the youths of today, such rying the'pro-life message to as ourselves, are called to do somePAX CHRISTI, CENTERVILLE Americans this summer in their thing radical," said Larkin. "I also stand outside abortion cli:ilics, but Several members of the parish third annual walk for life.

They began their pilgrimage, this walk makes a point to other will give a report on their attendance at the Pax Christi USA Na- called "Coast to Capital: Crossroads youths that they need to get intional Assembly and 25th anniver- '97 Walk for Life," May 19 in San volved in the pro-life movement."

Larkin said her "heart ,goes out sary celebration where the theme Francisco. They planned to end it was "Proclaiming the Peace of today on the steps of the U.S. Su- to the mothers and fathers affected by abortion" and she hopes to Christ: the Pilgrimage Continues." preme Court in Washington.

The walk is sponsored by stu- spread the need for healing through All are welcome to attend the meeting scheduled for Monday, Aug. 18 dents at the Franciscan University post-abortion reconciliatie,n.

The collegians take turns walkat 7:30 p.m. a~ Our Lady of Victory of Steubenville, Ohio. They put it together 'independent of their ing day and night to stay on schedChurch, Centerville. school, though university president ule, she said. "We stayed in St. Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan Louis for a week and gave: talks at CATHOLIC MEMORIAL different parishes and t.;) youth offers prayers for the walkers.

HOMEjFR Staff members of the National groups, so to keep up our s:hedule, A Competency Assessment Pro- Conference of Catholic Bishops' we have had to walk at night." grams workshop to be hosted by Office of Pro-Life Activities At times, the record high temCatholic Memorial Home from 8 planned to welcome the collegians peratures in July caused th,~ road to a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, will to the nation's capital. blur out of Larkin's vision, she said. provide healthcare workers infor- .

Once in Washington, the walk"I've been so hot and dehymation needed to coinply with Joint ers were scheduled to participate in drated, but warm welcomes from Commission standards regarding a pro-life liturgy at the Basilica of everyone, even roadside construcassessments of staff competency. the National Shrine of the Immacu- tion workers, keep us going," she Further information: Anne Marie late Conception on today's Feast of added . .Kelly, RNC, tel. 679-0011. the Assumption and a pro-life rally The walkers completed an averon Capitol Hill Aug. 16. age of20 miles a day in shifts, takST. MARY'S, MANSFIELD During their hot and dusty trek ing turns resting in a recreational Natural family planning by the through Indianapolis July 29, sev- van accompanying them, said reCouple to Couple League,a series eral students carried rosaries and cent Franciscan University graduof monthly classes begins Sun. prayed silently as they walked. ate Molly Crotty from Napa, Calif.

Sept. 14. Program runs from 2-4 They interrupted their prayers, but She deciaed to walk because p.m. Pre-register: 399-4730. not their five-mile- an-hour journey, abortion is "the most important isto share their stories with The Cri- sue we need to pay attention to toOL VICTORY/OL HOPE,. terion, the archdiocesan newspaper day."

CENTERVILLE! of Indianapolis.

"We've had a lot of good reW. BARNSTABLE "I want to get more people to sponses to our walk," she said.

Healing service Mon. Aug. II. witness against abortion," said "People look to us with a lot of reat 7 p.m. Corpus Christi Parish Adam Redmon, a Birmingham,' spect. It's been really encouraging Center, E. Sandwich. All welcome.

Ala., resident who attends Jefferson to us."

Technical Community College' in Crossroads '97 coordinator AnSteubenviUe and plans to transfer drew Doran of Hornell, N.Y., ajunnext year to Franciscan University ior theology major, started preparthere and major in theology. ing for the third annual pro-life "Through my consecration to walk last November to speak out Mary, I wanted to do something against what the pope des(:ribes as .To ensure that you will with the pro-life movement to help the "culture of death" in today's continue getting your Ansave babies. This, to me, is the best society. way to do it, to be a walking wit"It's been a great opportunity to chor promptly, please ness to the sanctity of human life," walk from San Francisco to Washsend both your old and he said. ington, D.C., wearing a pm-life Tnew addresses to: As they have walked U.S. high- shirt, and talk with everyone who The Anchor ways and byways. the collegians will hear us speak, to reach as many have talked with countless people people as possible," Doran said.

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"It's really amazing the support we has been the greatest part about this We need your old address have out there," Redmon said. walk," he added. "We want to ento be sure we're changing Franciscan· University senior courage people to become active in Christy Larkin of Naples, Fla., said the pro-life movement and get out the right subscription. she felt called to spend three months to the abortion clinics to pray." walking across the country because

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