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By Joseph Motta Cape Cod. The name evokes good memories. Shopping in Provincetown. Celebrity-hunting in Hyannis. A good meal in Harwich.

Maybe just putting your feet up in Falmouth.

"I just thought it was going to be a big beach," said David McCahey, II, of Belfast, Northern Ireland. David stayed in Mashpee for part of the summer with Andrew and Margaret Carmichael, members of Christ the King parish, which serves residents of Mashpee and Cotuit.

David and fellow Belfaster Stephen Maddox, 10, also a Carmichael guest, were two of 78 children brought to America by the Cape Cod Irish Children's Program. Carmichael is the program's director.

The boys became good friends during their stay, Carmichael said.

David is Catholic, Stephen Protestant. In Belfast, such a friendship would for the most part be difficult to begin or maintain, due to the political, social and economic climate.

Although the problems at issue are only tangentially religious, Carmichael said, the factions involved are labeled Catholic and Protestant and lines are drawn to the point that it is often dangerous for a member of one side to associate with a member of the other.

Of the Irish children who came to the Cape from June 30 to August II , for 60 it was a first visit.

Funded by donations from private parties and fraternal organizations, the program sponsors a child once, providing funds for transportation and paying insurance costs.

Host families pay for any repeat visits.

Children apply to be considered for the journey at their schools. 10 and ll-year-olds are eligible.

"Host families provide love, room and board," Carmichael said, "in that order."

The program has existed on Cape Cod for 12 years and is the country's oldest organization of its sort.

Carmichael, director for his third and final year, said New Bedford, North Attleboro and Fairhaven families have also hosted childrren through the Cape program.

Many Irish children's programs in other parts of the nation are modeled after the Cape's he said.

"Close to 1500 children come to America each summer," Carmichael noted. "It has to have an impact. The children are never going to forget that they played with children of other faiths while they were here."

The retired sales representative and his wife have been hosting children for seven years. Stephen and David were their II th and 12th charges thus far.

"The boys haven't formed any prejudices at their age," he said.

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. Related stories on page 12 WASHINGTON (NC) - Moral church be completely faithful to its theologian Father Charles E. Cur- full and authentic teaching," he ran may no longer teach as a said.

Catholic theologian because of his Bishop Matthew Clark of dissent from church teachings, the Rochester, N.Y., Father Curran's Vatican said in a statement released home diocese, said, "In recogniAug. 18 in Washington. tion of the ultimate authority of "You will no longer be consid- the Holy Father who has conered suitable nor eligible to exer- firmed this decision and in a spirit cise the function of a professor of of collegiality with him, I accept Catholic theology," wrote Cardi- the decision as the final word on nal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of this matter and urge all members the Congregation for the Doctrine of our community to accept it in a of the Faith, the Vatican agency similar spirit." that has been investigating Father Bishop Clark earlier had urged Curran's teachings since 1979. a compromise which would allow Archbishop James Hickey of Father Curran to continue teachWashington, chancellor of The ing on the Catholic University Catholic University of America theology faculty. In his statement where Father Curran has taught he emphasized that Father Curran for the past 20 years, announced remains in "good standing as a that he has "initiated the with- priest." drawal of Father Curran's ecclesiBishop James Malone of astical license to teach Catholic Youngstown, Ohio, president of theology." the National Conference of Cath"Father Curran," he added, "will olic Bishops, said the basic issue in enjoy the right to the procedures the Curran case "concerns the fact of due process set forth in the stat- that someone who does not accept the teaching of the church on cruutes" of the university.

Archbishop Hickey said he "ful- cial points cannot reasonably exly" supported the Holy See'sjudg- pect to occupy a position which ment on Father Curran. "The Holy requires that he teach what the' Father and the bishops have the church teaches."

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FATHER MARCEL H. BOUCHARD, parochial vicar at St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth, participates in the 17th annual Blessing of the Fleet, held Jast Sunday in New Bedford Harbor. Father Bouchard took the place of the late Father John F. Hogan, St. Julie's pastor, who had participated in the festival since it began. In tribute to the priest, guests aboard the review vessel, the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant, dropped long~stemmed red roses into the sea. (Rosa photo)

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Fri., Aug. 22, 1986

4 new principals named for diocesan schools Sister Michaelinda Plante, RS M, superintendent for elementary schools in the diocese of Fall River, has announced the naming of new principals at four schools.

Sister Lea Malley, RSM, will be principal at St. George's School, Westport; James F. Brown will head St. Jean's School, Fall River; Mary Mello will direct St. JamesSt. John School, New Bedford; and Patricia Pasternak has been named principal of DominIcan Academy, Fall River.

Sister Malley holds a bachelor's degree from Catholic Teachers' College, Providence, and a master of arts from Rhode Island College.

She has additional credits in Catholic education from Boston College and is an active member of the Mercy Elementary Education Network, a planning committee for the Sisters of Mercy. She taught nearly every elementary grade before serving five years as principal of a regional elementary school in the Providence diocese.

Brown, a Rhode Island native, earned a bachelor's degree from Maryknoll Seminary in New York and a master's degree from Rhode

Island College. Before entering the Catholic school system, he taught in Rhode Island and Massachusetts public schools, and was principal of the Longfellow School in Millville. An Air Force veteran, he is married and the father of four children, now adults.

Miss Mello is a Providence native and a graduate of Catholic Teachers College. She received her master's degree from Rhode Island College. She comes to St. James-St. John as an experienced principal, having served at St. John's School, Attleboro, St. Ann's School, Readville and most recently in the Westport public school system. She is fluent in Portuguese, which will assist her in contacts with the many Portuguese-speaking parents of St. James-St. John pupils.

Mrs. Pasternak is Dominican Academy's first lay principal.

Holder of a bachelor's degree from Rhode Island College, she is working toward a master's degree. She taught at St. Stanislaus School in Fall River before joining the Dominican Academy staff and she will receive certification as a principal durin~ the coming year.

Prevost alumni meet Over 800 alumni of Fall River's former Msgr. Prevost High School gathered for a reunion banquet last Saturday at White's restaurant, Westport.

Themed "We Remember Prevost," the event was chaired by Paul A. Dumais, a 1939 graduate of the school for boys.

Destroyed in.a 1968 fire, Prevost graduated 1,416 young men from 1938 to 1972, merging with Bishop Connolly High School after the fire. Connolly is now coeducational.

Operated by Fall River's Notre Dame de Lourdes parish, Prevost was staffed by the Brothers of Christian Instruction, who were represented in force at the reunion.

Brother Roger Millette, FIC, was the reunion's honorary chairman.

A Mass, concelebrated by alumni who have entered the priesthood, was held earlier in the day at Notre Dame Church. Father Paul Carrier, SJ, a 1967 Prevost graduate,

was homilist and principal celebrant. A brothers' choir was accompanied by Normand A. Gingras, '44.

At the banquet, Dumais, founder of both the Prevost alumni association and its scholarship program, was honored as "Mr. Prevost" in gratitude for his dedication to his alma mater.

Father Arthur Levesque, '38, gave the banquet invocation and Fall River native Brother Robert Francoeur, a member ofthe faculty of Walsh College, operated by the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Canton, 0., was the main speaker. The National Anthem was sung

by Robert Chouinard, '48.

Others present included Brothers Patrick Menard, provincial, and Brother Ignatius Sylvester, assistant to the community's superior general.

Already planned for Aug. 15, 1987, is an alumni testimonial to the brothers, who will be completing their 60th year of service in the Fall River diocese.

ON A DARK and rainy August Sunday, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin greets parishioners and visitors at St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth. Left, Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, pastor; right, Father Mark R. Hession, diocesan tribunal vice-chancellor. (Dean photo)

Cardinal Law visits Poland WARSAW, Poland (NC) Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston laid flowers on the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko Aug. 13 as a tribute to the murdered activist priest.

Cardinal Law, who was visiting Poland Aug. 12-20, was accompanied by the country's primate, Cardinal J ozef Glemp of Gniezno and Warsaw.

In remarks prepa~ed for the ceremony, Cardinal Law said Father Popieluszko "was a tireless witness to the truth that you are the protector of the rights of those who, through their work, exercise the human dominion over creation."

Father Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of the now-banned trade union Solidarity, was murdered in 1984. Four Polish security police were convicted of his murder.

Cardinal Law and a ll3-member delegation traveled to Poland at the invitation of Cardinal Franciszek Macharski of Krakow. He was scheduled to travel to the shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in south central Poland and deliver a sermon the evening before the Aug. 15 feast of the Assumption.

He also planned to visit Nowa Huta, on the eastern side of

Krakow. The city, built in the 1940s, was planned by the Communist Party to be the birthplace of the "New Man," emancipated from religion.

However, city residents continuously filed petitions for permission to build a church, especially after the site of a small chapel was taken over for use as a school.

The 1967 groundbreaking for Church of the Queen of Poland was attended by the then-arch-

Sister Goulet The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Tuesday at the Little Sisters of the Poor chapel in Holy Family Residence, Scranton, Pa., for Sister St. Madeline Goulet, 89, who died Aug. 15.

A native of Fall River, she was the daughter of the late Napoleon and Marie Anne (Dionne) Goulet.

She entered the Little Sisters in 1918, serving the aged poor throughout her active life.

She is survived by three sisters and four brothers: Mrs. Romeo Perrault, Somerset; Sister Marie Anne de I'Euchariste, also a Little Sister of the Poor, Cincinnati; Jeanne E. Goulet, Somerville.

Napoleon and Joseph Goulet, Fall River; Bernard Goulet, Alexandria, Va.; Julien Goulet, Manchester, N.H.

Butcher honored

AMONG ALUMNI of Prevost High School are these priests, flanked on the left by Paul Dumais, chairman of last Saturday's reunion, and Permanent Deacon Bernard Theroux and on the right by Roland Masse, an expert on the history of Notre Dame parish and its director of maintenance. (Torchia photo)

BELLMORE, N.Y. (NC) -Artist Samuel Butcher, creator of the Precious Moments line of greeting cards and figurines, has been named recipient ofthe 1986 Damien-Dutton Award.

The award, given annually by the Bellmore-based Damen-Dutton Society for Leprosy Aid, was established in 1953 to recognize a person or group that has made an outstanding contribution to some aspect of leprosy care.

Butcher created a special figurine and a special edition of his best-selling Bible exclusively for the work of the Damien-Dutton Society, which is named for Father Damien de Vuester and Brother Joseph Dutton, both famous for their work with the lepers of Hawaii's Moloksi Island.

bishop of Krakow, Karol Wotyla, now Pope John Paul II. Local Poles and the Germans who helped them build the church, shaped like an ark, did not have machinery available, so the people used 2 million stones from local mountain streams to build the outer walls.

Kentucky bishops urge war on porn LOUISVILLE, Ky., (NC) Kentucky's five bishops recently urged Catholics and others in the state "to enlist now" in the "war on pornography...

The bishops also called for a campaign to enact an effective state "cable decency" law to keep televised pornography out of the home. They urged community efforts to set standards and urged people to complain effectively about "pornography flourishing and corrupting their own neighborhoods."

The letter was signed by Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly and Auxiliary Bishop Charles G. Maloney of Louisville; Bishop William A. Hughes and Auxiliary Bishop J. Kendrick Williams of Covington; and Bishop John J. McRaith of Owensboro.

Calling pornography an evil that "degrades us as a people and as a nation," the bishops asked parishes to make a consistent effort to "enlist the good will of media professionals in self-regulation." The bishops also asked people "to demonstrate public interest in the dignity of the human person" and "to ally with other interested citizens to seek to remove pornography" through public opinion and legislation.

Pope to France VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II will be in 'southeastern France Oct. 4-7, making stops at Taize, home of an ecumenical community of monks; Ars, where St. John Vianney, the Cure of Ars, worked; Dardilfy, the saint's birthplace; Annecy and Paray-le-Moniai, where First Friday devotion to the Sacred Heart originated.

Nicaraguan church-state meeting scheduled

By NC News Service the Nicaraguan bishops' conferCardinal Miguel Obando Bravo ence.

He said the government was of Managua has announced that ready to meet in August, but the Nicaraguan church and state ofbishops were unable to do so ficials will meet Sept. 4 to discuss because of illness and travel plans. church-state relations, Vatican Radio reported Aug. 16.

Ortega noted that in early But an official at the Nicaraguan August, the government also told Embassy in Washington said the the new papal nuncio to Nicarameeting has been scheduled for gua, Archbishop Paolo Giglio, it Sept. 9, following Nicaraguan wanted to reach an "understandPresident Daniel Ortega's return ing" with the Vatican. from a meeting of non-aligned News reports Aug. 16 indicated nations in Zimbabwe. that Cardinal John J. O'Connor of Vatican Radio reported that the New York was to meet with Ortega cardinal made the announcement to discuss the expulsions of the Aug. 15 while in San Salvador, EI two churchmen while the cardinal Salvador. He also reiterated a call was in Santo Domingo, Dominifor the Nicaraguan government to can Republic. Reports said church allow the return of two exiled' officials reportedly canceled the church leaders, Bishop Pablo Anmeeting with no explanation. tonio Vega of the Juigalpa PrelaMario Paredes, who accompanture and Msgr. Bismarck Carballo. ied Cardinal O'Connor on his trip, Sophia Clark, first secretary at said church officials never planned the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washa meeting and that any announceington, said Aug. 18 that Ortega ment of it came from the Nicarawould meet with Cardinal Obando guan government.

Bravo Sept. 9 to set an agenda for Paredes, head of the New York a meeting with the full bishops' Archdiocese's North East Regional conference.

Pastoral Center for Hispanics, said The government wants to do the cardinal was in the Dominican "everything in its power to better Republic to attend the dedication relations" with the church, she of a new church in Santiago de los said.

Caballeros and to visit several She added that the expulsions barrios. of Bishop Vega and Msgr. Carballo will be discussed, but the The announcement of a new agenda will address the overall effort at church-state dialogue folsituation of church-state tensions. lowed several months of worsenAt an Aug. 14 press conference, ing relations between the NicaraOrtega said his government and guan government, bishops and the the country's bishops planned to Vatican. open a dialogue sometime in SepMonths of charges and countertember. He said the dialogue was charges between the bishops and agreed upon in an exchange of let- the government were followed by ters between the government and the exiling of Msgr. Carballo and

Bishop Vega, two prominent figures in the confrontation.

The government accused Bishop Vega of supporting the Reagan administration's successful effort to push $100 million in aid to antiSandinista rebels through Congress. Msgr. Carballo, the Managua archdiocesan communications director, was refused re-entry to Nicaragua June 28 after attending a Paris conference seeking to establish dialogue between the government and the rebels.

Cardinal Obando Bravo, president of 'the Nicaraguan bishops'

conference, said July I that the exiling of Msgr. Carballo made the chances for church-state dialogue impossible. Three days later, the Sandinista government expelled Bishop Vega, the conference vice president.

Pope John Paul II criticized the exilings as human rights violations.

But on Aug. 'II, Ortega asked the bishops' conferences of countries with diplomatic links to Nicaragua to help create a "climate for dialogue" with the church.

That call came after his attempt during a late July visit to the Uni-

ted States to meet with U.S. bishops' conference officials.

The U.S. bishops declined a meeting because the exiling of Msgr. Carballo and Bishop Vega remained "unresolved." The U.S. bishops had protested the expulsion of the churchmen.

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themoorin~ The Lord's Good Servant The honest smile, the brilliant twinkle, the kind word and the open heart are but some of the memories one has of Father John Hogan.

Few who met him, from the most callous to the most caring, were untouched by his gentle candor. It is remarkable when a person is so unusually loved by so many. It's almost a miracle when such a person happens also to be a priest. But Father Hogan ministered to young and old with such a special touch that even when he had to say no or give a dissenting word, one would still leave reflecting how nice he was.

That was the John Hogan so many thousands knew. That was the John Hogan who was father to so many. That was the John Hogan who was so unique in this crass world.

Like so many other brother priests, I remember a very gifted Father路Hogan. For 41 years, he was very special to me.

Without his guidance, his interest and I am sure his prayers, I would never have embarked on the journey of faith that has been my life.

What is true of me is also true of many others who first came to the realization of vocation through the ministry of a young priest who came路 to St. Lawrence parish in New Bedford when we were in grammar school. The spirit of Holy Family School and of St. Lawrence parish was enkindled and renewed by his vitality as well as by his delighful impishness.

He gave us life and led us to a life that was the fulfillment of the one he as a priest believed in. What he did for diocesan vocations may be seen in the many who today serve the church he loved so much. Amid all the tributes to his memory, I feel that this will rank as the greatest.

Among us who serve in the diocesan priesthood, Father' Hogan's love for the priestly life will be most sorely missed.

Wherever he went, he was priest, he encouraged priesthood. In spite of all difficulties, he exuded the charism of the ministering servant which after all is the essence of this special vocation.

To be sure, his positive personality and many talents were gifts that helped him greatly. What was so won~erful was that he did not hesitate to use them in his priestly life. There are others who have such qualities and even greater ones, yet they so often either fail to recognize their abilities or refuse to use them. As a result, many suffer loss, especially themselves.

Father Hogan knew his gifts and for over two generations he gave them to the church he served. He also knew well his limitations and dealt with them in a spirit that made him sympathetic to those who sometimes have no ear, no voice and no hope. His gifted awareness and spirit of compassion were. the very special tools that helped John Hogan lead a life of selfless servanthood that influenced not only the parochial but the diocesan family.

We who knew him so well have happy memories of him. It will be wonderful if we can keep these memories alive.

This is especially true of the priests who were once his pupils. In our own selfishness, we mourn his loss, but as priests we ask his prayers that somehow we can continue to reflect his spirit in order that we also may be good and faithful servants of Jesus the Priest.

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'The good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.' Provo 27:9 Fake abortion clinics

Pro-life image feared hurt

By Stephenie Overman WASHINGTON (NC) - Phony abortion clinics which pressure women to carry their babies to term hurt both the women and the credibility of the anti-abortion movement, some pro-lifers fear.

The U.S. bishops' pro-life director and directors oflong-established programs for women with problem pregnancies expressed concern after reports that Planned Parenthood of New York City asked Congress to investigate bogus clinics.

Planned Parenthood and the New York Metropolitan Religious Coalition, an abortion rights group, say fake clinics imply they perform abortions and then frighten women with inaccurate information and pictures of aborted fetuses. Some of these clinics have been sued, charged with misrepresentation, practicing medicine without a license and trademark infringement.

Among the clinics facing legal actions is a Texas clinic operated by the Pearson Foundation, a St. Louis-based anti-abortion group, which was ordered to tell clients it is not an abortion clinic. A trial for a permanent injunction was set for next month.

Another Pearson clinic in California was ordered not to advertise as a clinic in the Yellow Pages.

A spokesman for the- Pearson Foundation, which reportedly has about 200 clinics, said the organization had.no comment.

Father Edward Bryce, director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for ProLife Activities, said anyone using deception "doe~ not serve the best interest of the mother or the baby in the long run. " There's no need for any clinic to "cook the numbers" to make abortion look bad, Father Bryce said.

"The damages are many and real. " "I would offer as a guideline to anyone presuming to serve a woman who is pregnant to present the truth with a compassion that is sensitive to the real human need of the mother and child. The major responsibility would be to assist the mother in marshalling the resources to choose life," he said.

But, he continued, while some clinics may distort the. facts, many abortion clinics also are not being honest about the issue and do not really offer counseling.

Denise Cocciolone, national director of Birthright, whose local affiliates try to convince women not to have abortions, said she is fearful that fake clinics "are. a danger to all other pregnancy services...

Since 1968 Birthright has offered help and counseling for women with problem pregnancies. "If asked the question, 'will you help me get an abortion?' we have to be honest" and say no, Ms. Cocciolone said. "The Lord's not going to bless us if we're not honest."

She said Birthright workers "tell the girl what an abortion is like and try to be sure she is fully informed that abortion kills the baby. If we can't dissuade someone we give them literature and we ask them to read it. We're not deceitful. ..

Judy Peterson, executive director of BETA - Birth Education Training Acceptance - a nondenominational center in Orlando, Fla., believes fake clinics make it difficult for women to trust even the clinics that have well-established reputations for helping both mothers and babies.

The BETA center helps about 4,000 women and children a year, she said, and offers pre- and postnatal care and parenting classes.

"I'm not sure their motives are ibad - I think they are motivated 1:0 help," she said of the people who run bogus abortion clinics. "I question their method. Ultimately it damages the image of the prolife movement. .. , Ms. Peterson said fake abortion dinics operate as if the end justifies the means, but "I feel I can get the same results by being direct and open and honest."

Women who seek help at BETA after going first to a fake abortion dinic are "hard to win back," according to Ms. Peterson. "It damages their faith .... For 10 vears we've worked hard to build trust. They trust us to be honest, not to manipulate." BETA has "a very definite commitment to the woman, not just to the baby."

Older siblings Our daughter came home last Easter with a hilarious Matt Groening cartoon strip entitled, "Lies My Older Brother and Sister Told Me." In it, he depicts classic sibling tales foisted on younger sibs, "There's some new toys for you down in the basement. You should go down there."

"But last time you shut the door and turned off the lights," the little one protests.

"This time we won't."

Another one has older brother saying, "Yes means no and no means yes. Do you want me to hit you?"

Youngest replies in panic, "Yes! No! Yes! No! Help!"

The series ends with the family reunion 20 years later. One older sibling saying, "I don't remember doing any of that stuff to you."

The other adds, "Me neither."

It didn't turn out that way in our family. The strip triggered a retelling of the lies our daughter and oldest son told their younger brother, Steve. Dinner turned into an uproarious affair as we laughed at their tales, many of them new to us.

Beth and Mike were envious of Steve's blue eyes, which drew praise from many, so they told him that he didn't see the same colors the

rest of u~ brown and hazel-eyed persons did. He believed his vision was faulty until one day Mike said "See that white paper over there?

Well, it's really brown."

Steve thought a moment and asked, "How come you said it's white then?" And that ended that lie.

They also told him that because his eyes were smaller than theirs he couldn't see as much. "See that rainbow?" they'd say.

"No. Where?" he'd crane toward their pointed fingers.

"Well, you won't be able to see it till your eyes get bigger. By that time, it'll be gone."

One time a lie backfired. Mike convinced Steve that there was a monster in the closet of their shared r.oom, a monster that liked only little boys under five because his teeth were old. ~teve began waking at night crYing. We would calm him down, open the closet door and show him that there was no monster not knowing that his older br~ther had originated it all. ~u~ the nightly crying disrupted Mike s sleep as well. So one night he got out of bed, opened the closet door and "shot" the monster.

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By DOLORES CURRAN

ished me is how little we parents know of these tales.

I recall the time my mother gave my older brother a bag of candy to divide among three of us. "Do you want a third or a sixth of it?" he asked us. . "(\ s~xth," we shouted, knowing SIX IS bigger than three. He divided it that way and we protested at our small share, calling Mom to referee.

"They said they wanted a sixth," he argued righteously. She corrected the injustice by giving us his share and that ended his game.

Quite honestly, I don't know if I really would have preferred hearing our kids' tales to their younger brother -- then. Steve seems to have handled them pretty well and hasn't turned out to be a committed cynic. He laughed as hard as the rest of us, embellishing the stories.

But I wonder if other parents would discover older sibling tales if they primed the pump with a few. It's like discovering a different past than you thought you had lived.

Explaining Mass offerings

. Q. During. the Mass in our par~sh, and I believe in other parishes ID our area, the priest reads the petitions presented after the Gospel. He concludes these petitions with, "and for John or Jane Doe for whom this Mass is being offered."

In a recent column explaining ~hy ~he priest is called the "preSider at Mass, you state'd that while the priest is doing the speaking "he is acting and speaking for all." You quoted the Eucharistic Prayers as evidence of this.

We as a family look forward to participating in the sacrifice of the Mass. But when the priest says the Mass is "being offered for .John Doe," I wonder, is the principal purpose for the parishioners being there to offer it for John Doe? Would it not be more appropriate for the priest to say, "For John Doe who is remembered at this Mass?"

Also, certain names appear repeatedly in the church bulletin listing Masses for the coming week.

One may get the impression that these people are going to get to heaven in a hurry. How about By deceased persons who have no one to offer Masses for them? (Indiana) What does it mean to be a b?oks. For example, some theolo- FATHER A. For well over 1,000 years, priest? Is he a man set apart to gians picture priests as men set Catholic people have had the cusEUGENE apart~ in au~hority, an elite group tom of Mass offerings for the ~ring the sacred to society? Is workln~ with the bishop and church's ministers and other needs It correct to call him another of the Christian community.

Christ? Should he be looked upon responSible for the spiritual wellHEMRICK being of his "flock. " Language which is at least open as a member of a ruling elite?

Other theologians place less Or should a priest be seen as a to misunderstanding has not been e~phasis ~n authority, viewing ~ncommon; the example you give ~~ltic figure whose responsibility With each new age priests, like It IS to make the sacramental life of pnests less In terms of an elite and IS a.good one. Among our primary a community grow? Are celebrat- ~ore as members of the congrega- the rest of the population, need to beliefs about the celebration ofthe Eucharist is that its !=each and ing Mass and hearing confessions ~Ion, attuned to its social and spir- take a look at their changing world and redefine what being a priest the specific functions which set Itual needs. intentions are as broad as the first How should we deal with the means in this new context. AIhim apart from the laity? offfering of that sacrifice by Jesus on Calvary.

Should a priest be seen in the seeming confusion about the th.ough the essence of priesthood Will never change, our emphasis, As our eucharistic prayers make role ofthe Old Testament prophets priesthood today?

One way is to see the problem of an.d our understanding of how quite clear, every offering of this who championed the cause of the defining priesthood in the context pnests can be meaningful to the sacrifice includes not only the whole needy, of justice and morality?

From now until the turn of the of the times in which we live. We world, needs constant updating. church but the whole human family, living and dead. Even should century I believe we are going to are. in ~he ~idst of a changing he wish to do so, no priest could see bi~hops, religious superiors, society In which nothing is taken the laity and priests themselves for granted. Nor should the narrow down that worldwide asking questions like these. There priesthood be taken for granted. . CHARLESTON, S.c. (NC) -- embrace as Jesus renews his sacriare numerous reasons for this.

Silent !acism still lingers in the ficial offering in the person of his First, the declining numbers of Catholic Church, Bishop Ernest church on earth. priests have caused considerable When a priest accepts a Mass L. Unterkoefler of Charleston concern. One reason given for the offering he accepts, according to ~ecently wrote in Catholic Banner. decline is that priests themselves For some relison, the entire Cath- church law and our traditional are not sure of the priesthood's ~heology, the responsibility to August 13 olic Church in the United States meaning and as a result are not Include that intention in his prayRev. Thomas Clinton, Pastor, ~oes n~t think of black people in encouraging young men to coners at Mass. This is the meaning of 1895, St. Peter, Sandwich ItS maJo~ planning," the bishop sider the priesthood. The Second the church's law which states: "It is wro.t~. HIS remarks coincided with August 14 Vatican Council's emphasis on the lawful for any priest who celea .

VISit by New York Auxiliary Rev. Peter J. B. Bedard,Founder, laity's priestly role has diminished brates or concelebrates Mass to Bishop Emerson J. Moore, one of 1884, Notre Dame, Fall River the once-held thinking that a receive an offering to apply the the nation's 10 black Catholic bishVery Rev. James· F. Gilchrist, priest is elit~, set apart and primarMass according to a definite intenCPM, VG. Vicar General of the ops. Bithop Unterkoefler said he Ily responSible for the sanctity of tion" (Canon 945). agreea: with Bishop Moore that Congregation of the Father's of the laity.

For this reason a statement that the Catholic Church has put evanMercy, 1962 the Mass is "being offered for" an In a time when there were more gelization of blacks on the back individual, or to include that name shelf. priests there seemed to be no rea. August 15 specifically in the prayers for the Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, Founder, son to define its meaning. The fact ~ead during the Eucharistic Prayer, 1974, Holy Cross, South Easton Envy that there were so many priests IS generally considered inapprowas evidence, it seemed, that we ' own "Envy slays itself by its August 17 priate since it places undue attenknew what being a priest meant. I arrows."

-Greek epigram Rt. Rev. Francisco C. Bettention and emphasis on that particucan remember in the seminary that court, Pastor, 1960, Santo Christo lar intention rather than on the of all the treatises we studied, the Fall River ' THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-o20). Second entire church. sacrament of holy orders was given Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass.

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ically, "John or Jane Doe is being remembered at this Mass."

What I have said above should respond to your other question a.bout apparent advantages of the nch over the poor in the celebration of the Eucharist.

Q. I am upset about a person who just was converted to the Catholic faith. Her ideas of the faith are very different from what I feel a convert should have.

The quickness of the classes and the idea of receiving baptism: Holy Eucharist and confirmation all in one, was just beyond me. The ceremony took about half an hour and it was over so quickly that no one, least of all the new convert, understood what was going on.

They were even told, as I understand it, that premarital sex is all right ifthe couple is planning to be married soon. How do you explain all this? (Illinois) A. You would have to talk with the convert himself or, maybe even better, with the priest involved for speci~ic answers to some of your questIOns. However, I think a few considerations would be helpful for you.

First of all, when you hear something that bizarre about what some priest or other teacher is supposed to have said, it is vital to get the facts before making any judgments.

I am quite certain there is no class for converts which teaches what you indicate.

As I said, if you really are con~erned, and particularly if you are Involved personally with the individuals, go to the source and learn what was actually said.

Are you certain that the convert really did not understand what was going on when he or she was received into the church? Most catechumen classes today are very thor.ough in the training and preparatIOn of men and women for entry into the church. It is not done haphazardly or lightly.

One of your remarks that makes me wonder if~perhaps you may be ?ut of touch wit.h what is going on In the church In preparation of converts is your concern about receiving the sacraments of baptism, the Eucharist and confirmation at one time. These are the three sacraments of Christian initiation. For years now the proper procedure for receiving adults into our faith is that these sacraments are given together.

This presumes, of course, that the reception of the catechumen into our faith is done during the sacrifice ofthe Eucharist, at which time the new convert would naturally receive Communion for the first time. Earlier in the Mass the sacrament of baptism is administered and the officiating priest administers the sacrament of confirmation to the convert.

This all constitutes one part of the Rite for Christian Initiation of Adults, the official guide for preparation and reception of new members into our faith.

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Father Curran may not teach Continued from Page One ishes this controversy for its own sake .... I hope it will not become an occasion for prolonged confusion and bitterness," Bishop MaIone added.

In his five-page letter to Father Curran, dated July 25, Cardinal Ratzinger said the congregation's decision to strip him of his license to teach as a Catholic theol08ian was presented to Pope John Paul II and approved by him on July

10.

He listed Father Curran's positions that were contested by the congregation as: - A right to public dissent from the church's "ordinary" magiste. rium, or teaching authority.

- The indissolubility of consummated sacramental marriage.

- Abortion.

- Euthanasia.

- Masturbation.

- Artificial contraception.

- Premarital intercourse.

- Homosexual acts.

He challenged Father Curran's most basic contention, that his writings constituted legitimate, responsible dissent from non-infallible teachings of the church.

"The church does not build its life upon its infallible magisterium alone but on the teaching of its

authentic, ordinary magisterium as well," Cardinal Ratzinger wrote.

He also countered some objections Father Curran had raised in the course of the investigation, saying some aspects of the procedure "have become widely misunderstood."

"First, you publicly claimed that you were never told who your 'accusers' were," he wrote. "The congregation based its inquiry exclusively on your published works and on your personal re-

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Decision was prefigured VATICAN CITY (NC) The Vallcan's decision to discipline Father Charles Curran, a tJ .S. moral theologian, was ptefigured in public statements by CardinalJoseph Ratzinger, bead ; .of tbe Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The decision came after a series of public statements by Cardinal Ratz1.ngercriticizing Father Curran and his defense tbat theologians can legitimately dissent from non-infallible church teachings, such asrnedical and sexual issues.

Fatber Curran's.position on dissent "does not seem to me appropriate," Cardinal Ratztngersaid in an intervic,W in th~ May issue of, 30 Giorni (30 .OaY8), an Italian Catholic monthly magazine.

"Only in the last century have theologians begun affirming in suchan emphatic way the problem of distinguishing infallible and ,noninfallible doctrine," he added.

"Iii the earty Christian communjtie~,however,it was cle~r that to be a Christian meant prirt.\arilyto s~arein a way of ' life and that the most important doc:trinaldefinitions did not haveany other3im but to orient this WaY of lif~"'be.said. ..Abortion. divorce and hom.osexuality __ even in the 1,000 distinctions that can be made - are acts whiCh go against tbe Catholic faith," thecardirtal said.

"One can. and onesbould, distinguish between what is essenti~d and non-essential to tbe Christian faith, but without recourse to the distinction between infallible and noninfallible pronouncements," he Silid.

Father Curran has said tbat under very limited circulllstan(;es,abortion. divorce and hOmosexual acts (:an be morally

permissible. Church teachings say that they are never permissible.

In other public statements, the>cardinal ~efended the need for church action against Catholic theologians who dissent from church teachings in the classroom.

Using the classroom to teach dissent is an "abuse of pOWer.•" Cardinal Ratzinger said in an Aprit talk in Toronto. ..This abuse is committed whenever·that· teacher exploits his students by using a position which tbe church .gave him in thefirst plaeeto encourage them to accept positions Which are opposed to the teachings of the church," be added;. .A teachingtheologian·s opin", ions are taken seriously "pre... cisel)' because be teaches on behalf <)( the church. Believers haveconfjdence in the church:s word, and so naturaUy transfer .that confiden(;e to those who teach in her name," the cardinal said.

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In March, he criticized theo'" ,logilln8.wbo consider dlet church's magisterium, <)r tea<:hi il).& a~tb<)ritY. al).obs~le to mteUe.ctual research.

"How'canthemagisterium be considered a baU and chain? ,lfone <:o"$idots the tOOts as an obstacle,. limitation, What frui.t canone.·hope· to sather?" he said.

In abook"length interview pUblished last y~r in Bnglisha~ "Tbellatnnger Report," the cardinal said the role oftheolo:" gians is to de<lpen understand... ing of the faith, not to create new teachinss. ' "Broad cit<:les in t~eolo~ seem to have forgotten tbat the subject w~o pursues theology is not the individual scholar but the Catholic qornmuntty as. a Whole," be Silid.

sponses to its observations. In effect, then, your own works have been your 'accusers' and they alone."

To a complaint by Father Curran that he was never given an opportunity of counsel, Cardinal Ratzinger replied that all the proceedings were in written exchanges, so "you had every opportunity to take any type of counsel you wished."

He said Father Curran indicated in his correspondence that he had consulted with others, and the congregation at one point urged him "to continue the use of that very means."

Withdrawal of his license to teach Catholic theology would bar Father Curran from teaching in the theology department of Catholic University or on any other pontifically chartered theology faculty in the world.

In recent years only one other Catholic theologian, Swiss-born Father Hans Kung of the University of Tubingen, West Germany, has lost his license to teach Catholic theology. After Father Kung was disciplined in 1979, he was dropped from'the Catholic faculty at Tubingen but added to the university's ecumenical faculty.

Since March, when Father CurSTEPHEN, left, and David, with their hosts, Andrew ran first publicized details of the seven-year investigation, numerous Carmichael, Cape Cod Irish Children's Program director, and supporters and opponents have his wife Margaret. (Motta photo) lined up behind resolutions, letterwriting campaigns and other actions in response to the case.

A statement of support for him, Continued from Page One circulated by nine past presidents nice country," he said of America. of the Catholic Theological Society they grow. And, unfortunately, "There's a whole lot of things you of America and the College you have diehards on both sides." can do here."

Theology Society, garnered sevHis favorite place? The young The boys and girls are kept busy eral hundred signatures from pro- in America, Carmichael said. man likes Peter's Pond, a site near fessional theologians. Another Among their activities were visits the Carmichael home where he petition of support received more to two Centerville nursing homes, packed in many hours ofswimming. than 17,000 signatures, Mrs. Carmichael said that Stewhere they sang and performed In a campaign aimed at counter- Irish step dances. phen "hated" hamburgers when he ing the pro-Curran efforts, The An ecumenical service is held arrived in America, but after eatWanderer, an independent national each year for the travelers; this ing at a fast food restaurant, he Catholic weekly, provided readers summer it was at Our Lady of Vic- couldn't get enough of them. with preaddressed postcards to send tory Church, Centerville. Father David, also a great fan of Peter's directly to Cardinal Ratzinger urg- John A. Perry, pastor, conducted Pond, thinks that "pizza is nicer in ing Father Curran's dismissal. the service with Father Philip C. America."

Jacobs, vicar of the Episcopal And the young Belfaster met Church of the Good Shepherd, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at Christ Fairhaven.

Elaine Mazerole ofCorpus Chris- the King parish, he enthusiastiti parish, Sandwich, is the Cape cally related. . Stephena!tended Forestdale BapWASHINGTON (NC) - Cur- group's coordinator, Carmichael rent Vatican trends to reassert said, and Mary Smith ofOur Lady tist Church Itt Sandwich during his church authority are a form of of Victory parish, Centerville, is Cape stay.

He made a statement that many "creeping infallibilism," moral treasurer. It is coincidental, he adults might take to heart: "I wish noted, that this year's officers are theologian Father Charles E. Curall Catholic, since the program is everyone could mind 'their own ran said Aug. 20. business, believe in what they want Father Curran, breaking his si- nonsectarian.

Carmichael said that some guest to believe in and just be friends." lence since the Vatican ordered Now the boys are back in Belremoval of his license to teach as a children'have been taken camping Catholic theologian two days ear- in Maine and New Hampshire by fast, on opposite sides of the highlier, accused Cardinal Joseph Rat- their host families. Others, he said, way that divides their communities. zinger of"moving a way from what toured Canada and Washington, "It's very hard to say" if they'l be able to see each other, Stephen is clearly established law" by try- DC. "The host families are very gener- said, except at an annual reunion ing to "fudge the difference" between infallible and non-infallible ous," he added, "but they get a lot for program children held in "neufrom the children in return." tral-territory" downtown Belfast. church teaching.

Among his many activities with Cardinal Ratzinger is head of If Catholics and Protestants the Vatican's Congregation for the the Carmichaels, Stephen most would grant Steve's wish, maybe it ,,Doctrine of the Faith and ordered enjoyed visiting the Cape Cod Mu- wouldn't be so hard for him and the removal of Father Curran's seum of Natural History. "It's a David to get together. license to teach.

Father Curran also warned that gregation, approved by Pope John raise further issues not discussed ifthe Vatican means to ban public Paul II. that he is no longer "suita- in that letter. The issues involved dissent from church teachings of ble nor eligible" to teach as a pro- in Cardinal Ratzinger's July 25 letthe kind he has expressed on cer- fessor of Catholic theology. ter to me are basically three: the tain moral issues. it would have to Excerpts from his opening state- moral theological positions I have close down practically every Cath- ment at the press conference follow: taken, the legitimacy of my theoolic theological journal.

"In keeping with my aim of logical dissent, and my criticisms Father Curran, speaking at a making this a teaching moment, I of the process.

"First, the letter of Cardinal press conference at The Catholic want first to address the issues Ratzinger gives the impression that University of America, rejected involved in Cardinal Ratzinger's the. decision of the doctrinal con- July 25 letter to me and then to Turn to Page Twelve

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Times Square area will dedicate a It certainly is unhealthy for any Gold Star Peace Shrine in honor state to be dominated by one politof those who lost their lives in ical party for years. It is unhea~thy World WarI, World War II, Korea, for citizens to be so tyranmzed Vietnam, and those Missing in that they are afraid to be themAction. selves for fear of being undermined The pastors invite the public to by those in power. . forward the names of those they That kind of power IS to be wish included in a Book of Honor feared and should have been nipped which will remain on view at the in the bud. . shrine. Name, hometown, and name Cecilia Belanger of conflict in which the person lost No. Vassalboro, Me. his or ·her life should be sent to: Holy Cross Church, c/ 0 Gold Star Peace Shrine, 329 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, by September 30.

Dedication of the shrine will BAN DUNG, Indonesia(NC)mark the 40th anniversary of the Catholic concern for the poor is famous Gold Star Chapel which behind church gains in Indonesia was housed in the lower church. during the past two decades, acWhen the church was converted cording to the country's largest into a nightly shelter for women Islamic magazine. and a free food program for more In a special report on populathan 400 people on Saturdays, the tion, the magazine Panji Masyachapel was no longer functional rakat (Society Banner) urged Mosbut the 40-year-old promise to. lems to adopt some Christian remember the war dead remained methods of proselytizing. intact.

The report cited Catholics' inThe chapel was established in creased attention to the poor, 1946 by Msgr. Joseph A. McCaf- underprivileged and those "treated frey as "the only chapel in America unjustly." set aside exclusively for rememUnless Moslems pay more attenbrance in prayer of the deceased tion to poverty, unemployment heroes of our Armed Forces." Dur- and injustice, it said, the Catholic ing World War II it was called Vic- Church will become more influentory Chapel and at one time held tial and convert many poor people. over 2,000 individual nameplates In analyzing religious growth honoring those serving in the trends between 1960 and 1980, the military. report ignored birth, death and Rev. Anthony Eremito migration rates.

Rev. Martin Biglin It said a decline in the proporPastors, Holy Cross Church tion of Moslems in Indonesia New York, N.Y. 87.5 to 87.1 percent - is "nonsignificant," but should give Moslems food for thought.

Dear Editor: The report cited 1980 census Have you ever prayed fervently figures indicating that Catholics for something beneficial for some- increased to 3 percent from 2.3 one you loved? I do it all the time. percent of the population in the Yet there are petitions which never previous 20 years. Protestants seem to be granted. I had one such experienced a similar increase, it dream and laid it at Our Lady's said. feet every day. When the prayer Those figures translate to a 61.8 was not answered I began to accept percent increase in the number of life as it was, yet, the nagging need Catholics; 40.7 percent for Protpersisted and so did I. estants and 23.7 percent for MosThen, almost without realizing lems, the report said.

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Islamic researcher N. Halim Chotib, said he believes the 3.3 million 1980 census figure for Catholics is low. He said he favors a 4.4 million estimate made in 1984 by Kompas, the Catholic-run daily in Indonesia'scapital, Jakarta.

Catholic clergy and laity are involved in poverty and unemployment issues, the report said, citing a priest, Father Josef Mangunwijaya, who lives among poor people and defends them. Father Mangunwijaya has publicized the circumstances of the poor and persuaded the local government to abandon a relocation plan which would have been against their interests, it said.

The report said Catholic evangelization is directed not only at farmers and other poor, but also at professional groups.

It said that about 67 percent of Indonesian Catholics are poor farmers, 6 percent workers and fishermen, and the rest white collar workers, including military people.

Protestant ministers are less involved with the poor, the article said, but work among "civil engineers, farm engineers, economists, doctors and so on."

Protestants do community development work, encoura~ing credit unions, scholarships, foster parent and other programs, with foreign funding, the report said.

Islamic activities are concentrated in cities, where the middle class is receptive to ulamas' (Moslem scholars') messages, it said.

Islamic groups do not address "underprivileged people who live in marginal positions in cities and villages," the report said. It said Islamic methods are "verbal," with lectures, Koran readings and sermons.

Such verbal propaganda, the report said, "should be balanced by action propaganda, which directly touches on the basic needs of the poor (such as) food, housing, clothing, health (and) education."

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The conference, held Aug. 4-7 at St. John's University in Collegeville, was sponsored by the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, based in Des Moines, Iowa, and the university's Rural Social Ministries Program.

Rosemary Radford Ruether, a professor at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., said the Western· dream of expansion "defies the limits of nature."

She said exploitation ofthe land, like exploitation oflabor by industry, is done "to maximize profits for owners."

A sound theology of the land "must find its centering point in the 'shalom' of God which holds us together in our communal life," she added.

Father J. Bryan Hehir, secretary of the Department of Social Development and World Peace for the U.S. Catholic Conference, said in a keynote address that a theology of the land must emphasize the primacy and dignity ofthe person.

"People have to be schooled in choosing for the common good," he said, adding that the land is "entrusted" to people, not "owned" by them.

Such a theology also must include the creation ethic, which instructs people to develop the land, perfect it and pass it on, Father Hehir said.

Another speaker, Wes Jackson of the Land Institute in Salina, Kan., said consumerism is at the core of ecological problems and that today's farming methods have polluted the ecosystem.

He called for a return to "natural farming," which allows the soil to regenerate naturally, and an emphasis on community involvement in land use as a way to foster pride and craftsmanship.

"Traditional religious values make ecological good sense," Jackson said.

A conference founder, Bernard Evans, director of St. John's rural program, said in an interview that theologians and church leaders must "reexamine the ethical basis for land ownership and land use in this country" because in many cases the system of private ownership has "proven fatal to the environment."

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MARION, St. Rita, 113 Front St.: Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily, Mon., Tues., Wed., and Fri., 8:30, a.m.; confessions, Saturday, 4: 15-4:45 p.m.

ONSET, St. Mary Star ofthe Sea, . MATTAPOISETT, St. Anthony, Onset Ave.: Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 22 Barstow St.: Sat. 4:30, Sun. 8, 8:30, 10:30 a.m.; daily Mon., 9:30, 11:00 a.m. daily 8 a.m.; ConTues., & Fri., 9 a.m. Confessions, fessions 3:3~4:00.

Sat. 3:3~4:00 p.m.

CENTERVILLE, Our Lady of Victory, 230 So. Main St. Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 7,8: 15, 9:30, 10:45, 12 noon and 5:15 p.m. daily, 7, 9 a.m., Confessions, Sat. following 9 a.m. Mass and 4-4:45 p.m.

NANTUCKET, Our Lady of the Isle, Federal St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7,8:30, 10 and 11:30a.m.and 7:00 p.m.; daily, 7:30 and 9:00 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:45 p.m.

WEST BARNSTABLE, Our Lady of Hope, Rte. 6A; Sat. 4 & 5: 15 p.m.; Sun., 8:45, 10, 11:15 a.m. daily 8 a.m. confessions, before each Mass.

SIASCONSET, Union Chapel: Sun. 8:45 a.m. during July and August.

CHATHAM, Holy Redeemer, 57 Highland Ave.: Schedule July 4, Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8,9, 10, II a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; Confessions, Sat. 11:30 a.m.-12 noon; First FridayMass 8 & 9 a.m., Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass.

Closing with Benediction at noon.

SOUTH CHATHAM, Our Lady of Grace, Rte. 137, off Rte. 28: Schedule July 4, Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30,9:30, 10:30, II :30 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m. Confessions Sat. after 7 p.m. Mass.

COTUIT/MASHPEE, Christ the King, COTUIT, St. Jude Chapel, 4441 Falmouth Road, Rte. 28: Sat. 4:00 p.m.; Sun. 9, II a.m.; daily, Mon.Fri. 8:00 a.m.

EAST FALMOUTH, St. Anthony, 167 East Falmouth Highway: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30,9, 10: 15, 11 :30 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30-4: 15 p.m., weekdays, any time by request.

EDGARTOWN, St. Elizabeth, Main Street; Sat. 4 and 6 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, II a.m.: daily, Mon.Sat., 8:30 a.m.; confessions, 3:30, Saturdays. Rosary: 8: 15 a. m. weekdays, 8:30 a.m. Sundays.

Holy hour (July & Aug.) Mon.Fri. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

FALMOUTH, St. Patrick, 511 E. Main St.: Sat. 5:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:45, 10, 11:15 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 and 9 a.m., Sat. 8 a.m.; confessions: Saturdays 3:45-4:45 and following 7 p.m. Mass.

FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, St. Thomas Chapel, Falmouth Heights Rd.; Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 8,9, 10, 11: 15 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.

PROVINCETOWN, St. Peter the Apostle, II Prince St: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 7,9, II a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., confessions, Sat. 6:30-7:00 p.m. and by appointment.

SAGAMORE, St. Theresa, Rte. 6A: Sat. 5:00 p.m.; Sun. 8:30,9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m., First Friday 5:00 p.m., confessions Sat. 4:004:45 p.m.

SOUTH YARMOUTH, St. Pius X, 5 Barbara St.: Sat. 4, 6 p.m.; Sun. 7,9,10:30, 12:00noon;5p.m. daily, 7,9, a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:00 - 3:45 & 7:30 - 8:00 p.m.

OAK BLUFFS, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Massasoit Ave.: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:15, 10:30 a.m.; daily (Mon.-Fri.) 7 a.m. confessions, Sat. 5: 15-5:45 p.m.

WAREHAM, St. Patrick, 82 High St.: Sat. 4, 6, p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, II :30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45 p.m.

ORLEANS, St. Joan of Are, Bridge Road. (Schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8,9:30, II a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:50 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass Wed.

WEST WAREHAM, St. Anthony, off Rte. 28 (Summer Schedule begins June 21-22): Sat. 4 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10 a.m.; confessions, before each Mass.

MASHPEE, Queen of All Saints, Great Neck Rd. (towards New Seabury): Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; Daily 9:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri.

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NORTH TRURO, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pond Road: Sat. 4,5 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, II a.m.; confessions before Masses.

WEST HARWICH, Holy Trinity, Rte. 28: Sat. 4:00-5:30 p.m. Sun. 7:30,9, 10:30, 12 noon; daily 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; confessions, Sat. 2:00-3:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. First Friday - Mass at 11 a.m. followed by Exposition of Blessed Sacrament closing with Benediction at 2 p.m.; confessions eve of 1st Friday 2:00-3:30 p.m.

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Annunciation, Upper County Rd.: Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m. Daily 8:00 a.m.; Confessions, Sat. 3-4 p.m.

POCASSET, St. John the Evangelist, 15 Virginia Road: Sat. 4, 5:15 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:45 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7:30a.m., i WOODS HOLE, St. Joseph: except Thursday and Saturday; Schedule June 21-22, Sat. 5:30 Tues. and Thurs. 9:00 a.m.; Sat. p.m.; Sun. 7,9:30, II a.m.; daily 8 8:00 a.m.; Confessions Sat. 3-3:45 a.m.; Confession ~ hour before Sunday Masses. p.m.

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OSTERVILLE, Our Lady of the Assumption, 76 Wianno Ave.; Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10:30a.m., 12:00 noon; daily, 8:00 a.m., confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

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NORTH EASTHAM, Church of the Visitation (Schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. daily Mass 9 a.m. Mon.-Wed.-Fri. during July and Aug.; confessions, Sat. 6:30-6:50 p.m.

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necessary for the terminally ill perDear Dr. Kenny: My wife and I son, is hard to find. were shattered yesterday to)earn Now for some better news. AIDS that our 27-year-old son has AIDS. does not appear to be spread He has been living on his own but through casual contact. High risk now wants to come home. He feels groups are homosexual and bisexhe is being punished by God for ual men, intravenous drug users, having some homosexual relation- persons receiving infected blood ships. Mostly he just sounded help- and children born of AIDS less and afraid. Can we safely take mothers. him home? We want to help him According to a recent article in but don't know how. (New York) You are not alone. Close to "The New England Journal of 20,000 Americans are reported to Medicine," persons highly unlikely suffer from AIDS. Half have died. to acquire AIDS include healthThose are hard statistics, but care workers, food handlers, coaccepting them may help. Truth is' workers and the classmates and family of AIDS victims. easier to cope with than fiction.

Thus today's best information Almost as bad, AIDS carries a indicates that you can safely bring strong public stigma today. Since the great majority of AIDS vic- your son home. I would do so.

You add that you don't know tims have been either homosexuals or intravenous drug users, many how to help. F,ollow your heart. persons have taken the attitude And be aware that your son will that AIDS is the victim's own likely go through several stages as he attempts to cope with a harsh fault.

As a result, those with AIDS reality. have suffered a dramatic loss in - "N 0, not me. It can't be true." self-esteem and a radical change in Or, "I'll be the first one to overdaily habits. come AIDS." Such condemnation leads to the Actually, denial is a healthy first isolation of the AIDS' sufferer. reaction. Allow him to talk in this Friends and acquaintances desert manner, but you yourself deal the ill person. Some fear conta- honestly with the prognosis. Don't gion. Others feel they cannot do challenge his denial unless it interanything for the victim and wish to feres with his health or treatment. avoid feeling helpless. Still others - "Why me?" Rage and anger prefer not to be reminded of their own mortality. Social support, so usually follow when the outcome

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can no longer be denied. Again, be compassionate and understanding.

It is all right to be mad at the apparent random or whimsical cruelty that has singled out your son. Surely God can take the anger.

- Bargaining is the next stage.

"I'll go to church every week ... I'll do anything." Simply listen to such promises. Support his efforts to achieve them.

- Then comes depression. The inevitability of death sinks in. The dying person feels quiet and sad and alone. Be available to your son, but give him private time too.

- Finally comes acceptance.

"My time is close now and it's all right." Don't deny such remarks.

Be brave enough to talk with him about what the dying person has already accepted.

One message of death is to live· what we have of life to the fullest.

Don't mourn the tomorrows, but treasure your todays. Tell your son all those things you never had time or courage to say. Go places, do things that you would like to do together.

See him safely and lovingly on his way. And have him save a place for you.

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

Sanctuary: a Christian dilemma {{Russia will spread her errors thr.oughout the world causing wars and persecution of the church."

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By Antoinette Bosco In May, two Roman Catholic priests, a nun, a Presbyterian minister, a former missionary and three lay women - sanctuary workers - were convicted of breaking the law. Their crime was smuggling Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees into the United States. In July seven sanctuary workers were put on probation for three to five years.

The sanctuary workers acted out of compassion, selflessness and a deep concern for the safety and well-being of their fellow humans - exactly what Jesus has taught us to do.

As a convicted sanctuary member, Father Anthony Clark, put it: UN 0 one can convince me that what I have done or am doing is criminal. It's the height of absurdity."

The word "sanctuary" means "a holy place" and the sanctuary movement began when church people, especially from Arizona and California, began assisting Central American refugees. Religious leaders from several denominations along with private individuals have joined to defend a principle they say goes back to the dawn of civilization: "The innocent guest in our home shall not be sent away to face possible persecution and death."

But the U.S. government doesn't see sanctuary as a moral or religious issue. In the seven-month criminal trial against the sanctuary workers, the U.S. district attorney argued that the defendants simply broke the law.

Throughout the trial, the judge refused to let any testimony surface about the defendants' religious views or about conditions in Central America.

As a society, we need laws. But laws are created by humans and

can be flawed. Sometimes human law and God's moral law can conflict.

Sanctuary workers ask that Central American refugees be granted the same extended voluntary departure status that is given to refugees from other countries until the violence in their countries ends.

Sanctuary workers contend that the government is violating the Refugee Act of 1980 in failing to grant asylum to those fleeing political violence, persecution and death squads.

But the Immigration and Naturalization Service holds that Central Americans are economic, not political, refugees and therefore ineligible for asylum. Since 1981, more than 50,000 refugees have been deported.

The spirit of sanctuary is of a different nature from that of tangible law-and-order rules. Sanctu-

ary calls into action basic religious, moral and political principles, and raises complex legal issues.

Sanctuary workers are responding to their consciences, drawn to the appeal of suffering people who are asking for help.

In my heart, I strongly believe that the sanctuary workers are justified. As a law-abiding citizen, on the other hand, I want our laws obeyed.

Faced with a conflict between Christian values and human law, what is a Christian to do?

The dilemma is a reminder that living by faith in a complex society is difficult. The bottom line is that Christians must ultimately follow their consciences.

Following my conscience, I am 100 percent with the sanctuary workers.

ORIS IT "Children Playing''? Anyway, two Union, S.C., youngsters enjoy a protected hole on the side of a quiet street.

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-The Anchor Friday, Aug: 22, 1986

Men and affirmation

By Hilda Young I heard a talk-show guest claim that American men are starved for adventure, for a chance to be knights on horses again, for an opportunity to show they have the "right stuff."

At first I thought he was out to lunch. He has never seen my husband's nostrils flare and his eyes narrow with determination when we've set six suitcases, six sleeping bags, a 9 by 12 tent, a hibachi, a dog and five human beings in front of him and said: "Let's go on vacation. Make these fit into the car."

If that's not enough, I have seen him make like Clint Eastwood when confronted with assembling a bicycle with training wheels before a birthday party that's starting in 15 minutes. Talk about adventure.

But when I locked myself out of the car yesterday at the shopping mall, the experience led me to think not all American men receive enough ofthe affirming opportunities that present themselves to my spouse.

"Are you checking your teeth for lipstick or did you lock yourself out of your car?" a passing man . asked as I stood leaning with both hands on the car window, my face pressed against it, peering into the car to confirm that the keys were still hanging from the ignition.

"The latter," I sighed.

"Don't go away," he said, his step picking up. "I'll be right back."

In no time he returned, bending and straightening a coat hanger.

"I'll have the door open for you in no time."

"I really appreciate this," I smiled demurely, noticing that two other men had stopped to watch.

"Need a hand?" one asked.

"Nah, I think I can get it," Mr. Coat Hanger answered.

Post-Duvalier Haiti gets CRS assistance NEW YORK (NC) - Continuing a long-standing commitment to Haiti, Catholic Relief Services is helping the Haitian church with a literacy program and other efforts in the wake of the fall of the Duvalier regime, said the agency's director for Latin America and the Caribbean.

"The church in Haiti has captured the moral leadership by virtue of the role it played in the transformation of the society," said the official, Terence Martin, in an interview in New York. "It (the church) is one of a very few national institutions that still exist and are held in high regard."

Martin said that on his most recent visit to Haiti July 23-Aug. 2, Bishop Francois Gayot, president of the Haitian bishops' conference, said two church priorities now were the literacy campaign, already under way, and an effort to establish a development bureau in each of the country's seven diocese&.

The first phase of the literacy campaign, a six-month course for adults, has just been completed and is undergoinge.valuation, Martin said. Eventually the Haitian church hopes to extend literacy to 3 million people, he said, noting that illiteracy has been widespread \ among the population of 5.5 million.

"Let's see if we can help,'.' one said. From somewhere he produced a wire of some kind and the other man another coat hanger. Each took a door window of his own.

It was beginning to look like a street gang dismantling a car on "Hill Street Blues." A man in a pin stripe suit who didn't say anything to anyone claimed the fourth window, attacking it with something resembling a slide rule.

At first I thought these were simply nice guys. But it quickly became obvious that something else was going on. They needed to get into that car. It was a Chevrolet symbolizing the Oregon Trail, an elusive door lock substituting for the "Jewel of the Nile," a coat hanger taking on swordlike significance.

I have seen less intensity in Soviet chess championships.

When my original Mr. Coat Hanger popped a lock with an "ah, ha!" I could swear the others took on looks of defeat.

"Thank you all so very much," I said. Mr. Coat Hanger bounced off merrily. I regretted not inviting the others to help us pack the car for our next vacation.

Shelter for homeless opened by millionaire priests NEW YORK (NC) - A year ago New York City Franciscan Fathers John Felice and John McVean faced a dilemma. How would they spend $2 million in 100 days?

On Aug. 7 the two priests took legal ownership of a rundown building they bought to meet the deadline. The building is to be renovated as a 90-room shelter for homeless mentally ill persons.

The two priests said the renovation is to begin immediately so that residents can move in by late winter.

In May 1985 Fathers Felice and McVean, who run two similar residences in the city, were told they would receive $2 million if they submitted a proposal to the city on the purchase of a building within 100 days. They submitted their proposal three days before an Aug. IS, 1985, deadline.

The city did not award them the entire $2 million but gave them $1.32 million, the assessed value of the building.

Mayor Ed Koch, who praised the priests' compassion for the homeless and mentally disabled, said that to grant the entire amount would be a waste of taxpayer money. The remainder was to go to other projects.

The money came from a $2 million out-of-court settlement between the City of New York and Harry Macklowe, a real estate developer who without city permission ordered the demolition of four buildings near Times Square, including one used primarily by welfare recipients.

The priests purchased the building for $1.92 million. With renovation the cost will be $2.7 million; according to a press release issued by their order. .

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To meet the cost the priests said they will depend on $500,000 from the New York State Department of Social Services Housing Homeless Assistance Program and will approach foundations and organizations for additional funds.

An individual donor celebrating his 18th wedding anniversary donated $2,000 for each year of his marriage.

The two Franciscans said their idea to open the residences came while they were both at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Manhattan, where they ran a breadline.

Father Felice was pastor and Father McVean associate pastor.

They said they became familiar with the homeless in the area and began to see an increasing number of former mental patients on the streets.

They took a special interest in the residents of a nearby hotel and in 1979, when residents were faced with eviction, they raised money to purchase the building. A second residence was opened in 1982.

Heads council CHICAGO (NC) - Dominican Sister Maurice Doody has been elected chairwoman ofthe National Clergy Council on Alcoholism.

Sister Doody, 49, directs the Dominican Sisters' Office of New Directions in Bronx, N.Y. The office provides counseling, information on alcohol treatment, referrals and support for religious and members oftheir communities.

The Clergy Council, originally only for priests, is now open to religious and¡ laity. It provides information on alcohol and drug addiction to pastors, teachers, dioceses ami religious communities.

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DELEGATES to the 6th National Cursillo Ultreya held recently at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn., join hands during the Our Father at the closing Mass. The ultreya is held every three years for Cursillo leaders. (NC photo)

New offices to help NCCD aid Catholics better WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops' new national headquarters will help the church meet needs more effectively,. Bishop James W. Malone, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Aug. 18.

Bishop Malone, of Youngstown, Ohio, presided at a brief groundbreaking ceremony and blessing at the building site, near the National Shrine ofthe Immaculate Conception and The Catholic University of America. .

He noted that the bishops' conference began about 70 years ago as the National Catholic War Council. "An organization whose initial activities were addressed to the needs of servicemen in World War I now addresses concerns which at times seem almost limitless."

He said that when completed, the new facility "will enable the bishops to respond even more effectively to the needs of our time."

Bishop Malone said that "age and its effect are irreversible" on the current bishops' conference headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue in downtown Washington.

The current building was constructed in 1941.

But he said he did not want to emphasize bricks and mortar but

Permission to begin the campaign, Martin said, was obtained even before the Duvalier government fell in February, but negotiations took a long time. He said the church made a policy decision to conduct the literacy campaign in Creole, the language of the majority, rather than French, the language of the elite.

"When the church chose to do this in Creole, it was an important statement of identification with the Creole-speaking majority," Martin said. "It was perceived as such by the government, and the government took a long time to agree."

people who have built up the conHe said the literacy instruction ference, "which shows forth in many ways the compassion of the involved more than simply learning to read, but was also "educachurch throughout our land."

"I hope we shall all be able to tionfor citizenship" along the lines return here in less than two years ofthe Third World educator Paulo Freire, who seeks to integrate to celebrate the dedication of a new facility that will serve the learning with practical efforts for church well into the 21 st century," - social change..

CRS allocated $250,000 to help he said.

Msgr. Daniel Hoye, general sec- get the literacy program under way, Martin said, and is evaluatretary of the NCCB and the U.S: Catholic Conference, said con- ing the results of the first phase. struction of the $20 million facility Martin said the Haitian bishops is to begin in early October, as see a need for development bureaus in Haitian dioceses because of the soon as building permits are finalized. It is expected to take 18 number of outside agencies that have come in to carry out various months. He said relocation of the projects with no overall coordinaheadquarters and its staff of about 300 should be completed by Sep- tion. "A religious order or an inditember, 1988. vidual group comes in with maybe The NCCB-USCC has said the $6,000 and some enthusiastic cost of the project will be paid volunteers, but there is no way to from general unrestricted funds, integrate them into diocesan priorthe sale of the current NCCBities," Martin explained.

The bureaus will have no way of USCC building and proceeds of a forcing foreign groups to coordifund-raising campaign to be connate work with them, Martin said, ducted among foundations and but the church hopes it can bring fraternal groups.

Representatives of organizations some order to the development that have donated to the project process. He said the church also attended the ceremony, including hopes the estimated $80,000members of Catholic Golden Age, $100,000 annualcost ofeach bureau the Knights of Columbus and the can be covered by charging develCatholic Daughters of the opment agencies a fee for administrative help. .

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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (NC) - By her assumption into heaven, Mary has become a "great sign" of the covenant of salvation between God and mankind, Pope John Paul II said in a homily marking the feast of the Assumption Aug. 15.

Mary was "eternally predestined to be the mother of the son of God" and to play an important role in the message of salvation, he added.

The pope spoke in the Salesian Church of San Tommaso da Villanova, near his summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo.

In his homily the pope spoke of Mary's "extraordinary mission in the history of salvation."

He said Mary's role was foretold in the Book of Genesis, when it recorded God's promise of a woman whose son would strike Satan with his heel.

The feast of the Assumption is a sign of hope for humanity, the pope said, because Mary's assumption into heaven is the result of the victory won by Christ for humanity's sake.

But the pope also warned that humanity must continue to strive toward God and not "get lost among the false ways of contemporary life."

A NAPPING Pope John Paul II makes the cover of Gente, an Italian magazine, as he rests during a 1985 hiking trip. to pages of additional pictures within the magazine include shots of the pope hiking along a mountain trail and reading beside a waterfall. (NC photo)

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul marked the 25th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall by commemorating its "victims" and all others who have suffered from its existence.

The pope's remarks were made while greeting German visitors at his Aug. 13 general audience, at which he also continued to discuss angels - speaking of a threat by Satan to human salvation.

In his comments to the German pilgrims in Paul VI hall, the pope said "the Catholic community of Berlin" planned to celebrate a liturgy of reparation that day commemorating "all the victims that there have been" since the wall was built 25 years ago. lne'lpope then offered his prayers "first oÂŁaU for such victims, and also for atrfbc persons and families that have suffered" because of the wall now dividing Berlin.

"We ask the heavenly Fatherfor the gifts of reconciliation and peace in justice and liberty, aware that toward these values are directed the strongest and most legitimate aspirations of all the peoples of Europe and the world," he said.

On Aug. 13, 1961, Soviet troops in East Berlin sealed off their sector of the occupied city with strands of barbed wire in an effort to prevent the flow of refugees to the West.

Today the wall is of concrete and barbed wire, and a second wall has been built. At least 74 people have been killed trying to cross the wall in the past 25¡years.

In his regular address, the pope discussed Satan and what the church teaches about him.

"We draw attention to this truth (of Sata~existence)not to exaggerate the devil's importance but to better prepare oursell!es for the perennial struggle against evil in our world," he said.

The pope said the fallen angels turned away from God of their own will.

"It is clear that if God does not pardon the sin of the angels, it is because they remain resolute in their sin," he said.

Satan is now "the father of lies" who wishes to "lie about the good," tempting humanity to reject God. The lie of Satan therefore becomes "homicide," the pope added, because it destroys the supernatural life God intends for his creation.

Satan seeks to induce humanity "to deny his existence in the name of rationalism" and other systems of thought. he warned.

But while the devil seeks to make his power felt in the world, even in the form of "diabolical possession," this does not mean that he can eliminate humanity's free will or frustrate the saving action of Christ, the pope added.

Summary of Church, Curran positions on theological issues WASHINGTON (NC) - Here is a summary of Father. Charles Curran's views along with church doctrine on the main theological issues cited by the Vatican in its decision that Father Curran may no longer teach as a Catholic theologian.

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14th and the2lstdayafterconception." He would not require an absolute prohibition of abortion but would argue that "one can be justified in taking truly individuallife only for the sake of the life of the mother or for a value commensurate with life itself."

- Public theological dissent.

On euthanasia, he says he never Father Curran argues that the â&#x20AC;˘ wrote an in-depth study but he has points on which he dissents are not argued "tentatively" that "when "matters of divine and Catholic faith" but rather are matters "of the dying process begins there seems to be no difference between the act ordinary, non-infallible teaching." of omission (not using extraordiCiting a U.S. bishops' 1968 pas- nary means) and the positive act of toralletter, he argues that there is bringing about death." room for p.ublic theological dis_ Masturbation. sent within the church under certain conditions.

Church teaching holds that masturbation "is an intrinsically and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in seriously disordered act." Father his letter telling Father Curran Curran says masturbatory acts "are that he may no longer teach as a ordinarily not very important or Catholic theologian, responded, significant and usually do' not "The church does not build its life involve grave matter. Such actions upon its infallible magisterium are generally symptomatic of other alone but on the teaching of its realities and should be treated as authentic, ordinary magisterium such." as well." The magisterium is the _ Artificial contraception church's teaching authority.

Church teaching holds "that _ Indissolubility of marriage. every marital act must remain open The church teaches that a sac- to the transmission of life," and ramental, consummated marriage therefore acts aimed at obstructis indissoluble. Father Curran ing that purpose "are forbidden as argues that the New Testament intrinsically wrong." teaching on marital indissolubility Father Curran objects that this represents an ideal to be striven for approach ties moral judgments too and not an absolute norm binding closely to the physical or biologion all and urges that the church cal structure of the act rather than allow divorce in certain limited to a broader moral framework of circumstances. intentions, meanings and relation- Abortion, euthanasia. ships. He contends that artificial Church teaching affirms "the contra.ception and direct sterilizasacred and inviolable charl,lcter of tion "are not intrinsically evil but human life from the moment of can be good or evil insofar as they conception" and condemns abor- are governed by the principles of tion and euthanasia as "unspeak- responsible parenthood and stewable crimes." ardship."

On abortion, Father Curran - Premarital intercourse. argues that "truly individual human The church teaches that sexual life begins at the time of individua- relations outside marriage are tion which occurs between the. a~ways intrinsically and seriously

wrong. Father Curran says he would admit exceptions "only in very rare and comparatively few situations."

- Homosexual aets.

According to church doctrine, homosexual acts always "lack an

essential and indispensable finality and must therefore always be considered gravely wrong." Father Curran says that homosexual relationships fall short of the full meaning of human sexuality. But he would propose that "for an irre-

versible, constitutional or genuine homosexual, homosexual acts in the context of a loving relationship striving for permanency can in a certain sense be objectively morally acceptable."

Father Curran press conference Continued from Pag~ Six on the specific moral issues involved in the dispute the official teaching is opposed to such actions and I am in favor of them. That is not the case. I have always developed my moral theology in the light of accepted Catholic principles. My positions on the particular issues involved are always carefully nuanced and often in fundamental agreement with the existing hierarchical teaching....

"Second, the issue of dissent.

The July 25 letter refers to both the infallible and non-infallible magisterium. However, in all the correspondence before 1985, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recognized that the issue was public dissent from the non-infallible hierarchical magisterium as is spelled out in the very first sentence of the "observations" sent to me in April 1983.... "thus, we are dealing with the non-infallible hierarchical teaching.

Here, too, in my writing and recent public statements I have not proposed the possibility and legitimacy of dissent from all noninfallible teaching.... My disagreements are on the level of complex, specific actions which involve many conflicting circumstances and situations.

"By their very nature these specific concrete questions are far removed from the core of faith.

Recall that official hierarchical teaching does not condemn all ster-

ilization but recognizes that in some situations indirect sterilization is permitted....

"Third, the process. Most legal systems in the contemporary world recognize that the defendant has a right to the record of the trial including the right to know who are the accusers. No such record has ever been made available to me.

"My colleagues have urged me to go through the process provided by the "Statutes of the Ecclesiastical Faculties" if I have the physical and spiritual strength to do so. I would like to honor their request, but there are some problems that must first be clarified. I have written that the existing canonical statures are themselves a violation of academic freedom. Also in 1982 I wrote an official letter to the university asserting that these statutes do not apply to me since my tenured contract with the university predates these statutes and the university cannot unilaterally add anything to my contractual obligations. Only after receiving academic and legal counsel on these points can I make a final decision about the process.

"In conclusion, I am conscious of my own limitations and my own failures. I am aware of the consequences of what is involved. But I can only repeat what I wrote Cardinal Ratzinger in my final response of April I, 1986: "In conscience at

the present time I cannot and do not change the theological positions I have taken." In my own judgment and in the judgment of the majority of my peers I have been and am suitable and eligible to exercise the function of a professor of Catholic theology....

"Finally, some historical examples give me hope. Theologians who have been condemned have at later times been vindicated and their teachings have been accepted.

The experience ofthe Second Vatican Council illustrates this fact.

"From a personal perspective, I have been comforted and strengthened by the support of so many. I remain a loyal and committed Roman Catholic. I pray daily that I might continue to love and serve the church without bitterness and anger."

Bishops get kudos ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) - Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York credits the U.S. bishops with a major role "in making poverty a topic of national concern once again" through the pastoral letter they are preparing on the economy. Since the first draft of the pastoral in November 1984,"our national attitude toward poverty in America has changed," Cuomo said in a statement on the third draft of the pastoral. Its final version will be voted on by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in November.

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The Anchor Friday, Aug. 22, 1986

13 Evangelism center to offer degrees

Living with the changes following Vatican II Last year's commemoration of with it, validated it, gave it a certhe 20th anniversary of the closing tain impetus and a certain theologof Vatican Council II highlighted ical and pastoral respectability. the phenomenon of rapid change Rapid change would have come in church life after the council. with or without the council. But Father Andrew Greeley argues without a council it would have in "Confessions of a Parish Priest" come largely in protest against the that the council's significance lies real or alleged inadequacies of more in the fact that it "legiti- Catholic thought and pastoral mated change" in the church than practice, and not in response to an in the documents it produced. He orderly study of theological and hastens to add, however, that the biblical sources and a systematic council fathers did not fully under- reappraisal of the church's needs stand what they were unleashing. and opportunities.

That's true, of course; no one Vatican II was the providential anticipated the troubles that came safety valve that made it possible in the council's wake, although it - or so it seems to many observers was clear, says Father Greeley, - to forestall a disastrous explothat the handwriting was on the sion in the life of the church. Yet wall. many people seem to think that Today, with hindsight, we are in the council ignited an explosion. a better position to decipher that Dominican Father Yves Conhandwriting. It was telling us there gar, one of the council's most would be a certain amount of con- influential theologians, does not fusion after the council. agree.

Those who find it difficult to In a brilliant "Last Look at the cope with this phenomenon can take some comfort from Cardinal Council" (a chapter in "Vatican II Revisited by Those Who Were John Henry Newman, a profound student of the early church coun- There"), Father Congar points out cils, who observed, "It is rare for a that many of the problems that council not to be followed by great preoccupy us today were already present or beginning to appear in confusion."

By its 10th anniversary, it was the 1950s and even in the 1930s; clear that Pope John XXIII's coun- the council did not give rise to cil would be no exception. I pre- them. Moreover, he says, Vatican dicted then that continuing change II has been· followed by socioculand, for the indefinite future, an tural change "more extensive, radirreducible amount of confusion ical and rapid and more cosmic in would almost certainly be the order its proportions than any change at of the day. Not because anyone any other period in man's history." planned it that way, but because, Father Congar, now very old in the council's words, the church and physically incapacitated, reis "at once a visible assembly and a mains optimistic, neither discourspiritual community (which) goes aged nor daunted by present church forward together with the world problems. While he admits it makes community and experiences the him sad to "see so many of the same earthly lot which the world great and fine structures that I does." loved so entirely fallen into ruins," Since the human race is now he says he is "at the same time passing through a new stage in its astonished to see so many worthhistory, a stage marked by prowhile initiatives and so many new found and rapid change, the church beginnings prompted by the Gosalso can be expected to experience pel and the Spirit of God." the same phenomenon.

His optimism is a welcome antiVatican II did not generate the dote to the pessimism of other Catholic commentators, including phenomenon of rapid change in the church but merely coincided some in high places.

Priest works for Korean reunion HONG KONG (NC) - A Korean-born priest spends much of his time campaigning to reunite the Catholic Church in his divided homeland.

"As John's Gospel says, we did not love God first, God first loved us, so we must love the North Koreans first," Father Matthew Ko Chong-ok, 57, said in a recent interview. with Asia Focus, a Hong Kong Catholic publication. He said Christians have a special role to play in overcoming the South's prejudices.

"We must have a common consciousness instead of an ideology," he said, pointing to anti-communist education in the South as a problem.

"In the North, I saw study going ahead for liberation theology to become the bridge of dialogue between socialists and Christians," the priest said.

"Karl Marx and Jesus have both come out of love for us, so let's dialogue," he said.

Father Ko plans to visit Moscow this fall to meet with Catholic representatives from both sides of the 38th parallel. His short-range aim is to send a priest to Pyon-

gyang, communist North Korea's capital.

Father Ko fought in the Korean War, entered the seminary after eight years in the army and worked among Korean immigrants in Canada after his 1963 ordination.

He said he became involved in reconciliation work while helping prepare for the 200th anniversary ofthe Catholic Church in Korea in 1984.

Now a Canadian citizen living in Paris, he said that during a 1984 visit to the North, the North Korean Christian Federation, a Protestant group, told him that the Catholic Church as an institution was extinct in the country.

He said members told him that since 1959, no North Korean had asked them to find a Catholic priest, so they concluded that, though there might be Catholics in the North, there was no church.

"I celebrated Mass four times in my hotel in Pyongyang," Father Ko said. "In the street, I offered blessings countless times, and at night blessed and prayed over the city from my window."

The priest's family is separated by the border.

"Before the Korean War, my

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MIAMI (NC) - A new Center for Catholic Evangelism has been established at Miami's St. Thomas University as part of a pastoral ministries graduate program, believed the first of its kind in the United States.

The center initially will offer master's degrees with a specialization in Catholic evangelization as well as l5-credit academic certificates. Future plans call for undergraduate and continuing education programs.

Appointed as directors of the center were Father Robert Deshaies of the Worcester diocese, president ofthe New England Catholic Evangelistic Center and Susan Blum, founding editor of the Catholic Evangelist magazine.

The center is being initially funded by Food for the Poor, a South Florida agency founded in 1982 by Ferdinand C. Mahfood to minister to the indigent ofthe Carribbean. Mahfood said his organization supports both social justice and evangelization efforts.

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PROVIDENCE COLLEGE Graduate Programs In Religious Studies Fall Courses WITH BALES of hay as a lectern, Bishop George Spelz of St. Cloud, Minn., speaks during a Mass on a Roscoe, Minn., farm that was part of a Day of Prayer for God's Blessings on Rural America. (NC photo)

7,500 Masses pose dilemma TOLEDO, Ohio (NC) ~ The late Frances Maynard intended to leave S1. Catherine Parish a generous gift in her will. But she also left a dilemma.

From a $180,000 bequest to the parish, Mrs. Maynard earmarked $75,000 as offerings for Masses to be celebrated within one year for herself and her husband.

But diocesan policy says that a priest may not accept more Mass offerings than he can satisfy within home was south of the 38th parallel, but after it, the cease-fire line had us in the North," he said.

"Since 1978, people [in the South] have been able to visit their families in the North and stay three to five days. But I could not arrange sUl{h a visit."

For complete dialogue to take place,. Father Ko said he believes two things have to happen - the North has to improve economically and the South "must get rid of preconceptions and prejudice."

"Externally, the South seems to be living much better. If these differences could be ironed out, dialogue would probably be a pushover. If the South is genuinely for dialogue, then it must help the North economically, like hosting the Olympics as ajoint operation," he said.

a year. And, as pastor Father William Parker explained to his parishioners, "We cannot realistically expect to offer more than four or five Masses yearly for one person."

At a standard Mass offering of $10, the bequest .would call ~or 7 500 Masses. At the rate of five Masses per person per year, it would take 750 years for the parish's two priests to celebrate all the Masses.

Father Parker notified Bishop James R. Hoffman of Toledo of the situation, which the bishop has referred to canon lawyers. Father Parker said the case illustrates why memorials to parishes are recommended in place of Mass offerings.

Mrs. Maynard's will stipulated that a percentage of savings bonds in a safe deposit box go toward Mass offerings. She probably did not realize how many bonds she had, Father Parker said.

Another $1,500 was designated, without a time limit, for Masses for her parents. Other stipulations in the will made about $96,000 available to St. Catherine's for general use.

The parish is sharing its wealth.

It has given $2,400 each to two parishes in Toledo's central city, Toledo's Guadalupe Center and the diocesan mission in Zimbabwe.

(Starts Sept. 8, 1986)

Biblical Studies Epistle 01 Paul to the Romans Terence Keegan, D.P. ... Monday 7 to 9 p.m.

Special Questions in Johannine Theology T.A. Collins.D.P. ...Thursday 7 to 9 p.m.

Pentateuch Patrick Reid ...Tuesday 7 to 9 p.m.

Luke/Acts Helen O'Neill, a.p. .. 'wednesday 7 to 9 p.m.

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Religious Studies History 01 Spirituality Mary Ann Follmar ... Monday 3:45 to 5:45 p.m.

Early Christian History and Theology Thomas D. McGonigle, a.p. ...Thursday, 3:45 to 5:45 p.m.

God: One and Three John J. Reid, a.p. ...Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.

Religious Education Philosophy of Religious Education Elaine Scully, R.S.M. ... Friday, 9:20 to 11:20 a.m.

Inquire: Graduate Programs Religious Studies Department Providence College Providence, R.I. 02918 or call: (401) 865·2274 Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution (MIFIH)

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 22, 1986

-What's

on your mind?

Q. What makes adults think they know everything about dating? Things are different now than they were when adults were kids.

(Colorado) A. In 1929, nearly 60 years ago, two fine writers, James Thurber and E. B. White, wrote a very funny book, "Is Sex Necessary?"

A chapter in it was titled, "The Sexual Revolution." This is worth noting because in the 1960s many Americans began talking about a "sexual revolution" as though no one had ever heard of such a thing.

One would have thought that the people of the 60s had invented the idea and that such a revolt had never taken place in earlier times.

So, looking back, we can recall the saying: "The more things change, the more they remain the same."

Yes, the dating scene has changed

By TOM LENNON

and it's likely that your children will have some different dating customs than you now have. And maybe your grandchildren will never even hear the word "corsage."

- But it's certain that some parts of the dating scene will remain exactly as they are today and as they were in your parents' "glory days. " In the future, sweethearts will sometimes have quarrels and then become even closer friends when they kiss and make up.

Some persons will be shy and hesitant in the presence ofa member of the opposite sex. Some will be awkward. And some couples will be Mr. and Mrs. Cool from the moment they first meet.

Some persons will find members of the opposite sex puzzling, mysterious, exasperating, intriguing and frequently wonderful.

FATHER BEERNTSEN whips up 50 pounds of his SeaFoam candy for a parish event. (NC photo)

Two types of divinity GREEN BAY, Wis. (NC) Who can take a rainbow, sprinkl.e it with dew, cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two? In Green Bay, the candy-priest can.

As a member of Green Bay's famous candy-making family, Father Harold Beerntsen once thought that candy would be his life's work.

But a different kind of divinity intervened and he was ordained in 1961.

Still,the 56-year-old pastor of St. Philip Parish in Green Bay loves to make candy. He makes huge batches at least three times a year for parish and school fairs.

The Beerntsen family owns candy shops in Green Bay and Manitowoc, Wis. It was while working in the Green Bay business, which his father founded in 1925, that Father Beerntsen first began to learn the art of candy-making.

"When I was in eighth grade," Father Beerntsen said, "I started and eventually blanched peanuts, cut and wrapped caramels and toffee and wrapped lollipops. I worked part time in eighth grade and through high school. " The priest recalls working summers while' he was in the seminary in the 1950s.

"I clerked, worked the soda fountain, lunch counter, melted chocolate, cut candy, roasted nuts, did cleaning and made SeaFoam and ice cream toppings," he said.

F~ther Beerntsen's first pastorate was in St. Josaphat's Parish, Oshkosh. During his 1971 to 1982 stint there, he was involved for about a year-and-a-half with a candy business called "The Candy Kitchen."

"During that time I learned more about the candy business and particularly chocolate dipping by hand.

On occasion I now dip various

clusters in chocolate: peanuts, raisins, coconut, pecans, almonds, cashews, walnuts and hickory nuts.

Also I dip marshmallows, dates, English toffee and turtles. These are used mostly for J;:aster and Christmas gifts," he said.

The priest said he enjoys making candy "for about two hours at a time. If (it's) more than that it becomes work. So that helps me keep it in its place."

Bishop Connolly Father Stephen F. Dawber, SJ, of the social studies department at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, has been appointed associate principal. James L'Heureux, a Connolly alumnus, has joined the social studies staff.

Other faculty additions are Brother Richard Levesque, FIC, math; Jesuit scholastics John Sauve and Bruce Morrill, religion; Sister M. Laurita Hand, RSM, English; Armand Dallaire, physics; Ann Blumenthal, guidance.

• • • Senior English teacher and choir director James Crowley continues a leave of absence to complete graduate studies at the University of Delaware.

• • • • • Alumni who graduated from 1970 to 1973 will host an allalumni reunion tomorrow night at White's restaurant, Westport.

Father William Cullen, SJ, a former Connolly faculty member, will be master of ceremonies. The firstever Connolly alumni directory will be distributed and plans will be shown for a new sports complex on the school campus. Steve Biello, '70, is arrangements committee chairman.

8)' Charlie Martin

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And some persons will be swept away by romantic feelings and the great joy of first love. Many will experience a powerful sexual attraction and will have to decide how to deal with those strong feelings.

The more things change, the more they remain the same!

Adults today may not know all the details of the dating scene. But, because some things remain the same, they do know some of the most important aspects of dating in 1986.

If you think these adults worry too much and are always cautioning you too much, keep in mind that they have experienced the power of the sexual appetite.

They know that if you do not use your sexuality in a suitable way, you can reap a harvest of unhappiness.

Hence the cautions and the worrying. At heart, however, adults hope for the best for you. They hope you will deal with your sexuality in a way that will lead ultimately to a lifetime of happiness.

Send questions to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., WaShington, D.C. 20005.

A Thought "The more words you speak, the lc:ss they mean." - Eccles. 6: 11 other hopes for ways to work out the problems.

What makes the separation even more painful is that "two he~lrts are breaking with no one to blame." Apparently, neither ha~, done anything wrong to the other. This situation reminds us that at times love is not enough to keep a relationship together.

What are the reasons for such sep.arations? Breaking upa dating relationship always is difficult, but at times it Can be for the good of both people. Consider the following situations: 1. Two people may realize that they are moving in different directions, perhaps even geographically wh~:n they decide to attend different colleges. Perhaps the dating relationship was good in high school, but now both people realize the difficulty of maintaining a long~range relationship.

2. Two people may genuinely like each other but still feel a need to date others. Perhaps one or both of them don't want to go steady and need more freedom.

3. There may be a growing awareness that two people who haw been dating are not right for each other when it comes to buildinga permanent relationship.

While recognizing many attractive qualities in each otber, one or both may realize something more is ne'eded.

Courage and maturity are needed when it comes to making a seJlaration. Real love cannot be pretended. If you care about yourself and the other, this love can .provide tbe strengtb to face the confusion and pain likely to resnLt from separating. And tbis pain is temporary.

Manyteen-agers who read this column may have faced this situation. What insights co\lld you shatt~ with other readers? Write and 1.willpasson yourexperlences and insights.

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The Anchor Friday, Aug. 22, 1986

·D.ews Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing: PG-13-parental guidance' strongly suggested for children under 13: PC-parental guidance suggested: R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults: A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only: A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive Which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

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JENNIFER MARQUETTE, 14, who struck out 21 batters at a softball game she pitched for her 8th-grade Catholic school team in Detroit (Anchor, Aug. 8), gets an autograph from Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens who had struck out a mere 20 the previous day. (NC photo)

New Films "Choke Canyon" (Unlted Film) A cowboy-scientist fights for his rights against big business, foils the flying hit man sent to silence him, exposes the effort to turn his canyon lab into a toxic waste she, who has more advantages, dump site, saves his horse, gets the should be able to. girl and manages to complete the It's fine to have an open mind, experiment turning sound waves but one must also know when to into energy. This story about inclose it. tegrity and personal initiative gets Another friend tells me that she derailed by chase scenes, pyrois afraid to witness when asked technics, romance and a small bit about religion. Among our many of rough language. A2,PG blessings, Christ gives us courage.

"A Fine Mess" (Columbia) We have each been assigned an Howie Mandel is too dull and Ted "office," and should not be afraid Danson too devilish in this adult to proclaim our faith when asked. burlesque from Blake Edwards.

Christ charged the apostles to carry Comic conventions include Manon His work, and so are we charged, del and Danson being chased by whether our instruments be a pen goon-clowns Stuart Margolin and and pencil, a classroom, or the Richard Mulligan, who are sent by responsibilities which come with a Mafia boss (Paul Sorvino) when religious life. Tasks in the kitchen, he learns they have won big on a visiting the sick, instructing in reli- horse he's drugged with a supposigion, all are important. tory. Danson's promiscuous romp We should be grateful that God with Maria Conchita Alonzo is approaches us and asks for our symptomatic of the failed charm help. Ever think of it in that way? and gracelessness of this slapstick We're important enough to be showcase. O,PG asked for help by God! "Friday the 13th, Part VI" We can't win over everyone's (Paramount) The demonic killer is heart. Jesus didn't. We must always brought back from the dead via a respect truth more than we do lightning bolt to torment, terrorize affection. Faithfulness to principle and molest the countryside in this is better than personal attachment. excessively bloody and violent epiWe can't allow ourselves to chip sode in the series of sequels. One away at conscience. We each have killing occurs after an explicit sex our own way of working; what is scene between minors. O,R good for one may be a roadblock "One Crazy Summer"(Warners) for others. We must not model Absurdist comedy replete with tireourselves after others. We must some bathroom humor, some prounfold our own personalities. fane gestures and vulgar sight gags Unlike the cynical young man, I has a group of high school grads do not feel that Christianity has saving the ancestral home of a spent its force and done its work. streetwise girl (Demi Moore) from There is more and more of a mani- a ruthless developer and his son. festation of God's truth ahead. It is Action takes place on Nantucket we who need regeneration.

Island, is essentially junk food and is vapid enough to cause goof-ball behavior in the young and immaCHICAGO (NC) - Sister of ture. A2,PG Films on TV St. Joseph Jacqueline Wetherholt has been named executive director Sunday, Aug. 31, 9-11 p.m. EDT of the National Catholic Vocation (ABC) "The' Cheap Detective" Council.

(1978). This star-studded parody The Chicago-based council repre- of 1940s detective movies is more sents a number of church agencies, literate and more vulgar than the including the National Conference form it celebrates. High point is of Catholic Bishops and the Natiorl- . Peter Falk's Bogart improvisation, al Conference of Diocesan Vpca- but Neil Simon's wit fails' him here tions Directors. with too much emphasis on a strip Sister Wetherholt will prepare mining of the past in small vignettes materials for the annual Vocations replete with excessive bathroom Awarerless Week and will organ- humor. A3,Pp . ize a biennial orientation program Monday, Sept. I, 8-11 p.m. EDT for vocation personnel. .

(ABC) "Death On The Nile"(1978)~

A need for regeneration

By Cecilia Belanger We often hear people ask, "How do people become what they are?"

And the answers come back, "environment, heredity, circumstances." I take issue with those answers.

I think that character is more dependent on outward circumstances than is usually thought and that the processes by which we become what we are are often "inward." We fail to give credit to the Holy Spirit, to God's voice within. In some breasts there is a moral power at work.

A young man told me of his visits to many churches of various denominations. To date he has not found one to which he can relate.

He said that he felt that Christianity has been stripped of its power, buried in a deep grave and not alive.

He also noted that he thought religion is too concerned with what people think and not enough with what God thinks. He was serious and concerned. There was nothing one could say to make him think differently - at the moment. I gave him some books to read and said we'd talk again. Good sermons might have helped him, but sometimes a listener is guilty of remaining dead under the light of God's word. He expects too much from others while not exerting himself.

We are not thinking enough for ourselves. We attach ourselves to what others think. One ceases to grow if he or she allows others to do their thinking for them. It's as if one had lost the very breath of life and is doomed to decay and deterioration. But one's own thinking can have a healing power. It can give strength and hope. It can give courage.

I know a lady who listens to just about every religious television and radio program available to her.

She is one confused person. She tells me that she doesn't know what to believe. She's ilofthinking for herself. She could go directly to Jesus' and forget about 'all the interpreters. If Jesus could speak to the uneducated, and they knew what He was talking about, surely

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Passionless, unsuspenseful Agatha Christie drama featuring Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Angela Lansbury and Mia Farrow in a tale ofjealousy and greed set be~~­ tifully on the Nile. Very exphclt gory murders made the theatric~l version less suitable for the sensItive viewer. Eccentric acting, ponderous pacing and lack of imagination mark John Guillermin's direction. A3,PG Monday, Sept. I, 9-11 p.m. EDT (NBC) "Serial" (1980). Shallow sexually oriented spoof of upwardly mobile California stereotypes and their hedonistic social scene. The irreverent theatrical version had some nudity and foul language offsetting its affectionate selfmocking treatment of the selfrealization syndrome. Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld and Sally Kellerman star. O,R Wednesday, Sept. 3, 9-11 p.m.

EDT (CBS) "Nothing Personal" (1980). Romantic screwball comedy aboufa militant college professor (Donald Sutherland) who goes to Washington to battle a giant corporation bent on the slaughter of baby seals. The insincere social commentary is overpowered by a seduction scene in which Suzanne Sommers as the helpful lawyer further obscures Sutherland's motives. A3,PG Friday, Sept. 5, 9-11 p.m. EDT (CBS) "Outland" (1981). It's high noon on the moon as Sean Connery and Peter Boyle take an old western shoot-out into outer space.

In this Peter Hyams production, values outclass the plot, which deals with corporate use of drugs to maximize productivity. Story pits conscience against efficiency.

Extended violence and brutality make this less suitable for youngsters. A3,R Saturday, Sept. 6, 8:30-11 p.m.

EDT (CBS) "Taps" (1981). Highminded youths take control of a military boarding school when the authorities decide to sell out. The rather implausible youth-in-revolt drama tries to make some comments about courage and leadership, has some violence and features George C. Scott and Timothy Hutton. A2,PG

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Religious TV Sunday, Aug. 24 (CBS) - "For Our Times" - Marshall Efron tells the story of the Lost Coin in a summer series of programs for young people.

Religious Radio Sunday, Aug. 24 (NBC) "Guideline" - Irving Berelson of the New York League for the Hard of Hearing discusses free services for the poor who have hearing impairments.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Classrooms of Wing Elementary School will be used for Sunday morning CCD classes. Catechists from the parish and its Sagamore mission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at Father Clinton Hall. Prospective teachers are also invited.

St. Patrick Missionary Fathers will speak at Masses Aug. 30 and 31.

CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER, E. FREETOWN Fellowship retreat for members of St. Patrick's parish, Somerset today through Sunday.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Bishop Joseph W. Regan, MM, retired bishop ofTagurn, Philippines, will speak at weekend Masses on behalf of missions in Tagum. CCD teachers needed; information at rectory.

Catholic Women's Club meets 10 a.m. to noon Thursdays, religious education center. Ncw members welcome.

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ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Thanks go to parishioner Harry Richardson, designer and donor of the new sign in front of the church.

Oct. 12 to 14 the Women's Guild will sponsor a Peace Pilgrimage to the National Shrine ofthe Immaculate Heart of Mary, Washington, N.J. Information: Paulyne Dick, 450-2045. CCD workers: information 548-2306.

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, TAUNTON, FR Meeting for bereaved parents and siblings 7:30 p.m. Aug. 25, St. Louis de France School, Swansea. Information: Sandra Sousa, 823-5240.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Those interested in working for pro-life in connection with the upcoming November election are asked to contact the rectory.

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME, FR Ice cream social for residents and visitors 2 p.m. today, auditorium, with musical entertainment by Judith Conrad; employee of the month for August is nurses' aide Claire Charron, an employee of the health care facility since 1970.

ST.MARY,NB Parish Senior Citizens' group meets 1:30 p.m. first and third Wednesdays of each month, school basement. First meeting of new season Sept. 3. Guest speakers: chiropractor Dr. Michael Gottfried and his wife, muscle therapist Debra Gottfried. New members welcome. Information: Florence Lavoie, 995-1298; Evening of Renewal for lay Ministers of the Eucharist 7:30 p.m. Sept.

8, religious education center; Teachers' Day of Recollection Aug. 27, religious education center.

DEAF APOSTOLATE, FR Members of the deaf community recently attended a special Mass at Holy Ghost parish, Attleboro, celebrated by Father Thomas C. Lopes.

A family picnic followed at Attleboro's Capron Park.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Babysitting available in parish center during 9:30 a.m. Mass Sundays.

LEGION OF MARY, NB Holy hour with adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament begins with 5 p.m. Mass today, St..Josep~'sChurch,New Bedford. Prayer intentIOns are those of Pope John Paul II. All welcome.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON St. Jude novena 7 p.m. Mondays; altar boys' outing Monday; swimming, bowling and miniature golf featured. Meet I p.m., rectory.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, F AIRHAVEN Holy hour 7 p. m. Tuesday, Sacred Hearts Church, 382 Main Street.

Father Alphonsus McHugh, SS.CC., pastor, will celebrate the service, which includes exposition, prayers, meditation, a homily and Benediction. Refreshments follow, church hall. All welcome.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Religious education teachers, aides and workers will be commissioned Sept. 21.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Religious education teacher commissioning ceremony at 10 a.m. Mass Sept. 14.

CATHEDRAL, FR Vincentian meeting 7 p.m. Aug. 26; annual golf tournament for parish men, 2:30 p.m. Aug. 31, Touisset links.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Czestochowa prayer days in progress through Aug. 26, with solemnity of feast to be observed Sunday with exposition of Blessed Sacrament 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Religious education teachers needed; information at the education office.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS New members welcome in Women's Guil~.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Altar boys' outing Aug. 25, meeting at rectory at I p.m.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Gratitude is extended to all who gave help and support during the sad days ofthe pastor's wake and funeral.

Rosary and Benediction 7 p.m.

Sunday; religious education teachers needed for grade 7.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Extension care program for children enrolled in the parish school will provide supervision before and after school hours. Information 678-8987; kindergarten welcoming party II a.m. tomorrow for entering pupils.

Those interested in coaching or assisting formation of a flag football league are asked to call 673-4228.

ST. JOSEPH, FR Ghana missionary Father William Kane will speak at weekend Masses.

ST. ANNE,FR Four additional primary grades and a preschool will bring parochial school enrollment to 420 pupils. The' preschool opens Sept. 8, morning extended care Sept. 3 and afternoon extended care Sept. 4. A computer program begins in October. New staff members are Father Herbert Nichols, director, seven teachers and Mrs. Louise Boulay, CCDcoordinator.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Altar boys will attend a Pawtucket Red Sox game Aug. 29, leaving church 6:30 p.m.; a Consolate missioner will speak at weekend Masses.

A family festival following 6:30 p.m. Mass tomorrow will honor the parish patron and will include refreshments and entertainment.

JESUIT BROTHER Richard J. Curry leads a class of student actors at the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped in New York. (NC photo)

Handicapped actors to star in TV spot NEW YORK (NC) - Producers of a national TV spot said they will use handicapped actors from a Jesuit brother's National Theater Workshop to show that people with disabilities are capable, wellrounded individuals who would be an asset to employers.

The workshop is led by Jesuit Brother Richard J. Curry, who himself is handicapped.

His group has been selected by the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped to provide actors for a television public service announcement.

ST. JAMES, NB Thanks are expressed to CYO members and advisors for work recently done in the parish hall.

Host families sought for YES, an exchange program for foreign students. Information: 800-848-2121.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Fellowship retreat this weekend.

ST. PATRICK, FR Sisters of Mercy in the parish convent thank all who contributed to their recent shower. They promise remembrance in prayer "and each time they water a plant, make a bed and open a can."

Altar boys, age 10 and up, are needed; holy hour 2 p.m. Sunday, lower chapel; minutes of Women's Guild meetings over the past years are needed-those with information are asked to call Marguerite Silvia, 673-5470.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN New CCD teachers needed; information 992-8721, Manny Medeiros.

Clothing donations for Texas mission may be left inside the church side door through August. First communion and May crowning photos available at church entrance.

NOTRE DAME, FR A Salesian missioner will speak at weekend Masses. Women's Guild meeting 7: 15 p.m. Aug. 25, rectory conference room.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN 'School hall unavailable today and tomorrow due to floor waxing.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT A Franciscan missioner will speak at weekend Masses. Organization officers are asked to list activities for September through June for use in church bulletins.

The parish welcomes Roger Dufour Sr., its new organist.

Filming was scheduled for last month, with distribution to television stations planned for sometime in the fall.

Workshop participants will not be paid, but Brother Curry said that the recognition would help establish the workshop as a permanent agency.

Brother Curry, who was born without a right forearm, said he emphasizes to the handicapped that they must be realistic in accepting their disabilities, as well as facing the difficulties of making a career in theater.

But, he said, he established the workshop to give the handicapped professional training so they would be prepared whenever opportunities came.

He added that he hoped the presence of handicapped actors on stage would "change attitudes" among audiences.

Brother Curry, 43, born in Philadelphia, joined the Jesuits at 18.

He got a master's degree in theater from Villanova University and taught high school and college. He

Named commander NEW YORK (NC) - Joseph Lichten, a representative of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith in Rome since 1971, has been named a knight commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II. The Order of.St. Gregory is bestowed those distinguised for conspicuous virtue and notable accomplishments on behalf ofthe Church and society.

Lichtenjoined the Anti-Defamation League in 1945 and initiated the first U.S. Catholic-Jewish interfaith dialogue.

In 1964 and 1965 he represented the league at Second Vatican Council sessions, preparing background material for council members on the link between Christian beliefs and anti-Semitism.

His work was credited with playing a key role in the deliberations which resulted in "N ostra Aetate," Vatican II's declaration on Jews and other non-Christians which denounced anti-Semitism.

then went to New York to get a doctorate in theater from New York University.

He said he had hoped to supplement his income while in graduate school with television commercials, but was stunned to find directors would not even let him audition. "Someone told me I ought to model hats because then I would only be shown from the shoulders up," he said. "I didn't see why I (:ouldn't sell insurance or cars or other products."

Brother Curry would first like to get directors to consider handicapped actors for portrayal of handicapped characters. But the long-range goal is to get them accepted for other roles as well.

That will also require developing awareness among theater owners, Brother Curry said. Even with new theaters built to be accessible for the handicapped to attend, he said, backstage facilities often remain inaccessible.

While most students probably will not be able to support themslelves by acting, Brother Curry said that theater arts have "transferable benefits."

One actor in his group, Bobbie Wailes, who had polio at 13 and now must use a wheelchair, said her only commercial success thus far was $124 earned as an extra on a soap opera, appearing as a hospital patient.

She said she has found Brother Curry's training immensely valuable as a "confidence builder."

Last year the Dole Foundation, established by Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., gave ' the workshop a $20,000 grant for a Marketplace Communications Skills Program.

Like Brother Curry, Senator Dole has a handicapped right arm from a war wound. "I met him when he came to New York for a reception," Brother Curry said.

"We kept shaking each other's left hand."

But the grant is not renewable, the Jesuit said, so he must seek hf:lp from other sources. He set up a board of directors last year and h~ls begun looking for permanent workshop quarters.