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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS VOL. 36, NO. 33

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Brief Gorbachev ouster nightmare for Vatican

By Catholic News Service Pope John Paul II has returned to Vatican City after a whirlwind Aug. 13 to 20 tour of Poland and Hungary, climaxed Aug. 19 with the news of the Soviet coup that briefly deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev, now back in the Kremlin. The pope used a Soviet-built helicopter to fly around Hungary Aug. 16 to 20 and prescribe religion as the binding force for the new foundations of Eastern Europe. He said that promotion of religious :values can foster unity and help prevent the spread of ideologies which destroy society. He warned Hungarians that . stepping into political freedom after decades of communism will not automatically solve their economic and social problems. In Hungary the pope was met on Aug. 18 by representatives of the largest Jewish community in Eastern Europe who said the Hungarian Catholic leadership "did not denounce publicly" the massive deportation to Nazi concentration camps of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II. "Had they broken the silence, and ceased their indifference, who knows what would have happened," said a statement read to the pope by Rabbi Peter Kardos, representing the 80,000-member Hungarian Jewish community. The Jewish delegation decided to make the criticism despite Vatican efforts to get them to change it, said Jewish leaders. But Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls Turn to Page 10

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F ALLEN TREE branches surround statue of Our Lady at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, in wake of Hurricane Bob. (Hickey photo)

.Cape Cod parishes meet Hurricane B'ob challenge With CNS reports Parishes the length of the Cape Cod peninsula opened their doors to people evacuated from lowlying areas in the path of Hurricane Bob, and kept up a steady flow of assistance as recovery work began. Days after the powerful storm flattened trees, shredded roofs and tossed boats ashore, some churches still were providing shelter and meals for those whose homes were damaged or who had no electricity.

Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket were hardest-hit, with Massachusetts Gov. William Weld estimating the cost of repairs in his state at $1 billion. In Fall River, falling trees damaged an iron fence at St. Mary's Cathedral and windows were broken at the diocesan health facilities office. Trees also were uprooted at the chancery complex, which includes Bishop Daniel A. Turn to Page 10

VATICAN CITY (CNS) When hard line communists attempted to remove Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union, the Vatican almost lost a key ally in the struggle to bring full religious freedom to Soviet Catholics. Gorbachev's abrupt departure from power Aug. 19 - and his apparent return to power just days later - was in many ways a nightmare scenario for top church officials. The developments had threatened to close a six-year chapter of religious reform in the Soviet Union. Those reforms came in under the wing of Gorbachev's "perestroika" program of social restructuring, and reflected his view that religion was no longer an enemy. Gorbachev's t<,:mporary ouster also had placed a cloud over religious affairs in Eastern Europe, where the fall of communism in former Soviet satellites has given local churches a new lease on life. Pope John Paul II met with Gorbachev twice at the Vatican and both times greeted him as a· man who could be trusted to deliver on his promises and who deserved public support. The pope could point to a number of concrete gains for the church under Gorbachev's leadership: - A freedom of religion law in 1990 which rolled back decades of communist restrictions on churches, including those against religious instruction and freedom of association. - The legalization of the 5million-member Ukrainian Catholic Church, along with the restitution of some of its churches and other properties. - The exchange of diplomatic

representatives, which allowed the Vatican to undertake a much-needed census of the church in Soviet lands and begin reorganizing its hierarchy there. - An invitation for the pope to visit the country, a trip which had been foreseen for next year or 1993. - Growing recognition, in policy statements by Soviet officials, that religion represents a cultural strength. For these and other reasons, the pope and the Vatican were some of Gorbachev's loudest cheerleaders, even when he was under fire at home for failed domestic policies. In 1985, reacting to Gorbachev's election as head of the Communist Party, the Vatican newspaper said the 'move opened "a new era for the Soviet Union." This optimism - shared by few observers at the time - was borne out as Gorbachev introduced dramatic social changes. especially in the area of human ri~hts. A breakthrough occurred in 1988, when Gorbachev welcomed a top-level church delegation to Moscow for ceremonies commemorating the millennium of Christianity in what is now the Soviet Union. Early 1989 saw the restoration of the Lithuanian hierarchy, the return of the Vilnius cathedral and the freeing of a Lithuanian archbishop from house arre~t. In that period, the then-Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, summed up what Gorbachev meant to the church: "We are always ready to dialogue. What was lacking was a partner. now a partner exists." In his first meeting with Gorbachev in late 1989, the pope in effect Turn to Page 10

A "tall gringo" adapts to life in Latin America By Marcie Hickey .The Emmaus retreat programfor young adults, runfrom Cathedral Camp in East Freetown, is designed to help young adults deepen their faith and develop their relationship with Christ. The program takes its name from the town near Jerusalem cited in the Gospel of Luke. En route to the town, two disciples encounter a stranger, and only after walking, talking and breaking bread with him do they realize he'is the risen Christ. Like the Gospel story, the retreat program emphasizes recognition of Christ in the stranger. For some members of the Emmaus community that has meant a call to live the Gospel in a challenging way: to find the face of Jesus among strangers inforeign lands. For·them the road to Emmaus has led beyond the Fall River diocese: to Costa Rica and Ecuador, where Sean Sheehan has worked with the disabled in two Peace Corps assignments; to Mexico, where Rayleen Giannotti worked in a shelter for migrants; and to Zimbabwe, where Kathy Sullivan Westgate spent six months assisting in a mission hospital. A II three recently shared their experiences with the A nchor, and their stories will appear consecutively, beginning with this issue.

A TOUCH OF HOME? Though Sean Sheehan spends most of his time in Latin America, he found this tropicallooking nook at St. Mary's rectory in Fairhaven. (Hickey photo)

Sean Sheehan knew three Spanish words when he embarked on his present career in 1987: "Si, no and no gracias." But that limited vocabulary did

not deter the native of Our Lady of the Cape parish, Brewster, from accepting a Peace Corps posting to Costa Rica, where the three words had to go a long way as the

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Lucky Lotto players win' by mistake BROOKLYN, N.Y.(CNS)-A to check them against the winning mistake by one of a group of nine numbers.. , church employees in the Brooklyn After it is divided among nine Diocese netted them the grand people and spread out into 21 prize of $4.5 million in the New payments over 20 years, the $4.5 York State Lotto. million prize works out to yearly Two years ago the group of nine checks of $23,809.52 per person - mainly staff members of Most -about $17,500 each after taxes. Precious Blood parochial school Ms. Harvey, who has taught at in Bensonhurst - formed a lottery Most Precious Blood for 17 years, pool. They called their club the called the club members on Sun. Casa Shamrock and combined day and arranged a meeting at the their money to buy five tickets school Monday morning. every Wednesday and Saturday. They had won small prizes by Last,1une t~ey discarded one of hitting partial combinations sevthe randomly picked number com- eral times before, but no one knew binations they had used the whole they had hit the big one until Ms. school year and picked a new Harvey told them as a group. combination to replace it. They Kenneth Ball, who started the figured the old combination was club and has been a custodian at unlucky -because it hadn't won a the school for nearly 30 years, said thing all year. sever!ll'of the members are longBut when seventh-grade teacher time employees .nearing retirement. Gail Harvey went to purchase 'the . "It's about time our boat came club's five entries for the' Aug: 10 . in.... It makes a nice supplement Lotto, she made a mistake. She to the diocesan pension," he said. picked up an old entry card lying Others said they will continue at home ~ with the old numbers working as usual and use the money already filled in - and submitted to pay bills and take a vacation it along with the club's current after the upcoming school year. combinations when she bought Besides Ball and Ms. Harvey, the Lotto tickets. the club members include a school The old, "unlucky" combination secretary and a parish secretary, 4,21,22,31,40 and 50 - was the three other teachers, a parish catejackpot winner' in the Aug. 10 chist, and Ms. Harvey's mother. drawing. They called their club Casa Sham"I don't know how it happened," rock to reflect the Irish and Italian Ms. Harvey said. "I'm just thank- heritage of the members. ful I didn't discard [the old combiCharles' Hamilton, the lottery's nation] like I was supposed to." regional director for New York She said she discovered her mis- City, said the yearly Lotto check take only after the Saturday draw- would be made out to Casa Shaming, when she pulled out the tickets rock, and it would be up to the members to divide it. S1. Anne's Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions that we have received to the Remembrance Fund during July, 1991. Through the remembrance and honor of these lives, S1. Anne's can continue its "Caring With Excellence." Marjorie Abrams Joseph Cardin Matthew Chrupcala Ronald J. Clement, Sr. Armand Comeau Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Desnoyers Mary Elizabeth Donnelly Ernest C. Dorr Jeanne G. Dupont Mr. Patrick Folan Rose Gardner Mr. Francis Gragnani Mary Grenier Snow Alfred E. Gutman Alice M. Halle Dr. Wilson E. Hughes John J. Kisbert, Jr. Tadeucz Kocon Romeo Moquin Hilda Neale Alberty Oliveira lurana A. Ramos Christopher Renn Rhea Roy Adelina Sasso Puelo Joseph C. Saulino Marie Halal Selim Augustine Silva, Jr. Alice Souza Pierre A. S1. Denis Deacon Andrew Sullivan Walter Thompson

We are grateful to those who thoughtfully named St. Anne's Hospital's Remembrance Fund.

OBITUARY Father Swot The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Saturday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, New Bedford, for Rev. Gabriel Swol, OFM Conv., 49, former associate pastor of Holy Rosary Church, Taunton, who died Aug. 13. He had been pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church, Chicopee, for the past year. A New Bedford native, he was the son of Louis and Julia (Augustyn) Swol. He entered the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in 1959, took vows in 1960, and completed novitiate studies in 1964. He then entered St. Hyacinth College and was ordained in 1968.. He taught at Kolbe High School in Bridgewater, Conn., from 1968 to 1972. Between 1972 and 1984 he was campus minister, philosophy and religious study department chairman, then director of the Ecumenical School of Catechism at Hilbert College in Hamburg, NY. He received the Hilbert Medal for service to the school. He was associate pastor at St. Adelbert Church, Elmhurst, NY; Sacred Heart Church, Danbury, Conn., and he served at Holy Rosary Church from 1984 to 1988. He was pastor of the Presenta-· tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Marietta, Pa., before becoming pastor at St. Anthony of Padua. Survivors, in addition to his parents, include a brother, Stephen Swol, of New Bedford.

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Theologian steps down WASHINGTON (CNS) - After II years as chairman of the Uni-

versity of Notre Dame's theology department, Father Richard. P.. MclJrien is leaving that post but will remain at Notre Dame as a theology professor. His term as chairman ended Aug. 22. His successor is Lawrence S. Cunningham, 55, a specialist in theology and culture who has been on the Notre Dame theology faculty since 1988. Father McBrien announced that he is stepping down from the department chairmanship in his weekly column, "Essays in Theology," syndicated by the Catholic Transcript, archdiocesan newspaper of Hartford, Conn., his home archdiocese. Father McBrien, 55, has long been one of the nation's bestknown Catholic theologians. He is regularly quoted by the major U.S. media as an analyst of church teachings and practices. He said he will retain his position as Crowley-O'Brien-Walter professor of theology at Notre Dame, which he has held since he joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1980. But he is taking a two-year sabbatical, he said, to update his 1980 book, "Catholicism," to serve as general editor of a new one-volume encyclopedia of Catholicism "and generally to catch up on all the reading in my own field which administrative duties made it impossible for me to do." In his column, which he plans to continue, Father McBrien criticized the university for not having issued a press release early on about his stepping down from the chairmanship, "given the importance of the department and my own public status.... Without it [a press statement], a vacuum developed for rumors to float in." He said he was writing in part to dispel rumors suggesting he was being forced out. He described one such rumor -that he was leaving the priesthood to marry - as "mischievous and false." "I am looking forward to the . 30th anniversary of my ordination to the pr!esthood next Feb. 2," he commented. "I leave the post with some measure of pride in the faculty I have assembled over the past II years. The department is widely regarded now as one of the strongest in the' field," he said..

ST. LOUIS (CNS) - The head of the U.S. bishops' conference told Knights of Columbus meeting in St. Louis Aug. 6 to work toward justice in the world as part of their call to evangelize. , "Concern for human dignity is as much a part of evangelization as preaching," said Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference. He spoke at the opening night banquet of the 109th Supreme Council convention, held in St. Louis and attended by about 2,000 delegates, other Knights and their wives.' Among resolutions adopted was an endorsement of the nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court of Judge'Clarence Thomas. Speaking' on the convention theme, '''Pro'claim Christ to All Peoples," Archbishop Pilarczyk . said U.S. Cath9lics, better edu-' cated and wealthier than ever before, constitute' "il powerful group in a powerful country." He urged Knights to direct that '. "important resource" to helping people in need, such as the unborn . targeted for abortion, the homeless, the hungry and those politically oppressed around the world. Archbishop John L. May Qf St. Louis was principal celebrant and homilist at the convention's opening Mass and Chicago Cardinal

Joseph L. Bernardin and Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, a Canadian who heads the Vatican office for international eucharistic congresses, were among concelebrants. .Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey also attended the convention. In addition to the resolution on Thomas, the convention approved a resolution pledging to continue defense of unborn human life. The Knights also reaffirmed their policy of not honoring supporters of abortion, inviting them as speakers or allowing them to use or rent Knights' facilities. In other resolutions, the Knights affirmed their commitment to Catholic schools, vowed to "take the lead in celebrating" the 500th anniversary in 1992 of Columbus' voyage to America, increased their $3 million fund to support religious vocations by another $3 million to provide scholarships for seminarians, and pledged to continue action against published and broadcast information that promotes and glorifies violence, crime, disrespect of the law and illicit sexual activity. The Knights of Columbus have more than 1.5 million members in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines and sevenll other countries. There are many K . of C councils and assemblies in the Fall River diocese.

Di descended frQm saintly ancestor? MANCHESTER, England (CNS) - One of Princess Diana's 19th century ancestors, Passionist Father Ignatius Spencer, might be o,n the road to Catholic sainthood. The cause of Father Spencer, the great-great-great uncle of the wife of the heir to Britain's throne, has been introduced at the Vatican. Father Spencer converted to Catholicism shortly after practicing the faith was legalized in Britain in 1829. His brother, Frederick, is Princess Diana's great-great-grandfather. Born George Spencer in London in 1799, he was the youngest son in his family. He attended the renowned Eton College, graduated from Cambridge University, and. planned a career as an Anglican priest at a time when usually one son from an aristocratic family went into Anglican ministry. It was while on the Paris stop of a European tour that George Spencer 'had the first real religious experience of his life. He was watching the opera "Don Giovanni" and was terrified at the sight of Don Giovanni getting carried off to hell. "I knew that God, who knew what was within me, must look on me as one in the same class as Don Giovanni," he recalled later. He left the Anglican church at .age 30, after eight years as a coun~ try parson. His conversion estranged him from his family for many years. Had his brother Frederick converted, there would be no Princess Diana Spencer; Catholics are banned by law from marrying the heir to the throne who is also heir to the secular leadership of the Church of England. Father Spencer was ordained a Catholic priest in 1832; it would be another 18 years before the Catholic hierarchy in England would be restored.

Father Spencer ministered in the Midlands area of England for the next seven years among the emerging working classes at the dawn ofthe Industrial Revolution. In 1838 he formed the Crusade for the Conversion of England, believing the tift caused by the Reformation could be healed within a generation. Among his prayers then was "Deliver England from the spirit of pride, rebellion and apostasy." In 1846, he joined the newly established Passionist community founded by Blessed Dominic Barberi. Father Spencer became the community'S second superior after Blessed Dominic's death, a post he held for 15 years until his death.

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St. Joseph's parish, Taunton, and Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, are among 50 parishes throughout the nation chosen to participate in the'final phase of a survey of V.S. parishes being conducted for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops by the National Pastoral Life Center. "There are over 19,000 parishes in the V nited States and only 50 were chosen to take part in the Phase III program," notes St. Joseph's parish bulletin. An on-site visit took place at the Taunton parish with a representative from the National Pastoral Life Center spending a day touring the church buildings and interviewing staff members and parishioners, including members of the parish and finance councils. The completed study, focusing on lay and religious ministry in parishes, will be forthcoming in about a year.

Priest allocation unit is permanent

Msgr. Salvatore Matano, vicar foraoministration and cochancellor of the Providence diocese, has been named secretary to Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, papal pronuncio to the V nited States, effective Sept. 12. Msgr. Matano, 45, will serve at the apostolic nunciature in Washington, D.C. A Providence native, he prepared for the priesthood at Our Lady of Providence Seminary College and holds a licentiate degree in sacred theology and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian V niversity in Rome. Leaving the nunciature after eight years of service will be Msgr. Joseph J. Whalen, who has been appointed chancellor of the diocese of Allentown, Pa.; and Msgr. Bernard E. Yarrish, of the diocese of Scranton, Pa., who willjoin the faculty of the North American College in Rome.

Diocesan parishes in national study

Fri., Aug. 23, 1991

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN, with pastor Msgr. John J. Smith, greets parishioners during a recent pastoral visit to S1. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth.

,Phone firm offers tithing SAN FRANCISCO(CNS)-A small San Francisco long-distance company could quintuple its business if a plan to market its services to parishes and dioceses pans out. V nder the plan, customers earmark 10 percent oftheir phone bill to their parish. Phoenix Network Inc., which bills about $20 million a year, most of that to small and medium-sized businesses, thinks it can do a $100 million a year business with the plan. "The reception has been phenomenal across the country," said Phoenix president Tom Bell, adding that three California dioceses' have already agreed to suggest the tithing concept to their parishes. Letters have been sent to all V.S. dioceses, he added, with responses from 78 of them. . Even without Catholic diocesan

help, 193 churches of varying denominations have signed up for the plan, Bell said in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service. With most long-distance bills averaging $30 a month, a customer would contribute $3 a month, or $36 each year, to a parish automatically. A note at the bottom of the bill for each participating customer will thank them, and tally all contributions to the parish to date. To participate, parishioners would have to drop their current long-distance carrier and switch to Phoenix. Bell said the church would not have to pay taxes on the revenue, which is mailed by Phoenix based on those payments on bills made on time by customers.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has established as a permanent commission a Vatican working groiJp set up last year to address. the unequal distribution of priests worldwide. Cardinal' Pio Laghi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and leader ofthe working group, was named president of the commission July 20 when the Vatican announced it would become permanent. The unit will coordinate programs through which dioceses with a high priest-laity ratio will be asked to release teams of clergy for work in dioceses with a shortage. Cardinal Laghi said the program was already operative, with an Italian team working in Ecuador and a Colombian team being trained for work in Brazil. The cardinal discussed the new program with reporters last March, saying the unequal global distribution of priests is a "pastoral injustice."

The most dramatic shortage of priests is in Latin America, where mo're than 88 percent of the population professes Catholicism, he said. Almost 43 percent of the world's Catholics live in the region, but only 13 percent of the world's priests minister there. Catholics of Europe and North America constitute less than 39 percent of the world's Catholic population, but are served by more than 73 percent of the world's priests, he said.

At Hand "The philosopher thinks that the spiritual lies very far beyond the material...The mystic thinks that the spiritual is very close behind the material...Science is always saying that the other world, if it exists, is too distant to be seen. ... Religion is alway~ saying that it . is too close to be seen. The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.n-G. K. Chesterton

ENCOUNTER GOD IN THE POQR OF LATIN AMERICA Join friends of LaSalette of Attleboro, led by Fr. Joseph Gosselin, M.S., for a 10-day Pilgrimage to learn about the poor of. Mexico on Nov. 2-13, 1991. Experiences will include field trip·~; seminars, -,prayer and reflection. For information call (508) 222·5410.

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ordlDary DOMINICAN SISTERS of S1. Catherine of Siena marking significant anniversaries at the Dominican motherhouse on Fall River's Park Street are from left, Sister Mary Aquinas Gamache, 70 years; Sisters Flora Desorcy, Gertrude Lauzon and Gabriel Girard, 50 years; and Sister Anita Pauline Durocher, 60 years. (Gaudette photo)

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the moorin&.-, A Needed Awareness Few Americans really' understand the inner workings of Eastern Europe. In the euphoria that followed the demise of the Iron Curtain, most people in this country thought that all was well in that region of the world. Freed from Big Brother Russia, it was believed that the enslaved peoples: 'would embrace the American interpretation of democracy. After all, over two generations of Americans have been told by their government that's how the script would read. However, reality has proved far different. For instance, the clashes between Croatians and Serbians are almost unbelievable to us. We had the impression that Yugoslavia was a united ,country like our own and that once the Russians moved out, all would be well; but the reality speaks for itself. Indeed, much of ,eastern Europe and Russia itself are in deep trouble. In an attempt to make our educational process relevant to a materialistic social order, w'e have for-the past 55 years cen;tered 'our leaFriing on the pragmatic. As' math and science became the gods ofthe classroom, all other subjects, inCluding the English language, hurtled into obscurity. The stories of people and nations, their cultures and civiHzations, were all but banished from curriculums. To cover the basics, we invented social studies which for all practical purposes have, along with modern math, been a thunderous flop. History, geography and civics were demolished. Students lost a sense of the growth of civilizations, of international relationships and of community structures. During the Gulf War, for instance, hours were spent on locating the nations involved. One student thought Iran was outside Boston, another that Kuwait was an animal in the local zoo. j Our ignorance of the world beyond our borders breeds an eNS/ Reute,. photo isolation that is obnoxious. It's no wonder we do not comprePOPE JOHN PAUL II PRAYS AT TOMB OF HIS PARENTS IN KRAKOW, POLAND hend the current happenings in eastern Europe and the underlying ethnic and religious tensions in the region. The Serbian- "Honor thy father and thy mother that thou mayest be longlived upon the Croatian friction is but one example of the centuries"'old ethnic land." Ex. 20:12 animosities that militate against the' concept of European unity. Hungarians and Russians are not friends. Serbs are less than cordial to Montenegrins. The poor Albanians love no one. It is important that Americans make every effort to be aware positive encounter with a distortion- acknowledges our need for others By Father Kevin J Harrington free image of God. Many people and for God. Such a process yields of what is really close to people's hearts. Noone should dismiss Two of the most frequent probeither national pride or religious traditions as mere medieval lems we human beings encounter discard belief in God when their true humility. Without humility, we are desprayers go unanswered. It is admitmirages. They are the stuff of Europe from Belfast to the have to do with self-worth and tedly good to discard false notions tined to selfishness or self-eenteredBalkans; and it is because of these factors that the European images of God. It is impossible to of God but it is nevertheless shame- ness. If we are selfish, chances are Common Market nations have had such a' struggle to reach avoid negative feelings involving ful that so many never escape from we will think too much of ourloneliness, anxiety, grief or con- immaturity. selves and will value too little the their present position. flict but often negative self-images contribution of others. If we are Obviously, what applies to imaIt's hard for Americans to understand these matters because reflect images of a demanding God. ges of God can be said of our insecure, chances are we will think we tend to divest immigrants of their heritage through the Many such negative images of images of ourselves. A poor image too little of ourselves and will process of assimilation whose real aim, after all, is to make ourselves and of our God are hang- of self, whether too grandiose or become overly dependent upon overs from our early and vulnera- too limiting, is one of the greatest others. Finding the right balance .foreigners acceptable to the ruling Anglo-Saxons. ble years. Too often, no matter sources of human suffering. Like between those extremes means unIndeed, for over 200 years we have striven to cl~an up how we strive to believe in a God derstanding that true humility our image of God, our self-image ,immigrants and clothe them in a 'nebulous costume ofsimilar- who loves us unconditionally, we involves the willingness to be what is a hangover from our formative ity. Unfortunately, the tactic has worked too well and many labor under childhood notions of years. one is and to do what one can. It immigrants have shed their culture and heritage to get ahead him based upon fear of punishBirth order in a family and early involves settling for doing someand have a piece of the action. It's thus no wonder that we can't ment rather than fear of offending successes and failures can be mag- thing worthwhile while" acknowlnified beyond true proportion. ,edging that you cannot do everyunderstand Europe and the Mideast. We have in a real sense his infinite goodness. Such false images of God arise thing. It is a willingness to be part With the passage of time, those denied their existence by being ashamed ofthe ethnic, social and are unfortunately nurtured by 'whom in youth we thought the of a mosaic that makes sense only and religious gifts of their people to the fabr~c of this land. encounters between the impressionwhen. you aCk,nowledge, that the brightest, the strongest or the most As we attempt to fit into the new world order, may we as able imagination of childhood and beautiful very often become quite designer is a God who is mystery. Americans be aware of the,many "old" realities that remain the rougher edges of religion. These ordinary. . The great playwright Eugene . images can stifle the growth to- ' As we mature, we see people 'O'Neill wrote: "I am' born broken very much alive. '

Learning to love oneself

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wards spiritual maturity that is the calling of every human believer and interfere with our total commitment to religious belief. To clarify our image of God, we should ask ourselves how we picture him when we pray. For many people, God is a miracle worker to be invoked in times of need. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging our dependence upon the Almighty in difficult times but there is something inherently defective in an image of him based on a childish notion of controlling the incomprehensible in a way akin to working magic. But tragically, some people's notion of God never gets beyond magic into genuine mystery. Escaping such false images is no small task and often requires a

more by what we have in common than by what differentiates us. With maturity should come a sense of healthy balance that weighs our weaknesses with our strengths and

praye~BOX The Holy Name Eternal Father, by the most precious blood of Jesus Christ, glorify his most holy name, according to the desires of his adorable heart. A men.

and I am in need 'of glue." Humility and self-acceptance go hand in hand. To rage against our limitations is to show ingratitude to a God who路has endowed each of us with many gifts and talents. The greatest temptation is to refuse to do what we can out of frustration with what we cannot. Our God is a God who calls us to live with him through dark faith in this 'life and in face-to-face fullness beyond death. The only God worth searchng for is he who searched for us and who will struggle within us in order that we may becorpe more free to love, . The only self worth loving is the . one made in his image and likeness. No wonder it takes a lifetime to learn to love oneself!

Following Jesus into the future

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Joshua 24:1-2,15-17,18 Ephesians 5:21-32 John 6:60-69 We only live our faith correctly if we make a free decision to accept that faith. Unless we can choose between believing or not believing, we really do not understand the meaning of faith. The sacred authors presume no one can be forced to follow the Lord. A divine/human relationship only makes sense if it' is freely entered. Our Scriptures are filled with narratives describing such choices, including today's classic Joshua pericope. "If it does not please you to serve Yahweh," Joshua declares, "decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the river or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and' my household, we will serve Yahweh." Though we know the Israelites' will opt for Yahweh even before we hear their response, it is important to listen carefully to the reasons for their choice: .... .It was Yahweh, our God, who brought us and our ancestors up out of the land of Egypt... He performed great miracles before our very eyes and protected us along our entire journey and among all the peoples through whom we passed. Therefore..." The future is unknown. So the chosen people must reflect on Yahweh's past actions before they make their momentous choice. They choose Yahweh because of his track record, not because of any future promises. They believe he will take care of them because he has already taken care of them. We find this same reasoning in our Gospel passage. This pericope has spent over 60 verses explaining the consequences of being one with Jesus by celebrating the Lord's Supper. Now he reaches the climactic moment. "From this time on," he relates, "many of his disciples broke away and would not

DAILY READINGS Aug. 26: 1Thes 1:2-5,810; Ps 149:1-6,9; Mt 23: 13-22 Aug. 27: Thes 2:1-8; Ps 139:1-3,4-6; Mt 23: 23-26 Aug. 28: 1 Thes 2:9-13; Ps 139:7-12; Mt 23:27-32 Aug.29:Jerl:17-19;Ps 71:1-6,15,17; Mk 6:17-29 Aug. 30: 1 Thes 4:1-8; Ps 97:1-2,5-6,10-12; Mt 25:1-13 Aug. 31: 1 Thes 4,:9-12; Ps 98:1,7-9; Mt 25:14-30 Sept. 1: Dt4:1-2,6-8; Ps 15:2-5; Jas 1:17-18, 2122,27; Mk 7:1-8,14-15, 21-23

B'y FATHER ROGER KARBAN remain in his company any longer." Jesus is forced to ask the Twelve, "Do you want to leave me too?" Simon Peter answers, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words ,of eternal life. We have come to believe; we are convinced that you are God's holy one." The Twelve are as befuddled as everyone else. Yet, unlike some, they freely decide to follow Jesus into the future because of their belief in his past words and actions. As significant as this incident of 'choice would be had it happened during the Lord's historical minis'try, mostScripture scholars believe the evangelist is actually narrating an event from Jesus' "resurrected ministry:" Instead of telling us ' what occurred in 30, AD, among Jesus' original followers, John is ,probably reflecting on something taking place around 90, AD, in his own third generation Christian community! Many of the Lord's later disciples simply do not choose to expand their faith to include John's theological developments on Jesus' eucharistic body and blood. These are the .....disciples [who) broke away and would not remain in his company any longer." (Sometimes we forget how different our ideas of the Eucharist would be if we only accepted the first three Gospels.) Free choice in faith is not a once a lifetime event. It occurs over and over again. Just as Yahweh wants his people to go beyond the Exodus, and Jesus expects his disciples to extend their faith past hi~ earthly ministry, so we today must reflect on the unexplored fields into which the Lord is asking us to follow him. For instance, though we understand Paul's cultural reasons for encouraging wives to be submissive to their husbands, most contemporary Christian couples no longer believe that successful marriages demand such behavior. More and more are stepping into the unknown to explore the "great foreshadowing": the mystery of the relationship between Jesus and his church. Whenever we give ourselves to others we will find opportunities to make faith choices, But orily by relying on God's past care will we have enough strength to follow him beyond the limits which our present security places on faith.

Art recovered PARIS (CNS) - Police have recovered in a graveyard a treasure of priceless medieval art stolen in late July from a former 13thcentury cathedral at Auxerre in central France. They said police searched the graveyard in the nearby village of Fontenoy following an anonymous telephone tip to a newspaper. Police appeared to have found all the missing items. The thieves hid in the Saint-Etienne d'Auxerre cathedral overnight and made off with 12th-century scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, statuettes, and enamel, gold and silverwork.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Catholic Church has a long way to go to make its facilities more accessible to persons with disabilities, speakers said at a national conference in Washington held to address issues confronting the disabled. Although religious institutions, unlike public facilities, are not legally required to be accessible, that doesn't mean the church shouldn't comply, said Mary Jane Owen, the keynote speaker. "We don't want our theaters to be more welcoming than our churches." In the Fall River diocese, 42 out of 124, o,r o,ver ~3 percent of parishes, missions and chapels are' handicapped accessible and all new ,construction, routinely includes su~h provisions. . .' Mor~ than 300 people attended, the conference Aug. 6-10 at the Catholic University of America. It wasjointly sponsored by the National Cathol)c Office for Persons with Disabilitiesand'the National Apostolate with Mentally Retarded Persons. "What we're doing is sharing the challenge with each other and looking for solutions together," said Ms. Owen, executive director of the National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities. In her address, Ms. Owen, who is partially deaf and blind and uses a wheelchair, ~iscussed the implications of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law by President Bush in July 1990 and scheduled to take effect in July 1992. The regulations are aimed at guaranteeingjob opportunities for the disabled as well as easier access " to the workplace. It would require employers to make "reasonable" accommodations for them, including modifications 'of equipment and work schedules. Ms. Owen suggested that participants become familiar with the specifics outlined in the legislation and use the document in approaching their bishops and pastors about more accessibility in churches. "We must strive to make the ideal' of full inclusion a reality," she said. Dorothy Coughlin, director of the Office of Special Pastoral Services in Oregon, also emphasized the need to implement this document in the church. "This is a rich opportunity for the church to lead," she said. She suggested the church take

its leadership role based on the example of Ghandi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "Any liberation of ,oppressed people can only come about through a change of heart," she said. She told participants that "the church has a long way to go to make a difference and to make people feel welc'ome." In her own state only three percent of the churches are accessible. "We still get too excited when a church becomes accessible instead of saying, 'It's about time; " she said. Charles Goldman, who has written a guidebook on disability rights,

~hallenged participants to make the federal law work in local communities. "We're in a period where iIt's critical to work together .....te're at the beginning of the jour.y," he said. .

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,By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

James Douglas has had an exciting and at times painful career as an actor. His is a familiar face to TV soap operas fans, who remember him as Stephen Cord in "Payton Place" and Grant Coleman in "As the World Turns." But this summer found him directing Shakespeare's" As You

',from "'Peyton Place"to,a spiritual place Like It,~' presented' daily for a , on Broadway starring with Cyril week at the Benedictine Abbey of Ritchard in "The Pleasure' of His , Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Coiln. 'Compa!1Y," she accompanied anDouglas and his wife Dawn, an 'othe'r friend on a visit to the actress with many TV credits, are . Bethlehem Abb~y. Religious life Benedictine oblates,which means 'was to be her destiny. 'On July 29, Mother Dolores they have made a covenant with the nuns to serve as "an outreach celebra.ted the 25th anniversary of her first vows. of the abbey." , ' By 1974 the Douglas family had Several years ago when I first met Douglas, who 'Vas working on moved to Connecticut. "We had other theatrical performances for often visited Mother Dolores, and the annual abbey fair days, I asked little by little we were moving our him how an actor gets from "Pey- way toward the abbey," Douglas told me. ton Place" to a spiritual place. Although born and raised a His path began when he met a young actress named Dolores Hart' Catholic, he said he had lapsed in in the late '50s when both were his practice of faith. "I re-estabappearing in movies with Elvis lished myself with the church when we came to Regina Laudis in '74." Presley. But Douglas admits the spiritGod was calling Dolores Hart, too. In the late '50s when she was ual always had been drawing him,

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When my sister turRed 50, I wanted to call attention to the milestone. Borrowing an idea from a friend, I called everybody I knew who knew my sister and asked them to send her a birthday card. Then, realizing I didn't know all her friends in her church and neighborhood, I called her daughter and asked her to r:ead me the names and numbers off her moth-

By FATHER JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. At a recent meeting one of our liturgy leaders stated she would like to do away with the entrance procession at weekend Masses. She thinks it makes the priest look like an emperor and appear better' than everyone else, She would like the priest to sit s'omewhere in church and just walk up and start Mass. ' I have cttecked all liturgy documents I can find and do not see this mentioned as an option. I think most people feel the entrance pro-

necessity if one is to see clearly what is important and what is not. Today Douglas says what is most important for, him is to be able to discern what is success and what is "the muck of success." "You see so much of the selfish ego in acting. Performing gives you a high. But so often the self, thing catches on. Success can be too much for a human being and one can get lost in the muck." he explained. "The sad thing is that the medium of acting is so fruitful, so beneficial when it is on target. You can have such an influence" on people, he added. What motivates his work and decisions today? Douglas answers, "Otherness - to have a focus outside myself."

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be there next time but he isn't. The children, of course, are disappointDr. JAMES & ed. ' I'm running out of excuses. What should I say to the children? MARY Iowa Tell them you don't know KENNY what to say. You simply do not know why their dad doesn't show up. ' For some reason, we adults think Dear Dr. Kenny: .. have been we have to explain everything to divorced for over a year now. I was children, to always have an answer' granted custody of our 8-year-old for them. Some things, however, twins. Recently, their father has : are beyond our knowledge or understopped coming for his every-other- standing, and we need to admit that. ' weekend visitation. Admitting to your children that When i call him, he says he will

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"perhaps because of my Cherokee Indian roots on my mother's side." His' search for greater meaning and purpose in life had been moving him, and meeting Dolores Hart , was proof that grace was at Work. Douglas has known both the up and down sides of his profession. He appeared in television and movies, including "Father Knows Best," "The Do'nna Reed'Show,'" "Death Valley Days," "Sweet Bird of Youth" and "G.1. Blues." But he also remembers the times when the roles thinned out and he had to take a job in a clothing store. The day Richard Chamberlain - an actor he had costarred with - came in and bought clothes from him is a painful memory. Yet, all his experiences were par't of his "school of learning," a

you just don't know has two ad~ vantages. First, rather than foreclosing future reflection on their part byproviding some hypothetical and perhaps untrue reason, you "hand the ball" back to them, They may, out of their own needs and understanding, have their own opinions about why dad doesn't show. The second advantage is that you and they are placed in the same position, All of you are disappointed and none of you knows Why he's not there. Your children are more apt to tell you how they 'feel about it if you don't try to ,make up a reason 'why.

Your motivation, I am sure, for wanting to make eXcuses for dad is that you don't want, to see your children hurt. That is understandable, but it is also hopeless. Better to listen to their hurt and comfort them than to try to explain away dad's "unexcused absences," Here are two caveats. First, don't make excuses for dad. You cannot cover this up, Dad needs to provide his own explanations. Say simply: "I don't know why your dad is not here. I thought he was coming too." ': Second, don't blame dad. Uni-

versally, the children of divorce do not want to hear one parent criticize the other. So be neutral, perhaps even mildly positive and forgiving in your attitude. Let your children be free to think and feel as it comes to them. Be there for your children in their disappointment. Express your own bewilderment, and let your children work things out in their own way. Reader questio'ns on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited by The Kennys; 219 W. Harrison; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978. '

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er's personal teleph~ne list. Then I ,She groaned, "I haven't updated ' that list.in years. N Q ~onder I got a called these... Some were a bit confused and card from the kids' piano teacher' startled, I admit, but they were who retired 10 years ago." game and agreed to send a card. We laughed and laughed over , ,"Who?" they'd say. And then, "Oh, the situation and the dilemma some yeah,Sure ... givemeheraddress." of the people must have ex'perienced, "How did the'y react when you On the day of her birthday, my called?" She asked, "Some of them sister called and said, "Is there must not have known who "was." anybody in this whole city you "Well, some were a bit startled' didn't call?" but they covered it up well by In addition to receiving cards quickly agreeing. They probably from friends, relatives, co-vol- thought they should remember who unteers and neighbors, she receivea you were," them from the following: the piano I'm sure that's what happened tuner, roofer, car shop, sprinkler but aren't people wonderful to repairman, furnace man and numer- respond to a practical joke when ous other service and repair people. they can't even recall the recipient? "Where did you get those It restores my faith in the good names?" she asked. nature of people at large. "Off your telephone list," I It also calls attention to the fact that people will goto great lengths replied.

to a'v'oid admitti"g they dC!n't ' suspect it's because they experience remember names and faces. The the same dilemma. Once in a while, problem gets worset!:Je old'er we however, someone will react with get and the more people we inter- hurt. "I was your student 30 years "ract with in our lives. ' ago," they will say. "Don't you Through my lectures and ~'ork- remember me?" When this happens, we can react shops, I meet and talk with hundreds of people mont'hly I with guilt or with honesty. If we . would go' batty trvl'ng to remember feel guilty for not remembering . , everyone's'name, connection, and everyone's face, name, and connection with us, we're going to story. I used to pretend to remember spend a good share of our lives in but I don't do that anymore, partly guilt. But we can choose to feel because it's obvious, partly because guilty or not. It was Eleanor it's futile, and mostly because I Roosevelt who said, "You can't be don't like playing the game. Now I made to feel guilty without your say, "I know we've met but I can't permission." remember where." Once they put I suspect some of those repairit in context, I can usually recall men who sent my sister a birthday the relationship. card are still trying to figure out Most people, I've found, are not who she is but I hope they're not offended when I have forgotten feeling guilty about it. Still, none who they are or where we've met. I of them asked, "Who's she?"

Are priests too exalted by Mass entrance procession? cession gives dignity to the liturgy. Can you t~1I me if it is permissible? (Missouri>, A. I have seen this on rare occasions. In my view, however, it entirely misses the real purpose of the entrance proce'ssion and song in our liturgy. ' This same misunderstanding is reflected 'in the opening instructions one still occasionally hears from cantors: Let's stand and greet our celebrant as we sing hymn 91, "How Great Thou Art." That procession and song are not to greet or honor the' celebrant, however great he may be, but to further unite the minds and hearts of the assembly and begin their community worship of God. Having ministers simply pop up to perform their liturgical functions misses a golden opportunity

to add dignity and focus to what is about to take place. These are not simply my ideas; it is the ancient understanding of the entrance rite reflected in many present liturgical documents. Our major guide to the celebration of Mass puts it as well as any. After the people have assembled, it says, the entrance song begins and the priests and ministers come in. "The purpose of this song is to open the celebration, deepen the unity of the people, introd uce them to the mystery of the seasonal feast and accompany the procession" (General Instruction ofthe Roman Missal, 25). 1 really need to say something about another facet of your question. Of course the priest is no better than anyone else. But as you say, most people

knowledgeable in their faith are aware that the ordained priest is not merely one who happens to walk up and start Mass. He has a unique function as leader of the community's eucharistic worship. As one who is sacramentally designated to act in the name of Christ and his body the church, the priest has as his primary duty the proclamation of the Gospel of God to everyone (Vatican 11, Decree on the Ministry of Priests,

one finds some lay people who apparently feel that minimizing the role and ministry of the ordained is somehow a path to "equal status." It seems to me that this is at very least not helpful. As we struggle to recognize and utilize more perfectly the gifts of each of us, our common dignity and equality before the heavenly Father is too well affirmed by our faith for us to allow ourselves to re'sort to such tactics. 4). This is not the time to prolong A free brochure a,nswering ,that point, but I believe we badly questions Catholics ask about need to avoid falling into a trap receiving the Holy Eucharist is here. available by sending a stamped Some priests today seem to feel self-addressed envelope to Father that they exalt themselves by belit- John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, tling the non-ordained, especially 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. lay people - the "you can't do' 61701. Questions for this column what I can do" syndrome. should be sent to Father Dietzen In the other di'rection, however, at the same address.

The Anchor Friday, Aug. 23, 1991

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MILWAUKEE(CNS)-Jesuitrun Marquette University in Milwaukee is seeking federal funding of $20 million over a five-year period to develop a comprehensive partnership program to improve the quality of life of the nearby community. , The goal is to ease problems resulting from increasing crime and its root causes: economic deterioration, increased poverty, unemployment, adult illiteracy, drugs and alcohol abuse, and school dropout and teen pregnancy rates. Jesuit Father Albert J. DiUlio, Marquette presi.dent, told a House subcommittee hearing that the MUjNeighborhood Partnership 'Program "will bring 'students, faculty and staff together with AT LEFT, Father Edward W. Manalis holds chalice used by James Cardinal Gibbons; center, three generations of Gibbons members of our. neighborhood descendants: great-grandnephew Atty. Owen P. McGowan; great-grandniece Dr. Mary McGowan, holding great-great- community in a coordinated effort t9 address not only the issue of grandnephew Patrick Synan; gr:andniece Pat McGowan; great-grandnieces Robin and Margaret McGowan stand below . crime on and near our campus, but portrait of prelate in. Gibbons Room at Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore; bust and plaqpe honoring cardinal erected in also the root causes of that crime."

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It was privilege to visit crypt of Cardinal Gibbons路 By Pat McGowan During a recent stay in Maryland, it was a distinct privilege for this reporter to visit the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, there to stand before the simple crypt of a great-uncle, James Cardinal Gibbons. Cardinal Gibbons, born in 1834, was named the ninth archbishop of Baltimore in 1877. His bust is on the left wall of the basilica, the first Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States but since 1959 Baltimore co-cathedral with the larger Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. An inscription below the bust describes the cardinal: "He was a mild and paternal ruler of, his clergy and people, honor and glory of the American episcopate, model of every civic virtue, advocate of the workingman, friend of the poor

Aug. 24 1884, Rev. Peter J.B. Bedard, Founder, Notre Dame, Fall River 1962, Very Rev. James F. Gilchrist, CPM, VG. Vicar General ofthe Congregation ofthe Fathers of Mercy 1987, Msgr. James E. Gleason, Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, Falmouth Aug. 25 1974, Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, Founder, Holy Cross, South Easton Aug. 27 1960, Rt. Rev. Francisco C Bettencourt, Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall River 1978, Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher, Pastor Emeritus, St. James, New Bedford Aug. 29 1921, Rev. Joseph DeVillandre, D.O., Founder, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro 1975, Msgr. William H. Harrington, Retired Pastor, Holy Name, Fall River; Director of Fall River <:emeteries

and the afflicted. He governed the see of Baltimore for 44 years in justice, peace and mercy." When Cardinal Gibbons died in '1921, the Maryland governor asked that everyone in the state observe one minute of silent prayer as his funeral Mass began; and the New York Times commented editorially that "he was one of the wisest men in the world." With all this in mind, it. was an important moment in family' 'life: when three generations of the cardinal's descerld!lnts gathered' to visit for the firsnime路the路 cathedral he h!ld lov~d. , , Under the expert guidance of Father Edward W. Manalis, among assisting clergy at the basilica, we saw not only the church itself but the adjoining crypt where the cardinal and other ordinaries lie and the Gibbons Room in the basilica rectory, frequently used for meetings by Archbishop William H. Keeler, the present Baltimore ordinary. In the room are preserved the cardinal's rolltop desk and the crucifix from his night table; and a portrait of him hangs above the fireplace" flanked by two mantelpiece 'vases bearing his coat of arms and presented to him in commemoration of the landmark Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. The council, held in 1884, brought together the U.S. bishops as well as theologians, abbots and superiors of religious orders and seminaries. Among its major

decrees were those providing for establishment of six U.S. holy days and of the Catholic University of America. The goal was set of a Catholic school in every parish and it was prescribed that immigrants should 'be instructed in the faith in their own language. . But p'erhaps the best-known council'decree was that ordering preparation of the famed Baltimore Catechism and mandating i~s' use 'in schools and Christian doctrine classes. Father Manalis displayed vestments worn by the cardinal and the chalice he habitually used. Among many portraits of the: prelate was one painted by Baltimore artist Marie deFord Keller. It now hangs in the Basilica ofthe Assumption but a few months before his death in 1921 had been presented by Cardinal Gibbons to his old friends, the Shriver family of Union Mills, Md., who had for years made their home a place of respite for him. Among the many Shriver

children he had baptized was Robert Sargent Shriver, brotherin-law of President Kennedy, who later presented the cardinal's gift to the basilica. . As Father Manat'is summed up the cardinal's still palpable presence in America's first Roman Catholic cathedral: "His spirit is very much here." ,

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Parish responds with warmth to AIDS-stricken family VESELI, Minn. (CNS) - The my church and contin'ue to pray small girl with wispy blonde hair . with the community?" stepped out of a dusty brown The Simons' decision to take house, blanket tucked under one their family trauma public was arm, thumb fastened securely be- spurred by plans for Candy to tween her lips. Her greeting faded start preschool this fall. away as. she darted back past the Since Candy's illness was diagdrooping purple irises by the steps nosed in January 1989, the Simons to announce a visitor. A voice had. been slow to share the news from indoors beckoned to the beyond relatives. Nearly a year stranger. afte'r Candy's diagnosis and subNancy Simon sat down at the sequent tests that showed her parkitchen table to tell her story ents' infection, Nancy Simon met again. Sister of Charity Joanne Lucid, AIDS ministry director for the Mrs. Simon, 27, has told docArchdiocese of St. Paul and Mintors, friends, priests, teachers, neapolis. reporters and most recently, the entire community of Veseli, that Sister Lucid, Father Lapensky, she and her husband, Doug, 25, her family and a support group have HIV, the virus that causes helped Mrs. Simon and her husAIDS. She also has explained that band cope with' the realities of their daughter Candace, the 4- AIDS in their lives, but she still year-old at the door, has AIDS. felt the need, to 路ialkfreeIy about Their two sons, Brian, 7, and Eric, the illness and he'r family, 5, do not have either HIV or "The isolation was too hard," AIDS. she said. "I felt alone. I felt like I She says they weren't disap- could only talk to my friends like I pointed when they put their faith . was hiding part of my life. I felt in God and their church on the line really uncomfortable." . .in meetings with teachers and the The parish meeting changed that. parish community in May. The "I don't feel isolated and parafamily was received with love and noid like I did," Mrs. Simon said. compassion, according to Father "I feel OK with the situation of John Lapensky, pastor of their them knowing, I'm relieved that parish, Most Holy Trinity. we informed our community." "I'm real proud of the way The support also surprised her they've responded to the Simons," husband and gave him courage to said Father Lapensky. face even more public attention The Simons are grateful for that. bound to follow a recent story "If we didn't have the church to about the family in the Minneapogo to, I don't know how we'd get lis Star Tribune, the state's largest through life," Mrs. Simon said. daily newspaper. He expected some "Without prayer, I don't know of his coworkers to learn about his how anyone can do it." medical problems through the Her fear about how people would story. "I think everybody wants to be react once the news got out plagued educated," he said, Since the disher. "What if we wouldn't have been cussions with the parish, "everyaccepted?" she worried. "Then how thing around here is going real would I have been able to get into well."

NANCY AND DOUG Simons with their children, from left, Eric, Candace and Brian. (CNS photo) Notre Dame Sister Judy Bakula, principal of the school Candy will attend, said she began working ~n a school policy on AIDS more than a year ago. Beginning this fall, the National Catholic Educational Association's program on AIDS will be taught to students in all grades. Other educational programs are planned for various parish groups, including Candy's preschool class. The Simons' infection apparently

can be traced to a blood transfusion Doug received in 1983 while on training with the National Guard in Fort Benning, Ga., al路though their first clue didn't come until Candy became ill at the age of 18 months. At the time she was diagnosed, doctors told the Simons few children with AIDS live beyond age 2, but she remains strong enough for them to plan for school. Meanwhile, fatigue and sudden bouts of high fever sometimes force her father to miss work, adding to the

family's financial struggles because he doesn't have sick leave or vacation time to cover absences. "Families have a hard enough time to make a living, and when you go to the county and ask for help, they say you're making too much money," Doug Simon said. Some financial help has been offered. The Veseli Jaycees contributed $2,000 toward the Simons' expenses and others who have offered donations have been referred to Father Lapensky at Most Holy Trinity.

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Steu~enville bishop STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS) - Bishop Albert H. Ottenweller of Steubenville said he is pleased with the reform efforts being made by Servants of Christ the King, a large Catholic charismatic covenant community in Steubenville. At a recent press conference he said he and the community have taken initial steps toward reestablishing the "fellowship parish" status that he withdrew from the group earlier this year when problems surfaced. In January Bishop Ottenweller formed a team of church experts to visit the community and evaluate allegations that it had developed problems in leadership and religious formation. At that time he ordered the

TORONTO (CNS) - Louise Summerhill, founder and president of Birthright International, which helps unwed mothers and their children, died at St. Michael's hospital in Toronto Aug. II after an illness of several months. Mrs. Summerhill, who was 75, founded Birthright in October 1968 in a one-room office in Toronto. The organization, financially supported by private donations, now has more than 600 centers in Canada, the United States and Africa. Mothers who wish to have their babies are helped by volunteers at Birthright, who provide counseling and support, emergency shelter, clothing, information on adop-

tion and social service assistance. , Gananoque, Ontario, with her famAbout 2 million women have been ily at age 7. She studied at Loretto helped during their pregnancies, Abbey and became a Catholic at the age of 17. the organization estimates. She is survived by seven childFather Stephen Somerville, pasren and 16 路grandchildren. Her tor of Blessed Edith Stein Church in Toronto, where Mrs. Summer- husband, Stephen Summerhill, died in 1984. hill was a parishioner, was the Mrs. Summerhill described hermain celebrant at the Aug. 15 funeral Mass at St. Michael's Cathe- self as "an ordinary person who did something extraordinary for dral in Toronto. God." He described Mrs. Summerhill Herdaughter, Mary Berney, who as Ii valiant woman, the modern works at Birthright, said Mrs. SumEsther, Joan of Arc and "god- merhill believed that she was doing mother" of Birthright's millions of God's work with Birthright by saved babies. showing women that they could telephone and easily get an alterMrs. Summerhill was born in native to abortion. Aberdeen, Scotland, and came to

pleased with charismatic group's reforms

community to sever its ties with Sword of the Spirit,'an interfaith, international charismatic leadership organization based ih Ann Arbor, Mich., which had taken over the governance of the community. ' At his req'uest the community elected new interim, leaders while the visitation was being conducted. In a press statement in June, the diocese said the visitation team found a number of abuses, including excessive leadership control of members' private lives, secrecy and some fundamentalist and elitist religious attitudes. The statement also praised the faith and commitment of community members, emphasizing the

underlying positive values of the community, At his press conference, Bishop Ottenweller said he wants to give the community "whatever time it takes" to restructure. . "While the community is making an honest effort to restructure, they realize, as we do, that it will not occur overnight,"he said, "The leadership already has held 16 three-hour meetings within the last six weeks." "When you have to change a way of thinking, a way of being together, it's not easy," he said. He said the community continues to celebrate the Sunday liturgy together while the restructuring is going on. At a meeti l1 g in June, he said, "I

asked the interim leadership' to gather from its members interested in a fellowship the names of three priests whom they would choose as pastor." He said he would consider their recommendations seriously although he would not be bound to them. On July 31, he said, the leaders gave him the names of the community members interested in being part of the fellowship parish and recommendations for a pastor. "I have taken these recommendations under advisement," he said. "Before a fellowship is renewed, the interested members will need to be provided with more information, However, I do have every hope that such a fellowship can be restored."

Before parish status was suspended, most members of the charismatic community were part of the fellowship, the formal group to which canonical status as a parish was given. Despite the community's difficulties, the bishop said, on the positive side community members have continued to sustain friendships and work through the problems together. "Covenant communities are not evil. A covenant community is a good thing," he said: "You don't want to crush the initiative of lay men and women who are trying to work something out. But on the other hand you want it to be in line with the tradition of the church.

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Being honest with God and each other When does honesty harm us? When does honesty help us? What is the obligation of an individual "to tell the truth; the whole truth and nothing but the truth"? I) As a witness in court-definitely yes. 2) In the confessional-def-

initely yes. 3) In our relationships with

our marital partner and close friends - yes. FATHER NORTON The following article Is drawn from a weekly seminar on SpIrituality for Adults being presented this summer in St. Joseph's parish, Woods Hole, by Father William W. Norton, pastor. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are Life. Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights. governments are instituted among men. deriving their just powersfrom the consent of the governed...

4) In the news media-the jury

is still out. For example: Do you remember the Pentagon papers? Daniel Ells'berg blew the whistle. Do you remember Watergate? The famous Nixon tapes? The Keating 5 S&L scandal - Neil Bush? Do you remember Col. Oliver North's testimony before the Senate on the Iran contra scandal? Are you following the Bank' of Credit and Commerce International issue? Are you following the charge that the Iran hostages were held until after Reagan was inaugurated and the proceedings of the ethics committee that has been formed to investigate those charges? What is the truth?

From the Declaration of Independence

Here are some serious questions for every thinking person to reflect on: Thou shalt not bear false witWho has a right to the truth? ness against one's neighbor. Does the truth make you free? Honesty is one's honor held up by Does the truth entitle the public the truth of one's life, one's story, - to full disclosure? one's journey in this world. Who What about presidential has the right to know your story? privilege? Does honesty demand a full disWhat about national security, closure of one's thoughts, words especially of privileged informand deeds? ation?

If you tell the truth, will you be punished by historians? Do I have the right to know your story? These questions are still debated by ethicists.

Noone comes to the Father except through me." Some honest men and women in our century: Winston Churchill, Dag Hammarskjold, Mother Teresa, Anwar Sadat, Daniel Berrigan, Helen Hayes, Golda Meir, MohanA wonderful book, "Man's das Gandhi, Walter Cronkite, Dean Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Rusk, George Shultz, Jacques and Frankl, relates the story of a man's Raissa Maritain, Harry and Bess survival of a German concentra- Truman, Martin Luther King Jr., tion camp and its meaning for the and Rosa Parks. readers. In "The Way of the Shaman," He writes, "A public opinion Michael Horner speaks of Indian poll was conducted a few years ago tribes where the shaman or tribal in France. The results showed that priest gives a stick of balsa wood 89 percent of the people polled to a squaw who sets out in quest of admitted that man needs some- visions. The shaman warns her thing for the sake of which to live. that some visions will be beautiful, Moreover, 61' percent conceded. others will be terrifying and that that there was something or some-' she will be approached by her perone in their lives for whose sake sonal dragons, her worst fears. they were even ready to die. An- She should touch each one with other statistical survey of 7,948 the stick. They will disappear and students at 48 colleges was con- she will be free; but if she runs ducted by social scientists for Johns from even one dragon, it will folHopkins University. Their preli- low her and drive her mad. minary report is part Of a two-year The balsa is a tropical American study sponsored by the National tree having extremely light wood, Institute of Mental Health. Asked hardly material with which to fight what they considered very impor- a dragon, when we consider that it tant to them now, 16 percent of the is used for model planes a'nd kite students checked making a lot of frames. There can be no pretense money; 78 percent responded that of safety in the shaman's instructheir first goal was 'finding a pur- tions. He does n'ot instruct the pose and meaning to my life.' " squaw to fight the dragon, only to Pontius Pilate as quoted in St. touch it. He tests our fear with trust. . Characteristically, Americans do John's account of the Passion asks Jesus directly, "What is truth?" not deal with the issue of confrontJesus called a spade a spade. Jesus ing the truth; the emphasis so died for the truth of his teaching. often is on the quick solution, not Jesus told the truth and Jesus calls the good of those involved in a us, his followers, to tell the truth. situation. For example; a couple His life, his death are a testimony will divorce, rather than seek marto the words in John's Gospel riage counseling. Chapter 14, 1-14. We read that at There can be two responses to a the Last Supper Thomas says, situation: fight the demon - face "Master, we do not know where it, stand up to the truth of the matyou are going. How can we know ter; or flee - do not confront the the way?" Jesus said to Thomas, "I reality, do not get even close to the am the way, the truth and the life. truth - no way!

In a remarkable story in the book "Magical Child" by Joseph C. Pearce, a woman's experience of being snatched at knife-point by two "druggies" is related. The "druggies" kidnap her, push her into their car and begin driving her around New York City, telling her they are going to take her into the woods of New Jersey, rape her and kill her. At first she is terrified, but then passes through her terror to a state of calm where she is suddenly able to accept the prospect of death, trust in her common sense and suppress her fear. The young men press her to tell them what she is feeling as they repeat their intention to kill her. Having attained control and a handle on her own fear, she becomes fascinated by their fear. Accepting their determination to do what they set out to do, she gently questions them in a maternal fashion. She really is filled with compassion for her captors, At one point, she even takes the young man's face in her hands and tells him "It's all right, you don't have to be afraid." They cannot carry out the crime. They weep like children until she calmly suggests it's time they take her home. When they let her out at the first subway station, she asks them to lend her money for a token, -which they do. Then she turns her back on them and walks away. When the woman in the story accepts death, she transcends her ego and is genuinely in a place where she cannot be harmed, where the self she suddenly knows to be most real cannot be hurt or killed. What we learn from this is that once we deal with a truth in all its magnitude, we are free - free to live with the truth, free because of the truth,

A "tall gringo" adapts to life in Latin America Continued from Page One program in the Costa Rican capiacquired as a social work major at tal, San Jose. Salve Regina University in New- . That process, he said involved .port, RI, Sheehan worked in Ala- studying Spanish and attending juela, Costa Rica, as an advocate cross-cultural workshops which for the disabled. Finding the voca- taught Peace Corps volunteers tion amenable, the now Spanish- about Latin American culture, fluent, culturally-adapted volunteer aspects of the country they were signed on for a similar Peace Corps entering, and the people with whom assignment in Ecuador when his they would be interacting. Sheefirst two-year tour was up last han was also exposed to "technical aspects ofthe social work and speyear. Recently visiting home, Shee- cial education" assignment he han reflected on his experiences in would receive. At the end of the training period, Latin America. He had volunteered at several Newport social service Sheehan was assigned to a vocaagencies during his college years, tional center for the disabled in but had no set plans for after grad-' Alajuela, Costa Rica's second uation until he met a Peace Corps largest city, where he helped physrecruiter on campus during his last ically and mentally handicapped clients learn a trade. Options semester. included carpentry, sewing and Sheehan says he feels "blessed mattress-making, he said. , and lucky" that the encounter "These people needed to develop sparked his curiosity and sense of voc~tional skills so they could adventure. integrate in society and the work"The idea really interested me, ing world and make some money so I decided to pursue it," said for their families," he explained. Sheehan, who aimed for a Latin The addition of an American to American destination because of the center's staff enabled "an obvious benefits for a U.S. social exchange of skills," said the Peace worker. Corps recruit. "Working with my "The Latin American influence Costa Rican social worker counis strong in America now with so terparts to develop different promany immigrants from there com- grams, I would teach them a few ing to this country," he explained. things and they would teach me a "What better way to understand few things." them than to go live down there?" One of Sheehan's projects was a' So he did just that, embarking "Good Will Caravan" that enabled after a six-month application pro- locals to obtain eye exams, glasses cess on a three-month training or operations at low cost.

Not many Peace Corps volunteers opt for additional tours, but after two years in Costa Rica, said Sheehan, "I wasn't ready to come backto the United States." He did feel he needed a change, though, and asked for a new post. Given several site choices he picked Ecuador, a poorer and less developed Latin American nation than relatively well-to-do Costa Rica. "I decided to stick with a Spanish-speaking country," he said, since fluency in Spanish is a highly marketable skill for social workers in the United States, where, Sheehan notes, he will eventually have to find a job. In Ecuador, Sheehan once again underwent a th'ree-month training period, then was assigned to Santo Domingo de los Colorados, which he describes as a "progressive city" whose population has soared from 50,000 to 200,000 in the past two decades. Inhabitants of the rich coastal area make their livelihood in agriculture and raising livestock. Sheehan is assigned to a campus comprised of elementary and high schools and a special education center. He works in the latter, the only school in the area for the handicapped, which serves children and adolescents ages 5 to 18. His task is to "develop and use Ecuadorian resources and outside funding sources for projects," including school renovations and digging a campus well.

"There are lots of needs in the school," he said. "There are only seven tiny clas'srooms" which need expanding, and the 800 students are without a clean water supply at a time when a ,dangerous cholera epidemic is making its way through South America. While home in the United States, Sheehan said, "I'm looking for resources to send supplies to Ecuador and to start a small library using donated books in Spanish -we want to encourage the kids to take an interest in reading." . Sheehan is also working as an itinerant consultant for the Ecuadorian government. As part of a team of specialists he will travel around the'country to establish workshops for the developmentally dis~bled. In Santo Domingo he is developing vocational rehabilitation workshops for handicappe,d adults, who are taught their choice of three trades: farming, silkscreening or sewing. All are very useful in the region, where people both farm and make their own clothes, notes Sheehan. After three years in Latin America 路the "okay gringo" calls his Peace Corps tour "a very good experience," with each host country offering diverse challengt;s. Ecuador is a very poor nation with a diversified population of II million, including Indians, Hispanics, Africans and mestizos, the latter persons of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.

Costa Rica, on the other hand, has a relatively homogeneous population of three million and more resources available to devote to education and social services. Sheehan has found his fellow Peace Corps volunteers, persons of diverse backgrounds and age groups from all over the United States, to be "very caring people, willing to share, their time and expertise and to learn about another culture." Culture shock is naturally a factor for Americans in the midst of a foreign .society, but Sheehan says, "I feel I've assimilated myself well. I went' in with a very open mind and made friends fast because I was interested in meeting people." , Most difficult was learning the language, which he says he didn't feel comfortable with for "six months to a year.~' 路"It was an uphill battle at first, trying to tell people how I felt frustrated, happy, whatever - in Spanish. I'd sound like a little kid," he recalls ruefully. "It was a really humbling experience. People laugh at you. But yc;>u grin and bear it." Adapting to the diet proved somewhat daunting as well. He told an interviewer at his alma mater he thought he'd "never survive" the endless sequence of "rice and beans, beans and rice, morning, noon and night." Turn to Page 15

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~apartour . Continued from Page One 'denied that the Vatican tried to get the text changed. The pope, in a last-minute addition to his 'speech at th~ Aug..l8 meeting, defended the church's activities. . "I would like to remember what the illustrious representatives of the Catholic Church here in Hungary as well as in other countries have done to defend the Jews within the possibilities allowed by circumstances," he said. He added that the time has come to dwell less on the horrors of the past and more on ways to foster better human relations so that such tragedies do not happen again. During the, trip, the pope also issued a: sharp call to find peaceful ways to end the ethnic and nationalistic antagonisms tearing through Eastern Europe. He tied his views to fears that a materially seductive Western secularism would rapidly fill the void f left by the collapse of communism, PART OF the crowd of some one million youth who leaving little room for religion. heard Pope John Paul II at World Youth Day ceremonies at "In today's cities, the tops of the Czestochowa shrine in Poland. (CNS/ Reuters photo) skyscrapers reach higher than the church st~eples; the roar of traffic often drowns out the pealing Of ory lane with a plea to European to seize the moment, now that bells," he said Aug. 18 at Maria- youths to stitch their continent ideological barriers have fallen, to pocs, a major Hungarian Marian . together now that ideological bar- reconstruct their personal and nariers have fallen. ' tional lives. shrine. John Paul's fifth visit to his Po"Become builders ofa new world: The pope's visit took place as Hungary and other countries of lish homeland as pope allowed a different world founded on truth, the former Soviet bloc are rewrit- him to' pray at the ,graves of his justice, solidarity and love," he ing constitutions and developing parents, cha~ with hometown bud- said at the Aug. 15 outdoor closing new political and economic sys- dies and remember Jewish neigh- Mass in front of the shrine. The pope began the youth day tems. He emphasized that the bors he knew who died duting the . ceremonies the evening before, Catholic Church and other relig- Holocaust. The pope's visit to his parents' Aug. 14, with a greeting and a ions traditional to the region should be an important part of thi~ graves brought back memories of prayer vigil service. They ended the pope's father, also Karol Woj- after the Aug. 15 Mass, when he rebuilding. In Hungary, where about 66 tyla, who raised the future pope gave lit candles to six youths percent ofthe population professes singlehandedly after his wife died representing different regions of , Catholicism, the pope asked state before their son was 9 years old.. the world. The tapers symbolized "Sometimes, when I wake up at the church's desire to send the aid for, Catholic social and charitable programs. He also opposed night the image of my father ap- young people back to their home abortion and divorce, both legal in pears before my eyes," the pope ÂŁountries as evangelizers. After the youth day Mass, the said. "He taught me the mystery of Hungary. pope closed a meeting of Central On Aug. 17, near the Croatian the infinite majesty of God." That same day the pope also and East European theologians. border, he supported the "legitimate aspirations" of Croatians and dedicated the ambulatory care unit He nO,ted that the meeting "gave expressed the hope of visiting "in 'of the 565-bed Polish-American testimony to the life of the church Children's Hospital, supported by. in conditions of oppression." the near future." Marxism "fought religion, proHe favored international medi- public and private U.S. funds. On Aug. 14, the pope paid a posing to uproot it," the pope said. ation to ease tensions and fighting This struggle produced a new since Croatia declared, indepen- nostalgic visit to Wadowice, where he was born on May 20, 1920, and set of Christian martyrs, he added. dence from Yugoslavia in June. "One could say that from this Traveling to the "Calvinist lived the first 18 years of his life. He visited his boyhood parish there has developed a special form Rome" on Aug. 18, the pope spoke in the Great Calvinist Church in church, celebrated an outdoor of the theology of liberation," said Mass and blessed the building the pope. Debrecen, in eastern Hungary. . The city is known as the "Cal- where he was born. His old secondvinist Rome" because as the hub of floor apartment is across the street Calvinism in Central Europe, it from the church's side entrance. But it was also a time for sad BANGKOK, Thailand (CNS) suffered during the centuries it was 'ruled by the Catholic Hapsburg memories as the pope recalled how - Refugees in border camps in family. During that time Calvinist the Nazi occupation devastated Indochina run the risk of being pastors were forced to labor on Wadowice's once thriving Jewish forgotten by the world, says Jesuit Father Thomas Steinbugler, head r galley ships. Later, when Calvi- community. "In the school of Wadowice of Jesuit Refugee Service. Already nists controlled Debrecen politics, for 168 years beginning in 1552, there were Jewish believers who it is hard to get money for rice, Catholic churches could not be are no longer with us. There is no Father Steinbugler told UCA News, longer a synagogue near the a Hong Kong-based Asian church built in the city. Today, 93 percent of the city's school," he said in impromptu news agency. There is a worldwide, weariness with the Indochina refu217,000 inhabitants are Calvinists. comments after the Mass. The main event of the pope's gee situation, he said. Roughly From Debrecen, the pope helicoptered to Budapest for the even- visit was celebration of World 30,000 Cambodians arrived in the ing meeting with Jewish leaders. Youth Day Aug. 15 at the shrine of' border camps just inside Thailand There he expressed worry about Our Lady of Czestochowa, Po- this year, Father Steinbugler said. "the risk of aresurgence and spread land's most .important pilgrimage Some came for medical reasons while others came to get education center. of anti-Semitic feelings." Delegations came from Eastern opportunities for their children, he "We must teach consciences to consider anti-Semitism and all and Western Europe, Latin Amer- said. But most came to escape forms of racism as sins against ica, North America, Africa and Cambodia's civil war. Asia. For the first time, their govGod and humanity," he said. Benevolence ernment allowed some 70,000 In Poland Soviet youths to attend. "To be happy you must forget The pope told the more than I yourself. Learn benevolence."In Poland Aug. 13 to 16, the pope combined a trip down mem- million young people at the event Bulwer-l..ytton

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Continued from Pagt: One ...pre'dicted that the improved relablessed the "perestroika" program tions between Moscow and the and s~id the church wanted to take Holy See would survive the depo- . full advantage of the new reforms. sition of Mikhail Gorbachev. He emphasized the, importl/.nce of "I certainly do not foresee a the proposed law on freedom of .change of, course," Ambassador conscience, which was pas'sed the . Yuri Karlov said in a telephone fOllowing spring. interview in Rome Aug. ,19, hours The two leaders greeted each after the' announcement of the other warmly, spoke a little Rus- Soviet president's ..removal from sian and gave the impression that a power. friendship was formed. On a polKarlov said that according to an icy level, the pope's hope for a uni- initial statement from a ruling ted Europe seemed to harmonize troika, the new Soviet government with Gorbachev's vision ofa "comhad pledged to honor all international treaties and other agreemon European house" that would include the Soviet Union. ments undertaken by the GorbaTheir next meeting a year later chev administration. was an important boost for GorKarlov said he thought that bachev at a time when he was boded well for thefuture of Sovietunder increasing pressure at home, Vatican relations. He said he had in the face of a struggling economy. "no fear" that the new regime and charges that he had taken too might try to reverse Moscow's much power. The Vatican newsrapprochement with the Holy See. paper earlier had given Gorbachev "I would like to underline one a significant endorsement, saying thing: the new committee says it the Soviet leader and his program will respect all foreign relations still deserved support. accords. So we will put all accords Yet throughout Gorbachev's and understandings into effect, interm in office, Vatican officials cluding those with the Vatican," were aware that his hold on power he said. was tenuous; they would some"I have understood that the times privately express apprehen- country will continue to follow the' sions that so much progress seemed line of social and economic reto depend on one man. newal," he said. That helps explain why the VatKarlov said there was not enough ican acted with relative speed in information immediately available exploiting the Soviet reforms - in to make a judgment on other imnaming a number of bishops, in plications of Gorbachev's removal. pressing for the religious liberty In 1990 Gorbachev named Karlegislation" in appointing a highlov a special representative to the level envoy to Moscow and in Vatican, with the title of extraorhelping reestablish the Ukrainian dinary ambassador, when the So.. church. viet Union and the, Holy See ~eÂ cided to exchange high-level diploNo Change Foreseen mats. The exchange stopped short " The Soviet envoy to the Vatican of full diplomatic relations.

Parishes meet challenge Continued from Page,One " : a toof were the main assets the Cronin's .residence. and several . parish had to offer, he said. office buildings. Two days after Hurricane Bob Father Michael K. McManus, had passed, the majority of Cape diocesan vice chancellor, said tel- Cod was still withou~ electricity, ephone service had not been res- so breakfast, lunch and dinner tored to many of the dioceses' III were busy times at Christ the King's parishes, so damage reports were hall, Father Tosti said. incomplete. Fallen trees and damFood was donated by townsage to roofs and gutters seemed to people, area businesses and the be the major problem, he said. parish's own food pantry, which He said St. Francis Xavier par- was soon depleted. ish, Hyannis, whose territory in"We gave them everything we ciudes the oceanfront Kennedy had," Father Tosti said. "Now, compound, was among Cape Cod we're using up the peanut butter parishes reporting roof damage. No and jelly - the kids like that." damage has thus far been reported Many residents whose private at the Kennedy estate, home of wells were crippled by the lack of Rose Kennedy, 101-year-old electricity used the church as an mother of thl: late President John oasis. Some parishioners took adF. Kennedy. vantage of the generator-powered refrigerator to keep heat-sensitive On Cape Cod at the eastern medications cool, said Father Tosti. , edge ofthe diocese, some churches While the hurricane was physiwere able to provide more relief as cally devastating, Father Tosti said it brought out such community evacuation centers than others. Christ the King Church in Mash- spirit that volunteers were being pee offered access to the parish's turned away in droves. large hall and classroom complex, "When the chips are down, the as well as to other equipment and best comes out in everyone," he water supplies. Pastor Father said. Ronald A. Tosti said the town's In North Falmouth, St. Elizacivil defense coordinators con- beth Seton Church was without verted the kitchen of the parish electricity, but pastor Father hllll, which has a gas-powered Joseph L. Powers said anyone generator, into a free soup kitchen without a place to stay was welfor hundreds of residents and comedo Water was available, but vacationers in need of food, she1- Father Powers said he expected to ter and water. be without electricity for as much In Pocasset, where the Cape as a week after the hurricane had Cod Canal ClltS the peninsula off passed. from the mainland, Father Robert Conflict Donovan, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, opened the "Anxiety signifies a conflict, and church and hall to those in need of so long as conflict is going on, a shelter. Without power or a gener: constructive resolution is possible." ator, however, a firm building and - Rollo May

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State euthanasia initiative critiqued by magazine ... NEW YORK (CNS) - The euthanasia initiative to be voted on by the people of Washington state Nov. 5 is a proposal for social , and moral disaster, according to a special issue of Commonweal. , The New York-based lay Catholic magazine published its 16-page critique of Washington's Initiative 119 as a separately bound special supplement to its Aug. 9 issue. The four authors featured in the supplement analyzed Initiative 119 from a variety of perspectives but agreed that its basic aim - to let doctors kill terminally ill patients who request it - would introduce radical changes in the ethical and social structures on which standards oflaw, medicine and doctorpatient relationships are based. The initiative calls "aid-in-dying" a "medical service" to be performed by a physician on request from patients suffering a terminal illness that will result in death within six months. Albert R. Jonsen, chairman of the University of Washington's department of medical history and ethics, wrote that if the initiative succeeds it will bring a "moral cataclysm." He said recent polls indicate that unless the~e is a change in public opinion before' Nov. 5, Initiative 119 wiIi p~ss. But the polls indi~ate that many people are confused about the nature of the initiative, saia, and one unpubii~hed '~utvey indicated a drop in ~JlPport "when terms such as lethal injection are used rather than aid-in-dying." , ' " Dr. Carlos F. Gomez of the University o(Virginiil Health Serv~ ices Center, author of a forthcoming book on the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands, said the Dutch practices have been hailed by euthanasia proponents as' a model for humane treatment of the dying. But his research there in 1989 raises serious questions about how euthanasia can be regulated to assure that it is practiced only on patients who freely and competently request it, he said. In four of the 26 Dutch cases he studied in depth, he said, "it was clear that the patient was incapable of giving consent, or ... it was doubtful that consent could have been obtained properly." He said Dutch euthanasia proponents estimate that euthanasia accounts for 2 percent to 3 percent of their nation's 120,000 deaths a year. In the United States, where there are about 2 million deaths a year, a comparable rate "would represent 40,000 to 60,000 people killed each year by their physicians," he said. Dr. Leon R. Kass of the University of Chicago's College and Committee on Social Thought said Initiative 119 violates the "first and most abiding" prohibition which doctors accept in the Hippocratic O~th: ". will neither gi~e a deadly drug to anybodyjf asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect." "This venerable taboo," he said, is based on the fundamental recognition that "the power to cure is also the power to kill" and that the doctor-patient relationship depends on that power being used only to cure. Once the principle is accepted that doctors can end suffering by killing, Kass said, it changes the psychology and morality of a doc-

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tor's relationship with his or her patients. "Physicians," he said, '~get tired of treating patients who are hard to cure, who resist their best efforts, who are on their way down.... Won't it be tempting to think that death is the best 'treatment' for the little old lady 'dumped' again on the emergency room by the nearby nursing home?" ,

Ethicist Daniel J. Callahan, director of The Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., said Initiative 119's proponents argue for it eNS/Reuters in the name of personal autonomy DEREK HUMPHRY and self-determination. But in fact it is a fundamental denial of autonomy to give someone else power over one's very life, he said. "To allow another person WAS HINGTON (CNS) to kill us is the most radical relinquishment of sovereignty imag- "Final Exit," a best-selling manual inable, not just one more 'way of ofthe do's and don'ts of suicide for the terminally ill, represents "a exercising it." He said initiative would "add a new low in publishing ethics," new category of acceptable kill- according to an official of the U.S. ing" to the three limited excep- bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life tions acknowledged in civilized , Activities. The book by Derek Humphry, 'societies - defense of oneself or another, defense of country in a British founder of the Hemlock Society who now lives in Eugene, just war, and capital punishment. Ore., also drew criticism from the The Washington initiative is not National Right to Life Commit','just a slight extension of the , tee, which urged booksellers "to already-established right to con- think carefully about their ethical trol our bodies and to have medi- responsibility for'the tragic consecal treatment terminated," he said. quences that may result from the "It is a radical IjIove into anentirely extensive distribution" of the book. different realm of morality: that of Richard 1;>. Doerflinger-, assothe killing of one person by an- ciate director for policy developother." ment in the bishops' pro-life office, said the book shows that the agenda of the Hemlock Society, which promotes the concept of-"rational '~"girls suicide," is "out of control." "The group-seeks a mass market :WASHINGTON (CNS) - A for a book with instructions o,n program developed ,by the Geor- killing - a book that will -be getown University Child !?evt:lop- advertised to, the elderly retiree, ment Center in Washington to the lonely 'widow, the depressed help adolescent girls avoid early teenager and -even the unstable sexual activity and pregnancy has person who may want to kill received a $90,226 two-year grant someone else against the victim's . from the Robert Wood Johnson will," Doerflinger said. "Whatever Foundation. the problem, death is the only solution offered by Hemlock." The grant will allow the Best Friends program to expand from Burke Balch, state legislative two Washington schools to schools director of the National Right to in Denver, Los Angeles, Dade and Life Committee, said his organizaLee counties in Florida and another tion is "not suggesting legal action Washington school. or pressure tactics such as a boyThe program encourages II to cott". but wanted to point out"the 18-year-old girls to support one fundamental difference between another in the decision not to have books that advocate a point of view ... and a detailed instruction sex during early adolescence. manual {or the mechanics of causIt includes weekly 90-minute ing death." group support sessions headed by "The reality is that distribution a trained staff member and oneon-one mentoring relationships of 'Final Exit' means that instead between each participant and a of responding to the cry for help of female teacher of her choosing. In those who are suicidal -:- of any addition, successful. women from age or condition ~ with compasthe community are invited to sion, counseling and help, our society is coldly saying, 'We don't address the support sessions about care if you live or die,'" Balch said. , their own life decisions. Subtitled "The Practicalities of "Best Friends is the beginning of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suica sound program addressing the ide for the Dying," "Final Exit" problem of teen pregnancy," said premiered Aug. 18 on the New Elayne G. Bennett, program direc- York Times bestseller list at No. I tor. "If we' can replicate it success- in the advice, how-to and miscelfully in more schools, we can begin laneous category. to make progress. on one of the Some 20,000 copies of the book most serious problems adolescents .~ published by the Hemlock Socface today." iety and distributed by Carol PubThe grant also will fund a . lishing of Secaucus, N.J. - were national conference to pro~ote sold in two weeks of July, Humphry the Best Friel)ds program to other said. He said a 41 ,000 first printing schools across the country. of the book has sold out and The Johnson Foundation, based 20,000 more copies have been ' in Princeton, N.J., has assets of ordered. The,190-page book includes inmore than $3 billion and is the largest U.S. philanthropic group formation on how to commit suicide using sleeping pills, the method devoted entirely to health ca,re.

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,Vatican still running in red VATICAN CITY (CNS) -The Vatican is considering issuing lowyieJd commercial" bonds to help meet its chronic operating deficit: Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara, who administers Vatican' investments, 'said buyers wo~ld acquire the bonds "with the intent of helping the Holy See." The yield would

be lower than most bonds - in effect, a "charity rate" of interest that would benefit the Vatican, he said. _ The cardinal said that ifthe Vati<;an decides to issue the bonds, it may also invite buyers to "donate" part of.their value when they come due.

The Vatican is entertaining the can's reputation for financial se-., Without that infor,mation, "it's idea only because of unrelenting , crecy. Still, "we would need cer- . going to be d;ifficultto geUarge pressure on its annual operating tain information" to rate a bond support for that" bond issue, budget, Cardinal Castillo Lara said. issue, and would keep it confiden- Cipriani sai.d. "They would cerThe deficit in 1991 is expected to tial at the issuer's request. tainly have to pay more" interest hit a record $91.5 million, and the Cardinal Castillo Lara said that on the bonds as well. Vatican may have to begin selling if contributions from the' bishops Paul Siegelbaum, chief of the off some of its property and don't increase sufficiently, "it may World Bank's 'U .S. dollar funding investments, he said. be that the (:ontribution of each group, which arranges for about In April, Pope John Paul II bishops' conference will be deter- 40 percent of the World Bank's asked bishops from all over the mined with greater precision." $11 billion of borrowing this year, world to help find a solution to the For now, he said, the contribu- told Catholic News Service in a annual budget deficit. The bishops tions will continue to be made telephone interview that the Vatisaid they would try to send more through Peter's Pence, the annual can "occupies a unique place in , money, but offered no major fund- worldwide collection for the pope. this world." . raising innovations. But he said that Peter's Pence. He said an unrated bond issue is The return on Vatican invest- should go toward special projects possible, particularly in Europe, ments covers only about 30 to 40 and not toward Vatican operating where "a great deal of stock is put pecent of the annual budget, he expenses: in very familiar names." But U.S. said. The rest comes from the Vat"The pope ought to be able to citizens face tough hurdles in buyican city-state surplus, mostly from intervene wherever there is a need ing a bond issued - in a foreign the sale of st~mps, coins and for charity," he said. market; Siegelbaum added. museum tickets and from Peter's Cardinal Castillo Lara acknow~ , H,e and' Cipriani noted that low- . .Pence.. ledged tliat the Vatican's ability to il}terest.tates are offered to' b~yers Cardinal Castillo Lara said the raise money had been co~piom- of israeli bonds~ most of whom are Vatican wants to take its fundrais- ised by the "distorted image" le~f ·JeWis~. Siegelbaum called the Vating message to Catholic laity. _ by the. Banco Ambrosiano scan- .. i<:ait'idea an '~ingenious strategy." "Businessmen; bankers and men dal. The Vatican bank, whlledc::nyHowever, Cipriani sa.id it is of high finance ought to be the first ing any wrongdoing; eventually. .impossible to -det~i"mine what rat. to help the church spread the truth . paid $240 million to·fo.rmer credi- ing a Vatican bond issue might ,and defend moral principles," he tors of Banco Ambrosiano, which receive based on the limited Vatisaid. had collapsed under massive debt. can financial i~formation at hand. "We want to ask openly, present Factors considered in rating a The Vatican~bank, which is conour problems, and do it in such a sidered separate from the Vatican bond' issue include the issuer's way that everyone can participate Curia, paid the money by opening revenues, exp~nditures, liabilities, - even economically - in the lines .of credit, the cardinal said. and what resources it has to back communion of the church," the "Not a single lira came out of the up the, bond issue. Debt is als'o cardinal said. Vatican," he declared. He added considered, as is the ability to serSuch openness on the part oftne that the Holy See is not wealthy, vice debt. The economy's prosHoly See will be needed if a Vati- with liquid holdings valued at only pects over a Five-to 1O-year period can bond issue is to succeed, said about $170 million. Real estate are also considered. Guido Cipriani; vice president of holdings ~epresent another $1.70 . Economic management issues international finance at Standard million, he said. Many of the sucJt as fiscal, monetary and income properties are in Rome and are policy are also subject to review & Poors, one of the United States' principal bond-rating firms. rented out at low prices ,set by' for a rating, Cipriani said. The Vatican is "a unique entity Bond ratings, he told CNS, are Italy's fair-rent law. based on detailed financial inforWere the bond to be offered in that we would have to look at," the United States, Securities and Cipriani said. But he added that mation. "The question would really be, Exchange Commission regulations uniqueness is of little importance how willing would the Vatican be permit ·bond raters to ask for the to the investor, who asks, "Can I information without the Vatican's with certainty invest in this bond to open it books?" Cipriani said. and be paid·on time?" Cipriani is aware of the Vati- consent.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A European Parliament resolution on "assistance for the dying" wOilld reduce respect for human life if it is adopted, the Vatican newspaper said. A recent L'Osservatore Romano editorial quoted the European bishops' commission and French gerontologists and Catholic jurists, all opposing the resolution. It says that if all treatments prove ineffective, a terminally ill patient's request for assistance in dying should be "received" without being interpreted as an attack on respect for human life. The bishops' commission has said that the resolution's defini" tion of the human person and of human dignity based on "degree of consciousness" are unacceptable. Their statement pointed out that distinctions between "worthy" and unworthy human life could easily

be extended to include the mentally ill, the handicapped and others defined as "useless." The gerontologists said a patient's expressed desire to die "is very often a request for help" which must be answered with "words of life." The group also said a patient might be helped to die after being mistakenly diagnosed as having a terminal illness, or that economic reasons, such as the cost of treatment, might become ajustification for euthanasia. The jurists said those who cite "loss of dignity" as a reason for killing someone are ignoring the dignity of suffering and of those who suffer.

"It is obvious that vital organs can only be donated after death. But to make in life an offering which will become effective after He told members of the Society death, is in many cases an act of for Organ Sharing that organ. great love," the pope said. He transplantation had saved lives and compared such a gift to Christ's was cause for rejoicing.' But the sacrificial death, "in which, in dying, procedure has its "dark side," and' death is somehow overcome and sometimes leads to "shameful life restored." abuses," he said. But the pope warned that the The pope outlined the church's human body must always be treated position on organ donation, which as the body of a person. Otherimplies a "free and conscious deci- wise, he said, organ transplants. sion on the part of the donor" or a would amount to "the plundering legitimate representative and may of a body." Organs or tissues cannot seriously endanger or harm not be sold or exchanged, he the donor's own life. warned, noting that such a "reduc-

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VATICAN CITY(CNS)- The ters were putting into proper Mass begins, as it always does, liturgical-book form the text ap"En la nomo de I' Patro, kaj de l' proved in November 1990 by the Congregation for Worship and the Filo, kaj de l' Sankta Spirito. Sacraments. Amen." After 24 years' of celebrating , For enthusiasts of a language Mass with a provisional text, . which celebrates the simple and Catholics who speak Esperanto- relies on that simplicity to span a language developed in the 19th borders, the Vatican printing regu~ century in the hope that its sim- lations may have seemed a bit plicity would have cross-cultural fastidious. appeal - now have final Vatican Sarandrea said the rules even approval for their translation of govern th~ width of the margins. the Mass prayers and readings for Although some Sunday ScripSundays and holy days. ture readings were translated into Carlo Sarandrea, codirector of Esperanto as early as 1908 and the Vatican Radio's Esperanto section, Mass text was given provisional said he hopes one day the station approval in 1966, final approval will broadcast the Mass in Esperwas not only a matter of making anto, as it has done with Masses in sure the translation was accurate. dozens of other languages. The 1990 norms for celebrating "But first we have to wait for the printing to be finished," he said. the Mass in Esperanto make it As August came, the Vatican prin- clear that the permission is 'unus-

Meanwhile in Rome, Pope John Paul II said that donating organs

can be an act of great love, but human body parts must never become items of commerce.

body parts tive materialist conception would lead to a merely instrumental use of the body, and therefore of the person." The pope said current abuses in organ transplantion, such as the reported killing of Brazilian street children and sale of their body parts, call for "determined action" by medical associations, donor societies and lawmakers. The Society for Organ Sharing, an international group of medical experts, facilities, sets up guidelines and enunciates ethical principles that should govern organ transplants.

Esperanto Mass gets Vatican OK ual and that the Mass is to be celebrated only under certain strict conditions. Esperanto is not considered' a "liturgical language" to . be used ordinarily in church celebrations because it "is not a language spoken by the people." , Sarandrea said that refers "to the fact there is no nation where the majority of people speak Esperanto," and it is no one's native language. According to the World Almanac, 2 million people speak Esperanto. The International Association of Catholic Esperantists has about 5,000 members, Sarandrea said. The biggest groups of Esperantists and listeners to Vatican Radio's 20-minute weekly Esper-' anto broadcasts are in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, China and the Far East.

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voluntary,. to the non-voluntary (Christine Busalacchi), to the involuntary (Helga Wanglie)," he said. "The right to die is seen by many as so basic and personal a right Dear Editor: that ways have been found for In an editorial printed in the others to exercise it on the patient's New Bedford Standard Times, behalf; and many individual deciStephanie Salter, a writer for the sions taken together can become a San Francisco Examiner, wrote norm of behavior, a standard of with pride that Judge Patrick practice to which families are then Kelly, a Catholic, stated he was "a expected to conform," he added. federal judge first and a Catholic Doerflinger said his family faced second." He was sworn to uphold such life-and-death decisions 20 the law of the land and that uphold it he would. years ago when his older brother, after a car accident, was diagnosed Such judges should recall the as being in a "vegetative state." trial of German judges at the Nuremberg Trials in 1948. Those Although the family was urged to judges said they upheld German place the brother in a nursing Nazi law because it was the law of home "and try to forget him," they the land. instead brought the brother home, Those trials explicitly stated that where he eventually a wakened from any judge who consciously partichis coma. ipates in activities which violate Although his family had "freeevery moral and civil principle' dom of choice" regarding the known to iuiy civilized people is brother's treatment, "the freedom responsible for his actions.. to choose to live is meaningless Judges who sit in judgment over unless it receives support and enHURRICANE BOB subtracted a few slates fromthe roof of Our Lady of Angels Church, other human beings by enacting or couragement from others in the Fan River. (StUdio 0 phot<?) enforcing laws made for the purcommunity," Doerflinger said. . , . pose of the extermination of other "What we need ... is a social human beings are guilty of murder., consensus that will offer a certain The court went on to say: the basic level of care and support to principle of criminal law by which all helpless patients - one that is all civilized nations should abide possible to opt out of to some states that any person who sways extent, but one' that will protect patient wants to be killed," he voters, "we will become the first vulnerable people from the prejuBy Catholic News Service another to commit murder, who nation in the modern world to leg- dices and false assumptions of added. participates in enforcing laws that Doctors "cannot do the Pontius "If it's to relieve pain, we can islate the active killing of patients others," he added. "In short, the approve of such killings, who is an Pilate act" and absolve themselves relieve pain" without killing, Pel- by their physicians." accessory to such evil,. is guilty of from responsibility in euthanasia burden of proof generally should legrino said. "Is it a sense of a loss Doerflinger discussed the cases be on those who seek to remove crimes against God and man. cases, Dr. Edmund Pellegrino said of dignity? Is it depression? of Nancy Beth Cruzan, a Missouri basic care to allow a helpless patient Judges, I feel, who go against recently at Georgetown University '~Is the patient testing all of us? woman who died in December to die." the testimony of "common sense" during the first conference of Uni... 'Do you really care for me? Do after her parents fought a successand permit abominations against versity Faculty for Life. Doerflinger said health care peryou really, really understand all ful court battle to remove her feed- . sonnel already "tend to shy away mankind, as the evil of abortion, Likening doctors' acceptance of that's happening? Tell me: am I ing tube; Christine Busalacchi, also from people who are dying, to are leading their country on a fast euthanasia to the participation of really worthless, am I really guilty, of Missouri, whose father is seek- avoid becoming attached to someroad to oblivion. Judge Kelly is doctors in crimes against society am I really a burden, am I really ing to move her to Minnesota one they may lose soon." one of those who is trying to de- under the rule of Adolf Hitler and alone?''' where it is considered easier to end a stroy America. They forget the Josef Stalin, Pellegrino said, "Sad"How much more distant will The doctor's charge, Pellegrino patient's nutrition and hydration; they become toward people they past and thus will repeat the evils ly, physicians are moving in that said, is "to give the dying person and Helga Wanglie of Minnesota, think they might be told to kill therein. direction." the notion that he is still a part of whose doctors are fighting in court soon?" he asked. "And how much Rev. James F. Greene Pellegrino, an internist and the human community, and tha,t to end her life support against her more lonely and isolated will that Pastor, St. James Church director of Georgetown's Center by dying, the whole human com- family's wishes. New Bedford make these patients, so that they for the Advanced Study of Ethics, munity is diminished." urged physicians to avoid terms "Legal trends on withdrawal of will feel a'choice for death is really The conference, titled "Life and life support have taken us from the the expected or preferable choice." like "assisted suicide" and "mercy Learning," drew about 100 faculty killing" to describe euthanasia, members from Catholic institutions saying those terms were "conditiWASHINGTON (CNS) - A as well as public and private colU.S. Catholic Conference migra- oned into the debate" by euthanaleges to hear and discuss a myriad sia advocates. tion official, in testimony on Capiof life issues. Euthanasia, Pellegrino said, tol Hill, told members of a conEuthanasia was also a discus•'110M( 1IAJJ16 gressional subcommittee that it "distorts the doctor-patient relasion topic at the recent annual tionship" by "undermining ... the (OUII(II. MINEI" was a "mistaken perception" that conference of the National Counall refugees are dependent on wel- idea of trust" between the two. FOI "OMPT ]4 Hour Sr'Y1(\' cil on the Aging in Miami Beach. "How can a patient trust that a fare. Jesuit Father Richard RysChorl~, V~lolo. Pr~, 2-WAI RADIO Speaking on "Death at the Ethidoctor will pursue every beneficavage, executive director of the cal Edge," Richard Doerflinger, cent treatment," he asked, "when a USCC's division of Migration and associate director for policy Refugee Services, spoke in favor doctor can remove himself of a difdevelopment for the U:S. bishops' ficultchallenge by influencing a of reauthorization of the Refugee ,Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, patient to choose death?" Act of 1980. . Doctors "must seek to heal, not said the public debate on euthanaHe said the fact that federal to remove the need forheall'ng by . sia no longer centers on "withdrarefugee assistance appropriations removing the patient," Pellegrino wal oftreatment or even offood or have not kept pace with increasing said. "In euthanasia, healing now fluids" but on "active killing by OffU ., ou GlOYI AVI .• fAll IMI numbers of refugees coupled with physicians." includes killing" in its definition. the myth that all refugees are on He warned that if a proposal by Physicians, he said, must ,learn welfare "has caused some to reexthe Hemlock Society is approved how to act with a patient who amine the basic Refugee Act of in November by Washington state wants to die and learn "why the 1980 and how.the refugee program Pharma!=y REClS~I~~Rr~fJ~=CISTS operates."·' ,

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18AND LIFE By Tom Lennon Just about a year ago, 19-yearold Doug had a secure job that earned him .$18,000 a year. In some ways he iiked pis work very much because lie was' able to 'utilize his knowledge' of electronics, which he had acquired in voca, tional training, school..: But occasi6'nallyhe 'found it boring. ., , . Too, he found his boss annoy-· ing. And since he wanted t9 buy a new sports car, he wanted to earn more money. Big money. At the health club where he' worked out, the manager, 28-year-' old Julie, spotted Doug and began to think of him as a likely instruc- . tor and salesman for the club. . She asked Doug to come into her office one day to talk to him· about the possibility of t!iking a job at the club. ~he poi{lted out' that the club was prospering, that, it was a pleasant place to work and '. that if he'sold enough member-' ships he could earn up to $30,000 a year or ,eyen niore. " ' The company would give him two weeks training in salesmanship at no charge in another city. In the days ahead he thought about the job offer carefully. It meant leaving the security of a guaranteed weekly salary and a jobhe could handle to venture into unknown waters. He was sure he'd do well as an instructor because he knew a lot about lifting and exercising; But selling memberships was another question. Suppose he did make $30,000 a year. Then he could get his sports car. Doug talked to his 'parents and a coupIe ·offriends. Then he did some more thinking, and finally

when Julie again asked him for a decision, he said yes. Doug went through the twoweek training program and then, with great enthusiasm, embarked on his job. When it came to teaching new' members about weight lifting, he was excellent As a salesman, he flopped: Within a few weeks; he quit ' 'Later Doug explained ·to me: "Tom, I'm just not hard-nosed enou'gh. If I saw that a prospective customer might have a hard time making the monthly payments, I'd ease up and not use the hard pressure. They'd get away. I'd lose a customer: Julie said I was just too nice a guy." .,..' Doug saw some of :his dreams die. For five months he couldn't find a job.. The bills mounted and his savings account dwindled to zilch. His.old car got older.· At 'Iast he found ajob, but one that paid much less than the $18,000 a year he had been making originally. I wondered how he felt about having quit that job. "I don't look at it as failure. Instead I learned something about myself. I'm not cut out to be a salesman. I'm to do something else in this world. But I am mad at myself for leaving a job that paid fairly well." . After I left Doug that night, questions came into my mind, Did he have some unrealistic expectations about' money? Was . Doug's dream of $30,000 a year a matter of greed? Did greed get him into financial trouble? Are big, fast bucks an unworthy dream? Yet, should a person never go after a higher salary or try to better himself? !-Jow might he try to do this? . What do you think? What would y~udo?' , '. " , '.

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. a't~use ·.,mirr-ore~: Ji·ationwide·' ST. CLOUD, Minn: (eNS)'Amy Green started drinking.. in. eighth grade. "Meand,my friends wouldj~s~ s\~a:I.it fr,Qm.my p~r.epts," she said'. . . • . . '.' . ..", As fr~shqlen a,t Cathedral· High School in, St. Cloud, "we started drinking ·in the bath~oom' before, ciasses," said Amy in'an inte'rvie~' with t/le $t. '<;lou9 Visitor, dfoc,Cfsin' newspapCfr. . '.' .' .Amy - not 'her real name - ' takes thi~gs o~e day at a time'afte~ kicking an .alcohol habit th~li.led ~o·. drug abuse. aut recent statistics show that Amy;s story is les~ unique than once thought. . . . . Of an estimated 8 million drinkers injunior and senior high school, 6.9 million said they found it easy to get alcohol, despite a mandatory minimum drinking age of 21 in every state, according to a survey released in June by the inspector

generals's office of the U.S. De-' partment ··of. Health and 'Human Services.·' . "In my sophomore' year is when we started partying down by St:· Cloud State University alot," Amy said. "We started partying 'with older'college people. We went'to . keggers. And [then) 'we had people buying'for us." .', .' The' entire 'su~nier of her' sopho~ore year, "I was dru~k' ...' with the exception of four.or five days. 'Sdme people' wouidthi~k that's a w(tilbut I th~ught that was. the be~t there.was," . .; ..... her junior year, she w~s.ca~ght drinking the second day of classes. By then, Amy estimates, her parents had already caught her almost 50 times. To avoid getting caught drinking, she switched to marijuana for

we'~kday use'; and spent the week- . end binge ~~i~,kiiig'. _. _,.. . .·An l<stimated'454,000 U.s.junior and se,nior high s.cho'pI stud.ents are regular binge drinkers, c.on~.· suming .an aver~ge 15 drinks a weejc, the survey said. . . It'. projecteq, that ~.4mi·llion stud~nts have binged on alcohOl at leas't once and more than 3 million' did it in·the past month.. '. A syparate, federal !,urvey of high scho,?1 seniors s'howed 14. percent .of, them,'acknowledged using po't i~ the past' month,'2 perce'~i using c,ocaine, and 57. percent using alcohol.. One weekend in January 1990, her parents picked her up from a party and took her to a hospital emergency room. "I don't remember much of it at all," Amy said, but "I was told the next day in school that there were

Sebastian Bach, Skid Row's lead singer. "What's sadder than seeing a kid throwaway his life at an early age? Maybe a few teens will see. how dangerous it is to get involved in illegal things, We are not trying to tell anyone how to run their lives, but there's nothing wrong with showing

three guys in a bedroom with me: I don't know what they did but my imagination runs." . -, .' , - The next -weekend - "the last weekend I evertised,!' Amy saidshe anC! ner mother·fought about her grades and drugs. Her mother in fea-rs,. finally sho'uted, "You're' sick and you need help." - '. Instead of going to school 'that Monday, Ainy was 'taken' by her parents to a retovery.facility in the· St. Paul-Minneapolis' area:" ',. ',~She'stayedfor 40 days, and flOW calls it her '·'40 days in the desert:" Amy said she thought she'd "be able to con my way out of it like.r. con' my way' outar everything," but in time felrsafe at the facility. Once out of treatment, she waswarned to steel' clear of her·drug-· .' using friends .. " A.my made new friends with other recovering teenage alcoholics, which convinced her she could have fun without chemicals. Except for one brief relapse, Amy has been sober since'treatment. "I've had more fun in the

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,what.happensto people every-, day if they are not careful." The song's story is tragic. Ricky gets drunk on tequila one night, kills a friend and is serving a life sentence for murder. Concerning Ricky's fate, the reader writes: "I wish the story had a happy ending, but it .doesn't It just proves alcohol can turn anyone into a monster." I agree with the reader that alcohol is a dangerous drug, despite its wide acceptance. No matter what your .age, alcohol is addictive. Its effects are deceptive. . Many teens, who never intended such an outco~e; find they are alcoholics before high school graduation. . - Soine teens use alcohol to prove how tough they are. -'- Others use it to escape the , hurts in their lives. ' , . - Still others dri'nk because of fear of not fitting in with their peers. . For these and other reasons, most teens feel a lot of pressure to use alcohol. When thinking about teen drinking,we need to remember these pressures. It is easy to tell someone not to drink. What is more difficult, yet much more helpful; is to create opportunities for teens to openly discuss . the. pressures on them.. . If we are to avoid more reallife stories like "18 and Life," teens and adults need to ~ork . togethet in combating alcohol abuse. I encourage youth group .Iead·ers, class officers, youth ministers, religious educators and their s~udents to' honestly reflect on these questions: J. Under what circumstances are teens using alcohol in our community? 2. What must we do to show teens a clear alternative to the illegal use of alcohol? 3. Is further education about alcoholism needed? If so, how should it be presented? 4. What do teens in this community need most from adults in order to have a better quality of life? What do adults need from teens? ' Let's help each other protect the gift and potential inherent in God's gift of life, no matter what our age. Your comments are welcomed by Charlie Martin, R.R. 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635..

last year than I did drinking," she said. . If she went back to drink and dn,lgs', "I could die. Iwould'die. If I went back to the way I was using before, I'd givt; myself a year tops, and I don't wa-nfto' die.'" Most of tfie tirrie "'I'm' really grateful to 'be an alcoholic," Amy said, because of what she learned from' the' aftermath of her experience - among them that' God is in'charge :of her'life. '. . "Tha(s "one or' 'the'things that keeps me' sobe'r -'-' it's God's will," she' saip.'·"1f it' was my will I . wouldn't be sober: I sho'wed that for four years." When she starts college this autumn, AJTlY wants' to major in criminal justice. She may want to become' a police office'r because, she says, they help' out kids in trouble bybustin·g·them.

Blind World "An eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind."Mahatma Gandhi

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THE~ ANCHOR-Diocese of Filii River-Fri., Aug. 23, 1991

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BUSY YOUNGSTERS enjoy some of the activities of St. Julie Billiart parish's Bible Vacation Week. Coordinated by 'Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, 14 teenagers of the North Dartmouth parish led 63 children in drama, songs, crafts and play that brought the Bible alive for them.

"Tall gringo" Continued from Page Nine America it is of .foremost impor~ He laughed, "I thought there tance to get to know the individual. just had to be a Seven-Eleven "They want- to know who you store, and how was I going to get are, about your family - they're along without M&M candies?" very interested in you personally." Sans the chocolate - and a lot While in Latin America "It is of other American staples very common to go into a house Sheehan lost 20 pounds: and find the whole family together But he has gained a world of just talking," he said, "sometimes valuable experience and a unique we get lost in our own lives in the perspective on his own country's States and forget about family and culture and values. the importance of being together." Both Costa Rica and Ecuador Latin Americans spend most of have populations that are 95 per- their free time socially, he noted, cent Catholic, and Sheehan sees "at dances, or just being with peothat religous values are deeply ple, talking, going out with friends." ingrained and a real force in Latin Unfortunately, he said, "TV is American society. becoming an influence. It's not as That is most evident, he said, in bad as inthe U.S., but the importhe importance placed on family -tance of being with people, playing - extended as well as immediate. games, etc., is being diminished." In Costa Rica he knew a family One incident that for Sheehan from which "seven brothers lived delineated the difference between side by side·on the street they grew the two cultures happened in Washup on even after reaching adult- ington, DC, on his first visit home hood and starting their own famil- from the Peace Corps. Watching a ies!" police officer determinedly pursue He adds, "If an eiderly person is ,a jaywalker, Sheehan says he dying in Latin America, the family couldn't help laughing; Latin doesn't think twice about caring America is too laid-back for such a for them at home." scene. , After the wa~m and welcoming But he says experiencing another atmosphere he found in these culture has also made him apprecountries, Sheehan says he had a ciate his native country. worse case of "reverse culture "I've learned a lot about myself shock" on visits home to the Uni- and my country, and realized.how ted States, where he found "waste" much we have going for us as a appalling and the number of selec- democratic nation." But, he adds, tions in the marketplace over- each time I come back I realize whelming. there's need here too. America is In Latin America, he continued, always giving to other countries "life is very slow-paced, whereas and it makes me wonder when are here we're very time oriented. The we going to start helping the poor U.S. could be less rushed. An in our own society?" American business-person might Sheehan hopes to do just that rush to make five meetings in one when he comes home for good day. In Latin America he may next year. He plans to pursue a have only one meeting - but a master's degree in social work and then "find a career helping Central good meeting." . American society can be very . Americans living" in the United "rigid" he added, while in Latin States.

LOS ANGELES (CNS) Catholic Church teachings on creation and the sacredness of life have inspired Kerry'Xennedy Cuomo's advocacy efforts for the environment 'and human rights. , Church teaching offers "a sense of this earth's being God's gift to us and that we have an obligation to keep it and treasure it," said Ms. Cuomo. It also holds out nature as a source for consolation, she said. "Sometimes if I'm troubled I can find some solace in being outside, outdoors, walking through the woods, going camping or on a , river," she said. . ' This fall Ms. Cuomo will work for the environment as a host on ' the Turner Broadcasting System's magazine series "Network Earth." Ms. Cuomo, daughter of the ' late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, made headlines last year when she married Andrew Cuomo, son of New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. While working on the series, Ms. Cuomo will continue to make political freedom her chief concern. Currently she heads the Robert F. Kennedy M'emorial Center for Human Rights, which she founded in 1988. "My work in human rights is dedicated to protecting people who face imprisonment, torture and death for (seeking) basic rights which so many of us are lucky enough to take for granted," she said. The connection between. work. ing for human rights and Catholic, teaching is "quite o.bvious," she said. "I believe that each person, each individual, is a child of God and as such needs to be treated with respect and with love and tenderness." In the interview, she, said her advocacy work was rooted' in her Catholic education, which includes law school at Jesuit-run Boston College. It "absolutely" had an impact and also primed her to find inspiration in what she described as the steadfastness of oppressed peoples. "The people I work with are the most courageous people on this earth," she said. "They have faced the most horrifying regimes, they've faced torture, they've seen their families killed in front oftheir eyes for basic rights and they still go on." In particular, she cited inspiration from EI Salvador's Mothers of the Disappeared and from Gibson Kamau Kuria, a lawyer foi , political prisoners in Kenya who was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy human rights'award in 1988., She told how Kuria once went to visit a client in jail and found he'd been tortured by the government. Despite danger to himself, 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Meanwhile, though, he was happy to be returning to his adopted country to sharpen his Spanish and social work skills and to do some traveling. "Every chance I get, I go sightseeing," he said. Of course, "life in the Peace Corps has its ups and downs, just like life in the U.S.," he mused. But "I can't wait to go back, because I'm very happy with what I'm doing."

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the lawyer pressed his client's case against the government's use of torture, Ms. Cuomo said. ~ 1991 00 G-aplics , "Within 24 hours security forces came and raided his office without a warrant, took all his papers, went to his house, raided his house for seven and a half hours," she Recent top rentals , said. "They took it apart in front 1. Sleeping With the Enemy, of his wife and two small children , A-III (A) ·andthen they hauled Gibson away 2. Misery, A-III (R) ... refused to tell his wife where 3. lIonheart, 0 (R) he was for 10 days or whether he 4. L.A. Story, A·III (PG-13) was alive or dead." 5. Teenage Mutant NinJa Turtles II They tortured him and kept him - The Secret of the Ooze, in jail for nine months "just for A-II (PG) taking this guy's case," she said. 6. Flight of the Intruder, A-III (PG-13) Kuria was released after protests 7. Edward Sclssorhands, from human rights groups. A-II (PG-13) His client's release came even 6. The Russia House, A-III (R) later, again after protests. 9. GoodFellas. A·IV (R) "This guy had been in jail for 10. Kindergarten Cop, A·III (PG-13) two and a half years, had been severely tortured, had never been allowed to see his doctor," she, said. Nevertheless, she said, shortly after his being released, ','he and Gibson announced they 'were re- ' opening the case against the government for torture. Symbols following reviews "That's the kind of person who indicate both general and is an inspiration," she said. "That Catholic Films Office ratings, makes me believe in God." which d6 not always coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing;,PG-13parental guidance sJrongly Dis'turbed by the decline in sex- suggested for children under ual mores among American adolescents, as evidenced by the grow- 13; PG-parental guidance ing incidence among them of preg- suggested; R-restricted, unnancy and abortion, as well as suitable for children or young AIDS and o.ther sexually trans- teens. mitted diseases, the New Jersey Catholic ratings: AI-apState Council Knights of Columproved for children and adults; bus have produced videos on teen chastity featuring Molly Kelly, a A2-approved for adults and well-known national lecturer on adolescents; A3-approved the subject. . for adults only; 4-separate The Knights taped two sessions classification (given films not before live teen audiences, one geared toward public school stU" mo.rally offensive which, howdents and the other toward those ever, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally in parochial schools. The videos, each consisting of offensive., two 30-minute segments, are available, nationwide for health Arson hits churches education programs, CCD classes, school libraries, etc. SAN ANTONIO' (CNS) , Charles and Johanna Schino, Archbishop Patrick F. Flores of directors of the Knights' project, San Antonio has deplored a recent said that Ms. Kelly, a mother of w'ave of arson that has swept teenagers, "speaks their language through eight Catholic churches in and lets teens make up their own the city and left more than $1 milminds.': lion in structural damage. As of Information on obtaining the Aug. 5, fires had ravaged 13 VHS videocassettes is available churches in all in the past 19 from the New Jersey State Council months and investigators blame Knights of Columbus, P.O. Box arsonists. One Protestant churCh 3222, Trenton, NJ08619-G222. In- was hit twice in one week in midquiries should specify if they want July. "It has been so painful to see the public or religious school video. our beautiful churches destroyed by arsonists and to the benefit of Sacrifice no one," Archbishop Flores said "They who give have all things; in a statement published in Today's they who withhold have noth- Catholic, the archdiocesan newspaper. ing."-Hindu proverb

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 23,1991

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LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO 19th annual Family Festival 7 to 10 p.m. Aug. 29, 30; I to 10 p.m. Aug. 31, Sept. I; I to 9 p.m. Sept. 2, featuring games, rides, and entertainment including magicians, dancing, bands, Gospel singing. Fireworks 10 p.m. Thursday. II th annual Polish Pilgrimage Day 1:30 p.m. Sunday; includes rosary led by youth of New England Polish parishes, procession to Holy Stairs of Calvary, opportunity for reconciliation, 3 p.m. outdoor Mass with Msgr. Stanley E. Milewski of Orchard Lake, Mich. All services and music in Polish.

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HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Pro-life committee organizational meeting 7 p.m. Aug. 26, rectory. Anointing of the sick 3 p.m. Sunday. ST. PATRICK, FR Grades I through 8 CCD teachers meet 7 p.m. Aug. 27, school hall. CATHEDRAL, FR A parish council is being organized; those who wish to nominate fellow parishioners for election should submit names to Father Horace Travassos as soon as possible. CCD teachers and office staff , meet 7 p.m. Aug. 26. ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON A priest of the Mill Hill Fathers will speak on mission work at Masses this weekend. Greater Taunton Hospice Care holds meetings 6 to 7:30 p.m. each Monday in church hall, REV. ANDRE Patealternating between sessions for naude, M.S., will be feafamilies and caregivers for any illness and sessions for cancer patients. tured in the closing segment Patients meet this Monday, Aug. 26. , ofthe LaSalette Shrine outCATHEDRAL CAMP, door summer concert serE. FREETOWN ies 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Hobie Cat Regatta tomorrow and Spectators may bring lawn Sunday; Stonehill College tomorrow through Monday. chairs. In case of rain, the MASS IN PORTUGUESE program will be held inFather Jose Sousa of St. Anthony's doors. Church, Taunton, will celebrate Mass in Portuguese for Brazilian community of Cape Cod 6:30 p.m. Sun- SACRED HEART, day, St. Francis Xavier Church, N.ATTLEBORO Parish council Mass and meeting Hyannis. Confessions in Portuguese 6 p.m. 7 p.m. Aug. 26.

ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO Choir rehearsals 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, choir loft. CCD teachers needed; contact Sister Theresa Croteau. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings 7 p.m. Sundays, church hall. SACRED HEART, NB CCD registration 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow, parish hall. ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Youth group will collect baby clothes for Birthright in boxes at back of church this weekend. ST. JAMES, NB CCD teachers and aides needed; contact CCD coordinator Mary Worden, 992-7122 (CCD office) or 758-6414. HOLY NAME, FR Bishop Joseph Regan will speak at weekend Masses on Maryknoll missions in the Philippines. Holy Name School advisory council meeting 7:15 p.m. Aug. 29, rectory. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Parish council meeting following 10 a.m. Mass Sunday, church hall. Nancy Savoie is new religious education director. Deadline for bulletin notices 'is 4 p.m. Wednesdays, rectory. ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA CCD registration for new students Aug. 27, 28, CCD office. New choir members sought; rehearsals Wednesdays 7 p.m. for folk group, 8 p.m. for classical.

Washington arc~diocese to assist women in prenatal, postpartum care WASHINGTON (CNS) - CardinalJames A. Hickey of Washington announced recently that the archdiocese, in cooperation with three Catholic hospitals, will launch a Birthing and Care Program to assist women facing ~risis pregnancies with choosing alternatives to abortion. "Every woman is precious, every mother, every unborn child, every born child is precious. I want to protect them from the pain of abortion," the cardinal said at a press conference. The program, slated to begin July I, will pay for prenatal, delivery and postpartum care for women who do not have insurance or qualify for government assistance. A program fact sheet states that it will "help at least 150 women for this coming year who would otherwise have no place else to go." Cardinal Hickey said he grieves at the fact that there are nearly as many abortions as live births each year in Washington, which also has one of the nation's highest infant mortality rates. "The main reason cited by pregnant women for their failure to seek early prenatal care is their inability to pay the costs," Cardinal Hickey said. "They feel that there is no help available ... [and] they often feel nobody cares. "Well, I do care, and the Catholic Church of Washington does care," he added. "Together we want to reach out to mothers and families in crisis pregnancies so that no one turns to abortion because of the high cost of delivering a baby." Cardinal Hickey said the program has been a goal of his for more than seven years. He said the church must teach the sanctity of life "by speaking and by doing." He praised the outreach now being done by the three Catholic hospitals and almost 20 pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in the archdiocese. "This [program] is an effort to bring it all together," the cardinal said, adding that he hopes the outreach effort can be expanded in future years to serve more needy

women. Local crisis pregnancy centers and church groups will be able to refer women to the program, which will coordinate its efforts with Providence, Holy Cross and Georgetown hospitals. Rich Fowler, archdiocesan secretary for social concerns, said the program's budget for its first year will be about $175,000 with an equal amount of financial support coming from the three hospitals where the babies will be delivered. He said donations for the program have come from a number of sources, including the Christ Child Society. "We believe we have the money now to provide resources for the program for the next 10 years," he said. Fowler said similar diocesan programs exist in New York City, Boston, Houston and St. Louis but that the cooperative effort among Washington's privately-run

Catholic hospitals makes the program unique. At the press conference, Cardinal Hickey also announced that the archdiocese will launch a Project Rachel program to minister to women who have had abortions. Similar programs operate in a number of U.S. dioceses. Cardinal Hickey said mothers are the second victims of abortion. "The denial of a past abortion experience can show up in drug rehabilitation counseling, counseling for alcoholism, sexual abuse, eating disorders, sexual dysfunction and even attempted suicide," he said. Program coordinator Ellen Curro said that in Project Rachel "the church is saying it's safe to come home." She said the message for women and their families grieving over abortion is "God forgives and God heals."

Family, priest, veteran arrested at Pax Christi protest BELLEVUE, Neb. (CNS) - A Vietnam veteran, the pastor of a rural Nebraska parish and a family of five from Iowa were among 52 people arrested recently for trespassing at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue. The 52 peace demonstrators were part of a crowd of more than 100 who marched to Offutt, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, to protest military spending and the destructive force of modern weapons. Most of the protesters participated in Pax Christi USA's recent national assembly in Omaha. At Offutt's entrance, a phalanx of military personnel met the protesters, who came from 21 states as well as Ireland, Belgium, Haiti and the Philippines. The arrested demonstrators, who were detained by Air Force security for a couple hours, received letters banning them from illegally entering the air base in the future. Among the repeat offenders was

Father Jack McCaslin, pastor of St. Patrick's Parish in Tekamah, Neb. Last year, Father McCaslin spent 30 days in jail for illegally trespassing at the air base. He could be sentenced to six months for his latest act of civil disobe'dience. William Shain, who was stationed at Offutt in the early 1960s, told the air base's military security that he was "crossing the line" because military force is not the answer to the world's problems. A resident of Georgia, Shain spent 20 years in the Air Force, serving in Vietnam'in 1966-1967. Since 1984, he has been a member of Pax Christi. Jason Brack, ,9, was one of five members in his family who were detained by military security for crossing the line at Offutt. Accompanying Jason were his mother, Janie Brack; 13-year-old sister, Ananda; 7-year-old brother, David; and grandmother, Jan.ie Stein.