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Pope, looking well, attends lectures on Slavic cultures CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - Some 60 years after they were high school classmates, Pope John Paul II and Teresa DabekWirgowa were together listening to lectures again.

The retired professor of Slavic literature at the University of Warsaw and the 76-year-old pope were with a small group of scholars meeting at Castel Gandolfo to discuss "Contemporary Slavs in the Context of their Myths and Cultural Traditions."

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who had trained as a medical doctor, said the pope looked well during the Aug. 20 symposium.

"The fe.ver is gone and he may even have finished taking the antibiotics which were prescribed," Navarro-Valls told reporters at the Vatican.

"He seemed well to me," the spokesman said.

The 17 scholars from all over Central Europe - including the pope's secondary school classmate - were presenting formal papers looking at the social, economic and political situations of their countries through the lens oftraditional Slavic culture and myths.

"The pope let them talk and talk and talk; he listens," NavarroValls said. "At the end of each session, he made a few comments and asked for some clarifications."

Navarro-Valls had just returned from his summer vacation and went to the symposium to see the pope for himself.

After complaining of abdominal pain, the pope underwent an abdominal CAT scan Aug. 14 which the Vatican said showed "nothing worthy of note."

However, Pope John Paul did miss the Mass he was scheduled to celebrate for the public Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption. He kept his midday appointment with pilgrims gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence, leading the Angelus prayer and talking for about 20 minutes.

The pope did not stay on the balcony overlooking the courtyard quite as long Aug. 18 and seemed a bit weary.

While Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state, said the pope was not feeling well and Vatican Radio reported he was "slightly unwell," the Vatican newspaper blasted the media for exaggerating the pope's health problems.

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A SUMMER luncheon for religious women on Cape Cod was held recently at the Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth. The event was sponsored by S1. Elizabeth Seton parish, N. Falmouth. Master of ceremonies for the event was Father Mark R. Hession (top photo). 54 religious and friends attended the event.

Describing how Pope John Paul spent more than a half-hour in the courtyard the evening of Aug. 18 listening to a concert of Spanish folk music, the Vatican newspaper said it was a "sharp contrast to the hoarse voices of the past few day~" which tried to alarm the public about the pope's health.

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OBITUARIES Msgr. Maurice Souza Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., was principal celebrant and many priests of the diocese were concelebrants at the Aug. 20 funeral Mass of Msgr. Maurice Souza, 83. who died Aug. 17.

Born in New Bedford Sept. 24, 1912, Msgr. Souza was the son of the late Manuel R. and Leopoldina (Silvia) Souza. After graduating from New Bedford High School in 1930, he prepared for the priesthood at St. Charles College, Catonsville, M D, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and the major seminary in Montreal, Que., Canada.

He was ordained June 3, 1939, by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy and thereafter was parochial vicar at St. John the Baptist parish, New Bedford; St. Anthony's, East Falmouth, St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River; and St. Anthony, Taunton. He was named administrator of Our Lady of Health parish, Fall River, in 1956, serving there until 1962. . In that year Msgr. Souza returned to St. Anthony, Taunton, as pastor, serving there until 1977 when he returned to St. Anthony, East Falmouth, again as pastor, Saint Annes Hospital gratefully acknowledges contributions to the Remembrance F.und recei~ed during July 1996*.

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Over the years Msgr. Souza, in addition to his pastoral duties, served as a judge on the Diocesan Marriage Tribunal, was a member of the Diocesan Music Commission, was Taunton area dean from 1968 to 1977 and was moderator for the Cape and Islands District of the' Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

Sr. Jessie Sousa The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Aug. 20 at St: Elizabeth's Church, Bristol, RI, for Sister Jessie Sousa, 86, who died Aug. 17. A Sister of St. Dorothy ;," for over 70 years, she taught at ;: schools in Detroit, MI, Staten " Island, NY, as well as at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, New Bedford.

Sister Dorothy was also principal of schools on Staten Island and Warren, RI, and was superior at Mt. St. Joseph Provincialate, Bristol, RI, from 1978 until her retirement in 1984.

The daughter of the late Manuel and Mary (Cabral) Sousa, she was a native of Bristol. She is survived by three sisters, Mary Pacheco and Alice Sousa, both of Delray Beach, FL, and Gloria Carvalho of New Haven, CT, as well as by nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grand nephews.

Retired Brazilian bishop dies at 78 WASHINGTON (CNS) - Retired Bishop Adriano Mandarino Hypolito of Nova Iguacu, Brazil, died Aug. 12 of a heart attack in a hospital near Rio de Janeiro.

Bishop Hypolito, a Franciscan, was 78. He was bishop of Nova' Iguacu a slum outside Rio, for 28 years, and was persecuted by Brazil's military dictatorship for criticizing the oppression of the poor.

In 1976, he was kidnapped by members of the Brazilian AntiCommunist Alliance. His captors beat him, forced him to undress • and abandoned him on a lonely road in a Rio suburb. Two. hours later, his car, parked near the headquarters of the Brazilian bishops' conference was blown up by a bomb.

Bishop Hypolito was a firm supporter of liberation theology and blamed the right-wing military that rulec,l Brazil from 1964 to ' 1985 for worsening the country's social inj~stic~s.

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PUEBLO, Colo. - More than 4,000 people crowded into the Colorado state fairgrounds in Pueblo for a colorful funeral liturgy Aug. 12 to say goodbye to two priests who were stabbed to death in their rectory.

Father Thomas Scheets, 65, pastor of St. Leander's Church for six years, and Father Louis Stovik, 77, a retired priest who lived at the rectory, were found dead of multiple puncture wounds Aug. 7. A third priest discovered their bodies when he went to cheek on the two after one of them missed an appointment.

Thousands of people filled, then overflowed a section of the fairgrounds' Events Center designed to hold 3,500 people.

About 60 Knights of Columbus in colorful uniforms flanked more than 100 white-robed priests and . six bishops from three states.

Bishop Arthur N. Tafoya of Pueblo, the principal celebrant of the Mass, lifted the spirits of mourners with humorous stories about the two slain priests.

"Father Louis and Father Tom were two very different people," he noted, "and living together, they complemented each other."

"Father Tom was a very casual person," the bishop continued. "He didn't like all the frills, but yet there was a depth to this man, a profound wisdom that he had.

Father Tom had a deep love in his heart and reached out to people.

He hugged everybody and loved everybody, especially the poor and those in trouble. He would give me a hug and keep on going. He was

afraid I would give him another job."

Bishop Tafoya said the elder priest often came to give him advice.

"Father Louis had been around for a long time," he said. "He would look at me, and size me up, and see what was my mood today, then he would give me the advice."

Bishop Tafoya said the two were "wonderful, dedicated men," adding "sometimes we live among saints, and we don't even know it, but now it's coming out - all the good things they did."

An autopsy showed that both priests bled to death from their wounds. Barely more than 24 hours after their bodies were discovered, police arrested Douglas James Comiskey, 20, who lives across the street from the rectory, on two counts of first degree murder.

No motive has been given for the murders. Comiskey lives with' his mother and grandmother, who cooked and cleaned at St. Leander's rectory for more than 20 years. Neigh1?ors said Comiskey had a key to the rectory.

Tile suspect was a patient in the psychiatric unit of Denver General Hospital in 1995. Last year he was charged with theft and according to court records was found guilty of providing false information to a pawn broker.

During the liturgy, Bishop Tafoya asked for prayers for the two women, who attended the funeral, and for Comiskey.

"I know how some of you feel about this person who is accused," he said. "We must turn to prayer

Catholic leaders praise Rhode Island assisted suicide ban PROVIDENCE, RI (CNS) Providence diocesan officials praised Rhode Island's Legislature and governor for enacting a law explicitly banning assisted suicide.

The law, signed Aug. 5 by Gov. Lincoln Almond makes it a felony for a physician or anyone else to provide the "physical means by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide."

Someone convicted of assisting in another's suicide faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.

Before the new law was passed, the only legal barrier to assisted suicide in Rhode Island was its common-law tradition.

Father Robert C. NeWbold, Providence diocesan lobbyist.

praised Almond for publicly backing the bill in July, when it was stalled in legislative wrangling.

"He took a strong stand and stuck to his guns" despite strong pressure from some groups, Father Newbold said.

He also praised House and Senate leaders for breaking an internal deadlock over which bill - House-initiated or Senateinitiated - would be the one to become law.

"This was one of those occasions when there was a combination of credit," the priest said.

Maria Parker, diocesan Respect Life coordinator, praised the governor and legislators for "a courageous choice in the face of considerable special-interest and smallgroup pressure."

Catholic Action League criticizes Weld signing of abortion bill The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts recently denounced Governor William Weld's signing of a bill to repeal the 1978 DoyleFlynn Amendment, which had restricted the public funding of abortion in Massachusetts. Governor Weld signed into law the legislation, passed by the House and Senate on July 31, which will allow tax-funded abortions for state, county, and municipal employees in the commonwealth.

The Catholic Action League called the law "a deplorable measure, which violates the conscience

of every pro-life citizen in the state."

Catholic Action League Executive Director c.J. Doyle stated "It requires audacious hypocrisy for Governor Weld to demand that the Republican Party respect diverse opinions on abortion, and then sign a bill coercing pro-life taxpayers into subsidizing other people's abortions. Evidently, there will be no right to choose for the taxpayers. Governor Weld has displayed a chilling intolerance towards the moral sensibilities and religious beliefs of hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts voters.""

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"When I find it hard to forgive, I look to the crucifix.... I look at Jesus' response to those who persecuted him. He said 'forgive them, Father.' I have forgiven him (Comiskey) from the bottom of my heart."

Among the concelebrants were Archbishop J. Francis Stafford of Denver, retired Bishop Charles A. Buswell of Pueblo, and Bishops Richard C. Hanifen of Colorado Springs, Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., and Joseph H. Hart of Cheyenne, Wyo. Following the funeral, Father Scheets was buried in Pueblo's Roselawn cemetery. A former seminary professor and member of the Crosier order, he mov€:d to ,Pueblo in the 1970s and in 1978 became a priest of the Pueblo Diocese.

Sitting with the bishops at the Mass was his brother, Fal:her Francis Kelley Scheets, a member of the Crosier community at All Saints Parish in New York and a church planning expert.

Father Stovik, a native of Fa:rgo, N.D., and former director of the Pueblo Diocesan Development Fund, was buried at St. John's Cemetery in Wahpeton, N.D., Aug. 16. He was one of II children, four of whom became priests.

Speech questiontld NEW YORK (CNS) - Cardinal, John J. O'Connor of New York has raised questions abollt a speech by Archbishop John R. Quinn in which the retired San Francisco prelate said that for ·the sake of Christian unity the Roman Curia should be reformed and changes made in the way papal primacy is exercised. "I respectfully question how many ... issues (raised in the speech) are the impediments to unity that the ar<:hbishop perceives them to be," Cardinal O'Connor said in his July 25 column in Catholic Nt:w York, his archdiocesan newspaper.

The cardinal, whose weekly column usually runs around half a tabloid page and occasionally a full page, devoted an unprecedented three pages to his column on the speech, which Archbishop Quinn delivered June 29 at Oxford University in England.

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AND THEY'RE STILL CRAZY ABOUT EACH OTHER! Albert and Rosanna Chabot, residents at Madonna Manor in North Attleboro, are still in love after 76 years of marriage.

Madonna Manor couple celebrates 76th wedding anniversary When Albert and Rosanna Chabot look at each other today, their eyes still glisten with the love they were certainly feeling on their wedding day - August 1, 1920.

After 76 years of marriage, Mr. Chabot, now 95, and his bride, 94, continue to call each other "honey" in the spacious room they share at Madonna Manor in North Attleboro. The couple moved into the nursing home in November, 1995.

An anniversary party at the Manor, complete with wedding cake, corsages and entertainment

by their niece Meryl Chabot, was a festive tribute to a lifetime of working together through life's ups and downs.

Just what is the Chabot's secret for a long, happy marriage? "The secret is cooperation. There's no boss in our family," said Mr. Chabot.

As North Attleboro natives and young adults in the Sacred Heart Parish community, the two were involved in church youth group activities and events and gather-

ings were held several times each week.

"Coming home she would follow me, needless to say I followed her," said Mr. Chabot. After their courtship, the couple married in the Sacred Heart church basement, as construction on the church had yet to be completed.

Before retiring, Mr. Chabot owned Chabot Brothers, a local engraving, engine turning and brocading business. Mrs. Chabot was a homemaker. The couple have one son, Norman, also of North Attleboro.

Catholic Memorial Home resident celebrates lOOth birthday in style A serenade by Fall River Mayor Edward M. Lambert Jr. helped

Catholic Memorial Home resident Rose Chabot celebrate her 100th

birthday in style at a festive party hosted by her family.

Mrs. Chabot was born on August 14, 1896 in Fall River and lived in the Flint section of the city most of her life. She was employed at the former Kerr Mill of Fall River, and is the widow of Roland v Chabot.

All of Mrs. Chabot's five children, Roland Chabot of Rutland, VT; J. Bella Boudria of Swansea; Doris Synder of Taunton; Jeannette McGrath of Westport and Donald R. Chabot of Fall River attended h,er birthday party. Mrs. Chabot also has 21 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and II great-great.-grandchiJdren.

State Rep. Michael Rodrigues and Congressman Peter Blute attended the festivities and presented Mrs. Chabot with citations in honor of her birthday. Blute also brought citations from President William J. Clinton and Lt. Governor A. Paul Cellucci. Mayor Lambert presented Mrs. Chabot with a congratulatory citation from the city.

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Supporting the Process From the very beginning the Church has been in conflict with the civic sphere which dictates secular morals and mores contrary to the Gospel. It was because of this refusal that so many of the early Roman Christians were slaughtered. The Church, the community of God's people, would not ~llow the likes of Nero and his successors to become dictators of religious doctrine. The attempt to eradicate Christians was a state action intended to eliminate all opposition.

Over the passing centuries the same dynamic has continuously emerged in the life of the Church. The Church cannot become a passive reality in the face of government legislation intended to rule and regulate the religious and social values of its citizens. This is true of a dictatorial regime or one that clothes itself in the trapping of democracy.

As we reel from Republican convention rhetoric and await the same from the Democratic convention, the Church must again realize its role as a moral and ethical teacher. The teachings proposed as the cornerstone for the common good are not partisan, reaching beyond political loyalties.

The lessons of history clearly show us that when there is a departure from teaching to muckraking, the Church suffers more than the political entity. It's very difficult to promote respect for principles when reputations are attacked. Yet avowed partisanship does not mean that we water down or compromise our moral and ethical teachings. All Catholics must realize that they should be willing to be living examples of Church teachings by what they say and do. In a democracy this includes how one casts one's vote. It's difficult to vote for principles when the attention seems to be focused on party and personalities. There is little doubt that our social order is in great need of moral values and truths. Sad to say, many Catholics avoid the challenge this brings to our life. They prefer political allegiance over moral integrity. Such is the present mode of democracy.

Anchor/Jolivel photo In his reflection at Camden Yards in Baltimore last October, WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN HER FACE BECAUS,E OF OUR SINS, OUR Pope John Paul invoked the name of Abraham Lincoln in LADY OF La SALETTE APPEARED TO TWO CHILDREN 150 YEARS seeking the answer to the question, "Can society be excluded AGO THIS SEPTEMBER. MARY'S CALL TO REPENTANCE from moral truth and values?" To do this, he suggested, would IS AS STRONG TODAY AS IT WAS THEN. empty our founding documents of their content and mean that "I said, 'I confess my faults to the Lord,' and you took "tens of millions of Americans could no longer offer the contribution of their deepest convictions to the formation of pubaway the guilt of my sin." Ps 32:5 lic policy." Our own American bishops replied to this statement by declaring that "democracy must safeguard the dignity of every person, respect inalienable human rights and make the common good the end and criterion regulating public and

By Father Eugene Hemrick sible that increased pluralism could example - what moral principles social life." heighten divisions in ways the guide our Catholic leaders in pubThe excitement and atmosphere of an election year provides Many more Catholics than we nation doesn't need. True, we do life? a distinct opportunity for the Church to share its message of realize are in positions of power in live in an age of great ecumenical lic Have they studied the moral responsibility and accountability. The Catholic community society. They're in a position to accomplishments.· insights handed down by people has much to offer in the process of political debate. Public ·.improve the world.

Still, prejudice exists. The new like St. Thomas Aquinas, St. I hope the Catholic tradition situation in the Supreme Court or Augustine and by church teachpolicy needs to be examined in the light of truth not in the glare aids them.

I hope they know the in Congress will raise concerns How much do our Catholic ings? of political bias.

Catholic tradition well enough to among some people about Catholeaders know about the virtues The laity should see their role in this election year. It is allow it to aid them. lies gaining power at the expense prudence, for example, which ur.ges important, as the bishops acknowledge, that they must be in A recent Washington Post arti- of Protestants. us to avoid the trap of looking As interesting as these concerns the world not of it, and be alert that they do not impart the c1e, "Changing Faith: Protestants good while failing to pursue the attitude of the world into the Church rather than the mind of No Longer Rule High Court," are, the question that should most good? Then ·there is fortitude Christ into the world. Never before has there been more ofa brought my questions to a head. concern us is how much these the virtue needed after a tough The article began with a comment Catholic leaders on the court, or in is made, when leaders need to revitalize the moral values ofthis nation. This election regarding Supreme Court Justice Congress, or in other political con- decision need encouragement to stand strong year offers the Catholics of America a chance to support the Clarence Thomas. texts will put their faith tradition for the truth. principles of natural law as reflected in our Constitution and When Thomas disclosed recently into practice when it comes to apI'd like Catholic leaders to be guided by asceticism, which teaches Bill of Rights which giv~ wisdom and virtue to our democracy. "that he had joined the Catholic plying the powers of their office.

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Church," the article asserted, "he ' The Protestant ethic helped build was profoundly affecting Ameri- a strong America. Will Catholic can history: For the first time in leaders be able to articulate the the Supreme Court's 207-year sort of ethic needed to guide the existence, it would no longer be nation through a new era? dominated by a Protestant majorAre our Catholic leaders suffiity." ciently well educated in Catholic And did you know, by the way, tradition - enough to be able to that there now are 21 Catholics in promote a worldview that is conthe U.S. Senate and 128 in the sistent with the Gospel? For inHouse? Catholics represent the stance, do they see themselves as largest single denomination in stewards of this world who have a Congress.

God-given responsibility to take We are witnessing a change in care of it? Do they know how to American culture. This change connect faith with current quessignals a more pluralistic society. tions related to the environment?

It is a sign that there no longer is Or, when making earth-shaking one dominant religious denomina- decisions about matters that inflution - dominant religious influ- ence the world's balance of power - whether we should supply weaence - in society.

And, you kn!?w it is always pos- pons to foreign countries, for

all of us that silence and meditationare needed if we are to hear the truth. The discipline asceticism requires also is basic when it comes to serving people authentically.

A sense of prophetic justice wiII aid Catholic leaders in addressing poverty and equality.

And most important of all, there is the Eucharist. What role does it play in the politicil1 life of our Catholic leaders?

I don't want these questions and observations to be misunderstood.

What I'm concerned about here i.s Catholic education. I'm asking whether Catholic politicians know their faith tradition well enough t,J be able to apply it effectively in the political arena.

And if not, why not?

Canon lawyers discuss East-West issues in Church INDEPENDENCE,Ohio(CNS) - Pastors of U.S. Latin-rite parishes should take explicit measures to determine if any of their parishioners are Eastern-rite Catholics, 80 canon lawyers at a three-day Midwest regional meeting were told.

The pastor should report to his bishop about such parishioners and their pastoral care, because the bishop is supposed to include that information in his five-year report to the Vatican, said Father Nicholas R.A. Rachford, a canon lawyer of the Eparchy of Parma.

The Parma Eparchy, a diocese serving Ruthenian-rite Catholics in most of Ohio and all of II other Midwestern states, was host of the meeting of the Midwest region of the Canon Law Society of America.

The meeting focused on EastWest church relations, especially the ecumenical role of Eastern Catholic churches in CatholicOrthodox relations and various issues of church law in the Latin and Eastern Catholic rites.

In a keynote speech, Father David M. Petras, a theologian and ecumenist from the Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, reviewed the history of the great East- West schism and efforts over the years to restore CatholicOrthodox unity.

He warned that major obstacles to East-West church unity remain, including a view among Orthodox authorities that the Eastern Catholic churches at some point must "return to the Mother Church" to recover their authentic tradition.

"The dreams (of unity) continue, but the reality of disunion continues also," he said. "Centuries of distrust, of prejudice and mutual recrimination cannot be dispelled, and there are many on both sides that see any union as a compromise of pure faith."

"As Christians, however, we must continue to work in hope," he added.

Father Rachford gave a talk on key issues where the new Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, issued by Pope John Paul 11 in 1990, applies also to the Latin Church.

Latin-rite Catholics are governed by the Code of Canon Law, but there are a number of areas in church life where that code and the .Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches interesect and both must be taken into account.

Father Rachford noted, for example, that in the past a child whose parents belonged to different Catholic rites automatically became a member of the father's rite at baptism.

"Now the canons of both codes allow for ascription to the church of the mother, if both parents agree," he said. "Therefore enrollment (in a particular rite) can no longer be presumed; it must be noted in the baptismal registry in order that jurisdiction can be established, especially when it affects validity, such as in marriages."

He said Latin clergy should be reminded of the need to note the proper rite of the child in the baptismal record when the child belongs to an Eastern rite, "since it is probably not being done at the present time."

He said lay Catholics of Eastern rites who belong to a Latin-rite parish should not be excluded from lay liturgical ministries in that parish by reason of their rite. That is not clear from the Latin Church's code, he said, but Canon 403 of the Eastern code says lay persons "have the right to participate actively in the liturgical celebrations of any church" of any Catholic rite, so long as they follow the liturgical books of that church.

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In larger U.S. cities or in states that had heavy concentrations of immigrants from Eastern Europe, Catholics of Eastern rites often have access to a local parish of their own rite. Those who do not have access to a parish of their own rite may join a parish of another rite - often a Latin-rite parish in the United States - but they and their children retain their own ritual identity and are governed by the laws of their rite.

Father Rachford said Latin-rite pastors can take several approaches to identifying parishioners who belong to an Eastern rite.

"Sometimes the surname will be an indication that a person comes from ancestry that is traditionally Eastern Catholic; sometimes a baptismal certificate at confirmation time or in the prenuptial investigation will be the signal," he said. "A periodic request through the parish bulletin that Eastern Catholics attending the parish make themselves known to the parish priest will also have good results."

He cited confirmation and interritual marriages among other points at which the local pastor ought to be. sensitive to the different legislation of other rites and the special provisions for pastoral care of those from a different rite.

Other topics addressed at the meeting included the theology of the sacraments of initiation in the Eastern churches and interritual questions concerning sacramental law.

Orthodox Church in America Archbishop Peter L'Huillier of New York gave a presentation on how the Orthodox' tradition uses the doctrine of"oikonomia," leaving certain matters to God's mysterious providence, as a method of interpreting and applying church laws with a degree of pastoral flexibility adapted to the circumstances.

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Cardinal Maida to represent pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has named Cardinal Adam J. Maida of Detroit as his pontifical legate to the 19th International Marian Congress, to be held Aug. 24-26 in Poland at the national shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

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The pope, who frequently visited the Czestochowa shrine as a priest and bishop in Poland, made the appointment in a letter dated July 7 and released by the Vatican Aug. 14.

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Reuniting with classmates can be tricky ordained 'though not all at the B y F a th er P et er D a Iy . . same time. Two dropped out for a I .have been trymg to get my while and then continued elsewhere. semmary class to~ether to cele- Two others were ordained earlier bra~e t~e 10th anmver~ary of our than the rest Qf us because they ?rdmat~on. I thought It would be had previously been ordained Promterestmg to see what has hap- testant clergymen.

Of the remaining 26 who were pened to us: My semmary was the North ., .

A er'can Colle ge in Rome an ordamed, mne have left the pnestm I b 'Id' . ' t hood in the 10 years since ordinaenormous boxy UI 109 Just ou . . .'

11 B e tion. There wasa tIme when Cathoside the VatIcan wa s. ecause w r .h h d d h' lived, studied, prayed, recreated fl~sl mIg t ave ~gar ~f / IS as a d and traveled together we formed al ure an cut t em 0 rom our d f f' 'd h' h friendship While we still see it as a deeper bon s 0 nen s Ip t an sadness a~d a loss to the church, ordmary college classmates usuh ' . f' d W d _ lly do We knew or at least t ey remam our nen s. e un er a. , stand their discouragement. It thought we knew, each other very could happen to anyone of us. well after four years of nearly con- M f h f d J'f t tant com anionship ost 0 t em oun rectory leo s p. be lonely and institutional politics But trymg t o -. , to get everyone Th I' debilitatmg.

Several are now margether hasn t been easy. e sto .y ne . d aneI h ave. c h'ld I reno of what has. h al.'pen~d to my seml. . nary class IS,. 10 mlcr~cosm, ~he Seventeen of. m~ ongmal. 42 story ofthe pnesthood 10 Amenca classmates remam. m the pnesttoday. The numbers tell a tale. hood, at least .?ommall y . Two ar~ There were 42 of us when we currently on leave of absence, arrived in Rome in 1982, a large often a prelude to permanentdeparclass by today's standards, but a ture and an indication that the huge decline from the jumbo classes stress of parish life has become 80 or 90 in the early 1960s. overwhelming. As the number of my original classmates priests decline and the number of f T weveo.

I f' fl .. 'h left the seminary prior to ordinaal.th u per pnest ~ncr.eases, pans uch tion and did not return. These "12 pnests are dr.oppmg out as !l1. are today generally active, edu- fr?m exhaustIOn as from a cnsls of cated Catholic laymen. Most are faIth. married and are model husbands Only 15 of my classmates are and fathers. Several work for the still active in the priestly ministry. church in other ministries.

One is on study assignment, one is Thirty of us eventually were an official in his diocesan tribunal

and one is director of vocations for . . hIs dIOcese.

This leaves only 12 of us in parish work. Most of us work alone in our parishes today. Several of my classmates are pastor of more than one parish. (One guy in Washington state is pastor of four small parishes.) ..

We remammg 12 are happy . .f h B warnors or t e most part. ut we are tired We are also worried about th~ future. Are we endan. . gered specIes? Is there any commg after us? Are we becoming sacramental machines? (I routinely say . four or fIve Masses on a Sunday, something unthinkable for parish priests 30 years ago) . .

Strangely, I don't feel bad about f h' I h' . G 0 d' s any 0 t IS C ass Istory. I tIS will . All of these 42 guys were among the best people I've ever met. I count myself lucky to have known them. It will be nice to see them once again after 10 years in our various vineyards.

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Fri., Aug. 23, 1996

GLORIA STEINHOFF, 23, hugs her aunt Carmen Guardado after being reunited with family members Aug. 13 in San Jose Las Flores, EI Salvador. Gloria and her brother disappeared during the Salvadoran civil war and now live in Michigan with their adoptive mother. They hadn't seen members of their Salvadoran family for 13 years. -(CNS/ Reuters photo)

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Again we have a report on new research telling us maybe more than. we want to know about what makes us tick. This one has to do with happiness and was done by psychologists David Lykken and Auke Tellegen. The results of their study were published first in the May journal of Psychological Science, then widely reported.

Here is a study dealing with a subject everyone talks about: being happy. And what the researchers say is not comforting.

They have determined that being happy doesn't have much to do with how you live, or how much you try to infuse your life with good things and attitudes.

No. Their study asserts that the ability to be happy has more to do with genetics than with actions.

They say genes determine our happiness quotient.

A person either is born to be happy or destined to struggle long and hard to achieve that state.

They wrote, "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller, and therefore is counterproductive."

Wow! I guess bookstores will have to start cleaning out the volumes by other psychologists and counselors on all the things wl;'re supposed to be able to do to gct~p~. .

Buying a new car, getting a promotion or winning the lottery can have a positive effect on feeling happy, but it doesn't last, say the researchers. They reached their conclusions after studying 2,000 twins.

None of this surprised me. There isn't a person living who doesn't know that happiness is temporary.Happy feelings and fun are very much rooted in the body, in the physical, in the here and now, which passes. These feelings come and go, and we can be happy one day, miserable the next.

I'm not knocking being happy. I'm all for happiness. But I think we make a mistake if we settle for happiness, because we're supposed to aim for something much bigger and better. We were made to have joy.

Jesus made this so clear in the Gospels. 0[1 the eve of his crucifixion, he was still trying to get that message across to his apostles. Here he is, about to be arrested, beaten, spit upon and killed, and hl:'S talking about joy! Could there be anything more important? He said, "These things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you and that your joy :may be filled." .

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By Antoinette' Bosco The paradox is that one can be unhappy, suffering enormous losses and pain, but still be joyful, as Christ was. For joy is our connection to somt:thing bigger than ourselves, something magnificenit. Joy means we have touched God. In interviews I have asked people, "When were you happy?" And I've gotten answers like, "When I got a job." "When I bought a new house." "When I attended a great show." Earthy answers.

Then I ask, "But when were you joyful?" And they begin with "Oh, when I fell in love." "When I had a baby." "When I finished writing a song."

Clearly, joy has to do with being linked to the loving creativity of the Creator.

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "Joy is the serious busi.ness of heaven." Therefore joy has to do with love.

I smiled when I read about the happy genes that are randomly spread among us. I don't think they matter a whit, because if we settle for happy ins·tead of going for joy we've missed the whole point of life and what it is all about.

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SAN SALVADOR (CNS) "We were together (with my After a decade of searching, a sis- mother) for about five minutes ter and brother allegedly abducted and I looked back and she wasn't from EI Salvador during the coun- there any more. Then I heard three try's civil war were reunited with gunshots, and (it seemed) to me relatives in the Central American they had killed her right there," republic_ said Gloria.

They were allegedly kidnapped The children were adopted by by the Salvadoran army and wer'e the Steinhoff family from Michilater adopted in the United States. gan in 1983.

Jean Stei~hoff, who traveled to Gloria Steinhoff, 23, and her br~ther, !ose, now 15, last saw EI Salvador with her adopted their relatives shortly before troops children for the reunion, said she captured them along with their was told the children had been "abandoned by their families." mother, Maria Felix Rivera, in She also said that lawyers 'dealNovember 19~2, during a gove.rnment cou.nter-lOsurge?c.y operation ing with the case presented false birth certificates for both child at th~ height ?f the clVll war.

Alter meetmg her uncles, aunts _ ~en. and cousins in the poor rural "Acco~dmg to Fath~r ~ortma, community of San Jose Las Flores, t~e mal~ obstacle to flOdmg these EI Salvador, Steinhoff told repor·. c.hlldre.n IS the lack of documentaters Aug. 13, "I just kept wonder.. tlOn, smce. no ~roper effort was made .t? I~entlfy them by the ing if anybody was alive. I knew that I had some family down here authontles. but I didn't know if they were alive Four children have been found or not ... to find them now is in the United States, three in France wonderful." and two more in Italy. He said that Her aunt, Maria Elba Rivera many ofthe missing children could said, "I feel like God has come be with adoptive families in North. down from heaven to help us."

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Investigators: busy piecing toIn July a Salvadoran teenage geth.e~ th~ tragic tales of brok~n girl, who had been adopted in 1985 families slOce the end of the war 10 and was living in Ohio, was reuJanuary 1992, have so far located nited with her natural parents in over 30 children reported missing. eastern EI Salvador. She had been They believe there may be as many told they were long since dead.

Th '" as 500 others yet to be traced.

Human rights groups say that e a~thontles 10 EI S~lvador tens of thousands of civilians were ha,,:e demed ther~ was a d.e!lberate forced to flee their homes during policy of separatlOg families d~r­ the op.eration designed to flush out ~ng the I. 2-year wa~, or of passlOg peasant supporters ofthe left-wing I~fants. IOtO adoptIOn under durebels. Many of the inhabitants blOus Circumstances. were killed or forced into refugee Col: Rene Barraza, who heads camps in neighboring Honduras. an office set up by the army two According to Gloria, she, her years ago to trace the missing mother and her brother were dis- infants, said in a recent interview: ......covered by troops in a cave where "It is a lie that we took children -- they had been hiding for three away ... that would be inhuman. days. They were then immediately . What we did was tivacuate civil•.seDarated, she said. ians from areas of danger." ~:,:;,,":~:~··p1''p:·.t:-v:..:o:)J.-<.)._ ,••,..." ...:a_ _ .""-.........~'- ~ ••' _ .0..~ ~_.' ~ o.

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Dear Dr. Kenny: It's an angry, violent world out there. We live in New Orleans and hear about gangs and drive-by shootings every day. We listen to the radio and hear about terrorism and wars all over the world.

I want our children tobe gentle and to grow up to contribute to a peaceful world. What can we do?

(Louisiana) We need peacemakers. What a marvelous parenting goal, to raise children who know how to calm troubled waters, to put the needs of society ahead of their own. .

Making peace is an active and positive behavior., much more than Simply not being confrontive or violent. Peacemaking is not for wimps or sissies.

What are the qualities a peacemaker should have?

How can parents best inculcate these values and skills in their children?

I. Love your children unconditionally. There is plenty of conditional love in the world, positive regard for those who are obedient.

Only parents pro,vide love unconditionally, loving the child whether deserved or not. Only children who -have felt such love can love others.

2. Model·compassion. Care for plants and love animals. Show reverence for all life. Reflect constantly on how the other person must be feeling.

3. Model appropriate expressions of anger. Put angry feelings into words. Use "I" messages, and avoid blaming. Saying it in words is preferable to doing something violent.

4. Teach techniques of problem-solving. When new issues arise in the family, follow these steps: (I) Gather data. (2) Brainstorm all possible solutions.

(3) Try to achieve consensus. (4) Keep it short, and meet again.

5. Teach conflict resolution. Practice some formal resolution of disputes. (I) Meet for short times. (2) Start by giving one compliment to the "other side."

(3) Having each party state his or her position without interruption. (4) Settle the easy issues first. (5) Take a time-out when matters start to get heated.

6. No guns or weapons in the house. Guns model "quick and dirty" solutions to problems. Also try to _avoid angry putdowns of one another.

7. Teach that flight is not cowardice. In fact, it is often good sense. Time-outs can allow tempers to cool. "He who learns to fun away, lives to play another day."

8. -Turn anger into humor. Have a silly code word that precipitates a duel with water balloons. Or with big pillows. Anyone may say the silly word, and all parties agree in advance to "play the game."

Peacemaking is not a passive activity. It is bard and involves considerable skill. Good luck in setting a good example and teaching your children.

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When feast days are holy days Q. A rew years ago we were told that Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption, was not a holy day of obligation. This year our pastor told us it is again.

Why this change? Wouldn't it be possible to just make it one or the other? (Indiana) A. In November 1991, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a proposal that affects the observance of three holy days.

They decided that whenever Jan. I (the Solemnity of the Mother of God), Aug. 15 (the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin) or Nov. 1 (All Saints) falls on Saturday or Monday, the obligation to attend Mass is ca nceled.

That decision resulted from the confusion formerly experienced by numerous Catholics about when the two Mass obligations, Sunday and the holy day, could be fulfilled. Could it be with two Masses in one day? Could the holy day Mass obligation be fulfilled at an anticipated Sunday Mass on Saturday evening? And so on.

As a number of bishops have suggested, perhaps there is no less confusion with the new system than with the old. Nevertheless, that is the present legislation.

Accordingly, since Aug. 15 came on Thursday this year, the obligation to attend Mass remained.

In addition to Sundays, the three other holy days observed in the United States are the solemnities of the Ascension, the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, and the Nativity of Our Lord on Dec. 25.

These are always holy days of obligation. even when they fall on a Saturday or Monday.

Canon law lists several other holy days, but conferences of bishops may abolish certain of them or transfer them to a Sunday. In the United States, for example, the feasts of the Epiphany and of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) are transferred to the nearby Sunday.

By church law, the bishops could abolish Jan. I, Aug. 15 and Nov. I as holy days of obligation altogether. Several times they seriously considered that possibility, but at least until now have not thought it opportune to do so.

Q. My dad had a heart attack recently. In the emergency room they thought he had died, but were able to bring him back.

The outlook was dim, so they suggested we call a

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priest for the last rites. This we did, but my dad had no recollection of what happened.

Two days later a Eucharistic minister came to give him Communion. I told her my father was not a practicing Catholic and had not received Communion in years.

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By Father John J. Dietzen J'm thinking now I did him a terrible disservice.

Once a person has received the last rites, aren't their sins forgiven, and they can begin receiving Communion? (Illinois) A. The most appropriate course for you would have been to talk to your dad about it and ask him if he wished to receive Communion.

It is true that one need not be conscious to receive the sacrament of the anointing of the sick (not the "last rites"). Sins which may be repented for are forgiven, but should be confessed if the opportunity arises later.

From the information you give, it is hard to know what your dad's reaction and choice would have been, but he obviously was conscious enough to make the decision for himself.

The church's general policy, and the best avenue to follow, is that when death looks imminent, we always give every benefit ofthe doubt when it comes to assisting anyone on the final journey into eternity.

I hope you have talked with your dad by now and are helping him to take advantage of his opportunities to participate in the sacraments.

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My garage: everything in its place Every now and then I thumb through the hardware·store circulars and read suggestions on how to reorganize one's garage. It makes me shake my head.

These experts know all kinds of things about storing tools, shelving paint cans and wall mounting athletic equipment, but I strongly suspect they know nearly zip about whipping a garage into total chaos in the first place.

I am an expert. Na false modesty here. As a matter of fact, my wife claims my garage (and she does insist I call it mine) could one day be declared the world's largest junk drawer.

It's the little touches, I think, that set it apart. A good example is how I have isolated the horizontal freezer.

First, I shoved it under an overhead storage shelf so there's no way you can reaJly open the door all the way. You have to hold it open with one hand while using the other to toss around frozen turkey legs and crab bait to find the chicken you want.

This increases in difficulty by having to kneel in front of the freezer with one knee on a camping cooler and the other on an outboard motor.

I have learned to hold the door open with my head, which obviously frees both hands. This, however, is not recommended for garage game neophytes or for persons uncomfortable with having their face pushed into a frozen pizza.

For creative flare I allow one of my sons access to the garage on an occasional basis. Each of the three has his own gift for this kind of thing (probably genetic).

The oldest amazes us with his visionary weed eater storing techniques. Whether swinging by its whackerend from a ceiling joist or balanced like a limbo bar between the furnace handle and the car bumper, the Weed Eater leads a far more exciting life than if hogtied in a wall rack.

Likewise for my 90-pound storage container of National Geographies. Not only is this useful as a vaulting step to clear the car bumper in attempts to explore the far reaches of the garage, but the "box from Hades" is great for those times the power company needs a counter balance for its forklift.

This is not to say I do not work diligently at straightening out, tidying up and reorganizing my garage. I do this nearly weekly.

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For example, just last Saturday I was sorting through the nuts-and-bolts organizer looking for an eye-glasses screwdriver I think youngest son hid there. In the process I found an old screen door spring that I thought I could cut down to use for the lawnmower's throttle·tension.

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By Dan Morris Looking for the wire cutters to cut the spring, I found the gas cap for a camping generator we had been missing. Of course I had to fire off the little generator - which worked great - and before you knew it, I was loading the trunk with sleeping bags and fishing poles.

Of course, it did take me a couple hours to find them.

Daily Readings Aug. 26: 2 Thes 1:1-5,11-12: Ps 96:1-5; Mt 23: 13-22 Aug. 27: 2 Thes 2: 1-33,14-17; Ps 96: 10-13; Mt 23:23-26 Aug. 28: 2 Thes 3:6-10.16-18: Ps 128:12,4-5; Mt 23:27-32 Aug. 29: 1 Cor 1: 1-9; Ps 145:2-7; Mk 6:17-29 Aug. 30: 1 Cor 1:17-25; Ps 33:1-2.4-5,1011; Mt 25:1-13 Aug. 31: 1Cor 1:26-31. Ps 33:12-13.18-21; Mt 25:14-30 Sept. 1: Jer 20:7-9: Ps 63:2-6.8-9; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27

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On September 19, 1995, the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette began a year of celebration in preparation for the 150th anniversary of Mary's apparition at La Salette, France. I was delighted to be a celebrant of a Mass at La Salette Shrine in Attleboro inaugurating the jubilee year. As I (HII7",rI nllt Qt

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for the gift of this beautiful Shrine and the ministry of the La Salette community in our Diocese for over 50 years. Like a beacon of hope, many throughout the Diocese have come to La Salette, finding in this peaceful haven the space that we so desperately need in our lives to enter into the presence of our lovlfig God as we discern His call. Whether a retreat program, a Liturgy, or just a walk On a cold winter night gazing at the Christmas lights, La Salette Shrine has been, for this area, a source of spiritual enrichment and profound inner peace.

In particular, the ministry of reconciliation which is offered at the Shrine has had a significant impact on the journey of faith of so many pilgrims. I am grateful to the Missionaries of La Salette who continue the message of Our Lady at La Salette, directing our lives to the One from whom comes our reconciliation. Thus, the Sacrament of Reconciliation is a particular grace bestowed at this holy Shrine.

Through this wonderful sacramcnt, countless men and women and young people have found the compassionate love of God's forgiveness.

During this jubilee year, I urge all faithful of the Diocese of Fall River to make a pilgrimage to La Salette Shrine in Attleboro in celebration of the 150th year of the Apparition and to seek the Lord's embrace of love through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

May Our Lady of La Salette intercede for us and strengthen our resolve to love Jesus above all else.

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By Dave Jolivet Anchor Staff

OUR LADY of La Salette wept with SOrrOW as she appeared in Francc 150 years ago. This statue in the Garden of the Apparition in Attleboro reminds us of the need for repentence and daily prayer in our lives. (Anchor! Jolivet photo)

On September 19. 1846. our Blessed Mother appeared to two young shepherds near the village of La Salette in the French Alps.

What Melanie Calvat, nearly i5 and Maximin Giraud, II, saw and heard that day opened the door for the conversion of countless Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, even to this day.

September 19, 1846 While tending to the cows in their charge, Melanie and Maximin encountered a brilliant light in a meadow on the mountainside.

The light began to stir, and from within it appeared a beautiful woman, in peasant dress, on her knees with head in hand and her elbows on her knees weeping with sorrow.

While still in tears, the lady approached the children frozen in their tracks and said, "Come near, my children. do not beafraid./am here to tell you great news. ..

Melanie and Maximin described the lady as tall and all light. On her head she wore a peasant bonnet, but with roses forming a crown.

There were also roses around her shawl and shoes. Light shimmered on her forehead and there seemed to be a heavy chain on her shoulders. A smaller chain held a brilliant crucifix, with a hammer near one hand and tongs near the other.

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children she had a heavy heart because people were not honoring the Lord's day and the cart drivers could not swear without bringing in her Son's name. The lady said.

"If my people do not obey. I shall be compelled to loose the arm of my Son. /t is so heavy that f can no longer restrain it," The lady lamented. "How long have I suffered for you. " She pre,. . .

"If my people are converted. the stones will become mounds of wheat and it will be found that the potatoes have been self-sown. ..

She asked the children to pray and to attend Mass and honor the Lord. At the conclusion of her visit she began to walk away telling the children, "Please. children. be sure to make this known to all my people."

Making the message known Melanie and Maximin did make it known to the world. First, they reported what they had seen and heard to their employers, who were so moved that they wrote everything down, exactly as the children had told them.

The children endured many interrogations, separately and together. Their story always remained constant.

Before the church could comment on the apparition, pilgrims began to flock to the little village:.

For five years, the church investigated the event and on September 19. 1851 (five years to the day of the apparition) Bishop Philibert de Bruillard, Ordinary of Grenoble, France, issued a doctrinal pronouncement. In part, it read, "The apparition bears all the characteristics a/truth. and thatlhefaithful have grounds for believing it to be undeniable and certain. " The La Salette Missionaries In May of the following year.

Bishop de Bruillard issued another decree announcing the construction of a shrine at the site. Also in 1852. Bishop de Bruillard established a community of diocesan missionaries, the beginning of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.

Since that time, the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette (M.S.) have spread Mary's messagc worldwide. Today. the La Salette's have communities all around the globe.

The Missionaries arrived in the United States in 1892, and in 1942 they acquired land in Attleboro where they opened a shrine in 1953.

La Salette, Attleboro Since its opening in 1953. La Salette Shrine in Attleboro has been the source of peace and reconciliation for thousands. Aside from the well-known annual Christmas lights display that draws people from as far away as the province of Quebec in Canada to Philadelphia, PA, the Shrine has welcomed pilgrims for many events and feasts.

Each year thousands flock to the Shrine as part of Marian pilgrimages, honoring Our Lady, and rededicating their lives to her Son. A year-long celebration This year has been special for the La Salette Missionaries and

150th anniversary of the apparition began last September with a triduum of prayer and celebration, capped by a Mass celebrated by Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM. Cap. The celebration continues through this September.

At the Festival of Lights last year Father Ernest Corriveau, M.S., shrine director, decided to !~tl t.~~.~Wv.RfJ!le.~HI'.~rjliov,s.~~ simply standing outside, presenting the narrative to anyone who would listen. "I wasn't sure how people would react to me being out in the cold and snow telling the story, but the response was overwhelming," said Father Corriveau.

He said many people didn't know the story and were very excited to hear it. Father Corriveau kept the discourse short because ofthe cold, but in all about 50,000 people heard the story during the Christmas season.

Throughout the year, the Missionaries hosted several events tied to the 150th anniversary. Father Corriveau and Father Richard Delisle. M.S. initiated a 150th year special event entitled "Come Home - We Miss You," a series of three presentations for people who felt separated from the Church.

Many other events took place during the year including a Jubilee Mass with the La Salette priests and brothers of the U oited States.

The celebration will culminate with a La Salette Triduum from Sept. 19 through 21. and the Solemnity of the Feast of Our Lady of La Salette on Sept. 22.

The Blessed Sacrament will be eKposed in the Theater from Thursday through Sunday during that weekend.

Mary's message still true today Our Blessed Mother appeared 150 years ago, yet the message still rings true today. There is a need for conversion of heart, soul and mind. There is a need for a return to reconciliation (confession) and a need for reverence of the Holy Eucharist. There is a need for an increase in our prayer lives.

Father Corriveau indicated that through the years there has been an increase in the amount of pilgrimages to the Shrine in Attleboro. "People are very hungry for an increased spiritual life," he said.

He also pointed out that many individuals come to the Shrine to obtain reconciliation. "I feel everv religious order has a special gift to offer, and I think the La Salette Missionaries have the charism of reconciliation," he added.

Confessions are offered nearly every day of the year. One can receive the sacrament in the conventional way, in a confessional. or by a more personal approach, face to face. "When people unburden themselves through the sacrament, they feel so much better afterwards. The priests gain a great deal from it as well," said Father Corriveau.

The future of La Salette Father Corriveau mentioned that Pope John Paul II feels shrines will play an important role in the Catholic Church in the new millennium.

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THE CR UCIFIX at the Rosary Pond is flanked by banners proclaiming the 150th Anniversary of the Apparition of Our Lady of La Salette.

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The La Salette Community cordially invites you to join them in celebrating the 150th Anniversary ofMary's Apparition at La Salette, France on September 19,1846 Triduum of Prayer Th ursday, SeRtember 19 3:00 PM Prayer Service at Outdoor Chapel The actual date and tillle of the apparition

6:30 PM Celebration of Eucharist Celebrant: Bishop Louis E. Gelineau Homilist: Father Gilles Ginest, M.S. Music: Father Andre-Patenaude, M.S. A reception ,MJI follow At the conclusion of the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed in the Theater until Sunday noon.

You are invited to come and pray for the reparation of the sins of the world and for your own intentions.

Friday, September 20 6:30 PM Celebration,Qf Eucharist with Communal Celebration of Penance Celebrant & Homilist: Btihop Daniel P. Reilly Mnsic: Fatber Andre Patenaude, M.S. A reception ~iII follow

Saturday, September 21 "International La Salette Day" 1:00-4:00 PM All are invited.

Activities - Tours - Fun for all ages 4:30 PM Multi-Cultural Mass Celebrant & Homilist: Bi$hop Robert E. Mulvee Music: Father Andre Patenaude, M.s.

6:00 PM International Meal - Cafeteria 8:00 PM Candlelight Procession

Solemnity of the Feast of Our Lady of La Salette Sunday, September 22 3:00 PM Solemn Celebration of the Mass of Our Lady of La Salette Celebrant & Homilist: Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM, Cap. Music: Father Andre Patenaude, M.S. and the Combined Choirs of St. Francis Xavier parish of East Providence, R.I. There will be no 12: 10 Mass and no Confessions

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Dear Friends of La Salette: It's with great joy and much gratitude that La Salette Shrine in Attleboro is celebrating Mary's merciful apparition on the mountain of La Salette in France 150 years ago. On September 19, 1846, our Blessed Mother spoke words of compassion and reconciliation to a 14-year-old girl named Melanie and an II-year-old boy named Maximin. ISO years later, Mary's Missionaries continue !!~-:.~Q~p~~.~iQgit!.tptjpt~trxte.~1WN: y,yJlt9tIM'j't!lff. th~n '\00 000 niln ..inu

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I want to thank all of you for the support and encouragement you've given us over the years. It's thanks to your help that La Salette Shrine has grown by leaps and bounds.

I also want to share with you our hopes for the future. Pope John Paul II once said that shrines will playa significant role in the renewal of the People of God for the upcoming millennium, a role not unlike the role that the monasteries played for the first millennium of Christianity. At La Salette Shrine, we are well aware of how powerfully God works in the lives of people who make a pilgrimage to these holy grounds. It's for this reason that we look to the future with eager anticipation. It's for this reason that we have taken a leap in faith by deciding to replace our woefully inadequate chapel with a new church in honor of Our Lady of La Salette.

Allow me to thank those of you who have already contributed to our fund-raising campaign for this new church and to invite those of you who are so moved to take the occasion of our jubilee celebrations to participate in the shaping of our fnture by contributing to our building fund.

Most importantly, I invite all of you to join in the jubilee celebrations on Septemher 19, 20, 21 and

22. For so very many oryou, 4'La Salette" conjures up memories of special graces obtained through the intercession of Mary. Come to the Shrine on the days of the jubilee and join ns and the hundreds of other pilgrims who will take th is occasion to give thanks to Onr Lady of La Salette. You will be welcomed with open arms.

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Come - Share Our Hope This, coupled with the fact that the current chapel at the Attleboro location is much too small to handle the large gatherings of people who make pilgrimages to the Shrine, was cause for a decision to build a new church on the grounds in honor of Our Lady of La Salette.

Father Corriveau said it was troubling to see pilgrims braving inclement weather, because there was not enough room inside the chapel for everyone. The need for an adequate place of worship is great.

The sight olthe proposed church is the Garden of St. Joseph. between the current chapel and the Rosary Pond.

The new church, funded by donations, will have a seating capacity of 800, over three times the amount the current chapel holds.

It will include a Eucharistic shrine, reconciliation chapel, a bell tower, conference rooms, music ministry space, stained glass windows, a spacious sanctuary, a gathering space, an organ. restrooms, kitchenette and more.

The shrine at La Salette in Attleboro has done so much for so many over the years, and the future looks very promising for pilgrims yet to come. ' To make a donation or pledge to the new church, contact the Shrine Church Fund, 947 Park St., P.O. Box 2965, Attleboro, 02703-0965, tel. 222-5410.

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Parenting amid the clashes

By Stephen and Christine Botos We remember a' time not long ago when the main challenge of parenting in our family was gettingal! five of our children into the front pew in time for 8:30 Mass.

It is different now. And the challenge of parenting our children. who range in age from 13 to 21, is complicated by a culture that is at odds with itself. This culture is a puzzle of conflicting messages set in sed uctive promises and settings.

The result is that our values as parents get tested at home in the most brutal of all ways: through the lives of our children.

But in our home, certain decisions we as parents have made are not exactly up for grabs. We say like Joshua, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

We urge all parents to develop a stategy to handle the conflicts that inevitably will come, When we examined our own practices over the years, we found that much was路" already in place. Some boundaries.. had been established. standards of acceptable behavior had been set down and multiple problem-solving techniques had been tried with \'arying results.

M are than that, ....'1: realized that we know these children. It is we who bathed them and dried their tears, made them happy and held them when they were sad.

We love them, and they love us.

Still, clashes do come, The outside influences on children are strong and persistent. overwhelming at times. These social pressures, added to the physical and emotional changes which adolescents face. are certain to create explosive times when pressures are released and fears are acted out.

In light of that, here are a few approaches to parenthood that we've found useful:

- Establish boundaries. We are not rigid, but we have standards that our teens understand.

They hear jokes and language in school or on television that are unacceptable in our home. They see styles of dress, know some 00curfew families and witness behaviors that have no place in our family life.

Among the gifts we give our children are good manners. high moral standards, a good self-image.

Are our children always in agreement? No, as many slammed doors have emphasized.

And parents aren't always right: We can listen and hear: and we do change.

That's why involving teens in establishing acceptable rules is a good learning experience for both generations. Family meetings can encourage children of all ages in the decision-making process.

- Build competence. Household chores build good work habits.

We have chores that each of our children is responsible for daily. regardless of activities or outside work. The chores are not complicated, but important to the household. Our children know what it takes to do them properly and what consequences follow if the chores are not performed.

Our children are competent in the kitchen, know what to 1001< for in a toolbox and are surprised at friends who have yet to learn.

- Don't shield children from their mistakes. Our teens make mistakes, Lately it's been bouncing cars off stationary objects.

Obtaining repair estimates or needed parts. explaining matters to insurance agents and paying out-of-pocket expenses are experiences teen-agers can and do handle - with some help. It is a plea-

sant surprise to everyone to see how well they do.

- Tap ali sources, There are lots of resouces for parents: books, friends, professionals who can provide guidance through the tough crises like drugs, alcohol, pregnancy, suicide threats and others.

If a problem seems too large, get

help.

Don't take chances.

There is no magic formula to protect our children. The simple truth is that bad things happen to all families.

Teens will confront and test the values that formed them to see if these values are true. So parents must have confidence in those values.

We who are parents today once tested these values and found them valid. So will our children.

The difficulty is that defending and communicating values always seems so easy on paper. Neat and tidy. But it is far from that. It is messy and often painful.

We know how to hurt each other and often do so, We make mistakes, push too far and too hard or too soon. But even those clashes play a role, serving as occasions for stating a position in ways that are fired by the strength and importance of our beliefs.

Serving as a parent to teens is a role to engage fully. Teens, especially, confront their parents with the new values and mores that fill the TV or movie screen and inhabit current music and magazines. And parents find themselves fighting old battles. now on a different side.

The battle is worth waging.

Christian values are as relevant now as in centuries past. We foster these values because we know that they are true.

Memphis diocese promotes teen chastity MEMPHIS, Tenn. (CNS) The Natural Family Planning Center of the Diocese of Memphis is using stickers, T-shirts, boxer shorts and tote bags to promote chastity among Catholic youths.

The items are festooned with slogans such as "I'm a Piece of God's Love," "I'm Headed for Heaven," "I'm Worth Waiting For," "True Love Waits for Mar-

riage," and "CHASTITY - It Does a Body (and Soul) Good!"

ida, Van Epps brought along some handouts.

"After that, we started getting phone calls and letters from all over the country, asking where they could get them," she said. "So we expanded into shirts, boxer shorts and tote bags, and began taking orders for their sale."

The items, sold to any diocese, school, parish, organization or individual, are a not-far-profit diocesan business... All the money we make, we pour right back into

producing more," said Van Epps.

Urders have even come from abroad.

A Memphis native and graduate of Sienna College, Van Epps is the mother of three grown sons. She also has written a manual on the center's workshops, which now are given throughout the country.

"In Memphis, we give three a year for the girls, and one for the boys," she said, with the number of participants having grown to more than 800 a year.

Mary Pat Van Epps, director of the center since 1982, said the colorful line of chastity-promoting items evolved from bookmarks given to participants at the center's first mother-daughter, father-son workshops about six years ago.

"We were going to talk about chastity to these youths and their parents," she told Common Sense, newspaper of the Memphis Diocese, "and we needed something to hand out."

The bookmarks list "25 Ways to Be a Happy Teenager," including "Be choosy about your dates" and "Be patient - you deserve the best."

Van Epp~ said the bookmarks still are so popular she hopes to have them translated into Spanish.

Next came stickers. which proved to be another popular workshop handout. "All kids like stickers," said Van Epps. "Teenagers put them on everything .- wallets_, POPE JOHN Paul II kisses a girl at the end of his Angelus textbooks, clothes and each other," prayer in Lorenzago, a northern Italian mountain village. The In 1990, when she was invited to talk about the center's parent~child Holy Father works to promote the dignity of the family and all life in his many messages to the people of the world. workshops at the Human Life -tnterna-tional Conferenee m-FJo-r--- (eNS/ Reuters photo)

Study analyzes Catholic youth ministry WASHINGTON (CNS) -

what they looked for from youth

Many participants in Catholic youth programs who have thought about church vocations or careers got no encouragement from parents to pursue them, said an in-

ministry, among the lowest-ranked items were sports and youth meetcreated within the program and on

depth study of Catholic youth ministry released Aug. 7.

learning about God and the faith," the study said.

Those who participate in the youth programs "strongly value helping others" but "do not place a strong emphasis on community service," the study said.

It found that those in youth programs do well in many areas of religious values and practice but tend to attach little importance to Bible reading. Nearly three-fourths said they attend Mass once a week or more.

It recommended "more opportunities and training in evangelization" for youths and "more of a commitment to reach those youth who are unchurched or not participating in parish programs."

The study, conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolateat Georgetown University, is titled "New Directions in Youth Ministry." It was based on survey responses this spring by more than6,OOO youths participating in youth ministry programs in 37 dioceses across the country.

Participants came from more than 600 parishes, selected to represent a wide range of youth ministry programs and all types of parishes.

The study was co-sponsored by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry and the Subcommittee on Youth of the Committee on lhe Laity ofthe National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

It was the first national survey of attitudes, values and religious views and practices of those involved in Catholic youth programs.

Noting the relatively low values participants placed on Bible reading and community service, the study said, "Catholic youth ministry needs to be more persuasive in helping participants understand that readir.g the Bible is important for growing in their faith and that helping ot:1ers through community service is as significant as helping people individually."

It recorr.mended more effective vocations work with parents so that they ".,ill be more comfortable with encouraging their children to consider religious vocations or lay careers in church service.

29 percent of the youths surveyed said they had considered a vocation to priesthood or religious life, and 51 percent said they had considerec working for the church in some olher capacity, But only 20 percent said their parents had ever encouraged them to consider a religious vocation.

The study said youth ministry should involve"comprehensive programs whi:h address a range of needs and nterests of young people" because single-dimension programs are Dot as helpfuL "Comprehensive programing should include catecheticaJ, liturgical, social, developmental and spiritual eltments," it said.

When pil:Tticipants were asked

ings. "They place a much higher value on a caring environment

The study found that the longer youths have been active in youth ministry programs, the stronger the impact was on the develop路 ment of moral and religious values and practices. "Young people must be encouraged to participate over many years," it said.

It said those in youth programs "take their Catholic identity very seriously and exhibit a deep commitment to the Catholic Church."

72 percent reported attending Mass at least once a week.

It said parental religious prac路 tice was ,also high. 70 percent reported their mothers attended Mass at le;ast once a week and 55 percent sand their fathers did so. A

1995 study sponsored by Purdue University reported that 41 percent of all adult Catholics said they attended Mass at least weekly.

Asked how frequently they receive the sacrament of reconciliation. 21 p,ercent said more than twice a year; 43 percent, about once or twice a year; 17 percent, less than yearly; and 19 percent, rarely or n\Cver.

Dioceses selected for the CARA survey ranged geographically from San Diego to Portland, Maine. from Juneau, Alaska. to Palm

Beach, Fla..

CARA also worked with four ethnically lbased ministry associations to ass:ure adequate representation of minorities in the survey.

Interestingly, minority youths - African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans were all mlore likely than European-Amer"icans to rate their youth ministry programs as strong on culturally sensitive activities.

Of 15 qu<estions on what values are important to them, those surveyed attac hed the highest importance to not using drugs, helping others, atte:nding Mass, having a strong family life, and learning

about God and the faith.

Almost all - 90 percent or more .- said they were proud to be Catholic and feel welcome at church, amd 86 percent thought young peop Ie should have a bigger role in parish decision-making.

CARA researcher Brvan FroehIe, who directed the pr~ject, sa id that by surveying more than 6,000 youths the :study had established "one of thee strongest statistical bases ever" for analyzing a major segment of the Catholic youth ill the United States.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 23, 1996

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day as a carpet installer. He taught us to work hard and earn our keep and not to rely on charity," he explained. "But at St. Vincent, I have found that many of those whom I solicit are gracious givers who want to become a partner in what we are accomplishing."

When Father Bartel isn't in the air or at the wheel of his fourwheel drive utility vehicle, he enjoys interacting with students over a euchre card game, walking on the college's fitness trail or reading just for pleasure.

"The common life as a monk of the St. Vincent Benedictine Community provides me peace, stability and a good perspective on life," he added.

Before he was president - he's also a certified public accountant and attorney - he spent six years as a full-time professor of business

administration and was a dormitory moderator. Father Bartel said that he misses the frequent contact with students.

"I love our students because they are so honest and creative.

They give me energy," he said.

He still lives among the students' in the college's newest dormitory, Rooney Hall, named in honor of the late founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, which has held its annual summer training camp at St. Vincent for 30 seasons.

"There are certainly many problems with higher education today," Father Bartel said, "but I never pass up an opportunity to tell people that St. Vincent is an exception. We remain committed to providing a high quality education with a traditional core curriculum in a wholesome environment where every person is valued."

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Benedictine Father is Letterman look-alike LATROBE, Pa. (CNS) - If David Letterman ever gets fired by CBS, the priest who heads St. Vincent College in Latrobe has a job for him.

Why Letterman? Whenever Benedictine Father Martin R. Bartel meets people, he's always asked if he knows he looks like the nighttime talk show host.

So, Father Bartel has decided that because his presidential responsibilities keep him on the go constantly, maybe he could use Letterman as a stand-in.

"Maybe if CBS ever fires Dave, I could hire him to be my standin," said Father Bartel, "but I'm not sure how good a spokesman he would be for St. Vincent." . F T b' he oylsh-Iookmg ather Bartel said he "logged nearly 75,000 miles in the air and on the ground last year and met hundreds of alumni, friends, corporate and foundation executives and others.

And "their first question is always the same: Did anyone ever tell you you look like Dave Letterman?

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As he begins his second year as head of one of the nation's topranked Catholic liberal arts colleges, Father Bartel said that he wants St. Vincent to be known for its academic excellence, not for a president who also happens to look like Letterman.

St. Vincent has received national recognition by U.S. News and World Report, Money magazine and Barron's in those publications' annual college ratings.

Father Bartel believes that the key to success for St. Vincent, a coed ucational liberal arts school with an enrollment of 1,200, is public visibility. He writes essays for publications as newspaper oped pieces and letters to the editors on a variety of topics.

Fund raising is another part of his job, he said, and it is a humbling one.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 23, 1996

Dogdays in Rome:

Locals leave, not tourists VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The tion (especially papal speeches) Italian policemen patrolling the and there is a lot less documentaperimeter of St. Peter's Square tion in the summer," said the dodge direction-seeking tourists priest, who was still in Rome in long enough to stick their heads mid-August.

He and other U.S. priests and under a fountain of cool water.

While up to half of the Vatican's bishops working at the Vatican office workers - along with much don't have to worry about their ofthe Italian population - are on house, the Villa Stritch, shutting vacation in August, it's business as down. However, only half the usual for anyone dealing with chairs are needed in the dining room in August. tourists.

But like the few other Vatican "At the Vatican, it's always like this: the same intensity," said one workers at their desks during the of the officers, pointing to the dog days of summer, Father throngs seeking shade under Ber- Dempsey sees a bright side to bucking the trend of traveling in nini's Colonnade.

"There is no such thing as a August.

"Uyou don't mind the weather, summer break here," his young partner said as yet another tourist or you have ways of beating it came up asking, "Sistine Chapel?" air conditioning - the city can be "I can give directions to the Sis- very nice," he said. "It empties out tine Chapel in four languages, even in August. It's relaxed, not so PROTESTANT APPRENTICE Boys march across the Craigavon Bridge into Londonmore with my hands," he said after tense. It's really a very pleasant derry Aug. 10 to be greeted by a sculpture depicting Protestant and Catholic faiths shaking pointing the English-speaking time to be around."

Attitudes toward vacationing or hands. The Protestants rerouted their march and did not parade past the Catholic Bogside tourist in the right direction.

For the past five years, Roman not vacationing, as the case may District. (CNS/ Reuters photo) newspapers have been filled with be, seem to be culturally condistatistics on the declining percen- tioned. North Americans, unlike tage of city-dwellers joining the Italians and Europeans in general, national exodus to beach resorts are used to staggering their vacaLONDON (CNS) - A senior "The fear of being a niiMrity in and mountain hideaways in Au- tions.

Ancram said the clashes had gust. The key statistical index is And while their European con- British government minister with created and heightened fears on a state where there is a permanent the tonnage of garbage collected in freres seem a bit glum about punch- responsibility for Northern Ireland both sides. majority is something which, is key ing a time clock in August, North said dialogue is the only route to "That is a setback after the to the whole situation in Northern Rome's neighborhoods. nearly two years of relative peace Ireland - both in terms of NorthBut even if more Romans are Americans who chatted casually peace there. ,"The lesson of all the events of in Northern Ireland. But although ern Ireland itself and the wider staying home, the workings of the about their work kept mentioning that has had the effect of polariz- Irish dimension. That play!: both Eternal City in August are still dic- how much they can accomplish the summer is that a lot of these ing the situation again in an un- ways," he said. tated by tourists. The well-beaten when the phones don't ring, no local confrontations can, in the Ancram was asked about the helpful way, it has also made both path between the Vatican and Ro- one drops in and the mail sacks are end, only be avoided by dialogue between the two communities," parts of the community look into support for Sinn Fein that some man monuments is the place to virtually empty. the abyss.

"You should see the paperwork said Michael Ancram, minister of find pharmacies, shops and resperceive comes from the United "I hope that having looked into States. taurants without metal shutters I've gotten through," said Msgr. state at Britain's Northern Ireland "The United States is aware of Timothy M. Dolan, rector of the Office. the abyss has convinced them that clamped tight.

Ancram, one of a handful of it is only by dialogue and by reach- the horrors of terrorism and the Even some priests working at North AmeriCan College, the U.S. Catholics in Prime Minister John ing accommodation that you can immense damage that terrorist the Vatican have to make the trek.' seminary in Rome.

He has an air conditiont,d office, Major's administration, is one of avoid what has happened this sum- activities have done to communiThe two residence-hotels operated by the Vatican for clergy close and his private rooms catch a nice four ministers with Northern Ire- mer, leading back into the dark ties," he said. "They would not be land responsibilities. for two weeks in August. Em- breeze in the .evening. ' troubles that we saw through the prepared to support or condone All-party talks are due to resume ployees at the Casa Romana near 1970s, the 1980s and the earlier any political movement that seeks in Northern Ireland Sept. 9, and part of this decade." to achieve its political purposes the Vatican were off Aug. 1-15, Ancram said that if the Irish which meant residents who were Ancram said he hoped that through other than exclw:ively Republican Army restores its all parties would return to the democratic methods." forced to work in early August had, cease-fire before that date, its poto take a 20-minute walk to the He said it w~s worth recalling peace talks process in September litical wing, Sinn Fein, will be "strengthened by the support of that had the IRA not breach,:d the Casa Internazionale near Piazza invited to take part in the talks. their own communities, re-entering cease-fire, Sinn Fein would have Navona for their meals.

Sinn Fein polled more than 15 The 1996 closing dates for the into dialogue in'a spirit of deter- been part of the talks process.

LONDON (CNS) - Amnesty percent of the votes in May elecCasa Internazionale were Aug. 16mination to see a constructive re- "And the single fact that prevented sult achieved."

31, so residents left behind had to International said it is "seriously tions in Northern Ireland for delethem from being invited to those He said the role of church lead- talks is that there has been failure go to the Casa Romana to eat. concerned about the h'ealth and gates to the talks. However, Sinn The Vatican guarantees its em- well-being" of imprisoned Chinese Fein has been excluded from the ers in Northern Ireland was not so on the part of the IRA, of whom talks because ofthe IRA's renewed much in persuading political lead- they are the political wing, 1:0 reployees and visitors all essential Bishop Zeng Jingmu. ers to go back to talks, but in store the cease-fire, as required by services in August, except for the Bishop Zeng is head of the Dio- violence. three-day holiday centered on the cese of Yujiang in Jiangxi proBritish sources have suggested encouraging the community to see both governments, North and Aug. 15 Feast of the Assumption. vince of south-central China and is that a new cease-fire will be im- that only by dialogue and the South."

Ancram urged Irish-American The bank, the employee cafe- .a bishop loyal to the Vatican, out- nounced by the IRA before the development of understanding could more trouble be avoided.. teria and supermarket, the post . side the government-approved Chi- _ end of August.

Catholics not to think that they Ancram told Catholic News SerAncram said many outsiders could help the situation by fundoffice, the gasoline pumps and the nese Catholic Patriotic Association. pharmacy enjoy a long weekend,Bishop Zeng, 75, is reportedly in vice that he hoped there would be viewed the situation as a Catholic- ing organizations that supp,)rted Protestant confrontation. or encouraged violence. but nothing more. ill health. When he was arrested an end to the violence.

"I believe that the vast majority The Vatican police, the Swiss last November he was suffering "Those who wish to see a resolu"I don't think it is. I think it is a Guards and the nuns who run the from severe pneumonia, an illness of the community from which Sinn conflict of different cultures and tion of the problems in Northern Vatican switchboard were still pro- he had contracted while in police Fein comes wish to see peace main- traditions. It happens that the Ireland, which can only be bro ught viding 2~hour service, as was the custody the previous month. Even tained and developed. In the end majority religion of each of these about by agreement between the polyglot Vatican Radio. The press before his arrest, he was report- ,that 'can only be achieved by all traditions happens to be, in the communities, based on growing office,' already operating on a re- edly in frail health... those who have the means of wag- one case, Catholic, and in the trust between the communities, duced summer schedule, planned Amnesty learned that on March ing terror being prepared to turn other case 'to be Protestant. must understand that the greatest to open only two hours each day.

18 Bishop Zeng was assigned to their back on violence and being "And in a way being a Conser- enemy of that, on either side, is The Vatican's Italian-language three years' "allocation through prepared to pursue exclusively vative Catholic with a Scottish terrorism and the creation of fear. daily newspaper was scheduled to labor," an administrative punish- democratic and peaceful means," "Therefore," he said, "anything background has enabled me to publish the evening of' Aug. 14, ment for his religious activities. At he said. "And that obviously must 'understand more deeply the appre- which can give succor to the use of then skip two days. The weekly the Re-education-through-Labor involve, on both sides of the com- hensions which exist in both parts violence is ultimately against the editions in other languages skip Committee hearing in Fuzhou, munity, a restoration and mainte- of the community," he added. interests of both parts of the c:omone issue in August.

China, in March, the bishop was nance of a cease-fire."

-munity in Northern Ireland. The The English edition, uSUlilly a accused of defying a ban on illegal Intermittent clashes have ocgreatest help that people can give 12-page tabloid, publishes eight - religious meetings at his home. curred during the summer in is encouragement of dialo,gue, pages in its three August editions, One of the meetings had involved Northern Ireland between the two understanding and agreement. communities - one, primarily said Father Robert Dempsey, a more than 300 people.

That will never be bought at the Chicago priest and the English In 1958, Bishop Zeng was sen- Catholic, seeking union with the end of a gun." editor. tenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Republic of Ireland to the south, "It) partly because of a reduced In 1983 he was given a further the other, primarily Protestant, 'staff, but also partly because our eight-year sentence for "counter- committed to the union with GODIS ANCHOR HOl,OS Britain., . function is to pUblistidocumenta~ revolutionary activities."

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"Called to be Catholic"

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CHICAGO (CNS) - Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago has launched a major new initiative by 24 U.S. Catholic leaders to overcome the "distrust, acrimony and deadlock" they see as threatening the future of U.S. Catholicism.

At a press conference Aug. 12, the cardinal released the guiding statement for the new project.

It warns that "ideological litmus tests" of the left and right and intramural bickering have increasingly drained Catholic energies, creating a "dynamic of fear and polarization" that obstructs candid dialogue.

"Unless we examine our situation with fresh eyes, open minds and changed hearts," it says, "within a few decades a vital Catholic legacy may be squandered, to the loss of both the church and the nation."

American Catholics have to work together from "a common ground centered on faith in Jesus, marked by accountability to the living Catholic tradition and ruled by a renewed spirit of civility, dialogue, generosity and broad and serious consultation," it says.

It adds that eVlm the liturgy, which ought to be "drawing the Christian community into its mystery and power," has become a partisan battleground.

"No effort to assess the state of worship or develop new translations or refresh liturgical skills escapes suspicion of moving to one extreme or thl: other or pressure to move in the opposite direction as a safeguard," it says.

The 3,OOO-word statement is titled, "Called to be Catholic: Church in a Time of Peril." It was prepared by the National Pastoral Life Center in New York in consultation with Cardinal Bernardin and the leaders who have joined him in the initiative.

The statement urges Catholics to refocus on the cl:ntral, common gro)Jn4 they share.

"Jesus Christ, present in Scripture and sacrament, is central to all that we do; he must always be the measure and not what is measured," it says.

"Around this central conviction," it says, "the church's leadership, both clerical and lay, must reaffirm and promote the full range and demands of authentic unity, acceptable diversity and respectful dialogue, not just to dampen conflict but as a way to make our conflicts constructive."

But it warns that a hardening of party lines within the church has made such constructive dialogue difficult.

"Candid discussion is inhibited.

Across the whole spectrum of views within the church, proposals are subject to ideological litmus tests," it says. "Ideas, journals and leaders are pressed to align themselves with pre-existing camps and are viewed warily when they depart from those expectations."

Among "urgent questions" to be addressed it cites: - "The changing roles of women."

BOSTON (CNS) - Here is the text of a statement issued by Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law Aug. 12 in response to a major unity initiative for the church announced that day in Chicago by Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin and called the Catholic Common Ground Project.

Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago has announced today a project which he has agreed to lead that is called "the Catholic Common Ground Project." He is joined in this effort by a group of Catholics including bishops, priests, religious, lay women and men. The several signatories from within the Archdiocese of Boston are persons for whom I have great esteem.

In connection with the announcement of this "project," a statement has been released which was prepared by the National Pastoral Life Center. This statement, titled "Called to Be Catholic," is proposed as "a good framework for fostering careful reflection on issues of concern," It is, I think, unfortunate that the cardinal's initiative has tied itself to this statement. The statement is not very helpful. Throughout there are gratuitous assumptions, and at significant points it breathes an ideological bias which it elsewhere decries in others. The fundamental flaw in this document is its appeal for "dialogue" as a path to "common ground," The church already has "common ground," It is found in sacred CARDINAL LA W Scripture and tradition, and it is mediated to us through the authorita. . tive and binding teaching of the magisterium. The The goal of this new effort - church umty - IS disconnect that is so often found today between that much more important than the unity which political Catholic common ground and faith and practice of parties seek during an election year. When members some Catholics is alarming. of a political party are divided, the elections are lost.

Dialogue as applied to this pastoral crisis must be When members of the church are divided, the Gospel clearly understood, however. Dissent from revealed goes unpreached and unheard; the salvation of many truth or the authoritative teaching of the church hangs in the balance. cannot be "dialogued" away. Truth and dissent from Seeking unity in the church is not an option. We truth are not equal partners in ecclesial dialogue. must all be concerned to build up the body of Christ Dialogue as a pastoral effort to assist in a fuller in truth and love. Unfortunately, the statement of the appropriation of the truth is laudable. Dialogue as a National Pastoral Life Center obscures the true way to mediate between the truth and dissent is "common ground" for any effort to bring about mutual deception. unity within the church. That true "common ground" The statement raises the issue of the faithful's is found in Scripture and tradition as handed on "reception" of a truth or in the incorporation of a through the teaching office of the Holy Father a~d decision or practice into the church's life. Surely this the bishops. Indeed, we are fortunate to have a rehais an issue worthy of ongoing theological considerable and complete expression of our "common tion. Reception by the faithful cannot be measured ground" in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church," by polls which are subject to all the pressures of.

But we cannot achieve church unity by a~comcontemporary culture, however, anymore than the modating those who dissent fro.m church teachmg.schism of all the bishops save one in Henry VIII's whether on the left or on the nght. To compromise England can be ascribed tei an exercise of collegiality. the faith of the church is to forfeit our "common Recent pastoral statements of the bishops of the ground" and to risk deeper polarization. .

United States on peace and on the U.S. economy Webelongto the church because we are convmced it received from the Lord a saving message that is were not universally well received by the faithful. If polls are to be believed, the position ofthe bishops of entirely trustworthy. We belong to the c~ur~h beMassachusetts in opposition to capital punishment cause we are convinced the Lord endowed It with ~he does not enjoy overwhelming support from the faithmeans to keep that message uncorrupted and ahve ful. The church must teach "in season and out of from one generation to the next. Specifically, as season when convenient and inconvenient," Careful Catholics we believe that the magisterium - the discer~ment must be used in assessing what is called teaching of the Holy Father and the bishops joined "reception." with him - is not just an importan~ voi.ce deserving The statement proposes as the sixth of seven respect. On the contrary, the maglstenum guaran"working principles" for dialogue the following: "We tees that the Lord's message will not be corrupted ~r should not rush to interpret disagreements as conmanipulated by those who have a message of their flicts of starkly opposing principles rather than as own to offer. . differences in degree or in prudential pastoral judgUnfortunately, the statement from the NatIOnal Pastoral Life Center does not give the magisterium ments about the relevant facts." Fair enough, as long as it is admitted that "conflicts of starkly opposing its due. To be sure, it recognizes the magisterium as principles" can occur. When such conflict involves authoritative and deserving of respect. But it also dissent from authoritative church teaching, that conseems to regard magisterial teaching as only one flict cannot be dialogued away. Dissent either yields element of a consensus that is to be forged out of to assent or the conflict remains irresolvable. contrasting opinions. The statement does not sufficiently acknowledge the truth of authoritative church In paragraph 18 of 27, the statement introduces the thought that "Jesus Christ, present in Scripture teaching. . and sacrament is central to all we do; he must always In several places, that statement seems to give too be the measur~ and not what is measured," I would much weight to the opinions of Catholics who do n~t have preferred to have the statement begin at that really agree with the magisterium. For .example, It point. The crisis the church is facing can only be speaks of "the gap between church teachmgs and the adquately addressed by a clarion call to conversion. convictions o~the faithfuI,",!t ev~n se~:ns to s~y ~,hat Jesus' question to Peter must be responded to by church teachmg. m.ust be rece~ved, tha~ IS accepted" by a majon.ty of Cathohcs before It can be each of us: "Who do you say that I am?" Only with this beginning will institutional renewal and reform regarded as authentic. . be authentic.

The statement correctly recogmze.s t~at s0Ol:e Catholics today do not really know their faith. But It . Here are excerpts .of a statement ~ug. 13 by Cardoes not sufficiently acknowledge that poorly catedmal ~ames A. Hickey of ~ashmgton on the chized Catholics are ill-equipped to form sound conCathohc Common G!ound Project announce~ the victions about faith and morals. Indeed, they are da~ before by Cardmal Joseph L. Bernardm of very vulnerable to cultural influences such as the Chicago. . news media and the entertainment industry which As Democrats and Republicans gather for their often seek to ridicule and undermine church teaching.

We must pray for unity within the church. With conventions, they are seeking "party uni~y." As members of the church, we must also seek umty. Ju~t serenity as well as with deep faith and trust in the Lord, w~ come together on the "common ground" of yesterday an initiative known as the "Cathohc Common Ground Project" was announced. ~ased the church's undiluted teaching on faith and morals. on a widely publicized statement by the National If the church is to be strong and convincing now and Pastoral Life Center, this n~w effort seeks to heal in the next millennium, it must preach the Gospel rifts in the church through dialogue. without compromise.

CARDINAL BERNARDIN - "The eucharistic liturgy as most Catholics experience it."

- "The meaning of human sexuality and the gap between church teachings and the convictions of many faithful in this and several other areas of morality," - "The ways in which the church is present in political life...."

- "The capacity of the church to embrace African-American, Latino and Asian populations, their cultural heritages and their social concerns."

- "The place of collegiality and subsidiarity in the relations between Rome and the American episcopacy," The statement cites the widely reported religious illiteracy of young adult Catholics as a key example of the challenges facing the church and the debilitating impact of ideological wars.

"The practical realities of our young people's needs are quickly lost amid accusations of infidelity to church teachings, reflexive defenses against criticism, or promotion of pet educational approaches," it says. "It is an atmosphere unlikely to generate the massive and creative effort required to meet today's crisis of religious illiteracy or link it with young people's search for a sense of participation and belonging," On liturgy, it says, "An informal or 'horizontal' liturgy,demystified and stressing the, participation of the congregation, is pitted against a solemn or 'vertical' liturgy, unchangeable and focused on the sacerdotal action of the priest," Neither extreme captures the fullness of the liturgy, it says, but "again polarization blocks a candid and constructive response to the situation," hindering the needed liturgical renewal.

"The same dynamic of fear and polarization afflicts the church's discussions of other topics, from efforts to accommodate language or practice to the changing consciousness of women to efforts to define theology's relationship to the hierarchy," the statement says.

Among seven other bishops joining the project are Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles and Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, who like Cardi~al Bernardin is a former president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Pope says young Catholics. must become 'Living Ico~s' of the church VATICAN CITY (CNS) threshold of his house and speak- who seek God with a sincere heart, Young Catholics must become ing with him face to face as you he said, "living icons" of the church that would with a friend."

The pope asked young people to "It is along the pathways of start a dialogue with non-Christians journey through history, uniting and to work with them whenever all men and women in Christ, daily existence that you can meet possible to improve life in their the Lord," he said.

Pope John Paul II said.

Although ,Jesus' friendship is communities.

The international World Youth It is espeCially important, he Day gatherings, he said, are an demanding, he offers a way of life said, that young people be com- , opportunity for young people from that does not change with fleeting mitted to restoring Christian unity, . ' , different countries; races, languages political systems or ideologies, the "to overcome the scandal of the All new students beginning their ments and after school activities and backgrounds to witness to the pope said.

"I ask you, is it better to resign division among Christians," , first year at Taunton Catholic and faculty members will b~ on unity found in Christ. yourselves to a life without ideals The place where young people Middle School and their families hand to answer questions that many Pope John Paul announc,ed the publication Aug. 15 of his.message and to a world constructed in its, will most often meet Jesus is in will attend a Get Acquainted Pic- parents and students have about their parishes;, communities and nic, hosted by the faculty and staff, , those harrowing first days in a new forthe 1997 World Youth Day, to own image and likeness, or is it at the school, on August 28, from .school. Volleyball' games wilJ be better to generously seek truth, church groups, he said. be helq in Paris.

In the Eucharist, Pope" John 5-7 p.m. Hot dogs, chips and cook- available fo'r those who wish to goodness, justice and work for a, The Vatican released the fiveworld that respects the beauty of Paul said, they can experience the ies will be the order of the day and ~ , participate.' page lett,er in Italian shQrtly afi~r even if it' requires facing real presence of Christ in their the picnic will be held rain or ' Three new:teache'rs will also be God, the pa'pal announcement. trials?" the pope asked' in his : daily lives. s h i n e . , ,_ '. ' ,'present.to welcome ~heir new stuThe pope ~eleases a World Youth message.

"Around the eucharistic table Mrs. Rosemary Gately, an eIghth dents: Th'ey are· Mrs', Glines, fifth Day message each year and the, Pope J ohri Paul told young the harmonious unity of the church, ,grade teacher at TCMS said the grade; MJ's.:Bousquin, sixth grade; day is celebrated annually around people they would meet Christ in mystery of missionary commun- ,response to this year's picnic has ,and 'Mrs. Connors, eighth grade. the world in local communities. all those suffering in the world.

The Uniform Shop, operated by ion, is realized and manifested in far exceeded last year's and the Every other year, an international "His face is that of the poorest" such a way that all see themselves . faculty is very excited about the' the Home and, School Association celebration is. held. the marginated, victims of an often' as sons and daughters and broth-· positive response. Peer :Helpers • at Taunton Catholic Middle School The theme of"theAugust 1997 "unjust model of development that ers and sisters without exclusion will be on hand to help new stuwill be open during the hours of 9 gathering is the disciples' question gives first place to profit and makes, or 'differences of race, language, dents get aquainted with each other a.mdo I p.m. and again during the - "Master, where do you live?"- the human person a means rather· age, social Or cultural class," he" and feel at ease coming into,their picnic, 5-7 p·.m:This shop :;ells and Jesus' response, - "Gome and than an end," he said. , ' said. first year at a new school. , used uniforms, in 'good condition, see." ,Enlightened by the Gospel and' Students were invited to come for drastically, reduced prices and Jesus also lives in those who are "Follow Christ," the pope'told seeking truth, but do'not know the strengtheried by the Eucharist, the 'with their families to meet other 'it is a'good'place to i;ick up a spare young people. "Do not be afraid to Gospel; those who have lost their pope said, young people are called 'families and make new friends ·uniform for your TCMS student. draw near to :him, crossing the faith; and those of other religions to go into a' hurting and divided before the first day of scho'oL Par- " " All families who are attending J , world 'as witnesses 'of love, broth-' ents will be able to exchange.infor- ,are asked to br.ing lawn chain or , erhood and unity. " mation regarding . car 'pool arra'nge:.·.. , -: .blankets.' . . .. .:" . .. '

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Bisho'p ~Feehan High' School, ' Attleboro, will commence the 199'6-97 school, year with 780 stu~ dents, the 'largest. sJudent popul~~: tion in five years and'th~ fifth SIJC~ cessive increase in enr'ollment."

Although school will not Officially" open for students until' August 28th, teachers will' be reporting back on the 27th for a full day of meetings with Principal George Milot ~nd department chairpersons.

Incoming freshmen will ,report on August 28that 8:00 a,m. until 2:00 p.m. for a full day of orientation, Lunch will be provided by the student council. Sophomores will report at II :00 a.m. the same day, and they will conclude their day at 2:QO p.m.

Orientation will include an assembly and homeroom activity time.

During homeroom various forms will be completed, the Student Handbook will be distributed and lockers will be assigned. Freshmen, sophomore and junior orientations will also include time for yearbook pictures. Students must

Stonehill College Stonehill College Evening Division will be presenting a Symposium on Violence in America on Tuesday evenings during its Fall 1996 semester. Although the symposium is structured as a threecredit academic course, members of the local community may attend individual lectures free of charge on a seats-available basis.

Under the direction of Professors Sheila Barry and Traci Santos, the classes will explore not only the obvious manifestations of crime and violence in our society, but also strive to define violence and uncover the "hidden layers" of violence that lie beneath the surface."

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J uniofs and seni~rs~iIi report . on August 29th: junior orientation from 8:00-11:00 and senior orientation to follow, from 11:00 a.m: -2:00 p.m. ' in the summer issues of the Anchor, we will be introduCing the 'seminarians who are currently serving Freshmen' and sophomore parents will meet with Principal Milot the Diocese of Fall River. ' This gives us the opportunity to know who :they are, and what they are doing. ' . , ', ' on August 27th at 7:00 p.m, in tHe , Please pray'for th~ni. school's auditorium, whi\e.parents ofjuniors and seniors will meet on Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. , Pare'nts who wish to purchase and baptism preparati,cin teams and of God Hospital in Brightol), wl:ich ~ichard Wilson is a 1990 gradusecond hand books are reminded ate of Georgetown University with a the Pro-Life committee and also is a long-term care facility, then as a that the school will be open for bachelor's degree in Foreign Science, taugh~ in the parish school and relicamp counselor at St. Vincent's those purchases on August 29th He majored in Comparative Studies ' gious education program, A high- Camp, Westport, and in a summer from 5:00-6:30 p.m. of Latin America and Western Eu- light of the year has been prepara- parish assignment at St. Patrick's, All classes begin in full On Sep- rope at Georgetown after atWareham.

While in Rome, he has tember 3rd at 7:45 a.m. until 2: 15 tending the Universidad de' worked at the shelters staffed Sevilla in Spain. p.m. by the Missionaries of CharIf there are questions'about the Before entering the semiity. opening of the school year please nary, he worked for the Wilson notes, "It is through contact the business office at Quincy Council on Aging and being a priest that God wants 226-6223. the Quincy planning departme to serve him and ,Ilis All fall sports activities have ment, and was 'a journalist for people." the Quincy Ledger. commenced pre-season preparaFollowing his year-long astion. Interested students should Wilson is the son of Robsignment at St. John the Bapert and Mary Wilson, and has contact the school athletic office , tist, he plans to spend some two sisters, Katie and immediately at 22§-6223. time with his family and visitSuzanne, and a brother, Paul. ing friends before returning to The family lived in Quincy Rome to complete his semiand spent summers on Cape nary studies.

Cod at their home in Dennis, Pope John Paul II Some of the topics analyzed which became their permanent wrote: "Christ wants, to during the symposium will include: residence. Wilson is a memspeak to the people of 1'0"Violence and Children," "Women ber of St. Pius X parish, So. day through your voice. and Violence," "Corporate Vio- Yarmouth, and from there enHe wants to consecra·te lence," "Violence in the Church," tered the Pre-Theology prothe Eucharist and forgive and "Violence in our Schools." gram at St. John's Seminary sins through you. He The areas;of individual, cultural, in Brighton, In 1993 he was wants to live in your heart. and institutional violence will be asked by Bishop Sean He wants to help with your examined through lectures, media O'Malley to continue his semihands... think about it carepresentations, guest speakers, and nary studies at the North discussion. fully. The response that many American College in Rome.

RICHARD WILSON of you can give is given personLast year, Wilson returned from Stonehill is pleased to bring to Rome to complete a pastoral year at ally to Christ, who is calling you the community this intensive study St. John the Baptist parish, New Bed- tions for the 125th anniversary of the to these great things. " of one of the most pressing issues ford. He will return to the North parish.

If you have thought about the in our society. For more informa- American College in early SeptemDuring, his seminary journey. priesthood. write for more infortion on this major event, please ber. During the pastoral year he Wilson has also been involved in mation .to the Diocese of Fall call the Office of Continuing Edu-, was involved in many aspects of par- other pastoral assignments. He River. Vocation Office. P.O. Box cation at 565-1298. ish life. He worked with the RCIA served as a chaplain-intern at St. John 2577. Fall River. 02720.

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Slowing down romance

By Charlie Martin

Change the World If I could read the Itarl I'd pull one down for you Shine It on my heart So you could see the truth That thll love Inside II everything It seeml But foil' now I find It's only In my dreaml That I could change the world I would be the lunllght In your universe You would think my love Was mally lomethlng good Baby If I could change the world If I could be a king Even tor a day I'd take you al my queen I'd have It no other way And our love would rule In thll kingdom that we had made Til then I'll be a fool Wllhln' for the day That If I could change the world I would be the lunllght In YOlllr unlverle You would think my love Was really lomethlng good Baby If I could change the world Written by: Gordon Kennedy, Tommy Sims, Wayne Kirkpatrick. Sung by: Eric Clapton, (c) 1996 by Reprlle Records so "you would think my love OFF THE soundtrack ofJohn was really something good."

Travolta's latest film, "Pheno~ menon," comes Eric Clapton's Apparently, to accomplish latest hit, "Change the World." this goal, the person in the song The cassingle's sound is vintage, would need to "change the classic Clapton, However, just world." Perhaps he hasn't made in case you're more of a fan of the impact on the other person that he wants. country, Wynonna also has re~ leased the song on her new Admittedly, first love is a "Reflections" CD. rush! The attention, the phone calls, the rendezvous - all of The recording reminds me of what first love feels like. You these make life very exciting. wantthe other to see and believe Yet, for a teen, a dose of com~ how good your love can be. In mon sense is helpful.

Those who go fast in love dis~ the song's words, "I would be the sunlight in YClUr universe" cover that their long~range hap~

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piness often ends up on a detour of broken dreams and hearts.

So how does a person slow down the urge to "change t~e world" and make a new romance perfect? Probably nothing will work until one realizes that the teenage years are not the time for commitment in romance.

Too much learning, too much experience, will be lost if a per~ son decides to date one individual exclusively in high school.

If you do accept this, then common~sense boundaries be~ come easier: 1. Limit the time that you spend together. During high school, one date a week is best.

Also, set some limit on phone calls. Otherwise, the romance can easily become the major focus of your life.

2. Be sure to talk over what will be the limits on physical touch. Affection can easily become sexualized. Getting in~ volved sexually is a mistake.

And it deepens the vulnerability between two people and thus extends the possibility of hurt.

Use your head. Don't let sexual desire wreck your future.

3. Be observant of your own behavior. Are you telling lies in order to meet with your new love? Has there been any type of deception? For example, have you deceived your parents or other adults in carrying on this romance?

If so, the relationship is steal~ ing away one of life's most valu~ able qualities: trust. No romance is worth such a price.

The song is right: Love can be very good. So I~O slow, keep your thinking straight and leave serious involvement for your adult years.

Your comments are always welcome. I'lease address: Charlie Martin, RR3, Box 182, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

Coming of Age FOR YOUTH

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By Amy Welborn If your home is like mine, you're getting ready for school.

Maybe I'll see you, wandering around the chaotic aisles of the local discount department store, list of supplies in hand, checkbook shrinking in fear in the depths of your purse.

It's important to get everything you need for school. After all, you want to be ready to succeed.

Paper? Pens? Backpack?

Attitude?

Yes, you heard correctly: attitude. You can't purchase it, and you can't borrow it, but it's probably the single factor that will determine how successful you'll be in meeting your goals.

It's vital, for example, to nur-. ture the attitude of open-mindedness.

Be open-minded, first and foremost, about the value of what you're undertaking.

Too many students walk into their high school classrooms with the following attitude: "This stuff is boring and irrelevant to my life. This teacher can't tell me anything I need or want to know. Just tell me what I have to know for the test, and give me my grade."

If that expresses your thoughts, you are just setting yourself up to be bored, and it's no one's fault but your own.

Try this out for size instead: I'm a teenager living in Podunk, USA, in the last decade of the 20th century. Hundreds of millions of people have walked on this earth before my time, growing from infancy to childhood to young adulthood in cultures very much like mine, as well as in those that are wildly dissimilar.

They have laughed, loved and cried as I have. They have feared death as I do sometimes in the

ABOUT YOUTH darkness of night. They have wrestled with the meaning of life and tried, as I hope to, to make the world a better place.

Could they perhaps have something to tell me?

Maybe the poems and stories that they penned and I have to read in English class can shed light on my own questions. Perhaps their struggles for freedom and progress that I'll be studying in history can help me understand my own place in the world.

Maybe this year I'll take a chance and believe what they're telling me about that math class whose purpose I can never quite fathom: For a couple of thousand years, people have studied math because they say it helps you think more logically and develop your problemsolving abilities.

Perhaps this year I'll try to believe them, and approach the subject in that light, rather than getting by through copying my friends' homework.

It all comes down to this: You don't know everything, and you will (no "mights" about this one) benefit and become a better person if you open your mind to the wisdom of the ages.

This school business should be about broadening your view of human life, not pulling those blinders even closer so you can wallow in the nihilism of American youth culture.

There are, believe it or not, other ways to look at life than the bored, irony-filled worldview expressed in the music of privileged waifs with dyed-black hair and nose rings.

Do you really want to be different? Read Plato. Listen to a Beethoven quartet. Go see a production of "A Doll's House." With an open, eager mind, you never know what you'll find.

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UNITED S'fATES Paralympic athletes Randy Snow and Candace Cable sway to the music at the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games Aug. 15 in Atlanta. Athletes representing 117 countries competed in the games. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

Fall River Area CYO Golf Tournament results The annual Fall River Area CYO Golf Tournament was held on August 12 at the Fall River Country Club.

In the Senior Division, Kevin Blaser of Somerset repeated as champion with an 83 followed by Dave Purdy of Swansea who also shot an 83 but finished second according to the lowest score by hole rule that applies in this tournament. In the Intermediate Division, Shawn Syde of Swansea shot an 83 for the day to finish first while Mike Azza, also of Swansea, finished second with a score of 85.

In the Junior Division, Fall River's Mike Letendre led the way with a score of 87 for the day followed by Justin Silvia of Westport who recorded an effort of 93.

Finally, in the youngest division, the Cadets, it was Jimmy Connolly of Fall River capturing first

place with a score of92 and Jonathan Cornell of Swansea finishing a close second with a score of 96.

The champions and runners-up were presented trophies and are now eligible to enter the Fall River Diocesan CYO Tournament which will take place on August 26 at the Pocasset Golf Club on Cape Cod. Father Jay Maddock, director of the CYO, expressed his special thanks to Tom Tetreault and the members of the Fall River Country Club for hosting the tournament again this year. Everett Smith, assisted by Roger Dugal, served as tournament director and was singled out by Father Maddock for special thanks.

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Exposition 'of the Blessed ment Sept. I from noon to 6 p.m.; holyhour, 5-6 p.m. at St. Sharbel Chapel, 300 No. Eastern Ave., Fall River 02723. Exposition every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9, a.m. to midnight.

SACRED HEARTS COMMUNITY A Separated/ Divorced meeting LaSALETTE SHRINE, _ .. willtakeplaceat the Diocesan FamATTLEBORO ily Life Center on Aug. 26 from 7 to The Summer Concerts series con- 9 p.m. The speaker will be Father tinues Aug. 24at 6:30 p.m. with SpeSteve Salvador, and the topic will cial Delivery and Friends. All are be, "Grieving and Moving On after invited to 4:30 p.m. Mass and a BBQ Divorce and Separation." All are buffet from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. welcome.

As part of its Jubilee Year celebrations, the "Queenship of Mary" will be observed on Aug. 25. The celebration 'begins at II :30 p.m. at the Rosary Pond with the praying of the The Big Brothers/ Big Sisters rosary followed by a procession, the program sponsored .by New Bedstory of LaSalette and the crowning ford Child and Family Service is of a statue of 'Our Blessed Mother. seeking volunteers willing to spend The celebration will continue at the 12: to outdoor Mass with Father a minimum of two hours a week with a child aged 7 to 14.

Richard Delisle, M.S. as celebrant The children in the program and homilist.

LaSalette's Adult Education Ser- come from single-parent homes ies on "Spirituality and Mental and need role models able and willHealth" continues Aug. 28 from 7: 15 ing to offer them friendship and to 8: 15 p.m. in the shrine theater. advice. Currently, say organizers, The topic will be "Compulsive Gamover 100 children, the majority of bling: Against All Odds," and the .lecture will be given by members of them boys, are ona waiting list for a Big Brother or Sister. the shrine's Counseling Center.

Studies have shown that when a The series continues every other child is matched with a caring Wednesday. September's talks will be on "Toxic Faith," with the Sept. adult his or her self-esteem,school II lecture focusing on "Beliefs That grades, conduct and relationships Burden" and the Sept. '25 ·Iecture with others are markedly imfocusing on "Scrupulosity." Pre- ,proved. ,registration is not required. The . For more information on the theater is air-conditioned.

All events are handicappedac- program, call Jeffrey Perry, (508) cessible. 'Information on any event: 996-8572. tel. 222-5410.·For information about, the shrine's Counseling Center, tel.

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PRAISE IN THE PARK Natural Family Planning(NFP) All are invited to.a free outdoor concert at Roger Williams Park, classes will be held at St. Anne:s Providence, R.I. on Aug. 24, from Hospital, Fall River, from 6:3.0 to to a.m. to ,6 p.m. Featured per- 8:30p.m. Sept. 3, Oct. I, Nov. 5 formers will be Brethren, John Polce, and Dec. 3, in the Patient EducaKevin .Doyle, Jo-Anna Fish, Mark tion Classroom in the 'hospital's , Girardin and more. main building at Middle and South Main Streets.

The sympto-thermal method of family planning taught in the NFP program is medically 'safe, highly effective and morally acceptable.

To register for the classes or for further information call Diane Santos, Director of Education, at (508) 674-5741, ext. 2480 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays.

Iteering pOintl SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO There will be a First Friday celebration Sept. 6at Sacred Heart Church hall, 58 Church St., N. Attle·boro; 6:30 to 7 p.m. - intercessory prayer(in the chapel); 7 p.m. -. Mass; 8 p.m. - program; 8:30 - 9 p.m. 'coffee and sO,cializing. Adoration through the night until 3 p.m. Saturday. Special guest will be Sister Jeannette 'Normandin, SSA. The theme of the program will'be" A Call to Mission/The Challenge ,of Eucharist." All welcome 'to join in all 'or any portion of the evening.

CAPE & ISLANDS CHAPTER OF CATHOLIC NURSES The Cape-Islands Chapter of Catholic Nurses will celebrate their 12th annual Membership Mass at to a.m. at Our Lady of the Cape Church, 482 Stoney'Brook Rd., W. Brewster on Sept. 15. After the Mass, board members will be available to answer questions ,regarding upcoming events. Refreshments will follow.

On Sept. 18 at 7 p.m: there will be 'a meeting at St. Pius X parish center, So. Yarmouth. The topic will be "Parish Nursing - a:NewConcept in Home-Health Care." The speaker will be Sister Carol from Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River. All health-care professionals, members and non-members are invited. 'Refreshments will follow. Information: Debbie, tel. 420-1387.

FALL RIVER WIDOWED GROUP The Fall River Widowed Group will meet on Aug. 26.at 7 p.m. in St. Mary's School hall on Second St., Fall River. The topic of the talk is nutrition. For information: Annette, tel.'679-3278. All widowed welcome.

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DiocesanCYO Golf Tournament Aug. 26 Re.verend Jay Maddock, diocesan director of the Catholic Youth Organization, announces that the 37th annual Fall River Diocesan CVO Golf Tournament will be held August 26 at the Pocasset Golf Club, Pocasset, on Cape Cod. Tee off time is 1:00 p.m.

Local tournaments have been held in various areas of the Fall River diocese and the top two finishers in each division of those tournaments have qualified to compete at Pocasset. The four divisions are; seniors: born on or after Jan. I, 1970; intermediates: born on or after Jan. I, 1977;juniors: born on or after Jan. I, 1980; and cadets: born on or after Jan. I, 1982.

There will be golfers competing

from the Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro and Cape Cod areas.

Father Maddock offered special thanks to the area tournament directors: Jack Crompton (New Bedford), Neil Loew (Attle'boro), Larry Masterson (Taunton) and Everett Smith (Fall River). Larry Masterson will again serve as director of the diocesan tournament.

Trophies will be awarded to the first and second place finisher in each division. Again this year, the Bill Doyle Trophy (honoring one of the former directors of the tournament) will be awarded to th.e outstanding golfer of the tourna ment.

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While 'the ~ aHcan has never said ment, ,Archbishop BertonI: wrote, ~hat C:at~ohcs maynot. go to Med- "From what wassaid,it follows JugorJe, It has told bishops that ·that official pilgrimages to Med-, their pari~hes a~d. dio~es~s may jugorje, understood as a.place of not org~mze offiCial pllgnma~es authentic Marian apparitions, to the. ~Ite of t.he all~ged Manan should not be organized either on appantlOns, the Vatican spokes- a parish ,or diocesan level because .it would be in contradiction with man said.

"You cannot say people cannot what the bishops of the ex-Yugogo there until it has been proven slavia said'in their declaration cited false. This has ,not 'been said, so .above." 'anyone can go if they want," the 'Navarro-Valls said, "When one spokesman, Joaquin Navarro- . reads what Archbishop Bertone Valls, told Catholic News Service wrote, one could get the impresAug. 21. ' sion that from now on everything In addition, he.said, when Catho- 'is forbidden, no possibility" for lic faithful go anywhere, they are Catholics to travel to 'Medjugorje. entitled to spiritual care, so the But, in fact, "nothing has church does not forbid priests to nothing new ha.s been changed, accompany lay-organized trips'to Medjugorje.in Bosnia-Herzegovina, said," the spokesman' told eNS. "The problem is if you syiltematjust as it would 'not forbid them from accompanying a group 'of 'ically organize pilgrimages, organize them with the bishop and the Catholics visiting South Africa.

Navarro-Valls.insisted "nothing church, you are giving a cailonical has changed" regarding ,the Vati- sanction to the facts of Medju'gorje," which the church is still in .can's position on Medjugorje.

In early June, a French news- the process of studying.

"This is different from people paper 'published excerpts .from a letter about Medjugorje pilgrim- going in a group who bring a priest with them in order to go to ,;onfesages written by the secretary of the Vatican Congr~gationfor the Doc- sion," the spokesman said. trine of the Faith in response to a Navarro-Valls said he comquestion from a .French bishop. mented because "I was worried The letter from Archbishop that what Archbishop'Bertone said Tarcisio Bertone 'of the doctrinal could be interpreted in too recongregation quoted from a 1991 stricted a way. Has the church or statement by the bishops of the the'Vatican said no (to Catholics' former Yugoslavia, which said that visiting Medjugorje)? No." after much study, ,"it cannot be The restriction on offici,al pil.confirmed that supernatural ap- grimages, however, 'makes i.t clear paritions or revelations are occur- to people .that the Vatican is still ring here." studying the apparitions.

"The difference, organi2,ed by However, the bishops said and Archbishop.Bertone repeated the diocese with the bishop, is a - the number offaithful traveling way of giving a juridical sa'ilction to Medjugorje requires the church to the facts; you are saying this is true," Navarro-Valls said. . to arrange for their pastoral care.

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HALES CORNERS, Wis. (CNS) - For the first time, Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners has named a w.oman, Franciscan Sister Camille Kliebhan. to head its board of directors.

The chancellor and former president of Cardinal Stritch College in Fox Point, Sister Kliebhan has been a member of the seminary board since 1983 and a prominent figure in Catholic higher education in the Milwaukee area for more than three decades.

"Sister Kliebhan is the first woman to serve as board chairperson for the seminary and most likely the first woman to serve as chairperson of any seminary board," said Sacred Heart Father James Brackin, rector of the seminary.

Sacred Heart is the larges': U.S. seminary specializing in preparing men with second-career vocations to the priesthood. Since 19.38 an average of 25 men a year hav(: been ordained after completing their formation there. Seminarians range in age from 30 to 60 years o::d.

Sister Kliebhan. a member of the ,Franciscan Sisters of Milwaukee. chaired the graduate division of Cardinal Stritch College from 1964 to 1969, was·vice presidl~nt of academic and student affairs from 1969 to 1974 and was president of the college from 1974 to 1991. when $he became chancellor.

"Sister Kliebhan has long been a supporter of Sacred Heart Sehool of Theology and its mission .... She is an amazing church woman," Father Brackin said.