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The 84 from the Fall River diocese attending World Youth Day 2000 tearfully kiss Rome good-bye.

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MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

ROME - Filled with prayer, grace, happiness and a renewed devotion to Christ, the 84-member diocesan delegation of young adults left nearly two million colleagues after a week in the Eternal City to enthusiastically bring their new spirituality home for honing.

"It was a very successful pilgrimage," said Bud Miller, director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry as the group returned to the diocese late Monday night.

"It was one of the most physically demanding weeks of our lives, but it's been one of the most important."

Pope John Paul II encouraged young people to live their lives like saints through their words and deeds and accept the challenge of a new evangelization. That, said Miller is a responsibility that young people "cannot take for granted," and one he feels he and others will embrace having shared the experience of World Youth Day. The week began with an opening ceremony in St. Peter's Square by the pope and the crowds that spilled out into the streets of Vatican City swelled as the week progressed, ending with a Mass

celebrated by the pope at the University of Tor Vergatta on the outskirts of Rome.

For those in attendance it was the chance of a lifetime to celebrate Mass with the Holy Father and share their faith.

"The pilgrimage for World Youth Day makes me proud to be a: Catholic," said Michele Col6n from St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis. "It was uplifting and I

felt a divine connection in the presence of the pope and when he said he was keeping us in his prayers and his blessings."

Keith Long_of St. Joseph's Parish, North Dighton said the pilgrimage for him was "about tireless commitment to Christ. It was an inspiration to see the pope and awesome to see him smiling down on us at Tor Vergatta."

SUNNY ITALY - Young pilgrims from the Fall River diocese took a break from scorching heat soon after this photo was taken, to go inside Good Shepherd Church in Rome for two hours of catechetical instruction by Bishop O'Malley and a time to thinkabollt call to sainthood. (More photos on page 14.)

The week was not an easy one for the pilgrims who traveled more than five miles on foot per day. But because of the spirituality of the journey and the enjoyment found in walking through the history of their Catholic faith, smiles were constantly found on people's faces despite some blistered feet.

Whether it was walking though the HolYI Door at St. Peter's Basilica as the pope did earlier this year in marking the Jubilee, or climbing the Holy Stairs, located near St. John Lateran Basilica, believed to be the steps Jesus climbed on the day he was sentenced to death, the pilgrimage was a spiritually moving experience.

Father Hernando Herrera said it was "an incredible experience for myself and everyone in our group." He was enthusiastic about praying with the pope and declared it was "amazing to meet and share faith with so many Catholics from all over the world and experience the history of the Church firsthand. Father Herrera celebrated Mass for the pilgrims at 11 :30 p.m. on the August 15 feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary because many got held up in the foot traffic following the pope's welcome. He was excited about their desire for spirituality adding that "We will see reverberations of this pilgrimage through the young people."

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will host Jubilee Year Mass . Editor's Note: This is seventh in a 10part series on the pilgrimage churches in the Fall River diocese. The series runs once a month in The Anchor to assist diocesan Catholics in making their pilgrimages to these sites. According to guidelines published by the diocese, those who travel to St. Mary's Cathedral or any ~f the designated churches and fulfill the simple conditions of the indulgence, will receive for themselves, orfor a soul in Purgatory, the same indulgence as if they have traveled to Rome or the Holy Land for the Jubilee Year. ~

Jubilee Mass will be celebrated

by Bishop .Bean P O'Malley, , OFM Cap.,;on Sunday, Sept 3 at 10:30 a'.m:- :

SOUTH YARMOUTH '-:- In' the World War II years 'there were rio Catholic churches on Cape Cod between Hyannis

and West Harwich and the faithful in the area had to travel to St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis or to Holy Trinity Parish in West Harwich to attend Mass.

The situation was alleviated somewhat when Father Thomas McLean, then pastor of the Hyannis parish, built Our Lady of the Highway Chapel in Bass River. , In May 1954, Bishop James L. Connolly announced the forming of a new parish here to be called St. Pius X, and named Father Christopher L. Broderick as the founding pastor. , At the beginning, St. Pius X consisted of a partially furnished rectory on Wood Road, the small Our Lady of the Highway Chapel on Route 28, and a church designed by architeCt Delbert Johnson under construction on Station Avenue. , The new parish's greatest assets were a dedicated pastor and a group of eager parishioners ready to help in any way they could. '

Masses were held in the chapel and on other sites until the church was ready to welcome parishioners. The original St. Pius X Church was dedicated on Aug. 18, 1954.

The parish honors Pope St. Pius X, who referred to the Fall River diocese as his "first child" because it was the first diocese he created after assuming the papacy.

But within only four years because of the growing influx of Catholics to the Cape Cod area, it was found that the summer chapel had to double in size. Then, in 1961 a new rectory had to be built near the church to house the pastor and the Jesuit priests from Boston College who assisted him.

By 1967 it become very clear to Father Broderick that the church could not accommodate

the growing number of year-round parishioners. Plans were then set into motion for a -new church to be built adjacent to the Turn to page J3 - Jubilee

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., August25, 1000 ~

Maryland woman dubbed "Mother Superior of Censors' dead, at 90 BALTIMORE (CNS)- Mary M. :fed the poor and loved her family, .

Avara, a -former Baltimore bail friends, neighborhood and church bondswoman who gained national with a sense of "ferocious maternalfame for her role during the 1960s ism."

She was appointed head of the and '70s as Maryland's movie censor, was remembered at her funeral Maryland State Board of Censors by as a woman who wanted to protect Gov. 1. Millard Tawes ih 1960. For the next 21 years, she was the last children from pornography.

Avara - once dubbed by·the me- word on morality for all movies dia as "America's Mother Superior shown in Maryland..

It was ajob that earned her the conof Censors" - died Aug. 9 of congestive heart failure in Clermont, Fla. demnation ofcivil libertarians and the She was 90. . atte~tion of network talk show"hosts At her funeral Mass at St. Peter like Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett.

"I made up my own ratings," she the Apostle Church in Baltimore, Father Michael Roach, her former once told an interviewer, "G for garpastor, said Avara believed that por- bage and R for rotten. How else could you describe such filth?" nography was not victimless.

When criticized for cutting from a "She knew that a lot of the vicTHE CASKET of Detective Richard G. Magan of the Fall River Police Department is tims were the poor kids in these movie what she deemed to be morneighborhoods, the exploited ones in . ally unsavory or sexually explicit ,removed from St. Joseph's Church in that city, following his funeral Mass on Aug. 17. At right pornography," he said. "And she scenes, she insisted she wasn't aprude. are concelebrants Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, Father John J. Perry, pastor of St. Joseph's, ' "She was the furthest thing from and Msgr. George W. Coleman. (AnchoriJolivet photo) , wanted to protect them."

Filling St. Peter's for the funeral . a Puritan or Jansenist;" said Father were her children, grandchildren, Roach. "She was a good,. earthy, great-grandchildren, city politicians healthy person."

She continued with the Maryland whom she helped elect through the 6th District Ladies Civic and Im- censor board, the last such.board in .By DAVE JOLIVET officer in Fall River history to be police officers. "Faith is a source of provement Association, aIid many the nation, until it went out of busi- .

ANCHOR STAFF .killed in the line ofduty. Magan had comfort, even at this time when our ness in 1981 after 65 years. friends from her old neighborhood.

FALL RIVER - St. Joseph's been on the force since 1982. faith may be challenged," said FaAvara is survived by a son and a Father Roach said Avara was betChurch ther in Fall River was the s~ene .

Perry. "To ask 'why?' would be Hundreds of police officers from ter known to those present as a re- daughter, a brother, nine grandchilat-. to presume .to know the mind of across the state and the region of a Mass ofChristian burial for markably strong-willed woman who dren, and 17 great-grandchildren. police detective Richard G. Magan, tended the funeral at St. Joseph's God. Instead, we must believe that who was killed Aug. 11 while go- Church. Pastor John J. Perry God is with us and is comforting us." concelebrated -the Mass with a FatherPerry told the congregation to the aid of a fellow officer. ing PRO-UFER Magan; 39, was responding to 'a number of priests, including police that Magan was baptized, made his lIP call for assistance·from another of- chaplains from surrounding com- first Eucharist and was confinned at ficer, when he lost his balance and munities.

St. Joseph's Church, and now, "hehas ADVISOR fell over aretaining wall, plummetIn his homily, Father Perry of- ~ome full cfrcle," having his funeral TRUE ing 25 feet to the rail road tracks fered prayers and stipport 'for' Mass in tHe same church where his REsTORER below. Magan was the third police Magan's family, friends and brother three children were baptized.

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Following his ordination in 1978, Father Iasiello' served in Brazil; as assistant pastor of Holy Cross Parish in the Bronx; and as chair of the modem languages department at Bishop Timon High

School in Buffalo, N.Y. While serving at Bishop Timon, he was commissioned as · a chaplain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was recalled to active · duty in 1983.

Since becoming a Navy chaplain, Father Iasiello has served in a wide range of assignments, in. eluding duty with the 2nd Marine Division; the U.S. Coast Guard Support Center in Kodiak, · Alaska; the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.; and aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger. '

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., August 25,2000

Su.perio'r ,Court Chief-·Justice to address Red Mass dinner FALL RIVER - Officials of the fourth annual Red Mass celebrations honoring members of the justice system for their dedicated service announced that Chief Justice Suzanne V. Del Vecchio of the Massachusetts Superior Court will be the keynote speaker at the dinner at White's Restaurant on September 24.

The reception and dinner at 5 p.m., will follow the Red Mass to be celebrated at 3 p.m., by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., in St. Mary's Cathedral.

Traditionally, an attorney, judge, court official and an ecumenical recipient are presented the coveted· St. Thomas More award at the Red Mass, so named because red vestments are worn at the liturgy which honors the Holy Spirit.

Announ'cement of the award winners is forthcoming Judge Del Vecchio is the' wife . of Cyrus Del Vecchio and they are parishioners of St. Paul's Parish in Hingham. When in Boston, Judge Del Vecchio attends liturgies at the Arch Street Chapel of

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From' 1990 to 1992 she was a lemnity of Corpus Christ in Kennedy A graduate of Wheaton ColPark to close the diocesan Eucharis'lege in 1964 and Boston College regional administrative justice for tic Congress will be aired on local Law School in 1967, Judge Del Plymouth County; was named an cable channels in several communiVecchio served as a staff attorney· associate justice of the Superior ties. The schedule is as follows: . for the Boston Legal Aid Society, Court in 1985 and in 1999 was _ Barnstable, Chatham, Denas assistant corporation counsel named chief justice of the Supe- nis, Harwich and Yarmouth, C3TVfor the City of Boston, as a mem- rior Court. cable channel 17, Sept. I, 8, 15,22, ber of the law firm of Boorstein Judge Del Vecchio is a co-au- and 29 at noon; and Del Vecchio in Boston and thor of "Handbook of Family - Brewster, Eastham, Orleans, since 1993 has b,een an adjunct Law," as well as the "Annual Sur- Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet, professor of law at Boston Uni- vey of Massachusetts Law." She cable channel 17, Sept. ? at 9 p.m.; is the recipient of the Plymouth - Fall River, cable channel 98, County Bar Association's Brass . Aug. 29 and Sept. 5 at 6 p.m.; Gravel Award; the Massachusetts - Mashpee, cable channel 17, Academy of Trial Lawyers' Judi- Aug. 30, Sept. 6, 13, and 20 at 8 cial Merit Award; and the Massa- p . m . ' chusetts Association of Women - New Bedford, cable channel Lawyers' DisJinguished Jurist Award.

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Be aware The tragic Russian submarine disaster in the Barents Sea had the entire world holding its breath save that of the homeland. The government reaction to the loss of one of its_newest submarines and all its crew, should remind us that Russia has a long way to go in shedding its dictatorial past. In the circle of the upper electives of government the Russian people were treated in much the same way as in the days of Stalin. What made the difference was the emerging free press, which demanded true answers replacing official lies.

The world knows that Russia is unable to maintain its nuclear fleet. As one reporter reflected, the Russian Navy is a 'floating Chernobyl." What is really foreboding is that the "Kursk" sinking could repeat itself. The,care of the Russian nuclear arsenal is border.jng on a disaster that could affect the entire world: This negligence is inexcusable. .

Likewis'e, Russian President Vladimir Putin's refusal to acknowledge the loss the "Kursk" and the refusal of international aid for almost a week again reflects the cloak-and-dagger mind-set that permeates the man himself. His avoidance of an upfront report to the Russian people and his inabilityto reach out to those affected by the disaster again uncovers his Cold War mentality. The outright refusal . of American help brings u·s back to the days of "Red October."

Russia has a long way to go to become a truly free and demo~ cratic member of the world fami.lY. However, it is obvious it really has to take care of a very serious matter at home. This inability to maintain its nuclear weapons is a real danger to planet' Earth andthe refusal to be open and honest with is population places Putin and his government in a very dangerous and contradictory position. Let the world family take note. ,

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,A mean-spirited mind-se.t If two or three million young people gathered in New York for a rock concert, media coverage would be enormous. When the same amount of the world's youth gather to pray in Rome, it barely gets reported. The secular media in this country has afield day playing up politics and scandals but has little room fQr positive God news. . ..

You can be sure if it was negative and shocking it would be prime time and front page.

The World Youth Day celebration this past week was the largest religious gathering of young people in the Western hemisphere. . Millions literally sacrificed much to come together to pray and share their faith in the Eternal City. It was not a mere matter of vacation time. Rather, it was a reflection of the Spirit at work in the hearts and souls of Catholic young people from the far comers of the earth. For media dedicated to the crassness of the secular, such a convocation becomes a non-entity not deserving orprint or pictures. ' ,"

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK the tighter the press, the more th,e advertisements on the billIt also reflects the real anti-Catholic prejudice that is fostered and CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE , ' peopleconversed with each other. boards surrounding the stadium perpetuated by American media moguls. There are some who think Are certain things getting to There was a ~'we're all in this to- changed about every five minutes. that such attitudes were a thing of the past. Far from it. The bigotry you - political campaigning, gether so iet's enjoy it" spirit.

'The incongruity Of the strong acof the past never disappeared. It is much with Us in'today's med.ia .perhaps,. or the way your parish My friend's stadium seats were cent on the consumer side of life world. The deliberate judgment to relegate coverage of ,the World is run, or noisy neighbors? If so, as far up and away from the play-while' being outdoors and trying Youth Day 2000 in Rome to a back ,page is a blunt affront to the I suggest that you go to a football . ing field as possible, in nosebleed to relax, caused me to giggle.

American Catholic Community and the Church throughout the world. game and experience all that hap- heaven.

During time-outs in the game, As we ascended the long ramp the two main billboards gave us Once again with common heart and mind, let all in the Church ,pens around you. It will make you family strive eagerly and energetically to use the ~arious means of laugh and forget your troubles. " to get there, we passed a very short previews from the news , Not long ago, a friend offered heavy man who looked as if he channel, a weather report, and upsocial communication more effectively in the many fields of the apostolate, as the circumstances and the times require. These ef- me a free ticket to a game between had played all four quarters of the coming new programs and movfort~ should headoff hurtful enterprises especially in those places the'Washington Redskins and the game that was about to start. I ies. Down on the field cheerleadNew England Patriots. Not hav- cautioned him to, take it slow and ers did cartwheels and danced. where moral and religious needs dictate a more active zeal. ing gone toone in years, I'd'for-' . get somewater along the way. He Again, I had to grin at the inanity The Editor gotten the humorous things that 'replied, "Man, you got that right," of all these ·attention-getters that ,take place before and during the 'and chuckled. detract from the main event. game. ' When we arrived at our seats, Back in the stands, the beer To start with, my friend and ( set on a steep incline, I feltthat if vendors were a show unto themtook the Metro to the game rather I leaned over too far I would fall selves. Gripping dollar bills in one than fight traffic. I noticed that right onto the field. As I watched 'hand, popping bottles 'open with about one-third of the r.iders wore others enter, and then. suddenly,. the'other and then directing their Reaskins jerseys. Now, on little stop and inch their way along; , course through the crowd, the OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF.THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER children and teen-agers they look,. holding onto whatever they could, :vendors often displayed more acPublished weekly by The CattiolicPress of the Diocese of Fall River perfectly normal. But when you I laughed at how cautious they rooatics than you saw onthe playP,O, BOX 7 887 Highland Avenue " see men and women in their 70s immediately became. ing field. . ' Fall River. MA 02722-0007 Fall River. MA 02720 wearing them, you have to smile· I literally broke up when the ' Surprisingly, when I. left the Telephone 508-675-7151 ' of this part man next to us stood up, dialed' game I felt like a new person. All at the youthful spirit FAX (508)675-7048 of the crowd. Not one of them was his cellular phone and then began worries had vanished, and my Send address changes 10 P.O. Box 7 or call1elephone number above - serious; all were joking around. to wave to the person he was sense of humor was back to norWhen we left, the train and speaking to who was 10 rows ,. mal.:Don't ask me what the final EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER NEWS EDITOR boarded- the shuttle bu,s, we all over. The man was like a kid with score was, I was having too much Rev. Msgr. John F. Moore Rosemary Dussault James N. Dunbar fun watching all the action around were pressed together like sar- , a new toy. dines. Yet no one cared. In fact, During the game, I noticed that me to notice. ~.

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Five lawyers and the culture of death On June 28. 2000, infanticide was declared a constitutionally-protected "right" in the United States of Amelica.

That is what the Supreme Court's decision in Stenberg vs. Carhart, which ovelturned a Nebraska ban on partial-bilth abortion, means. Justice Stephen Breyer, who wrote for the court's m~tiority, conceded as much, warning readers of the gruesome details of the abortion procedure they were about to encounter in his opinion.

Stenberg vs. Carhart not only legalized infanticide in the United States.

It declared abortion a constitutional right so basic that it cannot be trumped by another concern. Not the state's legitimate interest in erecting a banier to infanticide. Not the state's legitimate concern for the integrity of the medical profession.

Not the state's legitimate interest in the elementary decencies.

Stenberg vs. Carhart also underlines graphically the degree to which we are increasingly ruled by nine unelected lawyers rather than by our duly-elected representatives.

Nebraska's unicameral state legislature adopted the bill struck down by the court by 99-1. That made not the slightest difference to five of the nine lawyers.

Neither did the fact that the American Medical Association stated that it "could not find any identified circumstance where" partial birth abortion "was the only appropriatealternative" and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists declared that it "could identify no circumstance under which" this barbaric procedure ,"would be the only option to save the life or

preserve the health of the woman."

Such professional expertise was irrelevant to five lawyers who are detelmined to preserve at all costs an unrestricted liberty-right to abortion on demand - even extending that "right" to infanticide.

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In his magnificent dissent in Stenberg vs. Carhart, Justice Antonin Scalia expressed the conviction that, one day, this desperately wrongheaded decision would lie moldering in the potter's field of history alongside Dred Scott (which declared that African-Americans were not persons who could be the subjects ofconstitutional rights) and Koramatsu (which attempted to justify the internment ofinnocent Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War IT).

One expects that, after 15 years on the court, Justice Scalia has learned to expect little more than political edicts masquerading as legal reasoning from several of his colleagues. The American people,

Scalia seemed to suggest, have more moral and constitutional sense than tive of the Supremes; the people would see to it that Stenberg vs.

Carhart was eventually rejected.

But subsequently, friends report that Justice Scalia has been deeply disturbed by the lack of public outrage over the constitutionalization of infanticide. It is true that the national media, as usual, botched the story.

Most reports described Stenberg vs. Carhart as merely another "abortion rights" controversy, while ignoring or missing the court's cjismissal of virtually any legitimate state interest in regulating abortion and its extension of the abortion liberty into what is indisputably infanticide.

But where were the activists to make the case for what really happened?

Where were the Pr~-Life organizations? Where were the rallies, the demonstrations in front of the court, the town meetings and peti-. tions, the fiery sennons?

Justice Scalia is right to be dis- , turbed: We all should be. And we should do sOl)1ething about it.

Couldn't the Pro-Life religious community sponsor a National Day of Prayer and Fasting this fall? A day of national repentance would focus attention on just what Stenberg vs.

Carhart did, while reminding the country that the court has forced upon us the gravest ofchoices about the kind ofcountry we want to be in the future. Such a National Day of Prayer and Fasting could unite Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, Orthodox Jews, Mormons, and Muslims in a common effort to restore America's moral sanity.

Church leaders denounce advice to clone embryos for research LONDON (CNS)-A Scottish cardinal and aVatican official denounced a recommendation by Britain's chief medical officer that scientists be allowed to conduct wider medical research by cloning human embryos. .

Liam Donaldson, Britain's chief medical officer, expressed support for an expansion of current human embryo research for "therapeutic cloning," by which embryos are cloned to obtain stem cells to fonn new tissues, then the embryos are killed.

Stem cells are embryonic cells that have the potential to develop into any of the body's cells.

Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow, chainnan of the Bioethics Committee of the Catholic Bishops ofGreat Britain and Ireland, said "Obtaining stem cells from a human embryo is morally wrong because it involves the destruction of a human life.

"Furthennore, cloning embryos to obtain an endless supply of stem cells is to adopt the productionline approach to human lives," he said.

Parliament approved embryo research in 1990 into areas such as treating infertility.

But in the report "Stem Cell Research: Medical Progress with Responsibility," released last week, Donaldson said research using human embryos "to increase understanding about human disease and dis~ orders and their cell-based treatments should be permitted" because of the "great potential to relieve suf-

fering and treat disease."

Cloning for therapeutic purposes involves use of genetic material to create a human embryo, removal of cells from the embryo at an early stage of development to fonn new tissues, and then killing the embryo.

The Department ofHealth said Prime MinisterTony Blair would leave it to members of Parliament to decide in a vote whether scientists would be permitted to clone human embryos for wider research.

Cardinal Winning said humiln stem-eell research "may offer promising new developments in health care.

But science cannot operate in a moral vacuum."

The cardinal called for "a ban on all research that results in destruction of human embryos, that is, human life."

In Rome, Bishop Elio Sgreccia, the Vatican's leading expert on bio-genetic research, told reporters that the British recommendation marked "a step backward in the history of ethics." ''This is not a matter of helping embryos live, but of using them as deposits for cells in order to 'repair' other individuals," said Bishop Sgreccia, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Meanwhile, an Italian representative to the European Parliament, Rocco Buttiglione, announced that he would lead a political effort this fall to condemn the British position.

THE ANC~OR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., August 25, 2000 People of conscience cannot accept infanticide as a constitutionallyprotected "human right." It is past time to make that manifest, and by the kind of action that demonstrates

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that repentance is the first step toward national renewal.

George Weigel is a senior fellow ofthe Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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LUCILLE PARKER, a resident of St. Anthony Home in Crown Point, Ind., visits with eucharistic minister Jennifer Kozub after receiving Communion. Kozub said her cerebral palsy has been "kind of a blessing." (CNS photo by Karen Callaway, Northwest Indiana Catholic) .

Indiana woman sees disability as blessing in'pastoralwork

By GAYLE RUSBASAN AND BRIAN T. OLSZEWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

her grandmother, Anne Humenick, and her grandmother's friend, Lucille Parker, whom Kozub has CROWN POINT, Ind.. - Jen- made her "adopted" grandmother. nifer Kozub has cerebral palsy, but "She's my inspiration," Parker . said. "All she's been through and don't call her "handicapped."

"Handicap is a nasty word to you never hear her complain." . her," said Margie Pixey, pastoral Parker said everyone loves associate and coordinator of pasto- Kozub. "She is so good to her ral care at St. Anthony Home in grandmother, pushing her in her Crown Point. wheelchair when sh~ visits," she The 20-yearadded. old Kozub, who is Kozub's indoing a geriatrics ternship is ~aming Kozub has inspired internship at the her college credit, nursing home, respect and positive and giving her exsees things differ- thinking in residents perience in other ently, calling her during her visits as a aspects of the cerebral palsy eucharistic minister. home's care such "kind of a bless- Acco"rdingto Pixey, as -diet, physical ing." therapy and social She told the ''They see her and services.

Northwest Indiana say," 'If she can do Pixey, who is Catholic, newspa- something, so can '-Kozub's field super of the Diocese we.'" pervisor, said the of Gary, "There young woman are people I can· "inhales every ex. reach out to and perience." She show that there is hope f<;>r them works 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Montoo." day, Wednesday, and Friday, and is After graduating from .sometimes on call.

Merrillville High School in 1998, Kozub has inspired respect and she eJ;1rolled at Ball State Univer- positive thinking in residents dursity to study elementary and spe- ing her visits as a eucharistic mincial education. ister. According to Pixey, "They see But the 'summer between her her and say, 'If she can do somefirst and second years changed her thing, s6 ~an we.''' plans. She worked in pastoral care Father Lowisz said Kozub's disand said she "discovered I was ability hasn't hindered residents and counseling people without realiz- staff from accepting her: "Those ing it." . that take time to know Jennifer see This fall she will begin studies that she h~ a lot of depth," he said. in psychology at Aquinas College Kozub's post-colleg~ plans inin Grand Rapids, Mich. clude working in rehabilitation psy. "I really wanted to go to aCatho- chology with recovering stroke and lic college," said Kozub. "I would heart attack victims. Having already feel more at home there, and I can appeared on public TV in· Indiago to Mass in the morning." napolis and spoken to groups about That is no surPrise to Franciscan her disability, she plans to put a.

Father Myron Lowisz, the St. An- communications minor to use, too. thony chaplain who recommended Reflecting on her pastoral work Kozub to Pixey. at St. 'Anthony, Kozub said, "The "Jennifer is a prayerful person," residents do so much more for me he said. "She comes to Mass when- tl:lan I could ever do for them. I ever she's here." guess this was something I had T~o St. Anthony residents eswithin me, but it took an experience . pecially appreciate Kozub's visits: like this to bring'that part out."

Bishop O'Malley holds teaching $ession with pilgrims in Rome ROME - ~ilgrims from the been sealed in the Holy Spirit of the mate destination.

The road to holiness along Fall River diocese winding up a .promise. As St. Paul says, 'We have we must travel as Christ's which been called by a special choice.' week of World Youth Day 2000 We are called to life in the human followers is full of sudden and unactivities, met with Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., to learn family and to newness of life in expected bends; sometimes we about the call to holiness facing Christ's family. We are called to dis- make wrong turns. In Fall River there are many comers where the ciples~p, to be Christ's followers and them in the years ahead.

In a two-hour morning session to have a relationship with our fel- street signs are missing: Life is that on Aug. 18 at Gesu Buon Pastore low disciples, the other members of way. Sometimes it seems that there Church, (Jesus the Good Shep- Christ's Body, the Church. That is are more potholes than road signs. herd), Bishop O'Malley talked precisely why we are here today in The road to holiness is not a jourabout the love of God and others the City of Rome at World Youth ney somewhere during which we Day. We have been called by God to work out all the directions. Rather and what sainthood is all about. it is a process of encountering God The text of his talk, "CAT- holiness.

What is holiness? It sounds like and letting Him take over, like the ECHESIS: SAINTS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM,': follows: something strange and exotic. An un- satellite signal that never tires of attainable goal. Jesus defines holiness redirecting us after each wrong "When I was a child we stud- for us when He said that all of our tum, accidental or deliberate. The ied the 'Baltimore Catechism' that religion, the Law and the prophets, choice of sin or grace is alw~ys beconsisted of questions and an- can be summed up in the Great Com- fore us, but even if we tum down swers. We used to have to memo- mandment of love 'to love God the dead end lane of sin, when we rize everything. In the United above all things, with all our mind, tum to God He will open up a new States in a church full of people all out strength, all our willpower' possibility, a new direction, a new my age. if you ask the question, and then to love ourneighbor as our- way to find true happiness.

The truth is that Jesus Christ is 'Why did God make you?' The self. The one who loves more is more .whole congregation could answer like God, who is Love itself. Jesus the road map. Studying His Life in unison: 'God made me to know says, 'If you love me, keep my co~­ and words we begin to discover God's love and plan for us. In Jesus Him, love Him, and serve Him in . mandments.'

The path to holiness begins with we find out ho\y to live a fully huthis life and to be happy with Him faith and with the vision of reality. man life, a fulfilling existence. The forever in heaven.' .

As a child I blurted out these that faith brings. The Spanish author way is holiness, sacrifice, love. St. words; now as a man I realize how Perez Galdos has a wonderful novel Francis used to say that the Cross great: a truth they express. God called 'Marienela.' It is the story of a was his book. There he read about made us to love, to serve, to know young girl with a great capacity for God's love for us. And as he looked love. She has a boyfriend who is at the Cross, Francis often laand to be happy.

When I was a young lad of blind by the name of Pablo.. mented, saying; 'Love is not loved.' about 12-years-old, my older Marienela takes such good care of But Francis understood that G6d's brother·was going on a retreat at Pablo. She reads to him, She cooks love pursues us, calling us home. .the_~apuchin seminary. I was too for him, she takes him for his walks. I In' England, the poet Francis young to goon the retreat. I went Pablo loves Marienela, but when he Thompson was addicted to nar~ot­ along for the ride to accompany is operated on and is cured of his ics. He discovered Christ's love and . my Dad. After we dropped my blindness, everything changes for was able to overcome his habit and brother Ted off,. we stopped and him. Pablo discovers that there are he joined the Church. He describes talked with an old friar by the other girls in the village prettier than .the process of his conversion in the name of Father Bede. He was Marienela and so he leaves her and . magnificent poem 'The Hound of wearing an old tattered habit and goes and marries someone else. The Heaven.' In that masterpiece, Thhad a peard and his hands and irony is of course that when Pablo is. ompson describes Jesus as a hound face were' darkened by the sun blind, he is able to see the beauty and that pursues the sinner like a huntfrom working in the garden. the goo'dness ofMarienela, but when ing dog goes after a rabbit to snatch When we finished our conversa- he is cured, he sees only what is on up the animal and take it back to tion with the priest, we got into the surface, he sees appearances. And the Father. our car and were driving home. appearances often deceive.

The Gospels are full of converFaith is the vision to see the world sion stories: Jesus calling sinful The first thing my father said after we left was: 'That may be the through God's eyes, to. see what is people to be his disciples 'prostihappiest man,in the world.' Those truly important, what is really beau- tutes and tax collectors'; Peter who words impressed me ~ery much. tiful. It allows us to see the meaning denies Jesus; Paul who ~ad perseI know that my father was right; . of things. Christ is the key at the cen- cuted the Church and who particithat man was filled wit~ peace ter ofGod's plan. Prayer sustains and pated in the murder of St. Stephen. and goodness 'and was very deepens the vision of faith that illu- In our own country there is a belmhappy, even though he did not mines the path to holiness. tiful example of a dramatic converhave abeautiful wife, a fine home A few years ago I was at a meet- sion inthe life ofDorothy Day. She and a big car. I began to think to ing in Dallas, Texas. A priest friend had been a Communist activist in myself: I want to be happy the had rented a car and was taking me New York. After having one aborway that that man was. A few for a ride. We were both fascinated tion and having a daughter out of years later I returned and joined by the new technology of the car. It wedlock, Dorothy Day was drawn that monastery. For me it was a had one of those computerized maps to Christ and joined the Church. As call from God, a way to kno'w, that indicate how to get to your des- a Catholic she started working with love, and serve Him and be tination. At first I thought that the the poorest ofthe poor, the derelicts computer somehow 'counted_ the and homeless in the worst slums. happy with Him. God is calling all of us. First number of revolutions of the wheels She founded the Catholic Worker He calls us to the table of life. We and registered the turns of the steer- movement and passionately 'prodid not ask to be born - but God . ing wheel; but my friend who is very . moted the teachings Of the Cathowanted us to. In baptism God is adventurous decided to experiment. lic Church. The last thing that Carcalling us to newness of life. St. When the computer told us to get into dinal John O'Connor of New York Paul speaks of God's plan in his the left lane and prepare to tum left, did before he died was to begin the letter to the Ephesians. The Fa- Father Lorenzo did just the opposite. process to present Dorothy Day as ther chose us in Christ before the We thought we could outsmart or a candidate for sainthood. foundation of the world, that we confuse the coinputer; instead the , Some people are very pessimisshould be holy and without blem- computer immediately found an al- tic about the future. I am not. We ish in.His sight (in love). He ternative route that put us back on see how God's grace makes holiwants us to be His Sons and track. It was then that we realized that ness spring up in the most unlikely Daughters in Christ, in the there was some sort of satellite sig- places and that holiness is contaChurch, the Body of Christ. nal that allowed the computer to de- gious. The saints are witnesses to Through the Blood of Christ our termine our exact location and indi- God's holiness and open doors for sins are forgiven and we have cate a new path to lead us to our ultiTurn to page seven - Saints

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others to find the path to God. Pope Paul VI used to say that more than teachers, the world needs witnesses, persons who embody the love of God and His truth and proclaim it with their lives.

In the early Church the ideal for every Christian was the martyr. The martyrs of the early Church were men, women and young people who died rather than renounce their faith in Christ and their loyalty to Him. Rome is the city of the martyrs. It was here that St. Peter was crucified near the spot where St. Peter's Basilica lies. It is thought that the obelisk in the center of the plaza in front of what is now St. Peter's was one of the last sites that St. Peter saw before being nailed to the cross in Nero's circus. Not far away in Tre Fontane St. Paul was beheaded for his fidelity to Jesus Christ. Since St. Paul was a Roman citizen they executed him in a more humane fashion.

Tonight there will be a celebration of the Stations of the Cross in the Colliseum, a place that has come to symbolize the hosts of witnesses 'the thousands who were killed by wild beasts or gladiators.' In Rome we have the catacombs, the miles and miles oftunnels used as cemeteries in ancient times. There the early Christians hid in times of persecution. There Mass was celebrated on the tombs of the martyrs. Today in the Church we still keep the custom of having an altar stone in every altar. It is a piece of marble containing relics of the martyrs. We are still a Church of martyrs. God's grace still raises up martyrs, men and women who take Jesus' word seriously,' Greater love has no one than the one who jays down his life for his friends.' The martyrs in every age died for Christ, but also died to witness to us, to announce the Good News that Jesus ChIjst conquered sin and death and we need not fear death any more. Our Redeemer lives; He wants us to be His friends.

The message that these martyrs give to us is that we need courage to follow Jesus' Christ. I have always liked the story told about St. Patrick evangelizing the Irish back in the fifth century. It concerns the conversion of a famous warrior and chieftain by the name of Ossian. There were no churches in Ireland in those days, the early 400s. People gathered in a field for the baptism. St. Patrick came in his bishop's vestments, and he stuck .his crozier, his staff, in the ground and began to preach a long sermon on the Catholic faith. The convert warrior stood directly in front of St. Patrick. The crowd noticed that the man was sweating profusely and had grown very pale. Suddenly he fainted. When the people rushed over to help him, they discovered that St. Patrick had accidentally stuck his bishop's staff through the foot of the new convelt. The people revived him and when Ossian came to, they asked him why he had not said anything or asked for help. He answered that he thought it was part of the baptismal ceremony. Poor Ossian did not know mllch about Catholic Ht-

urgy and ritual, but he did understand that to be baptized meant that we must by willing to carry the cross and do difficult things for the love of God. It is unlikely that many of us will be called upon to suffer as a martyr like Maximilian Kolbe, St. Stephen, and so many others. In today's world the persecution of Christ's followers is subtler. It takes the form of ridicule, condescension, exclusion. Sometimes it is more difficult to withstand this kind of persecution and people succumb not even admitting that we are giving in and betraying the message of Christ.

The other day the Cardinal Archbishop of Montreal told me of a recent interview he had. The media person was not a practicing Catholic and asked the archbishop how he was so strong in his beliefs.

He said, 'Did you get a fax from God?' The Cardinal replied, 'Yes. The fax is the Gospel and you should take some interest in reading it.'

The culture of dea~ is a growing reality as we begin the new millennium. You will be the martyrs of the new millennium. You are the disciples who will have to suffer to proclaim the Gospel of Life. It may not cost you your life, but it will cost you to be faithful, to be courageous, .to be good. You will be the builders of a civilization of love or there will be no civilization at all.

We live in a society that extols the individual without reference to God or neighbor. This kind of selfishness is tearing away at family, community.

Jesus says in the Gospel: 'The one who loves his or her own life, actually loses his life, but the one who is willing to sacrifice hjs own life actually saves his life.' It is a paradox.

The way we find tlUe happiness and fulfillment as human beings is by making a gift of ourselves to God and others. Our nobility and grandeur lies in the fact that we are made in the image and likeness of God. Well, our God has made a gift of Himself to us!

To make a gift of ourselves to others we must discern our vocation. The call to holiness we receive in baptism leads us to seek God's will in our life. We are called not just to honor God one hour a week, but every day of our life. For most of you the call to holiness will take the form of a vocation to married life. In God's plan love comes first, then marriage, then sexual love, and then having children, in that order!

To separate love, marriage, sexuality, and the transmission of life is to do violence to God's plan for humanity. Christian marriage is a Sacrament that should reflect Christ's love for the Church. The greatest gift fathers give to their children is loving the children's mother. The greatest gift mothers give to their children is loving the children's father. That one love announces to the world the enduring love and unity that binds Christ to His Church, His people.

Some of you are surely being called to a life of consecrated celibacy in religious life or the priesthood. This sacrificial love is a spe-

cialwitness to the Church's faith in the Resurrection. Jesus never married and the Apostles, though mamed, left home and family to be available to serve the needs of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is so important that God sometimes calls individuals to forego the blessings of married life for the sake of the Kingdom. As believers we must help people to embrace their vocation by our prayers and encouragement. The shortage of vocations is really a shortage of responses.

There are always enough calls but 'too few are answering.'

Even if a Catholic does not have a vocati9n to priesthood or religious life, we have a serious duty to promote these vocations in the Church.

Without the public consecration of . the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the witness of the Church's commitment to the Gospel is compromised. Without the priesthood, the Eucharist is not possible and we would starve to death without the spiritual nourishment of 路the Body and Blood of Christ to build up the Church. Without the priesthood 'we cannot receive the sacrament of confession which washes away our sins and helps us carry on a process of conversion and spiritual growth. As Catholics we must all promote these special vocations so little understood in today's world.

It is in discerning and living out our personal vocation that we respond to the call to holiness which is basically a call to love and to build a civilization of love. The architects and artisans of the civilization of love are the saints. God is calling you to be saints of the new millennium. Your holiness must . consist in saying yes to God, yes to lo've, and no to sin and selfishness.

In Mary and the saints of heaven we have a cloud of witnesses inviting us by their example to make a gift of ourselves to God and to others.

Let me draw these comments to a close by telling you one of my favorite parables that is from Japan.

There was once a man who dwelt in a beautiful mansion on a

mountaintop. Each day he would walk in his garden and enjoy the view of the ocean below. One day as he was in his gardens he saw a group of his neighbors on the beach below enjoying a picnic. Then he noticed a huge tidal wave IUshing toward the shore. He wanted to warn his friends. He began to shout and wave his arms, but the distance was too great. The man decided to set fire to his house. When his friends on the beach saw the smoke and the flames, some said, 'Let us climb the mountain and help our neighbor save his home.' The others, however, said, 'No, you go.

That mountain is so high and we are having such fun here on the

beach.' Those who left the picnic to climb the mountain thought they were doing a service to their neighbor. Actually, they were saving their own lives. The ones who continued having fun on the beach perished.

It is as the Lord said in the Gospel: 'The one who loves his life shall lose it and the one who hates his life will save it.'

When we make a gift of ourselves to God and others, we may think we are sacrificing our lives.

Actually we are saving our lives by love. And when all is said and done, it is that faithful, generous, sacrificiallove that matters. That is what saints are about. That is what the world sorely needs."

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Democratic platform agrees, disagrees~ with U.S. bish~ps

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prosperity does not reach far enough. Our culture does not lift us up; instead it may bring us down in moral terms. We are still falling short of the American . pledge of 'liberty and justice for

LOS ANGELES - Democrats in their party platform agree with the U.S. bishops on a number of issues, but the two groups . depart radically on abortion and all'; education.

- TAX CUTS AND WAGES: ' The Democrats approved their The Democrats urge a cautious platform last week at the Demo- approach to tax cuts, proposing cratic National Convention in Los cuts for college savings, retireAngeles. The bishops, mean- ment, health care, child care, carwhile, last fall issued "Faithful ing for the elderly or disabled, and Citizenshi~: Civic Responsibility buying cars and homes. for a New Millennium," which The bishops do not specifically lists a number of issues of con- address tax cuts, but instead encern to the Church in an election courage domestic economic poliyear.' cies that reduce poverty and deEconomic justice, universal pendency by promoting greater health care, empowering the poor, responsibility; \ support systems for families and - CRIME: The Democratic stewardship of the earth, for in- platform calls for stronger gun stance, are part ofeach document. laws, including mandatory child Here is a comparison of some safety locks, background checks portions of the 2000 Democratic and funding for fighting gun platform to what tile U.S. bishops crime. It advocates ,treating addicsaid on, the same topics in their tions for prisoners with a "stay document: clean to stay out" in'centive. It also - ABORTION: The Demo- calls for DNA testirig to be used crats support , "in all appropri"the right of evate circumery woman to stanc.~s4,"'In all Democrats in their choose, consisdeath-row cases~ tent with Roe "s. party platform agree we encourage Wade and re- with the U. S. bishops post-conviction gardless of abil- on a' number of isreviews." ity to pay."

The bishops' sues, but the two The bishops in statement briefly groups depart raditheir document addresses crime. urge support for a cally on abortion and It urges the nation constitutional education. to abandon the amendment prodeath penalty and tecting unborn encourages soluhuman life and legislation to op- tions to violent crime that "reflect pose abortion and euthanasia and the dignity of the human person"; to encourage childbirth and adop- HEALTH CARE: The tion; Democratic platform urges re- EDUCATION: The Demo- doubled efforts soon !o expand crats' education goals range from coverage of the uninsured; enmeeting basic reading standards cdurages passage of a patients' to producing more college gradu-' bill of rights; and urges Medicare ates with degrees in science. They coverage for prescription medi- ' oppose publicly funded vouchers cines, further funding for AIDS! for private schools. They encour- HIV and cancer research, and age competition among public coverage for mental health care schools through programs like through schools and cqmmunity charter schools. systems.

In "Faithful Citizenship," the The bishops support measures bishops say, "All parents ... should to strengthen Medicare and Medhave the opportunity to exercise icaid, and extending health covtheir fundamental right to choose erage for children, pregnant the education best suited to the women, workers, immigrants, and needs of their children, including other vulnerable populations'; private and religious schools....

IMMIGRATION: The Families of modest means espe- Democrats reject calls' for a new cially should not be denied this guest-worker program, instead choice because of their economic recommending adjusting the s,tastatus"; tus of long-time immigrants who - ECONOMIC POLICIES: st.ilI lack legal residency.

The Democrats take credit for the The bishops' document urges economic success of the last eight "protection for persons fleeing years, including low unemploy- persecution" including providing ment, 22 million new jobs, re- safe havens, even in the Uni ted duced numbers of people on wel- States. It also urges "a more genfare, and more new homeowners. , erous immigration and refugee The bishops' statement puts policy," full protection of U.S. law the shortcomings of the success- for immigrants, and policies that ful economy more bluntly: "All address the root causes of migrais not right with our nation. Our _tion.

NEW GRASS gets its first cutting outside the unfinished Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington recently. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec)

Excitement builds . for opening of Pope John Paul II center

By AUDREY SOMMERS CATHOLIC NEWS 'SERVICE

Besides exhibit spaces, it will have a chapel, a cafe, a small theDETROIT - The finishing ater, classrooms, a licensed daytouches are being put on the high- care room and offices for resident tech, interactive Pope John Paul IT scholars.

Cultural Center in Washington, as At. the main entrance visitors it gears up for its first event Nov. come through a soaring rotunda to the lobby, where they pay admis12. "i am driving everyone crazy as sion and find information on curthe countdown clock ticks," joked rent exhibits and a timetable of that Father G. Michael Bugarin, a De- day's, events so they can plan their troit archdiocesan priest and direc- visit. tor of the center. Asked at 12:34 Mounted at various neights p.m. Aug. 15 how much time was along the railing of the ramps leadleft, he paused only a few seconds" ing to the lower level are "hands before answering, "88 days" 23 of peace" - bronze castings of hours and 26 minutes." hands of practicing Catholics.

The four-story center exploring Each is identified by name,' counthe interaction between faith and try, occupatio!} and a personal quoculture is the brainchild of Detroit tation, giving the visitor a sense of Cardinal Adam J., Maida, who community formed by individuals launched the project in 1994 and from around the world. continues to head it.

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"Money is still coming in, but we haven't gone national yet with public and media relations to reach the final goaL" He said the center would be launching a national media campaign this fall.

In mid-August the landscaping and building exterior were largely done and c,rews were"beginning to' .c, concentrate on interior wiring, walls and furnishings.

The grand opening is not until next March, but Father Bugarin said there will be a "soft" opening Nov. 12 for trustees and other major contributors. He said the next day the bishops, gathered in Washington for their fall meeting, will visit the center after their annual Mass down the street at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Concep- , tion.

An important feature of the center will be its "think-tank" of about 12 resident scholars doing research on various aspects offaith, culture and the thought of Pope John Paul.

Inaugurating that dimension of the center will by a symposium Nov. 18-19, co"sponsored by the center and The Catholic University of America, on Pope John Paul's philosophy.

Religious scholars from around the world will be able to delve into the history of the papacy, the' Catholic Church and the impact of Catholicism on the evolution of the world's cultures.

The center will have a gallery devoted to exhibits of Vatican art and an interactive museum featuring displays on Pope John Paul's travels and writings. c Architect Leo Daly' said that "art and architecture are closely integrated in this structure. The design incorporates the powerfularchitectural forms and gardens found in Catholic tradition."

"There will even be a children's gallery," he said. "Our primary missiori is to give people an active exploration Of their faith."

Atlanta Braves slu.gger credits cancer recovery to Mary

By JULIETIE GLASOW CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

"Maria Rosa Mistica" - a depiction of Mary in a veil, with a flawATLANTA -An initial meetlessly pale face, hair as black as night, red lips formed in a smile, ing with Atlanta Braves first baseman Andres Galarraga reveals soft eyes and hands folded in a confident man with a smile prayer. few can resist talking about.

He and his family love the .painting of the Mystical Rose, His baseball career - which includes 356 homers, 1,253 whose eyes remind him of the RBIs and four All-Star games ~ statue of Mary in his locker at - gives plenty to be happy Turner Field, the Braves' home ballpark. about.

Galarraga said it was his But Galarraga would say his smile is born of something family's positive attitude, deeper: trust in God and a becoupled with their prayers to lief that Mary interceded to help God and requests for Mary's intercession, that helped him to cure hi'm of cancer. stay strong through the course The 39-year-old native of Venezuela, who lives in West of his illness.

Palm Beach, Fla., was diagOne day, he said, someone nosed with nori-Hodgkin's lymsuggested he should buy white , phoma, or cancer in the lymph ATLANTA BRAVES' Andres roses to honor the Mystical system, in February 1999. He Galarraga slides into home plate. Rose. , had just come off a season of (eNS photo from Reuters) "We couldn't find white , roses at the time so we bought 44 home runs and 121 RBIs. Teammates said they were two, that their father had cancer, some orange instead," he said. He told his wife he didn't think the shocked to learn that the "Big Cat," he said. so dubbed for his cat-like reflexes, "I tried to find the best way to color mattered much.

He said three of the dozen orhad cancer. tell them what happened with me," Although doctors were optimis- he said, adding that they probably ange roses turned white. His wife tic about his potential for recov- wanted to cry but were strong and later rubbed some crushed petals ery, Galarraga's first reaction was promised him they would take him ,from the bouquet onto his back.

One night in March, he said, he everywhere with them. different.

He spent that winter and spring had a dream that God carried him "I thought I would be dying that day," he said in an interview with doing a lot of painting, an old from his living room to his bed, The Florida Ca'tholic, newspaper hobby of his, and playing with his put his hand on his body and removed the cancer from within., children. of six Florida dioceses.

"I know he put his hand on my At the same time he said he One of his paintings was

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WASHINGTON (CNS) -A cancer researcher, a lawyer and the leader of a post-abortion ministry warned the abortion industry it may face a barrage of lawsuits for not informing women about a possible link between induced abortion and increased risk of breast cancer.

The three spoke at a recent press conference at the , National Press Club sponsored by the American Life League.

In announcing the press conference, the league said, "If you think you've seen major litigation against big tobacco,just wait until the darn breaks against the abortion industry."

Joel Brind, an endocrinologist who since 1981 has been studying the connection between induced abortion and breast cancer, said national health agencies are "covering up this connection."

Brind said he now has 34 studies showing a connection - and most of the studies were funded by the National Cancer Institute, or NCI. He said that as the "gatekeepers of public knowledge of health hazards of every description," the cancer institute, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department ofHealth and Human Services "have for many years now, both passively and actively, helped to perpetuate the myth of 'safe abortion.'"

"How many of you know that the only study yet published which was specifically commissioned by the NCI reported a significant 50 percent increased risk of breast cancer overall?" he asked.

Brind was referring to research conducted by Seattle epidemiologist Janet Dalirig and her colleagues. Daling said the study suggested "that women age 45, and or younger who have had induced abortions have a relative risk of 1.5 (50 percent increased risk) for breast cancer compared to women who had been pregnant but never

had an induced abortion." But Daling said the risk factor was small and needs further study.

Many in the research community have disputed that an abortion-breast cancer link exists as Brind claims.

John Kindley, lead attorney for a woman who is suing a North Dakota clinic, said an abortion provider has a duty ''to disclose the risks not only of breast cancer but also of post-abortion psychological trauma."

He said the Red RiverWomen's Clinic in Fargo, N.D., is being sued for "not only failing to warn women about the abortion-breast cancer link" but also for saying in a brochure that there is no evidence of such a link.

"It is not paternalistic to admit that a woman in acrisis pregnancy with its troubled whirlwind of circumstances may need counseling and objective help in coming to a decision, not just a clinic employee ... reassuring her'everything will be OK,''' Kindley said.

The third speaker, Theresa Burke; founder of the Rachel's Vineyard Ministries division of the American Life League, said that "women have been led to believe abortion is a safety net when it's a safety hazard." ''Women can sue abortion providers for not telling them this. There are millions of potential clients who can seek redress in the courts," said Burke, whose ministry offers weekend retreats to help women heal from postabortion trauma. , '1 have facilitated intensive healing retreats for women and men who could no longer tolerate the overwhelming grief, crippling depression and psychological symptoms associated with an abortion," she said.

The psychological and medical dangers associated with abortion are reality that has been "grossly ignored and neglected" and the fact such tra!1mas are real has been "dangerously and irresponsibly spun by abortion activists as a 'myth,''' Burke said.

Abortion providers "feel threatened that circulating information on the harmful effects of abortion will discourage women from having abortions and exercising their reproductive rights," she said.

body and removed the cancer inside," he said. "I woke up soaking wet, as though someone had . thrown \\later on me."

Convinced of Mary's intercessory role on his behalf, Galarraga said, "I feel like it is the Virgin's and God's will that I am still going and here playing the game."

Although he missed the entire 1999 season, by that September Galarraga was able to travel with his team~ates again. Tests in December showed he was cancer-free.

Braves public relations director Jim Schultz said when spring training began this year, "no one was sure how Galarraga would be, if he would be ready to play or have to be relegated to a part-time role."

By the third week in February however, teammates and coaches could see that his disciplined efforts in physical therapy had paid off. "It was just amazing, because he swung the bat

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TV star Loretta Young, a lifelong appeared in 165 of 300 episodes, . =-.._~- :C~~= Catholic who died of ovarian can- and won three best-actress Emmys.

Father Phalen said the influen- ., cer Aug. 12 in Los Angeles, was an essential part of Catholic-spon- tialYoung befriended Father Peyton sored Family Theater Productions in the late 1940s and "helped him for 53 years, said Holy Cross Fa- create Family Theater Productions by introducing him to other celebther John' P. Phalen.

Young, 87; who prayed the ro- rities to star iri the nonsectarian rasary and attended Mass daily, dio dramas he was trying to pro:.. starred in Family Theater's first ra- duce."

VINCENT D'ONOFRIO stars in "The Cell," a science fiction thriller that also features Jen- ' Family Theater Productions nifer Lopez;. For a brief review of this movie, see CNS Movie Capsules on this page. (CNS dio drama in 1947, hosted its threepart TV series on the mysteries of honored Young with its lifetime photo from New Line, Cinema) the rosary in the late 1980s, and' achievement award in 1997.

She was born Gretchen narrated a 1998 biographical program on its founder, the late Holy Michaela Young in Salt Lake City Cross Father Patrick Peyton, fa- Jan. 6, 1913. In a 1975 interview mous for promoting the family ro- with then-National Catholic News Service, she recounted her own sary.

Father Phalen, president of Holy near-brush with abortion.

Her 23-year-old mother, who Cross Family Ministries in Albany, N.Y., and Family Theater Produc- had become a Catholic at 19, alBy GERRI PARE CATHOL.IC NEWS SERVICE (Naomi Nishida) who face assorted perils, but of tions in Hollywood, said in a state- ready had two small girls when she course emerge unscathed. ment: "We will be forever grateful discovered she was pregnan~ again.

NEW YORK - Rising from the Pacific to ter-Director Takao Okawara's foremost flaw is a to Loretta Young for her willing- "She was hesitant to tell her husness to share her talents with band because she knew financially rorize Japan for the' umpteenth, time is "Godzilla bloated, nearly 1OO-minute running time. The movie - ' lurches and drags, much like Godzilla, tail trailing filmgoers and television audiences they just cou~dn't afford another 2000" (TriStar). baby," said Young.

This is the 23rd reincarnation of the giant reptilbehind him as he divides his attention between the for over 70 years."

Her non-Catholic husband and ian beast whose dorsal ~pines now look like ragged alien invader and Japanese weapons fired at him.

Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of San The scattered special effects are usually impresBernardino was principal celebrant onon-Catholic doctor advised an Christmas trees as he crushes crowded Tokyo neigh. . ' sive, but attempts to inject goofy humor and a deand homilist at her funeral Mass, a~ortion., said Young, but the priest _ borhoods with i~punity.

Yet the focus IS not on the fnghtened populace liberately campy tone are transparent and just fall last week at her'parish,St. Louis, , who had.instructed her offered different advice. ' . and government efforts to save them, but on ahuge flat. in Cathedral City,. Calif. , Young said the priest told her ancient mt:teorite,thatwhen raised from the sea lit~ This Godzilla is just as artless as the originals in The glamorous leading lady; the first actress to win both an Oscar mother to "dedicate the child to (the . erally flies 9 ff under its own steaql. Or, 'as the less- the 1950s, but lacking the innocence and naivete that and an Emmy, easily made the tran- Blessed Mother) ... ask herto work than-inspiring d,ialogue goes, "Did, you see that fly-' mape the early imports enjoyable. Even the current ing rock go by? It's ,unbelievable." .' movie's press notes admit it's all about money.AIsition from big screen to small it o u t . " . , What she did, the actress It seems that underneath its bogus rocky coverthough Toho·Films killed off Godzilla forever in their That's screen. ing lurks a mysterious UFO (resembling a 'flying last installment in '95, the success of the AmericanStarring in nearly 100 films over noted.

In the summer 1999 issue of bedpan) that soon returns to perch atop a Tokyo made "Godzilla" in '98 sent them rushing back into four decades, Young won the bestMedjugorje Magazine, Young told skyscraper - before spawning a mammoth alien production to revive their cash cow. actress Oscar in 1947 for her perMsgr.

Francis Friedl that pilgrim- to do battle with the fire-b~eathing Godzilla.

As always, in the nearly 50-year history of Japaformance as a Swedish maid who What do the human characters have to do in this nese Godzillas, the monster is actuaIly a stuntmim nins for Congress in "The Farmer's ages to Medjugorje in 1986 and tired movie? Not much, except move their mouths in a rubber suit. Amusing as that briefly is, when Daughter," and was nominated in 1994 changed her prionties.

"After Medjugorje, I began to into strange configurations since this isa Japanese ~he story has a clumsy exposition as it does here, the same category for playing a nun in the 1949 film, "Come to the put first things first," she said. "I had . cast whose' voices are haphazardly dubbed for coupled with bland human characters who rarely always been so involved in my ca- American audiences. The human villain is· stone- seem in imminent mortal danger, this Godzilla is . Stable." ',', In 1953; she began an eight-year reer, with my acting and the worldly faced Katagiri (Hiroshi Abe) who wants Godzilla very vanilla. dead while angry scientist Shinoda (Takehiro Due to sci-fi violence, the U.S. Catholic Confer;<:run on television with two series, things that go with it." ;,~"A Letter to Loretta" and "The o The screen legend is survived by Murata) wants to study him. Tossed into the all-male ence classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. i~~Loretta Young Show." Each show her three children, three.grandchil- cast just to include a child and a female are Shinoda's The Motion Picture Association of America rating dren, and a sister, Georgiana young daughter (Mayu Suzuki) and a photographer is PG - parental guidance suggested. \~bega~ with a star tum by Yo~ng in ' 'twa deSigner gown and ended With her M9ntalban, at whose home she died. ~i and the corny plot predictable, Conference classification is Aleaving swell shots of fall in the IV - adults, with reservations. "':0 Big Apple as the sole attraction.

The Motion Picture Association A few sexual encounters and fleetof America rating is R - reing rough language. The U.S. stricted.

"Steal This Movie" Catholic Conference classifica(Lions Gate) tion is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of Flawed biography about Amyrica rating is PG-13 - parYippie founder Abbie Hoffman ents are strongly cautioned. Some (Vincent D'Onofrio), a revolutionary prankster and lC~i ~'I()'Viite material may be inappropriate for countercultural figure who used children under 13. flamboyant and provocative tac"The Cell" (New Line) lCa.V~Ulllle~ tics to raise awareness of social Bizarre sci-fi thriller in which a psychologist (Jennifer Lopez) NEW YORK (CNS) ~ Folissues in the 1960s. Director lowing are recent capsule reviews uses radical drug)herapy to exRobert Greenwald's broad narplore the unconscious mind of a rative becomes overwhelmed issued by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and comatose, schizophrenic killer with the era's.political complexities while the details of Broadcasting. hoping to save his latest victim Hoffman's life are told in me"Autumn in New York" who is hidden' in a booby(MGM) trapped cell. Stunning, surreal thodical, uninspiring flashbacks.

Forgettable romantic drama ,visuals don't make up for direcA few sexual' encounters, some tor Tarsem's weak narrative with nudity, drug use and much rough about an aging playboy (Richard I Gere) who discovers true love' minimally developed characters. oolangu·age. The U.S. Catholic \, and little suspense. Disturbing Conference classification is Awith a feisty, much younger '~ violence· and sexual images, ·IV. - adults, with reservations. woman (Winona Ryder), whose TELEVISION AND film star Loretta Young stands with Holy grave illness may abbreviate their some nudity and occasional The Motion Picture Association :Cross Father Patrick Peyton in this 1954 photo. Young, who time together. As directed by Joan rough language, with fleeting of Amer.ica rating is R,- re'died Aug. 12 atage 87, was active with ministries founded by Chen, perform<lnces are hammy ,profanity. The U.S. Catholic "stricted. , F?ther.f>~~,tQJJ.tQ!, rn~:>r~ th,a'l.5.o.years. (CNS photo)

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ATTLEBORO - The Holy Apostles Choir of Cranston, R.I., will perform at the La Salette Shrine Garden Concert on Saturday beginning at 6:30 p.m. Those attending are encouraged to attend the Shrine's 4:30 p.m. Mass before the performance. For more information or a full schedule of summer concerts and programs call 222-5410.

EAST FREETOWN - A program entitled "Stand Up For Your Faith: The Privilege of Being Catholic," will be held from 7-9:15 p.m. on August 30. It will explain important aspects and components of the Catholic faith and its teachings. Those attending are asked to bring a Bible. For more information call Bud Miller at 675-3847.

FALL RIVER - Father Roger Landry will talk about the recently published Third Secret of

Fatima Sunday at 8 p.,m., at Espirito Santo Church. The presentation will be in English.

MANSFIELD - Monthly Natural Family Planning Clas'ses sponsored by the Couple to Couple League will begin on September 10 from 2-4 p.m. at St. Mary's Parish Center and continue as follows: Oct. 8, Nov. 5, and Dec. 3. For more information call Maureen or John Howey at 339-4730.

MASHPEE - The Children's Choir of Christ the King Parish will present its annual Pops Concert under the tent at Mashpee Commons Sunday beginning at 2 p.m. It will include sacred and popular music and will feature a soloist from the church's adult choir. In case of rain it will be held in the parish hall.

NEW BEDFORD - The Catholic Homeschool Support Group meets every First Friday at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street following the 12: 10 p.m.

Mass. Their next meeting is Sept.

1 and those attending should bring a picnic lunch. For more information call Brenda Peter at 991-6570.

NORTH ATTLEBORO The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for adoration following the 7 a.m. Mass on the first Friday of each month at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Parish, 14 Park Street. It will continue throughout the day on Sept.

I and coritinue until Benediction and Mass on Saturday Sept. 2 at 9 a.m. For more information call Joan Provost at 699-2430. , NORTH ATTLEBORO -A First Friday celebration will take place on Sept. 1 beginning with Intercessory Prayer in the chapel at Sacred Heart Church, 58 Church Street. Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m. and Al Lapierre will give a presentation on reli.gious icons from 8-9 p.m. Adoration will follow and continue until 3 p.m. on Sept. 2.

NORTH DARTMOUTH The next Retrouvaille weekend will be held Sept. 15-17 and offers cO!Jples a chance to heal and renew troubled marriages. Rediscover yourself and your spouse and a loving relationship in marriage. For more information call 1-800-4702230 or the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry at 999-6420.

SWANSEA - Daylong Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is held on the first Friday of each month following the 8 a.m. Mass at St. Dominic's Church. It will

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est diocese in terms of territory. . riages," said Father Dinh, whose It covers the provinces of Lao Cai, duty is to develop and strengthen Lai Chau, Son La, Tuyen Quang parish councils in the diocese.

Marie Nguyen Thi The, a new and Yen Bai, and part of the provinces of Ha Tay, Hoa Binh, Phu convert in Vinh,Quang parish, told DCA News that she became a Tho and Vinh Phuc,

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Hung Hoa's see has been va- Catholic not only because her SON TAY, Vietnam - A cant since 1992, has 181,000 husband is a Catholic, but also Church official in northern Viet- Catholics and 40 parishes. Fifteen because she values the "conjugal nam said many non-Christians in of its 17 priests are active clergy. fidelity taught by the Catholic After, visiting four 'remote Church." his diocese have expressed their Martha Nguyen Thi Hoa, 76, wish to become Catholics, but priestless parishes, Father Diph DCA News, "Although we told there are not enough missionar- said reports show that some 1,000 have been living in a priestless non-Christians were baptized in ies to help them.

While compiling a book called the first four months of this year. parish for more than 50 years, we "One Hundred Years of Hung Most of them were reportedly rejoieed and welcomed into our parish communfty 40 ,converts Hoa Diocese, 1895,-1995," Father baptized on Easter.'

He later met with 20 lay lead- who were baptized at the bishop's Joseph Nguyen Van Dinh, coordinator,of parish councils for ers in mid May in Nghia Lo par- house last Easter, including a fam, Hung Hoa Diocese, estimated that ish, some 160 miles northeast of ily of eight."

Father Dinh, who is also pastor some 40,000 people have ex- Hanoi. The lay leaders came from for some 5,000 Catholics iil Lang pressed their desire to b<:;come parishes in Yen Bai province.

The priest told the leaders, "It Lanh and Gia Thanh parishes in Catholics, reported DCA ,News, an Asian church, news agency , .is worth noting that there are new Phu Tho province, said he expects converts in remote priestless par- that some 2,000 people will bebased in Thailand.

"However, the problem is that ishes even though those places come Catholics before the Great there are not enough qualified lack the most basic facilities for Jubilee of the Year '2000 ends.

"The increasing number of Church workers to teach cat- , evangelization.

"Some new converts say they new converts during the jubilee echism," he told DCA News recently. He added that the lo~al' become Catholics because they year is a promising and hopeful Church currently relies on cat- value the Christian message, oth- sign for our diocese, which faces echists to do the evangelization ers appreciate the good example a serious 'shortage of priests and . work. of local Catholics, and the rest lacks well-trained lay missionarHung Roa is Vietnam's-!arg- received baptism in mixed mar- ies," FatherDinh said.

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

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

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se'veral of.the/fouf major basili- tended with other English-speak- , get a rejuvenation of faith. '~As , cas including St:MaryMajor and'- ing pilgrimsJlt was filled with ,youth ministers and religious eduSt. Paul's and toured some of the' ' music, singing and manypartici- cators we feed our youth and this city's historicaLb'uildings includ- paQts took a<;lvantage of the sacra- is an opportunity for us to share in ing the Colosseum, the Roman ment of reconciliation prior to the that as well as the children."

Pope John Paul II, looking reForum, the Trevi Fountain, Span- bishop's talk, (The entire talk apjuvenated and energized, adish Steps :and' Pantheon. The 84 pears on page six in, this issue.)

During his catechesis, Bishop dressed the crowd on Saturday afpilgrims were divided into subgroups with c,haperones for most , O'Malley said it Was "moving to ter flying in by helicopter. He of the" week and enjoyed a vari- see so many Y9ung people from spoke to the two million young all over the world celebrating the people in attendance about faith ety of experiences.

Each group' spent time in St. Jubilee," and living as saints in the and feelings of doubt, encouragPeter's Basilica and some man- new millennium. He told those ing them to share their faith with aged to get a tour through the gathered that Christ is the road others and make the world a betmap and they should study his life. ter place..

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"You will not resign yourself to Alexis Olivera from the Youth His words received bursts of apand Young Adult Ministry Office, plause and a standing ovation a world where other human beings said everything she saw and expe- when he concluded histalk. Young die of hunger, remain illiterate and rienced during the week long pil- people then broke into small have no work. Defend life at evgrimage was wonderful. "Being groups and discussed his talk and ery moment of its development," able to climb the Holy Stairs was came up with questions for him to he said. The pope ,told the young ' a moving experience," and during answer. Mass followed. people that Jesus ha~ taken a perSaturday morning the pilgrims sonal interest in their lives and they the pope's dialogue atTor Vergatta, which she listened to via an En- ' set ou't at 6:30 a.m. to begin their' should use him as a guide. The glish radio translation, she said "I journey to an 800-acre tract of land Holy Father received many loud was choked up and teary eyed. The at the University of Tor Vergatta ovations of applause during his pope. had so much energy. It was ,on the outskiits of Rome where talk. .very powerful." they would celebrate Mass with The vigil festivities continued late intc;> the night with song and She added that she hopes the the pope on Su'nday.

The trip involved taking arrietro dance showcasing the many culchildren who attended will have a deeper understanding of what Jesus train to the end 6f its line and then tures in attendance. The Holy Fagave to them and they will proclaim walking mo're than two miles in ther tapped out rhythms on his 90-plus degree weather, carrying chair with his fingers and waved their faith with a louder voice.

The pilgrims took a bus tour to overnight gear and food with tens his hands to the music much to the Assisi on Thursday and celebrated of thousands of other Catholics. . delight of the crowd who interMany of the local residents had rupted his talk several times with Mass with Bishop Sean P. O'Malley OFM Cap., at.the tomb hoses available to'spray pilgrims songs and chants like "Giovanni ofSt. Francis. They walked through ' with a cool blast of water and or- Paolo," (John Paul) in Italian, St. Mary of the Angel's Church ganizers had, fire hoses to do the praising him. The evening was one which houses the regional chapel same and provided plenty of filled with prayer and ended with restored by St. Francis himself and bottled water for participants. Al- a booming fireworks display.

Our Fall River pilgrims were many ohhe路 young people were though the walk was long, again it was the spirituality of the event mixed among the crowd in variagain moved to tears at the site. ous spots and watched the pope on Bishop O'Malley presented a which kept people optimistic.

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ment and joy and the energy sparked by the pope continued throughout the night even after the Holy Father left when groups from around the world joined one another to share cultural dances and song.

Matt Rapoza enjoyed the pilgrimage thoroughly and said he's ,looking forward to being a chaperone in 2002 when the next World Youth Day takes place in Toronto, Canada. "It was a wonderful experience and something that I will remember as long as I live."

On Sunday, the pilgrims were awakened by the rising sun and the sounds of religio!Js music. The pope celebrated Mass at 8:30 a.m. and was joined by many cardinals, bishops and priests. For all, the opportunity to attend Mass celebrated by the pope was a unforgettable experience and Alexis Olivera spoke for many when she

stated that seeing the pope consecrate the bread and wine was "amazing."

On the last day of the stay, Mass was celebrated by Bishop O'Malley at the tomb of St. Peter in the great basilica. He was joined by his secretary, Father Richard Wilson, Father Herrera and Bishop Adalberto Martinez, of San Lorenzo, .Paraguay, who was the first priest that Bishop O'Malley ordained. The day was also the feast day of St. Pius X, founder of the Diocese of Fall River.

During his homily the bishop spoke about the tombs of the saints and how they are important to Catholics because we believe that someday we will all rise in Christ.

He also spoke about St. Peter and how Christ built the Church upon him and during the pilgrimage the bishop stressed the importance of

young people in the Church asking them to "pledge to be witnesses of the resun路ection. Receive the gifts of faith and share them with others."

Bishop O'Malley's hope for spiritual renewal for the young pilgrims was realized. They came away filling spiritually renewed and ready to be the protagonists of the new millennium.

Caitlin Murphy was one of the young people who was moved by the pilgrimage and she looked forward to returning home to tell others about it. "The trip was amazing. I've got a lot to bring back to my parish community." Like other young people on the pilgrimage she kept a journal and will be presenting her thoughts and pictures to her parish communities.

Miller said the thrill for him during the pilgrimage was seeing

the pope and being in the "presence of the man who uniquely upholds divine authority given by Christ. It was a privilege. I'm proud of our young people because they have a pride in their Catholicism and are coming back home challenged."

Miller said his work will not end when he gets back into his office because he h'.ls already begun work on the pilgrimage to Toronto for World Youth Day in 2002.

"People should start planning fund-raising now," he quipped.

Between meeting so many Catholic brothers and sisters from around the world, being in the

presence of the Holy Father, finding spirituality in the sites and experiences, and moments of prayer and grace, the pilgrimage to Rome was a moving experience for all who attended.

People traveled in order to renew and strengthen their faith and bring back something of what they experienced to share with others and as Father Herrera said, those reverberations will continue as people share their faith in Christ.

In the following weeks, Mike Gordon will continue to share stories and pictures of the diocesan pilgrimage to World Youth Day 2000 in Rome.

NO TIGERS were waiting for these Christian pilgrims when the visited the Colosseum during the World Youth Day events. But on Aug. 18 they were among hundreds of thousands of colleagues at a torch-lit, Stations of the Cross service there recalling what befell those who followed Christ.

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old house of worship. . On Jan, 19, 1969, the new St. Pius X Church was dedicated, completing years of labor and it was indeed the pride of Father Broderick.

In October 1969, Pope Pius VI honored the beloved pastor with papal honors as a domestic prelate.

Msgr. Broderick retired in October 1974 and remained in charge of the parish until June 4, 1975. At that time, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin appointed Msgr. Henry T. Munroe as pastor.

As the parish growth 'continued, a Parish Life Center was needed and ground was broken in October 1989. The new center was dedicated on Dec. 16, 1990.

Msgr. Munroe remained as pastor until June 1989 when he was appointed vicar general of the Diocese of Fall River and transferred to St. Thomas More Parish, Somerset, as pastor.

It was at that time that Msgr.

John J. Smith, a native of New Bedford and pastor of St. John the

Evangelist Parish, Taunton, who had been named a prelate of honor in 1987, was named pastor at St. Pius X succeeding Msgr. Munroe.

Assisting Msgr. Smith is parochial vicar Father Paul Bernier.

Father Jose Afonso Lima of the Brazilian Apostolate, is in residence. Permanent deacons are Richard J. Hassey, Thomas Bailey, David P. Akin and Richard Zeich.

Masses at St. Pius X on Saturday are at 4 and 6 p.m., in the main church and at 5:30 p.m., in the chapel. On Sunday, Masses are celebrated at 7, 9, and 10:30 a.m., noon arid 5 p.m., in the main church and at 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m., in the' chapel. Confessions are heard Saturday from 3 to 3:45 p.m., and after the 6 p.m. Mass, all in the main church. A holy. hour is held Fridays from 3 to 4 p.m., in the main church.

Named one of 10 pilgrim or stationary churches in the Diocese of Fall River for Jubilee Year 2000, St. Pius X has had an active year. A luncheon-social,

Mardi Gras, a night with Bishop O'Malley, parish buffets, a communion breakfast and a parish retreat were offered.

The parish Men's Club sponsored a pilgrimage to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and the Women's Guild sponsored a pilgrimage to the La Salette Shrine in Attleboro.

As a special event, the Women's Guild sponsored a marathon, one-day tour of seven of the off-Cape pilgrim parishes. , The Women's Guild is planning a four-day pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec later in September. And the parish's Knights of Columbus will sponsor a pilgrimage to the shrine of founder, Father McGivney, in Connecticut.

The' parish will host Bishop Walter Sullivan of the Diocese of Richmond, Va., for a talk on peace and justice in October. And in November the parish will welcome Thomas Beaudoin for a talk on those estranged from the faith.

In addition to St. Mary's Cathedral, the following churches have been designed by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., as pilgrimage sites in the Diocese of Fall River for the Jubilee Year.

Bishop O'Malley will be the principal celebrant at Masses at the churches on the following dates and times: St. Mary Church, Mansfield, held in March; - Saint Anne Church, Fall River, held in April; - St. Anthony Church, Taunton, held in May; - Concluding Mass for the Eucharistic Congress, Kennedy Park, Fall River, held in June; - Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, New Bedford, held in July; - St. John Neumann Church, East Freetown, held in August.; - Sunday, September 3, St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth, 10:30 a.m.; - Sunday, October 1, Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich, 5 p.m.; - Sunday, November 5, Christ the King Church, Mashpee, 11 :30

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Sunday, December 3, La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, 4 p.m.

Jubilee Year guidelines Jubilee Year guidelines state that a person on pilgrimage to the churches should do at least one of the following: attend Mass or Vespers, make the Stations of the Cross, say the rosary, or spend time in eucharisticadoration and pious meditation, ending with the "Our Father;' the Profession of Faith and a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Those seeking indulgences must receive holy Communion, ideally on the same day that the Jubilee Church or shrine is visited. They must offer prayers for the Holy Father along with other prayers ending with the

"Our Father;' the Profession ofFaith and a prayer to the Blessed Mother.

Sacramental confession leading to a genuine conversion of heart is also a condition for the indulgences. This may ~ fuUilled several days before or after the church visitation. Other ways to gain the Jubilee indulgence include: the undertaking of charitable works, visits to the sick, imprisoned or elderly, almsgiving and abstaining for a whole day from the unnecessary consumption ofcigarettes, alcohol, or fasting and abstinence according to the general nonus of the Church.

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By ANN PIASECKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

KANKAKEE, Ill. - Part of the excitement of going back to school for many young students is the chance to use new markers, fresh crayons, No.2 pencils and fashionable backpacks.

But for many students, the thrill of a new school year is gone before it starts because their parents cannot afford the supplies, new shoes and clothes featured in commercials.

That's when the volunteer staff at Seconds to Go Resale Shop in Kankakee comes to the rescue. The shop, run by the Provena St. Mary's Hospital Auxiliary, has been collecting donated school supplies to distribute before school starts.

It is the second year for the school supply collection, which is part of The Caring Tree Project. For the past several years, auxiliary members have coordinated collections throughout the year to help meet the needs of the community, explained Ronda Bond, director of volunteer services at the hospital.

Recently, an elementary schoolteacher pointed out to the group that supplies were woefully inadequate for returning students in the financially depressed community of Hopkins Park in Kankakee County.

It waSH 't just the lack of supplies that concerned¡ the teacher, but the way the poverty seemed to affect 'students' psyche.

"The teacher said some kids were running away from home - not because they were bad or were being abused - but because they didn't have shoes to wear or supplies," Bond told

The Catholic Explorer, newspaper of the Joliet Diocese.

With its first collection, the resale shop outfitted 37 families with all the school supplies they needed. This year's collection is expected to be bigger since staff members at the hospital make regular donations at the monthly staff barbecues.

Last year's supply drive prompted some area teachers to ask for assistance on behalf of

specific students. "We had teachers asking for belts, shoelaces and even underwear," added Bond.

The auxiliary has made numerous items, including clothing, children's toys and small household items for the past 15 years.

Assisting those in need is a tradition for hospital personnel, added Bond. "These are ways to bring hope and healing throughout the community."

ALECIA MERICLE, nine, of Bradley, 111., stands near a table full of school supplies donated by employees of Provena Hospital in Kankakee, III. The new supplies will be distributed to children from families with limited incomes. (eNS photo by Ann Piasecki, Catholic Explorer)

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By MARIA L. TORRES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGELES In today's age of rapid technological advancements, change appears to be the only constant, particularly in the information-laden world of libraries.

"The information world has just exploded beyond all imagination," said Providence Sister Renata H~yum, school librarian at Providence High School in Burbank. "Now the whole world is at your fingertips."

I Sister Hayum and other librarians at Catholic high schools in the Los Angeles Archdiocese shared a glimpse into modern libraries during an American Library Association gathering earlier this year.

"There have been major, major changes in libraries over the years," said Joanne Mazza, school librarian at Notre Dam~ High School in Sherman Oaks, who has worked as a librarian for more than 30 years. "Things are changing more every day.

"Today's students have totally different needs and totally different resources available to them," Mazza told The Tidings, archdiocesan newspaper of Los Angeles. "Now they have instant access to everything."

In addition to offering books, periodicals, newspapers and conventional reference materials, most libraries now provide an expanded range of information services,

including videotapes, CDROMs and the Internet.

Some Catholic high school libraries in Los Angeles allow access to various newspaper and periodical services, such as Infotrack, which indexes thousands of magazine articles via the Internet.

Changing technology also has brought about timesaving library procedures such as faster means for checking out books and the elimination of the traditional card catalog filing system.

Now, with~ seconds, computer catalog searches yield the names of related books cataloged at the individual school library and also show the status of books - whether they're available, checked out or lost - as well as related CD-ROMs, videos and websites.

Miriam Gottschalk, librarian at Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School in Los Angeles, said that while the Internet can put people in touch with a plethora of valuable knowledge, she routinely cautions students that "anyone can put anything on the Internet."

Likewise, Sister Hayum said the faculty members of Providence High School "try very hard to emphasize the good things about the computer, but we also try to make students aware that the Internet isn't the only source of information out there."

A librarian for more than 20 years, she pointed out that people "have to keep computers in perspective."

"Computers are here to stay," she said, "but books are here to stay too."

Getting involved in the election process

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CARSTENS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

There we go again: America is having another election. It's an absolutely amazing process, and I thank God for my wonderful country every time we pull this off.

Since we first chose President Washington, there's been an election every four years. Not once has the loser decided that the election was "wrong" and grabbed power through force. That's an enviable record.

It's not just the presidency, either. All over the country, mayors will stand for election, school boards will be chosen, some judges will be voted out and others will be voted in. Legislatures will change hands. Voters will decide whether or not to build new schools, repair old roads and rewrite outdated laws.

All of those changes will be based on the vote of the people. As I said, when you think about it, it's amazing.

One of this summer's big movies, "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson, meant a lot to me. It's not a great movie. The actingis wooden in spots, the plot gets improbable and there's too much graphic violence for my taste. Still, the film reminded me in this election year that the rights and privileges we take for granted were purchased at great cost.

Brave men and women fought and died in a war with England so that they could form their own government, one where citizens wouldn't need to fight each other whenever it was time for a change.

To their honor, our country has been the most stable and successful democracy of all time.

Even if you can't vote yet, you can get involved in the process. It's easy, it doesn't cost anything, and it's a heck of a lot of fun. If you're involved with a campai'gn, election

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There's a lot of talk about the big money involved in politics these days, and you could think that there's no role if you can't write a big check. But most of the work in political campaigns is done by

small armies of volunteers. If you have any interest in politics, or even if you just want to find out about the process, become a volunteer.

It's easy. Just read the newspapers, watch a little TV news and pick a candidate you'd like to support. Working for a local candidate is your best chance to get in on what's happening. Also, it's much more likely you'll get to meet the candidate.

Call your chosen candidate's office. You can get the number, listed by the candidate's name. Just ask for the "Joe Blokes for Mayor" office.

When you call, ask to speak with the volunteer coordinator- be sure to tell them your age, so they'll assign appropriate jobs. Go down to the office at the arranged time, and - Presto! - you're a volunteer.

What jobs will they give you? It

depends. Usually, the first time you go in you'll be doing bits of clerical work: addressing envelopes, counting packets, sorting papers.

The work isn't thrilling, but it's important. The more you show up, the more meaningful work you'll get to do. A volunteer has to prove his or her reliability.

Often, people who get a taste for politics early on stay involved with the process the rest of their lives.

This is work you do not for what you'll earn, but for what you'll learn.

Working on a campaign is the best way to experience how democracy works.

Your comments are welcome.

Please address: Dr. Christopher Carstens, do Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017.

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Indian Mission Director Asks' Your Help Special to The Anchor THOREAU, NM - The director, priest. sisters, lay missiomiries and staff of S1. Bonaventurt< Indian Mission and school are concerned about needed help. They work daily to make quality Catholic education a reality for American Indian children in their care.

These children "do without" as a way of life ... will you help them? For'many of our students, the school at S1. Bonaventure Mission is their "last hope."

They"ve experienced fail ure in . other schools or inability to get to school from great distances..

Trusting in God, everyone at the Mission' prays for urgentlyneeded help..

S1. Bonaventure Mission started a school more than a decade ago when the founder realized the Indian children in the Mission's CCD classes didn't

have even the most basic reading and, writing skills. Today over 300 children, most of them Native American,join in prayer to. keep their school from closing.

The Indian boys and girls attending S1. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School live .with the following realities:

• 55% of the Navajo population cannot read or write; • In McKinley County (where the Mission is located) over 50% ofschool-age childr:en live in poverty; • The suicide rate among Navajo teenagers is ten times higher thanfor their age group in the U.S: population at large.

• McKinley County has the' highest alcoholism rate in

the United States.

A nearly 40-member strong corps of dedicated lay missionaries teach and carry out the other work of the Mission. This "other work" includes maintaining the' buses and vans which travel the remote mesas to bring the children to school; preparing,two nourishing meals daily for the children; and bringing both food and water to aging Navajos Ii ving in poverty i~ remote areas of the barren Reservation.

New lay missionaries often ask, "Can this be America?"

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Gifts made to St. Bonaventure Indian Missionand School are taxdeductible. The school also qualifies for "Matching Gifts."

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We also operate' a quality Catholic school which,'through a : • good education, will provide the means for Navajo children to : break the devastating cycle of poverty. Loving volunteers • provide the hands-on work of teaching. Won't you become'part : of the "heart" of this Mission?

• I can't meet these needs without your help. Please become : part of this life-giving work! I don't want to have to say "no" to • even one child' or one elder who needs help. Will you join in our • love for these First Americans who live in such difficult .

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