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Papal trip mission: to unite U.S. Church

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AS A WELCOME for Pope John Paul II, city employee Tom Rotureau hangs the first of 190 banners on utility poles along streets in Columbia, S.c. Columbia is the second stop on the pontiffs upcoming visit to the United States and Canada.

VAT1CAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II's Sept. 10-19 visit to the United States should test his ability to foster unity in a church and society marked by pluralism, freewheeling dissent and an organizational genius for mounting media-attracting protest demonstrations.

The theme for the visit to nine dioceses is "Unity in the Work of Service." Yet the trip is likely to be marked by protest demonstrations as Catholic and other special .interest groups use papal events as platforms for expressing their grievances.

But Vatican and U.S. organizers of the trip are confident that the pope will take any protests in stride and, despite them, strengthen the religious identity of U.S. Catholics.

Papal advisers say the pope is aware of the potential for protests all along his route.

"The United States is an articulate society. People are used to putting their case out in the open.

There is no reason to expect they won't do this during the pope's trip," said Vatican press spokes- . man Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

Russell Shaw, public information officer for the U.S. bishops, said the possibility even exists that dissenting opinions will be presented directly to the pope during the structured dialogues with specific groups.

Under the norms for papal tri ps, people selected to give talks to the pope in the name of their group

are required to submit prepared texts in advance so the pope has the opportunity to respond to spe_cific points in his speech. Normally, these texts do not contain criticisms of specific papal positions, but raise issues of general concern to the group and ask for papal comment.

But there is nothing to prevent speakers from issuing criticisms in their speeches or in departures from their prepared texts at the event, Shaw said.

"It's an obvious fact that there are a lot of divisions" among U.S. Catholics, he said.

• On previous papal trips, speakers have departed from prepared texts to air criticisms.

The pope is unbowed by this and will not change church positions to accommodate dissenters, said Navarro-Valls.

"In the past, the pope hasn't tailored his message to protest groups and he won't in the United States," he said.

"The pope will preach a Gospel message to Catholics and others who want to listen," Navarro-Valls added.

U.S. Catholic officials say a core element of the divisions is the confusion among many U. S. Catholics as they try to live their faith within the context of U.S. society.

Shaw says that much confusion is a result of most Catholics "assimilating like wildfire" into the U.S. mainstream at a time when there is a moral revolution going on in the United States.

"Catholics a:e becoming like everyone else at a time when every-

one else is becoming alienated to religious values," he said.

"It is also a time when within the church there is a lot of theological dissent. People who are not theologians pick up ideas anti~he~~cal to Catholic ways of behavmg, he added.

Shaw divides U.S. Catholics into three main groups: - Catholics who live by U.S. cultural values even when they come into conflict with traditional Catholic values.

- Catholics trying to live by traditional church values and who see these embodied in the current pope and other strong Catholic leaders who reaffirm basic truths.

- The third and largest group is composed of "good, sincere, confused Catholics trying to live their lives as good Catholics and good Americans."

The pope is unlikely to chan~e people in the first two groups, said Shaw.

"But the presence, even brief, of an articulate, attractive, persuasive spokesman can make a difference with the third group," he added.

Navarro-Valls said U.S. church divisions also stem from failure by many to maintain the unity between Catholic social and personal morality by emphasizing or practicing only one.

"Don't make the church schizophrenic. Social and personal mo~­ ality are both a part of Cathohc life and come from the same values," Navarro-Valls added.

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Active laity seen as Rome synod approaches WASHINGTON(NC)- When Pope John Paul II convenes the world Synod of Bishops on the laity this October in Rome, one of the freshest images in his mind will be the Catholics he had just met in his IO-day visit to the United States Sept. 10-19.

The theme of the Rome synod, which is to run Oct. 1-30, is "The Vocation and Mission of the Laity in the Church and in the World."

What will the pope see on his U.S. trip? What do Catholics along the papal route think and feel?

What would they like to see happen at the synod in Rome or in church dealings with lay people in the United States?

Lay leaders who were interviewed

by National Catholic News Service this summer in papal visit cities across the country described a

vibrant, active U.S. Catholic laity - a laity strongly committed to the church even if critical of some positions, self-starting but also looking for training and guidance.

They described a laity that is community oriented and involved in both social action and ecc1esial ministry.

Indifference and alienation were there, too - often expressed, especially by women, in terms of feeling undervalued or unneeded, or in terms of personal disagreement with church positions on such issues as sexual morality, the role of women, priestly celibacy or social justice.

Marsha Whelan of Miami, first stop on the papal visit, said she would like to say "at least two things" to the Rome synod: "E~­ phasize the role of the lay people 10

evangelization" and "really, really look at the role of women in the church," Ms. Whelan, Miami archdiocesan evangelization dirl;.ctor and president of the National Council for Catholic Evangelization, said consultations for an archdiocesan synod currently underway in Miami have produced lively discussion of generally 'controversial church issues such as women's role in the church and sexual morality. Among local church issues, the role of the laity in the parish was a central concern, she said.

Margaret Robinson, a Miami synod participant, parish eucharistic minister and full-time volunteer in the archdiocesan papal visit office, said she agreed "100 percent" with the pope on issues such as women's ordination, but she

strongly supports greater lay involvement in ministry within current church rules.

Citing her own experience as a eucharistic minister, she said that not only does lay ministry serve other people but "it does something major" to the person who gets involved in ministry.

When Pope John Paul goes to Columbia, S.c., Sept. 11 in the Diocese of Charleston, he will be in the most rural and sparsely Catholic diocese of his visit. It is an area that abounds with tales of lay people doing the day-to-day work of parishes because there aren't enough priests to go around.

"These people don't ask. They do it and they tell you what they just finished," said Trinitarian Father Vernon Danenmann, who heads Catholic churches in Ward

and Batesburg, rural parishes 15 miles apart in the west central part of the state.

Rick Beben, a parish religious education director in the New Orleans Archdiocese, sees the rapidly growing lay involvement in recent years partly as "necessity - we don't have the priests, brothers and sisters" that used to be available to fill almost any fulltime churchjob.

But he adds, "Even if the seminaries were filled tomorrow and all the empty convents were full, the laity should still be playing an integral role," Lay people in ministry are now "less a novelty and more accepted for their competency," Despite wide publicity given to Turn to Page 11

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Pope says he has sought to deepen' links with Jews WASHINGTON (NC) mination, the 'Shoah,' suffered by Throughout his pontificate Pope , the.Jews during the Second World John Paul II has sought to develop War, and we seek to grasp its most and deepen relationships with Jews, authentic, specific and universal the pope said in a letter to the pres- meaning," he said. . ident of the National Conference "It is precisely by reason of this of Catholic Bishops. terrible experience that the nation Catholic and Jewish sources in of Israel, her sufferings and her the United States, meanwhile, said Holocaust are today before the Aug. 20 the pope plans to meet eyes of the church, of all peoples with Jewish officials for about 90 and of all nations, as a warning, a minutes Sept. I in Castel Gan- witness and a silent cry," the pope dolfo, Italy, his summer residence. said.

In the letter the pope said sufferJewish leaders have protested ings the Jewish people endured are the fact that the Vatican has not "a motive of sincere sorrow" for established full diplomatic relations the Catholic Church, especially in with Israel. terms of the "indifference and The book Archbishop May sent sometimes resentment" which he to the pontiff was ajoint project of said have divided Jews and Chris- the NCCB Secretariat for Catholictians.

Jewish Relations and the Anti"Indeed this evokes in us still Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. firmer resolutions to cooperate for It was published in June in anticijustice and true peace," he said in pation of the pope's scheduled the letter to Archbishop John L. meeting with U.S. Jewish leaders May of St. Louis, NCCB president. in September.

A copy of the letter was released MARY FARRELL takes In the letter, Pope John Paul by the NCCB Aug. 19. called the book "the result of coThe letter was released in the operation between Jews and Cathmidst ofthe controversy surround- olics in America, which is a further ing the pope's decision to meet source of satisfaction." with Austrian President Kurt Rabbi Marc T. Tanenbaum, inWaIdheim June 25. Waldheim has ternational affairs director for the been accused of Nazi wartime ac- American Jewish Committee, weltivities in Yugoslavia. comed the letter and the opportun- • Following the pope-Waldheim ity for discussions at the Aug. 31By Joseph Motta meeting, some U.S. Jewish leaders Sept. I meetings.

About 13 years ago, Dot Knight threatened to pull out of a planned "I think it's a good letter," the moved to Brewster on Cape Cod papal meeting Sept. I ~ in Mi~mi rabbi said Aug. 20 in a telephone unless a more substantive meet 109 interview with National Catholic and became a member of that town's Our Lady ofthe Cape parish. also was held.

News Service. "In fact it's an excelShe joined the parish prayer Catholic and Jewish sources said lent letter. It's a genuine effort to group, an outgrowth of a Lenten the Sept. I meeting with the pope respond to the concerns many of study group. Looking back, she will be preceded by discussions us in the Jewish community have thinks it might have been the first Aug. 31 between the Vatican C?m- felt. It begins to help clear the air." such prayer community on the mission for Religious RelatIOns He also said Vatican officials Cape. with Jews and the International have informed Jewish leaders that "We were just a few people who Jewish Committee for Interrelig-, the pope hopes the Jewish delegamet every week," she said. ious Consultations; with repres~n­ tion Sept. I can be small enough to Mary Farrell and Ethel Mitchell tatives of the Vatican Secretanat facilitate dialogue. The pope reare also prayer group members. of State also attending. portedly made it known he "wanted Mrs. Farrell, the group's president, Eugene Fisher, executive secre- a real conversation . . . man to has been registered with Our Lady tary of the NCCB Se~retaria~ for man, heart to heart. We welcome of the Cape for approximately Catholic-Jewish Relations, said he that very much," Rabbi Taneneight years, Mrs. Mitchell for about and Bishop William H. Keeler of baum added. three.

Harrisburg, Pa., chairman of .the The trio work at a prayer group NCCB Committee on Ecumemcal project, a "prayer line" that's about and Interreligious Affairs, also may two months old. be present.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - CarAlready, though, it has turned In the letter, Pope John Paul dinal Jean Jerome Hamer, head of into something very beautiful. said he wrote in order to thank the Vatican's Congregation for Re"About a year ago," Mrs. FarArchbishop May for sending him ligious and Secular Institutes, has rell explained, "Dot read somea book containing the texts of the asked the world's cloistered nuns thing in the Catholic Digest [about pope's statements on the subject of to pray for the success of the Oct. how a parish prayer group started Jews and Judaism titled "Pope I -30 Synod of Bishops on the laity. a call-in service for emergency John Paul II on Jews and Juda- , "Your participation in the synod prayer petitions J." ism, 1979-1986." is not marginal," Cardinal Hamer Mrs. Knight, she said, wanted The pope said he has blessed said in a letter to cloistered monasto establish a similar service at Our and encouraged the initiatives of teries around the world.

Lady of the Cape, to pray for vicall those who "foster the relationThe recently released letter asked tims of accidents, heart attacks, ships of mutual esteem and fri~nd­ for prayers so that the synod could sudden illness and other emergency ship and promote the Jewlsh- lead to a "deepening of the magissituations.

Christian dialogue in the appro- terium's doctrine on the laity."

A prayer group petition book, priate places and with due theo- The synod also should come up Mrs. Farrell said, already took logical competence and historical with "pastoral directions for a more requests for non-emergency prayobjectivity. effective commitment by each lay ers.

"The more we try to be faithful faithful on behalf of the church's "For about a year," she admitin loving obedience to the God of mission," the letter said. ted, "we didn't do anything about the covenant, the creator and savCardinal Hamer said the cloisit." But recently, she said, she and ior ... the deeper will be the roots tered religious life was a "priviMrs. Mitchell presented the idea of our dialogue and the more leged form of love for God a~d to Our Lady of the Cape pastor abundant its results," he wrote. man." He said the nuns contnbFather Rene J. Caissey, MS. The pope referred to Jews as uted greatly to' the spread o.f the "He encouraged us to reach out "our elder brothers in the faith in Gospel by their "constant attitude to the people of the parish," she Abraham." He said the Holocaust of contemplation, by penitence and said.

"We all thought this would shows where "lack of faith in G~d by the total offering of themselves be a nice way,to be useful to the and a contempt for man created 10 to God." parish." his image can lea~.

Male religious orders will be And so the trio's phone numbers "With our hearts filled with this represented at the synod by 10 and an explanation of the prayer unyielding hope, we Christians ap- superiors general. Synod rules do line's purpose began appearing proach with im~ense respect the not provide for women or nonweekly in Our Lady of the Cape's terrifying expenence of the exter- ordained members. bulletin.

a prayer line call while Dot Knight looks on.

Brewster prayer group starts telephone apostolate

Asks nuns' prayers.

Calls began pouring in immediately and not just from parishioners. Prayer requests have come from as far away as Springfield.

The phone ministry has taken on an ecumenical slant, too. Calls have been made by and for people of faiths other than Catholic.

Mrs. Farrell thinks that's great.

"We're here for a reason," she says, "and we're here for people."

When one of the three receives a call, she said, she asks for a first name only.

"We keep it very brief," she said.

"We don't want people to be discouraged by going into a long dialogue."

The recipient of the call, the women said, calls a prayer group member who passes the word along.

Soon all of the approximately 20 group members are praying for the caller's petition.

Neil Spillane, 79, goes to the church and says the rosary for callers, Mrs. Knight said, and prayer group member Tom Far~ell (~o relation to Mary) and hiS Wife Margaret pray together for. petitions as soon as they are notified.

Mary Farrell's husband Don is also an active prayer group arid prayer line member. .

An Our Lady of the Cape panshioner takes information on petitions, Mrs. Knight added, and passes'it along to h,er sister, who visits an area nursing home every day. As a result, two patients at the home are adding their prayers to those of the group.

Mrs. Knight also said that p~ti­ tions that come into the prayer hne are exchanged for requests received by other prayer groups. One such group is at St. John Neumann parish, East Freetown, to which Mrs. Knight's daughter belongs.

Mrs. Mitcltell, housekeeper for Our Lady of the Cape rectory, reports that many callers have had their prayers answered.

One woman, for instance, asked prayers for her niece, 42, an expectant mother.

She was four weeks overdue, the caller said, and had lost a previous child.

Dot Knight concludes that "there is a great deal of power when a lot of people pray." She said that in this case the baby was born healthy.

"We've had some beautiful answers to prayers," she added. "Pe~­ pie have called back to share their good news. It's not really necessary but it's encouraging."

The prayer group, Mrs. Farrell said, continues to pray for a college boy with cancer.

"It's something any parish could do" she says of the telephone ap~stolate, welcoming interested groups to contact her at 896-3309 for details.

Pope saddened by

Detroit air crash VATICAN CITY (NC) - A "deeply saddened" Pope John Paul II sent his condolences and prayers after over 150 people were killed when a twin-engine airliner crashed onto a busy Detroit highway shortly after takeoff Aug. 16.

In a telegram sent to Detroit Arc~­ bishop Edmund C. Szoka, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli said the pope was "deeply saddened to learn ~f the tragic air disaster at metropohtan Airp'ort which has claimed s.o many lives." Pope John Paul IS scheduled to stop in Detroit at the end of his to-day visit to the United States in September. The telegram said the pope "prays for the eternal rest of all those who have died." The crash was Michigan's worst air disaster.

Generosity "It is in Christ and through his

blood that we have been redeemed and our sins forgiven, so immeasurably generous is God's favor to us." -Eph. 1:7-8

Textual changes in

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MSGR. GLEASON

Msgr. Jame.s E. Gleason Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant of the Mass of Christian Burial offered this morning at St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, for MonsignorJames E. Gleason. : ' Msgr. Gleason, 84, died Monday. Since his retirement from the pastorate of St. Patrick parish, Falmouth, on February I, 1977, he had resided at the Priests' Hostel in Fall River.

Father Fral)cis L. Mahoney, pastor of Holy Name parish, Fall River, offered the homily at the II a.m. funeral Mass. " Msgr. Gleason was born a member of St, Lawrence parish on November 27, 1902, the son ofthe late George and Catherine (McMahon) Gleason.

After attending New Bedford public schools, he prepared for the priesthood at St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md., and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore.

He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1928 in Baltimore by -the late Archbishop Michael J. Curley and his early ministry took him as parochial vicar to Stt'Joseph parish, Taun-

on Anawan St., Fall River.

With the approach of World War II, Msgr. Gleason also thought of the servicemen who were far from home and stationed in Greater Fall River. He obtained a large facility on Franklin Street in Fall River and turned it into a U.S.O. Center. Later, it too was to be associated with the CYO and eventually continued to serve youth as a Police Athletic League facility.

He then served the late Bishop James L. Connolly as Chancellor for two years. In 1953, Msgr. Gleason was named pastor of St. Patrick parish, where he continued his priestly zeal in serving the flock entrusted to him.

In 1969 his years of devotion were recognized by Pope Paul VI as he was named a Prelate of Honor with the title of Monsignor.

In his 23 years of service to the Cape parish, he became an integral part of Falmouth life, never failing to attend town meetings.

Msgr. Gleason is survived by two sisters, Misses Mary and Gertrude Gleason, both of New Bedford.

~i~~:.nd S.t. Wi!liam parish, Fall-

Prayer summit

The late Bishop'James E. Cassidy chose' MsgC Gleason as his Episcopal Secretary and Assistant' Chancellor. For some 12 years he served Bishop Cassidy in the Chaneery, eventually becoming Chancellor as well. .

During his service at the Chaneery, Msgr. Gleason also exercised a ministry both to youth and the aged.

The Catholic Youth Organization in Fall River owes its begin. ning to this devoted priest. It was Msgr. Gleason who made available the hub of multiple activities for youth with the eya ~uilding .

KYOTO, Japan (NC) - Over 300 prominent representatives of major world religions recently gathered at Enryaku' Temple on Mount Hiei to pray for world peace in what was seen as a followup to a similar meeting in Assisi, Italy, last October. The service included a presentation of concrete suggestions for attaining peace, such as working for resolution of conflicts, disarmament of nuclear arms and conventional arms, preservation of the environment, human rights, care for refugees, and transformation of unjust social systems."

BONN, West Germany (NC) A special commission, responding to charges of anti-Semitism, has made textual changes in the Oberammergau Passion Play.

Changes include frequent use of the word "rabbi" to emphasize that Jesus was a Jew and addition of a scene presenting the argument about Christ as an internal Jewish conflict.

The passion play is performed every 10 years in Oberammergau, West Germany, to fulfill a 1633 vow made by inhabitants of the Bavarian town when they escaped devastation by the Black Plague.

There have been many objections that the 1850 version by Father Joseph Alois Daisenberger was anti-Semitic.

The text commission included members of the Oberammergau district council, the local Catholic priest and Protestant pastor and a New Testament expert.

In the new version ofthe play, to be performed in 1990, when Jesus tells his disciples that one of them will betray him, the apostles Jude and Judas will refer to him as "rabbi," while John will retain the old form of address, saying "Lord, is it I?" In the old version of the play, Pontius Pilate expressed himself unequivocally: "I cannot believe that this Jesus has criminal ideas. I will not give way to the wishes of the Sanhedrin."

The Sanhedrin was the highest court and council of the ancient Jewish nation.

In the new version, Pilate is less certain, saying: "This Jesus does not seem to me to be,a dangerous man. I am. still not convinced that he is guilty of a' crime deserving of death." .

To Pilate's traditional question to Jesus, "Am I then a Jew?" Pilate will add, "All). I then a Jew like you?"

The commission rejected a proposal that Jesus should be referred to by the Jewish name Jehoshua and the suggestion that he should pray in Hebrew during the Last Supper. The commission said a prayer spoken in Hebrew by a local amateur actor would sound either comical or embarrassing.

The commission also rejected a proposal to portray those who condemned Jesus as a small group collaborating with the Romans, rather than the Sanhedrin.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Prolifers have applauded a recent House Appropriations Committee vote to retain a ban on U.S. government funding of overseas population assistance organizlltions that perform or promote abortions. The 26-21 vote came a day after Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, chairman ofthe U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, had urged the House committee "to help retain policies which prevent U.S. support of groups promoting abortion as a method of population control." Specifically, the Appropriations Committee voted to defeat an amendment that would have overturned the "Mexico City policy," which denies U.S. population assistance funds to groups overseas that perform, promote or lobby for abortion as a family planning method. The policy was introduced by the Reagan administration at an international meeting in Mexico City in 1984..

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The Board of the GREATER WOONSOCKET CATHOLIC REGIONAL SCHOOL SYSTEM is accepting applications for the position of Regional Administrator. The system is a K-9, four-school operation, with a student population of approximately 760: IN ADDITION TO EXPERIENCE AS A TEACHER AND AN EOUCAT10NALADMINISTRATOR, AN APPLICANIMUST HAVE THE FOLLOW: ING DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE: • • • • •

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the moorinL., Protecting the Constitution Each day the media reminds us of the events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the signing of our Constitution.

Unfortunately, the celebration of this most important event in the evolution of our democracy has somewhat of a low-key thrust. What was intended to be a significant moment in our living has in fact been a pedantic adventure in trivia.

This, indeed, is unfortunate. Our Constitution is just too important a statement Qffre~dom and rights to be reduced to a mere stilted historic reflection.

As th.e Catholic family ofthe United States prepares to once again welcome our Holy Father, John Paul II, to our land, it is well to recall that his visit is a fruition of the first freedom. It would be well for all of us to call attention at this time to the actual wording ofthe First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." In the muddle oftoday's exaggerated interpretations of this amendment we should recall the meaning that its framers intended to convey to their new nation.

It must be recalled that the founding fathers wished to shed all the obstacles to personal freedom that were reflected in the legalities of their enemy, England, where the head of state was and still is the head of church.

All of us who appreciate our religious freedom must be forever grateful for what is implicit in the Bill of Rights, the awareness and recognition of the limited power of the state.

The jumble and turmoil that is currently inflicted upon religion in this nation by the state flows from a figure of speech attributed to Thomas Jefferson. The so-called "wail of separation between church and state" was, in fact, not in the Constitution. It surfaced in Jefferson's own interpretation of the First Amendment.

This particular phrase, so abused today, is a useful tool for many lobbyists. It is certainly not the actuality that Jefferson intended.

Although not a Christian in any full sense, Jefferson was not anti-religion. He well understood the necessity and social utility of religious conviction. He clearly stated "Can the liberties ofa nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that those liberties are the gift of God?" Indeed, it would be well for today's secular state to contemplate this reflection.

What is, in effect, becoming a reality in America is that all religious people are becoming victims of a state which wishes to impose its own secularism as the establishment. The secular state has its own gods which it has placed in a position'of governmental acceptance.

Religion no longer counts and religious freedom is in real jeopardy. Forthe last 30 years, our Supreme Court has clearly procfaimed that we are to give the Caesar what is Caesar's and we are to give God whatever Caesar is willing to part with.

Is it really according to the spirit of this most noble First Amendment to penalize believers who wish their children to be educated in schools where God is important? Is Caesar to be so all-powerful in the important matter of education while freedom of religion is eradicated?

Where is the wall of separation when the religious believing citizens really need it?

Our celebrations should be a vivid reminder that our Constitution is indeed a very frail and fragile document which loses all meaning when it becomes a one-sided tool of the absolute state. And that is not American.

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Does anyone have the time?

By Father Kevin J. Harrington The evolution of our clocks and calendars reflects our changing knowledge and increasing need for precision. Trying to measure something as unpredictable as the earth's rotation by an objective standard has preoccupied emperors, popes and scientists.

The ancient Egyptians divided daylight into 12 equal periods between dawn and dusk. A sundial suited their purpose and change in length of daylight hours was of little concern.

One ofthe driving forces for the development of the mechanical clock was the Benedictine order in the Fifth century. The rule of St. Benedict mandated prayer during the evening hours. One monk had to stay awake to watch a burning candle and determine when to waken his brothers for their devotions. By the 12th century the monks had developed a water clock.

It must have been a welcome relief for the candle sentry!

By the 14th century mechanical clocks with pendulums became the standard for telling time and were used until our century began.

The rotation of the earth around the sun has been a very difficult thing to measure and has wreaked havoc on the calendar through the ages. The ancient Egyptians first developed a calendar that consisted of 12 months with 30 days each and then a five-day holiday. Then,

in the year 123 B.C., the rulers of Alexandria determined that there were 3651A days in a year and added a day every four years.

Their New Year's Day was March I, which explains why they added thedayin Februaryand why September, October, November and December share the Latin root for 7 to 10.

Julius Caesar instituted the first calendar reform. To compensate for years of not celebrating leap year he added two months to the 46 B.C. calendar and added 23 days to February. After having a 455-day year the calendar returned to 3651A days.

Not surprisingly, the two months he' added were July and August, named for himself and Augustus Caesar.

Unfortunately, a year is not 3651A days long. It's II minutes and 14 seconds shy ofthat mark. By 1545, the vernal equinox (which Church fathers used to set the date for Easter) had drifted ten days. The Church fathers at the Council of Trent urged the pope to straighten the mess out.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII made the most recent change in our calendar. He ordered the day after October 5th to be October 15th to compensate for the error that had accumulated since Caesar promulgated his calendar. The pope realized that the error, if not compensated for regularly, would require a radical correction by some

later ruler because those II minutes and 14 seconds would amount to seven days every 1,000 years. He ordered leap years occurring in centennial years to be observed only once every 400 years. The year 2000, then, will be the first centennial year that will be celebrated as a leap year since 1600!

In 1956 the International Committee on Weights and Measures redefined the second as 1/31,566,925.9747 of the length of the year 1900. That may seem pretty precise, but by 1967, thanks to the development of the atomic clock, the second was officially and solely defined in terms of the precession ofelectrons in the cesium atom. Unlike the earth's rotation the electron's rotation around a nucleus is accurate to one part in a trillion.

The pendulum clock has given way to the atomic clock. When several standard atomic clocks kept at laboratories around the world agree that the time as measured by earth's rotation (Universal Time) is more than '12 second out of line with the time kept by the cesium clock, a decree goes out from the International Time Bureau and a "leap second" is deleted or inserted into all clocks running on Universal Time.

Thanks to the synchronization between the earth's and electron rotation our years grow by seconds and not days.

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Adult children Our youngest is leaving for college and b~ at accounts, we are supposed to be devastated - empty nest and all that. But that isn" what we're feeling. We've found. from experience with our twc eldest, that the pleasure of sending kids out to try their wings surpasses the pangs of loss.

(To be honest, we're getting Middle Child back so the nest is not emptying. just rearranging.)

Actually, I found It harder to turn kids over to kmdergarten teachers than college professors because at that time parental control was still a high pnority with me. What if they taught them something contrary to our value system? Horrors!

Throughout the years and children, we've discovered that parental control is an euphemism for turning our children into us. And it's sometimes tough for us parents to believe the limits of our power.

Our children aren't us but themselves. And we aren't so great that we deserve cloning.

Children develop their own opinions, interests, skills and independence. Our task, while they're doing this, involves acceptance, support and open-mindedness.

Which can also be tough.

Let's say, for instance, that we're a family who has always supported free enterprise and the American

way of life but we find ourselves with a maturing offspring who questions patriotism and apartheid.

What to do?

We can initiate ongoing conflict and gUilt or we can accept the maturing person who questions our beliefs and listen to his or her rationale. If we do the latter, we are accepting our offspring as adults -and their own persons.

If we initiate conflict and guilt over differences, we prolong the parent-child relationship, which interferes with our children's adult development.

One of the crucial tasks of this period of parenting, called the disengagement stage, is that of renegotiating our relationship from parent-child to adult-adult. This means that when our grown kids say, "I'm going to bu.y a stereo," we do not say, "How can you buy a stereo on your salary when you should be saving for adversity?"

That's a parental reaction.

We respond as we would iftalking with a friend, "You are? What kind?" We clamp our teeth on our tongues and refrain from giving advice and judgment unless requested. The paradox is that if we withhold advice, young adults often ask for it. But if we give it unsought, . they seethe.

Their task in maturing is to separate from us. This can mean deliberately taking stands and ac-

High-tech learning I heard a radio advertisement recently that set my imagination going. It began by asking listeners ifthey knew

of the Church on the gospel message.

Imagine, too, having access to a computerized profile of parishioners and their greatest concerns. what their congressional represen- Within minutes the priest could tatives were voting for and if they have an excellent summary of the knew what bills were before Con- Gospel's scriptural meaning and gress. what points in that summary would The questions were a teaser for best pertain to his particular parpromoting a new computer infor- ish. His main work would be makmation service on Congress that ing the connection between the subscribers could link into with two. their personal computer terminals.

Imagine a religious education If a person was interested in a par- class which meets only once a ticular topic the computer would week, but which does daily homedo an instantaneous search for key work on a terminal hooked into words related to it and indicate the parish computer and proexactly where the pertinent infor- grammed by the religious educamation could be found. tion staff. There would be no books.

In essence, the service was to be All writing would be done at a like having 10 librarians and an keyboard. Colored graphics, tests entire library at the tip of your with immediate results and a library fingers. of information would all be part of Anyone who has ever written a the program.

Imagine, too, the telephone being term paper which required library research can remember the tedious hooked up to a computer terminal hours spent hunting through hot, for learning rather than being tied stuffy library shelves. Even when a up by gabby children.

Of course such computerized book or article was found, you had to read through half the text to religion programs would require find out if it was really,useful. In school it was not always the most intelligent person who wrote the LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) best paper. Often the person with a good system for locating informa- Catholic Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly of Louisville, and his Epistion quickly came up with an A. What caught my imagination copal Church counterpart, Bishop was the fact that with computers David B. Reed, have endorsed today, hours once spent feverishly covenants between Catholic and searching for information can now Episcopal parishes. A joint pasbe shortened, allowing more time toral called on covenant parishes to use the information effectively. to "attend to the provisions of the covenant with great care" and to What made my imagination go develop programs of ecumenical wild are the possibilities this could pastoral care, family ministry and have for better understanding of joint prayer. Under the covenants, the faith. Just imagine a priest or parishes promise to pray for one deacon preparing a homily being another, to work together, and to able to contact a computer center work within the present disciplines able to give him commentaries of of their churches to restore visible scripture scholars and the Fathers unity.

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tions which are unlike our own. If we're Republicans, they'll vote Democrat. If we are churchgoers, they'll stop going. If we're savers, they're spenders. The good news is tbat if we don't make huge issues out of these differences, they frequently revert to our behavior.

Their task is also to give up the child's role, which means they have to interact on an adult level if they . want to be treated like adults.

When my grown children roll their eyes and say, "Oh, Mom," I respond, "Do you want this on a parent-child level or adult-adult level? You call it." They can't have it both ways, childish when it suits their fancy and adult-like at other times.

It's difficult after 20 years of judging and advisin~ to listen and smile, but it's well worth it. Establishing adult friendships with children is one of the most rewarding parts of parenting. It makes up for all those hassles on dirty rooms and undone chores. And we have a lot more years to enjoy each other as friends than we did hassling each other as parent and child.

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good programming, and a network of computers but many computers are already in place and the use of good programming to teach quickly and effectively is becoming an accepted teaching tool.

The big question IS whether there will be enough religious educators able to put this new tool at the . service of the faith.

August 29 1921, Rev. Joseph DeVillandre, Founder, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro .

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Mass Q. My husband and I are in a group of parents and we talk a lot about our children (in their teens mostly) and their religious practices.

As you hear often, I'm sure, children today don't look at things like the Mass as we did. They go most all the time, but we hear the complaint that they shouldn't have to go. Praying, they say, is something you do in your own way, and going to Mass should be the same.

You go when you can get something out of it. Six times a year is better than every Sunday, if on those six times you really feel good about it.

In some ways that seems to make sense, but we know there's more to it than that. How would you suggest we handle it? (Massachusetts) A. First, I'm sure a lot of parents who read this will envy you. Not only do you have a little parental support group around you, which every parent needs these days, but in spite of your differences with your teenagers, you seem to have some good communication going.

We might start by recalling that the Mass is not just another prayer service and with the fact that the requirement of weekly sharing in the Eucharist (or if you prefer, "going to Mass every Sunday") isn't something new.

Way back in the early years of Christianity, centuries before there were any church laws in our sense of the term, participation in the Sunday Eucharist every week was expected - in some ways more urgently than it is today.

We have documents that reflect early Christian policy: If one of their number deliberately failed to be present for the Eucharist for two or three weeks runnmg, they were considered as no long'er members of the church, no longer Christian.

Maybe this appears severe. If so, it obviously means that they believed something about the Mass that we have lost through the centuries. For them, it wasn't a matter of committing a "mortal sin" by disobeying a law about Sunday Mass.

It was simply a conviction that one could not really understand and believe what the Mass is all about and then fail to be there for even a few weeks. .

Today the church is trying hard to help us reclaim that conviction, that the sacrifice and table of the Eucharist, sharing in the offering of Christ to the Father, and receiving together his body and blood in Communion, is the key and indispensable way Jesus intends to unite men and women with himself and form them into his family until the end of the world.

In other words, Mass is where we learn the spirit and message of Jesus. Through reflection on the. words of Scripture and through the language and actions of the liturgy of the Eucharist, it is where we continually identify ourselves as his members, acknowledge who

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN are our brothers and sisters because of him, and assure each other of encouragement and support.

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In that larger sense, even in a church with 500 persons, the presence or absence of one affects everyone, including the individual himself.

If this way of speaking about the Mass sounds strange, it is unfortunate. Perhaps it is one of the prices we have paid for coming to see missing Mass on Sunday as a mortal sin because it is against a law of the church.

The fact is that even if there were no such law, presence at the Sunday Eucharist would still be "required" simply because one is a member of the family of Christ, simply because one is a Christian.

A free brochure outlining marriage regulations in the Catholic Church and explaining the promises in an interfaith marriage is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main Street, Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

Development aid better, he says WAS HINGTON (NC) Development aid to meet human needs in the Third World"is a more effective and moral way to achieve security than military and economic aid," said an official of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

Father J. Bryan Hehir, USCC secretary for social development and world peace, made the comments 10 a recent letter to members of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee.

The priest noted that "multilateral development aid has the further value of stimulating larger contributions from other donor nations and thus multiplying the value of U.S. investment."

Father Hehir's letter urged support for foreign assistance programs in amounts recommended by the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee, but he expressed "regret" that the subcommittee reduced the Reagan administration's requested amount for international financial institutions.

The priest said the subcommittee lowered those amounts by 34 percent, "a far deeper cut than for any other aid.

"Although we are disappointed in the low levels recommended, we are persuaded that the subcommittee has done the best it could under the circumstances of tight budgetary constraints and heavy earmarking of a large part of the available funds," he added.

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Papal trip mission Continued from Page One . "It also showed that the Holy social issues, he is using the same See is not arbitrary and is willing moral values as when he opposes to take another look at a problem when the original solution doesn't abortion," he said. seem to be working in practice," The problem is not unique to u.s. Catholics, but has been a his- saidIn Shaw. trying to unite U.S. Catholics torical problem for the church in many countries and cultures, he the pope is likely to stress the positive achievements of U.S. Catholiadded.

"The church has a double aim. cism.

"His style is to emphasize the One is the salvation of people. The positive elements to further stimuother is a historical goal: to improve the way of life of people. Both late them," said Navarro-Valls. He must be done together. Many said the aspects the pope is likely church heresies have emphasized to praise include: a deep respect for human dignity, generosity in only one," said Navarro-Valls. providing personnel and material The div'isions among U.S. Cath- aid to overseas missions and the olics also have caused tensions extensive domestic social services between the Vatican and the U.S. provided by the church, such as hierarchy. The Vatican has felt the hospitals and schools. need to take tough disciplinary The U.S. trip will also give,the action against U.S. church personnel, leaving an impression that pope an opportunity to outline the local hierarchy was lax in church social positions applicable to U.S. political life. enforcing church rules.

On the first day of his trip he is At the same time, the hierarchy has been pressured by U.S. Catholic scheduled to meet President ReaNet UPI-Reuter photo groups wanting them to support gan. At previous meetings, the pope has stressed issues such as SURVIVORS of monsoon floods line up for food outside views unpopular at the Vatican.

The situation became symbol- disarmament and the leadership a relief camp in Rajbari, Bangladesh. Rice and wheat is handed ized in the controversy surround- role the United States has in world out once a day by government officials. ing Archbishop Raymond G. affairs.

The pope also will be in the UniHunthausen of Seattle. In an unusual move, the Vatican in 1985 ted States when the congressional named an auxiliary bishop for confirmation hearings begin Sept.

Seattle and gave him special de- 15 for Robert H. Bork, Reagan's cision-making powers over impor- nominee to be an associate justice tant diocesan activities, removing on the Supreme Court. SupportCASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy grave discomfort," he said. these from Archbishop Hunt- ers and opponents of his nomina- (NC) - Pope John Paul II exRecalling his own visit to the hausen's jurisdiction. tion already have made Bork's pressed sympathy for the victims south Asian country last NovemThe decision came after heavy anti-abortion record the principal of recent "disastrous flooding" in ber, the pope said the situation conservative criticism that Arch- issue.

Bangladesh and called for aid to "calls for the charity of aiL" The pope is a strong opponent the survivors. bishop Hunthausen was not folA month of heavy monsoon lowing church norms in many pas- of abortion and often in his travels The pope made his comments rains and water pouring off the toral programs. The criticisms had reiterates church teachings that it following his regularly scheduled slopes ofthe Himalaya Mountains polarized much of the archdiocese is immoral under any circum- Angelus talk Aug. 23. caused severe flooding which left into supporters or detractors of stances.

Speaking at noon in the court- an unofficial death toll of more the archbishop. The Vatican said "But it would be 100 percent , yard of his summer retreat in the than 760. At least one town was the decision was taken because he wrong to interpret any abortion hill town of Castel Gandolfo, the under eight feet of water. was "lacking the firmness neces- statement as a partisan political pope expressed his "solidarity and All of Bangladesh's major rivers sary to govern the diocese." one," said Navarro-Valls. understanding" for the flood vic- overflowed their banks.

But the decision further polarIf the pope mentions abortion it tims of Bangladesh.

Contaminated water from the ized the archdiocese and was crit- will be because of a "pastoral cri"The calamity caused many hu- flooding has caused diarrhea and teria and not a political tactic," man victims and destroyed large other stomach ailments. In Rangicized by many U.S. bishops.

The result was that earlier this added Navarro-Valls. quantities offoodstuffs, homes and pur, 260 miles north of the capital "The pope underlines the ethical structures, leaving millions of, the Dhaka, six people reportedly died year, the Vatican reversed itself.

At the suggestion of a fact-finding dimensions of human problems," damage victims in conditions of of such ailments. commission of two U.S. cardinals he said.

"Every pope is a predictable and one archbishop it restored Archbishop Hunthausen's au- man in a way because he is announcing a message that already thority.

It "wasn't coincidental" that the exists" in the Gospel and church decision was made prior to the teachings, said Navarro-Valls.

"I think this is an iridication of a ROME (NC) - A Jesuit bishop "The surprise comes when a was recently arrested in India for bad climate between Hindus and U.S. trip, said Shaw. The decision cleared the air and "took the pres- moral message is understood po- converting six people to Catholi- Christians there," said the official, litically by others," he said. sure off everyone," he added. cism, allegedly in violation of the who asked not to be identified.

In July, Father Thomas Thurulocal "anti-conversion" law, a Jesuit thiyil, a parish priest in the Dioofficial in Rome said.

Bishop Paschal Topno of the cese of Jagdalpur - also in MadAmbikapur Diocese in the state of hya Pradesh - was arrested on DURBAN, South Africa (NC) whites from whites-only neighborMadhya Pradesh was arrested and charges of enticing tribals to Chris.

- The conservative victory in hoods.

South Africa's recent parliamenJimmy and Shan James said later released on bail, said Father tianity with money. In June a tary elections was'll blow to the they were told that they were vio- Johannes Gerhartz, secretary gen- church, convent, school and rectory at Father Thuruthiyil's Chiblack disenfranchised majority, lating the Group Areas Act by liv- eral of the Jesuit order.

Father Gerhartz said that it was urgaon mission were demolished said Sister Brigid Flanagan, acting ing in a Durban beachfront apartnot clear what charges the bishop by anti-Christian elements. secretary general of the Southern ment.

In February 1986, Belgian Jesuit will face.

African Catholic Bishops' ConJimmy James. who had lived in Father Willy Van de Kerchove, ference.

In April, Bishop Topno bapthe apartment before his marriage, She said the government's pre- is white, while Shan is designated tized six people during a Holy working in Madhya Pradesh, was election campaign was based on Indian under South Africa's racial Saturday ceremony, Father Ger- ordered out of the country for "indulging in conversion." Father frightening whites into expressing system. hartz said. Madhya Pradesh is one Kerchove had been a teacher and racial fears and prejudices. of several Indian states that have Under the Group Areas Act, passed laws prohibiting religious administrator in various Indian Sister Flanagan is acting secretary general of the bishops' con,. each racial group has its own legal conversion by force, allurement or colleges for 40 years. His expulference in the absence of Father residential area. However, over fraud. Conversion has been a sen- sion order was followed by procesSmangaliso Mkhatshwa who has the years some "white" areas have sitive issue in India, where the pre- sions and Catholic school closings been detained without trial under become mixed because of housing dominantly Hindu population does in Ranchi, India, the Jesuit provincial headquarters and Catholic South Africa's emergency rules shortages in non-white areas. not actively evangelize. educational center of the region. since J line, 1986.

In the case of mixed couples, Before he became head of the Early in the 1980s, Salesian Among those affected by new one spouse will automatically be central Indian diocese in 1986, Father Joe D'Souza, a missionary government restrictions are a Cath- in violation wherever they live.

Bishop Topno was a regional su- in Madhya Pradesh, was arrested olic couple who were among the By law, the government may perior for the Jesuit order. A Jesuit on conversion charges and had 26 first to wed after restrictions on racially mixed marriages were lifted confiscate and sell the James' official in Rome described the 55- court. summons before he was in ·1985 and who now may be apartment three months after their year-old bishop, a native of India, cleared of the charges in 1986.

Catholics make up 1.7 percent among the first evicted from their eviction notice if they have not as "a good man, a quiet man and certainly not a fanatic." of India's population. home by a campaign to clear non- moved out.

Pope calls for aid for flood survivors

India arrests bishop for making conversions

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See you in September!

It's only a matter of days before youngsters receiving educations in the schools of the Fall River diocese have to hit the books again.

According to the Diocesan Department of Education, approximately 6000 students will make up the classes at the 25 diocesan elementary schools, and about 3000 young people will populate the four diocesan high schools. Both figures are slightly decreased from last year.

The 1987-88 academic year will come complete with celebrations ofthe Marian year and the 200th anniversary of the signing ofthe U.S. Constitution.

The third annual Religious Education Day for diocesan

catechists will be held September 26 at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, with Father Edward Braxton as keynote speaker, and the Catholic School Convention will be held October 26 at Fall River's Bishop Connolly High School, with Father Alfred McBride as speaker.

Sister Claudette Lapointe, RJM, is the new principal at Fall River's Notre Dame School, and Theresa Dougall has assumed the same post at Stang.

Michael Donly, for years the principal of Taunton's Coyle and Cassidy High School, has assumed the position of headmaster at that school. Norma Mulryan, for several years CC's assistant principal, has been named academic principal.

'Orbis Books editor is Rober. Ellsberg MARYKNOLL N.Y. (NC) Orbis Books, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers' publishing arm, has named Robert Ellsberg, 31, as editor in chief.

Ellsberg is the son of anti-war activist and former Defense Department official Daniel Ells!:>erg, who in 1971 leaked to the press the Pentagon Papers documenting U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Prior to his appointment to Orbis, the younger Ellsberg studied and taught at Harvard University, where he has completed work for a doctorate in theology.

He is author-editor of"By Little and Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day," which won a Christopher Award in 1984. From 1975-1980 he was a member of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker

Advisers named . WASHINGTON (NC) - The congressional Biomedical Ethics Board has named Catholic and pro-life activists to a new Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee, set up to assist the board in scrutinizing bioethical'issues.

The selections were announced by the National Right to Life Committee, which has been monitoring the congressional board.

The congressional board, whose action ·came shortly before the House-Senate summer adjournment earlier this month, consists of six House and six Senate members.

According to the National Right to Life Committee, the 14 advisers to the 12-person board include: - Father Donald McCarthy, . director of education for the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center, Braintree, Mass.

- James Bopp Jr., longtime general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee.

- Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, director of the Kennedy School.of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington.

- Dennis J. Horan, attorney and chairman of the board.' of Americans United for ,Life, a prolife legal assistance organization.

The advisory committee's role includes assisting Congress' in recommending policies for possible medical experiments involving unborn children, the National Right to Life Committee said. Law prohibits federally funded fetal experimentation unless done directly to benefit the subject of the experiment, it added.

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community in New York. He is married with one child.

According to the Maryknoll announcement, Ellsberg is especially familiar with Maryknoll's work in Latin America and visited several Maryknoll houses in 1982 when he traveled to five Latin AmeriCan countries, under the auspices of a Harvard grant program, to study the changing role of the Catholic Church.

Orbis executive director Robert J. Gormley described Ellsberg as "a Renaissance person" with "requisite training in theology, a fresh perspective on religious studies, visibility in Catholic publishing circles, familiarity with liberation theology, and a clear dedication to the ideals of Maryknoll."

Gormley also announced plans' for Orbis to publish a 50-volume series on liberation theology. The series, originally published in Brazil, will be translated into English from Portuguese.

Among coordinators of the series are several writers on liberation theology, including Peruvian Father Gustavo Gutierrez and Brazilian Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff and his brother, Servite of Mary Father Clodovis Boff.

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The tower, a gift to the parish from the late Mrs. Frances Crane Lillie, a convert to Catholicism, was built in 1929. 48 feet tall, it holds two bells, one named "Mendel" after the scientist/ monk Gre- gor Mendel, whose work with plants laid the foundation for modern genetics, the other dubbed "Pasteur," for Louis Pasteur, the father of bacteriology.

The bells ring the Angelus morning, noon and evening.

The tower's bronze entrance door, by Florentine artist Alfeo Faggi, depicts, in bas-relief, scenes from the life of St. Joseph. On the walls of the tower's small oratory (center photo) are bronze Stations of the Cross, also by Faggi.

A guest book in the oratory reveals that 1987's visitors hailed from most of our 50 states and from countries including Mexico, Denmark, Ireland, Canada, India and West Germany.

A Garden of Our Lady, founded

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The bell tower and garden will be open to visitors through October or as long as the good weather holds out, according to Father James P. Dalzell, St. Joseph's pastor. Admission is free. (Motta photos)

Declaring saints a long, intricate, cautious process VATICAN CITY (NC) - Contrary to popular misconception, the Vatican does not make saints, say Vatican officials. It just tries to figure out who they are.

But the process of proclaiming someone a saint is complicated, cautious, highly refined and long.

Some critics say religious orders have the advantage over dioceses and lay people in pushing the cause of their potential saints because they are better able to marshal the personnel and funding needed.

"Declaring someone a saint is a process of discernment by which the church recognizes what God has done," said Msgr. Robert Sarno, a Brooklyn, N.Y., priest and six-year veteran of the Vatican's Congregation for Sainthood Causes.

The procedure has roots in the early church, when the faithful venerated Christian martyrs.

But the first recorded papal canonization was of St. Udalricus in 973, during the reign of Pope Benedict VI. Then in 1588 Pope Sixtus V established a Vatican congregation to oversee saints' causes.

As in ancient times, the process begins with the people. The "major criteria" a bishop uses in deciding whether to push a cause for sainthood, said Msgr. Sarno, is whether the individual in question has a widespread reputation for sanctity and is considered a subject of prayer.

If so, and if more than five years have passed since the person's death, the bishop can begin collecting eyewitness testimony and documentation - pro and con needed to compile a detailed and accurate life record.

After the local church has completed this often-lengthy task, it forwards the material to the Vatican where it is assembled into a "position" to be studied for examples of "heroic virtue," miracles or martyrdom.

Compiled in red-bound volumes lettered in gold, these documents can run to thousands of pages. The volume holding the position on an alleged modern miracle attributed to the intercession of Franciscan Father Junipero Serra, one of the early California missionaries, is 425 pages long.

The position on Mother Katharine Drexel's heroic virtue ran to three volumes and 2,000 pages.

She left her wealthy Philadelphia family in the late 19th century to found the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People.

Unless martyred, a person's life is first examined for examples of living Christian virtues in a manner heroic and worthy of imitation. At the successful conclusion of this step, a person is declare9 venerable, as were Father Serra and Mother Drexel.

To be beatified, the step before sainthood, a canonically approved miracle must be attributed to the person. Alleged miracles are under study in the cases of Father Serra and Mother Drexel.

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Next, for a person to be declared a saint, a miracle attributed to him or her must be canonically proven to have taken place after beatification.

The Vatican used to employ socalled "devil's advocates" in the canonization process to find weaknesses in a proposed saint's case, Msgr. Sarno said, but that has been abandoned in favor of an "historical critical methodology" involving detailed, expert analysis of the records of a cause.

If there are no living eyewitnesses, the congregation uses a board of historical experts to examine the facts of the case.

A board of theologians then surveys the evidence and determines if the person lived a life of heroic virtue or was martyred out of hatred for the faith.

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An alleged miraculous cure is subjected to the same type of review, except that a panel of medical experts must first judge the event "instantaneous, lasting, and not explicable by modern medical technology," said Msgr. Sarno.

The procedure also includes a determination by theologians of a link between the cure and prayers for a cure.

In the canonization step, the cardinals and bishops living in Rome are involved in a consultation, called a white consistory, before the cause is sent to the pope for a final decision.

With canonization liturgical honors are made universal because the church now has assured the faithful worldwide that the person is in heaven and worthy of the accolades.

From introduction to conclusion a saint's cause can take decades.

Diocesan priests and the laity have been hampered in the past by the complicated procedure, said Msgr. Sarno, because neither group has the kind of organization religious orders have to finance the cause and assign the personnel needed to shepherd a cause through the system.

Recent papal reforms were aimed at simplifying the process, he added.

But Msgr. Sarno said that ultimately it is "the responsibility of the local church" to find laity who have lived lives of heroic virtue and to promote them.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: I just read your column about dateless daughters and depressed mothers. I had a mother like that, and I wish you would write something to help those parents. The pressure they exert on their children is abusive.

My mother was so anxious about my lack of dates that I went out with guys just to keep her off my back. Those dates were awful.

I was convinced that if I did not marry I would be a failure. At times I fantasized that I would kill myself at age 30 in were still single because I would not be able to live with the humiliation of no man wanting me.

This kind' of pressure forces young people into unsuitable marriages that often end in divorce.

Why can't singles be appreciated for what they are? Many are fine, productive, kindly people who need the love and support offamily and friends just as much as those who are married. - Illinois Thanks to this reader who shared such a personal account of what a dominating parent can do to a child's feelings.

Parents who dominate their children start from the best motives.

They want their children to make good choices that will lead to happiness and success in adult-

hood. Parents feel that, being older and wiser and having more life experience, they are able to judge what choices will be good for their child.

Here the dominating parent goes wrong. Despite the fact that parents know their children intimately, they cannot successfully make lifeshaping decisions for their children. Major decisions such as whether to marry, whom to marry and what to do as a life work are choices only the person involved can make.

Many parents, who would not openly demand that a child make certain choices, exert subtle influence. One parent repeatedly reminds a son, "I'd be so proud if you became a doctor." Another parent discourages a daughter who wants to study law by commenting critically, "You won't be through school until you are 26!" ' All parents tend to think they know what is best for their children. To prevent such concern from turning into dominance, here is a creed for parents of adult children. How much ofit reflects your thinking?

I. I believe that important decisions such as choosing a career or a mate are my child's choices. I will attempt to encourage and support any choice which is not clearly dangerous to s~lf or others.

2. I will not continue to treat adults as small children. I will encourage the child who wants to become a poet, but I will not support him through adulthood. If he chooses to work only part time and "live poor" so as to have time for writing, I will admire and applaud his courage and ingenuity.

3. I shall encourage my child when he or she needs "time out."

The child who is not ready to go to college or vocational school right after high school often benefits from a year of working. Others need some time off after college before choosing a permanent job.

All such choices are reasonable and may be very wise. At the same time, parents need not continue financial support. Parents need only encourage.

4. I believe that giving my children such freedom benefits me as well. Managing my own life is challenge enough. I do not need or welcome the burden of trying to manage the lives of my children.

Raising children who do things my way might seem satisfying.

Raising children with the courage to make their own choices and to live by> them is infinitely more rewarding.

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

Are we hung up on problems?

By Antoinette Bosco It has become strikingly clear to me that we are a society that is hung up on problems. Recently I have been asked to give talks on the problems of single parenting, health problems of older women and the escalating problems of poor children.

Problems have created such tension that they now have their own identity. Now, if a group wants a program, a course or a workshop to be successful, just advertise it as a session on "problem solving."

"Solving which problems?" I once asked two people putting on such a program.

Their response, accompanied with a look designed to make me feel small, was: .. Any problem. Just problems.

You have to have skills in order to solve problems. This workshop deals with the techniques you need in order to solve problems. Once you have the know-how you can solve any problem."

I was tempted to take the course because there are many problems I would like to solve on the world, national, local and personal levels.

I would love to have the techniques to solve the Iran-Contra mess; to reduce interest rates; to guarantee some standards of decent living for the truly poor; to make the production of nuclear energy safe; to eliminate crime; to ensure adequate medical care for all the sick; to stay on a diet...

We have become so problemfixated that an automatic greeting for someone who's preoccupied and unsmiling is, "Hi! What's the problem?"

The biggest mistake is to say you've got no problems. Then you're really in for analysis. I tried that once for about a day, casually mentioning that I had no prob-

lems. I was evaluated as a Pollyanna, a liar, an idealist, simply out of it, confused and unconscious.

No one concluded that I was honest, blessed or lucky.

I have tried to figure out why, as a society, we have wrapped our lives in a coating of problems. But I have no valid explanations, only some opinions.

I suspect an important factor is the almost total emphasis by the news media on bad news. What's more, we are immersed in the troubles not only of our own community but of the nation and the entire world.

We agonize because an earthquake hit Japan and terrorists killed'people in Lebanon. We feel pain over a tenement fire in Chi-

cago and floods in the Midwest.

The agony happens in our living rooms right before our eyes.

True, it is a distant intimacy but we are still swept into the pain.

The saturation of our minds with bad news certainly has to be a type of brainwashing with the end result a negative outlook and a pervasive expectation that there is no escape from problems.

We are in an age of problems.

Does this mean we have to spend so much time talking about problems in general and techniques for solving them that we can indefinitely avoid having to deal with the real issues?

Maybe what we all need is a change of perspective. As a saying from the 1960s put it, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

What is a good teacher?

By Hilda Young Some back-to-school thoughts: A good teacher is a shining star in the galaxy of almost everyone's childhood'memories.

A good teacher avoids saying things like, "I hope you won't be a problem like your brother," or "I hope you can be half the student your sister was."

A good teacher knows the best discipline is based on respect, not fear, but will take fear in a pinch.

A good teacher takes away your eye makeup or squirt gun, but remembers to give it back on the last day of school.

A good teacher knows who copied from his or her neighbor's paper even when no one tattles.

A good teacher has good answers to questions like, "So what if I memorize when the Spanish Armada was sunk?"

A good teacher is aware he or she is communicating values in math and shop classes .as well as in

history, civics or religion.

A good teacher probably would make a lot more money in another career.

A good teacher sees before him or her a room full of future engineers, nurses, scientists, diplomats, missionaries, business people and educators, not just weird little people who would trade their social studies book in a second for a turn on the Pac Man machine.

A good teacher has 36Q-degree, full-skull radar; he or she can detect the flight of a spit wad even with back turned.

A good teacher is consistent, clear and organized, but knows the value of spontaneity and surprise.

A good teacher does not teach for thanks, but sure does appreciate it once in awhile. And deserves it too!

Send comments to Hilda Young, General Delivery, Lopez Island, VVash.98261. .

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dropout Catholics, Beben prefers to emphasize what he sees as "a healthy trend" - that among those who stay "fewer are satisfied with just being people in the pews. They want to do more, they want a sense of belonging."

New Orleans is another city on the papal itinerary where Catholics have gone through a wide consultation for a local archdiocesan synod.

Thomas Perkins, who has worked 20 years for the archdiocese on its massive involvement in housing for the elderly and poor, said that during that consultation "the concern that surfaced over and over is that of women - her role, how she's treated, what her responsibility is."

Another top lay concern was church treatment of minorities, he said. "People do not recognize the needs of black Catholics, as far as their position within the church.

There have been some efforts to correct that" but not enough, he said.

From a similar grass-roots consultation on church priorities in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, ministry to youth emerged as the top priority of Catholics. Social justice, education, shared responsibility in the church,' family life support and help for families in crisis were other chief priorities.

A nationwide consultation conducted in preparation for this fall's synod showed that the same issues' and priorities are among top con-

cerns of Catholics across the coun"The laity have a vibrant, abidtry. ing love for the church," she said.

From other dioceses along the At the same time, "there is not papal route - San Antonio, Phoe- another church whose laity is as nix, Monterey, San Francisco and well-informed."

Detroit - came similar concerns Guy Mikkelsen, head of the and examples oflay people involved Phoenix diocesan agency Foundain key church positions. tion for Senior Living, sees grass"Lay influence in the adminisroots issues needing more attentration of the Archdiocese of San tion. "The church needs to focus Francisco is particularly high. More energy in developing functional than 20 of our offices or agencies communities in parishes that deal are headed by lay persons," said with problems of the everyday Patrick Hughes, San Francisco world in the context of faith, to archdiocesan director of pastoral help a family's unwed daughter, ministry. At a papal meeting with the person facing unemployment, U.S. lay representatives in San or the hungry."

Francisco, Hughes plans to address Without that kind of church the pope on the "emergence of issues related to careers and pro- involvement in helping people fessional lay ministry in the where they live, church stands on larger institutional or social issues church." .

Jane Wolford Hughes of Detroit, . "are far too ethereal for general '"who headed archdiocesan adult consumption," he says.

For most Catholics, their local religious education there for more parish or small communities based than 20 years, thinks that in U.S. Catholics the pope will see a in the parish or neighborhood are unique blend of education and . the primary sites of involvement in religious or social ministry. commitment to the church.

Cardinal Sin reports on trip VATICAN CITY (NC) - Filipino Cardinal Jaime Sin said his recent trip to the Soviet Union was approved by the Vatican and revealed the communist government has conceded that it cannot eliminate religion in the Soviet Union.

He also said Soviet officials told him the government is prepared to grant concessions to the Catholic Church in Lithuania. and seeks

We're 866.7 million strong VATICAN CITY (NC) - The world's Catholic population is 866.7 million, about 18 percent of the Earth's inhabitants, according to the latest Vatican figures.

The figures are based on information gathered from ecclesial jurisdictions worldwide and include an estimated 14.7 million Catholics in countries, such as Sovietbloc nations, where it is impossible to collect accurate church statistics.

The figures are contained in the 1985 Statistical Yearbook of the Church published by the Vatican earlier this summer. It said the worldwide Catholic population rose by 12 million during 1985.

The five countries with the largest numbers of Catholics are Brazil,

120 million; Mexico, 75.4 million; Italy, 55.9 million; The United States, 53 million; and France, 46.5 million.

The statistical yearbook said there were 399,423 priests in 1985, a drop of 2,125 from the previous year.

The figures also showed a sharp rise in the number of major seminarians. There were 85,084 in 1985 compared to 80,302 in 1984.

The seminarian figure has risen steadily in the 1980s. The figure for 1980 was 66,042.

Vatican officials interpret this rise as evidence that the vocations picture is improving and will result in an increase' in the number of priests.

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Italian missionary killed ROME (NC) - An Italian missionary priest was recently shot and killed 'by unknown assailants in Uganda, a spokesman for his路 order said.

The bullet-ridden body of Comboni Father Egidio Ferracin was found tied to a tree. He had disappeared on his way to conduct a prayer service.

The 50-year-old missionary had worked in the central African country since 1965. The Comboni order said it knew of no reason for the killing.

A Comboni official said Uganda's bishops had warned missionaries not to travel in the region because of widespread banditry and violence. He said Father Ferracin apparently was convinced he could safely make the trip to a chapel about 20 miles from his mission in Alega.

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The Italian-based order still has close to 200 missionaries in Uganda.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II urged an internatIOnal group of scientists gathered to study the effects of nuclear war to share information and collaborate in programs "without secrets and without borders."

The pope also reminded the group that Third World countries need scientific knowledge and advanced technologies to help overcome the "serious imbalances" in world development.

The pope made his comments in a telegram Aug. 18, the eve of the seventh annual meeting of nuclear scientists, physicists and other specialists in Erice, Italy. The text of the papal message to the event's organizer, the Majorana Ettore Institute. was made available at the Vatican.

The pope said he was espeCIally pleased that this year's meet 109 would involve scientific advisers from the United States, the Soviet Union, China and others, who WIll "try to work out a program of SCIentific and technical investigation without secrets and without borders."

"I hope that such a comforting reality will involve the intellectual forces of the industrialized world and those of the Third World. an area that needs immediate material assIstance as well as sCIentIfic knowledge and advanced technologies," the pope said.

Laboratory 10 whIch scientists from throughout the world would exchange information, experiences and opinions, and work together without government controls. An earlier encounter produced a computerized SImulation of the devastating effects of nuclear war.

The pope has frequently met with the seminar's participants.

The pope saId he hoped this year's meeting would "open new frontiers of hope for humanity."

He added, "I send my support and my firm conviction that world peace is built through concrete projects."

One ofthe seminar's participants, Nobel Prize winner John Eccles of Australia, was quoted Aug. 19 in the Italian newspaper II Tempo as defend 109 what he called the "atomic peace" maintained by nuclear weapons since World War II. "We have preserved 40 years of peace by virtue of an enormous danger. True, there are local wars, but no universal disaster, no holocaust," Eccles was quoted as saymg.

He said the current nuclear weapon conditions should be preserved until there is a "real intention of peace by all sides."

Cardinal says only Vatican is able to make peace MILAN, Italy (NC) - The Vat- "model of Impartiality" and "his Ican is the only moral power 10 the intervention was extremely useful, world that has shown Itself capa- If not decisive, in aVOIding catasble of mediatmg peace, VatIcan trophe." Cardinal Casaroli. who Secretary of State Cardinal Agos- was undersecretary of state at the tino Casaroli saId 10 an interVIew tIme. did not give details of the with an Italian newspaper. epiwde. but Pope John is known The cardinal saId other world to have sent a message to SovIet authorities, mcludmg the Umted officIals urgmg a peaceful concluNations, were either not strong sion to the stand-off. enough or were unheeded when it The crisis centered on the Soviet came to settling conflicts. attempt to place nuclear missiles "The United NatIons today is 10 Cuba and the subsequent U.S. not in a posItion to ensure peace, naval blockade to prevent delivery and 1sustain that there is only one of the weapons. The blockade was power. on a mora! level, that his- lifted when the Soviet Union agreed torical;}' and still today has been to dismantle the mIssile bases. capable of attracting the trust of On other matters, Cardinal Caseach side and carrying out an aroli downplayed recent reports action of peace and dialogue: the about an upcoming papal trip to Holy See," Cardinal Casaroli was the Soviet Union. quoted as saying in an interview with the Milan-based Catholic "There is much talk about it, newspaper Avvenire. The interVIew even too much, but nothing defiwas published earlier this month. nite follows," he said.

The 72-year-old cardinal is the The cardinal also praised Pope Vatican's chief diplomat, and his John Paul II as a pope who, in his job mvolves frequent discussions travels and at the Vatican, has with world leaders, often on peace tried to develop a better relationissues. ship with the world's bishops.

Cardinal Casaroli said he thought "Today, much more than before, humanity had a deep desire for bishops will come to Rome, have world peace, but added that "un- lunch with him and present varfortunately there is missing an IOUS problems. It wasn't always authority that is strong enough" to like that," he said. help end conflicts around the globe.

He said his own working relaHe suggested that the Holy See was the only such authority with a tionship with the pope was that of presenting him with information record 'of success. on individual issues and letting "I know that many states do not hIm make his decisions. agree. But preCIsely this has con"It isn't difficult to work with a vinced me that the Holy See should pope as intelligent and experienced. have dialogue and respect, if not as this one," he said. friendship, with all nations. Only Cardinal Casaroli added that he in that way can there be a remedy, was in favor of giving "more space in case of crisis," he was quoted as to lay men and women" in the saying. church, "not because we have to He illustrated his point with a because of a lack of vocations, but reference to the mediation of Pope because their proper contribution John XXIII during the Cuban IS ecclesiastical." missile crisis in 1962. The pope, he The church is preparing for an said, was recognized by the United Oct. 1-30 Synod of Bishops on the States and the Soviet Union as a role of laity.

In 1985, the Erice meetmg produced a proposal for the World

Talks possible VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican is open to discussmg the possibility of renegotiating the 1975 church-state concordat with Colombia, said a Vatican official.

The official spoke after Colombian President Virgilio Barco said he wanted to renegotiate marnage and education articles of the concordat. The Vatican has not decided to reopen negotiations, but plans to have exploratory talks on the matter wIth Colombian authorities, saId the Vatican official, a diplomat involved in Latin American church-state issues. Under the concordat, people married in a Catholic ceremony cannot be granted a divorce. The concordat also gives state recognition to the Catholic school system but gives the state little control over Catholic schools. The concordat also allows Catholic religious instruction in public schools. "'C l PI photo

POPE JOHN PAUL II receives a kISS from a boy~o~low1Oga Mass.at the parish church in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. The pope's summer residence. IS 10 the Alban hills town.

Protecting the pope in Phoenix PHOENIX, Ariz. (NC) - Using hundreds of Jaw enforcement officers to protect just one man may seem easy enough. but the Secret ServIce won't take any chances for Pope John Paul II's visit to the United States.

Precautions include checking mailboxes and manholes for explosives, keeping people from hanging out of windows in buildings along papal routes and keeping in check the huge crowds expected, said special agent Don Tucker, who heads the Secret Service in Arizona.

Pope John Paul visits Phoenix Sept. 14.

Tucker said that by the time the pope makes his multistop visit to Phoenix, Secret Service agents will have played out several possible attacks on the pope. To prepare for potential assassination attempts, they will have gone through every step he will make.

"We consider the whole visit a challenge," Tucker told The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Phoenix Diocese. "You can't relax for a moment; you have to be "100 percent on guard at all times."

The true test for protection of dignitaries comes at public appearances, Tucker said, pointing out the pope will make six in Phoenix.

Included is a motorcade down a main avenue, expected to draw at least several hundred thousand people, and a Mass late in the day at Arizona State University's football stadium for about 80,000.

Surveillance will be particularly tight for those events, Tucker said.

"We will have people everywhere," he said. "We will have agents at every possible strategic point that could serve as a vantage point for an assassin.

"It is a once-in-a-lifetime event for a lot of people and they'll all want to get as good a look [!it the pope] as possible," he added. "But there can be problems with friendly crowds. I've seen SItuatIOns where agents have had to physically rescue children from being crushed by people pushing to get a close look."

As far as preparing for any potential terrorist attack. the Secret ServIce agent saId the agency's intelligence network has not found any evidence of such a threat.

"But certainly it is something we are prepared to act on, should we learn anything new," he added.

Preparations also mclude dozens ofsecurity checks of people expected to be working in areas near the pope. Police working close to the pope, volunteers and other workers will be wearing badges or pins recognizable to the Secret Service, Tucker said.

Adding to the tens of thousands of people expected for the visit will be another 1,500 or so from the local, national and international press corps.

Marge Injasoultan, diocesan communications director and chairwoman of the papal visit communications committee, said the press will wear identifiable badges but won't be allowed to roam freely.

Subject to physical security checks will be the 80,000 people expected to attend the Mass celebrated at the stadium, Tucker said.

Everyone enterIng the stadium will be screened. he saId.

with Mrs. Reagall again in Los Angeles.

While his visit IS aimed mainly at U.S. Catholics. the pope is also slated to meet with leaders of other faiths and religions in the country where ecumenical and interfaith relations are among the most advanced in the world and often a source of controversy.

He will meet and pray with Jewish, Moslem, Hindu and Buddhist leaders and leaders of other Christian faiths.

Even the meetings with nonCatholic leaders are aimed at Catholics as well, as the pope expresses by word and example the relations Catholics should have with fellow Christians and believers of other faiths.

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A BILLBOARD with an image of Pope John Paul II and New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral is one of 50 posteq around the Louisiana city, the pope's third stop on his upcoming visit.

Papal visit a time for reflection WASHINGTON (NC) - Of the millions of Americans who turn out to see Pope John Paul II in person on his U.S. tour Sept.

10-19, a lucky few may get close enough to' exchange a word or a handshake with the pontiff or catch an instant of eye contact and a warm papal smile directed at them.

For many more the biggest excitement of the papal visit may be seeing the pope from a distance and hearing him speak, or participating in a Mass celebrated by him.

Tens of millions of Americans will probably remember the visit mainly from the times they see the pope on television, either live or on the evening news.

But for Catholics who are looking for a deeper level of moral or spiritual inspiration from the man who leads their church, the papal visit offers a rare opportunity to share in what could be a kind of nationwide spiritual retreat - a chance to pray and reflect, in the course of 10 days, on many of the most significant aspects of their faith commitment and their life in the church.

As the holder of the chair of Peter and a source and symbol of worldwide Catholic unity, the pope commands a thoughtful hearing even from those who disagree with him, and perhaps especially on those points where they disagree.

In his dozens of U.S. meetings, addresses and homilies, Pope John Paul can be expected to layout a panorama of what U.S. Catholic life in the 1980s is and is challenged to be.

Catholics struggling with quistian living in their daily world of work may find special meaning in the pope's homily Sept. 17 in Monterey, Calif., at a Mass for workers.

During his seven hours in Mon- naturally be singled out for particterey the pope is also scheduled to ular attention during the papal give an address on evangelization, trip. It is through their diverse or spreading the Gospel - an ministries that the life ofthe church activity so central to the church's takes on shape and form.

In Miami the pope is to speak to mission that every Christian is called to participate in it. The priests. In New Orleans he meets church's mission is also the theme . with religious educators and teachof the papal Mass Sept. 18 in San ers in Catholic grade schools, high schools, colleges and universities.

Francisco.

Catholics trying to deepen their In San Antonio Catholic Charities understanding of how they should and social action workers are on witness the Gospel through the the agenda, followed by candidates work of charity, peace, justice and for priesthood or religious life. reconciliation will find those themes Health workers are addressed in running through a series of papal Phoenix. events.

The nation's bishops meet with The role and vocation of lay the pope for more than four hours people in the church is almost cer- Sept. 16 in Los Angeles. He meets tain to be the central topic when men and women religious the folPope John Paul holds a meeting lowing day in San Francisco, and specifically devoted to the laity in permanent deacons and their wives San Francisco Sept. 18. It is also in Detroit Sept. 19. one of the occasions he could use When Pope John Paul and the to address controversial issues concerning the role of women iil the bishops meet, an exchange on a wide range of concerns in the church and in society.

A Sept. 13 address on Catholic Catholic Church in the United parish life in San Antonio, to be States is expected. The meeting delivered in Spanish, may have itself is closed to the press and particular meaning forthe nation's general public, but the main papal large Hispanic Catholic popula- text, and possibly the texts offour tion, but it also touches non- bishops who are to speak to him Hispanic Catholics at the point on various topics, are expected to where they gather as church most be released. frequently and intimately, in their There is no particular meeting parish. or event in the advance papal Special groups of lay people will schedule which is specifically dealso receive special attention, such voted to such issues as sound famas the young, the sick, and ethnic ily life, respect for all human life, and racial groups. sexual morality, or the Christian response to consumerism, seculaIn Los Angeles, still the film J;'ism and the arms race. But all of capital of the world, the pope is to these are themes close to the pope's address communications workers.

Urban workers and the urban poor heart, and he is almost certain to address them at some point in the and unemployed are expected to trip. receive special emphasis in his The pontiff is scheduled to meet address on social justice in Detroit. privately with President and Mrs. Those who work full time or Reagan in Miami and possibly professionally in Church jobs will

v ATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II will not visit the United Nations during his upcoming trip to the United States and Canada because of lack of time, Vatican officials said.

"The trip would add two-and-ahalf days to a trip that is already longer than originally planned," one official involved in organizing the trip said.

Vatican officials said the pope cannot extend the visit because he has to return in time to rest and prepare for the opening of the world Synod of Bishops on the laity Oct. 1.

Currently, the pope is scheduled to return to Rome Sept. 21.

A visit to U.N. headquarters in New York would add more than two days to the trip because it also would involve a pastoral visit to Catholics of the New York Archdiocese, adding several more events, Vatican officials said.

The officials said the pope had been invited by' U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cueller to address the United Nations.

Coverage ofthe upcoming papal tour of the United States and Canada will continue in next week's issue of The Anchor. Watch for it!

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By Charlie Martin

THE FINER THINGS While there is time Let's go out and feel everything If you hold me I will let you into my dreams For time is a river Rolling into nowhere We must Dve while we can And we'l drink our cup of laughter The finer things keep shining through The way my soul gets lost in you The finer things I feel in me The golden dance life could be I've been sad And have walked bitter streets alone And come morning There's a good wind to blow me home So time is a river Rolling into nowhere I will live while I can I will have my ever after We go so fast Why don't we make it last Life is glowing inside you and me Please take my hand Here where I stand Won't you come o·ut and dance with me Come see . . " .

With me Come see And lovers try 'Til they get the best of the night And come morning They' are tangled up in the light So time be a river Rolling into nowhere And they love while they can And they think about the night so sweet Recorded by Steve Winwood. Written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings. (c) 1986, by F.S. Limited (PRS); Willin'David Music; Blue Sky Rider Songs.

DOES LOVE bring out the best in you? It should, if one

agrees with recent Grammy award winner Steve Winwood.

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on your 'mind? , Q. Is it bad to no longer like doinl good things f!>r others!

(Jowa) :.' A. The letter that begins with' the above, question continues in this way: Oil try to help out at hom~: and be nice to ot.hers. I get upset, however, when I see.my sisters nOt' helping out with chores'llOd being disrespectfpl to my dad. They get away with murder..."

Further concrete details show beyond doubt that the questioner (whose mother died some years ago) has good cause for griping and good reason for disillusionment and discouragement.

It's no wonder that she "no longer likes doing good things for others." But it would be sad if she let this feeling and attitude become

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frozen into permanency. The end result might be a long,. sour, unhappy and narrow life. . Another course·of action can be followed.

Recently wife and mother: told me how she'finally dealt with the laziness of her husband and sons and their refusal to help with chores.

She started by not taking the trash out. When there were two large bags of trash sitting in the kitchen for three days in a row, one of the boys became annoyed at the sight and finallY took them outside himself.

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The mother began to neglect some other chores and in time they were done by other members of

His latest release, "The Finer Things,"states that love helps us to find those "finer things I feel in me'.' and the "golden dance life could be."

What are some of these "finer things" that love brings out of us?

I would see the development of the following three qualities as signs of loving and being loved: 1. Self-belief. Many individuals experience nagging feelings of being second-rate or of not being quite OK as a person. Even when these individuals experience success, they wonder if it occurred through luck or circumstances.

The power of another's love helps to heal such self-doubts. We begin to see more clearly and believe in our innate goodness.

2. Self-achievement. Knowing that another loves and believes in us helps us to reach after new goals. Before experiencing the power of being loved, we may have been hesitant to really go after what we want in life. With loving support, we find the courage to take new risks, to find out what we can achieve and trust our dreams.

3. Self-forgiveness. Most of us are harder on ourselves than anyone else. We tend to remember mistakes long after others have forgotten them.

However, being loved by another helps us to be self-accepting. We are more ready to forgive the past and try to do better in the future.

While this song is obviously meant as a reflection on the power of romantic love, we need not wait to find such a relationship to develop ourselves. Each person is already deeply loved by God. Let God's love help bring out your best self. In that connection, Christians, of course, do not think that "time is a river rolling into nowhere." We know that each day brings us closer to eternity and that the reward of a life well spent is endless happiness with God. Your comments are always welcome. Address Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714. the family out of sheer exasperation.

Perhaps a similar strategy could be adopted by this week's questioner, after letting her father know about the plan..

And perhaps the two of them can present a firm and united front with regard to the disrespect of the two sisters. Punishment for such disrespect may well be needed.

Changing the sisters' patterns of behavior may be a sticky and 'unpleasant but necessary and worthwhile business.

To go on "doing good things" for them would· only encourage their selfish· way of acting. And 'eventually it probably would embitter the questioner.'

If it cannot be fully resolved, the questioner can try to do as little as possible for the sisters and continue to keep the pressure on by neglecting chores herself.

It' probably won't be easy but I hope the questioner will try to keep alive in her heart the determination to do good for others even when that good must take the form of tough love, perhaps very tough love.

Send questions and comments to Tom Lennon,1312 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

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PAUL HASTY of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, takes control ofthe ball from the opposition during a soccer game in Portage, Ind. Paul, a Catholic, is spending the summer in the United States as part of the Irish Children's Fund program which brings both Catholic and Protestant children from wartorn Northern Ireland to promote peace thr.ough reconciliation and friendship. Paul and his Irish teammates lost the match to their new American friends.

Religion back in program WASHINGTON (NC) - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist recently overturned a lower federal judge's order and temporarily reinstated religious groups in a federal program to discourage teenage sexual activity. .

The chief justice said the issue is likely to come before the Supreme Court, since it involves a 'program under a law passed by Congress, and that the court customarily allows'such projects under alaw to continue until the case is resolved.

He acted after the· federal government had appealed the lower court action.

The church groups had been banned from participation in the program in April by an injunction froin U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Richey, who determined that funding church agencies unde~ the program violated constitutional separation of church and state.

The lower court judge left open the question of whether the whole law should be thrown out. .. Oftendubbed the "chastity law," the Adolescent Family Life Act setting up the pr~gram was passed

by Congress in 1981.

It provides grants for projects th~t encour!lge "self-discipline and other prudent choices" in addressing the problems of teenage sexual acti~ity and pregnancy. The prog~am also denies funds for "abortions or abortion counseling or referral" and backs efforts by "religious and charitable organizations" and, other private sector groups.

"It has been the, unvarying practice of this court so long as I have

been a member of it (to) decide on the merits all cases in which a single district judge declares an act of Congress unconstitutional," the chief justice said.

"Given the presumptio..n of constitutionality' granted to all acts of Congress," he added, it is "appropriate that the statute remain in effect pending such review~ by the Supreme Court.

Recipients ofthj: funding under the program have included various Catholic Charities agencies.

Bishop Stang Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, welcomes Robert L. Prehn and John.L. Ciccotelli to its science teaching staff.

Prehn will teach physics. A resident of Middletown, RI, he holds degrees in physics and aeronautical engineering and a master's degree in business education. He has taught at the United States Naval Academy and the United States War College.

Ciccotelli, Westport resident, will teach biology and marine biology. A Southeastern Massachusetts University graduate with a biology degree, he has taught in area schools and has participated in the Upward Bound summer program sponsored by MIT / Wellesley.

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tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews given some life by Michael Caine indicate both general and Catholic as the honorary consul mistakenly Films Office ratings. which do not kidnapped by a band of inept Argentinian revolutionaries. Excesalways coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for sive nudity. 0, R general viewing; PG-13-parental guiTuesday, Sept. 8, 9-11 p.m. EDT dance strongly suggested for chi Idren (NBC) "Coast to Coast" (1980). under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R~restricted, unsuitable for Mediocre chase comedy with mismatched couple - Robert Blake children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for as a hard-luck trucker and Dyan children and adults; A2-approved for Cannon as an asylum runaway adults and adolescents; A3-approved who make their way across the for adults only; 4-separate' classifi- , country pursued by various charcation (given films not morally offen- acters with hostile intentions. Tedisive which. however. require som1l analysis and explanation); O-morally ous and often abrasive. Some rough language. A3, PG offensive.

Catholic ratings for television TV Programs movies are those of the movie house Thursday, Sept. 10, :1 p.m. EDT versions of the films.

(CBS) Special live coverage, anchored by Dan Rather, of Pope John Paul II's arrival in Miami on NOTE Sept. 10 and Ii with features on Please check dates and the papal trip. times of television and radio Thursday, Sept. 10. 9-11 p.m. programs against local listEDT (ABC) "The Pope in Amerings, which may differ from ica." News special on issues facing the New York network schedPope John Paul II upon his arrival ules supplied to The Anchor. for his U.S. tour. Comments of American Catholics and clergy about the priesthood, the role of women, homosexuality and ~he New Films young. Documentary format .wlth "The Care Bears' Adventures in historical references and detalis of Wonderland"(Cineplex-Odeon)the papal itinerary.

This Canadian animated feature is Religious TV a lively, colorful, complexly designed and orchestrated travelogue Sunday, Aug. 30 (CBS) - "For through Wonderland with the Bears Our Times" - A rebroadcast of and a little girl named Alice who CBS News correspondent Douglas must save the kingdom from a Edwards' report on the varied minpower-hungry wizard. Ai, G istries of military chaplains at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and "Disorderlies"(Warnen) - The Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia.

Fat Boys, a rap music group, ,star Religious Radio as health-eare interns who unwittingly foil inept nephew Anthony Sunday, Aug. 30 (NBC) Geary's plot to do in his wealthy "Guideline" - Father Joseph Fenuncle (Ralph Bellamy). This not- ton, USCC network liaison and exactly-uplifting comedy relies on host of "Guideline," presents an pure physical slapstick brought o~f overview of Pope John Paul II's amiably by the funky boys and IS upcoming visit to the United States. marred by some mildly crude language and a brief nude swimming scene. A2, PG Check with your local cable "Masters ofthe Universe"(Cancompany to see if it will be carrynon) - Live-action sci-fi fantasy ing the live coverage of Pope John based on the MatteI toy line and Paul II's upcoming visit to the TV cartoon series about the ongoUnited States and Canada that ing conflict between heroic warMother Angelica's Eternal Word rior He-Man (Dolph Lundgren) Television Network has offered and power-erazed Skeletor (Frank free of charge.

Langella). Ample comic-book-style The coverage, offered exclusively violence. A2, PG to the cable industry by the Na"Stakeout" (Touchstone-BueJ:la tional Conference of Catholic Vista) ~ Voyeurism turns into Bishops, EWTN and the Catholic romance when a cop on surveil- Telecommunications Network of lance (Richard Dreyfuss) falls for America, is funded by grants from the target'of his perusal, an escaped the Catholic Communications con's girl (Madeleine Stowe). Some Campaign and the bishops' conviolence,brief nudity and a sex ference. Hosted by Mother Angelscene make this mature fate. A3, R ica and Father Bernard R~ Bonnot, CTNA' president, with the Films on ,TV ' support of lay hosts, it will run Saturday, Sept. 5, 9-11 p.m. from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day EDT (ABC) "Grease II" (1981) of the papal trip.

Rock 'n' roll musical romance aDon't be shy! Let your local bout a British newcomer (Maxcable company know that you well Caufield) at Rydell High who want to see this great media event! becomes a biker to impress the girl of his dreams (Michelle Pfeiffer).

This synthetic sequel celebrates Every Gift stri/'ng for peer group conformity "Every worthwhile gift, every at any expense, uses sexual innuen- genuine benefit comes from above, do for humor and presents a moral descending from the Father... who vacuum of questionable values for cannot change and who is never teens. A3, PG shadowed over." - Jas. 1:17 Sunday, Sept. 6, 9-11 p.m. EDT --(NBC) "Beyond the Limit" (198~). - Romantic thriller about an 111fated love affair set against the GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS events of a South American political coup. This plodding effort is

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SISTER Theresa Bisson, OP, religious education c~or­ dinator at Holy Ghost pansh, Attleboro, recently celebrated 25 years as a Sister of St. Catherine of Siena.

After a Liturgy of thanksgiving was offered at St. Catherine's Convent, Fall River, Sister Theresa celebrated her jubilee with family and friends at a dinner in the Dominican Academy, Fall River, auditorium.

She holds a master's degree in adult Christian community development from Regis College, Denver, and has taught at Dominican Academy and St. Anne's School, also in Fall River. For 13 years she was St. Anne's principal.

Sister Theresa has worked in Rhode Island parishes and has volunteered at New York City's Covenant House and for the Chri&,tian Appalachian Project in Kentucky.

Statement helpful NEW YORK (NC) - The American Jewish Committee has welcomed a recent statement by Austrian bishops condemning anti-Semitic acts in Austria.

Theodore Ellenoff, president of the committee, and Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of the' committee's international relations department, called the bishops' document "a timely and helpful reiteration" of previous Austrian bishops' efforts to eliminate antiJewish images and teachings.

In a letter to Archbishop Karl Berg of Salzburg, president of the Austrian bishops'c<thference, the Jewish leaders said they hoped the recent' statement would "serve as an antidote to those residual elements in Austrian society who have seized on recent unpleasant ,events as a pretext for waging their anti-Jewish, anti-Christian and anti-democratic h!ltreds."

The Austrian bishops expressed "serious concern" over the "revival of anti-Semitism" in their country following Jewish allegations concerning the war record of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. Their statement urged Christians and Jews to fight "latent" anti-Jewish feelings in the country.

The document was issued after a wave of anti-Semitic slogans on walls and desecrations of Jewish cemeteries.

DAYTON, Ohio (NC) - Calling his captors "the poorest of the poor," former Lebanon hostage Father Lawrence Martin Jenco said the response to them should be "reconciliation, not retaliation."

At the University of Dayton March 30 the Servite priest declared his "utter opposition" to armsdealing for hostages. He said prayer is the only way to obtain release of those still held.

Father Jenco, who was Catholic Relief Services director in Lebanon, was kidnapped in Beirut by Shiite Moslems Jan. 19, 1985, and released July 26, 1986.

Marking the 28th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood with his Dayton appearance, Father Jenco said he had spent his 26th anniversary blindfolded and struggling to breathe through a crack in a clothes closet.

On his anniversary last year, he said, his captors brought him a chocolate cake iced with the message, "Happy Anniversary, Father."

The 56-year-old priest described his captivity as a mixture of horrors and kindly acts by his captors, members of the Islamic Jihad.

Imprisoned in seven different locations, he said sometimes he was transported in the spare-tire well of a truck, bound like a mum, my, gagged, and laced with explosives. Once when the truck jolted, he struck his face and suffered a nosebleed, he said.

The blood coagulated, he said, and only through controlled breathing and repetition of the Pilgrim's Prayer, "Lord, Jesus; have mercy on me," was he able to get enough air.

One night after more than a year of captivity, he was taken to a Beirut rooftop and told to remove his blindfold, he said. Certain he was about to be shot, he prayed, "God, I love you."

"I was utterly amazed," he said, that his captors wanted only to let him look at the moon.

Father Jenco stressed the humanity of his captors.

"I would ask that you reflect on who my captors were - Shiites, the poorest of the poor," he said.

He said they were young men who sometimes brought their children to visit him. On Christmas Eve they brought "a birthday cake for Jesus" and at Easter fresh flowers.

The priest described his captivity as "my most memorable retre~t," saying prayer was a constant source of strength and hope for him.

In order to pray, he had to learn to forgive, he said. ' He said that the night before he was released, one of his captors came to him and, echoing Jesus' words on the cross, said, "Forgive us, Father, we know not what we do." , He said he asked his captors for their forgiveness as well, for the "many times I had tremendous feelings of hate and anger."

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HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Song leaders' meeting 7:30 p.m.

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WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO Attleboro area widowed support group Mass 7 p.m. Sept. 4 precedes meeting, St. Theresa's Church and parish center, So. Attleboro. Group will be guests of St. Mary parish, Mansfield, Oct. 2. Nature walk Oct. O.L. MT, CARMEL, SEEKONK 4. Mass and meeting with guest Rite of Christian Initiation for speaker Alvin Stewart (Being WiAdults open house Sept. 28; infor- dowed: A Man's Viewpoint) 7 p.m. mation: rectory, 336-9022. Renew Nov. 6. Mass and meeting featuring sign-up Sept. 12 and 13; prayer line dancing led by Connie Davigcommitment Oct. 3 and 4; program non Dec. 4. Information and newsbegins weekend of Oct. II. letters: Marielle Martineau, 6994097.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER IO-week Scripture study course ST. ANNE,FR (Exodus) with permanent deacon CYO general meeting 7 p.m. Sept.

Francis J. Camacho begins 7:20 p.m. 8 includes registration and election Sept. 14; information and registra- of a vice-president; Westport Camption by Sept. 7: Deacon Camacho, grounds trip Sept. II to 13. The par394-5023, after 6 p.m. Ladies' Guild ish school welcomes its new staffers: executive board meeting 10 a.m. Father David Landry, chaplain; Sept. I, lower church. Prayer group Christine DeMello, kindergarten; SisIitu'rgy and meetings 7:30p.m. Wed- ter Mary Dumond, CP, grade 4; Sisnesdays, church. ter Luz Cardenas, grade 6; Thomas Poling, junior high science; Palmira ST. JAMES, NB CYO Council meeting 7 p.m. Tues- Levesque, reading; Dorine Cote, kinday, parish center. Lectors needed; dergarten aide; Elaine Gagnon, secretary; the school will open Wednesinformation: rectory, 992-9408. day with an enrollment of450 pupils; CATHOLIC NURSES, NB 'additional kindergarten and fourthNew Bedford Council of Catholic grade classrooms have been added.

Nurses Mass and first meeting ofthe 1987-88 season 7 p.m. Sept. 16; ECHO, CAPE COD information: Sister Rachel LaFrance, High school juniors and seniors 996-6751, ext. 60; new members wel- on Cape Cod wishing to participate come. in the ECHO (Encountering Christ in Others) retreat program may obST. JULIE, NO. DARTMOUTH Prayer meetings 7:30 p.m. Mon- tain applications at any Cape parish days, church hall. Rosary and Bene- rectory; retreats run Friday to Sundiction service 7 p. m. Sunday. Adult day evenings at Pocasset's Briareducation classes for prospective con- wood Conference. Center; 1987-88 verts (alternate Wednesdays) begin weekends: girls' Oct. 2 to 4, Dec. 4 to 6, Feb 5 to 7 and April 8 to 10; boys' Sept. 23.

Nov. 13 to IS, Jan. 15 to 17 and 'CATHEDRAL, FR March 4 to 6; information: Mary Vincentians' meeting 7:30 p.m.

Fuller, 759-4265.

Sept. 3, rectory. Women's Guild first ST. STANISLAUS, FR regular meeting of 1987-88 season Holy Icon home visitation next 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, parish hall. week: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cichon.

The p'arish thanks Louie Lawton for making a wooden protective casing for the Icon.

BLUE ARMY Fall River diocesan division ofthe Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima five-hour vigil in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary begins 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 4, St. Francis Xavier Church, Acushnet; refreshments; all welcome; information: Lucille Pimental, 9925402.

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SS. PETER &. PAUL, FR The parish school will begin the 1987-88 academic year Wednesday with an enrollment of 250 students in grades K to 8; teachers will be commissioned at an 8 a.m. Mass on the opening day; "ministry pins" will be given them, a reminder of their call "to teach as Jesus did"; plans are underway for a Sept. 18 school celebration of the bicentennial of the Constitution. Kindergarten welcoming party II a.m. Sept. 5; Father Coady Center.

O.L. ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE First Women's Guild meeting of 1987-88 season Sept. 8; 11:30 a.m.

Mass precedes luncheon and movies of pastor Father Clarence P. Murphy's celebration of his 40th anniversary of ordination to the diocesan priesthood; all welcome.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The parish thanks Adrien Durand, Roger Forest and Stanley -Zembo for their donations oftime and effort in physically improving the parish school.

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ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Parishioners able to visit parish shut-ins are asked to contact permanent deacon Eugene L. Orosz, 674-8339.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Bishop Joseph Regan of the Phillipines, a Maryknoll missioner, will address parishioners on the needs of the people of the diocese of Davao, Phillipines, at all Masses this weekend.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Michael DeBenedictis are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. Parish council nominations at all Masses this and next weekend; elections weekend of Sept.

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LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Healing service, led by Father Leo Maxfield, MS, 2 p.m Sunday, includes teaching, liturgy, music and the opportunity for individual annointing; all welcome.

VINCENTIANS, FR Fall River district council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul meeting Sept. 9, St. Bernard Church, Assonet; celebrant: Father Edw.ard E. Correia, pastor.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape fraternity meeting 7 p.m. Sept. 8, S1. John the Evangelist parish center, Pocasset, includes reception ceremony for nov" ices; Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, will offer Mass and a formation talk, "Compassion for One's Neighbor;" information and rides: Robert Collyer, 563-2654, Upper Cape; Dorothy Williams, 394-4094, Middle and Lower Cape.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Red Cross blood drive 8 a. m. to I p.m. tomorrow, church; no preregistration required. Soup kitchen Sept.

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LEGION OF MARY, NB Curia meeting 6 p.m. Sept. 6, rectory.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE First Friday (Sept. 4) exposition of the Blessed Sacrament begins after 8 a.m. Mass at St. Jude's Chapel, Cotuit; adoration continues until 4 p.m. Benediction.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Feast of Our Lady of Angels Sept.

5 to 7; procession and prayer Sept. 5; Portuguese-language Mass 10 a.m.

Sept. 7, church; procession I p.m.

Sept. 7; church open through 9 p.m.

Sept. 5 and 6 and 8 p.m. Sept. 7 for visits to the Blessed Sacrament and Mary's Shrine.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Religious education teachers' orientation nights: grades I to 6, 7:30 • p.m. Monday, CCD Center; grade 7 'and Confirmation I and 2, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, CCD Center. The Rhode Island Blood Bank thanks the parish for the 62 pints of blood collected during a recent drive. Youth ministry softball 6 p.m. Sunday.

NOTRE DAME, FR , The parish school will begin the 1987-88 academic year Sept. 2.

FATHER Jack McGinnis of Houston, TX, will offer a concert of religious music at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Garden of Worship at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro.

Father McGinnis has recorded three albums of original music, singing songs of love and healing inspired by his own experience of God's love. A recovering alcoholic, he ministers to adult children of alcoholics and others who have experienced traumatic and dysfunctional family systems.

The priest/ musician will be the celebrant and homilist at tomorrow's 7:30 p.m. twilight Mass, also in the garden. In case of rain, both the Mass and concert will be held indoors.

Concert is free; bring lawn chairs and blankets; all welcome.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Daily rosary 7:20 and 11:50 a.m.

Prayer group meets 8 p.m. Tuesdays, parish' center. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will make a pastoral visit to the parish at the 9, 10 and 11:30 a.m. Masses Sunday. The parish congratulates Don and Kathy Kane on the occasion of their 22nd wedding anniversary; Kane, recently retired as the Deputy Chief of the Barnstable Police Department, is fighting cancer; he was recently profiled in The Anchor; congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D'Ursi, celebrating 40 years of marriage.

Housebound parishioners wishing communion calls from lay Eucharistic ministers may call 428-7876, after 6 p.m.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Parish Scripture study (acts ofthe Apostles) begins Sept. 17: morning and evening sessions available; information: Dotty Peluso, 428-9456. Baptismal program for parents 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, church.

Women saluted PRETORIA, South Africa(NC) - Bishops in southern Africa have saluted women - especially those in South Africa - and called for sexual equality. "As church we are experiencing more and more the transforming power of women," said a statement issued for National Women's Day. "May you receive grlEater strength in your vocation as backbone of our families and therefore of our society." It was signed by Bishop Wilfred F. Napier, president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, on behalf of its administrative board. National Women's Day commemorates Aug. 9,1956, when a large group of women marched on government buildings in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. The women protested legislation under which black women had to carry passes.

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MIAMI (NC) - The influence of religion in the black community has diminished with disastrous results, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Francis of Newark, N.J., told over 2,000 Knights of Peter Claver at their national conference in Miami.

"Regardless of how religious black society may appear, the influence of Christian moral teaching on the lifestyle of many black Americans has certainly diminished," he said.

"Anyone who attempts to deny that is certainly riot in touch with reality." Bishop Francis, the knights' national chaplain, noted a high rate in ·the black community of illegitimate pregnancy and the waning influence of the family as an institution. He added that there has been a corresponding drop in the number of blacks interested in ministry. When the fight for civil rights was put on the front burner, he said, there was a steady decline in the importance of family values.

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