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A day on the Cape offers a good look at what 20 communities of men and women religious have to offer, all under one roof.

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The day will begin with morning prayer "And then we will invite everyone to go and take a look," said Father Dahl. "We have invited 20 religious communities of sisters, brothers and priests representing a variety of orders. Many will present videos and make presentations and answer questions and all will have literature to offer. If anyone has any curiosity about a vocation, this will

ish library at the expansive parish center, Father Dahl was joined by Holy Union Sister Doreen Donegan and Patricia Stebbins, vocations committee chairman and parish librarian.

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lure will attract young people from throughout the Fall River Diocese to a massive vocation fair to be held in September.

That's the thinking of Father Henry J. Dahl, parochia.l vicar at Corpus Christ Parish here, chairman of the fair, "Seeking Our Shepherds," to be held Saturday, Sept.

26, 10 a.m,-2 p.m., at the parish

be the time to talk about it and get questions answered. Everyone is invited. We're aiming particularly at high schoolers and above and even those in careers today."

It has been planned as a casual, walk-in day, Father Dahl explained.

"We'll end the day with prayer and Bishop Sean P. O'Malley will be present for the closing."

In a recent interview in the par-

lege kids and anyone who has a glimmer of thinking about what religious life might be like."

Stebbins said that the committee has contacted every high school, Tum to page three - Vocation Fair

Three diocesan employees recognized for community service

By MutE GORDON

VOCATION MINDED - Father Henry J. Dahl, Holy Union Sister Doreen Donegan and Vocation Fair Chairman Patricia Stebbins are at the helm for the Sept. 26 event in East Sandwich that will offer an opportunity for those mulling a' vocation to get an inside ~ook.

"We will be focusing on all vocations, not just to the priesthood, but to the diaconate and the religious life of sisters.and brothers too," said Sister Donegan. "We are inviting all youth groups and col-

NEW BEDFORD - Helping others in one's community is something that many people talk about but never seem to take the time to do. That's· not the case with three outstanding citizens who were a m 0 n g some dozen persons recently recognized for their efforts within the ANA MEDINA .

New Bedford Hispanic community. All members of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Parish in the Whaling City, Ana Medina, Edwin Aldarondo and Naim Ben'avente agree that helping people is what it's all about.

Last month each of the trio received certificates from U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Fall River Mayor Edward 1. Lambert, New Bedford Mayor Frederick Kalisz and Massachusetts Governor Paul A. Cellucci, among others. In addition to working on the community level,

each is active in the diocesan Hispanic Apostolate, which is coordinated by Father Paul E. Canuel, who also directs its New Bedford office and is pastor of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Parish.

Ana Medina Born in New York, Ana Medina is a secretary and parish councilor at Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, starting work at the parish in 1990.

Among her responsibilities are translating papers and interpreting for Spanish speal.\ers at various agencies and doctors' offices.

She described herself as "a type of social worker," saying "I saw a need in the community and like working wit h people.

There's a big need and I have the skill to help." She said that the EDWIN recognition for her work with ALDARONDO the' Hispanic Apostolate was unexpected.

"You do the work and don't expect

recognition like that because you just do it to . h e I p . . . . - - - - - -.... people," she declared.

Edwin Aldarondo Ed wi n Aldarondo, also a New York native, has for some two and a half NIAM years been BENAVENTE a Hispanic Advocate for Catholic Social Services. He has lived in N~w Bedford for eight years and is active in community affairs, through Catholic Social Services helping Hispanics with basic needs and immigration related problems, also assisting those who wish to become U.S. citizens.

"I really love my work. It makes my day to help people," he declared. "I'm never. too busy."

He feels there is a need for more people to get involved in community service and commented that his faith helps a lot in his work. "It's my strength," he said.

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Supreme Court Justice Ireland ·to speak at Red Mass dinner FALL RIVER - Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Roderick L. Ireland of Milton will be the guest speaker at the second annual Red Mass celebration dinner to be held Sept. 20, 5 p.m., at White's of Westport.

The Red Mass, to be celebrated earlier that day at 3 p.m., in St. Mary's Cathedral

by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, is the key JUSTICE event in the program the bishop established I~ELAND that yearly honors a judge, a lawyer, a court worker and an ecumenical honoree serving within the justice system.

This year, Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice Robert A. Welsh, Jr., of Dennisport; Atty. Joseph P. Harrington of New Bedford;

Retired ClerklMagistrate James H. Sullivan of the Attleboro District Court; and Retired Superior Court Judge August C. Taveira of New Bedford, are the honorees. . Justice Ireland was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court by Gov. William F. Weld in 1997, and is the first African-American to sit on that bench. Previously, he served as an associate justice of the Appeals Court for seven years and as an associate justice of the Boston Juvenile Court for almost 13 years, both appointments by Gov. .

Michael S. Dijkakis.

A native of Springfield, Justice Ireland received his bachelor's degree from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, in 1966 and his doctor of la~ degree from Columbia University Law School in 1969. He began his legal career as an attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services in New York City.

In 1970 he returned to Massachusetts and was a staff attorney at the Harvard Center for Law and Education. From 1971 to 1973 he served as chief attorney, then deputy and ex-

ecutive director at the Roxbury Defenders Committee. He also worked as a part-time legal counsel for the Roxbury District Court Clinic, 1974-1977, and as an associate at Burnham, Stem & Shapiro during 1975.

In 1975 Justice Ireland received his master of law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a teaching fellow. From 1975 to 1977 he served as assistant secretary and chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance, and then as chairman of the state Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies and Bonds in 1977. .

Justice Ireland began teaching law courses in 1972 and since 1978 has been an adjunct faculty member at both the School of Law and College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. He is currently completing his doctorate at Northeastern in its Law, Policy and Society Program. He is the author of "Massachusetts Juvenile Law, Volume 44" of the "Massachusetts Practice Series," published

by West Publishing Company in 1993.

Since its inception in 1990, Justice Ireland

has been an advisor and teacher for the Supreme Judicial Court's Judicial Youth Corps, a court education program for high school students. He is also a regular participant in bar activities and continuing legal education programs. Active in his community, Justice Ireland is a frequent speaker in schools, churches and community forums. He has been a member of the Eliot Church of Roxbury for many years, participating in numerous church-sponsored programs and initiatives..

Among the many awards Justice Ireland has received throughout his career are the Boston College Law School's St. Thomas More Award; several honorary doctor of law degrees; the Judicial Excellence Award from the Massachusetts Judges Conference in 1996; the prestigious Haskell Cohn Distinguished Judicial Award presented by the Boston Bar Association in 1990; and the Boston Covenant Peace Prize in 1982 in recognition of his efforts to promote raci~l justice.

Justice Ireland a'nd his wife, Alice Alexander, live in Milton.

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OOhttuary Andrzej Kozanko

Alice M. Lynch

FALL RIVER - Alice M. Lynch, 97, of 2446 Highland Ave., formerly of 580 Herman St., died Tuesday at the Catholic Memorial Home. She leaves no immediate survivors: but was the sister of the , late Father James E. Lynch, Father Raymond 1. Lynch and Gertrude A. Lynch.

A lifelong resident here, the daughter of the late James E. ~nd Teresa V. (Barry) Lynch, she was a graduate of Durfee High School and Thibodeau Business School.

Prior to retiring in 1961, she was senior clerk at Diman Vocational

School for ma.ny years.

She was a member of Holy Name Parish and its Altar and Rosary Society, the Holy Name Women's Guild, the church's sewing group and a pioneer member of the Holy Name Church Club. She was also a member of the Fall River Catholic Women's Club, Fall River Garden Club, Fall River Women's 'Club and.

Friends of St. Anne Hospital.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated Thursday in St. Margaret Mary Chapel of the Catholic Memorial Home. Burial was in St. Patrick Cemetery.

WESTPORT - Poland-born at St. Mary Parish, Seekonk and Andrzej Kozanko served at Our St. Patrick Parish in Wareham. He Lady of Grace Church under the ,.has also worked as a campcounsupervision of pastor Father Rich- selor at Cathedral Camp in East ard Chretien for part of the summer, Freetown which serves children before returning to SS. Cyril and from around the diocese. Kozanko Methodius Seminary in Orchard enjoys working with people and as Lake, Mich., where he is a Fall a priest would like to assist people River diocesan seminarian entering in supporting and strengthening their faith. Through working with his third year of theology.

Born in Czaplineu, Poland, one families, parents and childn;:n, the of five children born to Czeslaw and great task of fostering the faith is Helena Kozanko, he was educated accomplished. there, graduated from high school in 1994 and graduated from the The disciples did not count (he Catholic University of Lublin in cost ofpreaching the ·Gospel. Today, Christ still seeks courageous 1996.

Realizing a call to the priest- and faithful men and women to hood, Kozanko applied and was build up the Church and spread the accepted into the theology program Gospel ofGood News! Is the Lord .at SS. Cyril and Meth'odius. In re- . calling you to offer your life in sercent summers during his theology vice of the Gospel? If so, have you years, he has seryed in the diocese responded? For more information

ANDRZEJ KOZA.NKO about vocations, contact the Vocation Office at (508) 675,,1311.

Boston College to promot4~ its 'societal mission' A native of Malden, Father in, areas such as academic affairs, student affairs, ,human resources Appleyard graduated from Boston president to publicize, and university. relations, according College with a bachelor';> degree in English in 1953, and entered the .its Catholic and Jesuit to an announcement.

He also will supervise the Bos-. Jesuit order soon after. He was ornature.as' a university. . ton College chaplaincy and the dained a priest in 1966, and was an Center for Ignatian Spirituality, and assistant Catholic chaplain at OxBy CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE will act as a liaison to, nearby St. ford University in 1966-~7.

FINAL PLAN'S - for ,Daughters of Isabella membership ,CHESTNUT .HILL, Mass..

-;Ignatius Pm:ish and.t~e Bos~on Col.- , . H.t?, j,o,ined th,~ ~<?s~oI1, ~~l1ege Mass and dinner are made by, from left, Maureen Papineau, Boston College has, established a, leg~.Jesuitcommunity's ~t: MarY'.~· facl;Jlty, a~ ~, assistant profe~s.or. of regent for the Easton Circle, Easton; Dolores Ferro, vice re- new vice presidency to promote the Chapel.

English in 1967. He latel' became a gent of the Hyacinth Circle, New Bedford; and Mary' Galvin, school's "distinctive academic and "As a Jesuit university, we have a full professor, served as department regent of the Hyacinth Circle. societal mission as a Catholic and distinctive tradition of being con- chairman from 1979-82, and then cerned with students' spiritual and directed the honors program of the Jesuit university."

Jesuit Father Joseph Appleyard, moral development, as wel1 as their College of Arts and Sciences from a Boston Col1~ge graduate who has intellectual growth," said Father 1987-98. served on the faculty since 1967, Appleyard, who is the author of sevHe was rector of Boston has been appointed as the col1ege's eral scholarly works examining as- College's 125-member Jesuit comfirst vice president for university pects of literature, poetry and fiction. munity, one of the world's largest, He also has written on the inter- from 1991-97. He was a member NORTON - The four circles of the Fall River Oiocese'sDaughters of mission and ministry.

In his new position, effective last action of the academic and spiritual of the university's board of trustIsabella will gather for a membership Mass and dinner on Sept. 12. ees during the same period.

The Mass will be celebrated at St. Jacques Church on Whittenton Street, week, Father Appleyard wil1 "serve aspects of a university.

Taunton, at 4:30 p.m.,' and the dinner will follow at Ann's on Bay Road, as a resource for ... existing programs that promote the Catholic Norton, at 6 p.m. ' Guest speaker .will be Mrs. Elaine Ledger, treasurer of the Intern.a-- and Jesuit nature of the university" tional Circle of Daughters of Isabella.

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Aug. 31 '1 Cor 2:1-5; . \ \ Ps 119:97-102; ',Lk 4:16-30 .. ~ " ~ , Sept. 1 1 Cor 2:10b-16; . ' , , . NE«ROLOGY .' -< '~ " Ps 145:8-14; . . "'\ ~/' , Ail~~29---::: , / , Lk 4:31-37 1921, Rev. Joseph DeVillanw-e, n.D:'Founder, Sacred Heart, North .Sept. 2 1 Cor 3: 1-9; Attleboro:--,:"'-:: -< - \ \ • Ps 33:12-15,201975, Msgr.~WiUiam-H. Harrington, Retired Pastor, Holy Name, 21; Lk 4:38-44 -EASTON - A Stonehili Col- Novitiate in Cascade, Colo. He also Fall Sept. 3 1 Cor 3: 18-23; Ps lege alumnus and trustee, Holy, has served in pastoral positions in Augus~31 ' 24:1-6; Lk 5:1-11 Cross Father Hugh W. Cleary, was New York, Pennsylvania and Mas, 1993, Msgr. ATmando A. Ann.~nzi~t~, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield SeptA 1 Cor 4:1-5; recently elected as the 11th supe- sachusetts and as the chaplain/spiri'1996, Rev. Thomas M. Landry, OP; Prior Dominican Community, Ps 37:3-6,27rior general of the Congregation of tual director at a retreat house in ~~ , .

Fall River 28,37-40; September 1 ' ' the Holy Cross in Rome. As supe- Pittsburg~.

Lk 5:33-39 1985, Rev. Jorge J. de Sousa, Pastor,'S, Elizabeth, Fall Riv,~r rior general for a six-year-tcrm, Ordained in 1973, Father Cleary Sept. 5 1 Cor 4:6b-15; September 3\ \ Father Cleary, 52, will lead the con- is 'a Ilative of Bayside, N.Y. He Ps 145:17-21; 1912, Rev. Thomas J. McGee, D.O., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taungregation, which c<mtprises 1,700 holds a doctoral and a master's deLk 6:1-5 ~n \'\ Catholic priests and brothers in 14 gree in formative spirituality from Sept. 6 Wis 9: 13-18b; Septeniber 4 ':, .

Ps 90:3-6,12-17; countries.

Duquesne University, Pennsylva1864, Rev. Joseph P. Tallon. Pastor, St. M~, New Bedford Phl"19-10,12-17; He succeeds Holy Cross Father nia; a master's in counseling from 1894, Rev. John J. Maguire, Founder, St. Peter, Provincetown Lk 14:25-33 Claude Grou, who is retiring after Loyola University, Chicago; and a two six-year terms. Since 1995, master's in theology from the UniPRIESTS CURRENTLY SERVING 11111111111111111111111111111 Father Cleary has been based in versity of Notre Dame, Indiana. In THE ANCHOR (USPS-545~) Periodical , August 29 Rev. Evaristo Tavares .

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Vocatioll Fair public and parochial, every area college, and sent them letters of invitation and copies of the flyer about the fair. "We sent them to non-Catholic institutions for posting as another career opportunity," Stebbins reported.

Father Dahl said that an informational packet and posters about the vocation fair were sent to every pastor and director of' religibus education and youth minister iri'the diocese. Bishop O'Malley has also sent a letter to pastors encouraging them to invite anyone who has an interest in a vocation to come and take a look.

The event is aimed at an audience from not just the Cape but diocesan wide, the trio intl~rviewed emphasized.

"When we started we thought it was going to be a fair just for the Cape, but once we got going we decided to look at a greater area and make it for the whole diocese," said Sister Donegan. "People tend to come. Even the young people who come to us at the Holy Union of Sacred Hearts are often long overdue. Somet!mes people think about vocations fOt years and years and just don't get to taking a look." , The entire parish is involved in the preparations. Stebbins said the Women's Guild will provide coffee and refreshments; the Prayer Group will set up a small chapel and lead prayers throughout the day before the Blessed Sacrament, which will be exposed; the Catholic Daughters will be greeters and hand out literature; and the Knights of Columbus will handle moving of furniture and equipment. ' "We have also called upon our Youth Group, 'led by Deborah Boucher, and members will be assistants t-o each of the religious groups on fair day," Stebbins added.

"We will have much parish involvement and our pastor, Father Marcel Bouchard, has given us outstanding support."

The idea of the fair has been in the making for some time, Father Dahl said. Two years ago the parish formed a vocation team, Seeking Our Shepherds. "It has a double

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thrust," he said. "We m~et once a month and pray for vocations and those people discerning vocations; those men in the seminary; men and women in novitiates and novices in the religious life. The other thrust is action. We have held a holy hour and also encouraged families to pray for vocations."

Those various meetings and gettogethersled to the idea of the vocation fair, Father Dahl reported, "It's another way to let those who might have an interest know what is there for them."

Sister Donegan said the parish's ongoing efforts fol' vocations also involve keeping in touch with those in formation. "To the seminarians and those in religious training associated with the diocese we send cards on holidays to let them know we are thinking of them and praying for them." Father Dahl thinks that is most important.

"When I was in the seminary, a vocations awareness team prayed for me," he said. "It meant a great deal to me to know there was a connection to the diocese. One of the promises I made to myself was that I would establish a prayer team when I came to a pari'sh, and that's

what prompted us to begin this one here. Prayer has great power and praying for vocations has great power because it lets people preparing for the priesthood and religious life know there are those in the diocese thinking and praying for them~ .

Repeating his invitation to anyone mulling or discerning a vocation, .Father Dahl said that "sometimes people just have to be asked or invited to take a look. This is a kind of non-threatening, non-formalized program day. It is very casual, but it will offer a broad spectrum of religious life opportunities to look at."

Stebbins also invites those "who don't think they have a vocation and who might come just out of curiosity,just to look it over; akind of onestop shopping for the religious life.

They can stop by and see what's available," she said with a laugh.

How many people does the group think will'attend? ' ''Father Henry (Dahl) has told us that the Lord will send those he wants to touch," Stebbins added.

"We are not looking at numbers.

Whoever comes will be sent by the Holy Spirit."

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themoorin9..-, Affirming our children Why are more and more'male teenagers opting for suicide? Why are so many male adolescents turning to guns to solve their problems? Why is violence a way of life for young men who cannot deal with their problems? These and many more questions about pre and teen males have surfaced as headline after headline tells us of school stabbings and shootings' and other forms of outrageol;Js behavior. .

First and foremost, we cannot escape the growing body of statistics and facts concerning this issue. Too often, to save face, parents resort to various states of denial and often cove'r up teen misdeeds. Others bury their heads in the sand, so to speak, and feel that in time all problems will disappear.

Recently a Harvard Medical School study on adolescent males sought explanations for the growing number of cases of murderous behavior. The examination of hundreds of such cases clearly showed that many boys are simply confused and frustrated by the conflicting demands and expectations that confront them. As a result they are foundering in a sea of depression, isolation and vulnerability. Many are, in abject despair.

Psychologist William Pollack gathered these studies into a book entitled, "Real Boy, Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood." According to him, the problem began about 30 years ago with our so-called gender revolution. This caused many to be confused again by so-called macho stereotyping. Pressure to conform to blurred male images forced many adolescents, the study reveals, into the world of the coverup, which does nothing but induce depression and very low self-esteem. ' In an atmosphere where truth was continuously suppressed, o.nly the worst was manifested in behavior patterns. Anger, rage, exasperation and resentment: became a' way of life, too often exploding into actions of horror and terror. Indeed, much pent-up violence is to be found in our social order and what is too often condoned and fostered in print and in movies and television has a more than negative impact on our young people. ' In many homes children have little moral or ethical guidance.

The so-called latchkey babies are an example of children who must too often fend for themselves. Fast foods anc:J..Pfll"ents copIng with several jobs have destroyed the basic concept of household communications at the kitchen table. People are so busy seeking the so-called good life they often destroy those who are closest to them.

Separation, divorce and adult selfishness have left many a child foundering on his or her own. Such youngsters lose heart and in some cases their very selves. One of the tasks of growing up is that of developing a sense of se.lf and of self-worth; a sense of who one is and of how one fits into one's society.

In all of this it is important to remember that children form selfconcepts by what other people say about them and how they react to them. In tum they compare themselves to others and from all this they form their own behavior habits, for better or worse. Sad to say, our society is giving them less and less positive role models and behavioral choices.

If we are to be really sincere in our efforts to help our young people, we have no choice' but to reinforce parental support systems and community values. Family socialization cannot be taken for granted. It is an imperative. Integrated with a value system: and religious beliefs, it is the process through which children acquire the behavior, skills, motives and standards that are characteristic, appropriate and desirable in their culture.

Boiled down to its simplestform, the bumper sticker that reads, "Have you hugged your child today?" suggests an appropriate way to help our children feel they are loved and wanted. We cannot look at children as throwaway statistics. Unless we all become like those little children, we shall not enter the kingdom.

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Polish youth crimes blamed on Western culture •

Lack of stability in family also targeted as cause of rising , violent crime rate among teens.

By JONATHAN, LUXMOORE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WARSAW, Poland - Rising violent crime among Polish youths stems from the influence of Western culture and a lack of family stability, say Church officials.

"Today's youngsters are different," said Bishop Henryk Tomasik of Siedlce, who headed the Catholic Church's youth pastorate until it folded' in 1997.

"They're no longer brought up in a coherent way by parents, teachers and catechists," he said. "They get no support from the state, social groups or the older generation."

Material cravings and TV violence are relatively new to postcommunist Poland; with the end of communism came an opening for , Western advertisements, TV shows and pornography. ' A sports company took out giant advertisements explaining it was selling baseball bats for use in games rather than as weapons. And in a 1997 survey, half of all Poles agreed' young people were gener-

ally "brutal."

In the Church, Catholic youth groups remain popular, and Poland provides one of the largest contingents at international church youth gatherings.

But though three-quarters of pupils at top schools called themselves religious in a 1997 survey, only one . in 10 said their faith was strong. A mere fraction said they would go to a priest about their problems.

According to a January World Health Organization report, every sixth Polish child is born to a teenager, and illegitimate births are rising fast.

Father Marek Drzewiecki, a psychologist and seminary director, said, ''We are in crisis - society has forgotten its task isn't just raising GNP, but bringing up young people too.

"Parents and priests who've tried to instill sound values naturally face problems. It's easier to listen to those who propagate life on the loose - without responsibility or objective criteria of good and bad," he said.

Though Poland has one of Europe's lowest divorce rates currently around 15 percent - the number of marriages is falling. Of the 25,000 children at Poland's 468 state orphanages, the vast majority are not orphans at all but children aba,ndoned by their parents - a

symptom of the worsen:ing family poverty that provides a backdrop to spiraling teenage crime.

Negative, destructive images of Polish youth dominate newspaper pages and TV screens.

For instance, a teen-a.ge couple in Warsaw was charged with fatally knifing a taxi driver, and members of a suburban youth gang were accused of battering a boy to death.

In Krakow, one in 12 minors is on police files. The crime rate increased by 17 percent in the first quarter of 1998.

The climate of violence has affected the Church, too.

Attacks on priests have risen sharply, along with church breakins and acts of desecration. So has criticism of the Church'!; apparent failure to counteract youth aggressiveness. Church leader:; point to the failure of parents to provide a secure, confident home environment and the general pos':-communist erosion of moral authority and social stability.

"This isn't a crisis of young people only, but of all society," said Father Drzewiecki.

"Yet young people are living at a difficult time, when various pressure-groups are trying to make money by depraving them. We need stronger d'efenses against their negative impact," he ~aid.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Aug. 28, 1998

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New program reaches o,ut to those hurting from abortion FALL RIVER - Persons hurting from past abortions and living with guilt and a feeling of alienation from God, are urged to consider Project Rachel, a Catholic outreach to foster healing, now in place in the Fall River Diocese.

For the woman or man in grief over the effects of an abortion, Project Rachel seeks to facilitate reconciliation with God and the Church, with herself or himself, and with the unborn child, according to Father Stephen A. Fernandes, coordinator of local implementation of the program now widely used in Catholic dioceses across the nation.

The Fall River Diocese has set up a special telephone line dedicated to Project Rachel by which interested people can access information. All calls are confidential and the caller need not give his or her name. The number is (508) 997-

Workers Aldarondo also works in a New Bedford food pantry and assists with clothing drives. He and co-worker Nairn Benavente just returned from a five day leadership conference in Chicago, the Hispanic f...eadership Development Initiative Program, which was sponsored by the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry. They were invited to discuss their development of a Hispanic education program which seeks to educate the English-speaking community about Hispanic culture and vice versa.

Aldarondo is also president of the Hispanic Cursillo movement, and a parish councilor, lector and eucharistic minister at Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe. "More people should get involved because the

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Father Fernandes explained that the decision to establish the program in this diocese was made in response to an increasing number of calls, mostly, but not ¢xclusively from women, who are overcome with remorse over what they had done and who are experiencing alienation and distance from God. "It is important for us to let them know that the Church is ready and willing to help them/, Father Fernandes emphasized..

In his 1995 encyclical ''The Gospel of Life," Pope John Paul II included a section for women who have had an abortion. It reads, in part, "Do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. The Father of Mercies is ready to give you His forgiveness and His peace.

You will come to understand that nothing 'is definitively lost and you

will be able to ask forgiveness from your child who is now living in the Lord.~'

Through Project Rachel, people who are hurting from an abortion and feel cut off from God and the Church are referred "to priests who have been specially trained to listen to their anguish, acknowledge the sin of abortion and then minister God's forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation.

"The priest acts as healer to restore the grace of communion with God to the person who comes in search of reconciliation and peace;' Father Fernandes explained.

The special ministry of Project Rachel is to women or men, mothers or fathers, or anyone else suffering from an involvement with an abortion.

The priest will also be ready to suggest and refer the person to

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Church cannot do everything.

When the needs of others are great, society needs to help out," he concluded.

Nairn Benavente Nairn Benavente works parttime at Catholic Social Services as a home ownership counselor for Hispanics and is also a bilingual math and science teacher at New Bedford High School. The Peruvian native has been working with CSS for some two and a half years, but was recognized for his work in the field of education, notably his inauguration of a program at New Bedford High School, now in its second semester, to make Hispanic students aware of their family and cultural values.

"When kids come to the US they

Weekly General Audienc1e Message Pope John Paul II Dear brothers and sisters, Created in God's image and likeness, the human person is capable of knowing God and of welcoming the gift that God makes of himself. As the Second Vatican Council teaches us: "The invisible God, out of the abundance of his love, speaks to men as friends and lives among them, so that he may' bring them into fellowship with himself" ["Dei Verbum," 2).

The Holy Spirit inspires and sustains the efforts of the human intellect and will to draw close to the ineffable and transcendent mystery of God. Thl~ action of the Spirit is necessary for us to overcome our limitations and our obstacles on the way to the union with God which we seek.

Since human beings are the only creatures that God has willed for their own sake [cf."Gaudium et Spes," 2Y-], we will only reach our fulfillment and happiness in the sincere gift of ourselves to God and to our neighbor. As we approach the new millennium, we must pray that through the action of the Spirit, the Paraclete, our world may witness a process of true growth in humanity, in both individual and community life [cf. "Dominum et Vivificantem," 58].

I warmly welcome the group of pilgrims from Goteborg, Sweden. I eKtend a special greeting to the Buddhist groups from Japan. Upon all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors, especially those from J'opan, Sweden, To;wan, Malta, Great Britain and the United States of America, I invoke the joy and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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sometimes lose their identity.

They're constantly adjusting to life in this country, and this program helps them with that. It deals with the challenges kids have to face today and they learn how important each person is.... said Benavente.

He invites presenters into his classroom to share stories and experiences and commented that it gets his students thinking about values. "I think my work is important because it helps the kids. More are going to college and breaking the cycle of lack of education. They enjoy the classes," he added.

Benavente also hopes that more people will get involved in their communities through programs and volunteer work. "We are Christians and we have to share. We have to give of ourselves," he said. He,like Medina and Aldarondo, is active at his parish as a lector and eucharistic minister as well as with the parish q:>uncil and Hispanic Cursillo.

He commented that he was happy to receive unexpected recognition for his work but that he is happiest when he receives a letter or postcard from someone he has helped and learns that he or she is doing well.

That kind of outlook is what makes these three people so special.

qualified therapists for counseling if he feels it is necessary. Certified professional therapists in various areas of the diocese are also participants in the program.

Callers to Project Rachel will first speak with a laywoman, trained and experienced in talking with 'post-abortion women and men. She will explain Project Rachel and facilitate contact between the caller and a priest in a mutually convenient location. Again, all calls and discussions are private and confidential.

Because alienation and guilt are experiences not limited to Catholics in the aftermath of abortion, those of other faiths are invited to call the number for pastoral coun,seling and spiritual assistance.

The title of Project Rachel comes from an Old Testament prophecy in which Rachel, Joseph's mother and mother figure for Israel, cries for her exiled nation and its lost children.

In April, 56 priests of the diocese participated in a training seminar for Project Rachel to heighten their awareness of the condition of mothers and occasionally fathers seeking forgiveness for an abortion, sometimes many years after it had taken place. Father Fernandes noted that such confessions are demanding of the confessor and require more attention in sensitivity and time.

Dr. E. Joanne Angelo, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine with a private practice in Boston, who participates in ProJecf Rachel there and nationally, told the seminar attendees that negative after-effects of abortion, which may come imme-

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Father Daniel Twomey, a priest of the Boston archdiocese who has ministered extensively to women and men through Project Rachel, offered participants a model of how the reconciliation should take place and what priests must do in dealing with those who have come to confess an abortion.

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Aug. 28, 1998

The seduction of lotteries

A kind 'of madness took over this su~mer when Everyone threw themselves into the Powerball fever struck a couple of hundred milBv FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK liturgy. lion Americans. The lure was the dangled prize of CATHOLIC NEws SERVICE By their gestures, they seemed to almost $300 million. That pipe dream prompted An African-American Baptist lit- be telling the Lord that this woman hordes of people to stand in line to purchase their urgy I attended has me wondering deserved heaven, and that the Lord, ' "chance at a dream." whether Catholic liturgies might be would keep his promise of welcomI hate lotteries. I never play. I have written about more attractive to blacks if we learned ing her home.

The minister who was the main them being really kin to immorality because they the lesson of full participation exemeulogist spoke with enormous gusto' entice people who can't afford to throw money plified in Baptist liturgies.

The service I attended was for the - so much so I thought he might have away to do just that. They also make it far too easy for compulsive gamblers to stay addicted to their sister of a close friend who was mur- a heart attack. dered, leaving behind her five be!iutiAs I watched, I wondered what the destructive habi~. ful children. The sorrow reflected on Catholic Church needs to do to attract Because of my personal disinterest in lotteries, her children's faces and in the family African Americans. It is a known fact that we have lost the majority 'of them' I might not have noticed that Powerball existed had was heartbreaking to experience. ' Ministers and friends turned out to Baptists and other denominations. it not been that I live in Connecticut.

I had the bad luck to be in Greenwich, a ConThen it dawned on me that with in droves, lending comfort to the family. How they conducted their liturgy the exception of the Eucharist, our lit- necticut town not far from the New York state line, , was even more comforting. urgies have similarities, and if we a day or two before the Powerball drawing. The A deacon greeted the people with Catholics celebrated our liturgy to the long lines I saw and the traffic tie-ups b.affled me "Praise be the Lord." The congrega- fullest, we would attract more Afri- until I f01,lnd out later that these were people dn,'v. tion repeated it, but not to his liking. can Americans.'

The well-known liturgist Father ing in from New York to buy Powerball tickets.

So he shouted out, "Now let's say this It so happens that the neighboring states of Maslouder so the Lord will hear us," and Romano Guardini once,wrote: "When louder they became. After this, we make the sign of the cross let it be sachusetts, New Y6rk and New Jersey do not parwomen and children sang, and then a real sign of the cross. Instead of a ticipate in the nationwide Powerball system, and each of the clergy members preached small cramped gesture that gives no so people came in droves to ConlJecticut to buy briefly. notion of its meaning, let us make a tickets. They parked their cars illegally and stood I was the only non-African Ameri- large unhurried sign, Jrom forehead in lines that snaked all around towns. can to spe~, and I must admit that I to breast, from shoulder to shoulder, Greenwich reported it incUlTed costs of about felt out of place. My style was so consciously feeling how it includes' much more quiet. In fact, everyone the whole of us, our thoughts, our at- $80,000 to cover police and public workers' overpresent seemed more zestful than I titudes, our body and soul, how it con- time, as well as fire and emergency medical exdid. Those who sang or eulogized secrates and sanctifies us." penses during this invasion. threw their whole being into it. BeEven I got wind of how bad this fever was. SevThe same wholehearted;ness sugfore long, people were responding full gested here can be applied to our sing- eral people I had not heard from in years actually heartedly with "Alleluia" and "Praise ing or how we respond with acclamathe Lord." The sorrowful faces of the tions such as "Praise be to you Lord called me from out of state to ask me to buy tickets . for them. I politely refused, since I hate the very family lit up, and you could see they Jesus Christ" and "Alleluia."

When the priest says, "Lift up your idea of lotteries, which are such a grand lie, prowere being uplifted.' , The messages of the clergy were hearts," we should do this in the full- moting the illusion of gaining unearned wealth. clear and loud: 'The Lord has taken this est sense of the word and try to disStates spend hundreds of millions on ad campaigns, woman, and the Lord wOlft fail her. She pel any sadness we harbor. using gimmicks to attract betting. As for who's taris now in the home she loved best" If we put more heart into our lit- geted, it's the poor and people of color. One study in As this message was delivered in urgy, my bet is that many would rea variety of ways by the clergy, people spond to its powerful attractiveness, Maryland showed that 61 percent of Afri~an-Ameribegan to stand up, acclaim the Lord including many'Catholics who have can lottery players in that state are heavy spenders, and dance. The ministers did likewise.. drifted away.

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compared with 31 percent of white lottery players.

States justify the ever-increasing use of lotteries to bring in revenues, but these moneys are, in . fact, really the incoJIle from a regressive tax system, financed by the lottery losers, mainly poor

The Bottom Line

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people and minorities. They are enticed into gambling, buying, as the glorified ads put out by states say, "a chance at a dream." . That, too, gives me the creeps. It feeds the fixation that if we have money, our dreams arl~ fulfilled.

My son Peter once said the lottery is a form of seduction equating money with dreams ano happiness. He wrote thatseduction "is the deliberate luring of people into situations that might no~ at all be to their advantage. . "The seduction tempts and charms by 'painting an attractive, one-sided picture that appeals to their desires; put is frequently a delusion. Once the charming and the wooing are over, the real picture, for better or worse, is apparent."

Peter warned: "Keep in mind that seduction is a form of deception. The seducer's argument, though it may be logical and accurate, does not represent his true motive. Eve should have asked herself what the snake had to gain by having her eat the apple."

Reading those words again made me wonder, when governments urge people to place a bet, even "a dollar for a dream," how close does that come to mateing the government just another rack,~teer selling a numbers game?

I think we should beware the seduction of lotteries.. ~

Unfair fQr wife to pay all bills

in vain. Ask him to show you the way.

Dear Dr. Kenny: My husband and I have two , for help from his relatives or your pastor. Maybe You were created to do some good in · children. We both work. He spends his paycheck they can talk some sense to him. "It's not fair!" is a this world that nobody else can do., ·on himself, mostly on alcohol. I never see it. I basic cry of human nature, one that draws support One of my hobbies is broadcast- Even if you are sick, your sickness pay all our household expenses, incl~ding the from all quarters. ing radio spots on 586 commercial can serve him. Offer everything to the mortgage. I want to ask him to help with the Use the "threat" of taking some of the above stations from Maine to California. Lord. Let him be your strength and · expenses or get out, but his name is on the mort~ actions as pressure to get him to agree to m'arriage With the help of some friends and a your joy." gage together With mine.

In our state I'-m told 5. "Hello, this is Father Catoir with foundation grant, I am able to buy the air time and.reach an audience of well some thoughts on finding peace or' that I can't require him to leave the house. Why sou!. Once a day, be still and listen to not? I pay the mortgage anyway. Any ideas? . over 4 million.

The following are samples of spots your own breathing. Forjust five min- (Maryland) I am airing and planning to air soon. utes' enter the world 'of silence, and 1. 'This is Father John Catoir with offeqhis prayer: 'Holy Spiri~, soul of You describe an unfair marital division of labor. a prayerto start your day: So far, Lord, my soul, guide me, strengthen me, Your husband apparently feels "protected" by 'the With Dr. James & I've done all right. I haven't gossiped, console me, help me to accept your· mortgage law in your state. . haven't lost my temper, haven't been will.' If you say this prayer sincerely 'Mary Kenny As things stand, he has a legal right to bein the greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or over- each day, you will soon find serenity home. If that right is to be revoked without his conindulgent. I'm thankful for that. But and peace even in the midst ofpain."

6. "Is life getting you down? Why sent, it will need to be done ,in coilrt. in a few minutes Lord, I'm going to counseling. The four primary areas of disagreement get out of bed, and from then on I'm not think of the good you've done, not.: Courts are adversarial, ana they tend to polarize in amarriage are money, sex, in-laws and ,:::hildren. probably going to need a lot more the bad? Think of the love you've re-disputes. You might win the battle to reqiJire a fair You surely have trouble with the first one. sharing of his earnings, but cause ap even greater help. Please stay close to me. Amen." ceived, not the hate.

2. "Are you feeling downhearted, Think of the smiles you've seen, rift. COUI"): should be a last resort.

A good marriage counselor will help each of lonely, spiritually dry? Don) be dis- , not the frowns. Think of the help Here are some other strategies. Why not write . you spell out your positions and then attempt to coliraged. You're a good person,:and you've been given, not the huris. to the mortgage company and explain the situamediate some agreement. The best way to find a. the Lord loves you very much. If Think of the laughter you've shared, tion? Perhaps·there is a way, since. you have been good counselor is to get a referral frOm another you've been away from the Church not the tears. But most of all, think of making all the payments, to put' the mortgage in couple who has been helped. for awhile, maybe it's time to come the unchanging love of God, and be " If court becomes your last and only option, file . . .. your name.

You would then have greater leverage gratefu!." home and open yourself to. God's for separation. In many states, filing fot divorce 7.

"Are you feeling a little blue in pressing your husband to pay his share. . healing love." can serve the same purpose as a'legal separation.

Give your husband a straight "I" message.

3. "Are you feeling down, are you these days? Everyone feels' sad' now -"I can't abide what you are doing, failing to . You can obtain a temporary court order de:tailing a anxious about the future? If so, the' and then; don't be discouraged. Fill fair arrangement of the financial affairs. You can words of St. Francis might be of help: your lungs with fresh air, -and fill your pay your half of the bills.

'Do not fear what may happen tomor- heart with a sense offreedom. As you -"I am financially overburdened trying to do it .then delay or drop any final divorce hearing as long row. The same loving Father who breathe deeply"try to feel GOd in your all. as you wish. cares for you today will care for you body, mind, heart and soul. Decide to -"I will take whatever steps I must to remedy Fairness is a basic ethic. Be assertive. Stand up tomorrow and every day. Be at peace be happy, and render others happy. this situation." for a fair division of family resources. If ,;:1 simple then, and put aside any anxious Proclaim yourjoy, and be grateful for If possible, talk to his boss or employer. Explain request does not work, use such pressure as you thoughts and imaginings. Let the Lord every moment of life. The great~st can bring to bear, with civilio/ but without reticence. honor you can give to almighty God to them what is happening.

Perhaps there is some be your strength and your joy." is to live joyfully because of the way you can be present when he gets his check 4. "Do you ever question the. ,Reader questions on family living and child and intercept it. Perhaps he will agree to an allotmeaning of life? Nearly everyone knowledge of his love." care to be answered in print are invited. Address ment from his check that goes directly to the mortI hope these thoughts help you does at one time or another, so don't questions: The Kennys; St. Joseph's Colli~ge; 219 be discouraged. God created you for through the dog days of summer and gage company. a definite purpose. He does nothing beyond. God bless you.

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Family Talk

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri.; Aug. 28, 1998

Balancing sense of sin with sense of worth Q. I liked your analysis of mystery in our Catholic newspaper some weeks ago. You pointed out that one cannot attempt to "solve" a mystery. of faith by denying or minimizing one part and exaggerating the other.

The balancing act may not be comfortable or as neat as we would lil<e, but that is the nature of mystery.

However, I'm disturbed about all the warm fuzzies young people hear today about God's love, when we don't hear much about sin and hell.

How do you'impart a sense of mystery without minimizing one part? Young people are selfassured, but underneath they, like the rest of us, are engulfed in fears, violence and insane pressures. They're groping for help, not pious platitudes.

Someone wrote that the frenzies of chaos, creation, disobedience, disaster, solitude and evil, rendered bland in churches and synagogues, are restored to terrifying proportions in the half-light of movie theaters.

Why do millions want to sink vicariously with the doomed souls aboard the Titanic? And why do priests today not want to talk about sin? (Ohio) A. You state very thoughtfully the dilemma everyone faces who wishes to properly represent those two mysteries, the reality of sin and'the reality of God's faithful compassion, which in the end are simply facets of the mysteries of good and evil.

I must admit I don 'It know the solution, and I don't think anyone has the perfect answer, It is often easier to state a problem (and sometimes the problem we state isn't the real one at all). than it is to give a responsible and adequate response.

I believe by far most priests,' and I know I am one, sincerely and thoughtfully attempt to bring the Gospel faithfully to people where they are, with our homilies and other teaching opportunities.

That we often, or most of the time, do not succeed as we would like, I also admit.

After nearly 45 years as a priest, I am convinced

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We do need to acknowledge and speak of sin.

The challenge for parents and all of us, however, is to do so in ways that will lead not to more despair, but to hope and holiness, and deeper faith in God. As one theologian wrote a few years ago, speaking of this responsibility, it does no good to tell people tqey are drowning. They already know that. What they need is someone to tell them why they shouldntt just go ahead and sink.

It seems to me we sorely need to reflect carefully and prayerfully on how we can faithfully bring the Gospel of Christ to this condition, which results in so much loss and conflict even in our Church. Until n~w, we've hardly begun effectively to do so.

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As you recall, my staff and I (all one of us) recently launched a movement to encourage the American bishops to converge their conversations about reinstating meatless Fridays with their pastoral letter on the media. .

The result is CATSCAN, which is all about Catholics abstaining from television on Fridays.

This not only makes sense, but could reintroduce two words into the popular Catholic vernacular: "abstain" and "mortification."

For those young Catholics unfamiliar with "mortification," it has nothing to do with refinancing your house, mortar shells or funeral directors (aka morticians).

On a similar note, "abstain" has nothing to do with spilling mustard or Aunt Jubee's Cajun Hot Sauce on one's shirt in the abdominal area.

(For further information, consult your local preVatican II Catholic. Not available in all areas. Supplies limited.)

Enthusiasm forCATSCAN has been heartwarming. For the record, I could not agree more with one Midwest reader's suggestion that I retire as grand marshal of the movement as soon as possible and replace myself with Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise.

However, Pitt and Cruise could be accused of conflict of interest. Both have several films on video, and it is already an open question whether watching videos on Fridays might be theequivalent ofeating pricey lobster dinners in the old meatless Friday days. YClU know, sort of tipping your hat to the religious practice without a sincere sense of mortification or abstaining.

On the other hand, if we were to watch Catholic Relief Services videos, we'd certainly achieve a religious end. Or, if we were to watch videos of my neighbor Bud's vacations and family reunions, we'd no doubt experience mortification of a kind.

Candidly, I do not know Pitt's or Cruise's religious affiliation, if any. On the positive side, there's no reason this ground swell of combined media protest and spiritual exercise could not be ecumenical in nature, maybe even include Canadians.

Naturally, my staff and I (same total) would have to organize a national gathering to pursue this with

the top minds - and I hear top minds enjoy convening in Maui or Palm Springs in January.

Clearly, there are thorny theological issues (Why are theological issues invariably "thorny"?) for future'investigation.

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It's totally within the realm of possibility that the motion~picture industry and the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting might opencreating a dialoguea on new "Approved for Friday Viewing" video rating.

Maybe something like CATSCAN I or CATSCAN III. To date I have not heard from ~he bishops' committee in charge of preliminary exploration of movements such as CATSCAN. Perhaps I should find out if there is one and write.

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Aug. 28, 1998 .

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By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Catholic editorialists took Preside,nt Clinton to task following his belated acknowledgment that he had an improper relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Some editorialists also challenged the American people to regain a moral compass and demand a higher standard of both themselves and their leaders."Unless Americans are willing to affirm their own moral underpinnings, we can gu~tee that they will be betrayed again," said The Evangelist, diocesan newspaper of Albany, N.Y. "Polls show that large numbers ofAmericans are not bothered by perjury, don't think adultery is damaging, find nothing wicked with a boss having sex with an intern, and bear no ill feelings toward someone who pointed at them and lied in a tone of voice that implied it was they.who were doing something wrong," the editorial said.

Mark Moretti, editor of the Catholic Times of Columbus, Ohio, said the apparently "blase" attitude of most Americans toward presidential wrongdoing indicates a loss of ethical values, placing American society in a moral. crisis.

"It's not that we don't have the courage of our convictions. It's that we don't have the courage to have convictions," he wrote.

The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper, called Clinton "a chameleon on a piece of plaid" and a "national embarrassment" whose "word cannot be trUsted."

Of his confession on national television, The'Pilot said, "It contained more rage than regret, more anger than contrition. He portrayed himself as the hapless victim of a Greek tragedy, brought low by malevolent powers beyond his control. What patent nonsense."

The Tablet, newspaper of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., found Clinton's TV statement inadequate and misleading on several counts.

It said no corporate CEO who had a sexual affair with a young intern would escape without at least a reprimand, and it added that he complicated the problem of his misbehavior when he "lied to the American people as he attempted to dodge a bullet he fired at his own administration."

Mark Zimmermann, editor of The Catholic Standard, Washington archdiocesan newspaper, ~lso took issue with ClintoJ1's attack on t~e special' prosecutor. ,' He said the president's own comment that ''This has gone on too long, cost too much and hurt too many innocent people" could apply as well to Clinton's own "seeming lack of candor in this and other episodes." .

In the Catholic Chronicle of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio, Editor'Patricia Lynn Morrison said het disappointment over Clinton's TV statement "had to do with an apology that wasn't, and with the opportunity that was missed."

She said the president "reminded me of the adolescent whose, parent ' marches him or her over to the neighbor's house after some misbehavior and " h kid apo I ' ~ an apo Iogy th" ' d teeth mSlsts t e oglze at s given, but throug h gntte and under obvious duress." ..

The Catholic Sentinel of the Archdiocese of Portlllnd;-Ore.;also focused ' d Cl'mton. has d'IS honored the presl'dency Just .' on th' e Issue 0 f truthfiu1ness. It Sal as Richard Nixon did, by eroding the "American myth" that our presidents don't lie. ' ' "Societies communicate and teach values through story and myth," the Sentinel said. It said the tales 9f George Washington and the cherry tree and of "Honest Abe" Lincoln have been used over and over to teach each new generation of Americans "that integrity and honesty were intrinsic to the office of the presidency."

In the Catholic Herald, Milwaukee archdiocesan newspaper, Editor Laurie Hansen-Cardona also foun~ parallels with Watergate in the' harm done, to the" presidency.

"How has the nation profited from the 24-hour-a-day national soap operaT' she asked. Bronson L. Havard, editor of the Texas Catholic, Dallas diocesan newspaper, said Clinton has acknowledged "immoral" acts of adultery and dece~ti~n that reveal, a flawe~ c~aracter, but he said those are not 'necessarily "cnmmal offenses" warranting Impeachment and removal from' office. ''The national drama so far has been a titillating preoccupation with'sordid details of a man and a woman who knew no shame," he wrote.''The truth does not make us free in this case' it sort of sickens us as a nation.'~' ,

THE CLINTON FAMILY walks across the White House lawn to a waiting helicopter to begin a two-week vacation Aug. 18.

President Clinton went on -television the night before. to tell the nation that he regrets misleading others and his wife about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (CNS photo from Reuters) .

By PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - Although nearly all diocesan directors of religious education hold graduate degrees in their field, salaries don't seem to reflect their level of education.

According to a profile compiled by the Washington-based National Conference of Catechetical Leadership, the vast majority - 83 percent':'- of diocesan directors of religious education have at least a maste(s degree.

Another 13 percent also hold doctorates. That's about the same ratio as in 'the last survey in 1989.

Yet 34 percent of the people running diocesan programs earn less than

$30,000 a year. About 12 percent earn more than $45,000 a year. But 22 percent earn less than $25,000 - just $12 an hour, given a 40-hour work week.

The survey was based on responses from 141 diocesan religious education directors who returned surveys sent to 180 directors in the spring of 1998.

Don Kurre, director of .religious education for the Diocese of Grand Island, Neb., and president of the National Conference of Catechetical Leadership, said [that] although that kind of education level probably would earn higher pay in the secular . world, people in religious education

C'hurch reaches out in truth, love tQ gays, says priest

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ence public poliCy and ultimately redefine the family. '.:. There is no lobby promoting divorce, adultery, child , abuse. But laws are being challenged by a lobby that promotes a certain . behavior." ''The proper ministry is right in the middle," he said. "We love you but you must leave the homosexual lifestyle behind," said Anthony Falzorano, head ofWashington-based Transformation Ministries.

WASHINGTON _ If religious views on homosexuality are excluded fr th 'bI' d b I I om e pu IC e ate, cu tura acceptance of gay ·lifestyles will jeopardize laws protecting marriage and the family, warned clergy of various denominations. ' Father Thomas Morrow, coordinafh ' I'" fi th 0hi gt0mo~~~ mlrustnes or e asak n 0tn ocesfie, was among spe db ers th a aF' press '1 con R erence h Cspons?re y e amI y esearc oun- , cIl' ". t d 'b t Th was promp e d y a. t f e sessIOn t d' rt' tI en Ion 0 a ve Isdemthen s p aCtrye bm new~papers. aroun ~ coun ' y Fa~ly Research Coun~Il and ~eve~l ~h1IOUS grours fe~tun~~~tlmhoru­ .a s rom peop e w. 0 Sal ey ave !Jetenpcu~d ~fththe sldn of homos~xdual.

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At the FamIly Research CouncIl press conference, ~ather Morrow noted that the Catholic Church draws a clear'distinction between homosexual orientation and homosexual activity, teaching that'''all homosexual acts are intrinsically wrong." , . "We meet men and women to help them to know God's love, to live God's love and to share God's love with others," he said. Steve Schwalm, a policy analyst with the Family Research Council, said the religious leaders were brought together because, while they differ on doctrine, most major religions agree that marriage is the "most basic, elemental, essential unit of society."

Father Morrow cited the "Catechism of ,the Catholic Church," which says homosexu~l inclination, not the person, is "objectively disordered and constitutes for most [homosexuals] a trial. They must be accepted with.respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided."

Schwalm said the focus on homo- . sexuality isin response to "an aggressive lobby of activists trying to influ-

see their work as a vocation and expect salaries to be a secondary consideration. ''The overriding factor in ministry is having a sense of vocation to the job," he said. "Most of us are willing to do the ministry and work out the benefits and pay as we go along." .Actually, salaries at the diocesan level have been increasing, Kurr~ noted.

The Conference of Catechetic:al Leadership reported that in 1989 59 percent of diocesan directors earned $20,000 a year or less.

Kurre said part of the reason for the overall increase is thatthere are now fewer priests and religious holding those jobs than in the past. Salaries for nuns, brothers and pri.ests traditionally have been lower. than for lay employees because their religious orders or dioceses subsidized living ex-. penses and benefits. The profile found that 60 percent of diocesan ~eligious education directors are lay men or women, up from 38 percent in 1989.

Other data from the profile iflclude: - twenty-nine percent of the directors are members of religious orders, 9 percent are priests, 2 percent . are permanent deacons; - more directors are now married than in the past. In 1989, 32 percent . ofthe directors were married. In 1998, 47 percent were; , .

- thirty-three percent of the diocesan directors were between the ages of 30 and 49. None was younger than 30, and 52 percent were l>etween the ages of 50 and 59; - fifty-nine percent were :women, compared to 56 percent in 1989.

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SUPERIOR, Wis. - The NCAA Division I board of directors has voted to amend legislation requiring championship play on Sundays.

Reinstatement of the "BYU rule" allows schools with written policies ,against Sunday competition for religious reasons to inform a particular sports committee before championship competition begins. The championship schedule will then be adjusted to accommodate that institution.

However, as part of the amendment to proposal 98-32, the board established a waiver process for sports committees to appeal the rule if they believe the success of the championship might be compromised. .

On April 22, the NCAA Division I board of directors voted to eliminate the BYU,rule, which allowed schools to avoid scheduling championship games on Sundays, Schools such as Mormon-run Brigham Young University in Provo, ' Utah, from which the rule takes its name, prohibit their sports teams from competing on Sundays.

In addition, the board eliminated restrictions that prevented championship competition from begin~ng before noon on Sundays. The restrictions had been designed to prevent games from interfering with players' attendance at church. . The NCAA eliminated the Sunday exemption because it believed that certain sports were missing out on television coverage, thereby taking away promotional and financial opportunities.

The board's action led BYU and other schools with similar policies for Sunday play, as well as schools sympathetic to the case, to petition the NCAA to reinstate the BYU rule. , Thirty votes were needed to contest the ruling. A total of 99 Division I schools submitted written requests to the NCAA, prompting the board: of directors to reconsider their decision According to the NCAA, the new version of Proposal No. 98-32 will be distributed to its membership for comment. The decision will stand unless contested by 30 Division I schools within 6Odays.

Carri Jenkins, director ofBYU public communications, said the uni'tersity was happy with the board's decision.

Study finds little consultation prior to assisted suicides may be uncertain and confused as to whether increasing narcotics for pain control, withholding blood transfusions, or giving prescriptions for medications that could be used to overdose constitute 'intentionally taking a patient's life,'" the study said.

But in the 38 cases, the study found "inconsistent adherence to well-accepted safeguards" against misuse of assisted suicide. These

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"These data warn that safeguards meant to ensure patient autonomy could be violated in a significant minority of cases, making nonvoluntary or involuntary euthanasia a concomitant of permitting voluntary euthanasia or physicianassisted suicide," it added.

But because physician-assisted suicide is illegal in most jurisdictions and the safeguards are not legally mandated, physicians may be unclear about what they are expected to do in such cases, the report said.

The interviews also explored how physicians felt after participating in an assisted suicide or euthanasia. More than half reported comfort from having helped a patient to die, but nearly one-quarter said they regretted having performed euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

Nearly 40 percent of oncologists who had performed euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide feared prosecution, although none reported any legal action having been taken against them..

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Among the other details in. the health division's preliminary report: .

- cancer was the underlying disease for nine patients and the other had heart disease; - five were men Elnd five were women, and eight had greater than a high school education; - five were from the Portland metropolitan area; - the average ag(l of those Obtaining prescriptions was 71; - the patients had nine different attending physicians; - all eight who took the lethal drugs died within seven hours of .taking the medications, and the average time was 40 minutes; - most of the deaths occurred within the last three or four months; - the number of days between obtaining the prescription and death ranged from the same day to 16 days, with an average of two days; - for the two who did not use the lethal drugs, the average number of days between obtaining a prescription and death was 10.5 days.

In its statement, the Oregon Catholic Conference urged quick passage in Congress of the Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1998, which would clarify federal law to allow the Drug Enforcement Administration to prohibit the use of controlled substances in assisted suicides.

The conference also called on health care professionals "to reassert their commitment to c'ompassionate care through a ministry of comfort care includi.ng pain control, hospice care, spiritual and supportive care of the dying and their loved ones."

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Catholics in U.S. set to join in nine-day novena for life Sept. 7 to 15.

By NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON (CNS) Catholics throughout the United States are being asked to join in a novena for life from Sept. 7, the vigil of the feast of the birth of Mary, to Sept. 15, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.

At least one of the nine days is likely to coincide with debate in the U.S. Senate on overriding President Clinton's veto last October of the Paltial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The House overrode the veto July 23 by a 296-132 vote.

The "9 Days for Life" novena, prepared by Father James Moroney, executive director of .the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for the Liturgy, asks Mary to bless "all mothers, especially those wearied by life a,nd overcome by the suffering they bear for their children."

Each day of the novena is dedicated to a different group - suffering women of the world, women giving birth that day, new fathers, all children and families, for example.

Helen Alvare, director of planning and information in the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said the novena is part of a widespread effort since last

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By MAURA ROSSI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PATERSON, N.J. - Sister Christine Reyelt, a New Jersey physician, says she supports the idea of needle exchange programs for drug addicts as a way to limit the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. From her perspective as a nun, a doctor, and medical director of a care center for people with HIV and AIDS at St. Joseph Hospital in Paterson, well-implemented medical exchange programs make good sense, she said.

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spring to fight partial-birth abortion at the grassroots level.

"There's a lot of stuff percolating at the local level," said Alvare in an Aug. 20 interview.

She outlined a strategy that included postcards and letters 'to senators, attempts to arrange private meetings with senators at the local level and in Washington, and efforts to refute misinformation about partial-birth abortion on a point-by-point basis.

Theuitimate goal of all the messages is to convince at least three U.S. senators who voted against the partial-birth abortion ban last year to change their votes.

'The 1997 Senate vote was 64-36, three short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override the veto.

Although the issue has been getting little national coverage since the Clinton-Lewinsky story broke in January, there has been a lot of interest at the local level because of lawsuits against partial-birth abortion bans, state referendums, and candidates' stands on the issue, Alvare said.

Through a new campaign called "True to Life," the pro-life secretariat will be sending to editors around the country "hot sheets" with facts on partial-birth abortion. A new version of the 8 by 5 1/2 inch sheet will be sent out every two or three days to the editors, as well as to "various political pundits and commentators," Alvare said.

ity of St. Elizabeth, in an interview with The Beacon, Paterson's diocesan newspaper.

She noted that in New Jersey most-of those infected with HIV have been the sexual partners of infected drug users or their children.

Sister Reyelt said she agrees with Jesuit Father Jon Fuller, who in the July 18 issue of America magazine urged support for needle-exchange programs, citing Catholics' responsibility to protect the welfare of the most vulnerable.

In the magazine's cover story, Father Fuller wrote, "A fundamental moral issue is at stake: the failure to act to save human lives." He wrote that Catholic churches deserve criticism because they "can seem to be more concerned aboutpotential 'scandal" - sending the wrong message about drug use - than with [exchange programs'] ability to prevent lethal HIV transmissions to particularly vulnerable populations."

Father Fuller is a physician and assistant director of the adult clinical AIDS program at Boston Medical Center.

According to the priest, injection drug use as the source of HIV infection in the United States has increased from 1 percent in 1987 to 37 percent in 1997. He said more than 100 needle exchange programs have been established despite initial resistance.

Sister Reyelt, who received her medical degree from Georgetown University in 1975, said that needle exchange involves having people come to where they can talk to medical professionals and counselors who can help them get into a substance abuse program and rehabilitation.

"They will be involved with either a person or a setting with a potential for changing their behavior or providing them with medical treatment," she said.

The message of such exchange programs, she continued, is that "we don't believe in what you are doing but we don't want you to die because of what you do.

"Most of the messages drug addicts get are that we don't (care) whether you die or not, and that you deserve it," she said.

There is an "important distinction" between needle distribution and needle exchange, Sister Rayelt said, noting the fear that distributing free needles would increase drug use.

"But there is substantial research by now that shows needle exchange programs do not increase the frequency of drug use and that they are not an element in the start of drug use," she said.

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THE ANCHOR ~ Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Aug: 28, 1998 REVIEWED BY

JOHN H. CARROLL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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The name Stalingrad (now Volgagrad) still evokes memories of this frightful battle in the brutal struggle between the Soviet and German forces on the' Eastern Front in the winter of 1942-1943. . Although much has been .said and written about this decisive military . engagement, author Antony Beevor in "Stalingrad, The Fateful Siege" updates and recounts all aspects of its history very well. Beevor was educated at Sandhurst, the British military academy, . and served as an officer in the British Army.. ' . l On the morning of June 22, 1941, the German Wehrmacht, on orders from the Nazi fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, in Operation Barbarossa struck east into the Soviet Union. The Germans, already in control of most of Europe, except for Britain, initially smashed through disorganized Soviet resistance, . By early December the Wehrmacht was at the gates of Leningrad' in the north and Moscow in the center and in control of Kharkov in the Ukraine in the south. Ho~ever, with the coining of the harsh Russian winter, Soviet reserves from Siberia arrived on the front and halted the German advance. The Germans, with their extended supply lines and lack of adequate winter equipment, fell back before the Red Army counterattack. ' .

The author notes that the brutal nature of this struggle soon was . apparent after the initial assault. He comments; "In Lvov, the capital of Galicia, the NKVD (Soviet secret police) slaughtered political prisoners to prevent their release by the Germans." This policy also applied in the Baltic countries. On the German side, security units engaged in atrocities. . .~,. .'

The author states, "From the very start o(Baroarossa, the massacres of Jews and Gypsies had been deliberately mixed in, whenever possible, with the execution of partisans ... to bolster the notion of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy:" .

In May 1942 the Wehrmacht again struck east to. carry out a grandiose plan of Hitler's to invade the Caucasus region and seize its oil reserves. Stalingrad on the Volga was to be the hinge for the drive. In mid-September Gen. Friedrich Paulus and his Sixth Army began the assault on the city. . , The author tells the story of this great battle, similar to the frightful struggle for Verdun in World War I. The Germans seized most of the city. The Soviets still stubbornly held a pocket on the west side of the Volga. Both suffered greatly. In mid-November the Red Army, with' reserves for a winter offensive, hit the extende,d flanks of the Sixth Army. The attack was successful. The Germans then became the besieged force in Stalingrad.

Despite exhortations from Hitler and relief efforts, "the Wehrmacht could not break the vise around the entrapped Sixth Army. The Sovi'ets literally ground down the German defenders. In late January 1943, the Red Army overran the last German positions and captured the survivors of the Sixth Army. One of the most decisive battles of the . war was over.

The .Wehrmacht was unable to mount any more successful offensives in the east. The Red Army started its move west to invade Germany and capture Berlin in the spring of 1945.

One of the author's contributions to military history is the personal touch. He obviously undertook detailed research in Soviet and German archives. He also interviewed numerous survivors. Aside from the strategies of Hitler and Stalin and their military leaders and the course of the battle, the author presents some intriguing, ironic and tragic insights into individual actions during, the struggle and its after~ math.

He even includes comments from and about ChristiaJ:l chaplains attached to the Sixth Army. For example, he notes that "Dr. Alloys . Beck, the Cat~olic chaplain of the 297th Infantry Division, was convinced that 'of the three Wehrmacht services, the army was least influenced by National Socialist ideology.'" Another Catholic hospital chaplain "was known as the 'Death King' ... because he was giving .' extreme unction to over 200 men a day."

This book also is a reflection of the brutal tyranny of two corrupt political systems and man's inhumanity to man.

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In sorely lacking the sl~nse of fun CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE a now-transparent agent confined to . the musty archives. Meant to be a and saucy insouciance that characNEW YORK - Fans of the whimsical scene, it looks more like terized the original, the movie original 1960s TV series are likely a throwaway or an inserted curios- seems headed for heavy weather in terms of recouping its co:.ts, no less to dislike "The Avengers" (Warner ity. , Bros.)-perhaps with a vengeance.

A chase scene with Steed and bringing in the green and spurting Gone is the series' snappy r~p- Mrs. Peel in his roadster being pur- talk of sequels.

Due to. stylized violence, mild artee between debonair British op- sued by giant mechanical insects eratives Patrick Macnee and Diana overhead is momentarily amusing sexual innuendo and an instance of Rigg, he of the bowler hat and but is then extended beyond its rough language, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III ~ bumbershoot, she of the mod out- power to divert: fits'and lightning-fast limbs. Their There is little nostalgia value - adults. The Motion Picture Assolate '90s reincarnations are Ralph when the movie is set in the near- ciation of America rating is PG-13 Fiennes as unflappable agent John millennium, but simply pretends - - parents' are strongly cautioned Steed, and Uma Thurman as the nothing has changed since the TV that some material may b~ inappropriate for children under 13. self-possessed Mrs. Peel. Although series' era, three decades ago. each is an Oscar-nominated actor, neither can do much with Don Macpherson's leaden script, and together they generate absolutely zero chemistry.

Most embarrassing of all is Sean Connery's buffoonish role as maniacal villain Sir August de Wynter.

On the one hand, he's not given that much screen time, but on the other hand, since he is req'uired to act like a kilt-wearing clown, perhaps a mercifully brief cameo role would have been preferable.

Only the snazzy· visuals seem to work in providing some fleeting entertainment in terms of the sets and the movie's colorful production design. .

The aptly named de Wynter is able to control the weather, so there ACTOR RALPH Fiennes portrays JO,hn Steed in the acare picture-postcard-pretty blizzards covering the countryside be- tion-adventure "The Avengers:'The U.S. 9atholic Con'ference fore Big Ben blows its top, signal- classification is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Associaing the welcome end to the many tion of America rating is PG-13 - parents are stron~lly caucartoon-like situations that are in- , tioned that some material may be inappropriate for c:hildren eptly stitched together. under 13. (CNS photo from Warner Bros.)

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NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movie~: recently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and BroadcaHting.

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"Air Bud: Golden Receiver" (Dimension) Pedestrian sequel turns its talented canine basketball star into a gridimn sensation catching passes for an inept junior high school football team while the dog's young master (Kevin Zegers) frets over the man (Gregory Harri~on) dating his widowed mom (Cynthia Stephenson). Directed by Richard Martin, the predictable story includes a hammy pair of comic dognappers who strike on the eve of 1IIIIIIl. ........-IIiIiIIi!lllll!Pt the championship game, but all that really counts are the antics of its fotlr-legged star, which will delight juveniles of all ages. The U.S. Catholic Conferen(:e classification is'A-! - general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is G - general audiences. ''Blade'' (New Line) Ultraviolent horror fantasy adapted from a comic strip about the battle between a city full of vampireH (led by Stephen Dorff) and three armed-to-the-teeth humans (Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright) bent on exterminating them. Director Stephen Norrington's gory, stomach-turning tale of hatred and murder wallow:; in constant scenes of. brutality, butchery and bloodshed. Excessive violence, much profanity anct constant rough language.

The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is 0 - morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating ~s R - restricted. ''Dance With Me" (Columbia) Overblown musical romance with a Latin beat as a Cuban youth (Chayanne) finds work in a Texas dance studio owned by the man (Kris Kristofferson) he is certain is his father, then falls for one of the s~dio's dance im:tructofs (Vanessa L. Williams) while helping restart her professional career in an international dance COIVpetition. Dimcted by Randa Haines, the thinly developed story relies on increasingly elaborate dance routines to provide the interest missing from ste!tl0typed situations and characters until all is resolved happily in a wildly upbeat dance competition ending. Romantic complications and a benign view of unmarried sexual relationships. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-ill - adults. The Motion Picture Association of ~merica rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

J ''Next Stop, Wonderland" (Miramax) Otlbeat comedy about romance in the I 990s follows a bright Boston nurse (Hope Davis) seeking a serious relationship via a personal ad column and a serious-minded plumber (Alan Gelfant) studying to become a marine biologist, both of whom frequently cross paths until accidentally meeting as kindred spirits just before the movie ends. Directed

by Brad Anderson, the parallel development of the two stories overplays the ,nurse's wry interviews with the sorry collection of men answering her ad while underplaying the plumber's problems with a loan shark, but the results poke fun at current sexual mores and plunk for a more old-fashioned notion of romance. Ambiguous view of unmarried sexual relationships, much rough language 'and occasional profanity. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-IV -:-adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - - restricted.

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Archbishop Weakland ~ants no Documentary looks at part of new 'Catholic' network nuns' role in health care THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Aug. 28, 1998

By BILL KURTZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MILWAUKEE - Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee says he wants no part of the planned Catholic Radio Network, which would offer Catholic-oriented talk programming through 10 stations around the nation, including one in southeastern Wisconsin.

Archbishop Weakland said he had received two letters from persons associated with the San Diego-based venture.

"I said I didn't want them in the archdiocese," he said in an interview.

"It's amusing that they claim to be very orthodox, yet they begin by ignoring a local bishop. That's strange ecclesiology."

John Lynch, president of the network, said the Catholic Radio Network's $57 million purchase of AM stations in 10 major markets recently got initial approval from the Federal Communications Commission. He said final approval is expected in September, with a current target date of Oct. I to begin broadcasting.

Lynch told the Catholic Herald, Milwaukee archdiocesan newspaper, that network organizers were traditional, orthodox Catholics, but added, "We're going to be talking about everyday life problems that Catholics

and other people face, not intrachurch squabbles."

Archbishop Weakland said he is unhappy with the Catholic Radio Network's name, but the stations might not use that name. Lynch said various names were being tested in market surveys because organizers want to determine if the "Catholic" tag might chase away listeners who might otherwise be int~rested.

"We want to be as broad-based as possible," Lynch said. Whatever name is used, "we want to say that the model for living a good life is Catholic principles," he added.

The archbishop said he could not use civil law to prevent the network from using the name Catholic. "I don't care what they call themselves, as long as they don't give the impression of speaking in the name of the Catholic Church," he said. But beyond the name, the archbishop said he was "very skeptical" about the venture for two reasons. One is the talk format planned. "It's the cheapest way of filling up time," Archbishop Weakland said of talk radio.

Because callers are anonymous, "no~y really takes responsibility for remarks. It's no way to search for truth." .

Archbishop Weakland also said he is wary of some of those planning the network.

"It seems many of the people involved have been divisive in the Church in the United States," Archbishop Weakland said. "We don't need any more of that."

Board members include Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio, editor of Ignatius Press in San Francisco; and Nicholas Healy Jr., a vice president at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.

The 10 stations the San Diegobased network is acquiring are in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Milwaukee and Kansas City, Kan. Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is episcopal adviser to the network. Francis Maier, chancellor of the Denver Archdiocese, told the National Catholic Reporter, based in Kansas City, Mo., that Archbishop Chaput would insist that the network's content not be "polemical or divisive."

Maier also said in the Reporter's June 5 issue that Archbishop Chaput wanted to avoid disputes between the network and local dioceses, such as the criticisms made by Mother Angelica of cabie's Eternal Word Television Network against Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony over a pastoral letter he wrote regarding the Eucharist and Sunday celebrations of Mass.

Delnise of 'Dr. Quinn' gives producer needed time slot

By MARK PATnSON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

HOLLYWOOD - The executive. producer of "Early Edition" is sad to see the departure of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" from the CBS schedule, but is happy to have inherited its time slot come fall.

"I liked having 'Dr. Quinn' as our lead-in. I thought it was a very fine show that seemed to lead well into what we did," said Jeff Melvoin,. who came to the series last season.

But he said he thinks his show, which will now air al8 p.m. Eastern time on Saturdays, will satisfy viewers because "we'll supply a lot of the warmth, a lot of the fanlily values they got from 'Dr. Quinn.'''

In "Early Edition," main character Gary Hobson (Kyle Chandler), a bar owner, awakes each morning to find tomorrow's newspaper at his door. He uses the advance information to try to help the people who face misfortunes that day a~ reported in the next day's news.

"We feel the network's given us a real vote of confidenc{: with a full (22episode) order and a time slot that we know was cherished by a lot of people with 'Dr. Quinn.' And we know that audience stuck around for us anyway," Melvoin told Catholi<; News Service.

"I don't think there's any perception that we had anything to do with the disappearance of 'Dr. Quinn.' We hope we get the benefit of them getting used to starting off their night at eight o'clock on CBS, and we think we'll satisfy them."

Melvoin said "Early Edition" had a "rocky" second season. "We kind of spiked up and down in the ratings and there was some feeling about a lack of consistency from week to week in what the show was about," . . he said.

"It's taken 44 episodes to see what

works well and what perhaps doesn't work so well," according to Melvoin.

"Number one, it's about charm and about magic, and having a good heart.

Beyond that, how dramatically suspenseful it should be vs. how redemptive emotionally it should be as opposed to how comic or witty it should be ... those are all open to question."

Melvoin said he sees the shift to the 8 p.m. Saturday time slot as "a great opportunity." .

"Early Edition" is adding. three

new characters: an amiable bartender, plus a 28-year-old single mom with a 9-year-old son who learns the·secret of the paper delivered a day in' advance to Hobson's door.

Melvoin, who w.rote for "Remington Steele," "Hill Street Blues" and "Northern Exposure," said he believes "Early Edition" fits in well with the CBS tradition of such family-oriented dramas as "Dr. Quinn," ''Touched by an Angel" and "Promised Land."

TV's 'Home Improvement' may g~ .after next season

By MARK PATTISON, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

HOLLYWOOD - The 1998-99 season may be the last for the popular ABC comedy "Hom~ Improvement," according to Carmen Finestra, a Catholic and former Benedictine seminarian who is the show's executive producer.

"Eight years is what the 'Cosby' show did and for a family show, it seems pretty good," Finestra told Catholic News Service this summer during the between-season taping hiatus.

While it is assumed the coming year will be the last, so the series can go out before its popularity wanes, no big series-finale episode has been contemplated.

"You have to make sure 100 percent that this is going to be the last show," Finestra said.

He listed two ingredients for keeping a show like "Home Improvement" a hit.

One is having "a very extreme character with a point of vie.w," such .as "Roseanne," "All in the Family," and his show's star, Tim Allen, Fmestra.smd.

The second is having people who are "working hard to maintain the quahty of the show." , Finestra addressed critical reaction to "Home Improvement" through its successful run.

"I thiflk the first three seasons 'Home Improvement' was seen for what it was: a well-written family show that was funny," he said.

As the show goes off the air, Finestra figures he'll be hearing comments . like, "Way to go. Nice job."

But even if "Home Improvement" is no more, a series spmoff could be created for Zachery Ty Bryan, who plays eldest son Brad - at a time when Brad would be leaving home for college. .

"I think Zachery is a very talented guy, and if he wanted to have hIS own show," Finestra said, "we ',II talk to Zach. Zach may not want to be B,rad Taylor anymore. The only value of the spinoff would be Brad Taylor. It II really be more his call."

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admissions head at St Thomas HospiWASHINGTON - "A Call to tal in Akron, Ohio, she housed the first Care," a documentary looking at how AA patient and eventually provided a nuns laid the foundations of health care ward where men could sober up. Sister in America, will be transmitted Sept 4 Ignatia also started the practice of using tokens to markAA members' mileto PBS affiliates nationwide.

Affiliates have the option of airing stones in sobriety; - Mother Joseph, who took four the hourlong special at any time, so viewers should check local listings for other sisters from Montreal to the Northwest Territory to build hospitals, air dates and times.

Subtitled "Stories ofCourage, Com- orphanages and schools; - Mother Baptist Russell, who. passion and America's Health," the documentary looks at how nuns in both with seven other sisters, left Ireland for the 19th century and modem times have San Francisco. She opened SI: Mary's played a role in improving American Hospital, the first Catholic hospital on the West Coast. The sisters had to lock health care standards.

Among women religious from past the hospital linen closet because Mother Baptist would take the supplies to give times whose stories.are included are: - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the. to the poor. daughter ofNathaniel Hawthorne, who Contemporary sisters whose stories is also known as Mother Mary are recorded include: Sister Mary Rose Alphonsa She founded what is now McGeady, a Daughter of Charity whl) called the Dominican Sisters of Haw- heads Covenant House; SisterJeannette thorne after her husband died. The or- Normandin, a SisteJ; of St Anne whl) der takes in cancer patients, refusing founded a home in Chicago for homopayment from them. It operates the less women with AIDS; Sister ofCharRose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in ity Janet Gildea, who founded Clinica Guadalupana in 1995 in EI Paso, Texas.

Fall River; - Mother Marianne Cope, who which serves recent immigrants who opened a home in Hawaii for women would otherwise go without health care;; and girls with Hansen's disease, also .and Sister Mary Stella Simpson, a known as leprosy. Poet Robert Louis Daughter of Charity who established Stevenson was so impressed when he one of the nation's first communityvisited the home he wrote a poem about based health centers through her effomo her work and sent Mother Marianne a in 1967 to lower alarming infant mortality rates in Mound Bayou, Miss. piano; - Henriette DeLille, a ''free person of coloc" in New Orleans who worked with the elderly - many ofwhom were slaves cast out by their owners - and HEATING, INC. opened the first U.S. Catholic nursing Sales and Service home. She founded the Sisters of the for Domestic and Industrial Holy Family in New Orleans in 1842.

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Havana Catholic paper publishes after a two-year hiatus

South African Church has its first twin priests By

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - When Father Wayne Dawson was ordained a priest in Cape â&#x20AC;˘ Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Havana promises Town, he and his brother, ' Redemptorist ',Father Ivan to be a continued voice for the Church: Dawson, became the first twin priests in the South African

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Church.

HAVANA - A Catholic publication that disappeared two y.ears ago "In the neighborhood we were after its first issue, reappeared in mid-August with the promise of beeom- known as the'Jerri~le Twins'; ing a "regular voice for the Catholic Church" i~ the capital city of Ha- now we are called the 'Holy vana.

Twins,''' Father Wayne said.

A new edition of Aqui la Iglesia (Here, the Church), which appeared ArchbIshop Lawrence Henry once in early 1996 as the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Haof Gape Town ordained Father vana, was distributed recently in several city parishes with a new design Wayne July 11 at Holy Reand a column by Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino. deemer Parish in Cape Town.

"From now on, this will be a regular publication that will exist as a Father Ivan - who for the permanent contact between the chancery and Catholics in the city," said Eduardo Meza, editor of Aqui la Iglesia. He said Aqui la Iglesia will be past two years has worked in Kansas City, Mo., and previously -distributed on a monthly basis in all Catholic parishes in Havana. in Portland, are. ~ attended his Meza said the shoitage of paper and ink in the country -which has forced even official publications to reduce their number of pages or their twin's ordination with a small frequency - made it impossible initially for the archdiocese to continue delegation of American priests and friends. Father Ivan was orthe publication.

In his column, Cardinal Ortega defended the Cuban family, saying dained a Redemptorist priest at that "family rights sprout from its own nature as [the] first and fundamen- the same church in 1995. tal cell of society; therefore, these rights are not given by the state, the Highlights of Father Wayne's ' United Nations or any other organization.'" ordination were even broadcast The cardinal alsQ said the fact that many fathers leave their families on 'national television - twice! ' for long periods to work "divides the Cuban family and makes difficult The brothers attended the its development and integration."

Holy Cross Sisters' St. Mary Pri"The Church does not oppose community work, but believes it should, mary School in the Cape Town be reconciled with family life," the cardinal said. suburb of Retreat, an area previ-

ously reserved under apartheid laws for pe~ple classified as mixed race.

"The Holy Cross Sisters defi-

"In the neighborhood we were known as the 'Terrible Twins'; now we are called the 'Holy Twins,'" Father Wayne said. nitely had im influence on us. We went to Mass every Friday and said the Angelus every day," Father Wayne toldSquth Africa's national Catholic weekly, The Southern Cross. Two of the Dawsons' school friends at St. Mary's also became priests.

He said another powerful influence in the twins' decision to choose the priesthood was their mother, Ethne, who showed them how to love and serve God. After high school graduation, father Ivan entered a teachers' training college, but soon decided to become a Redemptorist

missionary. Holy Redeemer Parish and the church adjacent to St. Mary Primary School are run by Redemptorists.

While Father Ivan preached missions throughout South Africa and neighboring Namibia, his twin worked in a bank for seven years before answering the call from God. "When I worked in the bank I had my own car and a good salary, but I never felt completely fulfilled," Father Wayne said.

"Increasingly I found tha.t fulfillment in the Church. "I did not want to become a Redemptorist, like my brother," he added. "I felt God was calling me to work in the local church in Cape Town, whereas Ivan felt he shou:ld travel throughout the country. We are alike, but are different personalities.

"We are a close-knit family, and it was the support of my mother, my two elder bJothers, Gary and Mark, and my sister, Gayle, that helped to sustain me while I was studying Jor the priesthood,"Father Wayne said.

,Bu'syRome in2000~ opts for bed~and~ breakfasts .'

Consecration to the Divine wiIi .

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Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the immensity ofYour Light, that Your eternal goodness may open to me the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all in You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before ,Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little group of the sons and daughters ofYour Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in ,my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that" it clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away from me and thus form the new Eden of Peace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall be always 'happy. I shall have a singular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God. , Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature was created.

Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen' of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and willteach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the doctrine of the Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.

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

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

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( In Honor ofLuisa Piccarrera 1865-1947 Child ofthe Divine Will)

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE VATICAN CITY - As it braces for the arrival of an estimated 25 million pilgrims in the year 2000, the city of Rome is turning to an idea that originated in England: the bed-and-breakfast. , The plan would allow residents of the Eternal City to rent out rooms and help fill the accommodations gap. Already 27,000 Romans have said .they're ready to provide lodgings, and the city is offering them a training course.

There is one problem: Romans don't eat a real breakfast. However, pilgrims could count ~m being provided with a dose of the national fuel, espresso coffee.

Bed-and-cappuccino, anyone?

A recent accommodations census in the Lazio region, which in,c,:ludes Rome, came up with a total of 217,000 beds in hotels, pensions, tourist villages and campgrounds - far short of the number needed during major jubilee events presided over by Pope John Paul II. Religious orders, meanwhile, are busy transforming conven't wings and former schools into pilgrim guest houses, Visitors should book early: One religious house a few blocks from the Vatican said it already has filled many of its rooms for the jubilee year.

FATHER WAYNE Dawson (left)stanEls with his brother, Father Ivan Dawson, after Wayne's ordination in Cape lawn in July. The twin brother Catholic priests are one of only SElven such pairs in the world today. Father Ivan worked for the past two years in Kansas City, Mo. (CNS photo from Southern Cross) .

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Churches along the autobahns offer a haven for relaxation, serenity in micJst of hectic travelling.

By RICHARD NYBERG CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

KREFELD, Germany - Zooming down Germany's speed-limitless autobahns is for many a nervewracking experience.

The dreaded left lane is notorious for arrogant, light-flashing, tailgating Porsche drivers roaring by at breakneck speeds exceeding 130 miles per hour.

The fast pace and-intense concentration required to negotiate the autobahn c~eates tension and anxiety in many drivers. Sometimes the best thing is to get off the highway and take a break, cool off, put some gas in the car.

This is what Christians started thinking about 40 years ago when they started erecting churches and chapels at or near autobahn rest areas.

"As more people were using the autobahns, there wao; a need for drivers not only to fill up the tank, but to have rest for the body and for the soul," said Guenter Lehner of the Bruderhilfe Academy for Traffic Safety in Kassel, which helps manage the churches and chapels. Lehner said that "autobahn church" as a concept has succeeded in that more churches arc being built and more people are visiting the chapels.

"People leave the churches much more at peace and calmer," he said.

The first Catholic autobahn church was built in 1958 atAdelsried on the A8 autobahn linking Munich and Stuttgart, Lehner said. The oldest Protestant autobahn church was opened a year later at Exter on the A2 highway between Cologne and Berlin.

As the autobahn church literature points out, peaceful drivers make safe drivers.

Two types of structures are available: chapels, small enough that visitors can meditate alone or in small groups, or larger churches that offer opportunities for reflection, but also regular services. The churches fall under the pastoral guidance of a parish and a priest. ' In either structure, visitors can meditate, light candles, pick up literature and sign guest books.

Some of the messages are personal, expressing thanks to God for protecting them from serious accidents and near-misses, or asking for help in handling family crises.

In the modern, sleek ecumenical chapel near Krefeld in western Germany, a lonely truckdriver penned his appeal to God: "I doli't know if you really exist, but often when I'm in danger I pray to you. Please help me now to find a way to payoff my debts. It

cannot go on like this. Forgive me, too, that I forget my mother at the cemetery, and please help that something good will become of my son." , Numerous unusual experiences have occurred in the German autobahn churches, Leh'ner said. He told of how one Christmas Eve, truck drivers who did not make it home to be with family spent their holiday in the autobahn churches, where they had a chance to speak with priests.

And the publjc exposure of autobahn churches provides occasions for "very interesting encounters between adherents of different religions," he added.

The autobahn churches and chapels, nOw numbering 14 with another under construction,'draw more than 300,000 visitors a year.

In its 40 years of roadside churches, Germany has outpaced its European neighbors. Lehner Said Italy· has three such churches, and France, one.

WARSAW, Poland A Belarussian cardinal has reconsecrated one of the country's previously derelict churches, half a century after he was exiled to Siberia while serving as its assistant rector.

Cardinal Kazimicrz Swiatek of Minsk-Mohilev said the cere'mony was a "visible sign" of renewed Catholic life in the ex-Soviet republic, where religious observances were tightly restricted during seven decades of communist rule.

The 83-year~old cardinal told Catholic News Service he had decided personally to rededicate the Church of the Assumption at Pruzany, where he served his first five years as priest after being ordained in 1939.

"I was arrested here as assistant parish priest in 1944, and I returned 54 years later as cardinal archbishop to bless it again in 1998," said Cardinal Swiatek.

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A SIGN along a rest stop on the German autobahn indicates a chapel ahead. Several small churches are located along the byways where visitors can rest, meditate, light candles and pick up religious literature. (CNS photo by Richard Nyberg)

"There's something symbolic in this, even though my own fate is past history."

Cardinal Swiatek said he was determined to treat the church's Aug. 14 reconsecration, attended by several thousand Catholics, as "nothing exceptional," adding that he would be dedicating another rebuilt Belarussian church in early September.

"This is a time of freedom, and iI's a visible sign of Catholic renewal that buildings like this are now being returned, rebuilt and reconsecrated," the cardinal said.

Estonian-born Cardinal Swiatek, who became the first Belarussian cardinal in 1994, was first exiled to Siberia as a child and was sentenced to death after the republic's occupation by the Soviet Army in 1939.

Released during the 1940 German invasion, he was rearrested by Soviet police in 1944 and sent back to Siberian labor camps for 10 years.

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During a 1991 church rC?organization, Pope John Paul II named him archbishop of the revived Minsk-Mogilev Archdiocese and administrator of the Pinsk Diocese.

The 16th-century Assumption church at Pruzany, 50 miles northeast of Brest in Belarus' formerly Polish-ruled western territory, was rebuilt in the mid-19th century, before being taken over by the Russian Orthodox Church after the collapse of Poland's 1863 January Uprising.

Rededicated as a Catholic place of worship two decade!, later, it was closed and turned into a culture center by Belarus' Soviet rulers in 1941.

Poland's church-owned Catholic Information Agency said the first Mass in recent times was celebrated in the church by a Polish priest in 1991. It said the building was restored later with Belarussian and Polish church donations.

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SIXTH GRADERS of the Family Religious Education· Program 'of Holy 'Cro$S Parish, Easton, stand proudly in front of the quilt they and four other students created honoring the life of Mottler. Teresa., Through the project .they learned about her life and accomplishments via. newspaper article:; and class discussion. Thos~ working on the project were Miles' Alfieri, Andrew Davey, Andrew Noonan, Paul Spinelli, Michael and 'Cory'Sullivan,' Robbie' Tarallo, Megan Weeks and Meaghan Littlefield. The quilt was presented to the parish. ~ \ : ~, . i~~ ~ ~:--;~ I

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TEACHING OUR YOUTHI - Helena Garcia, a Portuguese instructor for grades K-8 at Espirito Santo. School, Fall, River, is seen here teaching a language lesson to her students. Classes for th~ sc~ool,begin on Sept 1.

Teachers throughout the diocese have been busy preparing lessons and planning for their fall. classes. '

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Where to go to fill your God space

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CARSTENS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

People are born with an open place in their hearts, a place only God can fill. I think a lot of the craziness in people's lives - cults, drug addiction or getting hooked up with the wrong kind of partners again and again - comes from trying to fill that empty God space with something else.

"Spirituality" is a major industry these days. There must be 25 Open your, eyes! Whose serbooks out right now on angels and 'vice goes unnoticed or 50 on contacting your spirit guides.

All of this is in addition to the hununderappreciated? If you don't of volumes on Tarot card dreds know individuals' names, try to reading, shamanism and the interfind out. If necessary, hand depretation of dreams. liver your ~otes.

Why all this vast literature?

People want contact with God. 2. Anonymol!sly, do someThey have an aching place inside thing kind for someone in your ' - and they don't know how to famIly. Would your brother or make it better. ' siste~ be ,surprised to .discover Sadly, lots of young people decide they can't find what they need that a weekly chore has already at chu~ch. There's always are!lso~. been done? What if your par-"The sermons are too boring." 'ents' ,car sllddenly' appeared ,-"Only old people go there." washed and clean? Have fun -"It doesn't have anytl1ing to Wit~ th~~, but kl(ep Y.o~r kinq- ,do with real life' - these. are tlie' '90s:' , '~ ,:" ness a secret: ' .. . , " ,Often,: the real' prpblern is t~at . 3., Be rtior~ ,geIierQus with, . c!lurch isn't all that exciting. Com-" your ~inie.Go' ba4 to your .: part?d.,t9 !l good movie or MTV, grade school .md inquireifyou , ,Mass can ,seem pretty dull. , '.Church isn't ineant to be entercould tutor some student who tainment, and I think it's pretty easy could benefit from extra attento confuse things. Jf I want to be entertained, I'll·go to a concert. I tion. Doing this doesn't have go to church because I want to find to take more than couple of God. hours a week.

Church doesn't fill the God 4. Go to a nearby park, and space in my heart, any more than reading a bunch of books on spiripick up the trash. In fact, find tuality can fill that emptiness. Only out if your area has an "adopt God can do that. StjJI, I've learned a spot" program, and if it does, that it's in church that God can most talk to your youth group or reeasily be encountered.

Sure I've heard people say: "I ligious education class about find God in nature. Standing by a ,the group committing to such running brook lets me feel more ari "adoption." religious than I ever feel at Mass."

5. Ask your pastor or youth Now, if those people actually went out and prayed in the woods minister i( you. can dust and for an hour every week, they might clean the patishchurch once a be on to something ~ but hardly month. anybody does. Usually, this is just

an excuse to avoid showing up on Sunday: If you want the God space in your heart filled, start on God's terms. God is encountered in, the

How to' show your gratitude

By CHARLIE MARTIN

Kind and Generous You've been so kind and generous.

I don't know how you keep on giving.

For your kindness I'm in debt to you.

For your selflessness, my admiration.'

For everything you've done, You know I'm bound I'm bound to thank you for it.

You've been'so kind and generous.

I don't know how you keep on giving. ' For your kindness I'm i,n debt to you And I never·would have gotten This far without·you. ", Fo~ everything you've done~ . :", Yo~ know. h!l bound ,' I'm, bound to thank you for it. , .

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I want to thank you For so many gifts you gave, The love, the tenderness.

I want to thank you.

I want to thank you For your generosity, the love And the honesty that You gave me. .1want to thank you, Show my gratitude My love and my respect for you.

I want to thank you.

I want to thank you, thank you, Thank you, thank you.

I want to thank you, thank you, ' Thank you, thank you.

Written and sung by Natali~ Merchant Copyright (c) 1998 .

By Elektra Entertainment Group DO YOU want to make a difference in our world?

If so, then Natalie Merchant , has a message for you: Try a little more kindness and generosity!

Her current hit "Kind and Generous," off her newly released disc "Ophelia," is written from the perspective of one who has benefited from someone's kindness and generosity. The pe,rson sings, "You've been so kind and generous, I don't know how you

keep on giving; Iwant to thank you, show my gratitude."

How can you be kind and generous? Hete are a few imaginative suggestions teens might consider. , 1. For a year, write one note a week to peopl~ who support your life. Look beyond (but not over!) individuals in your immediate family. For example, if you ride the bus to school, there is the person who drives, or if you walk, how about the crossing guard?

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Perhaps your kindness and generosity will not'lead someone to thank you' expressly.

However, every kind and generous act makes areal difference.

As a disciple of Jesus, you want to make that difference.

Start today to inject more kindness and generosity into the way that you live. ,

Your comments are always welcome. Please address: Charlie Martin, 7125 W 200S, Rockport, Ind. 47635.

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Contact with God must be sought. Now and then, somebody seems to get slammed with a religious experience out of the blue, but most of us have to take some initiative.

Be assured, if you go looking for God,.God will find you. , 'Going to church on a regular ba,sis is, a start and,a foundation for the eventual filling of the God space' in your heart.

There's only one more step. In every day, you need to make time for a conscious contact with God. It isn't enough to walk around and have nice thoughts; at least once a day you need to stop what you're doing and reach out.

It doesn't have to be a big deal.

Pick a time of day and reach out.

Maybe you can say the Lord's Prayer before you take your shower.

Maybe you can spend a few minutes every night reading a religiou'i book - or even the Bible.

Start with a foundation of regular participation in Mass, and add a moment of daily conscious contact.

Before long, you'll be amazed with the changes taking place in your lif~. Once God is invited in, nothing is the same. I can't even begin ,to tell you hoW much better it will be. ..._IIIIIiIIII ...

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Woman shakes family tree, and would-be saint falls out

THE ANCHOR- Diocese of FaIl River - Fri., Aug. 28, 1998

Bergeron and The Couple to Couple League will hold a series 'of classes on natural family planning. Learn a method that is safe, effective and morally acceptable. Classes run from 6:30-8:30 p.m. beginning Tuesday Sept. 8 at St. Anne's Hospital. Preregister at 674-5600 ext. 2480.

NEW BEDFORD ~Amemorial Mass will be celebrated for Mother Teresa on Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. at St. Lawrence Parish. All welcome.

BYELIZABETH:A. PERRY' CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE NEW ORLEANS ~ When Evelyn Moragas Conino was a child she would hear stories ofcastles in Spain and tales about distant relatives from her aunt and grandmother. It wasn't until decades later when she found a brochure in a strongbox on the life of a courageous Discalced Carmelite nun that she realized there was a 'saint in the making in her family tree.

The nun described in the strongbox was Conino's cousin twice removed, Mother Maria Sagrario of St. Aloysius . Gonzaga, whose pre-convent name .was Elvira Moragas. :The first female pharmacist 'in Madrid, Elvira Moragas entered the Carmel of St. Anne and St.:Joseph in' 1915. She professed'her final vows five years later, taking the name Maria Sagrario of St. Aloysius Gonzaga. She was e1ected:prioress in 1927,and again in July 1936. The Spanish 'Civil,War began twoweeks later and with'itcame brutal religious persecution.

The convent was attacked that July 20 and Mother Sagrario.arranged for ,the safety of the other sisters before taking refuge with .another ·sister and her family. She and the other sister were arrested Aug. 14, taken to prison and interrogated.

Mother Sagfarlo kept silent during questioning, refusing to disclose the whereabouts of her sisters or clergy.

The next morning, on the feast of the

NEW BEDFORD - Holy. Name ASSONET - The rosary craJters Church will hold a parish band conof St. Bernard Parish are seeking vol- cert celebrating the ei\d of summer unteers to help make rosaries to be Aug. 30 at 6:30p.m. outside the parseQt to people throughout the world. ish. It will feature the Concordia The next meeting is at 7 p.m.,Sept. 7. . Brass'Quintet. All welcome.

All welcome. For more information call Carol Spoor at 644-2645.

NORTH ATTLEBORO Benedict Circle #61 Daughters of ATTLEBORO - The La Salette Isabella of Sacred Heart Parish will Divine Mercy Prayer Group meets at hold its next monthly meeting on the shrine every Wednesday at 7:15 Sept. 1. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. in p.m. All welcome. therec. room of Circle Ct. off High The final garden concert of the Street. shrine's summer season will be held on Aug. 29 at 6:30 p,m. It will feaSOMERSET - St. John of God ture Mark Gabriel and friends. Parish has a novena toSt. Jude every Gabriel is the music director of St. Tuesday evening. It begins with the Pius X Parish in Yarmouth. Those rosary at 6:30 p.m. followed by Mass attending are invited to bring lawn at 7 p.m. All welcome. For more inchairs and blankets. In the event of formation call the rectory at 678-5513. rain the concert will be moved to the Shrine chapel.

WORCESTER - The National, A h,ealing service will be held at Association pf the Holy Name Socithe shrine on Aug. 30 at 2 p.m. It ety Region I Convention will be held will include Mass, hymns ofpraise on Nov. 7 at Qur Lady of Mt. Carmel and the opportunity for individuals,to and 'Sl. Ann Church in Worcester. A be prayed over and anointed individu- delegation (rom the Falt'Riverdiocese

By LYNNE WElL ally. It will be led by Father Richard will be attending and those interested CATHOLIC NEWS'SERVICE Delisle. For more information call should call Jose Sardinha at 673-7585 VATICAN CITY - Thirty-seven 222-5410. or Arthur Teixeira at 674-3357 for people, including at least 10 church more information. All welcome. workers, were,killed'in an armed atFALL RIVER - Father Marc H. tack ona Catholic parish in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. , MISNA, a Rome-based missionary news agency, said the massacre occurred Monday in Kasika, in'the eastern part ofCongo, the former Zaire.

Among those killed were a priest, Father Stanislas Bwabulakombe; three nuns, at least two of whom reportedly belong to the Congo-basedDaughters of the Resurrection order; a seminar'Q 'ian; and five lay ,people.

The MISNA report was released at the Vatican press office Tuesday.

MISNA speculated that the massacre

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'Assumption, she was taken to San made up 20 out of the 115 people Isidrp and shot to death. The canoni- headed for the beatification. She said zation process began ii11962 an<;\ Pope it was really great to know she had so many relatives who were connected to John Paul II approved het martyrdom in the spring of 1997. , Conino wrote -to the St. .

Anne and St. Joseph Convent three years ago and mentioned ' the names of her father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

The nuns responded with let- . ters and photos of Mother .

Sagrario as a ,child, teenager and nun, glad to know she had relatives in the United States.

Conino said she felt a special . 'kinship with Mother Sagrario, who died:when Conino was 13.

When a letter from a dis-" tant relative in Madrid arrived stating the date of the beatifi- • cation, Conino and her husband, Joseph, made plans to join some ofMother Sagrario's EVE,vN MORAGAS C Spanish relatives forapilgrim. L.I onino disage to Rome. TheConinos ar- plays images of Blessed Mother rived in Madrid May 6 and Mary Sagrario at her home in New were greeted by a cousin, Orleans. Conino discovered that the Ventura Moragas. They visited martyred Spanish nun, beatifil:ld this thec~nv~nt where M.other year by Pope John Paul II . h Sagrano lived and met With the . . ,IS er superior,general of the convent COUSin twice removed. (CNS photo and the other nuns.

by Frank J. Methe, Clarion Herald) They joined the pilgrimage to Rome on May 8, which gave Conino a would-be saint. the opportunity to meet the rest of her "Everybody was so nice," !:he said. relatives, who were from Barcelona, "I could feelthe love and warmth genMadrid and the Canary Islands. They erating from them. It was a wonderful feeling, very genuine."

Mother Sagrario's descl:ndants from Madrid were seated five rows behind Vatican officials on a hot sunny morning in Rome. The Coninos were given special beatification buttons and cou'ld have been carried out by scarves to wear, prodUced specifically , R, wandan-backed Congolese rebels in for family members of the beaified.

The pope told the crow'd that retaliation for an earlier attack-on their camp.

Mother Sagrario was a Christian exThe rebels had just started the ample to other pharmacists of somefourth week of a drive to oust Congo- one who gave up everything fl)r God. lese President Laurent Kabila, whose He said in St. Anne and St. Joseph troops were being reinforced by sol- Convent, Mother Sagrario matured ,in diers from neighboring countries. faith, learning to serve and sacrifice for Pope John Paul II prayed for peace others. It was also where she mvealed in Congo during his Sunday blessing to novices that she desired martyrdom.

Aug. 23, the same day that African 'This is how in the turbulent events leaders recognizing Kabila's right to ofJuly 1936 she found the strength not retain power issued a call for a cease- to betray priests and friends ofthe comfire in the strife-torn country. munity, facing death with integrity for Pope John Paul said, "I make a her state as a Carmelite and to save heartfelt appeal to. those engaged in others," the pope said. conflict that they do not deprive ciWhen the huge banners displaying vilians oCthe necessary means of sur- the likeness of each blessed wl~re unvival and avoid atrocities and massa- veiled, Conino said the sight was speccres, looting and depredation." tacQlar,.emotions ran high and tears ran' freely. She also'found herself to be sit,JEFFREY"E. SULLIVAN ting right 'i,n line with Mother Sagrario's watchful gaze.

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