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Work changes noted WASHINGTON (NC) - U.S. labor and welfare policies and employer practices must meet the needs of the nation's changing labor force, says a Labor Day statement from the U.S. Catholic Conference in Washington.

The statement was issued by New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor, chairman of the USCC Committee on Social Development and World Peace. Labor Day is observed this year on Sept. I. Labor'Day provides an opportunity to reflect on "rapid changes in work and family life," the statement said. It noted that the current draft of the U.S. bishops' proposed pastoral letter on the economy, due to be voted on this November, offers a "comprehensive treatment" of the subject.

The statement said Catholic social teaching can contribute to the discussion about government's role in work and family. Papal encyclicals for a century have defended workers' rights and "assigned to government a positive and active role," the statement added.

It noted that in the last 25 years the economy has changed, the job market has shifted, workers have been dislocated and more women - married and unmarried - have joined the labor force to help support their families.

"The past 25 years have radically altered many basic assumptions about work and family. Men

and women can no longer assume they will have stable employment and lives," the statement said. It said rising rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births also have had an impact.

The statement said a major item on the public policy agenda today is welfare reform. Family, it said, "must be at center of this discussion."

Current policy offers little support for mothers "at the bottom of the economic scale" to stay home full time with their children, the statement said.

For example, unmarried mothers who are poor can go on welfare to stay home full time but have a low standard of living, or they can put the children in day care and take a minimum wage job that offers only a slightly better income.

The statement outlined five criteria for welfare reform that would protect human dignity: - Promotion offamily stability.

- Adequate levels of assistance.

- Opportunity for healthy child development.

- Support for eventual self-sufficiency.

- Humane administration.

The statement said there is also a need for support of families further up the income scale but who, with both parents working, have a standard of living lower than that of one-income families of the preceding generation.

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"In much work there shall be abundance." Provo 14:23 Pax Christi speakers say

Christianity betrays roots

"THE WORLD wants peace, the world needs peace," declared Pope John Paul II during his 1979 speech to the United Nations. (NCjKNA photo)

BOSTON (NC) - Since the of openly proclaiming the truth of reign of Constantine, the history God," Father Rohr continued. of Christianity has been one of "If we are to become Gospel missed opportunities and betrayal of its nonviolent roots, speakers revolutionaries, we must admit, 20 told the 13th annual assembly of years after the [Second] Vatican Pax Christi USA, the U.S. branch Council, the limits, the ambiguiof an international Catholic peace ties and, in some cases, the full sellout of the liberalism that has organization. characterized much of our church "The history of the world and, sadder still, the history of the since Vatican II," he said.

He decried what he called the church has been a history of missed opportunities," Franciscan Father "utilitarian ethic, a pragmatic world Richard Rohr, founder and pastor view," saying, "We have given ourofthe New Jerusalem Community selves to a kind of rationalism in Cincinnati, told the assembly in instead of a Gospel radicalism. I believe there is an innate inertia in Boston.

The church must become a "po- bourgeois, middle-class religion and litical alternative in every nation, it's very easy, if not natural, for the including America" and must American church to rest there."

Father Rohr added that he felt "stand apart from the lies and biases of culture," he said at the betrayed by those he said "have· not been able to make the move mid-August meeting.

"We must admit in our history beyond liberalism to Gospel radof lost opportunities ... the church icalism."

Gordon Zahn, national director has been quite anxious to protect its own privileges, its own posi- of the Pax Christi Center on Contion, its own respectability, instead science and War, told the assem-

bly that since the time of Constantine, Catholic contributions to violence have greatly outnumbered its nonviolent contributions.

Tracing the history of nonviolence, Zahn commented, is "like trying to trace the migration routes of purple unicorns."

Abandonment of the early church's commitment to nonviolence "was the first step along the path that now brought us to the point where the future existence of the world is under direct threat," he said.

"Sooner or later," according to Zahn, the church will have to decide between what he called an outmoded just war theory and the pure nonviolent tradition he said is the true origin of the church.

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. By Joseph Motta "Kaz," as he was affectionately known in and around Sandwich, has returned to Tokyo, but his new friends and host family won't soon forget him. He was both teacher and student during his recent visit to the United States.

Kazunori Koshigiri was one of 29 Japanese students who visited Sandwich from August I through 18, touring the area and studying English at the town high school.

The only Catholic in the group, Kaz was the house guest of Carol and Mike DeNofrio of East Sandwich.

Mrs. DeN ofrio is church secretary and her husband is a eucharistic minister, religious education teacher and youth group leader at Corpus Christi parish, Sand wich.

This was their seventh year hosting students; in addition to others from Japan, they have opened their home to young Mexicans.

Kaz, 21, who attended Corpus Christi services with the DeNofrios during his stay, said that.

Catholics are a tiny minority in Japan. He was impressed with the size of Corpus Christi Church and . its large number of parishioners, compared to Japanese congregations. Another surprise, he said, was that Corpus Christi offers many Masses each weekend. In his Japanese parish, only two weekend Masses are celebrated.

"The people here are very pious," he commented.

The well-spoken traveler, who began studying English in seventh grade, said that he found Sandwich very quiet.

"It's silent and a nice environment," he said, adding that he was amazed to learn that the town, dating from the 1630s, is older than the United States.

He observed that Americans, especially the young, are "very good at playing and relaxing."

Young Japanese, he said, tend to be much more serious and find it hard to enjoy themselves without pocket money. Atemporarily broke American youth, he noted, can make a simple walk around the THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-o20). Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass.

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American parents, he opined, communicate better with their children than do their Japanese counterparts (a compliment to his hosts, who have two sons, ages II and 15). Americans are more adept at conversing socially, he added, especially at meals, near-silent parts of the day for many Japanese.

"I don't think I'll ever go to Japan," said Mrs. DeNofrio, a Corpus Christi employee for the past 18 months and a teacher in the parish religious education program, so "I'm bringing a little bit of it here."

She noted that Kaz taught her family how to give thanks for their food in Japanese.

Older son Chris, a lector and altar boy at Corpus Christi, added that he's "learned a lot from Kaz about his country, a lot more than I've learned in school."

The DeNofrios took Kaz to the recent evening with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, held in Hyannis. There

he met Ann and Paul Baker of St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth, who told him of their Japanese daughter-in-law. The Bakers subsequently arranged to spend a day with Kaz. The young man noted his pleasure at meeting Bishop Cronin in Hyannis, a compliment that the bishop returned.

"It's very important for me to go to Mass," Kaz reflected. "I'm very busy every day and there's no chance to see inyself. When I go to church I can see myself just the way I am."

Corpus Christi parish is glad to have had the opportunity to let him do just that.

"We were pleased to have Kaz participate in parish activities," said Father George W. Coleman, pastor, "and we hope that he returned home with many happy memories of Sandwich."

He did. Kaz said he will always remember his opportunity of "directly experiencing living with a real American family."

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN greets children during recent pastoral visit to Christ the King parish, Cotuit/ Mashpee, as Father Ronald A. Tosti, pastor, stands by.

Father Curran on "Meet the Press" WASHINGTON (NC) - Moral theologian Father Charles E. Curran and an American archbishop at the· Vatican agreed Aug. 24 that the Vatican letter disciplining Father Curran seeks to bar him from teaching theology at any Catholic institution.

Father Curran, a professor at the Catholic University of America, and Archbishop John P. Foley, American-born president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, appeared together on NBC's "Meet the Press." They discussed the Holy See's decision, announced Aug. 18, that Father Curran's positions of dissent from church teachings make him "not suitable nor eligible to teach Catholic theology."

"The statement, as I read it... says that I cannot exercise the function of a p'rofessor of Catholic theology anywhere in a Catholic institution," Fathe'r Curran said.

"That would be my understanding, too," Archbishop Foley said.

"The point would seem to be that if there is an objection to the moral teaching which Father Curran would proclaim, toen that same objection would exist at any institution at which he would teach."

That issue was one of the few points of agreement between the two during the half-hour program.

Father Curran recalled that American Jesuit theologian Father John Courtney Murray had been silenced in the 1950s because of his dissenting views on religious liberty but was·vindicated in the '60s when the Second Vatican Council adopted his position as official church teaching.

He also cited as another example of church teaching which subsequently changed because of dissent an 1886 instruction from the Holy Office, the predecessor to today's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which said that slavery is not always wrong.

Archbishop Foley, aformer Catholic newspaper editor and seminary ethics professor in Philadelphia, said those issues were different from Father Curran's dissent on divorce, fornication and homosexual activity.

Church teachings on divorce, fornication and homosexual activity are based on "clear indications" in Scripture "which the church has a right and obligation to defend and which pertain to the core of Christian life," he said.

Father Curran noted that Scripture was also cited as a basis for allowing slavery, and he asked if those who dissented from the 1866 Vatican instruction on slavery were "causing confusion, or were they teaching the truth?"

The theologian also argued that the points on which he dissents are not on the clear, general Christian principles, but on complex, specific situations," matters that are very far removed from the foundations of the faith."

Archbishop Foley said that when Father Curran led public theological dissent from the church teaching condemning artificial birth control in 1968, "I had hoped that some definite action would be taken at that time regarding those who publicly dissented."

He said when the church permits public dissent on artifical contraception. "then individuals feel justified in doing in action what other individuals are free to teach....

Sister Maureen Hanley Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided and longtime friend Msgr.

Daniel F. Shalloo was principal celebrant and homilist at Wednesday's funeral Mass of Sister Maureen Hanley, RSM, 78, who died unexpectedly last Sunday.

The Mass was offered at St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, where Sister Maureen grew up as one of . eight children.

She was the founder and first principal of the former Nazareth Hall School for exceptional children in Fall River and she trained personnel for the Nazareth schools formerly in Hyannis and Attleboro.

Her influence on the Nazareth children was summed up by her first pupil, Michael Cadieux, who declared at her retirement testimonial in 1976; "She is·a very nice' woman and we all do· love her."

Her own comment was; "These children are my key to heaven."

The daughter of the late Daniel and Mary (O'Melia) Hanley, she entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1928, teaching at schools in Fall River, New Bedford and Attleboro and also supervising music in Fall River schools. She held a master's degree in special education and was a certified music supervisor and a registered school psychologist.

Angels emphasize Christ's importance VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II said that while modern culture does not give much thought to angels, they serve to emphasize the importan~e of Chii~t and his role in salvation.

The papal comments were made recently at one of the pope's regular audiences, held in the Paul VI hall.

Christ is the center of revelation, he said. But by focusing on angels the church insists "on both the bodily and the spiritual existence of Ch'rist and on his efficacious role in the work ofsalvation."

This saving work involves "a whole community of personal spiritual beings involved in the salvation of humanity, the church believes it "renders a great service to humanity," he said.

The pope noted also that Scripture not only names certain angels - such as Michael, Gabriel and Raphael - but also assigns them levels and groupings, such as thrones, dominions and principalities.

Such groupings suggest an angelic society in which angels . "are divided in order and grades corresponding to the degree of their perfection" and their differing tasks, he added.

"I would think if one could justify that, there would be the possibility of justifying all manner of other types ofsexual activity, including sexual aberrations," Archbishop Foley said. "And I think there is a gradual erosion of sexual morality."

If theologians can teach that people are not necessarily bound by church teaching, he said, "then you cast confusion...and you have a situation in which individuals have been led to believe that they can ignore the official teaching of the church with impunity, with moral impunity. And I think this has tremendous implications."

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In State House ceremonies last December she was named a Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Massachusetts Association for Retarded Citizens.

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Affectionately known to Feehanites as "Vinnie," Fagone, a mathematics, religion and computer science teacher and hockey coach, was the husband of Rita (Turcotte) Fagone.

Formerly a Sacred Heart Brother, he taught in several New England states and for seven years in the former African nation of Rhodesia, now divided into Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Donations in his memory may be made to the .Bishop Feehan High School Hockey Scholarship Fund.

Sister Pratt The Mass of Christian Burial was offered Tuesday at Holy Family Church, Woonsocket, R.I., for Sister Mary Narcisse Pratt, RJM, 90, who died Saturday. .

A native of Woonsocket, she was the daughter of the late Narcisse and Marie (Labonte) Pratt.

She entered the Religious of JesusMary order in 1923 and was an educator at schools in the Providence and Fall River dioceses for most of her active religious life.

She is survived by two sisters, Alice M. Parent and Evelyn P. Curley-Kimsey, and a brother, WaIter Pratt, all of Rhode Island.

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the mooril19-Women in the Workplace In the last 25 years, the labor market has undergone perhaps its most radical change in our lifetime, due not to the decline and ineffectiveness of the labor union movement, but rather the result of changing social patterns.

In fact, one of the basic reasons for the lack of credibility that is a hallmark of today's marketplace is that so many well-heeled union leaders, ignoring the social mores, have continued lining their own pockets, in some instances by fraudulent and foul means.

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The history of the Teamsters' leadership provides a stark reminder of how so many in the union movement have ignored ethical responsibilities and moral mandates. Concerned for their own survival, they have forgotten that of their members.

Labor Day provides the opportunity to reflect on the current situation of work and workers in our land. It is a day that should remind us ofthe Church's role in striving for social and economic justice in the light of contemporary life.

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What many fail to recognize or accept is that much in the workplace is in a state offlux. Too many workers do not enjoy job stability. Plant closings, international marketing practices and farm foreclosures are but a few of the difficulties that have caused over II million Americans to seek new jobs.

The uncertainty of the times has also forced more and more mothers into the work force, not just to keep up with the J onese!;, but to survive. Women abandoned by their husbands form a growing number of single-parent families, while nofault divorce laws, rising divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births have also swelled the number of women who are their family's sole breadwinner.

In many cases these women are at the lower end of the salary scale, their need exploited and abused.

Because they are forced to work long and demanding hours, their children are relegated to day care l;enters, many of questionable quality.

In this area alone, much must be done. To date, our social institutions have responded poorly to this growing national disgrace. Public policies seem geared to cut back on everything except the billions wasted in fraudulent military deals. The mentality which dominates the work force seems to have been carved in stone at the time when fathers were for the most part the sole family support. Today, although three-fifths of all mothers are working, women receive very little attention, either from those who legislate public policy or those who provide union protection.

But as more and more mothers enter the work force, as more and more children become victims of inadequate care, the responsibility of providing suitable care and support becomes more and more imperative.

Many issues face working Americans this Labor Day. Illegal immigration and denial of basic human rights are but a few areas still to be faced. However, it is more than imperative that, at this particular time in the history of the la!>or movement, we call special attention to the women in the workplace, to their needs and their plight.

If we are dedicated to the support oflife, we must promote all efforts to improve family life. The whole of our social order depends on healthy families, a concept as yet not fully understood by far too many leaders in labor and industry.

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"Hear instruction and be wise and refuse it not." Provo 8:33

Understanding God

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Trying to understand God is like trying to put the ocean in a thimble. He is simply too vast, too deep, too big, too everything for us to comprehend.

Unfortunately, however, too many people presume to understand God's will. Even insurance companies protect themselves against possible casualty claims by the loss category known as acts of God! But how then can we account for bad things happening to good people? If I had an answer to that question, I would be guilty of trying to put an ocean into a thimble!

Jesus, however, dealt with the problem in the cases of a tower in Siloam that collapsed, killing 18 innocent people, and a man born blind.

Denying that either situation, was a deliberate punishment aimed at particular people, he made it clear that those involved were victims of chance, not divine providence.

It would be wrong, of course, to conclude that God has no concern" with the details of his creation.

Who could forget those poetic words of Jesus recorded in the Sermon on the Mount:" Are not sparrows two a penny? Yet without your Father's leave not one of them can fall to the ground. As for you, even the hairs of your head have been counted."

And Jesus echoes Ecclesiastes when he speaks of his heavenly

Father making the sun that shines on the good and bad alike and the rain that falls on the honest and dishonest. The two sides are not so inconsistent as they may seem.

The message seems to be that although God is concerned about everything that happens (for example, the death of a sparrow), not all happenings are his deliberate acts though all provide opportunities for revealing his real nature.

There are, in short, forces at work which thwart God's purpose.

Whether we attribute these forces to Satan or to nature, it should be clear that suffering and disaster should not be readily identified as God's will.

In the case of the falling tower, Jesus points out that everyone is liable to such happenings and it

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September 1 Rev. Jorge de J. Sousa, Pastor, 1985, St. Elizabeth, Fall River September 3 Rev. Thomas J. McGee, D.D., Pastor, 1912, Sacred Heart, Taunton . September 4 Rev. Joseph P. Tallon, Pastor, 1864, St. Mary, New Bedford Rev. John J. Maguire, F9under, 1894, St. Peter, Provincetown September 5 Rev. Napoleon A. Messier, Pastor, 1948, St. Mathieu, Fall River

should have the effect of moving people to repentance. In the case ofthe man born blind, Jesus points out to the Jews that his heavenly Father is not a vengefui God prone to punish sinners but one who restores sight to the blind.

The world into which Jesus was born was subject, as it still is, to suffering, disaster and misfortunes of. all kinds. While some tragic events can be attributed to Satan's influence upon man's free will (for example, the Holocaust), there still is a residuum of misfortunes which are part of the very nature of things. It is not easy to attribute earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, inclement weather and medical problems to either God or Satan.

It seems more reasonable to suppose that a world with all the properties necessary to fulfill God's manifold purposes could not avoid being one in which accidents happen. One ofthe purposes ofthe Incarnation would then have been' to demonstrate the difference between God's true nature and the accidental and harmful accompaniments of creation. This Jesus did by healing the sick, feeding the hungry and, supremely, by suffering crucifixion and rising again.

It is safe to presume that our minds are too small to comprehend all God's purposes. More than anyone, Jesus opened our minds to the true nature of God. What our Lord assures us is that what ultimately counts (our redemption) is not subject to the changes and chances of this fleeting world.

On Aug. 4 the Taunton Daily Gazette carried an interview with Mrs. Carol Doherty, d-irector of the Campaign for Choice of the Coalition for Choice. The coalition, numbering 55 groups, including the United Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church, the Massachusetts League of Women Voters and the Boston YWCA, was organized in 1983. Its Campaign for Choice opposes the so-called Uantichoice amendment" which will be the subject of a referenpum question on November's ballot. In the Gazette interview'Mrs. Doherty, a Catholic, says she sees Uthis issue in Massachusetts as a part of a nationwide effort by the anti-abortionists to make [abortion] illegal once again." Her arguments in favor of reproductive freedom for women have been refuted by Msgr.

Robert L. Stanton, pastor of St. Paul's parish, Taunton, who for 14 years taught medical ethics at the former St. Anne's Hospital School of Nursing in Fall River, and was chaplain of the Fall River Council of Catholic Nurses. A condensation of his statement follows.

ON THE SURFACE this is a tence the fetus is human. In 1961 political issue between two diver- the late Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, a gent points of view: pro-choice vs. well-known obstetrician and birth pro-life. However, this crisis in control authority and longtime America is only secondarily politi- president of the Planned Parentcal. It is primarily a moral ques- hood Federation of America, wrote tion which asks: "Can our repub- of the union of sperm and egg in lic, our democracy continue as it conception: "Fertilization then has has been when the conditions for taken place; a baby has been its existence and the thinking conceived. " behind it are being altered?"

It is true in medicine as it is in The abortion controversy is a law. The fetus is living, it responds volatile, emotional and traumatic to stimuli. After 21 days the unborn tragedy that Americans must con- child's heart begins to beat, a brain front and resolve now. wave can be detected at 43 days.

When the Supreme Court handed down its companion decisions, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton on Jan. 22, 1973, it arbitrarily declared (in Bolton) that until the day of birth the unborn child. is not protected under constitutuional law, that it is 'not a person before that "No provision of the Constitime. In so doing, th~ Court viotution shallprevent the General lated the historical precedent of Court from regulating or prothis nation and ignored the biologhibiting abortion unless prohiical factors governing conception, bitedby the United States Congestation and birth. stitution, nor shallanyprovision Today, over 6,000 days and 20 orthe Constitution require pubmillion lives later, abortion on lic or private funding of abordemand has buried a nation of tion, or the provision of servichildren equal to four-fifths the ces orfacilities therefor, beyond present population of Canada. Last that required by the United year alone, 1,600,000 U.S. babies States Constitution. The proviwere aborted, more than the numsion of this article shall not ber of Americans killed in battle apply to abortions required to from Concord and Lexington to prevent the death ofthe mother."

Vietnam.

In 1983 Massachusetts spent $1,407,000 in tax money to fund The fetus can experience pain from 8,546 welfare abortions alone. the eighth week. At three months There are over 40,000 abortions -all organ systems are present and annually in our state. In 1985 we functioning. The baby sleeps, had the 8th highest abortion rate wakes, tastes, hears, and continues and 48th lowest birthrate in the to grow until birth. country.

Many Failures Abortion is not a "single issue."

When the Supreme Court legalThe right to life is a first principle, ized abortion, it failed sociologia self-evident truth defined by cally, striking at the heart of AmerAmerica's founders. It makes us ican society's traditional reverence unique among nations. But aborfor life. It failed medically by puttion, like slavery, allows equals to ting the medical profession at war rule equals, depriving the child in with itself. While some physicians the womb not only of the right to consider the fetus to be a patient, liberty but the right to life itself. others work to perfect abortion The inferences are staggering. procedures.

Once we subscribe to the theory The decision also gave rise to that the right to life can be denied the "wrongful life" theory of legal the unborn it follows logically that action. the right can be withdrawn at any time after birth if the quality of life Roe v. Wade is a legal failure, has seemingly deteriorated physioccasioning the nearly universal cally, mentally, or emotionally. scorn of constitutional scholars, The Court gave legitimacy to that who agreed the decision had no precedent from the framers of the concept in 1973 by stating that Fourteenth Amendment invoked babies before birth are not persons by the court to justify its decision. because they are not capable of The amendment states: "no state "meaningful life. "The assumption shall deny any person within its is that what was yesterday an object is suddenly, on the day of jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." birth, a person.

Roe v. Wade is a political failure The Court could not have been unaware that the male and female because it struck down the abortion laws of 50 states' requiring of a species can conceive and rethem to allow abortion even after produce only their own kind. Thus, the fetus can live outside the womb. from the first moment of its exis-

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In Bolton, the court defined danger to maternal health so broadly as to include the danger to emotional well-being. Consequently a child can be aborted at any time before birth.

It is well to consider the precise definition of abortion; "the intentional expulsion of a nonviable fetus from the maternal womb."

Viability is generally believed to occur at 28 weeks of pregnancy.

Some assert it can be at 24 weeks.

Morally, abortion is homicide.

Homicide is defined as "the killing of one human being by another."

The fetus is human.

Pro-choice people hold that a woman has the right to autonomy over her body and that abortion is a medical decision based on a clinical judgment best made by a woman and her physician. But the fetus is a separate entity. The unborn child is not a permanent part of the expectant mother's anatomy: it is another person. Thus abortion does not just terminate a pregnancy; it destroys a human being. To destroy the innocent is a direct violation of the natural law.

Some say, "I would never think it right for me to have an abortion, but I couldn't make a moraljudgment about someone else who decides to have one."

This is moral double-talk. It would make equal sense to say: "child abuse would be immoral for me, but I can't draw a moral conclusion for others."

Surprisingly unreferred to by Mrs. Doherty was the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the most powerful arm of the pro-abortion effort in the United States and the rest of the world. Its dispensing of birth control devices and abortifacients in Third World nations has been generously funded by our federal government for a considerable路time. In 1968 PPFA, reversing its longstanding policy, endorsed abortion as a family planning measure and called for repeal of existing laws.

Inaccurate Assertion The assertion that 80 percent of the citizens of Massachusetts, whom Mrs. Doherty describes as the silent majority, are pro-choice is not accurate. Selective polling has long been a common political ploy. A case in point: in 1936 a national pollster convinced governor Alf Landon of Kansas that if he accepted the Republican nomination for the presidency he might win. Landon got the electoral votes of two states, Maine and Vermont.

The data acquired were not valid.

In our time a computer polling system is just as good as the data we feed it. Also, since the coalition ,considers it necessary to wage a

statewide campaign to defeat the proposed referendum, we must conclude that the pro-choice people are neither silent nor a majority.

Pro-abortion people insist their final solution of the unwanted babies problem will in the long run benefit the nation by enhancing the quality of life, by improving the economy and by eliminating poverty. We do not agree, because you cannot thwart nature and escape unscathed. Even now ominous signs are beginning to point in the opposite direction.

We Americans take pride in our practical approach to difficulties and our ability to overcome them.

However, the economic pyramid is becoming inverted. The base is

becoming smaller and the peak larger.

Today in 1986 the average age of an American citizen is 31.2 yrs.

At the present rate, by the year 2000, it will be 36.3 yrs. By 2025 it will be 40 yrs. We are becoming a nation of older people.

Our Gross National Product (the market value of all our nation's goods and servi拢es before any deductions or allowances are made) in the past 10 years has had the slowest real growth rate since the great depression of the 1930s. The Social Security program so vital to the retired was voted into law in 1935 upon the premise that the GNP would expand for centuries Turn to Page Six

THIS ABORTED 9-week fetus, smaller than the man's thumb it appears to cling to, is clearly recognizable as a human being. (NC photo)

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Aug. 29, 1986

Bishops allege priest tortured

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PRETORIA, South Africa(NC) - The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference has filed an urgent application to the Pretoria Supreme Court to restrain South African police from assaulting its imprisoned secretary general, Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa.

In an affidavit to the Supreme Court, Father Mkhatshwa's secretary, Dominican Sister Celia Smit, said that during an Aug. 21 visit the priest told her that two men dressed in track suits had approached his cell, blindfolded him and taken him to an unknown destination, where he had been forced to remain standing for 20 hours, still blindfolded. .

Sister Smit said when she visited Father Mkhatshwa, "he was experiencing difficulty in standing up straight and walking. He had a stick in one of his hands and was using it to assist him in staying on his feet."

Father Mkhatshwa has been in detention since the beginning of South Africa's state of emergency June 12.

In the Aug. 22 application, the bishops' conference requested that the priest be allowed visits from his lawyer and personal physician, which were later granted. .

"There is no doubt in my mind that he has been tortured," said the priest's lawyer, Brian Currin, after visiting him Aug. 22.

Father Mkhatshwaalso was examined by his doctor.

Currin took an affidavit from Father Mkhatshwa Aug. 22 and said details of additional torture would be presented to the Pretoria Supreme Court.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The House of Representatives has ordered the Pentagon to study reasons for a shortage of military chaplains in some faiths and what to do about it.

1n an amendment added to a bill authorizing programs for the Defense Department for fiscal 1987, the House cited an "imbalance" in the chaplain corps. Critics in particular have alleged a shortage of Catholic, Jewish and Orthodox FATHER Maurice T. Lebel, . chaplains in the armed forces.

The bill, with the chaplains' SJ, who has served in the Fall amendment, passed the House Aug. River diocese as rector of the 15, but must be approved by the Jesuit community at Bishop Senate and signed into law by the Connolly High School, Fall president before taking effect.

"While recognizing that much River, and for the past 10 of this faith imbalance may be years within the diocesan Deattributable to an overall shortage partment of Social Services, of clergy in the United States among has been appointed by his religious faiths that are underrepprovincial superior and Bishop resented among military chaplains, Congress finds that the Edward C. O'Leary of PortDepartment of Defense has not land as pastor of St. John's taken sufficient steps to alleviate parish, Bangor, Maine, it has the existing faith imbalance," the been announced by Father amendment stated.

Peter N. Graziano, diocesan Proposed by Rep. Robert Borski, D-Pa., the amendment calls on director of Catholic Social Secretary of Defense Caspar WeinServices. Father Lebel will berger to "carry out a complete also be religious superior for study of the causes and condiJesuits serving in northern tions" of the chaplains' shortage Maine. and report "recommendations on how to alleviate the existing faith In the social services departimbalances. " ment, Father Lebel has counThe Defense Department would seled as well as supervising have four months after the legislathe department counseling tion is signed to conduct the study program. He also established and report on its findings and recommendations. and became the first director No funding for the study is proof the Catholic Social Servvided in the amendment. ices office in Attleboro.

"We need to act now to eliminate shortages of clergy within the military c.haplaincy corps," Borski Continued from Page One told his coIleagues. "I believe that Some employers provide child the men and women who are decare, paid and unpaid pregnancy voting their lives to defend our and family leave and flexible hours, Continued from Page Five country deserve to have their re,1ibut in the absence of such voluntary action, the government has "a to come. A constant loss of popu- gious and spiritual needs served by a chaplain of their faith." role in safeguarding the well-being lation will gravely inhibit that The congressman blamed the of young children and supporting growth and could be devastating to future retirees. shortage, in part, on military "up family life," the statement said.

In 1935 there were 16 workers to or out" policies which demand The Labor Day statement has been issued annually since the I retiree. In 1960 the ratio was 8 to officers be promoted in rank within 1950s. For years it was written by I. In 1984 it was 2V2 to I. At the a certain period of time or be Msgr. George G. Higgins, long- present abortion rate, when our discharged.

Attempts to make the Pentagon time USCC staff official and labor 1986 high school graduates retire activist whose last statement was we will have legally annihilated address the chaplains' issue have issued in 1980 before his retire- 90.8 million unborn Americans drawn contrasting responses from ment. Since then the statement has since 1973. This is a holocaust Catholic groups. three and one half times the curA former military chaplain, Salbeen issued by the USCe. rent population of Canada, almost vatorian Father Joseph Turner, twice that of France and 36 per- has staunchly supported initiatives cent of the present population of to make the Defense Department the Soviet Union - 90.8 million find more Catholic, Jewish and pen~ons who wiIl never have a Continued from Page One Orthodox chaplains. Father Turner violence conformable to the teach- thought, hear a sound, utter a has maintained that current poliing and mission of the church as word, buy one item of consumer cies are "attacking freedom of relithe mystical body of Christ?" Zahn goods or require a service of any gion" in the military. . kind.

But officials of the Catholic War said.

He complimented the U.S. bishWill the quality of life advocates Veterans ofthe United States have ops on their 1983 pastoral letter on of the future be content merely to opposed such efforts, stating that war and peace, calling it a "truly decide which of the unborn or some critics ofthe system are "disradical advance in church teaching. newly born qualify to live? What gruntled" chaplains who failed to Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gum- about those maimed in war or make the grade and were dismissed.

The Pentagon argues that chapbleton of Detroit, president of Pax accidents? What about those who Christi USA, presented the Pope become mentally erratic or physi- lains must meet the same stanPaul VI Teacher of Peace Award cally immobilized by disease to dards as other officers. to Hildegard and Jean Goss-Mayr, which each of us is heir: old age.

European peace activists who have Will they be expendable? The worked extensively in Asia and quality of life is not the issue. The New Advisory Council members Africa. nature oflife is. It is sacred because at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, it has its source in God. are Manuel Cordeiro, general plant po we not say tjlat we are a manager at Louis Hand Mfg. Co.; Sowing nation under God? However, the Father John J. Oliveira, parochial "Sow a thought and you reap an day could come when the right to vicar at St. Michael's Church, Fall act; sow an act and you reap a be born, the right to continue liv- River, and chairman of the hospihabit; sow a habit and you reap a ing or the sentence of termination tal's Portuguese Task Force; and character; sow a character and you of life will be determined by a con- Gerry Bedrick, president ofIndusreap a destiny." -=- Anonymous sp.n"m; oninion of one'~ peers. trial Distributing Supplies.

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everything we cDuld to help and John worked rulltime summers and parttime during school years.

Today John is director of pupil personnel services and director of special education for the Marshfield scl!ool syscem.

From Maryknoll Dear Editor: Your wonderful gift of the Aug. I Anchor has arrived and I have shared it with many here at Mary~ knoll. All are delighted. especially with the beautiful article on Mary~ knoll. May God bless you! The "Glorious"articleon Maryknoll is enjoyed by all.

Sister Louise Galligan Maryknoll, N.Y.

New Bedford when my son, John H. Braithwaite, went there, graduating in 1953. She gave my husband, son and me a lot of encouragement for JDhn to go to Bridgewater State CDllege. We could not afford it, so she advised me to see Msgr. McKeon.

I did and he helped John through the four years. Of course we did

The year after John finished at Bridgewater he went to St. Lawrence Ret:tory but Msgr. McKeon had died. So he told the pastor he wanted to pay bat:k what Msgr.

McKeon had given him. The pastor didn't know a -thing about it, said there was no fund or anything like it that he knew of, nothing!

So John left a check with the pastor and asked him to give it to a student whD could not afford to go to college. just as Msgr. McKeon

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had helped him. This could not have happened without Sister Virginia's help, advice and ent:ouragement.

I kept in touch with 'Sister Vir~ ginia all through the years and I let John know of her death. He has eight wonderful children, all going or have gDne to universities and college. God bless Sister Virginia.

God bless Msgr. McKeon.

Mrs. Cecilia Braithwaite New Bedford

A thankyou Dear Editor: Sister Marie Leobin BeiIlevaire, S8.Ce., unable to thank, by lack

Fri., Aug. 29, 1986

of proper addresses, some of her friends, former graduates and others, who contributed so much to make her Diamond Jubilee a wellremembered ceIebratiDn, w1shes to extend tothem through the Anchor her warmest appreciation, tDscther with the assurance of her grateful prayers.

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Dear Editor: Greetings froIll us at Maryknoll here in Chestnut Hill. 1 write to send our heiirtfelt thanks for your recent most thorough coverage of the Maryknoll 75th. anniversary in your diocesan paper.

In OUf eyes YOUT coverage was most comprehensive and l must admit most indebtedly tnat I think it is the finest coverage ettat l have seen of Maryknoll in any diocesan newspaper to date and appreciate not only the coverage in the three pages given to Mafyknoll and aUf various Maryknollenl from the diocese of Fall River. but as well, the thoughtful and very thought provoking editorial with regard to Maryknoll and our 75th anniversary and what it means.

So again I would simply like to briefly thank you and your staff for going to this effort so as to celebrate our 75th anniversary with us and of including the stories of all the Maryknollers from the Fall River diocese who have been numerous and noteworthy.

Donald L. Allen, M.M. Regional Director

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Dear Editor: I just wanted to send you a note to thank you for the coverage of Maryknoll in your Aug. I issue. I appreciated your insights in the editorial and hope that our present and future VOision can continue to be faithful to the Gospel as we dis~ cover its meaning in the poor and insignificant of the world among whom we are privileged to work.

Sometimes the significance of the Lord's message leaves all of us scratching our collective heads and wondering because the world of the poor and powerless is so different than that of our own country and culture. It always calls us back toa focus like today's Gospel reading at Mass - "Unless you become like little children." Hopefully our Maryknoll vision that looks toward the future will be marked not so much by wisdom as by the faith ofthe men and women who make up Maryknoll.

Apin. many thanks for your coverage.

Rev. Bernard P. Byrne, M.M. Rector, Marykno.1l Seminary

Tribute to Sister Virginia Dear Editor: I've been looking in The Anchor every week for a kind word about Sister M. Virginia Quinlan who died July 16at Mt. St. Rita Health Center. (Her obituary was in The Anchor for JUly 18. Editor.)

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Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Aug. 29, 1936

Joyful centennial By ral MeGo"•• and Josepb Motta"

PRECEDING lhe official centennial celebration was a reunion (top picture) of alumnae, faculty and friends of Fan River's former Sacred Hearts Academy. From left, Margaret Croft Leger, '48; Sister Eleanor McNally, 'SO; Sister John Elizabelh Creamer, '17; Catherine Cote Ouellette, '52; below left, Nancy Stiles and Sisler Barbara Walsh at covenant service~ at their right Sisters Carol Regan and Ann Kernan af~er service' sisters outside Sacred Heart Church before centenmal Mass; ~rocession within church, (Torchia and Motta photos)

In four joyful days from Aug. 16 through 19, the Rdigious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts celebrated the 100th anniversary of their arrival in Sacred Heart parish, Fall River, to carry out their founder'sdying directive: "Go to America."

In following the mandate of Father John Baptist Debrabant of DouaL France, the Holy Union Sisters have established themselves in five U.S. archdioceses and eight dioceses, with 165 members in the, Immaculate Heart province headquartered in Fan River and 112 in the Sacred Heart province, with,ics offices in Groton.

All came together Aug. 16 to 19, first for a day of affectionate reminiscences at Bishop Connolly Higb School, followed by an all-day picnic for family, friends and former community members Aug. 17 at the community's spectacular summer home at Nanaquakett, Tiverton.

There laughter and tears mingled as reunion afler reunion took place with fo,rmer teachers such as Sister Dorothy Therese, SO, who remembers every student she ever had in 43 years of teaching.

"1 pray for all my pupils and their families every day between the two consecrations at Mass," she confided.

Aug. IS brou8htafuture~rient· ed meeting in Groton and Aug. 19 climaxed the centennialobservance with a convenant service at St. Michaers Church, PaU River, at which Sister Ann Kernan was,installed as head of the Immaculate Hearl province, replacing Sister Carol A. Regan. It was followed by a Mass of thanksgiving for both provinces at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, where the Holy Union presence in North America began.

At the covenant ceremony at St. Michael's, Sister Ignatius Loyola Barry. Holy UnionSuperiorgenerai, reading from the community's Constitutions, described the role of a provincial: "Through leadership to encourage and challeng.e, she inspires the sisters to grow In faith and develop their gifts for the service of others," "I ask the Lord to be very present within us and among us," Sister Kernan said aftertheinstaJlation.

"I willingly accept the challenge," she said, to the applause of her fellow sisters.

Calling her council to St. Michael's altar, she reflected that the order is "blessed with many gifted women."

All present joined in prayer for the new leaden.

Thanksgiving Mass "We celebrate in this liturgy of thanbgiving the gift that is Holy Union:' said Sister Rita Beaudoin, Sacred Heart province provincial, during her address of welcome at the afternoon Mass.

For the occasion, Sacred Heart Church was crowded with friends, former pupils and relatives of the sisters, while dotens of priests asso-ciated with the community cancelebrated tbe liturgy with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

Designated concelebrants were Providence Bishop Louis E. Gelineau, Rev. Edward J. Byington, Sacred Heart pastor, and Very Rev. Barry W, Wall, immediate past pastor of Sacred Heart, now

Centennial homily of Bishop Cronin

rector and pastor of St. Mary's

Fr(Jm that day in 1886 whmthe .first Sisters of the Holy Union arrived in Fall River to accepJ the invitation ofthe pastor afthis par· ish, Father MaT/hias McCabe, 10 slaff parish 'classes, until today, 100 years laler, whm we gather in this same Sacred Heart parish to celebraff' the cemenary ofthe Sislers in Ihe United States. the open· ing words ofourlirH readingjrom LamentQ/ions have been'true: "The Lord:~ unfailing love and mercy still continue. fresh as the morning, as Jure a.l· the sunrise. The Lord is all I have, and so in him, I pw my hope. .. (Lorn. 3:22-15)

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Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Vicar Episcopal, was master of ceremonies, and Rev. Mr. Gerard Gagne of the archdiocese of Boston was deacon" In his homily, Bilhop Daniel A. Cronin spoke of "how much we owe to the graces the Lord has allowed to work in the sisters Ilnd their apostolates." The full text of ,'his remarks appears on page 9.

Bishop Gelineau said that the Holy Union Sisters are "a source of great strength for me and forth.e people of the diocese of ProvIdence."

After communion, Sister Carol Regan reflected upon the order'~ experiences, calling its memben. "daughters of the universal Church, a church of renewal."

She compared today's nun with the Holy Union sister of yester~ year, "an age when wc left the communion rail with our faces veiled.

"Times of change and renewal are ble~sed," she lold her listeners, "as are times of beginning."

"Do not look for any other model of Christ," Sister Ignatius said to the sisters. "Take time to contemplate him in order IQreally know him. Let your lives be totally given to that of Christ.

"Receive all he sends to you with hope and hospitality," she continued. "Make the love of Christ your own. Don't hesitate to go anywhere he leads you. Don't look back, but look forward with eagerness to what lies ahead."

I greet and welcome Bishop Louis E. Gelineau. the bishop of Providenff.', the priests and religious here present, in particular the supe/"ior general of the Holy Union Sisters. the provincials of the Fall River and Groton pr{winces and all the Holy Union Sisters together with Iheir mttny alumni and alum· nae, relatives, benejactors and friendsassembledfor this .....onder· fuloccasion.

We give thanks for these 100 rears in lhe manner the Lord ha~' provided/or us. With deep .failII, we celebrate the Eucharist. "Like the first Chrisrians. one in heart and JOul. we droll' vitaliry from our sharin:< o.fChrisT ill/he Eucharist. "(Consritutions #7)

Sister Kernan Baltimore native Sister Ann Kernan has been elected to a fiveyear term as superior of the Immaculate Heart province of the Holy Union Sisters. Another family member, Sister Margaret Kernan, is provincial vocation minister. .

Sister Ann Kernan succeeds SISter Carol Regan, who will enter a joint degree program at Washington Theological Union and Loyola University, Baltimore.

Sister Kernan entered the community in 1955 and has been a provincial' councilor for the past five years. She holds a bachelor's degree from Sacred Hearts Col· lege and a master's degree in ele· mentarv education from Bridgewater S'cate College.

She has taught in Fall River and Tiverton and at schools in New Jersey, North Carolina and Maryland.

For the past 10 years she has been administrator at a Baltimore child care center.

As provincial she will visit local communities of the Immaculate Hearl province from Massachusetts to Florida aud -will attend meetings in the 12 dioceses members serve as well as regional and inlernational meetings in Europe, Latin America and Africa.

Assisting Sister Kernan as.provincial councilors Will be SIsters Helen Carpinelli, Margaret Don· nelly. Patricia Heath and Jeanne Stegmann, Sister Carpinelli is a pastoral associate at a Baltimore parish; Sister Donnelly is a chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, ~New Bedford; Sister Heath will take up duties next monch as assistant to Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop William Newman; and Sister Stegmann is principal of Immaculate Conception School, Astoria. New York.,

AT HOLY UNION CENTENNIAL MASS, from left, Sister Ignatius Loyola Barry, superior general; Bishop Gelineau; Bishop Cronin; new Immaculate Heart provincial superior Sister Ann Kernan. (Motta photo)

SISTER ANN KERNAN, center, with councilors, from left, Sisters Margaret Donnelly, Helen Carpinelli. Patricia Heath, Jeanne Stegmann, (Molta photo)

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It falls 10 me. as Bishop of Fall River. in rhis rhe centenary year of the Holy Union Sisters in the Uniled Stales, ro have the happy privi. lege of congratulating you. my dear sisters. on "this auspicious anniversary and to convey on my own behalf and on behalf of the many beneficiaries of your dedi· cated labors the sentiments o.four heartfell gratilllde. ThrOl£gh you.

Christian education, inpartimlar. and many other apostolic endeavors have brought abOUT marvelous accomplishmenrs for Chrisl and his Church. Think of the Thousands upon thousands who have heard the Word of God through you, who have ~ome to km.J ....'

Jesus Chris/through t'OU and who have grown in rhe love oj Christ because of you. }'ou have strivrn to/ulfill your mission "principally through Christian educatioll in all its forms. .. (Constilutions #5) We are here todar TO commem· orate with gratitude to God and appreciation to you sisters /00 )'ears of apostolic labors in the United'States. It has not always" been wirhout difficulty, Indeed. the history_of your congN'gatiolJ shows thm both in Europe from the founding years o/1li through lhe rears in America. the sisters have had to go forward in faith. not always knowingfully whal the Lord required ofthem. But just os yourfounder. Fother John Baptist Debrabant, was convinced that lhe Spirit was at work when in spill' ofdifficulties hefOlmdJ.>d the Congregation of the Holy Union. so you have walked forward in jaith and hope.

I think it is fair to soy thai God has blessed your apostolates and religious lije bel;ause you have understood instinctively what your founder meant by 1M name Holy Union. Lislen to the words of the Circular of /842.You have received that name only that you may form 01/ together a union of heart. mind. and affection in Jesus

and Mary and so that you may strive to imitate their union fPId their virtues espe· cially obedience, charity, .'Ii· lenct' ond simplicity.

No wonder your Congregation has been able /0 accomplish much!

The second reading today was an excerptjrorn the book ofRevelation - Chapter 21, thefirstfour verses. "Now God's home is wilh mankind! He will live with them. and Ihey shall be his people. God himself will be with them and he will be their God. He will wipe away all tears from Iheir eyes.

Tht're ..... iII be no more dealh, no more grief or crying or poin. The old things have disappeared."

We all realize that we yearnjor salvation. Total release jrom the distractions and anxieties of this world romes only in Ihe next life.

But it is a comfort to know Ihat Jesus Christ has redeemed 145. Sin and death n(J longer have any hold on us. We are God's people. he is our God. The rll'W people of God is what we are - Ihe Chunh, A little further. verse five of thaI same "passage/rom Revelation says this: "Then Ihe one who siu on the Throne of God said: And now, I make all things new. ,.

'Medira/inf;! on thor phrase, I recalleda passage/t:om the Decree on the Renewal of Religious Life - Per/ectal' Caritatis ofthe Second Vatican Council: "Before all else. religious life is ordered to the jol· lowing of Christ by its members and to lheir becoming Wlited with God by [he profession ofthe evangelical cOllnsels. For this reason, it must be seriously and carefully considered that even the best-contrived adaptations to the needs of the times will be ofno avail unless thev are animated by a spirifual re';ewal. which must always be assignedprimary importance even in the active ministry."

The Sisters of the Holy Union, in the spirit ofthe Second Vatican Council, have incorporated that very goal in their ConSlitutions. which .5ay: "We make public pro· fession in the Church to live the evangelical counsels of chastit)" poverty and obedience, in order 10 belong entirely 10 the Lord and 10 spendourselvesjorothers. Through fidelity to our consecration we proclaim the primacy oj God in our lives. "(#J2) With the adaptation of .thpir Constitulions ill accordancr wirh the recommendation olthe Seculld Vatican Council, the "Holy Union SI.Hers have courageously undertaken rmewa!. But they have nel'er losl sight of thl' fact that renewal must take place likewise in the spiritual lives ofthe individual sis· ters as well as in the corporate structure oj the community. All must grow in the spiritual life. become more like Christ and consider all things as nothing except insofar as they co",ributt' 10 spiritual growth.

Then the readingfrom Ihe Gaspel/oday broughl us to thefoot of lhe crbss with Jesus, his mother and the disciple he loved. When he saw her. hesaid:"He is your Son." Then to the disciple he said: "She is your mother. " The union of hrarts of son and mother so evident at the foot ofthe cross, and the entrusting ofus' all. represented by John, to the pro·" tection of Mary, Mother of the

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By Dr. James and Mary Keno,.

Dear Mary: I am concerned about anndson. He steals. He Is 22 yean old, and I stroDlly susped he bas been stealiOI since be wu II small cbild. He thinks it isall rlCht to steal from some people and firms, but Dot otbers. I han heard my dauahter reprimand blm, but J hue never beard my son-inI• • •ay anythinl to him. My d_upter and son-in-law left the churcb II 10Dg time aiD, so he hu no tralniolin relieion. I know it is only II matter of time until he lets into real trouble. Is there an,.tblnl [ can do? - Ohio _The problem you pose applies not only to grandparents. but 10 other relatives and close friends when they see II difficult situation within aCamily. What can you do?

What should you do?

First., be vcry certain of your facts. How do you know your grandson steals? Have youobserved him personally? Has he told you all about it? All of us, when we talk about other people. have a tendency to emphasize or exaggerate the point we are trying to make.

Unless you Iiye within the immediate family, you are not likely to get the facts of a situation with complete accuracy.

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Second, supposing that your grandson does steal, there is very little effective direct action that you can or should take. Your· grandson is an adult. Even his parents arc not re'sponsible for his discipline. Perhaps that is why you have not heard yOUf son·in-law "reprimand" him. It is doubtful that a reprimand would be effective with an adult child. You, as a grandparent, have even less responsibility for his behavior than his parents do.

Since your facts may be doubtful and your responsibility non· existent, it is not your business to take action regarding your grandson's behavior. And it is even more doubtful that you wouldbe able to take effective action if you did try. h tbere anything you can do?

Certainly. Youcanactlikeagrandparent. Grandparents believe that their grandchildren are the most beautiful people OD earth. Grandparents are interested in their grandchildren's activities and are prOUd of their achievements.

Grandparents love their grandchildren unconditionally, just for being themselves.

Your grandson is a young adult.

Treat him like one. What interests or expertise does he have that you

might use? Many young men, for example, know a great deal about cars. Perhaps you are thinking about buying a new or used car or perhaps your car needs repairs.

Ask his advice on the subject.

Sometimes grandparents would like to travel but dQ nO,t like to drive for long periods of time. An adult grandchild can make an ideal traveling companion. A young adult grandchild misht be eager to drive and might enjoy taking a trip with you.

Your own.,)mowlcdge of your grandson can suggest other areas which might bring you together.

Share information with him. Share experiences with him. Let bim know that you think he isa terrific person.

In short, ignore the whole matter ofstealing, a matter you cannot and should not get involved in.

Instead, act like a grandparent.

Let him know that you arc interested in him, you care about him and you think he is wonderful. In the long run, he just might measure up to your opinion.

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The root of all evil

By Antoinette Bosco Something scary is happening.

It's exactly what the Bible in its wisdom warns against when it says, "The love of money is the root of all evil." , "cUt,lllf' give some examples: An article in New York Magazine, citing more than a dozen recent cases of money-related white-. collar crimes, says: "EthiCs in America seem to have dropped to one of the lowest points in history."

The communications media reflec:ts society's values. On television, favorite showl people watch include MTbe Lifestyles of the Rich and FamoWl," "Dallas" and the gloss and glitter ofMMiami Vice."

When society places primary emphasis on the punuit of money, ethics are in bia:trouble. Love of money has a way of squeezins ethics nlht out of the picture. And when money itself' becomes a value the next step for some people is to say: "I need money and it doesn't matter how I set it."

The Harvard Business Review says that the old American ideal that hard work builds character is on its way out. Our society has "little patience" with those who don't turn a good profit. The journal adds: ..It is success that matten, that makes work worthwhile."

A New York City councilwoman uys that "greed has become accepted as a totaDy lesitimate, force. M The editor of Commentary claims that, in the current ethic. crisis, selfishness bas become "an absolute moral priDCiple."

The more we "aut money, tbe morc we wonhip at the altar of private interest. The seDK of public purpose drifb away. A survival of the fittest melltality takes over and the fittest do prosper.

But. as (ormer Virsinia Gov. Charles Robb saY'. MLaiuez faire may be Sood economic policy but it's terrible soclaI policy."

"Horrendous" is the woro I

would UK. Current economic policies have brought Srcater prosperity to a major segment of the population. But, meanwhile, the percent· ase ofchildren in the U oited States living below the poverty level has shot up due to-cutbacks ill_cocial : prognms.

A society that accepts greed and deliberately promotes social policies that make tbe rich rieher and the poor poorer is toying with moral disintegration. We risk becoming like the ancient, doomed city of Carthage where, as the historian Polybius said, "Nothing that results in profit is regarded as disgraccful."

The saddest part is that when we value the love of money, we've lost what is really valuable.

I am reminded of my father who, late in his life, would turn over his checks to my mother. saying: "What's money? The only thing that matters is the love of my children." He knew what was important and what wasn't; Some oftaday's thinkers believe that the pendulum will swinS back to a commitment to public pu,.. pose when the cycle of private interest runs its coune.

Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr, predicts that "There will bea revulsion apilUlt all this crookedness and scramble for the fast buck as after a time people realize there's something more to life."

Let's hope that the optimists are right.

Philippine bishops endorse 100 days of prayer MANILA, Philippioci (NC) The Philippine bishops have endorsed a call by Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila for 100 days of prayer for unity.

The bishops' action was promP"' ted by a July J pastoral letter issued by ~rdinal Sin urging the observance10r tbe Manila Archdiocese, which he heads. The period of prayer for reconciliation bepn Aug. 22 aad will continue ta Nov. 27.

- Aug. 22 was the fcast of Our Lady,Qucen of the World; Nov. 27 is the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.

Woodstock head WASHIN.GTON (NC)- Jesuit Father John Lanpn, a fellow at the Woodstock Theologieal Center at Georgetown Univcnity since 197~. has been appointed center aetins director for the 1996-87 academic year. He replaces Jesuit Father Thomas M. Gannon, now a visitina senior fellow at 51.

Edmund's, CoIkae at Cambridll'C University.

Nov. 27 also is the birthday of the late Benigno S. Aquino Jr., President Corazon Aquino's husband, who was assassinated Aug.

2J,1983.

CardinaJSmasked Manila Catholics to pray that - The Philippine constitution and its ratification will be wise and jusL - Local and national elections will be held soon to confirm the lesitill18cy of Ihe Aquino ,overnmenl.

- Churches will work toaetbcr arid with the governmenl 10 faee up to the country's challenges.

In tbe Manila archdiocese. church bclb will riDS at 6 a.m.• noon. and 6p.OL for Catholic& tta pray the Anplus, and daily Mua will be said in parishes, sponsored

by Marin Orpni2:.atiODS and private or IOvcrnmeataJ lI'0ups.

A weekly day_of almssivinJ and fasting. pmerably Friday, was lugguted, with money to be siven to the poor in one's parish. An evenins lORry recitation was schedulecl in parilh churches.

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Pastoral'minister aided families of postal workers OKLAHOMA CITY (NC) - If Patrick Henry Sherrill had received personal help, he might not have massacred 14 others and shot himself Aug. 20 at an Oklahoma post office, said a nun who ministered to families of people wounded in the attack.

Mercy Sister Modesta Weyel, pastoral minister at Mercy Health Center, Oklahoma City, met with and assisted families of Sherrill's wounded victims who were brought to the hospital from the post office in Edmond, a suburb.

Earlier counseling might have helped the killer before he killed, she suggested.

"I see the need for people in stress to be supported," she said.

"I've seen so many. If Pat Sherrill had had someone to support him, perhaps he would not have gone on his shooting spree.

"Many people are so stressedout today they are close to a break.

They need help. People need people."

Sherrill used three semi-automatic pistols in the shootings. A marksman and part-time mailman, he had been criticized by supervisorsAug.19for"non-performance" and was described by neighbors as a recluse suspected oftying pets up in wire so his dog could attack them.

Sister Weyel was called to the hospital emergency room shortly before the arrival of three of Sherrill's victims, two of them seriously wounded. Two other victims arrived later by ambulance.

The nun spent six hours meeting with the families of the wounded and coordinating meetings and communication among families, patients and hospital staff. . She helped 40 family members of wounded worker Gene Bray find a quiet room in which to wait, then aided 12 members ofthe family of Steve Vick, another wounded victim.

"These shootings were so shocking. The families were sobbing and c1inging to each other,"Sister Weyel said. "Some were dazed. I tried to comfort and encourage them.

"I brought the family to their loved one before surgery for an embrace. This was very important for both patient and family," she added.

The hospital soon filled with hundreds of people seeking family members, she said.

Contacted by Sister Weyel, Protestant ministers also arrived to· help.

"All of these people were good Christians," the nun said. "Some prayed aloud in the corridors.

Others opened up a Bible in the corner and sat there and prayed.

Three or four of the ministers went· with groups to the chapel to pray."

She added that everyone was concerned not just with the injury of their own family member but with others as well. "When a bit of good news was announced, they said 'thanks be to God' or 'praise the Lord.'" .

New principal Sister Catherine Donovan, RSM, a Fall River native, has been named principal of Mercymount Country Day School, Cumberland, R.I. Entering the Sisters of Mercy in 1959, she holds degrees in education from Salve Regina College and Bridgewater State College.

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"Celebrating Our Sacraments." The program included classroom instruction. leisure activities and a presentation of the Good Samaritan story ata parish Mass. Manuel.

Medeiros and Nancy Ann Mulcare, religious education coordinators, directed the pro~ram~,ln b()c~tom P.bototDaniel Mulcare, \op, alld R ' baud. right, two of 19' teenage aides. enjoy a silly moment with Tim Pease and t Mulcare: .

Religion classes asked by parents VATICAN CITY (NC) - More than 40 percent 'of parents in the region around Zagreb, Yugosla-via, would like to see religion taught in state schools, according to a survey published in a Communist daily newspaper.

About 43 percent of those questioned said their children already receive catechetical instruction in local parishes, said the report -in Borba, a publication of the Yugoslavian Communist League.

"If schools say nothing about the questions that interest young

people, it's not unusual to see them looking for answers elsewhere for example, the church," said the newspaper report, which was quoted by Vatican Radio.

In communist Yugoslavia, where Catholics are believed to make up about 32 percent of the 23 million population, teaching of religion is allowed only in places of worship.

Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia, a predominantly Catholic area of Yugoslavia.

An interfaith delega~ion that visited the country earlier this year

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Aided by the amusement com:' pany that furnishes festival rides, the shrine made a donation to Project New Hope for battered women, an Attleboro organization.

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Bishop of Rome takes job seriously VATICAN CITY (NC) - On many a Sunday in Rome, Pope John Paul II can be found in a parish church somewhere, celebrating Mass and bantering informally afterward with parishioners.

For the pope is not only the spiritualleader of the world's 840 million Catholics. He is also a diocean bishop, directly responsible for the spiritual welfare of the people in his diocese.

beyond the confines of the city of Rome.

Pope John Paul, since being elected in October 1978, has taken his diocesan pastoral tasks seriously and with the enthusiasm that marked his years as head of several dioceses in his native Poland.

The pope has visited more than one-third of Rome's 310 parishes, usually on Sunday afternoons.

His only formal talk during these

The pope's diocese is Rome, with 2.6 million Catholics, the oldest diocese and most important historically in the Catholic Church.

It was founded by St. Peter in the first century and led by him until he was martyred around A.D. 67.

Among the pope's titles are bishop of Rome and archbishop and metropolitan of the Rome province. The latter title reflects the growth of the ecclesial jurisdiction

visits is the Mass homily, usually a spiritual message based upon the Gospel reading. The rest is informal give-and-take with parish groups and individuals. Papal remarks range from comments on the day's soccer matches to praise or criticism of specific parish actions.

The pope prepares for these visits by meeting several days before with the parish priests and diocesan officials responsible for that part of the city. Often these meet-路 ings are working lunches or dinners in which the pope picks up anecdotes about parish life he can use to make points ~uring the visit.

Parishes announce the papal visit by sending formal invitations to special guests and by pasting posters of a smiling pope on walls throughout the neighborhood inviting everyone to attend. As poster art is a popular form of advertising, the parish posters often vie for attention with circus announcements, calls to political rallies and listings of classical and pop music concerts.

Whenever possible, visits coincide with a special parish event, such as the patronal feast, first communion or confirmation.

Even when acting as head of the worldwide Catholic Church in ceremonies at St. Peter's Square, the pope often notes the presence of Rome groups in the audience and refers to local Rome events, customs and the weather. Many Rome church groups organizing protest marches or outdoor social events begin or end activities with a papal blessing in St. Peter's Square.

Although the pope takes his role as bishop seriously, his responsibilities as head of the Catholic Church do not allow him to become deeply involved in diocesan administrative affairs.

For centures such affairs have been handled by a papally appointe:d vicar, currently Italian Cardinal Ugo Poletti, who is assisted by two archbishops and six auxiliary bishops responsible for different geographic areas or pastoral concerns. The Rome diocese has about 1,500 diocesan priests, who staff about half the parishes; the rest are staffed by religious order priests.

Ironically, the pope's resident church, St. Peter's Basilica, is not the cathedral church of the diocese.

Vatican City, in which the pope lives and where the basilica is located, is a separate vicariate with its own papal vicar for the slightly more than 1,000 people who live in the 108.7-acre independent state.

The cathedral for the Rome diocese is the Church of St. John Lateran, located outside Vatican City. Next to the church are the diocesan offices.

But the pope is still tied to the Rome diocese through St. Peter's Basilica, built upon the site which tradition says is the tomb of St. Peter, the first bishop of Rome.

Even when the pope is on vacation in .July and August at his summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, :1is pastoral work as Rome's bishop does not stop. Castel Gandolfo, though 15 miles south of Rome, is part of the diocese and while there the pope occasionally strolls across the square outside his walled-in villa to the town church to celebrate weekday Mass.

Family asks diocesan aid in coping with alleged demons SCRANTON, Pa. (NC) - A Catholic family has asked the diocese of Scranton for help in ridding their 100-year-old house of what the family says are demons or spirits that have troubled them for about 18 months.

The family, Jack and Janet Smurl and their four daughters of West Pittston, near Scranton, has reported incidents of personal attacks, levitation and threatening messages at their home.

A diocesan official said the diocese has contacted Franciscan Father Alphonsus Trabold, a professor of theology at St. Bonaventure University in New York and expert on demonology, to assist in an investigation. Father Trabold specializes in the study of the occult and paranormal, said the official, Father Neil Van Loon, assistant chancellor ofthe Scranton Diocese.

Father Gerald F. Mullally, chan-

cellor of the Scranton Diocese, issued a statement urging caution and restraint and asking that the family's privacy be respected.

"The Diocese of Scranton continues to seriously consider the request for help from the Smurl family of West Pittston. At this point, we have not reached any conclusions as to the cause of the reported phenomenon. Consequently, no course of action has been decided upon," the statement said.

"The church surely believes in the existence of the supernatural, including spirits, and it is possible for the lives of people to be affected by these spirits," the statement continued.

Before blaming the phenomenon on spirits, however, all other possible explanations must be investigated, the statement said.

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The Smurls are "very credible people, devout Catholics" who are "on the level" about their unusual problem, said Kevin McDonnell, who knows the family and is editorial assistant at the Scranton diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Light. "Something is bothering them."

The Smurls have been beseiged by the news media, which have treated the phenomenon as a ghost story, McDonnell said. In contrast, the diocese has been moving cautiously and treating the situation seriously. However, continued publicity could hinder the church from acting should anything have to be done, McDonnell said.

The investigation is following two schools ofthought, said Father' Van Loon. "One, represented by the demonologist, would say the events are explainable as spirits at work. The other, paranormal experience, would say they are explainable by ref~rence to parapsychology. Both would agree the events are taking place," he said.

The Smurl family seems convinced the events in its home are caused by demons or spirits and has asked for exorcism, Father Van loon said, but the church is slow to move on such a request until all other possibilities have been exhausted. "If we can find the root problem, we will know what the influence is so we can help the Smurl family cope."

Exorcism, once more common in the church, is now practiced rarely as church officials are more

hesitant to attribute paranormal phenomena to the work of demons. Church law says that in order to conduct the ritual of exorcism a priest must possess qualities of piety and prudence and have the "special and express permission" of the local bishop.

"Causes are evident through psychology today that were not evident then. Nobody knew of psychology, let alone parapsychology," Father Van Loon said.

In the meantime, the family is coping by praying and sprinkling the house with holy water, he said.

Astro-sassing

By Hilda Young This is hard to describe but there comes a time in a teenager's early years when a parent realizes mid-sentence, during a tirade about finding sweat socks drying over the new lamp shades, that he or she (the teen-ager) is astro-sassing.

What is astro-sassing? It's basically talking back without saying a thing.

It's you huffing, "Don't get smart with me!" and knowing in their heads' the teens are snickering, "OK, raving person, I'll get dumb with you."

It's saying, "Do you think I pick up this house for my health?" and just knowing they are silently replying, "You'd have to be pretty healthy to get it off the foundation, Hercules."

Astro-sassing is different from astro-traveling. Astro-traveling is what your child does during a fiveminute lecture on phone etiquette after which you demand, "What did I just say to you?" and the answer is "Huh?" Astro-sassing is brought on by imminent puberty and questions like, "Do you 'think money grows on trees?"

"I don't know. I've never planted a quarter."

Astro-sassing does funny things to parents. For one thing, we begin to say things like: "Don't use that tone of thought with me."

"This woman has been breathing cleaning solutions for too many years!"

Or worse yet: "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"

"What are you going to do, stick a bar of Ivory in my ear and wash out my brains with soap?"

What makes astro-sassing so tough is that you know it's going .on but there's no way to prove it.

The other night after saying, "I wish I had a nickel for every time I've asked you to take out the garbage," I detected an astro-sassing wrinkle around my l3-yearold's eyes.

"Don't even think about astrosassing me, young person," I said.

"I wasn't thinking anything," he claimed.

"That's what you'd like me to think, isn't it?" I said. That's another thing about astro-sassing.

They trick you into giving them straight lines.

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ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Parish picnic noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 31, Our Lady of the Lake Camp, E. Freetowh; New choir members wanted. Information: Barbara Pavao, 672-3904. New folk group members wanted. Leave name and phone number at rectory, 675-7206.

D of I, ATTLEBORO Daughters of Isabella Alcazaba Circle 65 first meeting of new season 6:30 p.m. Sept. 4, K of C Hall, Hodges Street, Attleboro. Presentation on Hawaii.

ST. ANTHONY OF THE DESERT, FR Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 7, with 5 p.m. holy hour, St. Sharbel Chapel, 300 North Eastern Avenue, Fall River.

SEPARATED AND DIVORCED, NB Greater New Bedford Divorced and Separated Support Group meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 10 and 22, Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road, N. Dartmouth. Guests: speaker on spirituality, Sept. 10; Paula Ripple, video, Sept. 22. Information: Stephen Mitchell, 996-0850.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape Fraternity meeting 7:10 p.m. Sept. 9, St. John .the Evangelist parish center, Pocasset. Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, will celebrate Mass and speak on The Imitation of Christ. Fred Jones, SFO, will speak reclaiming youth for Christ. All welcome. Information and transportation: Robert Collyer, 563-2654, upper Cape; Dorothy Williams, 394-4094, mid- and lower Cape.

ST. JAMES, NB Choir members needed; contact parish priests at rectory, 992-9408, or music director Steven Massoud after Masses.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Vincentian meeting Sept. 7; parish youth softball 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31, North School field.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Open house at rectory 2 to 4 p.m'.

Sept. 7.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Mrs. Joseph (Kathy) Barboza has been appointed as religious education coordinator; parish prayer group meeting 7 p.m. Sept. 4 begins with Mass, church. Meeting in parish center.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Parishioners John and Sally Grygiel recently. celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.

HOLY NAME, FR Parish school opening Mass 9 a.m. Sept. 4, church.

BLUE ARMY Five-hour vigil honoring the Hearts of Jesus and Mary begins 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 5, St. John the Baptist Church, 344 County Street, New Bedford.

Information: Lucille Pimental, 9925402. ' ORDER OF THE ALHAMBRA Regional council meeting 8 p.m.

Sept. 5, Our Lady of Mercy Center, 25 West Chester Street, Worcester.

Leon Caravan 122, Fall River, will host.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Women's Guild membership tea I to 3 p.m. Sept. 28.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Feast of Our Lady of Angels Portuguese Mass 10 a.m. Sept. .1, followed by I p.m. procession. Church open to 9 p.m. Aug. 30 and 3I and to 8 p.m. Sept. I for visits to Blessed Sacrament and Marian Shrine.

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ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Parish school opening Mass 10 a.m. Sept. 5, school yard.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Administration committee meeting 7 p.m. Sept. 4; religious education teacher commissioning ceremony 9:30 a.m. Mass Sept. 14.

O.L. ANGELS, FR Our Lady of Fatima feast Mass 8 a.m. Oct. 5. Holy Rosary Sodality meeting follows; Lectors needed.

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ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Mondays, parish hall.

ST. MARY,NB St. Mary's Senior Citizens welcome new members to Meeting 1:30 p.m. Sept. 3. Information: Florence Lavoie, 995-1298; parish school opening Mass for students 9 a.m.

Sept. 3; Mass for parents of middle division children 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3; for parents of primary and elt;mentary level children 7:30 p.m. Sept.

10; Mill Hill Fathers representative will speak at weekend Masses; Webelo Cub Scout leader needed. Information Ed Mello, 996-9045; separated, divorced and single parents' group meeting 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2, religious education center. Rosa Lopes, NB Catholic Social Services director, will speak on Dealing with Stress; eucharistic ministers' Evening of Renewal 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8, religious education center.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Our Mother of Perpetual Help novena 8 a.m. Wednesdays, church; prayer group 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Visitation Hall; Women's Guild meeting 1:30 p.m.. Sept. 9, parish hall, Orleans. New members welcome.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Rosary 3: 15 p.m. Thursdays. All welcome.

VINCENTIANS, FR , Fall River district council Vincentians will attend 7 p.m. Mass Sept. 2, St. Louis de France Church, 56 Buffington Street, Swansea. Meeting follows.

O.L. GRACE, WESTPORT Women's Guild meeting 7 p.m.

Sept. 3, parish center. Sheila Martinez of WJAR-TV's PM Magazine will speak. Area women welcome.

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, UPPER CAPE Upper Cape charter group meets 7:30 p.m. first Wednesday of each month, East Falmouth branch library. For information on this support group for bereaved parents and siblings call 540-0492.

ST. PATRICK, FR Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Sisters of Mercy in the parish at 4:30 p.m.

Mass Sept. 20. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will celebrate and be homilist.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Parish catechists' day of prayer and reflection I to 7 p.m. Sept. 7, St. James Convent, Nanaquaket, RI. Women's Guild will meet Sept. II beginning with 7 p.m. Mass. Father Andre A. Patenaude, MS, of LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, will lead an evening of prayer and song, parish center. Public welcome. Refreshments.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Discalced Carmelite Father Bernard Ybiernos will speak at all Masses Sept. 6 and 7 on behalf of the Carmelite Missions in the Philippines.

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Pope prays for victims of Cameroon gas disaster VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II sympathized with the victims of an Aug. 22 natural gas disaster in northwestern Cameroon, saying he hoped international aid would help the survivors recover and rebuild.

Cameroon's President Paul Biya said an estimated 1,200 people died after a disturbance allowed toxic natural gases to escape from the bed of Lake Nios. The lake is nestled in the crater of a remote, dormant volcano. Up to 300 people were reported hospitalized.

United States, England and Israel, have sent or pledged medical and other aid to Cameroon.

In New York, a spokeswoman for Catholic Relief Services said the organization was awaiting information from its Cameroon office before deciding what its role would be in aiding the disaster victims.

Lake Nios is 30 miles north of Bamenda. English and French-are the country's official languages.

About 17 percent of the province's I million people are Catholic. Many had walked for up to 75 miles from the surrounding region Holy Union Sister Aline Bedard, to see the pontiff during his 1985 now in Fall River after 28 years in visit.

Cameroon, is familiar with the The region is studded with active disaster area, having worked near and dormant volcanoes. it as a nurse. She said the crater The U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, lakes are "taboo" to natives, who Cameroon's capital, said the leak fear their great depth. apparently was a massive release Holy Union Sister Antoinette of carbon dioxide mixed with Ouellette, in Fall River on home smaller amounts of hydrogen and leave, will return to Cameroon in sulfide. early November. Now working in Scientists said that recem seisthe southern part of the country, mic activity had been reported in she formerly worked with Sister the Lake Nios area and that a Bedard in the disaster area. She minor earthquake might have trighas been in the African nation a gered a landslide which distubed total of 25 years. the gas-saturated sediments at the Approximately 5,000 people liv- lake bottom. , In 1984,37 people were killed by ed in the stricken zone.

People died without warning as a similar release of toxic gas from a blanket of poison gas settled on Lake Monoun in the same area. their villages, a Catholic missionary said after visiting survivors of the natural disaster in northwestern Cameroon.

Marriage Retorno community members from the United States "Some of them were actually and around the world will hold trapped in their houses and those their annual conference Sept. 25 to who were on the streets just fell 28 at Campion Renewal Center, down and died. There was really Weston. no warning," Father John Ambe, The conference, "Choosing Life who works in the area, told the in its Fullest," will consider aims British Broadcasting Corp. "There to i~lustrate how integrating love, was no sign that there was any- work, play and prayer, the four thing about to happen." pillars of Marriage Retorno.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 29, 1986

What's on your mind?

Q. Under what conditions 'should a 16- or 17-year-old leave his parents? Is it OK if he has a good job where he can make it on his own? I can't stand it anymore at home!

A. Let's answer this question in part by asking some more questions.

Where will you live? A 16- or 17-year-old is likely to have a very difficult time renting an apartment or a room. Landlords are prone to regard persons your age as troublemakers.

Can you live with the family of a friend? Will you be able to pay them enough for room and board?

Will you be able to afford transportation?

If you do live alone, will you have enough money to buy food?

Better go to the supermarket and check out the ·prices.

Could you pay unexpected doctor's bills and buy medicine?

Will you. have enough money for clothes? .

It would be good if you could get an exact idea of what all these items cost and· then make out a budget for a month. See whether you really can make it On your · present salary: . ..

You also should consider whether you would really be happy living alone~ .

One ·.young person to whom I · posed yoUr question said: "I hope · this guy IS tough because it can be very difficult trying to live away from your family. 'You have to · take all the hard knocks and disappointments by yourself with no support. " You might consider Chad, who at 19 is still living at home although he has· a good job and is making · good money. .

Chad explains it this way:' "It's cheaper living at home. I'm trying to save as much money as I can because some day I want to get married. These d'ays you need lots of money to do that and then raise a family. I figured I'd better start saving now."

Another young person offered this advice: "I think this guy should examine his relationship with his family carefully. Maybe he could talk out his problems with his parents. Maybe they're just having a bad time now and things will get better after a while. " Could you watch for a time when your parents are in a relaxed mood and try to talk with them in a quiet way about your problems?

Keep your voice calm. Try not to be abrasive.

Let them know you are thinking

Tryouts and practice for the Bristol County CYO Hockey League's 14th season begin 9 p.m.

September 7 at the Driscoll Rink, Fall River.

All skaters from the diocese of Fall River born on or after January I, 1964 who are at least 17 years of age are eligible to participate. All games will be played on ,Sunday evenings.

Many roster vacancies exist; there is an opening for an entire new team if players from a particular area would like to gain admission as a squad.

Information: Father Paul F. McCarrick, diocesan CYO director, 673-1123.

By TOM LENNON

Scouts lauded

of leaving, but wish you could wQrk things out so you wouldn't have to.

Be prepared to give specific examples of what's troubling you, and try not to let anger creep into your voice. Keep the emotional temperature low, even though this may be difficult.

If you can work through this difficult situation, you will help yourself a great deal.

You can be reasonably certain that later in life you'll find yourself in a very difficult job situation, one that you think you "can't stand any more."

What you learn about patience now will stand you in good stead in a difficult situation like that.

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

ROCCA DI MEZZO, Italy(NC) - Pope John Paul II told Catholic Boy Scouts and Girl Guides at a recent national festival that Scouting prepares them for the challenges facing modern Christians.

In Scouting, "there is no place for the fear and the laziness that often clips the wings of people, reducing them to a state of passive conformity," said the pope, who traveled by helicopter to celebrate Mass for an estimated 15,000 Italian Catholic Scouts gathered in Rocca de Mezzo.

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A DETROIT youth readies himself for his city's annual Labor Day parade. (NC photo)

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SSe Peter and Paul Sister Davida Dunne, RSM, and Paul Silvia have been appointed to the staff of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River.

Sister Dunne will teach kindergarten students; Silvia the fifth grade.

The school will open Sept. 3 with an enrollment of290 students in grades K to 8. An opening Mass will be celebrated at 1:15 p.m.

Sept. 5. All welcome.

* * * * Kathleen Burt, principal, and teacher Angela Stankiewicz .were among 25 area educators selected to participate in two weeks of study of environmental issues at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

The opportunity was sponsored by the State Department of Public Health.

In addition to classroom study, participants toured. a hazardous waste site and completed projects addressing environmental issues.

The projects were displayed at the New Bedford office ofthe Department of Health.

Bishop Connolly The Mass of the Holy Spirit, to dedicate the 1986-87 school year, will be celebrated at 8:50 a.m.

Sept. 9, auditorium. Parents welcome.

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Several Connolly students participated in summer enrichment programs at schools includin~ Southeastern Massachusetts U 01versity, Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University and the University of Montreal.

"This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare

By Chatlie MatUn

NO ONE IS TO BLAME You can look at tbe menu But you just canl eat You un feel the cushions But you can't have a seat You can dip your foot in the pool But YO)l can't bave a swim You can fee) the punishment But you can't commit the sin And you want her And she wants you We wapt everyone And you want her And she wants you No one, no one, no one ever is to blame.

You can build a mansion But you just can't\live in You're the fastest runner But you're not allowed to win Some break the rules cost.

And live to coa The ulSt!curit, is ing t".lwon't gel)ost.

You can see the summit But you can't readJ It It's the last piece of the puzzle But you jast.ean't".make it fit, ..

Doctor s.ysyou're cured ' But you still feel the pain Aspirations in tbe douds But your hopes go down the drain.

"Written an~rreeorded'~;How.rdJones.(c) 1985

by Howard Jones Music Ltd. HOWARD JONES took "No Blame1>' the top The era! images offr

endy it is about a relationship that struggling, although;. no given fOf the relationship's problems. However, what~

the undoing of the romance was, "no one is to blame."

Such situations are painful.

ThOse involved are not able to discover what is wrong even though they are aware that something is missing. It is difficult to fix what remains mysteriously broken.

Relationships that face such .~hallenges can be helped by considering the following questions: Wbat initially brought the eou.. pie together? What was each per:.on. seeking in the relationship?

Have there been smaller problems. between the individuals that have been pushed aside? , Has the couple skipped some ,,}f the natural steps that could lead to growth in the relation.. ship, perhaps jumping to a physical relationship that neither one is ready for?

At times, fear of losing a relationship cau.keep indiviouals from :.haring their deeper feelings. Taking the risk to address hidden -problems for feelings is not easy, but it is the way to keep honesty in the relationship.

This song points to a fact about dating relationships: If two individualswhoaredatingareexperiencing more frustration than satisfaction with the relationship, :it is time for a break. Time apart .;an bfing new perspective on what has happened. Making the decision to spend some time apart 1reflects maturity and courage..

All of us would prefer that ,~erything go smoothly in love.

Yet, working hard to get what we want and need brings real meaning into relationships. Don't be :lfraid to face your frustrations and questions squarely.

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USCC aids Cuban refugees WASHINGTON (NC) - Two U.S. Catholic Conference migration officials recently traveled to Havana to resettle Cuban political prisoners and their families who are eligible for refugee status in the United States.

Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, director of the USCC Migration and Refugee Services, and Cecelia Olson, staff assistant in the migration agency's New York office, went to Cuba with U.S. officials to handle the cases of 56 Cuban prisoners and about 60 family members.

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service was considering about 90 Cuban prisoners for refugee status in the United States but some ofthese were expected to be sponsored by the Rev. Jesse Jackson or French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.

Msgr. Dainiel F. Hoye, USCC general secretary, said the release is the culmination of an effort launched in January 1985 when a delegation of U.S. bishops traveled to Cuba for a pastoral visit.

The bishops originally presented a list of 146 names of political prisoners to Cuban President Fidel Castro and offered to assist in their resettlement in the United States.

The Cuban government countered with a list of 75 prisoners, including some imprisoned during the Battista regime, which it said were eligible for release. Nineteen of those have since notified the U.S. government that they prefer to remain in Cuba.

The Havana processing, which followed a year of preliminary screening by the U.S. State Department, was expected to take about three weeks. .

The USCC delegation that visited Cuba in January 1985 was headed

by Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, USCC president. Others in the delegation were Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston; Archbishop Patrick F. Flores of San Antonio, Texas; Msgr.

Hoye; and Father David Gallivan, director of the bishops' secretariat for Latin America.

Say cheese WASHINGTON(NC)- The federaI government should release more surplus cheese for hungry people, Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, said recently.

Noting a surplus cheese shortage at the state level, Msgr. Hoye endorsed proposed legislation which would require the U.S. secretary of agriculture to release more surplus cheese to states that can show proof of their need.

In a letter to the House Agricultural Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations and Nutrition, Msgr. Hoye wrote that many Catholic parishes and social service agencies distribute surplus food and are aware of the need.

Friday, Aug. 29, 1986

tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG·13-parental guidance' strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation): a-morally offensive.

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local listIngs, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "Armed and Dangerous"(Columbia) - Posing as social spoof, this slapstick format featuring John Candy and Eugene Levy as securOne committee member, Father ity guards fighting organized crime Tony Redden of Cleve, Australia, arms children with more aggressaid the aim of the organization sive and anti-social patterns of would be to foster brotherhood behavior through violent and desand an awareness of issues and tructive imagery. The vulgar forbuild a network of support for mula pattern includes some profanity and sexual sight gags. A3, priests in their work.

Father James Burdett of Sali- PG-l3 "The Fly"(Fox) - Tender romnas, Calif., said another important aspect of the gathering was meet- ance fades quickly as a biophysical ing priests who represented Africa, experiment fails when human and where, he added, the church is insect genes mix. The sexually growing rapidly and church-state powerful human-fly mutant played

by Jeff Goldblum gets some comtensions are increasing.

"The concerns of North Amer- passion from his lover, but his ica and Europe are not the con- being degenerates into an unhealthy . juxtaposition of sex, brutality and cerns of Africa," he added.

An African priest, Father John disgustingly grotesque imagery.

Amankawah of Ghana, said the Profanity and nudity. 0, R churc.h in Africa is struggling with "Stand By Me"(Columbia)-A what he called "twin currents" of group of pre-teen boys team up Second Vatican Council reforms and take off down the road to and moves toward political inde- emotional maturity in Rob Reinpendence in a number of countries. er's celebration of male camaradThroughout all the discussions, erie and comi~g-of-age in 1959 rural said Father John Rose of Alberta, America. The film has too much Canada, "there was a tremendous harsh language uncharacteristic of love for the church and a great the times and is less suitable for the affirmation of the priesthood... age group it romanticizes.

Father Redden, president of Australia's priests' council, said Films on TV another meeting will be held in Monday, Sept. 8, 9-11 p.m. EDT August 1988 in Africa or Asia. He (NBC)"Flashdance"(I983). Direcsaid the organization, now called tor Adrian Lyne romanticizes the "Assembly of Priest Representa- rags-to-riches story of a working tives - English-Speaking Coun- class female who overcomes hardtries," will keep bishops' conferen- ships to fulfill her dreams of becomces informed of its work. ing a professional dancer. 0, R Monday, Sept. 8,11:30 -1 a.m.

EDT (CBS) "Tbe Rain People" (1969) - Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the film "We have been informed that a treats its theme of flight from number of states are unable to commitment with poetic intensity. secure surplus cheese beyond the Shirley Knight is the pregnant girl amount currently authorized by fleeing husband and home to come the secretary of agriculture. The to terms with her womanhood and unwillingness of the secretary to incomplete sense of fulfillment. release cheese in amounts greater Some violence and sex punctuated than the 35 million pounds per the theatrical version. A3, R month appears to be arbitrary," Tuesday, Sept. 9, 8-11 p.m. the letter said.

(NBC)"Going Ape"(I98I)-OranThe monsignor, a native of the gutans provide the madcap antics Fall River diocese, added that it in this failed sitcom format about seems counterproductive for the government to pay storage costs . a young man who inherits a fortune with the requirement that he for 600 million pounds of surplus care for the apes. Danny De Vito cheese while people go hungry. helps protect the beasts from the Release of. surplus cheese does greedy zoological society which not affect the market, Msgr. Hoye wrote, "since the poor do not, by - tries to get the dough. The original version had harsh language. A3, and large, participate in this marPG ket."

Priests form worldwide group to foster brotherhood, awareness CHICAGO(NC) -Priests from around the world have launched an international group for clergy which they say will create a sense of brotherhood among its members, foster their awareness of worldwide issues and form a support network.

The plans for the organization emerged during a recent steering committee meeting in Chicago.

Sponsors included the Chicagobased National Federation of Priests' Councils, the National Conference of Priests of England, the National Federation of Councils of Priests of Canada and the National Council of Priests of Australia.

Other countries represented were South Africa, the Philippines, ireland, Trinidad, Zimbabwe, India, Malawi, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.

The U.S. priests' federation is an organization of about 90 official diocesan priests' councils there are 171 Latin-rite territorial dioceses and archdioceses in the United States - plus several other priests' associations and male religious orders.

Organizers said the idea for an international priests' group came from a 1984 convention of the National Federation of Priests' Councils held in San Antonio, Texas.

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Tuesday, Sept. 9, 9-11 p.m. EDT (CBS) "Moscow on the Hudson" (1984) - Paul Mazursky's comic study of defection and exile resorted to some nude bedroom scenes to heat up the action. Robin Williams is ajazz-playing Russian musician who falls in love with a department store salesclerk and finds safe haven and the American dream in New York City. 0, R Friday, Sept 12, 9-11:30 p.m.

EDT (CBS)"Deathtrap"(I981)This comedy-thriller with contrived twists and turns of plot was based upon the successful play by Ira Levin and retained the complexity but not the spirit of the stage production. Brutal murders are explicitly depicted in a manner unsuitable for children. A3, PG Saturday, Sept. 13, 8:30-11 p.m.

EDT (CBS) "Raging Bull" (1980) - Martin Scorsese's brutal blackand-white, fact-based portrait of the slugging Jake La Motta, middleweight boxer of the '40s, is rich in detail and violence. It's a harsh study of an abusive personality, the embodiment of the 1940s macho Italian Catholic Mafia culture of the Bronx with love turned inside out. A3, R Religious TV Sunday, Aug. 31 (CBS) - "For Our Times" - The stories of David and Goliath, the Tower of Babel and St. Francis of Assisi are featured on "Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School," the final program in a series that originally aired in 1974.

Sunday, Aug. 31 (NBC) "Guideline" - Dominique Lapierre discusses his recent book, "The City of Joy," about Mother Teresa and her work in India.

Devotional stickers DETROIT (NC) - Al Zotter found the popularity of his devotional stickers soaring after The Michigan Catholic wrote about his Marian apostolate last spring.

Zotter, 76 and retired, encourages others in his favorite devotion by printing one-inch-by-one-inch stickers with the message, "Say one Hail Mary."

Since the newspaper article appeared, the self-styled "child of Mary" has distributed more than 100,000 additional seals on sheets of 10.

While the sticker has been Zotter's first priority, he also had been printing 500 to 600 bumper stickers a year on his small press with the same message. This summer, an anonymous donor gave him another press, on which Zotter has run off 10,000 additional bumper stickers.

The seals and stickers are available from him at 12039 Bramell Ave., Detroit, Mich., 48139. Requests should include a stamped return envelope.

Worked for justice MARYKNOLL, N.Y. (NC) Maryknoll Father William A. Kaschmitter, 87, a missionary in the Far East who later founded a center for international social justice work, died Aug. 6 in North Tarrytown, N.Y. Father Kaschmitter helped found the Research Center for International Justice at Louvain, Belgium. ...

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