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Stewardship chairman at Wichita conference Father Marcel H. Bouchard, pastor of Sacred Heart parish, North Attleboro, and chairperson of the Diocesan Stewardship Committee, recently attended a stewardship conference organized by the dioceseof Wichita, Kansas.

He was present at the parley at the invitation of Dan Loughman, director of Development and Stewardship for the Wichita diocese and a member of the parish stewardship committee of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Wichita.

Loughman and his wife Carolyn, as well as Dale and Alice Wiggins, also of St. Francis of Assisi, will speak at Father Bouchard's parish the weekend of Nov. 6 and 7, before attending a National Catholic Stewardship Conference to be held in Boston Nov. 7 to 9.

Father Bouchard said that Bishop Sean O'Malley has .invited priests and permanent deacons of the Fall River diocese to attend the Boston meeting and has also asked pastors to sponsor the attendance of at least one parishioner.

In Wichitil The Wichita conference had

PA YING TRIBUTE: Police officers line Linden Street in Fall River as the funeral wagon carrying the coffin of slain officer Thomas Giunta arrives at Sacred Heart Church. (Hickey photo)

City mourns slain police officer

By Marcie Hickey In celebrating th<: Mass of Christian Burial for his parishioner, Fall River police officer Thomas Giunta, Sacred Heart Church pastor Father Edward J. Byington noted that while mourning the senseless shooting which took the officer's life "can't bring Tommy back," it can become the "spark which will ignite our action" in countering a culture of violence with "the virtues offaith, hope and love."

Giunta, 49, was shot Aug. 24 by an apparently deranged man while handing out parking permits for the Holy Ghost Feast, held in Fall River last weekend at St. Anne's Church and Kennedy Park.

Bishop Sean O'Malley presided at Giunta's Aug. 29 Mass, which had 10 concelebrants.

The bishop told the congregation of Giunta's family, friends, colleagues and stat,~ and local dignitaries, including Governor William Weld, that th<: murder of the policeman was an alarming indi-

cator of "the cheapening of the value of human life."

In times of tragedy, the bishop said, "Our faith in. the Lord's resurrection gives liS strength," and comfort can be found in Jesus' words that "to lay down one's life for one'sfriepds is'the supreme act of love."

The loss of the popular officer, the first Fall River police officer killed in the line of duty since 1973, "deeply moved" the entire community and is a reminder of the "debt of gratitude" owed not only to the officers who daily risk their lives for others but to their families, who "share in the uncertainties and perilous existence of law enforcement," saiq Bishop O'Malley.

"Today, before the body of our fallen brother, we: pledge to work together to builq a civilization based on love and trust," the bishop concluded.

Father Byingto'n, who is chaplain of the Fall River police department, said it, will always be

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remembered that Giunta died "while doing nice things for people." The 21-year policeman was well-known for his concern for children, and as public safety officer was a frequent visitor to local schools.

The priest told the congregation, still shaken and "scared" by the senselessness of the killing, that the "savage violence" plaguing our streets has no solution except morality based on faith in God. Underlying the violence, he said, is a loss of faith: "We think we do not need God"; a lack of hope; and an absence of love for even "the least of our creatures."

The cheapening of human life begins with the unborn, he said.

"If society encourages violence in the womb, should we be surprised if we have violence on the streets?"

Father Byington added that Giunta's funeral was an occasion to remember that our lives are not Turn to Page II

"Nurturing Discipleship" as its theme, said Father Bouchard. General presentations were given by Archbishop James P. Keleher of Kansas City, Kansas, who discussed "Spirituality in Action"; Wichita Bishop Eugene J. Gerber, liturgy homilist; and Wichita Vicar General Ronald M. Gilmore, whose opening address had "Reflection and Challenge" as its topic.

Workshop subjects were "Stewardship: A Practical Approach"; "Fostering Stewardship through Parish Planning"; "Youth: Future Success of Stewardship"; and" Annual Parish Stewardship Renewal Process."

The focus of the conference, said Father Bouchard, was on stewardship as a way of life, rather than merely as a means of raising funds for church support. The concept was presented as an invitation of parishioners to "planned, proportioned and intentional" giving of time and talent as well as treasure.

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Social contract at risk says usee labor statment WASHINGTON (CNS) - Many see the social contract between workers and employers unraveling amid a changing relationship between employees and their bosses, said the U.S. Catholic Conference's 1994 Labor Day statement.

"The expectation is that an employee who works hard, follows the rules and increases the productivity of the company will receive an adequate family wage, other benefits and a job until paid retirement," said the statement by Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard, chairman of the USCC Committee on Domestic Policy.

"The company, on the other hand, gets a skilled employee who is loyal. punctual, productive and who will use the training and skills developed on the job for the best interests of the company," Bishop Ricard said.

"Yet many observers see this social contract unraveling as ties between employer and employee come loose, with less sens(: of common task, less mutual loyalty and much more uncertainty and distrust."

Bishop Ricard suggested, "It may

be time to revisit the [U .S. bishops' 1986J economic pastoral and its call for new forms of partnerships and cooperation between those whose investment and management provide jobs and products and those whose daily work is the source of prosperity."

The statement, "Work: Still at the Center of the Social Question," was released Aug. 25.

Bishop Ricard noted that "Economic Justice for All," the bishops' pastoral on the economy, calls for new labor-management partnerships that could lead to less adversarial relations. However, it says, such partnerships are only possible when "both groups possess real freedom and power to influence decisions."

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Archbishop Cronin condemns embryo research proposals human embryos to animals for HARTFORD, Conn. (CNS) Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin of gestation; cloning of embryos by , nuclear transplantation; research Hartford, the former bishop of the on embryos 'after the 18th day; Fall River diocese, has strongly condemned proposals anticipated creation of embryos strictly for from the National Institutes of research material; transfer of emHealth that are likely to allow bryos to a 'cavity other than the research on human embryos. uterus; sex selection of embryos, except in certain cases; and use of In a mid-August statement, the archbishop described the propossperm, eggs or embryos from als expected to be released in late donors who did not give explicit September as an "arrogant attempt consent to research or for which on the part of human beings to donors received more than reasonassert, in the name of science, able compensation, the magazine power over life and death, which said. belongs to God alone."

"Our government should not be Archbishop Cronin issued his funding immmoral practices," Archstatement after Science magazine bishop Croniri said in his statement.

DIOCESAN OFFICE of AIDS Ministry staff members, speculated on the proposals in an "Our Constitution enshrines pro-, from left, Michelle Rapoza, Jackie Racine and Krysten Aug. 19 article; NIH plans to tection of human life," he added. make them public Sept. 27. Science Winter-Green are ready to distribute copies of the diocese's "Our government should be fundis a weekly news and research new HIVj AIDS Resource Manual, which line the bottom ing the protection of human life, journal published by the Washbook shelf. (Hickey photo) n'ot the other way around." ington-based American AssociaRichard Doerflinger, associate tion for the Advancement of Scidirector of policy development at ence.

"Based on interviews with mem- the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said governbers of a panel advising [NI H director Harold] Varmus on em- ment-funded embryo research bebryo research as well as a reading came a possibility in June .1993, when President Clinton signed into

By Marcie Hickey "The Catholic community... is of the panel's proceedings, Science law an NIH reauthorization bill called to respond to the crisis of would predict that broaching this The diocesan Office of AIDS AIDS in both word and deed, most explosive of issues will guar- that gave the agency freedom to Ministry marks its first anniverfund experiments on human emprayer and action," the manual antee NIH a sizzling autumn," the sary with one of its major objecbryos produced by in vitro fertilisays. . article said. tives accomplished: publication of zation. ..... Information regarding HIV I The magazine predicted that the an HIV I AIDS Resource Manual, AIDS must be communicated A 19-member advisory panel proposed rules would allow fundpresented to the office's advisory within a religious and moral conworking since February has been ing on a case-by-case basis of committee Aug. 30 and now availtext, a task that is critical in light research on existing unused in to draw up specifics about which able to parishes, offices and inof the social environment of sexembryo research could be funded. vitro embryos, up to the 14th day dividuals. ual contact and IV drug use in after fertilization; limited creation Doerflinger said the NIH report With sections addressing facts which the disease is most proof in vitro embryos for baseline will most likely result in a bill in about AIDS, the Catholic pergressive." data; cell extraction from embryos , Congress that would allow federal spective on moral decision making The manual offers facts and stabefore implantation; derivation of funding for live embryo experiand on suffering and death, and tistics on H IV infection and AIDS, cell lines from existing unused ments. He urged concerned citiresources for education, liturgy outlining modes of transmission, embryos; and maturing unfertil- zens to contact their representaand referrals, the manual "is really and stresses moral decision makized eggs for research. tives in Congress to voice their a comprehensive work," said office ing in a Catholic context, particuThe rules would ban transfer of opposition to such a bill. director Krysten Winter-Green. larly with regard to chastity.

It offers "an overview of AIDS It outlines a scriptural response from the Catholic perspective and to suffering and death; the physiguidance fordecision making withcal, mental, emotional and spiritin the teaching magisterium of the ual needs of persons with AIDS; Church," she said. "Very few dioand the pastoral response to those ceses have [a resource] of this needs. caliber." ..It would be a mistake if we HONG KONG (CNS) - In the nese and foreign languages, hisResearch for the manual was were to see in this epidemic only an face of possible crackdowns by the tory and philosophy, he added. completed by several office volunoccasion to speak about the moral Chinese government, the underIn some cases, seminarians are teers - persons with AIDS and principles of sexual behavior and ground Catholic Church ordained grouped for retreats and lectures their family members and friends.

71 priests in three Chinese provin-' offered by senior clergy or a visitdrug use," the manual states.

It is dedicated to all persons in the "The soCial stigma and harsh ces within the first seven months of ing priest from ove'rseas, the source diocese who have HIV or AIDS, this year. judgments associated with AIDS, noted. and particularly to' two-year-~Id coupled with the incidence of fe~r The new priests in Fujian, Hebei 'He told UCA News the 71 new Alicia, an office client who died in and ignorance in the g~neral popuand Heilongjiang provinces had priests were approved for ordinaMarch. On its cover is "Mother of lation, set this ministry apart. It is studied clandestinely for seven to tion by bishops in their dioceses.

God Light in All Darkness," an the unique challenge oft~e Church nine years under very strict superInearly July, seven were or- icon painted for the National Cathto support and respond to all the vision, a Catholic source in Hebei dained by a prominent clandes- olic AIDS Network by Father realities created by.the A IDS epitold UCA News, an Asian church tinely ordained bishop in Baoding, William Hart McNichols of New demic, particularly the spiritual news agency based in Thailand. he said. The seven priests, 28 to 45 York. realities. " The seminaries in the three pro- years old, then returned to the dioThe 92-page volume is enclosed The manual adds that "The atti-, vinces were set up on a smaller ceses of Baoding, Yixian and Zheng- in a three-ring binder so that antude of the parish community must ding to serve their communities in scale since the major seminary in nual supplements updating rebe both compassionate and welHebei was disbanded by authori- remote mountain areas of north- sources and referrals can be added. coming to all persons who are ern China, the source said. ties in 1992, said the source, While the manual is primarily Baoding is a stronghold of unUnderground seminaries are reintended as a resource for parish- affected by HIV I AIDS in any way. Pastoral responsibility ingarded as illegal by Chinese auth- derground Chinese Catholic combased response to the A IDS crisis, orities. To avoid attracting atten- munities who refuse to join the Ms. Winter-Green says she has Cludes responding to the sick and tion, places for classes have been government-approved open church received "many inquiries from pub- dying by both sacramental minischanged from time to time, the as part of their observance of lic sector agencies" interested in try and pastoral outreach."

Resources provided in the manpapal primacy. source said., ' using it. Long-range plans call for ual are liturgical: prayer, music The ordination of the 71 priests, Though their resources are each parish in the diocese to have a and model services; educational: through which reached fruition limited, the quality of priestly forresource person trained in use of outlines for grades K-12 programs priests who dedicated themselves the manual so that response to mation in underground seminaries in parish school or religious .eduto training seminarians for years, has been improving in recent years, issues regarding AIDS is"a shared cation settings, and for a total par- , has strengthened evangelization ef- trust" of clergy and laity, said Ms. he added. i~h program; referral: a descripA bishop or priest with forma- forts in their Catholic communiWinter-Green. ,tion of the Office of AIDS Ministry ties, the source added. tion experience usually leads a The manual begins by noting mission and services; and addresses group of seminarians through that by December 1993, 12.9 miland phone numbers of clinical It's God-given priestly training in churches and lion people worldwide were inprivate homes, he said. Some lay, "We can't have a desire to love fected with HIV, the human im- ' care and service providers, hospice, support groups and agencies people who are lecturers and professors ,God unless he, gives us that munodeficiency virus, which leads offering other assistance to perat universities and colleges are also desire."-Father Daniel Considine, to AIDS. Each day, 5,000, more sons with AIDS located in the Fall " recruited to teach'seminarians Chi'" S1¡ people are newly infected.

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AIDS Ministry office has first birthday

71 "underground" priests ordained in China

.nfor,mation -on" 6btaillirig'a manualis available from the AliOS Office, Room 225, Clemence Hall, 243 Forest St., Fall River 02721; tel. 674-5600 ext. 2295.

Upcoming Events The office will sponsor"Embracing the Mystery: A Servicf: of Prayer and Healing" for pen:ons living with HIV I AIDS, their families, friends and loved ones, and the community 2 p.m. Oct. 16 at St. Thomas More Church, Somerset.

The office intends to continue offering such liturgies in each deanery.

For World AIDS Day, De:. I, Bishop O'Malley will celebrate a Mass of Healing and Remembrance at St. Mary's Cathedral.

The office has also launched a bimonthly newsletter, "Reflections."

The First Year Ms. Winter-Green presented the report for the office's first year to the advisory committee at their Aug. 30 meeting.

The report notes that the office has served 1,934 persons through clinical, educational and consulta,tion contacts. Clinical conlacts numbered 44; six of those persons have since died.

Clients served range in age from 18 months to the mid-70s.

Volunteers put in 348 hours and the office received $967.50 in gifts and donations.

Ms. Winter-Green has been named to represent Southea!,tern Massachusetts on the Massachusetts HIV Prevention Planning Group convened by health (:ommissioner David Mulligan ar..d to the planning committee for the second National Conference on HIV IAIDS and Religious t,) be held in March 1995 by the National Catholic AIDS Network. , Ms. Winter-Green noted that the diocesan office's role is "cIf:arly pastoral care in the traditional sense of the word" as client! are "looking for meaning in their lives, someone to listen."

"The center of our mission is the pastoral aspect of the person, the deepest needs that they have; all of the other issues flow from that core," said case manager J~ickie Racine.

Ms. Winter-Green added that "our clients are the poorest of the p,oor, people who can't get help anywhere else, who've exhallsted all the possibilities.

"It's apparent that the multiple needs ofthe target population continue to outweigh the capacil:y of the existing Office of AIDS Ministry staff to respond."

Volunteers are welcomed to work directly with clients or to do office , work.

Father Mahone3r is DCCW moderator Bishop Sean O'Malley ha!; appointed Very Rev. Francis J. Mahoney, VF, moderator for the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and for the council's Fall River District One. Father Mahoney, pastor of Holy Name parish, Fall River, is also dean of the Fall River deanery of the diocese and episcopal vicar for clergy.

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Co'ntrov'ersy ongoing 'over UN draft document

Capuchin named Nicaragua vicar

WASHINGTON (CNS) - An apparent shift by the United States in its aims for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development brought some cautiously thankful reaction from several Catholic leaders.

But others repeated their opposition to the conference's draft document in the days leading up to the Sept. 5-13 conference in Cairo, Egypt.

The United States "has not sought, does not seek and will not seek to establish any international right to an abortion.... Vice President AI Gore said at an Aug. 25 Washington press conference.

"The views about abortion are as diverse among nations as they are among individuals," he said, adding that abortion law "should be the province of 'each government within the province of its own laws and nati()nal circumstances."

The United States will offer language to that effect, according to Gore. "We will insist at Cairo that that be affirmed in the final document. We expect that it will be," he said.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, told Catholic News Service Aug. 26 "some public relations are involved here," since the United States has taken heat from the Vatican and others on earlier statements about the conference.

"This is an administration that ever since the president's [Bill Clinton] inauguration has been really for abortion," Cardinal Mahony said, despite Clinton's often-stated remark that abortion must be "safe, legal and rare."

"We'll have to se:e what Vice president Al Gore says and does in Cairo," the cardinal said. Gore was to lead the U.S. delegation and be present for the: conference's first few days.

Bishop James T. McHugh of Camden, N.J., who will be part of the Vatican delegation in Cairo, told The Washington Post Gore's remarks appear to "'amount to a shift in U.S. policy.... Maybe this is a good thing for the United States."

But Judie Brown, head of the American Life League, said Aug.

26 that if Gore follows through, the United States "will have to change their entire list of advisers," which she said included former U.S. Rep. Bella Abzugand Planned Parenthood head Pamela Maraldo.

Father Silvano Tomasi, another member of the Vatican delegation, said passage of the document in its present form would represent an "empty victory" for population control proponents.

Unless the document's language is changed t.o assert that abortion should not be a method of birth control, "I think there will be a significant group of countries voting against" it, he said Aug. 24.

The Organization ofthe Islamic Conference asked its 41 member nations to reject the Cairo draft document. The del~gation, meeting in Malaysia in late August, condemned the d6cument as "against human morality," according to Italian press reports.

Hamid Algabid, secretary general of the organization, told the Tehran Times in Iran that the three most objectionable parts of the draft had to do with abortion, premarital sex and "giving unlimited freedom to children," adding that the draft ignores Islamic values.

An ad hoc group of U.S. Muslims, Baptists, women, academics and population researchers stated their opposition at an Aug. 23, press conference in Washington.

"The U. N. should not interfer in family moral matters," said Vernon Walters, the U.S. U.N. ambassador during Reagan's presidency.

Walters dismissed as "nonsense" the idea of political motivations behind Catholic-Muslim collaboration on the conference.

An open letter to ,Clinton in the Aug. 29 New York Times accused State Department q)Qrdinator for population Faith M,itchell of antiCatholic bigotry in discussions on Cairo. The letter asked for an apology. .

Ms. Mitchell was quoted in an interview as saying that she suspected papal opposition to the ' conference had to do "with the fact that the conference is really calling for a new role for women, calling for girls' education and improving the status of women."

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Rev. Sean P. O'Malley, O.EM. Cap., Bishop of Fall River, has accepted the no~~ation of the Reverend Mark L. Curesky, O.EM., Conv., Mmlster Provincial of the Conventual Franciscan Friars ofSt. Anthony of Padua Provinct:, U.S .A., and has made the following appointment: , Reverend Joseph Grzybowski, O.EM., Conv., Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish in Taunton.

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Korea looks ahead

VATICAN CITY (CNS)- Pope John Paul II has named Bishop Paul Schmitz, a Capuchin from Fond du Lac, Wis., to head the Apostolic Vicariate of Bluefields, Nicaragua.

Bishop Schmitz has been auxiliary vicar there since 1984 and had served as apostolic administrator after the death of American-born Bishop Salvador Schlaefer in October 1993.

Bishop Schmitz, 50, has worked in Nicaragua since his ordination to the priesthood in 1970. From 1978 to 1982 he served as superior of Capuchins living in Nicaragua. ' In 1982 he was elected vice provincial of the Capuchin Vice Province of Central America, a post he held at the time he was named a bishop.

On Jan. I, 1990, he was injured in a roadside attack in which two nuns were killed and a third injured.

The Nicaraguan government blamed U.S.-backed contra guerrillas for the attack.

Anchor will have representative at Cairo conference

SEOUL, South Korea(CNS)The Catholic Church in Korea is readying a pastoral plan for the 21 st century that aims at meeting developments in family life, education, reunification with North Korea and other sectors. The Extraordinary Committeefor 20 I0 Pastoral Research, under Father Dionysius Namik Paik, secretary general of the Korean bishops' conference, has been map'ping the plan which includes research by experts into II themes.

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Environment and Life For some misguided souls, environmental problems are viewed as somehow removed from real life. Many people get caught up in single issues, failing to recognize that problems of the environment should be viewed in the light of total human development in both its economic and social aspects.

When seen from this viewpoint, such matters have moral and ethical ramifications often overlooked .by single-issue advocates. In fact, from any point of view, the issue of the environment is very complex; but it is heartening to realize that today industrial nations are willing to make a real effort to protect their soil, air and water.

Indeed, the level of environmental concern is growing daily despite lack of cooperation by the so-called robber barons of industry. But even with the tremendous pressure exerted by lobbyists on politicians, the balance in the developed world is favoring the environment. Additionally, many studies indicate that their surroundings are of prime concern to youth, a situation boding well for the future.

The case of the developing countries is different. In Third World nations where natural resources are too often misused and agricultural methods are antiquated, the environment is in dire straits. Often the soil is exhausted or the introduction of foreign industry has led to uncontrolled pollution. Cases in point are the ravished Brazilian rain forest and the condition of so many areas of Eastern Europe.

Much needs to be done in such at-risk areas of our planet to prevent further environmental destruction, but little is actually taking place. Too' often crass commercialism guides economic policies and environmental issues are ignored for the sake of personal gain.

Then there are those elements of our society which would have one believe that all environmental problems flow from overpopulation and not from unbridled greed on the part of those in power. It is plainly simplistic to acculle population growth in developing countries of being responsible folacirl rain and unbalanced ecology in general.

Controlling the world's population is not the' answer to environmental difficulties. Those who choose this illogical course fail to hear the lesson of history and usually use poor populations as scapegoats for problems actually brought about by shamelessly materialistic goals.

It is important to note that the Church has always encouraged expert scientists, economists and scholars of all appropriate disciplines to concern themselves with environmental issues; and certainly all organizations supporting respect for human life should also be concerned for: the environment which nurtures that life.

It is man's duty to be a responsible and inventive steward of the goods which the Creator has placed at his disposal. His God-given intelligence can enable him to discover Earth's full productive potential and the many different ways in which human needs can be satisfied.

In our search for quaHty living, we should always keep in mind that the quality of a society is measured by its respect or lack of respect for life and human dignity. In our endeavors to protect the environment, let us remain keenly aware that we must respect the individual rights of men and women.

We cannot save Earth and destroy human life at the same time.

The Editor

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Church has it right on

By Father Kevin J. Harrington There is no more difficult word for the liberal world of academia to define than family. Our First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, stated in a Mother's Day commencement address at George Washington University, "Instead of families looking 'like the Cleavers on 'Leave It To Beaver,' we have families that include test tube babies and surrogate moms."

While the Clintons acclaim family values, they are hard pressed to give them any definition. In this environment, 'it becomes all the more difficult to define the special social status of heterosexual chifdbearing marriages.

In municipalities and states throughout our nation, legislators are now affording privileges to domestic partners in homosexual liaisons or unmarried heterosexual unions as if they were married.

In the state of Vermont one can simply go to the nearest town hall and fill out a form declaring a person to be your significant other (defined as an enduring and exclusive relationship for the last six months) to receive the same health benefits and inheritance rights as those legally married.

While it can rightly be argued that norms governing sex, marriage and family have varied widely from society to society, there have always been norms; primarily enforced by kinship groups and secondarily by the state. Religion

has always played a major part in reinforcing these norms. It has only been recently that the idea has emerged of leaving these matters to private choice.

This idea has wreaked havoc on our social order by ignoring the wisdom offavoring the social group that keeps both parents in the pic-路 ture to provide the protection, nurture and training needed for children to pass safely from infancy to adulthood. It is difficult to imagine boys and girls becoming resp.onsible adults when surroundedby competing models of sexual unions and family structures.

The argument in school boards of the nineties is whether to include books such as "Heather Has Two Mbmmies"'in the elementary curriculum. In the name of tolerance, could the title become "Heather Has Three or Four Moms"?

Society ignores at its peril the fact that human beings are not sprung into existence as full-blown consenting adults but are shaped into adulthood by role models that place expectations upon the young concerning which behaviors benefit society and which are harmful.

Cultures that have thrived are those

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By the year 2000, 40 percent of births in this country are forecast to be out of wedlock. This crisis did not occur overnight. Increasingly the state, through its court system, is assuming the burden of issuing restraining orders and child support demands on irresponsible '.'adult" parents. While the state expands enforcement by building biggerjails and larger police forces to handle the resultant anarchy, it refuses to examine its root cause.

Anti-family values continue to be written into law, taught in thl: public schools and validated by popular culture.

The Church is one of the few institutions that has uncompromisingly upheld the tradition,'ll and natural definition offamily. Many have criticized her for not being sufficiently tolerant of non-traditional lifestyles; but her 'teaching authority or magisterium has the benefit of 20 centuries of experience and an international point of view that makes its wisdom refreshing and, from the Aml:rican point of view, counter-cultu~:al.

Tolerance 'of social anarchy is increasingly becoming soci2.1 suicide. If the Church were not intolerant on family issues it would be as negligent as many of the other social institutions that used to reinforce the primacy of the family as defined in the traditional and natural sense.

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Q. My friend insists she was taught that only Catholics, or at least Christians, can be saved. All others are condemned.

I am a convert to the Catholic faith and never heard that. Not only does it eliminate Jews, for example, but many other good people whose live!. seem to be holier, and are c(~rtainly more thoughtful and generous, than some Christians.

She claims, however, that she is just repeating what she learned when she was youn~:: "Outside the church there is no slIlvation." Can you help? (Pennsylvania) A. The phrase you quote goes back to the early centuries of Christianity. St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in North Africa, teaches it in his inll.uential work, "The Unity of the Church," published in 251. Perhaps it originated even earlier than that.

The axiom has a long and complicated history through the following centuries. There's no question that often it was interpreted in the strictest sense in official church documents.

The 12th ecumenical council, Lateran I V (1215), echoed the widespread sentiment of official church teaching of that time in declaring, "We firmly believe and confess without reservation ... [that] there is truly one universal church of the faithful outside which absolutely no one is saved" (Chapter I).

The context of these words in that council clearly indicates they were to be understood in the most rigorous sense.

Nearly 100 years later, in a decree . on the power and unity of the church, Pope Boniface VIII taught that outside the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church there is "no salvation or remission of sin."

"We declare, statl~, define and pronounce," he said, that "subjection to the Roman pontiff is absolutely necessary for salvation for every human creature" ("Unam Sanctam," Feb. 17,1304).

Numer{)us reasons could be brought forward to explain this kind of teaching in the church. Not least of them is the f:act that most Christians of those centuries believed that, except for a few pockets here and there, the whole world had been evangelized; thus all people had been presented the opportunity to accept or reject Christ and his church.

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By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN All this changed in the next centuries, of course, with the famous voyages of discovery, revealing the existence of countless millions of hitherto unknown people.

As late as the 1830s, however, two popes cal.led. the rule "outside the Catholic faith 'no one can be saved" a "constant dogma" of our faith (Pius VIII) and an "article of faith" (Gregory XVI).

From then on those words began to be understood and accepted far less rigidly,' Clearly, the church today, when it us\':s them at all, interprets them much more broadly and positively.

The bishops at Vatican Council II taught that God's saving grace is at work not only in the Jews and Moslems, who are touched by revelation in the Scriptures, but in all others as well.

"Those also can attain eternal salvation," said the bishops, "who through no fa ult of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or his church, yet sincerely seek God and, moved by grace, strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through their conscience."

God's saving action extends even beyond those who explicitly search for him, they continue. "Nor does divine providence deny the help necessary for salvation to those who, without blame on their part, have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God, but who strive to live a good life, thanks to his grace" (Constitution on the Church, 16).

This belief was repeated often and in various ways;in other Vatican Council documents. and later official teachings, including the new Catholic catechism.

"Reformulated pbsitivelY," the catechism affirms, the statement "Outside the church, no salvation" means that "all salvation comes from Christ the head through the church, which is his body" (846).

As a further explanation of what that means, it then quotes the same passages from Vatican Council II which I quote above.

Perhaps this will help you understand why your friend may have heard what she did and why she interpreted it so strictly.

It should also explain why the church uses those words "outside the church, no salvation" more cautiously; they are easily misinterpreted in ways Catholic teaching would absoluteiy not accept today.

A free brochure on confession without serious sin and other questions about the sacrJment of penance is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Fathve!, Dietzen at the same address.

BOSTON (CNS) - The Statue of Liberty, symbol of the traditional U.S. welcome to immigrants, has been "badly tarnished" by the recent response to Haitians and Cubans seeking refuge, according to Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston.

Writing in The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper, Cardinal Law took issue with the "present inconsistent and contradictory policies" toward refugees from Haiti and Cuba.

"Our refusal to admit in any significant number those Haitians seeking refuge here was always difficult to understand in the face of our welcoming policy for Cubans," the cardinal wrote.

"Now, however, rather than redress our erroneous Haitian refugee policy, we have compounded the error by extending our 'closeddoors policy' to Cubans!" he added.

"Two wrongs do not make a right."

President Clinton has announced that Cubans would no longer be unquestioningly welcomed into the United States, tightening up a 30year policy of admitting all Cubans whether or not they had permission to enter the country. The new policy will require Cubans to obtain asylum approval in order to be freed from detention.

Cubans who reach U.S. shores on their own or who are picked up at sea willjoin 15,000 Haitians in a safe-haven camp at Guantanamo Naval Base while they are processed, Clinton said.

Cardinal Law said the best U.S. policy on refugees would be "to , support those developments in countries of origin which would encourage persons to stay home." ] n the case of Cuba, he suggested a gradual lifting of the U.S. embargo, "with further steps pledged in response to political and social developments within Cuba" and the eventual exchange of envoys by the two nations.

He also urged a lifting of the embargo against Haiti, and said the "normalization of conditions within that country should be pursued with the presidency of Haiti, the private sector, labor, religious leaders, the Parliament and the military."

"Cuba and Haiti are in desperate need of economic development and political reform," Cardinal Law said. "There are better ways to achieve these than by applying economic policies which most heavily penalize those who are already victims within their own countries. Certainly. there are better ways than military invasion or naval blockade."

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Pro-lifers to lobby JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNS) - A new pro-life group organized by South Africa's bishops said it would lobby Catholic legislators and other government officials to oppose legalized abortion and "un-Christian" population control. Delegates at the inaugural meeting of the Right to Life Campaign discussed ways to fight attempts to legalize abortion in South Africa and how to make an anti-abortion stand at the U. N. Conference on Population and Development in S(:ptember. Currently, abortions in South Africa are legal under limited circumstances, such as rape, incest or when the mother's life is in danger.

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Be a teacher!

By Father Eugene Hemrick 0'0 you 'ever feel the desire to teach and stimulate young minds?

A letter from Margie Irwin Mostyn, a parishioner in a parish where I formerly served and a teacher at Providence High School in New Lenox, Ill., recently rekindled that desire in me.

She wrote to update me on her career and sent samples of her work. In them was "The Chosen One - A Teacher," her vision of teaching: "I wanted to be an actress and win an Academy Award ' "I wanted to be a missionary and create world accord "I wanted to be a writer and win the Pulitzer Prize "I ended up being a teacher which was, to me, a surprise.

"I n retrospect, I've become what I want to be "I perform in every classroom for all my students to see "I write and read a prayer for an audience each day "A thousand people listening as I pray on the P A. "Public acclamation was not what I attained "But through teaching teens. daily my goals have remained "Acting, writing, and missionary all rolled up in one "Add to that the students and I am a chosen one."

This poem caused me to reflect on Robert Bolt's play, "A Man for All Seasons," based on the life of St. Thomas Moore. One scene in particular beautifully coincides with Ms. Mostyn's vision.

Richard Rich, an ambitious young man lusting for the glories of court life, begs Thomas Moore for a court position. Thomas sees through Rich's ambitions, but also sees in him a talent, his teaching ability. He implores Rich to be a teacher.

Rich balks, "And if I was, who would know it?"

Thomas replies, "You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that."

Bolton captures the nobility in teaching. One of Ms. Mostyn's

works gives us a good example of noble deeds teachers perform. She creates prayers that begin a high schooler's day. Listen to one: "Dear God, thank you for this day - that I'm alive and that I'm here. You know that I'm not mentally ready for school to start. I'm ready to see all my friends and the social and extracurricular part of school. It'sjust the book work that bothers me.

"Help me realize that by working now, I can have a good start on the year. Through a teacher or another student, give me the encouragement to give my best shot.

And please, make this day go fast while I'm in the classroom. Love, me."

This simple prayer says so much!

It takes students where they are in life, and it reflects a teacher who understands the student's complex emotions. It guides students toward addressing their problems to God first thing. Before the hassles of schoolwork begin,' students are given the opportunity to reflect and elevate their thoughts.

Ms. Mostyn's prayer is one of thousands of ways teachers inspire students. It exemplifie's that nobility in teaching, which can move a student beyond his or her world into more expansive and inspiring worlds.

Conferences abound STEUBENVILLE,Ohio(CNS) - Families, teens and young adults filled the lecture halls of the Franciscan University of Steubenville this summer to hear about prayer, family values. chastity and becoming missionaries. "I admire those of you here who are married. who are struggling through the daily crises ... simply to keep the faith and transmit the faith to your children," Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York told about 450 participants at the Conference on the Family. Father Benedict Groeschel, founding member of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, spoke of the family's supernatural essence. "If you try to run a marriage on just intelligence, it will crash in three weeks." he said.

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They are 14 and 13. I realize that part of it is boyish exuberance, but often it goes too far. Yesterday, they broke a lamp, and sometimes they get mean and hurtful with each other. I've reasoned with them, yelled at them, punished them, but nothing seems to stop it. What can I do? (Chicago) You might as well try to stop Niagara Falls as try to stop male teenage energy directly. If you yell at them to stop, you only become a participant in their "game."

The simplest plan is to somehow separate them. Separating the combatants is good discipline because it accomplishes the goal by making the energetic interaction impossible.

Here are four different strategies that may help when things begin to get out of hand.

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Avoid lecturing or nagging. Whatever you say is likely to be disregarded. Or worse, it becomes included in the games of "Last word" or "It's not fair."

2. Silver whistle: Make discipline a game. Have a few whistles hanging around the house. When you blow the whistle, everyone must go to a pre-agreed location and remain there for 60 seconds.

"After the timeout, everyone involved can proceed to the kitchen and receive a treat, perhaps a handful of trail mix or peanuts and raisins.

3. Olympics: Put all that wonderful energy to work or play.

Have some tasks that you can assign for just such moments, tasks that will keep them apart.

Or get them running and jumping. Assign a' certain number of push-ups or sit-ups. Even better, have an "Olympic record" time for racing around the outside of the house, or through an obstacle course in the back yard. Interrupt

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4. "Hugo" means "you go," as in "You go outside." Point to one of the combatants and call him Hugo.

He gets to pick a place away and receives a small prize for going there.

Discipline does not have to:iound reasonable or be painful. It just, has to work and stop the fig'hting.

Any way you can separate the combatants will solve the problem.

A game with some humor helps drain energy and dissipate growing anger. The above game:., and other similar varieties, may t.,elp to put so'me space between your rambunctious sons.

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St. Mark dramatized Frank Runyeon would be familiar to many people. He's acted in a string of nationally televised soap operas for well over a decade - as Ed McLain on "Another World," Steve Andropolus on "As the World Turns," Father Donnelly on "Santa Barbara" and Simon Romero on "General Hospital."

But I met him playing a different role, one in which he was the voice ofSt. Mark telling his Gospel.

Runyeon, who attended Yale Divinity School and who has a master's degree in religious studies from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York, studied Greek so he could read St. Mark's Gospel in the original.

But what makes Frank Runyeon good news copy is the one-man show he wrote and plays in, "Afraid! The Gospel of Mark." He wrote the script by translating St. Mark's Gospel from the Greek.

Father Dave Riley, pastor of Holy Trinity Parish in Sherman, Conn., told me he was bringing Runyeon to his parish to do his 'one-man presentation, so impressed was the priest with this actorplaywright's spirituality.

I saw Runyeon's performance,

and was mesmerized. Talking to him was uplifting. He said he found it "revelatory" to read the Gospel in the original Greek.

"The Gospel opens when Jesus is baptized. In Mark's version at least, the sky is ripped open and the dove comes down. The King James translation has heaven being 'rent asunder.' I say 'ripped open.'

Ripped, not gently parted. !here . is a percussive bang to the word 'ripped'" he'said, convinced that this is why St. Mark chose that word.

The actor, an Episcopalian, married to a Catholic, said that Mark's Gospel was meant to' be heard, not read. "Jesus never said, 'read.' He said 'listen."''' Afraid" compels one to listen, especially when he speaks to the audience at the end and exhorts all to go out and "live this Gospel."

I asked Runyeon how his commitment to telling the Gospel came about. It happened for a variety of reasons, he said.

The turning point was the sui- . cide of a friend. Overwhelmed with shock, numbness, sadness and grief, Runyeon started to think about life and relationships. "I guess I felt a sense of my own fail-

Flying the coop When children leave home to establish their own places it can be' a difficult time for parents, espe- , cially if they haven't bolted down their major appliances.

The third of our children recently fluttered off on his own renting a place with his buddy. He wanted to be, independent, do his own thing, escape my scrutiny and his mother's.

Our scrutiny was delighted.

It was not always so. We worried when our oldest left home.

Would she be safe? Would she have enought to eat? Would she be warm enough? Would she remember to floss? Would she return our video camera?

When No.2 exited. we worried less - partly because his sister had survived well and partly because his lifestyle, eating habits, hours,

looks, flipness, leaky car, pet scorpion and hot water consumption were driving us bonkers.

In his back seat I noticed the hair dryer, my racquetball racket, several rolls of toilet paper, our luggage and the waffle iron. He came back later for an extension phone, toaster, clock radio and toothpaste.

However, a dramatic change occurred. We looked forward to seeing him. And he looked forward to visiting us - not to mention the refrigerator.

So, we were almost pro~ at dealing with No. 3's exodus. We might have even startled him by offering to loan him the pickup, stake him to a case of TV dinners and underwrite his utility deposit.

"I love having my own place,"

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO ure to share' more deepl~' with him," he said. . Itledto a decision. "It m2.de me realize that I should be wil:ling to talk about God, to live th~ kind of life that is life-giving rather than be so self-involved."

The actor, a father of three, went on: "Life is short. We're not in control of tragedy, and we're tremendously mortal. I felt I'had to do something to bri'ng some gift of life to folks, ... to become wholeheartedly Christian."

Bringing St. Mark's Go:.pel to the stage is one way he has used his profession for the higher cause of "bringing love and life for a while'" to others.

"I'm not selling anythifig. I'm allowing the story to be experienced. I'm not on a mission. I'm doing nothing more than making sure the Gospel is heard," he said.

I can't think of a bett<:r goal than that.

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he bubbled on the phone to his mother earlier this week. "Mind If I come over to visit and maybe borrow a couple of things?'"

"Sure, honey," his morn said.

Not long after he left we noticed the refrigerator was empty, the shampoo was gone and the VCR was missing.

How does that old Irish saying go - something about giving your children roots and wings? Well, if we have any around here, I'm sure they'll take off with them sooner or later.

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A dd your "amen" Dear Editor: This letter is a call to the whole Church for prayer, fasting and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on Oct. 20, 1994, the day our Holy Father John Paul II will speak at the United Nations on matters of gravt: concern to all peoples and all nations.

We, as members of the church, must give visible support to the Holy Father on this day. The truth of God is being compromised or ignored entirely by the modern world under the guise of progress.

The Holy Father, in his deep concern for humanity, knows that a decline in moral values under any guise can only bring additional chaos, not salvation, to an already troubled world. God's truth cannot be compromised.

We have an opportunity, as the People of God, to add our"Amen" to the Holy Father's message as a sign of our solidarity and strength.

St. Paul tells us the church is the (Mystical) Body of Christ. It is our hope that on Oct. 20, we will gather as members of that Body, combining our prayers, fasting and adoration of the Eucharist (Christ's presence among tis) in all churches on earth, joining one to the other, forming one body, thereby releasing a force of spiritual energy so powerful it will ignite and "renew the face of the earth," giving a light to the world that will dispel the darkness.

For this prayer vigil to be successful, everyone should participate. This message must be circulated to those across the country or world. This letter may be copied or faxed for distri.bution. Do your part to get the mt:ssage out - but more importantly, arrange to have this day of prayer, fasting and adoration of the Eucharist take place in your parish church.

In this Year of the Family, let us remember St. Paul's call for unity:

"I urge you, brothers [and sisters], in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose" (I Cor. I: 10).

St. Paul's parish council Hancock, NY

Stop the bloodshed Dear Editor: The violence and bloodshed inside the walls of the abortion centers is spilling over into the streets outside the doors. The weapon used outside the'abortuary in Pensacola was a shotgun. A knife and suction are the weapons used inside.

The victim killed inside is a defenseless, innocent, unborn baby and sometimes her/his mother. Outside, the victim is an adult male and his 74-years-born escort.

The killing inside is legal, the killing outside is illegal. The dead inside are out of sight of the TV cameras and ignored yet exploited in the name of "choice." The dead outside are overexposed and exploited to ensure continued protection of the killing inside. The assailant outside believes he is righteously called to stop the killing by killing.

The assailant inside believed he was rightfully paid to kill to protect a "choice" to kill. One used violence to stop a life, the other used violence to stop a life from killing.

Violence begets more violence.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta boldly .proclaimed the truth to the president, vice-president and congressionalleaders who have condoned and promoted abortion: "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to' kill each other.~.Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to u~e any violence to get what they want. ... Bring the child back."

We must stop the bloodshed inside to prevent the bloodshed outside.

Eleanor Drechsel, RN Director, Florida Human Life International Clearwater, FL

Prayer day set for divorced Sept. 3 1912, Rev. Thomas J. McGee, D.O., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton Sept. 4 1864, Rev. Joseph P. Tallon, Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford 1894, Rev. John J. Maguire, Founder, St. Peter, Provincetown Sept. 5 1948, Rev. Napoleon A. Messier, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River Sept. 7 1966, Very Rev. James E. McMahon, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs 1984, Rev. Raymond Pelletier, M.S., LaSalette Sh rine, Attleboro Sept. 8 1868, Rev. Thomas Sheehan, Founder, HolyTrinity, West Harwich

The Diocesan Family Life Center will host "Trusting Once Again," a prayer day for separated and divorced persons, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 10. The program is the New England regional observance of the North American Conference of Separated and Divorced Catholics third annual Day of Prayer, held in memoryofNACSDC founding chaplain Rev. James J. Young.

Dorothy J. Levesque, NACSDC executive director, will present the regional observa~ce.

Registration may be made in advance or at the door. Participants should bring a bag lunch; beverages will be provided. For information contact the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry, 9996420, or Marilyn Heaps, president, NACSDC Region I, (603) 6732289.

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ROME(CNS)-- Abortionsare on a steady decline in Italy, according to a government report. The report said there were 155,172 legal abortions in 1992, the last year for which statistics are available. compared to 190,000 in 1987. This represents a 35 percent drop in the ratio of abortions per woman of child-bearing age. said the report. prepared by the health ministry.

The report also said a large number of medical personnel refuse to participate in abortions. This is permitted under a clause in the 1978 la w that allows conscientious objection. Sixty percent of the doctors and anesthesiologists are conscientious objectors, said the report.

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The:ir wedding vows included lifelong service of poor CHANCELLORSVILLE, Va. (CNS) - At their wedding, John and Polly Mahoney pledged more than to remain faithful to each other.

"We made a life commitment to serve the poor," said John Mahoney. "We did it as part of our wedding vows."

After 1) years of living out their vow in the Washington Catholic Worker community, the Mahoneys moved in September 1993 to Chancellorsville, opening the first Catholic Worker house in the Arlington diocese. They iHe now hoping to start a retreat house for the poor and homeless.

The couple met in Boston, where Mahoney had taken temporary vows as a Franciscan and was working with the poor. Polly was helping runaways in her home.

They met at a prayer meeting and developed their common interest in serving the poor. It led them to what was to be a three-year commitment to the Catholic Worker, a lay movement dedicated to nonviolence, simplicity of life and service to the poor.

Although a rare occurrence, said Mrs. Mahoney, "There are a few people like John and me who make [the Catholic Worker] a lifetime commitment.".

The Catholic Worker house in Washington was a transitional shelter for the homeless, but as other shelters opened in the area, the Mahoneys found the work being duplicated. They decided to focus on offering retreats for the homeless. and poor.

Through an ad in the Washington archdiocesan newspaper, they found a small house in Chancellorsville on 10 acres of land.

Their move has had its share of problems.

Area residents feared "that we would be bringing unsavory people into this quiet neighborhood," the Mahoneys told the Arlington Catholic Herald.

Nevertheless, they believe they have led some people to peace at the retreat house. Mrs. Mahoney told of one woman whose quiet, gentle demeanor at the Catholic Worker house was in sharp contrast to her volatile behavior at another shelter.

"1 attributed the presence of the Lord to the change." she said.

Homeless people seem to spend a great deal of time in prayer, according to Mrs. Mahoney.

The Catholic Worker movement was started in the 1930s by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with a simple newsletter about efforts to serve the needy.

As the depression of those years worsened, their work attracted notice and followers formed other communities. There are now more than 120 Catholic Worker houses in the United States, Canada, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and Australia.

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U .8. labor priest calls life's work a ministry of presence

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ment and other movements and good legislation to effect major changes."

On Vatican II's importance to him and the church, he commented, "'t was obviously one of the most important events in modern history, surely the most important event of my lifetime.... From a strictly American point of view, the solving of the religious question was extremely important.

That's why [Jesuit theologian Father] John Courtney Murray will go down as a major figure in the history of the council."

He said he generally agrees with an emphasis on biblical themes among Catholic social thinkers, but he gets "a little nervous when people oversimplify it because everybody can quote the Bible to his own purpose."

"One of the weaknesses, it seems to me, of the evangelical Christian right is their misuse of the Bible ... for their own political purposes," he said. "There's a fundamentalist strain in every religious group if it's not curtailed and watched."

He said one of the reasons for the disappointment of women with the church today is that Vatican II did virtually nothing to address their concerns. '" think it is without any question one of the great, great challenges confronting the church today, the whole question ofthe role of women in the church and in society."

At the same time, he said, '" think it's fair and only honest to challenge women in the church in the United States to take leadership where they are already in a

WASHINGTON(CNS)- This spring he had his second or third retirement, depending on how you count it.

But this summer he was in Jerusalem for an international Catholic-Jewish dialogue. The following week he was at the International Labor Organization's headquarters in Geneva. There were side trips to Rome and Paris. Then he was off to a labor meeting in Detroit.

At 78, Msgr. George Gilmary Higgins, known for df:cades as the country's leading labor priest, said he doesn't travel as much as he used to.

But he still does "a fair amount," he said, including monthly trips to Detroit for meetings of the United Auto Workers Public Review Board, a labor ethics panel he has been on since 1957 and chaired since 1962.

"If I can manage it, , will never turn down an invitation to go to a labor meeting," he said.

And he still writes The Yardstick, the nationally syndicated Catholic press column that he wrote every week from 1945 until 1992, when it was changed to every other week.

His nearly 2,500 columns over a MSGR. GEORGE HIGGINS, the "labor priest." (eNS photo) 49-year span form a unique chronicle ofan ongoing dialogue between After his ordination as a Chidays when membership was highCatholic social teaching and the cago archdiocesan priest in 1940, er:' great events, movements and con- Msgr. Higgins was sent to Catholic When asked about his numertroversies swirling across the Uni- University for graduate studies in ous battles over the years with ted States through those years. labor economics.

Catholic institutions that tried to Once described by the late church When he finished his doctorate prevent their employees from historian Msgr. John Tracy Ellis in 1944, he was asked to help out unionizing, he said, "That's often as "the best informed Catholic for the summer in the Social Action been one of the least pleasant priest in the United States," Msgr.

Department of the National Caththings that I've been involved in....

Higgins continues to read vora- olic Welfare Conference, forerunBut I'm quite willing to do it whenciously. .. ner of the U.S. Catholic Conever I'm called upon."

"Depending on my travel sched- ference.

He called his specialized minisule, , will try to read at least three The informal temporary aptry of priestly presence to the relighours a day," he said. "Catholic pointment turned into a monuiously diverse labor movement "a social teaching and related areas mental work as he stayed there for difficult role" but added, '" think -labor economics, lahor history, the next 36 years, becoming directhere's something to be said for etc. - and beyond that a reasona- tor of the department in 1954 and, sheer presence, of being there when ble amount of theology, general in the 1970s, USCC secretary for people need help." cultural matters, biographies.... , research and for speqial concerns.

One of his regrets is the lack of read four newspapers every day He attended all four sessions of wide interest in or knowledge of just to keep alive."

Vatican II, was on 'the drafting the labor movement among youngPeriodicals? "I subscribe to commission for its document on er Catholic social activists, he said. about 20," he said, Citing at the top the laity and was a,l~ading figure "I think that's changing, however, of his list the Catholic magazines in interpreting the council to the because I think that any intelligent Call Commonweal and America.

English-speaking wo~ld at the U.S. person in the Catholic field today, Recently read books? He men- bishops' daily press briefings. priest or layman, has to realize tioned the "New Dictionary of In the 1970s he played a central that the small, little work of CathoCatholic Social Thought" - "a role in the Catholic bishops' medilic social action groups is not going splendid, splendid book" - and ation of the United Farm Workers' to effect major changes ... that you Father Richard McBrien's revised struggle with California's grape [need] an effective labor moveedition of "Catholicism" - "an growers, and then in battling the excellent book. It's goingto be the sweetheart contracts that the standard text for the m:xt 20 years." Teamsters signed wit~ the growers Interviewed in his two-room to undermine U FW membership. residence at The Catholic UniverThe USCC announced his early sity of America - an apartment retirement in a 1978 budget-cutting still heavily lined with books al- measure. Msgr. Higgins accepted though ""ve given most of my the decision, but conference offilibrary away now" - Msgr. Hig- cials almost immediately reversed FALL RIVER ATTLEBORO gins commented on a variety of it in the face of the storm of protest 783 SLADE ST. 10 MAPLE ST. issues facing the Catholic Church it aroused from top national figP.O. BOX M - SO. STA. 226-4780 674-4681 and the United Statt~s. They in- ures in labor, social action, the cluded labor, civil rights and wo- Jewish community and other quarmen to the Second Vatican Coun- ters. cil, Christian fundamentalism, theTwo years later as he neared his -ADOPTIONS ology, priesthood and Catholic- 65th birthday he did formally retire Jewish relations.

- CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN from his USCC post but was imBut he insisted on sticking to mediately named adjunct profesDEVELOPMENT issues and politely dedi ned to dis- sor of theology at Gatholic Unicuss his own 36 year-record as one versity, a position he held for the - CATHOLIC AIDS MINISTRY of the country's leading Catholic . next 14 years. "I'm fully retired - COUNSELING spokesmen on social justice issues now. I taught until (his year," he and chief liaison for the bishops said.

- INFANT FOSTER CARE with the labor movement.

He described the U.S. labor "When it comes to my involve- movement as "badly weakened" ment in labor ... , was quite willing over the past 40 years but said that SPONSORSHIP: just to be there and do what " "the reasons for its decline are varALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS could ... what you might call a ied and have relatively little to do SOUP KITCHEN ministry of presence, ofbeing help- with the personality of the leaderful, of giving encouragement," he ship. , think the leadership is just added. as idealistic as it was during the

position to do it ... to show the rest of us how to do it in those institutions which they control."

Religious orders of women, he said, "are the biggest employers of workers in the church in the United States because they own the hospitals.... And yet there have been too many examples of our Catholic institutions, hospitals in particular, deliberately going out of their way to thwart the right of the workers to organize."

At the same time he praised U.S. women religious for their commitment to renewal and social justice even before the council. He said this fall's world Synod of Bishops, dealing with religious life, "will be of extreme importance, to see whether the church is ready yet for a new and realistic understanding of the role of consecrated life in the church. , think that remains to be seen."

He said diocesan priests have similar challenges to those of religious, stemming from a decline in numbers and changing understandings.

If someone interested in priesthood approached him, he said, '" would want to make sure he was mature enough to know that he was coming into a changing institution in a changing world ....

"When we had great numbers [of priests], you could kind of fit into the system, the system would carry you along," Msgr. Higgins said. "But in the future , think there's going to have to be a much greater sense of individual maturity and willingness to live with disappointments and with ambiguities and with rapid change."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 2, 1994

Evaluating after-school programs

Your child's school day ends by 3 p.m. But your work day isn't over until 5. How will your child be cared for between the time he or . she leaves school and the time you get home?

Many parents wrestle with that question when their kids have started school and out-grown the traditional preschool day-care program. Choices include: changing the work schedule so one parent can be home when the child returns from school; hiringa friend, neighWith working mothers now an accepted andpredominant bor, or relative to care for the child part of A merican life, the question of who cares for the chil- in the home; arranging with neighto have the child go to their dren before and after school takes on urgency. Depending on bors home after school; and selecting the child's age, the answers range from a structured after- an after-school program at a lischool program to a cal'egiver to self-care. censed child-care facility.

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According to the Whirlpool HomeLife Network Services, an after-school program for children five or older should be· different Your youngster's at that in-be• tell time? tween age, too old for caregivers, • understand what "stranger" from a child-care program for preschoolers. It should allow children but has never stayed home alone and "emergency" mean? greater independence and offer acfor extended periods of time. De• solve small problems on his or terming if a child is actually ready her own, but know when to seek tivities that older children will enjoy. for self-care is a challer.ge for par- help? _ "An after-school program-even ents. There's no magic age at which • consider how his or her actions one located in a school buildingevery child is capable of caring for affect 'others? should not be a continuation of him- or herself. As with every • Know how to call for emerschool activities," explains Carol . other developmental milestone, gency services?

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In addition to observing the program, you'll want to talk to the director or another staff member when you visit.

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• Are both indoor and outdoor areas pleasant and safe?

• Are children supervised by sight at all times?

• Are bathrooms nearby?

• Are there written health, safety and emergency rules?

• Is the staff qualified in schoolage child care?

• Are there enough adults for the number of children in the program?

• Does the staff talk to children

often and in a friendly, helpful way?

• Is there a procedure to provide reports to parents on their children?

• Are children relaxed and happy while they play?

• Are there fun and exciting activities to choose from each day?

• Are there enough equipment and materials to make the play areas interesting?

• Is there enough space for children to play in groups or individually?

• Is there an area set a!,ide for quiet activities?

• Is there a policy of prohibiting the use of physical or othl~r punishment that hurts, frightens, or humiliates children?

• Are there opportunit ies for parents to participate from time to time?

• Can parents visit at any time?

• Are questions and comments from parents encouraged?

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• DISCUSS ANSWERING THE PHONE. Prepare a message for the child to deliver to callers when you're not home. For in-' stance, "my mother can't come to the phone right now" instead of "my mother's not home."

• GIVE TIMELY INFORMATION. Make sure your schedule is well known to your child, including when you'll be home from work.

• REVIEW ENTERING AND EXITING THE HOME. Supply a set of keys to your youngster and run through how to lock and unlock doors and windows.

• ESTABLISH A CHECK-IN PROCEDURE. Arrange for your child to call you or a designated adult who lives nearby to report that he or she is home safely.

• ANTICIPATE CHANGES. Plan and practice what to do if

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• SET ~UP HOUSE RULES. ,Dt;velop a plan for your child regarding friends visiting, boun~ daries for outside activities (park, library, neighbor's house), length of telephone conversations, and how to resolve conflicts or problems with siblings.

• TEACH APPLIANCE SAFETY. Instruct your children in the proper use of appliances and designate which ones are safe for them to use when alone. .• PREPARE A TO-DO LIST. Discuss interesting and acceptable activities for your youngsters to engage in when you're at work and let them choose their favorites, from watching quality TV shows to practicing a musical instrument.

• PROVIDE RESOURCES.

Designate a check-in person who lives nearby to help during an emergency. Provide a first-aid kit with simple instruction, a badweather pack with a flashlight and transistor radio, and a list c f house rules.

• PLAN A TRIAL PERIOD. Set a specified period for you and your child to adjust to sdf-care, allowing you the opportunity to revise or end the arrangment if either of you is uncomfort.lble.

The key to a successful self-care experience is good communication.

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Assessing finances WASHINGTON (CNS) - Researcher Joseph C. Harris has announced a new study to analyze how the nation's Catholic parishes and schools collect and spend about $12 billion each year. The Lilly Endowment awarded a Si61,070 grant for the study, to be: sponsored by the Life Cycle Institute of The Catholic University of America in Washington, with thn:e CV A researchers as project advisers.

Harris, a Seattle research ';onsultant, is to conduct the research and wri te the report. In 1992 he did a national study of 1991 Catholic parish collection data, and he has written on various aspects of parish and school finances.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 2, 1994

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Social contract at risk

POLICE OFFICERS carry the coffin of Thomas Giunta up the rains wept steps of Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, above. Left, the officer's Mass of Christian Burial is offered inside the packed church by Father Edward J. Byington, far right. At near left are some of the 10 concelebrants, while Bishop O'Malley and Msgr. John J. Oliveira kneel at far left.

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City mourns slaip police officer Continued from Page One our own but are in the hands of God. "We realize that the answers to our lives having meaning and to our streets being safe is the same...

We must cultivate and practice the virtues of faith, hope and love.

"It's the least we can do for Tommy," he concluded, "and it's the best we can do for ourselves and our world."

Giunta leaves a wife, Doris, two sons, Thomas, and Marine Corps Pfc. Timothy Giunta, and a daughter, Tina Marie.

His funeral servi,ces drew 4,000 police officers from seven states representing aboUit 200 departments. For more than an hour before the Mass began, police cars from all over New England filed past the church as hundreds of officers, standing three and four deep, lined surrounding streets.

They stood at attention in an impressive spectacle and solemn tribute as the funeral procession approached: Giunta's motorcycle unit, led by the fallen officer's own motorcycle, driven by his partner, Roland Proulx; a riderless horse led by a state trooper; and finally the horse-drawn wagon bearing the flag-draped coffin.

Six officers carried the coffin into the church as the church bells tolled, while 200 cilty police officers and firefighters filled the pews.

Police Chief Francis J. McDonald read the prayers of the faithful, and Giunta's colleagues Deputy Chief Cathleen Moniz.and Detective Capt. Robert Pdadeau offered Mass readings.

Local newspapers, radios and television stations gave extended coverage of the services, with many stations providing live coverage.

Coordinating media coverage were John Kearns of the Diocesan Office of Communications and Rene Kochman, program manager at Greater Fall River Cable TV,

After the Mass Father Byington and a group of alt~r server.s joined the huge, police p,rocession as it made its way for: three miles in steady rain toward St. Patrick's Cemetery.

There, after finat'prayers, Officer Giunta was eulogized by Fall River Mayor John Mitchell, who remembered his friend *s dash'ing and exuberant.· The Gospel tells us "you must lose your life to s~ve it," said the mayor. Always Officer Giunta's first concern was not his own life but helping other~, he added. In

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the Gospel sense, with his sacrifice, "Tommy has saved his life."

"We have nO.doubt Tommy is in heaven, dressed sharply, with that devilish smile on his face. When the good Lord calls him and says something needs to be done, it will be done promptly, thoroughly, professionally. Tommy will never be called on th.e celestial carpet. God bless you, Tommy."

The service ended. A bugler played taps. Proulx revved his partner's Harley and sped off, siren wailing, on Giunta's symbolic final call to duty.

Continued from Page One when permanent replacements take the jobs of striking workers. ."It's time for unions and employers to seek the common good instead of the singleminded pursuit of economic advantage."

Bishop Ricard pointed to papal support for employer-paid health care in the current debate over health care reform.

"In his encyclical 'On Human Work,' Pope John Paul II spoke about social benefits needed to ensure the life and health of workers and their families," Bishop Ricard said.

"He said that because of the expenses involved in providing health care, it should be easily available for workers at low cost or even no cost."

Currently, he estimated, 90 percent of those with insurance get it through work.

Bishop Ricard, addressing the welfare reform debate, reiterated the Catholic perspective.

"Those who can work, should work. Work is not a way you pay off welfare assistance; rather, it is the means to secure a decent life for your family," he said.

"In an economy where millions are looking for work and cannot find it, these principles demand that real welfare reform be more than lectures about responsibility

or training for jobs that don't e·xist."

The bishop took note of the growing number of women in the work force.

"Women are disproportionately in low-wage, low-benefit jobs. They are more likely to lack health care insurance, and to head single-parent households," he said.

"Welfare reform and health care reform will greatly affect the lives of poor and low-income working women and their children."

Bishop Ricard added, "Catholic teaching advocates ... familyfriendly public policies that help women and men balance work and family responsibilities, as well as social, economic and tax policies that would make it possible for women to do the important work of raising children and providing a home for their families if they choose to do so on a fulltime basis."

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Wichita conference Continued from Page One with money or fund raising but with stewardship as a Catholic's response to Christ's call to discipleship. ' While in Wichita, said Father Bouchard, he wa~ the guest of Father Thomas M,cGread, pastor of St. Francis of: Assisi parish.

Father McGread, ,who presented the conference wor~ship on "Stewardship: A Practical Approach," has for 20 years plit his principles into practice in his' parish.

Among his results: 85 percent of members attend weekly Mass, with the IIOO-seat churCh filled to overflowing at four of:its seven weekend liturgies; ov~r 700 persons participate in perp'etual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; 300 people attt:nd one; or other of the two weekday Ma$ses; the sacrament of penance is available six days a week, with enough persons coming to frequently find it necessary to form a line at the confessional; th(:re hav~ been several vocations to the priesthood and the parish now nas three semi' narians.

Also, there are 750 students in the K-8 parochi~1 school, with I

families who practice stewardship paying no tuition; the weekly collection averages about $60,000, with one recent figure of over $65,000; and the parish supports a clinic at which medical professionals provide free care for those who 'cannot afford health insurance.

The Wichita diocese also practices stewardship with priestly ministry. Despite a former shortage of vocations, diocesan priests went as missionaries to Third World countries - and it rapidly became apparent that God is never outdone in generosity. Whereas in the past the diocese ordained one or two men a year, 1995 will see five ordinations.

QuestioDl' about the forthcoming Boston conference can be addressed to Father Bouchard at PO Box 894, North Attleboro 02761, telephone 699-8383.

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Nun reports Haitian violence against Christians growing NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) - A nun unable to return to her mission in Haiti because of U.S. travp,1 restrictions said Sohe is conerned about increasing violence toward Christians on the island.

"The hostility toward the Catholic Church is very strong, particularly if it is sensed that the priests. are supportive of [ousted President Father Jean-Bertrand] Aristide's return," Sister Patricia Downs said last week.

A member of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacr~ment for Negroes and Indians, Sister Downs is founding director of the Haitian Catholic Center in Belle Glade, Fla., and cofounder of a 4-yearold mission at St Charles Borromeo parish in the Haitian village of Ferrier.

"The Haitian priests there are terribly open to brutality," she said. "I know three right now who have lost their eyes [from torture].

The people are without Mass at the mission right now."

situation improves. Meanwhile the mission is in the hands of Ferrier vilIagers, she said.

"The embargo may have hurt the elite a little, but it has devastated the poor," Sister powns said.

With the help of local villagers, "There is no cash flow in Haiti Sisters Downs and Donna Breslin right now. Even where there are operate a day care center for or- commodities, there is no cash." phaned children, a home for older She commented at a reception girls, a nutrition program, literacy ,路in North Palm Beach for represenprograms for adult women, two tativesof parishes and Catholic Catholic schools and a commer- women's groups that have financial venture that provides s!l1all cialIy supported her work in Haiti. business loans.

"Your donations are saving Sisters Downs and Breslin flew lives," Sister Downs told the audihome to the United States in June ence, adding that her mission's for their summer vacation, but the , nutrition programs are vital to United States has since banned malnourished children. "Your suptravel to Haiti. Sister Downs wilI port has really enabled our people to live, and they know it." work in New Orleans until. the ~

Abp. Tutu blasts high salaries of South African pols CAPE TOWN, South Africa 780,000 rand (U.S.$220,000). His also decided members of parlia(CNS) - Anglican Archbishop two deputy presidents earn a pack- ment could stay in state houses in Desmond Tutu of Cape Town has age of about 600,000 rand (U.S. Cape Town at half of marketcondemned what he described as $170,000) each. Mempers of parli- related rentals., They and their the greed of members of South ament and senators get pay and spouses will also receive 48 free Africa's new parliament. car perks worth 193,000 rand (U .S. airplane tickets per year, and un"Someone has observed that they $55,000) per year. Meanwhile an married members of parliament I stopped the gravy train only long average worker in the manufactur': can share this perk with "spouse enough to get on," Archbishop ing industries earns a,bout 11,900 equivalents."

Tutu told a meeting of the Angli- rand (U.S.$3,300) per year, while a Mandela defended the salaries, can Diocesan Council in Cape, manager would earn 156,000 rand saying they were taxable and would ' (U.S.$43,300) yearly.

Town. make politicians less vulnerable to Archbishop Tutu said he met In August, Cabinet members corruption. privately with South African President Nelson Mandela and condemned new legislators' largt; salaries.

"He touched my belly, a~d we LES COMBES, Italy (CNS)Archbishop Tutu won the 1984 Caught in a downpour during his recited the Hail Mary. Then he Nobel Peace Prize for his out- Alpine vacation, Pope John Paul gave me a blessing. It was very spoken opposition to South Afri- II chatted with a pregnant woman moving," she said. ca's system of apartheid, strict and blessed her future child. racial segregation. His latest critiGioia Vigano, a 32-year-old cism on salaries came as a blow to Italian in her seventh month of the government, which celebrated pregnancy, met the pope Aug. 23 LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) its first 100 days in office Aug. 18. on a roadside in Italy's northern The new chancellor of the diocese Mandela's annual pay package, Aosta Valley. The pope, waiting of Winona, Minn., brings years of including perks, totals about out a storm in his limousine, invited pastoral experiep.ce to his job the woman and her mother to join about 15' years as a Lutheran pashim. tor. But reading and study, espeMrs. Vigano told Italian news- cially of the documents of Vatican paper reporters the pope asked her II, led Larry Blake, 42, and his if she was expecting her first baby. wife, Diane, to join the Catholic "When I told him it was my Church. Now, as a diocesan chanfourth, he said, 'Good for you,''' cellor, he hopes for numerous opportunities to share "the marveshe said. She asked him to pray for the unborn child and he said, , lous gift of being a Catho,lic," he "Let's pray together." said.

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OTTAW A (CNS) - Religious orders serve as "weather vanes showing what is happening in the life of the church and its relationship to the culture around it," Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee told Canadian bishops gathered in Ottawa.

That weather vane "is telling us that the old order is passing away for the church and for how the church relates to the world," he said.

Archbishop Weakland, who headed the Benedictine Confederation before his appointment as a . bishop, spoke Aug. 26 to the annual plenary assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As religious life renews itself in a changing church and world, "We search the horizons for t,he new forms of religious life that will correspond to the new needs,'" the archbishop said.

"I am optimistic enough to thin'k that they are out there, but are yet but germs and buds," he added.

"My fear is that we bishops, as has happened so often in history, will not recognize them because we el!opect them to look like the old that We long for and-that we still grieve over, or to fulfill the criteria we have already arbitrarily decided 'upon.

"Perhaps we should not be spending so much time shoring up the old, but rather in discerning those signs ofthe new;" the archbishop said.

Much of Archbishop Weakland's talk centered on how religious institutes have adapted to cultural 'j changes over the centuries. " Monastic orders were first "a countercultural movement to a church aligning itself with a Hellenistic and Roman Empire," and later became stable "bastions of

learning and economics for nomadic, barbarian and unstable populations" in the West, he said.

When the world needed "a solid intellectual apostolate" a Ild "a renewal of simplicity and detachment" in the Middle Ages, reform groups like the Dominicans and Franciscans responded, he said.

After the Council of Trent, "more aggressive and more evangelizing groups" like the Jesuits came to the forefront, he added.

Archbishop Weakland, who was abbot primate of the world's Benedictine communities of mer.. from 1967 to 1977, warned his fellow bishops against attempts to reform rather than renew religious life.

"Religious do not need more juridical frameworks," he said.

"They need inspiration, courage and enlightenment."

He also cited a confusion in the church between religious life and secular institutes - a topic likely to be raised at the October Synod of Bishops; which has as its theme "Consecrated Life and its Mission in the Church and the World."

"This confusion, probably the greatest weakness in the development of the theology of religious life in the last 50 years, has resulted in unconvincing distinctioLs and dubious turf delineations," Archbishop Weakland said.

"Attempts to redefine religious life in terms of separation from the world were bound to fail and do harm to the legitimate development of religious life that was taking place in the immediate postVatican II period," he added. "I would, instead, suggest that we continue to emphasize the spirituality of detachment and of tile giving of self for others that is rooted clearly in the following of Christ."

Delegates named to VATICAN CITY(CNS)- Pope John Paul II has named two U.S. bishops and a U.S. religious to the October Synod of Bishops on religious life.

Bishop James C. Timlin of SCI'anton, Pa., Bishop Francis E. George of Yakima, Wash., and Father Robert P. Maloney, superior general of the Vincentian religious order, were among 45 papal nominees announced by the Vatican.

Bishop George is an Oblate of Mary Immaculate.

The pope also named 71 auditors from various parts of the world, most of them members of religious orders, and 20 experts to help the synod's special secretary.

More than 280 bishops, religious and experts are expected to paticipate in the Oct. 2-29 synod, which has the theme "The Consecrated Life and Its Role in the Church and in the World."

New York Cardinal John J. O'Connor was previously named as one of three synod co-presidents.

The U.S. bishops' conference is sending as delegates Archbishops William H. Keeler of Baltimore and John R. Quinn of San Francisco and Cardinals Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago and James A. Hickey of Washington.

Three U.S. religious were named as experts: Sister Christine BorJ:!, prior general of the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Cecilia in Nashville, Tenn.; Jesuit Father Paul Mankowski, a professor at the Pontifical Biblicallnsti-

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tute in Rome; and Passionist Father Cassian Yuhaus, executive director of Ministry for Religious at St. Ann's Monastery in Scranton.

U.S. synod auditors are Blessed Sacrament Father Gerald Brown, president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men; Sister Vincent Marie Finnegan, superior general of the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart and president of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious; and Sister Doris Gottemoeller, superior general of the Sisters of Mercy and pre:;ident of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Support for Ulster WASHINGTON (CNS) President Clinton said he supports the call of Irish and U.S. church leaders for strong f'1ir employment laws and more investment in Northern Ireland.

In a letter to Protestant and Catholic' leaders from the United States and those representing their counterpart churches in all Ireland, Clinton said the church leaders~ "Call for Fair Employment and Investment" addresses concerns critical to establishing common ground between the two communities of Northern Ireland and to building a lasting settlement of the conflict.

The churches' initiative was seen as a significant step toward developing common ground.

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St. William's is CYO baseball champ St. William's, which had been in the finals of the Fall River Area CYO baseball playoffs in three of the last four years but had failed to come out on top, defeated Notre Dame, two games ,to one, to win this year's championship. The team finished the regulat season in first place with a record 'of 21-3 and got to the finals by defeating St. Michael's in two straight games.

Notre Dame fini~~ed third in the regular season with a mark of 1312. They defeated Our Lady of Grace in the preliminary round' and second place $1. Bernard's in two straight in the semi-finals to gain an opportunity to be in the finals for the first time since 1982.

In game one at Maplewood Park, St. William's used three pitchers,

Area JReligious Broadcasting The followin!: television and radio programs oriFinatein the diocesan vie",ing nnd listening area. Their Ii'stlngs normally' do not vary from week to week. They will be presented in the An'chor periodically and will reflect any changes that may be made. Please clip and retain for reference.

OnTV parts of the dioces'e on various Each Sunday, 8:tlO a.m WLNE, channels. Consult local listings.

On RadIo Channel 6. Dioc,esan Television Mass, also broadcast on radio The American C"tholic," 5:45 a.m. Sundays, WPXC, 102.9 FM, station 87.9 FM. Portuguese Masses from Our Hyannis.

St. Jude Novenit, 6:45 a.m.

Lady of Mt. Carmel Church,.

New Bedford: 1:15 p.m. each Sundays, WHTB, 1400 A.M. Fall Sunday on radio station WJFD-. River.

FM,7 p.m. each Sunday on tele"Talking Religio~" with Sister Mary Hennessey, ,a rabbi and vision Channel 2t1. rotating Protestant rjlinisters, 6:05 "Vivendo a NO~lsa Fe" (Portua.m.

Sundays, WRKO, 680 AM. guese), 9:30 p.m. Saturdays Fall Charismatic pr6grams with River/New Bedford Channel 20; Father John Rand'all are aired 2 p.m. Sundays fall River/New from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday Bedford Channel H; Rhode Isthrough Friday on slation WRIB, land Interconnect, Channel 50; 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at I TCI Cable Channel 58, 4 p.m. p.m. each Sunday. ' Sundays.

"Topic Religion,'! presented by "Confluence," 8:30 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel two priests, a rabb;i and a Proprogram modernted by Truman testant minister, is 'broadcast at Taylor and having as permanent 6:06 a. m. each S unrlay on station participants Father Peter N. Gra- WEEI Boston, 590 :AM. Programs of Cat)lOlic interest ziano, diocesan director of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, are broadcast at the following Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island, times on station W~Ol Boston, 950 AM: Monday 'through Friand Rabbi Baruch Korff.

Mass 9:30 a.m. Monday to day 9, 9:15, 11:45' a.m.; 12:15, 12:30,1 p.m.

Friday, WFXT, Channel 25.

"In Season & Out of Season" "Rejoice and Hope" 6:30 a.m. with Father Tom Dilorenzo, 3 alternate Sundays. Channel 10. and 11:45 a. m.; 9:t5 p. m. 1260 features Providence Bishop louis AM. Gelineau.

A Polish·langu~ge Mass is "Maryson," a family puppet heard from 7:30 ~o 8:30 a.m. show with moral and spiritual every Sunday on st,ation WICE, perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs- 550 AM. day. Fall River and New Bedford The rosary is broadcast at 5:45 Cable Channel 13. a.m. Monday thro~gh Saturday "Spirit and thll Bride," a talk and the St. Jude novena at 9: 15 show with William larkin, 6 p.m. p.m. each Thursday on WPlM Monday, cable channel 35.

Plymouth, 1390 AM, 99.1 FM. EWTN can be viewed in most Both programs are .simulcast.

Eric Schecter, Dan Costa and Pat Burke, to squeak out· a 3-2 win over Notre Dame's star pitcher, Ken Dupre. Dupre pitched an outstanding game for six innings before wildness allowed St. William's to score two runs in the bottom of the seventh to overcome a one run deficit and take the series lead. In game two, at Lafayette Park, Notre Dame's bats were alive as they got II hits off Pat Burke. That combined with sloppy play by the St. William's defense led to an 11-6 victory for Notre Dame, forcing a Game 3. Joe Raposa started for Notre Dame and received outstanding relief work from Derek Quigley for four and two-thirds innings. Quigley was credited with the win.

In the final game at Maplewood Park, St. William's ace Dan Costa (11-0) took the mound opposed by Russ Dupre. St. William's took a 5-1 lead in the first inning behind mammoth blasts by Eric Shecter and Craig Lasson. Notre Dame chipped away at the lead and had it down to 5-4 before St. William's managed to score two more in the sixth and hang on for a 7-5 victory.

Notre Dame had runners on base in every inning and left 120f them stranded throughout the game.

This was a key to St. William's victory.

Members of the championship team are Roy Reis, Kevin Aguiar, Tim Burke, Pat Burke, John Cabral, Dan Costa, Kevin Purdy, Matt Bednarz, Craig Lasson, Eric Schecter, Tom Smith; Mike I,-ifrak, Frank Rocha, John Donnelly, Jim Allison, Scott Tripp, Manager Brian Gibbons and Coaches Tim McCoy and Ken Ford.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 2, 1994

Priests meet in Australia YOUNGABURRA, Australia (CNS) - Delegates of priests' organizations from 12 countries on five continents met in Youngaburra in August for the fifth international assembly of priest representatives from English-speaking countries. Father Thomas McCarthy of Youngstown, Ohio, immediate past president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils and chairman of the Youngaburra planning committee, said the meeting focused on "learning

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U.S. delegates in addition to Father McCarthy were Father G. Nick Rice of Louisville, Ky., current NFPC president; Father 1 Thomas Bevan of Baltimore, direc- ,~ tor ofthe U.S. bishops' Secretariat , '" for Priestly Life and Ministry; and Father Donald Wolf of Oklahoma City, a member of the NFPC Na- I tional Board.

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College bound? Adjustment 'isn"t 'easy'" PHILADELPHIA(CNS) - Ah, the college years. But before the good times roll, a word of caution to college residents and commuters alike who simply want to let the freedom begin, .

"Probably the No. I thing we bump into in adjustment from high school to freshman year in college is the level of freedom:' said Christian Brother E. Gerald Fitzgerald, director of admissions at Philadelphia's La Salle University, Particularly crucial, Brother Fitzgerald said, is "how [students] handle the newfound freedom, It's so completely different:' he told The Catholic Standard and Times, Philadelphia's archdiocesan newspaper.

One college-bound student, Christine Sullivan, who will attend the Jesuit-run St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia this fall, said she is "excited about moving away from home" and "a little nervous" about no longer having the security of her parents, "But I think I'll be able to handle it," she adds, Then again, Ms. Sullivan's home ,is only four blocks away and' her mother, Kathleen, is a secretary in the university's admissions office, But her mother haLmad(~ a

promise about staying too close. ''I'm trying to keep a low profile in that regard," she said, She told her daughter, "I don't want to be in your way, but you know where I am."

Students who commute from home might find that the more things change, the more they stay the same. La Salle offers workshops through its counseling center for parents and commuter students "to make sure both understand what the other is going through," said Brother Fitzgerald, The workshops foc'us on academic difficulties, time management and the maturity of 18-yearolds. "Sometimes the parents don't quite see [their children] differently. It's almost as if they're in 13th grade."

He said parents who were used to their children being home in the afternoon might worry when they don't come home until later in the evening.

How college students use their' time is one of the biggest challenges they will face, according to Brother Fitzgerald. Time management is particularly important, especially when there are extended breaks between classes. "That's not free time," he said.. "That's

time to use the library or facuity services."

There is always time for students to remember their roots.

"They have to realize that whatever kinds of moral and ethical values they've created themselves or had instilled in them need to De their guidelines," said Sister Mercedes Maliszewski, a Sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth, who is the assistant director of admissions at Holy Family College in Philadelphia.

Campus orientation programs for freshmen may help alleviate some first-year fears, which Brother Fitzgerald said are normal.

Students should not be afraid to 'ask for help from faculty members, either in class or in their office, he added.

Students can also turn to the . church. "I think what they have to continue to do is enhance their religious education experience through involvement in the campus ministry activities - both liturgical and community service," said Brother Fitzgerald.

He advises students to grow spiritually, academically and emotionally while they are in college.

"The primary purpose is certainly academic development, but it's also, in a CatholiC college, [development of the] spiritual side."

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YOUNG RIDERS: Ashley Sloms and Kate Conover of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in Doylestown, PA, both 10, take a break from competition at the Holy Redeemer Horse Show. (CNS photo)

Hospital benefit has' plenty of horsing 'around,

PHILADELPHIA(CNS)- Eq- events, which gauge the mastery of uitation and equipoise, ponies and the rider.

The 22-year-old horse show, copreteens and horses and riders came together for an annual horse sponsored by doctors at Holy Reshow fundraiser'for Holy Redee- deemer and by a local Lions "Iub, mer Hospital and Medical Center, raises funds for designated departments at the medical facility in in the Philadelphia archdiocese.

Masses are celebrated each weekMeadowbrook.

"I love riding," said Kate Conend at the University' of Michigan The show has always been held in Ann Arbor to handle an average over, 10, a student at Our Lady of on the grounds of the motherMount Carmel School in Doylesweekend attendance of 2,600 house of the Sisters of the Holy about 30 percent of the Catholic town, who has been riding since Redeemer. But this ,year heavy , age' 3 and ·competing at shows for students, faculty and staff at the July rains forced planners to move the past four years. Her own horse, university. it to the horse (arm.

Merlin's Majic, had an injured leg, Although the university is "not, .

While participation in the Hhow particularly sympathetic to religion so she was riding a friend's horse, was open to horse lovers of both Chantilly Lace.

With it she won a or to campus ministries," he said, sexes and all ages, presc hool hundreds of Catholic students are first, a third and a sixth prize. through adult, young girls rc:pre'~I like going to the shows," she involved' in liturgical ministries, sented the majority.

Catholic update classes, Scripture said. "I go to one every weekend in Ashley Sloms, a typical young study, small faith-sharing groups the summer, and sometimes twice rider, took three jumping ribbons and soup kitchen and other social a week," she told The Catholic with her horse, Scottie. She too is Standard and Times, archdioceservice projects. " 10 and a student at Our Lady of He said even though one-fourth san newspaper. . Mount Carmel Sch,ool. of the students are Catholic, t.he Kate was one·of about 100 ridAshley's mother, Shannon, acuniversity's "program for religious ers competing for ribbons and companies Ashleyand another daughstudies has Islam, Judaism and trophies in 56 events in the day~ ter, 8-year-old Erica, as they make Christian faiths, not Catholic be- long program at Stepping Stones the rounds of horse shows on weekcause they look'at Islam, Judaism Farm in Bucks County. The com- ends. Hus,band Lee comes along and Christian being generic and petition included either hunter for the ride as a loyal supporter the same" . events, which' judge the perfor- rooting for his daughters. "I enjoy Other "campus mi~isters at the mance of the horse" or equitation it because they're happy," he said. symposium, also reported lively programs for eager, I)earching students'. . . .

One difficulty in reaching Catholic students, they .said, was that What's the first thing children gest some easy-to-make recipes, ,many institutions refuse to ask want when they walk in the door such as these: , students their religious preference, , after a busy school day? A snack, Peanut Butter Honey Treats so there is no list avaihible for' usually along the time-honored 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter lines of milk and cookies. Most campus ministers.

I tablespoon honey.

Some campus ministers reported children who care for themselves 2 tablespoons graham cra,cker that by asking students at" the enjoy creating easy-to-do treats crumbs beginning of the year if they have that are tasty and healthful.

1/4 cup nonfat dry milk any interest in' a religious voca~ However, before letting your Put' all ingredients in a Large tion, they have been' able to unmini-chef loose in the kitchen, bowl. M,ix until smooth. Roll the 'cover a number. of students with review basic safety rules and estabmixture into small balls. Place the 'such an interest, so that they can lish guidelines. Identify which apballs on a platter, cover with foil or support them. pliances the child mayor may not plastic wrap, and chill for 30 Ursuline Sister Patrjcia Lynch, use. For instance, the stove and minutes. . a Catholic campus minister at the ~ven may be ruled off-limits ~nless Mixed Pick-Up Snacks University of Kansas in Lawrence, an adult is present, but the microsaid her campus ministry has had a wave and toaster may be appro- 21/2 cupstoastedcereal(Ust:any vocation encouragement program priate for use by older children. combination of oat cereal for 10 years and this year, has had and corn, rice, wheat or bran Plan snacks the night before cereals.) about 40 students involved in and set all ingredients on the counmonthly meetings to eat, pray and ter. You may wish to consider cup fish-shaped crackers talk together. cup pretzel sticks what kind of knife may be used for cup peanuts or mixed nuts "Faith on Campus" is available cutting and teach the child to cut 1/2 cup peanut butter chip!> from FADICA, 1350 Connecticut food safely.

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Catholic collegians enthusiastic but ignorant of faith WASHINGTON (CNS) Many Catholic students on secular college campuses are religiously active, prayerful and generous but ignorant oftheir faith, says a newly published report.

"They live with a critical intellectual gap regarding their Catholicism," said Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic chaplain, FatherJ. Bryan .

Hehir.

"Very bright young Catholics come to our campus woefully ignorant of their faith but eager to learn," said University of Michigan Catholic chaplain, Fat her William J; Stevenson.

The 67~page report was issued last month by Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic.

Activities, also known as FADICA. Titled."Faith on Campus: CatholiC; Ministry at Non.-Chul'ch~ Related Universities," it is a report of the proceedings of a symposium that FAD ICA ,convened last Jlan- ' uary for a group ofleading philan- ' thropists and campus ministry experts.

Catholic students on college campuses"are genuinely prayerful and pious in the good sense ofthe ' term.: .. They are generous," said Father Hehir, ,the symposium's keynote speaker. Father Hehir has, been an'adviser to the U.S. bishops on international policy for more than 20 years and since 1992 has been pastor of St. Paul'~ p,arish in Cambridge and senior chaplain of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center there. '.

He explained what he meant by Catholic stude,nts suffering an intellectual gap about their faith: "They are usually not even aware that there is such a thing as a structured vision of life that flows from faith .... The notion that there is a whole body of ideas, structured arguments, product of a vision and a church that is engaged in everyone ofthese questions -that is often entirely absent from students that I meet."

Paulist Father MichaeIJ:Hunt, Catholic chaplain since 1984 at Tufts University in Medford, said that when students come to him with moral dilemmas,.often a common underlying thread is "relativism.

In a culture that teaches that one opinion is as good as another when it comes to morality, they are torn between an intuitive sense for objective values and a cultural message that "there is no fixed reality in the first place on which moral teaching can be grounded," he said. ' "Religious options abol,lnd" on the T1,Jfts campus, he said, but those which offer s,tudents a rela~ tivist world view "have given up offering [worship]services because of a lack ofiilterest. Catholic Mass fills the chapel to capacity' every Sunday night. A Catholic vision endures. and thrives and, yes; it attracts."

Father Hunt said one of the key Catholic needs on American campuses today is "the funding of chairs of Catholic studies at secular universities."

"Catholic students are ea'ger ... to take courses iritheir ownreligious tradition," he said. "Jewish and Muslim benefactors of major secular universities are increasingly funding such programs in Jewish and Islamic studies. Catholics are not." .

Father Steven~on said seven

Catechisms in de~and WASHINGTON(CNS)~ More than 2 million copies of the Englishlanguage edition of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" have gone into distribution since release of the book June 22. "The extraordinary publishing effort is unprecedented in the religious book business and perhaps even among all publishing efforts in the nation," said Richard W. Daw. secretary for communications for the U.S. Catholic Conference,

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ALWAYS Open your eyes I see Your eyes are open Wear no disguises for me Come into the open When it's cold outside Am I here in vain Hold on to the night There will be no shame Always I want to be with you And make believe with you And live in harmony Harmony, oh love Melting the ice for me Jump into the ocean Hold back the tide I see Your love in motion Written bJI Clarke/Bell. Sung by Erasure (c) 1?94 by Mute Records Ltd. ALTHOUGH I'VE never times we are not ready to share heard of Erasure, their" Always" our insecurities, personal hopes intrigued me. The song offers or mention the mistakes we quite a combination of unusual made in the past. instrumentations. As far as I This is normal and perhaps know, this is the group's first necessary. We are Interested in time on the charts. the other person, but we don't Beyond the song's weird know him or her very well. We sounds, its references to disare uncertain how much can be guises and to shame caught my shared without being met by attention. The former is found criticism. in the song's line, "Wear no disHowever, to continue hiding guises for me." Apparently, the an image or role does little to person in the song wants his or help us feel safer in relationher romantic partner to be preships. Eventually we need to cisely who she or he is. shed our disguises and allow Yet, as a romance begins, the other person to know us in both our strengths and limitaoften we pretend to be someone we are not. Our disguise might tions. take a variety of forms. Most One way to do this is what I

call "share and check." Instead of telling a person everything about yourself, share something that hasn't been known, that perhaps was hidden behind one of your disguises.

Then see how the other person receives this irJormation. If it is met with a' ceptance and non-judgment, hen an environment of trust is beginning to grow. At this ;'loint, further. information can be shared, with the whole proces~ being repeated.

Such efforts at sharing need to be mutual. As two people risk. removing their disguises, infatuation and interest give way to understanding, respect and trust - the real building blocks of love.

This is the road past any shame we may be carrying within us. Shame resides in the parts of ourselves that we are the least likely to share because we fear another'sjudgment. Few things are heavier to bear than shame.

Guilt and shame are not the same. Sometimes we have guilt about something we have done, telling us that the action is wrong for us. However, shame is much different: It is a feeling that deceives us by stating that something is wrong with us as persons.

Our feelings about ourselves shouldn't cause us to overlook the fact that each of us is made to the image and likeness of God. Indeed, certain actions can be wrong. Nonetheless, no deed ever takes a way this gift of our true identity.

To the extent that our relationships help us remove disguises and eradicate shame, God's grace enters our lives.

Such freedom is what God wants for us.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

High school project earns $10,000 prize WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) -A Catholic high school in Worcester gained national exposure and a $10,000 prize from 'TEEN magazine for its work to aid the poor in Haiti.

Notre Dame Academy's program, called Haiti and Notre Dame Side-By-Side, or HANDS, was' named grand prize winner in the group category of the Noxzema Extraordinary Teen contest. The annual contest is for those in grades 6 to 12 who do volunteer work.

The finalists in the. individual and group categories are featured in the magazine's September issue, which hit newsstands irl mid-August. Group projects competing with HANDS were a solid waste management plan, a cleanup and planting club, a foundation to help other teenagers help pe:ople, and a group for juvenile delinquents trying to change their lives who share their stories with other teens.

Rochelle Bard, the 17-year-old student president of HANDS,and Pamela Reidy, facul~y adviser, spent a weekend in New York in June with other finalists. During the trip, Miss Bard appeared on the "Good Morning America" TV program with Brian Haven Harris, a 14-year-old from Anaheim,· Calif., who won the individual grand prize for a pen-pal project that matches people of 'different races.

"We brought the Gospel. message to new places; that was our

goal," Ms. Reidy told The Catholic Free Press, Worcester diocesan newspaper, after the New York trip.

"I think our biggest goal was to get some more contacts to help the club out," said Miss Bard, who spent two weeks in Haiti last summer. She said some of t.heir competitors expressed interest in working with them for Haiti and that the publicity might: draw other people as well.

"The school wants us to be the Gospel whenever we go out to do work in the community, and that's the only thing we have to be:" Ms. Reidy said.

During the New York competition with other finalists, each of whom had won a $2,500 regional prize, Miss Ba I'd sho~ed slides of Haiti as she played a'rendition of Joe Wise's song, "Take All the Lost Home."

M iss Bard said sh.e and three judges cried during her presentation and that she gave·eachjudge a picture of someone iii Haiti. The judges included TV performers Gabrielle Carteris of "Beverly Hills 90210," Scott Weinger of "Full House," Jenna Von Oy of "Blossom" and Alfonso Riqeiro of "The French Prince of Bel Air." , Miss Bard told 'TEEN magazine that her trip to Haiti left her more determined than ever to bring aid to the coun·try.

"We worked at a nursing home building toilet seats, and at a

homeless boys' facility, where we cleaned and painted their house," she said.

"When you see the poorest part of Haiti, it's actually built on a dump. It's awful," Miss Bard added.

"And the toughest part is seeing the kids, half-naked with no shoes, running around everywhere."

The New York trip included a stop at the city's Hard Rock Cafe, but Miss Bard and Ms. Reidy found more meaning in a stop at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

During Mass at St. Patrick's, the priest preached about being the light of the world and the salt of the earth by saying, "You don't have to be extraordinary; it's the little things that count." At that point, M iss Bard said, she left the results of the contest to God.

Headquarters moved PHOENIX (eNS) - The relocation of the headquarters of the Byzantine diocese of Van Nuys, Calif., from Los Angeles tp Phoenix will be better for the diocese in the long run, according to Father Wesley Izer, chancellor.

The move came after the earthquake hit the Northridge, Calif., area in January and the chancery office of the diocese "took a pretty big hit," said Fath.er Izer. During the aftermath came a chance to move to quarters in Phoenix at the Byzantine parish of St. Stephen's.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River--':Fri'., Sept. 2,1994

By Linda L. Rome I wonder how many teens know what to do when a family member is suddenly stricken with an illness or injury. Take a little time right now to find out what you know -or don't know - about such emergencies.

Recently my 13-year-old s'on decided to freshen some stale potato chips in the microwave for 30 seconds. Suddenly flames shot out of the basket. He opened the door and grabbed the basket, flinging it, flames and all, onto the floor.

Then he scooped water with a mug and doused the fire. At that point he realized he'd burned his hand. He ran cool water over it, swung open the freezer door and wrapped the hand with a bag of frozen vegetables.

CLAUDINE LeBLANC of St. Bernard's parish, Assonet, a graduate of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, received a bachelor's degree in sociology this year from Fairfield University in Connecticut.

At the university Ms. LeBlanc was president of the Egan Chapel Lectors and senior representative on the Campus Ministry Council. She also composed and delivered the senior class prayer at the baccalaureate Mass.

She was a member of Alpha Kappa Delta, the sociology national honor society. She achieved Dean's List status and received university supported scholarships. As part of her internships, she worked at the Jewish Home for the Elderly and the Department of Human Services in the Department on Aging.

Ms. LeBlanc recently accepted the position of field manager with the American Heart Association in the northeast districts of Massachusetts.

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I got out the first-aid book while his 15-year-old brother suggested calling the doctor, w·hich we did. I spoke to the nurse who gave us directions on how to care for the burn. We put an antibiotic cream on it, taking care not to break the blister which we covered with a loose bandage.

My sons's quick action saved the microwave from exploding, and knowing what to do with his burn minimized the damage to his hand. But if he'd grabbed a potholder before grabbing the basket, he wouldn't have gotten burned.

That's the way it is with an accident - you never know when it will happen, so it pays to be prepared. See what you'd do in the following situations.

I. Your sister is playing in the back yard on the swing set. She slips, hits her head on the ground and comes in crying. She seems dazed and confused and vomits.

You should: a) have her lie down and rest; b) call an ambulance; c) have her drink something to calm her down.

2. Your brother has just returned from a IO-mile bike hike on a hot summer day. He's pale and complaining of a headache, upset stomach, dizziness and leg cramps.

You should: a) have him do some cool-down stretching exercises for his leg cramps; b) have him lie down and rest; c) have him lie down in a cool place, and give him cold, salted water to drink.

3. You're playing ball in the back yard when you're stung by a bee. You should: a) leave the stinger in and put a Band-Aid on the sting; b) remove the stinger with tweezers, and cover the sting area with a cold cloth; c) remove the stinger by gently scraping it with your fingernail and put cold compresses on the sting area.

Answer I. Choose b. Don't second-guess the seriousness of the situation whenever someone has had a blow to the head and has any of the following symptoms: nausea or vomiting, loss of balance, difficulty breathing, or the person is dazed and confused. Call 911.

Answer 2. Choose c. On a hot day overexertion can cause heat exhaustion, which is due to excessive loss of moisture and salt.

Symptoms include dizziness, nausea, headache, and muscle cramps.

Answer 3. Choose c. Never remove a stinger with tweezers because tweezers compress the venom sac and spread the poison into a bigger area.

What to do in these and other emergency situations can be found in the American Red Cross book, "Standard First Aid," or the American Medical Association's "Handbook of First Aid and Emergency Care." The Reader's Digest's "Action Guide: What to Do in an Emergency" also covers a broad range of situations and survival skills. .

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Heahng service and Sunday Mass with Father William Babbitt 2:30 p,m. Sept. II. Prayer meetings 7 p.m. second and fourth Tuesdays, parish center.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Family Festival continues through Sept. 5: 7 to 10 tonight, I to 10 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, I to 9 p.m.

Monday.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Peace Fraternity JOYFUL SOUNDS, FR reception and profession ceremonies The Joyful Sounds choral group,~ 2 p.m. Sept. II, Holy Trinity Church, which rehearses at 7 p.m. each ThursW. Harwich.. Father Cornelius Kelly, day at Dominican Academy, 37 Park OFM,' will celebrate Mass; business St., Fall River, and is directed by meeting and refreshments follow.

John Travers, academy director of Rosary recited I:30 p.m. for end to music, seeks new members. The abortion. Inquirers welcome. Inforgroup sings show tunes; popular mation: Dorothy Williams, 394-4094. songs and standard repertoire·selections and entertains at nursing ST. JAMES, NB homes, various organizations and Rosary and Benediction 7 p.m. concerts.

Further information: Terry Sept. 8, feast of the Birth of Mary.

Paiva, 679-9754.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE, Festivities for Feast of Our Lady SWANSEA of Angels begin tomorrow evening.

Eight-week Bible study program Rev. Leonard Cabral of St. Michael, .open to all begins 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in Azores, will celebrate Portuguese religious education center and conMass 10 a.m. Sept. 5; procession tinues on subsequent Tuesdays. To with Our Lady statue will leave register call Paulette Norm~ndin, church grounds at I p.m.

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LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINAR MEN OF THE Seminars will be held eight con- SACRED HEARTS secutive Wednesdays beginning Sept.

Men of the Sacred Hearts and the 14 at O.L. Mt. Carmel Church, See- National Center of the Enthronekonk. Each begins with a 7 p.m. ment of the Sacred Heart in the Mass. The Life in the Spirit course is Home will offer formation weekend used worldwide to help Christians for men 18 andolder.on the theme of develop a deeper relationship with "The Domestic Church (family and Jesus Christ by using the power of home)" Sept. 9-11 at Sacred Hearts the Holy Spirit to transform their Seminary and Retreat House, Warelives. ham. Information: Don S1. Gelais, CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE 995-5609; Octave S. Pimentel, 992Beginning Oct. 2, 8:30 a.m. Sun- 5402. day Mass will be a children's Mass HOSPICE OF COMMUNITY with music by children's choir and NURSE ASSOCIATION, various duties performed by CCD FAIRHAVEN students.

Training program for volunteers ST. THOMAS MORE, will be offered two mornings a week SOMERSET for five weeks beginning 9:30 a.m. to Eight-week series, "Basic Tools noon Oct. II. Volunteers provide for Bible Study," begins Sept. 6. friendship, support and assistance to Participants may choose morning terminally ill patients and their fami~ session 9:30 to II :30 Tuesday or lies and assist in the office and fundevening session 6:30 to 8:30 Wed- raising. Registration deadline Sept. nesdays. To register, call religious 30. Information: JoAnn Beaulieu, education office, 679-1236, and -leave 999-3400. name, number and session desired.

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Message to families gets award WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. bishops' Committee on Marriage and Family has received a recognition award for "Follow the Way of Love," a best-selling pastoral message with practical recommendations for today's families.

The award was presented by the National Association of Family .Life Ministers during their annual conference at the University 'of Dayton.

"Follow the Way of Love," written for the U. N. International Year of the Family, was approved by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops last November.

Richard McCord, associate

director of the NCCB Secretariat for Family, Laity, WOffil~n and Youth, said "Follow the Way of Love" is used widely.

"It is the focus of parish discussion groups, a springboard for homilies, a source for par::sh bul.Ietin entries and.a basis for workshops and conferences around the country," he said. "It's been one of the best-received efforts of our committee."

"Follow the Way of love" is available in English and Spanishlanguage versions through the U.S. Catholic 'Conference Office for 'Publishing and Promotional Services, (800) 235-8722.