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Timorese await autonomy vote result in terror ~

Bishop Belo promises not to leave those entrusted by the Church to his care, no matter what the risk to him.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DILl, East Timor - The largely Catholic population of East Timor waited for the result of last Monday's U.N.-sponsored ballot on autonomy amid a backdrop of ongoing violence.

On the day of the vote, an East Timorese working for the United Nations was stabbed and killed, the first U.N. worker to be killed in the violence leading I,Ip to the ballot.

Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning apostolic administrator ofDili, appealed Aug. 30 to both the pro- and anti-independence camps to work together for peace.

Posters were circulated threatening death to Bishop Belo by pro-Indonesia militias who were terrorizing much of the East Timor population.

"My appeal to the leaders is that they are able to convince their bases to accept the verdict of the people and to lay down their arms and help make political compromise to ... work for peace and reconciliation," Bishop Belo said.

About 95 percent of eligible East Timorcse were believed to have voted, including Timorese living abroad such as in the United States, Australia and Portugal.

Voting was reported relatively peaceful, with heavily armed police standing guard along with unarmed U.N. police advisers at the 200 polling places in East Timor.

Results of the vote were not expected to be announced until next week.

In a statement read at an Aug. 29 Mass in Dili, Bishop Belo had urged East Timorese to vote according to their conscience and Tum to page J3 - East Timor

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Marion couple celebrates 70th wedding anniversary

By JAMES N. DUNBAR

Fairhaven. "My wife and I have been members at St. Rita's for more MARION - At a time when chances of keeping a marriage than 33 years and it was there that we renewed our wedding vows. I going are described in scary and grim percentages, the fact that even managed to wear a necktie." He shook his head and added, "I John and Mary DePina are celebrating their 70th wedding anniver- hate neckties." sary is more than incredible.

The saga began when John DePina came from the Cape Verde Islands to this country in April The incredulity is even more __~~~~ 1912 as an 27-month-old amazing when one visits the ... ~ JOHN & MARY small, two-bedroom cotwith his mother, Maria.

DEPINA, 1929 "My father, Zacariah tage off Route 6 where DePina, had come the couple, who wed here about 1905 in 1929 when he was and sent back for 19 and she was 16, my mother and raised four boys me. He rarely and four girls, went to even as he worked church, but the cranberry my mother bogs for $7 a did and we atweek and she tended St. too worked Patrick's in even as she Wareham, the cared for her only church growing family.

J nearby in "Take a look those days," ) J at all the wonderJohn recalled. ful pictures of our J 1IIIIiiii "We lived in parents, our chilMarion and I dren, the 26 grandgraduated from children, the 30 the elementary great-grandchildren, school and was supand the five, soon-to~ JOHN & MARY posed to go to the be six great-great grandhigh school in Wareham.

DEPINA, 1999 children, that our home My parents didn't speak has been and continues to be English, but I grew up speakthe homestead for," said John ing some English and Portuguese. I reDePina, who will be 90 in November.

"This is where Mary, who is 86, and I made our home and still do." member carrying a note when I entered school there telling about On Sunday, August 21, the family gathered from across the na- my little knowledge of words. I went through the 9th grade. But I tion to honor the patriarch and matriarch at a Mass celebrated in St. quit high school. I guess I thought I knew it aIL" It was 1925 and John went to work driving trucks and was a Rita's Church by pastor Father William O. Campbell, marki'ng the wedding anniversary, and a reception and party attended by more laborer; he cleaned ditches, did sanding and all kinds of jobs. When Tum to page J3 - Anniversary than 200 people that lasted until midnight in a restaurant in

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"This Labor Day, we need to reflect as Christians on the values we seek to advance in our economic and public life."

- Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, chairman, U.S. bishop's Domestic Policy Committee for Labor Day.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

A WORKER tends to a pineapple field in Hawaii. In their Labor Day statement the U.S. bishops said Catholics should use the holiday to recall how the Church has "long recognized the dignity of work and the rights of workers."

Labor Day is Sept. 6. (CNS photo by Mimi Forsyth)

WASHINOlDN -American Catholics are being encouraged this Labor Day to take their faith into the world by helping transform business and politics, factories and offices, homes and schools.

In an annual statement issued by the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Domestic Policy Committee for Labor Day, which this year is

Sept. 6, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said Catholics.are called to examine economic relationships through the lens of Catholic social teaching principles.

"The Church asks Catholics to think about public policy proposals not only from the perspective of their individual or family self-interest, but also from the perspective of average and low-wage workers and their families," he said in the statement.

Americans have much to be grateful for - economic freedom, low inflation and economic growth, Cardinal Mahony wrote. "But our prosperity is not being widely shared.

Too many have been left behind and the gap in family income continues to widen.

"The top five percent of the population takes a larger share of personal income today than similar people did 30 years ago Tum to page J3 - Labor Day

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St. Vincent's 'readies for annual 5K road race and fun walk

TIffiANCHOR-DioceseofFallRiver-Fri., September3, 1999

'Flying Bishop of Papua New Guinea' dies WASHING1DN (CNS)-A U.S.born archbishop known as the "Flying Bishop of Papua New Guinea" died after a brief illness, said an announcement from his order, the Divine Word Missionaries.

Retired Archbishop Leo Arkfeld ofMadang, Papua New Guinea, died Aug. 21 in Wewak at age 87. He had served the Catholic Church in that country for 54 years, said the missionaries in a statement from the order's headquarters in Techny, Ill. Archbishop Arkfeld founded two religious orders in Papua New Guinea - the Rosary Sisters and the Sacred Heart Brothers and established St. John' Seminary on Kairiru Island in 1952 to

build up local clergy.

He was aSsigned to the war-torn Pacific mission of New Guinea in 1943 after his ordination to the priesthood at Divine Word Seminary in Techny and arrived in 1945 on an American troop ship.

The archbishop was born in Butte, Neb., Feb. 4, 1912, and has relatives in Iowa, Nebraska and California.

The Wewak Diocese, where the archbishop was buried, held "colorful, festive funeral celebrations;' said the missionaries' announcement.

'Thousand of local people of all faiths came to honor the bishop, whom they had come to love and respect," it said.

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And this is such an opportunity to us as a corporation to be of assistance."

Other major sponsors include lK. Scanlon Co., Inc., ofPocasset; RPI Printing in Fall River; White's ofWestport; Saint Anne Hospital, American Printing in New FALL RIVER - St. Vincent's Residential Treat- Bedford, Seekonk Speedway, Bristol Pacific .Homes ment Center for Children and Adolescents will spon- in Fall River and Ashley Tent of Tiverton, R.I. "Several of these organizations are business partsor its Fifth Annual Road Race, "A Run For Kids' Sake;' on Saturday, Sept. 11, with festivities getting under- ners of ours and we are delighted that they have chosen to support us in this event," said St. Vincent's Exway at 8:45 a.m., following registration at 7:30 a.m.

The 5K race and Fun Walk, will start at St. Vincent's ecutive Director Jack Weldon.

Richard Lafrance, owner of White's, who is on the campus, 2425 Highland Avenue. Participants will St. Vincent's Board of Directors, move south along Highland Avsaid, "I approach it as not only givenue and then onto Robeson Street, Saint Vineent'll ing my time, but directly raising turning right onto Hood Street and money. I know from being on the right again on Highland Avenue board that they need these funds. I a Run for Kids' Sake with the finishing tape at the camespecially like the idea of sponpus. soring the pre-race pasta dinner for This year, for the first time, a the road race because it sets it apart pasta dinner, catered by White's of from other races in the area and Westport, will be presented on Frimakes it stand out that much day, Sept. 10; under big tents set more." up on the campus, from 5 to 8:30 John Scanlon, owner of J.K. p.m. There will also be entertainScanlon said "We want to be a ment by the popular band, Steve good corporate citizen and give Smith and Naked Truth, a Grand back -to the community. We also Raffle and B.eanie Babie Raffle, a remember the children of St. bake sale, costumed characters and Vincent's with gifts at Christmas face painting for children.

The' run/walk's entrance fee is. time. Certainly it's a cause that my their ticket to the路 dinner and fun. heart goes out to."

Dinner tickets will also be sold. Walkers also have the St. Vincent's has restored'hope to troubled children option of taking pledges as they have done in the past. and their families for more than a century. Founded ~s The race is sanctioned by USA Track and Field. There an orphanage in 1885, it has continually adapted its are several categories and prizes: Open; Masters (40- programs and services to give children in each gen49); Seniors (50-59); Veterans (60-69); Veterans (70+); eration what they need most. No longer an orphanag~, Students (14-18); and the Corporate Team Challenge (a St. Vincent's is the largest residential treatment and five-member team). All who walk will receive a ribbon. special education center for young people in SouthFor the first time, there are a number of major spon- eastern Massachusetts. sors, led by primary co-sponsor Luz.J Foodservice For more information, or additional entry forms and Corp., a major supplier of food for the children at St. T-shirts, call (508) 679-8511, ext. 328. Anyone wantVincent's for more than 20 years. ing to volunteer for helping at either the race or the "Youth are our future, but we know that everyone dinner, are to call Karin Dejesus at that number and has not had the same opportunities," said Luzo Presi- extension. The event needs table servers and cleaners, dent and CEO Carl Ribeiro. "As we go through life, we ticket sellers and others on Friday night and for the want to make sure that all young people are given the race on Saturday morning.

Pasta dinner, entertainment, bake sale, raffles and face painting will help raise funds to benefit needy children. .

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Fall River's Interfaith Council honors its three cofounders

By PAT MCGOWAN FALL RIVER - The three cofounders of the Interfaith Council of Greatcr Fall River were paid tributc at a recent reception sponsored

by the Council. .

Dr. Irving A Fradkin, Attorney Joseph E. Hanify, Jr., and the Rev. Richard Wilcox were presented with commemorative plaques in-

WELL EARNED - Father Francis L. Mahoney, pastor of Holy Name Church, Fall River, chats with Atty. Joseph E. Hanify, Jr., one of his parishioners. Hanify was one of three honored by the Interfaith Council of Greater Fall River as a cofounder of the respected and successful area organization. (Photo by Owen McGowan)

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OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, O.EM. Cap., Bishop of Fall River, has announced the following appointments: Rev. Thomas A. Frechette, from Parochial Administrator, Saint Patrick Parish, Wareham, to Parochial Administrator, Saints Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River.

Effectire-September 1, 1999 Rev. Roger J. Landry, from Parochial Vicar, Saints Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, to studies at the Pope John Paul II Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, with residence at the North American College.

Rev. Tadeusz J. Pacholczk, from Parochial Vicar, Holy Trinity Parish, West Harwich, to studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, with residence at the Brazilian College.

Effective September 15, 1999 Rev. Hernando Herrera, from Parochial Vicar, Saint Joseph's Parish, Taunton, to Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Seekonk, while remaining Chaplain, Coyle & Cassidy High School, Taunton.

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scribed with their names and the legend "In recognition of devoted service to the Interfaith Council of Greater Fall River, Inc., which seeks to promote the ideals of justice, kindness, understanding, friendship and good will toward all human beings."

Fall River Mayor Edward M. Lambert, Jr., expressed the city's gratitude to those responsible for building interfaith relations in the community and presented citations to each of the honorees.

Also voicing appreciation for the work of the Council were Sen. Thomas Norton of Fall River; Father Marc Bergeron, pastor of Saint Anne Church and the ecumenical officer for the Diocese of Fall River; and Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. _ Recognized at the gathering at Holy Name Parish Hall were the Rev. Donald Mier, a past president of the Council, and Barbara Shaw, also a past officer.

Father Francis L. Mahoney, pastor of Holy Name Church, who gave the opening prayer, presented Hanify, one of his parishioners, with his plaque. Rabbi William Kaufman of Temple Beth El did the honors for Fradkin, and took the opportunity to mention the Dollars for Scholars program that Fradkin founded, now known as the Citizens Scholarship Foundation ofAmerica.

The Rev. Edward Thomas presented Dr. Wilcox with his memento.

Dr. Wilcox recalled that former Fall River Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, now the Archbishop of Hartford, Conn., had approved of Catholic membership in the Interfaith Council and had attended its first meeting, held at St. Stanislaus Parish hall in Fall River.

Also among the speakers was the Rev. EdwardCoIlins, pastor of Fall River's First Congregational Church, who spoke of the late Msgr.

John E. Boyd, director for many years at St. Vincent's Home. "He always made sure that St. Vincent's kids had as much pocket money as other kids; and he guaranteed any youngsters who worked hard scholastically a college education," Rev.

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The next meeting of the Interfaith Council is scheduled for Sept.

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The recent agreement by the nation's largest Lutheran association to enter into full communion with the American Episcopal Church has been hailed in some quarters as the beginning of a . new ecumenical breakthrough. Much in the pact has yet to be worked out. However the spirit of the action is believed to be a new form of Christian cooperation.

Based on the prayer of Jesus that "all be one," the desire for unity began within the Church family not after the Reformation but rather in the serious political differences within the Eastern Churches. When the splintering of Protestantism began almost immediately after Martin Luther's revolt, the desire to bring all Christians into one family became an impossible reality. Each one wanted to do their own thing their own way. This is reflected in the fracturing of the hundreds of Protestant sects that .are found throughout the nation.

Today's revival 'of ecumenism is primarily based on social issues, not theological concepts. Globalization and the wishful hope of a common religious form in the face of the ever-growing force of secularism, are but two areas where churches feel they must unite.

There is also a very practical side to this wish for oneness. The plight of mainstream Protestantism worries Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Lutherans. Declining attendance and donations, changes in the inner city and the rapid growth of Evangelical Protestantism are but a few of the worries that have stimulated these denominations into alternative action; in many situations to no avail. And so, the Lutheran agreement becomes a ray of light.

However not all Protestants view this as a positive move. For example, Professor Balmer, an Episcopalian who teaches American religious history at Columbia University, feels this move reflects mushy Protestantism. He states: "Aside from the suspect theology underpinning the movement, ecumenism has been largely an unmitigated failure." As a result there are many who think mainline Protestant organizations have been severely aff~cted from a lack of definition, especially in the area of doctrine, which is the essence of any denomination. The lack of theological teaching is more than appalling. Religious groupings that are not assimilated by fads and fancies but adhere to definitive theological concept are the ultimate survivors. Denominations that serve up a buffet to please people usually end up with an indistinguishable dish. To please everyone, they have, in many cases, lost everything.

In the Decree on Ecumenism, the Vatican Fathers committed the Catholic Church to ecumenical dialogue and action. However, they wisely reflected that this process should not proceed in "a false conciliatory approach." Such an approach would be "foreign to the spirit of ecumenism." What this means for all who share in such a dialogue is that when we are really trying to see things through the eyes of another, we may be tempted to be so amiable that differences become blurred and obscured. It is important that one does not throw out the proverbial baby with the bath water. There are truths and teachings that cannot be diluted to make everyone feel they are going in the same direction. In all inter-church discussions, charity and kindness must prevail. However for genuine and fruitful dialogue, candor is as essential as respect. .

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Are we less community minded today?

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

As society grows more complex, is it also characterized less and less by community spirit and personal relationships that accent time together, attentiveness and caring especially in comparison with society several decades ago?

My guess is most people would answer yes, pointing to impersonal neighborhoods and workplaces or to the high divorce rate. But in his 1999 book "Saints and Sinners" (Doubleday), sociologist Father Andrew Greeley argues to the contrary, saying that we have a much The Editor more profound sense of community than we realize.

Quoting sociologist Robert Nisbet, Father Greeley concurs with his notion of community as "a fusion. of feeling and thought, of tradition and commitment, of membership and volition. Its archetype OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER . is the family."

Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River But does the meaning of "comP.O. BOX 7 887 Highland Avenue munity" go deeper than this today?

Fall River. MA 02720 Fall River. MA 02722-0007 Father Greeley says yes, explaining Telephone 508-675-7151 that "its, new dimension is one of FAX (508) 675-7048 interpersonal intimacy." Describing the ideal of this intimacy, he writes: Send address changes to P.O. Box 7 or can telephone number above "It is not merely that one associate with one's own kind of people, EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER NEWS EDITOR it is also necessary that the associaRev. Msgr. John F. Moore Rosemary Dussault James N. Dunbar tion be intimate; that is to say, that ~ LEA"''' PRESS - FALL RIVEA the relationship be characterized t''5w,aM'fi.-. a :;k*SA('$!i'I{ilf-#W''·.'§J'· !4t,S¥'. . . . . . .a·q'i'np8iI$5-t ", .$"M3.-po·&d

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by so powerful and so systematic a trust that most of the masks and the defense mechanisms which make everyday life relationships intolerable if impersonal are dropped and we relate to one another with the totality of our selthood."

Let's look closer at why people may be drawn together more intimately today and have a deeper sense of community than often is said to be the case.

Contrary to common opinion, we have more time than our grandparents ever had to'cultivate such intimacy. So many of them had to struggle - to worry where their next meal was coming from. The leisure time they lacked is one reason communities in the past lacked a deeper sense of intimacy.

As much as we detest the commercialism associated with Christmas, Mothers' Day or Fathers' Day and various other such celebrations, they do surround us with many powerful reminders about the importance of intimacy. Clever bumper stickers like, "When last have you hugged your child?" are strong reminders that the total giving of self to another in a hug outweighs the monthly paycheck, necessary as it is.

To realize how open we have become in discussing intimacy, we need only to listen carefully to a

few commercials. Take, for example, the commercial which begins with a husband giving his wife a quick kiss as he runs off. The wife sighs, "That's my husband." Suddenly the door bursts open. Hoping for more than a quick kiss, she hears instead, ~'Honey, I forgot my toothbrush." Gleefully she thinks of a weekend resort that has just opened, and says to herself that it is there that her hope of having her husband all to herself will be realized.

This commercial like so many is not shy in reminding us of the need for intimacy.

Even religion advocates intimacymore than it once did. During my grandparents' time, God more often than not was presented as a strict lawgiver, and priests often were regarded as enforcers of the law.

As psychology - with its accent on relationships - assumed a larger role in society, so too did homilies and even papal teaching become more intimate in tone, calling us into personal relationships with God and others.

If we look carefully at today's sense of community, I believe we will find we have not lost it. Rather we are gaining a deeper realization that without intimacy communities are hollow.

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SCOTT MACHADO, along with friends from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford, visits with his grandfather Jaoquim DaRosa and other residents of Brandon Woods Nursing Home, South Dartmouth. Students visited with the residents and performed a show.

St. Anne's slates September mammography van exams FALL RIVER - SaintAnne Hospital has announced the following schedule for its mobile mammography van for September in Fall River and the number to call for an appointment: Sept. 7, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., SSTAR, 400 Stanley St, 675-1054; Sept 15, 8:30am.-3:30 p.m., Health First, 102 County St., 679-8111; Sept. 18, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Hudner Oncology Center at SaintAnne's, 6755686;

Sept. 21, 6:3(}8:30 p.m., Hudner Oncology Center at SaintAnne's, 6755686.

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Appointments are necessary for all services.

Through a grant from the Breast & Cervical Cancer Initiative of the Massachusetts DepartmentofPublic Health, free services are available to uninsured or underinsured women who are: Massachusetts residents; 40 to 64 years old, or under 40 with personal or family history; or age 65 or older and not eligible for Medicare or cannot pay for Medicare B; and those able to meet income guidelines.

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My Friend, Catholic magazine for kids, turns 20 BOSTON (CNS) - My Friend, a Catholic children's magazine, is commemorating its 20th anniversary with its September issue.

Sister Concelta Belleggia of the Daughters of St. Paul started My Friend in 1979 in response to the United Nations' Year of the Child. The magazine has been published 10 times a year.

The magazine, targeted for seven- to 12-year-olds, aims to show how Jesus is the good friend of children.

It publishes contributions from its young readers and

offers a popular pen pal service.

The September issue contains brief biographies of many of the contributors to My Friend and includes a feature story about a young woman who received the_ magazine as a gift when she made her first Communion and is currently a postulant of the Daughters of St. Paul.

Since 1990, My Friend has won nine awards from the Catholic Press Association and six honorable mentions.

I Letter to the Editor I Editor: Recently the family and friends of Father John R. Foister held the fourth annual food drive in his memory.

'This year, we again asked the Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Fall River to participate. Approximately half of the parishes responded to this call to help the less fortunate. Pastors asked their parishioners to bring in a non-perishable food item during the last weekend of July or the first weekend of August. The Fall River Fire Department, which Father Foister had served as chaplain, also opened the doors to the public to drop off donations. The response was again overwhelming.

The food drive was a great success. There were 120 large moving boxes fined with all types of non-perishable food items and we also collected $360 in grocery store certificates. This was an increase from last year. The food items and certificates were donated to local food pantries in the Fall River, Somerset and Swansea communities.

The friends and family of Father John wish to express their gratitude to the local communities and volunteers that particirpated in this event. Thank you.

The Foister Family

CRS,CMMB accepting donations for earthquake victims WASHINGTON (CNS)Catholic ReliefServices and Catholic Medical Mission Board are among agencies collecting donations to aid victims of the Aug. 17 earthquake in Thrkey.

Donations may be sent to the following addresses: - Catholic Relief Services, marked "Thrkish Earthquake:' to P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD, 21203-7090. Contributions also may be made by credit card by calling (800) 736-3467, or by accessing on the agency's Web site: www.catholicrelief.org.

- Catholic Medical Mission Board, marked "Earthquake Relief," to 10 W. 17th St., New York, N.Y., 10011-5765. Contributions also may be made by credit card by calling (800) 678-5659, or through the CMMB Website: www.cmmb.org.

NEW DELHI, India (CNS) - Indian President Kocheril Raman Narayanan said the November papal visit would be "a truly memorable event" for all the people in the country.

"We greatly look forward to welcoming His Holiness in India in November," he told Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri in New Delhi Monday at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the president's house, as he accepted the archbishop's credentials as the new apostolic nuncio in India.

Pope John Paul IT's state visit will, "for all the people of our country, be a truly memorable event," Narayanan said. His remarks were reported by UCA News, an Asian church news agency _ based in Thailand.

Pope John Paul is scheduled to arrive Nov. 5 in India, where he will deliver the apostolic exhortation that will officially conclude last year's Synod of Bishops for Asia held at the Vatican.

The pope is to meet Narayanan and other Indian dignitaries Nov. 6 and concelebrate aMass withAsian synod participants the following day at New

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Narayanan said he hoped to work with the nuncio ''to further deepen the understanding which already exists between the Republic ofIndia and the Holy See." Narayanan said Indians value the Catholic Church's role in the country and noted India's 50 years of"cordial" diplomatic relations with the Holy See. He said Christianity, which he noted goes back in India to the year 52 when St. Thomas theApostle was said to have landed on the westem coast, now "constitutes an important and vibrant part of the Indian mosaic."

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THEANCHOR-Diocese ofFall River-Fri.,"September3, 1999.

A quarter century of writing to friends I have a lot to celebrate this September. It is the 25th anniversary of a very special event for me - the invitation from Catholic News Service to become one of its columnists.

It started with a phone call from Angela Schreiber, then a features editor for CNS, on Sept. 18, 1974. I remember the exact date since this is my birthday. Using the strategy of flattery, she seduced me into saying yes, I'd take on the responsibility of writBy ing a weekly column.

The agony and the ecstasy began immediately. Every week for these 25 years I have asked myself: What shall I write. that is important enough - inspiring, informative or entertaining - to justify people giving their time, a chunk of their lives, to read it?

This is not something I take lightly.

Without question, writing this column has had a profound growth effect on me.

You cannot spend so much time contem-

The Bottom Line Antoinette Bosco

plating ideas and researching facts without using the muscles of your mind and heart. The column has forced me to exercise every iota of discipline I have within

me in order to write accurately and with powerfully enough to 'get others to see a style in hope that the reading would be subject in a fresh way and then feel better informed or inspired. easy and satisfying.

Many of you have written and called I have shared much of my personal life with my readers - stories of my children, . me "friend," and this has been for me a my motherhood, my tragedies, my phi- privilege and an honor. It is hard to exlosophies, values and faith. I have looked press how humble and proud I have felt at issues and sometimes, with my social when someone writes just to say, "Your commentaries, stepped on toes. Occasion- story lifted me out of the blues" or, "Your ally, I have tried, and I hope succeeded, column today revived my faith."

I have written this column not to be a to bring a smile into the lives of my fel, teacher, preacher or model, but an low Christians across the country.

People often ask me why I write and I empathetic friend, getting together with answer: Why does anyone opt for the ex- you to get to the bottom line: out of isopressive arts like writing, art, music, danc- lation and into communication. I have ing, acting? Sometimes Ijokingly respond opted for a connection of mind and spirit. that I write because I am egotistical I hope this is what has happened and will enough to think I have something to say continue to happen.' that someone else would want to read. But From my heart, thank you for making that's only partly true. Most of the time I my life so much richer this past quarter write because I hope to express an idea century.

A once (andfuture?) voting bloc I have been trying to figure out what has been bothering me about the past, current, ongoing and might-forever-go-on, even-after-it's-over presidential campaign.

Sure, the candidates, the media and how flat Iowa is do come to mind, but it's something else..

Maybe it's "the Catholic vote." I have hardly heard "it" mentioned at all.

I admit this is hypocritical. It used to irritate the dickens out of me to hear political analysts yadah-yadah along about "the Catholic vote" as if there was some humongous voting lever that the most clever politicians could pull at election time to open the sluice gate on "the Catholic vote," and parish churches would pour into their voting booths.

There was this kind of implicit assumption that Catholics were a homogeneous group of not quite drooling - but almost - voters just waiting for: a) A priest or nun to be photographed with the candidate, or;

b) The candidate to say something nice about Catholic schools or the pope.

And, hey, if you could pull off a photoop with the pope AND mumble "voucher" so only Catholics could hear you, you were assumed to own the sluice gate.

What has been lost is an awareness that Catholics are seeking a quality many nonCatholic voters appreciate as well: a distinct resemblance to John F. Kennedy.

Of course, that's silly. We are not that shallow. We also want charisma that surpasses that of a fire hydrant and a willingness to appoint a secretary of state with some decent credentials like a really good Harvard-German accent and bushy eyebrows.

Actually I think both major political parties blew it in terms of "the Catholic vote" when they did not snap up New York Yankees' coach, Joe Torre. OK, he doesn't look a lot like JFK, but he does speak with a bit of that Northeast bite, his brother is a priest and he could have promised to name

Don Zimmer to a cabinet post, even if he had to make up one for him.· For those of you unfamiliar with Zimmer(hello to my sister), he is the assis-

The offbeat world of Uncle Dan

By Dan Morris

tant Yankees coach and leading candidate in the "Human Most Resembling a Happy Dumpling" competition. You know those doll faces they make out of dried apples or pears? Don's face, I'm confident, inspired those.

If you see Hillary Clinton or Rudolph Giuliani traipsing around New York with

Joe or Don, you'll know she or he read this column.

Even the abortion issue does not coalesce a Catholic voting bloc as it once did.

This is largely due to the increasingly sophisticated ways politicians have learned how to indicate they are for and against abortion at the same time they are against and for abortion, even though they've never personally had one.

My admittedly hypocritical concern is that we as a Catholic community are no longer perceived or feared as a voting bloc.

I did not like it when we were so perceived for the wrong reasons. Now I miss it that we perhaps are not for what could be darn good reasons ..

Comments are welcome. Write Uncle Dan at 6363 Christie Ave. No. 222, Emeryville, Calif. 94608; or e-mail: cnsuncle@yahoo,com.

Report urges better pastoral care for cohabiting couples

By JERRY FILTEAlJ CAlHOUC News SERVICE

WASHINGTON -A report sent to the U.S. bishops says the wide practice of cohabitation poses major pastoral challenges for Church marriage preparation programs.

It says marriages preceded by cohabitation are less likely l() succeed than others, but pastoral ministers should approach a cohabiting couple's decision to marry as "a teachable moment."

The 27-page report, "Marriage Preparation and Cohabiting Couples," was prepared by the U.S. bishops' Committee on Ma:mage and Family, headed by Bishop Thomas 1.

O'Brien of Phoenix. It was made available to Catholic News Service after it was sent to the bishops.

Designed to help bishops and those in marriage preparation ministry to work pastorally with cohabiting couples who decide to marry, it offers strong evidence that those couples are likely to need much more help than others in order to enter a stable marriage.

According to several studies cited ''When cohabitors do marry," the higher divorce rates when they do by the report, more than half of all report says, "they are more at risk for marry than those who cohabit only Americans entering a first marriage subsequent divorce than those who once," it says. today· cohabit before marriage, and did not cohabit before marriage.

On the much higher rate ofmarital the percentage breakup for cohabiting before cohabitors, a second or third the report says, lIWhen cohabitors do marriage is 'The research marry," the report says, higher. suggests that lIthey are more at risk for The report there are two says that by cooverlapping subsequent divorce than habitation it and reinforctho.se who did not cohabit means "both having sources for before marriage." ing a sexual relarisk: tionship and liv-"Predis- From the report ing together in posing atti"MarlJ'oalgje [P>lJ'elPlal[j'al~iCliIJ'1) allJ'1)!01 the same resitudes and dence" while not ColhlalbiitilJ'1)g) COlUlto~eS," characteristics married. they take into pll'eparedilby B1 commiititee One of the . the marriage. healdleo1 lOy Bishop trhomas studies cited says -·"ExpeJ. O'BlJ'ielJ'1) o~ IPhoelJ'1)i){. that the number of riences from U.S. couples co~~=:i'·'Ij'=.':2".,;;::,;:::.·~'.i1:·;~·.'·;Z:."2!· ",a; c'§'.:. 'E:::::::JK===3~S5~··B,·2:,·~".,,~ ,~:',·~,·;ii>~;<;'~iZ,;<K·:£,.i>,ii~·,~.<~.,~t the cohabitahabiting rose tion itself that from half a milcreate problion in 1960 to four million in 1997.

In the United States, the risk of lem patterns and behaviors."

The studies also show that less divorce is 50 percent higher for The report, carefully described by than half of cohabiting unions end cohabitors than noncohabitors." the committee as only a "resource in marriage.

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of the U.S. bishops or the committee, makes no fonnal policy recommendations.

But it notes that Pope John Paul II, in his 1981 apostolic exhortation on the family, ".Familiaris Consortio," called on pastors to "make tactful and respectful contact with the couples concerned and enlighten them patiently, correct them charitably and show them the witness of Christian family life in such a way as to smooth the path for them to regularize their situation."

It says experience shows that "two extremes ar:e to be avoided: (1) immediately confronting the couple and condemning their behavior, and (2) ignoring the cohabitation aspect of their relationship."

"For cohabiting couples," it says, "a specific goal may be added: to encourage the couple to reflect on their situation and why they decided to cohabit and to provide insights into possible consequences, factors that may present special challenges to them or put them at risk for later marital disruption."

Communion "in another church Q. Does the Roman Catholic Church d~m it acceptable, under any circumstances, for Roman

Questions and Answers

By Father John J. Dietzen Catholics to receive Communion at an Orthodox Catholic Mass? Are there circumstances when it is possible to fulfiU the Sunday obligation by attending an Orthodox Mass?

(Louisiana) A. For those who may not be fa-

miliar with the terminology, the word Orthodox generally refers to those Eastern Christian Churches not in full communion with the Latin, or Roman, Catholic Church.

As the Vatican Council II Decree on Ecumenism points out, a special relationship exists with these churches with whom we still have a very close agreement in faith.

"Through the celebration of the Eucharist of the Lord in each of these churches, the church of God is built up and grows in stature," it says. "Al-

though separated from us, these churches still possess true sacraments, above all- by apostolic succession - the priesthood and the Eucharist" (15).

that particularchurch and refrain from receiving if that church restricts the sacrament to its own members.

In the same way, Catholic ministers who offer Communion to Eastern Catholics should be aware of any restrictions on the other side and avoid any suggestion of proselytizing (see Directory, No. 124).

The limiting conditions for participation indicated above do not normally apply to Eastern churches which are in communion with the Latin Church. The Sunday Mass obligation, for example, may be satisfied by assistance at Mass celebrated "in any Catholic rite" (Canons 923 and 1248).

In our Church law, this includes the Latin Church and those Eastern churches in full communion with Rome. Thus, except possibly for the circumstances I explained, the obligation for Sunday and holy day Mass would not be fulfilled at liturgies in other Eastern churches.

Q. Recently I have come to know two Chaldean Rite Christians, one

This communion in matters of belief and tradition obviously affects sharing in our respective liturgies.

Thus, whenever necessity requires or it would serve some spiritual advantage, Roman Catholics who cannot approach a Catholic minister for some reason may receive the sacraments of penance, Eucharist and anointing of the sick from a minister of an Eastern (Orthodox) Church (Vatican Directory on Ecumenism, March 1993, No. 122).

Likewise, Catholic ministers may administer the same sacraments to members ofthe Eastern churches who ask to receive them and who are properly disposed (Directory, Nos. from Iraq and one from India. Can 123,125). you provide some history and staBecause the policies of some tus of the Chaldeans? (California) A. The Chaldean Church, or PaEastern churches are more restrictive than those of the Latin Church, a triarchate, originated with Christians Catholic who wishes to receive Com- of the Eastern Syrian Church who munion with Eastern Christians must separated from Rome at the time of respect the wishes and discipline of .the Nestorian heresy.

Knowing when to Dlarry Dear Dr. Kenny: Weare 24-yearsold, in love and want to get married. I cannot imagine being married to anyone else. Yet we are getting lots of advice to wait and be sure. How do you know whether a marriage will last? (Illinois)

true. "One and only right person" in the world is foreordained for each of us. Keep looking until you "know" in your heart that you have met him or her. A stable and long-lasting marriage depends upon the ability of the partners to make a commitment, not some

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Few if any experts are able to predict whether a marriage will be happy and last. No other area has gathered such an array of both myth and fact.

The permanence of romantic love is the fIrst of With Dr. James & the four major marriage Mary Kenny myths. Obviously, it is a myth-wish that you share ....- - - - - - - - - - with almost every other marrying heaven-planned predestination.

The third myth: "I can be happy couple. Is being in love with someone sufficient reason to marry that person? with anyone as long as I try hard Sadly, the answer is no. Most of us enough. We know our marriage will love many people to whom we are not work because we will make it work."

Wrong again. We all know of marmarried nor would we ever want to be.

Romantic love may add the excitement riages where both partners appear to of infatuation, a beautiful thing, but it have tried very hard to get along and cannot. does not guarantee permanence.

Finally, the fourth myth. A couple Here is the second myth, also not

Family Talk

u.s. Jesuit urges Kenyans

to join fight against AIDS· NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) Kenyans must accept the reality of AIDS and join their government in fighting the disease, said a U.s. Jesuit who founded ahome in Kenya for children with the HIV virus that causes the disease.

More than 150,000 children in Kenya are HIV-positive, said Father Angelo D'Agostino, founder of the Nyumbani children's home, which currently cares for 120 children who are HIV-positive. ''With AIDS cases on the increase, the number of children orphaned as a result of the disease will increase tremendously as we enter the new millen'ilium," said the priest, a surgeon and psychiatrist.

Father D' Agostino, a native of Providence, R.I., spoke during a courtesy call by Ngina Kenyatta, wife of the late Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, at the children's home.

In Kenya, at least one in 10 adults has the HIV virus. Father D'Agostino said even with a government awareness campaign onAIDS, Kenyans were doing little to fight the disease.

"Children's homes are not the only alternative to young people suffering from AIDS. The whole Kenyan community should feel responsible to cater for such children," he said.

Father D'Agostino urged the government to waive taxes on overseas donations to his home, saying high taxes discouraged donors.

should prove their relationship will work before marrying, either by living together or dating for a long time.

Also wrong. Marriage changes things. Many couples have dated or lived together in bliss, yet their relationship deteriorated from the moment they were married. Sometimes the opposite occurs: A couple fights all the time while dating, and marriage seems to smooth and sweeten their relationship.

How can you enhance your chances for happiness and permanence? Here are four guidelines. No guarantees, of course, but this is as good as it gets.

1. Wait till you are 21. Marriages before age 21 have a very high rate of failure. Marriage requires the maturity oflife experience and personal growth.

2. Don't marry an addict. Alcoholics, drug addicts, gamblers and workaholics may all be nice people at heart. But you will always come second. You cannot compete with the bottle, the drug, the excitement, the compulsion. Marrying someone to rescue or reform him or her is a poor idea.

3. Marry someone with differing personality traits. Talkers should marry listeners, stay-up-late people should marry go-to-bed-early people, cautious people need a partner who can be decisive.

Our personalities should mesh and fit together in marriagejust as our bodies do. Marriages work best when you marry the partner you need.

4. Marry someone who shares your interests and values. If you like to live outdoors, don't marry an indoors person.1fyou are loving and giving, don't marry a "me-firster." A person who wants children should not marry someone who doesn't.

Romantic love is a wonderful experience, but it may not last a lifetime.

For a marriage to last, a down-to-earth, through-the-hard-times commitment is also required.

THEANCHOR - Diocese ofFall River-Fri., September 3, 1999 Nestorians, who formed a large group of Christians for many years, questioned the divinity of Christ and the title God-bearer ("theotokos") for Mary. Dealing with this controversy was the primary work of the Council of Ephesus in 431.

All Chaldean Christians are Catholic today. They reside traditionally for the most part in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran. In recent decades a large number have emigrated to the United States.

Chaldeans today are barely a remnant of one of the great churc;hes of the East centuries ago. Catholic Chaldeans have been in communion with the Church of Rome longer than any other Eastern church except the

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Ex-senator urges graduates to keep learning throughout life

By PETER BERGIN

conferral of degrees. Most graduates budget for education increased only . earned bachelor's or master's degrees 180 percent.

"Years from now, people will look JOLIET, Ill. - When Paul Simon in health-related fields.

After receiving an honorary degree back and wonder how the U.S. could gave up his well-worn seat in the U.S. Senate in favor of a modest office in from the university, Simon urged the let that happen. I want you to questhe Public Policy Institute at South- graduates to continue to grow intel- tion our policies," he added.

"I wish I could say our educational . ern Illinois University in 1997, it was lectually after earning a diploma. But, he added, success in life is not based system is not part of the problem," he a matter of predictability. added..

"Now I can tell my wife I'll be solely upon the intellect. ''Those w~o contribute the most Simon told the Catholic Explorer home for dinner;' said the professor of political philosophy and journal- (to society) are not necessarily gauged college students today "don't accept ism in an interview with the Catholic by where they rank academically," he answers as readily" as those in his genExplorer, Joliet diocesan newspaper. said. Great world leaders like Winston eration did.

To question authority,and to think No more last-minute flights to Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt Europe as a member of the U.S. For- were not academically astute indi- things through is a good habit, he said, eign Relations Committee. No more viduals, Simon said, yet they accom- but "if that questioning leads to cyni' cism then it is not a healthy thing." haggling over the budget disputes. plished much..

Turning his focus to the United Although he regards the political And he is through with the high-proStates, the former newspaper editor atmosphere today as "excessively file stress of Capitol Hill.

For Simon, it's time to grade pa- pinpointed several shortcomings that .partisan," Simon is nonpartisan in his pers, parlay his wisdom before thirsty the graduates, as the country's future religious life. He is a Lutheran and his wife is minds and, he hopes, spend more time leaders, will have to address. "Out of the world's industrialized nations, the Catholic. The couple frequently takes with his four grandchildren.

The 70-year-old lifelong Demo- ' U.S. has the highest percentage ofchil- turns attending services at each other's crat took a break from the-classroom dren living in poverty,~' he explained. congregations. ''There's no queStion we've made recently to give the keynote address ''And there are better alternatives than great progress in terms of interfaith rehighlighting commencement cer- , putting people in prison."

Simon noted that in the last 20 lations, and partofthat credit is to Pope emonies at the University of St.' years, 24 new prisons were built in John XXIII and to Jack Kennedy," said Francis in Joliet.

Parents, family and friends ofmore America. During that same time, the Simon. "In 1960, the big issue was than 400 graduates packed the field . national budget for correctional facili- whether we could survive having a CHRIST IS seen at the head of the table in an unusual buthouse to witness the summertime ties increased 800 percent while the Roman Catholic president" CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ter sculpture of the Last Supper by Norma "Duffy" Lyon of Toledo, Iowa. The sculpture was on display at the Iowa State Fair this summer. The entire piece took 2,000 pounds of butter to create. (CNS photo by Anne Marie Cox, Catholic Mirrof)

Washington deacon overcame Last Supper sculpted illiteracy, t9 be minister of the Word

in butter for state fair

By ANNE MARIE Cox CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

DES MOINES, Iowa - Norma "Duffy" Lyon exudes warmth, which is a good thing considering that she spent nearly two weeks working in a walk-in cooler in the middle of August.

She has sculpted cows, 'die heads of famous people, and more from butter that is recycled and used in future projects.

But this year, she decided to tackle what may be her largest project to date - the Last Supper in -butter. It was on display during the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

Sponsored by the Midland Dairy Association and joined by some young friends, Lyon set out with 2,000 pounds of butter to shape the disciples and Jesus using just wire figures for structural support.

She seemed to be able to envision the sculpture even before the eight-foot-long table had been !let up next to the Brown Swiss butter cow already in the window of the cooler, which was also her display area in the agriculture building on the fairgrounds.

"It says in the Bible they reclined at the table so that's what I'm going to do," she told The Catholic Mirror, newspaper of the Diocese of Des Moines. The artist did not want to copy faces or positions seen in other interpretations of the Last Supper.

In her work, Jesus stands at the head of a table, hands outstretched.

Cups and a loaf of bread, broken in two, sit on the table, which has a tableCloth.

All of it is shaped from butter with details ranging from hair and beards to clothing and fingers etched in it. Jesus was put at the head of the table so he could more easily be seen through the cooler's windows, separated by a pillar.

Lyon's young helpers shaped much of the bodies, and Ruth Nixt of Greene, Iowa, concentrated on the faces. They all worked at the direction of Lyon, who, like a movie director setting up a scene, encouraged them and told them what she wanted.

"She doesn't Wllnt them to look old" as seen in some paintings, Nixt said. "They were rather young guys."

During the project, Nixt put on thermal socks, boots and sweatpants to keep warm in the cooler. Lyon was cloaked in a sweater and sweatshirt each day.

She chose the Last Supper because of its appeal both to those who enjoy art and to those who appreciate the significance of the Last Supper.

Lyon, a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Toledo, Iowa, earned a bachelor's degree in animal husbandry from Iowa State University, where she met her husband, Joe Lyon. They married in 1950 and moved to Toledo to start a Jersey farm, hence her butter cows are lifelike.

After 40 years of sculpting in butter, Lyon's interpretation of the Last Supper may be her last big endeavor. "I won't ever do anything as large as the Last Supper again," she said. '

ByTOMROWAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGlON- For most ofhis life, Thomas Forbes, apermanentdeacon at Incamation Parish in northeast Washington, was illiterate.

Now nudging 75, he was 59 years old when he learned to read and write the English he had spoken all his life.

Today, he not only reads confidently, but uses an IBM typewriter and can manage a computer. He even has written a brief autobiography, "Sharing My Gift with Others."

Literacy opened a new world that Forbes never drearned possible when he was a Maryland farm boy during the Depression.

In an interview with the Catholic Standard, newspaper ofthe Washington Archdiocese, Forbes said he hadn't been able to attend school because offarm work.

As sharecroppers, his family had to give two-thirds of everything they grew to the landowner. The family was poor, he said, but it "didn't seem so bad at the time" because nearly ev~ erybody they knew was poor. The family ofseven lived in a fourroom house with no insulation, electricity or running water. Forbes remembers brutally cold winters, with snow swirling inside through cracks in the walls, and burlap bags for boots.

He learned to plow at 10 and became such a good worker that his father occasionally hired him out for 50 cents a day. All his earnings went to the family..

After his father stopped farming because ofillness, Forbes hired out to neighboring farmers for $9 a week.

He did this for a decade, during which he met, courted and married Mary Elizabeth Dorsey of Leonardtown.

In 1951, the 28-year-old Forbes and his young wife gave up farming

DEACON THOMAS Forbes raises up the Gospel during Mass at Incarnation Parish in Washington. Forbes overcame illiteracy 16 years ago so that he could proclaim the word as a deacon. (CNS photo by Michael Hoyt, Catholic Standard) and moved just outside Washington, where he got a job with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission.

He learned plumbing, bricklaying and cement finishing, but his inability to read became a handicap. He couldn't accept promotions because he couldn't handle the paperwork involved in foreman jobs.

Forbes said in 1969 he experienced "a call from God telling me to become more involved in the Church." The call came in the form of severe heart attacks that eventually forced him to retire in 1976.

He started attending daily Mass, was active in the St. Vincent de Paul Society, became a eucharistic minister and brought Communion to the sick. He formed a weekly prayergroup, and began considering the diaconate.

Until then, keen powers of observation on walks around the city and a great memory had helped him carve out an urban life without being able

to read. But, the diaconate program - then three years, now four, ofreading and course work - seemed out of reach.

Undaunted, Forbes faced the challenge. Father Michael Wilson, who knew him in the Serra Club of Washington, introduced him to a retired teacher who agreed to tutor him once a week at her home.

Also, the wife with whom he'll celebrate 55 years of marriage in November sat beside him in class all three years.

In 12 years as a deacon, Forbes has ministered to the sick and shut-ins, assisted at sacramental celebrations and helped prepare couples for marriage. He is moderator of the Washington Council of the St. Vmcent de Paul Society and the Catholic Daughters of theAmericas.

"I'm happy the Lord has led me this way, so I can reach out to people;' he said. "My thing was always helping people."

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Marquette professor pitching translations for Brewers' Nomo

By BILL KURTZ

Nomo is one of several Japanese players pitching in the United States whose exploits are followed by baseballMILWAUKEE-SinccJapanesepitcherHideoNomo loving Japan. Greenberg said a major Japanese network joined the Milwaukee Brewers in early May, his perfor- televises all ofNomo'sstarts-whetherday ornightgames mance has been one of the team's big stories.

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Nomo, released earlier this year by the New York Mets He also noted that several Japanese newspaper reporters and Chicago Cubs, has posted a 10-6 record for the Brew- cover games started by Japanese pitchers in various U.S. ers. cities, writing game stories that emphasize the pitching performance..

"I'm kissing the ground he walks on," then-Brewers manager Phil Garner joked July 22 after Tani, who translates questions and answers beNomo blanked the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0. tween U.S. reporters and Nomo, also translates quesNomo's starts are big news, which is why tions asked iil English for Japanese reporters.

Atsuko Tani, a professor ''Mr. Nomo is a rather quiet person, even in Japaof foreign languages . -:.. nese:' she said. "But he is very polite, and is and literature at Jesuit- ""';' very soft-spoken and careful run Marquette Uniabout what he says. I've versity, has become a , never heard him say anything critical" of teamregular in Milwaukee County Stadium's press mates or his manager, she box. She translates for added.

Nomo is "very happy to Nomo when he meets interviewers after pitching a home be here," she continued. "He game. respects his manager and teamTani recalled that when Brewmates. He thinks the fielding is ers media relations director Jon very good, which makes his job easier."

Greenberg called her as a prospective Tani does not travel with the Brewers. When translator, he established that she was Nomo pitches road games, the team hires transfluent in Japanese and English. \ lators in each city. "We've been very lucky in "Then he said, 'There's' another ( finding other people on the road to help on language, basebalL' I said I knew that:' " , d a y s Nomo pitches," Greenberg said. she told the Catholic Herald, news- (' '. . \ ' Another Jap~ese pitcher, Hideki Irabu of • .';. ~.' ..... ' ~ .... d''I. the New York Yankees, has full-time translator paper of the Milwaukee Archdio- ( . cese. ) _ I .~ George Rose traveling with him. The CathoTani said she became a fan in ( '. ~.. ..;~. '). lic Ro~ l~ed Japanese while teaching the late 1950s, as she was grow..J. EnglIsh In Japanese schools. ing up ~n Japan andd edtelevSihsion / ' /'" In vie~ ofththe ergekuS, press collrps was beIng Intro uc . e covenng e Lan ees, as we as watched games Withjler ~Japanese reporters covering father and followed the Irabu, Greenberg noted that Yomiuri Giants, long • "market size virtually dethe winningest, most . rnands he (Irabu) have //' ..- __ --... '. his own full-time popular team in Japan's major f '" \ translator." leagues. " \ He added, In the 1960s, "Mrs. Tani has she began studies MILWAUKEE BREWER Hideo Nomo delivers a pitch in been great. She's in the United his 5-0 win over Philadelphia at Milwaukee County Stadium developed a real States and was liv- in July. The Japanese pitcher has made the summer memo- rapport with ing in New York rable for Marquette University professor Atsuko Tani, who Hideo, where he's when the "Miracle has worked as Nomo's translator. (CNS photo by Allen very confident Mets" won the with her."

1969World Series. Fredrickson, Catholic Herald) Greenberg said She can recount the experience of key plays, as well as the names of team stars, including a working with Nomo and Japanese reporters "has been a lot young Nolan Ryan. offun." ''From the beginning, he was very powerful, but lacked But, the big question now for fans and reporters is control," she said of the pitcher inducted into the Baseball whether Nomo will re-sign with the Brewers. The rightHall of Fame in July. hander's contract expires at the end of this season.

Tani has been a Brewers fan since arriving in MilwauAsked if Nomo will stay in Milwaukee, Tani replied, "I kee in the 1970s. Able to speak Spanish, she also taught definitely hope so, like everybody else, but I can't really English for several years at Milwaukee's Spanish Center. tell."

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Texas diocese awaits archbishop's successor CORPUSCHRISfI,Texas(CNS)The long hot summer in the Rio Grande Vr.::"'i is feeling even longer for the Diocese of Corpus Christi as it awaits the appointment of a successor to its bishop.

Archbishop Roberto O. Gonzalez, formerly bishop of Corpus Christi, now heads the Archdiocese of San Juan. He was appointed to the new post in March and installed in Puerto Rico May 8.

But he remains administrator of Corpus Christi until his successor is named and spends alternate weeks in Corpus Christi and Puerto Rico.

Marty Wind, secretary for communications in the Corpus Christi Diocese, said Archbishop Gonzalez wamed ,the Texas diocese that it could be as late as September or October before Rome names a successor.

Although Archbishop Gonzalez is the apostolic administrator, Wind said Msgr. Richard Shirley, vicar general, oversees the day-to-daY affairs of the diocese for the bishop. .

The new bishop could eventually find himselfin a much smallerdiocese, Wmd said, because the diocese may be split. ''We've been preparing, at the direction ofRome, for a number ofyears for the possibility that Rome would want to make the Laredo. area its own diocese;' he said. ''We know Rome is considering this, but we do not know when it will happen."

Corpus Christi, one of 14 Texas dioceses, now covers 17,294 square miles and includes all of 14 counties and parts of two others. It began as an apostolic vicariate in 1874 and was elevated to a diocese in 1912.

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When it comes to good comedy Dudley doesn't do so right NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

"Dudley Do-Right" (Universal) Thin live-action comedy based on the 1V cartoon series created by Jay Ward in which the hopelessly square Canadian Mountie of the title (Brendan Fraser) gets some help from his faithful horse in saving his dim sweetheart Nell (Sarah Jessica Parker) from the viIlainous Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina), who's using fake gold rush to fleece novice prospectors. Director Hugh Wilson settles for some easy laughs while failing to find much genuine humor in repetitive comic situations featuring Fraser's dead- . pan high jinks, corny dialogue, weak sight gags and overly busy slapstick action. Comic violence, much menace and assorted vulgarities. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

"A Dog of Flanders" (Warner Bros.) .

Engrossing version of the Ouida novel in which an orphaned boy in a 19th-century Flemish village is encouraged by a local painter (Jon Voight) to use his talents to become a great artist, but gives up after he loses a painting contest and is accused of maliciously starting a fire, then faces freezing to death in a snow storm until a miracle gives him a second chance. Writer-director Kevin Brodie explores the poor lad's problems and prospects, though the dog h~ rescues from an abusive master plays only a relatively small part in proceedings, which richly evoke the period and are centered in the boy's love of his dead mother and yearning for his unknown father. Stylized violence, some intense menace, an implied sexual encounter and a few cuss words. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

"Mickey Blue Eyes" (Warner Bros.)

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Catholic writes series on Protestant minister

By MARK PATnSON CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

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HOLLYWOOD-Catholic writer Mary Hanes is working on a television series about a Protestant mini.llter.

And the network airing it hopes it will be as popular as a similar British series about a Catholic priest.

Hanes is creator and executive producer of "Hope Island," which will be shown 9-10 p.rn. Sundays on the fledgling Pax Network starting Sept 12. ''Hope Island" is an American version of the popular British series "Ballykissangel;' which has attracted half ofGreat Britain's1V viewers in its four seasons on the air.

Pax hopes ''Hope Island!' will catch on with American audiences in much the same manner that the U.S. version of"You Can Be a Millionaire" did; the quiz show's British counterpart has captured up to 70 percent of the audience on occasion.

Seen on some PBS stations here, ''Ballykissangel'' focuses on a young Catholic priest new to his ministry.

Like the original, the minister on ''Hope Island" will have to contend with an odd collection offolks, such as a mother and daughter who don't speak to each other but get along perfectly well otherwise; the island cop who can't pop the question to his long-suffering girlfriend; the town schemer-dreamer; and a handyman who's everything but ,Then there's the feisty barmaid at , the town tavern. The "Hope Island" version of the character was raised Catholic, but after her mother died a slow and painful death from cancer, she has become a bitter and nonreligious

woman, Hanes said.

Nor does it help that the barmaid is raising a son as a single mother after divorcing a man for whom she still has feelings-even though he's been away from the scene for four years. The fact that Daniel, the minister character, is handsome and single doesn't help at all, Hanes said. ''He is all about faith, so that kind of keeps them apart," she added.

Moreover, "there's something that's preventing Daniel from actually pursuing a relationship" with the barmaid, which will be revealed rater this fall, Hanes said. , Catholic viewers may be put off in the opening sequences of the fIrst episode, but Hanes suggested to take it with a grain ofsalt Thescene has Daniel walking into the tavern and meeting the Catholic priest on Hope Island.

"Father Mac's been the only game in town" foryears and years, Hanessaid.

When. he fIrst sees Daniel, he walks away. in a huff. But the two clerics hammer out a friendship in subsequentepisodes. ''It's turning out to be avery good relationship, and we're very happy with that;' Hanes said.

The writer was raised in New Jersey and went to school and church at Our Lady ofthe Lake in Verona, N.J., in the Newark Archdiocese. And she has a priest in the family. Her uncle is Father Joseph Halpin, associate pastor at St Justin Parish in Toms River, N.J., in the Trenton Diocese.

'Tm3,(XXhnilesaway fromrny family," noted Hanes, but added she's sure' her mother has clued her uncle in on her current Hollywood doings.

expatriate British auctioneer (Hugh Grant) becomes engaged to a schoolteacher (Jeanne Tripplehorn) whose gangsterfamily immediately ensnares him in mob business that could get him killed. Directed by Kelly Makin, the fish-out-of-water premise is stretched pretty thin through the. course of some mildly amusing situations. Brief violence, irreverent depictions of religious art, some profanity and a few instances of rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

"The 13th Warrior" (Touchstone) Chaotic tale of 10th-century Vikings who force a traveling Arab diplomat (Antonio Banderas) to fight with them against savage cannibals decimating one of their kingdoms. As directed by John McTiernan, the constantly panning camera, murky visuals and often incomprehensible dialogue amount to a dark and dreary horror film. Some gory battlefield violence with decapitations. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification

is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

"Universal Soldier: The Return" (TriStar) Overly violent sci-fi clunker is set in a secret government lab where a haywire computer turns loose a force of almost indestructible human robots until stopped by a former robot (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Directed by Mic Ridgers, the cycle of violence in the repetitive sequel is even more mindless than in the original. Excessive violence, nudity, profanity and rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is 0 - morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

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New book of prayers for priests is published by Crossroad

By CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE HARRISBURG, Pa. - Crossroad Publishing has released a new book by Father T. Ronald Haney called "Prayers for Priests arid Those Who Pray for'Them."

Father Haney, secretary for communications and executive editor of The Catholic Witness, Harrisburg diocesan newspaper, said the book has two parts.

The first section contains 15 prayers directed to the Trinity; the second contains prayers to 15 saints. The final prayer, appearing on the back cover, is for vocations to the priesthood.

Brother Michael O'Neill McGrath, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales, who did pen-and-ink

drawings for Father Haney's 1998 book, "The Stations of the Cross," also provided illustrations for the latest book.

Father Haney said that although the prayers are for priests, the laity can use them for insights into the struggles and hopes, the frustrations and ideals of the priests who serve them.

Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Morneau of Green Bay, Wis., called the new book "a collection that is faith-filled, conversational in tone, and deeply grounded in the mystery of the indwelling Trinity."

"Prayers for Priests and Those Who Pray for Them" can be orderedfrom Crossroad at (800) 3950690.

Catholic chef cooks up tasty scripts

By MARK PATIlSON CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

HOLLYWOOD -Gregory Graham left behind a lucrative life as an award-winning chef three years ago to trY his hand at writing screenplays.

The transition hasn't exactly been a piece ofcake, but Graham, a Catholic, sold one script for the WB 1V series "Charmed" last season, and he's . working on two movie screenplays.

Graham and his family go to St. Mel Church in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills. It's where he and his wife had their infant daughter baptized over the winter.

While his Catholic faith may 'set him apart from the dominant culture in the entertainment ind'ustry "sometimes they don't know where you're coming from" - but he credits his faith for giving him a good fou?,-

dation for careerchoices he has made.

Graham grew up in Adams, Mass., and went to St. Thomas Church there.

Adams is in the state's northwest corner, which is part of the Diocese of Springfield.

"It was a good life growing up Catholic," Graham said. "It really gave me a good foundation for'doing the things I've been called to do, even changing careers like I have."

In his first career, Graham studied at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., which he regards as the premier culinary school in the United States.

Graham was on the American Culinary Team in 1984 competing against other national teams in world-' wide competition. The team won gold medals in originality, presentation, banquet serving and other categories. .

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In Hollywood, Graham enjoys a little bit of insider help. His wife used to be the Los Angeles bureau chief for Fortune magazine and now writes the "Insider" column for People magazine.

He's used that as an entree to meet with fIlm industry leaders from Castle Rock Productions, Rob Reiner's studio, and high-powered independent . production companies run by former studio chiefs.

But Graham prefers to use his own talents to pave the way for his career.

The producer of "Charmed," Aaron Spelling, "has a lot of power as far as 1V is concerned," he said.

"But I'm concentrating on feature films. I have venues when I'm ready to sell, when everything is polished and ready to go."

Liturgy transforms people as it does bread, wine, bishop says ~

Revitalization of Vatican II's reforms are the real means to religious conversion.

By DONNA PINSONEAULT CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

FRANKLIN, Wis. - The eucharistic liturgy is "not only a transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, but a transformation of ourselves," said Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa. "That's the goal- conversion," he told more than 150 participants at a summer institute at Sacred Heart School of Theology in Franklin, a Milwaukee suburb.

The institute, held in early August, was the fourth and last in a series on Pope John Paul II's 1994 apostolic letter, "Tertio Mil{ennio . Adveniente" ("As the Third Millennium Draws Near").

In his keynote presentation, Bishop Trautman, a former chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Liturgy, noted the presence of "powerful voices calling for a reform" of the reforms the Second Vatican Council made in the liturgy.

But such a movement, he said, has "no chance" of getting a hearing in a post-Vatican II Church that

now includes a generation of people who use cellular phones and computers and have never experienced a Latin Mass.

"For many of them, Vatican II is ancient history," he said. "We don't need a reform of the reform; we need to revitalize the reform."

Bishop Trautman suggested that this 'period in Church life be viewed not as a post-Vatican II period, but as pre-Vatican III. "Whether we like it or not that's where God has placed us," he said.

"How unproductive it is to spend our energies debating the old issues." He added. "The question we need to ask is does our liturgical experience form and transform minds, and hearts, and attitudes?"

In the early days of the Church, liturgy was understood as the "work of the people" and was tne only means by which people were instructed, Bishop Trautman said.

Signs of conversion, such as the blessing of water, immersion, anointing, prayers and readings, were the formal way Christians taught catechumens. He believes that understanding how formation oc.curred through the eucharistic liturgy requires returning to testimony from the apostolic era.

"The New Testament is our source book," he said, drawing at-

tention to the verbs in accounts of how Jesus took bread, then the cup, gave thanks, broke the bread, and gave it to his disciples.

"The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke all use the same four key words in the same sequence. This suggests that the biblical writers were repeating a memorized text," the bishop said.

By taking, blessing, breaking and giving, Jesus was "acting out what his life was all about. He is asking us to do the same," Bishop Trautman said.

Bishop Trautman said that Catholics must distinguish between what is divine and unchanging and what is human and changeable. "Signs, rites and languages can grow old and outmoded and often need to be updated," he said.

"They must speak in the language of our culture. Liturgy is not a relic ... and the living language in the United States today is inclusive." ''To have worship, there must be transformation of minds, hearts and attitudes. Transformation is why we gather at the Lord's table. We are not working simply to improve liturgical ceremonies; we are working for transformation, conversion."

"In the name of God's people," he said, "let us be committed to celebrate living liturgy."

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ASSONET -A Rosary Crafters meeting will be held on Sept: 20 in .the flfSt classroom of the St. Bernard Church's religious education center, 30 South Main Street. Join them in making rosaries for people around the world. New members always welcome. For more information call 6445585.

ATTLEBORO - The annual Family Festival begins today at.the La Saletle Shrine and runs through Labor Day. All welcome.

The annual Catholic Fanlily Pilgrimage will be held at the Shrine on Sept. 12 beginning with a bilingual Mass at 12: 10 p.m. It will include afternoon entertainment by the Old Time Fiddlers, the magic of Tom Warren, a bookfair and the Hug a Bunny Petting Zoo. All welcome. For more information call 222-5410.

A La Salette Novena, themed 'The Unique Symbols .of the Apparition of Mary at La Salelte," will be held at all Shrine Masses Sept. 8-16. Weekdays Masses are held at 12:10 and 6:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 12: 10 and

4:30 p.m.; Sundays at 12: 10 p.m. All welcome.

FALL RIVER - Hospice Outreach will offer a volunteer training program for persons interested in caring for terminally ill patients and their families beginning on Sept. 9 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 502 Bedford Street. Registration and pre-training interview are required. For more information call 673-1589.

FALL RIVER - A mandatory orientation meeting for all students in the fall sports program at Bishop Connolly High School and their parents will be held in the auditorium on Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. For more information call the athletic office at 6761032.

HYANNIS-Catholic Social Services will hold an information session on Sept. 8 from 7-9 p.m. at its Hyannis office, 261 South Street, for all persons interested in adopting an older/special needs child, ages 6-13.

For more information or directions call 771-677 I. CSS will present a 1O-week, oncca-week Model Approach to Partnership in Parenting program for anyone considering adopting an older/ special needs child, beginning in October. Call for more information.

MANSFIELD - A series of four natural family planning classes, taught by the Couple to Couple League, will begin on Sept. 12 at 2 p.m. at St. Mary's Parish Center. All welcome. For more information and registration call

NORTH ATTLEBORO - The choir of St. Mary's Parish will begin its new season with a rehearsal on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. in the parish center.

There are openings in all voice ranges. All welcome. For more information call Jay Malone at 695-1877.

OSTERVILLE - Our Lady of theAssumption Parish's Ladies Guild will hold its opening Fall meeting on Sept. 14 at 9 a.m. For more information call Pat Finn at 420-0161.

SOMERSET - A five-week adult education series, 'The Documents ofVatican II," will begin at St. Thomas More Parish on Sept. 15 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. All welcome. For more information call Pat Pasternak in the religious education office at 679-1236.

SWANSEA - CCD registration will be held this Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the church hall of St. Michael's Parish. For more information call 673-2808.

TAUNTON -A diocesan Workshop for Lay Ministers will be held at Coyle路and Cassidy High School on Oct. 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day-long event will include Mass, a keynote address and a variety of discussions on the role of the laity in the liturgical life of the parish. For more information call the Office of Divine Worship at 823-2521.

WIEST HARWICH - The St. Francis of Peace Fraternity will hold its monthly meeting on Sept. 12 at Holy Trinity Church. Mass will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. and the meeting will follow. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. For more information call Kay Fitzgerald at 394-0323.

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Former Catholic editortakes first vows as Adrian Dominican

By EVELYN BARELLA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ADRIAN, Mich. -As she discovers her new identity as Adrian Dominican Sister Barbara Kelley, the former editor of The Catholic Times, Lansing diocesan newspaper, admits she finds her new name a little awkward.

"I'm not really comfortable yet being called Sister," she said following her first profession of vows earlier this month. "It's still a new thing and it's hard to get used to."

The last three years of Barbara Kelley's life have been an ongoing lesson in self-discovery as she has moved from a candidate to a novice and now vowed member of the religious order. But she also has been learning to interconnect with her new family - the Adrian Dominican sisters - and to gain skills in dependence.

"To be the effective minister that I want to be, I'll need God's help and God's grace," Sister Kelley said.

"I've learned that I need to rely on God to be the person I want to be and living in the community has shown me some of my flaws and hang-ups, but also my gifts."

Sister Kelley said since she decided to become an Adrian Dominican she has learned to focus on more than just the task at hand, and has become more tolerant of interruptions in her daily life. As editor of a Catholic newspaper for nine years, she said, an interruption at deadline was something she once found annoying.

"One of my flaws was that I found interruptions were distracting and disturbed the time I had to myself," Sister Kelley told The Catholic Times. "I've learned to be kind and more contemplative when I have a busy schedule. I've also learned that I'm a good listener, I have a compassionate heart and care

about people."

She'll use her newfound knowledge and skills in her new job - as staff writer at The Catholic Chronicle, newspaper of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio. ''I'm excited about going back into journalism," Sister Kelley said.

"It was at general chapter in 199899 when they said greater use of the media was necessary as we head into the millennium when I realized that I could go back into journalism and it would be very useful for the Adrian Dominicans.

"This was good confirmation that the Adrian Dominicans were a good fit for me," she added. "We're preachers and the truth is a big part of what we do."

The period of temporary profession is three to six years after first profession and is seen as a time of ongoing mutual discernment between the temporary professed and the congregation.

"I hope to make final vows after three years," she said. 'This gives you time to figure out if it's what you really want to do and it gives the congregation time to look at you."

She noted she has received a lot of support from her mother and father, and from her brother and two sisters.

"It's very important for kids to see their parents practice their faith and pray," Sister Kelley added.

She noted she does not see religious life as better or more holy than marriage. "We're all called to do different things," she said, adding that what her married sister Marilyn does "is very important. I couldn't raise three kids."

Sister Kelley added. "We need married saints so people can see married life is a religious way of life, too. Being a religious sister is a different way of life, but it's not better."

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Nun in India receives Gandhi award for

service to rural poor

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE CALCUTTA, India -- A 71year-old Catholic nun has received an award for her service to the rural poor in a predominantly Christian state in northeastern India.

Meghalaya state official W.R. Marak presented Immaculate Sister Julia Narayan Majaw with the Mahatma Gandhi Award, comprising a citation and a 100,000-rupee (US$2,300) prize, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

"It is in recognition of her dedication to alleviate the drudgery and poverty in the rural areas," Marak said during a ceremony at the Immaculate general ate in Krishnanagar, 70 miles north of Calcutta.

"I am grateful to God for (making me) an instrument of development," said Sister Majaw, who was selected in 1995 as recipient of the state award.

Marak said the ceremony was delayed four years in the hope that Indian President K.R. Narayanan or , former President Shankar 'Day'al

Sharma could present the award, but he said neither could go to the state capital of Shillong to confer it.

Sister Majaw, who made her first profession at the age of 24, is a Meghalaya native. She holds a doctorate in educational psychology from New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.

She completed her specialization in mental health and counseling in 1982 at Delhi University, and in 1986 she became state coordinator for voluntary agencies in the implementation of a biogas plan to produce fuel by fermenting organic waste. , The Catechist Sisters of Mary Immaculate, Help of Christians, popularly known as the Immaculate Sisters, were founded in 1948

by Bishop Louis LaRavoire Morrow of Krishnagar.

The nuns now manage maternity hospitals, mother and child health programs, mobile clinics, hostels and cultural centers for girls.

They also engage in adult literacy and other women's empowerment programs.

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Consecration to the Divine Will .. .

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Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the immensity of Your Light, that Your etemal goodness may open to me the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all in You, Divine Will. Therefore; oh adorable Will, prostrate before Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little group of the sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away from me and thus form the new Eden of Peace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a singular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God. Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the fl1fSt order of creation, just as the creature was created.

Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Djvine Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will ,teach me to live.in and to maintain myself in the order and the bounds of 'th~ Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the doctrine of the Divine, Will and I Will listen mOstj a~entively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that, the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this' sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will. .' Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You w~llgive me Your flames that they may bum 'me, consume me, and feed me to form in. me, the Life. of th~.pivineWiU:, . _ _'.'. .. Saint Joseph,you will, be my protector, the guargiaq of my heart, and ~ill keep the keys of my will in your hands. 'You will keep my heart jealously and shall ntwer give ;t to me ,again, that I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. " My guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in ev, erything so that my Eden may flourish and be the instrument men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen. that draws

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Pope says new religions useless against end-of~millenniumangst By lYNNE WElL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

gathering, held annually in Rimini as the "Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples," would bring about "a new unity that goes beyond social divisions and frontiers, (and is) without fear.'"

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VATICAN CITY -Astrology, new religions and other practices that deviate from Gospel teaching do not address in a meaningful way peoples' end-of-millennium angst, Pope John Paul II said.

S 0 m e people "choose to Some people "choose take refuge in a return to suto take refuge in a return perstition and to superstition and seek seek to vanto vanquish the feeling of quish the feeling of solitude and fear of the solitude and future through horofear of the future through scopes, astrology, magic horoscopes, and esoteric sects," the astrology, magic and pope said. esoteric sects," the pope said in a . message addressed to an internamounted the barrier against which tional, interreligious gathering in every human effort is shattered: Rimini, Italy. the barricade of death," the pope The pope said fear of death lies said, after noting several referbehind these practices, which canences to this point in the Bible. not adequately answer that fear.

He said that, in looking to The Vatican secretary of state, Jesus, "One understands that the Cardinal Angelo Sodano, delivorigin of everything is love: This ered the message in the pope's is the mystery that creates and name recently. The cardinal said rules the entire cosmos.

Pope 'John Paul -hoped that the "Only by following this path

is it possible to vanquish insecurity, which is at the root of every form of violence among men," the message continued. "Only in this way will eve,ry man conduct his search while confronting without fear the mysterious aspects of events which otherwise might prompt anguish, and which instead can lead to thoughtful and -grateful amazement."

The pope's message pointed out that as the millennium draws to an end, people in many cultures are concerned about what will happen in the next 1,000 years.

He said the development and growth of new religions worldwide was "one symptom of this uneasiness."

"They promise harmony and peace as a result of a renewed will on man's part to save himself from himself," he wrote. "In reality, such promises reveal themselves to be incapable of keeping out the fear."

Bethlehem's Christmas plans imder way ,as city, churches collaborate , By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

JERUSALEM - Chris~as plans are well under way in Bethlehem, and various churches' events are being coordinated by the city's Bethlehem 2000 project.

Christiane Dabdoub Nasser, head of the church relations unit of the Bethlehem 2000 project, has been organizing the Choirs of the World on Manger Squm:e event, Advent concerts, the Dec. 4 Ecumenical Opening of the Millennium and the festive procession of the patriarchs on the different Christ. mas eves.

The official Bethlehem 2000 opening will take place Nov. 28 with a performance by' the Vienna Boys Choir,- which will be the fITst of a series of weekly ",~. concerts throughout A~vent.

Normally Christmas is low season for visitors to the area, she said, but officials expect this year to be wellattended and have begun to see large groups of up to 1,000 making plans to be in Bethlehem on Christmas.

Bethlehem officials also have begun to think about the different logistics a visit from the pope would require, she said.

"We are assuming he will be coming on March 25 for the Annunciation' because of his devotion to the Virgin Mary, and we are starting to think in-house.

But we have not discussed it with the Catholic jubilee committee, because we have not been told anything officially," Nasser said. ' The Vatican has said Pope John Paul II plans to 'make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land

. THE TOWN of Bethlehem has been preparing for years ~~~c,h or April, "It w'ould be

N~sbsle~ is re~ for the coming of the new millennium. (eNS file photo) . sponsl e lor c o n - ' " ,. tact with the vari" , . .' ous churches and p~oviding security, helping with the, logistics and coordinating every event that will take place on Manger Square. ,The events are beingOl'ganized by . local churches. .

"Still, commercialization is an inevitable by-product, and it represents the practical aspect. People need to eat, and they don't live by prayer alone," she conceded.

'The Palestinian.economy has been stagnant and yes, this is a nice byproduct."

. very interesting for Westerners to come for the Greek Orthodox or Armenian .

Christmases here," she said. 'They have their different language, different prayers. It is an exposure to something different and would be quite an experience."

Unfortunately, she said, their contact With the international ch.urches has been less than they had hoped for.

But they are working closely with the Vatican, some churches qfNorway through their NorWegian Ecumenical 2000 committee, and the Anglican Church.

Anniversary the Depression came "I worked the cranberry bogs with other Cape Verdeans. There was always someone ready to steal your job because jobs were so scarce."

When John met Mary Matthews, who also has some Cape Verdean heritage, they were ready to marry. "Here's how the wedding happened: I took her to my father's house one day. He asked me, 'Where's the paper ... the marriage license. You can't bring a girlfriend into the house if you're not married.' In those days the old folks were very strict. So Mary and I eloped ... went to town in a 1926 Essex automobile my father had bought me and were married by the clerk - who called together two witnesses - in the town hall in Wareham on Sept. 19, 1929.

When my father saw the marriage certificate, my parents let us have a room in their house. A few months later we walked over to St. Patrick's, talked with the priests and sometime after that we were married in the rectory, our marriage in the Church was blessed. When we moved here we still went to Mass there for about 10 years."

In 1942, just as World War II was beginning, John and Mary DePina - with the financial help of John's parents, made a down payment on the $3,000 for three acres and the cottage at 59 Wareham Road. "There were 22 acres and four years later we scraped the money together to buy it all. I remember how a banker whose last name was Kennedy, was amazed at our industriousness ... that we had put together most of the money. I logged the land, fell the trees and sold more than 100 cords of wood out of it and it almost paid for itself. In recent years I gave a section of the property to the town for a beach and some wanted to call it DePina's Beach, but I didn't favor it at the time," John explained.

Life became better in 1950

LaborDay a 16 percent share in 1968, 24 percent in 1996," he said. Meanwhile, the share of income going to the middle 60 percent of the population has declined by nearly 10 percent over the same period. The' decline was even sharper for people in the bottom 20 percent of the income scale, he said.

"This trend is part of the reason why we need a strong, active, democratic labor movement," he said.

Cardinal Mahony notes that the labor movement has given much to the United States over the last century.

"Through their efforts the great American middle class was born," he said. "Yet American unions never capitulated to the concept of 'class' struggle that found such fertile ground in the rest of the industrial world.

Union leaders instead saw their organization as part of the Amerircan experiment in democracy and urged their membership to seek social justice for all instead of class struggle."

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when John found a job repairing and maintaining trucks and equipment for a concrete supplier in Middleboro and Raynham. But when the firm went bankrupt in 1961, he went into business 'for himself, repairing lawn mowers and supplying and sharpening blades for a major chainsaw supplier. It became a steady business with regular clients.

"I'm all but retired now," he said, showing the inside of his garage and shop at the end of his driveway. "I began with four machines and now have 22 pieces of equtpment. I continue to service myoId and regular customers. I have to have a little bit coming in, you know. And I could never stand to remain ill the house and argue with my wife," he said with a chuckle. "I have a little angina and so it is better to take it easy too. I refused surgery.

My heart specialist and I have worked it out to handle everything with the modern day miracle of medications and that's fine. But he advised me: 'Don't stop lifting.'''

Asked how he and Mary kept their marriage together through good times and bad, he sat silent for about 30 seconds and said: "First, you have to have a good backup, parents. I had good parents who cared for me, and for my wife as if she was their child.

From 1925 until I was married in 1929 I worked the bogs. I made $1.80 for nine hours work weaving sand. We were paid in cash and it was put inside an envelope.

I turned it over to my mother each week without even opening it. She would smile, hold it to her ear and rattle it. She would keep the bills and I would get all the change. Sometimes it was as much as 90 cents! She kept the rest for me."

And he credits his wife, Mary.

"I have a wonderful wife who worked alongside me, and we still do most things together.

That, I think, was what did it. I shudder to think how young we

were when we married and so very poor. Five dollars was our treasure chest at one time ... and it was all in change! I· always worked, never missed a day's work. I had good courage. But my wife was very thrifty. Together we made it work; we were committed to one another."

Asked how racial discrimination had affected his life, John DePina recalled that as a young boy, "there were fights. In the elementary school in Marion I would try to explain my bruises to the teachers. 'Oh, I'm sorry,' the teachers would say. I could understand some of what the other students were saying, that I had caused the fights. But in this part of the nation, in this part of New England, we Portuguese didn't think to call it racism because we had never seen it before. We didn't know what it was all about until we got to see those in the south when they sicced their dogs on black people."

But he recalls that workers were badly treated by bog owners. "At one point there was going to be a strike by the Cape Verdean workers. Can you imagine that people who worked the bogs picking cranberries lived in shacks which had no lights, no water, no toilets. In those days it was piece work and the owners would not even give you water. I would see men faint in the bogs.

It was the hard-working Cape Verdean workers who made the owners rich. It was a shame."

In coming weeks the walls of the DePina's cottage will receive an update. To the photographs showing John and Mary's actual wedding; and their 25th, 50th, 60th and 65th wedding anniversaries, will come graphic portrayals of the wonderful 70th celebration. The new photos, taken by granddaughter Kathlene O'Neil, a professional photographer, will record for posterity the family roots, as the DePinas ready for a new millennium.

Daughters of St. Paul elect new provincial

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE JAMAICA PLAIN,Ma<iS. -Sister Germana Santos, a 45-year-old native of Portugal who moved to Califomia when she was 13, is the new provincial oftheAmerican province ofthe Daughters of St. Paul.

Along with four councilors and the provincial treasurer, she will be responsible for the governance and administration of Pauline Books & Media, the Daughters' publishing house in Boston, and their 20 centers throughout the United States and Canada.

The Daughters ofSt. Paul are an in-

East Tintor to avoid violence. The bishop was out of town celebrating a Mass for peace in Suai, an area wracked by months of militia-led violence.

"Don't be afraid. Be brave and choose the future of East Tunor;' he said. 'This generation will create history - and people allover the world will talk about us. They will talk about the brave warrior people and the brave hearted."

Bishop Belo had said he would stay with his people as the vote neared and violence escalated. ''The Vatican has entrusted the Catholics here to me, so I will never leave them, whatever the risk I face;' he said. He confirmed receiving a death threat which said in the Bahasa Indonesian language: "Becareful. Fornow your robe is white, but one day, it will be stained with your own blood."

Catechists and Church workers were killed and attacked throughout the territory in the weeks leading to the vote.

U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, DMass., after a weeklong mid-August fact-finding mission in East Timor, noted how many of those opposed to independence would "prefer that the bishop not be on the scene. The threats have to be taken seriously."

Despite the May 5 agreement call-

ternational congregation ofCatholic sisters who proclaim thegood news through the press, radio, television, audio and videotapes, software programs and the Internet.

Before becoming provincial, Sister Germana served in the congregation's centers in Honolulu and in Anchorage, Alaska; did formation work for the congregation; earned a degree in psychology from the Gregorian University in Rome; and taught classes in Kenya, Rome and London. Most recently she was "formator;' as the congregation calls it, for itsjunior professed members.

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ing for a vote on East Tunor's status, militias in the region continue to operate ''with impunity;' McGovern said.

In the days leading up to the vote, some 200 East Timorese fleeing proIndonesian militias took refuge in a Don Bosco boys' school in a Dili suburb. In Balide, 50 women and children sought refuge at Salesian convent.

Pope John Paul II prayed for peace in Indonesia and East Timor on Wednesday at the end of his general audience.

Speaking about East Timor, he prayed ''that all its inhabitants and all others involved in the events of that territory" work sincerely for reconciliation and help heal historical wounds "with mutual respect and love."

Indonesian President BJ. Habibie has said if the voters reject autonomy, Indonesia would consider granting the territory independence.

Portugal had controlled Indonesia for 400 years but abruptly left in 1975.

Indonesia invaded East Tunor in 1975 and annexed it in 1976, although that annexation has not been recognized by the Vatican or the United Nations. A vast majority of East Tunor's 800,000 people are Catholics. About a quarter of the population has died from fighting, starvation and disease under Indonesian rule.

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Many of the labor movement's values reflect the Church's own faith values, Cardinal Mahony said, such as the drive for public policies "that protect and promote strong families, expand a stable middle class, create decent jobs and reduce the level of poverty and need in our society."

Programs such as Social Security, the minimum wage law, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Family and Medical Leave Act accomplish some of those goals, Cardinal Mahony said.

"This Labor Day, we need to reflect as Christians on the values we seek to advance in our economic and public .Iife," he wrote. "We need to assess how often the principles that we be-' lieve are vital to maintaining our national commitment ensuring a life of dignity for our parents, ourselves and our children are reflected in the national dialogue over the future of Social Security and national economic policy."

As Congress considers changes to the Social Security syste,n, certain goals from Catho-

lic social teaching ought to be considered, Cardinal Mahony wrote.

They include: - respect for human dignity; - recognition of the common good; - the Scriptural mandate to care for the wido\y, the orphan and the stranger "such as persons with disabilities, older Americans and immigrants?'; - subsidiarity, or the concept of social insurance covering illness, disability, unemployment and old age that includes participation by government.

Cardinal Mahony concluded by quoting from "Everyday Christianity: To Hunger and Thirst for Justice," a statement on how to live out the Church's justice teachings in everyday life, which was adopted by the U.S. bishops last November.

"Catholicism does not call us to abandon the world, but to help shape it," the statemen t said.

"This does not mean leaving worldly tasks and responsibilities, but transforming them."

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school's first ¥uslim chaplain. Hendi, a doct~ral candidate in philosophyan<i.89mparative religions''at Temple: UJ;liversify in Philadelphia,joins~he university's campus ministry interfaith team. He will provide guidance Muslim students, l~ad prayer and ritual activitie.s and.act as uu:niversity resource on Islamic issues and prac~ices. Th~,appointrnent, effective Aug. 10, was announced by Franciscan Father Adam Bunnell, university .c,.haplain. '>~'{(·':,H:,·~,j'i~:;J~:L::;·'>!:\~ , f., t

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betweenhIs ~I~entstoVietnam, saId Peterson, a CatholIc. Vietnam isn't thenatloQ.that it wheri we were erigagcbd in that situation;' he said. Aqne tiirritofthe VietJlam War, 49 rnillion'pe9ple lived in both North and South Vietnam, he said. Today in the reunited country of 80 million residents; "65 'percent of the people are under age 25, and 80 percent are under age 4q;:giving the nation very little collective memory of the war, Peterson added. The ambassador is the focus of a PBS documentary, "AssignmentHanoi;' to air Sept. 7 on many PBS stations.

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NEW DIRECTOR - Principal . George A. Milot has announced the ..-- hiring of Amy Bostock as Bishop Feehan High School's new alumni THREE CHEERS: The B~hop Feehan High School, Attleboro, varsity and junior varsity football cheerleading squads director. She is a 1993 graduate of recently attended a training camp at Holy Cross College, Worcester, where they won the Cheer Camp Leadership St. Anselm's College and is a resiAward. The juniors were crowned Cheer Camp Champions and the varsity squad received the Superior Trophy. dent of Cranston, R.l.

NEW OFFICERS - The executive board of the National Honor Society at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, announced the election of junior officers for its 1999-2000 school year. They are, from left, Peter Amaral, parliamentarian; Jocelyn Lally, president; Amy Marie Desrosiers, historian; Zachary Baumgart, treasurer; Teresa Flynn, secretary; and Christopher Medeiros, vice president. ... SINGING PRAISE - Pre-' schoolers sing and sign the song "His Banner Over Me is Love;' during Bible , school at St. Mary's Parish, Mansfield.

More than 150 children participated in the summer classes. ~ SONGLEADER Kristen Fleck gives volunteers a turn 'at the microphone. (Photos by Charlene McNeil)

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Young women learn about sailing, selves during semester at sea

By DAN MORRiS-YOUNG CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SAN FRANCISCO - In two months at sea, 12 young women from San Francisco's Mercy High School matured from sailing greenhorns to legitimate sailors.

They even took total charge of "their" 145-foot, 110-ton schooner, the Californian, for the final leg of their journey, a 60hour stretch that included some pretty bad weather.

The cadets were inaugural members of the first Tall Ship Semester at Mercy, and the new school year will give other students a chance to participate in what Caitlin Schwarzman, the semester's "principal," says is a unique academic sail-training program.

Once aboard, the students es-

sentially became a tiny school within a school, committing themselves to a specialized curriculum for an entire semestercoastal history, navigational mathematics, seamanship, maritime literature, oceanography.

The students' classroom for the spring semester was the Californian, a schooner built in 1984 that is a replica of an 1848 ship.

And like the original, the Californian features hand-operated winches, pulleys and lines. .

While the vessel is overseen , by a small, professional crew, the Mercy cadets became the operational muscle - and eventually know-how - behind the sails.

The women stood watch, hoisted mammoth sails, scrubbed decks, checked engines (not available in 1848), did galley

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stints, climbed nearly 100 feet off the deck into the rigging to work sails, and spent hours on marinerelated academics - from celestial navigation to the lives of gray whales.

They also visited remote villages of Baja California, walked along isolated beaches at the Sea of Cortez, and snorkeled around coral formations.

"In a given 24 hours at sea," said Schwarzman, herself a veteran long-distance sailor, "each young woman stood two watches, attended two classes, ate three meals, and helped wash a set of dishes. She wrote in her journal, read up on the next port, took her turn as navigator, and tested sea water samples for ongoing oceanographic projects."

A sampling of post-voyage reflections shared with Catholic San Francisco, newspaper of the San Francisco Archdiocese, gives some insight into life at sea: - "At 0300 (3 a.m.), the next watch relieves you. Your sleep is deep and blissful for three hours until you are awakened again at 0630 for breakfast. You are hungrier at sea than you have ever been on land, and you eat a tall stack of pancakes before rolling back into your rack for a little nap - invariably interrupted by emergency drills or sail maneuvers."

- "All the cadets eat, sleep and work in a single cabin. For two months you live together, discover each others' personal habits, and endure annoying little quirks. Sometimes it feels like you breathe too much of each other's air."

- "The hours of bow watch, steering, navigation and hourly engine room checks seem cold

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and empty at first, but develop into hours of self-reflection and contemplation. The engine room is the warmest part of the whole boat, and often on cold nights you do very thorough, time-consuming checks."

- "Night watch has given you the opportunity to discover a sea of fireflies in the bioluminescent plankton, shooting stars, and intense hours of self-examination."

- "Bow watch during the day gives you other opportunities.

One afternoon a school of dolphins came to play with the boat.

A bunch of you climb out onto the headrig and nearly touch their sleek backs with your dangling feet."

In all, the Californian and its crew covered nearly 3,000 miles and made 18 ports of call.

The students covered much of the cost of the voyage - roughly $7,000 per cadet - by getting sponsorships and scholarships and working odd jobs.

Our Rock a'nd Role

By FATHER JOHN CATOIR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

for that person. I see my prayer as a sign that I want'to do the right If you are full of repressed an- thing and forgive, even though I ger, it could cause serious depres- might not feel like it at the mosion. You won't be able to shake ment. I don't forgive because the free by just willing it. You will have person deserves it. I forgive beto change your thinking. . . cause Jesus asks it of me. When I Your will has no direct control obey him, the toxic effect of my over your feelings. However, you anger dissolves, and I feel much do have control over your better. thoughts, and the thoughts you There is no part of creation that think control the state of your emo- is separate from God, but union with God is more intense for the tional life.

Thoughts are like seeds. Just as baptized Christian. We are part of well-selected seeds produce flow- the mystical body of Christ. "In ers, so too do poorly selected seeds him we live and breathe and have produce tangled weeds. In the our being." same way, the thoughts we think This means that we are called to open ourproduce the Your anger may be totally justiselves to the emotions we Spirit of feel - for fied. You have every right to be Jesus. We are better or angry if you were abused, but ansupposed to worse. think the Wholesome, ger can become toxic. It can hurt way he positive you more and more as time goes thinks. Do thoughts on. If you repress or deny your anyou rememproduce ger, you will use up enormous enber his good feelergy and become depressed. words in the i n g s , Sermon oil whereas the Mount? dark, angry thoughts reap a harvest of painful "Return good for evil.... Turn the other cheek Bless those who perfeelings.

Your anger may be totally jus- secute you Forgive seventy times tified. You have every right to be seven." angry if you were abused, but anEither y~u accept this teaching ger can become toxic. It can hurt and act upon it, or you do not. The you more and more as time goes choice is yours. But I ask you, why on. If you rcpress or deny your an- carry excess baggage around with ger, you will use up enormous en- you? Let go of anger, jealousy, fear and anxiety. Let joy return to your ergy and become depressed.

Some people enjoy being an- soul. Let go, and let God. Turn gry, but they do not see that anger your resentment over to him. Keep begets depression. They want to turning it over, and be patient. Let get rid of the blues, but do not go, and let God deal with the justice issue. know how.

If you do this, your anger will How does one let go, and let God? The will cannot turn off the an- slowly evaporate.

Throwaway the pills, and beger, but the will can say yes or no to a different mindset. You can de- gin again. Through the grace of cide to let go and forgive even if God you can become a new crethe guilty party hasn't asked for ation.

Always remember the words of it. A true Christian forgives before he or she feels like it. You "fore- Julian of Norwich: "The greatest give." Let go of it, and God will honor you can give to almighty God is to live joyfully because of the handle the rest.

When I feel anger toward some- knowledge of his love." Honor God one, I immediately begin to pray with your trust. Let go, and let God.

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Keep self-respect alive

By CHARLIE M.l\RTIN • CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

It's Not Right But It's OK Things are going to change But it's OK Friday night you and your boys That's why you have to leave.

I'm gonna make it anyway.

Went out to eat.

So don't turn around to see my Close the door behind you.

Then they hung out, Leave your key. face But you came home around 3.

I'd rather be alone There's no more fears and tears If six of y'all went out, For you to see.

Than unhappy.

Then four of you were really Was It really worth you I'll pack your bags cheap, Going out like that?

So you can leave town for a week.

'Cause only two of you had See I'm moving on The phone rings dinner, And I refuse to turn back.

And then you look at me.

I found your credit-card receipt.

See all of this time You said it was one of your I thought I had somebody friends Chorus Down for me.

Down on 54th Street It's not right It turns out So why did 213 But it's OK You were making a fool of me.

Show up on your caller ID? I'm gonna make it anyway.

Pack your bags up and leave. I've been through all of this before Sung byWhitney Houston So how could you think Don't you dare come running Copyright (c) 1998 by Arista That I would stand around Back to me.

And take some more?

Records It's not right

CAN SOMETHING be "not right" but stil1 "OK"? That's what Whitney Houston's new release says. "It's Not Right But It's OK" is off her latest disc "My Love Is Your Love." The CD is her first studio album in eight years, and its success shows that Houston's sound is as popular as ever.

The song's story tel1s how a woman discovers that her guy has been cheating. She finds evidence that he has been deceiving her about his whereabouts and who he has teen with. Her reaction is clear and firm: "Pack your bags up and leave....

Close the door behind you. Leave your key. I'd rather be alone than unhappy."

She also sings that "I've been through all of this before." Apparently, the past pain taught her that one thing she values is self-respect. She no longer will tolerate a relationship that includes lying and mistrust.

I admire her stance in this regard, although I still would have to ask why he was living there in the first place. But yes, drawing clear boundaries with someone who does not treat you right is sign of maturity and good emotional health.

An action cannot be both morally "not right" and "OK." The "OK" part is not an acceptance of the other's behavior, but rather her way of saying that she believes in her own strength. She knows she wil1 be OK.

If you are uneasy with what is occurring in a dating relationship, fol1ow this woman's example.

Do not look the other way when you see behaviors that bother you.

For example, what if you are dating someone who does not treat you courteously? What if a person puts down your opinions or does not listen to your point of view? What if his or her values or goals are very different from yours? Failing to address any of these just so you can date this individual would be a mistake.

If you feel that you wil1 not be OK without dating this person, then it is time to look more careful1y at yourself. What is going on within you that you feel so much in need of this?

Try to explore your feelings of insecurity and dependence that would lead you to accept behaviors from another that you know are "not right."

Do so without being judgmental, but with a desire to see the truth. If possible, talk over these feelings with an adult you trust, someone who has more experience with relationships than you do.

God fil1ed each of us with dignity and worth. It is up to us to uphold that dignity by setting standards for how we want others to treat us.

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

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Prayers, Donations Urgently Needed

Indian Mission Director Asks Your Help Special to The Anchor

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THOREAU, NM - As Catholics around the globe begin the countdown to the year 2000, the director, priest, sisters, lay missionaries and staff of a New Mexico Mission school are concerned about urgently-needed help. They work daily to make quality Catholic education a reality for American Indian children in their care.

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

They've experienced failure in other schools or inability to get to school from great distances.

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

St. Bonaventure Mission started a school more than a decade ago when the founder

realized the Indian children in the Mission's CCD classes didn't have'even the most basic readi,ng and writing skills. Today over 300 children, most of them Native American, join in prayer to keep their school from closing.

The Indian boys and girls attending St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School live with the following realities: • 55% of the Navajo population cannot read or write; • In McKinley County (where the Mission is located) over 50% ofschool age children live in poverty; • The suicide rate among Navajo teenagers is ten times higher than for their age group in the U.S. population at large.

• McKinley County has the highest alcoholism rate in the United States.'

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

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

Will you help?

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

Bob O'Connell with St. Bonaventure Mission School students. Every day brings challenges to keep the school open ... to give 300 children the skills they will need to break the cycle of poverty and to live a Spirit-filled life.

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