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Diocese of Fall River, Mass.

Friday, September 7, 2018

“Johnny� the Eagle, mascot of St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro, welcomes students for the new school year. (Photo courtesy St. John the Evangelist School Facebook page) The Anchor - September 7, 2018

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Diocesan schools to ‘Celebrate the Beauty of Every Child’ this school year

FALL RIVER — Steve Perla is entering his third year as superintendent for the Diocese of Fall River Catholic Schools. During his tenure Perla has emphasized seeing the gift that every student is and providing them with the

faith-based education they need to succeed. Building on this, and in partnership with the diocesan ProLife Office, Perla has set this year’s theme as “Celebrate the Beauty of Every Child.” This theme was inspired by several of the initia-

tives the Catholic Schools Office is launching this year.

This year, students in kindergarten through grade eight will be taking the MAP Growth Assessment instead of the historicallyused IOWA Assessment. This

change was made on the recommendation of a committee that reviewed assessment options and determined that the MAP Growth Assessment will better serve students and teachers. Instead of having one long testing session in the spring, students will take a short assessment three times a year.

Because the assessment is computer-based, teachers will receive their students’ scores in almost real time and can make adjustments to their instruction to meet the needs of each student.

To support this change, Dr. Mary Pat Tranter, director of Strategic Initiatives, will work with schools to provide data analysis support and professional development to teachers to help them utilize this new data source. The change to MAP is aligned with the Catholic Schools Office emphasis on data-driven instruction which sees data as a tool to identify each student’s strengths and weaknesses and provide additional support or challenge as needed.

Perla is a passionate supporter of special education and firmly believes that Catholic schools should serve students with mild to moderate special needs. To that end, he and the Catholic Schools Office team have helped the Diocese of Fall River Catholic Schools increase the public special education services they receive. As a result of their efforts, students in the five Fall River elementary schools were able to receive onsite speech services. This was enormously helpful for families who in previous years had to transport their students back and forth between their Catholic school and the public school, where the service was offered, losing valuable instruction time.

To further help students receive the services they are eligible for, Perla helped establish Project Access. Project Access is a joint effort with the Archdiocese of Boston, the dioceses of Worcester and Springfield, the Christian Schools Network, and Jewish Day Schools to lobby at the state level for services for students. Project Access has hired Mary Ann Hart to lobby Turn to page three

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Steve Perla, diocesan superintendent of schools, speaks at the recent New Hire Welcome Reception at the Cove Restaurant in Fall River. There are nearly 70 new faculty and staff members in the diocesan schools this year.

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on behalf of students for nursing services and additional onsite special education services. Hart started in August and will work closely with Perla on key issues the state is considering this year.

Catholic schools in Fall River and New Bedford are

entering their second year of a Math Initiative aimed at improving instruction and student learning.

Thanks to a grant from the Flatley Foundation the Catholic Schools Office has brought in Looney Consultants to provide professional development and

instructional coaching for teachers. Both are aimed at helping teachers differentiate their instruction to help students with different learning needs gain mastery of the content. Based on Looney’s recommendation, this year seven elementary schools are moving to Eureka Math Curriculum which includes an online component that allows for personalized learning. St. Stanislaus School in Fall Turn to page eight

Students at All Saints Catholic School in New Bedford jump into activities on the first day of school.

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Fatima statue returning to New Bedford parish Faithful invited to pray for priests, Church

By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff kensouza@anchornews.org

been greater, according to Edwin Aldarondo, a parishioner of St. Anthony of Padua Parish and one NEW BEDFORD — The of the event organizers.

United Nations International “The importance of continuPilgrim Statue of Our Lady of ing the devotion to Our Lady of Fatima will be returning to the Fall Fatima is as important today or River Diocese on the weekend of more so than when Our Lady first September 29-30 with a stop at St. introduced the devotion,” AldaAnthony of Padua Church in New rondo told The Anchor. “There was a Bedford. series of occurrences that led HeavThe traveling image of our Our en to come down to warn us of the Lady of the Rosary was previously gravity of the sin of humanity. at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in “After celebrating (last year) the 100th anniversary of the apparitions in Fatima and as we reflect on our history since 1917, it is clear we have not learned much from it and we have been committing the same errors of the past. The biggest mistake for us in general is to see the Fatima event as something in the past with no ramifications in today’s world. We must all do our part to adhere to Our Lady’s message.”

As one of the official Pilgrim Virgin statues, the image of Our Lady of Fatima that will arrive here later this month is the property of the Fatima Sanctuary of Portugal.

The United Nations International Pilgrim Statue The wood statue was of Our Lady of Fatima will be returning to the carved in the first half diocese and St. Anthony of Padua Church in New of the 20th century Bedford for a visit the weekend of September and appears to be the work of a Portuguese 29-30. (Photo courtesy of Edwin Aldarondo) artist named Jose Ferreira Thedim (1892April 2017 along with first-class 1971). relics of the Church’s newest saints Prior to its first pilgrimage of — St. Jacinta Marto and St. FranMay 13, 1947, Pope Pius XII cisco Marto, the shepherd children blessed this statue. A pilgrimage to whom Our Lady appeared in was made at that time to celebrate 1917 — as part of last year’s cenand commemorate the 30th antennial celebration of the Fatima niversary of the apparitions of our apparitions.

Blessed Mother.

And while the 100th anniversary On Oct. 13, 1952, the bishop of of Our Lady of Fatima has come Fatima, Portugal blessed the image and gone, the need for our Blessed for its mission to the United NaMother’s intercession has never tions.

On Dec. 8, 1952, having been brought to America from Fatima, the statue was taken into the Meditation Room of the United Nations by Msgr. Harold Colgan, founder of the Blue Army — now known as the World Apostolate of Fatima. It was at the United Nations that Msgr. Colgan led the recitation of the Rosary. Since that time, the U.N. Pilgrim Statue has been part of the World Apostolate of Fatima and its dicastery. This treasured replica of Our Lady of Fatima has since traveled around the globe.

As a pilgrim statue, its ministry promotes Our Lady’s intercession through prayer. This representative pilgrim statue provides an inspiration to young and old equally to

answer God’s call.

Among the events planned for the weekend of September 29-30 in New Bedford, according to Aldarondo, is a 24-hour Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to “offer our prayers as reparations for the offenses, sacrileges, indifferences and sins committed against Our Lord in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar and those committed against Our Lady,” he said.

Special prayers will be offered for our priests, bishops, cardinals, and all religious Brothers and Sisters in light of this most difficult time.

“As in Fatima, the messages given to us were a clear warning but, most of all, they provided a Turn to page eight

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Anchor Editorial

Mary and Gregory helping us in the dark

Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of the Blessed Mother and the following Saturday we honor her under her title of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Blessed Mother is with Our Lord in Heaven, so she is experiencing happiness beyond our imagining. Nonetheless, she continues to suffer with her children here on earth, as a loving mother who is not indifferent to our sorrows.

Firstly, she suffers with the innocents. When Christ was on the cross, all the evil in the world attacked Him. As He said in Matthew’s Gospel (chapter 25), when we are helping someone, we are helping Him, but when we are harming someone, we are also harming Him. Mary mourns the incredible evil visited upon her children by members of the clergy, who should have been leading them to Her Son, but were instead gravely wounding their souls.

As you can read on pages five and eight of this edition of The Anchor, we have an opportunity to recall the message of Our Lady of Fatima during this terrible time. As parishioner Edwin Aldarondo said, “The biggest mistake for us in general is to see the Fatima event as something in the past with no ramifications in today’s world. We must all do our part to adhere to Our Lady’s message.” We are in the crisis we are in because abusive clergy and enabling higher-ups did not adhere to her message, but it is not too late for us to do so.

Mary, as Mother of the Church, is concerned for all of her children: clergy, laity and religious. She is the model for all of us as to how we are to be faithful. She is a laywoman and she shows the power of what someone ignored by the powerful can do.

Father Tim Goldrick writes on page 11, “Much to my surprise, I found reason for hope. I found reason for hope in the People of God themselves. In the history of the Church, we have weathered catastrophic storms. It was the faith of the People of God that has stayed the ship in the past. The faith of the People of God will come through again. I know this because I’ve seen it already happening.” Since we clerics (even the innocent ones) have lost credibility, the lay faithful’s fidelOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER www.anchornews.org

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ity to Christ is what remains to call the world to Christ.

This is not to say that the clergy are to sit around and do nothing. The hierarchy of the Church brought us to where we are and it must respond to God’s demands for justice and mercy. We do not presume to know here at The Anchor what exactly that might be, other than that it cannot be “business as usual.” The Church is the Bride of Christ, not a business, and yet she has so often in her 2,000 year history been treated as the latter (and not the most reputable of ones). All of us have that nuptial dignity, and yet it so often is ignored. We all need to pray about this and see how as individuals and as a community we are to respond to this call (St. Paul discussed this in Ephesians 5 a few Sundays ago, when most of us heard the “short form” of the second reading, so as to not have to discuss the obedience of wives to their husbands; the Apostle’s main point was that we are called to be obedient to Christ, Who died so as to wash us clean with His Blood.).

St. Gregory the Great, whom we celebrated on Labor Day, wrote, “We make use of temporal things, but our hearts are set on what is eternal.” When we run the Church as if it were just an organization, we forget about that. St. Gregory added, “Temporal goods help us on our way, but our desire must be for those eternal realities which are our goal — for our whole attention must be fixed on those realities which constitute our goal.”

He then calls for purification. “Whatever is vicious must be utterly eradicated, wrenched away not merely from being put into act but even from being so much as thought of.

No carnal pleasure, no worldly curiosity, no surge of ambition must keep us from the Lord’s Supper.” It seems as if St. Gregory were writing for our times — but he knew human nature, and it hasn’t changed much since the beginning of time. May we ask the Blessed Mother to pray for us (she already is, but she loves her children to ask her for favors) so that we might follow this great saint’s advice, so as to redirect our hearts towards Heavenly realities, instead of towards committing earthly sins.

Daily Readings Sept. 8 – Sept. 21

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. Sept. 8, Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30; Ps 13:6; Mt 1:1-16,18-23 or 1:18-23. Sun. Sept. 9, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Is 35:4-7a; Ps 146:7-10; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37. Mon. Sept. 10, 1 Cor 5:1-8; Ps 5:5-6,7,12; Lk 6:6-11. Tues. Sept. 11, 1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149:1-6,9; Lk 6:12-19. Wed. Sept. 12, 1 Cor 7:25-31; Ps 45:11-12,14-17; Lk 6:20-26. Thurs.

Sept. 13, 1 Cor 8:1b-7,11-13; Ps 139:1b-3,13,14b,23-24; Lk 6:27-38. Fri. Sept.

14, Nm 21:4b-9; Ps 78:1-2,34-38; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17.

Sat. Sept. 15, 1 Cor 10:14-22; Ps 116:12-13,17-18; Optional Sequence Stabat Mater; Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35. Sun. Sept. 16, Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Is 50:5-9a; Ps 116:1-6,8-9; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35. Mon. Sept.

17, 1 Cor 11:17-26,33; Ps 40:7-10,17; Lk 7:1-10. Tues. Sept. 18, 1 Cor 12:1214,27-31a; Ps 100:1b-5; Lk 7:11-17. Wed. Sept. 19, 1 Cor 12:31—13:13; Ps 33:2-5,12,22; Lk 7:31-35. Thurs. Sept. 20, 1 Cor 15:1-11; Ps 118:1b-2,16ab-17, 28; Lk 7:36-50. Fri. Sept. 21, Eph 4:1-7,11-13; Ps 19:2-5; Mt 9:9-13.

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have tried in recent columns to respond to some of the many questions that people have been asking about the scandals that began with the revelations about the predations of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, which were magnified by the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report and have now expanded further with the publication of several testimonies by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States.

I would like to continue tackling some of the more frequent and important questions I’ve been hearing in some recent talks, comment boxes, social media posts, phone calls and emails.

Can I still trust the clergy?

It’s clear that trust has been shattered for many Catholics by the actions and omissions of priests and bishops who have proven themselves untrustworthy. Two of the online comments to one of my recent articles made this point emphatically.

One man, John, wrote, “You give advice but we no longer trust you.”

Another, Alan, commented, “After 2002, we trusted the bishops, though they obviously did not trust us, the laity, with all of their programs, training, and background checks. Now it is far too late. We cannot trust priests. We cannot trust religious. We cannot trust bishops. We cannot trust the pope. I want to be as clear as possible: I do not think you are a homosexual or a pedophile. I believe that you are possibly a very orthodox and good priest. Despite that, I would die before I let my son be alone with you, because I cannot trust you and that goes for all priests, religious and bishops. We cannot trust you.”

Trust is a firm belief in someone else, that he’s reliable, honest, upright. It’s a

Anchors in the storm

be rebuilt is that clerics are positive “prejudice,” an act acting in the person of Christ of faith in someone that he can be counted on to tell the cum flagello de funiculis, with a whip in his hands ( Jn 2:15), truth, to keep his promises passionately seeking to drive and commitments, and not out those who have tried to to take advantage of you. make His Father’s house a Lack of trust is likewise a prejudgment that someone is den of abusers, sexual improbably dishonest, deceitful, morality, worldliness and cover-up. unreliable, corrupt or even While people’s lack of traitorous. trust, however, is certainly In the past, thanks to the understandable, I would accumulated goodness of generations of faithful priests, humbly ask John, Alan and others to recognize that they most people were predisstill have freedom and to posed to trust that priests were men of God, to believe that they told the truth, to have Putting Into confidence that when they acted it flowed the Deep from love of God and neighbor. It was this

By Father general trust in God Roger J. Landry and in clergy that abusers exploited in question whether choosing to order to gain access to their live as if all priests are corrupt victims and various bishops until proven otherwise is for took advantage when they lied to victims and their par- their own Spiritual good.

When I became a pasents, reassigned abusers, and tor of an inner-city parish covered up these sacrileges.

After the scandals of 2002 in 2005, I was bombarded by people asking for “bus and 2018, many now treat priests and bishops with sus- money” to visit their “ailing mother” or “sick child” picion instead of trust, with doubt rather than the benefit in Boston. It was easy and tempting to become cyniof the doubt. It’s clearly part cal and frustrated every time of the reparation priests and someone rang the rectory bishops today must do for doorbell. I could see, however, the sins of their brothers. what was happening within Regaining trust will be me: my heart was hardening. the work of years. It will be achieved not by policies, pro- So I made a prayerful comcedures and protocols, but by mitment not to greet each new poor person as a con men who prove themselves man, but rather to risk being to be holy and trustworthy. taken advantage of 99 times The building blocks for than once, because of fatigue rebuilding trust must be laid and impatience with dissemnow through a transparent, candid, virtuous houseclean- blers, and turn away someone telling me the truth. It didn’t ing in which people can’t help but see that bishops and mean that I became gullible, naïve, or an enabler of adpriests are following Christ dicts. It did mean that I went rather than lawyers, and are to the door with a different acting as men of God and heart, prejudiced to receive a outraged Spiritual fathers rather than as public relations person with trust rather than suspicion. men with collars.

Unlike most who came Priests and bishops are to my rectory asking $32 for ordained in persona Christi. “bus money,” the vast majorWhat people desperately ity of priests and bishops need to witness for trust to

are not pretending. The vast majority are not abusers or protectors of abusers. They would rather be tortured and killed than ever harm God’s kids. They have many flaws and weaknesses and even the best recognize how far they are from the sanctity they desire and their priestly calling deserves, but despite their defects, they said yes to Christ’s call and continue to say yes. Most, I believe, would continue to say yes even if they knew ahead of time they would be suspected by some of being part of a cabal of abusers, even if they themselves would have to suffer a false accusation, because their love for God and love for those God loves is stronger than even their pain at such a reputational crucifixion.

Jesus Christ still trusts priests enough to call them and confide to them the continuation of His Mission, just like He trusted the Apostles, even though one would betray Him and all would at some point let Him down.

To trust Jesus means that we place our trust in what He says and does, something that at times is far from easy.

To trust doesn’t mean to be naïve. St. Paul calls us to test everything and retain what is good (1 Thes 5:21).

This is another way of saying, “Trust but verify.” It’s to have a prejudice, a working presumption awaiting confirmation or refutation, that someone the Church believes has been called by God to be a priest, ordained and sent out is a man of God rather than a scoundrel. To have the opposite prejudice is to risk that one would end up rejecting those Christ has truly sent — and, as Jesus said, to reject such a person is to reject Him and the Father Who sent Him (Lk 10:16).

How can I continue to hope?

By focusing more on

Christ Who is our hope (1 Tim 1:1) than we do on the filth. There’s a temptation for many of us to spend more time on blogs and news articles chronicling the scandal than we do on the Word of God and good Spiritual reading. Christ is still present and active and we can’t forget His Resurrection because of the scandal of sins that led to His crucifixion.

One thing that helps me is Church history. For many years I was a guide to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, which was rebuilt between 1506-1626 and ultimately served as an architectural and artistic response to the scandals of the Protestant Reformation. Within the massive pillars holding up interior of the rebuilt church are the saints who founded religious orders crucial in the counter-Reformation. The Lord likewise wants us to become saintly pillars in the reconstruction of the Church today.

Last week I was at Windsor Castle north of London and saw in the famous Waterloo Room a portrait of Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, the Holy See’s Secretary of State during the time of Napoleon.

In 1801 the Frenchman told him that he would annihilate the Church if it opposed his will, but Consalvi replied, with both wit and faith, “If in 1,800 years the clergy have failed to destroy the Church, do you really think that you’ll be able to do it?” The gates of hell will ultimately not prevail (Mt 16:18). God will conquer evil with good (Rom 12:21).

Hope is ultimately an anchor thrown beyond the clouds, the Letter to the Hebrews tells us (6:19). It’s a trust in God and in His promises, that Christ will be with us in the Church He founded until the end of time. One of the works of the Holy Spirit is to help Turn to page 20

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solution,” Aldarondo said.

“If we abide and do as Our Lady asked of us, we will be able to change course. As Our Lord once said, ‘These kind of spirits can only be cast out with prayer and fasting’ (Mk 9, 29).

“In trying to be part of a solution, rather than be part of the problem, St. Anthony of Padua in New Bedford has joined the efforts of many others in the Fall River Diocese to pray for the purification of our Church, the sanctification of all our priests, and we are praying for conversion for our nation and for a Culture of Life over the culture of death.”

Aldarondo said it is important for Catholics to remain united in prayer so as to counter the secular media’s recent attacks on the Church.

“My main concern about the evil that has begun to surface is that many of the good bishops, cardinals, priests and other members of the Church hierarchy who, through no fault of their own, will have to suffer and endure much pain because of a media that does not always tell the truth and many misinformed laity who act impulsively and tend to push an agenda against the Church,” he said.

“That is why it is so important we use prudence and, as my boss will say to us, ‘a little common sense and good judgment will take us a long way.’”

As a follow-up to the September 29-30 weekend, Aldarondo said the par-

ish will be joining faithful from across the nation for the Rosary Coast to Coast Rally event on October 7.

“Our intention and hope is to follow what took place in Poland a couple of years ago, and since our bishop has consecrated our diocese to Our Lady of Fatima, we hope to have a re-consecra-

tion along with Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy,” he said. “The 54-day Novena of the Rosary Coast to Coast Rally is being prayed every day after the morning Mass with the Blessed Sacrament exposed, and also on weekends including Sunday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., along with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy with the intention of making reparations for our sins.”

According to Aldarondo, we need to keep in mind Our Lady’s words: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph!”

For information on any of the Fatima-related events taking place at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford, please contact Father Brendan O’Rourke, I.V.E., parochial vicar, at 508-993-1691, or email brendanorourke@ive.org.

Students from Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River, above, and St. Pius X School in South Yarmouth, below, celebrate the first day at their respective schools.

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River is moving to Saxon Math to align with their Classical Curriculum.

Throughout this year the Catholic Schools Office will be working with its schools to “Celebrate the Beauty of Every Child” and recognize efforts being made at the school level to

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help every student reach their God-given potential.

They will also work with the Pro-Life Office to plan events and activities to help schools and parishes embrace this theme and live it out. At the beginning of this school year Perla wishes to express to each mem-

ber of the Catholic Schools Alliance community “my best wishes and prayers to each and every student for a faith-filled and successful school year. I most especially pray that God’s beauty is continuously manifested in each and every one of our school communities.”

Can we pay others to donate a kidney?

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ften we envision donating our organs after we are dead, but we can also choose to become an organ donor while we are alive if we share part of our liver or donate one of our kidneys. The proposal to give one of our two kidneys away, though, does raise some ethical and safety concerns. There can be long-term risks for the donor. Donating a kidney, moreover, would not be therapeutic for us — only for someone else — and in fact might slightly increase our own risk for experiencing renal failure in the future.

Clearly we have a general duty to respect the integrity of our body. This means we shouldn’t cause injury to it, or damage it, for example, through surgeries or treatments that are not necessary to preserve our health or save our life. In light of these considerations, donating one of our kidneys would seem to run counter to our responsibility to maintain bodily integrity.

Yet the notion of integrity can also be understood in a broader sense, namely, as functional integrity, so that if one of our kidneys were removed without imposing undue risk, and without a significant loss of blood filtering function, then we could say that the functional integrity of our renal system was preserved. In that case, the removal of one of our kidneys, as a sacrificial act and for a proportionate reason, such as saving or improving another person’s life, could be justified. This is what the Church affirms.

A further ethical concern, however, centers on the fact that the decision to donate must be made freely by the donor, and consent should be given without any undue pressure. This means that offering payments for organs is fundamentally coercive and unethical.

We face a serious shortage of available kidneys for transplant in the U.S. Average wait times for a kidney are approaching five years, and about 15-20 people die each day while waiting for an organ

— the majority for a kidney. In Providing reimbursement of August of 2018, I participated in expenses should not be viewed a conversation with some of the as encouraging or incentivizing health policy team at the White the donation itself, but rather as House as they considered possible “eliminating disincentives,” or strategies for increasing the sup“removing hindrances or roadply of live blocks.” donor kidAn organ neys. We donor Making Sense discussed should not Out of the ethihave to asBioethics cal, legal, sume extra economic

By Father Tad personal and health Pacholczyk expense implicaor take on tions of other heavy some proposed solutions, includ- burdens to be able freely to help ing the proposal to reward organ out another patient who would donation by providing various benefit from receiving his or her non-cash benefits. kidney.

During the White House From the ethical point of view, meeting, some parties to the our ultimate goal should be not discussion offered recommendaso much to “incentivize donations that the government protion,” as to “support or encourage vide lifetime guaranteed coverage personal generosity” on the part of all future medical expenses, or of those individuals who may lifetime health insurance, to every desire to donate freely one of person who becomes a living kidney donor. I emphasized that we should not be “encouraging” donation by offering “incentives” to donors as a direct benefit at all.

Offering lifetime health insurance or similar proposals would, in my view, constitute a form of payment or “valuable consideration” offered to the donor, and would again raise the problem of improperly incentivizing the donation of organs, pressuring someone to consider donating as a way to secure lifetime health insurance coverage.

When Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984, this concern about incentivizing donations was directly addressed. This law prohibits the purchase of organs or any exchange of “valuable consideration.” This same law, however, clearly permits reimbursement of various expenses associated with the transplant, such as travel costs to get to the hospital in order to have the kidney removed, temporary housing at the time of surgery, lost wages incurred in connection with the donation of the organ, etc.

their kidneys. The distinction is an important one.

At the end of the day, we want people to become organ donors, not organ vendors. Human organs and tissues, because of their close proximity and connection to our human identity, cannot be reduced to commodities to be acquired or sold on an open market.

We must do what we can, legally and otherwise, to safeguard the generosity of the organ donor’s freely chosen act and prevent others, especially the poor and disadvantaged, from being exploited because they need money, health care, or other “incentives.”

Anchor columnist Father Pacholczyk earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard.

He is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, and serves as the director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org.

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A period of vigorous revival Editor’s note: This continues a series of columns by Father Buote on Catholic worship. olitical and military intrigue were as common in the ancient Roman Empire as they are in the 21st-century world which we know. Though the Jews had earlier made an alliance with Rome, Pompey conquered Jerusalem and defiled the Temple. In the Roman civil war of 49 B.C., when Julius Caesar besieged Pompey in Alexandria, Egypt, the Jewish leader Hyrcanus sent reinforcements from Jerusalem to aid Caesar. In appreciation, Caesar granted certain benefits to Jews, including the recognition of Judaism as a licit religion. Since Christianity would be seen as a movement within Judaism, these special grants would be in place for the followers of Jesus as well. However, as friction developed between the followers of Jesus and the main group of Jews, and as more and more non-Jews joined the movement, the officials of the empire came to see Christianity as a new entity, not deserving of the grants made to the Jews.

Christianity became an illicit religion, an illegal way of life.

For nearly 300 years the situation between Christianity and the empire was quite similar to the modern idea of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Most

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of the time, Christians were recognized, she has the right not sought out, but if they to be helped to rebuild her were denounced then judicial ruins; the cult which has action would be taken. Also, been made legal must be able there were some intermittent to be practiced. The impeall-out persecutions against rial decisions distinguish all Christians, or against between two sorts of Christheir leaders. tian buildings: the churches, Things changed dramatically in the How Catholic year 313 A.D. when Worship Came Constantine conquered Rome. Alto Be though there may not

By Father have been a formal Martin L. Buote document, the Edict of Milan, the two Augusti, Constantine for the “places of assembly” and west and Licinius for the collective properties — probeast, did agree that freedom ably meaning cemeteries, etc. of religion cannot be restrict- Everything was to be handed ed, and in matters pertainback to the faithful “withing to the Divine, each man out compensation, withshould be allowed to obey out charge, without delay, the dictates of his conscience. without legal proceedings.”

Consequences followed The state itself assumed the immediately. Maximinus burden of compensating the Daia received a threatening parties who had acquired letter, bidding him suspend these properties and possesthe anti-Christian persecusions in good faith. tion without further delay.

In theory therefore the deThe proconsul of Africa recisions of Milan established ceived another, commanding equality between Christianhim to restore the Church’s ity and Paganism. Along confiscated property. Durwith many others — the cult ing the winter of 312-313 of Mithras or Egyptian gods, it seems that the imperial for example — the religion exchequer contributed to of Christ became a “lawful the restoration of Chrisreligion.” In actual fact, the tian buildings, and that the result was far more considerEmpress Fausta gave Pope able. The general current of Miltiades the sumptuous public opinion, the conformpalace of the Lateran. ing tendency of the masses, Now that the Church is which had previously played

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against Christian expansion, henceforth worked in its favor. Had not the emperors officially acknowledged the fact that it had been a mistake to try to destroy Christianity? Was it not clear that the God of Christians was far stronger than the old pagan deities?

The position therefore was not leading towards a regime of “liberty of conscience” where Paganism and Christianity accepted one another’s presence, vying with the other, fairly and squarely, in the conquest of souls, but towards a rapid overthrow of the old pagan forms of worship and the conclusive triumph of the Gospel. The very notion of “liberty of conscience” had no place in the ancient soul.

Paganism might take more than two centuries to disappear completely and under Julian the Apostate, was to experience a period of vigorous revival. Nevertheless, in 313, it had received its death-blow.

With Constantine, the Church came out of the shadows. With so many new Christians, the former domestic gatherings became inadequate. In the years following 313 there was a great spate of building. Now, Christianity had not just a

Church, but also churches.

There were two more developments of the fourth century which have a bearing on our topic. While Greek was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire, Latin was gaining wider usage. Christians of North Africa began using Latin in their worship gatherings and this spread to Europe, probably through St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, in the last half of the century.

The last development that I shall point out was in consequence of the change to Latin. The early terms used for the Christian worship gatherings included: Breaking of Bread, the Lord’s Supper, Eucharist, the Oblation, the Sacrifice. The word Mass had to wait until Latin was widely used for it is derived from the word Missa, or Dismissal. There were two dismissals which could have contributed to the association of the word with the worship ritual. Catechumens were dismissed with a blessing after the readings and sermon and then the baptized took part in the worship service.

After the worship service, the baptized were dismissed with a blessing to go out and bring their Christian lives into the world.

Father Buote is a retired priest of the Fall River Diocese and a frequent contributor to The Anchor.

Thursday 6 September 2018 — The Holiday Inn, Mansfield, Mass. — Priests’ Convocation ummer is slipping; a little ice cream and it’s over. The Falmouth Road Race of 2018 is history. The annual end-ofsummer parish barbeque has been held. Then came summer’s “last hurrah,” the Labor Day Weekend.

September makes me nostalgic.

Way back when, Labor Day would see the priests of the Fall River Diocese packing to head for Cathedral Camp in East Freetown. Time for the mandatory diocesan retreat. There wasn’t room to accommodate everyone at the camp, so two backto-back sessions were scheduled.

Priests’ retreats afforded the rare opportunity to wear civilian clothes.

The bishop himself might dare to sport a casual black cardigan instead of a suit jacket.

The bishop usually attended the first retreat and spent time at the second. The final conference of both sessions was delivered by the bishop.

He would extend words of thanks to the priests for another year of labor in the Lord’s Vineyard and share his thoughts in a “State of the Diocese” address.

The old retreat house was Spartan. During World War II, it had served as an army barracks. Each cell had a cot, a small writing shelf, and a chair. The floors were bare, except for the corridor, with its rough sisal runner. The bathrooms were at the end of the corridor.

The retreat conferences were held in a separate

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building called Our Lady Another building of Good Counsel Chapel. housed a camp dormiOn a hot September aftory. The bunks had been ternoon, the chapel could removed. The room was be unbearable. It had a lined with dozens of portower bell that was rung table plywood altars. Each manually (a task assigned priest said Mass privately, to a random curate). I with a seminarian serving once rang the bell too vigorously and broke the rope.

The Ship’s Log Curates were Reflections of a also assigned to Parish Priest behind-the-scenes

By Father Tim Sacristy work.

Goldrick I did that, too.

Curates on retreat were kept busy.

The largest camp as altar boy. There were building, Villa Maria, sometimes several Masses contained the dining area being said simultaneously. (“refectory,” in churchConcelebration was not a speak) and an assembly possibility. hall. I suspect Villa Maria My, how things have was built as an indoor changed. roller skating rink for the We still have diocesandefunct Lakeside Park, sponsored annual priests’ the picnic grounds that retreats, but they are now were once at the end of one option among many. the New Bedford trolley Priests’ retreats are no line. The priests on relonger held at Cathedral treat did no roller skating, Camp. to my knowledge. During We now also have the retreats, the hall was “Priests’ Convocations” used by vendors to disheld in various locations play church goods. That every few years. Convowas a convenience. It cations give priests the meant there was no need opportunity to gather toto drive to Providence gether with their bishop, to buy the latest prayer to listen to presentations, book. to pray the Liturgy of the After meals (served by Hours in community, to a wait-staff of seminarconcelebrate Holy Mass, ians) the priests would and to share meals, coneither inspect the vendors’ versation, and priestly displays or walk counter- fraternity. clockwise in small groups A convocation of around the circular drive- diocesan priests is just way, chatting. The more now concluding. In light unconventional among us of recent events in the would instead walk clock- Church, more time was wise. Such rogues! allocated for communal Some of the more prayer and open dialogue. athletic priests would get We needed to talk to each together for an afternoon other and to God about baseball game. Some the shocking situation the would go for a swim in Church is currently expeLong Pond. The old pas- riencing. The convocation tors would take a siesta, afforded an opportunity as, I am told, old pastors to do just that. still tend to do.

What was there to talk

about? Plenty. There’s the report of the attorney general of Pennsylvania, the accusations being leveled at a retired archbishop of Washington, D.C. (and his recusal from the College of Cardinals), the ongoing investigation at our regional seminary in Brighton, and some retired archbishop who is calling for the resignation of Pope Francis. There’s also turmoil in the Church beyond the United States, especially in Chile and Australia. If that’s not enough, one of our retired Falmouth pastors was found murdered.

What is going on? I can hardly stand it!

Like everyone else,

dear readers, I have had to grapple with these bewildering reports.

Much to my surprise, I found reason for hope.

I found reason for hope in the People of God themselves. In the history of the Church, we have weathered catastrophic storms. It was the faith of the People of God that has stayed the ship in the past. The faith of the People of God will come through again. I know this because I’ve seen it already happening. In faith and hope, we build and rebuild. In the Body of Christ, faith and hope are forever entwined.

But we really do need to talk.

Anchor columnist Father Tim Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

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Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., uses incense during a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River during the recent annual New England Great Feast of the Holy Ghost in that city. (Photo by Deacon Alan Thadeu)

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Watch the Ordination to Priesthood Online

The 2018 Fall River Diocese Ordination to Priesthood is available for viewing on the video-sharing website YouTube. Visit the diocesan website at www.fallriverdiocese.org and click on the Ordination to Priesthood image on the home page to access the video. The ordination took place on June 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River.

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 September 9 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father David C. Deston Jr., parochial administrator of St. Anne’s Parish in Fall River, and chaplain at Bishop Connolly High School.

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think it was sometime had been so intrigued by my letter, that he felt the during the summer of 1978 that I first met Fa- need to personally meet ther John Moore. Looking me.

We spoke together for back at our first meeting, a little more than an hour it occurred in a somewhat or so. At the conclusion of a strange way. You see, of our meeting, he reiterI had been away from the ated that the second class Church for a number of had already been formed. years, and had returned When I returned home about three years before that evening, I told my this meeting. wife what occurred, and At the time Father Moore was the director of that I thought that was the the newly-formed Perma- end of it. My wife’s reply to me, however, was that nent Diaconate program if God meant it to be, it in the diocese. At that time I had no real understanding of what a deacon Guest was. However, Columnist I kept getting a Deacon voice in my head Lawrence St. Onge that I was to become a deacon, and I could not get rid of it. After consulting a would be. Within probably number of people, includ- no more than two weeks, I received a letter telling ing my wife, and ending with my pastor, who called me, I was being accepted into the second class of Father Moore about my inquiry, I was told to write the diaconate program. If it had not been for Father Father Moore a letter of Moore, I would not have interest. been ordained a deacon in During the following few days, I wrote the letter. 1982.

During the years of my I wrote it in a sort of negdiaconate formation peative fashion. I informed riod, Father Moore and I Father Moore of my past became very close friends. history relative to the After my ordination, I was Church, and included evassigned to Father Moore’s ery reason why I probably parish, during which time, should not be considered for the diaconate program. our friendship deepened over the next five years.

Within a week or so, I Not long after retiring received a response tellfrom my secular occupaing me that I was to meet tion, Father Moore and personally with Father I conferred, and he hired Moore. At our meeting, me to become the first Father Moore started out by telling me that they had assistant director of the Permanent Diaconate already accepted approxiprogram for the Diocese mately 25 men into the of Fall River, a position I new second class of the held for approximately the diaconate program, which next seven years. Because would be commencing within a couple of months. Father Moore, at the time, held so many positions: However, he said, that he

pastor, director of the Permanent Diaconate, director of Communications, and editor of the diocesan newspaper, The Anchor; it was decided that I would oversee operations of the diaconate program on a daily basis, and Father Moore would make the really important decisions.

Father Moore was a priest devoted to God and his calling to the priesthood. He gave all his time and energies to the numerous positions he held within the Diocese of Fall River. Although he worked very hard, he still enjoyed life and the many people he encountered on a daily basis. At times he could put on a somewhat brusque appearance, which could be somewhat disarming to those who did not know him; but it was a way he tried to see within a person; to see who they really were. Father Moore loved to scrutinize and analyze people.

But beyond all that, Father John Moore was a very, very caring and loving person, a side of him that he often tried hard to hide. Father Moore was a very special friend of mine, whom I will never forget.

May he rest in peace.

Deacon St. Onge is a retired permanent deacon from the Diocese of Fall River.

Correction In the last edition of The Anchor, Msgr. Moore’s obituary had a typo that indicated he directed the diocesan Permanent Diaconate Office for 17 years.

It was in fact 27 years.

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For and About Our Church Youth Holy Family-Holy Name School kicks off annual food drive September 12

Eliana, a fifth-grade student at Holy Family-Holy Name School in New Bedford, offered service outside the classroom. She and her family spent one afternoon freshening up the Rosary that is painted on the playground.

New Bedford — Holy Family-Holy Name School will be collecting canned goods and dry goods from September 12 through November 19. The items will be given to the St. Lawrence Food Pantry to help feed those less fortunate.

Collection boxes are located in the school’s front hallway, as well as in each classroom, and donations will be accepted during regular school hours. If you would like to give cash, please make your check payable to “HF-HN Food Drive” and these monies will be converted into food gift cards. Or you can purchase the cards yourself and donate them.

The school’s food drive efforts are a great example of what’s happening nationwide. More so now than ever, students are stepping up

to serve their communities, and kids and their families are realizing that hunger is a reality in every town, not only in our most challenged communities.

Another unique aspect of this food drive is a real focus on “giving the good stuff,” which encourages families to donate the kinds of foods that have the most impact at a pantry — such as peanut butter, canned tuna fish, and canned vegetables — rather than less nutritious snack items or even simply those foods from the back of the cabinet that rarely get eaten.

Supporters can track the success of the Holy Family-Holy Name School’s drive on the bulletin board in the main hallway.

The contact is vice principal Marianne McGlynn at 508-993-3547.

The first day of school for teachers at St. James-St. John School in New Bedford included CPR training and a meeting (above). Below, students gather for a photo on their first day of school.

Some children attending the summer camp at Holy Family-Holy Name School took a walk with the vice principal, Marianne McGlynn, to check out the vegetable garden they were growing at St. Lawrence Martyr Church. They were able to see their prior knowledge about a plant’s life cycle actually happening and learned some new things about different vegetables. Pictured are: Ana, Miguel, Linkin, and Alexis.

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August 28, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Review Board has issued the following in response to the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report and recent allegations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.

In the statement, the NRB calls for a lay-lead investigation into all allegations of sexual misconduct within the Church as well as strengthening the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Established in 2002, the purpose of the National Review Board is to work collaboratively with the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People in preventing the sexual abuse of minors in the United States by persons in the service of the Church.

The full National Review Board statement follows: “While the policies and procedures that have been implemented by the Church since 2002 to address the sexual abuse of minors by the clergy have resulted in a significant decrease of such abuse, the revelations of horrific incidents of abuse in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, along with the abuse perpetrated by Archbishop McCarrick point to a systemic problem within the Church that can no longer be ignored or tolerated by the episcopacy in the United States. The National Review Board has for several years expressed its concern that bishops not become complacent in their response to sexual abuse by the clergy.

The recent revelations make it clear that the problem is much deeper. We are saddened, angry, and hurt by what we have learned in the past few weeks. The evil of the crimes that have been

Statement from the National Review Board calls for lay leadership amid sexual abuse crisis perpetrated reaching into the highest levels of the hierarchy will not be stemmed simply by the creation of new committees, policies, or procedures. What needs to happen is a genuine change in the Church’s culture, specifically among the bishops themselves. This evil has resulted from a loss of moral leadership and an abuse of power that led to a culture of silence that enabled these incidents to occur. Intimidation, fear, and the misuse of authority created an environment that was taken advantage of by clerics, including bishops, causing harm to minors, seminarians, and those most vulnerable. The culture of silence enabled the abuse to go on virtually unchecked. Trust was betrayed for the victims/survivors of the abuse; the entire Body of Christ was betrayed in turn by these crimes and the failure to act.

“The National Review Board firmly believes, as has been expressed by several bishops in recent days, that the episcopacy needs to be held accountable for these past actions, and in the future, for being complicit, either directly or indirectly, in the sexual abuse of the vulnerable.

Holding bishops accountable will require an independent review into the actions of the bishop when an allegation

comes to light. The only way to ensure the independence of such a review is to entrust this to the laity, as recently suggested by Cardinal DiNardo. The NRB, composed exclusively of lay members, would be the logical group to be involved in this task.

Establishing an anonymous whistle-blower policy, as is found in corporations, higher education and other institutions in both the public and private sector, that would be independent of the hierarchy with participation by the laity, perhaps the NRB, who would report allegations to the local bishop, local law enforcement, the nuncio and Rome, needs to be established immediately. Another problem that needs to be addressed is the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

The charter has been helpful in the Church’s response to sexual abuse by the clergy.

However, the charter should be understood as a living document that is in constant need of revision based on what we have learned and experienced over the years, as well as current new realities.

The members of the NRB have on numerous occasions pointed out the weaknesses in the charter given its deliberate ambiguity and its lack of inclusion of bishops. During the most recent revision process of the charter, many of

the recommendations made by the NRB to strengthen the charter were not incorporated for a variety of reasons. These recommendations need to be reconsidered in light of the current situation, as well as the inclusion of bishops in the charter. The NRB also believes that the Statement of Episcopal Commitment is ineffective and needs to be revised into a meaningful, actionable commitment.

In particular, the notion of ‘fraternal correction’ must outline concrete steps that will be taken when a bishop is alleged to have committed sexual abuse or has failed to respond immediately and without hesitation when a cleric is accused of sexual abuse. To ensure that bishops undertake their obligation to act decisively when they have knowledge of incidences of sexual abuse committed by the clergy or their brother bishops, there must be substantive formation of newlyappointed bishops on their responsibility as moral leaders within the Church, especially in responding to sexual abuse, something which is currently lacking.

“Since its creation in the charter, the NRB has sought to provide its advice to the bishops to assist them in addressing the sexual abuse of minors. We will continue to work with the bishops,

particularly in responding to Cardinal DiNardo’s request for the NRB’s assistance in the proposed investigation he has called for regarding recent revelations. In the coming weeks, the NRB will consider what recommendations to make to the bishops in light of that request. We recognize that the overwhelming majority of our current bishops have, and continue to, take the sexual abuse of minors seriously and who act accordingly by adhering to the charter, some even going beyond these basic requirements.

However, every time one bishop fails to act, the entire episcopate is tainted. It is time for the laity to assume courageous leadership to help the Church respond and to heal and for the bishops to listen carefully to our recommendations. We need not only to pray for the Church and most especially for the victims/survivors and their families who have been wounded by this terrible scourge, but we must take concrete action to address the systemic problems underlying the problem of sexual abuse in the Church.”

More information on the National Review Board can be found at: www.usccb. org/about/child-and-youthprotection/the-nationalreview-board.cfm.

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Our readers respond Credit is due Our mission in life is to evangelize not become rich.

I continue to advertise to support our diocesan newspaper because it is an important tool of evangelization.

I also use my “stewardship talents” of time, talent and treasure to help in many other causes to improve the lives of those in need, as well as support other evangelization initiatives.

Why do I start out an opinion piece this way?

Because I am a Catholic who happens to be a pharmacist. I cannot count the numerous times I have had the privilege of proclaiming the prayer of the faithful. In that prayer, we usually pray for our leaders, politicians, etc. to make right and just decisions — especially now when we no longer have a culture that supports our values. Fortunately we do have a politician in this diocese on whom our prayers successfully fall. Representative Alan Silvia always votes his conscience, a conscience that was instilled and formed in him as he grew up in his Catholic faith. God has called him many times to support the Word of God in his decision-making and in his daily living. His entire career has been helping people in one form or another.

Rep. Alan Silvia has always voted on tough issues, even when a missed vote would have been the easy way out for him. But he is not that kind of man.

Back in 2015, The Catholic League discovered that the local political arm of Planned Parenthood, the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts, keeps a list of “champions” who serve the interests of the abortion industry in the Massachusetts General Court and “allies” who don’t.

Out of the 94 Massachusetts representatives who are listed as Catholic, only 28 members received the designation “opponent.” [That’s less than one-third of our Catholic representatives.]

Of the 28 who are listed as

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opponents of Planned Parenthood, Rep. Silvia is one of only three representatives who live in cities and towns that make up the Diocese of Fall River. I think that really makes him stand out in the crowd.

I remember when Rep. Silvia voted “no” to the proposal that contraceptive medication have no copay, knowing that would be unfair to the many people who need life-saving medications who often cannot afford their copays. [And contraceptive medication can hardly be called lifesaving.] Rep. Silvia’s outlook is that we must all be treated equally.

A final example and my reason for writing at this time. Last month with the last minute round of bills being rushed before the state legislators before their summer break, there was one to remove what we referred to as some “archaic” laws that were still on the books. These included the decriminalization of: the sale of contraceptive items, abortion [so that it could remain legal should Roe v. Wade be overturned], fornication and adultery. Rep. Silvia again said “no” to this.

In fact, he was the only representative in our diocese to do so. Also a fact, he was one of only nine representatives in the entire state to vote no!

We are in a sad state — here in the state of Massachusetts, a state where one-half of our representatives are listed as Catholic!

I don’t ever recall our diocesan newspaper commenting to its readers about the dedicated examples we have in Rep. Silvia as a politician who consistently votes based on the value and dignity of human life. Perhaps that would be politically incorrect for “The Anchor” to do so, but I think it is time for the Rep. Silvia’s record to be recognized as one way to show our support for him. And that is the reason for this opinion piece. He shouldn’t have to wait until he dies to hear “well done, good and faithful servant.” And I think

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diocesan leaders should use his example to remind all Catholics of the importance of making good and just decisions, whether large or small, even when difficult choices confront us. May the prayer of the faithful continue to include prayers that our civic and Church leaders are courageous in their decisionmaking. These prayers are truly needed.

Thomas Pasternak Fall River Executive Editor responds: Regarding the preceding letter (and two we will run in the next edition), I do realize that I opened “Pandora’s Box” (and not to a ring) when I wrote my guest column a while back about immigration, but felt the need to give my entire political philosophy (which I believe is guided by the Catholic faith), since I knew that if I only shared the Church’s teachings on immigration (which, I know, are not the subject of an infallible declaration {so, we can’t demand one policy over another. The laity do have a freedom here, as opposed to our teachings on human life and Marriage, to choose what they think would be the best thing, although even then they are still bound to do so out of Christian charity.}), people would misinterpret my doing so to be a “green light” to ignore the non-negotiable teachings when voting. We then ran some letters in reaction to my guest column. I did not have time to respond to them (as I used to do, pointby-point), due to other work I have to do as a priest. I think that my guest column laid out what I think, including my sorrow about so few Catholic politicians being true to the faith (although, as I said in that column, the greater blame lies with the clergy – both our encouragement to politicians to not worry about following Church teaching and our scandalous behavior, which makes it hard for anyone to believe anything we teach). I am now shutting “Pandora’s Box,” since a political debate between readers

could go on forever. However, we will continue to allow letters about the crisis in the Church, since this is much more proper to the mission of The Anchor (obviously, not the crisis itself, but working together with our readership to continue to somehow spread the Gospel, even when so many of our leaders have ignored it).

One And Done (Editor’s note: The sections of this letter in bold italics are the responses of Deacon Joseph E. Regali, director of the diocesan Office of Safe Environment referencing appropriate sections of the new diocesan policy and procedure manual dated July 24, 2018, currently at the printer and will hopefully be published this week.)

It was gratifying to see that Pope Francis in his letter of August 20 entitled “Letter to the People of God,” expressly acknowledged that the Church has unfortunately delayed the implementation of a “zero tolerance” policy in the disposition of clerical sexual abuse cases, including making all those who perpetuate or cover up to be held accountable. His eminence went on to state that such a no-nonsense policy will help to guarantee a greater culture of care, now and into the future, of our Church.

While Bishop da Cunha’s letter of August 21 was thoughtful and helpful in this regard, I respectfully suggest that it doesn’t go far enough to end the horrendous problem of the clerical sex abuse of children. Inhouse disposition by review boards haven’t worked in the past and are believed by the public to be just another version of the old facesaving behind closed doors cover-up as in the past.

What we need today is a more vigorous and aggressive public disposition of these matters. Accordingly, I suggest the following outline of six policies worthy of consideration.

1. All cardinals and bish-

ops should be retired at the age of 75. This would guarantee the end of the infamous Cardinal Law scheme of “forgive and transfer” offending clerics practiced by him as well as other leaders of his generation.

2. These proposed policies should be applicable to all clerics, including cardinals, bishops and priests, as well as any other persons responsible for the oversight and supervision of children in the course of their designated duties.

5.3 All Church personnel and/or volunteers shall read and understand the policies and procedures and be knowledgeable of its application to them in the position in which they serve in the diocese. They will electronically acknowledge that they have read and understood the Policy and the Code of Conduct as part of their CMG Connect training and agree to adhere to them. The following Diocesan personnel shall participate in CMG Connect training: a. All priests, deacons, and religious; b. All principals, assistant principals, teachers, guidance counselors, librarians, and staff of all Catholic elementary, middle, and high schools operated by the Diocese and/ or any parish(es). c. All ministers, directors and/or coordinators of Religious Education, and all teachers of Religious Education. d. All Diocesan personnel providing child care services under the auspices of the Diocese, or any parish, mission, or other Catholic institutions and organizations which are subject under civil law to the administration, authority, and/or governance of the Diocese. a. All youth ministers, directors/coaches of children’s activities (e.g., athletics, choir, etc.), and similar Diocesan personnel having contact with children, who provide such services under the auspices of the Diocese, or any parish, mission, or other Continued on page 19

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3. All persons, whether cardinal, bishop, pastor, school principal, or other supervisory position, upon receiving notice of an event that involves credible allegations of sexual abuse of a child, who at the time of the event, was under the alleged offender’s supervision, shall be forthwith reported to the local police or law enforcement department for immediate investigation and action. No exceptions, no delays, and no excuses.

8.2 Any Diocesan personnel, including anyone who is a volunteer, employee, subcontractor, or has any affiliation with the Diocese, whether a mandated reporter or not, and has reason to suspect that any child/young person has been the victim of physical abuse, sexual abuse, sexual assault or neglect shall report that information immediately to the appropriate authorities (Section 8.3). This shall be reported regardless of the nature of the offense, the current age of the alleged victim, the position/ role of the suspected/accused or when the offense allegedly occurred. The sole exception is that ordained priests shall not report any information subject to the priest-penitent privilege. When reporting suspected abuse or neglect, the following information, if available or known should be reported: a. Name, address and age of the child; b. Name and address of the child’s parent, guardian, or caretaker; c. Whereabouts of the child; d. Nature and extent of the alleged maltreatment and any past history of injury possibly occurring from abuse or neglect; e. Name, address, and whereabouts of the person or persons suspected of perpetrating the abuse or neglect, if known f. And any other informa-

Our readers respond tion which might help to determine the cause of the suspected abuse or neglect or the identity of the person responsible.

4. Pending final resolution of the matter, the alleged offender shall be immediately suspended from all contact with children, and if this means suspension from employment, then so be it.

10.1 A priest, deacon, or religious suspected of abuse, immediately after civil authorities have been informed, will be: 1. Called for an immediate meeting with the Vicar General or by the Bishop’s Designee within the Chancery, who will inform him or her of the nature of the allegation(s), unless the civil authorities deem otherwise.

(It is important to note that civil authorities should be offered first contact with the accused, except when such procedure would put the alleged victim and/or others at risk of harm.); 2. Immediately directed to remain away from the school, agency, parish church, worship services, or other location(s) and have no contact with any children/young people in any manner until a resolution of the complaint is concluded; 3. Directed not to contact or attempt to contact the alleged victim or the victim’s family personally, in any manner, including electronically, or through a third party; 4. Informed of the investigative process and the expectations for his/her cooperation and participation in said process; 5. Placed on administrative leave; 6. Advised of his or her right to obtain civil and canonical counsel; and 7. Requested to seek and voluntarily comply with a comprehensive psychological evaluation.

When an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor or vulnerable adult by a priest, deacon, or religious is received, a preliminary investigation in accordance with

canon law will be initiated and conducted promptly and objectively (CIC, c. 1717; CCEO, c. 1468). The preliminary investigation may be conducted by the Bishop himself or by another person he appoints to carry out this responsibility. During the investigation, the accused enjoys the presumption of innocence, and all appropriate steps shall be taken to protect his reputation. The accused will be encouraged to retain the assistance of civil and canonical counsel and will be promptly notified of the results of the investigation.

When there is sufficient credible evidence that sexual abuse of a minor or vulnerable adult has occurred, the Office of the Vicar General shall be notified. The Bishop shall then apply the precautionary measures mentioned in CIC, canon 1722, or CCEO, canon 1473 — i.e., withdraw the accused from exercising the Sacred ministry or any ecclesiastical office or function, impose or prohibit residence in a given place or territory, and prohibit public participation in the Most Holy Eucharist pending the outcome of the process. When even a single act of sexual abuse by a priest or deacon is admitted or is established after an appropriate process in accord with canon law, the offending priest or deacon will be removed permanently from ecclesiastical ministry, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state, if the case so warrants (Sacramentorum sanctitatus tutela (SST), Art. 6; CIC, c. 1395 §2; CCEO, c.

1453 §1).

5. Any cleric or lay person found by a final disposition of a court to be guilty of sexual abuse of a child, however it is described or named, shall thereupon be permanently terminated from office or employment within the Church. No exceptions, no delays, and no excuses. Such action of termination shall be readily available to the public.

9.2 Any individual associated with the Diocese found to have violated the law will

be subject to appropriate disciplinary action ranging from a written warning to termination of employment or of volunteer opportunities. When an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor or vulnerable adult by a priest or deacon is received, a preliminary investigation in accordance with canon law where applicable and will be initiated and conducted promptly and objectively (Codex Iuris Canonici (CIC), c. 1717; Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium (CCEO), c. 1468). The personnel file of any clergy/religious, employee, or volunteer against whom an allegation has been supported by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families and/or local authorities is to be properly noted, including offense(s) and action(s) taken.

The CORI database shall also be properly noted, indicating those who are restricted in religious, employment/ volunteer options and those who are no longer allowed to minister, work or volunteer in the Diocese in any capacity. Should the allegations against a clergy/religious, employee, or volunteer be unsupported after a thorough investigation, the individual may return to his/her regular activities.

6. To those naysayers who may claim that this “zero tolerance” policy will result in churches without priests and necessitate church closings, I say rubbish. It is quite unlikely, and in the event a church closing or two becomes necessary, so be it.

The welfare of our children is paramount.

This Safe Environment Policy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River (hereinafter, “the Diocese”) for the protection of children and young people and prevention of sexual misconduct is intended to summarize the Diocese’s current policy that: • Children have the right to be safe and protected from harm in any and all environments; and • Sexual misconduct by any Diocesan personnel while

performing the work of, or any activities under the auspices of, the Diocese is outside any scope of any authority, duties and/or employment of such personnel; and • To augment and/or clarify the current policy.

The Diocese embraces the rights of children and vulnerable adults to be safe from sexual misconduct and/or abuse. The Diocese is dedicated to promoting and ensuring the protection of all children and will do all in its power to create a safe environment for children and young people, to prevent their physical abuse and neglect, and to bring the healing ministry of the Diocese to bear wherever possible. This Policy is responsive to our concerns for children/young people and to the provisions of the revised Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People and The Essential Norms for Diocesan/Eparchial Policies Dealing With Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Priests or Deacons as approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at its November 2002 General Meeting and given the recognitio by the Apostolic See on December 8, 2002.

This would also be an opportune time for Church Fathers to consider the ordination of women deacons of the Church. Today there are literally thousands of qualified nuns and other laywomen available for this purpose. It also would go a long way to not only assist the Church in carrying out its ecclesiastical responsibilities, but would also be a laudatory first step toward equality for women in the Church.

Pope Francis has now stated his approval for a “zero tolerance” policy and “no cover-up” policy for clerical sexual predators of children. So, what are we waiting for? God’s little children are looking to us for help and protection.

Let’s just do it now. We’ll be glad we did.

James T. Grady Rochester

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Cape parishes aid homeless people — again CENTERVILLE — Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V. is once again joining mid-Cape Church and civic leaders in assisting Our Lady of Victory and Our Lady of the Assumption parishes’ “Taste and See Cape Cod 2018” event, whose goal is to raise $100,000 to shelter homeless people this coming winter.

Michael Princi, Esq., is the honoree of the 17th annual event. A noted local lawyer honored last year by Bishop da Cunha at the Red Mass, Attorney Princi was one of the earliest members of the Taste and See Committee, and an advocate for homeless persons. He served for many years on the board of the agency that ran NOAH Shelter before it was taken over by Catholic Social Services.

“Because winter is such a hard time for the people

we help,” said Father John J. Perry, pastor of both parishes, “people living in automobiles, ‘sofa surfing,’ from relative to friend, shelter availability has become an even more valuable commodity. That is why we are redoubling our efforts this year to make sure that everyone who needs a warm, safe place to go this coming winter, will have it.”

Some of the Cape’s finest restaurants and food establishments, such as Alberto’s Ristorante, the Barnstable Restaurant and Tavern, Five Bays Bistro, Soprano’s, Sam Diego’s, Cape Cod Chocolatier, and more, have come forward to help by donating and serving tasting menus at Oyster Harbors Club on Friday, September 21. A raw bar provided by Cape Fish and Lobster, wine tastings from Cape Cod Package Store Fine Wine & Spirits, auctions, and the opportu-

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nity to socialize with nearly 300 neighbors and members of the business community complete the celebratory aspect of the evening.

A featured aspect of the event is the “Give a Bed” auction which has raised more than $44,000 in past years, or about 40 percent of the total evening’s gross. Shelter providers have calculated that the cost of a bed for a night, the care and comfort of one person for a one-night stay, is approximately $50.

The people in attendance are asked to bid the number of nights they can. Last year this item alone provided funds for nearly 800 bed-nights here on the Cape.

“Perhaps the harshest scandal of our age is that when the stock market goes down 10 percent, it dominates the headlines. But, let a homeless person die in the street, and it goes unnoticed,” said Father Perry. “This is the reality we seek to work against through events like

Taste and See.” For information about tickets or sponsorship opportunities, contact chairperson Kelley J. Spodris at 508-775-5744, ext. 113, kjs@olvparish.org. Or, go to olvparish.org/tasteandsee.

Anchor readers are invited to help by giving the cost of one or more shelter bed-nights by sending their donation of $50 per night to Kelley at the Our Lady of Victory office, 230 South Main Street, Centerville, Mass. 02632.

ger remains righteous rather than ruinous.

The doctrine of the communion of saints teaches that every good action strengthens Christ’s Mystical Body the Church, and every evil action weakens it. In response to decades of infidelity in doctrine and morals that have enfeebled the Church, all of us are called to help build the Church up by corresponding to what God is doing and wants to do through us.

This involves prayer, which is the first thing a Catholic

ought always to do in any situation: prayer for the victims, for those scandalized, for the leaders of the Church.

It involves fasting, because some demons are only expunged through this prayer of the body (Mt 17:21). It involves the help of God in the Sacraments. It involves staying informed without becoming obsessed and helping where the talents and opportunities God provides can be of service. It involves charity, beginning with reaching out to those who have suffered most, the victims of sexual abuse in the Church and their families, fighting on their behalf and accompanying them. It involves reaching out to those who are aching Spiritually — family members, friends, fellow parishioners, priests, bishops, including those ailing in secret — in order to ask them how they’re doing and remind them of the reason for the hope that we bear within (1 Pet 3:15). There’s much for each of us to do and every prayer or good deed is part of the rebuilding the Church desperately needs.

Many questions remain, on which I hope to focus in subsequent columns.

Anchor columnist Father Landry can be contacted at fatherlandry@ catholicpreaching.com.

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us respond to this situation not just with our feet firmly on the ground but with our minds and hearts lifted up to the God Who hates the evils that rip His Church apart even more than we do.

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Father William M. Costello

NORTH FALMOUTH — Father William M. Costello died unexpectedly on August 1 while living in South Padre Island, Texas, at the age of 71.

Father Costello was born in Northampton on Sept. 26, 1946. He was the son of the late James A. Costello and Eleanor C. (Bowler) Costello.

He leaves his immediate family, Geraldine Lucek, Carol and Jack Costello, Patricia and Robert Trudeau, Richard Costel-

He became administrator at St. Mary Parish in Taunton in 1993 and was named pastor in 1994.

He was appointed pastor of St. Anthony Parish in East Falmouth in 1999.

Father Costello became pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Seekonk in June 2011, and served in that capacity until January 2012.

A Mass of Christian

Burial will be celebrated September 10 at St. Anthony’s Church in East Falmouth, followed by burial at St. Anthony’s Cemetery.

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In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks Sept. 8 Rev. Thomas Sheehan, Founder, Holy Trinity, Harwich Center, 1868 Sept. 9 Rev. Thomas Halkovic, S.V.D., 2017 Sept. 10 Rev. Hugo Dylla, Pastor, St. Stanislaus, Fall River, 1966 Rt. Rev. Felix S. Childs, Retired Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River, 1969 Sept. 11 Rev. Joachim Shults, SS.CC., Our Lady of Assumption, New Bedford, 1987 Rev. Cyril Augustyn, OFM Conv., Pastor, Holy Rosary, Taunton, 1997 Rev. Francis E. Grogan, CSC, Superior, Holy Cross Residence, North Dartmouth, 2001 Rev. Martin Grena, 2004 Rev. Terrence F. Keenan, Former Pastor, St. Mary, South Dartmouth, 2010 Sept. 12 Rev. John J. Galvin, STD, Assistant, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River, 1962 Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Sc.H D, Fourth Bishop of Fall River, 1951-70, 1986 Rev. John R. Folster, Pastor, St. Louis de France, Swansea, 1995 Sept. 13 Rev. Charles A.J. Donovan, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, 1949 Rev. Isadore Kowalski, OFM Conv., Our Lady’s Haven, Fairhaven, 2003 Sept. 14 Rev. Stanislaus J. Ryczek, USA Retired Chaplain, Former Pastor, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Bedford, 1982

lo, Kathleen and Alan Sawyer, and Barbara and Robert Carey, along with several cousins, nieces and nephews, and many friends.

He was ordained to the priesthood on May 11, 1974, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River by the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin.

Father Costello served as a parochial vicar at St. Pius X Parish in South Yarmouth until 1978, when he was named chaplain at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro. In 1985, he was assigned as parochial vicar at St. Mary Parish in Norton, serving there until 1990 when he was transferred to St. Anthony Parish in Mattapoisett, in the same capacity.

Sept. 15 Rev. Henry J. Mussely, Pastor, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River, 1934 Rev. Brendan McNally, S.J., Holy Cross College, Worcester, 1958 Rev. John J. Casey, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, 1969 Sept. 16 Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jean A. Prevost, P.A., P.R., Pastor, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River, 1925 Sept. 17 Rev. Thomas F. McNulty, Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford, 1954 Cardinal Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston, 197083, Pastor of St. Michael, Fall River 1960-1966, 1983 Rev. Felix Lesnek, SS.CC., Former Associate Pastor, St. Joseph, Fairhaven, 1991 Sept. 18 Rev. Luke Golla, SS.CC., Seminary of Sacred Heart, Wareham, 1945 Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edmund J. Ward, Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, Fall River, 1964 Sept. 19 Rev. Henry E.S. Henniss, Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford, 1859 Msgr. Arthur W. Tansey, Retired Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River, 1985 Sept. 20 Rev. Simon A. O’Rourke, USN Chaplain, 1918 Rev. Omer Valois, Retired Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford, 1958 Rev. Austin Nagle, SS.CC., 2017 Sept. 21 Rev. George Pager, Founder, Sacred Heart, New Bedford, 1882 Rev. George Jowdy, Pastor, Our Lady of Purgatory, New Bedford, 1938 Rev. William H. Crane, SM, Superior at National Shrine of Our Lady of Victories, Boston, 1988 Rev. Vincent Burke, S.V.D., 2017

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Around the Diocese There will be a Healing Mass at St. Andrew the Apostle Church, 19 Kilmer Avenue in Taunton, on Thursday, September 13. Holy Rosary begins at 6 p.m. with the Sacrament of Confession.

Holy Mass will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will include praying over the people individually and conclude with the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. All are welcome.

The Cape Cod chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life will hold its Annual Breakfast on Saturday, September 15 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Brewster.

The group will also host a second Pasta Dinner with entertainment to benefit youth scholarships for the Cape Cod Bus for Life trip to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, October 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Cape Parish in Brewster. For more information, call 508-291-0949.

Saint Anne’s School of Nursing Alumnae will hold their Annual Meeting and Election of Officers on September 16. Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. in the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation Novitiate Chapel, 3012 Elm Street in Dighton. A catered breakfast will follow at 10 a.m. Reservations can be made by calling Yvette Deschenes at 508-678-3007 on or before September 8. The cost is $15 per person and guests are welcome.

Holy Name Parish will be hosting a six-week study of Bishop Robert Barron’s new video series “The Mass” in the parish center at Holy Name School, 850 Pearce Street in Fall River, at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday evening beginning September 19 and ending October 24. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, call 508-678-7532.

St. Julie Billiart Parish, 494 Slocum Road in North Dartmouth, will host Septemberfest on Sunday, September 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The family fun event will include food, entertainment, crafters, games, raffles and more! Rain date will be Sunday, September 30. For more information, visit www. saintjulies.org/sep.

A one-day silent retreat entitled “Autumn Day of Silence with the Masters” will be held on Saturday, September 29 from 9:30 am. to 3:30 p.m. at the camphouse and property of St. John Neumann Parish, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown. Come spend a day taking in the teachings of St. Gregory of Nyssa, a fourth-century Cappadocian Father, theologian and mystic who explored the mysteries of the Sacred Trinity. Bring a bag lunch and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact Karen Howard at klhoward@aol. com or 508-947-0193.

St. Mary’s Parish, 106 Illinois Street in New Bedford, is having a Holiday Fair on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. All are welcome. For more information, call the rectory at 508-995-3593.

St. Anthony of Padua Church on Bedford Street in Fall River will host a recitation of the Holy Rosary and Litany with the Divine Mercy Chaplet every Monday evening at 6:15 p.m.

All are welcome. For more information, call the rectory at 508-673-2402.

To submit an event for consideration in The Anchor’s “Around the Diocese” listing, send the information by email to kensouza@anchornews.org

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Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ASSONET — St. Bernard’s Parish will have Eucharistic Adoration every Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed on the altar at the conclusion of 9 a.m. Mass and the church will be open all day, concluding with evening prayer and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John the Evangelist Church, North Main Street, Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Adoration Chapel at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

ATTLEBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.

Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, every First Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending at 5 p.m.

East Freetown — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neumann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).

EAST TAUNTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.

FAIRHAVEN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of Padua Church, on the corner of Bedford and Sixteenth streets, has Eucharistic Adoration accompanied by music and prayer every first Wednesday of the month from 6-7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Avenue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.

FALL RIVER — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.

FALL RIVER — St. Joseph’s Church has a Holy Hour every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m., with Benediction at 6:45 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Michael’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with Benediction at 5:30 p.m.

Falmouth — St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration each First Friday following the 7 a.m. Mass, with Benediction at 4:30 p.m.

HYANNIS — St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, 347 South Street, Hyannis, has Eucharistic Adoration from noon to 3 p.m., daily Monday through Friday.

MANSFIELD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Each First Friday Mass ends with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Adoration continues until Benediction at 5 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration is held every Thursday, with Confessions, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. James Church. Please use the side entrance.

NEW BEDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel Fridays from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple Benediction NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., ending with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

NORTH DIGHTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.

NORTH EASTON — A Holy Hour for Families including Eucharistic Adoration is held every Friday from 3-4 p.m. at The Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street.

NORTH EASTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Immaculate Conception Church Chapel on the first Wednesday of the month beginning after the 8:30 a.m. Mass, until 6:40 p.m. Those wishing to make a monthly commitment can sign up on the parish website at www.icceaston.org or call the parish office at 508-238-3232.

ORLEANS — St. Joan of Arc Parish, 61 Canal Road, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday starting after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending with Benediction at 11:45 a.m. The Sacrament of the Sick is also available immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 5 p.m.

Taunton — St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Taunton will host Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 9 a.m.

Mass and the St. Jude Novena, until 11:30, ending with Benediction. It will take place at Holy Rosary Chapel during the summer months.

WAREHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church takes place 9 a.m. Thursday through 7 p.m. Friday. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall. ~ PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ~

East Sandwich — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

NEW BEDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes.

All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

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