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Annual Red Mass honorees announced ~ Mass and celebrations on Sept.

24 will pay tribute to four members of the justice system.

legal profession, said Father Hession. The celebrations are held just as October begins in accord with the traditional and now the American principle of the opening of the court year.

"It is an ancient tradition that we are now celebrating for the fourth year in our diocese," Father Hession explained.

The Red Mass is so named because of the color of the vestments worn at the Mass of the Holy Spirit, Father Hession pointed out. "And it is the invocation of the Holy Spirit on people of all faiths, not just Catholics," he said.

The coveted awards are named for St. Thomas More, a 16th century English layman who was a lawyer and who was martyred for opposing the divorce of England's King Henry VIII and for refusing to renounce papal authority.

Designed specially for the diocese, the three-inch circular bronze medallion with enameled co"lors bears on the front an image of St. Thomas More and on the reverse an engraving of the recipient's name and date of presentation.

FALL RIVER - The committee planning the fourth annual Red Mass to honor four members of the justice system has announced this year's recipients ofthe prestigious St. Thomas More Award.

Following tradition, ajudge, a lawyer, court worker and an ecumenical recipient are honored at the Mass, which will be celebrated Sept. 24 at 3 p.m., in St. Mary's Cathedral by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., and at a banquet which follows at White's of Westport.

At the dinner and reception at White's the keynote speaker will be Chief Justice Suzanne V. Del Vecchio of the Massachusetts Superior Court.

According to Father Mark R. Hession, chairman of the Red Mass Planning Committee, those chosen to receive awards are: Judge James O'Neill, presiding justice of Judge O'Neill the Nantucket District Court; Attorney . A native of New Bedford, Judge James Kathleen A. Snow of Barnstable; Gloria M. O'Neill is the son of the late Dr. Walter J. ST. THOMAS MORE AWARD O'Neill and Elizabeth (Goodin) O'Neill, a Arruda of New Bedford, head administrative assistant of the Probation Department; and the ecunurse. He and his wife Maureen (O'Connor) menical recipient, Fall River District Court Judge Aileen O'Neill reside in Barnstable and attend Our Lady of Victory ParHirschman Belford. ish in Centerville and St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis. They The purpose of the Mass is to honor those who work in the Turn to page 13 - Red Mass

Popes, others beatified VATICAN CITY (CNS) - At a jubilee liturgy that followed weeks of controversy, Pope John Paul II beatified two very different popes: the universally popular John XXIII, who convened the Second Vatican Council, and Pius IX, who the pope said was "much loved, but also hated and slandered."

Celebrating Mass Sept. 3 in St. Peter's Square in front of about 80,000 people, the pope also declared as "blessed" French Father William Joseph Chaminade, founder of the Society of Mary religious order; Abbot Joseph Columba Marmion, an Irish-French Benedictine; and Italian Archbishop Tommaso Reggio, known for his service to the young and poor.

The ceremony brought together supporters of the five figures from every continent, who applauded as the pope pronounced the beatification decrees and as tapestry portraits of the new blesseds were unveiled. But the majority of the huge crowd - including pilgrims from Asia, South America and Africa - were there for Pope John XXIII. "He opened up the Church and gave it life," said Vietnamese Sister Maria Le, who has read the late pope's spiritual writings in recent years.

Father Eduardo Kirombo, a Burundian

priest who was a boy when Pope John died, said he is still known throughout Africa as a "man who listened, a man of the Holy Spirit, a man who trusted in God's work."

In a sermon interrupted several times by warm applause, the pope said Pope John had conquered the world with his simplicity of soul, his wisdom and his direct approach to people. The renewals he set in motion with Vatican II did not affect the Church's doctrine, but the way.of expressing it, he said. .The pope said Vatican IJ was a "prophetic intuition" of Pope John, opening a new page in the Church's history and a "season of hope" for the whole world.

In apparent response to those who have questioned the joining of the beatifications of Popes Pius and John, the pope said the two figures were more similar than commonly thought, especially on a spiritual and human level. He noted that Pope John thought highly of Pope Pius and wanted him beatified.

Addressing recent criticisms of Pope Pius, the pope made it clear that beatification, as the main preliminary step toward declaring someone's saintliness, was a judgment on that

person's spiritual virtues, not on the "particular historical options he carried out."

The saints are not exempt from human "limits and conditionings," he said.

Catholic, Protestant and Jewish groups had voiced disappointment with the beatification of Pope Pius, who in the 19th Turn to page 13 - Beatified

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THE VATICAN on a warm August night. (Anchor/Gordon photo)

World Youth Day: Memories for a lifetime

By MIKE

GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER - World Youth Day 2000 was amazing. Rome: Two million young people from around the world. Pope John Paul II. A hands-on history of the Catholic Church. The feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood between so many. A chance to reflect on our Catholic heritage - and to pray.

It was exciting and an experience I felt· privileged to have lived.

Three weeks ago I had the fortune to travel with more than 80 people from our diocese as they journeyed to Rome, the Eternal City, for what turned out to be a most successful World Youth Day celebration. It was filled with many highlights and moving moments for all of us.

I remember on the first day of our pilgrimage the enthusiasm, especially the young people whose excitement and anticipation was evident in their smiles and their eyes. I saw it when I talked to them and when they shared with one another on the plane what they looked forward to.

After unloading our bags at the hotel on the Tuesday morning, our group joined thousands of others in the streets of Rome as the pope opened the week's festivities.

There were people from other countries everywhere we walked and we made it a point to wave and greet those that passed us. We watched the Holy Father on a big screen in St. Peter's Square and young people were captivated by images of the 80-year-old pontiff. Some climbed speaker Turn to page 13 - Rome

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Sister Joseph Dolores Ashworth SUSC ,FALL RIVER - Holy Union Sister Joseph Dolores Ashworth, 91, of The Landmark, a former teacher, died here Sept. I. She was born Marion Ashworth in Fall River, a daughter of the late Joseph Ashworth and the late Mary (Foley) Ashworth.

She was educated in local schools and was a member of Immaculate Conception Parish. She entered the novitiate of the Holy Union Sisters on Jan. 8, 1928 and pronounced her final vows in 1935. . ",' She taught eIetrleilt;lfY' school '." -for..18' years in Taunton' and in Lawrence, ·~nd ,was the.superior of the Holy l[pipn. Communities in Taunton; Fall RiVer, New York ~ity anp I.6wi~ton, ;f,a. . . 'From 1952 to 1960 she was novice·mistressfor the Falt'River Province. She later taught in Tivef!.o,n, ~:I.; ~nq w~s II librar-

ian at St. Michael School, Fall River. She represented the Fall River Province at its General Chapter meeting in Tournai, Belgium in 1952 and also served as provincial <;:ouncilor.

After 53 years of active ministry, Sister Ashworth retired to the Sacred Heart Convent on Prospect Place before moving to The Landmark. In her retirement she visited area nursing homes and continued to be active in preparing and sendil1 g clothing contributions to the Holy Union Sisters working among the poor in Appalachia: Sis~er Joseph Dolores. is survived by nieces and nephews. She , was, a sis'ter of. the late ,Bertha, . Elizab~th;:El~a;, 'R'uth~ Grace, , Kathleen, >/John . ;and. ,Sister .z":: r· ., ) f : lrill'naculata Asnworth,SUSc. .

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FALL RIVER ""- Holy Union on Jan. 18, 1931 and pronounced, Sister Irene Marie Carob, 89, a her final vows lri"l938.· member of the Holy Union Sisters Sister Irene'taught elementary for 62 years', ,lied Sept. 1 at the . schooHor nearly 50 years,includCatholic Memorial Home here. ing Sacred Heart and Holy Name Born in Taunton, the former schools in Fall River; as well as in Aurore Y. Caron, she was the Cambridge; in Pawtucket, R.I., in daughter of the late Joseph c., Baltimore, Md., and in New York. and the late Antoinette (Poudrier) She retired in 1980 to the SaCaron. She attended St:. Jacques cred Heart Convent on ProsRect Grammar School in Taunton and Place before moving to the'Cathograduated from the Sacred Heart lic Memorial Home.

School of Education and In addition to her Holy Union Fordham University.

Sisters, she leaves nieces and Sister Irene entered the Novi- nephews. tiate of the Holy Union Sisters Her funeral Mass was celebrated Monday in St. Mary's Cathedral. Burial was in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

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'churches will begin Sept. 20 NORTH DARTMOUTHThe first in a series of five talks and discussions on the purpose of Christian churches will be held Sept. .20 at 7.p.m., in the Family Li.fe Center, 500 '.

Slocum Road, North Dartmouth.

Professor Emeritus Gabriel Fackre of Andover Newton Theological School will present a reflection on "Life

,in Communion,"oneof the and 23, and on Nov. 4.' chapters from the working The series is being cotext, "The Nature and Purpose sponsored by the Fall River of the Church," which will be Council of Churches, the Routilized during the series in man Catholic Diocese of Fall order to form a final draft.. .. River and the Inter-Church Other talks in the series Council of Greater New Bedwill be presente~ Oct. 2, 9, 16 ford.

In Your Prayers ,Please pray for the following priests during the coming week

Daily Readings Sept 11

1 Cor 5:1-8; Ps 5:5-6,7,12; Lk 6:6-11 Sept 12 1 Cor6:1-11; Ps 149:1-6,9; Lk 6:12-19 Sept 13 1 Cor 7:25-31; Ps 45:11-12,1417; Lk 6:20-26 Sept 14 Nm 21 :4b-9; Ps "78:1-2,34-38; Phil 2:6-11 ; In 3:13-17 Sept 15 1 Cor 9: 1619,22b-27; Ps. 84:3-6,8,12;Jn 19:25~27 or Lk 2:33-35 Sept 16 1 Cor 10:14-22; Ps116:12, 13,17-~8; Lk, 6:43-49 Sept,1 7 .Is 5,O:5-9a; P~, .

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Many Catholic students back' thanks to St. Mary's Fund

By JOHN E.

KEARNS JR. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF

DIOCESAN COMMUNICATIONS

FALL RIVER - The doors of Catholic schools across the diocese are open again this week welcoming first-time and returning students to a new year and a new grade.

For some of these students, entrance through those doors would not be possible without the financial assistance of the St. Mary's Education Fund.

The fund provides needbased scholarships to students at Catholic elementary and middle schools in the diocese, and this year 456 boys and girls are in classrooms because of the help.

In all, for thi s 2000-200 1 school year, the fund has disbursed $439,244 in tuition aid, with each student recipient receiving an average grant of $789.

The fund has also reserved money to address emergency tuition needs that come about during the course of the academic year due to unforeseen

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circumstances, such as the ill- Holy Family-Holy Name ness or death of a parent.

School in New Bedford knows "A godsend" is how one well the economic challenges longtime principal of a Catho- many parents face to make tulic school described the St. ition payments. "I am grateful Mary's Education Fund. Denita to the fund and parents are eterTremblay of St. Stanislaus nally grateful," she said.

School in Fall River recalled The St. Mary's Education how six different families ap- Fund was established by the proached her last winter with Fall River diocese in 1991 from concern that they would be un- proceeds of the sale of the able to meet tuition payments former St. Mary's Home in for this year. Each, with chil- New Bedford. Accrued interest dren already in middle grades, on the fund's principal base and did not want their children to the proceeds from two annual have to transfer to a different fund-raisers, a Fall Dinner at school. Tremblay told them of White's of Westport and a sumthe St. Mary's Education Fund mertime social on Cape Cod, and advised them to apply for provide the financial backing help. This September finds all for the scholarships each year.

Along with tuition assisof those students returning to St. Stan's, their families having tance, the fund also provides a met the criteria for tuition as- per capita 'allotment of $4 per student to elementary and sistance.

"Most parents make sacrifices middle schools at a contributo send their kids to Catholic tion of 10 percent of yearly schools'," she said, "but sometimes , available funds to secondary emergencies and unexpected schools for their scholarship things come up and money can be programs. stretched only so far. St. Mary's Scholarships from the fund Fund gives families a reprieve in are awarded solely on the basis of financial need. There were these cases."

Cecilia Felix, principal of 731 elementary school students

. who applied for aid from the funa' this~year, an increase of' 214 over last year.

To determine who should receive aid and how much, the diocese utilizes a private company based in Minneapolis, Tuition Aid Data Services, to evaluate the scholarship applications.

Using TADS, parents are required to complete a detailed application form including information on family size, household structure, income, employment, expenses, assets and debts. Tax forms, W-2 records, and many other relevant documentation must accompany the form.

TADS then enters this information into a computer pro-

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"The TADS forms are the fairest way to do it," said Felix, "and I spend a lot of time with parents explaining the application process."

There are 24 elementary and middle schools in the Fall River diocese. But that number will increase in the future as plans continue to open new ones in Mansfield, South Yarmouth and in the upper Cape Cod area.

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The schedule is as follows: Barnstable, Chatham, Dennis, Harwich and Yarmouth, C3TV-cable channel 17, Sept. 15,22 and

29 at noon; Dartmouth, Fall River and New Bedford, cable channel 9, Sept. 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7 p.m; Falmouth, cable channel 13, Sept. 9 at 10:30 a.m.; Mashpee, cable channel 17, Sept. 13 and 20 at 8 p.m.; New Bedford, cable channel 98, Sept. 12 and 19 at 10 a.m.; Westport, cable channel 17, Sept. 10 at noon.

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PHENOMENAL - Father Marcelo Rossi, the popUlar priest from Brazil, attracted more than 3,000 cheering people, to St. Anne's Church, Fall, River on Labor pay, where he preached, led prayers anq sang with the overflowing crowd. The former gymnast and physical education teacher who blends music and sometim.es even exercises in his ministry, regularly draws thousands to his Masses in Sao Paulo. He is sp popular that a live CD of one of his services has become the best selling Brazilian CDs of.alrtime, with more than three million copies sold. His visit to Fall River was sponsored by the Northeast Hispanic Catholic Center and followed a Mass concelebratep by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., and many of the priests who work in the Portuguese and Brazilian apostolates in the diocese. (Photo courtesy of Vito~ Nobrega) . '

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.The changing face of America Caught up in the business of the good times, many people have failed to notice the changing face ofAmerica. A recent The New York limes report reflected that in the last year alone immigrant workers jumpedto 15.7 rrullion, up 17 percent frol;11 three years earlier. Further analysis of this study estimates that almost five million are illegal immigrants.

The booming economy has brought tremendous pressures to the marketplace: Both skilled and unskilled workers are needed to fulfill the demands of the times. Our unemployment rate is at an alltime low.

Experts in the field feel that the demand for immigrant labor will continue to surge. Unlike the early 1990s, employers are desperate for help anq immigrants have no trouble finding jobs.

Studies have shown that most immigrants do not go back to their native land. In America they stay and become rooted in the social order. The fastest growing groups are not from traditional Western European countries. The common market has become boom land and Europe is experiencing unprecedented wealth and development. It is the poornations ofthe world family that are populatingArrierica. People from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, the many countries of the former Soviet Union and the lands ofAsia are pouring into America.

They flee the oppression of poverty. The United States is still viewed as a place of opportunity arid hope. .

Sad to say, many immigrants' dreams become nightmares. To be quite blunt, many are simply exploited by capitalistic greed. They get the jobs that are on the lowest rung of the ladder. Often underpaid, they are maintaining American living standards by providing services that the established population refuses to perform on a daily basis.

Discrimination is rampant. Bias and bigotry once again raise their ugly heads to keep the new people in their place and out-of-sight.

New immigrants also bring with them many challenges. First and foremost, there is language. Most do not speak English. The inability to communicate brings with it a host of problems from low salaries to social services. Because of the current economic abundance, many cannot find decent housing, schools become overcrowded, poverty rates increase and health services become nonexistent. There are many areas of concern that will have to be challenged in order to help the new immigrant achieve the American dream.

Fortunately, the Church is in the forefront of reaching out and offering a welcome hand. More than 50 percent of the new people are Catholic in culture. This is far more than being merely nominal. Religion permeates their lives. This is a reality that should not be over. looked. Those who ignore this reality in our own Church should see the vitality of the many evangelical sects which reach out to serve the religious needs ofimmigrants. It is imperative that Catholics in America who have achieved the unique possibilities the nation has to offer remember not only their own immigrant roots but also reach out as a viable catalyst in the immigration process. We should always remember that they have a right to a piece of the pie.

To be sure, history itself speeds along on so rapid a course that people can scarcely keep abreast of it. The human race today is passing from a rather static concept of reality to a more dynamic evolutionary one. As a result, there has arisen a new series of difficulties and problems that demand a new effort of analysis and synthesis. This process should be ongoing lest too many people are left on the roadside because of inaction and neglect.

The Statue of Liberty is still a visible sign of welcome in New York harbor. It should be the same in every American city, town and village.

The poor, tired and homeless are America's greatest hope for our tomorrows.

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-Wi II the election year yield true progress?

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are promising that under their leadership we will have a more prosperous future.

Social Security will be secure.

Health care coverage will improve, and it will become less expensive and more accessible. The development of a better educational system will be a priority.

Furthermore, women's rights and minorities will be better respected.

People living in poverty will have more opportunities for good jobs.

Workers' rights and pensions will be protected. Government bureaucracy will be trimmed, and taxes will be lowered.

The list of promises is unending and covers all the bases but one, the promise to make true progress in the future.

When we hear the word "progress," we may think of scientific and economic advances that have improved our quality of life.

For example, greater understanding of the role of human genes is helping us fight disease. Faster and safer cars and airplanes propel us to our destinations, and computers, the Internet and cellular world have trans-

ported us into the space age in our homes. On the economic front, the rising stock market is considered progress par excellence.

Wonderful as such advances are, they do not represent progress per' se. Progressreaches much deeper to a depth I believe we should be addressing not only in the presidential campaigns, but everywhere and all the time.

True progress is not concerned primarily with improving路our financial situation, nor is it about material and physical gains. Rather, its principal concern is improving the human spirit.

We need to ask how deep our faith is in God, ourselves, each other and in our leaders. Do we have a strong sense of solidarity?

To evaluate our progress, we also need to ask how much faith we have in our political system and the promises it holds out to us. As we begin the new millennium, has our commitment to our nation's ideals increased or have we become more skeptical? How much of our time and energies are we willing to invest in improving our society? Furthermore, do we believe we can overcome the obstacles that hinder us from making society better?

Most important, we need to reflect not only upon our individual faith; we need to ask how deep the nation's faith in God is.

Whether it be individual progress or the progress ofacountry, progress is founded on faith, along with the commitment and solidarity it generates. Progress also greatly depends on our ability to counter skepticism.

Criticism we always will haveand need - because it helps us to refine our ideas and intentions. Skepticism, on the other hand, is solidarity's enemy because it discourages us from creativity and the insights it gives birth to. Worse, skepticism dampens our desire to do our civic duty by inducing us to sit on the sidelines and complain about all the wrongs of our society.

These days I hear more and more people saying they aren't going to vote in November. They feel that the candidates can't be trusted and don't believe anything will change after the elections.

I hope these people .are in the minority. If they aren't, the greatest scientific, technological and economic breakthroughs we make will amount to nothing because the one thing that counts most in terms of progress will be missing: avital faith.

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No points. no closing costs choose candidates who have And McDonald contends that ports," she added.

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Application taken on phone ing focus put on respect McDonald said he supports I'm doing a good job."

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Although the 1973 Roe vs. Somerset, she says she favors the Boston and Providence law firms Wade decision made abortions pro-choice stance of allowing the for nearly five years before relegal, the U.S. bishops have sol- women the choice whether to signing "just to run for office in emnly echoed Pope John Paul II's seek an abortion, but says she is this election." reiteration of the Church's teach- solidly against the death sentence He says that Menard has had ing that "every human person is and will again vote against it if it 22 years of "politics as usual" and created in the image and likeness comes up. that she has failed to move the of God ... we have a duty to deAsked if she considered her- proposed tr~in link to Boston, the fend human life in all its stages self Pro-Life, Menard candidly completion of the Brightman answered, "No." She also said she Street Bridge and more equitable and in every condition."

Although human life, family personally favors birth control. distribution of public housing life, social justice and solidarity "But then again, it's a choice that throughout the state. are said by Church officials to be many of my friends also have to "Fall River should not become the key areas for reflection by make. the dumping ground for the hous"When I say I am pro-choice ing problems of other communiAmerican Catholics in choosing - Rev. Horace J. Travassos, candidates, defense of human life I like to explain," said Menard. "I ties," he said, adding, "and we is the only foundation on which have said for my whole public have one of the largest waste Pastor all else needs be built or all else career that no one cares more dumps in the state's master plan is in jeopardy of collap'se in light about unborn children than I do. of physician-assisted suicide, eu- But I truly feel it is the person's thanasia and the death penalty, right to choose ... taking into consideration their own God, their they said.

At issue for Catholics in Fall own religion, their own beliefs, River, Somerset, Swansea, Free- their own doctor, and make that town and Westport is the race for decision in that way." the state Senate seat in the First As for physician-assisted suiBristol District between Sen. Joan cide, Menard says she hasn't Menard of Somerset and challenger thought too much about it and has --------+------1. Barry McDonald of Fall River. not had to make any decisions on Both are Catholics and Democrats. that. "Personally, my mom lived Because there is no Republican to be 95, and she was .sick for candidate, the winner of next three weeks. I was offended by Looking for a very safe, very secure place some suggestions that she be opweek's primary wins the seat. for your savings? Consider a Certificate of Both candidates consented to erated on and all I wanted was for an interview with The Anchor this her to rest in peace. I don't know Deposit at Citizens-Union Savings Bank.

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California residents angered

by Catholic hospital's closing LONG BEACH, Calif. (CNS) - Long Beach residents are mobilizingto oppose the closure of Long Beach Community Medical Center.

Catholic Healthcare West, which runs the small 278-bed hospital, said it is planning to shut down the facility Oct. 2 after reporting that it had posted $23 million in losses over the last 18 months.

Despite the fact that Catholic Healthcare West and its affiliate hospitals are not owned or operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, the archdiocese received numerous phone calls in mid-August from people protesting the planned closure of the Long Beach facility.

The calls likely were prompted by full-page ads appearing in the Long Beach Press-Telegram newspaper. The ads, sponsored by the Save Our Neighborhood Hospital coalition, urged residents to call public officials, Catholic Healthcare West's southern headquarters and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony.

Church officials are responsible for ensuring that Catholic-owned and affiliated hospitals follow the Pro-Life teachings of the Catholic Church. But the Church does not have jurisdiction over the internal management and financial decisions of managed health care pro, viders like Catholic Healthcare West. , "People are feeling the very painful emotions of losing their community hospital," said Holy Cross Sister Carolita Hart, director of the Office of Health Affairs for the Los Angeles Archdiocese, who has been fielding phone calls from many concerned Long Beach residents.

At issue is the amount of hospital equipment coalition members claim is being moved to Catholic

Healthcare West-owned St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, about four miles west of Long Beach Community Medical Center. The coalition claims that so much has been moved already, that the hospital is effectively being dismantled piece by piece.

Joyce Hawthorne, spokeswoman for Catholic Healthcare West, confirmed that the hospital's neonatal unit and its heart center have been moved to St. Mary's. She added that the rest of the hospital's equipment has been tagged for inventory, not for removal.

Hawthorne told The Tidings, archdiocesan newspaper of Los Angeles, that moving the neonatal unit and heart center - two of the hospital's costliest departments - was done to cut expenses. She said the hospital's operating losses are more than $1 million per month.

Dr. Robert Pugash, president of the Save Our Neighborhood Hospital coalition, said the removal of hospital equipment would make it harder to sell the facility to a prospective buyer.

"No question the hospital was losing money," he said. But Catholic Healthcare West "never made a concrete, bona fide effort to save the hospital."

In addition to financial concems, Pugash said the removal of impor, tant emergency medical equipment from Long Beach Community Medical Center could increase the amount of time it takes for critically ill patie'1ts to be transported to one of the area's two other hospitals.

Sister Hart said the problems in Long Beach reflect a larger national hospital crisis provoked in large part by cuts in Medicare funding by the Federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The cuts resulted in reduced Medicare reimbursements to hospitals.

As you point out from my previous column, Church law presently prohibits membership in Freemasonry.

Their principles and activities are seen by the Vatican to be, in several ways, "irreconcilable" with Catholic doctrine and practice.

Women, of course, are not eligible for membercountry, your friend's situation is not uncommon. First, ship in the Masons. The groups you mention, and the it is possible, with a priest who is willing to work with DeMolay association for boys, are adjunct affiliations, her, to confess sins sufficiently without speech, as many and are not formally part of the Masons.

A 1985 background report for the American bishmust do who, for example, cannot speak.

By other signs as well, she can acknowledge which ops on the Church's relationship with Masonic groups obligations or commandments have been violated and noted that, while the possibility of scandal may exist, the fact remains that her desire for forgiveness.

It is even possible for ...- ......---~-----r:~=-iiiiiiii::;;:." women and young people in these allied groups do her to confess through an Ques ons not swear Masonic oaths interpreter (Canon 990). and and are not considered Ask her to talk with a Masons. priest. Most of them have They are, therefore, not had experience with t h i s n S W e r s subject to the canonical kind of need and can arBy Father prohibitions that apply to range a way for her to reJ. Dietzen John actual members. ceive this sacrament.

On the other hand, the Q. Several months ....- - - - - - - - - - report continues, "this ago your column claimed that, while Catholics are not permitted to , would not mean that pastors would encourage such ,join the Masons, that prohibition does not apply affiliation.... Membership in Masonic-related organito women's auxiliary Masonic groups like the East- zations such as the Eastern Star should be discouraged." ern Star and Job's Daughters.

This should answer your question. According to 1\vo priests have told me that is not true. Catholics are not allowed to join even these other organi- general Church policy today, participation in these Masonic-related groups is discouraged. zations. Which is true? (Oklahoma) A free brochure answering questions CathoA. I explained in that column that, according to the principles of Catholic Church law, any regulation that lics ask about receiving the holy Eucharist is availrestricts the right ofa person must be interpreted strictly. able by sending a stamped, self-addressed enveThis means that such regulations, which for ex-, lope to Father John Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, IL ample prohibit Catholics from engaging in certain 61651.

Questions m~y be sent to Father Dietzen at the activities or groups, must not be extended to cases other' ' same address,or e-mail: iidietzen@aol.com. than those actually expressed in them (Canon 36).

Q. My neighbor is from Vietnam and is not at all comfortable with English. However, she is Catholic and wants to go to confession before she receives Communion. What can she do? (pennsylvania) A. With the large number of immigrants to our

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School bells are ringing again, and young ones dation." are back getting the essential learning that will be Somehow, I find comments like these offensive. their foundation as they one day take up the job of Maybe that's because I always felt that having chilkeeping the world going. dren is very much in line with what the Creator exAs usual, in the month or so before school doors pects of us. Maybe it's because I gave birth to six opened for another year, media outlets ran stories babies, not to validate myself, but because I wanted that had to do with various aspects of child rearing. to affirm life in the best way any of us can, by being This year, to my surprise, a co-creator with the Lord. Maybe it's because I found a story focused _ - - - - - - - - - differently - not on the I got to know so many value of our children and wonderful parents over the need to protect them, the decades who worked but rather on what a' nuihard to earn what was sance it is that people needed to support their persist oh- having these children and never comBy Antoinette Bosco pesky little ones. plained - because they The story, a long did this for love. cover article in The New L..-----------L....1._..f..__J-1 The New York Times York Times magazine commented on the letsection (July 23, 2000) by Lisa Belkin, pointed out ters: "The real problem, as more than a few saw"it, that there is a growing backlash against children in is parents who spoil their kids." But what is "spoilour country today. The interviewer found people all ing"? over who thought ofchildren as sct:earning brats, who I'd define that as drowning them in materialism, felt they were doing society a favor by remaining punishing them excessively, subjecting them to parchildless and who 'resented any accommodations in ent-deprivation and depriving them of any religious! the workplace given to people with children. spiritual richness. I'm sure there are parents who spoil Two weeks later, in the letters section, The New their children in these ways. I'm just glad that I don't York Times reported that the article had brought "an know any of them. avalanche of maiL" The letters they ran stressed this I am really tired of parent bashing. Being a parent bottom line: It's the parents, not the children, who is a hard, responsible job, with not much of a supare the real problem. As one person responding wrote, port system around to lend a hand now and then. ''There is no backlash against children. There is a I've always said that parenting is the only profession backlash ag;linst obnoxious parents who demand where you get the degree first and take all the courses special treatment because of their children and feel ' later. threatened by those adults who haven't chosen to Yet, if no one took that hard plunge, we wouldn't have kids." have a future. We have our permission to parent Another letter writer expressed hope that parents straight from Jesus, who told us: Children? That's read the article, "so that they will understand that what heaven's made of. . their bundle of joy may be something quite different It's not a bad thing ,to bring a little bitof heaven to to people who don't need that kind of love for vali- Earth. Who does that? In a word, "parents"!

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Devotional Pradice Most Catholic adults say devotional practices, such as praying the rosary or ' .

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Me? A hearing problem?

One of the nice things about having been involved in commercial diving for a number of years is that the gradually diminishing ability to hear what others are saying can be blamed on the underwater work and not aging.

Men are particularly bad at acknowledging effects of aging even if we have to tell people we meant to wear our bathrobe to work - as a statement of protest. Or that we shuffle up the wheelchair ramp at church on Sundays as a statement of solidarity with the

physically challenged.

The same thing with the slippery slope of hearing loss. I

The offbeat world of Uncle Dan

By Dan Morris

knew I might have something to be concerned about when my youngest son came in the house and turned off the oven timer bell and asked me why I hadjust

let it keep buzzing.

I thought it was the ballgame on the radio and that we were ahead.

"You really should have your hearing checked," my friend Winston laughed at me the other day after I answered the phone because my digital watch was beeping.

"Why would I want to start wearing an earring at this stage of the game?"

I asked him.

He shook his head. "Hearing, not earring," he said. "You know, they say those little

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., September 8, 2000 Miracle Ear things work pretty well."

"Is that the stuff that makes tomatoes grow the size of beach balls?" I asked. "Is what's-hisname still advertising that on TV? You know, what's his name? The actor guy who was on that TV program and he kind of looks like that other actor who was in love with one of the Hepburn girls and was in that movie where he was a priest?

But that's not the guy. The guy who sells that stuff that grows huge tomatoes just looks like him. What's his name?"

Winston blinked. "Uh, I think you are talking about Miracle Grow, not Miracle Ear." "Michael who?" I asked.

Winston shook his head again. "Not Michael," he yelled at me, "Miracle."

"Miracle?" I repeated.

"Yes, yes, yes," he nodded go~fily.' "Miracle, miracle,

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I was confused. "I don't remember any actors at all named Miracle - first name or last.

Maybe you're thinking of Magic Johnson."

He slapped his forehead.

"When was the last time you had your ears checked?"

"I had it changed last week at one of those drive-through quickie-oil-Iube places," I told him. "Why would you ask that?"

He leaned toward me and yelled again, "You know, I think all those years of water pressure probably thickened your ear drums."

"Could very well be," I said.

"So, why don't you turn up the stove so I can hear the game better?"

Comments are welcome.

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Pope calls organ transplants step forward, outlines guidelines

By JOHN NORTON

While the Church could not make technical pronouncements, he said, the use of the "brain death" ROME - Calling organ transplants a "great step test did not appear to threaten respect for human forward in science's service of man" and a "com- dignity.

The pope also distinguished between "clfnical plex and delicate theme," Pope John Paul II outlined moral guidelines for the procedure and for death" and the actual death of a patient, which he defined as the moment the soul leaves the body future transplant research.

The pope condemned any commercialization or "an event which no scientific technique or empiridiscrimination in human organ distribution, stressed cal method can identify directly."

"The 'criteria' for ascertaining death used by the need for informed donor consent and cautiously endorsed brain death as an indicator of a potential medicine today should not be understood as the technical-scientific determination of the exact moment organ donor's death.

Speaking last week to more than 4,000 transplant of a person's death, but as a scientifically secure experts from some 60 countries, the pope also en- means of identifying the biological signs that a person has indeed died," he couraged related research into new therapies, insaid. cluding the use of artificial or animal organs.

Noting that patients The 18th International Congress of the Transwaiting for organ transplantation Society met Aug. 27-Sept. 1 in Rome. plants far outnumber doWhile hailing progress in transplant technology, nors, the pope said priority the pope said such procedures must always respect should be determined "on human dignity. the basis of immunological "Every medical procedure performed o"n the and clinical factors" in orhuman person is subject to limits: not just the der to maintain respect for limits of what is technically possible, but also the intrinsic value of each limits determined by respect for human nahuman person. ture itself, understood in its fullness," he said.

The pope encouraged Emphasizing that the human body is further research into new not "a mere complex of tistherapies, like the transsues, organs and funcplantation into humans of tions," the pope con, animal organs, a process demned "any procedure J_ which tends to commerknown as "xenotranscialize human organs or to POPE JOHN Paul" listens at .a con- plantation." To be morally consider them as items of ference on transplants and clOning re- acceptable, the animal orexchange or trade" as morcently in Rome. The pope called organ gan ~must not impair the ally unacceptable. transplants a "great step forward in integrity of the psycho"To use the body as an science's service of man." (CNS photo logical or genetic identity of the person receiving it" '~bj~ct' is to violate the from Reuters) dlgmty of the human perand must not expose the ;. son," he s a i d . ; . .1 . recipient to inordiriate physical risks, he said.

Informed consent from the organ donor and the Citing the lack of organs for donation, the pope recipient is a necessary ethical requirement, he said, said those who choose to donate their organs help because it ensures the "human 'authenticity' of such to build up "a genuine culture of life." a decisive gesture."

"Here lies precisely the nobility of the gesture, a The pope also addressed medical procedures for gesture which is a genuine act of love. It is not just determining an organ donor's death, which he said a matter of giving away something which belongs was "one of the most debated issues in I::ontempo- to us but of giving something of ourselves," he said. rary bioethics" and a cause of "serious concerns in "There is a need to instill in people's hearts, esthe minds of ordinary people." pecially in the hearts of the young generati.on, a He noted that medical personnel have increas- genuine and deep appreciation of the need for brothingly used cessation of brain activity rather than erly love, a love that can find expression in the destopped heartbeat and breathing to ascertain death. cision to become an organ donor," the pope said.

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SISTER OF St. Joseph Baya Clare stands with a statue of Snoopy she and Sister Mary Hasbrouck made for a tribute to the late "Peanuts" cartoonist, Charles Schulz in St. Paul, Minn., his hometown. (CNS photo by Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spiri~

Snoopy statue welcomes' students to Catholic college in St. Paul

By DAWN GIBEAU CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE ST. PAUL, Minn. - At least one of 101 Snoopy statues decoratfrig St. 'Pautthesedays is a college graduate - and of a Catholic college to boot.

The Snoopy statue named "Commencing Celebration," which welcomes students to the College of St. Catherine campus in St. Paul, was painted by St. Joseph Sister Baya Clare.

She and her assistant, Sister Mary Hasbrouck, spent a combined 40 hours working on him at the June paint-off at St. Paul's RiverCentre.

The College of St. Catherine Snoopy carries a diploma and a sign, "Celebrate Worlds of Possibility." Painted globes adorn his acrylic apparel, which is purple and gold, the school colors. Even the back of his head sports a globe.

Sister Baya works in the college library and is pursuing a master's degree in theology with an emphasis on art as theology.

Although she has "not much education in art," she said, she is taking undergraduate studio art classes and in May had a showing of her "threadwork." She describes it as free-form, original embroidery.

One day soon thereafter, she was called to the office of the college president, Immaculate Heart

of Mary Sister Andrea Lee. Sister Baya's drawing of the campus in medieval mapmaker's style hangs above the college president's desk. It was a gift to Sister Andrea from the St. Paul province Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

Sister Baya wondered why she was called to the president's office until, when she arrived, she was asked, "How do you feel about Snoopy? Would you like to design one?"

She was willing to try and submitted two designs, of which "Commencing Celebration" was one. The experience of designing and painting Snoopy was "a blast, one of the most fun things I've done," she said. It also motivated her to choose sculpture for her studio art course this fall.

Her Snoopy, which the college paid a $4,100 fee to sponsor, will remain on campus until late September. Then, with all the other Snoopys, it will move downtown, where all will be auctioned.

Proceeds from the auction will be used to fund a permanent Peanuts sculpture in Rice Park, she said, and - what she especially appreciates - to endow a chair of illustration at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul.

The statues are part of a citywide tribute to the late cartoonist Charles Schulz, who grew up in St. Paul.

Phoenix bishop blasts newspaper for '.hate ad' ~ Advertising executive

later offers apology.

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PHOENIX Phoenix Bishop Thomas 1. O'Brien was incensed about what he called a - "hate ad" directed at Catholics that ran in a recent edition of the Arizona Republic, Phoenix's daily newspaper.

The full-page ad, placed by the Sweetwater 7th Day Adventist Association, referred to the Catholic Chu~h as a beast and the pope as the Antichrist. It was headlined "Earth's Final Warning - What is the Mark of the Beast?"

The Sweetwater 7th Day Adventists are from Athens, Tenn., and describe themselves as "not affiliated with the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists."

In a letter to Phoenix Catholics, which the bishop asked to be read at all weekend Masses, he said he was "shocked -and appalled" that the newspaper chose to run the advertisement.

By taking money for the ad, the bishop said, the newspaper "became a willing participant in this anti-Catholic campaign and responsible for spreading this message of bigotry against our people throughout the state ofArizona."

Bishop O'Brien said he called executives at the newspaper to demand an apology. At first, executives responded that they were exercising their FirstAmendment rights in running the ad, but they later agreed to apologize.

In a more recent edition, the Republic ran a letter to readers from David Alley, vice president

of advertising, headlined "Offensive ad needed additional scrutiny."

In it, Alley said his staff generally reviews ads containing controversial content. "In this case, not enough people were brought into the conversation," he wrote.

He said his staffdoesn't intend for ads to create ill will. "Unfortunately, this ad offended a lot of good people," he wrote. "For that, we are sorry."

Bishop O'Brien said he was grateful the Republic agreed to apologize for the ad. "We must be forever vigilant to protect the rights of all whenever a message of bigotry or intolerance finds its way into the media," he said. "In this case the target was Roman Catholics - tomorrow it could be Muslims, Jews or other .Christians."

Campaign against assisted suicide unveiled as proponents gather By

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cide would pose unnecessary and to-die organization in the United unmanageable dangers to patients States, with more than 27,000 BOSTON - With their new with disabilities and terminal con- members in chapters across the "Take my hand ... not my life" ad- ditions, distort the goals ofthe health country. vertisement as a backdrop, members care professions, and stigmatize At the press conference, Massaof Massachusetts Citizens For Life those deemed eligible for suicide aid chusetts Citizens for Life president launched what they called a crucial as less worthy of protection," said R.T. Neary said assisted-suicide procampaign against those who would the coalition's statement. moters do little more than manipu-:.,.......,,.......--.,,._ late the elderly and the sick attempt to bring physician- .--assisted suicide to the Cominto believing that death is monwealth. their most desirable option.

The launching ofthe new "Death has become a marketable commodity," he ad campaign, which will run on buses, trains and in newssaid. papers throughout MassaDr. Richard Fenigsen, a retired Dutch cardiologist chusetts, came just a few days before the Hemlock who witnessed the progress Society and the World Fedof publicly sanctioned eueration of Right to Die Sothanasia in the Netherlands cieties brought their 10th '_ and renounced his memberAnnual World Conference ship in the Royal Dutch Soon Assisted Dying to Bosciety of Medicine because ton last week. of it, agreed.

He said assisted suicide "You can find some of the very best medical care poses a greater threat than in the world light here in promise because medical diBoston," said Dr. Mildred agnosis for those with hopeFay Jefferson, a founding less illnesses prove wrong in member ofthe national right 20 to 40 percent ofcases, acto life movement, at the cording to the findings of State House press confereight studies. ence. "This is the very last "Yet, such acts will be leplace that the death peddlers gal if the law permitting asshould appear trying to sell sisted suicide is passed," he their cynical social killing said. agenda."

The Massachusetts ProOregon is the only state Life group will run its ad in with a physician-assisted MARY DRAHOS and R.T. Neary, president the Boston Herald and in dying law, although others of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, speak in more than 40 bus routes and are considering it. In Mas- opposition to the 10th annual World Confer~ subway systems in the Bossachusetts, there is currently ton area at a cost of di 1 . l ' b ence on Assisted Dying that took place in Bosno pen ng egIs auon, ut S D h $30,000. in nearby Maine a physi- ton ept. 1-3. ra os said supporters of asThe ad features a baby's cian-assisted suicide refer- sisted suicide are advocates of "hopeless- hand reaching across to an endum is on the ballot this ness." (CNS photo by Peter Smith, The Pilo~ elderly person's finger with fall. . the words: "Oppose AborMassachusetts Citizens for Life, Physician-assisted suicide oppo- tion andAssisted Suicide" across the the Massachusetts Catholic Confer- nents believe euthanasia organizers top and ''Take my hand ... not my cnce, the Massachusetts Medical chose Boston for the conference to life" on the bottom. The ads will run Society and the Massachusetts lend support to the effort in Maine, until Sept. 28.

Nurses Association are among a 25- and to push for its acceptance in Mary Drahos, who has battled member coalition which releaSed a Massachusetts. both multiple sclerosis and cancer, joint statement in late August oppos-Hundreds were expected to de- hopes people get the message. "Life ing the Sept. 1-3 conference on as- scend in Boston for the conference. is a gift," said the Medfield woman, sisted dying.

Founded in 1980, the Hemlock So- and "we cannot take it upon OUf''The legalization of assisted sui- ciety is the oldest and largest right- selves to kill ourselves."

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Georgetown University's Jesuit community names new rector recently an associate professor of systematic theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., where he served for eight years as the school's academic dean. From 1982-1988, he was rector of the Weston Jesuit community.

WASHINGTON (CNS) Jesuit Father Brian McDermott is the new rector of the Jesuit community at Washington's Georgetown University, where he will serve as spiritual leader for about 65 Jesuits who live on campus.

Father McDermott succeeds Jesuit Father William Byron, former president of The Catholic University of America. Father Byron had been rector of the Jesuit community for the past six years and is now pastor of Holy Trinity Parish in Washington.

"One of the things that I look forward to is helping the Georgetown University Jesuit community focus on its mission," said Father McDermott.

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By GREG MCCANN CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE SAGINAW, Mich. - Stewardship should not be seen as raising money, but as living a godly life, according to a nationally known priest.

"We need to set our time and talents aside for God," Msgr. Thomas McGread, a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, Kan., told more than 250 participants from throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. "We seem to have plenty of time for everything else."

Msgr. McGread spoke about his stewardship work in the Wichita diocese at this year's Stewardship Conference at the Saginaw diocese's Center for Ministry.

The conference was sponsored by the diocesan Office of Stewardship and Development.

Ordained in Ireland in 1953 for the Diocese of Wichita, Msgr. McGread developed his ideas about stewardship from the writings of Fathers David Sullivan and Joe Jennings of the Mobile Archdiocese.

He changed the concept of stewardship from a program to a "way of life," emphasizing the spirituality and the importance of using our time and talents to fur-

ther our direct relationship with God and help extend God's kingdom on earth.

In 1985, at the request of the bishop, he extended his stewardship "way of life" from his parish to the whole diocese. As a result, the diocese is now funded by United Catholic Stewardship, to which each parish contributes a tithe of their income each month. Under this program, the diocese has no special collections or assessments.

Msgr. McGread said people need to build a relationship with God and that can be done through prayer and reading Scripture.

"We need to get acquainted with God and we do that with the Bible," he said. "Let's open and start reading it."

By acquainting themselves with God, Msgr. McGread said people will discover how much God loves them and that the best way to serve God is to serve one another.

That is why stewardship is so important, he said.

Msgr. McGread said everyone will one day have toanswer to God on how they used their time and talents on earth. "How did you spend your time on earth?" he asked.

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The value of "working clean," he added, was that "you always felt good after the show that you didn't have to resort to shock."

HOLLYWOOD - The man texts that dealt specifically With, the life of the Church and the life of some regard as one of the classiCHICAGO - In October society. Among the issues treated est Catholic comic actors work1996, Cardinal Joseph L. are peacemaking, the need for a ing today, Bob Newhart, will Bernardin of Chicago was asked consistent ethic of life, health care, get his due sometime this winto consider compiling some of his Catholic-Jewish dialogue and the ter with an A&E cable chan-· "We don't need to dig for nel "Biography" hour looking major texts for future publication. Common Ground initiative. dirt to make the show inThe subject came up again the In a foreword to the book, Car- at his life and career. No date teresting." week before he died in November dinal Roger M. Mahony of Los has been set for the documentary. of that year.

Angeles says what is most striking "AI, you'll have to do that for about these writings is their proNewhart, speaking to teleHe admits, though, that televivision writers in Hollywood, elicme," he told Precious Blood.Father foundly personal tone.

Alphonse Spilly. It's no wonder, "Authenticity rings through ev- ited laughs when he said his life sion comedy has grown more coarse since he starred in "The then, Father Spilly says, that "it's a ery one of his words," he wrote. was "frighteningly boring."

Still, "it's a great source of sat- Bob Newhart Show" and Father Spilly believes the homilies will be the most isfaction to (have) people come "Newhart" on TV. "I think you're popular part of the book. Ar- and say, 'Thank you very much always pushing the parameters of the field," Newhart said. ranged according to the li- for the laughter.'"

Newhart recalled one plot that Newhart gets the "class" tag ~rgical year, some 85 homilies were chosen for publi- applied to him because he ·has was being con~idered for "The never used foul language in his Bob Newhart Show" in· the eaily cation. . "All his homilies were' act, either in nightclubs or on the 1970s in which he and his wife, tailored to fit the specific oc- . screen. "That was by- choice," he played by Suzanne' Pl~shette, casion and the particular parish where he was speak-' ing," said Father Spilly. "So: many of the" homilies s~­ lected we~e pr~ached at the cathedral - they ,are more gt:neric.~: .

But no matter what the occasion or the subject of . .the talk, Cardinal :8ernardin .' ,,:, - was-"a-real wordsmith,'! ac" cording to Father Spilly.

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Sometimes the cardinal would a long endeavor, but a labor of love." , i, remind his assistant to "read the text Father Spilly, who was Cardinal aloud to ,be sure his tongue didn't Bernardin's speciaJLassistant for 12 trip over words." The trouble was, years, spent more than,three years FatherSpilly laughed, "we had difre-reading some .450 major talks ferent tongues."

The collection also shows that and 1,600 homilies to choose what he calls "the essential Bernardin."

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"Cardinal Bernardin played a The first volume includes offi- significant leadership role in the . cial documents issued during the Catholic Church, and I'm concar~inal's tenure as archbishop of vinced that interest in his thought ". Chicago (pastoral letters, reflec- will continue well into the new cenPBS WILL present "Caillou," a cartoon series inspired by '. tions, statements and synodal inter- tury:' said Father Spilly, who is now the children's book series of the same name. Check your ventions) and selected homilies, director of the Joseph Cardinal local listings for days and times. (CNS photo from CINAR most never before published.

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"Well, that was - my God, that was 1972. That was considered extremely risque," Newhart said. "You don't even do that today. You know, it's, 'Hi, would you like to go to bed?'''

He disclosed how comedy works from the comedian's standpoint. "We take the anomalies of life and seemingly explain them away and let you get on to the more important things in the world," Newhart said. .

The key to acting, he added, hinges on something he once heard Spencer Tracy say: "Don't let anyone catch you at it."

"You b'ecome the person," Newhart said. "Bob Hart!ey (his character in 'The Bob Newhart Show') was never trying to be funny:'What was funny is him trying not to be funny.'"

He disclosed tHat the idea to end the "Newhart;' series with a dream sequence referring back to "The Bob Newhart Show" came frpm his wife., ' "Make it a dreal1} seq!1ence," Newhart recalled her telling him.

"You oughtto wake up in b~d with Suzie (pleshette) and c!escribe this strange ,dreandi5u.l,1a<;l.':.': :,., . Newhart s~i(j'~.ti~,1) h'¢' fe':l.t-t9' ' Pleshette to explain' the'idea,she replied, "If I'm in Timbuktu, I'! I come back and do it." .

Despite some trepidationmillions of viewers were angere<;i about a full season of "DamiS" being a dream, and "~t.' Elsewhere" fans' were dumbfounded to realize that the entire show had been somebody's dream - "we knew we had a winner" when the audience was "applauding the set" even before the actors came on, Newhart said.

Peter Jones, one of the "Biography" producers for the Newhart hour, said that, like Newhart's idol, Jack Benny, "nothing really happened, dramatically," to either.

"We just embraced that, and celebrate the art, the artists and the human being," Jones said. "'We don't need to dig for dirt to make the show interesting."

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LaBute's road movie has a dense As directed by Christopher narrative with well-developed McQuarrie, grisly brutality dimincharacters but eventually becomes ishes the intelligent film's complex, tedious as the finale is dragged out. absorbing narrative and impressive Some intense violence, an offperformances. Harsh violence with screen suicide, a sexual encounter some gore, a fleeting bordello and recurring rough language with scene with rear nudity and much some profanity. The U.S. Catholic rough language with some profanConference classification is A-IV ity. The U.S. Catholic Conference - adults, with reservations. The classification is A-IV - adults, Motion Picture Association of with reservations. The Motion PicAmerica rating is R - restricted. tureAssociation ofAmerica rating "The Way of the Gun" is R - restricted. ''Whipped'' (Destination) (Artisan)

Dismal sex comedy about three wily womanizers (Brian Van, Holt, Zorie Barber; Jonathan Abrahams) who gettheir comeuppance-when they chase the same seductive woman (Amanda Peet). Aside from the deplorable depiction of men and women as sex objects, director Peter M. Cohen's bawdy film has a predictable plot that trudges along with doltish dialogue and trashy humor. Many explicit sexual encounters and constant rough language with some profanity, The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is 0 - morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R restricted.

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Priest says outsiders profit from Sierra Leone's deadly conflict

WITH THE Shroud of Turin as a backdrop, Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn celebrates Mass inside St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin recently. He was among some 100,000 people who viewed the shroud during its first week of public display. The cloth, revered for centuries to be the burial shroud of Christ, is on exhibit through Oct. 22. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec)

This year, one-third of shroud pilgrims make reservations on Web TURIN, Italy (CNS) - Even centuries-old religious items benefit from a little Internet publicity.

For the Shroud of Turin's Aug. 12-0ct. 22 Holy Year 2000 exhibition, more pilgrims than ever are logging on to the World Wide Web in search of information on viewing the shroud.

During the 1998 public display, the first time organizers required reservations to view the shroud believed by many to be Christ's' burial cloth - just 10 percent of bookings were made over the Internet.

This year, as of Aug. 23, online advance ticketing made through the official Shroud of Turin Website, www.sindone.org, represented one-third of total bookings.

The Turin Archdiocese has received about 500,000 reservations thus far. More than 100,000 people saw the shroud in the first two weeks of the display.

One English pilgrim said she appreciated the ease of online reservations and found the website's 70,000 lines of text useful in preparing for her trip to Turin.

"It was very good, beautifully done," June Little said of the site, which offers scientific analysis, historical background and a patristic anthology.

Numerous photographs allow for close study - from the comfort of home-of the cloth's negative image of a man scourged and. crucified, and a Webcam provides sneak peeks into the cathedral for armchair viewers.

"I think you've seen so much of it on television, and we know about all the research that's been done into it, so there probably will be no surprises," Little said just before picking up her free tickets to see the shroud.

Websites like sindone.org and countless others have made it easier than ever for amateurs to metamorphose into overnight experts and pronounce opinions on the scientil"ic examinations performed on the shroud to date.

"I have a problem with carbon dating," said Bruce Dormanen, a nondenominational Protestant from Orange County, Calif., expressing his disagreement with controversial 1988 carbon-14 tests that dated the cloth to the Middle Ages. . Fresh from World Youth Day in Rome, a.shroud devotee from New York City said his Internet research left him certain of the cloth's authenticity. .. "I've actually studied the shroud before extensively. They . have a website, shroud.com," said 34-year-old Gerardo Tabones.

On search engines, typing in "Shroud of Turin" yields thousands of results. Often popping up as No.1 is www.shroud.com. run

by Barrie Schwortz, a member of the 1978 shroud research team.

For a research project to earn a Scout ofAmerica medal, Matthew Konecni, 17, who attended World Youth Day in Rome with a group from St. Augustine Parish in New City, N.Y., chose the Shroud of Turin as his subject and used Schwortz's website as his starting point.

But fo'r most pilgrims the virtual reproductions and vast amounts of information available on the Web could not compete with the real thing.

Conversations along the covered walkway through preparatory meditation rooms and a slide exhibit immediately subsided as groups of about 150 people each entered the cathedral and made their way to the viewing area.

During the allotted four-minute viewing time, pilgrims stood in silence behind velveteen-draped railings as they fixated on the attifact displayed some 20 feet before them.

Even after studying the linen's history and viewing countless close-ups and computer-generated three-dimensional images, Konecni said seeing the actual cloth was .,a J;eyelation,

"It was the exact opposite of a letdown. It was a culmination," he said.

Noel Maddhichetty of India said his viewing experience was "more real than photographs and studies."

"You really feel close to Jesus when you see this image," he said.

For Gerardo Tabones, coming face-to-face with the object he had studied "felt like the completion of something."

After all the pre-pilgrimage, reading, visitors said finally seeing the famed article brought Christ's suffering home, regardless of the shroud's much-debated authenticity.

"You get a feel for how it was for" Jesus, said Cliff Partridge, a chaperone with the New City group, which took advantage of the Turin Archdiocese's decision to move up the starting date of the exhibition to allow World Youth Day participants to view the shroud either before or after the Rome event.

Partridge said all the scientific talk about the shroud left him indifferent, while seeing the image's thorn marks and signs of flagellation moved him deeply.

"For me, it's not really to show (Christ) existed," he said. "It gives me an idea of the pain and suffering he went through."

Partridge's fellow chaperone Raymond Schact, an attorney, said his background in legal rationality proved no match for the shroud, the image on which experts are still unable to explain.

"It's difficult to reconcile certain worldly beliefs with something like this, a mystery offaith," he said.

The shroud's public display concludes Oct. 22. Free tickets can be reserved at www.sindone.org or www.giubileo.piemonte.it. or by telephone at 011-39-011-5115900. Tickets can be sent via email or regular mail or picked up directly in Thrin upon arrival.

MAPUTO, Mozambique (CNS) - Few Sierra Leoneans are diamond dealers, yet the poor in that African country "are ~eing killed for what is benefiting outsiders," a priest from Sierra Leone told Church leaders at a Vatican-organized meeting in Maputo.

The Catholic Church in Sierra Leone, where civil war began in 1991, "saw itself helpless in the midst of our culture of violence," Father Patrick Koroma told Church leaders from Africa, Latin America and the Vatican. The priest works in a community-based reconciliation and trauma healing program run by the Vatican humanitarian agency, Caritas Internationalis, in Sierra Leone.

The recent meeting on "Reconciliation, Conflict Resolution and Civil Peace-building" was organized by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Caritas Internationalis.

During nine years of civil war in Sierra Leone, the Revolutionary United Front rebels committed widespread atrocities against the civilian population, including killings, rapes, amputation oflimbs and burning of homes.

Many priests, laity and religious in Sierra Leone showed "extreme courage" in helping their neighbors, Father Koroma said. But the fact that

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Father Koroma told the'meeting that "it was not easy to get the bishops in Sierra Leone to agree on what steps to take" in dealing with the war.

"In times of war - because people are afraid - not everyone can be expected to be brave, so people do perceive things differently," he said. Sierra Leone has a population of about 4.2 million people.

More than 700,000 people have been displaced by the war in Sierra Leone and more than 500,000 are refugees in other countries, he said.

In Freetown alone, during a rebel invasion Jan. 5, 1999, about 6,000 people were killed, including folD' Sisters of Charity, a priest and a brother, said Father Koroma.

"The archbishop was abducted, tortured and humiliated, and many other priests and sisters were abducted and later released," he said.

"The Church cannot leave it in the hands of people who will flee the country after the first heavy gun shots, no matter how well meaning they are," he said, noting that "it requires a solution from the community."

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African'cardinal asks 'conversion of hearts' at U.N. 路summit UNITED NATIONS (CNS) --:The president of the'Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue told the Millennium World Peace Summit ofReligious and Spiritual Leaders that peace required "a conversion of hearts."

"With hearts and minds changed from hatred to love and a desire for reconciliation, the weapons will drop from angry and hating hands, and the development of a culture of peace can begin," said Cardinal Francis AriQze in an address at U.N. headquarters in New York. .

The Vatican official, who was the first speaker at a session last week titled ''A Call to Dialogue," said collaboration among people of all religions was needed "for the proper motivation of hearts and consciences" to address world problems.

Cardinal Arinze was introduced to the hundreds of religious leaders gathered in the General Assembly Hall by Archbishop Renato R. Martino, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations.

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But Cardinal Arinze also prayed for "a world in which people ofdifferent religious traditions and different cultures can live together in peace, ajust world from which discrimination has been banished, a world where all will have sufficient for their needs."

"People of religion, especially religious leaders, have a duty to see that religion is not misused in this way," he said.

"Poverty not addressed can lead. to dehumanization and despair," he said. ~'And a hungry person can easily become an angry person and a ready tool in the hands ofthose who advocate violence and conflict." .

Taking note of the unprecedented 路presence of such a group inside the United Nations, Cardinal Arinze said religious leaders of the world should not try to take the place ofgovernments or the United Nations itself in devising technical solutions, but had the proper role of contributing to peace "from the religious or spiritual dimension."

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You, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate before Your Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little group of the'sons and daughters of Your Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that it clothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it away from me and thus fonn the new Eden of Peace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a singular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God. , .

Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature was created. .

Heavenly Mother, Sove~ign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my most tender Mother, and will teach me to live in and to maintain mYself in the order and th~ bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate my whole being. to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the . doctrine of the Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to en., tice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will. Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your flames that they may bum me, consume me, and feed me to fonn in me the Life of the Divine Will.

Saint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of my heart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again, that I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. My guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in everything so that my Eden may flourish and be the instrument that draws all men into the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen. ( In Honor ofLuisa Piccarreta 1865- I 947 Child of the Divine Will)

Bishop says Timorese should路honor those who die~. fOF. in4epeJ;lde~~e

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digenous language of East Timor, Bishop Bela spoke of liis "fallen colleagues:' a reference to the four priests who were murdered in the violence that followed the Sept._ 1999 announcement that the East

forced at gunpoinf to neighboring West'Timor and resided in squalid refugee camps. .

DILl, East Timor - In rebuildAbout 80,000 to 120,000 people ing their nation, East Timorese still remain in the camps. should honor those who died while Bishop Bela, whose home was helping the country achieve its indestroyed by militias, spoke dependence, said Bishop briefly oflast year's violence, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, apostolic administrator of "We must pray to our martyrs who but urged the East Timorese DilL died for us. They see us from heaven to not seek revenge for past Bishop Belo, who was so we must continue their sacrifice," abuses.

Bishop Bela told the conawarded the Nobel Peace gregation that they must build Prize in 1996 for his defense Bishop Belo said. a nation ofpeace andone that ofhuman rights in EastTimor, respects human rights. He celebrated Mass in Dili, commemorating the first anniversary of Timorese had rejected Indonesian called for a process of "reconciliation" where each person "seeks forthe U.N.-sponsored referendum that rule.

East Timor descended into vio- - giveness and gives forgiveness." effectively ended 24 years of Indolence and anarchy in the weeks folAmong the participants at the nesian occupation.

"We have to rebuild our nation, lowing the referendum. Most of the Mass were Jose Ramos Horta, who but let us not forget the people who island's infrastructure was destroyed shared the Nobel Prize with Belo, died in helping us achieve our lib- by paramilitaries and retreating In- and Xanana Gusmao, the former erty," the bishop told an overflow donesian troops. Some estimates leader of the EastTimorese guerrilla crowd of more than 4,000 in Dili's said more than 1,000 people were movement, who it is widely believed killed, including the four priests, sev- will be the new nation's first presicathedral. dent following the departure of the "We must pray to our martyrs eral-nuns and lay catechists.

The violence continued until U.N. administration. who died- for us. They see us from Also present were Robert heaven so we must continue their- U.N.-troops, led by Australia, arrived in East Timor. About 150,000 Gelbait, U.S. ambassador to Indosacrifice," Bishop Belo said.

In Portuguese and Tetun, the in- East Timorese then fled or were nesia, and Sen. Tom Harkin, DIowa. . On the way to Santa Cruz, participants passed a cemetery for Indonesian soldiers. Unused land on the property was being used for a vegetable garden. Armed Portuguese soldiers guarded the entrance to the cemetery. .More, than 250,000 East Timo~ese are believed to have been killed or died of starvation or disease during Indonesia's often brutal 24-year IUle. '.'

Harkin, a Catholic, spoke of his visit to Suai in southwest Timor two weeks before the referendum, where he met Fathers Hilario Madeira and Francisco Soares, who were later killed.

EAST TIMORESE street children wait to wash cars out''As a Catholic myself, I am very side a cafe in DilL Aug. 30 marked the first anniversary of the proud that I knew them. They were U.N.-sponsored vote for independence in East Timor. (eNS kind, generous and loving Catholic priests," he said. photo from Reuters)

German Church denies WWII abuses, offers compensation. COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) - The German cized the Church for treating foreign forced laborers Catholic Church denied it inistreated foreign forced la- from Poland as brothers in faith"and thus undermining borers during World War II, but offered millions of dol- the racist ideology of the Nazis, according to which the lars in compensation to those who may have suffered. Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe were inferior.

The Church made a commitment to give five milBishop Lehmann quoted from a pastoral message lion deutche marks (US$2.3million) in compensation. of the German bishops issued in 1943 which noted ''the The presidentofthe bishops' conference, Bishop Karl right ofdignified treatment, moral and spiritual pastoral 'Lehmann of Mainz, said in a recent statement at the care" for "prisoners and workers of foreign origin." .end of a bishops' meeting that the Church and Church Many priests were punished by the authorities for organizations had employed foreign forced labor be- offering illegal pastoral care to East European workers. cause so many ofits'own staff, including priests, monks Bishop Lehmann said there was no evidence that and nuns, were serving as conscripts in the armed forces. the Church and the institutions under its control had He said that since the initial allegations of Church held or employed wOq<ers under prison-like conditions, mistreatment of foreign workers, which emerged in the although that may have been the case where Church course of research by a number ofLutheran parishes in institutions had been requisitioned by the state.

Berlin in July, Church institutions had been looking into The compensation, said Bishop Lehmann, would not their records to find out the truth. be given to the new national compensation fund set up This had not been easy'because of the destruction of by the government and industry, but would be distribmany archives during the war.. But he emphasized that _uted via the Church's charitable organization, Caritas. the Church had often come into conflict with the Nazi He said this would ensure that it reached those who authorities because of its insistence on treating foreign may have suffered as a result of their employment as laborers, properly. forced laborers by the Church.

They were paid,fed and housed in the same.way as The bishops said they wanted the money to allow German workers, he said. projects to be carried out ac~oss borders and across He referred to Nazi secret police reports that criti- ' Church boundaries.

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have three children, Rosemary Irene O'Neill, 22, James Michael O'Neill, 19, and Timothy H. O'Neill, who is nine. A former U.S. Army medic who served in Vietnam with the First Air Cavalry in 1969 and 1970, Judge O'Neill graduated from Boston College Law School in 1971 and from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in history in 1987. He was in the private practice of law trying many cases "from short lobsters to first degree murder and two of my cases went to the U.S. Supreme Court," JUDGE O'NEILL he said. He served as assistant district attorney in the Southern District from 1972 to 1976. He was the assistant district attorney of the Cape and Islands District from 1976 to 1987 where he was named justice of the trial court with various assignments in southeastern Massachusetts. Presently assigned to Wareham, he has also been presiding justice of the Nantucket District Court for eight years.

Judge O'Neill has been an instructor at Cape Cod Community College, Ana Maria College, and the Barnstable County Police Academy. A member of many bar associations he was a legal delegate to the People's Republic of China and legal study tours in the Soviet Union.

Attorney Snow Attorney Kathleen A. Snow resides in Barnstable and is a member of St. Pius X Parish in South Yarmouth. She received her bachelor's degree and master's degree in Education from ATTORNEY SNOW Boston State College from 1960 to 1967 and did advanced studies in ad-

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ministration before graduating from the New En-. gland School of Law in Boston in 1974. During her college years she was student editor at the "Law Review" of the New England School of Law. Attorney Snow began her teaching career in the Boston'School Department in 1964 and was active in many activities, including the Head Start Program. She holds several certifications in Massachusetts. After being admitted to the Massa~ chusetts and Federal Court bars, she practiced law in Hingham and DenJUDGE BELFORD nis with legal service programs. She founded and incorporated Children and Parents and became president and director, and was also active in adult education for parents involved in divorce litigation.

Attorney Snow is a member of many legal groups and association. While she admits to loving law and teaching children, her true love is music. Her ambition: "At the age of921 intend to be the piano player at some wonderful restaurant (cocktail lounge) doing all sing-a-long material."

Gloria Arruda The Probation Department's Head Administrative Assistant Gloria M. Arruda is a member of St. Mary's Parish in New Bedford, and has been married to William C. Arruda for 22 years. A 1961 graduate of New Bedford High School, she began her working career at Hemingway Transportation Company where she was employed for 14 GLORIA ARRUDA years. In 1976 she began working for the Probate and Family Court in the

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towers just to get a better view.

We were all thinking the' same thing ... the pope is here. He's here with us. It was a spiritually rich first day.

On Wednesday morning we shared morning prayer in our hotel lobby and that too was spirituality motivating. Although tired from the jetlag, we were revitalized by sharing the gifts of prayer and so~g. That feeling would carry us the rest of the day.

The afternoon brought us to St. John Lateran Basilica and St. Mary Major Basilica. Their size overwhelmed us. Our group had the privilege of passing through the designated Holy Door of each church, a powerful experience.

Most of the time our eyes were looking up in an attempt to capture all that we saw.

We also spent time at the Colosseum and Roman Forum where we were amazed at the architecture. Some took a tour of the Colosseum's interior while others admired the Arch of Constantine.

We shared an Italian meal as the sun set and thanked God for our time together.

Thursday morning brought us with Bishop O'Malley to the town of Assisi wherewe walked in the footsteps of St. Francis. We had the privilege to pray inside the

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Porziuncola chapel in St. Mary's of the Angel's Basilica which St. Francis himself restored. It was impossible not to be touched by the experience. The Holy Spirit was present very powerfully in that chapel.

We shared Mass with the bishop. Other people visiting the' tomb of St. Francis joined us and the voices of the young people from the Fall River diocese were raised in song and prayer.

I am so often amazed at what Bishop O'Malley does for our diocese and it was a privileged time with him in Assisi. It is a place so important to him and he shared that with us. During our lunch he made a point of visiting every table to say hello. I know from talking to the young people that it was something they appreciated and enjoyed.

That evening I traveled with two of my fellow pilgrims to the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain. We watched as young people from Spain, Portugal and Honduras shared cultural dances and were invited to join them. We sang religious songs and moved to the sounds of dozens of guitars. It was brotherhood and sisterhood in action. At the fountain we sat and marveled at the work of sculptor Nicola Salvi and en-

joyed the rushing water.

Friday was another day filled with spirituality. We attended a catechesis given by Bishop O'Malley and later toured St. Peter's Basilica. We walked with others through the Holy Door of the church. Inside we were struck by the beauty of Michelangelo's Pieta and the magnitude of the building, its statues and amazing . sanctuary. To pray near the altar and later celebrate Mass with the bishop at the tomb of St. Peter was very special. I took many photos during the week we were in Rome, but I felt that my camera could not truly capture the beauty of the Basilica. I ran out of film that day!

Saturday marked our journey to Tor Vergata University and it was the toughest part of our pilgrimage. It was hot all week with temperatures reaching far into the 90s and as one should on a pilgrimage, we walked everywhere.

We were all carrying overnight gear and food, but again it was something we all embraced. Because of our pilgrimage and our faith we all were in good spirits and made it successfully. It was worth any length of road we would have had to traverse.

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Probation Department, and next firm of Belford & Belford. After February will celebrate 25 years a distinguished law career in the in the court system. Last year she extensive trial practice in civil was awarded the prestigious Em- and criminal law in the various ployee Excellence Award by the courts, she was appointed assoTrial Court. A member of the Red ciate justice of the New Bedford Mass Committee for four years, District Court in 1992. In 1996 and a member of the New Bed- she was appointed to the Appelford Oceanarium, the late Division in the Southern Dishardworking Mrs. Arruda loves trict. She is a member of many traveling, dining, cooking and art. organizations including the Judge Belford American Judges Association, Judge Aileen Hirschman the Women Judges' Association, Belford is the presiding justice the National Association of of the Fall River District Court Women Judges, and since 1992 and the acting presiding justice has been vice president of the of the New Bedford District Massachusetts Judges ConferCourt. She is a graduate of the ence. A former teacher and asMary Washington College of the sistant Massachusetts Attorney University of Virginia and is the General, she is active in many recipient of its First Distin- philanthropic endeavors in the guished Alumna Award. She re- Fall River community. She is a ceived her doctor of law degree former vice president of B'nai from Fordham University School B'rith, a member Temple Beth of Law and was admitted to the EI, a member of the board of diMassachusetts and Federal bars rectors of the Brandeis Univerin 1959 and 1960 respectively, , sity National Women's Commitand admitted to the U.S. Su- tee; has received numerous civic preme Court in 1967. With her and educational awards and cihusband, Lloyd E. Belford, she tations, and has been listed in was engaged in the general prac- many "Who's Whos" on the natice of law as a partner in the law tional and international levels.

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century unsuccessfully tried to hold onto papal temporal power, approved the executions of political prisoners, condemned modern "progress" and its emphasis on civil rights, and had a turbulent relationship with Rome's Jewish population.

The pope defended Pope Pius, not for his political choices or all his ecclesial policies, but for always trusting in God during "the turbulent events of his times."

"His extremely long pontificate was certainly not easy and he suffered a lot in carrying out his . mission in the service of the Gospel. He was much loved, but also hated and slandered," the pope said to scattered applause.

He praised Pope Pius for calling the First Vatican Council, which he said clarified internal church questions and "confirmed the harmony between faith and reason," and for proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary - that by special divine favor Mary was, from the moment she was conceived, without sin.

The pope did not specifically mention the doctrines of papal primacy and papal infallibility, which were proclaimed by Vatican I, or the Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius' condemnation of many modern political and philosophical ideas.

Nor did he talk about Pope Pius' stormy relations with Jews.

Several Jewish leaders in Rome and elsewhere have said the beatification of Pope Pius could set back the delicate process of Catholic-Jewish reconciliation set in motion by Vatican II. In 1858, Pope Pius approved the seizure of a baptized Jewish boy from his family and made sure he was raised a Catholic. The case attracted international attention at the time, and has rekindled resentment among Jews over the past several months.

The pope spoke briefly about the other three newly beatified: - Blessed Chaminade, who had to flee the "reign of terror" in revolutionary France in 1797 and returned three years later to evangelize a largely de-Christianized society, reminds Catholics today of the need to "constantly re-invent new ways of being witnesses of the faith," the pope said. This has special meaning for those who have fallen away from the Church, he said.

- Blessed Marmion, the pope said, offered the Church a "treasure of spiritual teaching," following a simple but demanding path of everyday holiness. His spiritual writings deserve to be widely rediscovered today, he said..

Born in Dublin in 1858, Blessed Marmion worked for years as a pastor, tcacher and chaplain of a women's prison in Ireland before becoming a Benedictine monk. He lived most of his life in Belgium, and at personal risk took young monks to Ireland to shelter them during World War I. He died in 1923.

- Blessed Tommaso Reggio, who gave up family riches in order to devote a lifetime of pastoral ministry to the poor and suffering, is a model for every bishop, priest and lay person today, the pope said. He said the archbishop's message can be summed up in two words: truth and charity.

Born in 1818, he became especially active in bridging the gap between the Church and society in the second half of the 19th century, founding the first nationwide Catholic newspaper in Italy.

When Pope Pius condemned many forms of Catholic political activity in the unified Italy, the archbishop quietly obeyed and closed the newspaper down despite disagreeing with the pope's policy. He died in 1901.

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The antidote for shyness By

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worse," he continued, "I think she's just being nice because she feels sorry forme. I see myself in her eyes, and I think 'pathetic.' I get really selfconscious."

He had it exactly right; his assessment was just as accurate as any diagnosis I could have made.

Self-conscious! That's a common expression for times when we feel 'embarrassed or ill at ease.

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What's the trick? If the problem is self-consciousness, the solution is other-consciousness. With such total focus on his own "performance," David was learning nothing at all about the girl he was with.

The antidote for shyness is taking your eye~ off yourself and placing them on the other.

How do you do that?

Pay attention to how she talks and what she's carrying. Notice her clothes, her gestures. Ask her que$tions about herself, and listen - really listen - to the answers. ' In~tead of asking yourself, "How am I coming off?" let your question be, "What am I learning about this

A bit ,on the short side, David makes up for it with a quick sense of humor. People around him are almost always smiling because he lets the tension out of tough situations by making people laugh. His grades aren't bad. He's entering his senior year, with plans for community college after that - probably engineering, because he's strong in math: David gets along fine with his parents, and nobody's turned him in "'-..,...., I for shoplifting. So what's a kid like this doing in a psychologist's office talking to me? . , ' ,' .

David is spyaroun'd girls. Like a . ge lot of guys, he's' fine talking.with his ; per~on?" friends, and aslpngas a girl is just • ,A~~trr yOUnt There ,is nothing more'attractive one of the gang hes fine. But the . ": " ' , _ than a persol)., who is interested.. in minute he thinks ,the int~rest might.

David was completely'~elf-con- 'you. Wh~~ you ·ta!<e. the focus. off be on another level', he gets all tight, scious: He was aware only of him- yourself ariSi put}ton ,tre other,'you inside. Sometifnes his throat closes .. self. Here he was, with ,a girl he become a much :,more," int~rf's.ting up, and wordfwon! t come out. . ": found attractive, but Vis attention was partner. . .: " ----David admitted that when'he.' . completely focused,on himself. If _ By focusing ypurattention,OI(the looked around', irseemed like every-' ~ .:you. ~ould p'J:Y the t~oughts out of 0ther, thepainful8'elf-consciou~lIress body t;1,Se ~n;th.~ planet was p~ired Ii<i~~ead, you'd see each was about fades away.... *",~_.-with ~omeboQY. Whenever one of his Oav'id, and not about the other per~," - ~&-Bavia took his focus off friends:hoo~ea up, David felt like son: "I'bet I sound stupid." "Am I himself and startedconcentrating on the loneliest guy on earth. ,interesting:?': "Maybe I'm not her the other persofl, he overcame that We talked about what stopped. type." "Can I ke~pbreathing around nervous feeling, wld,~is gentle sense David. pven \1e recognized his sense this girl?:' of humor kicked back in. . . of humor and way of making people ,The more you-focus on yourself, I knew that h~'d do fine.' laugh.. ' the,more you bend:arourid, looking' Your <;ommeQts are welco~e.· "I worry about what she's think- at y~>urselfthrough somebody else's Please address: Dr. Christopher ing. Anything I say; I'm sure -it . eyes," the m6re ne'rvous 'you get. Carstens, do CathOlic News Ser-, sounds stupid, and she'll just wish That's true of anybody. David was .vice, 3211 Fourth St. N:E.;Wash-' DONALD "PENCILS" Womanski sketches a car.toon charshe was with someone else. Or just a bit extreme. ington, D.C. 20017. acter. Womanski volunteers at S1. Jerome School in

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By GREG MCCANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE BAY CITY, Mich. - When Father Joseph Ryan recently visited the horne of his longtime friend Jack Weidner, he was planning to bless a yard statue of St. Felix.

No big deal. He'd done blessings like this for many people over the years. But he was in for a surprise when he pulled into the driveway.

There was St. Felix - all 15 feet of him.

"You didn't tell me it was like this," laughed Father Ryan, pastor of St. Cecilia Church in Clare. "You should have the bishop bless this!"

Weidner, owner of Supreme Floor Covering in Bay City and a parishioner at Holy Trinity Church, said he and his wife, Ann, decided to have the statue carved out of a large oak tree which began dying in their front yard soon after they built their home in Frankenlust Township.

Coincidentally, the tree had been a focal ,point of the house's design, and was as Weidner described, "the perfect shade tree."

The Weidners contacted Nick Palmreuter of Gilford, Mich:, to carve the' statue from the trunk of the tree. Since the Weidners' home was built on land formerly owned by. the Felician Sisters, they chose to honor the sisters with a statue of the patron saint of the order. Weidner.said it was amazingJo see the statue come to life as Palmreuter set to work with hi,S ar:ray of,chain saws, "It's amazing how it came together," he said. "It's detailed even to the fingernails.

He turned the perfect tree into the perfect tribute."

Palmreuter said the project took him six consecutive days working eight to 10 hours each day once the carving actually began.

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he has done "a lot of stuff for people's back yards;' including an II-foot statue of the devil for his military unit.

"Basically people tell me what they want and I carve it into the log," he said.

In addition to the enjoyment of his art when 'each project is done, Palmreutersaid he likes to see people's reaction to his art.

"God gave me the gift," he said. "I might as well use it."

Weidner said the project made him aware of the history of St. Felix and the Felician Sisters. In addition to being the patron saint of the Felicians, St. Felix is also known as a protector of children.

Born in 1513 in Cantalice, near Rome, St. Felix entered the Capuchin order as a lay brother assigned to serve as "questor" seeking food and alms in the streets of the city. He became a familiar sight in Rome, spending 40 years collecting donations for the order. ' When he died in 1587, Pope Sixtus V personally initiated the steps that led to the beatification and later canonization of St. Felix in 1712.'

Sophia Truszkowsk'a" who founded; the Felicians, was born in Poland in 1825. Appalled by the condition of young children.in Warsaw, shere!lted an apartment where spe and a few other young women housed and cared for the n~gl~cted children.

When .Truszkowska would lead the children to the nearby Capuchin church to pray at the shrine of St. Felix of Cantalice, people began to call them the "children of St. Felix," and the women who led them the "Sisters of St. Felix," or "Felician Sisters," as we know them today.

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Cartoonist shares talent with Catholic school children By

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MAPLEWOOD, Minn.

Forget calling Donald Womaski of St. Jerome in Maplewood by his first name. For more than 40 years, students at St. Jerome School have known him as "Pencils."

Womaski, a retired cartoonist, has been teaching various forms of art, including cartoon drawing, to students at the school since 1954. The only things he gets in return are free lunches and the joy of seeing children develop and expand their artistic vision.

"He's been a fixture here;' said principal Patrick McHugo, who came to the school three years ago. "He loves the kids, he loves coming in. The kids respond really well to him."

Womaski earned his nickname when he came to the schOOl wearing a homemade hat with about half a dozen pencils stuck in it.

He has go~e through about seven or eight hats in almost 50 years of working'withSt. Jerome students. He also has worked with students at St. Agnes and S.t. Bernard schools in St. Paul, plus a few public schools.

"I love it," said Womaski, 82.

"You should see some of the paintings, drawings and illustrations the kids have turned in.

Some of the people who have come wanted to buy some of them, they were so good. But, what do you charge for something

like that? You can't put a dollar sign on it."

Yet, that's what happened three years ago when one of the teachers saw a student's work. A music teacher liked some watercolor paintings done by a student and bought them.

"She framed them and has them hanging in her house," McHugo said.

Over the years, Womaski has had a variety of artistic endeavors. For 40 years, he worked in the advertising department at Hamm's brewery. He said he also has done cartoon work for Disney and 20th Century Fox. A "Star Wars" poster he drew hangs on a wall in his St. Paul home.

Pencils'will paint and draw on any surface, including faces.' In fact, face painting was his first project with St. Jerome students in 1954.

He also paints his own face when he dresses up as a clown.

He has been a member of the St. ' Paul Clown Club since 1950. ,Womaski has slowed down recently, but stu~ents at St. Jerome School will have the opportunity again this fall to study art with .\ . hil)1" "I love to work with children," said Womaski, who is widowed with two adult children, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. "Nowadays, it's getting harder because kids are smarter. You have to be on your toes." '

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1'HE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., September 8, 2000

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FALL RIVER - The class of 1970 from Mount St. Mary's Academy is planning a reunion on Sept. 24 at noon at the Waterstreet Cafe at Battleship Cove. For more information call Betty Fournier at 674-2548.

student is literate in their own language. For more information and to register call Eva Dos Santos at 674-4681.

FAIRHAVEN -Catholic Social Services of Fall River will hold an information session for individuals and families interested in domestic newborn or international adoption on Oct. 1 from I :30-4:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Parish center. To register or for more information call Mary-Lou Mancini at 674-4681. Refresh.ments will be served and handouts will be available. '.

Msgr. Thomas Harrington at 992-3184.

NEW BEDFORD - Calix, a group which enlists Catholic men and women who are gratefully celebrating recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction or other dependencies will meet on Sept.

10 at 6:30 p.m. in the parish center of Holy Na~e of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish. It will include Mass and newcomers are welcome.

NEW BEDFORD Southcoast Health System is offering free vascular screenings on Sept. 20, Oct. 11 and 25 from 5-7 p.m. at the St. Luke's Hospital blood bank, 101 Page Street. Preregistration is required. Call 1800-497-1727 for more information.

FALL RIVER - A panel discussion entitled "The Spirit of " MANSFIELD - A series of Ecumenism," sponsored by The Natural Family Planning classes Interfaith Council of Greater Fall sponsored by the Couple to River, will be held on Sept. 17 at .Go:opre---I:eague, will begin on 2 p.m. at the Msgr. Considine Sl~cray from 2-4 p.m. at St. Center, Stafford Road. It will fo- Mary's Parish center. For more cus on the roots of the'ecumeni- information call路Jon or Maureen cal movement, its effects路on...m::..Hd~e.y~aC3,~4730.

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NORTH DARTMOUTH terfaith dialogue and its contribu- '":'-..-._< . { -~71- -A Divorced and Separated Sup~..fAS~PEE - St. Johnof:tile port Group will meet on Sept. 11 tions to the local community. ReATTLEBORO - The 154th freshments will follow the discus- Cr~Thlrd Order of-Carmelites, . at the Family Life Center, 500 anniversary of Mary's apparition sion. For more information call will meeTffiioSe~t-...I7.~~ing ;Sl9tum Road from 7-9 p.m. at La Salette, France, will be cel- Anne Pacheco at 673-9605. with a 5:30 p.m. Mass at rist--6uest speaker Peg Ormond will ebrated at the La Salette Shrine the King Church. Prayer and address the topic "Communicaon the weekend of Sept. 15-17.

FALL RIVER - Catholic study will follow at 6:30 p.m. For tion in Divorce."

On Sept. 15 a6:30 p.m. Mass will Social Services of Fall River is be- more information call Mary Good be held; on Sept. 16 Mass will be ginning English and Citizenship at 759-6354.

SOUTH YARMOUTH held at 4 p.m. in the Garden of classes this month. Classes will The monthly meeting of Pax Worship; and on Sept. 16 Mass be held at area churches and one NEW BEDFORD - The Christi-Cape Cod will be held on will be held at 2 p.m. in the out- on one tutoring may be done at a Courage Group will meet on Sept. 18 from 7:30-9:15 p.m. at door chapel. For more informa- student's home. Literacy classes Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. at the rectory of St. Pius X Parish. It will include tion call 222-5410. are also available regardless if the Holy Name of the Sacred Heart a report from attendees of the of Jesus Parish. Courage is a sup- group's national assembly themed port group for Catholic men and "Sound the Jubilee Trumpet: RecContinued from page 13 women who are confronting oncile! Renew! Rejoice!" For gathered in one place was amazsame sex attraction issues and more information call 771-6737. . ing. That we were all there for had my camera equipinent I who are striving to lead chaste , World Youth Day and to cel~ might have asked the, angels to lives. For more information call TAUNTON - All graduates ebrate Mass with the pope is '~ guide my steps also. The pope wonderful feeling. After our has that power over the young group found a suitable campsite, people. We love him. He is frail, I wandered up to the staging area yet so strong. He makes us feel with press pass in hand, not strong. knowing what to expect. AlWhen the pope finished his though there was frequently a talk I made my way to the back language barrier, I found through of the staging area and watched trial and error where my pass al- him drive by a second time. I lowed me to be. I. staked out a should have been tired from a COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) claim of land right in front of the week in Rome and a week of As a result of the priest shortage, some clergy are trying to fulfill unstaging with some young people walking, but I felt so energized I realistic demands, leading to health from Canada, site of the next could have run a marathon. problems, burnout and little time for World Youth Day. Most of the I was fortunate on Saturday prayer and renewal, said Bishop press people with cameras were morning to be up front when the James A. Griffin of Columbus. further back in a press area, but I pope celebrated Mass. To witness The situation prompted Bishop knew if possible it would be wise his holiness consecrating the Griffin to issue a new document to stay put.__ bread and wine, to sing with him called "Guidelines Regarding ExWhen the pope arrived an hour and so many people during the pectations ofPriests and Sunday Cellater by helicopter and made his Mass and share that part of our ebrations in theAbsence ofa Priest." way through the crowd he was faith was awesome.

"I believe the time has clearly driven a mere 10 feet from where The only difficult part of the come to prepare the clergy and I had settled. People snapped pho- journey was when those two faithful alike for a new approach, tos and cheered, some cried, some million people arrived at the one which acknowledges that there waved. I managed to do all four. lone metro station near Tor will be times when, due to a lack of It is something very hard to con- Vergata following the Mass. It an available priest, there may be no BISHOP JAMES A. GRIFFIN vey my feelings seeing the pope was hot, crowded and we were Mass on Sunday in a given place," in person. The evening was filled all trytng to get home. One of help priests be renewed by adequate the bishop said. with cultural dances and music, the chaperones later told me that opportunities for rest and study and Preparations for "priestless Sunprayer and a message from the his group ended up getting out ways the laity can respond to situadays" must be carried out "in a wellpope to the young people. He of the metro line because the tions when no priest is available. planned, pastorally and liturgically spoke in Italian, but many people kids were having a difficult Regarding expectations for effective manner," he said. around me were more than happy time. They needed to rest. The priests, the guidelines state priests Bishop Griffin said there has are entitled to a full day off each to translate. been a steady decline not only in group sat down under a bridge week and should not be expected the number of diocesan priests but There was a moment during and he went to get directions to celebrate more than three Masses also in the number of "substitutes," the evening when a young and find some water. When he for Sunday or holy days. typically religious priests, retired woman ran from the crowd and returned he found them praying Also, priests are generally not priests, seminary professors and up the 40 steps to hug the pope. the rosary and asking Mary for expected to participate in more than chaplains.

Although I'm sure security was a safe passage home. He was one scheduled session per week of "This trend will only worsen as not happy, we all cheered her moved to tears telling the story hearing confessions or more than more priests enter retirement, the steps and I remember someone and told me that "these kids 50 hours of active ministry, includretired become infirm and the reafter saying she must have been lives have changed," because of ing extraparochial work. maining clergy are stretched even "carried by angels." The pope the pilgrimage. further," he said.

The guidelines also say priests are hugged her and spoke with her I could understand that. Mine entitled to a three-month sabbatical The guidelines discuss ways .to for almost five minutes. Had I not has too.

Rome

and friends of Msgr. James Coyle, St. Mary's, Bishop Cassidy and Coyle-Cassidy High Schools of Taunton are invited to a gala reunion on Saturday at the Portuguese-American Civic Club, 1~5 School Street, from 3-9 p.m.

TAUNTON - The Taunton District of the St. Vincent de Paul Society will celebrate Mass in memory of deceased members and for the intention of the canonization of Blessed Frederic Ozanam on Sept. II at 7 p.m. at Holy Rosary Church. The regular monthly meeting will follow in the parish hall.

WEST HARWICH - _St. Francis of Peace Fraternity, Secular Franciscans will meet ~m Sunday at Holy Trinity Church.

Prayer of the rosary will begin at 1 p.m. at the statue ofSt. Francis and Mass will be held at 1:30 p.m.

A social will follow.

WESTPORT- Saint Anne's Hospital School of Nursing AlumnaeAssociation will hold its annual dinner meeting on Sept. 21 beginning with a social hour at 6 p.m. at Whites of Westport. Dinner will be served at 7 p:m. and following the meeting bingo will be played. For reservations call 673-2609 by Sept. 14. The class of 1955 is planning a reunion that evening. Missing members are Terry Cote Shupe, Vivian Francoeur, Annette Giblin, Marguerite Lynch and Ann Smith. If you have information contact Terry Nientimp, 3375 North Main Street, Fall River, MA 02720.

Burnout, other problems seen resulting from priest shortage

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after every 10 years of completed service following ordination, and four weeks of vacation each year.

Priests are expected to live in the rectory or parish house unless another arrangement has been approved by the bishop. They should take emergency calls but at the.same time be protected from unnecessary intrusions, the guidelines instiuct.

As for the laity, the guidelines urge parishioners to be adequately prepared and trained for Sunday or holy-day celebrations without a priest.

The first step to take in the absence of a priest is to seek a neighboring priest as a substitute, which may not always be possible, the guidelines say.

When a substitute priest cannot be found, each parish should-have a group of trained persons who will see to the implementation of the parish's own plan for priestless Sunday or holy day celebrations, the guidelines state.

Bishop Griffin said he hoped the guidelines would "help to maintain the observance of the Lord's Day even in the occasional absence of a priest."

He said he also hoped the guidelines "will help our priests to be better ministers and to be renewed by adequate opportunities for rest and study."